GreenCrunch

You gotta spend money to lose money! wait.

on any server with ssh exposed you’ll probably see a bunch of login attempts in the logs (automated attacks trying to find machines with a weak password). only keys is the way lol.

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I’d recommend using “password” as your password and “root” for the username. Attackers have a lot of stuff going on! Don’t make their job all complicated, make it easy to remember.

Older operating systems like a really old Linux distro or Windows XP are the best, since their performance requirements are a lot lower, giving better overhead for the crypto miners that will be installed. Modern OSs waste resources on security features and such.

Thanks for the explanation!

Worse, RCS isn’t always E2EE. After Apple begrudgingly added it to iMessage, they’ve made sure that iPhones don’t support its encryption, and I don’t think they display reactions and such properly. Meaning a group chat with a single iPhone in it can’t be encrypted.

That and the annoying dependence on carrier and proprietary software support - even with google messenger I’ve had RCS just give up sometimes and go to SMS only.

At this point, using an actual E2EE messaging system like Signal makes a lot more sense.

Command it to flicker mysteriously when someone arrives / walks past (perhaps determined by a new Bluetooth device like a phone being seen with a signal strength above some threshold?). Or, set up an anemometer. On nights with dramatic weather, as the wind gusts you can trigger spooky flickering. Or via lightning strike data off the internet.

I’m not sure why my mind went to making your house haunted, but there you go…

I am not sure lol. perhaps your ssh port isn’t exposed to the internet, or maybe the bots are just ignoring you? maybe your hosting provider has some sort of security process to reject those attempts preemptively?

I have no clue

so fun to look through the ssh log and see hundreds of attempts…

yeah, you can’t really buy a car that doesn’t have mobile data for “telemetry” (your driving data is sold to insurance companies)

even base trims get some phone app stuff, meaning there’s the ability to execute commands on the car. so, if they really wanted, there’s nothing stopping automakers from bricking your car, gas or EV, because they feel like it.

yipee…

it seems like the brick walls in my case really impede signal. connection across the sides of the chimney, which is brick, seem to suffer a lot.

Oooh, they work with it? … my family still has these as actual WiFi routers. the coverage kinda sucks.