Your Raspberry Pi can join The Tor Project network that helps Russians read censored news sites, including Twitter.
These are all the commands necessary to spin up a Snowflake proxy that gives Tor users a way around government attempts to block access.
You can also run a Snowflake proxy from your web browser with Firefox or Chrome. Standing it up on your Raspberry Pi is a way to support the system 24 hours a day. And, unlike other Tor server setups, it doesn't require a static IP address.
| # Install the Go programming language | |
| sudo apt update | |
| sudo apt install -y golang-go | |
| # Download the Snowflake proxy code | |
| git clone https://git.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git | |
| # Move into the proxy code directory | |
| cd snowflake/proxy | |
| # Set a location for the log | |
| LOG="$(pwd)/snowflake.log" | |
| # Start up the proxy to run silently in the background while outputting its activity to the log | |
| nohup ./proxy >"$LOG" 2>&1 & |
ok, figured what the problem is, I'm x86_64, there's no x86_64 golang package (thanks go!):
$ hostnamectl
[bits snipped, for obvious reasons]
Icon name: computer-vm
Chassis: vm
Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel: Linux 5.16.13-x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
$ apt install golang-go:x86_64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package golang-go:x86_64
therefore apt tries to get amd64, which pukes in all the above ways. So, no go for me (see what I did there?).
Have you tried a source installation? I see an x86_64 one here https://go.dev/dl/
No, but I'm also not committed enough to want to have yet another thing to manually maintain. If I can install and it'll run (& more importantly, update) itself (as part of system updates), that's one thing. But yet another maintenance task? Nope, sorry.
@sidawson There is also a docker alternative that you can run on your raspberry Pi: https://gist.github.com/palewire/52504f4a52d8173935d5f0cf638d0280
i've run this shell script several times now (always rm-ing the created files and folders) on my RPi 3.
cat snwoflake.log
always prompts
nohup: failed to run command './proxy': No such file or directory
what am i missing?
@MOTSM-HD You first have to build the Snowflake proxy with the following commands in the /snowflake/proxy path:
go get
go build
Run every command in the script yourself and run these two commands after cd snowflake/proxy
Or use my fixed version
Well, it's a Debian VM (so god knows what the hardware is), running kernel 5.10.13-x86_64 - so, not THAT old (4mo?), on debian 11.2 (5mo?). I'd get you more info, but my provider is being a bit of a dick with their logins, and, crazy busy right now, sorry.
I guess I'll try updating it all, when I have time, and give it another bash. Thanks for your time though, I appreciate it. I hope no-one else has this nonsense happen.