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Privoxy runs as a “server”. How secure is it?

April 26, 2017Privoxy Secure server

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Privoxy runs as a “server”. How secure is it?

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1681 special precautions? 1682 1683 On Unix-like systems, Privoxy can run as a non-privileged user, which is 1684 how we recommend it be run. Also, by default Privoxy listens to requests 1685 from “localhost” only. 1686 1687 The server aspect of Privoxy is not itself directly exposed to the 1688 Internet in this configuration. If you want to have Privoxy serve as a LAN 1689 proxy, this will have to be opened up to allow for LAN requests. In this 1690 case, we’d recommend you specify only the LAN gateway address, e.g. 1691 192.168.1.1, in the main Privoxy configuration file and check all access 1692 control and security options. All LAN hosts can then use this as their 1693 proxy address in the browser proxy configuration, but Privoxy will not 1694 listen on any external interfaces. ACLs can be defined in addition, and 1695 using a firewall is always good too. Better safe than sorry.