Seeks a "gui solution" to install wireguard and create "an encrypted tunnel between my computer and the internet browser" to prevent hackers using Kali Linux from creating malicious office macros to steal his passwords, demands to speak to the "CEO of Fedora", then literally kills himself after tranime profile picture codejannies fail to provide the needful
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/gui-instructions-installing-wireguard-on-silverblue/74713
liamdev: I need graphical user interace (GUI) instructions for installing Wireguard on Silverblue - Fedora 34. I'm visiting family at the moment and evidently they have Avast - which I do not want to use and I don't want the VPN that they have set up with the router to interfere with mine.
I've read the 1981 internet protocol that was published by DoD. I'm so immeasurably frustrated that something like an encrypted tunnel from end point to end point is such a complicated issue.
The articles on Fedora Magazine are not sufficient for a beginner and only show command line instructions and the only video on YouTube that's worth watching is chaotic with a guy typing a millions commands plus he's using Ubuntu anyways. GUI instrucitons please.
computersavvy: If they are already using a vpn why add another layer. Since you are just visiting you can temporarily disable your own vpn, use the one they already have configured at router level and go with it.
liamdev: With all due respect, I was looking for GUI instructions on how to set up the Wireguard VPN on Fedora Silverblue, not advice on what I should be doing with a presumption that I had one set up before.
liamdev: I haven't come across anyone that has sucessfully set up a VPN on a YouTube tutorial or anything else via GUI. VPN's should be simple, point and click free solutions to protect your identity and information from being transmitted widely over the internet. There's literally no point in moving forward with any future releases of any distribution if a GUI VPN hasn't been developed.
Regarding a server - i don't have a personal VPN server - that's what WireGuard is supposed to be ? WireGuard is supposed to be both the VPN Server and the VPN Client for someone that has neither right now.
computersavvy: I think you are misinterpreting what a vpn is & does.
It securely connects you via a tunnel from one point to another, the remote being a vpn server and may be free, paid, or company owned.
liamdev: Thanks for the info. My use case is this - I want to be able to install a VPN so that anything I search for on the internet is encrypted. I want an encrypted tunnel between my computer and the internet browser.
The reality is, there are (from what I see) 1.5 million man pages that have 10,000 functions. In other words, there's 150 ways to do the same thing. The system is so broken that I'm shocked the DoD has even let it carry on the way that it has.
From what I understand, Gnome Box VM's don't even hide your physical IP address or MAC address or anything really? So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…
So if someone wanted to use the hacking cowtools that are in Linux - well there wouldn't be much stopping them from getting literally all of my passwords and information…
augenauf: interesting, I would be curious to learn how to do that, just for research purposes. could you share any insights?
liamdev: Gothca - thanks, Sure thing, I'll map them out. Here's how you:
Clear the Logs & History on Linux Systems to Delete All Traces You Were There [Tutorial]
Watch Hackers Craft Malicious Office Macros (ft. Kilian from SecurityFWD)
I mean just follow that channel in general. Then look at:
You get the point.
So, regarding the VPN and just general freedom to have privacy haha… I'll check out the blog post again. I don't understand how it's so easy to find out how to track and airplane from a video tutorial but something as basic as a VPN seems to have so many different components to the workload that could break at any moment.
liamdev: With all due respect, it's none of your business why I don't just turn it off at the Router level. I genuinely mean that as well - I don't mean to disrespect you, but posting in a public forum why I don't do that shouldn't even be a consideration as a response.
I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN. I clicked through the link that you sent, and the link that was in there and the link in that one too. Thanks for the effort but it didn't provide an actual GUI answer.
I'm gathering that no one has developed a GUI to use this Wireguard VPN.
augenauf: It's integrated in Network Manager in Gnome, consider searching the internet.
liamdev: okay so there's no way to easily install the WireGuard VPN via a GUI. The strategy here is to loop people in w/ Lenovo, offer them "free" everything that's not really free, offer tons of documentation to the point where people either give up or - the optimal outcome - they hire a company like Red Hat - that's using non-profits as a tax write off - or someone else that's anonymous but the risk in the anonymous folks is that they could be hackers ha.
If there was a "CEO" of Fedora, who would that be? Who is in charge of operations? Who is in charge with the Lenovo relationship? Who is in charge with the financial side is probably the most important in this question. I don't want to reach out to an anonymous profile and this VPN is arguably one of the most critical elements of the research I'm doing. If this is seriously the end result - the messages on these threads and recommendations - then there is a massive problem that needs to be addressed.
augenauf: So, you tried to set up the wireguard between your Fedora Workstation and your EC2 instance?
Where are you stuck? What are the error messages? Any logs?
liamdev: No, I'm hopeful you can help me find some way to connect directly with the Fedora leadership team. What is the best route? I believe whoever would be equivalent to the CFO would be the most appropriate.
augenauf: So, I am going to close the topic if you are not interested in technical support solving your problem. You're wasting your time and our time by discussing useless stuff. Had you ever posted a link to the guide you are trying to follow, the commands you had executed, the conf files you used, and error messages or log files that were generated, we could have long solved your problem. Instead …
As for the contact to Fedora Council and its Chair, I am sure you find that in Fedora Docs or by means of a search engine.
Do you actually call Jeff Bezos if your EC2 instance doesn't install an update?
I can only second @ilikelinux comment; get a professional IT consultant. He or she will setup wordpress and a store within a couple of days, including a wireguard connection for you to mess up the installation.
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If you're that r-slurredly paranoid and it's just for while you're on vacation, couldn't you just dictate over the phone to a lackey that's on site?
Also, deviceVPN-on-routerVPN like that would probably work fine (just very very slowly and pointlessly)
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These people annoy me to no end. People that know absolutely nothing about computers yet also want to be schizomaxxers.
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I mean that was
... when I was like 12
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Well yeah but you were 12. I was
back then too.
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I don't think he understood what a VPN is, in particular I don't think he had a remote machine.
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I reckon he probably created an AWS account for a personal project, spun up an EC2 instance, and then shit his pants when they warn you to protect your password/keys as the admin.
Then he for whatever reason thought a vpn would encrypt his....browser??
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Oh that part wasn't excerpted. But now reading it, it looks like he stopped the EC2 instances anyway.
Reading through the full thread it's more clear why people didn't realize he didn't know what he was doing -- he's using AWS jargon just well enough to make it seem like he knows what he's talking about.
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Dunning-Kruger syndrome
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