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A bash script for anonymizing the public IP managing the connection to TOR and different VPNs providers - 4nonimizer

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What is 4nonimizer?
It is a bash script for anonymizing the public IP used to browsing Internet, managing the connection to TOR network and to different VPNs providers (OpenVPN), whether free or paid. By default, it includes several pre-configured VPN connections to different peers (.ovpn files) and download the credentials. Also, it records each used IP that we use every 300 seconds in log files.
This script is enabled as a service in systemd systems and uses a default vpn (VPNBook) at system startup.

Installation
Download the repo using git, execute the command ./4nonimizer install in the directory, and follow the screen instructions, 4nonimizer will move to the directory /opt/ and installed as a service.
This script has full compatibility with Kali Linux, although it has been properly tested and should also work on other distributions like Debian, Ubuntu and Arch (Manjaro). However there could be some bugs, or unexpected performances (please comments if you find any!).

Options
Once installed 4nonymizer, enter the command 4nonimizer help to get the help, which shows all the available parameters:

Available VPNs
Currently it supports the following VPN providers:
- HideMyAss https://www.hidemyass.com/
- TorGuard https://torguard.net/
- VPNBook (by default) http://www.vpnbook.com/
- VPNGate http://www.vpngate.net/en/
- VPNMe https://www.vpnme.me/
- VPNKeys https://www.vpnkeys.com/

Install a new VPN
To install an additional vpn we have to use the following structure in order to the 4nonimizer be able to integrate and perform operations with it.
First, we have to create the following dir structure /vpn/ within 4nonimizer path:

In our example we create the folder /vpntest/ and within it placed all .ovpn files we have. If the files ovpn not have the certificate within each of them we put in the same folder as shown in the example certificate.crt .
In addition, we must place a file named pass.txt containing 2 lines: the first one with the username and the second one with the password, as shown below:

If we have correctly performed all steps when we execute the command 4nonimizer change_provider the menu will show our vpn:

As you can see in the picture, option [7] it is the vpn we've created.

Getting credencials and ovpn files automatically
If the VPN provider allows automation of credential and/or .ovpn files getting, 4nonimizer has standardized the following scripts names and locations:
- /opt/4nonimizer/vpn/provider/ vpn-get-pass.sh

- /opt/4nonimizer/vpn/provider/ vpn-get-ovpn.sh

4nonimizer automatically detect the presence of both scripts and indicate (Auto-pass Login) or (Auto-get OVPN) if applicable.

Extras
- Execute 'source 4nonimizer' to activate autocompletation of parameters.
- Copy .conkyrc in your home directory to load a 4nonimizer template and execute conky.

References
- http://www.hackplayers.com/2016/08/tuto-enmascarar-ip-linux-vpn-tor.html
- http://www.hackplayers.com/2016/10/4nonimizer-un-script-para-anonimizar-ip.html

Versions
- 1.0-beta codename .bye-world! 5/10/2016

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Transparent Proxy through TOR, I2P, Privoxy, Polipo and modify DNS - anonym8

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Secure Anonymous File Sharing - OnionShare

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OnionShare lets you securely and anonymously share files of any size. It works by starting a web server, making it accessible as a Tor onion service, and generating an unguessable URL to access and download the files. It doesn’t require setting up a server on the internet somewhere or using a third party filesharing service. You host the file on your own computer and use a Tor onion service to make it temporarily accessible over the internet. The other user just needs to use Tor Browser to download the file from you.

Features:

A user-friendly drag-and-drop graphical user interface that works in Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Ability to share multiple files and folders at once
Support for multiple people downloading files at once
Automatically copies the unguessable URL to your clipboard
Shows you the progress of file transfers
When file is done transferring, automatically closes OnionShare to reduce the attack surface
Localized into several languages, and supports international unicode filenames

When users want to send files, the program creates a password-protected, temporary website hosted on the Tor network—what’s known as a Tor Hidden Service—that runs on their computer. They provide the recipient with the URL and password for that site, preferably via a message encrypted with a tool like PGP or Off-The-Record encrypted instant messaging. The recipient visits that URL in a Tor Browser and downloads the file from that temporary, untraceable website, without needing to have a copy of Onionshare.

As soon as the person has downloaded the file, you can just cancel the web server and the file is no longer accessible to anyone.

"It’s basically 100 percent darknet."

How to Use

Before you can share files, you need to open Tor Browser in the background. This will provide the Tor service that OnionShare uses to start the onion service.

Open OnionShare and drag and drop files and folders you wish to share, and click Start Sharing. It will show you a .onion URL such as http://asxmi4q6i7pajg2b.onion/egg-cain and copy it to your clipboard. This is the secret URL that can be used to download the file you’re sharing. If you’d like multiple people to be able to download this file, uncheck the “close automatically” checkbox.

