HOW TO UPDATE PI-HOLE
Quick How-To for updating pihole on Ubuntu
Open a terminal
Type:
sudo apt-get update
Enter in your password
Type
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Enter in your password
Type
pihole -up
Enter in your password
Pihole updates
That is it!
HOW TO CHECK A DKIM RECORD
This one is quick and easy. You need to know the record info that was setup with the DNS Provider to do it
Go to https://MXToolBox.com/NetworkTools.aspx
Find the DKIM Box
Enter in the domain:selector info
Example – tacticalware.com:mydkim
Press the DKIM Lookup button
If it is setup properly you will see in green, the dkim information. If it is setup improperly, you will see an error, as you would see if you searched for the dkim tacticalware.com:mydkim
GODADDY – BACKUP DNS ZONE
Here is how to backup your DNS information in GoDaddy
Login into your account
Navigate to https://dcc.godaddy.com/control/portfolio
Identify the Domain name you want to backup
Click the three dots next to it “…“
Select Edit DNS
On the DNS MANAGEMENT page, next to the ADD button, click the Three Dots “…“
Select Export Zone File
Your DNS will backup to your computer.
Save it to somewhere special, and go on your merry way
CREATE SPF RECORD
This is a quick how-to on setting up the SPF record for those of us not using Microsoft 365. They have a different record type If you want a more in-depth one, there are many available elsewhere. So for now, here it is
Login into your DNS Provider
Ex – Network Solutions, Hostgator, ENOM
Navigate to the area to Manage DNS records
Create a TXT record
Name will be
@
Value will be:
v=spf1 a mx ip4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ~all
Be sure to change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the actual IP of your mail server
Save the record
Go to MXToolbox.com and enter your domain name
You should see a green box with your SPF record info contained inside
CREATE DMARC RECORD
This is a quick how-to on setting up the record. If you want a more in-depth one, there are many available elsewhere. So for now, here it is
Login into your Email Server
Create a new email address. Something like dns@tacticalware.com
Next, Login into your DNS Provider
Ex – Network Solutions, Hostgator, ENOM
Navigate to the area to Manage DNS records
Create a TXT record
Name will be
_dmarc
Value will be:
v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:dns@tacticalware.com; ruf=mailto:dns@tacticalware.com; fo=1;
Make sure you change dns@tacticalware.com to whatever the email address is that you created in the first step
Save the record
Go to MXToolbox.com and enter your domain name
You should see a green checkmark next to DMARC
BLOCK TRACKERS CONTAINED IN EMAIL – MICROSOFT OUTLOOK DESKTOP APPLICATION
Most marketing emails contain a single pixel hidden in the email which tracks you. This pixel calls home, lets the marketers/spammers know that you opened the email, and begins tracking your movement through their system.
Here is how to block it within Outlook on your IOS device (ipad, iphone, etc)
Open Outlook
Click on the File
Select Options
Open Trust Center
Click on Trust Center Settings
Find Automatic Download
Place check mark in:
Don’t download pictures automatically in standard html…..
Don’t download pictures in encrypted or signed…..
Thats it! Tracking pixel disabled
BLOCK TRACKERS CONTAINED IN EMAIL – IOS OUTLOOK
Most marketing emails contain a single pixel hidden in the email which tracks you. This pixel calls home, lets the marketers/spammers know that you opened the email, and begins tracking your movement through their system.
Here is how to block it within Outlook on your IOS device (ipad, iphone, etc)
Open Outlook
Click on the Avatar for you at the top left of the main screen
At the bottom left column you will see a gear. Click it
Find Mail Accounts
Click on your Office 365 Account / Google Account / Whatever you have for email
Find Block External Images
Turn it on
Thats it! Tracking pixel disabled
FIX TORSOCKS PERROR ISSUE
In ParrotOS if you install torsocks using apt-get install torsocks, it installs fine, however you cannot run it from the commandline as it has the following error
Error:
PERROR torsocks[2859]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)
To fix this error do the following
Type:
sudo nano /etc/tor/torsocks.conf
Scroll down to the TorPort line
Change 9050 to 9150
Now it should read
TorPort 9150
Press CTRL + X
Press Y to save
Now you can run torsocks
How to use WGET with TOR through torsocks
Quick how-to on using wget for a .onion site
Once Parrot OS is installed
Open Applications menu at the top left of the screen
Open TOR Launcher
Click Install TOR
Open a terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install torsocks
Once installed, you can navigate to a terminal
Type:
torsocks wget to get the data through the tor network.
Example (change the links with valid ones):
torsocks wget
torsocks wget
HOSTING WEBSITES BEYOND YOUR GOVERNMENT’S REACH
Many countries have websites, and content they cannot visit, or information they cannot post. Here in the States, simply saying fraud and election together will get you banned from social media and from searches….Welcome to 2021…
To post content beyond your local country’s censorship, you will have to make your website in a different country. Even then, your government may be able to take it down through their partnerships with those countries
How do you make sure you are safe, and your website is safe….
Build your website, in a country, which does not have an Extradition agreement with your local government….
For us in the States, to post information about fraudulent elections we would have to select a web hosting provider which resides outside of the countries in from the current list (they cannot be on this list):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties
