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  • I would be interested to see a figure of people with home servers that have had that happen to them. DoS & pwned yes, especially 15+ years ago before there were good resources, TLS, reverse proxies, or authentication front ends.

    I would be very interested to see any stat whatsoever of selfhosters that have gottened murdered specifically because of their server.

    It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn’t harden ssh at all, and most people didn’t use a VPN for downloading.

    That is literally like saying that people who light wall torches in their wooden home burned their house down, so let’s not use lightbulbs or electricity.



  • Thank you!!

    I get so frustrated seeing privacy advocates saying “I will just go back to a dumb phone”. Dumb phones had no concept of privacy ever, it is just rose colored glasses all the way down.

    The police literally didn’t need access to your phone because every call and text was logged by the phone company and they just hand it over without question.

    Hell, when I was a teenager and got my first dumb phone, my parents could request a copy of every single text I ever sent.

    You can’t put matrix or signal on a dumb phone, the only benefit is no GPS, and some also have that. Plus as the author said, they are either not encrypted or have some old version of software that probably has dozens of CVEs.