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installing tor on OS X.md

Install Homebrew

Installation instructions: here

Install Tor

$ brew install tor

Enabling the default config file

sudo mv /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc.sample /usr/local/etc/tor/torrc

Setup Automatic SOCKS proxy

This will take a few steps, you may want to setup a script to handle doing these things for you automatically:

Get Primary network interface Service Identifier

service_identifier=`printf "open\nget State:/Network/Global/IPv4\nd.show" | scutil | grep "PrimaryService" | awk '{print $3}'`

Get the Primary network interface Name

service_name=`printf "open\nget Setup:/Network/Service/$service_identifier\nd.show" | scutil | grep "UserDefinedName" | awk -F': ' '{print $2}'`

Add the SOCKS proxy settings

sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxy "$service_name" localhost $tor_port (by default the tor port is 9050)

Enable the SOCKS proxy

sudo networksetup -setsocksfirewallproxystate "$service_name" on

Run tor automatically

based on the instructions when installing tor, you will want to run brew services then brew services start tor so that it gets automatically started with your computer.

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