Question about TOR project

[poscore]

Hi, i downloaded TOR and i opened a TOR brower where my IP has changed !  Happy to see this. There is one question though...


If i use command line or some programs to hack something or ping something etc what would my ip be? My real one or the fake one? Also from chrome i can see my real and not fake ip. could someone explain this to me?


thank you

[th3g00n]

I think you have to configure it manually, at least for chrome. But on second thought; DO NOT USE TOR FOR ANYTHINK ILLEGAL.

[poscore]

Ok, thank you. Any ideas what should i do with the programs? Also, you said not to use it caz it dont acctually hide my ip?

[bubzuru]

your ip would be your ip

think of tor as a socks proxy that runs on your pc(but then goes through a network) .
any app that can use (socks)proxy's can use tor (just set the proxy address to localhost:port that tor is running on)

in theory any app can go through tor(even if they dont suport proxys) by hooking the api's used to connect to the internet but thats a different story

so in short
 yes you can use programs through tor, if they support using proxys. or you want to hook the api calls 

[EmilKXZ]

Be careful! If you don't want to compromise your IP, don't just install Tor! I quite understand what you want, and before you do anything stupid, think about your habits. Anonymity goes FAR BEYOND than any common security practice. It includes changing your lifestyle, and being paranoid to the extreme if you're really into it. However, most people don't want to go that far, but if you want something that naturally works, without having to configure each application, just get Tails.

https://tails.boum.org

There are more advanced setups like virtual machine to use as a gateway (and that way you avoid configuring each application or the entire OS) to naturally route all your traffic, even if your applications don't want to go through an anonymizer proxy. Take special care with this:

http://www.janusvm.com/

I hope my post helps you in any way. Play safe and do not do anything illegal. And recommend your friends to use these systems, the more people the merrier. That way all the encrypted traffic won't be just yourself.

[poscore]

Thank you for your answers. I am not trying to do something illegal now. Al least now I am trying to secure my self so much that at least i cant hack myself.


Its very bad reading in the internet that TOR is great anonymity and is everything you want...


I was thinking about seting up a firewall in virtualbox and make his ip as a gateway for me PC. Any usefull links about this? I think that would be great for starting over this.

[Ghastly]

If you don't know this I am amazing you can 'hack' let alone in windows.

Tor changes your IP for the browser, and If your in a Linux distro, you could set all connections to route through it. Create a new network interface for that.

[L0rd_M@dness]

if you want other programs to use TOR there's a process called "Torifying" for that.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO