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I'm Challenging a DoD OIG Subpoena Over "Insulting and Prejudicial Comments"

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I've been offering free e-mail services to people through cock.li for almost 5 years now. Through this I've encountered two police raids on my server, and harassment from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection whenever I travel back to the United States. One thing that has never stayed …

I Had All of My Electronics (That I had at the time) Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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After my trip in Hamburg, Germany, for the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress, I left Germany for the United States for a short vacation to visit family and friends. Upon my arrival in the United States, I was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) where my belongings were picked apart …

Migrating Cockbox to Native ZFS Root With Encryption and Minimal Downtime

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Cockbox, the VPS provider I started back in June of this year, has been operating swimmingly thus far. Unfortunately things over at cock.li haven't been so great. I learned the hard way that hardware-based RAID is the devil, but that's a post for another day. The problem here is …

Blog Restored

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This blog has been restored from copies of my posts on archive.org. Images and links older than this post may be broken :\

Cock.li, China, and Censorship

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There’s been a small number of touching moments running cock.li, like when I found out about a couple that met due to the site. There’s some weird unintended consequences of running a cock-related E-mail service, and a message I received a little while ago takes the cake …

Introducing Policyd, Spam filtering, and Backup MX

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It’s been a busy week for cock.li.

Near the beginning of the mail server, there was an influx of users registered from Ghana that had a field day pumping out spam using cock.li accounts. They were identified and banned, but more kept coming. It eventually became so …

Cock.li by the Numbers

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One of my favorite parts of cock.li is doing analytics on the data and making cool graphs. This post is a compilation of said cool graphs.

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Most of the drops here are from restarting dovecot, but a couple of them are real downtime

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The outliers are usually some type …

I'm Moving to Romania

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I’ve recently been given the opportunity to work remotely in an official capacity. I’ve always telecommuted on occasion at most jobs I’ve had, but this is my first stable job where I can not only telecommute, but move anywhere in the world I want and telecommute permenantly …