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The Power of the Internet
The internet is a powerful place. If the wrong people find out certain things very bad things can happen.
I’ve noticed quite a few people publicly posting various information such as birthdays, now, feel free to do this, I however don’t recommend doing so.
Especially when under adult age (18+) and or if your apart of ‘vulnerable’ / attacked communities, such as the LGBTQIA+, Furry, and Alterhuman communities. (I personally am a LGBTQIA+ Furry. Part of the reason you likely wont see things linking to my identity on any of my internet posts. I follow my own advice.)
No Internet site is entirely secure, there are almost always ways to get in.
It is possible if someone was devoted enough, they can hack into a channel account through various methods, find associated information such as email and phone number and then place various types of malware onto them.
Viruses can be transported from computer to computer through Email, or through a website without your knowledge.
Once a person has a virus on a device such as a phone or computer they can trace through the accounts and data associated with that device to find out various information such as a name.
With a combination of seemingly simple things such as a name and birthdate people can find out almost anything about a person through various resources that are available to the general public and some that are not.
Anything. SSN (Social Security Number), Bank account information, genetic information (it exists.), location, etc.
If a channel gives out information such as their age and birthdate, once a hacker has even just their first name, they can trace a few possible options of who a person is if not find exactly who there are.
I personally do not care if you put this information out there though I advise against it.
Once a hacker has your identity, they can steal it, they can blackmail you, then can find your exact location and therefore find you, and much more.
Using the Internets Power to you’re Advantage
Various illegal things happen all the time.
Quite a few things happen when someone cant really get help. Weather there underage or some other factor.
This is when you can sometimes turn to the internet.
The same tools used by hackers can be used by white hackers or just general users with knowledge of the systems.
With the tools and just basic internet features users can find the people responsible for the crimes and either just strate up report them to the police or they can ruin there life. Or both.
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Think Before You Interact
” More than 90% of successful cyber-attacks start with a phishing email. A phishing scheme is when a link or webpage looks legitimate, but it’s a trick designed by bad actors to have you reveal your passwords, social security number, credit card numbers, or other sensitive information. Once they have that information, they can use it on legitimate sites. And they may try to get you to run malicious software, also known as malware. If it’s a link you don’t recognize, trust your instincts, and think before you click. “1
Attacks can occur almost instantly. Even if you think something is safe it could have malware behind the scenes that even the creators don’t know about.
For example, one time when I was searching for different sheet music I came across a completely normal site, that when visited gave my computer a type of virus known as “Trogon”. Luckily Windows Security almost instantly detected and quarantined it. The site installed malware almost instantly. Attacks happen very fast generally before you can react to them.
Quote from Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, an official subsidiary of the United States of America Department of Homeland Security ↩
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Session Token Hacking
Session Hijacking is a relatively large threat
LTT https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A?si=L_7QGr4EyuzWNxdx
SAF https://youtu.be/_TuVeTpXS94?si=bj4jzYrAU4YIDga5
Preventing Session Hijacking
Nothing can be entirety prevented on the internet.
However there are precautions to reduce the chances that this will happen to you.
A few tools I personally use are Vivaldi and VirusTotal.
Vivaldi
Vivaldi stands out as a highly customizable web browser designed for power users who prioritize privacy and control.
Built on the Chromium engine, Vivaldi offers a familiar browsing experience while significantly enhancing it with a suite of built-in features that bolster security and user autonomy.
Key Security and Privacy Features:
No Tracking: Vivaldi is built on a philosophy of minimal data collection. The browser itself does not track user behavior, and it provides robust controls to limit third-party tracking.
Built-in Ad and Tracker Blocker: Vivaldi includes a powerful ad and tracker blocker, helping to prevent invasive tracking scripts and malicious advertisements from compromising user privacy and security. Users can customize blocklists for granular control.
Built-in VPN: Vivaldi by default includes a free version Proton VPN linked to your Vivaldi account, though it can be upgraded to a different/paid plan.
End-to-End Encrypted Sync: Vivaldi Sync allows users to securely synchronize bookmarks, passwords, and other data across devices using end-to-end encryption, ensuring that only the user can access their information.
Privacy-Focused Features: Vivaldi offers features like private windows, the ability to disable prefetching, and configurable cookie settings, empowering users to manage their online privacy.
Regular Security Updates: Being based on Chromium, Vivaldi benefits from regular security updates, patching vulnerabilities promptly to maintain a secure browsing environment.
Customizable Security Settings: Vivaldi’s extensive customization extends to security settings, allowing users to fine-tune their browsing experience to meet their specific security requirements.
In an era of increasing online surveillance and data breaches, Vivaldi provides a valuable alternative for users seeking greater control over their digital footprint. Its commitment to privacy, coupled with its robust security features, makes it a strong choice for individuals and organizations concerned about cybersecurity. The browser’s focus on user customization allows for tailoring security settings to specific needs, enhancing protection against various online threats.
VirusTotal
VirusTotal is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs for viruses, worms, trojans, and other kinds of malicious software.
It aggregates the results from numerous antivirus engines, website scanners, and file analysis tools, providing a comprehensive view of potential threats.