Send this URL to the person you’re trying to send the files to. If the files you’re sending aren’t secret, you can use normal means of sending the URL: emailing it, posting it to Facebook or Twitter, etc. If you’re trying to send secret files then it’s important to send this URL securely.

The person who is receiving the files doesn’t need OnionShare. All they need is to open the URL you send them in Tor Browser to be able to download the file.

Using the command line version

In Linux: Just run onionshare from the terminal.
In Windows: Add C:\Program Files (x86)\OnionShare to your PATH. Now you can run onionshare.exe in a command prompt.

In Mac OS X: Run ln -s /Applications/OnionShare.app/Contents/MacOS/onionshare /usr/local/bin. Now you can run onionshare from the terminal.

Onionshare can be particularly useful when someone sending a file wants to remain anonymous even to the recipient. If whistleblowers can securely send an Onionshare URL and password to a journalist, they potentially could use it to leak secrets anonymously without being exposed. That flips the model of how Tor enables leaks: Sites like WikiLeaks and news organizations using the anonymous leak software SecureDrop host their own Tor Hidden Services. Onionshare could put more power in whistleblowers’ hands, helping them send secrets to journalists who don’t have that sort of anonymous submission system in place.

What it protects against

Third parties don’t have access to files being shared. The files are hosted directly on the sender’s computer and don’t get uploaded to any server. Instead, the sender’s computer becomes the server. Traditional ways of sending files, like in an email or using a cloud hosting service, require trusting the service with access to the files being shared.
Network eavesdroppers can’t spy on files in transit. Because connections between Tor onion services and Tor Browser are end-to-end encrypted, no network attackers can eavesdrop on the shared files while the recipient is downloading them. If the eavesdropper is positioned on the sender’s end, the recipient’s end, or is a malicious Tor node, they will only see Tor traffic. If the eavesdropper is a malicious rendezvous node used to connect the recipient’s Tor client with the sender’s onion service, the traffic will be encrypted using the onion service key.
Anonymity of sender and recipient are protected by Tor. OnionShare and Tor Browser protect the anonymity of the users. As long as the sender anonymously communicates the OnionShare URL with the recipient, the recipient and eavesdroppers can’t learn the identity of the sender.
If an attacker enumerates the onion service, the shared files remain safe. There have been attacks against the Tor network that can enumerate onion services. If someone discovers the .onion address of an OnionShare onion service, they still cannot download the shared files without knowing the slug. The slug is generated by choosing two random words from a list of 6800 words, meaning there are 6800^2, or about 46 million possible slugs. But they can only make 20 wrong guesses before OnionShare stops the server, preventing brute force attacks against the slug. The OnionShare server also checks request URIs using a constant time string comparison function, so timing attacks can’t be used to help guess the slug.

What it doesn’t protect against

Communicating the OnionShare URL might not be secure. The sender is responsible for securely communicating the OnionShare URL with the recipient. If they send it insecurely (such as through an email message, and their email is being monitored by an attacker), the eavesdropper will learn that they’re sending files with OnionShare. If the attacker loads the URL in Tor Browser before the legitimate recipient gets to it, they can download the files being shared. If this risk fits the sender’s threat model, they must find a more secure way to communicate the URL, such as in an encrypted email, chat, or voice call. This isn’t necessary in cases where the files being shared aren’t secret.
Communicating the OnionShare URL might not be anonymous. While OnionShare and Tor Browser allow for anonymously sending files, if the sender wishes to remain anonymous they must take extra steps to ensure this while communicating the OnionShare URL. For example, they might need to use Tor to create a new anonymous email or chat account, and only access it over Tor, to use for sharing the URL. This isn’t necessary in cases where there’s no need to protect anonymity, such as coworkers who know each other sharing work documents.

Building OnionShare

Start by getting a copy of the source code:

git clone https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare.git
cd onionshare

For .deb-based distros (like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint):
Then install the needed dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y python3-flask python3-stem python3-pyqt5 python-nautilus

After that you can try both the CLI and the GUI version of OnionShare:

./install/scripts/onionshare
./install/scripts/onionshare-gui

A script to build a .deb package and install OnionShare easily is also provided for your convenience:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential fakeroot python3-all python3-stdeb dh-python python-nautilus
./install/build_deb.sh
sudo dpkg -i deb_dist/onionshare_*.deb

Note that OnionShare uses stdeb to generate Debian packages, and python3-stdeb is not available in Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty). Because of this, you can’t use the build_install.sh script to build the .deb file in versions of Ubuntu 14.04 and earlier. However, .deb files you build in later versions of Ubuntu will install and work fine in 14.04.

For .rpm-based distros (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS):

sudo sudo dnf install -y rpm-build python3-flask python3-stem python3-qt5 nautilus-python
./install/build_rpm.sh
sudo yum install -y dist/onionshare-*.rpm

Depending on your distribution, you may need to use yum instead of dnf.
For ArchLinux:
There is a PKBUILD available here that can be used to install OnionShare.

