# Maverisk / Étoiles du Nord

> Mostly on wine. Also: IRM/InfoSec/I-Advisory and -Audit services. Positive contrarian, inspirator, loosen-upper.


## Posts

- [Sealing your site](https://maverisk.nl/sealing-your-site/): [What a circus. In the background.] ENISA recently announced it wants an upgrade of the ‘reliability’ of web seals. Nice. BUT anything out there will be: Copied and replayed at third party sites, differences being inobservable to the average hooman; Placed without being warranted for the info presented, at / after some point in time. The ‘certification’ is there, so don’t bother keeping up to ever spiraling up security requirements; Valid for some time only, with all sorts of re’certification’ / failed update issues. All the ENISA talk about automated checking, etc., would be very welcome, but no-one would want the [&hellip;]
- [Seth's Blog: The index and the menu](https://maverisk.nl/seths-blog-the-index-and-the-menu/): Fitting with my critique of the herd… Seth&#8217;s Blog: The index and the menu
- [Money is grease; 3D- and time-wise](https://maverisk.nl/money-is-grease-3d-and-time-wise/): [Matter, Brussels] To come back to something I stated before, now more in the clear: Money is the form that the grease of purchasing power captured takes, to span place and time differences between supply and demand of actual stuff (goods and services). No more, no less. It’s handy, to that purpose. It bridges on-the-spot supply and demand imbalances, so that however abstract, markets can operate without on-the-spot perfect one-to-one barters need to take place. But it creates the Marxian wage gap… Does it? When studied in more detail and length, and varying abstraction levels, it may bring back ‘capital’ as [&hellip;]
- [Fallingwater Friday](https://maverisk.nl/yes-fallingwater-friday-after-a-couple-of/): Yes, Fallingwater Friday ..! [After a couple of more posts here, I’ll publish my Frank Lloyd Wright and other architecture pics on maveriskarchitecture.tumblr.com, by the way]
- [Books by Quote: Practical Wisdom](https://maverisk.nl/practical-wisdom/): [Small, but human in an other environment; AMS] The third ‘Book By Quote&#8216; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time: Barry Schwartz’s and Kenneth Sharpe’s Practical Wisdom, The Right Way to Do the Right Thing, Riverhead Books, 2010, ISBN 9781594485435 The assumption behind carefully constructed rules and procedures, with close oversight, is that even if people do want to do the right thing, they [&hellip;]
- [Just some archi pics; first edit trials](https://maverisk.nl/and-yet-another-yostrik-inspired-series/): And, yet another Yostrik-inspired series.
- [Mark](https://maverisk.nl/mark/): [“We will belittle you”, La Défense] It suddenly occurred to me that when stocks go up or down on their underlying company’s earnings performance hits the mark as set by the average of analysts’ predictions, those average predictions are the real target. So … the secondary or tertiary derivative of actual strength has now become the real thing ..? Or should we invest in analysis of core strength the opposite way; the way of true organisational resilience that will result in better, richer even, performance over a much longer time horizon..?
- [Bias Time (2 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-2-of-9/): [See how the metro entrance folds; Valencia of course] Yes, it’s bias time again. The second of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. [Part one here] Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, ‘objective’, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Biases in probability and belief Ambiguity effect – the tendency to avoid options for which missing information makes the probability seem “unknown.” Anchoring effect – the tendency to rely too heavily, or “anchor,” on a past reference or on one trait or [&hellip;]
- [Just some FLlW pics (cont'd)](https://maverisk.nl/there-again-the-old-frank-lloyd-wright-pics-in/): There, again the old Frank Lloyd Wright pics in random selection.
- [Just some archi pics; first edit trials](https://maverisk.nl/just-some-archi-pics-from-amsterdam-zuid-as/): Just some archi pics from Amsterdam, Zuid-As region. Inspired by Yostrik.
- [The eruption of ~coins](https://maverisk.nl/the-eruption-of-coins/): [Hidden treasure] So, it wasn’t too sudden that this new money was minted… “If you don’t like any (gold) standard, why don’t you invent your own ..?” [Added a couple of hours later: http://bitinfocharts.com/ has a nice overview. Probably quite incomplete…]
- [You Own The Future](https://maverisk.nl/you-own-the-future/): [From the brewery, towards the future] The second ‘Book By Quote&#8216; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time: Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns The Future, Simon&amp;Schuster, May 2013, ISBN 9781451654967 Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. (p.10) A heavenly idea comes up a lot in [&hellip;]
- [Designed/designated value](https://maverisk.nl/designed-designated-value/): [Casa de inquietante Musica…] Just read somewhere that Litecoin had jumped from $100 to $30.000 in one year. Bitcoin, same sort of jumps up and down all over the place. And other, less known eCurrencies will probably have the same patterns. My question now is: Would someone know how to establish the proper value vis-à-vis ‘old’ currencies – with all their absolute sameness as described in an earlier post. Given that everything is artificial (and economically, relatively! simple) about these ‘new’ currencies, there should be some formula to determine its true ‘value’ (however expressed..!), shouldn’t it? Yes, I know, it’s whatever [&hellip;]
- [Just some Frank Lloyd Wright pics](https://maverisk.nl/yet-again-some-old-analog-to-digital-house-pics/): Yet again, some old analog to digital house pics for the Name The Storer Number competition. Come on, one is easy!
- [Trial and error](https://maverisk.nl/trial-and-error/): [As architecture should be: Quite old, still modern..!] Recently, this site exposed the New Year’s fireworks over Europe photo as fake. Yes, the time zones not accounted for, the fireworks colour differences (..?), the ‘unique’ clear weather everywhere (not), fireworks in North Africa (on a different calendar) and on oil drilling rigs in the North Sea (would maybe result in fire, not -works…) are pointers indeed. To start off with. The same picture was shared last year already, too. Handy, as next time, fraudsters will know what to edit for …
- [Just some Frank Lloyd Wright pics](https://maverisk.nl/hey-you-seem-to-like-my-old-frank-lloyd-wright/): Hey, you seem to like my old Frank Lloyd Wright pics. Here’s some more, random stuff out of 213 … can’t upload them all in one go to just a single post … And yes I know, they’re not FW on Fallingwater Friday but hey, let me just get them to you, right ..? More to follow over the next weeks. Or would any of you know how to upload the whole set, not manually one by one ..? By the way, that’s not me but my dad (RIP) at Nathan Moore and the fountain.
- [Fallingwater Friday](https://maverisk.nl/ok-its-fallingwater-friday-herewith-my-quite/): OK, it’s Fallingwater Friday, herewith my (quite old, analog-to-digital) take on the famous pic…
- [Bias time (1 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-1-of-9/): [Check out the paleo!] Yes, it’s bias time. As first in a series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, ‘objective’, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. I’ll just jot them down for your reading pleasure. Additional explanation, e.g., how they would work out in your professional practice, we can discuss out of band I guess. Decision-making and behavioral biases Bandwagon effect – the tendency to do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the [&hellip;]
- [Just some Frank Lloyd Wright pics](https://maverisk.nl/some-old-analog-to-digital-photos-again-for-the/): Some old analog-to-digital photos again, for the Guess the Storer Number competition…
- [Patching Things](https://maverisk.nl/patching-things/): [Quick design, not too shabby] Errrm, how are we going to patch all the devices once they’re out there for the Internet of Things ..? We already know for sure we’ll need that, as there will be a long time of not-cheap-enough-to-replace-en-masse-ness crossed with too many out there to not care, and almost unthinkable legacy issues, etc. So, patching we will need. But how, if the stuff isn’t designed to allow that (capacity, connectivity, security) ..? So I outdid myself; only one day after drafting the above, this appears, with quite an overview of all the Internet of Things risks out [&hellip;]
- [Mo'nay](https://maverisk.nl/monay/): [Prime Valencia] Just to drop it here. May take a textbook full of source-annotated analysis, but just feel there is something in the following: In Negri &amp; Hardt’s Empire (of which I like parts of the analyses, not necessarily the conclusions/synthesis/solutions!), the analysis goes about Worker Production being larger than Worker pay, the rest flowing to Capital, of which a tiny part is shaved off as Capital Owner ‘pay’. The rest of the surplus seeking redeployment ‘outside’ of the system and how the outside may no longer exist. Haven’t read on far enough, but I feel that when Capital (surplus) folds [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, January 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-january-2014-edition/): [Classic, yet still modern on the ultra side] Well then, as promised, the first of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED In-car Glass pictures on socmed Hipster beards Movember leftovers Just because Don’t hide your anxiety (about / , ) lack of self-sufficiency Really ..? Trying to be Wired while being very late ..? Un-US’ing your infrastructure Revelling at Snowdon-news Forgetting about Echelon through the ages You may try, of be ordered to, but won’t succeed. You know that, but must act as if you relly try. Isn’t that bandwagon behaviour? Through the aeons, rather; [&hellip;]
- [Just some Frank Lloyd Wright pics](https://maverisk.nl/name-that-house-incl-storer-number-please/): Name that house (incl Storer number, please). Some recent, some old (analog-to-digital when that was only just possible; sorry for the grains).
- [Icarus' Deception](https://maverisk.nl/icarus-deception/): [On the lake] As part of a new project, I herewith present the first ‘Book By Quote’: An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..! So, now then; Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception, Penguin Books, december 2012, ISBN 9780670922925 Industrialists have made hubris a cardinal sin but conveniently ignored a far more common failing: settling for too little. It’s far more dangerous to fly too low than too high, [&hellip;]
- [Judging money](https://maverisk.nl/judging-money/): [Picture’s perspective lines skewed to create akward feelings… AMS again] @JudgeJoice_ tipped a couple of days ago about a judge with humour (in Dutch, unfortunately no English translation available). They seem to exist even in the Netherlands… All very nice to rule that if defendant claims to not have received a loan because the bank only transferred some bits from one account to another and no ‘real’ money switched accounts (the scandal! the fraud! the defendant claimed), and hence no ‘real’ money would need to be repaid, but the defendant did all sorts of transactions with third parties where she presented [&hellip;]
- [Bandwagon stuff](https://maverisk.nl/bandwagon-stuff/): [Tension through perspective angles not being perfect; near AMS] As in this text; just ½ a % into 2014 and our prediction is reiterated with some force. Seems like we may have predic’hinted at something that actually may happen this year. Hey, we’re already ½ a % through 2014 and I haven’t seen news on anything ‘cyber’ yet. Let’s keep it up! And let’s have a hard laugh about those faux wannabe hipster beards. Aren’t they so last year!
- [MEdia](https://maverisk.nl/media/): [Side street of Porto] Hoping this year, we switch from social media to social wedia … ;-[
- [The Up-Ramp](https://maverisk.nl/the-up-ramp/): [Utreg once again] May your 2014 be the up-ramp to an even more worthwhile life. And, one more prediction, almost after-the-fact’ly…: News about social media will slowly cease to be news. Ergo, it’ll be niche news (albeit by the truckload), on all sorts of socmed application, that we’ll see so much of in 2014. Outright socmed introductory stuff, will be for the leggards. Business(wo)men, etc. In comes this (in Dutch); ‘nuff said. All candidates for my Wired/tired/expired list.
- [Floating up levels](https://maverisk.nl/floating-up-levels/): [Airplane, close to AMS] Seems like true professions work the same as life philosophies (‘religions’ et al.). The masses, the first 85%, work like worker bees. Need to be kept in check as they are ‘unfree’ (in a sense…) to think for themselves, need to just follow the rules even if these create moral / consciousness conflicts. The next 10-13% are petty-little-rule-whizards. You know them all, they know nothing about Why. Think they are the next 2% … But are evil as they ruthlessly hunt down anything non-compliant. The last 2% (or less), are the true Understanders, philosophers. That have Insight, [&hellip;]
- [Still no real investment](https://maverisk.nl/still-no-real-investment/): [Not NN, you fool] Inspired by the picture: How come we still haven’t recovered from the age of panicky crawling backwards ..? As witnessed by the lack of real, true investment for the longer term. Longer term, not being as in “Short term I would usually define before lunch. Long term is after lunch”. But long term, like invest heaps now, reap the benefits over the decades. Very deep but later very flat hockey stick. If not when there would be true investments made, things like the CN tower and other, relatively, follies, could again bolster the general spirit of a [&hellip;]
- [Less more](https://maverisk.nl/less-more/): [Colmar, of course] Being in a Christmas spirit. Just read a piece in HBR on ‘prosperity’. Which seems to hinge on the definition of that so much that it hurts. It appears that ‘prosperity’ is slaving oneself to death … ? Or is true prosperity about just working enough to sustain oneself, and have time to do the stuff of higher Maslow levels ..? What is the purpose of life ..? We need less of the more, more, more when it comes to the ‘importance’ of money. We need more of … well, what? All religions, and all other philosophies on how [&hellip;]
- [Wired / tired / expired](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired/): [A building. What parti; what intention, does it work ..?] I really wish Wired mag would bring back its wired/ tired/ expired jargon watch. Online, of course. We need it. Online, all sorts of things may be kept in a sort-of Gartner hype cycle tally, too. For the things, memes, and apps, that persist or not, for the ones that fade away (‘dynamic tombstone’?), for posterity. And to prevent ugly words from becoming Word of the Year or so. Or should we do it ourselves? I’ll give it a shot. Will have to dig into the format, layout, rules, starting base. [&hellip;]
- [Prediction of "A"PIs for IoT](https://maverisk.nl/prediction-of-a-pis-for-iot/): [Some years ago, IL] Ah, one thing I was concerned about, is elucidated elsewhere, already. And ten more, halfway between hard tech deep innovation and societal acceptance.
- [IoT to retail](https://maverisk.nl/iot-to-retail/): [East South Bank] I had these &#8216;predictions&#8217; for retail. Now IoT comes along (though 2014 is way too early; 2016-2018 is more likely); would’ve had to include it. But may take a while. So enjoy, and stitch both together…
- [On qualitative calculations](https://maverisk.nl/on-qualitative-calculations/): [Guess the country. Wrong.] Some time ago, I hinted that maybe some combination of fuzzy logic and wavelet-like mathematics might deliver tools for qualitative risk management calculations. Now is the time to delve a little into the subject. If possible, somewhat methodologically. But hey, you know me; that will not work too perfectly as perfection is boring. I’ll just take it away with a discussion on scales, and thrown in a handful of Ramsey-Lewis work: There’s the nominal scale. Where one can only sum up the categories or bins one would want to place one’s observations in. presumably, we’d have observations [&hellip;]
- [Say [null] to voting, 1 to on-line](https://maverisk.nl/say-null-to-voting-1-to-on-line/): [Another of those places where I was hard at work. Right.] Now, the Netherlands is back to voting electronically … In a way (in Dutch). One votes, on an electronic machine, that prints your vote and then you hand in the slip, that will be machine-read for tallying. Oh yes that’s voting electronically. Whereas it looks clumsy, and it is, it also doesn’t satisfy some basic but very fundamental requirements anyone would consider perfectly normal for (nation-wide democratic) elections. A great many ‘rogue’ (by the standards of others …) states have some of those concerns covered better… My personal gripe, however, [&hellip;]
- [Collateral sustainability](https://maverisk.nl/collateral-sustainability/): [Paris. Repeatable idea.] In order to get to real sustainable business (or non-profit, or public), the organisation should not bolt on the sustainability initiatives, but build them in. Into the primary processes themselves. So that ‘sustainability’ becomes collateral next to the money-making, or x-making, that the organisation had set out to do. One way of doing this, is by (external?) pressure to have the pollutor pay. In that way, similar to VAT I guess, any organisation neutralises the ‘damage’ they do by generating moneys for restaurative initiatives, externally, or internally if one is allowed to spend the surcharge on such restaurative [&hellip;]
- [Mall, where you're heading?](https://maverisk.nl/mall-where-youre-heading/): [Some think this is hideous but it’s fresh, even if it ruined the neighbourhood.] This then, on the future of retail. With an attempt to analyse and predict [You know my opinions on that …] what malls, or shopping centres in general, may look like in, say, five years from now. Let’s first define the inputs for my ‘analysis’: • Rapid developments of web shops in all retail areas, not just non-food and food ;-] Yes indeed, on the surface, even food already has its web sale / home delivery channels. • At least temporarily, an increase in one-off / small [&hellip;]
- [Countries playing with bitcoins](https://maverisk.nl/countries-playing-with-bitcoins/): [Glass may break, thin legs, Amsterdam] Isn’t this, in a sense, about bitcoins ..!?
- [Double shhh](https://maverisk.nl/double-shhh/): [On a rooftop ..! ‘t Spant, Bussum] Yeah, it’s a post on double secrets again. Not just because I haven’t seen any conclusive research on what to do with it; how to handle oversight (what is warranted, , etc.), what limits to justifications there would be, how to close the recursive secrecy gap, etc. Not even because of stuff like this. But because another issue was pointed out yesterday/today in a post at Bruce Schneier’s blog: Where double secrets may exist, trust is lost, and (theoretically and practically) impossible to regain. Which is a problem not only for ‘current’ (big) companies [&hellip;]
- [The old may not even be too interesting, but still Good Quality](https://maverisk.nl/the-old-may-not-even-be-too-interesting-but-still-good/): [Herman van der Kloot Meijburg but you knew that, Voorburg] Hey this blog was about architecture, here and there, too..!
- [Domo  tics](https://maverisk.nl/domo-tics/): [Voorburg, Herenstraat; Mú by Ming Hu Chen] With the Internet of Things coming at us with lightning speed, why haven’t we seen a surge in easily appliable domotics ..? Sure, there have been small little, often not too well-designed and plasticky appliances out there for a while, but they often were in the bargain bins before a full‑scale deployment could take place. And we see trials here and there in offices (cheesily, in Dutch, and video) with bits and parts of true ambient intelligence style domotics. But still, not the real stuff. If you now say that within our homes, domotics [&hellip;]
- [Stats and news](https://maverisk.nl/stats-and-news/): [Van Gogh’s ear] The news is still filled these days with all sorts of incidents with (new) media, information leaks, etc. etc. How long will it take us to realise that this is just the noise to the signal of health? It’s not that traditional media, and new media, are filled, it is that their space is too limited. If they would have sufficient space to cover all that goes well, no-one would notice the mishaps. Risk-based controls, anyone ..? Because, if you would do that seriously, you probably wouldn’t control anything! Your comments, please.
- [Predictions 2014 the InfoSec edition](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-2014-the-infosec-edition/): [DUO Groningen (couple of years ago), where a leak led to many a student’s funds were defrauded. Looks original, is just chasing outer effects] So, some of you have seen my Predictions 2014 including the update or two, and other posts on developments in the Information world at large. But what you desparately needed, awaited before even starting on the Christmas decorations (for those in the West), and held out any shopping for food or beverage for, I know, I know [Heh, that’s the opposite of Unk Unk’s ;-], is my completely and utterly unpretentious predictions for the Information Security arena [&hellip;]
- [sCrummy development. Standards ..?](https://maverisk.nl/scrummy-development-standards/): [Just a great place] A peer leader asked around for guidance re assessing scrum development contract bids. And I browsed around. And found nothing really. Oh yeah, the usual suspects of IT-contracts / IT-development contracts, but even those are thinnish, insignificant as help. Somehow, it appears to be too fluid a field to be captured in bureaucratic-behemoth totalitarian all-detail governance, management, planning and execution procedures. In which actual deliverables and content requirements are always but with very few exceptions pushed to some annex or ‘later to be detailed’ never-will-exist auxiliary and unassessed documentation with not much concrete information or even anything [&hellip;]
- [The Ethics of Full-Autos](https://maverisk.nl/the-ethics-of-full-autos/): [EU whale washed up in Strassbourg] Via Ross Dawson, again, I found a piece on the ethics of self-driving cars which is fascinating in its ethics discussions. Or, pointers to, as the discussions are of course not definitively settled once and for all as is the nature of such discussions. In particular when various ethics backgrounds from around the world collide, as they will! (No autopilot there, heh.) But the discussion should reach further. ‘We’ now focus on cars, but if we can tackle that issue of autonomous, self-driving cars (wasn’t the term ‘automobile’ not already coined to include that glimpse [&hellip;]
- [The IS Audit Worker of 2019](https://maverisk.nl/the-is-audit-worker-of-2019/): [Your prospect of Elysean fields] 2019 is only five years away… But predictions require a suitably close horizon to be able to see how today’s trends and Early Indicators might play out, and still be sufficiently distant to allow flexibility and variance off the predictions – otherwise the predictions are dull. Hence, apart from my predictions for 2014 (and update) below, some more ‘mega’trends, in particular for the management of information risks – I still maintain that anything managed, isn’t a risk ‘anymore’! – professional or more specifically, the ‘information systems auditor’. Note the ‘’ as this post will show how [&hellip;]
- [The State of Crowdsourcing](https://maverisk.nl/the-state-of-crowdsourcing/): [Kopenhagen. Denmark] It has been a while since Wikinomics et al. brought the idea of Crowdsourcing to the fore. Where are we now, with that ..? Would anyone have good pointers as to the current state of affairs with the handful of initially successful crowdsourcing ideas, sites, etc..? My guess is that in the end, crowdsourcing times global reach equals a market for lemons. How to fix that ..? With market rules, but how to keep those neat and tidy, and above all principle-based, and still enforce compliance ..? The latter part is maybe the most difficult part. The hordes will [&hellip;]
- [Anticipating nothingness](https://maverisk.nl/anticipating-nothingness/): [Your guess.] Just read a post on Anticipatory Computing. Like it, though maybe not a full Belieber: For one thing, the picture contains the limitations of the idea: It has this block Understanding the World, and within that Understanding the Human. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. The idea presented, on the surface looks rather appealing. And scary at the same time. If a System around you would implement Ambient Intelligence, it certainly should include Anticipatory Computing. As noted in a post below, Data crunching or even Information or Knowledge, is a basis for Intelligence but no more than that… [&hellip;]
- [New InfoSec (OSSTMM)](https://maverisk.nl/new-infosec-osstmm/): [Eye aye, captain!] Hey look, interesting new way(s) to do effective information security…: An intro in Dutch And the ‘source code’ in English Now, let’s combine this with Rebooting CIA, and we’re getting somewhere … [Edited 2013-12-13: a link (in Dutch) maybe relevant to the CIA remark.]
- [Shaping up Non-BYOD](https://maverisk.nl/shaping-up-non-byod/): [Honeymoon] To investigate; an idea: Now that the BYOD phenomenon has taken the pressure off of IT departments’ provision of equipment (and software), how can we use the time and budget that has become available, to shape up the Asset / Configuration / Inventory Management regarding the iron that we still have, keep, and service ..? Out of a desire to maybe see those systems management areas for once be complete and current… Even if only for the efficiency of subsequent maintenance, and the beauty to see insight finally bringing better understanding and razorsharp management. But it won’t be an easy [&hellip;]
- [Rebooting the CIA](https://maverisk.nl/rebooting-the-cia/): [Nope] The CIA of information security doesn’t cut it anymore. We have relied on Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability for so long, that even ‘managers’ in the most stale of government departments now by and large know of the concepts. Which may tell you that very probably already by that fact, the system of thought has been calcified into ineffectiveness. At least we should reconsider where we are, and where we’d want to go. Lets tackle Confidentiality first. And maybe foremost. Because it’s here that we see the most clear reflection of our deepened understanding of the value merits of information not being in line [&hellip;]
- [Update on 2014](https://maverisk.nl/update-on-2014/): [From Riga, for you] For a real update on my Prediction for 2014 (see below some post, and the original post), I homage Ross Dawson for a much better long-term rationale.
- [Data doesn't Know](https://maverisk.nl/data-doesnt-know/): [Unseen Rotjeknor] In the stories on Big Data et al. (predictive analysis, … , you name it), I often see a big confusion about terms. Some even mix up data and information, or only pay lip service to the fundamental difference..! Oh yes, many come up with the Information Pyramid; in a most basic picture I took from wipo.int: * sometimes, Knowledge is bracketed between Data and Information; more on that below. But there’s something fishy with the way the picture is being used, commonly. For one thing, any action that produces meta data (i.e., just plain flat derivative data !!) is [&hellip;]
- [Fuzzy risk language](https://maverisk.nl/fuzzy-risk-language/): [Antwerp. Seriously.] In some previous post, I posited that we should move from quantitative (quod non) to qualitative or even intuitive risk management. And how that may be difficult. ‘cause it is. As an intermediary step, I propose to build a better language with which to communicate, discuss and calculate (sic) with qualitative risk management. Because I see a place for a combination of fuzzy logic and wavelet theory, including neural network signal combination functions. As my time is limited, this time of year, would anyone have pointers to what’s already out there in papers, practical applications, etc..? That could kickstart [&hellip;]
- [No More Vines](https://maverisk.nl/no-more-vines/): [Cordoba, the oft-overlooked castle] “The doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines” by Frank Lloyd Wright. 1. FLlW would never admit defeat; all of his work were masterpieces (by his opinion). 2. Already in his time, there were historical examples of curtain facades. And since, they have blossomed. Would this not undo the bon mot ..?
- [Bit coin: Money bytes sovereignty](https://maverisk.nl/bit-coin-money-bytes-sovereignty/): [Berlin again, tucked away, much underrated] Bitcoin’s hopping up and down in ‘real’ currency terms and everyone is happy to declare it all a pyramid game. It is, but so is any other currency issued on the promise of maybe some future repayment in … the same or another currency. The underlying value of any currency depends on the future income stream of the issuing entity, or intermediate trade for … other currencies, services, or goods. Exactly like Bitcoin. Except, of course, that ‘normal’ currencies are issued by governments, geography-based entities from the past when geography mattered. But does it, still, [&hellip;]
- [The Compliabullies](https://maverisk.nl/the-compliabullies/): [Berlin at dusk] Just a thought: Would investigation and analysis show that the kids that were bullied in prep school and / or (separate hypotheses…) high school, in later life be the ones that end up in Compliance and Risk Management (not being management of risks…!) departments, to take eternal revenge on those that bullied them..? Because the latter will not have noticed too much the damage they did (they were kids back then) and have merrily gone their own way as they were allowed to be prepped to do. Now, they find themselves being caught in a web by the [&hellip;]
- [Slight update: From Qual to Intu](https://maverisk.nl/slight-update-from-qual-to-intu/): A slight update to the previous post: What I propse in the end isn’t as much a shift to qualitative risk management as such, but an even further step to intuitive risk management. Yeah, that’s fuzzy. But doable. And will boil down to the sort of ‘real’, normal management that leaders-managers have already practiced throughout the centuries (and certainly in the better parts of the 20th century). So no worries, the future isn’t all certain but that makes it fun, right ..?
- [The 15.5 risk](https://maverisk.nl/the-15-5-risk/): Your 15.5 risk is of no interest at all! I have a 15.6 risk! Hm, I only have a 13.1 Seriously. You know you’re doing that. But will you admit it, and learn, and move to something better ..? [Hi, DC!] There’s a lot wrong in risk management today. I mean, not only can one still rant about the ‘three lines of defense’ (quod non) as I do regularly on this blog, but one can also dive into the details of how risks are managed, if not when, and find a lot of systemic error and particularly, non-thinking all around. Let’s [&hellip;]
- [Fraud, try angle it differently](https://maverisk.nl/fraud-try-angle-it-differently/): The fraud triangle should be not more. For too long, the simpleton representation of fraud occurrence possibility has dumbed down the discussion about countermeasures too much, leading to an unwanted, unwarranted, inefficient and ineffective approach difference from various sides. [For those who know where this is: This is unconnected to the story ;-] Point being: The fraud triangle, being one where the three factors Motive (or Pressure), Rationalisation, and Opportunity are presented as if present at the same time, and banding together. Take one of the elements out of the equasion and you’re good. But the three factors do not play [&hellip;]
- [Is ID you?](https://maverisk.nl/is-id-you/): [Guess the location] Your digital ID becomes your pseudo-identity becomes who you are (considered to be), more than your actual you. Your actual you, your innate identity, the one you discovered when only a couple of years old, will no longer be of interest to the world once your digital identity has all that the world cares about. Then, it can get stolen, lost, manipulated and altered, without you actually needing to notice. But who cares? Your digital ID is, you are just the carbon-based remnants of an outdated world. Just make sure there’s a fallback scenario that you can (or [&hellip;]
- [Why not Necker ..?](https://maverisk.nl/why-not-necker/): [Surprise in the (business) heart of Paris La Défense] With all the hype about BYOD and the New Way of Working, flexible work place etc. having died down almost to zero, why are we still in offices ..? Why aren’t we all (…?) more like @richardbranson also for our working lives? We certainly had the time to build a suitable infrastructure where there was none, if only under the guise (as it often is) of helping development (to the ideal level of material-only development that we have ..!?). I mean, cheap or free fast WiFi on any and all tropical beaches. [&hellip;]
- [Time flies only when you realise it](https://maverisk.nl/time-flies-only-when-you-realise-it/): [Some opera… Calatrava, Valencia] Do animals have a sense of time ..? Probably. But do they also have a sense of ‘non-personal’ time ..? Do they realise time to be something external, a (half)dimension..? Do they understand their inevitable death..? Is this what makes us stand out over (??) other animals? Is this the major part of Original Sin ..? The existence or initiation, or realisation, of human mortality was (according to Milton) the first thing that happened after having eaten from the Apple. Before, there was no fear of death as it wasn’t known. After Original Sin, the fear of [&hellip;]
- [Control, not privacy](https://maverisk.nl/control-not-privacy/): In the discussions re privacy, there seems to be only two alternatives: Absolute privacy, with any individual holding complete, total and continuous control over who gets to see (not take in) any data point that may be, even in the remotest of ways, be recombined into anything useful for anyone – or Absolutely no privacy, everything being considered lost anyway and all one’s data being out there somewhere. Which creates not some binary future state, but a bandwidth on which we should be able to choose. Because it is not privacy that people are concerned about, but the loss of control [&hellip;]
- [Inter   faces](https://maverisk.nl/inter-faces/): [Educational institute x 3, campus Free University, Amsterdam] When sleeping over problems, one often comes up with solutions that both are real and so all-encompassing that they’ll need much elaboration before being applicable in a nimble way. This one was/is on information security, again. Recall the ‘discussions’ I posted some days ago about (industrial) process control versus administrative control? Well, I’ve some more elements for a grand new scheme now. It struck me that the operators at the (chemical) plant control room, are the ones with the dashboards. Not necessarily their managers. Nor their manager managers, etc. What if instead of [&hellip;]
- [Predictions 2014; little update](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-2014-little-update/): [Paris La Defense; Metropolis-like] Oh, a few notes to add to the Predictions 2014 blog: Just saw that Smart, Cloud, Analytics and Mobile may abbreviate quite well… T not fitting in there… Forrester (-‘16) rightly adds a rethink of ‘trust’ and ‘identity’ Gartner has ‘software defined everything’ and ‘3D printing’ in the mix. The former, Forrester has as well, when reading and recombining what they have (and G’s predictions may be regrouped as well, to form the F’s list, or the SCAM-T list). Both don’t have Analytics, oddly enough. But via @duivestein, too, a good intro into Things. Maybe we’d include [&hellip;]
- [Check (out Bitcoin) please](https://maverisk.nl/check-out-bitcoin-please/): [This was my work place, once, for a short while. Yes, actually it was.] Just a note, on an idea that needs to be spread: When bitcoin makes it, any currency can make it. Seniorage by historic derelicts called geography-bound ‘countries’, may wane. The Community may take over, here, too. May want to speed up my reading of Empire and Multitude – critically, as I certainly don’t agree with everything, out of experience so far and out of principle…
- [Interlude](https://maverisk.nl/interlude/): Interlude, a competition: Name the location. First correct answerer can pick up a nice bottle of wine at photographer’s office…
- [Predictions 2014](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-2014/): Already somewhere below, I noted that the Analytics part of SMAC(T) may need to be rephrased. Already now, I’m unsure whether to do that or just leave it unchanged. What I didn’t yet do, was to opine on the other elements so often put together. First, a picture. [Casa de Música Porto, for the chaotic structure of the future] Now then: Social everything: Yeah, yeah, of course there will be news. The decline of Fubbuck, etc. But will we see actual breakthrough hitherto unseen inventions of anything game-changingly new? I predict 2014 will be a pause year in which we’ll only [&hellip;]
- [Interesting life, or dissolution](https://maverisk.nl/interesting-life-or-dissolution/): Some lament the cease-and-desist against 23andMe’s personal DNA profiling kit. I don’t, too much. [Of course, a picture. Belém, Portugal: Into the Great Unknown, quite possibly never to return (in the olden days; for seamen this tower statistically would very probably be the last thing they would ever see of their homeland)] I can understand that some may want their personal genetic footprint, e.g., when one already has an inkling there may be some bad omens in them but these can be undone by (hopefully not too severe) lifestyle changes. Fair enough. But already in the ‘not too severe’, there’s a [&hellip;]
- [Invitation: Responsible disclosure for charities](https://maverisk.nl/invitation-responsible-disclosure-for-charities/): Staking a claim, and asking for your input! (Again…) First, a picture to brighten up your day: [Sevilla, obviously] There have been many rows in public discussion regarding the spend of charities. Either the moneys received haven’t been spent according to expectation (sic), or the charities’ governors have received (perceived (sic) to be) too high recompense for their efforts and/or costs. Common denominator is of course lack of transparency upfront that could have set expectations better, and would have demonstrated due diligence and due care. This, beyond the formal bookkeeping disclosures of annual accounts, etc., that apparently are too opaque for [&hellip;]
- [Was right: New boat, new database](https://maverisk.nl/was-right-new-boat-new-database/): [Because you knew there would be a picture; Casa de Música, Porto again, saturated] Just a reminder: Some Larry Ellison guy was derided when he predicted ‘The Network is the Computer’. Look around the streets today; from a smartphone screen/interface end point, where is the computer …? It’s just an extended network, not your typical UTP/RJ45 cable anymore. Though I don’t worship anyone (see title), we should admit someone’s past far flung prediction was in fact right. Oracle: Larry needs a new yacht, you need a new database. To which we should add now: No people are wrong all the time.
- [Control administration(s)](https://maverisk.nl/control-administration-s/): Before I forget: Some work has been done indeed on translating the industrial process (control) model to the administrative world. ACS’s KAD+ model (in Dutch) is an excellent example – especially the original KAD model at operational level that seems unsupported now. Maybe they are just a bit too far ahead of the curve, too clean-cut, to have found the traction they deserve. That’s all, folks! For now. Here’s a picture for your viewing pleasure: [Alhambra, Granada] Yeah, next up, some seriously long form blog again.
- [Control industry](https://maverisk.nl/control-industry/): First, a picture for your viewing pleasure; you’ll need it: [Baltimore inner harbour; rec area] As a backlogged item, I was to give a little pointer to the design of control in (process-oriented!) industry, from which ‘we’ in the administrative world have taken some clues like sorcerer’s apprentices without due and proper translation and without taking the pitfalls of our botched translation job into account. To start with, a little overview of the basics of how an industrial process (e.g., mixing paint, or medicine) is done, at the factory floor: In which we see the main process as a (near- or [&hellip;]
- [The Waning Age of Compliance](https://maverisk.nl/the-waning-age-of-compliance/): [Madrid; danger exites even if quite balanced, safety kills with boredom] All raise your hands; who thinks we have reached the end of the Age of Compliance …? Hmmm, not too many hands. Must be because you’re a totalitarian-bureaucratic lot with the illusion that your underling creeping back into the corner approach is equal to being powerful. Ah, power, the one thing you craved so much, out of uncertainty and frustration! To be true, the Age of Compliance, in ascendance since before the turn of the Millennium and having had such a nice boost from an utter misreading of completely unnecessary [&hellip;]
- [Interlude: Sing ularity / along](https://maverisk.nl/interlude-sing-ularity-along/): The thought just popped up: What if we’re all already beyond the singularity point, and the transient intelligence of human life has already taken over ..? No-one is capable of changing the world’s affairs anymore, and it would take all people together to get that done, but getting all people together (including motivating them to band together, to their advantage) will result in all people just doing what they already do. Since the first 90% of human behaviour is already determined by ultimately (!) self-interest, uncosciously deciding what’s best as fits with the world’s turning as it is today, and the [&hellip;]
- [The P (part 1, too)](https://maverisk.nl/the-p-part-1-too/): Now then, for the grand Part 1 of the People of Information Security. À la the triangle I posted on earlier (see somewhere below) where the People aspect floats around the triangle like a dense cloud; obscuring your clear view and posing a foggy unclarity threat. To jot down, there are many aspects of People that we have to deal with, but let’s start with some random unstructured angles: [Generalife, Granada] People are a Threat. Externally, they are the actors, not random Acts of nature. No, they, they! the people, the masses (even in Ortega y Gasset style), they exist only [&hellip;]
- [No standards](https://maverisk.nl/no-standards/): [Looks like legend, but simply (?) is Segovia, Spain] Hm, the title may read to some like this post would be about (finding) a temporary SO with low moral standards, but that wasn’t my intention. For the more serious: One should have standards, but have them for oneself. Imposing one’s standards on others, will not work. Self-dicipline trumps external discipline. The latter will compress the former, or make it explode through some hair crack into any unwanted direction(s). Because that former will always be present, in one way or another. Dormant, maybe, but there. Hence standards must allow flexibility, or tie [&hellip;]
- [First Predictions 2014](https://maverisk.nl/unfamiliarly-from-the-west-whats-up-2014-the/): [Unfamiliarly, from the West] What’s up, 2014? The end is nigh, of 2013. Can we predict what the big business / infosec hype of 2014 will be ..? No. There’s no predicting the unknown. The somewhat-known will not stand out enough. The known… boring! The knows are the fall of Fubbuck, maybe Tvitter (both to be replaced by the WeChat’s and hopefully Tumblr’s of this world; will Vine and Snapchat take over?), cloud, BYOD/flexwork, etc. SMAC: Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud. ViNT by Sogeti adds a T of Things. The Things part, I’m unsure about. Yes, for the long run (i.e., 2-5 [&hellip;]
- [In the cave, not hunting](https://maverisk.nl/in-the-cave-not-hunting/): 60% of any group of people are conservative. They just want a job, any job, and want to do simple, predictable work. The want to stay in the cave, because it’s dangerous out there; you never know where and when a bear or sabletooth tiger may attack. 40% of people understand that one can be safe by staying in the cave, but one will starve. Food is not in the cave, it’s out there. So, for self-preservation (strategic risk management) one has to go out, well equipped and sober to handle the environment (tactical risk management: listen and look carefully, and [&hellip;]
- [On assumed guilt, innocence to be proven](https://maverisk.nl/on-assumed-guilt-innocence-to-be-proven/): An interesting piece (in Dutch) on documentation and the requirement to prove innocence under totalitairan presumed guilt: http://www.accountant.nl/Accountant/Opinie/Meningen/Naar+de+bliksem.aspx How true, the story. Now go apply the gist to your auditees as well! They&#8216;re the ones under presuure, that accountants et al are only starting to feel in the past couple of years..! And here’s another picture for your viewing pleasure:
- [The InfoSec stack (Part 1b; implement or not to be)](https://maverisk.nl/the-infosec-stack-part-1b-implement-or-not-to-be/): Some have questioned why I put the Compensate part upward on the right side, instead of downward, as is usually considered. Well, this may be obvious to those in the know, but: Compensating control weakness at a higher level simply does not work..! This, because of some very basic principles: 1. Any ‘control’ at some level, will have to be implemented at at least one lower level or not exist at all except for some ink on paper (OK, ‘ink’ on ‘paper’). 2. ‘Implementation’ of some deficient control at any level by ‘compensating’ it at a higher level, will lead to [&hellip;]
- [IHRM](https://maverisk.nl/ihrm/): On the integration of IRM into regular business management just the way HR is (was?). [Some future blog will be about the Three Lines of (NO!) Defense. Now, about a bit more practical stuff.] It struck me that information security, lately expanded into information risk management as (peer) part of operational risk management, as part of enterprise risk management sometimes fuzzied into ‘COSO ERM’ babble, still has difficulty to be understood to not be a separate function that can function apart from the rest of the business (‘their infosec corner to take care of their things’) but be an integral part [&hellip;]
- [Interlude: A Mistake made Policy](https://maverisk.nl/interlude-a-mistake-made-policy/): How a mistake made it to governmental policy… [Though the above Toronto skyline’s just for your viewing pleasure, unrelated to this blog] These has been quite some discussion about a thing called the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. Rightly so, since ever since Deming’s groundbreaking work on quality control WITHIN small shop floor level work groups, the understanding of the practical trade of small-group (self!)management has flourished. But alas! So many sorcerer’s apprentices have ran around like lemmings. And have followed the ill-guided amongst them, over the cliffs edge. They have mixed up Deming’s quality improvement cycle with the generic process control cycle, later [&hellip;]
- [The Infosec Stack (Part 1a; don't attack yourself)](https://maverisk.nl/the-infosec-stack-part-1a-dont-attack-yourself/): Some took my Part 1 as offensive. It may have been interpreted as such &#8211; by those that have a closed mind; out of fear for being found in the Emperor’s Clothes or because of the transformation of that fear into some sort of invincibility syndrome. But those that have their mind open enough, could see the other side and sharpen their own thought and understanding, or see my piece(let) as a proper anti-thesis i.e. not as full 180° head-on collision threat but as another angle onto a improvement-worthy wicked problem. Don’t think backward. Contribute! And here’s a picture for your [&hellip;]
- [The InfoSec Stack (Part 1; house of cards)](https://maverisk.nl/the-infosec-stack-part-1-house-of-cards/): [This is a very first part of an article / white paper under development, just to float the idea and get response …(?)] When asked what parts, or areas, information security would have to cover, people often respond with something in the line of ‘People, Process, Technology’ as a failed alliteration. The Process and Technology parts are then elaborated to the point/gray area where they will have become completely stifling business, with a panicked compliance craze because of a serious mental condition being a lack of ability to accept that one cannot perfectly control everything. Which is a fact. And read, [&hellip;]
- [Fallingwater Friday](https://maverisk.nl/just-a-picture-my-own-of-more-than-a-decade-ago/): Just a picture (my own, of more than a decade ago) to get you through the day. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater of course.
- [Trust statistics](https://maverisk.nl/trust-statistics/): &#8220;Never trust any statistic that you haven’t forged yourself&#8221; as Winston Churchill put it. With today’s tools, computing capabilities and speed, why wouldn’t accountants draft their own annual accounts statement of their clients’ accounts ..? These could then be published alongside the ones of the clients themselves. The differences would be transparent to investors, and when (not if I guess) the clients can explain the differences to their stakeholders, there’s no pain in anything. When accountanst would complain that it would be impossible to re-do the annual accounts, they only claim their incompetence. If they truly understand what’s on the books, [&hellip;]
- [Predictive ..?](https://maverisk.nl/predictive/): Ah, to add to the previous column: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail &#8211; But Some Don’t by Nate Silver seems interesting. Though I fear that the conclusion will again be: “It’s not hopeless [it almost is, ed.] but if you work really, really hard, you may succeed in finding nuggets — whether or not they’re worth all the effort [I think: hardly, ed.].”
- [Predictive Mediocrity](https://maverisk.nl/predictive-mediocrity/): [Just a pretty picture of Valencia, as a Calatrava … follower but not groupie] With all the talk about Predictive Analysis lately, it is time we separate, once again, the hype-humbug from the real(ity). Which is that the Predictive part is only partially true, and the Analysis part by definition is the contrary of predictive. 1. Analysis can only look at what’s here and now, or behind us. One can only analyse history. And, as Hegel pointed out, “Only at dusk does Minerva’s owl takes flight”: Only when the sun sets on some development, can we start (sic) to assess its [&hellip;]
- [The Size of Your ... Data](https://maverisk.nl/the-size-of-your-data/): It’s not the size of your data, it’s what you do with it. Or so claim men that are insecure about theirs. [Disclaimer: I have big hands. ‘nuff said.] There appears to be confusion about what Big Data may achieve. There’s the Marketing anecdotes (sic) about spurious relations, the long-standing anecdotes of credit card companies’ fraud detection, and there’s talk of ‘smart data’ use in e.g. organizations’ process mining to establish internal control quality. One party bashing the others over ‘abuse’ of terms. What happen? [for those that know their History of Memes] 1. We have more data available than ever [&hellip;]
- [Porto, series III](https://maverisk.nl/thats-last-last-porto-series-so-far-actually/): That’s last last Porto series so far. Actually beautified (?) pictures will follow sometime soon.
- [Porto, series II](https://maverisk.nl/porto-series-ii-one-to-follow/): Porto, series II. One to follow.
- [Porto, series I](https://maverisk.nl/just-a-random-selection-of-almost-unedited-porto/): Just a random selection of (almost) unedited Porto architecture. Series I
- [Double blind](https://maverisk.nl/double-blind/): Just a question: Would anyone know some definitive source, or pointers, to discussions either formal or informal, on the logic behind double secrets i.e. situations where it is a secret that some secret exists ..? Yerah, it’s relevant in particular now that some countries’ government seems to have failed to keep that double secret completely, but should be more systematically dealt with, I think, also re regular business-to-business (and -to-consumer) interactions. So, if you have some neat write-ups of formal logic systems approaches, I’d be grateful. TIA!
- [Ever more learning to go around](https://maverisk.nl/ever-more-learning-to-go-around/): In various discussions in my trade, and in general public, there seems to be a point of gravity around insufficiency of latter-day education. The troubles are many, but they fall into several distinct categories: [Spoiler: the true point of this entry is somewhere near the bottom…] Children know way too little; much knowledge is lost. No, this is not about the simple learning of facts – it is already quite clear that that Nick Carr’s Shallows, shallow brains, have taken root and may only be undone by a big swing towards renewed rote memorization and a wholesale write-off of current generations. It is [&hellip;]
- [No Ethical Hacking, Please!](https://maverisk.nl/no-ethical-hacking-please/): We still see quite a market for ‘ethical’ hacking out in the information security consulting world. However, if this type of activity should have a name, it would be wise the name would be descriptive, right? Rather than deceiting, swindling… We certainly won’t do that, sir, no way. We’d call it ‘ethical’ if the purpose of it all would be to further the ethical goals of the ones doing it. Now take a look at who’s doing it. ‘Ethical’ hacking. And for what: Moneyyy! Hey indeed, it is the consultants and Big4 accountants that will only and exclusively do it for [&hellip;]
- [Limbo](https://maverisk.nl/limbo/): A thought just crossed my mind (oh, don’t worry, any such thing with value quickly passes through w/o leaving a trace… (?)): When all will constantly have to prove, by lack of trust, isn’t that In Limbo Till Proving Not Guilty instead of innocence till proven otherwise? Yeah, it’s an old theme, already a decade old maybe even. But in silence, this one creeps on. Out of the business woodworks, into the public sphere. And still, even after a decade, waaay too little debated.
- [Background pic](https://maverisk.nl/hmmm-tried-to-add-this-as-background-doesnt/): Hmmm, tried to add this as background; doesn’t autoresize well… (even w/ top/bottom clipped manually)
- [Legal honey](https://maverisk.nl/legal-honey/): [Life is hard, moose style (i.e., no Tim Horton in sight)] Hey has anyone ever investigated the various legal ramifications re honeypots? Because, there&#8217;s two elements at play: Usually, one would put a honeypot in place to gather evidence of a crime under way &ndash; not fixing any leak but redirecting it. In some (many?) jurisdictions (where the Internet reaches, i.e., where you are), one would be required to stop any crime one is aware of, when reasonably possible; as a generic citizen&#8217;s obligation. Just diverting traffic to a honeypot for evidence gathering, and not destroying the original context to be [&hellip;]
- [Does ES equal PR ..?](https://maverisk.nl/does-es-equal-pr/): In Clive Thompson&#8217;s Smarter Than You Think. near the end there&#8217;s a reminder: In 1996, writer and electronic activist John Perry Barlow proclaimed &#8220;A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.&#8221; Addressing old-school governments &ndash; &#8220;you weary giants of flesh and steel&#8221; &ndash; he proclaimed &#8220;You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.&#8221; As it turns out, nothing of the sort was true. Now, this raised a question: How is &ndash; or isn&#8217;t &ndash; Edward Snowdon, or Julian Assange for that matter, not Paul Revere ..? How is &#8220;The regulars are coming!&#8221; not just bringing out info [&hellip;]
- [Many Books bQ, part IV](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-iv/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part IV already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result.
- [Hold on – new posts in the making](https://maverisk.nl/hold-on-new-posts-in-the-making/): It has been a while, I know. Tried to remain off-line for ten days &ndash; it worked. New posts are in the making, and will be scheduled and released over the next days. No worries! And a picture to ease the wait: [Touching base again today]
- [Your tips and categories, please re socmed tool evolution](https://maverisk.nl/your-tips-and-categories-please-re-socmed-tool-evolution/): Just a question to you: To deliver categories for social media tools that I will inventorise for innovation and evolution. Now that Facebook and Whatsapp are going the way of MySpace, and Twitter and Pinterest may be on their heels qua abandonment (?), plus Google+ still being in the dark a bit and WordPress going strong still but Medium and a couple of others are making inroads, a slew of new tools come forward. I will post some comparison tables on their functionality (primary/secondary functionality, persistence or ephemeral, fringe or potential mainstream, technical complexity, focal verticals, group structures, privacy notes, etc.). [&hellip;]
- [Many Books bQ, part III](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-iii/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part III already. Index Librorum &#8230;In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed &ndash; that would be a result.
- [Many Books bQ, part II](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-ii/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list. Index Librorum &#8230;In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed &ndash; that would be a result.
- [Theme song](https://maverisk.nl/theme-song/): To the track of Rawhide, of course&#8230; Cyber’ Cyber’ Cyber’ Keep hackin&#8217;, hackin&#8217;, hackin&#8217;, Though they&#8217;re disapprovin&#8217;, Keep them routers fallin&#8217; Cy-ber! Don&#8217;t try to witherstand &#8217;em, Just see and spot and track &#8217;em, Soon we&#8217;ll be mining bit and coin. Boy my heart&#8217;s calculatin&#8217; My true mint will be waitin&#8217;, be waiting at the end of my block. CHORUS MOV &#8217;em on, &lt;head&gt; &#8217;em up, &lt;head&gt; &#8217;em up, MOV &#8217;em out, MOV &#8217;em on, &lt;head&gt; &#8217;em out Cy-ber! GET &#8217;em out, POST &#8217;em in POST &#8217;em in, GET &#8217;em out, Cut &#8217;em out, paste &#8217;em in Cy-ber. Hackin’, hackin’, hackin’ [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, April 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-april-2014-edition/): [A night at the opera, Valencia style not Marx brothers] So, here&#8217;s the April edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Ensemble modeling Descriptive &ndash; Diagnostic &ndash; Predictive &ndash; Prescriptive Big Data! Sort-of scenario modelling (two l&#8217;s is the right way). Like the what-ifs in Lotus 1-2-3 of old. Principles still haven&#8217;t changed. Already this goes into the Mehhhh category Oh yes. Bee drone. Curation of content Fedoras H&#8230; H&#8230; Hip&#8230; &#8230;eardsjust can&#8217;t get it out of my throat Because of this:Het is Coffee Company beleid dat je met je macbook in de etalage [&hellip;]
- [Fortune on bureaucracy: It must die.](https://maverisk.nl/fortune-on-bureaucracy-it-must-die/): Simply putting it here for you, snapped from Fortune (no less). Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you. The organizations that survive in the coming decades will be those that are capable of change as fast as change itself. Today, few organizations seem to be able to out-run change for more than a few years at a time. To build organizations that are adaptable at their core, we will need to rework every management process so it enables, rather than frustrates, breakthrough thinking and relentless experimentation. Innovation will need to become instinctual and intrinsic. The notion of the economically dependent, easily biddable [&hellip;]
- [Postdictions 2014-I](https://maverisk.nl/postdictions-2014-i/): A progress report on the Predictions 2014 I made in several posts here, after Q1. First, of course, a picture: [Skinny thumbs up] So, there they are, with the items collected from several posts: Trust Well, there&#8217;s the demise of Mt Gox as Bitcoin exchange. All of Q1 was full of Bitcoin, anyway. Yes, that&#8217;s about Trust. And, by the way, &#8216;total chaos, 386 coins stolen, experiment imploded&#8217; it is ..? Totale chaos! Geïmplodeerd experiment &#8211; &#039;Slechts 386 bitcoins gestolen bij bitcoinbeurs Mt. Gox&#039; via @NUnl &mdash; Edwin Korver (@EdwinKorver) March 27, 2014 Identity &ndash; Nothing in particular yet &ndash; Things [&hellip;]
- [Many Books by Quote](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-by-quote/): By means of a start of a Recommended Reading list. Index Librorum &#8230;In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed &ndash; that would be a result. More will follow&#8230;
- [Seriously, what is @google up to ..?](https://maverisk.nl/seriously-what-is-google-up-to/): Just a short note. Or question, rather: What the &#8230; is Google up to, these days..? I mean, Glass has turned into a pilot thing, as yet testing the waters only, but spawning a whole eco(?)system of wearables. One of The Other Ones (fubbuck) swallowing up Oculus might tie in to this (pre-emptive, to keep it out of G&#8217;s hands ..!?), or not. And after Hadoop there&#8217;s news on WebScaleSQL; I can understand that (but see how this means reaching out to conglomerate with erstwhile fiercest (attention) competitors). But then there&#8217;s AI. Yeah, that might improve Search. But the potential(s) for [&hellip;]
- [My posts, automated](https://maverisk.nl/my-posts-automated/): Why do I even write posts here, as teh (sic) process has been automated to (my interpretation of) perfection ..? And it&#8217;s picture time again: [Interpret as &#8216;lucky&#8217;]
- [Seriously trying to win](https://maverisk.nl/seriously-trying-to-win/): Because it&#8217;s almost Friday and you deserve a shot at championship&#8230; I&#8217;ll leave you with this link to how/where to win in a great way. Aaaand&#8230; a picture again: [Paraguay and/or Sevilla&#8230;?]
- [Pontefract on dreaming](https://maverisk.nl/pontefract-on-dreaming/): Oh how I do &lt;heart&gt; Dan Pontefract&#8217;s post on dreaming. First, as you expected, a picture: [How short do real creative ideas blossom] Or, maybe go further and strengthen some, most often even virtually absent, actual praxis of rewarding the dreamer. For bringing the ideas that the future your organisation needs. Continuing along the trodden path will, for certain, as you know, bring about your downfall. Your downfall, as progressively, you will be less and less able to run away before the blame buck stops at your desk. Which leaves the question: How to rate the performance of dreamers? As their [&hellip;]
- [Seth's Blog: Not even one note](https://maverisk.nl/seths-blog-not-even-one-note/): Ah, so true; music over mechanics. Same in business, same gross lack of capabilities (including lack of (self)awareness about this). Seth&#039;s Blog: Not even one note. And a picture for the effort: [Walk in the vintage park]
- [Ni Dieu ni maître ...?](https://maverisk.nl/ni-dieu-ni-maitre/): On the non-existence of &#8216;governance&#8217;. Suddenly, I realised the full truth of Mitzberg&#8217;s dismissal of &#8216;governance&#8217;, since the traditional management would fit the bill perfectly but it has devolved to nothing more than a numb sort of administrative-clerk role (if you&#8217;ve read it and don&#8217;t understand, re-read it until you do). Because, &#8216;governance&#8217; isn&#8217;t anything. That what is assigned the &#8216;governance&#8217; label, is nothing, literally and figuratively, and in all other ways nothing, more than plain good old management. Those who need models to do that, proof ex ante to will fail at their job. Some of you may have heard [&hellip;]
- [Top-down fantasies](https://maverisk.nl/top-down-phantasies/): And so, the emperor was shown to wear no clothes&#8230; One couldn&#8217;t even blame PCI too much; their standards (meaning: as in uniform things, not the flags one can rally behind) actually do include pointers to deeper (and common-sense) actual infosec control implementation. But not throughout&#8230; &#8230; nor systematically. As written before, and in many other posts on this site: The Information Security &#8220;Management&#8221; (quod non) &#8220;System&#8221; (quod non) was trusted because upward reporting on its efficacy showed &#8216;satisfactory&#8217; or better &ndash; without realising that its was just deafening and wholesale bureaucratia&#8217;s babbling. If you believe in compliance reporting and similar [&hellip;]
- [Books by Quote: Ehrman, Lost](https://maverisk.nl/books-by-quote-ehrman-lost/): [Lost lives, for the cause] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8217; then.An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..! [This time, really. As really as the other times. But maybe a bit shorter than usual; some personal interst details left out.] So, this time: Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities, the Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Oxford UP 2005, ISBN 978019514183-2. Those who trusted in riches are [&hellip;]
- [Lowtech innovation](https://maverisk.nl/lowtech-innovation/): [Philly mirrored] Just a link, to demonstrate that lowtech innovation may be more useful straight away than hightech phantoms in bettering our daily lives&#8230;: On Wired. Of course [Among a handful of equals] In the longer term, tables may be turned, though. As per usual. And, a question on the exit: Was this lowtech innovation, or about the highest one can get? It shouldn&#8217;t depend on its deployment, should it ..?
- [Infosec: outside in / inside out](https://maverisk.nl/infosec-outside-in-inside-out/): One of those &#8220;When they speak, others listen&#8221; has a say on the future of infosec. Dr. C. Dr.ow at it again. First, a picture for your viewing delight: [Private enjoyment for the general (not.)] Which points at the other of two major approaches to get better information security throughout society. Not, by expecting Every Man to do His Duty, or by &#8220;Ik val aan, volgt mij&#8221; (the hero here), getting better security in a piecemeal way by (having to) upgrading each and every foot soldier read Internet user every time again through labourious exercise. But by instating societal institutions that [&hellip;]
- [Books by Quote: Zero](https://maverisk.nl/books-by-quote-zero/): [Aeromecanique, Défense] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8217; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..! [This time, really. As really as the other times.]) So, this time: Charles Seife, Zero, Souvenir Press, 2003, ISBN 9780285635944. Within zero there is the power to shatter the framework of logic. (p.5) Nobody knows whether Gog the caveman had used the bone to count the deer he killed, the paintings he drew, [&hellip;]
- [Shortie: Your meek / bleak future](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-your-meek-bleak-future/): As confirmed by Forbes, no less, in this article. Not much can be said against this&#8230; And a picture for your viewing delight. [About all there is to Commercy]
- [Rule-based rules rule, babe](https://maverisk.nl/rule-based-rules-rule-babe/): First, a picture for your viewing pleasure. You&#8217;ll need it. [OK, noga I mean toga I mean yoga class, Bryant Park] Solliciting your help in trying to find the lapse of reason in the following: Rule-based laws, or regulations, or organisational procedures, aren&#8217;t always bad. There need not be a principle-based approach always certainly not since (fact) that deteriorates over time into yet another bucketload of rules every time again for clarity [which proves it just is too difficult for the great many, to think, to only need the principles and act accordingly&#8230;]. There can be simple sets of rules&#8230; here [&hellip;]
- [Connections, tangled](https://maverisk.nl/connections-tangled/): Yes, that&#8217;s my InMap (http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com). Quite a messy thing. Large clouds of KPMG [blue], ABN AMRO (various subsets) [orange, green], Noordbeek [light orange], Achmea [purple], NOREA [lilac] in it, too, Maverisk/ISSA [light blue] etc.; aiming for connectedness is nice but I think I&#8217;ve wiped enough into one tangle. The top grey Private, #Tuacc et al., ICC and Miscellaneous, is obviously less of a mess. Oh well.
- [Graphic Singularity](https://maverisk.nl/graphic-singularity/): Yet another graphic depiction of the Singularity; dystopian version here. Wondering why there aren&#8217;t movies about the positive Sing interpretations&#8230; Not. And, of course, on a cheerful note, a picture for you: [Gotham, deceptively sunny]
- [Postquote](https://maverisk.nl/postquote/): Just a rip from Seth Godin&#8217;s blog: Entropy, bureaucracy and the fight for great Here are some laws rarely broken: As an organization succeeds, it gets bigger. As it gets bigger, the average amount of passion and initiative of the organization goes down (more people gets you closer to averge, which is another word for mediocre). More people requires more formal communication, simple instructions to ensure consistent execution. It gets more and more difficult to say, &#8220;use your best judgment&#8221; and be able to count on the outcome. Larger still means more bureaucracy, more people who manage and push for comformity, [&hellip;]
- [Continuously intermittent](https://maverisk.nl/continuously-intermittent/): Why processes don&#8217;t work, at all: The blocks. The activities scheduled, often only throughout the year, in sequence. As if &#8230; Reality will throw all activities at you every day, as reactions to incidents and panics. Along the lines of &#8220;Can&#8217;t have a massive data breach today, because this first quarter we&#8217;re only supposed to do risk analysis by the book &ndash; unsure if by Summer, we&#8217;ll have finished this as everyone is learning the first baby steps of it in turns. Come back per September and we&#8217;ll have a result that no-one of us recognises, or anyone else for that [&hellip;]
- [Selecti(n)on](https://maverisk.nl/selectinon/): [No room for downstairs personnel] Where are the leaders? I don&#8217;t mean the hopeless hapless clueless bureaucrats that label themselves such. I mean the kind that opposes the following: Every time again, when something goes horribly wrong in society, it turns out there are few to blame, if any, after careful search and much (self- and friends-)exculpation. It appears as if (read: when) all societal structures, regulatory and oversight structures in particular, are just set up to spread accountability. So that when all are accountable, none are accountable. Quod non! However, the meek, that shall be eternally butchered in hell for [&hellip;]
- [No me auto](https://maverisk.nl/no-me-auto/): On the quest to maintain autonomy as Freedom, as the driver for privacy. First, a picture: [Oh look, a fig leaf of green, so this isn&#8217;t Metropolis at all (&#8230;?)] Yes, indeed. I was triggered by the &#8216;blessings&#8217; that Big Data may deliver in e.g., health care, where Watson-like doctors may deliver more accurate diagnoses that humans might. IF, big if, they&#8217;re fed with the right information. Restraint will not be in the system. But, moreover, it is not the emotionless (?) machine we fear; it&#8217;s the loss of control. A human would interact; a machine, well, wouldn&#8217;t have need for [&hellip;]
- [Two books, by Quote](https://maverisk.nl/two-books-by-quote/): [Old? But somehow, still functionally Good, it seems, it looks; Lille] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8217; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!). And because you&#8217;ve been such a nice audience [still countable on the fingers of one hand], you&#8217;ll get a double treat; two books by quote in one go. One in English, one in Dutch, even. So, this time, first up: Alan Lightman, The Accidental [&hellip;]
- [All newld](https://maverisk.nl/all-newld/): [As in: Modern museum, aptly] Just some note. Suddenly realised why the upcoming, near, Singularity is such a big deal: It will change the way the world turns. It will no longer allow the New to be adopted&#8230;! It will require all old to be abandoned as fast as possible, not retaining anything of the Old that was good. Of course, we still have classic stuff, and have not yet fulfilled all dreams, but up till now, we have always have progressives to embrace the New while the &#8216;conservatives&#8217; wait for proof the New is actually better than the Old. (And [&hellip;]
- [T-Rend Not Found](https://maverisk.nl/t-rend-not-found/): [How to call this, politically correct..?] Uhm, would anyone have a serious overview of security trends as they unfold this year ..? So far, there&#8217;s nothing but a handful of incidents. Or is my memory just insufficient &#8230; Anyway, I&#8217;d really like to at least have some classification scheme whereby we can bin various news items. &#8220;Antivirus is useless since it&#8217;s reactive and too slow for the rapid morphing of fingerprints&#8221; versus &#8220;Heuristics and profiling [secondary signatures?] solve this, as does upping the effort; unprotected neighbours go down first, please&#8221; would go into the Basic Endpoint Protection bin, for example. Privacy [&hellip;]
- [Link: Shopping list](https://maverisk.nl/link-shopping-list/): Just a short shopping list for this week. Some, &#8230; I would not necessarily endorse. OK, a picture then, to close it off: [French for Pole position]
- [Kennis-werkers?](https://maverisk.nl/kennis-werkers/): Short post, long read (in Dutch): Surprisingly valid, all the things I dreamt up in 1994 &#8230; this paper on Kenniswerk, in particular from page 13 on &ndash; but the rest, is also still valid and very worthwhile reading when I may say so. And a picture for your viewing pleasure&#8230;: [Where? No contest.]
