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.

guy
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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
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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…

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

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