After nearly 3 years of downtime, psych0tik is happy to bring you the new and improved proxyElite!
We’ve spent the last few months completely rewriting the core code and redesigning the database to be more stable and reliable. Thusfar, we’ve been very happy with the results. The proxyElite web application itself is definitely in an infantile[...]
The psych0tik network presents: proxyElite
July 2nd, 2010 by adminpsych0tik IRC downtime: resolved!
June 17th, 2010 by adminThe psych0tik IRC is again available on the storm.psych0tik.net domain. Additionally, we’ve set-up irc.psych0tik.net (also port 6697, ssl required) as a CNAME to point to storm, allowing you to use either to connect to our IRC.
We’ve made changes to our DNS infrastructure to ensure in the future any downtime will be minimized, by switching to[...]
psych0tik IRC downtime and updates
June 14th, 2010 by adminAs you may have noticed, the pyshc0tik IRC’s primary domain name no longer points to the correct IP address. On May 29th a reboot of Samurai’s router caused a new dynamic IP to be assigned and resulted in the old DNS zone to going stale. We’ve had some issues with getting our DNS entries updated[...]
Preserving partitions when adding datastores to ESXi
April 15th, 2010 by samuraiI was recently building out a new ESXi box and bought a Seagate Barracuda 1.5Tb SATA 2 drive to use as the datastore as well as to backup some data from a laptop who’s hard drive was acting up. The hard drive was/is making all sorts of bad sounds, so I wanted to get the[...]
ESXi 4.0 – Management Methods
March 21st, 2010 by samuraiBe it at work or at home, I spend a lot of time in virtual environments consisting mostly of ESXi (3.5 and 4.0.) As part of the psych0tic network I run storm.psych0tik.net, an ESXi 4.0 box that’s currently running our IRC as well as the psych0tik GSProxy. Managing these environments is a task in itself, and I’ve found that no one tool gives me all of the functionality that I need. In this post, I go through some free methods I use to manage my ESXi 4.0 host and guests.
psych0tik releases GoogleSharing proxy
February 7th, 2010 by adminA few weeks ago we released a post on staying anonymous online through the use of various configuration changes and Firefox add-ons. One of the Firefox add-ons mentioned was the GoogleSharing proxy add-on. This allows Firefox to reroute unauthenticated requests to Google services through a community proxy that hides your identity while you browse the[...]
CSI releases first in a new series of whitepapers
February 3rd, 2010 by samuraiThe Cyber Secure Institute (CSI), a group looking to raise awareness about cyber security, has released it’s first whitepaper in a new series about cyberwar. This whitepaper, written by retired USAF General Eugene Habiger, addresses the need for a new approach towards viewing cyberwar. Gen. Habiger goes on to validate his claims with real-world examples,[...]
Anonymous browsing or being a web ninja
January 29th, 2010 by samuraiThese days it seems like everyone is looking at what you do online. Online advertisers make money from the ads placed on your site, but they also gather statistics about all your visitors for their own purposes. Search engines store information for a variety of reasons. Social networks contain more information on our past than[...]
Presenting the psych0tik network…. sort of
January 13th, 2010 by adminAnd so it begins. We’d like to present to you the beginning of the psych0tik network, a community of security conscious computer experimenters. We say the “beginning” of psych0tik as this isn’t a full release, rather a pre-release and beta. We’ve been working for the last 6 months to get a number of projects pulled[...]
proxyElite moving to psych0tik
December 18th, 2009 by samuraiThose of you who’ve followed this site for a while may remember the proxyElite project that richo and I started a few years ago. The concept was to provide a list of fast, working, stable proxies by constantly checking the status of a large list and using some backend algorithms to help determine which proxies[...]