news from icculus.org: the open source incubator
We have moved from Digital Ocean to Hetzner . Digital Ocean was great, but we needed more hardware, and getting more hardware was more than we wanted to pay, so we moved. If something looks broken, it probably is, so don't be afraid to let me know!
If your connection has IPv6 support, you are likely talking to icculus.org over the new protocol instead of old, crusty IPv4. If you aren't sure, one can always force the issue with ipv6.icculus.org ... if the page loads at all, congrats, you've got IPv6. We're still migrating bits and pieces of the system over, so please let me know if something is broken.
Icculus.org now supports two-factor authentication via Google Authenticator. Both ssh logins and webmail can be protected by this extra layer of security. The system is opt-in. By default, nothing changes for you, but we encourage you to enable two-factor auth wherever you are able. To set it up: Install Google Authenticator on your trusted device (namely: your smart phone). You can get it for…
icculus.org uses OpenSSL, and was vulnerable to the Heartbleed exploit since we migrated to Ubuntu 12.10 on January 20th, 2013. In the past few days, we have patched the security hole, revoked our existing SSL certificate, and installed a new certificate. We don't have reason to believe Heartbleed was ever exploited on our servers, but the problem with Heartbleed is that there's never any…
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