The ICO’s investigation found that Kent Police had no guidance or procedures in place to makes sure personal information was securely removed from former premises. The problem was made worse due to an apparent breakdown in communications between the various departments involved in the move.<
ICO Head of Enforcement, Stephen Eckersley, said:
“If this information had fallen into the wrong hands the impact on people’s lives would have been enormous and damaging. These tapes and files included extremely sensitive and confidential information relating to individuals, many of whom had been involved in serious and violent crimes. How a police force could leave such information unattended in a basement for several years is difficult to understand.
“Ultimately, this breach was a result of a clear lack of oversight, information governance and guidance from Kent Police which led to sensitive information being abandoned. It is only good fortune that the mistake was uncovered when it was and the information hasn’t fallen into the wrong hands.”
I’ve started looking at the iptables function within the Linux kernel, and found out, that with a bit of tinkering, you can use the IBLOCK lists to do a machine-wide block based on IP. You use pipes (gotta love ‘em) to route them into ipset which allows you to create a set of IP addresses/ranges which then reference in the iptables. You can use wget or curl. If you use wget, you might need to use the quiet switch. You can use xargs to multi-download lists and concatenate. I’m tinkering with my download script at the moment.
First, create the set. Here, I have used a high maxelem number because I use a lot of IBLOCK’s lists. The “maxelem 1048576” can be omitted or the number reduced if you are only using one or a small number of IBLOCK lists.
ipset create IBLOCK hash:net maxelem 1048576
Second, download and add to the set if it doesn’t already exist. You can chain multiple lists into the wget or use xargs. For this example, I’m only using one.
Finally, add rules into the iptables to drop package to and from IP addresses that exist in the set. This means that packets coming in from external IPs that match IP addresses in the set will not be answered.
iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set IBLOCK src -j DROP
iptables -I OUTPUT -m set --match-set IBLOCK dst -j DROP
When I tried this with my IBLOCK download script, it seemed to kill TOR functionality as well, which I suspect means that IBLOCK have included the TOR IP range in one or more of their lists, so I’ll need to determine which one(s) they are and exclude them, as I do use TOR actively.
As with most things, there’s more than one way to do this, and this is one of many ways you could implement blocking behaviour.
Today’s target: 16K. Did 16.51K in just under 2 hours. Not my fastest or best time, but I’m pleased because 8K + 16.51K = 24.51K, which means I’ve done more than a Half Marathon distance over the course of the weekend.
Remember when you used to only open the door when a certain pattern of knocks was heard? You can do the same with ports - the so-called “Port Knocking”. It provides another layer of security to your system as ports are not opened until the correct knocking pattern is received.
Haven’t installed or tried this myself, but may do over the weekend.
Wuaki is a streaming service like Netflix, Love Film and Amazon Prime. I found it when I was clicking through the apps on my Panasonic Viera TV, and found that the three Blender-made short films were all there. You can also access them on the web interface. Oh, and they’re free to rent and watch, so you can’t get better than that.
Bouncers often get a lot of stick for not doing their jobs, or throwing drunken or rowdy customers out, but this proves that some people take their job very seriously, and put themselves in the line of fire.
A couple of months ago, I got hauled in front of one of the directors and given a formal written warning for both performance and going over the line in terms of access and what I was allowed to do.
A few months later, the company is offloaded with a high-priority (CEO-driven) project, onto which they put all their best and most-knowledgeable people (myself included). Now, one more than one occasion on this uber-high priority project, I’ve had to write things like scripts and conversion routines which are out of my jurisdiction, to which I previously got into trouble with, but they’ve been accepted for this project, presumably because they saved the company, and saved time. I also wasn’t supposed to touch a machine without being watched by a member of the tech team, but the same director that gave me the lashing and the verbal warning, asked me to come in on a weekend, work on one of these machines - and unsupervised, I might add.
So I get in trouble for using a machine, but then am asked to work on it without supervision?
Second day of the long run weekend, and it didn’t turn out too well. I decided to run my local park instead because the weather looked ominous. One lap around the park (about 1 mile), and my hamstring was hurting again. Seemed to ease up if I changed my running posture, though. So perhaps I picked this up because my running style is poor? I ended the run early to give it a rest, and maybe work on a better posture. I probably never had this feeling because I don’t normally do 15+K runs.
Still, on the plus side, a new trophy came my way:
First day of the long run weekend. Today’s target was 14K, which I hit in about 1hr 26mins. Endomondo Track here. I was using my Nike+ SmartWatch as well, and kept it going till I got home, which was another 3K. Total distance out: 17.2K, total time out: 1hr 58min 58secs.
No Endomondo PBs were broken on this run, but I did set several on Nike+: Farthest Run (17.2K), Longest Run (1hr 58min 58secs), Most Calories Burned (1,140kcal), Fastest 5K (28'51"), Fastest 10K (1'02'12"). I also got the Afternooner trophy (1500 Nike Fuel earned between 2pm and 5pm)
This was one of the longer runs I’ve done in a while, and coming down the last 3K, my hamstring in my right leg started to hurt.
Tomorrow’s target is 16K. If I clock that, my target of a 30K weekend will be achieved. In fact, I will have done more than a Half Marathon over the weekend. Most likely, I’ll use the same route as I took today, so by the end of tomorrow, I’ll have a double 17K under my belt.
