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by rsync 2y ago
Port knocking is a simple and effective addition to a defense-in-depth strategy. Whatever layers of defense you already have in front of your ssh server, port knocking makes it (very slightly) safer. If knock/knockd were fragile or com
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by rsync 2y ago
Ends disguised as means.
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by rsync 2y ago
A network slug is very much like a data circuit breaker. https://john.kozubik.com/pub/NetworkSlug/tip.html
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by rsync 2y ago
"I have also heard of people getting filtered as potential spam accounts when the email address matches the service name or whatnot." I have heard of that as well but many years in I have not experienced it. I do the same thing th
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by rsync 2y ago
about:tabs ... which brings up a simple text listing, one URL per line, of all tabs you have open. This would allow you to quickly, easily, checkpoint (or, bookmark) your open tabs. I, personally, and rsync.net as a firm have offered bount
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by rsync 2y ago
Northfield is not, by any definition, a Minneapolis suburb. Further, much of Northfield is very rural, big corn fields, etc. Could there be improvements in transit and workability? Certainly… especially between the historic downtown and th
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by rsync 2y ago
Yes, I think so - original project is at: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle ... and I had not made that connection before ...
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by rsync 2y ago
"You mean "watch"?" I'm not sure. I've been directed to this in the past but I have a vague sense that it didn't do what I was looking for. I will take another look ...
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by rsync 2y ago
Hopefully referring to the (excellent) sshuttle: https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle ... which allows you to turn any system you have an ssh login on into a VPN endpoint.
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by rsync 2y ago
"An incredibly long ramp up ..." Agreed. We would all do well to learn about, and begin implementing, "Iceberg Articles": https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle/tip.html
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by rsync 2y ago
This reminds me of something I have always wanted in the UNIX ecosystem: "topify" ... which is the word I would use to describe a primitive that will take line inputs from stdio and display them in a 'top' style output,
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by rsync 2y ago
"... I marvel at how many caffeine addicts are standing in line at Starbucks for however long ready to drop $10 (or whatever it costs) for a beverage with a completely unknown and highly variable dose of what is fundamentally a drug ..
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by rsync 2y ago
"It needs to be online." No, it doesn't. Some have chosen - for reasons of efficiency and scale and cost - to place it online. However, this is a trade-off for fragility. It's not insane to make this trade-off ... ... bu
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by rsync 2y ago
"It seems like you’ve never worked with critical infra." My entire career has been spent building, and maintaining, critical infra.[1] Further, in my volunteer time, I come into contact with medical, dispatch and life-safety syste
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by rsync 2y ago
"Took down our entire emergency department as we were treating a heart attack. 911 down for our state too." Why would Windows systems be anywhere near critical infra ? Heart attacks and 911 are not things you build with Windows ba
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by rsync 2y ago
There is no reason to bother with any of this when you can just hide behind port knocking.
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by rsync 2y ago
Who said anything about an ad server ? An ad is a particularly sized JPEG that you place in your images directories… and then point to with an HTML tag. Everything we tried to build for you was lost once you deviated from that level of comp
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by rsync 2y ago
I live in the bay area. Between, say, 2012 and 2018 there was a wave of “Ronin”. I still get a chuckle thinking of these soccer dads, watching from the sidelines, wistfully thinking: My son … The wayward samurai…
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by rsync 2y ago
I would much rather we just handed everybody an RSA token. Dead simple… Works off-line… Requires no account or personal infra to use… … And as a bonus I already have a nice workflow where a WebCam is pointed at my token sitting on my desk.
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by rsync 2y ago
Very difficult with most big banks. In my experience with Bank of America and US Bank they bounce you around to several totally different top level domains as you navigate through the web-based banking. These are third-party service provide
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by rsync 2y ago
They are still third-party ad networks that require a browser to cross multiple domains, etc. etc. etc. I am not ideologically opposed to advertisements but I do believe the only safe ads are first party hosted coming from the same domain
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by rsync 2y ago
Random thought I’ve been having as we keep bringing this topic up these past few weeks… How interesting or uninteresting would bi-modal 2FA be ? That is: you receive a code by text and you enter the code by email… I haven’t spent any time t
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by rsync 2y ago
2666 by Roberto Bolano.
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by rsync 2y ago
"Only sure-fire way is to toss it in one of those big grinders data destruction companies like Iron Mountain have. They even let you watch it go in." This is what rsync.net does with drives that need to stop existing. I do, indeed
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by rsync 2y ago
Yes, I buy software … I bought iExplorer which lets me sanely treat my iPhone like an external disk … and I bought Mountain Duck which lets me mount remote sftp as a disk in Finder … … and some other things…
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by rsync 2y ago
Thanks for that feedback - I will think about how to make the parts beyond the tip of the iceberg more obvious and discoverable. Philosophically, I want the "tip" to be as uncluttered as possible but ... we'll see what I can
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by rsync 2y ago
That link is, itself, an I iceberg article. Click on the “body” link in the footer to see the full expansion… "Network Slug", which I sometimes discuss on HN, is also an iceberg article: https://www.kozubik.com/pub
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by rsync 2y ago
I have developed an entirely different approach to these blog/site features - such as sidenotes and TOC - that I refer to as an “Iceberg Article”. It is explained here: https://john.kozubik.com/pub/IcebergArticle&#
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by rsync 2y ago
This was alluded to in one of the Sun performance "bibles" in the section on drive IO ... the book spoke of some "non commodity disks" that had multiple disk arms that moved independently on different platters. I think
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by rsync 2y ago
"I'm not sure how I'll navigate it." I am not going to address the broad set of questions here but I want to point out that two items exist: 1) No-data SIM cards ... they call and text only ... 2) imessage only access po

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