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This is the "what's new" section of [searching lore], useful to keep abreast.
The exact names of all pages that have been updated are regularly listed here. As anyone capable of searching the web knows, [names] have the outmost importance when mining information on the www. Owners of private and [public mirrors] can thus fetch directly all updates through good old [wget], or [wgetpro], or any [pavuk] site-grabbing facility. You may also like to have a look at Luc's and +Forseti own-made mirroring [bots] and/or scripts. Of course you could use [teleport-pro] or any other commercial spider instead, but in that case you better be [careful]. Note however that you better read the [warning] below before attempting any mass downloading from my sites...
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[How to find anything underneath the commercial
web: Powersearching without google]
Fravia's Lecture 21 October 2006: Hack.lu, Luxembourg "Bridging ethics and security in computer science"
"Another interesting side effect of a correct web-seeking approach is that often, when searching for something, you will find on the same servers many other targets related to your topic, targets that you did not even know existed. We call this the "being inside the library" effect. Imagine you are not filling out a request form at the counter, imagine you are physically retrieving a book inside a library, with shelves and shelves of books around you and within your immediate reach. Thus you can scan with your eyes all other books in the proximity: books, more or less related to the topic you are searching for, that are, imagine, located on the same shelf, next to your target book and that you can also pick up at leisure. Gee... the amazing power of knowing how to search!"
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
Updated again! (October 2006: wireshark) - ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[library.htm] ~ [info.htm] ~ [softreve.htm] ~ [tools.htm] ~ [fobegano.htm] ~
Holy Holydays! (A small image riddle - to solve before September) |
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[proxomitron_powerusing.htm]
collated and resuscitated by have
A set of examples and ideas for all proxomitron fanatics.
Part of the proxy/proxy essays section.
If you publish it, someone will start to write exploits to it - and the propaganda-world begin to tell terrible things about proxomitron, a software which is IMO a must for every netizen. But If you don't publish, does it make things better? If this thread about it should be eased, and the lore left to those able to figure it out alone, would it make a better future? Or is it better to publish this stuff everyhere - with a patch for the masses? -
[A guide to relative anonymity]
by Mordred, Fravia, art20(iv) and alia
Part of the anonymity/anonyweb sections.
1) buy pc cash elsewhere (not with credit cards and not where they know you); 2) wardrive in another part of the town, not the one you live in; 3) download only, or if you upload, upload only anonymous things or PGP encrypted stuff; 4) rotate your wifi card mac address at every access point; 5) use wardriving laptop ONLY FOR THAT, no personal data whatsoever on it. -
[reversing_our_searching_habits.htm]
16 June 2006: Fravia's talk @ the Recon 2006 in Montreal: "Reversing our searching habits - (Power searching without google)".
Part of the workshops section.
Unfortunately we are now in a phase where even clueless bystanders notice how google is getting spammed much too much. It's usefulness as the "best and only" search engine has been therefore severely reduced. This is sad, but it does not matter very much: we began long ago to prepare alternative paths to web-knowledge. Let's present some of them -today- to this community of distinguished reversers. -
[filehosting.htm]
by Hoyeru
(repositories search lore for beginners)
Frankly I don't see why people would prefer a torrent instead of using Rapidshare.
Updated! - ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[images.htm] ~ [anonyweb.htm] ~ [trolls.htm] ~ [effective_searching.htm] ~ [universallibrary.htm] (de re orientalia) ~ [mines.htm] ~ [password.htm] ~ [newsfeeds.htm] ~ [google.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [maps.htm] ~ [usenet.htm] ~ [main.htm] ~
A tiny searchers' riddle: a small music snippet that maybe will keep you searching for a little while |
- [ritz_debunks.htm]: "Link farmers: the snake oil seller kind"
(How to evaluate fake sites)
by Various Authors
Part of the Evaluating lore.
"The way i hear him speak indicates that he's talking to an audience that wouldn't know the difference between an ad-infested labyrinth of cybersquatters and the info (without the dot) they're actually looking for..."
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
Updated again! (late April 2006: mp3 encoding) -
[thefollowingrough.htm], by Thoughts, April 2006:
it took almost TWO YEARS to solve the Entering a rough sea image riddle, part of the images searching lore section.
