Thijs' today

VLC screen sharing

2010-12-23T13:39:00.001+01:00

That screen you're looking at there? It's not my Mac. It's my Apple TV. TUAW reader James Low wondered if you could stream your OS X screen using the screen:// feature of VLC along the lines of the instructions found on this blog post. I decided to test it out using the same method I described in my earlier DVD-to-Apple TV post.

Instead of streaming from my DVD (namely via dvdread:///dev/rdisk5@1:3-), I substituted screen://, as follows.

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC -vv screen:// --intf=rc '--sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=2048,acodec=mp4a,ab=192}:standard{mux=ts,dst=-,access=file}' | mediastreamsegmenter -f /Library/WebServer/Documents/stream -D

It worked. All other instructions remain the same as from the DVD post.

So what are the downsides? First, the image was a bit blurry due to the H.264 transcoding and the limited bit rate, but it wasn't too bad. It remained reasonably readable at all times. Second, there was a distinct lag between what was going on at the Mac and what was being shown on the Apple TV. Pausing the stream, like I did to take this screen shot, slightly increased that lag.

On the bright side? Screencasting. From your Mac. To your Apple TV.

I think that's pretty cool.

I think we could all probably use a rest.

2010-12-22T15:36:00.001+01:00

think we all probably rested enough. ;)

Metababy was a wiki before the term was invented, a freeforall website where anyone could post, edit and update each others material.

Very, very avant la lettre ;)

verwijst naar:

"think we could all probably use a rest."
- Metababy (bekijken via Google Sidewiki)

google's 20thingsilearned.com

2010-11-29T15:04:00.000+01:00

Foreword to 20 Things

Many of us these days depend on the World Wide Web to bring the world’s information to our fingertips, and put us in touch with people and events across the globe instantaneously.

These powerful online experiences are possible thanks to an open web that can be accessed by anyone through a web browser, on any Internet-connected device in the world.

But how do our browsers and the web actually work? How has the World Wide Web evolved into what we know and love today? And what do we need to know to navigate the web safely and efficiently?

“20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web” is a short guide for anyone who’s curious about the basics of browsers and the web. Here’s what you’ll find here:

First we’ll look at the Internet, the very backbone that allows the web to exist. We’ll also take a look at how the web is used today, through cloud computing and web apps.

Then, we’ll introduce the building blocks of web pages like HTML and JavaScript, and review how their invention and evolution have changed the websites you visit every day. We’ll also take a look at the modern browser and how it helps users browse the web more safely and securely.

Finally, we’ll look ahead to the exciting innovations in browsers and web technologies that we believe will give us all even faster and more immersive online experiences in the future.

Life as citizens of the web can be liberating and empowering, but also deserves some self-education. Just as we’d want to know various basic facts as citizens of our physical neighborhoods -- water safety, key services, local businesses -- it’s increasingly important to understand a similar set of information about our online lives. That’s the spirit in which we wrote this guide. Many of the examples used to illustrate the features and functionality of the browser often refer back to Chrome, the open-source browser that we know well. We hope you find this guide as enjoyable to read as we did to create.

Happy browsing!

The Google Chrome Team, with many thanks to Christoph Niemann for his illustrations

November 2010

What is the Internet?

or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”

What is the Internet, exactly? To some of us, the Internet is where we stay in touch with friends, get the news, shop, and play games. To some others, the Internet can mean their local broadband providers, or the underground wires and fiber-optic cables that

carry data back and forth across cities and oceans. Who is right?

A helpful place to start is near the Very Beginning: 1974. That was the year that a few smart computer researchers invented something called the Internet Protocol Suite, or TCP/IP for

short. TCP/IP created a set of rules that allowed computers to “talk” to each other and send information back and forth.

TCP/IP is somewhat like human communication: when we speak to each other, the rules of grammar provide structure to language and ensures that we can understand each other and exchange ideas. Similarly, TCP/IP provides the rules of communication that ensure interconnected devices understand each other so that they can send information back and forth. As that group of interconnected devices grew from one room to many rooms — and then to many buildings, and then to many cities and countries — the Internet was born.

The early creators of the Internet discovered that data and information could be sent more efficiently when broken into smaller chunks, sent separately, and reassembled. Those chunks are called packets. So when you send an email across the Internet, your full email message is broken down into packets, sent to your recipient, and reassembled. The same thing happens when you watch a video on a website like YouTube: the video files are segmented into data packets that can be sent from multiple YouTube servers around the world and reassembled to form the video that you watch through your browser.

What about speed? If traffic on the Internet were akin to a stream of water, the Internet’s bandwidth is equivalent to the amount of water that flows through the stream per second. So when you hear engineers talking about bandwidth, what they’re really referring to is the amount of data that can be sent over your Internet connection per second. This is an indication of how fast your connection is. Faster connections are now possible with better physical infrastructure (such as fiber optic cables that can send information close to the speed of light), as well as better ways to encode the information onto the physical medium itself, even on older medium like copper wires.

The Internet is a fascinating and highly technical system, and yet for most of us today, it’s a user-friendly world where we don’t even

think about the wires and equations involved. The Internet is also the backbone that allows the World Wide Web that we know and love to exist: with an Internet connection, we can access an open, ever-growing universe of interlinked web pages and applications. In fact, there are probably as many pages on the web today as there are neurons in your brain, as there are stars in the Milky Way!

In the next two chapters, we’ll take a look at how the web is used today through cloud computing and web apps.

Cloud Computing

or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop

Modern computing in the age of the Internet is quite a strange, remarkable thing. As you sit hunched over your laptop at home watching a YouTube video or using a search engine, you’re actually plugging into the collective power of thousands of computers that serve all this information to you from far-away rooms distributed around the world. It’s almost like having a massive supercomputer at your beck and call, thanks to the Internet.

This phenomenon is what we typically refer to as cloud computing. We now read the

news, listen to music, shop, watch TV shows and store our files on the web. Some of us live in cities in which nearly every museum, bank, and government office has a website. The end result? We spend less time in lines or on the phone, as these websites allow us to do things like pay bills and make reservations. The movement of many of our daily tasks online enables us to live more fully in the real world.

Cloud computing offers other benefits as well. Not too long ago, many of us worried about losing our documents, photos and files if something bad happened to our computers, like a virus or a hardware malfunction. Today, our data is migrating beyond the boundaries of our personal computers. Instead, we’re moving our data online into “the cloud”. If you upload your photos, store critical files online and use a web-based email service like Gmail or Yahoo! Mail, an 18-wheel truck could run over your laptop and all your data would still safely reside on the web, accessible from any Internet-connected computer, anywhere in the world.

Web Apps

or, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Appiness”

If you play online games, use an online photo editor, or rely on web-based services like Google Maps, Twitter, Amazon, YouTube or Facebook, then you’re an active resident in the wonderful world of web apps.

What exactly is a web app, anyway? And why should we care?

App is shorthand for an application. Applications are also called programs or software. Traditionally, they’ve been designed to do broad, intensive tasks like accounting or word processing. In the online world of web browsers and smart phones, apps are usually nimbler programs focused on a single task. Web apps, in particular, run these tasks inside the web browser and often provide a rich, interactive experience.

Google Maps is a good example of a web app. It’s focused on one task: providing helpful map features within a web browser. You can pan and zoom around a map, search for a college or cafe, and get driving directions, among other tasks. All the information you need is pulled into the web app dynamically every time you ask for it.

This brings us to four virtues of Web Appiness:

1. I can access my data from anywhere.

In the traditional world of desktop applications, data is usually stored on my computer’s hard drive. If I’m on vacation and leave my computer at home, I can’t access my email, photos, or any of my data when I need it. In the new world of web apps, my email and all my data are stored online on the web. I can get to it on a web browser from any computer that’s connected to the Internet.

2. I’ll always get the latest version of any app.

Which version of YouTube am I using today? What about tomorrow? The answer: Always the latest. Web apps update themselves automatically, so there’s always just one version: the latest version, with all the newest features and improvements. No need to

manually upgrade to a new version every time. And I don’t have to go through a lengthy install process to use my web apps.

3. It works on every device with a web browser.

In traditional computing, some programs work only on particular systems or devices. For instance, many programs written for a PC won’t work on a Mac. Keeping up with all the right software can be time-consuming and costly. In contrast, the web is an open platform. Anyone can reach it from a browser on any web-connected device, regardless of whether it’s a desktop computer, laptop, or mobile phone. That means I can use my favorite web apps even if I’m using my friend’s laptop or a computer at an Internet cafe.

4. It’s safer.

Web apps run in the browser and I never

have to download them onto my computer. Because of this separation between the app code and my computer’s code, web apps can’t interfere with other tasks on my computer or the overall performance of my machine. This means that I’m better protected from threats like viruses, malware and spyware.

HTML, JavaScript, CSS and more

or, this is not your mom’s AJAX

Web pages are written in HTML, the web programming language that tells web browsers how to structure and present content on a web page. In other words, HTML provides the basic building blocks for the web. And for a long time, those building blocks were pretty simple and static: lines of text, links and images.

Today, we expect to be able to do things like play online chess or seamlessly scroll around a map of our neighborhood, without waiting for the entire page to reload for every chess move or every map scroll.

The idea of such dynamic web pages began

with the invention of the scripting language JavaScript. JavaScript support in major web browsers meant that web pages could incorporate more meaningful real-time interactions. For example, if you’ve filled out an online form and hit the “submit” button, the web page can use JavaScript to check your entries in real-time and alert you almost instantly if you had filled out the form wrongly.

But the dynamic web as we know it today truly came to life when XHR (XMLHttpRequest) was introduced into JavaScript, and first used in web applications like Microsoft Outlook for the Web, Gmail and Google Maps. XHR enabled individual parts of a web page — a game, a map, a video, a little survey — to be altered without needing to reload the entire page. As a result, web apps are faster and more responsive.

Web pages have also become more expressive with the introduction of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives programmers an easy, efficient way to define a web page’s layout and beautify the page with design elements like colors, rounded corners, gradients, and animation.

Web programmers often refer to this potent combination of JavaScript, XHR, CSS and several other web technologies as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). HTML has also continued to evolve as more features and improvements are incorporated into new versions of the HTML standard.

Today’s web has evolved from the ongoing efforts of all the technologists, thinkers, coders and organizations who create these web technologies and ensure that they’re supported in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome. This interaction between web technologies and browsers has made the web an open and friendly construction platform for web developers, who then bring to life many useful and fun web applications that we use daily.

HTML5

or, in the beginning there was no <video>

More than two decades after HTML was introduced, we’re still asking questions about what the web is, and what it might become. What kinds of features and applications would we, as users, find fun, useful or even indispensable? What tools do developers need in order to create these great sites and apps? And finally, how can all this goodness be delivered inside a web browser?

These questions led to the evolution of the latest version of HTML known as HTML5, a set of capabilities that gives web designers and developers the ability to create the next generation of great online applications. Take the HTML5 <video> tag, for example. Video wasn’t a major (or, really, any) part of the early web;

instead, internet users installed additional software called plug-ins, in order to watch videos inside their web browsers. Soon it became apparent that easy access to video was a much-wanted feature on the web. The introduction of the <video> tag in HTML5 allows videos to be easily embedded and played in web pages without additional software.

Other cool HTML5 features include offline capabilities that let users interact with web apps even when they don’t have an internet connection, as well as drag-and-drop capabilities. In Gmail, for instance, easy drag-and-drop allows users to instantly attach a file to an email message by simply dragging the file from the user’s desktop computer into the browser window.

HTML5, like the web itself, is in perpetual

evolution, based on users’ needs and developers’ imaginations. As an open standard, HTML5 embodies some of the best aspects of the web: it works everywhere, and on any device with a modern browser. But just as you can only watch HDTV broadcasts on an HD-compatible television, you need to use an up-to-date, HTML5-compatible browser in order to enjoy sites and apps that take advantage of HTML5’s features. Thankfully, as an Internet user, you have lots of choice when it comes to web browsers — and unlike TVs, web browsers can be downloaded for free.

3D in the Browser

or, browsing with more depth

3D graphics and animation can be truly captivating with all the right details in place: details like lighting and shadows, reflections, and realistic textures. But until now, it has been hard to deliver a compelling 3D experience, particularly over the Internet.

Why? Mostly because creating a 3D experience in games and other applications requires data — lots and lots of data — to display intricate textures and shapes. In the past, these large amounts of data demanded more Internet bandwidth and more computing

power than most common systems could handle. All that has changed very recently, and all for the better: browser-based 3D has arrived.

Modern broadband helped solve bandwidth needs. Many homes and offices now have broadband speeds that dwarf the connections of even ten years ago. As a result, it’s possible to send large amounts of data over the Internet — data that is needed to display realistic 3D experiences in the browser. In addition, the computers we use today are so much more powerful than what we had in the past: processors and memory have improved such that even a standard laptop or desktop today can handle the complexity of 3D graphics.

Neither broadband nor raw computing power would matter without substantial advancements in the web browser’s capabilities. Many modern browsers have adopted open web technologies like WebGL and 3D CSS. With these technologies, web developers can create cool 3D effects for their web applications, and we can experience them without needing additional plug-ins. On top of that, many modern browsers now take advantage of a technique known as hardware-acceleration. This means that the browser can use the Graphics Processing Unit, or GPU, to speed up the computations needed to display both 3D and everyday 2D web content.

So why is 3D in the browser a big deal? Because now it joins HTML5, JavaScript and other nifty new technologies in the toolkit that web developers can use to create a powerful new generation of web applications. For users, this means great new ways to visualize the information we find useful, and more fun online with engaging 3D environments and games.

Most importantly, 3D in the browser comes with all the goodness of web apps: you can share, collaborate, and personalize the latest apps with friends all over the world. Definitely more data and fun that everyone can use.

A Browser Madrigal

or, old vs. modern browsers

Crabbed old and modern browsersCannot live together:The modern browser is faster, featureful, and more secureThe old browser is slow, and at worst, a dreadful dangerMalicious attacks it cannot endure.(with apologies to Shakespeare)

Most of us don’t realize how much an old and out-of-date web browser can negatively impact our online lives, particularly our online safety. You wouldn’t drive an old car with bald tires, bad brakes, and an unreliable engine for years on end. It’s a bad idea to take the same chances with the web browser that you use daily to navigate to every page and application on the web.

Upgrading to a modern browser — like the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, or Google Chrome — is important for three reasons:

First, old browsers are vulnerable to attacks, because they typically aren’t updated with the latest security fixes and features. Browser vulnerabilities can lead to stolen passwords, malicious software snuck secretly onto your computer, or worse. An up-to-date browser helps guard against security threats like phishing and malware.

Second, the web evolves quickly. Many of the latest features on today’s websites and web applications won't work with old browsers. Only up-to-date browsers have the speed improvements that let you run web pages and applications quickly, along with support for modern web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and fast JavaScript.

Third and last, old browsers slow down innovation on the web. If lots of Internet users cling to old browsers, web developers are forced to design websites that work with both old and new technologies. Facing limited time and resources, they end up developing for the lowest common denominator — and not building the next generation of useful, groundbreaking web applications. (Imagine if today’s highway engineers were required to design high-speed freeways that would still be perfectly safe for a Model T.) That’s why outdated browsers are bad for users overall and bad for innovation on the web.

Not that anyone blames you personally for staying loyal to your aging browser. In some cases, you may be unable to upgrade your browser. If you find that you’re blocked from upgrading your browser on your corporate computer, have a chat with your IT administrator. If you can’t upgrade an old version of Internet Explorer, the Google Chrome Frame plug-in can give you the benefits of some modern web app functionality by bringing in Google Chrome’s capabilities into Internet Explorer.

Old, outdated browsers are bad for us as users, and they hold back innovation all over the web. So take a moment to make sure that you’ve upgraded to the latest version of your favorite modern browser.

Editor’s note: At the time of publication, the latest stable versions of the major modern browsers are Firefox 3.6, Safari 5, Google Chrome 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Opera 10.63. To check which browser you’re using, visit www.whatbrowser.org.

Plug-ins

or, pepperoni for your cheese pizza

In the early days of the World Wide Web, the first versions of HTML couldn’t deliver fancy content like videos. Text, images, and links were pretty much the limit.

Plug-ins were invented to work around the limitations of early HTML and deliver more

interactive content. A plug-in is an additional piece of software that specializes in processing particular types of content. For example, users may download and install a plug-in like Adobe Flash Player to view a web page which contains a video or an interactive game.

How much does a plug-in interface with a browser? Curiously, hardly at all. The plug-in model is a lot like picture-in-a-picture on TV: the browser defines a distinct space on the web page for the plug-in, then steps aside. The plug-in is free to operate inside that space, independent of the browser.

This independence means that a particular plug-in can work across many different browsers. However, that ubiquity also makes plug-ins prime targets for browser security attacks. Your computer is even more vulnerable to security attacks if you’re running plug-ins that aren't up to date, because out-of-date plug-ins don’t contain the latest security fixes.

The plug-in model we use today is largely the one inherited from the web’s early days. But the web community is now looking at new

ways to modernize plug-ins — like clever ways to integrate plug-ins more seamlessly so that their content is searchable, linkable, and can interact with the rest of the web page. More importantly, some browser vendors and plug-in providers now collaborate to protect users from security risks. For example, the Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Player teams have worked together to integrate Flash Player into the browser. Chrome’s auto-update mechanism helps ensure that the Flash Player plug-in is never out-of-date and always receives the latest security fixes and patches.

Browser Extensions

or, superpowers for your browser

Browser extensions let you add new features to your browser — literally extending your browser.

This means that you can customize your browser with the features that are most important to you. Think of extensions as ways of adding new superpowers to what the browser can already do.

These superpowers can be mighty or modest, depending on your needs. For example, you might install a currency converter extension that shows up as a new

button next to your browser’s address bar. Click the button and it converts all the prices on your current web page into any currency you specify. That’s helpful if you’re an avid backpacker who does most of your travel planning and booking online. Extensions like these let you apply the same kind of functionality to every web page you visit.

Browser extensions can also act on their own, outside of web pages. An email notifier extension can live on your browser toolbar, quietly check for new messages in your email account and let you know when one arrives. In this case, the extension is always working in the background no matter what web page you’re looking at — and you don’t have to log in to your email in a separate window to see if you have new messages.

When browser extensions were first introduced, developers often had to build them in unusual programming languages or in heavy-duty mainstream languages like C++. This took a lot of work, time and expertise. Adding more code to the browser also added to security concerns, as it gave attackers more chances to exploit the browser. Because the code was sometimes arcane, extensions were notorious for causing browser crashes, too.

Today, most browsers let developers write extensions in the basic, friendly programming languages of the web: HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Those are the same languages used to build most modern web apps and web pages, so today’s extensions are much closer cousins to the web apps and pages they work with. They’re faster and easier to build, safer, and get better and better right along with the web standards they’re built upon.

To discover new extensions, check out your browser’s extensions gallery. You’ll see thousands of extensions that can help make browsing more efficient or just plain fun — from extensions that let you highlight and scribble notes on web pages while you’re doing research, to those that show nail-biting, play-by-play sports updates from your browser’s interface.

Synchronizing the Browser

or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop, part II

So you’re living in “the cloud”: congratulations! You use web apps for email, music, and almost everything. You save critical documents, photos, and files online where you can reach them from any Internet-connected computer, anywhere in the world.

If an 18-wheel truck comes roaring down the road and crushes your laptop to bits, all is not lost. You just find another Internet-connected device and get back to working with all that vital information you so smartly saved online.

But wait: What about all the bookmarks, browser extensions, and browser preferences that you use daily? Did they get crunched into oblivion along with your laptop?

The answer used to be “yes.” You’d have to forage for your favorite extensions all over again and gather all the websites you had painstakingly bookmarked. But no more! Many of today’s browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome, have begun building in a feature known as synchronization (“sync” for short). Sync lets you save your browser settings online, in the cloud, so they aren’t lost even if your computer melts down.

Sync functionality also makes life simpler if you use multiple computers, say, a laptop at work and a family desktop at home. You don’t have to manually recreate bookmarks of your favorite websites or reconfigure the browser

settings on every computer you own. Any changes you make to your sync-enabled browser on one computer will automatically appear in all other synced computers within seconds.

In Chrome, for example, sync saves all bookmarks, extensions, preferences and themes to your Google Account. Use any other Internet-connected computer, and all you need to do is fire up Chrome and log in to your Google Account through the browser’s sync feature. Voila! All your favorite browser settings are ready to use on the new machine.

Regardless of how many computers you need to juggle, as long as you have an Internet connection and a modern browser that’s synced to the cloud, you’re all set to go. Even if every one of them gets hit by the proverbial truck.

Browser Cookies

or, thanks for the memories

Cookie seems like an unlikely name for a piece of technology, but cookies play a key role in providing functionality that Internet users may want from websites: a memory of visits, in the past or in progress.

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It contains information about your visit that you may want the site to remember, like your preferred language and other settings. The browser stores this data and pulls it out the next time you visit the site to make the next trip easier and more personalized. If you visit

a movie website and indicate that you’re most interested in comedies, for instance, the cookies sent by the website can remember this so you may see comedies displayed at the start of your next visit.

Online shopping carts also use cookies. As you browse for DVDs on that movie shopping site, for instance, you may notice that you can add them to your shopping cart without

logging in. Your shopping cart doesn’t “forget” the DVDs, even as you hop around from page to page on the shopping site, because they’re preserved through browser cookies. Cookies can be used in online advertising as well, to remember your interests and show you related ads as you surf the web.

Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most modern browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit your tastes. You can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you greater control over your privacy. What this means is that you can choose which sites you trust and allow cookies only for those sites, blocking cookies from everyone else. Since there are many types of cookies — including “session-only cookies” that last only for a particular browsing session, or permanent cookies that last for multiple sessions — modern browsers

typically give you fine-tuned controls so that you can specify your preferences for different types of cookies, such as accepting permanent cookies as session-only.

In the Google Chrome browser, you’ll notice a little something extra in the Options menus: a direct link to the Adobe Flash Player storage settings manager. This link makes it easy to control local data stored by Adobe Flash Player (otherwise commonly known as "Flash cookies"), which can contain information on Flash-based websites and applications that you visit. Just as you can manage your browser cookies, you should be able to easily control your Flash cookies settings as well.

Browsers and Privacy

or, giving you choices to protect your privacy in the browser

Security and privacy are closely related, but not identical.

Consider the security and privacy of your home: door locks and alarms help protect you from burglars, but curtains and blinds keep

your home life private from passersby.

In the same way, browser security helps protect you from malware, phishing, and other online attacks, while privacy features help keep your browsing private on your computer.

Let’s look more closely at privacy. Here’s an analogy: Say you’re an avid runner who jogs a few miles every day. If you carry a GPS device to help you track your daily runs, you create a diary of running data on your device — a historical record of where you run, how far you run, your average speed, and the calories you burn.

As you browse the web, you generate a similar diary of browser data that is stored locally on your computer: a history of the sites you visit, the cookies sent to your browser, and any files you download. If you’ve asked your browser to remember your passwords or form data, that’s stored on your computer too.

