For many years, I didn’t think that Tor could be useful for me. However, I’ve recently found a Gist on GitHub that describes how you can use it to harden your central syslog-ng server. And while I have yet to try it, at least now I have a reason to actually test Tor.
The Tor website describes the project as follows: “Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship.” I live in a country where thankfully I do not need these, nor do I perform any activities for which Tor would be useful. However, sometimes I hear from syslog-ng users that they want to hide their logging infrastructure with something more than what mutual TLS authentication makes possible. This is where this short how-to might be useful for you:
https://gist.github.com/hashgh0st/19bcfa4bfc96fbf0bbd2897b66c77db7/
The Gist is about how to install / configure syslog-ng and Tor on a FreeBSD client and server. I have a couple of FreeBSD boxes lying around, so I will test the instructions there. However, with minimal changes, the procedure should work on any Linux distribution as well.
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