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Absolutely. Depending on your use case, you can queue downloads to your VPS nodes, then prune out things you don't need and even compress data before pulling it to your home.
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Are you also doing UDP encapsulation and any additional NAT's? I'm using transport mode on strongswan. I get about 3% overhead with strongswan and about 5% with tinc, but the throughput on…
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For my use case, yes. My DNS requests are cached / forwarded on my VPS nodes. My ISP can neither see nor tamper with my DNS requests. I do something unorthodox and set a min-ttl both on my hom…
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I despise open work-spaces. It is distracting. Between slack and open work-spaces, my productivity is significantly lower. This has not changed in a long time. I've read decades of advice on …
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+1 for tinc. I've used it for years in VPS providers and from home to VPS to cloak DNS from the ISP eyes and tampering. It's not as fast as strongswan or wireguard, but it has dynamic mesh …
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For the VM, follow the same OS hardening standards you would apply in a non VPS environment. Each OS distribution has its own NIST, CIS hardening guides. Do not use pre-built images created by someo…
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I am not looking to convince anyone. I know what I experienced. My friends know what they experienced. That is more than enough for me to have left KP and to warn my friends regarding my experience…
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Do any countries have laws that enforce compliance and have serious consequences for violations?
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CentOS is only community supported, so that is ok. I am not suggesting customizing kernels.
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Somewhat off topic: Is there an effort similar to this for CentOS 7? The centos minimal image is still rather large and I have to do some really ugly things to prune it down. Even then I can not get…
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Have any criminals also started using AI bots? i.e. Assassination by drone, bank heist drones, graffiti drones (for those hard to reach places), vandalizing drones, ...etc I know there are already ma…
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Do all command line / API utilities support TLS 1.2+ now? Many linux distros ship really old libraries, is why I ask. Then there are the older unix systems with even older libraries. Based on …
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I was with Kaiser for a long time because I never needed a doctor. When I did, I had to fire kaiser. They nearly killed me. Talking to my coworkers, it turns out this is quite common. They hire a …
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Terrorists? Try 12 year old angst filled kids that get bullied in school and/or at home. How many 10 to 17 year old angst filled kids have access to the internet?
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Yup, and some insurance companies are convincing people to connect a cell phone fob to their OBD-II in exchange for lower insurance rates. In exchange, they have access to your cars computer, GPS coo…
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Numerous internet connected cars are remotely hackable and you can take over engine controls, steering, breaking. This was performed on live highways multiple times. DOT investigated at least one of…
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This is just my own methodology, but I ask the local police / sheriff who the most reliable mechanic is. I then validate the number of tattoos on their team members. They must have a lot of tat…
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Perhaps in another thread. I would derail this thread by extending the topic that much.
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My vehicle is ODB-II and can not talk to the internet. I was part of the OBD-III debates.
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Potentially, yes. Instead of 30k spread across one year, the very possible opportunity for 30k in one mass-hack exists. I will defer to others to debate this. Perhaps financial regulators, safety d…
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Unpopular opinion ahead. Having worked in the security industry for a few thousand years (computer years), I can say I would never own a car that can talk to the internet. I plan to move far away fr…
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Text messages are stored forever (or until storage arrays are full) on the SMS gateways for the provider. They are stored in plain text and are backed up if the admins are doing their job. You can g…
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They left off "frictionless". I hear that all the time as reasoning for leaving out security and privacy considerations.
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I agree with everything johnklos said and I do the same for the same reasons. I enforce TLS for certain domains and sometimes for all domains, depending on if I am subscribing to something for the fir…