I’m having a hard time seeing why they couldn’t. It’d be a dipl9matic disaster for them to simply go “yeah, we lied” and arrest him, but on the other hand, I don’t see what russia could possibly do. Sure, medvedev will throw yhe usual hissyfit and threaten with invasion, but… he and which army?

It could’ve been written better, as it’s very cumbersome to read the way it is. Especially since it starts with an “Adjective noun:”

Such measures are needed when you decide to enter into a money-burning competition where the opponent team has roughly 20 times your GDP

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Yup. Also, they’re happy and fine. Everything you hear to the contrary is just western propaganda.

Russia has the 2nd strongest army in the world Russia

China: “We would like to extend our rail network and connect our countries together. We can supply you with all the rail infrastructure, free of charge.”
Vietnam: “Great, and in return we can supply you with as many salt water crocodiles as you want.”
China: “…”
Vietnam: “?”
China: “Fine, whatever.”

Not necessarily. It can be, but it all depends on which nodes you get when you connect. If I end up on slow nodes I usually just reconnect, and it’s fine.

Priggy is kind of an exception as his demise was an unfortunate airplane “accident”.

iptables -I APPEALS -j DROP

“I hereby sentence you to two years on your own VLAN with no gateway”

Depends on your approach, but only open the minimum amount of ports necessary. Fail2ban is a good idea.

Consider a strict default deny iptables that also affects the output table - in case someone does get in, this will limit the damage one can do by making it part of a botnet.

Personally I like to isolate any exposed servers on its own vlan, so in case of compromise, it won’t affect any of the other hardware I’m running.

Also, most routers have less strict security if the connection is coming from the inside. Make sure any access methods to your router is secure.