- [a tool for winky's] useless but interesting tool
(winky_proxy.html)
by Moonman
maybe useful maybe not... -
[winky_stripper.htm]: Winky strips for Yahoo (A Yahoo results stripper)
by Winky ;-)
A further introduction to the power of python, by Winky.
Part of the bots section.
...on the board they where talking about "stripping" and searching html.
Anyway I decided to make one for yahoo, it is primative a learning tool, but could be expanded to handle next queries etc.yahoo_stripper.py -> is the actual script itself To create the "docs" which reside in the html directory just run the script thru epydoc.
clean.html -> is the "output from the script"
This sort of tactic of stripping webpages is much more effective then just blindly using regular expressions.
Not for beginners! - [inphrase.htm]: In Phrase Operators
by Elwood
Part of the Password lore.
What is an "In Phrase Operator" you'll ask? Well, in fact you already know them. They are the numrange and the Boolean OR operator. But did you know they possess a magical searching property? Both can be used within a phrase search.
- ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[compound.htm] with a riddle ~ [funny.htm] ~ [introd.htm] ~ [undergro.htm] ~ [index.html] ~ [bot-block.php.txt] ~ [info.htm] ~ [books.htm] (Introduction & poetry) ~ [google.htm] ~ [main.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [longtermsearching.htm] ~ [terminology.htm] ~ [newsfeeds.htm] ~ [tadimens.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [tips.htm] (re-vamped) ~ [journals.htm] ~ [bots.htm] ~ [targets.htm] (maps) ~ [son_font.htm] ~ [statoo.htm] ~ [leet_windozer.htm] ~ [local.htm] (invisible web) ~ [quickforms.htm] ~ [mines.htm] (Recon 2006) ~ [trolls.htm] ~
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
Updated again! (Winter 2006) -
[winky_proxy.html]: A Useless but intesting tool
by Winky ;-)
An introduction to the power of python (and of proxies), by Winky.
Part of the Essays about proxying section.
I purposely have not commented the code. Most code in the wild is not commented or very sparse commenting. When you read a book every line is not commented.
If stuck run the code through a debugger see what is happening.
Not for beginners! -
[loki_yahoo.htm]: Loki on Yahoo's filter - a short pointer
by Loki
Part of the essays section.
Lately, all eyes are turned on the diva Google, and every sidestep is noticed, blogged, commented, flamed etc.. New interesting features coming out of Yahoo's labs are ignored, MSN sliders are underused, but nobody misses the latest crappy packaged solution promoted by Google and his partners. -
[Content Based Image Recognition - a stab in PHP] (Part 1)
by Finn61
Part of the essays and of the images sections.
Even the .edu's aren't giving all this research away. You will find some doors closed, although I was amazed at how easy it is to find info that people would like you to pay for, freely lying around, sometimes mistakenly, in other places. If you get a closed/pay database that allows you to preview pages of papers, then you know what to do to find the rest. ;)
Warning!: use a proxy when visiting/using this essay.
and
[Content Based Image Recognition - a stab in PHP] (Part 2)
by Finn61
Part of the essays and of the images sections.
The design I finally decided to go with for image comparison was based on the frequency of colours in certain regions of the source and target images. I have chosen this design as a compromise for speed and experimentation. There are many variables to tweak, some values giving you good results and others terrible, but I wanted to build in flexibility so we can experiment and discover what works well for the sources and targets we have in mind.
Warning!: use a proxy when visiting/using this essay. -
[A VERY promising spamfighting exercise].
by Loki
Part of the essays section.
Starting from a given website, try to determine if we're facing pure spam or poor content website. If it is spam, try to find patterns to gather more information about the spammer, determine what scheme is used to generate money, what are the technical means to achieve that, and finally what can be done to terminate the activity of this spammer. -
[Googlex & Company: Find quickly any European Union (or United Nations) document]
by fravia+
Part of the essays and of the targets sections.
