I know this. Read the fine print. I didn't do that. The rest is geeky details having to do with rack-mountable servers. I have a 12U rack. Sort-of an end-table next to the couch. I have two servers. One of them is happily racked. The other one is awkwardly sitting sideways across the top of the rack. I jumped on eBay a week ago, looking to find the rails I need....
Four years ago, I wrote about a script that I had been working on called Authban (though I didn't name it at the time): http://blog.vollink.com/2011/09/geek-attack-vectors-and-twitter.html I first started running a custom script to block IP addresses that tried too many times to login to ssh back in 2010. At the time, the script (and my home web host) was running on an Ubuntu virtual server. The name, Authban, surfaced in early 2011, as I organized the script to do more than just block ssh....
Xerox Alto Mouse (1973) The computer mouse has been a basic part of computing for about 20 years now (25 if you were a Mac early-adopter, and even longer if you are a Xerox Alto power-user). Up until recently, innovations with mouses have been about adding more buttons, and scroll wheels. Now, with Smart-Phones becoming more and more popular, things like multi-touch and gestures are being added too....
I wrote a script some time ago, that basically parsed the auth logs on my web server looking for IP addresses that try, and fail, to log in, multiple times. Over the years, I've continued to expand what it does, and what it could do. At first, it would note something, and send me an e-mail, and I'd get to it, and it would continue to e-mail me once every hour until I did....