In my last post I described how to use Squid and Privoxy to enhance your privacy while surfing the internet. We want to push this a little bit further by adding onion routing with Tor. If you heard about Tor but don’t really know how it works, I suggest reading the Tor overview first.
Enhancing your privacy further with Squid and Tor
January 29th, 2007 — Tech
Enhancing your privacy using Squid and Privoxy
January 27th, 2007 — Tech
If you would like to surf the internet anonymously I’ll show you how to use Squid and Privoxy for this purpose. First we’ll configure Squid to filter some HTTP header fields. After this, web servers will most likely think that we aren’t requesting content through a proxy but rather directly with our browser. We will see that we can’t manipulate all HTTP header fields without running into problems: Privoxy will help us here.
Tuning and hardening Squid
January 26th, 2007 — Tech
Tuning and hardening Squid will be the topic of this post, where tuning means making it a little bit faster and hardening means less vulnerable to malicious use. The default installation of Squid on a Debian box has a lot of features enabled which most likely aren’t used: we want to turn these off. Then there might be situations where you probably want to use Squid but don’t want it to function as a cache: we’ll investigate this too.
Using a parent proxy with Squid
January 23rd, 2007 — Tech
If you want Squid to be part of a hierarchy of proxies or you just want Squid to fetch content not directly from a web server but rather indirectly from another proxy then read on how to do that.
