chka

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   TarPit.pro – honeypot that catches and auto-bans attackers(tarpit.pro)

   1 points by chka 6mo ago|1 comments
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   by chka 6mo ago

   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 hackers/bots hit real services. I wanted to catch them a l
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   by chka 6mo ago

   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-hoster relies on is becoming very quuickly the $7-8&#
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   by chka 6mo ago

   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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   by chka 6mo ago

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