WingNews logo WingNews GitHub [2]

peter_hansteen's comments

peter_hansteen | 3 months ago

Norway is digital to a fault. That is why attempting to buy the ticket for a bus ride can reveal a cascade of user experience (UX) failures.

peter_hansteen | 11 months ago

OpenBSD as your daily driver, tips to keep you system in trim, updated for the upcoming OpenBSD 7.7 release, expected around May 1st, 2025.

peter_hansteen | 1 year ago

Already somewhat blasé from life in the honeypots, yours truly registers an even more bizarre level of events after a some routine logs spelunking

peter_hansteen | 2 years ago | on: Three Minimalist Spamd Configurations for Your Spam Fighting Needs (OpenBSD)

Making life harder for spammers does not necessarily require a lot of effort, if done correctly. Here are a few suggestions for how to use your spamd(8) on an OpenBSD or FreeBSD system that require minimal input but can yield noticeable gains.

Doing your bit to protect your own users and others agains scams, phising or other undesirable mail activity is good netizenship, but unfortunately there is a tendency to think that contributing in any way takes a lot of effort in addition to deep insight into all matters technical and social.

This piece is intended to give you, an aspiring or experienced OpenBSD or FreeBSD user who do not necessarily run a mails service yourself, a taste of some of the options available to you even if you do not want to expend too much effort.

peter_hansteen | 2 years ago | on: What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD (2021)

For those looking for nicer formatting, the article is also available as a three part APNIC guest blog post https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-... (links to the other two articles should be very easy to find from there) or the original blogspot version https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-every-it-person-need... (and yes, the article was originally published in September 2021).

The nxdomain.no version is tracker-free other than my rather short lived nginx log.

peter_hansteen | 3 years ago | on: “Sextortion”: The Numbers Show That What We Have Is a Failure of Education

The "Sextortion" spam is in technical terms mind-numbingly boring, following the same patterns as other spam to a fault, distinguishing itself only in the embarrasment approach to extortion.

Interestingly, this piece seems to be bot-labeled as "porn" for some DNS based blocklists, so the author has made the text available here too: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_numbers_show_we_have_a_failur...

page 1