Kimchichimichangas is the best thing about the US and I will fight you on this.

I keep silicon based backup fingerprints in my lockbox at the credit union.

Nice strawman you set up there. No idea how you got that i dont support Healthcare coverage at all since I support single payer and that was literally the first sentence I wrote.

Keep raging for the machine tho. Im sure it will get you far.

John Brown was the last one we had and the state killed him.

Did you support ACA/Obamacare over single payer? You might be a neoliberal.

Do you think student loans should be on income based repayment plans instead of forgiven? You might be a neoliberal.

Do you only favor government intervention in “free markets” when the US invades a sovereign nation or attempts to enforce NAFTA like trade deals? You might be neoliberal.

If you answered yes to any of these questions, please see your doctor today and ask if reading a book is right for you.

Commies don’t want to be associated with liberals either, especially neoliberals

Same. Literally had two very similar options for a flight last week and it was between Delta and American. Delta made it almost impossible to book last time if I didnt download their app. So the choice was simple, American got my money.

Hmmm I wonder why people would get upset about acting like one of the largest surveillance companies in existence and hobbiest devices designed to evade surveillance are essentially the same?

My guest network is restricted to TFTP only if you know what I mean.

The venn diagram is in fact just one circle.

Not trying to be a troll. I just genuinely don’t understand why sociopathic is acceptable as an adjective and retarded is not. Can you explain the difference?

Thanks! Glad it was helpful. I didnt have any similar realization until I had worked in the field for awhile amd honestly didnt have anyone to tell so i probably rambled. Good summary. Lean more into WAF, EDR and observability before a honeypot but yeah both are valid.

Hope your talk goes well!

By no means am I the microservices guy. Im more of a self hosted person than anything and used to always be a monolith guy and would still prefer that in many situations. But now I would at least “wrap” the monolith with supplemental self hosted microservices.

But TLDR this is the logic as I understand it and the key thing. Dont cast your pearls before swine. Its basically biblical. Lol jk jk. But really put a cheap reverse proxy with a honey pot and some alerting… or even better a WAF and/or EDR then catch and isolate them when they compromise your front end and garbage honey pot before they can even move laterally internally.

The longer slightly more technical answer is a malicious actor compromises one utility they likely made a lot of noise doing it which is key to securing the assets. First a lot of malicious activity can be mitigated with a proactive WAF. There are a few free solutions here Crowdsec WAF (ModSecurity, i think is another, working from memory could be wrong) has a decent signature detection and shared banned list. If you couple it with proper alerting you should be able to see, watch and isolate attackers in near real time. So even if they get the reverse Proxy and you messed up alerting on WAF, if you have layers of security, you still have your fall back EDR (like elk stack) alert for when proxyUser starts issuing ping commands and performing asset discovery. So you should see it days before they escalate privileges (unless 0 day or nation state etc).

They will still do damage you are absolutely right. But let’s assume a tiered microservice approach for a functioning SAAS app where you have something like pocketbase for Auth, Umami for analytics, Stripe for payments and Postgres for paid api data. Even an issue in pocketbase / Auth doesn’t necessarily mean they get all your paid api data because hopefully you have per user rate limits on postgres and backend services (should your pocketbase user even be reading or writing to your paid data tables? Additionally alerting should provide observability into admin sign ins from new /suspicious locations, or multiple other suspicious behavior such as one user signing into multiple accounts, seeking priv escalation and so on.) But the main thing, they don’t get any cardholder data and that is a huge win. In fact if you are storing cardholder data PCI compliance requires segmentation.

Additionally look at actual CVEs related to pocketbase and you will find a lot to do with OATH so in this case its simple. Disable OATH for best security. Put a WAF in front of your app using something like traefik with crowdsec or ModSecurity with an nginx reverse proxy to catch bad actors when they try to abuse your non existent OATH endpoint and ban them instantly. You catch a lot of bad actors with that trap.

Or to take it back to your first example, if I have a segmented service that is compromised. I want to catch and isolate them before they even realize they are in a rootless podman container by taking advantages of the natural footguns that any script or malicious actor would naturally stumble into. For instance if my “reverseProxyUser” or any process in that entire container uses the sudo command that is a 10/10 fire type alert. That im pretty sure you could even automatically isolate or spin down with a few scripts, something like Argo or probably even off the shelf EDR.

Is it perfect, no. Any determined actor will find a way into any system given enough time. But a layered approach like this is best in my opinion. Of course it needs modified for every system this is just one example.

You can do the same thing with a monolith and good scripting. It isnt exclusive to microservices. Its just natively built that way in the instances that I am aware of thanks to the prominence of Kubernetes really. At least I think that’s why.

Edit: i can’t type / got interrupted mid reply. Its half decent now.

Separation of concerns is a major benefit that shouldn’t be overlooked with security implications. Assuming you are properly restricting access to each worker node / “tier”, when one tier inevitably becomes compromised; it doesn’t result in the complete compromise of the entire monolith.

In life in general, I’ve found people who arrive for the wrong reasons typically make a short stay before moving on.

Portability, abstraction and inheritance are fundamental concepts, not buzzwords. Strongly typed languages can and does have all of these things.

At least we can all agree about something.

Post 2008 crash grad who eventually made it into engineering. I didnt realize this world existed so recently. I’ve never had less than three interviews for any job other than receptionist.

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A lot of drugs are very addictive and ruin people’s lives. I’m well aware a lot of lives were ruined by the stigma attached to to drugs, but to swing from they are evil criminal people to just equating drug dealing with every other job is insane to me.