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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

December 2024 of Rust: - I accomplished what I set out to do to start learning Rust. The holidays took over, being lazy and off work, but squeezing in time was worth the effort. I just got into a habit of adding more than needed for what I set out to do. The only reason I haven't been posting code

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

ION know, looks like it's been open to long for me.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Day 30 and 31: - First, fam plans changed today so me and the boys did work moving rooms around so no video of BurritoSec c2 today. - RAT for win reading c2 ip/port from the registry, which rox creates. Linux RAT reading from .bashrc as non-root and /etc/profile as root. - I was going to postpone

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

@b0rk.jvns.ca you do some amazing work and are stellar at explaining it. Love your blogs! Thank you!

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

@unauthorized.computer I think I'm going to try mutt for a month. If it all works out, I'm switching to it. Seems alpine has stopped development.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Trying to help paint today reminded me of the limits of living with chronic pain.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Anyone use Sysmon on Linux? If so, what distro and is it pretty stable and have low overhead like on Windows?

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I like the show American Greed. I can't wait for the mini-series it will need to discuss President Elon and VP Trump.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Day 29 of Rust: - Code is getting back to normal. - Going to finish the basic functionality I've been working on and this will become my project to keep working on to keep my Rust skills from getting...oh you know. 😅

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It's time. I predict "sophisticated" threat actors will include jazz hands before hitting Enter instead of holding up their pinky.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Now I see why rappers are all cut and tip-top shape. Did Karaoke to the Humpty Dance and I was out of breath before I got busy in a burger king bathroom.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Pavarotti, Temptations, & Norah Jones.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

People really sell used socks?

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

When I volunteered at the Library of Congress, I learned that the computer used to regulate the temp within the enclosure that protects one of the original Gutenberg bibles was turned off 2 times, one being December 31, 1999.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Maybe those were being suppressed on the other site but they are almost like ads over here.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Video teaser of BurritoSec c2. This is my learning adventure with Rust for this month. cc: @unauthorized.computer

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

If anyone has left over no-bake cookies, feel free to send to me.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Day 28 of Rust: - Had 2 calm my ambitious & slow down a bit. Plenty of time to do more with BurritoSec c2. I'm really liking Rust (but I won't be writing a Medium article about why I love Rust and never looked back, though I'm way out of line. :) - Focusing on rox and setting up the RAT.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

i gave a presentation on creating an incident response toolkit back in 2019 at Educause. This is my all-time fav feedback from any conference I've presented: "You were very technical and also very calming; a rare combination."

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The Private Eyes (Don Knotts and Tim Conway). 😂

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

@daiquiriheiress.bsky.social cool you are a librarian. the only thing I miss about academia was hanging in the lirbary. i had an office, though I setup in the library during the summer when I was working on my degree. They still welcome me back to sit in my same spot and do non-academic work. :)

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Troubleshooting has begun. I'm loosening wires & flipping the power switch on the power supply. Starting external & then will start teaching them troubleshooting on the internals of the PC. Then, they'll start learning why the sound doesn't work, fortnite won't start, etc. My doc is in curriculum,

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Day 27 of Rust: - Changed to using the winreg crate, it's simpler. - Splitting the code to reduce the RAT and rox's file size to win & Linux. MacOS next month. - Code is currently a mess with the changes. - Postponed service on Windows until code separation is finished. - Added installed software

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I said it before and I'll stand by it..er'body tweaking out about their phones and browser spying on them and yo' toilet has all kinds of shit on you.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Fun Xmas. Got my boyz gaming PCs - with a caveat. I took out all the parts and taught them how PCs work and guided them as they put the parts in and made it work.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I was really looking forward to Pancakecon and having more of my cousin's Vermont Maple Syrup to give away and competing to be a speaker. @hacks4pancakes.com are you going to have it in 2026?

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Day 26 of Rust: - nuffin yesterday. - Back to working on running windows RAT as a service. - Postponing video until 1/31, last 30 days of Rust. After some work with the registry, I got more ideas for enumeration. Even when learning a language, i go down rabbit holes and have to learn more! :)

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

@soph-em.bsky.social do you write rust programs for multiple OSes?

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I am increasingly convinced that most organizations need to opt-in to processing datastores with RAG, not the current "opt-out for the sensitive stuff." Real talk: most of us don't have good enough data inventories or large enough risk appetites to support opt-out.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Interviewee: Well, I only worked there during the summers and holidays during high school.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Day 24 of Rust: - Testing and debugging running the RAT as a windows service. I don't know if I will do anything tomorrow, but we'll see. I got exciting gifts for my boyz.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

@roxanna.bsky.social does your react training include UI/UX training?

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The nostalgia of remembering who could jump the furthest with my brothers and friends. Funniest part is that the cement basketball court was directly in front of the swing set.😂

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Day 22 & 23 of Rust: - Worked on adding some persistence locations on Linux and Windows. Currently, it will choose from 2 locations - more will be added later. It saves the location on the c2 for the respective compromised host.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Day 21 of Rust: - updating the RAT 2 read its config from a file on linux and the registry on Windows. - updating rox to perform those activities before it downloads the RAT. I might demo HTML smuggling with BurritoSec c2.

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Duane Dunston, EdD @gnugro.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

rustaceans, do you all cross-compile or natively compile on targeted platforms? #rust

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Normalize saying “I don’t know, that’s not my area” when asked about things you don’t know about.

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