Some of us may not realize that we can clear all this browser data from our computers at any time. It’s easy to do through a browser’s Options or Preferences menu. (The menu differs from browser to browser.) In fact, the latest versions of most modern browsers also offer a “private” or “incognito” mode. For example, in Chrome’s incognito mode, any web page that you view won’t appear in your browsing history. In addition, all new cookies are deleted after you close all the incognito windows that you’ve opened. This mode is especially handy if you share your computer with other people, or if you work on a public computer in your local library or cybercafe.

All these privacy features in the browser give you control over the browsing data locally on your computer or specific data that are sent by your browser to websites. Your browser’s privacy settings do not control other data that these websites may have about you, such as information you previously submitted on the website.

There are ways to limit some of the information that websites receive when you visit them. Many browsers let you control your privacy preferences on a site-by-site basis and make your own choices about specific data such as cookies, JavaScript, and plugins. For instance, you can set up rules to allow cookies only for a specified list of sites that you trust, and instruct the browser to block cookies for all other sites.

Example of privacy controls in the browser

There’s always a bit of tension between privacy and efficiency. Collecting real-world aggregate data and feedback from users can really help improve products and the user experience. The key is finding a good balance between the two while upholding strong privacy standards.

Here’s an example from the real world: browser cookies. On one hand, with cookies, a website you frequently visit is able to remember contents of your shopping cart, keep you logged in, and deliver a more useful, personalized experience based on your previous visits. On the other hand, allowing browser cookies means that the website is collecting and remembering information about these previous visits. If you wish, you can choose to block cookies at any time. So the next time you’re curious about fine-tuning your browser privacy settings, check out the privacy settings in your browser’s Options or Preferences menu.

Malware, Phishing,
and Security Risks

or, if it quacks like a duck but isn’t a duck

When you use an ATM downtown, you probably glance over your shoulder to make sure nobody is lurking around to steal your PIN number (or your cash). In fact, you probably first check to make sure that you’re not using a fake ATM machine. When you browse the web and perform transactions online, two security risks to be aware of are malware and phishing. These attacks are perpetrated by individuals or organizations who hope to steal your personal information or hijack your computer.

What exactly are phishing and malware attacks?

Phishing takes place when someone masquerades as someone else, often with a fake website, to trick you into sharing personal information. (It’s called “phishing” because the bad guys throw out electronic bait and wait for someone to bite.) In a typical phishing scam, the attacker sends an email that looks like it’s from a bank or familiar web service you use. The subject line might say, “Please update your information at your bank!” The email contains phishing links that look like they go to your bank’s website, but really take you to an impostor website. There you’re asked to log in, and inadvertently reveal your bank account number, credit card numbers, passwords, or other sensitive information to the bad guys.

Malware, on the other hand, is malicious software installed on your machine, usually without your knowledge. You may be asked to download an anti-virus software that is actually a virus itself. Or you may visit a page that installs software on your computer without even asking. The software is really designed to steal credit card numbers or passwords from your computer, or in some cases, harm your computer. Once the malware is on your computer, it’s not only difficult to remove, but it’s also free to access all the data and files it finds, send that information elsewhere, and generally wreak havoc on your computer.

An up-to-date, modern web browser is the first line of defense against phishing and malware attacks. Most modern browsers, for instance, can help analyze web pages to look for signs of lurking malware, and alert you when they find it.

At the same time, an attacker may not always use sophisticated technical wizardry to hijack your computer, but could instead find clever ways to trick you into making a bad decision. In the next few chapters, we’ll look at how you can make wiser decisions to protect yourself when you’re online -- and how browsers and other web technologies can help.

How Modern Browsers Help Protect You From Malware and Phishing

or, beware the ne’er-do-wells!

An up-to-date browser guards you from phishing and malware attacks when you’re browsing the web. It does so by limiting three types of security risk when you’re online:

Risk 1: How often you come into contact with an attacker

You can be exposed to attackers through a malicious fake website, or even through a familiar website that has been hacked. Most modern browsers pre-check each web page you visit and alert you if one is suspected of being malicious. This lets you make an informed judgment about whether you really want to visit that page.

For example, Google Chrome uses Safe Browsing technology, which is also used in several other modern browsers. As you browse the web, each page is checked quickly against a list of suspected phishing and malware websites. This list is stored and maintained locally on your computer to help protect your browsing privacy. If a match against the local list is found, the browser then sends a request to Google for more information. (This request is completely obscured and the browser does not send it in plain text.) If Google verifies the match, Chrome shows a red warning page to alert you that the page you're trying to visit may be dangerous.

Risk 2: How vulnerable your browser is if it’s attacked

Old browsers that haven’t been upgraded are likely to have security vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit. All outdated software,

irrespective of whether it’s your operating system, browser, or plug-ins, has the same problem. That’s why it’s important to use the very latest version of your browser and promptly install security patches on your operating system and all plug-ins, so that they’re always up-to-date with the latest security fixes.

Some browsers check for updates automatically and install updates when initiated by the user. Chrome and some other browsers go one step further: they’re built with auto-update. The browser runs an update check periodically, and automatically updates to the latest version without disrupting your browsing flow. Furthermore, Chrome has integrated Adobe Flash Player and a PDF viewer into the browser, so that both these popular plug-ins are also auto-updated.

Risk 3: How much damage is done if an attacker finds vulnerabilities in your browser

Some modern browsers like Chrome and Internet Explorer are built with an added layer of protection known as a “sandbox.” Just as a real-life sandbox has walls to keep sand from spilling out, a browser sandbox builds a contained environment to keep malware and other security threats from infecting your computer. If you open a malicious web page, the browser’s sandbox prevents that malicious code from leaving the browser and installing itself to your hard drive. The malicious code therefore cannot read, alter, or further damage the data on your computer.

In summary, a modern browser can protect you against online security threats by first, checking websites you’re about to visit for suspected malware and phishing; second, providing update notifications or auto-updating

when a newer, more secure version of the browser is available, and third, using the browser sandbox to curb malicious code from causing further damage to your computer.

In the next few chapters, we’ll take a look at how a basic understanding of web addresses can help you make informed decisions about the websites you visit.

Using Web Addresses to Stay Safe

or, “my name is URL”

A Uniform Resource Locator — better known as a URL — may sound like a complicated thing. But fret not: it’s simply the web address you type into your browser to get to a particular web page or web application.

When you enter a URL, the website is fetched from its hosting server somewhere in the world, transported over miles of cables to your local Internet connection, and finally displayed by the browser on your computer.

Here are a few examples of a URL:

...to get to the news website for the British Broadcasting Corporation (“.co.uk” indicates registration in the United Kingdom)

...to get to the search engine Google

...to get to the website for Museo Nacional Del Prado, the Madrid-based art museum. (“.es” indicates registration in Spain)

...to get to the online banking website for Bank of America (“https://” indicates an encrypted connection)

It’s easy to take URLs for granted, since we type them into our browsers every day. But understanding the parts of a URL can help guard against phishing scams or security attacks.

Let’s look at what’s in a URL in this example:

http://www.google.com/maps
scheme
hostname
path
top level domain

The first part of a URL is called the scheme. In the example above, HTTP is the scheme and shorthand for HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Next, “www.google.com” is the name of the host where the website resides. When any person or company creates a new web site, they register this hostname for themselves. Only they may use it. This is important, as we’ll see in a moment.

A URL may have an additional path after the hostname, which sends you to a specific page on that host — like jumping right to a chapter or page in a book. Back to our example, the path tells the host server that you want to see the maps web application at www.google.com. (In other words, Google Maps.) Sometimes that path is moved to the front of the hostname as a subdomain, such as “maps.google.com”, or “news.google.com” for Google News.

Now let’s talk safety. One way to check if you’re surfing right into a phishing scam or an impostor website is by looking carefully at the URL in your browser’s address bar. Pay particular attention to the hostname — remember, only the legitimate owner of that hostname can use it.

For example, if you click on a link and expect to be directed to the Bank of America website:

LEGITIMATE:

www.bankofamerica.com is a legitimate URL, since the hostname is correct.
www.bankofamerica.com/smallbusiness is also a legitimate URL since the hostname is correct. The path of the URL points to a sub-page on small business.

SUSPICIOUS:

bankofamerica.xyz.com is not Bank of America’s website. Instead, “bankofamerica” is a subdomain of the website xyz.com.
www.xyz.com/bankofamerica is still not Bank of America's website. Instead, “bankofamerica” is a path within www.xyz.com.

If you’re using a banking website or conducting an online transaction with sensitive information such as your password or account number, check the address bar first! Make sure that the scheme is “https://” and there’s a padlock icon in your browser’s address bar. “https://” indicates that the data is being transported between the server and browser using a secure connection.

Through a secure connection, the full URL for Bank of America’s website should look like this: https://www.bankofamerica.com. A secure connection ensures that no one else is eavesdropping or interfering with the sensitive information that you’re sending. So “https://” is a good sign. But remember, it’s still important to make sure that you’re actually talking to a legitimate website by checking the hostname of a URL. (It would defeat the purpose to have a secure connection to a bogus website!)

In the next chapter, we’ll look at how a typed URL into the browser’s address bar takes you to the right web page.

IP Addresses and DNS

or, the phantom phone booth

Do you wonder how your browser finds the right web page when you type a URL into its address bar?

Every URL (say, “www.google.com”) has its own numbered Internet Protocol or IP address.

An IP address looks something like this:

74.125.19.147

An IP address is a series of numbers that tells us where a particular device is on the Internet network, be it the google.com server or

your computer. It’s a bit like mom’s phone number: just as the phone number tells an operator which house to route a call to so it reaches your mom, an IP address tells your computer which other device on the Internet to communicate with — to send data to and get data from.

Your browser doesn’t automatically know every IP address for the 35 billion (or more) devices on the planet that are connected on the Internet. It has to look each one up, using something called the Domain Name System. The DNS is essentially the “phone book” of the Web: while a phone book translates a name like “Acme Pizza” into the right phone number to call, the DNS translates a URL or web address (like “www.google.com”) into the right IP address to contact (like “74.125.19.147”) in order to get the information that you want (in this case, the Google homepage).

So when you type in “google.com” into your web browser, the browser looks up google.com’s IP address through a DNS and contacts it, waits for a response to confirm the connection, and then sends your request for google.com’s web page to that IP address. Google’s server at that IP address will then send back the requested web page to your computer’s IP address for your browser to display.

In many ways, fetching and loading a web page in the browser is not unlike making a phone call. When you make a phone call, you’d probably look up the number, dial, wait for someone to pick up, say “hello,” and wait for a response before you start the conversation. Sometimes you have to redial if there are problems connecting. On the web, a similar process happens in a split-second; all you see is that you’ve typed “www.google.com” into the browser and the Google home page appears.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at how we can verify the identity of a website that we fetch and load in the browser through the extended validation certificate.

Validating Identities Online

or, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

In the physical world, you can see the people you share information with. You talk to them face-to-face, or meet them in a trusted place like a bank branch. That’s how you make your first judgments about giving them your trust.

But online, it can be hard to tell who’s behind any website. The visual cues we normally rely on can be faked. For example, a phony webpage could copy the logo, icon, and

and design of your own bank’s website — almost as if they had set up a fake storefront on your block.

Fortunately, there are tools to help you determine if a website is genuine or not. Some websites have an extended validation certificate that allows you to determine the

name of the organization that runs the web site. The extended validation certificate gives you the information you need to help ensure that you’re not entrusting your information to a fake website.

Here’s an example of extended validation in action in the browser. On a bank’s website that has been verified through extended validation, the bank’s name is displayed in a green box between the lock icon and the web address in the address bar:

Example of the extended validation indicator in Chrome

On most browsers, the extended validation indicator can be found by looking for the name of the organization in the green section of the browser’s address bar. You can also click on the indicator to see the website’s security information and inspect its digital certificate.

To receive extended validation certification, a website owner has to pass a series of checks confirming their legal identity and authority. In the previous example, extended validation on bankofamerica.com verifies that yes, the website is from the actual Bank of America. You can think of this certification as something that ties the domain name of the web address back to some real-world identity.

It’d be wise to share sensitive information with a website only if you trust the organization responsible for the site. So the next time you’re about to perform a sensitive transaction, take a moment to keep a look out for the website’s security information. You’ll be glad you did.

Evolving to a Faster Web

or, speeding up images, video, and JavaScript on the web

The web today is an amazing visual and interactive stew, teeming with images, photos, videos, and whizzy web apps. Some of the web’s most vivid experiences come from images and videos, from shared photo albums

of family vacations to online video coverage from journalists in war zones.

It’s a far cry from the simple text and links that started it all. And it means that every time

your browser loads a web page, much more data and complex code needs to be processed.

How much more, and how much more complex? A few astounding statistics:

Images and photos now make up about 65% of the information on a typical web page, in terms of bytes per page.
24 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day. (That’s like Hollywood releasing 130,000 new full-length movies every week, though with less popcorn.)
JavaScript programs have grown from a few lines to several hundred kilobytes of source code that must be processed each time a web page or application loads.

So won’t all these gushing floods of data slow down page loads on the browser? Will the Internet clog up and turn to molasses soon?

Probably not. Images and photos became commonplace on the web when computer scientists found ways to compress them into smaller files that could be sent and downloaded more easily. GIF and JPEG were the most popular of those early file-compression systems. Meanwhile, plug-ins were invented to work around the early limitations of HTML so that video could be embedded and played in web pages.

Looking ahead, the <video> tag in HTML5 makes it easy for videos to be embedded and played in web pages. Google is also collaborating with the web community on WebM, an effort to build out a free, open-source video format that adapts to the computing power and bandwidth conditions on the web, so quality video can be delivered to a computer in a farm house in Nebraska or a smartphone in Nairobi.

In the meantime, it’s true that web pages with lots of big photos or other images can still be very slow to load. That’s why a few engineers at Google have been experimenting with new ways to compress images even further while keeping the same image quality and resolution. The early results? Very promising. They’ve come up with a new image format called WebP that cuts down the average image file size by 39%.

The engines that run JavaScript code in modern web browsers have also been redesigned to process code faster than ever before. These fast JavaScript engines, such as Google Chrome’s V8, are now a core part of any modern web browser. That means the next generation of fabulously useful JavaScript-based web applications won’t be hampered by the complexity of more JavaScript code.

Another technique that modern browsers like Chrome use to fetch and load web pages much more quickly is called “DNS pre-resolution”. The process of translating a web address into an IP address through a DNS lookup, or vice versa, is often called “resolving.” With DNS pre-resolution, Chrome will simultaneously look up all the other links on the web page and pre-resolve those links into IP addresses in the background. So when

you do actually click on one of the links on the page, the browser is ready to take you to the new page instantly. Over time, Chrome also learns from past visits so that the next time you go to a web page that you’ve previously visited, Chrome knows to automatically pre-resolve all the relevant links and elements on the web page.

Someday, browsers might be able to predict, before the page loads, not only which links to pre-resolve, but also which website elements (like images or videos) to pre-fetch ahead of time. That will make the web even quicker.

Soon enough, we hope, loading new pages on the browser will be as fast as flipping the pages of a picture book.

Open Source and Browsers

or, standing on the shoulders of giants

Today’s Internet stands on the shoulders of giants: the technologists, thinkers, developers, and organizations who continue to push the boundaries of innovation and share what they’ve learned.

This spirit of sharing is at the very heart of

open-source software. “Open source” means that the inner workings (or “source code”) of a software are made available to all, and the software is written in an open, collaborative way. Anyone can look into the source code, see how it works, tweak it or add to it, and reuse it

in other products or services.

Open-source software plays a big role in many parts of the web, including today’s web browsers. The release of the open-source browser Mozilla Firefox paved the way for many exciting new browser innovations. Google Chrome was built with some components from Mozilla Firefox and with the open-source rendering engine WebKit, among others. In the same spirit, the code for Chrome was made open source so that the global web community could use Chrome’s innovations in their own products, or even improve on the original Chrome source code.

Web developers and everyday users aren’t the only ones to benefit from the faster, simpler, and safer open-source browsers. Companies like Google also benefit from sharing their ideas openly. Better browsers

mean a better web experience for everyone, and that makes happier users who browse the web even more. Better browsers also let companies create web apps with the latest cutting-edge features, and that makes users happy, too.

Browsers aren’t the only part of the web that can take the open-source approach. Talk to any group of web developers and you’re likely to hear that they use an open-source Apache HTTP Server to host and serve their websites, or that they developed their code on computers powered by the Linux open-source operating system — just to name a few examples. The good work of the open source community continues to help make the web even better: a web that can be the broad shoulders for the next generation.

19 Things Later...

or, a day in the clouds

...and here we are at Thing 20. Let's recap.

Today’s web is a colorful, visual, practical, nutty, busy, friend-filled, fun and incredibly useful place. Many of us now live a life of cloud computing on the Internet: we read the news, watch movies, chat with friends, and do our daily tasks online with web-based applications right the browser. Web apps let us do that from anywhere in the world, even if we left our laptops at home.

It’s all possible thanks to the evolution of web standards like HTML, JavaScript, and CSS,

as well as browser plug-ins. New capabilities in HTML5 are helping developers create the next generation of truly inventive web apps.

What else is taking shape in the clouds?

It takes a modern browser to make the most of the web’s modern features.

Modern browsers also help protect against malware and phishing.
Open-source sharing has given us better browsers and a faster, richer, more complex web. And open-source brainpower is making the future of the web even brighter.
What’s in that bright future? 3D in the browser, faster speeds, and sync across all devices, among other fine things.
Being an informed citizen of the web requires some self-education — for instance, learning to control your browser’s privacy settings for various types of content including cookies.
You’re also safer on the web when you pay attention to visual cues in the browser, like checking the URLs you’re sent to, and looking for an “https://” secure connection or extended validation.

The final takeaways?

Use a modern browser, first and foremost. Or try a new one and see if it brings you happier browsing that’s better suited to your needs.

The web will keep evolving — dramatically! Support cutting-edge web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL, because they’ll help the web community imagine and create a future of great, innovative web apps.

Lastly, try new things. The web is a new and exciting place every day, so try tasks that you didn’t think could be done online -- such as researching your ancestry back ten generations, or viewing a real-time webcam image from a climbing basecamp in the Himalayas. You might be surprised by what you find!

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Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

By James Foxall and Wendy Haro-Chun

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About the Authors

James Foxall is Vice President of Development and Support for Tigerpaw Software, Inc. (www.tigerpawsoftware.com)—an Omaha, Nebraska, Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in commercial database applications. James manages a commercial suite of programs designed to automate contact management, marketing, service and repair, proposal generation, and inventory control and purchasing. James's experience in creating certified Office-compatible software has made him an authority on application interface and behavior standards of applications for the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office environments.
James has personally written more than 150,000 lines of commercial production code, both in single programmer and multiple programmer environments. He is the author of numerous books, including Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic and MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams, and he has written articles for Access-Office-VBA Advisor and Visual Basic Programmer's Journal. James is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and an international speaker on Microsoft programming technologies. When not programming or writing about programming, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar, doing battle over the chess board, listening to Pink Floyd, playing computer games, and (believe it or not) programming! You can reach James at jamesf@tigerpawsoftware.com.
Wendy Haro-Chun, MCSD, holds a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.B.A. with an emphasis in International Business. She is Assistant Vice President of Research and Development for SunGard Insurance Systems. Her areas of technological expertise include .NET, C#, ASP, DHTML, JavaScript, XML, COM, VB, ADO, and Microsoft SQL Server. Wendy has also served as technical editor and reviewer on numerous computer technology books. She lives in Miami with her husband, Dave, and her two beagles, Buster and Belle. She can be reached at wharo@bellsouth.net.

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Introduction

With Microsoft's introduction of the .NET platform, a new, exciting programming language was born. C# is the language of choice for developing on the .NET platform, and Microsoft has even written a majority of the .NET Framework using C#. C# is a modern object-oriented language designed and developed from the ground up with a best-of-breed mentality, implementing and expanding on the best features and functions found in other languages. C# combines the power and flexibility of C++ with the simplicity of Visual Basic.

Audience and Organization

This book is targeted toward those who have little or no programming experience. The book has been structured and written with a purpose, and that is to get you productive as quickly and as smoothly as possible. I've used my experiences from writing large commercial applications to create a book that, hopefully, cuts through the fluff and teaches you what you need to know. All too often, authors fall into the trap of focusing on the technology rather than on the practical application of the technology. I've worked hard to keep this book focused on teaching you practical skills that you can apply immediately toward a development project. Please feel free to send me your suggestions or success stories at jamesf@tigerpawsoftware.com.
This book is divided into five parts, each of which focuses on a different aspect of developing applications with C#. These parts generally follow the flow of tasks you'll perform as you begin creating your own programs using C#. I recommend that you read them in the order in which they appear.

Part I The Visual Studio Environment teaches you about the Visual Studio's C# development environment, including how to navigate and access 'numerous tools. In addition, you'll learn some key development concepts such as objects, collections, and events.
Part II Building a User Interface shows you how to build attractive and functional user interfaces. In this part, you'll learn about forms and controlsthe user-interface elements such as text boxes and list boxes.
Part III Making Things HappenProgramming! teaches you the nuts and bolts of C# programmingand there's a lot to learn. You'll discover how to create methods, as well has how to store data, perform loops, and make decisions in code. After you've learned the core programming skills, you'll move into object-oriented programming and debugging applications.
Part IV Working with Data introduces you to working with a database and shows you how to automate external applications such as Word and Excel. In addition, this part teaches you how to manipulate a user's file system.
Part V Deploying Solutions and Beyond shows you how to distribute an application that you've created to an end user's computer. Then, the focus is brought back a bit to take a look at Web programming and Microsoft's .NET initiative from a higher, less-technical level.

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses several conventions to help you prioritize and reference the information it contains:

Tips highlight information that can make your C# programming more effective.
Cautions focus your attention on problems or side effects that can occur in specific situations.
Notes provide useful sidebar information that you can read immediately or circle back to without losing the flow of the topic at hand.
New Term icons signal places where new terminology is first used and defined. Such terminology appears in an italic typeface for emphasis.

In addition, this book uses various typefaces to help you distinguish code from regular English. Code is presented in a monospace font. Placeholderswords or characters used temporarily to represent the real words or characters you would type in codeare typeset in italic monospace.
Some code statements presented in this book are too long to appear on a single line. In these cases, a line-continuation character (an underscore) is used to indicate that the following line is a continuation of the current statement.

Onward and Upward!

This is an exciting time to be learning how to program, and it's my sincerest wish that when you finish this book, you will feel capable of creating, debugging, and deploying modest C# programs using many C# and Visual Studio tools. Although you won't be an expert, you'll be surprised at how much you've learned. And hopefully, this book will help you determine your future direction as you proceed down the road to C# mastery.

Part I: The Visual Studio Environment

Before you can begin to create C# applications for Windows and the Web, you need to have a thorough grasp of the C# environment as well as some key development concepts. In this part, you'll get an overview of developing a project in C#, you'll learn all about the C# interface, and you'll learn about objects, collections, and events—concepts that are critical to your success as a C# developer.

