Nothing is Safe on the Internet

I feel I’ve always known that things on the internet will get discovered eventually. Many years ago, I took my first foray into self-hosting. A discarded Windows PC became a Linux host, the Linux machine became a local network server allowing multiple machines to be online at once. And with the dedicated phone line, it kept the connection alive even while we slept. As my curiosity grew, I began hosting all the things; a simple website, a photo gallery, an email server, a shared calendar, and ...