04-19-2023, 11:15 PM
Hi All,
Here is a guide on how to leverage the open source Linux command-line RSS feed reader to trigger a specific MP3 audio file to play when any of the feeds are updated. This can be used to instantly receive an audio alert for any potential announcements that could impact your operational security.
This is a great way to be the first to know if the Tor project posts an update to their blog mentioning an update for a de-anonymization zero day being used in the wild, or a new sandbox escape zero day impacting Qubes OS, and so on.
Here is a guide on how to leverage the open source Linux command-line RSS feed reader to trigger a specific MP3 audio file to play when any of the feeds are updated. This can be used to instantly receive an audio alert for any potential announcements that could impact your operational security.
This is a great way to be the first to know if the Tor project posts an update to their blog mentioning an update for a de-anonymization zero day being used in the wild, or a new sandbox escape zero day impacting Qubes OS, and so on.
- Install newsboat (included in most distro repositories).
- Install torsocks and tor daemon
- Install ffmpeg (included in most distro repositories). - Needed for ffplay command which is used to play the audio file.
- Configure torsocks to require tor proxy tunneling
- Download an MP3 audio file that will be used for the alarm noise. Recommended to be under 10 seconds.
- Move MP3 file to ~/alarm.mp3
- populate ~/.newsboat/urls with the following URLS:
- Code:
https://blog.torproject.org/feed
https://tails.boum.org/news/index.en.rss
https://www.qubes-os.org/feed.xml
https://forums.whonix.org/tag/important-news.rss
https://nitter.net/torproject/rss
https://nitter.net/QubesOS/rss
https://nitter.net/Tails_live/rss
https://nitter.net/Whonix/rss - Populate ~/.newsboat/config with the following:
- Code:
auto-reload yes
reload-time 30
notify-always yes
notify-program "ffplay ~/alarm.mp3" - run newsboat with:
- Code:
torsocks newsboat
- Mark all of the feeds as read
- Leave it open and every 30 minutes it will check for new feed updates and sound an alarm upon new info.
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