Hour 1: A C# Programming Tour
Hour 2: Navigating C#
Hour 3: Understanding Objects and Collections
Hour 4: Understanding Events

Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour

Learning a new programming language can be intimidating. If you've never programmed before, the act of typing seemingly cryptic text to produce sleek and powerful applications probably seems like a black art, and you may wonder how you'll ever learn everything you need to know. The answer is, of course, one step at a time. The first step to learning a language is the same as that of any other activity—building confidence. Programming is part art and part science. Although it may seem like magic, it's more akin to illusion; after you know how things work, a lot of the mysticism goes away, freeing you to focus on the mechanics necessary to produce the desired result.
In this hour, you'll complete a quick tour that takes you step-by-step through creating a complete, albeit small, C# program. I've yet to see a "Hello World" program that's the least bit helpful (they usually do nothing more than print "hello world" to the screen—oh, fun). So instead, you'll create a picture-viewer application that lets you view Windows bitmaps and icons on your computer. You'll learn how to let a user browse for a file and how to display a selected picture file on the screen, both of which are skills that will come in handy in later applications that you create. Creating large, commercial solutions is accomplished by way of a series of small steps. After you've finished creating this small project, you'll have an overall feel for the development process.
The highlights of this hour include the following:

Building a simple, yet functional, C# application
Letting a user browse a hard drive
Displaying a picture from a file on disk
Getting familiar with some programming lingo
Learning about the Visual Studio—C# IDE

I hope that by the end of this hour, you'll realize just how much fun it is to program using C#.

Starting C#

You must become familiar with a few terms before you begin to create programs in C#:

Distributable Component The final, compiled version of a project. Components can be distributed to other people and other computers and do not require C# to run (although the .NET Framework is required, which you'll learn about in coming hours). Distributable components are also called programs. In Hour 22, "Deploying a Solution," you'll learn how to distribute the Picture Viewer program that you're about to build to other computers.
Project A collection of files that can be compiled to create a distributable component (program). There are many types of projects, and complex applications may consist of many projects, such as a Windows Application project and support DLL projects.
Solution A collection of projects and files that compose an application or component.

Start the C# IDE now by choosing Microsoft Visual Studio .NET from within the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET folder on your Start menu.

Creating a New Project

When you first start Visual Studio .NET, you're shown the Visual Studio Start Page tab within the IDE. Using this page, you can open projects created previously or create new ones (see Figure 1.1). For this quick tour, you're going to create a new Windows application, so click New Project to display the New Project dialog box shown in Figure 1.2.

Figure 1.1 You can open existing projects or create new projects from the Visual Studio Start page.

Figure 1.2 The New Project dialog box allows you to create many types of .NET projects.

You can create many types of projects with C#, as well as with the other supported languages of the .NET platform. The New Project dialog box is used to specify the type of C# project you want to create. If the Visual C# Projects folder isn't selected, click it to display the C# project types and then make sure the Windows Application icon is selected (if it's not, click it once to select it). At the bottom of the New Project dialog box is a Name text box, in which you specify the name of the project you're creating; in the Location text box, you can enter the location in which to save the project files.
Type Picture Viewer into the Name text box to name your project. There's no need to change the location where the project files are to be saved at this time, so go ahead and create the new Windows Application project by clicking OK. C# creates the new project, complete with one form (design window) for you to begin building the interface for your application (see Figure 1.3).

Figure 1.3 New Windows applications start with a blank form; the fun is just beginning!

Your C# environment may look different from that shown in the figures of this hour, depending on the edition of C# you're using, whether you've already played with C#, and other factors such as the resolution of your monitor. All the elements discussed in this hour, however, exist in all editions of C#. (If your IDE doesn't have a window displayed that is shown in a figure, use the View menu to display the window.)

Note

To create a program that can be run on another computer, you start by creating a project, and then you compile the project into a component, such as an executable (a program a user can run) or a DLL (a component that can be used by other programs and components). The compilation process is discussed in detail in Hour 22, "Deploying a Solution." The important thing to note at this time is that when you hear someone refer to creating or writing a program, just as you are creating the Picture Viewer program now, they're referring to the completion of all steps up to and including compiling the project to a distributable file.

Understanding the C# Environment

The first time you run C#, you'll notice that the IDE contains a lot of windows, such as the Properties window on the right, which is used to view and set properties of objects. In addition to these windows, the IDE contains a lot of tabs, such as the Toolbox tab on the left edge of the IDE (refer to Figure 1.3). Clicking a tab displays an associated window. Try this now: click the Toolbox tab to display the Toolbox window. You can also hover the mouse over a tab for a few seconds to display the window. To hide the window, simply move the mouse off the window. To close the window completely, click the Close (X) button in the window's title bar.
You can adjust the size and position of any of these windows, and you can even hide and show them at will. You'll learn how to customize your design environment in Hour 2, "Navigating C#."
The Properties window at the right side of the design environment is perhaps the most important window, and it's the one you'll use most often. If your computer's display is set for 640x480, you can probably see only a few properties at this time. This makes it difficult to view and set properties as you create projects. I highly recommend that you don't attempt development with Visual Studio at a resolution below 800x600. Personally, I prefer 1024x768 because it offers plenty of work space. To change your display settings, right-click your desktop and select Properties.

Changing the Characteristics of Objects

Almost everything you work with in C# is an object. Forms, for instance, are objects, as are all the items you can put on a form to build an interface, such as list boxes and buttons. There are many types of objects (Hour 3, "Understanding Objects and Collections," discusses objects in detail). Objects, in turn, are classified by type. For instance, a form is a Form object, whereas items you can place on a form are called Control objects, or controls. Some objects don't have a physical appearance, but exist only in code. You'll learn about these kinds of objects in later hours.

NEW TERM

Every object, regardless of whether it has a physical appearance, has a distinct set of attributes known as properties. You have certain properties about you, such as your height and hair color, and C# objects have properties as well, such as Height and BackColor. Properties define the characteristics of an object. When you create a new object, the first thing you need to do is set its properties so that the object appears and behaves in the way you desire. To display the properties of an object, click the object in its designer. Click the form now to ensure that its properties are displayed in the Properties window.

Naming Objects

The property you should set first for any new object is the Name property. Press F4 to display the Properties window (if it's not already visible), and notice the Name given to your default form (the first property listed in the Properties window)—Form1. When you first create an object, C# gives the object a unique, generic name based on the object's type. Although these names are functional, they aren't very descriptive. For instance, C# named your form Form1, but it's common to have dozens of forms in a project, and it would be extremely difficult to manage a complicated project if all forms were distinguishable only by a number (Form2, Form3, and so forth).
To better manage your forms, you should give each one a descriptive name. C# gives you the chance to name new forms as they're created. Because C# created this default form for you, you didn't get a chance to name it, so you must change both the filename and name of the form. Change the name of the form now by clicking the Name property and changing the text from Form1 to fclsViewer. Notice that this did not change the filename of the form as it is displayed in the Solution Explorer window. Change the filename now by right-clicking Form1.cs in the Solution Explorer window, choosing Rename from the context menu, and changing the text from Form1.cs to fclsViewer.cs. In future examples, I won't have you change the filename each time because you'll have enough steps to accomplish as it is. I do recommend, however, that you always change your filenames to something meaningful in your 'real' projects.

Note

I use the fcls prefix here to denote that the file is a form class. There are different types of classes, so using a prefix helps differentiate the classes in code. You're not required by C# to use object prefixes, but I highly recommend that you do so. In Hour 12, "Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays," you'll learn the benefits of using a naming convention as well as the standard prefixes for many .NET objects.

Setting the Text Property of the Form

Notice that the text that appears in the form's title bar says Form1. This is because C# sets the form's title bar text to the name of the form when it is first created, but doesn't change it when you change the name of the form. The text in the title bar is determined by the value of the Text property of the form. Click the form once more so that its properties appear in the Properties window. Use the scrollbar in the Properties window to locate the Text property in the Properties window and then change the text to Picture Viewer.

Giving the Form an Icon

Everyone who has used Windows is familiar with icons, which are the little pictures used to represent programs. Icons most commonly appear in the Start menu next to the name of their respective programs. In C#, you not only have control over the icon of your program file, you can also give every form in your program a unique icon if you want to.
To give the form an icon, follow these steps:

In the Properties window, click the Icon property to select it.
When you click the Icon property, a small button with three dots appears to the right of the property. Click this button.
To locate the HourOne.ico file or another ico file of your choice, use the Open dialog box that appears. When you've found the icon, double-click it, or click it once to select it and then click Open.

After you've selected the icon, it appears in the Icon property along with the word (Icon). A small version of the icon appears in the upper-left corner of the form, as well. Whenever this form is minimized, this is the icon that's displayed on the Windows taskbar. (Note: This doesn't change the icon for the project as a whole. In Hour 22, you'll learn how to assign an icon to your distributable file.)

Changing the Size of the Form

Next, you're going to change the Width and Height properties of the form. The Width and Height values are shown collectively under the Size property; Width appears to the left of the comma, Height to the right. You can change the Width or Height by changing the corresponding number in the Size property. Both values represent the number of pixels of the dimension. To display and adjust the Width and Height properties separately, click the small plus sign (+) next to the Size property (see Figure 1.4).

Figure 1.4 Some properties can be expanded to show more specific properties.

Change the Width property to 400 and the Height to 325. To commit a property change, press Tab or click a different property or window. Your screen should now look like the one in Figure 1.5.

Figure 1.5 A change in the Properties window is reflected as soon as the change is committed.

When you first created this project, C# saved a copy of the source files in their initial state. The changes you've made so far exist only in memory; if you were to turn your computer off at this time (don't do this), you would lose any and all work up to this point. You should get into the habit of saving your work frequently. Save the project now by choosing Save All from the File menu or by clicking the Save All button on the toolbar (it has a picture of stacked disks on it).

Adding Controls to a Form

NEW TERM

Now that your form has its properties set, you need to add objects to the form to produce a user interface. Objects that can be placed on a form are called controls. Some controls have a visible interface with which a user can interact, whereas others are always invisible to the user. You'll use controls of both types in this example. On the left side of the screen is a tab titled Toolbox. Click the Toolbox tab now to display the Toolbox window shown in Figure 1.6. The toolbox contains all the controls available in the project, such as labels and text boxes.

Figure 1.6 The toolbox is used to select controls to build a user interface.

The toolbox closes itself soon after you've added a control to a form and the pointer is no longer over the toolbox. To make the toolbox stay visible, click the little picture of a pushpin located in the toolbox's title bar.
Your Picture Viewer interface will consist of the following controls:

Two Button controls
A PictureBox control
An OpenFileDialog control

Designing an Interface

It's generally best to design the user interface of a form and then add the code behind the interface that makes the form functional. The user interface for your Picture Viewer program will consist of a View Picture button, a Close button, and a PictureBox in which to display a picture.

Adding a Visible Control to a Form

Start by adding a Button control to the form. Do this by double-clicking the Button item in the toolbox. C# then creates a new button and places it in the upper-left corner of the form (see Figure 1.7).

Figure 1.7 When you double-click a control in the toolbox, the control is added to the upper-left corner of the form.

Using the Properties window, set the button's properties as follows (note that you may want to change the Properties list to alphabetical, if it is not already, to make it easier to find these properties by name):

Property	Value
`Name`	`btnSelectPicture`
`Text`	`Select Picture`
`Location`	`301`,`10` (Note: 301 is the x coordinate, 10 is the y coordinate.)
`Size`	`85,23`

You're now going to create a button that the user can click to close the Picture Viewer program. Rather than adding a new button to the form, you're going to create a copy of the button you've already defined. To do this, right-click the button on the form and choose Copy from its shortcut menu. Next, right-click anywhere on the form and choose Paste from the form's shortcut menu. The new button appears over the button you copied, and it is selected by default. Change the properties of the new button as follows:

Property	Value
`Name`	`btnQuit`
`Text`	`Quit`
`Location`	`301`,`40`

The last control you need to add to the form is a PictureBox control. A PictureBox has many capabilities, but its primary purpose is to show pictures—which is precisely what you'll use it for in this example. Add a new PictureBox control to the form and set its properties as follows:

Property	Value
`Name`	`picShowPicture`
`BorderStle`	`FixedSingle`
`Location`	`8`,`8`
`Size`	`282`, `275`

After you've made these property changes, your form will look like the one in Figure 1.8. Click the Save All button on the toolbar to save your work.

Figure 1.8 An application's interface doesn't have to be complex to be useful.

Adding an Invisible Control to a Form

To allow the user to select a picture to display, you need to give her the capability to locate a file on her hard drive. You've probably noticed in the past that whenever you choose to open a file from within any Windows application, the dialog box displayed is almost always the same. It doesn't make any sense to force each and every developer to write the code necessary to perform standard file operations. Instead, Microsoft has exposed the functionality via a control that you can use in your project. This control is called the OpenFileDialog control, and it will save you dozens of hours that you would otherwise spend trying to duplicate common functionality.
Scroll the toolbox until you can see the OpenFileDialog control, and then double-click it to add it to your form. (You may have to scroll the toolbox, which is done by clicking the up arrow toward the top of the window or the down arrow toward the bottom.) Note that the control isn't placed on the form, but it appears in a special area below the form (see Figure 1.9). This happens because the OpenFileDialog control has no interface to display to a user. It does have an interface, a dialog box that you can display as necessary, but it has nothing to display directly on a form.

Figure 1.9 Controls that have no interface appear below the form designer.

Select the OpenFileDialog control and change its properties as follows:

Property	Value
`Name`	`ofdSelectPicture`
`Filter`	`Windows Bitmaps\|.BMP\|JPEG Files\|.JPG`
`Title`	`Select Picture`

The Filter property determines the filtering of the control. The text that appears before the pipe symbol (|) is the descriptive text of the file type, whereas the text after the pipe symbol is the pattern to use to filter files; you can specify more than one filter type. Text entered into the Title property appears in the title bar of the Open File dialog box.

Coding an Interface

The graphical interface for your Picture Viewer program is now complete, so click the pushpin in the title bar of the toolbox to close it. Now, you have to write code for the program to be capable of performing actions. C# is an event-driven language, which means that code is executed in response to events. These events may come from users, such as a user clicking a button, or from Windows itself (see Hour 4, "Understanding Events," for a complete explanation of events). Currently, your application looks nice but it won't do a darn thing. The user can click the Select Picture button, for example, until the cows come home, but nothing will happen because you haven't told the program what to do when the user clicks the button.
You're going to write code to accomplish two tasks. First, you're going to write code that lets the user browse his or her hard drives to locate and select a picture file and then display the file in the picture box (this sounds a lot harder than it is). Second, you're going to add code to the Quit button that shuts down the program when the user clicks the button.

Letting a User Browse for a File

The first bit of code you're going to write will allow the user to browse his or her hard drives, select a file, and then show the selected picture in the PictureBox control. This code will execute when the user clicks the Select Picture button; therefore, it's added to the Click event of that button (you'll learn all about events in later hours). When you double-click a control on a form in Design view, the default event for that control is created and displayed in a code window. The default event for a Button control is its Click event, which makes sense because clicking a button is its most common purpose. Double-click the Select Picture button now to access its Click event in the code window (see Figure 1.10).

Figure 1.10 You will write all code in a window such as this.

NEW TERM

When you access an event, C# builds an event handler, which is essentially a template procedure in which you add the code that executes when the event is fired. The cursor is already placed within the code procedure, so all you have to do is add code. You will also notice that the open and closing braces are preset for your new event procedure. The braces, in this case, define the beginning and end of your procedure. You will soon see that C# requires many open and closing braces({ } ). By the time you're done with this book, you'll be madly clicking away as you write your own code to make your applications do exactly what you want them to do—well, most of the time. For now, just enter the code as I present it here.

It's very important that you get in the habit of commenting your code, so the first line you're going to enter is a comment. Beginning a statement with the characters // designates the statement as a comment; the compiler won't do anything with the statement, so you can enter whatever text you want after the double slashes. Type the following statement exactly as it appears and press the Enter key at the end of the line.

// Show the open file dialog box.

The next statement you'll enter triggers a method of the OpenFileDialog control that you added to the form. You'll learn all about methods in Hour 3, "Understanding Objects and Collections." For now, think of a method as a mechanism to make a control take action. The ShowDialog method tells the control to show its Open dialog box and let the user select a file. The ShowDialog method returns a value that indicates its success or failure, which we are then comparing to a predefined result (DialogResult.OK). Don't worry too much about what is happening here, because you'll be learning the details of this in later hours. In a nutshell, the ShowDialog method is called to let a user browse for a file, and if the user selects a file, more code gets executed. Of course, there is a lot more to using the OpenFileDialog control than I present in this basic example, but this simple statement gets the job done. Enter the following if statement followed by an open brace:

if (ofdSelectPicture.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
 {

Time for another comment. Enter this statement and remember to press Enter at the end of each code line.

// Load the picture into the picture box.

You're now going to enter the next line of code. This statement, which appears within the if construct, is the line of code that actually displays the picture in the picture box. (If you're itching to know more about graphics, take a look at Hour 10, "Drawing and Printing.")
Enter the following statement:

picShowPicture.Image = Image.FromFile(ofdSelectPicture.FileName);

In addition to displaying the selected picture, your program is going to display the path and filename of the picture in the title bar. When you first created the form, you changed the Text property of the form using the Properties window. To create dynamic applications, properties need to be constantly adjusted at runtime, and this is done using code. Enter the following three lines of code:

// Show the name of the file in the form's caption.
this.Text = String.Concat("Picture Viewer (" + ofdSelectPicture.FileName + ")");

Checking Your Program Entry Point

All C# programs must contain an entry point. The Main() method is the entry point. In this sample you need to change the reference from Form1 to fclsViewer (this is necessary because we renamed the form earlier) . This statement will invoke the constructor on the form. C++ programmers will be familiar with the Main() entry point method, but they should take notice of the capitalization of Main. We will talk a bit more about the program entry point later in the book.
To update the entry point in this sample, press Ctrl+F to open the Find window, enter Form1, and click Find Next. Close the Find window and replace the text Form1 with fclsViewer. The updated statement should now read:

Application.Run(new fclsViewer());

After you've entered all the code, your editor should look like that shown in Figure 1.11.

Figure 1.11 Make sure your code exactly matches the code shown here.

Terminating a Program Using Code

The last bit of code you'll write will terminate the application when the user clicks the Quit button. To do this, you'll need to access the Click event handler of the btnQuit button. At the top of the code window are two tabs. The current tab has the text fclsViewer.cs. Next to this is a tab that contains the text fclsViewer.cs [Design]. Click this tab now to switch from Code view to the form designer. If you receive an error when you click the tab, the code you entered is incorrect, and you need to edit it to make it the same as I've presented it. After the form designer is displayed, double-click the Quit button to access its Click event.
Enter the following code in the Quit button's Click event handler:

this.Close();

Running a Project

Your application is now complete. Click the Save All button (it looks like a stack of disks) on the toolbar, and then run your program by pressing F5. You can also run the program by clicking the button on the toolbar that looks like a right-facing triangle and resembles the Play button on a VCR (this button is also found on the Debug menu, and it is called Start). However, learning the keyboard shortcuts will make your development process move along faster. When you run the program, the C# interface changes, and the form you've designed appears floating over the design environment (see Figure 1.12).

Figure 1.12 When in Run mode, your program executes the same as it would for an end user.

You're now running your program as though it were a standalone application running on another user's machine; what you see is exactly what someone else would see if they ran the program (without the C# design environment in the background, of course). Click the Select Picture button to display the Select Picture dialog box (see Figure 1.13). Use the dialog box to locate a picture file. When you've found a file, double-click it, or click once to select it and then click Open. The selected picture is then displayed in the PictureBox control, as shown in Figure 1.14.

Figure 1.13 The OpenFileDialog control handles all the details of browsing for files. Cool, huh?

Figure 1.14 C# makes it easy to display pictures with very little work.

Summary

When you're done playing with the program, click the Quit button and then save your project by clicking Save All on the C# toolbar.
That's it! You've just created a bona fide C# program. You've used the toolbox to build an interface with which users can interact with your program, and you've written code in strategic event handlers to empower your program to do things. These are the basics of application development in C#. Even the most complicated programs are built using this basic approach; you build the interface and add code to make the application do things. Of course, writing code to do things exactly the way you want things done is where the process can get complicated, but you're on your way.
If you take a close look at the organization of the hours in this book, you'll see that I start out by teaching you the C# environment. I then move on to building an interface, and later I teach you all about writing code. This organization is deliberate. You might be a little anxious to jump in and start writing serious code, but writing code is only part of the equation. As you progress through the hours, you'll be building a solid foundation of development skills.
Soon, you'll pay no attention to the man behind the curtain—you'll be that man (or woman)!

Q&A

Can I show bitmaps of file types other than BMP and JPG?
Yes. The PictureBox supports the display of images with the extensions BMP, JPG, ICO, EMF, WMF, and GIF. The PictureBox can even save images to a file.
Is it possible to show pictures in other controls?
The PictureBox is the control to use when you are just displaying images. However, many other controls allow you to display pictures as part of the control. For instance, you can display an image on a Button control by setting the button's Image property to a valid picture

Workshop
The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and get you thinking about how to put your knowledge into practice. The answers to the quiz are in Appendix A,"Answers to Quizzes/Exercises."

Quiz
What type of C# project creates a standard Windows program?
What window is used to change the attributes (location, size, and so on) of a form or control?
How do you access the default event (code) of a control?
What property of a PictureBox do you set to display an image?
What is the default event for a Button control?

Exercise

Change your Picture Viewer program so that the user can also locate and select GIF files. (Hint: Change the Filter property of the OpenFileDialog control.)
Alter the form in your Picture Viewer project so that the buttons are side by side in the lower-right corner of the form, rather than vertically aligned in the upper-right corner.

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All Unix systems have a firewall. But on the Mac, it's installed by default and you can't turn it off. To keep things simple, and keep users from having to build their own firewall rules, OS X packages the firewall as a sub-menu of Sharing within System Preferences. The benefit of this approach is that the firewall can be tied to services. Turn on Personal Web Sharing, for example, and a new rule appears in the firewall to control access to the service.

Presently, I have Personal Web Sharing turned on in the Services menu. The firewall is turned on. And in the Firewall menu, there's a checkbox to allow access to my web server. Opening a terminal and typing sudo ipfw list allows me to see the actual firewall rules that Mac OS X has created.

02000 allow ip from any to any via lo*

02010 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in

02020 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in

02030 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in

02040 deny tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in

02050 allow tcp from any to any out

02060 allow tcp from any to any established

02070 allow tcp from any to any 80 in

02080 allow tcp from any to any 427 in

12190 deny tcp from any to any

65535 allow ip from any to any

ipfw is the heart of the Macintosh firewall; the listing is the set of rules that Mac OS X built based on the services I wanted to run. Apache runs on port 80 (for http), while port 427 is the service locator protocol. The first column is the rule number, and the rest is the rule itself. I will go into greater detail later. But for the moment, I will turn on Remote Login. A quick glance at the Firewall menu reveals that the Remote Login rules have been turned on. Looking at the output of sudo ipfw list shows how the rules were changed to allow the new service to run.

02000 allow ip from any to any via lo*

02010 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in

02020 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in

02030 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in

02040 deny tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in

02050 allow tcp from any to any out

02060 allow tcp from any to any established

02070 allow tcp from any to any 22 in

02080 allow tcp from any to any 80 in

02090 allow tcp from any to any 427 in

12190 deny tcp from any to any

65535 allow ip from any to any

The rules have been rewritten, and a new rule has been added to handle Remote Login. Remote Login is handled by ssh, which operates over port 22. I will turn the firewall off as a final test before I put everything back the way it was.

