Category Archives: internet

How-to setup an Upside-Down-Ternet

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Stephen Reese

In an effort to replicate the amusing idea of a transparent proxy that manipulates traffic in a fun way found here and made even better with some great scripts that you can pull down from here. A Debian box was … Continue reading →

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Block Command and Control requests using ASA 5500

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Stephen Reese

I recently came across a blog post demonstrating how to use the Emerging Threats rule sets in order to block malware calls to command and control (C&C) hosts. Using the script referenced in the blog post may work fine, but … Continue reading →

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Setting Google Storage object ACL for authenticated downloads

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Stephen Reese

Google’s gsutil is a great tool for pushing, retrieving and setting permissions on objects uploaded to Google Storage. I was reviewing the documentation on the Sharing and Collaboration page, specifically the Authenticated Browser Download section and realized there were a … Continue reading →

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Pseudo Gmail address obfuscation

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Stephen Reese

I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using … Continue reading →

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Trouble accessing Gmail or internal chat client

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Stephen Reese

I have been in a couple of places which I needed to access my email and chat so here’s a little fix to get around DNS fixes that redirect hosts to the localhost. Modify your hosts file to look like … Continue reading →

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Facebook gets linked account support

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Stephen Reese

Now you can logon to your Facebook account through several providers such as Google, Myspace and OpenId which IMO is great (I’m lazy). Just go to Settings, Account Settings and Linked Accounts. You can even pick multiple providers. One cool … Continue reading →

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Domain registrars spamming sub-domains?

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Stephen Reese

In the process of setting up some virtual servers (slices) from www.slicehost.com I had to move the name servers around along with a migration to Google web apps. A user called complaining that they could not access the web-mail service. … Continue reading →

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Courier Vacation Notice

Posted on February 4, 2008 by Stephen Reese

cc “| /usr/lib/courier/bin/mailbot -t autoresponse -s ‘AutoAwayMessage’ -A ‘From: test@somedomain.com’ /usr/sbin/sendmail -f ””cc “!user@somedomain.edu”cc “./Maildir” EXITCODE = 0 exit

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Multi-Touch Techonolgy – The new interface of computing

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Stephen Reese

This video shows some of the capabilities of this system.

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Copyrighted Music and Movies – YouTube Myspace etc

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Stephen Reese

Ever since the Napster rise and fall there has been an on going debate in regards to copyrighted material being shared across networks with peer to peer (P2P) applications and popular social networking websites. I know from my school and … Continue reading →

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