Hmm ok, maybe not related then. I had no issues with going back to standard SMS, and if they won't play by the rules then why should I care as long as I can text my family?
Shdwdrgn
joined 1 year ago
Any idea how long this has been going on? I have an unlocked bootloader but am running a standard upgrade version on my phone and it was never rooted. Some time in the last few months I started getting warnings that my texts weren't going through and was asked if I wanted to switch to SMS... yeah ok I'd never heard of RCS before so yes please use SMS for all of my messages, and everything worked fine.
There was no such thing as a default firewall, but even now when I set up a new Debian machine there are no firewall rules, just the base iptables installed so you CAN add rules. Back then we also had insecure things like telnet installed by default and exposed to the world, so there's really no telling exactly how they managed to get into my machine. It's still good to learn about network security up front rather than relying on any default settings if someone is planning on self-hosting.
This was back in '99 and I didn't know much about linux (or servers) at the time, so I'm not exactly sure what they did... but one morning I woke up and noticed my web service wasn't working. I had an active login on the terminal but was just getting garbage from it, and I couldn't log in remotely at all. My guess was that someone hacked in, but hacked the system so badly that they basically trashed it. I was able to recover a little data straight from the drive but I didn't know anything about analyzing the damage to figure out what happened. so I finally ended up wiping the drive and starting over.
At that point I did a sped-run of learning how to set up a firewall, and noticed right away all kinds of attempts to hit my IP. It took time to learn more about IDS and trying not to be too wreckless in setting up my web pages, but apparently it was enough to thwart however that first attacker got in. Eventually I moved to a dedicated firewall in front of multiple servers.
Since then I've had a couple instances where someone cracked a user password and started sending spam through, but fail2ban stopped that. And boy are there a LOT of attempts at trying to get into the servers. I should probably bump up fail2ban to block IPs faster and over a longer period when they use invalid user names since attacks these days happen from such a wider range of IPs.
I have 56k of comment karma and only 792 post karma (no K there,only 792) but I got an email as well. Technically I guess I'm a mod because I started a sub with another guy but it never saw anything beyond the greetings post. However my account is over 13 years old so maybe that counts for something?
And yeah, I have no intention of wasting my money. They might see a slight profit initially as some might view this as the "new shiny", but then I fully expect it to tank the moment the investors get a look at their records and start jumping ship.
Maybe they're bankrolling theDonald's NYC fines.
Can you imagine if every site had as powerful of search capabilities as what ebay offers?
I see a number of comments to use a virtual server host, but I have not seen any mention of the main reason WHY this is advisable... If you want to host something from your home, people need a way to reach you. There are two options for this -- use a DDNS service (generally frowned upon for permanent installations), or get a static IP address from your provider.
DDNS means you have to monitor whenever your local IP address changes, send out updated records, and wait for those changes to propagate across the internet. This generally will mean several minutes or more of down time where nobody can reach your server, and can happen at completely random times.
A static IP is reliable, but they cost money, and some providers won't even give you the option unless you get a business-class connection, which costs even more money. However this cost is usually already rolled into the price of a virtual machine.
Keep in mind also that when hosting at home, simply using a laptop to stay online 24/7 is not enough, you also need a battery backup for your network equipment. You will want to learn about setting up a firewall and some kind of IDS to protect the front end of your services, but for starting out you can host this on the same machine as your other services. And if you really want to be safe, set up a second internal machine that you can perform regular backups to, so when your machine gets hacked you have a way to restore the information.
My first server was online for two whole weeks before someone blew it up. Learn security first, everything after that will be easy.
Well it sounds like it's a step in the right direction at least. Thanks for the info.
Would that also be available to individuals, or is something that only Google would have access to? There's at least a couple groups actively keeping maintained images available for various phones. I keep thinking I want to try one but never get around to it before the phone is fully in use.
At the very least, manufacturers should be required to make their android build files available, even if they are kept in an escrow until the manufacturer stops selling that model (or they go out of business). Most of the phones going to the dump are because no updates are available, even though the hardware is still fine and any individual person (with a little patience) could build the latest release if they had the hardware bin files available.
My computer was built from pieces of other computers, to which I installed linux and never had to agree to anything. Now show me those ten fairies, the unicorn, and the herald of darkness please...