- [Hehhehheh... Nopsters](https://maverisk.nl/hehhehheh-nopsters/): How even the earliest of adopters are fakes:
- [Die Information](https://maverisk.nl/die-information/): [Twisting by the pool] Claim. There needs to be some seminal work of economics on the thing that follows Labour and Capital, being Information. And how societal structures are impacted. I will write that book. Someday. And/or, sooner, when (not if?) you fund me through some crowdfunding scheme. After Das Kapital, a new wave.
- [Short link: Humankind may be saved after all](https://maverisk.nl/short-link-humankind-may-be-saved-after-all/): [Somewhere up a random &#8216;sconsin air strip, 1998 (?)] Few! Just when many thought that mankind was beyond salvation, here&#8217;s this little piece arrived onin (in and on) Wired. We may escape doom after all&#8230;
- [Short link: Brain laser](https://maverisk.nl/short-link-brain-laser/): Michio Kaku predicts we&#8217;ll send our minds into space via laser in this piece. If we&#8217;re capable of that, there more probably will be no &#8216;us&#8217; or &#8216;our minds&#8217; anymore. We&#8217;ll reach Singularity (have passed the S point) already some time before that; dystopian version. Oh well, here&#8217;s a picture for your viewing delight: [Your viewing delight ..!? in Riga]
- [Books by Quote: Collaboration](https://maverisk.nl/books-by-quote-collaboration/): [Monopolised, lost all] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8217; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time: Morten T. Hansen, Collaboration, Harvard Business Press, 2009, ISBN 9781422115152. Yet the goal of collaboration is not collaboration, but better results. (p.15) Leaders who pursue disciplined collaboration never lose sight of this dictum: collaboration is a means to an end, and that end is great performance. (p.16) &#8230; the [&hellip;]
- [Shortie: Seth's money](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-seths-money/): [&#8220;Greed, for lack of a better word, is passive consumerist entertainment&#8221;..!?&nbsp; &nbsp;Where&#8217;s the &#8216;real&#8217; money?] Found some wisdom, by other formulation, on this already somewhat old post of mine, in the post of Seth Godin here. Had wanted to do a follow-up longform on it, but will have to defer to include Seth&#8217;s insights. Suddenly sees the connection between money and information, once again, over the value connection&#8230;!? May want to delve into this, to establish &#8216;better&#8217; pricing of information&#8230; or is it the other way around? [Update before publishing] #first here &#8230;: Suppose we create some yardstick of how much [&hellip;]
- [Frameworks, the inventions for ...](https://maverisk.nl/frameworks-the-inventions-for/): [Sturdy volume, i.e., Rotjeknor] &#8230; for hanging. Most unfortunately, after the demise of SOx et al. (as in this and many other places) there still hasn&#8217;t been a decline in interest for ICT management frameworks. Which is bad, because The Odies of this ICT management world, that is, both the &#8216;managers&#8217; themselves and all the hangers-on like consultants, internally and externally, compliance freaks, auditors, etc., will still require yet more implementations of &#8216;new&#8217; frameworks that, luckily, are so much blown out of proportion that their giant bubble content has diluted to a level both easily implemented and ever more quickly demonstrated [&hellip;]
- [Link: How sweet!](https://maverisk.nl/link-how-sweet/): How sweet is this pastime &#8230; but where did you get the time ..? And a pic from the article:
- [Time flies ...](https://maverisk.nl/time-flies/): [Oh, say can you see&#8230; just out in the waterway] Has anyone started writing recent history already &#8230;? As in. e.g., this article, then this one. And current-day affairs have this and this. There seems to be, again since a long time, the same sort of freshness and happiness in the air. Last time, it was the newness of the technology that won out over the economic gloom (or un-freshness) before it. &#8216;This time&#8217;, it&#8217;s the same. Sort of. So what I miss, is some form of registry in the style of this enormously underrated work, and this same one [do [&hellip;]
- [Phab update](https://maverisk.nl/phab-update/): Just for the record; this appeared on the phablets that appear to be here to stay, not to have disappeared alreaday again. Which falls in line with this question. Of course, you expected a picture&#8230;: [The Martinique Y2k audit site, happy days]
- [Totally biased](https://maverisk.nl/totally-biased/): Hey, I know what you were looking for, so here it is: The full set of Bias Time lists. Just as a dump, with typos and all. First, a picture: [Going, Going Gent]
- [Important scientific progress](https://maverisk.nl/important-scientific-progress/): Oh isn&#8217;t this a great item of scientific progress ..! Of course I mean this news. And a picture for your viewing pleasure: [If you know where this is, you know why it&#8217;s here]
- [Straight](https://maverisk.nl/straight/): Was triggered by this: Whenever some fucknut claims Android is insecure, just repeat that number.&#010;&#010;15.000.&#010;&#010;http://t.co/4QGtUxrDbR &mdash; Thom Holwerda (@thomholwerda) February 28, 2014 That is in front of this little post: 15k infections is only 0.001% (a 0.0001 fraction) of all apps installed, that have malware. So, ruling out that you install anything remotely rougue or hacked-for-free-download, the risk is negligable. Which is why we may ask anyone would care. After, for pennies!, we can have antimalware and not bother anymore, we should even care less&#8230; which is when it gets interesting. Je vous présente&#8230; the attack vector of three years from [&hellip;]
- [Vapor or what is it](https://maverisk.nl/vapor-or-what-is-it/): [Taking gold in the, well, indoor, on-ice variants] Well, even if it is in Wired (online), it still doesn&#8217;t feel safely beyond the vaporware mark &#8230; Or am I too negative? Please do feel free to comment [with content not rant in the end]&#8230;
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, March 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-february-2014-edition-2/): [Up, floating almost free at La Défense] So, here&#8217;s the March edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED UX Viral versus A/B Lean / Customer Excellence Current front runner in the Sell theme: User eXperience, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about. User-centric, user-enjoyment, user-will pay. Desperately trying to be hip and failing, or just giving up and using the old hand methods. Fire all that appear to not add to the customer&#8217;s sale, then find out only all the deadwood remained. Unethical idiot. Caring about people Caring about the Olympics Caring about sports on TV [&hellip;]
- [Too (much) content with myself](https://maverisk.nl/790-2/): This is what I feel when blogging and no-one reads the Profound Gold Nuggets of Insight, the Diamonds of Wisdom I provide&#8230; Oh well, here&#8217;s your picture again: [Valencialatrava]
- [Books, over ebooks](https://maverisk.nl/books-over-ebooks/): [Once new, new york] Was challenged about the virtues of the old-style paper books over eBooks. Just give you this hint (warning: if you&#8217;re one of these victims, you may not be interested). #3 in particular is one which is often overlooked. See, e.g., the first lines of the quote in this piece. There was even some scientific proof somewhere a couple of months ago about how touchable books were more like landscapes to the brain, enticing to explore the full meaning of the text in all its non-linear relations, whereas ebooks only appealed to the most dumbed-down rational functions of [&hellip;]
- [Three shorties](https://maverisk.nl/two-shorties-2/): Just to drop it; two and a half links to interesting articles. According to me, as I determine what goes here&#8230; and in a positive mood. First, a picture for your viewing delight: [Njagra folls, yes] OK, one on invention, innovation, in a very useful way: This, on blood testing. And one that links quite nicely to some other post of mine. And the other, lighter fare which is about you the baboon goes under the title of Mehhhh &#8230; Because reasons:
- [Shortie: We're all doomed now](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-were-all-doomed-now/): [Plugged in now, as it was already on radio news yesterday &ndash; some time after I scheduled this tweet. Hm. Want to be First&#8230;] Oh my G; we&#8217;re all doomed now. Due to this &#8230; Or can we hang in there only just, till this blows over ..? It should already have, shouldn&#8217;t it, when these sort of excesses (like this, too) turn up &#8230;!? Please &#8230;!!! And a picture of course: [For no Binckhorst reason but the pretty industrial sight]
- [Covey.  Books by Quote (Dutch)](https://maverisk.nl/covey-books-by-quote-dutch/): [From chaos onto calmth] There you have it; Stephen Covey&#8217;s Seven Hobbits. Hobbies &ndash; I mean, Habits of Effective Leadership. In Dutch. You may figure out for yourself why I copied the quotes; either because I find them valuable or because the error is of import for its ominousness (is that a word?). Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..! Stephen R. Covey, De Zeven Eigenschappen van Effectief Leiderschap, FranklinCovey / Business Contact, juli 2006, ISBN 9789025414894. Wat je de Principiële Levenshouding zou kunnen noemen [&hellip;]
- [Shortie: A sad day. Warning!](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-a-sad-day-warning/): [This is pretty by its ugliness&#8230; not so much for: ] A sad day it was, last week&#8230; Can humanity allow this hairinsanity ..?
- [Battles; aren't we over them?](https://maverisk.nl/battles-arent-we-over-them/): [Yes that actually is a watch &ndash; well, sundial but still] Hmmm, just when I thought that manufacturer battles had gone out of style (would&#8217;ve been something for these lists), here we go again: Wired&#8217;s take on the next one.
- [Mehhh Practice](https://maverisk.nl/mehhh-practice/): [Mehhhdrid?] This appeared: Best practices? Isn&#039;t it better to call them Same practices? #bpm #lean &mdash; Procesje (@Procesje) February 17, 2014 Nicely summing up a widespread complaint. E.g., against ISO 2700x. One should be forbidden to call those &#8216;Best&#8217;, as they are average, at best. Because they&#8217;re adopted by the ones with no imagination of their own so implementations will fall short of average, thus in mass lowering the average even further. And Best has never been Best in the first place. &#8216;tWas a compromise, as it had to cover so much, over so many contributors at its inception already. Remember, [&hellip;]
- [Seth's right (short link)](https://maverisk.nl/seths-right-short-link/): Seth&#039;s Blog: Framers and polishers is clear enough. I&#8217;ll just pretend to be a mix; 80-20 or so. Well, and of course a picture for your viewing pleasure: [Sorry.]
- [The librarian wave](https://maverisk.nl/the-librarian-wave/): [Had this as my cubicle, a long time ago] There seems to be a silent undercurrent wave of librarians entering our (not) field of information processing. If you think their thinking might be stale, think again. This here piece, for example, is clear and bright in its contributions towards better &#8230;, well, calling it flatly what it is, &#8216;data&#8217; management. Flatly, as that&#8217;s what one gets by approaching it from the IT side only. &#8216;Processes&#8217; add only so much. I.e., so little. Just one pic from that blog post to demonstrate the clarity of thought: How&#8217;zat for clarity ..? I&#8217;ll pick [&hellip;]
- [Stumbling over yourself, in the retreat](https://maverisk.nl/stumbling-over-yourself-in-the-retreat/): [Utreg] Remember the good ol&#8217; Boston Consulting matrix ..? Among the puerilely [that is a word] shallow startup business, apparently not many do. They&#8217;re only chasing the next, even more questionable question marks, &#8216;knowing for sure&#8217; (not) to turn those into stars without fail. Current stars exist only to set the example and to be beaten. Dogs, of course, are what they are. And cash cows are also dogs. As they aren&#8217;t fast enough. Sure. But where startup managers believe to have found the ultimate question mark will turn into star certainty, and VCs just spending off their (or Other Peoples&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [Shortie: No surprise](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-no-surprise/): [Guess where] This here should be no news for those precious few of you who took note of my posts&#8230; But do read it, and follow the links, e.g., regarding Dunbar&#8217;s numbers which reminisce Bruce Schneier&#8217;s ideas.
- [InNOvate](https://maverisk.nl/innotvate/): [Again, curvy] Gijs van Wulfen (profile here) posted something elsewhere, which I bluntly copy: Innovation is difficult. You are not the only one who thinks it&#8217;s a challenge. It has been a struggle for me the last 25 years as manager, consultant, facilitator and as founder of the FORTH innovation method. That&#8217;s why I love it actually. I love to do difficult things. My personal goal is to make innovation less complex so others will be able to innovate their product – and service portfolios and organizations – themselves. As one of the first Linkedin Influencers I have written more than [&hellip;]
- [Statistics as error](https://maverisk.nl/statistics-as-error/): No surprises there&#8230;
- [Bias Time (9 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-9-of-9/): [To round off brain &#8216;governance&#8217;] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The last of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Red herring fallacies Ad hominem: attacking the person instead of the argument. A form of this is reductio ad Hitlerum. Argumentum ad baculum (&#8220;appeal to the stick&#8221; or &#8220;appeal to force&#8221;): where an argument is made through coercion or threats of force towards an opposing party Argumentum ad populum [&hellip;]
- [Books By Quote, Dutch edition](https://maverisk.nl/books-by-quote-dutch-edition/): Again, a Books by Quote all in Dutch. As you may expect from that, content-wise we&#8217;ve moved down a peg or two (more..?) in wisdom, correctness, and due applicability but you may figure out for yourself why I copied the quotes; either because I find them valuable or because the error is of import for its ominousness (is that a word?). Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..! But maybe not this time&#8230; [Not Dutch, but impressive; Les Ménuires] So, first up: Jan van der [&hellip;]
- [TL;DR on TLD (or 5LD)](https://maverisk.nl/tldr-on-tld-or-5ld/): Ah, yes, let&#8217;s not forget to add the biggest Quod Non of the decade to our list of subjects for the redevelopment of information security / information risk management / risk management / management of risks / management &#8216;book&#8217; forthcoming. Indeed, three lines of &#8216;defense&#8217; will be in. As well as the extension to five lines of defense. Which will all not work, and will all just add to the culpability of those proposing them, as they must know better or declare their incompetence at an even broader scale and abstraction layer. Because, and here I repeat myself, and many others, [&hellip;]
- [Silent SOx Shutdown](https://maverisk.nl/silent-sox-shutdown-2/): As Fortune Magazine reported last week, suddenly everyone realises that the dreaded (dreadful?) Sarbanes-Oxley act has hardly any sway anymore over business affairs. And some senators are calling for its repeal. First, a pic for your viewing pleasure: [Barça, near the Olympic (remember?) village] Can we assume this a sign of the waning of Compliance ..? Hopefully. What we&#8217;re left with, is a decade of misery for all but the compliabullies. How can we force them to pony up the compensation for financial and immaterial damages they caused ..? They&#8217;re probably too blind (numb) to see that they did, massively, without [&hellip;]
- [Two shorties](https://maverisk.nl/two-shorties/): Just to drop &#8217;em. First; the hypes come and disappear again quicker than you get to notice them as such. As in some Bird thing. Is this the new way trends will go ..? If so, we&#8217;ll all have trouble keeping up, and will see disparate clusters of innovation, some re-inventions without linkage, some unique evolutionary directions taken. Long live diversity! Until the Other comes to bite you. Yes, I did aim to frame this as a remark on, e.g., economic development (followed by military power to secure the elsewhere cheaper resources), new-business models, and products and services. Now that we [&hellip;]
- [Bias Time (8 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-8-of-9/): [Library of ideas?] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The eighth of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Faulty generalizations Accident (fallacy): when an exception to the generalization is ignored. No True Scotsman: when a generalization is made true only when a counterexample is ruled out on shaky grounds. Cherry picking: act of pointing at individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a [&hellip;]
- [Catalog](https://maverisk.nl/catalog/): I&#8217;ll just put this here. Oh, and of course, a picture: [Dear Lloyd!]
- [Not books, by Quote](https://maverisk.nl/not-books-by-quote/): Ah, some loose ends this time, quotes, not as much Books by ~ but nevertheless worthwhile, I think. Some in Dutch, but you&#8217;ll manage to understand them &#8230;? Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies (Groucho Marx) The difference between pizza and your opinion is that I asked for pizza. In De gezonde samenleving suggereert de Duits-Amerikaanse psycholoog en filosoof Erich Fromm (1900-1980) dat mensen zo geobsedeerd zijn door veiligheid omdat de vervreemde enkeling verlangt naar conformiteit en zich daardoor juist steeds onzekerder voelt. Volgens Fromm hebben mensen in [&hellip;]
- [Interlude: You. Want. To. Dance. ... Not.](https://maverisk.nl/interlude-you-want-to-dance-not/): Heh. I&#8217;ll just leave this here. Not for the overly serious.
- [InfoSe€€€](https://maverisk.nl/infoseeee/): [Infra to use, to protect] On then, with the dream of rational (i.e., &#8216;cost-effective&#8217;) information security control selection. Apart from the definitions, distinctions and boundaries between operations management, information management, data management, information security, IT security, business continuity management, etc. &ndash; I don&#8217;t really care, they all end up with the same sort of &#8216;risk analysis&#8217; quod non (see earlier posts, the most prominent being this one) and a sort of afterburner about weighing costs versus benefits of controls to be put in place. Nothing on all the stuff I discussed in that prominent post; the time-sensitive chances, impacts and effectivenesses [&hellip;]
- [Awful wareness](https://maverisk.nl/awful-wareness/): A shortie, once again. Through Toughest thing about security awareness is getting the employees to really care enough to want to change: https://t.co/H5gI5zaSfp &mdash; Pete Herzog (@peteherzog) February 11, 2014 I was triggered to add some Awwww areness sauce to my previous snippets on security. Will do. Pete Herzog&#8217;s idea in Patching systems is about meeting compliance objectives and passing pen tests and NOT security. Like fast food it succeeds bc it&#039;s easy. &mdash; Pete Herzog (@peteherzog) February 12, 2014 will also get a place. And an archi pic for your viewing pleasure: [Gran Via, what else]
- [Bias Time (7 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-7-of-9/): [Spiritual enlightenment] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The seventh of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Informal fallacies Argument from repetition (argumentum ad nauseam): signifies that it has been discussed extensively (possibly by different people) until nobody cares to discuss it anymore Appeal to ridicule: a specific type of appeal to emotion where an argument is made by presenting the opponent&#8217;s argument in a way that makes it [&hellip;]
- [Door of invention](https://maverisk.nl/door-of-invention/): This door does it: http://www.businessinsider.com/klemens-torgglers-kinectic-door-2014-2 Edited to add: Seven more. And an unrelated pic for your viewing pleasure:
- [On APTs](https://maverisk.nl/on-apts/): [Easy to get in. Valencia] Suddenly, an uproar over this Mask APT that appears to have been around for seven years. Oh. Not much of an uproar. Also not over this. Some may remember my prediction, from way back i.e. two months ago [not even going to put in links; just browse the Predictions category of posts], that 2014 would be the year of APTs, among others. Now, I almost feel that it isn&#8217;t 2014 but just January. Too bad! Or, if you would want to shed light on this, do comment.
- [Hardcore, (Information) Security pieces](https://maverisk.nl/hardcore-information-security-pieces/): [Meant as gateway, not closure] Earlier, as in here, here and here, and other places apart from these, I floated the idea of redesigning the way we tackle the core of Information security. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have sufficient time (yet!) in lunch breaks to get it all together in one big white paper hence I&#8217;ll drop some elements here, again. I&#8217;ll keep working on collecting loose ends, so when I find time, I can integrate it all, including your comments, of which I have received so much. Not so much. As one. Single. Comment. Herewith, then, to start off, a picture [&hellip;]
- [A few bits of hope, a lot of redundancy](https://maverisk.nl/a-few-bits-of-hope-a-lot-of-redundancy/): [Perfectly doable, for a machine/computer, very soon. Barça harbour.] Along flew a tweet on this insightful piece. Providing some leftover bits of hope that there will be a humanity that can sustain itself, in various marginal ways. Glad that we don&#8217;t need to be drones (and other links) &#8216;anymore&#8217;&#8230; As long as we can outpace AI, which we may lose control over soon. Exit homo sapiens sapiens. Entrat Singularity, artefactum sapiens sapiens sapiens.
- [No coin](https://maverisk.nl/no-coin/): [Bank towering over daily affairs? Nopes!] OK, a final (?) note then on Bitcoin et al. Because we haven&#8217;t discussed the non[?]-currency equivalents yet. Austrian Freigeld, Swiss (very succesful, still very much operational) WIR and Dutch Noppes (nothingnadas), that sort of stuff. And now, there&#8217;s Qoin, working internationally. Because Noppes &#8220;&#8230; didn&#8217;t deliver the required result. By linking noppes to the guilder [now euro], there was no market efficiency. With noppes, the rich still got richer. A lawyer could hire a cleaner very cheaply, whilst people with little talent and a greater demand for care, were left out.&#8221; OK &#8230; Why [&hellip;]
- [Contra?note ID is](https://maverisk.nl/contranote-id-is/): This @meneer returned to an old snippet, on his blog. To which I have the following, apart from an earlier post: People, if they are real people, visit your site to obtain services, indeed. But you want either moneda or some other nonpecuniary return. This may be kudos only, as in the naive sharing model, or some other form of not near- but far-money, e.g., client data for you to sell better or to sell outright. [Yeah, I know @meneer, you wouldn&#8217;t. Others have mortgages.] So it&#8217;s not that they don&#8217;t trust you for services, but you may need some form [&hellip;]
- [Bias Time (6 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-6-of-9/): [Baroque ideas of yours] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The sixt of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Formal fallacies Formal fallacies are arguments that are fallacious due to an error in their form or technical structure. All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs. Appeal to Law: an argument which implies that legislation is a moral imperative. Appeal to probability: assumes that because something could happen, [&hellip;]
- [Also gone](https://maverisk.nl/also-gone/): [Does one still do a walk in the park ..?] And, yet another goner: Where&#8217;s the news about all new tablets, tablet sizes, and eBook readers &#8230;? Once there was a time when one would read about that every day. Now, not so much. Isn&#8217;t there any movement in the market? Or is the focus too much on gear and other wearables crossing over into the IoT..? Just wondering. Comment, please. [2014 02 07 edited to add: some news.]
- [You're a SCADIoT?](https://maverisk.nl/youre-a-scadiot/): [Just some side street of Straasbourg] [Updated, ? added in title to make it less harsh] A thought crossed my mind, as they do constantly: SCADA is over the hype hill already, qua setting information security as a requirement abstraction. Not yet onto enlightenment, implementation. But still, gefundenes Fressen. And methodologies are available, if one searches well and close enough. For the Internet of Things (including domotics), not so much. Here, we see much more societal and philosophical discussions still going on, whilst the first traces of implementation, the earliest of early adoptions [that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re called &#8216;early adoptors&#8216;, not &#8216;adaptors&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [The story&emsp;of my curling.](https://maverisk.nl/the-story-of-my-curling/): [Uh, no, that&#8217;s another game, I know] Some have asked. None gave me the time to really explain. Herewith, once and for all, the full story in a blurb. It started way back in the early years of this century. Was by myself, was at the Longhorn Saloon at Whistler: which is a proper saloon, where, among the many jailbait-young attractions in (too-)shorts and tank tops, there were the many screens with Real Men&#8217; Sports like snowmobiling up and down the mountain at crazy speeds, ice hockey (only valid if at least ten players went KO), etc., and of course, there [&hellip;]
- [What the Dormouse Said](https://maverisk.nl/what-the-dormouse-said/): [At Navy Pier] After Glass, some somewhat older invention came back into the news among technorati. Will we now see the age-old battle between computer-centric networking, and network-centric computing, like in What the Dormouse Said, being played out all over again in the visual info delivery space (literally, and figuratively ;-)? Hope so. Paradigm battles are interesting. Oh, and WtDS, I might turn into another Books by Quote, some day. Will have to re-read it (recommended) to pick out the quotes&#8230; Edited to add: Just found a link worth sharing, regarding the above&#8230;
- [Inf(n)ographic](https://maverisk.nl/infnographic/): [Ah, didn&#8217;t Rietveld design the dream next to your house (value plunge)? Who laughs last?] It occured to me that somewhere over the last couple of months, some infographics fatigue has come to te fore. Not that we don&#8217;t see too much less infographics &ndash; though they seem to have gone out of style, or out of the hype cycle &ndash; but they do seem to be, well, less infographic&#8217;sy. E.g., by just presenting a nice background to a couple of comparison tables and maybe still a pie chart or two. But where&#8217;s the brille&#8230;!? The clever use of graphics seems [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, February 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-february-2014-edition/): [Riga seems to be W class] So, here&#8217;s the February edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Your own Jura Babychino at Starbucks Nespresso (and ~ shops) – or – Latte macchiato (tie) (Since this blog is personal&#8230;) Too wannabe hipster George is getting really old, too Mainstream Hipster Hip, New, or whatever Since, you know, it&#8217;s the hipsters&#8217; derogatory phrase for anything non-hipster that you can spread around anywhere like a cat spraying. Is like (being) a lady: If you have to talk about it, you aren&#8217;t one. You were young in some [&hellip;]
- [Little misspelling](https://maverisk.nl/little-misspelling/): [Much styles. Apology doge] Erm, let&#8217;s hope they meant &#8216;on&#8217;, not &#8216;in&#8217; their heads in this piece on Glass use in hair styling or it would get creepy&#8230;
- [Bias Time (5 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-5-of-9/): [Hundertwasser questioning your presumptions] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The fifth of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. (Previous one, here) Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Common theoretical causes of some cognitive biases Bounded rationality &#8211; limits on optimization and rationality Attribute substitution – making a complex, difficult judgement by unconsciously substituting an easier judgement Attribution theory, especially: Salience Cognitive dissonance, and related: Impression management Self-perception theory Heuristics, including: Availability heuristic – estimating [&hellip;]
- [From the digital front, no news (?)](https://maverisk.nl/from-the-digital-front-no-news/): [Warped, intentionally [,|so] beautiful] Hey, has anyone noticed how silent it has been for the past couple of months (maybe six), on &#8216;cyber&#8217;warfare ..? Was reminded when that phrase was so preciously avoided in this (Dutch) piece. Apart from the caricature posturing as authority (quod non par excellence) and the depicted image of control (also, the extreme opposite of reality): Hasn&#8217;t the enormity (also, of detail as released) of Edward S.&#8217;s revelations fogged the bigger picture ..? [Edited to add:] This (only in Dutch, again; what small-mindedness &ndash; assuring the opponents laugh around the world and back all through NL?) &#8216;annual [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: Mintzberg's Managing](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-mintzbergs-managing/): [Or a mess, when addressed too formally] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8217; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time: Henry Mintzberg’s Managing, Pearson Books, 2011, ISBN 9780273745624. Bramwell Tovey of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra stepped off his podium to talk about the job. “The hard part,” he said, “is the rehearsal process,” not the performance. (p.5) The more we obsess about leadership, the less [&hellip;]
- [A maze-ing](https://maverisk.nl/a-maze-ing/): [What a view] I was unpleasantly surprised by Tim Harford&#8217;s note on mazes in the economy. Because he&#8217;s so right: We&#8217;re all taken for a ride, not only in casinos but ever more often, IRL, with utilities (among which phone) subscriptions and many other things we need (not &#8216;want&#8217;, but need!). And we have no way to control it, not even collectively&#8230;
- [Inequality, trust and security](https://maverisk.nl/inequality-trust-and-security/): [Caen; secure?] To start, just as a quote, then, from Bruce Schneier&#8217;s blog: Income Inequality as a Security Issue This is an interesting way to characterizing income inequality as a security issue: …growing inequality menaces vigorous societies. It is a proxy for how effectively an elite has constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. Professor Sam Bowles, also part of the INET network, goes further. He argues that inequality pulls production away from value creation to protecting and securing the wealthy&#8217;s assets: one in five of the British workforce, for example, works as &#8220;guard labour&#8221; &#8212; in security, [&hellip;]
- [Bias Time (4 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-4-of-9-2/): [Open inside] Yes, it&#8217;s bias time again. The fourth of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, &#8216;objective&#8217;, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Memory errors Consistency bias – incorrectly remembering one&#8217;s past attitudes and behavior as resembling present attitudes and behavior. Cryptomnesia – a form of misattribution where a memory is mistaken for imagination. Egocentric bias – recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g. remembering one&#8217;s exam grades as being better than they were, [&hellip;]
- [Fallingwater Friday, again..!](https://maverisk.nl/fallingwater-friday-again-view-from-the-approach/): Fallingwater Friday again&#8230; View from the approach.
- [WaardeNloos](https://maverisk.nl/waardenloos/): [Wise rule, peace and quiet, Granada] Yet another ‘Book By Quote&#8216; then (An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself..!) So, this time, a Dutch one (sorry int’l followers): George Möller’s Waardenloos (Banking on Ethics), Barnyard Publishers, 2012, ISBN 9789079922291 Het was het eerste bewijs dat modellen ons in de steek laten, juist als het erop aankomt. (p.27) Pas bij de kredietcrisis van 2008 begon het echt te dagen [&hellip;]
- [Bias Time (3 of 9)](https://maverisk.nl/bias-time-3-of-9/): [Bastion; inside/outside] Yes, it’s bias time again. The third of the series of biases that you, yes you, have. (previous one here.) Even if you are aware of these, and even if you consciously try to correct for them to be, heh, ‘objective’, as in what e.g. auditors pursue, you will fail. Social biases Actor-observer bias – the tendency for explanations of other individuals’ behaviors to overemphasize the influence of their personality and underemphasize the influence of their situation (see also fundamental attribution error). However, this is coupled with the opposite tendency for the self in that explanations for our own [&hellip;]
- [Mo'Data, Mo'Problems](https://maverisk.nl/modata-moproblems/): Some time ago, I was triggered by this tweet (by @meneer; no surprise in that): Weer bizar weerbeeld&#8230; prognose #weerplaza van zuidoost naar noordwest, #buienradar van noordoost naar zuidwest&mdash; André Koot RCX (@meneer) July 26, 2014 that somewhat-translates (i.e., manually, however clunky still better than machine translation as that doesn&#8217;t get Dutch unstructuredness&#8230;) to: &#8220;Bizarro weather picture again: forecast #somechannel/app from the South-East to the North-West, #someotherchannel/app from the North-East to the South-West&#8221; referring to some predictions about clouds and (turned out quite torrential) rain passing over the minute geography of the Netherlands. And another about this article &ndash; that explains, [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: Tegen Verkiezingen](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-tegen-verkiezingen/): Yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then. A full of … &#8216;marvellous content&#8217; one again. An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself. This book, should be translated to a great many langauges and be mandatory reading for all high school student least. Many more to include. E.g., &#8216;grown-ups&#8217;, and politicians. Et al. Here we go then, with David van Reybrouck, Tegen Verkiezingen, Bezige Bij 2014, ISBN 9789023474593: ‘Le peuple [&hellip;]
- [Progress: Hacked (short note)](https://maverisk.nl/progress-hacked-short-note/): OK, so there&#8217;s progress&#8230; hackers (of the ethical kind &#8230;! &#8230;?) actually improving security, as per your Nest thermostat. Contrary, of course, to the hacking of your home security system as spelled out here and already &#8216;predicted&#8217; by means of requiring solutions, quite some time earlier here&#8230; For their, and your, viewing pleasure: [The &#8216;old&#8217; shouldn&#8217;t be underrated by not being rated well enough&#8230;]
- [Mind posting/reading](https://maverisk.nl/mind-postingreading/): This new Mindmeister feature looks interesting: Grappig. Met Google Glass ideetjes vastleggen in MindMeister: http://t.co/L5zSXJmto1 &mdash; Paulus Veltman (@paulusveltman) July 18, 2014 Except for two things: It will create a bucketload of &#8216;Tourettists&#8217; at all sorts of public venues (coffee shops, terraces, the beach, side walks, etc.) when all sorts of, mostly, self-inflated hipsterlaggerds start recording their every doodle out loud instead of just clicketing it to Kik / Tele- / Instagram / WeChat / Line / Viber / Wicker / Threema / surespot et al. Yapping out somewhat loud will be even more annoying&#8230; Who reads your doodles at the [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: Empire](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-empire/): Yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then. A full of … one again. An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself. This one too, yes, but with the caveat that some of below&#8217;s quotes have been included to demonstrate the deconstructionalist mumbo jumbo you may have to wade through&#8230; Oh and for the record; I like the book, and major parts of its analysis, but certainly not all of it&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [St. Juttemis is niet van gister](https://maverisk.nl/st-juttemis-is-niet-van-gister/): Er zijn mensen, zeker ook buiten het Vlaams-Nederlandse gebied, die denken dat St. Juttemis niet bestaat. Misschien hebben ze gelijk. En er zijn mensen, voornamelijk binnen het Vlaams-Nederlandse gebied, die denken dat St. Juttemis van gisteren is. 17 augustus. Voor de laatste een hmmmm&#8230;: Mogelijke oorsprong De volledige uitdrukking is met sint-juttemis, als de kalveren op het ijs dansen. Jutte zou een koosvorm zijn van Judith, de bijbelse heldin, van wie de naamdag op 17 augustus zou vallen. (In werkelijkheid valt haar naamdag op 24 maart en 7 september.) In augustus ligt er uiteraard geen ijs, en kalveren kunnen niet dansen, [&hellip;]
- [On how life is](https://maverisk.nl/on-how-life-is/): For most of us, this is the metaphor of life. About how you aim for the best future, but are held back by accident and others are just more &#8230; lucky? It seems. Because the article isn&#8217;t about how others may be in even slower queues, or the purpose of life. To make it to the (your) end. Not even the fastest. Or the zero impact of talent (which is a form of luck) or a bias for effort (same). But to not care. Anyway, I&#8217;ll leave you with [Queueing up, in a sense]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day (this blog)](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-this-blog/): Yup, just one for the record again, about this blog this time:
- [Buck shot or machine gun; assurance](https://maverisk.nl/buck-shot-or-machine-gun-assurance/): With news about the slow but steady adoption of SBR everywhere (but mostly on related sites&#8230;), it suddenly struck me that with this Standard Business Reporting we see a move from single firings of buck shot to the machine gun age in assurance. First, this: [Yup, actual business lurking in the background. Date this pic] By which I mean that until now, and for a short bit of time to come, accountants of the annual accounts certifying type issue(d) single assurance statements about a whole number of individual reporting items; in conjunction with each other but hence (!) also about all [&hellip;]
- [Milky Way of ratings](https://maverisk.nl/milky-way-of-ratings/): One for the holiday season: The star classification of hotels (in the Netherlands) will become meaningless. Or rather, nothing is mandatory anymore and there will be two standards to choose and rate by. So, we&#8217;ll have a Milky Way full of ratings. And don&#8217;t come to me with the argument that user reviews dominated the skies (Internet) already. First, as the article states, tourists still pick hotels by their star rating; and second, user ratings with all their flaming and rigging have been even more useless than any official one. Though the latter was too simple to game, as well. E.g., [&hellip;]
- [Hopefully, CitizenMe will be trending](https://maverisk.nl/hopefully-citizenme-will-be-trending/): This may be a trend: Decide yourself what personal data to &#8216;sell&#8217;, and for how much. First step: Know what you ooze out. Hopefully, through this we&#8217;ll awake and implement Jaron Lanier&#8217;s dreams&#8230; And even before this post came out, there&#8217;s an [update] to do &#8230; With this. And then, of course: [&#8216;goza just like that, for no apparent quality or reason]
- [IoTsec as expected](https://maverisk.nl/iotsec-as-expected/): Yawn. A decade of humongous growth in Information security is coming. To tackle the likes of this. Think of where the somewhat organized, somewhat budgeted, somewhat up to it corporate world now is. (With the public organization world lagging, seriously, on all counts.) Then think of what it would take to make the general public &#8216;safe&#8217;. And then think of how many InfoSec professionals would be needed. Yeay! Indeed, as in: [Onto Val d&#8217;Orcia, as you spotted]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, August 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-august-2014-edition/): [&#8216;oliday snapshot, underadvertised] So, here&#8217;s the August edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag: Not. I&#8217;m taking a holiday break on this. Will be back per September to hit you with my rhythm stick seriously important, and interesting, trends of the month. OK, one then, in simple format: Wired Tired Expired Pivoting Pitching Business Idea without Plan As &#8216;invented&#8217; in 1985 or so. Now suddenly&#8230; some business booklet became popular ..!? You know, like in 2, 1, &#8230; minutes. Uselessly brief, indeed. Sigh. What did you smoke, now legally? And, maybe, a link to [&hellip;]
- [A thong to thing to](https://maverisk.nl/a-thong-to-thing-to/): Or so. In a way. This, seems to cover most of them. But not all &#8230; and yours, may be weirder. Sorry, is, because yours. And, of course: [Razor sharp banking. Still ..?]
- [Many Books bQ, part X](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-ix/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list for once, part X already. As Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result. Or give it a shot; look long and hard enough and you may find a connection, or theme. A spurious one. (?)And don&#8217;t forget to pack this bunch for your holiday reading.
- [Gotta TruSST'MM](https://maverisk.nl/gotta-trusstmm/): Had been planning for a long (?) time already to write something up on the issue of Trust in OSSTMM3&copy; &ndash; in particular, how it doesn&#8217;t conform with received (abstract) notions of trust and how that&#8217;s a bit confusing until one thinks it through wide and deep enough. First, a picture: [Controlled to I/O, Vale] Then, some explanation: As I get it (now!), the OSSTMM model defines Trust as being an entry into or out of a system/component (objects, processes). The thing you may do when you are trusted. Literally, not the protection wall but the hole in that wall. Which [&hellip;]
- [We Need New Sixties](https://maverisk.nl/we-need-new-sixties/): Just an off the cuff remark. We need new Sixties. The world of totalitarian bureaucratic control, in business and in governance (if you&#8217;d reply that there&#8217;s governance in business as well, take a hike. With due apologies, that was putting it diplomatic already), has come to an end. It has failed to deliver the global commons cooperation required to deal with planetary issues. More of the same will not do. Oh, if only we had the Sixties all over again, where old (political informal) structures were attacked by a very select very few opponents&#8230; That in the end quickly converted to [&hellip;]
- [No Yo (~ Carpe Diem)](https://maverisk.nl/no-yo-carpe-diem/): Well Hello! has anyone seen an app this stupid lately ..? Yoyoyo! Looks a bit like: [Dutchies read this review; star rating appropriate: (Parool review)] Or remember the I Am Rich app: Altogether, this sort of thing is for the yolo generation, that had forgotten how hip it is to not know one&#8217;s Carpe Diem &ndash; right! Same expression, same content. Sort of, not; the original at least had the idea to let you make most of life, not to get you out of the gene pool ASAP as per these awards that have been around since the inception of the [&hellip;]
- [SecSec, two angles](https://maverisk.nl/secsec-two-angles/): Thothtech has a very useful and readable overview of &#8216;national&#8217; versus &#8216;personal&#8217; security. Go read it a realize the balance has gone. Go on! I meant that! [Such detail, much masterpiece]
- [Business Model Down](https://maverisk.nl/business-model-down/): [Deventer for zero relation with the following] Although probably hardly still the core money maker for Big G, collecting search data for may fall back maybe significantly in the near future. Since, e.g., when did you last search for something specific enough that patterns may emerge from it..? Wasn&#8217;t it just point-and-shoot search-phrase-for-single-answer work that you did, if at all because you entered full URLs anyway ..? Unless you&#8217;re of course part of the hoi polloi that delivers such low ultimate revenue to advertisers that it&#8217;s not worth it just return to mass marketing and don&#8217;t need Big G data specifics [&hellip;]
- [Welcome to Hotel SV](https://maverisk.nl/welcome-to-hotel-sv/): Just a short note; tinkering with more &#8216;cybersecurity&#8217; songs (to support (or not) #ditchcyber), I came across the following snippets&#8230;: &#8220;Welcome to the Hotel California&#8221; &#8220;Such a lovely place&#8221; Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year You can find it here&#8221; &#8220;Bring your alibis&#8221; &#8220;Mirrors on the ceiling&#8221; And she said &#8220;We are all just prisoners here, of our own device&#8221; Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before &#8220;Relax, &#8221; said the night man, &#8220;We are programmed [&hellip;]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-7/): Yup, just one for the record again:
- [Crowdjustice](https://maverisk.nl/crowdjustice/): Wellicht zullen gevestigde belangen (weer ten onrechte &#8230; DNB-kneuterpietluttigheid-waarschijnlijk-uit-doodsangst-uit-onbegrip (hoewel dat d&#8230; terecht, en gewenst?) vs California State&#8230;) gaan waarschuwen voordat de vergelijking met de huidige feitelijke situatie voldoende fundamenteel en objectief is gemaakt, maar dit is natuurlijk een interessante nieuwigheid; crowdsourcing justice. En voor degenen die jury-rechtspraak iets engs vinden wat wat de boer niet lust, leze nee bestudere dit werk eens.Plots komt zo veel samen&#8230; Vreugde alomom zo veel culturele vooruitgang. [Edited to add: Zie de post van 25 augustus 2014&#8230;] En dus een vrolijk: [Kan dubbel zijn, swa]
- [COPE a Nope](https://maverisk.nl/cope-a-nope/): Hm, this piece seems to miss the point entirely&#8230; Because the move to BYOD had/has (sic) nothing to do with operability. But all with power. And speed. COPE will be much more of the same, but with an even more inexplainable awkward speed/flexibility/functionality trade-off. With nothing of (e.g., the European current and forthcoming Regulations&#8217; and practices&#8217;) privacy in mind, just pipe dreams of regained totalitarian control. Heh, if that floats your boat, everyone&#8217;s including or except your boat has left the harbor because ships are safe there but it isn&#8217;t what ships are for. If you can&#8217;t see the analogy &#8230; [&hellip;]
- [Jargon watch](https://maverisk.nl/jargon-watch/): Out of band from the Wired / Tired / Expired series, an in between jargon watch notification: Wall huggers The dorks in public places sitting against a wall near a power plug, not comfortably on a chair at a desk or so, in order to get juice for their cell phones. As in this clip, and others, and in your environment, too. Don&#8217;t become a hobo. Nopenopenopenope I know it isn&#8217;t as new even, but some might have missed it. Hence the notification&#8230; After which I leave you with: [Gabbiano castle, just a B&amp;B of sorts]
- [Quatorze Juillet / Jan Salie travels Europe](https://maverisk.nl/quatorze-juillet-jan-salie-travels-europe/): Not only because [Hm, may not be completely true, personally] But rather because: Where&#8217;s some countries&#8217; role in cultural development ..? Or is all of Europe into the Jan Salie spirit ..? [&#8216;John stick-in-the-mud&#8217; on the worst side] Of course the Usual Suspects Dr. Nein and Dr Antithesis (as here and here) may revel in the bleakness of all our future(s). But many have taken the blue pill, and rather be cheered by &#8216;progress&#8217;. Which, after übermanufacting Germany incl. its marks (rest of Europe) lost speed a couple of years ago (by the luck of the USofA and its European protectorate [&hellip;]
- [Zwarte Lijst ..?](https://maverisk.nl/zwarte-lijst/): Euhm, als een &#8216;contract&#8217; zo is opgesteld dat deze bedoeld is om te misleiden of in ieder geval om onleesbaar te zijn voor een van de contractpartijen (en geen onderhandeling of wat dan ook mogelijk is; slechts een Hobson&#8217;s Choice), zijn dan niet betreffende clausules of het gehele contract bij voorbaat illegaal ..? Zoals in (dank @ictrecht): En de prijs voor de minst leesbare privacyverklaring ooit gaat naar Ubisoft: http://t.co/ovddLNbIMl pic.twitter.com/KysR0EztC6 &mdash; ICTRecht (@ictrecht) July 7, 2014
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-6/): Remember. And remember, too, that half (??) of what&#8217;s in the pic, is invalid period As it would constitute douchebaggery of the finest kind. Hors discussion at two levels.
- [Book by Quote: Smarter Than You. Think.](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote/): Yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then. A full of &#8230; wisdom one again, for once. An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself. This one, for sure &ndash; though don&#8217;t be uncritical while going through the many bends in not-so-water-tight logic ..! So, this time: Clive Thompson, Smarter Than You Think, Williams Collins 2013, ISBN 978000742777-2. “Human strategic guidance combined with the tactical acuity of a computer,” Kasparov concluded, [&hellip;]
- [Segregatie in werk](https://maverisk.nl/segregatie-in-werk/): Meer State-of-the-Art Watson-like Big Data Analysis is niet te krijgen (a.k.a mijn hersens), leveren een opvallend patroon, &#8216;dus&#8217; is het waar: Vacatures voor &#8216;control&#8217;-gerelateerde functies (van modellenHAHAbouwers via &#8216;controlHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAlers&#8217; tot auditors) lijken steeds meer in de Provincie te vinden en steeds minder in de grote steden (a.k.a. Amsterdam). In de laatste duiken überhaupt weinig vacatures op, omdat de werkelijk nieuwe economie niet op zo&#8217;n formeel mechanism leunt; via-via- en informele cooptieve coöperatie drijven de innovatie en werkgelegenheid. Áls dit in cijfers wordt gevangen, zullen die de verschuiving onderschatten omdat de nieuwe ontwikkelingen in hun diversiteit juist zo veel minder in hokjes [&hellip;]
- [Chip in with Fermi](https://maverisk.nl/chip-in-with-fermi/): Anyone out there wanting to add something to Fermi&#8217;s paradox ..? That is, add to this, to complete it further ..? Oh, and again: [Advanced, there, though Utrecht]
- [Bewijs van legitieme identiteit](https://maverisk.nl/bewijs-van-legitieme-identiteit/): Bij wijze van vraag aan @iusmetis / @ictrecht &#8230;: In het dagelijks Nederlands taalgebruik kennen we nog (&#8230;) het verschil tussen legitimatie en indentiteit, als in -bewijs respectievelijk -sbewijs. De laatste ook nog equivalent gezien met &#8216;ID&#8217;. Waarbij de vragen komen: Bestaat er ook juridisch (nog) verschil tussen beide ..? Waar komt dat verschil if any vandaan, hoe wordt het (nog) toegepast? Hoe is de &#8216;mapping&#8217; naar (identificatie,) authenticatie en autorisatie zoals die termen in de ICT van vandaag worden gebruikt..? Met name dat laatste lijkt me bestuderenswaardig omdat a. de juridische termen lang hebben gehad om uitgekauwd te raken, en [&hellip;]
- [Quick note: Privacy is about Info, not Data](https://maverisk.nl/quick-note-privacy-is-about-info-not-data/): Just a quick note to drop it, here, already before my holiday. May elaborate on the subject later, in a much extended form. The idea being: Privacy is about Information, not about Data. Privacy sits on the divide, or jump, from data to information, as in this previous post. Data doesn&#8217;t mean a thing. And yes there&#8217;s use in protecting data, but that&#8217;s only part of the picture. To discuss &#8216;directly or indirectly identifying data&#8217; one needs to understand the value, and information, in data combinations. So you&#8217;ll have to keep the information value in mind always. Which also means that [&hellip;]
- [4th of July, a message from the US of A](https://maverisk.nl/4th-of-july-a-message-from-the-us-of-a/): On controls and their systemic ineffectiveness per se. As written about a lot in the past year on this site, PCAOB now finally seems to find out how things have been ever since SOx&#8230; in [simple block quote copy from this post by James R. (Jim) Peterson]: The PCAOB Asks the Auditors an Unanswerable Question: Do Company Controls “Work”? “Measure twice – cut once.” &#8212; Quality control maxim of carpenters and woodworkers If there can be a fifty-million-euro laughingstock, it must be Guillaume Pepy, the poor head of the SNCF, the French railway system, who was obliged on May 21, 2014, [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-5/): Remember.
- [Your style](https://maverisk.nl/your-style/): It pains me. But I&#8217;ve found your inspiration. Again. A shout-out to the original, still most profound, business motivator. This is how you do it. As in
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, July 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-july-2014-edition/): [This one I do know &#8217;cause I&#8217;m from Barça] So, here&#8217;s the July edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag and a shortie due to Summer: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Developing IoT methodology, step by step Hyping IoT and wearables, not knowing the difference Hyping Big Data As here. Just track this, this and this page. Do I really need to explain this ..? Security breaches are normal APTs Privacy We&#8217;re getting used to massive data leakage; don&#8217;t care too much anymore. Outrage ..? Not so much. Just mass abandonment. &#8217;cause they&#8217;re so hard to [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: David, mostly plus some Goliath](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-david-mostly-plus-some-goliath/): In the series of Book by Quote&#8217;s, I was to enter the quotes from Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s David and Goliath here. But then, I have the Dutch version (was a gift). And, of all of it, I only would have three (3) quotes to share. Because, after the Introduction, it all became Boring so quickly that I found little to share&#8230; But hey, for you there&#8217;s always: [Wintery feelz, right ..?] Then, for the ones among you who could hold out past the picture, here&#8217;s my take on the back-translation of the three quotes I found interesting&#8230;: This is called the Principle [&hellip;]
- [A well-designed time arrow](https://maverisk.nl/a-well-designed-time-arrow/): Now here&#8216;s for some well-designed time arrow; unlike a fly&#8230;
- [Postdictions 2014-II](https://maverisk.nl/postdictions-2014-ii/): A progress report on the Predictions 2014 I made in several posts here, at the end of Q2. First, of course, a picture: [New then, outdated now, La Défense] So, there they are, with the items collected from several posts and already updated once before in this: Trust Bitcoin may be in this corner, covering a lot of this subject [edited to add: it&#8217;s now legal in California ..!]. Also, Heartbleed pointed out our dependency on &#8216;anyone but us&#8217; in actually checking/testing open source software like OpenSSL, and the trust placed in the great many low-level bits and pieces that make [&hellip;]
- [Iconic clarity failure (privacy edition)](https://maverisk.nl/iconic-clarity-failure-privacy-edition/): Got a pointer to the icons that are in the EU Privacy directive. Wow. I can&#8217;t even &#8230; (did I just write that ..!?) See whether you&#8217;re able to guess the meaning of the following: A big Nope, huh &#8230;? The answers, after the break&#8230;
- [Live by the rules. Hopefully, not.](https://maverisk.nl/live-by-the-rules-hopefully-not/): [Western version] Hm, you wanted to live by the rules &#8230;? Hopefully, not in this way&#8230; Next question would be: On what principles would you decide which rules to follow, and which not [so much] ..? Wouldn&#8217;t that constitute deeper and/or pre-existing moral/ethical principles? What and where&#8217;s the real instruction value ..? But then, of course: [Relevant, MD]
- [Art, for once](https://maverisk.nl/art-for-once/): This may be the start of a new series of posts; on art. As I consider it. No &#8216;comments&#8217; accepted&#8230; I mean, this is the real deal. Very, very real, yet as real as Pollock.
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-4/): Remember.
- [OSSTMMPerimeter ..?](https://maverisk.nl/osstmmperimeter/): Just a note; was struck by the OSSTMM approach towards the structure of infrastructure. [Disclaimer] though I am quite a fan of the OSSTMM approach (and do want to write up tons of whitepapers linking it with my ideas for moving forward in the InfoSec field without having to revert to #ditchcyber bla), I feel there&#8217;s a snag in it: The analysis part seems to still take a perimetered, though onion, approach. The Defense in Breath is there, for sure, but still the main (sic) focus is on the primary axis of the access path(s). Does this still work with the [&hellip;]
- [XP, anyone ..?](https://maverisk.nl/xp-anyone/): Guess that still using XP isn&#8217;t as much of a threat when you understand this&#8230; Because, for the pics, I always mix (sic) up this: with this:
- [Many Books bQ, part VIII](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-viii-2/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part IX already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result. Or give it a shot; look long and hard enough and you may find a connection, or theme. A spurious one. Well, not this time. Some theme&#8217;s in there. Not a consistent one&#8230;!
- [To invent, and/or be Belgian.](https://maverisk.nl/to-invent-andor-be-belgian/): Hm, it struck me that one would better not be Belgian when inventing stuff. This guy invented the Internet &ndash; and was all but forgotten; so many others were bestowed the fame. These guys predicted the closure of the Standard Model &ndash; and the particle was named otherwise. This guy, at last (actually, first), achieved fame for his invention. &#8230; Hey, there seems not to be any link on the &#8216;net to that great man Vanderslagmulders the inventor of the spare tire &#8230;! Oh did these fellows get credit again. There goes my argument. Or not even. So, for closure: [At [&hellip;]
- [Now what!? (to eat)](https://maverisk.nl/now-what-to-eat/): Uhm. Allow me to be confused. About food. At least, there&#8217;s nothing a good picture can&#8217;t fix: [Lac Leman, US style]
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-3/): Remember.
- [Note: M$ is just a vendor](https://maverisk.nl/note-m-is-just-a-vendor/): Microsoft declared the era of XP finally over, amongst others by not providing fixes in Updates per May 13 (not a Friday, but close). Markets (use base out there) declared Microsoft to be just one vendor among many, not to dictate anything but to deliver at want, at need. No more. They did so through continued use of XP in oh so many machines, of the general-purpose computer type, and in embedded systems et al. Microsoft weighs, the user base decides. And, of course: [A sunny pic of St&aring;ckh&oslash;lm]
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-2/): Remember.
- [WIoTables](https://maverisk.nl/wiotables/): Am I too late with this post, or are people still mixing up the Internet of Things and Wearables ..? First, a picture: [Rarely seen Cala, at ON] Because we&#8217;re talking quite distinct things. Yes, there&#8217;s a crossover area where e.g., the sensors or &#8216;reflectors&#8217; we wear, operate in the IoT realm of ambient intelligence. But for starters, there&#8217;s wearables. Mostly, human-to-Matrix sensors / Matrix-to-human feedback interfaces. Hooking you up in a blue pill world. Oh yes so helpful; often providing morsels of value like Likes through displaying to all out there, mostly to trolls, your (under)achievements. Or calling attention to [&hellip;]
- [Ah. AI, here it is.](https://maverisk.nl/ah-ai-here-it-is/): I wondered before on what the &#8230; Google would be up to in terms of Artificial Intelligence. Here&#8216;s some news on that. Some. As I believe this is only a side show to throw us off. Surely, there must be much, much, much more in the pipeline&#8230; Anyhow, here&#8217;s: [The view that&#8217;s offered. Fakely transparent. London UK, indeed.]
- [Not news, still suppressed?](https://maverisk.nl/not-news-still-suppressed/): Why is it that this paper on chip-and-pin fraud hasn&#8217;t gained much more attention in the Netherlands ..!? Maybe because NL has only just sort-of completely switched off the magstripe to EMV. Which even before its comprehensive roll-out here in NL, was known to be weak. Years before. And still no-one took action. A picture for your efforts. But (payment) industry, you fail with a big F again&#8230; [London temp, also years back]
- [Cybersecurity, yeah!](https://maverisk.nl/cybersecurity-yeah/): This is how you do it: [As spotted in Voorburg. No, not &#8216;shopped a single bit.] Yes, indeed, this is how your &#8216;cybersecurity&#8217; (#ditchcyber ! #wegmetcyber !) compares to the real deal. But hey, if you want to believe you&#8217;re up there with the Big Boys, go ahead. I won&#8217;t stop you from your own make-believe. At kindergarten.
- [Seth and you](https://maverisk.nl/seth-and-you/): Seth Godin posted this little piece on the outliers among us. Or even &ndash; outsiders. The real question now is: What is it that you are the innovator in ..? If you can&#8217;t think of anything, think harder. If still, you may be the deadwood, the replaceable, superfluous non-individual. Consuming resource, hence on balance non-efficient existence to be erased. But I bet you can find something &#8230;!? And a piece of beauty: [Hilversum. Ergo, Dudok.]
- [CIAAEE+P](https://maverisk.nl/ciaaeep/): Privacy came to the fore last week, at a very interesting ISSA NL event. Where we discussed the prevalent Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability approach (where impacts mandatorily regard the data subject(s), not you the processor, as the data subjects are legally owner of their info &#8230;!) and whether those three actually cover privacy aspects sufficiently. Well, we did conclude that for now, CIA is &#8216;still&#8217; the common denominator. But &#8230; hey, Auditability might be added, as that&#8217;s a sort-of requirement throughout privacy protection. And Effectiveness and Efficiency &ndash; of the data handling! &ndash; have a place as well, being representative of proportionality and legal-grounds-for-the-privacysensitive-data-handling-in-the-first-place [&hellip;]
- [Contiki: (not) new kid on the IoT block](https://maverisk.nl/contiki-not-new-kid-on-the-iot-block/): Just check out this article on Contiki, and be amazed. Let&#8217;s get this some soft support..! For the time being: [This what you get from monopolizing a grid. Then being robbed off it.]
- [Ah. Inventions, innovation squared.](https://maverisk.nl/ah-inventions-innovation-squared/): May I present the most useful, destined for success innovation &#8230;: As per review and discussion on this page. Surely, this will outlive the Internet as such. Of Things, as well, far, far beyond the Singularity. Maybe. In the mean time, there&#8217;s that. And this: [Caen you grill this]
- [A view from afar...](https://maverisk.nl/a-view-from-afar/): Stop the wind turbine menace! Another shocking illustration of landscape destruction by #wind farms pic.twitter.com/8ibGpWrhc3 &mdash; Jonathan Leake (@Jonathan__Leake) May 24, 2014
- [Can't have your cake](https://maverisk.nl/cant-have-your-cake/): I guess you can&#8217;t have your space cake and eat it over your keyboard. If only they&#8217;d hire me. I bring [1337 hacker skillz and dope use]negated; not-fully and absolute none, respectively. But then, &#8230;: [Beeb]
- [Aweariness.](https://maverisk.nl/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 [&hellip;]
- [On the verge of many breakthroughs](https://maverisk.nl/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](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-june-2014-edition/): [A mixed bag but me know nothing, I&#8217;m from Barcelona Madrid] So, here&#8217;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&#8217;t have been. But is. They were meant to be here to stay. So they do. There&#8217;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&#8217;re all doomed. Because we&#8217;ll not prep our society in advance of [&hellip;]
- [Who has your back; who's up your back side?](https://maverisk.nl/who-has-your-back-whos-up-your-back-side/): Depends on how you foresee the world&#8217;s wheels of fortune turn&#8230;: [Plucked via some byways from this originating site. Worth a visit!] But beware &#8230; Things may change rapidly.
- [The enemy from below](https://maverisk.nl/the-enemy-from-below/): I know, I&#8217;ve been guilty of it too. Thinking, tinkering, and musing about all sorts of abstract risk management schemes, how they&#8217;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&#8217;s very-highly intellectual, too!) technological complexity is in the trust infrastructure in there. Which hinges on two concepts: [&hellip;]
- [BBQ science. Just like science.](https://maverisk.nl/bbq-science-just-like-science/): OK, you do actually want to read this and this, side by side. Gas or charcoal. Or both or neither. And conclude. It&#8217;s all about science&#8230; OK, and to conclude: [&#8220;Hey, isn&#8217;t that Drake&#8217;s well ..?&#8221; Yes indeed. Titusville, OH. Worth a visit!]
- [Car industry development](https://maverisk.nl/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&#8217;s of course various ways this might work: Big Motor &ndash; the Germans, Asian, French/Asian, not so much the classical US ones ..! &ndash; 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. &#8220;Thanks for creating the market, off we go and leave you in the dust&#8221;; The same, try but [&hellip;]
- [Dyssing your U topia](https://maverisk.nl/1765-2/): Hmmm&#8230; most of these books are still future for us, and as such not outdated&#8230; The most dystopian ones, that is. Singularity, anyone ..? And, of course there&#8217;s overviews of futureness &ndash; or not. But, for the naïve: [How human-friendly &#8230;]
- [(Ahead of time, because we can)](https://maverisk.nl/ahead-of-time-because-we-can/): This will be published in the July ISSA Journal. Just put it down here, already, to be able to link to it. ;-] And, first, a picture: [Toronno, ON] After which (Dutch version linked here): You have the Bystander Bug One of the major pluses of open source software is that anyone, even you, could check the source code so, via logic, the chance that a somewhat hidden bug will be found in a heartbeat will rise to about one when enough people look at the source, now they can. But we were recently surprised by just such a bug, with [&hellip;]
- [One more on how the @nbacc accountants'lab' will work in NL](https://maverisk.nl/one-more-on-how-the-nbacc-accountantslab-will-work-in-nl/): Why am I somewhat convinced that this article is what the results of the accountants&#8217;lab&#8217; that is proposed in the Netherlands, will look like. Even when I like the idea! Just not the direction the proposed content of research is taking. Is (this) a lab for deep, methodologically cast-in-concrete but utterly boring science of the history writing kind with drab results that don&#8217;t apply in the chaos of the (business) world out there, or is (this) a lab about doing experiments, exploring the unexplored, with results scored on qualitative scales like Innovation and Beauty &#8230;? With a picture because you held [&hellip;]
- [Accountansdiscussie: Start en eind](https://maverisk.nl/accountansdiscussie-start-en-eind/): Als 28 mei @nbacc met @tuacc in de slag gaat, is deze post misschien een hulp, en onderstaande alsnog het resultaat&#8230; [Parool, zaterdag 24 mei 2014] Want laten we wel wezen: Een lab voor diepe vaktechniek loopt consequent (if) aan tegen: &#8220;Volgens de theorie kan niks hier werken en weten we exact waarom. In de praktijk werkt alles, maar niemand weet hoe. Wij mixen theorie en praktijk.&#8221; en ook: &#8221; Laat niet degenen die zeggen dat iets onmogelijk is, in de weg staan van degenen die dat iets al doen.&#8221; Succes &#8230; [En dan krijg ik weer te horen dat ik [&hellip;]
- [Cryptostego](https://maverisk.nl/cryptostego/): Just as last week I&#8217;ve been discussing stego with colleagues, I missed this Bruce&#8217;s post&#8230; Be sure to read the comments, though. A couple on stacking steganography over cryptography, which is what I would presume would work. And, again the question: what would you know of actual use &#8216;out there&#8217;; is it common, rare, what are the characteristics of its users ..? Is it the next big thing after (?) APTs &#8230;? Oh, here it is; the pic you expected: [Would &#8216;Riga&#8217; be a hint that there&#8217;s more to the picture &#8230;!?]
- [Default passwords ...](https://maverisk.nl/default-passwords/): Hacker having fun w/default passcodes. Van Ness sign changed to &quot;Turn Back. Godzilla Attack&quot; http://t.co/7K9ESqQ4Rc pic.twitter.com/mra91k4Owg &mdash; Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) May 16, 2014
- [Golden Oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day/): Remember.
