A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
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A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?
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#2The title should be changed to reflect that the article is actually about .gov.uk domain being used for non-governmental websites.
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#3Wow.
I thought this was going to be about some sneaky exploit where they'd manage to get a gov.uk to forward links to porn or something. But no, it's really a whole subdomain just taken over by some sketchy porn site.
I'm wondering if the porn site operators even know it's happening? Seems the most likely thing is the DfT had a site at that URL, hosted on AWS. And then they shut it down without removing the DNS record and Amazon assigned that IP to somebody else.
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#4The title should be changed to reflect that the article is actually about .gov.uk domain being used for non-governmental websites.
...without permission, that is - probably a subdomain takeover, not a disgruntled employee.
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#5A great read in a tongue-in-cheek british style, a welcome change of pace for mind and eyes!
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#6> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch).
Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do.
EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
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#7> Visit [redacted], and you’ll be redirected to a subdomain for EU exit hauliers - except the site isn’t there. Instead it’s a WordPress login page. There’s no username field and we feel confident that a brute force attack would be super effective!
> Elsewhere we have the Department for Transport careers page, which sort of does what it says. Clicking on the ‘see all vacancies’ button will redirect you to the civil service jobs site. This isn’t weird in itself, what is weird is that it uses t.co - Twitter’s redirection and domain obscuring tool to do it. Don’t ask us why, we have no idea why they would do this.
This sounds like someone inexperienced with the system is somehow managing it. How can you use a t.co link for... this? I'm surprised this edit got past anyone.
EDIT: Redacted the link just to be on the safe side. It's in the article if anyone's curious.
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#8I am now taking bets on how long it will last.
'This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch)'
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#9> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
Indeed, I would love to get more details on what all went into it, and how far can we stretch such a SBC.
EDIT: evidently, not far
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#10> This site is hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4B in the author's living room (behind the couch). Holding up quite well despite HN frontpage. I love what a bit of caching can do. EDIT: appears I jinxed it. I get the allure of hosting something in your home, but these days when you can get a decent VPS for $10/yr it doesn’t really make sense.
Unless they host their images themselves, but a Pi could handle traffic very well for a static website.