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chka
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About chka
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 #47550994
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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.