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2022-05-07 14:35Monkeying about with Pyodide and PyScript
2022-04-30 18:17Re-Seasoning a Roasting Pan
2022-04-26 18:14The Importance of Human Oversight
2022-04-08 07:22OSINTing the OS-INTers and The Dangers of Meta-Data
2022-03-25 21:10Receiving weather information in EcoWitt protocol and writing into InfluxDB and WOW
2022-03-22 20:38Life after GSuite: Two months into Zoho
2022-03-17 20:42Multi-homing a site between the WWW and an I2P Eepsite
2022-03-12 17:39BenTasker.co.uk is now available as an Eepsite
2022-03-05 12:36Repairing a punctured football
2022-03-02 12:19Прекратить войну (Stop the War)
2022-02-24 22:06Another blocklist allegedly misused - this time by OnlyFans
2022-02-19 14:30Updating my IHD to graph device category energy usage and cost
2022-02-17 08:56How much more efficient is a Washing Machine's Eco cycle?
2022-02-15 19:17How much more efficient is a Dishwasher's Eco cycle?
2022-02-10 19:48Scanners, Old hardware and The Environment
2022-02-08 08:49Fixing a stopcock that leaks near the gland nut
2022-01-22 20:07Migrating from GSuite to Zoho
2022-01-21 13:00The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains
2022-01-09 18:00What will Web3 actually deliver?
2022-01-02 15:04Mailarchive has been discontinued
2021-12-26 12:14Designing privacy friendly analytics
2021-12-11 00:00Attempting to control Youtube access on Android
2021-12-06 19:16Tracking My Website Performance and Delivery Stats in InfluxDB
2021-11-17 17:55Migrating from Joomla! to Nikola
2021-11-15 17:52New Site Live
2021-11-13 14:49Tracking my remaining AAISP Data Quota with Telegraf
2021-10-20 17:35Creating a In-Home-Display (IHD) to view real-time energy usage
2021-09-06 12:18Making a Polished Concrete Table
2021-08-24 18:59Triggering HomeAssistant Automations with Kapacitor
2021-08-22 08:26Monitoring our electricity usage with InfluxDB
2021-08-06 07:33Making a double sided shelf
2021-08-02 10:22Distressing Wood to make a shelf
2021-06-17 11:38Barclays Online Banking gives 3rd Parties access to login pages
2021-06-16 13:05Amazon Blocks FLoC across most sites
2021-06-15 14:35Updated Privacy Policy
2021-06-07 14:43Sparkler Bombs...
2021-05-25 13:03Making my books freely available
2021-04-20 09:27FLoC disabled on my sites
2021-04-01 15:06Removing Ads from my Sites
2021-03-29 13:39Automating Our Heating
2021-03-25 16:40Launching the "House Stuff" blog category
2021-01-07 14:56So Long WhatsApp
2020-12-24 12:35Musings on Home Automation
2020-10-11 16:53Tuning Pi-Hole to cope with huge query rates
2020-08-17 14:40Onion V3 Address is live
2020-06-18 16:55A comparative analysis of search terms used on bentasker.co.uk and it's Onion
2020-06-07 09:38Onion Location Added to Site
2020-04-23 11:23Cynet 360 Uses Insecure Control Channels
2020-02-20 15:39Writing (and backdooring) a ChaCha20 based CSPRNG
2020-02-05 09:27The Pitfalls of Building an Elasticsearch backed Search Engine
2020-01-23 19:20Recovering files from SD Cards and How to protect yourself
2019-12-11 14:58(Hopefully) Rescuing a bottle of drink
2019-10-16 17:02Spamhaus still parties like it's 1999
2019-10-09 08:49Twitter Screws Up With Data It Shouldn't Hold
2019-10-04 10:33Brexit: My Predictions
2019-09-22 11:55Screenshot Social Media, Don't embed
2019-09-10 17:21Breaking the Google Addiction one step at a time
2019-08-29 16:55Twitter Jail: My Memoirs
2019-08-09 15:21A small reminder of Legitimate URLs for my content
2019-07-26 15:02Last Nights Storm
2019-07-16 11:41The Curious Case of BitFi and Secret Persistence
2019-06-10 10:08Configuring Pi-Hole to update blocklists more regularly
2019-06-05 13:07The Importance of Provider Redundancy
2019-05-27 23:59An argument in favour of application level name resolution
2019-04-12 08:59Solution to my April 2016 Puzzle
2019-02-06 11:12Beware USB Quick Charge Ports
2018-10-07 00:19Optimised Routing and Opportunistic Tor Enabled
2018-07-04 09:21Why I won't have an Amazon Echo
2018-06-10 13:02Protecting Identity and Copyright Online
2018-04-29 11:06Google, Cloudflare and GDPR - my quandry
2018-04-13 08:51Changes to BenTasker.co.uk
2018-02-23 22:50An Open Letter on Medicinal Cannabis in the UK
2017-03-26 14:53A guide to designing Account Security Mechanisms
2017-03-04 19:12Don't Use Web2Tor / Tor2Web (especially Onion.cab)
2016-12-15 10:20Scheduled Downtime
2016-08-10 17:04Building a Tor Hidden Service CDN
2016-06-21 02:19The State of Mobile Banking (in the UK)
2015-05-23 01:43Bentasker.co.uk now available as a Tor Hidden Service
2015-01-13 15:07David Cameron: Idiot, Dangerous or just a lover of soundbites?
