![]() ![]() So, what do we need in order to connect to the VPN? PF is OS X’s recommended way of filtering packets and available in Lion or higher, afaik. So what I basically do is to forbid nearly all network traffic (using PF), except for the things that are required to connect to the VPN. And the focus of this guide is definitely that second part, because setting up the VPN is pretty easy, but if the connection breaks, is blocked or for some other reason not running, your system will by default transmit data anyway, and unencrypted data will be interceptable. The machine I’m using is a MacBook Air with OS X Mountain Lion, and the software I use is Tunnelblick for the OpenVPN connection and PF (“packet filter”) to transmit as little unencrypted traffic as possible when the VPN goes down. Please don’t ask me (except if we know each other personally), because I don’t have the time to do user support for thousands of guests. In case you don’t know what a VPN is or don’t feel comfortable doing the things I suggest in this guide (for example because you don’t understand anything at all), please contact a hacker you trust and ask her or him to make your connection more secure. Please note that this guide is written for users who are at least a bit tech-savvy. And the best way to do that is by using a VPN. So you want your packets to be always encrypted. ![]() If these packets are encrypted, messing with them is much harder (but not impossible! – see the end of this article). Some of them might start intercepting the data on the network or do other nasty things with the packets that they can get. And a network with several thousand connected users is certainly an interesting thing to play with. Hackers get bored easily, and when they’re bored, they’re starting to look for things to play with. You should never let passwords or private data be transmitted over an untrusted network (your neighbor’s, the one at Starbucks or the company) anyway, but on a hacker congress like the #30C3, this rule is almost vital. ![]()
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