Tag: Security

Cryptographically verify your Alpine Linux download

Obtain the right Alpine Linux image for your Raspberry Pi model

Unless you need headless, or unattended reboots or power up, it is highly recommended to use an encrypted configuration backup.

It is an administrative best practise to avoid logging in and/or operating with elevated privileges, to the extent reasonable to do so. Therefore one needs a user that is not root for performing most operations.

Disallowing SSH login with only a username and password is a well known security best practise, therefore we implement it.

Keeping your DNS queries from your local network to public DNS servers private in transit by using DNS over TLS on a Raspberry Pi is ridiculously easy.

Setting up an email relay that aliases addresses in various domains to a specific offsite user doesn’t have to mean backscatter. Here is one solution.