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Would like to read, but it looks like my work is blocking access to torproject.org. I had not realized that this sort of blocking was in place. Gauntlet thrown. My project for today is now to gain access to Torproject on my work machine. Bonus points for installing and running Tor without elevated privileges.

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Here are some links you may try,

https://via.hypothes.is/https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetti...

https://web.archive.org/web/https://blog.torproject.org/suns...

https://archive.fo/U8jHR

https://archive.is/U8jHR

https://archive.today/U8jHR

> Bonus points for installing and running Tor without elevated privileges.

Try https://github.com/TheTorProject/GetTorBrowser then use meek-amazon as a pluggable transport to get it working if your network censors Tor traffic.

Reading the material on other pages is cheating. I'm trying to bypass the blockade altogether, disproving its utility. Similarly, the issue isn't slipping the tor traffic through the firewall but actually installing the software on a machine theoretically configured to prevent installation of software.

Which OS are you using? FWIW Tor Browser doesn't require root and it's portable.

I'm pretty sure you can install the nix or guix package managers without elevated privileges, and thence any package that they've defined.

Send an email or XMPP message to gettor@torproject.org, or a Twitter DM to @get_tor, to receive links to download Tor via GitHub, Dropbox and Google Drive.

The download is a zip file that can be extracted and run anywhere without installation.

Include the word 'linux' or 'osx' in the body of the message to get a binary for those platforms.

Github link is easy to remember without sending an email or twitter DM: https://github.com/TheTorProject/GetTorBrowser

> I'm trying to bypass the blockade altogether, disproving its utility

Nothing good can come from this.

Your employer will not applaud you for this.

You could end up getting fired or worse.

Perhaps try running TAILS in a VM and connecting through bridges? Tor project's hidden service is at expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion

You certainly should not need elevated privileges for Tor Browser but I realize that accessing their download site in the first place is the issue. I'd post a magnet link but doubt that follows the rules here.

Please let us know how it goes, good luck!

I'm sure you know, but check with your sysadmin if that's ok. You don't want to trigger some kind of IDS/IPS and alarm people for no reason.

Is it a DNS block, change DNS to 8.8.8.8 (Google) or somesuch?

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