2015-01-02 03:38All Digital Downloads Withdrawn From Sale
2014-12-28 20:25The DVLA is routinely sending sensitive details via email
2014-12-24 18:58Thoughts on Mailpile
2014-12-08 13:08Shop section closing 31 December 2014
2014-11-20 17:35Virtualisation: Google Play Music Manager cannot identify your computer
2014-06-29 10:46ON-Networks PL500 Powerline Adapters
2014-06-22 09:07Understanding Password Storage
2014-06-12 00:24A Bad Boss Can Ruin Your Job
2014-04-19 21:21My Own Little HeartBleed Headache
2014-04-13 12:27Falling Out Of Love With Siteground
2014-02-04 22:14Recovering from InnoDB Page Corruption: A Post Mortem
2013-12-27 03:59NTPD Refusing to accept time from GPSD
2013-10-29 16:04The Storm Ate my Broadband
2013-10-27 14:24It's funny how times change
2013-10-25 23:50Republished: Phorming Relationships
2013-10-12 23:10My Volvo is Dead
2013-08-04 22:03Modern Feminism is Dangerous
2013-06-07 08:56Why You Shouldn't be using SHA1 or MD5 to Store Passwords
2013-05-04 23:45Schema.org - Something's afoot..
2013-05-02 12:37Darkleech Apache attacks on the rise, but is it really that hard to detect?
2013-04-24 22:16Cookies: Taking Transparency a Step Further
2013-04-19 23:09Changes to the site
2013-04-14 23:56Creating a DOS Games Server
2013-03-18 16:45I've gone Joomla 3!
2013-03-07 12:00Why you should always consult a professional
2013-02-08 21:08My love/hate relationship with Responsive Web Design
2013-01-01 13:30Introducing PHPCredLocker Version 1
2012-09-22 09:01My Most Used Android Apps
2012-07-02 11:55Natwest - The Big Mistake
2012-06-27 16:04Use Joomla? Pull your finger out!
2012-06-19 19:42Apple Patenting the Obvious Again
2012-05-16 12:14Old Benscomputer.no-ip.org Articles given new life
2012-05-16 08:57New Service: Vehicle Fault Code Reading
2012-04-23 11:42Linux for Business People
2011-12-31 16:58Have a Happy New Year!
2011-11-18 13:49Do We Take Security and Safety for Granted?
2011-11-01 14:16BUGGER is back online
2011-09-30 12:00Who's auditing the auditors? (it should be you)
2011-09-26 14:22The Difficulties of Anonymity Online
2011-09-16 15:03Making the Move to Chrome
2011-07-28 17:32UK High Court Approves National Censorship in the name of Copyright Protection
2011-06-29 11:25The Slippery Slope of Censorship
2011-06-22 15:51The Importance of Salting Stored Passwords And How To Do So Correctly
2011-06-17 15:45105-why-internet-censorship-does-not-work
2011-05-29 16:54Are companies being too loose with our privacy?
2011-05-25 23:07Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptors
2011-05-25 22:55Security Flaw in the Computrend Powergrid 902 Adaptor
2011-05-24 17:04Building Network Resilience Through Sensible Reporting Policies
2011-05-15 22:37The Ads we love to hate
2011-05-13 22:02When did Project Management become such a buzzword?
2011-05-12 21:57Social Networking and Children
2011-04-04 18:13Sky Broadbands Terms and Conditions: Are they legal?
2011-03-27 19:16A Developers Point of View on PHPScheduleit
2011-03-27 13:46PayPal hinder developers using subscription model
2011-03-22 23:07Update on the Play Breach
2011-03-22 20:00Play coughs to Security Breach
2011-03-14 22:30A Step Forward for Anonymity
2011-02-20 21:37Some Database Basics
2011-02-04 13:47ISPA Invited to Porn Discussions with Minister Vaizey - Analysis
2011-01-28 20:50Anonymous send warning to the UK Government
2010-12-22 17:48Assange: The Need To Identify Two Separate Issues
2010-12-19 14:27Wikileaks and Payments - Who's in the right?
2010-12-17 20:38OpenBSD and the FBI
2010-12-07 18:39Are you getting what your pay for? How to detect ISP Packet Shaping
2010-12-05 14:57Why is Encryption not used more?
