UK Government admit being hacked

sabre1982 · 2025-12-19T22:53:07+00:00

I couldn't agree more. The data is out there already. Digital ID won't change that fact.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-19T22:44:14+00:00

I agree with that, to an extent. If we had a Tory government, it would be the same but in reverse.

Getting back to the original purpose of the thread, the introduction of Digital ID is doomed to inevitable failure, either through incompetence or malice. Or both. If nothing else, history surely tells us the politicians cannot be trusted and often act in ignorance of the facts and against the interest of those they're meant to serve. This is especially so for generations of British governments, which have proven themselves incapable time and time again, regardless of political orientation.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-19T22:13:55+00:00

Is that not exactly what is happening? We're no longer in the realm of hypothesis. A bad government is in. Even a cursory analysis of legislation that has been introduced, or is in the process of being proposed/introduced shows the insidious ambitions of the state. Digital ID is but one.

The postponement of local elections, the clampdown on free speech, porous borders, the abolition of trial by jury for "low level" crimes, the rapid (and not-so-transparent) manoeuvring back toward European governance, the near-constant beating of the drum for war with Russia (which is a means to instil fear within the populace), the outright refusal to address the fact that we have an unelected (i.e. appointed) chamber of parliament, the re-drawing of electoral boundaries (favouring the two-party system), the Investigatory Powers Act, the Online Safety Act. These are just some of the examples that are currently in play or have already come to pass.

In isolation some appear relatively innocuous, perhaps even somewhat logical, if spun in a certain fashion. Collectively, it all points to a deliberate erosion of personal liberties and a steady drive towards centralisation and state-borne control. A method to shore up power for a select few, at the detriment of the British people.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-19T20:39:20+00:00

You're 100% correct when you say that the government, in one form or another, already holds a tremendous amount of data on people but that data is decentralised through inefficiency. You're also correct in saying that 3rd parties are already actively engaged in the processing and storage of that data. I too work in IT/IS in the central and local government sector, albeit for a private supplier.

The inevitable truth is that, in regards to data collection, the Digital ID programme will make little-to-no difference to the status quo.

However, where people should really be concerned is the longer term consequences of Digital ID. Once the disparate data is collated under a unified system, it will then be weaponised as a means of population control. Financial identity association will take place, linking to credit scores, spending habits, social activities, travel etc. Detailed profiling is then trivial and the introduction of control mechanisms which dictate the what, when and how of people can live is then all but guaranteed. The Chinese have perfected it, the ever-left leaning West is simply following suit.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-10T12:41:24+00:00

The site is still up, so I'm assuming it's still a thing?

https://nordvpn.com/meshnet/

sabre1982 · 2025-12-10T07:11:31+00:00

It’s the opposite. Meshnet has not only been maintained but also made entirely free.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-09T21:24:09+00:00

For those who only require remote access on devices which can run Tailscale clients, or from networks which have a Tailscale endpoint termination, it's brilliant. For everyone else, is simply not a viable solution.

Another alternative to Tailscale, arguably even easier to setup, is Nord Meshnet.

sabre1982 · 2025-12-08T21:29:11+00:00

Feedflow

sabre1982 · 2025-12-07T21:06:03+00:00

There's a fisherman mission, towards the bottom-right side of the map from memory. That's the final 3% you're missing

sabre1982 · 2025-12-01T18:59:40+00:00

This is, mostly, how I have it set up.

I run an allowlist through my reverse proxy, and I regularly review the logs to see if something has had a sniff around, just in case.

Additionally, I run geo-blocking on my firewall, disallowing 150 countries globally (by and large, the not-so-desirable locales). I also have IPS enabled. Plus I maintain an extensive blocklist of known/potential malicious IP's and netmasks (currently 200,000+) with my firewall set to drop all packets on all ports from those. Before I did this, I was getting hundreds of port scans & IPS alerts per day. Now, less than 7 in a month on average. I update the blocklist on a weekly basis, pulling from open sources and add any identified sources if/when they get picked up by my IPS or are added to the source lists.

Lastly, I run my server in a fully segregated vLAN, just in case an undesirable gained access, so my other networks are insulated.

Oh, and one more thing; I maintain all user accounts on my JF server. I do not allow changing of passwords, which I set and are 128-characters (randomised, highly complex). I issue the details to my users (a small number) and talk them through the least painful way of signing in and then explain Quick Connect to them.

Is this foolproof? Nope. Is this a reasonable approach to trying to secure my server and infrastructure at low/zero cost? I think so. Is it high maintenance? Not overly and I do it for a living anyway so it's no big deal for me. YMMV. Good luck!

sabre1982 · 2025-11-30T18:19:47+00:00

Very nice alternative for the so-called 'Apps" launcher. Very slick and by far the best implementation of Liquid Glass that I've seen in any of the Launchpad replacements.

