LAN party network security
LAN party network security
Hey all. I'm heading to Quakecon 2024 tomorrow and will be repping the penguin. I've got all my games set up and ready, but was now wondering, are there any extra steps I should take as far as network security goes?
I'm sure I'm not as vulnerable to random badness as the flock of Windows machines that will be on the network, but you never know. The only thing on my list so far is to disable sshd. I thought about installing Portmaster but it has always messed up my DNS in the past...
I'll probably run Wireshark just to see if I can capture anything interesting there. Do you all have any other suggestions for prepping my PC?
I guess if you want to be paranoid you could get a new hard drive and install just what you want for the LAN and keep personal info off it. Then just swap back when you get home.
Not network related, but don't keep very personal info on it while you're there. Log out of mostly all sites, or just clear the cookies (all of them), and only keep passwords accessible through it that you might need there. Log out of your primary password manager, or if it's offline, move your primary password db to a different machine for the time you're there
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I recommend gumming up the USB ports with chewing gum, and then wrapping the whole under case in a condom with airholes. Finally, lather any exposed peripherals with butter and marmalade, and walk by occasionally to just make intense eye contact and fart.
If that doesn't work, I don't know what will.
XD
Update your bios, grab a clean disk image before you go, nuke it from orbit when you get back and restore from backup.
Install Fail2Ban, maybe?
Make sure your BIOS is up to date
Don't know anything recent, but years ago they began blocking network traffic between rows. That killed what little self hosted LAN play was still happening but kept stuff from spreading across the whole BYOC.