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  • This site going down just recently …

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    Dear dizzy,

    …

    An audit of our hosting environment showed a malware php file in a hidden directory on your website/s. Our investigations have shown there were no vulnerabilities on our platform that caused this issue, and the attacker most likely used an outdated plugin to gain access.

    …

    This site went down! twice just recently. Think that I know which pluggin and had already removed it. Using long passwords e.g. a phrase of 20 or more characters, is a sensible and effective security precaution. [ed: Don’t use the same password for all websites. You’re asking for trouble if you use the same password for a news site and your email.] I am pleased with my website host.

    15/3/22 Previous strikethrough applied. This follows a migration by my host and subsequent problems contacting support. I expect to be moving to a different host.

  • What happens is …

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    When I comment on this blog on some current issue …

    e.g. Boris Johnson lying about parties in Downing Street as I have just done

    … the UK government invokes some ridiculous law to censor the press.

    I am only a blogger

    [2.15. It could be that my news input is censored restricted actually. Been suspecting that for a while

    [5.15 I’m getting search results as if I’m hitting a cache – the same very corporate results with updated, more recent timestamps – and news feeds (the main contemporary UK news feed) with nothing on the topics I’ve selected. Tcptraceroute just shows one intermediate hop. I suppose it could be that my IP (internet provider) is crap and I’m hitting a webcache. [Hi 993 btw ;) It’s wrong and I think it’s more likely that my IP is transferring to a USUK firewall. It’s very slow too which supports this theory. USUK have an agreement that US spy on UK citizens in UK, UK spies on US citizens in US. It’s very likely that’s what Anne Sacoolas was doing.

    [5.50 My router is the second first hop. 172.25.nnn.nn is a private network address meaning WTF? It’s taking ten times longer than it should.

    traceroute -T -O info www.bbc.co.uk
    traceroute to www.bbc.co.uk (212.58.237.252), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
    1 192.168.nnn.nn (192.168.nnn.nn) 2.182 ms 36.590 ms 36.615 ms
    2 * * *
    3 172.25.83.1 (172.25.83.1) 338.787 ms 338.832 ms 344.619 ms
    4 * * *
    5 212.58.237.252 (212.58.237.252) 338.725 ms 344.213 ms 348.624 ms

    [6am

    scan report for 172.25.83.1
    Host is up (0.12s latency).

    That’s very quick [ed: investigating what this means / signifies actually

    23/1/22 A regular five hops for tcptraceroute while traceroute appears correct e.g. with 15 hops to bbc.com. TCP is filtered and routed differently with UDP ICMP unfiltered and routed normally? That’s sneaky. It’s assumed that the second undetermined hop is my IP – who else would it be? The third and fourth undetermined hops should be hosts between me and the destination fifth hop. The tcp hosts are ‘drop’ping the packets to be stealthy, avoid enumeration. Looks like the third hop is the ‘firewall’ obscuring the actual tcp path. At least it’s speeded up no end.

    ed: More that the intermediate tcp hosts have features of firewalls i.e. ‘drop’ping packets.

  • The Wheel turns

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    Empires Rise, Empires fall.

    That’s history, that is.

    But the Wheel keeps truing

  • About me

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    I have historically been a very private person so here's a little - actually a lot and perhaps too much - about me as a special treat to my valued readership. 
    
    I was born in 1964. My parents and my later stepdad were politically active. There was a scandal in the UK trash tabloid media when my mum eloped with my stepdad when I was aged about 6 months old. Both my mum and later stepdad were married with 2 infants each. My stepdad abandoned his wife and 2 infant children and my elder brother and myself went with my mum and later stepdad pursued by the paperazzi (August 64). [ed: I was disguised dressed as a pink rabbit, pink being the traditional colour for baby girls ;)
    
    I was abused and neglected throughout childhood causing some mental health issues. While it caused these issues it also made me very capable, tough and resilient. Many people have presumed that denying my sexuality caused my mental health issues but that's incorrect and I've never denied nor been ashamed of my sexuality.
    
    I am fairly certain that I have at least one child that I have never met. These things happen when you're young, beautiful, mad and (then) drink and take drugs excessively. Many people have different fathers that the ones assigned to them. 
    
    I have a generalised dislike of doctors, teachers, lecturers, social workers and right-wing politicians because of historical abuse I have endured. Even my stepdad turned out to be a secret Tory or UKIPer in his later years. 
    
    I appear to have a lot of respect from journalists. I hope that this is because of my original investigative journalism into the alleged London bombings of 2005 and the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes. I have also helped journalists on other issues. 
    
    Many people were total cnuts to me during the Blair (and Blair) era. Clearly they are nowhere near a match and are beneath me. 
    
    Despite having computing knowledge I find it challenging  with the resources stacked against me. I'm investigating software updates being used maliciously atm. 
    
    I am very grateful to the countless people who have helped me. There are far too many to mention so I'll just mention one so at least they can have a chuckle - BTP, no not the British transport Police who actually acted decisively against me on one occasion ;)
    
    That's enough for now. I may expand on it. 
    
    Wishing you season's greetings. 
    
    
    [9.33 ed: I try to avoid misleading people since I don't see any purpose to it. 
    
    I am not ashamed of suffering from mental health issues since it's a consequence of abuse and neglect in childhood over which I had no control. It's from coping mechanisms to survive that. It was enlightening and liberating when I finally realised exactly what it was. [9.45: and thanks to my friend at 2005 G7 who helped me with that :)
    
    One of the reasons this blog is popular is because it's different, unique even.] 
    
    1/11/22 I'm a single cycling daddy. I like younger 20s or 30s shame that they're so unreliable not too keen on chubby sorry (unless early 20s) vanilla or >vanilla. 420, clean imported lager like Peroni, porter or stout without adulterants, brandy, cognac, rum. Don't mind meeting repeatedly. One younger girl used to get me drunk to take me home with her ...