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by ericd 17y ago
Wow, that looks great. Any idea how it compares to the other tools mentioned? (tripwire, portsentry, logwatch)
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by ericd 17y ago
Good tip on the pub/priv key auth for ssh. Also on tripwire. Thanks! Custom logs generated by your own app for things like login attempts, etc, are definitely useful for detecting issues. I was referring more to things like apache connectio
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by ericd 17y ago
Awesome, those tools sound great. I hadn't heard of anything like tripwire, but it's one of those things that I was hoping existed.
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by ericd 17y ago
Logs are great for forensic investigation after one has been alerted to an exception, my question is more about expanding alert coverage to various other suspicious activity. Do most people just make a strong password and trust that that ke
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by ericd 17y ago
I've heard great things about squarespace ( http://www.squarespace.com ), though I haven't used it myself. They seem to have import/export functionality to all the other big blog platforms, so it wouldn't be hard to jump out to another pla
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Ask HN: How do you handle server security/intrusion monitoring?
35 points by ericd 17y ago|20 comments
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by ericd 17y ago
Yep, which might also explain why the women are apparently so harsh on their ratings compared to men - they already get more messages than the guys, and don't want to be contacted even more.
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by ericd 17y ago
I've noticed this as well in an area with extremely bad reception (inside a skyscraper) - my iPhone seems to frequently default to showing 5 bars when it can't actually make or receive calls, but then when I go next to a window and it actua
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by ericd 17y ago
Not really, his point is valid. They wield a terrifying amount of power over most web-based businesses, and they're not very careful with it as they're not beholden to any site. If you get bumped from their index, you can immediately lose a
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by ericd 17y ago
One more - jscript, which happens to be very similar to JavaScript, but has a number of differences.
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by ericd 17y ago
Perhaps there is a case for creating a tag that can be added via flag for non-hacker news news, which is easily filterable as off topic, and is filtered out by default? This could potentially have worse effects on the dynamics of the site t
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by ericd 17y ago
There are actually already some UAV AI competitions that accept student teams, though they're typically not competing in a dogfighting sense, more in a "follow a path, search for an object like x and take a picture of it", etc.
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by ericd 17y ago
True, but the environment in Western Europe is very different from that of the rest of the world, and it's not clear that we can scale up the conditions of Western Europe to 6 billion people, at least with present tech, and especially if we