2020-01-28

Data Privacy Day 2020

    Matrix Padlock
Data protection is an essential aspect of the world these days. Every day I'm hit with phishing and mail server exploits, and attempts at hacking my web servers by various individuals seeing just how far they can get over on me and what I own.

Out of necessity I began a student of server side exploit prevention, disaster recovery, preemptive tactics and over the years they have proven effective.

Those persistent individuals end up getting firewalled for which I make no apologies. The situation is so bad anymore that I am forced to firewall entire countries like China, Iran, and others.

I do not differentiate between spammers and other exploiters of my assets and if you are a cockroach of this variety so be it ...

Today we observe Data Privacy Day aka Data Protection Day which is one of those latterday international observances which comes down each January 28 in the name of raising awareness of and promoting:

    • privacy
    • data protection
    • best practices appertaining to both

It began in Europe in 2007 and has wide spread observance here and abroad — but is not ubiquitous in the context of observation.

Personally, I engaged the notion due to the preponderance of scumbags who might have their way with me otherwise. I don't take access to my resources lightly and I am fully prepared to close my firewall to all traffic then open up specific subnets manually.

You can push a person too far when you're always caught trying to exploit his assets on the web.

Try me. There is no forgiveness and consequences are swift and permanent. My logs are always watching you.