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My firstborn turns 9 today. Just four more years and he’ll be a teenager. Seven more years and he gets his driver’s license. Nine more years and he can vote, buy cigarettes (which he WON’T do, but he’ll be legally able to), he’ll be a senior in high school and getting ready to go out into the real world.
Kids grow up pretty fast it seems. Which mean I’m getting old pretty fast. I still got quite a ways to go, but I’m getting there much quicker than I thought.
I suppose I better finalize my plans for global domination before I get too old to follow through with them.

This is my blog. It’s where I say stuff. Sometimes it’s important stuff that happens in my life and I want to tell others about it, sometimes it’s funny stuff that I find online and want to share it, and sometimes I have to reach down into the depths of my innermost self to come up with stuff to say, just for the sake of saying stuff.
Today is one of the latter. I don’t have any realy interesting stuff that I can think of at this very moment, so I’m just looking for a filler. This is my filler blog post. I’m posting something because I haven’t posted much in awhile, but I’m not really posting anything of any real significane, it’s just a filler. I’m filling the buffer with nop’s just for the heck of it. I have no intent to overflow the buffer, and then lauch an exploit, gain root or whatnot, I’m just filling the buffer with nop’s. So what does that mean? What is a buffer, and what is a nop? Well, if I told you that than there would be some substance to the post, but it is my intent to have no real substance, so you’ll just have to figure that out on your own, after all, I’m not google or wikipedia. So… Hmm… Here’s some more useless words in my blog. And this is another useless sentence. This particular sentence serves no real purpose except to fill up space.
This entire paragraph is a bunch of useless sentences that have no substance, give out no information and don’t really mean anything. Everything here is just here to fill up space because I have nothing of substance to say at the moment. I won’t even bother with greeting or a witty remark for fear that such a thing might be misunderstood by the reader(if there are any) to be something of substance. This entire blog post mean nothing. It’s just here because it is. Whoa, I better be careful, that last sentence almost sounded philisophical and one might be able to draw meaningful stuff out of it. I assure you there was nothing philisophical in the intent of the writer of the aforementioned senctence. In fact there is nothing meant by anything in this entire blog except perhaps nop.

Have you ever used or heard of tor?
It is the ultimate tool for anonymizing yourself on the Internet.
Read about it at http://tor.eff.org/
You could call tor a distributed proxy. Your tor client encrypts the data you send over the network, then passes it throughs everal tor servers, then unencrypts it and sends it to its intended destination. Then the reply goes back to the final tor server, picks a random route through the tor network then arrives at your computer where it is again encrypted. Thus any traffic you generate over the network will appear to be coming from a different computer. The path is supposed to be random, and encrypted the whole way.
Anyway, the windows client is pretty easy to configure, then you’ll need to configure your browser to use the privoxy, which comes with tor, as your proxy server. You can also configure anything else, such as your e-mail client, IM, IRC, etc. to use the proxy server to anonymize your traffic.
I spent part of today configuring my OpenBSD I have running on VMWare on my laptop to use tor. Lynx was pretty easy to setup. You just need to setup the environmental variable $http_proxy in ~/.login. Then I setup dante as a socks proxy, configure it to go through to (port 9050) and was able to use ‘socksify ssh’ to connect to a BSD server we’re using at work through an IP in Germany. I then did an nmap scan and found that my BSD server didn’t have any open ports besides what I wanted open on it, http, smtp, pop3, and ssh.
Anyway, I’ll go through all the logs on the server tomorrow to see if pf may give me some more info. I’d also like to see if I could trace my test by the MAC address. Of course, running on a VMWare server using a virtual NIC, then MAC is a virtual MAC.
So, that’s how I spent my Sunday afternoon. How did you spend yours?

It has been REALLY HOT in my office lately! Could it have anything to do with the 4 servers and 3 workstations running day and night in it?