Virtual Private Clouds and 2020s Internet Security: No Country for Old Sysadmins

So, when I was young and impetuous and somewhat more invested in arguing about tabletop roleplaying games online, I decided the tabletop roleplaying game forum I posted on just wasn’t cutting it. I needed my own forum. A few erstwhile allies of mine and I carved aside our own corner of the Internet, a phpBB forum with… well, about half the features you’d expect from such an already aging beast in 2012.

Intangibility Forums were hosted initially on NearlyFreeSpeech, a libertarian-oriented (but…