Installing Tor on Linux
Installing software on Linux is usually very easy. There are several ways to install Tor Browser, and as I mentioned, we'll discuss a few in this chapter.
Let's start with a classic installation, by accessing the Tor Project website, via a browser. The default browser that ships with Ubuntu is Firefox, which is what we'll use.
Although you might think that this would be the best way to install Tor Browser, it's actually the least secure, since the Tor Project website is continuously targeted by hackers and might have any number of security or privacy issues on it.
Instead of just downloading Tor Browser and immediately installing it (which is dangerous), you can either download the file and verify its hash (to verify ...
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