Linux
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Escaping isolated network
Sep 15, 2021
14 minutes
2882 words
#hacking
#linux
Many networks nowadays are blocking certain websites, IPs or ports, that however often doesn’t mean that there actually isn’t any way to access these blocked resources. Note that even though you can read about how these restrictions can be bypassed, I was testing these commands against my own home server, and inside of my own network.…
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Introduction to encryption with GnuPG
Apr 10, 2022
19 minutes
3974 words
#privacy
#linux
#encryption
GnuPG (short for GNU Privacy Guard), also known as just GPG is a public-key cryptography implementation. This allows for a secure transmission of files between parties and can also be used to digitally sign files, to prove that they weren’t modified in any way.…
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Jumping on the BTRFS hype wagon
Jan 27, 2024
10 minutes
2038 words
#linux
After a long time constantly hearing about BTRFS filesystem, I decided to make the jump, leaving EXT4 behind. And I have to say, I couldn’t be happier. For those unaware, BTRFS is a B-tree based filesystem, which you can use as an alternative to EXT4, with some really cool new features, which I’ll mention in the post here.…