The student ‘news’paper of Imperial College London Guardian Student Newspaper of the Year 2006, 2008 Issue 1,422 Friday 30 January 2009 felixonline.co.uk felix Inside Clubs & Socs - Is the Union EWB Exhibition secure?Open all access to sensitive information on Sabbatical computers exposed, see page 3 Pages 30-31 Arts - Annie Leibovitz Page 15 Film - 3D Movies Page 18 Science - More news than you can handle Pages 10-12 2 felix Friday 30 January 2009 Friday 30 January 2009 felix 3 News [email protected] News News Editor – Kadhim Shubber [email protected] The world beyond St Mary’s try out new ‘safer Holocaust Confidential Union surgery checklist’ files lacking security college walls Memorial Day Dan Wan Muaad Abdula surgery checklist across the Trust and regarding the patient. News Correspondent News Correspondent we hope other hospitals in the UK will Nonetheless, the importance do the same.” of recalling the main details of a pa- event held at IC Imperial College Union have once St Mary’s Hospital, part of Imperial From the video example on the tient’s care in the operating room can- again become the subject of negligent College Healthcare NHS Trust has re- World Health Organisation website not be stressed enough. The power in Gilead Amit Germany for the United Kingdom in security, this time regarding confiden- Iraq cently been involved in a major inter- the ‘checklist’ basically consists of a this simple checklist is that it assumes Associate Editor the 1939 Kindertransport, Mr. Deut- tial data on sections of the Imperial national study. summary of the patient’s history, op- nothing about the patient. This is yet sch openly gave thanks to the Brit- College server. CGCU News website Saturday 31st January is the day Iraqis will go to the polls in local gov- The study, which involved eight hos- erative procedure and treatment plan another step in trying to minimise any The date of the 27th of January was ish parliamentarians of the time who Live! has revealed a concerning breach ernment elections. pitals around the world, managed to at three stages. risk that vulnerable, unconscious pa- chosen in 2001 in the United Kingdom fought to save as many of the children of database security that allowed them About 14,000 candidates are competing for only 440 seats in local provin- prove that the use of a ‘safer surgery One advantage of this is that it reit- tients would be exposed to. as Holocaust Memorial Day. Held each as they could. to access files and folders marked as ‘In cial councils and for the last few weeks Iraq’s streets have been awash with checklist’ would reduce deaths and erates to the surgeons and other staff Being able to reduce deaths and ma- year on the anniversary of the libera- Mr. Deutsch’s story ended on a tri- Confidence’ and ‘Sensitive’. party campaign posters, and TV stations have been filled with politicians complications after surgery. involved exactly what is going to be jor complications after surgery has tion of Auschwitz concentration camp, umphant note: having been forced to Live! claim to have been able to gain vying for votes. These elections are being seen as an important test for the The use of the checklist led to deaths carried out. Although the results are obvious benefits for both doctors and the day is characterized by memorial flee Austria in 1939, he returned later unchallenged access to important in- country’s young democratic falling by an average 40 per cent after impressive to say the least, there is patients. The ‘safety surgery checklist’ services and remembrance events all in life to become a tour guide in the formation relating to Union finances, political system which was es- an operation . Professor David Taube, nothing groundbreaking here. The will hopefully become a useful pre- around the country, centred in 2009 ‘beautiful city of Vienna’. Standing in disciplinary procedures, payroll and tablished after the war in 2003, medical director at Imperial College ‘safety surgery checklist’ basically con- ventative measure to complications as around a national service in the city of a country that had once tried so hard Union bar sales. as well as for the performance Healthcare NHS Trust has already sists of a series of “safety nets” which well as helping to avoid horror scenari- Coventry. to eliminate him and all those like him, Initial suspicions of open access of the Iraqi Army and Police in stated that: highlight what everyone in the operat- os such as the rare case when mistakes To commemorate the day, the Jewish being able to greet tourists with the arose when volunteer Union Officers CGCU website Live!’s screen capture of the open access to Union keeping voters safe. “We are now implementing the safer ing room should be concerned about do happen. society at Imperial organized a can- words: ‘welcome to my country’ held a were discovered to have