List of Public Facing IP Addresses in use by the OLSO?

Spenser Poultney made this Freedom of Information request to Ministry of Justice

The request was partially successful.

From: Spenser Poultney

6 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

The OLSO has referred me to yourselves:

Please send me a list of the public facing IP addresses used by the
OLSO. Please include a FULL list of addresses for any Proxy or
Gateway (or similar) Servers that staff at the OLSO use to access
the Internet.

For each IP address you list please indicate.

1. If the address is used EXCLUSIVELY by OLSO?

2. If the address is shared with other Government Offices, please
list those Offices?

If you cannot answer question 2 please forward this request to the
Office which CAN or, at very least, tell me which Office holds this
information.

The original request to the OLSO and their response may be viewed
here:-

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pl...

Yours faithfully,

Spenser Poultney

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From: Data Access & Compliance Unit
Ministry of Justice

8 July 2009

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Dear Mr Poultney,

Please find attached your acknowledgement to your Freedom of Information
request.

Yours sincerely

Hannah Law

(Sent on behalf of Kate Balding)

Data Access & Compliance Unit

Postal Point 6.25, Zone B

102 Petty France

London SW1H 9AJ

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Spenser Poultney left an annotation ( 9 July 2009)

So far (significant part) the MOJ has said...

"you will receive a response by 4th August 2009. Your request has been passed to the appropriate business unit within the MoJ, and they will write to you with their decision by this date."

Fair play... Many thanks so far...

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From: Cole, Stuart
Ministry of Justice

3 August 2009

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Dear Mr. Metcalfe

Please find attached a reply to you request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, for information on public-facing IP addresses for
the Office of the Legal Services Ombudsman.

Yours sincerely

Stuart Cole

People, Planning and Change Management

3rd Floor Clive House

020 7189 2432

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Spenser Poultney left an annotation (12 August 2009)

All in all not a very useful (or clear) reply. The external links make for more difficult reading than is perhaps necessary.

It did not yield the information I was seeking.

For the non-technical...
I can only reach 2 conclusions
1. It appears that a ZIP file of evidence, sent at the request of the OLSO, on 1st June 2009 was opened by someone other than the OLSO on 2nd June. Not impossible, just a mystery.
2. If the OLSO DID consider the information they requested from me, in carrying out their "investigation" - then they did it in complete isolation. If they DID do this then I'm sure they would have been left with some questions as SOME of the information they NEEDED was via external links. They did not ask me for any of the "missing" facts they needed.

I KNOW that the Avon and Somerset police DID consider the information in detail and on numerous occasions between 04/10/2006 and 30/11/2006. I KNOW that the Law Society looked on 26/02/2007 - oddly enough? the OLSO appears not to have bothered at all. Is it possible that the LSO's "investigations" are nothing more than lip-service?

Ok... it was a long shot perhaps, but we keep hearing how so many Government offices can look at our phone bills and email logs and I thought maybe the FOI would let us see SOMETHING.

If anyone with a slightly technical background wants more information on how I reached these conclusions and on what I was trying to achieve, you may contact me through http://www.lcs-test.co.uk/ It would be good to have someone sanity check my "work".

Spenser Poultney

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