Tape Drive?

Thanks, wireguard was pretty easy to setup, just time consuming mapping the devices and keys between devices. But now that stage is over its all good

Well it is a post about online privacy and keeping the prying eyes out.

Based on current USA actions, I have more faith in my own country and allies. The account info and control plane is what I mean, it could get compromised being under US control where they don’t seem to Ned warrants anymore

Are these relays? I think their announcement was data server, which means USA govt would have all your tailscale keys if they decide to keep going on the fascism.

Don’t use tailscale, a few years back they moved their server storage from Canada to the USA. Use headscle or wireguard if you are tech savvy

Happy New Year, and good luck on both fronts. (The USA collusions with Russia, and the Linuxy stuff)

Tqilscale makes it easy, but Tailscale moved their servers from Canada to the USA a long while ago, and so with the USA being what it is right now I removed tailscale and configured wireguard. Hardest part of wireguard was just setting up firewall rules to masquerate and port forward, the rest was pretty easy, just time consuming

Openmediavault on Mac mini https://youtu.be/t_mdBjwV2uws

Yes, I bought a rocketfish drive enclosure years back, so dropped a drive in that, and attached vias USB. Never had issues with it.

Assign as data drive in Openmediavault.

Openmediavault had some plugins and settings to set folders2ram so that the initial SDcard OS is writting to RAM instead of constant writes to the SDcard.

MicroOS is a decent choice, because it can cold boot off a configuration that uses ignition and combustion files. https://microos.opensuse.org/

And they have this file configurator so you don’t have to manually type all the syntax for your configs.

https://opensuse.github.io/fuel-ignition/edit

There are some sites dedicated to suggestions, or if you download the pi image burner tool it has a bunch of OS suggestions in the menu, like Pihole, Kodi media box, home assistant, etc.

I have a few running. One was setup as NAS and dlna music server using OpenMediaVault, one is a Volumio music player, my other one is Home assistant.

If you like old 80s-90s games there is RetroPi.

Too many choices really :)

Yes 2FA is good, but most people default to their phone being the tool, but your phone number can be ported by scammers, or is often the target of theft

The solution to that is you purchase a backup key and enroll both when presented with the QR image for new OTP links, or add a secondary FIDO key on some accounts. Then you store the other one in a fireproof box.

Or you use a cryptographic key and print it out using shard tool. The shard tool lets you specify how many splits and how many required for a tebuild. It prints out the shards and you distribute to safe places or people. They are useless by themselves but if you scan in the required amount of pieces the tool will rebuild your cryptographic key

Use a yubikey hardware device, only the person with the hardware in hand and password can unlock your accounts

Just takes a brute force or 0 day vulnerability to get master password access, then they have everything.

Something that seems secure never is online, like the 2017 Intel managetment vulnerability where remote attackers could access your computer by sending a null password, and access your keyboard and camera etc

Not sure about the distro being used, opensuse makes a docker zone to put docker interfaces on, those have their own ports and rules separate then the Ethernet assigned zone ports/services to allow. For me I had the opposite issue, I couldn’t reach my docker containers from my lan, onky from the local machine because the Ethernet was on an internal zone and Docker was on its own zone. I’m not a superskilled networker dude so I just turned on forwarding and masquerade so the incoming LAN zone would forward to doocker zone and pretend to be the local machine connecting and not a LAN or remote IP. I guess if you moved your dockers too the public zone you could get in trouble

Hardware raid is fine as long as you can still get the same hardware RAID card or Motherboard.

Wireguard between you and remote device like a pi. Set pi to portfowarding and masquerading on. It will then let you be on say a 10.x.x x network remotely but will send info on the remote LAN like it came from that pi local IP

They are still weird