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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2015
Learn about networking and security with simple explanations for beginners, experts and everyone in between. We cover basic concepts, troubleshooting, security issues, coding and more!
Analyzing Packet Captures with AI
In this video I use ChatGPT's o1 reasoning model to troubleshoot packet captures of TLS handshakes. This technique can also be done on Deepseek's R1 model, and works just as well.
TLS Troubleshooting:
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Free Home Internet Monitor - Netprobe Lite:
github.com/plaintextpackets/n...
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Country-wide ISP Monitor Netstats:
netstats.app
Support the channel:
buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm
Discord:
discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
TLS Troubleshooting:
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Free Home Internet Monitor - Netprobe Lite:
github.com/plaintextpackets/n...
th-cam.com/video/Wn31husi6tc/w-d-xo.html
Country-wide ISP Monitor Netstats:
netstats.app
Support the channel:
buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm
Discord:
discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
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I'm Back! And Monitoring ISPs with Netstats
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I'm back! I've been missing in action for several months, but there's a good reason! In this video I quickly cover Netstats - an independent ISP outage map for the internet. I also need your suggestions for videos you'd like to see. If you have any suggestions, please post them in the comments! Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: ...
How VPNs Protect You Online
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In this video I explain how VPNs work, and how in many cases they protect your privacy. I also explain how some users use VPNs to browse geo-restricted content, and finally end with some limitations of VPN and what isn't protected. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5Dz...
How Companies Track You Inside Their Stores
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In this video I cover how large companies use Bluetooth beacons to track your activities in their stores. This data is used to understand your habits, but can also be sold to third parties. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
3 Ways to Secure Your Surfing Online - VPNs, DNS Security and Ad Blockers
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In this video I show you some options to help safeguard your privacy online, and demonstrate how they work. We cover virtual private networks (VPNs), secured DNS and finally ad blocking technologies. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
How Tor Works - Surfing Privately with Tor
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In this video I cover one method of keeping your activities private online - Tor. Tor is a tool that is used widely to allow users to surf websites anonymously. I cover how exactly Tor works, what is protects and doesn't, and some trade offs in performance due to enhanced privacy. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buym...
10 Ways Companies Track You Online
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In this video I quickly run through 10 ways large companies are able to track your activities and build a profile on you as you use their services. This includes concepts such as ad networks, cookies, voice assistants, physical tracking in stores and more. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm ...
How Governments Watch the Web - Why Absolutely Privacy Online Doesn't Exist
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In this second instalment of my privacy series, I cover how governments and big tech aggregate data to effectively monitor all users on the internet. We cover how data is captured using network taps, how popular websites provide data feeds, and the tools used to analyze it all. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netprobe Lite: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite Support the channel: buymeac...
What Can Your ISP See? - What Your ISP Knows About Your Internet Activities
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In this video I show you just what information your internet provider (ISP) can determine from analyzing your traffic. This includes what websites you visit, and in some cases just what you're doing on this websites. I also cover what benefits VPNs have to safeguard your traffic, while explaining that absolute privacy on the internet doesn't really exist. Projects: Netstats: netstats.app Netpro...
Learn TCP with Shell Shockers and Wireshark!
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In this video I do a deep dive into the TCP protocol by analyzing traffic from the game Shell Shockers! I cover: - Finding the IP of a specific web connection using Developer tools and conversation views - TCP theory and comparisons to UDP - The three-way handshake in detail - IP vs TCP conversations - Sequence / acknowledgement analysis - Live Shell Shockers action! :) Useful links: Support th...
How NMAP Works and How to Detect Port Scans in Wireshark
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In this video I demonstrate how port scanning works using the popular tool NMAP. I dig into some theory on how NMAP can detect a port is open, show you how to detect a port scan in a Wireshark capture, then cover some ways to deter and obfuscate your services from scanning. Useful links: Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
Hacking WiFi: Sniffing Traffic from Open Networks
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In this highly requested video I will be showing you how to sniff traffic from open wifi networks and analyze in Wireshark. I also cover why open wifi is so dangerous and why VPNs can protect you when you have no choice but to connect. Useful links: How to Make a Bootable Kali Linux USB: www.kali.org/docs/usb/live-usb-install-with-windows/ For wifi adapters that support monitor mode, Google 'wi...
