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Commentaries, rants, and papers written by psych0tik staff members

A “hacker” Christmas carol

Posted on December 23, 2010 by samurai

Tired of singing the regular 12 days of Christmas? Then this year as you’re stuck doing the rounds, try and slip this one into the mix: The 12 hacker days of Christmas – brought to you by Hollywood.  Movie references … Continue reading →

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Odd bugs and the case of an aging database

Posted on August 29, 2010 by samurai

I was doing some troubleshooting recently trying to fix some issues reported in the Captcha of a registration system. The Captcha wasn’t always properly displaying and wouldn’t recognize valid code entries intermittently. After tracing some of the PHP to find … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on IPv6 Firewalling

Posted on August 9, 2010 by CarbonLifeForm

It is the on-coming storm. We’ve all heard about it; it’s big, scary, and new. Public IP addresses for all and tearing down those NAT-PT barriers excites and worries many. IPv6 is coming but it’s not as frightening as it’s … Continue reading →

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Defcon 18 – photos and followup

Posted on August 2, 2010 by samurai

Another year, another Defcon has passed. This year I went with CarbonLifeForm (who helped out with this post) and we attended talks, mingled with fellow enthusiasts, spread the psych0tik word, and enjoyed general debauchery. I was asked to take some … Continue reading →

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ESXi 4.0 – Management Methods

Posted on March 21, 2010 by samurai

Be it at work or at home, I spend a lot of time in virtual environments consisting mostly of ESXi (3.5 and 4.0.) As part of the psych0tic network I run storm.psych0tik.net, an ESXi 4.0 box that’s currently running our IRC as well as the psych0tik GSProxy. Managing these environments is a task in itself, and I’ve found that no one tool gives me all of the functionality that I need. In this post, I go through some free methods I use to manage my ESXi 4.0 host and guests. Continue reading →

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Anonymous browsing or being a web ninja

Posted on January 29, 2010 by samurai

These days it seems like everyone is looking at what you do online. Online advertisers make money from the ads placed on your site, but they also gather statistics about all your visitors for their own purposes. Search engines store … Continue reading →

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