A quick security checklist for setting up a new server by Bryan Kennedy.

My security philosophy is simple: adopt principles that will protect you from the most frequent attack vectors, while keeping administration efficient enough that you won’t develop “security cruft”.

Great discussion and other tips here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093

"Examples: Bash script to append a .txt extension to a filename, Iterate over the current directory, get all files with .log and append .txt to the end of the entire filename..."