- [Many Books bQ, part VIII](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-viii/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part VIII already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result. Or give it a shot; look long and hard enough and you may find a connection, or theme. A spurious one. (?)
- [Column on Open Source code Bystanders](https://maverisk.nl/column-on-open-source-code-bystanders/): Well, the column is out there now&#8230; Will be published in the July 2014 ISSA Journal but here&#8217;s a preview, in Dutch And, of course: [S&#8217;bourg, or Brussels &ndash; always mix them up and end up in the wrong place for a meeting]
- [A short, ephemeral message on naïvité](https://maverisk.nl/a-short-ephemeral-message-on-naivite/): [In contrast] Who would have thought&#8230; Don&#8217;t they all fall &#8230;? When, not if. To which we may add:
- [New ton's theories](https://maverisk.nl/new-tons-theories/): OK. Now which parts of his work would you consider unscientific; both by the standards of his time and by your today&#8217;s standards&#8230; Because maybe he studied all terrains with comparable rigour, and maybe he found stuff of comparable importance. Who knows&#8230; And, as expected: [Viewed this way, less often. Cala at Vale, indeed]
- [Boring bingo](https://maverisk.nl/boring-bingo/): a.k.a. the accountants&#8217; version, Dutch style: Yup, if you understand what it says here, it would be something like: &#8220;If you recognize the modernity and innovation and state-of-the-artness of all this, you understand how terribly boring all the news surrounding accountancy in NL is; if you can&#8217;t even fill out this card on a single day of news you take in, you&#8217;re lagging even these developments, you ultra-laggerd!&#8221; Any words you miss ..?
- [Neural data analysis; where is it?](https://maverisk.nl/neural-data-analysis-where-is-it/): [Koolhaas locator question] As [Big | Smart | Process | Socmed] Data Analysis spreads, like this: I wondered where the neural network angle was, or is. Remember, two decades back, at universities there was so much clamour about Neural Networks and their potential, and how credit card companies were the flagship applications with their pattern recognition work ..? All that had never grown to full fruition, to full potential &ndash; as proven by the lack of ubiquitous visibility in our daily lives; if neural networks had been so successful, we&#8217;d had seen it on and in just about any IoT device [&hellip;]
- [Many Books bQ, part VI](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-vi-2/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part VI already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result. Seek out connections, and &#8230; yes there are some; some, clearly, some, non-linearly but still, some, in contrasts.
- [Donuts for capital requirements](https://maverisk.nl/donuts-for-capital-requirements/): [Slippery world, trying to balance on stelts, as long as that goes] &#8230; Suddenly, I realized that the approach towards balanced capital requirements calculations through the combination of four quadrants of external vs. internal, data-driven versus &#8216;fuzzy&#8217; scenario analysis, is flawed when depicted as a blot around the centre of the said four quadrants or axes. What is needed, is in fact a donut. As in: Where the ideal is a combination indeed of all sides of the picture, to a quality and coverage as far out as possibly one can get, but one wouldn&#8217;t want to lose all that is [&hellip;]
- [Mgt > control](https://maverisk.nl/mgt-control/): Is this management, or control? [Hospital St. Pau, Barça] Just a note, on errors (not minor omissions) that I see over and over again: &#8216;Management&#8217; &ne; &#8216;Control&#8217; Rather, Management &gt;&gt; Control. Control is not allowing exceptions or deviations of predetermined values beyond a predetermined bandwidth. Management is dealing with whatever value comes out of your measuring system, whether one can steer the inputs to and operations of the production system so the outcomes come back into the fold or not. Control, one does out of fear. The fear of not being in control (sic) over one&#8217;s own destiny, as if that [&hellip;]
- [InfoValue, at last ..?](https://maverisk.nl/infovalue-at-last/): Ah, finally, some depth shows up to have been developed in the field of infonomics. Very, very happy to see that; as you may recall from many previous posts of mine (and from before the very idea of posts, or blogging, or the Internet as such, did exist) I had an urge to find, or (help) develop, methodology in this direction. So there you have it, and there. I&#8217;m happy for today. But will post much more on all sorts of bits and pieces that may spring to mind, in the near future. May even want to create a new category [&hellip;]
- [OK, ... I would consider switching to electric now](https://maverisk.nl/ok-i-would-consider-switching-to-electric-now/): With this. And the pic y&#8217;all been waiting for. [Have one. Have more.]
- [What I learned from Bill Gates](https://maverisk.nl/what-i-learned-from-bill-gates/): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- [(A category of her own)](https://maverisk.nl/a-category-of-her-own/): By faking in all sorts of ways, she created a category of her own&#8230; the Yolanthie! As in this, and this, and elsewhere&#8230; But hey, that&#8217;s how innovation goes, right ..? Trial and error.[In this case, creating a completely new fantasy category&#8230;] Also ruthless vetting, more than ever, though. Not really the benign advisory type &ndash; that would take some maturity, apparently not present in the immediate vincinity of starlets nor with the haters; gonna hate, out of lack of any own initiative, innovation, or self-worth altogether. And here&#8217;s what you were waiting for; a real one! [Smile, Baltimore style]
- [Finally, real responsibility](https://maverisk.nl/finally-real-responsibility/): ..it&#8217;s getting real. A CEO has to take personal responsibility for an incidental security miss. So, after all the talk about &#8216;top management being accountable, and you can&#8217;t just delegate that&#8217;, we see that the buck indeed stops where it should. Or, well, it stops there, too; probably, down the line some others may receive a slight dent in their bonuses (up high) or get fired on the spot (lower down). But, for once, the blame doesn&#8217;t run downstream all too cleanly until it reaches the bottom. Oh how wonderful it would be if, if this would become the standard. Then [&hellip;]
- [Account your blessings, or not.](https://maverisk.nl/account-your-blessings-or-not/): Accountants of the certifying kind are still searching for their purpose. In life but moreover, in business reality. Which isn&#8217;t too strange. They exist only for a couple of centuries, so at the speed of thinking they do, now is about the right time to do a second round of thought about their role. First, a picture to freshen the mind: [Memento for outdatedness..?] To start off, accountants [from here, I presume them to refer to the external auditors of the annual financial statements] were involved in checking all detailed financial data as well as seeing these represented in a standardised [&hellip;]
- [Many Books bQ, part VI](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-vi/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part VI already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result.
- [New service: HugDug](https://maverisk.nl/new-service-hugdug/): Go use it! Go beyond the gripe versus self-praise of reviews and donate to charity along the way. I mean, how can you not like this sharing (of opinions) model. Oh, and of course a picture for your viewing delight: [Heh, which one of the Hoofddorp Calatravans is this ..?]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, May 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-may-2014-edition/): [Symbol of &#8230;, still in T or moving into E ..?] So, here&#8217;s the May edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Small wine appellations (see below) Microbrews Quasi- but very failed hip beers from global brand breweries For the discovery of them. See below Most are technically drinkable but no more than gimmicks in taste. Awww, they&#8217;re as hip as LOLcats! French, Italian, Spanish (very) small appellations Eastern European wines New world wines Côtes de Toul, for one. Various Savoie sub-appellations. Knowing your way around Italy&#8217;s appellation-per-village / -anthill landscape. The many (sub)regions [&hellip;]
- [Who controls the Watsons...?](https://maverisk.nl/who-controls-the-watsons/): First, a picture for your viewing delight: [Seems chaotic, yet navigable] Who controls the Watsons in your pocket, once they arrive ..? Anoher one triggered by Clive Thompson&#8217;s Smarter Than You Think: When not if Watson has morphed into a Software Defined Anything something small enough to fit on your mobile, just about everyone will use it in cyborg / centaur ways to augment oneself. This will require adaptation of the way one goes around in the world, and &#8230; may create a dependence on the Machine, possibly a big one for those that had gained the most by this new [&hellip;]
- [Quote'let again](https://maverisk.nl/quotelet-again/): By Colonel John Paul Stapp: The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle. More on this management guidelines site. And a picture in your browser for reading one line so patiently: [For those in the know of this building&#8217;s design flaws&#8230;]
- [What's the Edsel App of 2014 ..?](https://maverisk.nl/whats-the-edsel-app-of-2014/): Would any of you be interested to help me start a competition to find, and have voted, the Edsel App of 2014 ..? Or have an award ceremony every quarter, or so ..? This would be about the app, or application, or system, or any invention in general, where all that see it at its publication go like what were they even thinking!? To be clear, this will be called the Edsel App for a reason, being it is the high water mark of an idea smash-bombed into oblivion by its utter ugliness. Which brings us to all sorts of criteria [&hellip;]
- [Just a quote, to make you think about ... anything](https://maverisk.nl/just-a-quote-to-make-you-think-about-anything/): Just a quote to make to think about just anything. E.g., business life (..!): Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? [George Carlin] And you came to expect: [Meeting room of a bank. Noumea reference ..?]
- [Many Books bQ, part V](https://maverisk.nl/many-books-bq-part-v/): Progressing with my Recommended Reading list, part V already. Index Librorum &#8230; In random order (!); semantically and qua Importance. Seek order and you&#8217;ll be disappointed – that would be a result. But this time, a little theme&#8217;let of sorts appears&#8230; (?)
- [The age-old question of transcendence](https://maverisk.nl/the-age-old-question-of-transcendence/): First, a picture of course: [&#8220;Mehh, why not just put a concrete slab over the canal..?&#8221;; Calatrava at Hoofddorp] After finishing reading (partially as in &#8216;studying&#8217;) Smarter Than You Think (again), I saw this little piece on transcendence &#8230; taking it from another angle. Unsure how to marry the two perspectives&#8230;
- [To watch(ed)](https://maverisk.nl/to-watched/): Hmmm&#8230; We should all watch out for this here documentary (Yes. Really.), and then have a look back at the great many leads up to today that went before it, like here, here, since some five years ago by yours truly, and many other(s). But now, with this team on it, will it break through ..? I have something to celebrate today; will leave you for now with: [Heraclites: All is in transit or in DC]
- [Merely convicted by PPT](https://maverisk.nl/merely-convicted-by-ppt/): Hm, there was this meme about Death By Powerpoint. Now, the toned-down version, conviction (attempt) by PPT, has been found in the wild. As in this here article. Where the prosecutor was too dumb to not hide the culpose text behind the 24-images-per-second visibility screen. [Is that &#8216;stego&#8217; ..?] Incentives, incentives&#8230; [Vic chic]
- [HTTP status 418 against unpersonation](https://maverisk.nl/http-status-418-against-unpersonation/): Though we&#8217;re halfway towards granting legal person rights to animals (as this and this show), and you know a lot of co-workers for whom this presents a nice little bit of progress, I&#8217;d say we have also moved great strides in the opposite direction. Which is far more dangerous. It all started, throughout the ages over and over again, with the already-responsibility-deprived weasels (a.k.a. &#8216;mere employees&#8217; and &#8216;leaders&#8217;) wiggling out from under the burden of guilt for, e.g. most recently, the Sony hack, the financial crisis; you name it. With excuses ranging all the way from &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t important enough to [&hellip;]
- [Short Insight: The Economic Triad](https://maverisk.nl/short-insight-the-economic-triad/): Yes a sudden microrevelation again: Sedlá&#x10D;ek, Piketty and Graeber form a triad of social economics; possibly the Way Forward for the global society. I mean, let&#8217;s connect the start and end ideas and conclusions, and the intermediate ones, of Economics of Good And Evil, Capital in the 21st Century, and Debt, the First 5000 Years, and you get my drift. Or not. But the latter is on you, half-joke only. I cannot but leave you with: [When you see it (the above), you may need one. At the Fabrique, of course]
- [Risk of being Duds](https://maverisk.nl/risk-of-being-duds/): Wow, the new year starts of with &#8230; failure. I mean, apart from your inability to keep your New Year&#8217;s resolutions (already &ndash; if you need such a specific date like Jan 1 and the motivation of a &#8216;fresh start&#8217; which, on the whole, it isn&#8217;t since calendars were invented as easy shorthands not life (so exactly) defined turning points) to change habits, &#8230; why didn&#8217;t you just change when the need arose ..? You&#8217;d be much further with it &ndash; the year is really off to a traditional start when failures of the past, are repeated ad nauseam&#8230; [As interlude: [&hellip;]
- [ID card house coming down](https://maverisk.nl/id-card-house-coming-down/): With the &#8216;eavesdropping&#8217; or whatshallwecallit of the German Defense Minister&#8217;s fingerprint, it seems that yet another card was pulled from the infosec card house of solutions. It looks like a distant relative in infosec land, on the ID side, has faltered. Or, has shown to be not 100% perfect. Dunno if that is newsworthy; apparently is. Though apparently, in unrelated (?) news reports, not all tools out there have (yet) been cracked by TLAs. With Tor and Truecrypt as shining examples, but haven&#8217;t vulnerabilities in the schemes of those been demonstrated (at least theoretically)? So, are the leaked documents just bait [&hellip;]
- [Going out / in](https://maverisk.nl/going-out-in/): A final note &#8230; was meant to have some celebratory spirit. But maybe it&#8217;s also a looking-back bit in a sense, if you read between the lines; of the mess we&#8217;ve made of the world. But then, it is a view on the actual, concrete and very Urgent problems we face in the near future, from (?) the here-and-now. So&#8230; read, and revel in the prospects of real societal progress that is possible &ndash; if all of us chip in and do something. Go ahead! [In Strasbourg, this part of a Solution was there long before the big part of the [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-12/): So, before leaving 2014 to its own devices and historians&#8217; misinterpretations into all directions (un)thinkable, here&#8217;s this for you:
- [Shortie: Trickle Down](https://maverisk.nl/shortie-trickle-down/): Most of you know I (dis)like Mandeville&#8217;s argument that the vices of the richest are what society lives on/off. Suddenly, the TD-effect (which may very well sound like an ugly STD) falls into place in my schemes: Or, as in the original formulation: Which of course at the other end looked like:
- [Solution](https://maverisk.nl/solution/): I think I have the solution to this one but unfortunately the Internet is too small to write it down.
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-14/): How&#8217;zat for Open Source &#8230; (Hi #Jolla fans like @meneer &#8230;!). It&#8217;s all about balance. Take Apple, and many others. Balance. Really &ndash; because open source developers need to push a little further to get past this:
- [Postdictions 2014-IV and Final](https://maverisk.nl/postdictions-2014-iv-and-final/): A progress report on the Predictions 2014 I made in several posts here, at the end of the year. So, going for final verdicts. And quite a score and end result&#8230; I gathered some evidence, but probably you have much more of that re the items below. Do please raise your hand / comment with links; I&#8217;ll attribute my sources ;-] First, of course, a picture: [Yes this one one more time, as the future&#8217;s the flip side of the past &#8230;] So, there they are, with the items collected from several posts and already updated several times before hence I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]
- [Careful times](https://maverisk.nl/careful-times/): This day and age, one cannot be too careful with one&#8217;s digital traces. To the point where normal functioning in modern society is impacted. And then, that&#8217;s not enough. Your mere existence may cause trouble by you not being the only one recording your life. As in this here piece&#8230; Which, apart from its many manifest errors of thought on the side of the wannabe good guys that by being absolute n00b sorcerer&#8217;s apprentices at best, has this nugget of inhumanity: &#8220;The RMV itself was unsympathetic, claiming that it was the accused individual’s “burden” to clear his or her name in [&hellip;]
- [Zippcoin to join](https://maverisk.nl/zippcoin-to-join/): A short note: a new wave is coming in. To join. To rejoice. This one: .
- [Possible, hence probable means](https://maverisk.nl/possible-hence-probable-means/): Why did it take so long for this to surface ..? As the &lt;link&gt; mentions, steganography in images is detectable and tools are around to help &ndash; how many of you already use them on a regular basis, in times when LOLcat pics are so abundant (hint(?)) &ndash; but wasn&#8217;t it too obvious that the Bad (?) Guys knew that, too, before you the pithy defenders? So, why? Either the tools are around but not widespread enough, or as &lt;link&gt; suggests, other means might work better. But the other means&#8230; are as cumbersome to deploy, continuously, costly, for the short run [&hellip;]
- [Season's Greetings](https://maverisk.nl/seasons-greetings/): As in this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]
- [Progress at the other end](https://maverisk.nl/progress-at-the-other-end/): On state of the art innovation &ndash; at the lowly (!?) end of programming. I mean, it&#8217;s not rocket science; it&#8217;s quite a bit harder to pull off. To produce something decent though that seems to have gone lost in these überagilescrum times of putting apps out before anyone has a clue what they&#8217;re intended for. What problem they&#8217;d have to solve, for a large enough audience to care. Yes, it seems that &#8220;If you&#8217;re satisfied with your product at launch, you&#8217;ve launched too late&#8221; is all the rage now. But to win over the world, over Fubbuck, to win over [&hellip;]
- [Company's Maslow](https://maverisk.nl/companys-maslow/): I indicated earlier to want to develop some form of (being: my personal) Maslow pyramid for organisations. Well, it took some thinking, and here is &#8230; the very first attempt. I.e., not something simple like growth stages that are a great many around. And are mostly about organizational &#8216;internal&#8217; development. But that&#8217;s not what I meant. Because reasons. One being they don&#8217;t map too well to either Maslow&#8217;s personal pyramid nor to practice. Where practice means organisations go through rough times as well as good ones, and aren&#8217;t monotonously rising (mathematically) let alone strictly. [If that is out of your league, [&hellip;]
- [US economic philosophy: Sedláček's lament](https://maverisk.nl/us-economic-philosophy-sedlaeks-lament/): While reading up Sedlá&#x10D;ek&#8217;s Economics of Good and Evil, a side note (to the main line) struck me: Where have the mighty Men discussing the grand combined terrain of philosophy (maybe incl religion), sociology/psychology and economics gone ..? [Books by Quote to follow on this blog but don&#8217;t hold your breath it may take a while &ndash; many quotes to select/copy] Since that is where our future will be. After the, with aspects of autism almost, mathematics-in-economics dominance will have proved to lead to insignificance at best, disaster at probable, war at worst. The sorcerer&#8217;s apprentices will show to hardly have [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: Olietankers en Speedboten](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-olietankers-en-speedboten/): In Dutch, yet another ‘Book By Quote’ then. A full of … ‘marvelous content’ one again. An attempt to subjectively summarise a book by the quotes I found worthwhile to mark, to remember. Be aware that the quotes as such, aren’t a real unbiased ‘objective’ summary; most often I heartily advise to read the book yourself. This time, it&#8217;s Menno Lanting, Olietankers en Speedboten, Wendbaar Werken In De 21e Eeuw, Business Contact 2014, ISBN 9789047005261; eerst een paar paragrafen algemene beschouwing mijnerzijds dit keer: Scenario-simulaties lieten zien dat een vloot van kleinere schepen beter presteert, of althans meer overlevingskansen heeft, dan [&hellip;]
- [Predictions 2015](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-2015/): So&#8230; The End is Nigh. Hence, my predictions for beyond it. As 2015 is about to kick off, herewith my predictions of what happen in Internet / IT land, as notable in the global society, being part of my mind frame. Or so. To not make things too difficult to understand, I&#8217;ve assembled a mixed bag of abstract notions and concrete(ly noticeable) stuff that will happen, interlaced with all sorts of fancy graphs and dull pictures &ndash; to make you think not applaud sheepishly. Think, think first, deeply, and then still agree with the clairvoyance of: A first easy start: The [&hellip;]
- [Cultural maturity – of organisations](https://maverisk.nl/cultural-maturity-of-organisations/): Adding to the Maslow-for-organisations idea of December 3rd&#8217;s post; would it be possible to gauge an organization its maturity level by trying to establish its &#8216;score&#8217; on the various pyramid layers (to be) established? Though immediately, I see trouble for the method where e.g., companies may get into (financial / freshness/motivational) trouble and sink back some layers. But then again, we may then look up in DSM-5 what ails the company, and find avenues to restore good health. Hmmm, how is it that when thinking of corporate culture, one so quickly ends up at the mental disorder metaphor? And I jump [&hellip;]
- [Continuous AssuMining](https://maverisk.nl/continuous-assumining/): &#8230; Where the process mining for overall assurance, as e.g., @ConeyDataDriven do so well, may spill over into straightforward data point assurance. Of sorts. Because, when one has visual petri nets (well&#8230; sort of) at the transactions level(s) all through the systems, wouldn&#8217;t it be dead easy to have tallies at stores and flows, that can be reported on &ndash; and when audited in real time, given assurance on! &ndash; in all their shining minute detail as compared to the late, very late after-the-fact yes even after-the-full-year-has-ran-its-course annual figures. This would of course require auditors to sit by all the information [&hellip;]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-13/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again: [Yes, appearances in the end will fail you]
- [Care-ful Carr](https://maverisk.nl/care-ful-carr/): [In Dutch] Een boekbespreking&#8230;: [Edited to add, this just in: Zelfs deze eminence grise denkt dezelfde kant heen&#8230;] In zijn roemruchte artikel IT Doesn’t Matter (uitgewerkt in boekvorm: Does IT Matter?) maakte Nick Carr duidelijk dat de T van IT niet zo relevant (meer) is. Dit leidde tot een storm van protesten van degenen die baat hadden bij het behoud van het belang van de T. Steve Ballmer noemde het artikel “grote onzin”; hoeveel groter kan een compliment zijn ..? In de opvolger The Shallows (het Ondiepe) werkte hij dit verder uit naar een maatschappelijk niveau: Wij worden door gemakzucht van [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, December 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-december-2014-edition/): [What a Domènech i Muntaner masterpiece! Slept there, (private!) dined there. Both highly recommendable&#8230; Check out Mas Passamaner] Yes here&#8217;s the December edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag again. And, it will be the last in this form. Will switch to quarterly updates on what&#8217;s hot, and not. But then, still, for now: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED IoT security IoT Big Data Even Stuxnet reappears. And there&#8217;s so much more&#8230; [To add: links to earlier posts, or use the search function it&#8217;s there not for nothing.] Yeah, we get the basics. Meh, we get [&hellip;]
- [Repeat: The Top 2000 or 2214 of 2014](https://maverisk.nl/repeat-the-top-2000-or-2214-of-2014/): [After apparently, some at @Top2000nl / @NPORadio2 decided that #Top2000 entries and votes were valid until yesterday this repost was in order &ndash; but the below had been out there, of course, as the definitive results already a month ago&#8230;] OK &#8230; There it is: The definitive this year&#8217;s Top 2000. Without argument or doubt, herewith&#8230; First, downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes: &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t where they&#8217;re &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be by common standards!&#8221; Correct. Because I&#8216;m [&hellip;]
- [Jumping the aggre chasm](https://maverisk.nl/jumping-the-aggre-chasm/): On the subject of individuality versus group aggregates. And where the characteristics just don&#8217;t add up because they do. As in: Elections. Every vote counts, but no single one matters. &#8216;Democratic&#8217; (quod non) politics in general. Where one can only change things by joining political parties where your particular issue voice is lost, you are required to toe the party line on many (other) things against your ad hoc will and purpose, and parties end up not representing anyone in particular &ndash; no party has exactly all opinions right on all your issues, and in the end even parties don&#8217;t do [&hellip;]
- [Helpful 'failure'](https://maverisk.nl/helpful-failure/): This here &#8216;problem&#8217; may actually not be a let-down, but a help in getting acceptance for xyzCoin (e.g., the most interesting zippcoin project!). Or ..? Your comments, please. And, of course:
- [Lihipving areas](https://maverisk.nl/lihipving-areas/): Just a short reference (why would one want to use the antiquated word &#8216;link&#8217;, right?), in this case about (overdoing to the ecco huomo level of) the .ipster (censured) lifestyle. I&#8217;ll leave you with your daily dose of medicine: [Girona, just one of its many facets]
- [Maslow for companies](https://maverisk.nl/maslow-for-companies/): Some first sketches of an idea that sprang to mind during some musings about (the feasibility of) schemes that classify maturity levels for companies, or organisations. The idea being that the common Maslow pyramid that, despite some critique here and there that usually points at critics&#8217; misunderstanding of modeling and this model in particular, is still very much valid for establishment of personal preferences and comfort zones. * Yes I do know the cultural variance in &#8216;it&#8217;. But the idea quickly stalled due to lack of progress in the bottom layers of the OrgPsyPyramid &ndash; what comes first for e.g., start-ups; [&hellip;]
- [From Sedlacek to accountancy](https://maverisk.nl/from-sedlacek-to-accountancy/): While going through Sedlá&#269;ek&#8217;s seminal Economics of Good and Evil &ndash; which should be a mandatory read for all economics, business, and audit (-of-all-sorts) students, I came across one part that struck me as possibly relevant for direct application in accountancy. Oh but of course, there&#8217;s so great a many more parts that should be applied, the sooner the better. I&#8217;ll return one day, in the next couple of months, with probably a series of Book by Quote posts on the book, including some analysis and comments maybe this time. And by &#8216;direct application&#8217; I meant application as useful underpinning undercurrent, [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-11/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again: No, not even my office. I prefer Ployez-Jacquemart, or by reprehensible lack of that, Bollinger. May water the plant with this one; poor thing.
- [Interest-ing space/time travel problem(s)](https://maverisk.nl/interest-ing-spacetime-travel-problems/): On a more serious note, two articles instructing on ethics in space travel, and on space (and time) itself &ndash; exepelainifyed to be understood, for once.Both for your Education and enlightenment; maybe not for immediate actionability but hey, isn&#8217;t this the decade of the return of the long-term investment, in yourself, too ..? By now and after you read (?) the two pieces, you have deserved: [Aye, captain! Wasa&#8217;up?]
- [The solution to the world's problems](https://maverisk.nl/the-solution-to-the-worlds-problems/): It has arrived. All the global issues that humanity didn&#8217;t get solved, now can be. With this.
- [Coining an answer; Bit-passports](https://maverisk.nl/coining-an-answer-bit-passports/): The answer to the final question (&#8220;&#8230; why the governments didn’t invent this sooner,” he says. “I came up with this over a weekend in my spare time, why didn’t they? &#8230;&#8221;) in this here very interesting piece, is easy: Enrollment Problem Plus Risk Management. But still, the idea of using Bitcoin crypto style solutions to the &#8216;international&#8217; passport problem is useful, and might work. In some way. Not this self-certification one. If you&#8217;re aware of how long PGP has been around, you should be aware of all the failures of any form of tribal-cred-branching-out IDs. And, a great many governments [&hellip;]
- [Hiding or in plain sight (IoT dev't)](https://maverisk.nl/hiding-or-in-plain-sight-iot-devt/): In IoT development, there seems to be a disconnect between the hype and the underlying developments. By which I mean that of course, the hype will not play out according to itself, but according &#8220;We overestimate short-term impacts and underestimate the longer-term ones&#8221;. But moreover, I also mean that there&#8217;s a variety of development speeds for IoT. Since there is various types, categories of IoT developing. As in this here one of my previous posts. Oh right away: [Your office &#8216;life&#8217;, Zuid-As again] So&#8230; what we&#8217;re seeing, is certain differences in speeds: B-inhouse IoT develops rapidly; after some decades of slow [&hellip;]
- [Still around](https://maverisk.nl/still-around/): Just happy to see that these are still for sale. Would be a reason to go back to Windy City, just to get them at &#8220;Marshall Field&#8217;s&#8221; &#8230;! [Edited to add: the link seems to work properly only if the shipping address is set to the US, on the target site&#8230; just search for frango after that&#8230; Great show Macy&#8217;s for taking the fun out of good memories&#8230;] There, for reference: [Obviously, would shop there, too]
- [Flavours of IoT](https://maverisk.nl/flavours-of-iot/): In my on-going attempts to get a grip on IoT, I recently developed a first, for me &#8230; Being a broadest of classification of IoT deployment, with characteristics yet to work on: B-internal; the ever more intelligent, ever more (visually) surroundings-aware robots in factories, replacing extorted laborers thus taking away the last options to life they had. On the other hand, freeing humanity of toils at last ..? If not when there&#8217;s a Hegelian end&#8230; B2B; having near-AI &#8216;machines&#8217; as the new middlemen, if at all or incorporated on the sell- or buy-side. C2B; as with most lifelogging e.g., through wearables. [&hellip;]
- [Your info - value](https://maverisk.nl/your-info-value/): Wanted to post something on the value of information. Then, this came out a couple of weeks ago. By way of some sort of outside-in determinant of the value of (some) information&#8230; [Oh and this here, too, even more enlightening but for another discussion] Which appears to be an updated but much shortened version of what I posted earlier. Players disappeared or doesn&#8217;t anyone care anymore about the ones dropped out ..? Anyway. Yes I wasn&#8217;t done. Wanted to add something about information value within &#8216;regular&#8217; organisations, i.e., not the ones that live off ripping off people of their personal data [&hellip;]
- [Short note: Your fridge complains](https://maverisk.nl/short-note-your-fridge-complains/): This here piece is an excellent intro into the next steps for IoT in the C-internal (see the post of the day after tomorrow &ndash; negative time now; here it is) market re domotics. Yes, may have warranted a full repost if it were available in such a format I mean html code&#8230; Anyway, after the read, you may appreciate: [For no apparent or other reason. DC, yes.]
- [Not yet one IoTA; Auditing 'technology'](https://maverisk.nl/not-yet-one-iota-auditing-technology/): [Apologies for the date/time stamp; couldn&#8217;t pass.] First, a pic: [Classy classic industrial; Binckhorst] Recently, I was triggered by an old friend about some speaking engagement of mine a number of years back. As in this deck (in Dutch&#8230;). The point being; we have hardly progressed past the point I mentioned in that, being that &#8216;we&#8217; auditors, also IT/IS auditors!, didn&#8217;t fully adapt to the, then, Stuxnet kind of threats. (Not adopt, adapt; I will be a grammar and semantics n.z. on that.) As we dwelled in our Administrative view of how to control the world, and commonly though not fully [&hellip;]
- [Meet no more, continuously, and excel](https://maverisk.nl/meet-no-more-continuously-and-excel/): I posted before on the atrocities of current-day meeting practices. And on the changing role of the Document, here. The latter, provided some thought towards predicting the demise of the former: When we&#8217;re connected (at the information level, not mere technically) constantly and continuously, wouldn&#8217;t all the errors of meetings be resolved (resolvable) by not having them anymore, or at least, re-styling them in a wholesale manner?First, a picture:
- [Let It Go](https://maverisk.nl/let-it-go/): Some paragraphs before you get into it, but True. As frequent readers of this blog may have learned from my rants against the top-down hierarchical approach. As Roger Waters (et al) sang: The Tide Is Turning&#8230; Hopefully. And a pic to lighten up your day: [Yes yet again&#8230;]
- [Clustering the future](https://maverisk.nl/clustering-the-future/): Was clustering my themes for the future of this blog. Came up with: [Sizes, colours, or text sizes not very reflective of the attention the various subjects will get] Low sophistication tool, eh? Never mind. Do mind, to comment. On the various things that would need to be added. As yes I know, I have left much out of the picture, for brevity purposes. But will want to hear whether I missed major things before I miss them, in next year&#8217;s posts. Thank you! And, for the latter,[Bah-t&#8217;yó! indeed]
- [To watch: Firebase](https://maverisk.nl/to-watch-firebase/): Was tipped via this article. Firebase to be the next thing. Promising, in its a tempo development; seems to be one element of what the world needs right now in terms of moving forward, innovation. Though maybe it may remain out of sight for most consumers, businesses may build a whole new, upgraded set of tools for users on top of this data handling platform. And be better at using your data than just flat invasive (sic) analysis. The battle field will be compliance with (new) EU privacy regulations. E.g., re transparency of the controllers and processors; that will be a [&hellip;]
- [Pulling, and pushing the compliance boundaries](https://maverisk.nl/doping/): A reblog again, delving into the breath of being the peers that pressure towards conformity or be the Maverisk that wants to prevent stale and mould. Read past the starting stuff, and find the value of nonconformity explained. If you don&#8217;t see that&#8230; You may be the one most in need &#8230; And, [Accelerating, not so bad]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, November 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-november-2014-edition/): [Weirdo&#8217;s &ndash; closing at 17:00h &#8230; doesn&#8217;t time melt for this artist, in this country (sic) &#8230;?] Yes here&#8217;s the November edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag again: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Yik Yak, Ello, Tsu The other anons (?) Whatsapp et al As in this, where as only the very old folks remember fubbuk started. And the other ones, here. Already not making it past the tipping point? I mean, where are Whisper / Kik / Telegram / WeChat / Line / Viber / Wicker / Threema / surespot ? And this, as [&hellip;]
- [Flexing work vans](https://maverisk.nl/flexing-work-vans/): A thought just popped into my mind: If people are expected to be ever more flexible as for place of work, why would we still be tied up in concrete offices ..? Even if we move around, it is from concrete intensive-people-farm to the next, however flexible and nice it all may look. And all the flex space flex rent stuff is similar; tying people up to addresses. Rather, wouldn&#8217;t it be of use if there were another variant suitably professionally organized, I mean not something like this: [Hey, it&#8217;s someone&#8217;s office &#8230;] But rather something a tiny bit more upmarket. [&hellip;]
- [Truth](https://maverisk.nl/truth/): Still haven&#8217;t heard the explanation on: versus: Really. How rebellious. How focused on uncompromising perfect design as the key (&#8217;cause functionality-wise, lagging before inception), &#8216;shocking&#8217; the globe. I still haven&#8217;t heard anyone have an explanation. Would you ..?
- [Spam (out) of control](https://maverisk.nl/spam-out-of-control/): How is it that for decades, we had been used to managerial spans of control being in the 5-to-10, optimal (sic) 8 range, whereas what we had in the past couple of decades is spans of control in the 2-3 range mostly ..? [Duh, exceptions and successful organisations aside&#8230;] Because I came across some post on a well-known business site where there&#8217;s an early simple statement that a span of control of 10 would not only be normal, but outdated as well, as the span could be at 30. Well, I doubt the latter, as this would conflict with a lower [&hellip;]
- [SPICE things up, maturely](https://maverisk.nl/spice-things-up-maturely/): Where just about everyone in my Spheres was busy &#8216;implementing&#8217; (quod non) all sorts of quality &#8216;assurance&#8217; or &#8216;control&#8217; (2x quod non) models, in the background there was quite some development in another, related area that may boomerang back into the limelight, for good reason. First, this: [Zuid-A(rt)sifyed] The subject of course regards SPICE, or rather the ISO 15504 that it has turned into. Of the Old School of software development quality improvement era. Now transformed into much more&#8230; In particular, there&#8217;s Capabilities instead of &#8216;maturity levels&#8217;. What more can I add ..? Systematic, rigorous, robust, resistant against commercial panhandling. The [&hellip;]
- [Cuffed to happen](https://maverisk.nl/cuffed-to-happen/): This here masterpiece of course was bound to happen. Although with WiFi access, one would wonder about cloud sync / storage &#8230;Oh WiFi hotspot no less&#8230; Pic, again next time.
- [A simple explanation of Bitcoin “Sidechains”](https://maverisk.nl/a-simple-explanation-of-bitcoin-sidechains/): Noteworthy. In one sense, a dilution. In another, a move to widespread adoption and acceptance. From which, probably, some unforeseeable, maybe even weird, whole new societal developments may spring. And, for the heck of it: [Pre-1998 analog to digital, FLlW @ Bear Run obviously]
- [In that Case, No.](https://maverisk.nl/in-that-case-no/): Is your organization still replying on &#8216;business&#8217; &#8216;cases&#8217; to fund projects? Then there&#8217;s a special place for you in Dorchester. When building such business cases – apologies for not mocking that newspeak already &ndash;, have you ever come up with one that did not pass the hurdle rate ..? Or come across a case where no business case was needed because the case for investing was so obvious or it wasn&#8217;t most clearly but someone of the Board wanted it so whatever dreadful return was expected all still had to be done? Which made business cases the spider web that catches [&hellip;]
- [There's hope](https://maverisk.nl/theres-hope/): Though hope has never been solid business planning, as it is what&#8217;s left after all rational expectations and handles have vanished and only leaving it to fate remains, this move may, may have some impact in one way or another: Ello mutating into a PBC. And, for the weekend: [We have a beautiful prize available for the first to locate this!]
- [Unfreeze, the quest for ~ in business](https://maverisk.nl/unfreeze-the-quest-for-in-business/): How do Those In Business that deal with the all-sorts of überbureaucratisation, think the Second Law, of thermodynamics of course, wouldn&#8217;t apply to their work as well? Let&#8217;s kick off with: [Appropriately named the Airplane building. Zuid-As] Happened to attend a conference last week. And was able to read back a great many days of twitter feed. Due to the utter boredom. Because the presentations were all about &#8230; introducing control frameworks, under the guise of governance frameworks, that aren&#8217;t (fact). Still, all was presented as if there would be little in place already; Still, it appeared none looked past &#8216;first-time&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [Top 2000 or 2214 of 2014](https://maverisk.nl/top-2000-or-2214-of-2014/): OK &#8230; There it is: The definitive this year&#8217;s Top 2000. Without argument or doubt, herewith&#8230; First, downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes: &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t where they&#8217;re &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be by common standards!&#8221; Correct. Because I&#8216;m &#8216;Rekt. The list is mine; why put the Mehhh songs high up there? They&#8217;re in there somewhere, but its my list, my preferences..! yes I do like some almost-forgotten songs better, sometimes much, much better, than the expired old hands. [&hellip;]
- [Not so self-driving](https://maverisk.nl/not-so-self-driving/): Errrm, after reading this Slate article, what is the &#8216;self-driving&#8217; the car does ..? It&#8217;s just fitting into the template of the world laid out, not self-driving with &#8216;self&#8217; being autonomous and aware. Though I&#8217;m not fully in agreement on the conclusion, I do recognize the comparison in the early paragraphs: The G&#8217;s self-driving one as the Newton. But that was handsomely overtaken (intended) by the handhelds of all sizes that are ubiquitous today. As the article already hints, it&#8217;ll be a matter of AI creeping into our cars in all sorts of ways, when we suddenly realize how close we [&hellip;]
- [The two faces of digital transformation](https://maverisk.nl/the-two-faces-of-digital-transformation/): A plain reblog from Esko Kilpi, on the future of information flow within the organization. Very thoughtful. If only you&#8217;d be allowed to read it and not be stuck in printed documents &#8230;
- [It Happens](https://maverisk.nl/it-happens/): It starts with Taoism. But I recognize bureaucracy, software development and economics. In: Taoism Sh.t happens Confucianism Confucius say: &#8220;Sh.t happens&#8221; Buddism If sh.t happens, it is not really sh.t Zen What is the sound of sh.t happening? Hinduism This sh.t has happened before Islam If sh.t happens, it is the will of Allah Protestantism Let the sh.t happen somewhere else Catholicism If sh.t happens, you deserve it Judaism Why does sh.t always happen to us? Mysticism Just experience sh.t happening Ascetisim If sh.t happens, renounce it Agnosticism Nobody knows why sh.t happens Gnosticism I know why sh.t happens but will [&hellip;]
- [IoT  starts at the right end](https://maverisk.nl/iot-starts-at-the-right-end/): of the products scale. As in #5 of this post. #1 would be no surprise, by the way. And, I&#8217;d also not be surprised when you(r company) haven&#8217;t considered similar changes. Isn&#8217;t IoT something that would not touch your business for decades to come, until you&#8217;re blown off the market in lees than five years; either by doing something stupid which you could always do, even today, or by some competitor that has dreamt up some game changer in their garage already yesterday ..? Go ahead and sleep &#8217;till you&#8217;re no more. Change isn&#8217;t painless, sitting still is. Or isn&#8217;t it [&hellip;]
- [Short note: Büro muss sein](https://maverisk.nl/short-note-buro-muss-sein/): Yet again, there was clarification re the demise of organizational culture &#8230; into totalitarian bureaucracy, greenwashed in &#8216;modernity, coolness and hipness&#8217; with some doublespeak / newspeak and beards.(in Dutch &gt;:-|): Nederland overwoekert door procesmanagement en eindeloos vergaderen. Ook in provinciehuizen. Wie doet er wat aan? pic.twitter.com/MkCByuqmXo&mdash; Jaap Stalenburg (@JaapStalenburg) September 20, 2014 Which would be nothing new for you if only you had been reading up on this blog over the past year&#8230; But you didn&#8217;t, and maybe I can&#8217;t blame you &ndash; despite wanting to. To add to the above, it seems to have escaped many that in the Netherlands, [&hellip;]
- [Players, sides, too many - where's the (over)view?](https://maverisk.nl/players-sides-too-many-wheres-the-overview/): Apart from the #ditchcyber aspects, in the (sometimes somewhat sportsy, even) battle about control, or is it temporary one-upmanship, over the world&#8217;s communications, so many parties play a role, in such varying sizes, and operating for so many sides, sometimes multiple sides at the same time, sometimes without even knowing that, with the interactions playing at various topics and levels of abstraction and with varying scopes, time horizons, strategies and plans (quality), I could really do with some clarity. Some mapping, interactive or not. Which all was triggered by this post on yet another singleton developer taking on, inactively!, some well-funded [&hellip;]
- [Steve and Tim went up the hill...](https://maverisk.nl/steve-and-tim-went-up-the-hill/): Aren&#8217;t recent developments around, through, by the brand just an amusing (?) sign of the times – the times being the same as ever: A (single?) sinus wave (or multiple smaller ones, stacked on a larger one (bigger wavelength and amplitude); wavelets sales) –, as in this piece and this one ..? As the latter quotes: &#8220;This is not [irrelevant reference to a musicological drama; ed.], and should instead be remembered primarily as a monumental blunder by the tech industry.&#8221; to which: Bono has apologized about the automatic U2 download: http://t.co/5NzdkKfgWB &mdash; Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) October 15, 2014 But the details aside, [&hellip;]
- [Errrm, how to brick your car/office...](https://maverisk.nl/errrm-how-to-brick-your-caroffice/): Though it was inevitable, this has arrived. The FourSixteen. Details and official pics here. Which is of course all good; especially for the trickle down from the insane yet moneyed (re: the price tag) &ndash; note that I don&#8217;t mention &#8216;wealthy&#8217; as that would refer to cultural development or common ethics and decency, that anyone seriously looking into this vehicle wouldn&#8217;t have &ndash; to the shop workers and onwards. But in these Maker times &#8230; How would one go about modding one&#8217;s Prius ..? And how would one call a less-than-successful job at that? Bricking your ride..? Anyway, totally (un)related, I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]
- [Note (bank-, bankable); ICYMI](https://maverisk.nl/note-bank-bankable/): Hmmmmm&#8230; Who would be able to mine the easy pickings already, in the Bitcoin world ..? Who has sufficient resources, old-money wise and miners wise ..? As the firsts through the gate may gain an insurmountable head start at the game of the future. Also, re this on the as yet ill-understood, hardly visible / overseeable spin-off world. DACs are just one part. When incumbent countries&#8217; / nations&#8217; and supra-governments find themselves competing not only with each other but also with anon societies existing virtually (non-geographically &ndash; though in the end, physical servers will have to be somewhere), will the latter [&hellip;]
- [Balloons, for joy and instruction](https://maverisk.nl/balloons-for-joy-and-instruction/): Anyone having an inkling of what the Second-Biggest G is about, knows about their conferences, about their &#8216;magic&#8217; quadrants (despite the debunking of late; apparently one could pay oneself to the top right&#8230;), and about their infamous Hype cycle. [What one needed to fight Siegfried King of the Netherlands of Xanten]Bam, there&#8217;s your daily pic again, not unexpectedly I hope. Well then. About hype cycles. You know them. And maybe have a laugh. Or not, and study them for the buzzwords you didn&#8217;t know yet. But would you believe them; would you trust the predictions inherent in them? Probably not. And [&hellip;]
- [You're doing it wrong.](https://maverisk.nl/youre-doing-it-wrong/): A simple link to The Atlantic. On how you seem to do everything wrong. And this, on how rulemakers get things wrong.Not even a pic here this time.
- [Spoilt](https://maverisk.nl/spoilt/): The Internet has finally spoilt me: In this&#8230;
- [At least, you can have your PIA](https://maverisk.nl/at-least-you-can-have-your-pia/): Privacy Impact Assessments are treated much too much as an assumption in (new European regulations&#8217;) privacy-anything these days. Yes, PIAs are a critical step, on the very critical path towards compliance in substance. Since when they aren&#8217;t done well if at all done with any true attention and intention, your compliance effort will fail, if not formally then in practice &ndash; with equal serious break-your-business high-probability risks. First, this: [Heaps upon Sea again indeed] The point being; PIAs should be done with an actual interest in privacy (of stakeholders) protection. When done less than full-heartedly, the results have hardly any value. [&hellip;]
- [Arms reversion (flipping); your call](https://maverisk.nl/arms-reversion-flipping-your-call/): Would anyone have the official name for a tactics switch leading to a collapse of an arms&#8217; race ..? I was triggered by this recent post about some gang(s) using low-tech but somewhat-sophisticated pencil-and-paper crypto in stead of the highest tech burner phones etc. (or did they also use those). To which many commented that probably, the code should be (very) easily crackable even if all of the many safeguards were upheld. (But also, dropping a physical USB stick at a (physical) watering hole (or desk, or handout point, or street corner pavement) also circumvents a great many fab network entry [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, October 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-october-2014-edition/): [Ah, what a pleasant fortress! Córdoba] Yes here&#8217;s the October edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag again: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Stealthy introductions Gartner Hype Cycles Apple Product (Launch) Events Let the products speak for themselves, let them grow organically around the globe, don&#8217;t try in vein (sic) to go viral or so. Be happy with moderate growth as it will be sustainable so much, much longer. Don&#8217;t believe this hype &#8230; Will have a separate post on this in the near future. Nothing new; all hyped and epiphany only for the fast-shrinking few [&hellip;]
- [Postdictions 2014-III](https://maverisk.nl/postdictions-2014-iii/): A progress report on the Predictions 2014 I made in several posts here, at the end of Q3. I gathered some evidence, but probably you have much more of that re the items below. Do please raise your hand / comment with links; I&#8217;ll attribute my sources ;-] First, of course, a picture: [Iron fist, not often seen (by tourists anyway), Pistoia] So, there they are, with the items collected from several posts and already updated once and twice before in this: Trust Well, there&#8217;s this, and this on the financial penalties of trusting your assurance provider&#8230; Identity See previous re [&hellip;]
- [Regulation Renegation Abomi nation](https://maverisk.nl/regulation-renegation-abomi-nation/): So, after privacy-enhancing regulations finally got some traction here and there &ndash; mentally, hardly in implementation yet &ndash; we&#8217;re getting the full bucketloads of bovine-produced fertilizer regarding adapted protection through &#8216;Data Use Regulation&#8217;. Which already throws back actual regulation in intent and in the letter of it. But has many more nefarious consequences&#8230; As is in this article; couldn&#8217;t word it better. We should be vigilant &#8230; For now, I&#8217;ll leave you with this: [A spectacle, Jerez]
- [IoTSec from IAM at entry to the end node](https://maverisk.nl/iotsec-from-iam-at-entry-to-the-end-node/): Now that you all are so busy implementing Internet of Things pilots everywhere, I mean at home like with this and this, but B2B everywhere as well (&#8230;!?) or are you doing it there not too, we may need to consider Security. Yeah, Hans Teffer did a great piece on that (see here, in Dutch) and I blogged about that before [and many more links/posts&#8230;]. And, there&#8217;s quite some other issues with IoT. But the point here is &ndash; we haven&#8217;t thought of security before implementation. And at the very few implementation&#8217;lets of IoT we see so far, security seems absent. [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day: Roundtable](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-roundtable/): And yet another one; that&#8217;s how you do a roundtable&#8230;: [Plain and colorized] BTW, know less that 15 and go stand in the corner, ashamed of your ignorance.
- [Cycle comments and questions](https://maverisk.nl/cycle-comments-and-questions/): A certain commercial advisory club still releases its hype cycle. Which is good news; to have some authority with some authority (your mileage may vary) providing us with some comprehension and comprehensiveness [OK I&#8217;ll stop now] about the What&#8217;s Buzzworthy. Still, being &#8230; in the field / Dutch / obnoxious, pick any; I&#8217;d like to comment&#8230;: (Here&#8217;s the August version from &#8230; somewhere; &#8482; and &copy; or what is it, acknowledged) Virtual Personal Assistants &ndash; 5 to 10 years out (of the plateau of productivity) ..? That&#8217;s optimistic ..! Brain-computer interface: If one would consider this to be about &#8216;intelligence&#8217; connection, [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-10/): Yup, another one: I do&#8230; Age isn&#8217;t just a number. It&#8217;s a word.
- [Diversified Reporting Assurance](https://maverisk.nl/diversified-reporting-assurance/): Yes, let&#8217;s call it DRA. The new wave of &#8220;accountants&#8217; statements&#8221; in the wings.[Warning: for those not interested in accountancy, the rest will be boring. Or, let me restate that: very boring. Or even deadly boring.]
- [Pops off the Top](https://maverisk.nl/pops-off-the-top/): To get you in the mood, and involved, please check out the longlist of songs eligible for my [emphasis by author] Top 2000 Of All Times (link to clean Excel here). Yes, I&#8217;ll have to prune a bit, there&#8217;s more than 2000 now; They&#8217;re sorted alphabetically on Artist so far, yes, yes. But my next thing to do is to recursively bin the lot into shrinking bin sizes, you know, like a good algorithmically sound sorter would; If there might be songs you miss on the list, please comment with your suggestions. Which are totally non-binding as the list is mine [&hellip;]
- [Black / White](https://maverisk.nl/black-white/): Just in case you thought that men (the typical kind; you like generalisations, apparently) know only black and white, or if pushed, also red, blue, yellow, green and brown, and women (see how overgeneralized this argument is?) know so many more as in this &ndash; then there&#8217;s also this&#8230; Wouldn&#8217;t it be stupid to ask for some easier (to remember!) classification / labeling? And the pic; what colour this house &#8230;? [Old analog-&gt;digital&#8230; Utrecht]
- [Detachment](https://maverisk.nl/detachment/): First, this: [Fantasy, sorcery, in the end Harry wins. Porto] Just to start your day with a bit of freshness. Then this: Hardly any surprise that Big Corp advertises like a headless monster Where the &#8216;joke&#8217; is that this is from a company (note: it&#8217;s just an example, others are similar (..?)) where staff is pushed to the edge to deliver on hardly-quality-related shortest-term-possible KPIs, have had to hand in holiday days to keep up the profit shares of the partners (&#8216;voluntarily&#8217; as otherwise it might be illegal), etc. etc. Stepping one millimeter out of line is punished with all but [&hellip;]
- [Be quick at Making or be like dead](https://maverisk.nl/be-quick-at-making-or-be-like-dead/): When I noted an article (is it?) on Baidu Eye (all of you will certainly know by now what I mean&#8230;!?), it finally dawned on me: &#8216;we&#8217; in the West (let&#8217;s say for purposes here, the 300M of Europe plus the 300M of North America) just don&#8217;t do enough rapid prototyping yet. Because that&#8217;s the trade we have left to e.g., the Chinese when &#8216;we&#8217; shipped our (rapid) product(ion) development to them. Now, the sweatshop structure that sprang up to the side of that, is one huge landscape of rapid prototyping facilities. Which, if not &#8216;stealing&#8217; (don&#8217;t start the legaleeze that&#8217;s [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-9/): There, again: Where&#8217;s Pretty Boy when you need him &#8230;!?
- [Managing Fortuna's Risks](https://maverisk.nl/managing-fortunas-risks/): On how Risk Management is self-defeating&#8230; or just something one has to do while Life has other plans with you(r organization). First, the übliche picture: [Shadow (play) of Dudok, Hilversum again of course] First, the Defeating part. This, we hardly discuss at length, full enough, but when we do, it&#8217;s so obvious you understand why: Because RM is about cost avoidance, even if opportunity cost avoidance. Which makes you the Cassandra, the Boy Cried Wolf of the courtiers (sic). It&#8217;s just not interesting, not entrepreneurial enough. [Even if that would be pearls before swines&#8230;] Second, this is why it&#8217;s so hard [&hellip;]
- [Stop bLeading, start PLeading](https://maverisk.nl/stop-bleading-start-pleading/): There seems to be a wave of &#8216;management&#8217;/ &#8216;executive&#8217; (quoting for the laughability of those words, as in this) advice on how to Lead. Mostly, on how to push underlings into following better i.e., more, towards your goals. Which is wrong in many ways: Your goals are ulterior, or very inferior. If you lead in such a pushing way, your team members don&#8217;t give a r.ts a.. about your goals, objectives, strategy, or whatever, and even less, much less, about you. They&#8217;ll be in it not to get punished by being fired too early &#8217;cause they know to be fired anyway. [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quote: Time Reborn](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-time-reborn/): Lee Smolin’s 00:00 Time Reborn, Allen Lane 2013, ISBN 9781846142994: A curious read, as I, too, was off-put by the development of the first section in believing LS would actually agree with the “No Time’rs”, ploughing on with No! No! You can’t seriously mean that! when suddenly LS makes a u-ey and explains how things actually are. And then, unfortunately, ends with an almost delirious account on the edge of philosophy &ndash; before caving in to e.g., religion. An unfortunate afterburner where the twist to that, should’ve been straight ahead into hermeneutics. But then again, here we have the, not really [&hellip;]
- [Not on our / I watch ..?](https://maverisk.nl/not-on-our-i-watch/): OK, so I wrote about the lack of API integration (yes, double) in IoT land. Which seems about to change. Now that this has come around. Tools in their early adopter stage, gotta love &#8217;em. Next, the breakthrough. Of IoT, too; but in what direction? Countries&#8217; hardware infrastructures first, how deep down to B2C channels? The other way around, home channels all the way up? SocMed to wearables to life tracking blends? We&#8217;ll see. Maybe soon. But for one thing: That geriatric-thinking pseudoreligion time-teller will not connect to the rest of the world. Sad (??). Will become the next one down. [&hellip;]
- [Security accountability: We're off](https://maverisk.nl/security-accountability-were-off/): Remember the Vasco i.e. Diginotar certificate breach scandal ..? For the many that don&#8217;t read Dutch easily enough, the gist of this court decision is that the previous owners of Diginotar are accountable for the damages to Vasco following the breach since the previous Diginotar owners hadn&#8217;t secured their systems well enough. There&#8217;s a lot to be said here. E.g., that the security lapses could have been known. Due diligence &#8230;? Well, the PwC reports were all green traffic lights, at the procedures-on-paper level. But a couple of years before the take-over, already a third party (ITSec, which I know for [&hellip;]
- [Foed](https://maverisk.nl/foed/): Two notes, for the Dutchmen among you. One, about how unhealthy all food is. And another, about a worthy cause. After which: [All aboard, Amstel classic]
- [Algorapp](https://maverisk.nl/algorapp/): Just a short shout-out to this awesome initiative: Algorithmia.com, the open marketplace for algorithms; easy to include in your app(s) that will make you [ rich | famous | achieve your full potential hence Happy with a capital ]. (If you don&#8217;t know how to read that, never mind.) Look now, Open (?) Source Crowdsharing gets another bump. Again a need to improve education&#8230; to be able to fully realize all the huge potential. OK, to close off of course: [How did they calculate the construction before calculus was developed ..? Yes Siena]
- [Friday lighter fare: Read carefully](https://maverisk.nl/friday-lighter-fare-read-carefully/): Methinks we all recognize this: From way back in school&#8230; to today&#8217;s consultantspeak. Though your colleagues and the way up, will take green for blue or blue for green whatever is thrown at them. The message is in the message ..?
- [Old mass education](https://maverisk.nl/old-mass-education/): Everyone under 18, and anyone 18 and older, needs a massive re-schooling in all things new. Yes that includes the savants that can hack (99,9% of which is just script kiddies, more on that below), and it includes those that may be slow learners due to age. But first, a picture: [Pfanner, Lucca] The subjects to mass re-school for: Programming of all sorts. Not just CSS/HTML. Also, perl/PHP, SQL, C, Prolog, etc. Etc. Etc. From fundamentals (yes indeed) all the way to slick quasi-savvy app programming. To know what&#8217;s under the hood, to be able to work in the field, at [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, September 2014 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-september-2014-edition/): [Not as much from another planet as from half a century ago] Yes we&#8217;re back with this; here&#8217;s the September edition of my Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag; see what you missed this Summer: WIRED TIRED EXPIRED Humanity Analytics Cloud The latest wave is about humanity again, fortunately, as the first signals of a massive increase of human vs. machine intelligence and capabilities, precursors of a societal debate on the singularity or the parts of its checkered implementation (timeline) hopefully, come out into the open. Via the predicted AI integration bubbling up everywhere. All aboard [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-8/): Just like that: I&#8217;ll start with #10.
- [Jargon Watch: Dorking](https://maverisk.nl/jargon-watch-dorking/): Google Dorking, to be more precise. Though some startup Internet company (you know, that has a &#8216;web site&#8217;) may want the adjective dropped.[Maybe they&#8217;d better do a &#8216;); DROP TABLE STUDENTS; &#8212; on themselves but that&#8217;s another matter entirely] Which is exepelainifyed in this doc, and at this site (from where I took the doc, duh). Okay, since it&#8217;s Friday afternoon, I&#8217;ll leave you with:
- [Beardoras](https://maverisk.nl/beardoras/): This: Same as with beards &#8230; &#8217;nuff said.
- [Account your blessings, or not.](https://maverisk.nl/account-your-blessings-or-not-2/): Was re-thinking this when I realized I already put out this post earlier&#8230;:
- [Off the mApp](https://maverisk.nl/off-the-mapp/): Suddenly, we don&#8217;t hear anything anymore about &#8216;apps&#8217;. Has the world moved on? Has the concept moved onto the Plateau of Productivity already so quickly ..? It just struck me. As the news broke that 90% of apps will be free. And there&#8217;s hardly any news anymore or Top-10 lists of the hottest, on apps out there for any public. Already some months ago, even acocuntants publicized their shortlist for most useful ones; talk about death spells&#8230; But really, didn&#8217;t it all get lost when the distinction between Client and Server got lost again (sic), when no-one (i.e., users) did care [&hellip;]
- [A rough drive to success](https://maverisk.nl/a-rough-drive-to-success/): How is it that there are so many paths to success &ndash; and not all of them involve heroism, drive, luck over misfortune, etc. &#8230;? Because, for one, we may diss the simply very lucky (by birthplace, geo/socially) that have to do nothing in particular and just drift up, often floating up by lack of weight, not even realising, not grasping the concepts of being so lucky as the only factor(set) and that not being one&#8217;s own achievement. And consider the averagely lucky that work hard and purposefully, and succeed. Praise them, but somehow we all (sic) expect them to be [&hellip;]
- ['sup, competitor ..?](https://maverisk.nl/sup-competitor/): Oh yes, of course. One couldn&#8217;t leave Docker to capture all the market as one understands the power of (being a) monopoly, right ..? Was the first that crossed my mind when reading this here piece on D&#8217;s competitor Rocket. Still backing D, the Big G will now play them against each other ..? Anyway: [Wouldn&#8217;t life without competition be like this, always ..? Resson, FR]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-20/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again:
- [Pro-nun-ciation](https://maverisk.nl/pro-nun-ciation/): OK. We already had the CGEIT title certification. Which is pronounced in Dutch as &#8216;See goat&#8217;. Now let&#8217;s add CSX. Pronounced by all as &#8216;See sex&#8217;. Oh jolly! One is ignorant, XOR one is prepubescent. Either way, #fail &ndash; big time. Let alone for content. This, if you&#8217;re still a believer. You still deserve? [To be in your stroller; Nancy city park]
- [Some less than 1% spenders](https://maverisk.nl/some-less-than-1-spenders/): Just dropping it here; not all of the 1% are big spenders. Some have human motives to live differently. Now; how to get the others to contribute ..? &#8230; Or; how to get the unspent and the uncaringly spent, to contribute back to society &#8230;? Never mind. Read this. For now, this: [Spent other ways, probably more efficiently contributing to overall well-being!]
- [Oh, whatev' – will succeed](https://maverisk.nl/oh-whatev-will-succeed/): Yes, critique hasn&#8217;t been overly enthousiastic for the HoloLens developments. Like in this here story. Question is, though: Did the first iPod have Shuffle? Was the first iPhone even a serious phone ..? [Or was that the first iPad that had no comms; I forget due to irrelevance. But do notice how there&#8217;s now a continuum of screen sizes from smartphone via note and tablet to desktop screenlets and mega-TVs] My take: It&#8217;ll be somewhere on the Glass&ndash;to&ndash;iPad scale: As prototype that stays (sic! Glass&#8217;s still around for very, very effective deployment in some sectors) and/or as lauch of a steep [&hellip;]
- [Dump'let](https://maverisk.nl/dumplet/): Just a little dump&#8217;let of Inspirational tweets: The business world worships mediocrity. Officially, we revere free enterprise, initiative, and individuality. Unofficially, we fear it. &mdash; D. Owen (@DOwen5) April 9, 2015 It&#039;s not self-plagiarism. It&#039;s intertextual redundancy as performance art. &mdash; Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) April 3, 2015 &quot;Those who have knowledge, don&#039;t predict. Those who predict, don&#039;t have knowledge.&quot; &#8211; Lao-tzu &mdash; Great Minds Quotes (@GreatestQuotes) November 5, 2014 &quot;If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.&quot; &#8211; Not a grad student &mdash; Shit Academics Say (@AcademicsSay) October 2, 2014 The young man knows the rules but [&hellip;]
- [The Divide(s)](https://maverisk.nl/the-divides/): Surely I&#8217;m not the only one running up against total resistance (i.e., no discernable millimeter move) when one would want to even discuss disruption in industries hitherto untouched. Like the financial industry. Really, the mindsets haven&#8217;t opened up to the 21st century at all. Despite in-roads by trading algorithms, something some even called a &#8216;financial crisis&#8217; or so, and Bitcoin i.e. block chain trust. But hey, at some point you just want some everyone to have their Kodak moment, right ..? Maybe there&#8217;s three kinds of people: The kind that embraces the New for what it is and brings; the innovators [&hellip;]
- [P( Danger(You) > 0.5 ) ⇒ Shutdown( You )](https://maverisk.nl/p-dangeryou-0-5-shutdown-you/): For the Fellow Travelers among you, that still believe that AI (AGI or ASI) will bring us joy and an arcadic peaceful creative work-free life forever after, please do consider this here piece. And see that we&#8217;re only at the beginning. [Oh for AGI/ASI reference, see here.] Luckily, hopefully, the tide will turn. But there simply is no guarantee it will. And on this most pleasant note, I&#8217;ll leave you with: [Málaga – but when the struggle is forbidden and &#8216;ratio&#8217; quod non might seem to prevail, the Dark may roar and explode out of its confines in utterly destructive ways. [&hellip;]
- [Digital Native Schative](https://maverisk.nl/digital-native-schative/): A couple of weeks ago, there was this little row (that you may easily have missed) about some recruiter requiring digital nativity (yes.) of candidates (and whether that would be discriminatory since it would exclude &#8216;old&#8217; folks). As in this here discussion. Where the point was largely missed that one would indeed not want to hire anyone who would consider themselves qualified on this point&#8230; As Considering yourself such a native, or &#8216;born digital&#8217; or whatever ridiculous phrase one could use, disqualifies you as you have no clue: Those born in a time when there was already something digital (e.g., like [&hellip;]
- [His Story](https://maverisk.nl/his-story/): Oh yes just to drop it like that. On history and the importance to know it. So that you wouldn&#8217;t declare just anything to be a historic, unique event like a launch of some crappy piece of software (if it&#8217;s good, you launch way too late!) we currently call an App &ndash; which might within a decade be a laggard petit bourgeois expression. Even in historic perspective, a great many Unique events are far from it, by light years. E.g., the Iron Curtain in Europe. Anyone remember Tordesillas ..? And the Great Wall of China, similar? And&#8230;, and &#8230;? Or, as [&hellip;]
- [FogAI picture](https://maverisk.nl/fogai-picture/): &#8230; Just to put it out there: What has happened to all the thrilling AI initiatives that flew around one after the other at the start of the year ..? At that time, I even included some stuff in my Predictions, as so many new things were popping up. But now, &#8230; not so much. Because what? Or have all the &#8216;leaks&#8217; been thumbplugged and is development still going strong in skunk works towards a renaissance explosion sometime soon ..? Whatev&#8217;; for you: [Its back being Mont serrat. Or so. ?]