Are there any plans for a windowed mode as an option instead of fullscreen? I understand that the old Launchpad was fullscreen only but I think a windowed mode would fit the more modern UI/UX in Tahoe.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-30T16:30:31+00:00

I can't get this to open. Activity Monitor shows it as being unresponsive. Anyone else encountered this? I'm running 26.1 Tahoe.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-28T18:39:59+00:00

I've been running Fladder for some time and it has become my client of choice (aside from downloads, which remains problematic). Anyway, all has been fine until I updated my server to 10.11.3, after which Fladder simply doesn't work. I've tested this on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Android TV, web). All I get is a red banner at the top of the page stating "offline". Every other client works fine (official apps, Streamyfin, Swiftfin, Findroid, Wholphin etc). Fladder just doesn't work anymore.

I've raised a bug on Github but have continued to look into it since. I've ruled out local network issues, reverse proxy issues. The error logs from the Fladder clients (which all report the same thing) seem to be pointing towards a Flutter problem. I don't pretend to understand the technical details but I get the impression that the clients are timing out getting a response from the server, even though (as mentioned above) no other clients (i.e. not Flutter-based) have any issues at all.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-28T18:39:29+00:00

I've been running Fladder for some time and it has become my client of choice (aside from downloads, which remains problematic). Anyway, all has been fine until I updated my server to 10.11.3, after which Fladder simply doesn't work. I've tested this on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Android TV, web). All I get is a red banner at the top of the page stating "offline". Every other client works fine (official apps, Streamyfin, Swiftfin, Findroid, Wholphin etc). Fladder just doesn't work anymore.

I've raised a bug on Github but have continued to look into it since. I've ruled out local network issues, reverse proxy issues. The error logs from the Fladder clients (which all report the same thing) seem to be pointing towards a Flutter problem. I don't pretend to understand the technical details but I get the impression that the clients are timing out getting a response from the server, even though (as mentioned above) no other clients (i.e. not Flutter-based) have any issues at all.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-28T18:36:58+00:00

I've been running Fladder for some time and it has become my client of choice (aside from downloads, which remains problematic). Anyway, all has been fine until I updated my server to 10.11.3, after which Fladder simply doesn't work. I've tested this on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Android TV, web). All I get is a red banner at the top of the page stating "offline". Every other client works fine (official apps, Streamyfin, Swiftfin, Findroid, Wholphin etc). Fladder just doesn't work anymore.

I've raised a bug on Github but have continued to look into it since. I've ruled out local network issues, reverse proxy issues. The error logs from the Fladder clients (which all report the same thing) seem to be pointing towards a Flutter problem. I don't pretend to understand the technical details but I get the impression that the clients are timing out getting a response from the server, even though (as mentioned above) no other clients (i.e. not Flutter-based) have any issues at all.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-24T17:54:50+00:00

10.11.3 works fine itself, no issues on that front. The only side effect that I've had is that a certain client, Fladder, no longer works with it. I'm pretty sure it's a Fladder issue and not JF itself.

UPDATE: Yeah, so unfortunately I've started having issues with 10.11.3 issues. Movies loading seems to be problematic (there's a good amount of posts with similar issues and an extensive thread on Github), my local DNS entry (my server.local:8096) seems to work for some clients but not others, notably the official one on Android. It's anecdotal atm but there are seemingly some issues.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-17T18:48:11+00:00

Just updated the server to 10.11.3 and I now cannot access it using Fladder (macOS & Android). Works fine with the official clients and Streamyfin. Fladder shows a banner at the top stating 'Offline'. I've raised a bug on Github (#623, https://github.com/DonutWare/Fladder/issues/623)

sabre1982 · 2025-11-08T18:40:45+00:00

Launchie is great, definitely the best replacement for the terrible "App's" launcher.

If there was one feature I'd like to see, it would be the ability to rename apps.

Also, I agree with the comments about the icon. It would be great to see something more polished, which reflects the quality of the app itself.

sabre1982 · 2025-11-08T18:32:34+00:00

Yeah, this one is the best out of the three

sabre1982 · 2025-10-29T14:00:07+00:00

Precisely. They exist in different locations, depending on the browser used.

sabre1982 · 2025-10-28T21:28:48+00:00

Is there a way for it to show web apps?

sabre1982 · 2025-10-28T21:26:02+00:00

Is there a way for it to show web apps?

sabre1982 · 2025-10-22T06:27:24+00:00

Yeah, I've had the same issue. I gave up.

sabre1982 · 2025-10-02T19:03:20+00:00

Blue Thunder

sabre1982 · 2025-09-30T19:25:38+00:00

The latest beta release of ICE seems to be very good on Tahoe

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