2010-12-03 17:02Thoughts on Whistleblowers
2010-11-30 22:44Tips on Good Password Management
2010-11-30 21:14Why Censorship on the Net is a bad idea
2010-11-30 21:09Is Ridding the Internet of Porn a realistic objective?
2010-11-30 19:49Update on the Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Security Breach
2010-11-28 20:50Fisher Hargreaves Proctor Suffer Security Breach
2010-11-28 19:05The Software Evaluation and Testing Process
2010-11-11 20:10Will Anonymity ever be impossible on the Internet?
2010-11-06 17:00Understanding the Nigerian 411 Scam
2010-05-30 23:11Republished: The courts and the internet - The Love Story unfolds
2010-05-30 21:57Republished: Privacy on the Internet
2010-03-29 21:36How Social Networking Can Be Used To Identify Distributors
2010-01-23 19:45What is a Computer Virus
2010-01-23 19:19Truth and Fiction in Chain Email
2010-01-16 12:05Republished: Tips for fighting password theft
2009-12-23 00:20Republished: Amazon Kindle DRM Broken
2009-11-27 00:04Republished: Climate Change affects us in ways you would not expect
2009-11-26 23:59Republished: A basic guide to the Internet for the Simple Minded
2009-11-05 11:26Improve your Claims_DB Front-End by using Checksumming
2009-11-05 00:08Republished: A couple of issues with Karmic Koala
2009-11-01 00:15Republished: Windows 7 vs Karmic Koala
2009-10-25 00:29Republished: Windows 7: the Verdict
2009-09-19 10:12Republished: It's a Dangerous World
2009-08-16 12:01Republished: Why you should never share Login Details
2009-07-16 22:47Republished: Basic Malware Detector For Linux
2009-06-29 19:22Republished: Phorm launches the InPhorm Newsletter
2009-06-20 16:57Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 6 - Closing Notes
2009-06-20 16:35Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 5 - gen_report.sh
2009-06-20 14:57Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 4 - add_process.sh
2009-06-20 14:10Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 3 - add_record.sh
2009-06-20 13:12Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 2 - index.sh
2009-06-20 12:06Writing a Front End for Claims_DB Part 1 - Introduction
2009-06-16 23:44Republished: Looking at the Digital Britain Report
2009-06-14 20:02Republished: A look at BT's Trial Documentation
2009-06-14 19:11Republished: Phorm, PR Master or PR Disaster
2009-06-06 19:02Republished: A quick look at Webwise Discover
2009-05-20 19:54Republished: The Best Bits of StopPhoulPlay
2009-05-06 00:35Republished: A look at the Windows 7 RC
2009-05-05 19:36Republished: No Phoul Play Involved - Good Phorm by BadPhorm
2009-05-04 15:58Republished: Censorship on the Net
2009-03-26 19:28Republished: NoIP.com rejects Phorm
2009-03-26 15:38Republished: A note about the PRS v Youtube Dispute
2009-03-19 17:00An Atheist's view of faith
2009-03-15 23:23Email and Captcha Generation Scripts
2009-02-25 19:19Republished: IWF Punts it's blacklist some more
2009-02-11 21:53Republished: Hacking the Computrend Powergrid 902 Powerline Adaptor
2008-12-02 22:57Republished: How Safe are Webcam Sites?
2008-10-27 19:50Republished: A suggestion for BT
2008-10-06 18:55Republished: Phorm your own opinions
2008-08-13 23:59Republished: UK Government fails to respond to the EU about Phorm
2008-08-13 17:28Republished: Phorm's History
2008-05-05 20:36The Little Mouse
2008-03-18 19:45Republished: BT Finally See Sense
2008-03-12 05:14Republished: Nobody wants Phorm checking their data
2008-03-08 23:39Republished: Second time I've contacted BT about Phorm
2008-03-05 18:50Republished: A bit of info on the Phorm Debacle
2007-11-16 11:34Republished: Software Patents Raised Again in the UK
2007-11-14 10:26Republished: CPS trying to bluff RIPA Action?
2007-09-25 15:02Republished: The Problems America Faces
2007-04-03 18:58McKinnon Loses Extradition Fight
2006-06-16 11:26Republished: The Problem With Software Patents Is
2006-06-04 13:34Republished: Apple elects for more Vendor Lock In
2006-06-04 02:55Republished: A Word about the GPL
2006-05-21 11:44Pearl Jam Release a Video under the Creative Commons License
2006-05-20 21:26Republished: UK government wants to put our networks at risk
2006-04-17 21:47Republished: Some Thoughts on Life
2006-04-13 16:16Republished: An Update on DRM
2006-04-13 12:15A Tribute to old friends
2005-10-07 20:10DRM has to be stopped
2005-10-07 20:00DRM is Evil

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