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Anonymous Operating System - Whonix 13

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Whonix is a desktop operating system designed for advanced security and privacy. It realistically addresses attacks while maintaining usability. It makes online anonymity possible via fail-safe, automatic, and desktop-wide use of the Tor network. A heavily reconfigured Debian base is run inside multiple virtual machines, providing a substantial layer of protection from malware and IP leaks. Pre-installed applications, pre-configured with safe defaults are ready for use. Additionally, installing custom applications or personalizing the desktop will in no way jeopardize the user. Whonix is the only actively developed OS designed to be run inside a VM and paired with Tor.

Whonix consists of two parts: One solely runs Tor and acts as a gateway, which we call Whonix-Gateway. The other, which we call Whonix-Workstation, is on a completely isolated network. Only connections through Tor are possible. With Whonix, you can use applications and run servers anonymously over the internet. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user's real IP.

Whonix benefits anyone who does sensitive work on their desktop or online. This includes:

Investigators and whistleblowers whose work threatens the powerful.
- Within an isolated environment, research and evidence can be gathered without accidental exposure.

Researchers, government officials, or businesspeople who may be targets of espionage.
- Anti-malware and anti-exploit modifications lower the threat of trojans and backdoors.

Journalists who endanger themselves and their families by reporting on organized crime.
- Compartmentalized, anonymous internet use prevents identity correlation between social media (and other) logins.

Political activists under targeted surveillance and attack.
- The usefulness of threatening the ISP in order to analyze a target's internet use will be severely limited. The cost of targeting a Whonix user is greatly increased.

Average computer users in a repressive or censored environment.
- Easy Tor setup (and options for advanced setups) gives users in repressive countries full internet access desktop-wide, not just in their browser.

Average computer users who simply don’t want all or some aspect of their private lives uploaded, saved, and analyzed.
- Whonix does not silently upload identifying information in the background.

Qubes-Whonix:
Either start with fresh templates. I.e. uninstall qubes-template-whonix-gw and qubes-template-whonix-ws. Then, to install, run in dom0:

sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-tempates-community qubes-template-whonix-gw qubes-template-whonix-ws

Or you can also upgrade from Whonix’s repository. Please refer to the following instructions:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Upgrading_Whonix_12_to_Whonix_13

Non-Qubes-Whonix:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Download

Or you can also upgrade from Whonix’s repository. Please refer to the following instructions:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Upgrading_Whonix_12_to_Whonix_13

Whonix 12 -> 13 changes:
https://phabricator.whonix.org/maniphest/query/TfpGK0Sq8w1j/#R

The Amnesic Incognito Live System - Tails 2.4

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Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.

It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Tails comes with several built-in applications pre-configured with security in mind: web browser, instant messaging client, email client, office suite, image and sound editor, etc.

New features

We enabled the automatic account configuration of Icedove which discovers the correct parameters to connect to your email provider based on your email address. We improved it to rely only on secure protocol and we are working on sharing these improvements with Mozilla so that users of Thunderbird outside Tails can benefit from them as well.

Upgrades and changes

Update Tor Browser to 6.0.1, based on Firefox 45.
Remove the preconfigured #tails IRC channel. Join us on XMPP instead!
Always display minimize and maximize buttons in titlebars. (#11270)
Remove GNOME Tweak Tool and hledger. You can add them back using the Additional software packages persistence feature.
Use secure HKPS OpenPGP key server in Enigmail.
Harden our firewall by rejecting RELATED packets and restricting Tor to only send NEW TCP syn packets. (#11391)
Harden our kernel by:
- Setting various security-related kernel options: slab_nomerge slub_debug=FZ mce=0 vsyscall=none. (#11143)
- Removing the .map files of the kernel. (#10951)

Fixed problems

Update the DRM and Mesa graphical libraries. This should fix recent problems with starting Tails on some hardware. (#11303)
Some printers that stopped working in Tails 2.0 should work again. (#10965)
Enable Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery for IPv4. This should make the connections to obfs4 Tor bridges more reliable. (#9268)
Fix the translations of Tails Upgrader. (#10221)
Fix displaying the details of a circuit in Onion Circuits when using Tor bridges. (#11195)

For more details, read our changelog.

Known issues

The automatic account configuration of Icedove freezes when connecting to some email providers. (#11486)
In some cases sending an email with Icedove results in the error: "The message could not be sent using Outgoing server (SMTP) mail.riseup.net for an unknown reason." When this happens, simply click "Ok" and try again and it should work. (#10933)
The update of the Mesa graphical library introduce new problems at least on AMD HD 7770 and nVidia GT 930M.

See the list of long-standing issues.

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Everything you Need to Safely Browse the Internet - Tor Browser 6.0

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