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Post by gevz » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 4:52 AM UTC

tenpies wrote: post #146

qwertox wrote: post #130

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Several european banks are also having issues with their login sites and online services. Backends are working though. I know, it's far fetched to throw them in the same bucket, and I won't, but it feels like there is happening some kind of reorganization on the net, which in the worst case would be some kind of global state-sponsored MITM-layer getting set up, maybe to prepare for new techs like 5G and TLS1.3.

My metaphorical tinfoil hat tells me that all the sudden security meetings yesterday (Putin, European Security Council, US VP Pence) were about this.

Post by kfrzcode » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

RandallBrown wrote: post #171

the-dude wrote: post #13

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Actually, I started wondering the last few minutes : what if the next worldwar would start on the internet? Or is this a common assumption already? I had not connected Huawei to my conspiracy theory yet, but just did.

You might love Neal Stephenson's latest book "Fall, or Dodge In Hell" It's not quite about a world war on the Internet, but it is about what could happen if the Internet suddenly stops working somewhere.

Post by cbluth » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 5:59 AM UTC

acegopher wrote: post #184

stevendgarcia wrote: post #179

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Solid advice. I had fail2ban installed and enabled. SSHD Root/password login turned off and only ssh key had access. My firewall was also airtight, or so I thought. Clearly I mucked up a config or setting somewhere because the odds of someone getting past all that are extremely low. One thing I had not prepared for was IP spoofing which I learned can be prevented with a few net.ipv4.conf tweaks. I also just purchased…

What was the vector by which they gained access? I have fail2ban, password login turned off, key access, airtight firewall, etc. and now am worried.

Post by Bayart » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 6:34 AM UTC

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Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

Actually, I started wondering the last few minutes : what if the next worldwar would start on the internet? Or is this a common assumption already? I had not connected Huawei to my conspiracy theory yet, but just did.

Post by eridius » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:19 AM UTC

eitland wrote: post #219

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I mean, yeah, but I don't want to do that. Partially because I don't want the friction, and partially because that won't work with any other tools that tunnel over ssh (e.g. sftp).

There will be friction, but sftp and port tunneling - which are my most used fwatures besides plain ssh - should be possible ? I mean either you sftp to a shared folder that can be accessed from your regular user as well or you use a staging area with a cron job (or you load/unload the staging area manually.)