Week 1100 - Held Captive

Although last week we had some server admin certificate-wrangling, we dodged the PHPocalypse that caught many others this week. That’s mostly because the online platform for Museum in a Box is Python-based, and this site is static-files, so there’s less to be compromised. The Museum in a Box website is Wordpress, but we pay someone else to keep on top of that; I (Adrian here this week) checked up on it to confirm that they were on top of things, and as expected that was the case. As with many connected devices, the Museum in a Box creates its own WiFi network so you can connect to it and tell it the details for the WiFi it should use to get online. It used to be that you’d connect your phone to the Box’s WiFi network and get a popup saying you needed to provide more information; and when you clicked that it would take you to the page to enter the details. More recent versions of Android (and quite possibly iOS) have changed this flow, making it much trickier to get your Box set up.…