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Computer heartbleed

10 Thursday Apr 2014

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If you have heard in the news about the current big computer data security hole, often referred to as the OpenSSL heartbeat or CVE-2014-0160 you probably wonder how it affects you.

Well it’s been around for 3 years. Hackers have been able to eavesdrop on your encrypted communication. During all these times everyone told you that your bank is secure, your email is secure, as long as you use HTTPS and SSL. Just as FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) can create an illusion of making the right decision, so can NGJ (Naive Gullible Jumpingtoconclution) also be an entrapment and give you a false sense of security.

You can believe HTTPS will protect you, when it is not, and you can think it helps to download a patch and install the openssl-library 1.0.0f and above. Sure, the known bug in the above CVE will be fixed for you  – but there are other undiscovered bugs waiting to emerge tomorrow, in one month, in a year or in this case in 3 years.

Always use multiple layers of security. Don’t trust your data is safe just because some fucked up opinion that something is safe because it is theoretically safe. Always assume that out of 2 layers of protection, one are compromised and you do not know which. Use your own encryption on top of another encryption.

Banks, Corporations and Governments know this, and they are too stupid to let you know and/or to enforce good security.

Protecting your computer system from the spy agencies.

27 Thursday Mar 2014

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tumblr_mfpl4xcLXG1qe959eo2_1280My dear friend Alex Jones from liberated way wanted me to do an article on cpmputer security and how you can protect your computer from the NSA, CIA, FSB and other criminal organizations.

After the many revelations lately, people have become more aware about computer security. But this topic is as old as computers, the problem is that too much information exists, many “experts” will try to explain the standard things to do through mainsteam media, which is the boring and usual stuff that doesn’t really protect your computer, like firewalls and antivirus.

In 2008 I attended a seminar by Trend Antivirus, inc, and their experts could tell me already back then that they only catch about 20% of viruses, or less. What does it mean? It means they sell a product that you pay for, that will make your computer 10% slower, open new holes (see trend: antivirus and safetyware new attack vector) and only do 20% of what the ad says.

So forget what you know already. Below I will list some helpful hints.

  • Never have the same password across websites. Check out a service like Lastpass.com. Free of charge. (use strong unique passwords)
  • Do not use the Microsoft Windows operating system. Use a Mac, or Linux. Linux is free of charge. (+ no need for antivirus software)
  • Use a high-security operating system if you can like Qube-Os free of charge.  (complete separation of processes)
  • Firewall your system. Ubuntu has a great free firewall: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall
  • Use hard disk encryption. (Linux and Qube-os has native support for hard drive encryption).
  • Secure your browser!! (Use Firefox, but lock it down! Consider TOR! Use addon: Noscript and ad-blocker). Understand what noscript does, read the documents and manuals for it carefully!!
  • Use TOR browser bundle (firefox) and read the documentation carefully, for anonymity online.  https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
  • Encrypt all your USB drives!!!
  • Shred all your papers!!
  • Do not simply use TOR or any other security-tools without reading their documentation to fully understand their limitations and uses. Or you’re fucked.
  • Remove unused software, do disable services that you don’t use.
  • Keep all software running in a sandboxed environment in a VM that you can control (see Qube-OS)
  • Use tripwire and cryptographic hashing functions to check that your system is not infected or hacked.

Don’t forget also to bug sweep your house.

Assume skype, and mobile phones are tapped. You can get encryption for most smartphones that run on top of the 3G, 4G or SIP-enabled network.

Use VPNs with end-to-end encryption and perfect forward secrecy!

Learn how to use PGP or GPG to encrypt your email. (For this to work you must teach all your contacts to use and understand this software as well).

Good luck…

Review: Little Brother (book), and Watch Dogs (computer game)

12 Saturday Oct 2013

Posted by in Hacking, Information Technology, Luciferianism, Reviews, Videos

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There is a book for the modern youth that will serve this generation like “1984” served the previous generation. Of course young people today cannot imagine the challenges during the Cold War era up to the 1990’s, when technology and the shift of consciousness that came with mobile phones, the internet, and in 2005 Facebook and YouTube, and digital surveillance, the “Little Brother” must be the right book for people to read, to be awakened to reality.

