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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: January 07, 2021, 04:06:45 AM »

Wait...

I think I know him....

J-Man? Is that you?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: January 06, 2021, 10:06:25 PM »

A women gave her life for free fair elections today, God bless her soul. Biden will never be my President should he be sworn in to cheat and steal.

Dude!   When are you going to realize that Trump has been lying to you. Just like he lied to the suckers that he flim-flammed with Trump University.

There is no fraud.

But hey if you're going to believe someone who's a half billion dollars in debt and has failed most of the businesses he started, here's something you might be into.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-University-Real-Estate-101/dp/0471917273

I'm sure he also has products to make your dick bigger and regrow hair. Act now, supplies are limited.

I knew there were a lot of people who are ignorant enough to fall for these kind of scams. It's just scary to see them all in one place at one time.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: January 06, 2021, 09:43:58 PM »

I'm pretty sure Trump did not activate the DC national guard.  Someone else maybe, but not him.  He wants this.  He's thier god damn hero.  He could walk out there, head high, no security, and everyone would cheer him.

That corrupt, lying, piece of shit, man child and his radicalized Redneck followers should be imprisoned for sedition.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: January 06, 2021, 08:42:35 PM »

Where are the federal troops that showed up at the BLM protests?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes

« on: January 06, 2021, 01:26:21 PM »

Why is Hilary Clinton in this list? She was never a President. American didn't want her. They preferred Trump.

They couldn't put Jimmy Carter in the meme. He's not a lizard.

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 29, 2020, 12:50:54 AM »

Very interesting. I've tried the IP Blocker in the Cpanel to block the IPs and their ranges but it does nothing to stop the hits. They're not really hurting anything but these 'GET's are consuming bandwidth and showing up in my metrics as traffic. It's annoying.

Speaking as a professional computer somebody for the past decade, this is just the Internet. If you are going to put services on the public Internet, you will need to get used to the fact that this happens.

I've just got to do something.  Going to curse and shake my fist in the air....

I mean no offence, but given the level of expertise you hinted at so far: do you even know what "launching attacks" would entail?

just basic scambaiting and social engineering...  Nothing sophisticated, I just don't want it coming from my address and want to minimized my DNA on it.

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 28, 2020, 04:22:33 PM »

If only I had described something like that earlier in this thread...

yep, it's coming around.

(have a look at tools like fail2ban).

Very interesting. I've tried the IP Blocker in the Cpanel to block the IPs and their ranges but it does nothing to stop the hits. They're not really hurting anything but these 'GET's are consuming bandwidth and showing up in my metrics as traffic. It's annoying.

Years ago, some Ukranians managed to get a malicious javascript into one of my hosted webpages (dumbbitchwebhosting dot com). Those spam emails that ask people to log onto their bank was sending traffic to Ukraine through one of my webpages. I haven't forgotten. Now that Russia annexed part of Ukraine, it's personal.

If I was a real asshole, I could hack into the neighbor's wifi and launch attacks from their modem. But I like my neighbors and would feel bad if the Nigerians showed up at their house and I wouldn't want them to get sprayed with Russian nerve gas either.

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 28, 2020, 02:57:04 PM »

You so called technical experts are useless. The OP has wandered off as you continue to squabble over things he's not interested in. 

I haven't so much wandered off, just consumed by weekend partying. I'm sober now.

The thing is that when you post a technical question like this on a flat earth forum, you take your chances. But you will get a broad swath of opinions along with the possibility of being trolled off the grid. That's cool, I want to hear it all. I read it all. There has been some good info in this thread.

I think it's within my tech abilities to set up some kind of proxy server but there's still the issue of IP addresses....

Short answer: you DO NOT want a VPN for your use case. If you run it yourself, it will always be tied to you. If a corporation runs it, you're at the behest of a corporation which Definitely Doesn't™️ have multiple ways to break the promises they made to you at the behest of law enforcement. (Those, in turn, can also be exploited by people who aren't law enforcement).

If I buy IP addresses outright, it would be like having them tattooed on my ass. I might be able to cover them but they would follow me forever. (Doesn't the Thorkian hardware solution require having some kind of rogue IP address to hide behind?)

A couple of you recognized that I don't have the issue completely mapped out yet but I'm closing in on it.

