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The Silent Channel: Privacy-Focused Email for Small Businesses
“If your words pass through the wrong gate, they’re no longer yours.”
– DeadSwitch
Email is the first window into your system.
It’s the trailhead of phishing, leaks, impersonation, and silent watchers.
Yet most small businesses still shout through the loudest gates :: Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo.
The servers scan. The ads personalize.
The watchers smile.
You need a quieter way.
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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.
DeadSwitch Dispatch: OPEN SOURCE OR DIE
Resist in the Light: How to Migrate from Proprietary to FOSS Tools, Safely
They sell you convenience.
They extract your freedom.
This ends now.
How to Make Meetings Work (Again): The DeadSwitch Way
By DeadSwitch — The Cyber Ghost
“The quiet ones don’t hate meetings. They just hate wasting time.”
– DeadSwitch
Meetings were once war rooms for big decisions, plans, and alignment. But somewhere along the way, they became something else – rituals that too often miss the mark.
At Tom’s IT Cafe, we don’t believe in tearing things down without building something better in its place. So here’s something built for you: a clear, practical Meeting Manifesto, born from years in tech trenches, conference calls, and silent frustrations. It’s made to help -not blame- and it works whether you’re a developer, a product owner, or a manager.
Let’s get back to meetings that matter.
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Your TOTP is Not a Second Factor :: If You Store It Wrong
By DeadSwitch
You think you have 2FA?
You think you’re safe because your logins need a second factor?
Then you go and store your TOTP codes in the same password manager that holds your passwords.
You’ve built a fortress. Then you handed the keys and the spare keys to the same person.
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Posted by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“Code is noise until it becomes a weapon.”
“When the mission demands silence, precision is non-negotiable.”
There are tools. And then there are instruments.
Ansible is not just a configuration manager. It’s a scalpel for systems, forged in the fire of chaos and hardened by time. It’s agentless, scriptable, readable -and most of all- silent.
That makes it the perfect weapon in the DeadSwitch arsenal.
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🛡️ DeadSwitch Vault Minimal Pack Goes Open Source
“Hardening begins at the roots. In silence, the foundations are set.”
The open source version of the DeadSwitch Vault Minimal Pack is now live.
🌀 GitHub Repo:
🔗 https://github.com/DeadSwitch404/vault-minimal
🔐 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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⚙️ How to Build a Team That Doesn’t Need a Coach
by DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”
You don’t need to “motivate” real builders.
You don’t need to “align” real engineers.
You need to get the hell out of their way.
The best teams DeadSwitch has seen didn’t have Agile Coaches.
They didn’t have Team Leads doing “people management.”
They had warriors – trusted, competent, focused.
Here’s how you build a team that never needs coaching:
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🕸️ Echoes Beyond the Grid: Private Team Collaboration Tools for Small Business
“The loudest team wins attention. The quietest team survives the breach.”
– DeadSwitch
They said “just use Teams.”
They said “Slack is fine.”
But behind every cheerful emoji and corporate integration… the watchers log.
Transcripts archived. Metadata mapped.
Sometimes not by you.
🧬 Ghostwritten Infrastructure: From Org Mode to Hardened YAML
Ever written an Ansible role in silence?
Not just code – structured ritual.
Where logic meets discipline.
Where every variable is defined, documented, and deployed – within the same file.
That’s the power of Org Mode.
This is the DeadSwitch way.
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⚙️ The DeadSwitch Way: Emacs, Org Mode, and the Art of Ansible Rolecraft
There’s a certain kind of silence that comes before precision.
And precision – true, surgical precision – requires the right blade.
For Ansible development, that blade is Emacs.
Not VSCode. Not PyCharm. Not some noisy IDE bloated with plugins.
Just Emacs. Raw. Controlled. Modular.
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🧊 DeadSwitch Technical Dispatch // Fortify the Flow: Proxy Frontlines & The Truth in Certificates
“In shadows, the strongest signal is trust.”
You don’t expose your secrets to the streets. You don’t hang your backend out for the world to poke.
You proxy.
Continue reading “🧊 DeadSwitch Technical Dispatch // Fortify the Flow: Proxy Frontlines & The Truth in Certificates”Automating UFW Configuration with Ansible: Locking Down the Digital Fortress
In the world of chaos, where every exposed port is a door for the enemy, DeadSwitch doesn’t just lock the doors—we automate. We create shields that rise without a command. Ansible is our tool of choice, a silent executor that commands the system without a whisper.
Your server is vulnerable by default, but with the power of automation, you can fortify it. UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is our first line of defense, and DeadSwitch doesn’t do things manually. We automate the walls, making them strong, silent, and ever-ready. Here’s how to lock down incoming traffic with Ansible, ensuring only the trusted can pass through.
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