Yearly Archives: 2012

Online Privacy – The Ultimate Solution

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Online Privacy
There was some noise about recent Google’s privacy policy changes that made a lot of people worry. Personally I use few browsers for the last few years – Chrome (or Chromium to be precise, cause I’m on Linux) for Webapps were I am logged in everywhere and Firefox to actually browse the web, stumble, search etc. This way my search and browsing habits remain private without having to sacrifice time to log in/out every time.

But if, for any reason, you really need to be stealthy and private while surfing the web – use Tor network to completely hide your identity. There were times when you had to do some dirty work to set up Tor on your computer, nowadays just download the browser bundle which includes preconfigured standalone Firefox browser for any OS. Just start the bundle and use any online service (e.g. this one) to check your IP and other system information. See, they are not yours anymore.

The downside is the significant loss of connection speed and no usual plug-ins like flash for example (you are free to install them, but they can reveal your true IP address). As an extra feature you can explore darker and creepier parts of the web, known as Invisible Web or Deep Net – the .onion domain. Here is a search engine to start with, be advised though – at times these parts are really creepy.

How To Use Contao Search Engine

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Don’t get me wrong, I think that Contao is a great system, it’s just some of its functions are kinda counterintuitive and search engine is one of them. Furthermore it’s not easy to find clear information as to how it works in later versions of the CMS (in this case I used Contao 2.10.1).

So you have a Contao website that needs search and you know Contao has built-in search engine, you just have to “turn it on”. You check out the official docs and see that there is only one module called Search engine that “Adds a search form to a page”.

Sounds simple, you create the module, put it into your layout or article, go to your website and voila, it works. One problem though, search results are shown right near your search box, which is in most cases not what you want. What you probably want, is a search box on all your pages and a search results page that shows, well, search results – that’s what Google, or say WordPress do.

Obviously Search engine module doesn’t just add a search form to a page, it also shows results, so what we need to do is manually divide the “form showing” and “results showing” parts. Here is how it’s done: Continue reading →

Anonymous hacking spree

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Anonymous were busy lately, they cracked CIA website, US Alabama state servers and some Mexican websites. Small review of their recent activity on pcworld.com.

Someone (not Anonymous for a change) has also compromised U.N. server, here’s the bad part:

U.N. was not using basic web security and … a simple SQL injection attack (SQLIA) was what enabled the hacker to gain access to the U.N.’s database.

Totally not cool! Why would anyone want to hack U.N. is a mystery, perhaps they just saw the security hole and just couldn’t help it…

Hello world!

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Here is the first post, somehow I just couldn’t delete it. Why did you scroll all the way down here anyway? Ok, I’m sure you have your reasons, but that’s it, there is nothing below this post.