Episode 416 - SSH Tunneling, Independent Games, Updating Multiple Blogs At Once, and Password Protecting Applications [Discussion]

[marilee]

In this extensive episode Matt shows us how to setup SSH tunneling to securely transmit HTTP traffic and more while on the go. Shannon checks out some student entries to the 2009 Independent Games Festival, including City Rain, Glitch, Froggle, Blazar, and Akrasia. Darren puts together a PHP script that, in conjunction with Ping.fm, allows you to update multiple blogs at once including your own hosted Wordpress. Plus this weeks LAN Party, revamped Trivia and viewer questions.

Watch or download now! (http://revision3.com/hak5/SSHGamesBlogsPasswords/)

[xfuuey]

Another great eps guys..

I do wish some of the segments were a little more advanced, but we can't all get what we want. :p

Keep up the good work!

[sembazuru]

Nifty, clever trivia system. Unfortunately, I finally got around to watching the show a second time to catch the letters in the beginning of the show after the deadline. (Quite funny, I watch all my vodcasts on my PSP. So, instead of watching real-time to catch the letters I went through the ep on 2x speed. The PSP does some magic (I guess dropping frames or partial frames of audio) so the audio doesn't sound like chipmunks, rather more like everyone is on speed. If anyone has a PSP and watches vids on it, press the D-Pad up until it's at 2x and enjoy the fun.) One thing that I did note about the password is the ep shows the letters in upper case. I went to the site and entered the letters matching case (like one should always be aware of when typing passwords) and didn't get in. I re-entered the password in lowercase and got in (after the deadline...). Doesn't really matter that I missed the deadline 'cause I don't recognize the character in the picture. Kinda looks like DBZ style character design, but I never cared for any of that series.

Thanx for mentioning Amiga. As far as SSH, there is a port of OpenSSH available on OS4Depot.net (http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=network/misc/openssh-bin.lha) with an update date of 08-May-08, and this page (http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/amiga.html) has several links for SSH software. I'm not sure how easy it is to setup a proxy to tunnel through SSH, it probably depends on what TCP/IP stack the user has installed. One of these days I should really dig my AmigaOne OS4 machine out of storage and play with it again.

Also, the author of Empathy is using an enforced variant of postcardware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcardware) (Empathy is even mentioned in the Wikipedia link). I remember seeing optional postcardware software in the Amiga scene back in the 80's and 90's, but the programs were fully functional so the postcard was more of a show of support instead of "currency" required for an unlock code.

[alaskalonewolf]

Ok, first of all, I absolutely love the show. I can't gush enough about
my lust for the technolust. You guys rock and this was a 'how-to' show
of sorts that, by far, was easier to understand and follow than all the
years I spent with professional instruction in trade-school and college.
The bit on SSH Tunneling was f***ing awesome. Employing it with ease.
Thanks for the heads-up on the tournament, and the indy gamecon.
Love the remote missile launchers, need more cat lasers...

One bit a critical feedback. Let's get a lighting guy. The shadows on
Shannon when you cut to the alternate camera angle were a bit bad
and overall it seems like you need a bit more ambient light in the room.
Unless you're going with a, I'm in a cave, dim lighting motif you could
use a couple of diffused floodlights at right angles to the cameras.

I'm just sayin', it's like the last little bit that you need...
Just polish at this point. I've loved you guys since the before-time.
Amiga 500 forever, long live the Guru....

[uteck]

I love the SSH tunneling segment as that is the only way I browse the forum here, or at the Hak5 site, from work. Now I can visit my favorite sites without network security adding them to the blacklist as they tend to do after a few visits. I installed FoxyProxy so I can easily enable the proxy in FF.
Looking at the proxy settings, I see an option for a proxy config URL, how would you go about setting that up? I have Apache on a machine at home, but what do I put in the config file it is looking for?