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The psych0tik network presents: proxyElite

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

After nearly 3 years of downtime, psych0tik is happy to bring you the new and improved proxyElite!

We’ve spent the last few months completely rewriting the core code and redesigning the database to be more stable and reliable. Thusfar, we’ve been very happy with the results. The proxyElite web application itself is definitely in an infantile state as far as development and design, but we wanted to bring you usable proxy results sooner rather than later.

Features of the new proxyElite include:

  • Dynamically updated proxy databases – new proxies are loaded automatically
  • Multiple methods for verifying proxy’s usability – to improve accuracy
  • A proxy detector tool – to help determine how noticeable the proxy you are using is
  • Extensible design – more modules for growing and updating proxy lists are easily added (and some are already in development)

While we’ve done a fair amount of testing on our development server to make sure this code is production-ready, it is still beta code. If you see something that looks broken, wrong, or otherwise out of place – please let us know!

You can check out the new site, at the old address: http://proxyElite.net

~psych0tik staff

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psych0tik IRC downtime: resolved!

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

The psych0tik IRC is again available on the storm.psych0tik.net domain. Additionally, we’ve set-up irc.psych0tik.net (also port 6697, ssl required) as a CNAME to point to storm, allowing you to use either to connect to our IRC.

We’ve made changes to our DNS infrastructure to ensure in the future any downtime will be minimized, by switching to a more easily maintainable solution: dns.he.net. As a result of this change, we’ve also been able to update our zone so that the psych0tik GoogleSharing proxy has it’s own alias: gsproxy.psych0tik.net.

Thanks for bearing with us during this transition.

~psych0tik staff

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psych0tik IRC downtime and updates

Monday, June 14th, 2010

As you may have noticed, the pyshc0tik IRC’s primary domain name no longer points to the correct IP address. On May 29th a reboot of Samurai’s router caused a new dynamic IP to be assigned and resulted in the old DNS zone to going stale. We’ve had some issues with getting our DNS entries updated and are working to find a more stable solution, but in the meantime you should still be able to access the IRC via the temporary backup domain: rogue.samurainet.info. The IRC is still on port 6697 and requires SSL.

In addition to our DNS issues, you may also have noticed subtle changes in the blog’s organization. We’ve restructured the menu, removing all the old SamuraiNet Archive sub-categories, to make room for psych0tik categories. Some of the psych0tik posts have moved to newly created categories and all posts have been re-tagged to be more searchable. Samurai has also been kind enough to go through and update a few of his posts in the archive, either correcting known issues or noting dead projects. We’re hoping that these changes to the blog will make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

One of the changes we haven’t been able to implement on the blog is getting a custom psych0tik theme. While we will eventually get to this item, it’s definitely not a high priority on our to-do lists. If you’d like to donate some effort and create a psych0tik theme for WordPress, leave a comment below with your email address and we’ll get in touch with you. For your effort’s we’ll offer you a link on our “prestigious” affiliates category.

The proxyElite project is undergoing some final alpha testing (and a few last minute additions/tweaks) before we release it for public beta. We’ve revived the functionality of the previous version of this project and added some new features and techniques. Keep an eye on the blog for the release post in the next few weeks.

Finally, we still don’t have a WWW set up yet. We’ve hit a few small snafus and have been too busy to sort out what should be simple issues, until recently. We’re back on a roll and will hopefully have our main site up soon.

~psych0tik staff

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psych0tik releases GoogleSharing proxy

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

A few weeks ago we released a post on staying anonymous online through the use of various configuration changes and Firefox add-ons. One of the Firefox add-ons mentioned was the GoogleSharing proxy add-on. This allows Firefox to reroute unauthenticated requests to Google services through a community proxy that hides your identity while you browse the internet. This add-on is still in beta, so we browsed the source and did a few tests with tcpdump to ensure that it was infact doing what it claimed to be.

GoogleSharing will reroute the following Google services (however, it can be configured not to reroute requests to specific services):

  • Maps
  • Groups
  • News
  • Video
  • Products
  • Images
  • Finance

This is a really neat concept for staying anonymous from Google. The proxy itself masks your IP address, cookies and other headers so that even while logged into other Google services, such as Gmail, searches are not linked to you. We validated this through the use of tcpdump [see figure 1 and 2(generated by Wireshark)] and you can also validate it based on the different appearance of Google web pages, including the link for “Sign Out” which reads “Sign In” with GoogleSharing enabled.

Figure 1 – GoogleSharing is disabled. We can see the lookup of google.com via DNS and then the request (with the search string) being sent to an IP address returned from the DNS request

Figure 2 – GoogleSharing is enabled (however, not using SSL.) We can see the lookup of the psych0tik development proxy, storm, and the following request to storm’s IP address with the Google search.

You can access the psych0tik GoogleSharing proxy by adding it to your proxy list.

Proxy Server: storm.psych0tik.net

Non-SSL Port: 8080

SSL Port: 8443

If you choose to use the proxy in SSL mode (highly recommended), you will need to do the following:

  1. Browse to https://storm.psych0tik.net:8443
  2. When prompted, add an exception for the SSL certificate
  3. Verify under GoogleSharing’s options for the psych0tik server that “use SSL” is enabled
  4. Enjoy!

If you have any questions or issues please contact a psych0tik staff member via our psych0tik IRC. We’ve established #googleshareproxy to provide general chat with regards to this service.

-psych0tik Staff

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Presenting the psych0tik network…. sort of

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

And so it begins. We’d like to present to you the beginning of the psych0tik network, a community of security conscious computer experimenters. We say the “beginning” of psych0tik as this isn’t a full release, rather a pre-release and beta. We’ve been working for the last 6 months to get a number of projects pulled in under the umbrella of psych0tik. Currently, we have 2 services ready for launch, a few sitting at around 80% completion, and a half dozen or so “on the whiteboard.”

We’re doing this pre-release to stabilize our IRC so that our faithful users can finally enjoy uninterrupted conversations. We’ve started from scratch, built a new server with a new IRCd, added in services and even did a bit of testing. We’re now releasing the first node of the psych0tik irc, storm, for beta testing. The testing on this node will help us iron out any defects in our configuration or add any additional features we may want before then rolling that out to a 2nd node.

You can connect to the psych0tik irc with any SSL capable IRC client (e.g. irssi, xchat2) at storm.psych0tik.net on port 6697

>/connect -ssl storm.psych0tik.net 6697

This blog will be the source for psych0tik news, research results, random rants, and most other current happenings. The main site, when released, will act more as a central hub for all the projects and provide high level overview of each.

In the weeks to come we’ll be working towards our full release, which will add the following to the psych0tik network:

  • a main site
  • proxyElite
  • the additional irc node

-psych0tik staff

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