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How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?

We can’t ever stop this kind of stuff, but with something like fail2ban you can set it up to block on too many failures.

Really though - ensuring your system is kept up to date and uses strong passwords or use a SSH keys is the best defence. Blocking doesn’t prevent them from trying a few times. Moving SSH to a non standard port will stop most of the automated attacks but it won’t stop someone who is dedicated.

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How do I make sure my Nextcloud instance is accessible only to people in my local wifi?

In general, if you haven’t taken steps to expose your service to the Internet, it’s not accessible over or to the internet. Your router that connects you to the Internet should have a firewall that blocks all inbound, unsolicited requests, and you also need to do something explicit with most self hosted service to expose them, they will not announce themselves to the world.

In addition if you’re using an ipv4 network address that’s likely a private address (like 10.x.y.z, 172.x.y.z, or 192.168.x.y), which also isn’t accessible outside of your network.

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Tuya devices popularity

Does this Tuya include Zigbee devices? I don’t have any wifi based Tuya devices but it’s surprising how many generic cheap Zigbee sensors are Tuya.

Roughly 1/3 of my Zigbee devices are Tuya branded, if you buy from AliExpress it’s a strong possibility.

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Send WoL signal though Opnsense networks

WoL packets are usually sent to the ip broadcast address for the network as they’re not ip based. I don’t know if this would ever work well across networks. Can you do send the wol packet from the opnsense router instead? Does it work then?

If you’re sending it to the IP of the server, it likely works soon after your turn the machine off because the ARP entry hasn’t timed out yet, but once it times out it won’t work anymore. The router doesn’t know how to get to the machine. You may be able to add a static arp mapping to get it to work long term.

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What security purpose a Faraday bag has when it contain a vehicle keyfob

Older fobs never turned off - so they are constantly broadcasting the signal for the car. Newer fobs do turn off when at rest so they’re less risky, but if say it’s in your pocket it’s constantly moving so someone could still relay it to steal your vehicle, assuming they get close enough to you.

The faraday bag is good for older fobs or if you think you’re at risk of a key relay attack.

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DIY Universal Power Tools?

USBC (at least in its current form) likely can’t provide enough power to run most tools well also. According to what I can find for Ryobi tools (as an example) they’re rated to pull 10x the Ah rating in A continuously. That means a typical 4 Ah battery can deliver up to 40 A at 18V or 720 W continuously. I’d guess tools pull 400-600 W continuously, and may be up to 25x on start up or stall for a few seconds before the BMS cuts the tool off. USBC maxes at 240W right now. For reference - that’s about half of what a typical NA wall socket can deliver at 120V/15A.

Using USBC to charge batteries is fine but we don’t appreciate just how much energy can be delivered by batteries and how quickly.

You’d have to have something that can deliver that peak amperage without catching fire, and the wiring to handle it too.

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How website detects DNS resolver?

Without looking at it it’s probably making a unique request to a resource on a NextDNS subdomain and watching where the request comes from. Like pulling an image from (unique _string).check.nextdns.com. This requires nothing special on the client, it’s making a standard request, and as part of that it needs to do a DNS lookup.

If the source of the and your IP are similar then it’s likely the same network, otherwise it can correlate the source with known resolvers.

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Whole home energy monitor

I use an Emporia Vue device, it uses an ESP32 internally and you can find instructions on how to flash it with esphome code onto it. No cloud dependency, just wifi.

You can get various kits for one/two/three phase mains, and monitor up to 16 individual circuits via passive current clamps.