18 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Graphing SSH dictionary attacks with HighCharts

TweetAfter my 10-year-old basement Linux server died this week from a power outage, I took the sad step of giving up on it. It’s died before and I’ve patched it back together with a new power supply here or an addon PCI SATA card there, but I finally decided to throw in the towel since [...]

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17 September 2010 ~ 4 Comments

Using SSH tunnel & Squid to create a private encrypted proxy for true private browsing (mostly)

TweetI once worked at this place where I got a stern talking-to for viewing non-work-related pages. It was around Christmas and I was doing my shopping online (since I left the house at 7 AM and got home at 8 PM). It’s not like I was farting around all the time. Anyway, the idea that [...]

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30 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Passwordless SSH Everywhere

TweetI’ve known about ssh keys for a long time and frequently use them, most frequently so that a script can transfer a file between two servers without having to do some mumbo-jumbo where I try to pipe a password into it or some other wacky thing. I hadn’t fully embraced ssh keys, though, because I [...]

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