65535 allow ip from any to any

So even when we turn the firewall off, it is still running. It's just the rules that have changed. What I'm going to do in this article is explore ipfw to see how I can use it to better secure my Macintosh and learn something of the threats that assail our computers every day. But first, a few words of caution.

Don't Play with Fire

The firewall that comes with the Mac is a good and robust tool and will protect you from many things, and you should have it turned on all the time. Just because we can handcraft rules does not mean that we should. If we get it wrong, we could stop our computer from functioning and create security holes. In this article, we're going to play with the firewall, learn a few things about our Mac, and then just let the System Preferences take care of things (in most cases).

This is one area where a little knowledge can be dangerous. And it's important to remember that after reading this article you will not be an expert on firewalls.

Say Hello to ipfw

To get a feel for what your firewall is having to deal with, you'll get it to log all the decisions that it makes over the course of a few hours. This will show you what's really happening. First, create a file that contains a copy of the rules you're running. Call this file rules.

#!/bin/sh

IPFW='/sbin/ipfw -q'

$IPFW -f flush

$IPFW add 2000 allow ip from any to any via lo*

$IPFW add 2010 deny log ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in

$IPFW add 2020 deny log ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in

$IPFW add 2030 deny log ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in

$IPFW add 2040 deny log tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in

$IPFW add 2050 allow log tcp from any to any out

$IPFW add 2060 allow log tcp from any to any established

$IPFW add 2070 allow log tcp from any to any 22 in

$IPFW add 2080 allow log tcp from any to any 80 in

$IPFW add 2090 allow log tcp from any to any 427 in

$IPFW add 12190 deny log tcp from any to any

These rules are a copy of the rules that Mac OS X generated for Personal Web Sharing and Remote Login with logging turned on. You do not need to enter rule 65535 as this is hard-coded into the firewall and cannot be changed. To run the rules just type in sudo sh rules followed by sudo ipfw list to make sure that they have loaded correctly. The final step is to turn logging on. Despite the rules requiring that the output be logged, this only actually happens when it is turned on with sysctl.

sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1

This might seem complicated, but it allows us to have logging permanently turned on in our rules, only writing to the log file when we want to. The logging is being written to /var/log/system.log. Logging can then be turned on and off without changing or even reloading the rules. To turn logging off, change the 1 to a 0. Leave this running for a few hours as we do all sorts of things that may generate traffic over the Internet. Just one little note of caution at this point: There will be one line in the log file for each packet processed by the firewall. The log file can get very large very quickly! Remember to come back and turn the logging off before your disk fills up.

Looking at the Log Results

/var/log/system.log now contains a large number of lines—one per packet that was handled by the firewall rules we created. Here is an example:

Nov 9 21:12:18 Peter-Hickmans-Computer kernel: ipfw: 2060

Accept TCP 216.65.98.71:119 192.168.1.100:54609 in via en0

After all the date and time cruft, we come to the action that was recorded, which says that rule number 2060 accepted an inbound TCP connection via the primary Ethernet interface from address 216.65.98.71 on port 119 to my computer (on address 192.168.1.100) port 54609. Port 119 is used to connect to Usenet news servers, and port 54609 was just a random port Mac OS X allocated for my program to make the connection. To make any sense of the 341,310 lines that the firewall logged while I had it turned on, we need a program to summarize the log. Let's call this program checkfw.pl.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use warnings;

my %connections;

while ( my $line = <> ) {

next unless $line =~ m/ ipfw: /;

$line =~ s/.* ipfw: //g;

my ( $action, $from, $to, $direction )

= ( split( ' ', $line, 7 ) )[ 1, 3, 4, 5 ];

if ( check_address($from) and check_address($to) ) {

my $key = ( $direction eq 'out' ) ?

"$from $to" : "$to $from";

$connections{$action}->{$key}->{$direction}++;

}

}

foreach my $action ( sort keys %connections ) {

report( $action, %{ $connections{$action} } );

}

sub report {

my ( $action, %data ) = @_;

print "$action\n";

printf( "%21s Dir %21s : %8s : %8s\n",

'Inside IP', 'Outside IP', 'In', 'Out' );

print '-' x 69 . "\n";

foreach my $k ( sort keys %data ) {

my ( $inside, $outside ) = split( ' ', $k );

my $direction = '-->';

if ( $data{$k}->{in} ) {

$direction = ( $data{$k}->{out} ) ? '<->' : '<--';

}

printf( "%21s %s %21s : %8d : %8d\n",

$inside,

$direction,

$outside,

$data{$k}->{in}

0,

$data{$k}->{out}

0 );

}

print "\n";

}

##

## Filter the broken lines in the log

##

sub check_address {

my $text = shift;

# There should only be 1 colon

my $count = $text =~ tr/://;

return undef if $count != 1;

# There should only be three .s

$count = $text =~ tr/.//;

return undef if $count != 3;

my ( $ip, $port ) = split( ':', $text );

# Is the port number sensible

return undef if $port < 1 or $port > 65535;

# Are the address digits sensible

foreach my $x ( split( '\.', $ip ) ) {

return undef if $x < 0 or $x > 255;

}

# All is fine

return 1;

}

When run from the command line with the system.log file for input, it reads all the lines related to the firewall and extracts the action (Accept or Deny), from address, to address, and direction from the rule, then builds up a hash to summarize the data. The rules are always expressed as "from address" followed by "to address," so we need to switch them around so that packets going from B to A inbound are correctly paired with lines for A to B outbound. The check_address function is to weed out the few lines that logging seems to screw up every now and then. Here's an edited sample of the output. Let's first look at the traffic we accepted:

Accept

Inside IP Dir Outside IP : In : Out

------------------------------------------------------------

192.168.1.100:22 <-> 192.168.1.1:1059 : 80 : 81

192.168.1.100:45632 <-> 66.98.246.15:80 : 1 : 1

192.168.1.100:54609 <-> 216.65.98.71:119 : 19768 : 13114

192.168.1.100:54788 <-> 216.65.98.71:119 : 15 : 17

192.168.1.100:54789 <-> 216.65.98.71:119 : 15 : 14

192.168.1.100:54790 <-> 216.65.98.71:119 : 24924 : 16792

192.168.1.100:54799 <-> 62.253.162.50:110 : 89 : 82

192.168.1.100:80 <-> 210.246.12.35:10611 : 11 : 6

192.168.1.100:80 <-> 210.246.12.35:11823 : 11 : 10

First, an assumption: Any port number that is four or less digits long is a legitimate port. If it is five digits long, then it was just a port allocated to the process that initiated the connection. This is not always the case but it is a very useful rule of thumb.

The first line is a Remote Login connection (ssh on port 22) to my computer, and the next is a connection to a web site (http on port 80) from my computer. The next four are Usenet connections (nntp on port 119) from my computer followed by a connection from my computer to my ISP's mail server (pop3 on port 110). The next two are connections to the web server on my computer by another computer.

If you see a port number and are not sure what it is used by, look in /etc/services where most of the legitimate port numbers are listed. If you can't find it there or feel that you are not using the service, then Google for "port xxxx". Now let's look at the traffic we rejected:

Deny

Inside IP Dir Outside IP : In : Out

------------------------------------------------------------

192.168.1.100:1023 <-- 218.23.26.94:2385 : 1 : 0

192.168.1.100:1025 <-- 80.13.205.45:3369 : 1 : 0

192.168.1.100:1080 <-- 67.150.225.61:80 : 1 : 0

192.168.1.100:21 <-- 172.210.114.241:4535 : 2 : 0

192.168.1.100:25 <-- 222.156.17.50:2304 : 2 : 0

192.168.1.100:2745 <-- 80.108.169.225:1248 : 3 : 0

192.168.1.100:3127 <-- 24.48.194.98:4609 : 3 : 0

192.168.1.100:4000 <-- 159.226.150.135:1505 : 2 : 0

192.168.1.100:4899 <-- 80.200.148.8:4937 : 1 : 0

192.168.1.100:5554 <-- 200.28.99.6:4257 : 1 : 0

192.168.1.100:6112 <-- 211.138.113.23:57949 : 2 : 0

192.168.1.100:9898 <-- 218.16.83.117:3700 : 1 : 0

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As these are all denied packets we are only interested in the port number that they were trying to connect to. Let's go over them:

1023

The Sasser worm runs an FTP server on port 1023 of infected machines. 218.23.26.94 is scanning for unpatched Windows machines still infected by the Sasser worm.

1025

Officially the port used by blackjack servers but also used by a backdoor trojan called PWSteal.ABCHlp. Again, I am being scanned by a computer looking for a backdoor.

1080

Officially used by the SOCKS proxy server. 67.150.225.61 is scanning me, hoping to find a proxy server that it can use to cover its tracks with.

21

At last a legitimate port, FTP. Here I am being scanned to see if I am running an FTP server that can be hacked by someone wanting somewhere to store some files or a place from which to run a warez site. I don't run an FTP server.

25

Another legitimate port, this time SMTP. This is someone looking for an open mail server to send spam through.

2745

Officially the port used by the urbisnet service but more commonly a backdoor installed by the W32.Beagle.E@mm worm.

You get the picture. It just goes on and on. Despite being immune to all these WinTel worms and viruses, we should note that there are people out there who will notice very quickly if we turn on our own mail or FTP servers. The same scripts that probe your computer for these services are designed to exploit them the moment they get a positive result. This is why we run a firewall and why we don't run unnecessary services.

Writing the ipfw Log Lines to a Different File

The system.log file is a general dumping ground for all log messages, but it has the facility to write specific messages to separate files. In this case, we're going to write the log lines from ipfw into /var/log/ipfw.log. This file already exists on my system, but at the moment, the /etc/syslogd.conf is not set up to send the messages to it. First, I must edit the /etc/syslogd.conf and add the following to the beginning of the file:

# Exclude ipfw from the main log

!-ipfw

This stops the ipfw log lines from being written to the system.log. Now add the following to the end of the file to get the ipfw log lines written to the correct file:

# Log ipfw to its own log

!ipfw

*.* /var/log/ipfw.log

Now it's time to restart syslogd so that the new configuration is loaded. There are two ways of doing this: the Windows way or the Unix way. Rebooting your computer is the Windows way, so we'll do it the Unix way.

sudo kill -s HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

The preceding line reads the pid of the existing syslogd process and gets it to reload its configuration file. All that remains is to turn logging on, sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1, generate some traffic, and look at the contents of the /var/log/ipfw.log file. No lines are being written to the system.log file any more. The main reason for this is that the ipfw logging generates so many lines in the system.log file that it makes finding other, non ipfw, messages much harder.

Writing Your Own Rules

Each packet that wants to pass through the firewall, in or out, is checked against the rules in the order in which they are numbered. Once a packet matches a rule, the assigned action is taken, and the next packet is processed. This is why rule 65535 is hard-coded into the firewall; it will match anything that does not match any other rule. Let's walk through the rules we created earlier.

02000 allow ip from any to any via lo*

The first rule allows any ip packet to any address via the loopback interface. The computer makes use of the loopback interface to talk to itself. Trust me when I say that this is useful.

02010 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any in

02020 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 in

02030 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/3 to any in

02040 deny tcp from any to 224.0.0.0/3 in

These rules, and others like them, are there to stop packets with spoofed IP addresses from entering. A more comprehensive set of rules would ban all private IP ranges. The anti-spoofing rules are placed here to stop any packets before they get to the rules that might let them in. If we wanted to bar known bad addresses, this would be the place to do it.

02050 allow tcp from any to any out

02060 allow tcp from any to any established

Here we allow any outbound packets through and follow this up by allowing any previously established connections back in. The firewall is "state-full"—that is to say it doesn't just process a packet and forget about it as it moves onto the next one. It remembers that it allowed a connection from my computer to my ISP's mail server and therefore can identify incoming packets as being part of the same connection and allow then back in without a whole host of new rules.

02070 allow tcp from any to any 22 in

02080 allow tcp from any to any 80 in

02090 allow tcp from any to any 427 in

This rule allows any inbound packet to the ports of the services that we are running in. This leaves just one more rule.

12190 deny tcp from any to any

This rule denies any tcp packet that has gotten this far.

Let's review. We have thrown out the spoofed addresses, we have allowed all outbound packets and all established inbound connections, and we have allowed inbound packets to the ports of the services we are running. All that is left are inbound packets to ports we have not allowed. It's a good thing we have stopped them here as rule 65535 would have let them in!

A quick overview of the rule set:

Allow loopback.

Deny spoofing and people we don't like.

Allow outbound connections.

Allow established connections.

Allow specific inbound connections.

Deny everything else.

All rules have the same basic structure, and a lot can be achieved with the simplest of rules. The basic shape of a rule, more information on which can be found with man ipfw, is quite simple:

[number] action [log] proto from src to dst [interface-spec]

If a rule is given without a number, the next number in sequence is taken. If a number is given, the rule will be positioned among the existing rules. If a rule with that number already exists, then the new rule will be added after the old one, and you will have two rules with the same number. The action can take many values, but for now we're only interested in allow and deny.

Allow will allow any matching packet to pass through the firewall, and deny will just drop them onto the floor.

The optional log parameter will write a line to the logfile for each packet that matched the rule. Lines are only written to the logfile if the system variable net.inet.ip.fw.verbose is set to 1. So we don't have to change the rules when we want to turn logging on and off.

The protocol is the type of packet. The only ones we are concerned with are tcp or ip (which is another way of saying all of them). As a rule of thumb all the protocols are layered over ip, and the most common one we encounter is tcp, with icmp and udp after that.

If you look in /etc/protocols you will see that there are a large number of protocols, most of which we will never encounter outside of this file. Most traffic is tcp, and our rules concentrate on this unless we are blocking something wholesale, in which case we use ip to mean any protocol. But a point of caution: In our "Deny everything else" rule, 12190, we only deny the tcp packets; changing this to deny ip packets may stop your computer from working as many behind-the-scene services still need to get through, such as DNS.

The src and dst are the source and destination addresses that can be defined as either:

any - any ip address

a specific ip address, 207.68.172.246, or hostname, msn.com

a netmask, 207.68.128.0/18 or 1.2.3.4:255.255.240.0

The address can be prefixed by not. Additionally, the address can be followed by a list of port numbers or service names (22 or ssh). For example, the following rules allow FTP connections:

allow tcp from any to any 20-21 in

allow tcp from any 20,21 to any 1024-65535 in

The two rules read:

Allow in any inbound tcp packets to ports 20 and 21 (ftp-data and ftp).

Allow in any inbound tcp packets coming from ports 20 or 21 that are trying to connect to ports 1024 to 65536.

The final element of the rule is the interface-spec. For simple rules, in and out are sufficient and, if omitted, the default is to allow both in and out. When added to a rule they limit the action of the rule to check only the inbound or outbound packets. The interface-spec allows much more control than we are showing here, for example, a rule about being bound to particular interfaces such as an Airport card rather then the normal RJ45 socket.

If we run ifconfig -l, we will get a list of interfaces that are available on our computer. Mine lists six, even though only three are active. The rules we are using will apply to any packet passing through any valid interface.

Our Own Startup Script

The statement "It's not possible to override the firewall built into Mac OS X" isn't entirely true. We could go in and hack around with the kext files, but this is more work than we really need to undertake. What we can do is create our own startup script that runs after the existing firewall to implement our rules. We need to create a directory called /Library/StartupItems/Firewall and include in it two files. The first is a generic startup script called Firewall.

#!/bin/sh

##

# Firewall

##

. /etc/rc.common

StartService ()

{

if [ "${FIREWALL:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]

then

ConsoleMessage "Starting Firewall"

sh /etc/rc.firewall > /dev/null

fi

}

StopService ()

{

ConsoleMessage "Stopping Firewall"

/sbin/ipfw -f -q flush

}

RestartService ()

{

StopService

StartService

}

RunService "$1"

Additionally, we require a StartupParameters.plist file to tell the system when to start our script.

{

Description = "Firewall";

Provides = ("Firewall");

Requires = ("NetworkExtensions","Resolver");

OrderPreference = "Late";

Messages =

{

start = "Starting firewall";

stop = "Stopping firewall";

};

}

The real work is undertaken by the /etc/rc.firewall script where the actual calls to ipfw are made. For a moment, let's just look at the Firewall script. The service will only start if the environment variable FIREWALL is set to YES. The advantage is that if FIREWALL is undefined, it will default to NO. This allows us to try out new firewall rules by running the /etc/rc.firewall script by hand. But if we have to reboot our computer, our rules will not be automatically loaded until we add the line FIREWALL=-YES- to the /etc/hostconfig file. This is a useful safety net when we are developing our own rules. Once we run our own rules, the firewall tab under services will not be usable until we run sudo ipfw flush to remove our rules.

Finally, we need to fill in /etc/rc.firewall. A copy of rules from earlier will do the job. With the changes made to the /etc/hostconfig file, our custom-made firewall rules will be loaded as part of the normal boot sequence. We now know nearly all we need know to play with our own rules.

How to Test Your Firewall

To test your rules, you need a few resources on hand. First, and most important, you should be working at your Macintosh. If you manage to create a set of rules that stops you from accessing the Internet, you will still be able to open up a terminal, take down the rules, and reestablish your connections. Failing that, you can at least get to the reboot switch. If you are tempted, as I have been, to ssh into your computer from work and make a couple safe changes, you'll discover that you've locked yourself out and will have to wait until you get home before you can fix anything.

Second, you will need access to a second computer that is outside your network. My Macintosh is plugged into a router and exposed as a DMZ host. I can plug my laptop into the same router and access the services on my Macintosh as any other computer would. This allows me to check that the services that I think I am exposing are in fact available.

This second computer also allows us to run nmap, our third resource. nmap is a port-scanning tool with a considerable pedigree. We are using it here to establish which ports are visible and accessible to the outside world. We know what services we intended to be available, but it can't do any harm to check.

$ sudo nmap -T3 -vv -sS -p 1-65535 -P0 example.com

Starting nmap 3.55 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at

2004-12-11 16:12 GMT

Host example.com (x.x.x.x) appears to be up ... good.

Initiating SYN Stealth Scan against example.com (x.x.x.x) at

16:12

Adding open port 80/tcp

Adding open port 22/tcp

The SYN Stealth Scan took 3127 seconds to scan 65535 ports.

Interesting ports on example.com (x.x.x.x):

(The 65532 ports scanned but not shown below are in state:

filtered)

PORT STATE SERVICE

22/tcp open ssh

80/tcp open http

427/tcp closed svrloc

nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in

3128.366 seconds

The only port numbers that turned up were the ones we set up, and port 427 is closed to the outside world. Everything is looking good. Nmap is a powerful tool with many, varied options and is a useful program to master.

Why Would You Write Your Own Rules?

Given that the firewall that comes with the Macintosh does such a good job and is well integrated with the services that you can run, why would you want to write your own rules? If you have a lone Macintosh that connects to the Internet via an Ethernet cable, then you really don't need to write your own rules. However, if your Macintosh is part of a small network, you may well have services that you only want local machines to connect to. This is the situation I have where I allow remote control of my Macintosh via VNC from local machines but do not want anyone else to know that I even run the service, let alone have access to it.

Playing with a firewall can be quite scary, especially when you see what is attacking you for every moment that you are connected to the Internet. Your most prudent course of action at this point is to remove any custom rules that you have written and let the Sharing Control Panel take care of things. It was doing a perfectly good job before you knew what it was dealing with and will continue to do so going forward.

Peter Hickman is currently working as a programmer for Semantico, which specializes in online reference works and Access Control Systems. When not programming or reading about programming he can be found sleeping.

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Comments on this article

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running the pearl script

2007-08-30 20:22:53 thxueb [View]

when I tried to run the pearl script nothing happened. I was brought immediately to the terminal prompt with no output or result. I tried:

/...usr/local/bin/myScripts/checkfw.pl /var/log/system.log then I tried perl checkfw.pl /var/log/ipfw.logthen I changed #!/usr/bin/perl -w to #!/usr/bin/env perl -w and did perl /...usr/local/bin/myScripts/checkfw.pl /var/log/system.log all (and a few other variations) failed. I gave the checkfw.pl script execute privileges and i am certain it is in my path cause I see the path when I type env in the terminal.

How about opening a single nonstandard port

2006-10-11 17:42:47 TomEM [View]

I suspect my problem is pretty common. My ISP blocks Port 80 so I'm using another port for http traffic, specifying that in the URL. To run the firewall, I need to open up that extra port. Isn't there some easy to simply add another line to the rules in the part where the services are opened up? Or do I have to completely override the system preferences.

Thanks for any help. It makes a difference between running and not running the firewall...

StartupItems troubleshooting

2006-04-20 13:40:37 iamstein [View]

Hi, I followed the above directions for creating my custom firewall. I did the following:

1) Created a /System/Libraries/Firewall directory

2) Copyied and pasted the text from this website into a Firewall file and a StartupParameters.plist file in that subdirectory

3) Added a line to /etc/hostconfig that says:

FIREWALL='-YES-'

And yet, when I restart my computer, it's still using the same old firewall. Got any ideas?

Thanks, Andy

StartupItems troubleshooting

2006-04-21 10:55:45 peterhickman [View]

You have created the wrong directory, you need to create /Library/StartupItems/Firewall/ It is this directory, /Library/StartupItems/, that OSX looks for when looking for items to run at startup.

Otherwise the rest looks fine.

As I understand it from other people the /Library/StartupItems/ directory may not exist by default. It was so long ago that I can no longer remember if I created it or it was there all along. Here are the permissions from my machine:

drwxr-xr-x root wheel /Library/StartupItems/

drwxr-xr-x root wheel /Library/StartupItems/Firewall/

As a note, never do anything in the /System directory.

StartupItems troubleshooting

2006-04-21 08:24:14 iamstein [View]

Here's a little more info. I changed the name from Firewall to Firewall2, just to see what happened.

bacchus:~ root# /sbin/SystemStarter start Firewall2

Welcome to Macintosh.

Initializing network

Loading Shared IP extension

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/SharedIP.kext appears to be valid

kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/SharedIP.kext

kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/SharedIP.kext is already loaded

Loading IP Firewall extension

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/IPFirewall.kext appears to be valid

kextload: loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/IPFirewall.kext

kextload: sending 1 personality to the kernel

kextload: extension /System/Library/Extensions/IPFirewall.kext is already loaded

Exec failed for item /System/Library/StartupItems/Firewall2: Permission denied

Firewall2 (396) did not complete successfully.

The following StartupItems failed to properly start:

/System/Library/StartupItems/Firewall2 - execution of Startup script failed

Startup complete.

Hangup

StartupItems troubleshooting

2006-04-20 13:58:33 iamstein [View]

Oh, yes, I also, of course created a /etc/rc.firewall file and at the terminal window, if

Furthermore, if I type:

sudo /etc/rc.firewall

It runs just fine

Usable on Mac OS X Server?

2005-04-10 00:25:10 lowrezz [View]

I work in a large Windows organization with a growning population of 8 Xserve systems.

Lately I've been experimenting with the firewall in the server manager and it's frustrating. Your article has provided great insight to refining my issues, but I don't know if the syntax

is applicable to the OS X Server 10.3.8 SW.

Adding firewall rules for NAT + question...

2005-04-06 11:13:06 efixler [View]

Thanks for this great article! I use my 10.3 (client) box as a DHCP/NAT gateway, and was looking for a way to add rules that would let clients on the internal networks comminucate with the outside world freely, without me having to open ports in the internal firewall. I modified your startup script like so:

StartService () {

...

