Neil Craig on Nostr: In today's "it's fun being on the internet", I've found that a single UK NHS hospital ...
In today's "it's fun being on the internet", I've found that a single UK NHS hospital trust IP address is making 12 million plaintext HTTP requests for
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ *every day*.
User-Agent is "CITRIXRECEIVER" (always fun).
140 RPS "is the internet working" poller FTW 🤣
Published at
2023-03-21 12:22:01Event JSON
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