Is tsocks necessary?

Question

Yo, Tails noob here. So if Tails is supposed to route everything through Tor by default, can I just type "nmap [options] [target]" and it will be torified or do I actually need to specify tsocks or something like proxychains before the command itself? Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

Tails doesn't route everything through Tor.

Tails uses a set of applications that are pre-configured to use Tor and stops applications from sending non-Tor traffic.

As such tsocks would be necessary and is mostly incompatible with nmap.

Please see this answer.

P.S.: quit skiddin'

P.P.S: Port scanning over Tor is both harmful to the Tor network and mostly ineffective. See this comment