Enabling every bundled jail produces bans from filters matching log formats your software does not emit, and a config nobody trusts enough to tune. fail2ban-regex against a real…
A server on a public IP receives thousands of password attempts a day, and fail2ban reduces the rate rather than the risk. Turning the mechanism off removes it.…
A nightly dump that has run successfully for two years proves that the dump command exits zero, which is a different claim from the data being recoverable. The…
A wildcard certificate can only be issued through the DNS challenge, which means whatever renews it can write records in your zone — and the default API token…
Replacing an email with a hash feels like removing personal data and does not, because the same input always produces the same output and the input space is…
Signing a payload by hashing the secret and the message together is a construction with known weaknesses, and it keeps getting written because it looks obviously correct. HMAC…
Plugins offering to “disable the REST API” hook rest_authentication_errors and return an error for unauthenticated requests, which is a restriction rather than a removal — the routes still…