Straight Edge Life

Run a website for a while and see if it increases your level of paranoia. Seriously. You’ll be BLOWN AWAY by the number of intrusion attempts made against your network. I’m not talking about random code red attacks from compromised machines, or worms, or random viruses, I’m talking about targeted attacks, where people are jumping from public ip to public ip attempting to guess your usernames and passwords on any available port, service, and protocol. Fuck them. Fuck them for making me paranoid. Fuck them for making me beef up security to the point where my machines are almost unusable by anyone but a system administrator. Yeah, fuck that. You have to do it. You have to protect yourself, but it’s crap.

Between last night and this morning (while I was quietly sleeping on the edge of a river in Idaho) 8 individual intrusion attempts were made against my machine. In less than the time it took me to drive from the Idaho border to Missoula some fucker decided to try and own my server. He failed. But this is the equivalent of someone walking up to your store’s front door and working the lock with a pick 8 times in one night. I don’t mean to flame too much here, but it’s just shit. Hopefully soon laws will be fierce and will help to reduce the casual cracker from doing this kind of shit. Grrrr. Until then I kick the security up another notch.