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Onion Pi — Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy

Posted by Soulskill on from the tasty-and-private dept.

coop0030 writes "Feel like someone is snooping on you? Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. This is fun weekend project from Adafruit that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and portable privacy Pi."

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  1. Danger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note that routing through Tor can hide your location, but it will not protect unencrypted traffic from eavesdropping and MITM attacks.

    I would caution strongly against indiscriminately running all your traffic trough Tor. In many cases this will increase your chance of being subject to an active or passive attack, as one of the reasons people operate Tor exit nodes is to observe the outgoing traffic, either for research or for more clandestine purposes.

    Preferably only use it for encrypted traffic where you have a way to authenticate the other side. Routing TLS traffic through Tor should be fine for personal use, as long as you take care to never accept self-signed certificates.