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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • From the article about what is vulnerable:

    For Linux systems, attackers need the target to be using a vulnerable 7-Zip version while extracting an archive format that supports symbolic links, such as ZIP, TAR, 7Z, or RAR files.

    On Windows systems, additional requirements must be met for successful exploitation. The 7-Zip extraction process must have elevated privileges or operate in Windows Developer Mode to create symbolic links. This makes Windows systems somewhat less susceptible but not immune to the attack.

    So Linux users would have to scan for symbiotic links beforehand, and Windows users just need to never run with elevated privileges, or scan beforehand if they do (I’m assuming that elevated privileges means “run as administrator”?)















  • I took a look at Nextcloud and really like it from a usability standpoint.

    My question is what would my hardware options be? A form factor like the off the shelf NAS units is ideal since they will have to go on shelves next to the routers. If it was just me, a server rack would be fine, but I gotta keep it clean looking and on the smaller side. Also, I would like to keep the hardware price per house not much higher than the $300 range (excluding hard drives).


  • Those are good points to clear up.

    • At this point, 2 houses, but likely 3 by next year.
    • The first two will be a short drive away, but the third will be hours away.
    • The houses are on 100/50Mb fiber. Very stable internet.
    • Me being the tech person, I’ll access them every way that’s available. For the rest of my family I’ll set them up either with a hardwire or local network.
    • We will be using them as part of a 3-2-1 backup for all of our files like photos or documents. I’ll be using the second drive for occasional video backup storage.
    • The shared drive will probably be 5-10 TB, depending on how much storage each household wants. The second drive for me will be around 20TB.