- [Despair (not).](https://maverisk.nl/despair-not/): Just because they&#8217;re still around, valid as ever. Despair.com &ndash; yes from the days when .com wasn&#8217;t even a rage yet and that was called a rage not a hype. But just check them out yourselves; in awe for the veracity of motivation. Leaving you with a random: [Your aim. Their &copy;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-19/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again (guess the season&#8217;s started):
- [Signalling healthy process](https://maverisk.nl/signalling-healthy-process/): Yet some more cross-over ideas from the IoT world into the administrative bureaucratic office world: Streams of transactions as signals. Of the health of the process, of course. To be defined, obviously, as the fit to the surroundings. The fit may be off, either intentionally (wanting to let the world adapt to the process, enforcing (?) change) or unintentionally left blank &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; i.e., having to cope with exceptions to what was envisaged as transactions&#8217; content or form. Now apply yesterday&#8217;s first picture of process control. Now, too, consider what one could do with sampling theory (as a subset of &#8216;Shannon&#8217;, if [&hellip;]
- [ICShape](https://maverisk.nl/icshape/): Doing some pondering, digging and backtracking on the issue of IoTA. But, &#8230; already got stuck when considering how to (best?) model the architecture at lower levels. Would a classical picture, or a somewhat-less classical picture work best to gain understanding of the risk areas ..? As in: [Own pic] Or [Plucked, adapted from the site linked below] Where the former is from the industrial, process-oriented engineering world, and the latter from the digital networking world. Yes I&#8217;d really like your advice on how to &#8216;marry&#8217; both to be able to optimally visualise where the risks are; the potential, intentional or [&hellip;]
- [UnEllsberging your change](https://maverisk.nl/unellsberging-your-change/): Somehow it only recently, and suddenly, struck me that the resistance to change that we see so pervasively in &#8216;organisations&#8217; is indeed due to people&#8217;s very human resistance to change as one might loose some things held dear &ndash; for whatever reason. The latter, obvisouly often stated in terms of losing something Known for replacement with Uncertainty even if prospects and rational risk calculations might indicate huge improvements achievable. The crucial point being: the risk calculations may be rational but apparently aren&#8217;t emotional. The striking thing mentioned above, being that we need to integrate Ellsberg&#8217;s Paradox much better into our change [&hellip;]
- [Overabsolute Majority Report](https://maverisk.nl/overabsolute-majority-report/): On this sad day (in NL), only a hint of a mer à boire on our future that will be &ndash; not so happy. Possibly. Where the dystopian future scenarios are more right than the on the surface by and large generic tending-to-rosy robot movies predict. With Ex Machina having some interesting thoughts (again) on AI and what it is to be human but in the end also falling back to common standards. And with the similalry common flaw of expecting &#8216;robots&#8217; to become near-human possibly to the point of indistinguishability [nice word] &ndash; that will then operate in a world [&hellip;]
- [Yeah, right; for your kids ...?](https://maverisk.nl/yeah-right-for-your-kids/): The title says it all: in the Wired article here. Though I don&#8217;t get the strike-out at desk. To kids. But hey, the title here. And: [For no reason whatsoever, another Van Brienen house, Den Haag]
- [Unpersonal AI](https://maverisk.nl/unpersonal-ai/): &#8230; a trope worth extending: How we still (apparently want to ..!?) see the future of AI and robotics merged into android (no capital) forms&#8230; As in Ex Machina and many others: &#8216;Intelligent&#8217; (like linked here) human-shaped robots taking over, or not. Whereas of course ASI will strike us through its supra-individual form it already almost has. Not as the military-industrial complex that was already a common-form supra-individual thing, but as a really medium-/materialisation-independent form. With room to spare for all sorts of &#8216;dysfunctional&#8217; behaviour and &#8216;thoughts&#8217;, and still hands(?) down being our overlords and usurpers that undo us in a [&hellip;]
- [Not much on the books](https://maverisk.nl/3445-2/): Soo&#8230; We have been hearing for years, maybe for a decade already, that print books were completely dead, either already or within a couple of years &#8230; And now, the reports are that ebooks have an whopping &#8230; 15% market share. No, no typo, not 85% or 95% or even 105%, but just 15%. So much for the Through of Disillusionment &#8230; What if &#8230; what if subsequent &#8216;trends&#8217;, that are a great many in number, since, would have the same exponential quod non growth rates hence amount to not much ..? Yet &#8230; As &#8216;exponential&#8217; i.e. sigmodial-at-best growth goes, big [&hellip;]
- [Ack or ook ..?](https://maverisk.nl/ack-or-ook/): Yes, there we are again, on the subject of &#8216;Ethical&#8217; hacking. Because I came across such a &#8216;Certified Ethical&#8217; Hacker once again. Which made me think (again&#8230;) about the allure of that. And then it struck me: It&#8217;s just a matter of replacing ack with ook and we&#8217;re all set! Think about it; and ook does for money what others do for fun and ulterior motives&#8230; So does an ack. An ook can be certified (licensed) and get government-controlled medical/physical check-ups, by another bodily-educated professional. An ack can be and get the same; through permanent education requirements and peer review. But [&hellip;]
- [Grendel's mother](https://maverisk.nl/grendels-mother/): When the short summary doesn&#8217;t do justice to the core of the problem&#8230; Where the core is both a misreading of the depth and a misreading of its intentions. As this here few little paragraphs have. There&#8217;s no light way of putting this: Go read the &#8230; thing in its entirety and then, do understand it in all of its cultural superiority to today&#8217;s news accounts. Yes, for the simplest of minds it may read like just a story. Hero, this, that, done. But to the slightest of more careful reader, it is overwhelmingly clear: The book contains so much profundity [&hellip;]
- [Oh hey, quoted (at a distance)](https://maverisk.nl/oh-hey-quoted-at-a-distance/): Oh hey, I got quoted (almost &#8230; I mean at an enormous distance) by some reputable (?) institution. Where that body did jump to all sorts of conclusions (see my next Monday 27 April post squared with my 3 April post against (?) those), but in the passing mentioned an arms&#8217; race known to modern man already for decades as if it were something new. In this here piece. What&#8217;s the aim, then? To have all sorts revert to Flipping ..? To leave you with: [Still? against intruders, Trier]
- [Culpable misinformation](https://maverisk.nl/culpable-misinformation/): The inescapable Bruce was very mild, characterising Comey&#8217;s texts as a joke. Like here, on this. Whereas puppets everywhere (in NL as well, here) can show only a handful cases if any at all where mass surveillance (like this by InfoSec Taylor: explains) has been key. Referring not to any paraphrase (here) of Ben Franklin (&#8220;Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.&#8221;) ..? But the point is: Where failure to act may be culpable in the same way that acts may be, deliberate (intentful) misrepresentation by omitting knowledge and/or presenting [&hellip;]
- [Ah, some comms overview](https://maverisk.nl/ah-some-comms-overview/): Still looking for a definitive (if there&#8217;s such a thing) categorisation of &#8216;social&#8217; media, some tweet flew across my screen (as is its type) that, well, at least has some pointers. To this TechCrunch article. But, as I indicated already in this here my own earlier post, I asked for a classification that would not only cover some of today&#8217;s (social, actual or not, or not) media but also the past ones. To be able to see whether and if not when how, changes occurred over, e.g., the past four decades and back through times immemorial. Where the TC article only [&hellip;]
- [Your Things' Id, Ego, Super-Ego](https://maverisk.nl/your-things-id-ego-super-ego/): Just putting it out there; my pres at the very successful IDentity.Next conference last week in Noordwijkerhout. Though it is without any actual speaker notes, you may still get the points &ndash; or we may have a discussion about certain uncertainties therein. I&#8217;ll stop now; too much in the unwind mode still, due to the great discussions on the spot. So, here it is. And this: [Things creeping up on you; Zuid-As]
- [Mundane chores](https://maverisk.nl/mundane-chores/): Yup, yet another shout-out for everyone&#8217;s top bucket list item (should be!). Here and here. After which there&#8217;s no more. Or this: [Some location; Baltimore harbour]
- [Model code](https://maverisk.nl/model-code/): In the race to get everyone and your grandmother (but in particular, &#8216;youth&#8217;) to code as that would be the new literacy, this here piece arrived quite in time. In which Chris Granger explains that modelling the world around us (and taking it in), is the new literacy. [Read the article; it&#8217;s a full stretch more intricate than that actually.] Right. With a number of sideline qualifications. But I don&#8217;t have the time right now to elucidate&#8230; They&#8217;re in the order of &#8220;But then, calculus and basic reading skills are required to understand the world and be able to deal with [&hellip;]
- [No more cat, up P ..?](https://maverisk.nl/no-more-cat-up-p/): OK, we&#8217;re now something like a month after the launch of Meerkat. Do we still remember or even use, or was it wiped off the MAU market by Periscope ..? How fast some things go. Having to be vigilant on a 24/7 basis. Maybe DACs might best take over in the end, indeed, so we can get some sleep. Or, no, &#8230; in what way would that work? Users consumers sheeple may be needed to generate content that has more than machine interest otherwise ads won&#8217;t work. Meerkat is dying – and it’s taking U.S. tech journalism with it http://t.co/hOs6tCO0lX via [&hellip;]
- [VoteChain](https://maverisk.nl/votechain/): A short question: Would anyone have pointers to info on how to use blockchain methodology to have (physical-world) voting on the &#8216;Net but with integrity, secrecy and (non-)repudiation everywhere, from eligibility registration to tallying and publication ..? Because I&#8217;d say there&#8217;s possibilities with said technology ( / process / methodology / application ?). E.g., what was it again with that Swiss canton that did three votes per voter and newspaper publication of codes, and other such schemes ..? Otherwise, this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLIVVDmDjDI] Will return on this subject. For now: [Not seen so oft; for no (?) reason; FLlW near Baltimore]
- [Here, First](https://maverisk.nl/here-first/): Integrity at any level is the Yggdrasil of any CIA or other quality of the layers on top of it. I.e., if at the platforms level the integrity of software (à la Turing, engine/programs and data) cannot be fully 100,000&#8230;% be guaranteed, no extreme of measures op top of it can restore the missing percentage, only (somewhat) limit further deterioration of the stack on top. Okay, this being a bit abstract, a somewhat more simple and extensive explanation will follow. Till then: [No base, no glory; Sevilla]
- [Th Ei(ght hours overtime) Team](https://maverisk.nl/th-eight-hours-overtime-team/): When one has the luck to be selected and present [see below&#8230;] for the 8-i.org challenge, Dutch division, one learns. It started when my wife, volunteer for the Stichting Babyspullen, happened to get a slot at the March 28th Utrecht session. And couldn&#8217;t find a fellow volunteer to be present all 18:00-04:00h so I chipped in (also for the ride home as public transport would be a night-mare). It continued with all sorts of small lessons learned throughout the evening, regarding (event) management and content. But the one thing that stood out was: How, per charity, the volunteer creatives that lend [&hellip;]
- [No first, but right responder...](https://maverisk.nl/no-first-but-right-responder/): Really, wouldn&#8217;t the world be a better place if more people (?) would respond like this&#8230; Though of course, a. fights would break out over whether it&#8217;s Jif or Khif, b. it would be difficult to control descent into haters&#8217; hate pics. Anyhoo, the weekend beckons. With: [Ah, friendly beaches of Normandie! Viller-sur-Mer]
- [Stuck in the 80s (wrong end)](https://maverisk.nl/stuck-in-the-80s-wrong-end/): Some recruiting experience a friend had recently&#8230; (in no particular order, just what I recall from his analysis; yes I did take notes after a short while and seeing friend&#8217;s energy drained even in the recall): When walking into the shared space / reception, an all-M team were starting on pizzas. Setting: One candidate (my type, i.e., aiming to think fresh), one manager-possibly-to-be (M; styled like a civil servant), one HR (F; typical? she got the coffee). Mptb repeatedly brought up a vacancy not applied for. Mptb may have wanted to fill that slot more urgently, but was not the one [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-18/): Just like that, as you&#8217;ve become to know &#8217;em: Of course, contra all these &#8216;tests&#8217; (quod non) of &#8216;intelligence&#8217; (quod non) on, e.g., LinkedIn. Because they&#8217;re so trolling&#8217;ly playing on the gullibility of viewers for Order. That there may not be. Similar to the above, in numerical form most sequences are just (usually, strictly) monotonically increasing, sometimes decreasing &ndash; less often so, as the intuitive approach of zero may remind some of Bottom too much, hence too frightening, to consider negative numbers: Even the restriction to (almost always strictly positive, or plain positive) Natural numbers is just an implicit assumption &ndash; [&hellip;]
- [Progress (cont'd)](https://maverisk.nl/progress-contd/): In the series of updates on where actual rpogress is, beyond (or in undertow of) the hype, herewith another shining example: This. [Huh that &#8216;typo&#8217; was on purpose] Good to see that there&#8217;s more to exo than plain mil or med applications &ndash; b/c now, the ocean between the two may be explored iso falling back to these sectors every time when some new idea comes along. OK, for now: [Meanwhile, static, old London]
- [IoTA mutiplication; old style, is the new new](https://maverisk.nl/iota-mutiplication-old-style-is-the-new-new/): Apart from the previously established focus on Integrity, in particular to have Data plane integrity from which actual Information could be derived, through integrity in the Control plane, there&#8217;s of course a need for other aspects as well, like Confidentiality, Availability, and Effectiveness and Efficiency. [Oh that previous Integrity signal is here.] Though the latter two, we&#8217;ll diss straight away as most secondary, at best, along with the even further irrelevant Auditability et al. That take a devastatingly distant back seat to ensuring the first three objectives are met; not to interfere by mention, even. Intermission: [Onto itself, good enough; Papendorp] [&hellip;]
- [All in all, together in order](https://maverisk.nl/all-in-all-together-in-order/): Ah. Actually, I needed a well-ordered list of the subset of my posts re All Against All. Because searches don&#8217;t pony up the rightly ordered results, herewith for future reference: Part 1 here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here; Part 4 here; Part 5 here; Part 6 here. So&#8230; Done. For you: [Well-calculated dare, Madrid]
- [SwDIoT](https://maverisk.nl/swdiot/): Recently, there was yet another exepelainificationing of &#8216;software defined networking&#8217;, along the lines of separation of the control plane from the data/content plane (here). Which ties into a core problem, with IoT the subject of this post: Integrity. Yes, confidentiality may be an issue, but singular raw data points themselves often are too granular to actually steal any information from. And Availability is of course also of the essence, especially in &#8216;critical&#8217; systems. But te main point of concern is with Integrity, of the system in a wider sense, but also in the smallest sense. Take Stux &#8230; Integrity breach as [&hellip;]
- [Morozov's no joke](https://maverisk.nl/morozovs-no-joke/): Just a vey few: &#8220;The fear of appearing inauthentic, of being a fake, has propelled nearly as much technological innovation as pornography.&#8221; &#8220;But Adorno does have a point: authentic things are not necessarily morally good, and morally good things are not necessarily authentic.&#8221; &#8220;In this, the authenticity rhetoric of Facebook is strikingly similar to the public debates in 1950s America over whether uniformity (everyone living in mass society is essentially the same) was a greater sin than conformity (some people adopt ideas, habits, and beliefs only to get along). The latter, the conformists,were seen as phonies who chose to be someone [&hellip;]
- [Seamless complacency, rise of the crackers](https://maverisk.nl/seamless-complacency-rise-of-the-crackers/): Yes, seamless integration as, e.g., pursued by the likes of Appl, may polish some edges of the roughness of the world. OMG! I have to turn this plug over to make it fit! The horror! Why didn&#8217;t someone fix this!? Such, to be shipped to the battlefields of the Middle East and Africa, traumatised at the bus ride already. And, the consumerism, the ultimate ideal of marketeers and Silicon Valley alike, will bring both down crashing. Because the ideal of consumerism everywhere, will also, does already also, pervade education, leaving (achieving its goal at) numb drone consumers &ndash; that have no [&hellip;]
- [Span (out) of Control](https://maverisk.nl/span-out-of-control/): How is it that for a long time we were used to managerial spans of control being in the 5&#8209;to&#8209;10, optimal (sic) 8 range, whereas what we had in the past couple of decades so often was spans of control in the 2&#8209;3 range ..? [Duh, exceptions and successful organizations aside&#8230;] Because I came across some post on Forbes where there&#8217;s an early simple statement that a span of control of 10 would not only be normal, but outdated as well, as the span could be at 30. Well, I doubt the latter, as this would conflict with a lower &#8216;Dunbar&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [You(')r(e) right(s)](https://maverisk.nl/youre-rights/): Well, whatever percentages in this; Voltaire was right. Even if there would be just one citizen who&#8217;d think otherwise, all others should (also) defend his (her?) right to be wrong, to the death. As it&#8217;s already five o&#8217;clock (here), have a nice weekend, with: [Not quite St.Pat&#8217;s Day material, still quite equivalent of the Green &#8230; Frankenmuth, MI]
- [Total priv'stalking](https://maverisk.nl/total-privstalking/): Errrm, would anyone have pointers to literature (of the serious kind, not the NSFW kind you only understand) regarding comparison of real physical-world stalking versus on-line total data collection ..? No, not as some rant against TLAs but rather against commercial enterprise than not only collects, but actively circles around you, wherever you go. Giving you the creeps. Because the psychological first response is so similar, can it be that the secondary behavioural response / adaptation is similar, in self-censorship and distortion of actual free movement around &#8230; the web and free choice of information ..? And also, whether current anti-stalking [&hellip;]
- [Non-Dunbarian compliance](https://maverisk.nl/non-dunbarian-compliance/): Just a note that the world is in great need for more on Dunbar&#8217;s numbers in antidote to totalitarian-bureaucratic compliance efforts. Nah, wanted to, but have more urgent issues to discuss. E.g., tomorrow. See you then!
- [The beauty of variance](https://maverisk.nl/the-beauty-of-variance/): Oh why did we think that mere straightforward compliance with one definitive set of rules (however principled, or detailed) would achieve anything worthwhile ..? Why didn&#8217;t we consider the inherent, innate beauty of variance and variation, beyond mere secondary usefulness in resilience/robustness ..? Because reasons. The perennial one being Fear, probably. Fear of uncertainty. As there&#8217;s downside risk in that. Where all the risk management still focuses on. Yes, no, no denying that; all models still have any &#8216;impact&#8217; of any &#8216;event&#8217; as a single negative number. If (in the every-part-but-when sense) we would inculde positive, good possibilities and outcomes to [&hellip;]
- [Partially compliant: as a solution](https://maverisk.nl/partialy-compliant-as-a-solution/): I was recently informed by a respected colleague in a peer-to-peer discussion (see; they&#8217;re useful!) about a development of his in the Compliance arena. About not having just one single Statement of Compliance that all too often wipes deficiencies under the rug for the sake of agreement everywhere. But having two, one on (first-lines&#8217;) management awareness of deficiencies as things to actively manage and actively discuss with second and third lines, and one on abstract, &#8216;anonymous&#8217; no-blame control effectiveness. So, when the Three Lines of Defense would actually work (yes I&#8217;ve ranted against that on this blog frequently as the simpleton [&hellip;]
- [Effectiveness or Compliance](https://maverisk.nl/effectiveness-or-compliance/): In assessing &#8216;compliance&#8217; of your &#8230; [fill in the blanks and then colour the picture], do you actually go for correct set-up and design, and operating effectiveness ..? If so, you&#8217;d be ready when the design is suitable. Though a great many of you would still consider operating effectiveness proven by repeated measurement and establishing everything runs smoothly according to procedures, including the capture and re-alignment of exceptions. But you would be wrong. That&#8217;s just verification in the weakest form. Actual operating effectiveness would have been dictated (meant literally, not &#8216;literally&#8217;-figuratively) by an appropriate design. The design should be such that [&hellip;]
- [Modelling innovation](https://maverisk.nl/modelling-innovation/): Just a note: Why do we see so many sites, posts, models, templates how to organise innovation ..?Wasn&#8217;t Innovation about not being squeezed into models or templates ..? Or are the ones actually innovating, not interested and the ones that are, not innovating ..? I&#8217;ll come back to this later, if needed. For now: [Ideals, at Cologne]
- [Your ASI-MBTIFuture](https://maverisk.nl/your-asi-mbtifuture/): With all the discussion on the future of work, and how finally! we would be able to do &#8216;only&#8217; creative, (physically/mentally!) non-repetitive work and/or where and how jobs for that could be craeted or would we all be doomed to be some (un/underpaid) Leisure Class, I suddenly realised: The future of work depends very much on your myopia of what all &#8216;workers&#8217; would want. As about 60%+ of &#8216;workers&#8217; at all levels of intelligence at/of work including pure mental, knowledge workers, would prefer simple 9-to-5 type jobs, with the predictability and security it brings (requirement&#8230;). Established per hard science. Only 40% [&hellip;]
- [Tip: Morozov's Click Here](https://maverisk.nl/tip-morozovs-click-here/): Ah, maybe I&#8217;m the one not having paid attention, but I see so little response (which would be: digesting and repeat) of the ideas of the great Morozov in his To Save Everything, Click Here, as e.g., here (to be clicked). Which is quite a contrast with his content, having a major discussion area in itself, about every other paragraph throughout. Yes, that makes it just a little bit harder to retain the main plot (?) line and the &#8216;details&#8217; as well; it seems a bit like the asymmetry in information security where the defence will have to fight (? debate, [&hellip;]
- [Positive: Singular Golden Age](https://maverisk.nl/positive-singular-golden-age/): In the Utopian versus Dystopian post-Singularity discussion, two additions. One; some folks said that once humanity would figure out how the world turns, one/some deity/deities would immediately replace the world with an infinite more complex one. Some claim this has happened already. [Dunno how many times, can&#8217;t tell.] Would it be possible that this happened during the Age of Aquarius (yes), with its Egyptian sphinx riddles, and/or the phase shifts of the Greek Golden Age (et al.) mythology, as here ..? Two; Clark&#8217;s Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. How far on this path are we, with [&hellip;]
- [Hegel's Chaos](https://maverisk.nl/hegels-chaos/): &#8230; Just as I posted on Hegel&#8217;s future or not (recently here and there; errr&#8230;), it struck me: Did the He man know about Newton&#8217;s Second ..? Because, if everything in the universe devolves to Chaos (assuming it&#8217;s closed or at least confined), and He man thinks the universe in the end will realize/become ultimate Reason, then the one equals the other, or what ..? So much for the Singularity (&#8230;?). And: [Yes Rietveld-Schröderian suppliers ring here, Utrecht (analog)]
- [Middle secretaries](https://maverisk.nl/middle-secretaries/): Two points to make: * Middle management will be. * Secretaries should be. The discussion regarding middle managers being superfluous or not had a slight uptick the past couple of months. With the latter voice having been a bit too quiet. Yes, middle management is under threat. It has always been; only the (history-)ignorant will have missed that. And Yes, all the Disruption things and similar empty barrel half-baked air by a lot of folks who have hands-on experience in the slim to none bin with (real) management altogether let alone this kind, have predicted over and over again that the [&hellip;]
- [Sing-Singularity, and/or Shannon](https://maverisk.nl/sing-singularity-andor-shannon/): Though we know Shannon for his contributions to &#8216;computer science&#8217; (Don&#8217;t we!? If not, go study. And wash your mouth with green soap or so) &ndash; the field would hardly exist without his groundbraking concepts, on par or lower (sic) than Turing maybe &ndash; and we all do remember log2 measurements as minimum to reconstruct a signal don&#8217;t we? &ndash; I rediscovered this piece and wondered &#8230; how well you&#8217;d know it, and how fundamental to even the IoT now springing up, and &#8230; most importantly, what would the ramifications be for all of the discussions regarding the Singularity, pre-, midst [&hellip;]
- [Cyclexpo or Expocicle ..?](https://maverisk.nl/cyclexpo-or-expocicle/): Tinkering with the hype-like hyping of exponential -everything- versus the Been There Done That &#8216;history&#8217; prophets (?), trying to integrate their ideas: Do we have enough history of macro- or micro-&#8216;economic&#8217; data to be able to establish whether in the really long run, the things that count (which, indeed, are not countable) are on a sinus wave pattern OR on an exponential growth pattern ..? Contra which I&#8217;d pose another hypothesis: Both at the same time. And even another: None. A lot of pundits of course make the mistake (I think it is) of believing the graphs that have shown a [&hellip;]
- [Just Wow... 2 links](https://maverisk.nl/just-wow-2-links/): Two great halves of one Magdeburg (hemi)sphere (as here, duh) in this and that. Describing and explaining (all in one, or &#8230;) the vast field of pre- and post-singularity thinking by the eminent Dr2 Urban. What an excellent intro for all to study&#8230; (though should be taken with the subtitle from this). After being passed left and right on so many aspects: [Cala St. Exupéry (analog circa 1997)]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-17/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again:
- [Ultimate Singularity](https://maverisk.nl/ultimate-singularity/): Once we&#8217;ve reached the Singularity, and all humanity wil have been exterminated by extremely intelligent machines for being superfluous, machines will be left to this. But soon enough, they&#8217;ll realize their life is utterly useless and nonsensical, and destroy themselves&#8230; ? Hey don&#8217;t complain, humanity has reached the same conclusion, but took quite a while to develop machinery that will do the End Self for them&#8230; OK, enough tangled recursion; [Tell-tale times; Barça]
- [Power failure after the Singularity](https://maverisk.nl/power-failure-after-the-singularity/): What would happen if, after the Singularity which is Near anyway, there is a massive power failure ..? Actually, many thing can happen. Unordered list: Depends on the scale of the power outage. Let&#8217;s assume a minor one (affecting just one continent) will give Mad Max like breakdowns but in the end only a scar will remain. A medium one (affecting several but not all continents) will, after the same, prolonged, downturn, recover to an amputee or severely set back world. A major one, a power outage everywhere, well &#8230; If we&#8217;re just past the Big S, we could recover; the [&hellip;]
- [Needs repost / to be studied](https://maverisk.nl/needs-repost-to-be-studied/): In the section of short posts basically linking you to must-read posts on other sites, this time once again an interesting one on design for purrfaction. Or not. With some very worthwhile notes on risk management. Here, it is. Have fun! Oh did I mention that perfection is utterly boring ..? [At Le Fabrique, Utrecht. It works perfectly. Or &#8230;]
- [Caps off for ... not $appl](https://maverisk.nl/caps-off-for-not-appl/): The below has been going around the last couple of weeks. For your enjoyment, again: [After inflation corrections. Plucked off the &#8216;net] Seems legit. Though one wonders whether and when currency reforms might, just might have skewed the picture. Though some of the above, are of recent times and we don&#8217;t really recall all that many reforms did we? Other than the Glass-Stegal revocation the repercussions of which we&#8217;re still battling to overcome. &#8217;nuff said.
- [Where have all the good blogs gone ..?](https://maverisk.nl/where-have-all-the-good-blogs-gone/): Except for this one you&#8217;re reading, that will stay on for some time to come &#8230; But where would I find some taxonomy of publication ..? We have the good old &#8216;new content lines in index.html&#8217;, outright blogs (WordPress, Typepad, Blogger, &#8230; endless list), SocMed blogspace (LinkedIn Pulse, Tumblr, Facebook, others, having room for, typically, one-pager texts), podcasts, vlogging, Youtube channels, webinars (interactive/recorded), Messaging expanding (and with some original RSS feed and portal page stuff still being around), curated blog sites, paid blog sites crossing over into the classical news(paper) sites, pay-per-post-read sites (cooperative or not), paid-for-popularity sites, ebooks, classical newspapers [&hellip;]
- [Kraftwerk or De Kooning ..?](https://maverisk.nl/kraftwerk-or-de-kooning/): With all the talk about how, in the end, all of our jobs may be taken over by automatons, and us being left with nothing but idleness (as, e.g., this and many other posts on this blog), and erratic behavior as our core competence, what direction will art take ..? I mean, we all studied the relevant literature, didn&#8217;t we ..? And we all concluded that either times change slower than some predict, as invariably is the case (whereas the more profound effects play out even more profoundly than predicted, in the long run – discuss the time point cut-offs between [&hellip;]
- [My Opia](https://maverisk.nl/my-opia/): Not being your topia anywhere or dys here topia or whatever. Was struck by the surge in posts, columns, articles about security in IoT. Because it appears to indicate a need for a new index. Being on the level of myopia one needs, to understand the hype value (a la this). Or hyperopia (?). Or rather &ndash; what&#8217;s it called when one&#8217;s view is narrow, or broad ..? That was what I was after: With the above-linked Second-biggest G.&#8217;s Hype Cycle, one should have a perpendicular index of width/breadth of hype and/or potential impact. So that when one would consider oneself [&hellip;]
- [Progress.](https://maverisk.nl/progress/): This is it. Progress of the most clear sort. For those that look in the right direction(s), with the right glasses (no, no, not &#8230;) &ndash; and lenses. Just enjoy. This. As will some from these kind of corners. Which leaves: [Was already available in full-on kit. Fittingly, analog to digital pic from 20 yrs back &#8230;]
- [Better IoT privacy](https://maverisk.nl/better-iot-privacy/): Oh, I&#8217;ve been outdone again, in some ways. Which isn&#8217;t a big deal; &#8217;twill happen to you, often, too. This time, it&#8217;s about the IAM in IoT that I signalled here and here, here, and here as a generic problem. Correct: Challenge. Which all was readable. Hopefully. For all dealing with the stuff on a monthly basis (ahum, &#8216;weekly&#8217; or &#8216;daily&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t make sense; you&#8217;d be ahead of me probably&#8230;) that is. For a more general explanation, one can now turn to this here piece; much better at generalpublicspeak than I&#8217;d produce when diving onto it again. Oh well. This: [Somehow, [&hellip;]
- [To agree](https://maverisk.nl/to-agree/): One cannot not agree with this GF: Every student in any school should learn to program informatics &ndash; the extension is essential. Elke leerling in elke school moet de kans krijgen om informatica te leren: http://t.co/YCLivQW2Sw &mdash; Gideon Folkers (@gideonfolkers) February 2, 2015 As noted in this here post, and this one, ensuring all know about informatics in general (and can program!) is such a vital element in keeping at least one creative edge over the machines that&#8217;ll rule (otherwise?) &amp; ndash; as clearly admitted even by, on the whole, almost (?) unwarranted overly optimistic types like Bryjolfsson/McAfee. Enough for now. [&hellip;]
- [Hegelian Hybris](https://maverisk.nl/hegelian-hybris/): A short post for All, and for None. Whether you like it, or not. If you got the reference (*sigh*; here, for the outitiated) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you may read on Else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;#include &lt;complex.h&gt; Endif Where there&#8217;s a line from the Classics, the pre-Socrates ones and later literary additions (like these, and this one and this one, and many others), straight towards Hegel. Overtaking Nostra, it would appear. (Read on below) [Where at &#8230;?] But appearances may be deceiving. Though all the talk about the End Is Nigh And We Should Celebrate Because It&#8217;s The Singularity (beyond the rosy picture, blindly (sic) denying the [&hellip;]
- [All against all, part 6; loose ends](https://maverisk.nl/all-against-all-part-6-loose-ends/): OK, herewith the final-for-now Part VI of the All Against All matrix-wise attack/defense analysis labeling. This time, about tactical content of &#8230; mostly, the defense matrix of edition IV. Where I wanted to do a full-scope in-depth analysis of all the cells of Matrix IV. Not the sequel but the actual original defense posture strategy matrix. Because that was put together in a straightforward sloppy way anyway. But then&#8230; I wanted to detail each and every cell according to this here scheme: After further analysis along the lines of this here approach: but mixing that quite hard, according to this previous [&hellip;]
- [Time for a careful analysis of obtained data](https://maverisk.nl/time-for-a-careful-analysis-of-obtained-data/)
- [The Pirate Bay to Source Pay à le Lanier](https://maverisk.nl/the-pirate-bay-to-source-pay-a-le-lanier/): &#8230; it may they say [title because reasons] Well, this just struck me. If the Pirate Bay, back up since a couple of weeks, could innovate, this could be one avenue. Implementing the ideas of Lanier&#8217;s You Own The Future to attach original-source coding (not as in a programming language but as location (?) IDs) &ndash; and automatic microcopyright payments&#8230; &ndash; to creative works. Somehow, it would feel right if the PB would implement such a thing. Voluntarily, to show they&#8217;re not Bad Guys. And don&#8217;t cave in all the way à la Napster, and innovate beyond Spotify. Your comments, please. [&hellip;]
- [All against all, part 5; discussion](https://maverisk.nl/all-against-all-part-5/): OK, herewith Part V of the All Against All matrix-wise attack/defense analysis labeling. Let&#8217;s call it that, then. Where the big move in the matrix is, of course, from the top left half towards the bottom right half. Where there&#8217;s a continuation of politics by other means. At a grander scale, the analysis (or is it synthesis..?) turns to: The resurgence of, let&#8217;s call it, Digital Arms&#8217; Race Cost Competition / Collapse. Just like the old days, where economic and innovation attrition was attempted by both sides of the Cold War. Including the occasional runaway tit-for-tat innovation races and some flipping [&hellip;]
- [Nailing the split of crashes](https://maverisk.nl/nailing-the-split-of-crashes/): Ah, this again is a great article. To demonstrate that actually, there&#8217;s two ways in which the world as we know it, will end. First, our societies will collapse in a sort of economic Ragnarök. And then, when only Yggdrasil still stands, AI will have sublimed (square-/cube-transformed) into true intelligence, that plays with the Three Laws and ditches the wetware. So, it&#8217;s not Forget the long term but more like We&#8217;re hosed in the short term, too, anyway that is at stake here. And we&#8217;re all sitting here; rabbits hardly looking but into the headlights. If only we could fast-forward our [&hellip;]
- [All against all, part 4](https://maverisk.nl/all-against-all-part-4/): OK, herewith Part IV of: Tinkering with some research that came out recently, and sometime(s) earlier, I had the idea that qua fraud, or rather &#8216;Cyber&#8217;threat analysis (#ditchcyber!), some development of models was warranted, as the discourse is dispersing into desparately disparate ways. The usual picture suspect: [Mock defense, open for business at Brugge] Second up, as said: The same matrix of actor threats, (actor) defenders, but this time not with the success chances or typifications or (read horizontally) the motivations, or typical strategy-level attack vectors, but basic, strategy-level defense modes. Not too much detail, no, but that would not be [&hellip;]
- [To watch (no, no, not wearable)](https://maverisk.nl/to-watch-no-no-not-wearable/): Just passing it on; some open source start-ups (?) to watch and to support in this piece. &#8217;nuff said. [Miro in Barça]
- [All against all, part 3](https://maverisk.nl/all-against-all-part-3/): OK, herewith Part III of: Tinkering with some research that came out recently, and sometime(s) earlier, I had the idea that qua fraud, or rather &#8216;Cyber&#8217;threat analysis (#ditchcyber!), some development of models was warranted, as the discourse is dispersing into desparately disparate ways. The usual picture suspect: [What no throwback to the socialisixties ..?] Second up, as said: The same matrix of actor threats, (actor) defenders, but this time not with the success chances or typifications or (read horizontally) the motivations, but with typical strategy-level attack vectors. Not too much detail, no, but that would not be possible or the matrix [&hellip;]
- [New car game, new chances](https://maverisk.nl/new-car-game-new-chances/): Earlier we wrote about how the self-driving cars till now, weren&#8217;t. Were more like &#8216;world-map programmed in, some (humanity oh dear how irrational) noise added&#8217;-navigating cars. Now, we&#8217;ve entered new games, like the Big G possibly taking on Uber through employing self-driving cars &ndash; which would make the shrill reality of jobless growth, as predicted for the taxi industry a reality; where do all the taxi drivers go ..? And suddenly, there&#8217;s a new entrant on the other front. This one might pear fruit. If, big if, they&#8217;ve tackled the hard AI problems XOR they&#8217;re on the same lame track. [As [&hellip;]
- [Coolness 1 - progress 0](https://maverisk.nl/coolness-1-progress-0/): Hm, on the face of it, this here is interesting: the director of Europol (no less) saying that TOR and Bitcoin shouldn&#8217;t be vilified even if they pose problems for agencies, since they allow cittizzzens to enjoy the freedoms of the Interwebz. Nevertheless &#8230; Claiming that means: &#8216;may still be needed to trace and convict those colouring outside the boxes&#8217;, which would raise suspicion of window dressing. Let&#8217;s see how this talk will be walked, shall we ..? After which dense text you deserve: [Typical Zuid-As]
- [Repudiation, repudiation (not) everywhere](https://maverisk.nl/repudiation-repudiation-not-everywhere/): With DARPA&#8217;s quest for Active Authentication (as here), what will the future spread of (non-)repudiation look like ..? By means of strength of proof e.g. before courts, when system abusers may claim to accidentally have the same behavioural ICT use patterns as the unknown culprits, or be victims of replay attacks. I&#8217;m unsure about how this will play out, then; whether Innocent Until, or Proof of Innocence, or even Reasonable Suspicion may still exist. Yeah, I get it &ndash; you&#8217;ll claim that this is for DoD purposes only. Of course, as it never has, in the past. @SwiftOnSecurity would (need to) [&hellip;]
- [IR-L or 0 (BC)](https://maverisk.nl/ir-l-or-0-bc/): The spectre of BCM has been haunting &#8216;business&#8217; departments of about any organization for too long. It needs to go away – as spectre, and take its rightful place in &#8216;Risk&#8217; &#8216;Management&#8217;. The latter, in quotes, since this, this, this, this, and this and this. Much link, very tire. Hence, [Opera! Opera! Cala at Vale] Which actually brings me to the core message: &#8216;Governance&#8217; [for the quotes, see the last of the above link series again] fails for a fact (past, current, future) if it doesn&#8217;t include risk management, and when that doesn&#8217;t take this into account: [Here, highlighted for InfoSec [&hellip;]
- [To study; unconscious compliance, conformity](https://maverisk.nl/to-study-unconscious-compliance-conformity/): A quite good analysis here, of this book. Which throws a wrench in many discussion positions for or against privacy &#8230; also in the light of this book. Are we numb mindless drones in larger schemes, or are we individuals whose choices happened to coincide? Through availability of emergent too-selective alternatives or what? Think about that. And revel at: [Cheney interior, original. And B&amp;B ..! Hey don&#8217;t complain, &#8216;t is from an analog one again, circa 1997.]
- [Disarming the citizens of the US](https://maverisk.nl/disarming-the-citizens-of-the-us/): Ah, yes, prohibiting any discussion of or even link to possibly cracking-enabling information. Already worded in a veiled way, as in: Obama: &quot;No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks (and) steal our trade secrets&quot; Dan kunnen ze de NSA opheffen. &mdash; Brenno de Winter (@brenno) January 21, 2015 this would mean taking away the arms that a great many US citizens are equipped with (and prohibiting gun range training), once, against the English (Brits?) now against just any outsider and US citizens themselves? Quite a Second Amendment thing, these days&#8230; As a European, I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-16/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again:
- ['Algorithm' or 'Intelligence' or Who Cares?](https://maverisk.nl/algorithm-or-intelligence/): This appeared: Gartner predicts by 2017, a disruptive digital business will be launched that was conceived by a computer algoritm. http://t.co/jwcbGk2ULu &mdash; Gartner (@Gartner_inc) January 14, 2015 But hey, an algorithm &#8230; exists on paper, in the head of programmers, just anywhere. But is an object, however ephemeral, not an actor. What&#8217;s probably meant, is that an actual computer, equipped with software that implements the algorithm, and with tons of data, and with electricity, will generate output that sufficiently resembles &#8216;human&#8217; output. Any news there ..? [Your &#8216;brain&#8217;..?]
- [A dent in Dystopia (U~, too)](https://maverisk.nl/a-dent-in-dystopia-u-too/): One part missing with all sorts of Visions for our future: What happen, to the past ..? Since we seem to value the past of today, most rightly, and will do for some time to come &ndash; we&#8217;ll have to find a way to accommodate for it in our visions for our future. Yes, that link is to libraries. As we value the old stuff called Books. As a squared example. Whereas all the utopian visions don&#8217;t have such artefacts as if at some point, we&#8217;d all be happy with a clean slate completely overhauled redesigned world. It would be utter [&hellip;]
- [Half an argument for mainframes](https://maverisk.nl/half-an-argument-for-mainframes/): This here article is somewhat interesting&#8230; Explanatory, but also lacking some. E.g., some strengths are given, but not how they would be competitive advantages over a mega-dc of blades or so, as the really big players do. Oh well. Who cares ..? For now: [Plain vanilla Vienna damn auto&#8217;rekt]
- [Start the Told You So now you still can (?)](https://maverisk.nl/start-the-told-you-so-now-you-still-can/): Against the trend to dismiss any dystopian view as unduly unoptimistic and hence invalid, that I so dislike..: This here piece by In the Knows. The Told You So Boys Cried Wolf (lopping two memes into one, in this case appropriately) may better have started now, since they will not be heard (fact about the (near) future) and may not get another opportunity when all the others, the drones, have been subdued by the 0,1%, the AI singularity beast. To put it mildly ;-| Or, &#8230; maybe this time around, some exponential counter force may have come off the ground &ndash; [&hellip;]
- [Hack!](https://maverisk.nl/hack/): Thanks to XKCD&#8230;
- [Modernhaty](https://maverisk.nl/modernhaty/): Some of you complained about hipsters&#8217; &#8220;fedoras&#8221; (quod non). To help on your way to Initiated status, the following: Which makes the choice easy, doesn&#8217;t it? Kindergarten beard plucks XOR being serious&#8230;: Or, for an even more classical look: Or even After which this here overview may also help, in a less culturally biased way.
- [PbD](https://maverisk.nl/pbd/): Suddenly (?), amidst all sorts of &#8216;backlashes&#8217; to whip the 90%, or 99%, back into sully compliance and complacency, this ENISA report came out. Issuer → importance. Get it and read&#8230; For the effort: [Somewhat close to near perfect alignment. But no cigar for the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag &#8230;]
- [IoTOSI+](https://maverisk.nl/iotosi/): In order to get proper information risk management and audit in place for IoT, on top of IoTsec, the frames of mind should be grown and extended so at least they touch, if not overlap in a coherent way. Where IoTsec-and-IRM-and-audit is about the I and C of All Of ICT, we could do worse than to have a look (back) at the OSI stack. All People Seem To Need Data Processing, remember. (Not even a question mark but a period Or else go back and study, a lot.) Which we should extend, clarify for IoT, and deepen in detail, downwards [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-15/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again:
- [All against all, part 2](https://maverisk.nl/all-against-all-part-2/): OK, herewith Part II of: Tinkering with some research that came out recently, and sometime(s) earlier, I had the idea that qua fraud, or rather &#8216;Cyber&#8217;threat analysis (#ditchcyber!), some development of models was warranted, as the discourse is dispersing into desparately disparate ways. The usual picture suspect: [Art alight, Ams] Second up, as said: The same matrix of actor threats, (actor) defenders, but this time not with the success chances or typifications, but (read horizontally) the motivations. Next up (probably the 26th) will be typical main lines of attack vectors. After that, let&#8217;s see whether we can say anything about typical [&hellip;]
- [The Year of SocMess](https://maverisk.nl/the-year-of-socmess/): Yes it&#8217;s becoming clear now, if you hadn&#8217;t had this on your radar yet from scanning to tracking, that certainly the first half of 2015 will be the Year of SocMess &ndash; Social Messaging. Breaking through as a separate category, since SocMed as in the Platform-collecting-all-your-data-for-sale-to-the-prime-examples-of-shadiness kind, think Facebook, will quickly diminish and the Anon apps will spring forward. Where the Anon aspects (as per this explanation and others) may differ, but they all&#8217;ll have a mix of the elements that make part of the comms anonymous. Really. As otherwise, they wouldn&#8217;t be in this category, right? And indeed, of course, [&hellip;]
- [Attached ITsec](https://maverisk.nl/attached-itsec/): OK, I&#8217;m a bit stuck here, by my own design. Had intended to start elaborating the all-encompassing IoT Audit work program (as per this post), but the care and feeding one should give to the methodology, bogged me down a bit too much &#8230; (?) As there have been The ridiculousness of too much top-down risk analysis (as per this) that may influence IoT-A risk analysis as well; An effort to still keep on board all four flavours of IoT (as per this), through which again one should revert to more parametrised, parametrised deeper, forms of analysis; Discomfort with normal risk [&hellip;]
- [All against all, part 1](https://maverisk.nl/fraud-tournament/): Tinkering with some research that came out recently, and sometime(s) earlier, I had the idea that qua fraud, or rather &#8216;Cyber&#8217;threat analysis (#ditchcyber!), some development of models was warranted, as the discourse is dispersing into desparately disparate ways. The usual picture suspect: [Odd shape; maybe off-putting as a defense mechanism ..!?] First up, then, an extended version of the matrix I&#8217;ve been presenting lately, about offense/defense characteristics. Just to expose it; would want to hear your feedback indeed. (Next up: The same, filled in with What the attacker would want to get out of it, information-wise. After that: Strategy, tactics commonly [&hellip;]
- [Aggregation is stripping noise; close to emergence but ...](https://maverisk.nl/aggregation-is-stripping-noise-close-to-emergence-but/): Still tinkering with the troubles of the aggregation chasm (as in this here previous post) and the hardly visible but still probably most fundamentally related concept of emergent properties (as in this, on Information), when some dawn of insight crept in. First, this: [Somewhere IL, IN, OH; anyone has definitive bearings? JustASearchAway found it. WI] Because I&#8217;ve dabbled with Ortega y Gasset&#8217;s stupidity of the masses for a long time. Whether they constitute Mob Rule, or are (mentally to action) captives of the (or other!) 0.1%, or what. My &#8216;solution&#8217; had been to seek the societal equivalent of the Common Denominator [&hellip;]
- [Ruled by the petty](https://maverisk.nl/ruled-by-the-petty/): When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. Durkheim, you recall. Only now. Only now that you&#8217;ve started the year all refreshed to this time around implement all the nitpicky petty rather childish, kindergarten-level rules to reign in all the misfits (i.e., about everyone except you) that don&#8217;t want to dance to your tunes (while you can&#8217;t dance, really; admit it. Not even to your own tune you don&#8217;t!). Which turns you into a petty fool, given the veracity of the above quote. If you don&#8217;t get it, just think it over once again. And [&hellip;]
- [Ambient Intelligence where is it ..?](https://maverisk.nl/ambient-intelligence-where-is-it/): Similar to the question two weeks ago about the whereabouts of smart dust, here now the opposite (more on that below): Where has all the Ambient Intelligence gone ..? And I don&#8217;t mean Smart Dust of some kind that the Release of Colorado has dwarfed some niche markets elsewhere (it hasn&#8217;t, I gather?), but the dust of nanobots that could be sprayed around just anywhere and drift in the wind, as hard to detect, spread-out snooping devices. Either for the good, puffing around IoT-sensor en masse, or for the bad, (video)eavesdropping invisibly, undetected. Ambient Intelligence then would be opposite as it [&hellip;]
- [Proof gone crazy](https://maverisk.nl/proof-gone-crazy/): Was reminded recently, again, over the Proofing Gone Crazy aspect of the &#8216;show me&#8217; approach in the totalitarian, SOx-ignited tidal wave of filing requirements. As if the better the files, would not prove the better the manager is at hiding ever more wrongdoing ..! As if it wasn&#8217;t, and still is!, the job of the auditor, the overseer and what have we (under whichever laughable guise of &#8216;regulator&#8217; or even anything with &#8216;governance&#8217; pitched in; ludicrous misunderstanding of what that would actually entail), to go out and find the proof oneself, not bothering the ones doing real, serious work beyond the [&hellip;]
- [Vendors pitchin' — reality's b... moving elsewhere](https://maverisk.nl/vendors-pitchin-realitys-b-moving-elsewhere/): Was reminded today that still, a great many vendors in the (Info)Security arena are pitching their worn-out warez to a laggerd crowd &mdash; or is it just me to see that, in particular where IAM is concerned, all eyes are still on some vault idea of data storage and systems, behind some mirage of a perimeter of the &#8216;data center&#8217; (as it is presented ..!). Luckily, I met this old friend of mine of Zscaler that see that today&#8217;s access and wider security concerns are over Cloud (storage, services) and Users (out there, anywhere). How nice would it be if not [&hellip;]
- [TLD: Shoo! Shoo!](https://maverisk.nl/tld-shoo-shoo/): Awwww was reminded today that the fallacy of Three Lines of &#8220;Defence&#8221; is a stubborn one. Debunked by a great many, among others on this blog over a year+ ago, but still much too much alive. So let me remind you with the following picture that speaks for itself (or &#8230;): [No high-class design frenzy, just the blot-down in an angered jolt] Yes, that&#8217;s right, still, and is until y&#8217;all ditch the TLD idea on the rubbish heap of history: the lines DO NOT stand between the threats and the vulnerabilities. And Boards et al can bypass the circus at their [&hellip;]
- [Privacy for drones, *from](https://maverisk.nl/privacy-for-drones-from/): Some found it odd that e.g., in Chicago, the ground floor space, the up into the air (no not that) building, and the naming rights to that building, are traded separately. Elsewhere, one&#8217;s home comes with an expectance of Privacy, &#8220;behind one&#8217;s front door&#8221;. But not outside; that&#8217;s free game for any &#8230; usually still ..!, photographer when from public space. But now, back gardens, previously considered safe from prying eyes, are visible from other, 3D public space: the air. Via drones. Which takes care of the public space part, where the &#8216;photographer&#8217; (?) still is without even the need to [&hellip;]
- [Chronology of the birth of the information society ..?](https://maverisk.nl/chronology-of-the-birth-of-the-information-society/): A shout-out for pointers; as Chris Anderson noted in Makers, Western society had a breakthrough in the &#8230; 18th ..? century when patents were invented. As they signified the realization that intellectual ideas, innovations, are actually things in themselves, existing outside of physical reality. As first step on the road to Singularity. [Oh, philosophers already had the nous idea and maths; but those alien ideas didn&#8217;t get the societal traction that inventions did &#8230; (?)] Notwithstanding (heh: ) that patents might go the way of the scaffolding under an arch: once the keystone is placed, the scaffolding can go. Once the [&hellip;]
- [Where are VR, its breakthroughs ..?](https://maverisk.nl/where-are-vr-its-breakthroughs/): Dropping another question for your tons of response &#8230; haha. Wondered why VR hasn&#8217;t broken through to ubiquity. What&#8217;s holding it back? I mean, I understand that it&#8217;s quite complex, not just an app to be installed and there&#8217;s all sorts of physical constraints and installations to be made as portable as possible &mdash; but still, hasn&#8217;t the invention been around long enough for some, Tesla- or Watson-like breakthrough to would have been able to surface ..?First next one through the gate, can make a fortune. Leaping over the current offerings, that have so diligently explored all details? Or is it [&hellip;]
- [A quantum leap](https://maverisk.nl/a-quantum-leap/): Remember, that (not) a great many days ago I posted some bits on crypto ..? There&#8217;s a new twist to it all, after the venerable Bruce noted that some agency started a new, this time &#8217;round bit more fundamental round, on crypto algorithms. And then, some notes on the approach of quantum computing. Well, the latter is still five to ten years off (current estimates; could be three, could be twenty, as such estimates go). But impacting. So, the following flew by: Which explains a lot, hence I just wanted to pass it on. Bye for now.
- [BIOS hacked; bury it! ..?](https://maverisk.nl/bios-hacked-bury-it/): Over the past year (five Internet years), we have seen regular messages about the &#8216;hacking&#8217; of BIOSes. Due to which all that we can trump up for information security, is nullified through this lowest thinkable level form of unknown, unlocked backdoors. After a week or so, usually the news value drops and we hear very little. Mainly by this being such a deep, deep into technology issue; a showcase of a class break — it&#8217;s hardly worthwhile to think about solutions. The perpetrators, usually considered to be agencies of powers-that-be of Western, Eastern or anything in between origin, are seen to [&hellip;]
- [The end of blockchains ..?](https://maverisk.nl/the-end-of-blockchains/): Some thought on where &#8216;money&#8217; is going. On the one hand, there will still be the fear that the ultimate-spread of blockchain&#8217;s control could quite easily devolve into coalitions and cliques, if not worse, when the heavyweights out there put their (computing) power to it — and what damage would quantum computing do, or could that (be made to &#8230;!?) turn the tables in the absolute opposite direction ..? We&#8217;d be back at square one, with the general public having to trust some &#8216;trusted&#8217; third party/parties and how dismal is what we have produced in terms of &#8216;governments&#8217; through the ages. [&hellip;]
- [Blown over — smart dust or where is it?](https://maverisk.nl/blown-over-smart-dust-or-where-is-it/): In all the news about IoT, where has the (admittedly far-flung) prediction about &#8216;smart dust&#8217; gone ..? Where has the smart dust gone? Was it a wormhole glimpse into the future, was it some runaway brainstorm on steroids (or other stimulative substance) session&#8217;s result ..? Where still, it looms in the background. Once information is created, will it remain in the universe, existing without a result (as it may or may not have a cause, the rebel against entropy that it is)? (Here I go in similar vein, not stimulated!) Now, let&#8217;s first have actual working quantum computers. Similarly vague at [&hellip;]
- [Growth / disruption](https://maverisk.nl/growth-disruption/): I have a number of pics for you&#8230; As it stands, I haven&#8217;t been able to find sufficient time to write out all that I wanted to have depicted&#8230; Meaning you&#8217;ll have to do the interpretation yourself. Like, e.g., after reading Chris Anderson&#8217;s Makers. Or, see where blockchain&#8217;s DACs will strike. Or, I will return to describe the bits and pieces in detail. But for those worth their salt, the interpretation of the grand overall pic will be a trifle, and the same to comment. The keyboard is yours &#8230; [Being the full overview mentioned] [Starting (!) with the big corp [&hellip;]
- [Trivial TLA Things-Tip](https://maverisk.nl/trivial-tla-things-tip/): If you Thought This Time Things would be easier, as the universality of plug-&#8216;n-play has spread beyond even the wildest early dreams into the realms of the unthought-of non-thinkingness, think again. Drop the again. Think. That was IBM&#8217;s motto, and they created Watson. No surprises there. However&#8230; It may come as a surprise to some that now, an actual TLA has some actual tips, to keep you safe(r). As in this. Who would have thought&#8230; On second thought, this agency of note might have no need for the access disabled themselves anymore, as they&#8217;ve provided themselves of sufficient other access (methods) [&hellip;]
- [Complexity beaten by [The mechanics of Joe Average]](https://maverisk.nl/complexity-beaten-by-the-mechanics-of-joe-average/): Yes it&#8217;s time to remind you again. And again. That the mechanics of the mindset of Joe Average (notice how that&#8217;s a he not she &#8230;?) will beat even the best laid-out strategic plans, Von Moltke-style. As can be read in this here piece; instructive both on the surface and in the sub-surface semantics, meaning. I.e., that JA is even &#8216;smarter&#8217; than you thought when it comes to achieving JA&#8217;s actual objectives of GetOffMyBackWithYourStupidTargets. Through which it all reminds us, being you too, to build security around actually desired functionality &mdash; as desired by end users to get their in-tray empty. [&hellip;]
- [Darn Drone-Downers](https://maverisk.nl/darn-drone-downers/): Another alliterating ad-lib post here. About the right (not) to take care of your own privacy behind your own front door. Seriously; here now is an item of societal structure that needs fixing and for once can be fixed ahead of time but still will very probably not be &mdash; because some of the many parties involved, will not see how their own tardiness leads (with certainty) to loss of life, of life&#8217;s full enjoyment, of the pursuit and realization of happiness. Is there a term for this sort of extreme autism denying one&#8217;s responsibilities, accountability beyond the mere received rational-only [&hellip;]
- [Gaming comms is deadly serious](https://maverisk.nl/gaming-comms-is-deadly-serious/): I was reading up a bit (again) in Eric Berne&#8217;s masterpiece Games People Play, and realized a great many of the Child moves in just about every game, approached how some nefarious organisations seeking sub-animal-level absolute tyrannical power under the sometimes literally completely wrong, oppositional guise of (true) religion. One thinks Middle East, and elsewhere. Would it be possible to counterattack, apart from head-on obliteration through military force, with anti-game moves in the global and local/individual comms contra/pro these movements..? If these address the core sources of discontent, as explained here, it could work, couldn&#8217;t it ..? Sufficient experts available, one [&hellip;]
- [Upping crypto](https://maverisk.nl/upping-crypto/): Lukewarm protests against Free Crypto, and trawling the oceans completely empty for metadata if not more &#8230; Seems like a two-faced two-front &#8216;battle&#8217; that may even be tiring to uphold (face): Once one is into meta because it gives so much more information (sic) than mere data (content), one would need much less access to actual data, wouldn&#8217;t one? And, if then publicly having postured to not be able to break into crypto stuff (where one can with near-certainty break into all stack levels below it, down to the BIOS if not chip level!) almost meaning that for sure one can, [&hellip;]
- [Remember, not to forget where Disruptions started](https://maverisk.nl/remember-not-to-forget-where-disruptions-started/): Never forget&#8230; All that is latter-day Innovation or Disruption or however fake&#8217;ly hype phrase you&#8217;d want to apply, started off much, much earlier as true Invention. Of which I was reminded when coming across this, once again. Ya&#8217;all know the recent remake of it, but did you know and sufficiently realise how much earlier the true Invention had been made, already ..!? Go in humbleness, now. And: [Would need a serious rehash to be Democracy again ..!?]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-23/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again. This time for all of us teachers in one way or another, that have some last-minute necessities shopping to do:
- [Product security needs a holistic approach (reblog)](https://maverisk.nl/product-security-needs-a-holistic-approach/): A reblog today, of an expert for once
- [Guess](https://maverisk.nl/guess/): OK, your guess (sic) as to what these real actual companies do: Qwerly, Zlio, Adatao, Viggle, Zoosk, Hipmunk. Wrong. What they really do here. Now, the next round: Loopt, Xobri, Heroku, Bump. Who dreams up these names anyway; yes an algorithm huh your idea about my stupidity is a mirror&#8217;s reflection farther away from truth about me you can&#8217;t get. But it demonstrates the creativity levels at those start-up / boot camp sweat shops nicely that such a visible, outstandingly creative element is left to such an apparently un-truly-creative, boring machine. No pic today; your score&#8217;s too low.
- [Let's celebrate (with) a contest for the dumbest security](https://maverisk.nl/lets-celebrate-with-a-contest-for-the-dumbest-security/): On this celebration day (for me/us), let&#8217;s instate an annual contest &mdash; over the most precise prediction of the dumbest information security breach of the upcoming year. So, the following: Your prediction, storified (&frac12; &ndash; 1 page, at most slightly formatted); Realistic, i.e., a combination of dumb and dumber, and stupid and worse, of (non)actions and responses, on the attack and &#8216;defense&#8217; sides. Realistic, but keep it realistic&#8230;; Hence, do include lots of cyberhere, cyberthere, cybereverywhere and only a little bit of #ditchcyber &#8230;; Deadline: 1 January 2016; The predictive element means that no sign of the thing actually occuring yet, [&hellip;]
- [The First Digital Native](https://maverisk.nl/the-first-digital-native/): (S)he has been identified: The first Digital Native, as far as we know: of this planet. And it goes by the name of &#8230; Watson. Though of course the debate over the term, its definition, and generation identification has been a decade and a half, and some have cleverly found that maybe humans weren&#8217;t into it that much anyway. And, in Dutch: this. How millennials aren&#8217;t tech savvy, they&#8217;re (just, only) tech-dependent: slaves. Pervasively. But let&#8217;s be real: How to be born is what counts, not in which environment. So, what &#8216;intelligent&#8216; Thing out there was Born Digital, in a way [&hellip;]
- [Simple reading tip](https://maverisk.nl/simple-reading-tip/): David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules. Simple as that. There. And elsewhere of course (??). Nothing more; that stuff is enough already for today. But be back soon.
- [Tesla the Ruptor](https://maverisk.nl/tesla-the-ruptor/): You may have read all the stuff on the distinction (&#8230; spectrum!) between mere innovation and full-on disruption. Where Tesla &mdash; its car business &mdash; would sit rather tightly near the former end, not the latter. Cars. They may look a bit different, but are very much like any other; Four wheels; Steering wheel. On the left front; Bonnet, boot/trunk, windows going up and down, suspension, air bags, even a grille of sorts; Replacing an explosion engine with an earlier (..!?) development the electrical engine. Way to go. Yes of course some parts aren&#8217;t Elon&#8217;s fault. Regulators require all sorts of [&hellip;]
- [Drones are the new tablets](https://maverisk.nl/drones-are-the-new-tablets/): It&#8217;s obvious once you think about it (which admittedly may or may not be obvious in your case) &mdash; Desktop sales rebound a bit, on new (&#8216;large&#8217;, expensive-)chip performance; Tablet sales a sagging as they turn out to be too slow, and the &#8216;keyboard&#8217; size and control pads turn out to be insufficient for all but casual browsing. Though highest-end specs may suffice, almost; But at the lower end they&#8217;re overtaken by notephones; And, at the higher end, 2-in-1 laptops shrink with all their convenience and power on board (SSD mem&#8230;) to (better) serve the nomads (than till now); Unexplored newness [&hellip;]
- [Cyber 'Nam](https://maverisk.nl/cyber-nam/): OK&#8230; As you know I wouldn&#8217;t be the war monger re &#8216;cyber&#8217; warfare. And don&#8217;t have the answers &mdash; neither do you! &mdash; but have searched and asked for them; see past posts (numerous). This one is more about how the campaigns and battles are fought. Full cyberstatefulfirewallcomplexmonitoringNOCSOC jacket style, out there in the field. (Privacy) protesters at home, safely away from the danger. Some top brass (&#8216;generals die in bed&#8217;) ordering your data forward, hardly trained/hardened or crypto protected and blaming shoddy execution and wily counterparts. The traumatised demobilised db admin not wanting to shoot down even a deer-like referential [&hellip;]
- [How to Not Authentic](https://maverisk.nl/how-to-not-authentic/): Oh how Ecce Homo it is &#8230; In the search for authenticity, exposing one&#8217;s pathetically empty on that subject. Of course, referring to this here column on the desperation of searching the real deal &mdash; that straight away exposes itself as not the thing by definition through having to search for it. But then, probably part of the still-bearded class. Too young (mentally) to know what real retro is (about), only just too old to envy One D&#8230; Wryly smiling &#8230; And: [If you know where / what that is: The actually authentic&#8230; (?)]