/sbin/ipfw add 3000 allow ip from 192.168.0.0/24 to any in

/sbin/ipfw add 3010 allow ip from 10.0.2.0/24 to any in

fi

}

StopService ()

{

ConsoleMessage "Stopping Additional Firewall Rules"

/sbin/ipfw delete 3000

/sbin/ipfw delete 3010

}

When I run these rules, everything seems to work as intended. However, when the rules are in effect, System Preferences will no longer let me edit the built-in Firewall settings panel, as it can detect that 'other firewall software' is in use.

Anyone have any idea how it detects this; I'd like to circumvent this detection (so that I can edit the general rules while the internal network rules remain in effect)

thanks!

eric

Adding firewall rules for NAT + question...

2007-07-16 07:42:09 variac [View]

hi eric, were u able to find a solution to your problem. coz m facing the same problem

Adding firewall rules for NAT + question...

2007-07-16 07:41:54 variac [View]

hi eric,

were u able to find a solution to your problem. coz m facing the same problem

Mac firewall

2005-03-26 17:01:35 rspage [View]

What if I am using a router to network 2 Macs and 1 PC? The router has its own firewall. I have the Mac firewall turned off. Is this correct? Also, since I am using the routers firewall can I still turn on SSH and the other items in the Sharing pane of system preferences or would I need to turn them on using the router firewall?

logging

2005-03-25 06:26:35 Porcustal [View]

I can't get this logging to work at all. Nothing happens in my System.log when i start the logging with sudo sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.verbose=1

I just get the messege logging the use of sudo...

I did get somethings to log to my ipfw.log, but none was ipfw :/ this is prob because you have it as *.* in syslog.conf, might be better to do ipfw.* or ipfw.notice but of course it wouldn't work for me in the first place. I'm using 10.2.8 Jaguar still, could this be why??

another correction

2005-03-25 05:47:20 2002switcher [View]

The section Our Own Startup Script has the wrong path for creating the Firewall directory. It should be:

/System/Library/StartupItems/Firewall

another correction

2005-03-29 13:55:01 efixler [View]

Actually, the path in the article is correct. /Library/StartupItems is where you you put your own StartupItems. /System is only for stuff shipped by Apple.

perl-scripts with an input?

2005-03-24 12:14:43 Wikinator [View]

How can I do the perl-scripts with an input?

Am I right to copy the source of these scripts into a new file?

What about SMB?

2005-03-19 18:51:01 jace [View]

I've found that the firewall's default rule for SMB, opening just port 139, isn't adequate. With the firewall on, Windows or Linux users can't access my machine, which is unfortunate because SMB is the only filesharing protocol that works across platforms and usually comes pre-installed.

Do you know what other ports I need to open?

What about SMB?

2005-03-21 05:35:07 peterhickman [View]

If you know for sure that Windows and Linux users can access the SMB shares when the firewall is not running then it is a problem with the firewall. I don't run SMB shares but here is how I would approach the problem.

Find a Windows or Linux machine that wants to access the share and get it's ip address, say x.x.x.x. Then create a rule to allow full access for this address

ipfw add ????? allow log ip from x.x.x.x to any in

Remember to place this rule nice and early in the list (the rule number is at ?????). Now turn logging on and try to access the share (which should succeed). Having done that turn off logging and examine the log file for all references to x.x.x.x This will show you the ports and protocols (tcp, udp, icmp) that were used with the connection. You should be able to work from that. Remember the legitimate ports are usually less than five digits.

Then remove rule ?????.

Firewalls and Internet Sharing

2005-03-17 12:03:14 makalumatt [View]

It seems that if you enable "Internet Sharing" on a Mac, then that particula Mac can't have its firewall enabled, otherwise the other Macs on the network (those sharing the internet access) won't properly be able to access network services. Has anyone else experienced that?

Firewalls and Internet Sharing

2005-03-18 05:23:46 peterhickman [View]

The problem is that when you do internet sharing OS X does not create any special rules for the computers who are accessing the internet through the master computer. The rules for inbound packets are the same for access to your computer from the outside as they are for the sharees. I have found that as I only expose http and ssh then computers that are accessing the internet via my computer can only access http and ssh. What I do is add an extra rule to allow https access to my computer from the airport card so that my wife can access the shopping sites.

allow tcp from any to any https in via en1

Depending on how you feel about the people connecting to your computer you would need to set up a rule for each protocol that they are allowed to use or add a generic rule like

allow tcp from any to any in via en1

but this way you are putting a lot of trust in the users of your system that they will not use your machine as a gateway to spam from.

syslog.conf

2005-03-17 09:56:30 adrianmayo [View]

I was interested to see the use of

!-ipfw

and

!ipfw

I cannot find information on the '!' command in 'man 5 syslog.conf'. I can guess what is happening, but can you point me in the direction of this 'missing' syslog infomation.

Thanks.

syslog.conf

2005-03-30 22:54:45 johnwilkins [View]

Here's the man page for syslog.conf from FreeBSD 4.11 (the one OS X is based on). It gives a full description of the "program specififcation" ( !program_name and !-program_name).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=syslog.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.11-stable&format=html

syslog.conf

2005-03-18 01:08:22 peterhickman [View]

Strange I've never noticed that before. It isn't in the man page. It is mentioned in my redhat man page as an extension to the origonal BSD source. Seems to be working as expected, perhaps the OS X man pages need revising.

This syslogd(8) has a syntax extension to the original BSD source, that makes its use more intuitively. You may precede every prior-

ity with an equation sign (``='') to specify only this single priority and not any of the above. You may also (both is valid, too)

precede the priority with an exclamation mark (``!'') to ignore all that priorities, either exact this one or this and any higher pri-

ority. If you use both extensions than the exclamation mark must occur before the equation sign, just use it intuitively.

ftp rules?

2005-03-16 13:49:39 oefe [View]

For ftp FTP connections, the first rule seems to be clear:

allow tcp from any to any 20-21 in

This lets clients connect to the ftp port (21) and to ftp-data(20).

But what is the second rule supposed to be?

allow tcp from any 20,21 to any 1024-65535 in

This would allow clients to access any (unprivileged) port as long as they are connecting from port 20 or 21.

Is this somehow supposed to support passive ftp? But clients normally can't (and won't) use the privileged ports.

Indeed, with the firewall active, I can connect to the ftp server, but I can't up/download files or even get a directory listing.

How do I configure ipfw correctly for passive ftp? Or can I tell ftpd to use port 20 for the data connection?

ftp rules?

2005-03-22 20:23:03 coolmacguy [View]

That second line is indeed erroneous. The client is definitely not restricted to connecting from only port 20 or 21 when it initiates the second connection. According to my logs both Dreamweaver and Transmit use a port in the high 60000 range.

ftp rules?

2005-03-16 15:05:43 peterhickman [View]

The two rules that I gave for the firewall are just a copy of the rules that OS X creates when you turn on FTP and have a firewall running.

If you drop your firewall can you connect and use the FTP server and access it as you would expect? If not then the problem lies with the configuration of the FTP server and not the firewall.

Must confess I do not use the FTP server if I can help it, prefering SFTP.

ftp rules?

2005-05-06 01:16:43 gsyoungblood [View]

I've just run into this problem today.

I can confirm the problem as reported above.

With Mac OS X (10.3.9) firewall on, remote clients are not able to use passive. With the firewall stopped, FTP is fully functional, including passive.

This has been giving me grief, to say the least. Fortunately, my machine is behind a firewall already, so turning the Mac firewall off is not opening me up to problems externally. I'd still rather have it enabled.

If I figure out the solution tonight, I'll post a reply.

ftp rules?

2005-05-06 02:54:25 gsyoungblood [View]

The problem is quite simple. The FTP Access firewall rules only support Active FTP, not Passive. At least that is what it appears to be. For a pretty reasonable description and comparison of Active and Passive FTP, see Active FTP vs. Passive FTP, a Definitive Explanation [slacksite.com].

The short version is this: Passive FTP has a second connection from the client to a specified port on the server, a port that is not port 20 or 21. For this reason, the standard firewall rules for FTP Access do not permit Passive FTP.

I did not look at the configuration options in detail for the FTP server provided by Apple, but I do not recall seeing anyplace to restrict the passive FTP ports to a set range. This is important, otherwise you are going to be opening your firewall for every port over 1024, and that's not a good idea.

In general, the goal is to open the least number of ports necessary to support what you want to run.

Here is how I solved the problem and made Passive FTP work.

First, I decided to use a different FTP server. I decided to try PureFTPd Manager. After downloading and installing it, I ran it and went into Preferences. There, it lets you specify a range of ports to use for Passive FTP. Choose something you are comfortable with, for example 9900 to 9999 (for a small FTP server).

Next, go to System Preferences, and make sure FTP Access is checked in both Services and Firewall.

Finally, under Firewall, click New, to add a new firewall rule. Select Other from the drop down list, and enter the range of ports you decided to use, 9900-9999 using the previous example. Then, enter a description, such as FTP Access (Passive). When you click OK, the rule should be added and activated.

If everything is running and setup properly, Passive FTP should now be working.

Hostname in rules?

2005-03-16 10:52:06 Brad_Fleming [View]

I have an OSX machine that serves in a dynamic IP environment. I would like to add a rule requiring all ssh connections to originate from a *.house.domain.edu IP. The problem is that users can easily get an IP from several different subnets because they move from one building to another fairly often (what with meetings and wireless). Is this possible? If so, can somebody please help me with the syntax used? Thanks in advance.

Hostname in rules?

2005-03-17 01:22:33 peterhickman [View]

While you can have rules like

allow tcp from fred.house.domain.edu to any 22 in

I'm not sure that you could use a * instead of the fred. You would probably have to iterate all possible values for *. The only way to find out is to try it.

Do you have the netmask for *.house.domain.edu, you could use that.

allow tcp from xxx.xxx.0.0/24 to any 22 in

Is there another way of approaching this, could you just only allow the various private address ranges in and exclude the rest. Assuming that the *.house.domain.edu are all private.

Slight error

2005-03-16 09:18:48 finkga [View]

The article states:

02050 allow tcp from any to any out

02060 allow tcp from any to any established

> Here we allow any outbound packets through and

> follow this up by allowing any previously

> established connections back in. The firewall

> is "state-full"—that is to say it doesn't just

> process a packet and forget about it as it

> moves onto the next one. It remembers that it

> allowed a connection from my computer to my

> ISP's mail server and therefore can identify

> incoming packets as being part of the same

> connection and allow then back in without a

> whole host of new rules.

This is not an example of stateful processing. The first rule allows any outgoing tcp connection it doesn't care whether it is a new connection or an established one. To restrict the outbound rule to new connections only, you must append the word "setup" to this rule. This matches only tcp packets with the SYN bit set.

The second rule allows only tcp packets without the SYN bit set to pass. With the two rules entered as listed, someone with nmap can still use ACK packets (pretending to be part of an existing connection) to scan your machine.

If you really want stateful monitoring of connections you need to use the check-state rule and the keep-state actions. For instance, adding the rules:

add 2050 check-state

add 2060 allow tcp from me to any out setup keep-state

will make the firewall stateful. The first rule says, "match the packets against any of the dynamic rules I've made so far." If none of these matches, the next rule comes into play. Rule 2060 says, "if this is a new outgoing connection initiated by me, make a dynamic rule that will allow any traffic from this connection through."

With these modified rules, incoming ACK packets and other beasts trying to pretend they are part of an existing connection will not match and will be turned away at the door. Check out the ipfw man page for more details.

Hope this isn't as confusing as it sounds.

-- Glenn

Slight error

2005-03-17 01:01:12 peterhickman [View]

You are correct, I am using the term 'state-full' incorrectly here. What I wanted to get across was that ipfw did have a memory of previous connections and could recognise a packet as belonging to an already established / permitted connection.

Having said that 'state-full' does have a technical meaning in regards to firewalls an missusing it isn't going to help anybody.

Thanks again for the correction.

Slight error

2006-02-04 15:51:27 sumbach [View]

This still isn't quite right. Using your rules, ipfw doesn't have any memory at all--it's using the TCP flags to determine whether the connection is established or not.

A stateful ipfw ruleset will always contain at least one rule with the 'check-state' action and at least one rule with the 'keep-state' option. ipfw's "memory" is in the form of dynamic rules.

edit or create?

2005-03-16 04:31:07 Oneida [View]

Nice article. I use the default set of rules, but restricted to certain IPs for ssh, and a high numebered port in the router pointing to the ssh port in my mac.

OK. In "Writing the ipfw Log Lines to a Different File" you edit /etc/syslogd.conf.

My mac with 10.3.8 does not have that file, but it does have /etc/syslog.conf which has lines that define where to log things, such as

mail.* /var/log/mail.log

And others.

Should we create /etc/syslogd.conf or use /etc/syslog.conf instead? And if we have to create it, which permissions should we use?

Thanks

edit or create?

2005-03-16 12:19:19 peterhickman [View]

Sorry that is a typo of mine. As Glen has pointed out in his reply to your question /etc/syslog.conf is the file to use.

Thank you for catching that for me Glen

edit or create?

2005-03-16 10:17:11 finkga [View]

Just use the existing /etc/syslog.conf. But first, I recommend making a backup copy of the file.

-- Glenn

name resolution

2005-07-15 14:58:57 ruy_lopez [View]

Anyone any ideas for adding name resolution to the checkfw.pl script. I think it would be a good enhancement.

All worked flawlessly by the way.

Nice article.

name resolution

2005-07-23 07:05:17 peterhickman [View]

The code to do this, taken from perldoc -f gethostbyaddr, would be something along the lines of this, put

use Socket;

at the top with the other use statements, and then when you are about to print out the address do sothing like the following.

my $iaddr = inet_aton("211.22.171.213");

my $name = gethostbyaddr($iaddr, AF_INET);

print "$name\n";

However I find the raw IP addresses best as I can just drop them into my firewall.

name resolution

2005-07-25 08:35:21 ruy_lopez [View]

Thanks Peter for the push in the right direction. I now post (for any who are interested) the resulting ammendments to achieve name resolution AND ip data for each ipfw.log event. The result (after a bit of hammering) is the inclusion of these lines:

# obviously include: use Socket; at the top, then:

#look for this part of original script.

printf( "%21s %s %21s : %8d : %8d\n",

$inside,

$direction,

$outside,

$data{$k}->{in}

0,

$data{$k}->{out}

0 );

# and in line with the indents apend ( or rather insert after the above ) the following :

my ( $inaddress, $inport ) = split( ':' ,

$inside );

my $iaddr = inet_aton("$inaddress");

my $namein = gethostbyaddr($iaddr,AF_INET);

my ( $outaddress, $outport ) = split( ':' , $outside );

my $oaddr = inet_aton("$outaddress");

my $nameout = gethostbyaddr($oaddr,AF_INET);

if ( defined($namein) ) {

$namein = $namein;

} else {

$namein = "unresolved";

}

if ( defined($nameout) ) {

$nameout = $nameout;

} else {

$nameout = "unresolved";

}

printf( "%21s %s %21s\n",

$namein,

$direction,

$nameout );

print "\n";

# now the original script continues with these lines:

}

print "\n";

}

I warn you that this runs in a rather dirty spluttering manner but should work without errors.

I'm not sure that I'll use it too much but I'm considering using it for daily crontab emailing (I've already changed ipfw from weekly to daily in /etc/periodical), so I get an email of all the addresses and names that ipfw has encountered during the day.

Also, I'm sure the above could be simplified but my perl skills are not yet up to the task.

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simplest way to make an application bundle using nothing but notepad.

2010-08-28T02:06:00.000+02:00

Create a Application Bundle in 3 easy steps ;)

No Xcode needed, just a filebrowser and a texteditor. While poking around with .app dirs I noticed that as soon as I provided a MacOS folder containing something executable named the same as the app, my tiger box happily starts to run it without needing or checking a .plist or anything....

Sweet :)

here goes ;)

* in the terminal:

bash$ mkdir -p MyShinyShellScriptWrapper.app/MacOS

bash$ echo -e "#!/bin/bash\necho \$(date) > ~/Desktop/proofofexecution.txt" \ >MyShinyShellScriptWrapper.app/MacOS/MyShinyShellScriptWrapper

bash$ chmod 755 MyShinyShellScriptWrapper.app/MacOS/MyShinyShellScriptWrapper

* or in the finder:

Open a finder window and create a new folder. Open it and in it create a MacOS folder, now decide on a name. Create a new (plain) text document in the newly created folder and name it YourProgramName

Now type these two lines in the textdocument:

#!/bin/bash

echo $(date) > ~/Desktop/proofofexecution.txt

Right! Close the file and save it as YourProgramName without an extension. (eg no .txt or .html or .whatever)

Right click on the file and select Get Info. Here you.... pfff, here you DONT find a set permissions to executable.

Anyway, open up a Terminal and type chmod 755 YourProgramName and close it off/ (is this even neccessary?)

Now go 2 levels up in the folder and rename the folder that you created in the beginning to YourProgramName.app

Now it should've turned into an application with a broken icon. This is good :) Double click the icon to start it up!

Nothing much happened? The script runs in the background and takes a nanosecond to finish so nothing much should happen, but on your Desktop

You should now see a new file called proofofexecution containing a timestamp.

Shweeet

How to make a shell script into a apple macintosh app application bundle using nothing but common household tools ;-)

Sweet :)

10.4: Remapping keys in Mac OS X 10.4

2010-08-28T00:32:00.002+02:00

10.4: Remapping keys in Mac OS X 10.4

10.4: Remapping keys in Mac OS X 10.4
Aug 29, '06 07:30:04AM • Contributed by: mietek
The Mac OS X 10.4 Keyboard & Mouse preference pane provides a way to remap certain keys. However, the interface doesn't expose the full functionality -- a common problem with Apple software. Note that this guide assumes you'using the bash shell.

Read on to learn...
What keys can be remapped without the use of any thirdâ€“party software?

How do I remap those keys?

How do I remap the Caps Lock key to the Escape key?

What keys can be remapped without the use of any thirdâ€“party software? (The following list shows the key name on the left, and that key's value on the right.)
None â€” â€“1

Caps Lock â€” 0

Shift (Left) â€” 1

Control (Left) â€” 2

Option (Left) â€” 3

Command (Left) â€” 4

Keypad 0 â€” 5

Help â€” 6

Shift (Right) â€” 9

Control (Right) â€” 10

Option (Right) â€” 11

Command (Right) â€” 12

Kernel Panic â€” 16

Be warned that the code 16, when used as the destination of a mapping, actually causes a kernel panic on keypress -- as I've found out the hard way.

How do I remap those keys?
Remap one of the keys available in the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane in order to make the following steps easier.

Locate the hidden property list file used to store the settings. It's in your user's Library/Preferences/ByHost folder, and is named.GlobalPreferences.000d*. I assume there'll be only one such file; you'll need to verify that. From here on, that file and path are referred to as$FILE.

Duplicate the file and convert it to the XML property list format:
$ cp $FILE ~/keys-binary.plist $ plutil -convert xml1 -o ~/keys-xml.plist ~/keys-binary.plist

Open the resulting XML file and locate thecom.apple.keyboard.modifiermapping key. Its value is an array containing several entries, each in turn containingHIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc and HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDstkeys. The values of those keys are described in the table above. Make the changes you wish to make, and save your work.

Convert the file back to the binary property list format, and put it back in the correct location:
$ plutil -convert binary1 -o ~/keys-binary.plist ~/keys-xml.plist $ cp ~/keys-binary.plist $FILE

Log out and back in to apply changes.

How do I remap the Caps Lock key to the Escape key?

Unfortunately, this will require the use of a thirdâ€“party program. I used a free trial version of Keyboard Maestro by Stairways Software. First, remap the Caps Lock key to the Help key, following the instructions above. Then, in Keyboard Maestro:
Create a new macro.

Add a Simulate Keypress action, with an User Keystroke â€” the Escape key.

Add a Hot Key trigger, set to the Help key.

In the Preferences section, enable the Launch Engine at Login option. While you're at it, you might also want to disable all other unnecessary features.

An always upâ€“toâ€“date version of this guide can be found on my blog...

multitail bus error on osx

2010-08-27T13:43:00.002+02:00

I tried to install and use multitail this morning.

sudo port install multitail

everything seems to build/install

multitail /opt/local/apache2/logs/access_log /opt/local/apache2/logs/ 
error_log

gives me a "Bus error" - along with 2 processes running tail...

Installs and runs just fine on Panther (just checking)

I can download and build the source in my home directory. That works  
just fine, and runs.

For entertainment value I created /opt/local/etc/multitail.conf (from  
the /opt/local/etc/multitail.conf.new file)

Bus error stopped happening...

Executed in subshell, trap on exit

2010-08-27T02:38:00.002+02:00

#!/bin/bash
# --- subshell_trap.sh -------------------------------------------------
# Example script for handling bash errors.  Exit on error.  Trap exit.
# This script is supposed to run in a subshell.
# See also: http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Error_handling

    # Let shell functions inherit ERR trap.  Same as `set -E'.
set -o errtrace 
    # Trigger error when expanding unset variables.  Same as `set -u'.
set -o nounset
    #  Trap non-normal exit signals: 1/HUP, 2/INT, 3/QUIT, 15/TERM, ERR
    #  NOTE1: - 9/KILL cannot be trapped.
    #+        - 0/EXIT isn't trapped because:
    #+          - with ERR trap defined, trap would be called twice on error
    #+          - with ERR trap defined, syntax errors exit with status 0, not 2
    #  NOTE2: Setting ERR trap does implicit `set -o errexit' or `set -e'.
trap onexit 1 2 3 15 ERR


#--- onexit() -----------------------------------------------------
#  @param $1 integer  (optional) Exit status.  If not set, use `$?'

function onexit() {
    local exit_status=${1:-$?}
    echo Exiting $0 with $exit_status
    exit $exit_status
}



# myscript



    # Allways call `onexit' at end of script
onexit

http://www.gfxcoder.us/wiki/programming/bash

2010-08-27T01:26:00.000+02:00

Handy BASH reference (link)

robust script writing (link)

lockfile

lockfile a.lock
#do stuff hererm -f a.lock

date (link)

Spicing up your shell script (link)

parameters (link)

Tutorials

misc (link, link)

functions (link)

timing commands

/usr/bin/time -o outfile -v command # prints verbose stats into outfile from running command

BASH internal variables (link)

for loops (link)

for i in 1 2 3 4 5

do

  echo "Welcome $i times"

done



for i in {1..5}

do

  echo "Welcome $i times"

done



for i in {0..10..2} # skip by 2s, only BASH 4.0+

do

  echo "Welcome $i times"

done



for (( c=1; c<=5; c++ ))

do

  echo "Welcome $c times"

done



for i in 1 2 3 4 5

do

  echo "Welcome $i times"

  if ( condition )

  then

    break

  fi

done

# continue - jumps to beginning of loop with next iteration



for file in /etc/*

do

  if [ "${file}" == "/etc/resolv.conf" ]

  then

    echo "file ${file} found!"

  fi

done



files="$@"

for f in $files

do

  if [ -f ${f} ]

  then

    echo "{f} is a file"

  else

    echo "${f} is not a file"

  fi

done

pausing with read (link)

$ read -p "Press enter to quit..."                   # reads one line

$ read -n 1 -p "Press any key to start backup..."    # reads only one char

$ read -n 1 -s -t 5                                  # reads one char, no echo, 5sec timeout

$ read -n 1 -s key                                   # reads one char, no echo, stores in ${key}

terminate commands after timeout (link)

#!/bin/bash
# License: BSD License
# As Example we start 3 production processes in the background
# always record PID in PRODPID

sleep 50 &
PRODPID[1]=$!

sleep 20 &
PRODPID[2]=$!

