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Use a raspberry pi and name it something like "VERY_IMPORTANT"

>>1000676 (OP)

they will find it anyway. and bust your ass.

don't do it, op.

Randal Schwartz was legally a felon for a while for the software version of what you're proposing. Wikipedia vaguely mentions that he 'cracked passwords'; I remember the problem as him setting a server up for remote access, and then accessing it remotely, while still doing the work Intel hired him for

>>1000697

>>1000700

>think I have good idea

>go to /tech/

>that's a bad idea

I just want to stay anonymous, mooch off others people electricity and internet and have the server not found easily by the gubbermint

How about public places with free wifi like airports etc.?

>>1000676 (OP)

As long as you avoid cameras and never return to remove it you are safe. For all they know their weeb intern installed it.

>>1000740

mooching off public places is a lot less likely to get you labelled a felon. There the big problem is avoiding confiscation, and still providing any kind of service while dealing with 'login pages' and firewalls.

If your device is drawing power from someone else's power socket, it's likely to be found. You could bury a rPI outside a Starbucks, with a week's worth of battery, after getting a headless browser capable of clicking through the login page.

If that works, you could add some more middlemen by getting people on Craigslist et al. to accept your packages and bury them near their Starbucks for you. Other kinds of risks, there. Actually, at this point you're getting close to a product for a personal VPN, which people might want to use in their own workplaces. If that product has a big warning like "ALSO ALLOWS ME, THE SELLER, SOME FUNCTIONALITY" and "DON'T USE WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM IT", then your lawyer will at least be able to make a few reasonable arguments before you get railroaded and sent to Office Space prison.

If speed is not a main requirement, could you make a server out of one or several hijacked IoT devices? Bonus obscurity if they're used to host an onion website.

>>1000676 (OP)

yes this is a thing. do it faggot

>>1000700

>Randal Schwartz was legally a felon

If you're legally a felon, presumably they can't do anything to you. It's being illegally a felon I'd be worried about.

>>1000826

None of the starbucks around here have anywhere to bury anything. A better option would be to airdrop it on top of the building with a drone.

>>1000740

The issue is you can't guard it so it will most likely be stolen.

>>1000676 (OP)

>but I'm not tech savvy so

fuck off and come back when you are.

>>1001099

Ofc I'd chalk up the server as a loss. That's why it should be dirt cheap or so small that it can't be found. After doing some research I found this:

>The web page you are reading is served to you by the computer in the photo (click on it for a closer look). It is Jumptec's DIMM-PC, a single-board AMD 486-SX computer with a 66 MHz CPU, 16 MB RAM, and 16 MB flash ROM, big enough to hold a useful amount of RedHat 5.2 Linux including the HTTP daemon that runs the web server. At relatively low usage levels it consumes 800 milliwatts from a 5V power supply, rising to 2 watts at 100% CPU usage.

This was 20 years ago. Today there exist stuff like in pic #2 which costs $15. I guess it's not powerful enough to host an imageboard but in 3-5 years maybe it is. Couldn't we build our own rogue tor network with many of such things hidden everywhere. The way things look today all web connections will be monitored, controlled, logged and analyzed.

>>1001119

There is stuff like this designed for IoT:

https://www.friendlyarm.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=244

The small board has everything needed, if you just want wifi networking. The only cable needed is micro USB power source.

>>1000740

>How about public places with free wifi like airports etc.?

>muh terrurism

how about anywhere _except_ an airport

>>1000826

>If your device is drawing power from someone else's power socket, it's likely to be found.

put it inside the building foundation spliced through a wire while it's under construction (come at night, most sites have noone around). tfw had opportunity to do this and then months later they put a bank branch up at the location. batteries or solar are possible ideas too

>1001074

...or use a ladder...

>>1001119

>Couldn't we build our own rogue tor network with many of such things hidden everywhere.

we could

>>1001119

imgboard doesnt take much to host. what can you get for $15 now? probably GHz and GBs of RAM. you could ditribute traffic to multiple of these hidden servers

>1. Buy RPi

>2. Open the box with gloves to not leave any kind of fingerprints

>3. Set it up properly, allow some way of SSH connection.

