Restruture due to recent switch to docker containers. - gopherhole - My website source code.
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(HTM) Author: Jay Scott <me@jay.scot>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 11:44:24 +0100
Restruture due to recent switch to docker containers.
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M .gitignore | 2 +-
M bin/sync.sh | 2 +-
A fingered/default | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
A fingered/jay | 15 +++++++++++++++
A fingered/mcrae | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
A fingered/morris | 125 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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R index.gph -> gopher/index.gph | 0
R meta/changelog.txt -> gopher/meta/… | 0
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drafts/
-files/
+gopher/files
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@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ rsync -v \
--exclude=drafts* \
--exclude=.git* \
--exclude=bin* \
- -a . jay.scot:/srv/gopher
+ -a . jay.scot:/srv
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+cat <<"LOGO"
+ ___ _______ __ __ _______ _______ _______ _______
+ | || _ || | | | | || || || |
+ | || |_| || |_| | | _____|| || _ ||_ _|
+ | || || | | |_____ | || | | | | |
+ ___| || ||_ _| ___ |_____ || _|| |_| | | |
+| || _ | | | | | _____| || |_ | | | |
+|_______||__| |__| |___| |___| |_______||_______||_______| |___|
+
+LOGO
+
+printf "\n\n"
+printf "Welcome to jay.scot!\n"
+printf "Uptime : %s\n\n" "$(uptime)"
+
+printf "Available Fingers:\n\n"
+printf "\tjay ... Jay Scott\n"
+printf "\tmorris ... Robert Morris\n"
+printf "\tmcrae ... William McRae\n\n"
+
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+ __ __ ___ _ _ ___
+| | | / _]| | | | / \
+| | | / [_ | | | | | |
+| _ || _]| |___ | |___ | O |
+| | || [_ | || || |
+| | || || || || |
+|__|__||_____||_____||_____| \___/
+
+
+ - Move services to Docker, instead of Ansible.
+ - Release 0.1.0 of Fingered app.
+ - Create an application for real debrid API interactions.
+
+euail : me@jay.scot
+gpg : 0726 AF07 C733 89E1 E447 5B7E C88B BC69 6A39 CCB0
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+
+T H E M Y S T E R Y O F
+
+ __ __ ___
+| | | | | | /\ |\/| |\/| / ` |__) /\ |__
+|/\| | |___ |___ | /~~\ | | | | \__, | \ /~~\ |___
+
+
+
+Willie McRae (18 May 1923 – 7 April 1985) was a Scottish lawyer, orator,
+naval officer, politician and anti-nuclear campaigner. In the Second
+World War he served in the British Army and then the Royal Indian Navy.
+He supported the Indian independence movement and for much of his life
+was active in the Scottish National Party (SNP).
+
+McRae is remembered for his mysterious death, in which his car crashed
+in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands and he was found shot in the
+head with a revolver. The official verdict was undetermined.
+
+
+|> Life
+
+
+McRae was born in Carron, Falkirk, where his father was an electrician.
+McRae edited a local newspaper in Grangemouth at the same time as
+reading history at the University of Glasgow, from which he gained
+a first-class degree. In the Second World War he was commissioned into
+the Seaforth Highlanders but transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, in
+which he became a lieutenant commander and aide-de-camp to Admiral Lord
+Mountbatten. He supported the Indian independence movement.
+
+After the war McRae returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated
+again, this time in law.[1] He authored the maritime law of Israel and
+was an emeritus professor of the University of Haifa.
+After his death a forest of 3,000 trees was planted in Israel in his
+memory.
+
+McRae became a solicitor and an SNP activist. In both of the 1974
+General Elections and in the 1979 General Election he stood for
+Parliament as the SNP candidate for Ross and Cromarty. In October 1974
+he only lost to the Conservative Hamish Gray by 633 votes, but in 1979
+Gray's majority increased to 4,735. In the latter year he also contested
+the SNP leadership, coming third in a three-way contest with 52 votes to
+Stephen Maxwell's 117 votes and winner Gordon Wilson's 530 votes.
+
+McRae was a vocal critic of the British nuclear lobby. Early in the
+1980s he was a key figure in a campaign against the United Kingdom
+Atomic Energy Authority plans to dispose of nuclear waste in the
+Mullwharchar area of the Galloway Hills. Representing the SNP in
+a public inquiry, McRae asked difficult questions of the UKAEA and
+famously declared at one meeting that "nuclear waste should be stored
+where Guy Fawkes put his gunpowder." The authority's plans were
+rejected, and McRae was credited with "single-handedly" preventing the
+area from becoming a nuclear waste dump.
