I had removed a lot of firewall rules in the hope that the internet had somehow become this 'kinder, gentler' place — in my imagination.
No such luck.
Just as soon as the sniffers got wind that I had lowered my guard ...
BOOM there were the exploit attempts in full force once again.
So, I quickly ascertained that my wish of good will toward the rest of the internet was a wasted effort and I restored those rules I had removed in my misguided attempt to trust more internet denizens.
Thusly, the exploit attempts plummeted to a usual and customary (and managable) level and I am left wondering just why I want a web presence anyway.
Who wants to be in a place accompanied by exploitive individuals such as those so obviously populating certain networks like 1an1, 4vendeta, ovh, ali anything, hinet, asianet, dreamhost, gd amazon, digitalocean, censys, tencent, chinacom, chinanet, all the permutations of 'colo' (colocation) and anything with dns or cloud in it.
So here I sit, iron fisted once again ready to bitch slap the exploiter's bitch ass at the drop of a hat.
So in those parallels which mimic the leftist libtard democrat party exploits of The Republic, even those who occupy your own environmental element will try to get over on you as much as you will permit such activity ...
So I said let there be firewall. And there was firewall. And it was good.