Noisy

A Python script that generates random HTTP/DNS traffic noise in the background while you go about your regular web browsing, to make your web traffic data less valuable for selling and for extra obscurity.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you project up and running on your machine. Two approaches are proposed: running noisy.py directly or running it within a container (Docker)

Dependencies

Install requests and validators if you do not have them already installed, using pip:

pip3 install requests validators

It is likely that the above command should be run with elevated privilegies.

sudo pip3 install requests validators

Usage

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/1tayH/noisy.git

Navigate into the noisy directory

cd noisy

Run the script

python3 noisy.py --config config.json

# or

make run

The program can accept a number of command line arguments:

$ python3 noisy.py --help
usage: noisy.py [-h] [--log -l] --config -c [--timeout -t]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit
  --log -l      logging level
  --config -c   config file
  --timeout -t  for how long the crawler should be running, in seconds

only the config file argument is required.

Output

$ docker run -it noisy --config config.json --log debug
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): 4chan.org:80
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://4chan.org:80 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 None
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): www.4chan.org:80
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://www.4chan.org:80 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:root:found 92 links
INFO:root:Visiting http://boards.4chan.org/s4s/
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): boards.4chan.org:80
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://boards.4chan.org:80 "GET /s4s/ HTTP/1.1" 200 None
INFO:root:Visiting http://boards.4chan.org/s4s/thread/6850193#p6850345
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): boards.4chan.org:80
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://boards.4chan.org:80 "GET /s4s/thread/6850193 HTTP/1.1" 200 None
INFO:root:Visiting http://boards.4chan.org/o/
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): boards.4chan.org:80
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:http://boards.4chan.org:80 "GET /o/ HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:root:Hit a dead end, moving to the next root URL
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.reddit.com:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://www.reddit.com:443 "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:root:found 237 links
INFO:root:Visiting https://www.reddit.com/user/Saditon
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTPS connection (1): www.reddit.com:443
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:https://www.reddit.com:443 "GET /user/Saditon HTTP/1.1" 200 None
...

Build Using Docker

1. Build the image

docker build -t noisy .

2. Create the container and run:

docker run -it noisy --config config.json

To further simplify starting a few containers with noisy you can run make scale=[num of containers] multi-run.

Some examples

Some edge-cases examples are available on the examples folder. You can read more there examples/README.md.

Authors

• Itay Hury - Initial work - 1tayH

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

This project has been inspired by

• RandomNoise
• web-traffic-generator