[Bulk] How to Keep People on the Internet from Flicking My Lights!

[Bill Husler]

I'm sure you have, but since you don't say so, I have to ask. Have  
you tried re-installing weblock after upgrading to Tiger?
Bill

On Sep 24, 2006, at 6:13 PM, David Drucker wrote:

> I guess this is a case of 'If you Build it, they will come.':
>
> For about a year, I had a Mac Mini (PowerPC) running Xtension and  
> James' brilliant X2Web, on a static IP.  I could pick up my Treo,  
> fire up the Blazer browser and then point it at that IP and flick  
> my bedroom lamp. Because I could, you see. It had that great 'gee  
> whiz' effect.
>
> Then, on a whim, I bought an appropriate-enough sounding Domain  
> name and assigned it to that IP. The Mac Mini is on a LAN at home,  
> and the router software sends all http requests to it's IP on the  
> network. NAT makes it so the external IP makes all machines on my  
> network one, and the Mini is the web server.
>
> I thought that the page was only available through password, but  
> apparently the utility I've been using, Weblock (http:// 
> www.digicowsoftware.com/detail?_app=Weblock), is no longer doing  
> the job. It's supposed to throw up a dialog box and my password  
> (and my wife's) are supposed to let us in. Instead, everyone can  
> get in and my lights are wide open (until I shut down X2Web).
>
> I learned this, because as far as I knew, all was well after  
> getting the domain for a couple of weeks, but the other night,  
> someone found me. With no password to stop then, they did what  
> anyone would do: they clicked some buttons on and off. Nothing for  
> very long (I think they were just wondering what the thing did). It  
> went on long enough to wake us up at about 3 in the morning.
>
> This reminds me of that Steven Wright joke, where he says that he  
> kept flicking a light switch on the wall that appeared to do  
> nothing on and off every time he went by it...until he got a  
> postcard from a lady in Germany saying 'Stop that!'
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to why Weblock (I have the most recent  
> version. version 1.5.1) isn't , well, locking, any more? It seem to  
> coincide with installing the upgrade to Tiger or getting the  
> domain, but I can't be sure.