My (Revised) Step-by-Step Process for Starting Arch Linux Live

In this post I talked about my process for setting up my Arch Linux live system. I still use a live distro (mostly because I don't want to overwrite any files currently on the hard drive), but in the last few months I've made quite a few revisions to my startup process for Arch Linux …

Shell Script for Launching a Local Denial-of-Service Attack

Disclaimer: The following article is written for entertainment and educational purposes only. Neither the script shown here nor any of the techniques involved are intended to be used in real life. Launching denial-of-service attacks is illegal and can get you in serious trouble. I do not condone or support any use of such hacking methods …

Forensics Tool to Detect Encrypted Files

Well shit, looks like I haven't posted in about two weeks. I really didn't mean to do that. This absence was entirely unplanned and served no real purpose. But here I am again, and I'll try to update on a semi-daily basis for the forseeable future. Oh, and it looks like I'm getting regular hits …

Shell Script to Download Photos Directly from Instagram

If there's one thing I absolutely fucking hate, it's modern web interfaces. It used to be that if you wanted to download an image from the Internet, all you had to do was right-click and then select "Save As" from the drop-down menu. Now all these photo upload websites have their own special interfaces that …

My Bandwidth is Being Throttled (And I’m Going to Do Something About It)

I live in someone else's house. No, not my parents, someone else. Don't ask. Suffice to say, I'm extremely poor and can't afford my own apartment, so a group living situation is my only option at this point. Anyway, this house has WiFi, which is cool. For a while we didn't have WiFi and I …