Tyler M. Neher tylermneher

iOS, The Future Of macOS, Freedom, Security And Privacy In An Increasingly Hostile Global Environment

This post by a security researcher who prefers to remain anonymous will elucidate concerns about certain problematic decisions Apple has made and caution about future decisions made in the name of “security” while potentially hiding questionable motives. The content of this article represents only the opinion of the researcher. The researcher apologises if any content is seen to be inaccurate, and is open to comments or questions through PGP-encrypted mail.

TL;DR

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

Installing cloud-init on a fresh Raspbian Lite image

This is a work in Progress!

Purpose

This mainly demonstrates my goal of preparing a Raspberry Pi to be provisioned prior to its first boot. To do this I have chosen to use the same cloud-init that is the standard for provisioning servers at Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.

I found this to be quite challenging because there is little information available for using cloud-init without a cloud. So, this project also servers as a demonstration for anyone on any version of Linux who may want to install from source, and/or use without a cloud. If you fall into that later group, you probably just want to read the code. It's bash so everything I do, you could also do at the command line. (Even the for loop.)

	variable "aws_region" {
	default = "eu-west-1"
	}

	variable "domain" {
	default = "my_domain"
	}

	provider "aws" {
	region = "${var.aws_region}"

	This file provides some nifty command-line tools around DD-WRT's nvram command.
	https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware#NVRAM
	USE WITH CAUTION: fiddling with nvram can wipe your settings and you may loose access to your router.
	Hint 1: Different version of DD-WRT might use different nvram variables. Thus, be carefull when updating.
	Hint 2: The commands listed below should be issued via a ssh-connection since the webinterface for issuing commands might time out for the longer commands.

	Background
	==========
	Extracting the content of configuration variables with nvram would provide an easy way of selective backup/restore of settings. However, listing the content of the nvram via
	nvram show

	###Sending Push notifications from Raspberry Pi when network interfaces go online.
	- @kosso

	- Apple : Set up app ID with Push Notifications cert.
	- Download the .p12 CERT and KEY files

	via: http://blog.raminrakhamimov.com/?p=81

	Convert the p12 files to PEM format with:

	#!/bin/sh
	###############################################################################
	## mail_it.sh
	## A bash script that sends email as either plain text or HTML. It allows
	## multiple recipients, CC addresses, reply-to addresses, and attachments.
	##
	## Usage: mail_it.sh -s subject -m message -f from_address
	## -t to_address[,...] [-c cc_address[,...]] [-r reply_to_address[,...]]
	## [-a attachment[,...]] [-h]
	## subject: email subject

	#!/bin/bash -e

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get -y install dirmngr

	# Add the package for FlightAware
	wget https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/files/packages/pool/piaware/p/piaware-support/piaware-repository_5.0_all.deb
	sudo dpkg -i piaware-repository_5.0_all.deb

	# Add the server for FlightRadar24

	using System;
	using System.Configuration;
	using System.IO;
	using System.IO.Compression;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Net;
	using System.Net.Http;
	using System.Net.Http.Headers;
	using System.Security.Cryptography;
	using System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs;

	node: Platform built on V8 to build network applications
	git: Distributed revision control system
	wget: Internet file retriever
	yarn: JavaScript package manager
	python3: Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
	coreutils: GNU File, Shell, and Text utilities
	pkg-config: Manage compile and link flags for libraries
	chromedriver: Tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers
	awscli: Official Amazon AWS command-line interface
	automake: Tool for generating GNU Standards-compliant Makefiles