Mensch pal Bozier defends Menshn security, dubs critics 'snippy geeks' The launch of a Twitter-like messaging service co-founded by UK politician Louise Mensch on Sunday has been accompanied by a huge security flap. According to users who sent in complaints, Menshn.com allegedly harboured a variety of security flaws. Most glaring of these, one user insisted, was an alleged failure by the site – …
Apart from the fact that he reads like an arrogant MBA pseudo-geek who can't remember what side of the Atlantic he's on, I'm betting he wasn't even born when his 'vision' of an online community first went live.
Chatrooms with preset, premoderated topics; comments deleted after a week; 'promised' free of trolls and spam... it's Micronet 800 folks!
Louise Mensch is a household name in the UK. Leveraging her trendy brand to entice youngsters to a new niche social network should be quite easy, and Menshn should be an enormous success - security hiccups or not.
Wait a minute, did I say Louise Mensch? I was thinking of Lady Gaga. Forget what I said; no-one cares who she is and what she does.
The same people that make quotation mark gestures with their fingers when they're talking.
I believe these people are the 17th group in line for the firing squad when the revolution comes, although I don't have my list handy right now so I can't check.
I have an easier way. He's a politician. It's basically something that he perceives to be his job.
I don't particularly care what party they belong to, I have a healthy distrust of anyone who wants to be a politician or refers to themselves as one. It's like the line from The Thin Blue Line about gun ownership. A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one.
"A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one."
I agree completely. They are supposed to be there to represent us, the normal people. Yet wanting power makes them abnormal, therefore unsuitable for the role.
I know it's a gross simplification, but IMHO it fits.
> A good enough reason to stop someone becoming a politician should be that they WANT to be one.
Not *entirely*...
A few years back, I was toying with the idea of standing for Parliament. Not because I want to be an MP - I just want rid of the incumbent numbnuts.
Sadly, I live in a "safe seat" area :-(
Vic.
So, a technical glitch is found with a website, requiring analysis and comment by a technical expert, but instead we have a floor-crossing politician being quoted as the answer ?
How many people, on being rushed to A&E would be happy to see Andrew Lansley scubbed up saying "there is no problem" ?
How about next time the reg needs a political analysis, it asks googles server team ?
I'm not sure that will even be necessary. It looks like it's PHP + MySQL so, unless there's connection pooling and a good DBA around, max connections will be an issue pretty quickly and someone will need to add a lot of indices by hand if they don't want queries to die the agonising death of file scans.
Ouch, and before anyone asks, this isn't hacking or DoS.
ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://www.menshn.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking www.menshn.com (be patient)
apr_socket_recv: Operation timed out (60)
Total of 33 requests completed
Nice to see a UK politician supporting UK industry. Oh wait...
Hosting
OrgName: Media Temple, Inc.
OrgId: MEDIAT-10
Address: 8520 National Blvd.
Address: Building B
City: Culver City
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 90232
Country: US
DNS
Domain Discreet Privacy Service
ATTN: menshn.com
12808 Gran Bay Pkwy, West
Jacksonville, FL 32258
US
Registrar Name....: Register.com
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: menshn.com
Created on..............: 2012-02-07
Expires on..............: 2013-02-07
Administrative Contact:
Domain Discreet Privacy Service
ATTN: menshn.com
12808 Gran Bay Pkwy, West
Jacksonville, FL 32258
US
But they're using Media Temple for their unparalleled, rock-solid, reliability. Or... maybe not.
Good to see Luke remembered to put his name on the author meta tag though. That's an important thing to do. Oh, and there's a version meta tag. "1.0 (beta)"... well that's covered. Graphic design is a few years old... did Luke do that too? The rest of the markup is okayish; it's tidy, but too many javascript: hrefs and inline onClick handlers. Clearly coded by an amateur! :D
A special thanks to the EU for another pointless piece of bureaucracy.
Yeah, that safe harbour thing, which prevents the FBI, the CIA, and pretty much anyone with letterhead paper from taking a peep without a warrant at your database is just "another point piece of bureaucracy".
I guess I wouldn't mind if this was just Silicon Roundabout but just like toast falls butter-side down, these fools might be involved in policy making at some point...
Meanwhile from the basement:
4.17 [#/sec] (mean)
The competition must be quaking in their boots.
Dear El Reg, is this going to be the article with the most fails ever?
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I think that she is a dispicable person who wont make retirement without being caught breaking the law for financial gains. That's what I think. But hey lets rip of twitter and then say we can have mroe chars in our posts which utterly ignores the SMS limitation of twitters foundation.
She's the type of person who would rip of a constituant to line her own pockets, thats what I see and take from this venture of her's. That and she is egotictical - site stands for what ""Moronic Egotistical Neurotic Silly Hangout Now Down ""
Based on that premise, here are some other coalition efforts either available now or in development:
TheresaMayzing.com - Whilst this is supposedly an unofficial fansite dedicated to the Home Secretary, the long essays on her greatness regularly slip in to first person, and many of the intimate photos on the site appear to be self portraits taken in front of a bathroom mirror.
tgtp://cablesandwires.com - Vince Cable's attempt at a twitter style site, the USP will be that users are only able to post by telegram.
haveyoubeentotheHague?.com - Personal website of William Hague, which is every bit as disturbing as the name suggests. Fortunately rendered inaccessible by the illegal domain name.
camera-on.gov.uk - Chatroulette style website in which registered users may or may not be being watched by the prime minister through their webcams at any time. Described by a number 10 spokesperson as "A great way of engaging with the electorate, and not at all creepy", participation for all citizens is set to become mandatory as of last April.
(At time of writing Jeremy Hunt was still inviting suggestions for punning website names he could use).
Silly, silly, grasping little people. Mensch is supposed to be representing her constituents, not involving herself in self-aggrandizing nonsense like this. That's her job and it's what she's paid for.
A couple of 'edgy' little twits desperately trying to jump on a technical bandwagon that they dont understand.
Give it a rest, you lot.
La Mensch is a hard working and hard at work MP whose own efforts on behalf of (a) her constituents and (b) everyone else here (i.e., the rest of Great Britain + some colonies) are chronicled unfailingly in her own personal up-to-the-minute website.
If you look at what she did yesterday, for example -- nope, sorry, my mistake; if you look at what she did last week -- oh, Gawd, my bad again; if you look what she did a fortnight --sh*t, I'm really screwing this up. Start over: if you look at what she did to earn her Parliamentary salary this month then go to the Top Story on her website to discover that she, er, went on a visit. . .
to a, a. . . care home. . .
61 days ago on May 3rd.
Still. I've been wondering, where she met Bozier.
* Paris. Because she's so-ooo much more worth a menshun.
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