If you care about privacy and understand how TOR works, you already know the rule: **always access TOR locally**—not remotely. *(Unless you have no other choice and trust the remote endpoint, and even then you must wrap the connection in TLS or another strong encryption method.)* This guide will show you how to self-host your own **TOR Socks5 proxy locally** using Docker, and then configure it to access **Flux-hosted SimpleX SMP and xFTP servers** for maximum privacy and decentralization.
