In short: With a little time and money, you can now build a portable Raspberry Pi TOR proxy router. Using this device, you can browse the internet anonymously and defeat government spying efforts..
The Raspberry Pi is a single board PC that can do many things. It can be used to build your own iPhone, your own personal VPN, Raspberry Pi Proxyham, home automation systems, and more. However, if you feel like you need more protection, you can use this little machine to build your own TOR proxy and browse anonymously.
For those who don't know much about TOR, it can be used by anyone to browse the internet with freedom and privacy. The TOR encrypts your data at multiple levels and hides the source of the website request.
While you can run a TOR proxy on any machine, the guys at Adafruit have created an ultra-portable Onion Pi that can be taken and used anywhere. You can set this up at home, in the office, in your hotel, and it will still keep your real IP address hidden.
To make an Onion Pi, you will need the following things:
- A Raspberry Pi Model B with 512 MB of RAM
- An ethernet cable
- A Wi-Fi adapter
- An SD card
- Power supply for Pi
- A USB console cable and a Pi case – optional items
To set up an Onion Pi for anonymous browsing, you can go to the Adafruit for detailed step-by-step instructions.
Once you're done, simply connect your computer to the new wireless network and start using the Internet through TOR. Keep in mind that this may slow down your Internet, as the data packets need to travel further and the encryption-decryption process takes some time.
To build the Onion Pi, you can get everything you need from Adafruit or Amazon (Raspberry Pi Starter Kit + WiFi Adapter).
