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jimsi

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About jimsi

email: jimsi+ycombinator [at] at[dot]encryp[dot]ch

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: How do you get security advisories?

    Recently I was reading logs on production machine and have seen line "pdns-recursor[2169088]: PowerDNS Security Update Mandatory: Upgrade now, see https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor…

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    Comment #30719402

    I think that providing API to be used by standalone clients is far more better approach

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    Comment #29748755

    I would recommend to use borgbackup - it is very convenient for security (it provides very flexible encryption options with safe defaults) and efficiency (deduplication)

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    Comment #29717175

    I can't remember any recent good news about 0click mitigation

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    Comment #29717071

    I use KeePassDX on Android and KeePassXC on a laptop, and they are synced with Syncthing. I have no issues with this setup

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    Comment #29255031

    This might be a way better solution in terms of performance, but I cannot imagine way to run more complicated stuff rather only blocking IP in the firewall using iptables

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    Comment #29254605

    This ratio is only applied if there are more than 1000 SYNs, forgot to mention that in the README ( https://git.encryp.ch/g00g1/no-portscan/src/branch/master/cm... )

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    Ask HN: Complaint from Proton AG – what should I do?

    Recently my domain register has received following abuse complaint. Honesty, I'm very shocked why they are even caring about 'groundless "facts"' and trying to take down such small…

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    Comment #28652295

    My OpenSSH is located on a non standard port, 22/tcp is going to the endlessh honeypot.

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    Comment #28652290

    How did you discover this? Anyway thanks for additional information

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    Comment #28652277

    I have asked Cloudflare about this traffic, but support says "Cloudflare helps protect sites, and accelerate them. We do not attack sites, and our network can't be used to generate…

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    Comment #28652259

    I think single SYN packet would be enough to know whether this port open or not, but they trying to gather full banner.

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    Comment #28652254

    I expect to hear who (and why) generates that kind of traffic from cloudflare owned subnets.

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    Comment #28652235

    Probably yes, but hey! Why do Cloudflare Worker would need SSH connection establishment? I do not asking Cloudflare to block 22/tcp entirely, but all this situation is very odd - I…

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    Comment #28652160

    Maybe that's a case, but their abuse team hasn't replied anything in a 2 weeks about that after I gave them all timestamps and both source/destination IP addresses

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    Comment #28652098

    Previously this post was named in such way, but post get flagged... So I removed its mentioning and replaced with ASN

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    Comment #28627669

    https://github.com/xmikos/cryptboot/blob/master/README.md

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    Comment #28027294

    > In addition to offer encrypted connections, each publicly available SMTP server must accept unencrypted connections according to RFC 2487 as well. So while Amazon SES should defi…