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Cake day: October 26th, 2024

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  • Let’s say I have an unupdated patch and my server is now vulnerable.

    This could really happen. I have work and life to worry about and I might not notice.

    This vulnerability, could be in the BW instance itself (say the web server or the backend itself), or in the server itself (say an old OpenSSH version), or another service (NextCloud instance hosted in the same server under a different subdomain).

    So, first we see it’s a big attack surface. In any of those entrances an attacker could gain access to my server and with it the vault. It’s a short way from there to install a keylogger on the website where BW is hosted, and get my master password ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

    Now take into consideration that I just sat a couple of minutes to think about this, and I’m not a professional in cyber security or web security. Neither blue nor red team. A professional, with more knowledge, time, experience and resources, could probably bring up much more things.


  • Bitwarden.

    My recommendation: Don’t use Vaultwarden (self hostable server side of bitwarden. Really easy to run and use). Why? You’re not a security personal, and securing your vault isn’t your job. You might do a slight mistake that’ll lead to the compromise of your vault.

    The people at Bitwarden have their work dedicated to securing the vaults and all they do is security. And they’ll probably do it better then you. When it comes to serious matter, I prefer to trust the professionals.


  • I’m happy with SearXNG. At the time I had issues with each search engine, and this meta search engine is great for me.

    You can run one locally on your device, or connect it to a domain like I did, so I use it everywhere: seek[.]agurav[.]xyz You’re welcome to try mine, or use it daily. it’ll blend my own activity a bit so it’s good for me. For u, you’ll have to trust my word that I don’t sell your data or something. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    Ultimately, give it a try, and then host your own or use a public instance that you trust.













  • if you’ll have more connections or mentions on other IPs or websites, that’ll grow the chances of them scanning your IP too.

    You should read about how their crawler decide what to crawl and when*. After all, there’s 4 Billion IPv4 addresses, and much more IPv6 (tho I don’t know how much of them are used), and they don’t just randomly spin up numbers to scan.

    • I once read an article explaining how they did this, can’t find it now. I’ll send it if I do find it.