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Overview

Feel like someone is snooping on you? Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy. This is fun

weekend project that uses a Raspberry Pi, a USB WiFi adapter and Ethernet cable to create a small, low-power and

portable privacy Pi.

Using it is easy-as-pie. First, plug the Ethernet cable into any Internet provider in your home, work, hotel or

conference/event. Next, power up the Pi with the micro USB cable to your laptop or to the wall adapter. The Pi will

boot up and create a new secure wireless access point called Onion Pi. Connecting to that access point will

automatically route any web browsing from your computer through the anonymizing Tor network.

Who is this good for?

If you want to browse anonymously on a netbook, tablet, phone, or other mobile or console device that cannot run Tor

and does not have an Ethernet connection. If you do not want to or cannot install Tor on your work laptop or loan

computer. If you have a guest or friend who wants to use Tor but doesn't have the ability or time to run Tor on their

computer, this gift will make the first step much easier.

What is Tor?

Tor is an onion routing service - every internet packet goes through 3 layers of relays before going to your destination.

This makes it much harder for the server you are accessing (or anyone snooping on your Internet use) to figure out

who you are and where you are coming from. It is an excellent way to allow people who are blocked from accessing

websites to get around those restritions.

According to the Tor website: (https://adafru.it/cga)

Journalists use Tor to communicate more safely with whistleblowers and dissidents. Non-governmental

organizations (NGOs) use Tor to allow their workers to connect to their home website while they're in a foreign

country, without notifying everybody nearby that they're working with that organization.