I have created the following masks in order to allow *anyone* to quickly fetch any EU (or United Nations') document, bypassing the labyrinthical slowness of the EU-servers and the clumsiness of their slow search engines. -
[A talk in Berlin, Germany]
29 December 2005: 22C3 talk in Berlin: Private investigations in searching How to find any book (and many other roadkills) on the Information Super-Highway"
or "Private investigations for curious web-seekers: techniques, tools and magic tricks".
By Fravia+, part of the workshops section.
You'll most probably forget most of the things you'll learn here rather quickly, since nowadays most young people (and many elder ones as well) after having been heavily bombarded by advertisements from their birth onwards, have an attention span of just a few minutes and a memory as weak as an autumn leaf. But hopefully you'll gather the basics of searching correctly the web. -
[Searching for DVDs and dvd information]
by Giggle the DVDs Gideon
Part of the essays and of the targets sections.
Alas! In their greed, the commercial powers that be have managed to introduce FOUR commercial scam methods inside the dvd format, whose aim is to restrict the user in various ways: Macrovision & CSS (scrambling techniques), region codes, and disabled user operations (UOPs). We could add to this the Remove Copy Generation Management System (CGMS) annoying flags which cause DVD recorders to display an error message stating that the source "is copy protected and cannot be recorded" (which of course isn't true) All these scams can be reversed, the user can thus be able to read his own disks, even if he bought them in Singapore or in Brasil. - ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[local.htm] (Files and images repositories) ~ [mirrors.htm] (Luca's mirror) ~ [critics.htm] ~ [books.htm] ~ [universallibrary.htm] ~ [dererussica.htm] ~ [remobann.htm] ~ [antiadve.htm] ~ [bilingual_bookmarklets.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [journals.htm] ~ [destream.htm] ~ [farewell.htm] ~ [further.htm] ~ [quickforms.htm] ~ [longtermsearching.htm] ~ [info.htm] ~ [rabbits.htm] (introduction) ~ [trolls.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] ~ [dictionaries.htm] ~ [mines.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [compound.htm] with a riddle ~ [funny.htm] ~
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[inktomi.html]
Yahoo!/Inktomi's search syntax
by Nemo
(Updating the older essay inktomi.htm)
Part of the searching essays section.
No one lights a candle and hides it under a bushel, except Yahoo!
Wizard searching!
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[longtermsearching.htm]
Long term searching: rules and advice
by Fravia+
Part of the searching essays and of the evaluating essays sections.
Estote parati!
Time and again, seekers realize that many fellow humans don't even know how to use the exclusion operator on google - this usually leaves us feeling hollow, sick, and ashamed that we inhabit the same planet (let alone that we belong to the same species) as such scum :-) Time to throw some knowledgeballs down the webhills!
Updated again!
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[Two talks in Helsinki, Finland]
15-16 September 2005: T2'05 Conference in Helsinki: "The web: bottomless cornucopia & immense garbage dump" and "FFF: Finding forbidden fruit"
(And Jaakko Kuivalainen's interview, in finnish)
- [../realicra/bartering.htm]: Bartering
by José Carioca, part of the [reality cracking] section.
Loved the game!
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[funny.htm]: Funny and weird search engines
Ok, this section may result completely irrelevant, but it is great fun nevertheless... I'm confident that each seeker has encountered some of these 'weird' search engines. And maybe it's nice to have a place where to "dump" them. This will demonstrate -again- that the web is really deep (and really weird).
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
Updated again! -
[bookmarklets.htm]: Bookmarklets: Weapons for the seeker
Have some sharp blades, fellow seeeker...
- ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[../realicra/slaves.htm] ~ [tuttiope.htm]
Opera is now free! ~
[Reversing advertisement images] ~
[antiadve.htm] ~
[davidbarry.htm] ~
[realicra/exegesis.htm] ~
[combing.htm] ~
[main.htm] ~
[dicy_structure.txt] ~
[yahoo.htm] ~
[google.htm] ~
[destream.htm] ~
[ftp.htm] ~
[dictiona.htm] ~
[tools.htm] ~
[stego.htm] ~
[further.htm] ~
[links.htm] ~
[searchinginside.htm] ~
[photos.htm] ~
[local.htm] ~
[trolls.htm] ~
[way_kook.htm] ~
[mines.htm] ~
[library.htm] ~
[musicblogs.htm] ~
[images.htm] ~
[rabbits.htm] ~
[books.htm] (gallica & bnf search masks + freebooks) ~
[usenet.htm] ~
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[ritz_google_anti_snoop.htm]
by ritz
"i think this is sneaky and not very nice from mr google. also i wonder since *when* have they been doing this? i'm quite sure i looked at googles SERPs some years ago and it wasn't there"
Part of the malware section. -
[A talk in Montreal, Canada]
17-19 June 2005: Recon talk in Montreal: "Wizard searching: reversing the commercial web for fun and knowledge".
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
Updated again! - ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[srtools.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] (onelook) ~ [freemail.htm] ~ [tuttiope.htm] ~ [index.html] ~ [index.htm] ~ [info.htm] ~ [ftp.htm] ~ [malware.htm] ~ [compound.htm] ~ [musicblogs.htm] ~ [musicblogs_82005.htm] ("the ink spots") ~ [pdffing.htm] ~ [tadimens.htm] ~ [quickforms.htm] ~ [local.htm] ~ [102003inter.htm] ~ [mines.htm] ~ [newsfeeds.htm] ~ [critics.htm] ~ [yahoo.htm] ~ [main.htm] ~
- [anonion.htm]: "Anonymity with onions":
how to use TOR for pretty good anonymous browsing
by vvf
Part of the anonymity and of the anonyweb sections.
Now, unless you're a ruthless criminal, your browsing is safe. Just don't use anon proxies to do anything really stupid that could land you in a sea of trouble, anon or no anon. Anon proxies should be used like gloves (to touch sites/servers you don't trust) and/or shades (stay anonymous in the crowd), not like weapons.
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The path of the elite windoze xp warrior
by AAVV
Part of the Introduction and at the same time of the Classroom sections.
Woah, I bet you did not know you had already on your own harddisk -or could quickly have- all this stuff at your command & disposal...
- [opera_java_roma.htm]: Personalising Opera using javascript
by ~Roman
Part of the tutti all'opera section.
not only can arbitrary javascript be executed, but also arbitrary executables...
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A talk in Dublin, Ireland
20-21 april 2005: Netsoc Internet searching talk at the Trinity college: "Basic wizard web-searching".
- [opera_adding_roma.htm]: Adding functionality to Opera
by ~Roman
Part of the tutti all'opera section.
First we need a way of capturing our incoming and outgoing packets, without stealing them from Opera, and without using a proxy... Next we need a program that, given all of our packets, will discard any non-http ones, and extract the http headers from those remaining...
The good thing is, this approach is not just limited to viewing headers, but to any application that you can write a C (or any other language) application for...
(For advanced seekers) - [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. You "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera. Do you have to pay something? Do you have to give money to Microsoft? The answer is NO!
Updated in May! - Everything about
[google] and then some. The "summa" of everything
we know about the most important among the main search engines.
by fravia+
The aim of this section, simply stated, is to offer for free, to anyone, a "summa" of all possible knowledge about google. This should make it completely useless -for anyone- to buy books called "google hacks" and similar. My hope, and joy, is to put out of business (and hopefully push towards suicide) all the wankers that stole the free content of some good sites in order to scrap some money out of it. - [../realicra/annoyingsales.htm]: How to counter telemarketing and other pests
by fravia+, part of the [reality cracking] section.
"I have some high-yield, tax-free municipals on offer at an extremely attractive price and virtually no risk. Are you interested?" Well, go for it: "Yes! I am very interested! Please send me everything, I'll pay as much as necessary... let the idiot hope for as long as you manage, it happens so seldom that he'll wet his pants in anticipation of his 'sales pitch' ... and then, after as long as you want and manage to play with him, put the phone down IN THE MID of your sentence, and when he'll phone back (almost immediately, noone cuts the line while speaking, it must have been a technical glitch) start anew the whole bazaar. Remember that the point is to have them lose their time AND to have fun!
- ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[ftp.htm] ~ [pepldoin.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [trolls.htm] ~ [password.htm] ~ [warning.htm] ~ [stalking.htm] ~ [statoo.htm] ~ [peoplesearch.htm] ~ [specs.htm] ~ [index.html] ~ [further.htm] ~ [../realicra/exegesis.htm] ~ [../realicra/bushigen.htm] ~ [musicblogs.htm] (fravia's own music blog!) ~ [blog.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [nomomen.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] ~ [mac_spoofing_per_hand.htm] ~ [faq.htm] ~ [mines.htm] (future workshops) ~ [images.htm] (flickr) ~ [newsfeeds.htm] (encyclopediae) ~ [main.htm] ~ [bad.htm] ~ [books.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [rabbits.htm] ~ [protec/protec.htm] ~ [../realicra/slaves.htm] ~ (A quick and dirty reversing guide in order to understand WHY a product is made thattaway) ~ [filesearch.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [stego.htm] ~ [undergro.htm] ~ [tools.htm] ~ [fu_speci.htm] ~ [info.htm] (more harversters' honeypots) ~ [irc.htm] ~ [io13.htm] ~ [mirrors.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] (Languid) ~
- [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the
legal approach
(or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
Part of the Introduction section.
Updated! -
[rabbits.htm]:
Catching web-rabbits (Catching the rabbit's ears & pulling files out of the hat )
by VVAA, (Advanced & Qwasy magical Web searching tricks) Updated again! (search engines rabbits) - [gopherhunt.html]: A very short essay (if it can be called essay) but hopefully you will be able to
sniff out some forgotten lore & maybe even archive it, useful for the less
informedb readers.
by Fugazi (Let's go and hunt for gophers)
Old, valuable lore! - [nbbw.c]: Scroogle Scraper
"Google provides a version of their main index to the public that is free of ads. This is at www.google.com/ie on all of their data centers. It is apparently used by some versions of Explorer for some feature. The point is, Google provides this for public use"
by Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research Part of the bots section. -
[tuttiope.htm]:
Tutti all'opera Updated! (Opera: better than Firefox?)
- Fravia's Workshop at the 21C3 in Berlin (27-
29 December 2004)
This workshop deals with the "new" engines' searchscape, targeted searching, webbits' cosmic power, linguistic patterns stalking and some simple P2P "bypassing" techniques.
Last time in Berlin (2002), there were some tecnical glitches, let's hope things will be better this time :-) - [freemail.htm]: "free" (sic)
email repositories
Only 1 giga or more. Useful for files transfers, for file sharing and for one-shot emails
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[ORIGOGENTISLANGOBARDORUMWAITZ.htm]: Project ORIGO:
Complete collated authoritative text of the ORIGO GENTIS LANGOBARDORUM, by Georg Waitz, SSrrLang, MGH, Hannover 1878: "Countering
Web-ephemerality through Web-eternalness"
by fravia+, part of the text exegesis section.
[introtoprojectorigo.htm]: Introduction to this project.
[intrototheorigo.htm]:introduction to the Origo (not yet published). Part of the new [fighting against copyright] section. Travel back 70 years and become a legal pirate! -
[weatherbug.htm]:
Weatherbug's nasty habits (Investigating spyware)
by shinohara, part of the malware.htm section. (An answer by WeatherBug and a reply by Shinohara) - ... as usual, some
new (or slightly updated) pages:
[trolls.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] ~ [tips.htm] ~ [blog.htm] ~ [local.htm] ~ [regional.htm] ~ [pdffing.htm] (Adobe Reader Speed-Up & alternative pdf reader) ~ [terminology.htm] ~ [photos.htm] ~ [proxy_jan_2005.txt] anonymous proxies for january ~ [proxy_jan24_2005.txt] more anonymous proxies for january ~ [tools.htm] ~ [annoyanc.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] more english dictionaries ~ [srtools.htm] ~ [further.htm] ~ [books.htm] ~ [blog.htm] ~ [main.htm] Exalead ~ [usenet.htm] ~ [io13.htm] ~ [google.htm] new limit: 32 words ~ [mines.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] weather now and long ago ~ [compound.htm] ~ [ftp.htm] files.lt ~
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