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Category: Linux
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Published: Monday, 20 July 2015 02:26
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Written by Ben Tasker
Despite some fairly negative media attention, not every Tor Hidden Service is (or needs to be) a hotbed of immorality. Some exist in order to allow those in restrictive countries to access things we might take for granted (like Christian materials).
Whilst I can't condone immoral activities, Tor is a tool, and any tool can be used or misused
This is part Two in a detailed walk through of the considerations and design steps that may need to be made when setting up a new Tor Hidden Service.
The steps provided are intended to take security/privacy seriously, but won't defend against a wealthy state-backed attacker.
In Part One we looked at the system design decisions that should be made, and configured a vanilla install ready for hosting hidden services.
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Published: Monday, 20 July 2015 01:38
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Written by Ben Tasker
Despite some fairly negative media attention, not every Tor Hidden Service is (or needs to be) a hotbed of immorality. Some exist in order to allow those in restrictive countries to access things we might take for granted (like Christian materials).
Whilst I can't condone immoral activities, Tor is a tool, and any tool can be used or misused
This is part one in a detailed walk through of the considerations and design steps that may need to be made when setting up a new Tor Hidden Service.
The steps provided are intended to take security/privacy seriously, but won't defend against a wealthy state-backed attacker.
How much of it you'll need to implement will obviously depend on your own circumstances, and in some cases there may be additional steps you need to take
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Category: Linux
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Published: Saturday, 16 May 2015 14:53
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Written by Ben Tasker
There may be occasions where, for testing purposes, you want to copy a kernel from one machine to another.
There are some fairly self-explanatory caveats:
- The donor and target system must be running on the same architecture
- The target machine shouldn't have any (important) hardware that's unsupported by your donor kernel
Obviously, you'll ideally want to make sure that the hardware is as close to identical as possible (otherwise your testing may be invalid) so the above should be considered a minimum
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Category: Joomla
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Published: Saturday, 23 May 2015 01:44
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Written by Ben Tasker
I did some work recently on making BenTasker.co.uk available via both a Tor Hidden Service (otherwise known as a .onion) and via the WWW.
The reasons for doing this are published elsewhere, but this documentation summarises the steps I had to take (and why) in order to have the site safely accessible via both routes of access.
For those who are interested, there's a far higher level of detail over on Projects.bentasker.co.uk.
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Category: Linux
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Published: Tuesday, 21 April 2015 04:07
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Written by Ben Tasker
sar can be an incredibly helpful utility when examining system performance, but if not used regularly it's easy to forget which flags to use.
This short post details a number of useful arguments to pass
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