Savage takes on cybersecurity and privacy.

  • Mark Savage

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    I’ve been a firefighter-paramedic, a nomad, guerrilla marketer, role-playing game publisher, and hacker.

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Over The Wire: Bandit 6-10

Every craftsman’s gotta practice his craft and the fine folks at Over the Wire have provided Bandit for us to do develop our skills. In the #bandit tag I’ll be posting my walkthrough of the various levels. Level 5->6 The password for the next level is stored in a file somewhere under the inhere directory and has all of the following properties: human-readable 1033 bytes in size not executable sshpass -p lrIWWI6bB37kxfiCQZqUdOIYfr6eEeqR ssh bandit5@bandit....

February 19, 2023 · 3 min · 503 words · Mark Savage

Over The Wire: Bandit 0-5

Every craftsman’s gotta practice his craft and the fine folks at Over the Wire have provided Bandit for us to do develop our skills. In the #bandit tag I’ll be posting my walkthrough of the various levels. Level 0->1 The goal of this level is for you to log into the game using SSH. The host to which you need to connect is bandit.labs.overthewire.org, on port 2220. The username is bandit0 and the password is bandit0....

February 16, 2023 · 3 min · 467 words · Mark Savage

Privacy Respecting Search

I’m pretty fond of just searching the internet, following the links and unearthing previously unknown-to-me bits of information. I ditched Google a long time ago and had been using DuckDuckGo but felt it was time to roll my own solution. One that doesn’t involve any cookies, no tracking on page, and no tracking via the links in results. SearXNG Enter, SearXNG - a privacy-respecting, open metasearch engine. I went and installed Searx on my own server and I’ll show you how....

February 4, 2023 · 3 min · 604 words · Mark Savage

Improve Your Online Privacy

I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out. ~ Edward Snowden You are only free so long as you are able to maintain your autonomy which is constantly under attack by Big Data. This section is a constant work-in-progress. Compartmentalization of UIDs Your email address and phone number are Unique Identifiers that follow, track, and enable detailed profiles to be built about you....

February 1, 2023 · 5 min · 951 words · Mark Savage

Hello Friend

“Hello, friend?” That’s lame. Maybe I should give you a name… But that’s a slippery slope. You’re only in my head. We have to remember that… Shit. It’s actually happened. I’m talking to an imaginary person. — Mr. Robot S01E01

January 16, 2023 · 1 min · 40 words · Mark Savage