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Re:Why Self-Host? by m463 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:34PM (#45532750)
I wonder about:

- silently compromised systems, active but unknown

- VPS provider doing security behind your back

Re:Why Self-Host? by mikepurvis on Thursday October 09, 2025 @08:28PM (#45534393)
I'd be worried about this too. Like there must be AI bots that "try the doors" on known exploits all over the internet, and once inside just do nothing but take a look around and give themselves access for the future. Maybe they become a botnet someday, but maybe the agent never saw the server doing anything of value worth waking up its master forβ€” running a crypto wallet, a shard of a database with a "payments" table, an instance of a password manager like Vault, or who knows what else might get flagged as interesting.