I made a pretty simple chrome extension that allows you to configure a list of IP addresses, as well as a target host and it will insert an X-Forwarded-For header into the requests for the target host, and switch to the next IP in your configured list after about 6 requests. This was useful to…

I came face to face with “The Man” recently, and lost hopelessly. You see, I spent two weekends working on a relatively basic Chrome Extension that I find useful in my day job; I often have to test a Web App Firewall, and usually you need to simulate traffic from multiple different source clients. The…

Apparently, you just need this simple key combination: CMD + V. Mind == blown! If you found that hard to discover, you’ve been using putty and/or linux for way too long.

Don’t bother trying Sixxs if you don’t intend to use your work address. The haughty folks over there might put you off IPv6 for good. Head straight to Tunnel Broker where you can have a tunnel authorized in 5 minutes or less, with no need to read through a laundry list of Email providers you are not allowed…

While building this library, i ran into errors finding libgpg-error 1.11. There is a small bug in libgcrypt’s configure script for finding this library. It tells you to set –with-libgpg-error-prefix, but it actually ultimately looks for the location of this library from the variable –with-gpg-error-prefix. You should set –with-gpg-error-prefix instead of –with-libgpg-error-prefix, if your libgpg-error…

While trying to install pycrypto on Windows 8, because it was a requirement for “paramiko” which I needed for some SSH stuff, I kept running into failure after another. To summarise, you need to have Visual Studio 2008 installed (there is an express version available free, and there is also likely a microsoft SDK package…

Upgraded my Windows 8.1 PC by installing a 240GB Crucial SSD, and the performance became worse than with a spinning disk. In my instance, I was able to improve the experience simply by installing Intel Rapid Storage tools drivers (downloaded from MSI’s site for my specific motherboard). I accepted all defaults. I was using an…

You find yourself trying to look at a certificate with Openssl (I’m using the cygwin version of openssl on windows 7): $ openssl.exe x509 -in certificate.crt -text unable to load certificate 2675716:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE Openssl error messages are so cryptic, I tried looking at the code to deduce what it meant, and…