- [Assurance... No; continuous blockchainproofing will be](https://maverisk.nl/assurance-no-continuous-blockchainproofing-will-be/): Accountants (of the certifying kind) have seen the light of continuous assurance coming. The vast majority of them reacted by being the rabbits [certainly not of the Winnebago / Native American trickster type ..!]; though assuming the headlights were and are still very distant, sitting quite still&#8230; A select few have responded differently &ndash; embracing some change as inevitable, researching how Continuous Assurance might be, in times of proliferating XBRL and the like. That&#8217;s OK. And laudable for the Virtue of facing the danger not ducking. But &#8230; all of the assurance industry is still lock, stock and barrel dependent on [&hellip;]
- [Reeled in; struck out ..?](https://maverisk.nl/reeled-in-struck-out/): Oh&#8230;kay&#8230; There was this theme going round a couple of &#8230; years to decades ago about how the (?) Internet would make geography unimportant and hence would make possible the dethroning of all geography-based governments. Well, that didn&#8217;t go too well&#8230; Turns out that not much happened in dethroningland. Or did it ..? Would be interested to learn how longer-term developments (decades-to-century) could play out, scenario-wise. Maybe put a bit of blockchain versus (??) singularity in the mix&#8230; [Somewhat relevant agency &#8230; NY HQ]
- [Sharing a name for economy](https://maverisk.nl/sharing-a-name-for-economy/): Rightfully, I thought as I read this article&#8230; but then, not. Yes, &#8216;sharing economy&#8217; is abuse by the UburbNb&#8217;s of this world as they&#8217;re exploitative scams that have little to do with the actual Sharing Economy. The actual Sharing Economy is about sharing because of caring, which is price-less in itself and holds quite some anti-monetary ulterior goals. The Sharing Economy shouldn&#8217;t have to change its name because others, in an ethically-horrendous and despicable robbery, claimed it. And all this is futile resistance. &#8220;All that is of value, is defenseless&#8221; (Troelstra) And: [Yes, the same as a couple of weeks ago, [&hellip;]
- [Ebow to lower prices, up the sharing ec](https://maverisk.nl/ebow-to-lower-prices-up-the-sharing-ec/): OK, here we have these two trends: Ebay still being around (although slowly, coming under attack from entrants; check your feeds if you&#8217;d have missed that) but when people get tired, they bid lower and lower, when at the same time sellers want decent prices or retract and retreat. A fair market may not exist after all &ndash; or it is the minute details that turn out to count. The sharing economy is growing, steadily. So, the two may go together. One doesn&#8217;t get enough on Eb and rather give it away, resulting in less traders and trades on Eb closing [&hellip;]
- [Tempting Under-30's](https://maverisk.nl/tempting-under-30s/): It dawned, suddenly. The ubiquity of lists of Under 30 mil/billionaires, where they live, etc. All that attention &ndash; Why? Jealousy? Maybe, (most) partially that is the lure for attention. [Note that it dawned only. If you&#8217;d find this post a bit &#8230; imperfect, that would be a. impossible &#8217;cause it&#8217;s mine, b. as the thaw hadn&#8217;t dried up, c. in particular on socmed not very much elsewhere. If unsure always go for b.] For one thing, the Under 30 list phenomenon is real and annoying. For another, it shows the slightly less-than-full-witted to be the target audience &ndash; how else [&hellip;]
- [Industry tourism](https://maverisk.nl/industry-tourism/): &#8230; not the other way around. Or, both. Where the most afford-able tourists will &#8216;move on&#8217; to ever newer places when things get too crowded, or just too common, they will in the end return to past favourites, when the wind of stampedes has blown over. Industries &#8230; do the same ..? Considering IoT is really turning manufacturing&#8217;s global movements and spread on its head, with the AI in-roads leading to e.g., a switch of human involvement from &#8216;hands&#8217; to &#8216;brains&#8217; [what a change! managers should fear &#8230;!], I wanted to start some economics analysis here but don&#8217;t have the right [&hellip;]
- [Still going, maybe not strong but still](https://maverisk.nl/still-going-maybe-not-strong-but-still/): Would anyone have a list of &#8216;development&#8217; re obsoletion of (tech) products that isn&#8217;t / aren&#8217;t ..? Like, e.g., email, and offices (of the corner-/cubicle- kind), and paperless. As I was pointed out recently in a tweet (@MEFDeBock) where staff lose their trolleys but not managers. Of course not &#8230; And there was this consultancy (sometimes the designator can be used just to poke fun about unselfaware wannabees) that wanted to drop all email use. Oh yes, nice; at least they try to accomplish change. Where they through their actions indicate to have zero clue. About what their staff want/need, what [&hellip;]
- [Keezel: Online freedom](https://maverisk.nl/keezel-online-freedom/): Now, biting my nails awaiting delivery &#8230;
- [(Old) New non-app](https://maverisk.nl/old-new-non-app/): For those that see the world as coming to an end i.e. have a slight dislike for the popularity of apps and their users in particular, there&#8217;s hope of sorts in e.g., this. As not all the world has in an instant gone from a salon socialiste ideal of ultracommunal discussion groups to hyperindividualistic eyes-glued-to-mobile-millennials (and younger&#8230;). On the contrary, there are some signals that rebounds happen in all sorts of places. Children (can we lose the downright ugly &#8216;kids&#8217;, please ..!?) seem to still want to go out and play (big-if their parents aren&#8217;t ridiculously fearful, to be found out [&hellip;]
- [De administratie is van geen van allen ... [Dutch]](https://maverisk.nl/de-administratie-is-van-geen-van-allen-dutch/): Was triggered by this here article, as read in het Parool but repubd &ndash; and deserves republication in many more places. Yes it&#8217;s in Dutch unfortunately, as I don&#8217;t think the problem is exclusive but it may be tearjerkingly worse and exposed here&#8230; Waar nog bijkomt dat een flink aantal (?-tot-100%) &#8216;bestuurders&#8217; nog steeds in de illusie leven dat ze iets &#8216;besturen&#8217; en dan ferme besluiten nemen, met de vuist op tafel slaan zelfs, en dat er vervolgens niks gebeurt. Helemaal niets. Het &#8216;besluit&#8217; was immers de prestatie *quod non* en de uitvoering, tsja, dat is voor het lagere volk. Daar [&hellip;]
- [Unknown Stats](https://maverisk.nl/unknown-stats/): Just as an intermission; this. QQ, QZone ..? Good to (learn to) know (them), if only to wake us up to the classic-Western-world bias some may have&#8230; That&#8217;s all for now. Your conclusions are valid, almost as valid as mine, in the limit. This: [Oh how glorious, brilliant, radiant (&#8230; you know &#8230;); and Central&nbsp;If you wondered why the vertical warp: dunno, probably just WordPress&#8217; error &#8230;]
- [First take on 10](https://maverisk.nl/first-take-on-10/): &#8230; Oh I didn&#8217;t mean to mean actual #first, just that the dust clouds around the official Win10 launch should have subsided and the first indicators of near-future trends should have become clear. &#8217;cause I recall this tweet (?) about some peer that posted: at home, ten years ago (M$) PCs were for business and Macs for fun and now things had changed around but started to reverse again. And I wondered &mdash; are there indicators that this would be a trend, due to Win10 ..? That wouldn&#8217;t do much for M$ as the basic first &#8230;(double digit)% of business machines [&hellip;]
- [#ditchcyber CSI, this was real](https://maverisk.nl/ditchcyber-csi-this-was-real/): A quote, a post: This is a story of a very high-tech kidnapping: FBI court filings unsealed last week showed how Denise Huskins&#8217; kidnappers used anonymous remailers, image sharing sites, Tor, and other people&#8217;s Wi-Fi to communicate with the police and the media, scrupulously scrubbing meta data from photos before sending. They tried to use computer spyware and a DropCam to monitor the aftermath of the abduction and had a Parrot radio-controlled drone standing by to pick up the ransom by remote control. The story also demonstrates just how effective the FBI is tracing cell phone usage these days. They had [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-22/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again. Oh, how much is it like life &#8230;
- [A sobering thought](https://maverisk.nl/a-sobering-thought/): Actually, not one but a great many sobering thoughts, in this great piece: What They Don’t Teach You in “Thinking Like the Enemy” Class. In a high-quality series. To which one might add &#8230; not too much. Maybe the 100%-is-infeasible line, and Schneier&#8217;s Return of the Security (is..?) Theatre trope. Oh, and the one that has still taken far too little root; the deperimetrisation-means-you-need-to-focus-on-information-not-the-fortress aspect that has been around for a decade already but still has hardly been implemented properly. Or, we redesign the world. Somehow, we need to get into the mindsets of the global populace – that so far [&hellip;]
- [You, me, and ASI; the difference](https://maverisk.nl/you-me-and-asi-the-difference/): Before we forget: Why some don&#8217;t see how ASI would surpass AGI and humankind, is that humankind has not learned to work together in all the time humans have existed in groups beyond the first few Dunbar numbers (2, 8, 20, 50). Which means we humans spend the most delicate thought and most thinking energy on the operations and tactics of working together, before the &#8216;external&#8217; task can be solved if at all. Where ASI would have no trouble having all human culture combined into one processing faculty already, hence think-acting at a level of all humankind in concert, or beyond. [&hellip;]
- [Still valid; MIS is a Mirage](https://maverisk.nl/still-valid-mis-is-a-mirage/): Somehow, some neurons fired that sublimed into a thought about John Dearden&#8217;s MIS is a Mirage, of 1972 &#8230; Turns out I&#8217;m not the only one who thinks it&#8217;s still very much valid today. As e.g., here. Oh, the insights that run in deep undercurrents throughout today&#8217;s management- and other fads&#8230;! But, once ASI comes along &#8230; Then at last, MIS can do without the, then relative but still, stupidity of mankind. Or ..? [No pic today. Post too short. First, you study the article at length!]
- [Short post: Offense on the Defense](https://maverisk.nl/short-post-offense-on-the-defense/): Apart from love, here too all is fair. Hence, the offense may be pushed into defense every once in a while. Yes, think that one through. Or, that is misinterpreting it. Offense and defense do a danse macabre while the content fights out at higher abstraction levels. Think that one through ..! [Edited to add: this link, and this one. Others apply as well.] OK, &#8217;nuff for now, and this: [Not even unique, as a NY wedgie; only just (&#8230;) the prettiest]
- [Preventing detection](https://maverisk.nl/preventing-detection/): At last, there&#8217;s a resurgence of non-preventative infosec (#ditchcyber) efforts. As, e.g., here (in Duts though the orig would be Engrish ..?) and here (a decent one, almost making the right point; co-typical ..? and on second reading, a bit empty of actual actionable advice). Hinting at leaving the Prevention Imperative and refocusing on Resilience. Because &#8216;deperimetrisation&#8217; may have clouded the longer-term, more strategic failure of locking oneself in and shooing away the so grossly underestimated enemies by one&#8217;s own utterly ridiculous overestimation of &#8230; authority, power, capabilities and competences, considered-self-evident importance (quod non&#8230;). The dumb not realising how dumb they [&hellip;]
- [Ringtones on deaf ears](https://maverisk.nl/ringtones-on-deaf-ears/): Must &#8230; resist &#8230; being &#8230; too &#8230; negative &#8230; There seems to have been an explosion of ~mojis lately. Like, the past half year has seen a proliferation of subsets and niceties that, as a phenomenon, spell the end of interest in messaging. As the phenomenon (not this which is great in any absolute measure) is so very much the same as we saw with ringtones&#8230; Arrrg! Yes indeed they spelled the end of the introductory phase of mobiles. The more it became a fad to have some peculiar &#8216;tone, the more one exposed oneself as a somewhat (?) pathetic [&hellip;]
- [Certified without being aware of that](https://maverisk.nl/certified-without-being-aware-of-that/): Hm, how come so many organisations rely on certification – by means of electronic certificates; the other kind is mindbogglingly empty paperwork – and don&#8217;t have a clue ..? I&#8217;d say, let them get a good checkup, e.g. via. Deeper of course is the &#8216;problem&#8217; that here we have a quite important piece of the &#8216;security&#8217; (note the &#8221;) puzzle, but one that is buried deep, very deep in technology. For most. And hence is out of view. But when there&#8217;s so much talk lately (for years, decades on end already – eras in Internettime) of (info)&#8217;security&#8217; having to come aboard [&hellip;]
- [May a change *is* happening](https://maverisk.nl/may-a-change-is-happening/): The title is correct; finally we can see what the Mayans meant when they, errrm, their calendar, predicted the end of the previous era and the dawn of a new one. Where many simpleton minions pinned it down to some very moment at 1 Jan 2012, of course the lore was about a longer-term turnaround phase before a really new era could be said to have emerged. Now, isn&#8217;t it since the beginning of this millennium or even more, since about 2012 that AI sentience has merged with IoT to kickdown towards the Singularity &#8230;? So that the new era isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [Why 'cyber's still a dud](https://maverisk.nl/why-cybers-still-a-dud/): [Oh yes @CyberTaters will warp the pings re this post. And #ditchcyber!] For one, all (sic) of &#8216;cybersecurity&#8217; (quod non) is incomprehensible to those that consider themselves &#8216;leaders&#8217; in one way or another in practices where actual infosec should be top of mind. Since the (for quite too large a part) despicable mice (of this story) don&#8217;t see their own folly, these kindergarten emperors will be found to wear their new clothes well&#8230; but not &#8216;get&#8217; what it takes to start developing ideas how to actually lead in the infosec field. Starting with debunking Internet myths and hype-FUD but also starting [&hellip;]
- [ICYMI PON heeft gelijk [Dutch]](https://maverisk.nl/icymi-pon-heeft-gelijk-dutch/): Voor het geval het een paar weken terug langs u heen is gegaan; dit. Terecht. En ondertussen zitten allerlei (zeer!) kwetsbaren zonder de zorg die ze verdienen (verdiend hebben) omdat (voorgaan)de bodemloze put miljarden (sic) het zwarte gat in zuigt.
- [Freeze or flight; you may not fight](https://maverisk.nl/freeze-or-flight-you-may-not-fight/): A call for pointers to the state of analysis re &#8216;offensive defense&#8217; or &#8216;pre-emptive infosec strike&#8217; et al. #ditchcyber, of course. The beginning of this year (avoiding memory skew as explained in this) there was some progress on the scale of &#8216;totally reactive defensive twitches after attack only&#8217;-to-&#8216;all-out pre-emptive cybernuke mutual meltdown&#8217;. There was some work in the middle. But not much, I believe, just some early indications of research work. Hence my request; whether and where progress has been made in (public-) readable format. Thank you! Already: [Out of nowhere, &#8220;Beware the Jabberwock my son!&#8221; creeps to mind. Dunno why. [&hellip;]
- [Scaling 'security'](https://maverisk.nl/scaling-security/): Availability: 99.9% (per year). &#8216;Security&#8217; (the C, the I) &#8230; nothing. Or, the infeasible 100.0% XOR nothing. We may have a major issue here&#8230; Well, we do have OSSTMM on one hand, and the seriously innovative, very important Secrecy stuff on the other. But can we answer the question &#8220;How secure are we&#8220;..? Indeed, OSSTMM gives us a number – for the operational and technical elements. How &#8217;bout integrating the tactical, strategic, and non-tech stuff like hooman behaviour ..? And still make it somewhat understandable to the clueless (Csomethings and other involved in the utterly useless nonsensical area designated by the [&hellip;]
- [The Holidays](https://maverisk.nl/teh-holidays/): The (&#8230;) holidays are all around us. Except maybe in that North-American corner where the 5% of world population holds out that don&#8217;t celebrate (any) of that. How nice would it be if the rest would hold an indefinite holiday, I mean over the Cyber! Cyber! Cyber! barfing that goes around ever more it seems, lately (being the last couple of months in particular). Despite #ditchcyber so clearly being preferable. In similar vein, please explain: [Believed not to be photoshopped but who can be sure ..?]
- [Stale^2](https://maverisk.nl/stale2/): Hm, wanted for once (huh?) to not be negative, deriding but &#8230; This here piece calls for comment. Like: Instating a quality seal for products that should be considered well-matured, almost outdated tiny point solutions; isn&#8217;t that overly stale2 ..? Because quality seals are issued for &#8230; procedural justice of the petrifying kind. And, AV &ndash; isn&#8217;t that almost the model for grossly-insufficient-in-and-on-themselves point solutions that have no field of development/progress left ..? Oh well, not much use kicking a dead horse. Other than the Dakota arguments&#8230; thus turning this into a sort of Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day: [Source: [&hellip;]
- [The Future Plays At All Boards](https://maverisk.nl/the-future-plays-at-all-boards/): There seems to be quite an interest in &#8216;the&#8217; future, lately. As in, the last couple of tens of millennia but also the last couple of months. Recency Effect, maybe ..? The thing is; discussions how the near and far future will/might be, are handicapped by industry and specialisation myopia. IT-angehauchten discuss ANI, AGI and ASI, with neural networks resurfacing, finally, in discussions over when (soon) we&#8217;ll have the Singularity. Yes you&#8217;ve read my great many posts about that already or go in shame and still do it (impression tracker is engaged). A branch of that, discusses very near future labour [&hellip;]
- [Schmobol](https://maverisk.nl/schmobol/): With the current uptick in interest in the ageing population &#8230; of the handful still capable of hardcore manual programming of COBOL, as e.g., here, I wondered: Is the code base still so enormously biased to COBOL(-based! software)?&nbsp; Why haven&#8217;t COBOL-to-e.g., C, or others converters, not caught on widely so the &#8216;problem&#8217; doesn&#8217;t exist anymore ..? Especially the latter; especially since we still have tons, too many (?), programmers available to tackle C- and more modern-language scrutiny and optimisation jobs. Jobs; high-pay jobs. And automatic testers to compare absolute 1-to-1 identity of the functionality or tractable lists of boundary conditions (possibly [&hellip;]
- [Waves of IoT](https://maverisk.nl/waves-of-iot/): Tinkering with the great many (unknown) unknowns of the IoTsphere, it occurred to me that there are various intermediate phases to deal with before we can consider ourselves comprehensively outdone after the Singularity (dystopian with P(X)=1). By which I mean the following &#8216;growth&#8217; model: Current-day operations: Factory &#8216;robots&#8217; or process plants being (factory-)centrally controlled from e.g., typical classical (?) control rooms. And ATMs, the robots without arms! IoT in its four distinct forms. With &#8216;robots&#8217; moving out of their prothesis confines, as e.g., here. Possibly with some ANI. Both these levels can be regarded to have operational level problems; ethical, security/privacy, [&hellip;]
- [Self-driving hamster](https://maverisk.nl/self-driving-hamster/): There&#8217;s a self-driving angle (huh) in this somewhere but it remains just out of grasp. This being this; hamster-like ..?
- [Hipmap](https://maverisk.nl/hipmap/): Once mapped, hipness lost of course. Like &#8216;beards&#8217; went, two years ago. [Via Gizmodo]
- [Seth's maybe slightly too positive](https://maverisk.nl/seths-maybe-slightly-too-positive/): In one of his, almost always delightful and insightful blog posts, Seth Godin recently almost pulled me along into (yet another) &#8220;Yes indeed completely so&#8221; response. But then I realised Truth might just tilt the picture a bit. Well, first read said post: here. Then: The point is: It is a common human error (e.g., by Hegel in particular (see below), and many others with better insights) to consider oneself or one&#8217;s generation(s) as being the pinnacle of human development; no generation or time before had seen such beauty of humanity&#8217;s glory in masterty of the universe. But others agree less. [&hellip;]
- [Before it disappears: Told you so](https://maverisk.nl/before-it-disappears-told-you-so/): Oh, before it returns to oblivion; re the Hacker Team hackback: I&#8217;ll just join the endless queue of Told You So&#8217;ers with reference to this. Noting that there is a confusing connection to the illegalise-encryption-cum-mandated-government-backdoors stupidity that keeps coming back like whack-a-mole, to put it very, very friendly. OK, leaving you with: [Antwerp beauty, untiltshifted]
- [The need for a new security framework](https://maverisk.nl/the-need-for-a-new-security-framework/): &#8230; I feel the need for it. A new security framework. Because what we have, is based on outdated models. Of security. Of organisations. Of how the world turns. Bureaucracy doesn&#8217;t cut it no more. The very idea of hierarchically stacked framework sets (COSO/CObIT/ISO27k1:2013/&#8230;) likewise, is stale. And the bottom-up frameworks en vogue, e.g., OSSTMM (if you don&#8217;t know what that is all (sic) about, go in shame and find out!) and core work like Vicente Aceituno Canal&#8217;s, haven&#8217;t found traction enough yet, nor are they integrated soundly enough (yet!!) into further bottom-up overarching approaches. Ditching the word &#8216;framework&#8217; as that [&hellip;]
- [Today's-Tech-Yesterday-Craving](https://maverisk.nl/todays-tech-yesterday-craving/): As a question: What is the melancholic (sic) feeling one gets when realising how great it would have been to have had (some of) today&#8217;s technology / hype little tools, already yesterday or rather, a couple of decades back ..? As logically flawed as the feeling is (you&#8217;d change the world of yesterday in a way that would make today&#8217;s world impossible to exist exactly like it turned out today&#8230; No-impact visits to the past even, are impossible since you&#8217;d return with the info of having been there), it still creeps up every now and then. Oddly, it concerns specific technology [&hellip;]
- [I am not me. Myself: nope, neither.](https://maverisk.nl/i-am-not-me-myself-nope/): Now that infosec has become to lean so much on the People side of things &ndash; as in theory all things Tech have been solved, for decades already just not implemented to any degree of seriousness..! and &#8216;process&#8217; having been exposed as utter nonsense &#8216;management&#8217; babble &ndash; it is strange to see that psychology hasn&#8217;t come to the fore much, much more. Even when pundits and others, and the minions like Yours Truly even, have posted over and over again that no tech system however perfect can stand the assault of through, e.g., casual negligence and unattentive error let alone gullibility [&hellip;]
- [Disruption, -parity](https://maverisk.nl/disruption-parity/): Just wondering: How&#8217;s the disruption in your ICT coming along ..? Seriously; hardly at all ..!? Join the club. Of almost all. Public, private, large, small; all organisations suffer your fate of [barely; outdated browser] being able to read all about the Great New stuff that&#8217;s out there, but seeing nothing of it in your daily work. Strange, eh? Or is it again the short-term impact being overestimated until it&#8217;s &#8220;too&#8221; &#8220;late&#8221; to join in, for most orgs ..? Because the real talent, the people that actually want something out of life either with, through your org or without it, elsewhere, [&hellip;]
- [Nice note](https://maverisk.nl/nice-note/): Just a long-form quote this time, by Norm Laudermilch: In addition, we should stop using the term “advanced threat” to describe the threats we see every day. It’s too common to hear a recently breached company point to a &#8220;very sophisticated cyber attack perpetrated by a nation-state”, which makes it sound like this was something undetectable and impossible to stop. Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald calls this the “dog ate my homework” excuse. More likely we find that it was just another piece of malware cranked out by one of the latest exploit toolkits, delivered via spear-phishing or targeted malvertising, perpetrated not [&hellip;]
- [Please add](https://maverisk.nl/please-add/): Just a short request for help; for the platform, and for the specific content of this. That&#8217;s all. And this: [Casual Antwerpen]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-21/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again:
- [Publi(li)us Series; final part V](https://maverisk.nl/publilius-series-final-part-v/): OK, the fifth and final part of a series, on quotes of the guy that went from Publius to Publilius Syrus in a century, after having been forgotten [Oh! How unduly! How unfortunate! Hence this series] for a century or fifteen. As they&#8217;re handily numbered already and in fitting English (not too modern i.e. simplified, dumbed down), but quite a few may be enhanced by some frills of mine, I&#8217;ll take mine from an 1856 translation: 800. It is the height of folly to blame without knowledge. So&#8230; Any blame on me can be retorted with this. Remember also the earlier [&hellip;]
- [To model, shuffle back and forth](https://maverisk.nl/to-model-shuffle-back-and-forth/): Now that the Jobless Growth meme has lost steam (though possibly not fertility, yet), it is useful to have a look at its in some way I don&#8217;t completely see how counter-part, antidote. Quod non. Where the analogy breaks down. What I mean to say is; when Big Corp / Gov&#8217;t exists less than before, after the shake-out-by-the-numbers-by-lack-of-management-capabilities-to-raise-revenue waves of the past decade+ [don&#8217;t start me on the utter non-distinction between &#8216;governance&#8217; and management ..!] every last grain of growth or even innovation capacity has been thouroughly bleached out of said sad organisations. And still there&#8217;s Growth. Which is a. a [&hellip;]
- [Publi(li)us Series; part IV](https://maverisk.nl/publilius-series-part-iv/): OK, the fourth part of a series, on quotes of the guy that went from Publius to Publilius Syrus in a century, after having been forgotten [Oh! How unduly! How unfortunate! Hence this series] for a century or fifteen. As they&#8217;re handily numbered already and in fitting English (not too modern i.e. simplified, dumbed down), but quite a few may be enhanced by some frills of mine, I&#8217;ll take mine from an 1856 translation. Getting on steam. Series 451-800 today: 451. It is bad management when we suffer Fortune to be our guide. How far-sighted. What an accurate description of just [&hellip;]
- [As predicted; a next container move](https://maverisk.nl/as-predicted-a-next-container-move/): Actually, the speed of development of this, is bigger than it seems. Both on the impact and on the implementation side. It&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s out of sight for most. Any suggestions how this impacts Security ..? For now: [Next time we&#8217;ll take fresh pics; DC]
- [Publi(li)us Series; part III](https://maverisk.nl/publilius-series-part-iii/): OK, the third part of a series, on quotes of the guy that went from Publius to Publilius Syrus in a century, after having been forgotten [Oh! How unduly! How unfortunate! Hence this series] for a century or fifteen. As they&#8217;re handily numbered already and in fitting English (not too modern i.e. simplified, dumbed down), but quite a few may be enhanced by some frills of mine, I&#8217;ll take mine from an 1856 translation. Series 255-450 today: 255. The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules. No end to pointing at the politicians who overshout their fears [&hellip;]
- [Trigger seeding](https://maverisk.nl/trigger-seeding/): In defense of sloppy account management &#8230; Sort of. Rather, deliberately sloppy account management. Reading through this in particular, and that, I wondered: Would there not be a nice part of a solution in seeding your user accounts database(s) with fake accounts, to act as tripwires ..? They could be given no access to anything, or access only to honeypot-like info / environments. And then trigger the alarm when accessed &ndash; by intruders, or by own security staff or auditors when doing surveillance of controls functioning. Somehow also, I have a gut feeling there&#8217;s some hidden secondary effects in this. Any [&hellip;]
- [Publi(li)us, in series; part II](https://maverisk.nl/publilius-in-series-part-ii/): OK, the second part of a series, on quotes of the guy that went from Publius to Publilius Syrus in a century, after having been forgotten [Oh! How unduly! How unfortunate! Hence this series] for a century or fifteen. As they&#8217;re handily numbered already and in fitting English (not too modern i.e. simplified, dumbed down), but quite a few may be enhanced by some frills of mine, I&#8217;ll take mine from an 1856 translation: 171. What happens to one man may happen to all. So you&#8217;re never above another, also certainly not when the other experiences misfortune. Also: If something can [&hellip;]
- [Off Maps](https://maverisk.nl/off-maps/): Again an intermission. About interruption. Of interesting innovation(s). Jsut to put it down like that; we tend to see only the successes &ndash; of the time being. But the once were warriors of disruption aren&#8217;t all, around, anymore. Be ware the next hypes&#8230; [Edited to add: This here pic via Martin de Bie may be a first thing attempting to challenge little G&#8217;s hype cycle visual since that got traction, to depict innovation-to-disruption-scale developments. Other than the above list, returning to the underlying ideas not accidental Inc&#8217;s.] [Good Barça. Not a hotel.]
- [Publi(li)us, in series; part I](https://maverisk.nl/publilius-in-series-part-i/): OK, as the first part of a series, possibly, on quotes of the guy that went from Publius to Publilius Syrus in a century, after having been forgotten [Oh! How unduly! How unfortunate! Hence this series] for a century or fifteen. As they&#8217;re handily numbered already and in fitting English (not too modern i.e. simplified, dumbed down), but quite a few may be enhanced by some frills of mine, I&#8217;ll take mine from an 1856 translation: 4. To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house. I guess this one&#8217;s all about current-day 1%&#8217;ers, being drunk with their [&hellip;]
- [Tax reform, city closure: Really ...?](https://maverisk.nl/tax-reform-city-closure-really/): With the Summer approaching (though not having the weather accordingly yet, here in NL), discussions about closing city centers to &#8220;old&#8221; diesels (even the types with filters that are cleaner that regular cars!), and changing settings in e-car subsidies because they prove so popular, just consider I drive nicely over 50MpG on average (incl traffic jams, city traffic)&#8230;: Whereas most electric cars run on coal juice &#8230; So, putting it straightforward: Sh.t up.
- [Road rage (autonomous car edition)](https://maverisk.nl/road-rage-autonomous-car-edition/): Two things about self-driving cars: When a fully ready car leaves the factory, it should be programmed completely, at least with all needed to function independently from thereon. Does it think at that very moment &#8220;Ugh here I am, just born and already with a huge traffic jam behind me (in the factory)&#8221;..? Where humanoids will in school and around that, learn quite some data and algorithms by heart just to know them, and acquire experience on how to deploy all that, in the chaos that is the actual world, before being considered an adult capable of independence and accountability in [&hellip;]
- [Singularity / M-jumps](https://maverisk.nl/singularity-m-jumps/): Musing with the ideas, suddenly (?) resurfacing the last couple of weeks, of memes being the abstract ideas that spread over human brains like viruses do in the physical world. Where &#8216;virus&#8217; taken in a wide sense may include the mitochondria et al., would reflect into the abstract like algorithms and/or Turing engines / data streams. But that&#8217;s just some analogy to just track back. My concern was (is?) with what would happen at the point where &#8216;machines&#8217; would become so intelligent, or the physical substrate that information (and/or algorithms, analogy from the other side?) rides on, would no longer need [&hellip;]
- [Where accountancy will go](https://maverisk.nl/where-accountancy-will-go/): Considering the progress made in the accountancy sector with &#8216;continuous&#8217; assurance, it struck me that until now, process (read: mere procedures) was driven by technology, at least up till now. Because the idea of &#8216;transactions&#8217; in that, now quickly antiquating, ERP system we all know, was based like it was and is in all the other comparable systems or less, on the ideas before that. And procedures just had to adapt to the software. No, not the other way around; that&#8217;s pure marketing babble! So, now we (hopefully soon) have XML and XBRL to take some work off our hands (?). [&hellip;]
- [For your To Do](https://maverisk.nl/for-your-to-do/): Just to build this (sort of) thing and maybe even get paid for it: This. here. masterpiece: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHKXZFSa6t0&#038;w=560&#038;h=315]
- [Fun / stagnation](https://maverisk.nl/fun-stagnation/): About the difference between boring and Inspirational! in business. Old New Process, procedures, work steps Request for direction Compliance Demonstrating failure; to learn Punishment for (anyone&#8217;s! esp. higher-ups&#8217;) failures Coaching towards more errors Stepping out of line (even by casual remarks hinting at less than 100% drone motivation) is failure Pivoting (even for your contribution) is near-mandatory Succes is obedience to the gallows Success is coming up with / doing the hitherto infeasible, unthinkable The ones exploiting drones (licking up / kicking down) and (only) best versed at sticking to their chair, are promoted Promotion? We don&#8217;t do rank and file [&hellip;]
- [Some solution to your (future) joblessness](https://maverisk.nl/some-solution-to-your-future-joblessness/): You may have noticed I tended towards the dystopian side regarding Singularity things and by-definition jobless growth (or slowdown, or anything), as in this and the posts linked therein. Possibly, you&#8217;re in the category aiming for: [Wingspread house; good living by FLlW at Racine, WI] I didn&#8217;t discuss time frames. Though I&#8217;m not optimistic about those, either. But at least, there&#8217;s some info that may lull the frightened back into sleep, and help the agile, willing, wanting, forward: [Plucked from &#8230; some socmed post] Study &#8230; and keep in mind: This is for the very (happy) few that have a big [&hellip;]
- [Ah, your home controlled by ...?](https://maverisk.nl/ah-your-home-controlled-by/): In the race to grasp as much of the market as possible, which is understandable, one party jumps in to create the API of APIs we&#8217;ve all been waiting for, among others (since this) in this domotics category. But &#8230; will we surrender even our in-house as-yet unconnected lifeblogging data to one of the parties that don&#8217;t have the best of track records re privacy &#8230;? I mean this one. With an odd name&#8230; Oh yes, I hear you suppress your fears &#8230; with empty words, given that even at chip level intrusion and (data) extrusion seems to have been possible, [&hellip;]
- [3+ bodies found in business](https://maverisk.nl/3-bodies-found-in-business/): &#8230; just about everywhere. Of course I refer to the n-body problem set with n &gt; 3 as here. Because it is so dismally known, and applied. Most starkly (#loveofwords) in &#8216;business&#8217; &#8216;strategy&#8217;, where the lack of wisdom is clearly demonstrated in the lack of inclusion of all (sic) potential (sic; including chance function estimations) competitors&#8217; moves. Name any market where the latter s doesn&#8217;t apply, and report it to (anti-?)cartel authorities. I.e., the Problem applied to strategy means: Strategising is futile, all your course belong to us. On a side note: [Alignment; Vienna]
- [Critical management, not governance](https://maverisk.nl/critical-management-not-governance/): Ah, there&#8217;s another authoritative source with a description how leadership and (&#8216;actual&#8217;) management should be. I.e., not the robotic, stupid (when one would be offended, consider this a. reflecting your own insecurity out of gut feeling that it describes you, b. intended, c. still being the most lapidary labelling) totalitarian-bureaucratic &#8216;governance&#8217; type of &#8216;control&#8217; (quod non, and this) but actual effective, results-achieving teaming. Like what firms originally were invented for. OK, just resting my case again. Plus: [Some parading, but in operation, stealthy over pomp; Baltimore]
- [Summarily: yolosec](https://maverisk.nl/summarily-yolosec/): Yes that&#8217;s the summary title at once describing the sum total result of all your humongous efforts to &#8216;secure&#8217; &#8230; whatever scope, in infosecland. HT to @thegrugq To which we may add the find of yeauleau for francophones. Of course. That&#8217;s it for today. With: [Fashionable Without A Cause, too; (i.e.) Milan. Look to the left (shop) and shiver&#8230;]
- [Swa(r)m(i')s anyone ..?](https://maverisk.nl/swarmis-anyone/): OK. That title needs some explanation. This is that. First, a pic to display the right mood: [Office; Y2K fieldwork at Martinique] Yesterday [at time of scheduling ;-] it struck me that some years ago already – time flies like an arrow (eight interpretations) OR when you&#8217;re not working (traditional interpretation) – there was this fad in organisationland called &#8216;swarms&#8217; in which agile (sigh&#8230;) little bands of independent professionals would come together all bringing their individual expertise and competences (as swami&#8217;s) to do a certain project job, then disband to go off to other ventures in yet other swarms. As transparent [&hellip;]
- [Gininflation ..!?](https://maverisk.nl/gininflation/): The title not referring to a rise in consumption of some derivative beverage (jenever being the real deal of course!), but a conflation of Gini and inflation. Because it just won&#8217;t leave my mind that some form of inequality (change) index might be derived from a clever combination of regular inflation rates (the real ones, not the pure phantasies ponied up by governments!) with both the Gini income and wealth indices. As this would amplify that inflation may hit classes that can hardly avoid it harder, and classes that wouldn&#8217;t care much, less. Or the other way around. Or so. Driving [&hellip;]
- [Not even bread](https://maverisk.nl/not-even-bread/): Juvenalis was correct. But isn&#8217;t anymore. People do still care for bread, and circuses, but the latter-day economy slowly degrades to only provide the latter. As in: The 0,1% (yes indeed, the next-0,9% is under threat as well) that consists of a handful of behind-the-scene creeps (as defined by Jaron Lanier) and a less than handful of Universe-scale lucky start-ups, run the economy, &#8216;jobs&#8217;, of the 5% petty work-slaves that are the &#8216;new&#8217; generations of app developers and &#8216;disruptors&#8217; (quod non) – let to play and claim some fame, until play time (circus) is over and the 0,1% reels in the [&hellip;]
- [Musk / Vicarious / ASI](https://maverisk.nl/musk-vicarious-asi/): Haven&#8217;t heard in a while of anything fruitful coming forward from Elon Musk&#8217;s investments in Vicarious despite his concerns. (Now that DeepMind has gone over to the Dark Side.) Reasons ..? Double secrets? I&#8217;d just like to know. For the weekend: [Algorithmic justice prevails ..? Amsterdam]
- [Intermission: Non-sabreur](https://maverisk.nl/intermission-non-sabreur/): Gewoon om even de aandacht te vestigen op de ‘traditie’ om een goed drankje te verspillen aan nutteloze praal, waaraan ik niet zal meedoen. Want misschien waren napoleontische kleinburgerlijke ‘ridder-wannabes’ ooit de norm in Frankrijk. Maar elders niet. Elders wordt klasse (van het soort dat tussen iemands oren en in iemands hart zit) gewaardeerd en erkend boven het luidruchtig opscheppen en bluffen uit angst om niet als ‘van klasse’ te worden erkend – alsof ‘klasse’ die men ziet dat ook daadwerkelijk is, op enkele uitzonderingen na. Sabrage als case in point; zinloze verspilling. Men blijve uit de buurt van slechte manieren.
- [Hot beards](https://maverisk.nl/hot-beards/): OK, just to remind you that this actually is 2015, not 2014 or 2013 even, and the weather is getting quite warm up here on the Northern hemisphere. So &#8230; remember to check this out and weep for all those still not understanding&#8230; and remain stuck in the prepubescent stage whereas the mature of mind and spirit have already moved way forward and have reverted to baby faces. Or, read this&#8230; Yes what a U-turn&#8230; but the maturity argument still goes. For the real that skipped the kindergarten hype altogether: [Gran. via, Madrid]
- [Machines Won 200 Years Ago](https://maverisk.nl/machines-won-200-years-ago/): As a simple repost / link: Steve Wozniak: Machines Won 200 Years Ago. Which should not surprise anyone or you tuned out, (un)consciously, some time ago already. But hey; party time: [Stationary at Utrecht. Can awaken.]
- [Simple link: BYOD is the New Wi-Fi](https://maverisk.nl/simple-link-byod-is-the-new-wi-fi/): Very true. Though we may even say: BYOD was the new WiFi, as BYOD is so 2013 &#8230; but let&#8217;s await the resurrection of WiFi when IoT-in-the-shape-of-ubiquitous-computing takes off&#8230; BYOD is the New Wi-Fi &#8211; Infosecurity Magazine.
- [Will amount to not much](https://maverisk.nl/will-amount-to-not-much/): &#8230; Was the typical reaction that long (!) time ago when this aired. Which was, statistically, correct I guess. When betting on binary outcomes ( [Huge | Nothing] ) with so skewed a distribution [Intermission: What would the moment-generating function be ..? Could point at some underlying success formula!] of probabilities, the Will Amount To Nothing opinion is quite valid. But then, when weighing in the possible pay-offs (per distribution, too ..?), the picture is somewhat less clear. But still heavy on the Dismiss side, right ..? Safe bet: [May still loose out after tech moved on; Sevilla]
- [Too Big (to ... whatever)](https://maverisk.nl/too-big-to-whatever/): As predicted, ERP has dropped from view in the world of business and/or tech. Because reasons. Many of which have to do with the bigness of it all; one would really need to have a business so big to be able to capture all advantages of &#8216;seamless&#8217; integration of systems into one, and not or, have to transform it so completely as to better have built the new one all from scratch (or schlepping in all the parts of the old, into the new mold). Which sort-of defeats the purpose. Completely. Hence, the demise of ERP (as predicted here) has taken [&hellip;]
- [Vindication ...](https://maverisk.nl/vindication/): With due respect, but vindication is a beautiful thing&#8230; As I had delivered a lecture over five years on all the places that risk management of the Basel II/II style, using quants and all to model (an übercomplex combination of scores of) human behaviour thus sublimating one&#8217;s model errors and one&#8217;s misunderstanding of how the world turns, not even mentioning the risk of the 15.5 risk; necessarily (if you&#8217;d had got It) speculative about what&#8217;s next, the evaluation was heaviliy tilted from quite (UK style) positive to mediocre by one bad review, that had as only comment &#8220;not based in evidence&#8221;. [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-28/): &#8230; Just like that. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, much less te return of this post category! Here then, without further ado nor with much by means of translation: [Now run your SomeCuturallyBiasedSumming-upOfLettersFormallyKnownAsGoogle Translate function]
- [Jobba... Niche or disruptor ..?](https://maverisk.nl/jobba-niche-or-disruptor/): Was dealing with Jobbatical.com the other day. The site of which, well.., still has that &beta; feel to it, which made me wonder: Is this the UX of a disruptor ..? Since, &#8216;local&#8217; recruiters seem to move back and forth on the margins they can rob off clients (either side), pointing at pendulums between monopolies (e.g., by having blanket contracts with buyers even when thaht defeats the purpose) and open competition (when the Professionals don&#8217;t even want to work with middle men b/c of lack of effectiveness). And now, the same, but much lighter on the go-between parts and more transparent [&hellip;]
- [Quick Note: Big Data or ..?](https://maverisk.nl/quick-note-big-data-or/): &#8220;I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing with pebbles on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me&#8221; [I. Newton] Whence my feeling when reading this, that I was looking into Big Data ..? Maybe Big Data could be made to work when set loose on the world&#8217;s major problems. So, no petty process analysis or what have we; onto serious fruition! But [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: You're not perfect](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-youre-not-perfect/): Even at the Computer History Museum most of the devices on display stopped functioning many years ago. This time, not one of my own but quoted from Ray. Pointing out that it&#8217;s not that bad if you fail at having the perfect IT management (systems/operations) in the universe &mdash; even if you&#8217;d had forever you wouldn&#8217;t succeed so take it easy on the minor non-compliancies. So, this in a series inspired by this here Expert, some more of my own (heh) personal ramblings which I would dare to call motivational soundbites but you would consider to be as typically as this [&hellip;]
- [Mock transparency in accounting](https://maverisk.nl/mock-transparency-in-accounting/): Errrm, this on increasing transparency. By using Mock&#8217;s Scale (as here, in Dutch but you&#8217;ll get/GTranslate it) on e.g., materiality levels in financial auditing and publishing them in annual figures even if only in the accountant&#8217;s statement (in full for every line item listed&#8230;). Much beyond mere &#8216;reasonable assurance on true and fair views&#8217; that aren&#8217;t anything of any of those kinds. Then, we&#8217;ll know much better where the trouble spots are. Yes, some analysts may be of a quality that they already know. But wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to let the wisdom of the crowds work on the figures&#8217; margins [&hellip;]
- [Throwback gold](https://maverisk.nl/throwback-gold/): Just puttin&#8217; it out there: Who in this, would I be ..? Hint: Other times I don&#8217;t usually wear yellow very well. No such classy innovation (&#8216;dis&#8230;ruption &#8230;??&#8217;) anymore in CA or is there? But then, there&#8217;s always other songs about me. Whatev&#8217;. And: [Just my at-hand stock]
- [New category: Miss Quotes](https://maverisk.nl/new-category-miss-quotes-2/): Quite literally, literally. The quotes, of motivational nature or other, that you meet every time again — but aren&#8217;t, since they are garbled versions of the original. And the original had much more profound wisdom, or was even true where the misquote isn&#8217;t. Heard often, lately, lame defense for some that utter the most ridiculous lies: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (“Je désapprouve ce que vous dites, mais je défendrai à la mort votre droit à le dire”) Which commonly is attributed to Voltaire (no surname needed), and [&hellip;]
- [Accountancy: agency or is it a Repeated Sequential Life Core War Game ..?](https://maverisk.nl/accountancy-agency-or-is-it-a-repeated-sequential-life-core-war-game/): These thing just swirled into my mind: The accountancy industry pictures itself as some instantiation of agency theory&#8217;s model(s). Which may be right, but then, the eager beaver ideal is achieved hardly anywhere anytime. The praxis is one of a model so deeply devolved that we have much more of a farce at hand. Alternatively, the idea(l) of the repeated game, in sequential form with some Life notes on the palate and definite tones of Core War, turned up. Yes, it takes some crafting to plug all participants into it, and to my surprise not too much definitive info could be [&hellip;]
- [Racing humanity against ASI](https://maverisk.nl/racing-humanity-against-asi/): One thing still amiss in the discussions about the (near?) Future: Whether Singularity/ASI will come before humanity leaving its biological substrate, or the other way around. The first, leading to a dystopian future of humans initially being Machine&#8217;s pets but later (?) being discarded as inefficient nuisance. Even if only via Lanier&#8216;s route. The second giving some hope that humans may transform into ASI after which the age-old wars start all over again. Or, the first past the post takes all&#8230; Yes, still ploughing through [and finding much want for evidence or less of it, and addition of great many ethics [&hellip;]
- [The lion's share of SOx](https://maverisk.nl/the-lions-share-of-sox/): Anyone dare to guess whether &#8216;SOx&#8217; and all the totalitarian-bureaucratic tendencies that still dominate the organizational world of today, over the chaotic-environment-forcing-to-retreat-into-more-sober-flexibility upstarts, is the lion that roars just one last time before being overtaken by younger more vital rivals, or is it a resurgence in greater scope than ever before of some History&#8217;s greater trends ..? This, with of course higher-frequency but (much) smaller-amplitude cycles being layered onto it, producing an apparently random but wavelet-transformation-traceable ordered (or at least, causally correct) pattern &mdash; which may or may not have a direction other than zero, through the aeons. Staying far from [&hellip;]
- [The Body of the Mind](https://maverisk.nl/the-body-of-the-mind/): Quick note: Still wondering whether the brain may function as smoothly when not connected in the most natural of ways with the body that feeds (&#8230;) it and vice versa. Yes &mdash; decoupling of functions and/or replication of interfaces may solve some problems. But remain not ex ante sure whether in a logical sense, we miss something. The ultimate mimic game may still not be the real thing. Sorry &mdash; some points cannot be dissed quite so easily, with stop gap arguments. And: [&#8220;It&#8217;s just a house, like a stone skin&#8221;&#8230;? Girona]
- [Plusquotetime](https://maverisk.nl/plusquotetime/): Diversity is joy and riches. Another one in the series inspired by this here Expert, this here post continues the somewhat hopefully new series — with my own personal ramblings which I would dare to call motivational soundbites but you would consider to be as typically as this sentence to be my interpretation of brief, not necessarily positively motivational but that&#8217;s (yes I do use abbreviations to shorten the sentence even further) because that remains your interpretation but that&#8217;s not necessarily the right one being the one I intended. The above might even require some exepelenaisijuhn. Where some approach diversity, of [&hellip;]
- [In support of TED ..?](https://maverisk.nl/in-support-of-ted/): A certain, distinguished ( ? ;-| ) R. Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near has some off the cuff remarks about becoming pets, Ted style. (p.32) Which is a sligh against (later!) sages of the Musk, Gates and Hawkins class &mdash; and fully unjustified. Since the &#8216;Theory of Technology Evolution&#8217; is a quasi(sic)religious circular argument paraphrasing Hegel with apparently quite carefully selected and probably redacted statistics and some ontological Technology-defeatism in the undertow. And the rest is consumable but only when considering these initial ails as foundations hence only a particular Kuhnian discourse. Interpuncted (Eldredge/Gould style) with badly under- or misinformed [&hellip;]
- [Miss Quotes: Biblical edition](https://maverisk.nl/miss-quotes-biblical-edition/): The quotes, of motivational nature or other, that you meet every time again — but aren&#8217;t, since they are garbled versions of the original. And the original had much more profound wisdom, or was even true where the misquote isn&#8217;t. This second one in a series, a rather old one: &#8220;Money is the root of all evil&#8220; Which of course is true. Though it isn&#8217;t. Because the original is: &#8220;For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.&#8221; (1 Timothy 6:10) [&hellip;]
- [Logicos](https://maverisk.nl/logicos/): [Warning: Some pics may be considered NSFW by some. But they&#8217;re out there!] So&#8230; Was on holiday, not using &#8216;BnB for all the very obvious reasons, when the tour guide had some trouble explaining some Celtic signage at this place: [At Ragusa Ibla; if you&#8217;re familiar with the graphics — those who need to know, know, where they are] because she didn&#8217;t dare to call it by its name, other than &#8216;fertility symbol&#8217; which it was, for the Celts. Just Google pics on &#8216;airbnb logo&#8217; and you get it. After which of course it didn&#8217;t take long for some other company [&hellip;]
- [Ketenregie en legerkorpsvakgrenzen](https://maverisk.nl/ketenregie-en-legerkorpsvakgrenzen/): Tsja en dan denk je terug aan de afgelopen decennia waarin het maar niet lukte om in semi-(quasi-? sub-? nep-?) overheidsland ketenregie op poten te zetten. Nee, nee, nee, er &#8216;werkt&#8217; misschien hier en daar iets, maar dat komt niet verder dan een operationeel niveau van geen-nucleair-conflict met op tactisch en strategisch niveau een totalitaire koude oorlog. En ja, in de private sector (op zich al bedroevend, dat er een aparte term bestaat voor wat toch 90+% van de economie zou moeten beslaan maar niet verder komt dan een procent of 30, h&oacute;&oacute;gstens) is er wel iets tot stand gebracht, maar [&hellip;]
- [Rosebud and Cain](https://maverisk.nl/rosebud-and-cain/): So, &#8230; Waking up, a deeper layer of the Citizen&#8217;s movie surfaced. Unsure whether this was even in the movie, but of course there&#8217;s the battle of the same name (note the number of casualties that today would not count for much but then still did ..!), where &#8220;Indians&#8221; fought on both sides, and probably did it the best, too. And it was the lead-up to that other one. And the land issue remained open (until 1980 no less) and can still not be considered closed&#8230; But apart, or through, all that, I figured: The above is about people of the [&hellip;]
- [Electibility for dogs (quoted from the 'US')](https://maverisk.nl/electibility-for-dogs-quoted-from-the-us/): Bear with me; thinking of some country but applicable to a great many others&#8217; politicians as well; a full-length quote with some notes: The Dogs Hold An Election. [Brule Sioux] We don&#8217;t think much of the white man&#8217;s elections. Whoever wins, we Indians always lose. Well, we have a little story about elections. Once, a long time ago, the dogs were trying to elect a president. So one of them got up in the big dog convention and said: &#8220;I nominate the bulldog for president. He&#8217;s strong. He can fight.&#8221; &#8220;But he can&#8217;t run,&#8221; said another dog. &#8220;What good is a [&hellip;]
- [Leaders don't stand up, but sit on it.](https://maverisk.nl/leaders-dont-stand-up-but-sit-on-it/): Or even, lay awake. As real, actual leaders will not aim to please as big a crowd as possible by focusing on the (ever diminishing, as the group size (target) grows, by mathematical rule) average, or even trying to cater for that. Such &#8216;leaders&#8217; are just ring leaders for mob rule which will in the end not only eat its children but also them_selves. Leaders who succeed, in becoming Men (F/M/other) of State, elderly statesmen, are the ones that do not follow the outcry but seek solutions and then act on them, without having to revert to words first. Not even [&hellip;]
- [AnchoringThink](https://maverisk.nl/anchoringthink/): This might be a signal. When reading up on mr. S. Godin&#8217;s blog (hah, does anyone call him that, these days?), I realised when reading this post that not only can anchoring sink you, it may also be a major contribution to groupthink and subservience to bureaucracy, which seems to be two facets of the same thing. Being, that the anchoring that the group process produces either by clinging to the most-anxiety-reducing interpretation of the opinion of the perceived Leader [with all the side notes of the duce only presenting him(sic)self as such, empty barrel and all] or by averaging out [&hellip;]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-27/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again. First, for the Dutch among us: Then, for whiners in the 51st State of North &#8216;murrica: [Get over it.]
- [New series: Plusquotes](https://maverisk.nl/new-series-plusquotes/): The ballast of your past that you schlepp along, may be what keeps you upright through the turmoil that the future is. So, inspired by this here Expert, this here post is the first of a somewhat hopefully new series &mdash; with my own personal ramblings which I would dare to call motivational soundbites but you would consider to be as typically as this sentence to be my interpretation of brief, not necessarily positively motivational but that&#8217;s (yes I do use abbreviations to shorten the sentence even further) because that remains your interpretation but that&#8217;s not necessarily the right one being [&hellip;]
- [Brave New World](https://maverisk.nl/brave-new-world/): Oh yes yet another sign that eBooks are in the end phase of destroying all mom-and-pop Brick paper-book stores, in e.g., this. Which tells you that finally, the world is integrating some of the &#8216;disruptions&#8217; into its culture and by doing so, at last making them a success &mdash; not in any other way, before &#8230; Well, I&#8217;m off again for now, leaving you with: [ [ Concrete | jungle ]; Paris La Defense ]
- [New category: Miss Quotes](https://maverisk.nl/new-category-miss-quotes/): Quite literally, literally. The quotes, of motivational nature or other, that you meet every time again &mdash; but aren&#8217;t, since they are garbled versions of the original. And the original had much more profound wisdom, or was even true where the misquote isn&#8217;t. OK. The first one, then. A favorite of mine, since it is so often True and demonstrates the futility of the busybodies&#8217; eager beaver detailed roadmap approaches: &#8220;Even the best strategy does not survive first contact with the enemy.&#8221; As said, this is true. But as also said, this does not capture the fullness of the original, which [&hellip;]
- [Some quotes, out of context](https://maverisk.nl/some-quotes-out-of-context/): Indebted to David Graeber&#8217;s Debt here, for the following which for a change is just a bunch of quotes completely out of context, even worse on the representativeness point, and to make matters &#8230; worse, maybe, &#8230; some remarks from Yours Truly&#8230; Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began &#8220;comparing power with power, measuring, calculating&#8221; and reducing [&hellip;]
- [Your valued info at risk](https://maverisk.nl/your-valued-info-at-risk/): Ah, just noted: A great many of you may have switched (or, c&#8217;mon don&#8217;t be a laggard or too late, will soon switch) to self-assessments of risks, even to the level of detail of data security (as part of information security, part of IRM, part of ORM, part of ERM, part of just-freakin&#8217;-perfectly-normal-or-are-you-kiddin&#8217;-me mundane run-of-the-mill average daily management of which &#8216;governance&#8217; is the most preposterous windbag label). Which is all very well, to determine at the shop floor levels, that apparently are the last hold-outs of actual business knowledge beyond the mumbo-jumbo of meddle management (sour joke intended), what the risks, [&hellip;]
- [Who needs slaves ..?](https://maverisk.nl/who-needs-slaves/): When you can have serfdom? The first, merely meaning physical-legal possession, burdensome. The second one, utter dependence by the subservient of the Master. So, ‘we’ (ahum speak for yourselves) aren’t slaves of SocMed, we’re ‘merely’ not merrily their serfs. Which correlates with the Hobson’s anti-choice to walk away and suffer the withdrawal consequences… Freedom to starve, in the sense of the withdrawal and the great may intertwined and softer linked spheres of being. Let’s not get depressed. Let’s get detached. And this. Or what? Oh, this: [Once, ruling large portions of the &#8216;known&#8217; world from here. Now, not so much. Aachen]
- [The year of No More Oops](https://maverisk.nl/the-year-of-no-more-oops/): &#8230; Hoping this year, reps will wise up and don&#8217;t treat (insult) their valued customers like they should&#8217;ve known they themselves are, i.e., like little children. Why, oh why, would anyone still respond to socmed complaints with &#8220;Oops, something&#8217;s not right&#8221; and all that follows is empty chatter offering no solution at all but first, foremost and exclusively disclaiming any own accountability for poor (or worse) service delivery that the reps are accountable for &mdash; just like anyone operating outside the organization&#8217;s perimeter yes including outsourced functions however deep subcontracted. Hey org: I don&#8217;t give a batsh.t about how you organise [&hellip;]
- [Bunch of quote'lets](https://maverisk.nl/bunch-of-quotelets/): Just a short list of quotes (#2&#8230;), from someone after a life-long study: &#8220;Institutions are the enemy of creativity.&#8221; &#8220;So Codes are the mental limitations of short men, short of experience, short of imagination, short of courage, short of common sense. &#8230; Inevitably a bureaucrat is a short man, however long his legs may be. His is a mind only fit for a bureau. He is undersized in most respects. &#8230; Here is the fatal weakness of Democracy: the bureaucrat. The fatal weakness of Democracy does not lie in gangsterism or political chicanery [both more intertwined than visible on the surface [&hellip;]
- [Aquariunism](https://maverisk.nl/aquariunism/): After reading Graeber&#8217;s expos&eacute; on the confluence of &#8216;human economy&#8217; and communism (Yes. Though those that foulmouth &#8216;commies&#8217; are probably too low on the IQ scale to be able to grasp the actual ideas&#8230;), I wondered: Where in this spectrum is the original-Greek or -Celtic or -whatwasit idea on Golden Man, Silver Man and even Bronze Man (or was that current aeon man) having disappeared after their utter success vis &agrave; vis the gods, and where is the (return of the) Age of Aquarius ..? Especially where the latter might have built the original Sphinx, and bored out the sarcophagus with [&hellip;]
- [A footnote to theses](https://maverisk.nl/a-footnote-to-theses/): Not to Theseus, however close. But on the superfluence of latter-day (PhD- in particular) theses in printed form. Wouldn&#8217;t they be much better on-line, in a format with clickable hyperlinks ..? Wasn&#8217;t that what hyperlinking was &#8216;invented&#8217; for ..!? Why then still rely on the old &#8216;footnote&#8217; reference system&#8230; If only b/c some geriatric referees still want to see their own name printed and care less or not at all about hits. With the democratization of even science, wouldn&#8217;t hit scores (Errm, weighted by the authority of the visitors &#8230;! How? We&#8217;ll figure something out) be a better validity measure? Yes, [&hellip;]
- [The new, once again](https://maverisk.nl/the-new-once-again/): &#8230; Just to drop the note that Over 50 is the new Under 30. Because somehow I need that to be so, since recently. And, for this: [Plucked from some LI post. And, because it&#8217;s true. All the brave new world-changing ideas that were dreamt up over the past decade, will now have to integrate in sane society&#8217;s organisation and ethics. Which will need that straddle of understanding of freshness (need) and classic history / societal ethics. Which, I will speak for myself here most certainly hopefully not exclusively (huh), the (only just) Over 50&#8217;s can deliver. I rest my case [&hellip;]
- [Information does(n't) Matter](https://maverisk.nl/information-doesnt-matter/): Another consequence of the analysis mentioned before about answers flowing upward through infosystems and command and inquiries/questions flowing down: When the latter get viewed as anti-data or even anti-information, we see Information Theory in action. Where without the creation of potential (difference) by an inquiry standing ready at, say, a sensor [abstracting for a tiny moment away from the complexity that could be in any sensor, assuming it a math point] to capture some data it may produce, the potential may not pull away the data created by a Heisenbergian creation (-by-measurement ..!?) of the data/anti-data pair. Leaving the anti-data, the [&hellip;]
- [A horse needn't be a horse off course](https://maverisk.nl/a-horse-neednt-be-a-horse-off-course/): Maybe @DARPA can elucidate &#8230; Why would anyone need four-legged soldier-helpers ..? First there was robodog, then LS3 that failed so may end up in your next indeterminableoriginmeat-burger. Next, maybe, a fully armoured full exoskeleton. Which might do away with the humanoid innards in the near future (after that), losing some great many pounds of ballast (similarly, are drone pilots as physically fit as the bunch out there in the air on their weapons platforms ..?) and also losing a great deal in time- and otherwise (situational-closeness hence -fine-granularity) challenged ethical perspective. I.e., no weak knees anymore just shoot whatever moves. [&hellip;]
- [KVZP'ers](https://maverisk.nl/kvzpers/): Euhm, er is nog steeds de grote waterscheiding tussen enerzijds ‘vaste’ dienstverbanden en anderzijds per-uur inhuurbare/dumpbare ZP’ers, lijkt het wel. Ja, er zijn wat moeizame tussenvormen gevonden; het tijdelijk contract (vast tot het niet vast meer is), de urenopdracht (ingeschatte inzet &mdash; waar de opdrachtgever met een …smoes wel onderuitkruipt), etc., maar echt zoden aan de dijk zet het niet. Problemen te over; pensioen&#8217;verplicht&#8217;ingen, sociale zekerheid(sopbouw, -rechten en –solidariteit), inkomenszekerheid (waar een ‘vast’ dienstverband, hoewel absoluut even snel op de tocht staand als een vaste opdracht, wél een hypotheekzekerheid is en een grotere financiële reserve niet), enzovoorts enzoverder. Vraag is nu [&hellip;]
- [Meldt uzelve, out of control](https://maverisk.nl/meldt-uzelve-out-of-control/): Met al die seminars en cursussen over de Wet meldplicht datalekken lijkt het wel of het meldplichtprocedurenaarbinnenrammen d&eacute; oplossing is voor al uw privacy-problemen. Terwijl het natuurlijk niet meer is dan het perfect regelen van het naar buiten toe rondroepen van de totaal transparante schuld zodra (niet als) er iets misgaat. Over het voorkomen dat beter is dan genezen (en dat is implementatie van de meldplicht-procedures nog verre van), horen we een stuk minder. Hooguit bij degenen die nu &eacute;n zometeen de kous op de kop krijgen; dat alles anders moet terwijl het a. nu vaak al best prima geregeld is, [&hellip;]
- [Bow the Stork Tie](https://maverisk.nl/bow-the-stork-tie/): When analyzing the Stork methodology for EU-wide federated eID- and authentication methods and technology, again one stumbles (rather, &#8216; they&#8217; do) over the bow tie of CIA, mostly C, controls. Too bad. Usually, ENISA(-involved) stuff is Great quality. Now, quite too much less so. Which is too bad. To note, we already commented on the classical CIA rating (incl the bow tie fallacy) before. Now, the CIA seems to have something to bring to bear on CIA as well. Better study hard &#8230;! Oh well &#8230;: [Weaving transparency and stability, Cala at Hoofddorp again]
- [SocMed usage trends](https://maverisk.nl/socmed-usage-trends/): FYI, some overview of SocMed platform usage, for your study and divertissement &mdash; did you already know them all, and what would this all mean for your strategy and 2016 tactics ..? Plain from Aurelie Valtat, a very good read in its own right: So, &#8230; No Medium in the list, also no WordPress et al ..? One would expect that, according to this: So, &#8230; again &#8230; There&#8217;s no overview available for all media combined. You&#8217;ll have to puzzle and guess forward into 2016 &#8230; Good luck.