+
+
+|> Death
+
+
+On 5 April 1985 McRae left his Glasgow flat at 18:30 to spend the
+weekend at his cottage at Ardelve near Dornie, Ross-shire. He was not
+seen again until the next morning around 10:00, when two Australian
+tourists saw his maroon Volvo saloon car on a moor a short distance from
+the junction of the A887 and A87 roads Bun Loyne, Glenmoriston,
+Inverness-shire. The car was straddling a burn about 90 feet (27 m) from
+the road. The tourists flagged down the next car to pass, whose driver
+turned out to be a doctor, Dorothy Messer, accompanied by her fiancé as
+well as David Coutts, an SNP Dundee councillor who knew McRae.
+
+It was discovered that McRae was in the car. His hands were "folded on
+his lap", his head was "slumped on his right shoulder", and there was
+a "considerable amount of blood on his temple". He was not wearing
+a seat belt.
+
+Another car was sent to call the emergency services. Dr Messer examined
+McRae and found that he was still alive and breathing. She noted that
+one of his pupils was dilated, indicating the possibility of brain
+damage, and estimated that he had been in that state for 10 hours.
+
+McRae was removed by ambulance to Raigmore Hospital, Inverness,
+accompanied by Dr Messer. After admission it was decided to transfer him
+to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. At Aberdeen it was realised that the
+incident was more than a road accident; six hours after he had been
+found, a nurse washing his head discovered what appeared to be the entry
+wound of a gunshot. An X-ray confirmed that McRae had been shot above
+his right ear and a bullet was detected in his head. His brain was
+severely damaged and his vital functions very weak. The next day, Sunday
+7 April, after consultation with his next of kin, McRae's life-support
+machine was switched off.
+
+
+|>Investigation
+
+
+The investigation was headed by Chief Superintendent Andrew Lister of
+Northern Constabulary CID. Despite no weapon having yet been found,
+McRae's car was moved at 12:00 on 7 April. It later transpired that the
+police had kept no record of the precise location where the car had been
+found, and the position stated by them was later found to be 1 mile (1.6
+km) in error, and was corrected by a witness who had been present at the
+scene.
+
+A weapon was found the next day, in the burn over which the car had been
+discovered, 60 feet (18 m) from the vehicle. It was a Smith & Wesson .22
+calibre revolver containing two spent cartridges and five remaining
+rounds.
+
+
+|> Controversy
+
+
+Although it was ruled at the time by authorities that McRae's death was
+undetermined, aspects of the investigation remain disputed, some
+claiming that the distance from McRae's car at which the gun was found
+and the lack of fingerprints on it rendered a suicide not credible.
+
+At the time of his death, McRae had been working to counter plans to
+dump nuclear waste from the Dounreay Nuclear Power Development
+Establishment into the sea. Due to his house being burgled on repeated
+occasions prior to his death, he had taken to carrying a copy of the
+documents relating to his Dounreay work with him at all times. They were
+not found following his death, and the sole other copy which was kept in
+his office was stolen when it was burgled, no other items being
+taken.
+
+Neither McRae's medical reports nor the post-mortem data have been
+released to the public and there was no fatal accident inquiry.
+
+
+|> Aftermath
+
+
+Winnie Ewing – then President of the SNP and herself an accomplished
+lawyer – was directed by the SNP's National Executive Committee (NEC) to
+conduct an internal investigation for the party to come to a conclusion
+as to whether Ewing "was satisfied or dissatisfied with the official
+version that he committed suicide". Having been refused access to police
+records of the investigation and rebuffed by both the Lord Advocate and
+the Procurator Fiscal in her attempts to conduct private, confidential
+meetings with them, Ewing, as she later wrote, came "up against a brick
+wall".[10] Ewing reported to the SNP NEC that she was not satisfied with
+the official account of suicide: "I do not know what happened, but
+I think it is important that the truth emerges, despite the time that
+has passed. Why the State refuses to let the truth be known is
+a pertinent question."
+
+In 1991 Channel 4 broadcast a "Scottish Eye" documentary investigating
+the mysterious circumstances of McRae's death. It found evidence to
+suggest that McRae had been under surveillance by UK intelligence
+services and that his death had likely involved foul play.