# multiple processes in a subshell as example
(sleep 20 ; sleep 10 ; sleep 5)&
PRODPID[3]=$!

export PRODPID

# record own PID
export PID=$$

# define exit function
exit_timeout() {
  echo "Timeout. These processes are not finished:"
  for i in ${PRODPID[@]} ; do
   ps -p $i |grep -v "PID TTY TIME CMD"
   if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
   # process still alive
   echo "Sending SIGTERM to process $i"
   kill $i
   fi
  done
  # timeout exit
  exit
}

# Handler for signal USR1 for the timer
trap exit_timeout SIGUSR1

# starting timer in subshell. It sends a SIGUSR1 to the father if it timeouts.
export TIMEOUT=30
(sleep $TIMEOUT ; kill -SIGUSR1 $PID) &

# record PID of timer
TPID=$!

# wait for all production processes to finish
wait ${PRODPID[*]}

# Normal exit
echo "All processes ended normal"

# kill timer
kill $TPID

or (link)

runtime=${1:-1m}
mypid=$
cp /Database/Client_db_200802110231.BAK .&
cpid=$!
sleep $runtime
kill -s SIGTERM $cpid
echo "Both processes are terminated".

catching traps (link)

# trap [commands] [traps]

trap "echo Booh!" SIGINT SIGTERM

aoeu

Index Of Private Tracker Abbreviations & Short Names

2010-08-24T17:00:00.000+02:00

Whether you’re a seasoned torrent veteran or brand new to the world of private trackers, it helps to know what site is being referred to in a giveaway. As you’re probably aware, Inviters often use short abbreviations or acronyms for private trackers in torrent forums, instead of using the long official site name or URL. This is usually due to convenience, and sometimes even for the security of the tracker.

A similar index of private tracker abbreviations can be found elsewhere, but it badly needed an overhaul with all the latest trackers. Here’s an alphabetical list of more than 200 private torrent tracker abbreviations, site names and URLs.

Abbreviation: Tracker Name: Tracker URL:

3SP Emerald Speeds http://emerald-speeds.com

A4N All4Nothin http://all4nothin.net

ACE Ace Torrents http://www.acetorrents.net

ADC AsianDVDClub http://asiandvdclub.org

A-L / ACiD Acid Lounge

AOM Art of Misdirection http://artofmisdirection.com

AOMK AOM Killer http://www.aomk1.com

AR AniRena http://www.anirena.com

ARM Tracker Torrent ARM http://torrent-arm.net

AZT AudioZoneTorrents http://audiozonetorrents.com

BB Blue-Bytez http://www.blue-bytez.com

BB BakedBits http://bakedbits.org

BCG Blackcat’s Games http://www.blackcats-games.net

BeLoad BeLoad Tracker http://beload.hu

BG / bG BitGamer http://www.bitgamer.com

BH BitHUmen

BHDTV Bit-HDTV http://www.bit-hdtv.com

BitHQ Bit HQ http://www.bithq.org

BitMe BitMe.org http://www.bitme.org

BiTT BitTorrents.ro http://bittorrents.ro

BKR Black Revolution http://www.blackrevolution.ro

BlackZ BlackZ v2.0 http://blackz.ro

BMT BM Torrents http://bmtorrents.net

BMTV BitMeTV http://www.bitmetv.org

BN / BiTN BitNation (Closed)

BS BrokenStones http://brokenstones.me

BS BitSpyder http://www.bitspyder.net

BS BitSoup http://www.bitsoup.org

BSC Be A Scener (Closed)

BSk BitShock http://www.bitshock.org

BT BoxTorrents http://www.boxtorrents.com

BT BootyTorrents http://bootytorrents.com

Bt-Arg / BTArg BT ARG v6.0 http://www.btarg.com.ar

BTS BitSources http://bitsources.com

BtTrove Bt Trove http://www.bttrove.org

BWT / BwT Bollywood Torrents http://www.bwtorrents.com

CC Cartoon Chaos http://www.cartoonchaos.org

CCZ Classic Cinema Zone http://classiccinemazone.com

CE CoExist http://coexist.in

CG Cinemageddon http://cinemageddon.org

CO Cinema-Obscura http://www.secret-cinema.net

C-P Community-Palace http://community-palace.co.uk

CT Chronic Tracker http://chronictracker.com

CT Christian Torrents http://christiantorrents.com

CZONE / C-Zone Torrents CZone http://torrents.czone.ro

DB9 DeepBassNine http://www.deepbassnine.com

DCT Desi Club Torrents http://dctorrent.com

DDT DidiDave http://dididave.com

DH Digital Hive http://www.digitalhive.org

Diwana Diwana.org http://www.diwana.org

DNB Drum & Bass Tracker http://dnbtracker.org

DP DecodeR.lv http://decoder.lv

DPN DesiPirates.net (Closed)

DS DarkSide

DT DesiTorrents http://desitorrents.com

DU Dynamic-Universe http://www.dynamic-universe.net

Elek Elektronik http://tracker.elektronik.ro

Emp Empornium http://empornium.us

ET Eclipse-Torrents http://www.eclipsetorrents.org

EvoPT / EPT EvolutionPT http://www.evopt.org

eXb ExtremeBits http://www.extremebits.org

FB FinBytes http://finbytes.org

FCZ Full Contact Zone http://fullcontactzone.tv

FF FunFile http://www.funfile.org

FileBits FileBits.org http://www.filebits.org

FL FileList http://filelist.ro

FS FileSoup http://filesoup.com

FS FileShare.lv http://fileshare.lv

FT FatalTracker http://fataltracker.com

FTM Face The Music

FTS / F.T.S FreeTheScene http://www.freethescene.net

FTV FeedTV http://feedtv.org (Down?)

Fux0r / HFU Hey Fux0r http://hey.fux0r.eu

FZ FileZone.ro http://www.filezone.ro

GFT GFTracker

GFX GFXNews http://www.gfxnews.ru

GTI Grab The Info http://www.grabthe.info

HDB / HDBits HDBits.org http://hdbits.org

HD-Bits HD-Bits.ro http://hd-bits.ro

HDC HD Corea (Closed)

HDT HD-Torrents http://www.hd-torrents.org

HGZ / HgZone Hg Zone http://hgzone.ro

HT Heaven Tracker http://www.heaventracker.org

ICT / ict ICTorrent http://www.ictorrent.com

iDr Indep. Desi Releasers http://www.idesir.com

Interfilm Interfilm.nu http://interfilm.nu

iPlay iPlay.ro http://iplay.ro

iPWN iPWN Music / FileScene (Closed)

IPT IP Torrents http://www.iptorrents.com

IT Indie Torrents http://www.indietorrents.com

iTune iTune.ro http://www.itune.ro

KBit K***Bit

KG Karagarga http://karagarga.net

KWS KillaWaveS http://killawaves.org

LB LearnBits http://learnbits.me

LL LeechersLair http://www.leecherslair.com

LM Linkomanija http://www.linkomanija.net

LT Lithuania Tracker http://torrent.lt

LTS Love The Scene http://lovethescene.net

LzTr LzTr.us http://www.lztr.us

M&S Moobs & Speedfire http://www.moobs.hu

MB4T MoviesB4Time http://moviesb4time.biz

MGM MakeGreatMusic http://www.makegreatmusic.net

MMA MMA-Tracker http://mma-tracker.net

MT MusicTorrents http://music-torrents.ro

MT Mac-Torrents (Public) http://www.mac-torrents.com

M-V / MusicVids MusicVids http://music-vid.com

NB Norbits (Closed)

nCore nCore http://ncore.cc

Nordic-T Nordic-T http://nordic-t.org

NT NTorrents.net http://ntorrents.net

Ozone / Ozone-T Ozone Torrents http://www.ozone-torrents.org

PAT Pro Audio Torrents http://www.proaudiotorrents.org

Pedro’s Pedro’s BTMusic http://btmusic.eu

Peers Peers.ro http://peers.ro

P-L Python’s Lair http://www.pythons-lair.com

PL PolishLeech http://polishleech.pl

POiNTX PoiNTX Music Tracker http://share.pointx.ro

PP PeerPortal http://peerportal.org

PS PolishSource http://www.polishsource.org

PS2-T PS2PTT http://ps2ptt.com

PT PolishTracker http://polishtracker.org

PT / PirateT PirateTorrents http://piratetorrents.nu

PTF PT Files http://ptfiles.org

PTM PreToMe http://pretome.net

PtP / PTP PassThePopcorn http://www.passthepopcorn.org

PWT Pro Wrestling Torrents http://special.pwtorrents.net

Rb Rushbits (Closed)

Rb / RBy RandomBytes http://www.randombytes.org

RDS Zone RDS Zone http://rds-zone.ro

RevTT RevolutionTT http://revolutiontt.net

RMVB RMVBusters http://rmvbusters.pl

RMT Romanian Metal Torrents http://metal.iplay.ro

ROT RoTorrent http://www.rotorrent.ro

RP Rautaportti.net http://rautaportti.net

RP ReloadParadise http://www.reload-paradise.net

RS RapidShare (not a tracker)

RsR Romanian Share Reactor http://tracker.sharereactor.ro

rSR ShareReactor http://www.sharereactor.ru

RTN RlsTheNet http://www.rlsthe.net

RTSHQ Respect the Seed (Closed)

S-C / SC Secret-Cinema http://www.secret-cinema.net

SCHD SceneHD http://scenehd.org

SciFi SciFiTorrents http://www.scifitorrents.net

scl SceneLinks http://mobile.scenelinks.ro

SCMT SatClubbing http://satclubbing.info

ScP ScenePalace http://scenepalace.org

ScR SceneRace http://scenerace.net

sFZ SceneFZ http://scenefz.ro

S-I Scene-Inspired http://www.scene-inspired.com

SITR Smoking In The Rain http://www.smokingintherain.us

SoftT SoftTorrents.org https://www.softtorrents.org

SP ScenePirates http://www.scenepirates.com

SSC Sport-Scene http://www.sport-scene.net

ST SuperTorrents http://supertorrents.org

StB SyncTheBits http://www.syncthebits.com

STC SaveTheCoratee http://savethecoratee.org

STM STMusic http://www.stmusic.org

TBits / TBS TorrentBits http://www.torrentbits.ro

TB TheBox.bz http://thebox.bz

TB / TBy TorrentBytes http://www.torrentbytes.net

TC TehConnection http://tehconnection.eu

TCS The Candy Store http://www.thecandy-store.org

TD Torrent-Damage http://torrent-damage.net

TDC TheDVDClub http://thedvdclub.org

TGB TGBTD http://tgbtd.com

ThB ThorBiTS http://www.thorbits.org

THC TheHorrorCharnel http://horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org

Thor/Thorsland Ethor http://ethor.net

Tik Cinematik http://cinematik.net

TiP TheIotaProject http://theiotaproject.org

TiT TorrentiT http://www.torrentit.eu

TK TorrentKids http://www.torrentkids.org

TL TorrentLeech http://www.torrentleech.org

TLp TorrentLeech.pl http://torrentleech.pl

TM TribalMixes http://www.tribalmixes.com

TMB The Mixing Bowl http://themixingbowl.org

Torrential Torrential.ws http://www.torrential.ws

TorrentCity TorrentCity http://torrentcity.nimda.ro

ToxicT / TT Toxic Torrents http://www.toxictorrents.com

TP ThePlace.bz http://theplace.bz

TPB ThePirateBay http://thepiratebay.org (public)

TR TranceRoute http://www.tranceroute.com

TrB / TRB TranceBooster http://trancebooster.net

TrHR / THR TorrentHr http://www.torrenthr.org

TS TS-Tracker https://tracker.optus.nu

TT TranceTraffic http://www.trancetraffic.com

TTech / TTC TorrenTech http://www.torrentech.org

TTF TT Filles http://www.ttfilles.com

TTi TTi.nu http://www.tti.nu

TV TheVault.bz http://thevault.bz

TV TorrentVault http://www.torrentvault.org

TVT TV Torrents.com http://tvtorrents.com

TvT.ro TV Torrents.ro / Freshon.tv http://freshon.tv

TVV TV-Vault http://tv-vault.org

UG Underground Gamer http://underground-gamer.com

Vortex Vortex Network http://www.vortexnetwork.org

WB Wild-Bytes http://www.wild-bytes.org

What What.cd http://what.cd

x264 x264.me http://x264.me

XBS XBOX-SKY http://bt.xbox-sky.cc

XD xXx-Devil http://xXxdevil.dyn.pl

XNT Excellent.nu http://www.xnt.nu

XZ / XtZ xTremeZone http://www.xtremezone.ro

XWT Xtreme Wrestling Torrents www.xtremewrestlingtorrents.net

Zomb ZOMB Torrents http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com

FSF respects the wishes of private trackers that do not want to be identified. Please do not post private site abbreviations that are meant to be kept secret.

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27 responses for this post

01 • Yehhanyos Says:

26.02.09 at 2:07 am

Thanks a lot for putting these abbreviations together Seems like you didn’t miss anything

02 • name Says:

26.02.09 at 2:30 am

there is many good trackers tht u hvnt wrote

dvdseed, polishleech, itd.

03 • name Says:

26.02.09 at 2:31 am

filelis.org, fileporn, filemp3 ?? thx for the list

04 • me Says:

26.02.09 at 2:33 am

Seems like you didn’t miss anything

lol

05 • NAME Says:

26.02.09 at 4:04 am

Seems like you missed two of the major (albeit very small and exclusive) trackers…

06 • a/s/l Says:

26.02.09 at 4:26 am

@asl (clearly not the real a/s/l)

“FSF respects the wishes of private trackers that do not want to be identified. Please do not post private site abbreviations that are meant to be kept secret.”

you really are a dick. besides, by the time that joining one of those trackers is an option, you’ll already know what they stand for, so putting those in that list would be pointless.

although, those “secret” acronyms really are the worst kept secrets in bittorrent….

07 • fuckyou Says:

26.02.09 at 5:32 am

a/s/l Says: 26.02.09 at 4:26 am

A/S/L you are a dumb cunt. This site has proven time and time again they dont give a shit about sites and their wishes!

08 • Diji1 Says:

26.02.09 at 7:00 am

“A/S/L you are a dumb cunt. This site has proven time and time again they dont give a shit about sites and their wishes!”

Right - hence the message saying the complete opposite you tard.

09 • Simplicity Says:

26.02.09 at 7:44 am

Good job sharky, this article is very helpful when there is some of the abbreviations i don’t recall what stands for.

Just the fact that fsf can find abbreviations about trackers that is supposed to be secret, means they are not secret.

It is also in my opinion that it is a lame idea about “secret” bittorrent sites, since it is not a problem for the mpaa, riaa or whatever they are called to find them, and be sure about them being on all of the sites.

But even though i think it is pretty stupid idea about secret sites, and sites that dont want to mentioned. i still respect their wishes on my own tracker list.

I list all the trackers i can find, and leave out the few i know for certain dont like to be listed.

I might list some that dont like to be linked, but i do remove sites from my list now and then if it is requested by the siteops.

Keep up the good job Sharky.

010 • QWert123 Says:

26.02.09 at 10:13 am

M&S Moobs & Speedfire and BeLoad are the same!

Beload is the new name.

011 • Poissson Says:

26.02.09 at 10:34 am

Sharky obviously “forgot” some voluntarily… Some that it’s certain he knows about.

I think he knows what he’s doing.

012 • Guess Says:

26.02.09 at 1:38 pm

RsR Romanian Share Reactor http://www.sharereactor.ro -> its worng the adress is

http://tracker.sharereactor.ro

013 • Chris Says:

26.02.09 at 4:10 pm

srsly, how is sct not there

014 • woll smoth Says:

26.02.09 at 11:54 pm

A4n had a server move and they are back up

015 • Name Says:

27.02.09 at 6:06 am

Scenetorrents don’t want to be identified, just like exigo.. whoops

why post this list in public?

016 • Hugs Says:

27.02.09 at 9:22 am

Let’s be serious guys… how a site with 2000 or more members can be known as “secret” ?… It lacks too much trackers to make this list useful, even for a begginer who can find the existence of ScT and buy an invite in 10min on the web

017 • butters Says:

27.02.09 at 11:36 pm

Thanks Sharky for the info i love you.

018 • guest Says:

28.02.09 at 2:25 am

If its on internet its not secret LOL

019 • It's a secret Says:

28.02.09 at 9:20 am

This secrecy bullshit is pathetic. If you think you can keep things significantly quiet on the internet then your head is in the clouds. The mere fact that there’s a bunch of people here saying “such and such has been left out because it’s a secret” proves it. Information is like gas and will expand into all accessible areas. It may be thin in areas but it is available and there’s nothing you can do about it.

020 • lucia Says:

28.02.09 at 3:51 pm

Yeah, all that worst kept secret ‘tracker that dare not speak its name’ shite and fake login pages are utterly pointless. They might want to remain nameless but we’ve all seen posts where ppl have named them publicly, just to piss the leeties off.

Anyone who can use google can find out in 2 mins what FTN/FTWR/SCT/UK-T and the rest all stand for, and their url’s.

And do they really think that antipiracy peeps can’t get themselves invited to these sites?

021 • trancebllu Says:

20.06.09 at 4:23 pm

HgZone.ro opened sign-ups for a limited time only.

022 • tmd Says:

20.06.09 at 4:24 pm

Thanks man :X super tracker super staff HGZONE :x:x:x:xx::xx:x:x:x LOVE YA

023 • ROCKY Says:

20.06.09 at 4:25 pm

http://hgzone.ro/signup.php

024 • EsS Says:

10.11.09 at 3:29 pm

very new 0day site with freeleech and relaxed seeding rules of 36 hours or 1.1 ratio

025 • EsS Says:

10.11.09 at 3:31 pm

http://definitive-scene.com

forgot the link lol

026 • Jules Mainey Says:

03.04.10 at 12:00 am

I really enjoyed read your article, very interesting …

027 • BETTY Says:

23.04.10 at 12:29 am

I appreciate your blog posting. Will be back for more later.

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We’ve come up with a colossal list of more than 1,000 private trackers. After countless requests for it, we finally got around to putting all of our listed private trackers on one page. You won’t find a more complete collection anywhere else on the ‘Net. As of date of publication - July 25/08 - all trackers are online. In most instances, trackers with less than 50 active torrents were not included here. This page is now the new master tracker list for FSF, as everything is added here and thus kept up-to-date.

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http://www.economyofsound.com

http://www.edgeoftheworld.net

http://electrostyle.lv - 10/13/08

Exigo — External [1]

http://www.filemp3.org

http://filescene.ro (iPWN Music) - CLOSED

http://forums.sidewalkcrusaders.com

FTM - Newer (& very private) music tracker

http://www.fullcaliber.be/tracker/

http://gdtorrent.com (Green Day) - 08/28/08

http://global-sets.com

http://www.grimetorrent.com

http://www.gunnersplaza.com

http://www.funkytorrents.com

http://hhbase.net

http://www.hungercity.org

http://hunterbt.com (Chile/Arg)

http://www.indietorrents.com

http://jamtothis.com

http://www.keitex.net/

http://www.kerrazy-torrents.net

http://kraytracker.com

http://www.libble.com

http://lossless.com.ua (Ukr/Eng)

http://www.lztr.us/gazelle/ (New Gazelle Music Tracker) - 10/06/08

http://www.makegreatmusic.net

http://megfilm.lv (Lat)

https://melomaniacos.com

http://metalbits.org

http://metal.iplay.ro

http://www.metallifukinca.com

http://metalsharing.mine.nu

http://metal-torrents.hopto.org

http://www.mixermusic.net

http://mixes.dfx.at

http://www.mp3nerds.org

http://musicbits.net

http://music.chill.lv

http://www.musicpandesia.com

http://musicplace.lv

http://music-vid.com

http://www.onemoresolo.net

http://private.pyrotorrents.org

http://psytorrents.info

http://punkoiska.com

http://www.punktorrents.com

http://www.purelivegigs.com

http://rapthe.net

http://rockbox.psychocydd.co.uk

http://www.rockout-boogie.com/rock-out/ - 09/04/08

http://satclubbing.info

http://www.seederheaven.co.uk

http://shellife.eu

http://shnflac.net

http://www.smithstorrents.co.uk

http://softmp3.org

http://soundplace.net

http://stmusic.org

http://www.tapecity.org

http://www.tapedown.com

http://www.thehiptracker.com

http://themixingbowl.org

http://thetradersden.org

http://www.torrentazos.com

http://www.torrentech.org

http://torrent.genesis-movement.org

http://torrent.janemusic.org

http://torrents.ah.fm

http://torrents.soundarea.org

http://tracker.elektronik.ro

http://www.tracker.gunsnroses.us

http://tracker.rtsr.net

http://tracker.sneakyvidz.com

http://tracker.toritraders.com

http://www.trancebits.com

http://trancebooster.net

http://www.tranceroute.com

http://www.trancetraffic.com [1]

http://tribalmixes.com

http://www.u2torrents.com

http://www.ugstorrents.com

http://waffles.fm

http://waxtrax.org/forum/

http://what.cd

http://www.yeeshkul.com

http://zombtracker.the-zomb.com

TV Trackershttp://bb-tv.org - 07/27/08

http://www.bitmetv.org

http://www.bit-hdtv.com

http://bitt.tv

http://www.cartoonchaos.org

http://cartoonmenace.com

http://diwana.org

http://feedtv.org

http://www.humour-me.org (TV and movies)

http://lost-episodes.ath.cx - 09/29/08

http://lostfilm.tv (Rus)

http://www.myspleen.net

http://www.swetv.org

http://thebox.bz

http://www.torrentsrmine.org/v2/

http://totalchaos.me.uk

http://tracker.all-series.com (Fre)

http://www.ttoktv.com

http://tv-qc.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://tvrss.net

http://tv.torrents.ro

http://tvtorrents.com

http://tvtorrentz.org

http://tv-vault.org - 08/11/08

http://uknova.com

http://xtvi.com (public)

HD TrackersThese trackers cater to all things Hi-Def, usually including a mix of films, TV and lossless music.