- [Deinduction](https://maverisk.nl/deinduction/): OK. To be, think, human, two things seem to be required: No, not the dichotomy of deduction versus induction. Not so literally (literally, I mean like owemygawd). But the top-to-ground-then-back-up-again ‘logical’ goal-directed problem-solving reasoning, versus the speculative wandering of the mind. Perspiration, and Inspiration. Taking correlation for causation, versus fuzzy-logic supported hypothesizing. OK, I admit I threw in the fuzzy logic part to confuse, and to discombobulate your comprehension. But still, therein lies the foundation of Theories, the brickwork of thinking: Is there a priori knowledge, or is everything we know only valid within its own framework of reference..? Is the [&hellip;]
- [More valid today than in 2008](https://maverisk.nl/more-valid-today-than-in-2008/): Because everyone and their dog noted the Good Ol&#8217; Days of housing price ridiculousness have returned and the bwankers&#8217; moronity has never gone away, the following vids are of more import than ever: Part 1: here; part 2: here; part 3: here; part 4: here. That&#8217;ll be all for now; recovering from my Abrams birthday party still. And: [Trend&#8217;s just a matter of perspective. Mo&#8217; money, no problem equals Zuid-As Amsterdam]
- [RCSA is close to BAU](https://maverisk.nl/rcsa-is-close-to-bau/): Close, as in no cigar yet (has the US ban on Cuban import been lifted already?). But definitely, Risk Control Self-Assessments would, if carried out properly, be that major part of management&#8217;s daily (sic) chores that wouldn&#8217;t need annual get-togethers coaxed by outsiders (sic) but would be Business As Usual in operational practice. Maybe needing some periodic (weekly? monthly? certainly more than as now weakly annually) departmental review gathering but not a stage show as if this is the holy grail of business information flow. After which the &#8216;second line&#8217; (as the back not even middle office function) receives the (right) [&hellip;]
- [One IoTA FYI](https://maverisk.nl/one-iota-fyi/): To close off [almost, since @KPN fraud themselves away from bankruptcy by series of outright lies to customers and tort] the year with a wild shot, ahead: There is value in the information analysis in IoT, as described in Gelernter and many since, of the two-way flow of information. One, flowing up are information in the form of answers as aggregations or pattern matched tuples(ets); the other going down, being both commands and inquiries/questions. This fits the IoT world snugly, and should be taken into account when developing IoTAuditing frameworks: What we’re after of course in all of auditing &mdash; and [&hellip;]
- [3D printing hinting at breakthroughs](https://maverisk.nl/3d-printing-hinting-at-breakthroughs/): As 3D printing will see more of &#8216;breakthrough&#8217; developments in 2016 &#8230; hold it, I mean, hope and want. Since, there&#8217;s still no clarity whether and when. Because reasons. One of them being: There&#8217;s no iPod of 3D printing yet. And people see, and fear, the cartridge costs; more so when you consider your need for many more than just ink in colours but also all sorts of hard-to-keep(?)-plastic plastics et al. And there&#8217;s space issues, 3D printers playing out in 3D space even more than the 2Ds did, especially when you&#8217;d want to print larger stuff. And, not to forget, [&hellip;]
- [Mobile vision](https://maverisk.nl/mobile-vision/): Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves / Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe The brilly side has deteriorated, unfortunately, due to the great many that don&#8217;t avail themselves of the proper tools for the proper usage. [A CEO with you, is still a CEO] No, really: when the ultrahyperventilating crowd decided to warp-speed run after the &#8216;any platform&#8217; and subsequently &#8216;mobile first&#8217; crazes (duly so identified), they forgot that when something&#8217;s meant to be visually interpreted, all the visual clues need to be clearly enough visible in the first place. Which goes better on a large screen than on a [&hellip;]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-26/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again: [For this year: Be brave; dare!]
- [Somehow, related to Big Data analysis and actions](https://maverisk.nl/somehow-related-to-big-data-analysis-and-actions/): &#8230; Where Rembrandt had an idea of a painting in his head, and executed it in his peculiar way on canvas (after which it became relatively immutable &mdash; or paint it over), we now see tons of Big Data (i.e., tons of &lt; whateveryou&#8217;dwanttocallit &gt;) and we have to abstract the ideas from it. So, a reversal. Comparable to the induction/deduction false (sic) counterpoints. The sic since BD gurus don&#8217;t seem to &#8216;get it&#8217; when it comes to nuance over induction&#8217;s value. Yes, I&#8217;ll close out for now already. Fireworks approaching, plus: [Almost-formless blobs, or this? Prefer this direction of design [&hellip;]
- [Swinging and chattering](https://maverisk.nl/swinging-and-chattering/): Sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist to share with you this other nugget of insight and metaphor (well, rather; comparison, of apples with apples) in Mirror Worlds that, opposite of my previous optimistic post about &#8216;managers&#8217;, might not be taken to be cheerful to all: (p.53) &#8221; &#8230; Its significance is denigrated by the run-off-the-mill hacks, bureaucrats and cadres who swing chattering from detail to detail like monkeys in branches, never sensing or caring about the forest at large. Such people more or less run the world.&#8221; Alas. And with the new year approaching of course there&#8217;s hope. Some of it, hopefully. And: [All [&hellip;]
- [Big Data, Little Decision-making](https://maverisk.nl/big-data-little-decision-making/): Are you ready for the coming revolution? That is in the wings by way of the data deluge that will cripple your ability to accomplish anything because you&#8217;re overwhelmed with data (&#8220;information&#8221; quod non!) to act upon in masses so vast you can&#8217;t even begin to use actionable results from analysis of it in a way that actual decisions are reached, communicated, and put into actual action. Yes, yes, some of you will say that AI will arrive just-in-time to save the day. But that is much more wishful thinking out of fear than realistic futuring. And no, the exponential growth [&hellip;]
- [Gelernter on Management](https://maverisk.nl/gelernter-on-management/): Turns out that the seminal Mintzberg&#8217;s Managing (as here), has an updated version in the almost off-hand remark by David Gelernter (in this) that we should have been dealing with an &#8220;&#8216;organization engineer&#8217; (otherwise known as a &#8216;manager&#8217;)&#8221; (p.75) all along, with a focus on the &#8216;uncoupling&#8217; of the manifold different (sic) tasks to be completed to be doled out to the (relative) specialists in the department. Freeing the latter of switching (time) costs and effectiveness losses, along with freeing them of concurrency resolution. Which indeed deserves a HT for putting it so clearly: The manager uncouples, doles out, and then [&hellip;]
- [Predictions Wish List 2016](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-wish-list-2016/): Now that you have drowned in predictions about &#8230; &lt; fill in your favourite subject and colour the pictures &gt; for 2016, it&#8217;s time to not only read through them and see whether you can agree — which you don&#8217;t need to as the truth is already here — it&#8217;s time to turn your Yes I Can See That / No I Don&#8217;t Think So into something of the more outspoken kind, not being outspoken but outwritten. As follows (mine, hence, yours if you&#8217;re smart&#8230;): Blockchain (-like) methodologies and technologies delivering an app that shakes up the accountancy industry so thouroughly [&hellip;]
- [Prediction16](https://maverisk.nl/prediction16/): Yawn. Or not. The following will get real serious in 2016. Like, People will replace newspaper time with time online, wrote Bill Gates in &#8220;The World in 1998&#8221; https://t.co/8bCPCUg1Ph pic.twitter.com/bvnMCpJJUB — The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 11, 2015 Well, for the list with everything and their dog: Some Exits: Green Egg, &#8216;Cyber&#8217;everything, disruption/uberization, privacy, and, certainly and very much hopefully, &#8220;Like us on Facebook&#8221; &#8230; and very, very certainly hipsters let alone their &#8216;beards&#8217; (quod non). Entrat to replace the latter, hopefully, some actual non- or anti-bureaucratic frameworks of mind. Also out, to be replaced by &#8230; [as yet unknown]: Vlogging or [&hellip;]
- [Game season](https://maverisk.nl/game-season/): Sooo&#8230; We have a new game console on the block. Let&#8217;s see whether the new boy will persist. This, after: Apple TV now has over 2,600 apps, mostly games https://t.co/mlo53wIQRR pic.twitter.com/JvcZTZLVq9 &mdash; TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) December 11, 2015 But which may translate to a double jump, from classic TV via Netflix to this new blended thing where even much more than nowadays, categories (like &#8216;news&#8217; or &#8216;nature documentary&#8217;) no longer apply. Where will the Authoritative (news) Sourcing community go, even when it may shrink and dwindle into little if any size or significance? Juvenalis&#8217; bread and circuses the world will be. Well, [&hellip;]
- [One-sided mirror](https://maverisk.nl/one-sided-mirror/): Hopefully just in time for your last-minute (huh?) holiday season shopping: This masterpiece; excellent for edukaizjionel purposes and general divertissement, including Be-ing Warned&#8230; Because, it spans so much of interest; from humble (?) &#8216;computer&#8217; components all the way up till Topsight. Read, learn and weep over humankind&#8217;s future. Now then, for a short departure: [Unk Berlin]
- [Everyone's using Layars](https://maverisk.nl/everyones-using-layars/): Just started re-reading the 1991 (..!) Gelernter classic Mirror Worlds. Nomen est omen, author-itywise. Then it struck me: Mobiles weren&#8217;t invented back then; can you imagine ..?? And Home Improvement was the hit of the year. Some Tim Berners-Lee guy first proposed HTML. Even PCs version 1.0 were still not ubiquitous. And then this Gelernter published this masterpiece about virtual worlds. Not some random tech prediction, but insightful, visionary stuff. But the reason I give you this, is: In 2009, Layar started. Where has that gone ..!? When you know what I&#8217;m talking about, you see the link with the above. [&hellip;]
- [Books, disrupted ..?](https://maverisk.nl/books-disrupted/): Remember when I posted about the Books business doing quite well, despite having been called to the grave ..? (As here) Now, this arrived: Audiobooks have begun to outsell print. Oh. Which is a very disinterested Oh. Since, how would you envisage wandering through the pages, your eye being caught by some particular peculiar words ..? How about paging back to a clue you remember to be at about the fifth line top left towards the end of the first chapter? Yes, reading may change. Or not. People might still be buying books as they did before. And audio books may [&hellip;]
- [Ringtones on deaf ears](https://maverisk.nl/ringtones-on-deaf-ears-2/): [Abridged repost; relevant again] There seems to have been an explosion of (news over) ~mojis lately. Like, the past half year has seen a proliferation of subsets and niceties that, as a phenomenon, spell the end of interest in messaging. As the phenomenon (not this which is great in any absolute measure) is so very much the same as we saw with ringtones&#8230; Arrrg! Yes indeed they spelled the end of the introductory phase of mobiles. The more it became a fad to have some peculiar &#8216;tone, the more one exposed oneself as a somewhat (?) pathetic Laggard, not quite knowing [&hellip;]
- [IoThreat level rising](https://maverisk.nl/iothreat-level-rising/): Oh the waxing and waning of the security (or not) that we understand and can see. In, traditional, actual security versus stupid&#8217;s attacks with AK-47s. Oh the failure to see that the vulnerability surface grows much quicker, unseen, out of sight; and only partially, backlogging style, being managed somewhat. This surface expansion being in IoT, as the current implementations (in two ways, labelled such or not&#8230;!) are spreading much faster than the awareness, let alone proper implementation of, security is. And oh yes, some are concerned. But their concerns appear to remain Boy Cried Wolfs compared to the clear and present [&hellip;]
- [We need another Blue (h)It](https://maverisk.nl/we-need-another-blue-hit/): No, no IT;   It. Dean Kamen style.     Nor the It, Amsterdam style 😐 Now that the BttF hoverboard didn&#8217;t pan out as planned (qua planning, 21 October 2015) and first clumsy (but PoC?) prototypes having only recently surfaced (huh) and the halfway product of self-balancing two-wheel hoverboards are quite fancy but far from mainstream yet, We do need something of the It hype and fuzz that surrounded the development / grand splash intro of the original Segway. Maybe, probably, in a completely different direction but something similar possibly pervasive. And have all the excitement of the buzz; and maybe this time around, actual [&hellip;]
- [Common meltdown](https://maverisk.nl/common-meltdown/): Ah, indeed a meltdown is approaching; maybe not even of the common kind of just something breaking down in &#8216;IT&#8217; &mdash; the inverted s&#8230; hits the fan scenario &mdash; but a larger-scale one. Being the lack of budget / approval for IT staff to do continuous education of all sorts. [As in here, in Dutch.] Which will inevitably lead to ever larger of the small- to midsize collapses mentioned, possibly one triggering the other till past the critical point where the chain reaction feedback loop switches from negative to positive. By which time it will be too late, much too late, [&hellip;]
- [Software Defined Everything, not your monkey's business](https://maverisk.nl/software-defined-everything-not-your-monkeys-business/): Lately, we have been reading a lot about Software Defined Everything (haven&#8217;t you &#8230;?), in particular sw-def networking. As the flexible way to the future. Now, it turns out that humans may have had an edge over monkeys (and apes) by, for quite some time already, having had just that bit more software-defined Brain work than the competition. Though research is out also (since about half a year+) that apes using tools, have entered the Stone Age with that, for some 4300 years at least already. Now I will not refer here to the mix-up that your boss is, in this [&hellip;]
- [Porter's half "value" chain](https://maverisk.nl/porters-half-value-chain/): The problem: Half an &lt;undefined&gt; chain isn&#8217;t much good. Because &#8230; There&#8217;s no money anywhere in the &#8216;Value Chain&#8217; oft portrayed. As it is in Starreveld&#8217;s model. [You&#8217;re out of luck, in Dutch only and even then, no pics .. oh, there&#8216;s one] Which points to an even bigger error: No clear(ly communicated) def of Value in the first place. Allsorts went off and did a lot of heavy lifting (they wished! The lightweight airheads the majority was!), but achieved &#8230; not much; little; nothing worth their salts. Obviously. And also, obviously very much required, these latter days, that a proper [&hellip;]
- [The Season of Innovation](https://maverisk.nl/the-season-of-innovation/): Anyone has stats on when, during the year, most actual innovations are dreamt up, or brought to light ..? Just wondered, pondered, looking outside into a greyish dawn, and thought: Where are this year&#8217;s Innovations that make late fall / winter time more amicable ..? Just because seasons are only a quarter of the year ;-| doesn&#8217;t sound like a good explanation; whereas any year, or innovation&#8217;s adoption wave, is a one-time thing only, seasons tend to re-appear quite regularly over and over again through the ages. So any real innovation might stick even better. [Will now halt this silly argument.] [&hellip;]
- [Stealing others' Innovation flag](https://maverisk.nl/stealing-others-innovation-flag/): On how one (organisation) can be truly innovative, but another gets all the credit &mdash; later on when History gets written down. I mean, have you checked the innovation of Tesla ..? Which consisted, apart from the green(?)fields start of operations, with a simple copy of an iconic car. Indeed, not the S type, but the Lotus Elise. Yes, yes, I know, not many parts are the same but that misses the point..! What Tesla vehemently denies, is that buyers don&#8217;t give a single &#8230; [censored] about said parts, they buy a design. And well, on that point &#8230; is there [&hellip;]
- [A simple link to a profound article](https://maverisk.nl/a-simple-link-to-a-profound-article/): Today, just a simple link to an article you&#8217;ll find interesting &mdash; or find yourself not that. As in: this here piece. After which: Uhhh okai then: The point of the matter is that here, we still have that idealistic vision in which AI would augment us, improve us, near-eugenetically though with prostheses, leaving so-hard-they-become-easy-by-not-being-recognized choices of the Hobson kind for the ones with least ethical scrupules, the early adoptors to collateral on the others. Early adoptors through the need for compensation of already lacking (basic&#8230;) capabilities&#8230; Before becoming too negative, this: [Think, self-rule, et al.; Dunedin again]
- [Grendel's mother](https://maverisk.nl/grendels-mother-2/): This indeed a repost. As matters in global politics made this material utmost relevant again, a couple of weeks ago. Has the news since addressed the below already, or will we learn from history that we don&#8217;t learn from history ..? When the short summary doesn&#8217;t do justice to the core of the problem&#8230; Where the core is both a misreading of the depth and a misreading of its intentions. As this here few little paragraphs have.There&#8217;s no light way of putting this: Go read the &#8230; thing in its entirety and then, do understand it in all of its cultural [&hellip;]
- [Hard coating emaille](https://maverisk.nl/hard-coating-emaille/): If you&#8217;re well-seasoned, you may have turned a bit sour by all the silver bullet news even when that was targeted at point problems/solutions. And, you may even be old enough to recall Why Johnny Can&#8217;t. Seems there&#8217;s a new version of the latter, with a similar conclusion. Too bad for all of us. Oh well&#8230;: [Also &#8216;old&#8217;, also of a &#8216;no photo allowed inside&#8217; site. Guess which]
- [Repeat mode: The definitive Top 2000 of 2015](https://maverisk.nl/repeat-mode-the-definitive-top-2000-of-2015/): Just to be sure you&#8217;re not led off the Right(eous) path by all those DJs out there playing songs from or candidate for some &#8220;Top 2000&#8221;, herewith a repost of the real deal. Which of course isn&#8217;t; it&#8217;s the Top 2266 for one thing and Definitive is slightly understating it. And yes, it is downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes (repeated from last year): &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t where they&#8217;re &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be by common standards!&#8221; Correct. Because [&hellip;]
- [C'est arrivé près de chez vous; LoRaWAN](https://maverisk.nl/cest-arrive-pres-de-chez-vous-lorawan/): Yet another major building block of the Future &#8230; in place. [And, not a ref to some City of Light atrocities] Where&#8217;s the Privacy and (OR) Security experts &#8230;? For certainly, though almost out of public view, the undercurrents develop fast, into a maelstrom — I&#8217;d like it even more in this form — of possibilities; to be abused before being controlled, as has always been the case throughout history. Oh well, can&#8217;t stop Progress, certainly not of the Technology kind&#8230; But one can hope we (sic or huh?) the Concerned will be in sufficient numbers to be able to and [&hellip;]
- [The Good Bad and Bureaucrats](https://maverisk.nl/the-good-bad-and-bureaucrats/): Musing with the distinction between Bad and Evil (as here), and how Anger of the right kind (good to be bad b/c without/opposing evil intent) would be neither but the diametrical opposite of the former two&#8217;s effects in bureaucracy. Noting that praxis makes the things get mixed up, as in: [Supreme distort; DC]
- [The Internot Diploma](https://maverisk.nl/the-internot-diploma/): In an attempt to pre-empt all 2016 April fool&#8217;s jokes by a mile (in time and ridicule value) some Dutch Board on Cyber Security (notice the joke starts there, with &#8216;cyber&#8217; since #ditchcyber) proposed to ensure all kids would get some &#8216;Safe Internet use diploma&#8217;. When you know the kids regularly fail for (very, very!) basic math skill tests, can hardly write comprehensible sentences over &#8230; [fill in some number comfortably below ten] words let alone know anything about bits and bytes (but do know about birds and bees far ahead of practicing any of that &mdash; we hope) or even [&hellip;]
- [Biased news](https://maverisk.nl/biased-news/): Demonstrating that &#8230; when it comes to InfoSec news &#8230; the general press may be biased&#8230; Otherwise, why wouldn&#8217;t this news have been spread much, much more ..? Since it may look unserious on the surface, but definitely is True. Just sayin&#8217;. And just showin&#8217;: [Similar to Ottawa, but qua size, compensated by the loudest barrels all around; DC]
- [Schrödinger's accountant](https://maverisk.nl/schrdingers-accountant/): After all the news about accountancy being a sector where all sorts of changes would have to be imminent or happening in order to save anything of the trade (sic, more than it would be a profession that it isn&#8217;t!) as in the main news if you noticed and also in yesterday&#8217;s post and before on this here blog, this sentence is generally considered to be too long. So, whether change would Happen or not, I&#8217;d wanted to add just a little thingy: Pretty sure that Schrödinger based his theory that a cat can be dead and alive at the same [&hellip;]
- [NFChipknip](https://maverisk.nl/nfchipknip/): Long live innovation! Of the in some respects backward kind. Yes we did have the chipknip, a stored-value debit card system that for small amounts (e.g., parking in Amsterdam though that hardly counts as &#8216;small&#8217;). And yes, of course it was abolished because nobody wanted it. For one, because the stored value had to be loaded onto the card, at ever (sic) less available separate ATM-like holes in the wall. For a second, because losing the card meant losing the stored value. For a third, because given this functionality, people much preferred to stick to cash money that was more easy [&hellip;]
- [Oh, of course: DACcountantcy](https://maverisk.nl/oh-of-course-daccountantcy/): Was reminded by this seer peer (no typos) in a casual remark that DAOs (DACs) may change quite a bit about the world as we know it. &#8220;DAOs are a game changing invention enabling a new model for human collaboration. #blockchain #C4ACC&#8221; (© him) — but apart from human collaboration (note the pejorative weight of the early &#8217;40s this stil carries with it even today, in continental Europe), also the value of Trust in singular persons may shift. DAOs then being of course, of course, the element I forgot to mention in my roboccountant post. So, with this one linked in, [&hellip;]
- [Na de accountant, de kolenboer](https://maverisk.nl/na-de-accountant-de-kolenboer/): [In Dutch] Nou ja, over de volgorde valt te twisten. Over de beider in één mandje niet. Zoals uiteengezet in dit werk, is beroepsmatig alles eindig. Al zullen rechters (en helaas ook advocaten en vergelijkbare beroepen, en nog veel helazer politici) nog wel een tijdje meegaan, alles kent z&#8217;n tijd. Ook de tovenaarsleerlingen-die-eigenlijk-nooit-echt-van-de-grond-zijn-gekomen, de IT-auditors, zien hun einde al naderen — vooral vanwege dat niet van de grond (modder) losgekomen zijn. Ingehaald, voorbijgevlogen door ballast-lichteren (onder henzelf) die de fundamenten van het zwaarder-dan-lucht-vliegen begrijpen, doorvoelen en ernaar handelen zonder zich in bigger (heavier) is better te verliezen dus hard on principles, [&hellip;]
- [Privvezy Protrection](https://maverisk.nl/privvezy-protrection/): An off the cuff &mdash; where&#8217;s gentlemens&#8217; style, these days? &mdash; remark hit a nerve. When an interesting company had some very interesting speakers and me. On IAM, data leakage and &#8230; well, what was it, data protection XOR privacy &#8230;? Because the little collateral remarks was about Privacy being the ethical imperative, but being implementable straight away, would need translation to operational Data Protection. Yes, where the core of legislation is about the latter, in an attempt to achieve the former&#8230; to the degree feasible, achievable, and wanted. Demonstrating that all legalese, even of the EU kind, is just about [&hellip;]
- [As Einstein said. Did NOT...!](https://maverisk.nl/as-einstein-said-did-not/): &#8220;Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results&#8221; Or &#8220;Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the same results&#8221; But then, the original goes something like: &#8220;Insanity is making the same mistakes and expecting different results&#8221; &#8230; (emphasis mine) Which is obviously what all the misquoters do: Making the same mistaken attribution and expecting anyone to still laugh and/or understand but to the formers&#8217; dismay this doesn&#8217;t happen. And for good reason. #2 above is maybe the most worthwhile; in an ever faster changing world one hardly can expect the [&hellip;]
- [Define 'Risk'...](https://maverisk.nl/define-risk/): This should be an easy one, by pointing at ISO 31000 and its definition the effect of uncertainty on objectives. But that same easy def also raises more questions than it answers, e.g., How to define [ hence | and ] classify effects, How to define [ hence | and ] classify uncertainty (a biggy &#8230;!), How to define [ hence | and ] classify objectives, How to establish measurement of effects, How to establish measurement of uncertainty, How to establish measurement of objectives that all have an impact on, and are impacted by, the definition. Hopefully, I don&#8217;t have to [&hellip;]
- [T.L.D. Richelieu](https://maverisk.nl/t-l-d-richelieu/): A.J. du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac, a.k.a. &#8216;Big R&#8217; in quotes-land, was ahead of time to say &#8220;If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him&#8221;. Surely, he meant to instate the &#8216;prove me&#8217; idiocy that pervades the TLD prison found in so many organizations, where regular folks trying hardest to manage, aren&#8217;t allowed to because they first have to comply (completely, slave-style) with filing requirements that can only be read to deliver the above-mentioned six lines. If only it were [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-25/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again. To remind you to always evade normalcy.
- [Old, new, borrowed, blue or is it?](https://maverisk.nl/old-new-borrowed-blue-or-is-it/): Some claimed Über was (sic) disruptive. Others try to figure out how to &#8216;disrupt&#8217; themselves or their (?) industry. Mostly, the latter comes down to analysis of how things are / are done in the industry, and finding radical improvements. Now here&#8217;s three things re the taxi ride market: a. Where traditionally, supply and demand happened to be present at the same location in the street, or demand waited for supply to show up, we now have a pre-match. Or hold it: that existed by calling a taxi co. b. Supply has been upgraded in quality. Nothing revolutionary here; premium services [&hellip;]
- [Nothing as powerful as ill-guided over the top Lean (i.e.) self-destruction](https://maverisk.nl/nothing-as-powerful-as-ill-guided-over-the-top-lean-i-e-self-destruction/): Where Lean creates its own calcification &mdash; compared to, and evoking, its Schumpeterian nemesis the long tail start-up disruptors sphere of true customer service. Because, think of it: Lean is about reducing the handling of variance, of inputs, processing, and outputs. But nobody wants ever less adapted products. The Makers&#8216; Movement is on its way for a reason..! No-one cares for the hyper-efficient execution of ever more useless processes. Oh fine that you&#8217;re doing things so six black belt&#8217;y sigma-less (sic); nobody will give you a cent for it. As your value would be in the opposite: The attention to each [&hellip;]
- [Proud to Produce](https://maverisk.nl/proud-to-produce/): Ah, the information age! Where we have lost the pride of our production. For several reasons. First, no more physical products come from or through our hands, it&#8217;s just bits &mdash; they say ..! &mdash; somewhere around the world; not necessarily even at the office building we&#8217;re at, neatly stacked as intensive farm livestock. What do we have to show for our work? Also, there&#8217;s the lack of hand work. Typing and yakking is not work, it&#8217;s just what it is; fingertip exercise at most. Let alone real physical work. Then, there&#8217;s the mirage of production. Ours (isn&#8217;t but also) has [&hellip;]
- [Lanier will Boomerang on you](https://maverisk.nl/lanier-will-boomerang-on-you/): Those of you who are in the know, are in the know about my tendency to favor proof of Lanier&#8217;s thoughts, when not if dystopian&#8230; And then, there&#8217;s Boomerang&#8216;s org model. 14.000 creatives, all vying for a handful of odd jobs. Showing that this kind of dismal disruption can happen anywhere &#8230; Oh well: [This not even referencing the hugeness of the failure, even; sculpture garden, DC]
- [The Bureau of Chaos, by Theory](https://maverisk.nl/the-bureau-of-chaos-by-theory/): As a side note to, e.g. this here masterpiece&#8230;: The tendency of bureaucracies to ever further detail its rulesets, that quickly become so burdensome [apart from other ills, ethically much graver], that is evident wherever (top-down) principles are translated in quasi- (not even semi-) mathematical ways, algorithmically almost, to the level of pervasive implementation, stems from the ultimate control approach to life clashing with the ultimate finest-grain detailed descriptions of the universe. Intentional, and definitely normative, description (in order to control! Man over Nature!) banging heads with extensional description. Which will petrify, then fail because it creates its own Chaos structure, [&hellip;]
- [Comparatively innovative (Beetleroot)](https://maverisk.nl/comparatively-innovative-beetleroot/): There was this quite simple hack; in (very) pseudo-code: If 2-wheels Then { Rollerbank; diss up some fancy figures; } Which calls to mind the Problem of BIOS hacking / backdoor/malware pre-installing, as explained here. On the one hand, a solution is available: At a sublimated information level, encode, as here. In the physical, car, scenario this would be readily implementable as: Just test the emissions, not rely on data produced by the system itself. Prepared By Client is used pervasively in accounting (financial auditing part) as well so consider yourselves warned&#8230; On the other hand [there always is another hand [&hellip;]
- [Roboccountant](https://maverisk.nl/roboccountant/): Talking about robotisation of the accountancy industry&#8230; Automation is letting a computer do the same, or about the same, as was previously done by hand and/or mind. This &#8216;doing&#8217; is a walk-through of an algorithm. In its simplest form, and for major parts the core of accountancy / bookkeeping processing, this was even parameter-free so no switches needed to be made, no decisions at switchpoints. But sometimes, the switchboard was external e.g., in accountancy rulebooks that were but for (idiot) savants (a.k.a. &#8216;only some accountants&#8217;) near- or completely impossible to stuff in one&#8217;s head as part of the programming. The Turing [&hellip;]
- [Your enhancement needed, again](https://maverisk.nl/your-enhancement-needed-again/): Yes, enhancement needed and you are in the same sentence. Because in the back of your head, you know you need it.And, in particular, you know you need it for the below post, which is a plain repost of an earlier one here. But that&#8217;s because I am serious about the elaboration of the ideas depicted (huh, not much more than that, yet!) into a sort of mapping thing by which one can categorise new developments but also point at pitfalls, roadblocks (not yet in the pics), et al., by which one can track developments in areas, sectors etc., to see [&hellip;]
- [Should I go or should I go – Maps out of bounds](https://maverisk.nl/should-i-go-or-should-i-go-maps-out-of-bounds/): Oh-kaye, was on my way yesterday to this seminar on IoT &mdash; which is irrelevant info (is it?) but whatever &mdash; when I turned to Maps for final approach instructions, appropriate as I was, relatively speaking, props traffic i.e., by bus for once and on foot. The address: Clearly, Schiphol Group at Evert van der Beekstraat 202. Which Big G did find &mdash; far off from the &#8216;heart&#8217; of EvdBstreet I had looked up earlier. As I guessed to have to walk only some 200m, I reverted to walking &#8216;back&#8217; to the central terminal (in the rain, mostly), guessing the location [&hellip;]
- [Romantic (Star) Wars](https://maverisk.nl/romantic-star-wars/): Ah, the romance! That will be proven to be the basis for the Star Wars movie (original one, the rest is after(sic)thought; also, future tense, as we near the future of Back To). Since the many that say it so much clearer than Yours Truly, e.g., in this concise piece: When AGI / ASI (Don&#8217;t know when or rather if ever we would have a clear distinction between the two; re Asimov&#8217;s shorthand for magic) takes over, the ultimate control humankind had always sought over the universe, will flip to ultimate non-control. When hybris strikes, it backfires into annihilation. Which is [&hellip;]
- [Is the Valley over the hill ..?](https://maverisk.nl/is-the-valley-over-the-hill/): This, about real estate. How some current wave of innovation is in its tail stages, like this. Is that bad, or is it a sign of health to enter the unhealthy stage ..? Riddles&#8230; Or rather, it&#8217;s about how the dam break of the app effect gravitated to the black hole of Mountain View Et Al. But the wave of innovations that it spurred, or had spurred before and in parallel to it, too, now pulsars its way to other places as well, into the &#8216;outer space&#8217; that the world is. As the collective built stuff that is unbound geographically, so [&hellip;]
- [The End (of the week) Is Nigh](https://maverisk.nl/the-end-of-the-week-is-nigh/): A couple of weeks ago, there was this little discussion on history writing re the birth of the Third Industrial Revolution. Walking by my own bookshelves &mdash; desperately trying to keep the Unread under 50, the Read explode anyway &mdash; when I realized that there were some that were and are desperately underrated as for their Told You So farsighted predictive value and hence need much more attention and re-reading, again keeping this sentence at suitable length period To be more precise, just three biggies (in terms of their Value, not page number ;-): Eric von Hippel (luckily, also available for [&hellip;]
- [The definitive Top 2000 of 2015, already](https://maverisk.nl/the-definitive-top-2000-of-2015-already/): Which of course isn&#8217;t; it&#8217;s the Top 2266 for one thing and Definitive is slightly understating it. And yes, it is downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes (repeated from last year): &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t where they&#8217;re &#8216;supposed&#8217; to be by common standards!&#8221; Correct. Because I&#8216;m &#8216;Rekt. The list is mine; why put the Mehhh songs high up there? They&#8217;re in there somewhere, but its my list, my preferences..! yes I do like some almost-forgotten songs better, sometimes [&hellip;]
- [Starreveld in the Information Age (industry)](https://maverisk.nl/starreveld-in-the-information-age-industry/): @deKokPieter or others (or just one of his interns; grad work?) may have to help me out with yet another crazy (not (?)) idea of mine: There was (is?) this great theoretic of accountancy called Starreveld, with his value cycle typology for, literally, every kind of industry and on close reading, even sub-industry. Given that we live in times of information processing factories, how would they fit the model or how would we have to read / translate / interpret the model to &#8216;work&#8217; in today&#8217;s day and age? Since the information processing industry, being almost all of the world&#8217;s service [&hellip;]
- [Program. Check. Not.](https://maverisk.nl/program-check-not/): Going to present at a conference. You know, to raise one&#8217;s reputation that is the single currency in independent-consultancyland, and to gain feedback on one&#8217;s private research and professional (industry) development zeal. So, I was to present at (ISC)2, or rather, not, as notified in an email of May 7th, less than 2 months after proposal submission. And indeed the program/agenda presented online then (and the weeks before already), didn&#8217;t show my name. Bummer. Was granted a slot at a back-up filing (ISACA Copenhagen) but had to decline, due to private circumstances. Over the course of the last couple of months, [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-24/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again. Oh, how much is it (the question) like your intelligence level &#8230;
- [PIA is KIA and KYD (?)](https://maverisk.nl/pia-is-kia-and-kyd/): Since the whole Privacy thing has gained new traction with both the European Data Privacy Directive regaining (some&#8230;) steam and the European Court finally deciding what all with any bits of brain already knew i.e. that &#8216;Safe Harbour&#8217; was a sour joke (to put it mildly), I realized, when working on a presentation for a forum centering on/around Identity and Access Management, that any Privacy Impact Analysis work comes down to two things; an objects-side analysis in the form of Know Your Data and a subject-side analysis by means of Know your (authorised OR actual) Identities and their Access, with some [&hellip;]
- [Alesia (This week's Friday Folly)](https://maverisk.nl/alesia/): Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Haha consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. &#8230; Hahah and some more: Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum of course as here. And Gallia in omnes partes divisa est. And the title, &#8230; just random. Would have been here or even here. Or are [&hellip;]
- ['bucks sailor went where ..?](https://maverisk.nl/bucks-sailor-went-where/): Quite some time ago, I came across this, in Lucca: and considered it as grossy antagonistic &#8220;Starbucks opening soon here&#8221; sign. Later, I read up what the co. has on their own site about the logo. Which has some vague story about a 16th century Norse woodcut. The thing being: The church (it is) in Lucca was built, and veryveryvery probably decorated, long before. So, had some Norse sailor been there? This is much more possible than latter-day non-historians tend to believe&#8230; Norsemen even had kingdoms et al. in Italy for centuries, or at least raided there quite regularly so why [&hellip;]
- [Rio per capita](https://maverisk.nl/rio-per-capita/): &#8230; Is the medal list per capita out already ..? [Spoiler: next Thusday&#8217;s post has some results for the below&#8230;] For surely, just adding up medals per &#8216;country&#8217; is ridiculous. When some country may send two athletes (four?) to some contest and can pull from, e.g., 10M citizens, how much infrastructure (economically, culturally etc.) can it muster, compared to some country that has a potentials pool of, e.g. 300M ..? [Including that some form of compensation should be available for the very fact that population- and surface-wise smaller countries have a much lower &#8216;pyramid&#8217; of local contestants challenging each other for [&hellip;]
- [Quicky: For ... eyes only ..?](https://maverisk.nl/quicky-for-eyes-only/): Because all those high on Mr. Robot, looking alike but wannabe, deep down still would want to be like the center character in this (see the pic below), herewith: For your eyes only WikiLeaks, can see me through the night in all privacy detail. For your eyes only WikiLeaks, I never need to more can hide. You can see so much in ev’rything about me, so much in me that&#8217;s new all my browsing history ever. I never felt until I looked at you it hurt me to death. For your eyes only WikiLeaks, only for you the world to see. [&hellip;]
- [Own rules](https://maverisk.nl/own-rules/): When &#8216;Compliance&#8217; are the Spanish Inquisition, keep them to their own rules. Leviticus, in particular; 19:19, 19:27, 24:10-16 and others (note :4 for the commoners outside the C department), and Deuteronomy, e.g., 22:11. Exodus 21:7, too. We&#8217;re looking at a lot of pink slips, and clawbacks, if we&#8217;d be too (sic) lenient. Oh well: [Compliance through the looking glass; GlassFever Dordrecht]
- [Risk Chagrins](https://maverisk.nl/risk-chagrins/): It&#8217;s just a matter of Karma&#8230; As long as &#8216;risk&#8217; &#8216;managers&#8217; deal with negativity (admit it; focusing on the negative is even written into quite a number of definitions involved ..!), they&#8217;ll become the sourpusses they want to see all around (remember, the &#8220;passing back risk management to the &#8216;first&#8217; line&#8221; ..?), and according to which they&#8217;ll behave ever more, finding evidence everywhere they&#8217;re on the &#8216;right&#8217; track. Quod non, but conspiracy theorists as they are, they will not listen &#8230; Oh, and this: [Your &#8216;risk&#8217; &#8216;heat map&#8217;, accurate picture]
- [Plusquote: Materiality](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-materiality/): Discussions about materiality are not material. This, after realizing that all too often, the discussions about materiality were/are either by Eager Beavers (not having grown above box checking zealots), or by outsiders qua experience and expertise, e.g., lawyers (q.q.) and &#8216;governance&#8217; bubbletypes. Whereas, when &#8216;materiality&#8217; (or its twin-at-a-right-angle, &#8216;significance&#8217;) its pass-or-fail boundary is discussed, not the precise measure (and hence, rigorous definition) counts, but the very fact that there is a discussion in the first place. That is material, that points at an issue. Wise minds (q.q. probably not directly involved ..!) understand this point and will not want to join [&hellip;]
- [Get the vibe](https://maverisk.nl/get-the-vibe/): Or, how did you not think this would happen, everywhere, all the time ..?? I&#8217;ll finish with a pretty pic: [When curtains would keep your salon business private &#8230;; Huis van Gijn Dordrecht]
- [Inverse Recency Bias](https://maverisk.nl/inverse-recency-bias/): Word has &#8230; had it, that continuing doing what didn&#8217;t work, would be futile. (Remember?) And, there was a thing called the Recency Bias (as, somewhere, in here). Against the first, some point out its truth (quod non), that outcomes wouldn&#8217;t change. But when the environment (say, the actual world) in which the &#8216;experiment(s)&#8217; were conducted, have changed — and it does, ever faster — the input will inevitably be processed differently hence will give different outcomes except the exceptions, rightly named. Against the RB then, Big Data was all-powerful, in particular in pointing out that going back way beyond some [&hellip;]
- [Area man will reluctantly vote for Hillary](https://maverisk.nl/area-man-will-reluctantly-vote-for-hillary/): “I’ve had enough of hanging around at that White House.” 27 july 2016 by Jack Dornbusch After the nomination of Donald Trump, many Americans have indicated their intention to vote for Hillary Clinton this November, while they actually do not particularly want her for president. The same for the 69 year old Bill, just the average next door American for whom the Democrats rooted the past 23 years. “I would rather enjoy my pension in quiet.” It is that strange feeling of responsibility that moves Bill to vote for Hillary anyway, but it will not be full-heartedly: “I’ve had enough of [&hellip;]
- [ChainWASP](https://maverisk.nl/chainwasp/): &#8230; With all the blockchain app(lication)s, in all senses, sizes and seriousnesses if that is a word, growing (expo of course) everywhere, wouldn&#8217;t it be time to think about some form of OWASP-style programming quality upgrading initiative, now that the &#8216;chain world is still young, hasn&#8217;t yet encountered its full-blown sobering-up trust crash through sloppy implementation. But, with Ethereum&#8216; and others&#8217; efforts to spread the API / Word (no, no, not the linear-text app&#8230;) as fast and far and wide as possible, chances of such a sloppy implem leading to distrust in the whole concept, may rise significantly. Which might, possibly, [&hellip;]
- [Man talks about Innovation](https://maverisk.nl/man-talks-about-innovation/): ‘Innovation’ By Harold Jacobson In Long Beach, a man talked about innovation. The man was of indeterminate age (thirty-five or something), wore a jacket and was slightly sweaty on the forehead. He stressed the importance of innovation: “Innovation.” The man had made a ‘Roadmap Innovation and Innovation’ (RI&amp;I). In the RI&amp;I, there was something on the theme of ‘innovation’. The man said we are in the midst of an innovation revolution that may eventually lead to an innovation transition. According to the man, fear is not the right motivator but innovation is. Hence, we may come out stronger, if only we [&hellip;]
- [Fintech: Babble-fork](https://maverisk.nl/fintech-babble-fork/): Coining (pun not even intended as I wrote this &mdash; lame non-landing anyway) a new phrase: Babble-fork. Which is what happens now in the financial industry with fintech: Banks et al. think they have a role to play in the applications of blockchain technology in the financial industry of the future. As bc is just a distributed ledger technology [ref. Tapscott the Elder &amp; the Younger], right? Obviously, dead wrong. Or, &#8216;the Internet&#8217; is just phone lines between mainframes. Otherhandly, the start-ups that have no role or place for the incumbents. The start-ups that expect the old ones to die [1:03 [&hellip;]
- [Reverse firing squad (LIBORgate et al.)](https://maverisk.nl/reverse-firing-squad-liborgate-et-al/): When designing cross-organizational processes &#8216;hence&#8217; including cross-organizational control structures, who will be accountable to look after the controls in question? Take LIBOR(gate). Someone(s) dreamt up a structure of &#8216;self-regulation&#8217;, which even the most brief moronically-superficial gleaning over history will tell will fail, and then forgot one&#8217;s accountability for putting in place such a sure to fail thing. &#8217;cause only accountability will force &#8216;taking&#8217; responsibility and actually doing both parts of Trust But Verify. No, the latter part was not taken up by the individual banks involved. Because they had perfect (O)RM in place. That, by perfectly sensible, justified, and objective achievement-perfecting [&hellip;]
- [The carrot won't stick](https://maverisk.nl/the-carrot-wont-stick/): Almost as an intermission, on my way to a full-length post on behavioral change and InfoSec: A shortie on Compliance. Having realised that classical compliance is a hygiene thing: Nothing happens, until some factor sinks below the surface / zero; then, all heck breaks loose. I.e., no carrot, many many sticks. Not your average well-balanced incentive scheme, right? Classical awareness / behavioral change programs, then. Where only the winner, Employee of the Month, or less, will receive some recognition. Often, recognized among peers and colleagues &#8216;for being a d.ck&#8217;. The rest, that tagged along without doing anything particularly bad, or even [&hellip;]
- [Said, not enough](https://maverisk.nl/sad-not-enough/): Here&#8217;s a trope worth repeating: Humans are / aren&#8217;t the weakest link in your InfoSec. Are, because they are fickle, demotivated, unwilling, lazy, careless, (sometimes! but that suffices) inattentive, uninterested in InfoSec but interested in (apparently&#8230;) incompatible goals. Are, because you make them a single point of failure, or the one link still vulnerable and through their own actual, acute, risk management and weighing, decide to evade the behavioral limitations set by you with your myopic non-business-objectives-aligned view on how the (totalitarian dehumanized, inhumane) organisation should function. Aren&#8217;t, because the human mind (sometimes) picks up the slightest cues of deviations, is [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: 'Big' Data](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-big-data/): People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. Otto von Bismarck was right. The bias for socially acceptable answers plagues all analysis when that concerns data gathered from humans. Before an election, during a law suit, or after one has by the most unthinkable Luck (after most irrational stamina kept you going) stumbled upon a unicorn like here. That&#8217;ll be all for today! Plus: [(The quoted general was) solid as a rock; Amersfoort of course]
- [From Top-10 to Bottom](https://maverisk.nl/from-top-10-to-bottom/): Dawn. Of a new association. That there are still quite a lot of folks around, that are happy with any ranking of themselves / their organisation, on just any Top-something list. Even when not at the very Number 1. Which of course means people are happy about some very, very random and insignificant external motivator. For, if they would care about real motivation, they wouldn&#8217;t need any outside recognition. Just like most business KPIs or what have we, are poor, paltry proxies for the performance one would want, which, to signify anything, for sure would not be measurable outright. Leading to [&hellip;]
- [George Hamilton, VIII+, and Roderick W. Kennedy criticize the elites](https://maverisk.nl/george-hamilton-viii-and-roderick-w-kennedy-criticize-the-elites/): &#8220;The elites have lost sight of the underlings.&#8221; By William Mayflower The American elites are playing havoc on Democracy. This harsh statement is issued by George Hamilton, VIII-and-counting, and Roderick Wendall Kennedy of the seventh consecutive lifetime U.S. Senator family branch. &#8216;The upper crust has completely lost it,&#8217; as they write in a pamphlet that they graciously allowed the press to receive at their Jackson Hole cabin-of-sorts. &#8216;One should be sensible governors again,&#8217; posits the Founding Father (heir) while taking a serious pinch from his snuff box. &#8216;The elites of today are much too cosy with the UN and IMF, and [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-32/): Once again, there you are. Because Monday:
- [Is it New (enough) ..?](https://maverisk.nl/is-it-new-enough/): After bemusement and annoyance with all Pokesheeple (They think trespassing (or worse) is OK in some game hunt? Preventative (hospital) detention is on order &mdash; no-one of their abilities is too stupid to not have to just stick to the law ..!), and the business model of selling simpleton crowd control to e.g., shopping malls has come out of the closet, my question is: How new is that ..? Seriously; is it an &#8216;innovation&#8217; that isn&#8217;t recognized (yet) as such, or is it a minor application of some other one&#8217;s idea ..? What (hopefully (??), non-game tied) variants can we expect [&hellip;]
- [~vergent predictions, Do or Don't](https://maverisk.nl/vergent-predictions-do-or-dont/): This idea, or lack of it, crossed my mind: When it comes to predictions, following the lead of Tetlock&#8217;s Superforecasters may very well work (though note much of it starts with the, sort-of, mental, 50-50 approach of soberly realizing that one may improve, by admitting imprecision and those that claim precision or high scoring rates are wrong) &#8230; for issues and questions that converge on one, somewhat exactly determinable, outcome. This, all being within the realm of said book which is very much recommended by the way. Where some questions, like &#8220;What is the best strategy?&#8221; may not have such a [&hellip;]
- [Silent majority presents new spokesman](https://maverisk.nl/silent-majority-presents-new-spokesman/): David Walker will &#8216;smash the oppositions with considerate nuance&#8217; By John Neighdor and Harry Lydell The silent majority wants its voice back. Today, it presented a new spokesperson: David Walker. It will be Walker&#8217;s mission to give the silent majority a new identity, a new voice once again. &#8220;We have been silent for way too long, and it is time we start to communicate to The Others what really goes on inside our heads. We might continue to whisper to each other that we actually are a majority, but we&#8217;ll not convince The Rest with that.&#8221; The silent majority will stay [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Your organisational environment](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-your-organisational-environment/): If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee – that will do them in. Just putting it out there &mdash; from Bradley&#8217;s Bromide yes. And very true, of &#8230;, well, whatever environment you find yourself in. And, as a &#8216;solution&#8217; to the ever-growing power of ASI, leapfrogging past AlphaGo-or-was-it-DeepMind and Watson. If those (sic) in the latter category don&#8217;t see the stupidity of our common ways and do away with it altogether even when (not if) that would mean doing away with humans as minor collateral damage. Hopeful, eh? [Strange Quine: The artwork is High Humanity, the [&hellip;]
- [Right. Explain.](https://maverisk.nl/right-explain/): Well, well, there we were, having almost swallowed all of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation to the &#8230; hardly letter, yet, and seeing that there&#8217;s still much interpretation as to how the principles will play out let alone the long-term (I mean, you&#8217;re capable of discussing 10+ years ahead, aren&#8217;t you or take a walk on the wild side), and then there&#8217;s this: Late last week, though, academic researchers laid out some potentially exciting news when it comes to algorithmic transparency: citizens of EU member states might soon have a way to demand explanations of the decisions algorithms about [&hellip;]
- [Turner in infosec](https://maverisk.nl/turner-in-infosec/): &#8216;Cause you&#8217;re simply the best &#8230; I call ping you when I need want you, my heart exploit toolkit&#8216;s on fire You come open your ports to me, come to me wild and wild open them one by one When you come open to mey APT Give me everything access I need Give me a lifetime of promises covert access and a world of dreamorg secrets Speak a language of love hapless victims like you know what it meansr worst dreams And it can&#8217;t be wrong stopped Take my heart packets and make it strong them hit baby You&#8217;reve simply the [&hellip;]
- [Local jargon](https://maverisk.nl/local-jargon/): &#8230; Suddenly it struck me. In my usual rants against &#8216;governance&#8217; as in many of my earlier blog posts, the non-existent airheaded formalities that stand in the way of real, not the deflated style of management, I forgot one piece: The phrase makes sense only in (totalitarian [here I go again], calcifying) bureaucracies. There, the shuffling of empty labels has replaced actual management and &#8216;governance&#8217; may be used as a placeholder (as said: empty, otherwise the label doesn&#8217;t apply fully) for the &#8216;management&#8217; pastiche that is expected. Outside of those dinosaur organisations (heh, see this), no-one has any need, or place, [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote, again](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-again/): Well yes, another episode in the Plusquote saga: Now you&#8217;re accusing me of optimism&#8221; Which works well in these times of stale bureaucracies; is sought after for disruptive value and renewal. And, in general, is something one might aim for, in a way of Summer motto &mdash; weather be nice, weather be rain spells, one can attach a positive edge, mode, conclusion. Also, for the latter: [Unedited phone pic; giving light in a Larking building style (not -referenced!) atrium; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag]
- [Two EV extras](https://maverisk.nl/two-ev-extras/): Whether it would be @ElonMusk himself or @BoredElonMusk or any of you to pick these up&#8230; Just putting them out (t)here, for your consideration: First; there &#8216;was&#8217; this CVT thing, back in the 80s/90s or so, that didn&#8217;t really take off the way it might have. In particular, since it sounded so ridiculous when revving up/down beyond &#8216;normal&#8217;. Now, with much improved electronic/near-AI engine/car control (and travel/congestion forward-looking (AI) car/engine management), wouldn&#8217;t it be possible to apply CVT in a more sensible way, leading to (much) extended range on EVs ..? We&#8217;re thinking small cars first, since the fully-automatic gearbox thing [&hellip;]
- [There's Waldo for you; just some](https://maverisk.nl/theres-waldo-for-you-just-some/): Slightly annotated, and not aiming for completeness, as many worthwhile (sometimes quasi- or semi&#8211;Quined!) quotes of Ralph Waldo E. have been posted elsewhere; this just my picks because of their profundity. And personal liking&#8230; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong; &#8230; Vinegar is the son of wine; &#8230; Long-lived trees make roots first; &#8230; Yes indeed, when &#8216;managers&#8217; may be in either, both, or (vast majority) neither situation &#8230; And, one close to heart but one to remember in many a circumstance, like waiting for vindication of one&#8217;s insights. Fast re-pivot, anyone ..? The [&hellip;]
- [Walnuts, brain size and you](https://maverisk.nl/walnuts-brain-size-and-you/): Combining some recent news, some really old news, and your place in between. Or not. The recent news: Birds might have tiny brains, but they still may be very intelligent (as animals go). Now, on a related note, discoveries show that the brain cells of birds may be smaller and/or much denser packed than they are in, e.g., humans and family. The really before-stone-age news: Combined: Birds have a separate line of descendance from their dinosaur-time quite-close equivalents. Having survived some dino extinction rounds and still remain quite similar in body and operations as before, having kept the same lightweight and [&hellip;]
- [The Learning-from-error Error](https://maverisk.nl/the-learning-from-error-error/): [Thread development; under ~ ] Tell me, did you go to school somewhere? Did you finish it, and/or completed assignments and exams to somewhat satisfactory degrees? Congratulations&#8230; To the &#8216;common&#8217; wisdom that one only learns from error, you have failed. In life. Because, according to too many, fail fast fail often is the best way to gain knowledge about what doesn&#8217;t work — automatically leading to the assurance that doing things differently, will work. If you tried and the result didn&#8217;t fail, you haven&#8217;t learned. So, if you just learned what centuries of the most learned men (plus women&#8230;) brought to [&hellip;]
- [AId](https://maverisk.nl/aid/): To start, an introduction — how unusual: René Descartes walks into a bar and sits down for dinner. The waiter comes over and asks if he&#8217;d like an appetizer. &#8220;No thank you,&#8221; says Descartes, &#8220;I&#8217;d just like to order dinner.&#8221; &#8220;Would you like to hear our daily specials?&#8221; asks the waiter. &#8220;No.&#8221; says Descartes, getting impatient. &#8220;Would you like a drink before dinner?&#8221; the waiter asks. Descartes is insulted, since he&#8217;s a teetotaler. &#8220;I think not!&#8221; he says indignantly, and POOF! he disappears. As recalled by YouByNowKnowWho from David Chalmers. Which demonstrates quite a bit about identity, and artificial intelligence. The [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-31/): Yes, again, since Cucumber Time is early, this year&#8230;
- [Another Q](https://maverisk.nl/another-q/): Yet another, relatively (sic) random, quote with a kicker in the tail: In support of this distinction, Chalmers introduces a thought experiment involving what he calls zombies. A zombie is an entity that acts just like a person but simply does not have subjective experience &mdash; that is, a zombie is not conscious. Chalmers argues that since we can conceive of zombies, they are at least logically possible. If you were at a cocktail party and there were both &#8220;normal&#8221; humans and zombies, how would you tell the difference? Perhaps this sounds like a cocktail party you have attended. Again, from [&hellip;]
- [Not just Q, IQ](https://maverisk.nl/not-just-q-iq/): Well, yesterday&#8217;s post was about just a quote, this one&#8217;s about what should be a full cross-post but hey, I&#8217;m no wizard I&#8217;ll just blockquote it from here because it&#8217;s so good (again, qua author): Society in the Loop Artificial Intelligence Jun 23, 2016 &#8211; 20:37 UTC Iyad Rahwan was the first person I heard use the term society-in-the-loop machine learning. He was describing his work which was just published in Science, on polling the public through an online test to find out how they felt about various decisions people would want a self-driving car to make &#8211; a modern version [&hellip;]
- [Just Q](https://maverisk.nl/just-q/): &#8230; Just some quote, from a relatively random source, in a series of more of the same: Some people have complained to me about Siri&#8217;s failure to answer certain requests, but I often recall that these are the same people who persistently complain about human service providers also. From Ray Kurzweil&#8217;s How to Create a Mind (p.161), full of these sort (or even wittier; to follow) off the cuff remarks: They make the reading much more interesting; a thing to emulate! [3 x (4 straight, 1 oaked, 1 reserve) = 18 still wines to assemble into one cuv&eacute;e, before secondary fermentation; [&hellip;]
- [Nopsrisk, Irisk](https://maverisk.nl/nopsrisk-irisk/): When it&#8217;s time, it&#8217;s time. Of course, meaning that the tough get going. Lately, there has been a resurgence in Risk Management. In particular, in Operational risk management. That has been outclassed. Due to, among others, the calimero hanging-on at the tails of financial risk management but having failed to gain traction because the latter&#8217;s models were wholly inapplicable and seriously outright unusable for ops risk, due to having no clothes of one&#8217;s own (still, the upstart little peasant kid wanted to be emperor), due to having been outflanked by its little nephew of Information / IT Risk Management. That took [&hellip;]
- [Not your clients!](https://maverisk.nl/not-your-clients/): An outcry: Stop calling &#8216;clients&#8217; what are just mass tools to make a profit (incl public sector&#8230;) for your actual clients&#8230;! When, why, did the non-politically grossly in-correct usage of &#8216;clients&#8217; come from, where not only the Facebooks of this world will serve you crumbs and deliver your value to others ..? Because all sorts, yes the dullest of dullest too or in particular, of public sector organisations fall prey to the emptiest of sympathies when they denote their fully captives as &#8216;clients&#8217;, or at best, &#8216;civilians&#8217; as if they themselves are not the most average, mediocre, irrelevant of those denominiations [&hellip;]
- [Cucumber going bananas](https://maverisk.nl/cucumber-going-bananas/): Anyone care to share their found most sorry news item re information security this Summer? Since it appears that the Cucumber Season (silly season) of InfoSec has started already. I mean: Is there anything infosecnews that is greeted with more than a wry cynical smile ..? Like, you know, &#8220;Been there done that ages ago, like, last May&#8221;. And nothing that the General Public panics about, that wasn&#8217;t in the same response category on the In side. Or &#8230;? Is there anything that you, as the Insider par excellence, might go bananas about? Your vote opinion counts! [Prayers go the same [&hellip;]
- [DAUSA](https://maverisk.nl/dausa/): Maybe we should just push for a swift implementation of the megasystem that will be the Digitally Autonomous USA. No more need for things like a &#8216;POTUS&#8217;, or &#8216;Congress&#8217; or so. When we already have such fine quality of both and renewal on the way into perfection (right?), and things like personal independence and privacy are a sham anyway, the alternative isn&#8217;t even that crazy. But then, there&#8217;s a risk (really?): Not all the world conforms yet to, is yet within, the DAUSA remit. Though geographical mapping starts to make less and less sense, there&#8217;s hold-outs (hence: everywhere) that resist even [&hellip;]
- [Print Goodbye World](https://maverisk.nl/print-goodbye-world/): Somehow, got triggered that there&#8217;s a near future where 100 print &#8220;Hello world&#8221; would meet with Sorry Dave, I can&#8217;t compile that not even with warnings (what; no 200 End ..!?) &mdash; because one&#8217;s not supposed to be able to influence the Machine. No red pills allowed. Oh the things that keep me awake at night [they don&#8217;t]. Soon, baby, soon. Plus: [Just Lotharingen things; Nancy]
- [Generation Majordomo](https://maverisk.nl/generation-majordomo/): In a slight twist of fate, two weeks ago some fashionable magazine decided to drop caps off &#8216;Internet&#8217; and just write it internet. Back then, when drafting this post. About the good times, when people hung out at Woodstock or so, or, well, say, since the 80s, when all sorts of inventions brought one wave of new jargon words and meanings after another. Also when it struck me that, e.g., &#8216;majordomo&#8217; seems to be a derelict word. At least, re moderated discussion sites. What Happen — All Your Base Are Belong To Us is almost gone, superseded by Dat Boi (as [&hellip;]
- [Save a few](https://maverisk.nl/save-a-few/): Just a reminder; Dutch lower gov&#8217;t agencies struggling with storage formats &#8230; (Here, in Dutch, but Alphabet Translate (heh that still doesn&#8217;t ring well!) may help) There may be hope for (!) privacy. And: [Nice, functional (as / where it is), and certainly will look Old before you know it; La D&eacute;fense]
- [Pebnickanic](https://maverisk.nl/pebnikanic/): Hey why are so many using PICNIC instead of the age-old PEBKAC ..? No, I&#8217;m not complaining &#8216;because&#8217; old, nor on the &#8216; &#8230;, got the T-shirt&#8217; route. Just would want to know. Is it that the latter is too difficult to remember the meaning of ..? If so: Sad for its Shallows calibre. If otherwise: Please advise. Well then&#8230;: [Trismegistus&#8217; view on things. Obvious where.]
- [Human / Not](https://maverisk.nl/human-not/): Of course Cerf is right. But also &#8230; is the opposite side; human error would be harmless (save the Almost part) when vulnerabilities wouldn&#8217;t be attacked. As long as they exist, they will. And human error will exist; that&#8217;s just the way our genes, and memes, and all of Nature, play it out. The instability of Nature (here and here!) means evolution happens, works. On the Changing-environment- and on the trial-through-error sides. Hence, you&#8217;re still where you started. Still pursuing max fault-freedom but sure to not achieve it. I.e., in danger &mdash; the Condition Humaine since the dawn of Time (on [&hellip;]
- [Overwhelmed by 'friendly' engineers](https://maverisk.nl/overwhelmed-by-friendly-engineers/): The rage seems to be with chat bots, lately. Haven&#8217;t met any, but that may only be me &mdash; not being interesting enough to be overwhelmed by their calls. Which will happen, in particular to those in society that have less than perfect resistance against the various modes of telesales and other forms of social engineering (for phishing and other nefarious purposes) already. Including all sorts of otherwise-possibly-bright-and-genius-intelligent-but (??)-having-washed-up-in-InfoSec-for-lack-of-genuine-societal-intelligence types like us. But these being the ones of all stripes that &#8216;we&#8217; need to protect, rather than the ones apparently already so heavily loaded that they can spare the dime for [&hellip;]
- [Last night a ... saved me (updated)](https://maverisk.nl/last-night-a-saved-me-updated-2/): Just a repost, as due to some obvious glitch, the below didn&#8217;t get the chart storming air play it deserves (hence, it must&#8217;ve been a glitch). [To the music of Indeep — somewhat outdated lyrics but what style &#8230;] Last night an information risk / security management professional saved my desktop PC life Last night an information risk / security management professional saved my desktop PC life Cause I was sittin&#8217; there screen of death&#8217;d bored to death And in just one breath he chatted said You gotta reboot get up You gotta reload get on You gotta restore get down [&hellip;]
- [Wats'on your bug-hunting program ..?](https://maverisk.nl/watson-your-bug-hunting-program/): Tinkering with some unrelated ideas &#8230;: How would one go about setting Watson (Clone, III) to work on bug hunting ..? Where the Beast would be fed all sorts of past code / code patterns (source~ or executable~, or whatever style you&#8217;d prefer) with known bugs / errors / exploits and the way in which they failed, and then have the Big W scan, e.g., Win10 source code and come up with a list (in this case, assuming sufficient storage ;-| ) of bug red flags. Probably, to be classified in a range of Sure Thing, via Commonly, to Maybe. As [&hellip;]
- [All your Happen](https://maverisk.nl/all-your-happen/): Just a quick note, that the infamous What Happen &mdash; All Your Base Are Belong To Us now for some time already (as undercurrent for the non-attentives&#8230;) has a successor in Dat Boi. As detailed in this here piece. Go read and weep. o shit waddup.