Troubleshoot Docker Network Issues Using Wireshark
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In this video I troubleshoot some network performance issues in Docker using tcpdump and Wireshark. I show you how to build a custom image containing tcpdump, how to capture the data, and dive into some advanced Wireshark analysis to figure out the network issue. Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
Learn How the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Works in 10 Minutes
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In this video I do a quick overview of the address resolution protocol, commonly known as ARP. I explain why MAC addresses are needed when communicating on a local network and how ARP helps populate mac address tables on networked-devices. Support the channel: buymeacoffee.com/plaintextpm Discord: discord.gg/CV5DzzaYF5
Free ISP Tracking in 5 Minutes - Netprobe Quick Tutorial
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In this quick tutorial, I show you how to install and use the free open-sourced tool Netprobe to monitor the quality of your ISP connection over time. Total install time is about 5 minutes. For a full tutorial see the link below. To get started with Netprobe: 1. Download the repo here: github.com/plaintextpackets/netprobe_lite 2. Install docker: docs.docker.com/engine/install/ 3. From the comma...
Track Your Internet Quality for Free - Netprobe Full Tutorial
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How to Filter Conversations in Wireshark
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Speed Overkill: How ISPs Sell You Bandwidth Instead of Performance (+ Bonus Free ISP Monitor Tool)
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Wireshark Freestyle #2 - Finding Secrets in Open Wifi Networks
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How to Smuggle Data out of the Network with Ping
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Extract TLS Certificates using Wireshark
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Wireshark for Cable Technicians - How to Prove that Internet Access is Healthy
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How to Take Down a Wifi Network from Within
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How to Take Down a Wifi Network from Within
How to DoS Your Network with this One Command
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great explaination..bw can a isp see what pictures or videos we send to each other in facebook or instagram?
No. They cal tell you visited those sites but they can’t see the content you’re posting
perfect. Please keep sharing your experience.
Bro please don’t die IRL i love ur videos
I’ll try! lol
Very cool!
Another great video of how AI can assist in a real world scenario - thanks again
My pleasure!
In a real world example, how would you swap actual data for alias data to protect your information?
There are methods to replace IPs, etc in pcaps but they require scripting. I’m sure there are also sanitizing tools out there for pcaps
@@plaintextpackets ahhhhhh ok. Im still trying to understand this stuff and the proper terminology. "Sanitizing tools"👍🏾
It's a cool example. I think LLMs are great in terms of learning and give you very good points when you're stuck. But I don't see any ways to add this to the automatic workflows. Especially the expired TLS example, as everything can be detected programmatically?
If you have a tap infrastructure which is always capturing and storing data (NSA style) you can extract PCAPs via API. You can then convert to bytes and send to the LLM API for processing and analysis. Or, you could have a script which triggers a pcap to start on a server in response to errors, then feed through the same pipeline
so I am assuming the -X flag converts it to hex? on tshark I mean? sorry im new
That’s correct
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how quickly are the messages sent from pc to router until the next message is sent? Is it milliseconds between an each new message for the WiFi control packets?
when I try this the network don't slow down at all on the target device is it due to me launching the attack from my Mac book on wifi instead of on a lan connection
Thank you for explaining about OPeN networks. My wlan0 adapter has been showing the OPN but until now I've not been able to find anything about it. My Udemy Course instructor just says - I can connect to it with no password required -. With me Not knowiing about the site I've not done that. My udemy course has explaind and demonstrated WireShark. So from waht you've shown in your video I can remove the doubts . Thank you again👍👍
Thanks, man! 777 likes shall give you luck
"I was just charging my phone with the pc!!"
Will the ISP also be able to tell which device in my LAN is accessing which site or can they only see the router and which site it is requesting?
Good question, no they will just know someone in your network did but not the specific device
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Great video. Question: lets say that the src is a storage solution, of type PowerScale (so distributed file system accross multiple nodes etc..). Traffic is SMB. You isolate switches, routers, long network routes, to have both the clients + storage on the same subnet. Even removed the switch and tested with a direct 10Gb fiber client to 1 node of the storage connection. But you STILL see packet loss and retransmission. Can you 100% JUST the network? NIC on src or/and dst, or can it be see on the wire as retransmissions because the storage is not able to recompile the data requested fast nought in some fasion? Though, looking on the storage, we do NOT see any filesystem delays. The cluster is performing at 10% load. Thank you !
It could be buffers at the OS level. The packets are received by the receiving NIC, which passes them to the receive buffer at the OS layer, then to the applications. If the apps are slow at processing the data those buffers fill up. Could also be the app just slow to ACK packets and therefore they get retransmitted
Yeah. We looked at optimization on the client NIC side with various buffering options and settings. Things looked a bit better but we still see retrans on the wire. Single wire too ! So it can not be between point to point. The fiber cables were also swapped and the spf checked. But we are having to prove that the issue is not on the storage end. As we do not see issues with our NIC, non issues either with our OS restripping algorithm. Is there a way to see what is happening at the NIC level? Zoom in onto the device itself?
