Lots of Data Breached Lately
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There is this notion I have regarding accessibility and secure channels with authentication which seems to be escaping some others. Perhaps my employment has turned me in to the security crazy individual they are becoming before my very eyes.
Most likely it's because I maintain a personal cluster for my needs here at the crib.
Regardless, just letting any ole body into your stuff is fool hardy and access control is the name of the game ... one way or another.
For this reason, I firewall those who do not require access to the inner sanctum at the drop of a hat. Then I force those who do require access to cross the strong password entry threshold whereby they must provide me with a key generated from my server and provided to them in an encrypted signature file which is time stamped expires quickly.
Though this transpires in a scant few seconds I can at least ensure that my technology doesn't follow the herd and step on a turd like these clods are doing ... repeatedly.
I back all this up with intrustion detection hardware and several scripts of my own design just to keep the would-be breaching hounds at bay as well as I can. This, coupled with pouring over the access logs after they're crunched by a script written for that purpose lets me be somewhat assured that anyone sniffing too close gets nipped in the bud.
Barney Fife was a big proponent of 'bud nipping' as am I.
Where is the world failing to see that the internet isn't this warm and fuzzy place they obviously think it is. I'm prepared to raise shields at the drop of a hat. I leave open ports just waiting for someone to hit them so they can get firewalled.
Listen, and understand. I am out here. I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear ... and I absolutely will not stop ... ever, until you are blocked at each and every exploitable vantage.