http://bbs.cnxp.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=258

http://hdbits.org

http://www.hd-bits.ro

http://hdbt.pl (Pol) - 08/29/08

http://www.hdcity.es (Spa)

http://www.hd-corea.org

http://hd-t.es (Spa)

http://hd-torrents.org

http://hdcenter.ath.cx

http://www.hdfrench.com

http://www.hd-il.com (Heb/Isr) - 10/08/08

http://www.hdsource.biz

http://hdtracker.lv (Lat/Eng)

http://hdtracker.ru

http://www.hdtransmission.com

http://hq-films.ws (Rus) - 09/06/08

http://hq-torrents.net (Tur/Eng)

http://scenehd.org

http://sdbits.org

https://subtracker.net

http://tracker.hdclub.com.ua

http://x264.eu

Movie / DVD Trackershttp://www.arabfilms.org

http://asiandvdclub.org

http://www.bithq.org

http://bt.avistaz.com

http://bt.dvdquorum.es

http://cinemageddon.org

http://www.cinemanija.com

http://cinematik.net

http://classicdvd.mine.nu (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://divxtracker.org

http://www.dvd-excellium.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://dvdseed.org

http://dvdtreasure.eu

http://www.filmbits.net

http://www.film-torrents.nl

http://goem.org

http://www.horrorcharnel.kicks-ass.org

http://karagarga.net

http://moviesite.hu (Hun)

http://movietorrents.org (and TV)

http://nordicdvdr.org

http://www.pretorians.net (Hun)

PTN — External [1]

http://restricted-zone.org

http://rmvbusters.pl

http://www.scenemovies.org - New Gazelle tracker - 09/09/08

http://www.secret-cinema.net (new Cinema-Obscura site/URL)

http://sharefilles.com

https://showbits.org

http://speed.cd

http://www.swedvdr.org

http://tecknat.net (Swe/Eng) - Movies/TV - 08/13/08

http://www.tehconnection.eu

http://www.thedvdclub.org

http://torrentmovie.info (Pol) - Mostly Movies - 08/15/08

Scene / 0Day Trackershttp://beascener.com - 08/11/08

http://bithumen.us

http://bitnation.com

http://www.bitsoup.org

http://bittorrents.ro

http://digitalhive.org

http://ethor.net (Fre)

FSC

FTN — External [1]

FTWR — External [1] [2]

G*T — External [1] [2]

iFi — External [1] [2]

http://indep.eu (Hun)

http://iplay.ro — External [1]

iTS

http://ncore.us (Hun)

PeerPortal

http://polishtracker.org (Pol)

http://www.revolutiontt.net

http://rushbits.org

http://www.scenebytes.cl

SCC — External [1] [2]

ScL — External [1]

ScT — External [1] [2] [3]

GFT

http://torrents.czone.ro

TorrentLeech

https://tracker.optus.nu (TS-Tracker) — External [1]

http://tracker.sharereactor.ro

http://www.tti.nu — External [1]

U*-T — External [1] [2]

Apps / Software Trackershttp://appz.bitshock.org - 07/29/08

http://www.appzuniverse.org

http://audiotracer.com

http://audiozonetorrents.com

http://bitrefinery.eu

http://brokenstones.me - 08/10/08

http://www.bttrove.org

http://www.emaczone.com

http://forum.audionews.ru

http://forum.gfxnews.ru

http://linuxmafia.net

http://linuxtracker.org

http://www.mac-torrents.com

http://mobile.scenelinks.ro - 10/11/08 - Mobile Appz

http://www.mytracker.ru

http://www.proaudiotorrents.org

http://syncthebits.com - 08/30/08 - Mobile Appz

http://templatep2p.com/forum/

http://www.templateshares.org

http://torrent.pimpyourmobile.info

http://www.tuxdistro.com

http://www.vortexnetwork.org

Games Trackershttp://www.awtorrent.net

http://www.bestpokertorrents.com

http://bitgamer.com

http://blackcats-games.net

http://bt.xbox-sky.com

http://www.gamestorrents.com

http://gctracker.mine.nu:800

http://my-gamebox.com

http://ntorrents.net

http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk

http://ps2ptt.com

http://savethecoratee.org - New Mac Tracker! - 08/02/08

http://www.speltorrents.se

http://www.thepokerbay.org

http://torrentgaming.net

http://tracker.playmanija.net

http://www.underground-gamer.com

http://www.vigorish.ru (Russian Poker Tracker/Board)

http://xbox.udp.at

eLearning TrackersTrackers listed here include self-help sites, personal improvement & documentaries.

http://www.bitme.org

http://bitseduce.com

http://bitspyder.net

http://biztorrents.com

http://docs.torrents.ro

http://www.ebookvortex.com - Now back up! - 08/01/08

http://ebookshare.net (public)

http://elbitz.net

http://forums.mvgroup.org

http://www.learnbits.info

http://onebigtorrent.org

http://www.seductiongr.com

http://textbooktorrents.com - CLOSED

http://theplace.bz/signup.php

http://www.thevault.bz

http://www.zinebytes.org

Adult / Pr0n TrackersIt should be noted that some of these are public trackers (marked with a *)

http://www.adult-cinema-network.net

http://adultsins.net

http://bitfactory.dyn.pl

http://bitlove.hu (Hun)

http://www.blue-bytez.com

http://bmtorrents.net

http://www.bootylounge.org

http://www.bootytorrents.com

http://empornium.us

http://eroticsource.pl

http://faplife.net

http://fileporn.org

http://www.girlongirltorrents.com

http://hey.fux0r.eu / http://gazelle.fux0r.eu - 07/27/08

http://homemadeporntorrents.com

http://interporno.ru

http://www.italiansexy.net

http://www.jam-bits.com

http://www.kingdomxxx.com

http://lesbians4u.org

http://www.malacka.com (Hun)

http://www.nutorrent.com *

http://www.ozone-porn.org - 08/08/08

http://www.pinkytorrents.com

http://www.porn-downloads.org *

http://pornbay.org

http://www.pornbb.org

http://pornbits.net

http://pornevo.com

http://www.pornofive.com

http://pornoplace.org

http://pornorip.net

http://www.porntorrents.ws *

http://puretna.com

http://www.pussytorrents.org

http://www.sceneit.org

http://www.sexotorrent.com

http://sex.rakebackoffers.org

http://www.sexybits.net *

http://tgbpd.com - 08/28/08

http://www.torrent69.net *

http://www.torrentesx.com

http://vergs.lv

http://xxxdevil.dyn.pl

http://xxx.lovethescene.net - 09/05/08

http://www.xxxtorrent.com *

Sports TrackersSites listed here include wrestling, MMA, motorsports, racing, extreme sports, etc.

http://www.basket-torrent.webpark.pl

http://www.bestmmatorrents.com - 07/29/08

http://bit-sports.org

http://bt.davka.info

http://www.bwtorrents.com

http://www.extremebits.org

http://www.fbtz.com

http://www.grabthe.info

http://leech.tenyardtorrents.com

http://mma-tracker.net

http://www.motorworld.net

http://www.nhltorrents.co.uk

http://piranha.excom.us

http://www.prosporttorrents.net

http://www.racing-underground.com

http://special.pwtorrents.net

http://www.sportbit.org

http://www.sport-scene.net

http://t3nnis.tv - 07/29/08

http://tc-boxing.com

http://www.tennistorrents.com

http://torrents.huntparkinsider.com

http://torrents.rally-club.net (Rus/Eng) - 07/29/08

http://tracker.fullcontactzone.com

http://www.wctorrents.net

http://worldboxingvideoarchive.com

http://www.wrestling-gigant.com (Fre)

http://www.wwtorrents.net

http://xtremewrestlingtorrents.net

http://xwt-classics.net

Miscellaneous TrackersA list of all other trackers that don’t fit anywhere else. Magic, radio, comics, conspiracy theories, spiritual.

http://artofmisdirection.com

http://cheops.fm

http://www.comicsearch.co.uk

http://conspiracycentral.net:6969

http://darkdata.net

http://libitina.net

http://www.magiciantorrents.com

http://www.media-underground.net/tracker/

http://www.pianosheets.org

http://www.pretorians.net

http://radioarchive.cc

http://www.spirit-tracker.org

http://torrentchannel.com

http://torrent.virtualplace.ro

http://tracker.conspiracyresearch.org

http://zcultfm.com/~comic/

Anime/Raws/Fansub Trackershttp://www.aenianos.com.br

http://www.anime5stars.org/tor/ (Saudi) - 08/08/08

http://www.anime-legion.net

http://www.animesuki.com

http://www.asianload.com

http://www.at-tracker.org - 08/08/08

http://www.boxtorrents.com

http://bt.saiyaman.info

http://www.fansubber.org - 07/29/08

http://forums.darkside-raws.net

http://gendou.com (music)

http://www.haitou.org

http://www.hongfire.com

http://inkognito.animeforge.ru

http://www.l33t-raws.org

http://www.majin2007.com

http://over-easy.net/tracker/

http://www.tokyotosho.com

http://torrents.ebrain.com.br

http://tracker.anirena.com

http://tracker.animasub.ru

http://www.tracker.datorrents.com

http://tracker.frontalweb.com.ar

http://u2.dmhy.org (Chi) - 10/15/08

http://uk-anime.co.uk

General TrackersEverything else is listed here. Brackets indicate native country/language. Some are subdomains. Trackers with less than 50 torrents were left off the list.

http://www.1337x.org - 08/04/08

http://216.117.138.50/p2pworld/

http://www.2bbit.com (Thai)

http://420project.org

http://abetterplace2b.org - 07/29/08

http://acetorrents.net

http://www.acid-lounge.org.uk

http://advbt.lv (Lat)

http://aftermath-torrents.org

http://www.algerian-torrents.com

http://all4nothin.net

http://www.alleenretail.org (Neth)

http://www.alltor.org (Neth)

http://almighty-dreamz.se (Neth)

http://alt.bitworld.to (Ger)

http://altermind.net

http://www.amicidelmuretto.org (Ita) - 10/06/08

http://www.amazingfast.org (Neth)

http://amazing-news.se (Neth)

http://www.ankertor.org (Neth)

http://www.arabicgate.org

http://www.arabseries.org - 08/08/08

http://arab-torrents.org

http://www.araditracker.com

http://arenabg.com (Bul)

http://www.arena-tr.com (Tur) - 08/08/08

http://www.atomico-torrent.com (Ita/Eng) - 07/29/08

http://avatarbg.info (Bul)

http://www.awtorrent.net

http://www.b2s-share.com (Bra)

http://badamoi.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://badbits.org

http://www.baltracker.net

http://www.banglatorrents.com (Bangladesh) - 07/29/08

http://bd-t.net (Hun)

http://bemaniso.ws

http://www.bestshare.ro

http://besttracker.cz (Cze)

http://www.bewildandout.org (Neth)

http://www.bigtorrent.hu (Hun)

http://bikkuri-torrent.com (Jap/Eng) - 07/29/08

http://www.bit66.com (Thai) - 07/28/08

http://www.bit-latino.com (Chile)

http://bitaddict.org (Fin)

http://www.bitbarat.org (Hun)

http://bitcaesar.eu (Hun)

http://bitchil.com (Chile)

http://bitcity.hu (Hun)

http://www.bitdown.org (Ita) - 07/29/08

http://bitemytorrent.com - 07/28/08

http://www.bitflamers.com (Spa)

http://bitgate.org (Hun)

http://www.bitgoon.com/bit/ (Thai)

http://www.bithorlo.hu

http://www.bitmaniacks.com - 09/22/08

http://bitmanija.net (Lith) - 07/28/08

http://bit.ruabruam.com (Thai) - 07/28/08

http://bitsources.com - 07/31/08

http://bitspace.dyndns.org:6560

http://www.bit-stream.lv (Lat) - 09/10/08

http://bittorrentfiles.dyn.pl (Ger)

http://bit.trackerfile.com

http://bitremors.altervista.org

http://www.bitturk.com (Tur)

http://www.bitvaulttorrent.com (Ita)

http://bitvn.net (Viet)

http://www.bitxtreme.org

http://bj-share.net (Brazil)

http://blackholl.net

http://blackspeed-torrents.hopto.org (Ger)

http://blackz.ro

http://www.blades-heaven.com

http://www.bluetigers.fr

http://www.blues-team.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://www.bluetorrent.hu (Hun)

http://blue-whitegt.com (Gre)

http://www.bltor.com - 07/28/08

http://bqbt.net (Rus)

http://www.brainspot.info

http://www.brasiltorrents.com

http://brtbros.org (Bra) - 08/09/08

http://www.btarg.com.ar

http://bt-geras.com (Lith)

http://btgigs.info (Pol)

http://www.btnext.com (Portugal)

http://btr.kz (Kazakhstan)

http://www.bt-revolution.net (Portugal) - 09/19/08

http://www.bwtorrents.com (Desi)

http://bt.wrzru.com (Bul)

http://btzone.org

http://bytecollectors.com

http://calarasitracker.com

http://camicaze.hu (Hun) - 07/29/08

http://www.canadiantorrent.com

http://ccfbits.org (China) - 08/21/08

http://www.central-torrents.com

http://childbytes.eu - 09/01/08

http://www.chiletorrent.cl (Chile)

http://chilebtt.cl (Chile/Spa)

http://christiantorrents.com

http://chronictracker.com

http://cinemastore.hu (Hun)

http://www.cixxo.ch/btit/ (Ita) - External Torrents - 07/29/08

http://clonebits.org

http://comablack.org (Bul/Eng) - 07/29/08

http://www.community-palace.co.uk

http://connection.lt (Lith)

http://contego.ws

http://craiovatracker.com

http://www.crazysaloon.com (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://crazytorrent.eu (Bul) - 07/28/08

http://crete-tracker.com

http://www.crimebt.lv (Lat)

http://crnaberza.com (Serb)

http://www.c-traker.ro (Rom/Eng) - 09/06/08

http://cyber-angels-tracker.bpa.nu

http://cyberbytez.cjb.net

http://cyber-drugari.com (Serb) - 09/01/08

http://www.danger.lv (Lat)

https://danishbits.org

http://danishtorrents.org - 07/27/08

http://darkbitz.com

http://www.darktorrents.ro

http://data-force.net

http://www.dctorrent.com (Desi)

http://deathlord.eu (Hun)

http://www.decoder.lv (Lat)

http://deepseek.net (Bul/Eng)

http://www.demonoid.com

http://desi6.com (Desi Forum-style tracker) - 10/06/08

http://desibbrg.com/forums/ (Desi)

http://desipirates.net (Desi)

http://www.desitorrents.com (Desi)

http://www.desoftwaregigant.org (Neth)

http://www.devilbit.com (Thai)

http://deviloid.net

http://www.devilwolfs.com

http://diablotorrent.hu (Hun)

http://dididave.com

http://www.digdogdug.net

http://www.digi-tor.org (Neth)

http://djluv.in/board/ (Desi Forum-style tracker) - 09/25/08

http://djtorrentlive.co.uk

http://www.downrev.net (Heb)

http://www.doxma.com (Spa/Eng)

http://www.dromeda.net

http://www.dutchrevenge.org

http://dynamictorrents.radixhosting.com

http://www.eclipsetorrents.org

http://efftracker.ath.cx (Ger) - 08/05/08

http://www.egytorrent.com

http://elitebits.org

http://elite-scene.net (Fre)

http://www.e-mode.ro

http://energy-torrent.com (Bul)

http://e-torrent.net (Lith)

http://error.gs (Serb)

http://www.eurobits.se (Swe)

http://www.eurobits.si (Slov)

http://evopt.org (Portugal)

http://exdesi.com (Desi)

http://exitorrent.eu (Pol)

http://exitrack.webd.pl (Pol)

http://www.extremebits.org

http://www.estrenoslatinos.com (Spa)

http://extremeshare.org

http://fak-uoi.gr/tracker/ (Gre)

http://fano.lv (Lat)

http://www.fast-tracker.net (Rom) - 07/31/08

http://fat.lv (Lat)

http://fataltracker.com

http://www.fcsteaua.ro - 07/28/08

http://fdd.ro (Rom) - 10/08/08

http://feel-free.ro - 08/16/08

http://file.lv (Lat)

http://fileagency.lir.dk (Ger)

http://www.filebag.info (Lat)

http://www.filebase.lv (Lat)

http://filebits.org (Slo)

http://fileget.si (Slo)

http://www.filelist.org

http://filelist.ro

http://file-mania.ro

http://fileshare.lv (Lat)

http://www.filewarez.tv (Bra)

http://filmisland.org

http://www.finvip.org - 08/18/08

http://first.inlove.be (Hun)

http://www.flashtorrents.com.ar (Arg)

http://www.foromtorrent.com (Fre)

http://freaky-appz.co.uk

http://www.freepeer.org (Pol/Eng)

http://freespirit.honeybee4you.com

http://www.freethescene.net

http://friends-torrent.com (Rus)

http://fss.omnilounge.co.uk

http://fttv2.org - 08/08/08

http://www.funfile.org

http://www.funkyplace.org (Neth)

http://www.fusionsense.us - 08/19/08

http://galacticcentral.org

http://gamato.info

http://geotorrents.com (Rus/multi)

http://geotrack.pl (Pol)

http://www.gettorrents.org

http://gigatorrents.tx.hu (Hun)

http://gigatorrents.ws

http://givegig.com (Thai)

http://www.gk-club.info (Rus)

http://globus-tracker.com (Greek/Eng)

http://gods-fatherandson.hopto.org

http://gqtorrent.org (Pol)

http://www.greekbits.org

http://www.greekshare.net (Gre) - 07/29/08

http://greek-tracker.com

http://www.g-services.eu

https://www.guiks.net (Fre)

http://hardcore.life.ee

http://haytorrent.com (Armenian)

http://hdcenter.ath.cx (Ger/Eng)

http://hdchina.org

http://hdpre.ath.cx (Hun)

http://www.hd-spain.com

http://www.hdtor.com (Tur)

http://hdtv-club.net (Bul) - 08/05/08

http://www.hermeticos.org (Spa)

http://hgzone.ro

http://heavens-above.biz - 08/13/08

http://heaventracker.org (Pol/Eng)

http://hebits.net (Hebrew)

http://huntorrent.lame.hu

http://www.hyperbits.org

http://www.icetorrent.ro

http://www.ictorrent.com (Desi)

http://www.idesir.com (Desi)

http://ikkyonline.com (Thai)

http://www.ilovetorrents.com

http://www.imigi.ro

http://www.immortalis-torrents.co.uk - 09/23/08

http://impulsive.hu (Hun)

http://imtorrents.com (India/Eng)

http://www.indeep.biz

http://indianmp3.org

http://www.infierno-advitam.com (Fre)

http://insane.co.hu (Hun)

http://www.ipodtvnova.com

http://www.iptorrents.com

http://www.islamictorrents.net

http://www.itoma.info (Fre)

http://itt.cbr-ro.com

http://www.joined-forces.org (Neth)

http://jopa.cz/tracker/ (Cze) - 08/09/08

http://www.justbits.lv (Lat)

http://kaffee-wellblech.no-ip.info (Ger) - 07/29/08

http://kaktusz.darkstar.hu (Hun)

http://www.kannadatorrents.com

http://kho-torrent.com - 08/18/08

http://www.kickasstorrents.net

http://www.kidsbits.org (Den/Eng)

http://www.kingdom-kvcd.net (forum-style)

http://kinoclub.org (Rus)

http://kinozal.md (Rus) - 10/04/08

http://kinozal.ws (Rus)

http://kt-t.hu (Hun)

http://lanouvelle.cc (Neth)

http://www.lapache.info (Bul/Eng/Multi)

http://www.leecherslair.com

http://www.leechturk.com (Tur) - 07/28/08

http://legendary-torrents.net

http://www.linkomanija.net (Lith)

http://linuxmoviemania.org

http://www.livingtorrents.com

http://luciferadreams.org (Neth)

http://www.luckytorrents.org (Neth)

http://lyjak.waw.pl (Pol)

http://mad-jack.com

http://madsreloaded.dyn.pl (Ger)

http://www.maffiator.org (Neth)

http://mafiabits.net - 08/10/08

http://majaa.net (Desi)

http://www.majomparade.com (Hun)

http://mamietracker.com (Fre)

http://www.maniatorrent.org (Bra) - 08/23/08

http://www.manicomio-share.com (Bra)

http://www.maroctorrent.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://masterstb.com (Bul)

http://maxneeds.z-bg.com

http://mazetorrents.net

http://mazysmadhouse.net

http://mb4t.info

http://www.meerdeler.org (Neth)

http://www.mega-bits.com

http://www.megaups.com

http://www.merc-tech.org

http://metro.netadicts.ro (Rom/Eng)

http://www.metro-torrent.com (Fre) - 07/28/08

http://miacho.org

http://midnight-torrents.com

http://minitm.org

http://mirrortorrents.ru (Rus) - 09/06/08

http://mma-central.org.uk

http://www.mmtorrents.hu (Hun)

http://mojblink.com (Slo/Eng)

http://mononoke-bt.org (Fre)

http://monstertracker.pl (Pol)

http://moobs.hu (Hun/Rom)

http://www.mopje.eu

http://movie-hogs.info - 08/28/08

http://movie-shack.com

http://mpn.freehostia.com

http://www.multreactor.ru (Rus/Eng)

http://www.mytorrent.tv

http://www.nastytorrents.net (Fre)

http://www.nerealus.lt (Lith)

http://www.nfhh.org

http://nordicbits.org

http://nordic-t.org (Denmark/Eng)

http://northernwarriors.net/forum/

http://www.nyaatorrents.org - 07/28/08

http://obbscene.com - 08/08/08

http://www.onderkoffer.org (Ger)

http://www.opennetwork.ro

http://www.openspacetorrent.net

http://www.oradeatrk.ro

http://www.ozone-torrents.org

http://www.p2p.dm (Rom)

http://www.p2pbg.com (Bul)

http://www.p2p-crew.to (Ger)

http://pandopuntokualda.com (Spa) - 07/28/08

http://www.pantherabits.com

http://partis.si (Slov)

https://pbbits.org

http://www.peers.ro

http://phantombitz.com

http://phoenixbg.eu (Bul) - 08/05/08

http://phoenix.demons-eye.net

http://www.phoenix-tk.com (Fre)

http://piratebits.org (Swe)

http://www.pirateclub.hu (Hun)

http://pirateday.hu (Hun)

http://pirateyes.org/v2/ (Fre)

http://piratefiles.se

http://piratescove.uni.cc

http://piratetorrents.nu (Swe)

http://www.pirathub.org (Swe/Fin)

http://pitbulltorrent.eu (Hun) - 09/18/08

http://www.planetshare.org (Bra) - 07/29/08

http://planetorrent.org

http://plaver.org (Kor) - 09/23/08

http://plaver.net (Kor) - 09/23/08

http://podkrovlje.net (Serb/Croa) - 08/19/08

http://pof.hu (Hun)

http://www.poldertor.org (Neth)

http://polishleech.pl

http://polishsource.org

http://www.polskitorrent.pl (Pol)

http://www.potuk.com

http://www.powerscene.org

http://powertorrent.info - 07/27/08

http://pretome.net

http://privatetorrent.org - 08/29/08

http://www.ptfiles.org

http://www.puurhollands.org (Neth)

http://www.quebec-partage.com - 07/29/08

http://quorks.com (Ger)

http://www.randombytes.org

http://rarbg.com (Bul)

http://rautaportti.net (Fin)

http://razorbits.org (Danish)

http://rbhb.be (Hun)

http://rds-zone.ro (Eng/Rom) - 10/09/08

http://www.redbit.hu (Hun)

http://redskunk.org

http://reload-paradise.net (Fre)

http://www.renesanz.eu (Bul) - 07/28/08

http://www.respect-t.net (Hun/Eng)

http://retrobay.dyn.hu - 07/28/08

http://www.rev-headz.com

http://revolt.org.uk

http://revolution-world.com (Hun)

http://roller-tracker.com (Fre/Eng)