@itsdouetthierry it would depend on the device. I would ask chatgpt or Claude for steps to check all buffers for your given platform and follow through on commands
Bro that's straight out knowlegde! You're awsome!
welcome back ! Interested in this application for France!
Plzz don't ever leave us🥺🥺🥺.......we eagerly wait for ur videos
Wohoohooo 🙂 Great you're back! - Networking: IPV6 explanation and how to use it in a Homelab - Firewalls: Routing HowTo (pfsense) - Security: Simple but good defending of a Home Network, LAN & Wireless (no need to explain OSI etc. ) Love your understandable explanations. Great to have you back!
Welcome Back and looking forward to your videos again
Needs to cover the U.S. and other countries as well. How do we help you with that?
It’s just a matter of hosting cost to scale the platform. So as we’re able to generate more interest in the project we can selectively start scaling to more locations. So spreading the world will help!
Note that RIPE NCC also has a tool in this space, mostly with coverage of Europe.
Netstats is dope! I can't wait for it to come to the U.S.
Wireshark has been one of my favourite apps for a very long time. Glad to see Netstats. I'm in SW Ontario, and generally have found "down" detectors to be useless as well.
Yesssss! I am using netprobe and it’s been awesome!!
Love your videos 😂
Your back!! What a great holiday gift!
Glad ur back
Glad to see you again😊😊😊❤❤❤.
It's a 4 months ago you posted the last video😅😅😅.
I recorded many of them ahead of time, so it was longer - but my memory also not great! 😂
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so when i try to do this it says Invalid target host specification: - why is that
What operating system? Can you send me a screenshot of the error?
Can you please show how to do it on ksli linux
@plaintext Packets is it possible to a. Log outages and b. monitor the WAN IP address? My service suffers micro outages and I'd like to be able to log them automatically via Netprobe as well as knowing I'm pinging the first node in my Telco's network.
Hi, how can I filter traffic if an internet proxy is in the way, making all destination IPs the same? i guess i could use tcp sequence number if stream has one... I Love your content
In the initial connection to the proxy there will be a CONNECT message from the client with the target URL. This way you can tell which stream to filter on
This is an AMAZING video - thank you!
You’re welcome!
Thanks for the demonstration!
My pleasure!
Thanks a lot. Super easy to implement and great info!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you
brillant do you have a VPN you trust?
Great explanation! When the server doesn't contain a certificate request, I suppose the client doesn't send a certificate because of this.
Exactly. The client will only send if it’s asked for it
U r the best brother
Very great content. And very useful. You make it easy to understand. Thank you!!
What's the best Ip booter to use as next to me keeps playing loud music I can't sleep at night because of him I got a stranded laptop from 2009
I like the snip n sketch explanation, very helpful
u sound pretty similar to Technoblade.
thank you
Hey, I really enjoyed your video on monitoring ISP performance to hold them accountable for the service we're paying for. You made some solid points, but I wanted to add something I think a lot of people overlook-especially when it comes to home internet service. Most residential internet users don’t realize that what they're paying for is a shared connection. In the U.S., most home internet plans operate on shared infrastructure, meaning your bandwidth is pooled with your neighbors. This is why you can see fluctuations in speed during peak hours. It’s not necessarily that your ISP is dropping the ball, but rather that you're sharing the connection with others. Now, when you compare that to business-class services, there's a huge difference. Business-class internet can offer dedicated bandwidth, so you're not sharing with anyone else, ensuring more consistent speeds. But that's not the only reason businesses pay more. With a business service, you're also paying for better latency and something home users rarely get-Service Level Agreements (SLAs). These agreements guarantee quicker response times and prioritized repairs, which are critical for businesses that can’t afford downtime. Home users often focus purely on download speeds, but latency is a key factor too. Business-class services aim for lower latency because every millisecond counts when you're running critical operations. Most home users don’t think about this because they’re primarily streaming or gaming, where latency isn’t as noticeable unless it spikes. So, while tools for monitoring ISP performance are helpful, it’s important to set expectations realistically for residential connections. Shared connections come with inherent fluctuations, and home users won’t get the same level of service guarantees as business customers. Just something to keep in mind when monitoring performance! Thanks again for the great content-keep up the awesome work!
I'd really like to use this, but have so far been unable to deploy it successfully to Portainer. Any chance support for that might be coming?
There’s some discussion on GitHub about it with other users of portainer