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Debian, Uptime and Darknets

Nix McRetro // 7th January 2016 // Raspberry Pi

This one has always been a tricky one for me, trying to remember which Raspberry Pi was running which version of Raspbian / Debian. I guess you’ll have some idea of what you are running depending which command works for you. lsb_release -da hostnamectl In other news we hit 41... Continue reading

Take Back The Darknet (Part 14)

Nix McRetro // 5th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 14 - Testing the Waters Time to get some content up on your web server. You can either fire up Samba or use terminal to create a new website, etc, etc. Use Notepad, TextEdit, Nano or some other basic text editor pad. Type anything you want into it. Save... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 13)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 13 - Generating a Domain Name Use the vanity generator (Shallot) to make some private keys. Advance onward to part 14 or head back to the table of contents on page 1. Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 12)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 12 - Hardening Tor If you have multiple websites you can adjust these. If you are just using /var/www/ adjust accordingly. cd /var/www/ sudo mkdir website1 sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/website1/ sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/www/website1/ cd /var/www/ sudo mkdir website2 sudo chown -R www-data /var/www/website2/ sudo chgrp -R... Continue reading

Take Back the Darknet (Part 11)

Nix McRetro // 4th January 2016 // Guides, Raspberry Pi

Part 11 - Configuring HTTPS (SSL) Generate SSL keys via CAcert.org. Great website for doing this is right here. You’ll need to create three things: .csr for the certificate signing request (CSR) .crt for the signed certificate file .key for the key file cd ~ openssl genrsa -out tim.key 4096... Continue reading