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I’d urge u to retitle to:
I had PTSD over that phrase, and how many naïve self starters got doxed, swatted, murdered, thrashed, DoS, pwnd, bitlocked, sued, deISPd, excomm.d, raided, wormed, subpoenaed, etc., etc..
And with fascist laws being enforced, basic guides need extreme darknet praxis updates.
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It is extremely important to note that in those days, people just opened their, often out-of-date, servers completely to the internet via a DMZ or port forwarding, let ssh be open to the internet, didn't harden ssh at all, and most people didn't use a VPN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.
Coming up on a year of self hosting the worst I've had happen is a copyright letter from my isp from dry downloading torrents lmao. Threw I behind a vpn and it's been fine since.
The problem is that now you can automate pwning, in batches. And given that there it’s at international scales, you need defense first before host.
Heck, Salt Typhoon pwnd nearly the entire world.
So lost.