Hello fellow readers, This post is about the recent projects I’ve been working on and planning.
JS Encryption
Someone requested that I create a one of a kind javascript obfuscation.
I replied that it was useless because the code runs on the client side but he insisted.
I made a research and found techniques that are not used in normal obfuscator.
You can check some of the things on GH. Mixing the techniques will give pretty good results, but again, this is useless.
Socks Rotator
I have a bunch of servers laying around… A lot of them.
Some are just jump points, others are VPS, microwaves, or home machines.
I wanted to use them as a private network that auto rotates proxies in a round robin fashion.
The problems were the following:
- I couldn’t upload my ssh key on them.
- The connection to the host could hang at any moment and I should re-establish it automatically.
- The pre-made solutions for that all use key-based authentication.
- Haproxy, which I wanted to use for the roundrobin entry point does not support socks5 proxy (which are created with the ssh connection).
Hopefully I solved all those issues.
Here’s a schema of what this is about:
I used the program delegate to tunnel the socks5 to http proxy.
You can find the code on GH
Telnet Transference
How to upload a binary on many small embedded devices that have busybox installed and nothing else.
The connection to them is done via telnet.
No wget, scp, netcat, or other installed on those hosts.
I couldn’t find an answer to that question and so made my own.
The idea is simple: Use a program that you are sure is installed on any
machine: echo.
echo has the -e flag which interprets escape characters.
I converted the binary to shellcode (such as \x1A) and then let the hosts echo
that data into a file. The file would then contain the binary.
However, the hosts have a limit of characters that can be transfered at the same time. I had to split the programs into chunks, the shellcode was too big.(30KB binary -> 300KB shellcode)
Another issue was that the hosts couldn’t handle the large amount of decoding requests. Adding a delay between the transfers fixed that.
It works, that’s not bad. Check it out!
Reddit Unixporn Theme
There’s a contest running on /r/unixporn subreddit.
I’m participating, here’s my entry, and this is what it looks like:
My goal was to make it look like a window manager.
Along the way I learned new CSS3 tricks and hacks.
The best css minifying I’ve found is cssnano.
The next step is to write a script that can change the “fake-terminal” colors to match the X11 terminal colors of the user.
Blog Sections Designs
I redesigned my whole blog.
I normally start on paper, here’s the artsy page:
The quotes section has a new design, the same goes for the the upcoming “ascii-arts and screenshots” sections.
EP Project
The Evolutionary Psychology simplified explanation of life project…
I have been working on this project since the beginning of last year. It’s a huge project that I believe is quite novel and interesting.
We’re still half way through filtering, organising, and linking the large amount of notes I’ve taken from multiple researches on Evolutionary Psychology.
I’ve also chosen the way I’m going to represent the information, it’s going to be an explorable explanation.
A Message I want To Transmit
This project is actually my upcoming post. A post that was suppose to come before this one.
However I got an idea while on the toilet. (I get ideas while taking dumps).
I’m gonna turn it into an explorable explanation test-bed to see if people can learn from it.
This should be done in a week or two as I just got the idea. (very fresh :D !)
Ascii Art Projects
This isn’t really a programming-related project but I started to research about it.
I’m gonna learn new ascii-arts techniques with the nixers! That’s also related to the upcoming ascii-art section.
That’s about it…
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