[tor-talk] Any updates on hardening a Debian VPS?

[notfriendly at riseup.net]

On 2016-06-05 20:38, ng0 wrote:
> On 2016-06-05(03:24:16-0800), I wrote:
>> 
>> notfriendly,
>> 
>> This was a dig at the list.
>> When questions are asked to get help they are told to stop wasting 
>> list attention and to be relevant or go elsewhere, but look at the 
>> energy on the list today.
>> 
>> Jacob has contributed to Tor and that is where my interest stops. The 
>> rest is for the people involved to deal with elsewhere.
>> [Sorry to hear what Nick Farr has said.}
>> 
>> However...not wanting to miss an chance to learn
>> 
>> I tried unattended-upgrades but apt-get update and upgrade still had 
>> to be used.  What is the trick to getting it to automate upgrades?
>> 
>> I've read a bit but still don't know how to set-up iptables.
>> Is there a tutorial for setting it up on a system just running Tor?
>> 
>> Everywhere I looked presumes knowledge I don't yet have.
>> I imagine I am not the only one.
>> 
>> Robert
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not to derail from debian, but you might want to look at tor-ramdisk[0]
> thought this might require building it yourself[1], last time I tried 
> there
> were problems with the pre-built images blueness put on the download 
> location.
> 
> I tried to address this to blueness in irc, but they seem to be busy 
> with
> other things at the moment.
> 
> [0]: http://opensource.dyc.edu/tor-ramdisk
> [1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-ramdisk.git
> --
> ♥Ⓐ ng0
> 4096R/13212A27975AF07677A29F7002A296150C201823

I am not sure what his intent for his VPS but the tor-ramdisk may or may 
not be out of scope.