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gregelin / IoT-and-Regulation.md
Last active March 12, 2017 22:09
Interesting reads regarding government regulation of the Internet of Things

Post DYN DDoS: Is Government Regulation of the Internet of Things on the Horizon?

Suits and Spooks, Jan 2017

Optional readings. Feel free to attach other suggestions.

Most Noteworthy

Texas Law Review - Regulating the Internet of Things: First Steps Toward Managing Discrimination, Privacy, Security, and Consent

  • Page 117 starts to discuss IoT's 4 problems (paraphrased): (1) unexpected inferences leading to discrimination; (2) difficulty of de-identifying IoT generated data; (3) hacking and security breaches; and (4) privacy policy, notice and choice in small screenless devices generating data.
  • p 148 Peppet does not think much federal regulation or a new agency is currently possible but suggests "four messy and imperfect first steps toward regulating the Internet of Things: (1) broadening
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gregelin / database_snippets.md
Last active December 10, 2021 16:54
Database management snippets

Postgres Snippets

Backup a django Postgres database

cd /codedata/code/django-study/mysite
# Stop the django surver so database will not be updated
# DBNAME=django_link
DBNAME=databasename
dumpfile=$DBNAME.pg_dump.$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S).sql
pg_dump $DBNAME > ../databak/$dumpfile
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gregelin / service-checklist.md
Created November 6, 2016 13:12 — forked from marktheunissen/service-checklist.md
Internet Scale Services Checklist

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?
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gregelin / opencontrolsymp.ics
Created September 22, 2016 19:31
OpenControl Symposium iCal link
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DESCRIPTION:HOLD FOR OPENCONTROL EVENT.\n\nSocial Gathering/Symposium on
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gregelin / webinars.md
Last active October 4, 2016 11:19
opencontrol-webinars

OpenControl Webinars

We are group of technologists, government staff, contractors and others in regulated fields committed to Compliance-as-Code. We are developing a community and tools at http://open-control.org necessary to align security assessments and authorizations with modern, continuous software development and delivery.

Below are upcoming webinars introducing our current work: OpenControl and Compliance-Masonry.

Introduction to OpenControl & Compliance-Masonry

This webinar will introduce you to OpenControl as a community, data schema and tools to support Compliance-as-Code.

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gregelin / ssg-rhel6-stig-ks.cfg
Created June 12, 2016 22:25
SCAP Security Guide DoD STIG profile kickstart for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server
# SCAP Security Guide DoD STIG profile kickstart for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server
# Version: 0.0.1
# Date: 2015-04-08
# Url: http://people.redhat.com/swells/ssg-rhel6-stig-ks.cfg
#
# Based on:
# http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
# https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Installation_Guide/s1-kickstart2-options.html
# http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb/content/configuration/workstation-ks.cfg
#
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gregelin / SCAP-CentOS-NotApplicable.md
Last active February 22, 2022 21:50
Explanation of SCAP, CentOS and tests Not Applicable

This note explains the common issue of "notapplicable" results when running openSCAP and SCAP-Security-Guide on CentOS.

SCAP seems like it should be easy because it is "just XML". Then you dig into looking for a test and it gets confusing fast. So it is good to have some background.

SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) is actually a set of multiple standards and specifications that are used together to enable automatically testing hundreds of nerd settings. Let me emphasize that: SCAP is not a single XML specification -- SCAP is multiple standards and specs. Whenever you give "SCAP Content" to a scanner to check a system configurations you are giving the scanner multiple XML files representing multiple standards.

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gregelin / getstatusoutput.py
Created October 31, 2015 10:27
Python return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell.
def getstatusoutput(cmd):
"""Return (status, output) of executing cmd in a shell."""
"""This new implementation should work on all platforms."""
import subprocess
pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
output = str.join("", pipe.stdout.readlines())
sts = pipe.wait()
if sts is None:
sts = 0
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gregelin / control_masonry_compliancelib.gliffy
Created October 13, 2015 17:17
Control Masonry plan with assets available from compliancelib after packaging some code from GovReady/800-53-server prototypes Raw
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gregelin / control-masonry+800-53-server-pieces.gliffy
Last active September 30, 2015 01:27
Control Masonry plan with assets available from GovReady/800-53-server
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