Re: [LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On 13/10/20 1:59 pm, David Lochrin wrote: I presume Google-Cloud has sub-allocated a space containing 23.236.62.147 to wix.com, and wix.com is even sharing that specific address between , , and no doubt others by parsing DNS lookups. I know I'm retired and rapidly becoming out of touch, but

[LINK] Google-Cloud IP addressing

2020-10-12 Thread David Lochrin
I've been doing a little amateur covid-19 epidemiology for a few months now. While tracking down some reliable statistics on the number of active caes recently, I came across two otherwise unrelated websites with the same IP address: 23.236.62.147, namely and . (, , and no doubt others by

[LINK] Microsoft takes proactive stance to shut down sites

2020-10-12 Thread jwhit
This is interesting. Not only would this help the US elections, but if it is worldwide, it's likely being used for other bad things and should help everyone. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/12/tech/microsoft-election-ransomware/index.html Jan ___

Re: [LINK] WordPress

2020-10-12 Thread Stephen Edgar
David, A few companies I can think of the top of my head that use WordPress: - New York Times - News UK - Red Bull - PlayStation - Siemens - Fairfax Media (Now Nine Entertainment) - Google - News Corp Australia - USA Today - Spotify - Microsoft - The Sun - Facebook - CNN As to security and

Re: [LINK] WordPress

2020-10-12 Thread Karl Auer
On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 10:18 +1100, David Lochrin wrote: > I'd like to ask Linkers whether anyone has recent experience of > WordPress, especially regarding security, and possibly privacy? > > I believe it's written in PHP which has a terrible record of security > issues over the years, possibly

Re: [LINK] WordPress

2020-10-12 Thread Christian Heinrich
David, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 10:24, David Lochrin wrote: > I'd like to ask Linkers whether anyone has recent experience of WordPress, > especially regarding security, and possibly privacy? > > I believe it's written in PHP which has a terrible record of security issues > over the > years,

[LINK] WordPress

2020-10-12 Thread David Lochrin
I'd like to ask Linkers whether anyone has recent experience of WordPress, especially regarding security, and possibly privacy? I believe it's written in PHP which has a terrible record of security issues over the years, possibly because it's so easy to write bad code. (I taught myself PHP

[LINK] The Virtual University, 6pm Thursday

2020-10-12 Thread Tom Worthington
A discussion of "The Virtual University: Study, Community and Connections in an Age of Remote Learning", will be held online 6pm AEST Thursday 15 October 2020. http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-virtual-university-study-and-community-in-the-age-of-remote-learning-tickets-124363329065 This is

Re: [LINK] Slow fix

2020-10-12 Thread Stephen Loosley
> Kevin Rudd petition calls for royal commission into News Corp domination of > Australian media > > https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1938 > > The petition set up by the former PM caused problems for the Parliament House > website > after more than 38,000 people signed in 24 hours.. The