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by 4oo4 5y ago
Changing IPs is more expensive and requires more effort than being able to scan all ports from one IP, so yes they can certainly do that if they are determined, but the more expensive you make it for them to do that (resources, time, energy
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by 4oo4 5y ago
SSHGuard looks cool, wasn't aware that existed. Haven't messed with FreeBSD jails, but I use unprivileged lxc containers on Linux, iirc that's the closest Linux equivalent? Those help me sleep better at night.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
I would say so, anything you can to prevent an attacker from gaining useful information is a good deterrent (just like the comment that mentioned hiding version numbers from being displayed). The more deterrents you have, the more you frust
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by 4oo4 5y ago
It gives you a little bit more control over what happens when someone hits a closed port (do you want to drop or reject a packet?), this affects how different nmap scans interpret the port being open/closed/filtered. Also, it&#x27
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by 4oo4 5y ago
All great advice. I would just add that I think it's OK to host crypto things, as long as they are not public facing or only accessible via a VPN. For example, it's possible host your own private bitcoin node and electrumx server
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Although you didn't state your OS, I'm going to assume we're talking about Linux. As others mentioned, reading hardening guides is a first step. Those will tell you how to avoid the most common configuration footguns and redu
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by 4oo4 5y ago
That might be the difference, my work is a 100% Windows shop, so that's why we haven't seen it. That really sucks though.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Really? That's interesting. We deployed this a few months ago this where I work and haven't encountered any performance issues like this. But we have had the fun of encountering BSODs when some of our end users try to use Excel.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
You're definitely right about that. I think it's from the XP days, but I remember reading about antivirus vendors creating their own security holes and vulnerabilities, where running antivirus software made your computer less secu
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by 4oo4 5y ago
I think most antivirus is security theater at this point, unless you're using endpoint security like CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Cortex, Carbon Black, etc. Which, I think only sell to B2B and not consumer.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Used to not very much, but now I realized that most discussions are more informative than the source material, so I have been more and more. Thanks to everyone for making this such a lively place to debate and avoid social media drama.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Selective collective punishment is a really bad way to treat customers. Russians are out in the streets protesting and even Russian oligarchs are speaking out. Apparently that doesn't mean anything to Namecheap though, they're all
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Not sure how much to trust the author, but supposedly it means that it integrates itself into your DNA? https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/worst-fears-realized-pfize...
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Been using it for years, love it. Sad to see that development on it has been slow for a while, but it's pretty mature at this point.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
I really don't get why we haven't figured out how to do controlled burns properly, lots of indigenous cultures had been doing it successfully for at least hundreds of years. And they did it all without fancy technology. I think i
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by 4oo4 5y ago
In case this is partially my fault: I started using Tutanota as my primary email provider a long time ago and just let Gmail fill up with garbage that I'm too lazy to delete (and also in hopes that all the garbage/spam messes with
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by 4oo4 5y ago
So anything challenging orthodoxy needs to be substantive to be tolerated as free speech? Who decides what is substantive? Even shit clickbait-y speech deserves tolerance just like "substantive" speech, whatever that means. I real
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Makes me really glad I started using flatpaks for both Chromium and Firefox on Bullseye. Didn't realize the lack of security patches but it's insane how poor CPU performance and rendering was (especially for video) is in their def
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Another fun caveat to this that's extremely poorly documented: If you have a 32-bit process that needs to be redirected into the 64-bit namespace, you have to use C:\Windows\sysnative. The folder only exists when you use 32-bit cmd. h
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by 4oo4 5y ago
I'm going to keep calling them Facebook out of spite, since this doesn't distract me in the slightest for how toxic the company continues to be. Instead of Metaverse, I'm going to call it Virtual Hell™.
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Related: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/employment-l... https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-major-plot-holes-in-the-o...
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Despite being a crazy murderer, Phil Spector was a great audio engineer. A big reason he produced this way is that he knew it would sound good ("hot") on jukeboxes and radios of the time. > The intention was to exploit the poss
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Also worth reading: https://robertwillishacking.com/the-machine-enabled-by-faceb... What I don't get is why they are protecting the name of the company that funded all this and all their properties? If you want to stop
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by 4oo4 5y ago
https://archive.is/JM3Eu
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by 4oo4 5y ago
There is a gaping hole in this article, and that's the accusations of securities fraud. There were already a number of credible accusations of advertising fraud when they lied to advertisers about how effective their ads are, which the
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Windows 10 shows live feeds of traffic cameras in Maps app(vizzion.com)
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Definitely. The ransomware people caused the mess, but this looks like a case of the hospital caring more about optics than informing patients. That exacerbated what was going on and caused more harm. If I was the patient and the hospital w
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by 4oo4 5y ago
> I've never felt like I'm good at being creative, coming up with original ideas, my own unique independent thoughts. Even though I have spent years practicing "creative" skills - traditional and digital art, writing,
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by 4oo4 5y ago
Indeed! "The one thing you do not get in an office meeting room is horizon. You might get milestones and goals and targets, but horizons? They're for making you wonder what if, asking what's over there, dreaming enough to go
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by 4oo4 5y ago
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