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That sort of hardened environment is what I would expect the sysadmins/operators of the darknet marketplaces to run. That's the impression a lot of these 'hard
by pvg 3y ago
That sort of hardened environment is what I would expect the sysadmins/operators of the darknet marketplaces to run.
That's the impression a lot of these 'hardening guides' give, intentionally or not. But fundamentally they're like 'tactical' pants except for nerds.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 3y agoWhile I disagree if a given darknet is to remain dark for long, this is the funniest comparison I read in a while and I am stealing it for future use.
- jandrese 3y agoThe NSA had a hardening guide you could download for free and deploy on a Windows system if you so desired. Following all of the advice in the document was an excellent way to end up with a completely useless system. Worse, thanks to Windows horrible logging infrastructure it was almost impossible to figure out exactly what change was causing a particular bit of breakage. You never EVER get an error message that reads anything like "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Ramdisk" : Permission Denied reading key "StartOverride", service halted". Instead it is some generic "the system failed to start" message that doesn't help at all.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThere are plenty of windows tools that let you see those real error messages and troubleshoot in more detail.
- jandrese 3y agoGood luck getting any of them to run on a locked down machine.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThey just need admin access, that's it.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoThey're not useless in the way tactical pants worn by nerds are.