... otherwise known as "Setting up PuTTY for use with Tor".
Sometimes, just sometimes, you do have something to hide, and in my case right now it's my IP address. There are times when you just don't want your home IP address being logged on a server somewhere, for someone not so very nice to find. This is the case for me as I am setting up a honeypot, and in case of the worst happening (my instance gets p0wned) I don't want my home IP address littered throughout the logs. So, to get around this I am connecting with PuTTY using a Tor proxy to anonymise my IP address. So before any of you start to think up your witty "Tor isn't really anonymous" comments for the sections below .. let me stop you .. I am not using Tor to completely anonymise my actions, but so that the IP address logged on my honeypot system is not my own .. for my own (paranoid) protection. For more information on Tor and internet privacy, you can see their website.
Sometimes, just sometimes, you do have something to hide, and in my case right now it's my IP address. There are times when you just don't want your home IP address being logged on a server somewhere, for someone not so very nice to find. This is the case for me as I am setting up a honeypot, and in case of the worst happening (my instance gets p0wned) I don't want my home IP address littered throughout the logs. So, to get around this I am connecting with PuTTY using a Tor proxy to anonymise my IP address. So before any of you start to think up your witty "Tor isn't really anonymous" comments for the sections below .. let me stop you .. I am not using Tor to completely anonymise my actions, but so that the IP address logged on my honeypot system is not my own .. for my own (paranoid) protection. For more information on Tor and internet privacy, you can see their website.
