ANONYMITY IN KALI LINUX: SETUP PROXYCHAINS

Anonymity is an absolute joke for the people on the web. Someone is always watching or trying to watch you, be it the government, your parents/friends or even attackers and hackers. Using a dedicated OS like Tails is the closest one can get to becoming completely anonymous. But us Kali users, can add another layer of security between us and strangers on the web without much work using a built in proxychain software. So lets get to it.

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Steps

1. We will be using the tor network to try and be anonymous. To see the status of your tor service simply type in "service tor status". In the case that you don't have tor installed, install it simply by typing in "apt install tor".

2. Now we need to configure our proxychains. To do this open your proxychains configuration file by typing in "nano /etc/proxychains.conf".

3. Now as default, your dynamic chain will be commented out, meaning there will be a '#' before it. Uncomment it out by deleting the '#' and also make sure to comment out static chain and random chain by adding a '#'. NOTE: VIEW THE ABOVE IMAGE IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.

4. After setting that up, go to the bottom and add 'socks5    127.0.0.1 9050' as per the format under the proxy list. NOTE: MAKE SURE TO GET THE SPACES RIGHT TO FOLLOW THE FORMAT. PRESS THE TAB BUTTON AFTER "socks5" TO GET THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SPACES. FOLLOW THE FORMAT AS PER THE BELOW IMAGE.

5. Save the file by pressing ctrl+O and click enter. Exit by doing ctrl+x. And that is it. Just restart your machine, and everything will be set. To use the proxychains, first start your tor service by "service tor start" and then fireup the proxychains by "proxychains BROWSER_NAME WEBSITE_NAME", replace BROWSER_NAME with the name of your browser and WEBSITE_NAME with the website you want to visit. You can also check for DNS Leaks by visiting https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ after firing up your proxychains.