Bunkering Down by Matt Webb

Favorited Bunkering Down by Matt Webb After 26 years Matt Webb quits hosting his stuff on his own hardware. Because he feels an extreme asymmetry is coming between automated exploits, such as the one in PHP this week (and others that got less attention) and time needed to counter it when you run your own machines. I quit hosting this blog on my own hardware a long time ago, 2007, when maintaining a box underneath the desk in the home office became too much of a chore. But I have always maintained other stuff on own hardware, and on VPS’s. I see where Matt is coming from. Reducing attack surfaces was on my mind this week too. E.g. moving to a static website, and having an authoritative source of everything away from where it is served on the open web. The way Matt sees internet becoming the home of self-replicating feral ai agents opportunistically jumping from one compromised compute resource to another, sounds much like how Peter Watts in Maelstrom (the Rifters trilogy) describes…