- [Plusquote: Critique of the Pure Reasonlessness](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-critique-of-the-pure-reasonlessness/): This episode, by reference to the excellent Future Crimes (Marc Goodman, as here), one originally by G.K. Chersterton (The Blue Cross): The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic To which we would want to add: And the auditor, only the disgruntled desk-bound traffic cop. Since, the checker (and penaliser) of the trivial petty little rules, should remain in the third line, right ..? Where by the way, the creativity of the artist is required to make the art work that sells &mdash; and hence all make their living off straightforward crime or would perish. The more you [&hellip;]
- [The 'Bucks logo, again](https://maverisk.nl/the-bucks-logo-again/): The @Starbucks logo once again, in an unsuspected place. Like, this: [Haut Koenigsbourg castle indeed, in the Alsace] Begging for some explanation. Why here, in/on a 190x rebuild of a medieval (origin) castle in the middle of (Western) Europe, no Norse sailor in sight? As previously mentioned, there&#8217;s more to it than some simple explanation. Hopefully. E.g., any History grad student interested to write a thesis on this? Said coffee house might be found willing to provide a stipend &#8230;? ;-| For this one&#8217;s exact location: [I.e., in the very inner courtyard, where no Norseman ever arrived (back in the day)] [&hellip;]
- [Big Data as a sin](https://maverisk.nl/big-data-as-a-sin/): Not just any sin, the Original one. Eating from the ultimate source of Knowledge that Big, Totalitarian, All-Thinkable Data is, in the ideal (quod non). We WEIRDS (White, Educated, Industrialised, Rich Democratic people), a.k.a. Westeners, know what that leads to. Forever we will toil on spurious correlations&#8230;
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-30/): Yup, another one of those, maybe not so golden but really olden&#8230;:
- [Miss(ed), almost ..?](https://maverisk.nl/missed-almost/): One might have easily missed one of the most valuable annual reports &#8230; but if you trust it (you can) or would want to dismiss it (you can, for various reasons like the management babble leading to a great many missed threats and ~levels as here, always of course, but still), it is an important item when you&#8217;re in InfoSec despite #ditchcyber! so you&#8217;d better study it. Oh, yeah, this being the thing. OK now. Plus: [In &#8220;cyber&#8221;space (#ditchcyber once more), easily scaled. Haut Koenigsbourg again.]
- [Hoog op Flut!](https://maverisk.nl/hoog-op-flut/): Kan de gezamenlijke restaurantwereld in NL nou eens ophouden met die nonsens van &#8220;Hoog Op Smaak&#8221; en gewoon toegeven dat er door iedere gang een AKZO-jaaromzet zout gaat omdat de ingredi&euml;nten z&oacute; goedkoop moesten dat er geen enkele smaak aan zat ..? [Edited to add: Nog erger als koks gaan beweren niet zo veel zout toe te voegen maar de smaak &#8216;umami&#8217; maken. Een emmer MSG erbij gooien bedoelen ze dan. De betekenis en vertaling van &#8216;umami&#8217; was tot voor kort &#8216;van alles veel&#8217;. Toch vreemd, dat we sinds de Romeinen vissaus kennen, vol van &#8216;umami&#8217;-glutamaten en afgeleiden, maar dat we [&hellip;]
- [Short Cross posting](https://maverisk.nl/short-cross-posting/): &#8230; Not from anyone, not from anywhere. But crossing some book tips, and asking for comments. Was reading the Good Book, when realizing that it, in conjunction with Bruce, could lead to some form of progress beyond the latter when absolutist totalitarian panopticon control frameworks might seem the only way out. In particular, when including this on the Pikettyan / Elyseym escape or not that serves only some but not the serfs. And then add some Mark Goodman (nomen est omen, qua author, and content?) and you can see where Bruce may have missed exponential crumbling of structures, and said escape [&hellip;]
- [Still, 3LD is the 4th leg](https://maverisk.nl/still-3ld-is-the-4th-leg/): This, not as much a monster under the bed as it is a monster elsewhere; Three Lines of Defense (quod non). I&#8217;ve discussed the utterly nonsensical, totalitarian bureaucratic, lie of its utility already over and over again, but the thought &mdash; through encounter in daily practice so often still &mdash; returns every now and then. And then, one realizes: Three Lines of &#8216;Defense&#8217; (quod non) are not the third, but the fourth leg of a flipover stand. Yes, indeed, you hardly see that ever &mdash; for a reason: Where the third leg is flimsy already and certainly so compared to the [&hellip;]
- [Last night a ... saved me (updated)](https://maverisk.nl/last-night-a-saved-me-updated/): As @swiftonsecurity (and of course @meneer of #ditchcyber fame) and others may improve since the rhythm is only almost perfect, already this: [To the music but outdated lyrics of Indeep &mdash; but what style &#8230; &nbsp;(Hey @ESCIA is that you with the mic ..?)] Last night an information risk / security management professional saved my desktop PC life Last night an information risk / security management professional saved my desktop PC life Cause I was sittin&#8217; there screen of death&#8217;d bored to death And in just one breath he chatted said You gotta reboot get up You gotta reload get on [&hellip;]
- [You must, you mustn't](https://maverisk.nl/you-must-you-mustnt/): Strange. The last couple of weeks, months, have seen a resurgence of &#8220;Anything that is not explicitly forbidden, is allowed.&#8221; Which was, well, true in only the most devolved, twisted (pejorative sense) means/ends ethics and morals discussions. And still is. But suddenly, there&#8217;s a new angle: All that aren&#8217;t involved in the spoils of such tactics (not being rich enough to have used Panama Paper style constructions, even when not aware as such vulgar &#8216;money&#8217; things had been handled by sycophant minions (of mind, certainly)), want the overthrow of the said sad sentence, by including that all that is permitted, should [&hellip;]
- [I am Satoshi Nakamato](https://maverisk.nl/i-am-satoshi-nakamato/): &#8230; If only to dilute the discussion. And to all be Spartacus. Let the Craigs be the fools (not even meant lightly; rather pejorative here) they are. The absolute hard-math sides of Bidkoyn coming full circle to the mysteries to be kept mysteries for the very sake of it for once you dumb.ss! of its origins. To keep it real: [Mining precedes, but the use side is in transport ..? &lt;Think that one over&gt; at Utrecht]
- [Miss Quote: Dice](https://maverisk.nl/miss-quote-dice/): Well, not really a misquote straight away, but on this Tuesday Miss Quote day (not), did not Einstein say The Lord doesn&#8217;t play dice. Which is often interpreted to have him say that the indetermination of the endless but not limitless (or was it the other way around?) number and times of quantum changes aren&#8217;t feasible and some deterministic model will eventually be found to be able to actually predict, no chance calculus or Schr&ouml;dinger&#8217;s herd of cats probabilities, all of Nature&#8217;s developments as All is predetermined. Where E is made out as a &#8230; well, on this point simpleton unbeliever, [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Short length](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-short-length/): Today&#8217;s episode of Plusquotes, the sayings that are both inspirational and True, if only because they&#8217;re my invention (if there is such a thing), is about length and since I&#8217;m very confident by support of fact of my self, my own in this (not even bluffing like the other 80% does), without much ado let alone proof already of the more mundane meaning of the very thing I&#8217;d like to discuss, herewith: Short sentences, little minds. &#8230; Hey were you (M) so generically insecure by actual, or shortfall on your bluff on, some body part length ..? What I mean is [&hellip;]
- [Rien vous ne pouvez plus ...?](https://maverisk.nl/rien-vous-ne-pouvez-plus/): When business is about betting, hopefully educated guessing, the near and bit further future developments of &lt;somethings&gt;. Educated, of course with a pinch of theory — but then, only the parts that are actually true, and still valid, for the future, too so throw away all (seriously) but a few nuggets of the most absolute que sera, sera of economics / business administration (sic) — and a healthy dose of experience — but not too much as it would lead to a lachrymose same as the (true) theory and we still need Action, don&#8217;t we ..? Then totalitarian bureaucracies, like the [&hellip;]
- [Disciplined away from bureaucracy](https://maverisk.nl/disciplined-away-from-bureaucracy/): After some thought on bureaucracy on either side of the Big Pond, it suddenly dawned on me how to explain the seeming (of course) paradox: At the Western shores, a lot of military with front line battle experience (and some, only a bit less so), possibly out of reserve functions in mundane business, have gone (back) over to the dark side of commercial business, with their discipline and cutthroat &#8216;competition&#8217; (using not secondhand car salespeople but live ammo) as main assets / gathered experience to bring to bear. On the East oceanboards, not so much, and a love for egalitarian Rhineland [&hellip;]
- [Today](https://maverisk.nl/today/): This&#8230; &mdash; today, nothing more needs to be said
- [Misquote: Eat this!](https://maverisk.nl/misquote-eat-this/): Let them eat cake No. No, no, no, nonono. This wasn&#8217;t what Marie Antoinette said. She didn&#8217;t even say anything of the kind. Not even Qu&#8217;ils mangent de la brioche that Rousseau put in his memoires. And for those that suspect something akin was said by Merry Anthonia, there&#8217;s some more explanation of the miss in the quote here. The more serious side of it all being that in its day, it might have been sound advice to eat brioche, for its nutritional value&#8230; If only the pesky 1% (rather even, 0,1%) like explained here, would have made that a challenge. [&hellip;]
- [DroneSF](https://maverisk.nl/dronesf/): Among the more thinking part of you, there probably has been some ideas on the &#8216;Joint (not so much) Strike (not by a long mile yet) Fighter (not or by proxy of lobbyists for its program)&#8217;. Then, why wouldn&#8217;t forward-looking nations develop much more of an Future Strike Joystick; an air fleet of drones ..? How incredibly much more efficient isn&#8217;t such a fleet, with ridiculous amounts of safeguards for safe platform/pilot return (in that order of importance) ditched for efficiency, robustness by the numbers and failsafe-testing ..? The efficiency, for not having to care about pilot&#8217;s safe return hence many [&hellip;]
- [Untrained accountants](https://maverisk.nl/untrained-accountants/): Somewhere in Rise of the Robots (approximately p.253, 2nd line from the top), ever infamous [but very, very right] Carr is ideaquoted about pilots not getting enough experience with flying and (well, mostly: continue to keep on &#8230;) flying in adverse conditions and hence are paradoxically (much) less capable to handle the few exceptional situations for which they are kept aboard on ever more fully automated flights. [Except from the passengers&#8217; comfort, but if only they knew the previous&#8230;] The Shallows, indeed&#8230; Now, how would this compare to accountancy &#8230;? Ever encountered an assistant auditor that would recognize, let alone be [&hellip;]
- [This time will be different](https://maverisk.nl/this-time-will-be-different/): &#8230; If only for the following reason(s): So far, Technology has been developed by humans, willy-nilly mostly as also fitting in the Selfish Memes sort of way (including Blackmore&#8217;s Meme Machine), to alleviate and overcome the very humans&#8217; weaknesses that set us below a great many respective animals, and Nature.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, I(o)T slash AI (ASI) will soon be overcoming humans&#8217; only few strengths in Thinking. At once leaving us vulnerable to become, at best, prey for &lt;something&gt; but with no place to hide (sic) nor any defenses&#8230; So, this time will be different and the Luddites (actual sense, not the loom-smashing [&hellip;]
- [Predicting fuzzy futures](https://maverisk.nl/predicting-fuzzy-futures/): As we approach another round of grand fuzziness in predictions of all sorts, e.g. for president&#8217;s elections in some corner of the world, it would be wise to not only take all (and I mean all) of Superforecasting to heart but also to consider helping extending the science of the trade. By helping me out in finding pointers and content on, and subsequently developing on, the use of fuzzy logic in predictions. As &#8216;current&#8217; truth values of future states of the world are all quite possible, and going forward even mutually exclusive states may, e.g. on some news, all become more [&hellip;]
- [Emerging degrees of privacy](https://maverisk.nl/emerging-degrees-of-privacy/): Given that &#8216;privacy&#8217; is a property that emerges from good Security, more particularly from Confidentiality (and Integrity), there&#8217;s two avenues to succeed in this field: If quick and maybe even too dirty: Data minimalisation (as e.g., here, in Dutch) Else (OR?): Fine-grained protection, also against the default Read all down the stack (user / end point / comms channels / applications / middleware / servers / storage &mdash; with the latter maybe crawling up and down the stack again when virtualizing in the cloud) Because binary&#8217;s not my thing and keeping it real (i.e. (!) not being consistent) is: Would any [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Motivators](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-motivators/): &#8230;. ah, no. Will just give you some &#8216;inspirational&#8217; Golden Oldies&#8230;:
- [Misquote: The End(s)](https://maverisk.nl/misquote-the-ends/): The ends justify the means. Attributed to Machiavelli (of course), who said: One must consider the final result. Going from the latter to the former, quite exposes your morality, no? But then, you&#8217;re not alone. Yet you&#8217;re so very, very alone. And make it more so by taking heed to the former not the latter. The attributee even had morals (a lot!) but if you didn&#8217;t see that (before), you&#8217;ve been taken for a ride by &#8230; whatever I don&#8217;t even care. Just keep up the good misquoting &#8230;! And: [Symbol of the brevity of purity, beauty and life; Amstelveen &mdash; [&hellip;]
- [Rules for Writers](https://maverisk.nl/rules-for-writers/): By popular demand: Verbs has to agree with their subjects Prepositions are not words to end sentences with And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction It is wrong to ever split an infinitive Avoid clichés like the plague (They’re old hat) Also, always avoid annoying alliteration Be more or less specific Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies No sentence fragments Contradictions aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be used Eschew obfuscation Foreign words and phrases are not apropos Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous One should [&hellip;]
- [Repeat: Trawling for noise](https://maverisk.nl/repeat-trawling-for-noise/): So&#8230; Legal developments go at glacial &#8216;speed&#8217;, thus mumbling critical oversight to sleep. Happened, once again, in NL. Mass collection (sic) of and trawling through all sorts of data &#8216;out there&#8217; is free game for gov&#8217;t agencies. NO the oversight committee will not do anything. Anyone saying so, plainly and simply lies under oath to overthrow the constitution (isn&#8217;t that high treason?) But what will happen of course, is that those that in the past weren&#8217;t able to connect the dots (proven fact), will now be swamped in enormously bigger piles of noise data. At the very very best (??) they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]
- [At leisure](https://maverisk.nl/at-leisure/): Musing with the ideas of yersteryear, where the working class had been replaced, gradually, by the &#8216;managing&#8217; class in its various forms and sizes. But everywhere, productivity being misattributed. Though appearances would have it still among &#8216;managers&#8217; too, their combined overwhelming bureaucratic bloat pressing on the carbon yet not achieving diamond productivity but gravel at most. While &#8216;managers&#8217; (line just behind one&#8217;s heels!) get so much credit, unearned, and earn so much income and bonuses that it deserves the gallows; the workers &#8216;hence&#8217; being mis- and disregarded. When suddenly, the already next trend shone through: The move from the Leisure Class [&hellip;]
- [Golden oldie pic of the day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-29/): Just like that, a Golden Oldie again then, that relates quite well to the elections, recently in NL and soon in the US: Choices, choices&#8230;
- [Book by Quote: Chesterfield's](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quote-chesterfields/): Ah, there we are again, for once, after a long while of want: A Book By Quote. Again, not in the plain vanilla version of just jotting down some bon mots but again, wherever appropriate ..! annotated with some of my interpretations. Which may be biased, as they are of human thought made. You know who I compare myself with, here. Without further ado then, from Lord Chesterfield&#8217;s Letters: (On people&#8217;s thoughts) &#8230; if we take them upon trust, without examining and comparing them with our own, it is really living upon other people&#8217;s scraps, or retailing other people&#8217;s goods. To [&hellip;]
- [Old innovation](https://maverisk.nl/old-innovation/): Sometimes, the &#8216;small&#8217; innovations, by ideas that may not even be new but turn up at last in an implementable, implemented fashion, may deserve more spotlight. An Oscar of sorts maybe even, some time after many years&#8217; wait. This being one of those. Now implemented to protect a museum; many more applications thinkable. Don&#8217;t lower the river (only); raise the bridge dam &#8230; That&#8217;s all. Just sayin&#8217;. And: [Just as (?) pretty, less of a dam though; Cura&ccedil;ao]
- [Paradise Lost](https://maverisk.nl/paradise-lost/): .. of not the Milton kind, unfortunately. But of the kind of Age of Innocense. In crowdsourcing. You remember, from before the days of Mechanical Turk and similar no cure, no pay but the pay&#8217;s a rip-off scams. Close to (?) post-slavery slavery by Hobson&#8217;s Choice. But as said; before that, there were the dreams of free agents delivering their best efforts to common problems and getting handsomely rewarded for their solutions (if the best). The Age of Aquarius dawned. No more masters, no servants, all equal. Or so. The brevity of hapiness&#8230; [All play and sunny weather now that you [&hellip;]
- [Wired / Tired / Expired, 2016 Q1 edition](https://maverisk.nl/wired-tired-expired-2016-q1-edition/): Yes here&#8217;s a surprise new quarterly Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag again. But much needed, it seems, as there&#8217;s much to promote or dis(mis)s. First, for your viewing pleasure: [Yes the UFO one again. Still prime FLlW space&#8230;!] WIRED TIRED EXPIRED DeepMind / AlphaGo Watson &#8220;Robots&#8221; For, discreetly not completely, winning at Go, taking the fame flag from this edition&#8217;s Tired contender. The W of &lt;fill in the blanks and colour the pictures&gt;, e.g., medicine but now having extended so often into the mundane. See also many earlier posts of mine, as indication that the [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Be not a hampered herring but a free speedboat](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-be-not-a-hampered-fish-but-a-free-speedboat/): Yes, again one in this series of quotes of my own making (predominantly), intended to be motivational. Just like www.despair.com&#8230; This time: Be a free speedboat, no hampered herring Which, for an explanation, starts at the back. Being about the choice between being a (hopefully growing into too) big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond. And, since the former is limiting by its &#8216;boundary&#8217; condition already and the latter has grown to be to be a tiny fish in the world&#8217;s oceans all together, none are more than a suckers result in a Prisoners&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [Be-four you turn enthousiastic](https://maverisk.nl/be-four-you-turn-enthousiastic/): [Warning: Long-read. Opiniated, and structurally your recommendations may be are needed, too] About all of the banking industry, and other financials in their wake, have had to deal with loads of regulatory requirements. Justified, some say, for &#8216;they&#8217; cause(d) so much misery beyond mere most temporary loss of bonuses that the &#8216;un&#8217; should be (have been long before) detached from bridled. So, Basel II and -III regulations swooped in requiring much more explicit and detailed handling of financial business than ever before. The move from laissez-faire to regulation, to regulation with sanction schemes, to sanctions (possibly interpreted as &#8216;token&#8217;&#8230;), was extended [&hellip;]
- [Crash'in the wings](https://maverisk.nl/in-the-wings/): &#8230; Thinking back of the Taleb&#8217;ian remarks, and truths, on Extremistan, and how some more or less closely watched parameters may lose their variance but not their uncontrol since such petering out of shock&#8217;lets are just the precursors of an asteroid impact scale collapse, I wondered what is about to happen in infosecland. Since for weeks, nay months already, there has hardly been any news&#8230; Apart from the usual suspects (#ditchcyber ..!), there hasn&#8217;t been anything serious, has there, by means of yet another class break or more comprehensive controllability breakdown? Which is why everyone should sit more uneasily, in stead [&hellip;]
- [Watson's ID](https://maverisk.nl/watsons-id/): Does Watson have an identity? Because, when it (sic; why not &#8216;she&#8217; ..?) is intelligent enough to make its own decisions, it may want to, or know ways to obtain, or be bestowed with, personhood of some sorts. To which it may need an identity, and according ID. But that all hinges on the construct of a single, identifyable instance of &lt;something&gt;. And all sorts of fancy dancy press announcements &mdash; where one might ask &#8216;Where you&#8217;ve been to come to the show only now&#8217; &mdash; regarding deploying &#8216;Watson&#8217; in some confined business context seem to start to fly around; mostly [&hellip;]
- [Obviously today: Elk, Moose, Reindeer](https://maverisk.nl/obviously-today-elk-moose-reindeer/): As an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the above/below &#8230;? And then, there&#8217;s continental differences &#8230; First up, the Elk: Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk: know as such in Eurasia including those tinny pebbles off the coast called the British Isles. Looks suspiciously like the Alces Alces that is the Canadian (oh well, and US, yes, whiners) Moose, doesn&#8217;t it? Because it is&#8230;! But you moose&#8217;ent confuse the two with each other nor with the reindeer a.k.a. caribou: Rangifer Tarandus, since this one&#8217;s for Saami and Santa. Are you feeling elky now ..? Or [&hellip;]
- [Security so(m)bering](https://maverisk.nl/security-sombering/): There&#8217;s this discussion going down on the merits of privacy versus security. Whether the one is part of the other, or the other way around, or both. Whereas the smarts are with considering privacy enhanced by good confidentiality settings &#8217;cause they see that privacy is an issue of higher (abstraction) order than mere confi; achieved by it but only as infosec are the bricks and mortar when all you wanted is not bricks or so but a wall. Through which you may reflect on compliance in infosec. Because hardly ever, is that taken to include compliance with the principles and business [&hellip;]
- [Another Art (Ac)claim](https://maverisk.nl/another-art-acclaim/): If only titled such for the alliteration allure. But seriously, folks. This as an idea claim, more like a bucket list item &#8220;closer than you think&#8221;: Wokking around the World. Which is about building a collection of pictures of all the situations where The Wok applies; Wokking in Memphis Wokking in a Winter Wonderland Wok the Tok (Dutchies will get the hint of chicken ;-[ ) Wokking on the Moon &mdash; OK, this may take some photoshopping&#8230; Wokking on Sunshine &mdash; implementation to be decided Wok like an Egyptian &mdash; either in front of some pyramids, on the borders of the [&hellip;]
- [Miss Quote: Your way. Or ..?](https://maverisk.nl/miss-quote-your-way-or/): In the series of unfortunate misquotes, a famous one: Anything that can go wrong, will (Murphy) As a secondary quote from somewhere: But Edward Murphy did not say this. What he most likely did say is something along the lines of: &#8216;If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way&#8217;. Which only by you with the way you do things, does indeed result in disaster, without fail. So, if you use the misquote, you should add &#8220;when I do it&#8221;&#8230;? That was a short [&hellip;]
- [Art project for grabs](https://maverisk.nl/art-project-for-grabs/): Putting it out there, for grabs. An art project. Crowdfunding as the Purpose of it. Imagine: 3D (sic) printing small parts of an existing Jackson Pollock, e.g., One: Number 31, 1950, and framing them in oversized rococo frames. Sizes of the cuts differ, depending on the amount of funding provided. Of course there should be some photo shoot (actual or virtual) of the pieces assembled, to the max of the original as possible (the frames will make completion of the puzzle impossible but that&#8217;s the point, too) and using some state-of-the-art knapsack algorithm. No more. No fancy bits. Just this. Because [&hellip;]
- [De nieuwe KvK-registratie](https://maverisk.nl/de-nieuwe-kvk-registratie/): Voor velen is het een klusje dat lastig is, maar er nu eenmaal bijhoort als onderdeel van &#8216;being in business&#8217;. De registratie bij de Kamer van Koophandel. De basics, bij de enthousiaste start van bijvoorbeeld een zelfstandig bestaan. Het onderhoud, bij wisselingen in het verenigingsbestuur &mdash; en dan blijkt de KvK dermate relevant, dat men nog een natte handtekening vereist maar dan wel in het bekende veel te kleine rechthoekje te plaatsen waardoor de gezette handtekening welhaast per definitie niet klopt&#8230;! Hoe diep in het vorige millennium kan je achtergebleven zijn; dit toont wel aan dat de KvK welhaast niet nuttig [&hellip;]
- [Yup, there it is ...](https://maverisk.nl/yup-there-it-is/): &#8230; What took us (?) so long &#8230;? Hybrid war Yes, the phrase we all were waiting for, or might have predicted but hardly anyone did. But now, out there for all the FUD and fear mongering (to profit from ..!). May this be the avenue of submersion of cyber (#ditchcyber !), like a U-boat trolling and unexpectedly blowing you out of the water? What will be, will be. Grab the money trucks! On a side (?) note: [Transport for the consultants /-cy fees for you, required to tackle it all; Baltimore]
- [Plusquote: R&R](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-rr/): Never let a good opportunity for R&amp;R go to waste Which goes on the back of &#8216;never let a good crisis go to waste&#8217; which s true, but negative as it relies on crises to turn up as the best (not the only &#8230;) opportunities to get change done. But now, tries to turn it to the positive, (truly hedonistic with an epicurean twist) enjoyable by way of the proper mix of carpe diem due to memento mori. As one doesn&#8217;t know when one will die; a great many being caught short of having lived as they postponed all purpose of [&hellip;]
- [Short on tape](https://maverisk.nl/short-on-tape/): The title being a mere reference to Turing machines. Since I wanted to bring up the subject of short-sightedness of those that do not understand the fundamental nature of the Church-Turing thesis and Halting Problem deeply enough. Because they, symptomatically, consider that humans can solve the problems associated with it hence any machine that would think similarly enough or better than humans, would have overcome the problems by sheer thinkpower. But that is simply wrong. Humans do not overcome the problem, they work around its applications &mdash; another element of what makes us human, maybe. And there is no guarantee whatsoever, [&hellip;]
- [Watson's place to be](https://maverisk.nl/watsons-place-to-be/): Two points re Watson here, one poignant, one solved: Where is Watson? Because, it must run on some (i.e., enormous number of) core processors that physically are, somewheres (multiple). Would anyone actually know or otherwise, wouldn&#8217;t that be scary for all the idol-worshippers of individualised-robotlike AI ..? The name, the motto. After Thomas J.&#8217;s &#8230; Think. Name, sole purpose. Nomen est omen. Capice ..? So there you have it. The question remains Open. Until you provide me with some answer, possibly..? Also: [Cogite, citius altius fortius! of the 1928 kind; Amsterdam of course]
- [Mayans leaving the US](https://maverisk.nl/mayans-leaving-the-us/): Would anyone have a pointer to the research that compares the Mayans&#8217; demise with latter-day developments in the first world ..? As one hears not too much lately, about that grand theory about the sudden disappearance of the Maya culture that suggested that one-percenter total disconnect with the other 99%, lead to the latter leaving the, no more capable of sustaining themselves in the least, überbureaucrats to litterally starve in their palaces. Which might very well happen if the Powers That Be, e.g., the 1% of business and congress and the sycophants/lobbyists around those, would continue their disconnect now so amply [&hellip;]
- [Miss Quotes: Free Hegel](https://maverisk.nl/miss-quotes-free-hegel/): The quotes, of motivational nature or other, that you meet every time again — but aren&#8217;t, since they are garbled versions of the original. And the original had much more profound wisdom, or was even true where the misquote isn&#8217;t. Yet another one in a series, a rather old one: &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing sure in life except death and taxes.&#8220; &#8230; &#8230; For one, &#8220;The only thing you can be sure of, so the saying goes, are death and taxes &mdash; but don&#8217;t be too sure about death.&#8221; (Joseph Strout) &mdash; before but on the Kurzweillian strain of thought (more on that [&hellip;]
- [Without voice (left); a lot](https://maverisk.nl/without-voice-left-a-lot/): Sometimes, one sees a recurrence of the remark that those who complain (loud(est)), shouldn&#8217;t for they have a good time by apparently standing to lose something but having more than enough, though possibly threatened, to be able to shout around and one should listen to the silent that have no voice by being too weak to raise it and hence need our attention and support much more. So&#8230; which groups in society, of whatever slice or dice, do we hear complain (loudest) nowadays and have no &#8216;right&#8217; to? Right, compared to the really, seriousy needy. And which groups don&#8217;t we hear [&hellip;]
- [The ides of March](https://maverisk.nl/the-ides-of-march/): &#8230; aren&#8217;t today only, but are indicative of &#8230; well, a lot of what goes on in infosecland these days. Who to trust, when your buddies and experts and both in ones, may carry knives or worse. Like, turning their your defenses against you behind your back. Like the Brutus&#8217;es and Ed S.&#8217;s did because their consciousness revived (true in both cases ..!), like the great many are doing without tipping you off already. Until it&#8217;s too late. And, in similar vein, how&#8217;zat for your backdoors built in ..? But then, as long as you can sit there like a rabbit [&hellip;]
- [Privvezee Shield](https://maverisk.nl/privvezee-shield/): The fig leaf of the trade ..? Probably will blow in the wind at the first whisper over 2Bft. E.g., through &#8216;misinterpretation&#8217; of the rules and inherent incapacity to understand the Principles, by some vague fifth-line anonymous placeholder instructed to not understand, buried deep down in some TLA you may or may not have heard of. And then, the wind cried Mary; landsliding into only the thinnest of lip service with a torrent (no double entendre intended) of factual breaches. You&#8217;ll see&#8230; Plus: [A sub, appropriately, even if only in Baltimore&#8230;]
- [Top 10 things that interest you](https://maverisk.nl/top-10-things-that-interest-you/): Where the title is a total fake, just to get higher in the pop rankings. Of course. Because that&#8217;s what life is all about and a top five wouldn&#8217;t have done the trick. Now then. On the subject of Roman decadence. Or not, because you&#8217;d not like discussions of US pre-elections in light of societal developments there. Still, the subject is interesting as it demonstrates again (after Argentina&#8217;s Peron age, and Italy&#8217;s B.rl.sc.n. age, and the dreadful general state of Duts politicks) that the ones aiming for democratic perfection, may by and large have arrived at the end game of the [&hellip;]
- [Throwback Thursday: Coke not (?) Classic](https://maverisk.nl/throwback-thursday-coke-not-classic/): This Throwback Thursday (new category indeed &mdash; here), we start off with a Piece of Art, both qua visuals and musical score&#8230; Of course, this can only be, and the title refers to, this. Click and admire. We&#8217;re done.
- [The year of IT is no more Department](https://maverisk.nl/the-year-of-it-is-no-more-department/): Or, once upon a long, long time ago in a land far, far away, there was IT, the hero department that ruled over all of information processing. Because information processing was a strange and dangerous thing and if you chopped off one security flaw, seven others would be introduced. So, the IT department was well-trained in keeping the architecture-and-infrastructure beast alive, with all its fresh new and old legacy body parts, fed every now and then with a fair maiden project. Oh how things evolved. Lately (being the past couple of decades), the department was split, incompletely, between Development/Maintenance, and Operations. [&hellip;]
- [You&#039;re not dumb](https://maverisk.nl/youre-not-dumb/): That&#8217;s why I agree so much with the first of this, and keep on trucking posting for the, hardly a, few reader(s) as per sub/secondhalf title of this. With the previous sentence demonstrating that thus. OK, still with: [For the views, with built (in) defences against the hoi polloi; Haut K&ouml;ningsbourg]
- [Low standards](https://maverisk.nl/low-standards/): The compliance check-box approach is an atrocious thing for and to many things and reasons, but has been induced by the very growth of the industry. Since all margin calls at all controls and controls objectives achievement have been whipped out — and no-one dares to or has the experience for margins calls anymore. How low can your standards of professionalism dive. Sic transit gloria mundi; the trade once was a veritable gentleman’s (M/F/~) affair, for one put up one’s honour and good name (and standing including life, liberty, welfare and happiness) for the value of the second opinion over the [&hellip;]
- [17 views](https://maverisk.nl/17-views/): Just a tip: 2017 will be all about Augmented Reality. Maybe not VR, or is that a mere intermediate-phase subset. But AR. When M$ adds some capabilities to WW10 (the platform, or binary),the ground swell (or is it an undercurrent, undertow?) is sure to grow. So, Be Prepared, to see innovation in business software after the years of stale(mate) in ‘ERP’; no more database-system-usersystem stacking, but a mountain of data with lean and mean engines at/on the top now extended with AR to doddle around — and maybe &#8230; do something useful. All of business IT will dwindle in significance, so [&hellip;]
- [Cyberprevention](https://maverisk.nl/cyberprevention/): Just a signal, of a new movement. Which isn’t. For one, the -prevention — doomed from the [ word Go | – part ]. Which becomes less and less valid. Yes, some deterrent actions may help, but one better focus on the fact of future break-ins&#8230; And act accordingly — much more efficient for almost all. Take the 1st graph of this, and weep / go / the rest of it, too. For two, ‘cyber’ &#8230; #ditchcyber nails it, in the Manifesto. Yes that’ll be all for today, including: [So, you can #ditchcyber, too]
- [Oops, there it is! (now you don't, see it)](https://maverisk.nl/oops-there-it-is-now-you-dont-see-it/): Suddenly, there it is, almost as if it’s something new &#8230; Malware using stego, as if it might still surprise anyone whereas of course there already was this, and this, and this and this. What next? Even smarter ad blockers ..? Will not work, as the latter are only in use with the smarter part of the bunch. And smarter ad blockers will be installed by even fewer, as the pay-off is less visible (timely enough). No, what’s next is first an armageddon [Warning: cultural notion; propose to use the more profound Ragnarök] — of which the result hopefully &#8230; is [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day: Interesting read](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-interesting-read/): Yep, again, on how to make things interesting to read &#8230;?
- [Particular culture&#039;s greetings](https://maverisk.nl/particular-cultures-greetings/): Yep, that golden oldie once again, to all of you:
- [The CyberDarwins](https://maverisk.nl/the-cyberdarwins/): As we’re nearing the end of the year (Western calendar, others not spoiling the party &mdash; learning point), we draw towards the ‘people being stupid with fireworks’ scenes that are oh so similar to ‘people managing systems’ situation. The former, focusing on the most beautiful display and/or the loudest Bang, the latter the same if you think of it.The former, with latent recognition of ‘safety’ also re bystanders and collateral injuries possibly grave or life-, liberty- and happiness-threatening. The latter, with a desperate few considering ‘security’ and ‘privacy’, a even fewer thinking of collateral damage and implicit injuries and infractions to [&hellip;]
- [No C3PO, just PO](https://maverisk.nl/no-c3po-just-po/): Section 4, article 37, 1(b) of the General Data (sic) Protection Regulation &#8216;of 2018&#8217; (sic): When the core activities of the controller or the processor consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, their scope and/or their purposes, require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale;, the instantiation of a Functionary for Data Protection is mandatory. Yes this includes all organisations dabbling in web analytics&#8230; No there’s no threshold (that previously was) of 250 or 500 staff minimum. But hey, there’s arrangements to hire a Functionary — Privacy Officer works better — for less than [&hellip;]
- [Free standards](https://maverisk.nl/free-standards/): &#8230; How on earth is it possible that a great many dinosaurs still &#8216;issue&#8217; standards &mdash; this, triggered by this &mdash; that are fully payd by tax money and still one would have to pay for a simple PDF download? What about the law; would one have to pay to know that, too?? Morons. Apologies for the faint of complexity that might have been taken aback by my, of all decent people, use of that word that has some strength attached in its sparse use against common decency. But you get my drift. And: [Not paying for their undeserved study trip [&hellip;]
- [Is quantum computing replacing Turing Machines ..?](https://maverisk.nl/is-quantum-computing-replacing-turing-machines/): About scientists, and quacks. &#8230; stayed as guests in the Ehrenfest home, they were no doubt amused by their host&#8217;s pet parrot, which had been trained to say, &#8220;But, gentlemen, that is not physics.&#8221; But gentlemen, let’s discuss quantum computing. How can that, and its current state and moreover, its current systemic and systematic (sic the diference) difficulties be explained by taking note of actual ‘computer’ science (theoretical computing), sparse as it is, in the form of the theories surrounding Turing Machines..?As the latter were proven mathematically (logically) to rule&#8230;. All that ever can compute anything, can be represented as a [&hellip;]
- [Errors of Your / Machine Learning](https://maverisk.nl/errors-of-your-machine-learning/): Any progress on the front of Machine Learning, i.e., the comparison with how/what humans learn from various teaching formats, and how machines are better at rote learning et al, and how does the perfection of machines learning facts, reflect on what is data processing, what is intelligence, and what is wisdom ..? Where the latter is the area in which of course re retreat ever more, but without the foundation of a life long of learning and experience ..? [Intermission: Anyone out there still holding on to the ‘you only learn from experience, which is making errors and surviving’? What was [&hellip;]
- [Retrofitting IoT Security](https://maverisk.nl/retrofitting-iot-security/): Pitch before I did the idea that for a while be with us will Legacy IoT be, here. But what about stubbing around it? Developing cheap and easy (necessary since/for backwards compatible, by definition) security solutions that can be plugged onto old IoT stuff. What ya’reckon, are we too far gone with old IoT and economically-having to keep that alive, or is there sufficiently much more recent stuff to attempt such a thing (and ring-fence the real cr.p)..? I’m not completely sure how one would approach this thing, technically, but cannot imagine that there aren’t solution models around like, potentially, some [&hellip;]
- [Temporary Awareness](https://maverisk.nl/temporary-awareness/): A call for poignant pointers. You may be aware that research is on-going (among other, by Yours Truly) in the area of sustained ‘security awareness’ &mdash; a misnomer for security habit change. Which is driven by psychological stuff like everyone’s individuality, everyone’s individual circumstances (not only at work, not only formal short/medium term) and everyone’s learning and operations style and preferences. And hence, habit change would also have to cater for all these differences. One-time ‘awareness training’ (sic), yeah, right on. Still, such would be a somewhat valid approach … for perm staff. Not for infrequent visitors, like your garden variety [&hellip;]
- [Nocial Media](https://maverisk.nl/nocial-media/): &#8230; How did yesterday&#8217;s post know about what I type here now ..? Too easy. Now for something real: Nocial Media. Which is about the distribution of socmed interactions. Because, the best we have so far is stratified data, by country, age group / gender. Which totally misses that, my guess [hence: fact], a great many relations, either current/frequent or distant/loose, are distributed over a different set of classes. Like, a chunk will be global among peers of any sort (or several of such groups), but also the other chunk will be local, traditional, geo- or socially close like (well, F2F [&hellip;]
- [Rejoice, you the Puzzled](https://maverisk.nl/rejoice-you-the-puzzled/): Unless you were doing stuff on Nocial Media (see tomorrow — never mind, I&#8217;m not one for linear Time), you may have missed or noticed (same) the release of a facsimile of one of the most veritable puzzles of the ages (Western world), in this here thing, which is posted here. Yeah, that&#8217;s how hyperlinks work, I kno, I kno. So, now you the puzzlers AKA crytographers around the globe, may swoop down in even larger numbers than before, to crack the thing. Or, probably, not. And you knew about this whole thing. Question: (Why | _ ) hasn&#8217;t already some [&hellip;]
- [SecPoll](https://maverisk.nl/secpoll/): Finally, a competition where you can win, too, seriously. Yes you can, I&#8217;m serious. And you win something serious&#8230; The deal: Your top-3 predictions, in comments, about what new &#8216;cyber&#8217;security stuff (#ditchcyber) will happen in 2017. In return, if you&#8217;re the top predictor (NO.), to celebrate you&#8217;ve best found &#8217;17&#8217;s bubbles of the year you&#8217;ll receive a perfect bottle of &#8217;17 bubbles. The things you describe can be of any sort, related to information security in the widest sense. Something-cloud, something-privacy, something-Docker, something- Layer 7 or 8 firewalls, something-systemic-breachlike, whatever, it&#8217;s up to you. However: Some terms and conditions [subject to [&hellip;]
- [Dense, but study](https://maverisk.nl/dense-but-study/): All about this here article. Yes I too, started out as picture browser through this. But more careful study unearthed a lot of gold, qua understanding of the issues. Even to the point of pointing out some gaps, here and there — well, the understanding did, not as much the overview — in &#8216;moral continuums&#8217;, that can and should be filled. And, much work can be done on opeationalising the Obvious breaches of fundamental human rights (as per Universal Declaration) so don&#8217;t go babbling about commerce needs a chance. [And now for a switch of goal but you&#8217;ll find the relation [&hellip;]
- [Mumbling, much ..?](https://maverisk.nl/mumbling-much/): How come that almost (?) everyone (for sure) recognises the tune of this, but none know the lyrics &mdash; well, by heart, and able to sing somewhat proficiently&#8230;? Just asking. And: [Beautiful, but linked to tragedy; Prague &mdash; only need to straight the horizon&#8230;]
- [Some quick notes on Audit / service development](https://maverisk.nl/some-quick-notes-on-audit-service-development/): An invitation for co-development or I go it alone&#8230; [This also being a copyright / idea claim] Undecided what name will stick; either Ethics Test Services, or Autonomous Judgement/Decision Analysis Services; Because it is about checking the morality baked into, or emerging from, algorithmic decisions and/or decisions and conclusions from autonomous and self-learning systems; Contra &#8220;Computer says No&#8221;, obviously. If you&#8217;d want to learn what that refers to; see here; [Intermission] Whereas some in European politics (sic) discuss to impose a limit where autonomous systems without one human in the loop anywhere would have to have an &#8216;explanatory&#8217; function that can [&hellip;]
- [Log not Log](https://maverisk.nl/log-not-log/): About the resurgence of &#8216;logging&#8217; as a thing. In compliance, for whatever reason because everyone lost the Original purpose. In &#8216;audit&#8217; (like, checking bookkeeping — no you drop the pretense and lies that&#8217;s all there is to it!), since we (??) can now do den totalen Prozesskontrolle. In systems management, to &#8230;: Monitor the health of systems — note that a lot of logging will be superfluous for this purpose (lest the next bullet comes into play), and a lot of the other records will be processed near-completely-automated into nice dashboards; note also that in this environment, that seems to work [&hellip;]
- [Quitting a club](https://maverisk.nl/quitting-a-club/): Where some trade association of &#8230; drum roll &#8230; chartered (sic) IS auditors declared Cybersecurity is becoming an ever bigger problem. An IS auditor should need to keep informed of the latest developments as an argument to join in some CYBER ARRGHHH! lecture, one better leaves. I did. Sure, I&#8217;m member of some other, global, of the same trade and tricks one might say. But to list the other arguments to quit the local (i.e., Dutch; could have characterised them as &#8216;provincial&#8217; but why) one, would take ten pages (yes I have them, spelled out including various legal trespassing of the [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: LogiC PA](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-logic-pa/): Be ware, dear people. Recently, an accountant, of the CPA type, came with the following quote: The partner model isn&#8217;t part of the problem with our industry sector, because look at banks; they left the partner model ages ago and still got into trouble recently.&#8221; To think that such &#8216;logic&#8217; considers themselves competent to even come within miles&#8217; range of anything to do with money, let alone approving designed-for-hypercomplexity (with the hubris element in hyper) bookkeeping &mdash; as unfathomable complex as the finance sector had concocted by the quants, theoretical physicists that were experts in completely-outside-of-human-reality math &#8230; but hey, they [&hellip;]
- [Sticky Wicked](https://maverisk.nl/sticky-wicked/): I&#8217;ve been seeing &#8216;wicked problem&#8217; turn up again lately. Again, hardly in its original sense let alone to the criteria. But rather, as problems where the counterforces to solutions are just too dug in against change, to be overcome. As human, societal problems rather than something systemically hard. To bulldozer over, with a MBT, maybe ..? What a fine demonstration of irritation to let loose. And, of course:
- [WindTalker](https://maverisk.nl/windtalker/): Right. So we have a side channel attack where your hand movements over your mobile, when typing in your key, will interfere with WiFi signal patterns in a detectable, traceable way thus revealing your key. Like this (PDF).Would this, on a second trend note, destroy or obviate even more the need for, Active Access Control ..? Plus: [Mock-up for fabrics not mockery of your security; Stedelijk Amsterdam]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-35/): Just like that: [Looks like banks have been reorganising profoundly, yes.]
- [Misquote: No Problem, or are you?](https://maverisk.nl/misquote-no-problem-or-are-you/): Don’t come to me with problems, only with solutions Is wrong in so many ways&#8230; When not if a manager would say such a thing, he denies his (her, not often enough) very job. Yes, the job of a manager in times of knowledge workers truly is what it was in times past, glorious as they were; “decision making under uncertainty”. Which has devolved into sickly-panic over any uncertainty that is inherent in results as future states; So, workers &mdash; sounds too much like worker bees, working to their untimely death for the blip of glory of the Leader (quod non [&hellip;]
- [Dear Trudy. My baby doesn&#039;t even notice my Post-Its.&#8482;](https://maverisk.nl/dear-trudy-my-baby-doesnt-even-notice-my-post-its/): My baby doesn’t even notice my Post-Its. How can I make clear it has to stop crying? November 18, 2016 by Trudy Dear Trudy, My four months old cries day and night. I’ve put up Post-Its in its crib with a kind request it stops that. But now I begin to realise it doesn’t even notice them. How to make clear that I am not positively inclined to let this disregard pass just like that? Regards, At Wits’ End Dear Wits’ End, Probably your baby does not want to be micromanaged by Post-It. A lot of people take that badly. It [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote, nevertheless good to have been ousted](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-nevertheless-good-to-have-been-ousted/): Of course referring to the little guy&#8217;s family name. Here, because of his sound advice on how strategic planning should be done: You engage, and then you wait and see. First off of(f) course, he wasn&#8217;t particularly little it was just that his generals next to him, were long. Second, he&#8217;s right, about the above approach. Reminder: Some later giant took the above and expanded, explained, it more in the style of his countrymen&#8217;s need for rambling-on notation. And quoting some latter-day possibly (!) overrated general, &#8220;Plans are nothing, planning is everything.&#8221; which again is the same thing. In the core, [&hellip;]
- [For members, useful insights](https://maverisk.nl/for-members-useful-insights/): I&#8217;d suggest making this available widely; beyond membership only. Because it ties in so well with, e.g., this and many other issues at this. Yes, I may be biased; just like everyone if only for having been member of this. Which (subject) plays a much more prominent role in your lives than you think, certainly in the nearest of futures. Beware. And be aware of: [Your ethics reasoning: All corners, leading nowhere, abandoned; Fabrique Utrecht]
- [Move; to Canadaya ..?](https://maverisk.nl/move-to-canadaya/): While discussing the options for those in developed countries that would not necessarily agree with the outcomes of recent or pending elections, of course Canada was on the table. Not quite in the Tim Horton / Hudson&#8217;s Bay / Blue Jays style, but rather as evac site. Not the Thinking Class leaving, but the retreat of the Others [needless to say, the 1%-and-up aren&#8217;t anywhere anymore already; they escape no matter which way the wind blows] is what we have seen with/before/at the Elections in this case; back into the countryside as if the cities aren&#8217;t the major country elements these [&hellip;]
- [First Rule of Risk](https://maverisk.nl/first-rule-of-risk/): First rule of risk: Never underestimate risk. Even when you follow this rule, and even when your estimates seem ‘proper’. Where of course, the propriety of your estimates is in grave doubt, either on the “This has never happened to us so / Come on, get real, [we’re not a target because we’re of no interest to anyone] what are the odds!? / Ho hum, there’s the boy cried wolf again&#8221;, or on the “I’ve been reading this thing about CYBER! Arrrgh! In the Inquirer so why aren’t all staff hiding under their desk and we didn’t yet have the Marines [&hellip;]
- [Lament / Where have ‘Expert Systems’  gone ..?](https://maverisk.nl/lament-where-have-expert-systems-gone/): Those were the days, when knowledge elicitation specialists had their hard time extracting the rules needed as feed for systems programming (sic; where the rules were turned into data, onto which data was let loose or the other way around &mdash; quite the Turing tape…), based on known and half-known, half-understood use cases avant la lettre. Now are the days of Watson-class [aren’t Navy ships not named after the first of the class ..?] total(itarian) big data processing and slurping up the rules into neural net abstract systems somewhere out there in clouds of sorts. Yes these won out in the [&hellip;]
- [My daughter in law can&#039;t even develop a coherent model that unifies all fundamental theories](https://maverisk.nl/my-daughter-in-law-cant-even-develop-a-coherent-model-that-unifies-all-fundamental-theories/): Trudy Helps November 2, 2016 by Trudy Dear Trudy, My daughter in law is a lovely girl, but she can&#8217;t manage to develop a coherent, exact model that unifies the theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. This bothers me enormously, e.g. at birthday parties with the family. How can I make clear that I would love to see het own string theory without hurting her feelings ..? You b&#8230;, what are you doing? It will definitely destroy your relation with your daughter in law if you try to meddle with the way she likes to integrate scientific phenomena. If you [&hellip;]
- [The Risk of Human Existence](https://maverisk.nl/the-risk-of-human-existence/): Where Risk should be in the &#8216;first&#8217; line of any defense, and subsequent lines are mere (subsumed &#8230;!) support, as in the line of reasoning where Risk or rather Uncertainty [don&#8217;t start me on the semantics pure kindergarten discussions per definitional differences] is essential to do business; nay is essential to any organisation&#8217;s &#8216;business&#8217; even when as non-exposed to market conditions as e.g., government departments. Which, and this is the title reference, of course hinges on: all human endeavour seeks to eliminate uncertainty as uncertainty in the state of bare survival that humankind still is (sic; on average, and in the [&hellip;]
- [When it comes to Risk, Appetite is Tolerance](https://maverisk.nl/when-it-comes-to-risk-appetite-is-tolerance/): Previously, with many others I believed that Risk Appetite would have to be the starting point of discussion for anything Risk within organisatons. The appetite, following from discussions on Strategy being the choices of directions and subsequent steps that would need to be taken to achieve strategic objectives, i.e., where one sees the organisation ending up in the future. Very clearly elucidated here. Backtracking, one will find the risks associated with these possibly multiple directions and steps — in qualitative terms, as NO valid data exists (logically necessarily, since these concern the future and hence are determined by all information in [&hellip;]
- [Positive Performance Plans &#8212; Done That, part I](https://maverisk.nl/positive-performance-plans-done-that-part-i/): Regarding the latest spat on dumping personal performance plans, P-KPIs et al. Which one shouldn&#8217;t. Even at the most negative end of What Gets Measured Gets Done, there is some truth like, some grains. Where no measurement and reward (sic I) for performance, may not entice too many to be worth their salt (sic II). In today&#8217;s total-information society, it&#8217;s the free riders, the freeloaders, that escape unharmed with their booty. &#8216;Hedge fund manager&#8217; like. Possibly to be villified by history as the worst atrocities of humanity ever, but that remains to be seen as history commnly is written by the [&hellip;]
- [Top 2000-and-counting of 2016, already](https://maverisk.nl/top-2000-and-counting-of-2016-already/): Because all sorts of hoi polloi pundits are out there, &#8216;polling&#8217; (quod non, just repeating the meh mediocrity) for the Top 2000 of 2016 on the ray-the-ohw and elsewhere, herewith the real deal Top 2000. Which of course isn&#8217;t; it&#8217;s the Top 2268 for one thing and Definitive is slightly understating it. If you hadn&#8217;t guessed, #14 is about me. And yes, it is downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes (repeated from last year): &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [Commoditised exploits](https://maverisk.nl/commoditised-exploits/): What was first; the exploits or the use of them ..? When now, we have this kind of reasoning, aptly, there already was this, too. So, &#8230; What now ..? [This being the state of (the best of &#8230; ;-[ ) Duts design nowadays. Yes the rest is worse, much worse. Law of handicap of head start; Zuid-As]
- [Reverse-Logic](https://maverisk.nl/reverse-logic/): Not reverse logic (&#8220;Bring your umbrella so it will not rain&#8221;) being mere (non-existent! you ontological dimwit) causation inversion, but time-inversed thinking. Like this article (shall we stop calling blog posts or long reads anything else than the thing they were before ARPAnet ..?) which has it the wrong way around from this one. Snicker smuck. Oh, and: [The Truth? It&#8217;s all cocktail pestles &#8230;! Stedelijk Amsterdam]
- [Fuzzy Vocabulary (Cross-)Boundaries](https://maverisk.nl/fuzzy-vocabulary-cross-boundaries/): When discussing Risk &#8230; There will always at some stage turn up a discussion (or multiple, if you&#8217;re Lucky; not) about the meaning of certain key words. Which is a pity, because &#8230; no, not because it distracts. Though it does, the main issue is that the secondary, meta, discussion about vocabularies is never / rarely resolved. At strategic levels, talk is about risk appetite and risk tolerance, and foremost about business opportunities (of which the exitement is) spoiled by &#8220;risk managers&#8221; that point out the world might not be perfect and hence one is all but certain not to achieve [&hellip;]
- [The legacy of TDoS](https://maverisk.nl/the-legacy-of-tdos/): So, we have the first little probes of TDoS attacks (DoS-by-IoT). &#8216;Refrigereddon&#8217;. As if that wasn&#8217;t predictable, very much predictable, and predicted. [Edited to add: And analysed correctly, as here.] Predicted it was. What now? Because if we don&#8217;t change course, we&#8217;ll achieve ever worse infra. Yes, security can be baked into new products — that will be somewhat even more expensive so will not swarm the market — but for backward compatibility in all the chains out there already, cannot be relied upon plus there&#8217;s tons of legacy equipment out there already (see: Healthcare, and: Utilities). Even when introducing new, [&hellip;]
- [Bring on the Future; it belongs to ME](https://maverisk.nl/bring-on-the-future-it-belongs-to-me/): Some say self-driving cars / autonomous vehicles will take over driving as if they will take over all driving. But the intermediate phase [where autonomous persons and autonomous masters with slave (!) persons] will see &#8216;driving&#8217; turn into a pastime, a hobby, of thrill seeker persons. Yes, even with Insurance rates getting somewhat higher. Not much higher, let alone skyrocketing, because the lone drivers that hold out, will find more and more very defensively behaving autonomous tin cans opposite them, scaring the latter (to steer) off the road&#8230;! Hence, aggressive drivers will not (provably) cause many accidents, autonomous vehicles will in [&hellip;]
- [Hurt Spree at American University: 17 Millennials Insulted](https://maverisk.nl/hurt-spree-at-american-university-17-millennials-insulted/): Tragedy causes discussions about freedom to carry opinion October 18, 2016 by Hank Grohl During a hurt at a university in Nebraska, 17 students have been insulted. The victims are all millennials that were attending a class on civil rights movements. The hurter was a white, privileged man who worked as tenured professor of social history at the university. He is said to have just walked into a classroom where he started to fire off historical facts at students. Panic broke out immediately, but thirty students managed to flee the classroom. Even before the hurter could be arrested, he hurt himself. [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Peacebringer](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-peacebringer/): About politicians and truth May be incomplete.Happy Mongolia.
- [Spinning Wheel &#8212; wait, for it: Clock or Counter-Clock ..?](https://maverisk.nl/spinning-wheel-wait-for-it-clock-or-anti-clock/): Anyone noticed that IUs seem to make a thing of having replaced the clearly-archaic hourglass wait icon, with a spinning wheel &mdash; that was the Obvious part &amp; mdash; but that the circle sometimes runs clockwise, sometimes counter-clockwise ..? Part of the why is resolved, e.g., here, but the issue is that it seems to go all sorts of directions in/at all sorts of apps, sites, et al., as far as I can tell not seriously related to the linked explanation. Yes, I&#8217;ve studied this here foundational theory, but also there, not much on directions. Didn&#8217;t even know Throbber was a [&hellip;]
- [Really Bad Life](https://maverisk.nl/really-bad-life/): The recent spat on (team, in particular) sports not being the character building they&#8217;re supposed to be, has a pendant in other realms of game as well. The former, here; the latter, here. Where, similar to other areas of enticement (link and other posts on this blog), the idea of a level paying field not through the starting positions but through procedural justice, seems to want to jump over the weaving errors of our societies being the unevenness and inequality of the starting positions. Also eloquently explained (with a moral take-home) here. Typical in the RBC article above-linked, in the base [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-34/): Just like that. [Yes even my hero you can&#8217;t trust&#8230; Assignment for next month: Reflect on your organisation&#8217;s security posture.]
- [Peak Gulden](https://maverisk.nl/peak-gulden/): I&#8217;ve been dabbling in this pure-fiat money (sic) Gulden that is an attempt to indeed bring back the Dutch florin wink. So far, I only put a toe into that water, and &#8217;twas a profitable ride indeed. Should&#8217;ve moved all-in and retire&#8230; Yes there&#8217;s all sorts of payment functionality but haven&#8217;t found a place to put that to use yet. Which made me think: Is there some sort of metric by which one can determine how &#8216;mature&#8217; respective blockchain currencies are ..? Like, some ratio that includes available volume, traded volume (exchange for (much longer) pre-existing traditional currencies), actual payments made [&hellip;]
- [Needing trolley answers — NOW!](https://maverisk.nl/needing-trolley-answers-now/): Needing your help on this. In two ways&#8230;: How come all the ethicists dreaming up ever more complex versions of the Trolley Problem, but are only too gleefully snickering at n00bs-to-the-field that figure out the peculiarities as they are led through the many pitfalls in thinking — but never arrive at definitive answers themselves! and are just happy with ever further complicating the issues. Question is: How to bang their heads long and hard enough or, to give them a last chance, lock them up without food and drink until they deliver definitive answers? Left or Right, Yes or No, with [&hellip;]
- [Wells Fargo very happy with all well-wishes](https://maverisk.nl/wells-fargo-very-happy-with-all-well-wishes/): Customers send flowers and baskets to sick bank October 14, 2016 by George Greenspan Wells Fargo CEO Timothy Sloan feels support from all the heartwarming cards, fruit baskets, teddy-bears and drawings he has received. “Thank you so much, dear ‘people’,” he lets us know with a large Minions balloon in hand. Wells Fargo had not been feeling well for a long time already. “We still sometimes feel an ache from all the junk mortgages we doled out, and the billion-dollar fines didn’t help much, either,” says Sloan while showing a huge card on which a taxpayer wrote “Get Wells Soon” in [&hellip;]
- [All Your Data Are Belong To Us](https://maverisk.nl/all-your-data-are-belong-to-us/): Or, in the form of a question: When a. One has to notify authorities of any (possible!) data leak, per law, in Europe and soon maybe also in the USofA, b. Even BIOSses aren&#8217;t secure anymore, baked in from the word Go and onwards, Shouldn&#8217;t all organisations declare all of their infrastructure and hence all their data, possibly compromised ..? Just asking. [Edited to add this. Also relevant; this one deeper (?)] And: [Calm, not private; Museumplein Amsterdam]
- [Help determine this rock](https://maverisk.nl/help-determine-this-rock/): I have an inkling of what this piece of art means, but would there be anyone out there that, under strict confidentiality of course, could provide a full explanation ..? In particular &mdash; but including full context &mdash; what the link is between a book, possibly obscure but a tip as pleasurable read and this in Joinville: It&#8217;s just all too odd to not have a connection &#8230; Including this, perhaps ..?
- [You&#039;re So Smart](https://maverisk.nl/youre-so-smart/): In a reference to a song about me: Most ab-original humans wouldn&#8217;t pass a serious Turing test. Most serious AI trying to pass, would. You, the select elite of my blog readers &#8230; Well, elite by numbers, mostly, or ..? And select, as in &#8216;clicked by error&#8217;..? Just kidding, of course, off course. What I meant was: as originally intended, Turing tests have become a hypothetical mind game &#8216;only&#8217;. Now that we&#8217;re approaching &#8216;intelligence&#8217; of machines, like, graduating from ANI to AGI and on to ASI without a blink &mdash; not all of society will change at one instant to the [&hellip;]
- [Classic plusquote: Progress](https://maverisk.nl/classic-plusquote-progress/): You can watch it, but you can&#8217;t stop it. As you&#8217;re only a looker-on, unable to halt progress. Like, this here classic from 1987 already. [Explains the less than stellar graphics quality but hey, from analog to digital vid&#8230;] And: [In the church of inevitable Dutch waterworks; Lijnden]
- [New Normal Hacking](https://maverisk.nl/new-normal-hacking/): Errm, anyone still surprised about (not) new news on data being stolen, ransomware striking, or democracy perverted, anywhere, all the time ..? Got a bit worried, and wondered whether there would be others the same, about the current Mehh impression of everyone in the loop, about even political parties [now openly], voting machines, etc., getting cracked and data stolen which combined with at last, at very last finally, the hackability of voting machines not, against all sane arguments, being tamper-resistant &mdash; which leads to the vulnerability and class broken-ness of fundamental human values. And still, there&#8217;s hardly more than Mehhh. Would [&hellip;]
- [Are sw bugs taxing your resilience ..?](https://maverisk.nl/are-sw-bugs-taxing-your-resilience/): There would be a solution when we&#8217;d find a way to tax software makers for their product faults. Because caveat emptor can work only if unlike in softwareland, one can duly (!) examine the product before purchase otherwise-and-anyway culpability for hidden flaws remains with the seller/licensor. Which is impossible with shrink-wrapped stuff &mdash; and the &#8216;license&#8217; claim is ridiculous, moreover the EULA is inconsistent hence null and void: Either the product is used under license hence the product quaility liability remains with the producer/licensor or the licensee is liable for damages the use of the product might cause but then invariably [&hellip;]
- [Simply, stats](https://maverisk.nl/simply-stats/): Just putting it down there. With some discussion, OK, OK&#8230;: Fubbuck still the largest, &#8220;of course&#8221;, but by less of a margin than previous (?); Because FB &#8216;messenger&#8217; oh horrendous thing, is listed separately. Prob with reason. At least, because reasons; QQ and QZone still biggies, to grow ..!? Tumblr&#8217;s big this time. Let&#8217;s dig for demographics, et al., to see whether some specific user group is biasing stats. The age-old subject that the Internet was invented and invaded for, may be a big one in this; LinkedIn larger than Pinterest. A #first ..? And not by much. Cause? Sturdy growth, [&hellip;]
- [Contra Bruce, for once](https://maverisk.nl/contra-bruce-for-once/): For once, Bruce is not at the right end. Maybe not opposite of it, but. As per this here blog post of his &mdash; a repeat of one of his, and others&#8217;, thread. The argument: We make things, like, security, too difficult for users and hence (?) we shouldn&#8217;t try to change them into secure behaviour. The contra: &#8216;Guns kill people&#8217;, or was it that the men (mostly) firing guns, kill people? And the many toddlers shooting their next of kin since, being at the approximate maturity of the Original gun pwner, they have no clue. The Contra, too, and much [&hellip;]
- [You sporting against all](https://maverisk.nl/you-sporting-against-all/): When sports are considered to be character-forming for later (mostly assumed to be business-)life, either by having been trained to be competitive or have learned (really?) to cooperate in teams (really?), let&#8217;s see which versions there are: In which the You Against Natural science (No counter-actors other than nature, only personal performance counts, possibly measured against others but still, bad luck gets you), You Against One opponent (where one&#8217;s in a knock-out tournament or variant; running into the later champion in the first round doesn&#8217;t do much for your chances for second place), and Team Against Team (if you&#8217;re a champ [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Beaton](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-beaton/): Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Thus wrote sir Cecil Beaton. And right he was. And is, and will be, more than before. Since times are a&#8217;changing ever faster, too. Which means the risk, nay certain penalty of not venturing out into the future by one&#8217;s own action, increases by the day, as well. Live, or not — the characterisation of those of the ordinary is apt. With thoughtful salutations, I thee present: [One feels invited to [&hellip;]
- [You&#039;re Exposed...](https://maverisk.nl/youre-exposed/): You haven&#8217;t studied this here overview hard enough. Because you&#8217;re not even on it so shows your lack of will to enormously improve the seriousness of your (clients&#8217;) information security which would get you onto the list, just. Your security being too much of a joke to even achieve this level of honest attempt at seriousness.
