Dan (Dogsbody) Benton

@danbenton
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Founder and Director of @dogsbodytech
Making a living out of taking things apart and putting them back together again.
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International Delurk Day, March 24/25th

By the authority invested in me by virtue of nothing really, I declare March 24/25th International Delurk Day. Yes I know that is two days.

Do you lurk on forums or blogs, reading but rarely adding to the conversation? We are all guilty of that. Take 5 minutes today to comment - add your point of view or just to say "good job".

Add your positive voice to the sea of Internet opinion.

Other readers will appreciate it.

#delurkday

Who DRM's an Invoice!? @VodafoneUK apparently! 🤣

This is the PDF VAT invoice that I just got from Vodafone... No Vodafone... bad Vodafone! 🤪

@grajohnt Nat and I plan to bring our cloud chamber project to #EMFcamp. We need interesting things to play with it.

It seems someone actively tried to take over NTP (on IPv6) in the Philippines!

A great write up by an amazing team that work tirelessly behind the scenes.

https://community.ntppool.org/t/dns-configuration-tampering-on-one-of-our-geodns-servers/4300

DNS configuration tampering on one of our GeoDNS servers

DNS configuration tampering on one of our GeoDNS servers We found that a volunteer who provided hosting for one of our GeoDNS servers used their access to manipulate DNS zone weights for the NTP Pool service domain. The server has been secured and removed from the DNS NS-set. What happened One of our geodns servers (ntpmnl1, in Manila) was hosted on a VM provided by a volunteer. When we set up the server, we followed our standard process: full administrative control, firewall rules, locked down...

NTP Pool Project

RE: https://misanthrope.social/@cafuego/116246636319344033

OMG this! We are seeing so much of this! 😞

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116238484507693399

If this isn't the definition of targeting us techies then I don't know what is!

I would kill for an induction hob that has a magnetic stir bar system, how has cooking not stolen this trick from the chemistry world

When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.

We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-documents-show-2026-03-11/

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show

A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

Reuters

For those interested in my experience blocking HTTP1.1 #web traffic, I have posted some initial feedback and observations.

TLDR: there is still a surprising amount of legitimate HTTP1.1 traffic out there. Blocking does cause problems.

#webserver #webdev

https://sheep.horse/2026/3/blocking_http1.1_-_some_results.html

Blocking HTTP1.1 - Some Results

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I was experimenting with blocking HTTP1.1 requests to my site. Here are some observations, in case anyone is thinking of following in...

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5