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Archive for July 7th, 2023

NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/07

[Wayback/Archive] NeverSSL – helping you get online.

What?

This website is for when you try to open Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc on a wifi network, and nothing happens. Type “http://neverssl.com” into your browser’s url bar, and you’ll be able to log on.

How?

neverssl.com will never use SSL (also known as TLS). No encryption, no strong authentication, no HSTS, no HTTP/2.0, just plain old unencrypted HTTP and forever stuck in the dark ages of internet security.

While writing it in 2022, the site would redirect me to http://oldserenewonderousbirds.neverssl.com/online, http://beautifulgrandoldspell.neverssl.com/online and http://majesticsilveroldeclipse.neverssl.com/online, which will change probably each time to deter DNS caching, as per this message when I disabled JavaScript:

⚠️ JavaScript appears to be disabled. NeverSSL’s cache-busting works better if you enable JavaScript for neverssl.com.

Why NeverSSL

Because NeverSSL always uses plain unencrypted HTTP traffic, any captive portal WiFi or wired network can easily sneak in or redirect to authentication.

That way you can logon, after which you can use encrypted HTTPS/SSL/TLS/HSTS traffic.

Via

DNS hijacking can be used too

Leading to the above was this post by b0rk: [Wayback/Archive] how airports lie to you with DNS.

Via:

–jeroen

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How To Use Twitter Search – Advanced Guide by @Luca – Fresh van Root

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/07

Need to check out which of these filters still work:

[Wayback/Archive] How To Use Twitter Search – Advanced Guide by @Luca – Fresh van Root

Operator Description
since:2019-05-06 Tweets published at or after the date. (UTC +0)
until:2019-05-07 Tweets published before the date. (UTC +0)
from:Luca Tweets that are not marked as sensitive media. Tweets published by a specific user.
to:Luca Replies and mentions for a specific user.
lang:de Tweets in a specific language. Language is detected by Twitter on a Tweet basis. “und” for Tweets where Twitter was unable to determine a language.
near:Berlin within:5km [unreliable] Tweets that were posted in specific locations and optionally within a certain range.
min_faves:5 Tweets with at least that amount of faves.
-min_faves:100 Tweets that have fewer faves than specified.
min_retweets:10 Tweets that were at least retweeted that many times.
-min_retweets:3 Tweets that were retweeted less than that many times
min_replies:70 Tweets that got a minimum amount of replies.
-min_replies:8 Tweets that got fewer replies. (max_replies does not work)
filter:follows Tweets by accounts you follow.
list:Luca/Science Tweets by accounts on a specified list.
filter:verified Tweets by verified accounts.
filter:images Tweets with an image.
filter:links Tweets with an URL.
filter:media Tweets with a video or a photo.
filter:retweets [only works with the API or with “include:nativeretweets”] Retweets.
filter:quote Tweets that contain a quoted Tweet.
filter:replies Tweets that are a reply.
filter:mentions Tweets that mention a user.
filter:videos Tweets that contain a video.
filter:native_video Tweets that contain a video, that was directly uploaded to Twitter.
filter:news [unreliable] Tweets that contain a URL to a news source.
filter:safe [unreliable] Tweets that do not contain sensitive material.
include:nativeretweets It allows you to search through retweets as well. Especially useful in combination with from:account or filter:follows.

–jeroen

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