Something I noticed while browsing the (pretty cool) London tube train tracker – it’s running on port 81. I know there’s a good reason for this in this case (author hasn’t had time to set up Nginx properly), but generally, using non standard HTTP ports on public-facing bits is a bad idea, for the simple [...]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, someone in Redbrick imagined using our Sun T2000 as a web server. It was a nice dream, in a happy world where it ran Ubuntu, apt did everything for us, and everything generally just worked. This was unfortunately not to be. One major security breach, [...]