Posts about blog
Subcategories:- Monkeying about with Pyodide and PyScript
- Re-Seasoning a Roasting Pan
- The Importance of Human Oversight
- OSINTing the OS-INTers and The Dangers of Meta-Data
- Receiving weather information in EcoWitt protocol and writing into InfluxDB and WOW
- Life after GSuite: Two months into Zoho
- Multi-homing a site between the WWW and an I2P Eepsite
- BenTasker.co.uk is now available as an Eepsite
- Repairing a punctured football
- Прекратить войну (Stop the War)
- Another blocklist allegedly misused - this time by OnlyFans
- Updating my IHD to graph device category energy usage and cost
- How much more efficient is a Washing Machine's Eco cycle?
- How much more efficient is a Dishwasher's Eco cycle?
- Scanners, Old hardware and The Environment
- Fixing a stopcock that leaks near the gland nut
- Migrating from GSuite to Zoho
- The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
- What will Web3 actually deliver?
- Mailarchive has been discontinued
- Designing privacy friendly analytics
- Attempting to control Youtube access on Android
- Tracking My Website Performance and Delivery Stats in InfluxDB
- Migrating from Joomla! to Nikola
- New Site Live
- Tracking my remaining AAISP Data Quota with Telegraf
- Creating a In-Home-Display (IHD) to view real-time energy usage
- Making a Polished Concrete Table
- Triggering HomeAssistant Automations with Kapacitor
- Monitoring our electricity usage with InfluxDB
- Making a double sided shelf
- Distressing Wood to make a shelf
- Barclays Online Banking gives 3rd Parties access to login pages
- Amazon Blocks FLoC across most sites
- Updated Privacy Policy
- Sparkler Bombs...
- Making my books freely available
- FLoC disabled on my sites
- Removing Ads from my Sites
- Automating Our Heating
- Launching the "House Stuff" blog category
- So Long WhatsApp
- Musings on Home Automation
- Tuning Pi-Hole to cope with huge query rates
- Onion V3 Address is live
- A comparative analysis of search terms used on bentasker.co.uk and it's Onion
- Onion Location Added to Site
- Cynet 360 Uses Insecure Control Channels
- Writing (and backdooring) a ChaCha20 based CSPRNG
- The Pitfalls of Building an Elasticsearch backed Search Engine
- Recovering files from SD Cards and How to protect yourself
- (Hopefully) Rescuing a bottle of drink
- Spamhaus still parties like it's 1999
- Twitter Screws Up With Data It Shouldn't Hold
- Brexit: My Predictions
- Screenshot Social Media, Don't embed
- Breaking the Google Addiction one step at a time
- Twitter Jail: My Memoirs
- A small reminder of Legitimate URLs for my content
- Last Nights Storm
- The Curious Case of BitFi and Secret Persistence
- Configuring Pi-Hole to update blocklists more regularly
- The Importance of Provider Redundancy
- An argument in favour of application level name resolution
- Solution to my April 2016 Puzzle
- Beware USB Quick Charge Ports
- Optimised Routing and Opportunistic Tor Enabled
- Why I won't have an Amazon Echo
- Protecting Identity and Copyright Online
- Google, Cloudflare and GDPR - my quandry
- Changes to BenTasker.co.uk
- An Open Letter on Medicinal Cannabis in the UK
- A guide to designing Account Security Mechanisms
- Don't Use Web2Tor / Tor2Web (especially Onion.cab)
- Scheduled Downtime
- Building a Tor Hidden Service CDN
- The State of Mobile Banking (in the UK)
- Bentasker.co.uk now available as a Tor Hidden Service
- David Cameron: Idiot, Dangerous or just a lover of soundbites?
- All Digital Downloads Withdrawn From Sale
- The DVLA is routinely sending sensitive details via email
- Thoughts on Mailpile
- Shop section closing 31 December 2014
- Virtualisation: Google Play Music Manager cannot identify your computer
- ON-Networks PL500 Powerline Adapters
- Understanding Password Storage
- A Bad Boss Can Ruin Your Job
- My Own Little HeartBleed Headache
- Falling Out Of Love With Siteground
- Recovering from InnoDB Page Corruption: A Post Mortem
- NTPD Refusing to accept time from GPSD
- The Storm Ate my Broadband
- It's funny how times change
- Republished: Phorming Relationships
- My Volvo is Dead
- Modern Feminism is Dangerous
- Why You Shouldn't be using SHA1 or MD5 to Store Passwords
- Schema.org - Something's afoot..
- Darkleech Apache attacks on the rise, but is it really that hard to detect?
- Cookies: Taking Transparency a Step Further
- Changes to the site
- Creating a DOS Games Server
- I've gone Joomla 3!