Filled with sharp dialogue and detailed descriptions of how to counteract gait-recognition cameras, arphids (radio frequency ID tags), wireless Internet tracers and other surveillance devices, this work makes its admittedly didactic point within a tautly crafted fictional framework

You can Buy Little Brother here, or even download it for free from the same site (your choice). The author believes in freedom so he relased his book in a variety of free e-book formats as well as the one you can pay for.

Then there is the computer game Watch Dogs. I want this game. It can teach people how the world has come to be in this age. You spend your time hacking into systems. Of course to me, it is just nostalgia. I already did things like that in the early 90’s. But people need to know that we live in a society where people are accused of being pirates or terrorists for taking pictures in a cinema or of a subway station, while ordinary people are tracked, monitored and taken pictures of every day. Even the cellphone in your pocket can be a snitch, you never know when that microphone turns on and who is listening.

For the modern Luciferian, knowing the world we live in, its limitations and the possibilities, is like transcending reality in the most basic and physical sense.

Luciferian ways of dealing with the challenge of life.

21 Wednesday Aug 2013

Posted by in Business advice, Esoteric Groups, Food, Health, Information Technology, Law of Attraction, Magick, Meditation, Mundane, Preparedness, Security, Sleep, Survival, Weapons

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Light-Yagami-death-note-2497713-1024-768This article will focus on how I live my life, as a Luciferian. It is an update and summary of past articles, with some new insights I like to share with everyone.

First, is not a very common lifestyle to associate yourself as a Luciferian. So I find myself alone in a way, yet I know many Luciferians online, and I have given the unofficial title to people who for all practical purposes demonstrate what I hold as the key qualities of a Luciferian, but they do not realise they are among us. Second, although I am among the few, I find my kin have taken other titles, and are not Luciferians but practise other occult arts or belong to other esoteric groups. Finally I have been able to open up to my other occult friends and discuss the topic of Luciferianism. There are definitly safe ways and enjoyable ways to be open to people who have the ability to understand, and not just muggles who would simply not understand anything at all.

Travel

You should travel to open your senses to different cultures but also to let loose the culture in you that you grew up in, it makes you understand that you are not your culture, you are different. I have friends in many parts of the world, and I go there not as a tourist but as a friend who live in their houses, and share local customs.

Work

You are not your work, but you will spend a lot of time there.  Work with something that you can express your ideals and aspirations through. Myself I work as an architect of large computer systems, I design the future? Big responsibility. But one that I can express Luciferian principles through as I am both leader and engineer, visionary and a creator (The creator God of my own universe).

Distractions

At any given time, in your Human body, you will be distracted by the inferiour brain’s earth-level thought patterns. Sleep, food, sex and social and mundane relations carry your attention away faster than you can say Fuck. The way I avoid DISTRACTION when I need to focus is: do just one thing at a time. I track my work on computer using just a simple text editor. That way, even though people SMS me, call me, text me, skype me and Facebook me and digitally rape me any way you can think of, I can still focus on what I am doing and why. Plus when my mind start to wander, I can just look at my notes. Plus I can learn more about what I do when and how. Here is a transcript of my notes:

The time is 16:00
I listen to cambodian romvong music. 
I start to focus on my next task. 
What is my next task?
- Prepare tomorrows presentation. 
- Finished preparing powerpoint presentation. 
The time is 18:25
I listen to trance music.
I start to focus on my next task. 
What is my next task?
- I should put my bills and mail which I did not yet process into the new binder. 
-- All my paid bills are sorted into new binder. 
-- Bonus: Outbox and Inbox now ready. 
AP: Collect tasks from black workbook and big black folder. 
The time is 18:58
I listen to finnish pop music.
I start to focus on my next task. 
What is my next task?
- Order stock items.

And so on. AP means Action points. Meaning actionable stuff that needs to be tracked in my GTD system (Toodledo). Other than that the work method is straight-forward, I just copy+paste the text that gives me the queue to think “What is my next task?” and then do them. Note that I use the GTD system which helps me pull a priority task, so I always know what to do, I just use this system to stay focused on what I am doing and why, and also a bit when I am working. I note the time and also what music I listen to, for no particular reason, other than help me focus more on work and reduce distraction, pay more attention to the here and now.

