Building a Segmented, Secure Multi-Container Application with Podman

By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


Modern web applications are never just one service.
They’re a fortress of moving parts – and every connection is a potential attack surface.
If you’re still putting the entire stack into one fat container…
You’re building your future breach.

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🔐 Vault Minimal: When the System Whispers, We Harden

Posted by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


“The system speaks in ports and packages. Listen close, or get breached.”

The silence has been broken, but not by noise – by intention.

Today, DeadSwitch drops the first ember of a fire that’s about to cleanse weak configurations off the face of your servers. Introducing Vault Minimal, the first strike in a collection of hardened Ansible roles forged for modern Debian and RHEL systems. Think of it as a digital purification ritual.

It strips away the unsafe, closes the obvious, and sharpens the edges of your Linux estate.


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🐧 Before You Hack, You Must Understand: Why Linux Mastery Comes First

DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


The Illusion of Security Without Understanding

Every so-called “hacker” wants to wield the tools of the trade—Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark—like a digital warrior. They want root access, the power to exploit, to disappear into the shadows. But here’s the bitter truth: Without Linux, you’re a fool holding a loaded weapon without knowing how it fires.

Cybersecurity isn’t about running scripts. It’s about knowing what’s under the hood. And if you don’t understand the system you’re defending or attacking, you are nothing but noise in the signal—a script kiddie, not a ghost.

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🔥 Operation Ghost Protocol: Purging the Echoes with shred

DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


“Sometimes, the cleanest exit leaves no trace. Only ash in the sectors.”

When a system is compromised — whether through infiltration, physical access, or operational burnout — sanitization becomes your final act of defiance. Not just deletion, but destruction. Not just cleanup, but data annihilation.

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