Ali Makki alimakki

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Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

	// Swift 3.0 based on the code in the talk given on this video by Brandon Williams - Functional Programming in a Playground
	// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=estNbh2TF3E

	import Foundation

	extension Int {
	func square() -> Int {
	return self*self
	}
	func incr() -> Int {

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<AnyConnectProfile xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/encoding/"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=
	"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/encoding/ AnyConnectProfile.xsd">
	<ClientInitialization>
	<UseStartBeforeLogon UserControllable="true">false</UseStartBeforeLogon>
	<AutomaticCertSelection UserControllable="true">false
	</AutomaticCertSelection>
	<ShowPreConnectMessage>false</ShowPreConnectMessage>
	<CertificateStore>All</CertificateStore>


	# shows model name, stepping and microcode version
	`grep 'stepping\\|model\\|microcode' /proc/cpuinfo \| head -4`

	# shows motherboard bios version
	`dmesg \| grep -e 'DMI.*BIOS'`

	# ram info
	sudo dmidecode --type=17

	---
	- hosts: localhost
	gather_facts: no
	remote_user: root
	become: yes
	pre_tasks:
	# NOTE(@alimakki): Due to key rotation, we pre-emptivley
	# add the Google linux apt signing key required by some
	# packages
	- name: Install the Google linux apt signing key

	https://jon.sprig.gs/blog/post/651

	Running Streisand to provide VPN services on my home server

	A few months ago I was a guest on The Ubuntu Podcast, where I mentioned that I use Streisand to terminate my VPN connections. I waffled and blathered a bit about how I set it up, but in the end it comes down to this:

	Install Virtualbox on my Ubuntu server. Include the “Ext Pack”.
	Install Vagrant on my Ubuntu server.
	Clone the Streisand Github repository to my Ubuntu server.
	Enter that cloned repository, and edit the Vagrantfile as follows:

	Feb 19 00:48:15.900570: \| inserting event EVENT_SHUNT_SCAN, timeout in 20.000 seconds
	Feb 19 00:48:15.900648: \| free_event_entry: release EVENT_SHUNT_SCAN-pe@0x5650b272f728
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667347: \| *received 224 bytes from 162.222.81.188:20572 on eth0 (port=500)
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667632: \| e5 e9 88 9b 1f fd dd 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667723: \| 21 20 22 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 22 00 00 28
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667804: \| 00 00 00 24 01 01 00 03 03 00 00 0c 01 00 00 14
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667889: \| 80 0e 00 80 03 00 00 08 02 00 00 05 00 00 00 08
	Feb 19 00:48:17.667979: \| 04 00 00 13 28 00 00 48 00 13 00 00 2d a0 d9 53
	Feb 19 00:48:17.668076: \| 92 96 68 a9 38 e0 5e 5a 9a af 10 1b 66 23 25 ea
	Feb 19 00:48:17.668139: \| c0 4b 92 f8 d6 09 33 60 19 cd 96 38 ae 99 6c bc