The folks at Rochester 2600 were regaled by a talk from Payap Sirinam who is on Matthew Wright’s academic team at RIT. They’re working on an interesting system that aims to defend against website …
One of my favorite things about the Tor Project is their proposal system. Every idea that’s worth thinking about goes into a proposal template that talks about the idea, the technical background, why it’s …
I noticed this bug ticket from Tor Project last week: Make exit flag depend on ports 80 and 443, not 6667 and it reminded me about a short talk I gave regarding how the port you connect to a service on, directly affects …
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Website Fingerprinting Defenses at the Application Layer I like research projects on subjects that I feel have no hope. So here’s hoping for hope! This research is …
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Waterfilling: Balancing The Tor Network With Maximum Diversity This paper is proposing a new tor circuit path selection algorithm that makes bigger nodes run middle/relay traffic more …
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2017 is a privacy nerd’s dream and has always been on my list to attend. Unfortunately, I did not make it out to Minnesota to attend but all the papers are …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Last year, I was bit by the idea of intel as a research project. I presented at BSidesDetroit on the topic of corporate espionage and the contrast between HUMINT and TECHINT. My Defcon Skytalk was titled “Bringin …
Last night at Interlock Rochester, someone did a lightning talk on Liberte Linux — one of those anonymity Linux distros similar to TAILS and the like. Everything seemed pretty standard for an anonymity machine, all …
InspecTor is a .onion page that kept track of bad exit nodes on the network. And it did a pretty good job. It looked for things like:
SSL Stripping: Replacing HTTPS links with HTTP JavaScript injection iFrame injection …
Let me start by answering the short version of the question: Tor usually performs DNS requests using the exit node’s DNS server. Because Tor is TCP, it will only be able to handle TCP based DNS requests normally. Hidden …
Quick blog post — thought it would be funny to make an Instagram script that will download all the locations of a user account. You can find the details on how to use it on Github. Pretty straightforward:
./instagram.py …
Browser fingerprint tactics, like the ones demonstrated in Panopticlick have been used by marketing and website analytic types for years. It’s how they track a user’s activities across domains. Just include their piece …
Panopticlick is a project run by the EFF that highlights the privacy concerns related to being able to fingerprint your browser. It suddenly popped back up in /r/netsec like it was a new project. The site works by …
It’s been 6 months since I started running a Tor bridge node on an Amazon EC2 instance. Back then, Tor had just announced an initiative to get people setting up cloud images to run as bridge nodes. This was during …