might host a shared library of ebooks since I live with lefties, but what else could I do? i'm gonna run it on an old laptop and it has a mic and webcam, so there are some creative possibilities here

  • Spinoza [any]
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    4 years ago

    thanks for looking out for me, i do realize i need to be careful and do my research

    at the moment the webcam is taped over, and i'll disconnect the microphone unless i explicitly want to play around with voice commands or something, in which case i'm going to have to do a bunch of work to set up the necessary security for that

    • unperson [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Great, I don't want to discourage you from experimenting with your server. :Care-Comrade:

      In practice nobody is scanning the Internet for servers with cameras and much less microphones. Having a commodity IoT camera or assistant would be much worse in this aspect. Mics in servers are very rare and low value for untargeted attackers.

      What bots will be looking for is basically any kind of password login, extremely outdated software with widely known vulnerabilities, services with write permission accidentally made public (be it something obvious like ftp or something less obvious like a seed box with a weak password). If you make everything with a password listen on localhost and hide it behind key-only ssh, bots will stop even scanning you.