- Why you should always consult a professional
- My love/hate relationship with Responsive Web Design
- Introducing PHPCredLocker Version 1
- My Most Used Android Apps
- Natwest - The Big Mistake
- Use Joomla? Pull your finger out!
- Apple Patenting the Obvious Again
- Old Benscomputer.no-ip.org Articles given new life
- New Service: Vehicle Fault Code Reading
- Linux for Business People
- Have a Happy New Year!
- Do We Take Security and Safety for Granted?
- BUGGER is back online
- Who's auditing the auditors? (it should be you)
- The Difficulties of Anonymity Online
- Making the Move to Chrome
- UK High Court Approves National Censorship in the name of Copyright Protection
- The Slippery Slope of Censorship
- The Importance of Salting Stored Passwords And How To Do So Correctly
- 105-why-internet-censorship-does-not-work
- Are companies being too loose with our privacy?
- Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptors
- Security Flaw in the Computrend Powergrid 902 Adaptor
- Building Network Resilience Through Sensible Reporting Policies
- The Ads we love to hate
- When did Project Management become such a buzzword?
- Social Networking and Children
- Sky Broadbands Terms and Conditions: Are they legal?
- A Developers Point of View on PHPScheduleit
- PayPal hinder developers using subscription model
- Update on the Play Breach
- Play coughs to Security Breach
- A Step Forward for Anonymity
- Some Database Basics
- ISPA Invited to Porn Discussions with Minister Vaizey - Analysis
- Anonymous send warning to the UK Government
- Assange: The Need To Identify Two Separate Issues
- Wikileaks and Payments - Who's in the right?
- OpenBSD and the FBI
- Are you getting what your pay for? How to detect ISP Packet Shaping
- Why is Encryption not used more?
- Thoughts on Whistleblowers
- Tips on Good Password Management
- Why Censorship on the Net is a bad idea
- Is Ridding the Internet of Porn a realistic objective?
- Update on the Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Security Breach
- Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Suffer Security Breach
- The Software Evaluation and Testing Process
- Will Anonymity ever be impossible on the Internet?
- Understanding the Nigerian 411 Scam
- Republished: The courts and the internet - The Love Story unfolds
- Republished: Privacy on the Internet
- How Social Networking Can Be Used To Identify Distributors
- What is a Computer Virus
- Truth and Fiction in Chain Email
- Republished: Tips for fighting password theft
- Republished: Amazon Kindle DRM Broken
- Republished: Climate Change affects us in ways you would not expect
- Republished: A basic guide to the Internet for the Simple Minded
- Improve your Claims_DB Front-End by using Checksumming
- Republished: A couple of issues with Karmic Koala
- Republished: Windows 7 vs Karmic Koala
- Republished: Windows 7: the Verdict
- Republished: It's a Dangerous World
- Republished: Why you should never share Login Details
- Republished: Basic Malware Detector For Linux
- Republished: Phorm launches the InPhorm Newsletter
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 6 - Closing Notes
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 5 - gen_report.sh
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 4 - add_process.sh
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 3 - add_record.sh
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 2 - index.sh
- Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 1 - Introduction
- Republished: Looking at the Digital Britain Report
- Republished: A look at BT's Trial Documentation
- Republished: Phorm, PR Master or PR Disaster
- Republished: A quick look at Webwise Discover
- Republished: The Best Bits of StopPhoulPlay
- Republished: A look at the Windows 7 RC
- Republished: No Phoul Play Involved - Good Phorm by BadPhorm
- Republished: Censorship on the Net
- Republished: NoIP.com rejects Phorm
- Republished: A note about the PRS v Youtube Dispute
- An Atheist's view of faith
- Email and Captcha Generation Scripts
- Republished: IWF Punts it's blacklist some more
- Republished: Hacking the Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptor
- Republished: How Safe are Webcam Sites?
- Republished: A suggestion for BT
- Republished: Phorm your own opinions
- Republished: UK Government fails to respond to the EU about Phorm
- Republished: Phorm's History
- The Little Mouse
- Republished: BT Finally See Sense
- Republished: Nobody wants Phorm checking their data
- Republished: Second time I've contacted BT about Phorm
- Republished: A bit of info on the Phorm Debacle
- Republished: Software Patents Raised Again in the UK
- Republished: CPS trying to bluff RIPA Action?
- Republished: The Problems America Faces
- McKinnon Loses Extradition Fight
- Republished: The Problem With Software Patents Is
- Republished: Apple elects for more Vendor Lock In
- Republished: A Word about the GPL
- Pearl Jam Release a Video under the Creative Commons License
- Republished: UK government wants to put our networks at risk
- Republished: Some Thoughts on Life
- Republished: An Update on DRM
- A Tribute to old friends
- DRM has to be stopped
- DRM is Evil