Hide My Ass VPN sucks for app testing

This past July, I found myself looking for a way to test a web application from behind “the great firewall of China” (aka Golden Shield).  The problem is that I can’t test that something works in China if I’m not in China.  My first thought was to use Nord VPN to connect to a VPN …

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Getting Hamachi working with the Raspberry Pi 3

I have been using Hamachi since first hearing about it on Security Now, over 10 years ago.  Hamachi is a hosted virtual private network solution that can create links with devices that are behind NAT firewalls.  Hamachi is able to do so by using server-assisted NAT traversal.  I mostly use it to access virtual machines from outside of …

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