Blog post about this event by the someone in question: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

This is highly dystopian. The article makes a very important point: It does not matter that AI is just imitating humanity. Their output has real and possibly destructive consequences for us.

I’m beginning to view the current internet as a whole to be lost. We’re already starting to put up walls so that these models can’t get in anymore, and precautions are only going to become more sophisticated as AI keeps finding and abusing holes. Let’s hope that this is the return of a small and personal internet.

You’re not the author and I still think you should not have posted this, especially not in this community.

The post makes heavy use of Cloudflare and Docker, which are both either unnecessary for the task or have more open alternatives. The post mentions AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, which is fair, and was not a point of my criticism. Using a European server hoster just doesn’t even meet my idea of a bare minimum for a community like this.

You want a European stack? Use Proxmox, which is German, or just straight LXC. Cloudflare really serves no purpose here, kick it out. Then host your sources on Codeberg which is also German. How difficult was that?

Then disable password auth and ban their IP? SSH is not even a common intrusion path, those crawlers look for open gates, nothing else.

I don’t like this. The post tells you to do so many unnecessary things and gives zero explanation. Of course AI is mentioned in the first paragraph already, and this screams vibe coding with no understanding.

Why the Cloudflare stuff?

What do you need request caching for?

Why use a nonstandard SSH port? Obscurity is not security.

What is the purpose of all the other SSH config changes, which heavily alter the defaults in a way that people might not expect?

Your configuration makes the system reboot automatically, but you fail to mention that.

Then the rest just quickly glosses over setting up some obscure container management frontend and deploying something to it. Again, no explanations. Who needs this?

Edit: I only now realize that we’re in /c/buyeuropean. Why would you recommend Cloudflare, Docker and GitHub here? Is this a joke?

Don’t use public trackers is really the most important precaution imo.