LulzSec is Tweeting Again!

That's right! Everyone's favorite hackers are back! Well, kind of.

So, yeah. This is exciting, as I was truly traumatized after they called it quits. I just hope that their planned operation causes complete, total, utter chaos, and will cause us all to laugh hysterically, while the FBI runs in circles.

Now, sing along!

Lulz, exciting and new,

come aboard, we're expecting you.

Lulz, life's sweetest reward,

let it flow, it floats back to you.

The Lulz Boat soon will be making another run

The Lulz Boat promises something for everyone.

Set a course for adventure,

your mind on a new romance.

Lulz won't hurt anymore,

it's an open smile on a friendly shore.

Yes LULZ! Welcome aboard: it's LULZ!

How to Use TOR to Beat Crappy Censorware

I think everyone knows how annoying censorware can be. Once, I had to research the Berlin Wall for an assignment. Unfortunately, the network's censorware decided that pictures of the Berlin Wall, either from Google Images or from the search engine we were supposed to use, were inappropriate. This  meant that I was only able to use about 50% of the pictures I saw.
"That's great, but how can I stop this annoying piece of     ?" The answer lies in a little piece of software known as TOR. TOR stands for The Onion Router. This thing was designed by the US Navy, for the purpose of protecting government communications. Now, it widely employed for either protecting data, or for getting around the censorware in countries like China. So, it will probably be functional enough to get around your business or school's crappy censorware.
Installing TOR on a portable flash drive is easy. Here's a short little tutorial.

1) Download the TOR Browser Bundle. In this tutorial, I'm installing the Windows version, as most businesses don't have Macs for its employees.

2) Move the installer to your flash drive.

3) Run the installer. The default extract location should be fine.

4) Wait for the data to extract. This shouldn't take too long.

5) Run the executable labeled "Start Tor Browser.exe."

6) Wait for your computer to connect to the TOR network.

7) Now, you can browse at your leisure. The browser packed with TOR is preconfigured to have TOR enabled. It even automatically goes to the encrypted versions of pages!

TOR is a really useful tool. You can get around almost any censorware. Just use it for good, not evil!
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SVG and Its Addictiveness

I spent much of today staring at my computer, tweaking little bits of markup. Why? I rediscovered SVG! For many of you, this may just be an empty abbreviation. So let me explain.

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a W3 specification, so those of you who are that uptight about standards can stay calm. But what does that mean? Essentially, it means that it's an image format where you can scale it as much as you want. It'll look just as good at 100x zoom as at 300x. This is the advantage of vector graphics formats, such as SVG and MathML, over raster graphics formats, like PNG or JPEG.

So, you want to know how to use this magical format? It's a dialect of XML, so it's pretty easy.
You start off like any other XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

Then, you go on to declare the actual SVG document.

<svg width="100%" height="100%" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

Now the real fun starts. You can draw pretty much any shape imaginable and some text. And you can use CSS!

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg width="100%" height="100%" version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<style type="text/css">
<![CDATA[
circle {
    fill: red;
    stroke: blue;
    stroke-width: 2px;
}
text {
    font-size: 20px;
}
]]>
</style>
<circle cx="65" cy="65" r="60" />
<a xlink:href="http://g3n3r0.blogspot.com/">
<text x="5" y="150">
G3n3r0 is amazing!
</text>
</a>
</svg>
In order for this example to work, you have to remember to add the xlink namespace in the <svg> element. This is only a basic example. You can find a lot more by Googling around. I also set up a more fully-featured demo here.
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C'mon, EU.

Source of Information
Apparently, the EU has decided that tracking cookies are highly harmful, and must be removed. Now, I know that tracking cookies sound bad. But they don't actually hurt anyone. It goes like so:

You go to an online shoe store. You buy a pair of Nikes. The advertiser on the site says "Okay, this person must like Nikes." So, in the future, you will have more adverts for Nikes appear on sites you visit, instead of, say, Crocs, or stripper heels.
Now, this can be a little creepy to some. But it's easy enough to remove these cookies, either by doing it manually in the browser, or by having your antivirus software tell you that you have them and getting so irritated by the constant reminders that you just remove the damn cookies.

However, these cookies can be used for evil. A dubious advertiser can track where you go. But then why not just say "no" to that, instead of making poor Google cry?

First Entry

Hello, all. I am G3n3r0(In case you hadn't guessed from the big, giant text at the top of the screen). Another thing that you might have guessed is that G3n3r0 is not my real name. A real shocker, huh.
Anyway, so this is my blog. I have various interests, including Bitcoins, Gray Hat Hacking, PHP, TOR, and AntiSec.
So, yeah. If anyone asks, I live in Juneau, Alaska.
So long! Back to my Bitmine!
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