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Just a braindump to remind me and flyc0r that there is a certain attack vector on the DNS system that would so totally fuck up the whole censorship idea here in germany. We found a way to censor (and de-censor) any site in terms of a collaborative effort. Due to the fact that the system is just being implemented we’re being careful to realease any details. But I’ll say so much: we’re standing between the lines and having fun with DNS. And: everyone has a neighbour

I have been using synergy for a long time now. The only ugly thing about it: it doesn’t encrypt. That’s where ssh comes in. I wrote this handy script a while ago to start ssh tunneled synergy on a client machine:

 #!/bin/sh
port=24800
host=$1

echo -n killing existing synergyc...
killall -9 synergyc
echo done

echo -n killig existing ssh tunnels...
pids=$(ps x |grep ssh|grep $port|grep $host|cut -d' ' -f1)
for i in $pids
	do
		echo -n "killing $i..."
		kill -9 $i;
		echo done
	done

echo -n "Trying to ping $host"
if ping -c1 $1>/dev/null;
 then
	echo done
	echo -n starting ssh tunnel...
	ssh -f -N -L 127.0.0.1:$port:$1:$port $host
	echo done

	echo -n starting synergyc...

	sleep 1
	synergyc 127.0.0.1
	echo done
  else
	echo "failed."
fi
echo done