However, once you reach the stage of "I wanna go scambaiting but don't want the nice Nigerian mafia to knock on my door", hardening the entire environment in which you do that starts to become necessary.

Yeah, the Nigerians are one thing, but I also want to go after the Russians attacking my webhost. Those people have absolutely no sense of humor.

I'm starting to think that maybe I'm looking at a workstation solution rather that a network solution. Maybe some kind of an anonymized, fortified, VM on a flashdrive... If I want to play in the mud, I could just plug it in and make it disappear when I'm done.

 

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 27, 2020, 01:29:56 AM »

If you're comfortable getting your hands a little dirty with VMs (sorry, no idea what your background and experience is - I'm happy to adjust to any level if you let me know) I'd recommend playing with Whonix. In a nutshell, you run 2 VMs: one acting as a Linux box that routes all network traffic through the other - a gateway that routes all Internet traffic through Tor.

I run a small herd of VM on the ranch and I read about running a sandbox within a sandbox within a sandbox etc. But....

I'm very sceptical of such arguments because any network clients on the workstation VM should be running unprivileged, so escaping a network namespace sandbox would require a root privilege escalation vulnerability in the kernel.

There is a lot of opportunity for me to fuck up permissions and own myself even without any inherent architectural issues.

I run a couple of my own OpenVPN servers, mostly for circumventing weird access restrictions, and to act as a gateway to my own stuff that I don't necessarily want open to all of the Internet.

I've been playing with tinc.

But still, don't you need IP addresses if you don't want people to see your face?

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 26, 2020, 11:00:15 PM »

If someone is using a VPN, they are probably up to no good.

Ok, So here's the deal. I'm getting a new computer and I'm looking to harden the network defenses. The workstation (not an Apple) will be more about video editing and digital publishing but I do enjoy some light recreational cybercrime (hacktivism, scambaiting, no bitcoin, etc...) I'm looking to anonymize the IP address, plug ports, monitor traffic yada yada. So Thork was kind of right.

Part of the problem is that I share a normal household network with people and peripherals that want a normal internet experience.

VPNs are gay and will increasing attract the interest of HMRC, IRS etc.

Yes, they are gay. And they could just as easily give away the donkey porn they are supposed to protect by getting breached themselves. But even Cloud flare had a leak so we take our chances with anyone. I'm not as worried about attracting attention from the government by using a VPN. In America, it's like a gun permit, no big deal.

They offer the minimal protection of the front door of my house. Someone could break it down with no problem but it does keep out stray dogs and lost elderly women suffering from dementia who wander up.

I'm thinking maybe the whole house needs to be behind some kind of firewall proxy server thing. I saw an ad for some of Michael Jackson's old IP addresses from Neverland Ranch.

BTW Doesn't it bother any of you that the admins can geolocate you, read your OS, possibly access your files and camera, start an online romance with some friend or family from your contact list, marry into your family and seriously own you?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Covid-19 vaccine two shots

« on: December 20, 2020, 06:03:38 PM »

Just so were clear, the facts are in. As I said fake flu. No more people died this year than last year or previous years. They will now die at alarming rates due to Gates extermination shot for everyone.

Covid 19 wiped out deaths in all forms, they just don't happen anymore

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/death-rate

Merry Christmas. Trump won by a landslide.

Wow, you'll fall for anything...

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-chart-us-death-figures-2020/fact-check-chart-does-not-present-accurate-us-deaths-figure-for-2020-idUSKBN2872MV

Notice the banner at the top of the page you cited...
NOTE: All 2020 and later data are UN projections and DO NOT include any impacts of the COVID-19 virus.

But, I really want to understand. You genuinely believe the hospitals are not being swamped? You don't believe the ICUs are at capacity?  You think there are 'crisis actors' posted at hospital waiting rooms to perpetuate this hoax? 

You don't have any friends that have been hospitalized or killed by this? Don't you have any friends in the medical industry that will tell you the truth? Don't you have any friends that are doctors or nurses that you can trust? Don't you have any friends that...   oh wait...  now I get it.

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 19, 2020, 11:56:11 PM »

Of course, the traffic is from Russia.

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!  WHY CAN"T THEY JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!?!?

