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Matt Palmer

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infrastructure

HTTPS by Default

Here at Discourse World HQ, we’re firm believers in the value of security. We fund a public bug bounty program, and we document our security policy and procedures right in the repo. Securing traffic between a forum’s server and its users is important, too, and we’ve had

Matt Palmer Apr 18, 2018 • 5 min read
infrastructure

Shorewall+Docker: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together

As has been mentioned previously [https://civilized-discourse-construction-kit-inc.ghost.io/2015/01/our-discourse-hosting-configuration/], we lurve us some Docker here at Discourse. We also lurve us some security, and I've recently been replacing our "artisinally handcrafted iptables firewall rules" with a Shorewall [http://shorewall.net/]-managed configuration, which

Matt Palmer Nov 23, 2015 • 2 min read
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