Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Thinkst Canary with OpenCanary (Save $2465)
Update: See note below about the Pi Zero/Original Pi
Update2: Sorry for not making this clear, but I recommend using a BURNER email account or any of the other notification options. I don't think your email will be compromised, but no reason to put your real credentials in there.
The Thinkst Canary is an absolutely awesome device, but you can get its most important features using their FREE OpenCanary software. Learn how to create a network honeypot to catch hackers BEFORE they're fully entrenched.
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I believe this WILL work on an original Pi or the Pi Zero, but it will need some tweaking.
The install process is ridiculously slow on these devices and I'm not going to spend any more
time trying to figure it out. You will need to use Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Rasbian) due to
the Arm Cortex v6 Processor (and its incompatibility with Ubuntu 18) as opposed to the v7 in the later Pi's. Please comment on the video to let us know how you got it to work.
From Matthew Bowles in the comment concerning running on boot.
sudo -i (this will run all commands as root, you NEED to do everything as root)
run the install instructions (as root) all the way up to the --copyconfig
make a script to run it (nano /usr/loca/bin/opencanary.sh)
Script should be
#!/bin/bash
./usr/local/bin/opencanary.sh
(exit the editor while saving)
Make script executable (chmod x+ /usr/local/bin/opencanary.sh)
test script ( ./usr/local/bin/opencanary.sh)
it should be running now if not stop and troubleshoot that
Make it run on boot with crontab -e
@reboot /usr/loca/bin/opencanary.sh (save and exit)
Reboot and it should be running.
NOW I am sure that running this as root is not ideal but i could not get it to work any other way for me and since the device is intended to be probed by hackers nothing should be running on this so i don't think its a HUGE deal but if someone else could make this work as a normal user then I would do that.