http://www.ropelli.org (Fin)

http://www.root-torrents.to (Ger)

http://rstorrent.org.pl (Pol)

http://rtorrent.net (Iceland) - 09/06/08

http://www.rtshq.net

http://rushbits.org

http://savaria.szerverem.hu (Hun) - 09/18/08

http://sb.in.th (Thai)

http://www.sc4-torrent.pl (Pol)

http://www.scaliwags.org

http://www.scanbytes.org

http://www.scene-base.net

http://scenebox.lv (Lat/Eng)

http://www.scenebox.org - 09/23/08 (the old BitSeek.org tracker)

http://www.scene-brasil.com (Bra) - 08/29/08

http://www.scenebytes.co.uk

http://www.scenedemon.com - 08/09/08

http://scenefz.net

http://www.scene-inspired.com

http://www.sceneleech.org

http://www.scenelinks.ro

http://www.scene-machine.org - 10/15/08

http://scene-nation.com

http://www.scenepirates.com

http://scene-shack.co.uk

http://www.sceneshare.net

http://sceneteh.net - 10/08/08

http://scenetracker.org - 09/18/08

http://www.scenetrader.org - 09/19/08

http://scifitorrents.net

http://seeders-team.com/tracker/reg2.php (Por) (*this signup page may change) - 10/14/08

http://www.seederstor.org (Neth)

http://www.seederstracker.pl (Pol)

http://www.seedersunite.net - 07/27/08

https://seedit.org

http://www.seed.lt (Lith)

http://www.seeds-zone.com (Thai) - 07/27/08

http://www.serocity.com (Ger)

http://www.severedbytes.net

http://www.shadow.lv

http://www.shadowtorrents.com

http://www.shared.cl (Spa/Eng)

http://www.sharefury.org

http://share.gbvnet.ro

http://sharego.net

http://share.gamesbv.ro - 09/25/08

http://share.nimda.ro

http://www.sharetorrents.net (Pol)

http://sharingcode.com (Kuwait/Egypt)

http://www.sharing-torrents.com (Fre)

http://www.sherwoodskogen.nu:991 (Swe)

http://shydenrequest.co.uk - 08/21/08

http://www.siambt.com (Thai)

http://www.since.lv (Lat/Eng)

http://slobytes.net

http://www.smokingintherain.us

http://snakebite.oo.lv (Lat)

http://www.snowleech.net (Fre)

http://snowtigers.net (Fre)

http://www.softmupparna.net (Swe)

http://www.solarion.hu (Hun)

http://www.solotrackerdvd.net

http://www.sonofshun.com/forums/

http://www.space-tracker.cz (Cze) - 08/29/08

http://www.spanishtracker.com - 07/28/08

http://spank-d-monkey.com

http://sparksden.org - 09/06/08

http://speedtrack.org

http://spilve.com (Rus)

http://www.spirit-t3am.org (Fre)

http://spiryt.hu (Hun)

http://splinter.hu (Hun)

http://www.starbits.se (Swe)

http://www.steelbits.org (Swe/Eng)

http://www.stormnova.com/v3/

http://streamzone.ru (Rus)

http://streetbits.net (Luxembourg/Slovenia)

http://superbits3.org

http://super-inferno.com - 08/17/08

http://supertorrents.org

http://www.supremetorrents.co.uk - 08/28/08

http://sv2.gt-torrent.com (Thai) - 07/28/08

http://swebits.org (Swe)

http://www.swep2p.org

http://swepiracy.nu (Swe/Eng)

http://swepirates.org (Swe)

http://sweseeders.net

http://sweshare.org

http://swetracker.org - 07/28/08

http://sz.zapto.org (Rus)

http://www.t2hbit.com (Thai) - 07/28/08

http://www.takeabyte.org

http://www.takedown-tk.fr (Fre)

http://t.alein.org (Bul)

http://tamilthunder.com (Desi)

http://www.tang-soo-do.us

http://tb.battle.lv

http://tgbtd.com - 07/27/08

http://www.tcity.in

http://teamfx.org

http://www.teamghost.fr (Fre)

http://www.teamnepal.se (Swe)

http://telugutorrents.net (Desi)

http://www.th3-studio.net

http://tha-tracker.net

http://www.thc-torrents.org (Neth) - 08/13/08

http://www.thebits.net - 09/06/08

http://thecellar.afraid.org:9000

http://thegt.net (Gre) - 07/29/08

http://www.theleech.org (Lav/Eng) - 09/10/08

http://www.the-nextstep.info

http://thepeerhub.com

http://the-romanempire.info

http://www.thesharingzone.net

http://thesurgeons.org

http://thetorrentsource.org

http://www.thorbits.org - 09/27/08

http://titan.helloweb.eu (Ita)

http://titaniumtorrents.net

http://titans-team.fr.cr (Fre)

http://tmtorquev2.com

http://tnttorrent.info (Spa)

http://www.tnt-vision.com (Bul)

http://www.todotorrents.com (Spa)

http://www.tophos.org

http://www.torentas.lt (Lith)

http://www.torrent411.com (Fre)

http://www.torrentaccess.net (Fre) - 07/29/08

http://torrentai.org

http://torrent-arm.net

http://torrentbase.org (Lat)

http://www.torrentbase.ro

http://www.torrent.bg (Bul)

http://www.torrent-bg.org (Bul)

http://www.torrentbits.ro

http://torrentbully.com

http://torrent.burgas.org (Bul) - 10/09/08

http://www.torrentbytes.net

http://www.torrentchile.org

http://torrent.cityvl.org (Rom/Eng)

http://torrent-city.lir.dk (Ger/Den) - 08/17/08

http://torrent-damage.net

http://torrent.e2k.ru (Rus)

http://torrentegel.net (Tur)

http://torrentek.hu (Hun)

http://www.torrentfriend.net (Hun)

http://www.torrentgeeks.com

http://torrenthit.com

http://www.torrenthr.org (Croatia)

http://www.torrentiem.lv (Lat IP only)

http://www.torrentit.eu - 09/19/08

http://torrent.jiwang.cc

http://www.torrentkit.com

http://torrentkris.xt.pl (Pol)

http://torrent-lab.com

http://torrentland.se

http://www.torrentleech.pl (Pol)

http://www.torrent-life.net (Lith)

http://www.torrent-line.com (Tur/Eng)

http://torrent.lt (Lith)

http://torrent.linuxo.org

http://www.torrentmalaya.com (Indonesia/Malaysia)

http://www.torrentmaniacs.org - 07/28/08

http://www.torrent-mayhem.net - 07/28/08

http://torrent.net13.ro

http://torrent-plus.org (Tur)

http://torrentqc.com (Fre)

http://www.torrents2hell.com

http://torrents.bbccable.net (Bul) - 09/19/08

http://www.torrentsbt.org - 07/28/08

http://torrents.dekadence.ro - 07/31/08 - just 12 torrents.

http://www.torrentseed.org

http://torrents.esgoogle.net

http://torrentsforall.net

http://torrentsgalaxy.com

http://www.torrentsgate.com (Algeria/Saudi)

http://torrent.share.net.ua (Ukr)

http://www.torrentslab.com

http://torrents.lv (Lat)

http://www.torrentsmd.com (Moldova)

http://torrentsmexico.com

http://torrents.n0va.net - 10/09/08

http://torrents.ru

http://torrentsrus.org

http://torrents.weeby.ro

http://www.torrents-zone.com

http://torrent-thunder.com

http://www.torrenturkey.com

http://www.torrentum.y0.pl (Pol)

http://www.torrentvault.org

http://torrentvibes.com

http://torrent-world.co.uk

http://www.torrentz2.com.ar

http://torrentzilla.org

http://www.torzo.org (Neth)

http://www.torrentzone.org

http://www.total-share.org (Bra)

http://www.toxictorrents.com

http://tracker.aladar.com

http://tracker.bittalk.org (Kor/Eng)

http://tracker.bitreactor.to (Ger)

http://tracker.clubb.ro

http://tracker.cztorrent.net (Cze)

http://tracker.elitezoo.com

http://tracker.highlandfox.com

http://www.tracker.nano-net.ro

http://tracker.mitnet.ro

http://tracker.packy.se

http://tracker.purojitsu.com - 07/28/08

http://tracker.rusdivx.ee (Rus)

http://trackersurfer.fr (Fre) - 07/28/08

http://tracker.tbkresources.org - 07/28/08 - It’s back!

http://tracker.tech-net.ro

http://tracker-torrent.org (Fre/Eng)

http://www.tracker.visual-team.ro (or http://vt5.visual-team.ro)

http://tracker.xplor.ro

http://www.trackerx.com.ar

http://www.tri-tavern.com

http://www.tugaleech.com (Por)

http://tunisiagate.net

http://turbowolke.no-ip.biz (Ger)

http://turknova.com (Tur)

http://www.turktorrent.biz (Tur)

http://www.twilighttorrents.net

http://twisty-mistys.com

http://tys-place.com

http://uid.hu (Hun)

http://www.uktorrents.com

http://unique-tracker.com (Slov)

http://www.unlimited-tracker.net (Fre)

http://www.uostas.com (Lith)

http://www.up2bit.com (Thai)

http://uptorrents.net (rus) - 10/04/08

http://urban-torrents.com

http://velvetunderground.be

http://www.victorrent.net

http://vietfiles.org (Viet/Eng)

http://visualunderground.org

http://wantedfiles.ro

http://www.warezbros.org (Spa)

http://web.magyar.es (Spa)

http://westline.it.cx (Hun)

http://wild-bytes.org

http://www.witchtracker.org

http://www.wncbg.com (Bul)

http://www.wolfbits.org (Nordic)

http://wordbg.com (Bul)

http://www.wzt.ro - 08/16/08

http://www.xbitz.org

http://xforte.ath.cx

http://xider.hu (Hun)

http://www.xpreed.com

http://www.xthor.net (Fre/Eng)

http://x-torrent.ro - 07/28/08

http://x-torrents.com (Bul)

http://www.xltorrents.org (Neth)

http://www.xtremezone.ro

http://xvid4u.com

http://youtor.org.uk

http://www.yuwabits.net (Serb)

http://zamunda.net (Rus)

http://www.zionteam.org (Pol/Eng)

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59 responses for this post

01 • n3wyorker Says:

25.07.08 at 5:18 pm

pretome.net FTW!!!!!

02 • LD Says:

30.07.08 at 8:38 am

h33t is a public site dude, no registration necessary

03 • ME Says:

01.08.08 at 7:54 pm

http://www.community-palace.co.uk/

CHECK IT OUT!!

04 • a/s/l Says:

02.08.08 at 1:55 am

wow, amazing list

05 • Ale Says:

04.08.08 at 8:19 am

very nice list

bitgate is not a general tracker its only for tv content

06 • pinkelephant Says:

09.08.08 at 10:19 am

http://www.aftermath-torrents.org have been open for one month

stats

Registered users 588

Torrents 988

Peers 1,069

Seeders 1,036

Leechers 33

Seeder/leecher ratio (%) 3139

come join us

07 • n3wyorker Says:

09.08.08 at 11:31 am

bitxtreme.net is DOWN

08 • abcba Says:

12.08.08 at 2:05 am

wolfbits.org is down?

09 • www.gs-movie.com Says:

29.08.08 at 4:33 pm

Watch Free Movie DvDRip HD Best Quality Free And easy

010 • jackcool Says:

02.09.08 at 9:01 pm

This place rocks, torrents of all descriptions, nice speeds and free leech is a regular occurrence…..Its a private tracker but is open for sign ups.

011 • jackcool Says:

02.09.08 at 9:02 pm

This place rocks, torrents of all descriptions, nice speeds and free leech is a regular occurrence…..Its a private tracker but is open for sign ups.

http://linuxmoviemania.org

012 • dongwon Says:

11.09.08 at 3:28 am

it’s alot of sites.

013 • elvie Says:

19.09.08 at 3:24 pm

Daily Paranoia for all your torrent needs,nip in have a look,see what you think

014 • elvie Says:

19.09.08 at 3:25 pm

http://www.djekl.co.uk/tracker/ for all your torrent needs,nip in have a look,check out the forums and great games section for fantastic fun

015 • cswilkcs Says:

27.09.08 at 2:57 pm

Zapraszam na Polski tracker Zionteam.org

Invite for a Polish Tracker Zionteam.org

016 • Mindless Says:

28.09.08 at 12:47 pm

As Admin of http://www.ptfiles.org I invite you all to come see what a site should look like .

This site is gonna be a highly sought after site .. So get in before we go private

Noobs feel free to message me after sign up . Were very open and very helpfull!

017 • Grimmjow Says:

28.09.08 at 6:08 pm

http://www.ptfiles.org its a great new site, everything is on seedboxes so speed is not an issue.

just thought you should now.

018 • hm Says:

30.09.08 at 10:08 pm

how to use leechturk torrents? I tried, but always get some port error GECERSIZ : Port

any idea??????

019 • ElectroStyle Says:

12.10.08 at 9:24 pm

Only Club Music: http://www.electrostyle.lv Electro, Electronic, Trance, Progressive, Techno, Hardstyle, Hard-Dance, Hardcore, Breakbeat, Breaks, Dance, Euro-Dance, Lounge, Chillout, House, Club, Jungle, Drum And Base.

020 • grimreaper Says:

14.11.08 at 12:39 pm

nice new site come and have a look new but fast all uploads are with seedboxs so fast downloads

021 • grimreaper Says:

14.11.08 at 12:40 pm

http://www.ptfiles.org is new and fast come and say hi befor it fills up and gos invite onley

022 • sonia89 Says:

23.11.08 at 6:28 pm

http://tys-place.com is a nice site with lots to do. Fast speeds off seed boxes. Very friendly shout box. Come and check us out for yourselves

023 • Aishi Says:

28.11.08 at 8:03 pm

Wow… AMAZING ……. great job…………. thanks dude….. you’re my hero

024 • DemonWolf Says:

08.12.08 at 6:37 am

http://theiotaproject.org - Some of the best in the torrent world have already joined us, and they have made a very solid site and the staff are very friendly towards all levels of users.

We offer a sweet mix of old and new torrents, casino, arcade games, a lottery for upload credits, and a very active irc.

We know that you will belong to many sites, and we respect that you have a choice, so we try harder to have you drop by.

Right now registrations are open so get in quick!!!

So stop by and I bet you will see a lot of people you know there, old friends, and some great new ones!

We offer live help through java chat and a staff dedicated to making your visit the best there is.

So come check us out at theiotaproject.org and when you get there post say hello in the shoutbox and say DemonWolf sent ya!!!!

See you soon!

025 • urmom Says:

30.12.08 at 11:42 pm

http:/www./cheggit.net

Great porn tracker.

026 • DJBoxer Says:

05.01.09 at 9:07 am

we are a fresh new site recently opened currently looking for staff members hope to see a few new peeps in there we offer lastest stuff and a friendly crowd

plz check us out here http://tripp2euphoria.com

027 • alex Says:

30.01.09 at 2:50 pm

how do i add this links to Ares. That is what i use to download. can someone help me out here. sorry!

028 • matt Says:

30.01.09 at 7:12 pm

Check out http://www.thiefparadise.com/ .. A great new site with lots of potential.

029 • BT Revolution Says:

19.02.09 at 8:40 am

BT Revolution Rullz !

030 • azer Says:

22.02.09 at 10:25 pm

Check out https://private.hidef-zone.com/.. A great new HD Trackers with lots High Définition

031 • unknown Says:

02.03.09 at 11:28 pm

update

032 • pepsicrazy Says:

18.04.09 at 7:42 pm

You can add in the HD section http://www.hdparadise.net (Fre) a division of http://www.reload-paradise.net

033 • GigglyGirl Says:

28.04.09 at 3:15 pm

Come check out the best site ever! Fast pre-times and super friendly staff. Community based tracker.

034 • madmanj Says:

14.05.09 at 11:37 am

new game only tracke http:/cyber-quest.net/index.php

boasts all the usual traker site stuff but also has team speak and cod5 game server onboard

sign ups are open for a short time

035 • INFO Says:

09.07.09 at 8:11 am

Good Torrent Tracker http://www.filebag.org

036 • BEST TRACKER Says:

10.07.09 at 7:08 pm

http://www.torrentkit.com

GREAT TRACKER, GREAT STAFF, GREAT SPEEDS

037 • ~ Says:

24.07.09 at 2:23 am

Good list; One of your sites is wrong though, x264.eu should be x264.me

038 • splendor Says:

01.08.09 at 4:50 am

http://www.bdsmtracker.com

Anyone know this one? Trying to get in for a few weeks now, but no luck this far..

039 • Common sence Says:

20.08.09 at 9:01 am

seriously why is thepiratebay.org not here? that is one of the largest i have ever seen.

040 • fffff Says:

20.08.09 at 11:20 am

Because it’s a public tracker, genius.

041 • casp Says:

05.10.09 at 8:27 pm

one of the best sites i use

042 • casp Says:

05.10.09 at 8:29 pm

http://www.ilovetorrents.com this site rules

043 • koolaid Says:

19.12.09 at 10:56 am

Great Site FAST downloads ad helpful staff. Open registration.

044 • Hotfile Links Says:

10.01.10 at 1:01 pm

there are loads more, but looks like no1 wants to update the list lol

045 • ragingbull Says:

04.02.10 at 5:17 pm

Come check us out , no invite reqd , local torrents seedboxed , friendly staff and always looking for more members and staff alike

046 • BT-Revolution.net Says:

11.02.10 at 2:13 pm

BT-Revolution.net is the best!

047 • series Says:

12.04.10 at 9:02 pm

wooooow amazing list you work it

048 • OGITH Says:

01.05.10 at 10:28 am

Some Websites SUCK’ Becasue you Need an invite Code to go there’ & its like that All the time.

& Sence i have no Friends’ i dont know what to do

049 • Final Says:

01.05.10 at 2:27 pm

new game tracker!

playme.servegame.com

050 • predator17m Says:

08.05.10 at 9:05 pm

New private tracker :

http://www.sharptorrents.com

Looking for devoted staff.

Monthly prizes for uploaders+

051 • serie Says:

09.05.10 at 7:17 pm

amazing list but ,where i can find it on like this updated?

052 • munna Says:

27.05.10 at 10:12 am

http://www.thrustscene.org

All files hosted on 1Gbps Seedbox + all torrents set to freeleech !

053 • munna Says:

27.05.10 at 10:15 am

signup.php

054 • Dr.Vet. Cumpanasu Florin Says:

31.05.10 at 3:10 am

http://www.thepiratebay.org omited?

055 • yooou Says:

03.07.10 at 9:17 am

What about BTN (broadcasthe.net) and CN (cosanostra)? And SCT, SCL, iFi and FTWR are dead! Why are they still listed?

056 • yooou Says:

03.07.10 at 9:20 am

Here is the list with all the secret trackers that are alive at the moment:

FSC = funsharing.net

GFT = thegft.org

FTN = feedthe.net

AL = acid-lounge.org.uk

BTN = broadcasthe.net

SCC = sceneaccess.org

SeX / The ‘X’ = scenexpress.net

STC = savethecoratee.org

BH = bithumen.be

iTS = intheshadow.net

CN = cosanostra.mn

PTN = piratethe.net

By the way, piratebay is not a private tracker!

057 • sharky Says:

04.07.10 at 8:42 pm

YOOOU said: ….Why are they still listed?

Because this article is nearly two years old, and no longer maintained.

Use the http://filesharefreak.com/trackers-list/ link for an updated version.

058 • dl freak Says:

21.07.10 at 4:18 am

This site is great just started less than a year ago but great people with great staff

http://torrentzone.net/index.php

059 • BT-Revolution.net Says:

10.08.10 at 10:03 pm

SINGUP: http://bt-revolution.net/

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aomk

2010-08-24T15:37:00.001+02:00

maybe a raving loony, and even mentally retarded, BUT i really do Avoid at all costs to upload magic to ungrateful fucks like you, just as i did many times in the past to fuck users who are now on AOM, NEO, MT, EXO, and the rest of the copy magic sites

-- map{ map{tr|10|# |;print} split//,sprintf"%.8b\n",$_} unpack'C*',unpack'u*',"5`#8<3'X`'#8^-@`<-CPP`#8V/C8`"

Dieter Steffman Fonts

2010-08-13T10:24:00.002+02:00

Designers

Due to increasing bandwidth charges Dieter decided to remove his fonts from his website. That's why they are hosted here. Special thanks to those font-enthusiasts who located the missing fonts - it seems the collection has been completed :)

-- map{ map{tr|10|# |;print} split//,sprintf"%.8b\n",$_} unpack'C*',unpack'u*',"5`#8<3'X`'#8^-@`<-CPP`#8V/C8`"

http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview#font-family=Cantarell

2010-08-12T16:59:00.001+02:00

http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview#font-family=Cantarell

webfont previewer

lol, found you :)

2010-08-12T16:22:00.000+02:00

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-- map{ map{tr|10|# |;print} split//,sprintf"%.8b\n",$_} unpack'C*',unpack'u*',"5`#8<3'X`'#8^-@`<-CPP`#8V/C8`"

Thijs' today

VLC screen sharing

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Foreword to 20 Things

What is the Internet?

or, “You Say Tomato, I Say TCP/IP”

Cloud Computing

or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop

Web Apps

or, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Appiness”

1. I can access my data from anywhere.

2. I’ll always get the latest version of any app.

3. It works on every device with a web browser.

4. It’s safer.

HTML, JavaScript, CSS and more

or, this is not your mom’s AJAX

HTML5

or, in the beginning there was no <video>

3D in the Browser

or, browsing with more depth

A Browser Madrigal

or, old vs. modern browsers

Plug-ins

or, pepperoni for your cheese pizza

Browser Extensions

or, superpowers for your browser

Synchronizing the Browser

or, why it’s ok for a truck to crush your laptop, part II

Browser Cookies

or, thanks for the memories

Browsers and Privacy

or, giving you choices to protect your privacy in the browser

Malware, Phishing,and Security Risks

or, if it quacks like a duck but isn’t a duck

How Modern Browsers Help Protect You From Malware and Phishing

or, beware the ne’er-do-wells!

Risk 1: How often you come into contact with an attacker

Risk 2: How vulnerable your browser is if it’s attacked

Risk 3: How much damage is done if an attacker finds vulnerabilities in your browser

Using Web Addresses to Stay Safe

or, “my name is URL”

LEGITIMATE:

SUSPICIOUS:

IP Addresses and DNS

or, the phantom phone booth

Validating Identities Online

or, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

Evolving to a Faster Web

or, speeding up images, video, and JavaScript on the web

Open Source and Browsers

or, standing on the shoulders of giants

19 Things Later...

or, a day in the clouds

Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours (Hour 1)

Sams Teach Yourself C# in 24 Hours

Table of Contents

Copyright

Copyright © 2002 by Sams Publishing

Trademarks

Warning and Disclaimer

Credits

Dedication

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Tell Us What You Think!

Introduction

Audience and Organization

Conventions Used in This Book

Onward and Upward!

Part I: The Visual Studio Environment

Hour 1. A C# Programming Tour

Starting C#

Creating a New Project

Understanding the C# Environment

Changing the Characteristics of Objects

Naming Objects

Setting the Text Property of the Form

Giving the Form an Icon

Changing the Size of the Form

Malware, Phishing,
and Security Risks