Tag: iron rule

The Hijacked Tide: NinjaDesktop Stuck on Direct Connection and the City-Wide Outage, the Unhooked Feet of mitmdump, and the New Iron Rule of Draining Before Sniffing

The small hours outage of November 4: the NinjaDesktop proxy client was stuck in direct-connection mode, refusing manual return to rule mode, and the whole computer went offline to the point where even the agent was nearly unreachable. The investigation locked the culprit — the mitmdump that the TVMOD night guard had run for MITM capture was never properly wound down, and it disturbed the proxy rule state; after the fix the environment was verified back (route_mode: rule, tun_mode: true, no guard triggers in the log), and the lesson was written as a double iron rule: the memory bank now holds the NinjaDesktop guard mechanism and its repair steps, and the tvmod-repack skill gained a new clause — before running mitmdump, quit Ninja or disable TUN; after running, kill the process at once, restore rule mode, and restart. An idle Hermes python kernel (PID 41844) was left pending cleanup on request.