Russians sending out dodgy requests to random web servers? Must be a Tuesday.

Those bastards!

Holidays are coming so I'll have some time off. I may set up a honey pot with a hole that's shaped like a pussy. When they stick their dick in it, steel teeth will bite their dick off and it will fall into a basket of dicks that I will sell on eBay.

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 19, 2020, 09:56:05 PM »

ok, so yes, I want to hide my IP address as much as I can but not because I'm trying to hide the fact that I'm looking at porn. Everybody knows I look at porn, everybody's grossed out and we've all moved on.

I am thinking about buying or renting some old IP addresses and setting up my own proxy server (a lot of issues with that plan but doable.)

Anyway, I was doing some tinkering with different browsers and what the webhost sees. I launched test attacks ... I mean connections to a website on my webhost and looked at Cpanel reports to see what IPs were recorded.

Firefox on Windows 8 - webhost recorded the IP address and the location of the modem at my desk
Firefox on Windows 8 from within a virtual Linux Kali client - webhost recorded the IP, the location of the modem at my desk and that I was on a Windows 8 machine with a virtual Linux Kali client
Tor browser on Windows 8 - webhost got a random IP everytime and nothing about my system.

So if you just want to hide your IP from pornsters, Tor seems the way to go.

While I was doing this I noticed that one of my other sites was getting a weird traffic pattern. It's a one page information site, no ecommerce. A rotating IP address is sending a GET (HTTP 1.0) to one specific site. Every few minutes, the IP would change by one and present a different operating system.
WTF, for days, they have been using different IP addresses and different operating systems trying to connect!

Of course, the traffic is from Russia.

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME!  WHY CAN"T THEY JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!?!?

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Technology & Information / Re: Massive data breach of US Gov and private companies

« on: December 17, 2020, 09:11:14 PM »

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-cybersecurity-agency-warns-of-grave-threat-from-hack/ar-BB1c147U

Yeah, I've been watching this. A breach of some network management software....

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 15, 2020, 09:59:07 PM »

However, if you're one of the people who bought into the YT advertising talking about how PenisVPN will protect your privacy because they have no logs™ and use military-grade encryption, then you're probably wasting your money, and likely making yourself more at risk of compromise, not less. There might be other use cases, and your mileage may vary.

tl;dr: you probably don't want a VPN, but if you do, it honestly doesn't matter who you choose.

This is something I've also wondered about. Even a amateur geolocator can tell you're on a VPN. There are all kinds of fingerprints from the originating computer and application layer in a deep packet analysis. Can a civilian VPN really hide all that shit?

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Technology & Information / Re: Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 15, 2020, 07:11:11 PM »

Setting up my own server might not be a bad idea. I have pretty badass broadband with lots of bandwidth and speed.

I'm expecting Santa Claus to buy me a bunch of new computer gear this Christmas.

My Girlfriend plays World of Tanks on the European servers. But I think using a VPN to be present in Europe will add the same amount of ping time as as crossing the ocean with regular internet.

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Technology & Information / Who loves or hates their VPN?

« on: December 15, 2020, 06:47:48 PM »

Who do you use and do they suck or not?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: December 15, 2020, 03:42:55 PM »

The scariest thing about all this election bull shit is that really, all the GOP would need to steal the election is a majority in both houses and a majority of state legislatures.  That's a huge flaw.

If there isn't meaningful reform in the electoral process, it's only a matter of time before the office of the president is stolen in this fashion.

Worse than that, Trump had a majority in the House and the Senate. If he had a corrupt Attorney General  like Bob Barr instead of Jeff Sessions, he could have done anything he wanted.

Fortunately, he's an incompetent buffoon who screws up everything he touches. He missed out on his chance for world domination.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Joe Biden is winning by a landslide

« on: December 14, 2020, 09:34:23 PM »

Wrong.

https://twitter.com/IvanPentchoukov/status/1338505355463188482

So is this how Trump managed to win in 2016?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: December 13, 2020, 03:58:12 PM »

MAGA crowd chants "destroy the GOP" in Washington, DC

I'm Joe Biden and I approved this message.

Lol, this is a great punch line for everything that Trump does. It's going to get a lot of mileage.

I crack myself up.