Tails and another for storing random stuff, like a copy of documents when travelling.

They must have something to hide 🤨

Connect it to your PC or laptop and do a netinstall. Configure SSHD and a static ip. Plugin the disk to your server and then connect via ssh to admin it.

You could also set your laptop or PC to boot from the attached disk in the bios to test the services you want to start are starting

Happy to help 😉

Syncthing can do direct sync if you give the ip address to each node and you can disable relay servers .

Welcome to the party pal

Classic , you can’t go wrong with tribe

You’re wholesome OP 🤗

Sure is , So many greats from that era.

You can’t go wrong with Al Green. Timeless

Imagine paying for an OS to have ads in it. 🐃💩

Thankfully we have Linux/BSD

It doesn’t matter that you can disable it, this stuff shouldn’t be in the OS in the first place

Kdeconnect works great too if you are using linux and android

Running a middle relay for years with no issues.

Yeah this is a much better approach

You could just poll it every few minutes via a cronjob and only send a notification if the numbers have increased.

Personally I use miniflux too in docker but I dont have a need for notifications.

Could you just poll the miniflux db directly ?

On laptops yes, on my server no. Most of the data is photo backups and linux ISOs form over the years.

Ive thought about using it for bank apps so I dont have hassle if I lose the phone or it gets robbed. Has anyone tried this ?

You are right, as you note this requires a set of skills that many don’t possess.

I have been looking for ways I can help going forward too where time permits. I was just thinking having a list of possible targets would be helpful as we could crowdsource the effort on gitlab or something.

I know the folks in the lists are up to their necks going through this and they will communicate to us in good time when the investigations have concluded.

I think going forward we need to look at packages with a single or few maintainers as target candidates. Especially if they are as widespread as this one was.

In addition I think security needs to be a higher priority too, no more patching fuzzers to allow that one program to compile. Fix the program.

I’d also love to see systems hardened by default.