I’ve made a scalable way of building a fully private functioning tor network using Docker. Why give any back story, if it’s useful to you, then here you go: Source: https://github.com/antitree/private-tor-network Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/antitree/private-tor/ Setup All you really need to do is clone the git repo, build the image (or download from Docker Hub) and then spin up a network to your liking. What’s nice about this is you can use the docker-compose scale command to build any size network that you want. Eventually, when in the next version of Docker you’ll be able to scale across multiple hosting providers. But the current RC is too sketchy to invest any time in.

It’s another year of BSidesROC, a local hacker con that we put together. Our sixth year actually. Not everyone really cares about how BSidesROC has changed over the years but it’s hard not to at least mention them for posterity and laugh at our failures. I think that BSidesROC has evolved with the times or at least updated their memes. Year one was all about the memes and just messing around and to be honest, we didn’t care if anyone even showed up. We were going to have fun and hang out whether people attended. Today, here we are with a big group of organizers, 3 tracks of presentations, and hopefully even a keynote. We’ve gone from un-conference to regular conference and I think that’s OK. It’s what people told us they wanted.

This post on hackernews got my attention. It’s a IoT based visualization showing your activities and health metrics. It’s very flashy and interesting looking, like you’re going to see it in an episode of CSI Cyber. The term “actionable” I’ve usually applied to government types discussing the latest threat intel but we can also take it to apply with our visualizations. Actionable visualizations, should provides the viewer with brand new information that could not have been easily concluded before. This was a common problem with threat intel practices in years past. You would collect tons and tons of information and render it into a beautiful graph and then look at it and go, “Yup, there’s a graph of all the stuff I already knew.”

I don’t remember the exact conversation, but Jason Ross inspired me to buy DRWND.com, as in Drone + PWND = DRWND. I’ve owned it for a bit waiting for some specific data so that I could use it as an informational site about DRWN attacks. As IANA web developer, this has been interesting and terrible but simple enough to share. www.drwnd.com I won’t assume the site makes any sense right now so I can summarize it like this:

PhantomJS is a headless browser that when you use Selenium, turns into a powerful, scriptable tool for scraping or automated web testing in even JavaScript heavy applications. We’ve known that browsers are being fingerprinted and used for identifying individual visits on a website for a long time. This technology is a common feature of your web analytics tools. They want to know as much as possible about their users so why not collect identifying information.

I’ve updated the Raspberry Bridge build to 1.5.1Beta to update a few things and address a couple issues. The main changes are: updated Tor to latest stable release updated obfsproxy updated OS including some security patches Download Torrent: http://rbb.antitree.com/torrents/RBBlatest.torrent More info: http://rbb.antitree.com/

The Meek Protocol has recently been getting a lot of attention since the Tor project made a few blog posts about it. Meek is a censorship evasion protocol that users a tactic called “domain fronting” to evade DPI-based censorship tactics. The idea is that using a CDN such as Google, Akamai, or Cloudflare, you can proxy connections (using the TLS SNI extension) so that if an adversary wanted to block or drop your connection, they would need to block connections to the CDN, like Google; mutually assured destruction. The goal being, a way of connecting to the Tor Network that is unblockable even from nation state adversaries.

Over at rbb.antitree.com, you’ll see the details of a new project of mine: To build a Raspberry Pi environment to make it easy for anyone to run a Tor Bridge node. The goal here has been to release an RBP image that is minimalist (in terms of storage consumption as well as resource consumption) and provides the necessary tools to run and maintain a Tor Bridge Node on a Raspberry Pi.

If you’re like me, you’re probably getting inundated with posts about how the latest revelations show that NSA specifically tracks Tor users and the privacy conscious. I wanted to provide some perspective of how XKeyscore fits into an overall surveillance system before jumping out of our collective pants. As I’ve written about before, the Intelligence Lifecycle (something that the NSA and other Five Eyes know all to well) consists more-or-less of these key phases: Identify, Collect, Process, Analyze, and Disseminate. Some of us are a bit up-in-arms, about Tor users specifically being targeted by the NSA, and while that’s a pretty safe conclusion, I don’t think it takes into account what the full system is really doing.

Chutney is a tool designed to let you build your own private Tor network instance in minutes. It does so by using configuration templates of directory authorities, bridges, relays, clients, and a variety of combinations in between. It comes with a few examples to get you started. Executing this command, for example ./chutney configure networks/basic will build a ten client network made up of three directory authorities, five relays, and two clients. Each of which have their own TORRC file, their own logs, and in the case of the relays and authorities, their own private keys. Starting them all up is as easy as