DNS tunneling, or, how to get around Gogo
We all hate those paywalls that companies put up in airports, airplanes, lounges, or what have you. Fortunately (and thanks to kryo.se), there is a tool that can get you around that. This is a concise...
View ArticleTorrenting and its effect on the music industry
Hi, Arcade Fire! I’m Max Bernstein, an independent blogger and programmer. I was listening to your music (Sprawl II) in Aspen, Colorado, and I suddenly realized that it would be SUPER interesting to...
View ArticleRenting a botnet to make money
As of June 2012, the end of the school year last year, I was effective webmaster of the Paly Voice, my high school’s strictly online publication. In order to try and cover hosting/domain costs, I put...
View ArticleOn moonlight escapades
Today’s my birthday, but I decided to have my party yesterday. It was a small get-together of six people, which dropped down to three who slept over. Before we went to bed, though, we decided to hang...
View ArticleA quest for anonymity
With all of the recent laws and acts that try to nullify internet privacy and anonymity, it’s beginning to seem impossible to remain anonymous. However, with all of the tools available to people today,...
View ArticleVoice goes to SF
The Paly Voice is headed off to San Francisco, where we’ll be attending several events, including the Online News Association conference. Many prominent journalists will be speaking there. I’m also...
View ArticleNew laptop – Aspire One
I recently changed my primary laptop, and actually my development flow with it. I’m programming (and writing this article) on the Acer Aspire One, a pretty slick little netbook. It has a 10.1″ screen,...
View ArticleMeet Brightswipe, a new torrent indexer
Since I posted in July about the private torrent indexer, I’ve been working on something called Brightswipe. Brightswipe is a beautiful, fast, and open-source indexer written in Ruby/Sinatra. I chose...
View ArticleThe perfect Linux distro
I recently found the subreddit /r/DistroHopping, and was subsequently made a moderator. This brought me back to the days (well, six months ago) when I would hop almost daily between distributions,...
View ArticleOn protecting our country
Mr Leahey is up to no good again, it seems. Check out this news from CNET: Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants. Most of you reading this blog would find the event linked...
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