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— Jonathan Leake (@Jonathan__Leake) May 24, 2014
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Can’t have your cake
I guess you can’t have your space cake and eat it over your keyboard.
If only they’d hire me. I bring [1337 hacker skillz and dope use]negated; not-fully and absolute none, respectively.
But then, …:
[Beeb]
Aweariness.
Tweeks ago, at this successful! symposium, I noted the developments in the Awareness side of our IRM business. Multiple speakers were onto the subject without hesitating to move beyond the mere annual poster campaign for awareness, and moving into the daily-normal subconscious behavioral change work that was for a long time so much lacking. From ISO 2700x as well.
Which of course is a very, very good thing. Before the 80% of hard work in IRM as such (after discounting the first 80% in hardcore information security), the 80-100% of effort should go into this socio-/psycho-/behavioral fluffy stuff that yields so many benefits and returns. Though we ‘still’ may not be good at it, at least there is development, and leading examples. Thanks, speakers, for that; and for now:
[Your guess. No, not Paris, Reims; not even Strasbourg and that’s a hint]
On the verge of many breakthroughs
Just to note; my feels are that this piece on scientific analysis on the verge of chaos is an emergent technology for many current applied fields. E.g., analysis of where the Internet of Things will bring us; Singularity or not, or what. And brain analysis obviously in the first place. But also sociologically, I see many applications just beyond the horizons.
And, of course:
[Somewhat hidden, still a Major Place]
Wired / Tired / Expired, June 2014 edition
[A mixed bag but me know nothing, I’m from Barcelona Madrid]
So, here’s the June edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag:
| WIRED | TIRED | EXPIRED |
| #ditchcyber | APTs | Cyber! Cyber! Cyberthis, cyberthat, cybereverywhere |
| Most certainly, this is still W. Maybe shouldn’t have been. But is. |
They were meant to be here to stay. So they do. |
There’s even an interesting popular song about this! |
| Mind-controlled bionics / Sensors (tie) | IoT / Wearables | Weaponised drones / Drones for deliveries |
| Once these get sorted out, we’re all doomed. Because we’ll not prep our society in advance of quick enough. Fact, from history. After this, Fukuyama will be right after all. |
All talk, no full-scope delivery. | Laggerd panic, these ones. |
| White asparagus | Green asparagus | Noma |
| The ultimate, from the Aragon to Holland reach. Underestimated, neglected, by those who don’t know the product well enough. | Not ‘the’ asparagus. Just the typical second choice. | Eat your own ants. Exposure of decadence. |
| Drought in CA | CO weed | LGBT = |
| After the tiny snow pack, drought throughout CA and neighbouring states. See the panic. | Dude, relax! Done deal, mellow! | Equality spreading, overdue, now an unstoppable avalanche. Hence E. |
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| In its lens- and other forms. Yes there’s innovation in there …! | As Coin, still under W, though | Overused |
OK, any suggestions for next month’s edition ..?
Who has your back; who’s up your back side?
Depends on how you foresee the world’s wheels of fortune turn…:
[Plucked via some byways from this originating site. Worth a visit!]
The enemy from below
I know, I’ve been guilty of it too. Thinking, tinkering, and musing about all sorts of abstract risk management schemes, how they’re a giant mess, mostly, and how they could be improved. Here and there, even considering a middle-out improvement direction. But mostly, ignoring the very fact that in the end, information risk management hinges on the vastly complex technological infrastructure. Where the buck stops; threat-, vulnerability- and protection-wise.
A major (yes, I wrote major) part of that low-level (Is it? To whom? It’s very-highly intellectual, too!) technological complexity is in the trust infrastructure in there. Which hinges on two concepts: Crypto and certificates. In fact, they’re one but you already reacted towards that.
For crypto, I’ll not write out too much here about the wrongs in the implementation. There’s others doing that maybe (sic) even better than I can.
For certificates, that hold the crypto keys, the matter is different. Currently, I know of only one club that’s actually on top of things, as they may be for you as well. Yes, even today, you may even think the problem is minor. Since you don’t know…
Really. Get your act together … This is just one example of how deep, deep down in ‘the’ infrastructure, whether yours or ‘out there’, there’s much work to be done, vastly too much complexity to get a real intelligent grip on. How will we manage ..?
And, of course:
[Showboating tech, London]
BBQ science. Just like science.
Car industry development
It seems that famous T may be in for some competition. Serious competition, when these qualifications come true in the real world.
There’s of course various ways this might work:
- Big Motor – the Germans, Asian, French/Asian, not so much the classical US ones ..! – puts out some half-lame trials to confuse the markets and destroy the startup T. Happened before with DeLorean, remember?
- The same, now gets into the game for realz, and wipes out Fisker first, and then famous T. “Thanks for creating the market, off we go and leave you in the dust”;
- The same, try but fail. The ideal scenario, but hopefully the true one. And hopefully, other small-time startups will follow suit otherwise we’ll be back with one big Ford T company again.
And, could we change the designs so they’ll be more Karma’esk instead of cheesy early-’80s-like ..!?
Dyssing your U topia
Hmmm… most of these books are still future for us, and as such not outdated… The most dystopian ones, that is. Singularity, anyone ..?
And, of course there’s overviews of futureness – or not.
But, for the naïve:
[How human-friendly …]