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Through United States and most of Europe, the very worst you can expect is to be potentially put on a watchlist. While in some extremely authoritarian countries Tor may carry legal risk, it's generally fine. Torbrowser-launcher bugs and known issues You can also read those scripts here if interested: In order to use these scripts, please refer to /usr/share/doc/torbrowser-launcher/examples/. the real Xserver is not exposed to the browser application, so hopefully that application cannot exploit bugs to grab keyboard input from other applications.The browser process (and it's subprocesses) can - thanks to AppArmor confinement - only access a tiny part of the filesystem

This, using AppArmor and Xephyr, shall have two effects:

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These scripts show how to run torbrowser-launcher (and thus torbrowser), confined with AppArmor, in Xephyr (a virtual Xserver running on another Xserver) as another user. HolgerLevsen has written some scripts which are available in /usr/share/doc/torbrowser-launcher/examples/ if you have installed the package. What does that mean?ĪppArmor confinement and Xserver isolation

~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/i686/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc.

If you installed 'torbrowser-launcher' on a 32-bit (i386) system, the 'torrc' advanced configuration file is located at:

~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Tor/torrc.

If you installed 'torbrowser-launcher' on a 64-bit (amd64) system, the 'torrc' advanced configuration file is located at: GNOME will require you to run the file from the terminal instead.Īfter being run, it will also auto-update in place as new versions are released. This can be run just by double-clicking it in most file managers. desktop file that'll run the browser in-place. Tarballs containing the latest stable version of the Tor Browser Bundle can be found on the official Tor Browser website, they contain a.

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Just install the torbrowser-launcher package with your preferred tool. Because the package is only available in the backports section without room for ambiguity, Apt will install it without any extra arguments necessary. The torbrowser-launcher package isn't available in the regular release of Debian 9 and 10, but it was made later available via the backports system and can be installed through it.įollow the instructions to add the backports repository to your sources.list. These can both be accessed via terminal commands by running torbrowser-launcher or torbrowser-launcher -settings respectively.

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The latter will allow you to configure the way that Tor Browser is downloaded (such as the mirror, whether or not you use the system Tor service to download it, etc.), while the former will simply launch the browser and download it if it isn't currently installed. With Debian 11 and later, or Debian Sid (Unstable), installing it is as simple as installing the torbrowser-launcher package with whatever tool you prefer.Īfter installation, two new entries can be found in the launcher of your preferred desktop, 'Tor Browser' and 'Tor Browser Launcher Settings'.

You won't get arrested or get into trouble with your ISP or someone else for running Tor.

Tor isn't only used for illegal purposes.

The deep web/dark web aren't dangerous to browse, and won't expose you to hackers and malware.

AppArmor confinement and Xserver isolation.

Program launchers and menu entries will be created for you automatically.

If using AppArmor, you will benefit from the AppArmor profiles contained in the package

You will benefit from automatic upgrades.

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The advantage of using torbrowser-launcher over the manual installation of the TorBrowser package (called Tor Browser Bundle) is threefold:

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In Debian the easier way to do that is to install Tor Browser using torbrowser-launcher, which automatically installs Tor Browser, run it, and update it to keep its protection strong and protect your privacy. To keep your protection strong you need to update the Tor Browser regularly. Tor Browser is based on Firefox and will be familiar to many users. Tor Browser protects your privacy while you are surfing the Internet: * it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, * it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, * and it lets you access sites which are blocked.

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