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It is a violation of the old mantra exemplified by Sendmail - "be kind in what you accept but be strict in what you send" (or words to that effect). It also lo

It is a violation of the old mantra exemplified by Sendmail - "be kind in what you accept but be strict in what you send" (or words to that effect). It also looks a bit like a nod to security through obscurity. However the world is a different place nowadays and rather nasty! I think we should insist on the best standards we have and not simply allow old stuff to carry on working through some form of misplaced altruism. I have come across some criticism of h2 but I don't know enough about the context and haven't researched that so can't comment but if dumping h1 works for you then I say crack on. I quietly enjoy watching my HA Proxy logs live and watching things bounce off. I have had an on prem MS Exchange (currently 2016) system that passes PCI-DSS for several years. Quite a few URLs will run really slowly from the outside world and then fail to work. Password testing on the OWA will quietly get handed off to a fake page that not only never lets you login, but gradually gets slower and slower and uses very few actual resources. The real OWA page is firing up all sorts of things in anticipation of you authenticating but the HA Proxy fake login is a C process and tiny. You call your sites "silly hobby" but they are still interweb facing and if you don't protect them they will cease to be just yours and instead be part of a botnet that's trying to hack me and my customers or stealing your electricity to run cryptocoin generation or used as part of the war against Ukraine. There is a good chance that a determined and skilled haxxor will run rings around both of us but let's crack on and make ourselves a bit trickier to crack than the average. If we make ourselves tough enough to crack then unless you are a valuable target then they will pass eventually but you will have slowed them down a bit.

LinuxBender 4y ago
There is a good chance that a determined and skilled haxxor will run rings around both of us I agree. I do silly things like this to get rid of the bot noise and to keep snooping bots like Discord/Steam off my files. I doubt any corporation would mimic my practices. Most of my hobby sites these days are static pre-compressed content and block anything other than HEAD and GET requests that match a regex patterns. All of that said I think that you are right. A targeted attack of my server providers could net console access and I would be very surprised if that console access didn't already provide unfettered access to assorted agencies in the name of lawful intercept. At least that was the case when I was in the wireless industry.
- gerdesj 4y ago
  "I do silly things like this" I know what you mean but it really isn't silly, it is socially responsible. You are already doing the right thing but thought of it as a hobby but it really isn't. The thing about the internet is that you can live in the UK or the US or wherever and have someone from the Russian Federation or the PRC off of China or a NORK or simply a common criminal from anywhere rock up and knock on your website's door and try to behave like a parasite. Think of these little darlings as parasites and it becomes obvious why you should put some effort in to keeping the buggers out.

LinuxBender 4y ago

There is a good chance that a determined and skilled haxxor will run rings around both of us I agree. I do silly things like this to get rid of the bot noise and to keep snooping bots like Discord/Steam off my files. I doubt any corporation would mimic my practices. Most of my hobby sites these days are static pre-compressed content and block anything other than HEAD and GET requests that match a regex patterns. All of that said I think that you are right. A targeted attack of my server providers could net console access and I would be very surprised if that console access didn't already provide unfettered access to assorted agencies in the name of lawful intercept. At least that was the case when I was in the wireless industry.

gerdesj 4y ago
"I do silly things like this" I know what you mean but it really isn't silly, it is socially responsible. You are already doing the right thing but thought of it as a hobby but it really isn't. The thing about the internet is that you can live in the UK or the US or wherever and have someone from the Russian Federation or the PRC off of China or a NORK or simply a common criminal from anywhere rock up and knock on your website's door and try to behave like a parasite. Think of these little darlings as parasites and it becomes obvious why you should put some effort in to keeping the buggers out.