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Using Team Fortress 2 game-servers to circumvent censorship

Around two years ago, I checked out the pluggable transports system of Tor. This mechanism can be used to circumvent network censoring done by network administrators / authoritarian governments which deny their citizens to certains parts of the internet. In most censoring situations there will

whatsspy-public

PoC WhatsSpy Public support ending today

Note: attempting to run this from now on might result (eventually) in a ban of your phone number used in the PoC of using WhatsApp. The code has not been

tor

Progress in censorship circumvention: overview of Tor and Pluggable transports

Publish date: 28-Feb-2016 Prior knowledge required: Technical understanding of Tor Article in PDF Format: https://maikel.pro/published/progress-tor-pluggable-transports.pdf Direct link to article in PDF format. 1. Internet Censorship

FTS

Dovecot full text search (Squat) indexer memory tip

Not so long ago Squat was announced, an integrated full text search engine within Dovecot with basically no additional software required. This makes the use of FTS much easier within dovecot. But, there is something that cannot be found elsewhere on the internet. That

crl

The current state of certificate revocation (CRLs, OCSP and OCSP Stapling)

Publish date: 15-Jan-2016 Prior knowledge required: Abstract understanding of PKI. Article in PDF Format: https://maikel.pro/published/crls-ocsp-stapling.pdf Direct link to article in PDF format. OCSP and its PKI aspects Public Key Infrastructure is crucial in today’s use of the internet.

hotmail

The troubles of Hotmail/Gmail with your own mailserver (postfix) and how to fix them!

So you have setup your own mailserver with Dovecot and Postfix and it's working fine (DKIM, SPF etc), except for sending mails to Hotmail and Gmail. The problem: Sending mail

remarkable/funny death poses in TF2

This is my collection of remarkable/funny ways of dead people lying around in TF2 public servers. I will keep updating this post for more funny death scenes :D. Unique

rpi

Where are my Raspberry Pi's at?

Downloading Media and fooling around It all started with 1 Raspberry Pi model B as an alternative to a server in the basement. There is no room in the basement

whatsspy-public

Status of the WhatsApp privacy problem

About two months ago I released WhatsSpy Public to prove that WhatsApp, six months after the first discovery still did not fix the privacy problem where a random user can

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WhatsApp Privacy problem explained in detail

Introduction to WhatsSpy Public (not to confuse with WhatsSpy)? | WhatsSpy Public Project page I released a tool this Saturday, which will give you some insight of what a “hacker” (or

whatsspy-public

WhatsApp privacy is broken!

So there is this menu called "privacy" in WhatsApp. Here you can edit your "last seen", "profile picture" and "status" privacy options.

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[NL] Software ontwikkelmethode MEME

MEME staat voor Minimum Effort, Maximum Efficiency. Dit ontwikkelmodel gaat uit van de volgende principes: Het opleveren van een product met zo weinig mogelijk functionaliteiten en kwaliteiten in een zo

USB hubs make the difference for powering Raspberry Pi's and multiple Harddisks

The old setup In februari I posted some information about my Raspberry Pi as an Media Service (downloading and streaming). This setup is visible in the following image: An Conceptric

bashing

My experience so far with my Nexus 5

So you're telling me theres free Wifi here? Well, why the fuck aren't you connecting then? No i'm not there, what are you doing!?! I seem to have a GPS

iceland

3G/4G internet in Iceland as a tourist

With most cellular subscriptions you can use internet abroad, but the costs involed are usually much higher than in your own country. If your country is a member of the

rpi

How to backup your Raspberry Pi (complete OS+Personal Files)

There are many reasons to backup: Write cycles of an SD card are much worse that an HDD or SSD (usally around ~1000 times). Setting up all the OS with

raspberry

This might just fix your corrupt SD card of your Raspberry Pi

This week i tried booting my Raspberry Pi, but this showed up: end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 148225 mmcblk0: error -110 transfering data, sector 148226, nr 254,

GOT

Game of Thrones S04 set in Iceland (july 2013)

Update: Added screenshots of the episodes. During my vacation in Iceland I stumbled upon the filmset of Game Of Thrones. You guys might enjoy these pictures of the set. These