+
+In 2005 Winnie Ewing's son Fergus, by then an MSP, requested a meeting
+with Elish Angiolini, Solicitor General for Scotland, to discuss
+allegations that have persisted that McRae was under surveillance at the
+time of his death. The request was rebuffed, with Angiolini claiming
+that he had not been under surveillance and that she was satisfied that
+a thorough investigation into the case had been carried out.
+
+In July 2006 a retired police officer, Iain Fraser, who was working as
+a private investigator at the time of McRae's death, claimed that he had
+been anonymously employed to keep McRae under surveillance only weeks
+before he died. In November 2006 an episode of the Scottish Television
+show Unsolved examined the circumstances of McRae's death.
+
+In November 2010 John Finnie, then SNP group leader on Highland Council
+and a former police officer, wrote to the Lord Advocate urging her to
+reinvestigate McRae's death and release any details so far withheld.
+Finnie's request was prompted by the release the previous month of
+further details concerning the death of David Kelly.[14] In January 2011
+the Crown Office requested the files on the case from Northern
+Constabulary.
+
+Also in November 2010 Donald Morrison, a former Strathclyde Police
+officer, alleged that McRae had been "under surveillance" by both
+Special Branch and MI5. Morrison had collaborated with former colleague
+Iain Fraser to discover more about McRae's death. Morrison called for an
+enquiry into McRae's death and promised that he would give it a sworn
+affidavit that MI5 was involved.
+
+In July 2014 two unconnected plays by George Gunn and Andy Paterson
+about McRae's life and death, both coincidentally titled 3,000 Trees,
+were staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. One of the plays explored
+his anti-nuclear campaigning, links with nationalist radicals and
+allegations that Special Branch and MI5 were surveilling him.
+
+In November 2014 a Scottish Sunday Express front-page article alleged
+that McRae had uncovered evidence of the alleged paedophile ring in
+Westminster during the 1980s. The article suggests he may have been
+murdered and that the evidence he possessed was stolen at the time of
+his death.
+
+In April 2015 there was a campaign to have a Fatal Accident Inquiry
+(FAI) on McRae's death. It attracted 6,500 signatures in 5 days.
+
+The petition eventually collected over 13,000 signatures and was handed
+in, in June 2015. The Crown Office rejected the proposal to hold a Fatal
+Accident Inquiry.
+
+On the Easter weekend of April 2015, the 30th anniversary of McRae's
+death, Scotland on Sunday ran a story claiming that McRae's Volvo was
+moved back to the crash site by Northern Constabulary in an attempt to
+hide that the car had been moved before the bullet had been found
+– accounting for the discrepancies relating to the gun's distance from
+the car.
+
+On the same day, one of the journalists involved started crowdfunding
+for a book on the case titled '30 Years of Silence'.
+
+Following the rejection of the petition for a Fatal Accident Inquiry by
+the Crown Office, a "Justice For Willie" Campaign group was set up by
+Mark MacNicol. The campaign decided to launch their own investigation
+since no official inquiry was forthcoming. They hired two private
+investigators to re-interview original witnesses from the time of Willie
+McRae's death. The results were published in November 2016, and the
+campaign were unable to find any new evidence to undermine the official
+suicide verdict.
+
+In October 2018, fresh doubt on the official verdict was raised again by
+a nurse who claims to have treated Willie McRae at Foresterhill Hospital
+in Aberdeen. Katharine Mcgonigal disputed that the bullet wound was to
+the right temple, as the post-mortem claimed, and said it was instead to
+the back of the neck.
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+
+T H E
+ ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ ____ _____ __ __ ___ ____ ___ ___
+ | | |/ \| \| \| / ___/ | |__| |/ \| \| | |
+ | _ _ | | D ) D )| ( \_ | | | | | D ) _ _ |
+ | \_/ | O | /| / | |\__ | | | | | O | /| \_/ |
+ | | | | \| \ | |/ \ | | ` ' | | \| | |
+ | | | | . \ . \| |\ | \ /| | . \ | |
+ |___|___|\___/|__|\_|__|\_|____|\___| \_/\_/ \___/|__|\_|___|___|
+
+
+
+The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest
+computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant
+mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the
+US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by a graduate
+student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November
+2, 1988, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology network.
+
+
+|> Architecture
+
+
+The worm was created by Morris simply to see if it could be done,
+and was released from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the
+hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, instead of Cornell. Morris
+later became a tenured professor at MIT in 2006. The worm's creator Robert
+Tappan Morris is the son of cryptographer Robert Morris, who worked at the NSA
+at the time.
