Category: Security

Put a server online, give it a public address, and something will start knocking within minutes. Not a person. A machine, running a script, working through a list. It has never heard of you, does not care what your site is for, and will keep going long after it fails. This is the normal background…

Here is a short, opinionated one. A security check that quietly passes when it cannot do its job is worse than having no check at all. Not equally bad. Worse. Because at least with no check you know you are unprotected. A check that fakes green tells you that you are safe while you are…