Posts Tagged ‘proxies’

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 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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proxyElite moving to psych0tik

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Those of you who’ve followed this site for a while may remember the proxyElite project that richo and I started a few years ago. The concept was to provide a list of fast, working, stable proxies by constantly checking the status of a large list and using some backend algorithms to help determine which proxies would be best.

The project eventually fell to the side because of lack of resources as the weak little shared host it was running on just couldn’t handle the load of checking thousands of proxies every hour and the lists grew too stale too quickly.

Now, with the creation of the psych0tik network, we’re reviving the project. The web application will be moving to a new server, one that can handle the load of the look ups. Beyond simply reviving the project as it was when we left off, we’ll be reworking the code, adding new features, and working to make the list even more reliable.

Stay tuned while we get things moved and restarted and you should be seeing this in the new year.

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