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chka

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Building TarPit.pro — TCP honeypot that catches and bans attackers. Security tools for people who run their own servers or VMs (public IPs)

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    Comment #47574965

    I kept seeing the same brute-force attempts on every VPS I run, virtually on every service that opened a port. fail2ban or similar tools definitely help but they only act after hac…

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    Comment #47551060

    This is already happening. Most VPS providers have raised prices 15-20% (last month I got emails from Hetzner & OVH even some tiny budget ones). The $5/month VPS that every self-ho…

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    Comment #47550982

    The irony of needing to fight internally for something users have been asking for since day one. Local accounts should be the default, not a hidden workaround

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    Comment #47550962

    This is the kind of absurd-but-useful thing I love about self-hosting. Next step: mTLS between the printer and the NAS.