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Linux Capabilities

One reason why people sometimes execute network services as superuser (i.e., root) is the fact that Linux, like most operating systems, doesn't allow non-privileged users to bind sockets to the so-called System Ports (a.k.a. Well Known Ports or privileged ports). One can't say that this is generally
Nov 26, 2014 1 min read
networking

Tunneling SSH Connections Through Tor

One good reason to tunnel SSH connections through Tor can be firewalls that block your traffic to the respective SSH destination port. As Tor is perfectly fine with only having port 80 and 443 available, and is locally running a SOCKS version 5 server by default, it can easily be
Nov 3, 2014 1 min read
networking

Anatomy of an URL

URLs – How do they work?
Jul 18, 2014
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