Key Features and Importance:
Multi-Engine Scanning: VirusTotal utilizes over 70 antivirus engines and website scanners, offering a broad perspective on potential threats that a single antivirus solution might miss. This greatly increases the probability of detecting malware.
URL Scanning: It analyzes URLs for malicious content, including phishing websites, malware distribution sites, and other online threats. This helps users to avoid dangerous websites.
File Analysis: Users can upload files to VirusTotal for analysis, providing insights into whether a file is malicious. This is crucial for analyzing downloaded files and suspicious attachments.
Community-Driven Intelligence: VirusTotal benefits from a community of users who contribute to its database by submitting files and URLs for analysis. This collective intelligence helps to identify emerging threats quickly.
API for Integration: VirusTotal offers an API that allows developers to integrate its scanning capabilities into their own applications and security tools. This is invaluable for automated malware analysis and threat intelligence.
Detailed Reports: VirusTotal provides detailed reports on scanned files and URLs, including information about detected threats, file metadata, and website information. This helps security professionals and researchers to understand the nature of potential threats.
Passive DNS and Related Information: VirusTotal also holds passive DNS information, and related file and URL information, that can give an analyst more context relating to a potential threat.
VirusTotal is an essential tool for cybersecurity professionals, researchers, and everyday users. It provides a quick and reliable way to assess the safety of files and URLs, helping to prevent malware infections and other security incidents. Its multi-engine scanning and community-driven intelligence make it a powerful resource for identifying and analyzing emerging threats.
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Classic Literature #2: Don Quixote
About the book
Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Original title: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha
Country: Spain
Genre: Novel
Publication date:
1605 (Part One)
1615 (Part Two)
Chapter I.
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun. He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the bill-hook. The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman. They will have it his surname was Quixada or Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable conjectures it seems plain that he was called Quexana. This, however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough not to stray a hair’s breadth from the truth in the telling of it.
You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many of them as he could get. But of all there were none he liked so well as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva’s composition, for their lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and cartels, where he often found passages like “the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty;” or again, “the high heavens, that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves.” Over conceits of this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake striving to understand them and worm the meaning out of them; what Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come to life again for that special purpose. He was not at all easy about the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took, because it seemed to him that, great as were the surgeons who had cured him, he must have had his face and body covered all over with seams and scars. He commended, however, the author’s way of ending his book with the promise of that interminable adventure, and many a time was he tempted to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him.
Many an argument did he have with the curate of his village (a learned man, and a graduate of Siguenza) as to which had been the better knight, Palmerin of England or Amadis of Gaul. Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him. In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, that to him no history in the world had more reality in it. He used to say the Cid Ruy Diaz was a very good knight, but that he was not to be compared with the Knight of the Burning Sword who with one back-stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants. He thought more of Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms. He approved highly of the giant Morgante, because, although of the giant breed which is always arrogant and ill-conditioned, he alone was affable and well-bred. But above all he admired Reinaldos of Montalban, especially when he saw him sallying forth from his castle and robbing everyone he met, and when beyond the seas he stole that image of Mahomet which, as his history says, was entirely of gold. To have a bout of kicking at that traitor of a Ganelon he would have given his housekeeper, and his niece into the bargain.
In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion. This deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked like a whole one. It is true that, in order to see if it was strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week to do. The ease with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that danger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on the inside until he was satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the most perfect construction.
He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that “tantum pellis et ossa fuit,” surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid. Four days were spent in thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, his master taking a new character, he should take a new name, and that it should be a distinguished and full-sounding one, befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow. And so, after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and remade a multitude of names out of his memory and fancy, he decided upon calling him Rocinante, a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world.
Having got a name for his horse so much to his taste, he was anxious to get one for himself, and he was eight days more pondering over this point, till at last he made up his mind to call himself “Don Quixote,” whence, as has been already said, the authors of this veracious history have inferred that his name must have been beyond a doubt Quixada, and not Quesada as others would have it. Recollecting, however, that the valiant Amadis was not content to call himself curtly Amadis and nothing more, but added the name of his kingdom and country to make it famous, and called himself Amadis of Gaul, he, like a good knight, resolved to add on the name of his, and to style himself Don Quixote of La Mancha, whereby, he considered, he described accurately his origin and country, and did honour to it in taking his surname from it.
So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul. As he said to himself, “If, for my sins, or by my good fortune, I come across some giant hereabouts, a common occurrence with knights-errant, and overthrow him in one onslaught, or cleave him asunder to the waist, or, in short, vanquish and subdue him, will it not be well to have some one I may send him to as a present, that he may come in and fall on his knees before my sweet lady, and in a humble, submissive voice say, ‘I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficiently extolled knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded me to present myself before your Grace, that your Highness dispose of me at your pleasure’?” Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his Lady! There was, so the story goes, in a village near his own a very good-looking farm-girl with whom he had been at one time in love, though, so far as is known, she never knew it nor gave a thought to the matter. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and upon her he thought fit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and should suggest and indicate that of a princess and great lady, he decided upon calling her Dulcinea del Toboso—she being of El Toboso—a name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed upon himself and the things belonging to him.
