Please tell me what this brings that Hackin9 doesn't? Its a good first start I will admit.

Lucid; There are heaps of things to learn. Some good material is over at bitme / bitspyder. I've got an invite for a few people just pm me.

Goodluck with your studies, remember your education is important. Evilzone will be here with the members holding it up. I don't know you very well but I have a similar busy schedule I submit you hang out on IRC and hopefully when things slow down you can get back in the swing of things!

• Acid Dreams - Complete Social History of LSD, The CIA, the sixties
• Timothy Ferris - The 4 hour workweek
• Fundementals of Physics (school reading)
• When will Jesus bring the Pork Chops - George Carlin
• The Year of Living Bibilically

Yea, its a lot of books but I do as m0rph does and read a bunch of books at the same time. I won't include books on python but yea, ask me for some good reads man!

I'd post my battle station but ande will delete it for being better than his

Tor is a popular low-latency anonymity network. However, Tor does not protect against the exploitation of an insecure application to reveal the IP address of, or trace, a TCP stream. In addition, because of the linkability of Tor streams sent together over a single circuit, tracing one stream sent over a circuit traces them all. Surprisingly, it is unknown whether this linkability allows in practice to trace a significant number of streams originating from secure (i.e., proxied) applications. In this paper, we show that linkability allows us to trace 193% of additional streams, including 27% of HTTP streams possibly originating from ``secure'' browsers. In particular, we traced 9% of Tor streams carried by our instrumented exit nodes. Using BitTorrent as the insecure application, we design two attacks tracing BitTorrent users on Tor. We run these attacks in the wild for 23 days and reveal 10,000 IP addresses of Tor users. Using these IP addresses, we then profile not only the BitTorrent downloads but also the websites visited per country of origin of Tor users. We show that BitTorrent users on Tor are over-represented in some countries as compared to BitTorrent users outside of Tor. By analyzing the type of content downloaded, we then explain the observed behaviors by the higher concentration of pornographic content downloaded at the scale of a country. Finally, we present results suggesting the existence of an underground BitTorrent ecosystem on Tor.


I would be very careful of the nodes I'm connected to on Tor. It was developed for the US Military and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the high-speed nodes are run (and monitored) by the US government. This is not a problem if you're trying to use Facebook in China but I wouldn't rely on it for file-sharing. It has been proven that IP addresses using BitTorrent can be revealed if you control the exit node.
Furthermore, anyone could inspect the headers of traffic to distinguish between different uses of encryption. Certain traffic also has different properties like common ports (though this is usually easy to change), transfer protocols (TCP, UCP, uTP), or technical properties of the packets sent (timing, size, etc.). Peer-to-peer traffic also has a signature footprint due to the sheer size of connections to unique destinations that are made during a transfer.
A large amount of concurrent, identical encrypted connections to a multitude of destinations stemming from a single source could be easily identified as peer-to-peer traffic. In fact, I used this method to identify BitTorrent users when my home network slowed down. I didn't use anything other than what was provided by my router's traffic status screen.
In terms of real world censorship, China's firewall can easily differentiate between VOIP and Skype audio, banning the former while allowing the latter (source). They also actively look for VPNs being used for non-business purposes(source). If technology can be used to make peer-to-peer applications, other technology can certainly be used to discourage their general use.

Its secure in terms of type-safety. You cant overflow it and alike(iirc). No languages are safe/hard-to-crack decompile-wise without coding it or packing/crypting it to be safe.

And the requirements you described(portable part) gives you pretty much Java or nothing. You can do Perl, but its not a compilable language. Sames goes with PHP (tho I have read that you can compile PHP, I know for a fact that facebook does(for performance)).

Yes, pick up java if you feel like taring your hair out and typing on nails. This language is so widely used, its incredibly clunky and stupid. Why not focus on learning more in depth about python and C perhaps also learning PHP?

Why is this important, you should learn a single language and branch from there based on what you make and do with it. If a particular plugin or socket w.e needs a scripting lang then you learn it. THere is no sense in knowing shit all about shit tonne of languages. Its impossible to even master one let alone.