Docker

I finally got around to putting a honeypot on the public side of my home connection. I wasn’t trying to catch APTs. I wanted to see what hits a random residential IP when nothing is hiding it. This is a notes post about standing it up, how it’s contained, and what actually showed up in the logs after a month. Why bother Most threat intelligence I read describes the internet as a battlefield. Every unpatched device is five minutes from compromise. Every IP gets 30,000 probes a day. The numbers are usually correct. They aren’t useful unless you can map them to what your environment looks like. ...

Home Lab Overview: Alecto and Friends I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with operating systems and finding ways they improve day-to-day life. I’m not a cloud hater. Cloud services are useful and I still use them. I self-host because it’s fun. With most SaaS tools, you’re limited by design choices you had no part in. My biggest self-hosted system is a Plex machine. I watch what I want, how I want, for roughly the cost of electricity. There’s also been a serious learning component: networking, security, general IT practice. That alone has made it worth running. ...