mytechnotalent/tor-everything — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-07-19 · repo last pushed 2025-11-26
Route all of your computer's internet traffic through Tor for full-system anonymity.
Randomize your device's MAC address to make hardware harder to trace on networks.
Set up a Tor service that runs continuously in the background and survives reboots.
Learn privacy techniques as a journalist or researcher concerned about surveillance.
| mytechnotalent/tor-everything | abgcto/hey-claude | ernie-research/nava | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 62 | 62 | 62 |
| Language | — | Swift | Python |
| Last pushed | 2025-11-26 | — | — |
| Maintenance | Quiet | — | — |
| Setup difficulty | moderate | easy | hard |
| Complexity | 3/5 | 2/5 | 5/5 |
| Audience | developer | developer | researcher |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Requires reading the PDF guide and comfort with Linux networking and command-line tools.
TOR Everything is a free educational book and companion code repository by Kevin Thomas that teaches you how to route all of your computer's internet traffic through the Tor network for anonymity. The main deliverable is a downloadable PDF book, and the repository serves as the home base for accessing that guide. The guide walks through two main concepts. First, it covers MAC obfuscation, which means hiding or randomizing your device's hardware-level network identifier so that your computer is harder to trace even before it connects to the internet. Second, it explains how to set up a persistent Tor service, meaning Tor runs continuously in the background and handles internet traffic from all of your operating system's apps, not just a single browser. The word "persistent" means this setup survives reboots rather than needing to be manually started each time. The audience is people who want stronger privacy than a normal browser provides, such as researchers, journalists, or anyone concerned about surveillance. If you have only used the Tor Browser for occasional private browsing and want to understand how to extend that kind of anonymity to your entire machine, this book is aimed at you. The README is sparse on detail, pointing to the PDF for the actual instructions, so the repository functions more as a distribution point for a book than as a standalone software project. The project is free and open source under the Apache License. The author also links to a separate reverse-engineering course, suggesting this guide is part of a broader self-study curriculum for people interested in security and privacy topics.
A free educational PDF book and code repo that teaches you how to route all of your computer's internet traffic through the Tor network for privacy, covering MAC address randomization and persistent Tor service setup.
Quiet — no commits in 6-12 months (last push 2025-11-26).
Free to use, modify, and distribute for any purpose including commercial use, as long as you include the copyright notice and license terms.
Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.
Mainly developer.
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