The OPSEC Bible

Work on blog posts

If you're here and want to contribute to our blog posts, you only need to fork and clone the opsec-blogposts repo.

$ git -c "http.proxy=socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050" clone "http://gdatura24gtdy23lxd7ht3xzx6mi7mdlkabpvuefhrjn4t5jduviw5ad.onion/[you]/opsec-blogposts.git" --depth=1

We have a more detailed contributing guide that will help you with later steps. It may be somewhat incomplete currently so I'll list some general steps you should consider while writing/editing markdown blog posts.

• The main file of each post's directory is index.md, you should also make references to index.md of other blog posts for example: Do it like [we did before](../receive-sms-anonymously/index.md).
• You should fill the metatags with necessary information about author and blog post in general:

  ---
  author: oxeo0
  date: 2025-05-16
  gitea_url: "http://gdatura24gtdy23lxd7ht3xzx6mi7mdlkabpvuefhrjn4t5jduviw5ad.onion/Nowhere/the-opsec-bible/issues/278"
  xmr: 862Sp3N5Y8NByFmPVLTPrJYzwdiiVxkhQgAdt65mpYKJLdVDHyYQ8swLgnVr8D3jKphDUcWUCVK1vZv9u8cvtRJCUBFb8MQ
  ---
  
  # Blog post title
  

• You can preview markdown in VSCodium or other markdown editors. If you need to see how it would look on our blog, check the Run the blog locally section below.
• It's preferred to compress larger (>30kB) images to AVIF format using the avifenc command:

  $ avifenc 0.png --yuv 420 --range l -q 50 -c svt --speed 0 --ignore-exif -o 0.png
  

  We'll handle that if you're unsure or face any problems with compression.
• Even though all issues should remain on the main repository, you should make Pull Request to the opsec-blogposts repo once you're done with your contribution.

Clone everything

Our blog consists of a few git submodules. To fully clone it, use the following command:

$ git -c "http.proxy=socks5h://127.0.0.1:9050" clone "http://gdatura24gtdy23lxd7ht3xzx6mi7mdlkabpvuefhrjn4t5jduviw5ad.onion/Nowhere/the-opsec-bible.git" --depth=1 --recursive --shallow-submodules

In case of connection refused error, make sure you have Tor daemon running in the background listening with SocksPort 9050.

The cloning process over the Tor network can take a while. Please be patient and try again in case of network issues.

We try to optimize the size of this repository and its submodules, currently those are:

26.31M the-opsec-bible
36.48M hacking
44.84M opsec
6.78M  productivity
33.10M selfhosting

147.5M total

Run the blog locally

You need to install mkdocs-material package from your distro's repository or from pip.

Maye sure you fetched all submodules as in previous step, then from the main directory run:

$ mkdocs serve

It should be served on http://locahost:8000

Run the blog on the server

We have a separate repo to run the blog post in production environment - with automatic updates and reverse proxy.