[Noisebridge-discuss] Tor/Cypherpunk hack day at Noisebridge?

Tue Aug 23 16:24:44 UTC 2016

I highly recommend looking at fw-daemon by Subgraph. Should be a solid
foundation to add UDEV firewalling and have "lil snitch"-like functionality
for user prompting.

https://github.com/subgraph/fw-daemon

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Patrick O'Doherty <p at trickod.com> wrote:

> Hey Mike!
>
> Thanks for writing up these projects. I'd be very interested in working
> with you to get the udev stuff cleaned up and packaged for debian. Are
> these scripts in a shareable form at the moment?
>
> I also have a spare openwrt suitable device (Netgear WNDR3800) which I
> could donate to the openwrt-based project's cause, though I've not done
> any mucking around w/ the openwrt internals before.
>
> Outside of specific projects like the ones you've listed, any guidance
> you could provide to folks who might be interested in contributing a
> patch to either little-t tor or the related software projects on
> git.torproject.org would be great! Sometimes the trac can be a little
> daunting with the collection of tags and old tickets making it hard to
> find an "easy" first patch.
>
> p
>
> Mike Perry:
> > Hey Noisebridgers,
> >
> > I've been out of orbit for a looong time, but I've been observing your
> > earth, and I would like to make a contact with you[1].
> >
> > I've been talking to Patrick O'Doherty and he suggested it would be good
> > to try to set up some kind of regular Tor and/or general cypherpunk
> > meetings or hack days at Noisebridge. I have a pile of projects I'm
> > working on that may be interesting to folks, and I can also help get
> > people up to speed with Tor development and build processes, how to
> > write patches, and familiarize people with Tor codebases and Tor
> > functionality for use in their own projects.
> >
> > This is a long email. The TL;DR is that I'm looking for people to tell
> > me what sort of stuff they would be interested in working on or learning
> > about at these meetings, so I can try to serve that audience better and
> > keep things focused.
> >
> > I'm giving a ton of detailed examples based on stuff I've been hacking
> > on on the side. Let me know either on or off-list if you find any of
> > these projects interesting and would like to work on any of them. Please
> > also suggest your own projects/ideas on-list, and please also +1 other's
> > topics as well.
> >
> > I'm hoping that the projects we work on can be featured on Tor Labs,
> > which is a website we're launching that is meant to showcase prototypes
> > and external projects that make interesting use of Tor, or that may
> > otherwise be of interest to Tor hobbyists. Tor has a lot of eyes on it,
> > and I think we should make use of that attention to get more people
> > excited about the great work that folks do outside of the official Tor
> > organization.
> >
> >
> > Here's some of the stuff I've been working on:
> >
> > # A Tor Phone prototype based on CopperHeadOS
> >
> > Since I wrote my writeup of a prototype Tor/Cypherpunk/Wingnut Phone[2],
> > a lot of cool stuff has been done by volunteers and the wider Android
> > community. Cédric Jeanneret adapted my pile of half-insane Droidwall
> > hacks into the rather slick OrWall[3], Patrick Connolly transformed the
> > manual install process into an update.zip[4], and some Toronto hackers
> > created CopperHeadOS[5] - a hardened Android rebuild using grsec and
> > several hardening additions, including verified boot[6].
> >
> > Unfortunately, CopperHeadOS does not support Google Apps, MicroG[7] (the
> > FLOSS replacement for Google Services), or SuperUser. You can hack this
> > stuff in via sideloading, but then you lose verified boot. So I'm
> > working on a pile of scripts to try to shove this stuff in to the
> > official CopperHead release images, and re-sign them with new keys. That
> > way, you don't have to give up security to be able to use apps with Tor,
> > or to use apps that require Google Play Services (such as Signal).
> >
> > Ideally, long-term we'd either restrict root access to just OrWall, or
> > diagnose why the VPN APIs in Android/Orbot leak traffic like crazy (see
> > below for a fun related router project to help with this).
> >
> > To work on this project, you'll need a Nexus 9, 5X, or 6P device.
> >
> >
> > # A udev-based USB firewall
> >
> > I wrote a crappy pile of shell scripts that act as a USB device ID
> > (model + serial number) whitelist, to provide vulnerability surface
> > reduction against USB device driver exploits and attacks like BadUSB.
> >
> > The scripts work for me, but maybe we should try to make this into a
> > debian package with easier configuration or something.
> >
> >
> > # CFC/No More 404s/Resurrect Pages
> >
> > Cloudflare captchas and Tor bans are annoying, especially if all you
> > want to do is read something.
> >
> > Yawning Angel at the Tor Project has been working on a Tor Browser addon
