243 comments from 6 years ago

ssh -o ProxyCommand="nc -X 4 -x localhost:9050 %h %p" sdf.org

This will send a DNS A record request for sdf.org and on some platforms, a request for SSHFP records, too. Unless the system is configured to route all DNS traffic over Tor, it may be possible to correlate those requests' originating IP with the published update timestamps.

"Our most forgettable words, such as pronouns and prepositions, can be the most revealing: their patterns are as distinctive as fingerprints." [1] - Prof James W. Pennebaker

[1] https://www.secretlifeofpronouns.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=voidnull

could any HN moderator comment on the status of that account?

The bike in the pic is a Dahon [4] folding bike.

Adam's freeshell site [5] contains a password-protected link to his CV (request sent).

Here's an archive of his Bristol University Information Technology Society (BITS) homepage from 2002 [6].

Adnam is "a nickname given to me by some mates in Cambridge" [7].

And here's the analog site stat logs for requests from Tue-08-Feb-2000 15:16 to Mon-08-Apr-2002 13:09 (789.91 days). [8]

[1] https://smackernews.com/item/5639997 HN

[2] https://sdf.org/tour/sdfers/gen.cgi?adnam@sdf

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/adnam/16677188/

[4] https://dahon.com/bike/

[5] http://adam.freeshell.org/

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20020201220147/http://bits.bris....

[7] https://web.archive.org/web/20020211221929/http://www.bits.b...

[8] https://web.archive.org/web/20031112001318/http://www.bits.b...

Question: Is there a technical reason the author does not suggest simply using torsocks? (eg: torsocks ssh sdf.org). I thought maybe it didn't exist in 2013 but the github has some files that date back that far.

(Though I'm personally tempted to.)

I did not lick the envelope

So what if he did? Even if we had his DNA, we wouldn’t know whose DNA it is. It would be as useful as finding a key on the ground without knowing which house it unlocks.