Sleep

For you to spend 1/3rd of your time in bed, sleep is important. Buy a real bed. With a real mattress. I have so many problems sleeping since I am a night-person, not a day-person. I have no real clue as to how normal people sleep, I can do fine with only 6 hours.

Food

I like expensive and gourmet food. Also I like to prepare food. For example Sushi, using my own Japanese knife, which was handmade in Japan and has my name engraved in the steel.

Sex

I usually only have sex with my same gender, which are other males, because I like the male body, I find it more aesthetically pleasing, prefer them athletic like ancient greek ideals for youth. Women can sometimes draw my attention if they are really self-confident, have unusual interests or have other talents or things that I like. Usually I get laid 3-4 times a week but sometimes I cannot have time for this (hard work). I tend to find new partners from time to time and then keep a set of regular partners for each kind of use.. since people are different, but I like many things depending on my mood.

Social distractions

I like to just hang out at parties, usually I will attract attention, then I will take it, but I like more to be a spectator, and enjoy myself, maybe find that one special soul that needs to be corrupted. Enjoy fine wine and foods. But most mundane social events bore me. Kick-offs, business dinners, seminars … haha… usually I will sleep, have sex or do something else.

Mundane distractions

TV is dangerous for your brain, throw it out. Get books. Old ones, from the 16th century.

The Great Work

Do not let things get in your way to do the Great Work. So hard with all distractions to do rituals, meditation and occult studies isn’t it? Well, it doesn’t need to be. I found that while arranging a room in your house as a temple, and using robes and regalia is nice, you live in a busy world, so even today I sometimes bring rituals to work and do them in an office I can lock in the basement, if I have 45 minutes available I will take it. Plus I can short down on the commute if I stay a while longer.

Open new senses

Travel, try new wines, try new sex partners, talk to people, be social, forget about facebook, turn off the TV, do not rely on your cell phone to remember your phone numbers. Do new stuff and never say NO when people invite you.

Keep flowing

Be as tired as you can but be appreciative that things are happening in your life.

Economy

If you are a poor bum, go get the book “The Secret”. I was bankrupt once in my life but this book saved me. I know it is simple and muggles-friendly but it WORKS. Now I make a million every year. (In Kroner = 120 000 Euro). If you are everything but a bum, start getting an accounting program (at the least) for your Mac (Quicken) or PC (GNUCash). Or go get a real accountant to track your economy. You should make budgets for everything and keep to them. Invest wisely. Even a small income needs accounting and budgeting systems to maximise your resources. Remember: the universe doesn’t like waste! Don’t waste what you have or you lose it.

Have I covered everything? Yes I covered the basics, here are the bonus material:

Practicality

Your house should have the tools and machines to assist you in the daily work of maintenance. I have the usual stuff (coffee machine, vacuum cleaner and a houndred things) but I also have a drill, toolbox, complex set of screwdrivers, nut openers, and so on, so I can do most repairs on my house, car, and even help other people fix their things. I have a repair manual for my car. I know everything where it is and everything has its own place. I prevent clutter by throwing everything that doesn’t fit anywhere or anything that I already have too much of.

Defence

Alarm systems, redundant sensors, anti-break-in and fire detection systems are included in my house as well as CCTV camera with recording. Both hidden and visible camera cover all the perimeter. The alarm system is hooked up to police and private security guard company. Should I need to defend myself personally, I have a knife near my bed for short-range combat, machete for less personal defense. Strategic weapons in case things really get messy are: Military (Norwegian issue) steel helmet, bulletproof Kevlar vest (German issue) , pistol for short-range and sighted rifle for long-range situations.

Preparedness

I have a bug-out bag with most things I need to survive a natural disaster or breakdown of society for atleast a week without supplies.

Relaxation

Whenever I need, I go for a one hour walk, sometimes at night.
If I need more relaxations, I go for a vacation somewhere.

Deduplicate your files

27 Monday May 2013

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I belong to the kind of people who actually backup their computer(s), so I find that as I collect files I tend to wind up with multiple hard drives connected to my computer or networked (NFS) file systems with files and folders all over that contain redundant data.

First let me recommend CrashPlan, it’s a really good distributed backup system by the way, for multiple platforms. Free if you use distributed mode, optional you can buy cloud storage.

