This is a brain dump of my task list when bringing up a new server. (For my purposes, a linode running some version of Ubuntu.)

1. Create a user account.
   1. Add user to wheel.
   2. Set up sudo for wheel.
   3. Set up ssh authorized-ids.
   4. Change shell to zsh.
   5. Copy dot-files.
2. SSH config ...

There are several companies offering "bug bounties" -- payments to people to find security bugs and report them responsibly.

I will update this page with links to the various bug bounty programs as I become aware of them. If you know of a program that is not linked here (or if ...

Yesterday I posted twenty reasons to do code reviews, and I promised a list of code review tools. Here they are, in no particular order. I have not used all of them, so I can't comment on their relative merits. If there are some I missed, please leave a ...

Ssh has amazing capabilities that you probably aren't using on a daily basis.

The capability that you probably aren't using, and the easiest to use, is customizing your config file (in ~/.ssh/config) for the various servers you log into.

For example, I frequently log into about ten ...

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