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Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink - observations of an outsider in The Philippines Region V
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Water is life yet many people in Region V and likely other regions in The Philippines do not have water at all or it turns on/off without warning or compensation. Back in the UK we take water for granted and if it fails or has bacteria or a parasite present it is big news with leaflets distributed and free large bottles of water dropped off at affected households till it is resolved. Water can be drunken straight from the tap – try convincing my wife this who is from Camarines Sur this!
In the West, water is there for hand washing, showering/bathing, flushing the toilet and using an electric washing machine. Water is heated also typically by a gas boiler or electric shower unit in the bathroom. It is taken for granted after paying the ever-increasing water & sewage bill. Water companies in the UK are private firms there for a profit and run a monopoly per area licensed by the state. Recently our water & sewage bill increased by 50% to close to 30,000 PHP per year. Far from perfect yes but the water is their 99%+ of the time and is not harmful.
Likely in Manila the facilities listed above are present in middle-class, upper-middle-class & upper-class condos as well as rarer houses. The water may not be drinkable directly but at least you can wash your dishes, shower, run a washing machine or purify the water to make it potable. This covers up to 15 million who live in the Manila area and what about the other 100 million? Many of them are poor and surviving on 7500 PHP a month for 5-6 days a week work.
datAshur Pro+C 256GB – The Crème De La Crème of Hardware Encrypted USB Sticks
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Website: www.istorage-uk.com | Price: £213 on Amazon
| Simplicity | Value | Documentation |
| 5/5 | 4/5 | 5/5 |
| Functionality | Performance | Overall |
| 5/5 | 5/5 | 96% |
What Is It In Under 20 Words?
An USB stick with inbuilt encryption & authentication to protect data stored on it.
What Does This Solve?
Everyone will remember the stories of London Heathrow airport losing an USB stick or HMRC via a contractor (Atos). These stories were some years back, but I am sure it still happens and USB sticks, normal ones have become cheaper & faster over the years. For statistics around MoD device losses see: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hundreds-of-electronic-devices-lost-or-stolen-from-mod/.
The earliest USB sticks only held 8MB of data which could store a few documents or a smaller number of photos. These days £12 gets you 128GB of storage which can gobble up the entire contents of your My Documents folder in minutes. USB sticks are small and can be lost in seconds without the owner noticing. Everyone can afford to lose £12 but what about the contents on it?
iStorage offers hardware encryption by default with brute force prevention enabled by default. Once the iStorage device is removed it locks and is useless if lost or stolen.
If you read up on the ICO (Information Commissioners Office) guidance on encryption it recommends using products which have a FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) certification which most of iStorage’s range do. After losing an iStorage device you have confidence the chance of a data breach is incredibly slim and you can tell ICO or the regulators you met their recommendations to reduce the chance of a fine or bad publicity.
My interview with Mike Graham on TalkTV about Co-Op and Marks and Spencer hack
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