Then, I found a really good program called dupeGuru which takes care of solving multiple redundant files. And it is free, and for multiple platforms too.

How to add Gmail as default mail handler in Ubuntu

09 Saturday Feb 2013

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I believe Linux is the right OS for a Luciferian. The Linux/Ubuntu operating system is what I use as my primary operating system. I have been using Linux for more than 15 years (and a few years I used BSD and UNIX) and now I love the flexibility and freedom this operating system gives me. Since every part of the OS can be changed. If I want to change the way the graphical user interface is like, I can select among many ranging from the simplest and fastest bare-minimum to the most heavy, bloated system, all for free and open source, I can even change the programming or if I wanted to I could write my own. Today I wanted to implement a function that opens Gmail web client instead of the default Thunderbird thick client. Easily done by following this simple recipe.

Fortigate SSL VPN authentication against LDAP server on Linux/IPA

04 Monday Feb 2013

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This is a technical article for IT/Network system administrators. (A blog is only good if the author himself will come back and read his own blog. I am posting this as a note I may look up later).

The problem

Most articles and online documentation will help you get your Fortinet/Fortigate firewall hooked up to a Windows AD controller and do centralized user authentication via LDAP or RADIUS. Of course you should do centralized user authentication instead of local user database in any large enterprise, so that you have a single place to administer your users. When an employee quits, you can disable that user in one place, and that user loses access to the entire network at once. But what if you have Linux servers in your enterprise and don’t want to use Windows AD controller for centralized authentication? The solution is LDAP  authentication against IPA server for Linux.

Prerequisites in this example

I assume you have installed and configured IPA (comes with Red Hat Linux for free) or FreeIPA (you can compile and install it yourself from source). And that you have configured the IPA server in this example 10.11.12.13 using the service account “fortigate-bind” which has the permission to query your LDAP catalogue for users. I will not cover the installation and configuration of IPA server here, only the Fortigate vs IPA integration. Everything is done in command-line.

The solution

Configure LDAP server object on Fortigate.

config user ldap
    edit "ipaserver01"
        set server "10.11.12.13"
        set cnid "uid"
        set dn "cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com"
        set type regular
        set username "uid=fortigate-bind,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com"
        set password ENC (encrypted password string...)
    next
end

Configure group to be used in the SSL VPN portal on fortigate.

config user group
    edit "ipa-users"
        set sslvpn-portal "IPA-AUTH-LOCAL"
            set member "ipaserver01"             
    next
end

Configure firewall Policy on fortigate.

Actually this step will vary heavily on what rights your authenticated users will actually have. Just use this for example, but consider the complex identity-based policy will map to the authenticated LDAP user, which will again later be configured to map to a LDAP group.

config firewall policy
    edit 1
        set srcintf "port3"
        set dstintf "External"
            set srcaddr "all"
            set dstaddr "all"
        set action accept
        set utm-status enable
        set identity-based enable
        set nat enable
            config identity-based-policy
                edit 1
                    set schedule "always"
                    set logtraffic enable
                        set groups "ipa-users"
                        set service "ANY"
                next
            end
    next
end

Test authentication on fortigate.

You should test the authentication. Depending on the user rights on the IPA server you may get a different reply.

Fortigate (root) # diagnose test authserver ldap ipaserver01 testuser abc1234 
' authenticate 'testuser' against 'ipaserver01' succeeded!
' Group membership(s) - cn=ipausers,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
' cn=LinuxOperators,cn=roles,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com
' cn=fortigate-sslvpn-users,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com

Secure authentication by restricting to group membership on fortigate.

Up to this point, all IPA users can log in via SSL-VPN. You need to configure a way to restrict SSL-VPN access to a group membership. Use the information learned in the previous step.

The old way to do it, add in red

config user ldap
        edit "ipaserver01"
                set group "cn=fortigate-sslvpn-users,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com"
        end
end

The new way to do it, configure the existing group, add new (in red). 

config user group
    edit "ipa-users"
        set sslvpn-portal "IPA-AUTH-LOCAL"
            set member "ipaserver01"             
            config match
                edit 1
                    set server-name "ipaserver01"
                    set group-name "cn=fortigate-sslvpn-users,cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com"
                next
            end
    next
end

and you are all good to go.