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My personal Online Library
What is Lorem Ipsum?
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Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Where does it come from?
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.
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Where can I get some?
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Markdown from A to Z
Headings
To create a heading, add number signs (#) in front of a word or phrase. The number of number signs you use should correspond to the heading level. For example, to create a heading level three (<h3>), use three number signs (e.g., ### My Header).
Markdown
HTML
Rendered Output
# Header 1
<h1>Header 1</h1>
Header 1
## Header 2
<h2>Header 2</h2>
Header 2
### Header 3
<h3>Header 3</h3>
Header 3
Emphasis
You can add emphasis by making text bold or italic.
Bold
To bold text, add two asterisks (e.g., **text** = text) or underscores before and after a word or phrase. To bold the middle of a word for emphasis, add two asterisks without spaces around the letters.
Italic
To italicize text, add one asterisk (e.g., *text* = text) or underscore before and after a word or phrase. To italicize the middle of a word for emphasis, add one asterisk without spaces around the letters.
Blockquotes
To create a blockquote, add a > in front of a paragraph.
> Yongha Kim is the best developer in the world.
>
> Factos 👍👀
Yongha Kim is the best developer in the world.
Factos 👍👀
Lists
You can organize items into ordered and unordered lists.
Ordered Lists
To create an ordered list, add line items with numbers followed by periods. The numbers don’t have to be in numerical order, but the list should start with the number one.
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
4. Fourth item
First item
Second item
Third item
Fourth item
Unordered Lists
To create an unordered list, add dashes (-), asterisks (*), or plus signs (+) in front of line items. Indent one or more items to create a nested list.
* First item
* Second item
* Third item
* Fourth item
First item
Second item
Third item
Fourth item
Code
To denote a word or phrase as code, enclose it in backticks (`).
Markdown
HTML
Rendered Output
At the command prompt, type `nano`.
At the command prompt, type <code>nano</code>.
At the command prompt, type nano.
Escaping Backticks
If the word or phrase you want to denote as code includes one or more backticks, you can escape it by enclosing the word or phrase in double backticks (``).
Markdown
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Rendered Output
``Use `code` in your Markdown file.``
<code>Use `code` in your Markdown file.</code>
Use `code` in your Markdown file.
Code Blocks
To create code blocks that spans multiple lines of code, set the text inside three or more backquotes ( ``` ) or tildes ( ~~~ ).
<html>
<head>
</head>
</html>
def foo():
a = 1
for i in [1,2,3]:
a += i
Horizontal Rules
To create a horizontal rule, use three or more asterisks (***), dashes (---), or underscores (___) on a line by themselves.
***
---
_________________
Links
To create a link, enclose the link text in brackets (e.g., [Blue Archive]) and then follow it immediately with the URL in parentheses (e.g., (https://bluearchive.nexon.com)).
My favorite mobile game is [Blue Archive](https://bluearchive.nexon.com).
The rendered output looks like this:
My favorite mobile game is Blue Archive.
Adding Titles
You can optionally add a title for a link. This will appear as a tooltip when the user hovers over the link. To add a title, enclose it in quotation marks after the URL.
My favorite mobile game is [Blue Archive](https://bluearchive.nexon.com "All senseis are welcome!").
The rendered output looks like this:
My favorite mobile game is Blue Archive.
URLs and Email Addresses
To quickly turn a URL or email address into a link, enclose it in angle brackets.
<https://www.youtube.com/>
<fake@example.com>
The rendered output looks like this:
https://www.youtube.com/
fake@example.com
Images
To add an image, add an exclamation mark (!), followed by alt text in brackets, and the path or URL to the image asset in parentheses. You can optionally add a title in quotation marks after the path or URL.
The rendered output looks like this:
Linking Images
To add a link to an image, enclose the Markdown for the image in brackets, and then add the link in parentheses.
[](https://www.britannica.com/place/La-Mancha)
The rendered output looks like this:
Escaping Characters
To display a literal character that would otherwise be used to format text in a Markdown document, add a backslash (\) in front of the character.
\* Without the backslash, this would be a bullet in an unordered list.
The rendered output looks like this:
* Without the backslash, this would be a bullet in an unordered list.
Characters You Can Escape
You can use a backslash to escape the following characters.
Character
Name
`
backtick
*
asterisk
_
underscore
{}
curly braces
[]
brackets
<>
angle brackets
()
parentheses
#
pound sign
+
plus sign
-
minus sign (hyphen)
.
dot
!
exclamation mark
|
pipe
HTML
Many Markdown applications allow you to use HTML tags in Markdown-formatted text. This is helpful if you prefer certain HTML tags to Markdown syntax. For example, some people find it easier to use HTML tags for images. Using HTML is also helpful when you need to change the attributes of an element, like specifying the color of text or changing the width of an image.
To use HTML, place the tags in the text of your Markdown-formatted file.
This **word** is bold. This <span style="font-style: italic;">word</span> is italic.
The rendered output looks like this:
This word is bold. This word is italic.
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