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Install virtualbox guest additions on Debian 7 wheezy

By | August 3, 2013

Virtualbox guest additions in Debian Debian 7 wheezy has virtualbox guest additions inbuilt. So after installing debian on virtualbox the guest addition features are immediately available. However the guest additions bundled with debian is general of older version compared to the latest virtualbox version. So its a good idea to install the latest virtualbox guest… Read More »

Using client side ssl certificates in firefox and chrome

By | April 8, 2013

SSL certificates Some websites, specially restricted ones might require you to use a client side ssl certificate to open the pages. The certificate is used as an authentication factor, in place of username/password. When opening such websites in browsers, the browser must provide the ssl certificate. Over here we shall see how to do that… Read More »

How to Proxify Applications with Tor, Torsocks and Torify

By | August 17, 2020

Many applications do not directly support the use of socks proxy. It is not possible to configure them in anyway to use a proxy server. Torsocks enables such applications to use the Tor Socks proxy. It automatically routes all network requests made by a certain application through the Tor proxy. The manual page defines Torsocks… Read More »