Disclaimer I’m not American, and I don’t really have much actual knowledge on this subject.

…but I THINK US presidents can actually do this. I’m not sure what the legal mechanism is, but I do remember some chatter some15 years ago about Obama releasing the reserves. This makes me believe that the strategic reserve builds up during normalcy, and can be drained through executive action.

Maybe the administration just misunderstood the meaning and the mandate of the White house.

A Swede, a German, and a Brazilian walk into a bar.
“Where’s the Norwegian?” The bartender asks them.
The three guests look at the floor, and begrudgingly reply:
“Still playing football…”

My home servers have generally a lot smaller attack surface, as only a few ports are actually routed to them, so in theoey I could get away with a more relaxed approach. But I’m also a big believer in defense-in-depth, so I follow the same rules of thumb:

• iptables (or equivalent) that drops anything incoming that isn’t wanted. It also rejects anything going out that isn’t planned for.
• any public facing service (except ssh) gets its own user
• disable root login via ssh
• ssh login with key only on any user in sudoers