>4. Plug it up

>5. Never enter that place again

That's all.

>>1001209

>What is a firewall

>>1001212

>What is reverse shell/reverse proxy

What is that pic in the OP from?

I'm interested in this now, let us know if this goes anywhere

>>1001149

>splice thorugh a wire

aren't those usually bare high-volt bus lines or whatever

and people definitely won't notice a box hanging on wires at the site

>>1001209

>what is a serial number

>>1001611

is it a thing that Microcenter tracks?

even SMT components are tracked by serial numbers, codes, special symbols and even blockchain ledgers due to hardware fraud from insect chinamen. this also results in the ability to track down individual SBCs, provided the effort is put in. manufacturers all throughout the supply chain have labelled the specific number and revision of all components and subcomponents

if you bring attention to yourself and appear to do nasty things, you could be caught easily

>>1000676 (OP)

Wouldn't you need access to the gateway to make it public? Or is that not the case if it's a hidden service?

>>1000676 (OP)

I like this idea, but I think you'd want to "target" a place like McDonald's or other public spot, where you could hide a tiny server, and make a auto reconnect / mac spoof to reconnect to the internet, once your 30 minutes of free access dies. That way, you could place a hidden server, in a public location, without fear of anything being on your home network. Wipe fingerprints, etc and hide it inside a a bathroom tile, or someplace where you could feed it power. Just an idea. Anything to distance yourself from the server and your internet connection, id, etc. That way, if crap went truly south, there's nothing to point back to you.

>>1005265

Hidden services have built in NAT punching.

Highly suggest watching Dingledine's recent talk where he goes over new features with HSv3 onions.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Di7qAVidy1Y

>>1005280

Cool anon, thanks for link.

>>1000676 (OP)

Some suggestions:

>get a low-cost, low power sbc

>acquire a waterproof chassis and decent heatsink

>get as much storage as you can reasonably afford for what is destined to be eventually to discovered and disposed of. 32 or 64 GB should be enough for a low-traffic server with the right file size limits

>have the server preconfigured and operational before deployment

>set up automatic MAC address spoofing when disconnected/blocked

>some way to access the machine when McDonalds changes the wifi password

Of course, you'll have to find a way to deal with the IP address changing occasionally if you want to manage the server itself. I'm assuming there's already such a solution available, however.

https://piratebox.cc/

not exactly what you are looking for but you might be interested in this

>>1005383

It's nice, and certainly saves the headache of setting up a SBC as a WiFi hotspot with filesharing and web servers- but I believe OP is looking for the device to be accessible outside of the location where it's planted. I think I'll certainly check that out though, and likely return with my findings and opinions on its operation. I suppose I should investigate potential software solutions to op's problem as well.

>>1000676 (OP)

I think the only interesting thing to do is to set-up tor exit nodes on old phones and leaving them on public wifis, perhaps if you can get them in bulk or for free.

>>1005385

Huh, turns out piratebox is something out of my reach due to not having the right router.

>>1005277

Watch out for public or hidden cameras.

If I were you though I would clone the AP then you get the drift.

>>1006575

you can also build it with RPi

when you get bored with piratebox you can build something else with it

also - fuck captcha

>>1000826

>you could add some more middlemen by getting people on Craigslist et al. to accept your packages and bury them near their Starbucks for you.

That's fucking retarded

>>1006675

We need middlemen for the middlemen

>>1006639

I suppose I could try that. I have to wonder if OP made any progress on the rogue server idea however.

>>1005319

If the IP changes then your only bet is to have the SBC send you email or make a cryptic post on an imageboard (more anonymous but not as easy for a multitude of reasons.)

>>1000676 (OP)

A good idea until they find it, then it's a bad idea.

>>1000676 (OP)

Don't be stupid. You were hired to work not waste office resources. Keep your hobby projects at home before you get prosecuted for "hacking".

OP here. Did some more research on the topic and came across an interesting tip. A guy who travels alot said that bringing a router along often gives him free and fast internet in hotels. He doesn't use the hotels wifi but instead the network of the TVs which he claims often use the same net infrastructure but without the traffic shaping or bandwidth restrictions. Anyone can confirm that this is working? Would ofc be ideal for my plan.