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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

**Updated 3/7/21 to include custom configs that override openvpn defaults that are not configurable by default in pfSense GUI**    I recently needed to setup a VPN to allow a small business to have employees and contractors connect to their local network remotely.  Here is a summary of the setup process using pfSense and OpenVPN. Hardware / Software Selection Installation pfSense Configuration Create Certificates Configure VPN Create Users 1) Hardware / Software Selection The first item to resolve is selecting hardware and software solutions.  This really depends on a number of factors including size of your network, amount of traffic, number of remote users, and budget.  I a fan of the small form factor hardware firewall running pfSense , but there are a number of options.  Lawrence Systems has a good overview of these options here , but I'll be talking about pfSense software with netgate or protectli hardware today. 2) Installation Regardless of the