> > to automatically fetch pages that are blocked by CloudFlare/other
> > captchas from archive.is/archive.org. It needs a UI and some general
> > usability improvements:
> > https://git.schwanenlied.me/yawning/cfc
> >
> > We could also adapt the official Firefox addons No More 404s or
> > Resurrect Pages, depending on how they work.
> >
> >
> > # Better Tor Browser support for SSH exits/private Tor exits
> >
> > Related to the Captcha and ban problem, I hacked up some prefs and env
> > vars to make it possible to chain an SSH SOCKS -D proxy after Tor, so
> > that it is possible to access sites that completely ban Tor with strong
> > pseudonymity: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16917
> >
> > We could give this thing a UI. As a more involved project, we could
> > patch Tor to support "Tor Exit Bridges": ie Tor "bridges" that have an
> > exit policy and can be used instead of public exits.
> >
> >
> > # OpenWRT-based Tor Firewall
> >
> > I have a prototype Tor Router based on OpenWRT that only lets Tor
> > traffic through, and acts as a wifi firewall. It is based on
> > https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3040, and uses the LEDs to
> > tell you if anything on your computer has tried to bypass Tor, if
> > anything on the local network has tried to make a TCP connection to you,
> > or if anything has sent a ping/UDP packet at you. I've arranged these
> > LEDs as a sort of "hitpoint" bar, so that the UDP LED is the farthest
> > out, then the TCP connect-back LED, and then the Tor bypass led is
> > closest in. It is rather amusing to use this thing at hacker events to
> > watch how fast stuff happens to you. Since the MR3040 also has an
> > ethernet jack, you can use it to prevent exposing your laptop's wifi
> > firmware to hostile networks, by putting the router into client mode and
> > routing through ethernet. The router firmware supports concurrent client
> > and host wifi operation, so that you can have the device still provide
> > firewalling to devices that only support wifi by creating your own
> > personal access point on one side of the firewall, and acting as a wifi
> > client on the other.
> >
> > It is also very useful for helping to debug proper behavior of Tor
> > applications (especially mobile/embedded apps), so that leaks are
> > quickly apparent to you.
> >
> > This device is different than other Tor-enabled routers (such as NetAid
> > and Anonabox, etc) because it is primarily meant to function as an
> > additional security layer, not just something that blindly shoves all
> > your traffic through Tor.
> >
> > The device has switches on it, so it can be easily switched between
> > different modes.
> >
> > Areas of improvement for this project:
> >
> >  ii). It would be cool to make some kind of REST negotiation API with Tor
> >       Browser, so that this device could pick bridges or guard nodes for
> >       Tor Browser, tell Tor Browser about them, and ensure that only
> >       these bridges or guard nodes were used (as a security layer).
> >
> >  ii). Various UI work to make it easier to configure through a web UI.
> >       Maybe borrowing ideas or sharing code with https://netaidkit.net/,
> >       or maybe just sticking to the OpenWRT UI.
> >
> >  iii). It might be nice to also have a VPN on here as an option via one
> of
> >        the switches, so that traffic that was not destined to Tor was
> >        VPN'ed instead of dropped. This will require some hacking with
> >        OpenWRT image creator, since there is not enough space for a VPN
> in
> >        the default images for the device.
> >
> > To work on this project, you will need an OpenWRT compatible router. It
> > doesn't have to be the MR3040, I just like that one because it has a
> > battery and LEDs :). If there is enough interest, I can also bring a
> > pile of old routers I have lying around, as well.
> >
> >
> > # Reproducible build help with your Tor/Cypherpunk Project
> >
> > If you're making security tools, build security is very important. I can
> > help people work towards ensuring their projects can be build
> > reproducibly. We can also discuss various opsec considerations for
> > signing key material, and build security for projects that are a long
> > way away from being able to build reproducibly.
> >
> >
> > # Your idea here!
> >
> > Please, suggest stuff you want to work on. Maybe I can help. Or if not,
> > maybe someone else can!
> >
> >
> >
> > 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8
> > 2. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-impossible-
> hardening-android-security-and-privacy
> > 3. https://github.com/EthACKdotOrg/orWall
> > 4. https://github.com/patcon/mission-impossible-android
> > 5. https://copperhead.co/android/
> > 6. https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/verified-boot.html
> > 7. https://microg.org/
> >
> >
> >
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