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Tor Relay Install Guide

With the whole world shutting down brick and mortar locations and trying to social distance I'm wondering what hits individual privacy will take... I have a raspberry pi collecting dust so I figured I could put it to use as a Tor relay.   *Note - this build is in progress and not complete * What is Tor? If you are not familiar with Tor, it is an online privacy service that routes traffic through multiple servers and encrypts it each step of the way.   To take advantage of this all users need to do is use a Tor enabled browser like the one offered by the Tor Project, Firefox , Brave , etc.   In their own words, the folks at the Tor project "fight every day for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become the world's strongest tool for privacy and freedom online." ( source ) The short version of how this works is that your Tor browser will navigate a course to the internet sites you visit by passing the data through 3 Tor