PINE64 – Run a Tor relay

arm

As you may know, I have recently received a PINE64 1GB board where I run ubuntu 16.04 xenial and one of the reason for which I wanted to own a PINE64 was to run a Tor relay, dedicating at least 200Mb bandwidth. If you are interested on running a Tor node (non exit) compiling it from sources on a...

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PINE64 – Install ubuntu 16.04 xenial

pine64

My PINE64+ 1GB has arrived and, of course, I’m already playing around with it. First of all I needed a bootable ubuntu image so I went on the official forum and checked if there was something ready to be used. Fortunately there are a bunch of good guys there that make good things happen. O...

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Onion hash generator

I’ve been playing around with .onion domain names for a while, tried various hash generator tools and get, more or less, custom domain names. There are multiple tools out there to hash generate but the one that works better for me is, with no doubt, scallion. Scallion lets you create vanity...

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Tor: Choose exit node country

If, like myself, you need to choose from which country you get out on the internet using Tor, all what you need to do is to edit your “/etc/tor/torrc” (for Linux) – %appdata%/tor (for Windows) file adding or modifying the following settings: StrictExitNodes 1 ExitNodes {Country_...

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Run metasploit on Yosemite with ruby 2.1.4

msf_ruby

Once again I’ve been playing around with metasploit and ruby on Yosemite and as a result I can run metasploit with ruby 2.1.4. All I have to say is that it has been quite tricky but at the end I’ve got it working! Here is an explanation, step by step, of what needs to be done to achi...

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Jailbreak for iOS 8.1

pangu

The Chinese “pangu team” has achieved its goal. The jailbreak for iOS 8.1 is now available in its Chinese. pangu.io

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Apple and its SSL certificate

apple

It seems like Oracle is not the only one to screw up its SSL certificate this week. Apple has screwed up its main certificate in fact httpss://apple.com looks like this: Who is next?

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Install Homebrew on Yosemite

Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple didn’t put it into their own directory and then symlinks their files into /usr/local. Here is a simple how-to install brew on Yosemite: Download and install Xcode 6.1 Open your Terminal Download the latest Java SE JDK from Oracle Run the follo...

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OSX Custom terminal

terminal

I’ve never liked the standard colour path of OSX terminal and, not surprisingly, I didn’t like even the one that comes within Yosemite. If you are like myself and you want to add some colours in your terminal, here is how you can do it: open the Terminal create a file called “....

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Oracle and its SSL certificate

oracle

After the last upgrade, OSX is asking me to upgrade java to a newer version so I went to the oracle website and what I could see was a poor “identity not verified” on their SSL certificate placed on download.oracle.com. Nobody is perfect.

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Tor exit node within ChicagoVPS

tor_graph

Few days ago I’ve started to run an exit node with the scope to help the Tor project so I’ve reserved a VPS for 12 months within ChicagoVPS. The decision to go for that ISP was made only on the fact that it’s really cheap and the performances are good. *** DO NOT RENT A VPS WITH...

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Run a blog with $12 per year

speedtest

Here we go! I’m going to explain how I got this blog running, more or less smoothly, with $12 per year. First of all, let’s see where those $12 have been spent. LAMP – FREE WordPress – FREE Varnish – FREE VPS – $12 per year As you can see, I’ve used al...

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