+
+The worm exploited several vulnerabilities of targeted systems, including:
+
+ A hole in the debug mode of the Unix sendmail program
+
+ A buffer overflow or overrun hole in the finger network service
+
+ The transitive trust enabled by people setting up network logins with no
+ password requirements via remote execution (rexec) with Remote Shell (rsh),
+ termed rexec/rsh
+
+ The worm exploited weak passwords. Morris's exploits became generally
+ obsolete due to decommissioning rsh (normally disabled on untrusted networks),
+ fixes to sendmail and finger, widespread network filtering, and improved
+ awareness of weak passwords.
+
+Though Morris did not intend for the worm to be actively destructive, instead
+seeking to merely highlight the weaknesses present in many networks of the
+time, an unintentional consequence of Morris's coding resulted in the worm
+being more damaging and spreadable than originally planned. It was initially
+programmed to check each computer to determine if the infection was already
+present, but Morris believed that some system administrators might counter this
+by instructing the computer to report a false positive. Instead, he programmed
+the worm to copy itself 14% of the time, regardless of the status of infection
+on the computer. This resulted in a computer potentially being infected
+multiple times, with each additional infection slowing the machine down to
+unusability. This had the same effect as a fork bomb, and crashed the computer
+several times.
+
+The main body of the worm can only infect DEC VAX machines running 4BSD,
+alongside Sun-3 systems. A portable C "grappling hook" component of the worm
+was used to download the main body parts, and the grappling hook runs on other
+systems, loading them down and making them peripheral victims.
+
+
+|> Coding mistake
+
+
+Morris's coding mistake, in instructing the worm to replicate itself regardless
+of a computer's reported infection status, transformed the worm from a
+potentially harmless intellectual and computing exercise into a viral
+denial-of-service attack. Morris's inclusion of the rate of copy within the
+worm was inspired by Michael Rabin's mantra of randomization.
+
+The resulting level of replication proved excessive, with the worm spreading
+rapidly, infecting some computers several times. Rabin would eventually comment
+that Morris "should have tried it on a simulator first".
+
+
+|> Effects
+
+
+During the Morris appeal process, the US court of appeals estimated the cost of
+removing the virus from each installation was in the range of $200–53,000.
+Possibly based on these numbers, Clifford Stoll of Harvard estimated for the US
+Government Accountability Office that the total economic impact was between
+$100,000 and $10,000,000. Stoll, a systems administrator known for discovering
+and subsequently tracking the hacker Markus Hess three years earlier, helped
+fight the worm, writing in 1989 that "I surveyed the network, and found that
+two thousand computers were infected within fifteen hours. These machines were
+dead in the water—useless until disinfected. And removing the virus often took
+two days." Stoll commented that the worm showed the danger of monoculture,
+because "If all the systems on the ARPANET ran Berkeley Unix, the virus would
+have disabled all fifty thousand of them."
+
+It is usually reported that around 6,000 major UNIX machines were infected by
+the Morris worm. However, Morris's colleague Paul Graham claimed, "I was there
+when this statistic was cooked up, and this was the recipe: someone guessed
+that there were about 60,000 computers attached to the Internet, and that the
+worm might have infected ten percent of them." Stoll estimated that "only a
+couple thousand" computers were affected, writing that "Rumors have it that
+[Morris] worked with a friend or two at Harvard's computing department (Harvard
+student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for 'Any news on the brilliant
+project')."
+
+The Internet was partitioned for several days, as regional networks
+disconnected from the NSFNet backbone and from each other to prevent
+recontamination while cleaning their own networks.
+
+The Morris worm prompted DARPA to fund the establishment of the CERT/CC at
+Carnegie Mellon University, giving experts a central point for coordinating
+responses to network emergencies. Gene Spafford also created the Phage mailing
+list to coordinate a response to the emergency.
+
+Morris was tried and convicted of violating United States Code Title 18 (18
+U.S.C. § 1030), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in United States v. Morris.
+After appeals, he was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of
+community service, and a fine of US$10,050 (equivalent to $20,000 in 2021) plus
+the costs of his supervision. The total fine ran to $13,326, which included a
+$10,000 fine, $50 special assessment, and $3,276 cost of probation oversight.
+
+The Morris worm has sometimes been referred to as the "Great Worm", due to the
+devastating effect it had on the Internet at that time, both in overall system
+downtime and in psychological impact on the perception of security and
+reliability of the Internet. The name was derived from the "Great Worms" of
+Tolkien: Scatha and Glaurung.
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