How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide

Re:How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide by akerl_ on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:16PM (#41910536)

Far more VPSs are compromised through local VM attacks than provider attacks.

This is a bit like saying "When you're temping your chicken, always remember that your grocery store could be putting arsenic in it at the store". Yea, that's true. But the average consumer gets sick far more often from mistakes in the kitchen than mistakes in the grocery store.

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Re:How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide by gjsman-1000 on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:17PM (#41910545)

The person in question on HN was planning to self-host email. Sure, if you don’t want Google or Microsoft in particular reading it, I get it. But if you think nobody can read it now, that’s a major (potentially life threatening) mistake. Gmail might actually be safer in many circumstances.

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Re:How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide by aspenmayer on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:59PM (#41910790)

If you don’t want Google or Microsoft reading your email, Proton would be better still than Gmail, wouldn’t it?

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Re:How to secure your new VPS: a step-by-step guide by panarky on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:32AM (#41911224)

If any of your recipients are using Google or Microsoft then they already have your email whether you use Proton or not.

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