This may seem like edging towards paranoia, however, how many of you do a pre-flight check of your network before you use your devices?

Every morning when I start up my computer, I do a pre-flight check against sites like DNSLeakCheck, and several others. It’s a back check to make sure my network is operating in as private, secured, and an anonymous manner as possible, and perhaps give me a little more peace of mind.

To facilitate this in an expedient manner, I wrote a simple bat script to do just that.

@echo off
echo Opening websites in succession...

:: List of websites to open
set "websites=grc.com cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni browserleaks.com/dns dnscheck.tools ipleak.net"

:: Delay between opening each website (in seconds)
set "delay=5"

:: Loop through each website and open it
for %%i in (%websites%) do (
    echo Opening %%i...
    start "" "https://%%i"
    timeout /t %delay% /nobreak >nul
)

echo All websites opened.
# pause

Critique, input always welcomed.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    Take this the right way mate, but this seems like obsessive behaviour.

    I appreciate your concern seriously. Not taken in any other way.

    Sure, my VPN has a kill switch too. While I may use the same locale on the VPN, I do sometimes get different IPs. New IPs demand to be checked out. Point being, here is a less than one minute check to see that everything is as it should be. Never trust, always verify or even trust but verify. How can one verify if one does not check?

    Sure, I could pull up the cli and do a nslookup, and slog through a couple of other commands, or I can click an icon on my desktop and see results in a matter of seconds.

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      3 days ago

      Fair! I don’t know your threat model.

      Just a thought, can’t you automate it with a cron job or such on after boot though to just get a “all clear” whenever you login to your PC?

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 days ago

        Well, I’m working on a python script that could be called with a cron. I’m also contemplating automating it with N8N since I selfhost it. However, tho I can code in basic terms in several languages, I am not the most competent coder, so it takes me a while. LOL

        But again, I do appreciate your first comment and that you were concerned about my well being. I assure you I am a stable genius. lol Hey, it worked for one nut bag…

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          3 days ago

          Hope it works out and take care! Mistrust in fine as long as paranoia is kept in check 😀