[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":360},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-19946941":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":9,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":43,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":86,"maker_in_thread":184,"shape":194,"grid":199,"attempts":322,"same_week":323,"maker_shows":209,"maker_hidden":351,"reader_version":352,"card":353},"19946941","The Cyber Plumber's Handbook","SSH Tunnel Like a Boss","title","Show HN: The Cyber Plumber's Handbook – SSH Tunnel Like a Boss",null,"opsdisk",1558181017,2019,277,49,117,2195,6,"legend","learning_science","security book","other",[23,24,25,26,27],"ssh tunneling","port forwarding","proxychains","penetration testing","metasploit","debated",-0.015,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":32},7,8,1,24,{"docs":36,"design":38,"idea":39,"performance":41,"pricing":42},{"positive":37,"critical":33},0,{"positive":37,"critical":33},{"positive":40,"critical":37},3,{"positive":33,"critical":37},{"positive":33,"critical":17},[40,37,40,37,37,37,37,37,37,37,40,37,40,40,37,44,37,37,44,37,33,40,40,33,37,33,44,33,37,44,33,33,37,44,37,33,37,33,37,44],5,"Looking to get some feedback from the Hacker News community.\n\nI wrote the book with a focus on penetration testers and red teamers, but there are great examples for network admins, developers, and blue team defenders as well.\n\nYou can pick up a copy for free here through May 19, 2019: https:\u002F\u002Fgumroad.com\u002Fl\u002Fthe_cyber_plumbers_handbook\u002Fhackernews20190518\n\nPlease note, because it's hosted on Gumroad, it does require an email. 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I spent weeks at work trying to backwards analyze GCP IAP, which apparently uses this in the background (invoked via the gcloud CLI).…",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"19948654","cjcampbell","I am pumped to see this right now, as it will be a great resource for my intro networking students (at the perfect moment in the quarter).",{"value":101,"source":90,"evidence":102},"Good examples and formatting",[103,107],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"19948155","171243","Good topic and looks like some good examples. The formatting is nice, easy on the eyes but there is excessive whitespace in the book. Having large screenshots means when they…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"19948565","jmakov","Cool writeup. Thanks for sharing!",[112,123,134],{"value":113,"source":90,"evidence":114},"Price too high for the content",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"19949667","rvalue","I looked at the table of contents and I am guessing it has many handy tricks and command line examples of already public tools. Doesn't look like its should be as costly as 19$.…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"19949300","deleterious","On this side of the world it's 5.18.19 and yet $19 bucks for the book. 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