unexpected servers. Confidential DPEW files and folders are displayed. Saturday is also widely seen as dle-lighting preceded by a talk from a special significance. amounts of access to these confidential a precursor to national elections Holocaust survivor. Mr. Otto Deutsch, Having finished his story and an- files. Furthering the suspicion, Live! to be held at the end of 2009, who was barely eleven when the Sec- swered questions from the thirty- Editor Kirsty Patterson additionally ex- Hannah Theodorou, and appropriate potentially lead to much wider-spread which will mark the completion ond World War started, grew up in a odd students and members of staff posed Union server security measures College ICT officials should have had consequences. The possible legal im- of a full 4-year term of Prime Vienna where the Nazification of nor- assembled, Mr. Deutsch was asked by accessing files from the Live! Editor the correct privileges for the docu- plications of potential public viewing Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s gov- mal society was at its most frightening. by Yoni Weiner, the President of the College account. Though the Union di- ments specifically flagged up by Live! of the information in question is some- ernment which was formed af- With great calm and gentleness, Mr. Jewish Society, to light the candle of rectory is normally hidden from view This is not the first time Union con- thing only time will be able to conjure. ter the last national election in Deutsch spoke of his youth in Austria, remembrance. on supposedly non-privileged College fidentiality has been breached due to Patterson herself was quick to realise December 2005. having witnessed both the public hu- As a final word to his audience, accounts, basic mapping functions negligence. At the start of the current her own role in the situation, stating miliation of the Jewish citizenry and Mr. Deutsch dedicated the flame to were able to locate these folders and academic year, boxes of Union docu- that, “having discovered information their determined fight to hold onto all those lost in the Holocaust and to files, and hence readily available to any ments were found in and around closet of that confidential nature was in those their dignity. victims of hatred the world over, and staff or students. rooms housing air-conditioning units folders, I knew the legal implications of As one of the 10,000 unaccompanied thanked those present for having come The most alarming folder lacking in the West Wing Basement of Beit students being able to see it.” She took Sri Lanka Jewish children allowed to leave Nazi to listen to his story. suitable permissions were those desig- compound. These closets were unse- a course of action but also condemned nated to the Union General Manager, cured and their contents unbeknownst the faults made, stating, “I immediately Sri Lanka’s 26-year long civil war looks like it is coming to an end as the currently Peter Haldane. Within this to the Media Group whom use the contacted ICT, though it should not Sri Lankan Army closes in on rebel held territory. folder, confidential documents relat- West Wing Basement. have taken someone poking around to The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Ti- ing to named disciplinary and written For this latest lapse in security how- expose the lacking of security” gers, have been fighting for a separate country for the ethnic Tamil minority warnings were found. Folders enti- ever, there is debate about who is ac- Live! and felix have taken the respon- since 1983, and has controlled various swathes of land in the North-East of tled ‘Staffing’ and ‘Finance’ contained tually to blame. Imperial College ICT sibility to ensure all confidential and the island. But this most recent military offensive by the Sri Lankan govern- Union staff contracts and payroll department are said to be ultimately sensitive areas on the Union server ment has pushed the Tamil Tigers and civilians living in those areas back into specifics. responsible for all data protection have been appropriately “secured” be- an ever-shrinking corner. Screenshots on live.cgcu.net show within College; this including the Un- fore publication. Union President clari- Claims by the Sri Lankan government that there have been ‘zero civilian the extent of access Patterson had. The ion. However it is claimed Union staff fied this by saying, “As soon as we were casualties’ have been met with scepticism by the Red Cross and other aid Live! Editor has its own College ac- should have been responsible for di- notified of this problem we worked groups who say shells fired by the army have landed in a 35 square kilometre count and simply should have not been recting ICT in limiting the appropriate with ICT to secure the folders in ques- no-fire zone where thousands of civilians have gathered for safety.