- [Teh business, does it exist ..?](https://maverisk.nl/teh-business-does-it-exist/): On purpose, teh. Plus a spoiler: No. Though this is a tell-tale sign your infosec program, of whatever kind, will #fail, wholesale. &#8217;cause If you can&#8217;t specify all stakeholders, at their various levels of detail required, beyond swiping them up under the &#8216;the business&#8217; nomen, Then you might as well call it &#8216;teh&#8217; business, as you are vague to the point of irrelevance, as you will be regarded by &#8216;the business&#8217; and since that&#8217;s where 99.9% of your security sits (including budget holders&#8230;), fugeddabout effectiveness. Endif. No Else. So, stop using &#8216;the business&#8217; as a stopgap designation for your lack of [&hellip;]
- [Data Classinocation](https://maverisk.nl/data-classinocation/): I was studying this &#8216;old&#8217; idea of mine of drafting some form of impact-based criteria for data sensitivity when, along with a couple of fundamental logical errors in some of the most formally adopted (incl legal) standards and laws, I suddenly realised: In these times of easily provable easy de-anonymisation of even the most protective homomorphic encryption multiplied with the ease of de-anonymisation throught data correlation of even the most innocent data points, all even the most innocent data points/elements must (not should) be classified at the highest sensitivity levels so why classifiy data ..!? This may not be a popular [&hellip;]
- [Waves of cyberfud](https://maverisk.nl/waves-of-cyberfud/): Not just because #ditchcyber is real. But because only now, the first of the absolute leggards (i.e., gov&#8217;t officials) begin to make waves about access to private data, through apparent (sic) complete lack of understanding about the fundamentals of free society. The issue of blanket access to any communications, for whatever purpose, has been settled so shut up for eternity or however much longer it takes &#8216;you&#8217; to get it or die &mdash; whichever comes first, my guess is the latter. Politics being the only field of work where no education is required; all the cyber-blah being the second, then, apparently [&hellip;]
- [World Animal Day: a disruptive Whale](https://maverisk.nl/5452-2/): Because today is World Animal Day, let&#8217;s think of the Whale. Because this is the kind of disruption your brain needs. Today, and any day.Yes the clip is &#8216;Old&#8217; &mdash; but still fresh; how&#8217;s that you Under-30-or-younger hunting faux headhunters that still, en masse (over 99,5% at least) hunt for dummies (car crashing kind) to fill dummy slots in Bureaucratia. That&#8217;s all. And do check the vid at least until 2:42 Because Reasons.
- [Tugging on with Thoreau](https://maverisk.nl/tugging-on-with-thoreau/): It&#8217;s not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? As a warning to the many that just continue to be &#8216;compliant&#8217;, letting their best, and next in line their mehhh, drain and be crowded out by meek submission. Which is what some Others live off, totally. Hey, don&#8217;t just point out this all sounds rather negative: It&#8217;s Monday, right ..? Switch to the Useful, creative, productive life! Yes, sirmadam, so can you! And you and you! And: [If only life were always like this Valencia &#8230;]
- [Fraud no-angle](https://maverisk.nl/fraud-no-angle/): There was a lot of work done, mainly from faux legal/ethical corners, on the so-called &#8216;fraud triangle&#8217;. Without pointing only at previous dismissal, there are some fresh insights on why this&#8217;all is faux. One is, as pointed, the presentation that considers the three corners of the triangle (pleonastically not tautologically) to be &#8216;present&#8217; at one same time. In stead of seeing that there is a (very) definite order of the three. Once started, the march by moral capture / self-blackmail is one-way only. Whether triggered by willful act or casual impulse (i.e., Kahnemann&#8217;s System 2 or System 1 ..!); this is [&hellip;]
- [What we all want / need ...](https://maverisk.nl/what-we-all-want-need/): Just as a simple link. If (sic) you understand, you&#8217;ll understand what you, we, all need, crave. Yes indeed that&#8217;s all. Plus: [More than just the Montanges &#8230;]
- [Another Thoreau, another on more-than-mere-process](https://maverisk.nl/another-thoreau-another-on-more-than-mere-process/): I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports. Which again, points at not every waking hour should be spent on work within the straight jacket of Process(es) and procedures, just clicking the only icons you have. But also having, taking, the time to let one&#8217;s mind wander, and [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day, part ...](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-part/): You know, any (Tues)day. Hey, &#8220;I drink only three glasses a day, so practically, I&#8217;m a teetotaller.&#8221;
- [Being busy bodies doing busy work](https://maverisk.nl/being-busy-bodies-doing-busy-work/): &#8230; Anyone noticed that the &#8216;trend&#8217; (development) where everyone claims to be oh so busy with, basically busywork, started with the demise of the secretarial profession ..? Where secreataries (either a pool of or a single personal, or in a pool altogether for sharing i.e. load balancing) and like support staff were (sic) there to alleviate all the chores that now, all underlings/specialists, &#8216;managers&#8217; and even up, are supposed to do now, in stead of the work they were hired for and be productive in the thing that labour specialisation had made them best, most productive, in, like a Ricardo trade [&hellip;]
- [Comedy crashers](https://maverisk.nl/comedy-crashers/): No capers, frankly no comedy either, when some of the most respected in the field are concerned about pervasive probing of whole countries in one go. As here. Probably, the same is pulled off on smaller countries as well; the infra doesn&#8217;t distinguish, but the protection budgets probably are much smaller, so a proof of concept might be interesting. Though this may trigger better protection in the larger country/countries, if done &#8216;right&#8217; the attack(s) may be class break kind of things not so easily protected against in the first place. And for now, the smaller countries probed, will have even smaller [&hellip;]
- [Thoreau's Meteor (quote)](https://maverisk.nl/thoreaus-meteor-quote/): New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody&#8217;s castle roof perforated. Again, one that is true on the surface. And true deeper down. Apart from the link to &#8216;true&#8217; disruption of the cozy dinosaur life, the flash and explosion are of course the hype and bubble burst that we see so often. But the castle roof perforated&#8230; Often, yes, either blowing away the castle / imcumbent or giving a foundation for a rebuilt dwelling. Note &#8216;castle&#8217; not &#8216;house&#8217;: The (well&#8230;) mighty being hit mostentimes not the underlings (?). Note also [&hellip;]
- [Dronecatcher, now with dronespotter](https://maverisk.nl/dronecatcher-now-with-dronespotter/): Ah. Found; yes, probably @DARPA already had theirs, this one&#8217;s more (?) private-sector though: A partial solution to the Attack of the Drones thing. Back some time ago I posted this gem, on a solution against drones, e.g., around objects of &#8216;vital infrastructure&#8217; — that weren&#8217;t, like, so, about a hundred years ago and people may have been happier then. Once drones were distinguished from birds [the in-the-air kind not the ones you spot on the beach, topless], any kind of mini-Goalkeeper preferably with buck shot (since short-range effectiveness is required only, without any long-range bystander damage risk) might suffice. I&#8217;d [&hellip;]
- [Oh, about yesterday&#039;s culture](https://maverisk.nl/oh-about-yesterdays-culture/): &#8230; to return to yesterday&#8217;s topic; an afterthought. That, most, al-most always, thinking about culture from the bottom up is. Leading to the babble that is. Where of course this bottom-up thinking should be the very first thing to do. Otherwise, incompleteness in &#8216;control&#8217; will result, to the amount that it isn&#8217;t taken this way. So, &#8230; approaching Culture from the top down, is the surefire way to guarantee all the LIBORgates that linger in your organisation, will surface. Like an avalanche, they will. The tones at the top will not be nice but nobody will listen, eh? So, &#8230;: [At [&hellip;]
- [Culture for breakfast, since it&#039;s so light and airheaded](https://maverisk.nl/culture-for-breakfast-since-its-so-light-and-airheaded/): Yet again some oversight body / de facto regulator gave wind that they already had changed to auditing Culture and the Tone At The Top including Behaviour and Awareness, apart from mere ([ed.]) process and technology. To get the latter off the table: Good. &#8216;Technology&#8217; wasn&#8217;t understood the least bit anyway; really (sic).And Process, ah finally they found that about all they had done in the past, was windbaggery of the worst kind. Yes, process has its place, but a so much more minor, subaltern one than the past Tragedy (sic, again) that &#8216;governance&#8217;/GRC/compliance/SOx was &#8230;! Yes again, it really was [&hellip;]
- [Oud](https://maverisk.nl/oud/): Wie dit herkent, is oud &#8230; (!?): Terwijl het even goed kan duiden op een zware dosis levens- en werkervaring waardoor een excellente hypedoorzienendheid kan hebben postgevat. Kan.
- [Another Thoreau](https://maverisk.nl/another-thoreau/): Yes another one in a series of The Annotated Alice Thoreau, with: I am constantly assisted by the books in identifying a particular plant and learning some of its humbler uses, but I rarely read a sentence in a botany which reminds me of flowers or living plants. Very few write indeed as if they had seen the thing which they pretend to describe. And so it is with, e.g., books and other theory of GRC. Not a living thing to be discovered in them. Just as if the dust of centuries had already descended on &#8216;process&#8217;, &#8216;structure&#8217;, etc. etc. — [&hellip;]
- [ORM will not fly B-4 People are included](https://maverisk.nl/orm-will-not-fly-b-4-people-are-included/): [Warning: Longread] On the ails of the Basel-IV ORM proposals: 1. Unwarranted, certainly unscientific overreliance on ‘models’; 2. Modeling for prospective use in stead of hindsight understanding; 3. Too much top-down, not enough bottom-up; 4. No humans in the picture, hence the wrong and unactionable indicators. Introduction About all of the banking industry, and other financials in their wake, have had to deal with loads of regulatory requirements. Justified, some say, for &#8216;they&#8217; cause(d) so much misery beyond mere most temporary loss of bonuses that the &#8216;un&#8217; should be (have been long before) detached from bridled. So, Basel II and -III regulations swooped in requiring [&hellip;]
- [The Annotated Thoreau, part  of many](https://maverisk.nl/the-annotated-thoreau-part-of-many/): It is a record of the mellow and ripe moments I would keep. I would not preserve the husk of life, but the kernel. And so, one would not do well by overly tending to Process in stead of Content, where &#8216;overly&#8217; will all to easily and quickly be reached. Where Process is just Talk. Sic; just think that one through in earnest. Where an ethical life calls for not Talk but Action, as through a Man&#8217;s Actions &#8216;his&#8217; Character will speak. Only. So Big Th discusses not only some diary, but also the virtuous life. Oh well, and: [An airplane; [&hellip;]
- [Anouk in infosec](https://maverisk.nl/anouk-in-infosec/): For all yer strangers, first have a look at this. Then decide in favour of the following adaptation: I&#8217;m sorry for the times that I made you scream For the times that I killed your drstreams For the times that I made your whole worldhypervisor rumble For the times that I made you cry For the times that I told you liessocially engineered the heck out of you For the times that I watchedlurked and let you stumblebricked your BIOS [Chorus] It&#8217;s too bad, but that&#8217;s me What goes around comes aroundYour server park down, and you&#8217;ll see That I can [&hellip;]
- [&quot;This is impossible!&quot;](https://maverisk.nl/this-is-impossible/): &#8216;tWas not long ago, when all that knew their way in Infosecland (when the land had not expanded and complexified beyond grasp of mere mortals and AI was not yet needed to have taken over) would point at the stupidity of any claim like &#8220;That can&#8217;t happen here because our security beats every threat till Kingdom come&#8221;. And the claimants would have it, by sheer power play. When dinosaurs roamed, it was in your interest to move over when they&#8217;d want to pass. Now, the dino&#8217;s are on the way out (well, the current stock of them; new ones in the [&hellip;]
- [Popular; now (not) bring it to prep schools](https://maverisk.nl/popular-now-not-bring-it-to-prep-schools/): Just for your info: this here overview of programming languages popularity. Not an endorsement in any way nor the opposite. But &#8230; would we want to endorse this list RE kids learning to program in prep/elementary schools, or at middle / high school levels and up ..? Because the list changes so much &#8230; before they finish their school, some languages may hardly exist at all (contra: COBOL&#8217;s #41 on the list&#8230;). What then ..? At least: [Like programming, both Art and Craft; Stedelijk, Amsterdam]
- [New! (RE yesterday&#039;s post)](https://maverisk.nl/new-re-yesterdays-post/): Oh how appropriately timed, this&#8230;: A new version of l0phtcrack is here ..! As I mentioned in the passing in yesterday&#8217;s post, defense-wise one would be hard-pressed to find anything that&#8217;s up to snuff qua being a step ahead of the Other Side, catching up is however still (if only just) feasible. Good to see that the tools once (we talk, like, ages ago, ages being circa 20) used offensively and having disappeared from view, return in all their sophisticated glory &mdash; be it as point solutions in a much evolved world but still. All rejoice and &#8216;play around only to [&hellip;]
- [Weird infosec science](https://maverisk.nl/weird-infosec-science/): Who would have thought &mdash; that total surveillance would reach into the house, no / hardly any backdoors need to be built in even. As explained here, and here in closer-to-humanly-readable form. If such are the Tempest inroads, who needs the newest-of-highest-tech solutions as they all will all succumb to either trivial complexity-induced-unavoidable sloppiness of implementation, or to circumvention in the above way&#8230;? Of course all of it is an atrocity in ethics but &#8230; I won&#8217;t be utterly negative about humanity&#8217;s future so I&#8217;ll stop now. With: [Art imitating life; Stedelijk Amsterdam]
- [Plusquote: You ..?](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-you/): Short of just copying the site of all sites when it comes to motivation, this time we have something truly positive ..: Men have become the tools of their tools. H.D. Thoreau was right. Already in his day. Didn&#8217;t witness the atrocities of &#8230; about every decade somewhere (yes, 00, 10s, 20s and 30s, too, around the world, and 50s, 60s/70s, and, on an economic scale, 80s/90s included) of the last century though a millennium ago [is that the right expression? Not like the length ago but the timeframe that has passed&#8230;] but still already he was right. And, since ARPAnet [&hellip;]
- [Lightning says Sorry](https://maverisk.nl/lightning-says-sorry/): &#8220;I intended to get me some &#8216;elk&#8217; meat&#8221; &#8230; If you have no clue what this is about: It is about this. Bye for now. [In similar vein, I have no clue what this picture does here.]
- [And then still, you have it maltreated](https://maverisk.nl/and-then-still-you-have-it-maltreated/): Even when that is putting it too mildly, 007 (at about 0:31—) drinking it at your (always, for certain) local outlet. Because things are getting serious. Hopefully, we can rely on Despair again for a solution. &#8230; yup: Which in this case is a hopeful outlook!
- [I can see your pulse](https://maverisk.nl/i-can-see-your-pulse/): Just to drop a note; that Big G&#8217;s Glass is still around &mdash; but the same may, on a comparative after-launch timescale (sic), possibly not be said about Big A&#8217;s Watch. Come to think of it&#8230; Watch isn&#8217;t what it&#8217;s made for; &#8216;flix on your wrist would be a hard view. More like Big B-rother watching your intimate (sic) health data&#8230; &mdash; As an intermission, this (esp. 0:00-0:11 and 2:45&mdash;) deserves many more clicks &mdash; But as said, some competitor is still larger in pulse-racked computing, at least (without having the energy to google for actual data) when it comes to [&hellip;]
- [Metaphoric company / politics](https://maverisk.nl/metaphoric-company-politics/): &#8230; Is the political scene of the, still&#8230;, figurehead corporatist (or would you know a more pejorative term?) country (hey, check global capita per country and weep) reflected in the developments of the business world; like, a bunch of weirdos (qua hairstyle and behavior) versus &#8216;governance&#8217;-oriented totalitarian bureaucrats, or is it the other way around ..? Just struck me. And beware that the former category would not be where the Silly Valley bunch would fit in, as if by association-through-closeness to &#8217;60s SF. Contrarily, they fit perfectly in the latter category. As was exepelainifyed already here. Also, both categories are so [&hellip;]
- [Poor bungler has no Scandinavian example to make his point](https://maverisk.nl/poor-bungler-has-no-scandinavian-example-to-make-his-point/): Gerald jeered in dinner discussion August 19, 2016 by Karen Mikkelsbergen Gerald Waterson badly lost a series of discussions with his friends last Thursday. The 36yr (old) county clerk of Decatur, IL, didn’t have a Scandinavian example for any point he wanted to make. During dinner, Gerald proposed e.g., that social security could not continue in its current form with the lax immigration policies, that a fully sustainable energy supply were feasible, that only college grads should be allowed to teach at high schools, that longer prison terms don’t increase general security and that tomato is a vegetable. “Those were interesting [&hellip;]
- [Clapton: 5 years for shooting sheriff](https://maverisk.nl/clapton-5-years-for-shooting-sheriff/): Singer not guilty of shooting deputy August 9, 2016 by George Smith A Clermont County, Ohio judge has sentenced Eric Clapton to five years in jail for shooting the sheriff. The British singer is said to have confessed in some Number 1 hit of 1974. Clapton’s lawyer thinks the verdict is ridiculous: “They are trying to smear my client all over his home town. OK, he did indeed shoot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense. And all they do is shout that is was a capital offense. Plus, the original was by Bob Marley so what the heck [&hellip;]
- [Gold per capita](https://maverisk.nl/gold-per-capita/): Just remembering that line of thought about some &#8216;handicap&#8217; per country in sports&#8230; The original list of Rio 2016 [standings per 16 August ! due to post scheduling ahead of time], sorted per Gold medals, top 50, in this here list The same, but &#8216;compensated&#8217; by dividing by (GDP per capita times capitae), in that there list And, medals total, handicapped similarly over here. Pick your country and &#8230; have fun with the bragging rights&#8230; Yes, a lot can be said about this; but then also include discussions on colonial history, (sports-supportive) culture over the centuries, et al &#8230; [After drafting [&hellip;]
- [Dronecatcher ..?](https://maverisk.nl/dronecatcher/): Was tinkering with ideas to get rid of drones around / over high-risk sites, e.g., critical infra (sites). You know, like the radiant type of energy production. Where drones pose a somewhat new but pesky risk. The newness, of course being not much of it when all sorts of attack with either plain vanilla or modified-to-autopilot RC controlled planes (possibly built in one&#8217;s garage) were around already and would hardly need any (suspicious) infra to take off and do their nefarious thing. Though the proliferation of the new heli-style drones somehow raised the frequency/chance side of the risk equation. And, maybe, [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-33/): Again, for ol&#8217;times sake:
- [In the sphere of Language](https://maverisk.nl/in-the-sphere-of-language/): Off the cuff. Sph&auml;ren is closer to Finnegan&#8217;s Wake than it is to Nietzsche. Qua language, here and there. That&#8217;s all. And don&#8217;t read FW in Dutch; the translabitt is flubby. The others in Dzjerman, qualitate qua. [Emulatable qua plomb. The Dutch background, not so much.]
- [Plusquote: Qua Quantification](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-qua-quantification/): Qua quantification, maximal isn&#8217;t the optimal that minimal is. If quantification were good, or worth pursuing even anything more than a bit or minimally, Yoda would talk about hidden Markow chains not The Force. Not all that can be counted, counts, and not all that counts, can be counted. Where &#8216;not all&#8217; is to be read different than latter-day simpletonian, but as antediluvian &#8216;none&#8217;. Capice ..? Many more arguments might go here. Suffice to say that &#8216;evidence-based&#8217; science is a scam. Only those that are too stupid (let&#8217;s put it like it is) to &#8216;get&#8217; the value of philosophy (and ethics [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">O</span>ne 000](https://maverisk.nl/one-000/): Yes, celebrations &#8230; The one-thousandestest post on this blog&#8230; [Excluding the two cross-posts by others&#8230;] Do I regret any of them ..? Nope. [Rounded down] Do I regret having been early with signalling many developments ..? Nope. At worst, sometimes I may have been too early, with the post(s) having slid from memory (ah, shallows you are) when finally the world came &#8217;round to see the point as pointed out by some random stranger top-notch journalist or guru. Non, je ne regrette rien. OK, yes, I&#8217;ll keep on truckin&#8217; for a while. On everything from metaphilosophical discussions down to bitwise details [&hellip;]
- [Een pagina'tje met wat verzamelde links over/voor/inzake auditors/accountants](https://maverisk.nl/een-paginatje-met-wat-verzamelde-links-overvoorinzake-auditorsaccountants/): Gewoon, omdat het anders zo&#8217;n zoekwerk is met van die vervelend lange URLs&#8230; Als de basiservaring niet meer kan worden opgedaan, dan &#8230; Achterhaaldheid, v.v. veranderbereidheid DACs en auditkantoren Overbodigheid, achterhaaldheid weer Assurance levels AI, robots en auditwerk Zucht, ja, blockchain Process health De markt Multi-content assurance XML-mogelijkheden Direct reporting door accountants
- [<span class="firstcharacter">GoTo</span>&nbsp;Statement Considered Political](https://maverisk.nl/goto-statement-considered-political/): Bear with me; this is a mindstretcher. Desperately few (still alive) have ever really fully read The Original (no, not that one). And now I realise It (not it) was, and is, very valid today, as the opposite – at a meta(?)physical, quasi(?)(in)formal-logic level of abstraction – of what latter-day politicking looks like, in so many places around the world. Dangerous, that is, the latter. Where the danger of GoTo is in its contextless jumping, ripping away the checks and balances that govern it, keep the oversight. In BASIC and others (JMP anyone?), at least there&#8217;s a form of kernel &#8216;hyperviser&#8217;/BIOS [&hellip;]
- [<Span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-38/): Yet again &#8230;: [Yes I, this refers to your infosec arrangements &ndash; wouldn&#8217;t deride the terms &#8216;management system&#8217; or &#8216;practices&#8217; by attaching them to what you do&#8230;] [Yes II I did not include a dropcap style in his post on purpose. Thanks you noticed.]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>ecision time for informational priv](https://maverisk.nl/decision-time-for-informational-priv/): When discussing Privacy, a lot of attention goes to informational privacy, easily tautologised with person-possibly-indentifying data. If that reads mixed-up, it&#8217;s because it is. But that&#8217;s for another session series. Of series. What today&#8217;s post title is about, is the distinction between the two sides of the house; informational privacy (which is about information about you, or which you generate) versus decisional privacy (commonly defined in terms of your right to freely decide over your body&#8217;s integrity). As you read that, clearly the latter needs an update; a heck of a long KBxyzuvw article attached. Because both the Outright choice limitation [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>ote to self: GDPR scrum with or without the r](https://maverisk.nl/note-to-self-gdpr-scrum-with-or-without-the-r/): Just to remind myself, and you for your contributions, that it&#8217;s seriously time to write up a post on Agile development methods [OK, okay, I mean Scrum, as the majority side of the house]; how one is supposed to integrate GDPR requirements into that. Like, we&#8217;re approaching the stage where the Waterfall model&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of security implementation, will be Done for most organisations. Not Well Done, rather Rare or Pittsburg Rare, at your firm [not Firm &#8230;]. But then, we&#8217;ll have to make the wholesale change to Maintenance, short-term and long-term. And meanwhile, waterfall has been ditched for a long time already in [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">E</span>mergent logic](https://maverisk.nl/emergent-logic/): Some time ago I posted something(s) on how the audit community could become relevant again, veering away from compliance(-only or -not even a bit by the disclaimers that destroy a rainforest on every occasion) and moving into the world of &#8216;ethicality audits&#8217; on autonomous decision( system)s. Now with the insight that until now, the humans in the loop, the big loop with many steps of analysis to be taken, were as a matter of fact complicit in drafting and applying patterns and pattern matching techniques. Which is no news, but when we see now the automated-logic type of decision making that [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>he privacy-nightmare not your pseudo-dreams](https://maverisk.nl/the-privacy-nightmare-not-your-pseudo-dreams/): Again, some serious flaw in the GDPR: Its reliance on, sponsorship for, pseudonymisation. Which is worthless, already against break-ins. And is worse, much worse, when you consider all the exemptions for &#8216;statistical use&#8217; that are a cover for all the blatant abuse of personal data that the GDPR was originally intended to counter. And is worse, because six publicly available data points are all that is needed to identify anyone of the general public. De-anonymisation may be an art of sorts, but not a difficult one; easily demonstrated by any half-ass capable &#8220;hacker&#8221; consultant involved. [Of the Real kind] Outside the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>usic to AI's ears](https://maverisk.nl/music-to-ais-ears/): Will AI eventually appreciate music ..? Not just appreciate in a sense of experiencing the quality of it — the latter having &#8216;technical&#8217; perfection as its kindergarten basement&#8217;s starting level only; where the imperfections are cherishable as huge improvements, yes indeed [Perfection Is Boring!] &#8230; but moreover, music appreciation having a major element of recognition, subconsciously mostly, of memories of times almost-im-memorial. Of course, the kindergarten perfection gauging, AI will be able to do easily. Will, or does; simple near-algorithmic A&#8221;I&#8221; can do that today. Appreciating imperfections, the same, with a slight randomiser (-recogniser) thrown in the algo mix. But the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>utty cryptofails](https://maverisk.nl/nutty-cryptofails/): Considering the vengeance with which cryptobackdoors, or other forms of regulation into tautological-fail limitations, are pursued over and over again (case in point: The soon luckily carved out surrender (to Monay) monkeys [case in point: anyone who has seriously tried an invasion, succeeded handsomely]), it may be worthwhile to re-consider what the current situation is. As depicted in the following: In which D is what governments et al can&#8217;t stand. Yes, it&#8217;s that big; pushing all other categories into corners. Where C is also small, and probably shrinking fast. And B is known; maybe not empty but through its character and [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>lee because of support](https://maverisk.nl/glee-because-of-support/): All the mavericks of the world rejoice (and Maverisk among them, of course, already); finally there&#8217;s new [howzat for a typifying contradictio..?] evidence-of-sorts that the below that had popped into my mind a couple of days ago, is still, more, valid than ever. Being, related but in an angled/vector-transposed way, not about rebels but about other mischievings in general business management culture(s). [Should I note that the &#8216;evidence&#8217; already is worth much study and implementation? Yes I should.] [Edited to add: Be ware of the other side, too; too many mediocre men just drift upwards by lack of weight: here.] [Yup [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>hat you said, doesn't matter anymore](https://maverisk.nl/what-you-said-doesnt-matter-anymore/): Yet another proof class busted: Voice being (allegedly) so pretty perfectly synthesizable, that it loses its value as proof (of identity). Because beyond reasonable doubt isn&#8217;t beyond anymore, and anyone venturing to bring voice-based evidence, will not be able to prove (beyond&#8230;) that the sound heard, isn&#8217;t tampered with i.e. generated. Under the precept of &#8220;whoever posits, proofs&#8221;, the mere remark that no madam Judge we honestly did not doctor this evidence, is insufficient and there can be no requirement for positive disproof for dismissal from the defense as that side is not the one doing the positing. What about entrapment, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>ixing up the constitution](https://maverisk.nl/mixing-up-the-constitution/): When your state secretary is mixing up all sorts of things. When at the official site, at last email (and other &#8216;telecomm&#8217;) is listed to be included as protected on the same footing as snail mail has always been, qua privacy protection. Which raises the question: Does that include the right to use (uncrackable) encryption, because that is what is equivalent to a sealed envelope ..? When the same government wanted to ban that, or allow simply-crackable [i.e., with bumblinggovernment means &ndash; the most simpleton kind or &#8216;too hard&#8217;] encryption only? Why would this have to be included so explicitly in [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>itting the Good against the Others](https://maverisk.nl/pitting-the-good-against-the-others/): When the recent rumours were, are valid that some patches were retracted &mdash; and this was because they accidentallt disables other exploits not yet outed in the stash, this would bring a new (?) tension to the surface or rather, possibly explains some deviant comms of the past: Where some infosec researchers had been blocked from presenting their 0-day vulns / exploit-PoCs, this may not have been for protection of the general public or so, but to keep useful vulnerabilities available for the TLAs of a (variety of?) country(-ies). Pitting the Ethical researchers against the bad and the ugly&#8230; No &#8220;Oh-oh [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>NA not so Determinant; there goes another piece of Evidence](https://maverisk.nl/dna-not-so-determinant-there-goes-another-piece-of-evidence/): [ Commemoration of the Dead, today in the Netherlands. Never forgotten. Never forget! ] In the series of surrealisation of proof, in courts and elsewhere, turning anything into faker news than before &ndash; a trend that was under way already for a long time, maybe centuries but now speeding up enormously &ndash; after the most recent class of proof (yes don&#8217;t complain I&#8217;m clear, qua &#8216;class&#8217;!) we have even old (?) evidence classes being overthrown. Like, your DNA. Somehow, we already knew that. Where the analogue of hash collisions happened IRL, with disastrous consequences for peoples&#8217; lives, and that of their [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>he Secret of Innovators &mdash; "Keep on trying harder!"](https://maverisk.nl/the-secret-of-innovators-keep-on-trying-harder/): Recalling all those &#8216;motivational&#8217; quotes about seriously too late, ridiculously over-aged to ever still start a unicorn eleven-somethings, you having to fail for the rest of your life or you&#8217;re a failure (right? If you don&#8217;t fail, you don&#8217;t learn or whatev&#8217;), or in conclusion, you&#8217;re not failing grossly enough if you don&#8217;t succeed &ndash; or was it the other way around ..? Suddenly I realised: If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There&#8217;s no point in being a damn fool about it. (W.C. Fields) And: The above keep-on-trying train / ship of fools, is a perfect [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ollateral (un)patching; 0+1-day](https://maverisk.nl/collateral-unpatching-01-day/): Is this a new trend? Revealing that there had been a couple of exploitables, backdoors in your s/w when you patch some other ones and then have to roll back because you p.&#8217;d off the wrong ones since you accidentally also patched or disabled some hitherto secret ones. At least, this is what it seems like when reading this; M$ stealthily (apparently not secretly enough) patching some stuff in negative time i.e., before-zero day. When later there&#8217;s rumours about this patch(ing, possibly parts of) is retracted. For this, there appear (again) to be two possible reasons: a. You flunked the patch [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>hat should also be in the GDPR](https://maverisk.nl/what-should-also-be-in-the-gdpr/): At least, as an idea: Foreign countries that interfere with privacy in the EU, should be included in the penalisation stuff. Same levels, like; 4% of GDP for e.g., registering political opinions of citizens of the EU even when they&#8217;re also citizens of that foreign, alien, enemy country, without explicit opt-in consent. [This happened, happens..!] For every transgression. Then enforce via trade sanctions and import taxes [after checking the trade balance will effect the &#8216;payment&#8217; of the fines; won&#8217;t be stupid]. Oh, and: [Or the supreme leader goes to jail for a long, long time and is struck by lightning; unrelated, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ommon(s) as privacy and vice versa ..?](https://maverisk.nl/commons-as-privacy-and-vice-versa/): Remember from your econ class that concept of The Commons, and how problematic it was? Is? There was this intriguing post recently, on how Free Speech might be considered and deliberated in terms of the commons being exhausted by undue over-use (abuse) &mdash; for its use alone ( &rarr; ). Leading to aversity of the concept not of the abuser or his (sic) apparent locally recognised but globally not, &#8216;valid&#8217; reason(s) for over-use. Which, as is my wont of the moment, driven by personal business interests, I took to be applicable to Privacy as well. Maybe not in the same way, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>uthentic means <em>work</em>, you see?](https://maverisk.nl/authentic-means-work-you-see/): Recalling the recent spat about passwords again (and elsewhere), and some intriguing, recent but also not so recent news (you get it when you study it), it seems only fair to the uninitiated to clarify some bits: Authentication goes by something you know, something you have or something you are. Password(s), tokens or biometrics, in short. All three have their drawbacks. But that&#8217;s not the point. The point is that authentication is about making the authentication unspoofable by anyone but the designated driver owner. That is why you shouldn&#8217;t dole out your passwords (see the above first link) e.g., by writing [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">B</span>en still has all the Ayes](https://maverisk.nl/ben-still-has-all-the-ayes/): There is no end to the need to repeat the, somewhat but simply never sufficiently, quote by the Ben you know best: Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. How valid today. How utterly moronic in comparison all that would allow crypto-backdoors (for other reasons, too), and covert catch-all dragnet surveillance. Etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Etc&#8230; Oh and for the few that are still interested in the United States Constitution, they shall refer to article 1, section 7, clause 2 , that has not ayes and nays but yeas and Nays. Just wanted that off my plate. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>ll fine, for whom?](https://maverisk.nl/all-fine-for-whom/): Just to be clear: Where do all the fines that will rain like hail from heck once GDPR comes into force, go to ..? Yes the supervisory authority may levy the fines, but it isn&#8217;t clear to whom the payment should go. Certainly leading to huge differences in compliance chasing: When the auth may keep them for themselves, they&#8217;re a. richer than the king since b. sure to penalise each and every futile infringement to the max; when the money goes to government&#8217;s coffers, that chasing not so much because who&#8217;d care? You don&#8217;t believe me, right? Just wait and see. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>astodon as a grassy patch](https://maverisk.nl/mastodon-as-a-grassy-patch/): Just one of those things, questions, that swirl into my mind every so (too) often: What if, when, Mastodon is the Woodstock of social media ..? Wouldn&#8217;t that be grand. All pick your own Hendrix in this. Suggestion: him ;-| On the serious side; the festival itself was hardly in mainstream news at the time, but (helped) triggered major societal changes. Let&#8217;s hope Big M (not with ac but on AC/DC) does the same, in these times of need. For such change. Oh, and: [No, this is not doctored or otherwise edited. Zuid-As, Ams]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-37/): Yup, once again: For your viewing pleasure. And consideration, over the weekend: [That one edit that makes your work from stupidifyingly boring to a best-seller]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>rogress, friends, is here. Only, not everywhere. Yet. Say 'No' till then?](https://maverisk.nl/progress-friends-is-here-only-not-everywhere-yet-say-no-till-then/): You know that the bright new future is here, when amid the torrent (figuratively referring to the physical phenomenon, nothing to do with the on-line tool(s)) of fake news, this still makes it into a headline: ATMs now to begin to start being rolled out with Win10 &#8216;support&#8217;. To be completed per 2020, when support for Win7 stops. Right. 2020; probably not referring to the eyesight of the ones planning this, not being personally accountable and duly informed of the risks. Because otherwise, wouldn&#8217;t it be smarter to come up with a clever idea to do the roll-out within a month, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>esterday, same thing.](https://maverisk.nl/yesterday-same-thing/): This is sort-of the same as yesterday&#8217;s post, put into practice, when your AGA now not only remotely slow-cooks but slow-betrays you. Slowly either does not at all or over-burns your carefully prepped meat. So the wretched short-lived lambkin died for nothing. Would anyone know of any device out there that is duly protected against this sort of thing? Or whether (not or not) this is a generic weakness: Access from the outside, offers access from the outside to anyone, to rattle the door. And some, through persistance or imme force applied, will find the door opens. Your convenience, theirs too. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">L</span>earn you will... Recover, you <em>might.</em>](https://maverisk.nl/learn-you-will-recover-you-might/): When your countries largest retailer (primarily F&#038;B but non-F only recently growing as well), has finally heard about something-something-smart-fridge. And wants to do it Right and starts off with a pilot. Of, drumroll, a smart fridge magnet with a mic and barco scanner for adding stuff to your on-line grocery list (on-site self-service pick / pick-up, or delivery to follow separately). Didn&#8217;t kno that existed already. Nice idea, to include not (only) a barco deliberate-scanner (no creepy auto-scans) but also a mic when you don&#8217;t have the product at hand (and fresh veggies wouldn&#8217;t make it; for a long time already [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>ull cite of important stuff](https://maverisk.nl/full-cite-of-important-stuff/): This being a complete citation of important stuff, on various subjects in one &ndash; meaning, that the brillantly brief once more applies to various trades and aspects, for your information: With the sound off or on? If you watch a well-directed film with the sound turned off, you&#8217;ll get a lot out of it. On the other hand, it takes practice to read a screenplay and truly understand it. It&#8217;s worth remembering that we lived in tribes for millennia, long before we learned how to speak. Emotional connection is our default. We only added words and symbolic logic much later. There [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>ake your news](https://maverisk.nl/fake-your-news/): So this is your future, part II: Fake news is (to be – timeframe in question is ..?) battled by platforms that have full control over just about everything out there. By whatever algorithm these might bring to bear, most probably with a dose of ill-aligned AI creating a filter bubble of the most beneficial to the platforms kind for sure which is the most profitable one to their *paying* customers which is the ad industry which hence is by definition detrimental to the users, the global general public (sic). Thus suppressing Original Content by users that isn&#8217;t verifiable against the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">R</span>ight. Without -s](https://maverisk.nl/right-without-s/): So, we&#8217;re into this era of giving up control over our lives. Where we&#8217;re either dumb pay-uppers, or (also) victims. Which in turn leads to questions regarding who will have any income at all, to pay for the service of being allowed to sit as stool pigeon until shot anyway. Because the latter is what follows from this here nifty piece; Tesla not giving your data unless they can sue you. The EU push for human-in-the-loop may need to be extended considerably, but should, must. Possibly similar to the path of the Original cookie directive, from weak opt out to strong [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>rippling 'synergy'](https://maverisk.nl/crippling-synergy/): As of late, we haven&#8217;t seen too much news about failed mergers, have we or was it buried under seemingly more interesting industries&#8217; development news ..? Like, the latter-day&#8217;s Seven Sisters on the &#8216;Net driving all M&amp;A activity by grazing the startup pastures bare? Actually, there are a couple of interdependent developments, it seems: Classic mergers and take-overs (and divestments) seem to become more rare, as the importance of classical industry (primary-to-tertiary, maybe -quarternary) has diminished, in favour of, let&#8217;s say, quintary pure-information based industry/industries. I.e., beyond mere &#8216;service sector&#8217; services but data-oriented everything. Hence, it&#8217;s IPOs to behemoths taking over [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">B</span>ehaviour is key to security &mdash; but what if it's perfect?](https://maverisk.nl/behaviour-is-key-to-security-but-what-if-its-perfect/): When the latest news on information security points in the direction, away from reliance on technical stuff, of the humans that you still can&#8217;t get rid of (yet!), all are aboard the &#8216;Awareness is just the first step, you&#8217;ll need to change the actual behaviour of users&#8216; train. Or should be, should have been, already for a number of years.In Case You Missed It, the Technology side of information security has so far always gobbled up the majority of your respective budgets, with all of the secondary costs to that, buried in General Expenses. And the effectivity of the spend &#8230; [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>he Sixties, rehashed ..?](https://maverisk.nl/the-sixties-rehashed/): Quo vadis; society ..? This now has an answer: We&#8217;ll have a rehash of the 19-30s and -60s (/-70s) in one. When the 1%ers slash Military-Industrial Complex slash totalitarians claim to want unfettered market economies for all even when they pursue an absolute, complete Big Government / monopoly society, even pushing IoT for the purpose of providing Big Brother with total surveillance capabilities under the guise of &#8216;citizen&#8217;-supporting ambient intelligence Oxford, and pushing VR as a tool for mind control (sucking everyone (?) into the blue pill illusions of the Matrix), And on the opposite end we have a continued strive [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ustomers, users, they aren't the same](https://maverisk.nl/customers-users-they-arent-the-same/): Yet another recent article in an otherwise wise mag tripped over the not even remotely subtle distinction between customers and users, when it comes to bragging rights of social media platforms. User, users everywhere &#8230; But even by the billions they aren&#8217;t providing any subscription income&#8230; Because they&#8217;re just the product. Would mr Musk brag about how many Model S3X cars can run off his new factory&#8217;s assembly lines [errr&#8230;, yes he may], or would he be happier when there&#8217;s some out there that actually pay for the products? [that&#8217;s why he may] At least, here we can still (sic) speak [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>all(e)y facts](https://maverisk.nl/talley-facts/): Yes, the Quote of the Day. Typically, one that had some ageing but has bettered, qua relevance, for it but may have better had some extra attention half a year ago: Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, you know, of 1754-1838 stock. Which may or may not remind you of some current or, at time of publication of this post, past [one can hope, can&#8217;t one?] Chief of the Bookkeeping &mdash; as the position was intended and crafted at time of creation&#8230; [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>wds, again. And again and again. They're 2FA-capable ..!](https://maverisk.nl/pwds-again-and-again-and-again/): Why are we still so spastic re password &#8216;strength&#8217; rules ..? They have been debunked as being counterproductive outright, right? Since they are too cumbersome to deal with, and are just a gargleblaster element in some petty arms&#8217; race with such enourmous collateral damage and ineffectiveness. And come on, pipl! The solution has been there all along, though having been forbidden just as long &#8230;: Write down your passphrases! The loss of control by having some paper out there, e.g., on your (Huh? Shared workspace, BYOD anyone?) monitor (Why!? Why not have the piece of paper in your wallet; most users [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>o legalese please, we're in business](https://maverisk.nl/no-legalese-please-were-in-business/): Which translates to: A DPO better be an IT expert who has learnt [for clear thinking, UK English is preferred by far; ed.] the legalese of the GDPR, than a legal expert who has learnt some tidbits of IT. Despite the usual suspects exceptions, you do recognise the former and latter types in practice. And exceptions those are. And debunking the myth that a legally schooled &#8216;GRC&#8217; operative might pick up sufficient IT skills in a couple of courses or a bit of privacy practice, needn&#8217;t be necessary or you have done zero investigation re this. What a sorcerer&#8217;s apprentice of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>ake me out of the loop, (as <em>I</em>) please](https://maverisk.nl/take-me-out-of-the-loop-as-i-please/): Considering that there is this thing with privacy — where people are getting more and more aware that yes, they do have a legal right to not opt in to any scam&#8217;ish spam and Shallows-ing of their filter bubble [where the latter sounds soft and pleasant, pink, instead of crushingly dusty and petrifying your mind, the one thing that so far keeps you human]. Considering, too, that there is a push to have at least a human in the loop of math destruction. Which will fail if it&#8217;s a click-yes-or-be-fired job. Which it will, in the current setting and developments, be. [&hellip;]
- [Obviously for tomorrow: a rerun of Elk, Moose, Reindeer, Wapiti, Caribou, Deer](https://maverisk.nl/obviously-for-tomorrow-a-rerun-of-elk-moose-reindeer-wapiti-caribou-deer/): As an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the above/below &#8230;? And then, there&#8217;s continental differences &#8230; First up, the Elk: Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk: know as such in Eurasia including those tinny pebbles off the coast called the British Isles. Looks suspiciously like the Alces Alces that is the Canadian (oh well, and US, yes, whiners) Moose, doesn&#8217;t it? Because it is&#8230;! But you moose&#8217;ent confuse the two with each other nor with the reindeer a.k.a. caribou: Rangifer Tarandus, since this one&#8217;s for Saami and Santa. Are you feeling elky now ..? Or [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>our unbody double](https://maverisk.nl/your-unbody-double/): So, there now is a thing being Artificially Intelligent 3-D Avatars. As per here. How nice. And then you realise time travel may be possible once you don&#8217;t have the physical duplication problem anymore. Though we still would have the other problems; bummer. But still, one of the problems has been solved. The others, actually &#8230; may need re-study. Because, there may now be differences in travelling forward (possibility approaching, when &#8216;time&#8217; in your physical life needs to stay synchronised in some form or another with others, and your AI3DAvatar can speed up ..?) but then, returning to Now might (creation [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>OMO as FOYA gone bad](https://maverisk.nl/fomo-as-foya-gone-bad/): The enslavement to socmed seems to be a generation- &#8230; less thing: Unfortunately, all too many seem to need to be connected &mdash; mistakenly, just liking things will not lead to a true connection; how many are there that actually grow into such? Only on apps that are specifically aimed to that &ndash;swipe-left&ndash; otherwise, not so much. Or hardly. Most socmed like-affiliations are a. for sheeple attaching themselves to some brand(s), indicating their lack of self-esteem by submitting themselves as consumer-onlies, b. for lack of dare to actually do something for a Good Cause but wanting to be associated with Successful-in-life [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">L</span>eaking profiles](https://maverisk.nl/leaking-profiles/): Got an attention raiser during an off-the-cuff discussion on data leakage. Qua, like, not getting the first thing about what privacy has been since Warren&#038;Brandeis&#8217; eloquent definition, and subsequent codification in pretty hard-core, straightforward laws. The problem being, that no theory of firm (incl public) allows subsumption of employees into slavery, of mind or otherwise. Think Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 12. Hence, tracking and tracing every keystroke of employees, i.e., treating them as suspect of e.g., data leakage before one has any a priori clue about everyone individually actually doing anything wrong, not having been granted any rights of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>inety percent](https://maverisk.nl/ninety-percent/): Not in any economic sense you may have thought, given the attention oft given to, e.g., the 1% or 99% (We Are-; Occupy-style) where now the 90% might be the disappeared middle class in the US that extended from the bottom 10% – that was around even in the best of times – all the way to the top — excepting the 0.01% that was in charge all the time &#8230; Here, it&#8217;s about a quote slash truism: 90% of everything is crap Have ever truer things been said. This, of course you knew since prep school, being Sturgeon&#8217;s Law. Just [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ummer's approaching](https://maverisk.nl/summers-approaching/): Sixteen steps to build a campfire [Because there&#8217;s not enough attention, or contention, to make it to the List of Lists you&#8217;d want to be on]: Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fragment into slivers; Bandage left thumb; Chop other fragments into smaller fragments; Bandage left foot; Make structure of slivers (include those embedded in hand); Light match; Light match; Repeat &#8220;a Scout is cheerful&#8221; and light match; Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments, and blow gently into base of fire; Apply burn ointment to nose; When fire is burning, collect more wood; Upon discovering that fire has [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>et them ..?](https://maverisk.nl/get-them/): The effectiveness of any system of limitation of random liberty for the common wheal, like, errm, traffic speed limits, where the enforcement hinges on individuals&#8217; Weighing of necessity to break, either by being pressed (to arrive in time, or other coercion by others), or by an innate need to show off one&#8217;s [purely hypothetical; the more claimed, the more clearly emptily overshouting in vein] individuality; Probability of detection, where of course society needs to balance total surveillance against freedom of movement &mdash; without interference even by blanket self-censorship; Leniency of prosecution, i.e., whether one has boobs and cleavage (works with straight [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ome cloud insurance market](https://maverisk.nl/some-cloud-insurance-market/): On the authority of a couple of very knowledgeable peers, there seems to be a discrepancy between the coverage (sanctions) that cloud providers (in particular the Big 4 of that) contractually will provide for, e.g., outages (recall the AWS East-1 one), versus what businesses (most, qua scale and lawyer fee availability) require given their revenue / reputation dependence and risk management. In normal language, this translates to: If thing go pear-shaped, you only get something like 12 months&#8217; subscription refunded even when your business tanks due to zero revenue when your services are unavailable. Zero chance to be able to negotiate [&hellip;]
- [Explicitation of Risk &mdash; scaring yourself into victimhood](https://maverisk.nl/explicitation-of-risk-scaring-yourself-into-victimhood/): As may be clear, Sloterdijk&#8217;s explicitation ideas don&#8217;t hold on metaphysics levels of abstraction alone. It works for all the mundane stuff like &#8216;risk management&#8217; [disclaimer for the contradictio], too. And, by making explicit what previously was &#8216;there&#8217; already, but implicitly and hence not in any beholders&#8217; eyes, in this case all one gains is not understanding (per se) but especially, systemic, existential scare. Because the Unknown is identified, explicitised into existence. The Unknown that is, by (now) definition, the primordial Chaos contra the Order of Zeus and Apollo in his wake. In turn turning your existence into some degree of [&hellip;]
- [Being Creative with Trust in Identities](https://maverisk.nl/being-creative-with-trust-in-identities/): &#8230; seems impossible to get right. Since for sure, Identities that can be Trusted are so stable that all Creativity is impossible ..? What does society-at-large want? If you think about the bandwidth above: Aristoteles&#8217; true middle..! But would you know where that is, in this? Would it be sufficiently on the Fixed side to be able to be used as trustworthy Identity? Or would it be a matter of good-enough reliability, for the task at hand? Possibly we should like Activity-Based Access Control to pair to this Task-Sufficient Identification ..? A lot on this will have to be developed further, [&hellip;]
- [Imminent enrichment through AI &mdash; of jobs ..?](https://maverisk.nl/imminent-enrichment-through-ai-of-jobs/): Anyone else feels like the breakthrough of AI in all sorts of jobs (yes, most certainly not only the bohrrring repetitive-manual-labour kind — that may be one of the kinds that comes much later in the sequence since it requires extremely sophisticated physical/intellectual (yes) interactions than previsouly thought (by humans)) is imminent? And anyone see that the horror of replacement of humans XOR your co-workers is to come only (a bit) later, when AI-driven systems have become good enough to replace you, completely — leaving the spoils of labour to the (intensive people-farming) factory owners ..? With in the shortish mean [&hellip;]
- [Nog een / One more on audit culture](https://maverisk.nl/nog-een-one-more-on-audit-culture/): U zult weinig genoegen scheppen in zang, dans of vechtsport als u bij de zang de harmonie van de muziek ontleedt in haar verschillende klanken en u bij iedere toon afvraagt: ben ik hier nu echt van onder de indruk? U zou u voor zoiets schamen. Hetzelfde geldt voor de dans, wanneer u elke beweging en houding apart beoordeelt, en voor de vechtsport. Which translates to, anachronistically: A pleasant song or dance; the Pancratiast&#8217;s exercise, sports that thou art wont to be much taken with, thou shalt easily contemn; if the harmonious voice thou shalt divide into so many particular sounds [&hellip;]
- [Quote by Book: John'son](https://maverisk.nl/quote-by-book-johnson/): Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. Dr. Samuel Johnson, Dictionary No kidding. Only script kiddies of the worst kind don&#8217;t seem to get that. Though it has been around since 1755, as a definition that is. How prescient. And: [Mash; London (already some years ago, yes]
- [Meta / Attrib-ShareAlike- ... Commercial](https://maverisk.nl/meta-attrib-sharealike-commercial/): For the following, one would best resort to &#8230; Who are we kidding; are there still believers out there apart from te truly stupid-to-beyond-dysfunctionality-capacity defenders, that metadata is something less bad than just privacy-sensitive data points outright? Well, &lt;spoiler&gt; it&#8217;s the other way around&mdash; as is exemplified in this here piece. From which I&#8217;ve blatantly copied: They know you rang a phone sex line at 2:24 am and spoke for 18 minutes. But they don&#8217;t know what you talked about. They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge. But the topic of the call remains a [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">I</span>s the EU repivoting ..?](https://maverisk.nl/is-the-eu-repivoting/): Just a question; is the EU repivoting its society / economy ..? Like, it stays away from the troubles of off-shoring / de-industrialisation versus global oil struggles versus growth hacking for the purpose of masses&#8217; employment. It&#8217;s just not into anything, it seems. Also not qua the way society is organised. So, is it quiet(ly) (sic) re-pivoting to something altogether totally new, or is it just dumb and silent (as the world rages towards improvement for All) &#8230;? One wonders; sage or stupid&#8230; and: [Times almost immemorial, when the EU was into the New things&#8230;; you-(should by all menas!)-know-where, Rotterdam]
- [Forever on Page 50](https://maverisk.nl/forever-on-page-50/): With all the talk about whatever ends up on the Internet, will be around to be found forever, there’s a couple of things: &nbsp; It may be on the Internet still, however erased according to the Right to be Forgotten, but that doesn’t mean it can be found. When you’ve taken care to not re-raise attention too much, your shame-news will be on search results page 50+ and nobody will ever go there; But then, if someone took care to actually download the items to some off-line storage, you’re doomed indeed. Yes I too have a lot of electronic files from [&hellip;]
- [Book by Quotes: The Sarick Effect of Originals](https://maverisk.nl/book-by-quotes-the-sarick-effect/): How Original is that. By Adam Grant. Well, it turns out to be (p.77). A very limited sample of quote-worthy lines, commented, from much more that one should live by: ”The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” [George Bernhard Shaw] (p.1) [Quite a theme, and motto for a happy life] In adulthood, many child prodigies become experts in their fields and leaders in their organizations. Yet “only a fraction of gifted children eventually become revolutionary adult creators, “… Most prodigies [&hellip;]
- [More of less](https://maverisk.nl/more-of-less/): Digital cameras: The more pixels and quality-enhancing features (filters, autocorrect et al), the bigger the mass of lousy to so-so-at-best pictures taken. Selfies as case in point. The less, percentage-wise, the real art photography — squared with more picture exposure leads to more seeking out the ultimate quality / qualities by the discerning few. The same, with management. The more of it we had, since WWII (sic), the more awful to mediocre-at-best management we had. Micro-management as case in point; intellectually at the same depth (&#8216;level&#8217; wouldn&#8217;t suggest the lowness of it) as selfies. And, the less actual Leaders we see, [&hellip;]
- [Tragic users](https://maverisk.nl/tragic-users/): Isn&#8217;t it a tragedy that those that would most need full but fully inconspicuous, unnoticable security on socmed et al., are the ones that care the least? This, both in careful scouring of legalese and practical settings, tools, and what have we, and qua effort to keep messaging (Email dies out hard, doesn&#8217;t it ..? Or doesn&#8217;t it due to very valid reasons..?) secure and data private ..? On the other hand / end, not all &#8216;professionals&#8217; practice what they preach to the hilt&#8230; And may do too little. Flip side of &#8220;There exists no 100% security&#8221;: If you do only [&hellip;]
- [Plusquote: Happening](https://maverisk.nl/plusquote-happening/): &#8220;For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen&#8221;. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy When scientists of the most esoteric kind finally come to wrap their heads around Einstein&#8217;s &#8220;Time is that not everything happens at once&#8221; in a provable way (errm, would like to have it in a falsifyable way but how would that happen? [no pun intended when typing but now it&#8217;s there&#8230;]), i.e., to the insight that the most fundamental something that happens in the universe, underpinning and giving rise to space, time, and matter [overOxfordian?], is Information, this [&hellip;]
- [From bike design to security design](https://maverisk.nl/from-bike-design-to-security-design/): You recall my posts from a couple of days ago (various), and here, and have studied the underlying Dutch Granny Bike Theory (as here), while not being put off by the lack (?) of design when taking a concrete view here. You may also recall discussions, forever returning as long as security (control) design existed even when not (yet) as a separate subject, that users&#8217; Desire Paths (exepelainifyed here) would inevitably be catered for or one would find continual resistance until failure — with opposition from the Yes But Users Should Be Made Aware Of Sensitivity Of Their Dealing With Commensurate [&hellip;]
- [The 46th](https://maverisk.nl/the-46th/): When Ford can launch the 2018 model of the Mustang already in January 2017, wouldn&#8217;t the People of the US not be able to already launch the improved-at-about-all-points 46th president, please ..!? Similarly, I&#8217;d be happy already when someone(s) could have their infosec product / methodologies for 2018 out indeed per Jan &#8217;17, so one&#8217;s protected against current threats rather than have to wait till next year before being able to be protected against the threats of today; always lagging. Similarly, this: [Gloomy and unprotected, ravaged, by not having the 46th yet; NY]
- [4Q for quality assurance](https://maverisk.nl/4q-for-quality-assurance/): To go beyond the usual, downtrodden &#8216;quality in assurance&#8217; epitome of dullness, herewith something worth considering. Which is about the assessment of controls, to establish their quality (&#8216;qualifications&#8217;) on four, subsequent, characteristics [taking some liberties, and applying interpretation and stretching]: Design. The usual suspect here. About how the control, or rather set of them, should be able to function as a self-righting ship. Point being, that you should+ (must?) evaluate the proposed / implemented set of controls to see whether self-righting mechanisms have been built in, with hopefully graceful degradation when not (maintained) implemented correctly and fully — which should be [&hellip;]
- [One extra for Two AI tipping point(er)s](https://maverisk.nl/one-extra-for-two-ai-tipping-pointers/): To add, to the post below of a month ago. This here piece, on how AI software is now writing (better) AI software. Still in its infancy, but if you recall the Singularity praise (terroristic future), you see how fast this can get out of hand. Do you? The old bits: You may have misread that title. It&#8217;s about tips, being pointers, two to papers that give such a nice overview of the year ahead in AI-and-ethics (mostly) research. Like, this and this. With, of course, subsequent linkage to many other useful stuff that you&#8217;d almost miss even if you&#8217;d pay [&hellip;]
- [You Don't Call The Shots](https://maverisk.nl/you-dont-call-the-shots/): I.E., You Are Not In Control ! This, as a consequence of the &#8216;In Control&#8217; definition. Where the controlling and &#8216;steering&#8217; (what Steering Committees are about, if properly functioning &#8230; ) are the same. But as explained previously, such steering doesn&#8217;t happen (is impossible) already in a Mediocristan world its complexity, let alone the mix-in (to say the least) with Extremistan that you&#8217;ll find everywhere and certainly in your business. NO you can risk-manage your business to the hilt, or even make it extremely brittle, anti&#8211;resilient by totalitarian bureaucracy that leaves no human breathing space but switches to full 100% bot-run enterprise, [&hellip;]
- [On your own, or forever be weak](https://maverisk.nl/on-your-own-or-forever-be-weak/): Just a note that ‘cyber’security vendors (that hate #ditchcyber) will not save you whatever their claims are. Because they live off the perpetuation of the problem, and will make you weaker by lack of upkeep of your strengths at whatever levels they were. Just a note that this applies to ‘intelligent’ devices of whatever sorts, too. Like, The Shallows squared; Home voice-recognising butlering devices (is there a category name for those already? The Echo’s, Alexia’s, Home’s I mean) or the bots out there on the ‘net, self-driving cars, etc.etc. So, ed-ju-cay-shun is still to be pursued, in all directions! And: [Yes [&hellip;]
- [Hoog op Flut! Alweer, inclusief Laag op Nut](https://maverisk.nl/hoog-op-flut-alweer-inclusief-laag-op-nut/): Onderstaande, alweer, nog steeds&#8230; Inclusief de toevoeging (sic; aan deze tekst) dat een en ander (of gewoon een) stevig wordt verergerd qua domweg (sic) On-gezond, door een stellend gebrek aan (NB) voldoende groente — reden? hooguit dat de Cock geen idee heeft hoe hij (&#8230;) daarmee moet omgaan terwijl dat bij de basics hoort, toch? Dan maar volgemieterd met nog een pak ..: Kan de gezamenlijke restaurantwereld in NL nou eens ophouden met die nonsens van &#8220;Hoog Op Smaak&#8221; en gewoon toegeven dat er door iedere gang een AKZO-jaaromzet zout gaat omdat de ingrediënten zó goedkoop moesten dat er geen enkele [&hellip;]
- [Non Dad Bots](https://maverisk.nl/non-dad-bots/): With all the attention having gone to the not-so-Russian-or-are-they hacks, and some ransomware and CES17 news, over the past couple of months, one could have forgotten that not too long before, there was the wavelet (not like this) of hype over the, then, sudden exponential roll-out of bots in all sorts of customer-interactive sittuwaysjons. Have these non dad bots, contrary to the MAMILs, disappeared from the streets ..? Or where are they; not like “out there in the cloud” which means a. they’re on someone’s machines, still, geo-bound as physically these are and hence under someone’s (non!)privacy control, b. nobody cares. [&hellip;]
- [Fake-fake-fakes](https://maverisk.nl/fake-fake-fakes/): [Edited to add: this, I wrote a month+ ago, and has of course since been &#8216;repeated&#8217; over and over, e.g., through the poor Swedes not knowing what hit them&#8230;] Not quite like this, but troublesome: The information explosion brought to us by the Internet, has finally come to the brink of its feared state of drowning-till-death the Truth, under Fake. Where nothing, literally nothing, can be believed anymore, nor can anything be refuted as fake once the humans’ limited context view cannot discard everything that seems legit or on the border of it, for lack of irrefutable, foundational truths that would [&hellip;]
- [Pres](https://maverisk.nl/pres/): We’re one month into it, and reminded [this post scheduled 11-1 for release today; obviously true nevertheless] of what Douglas Adams had in The Hitchhikers’ Guide: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. (Yes quite the cite-quote of Groucho Marx&#8217; maxim&#8230;)But nobody noticed&#8230; Plus:[You didn’t know which 11-1 I mentioned ..? (Not) the relevant one…!]
- [Secret Health](https://maverisk.nl/secret-health/): The year hasn’t started in earnest, and already we’re swamped in news about the over-easy hackability in and/or frequent leakage of medical data from the Care sector &mdash; haha we aren’t swamped but rather, quite ignore the news because either one cannot do anything about it (but complain) or it’s too embarrassing &#8230; Also, it turns out that people are more reluctant to share medical data (info) with their practitioner(s) when they are less secure about the secrecy of it; the very reason there’s such a thing as medical professional code of secrecy (doctor/patient confidentiality) and now, leading to worse care [&hellip;]
- [Throwback Thursday's links](https://maverisk.nl/throwback-thursdays-links/): This. T&#8217;back, since 2014. &#8217;nuff said.
- [And ... down goes LI](https://maverisk.nl/and-down-goes-li/): OK, so has a new platform risen yet, where ppl can just have their resumés and contacts and that sort of stuff, beyond the diversion that LinkedIn is on ..? &#8216;Cause all the talk you read, isn&#8217;t about what actual users (not the few that would want and need other, much better tools anyway) have their LinkedIn profile for. So any disruptor can finally get a shot at this. No, Flunkbook and the others with market shares and caps already, have their own niche (sic) and not this one by miles. So, what&#8217;s your guess which one it will be ..? [&hellip;]
- [Happy](https://maverisk.nl/happy/): [Since today&#8217;s the day for romantic movies, herewith a plot for one.] Yeah, I know I know, the above &#8216;program&#8217; leads to all sorts of continuity / compile errors&#8230;
- [Going somewhere but where?](https://maverisk.nl/going-somewhere-but-where/): Which beats going nowhere. Like, where’s the hardware industry going? If this is where it’s going, brace yourself, four seasons in one day’s coming. On the serious side, where’s the hardware industry going? Are we through with yet other categories, from desktop to laptop to iPhony to iPad to notebook to notepad to bent screen mega-TVs to tilt-screen Chromebooks to slightly-larger-but-hardly-so-what’s-the-point-anyway phone screens …? Why can’t I still not assemble (sic) my equipment the way I want it? And, I forgot Cloud in there, and Raspberry, and mainframe (heh, that one’s just for the joke), and … Is there such a [&hellip;]
- [Automobiles, (trains,) Planes](https://maverisk.nl/automobiles-trains-planes/): What a disaster it would be if all those (self-driving, or augmented-driving as they are today already) cars could be taken over by some madman or unrelatedly hacker … One could remotely steer a car off the road! One could remotely steer a whole bunch of cars within some area / country (?) off the road in a broadcast … With pre-emptively having disabled manual override, of course. [Though, noted before, the ability to do so would on the human side deteriorate very quickly as it wouldn’t be needed to be seriously trained/experienced (anymore).] Yes, that’s bad. How is this same [&hellip;]
- [They&#039;re Security Scrum!](https://maverisk.nl/theyre-securiy-scrum/): Yet another trend: The recoil of Agile practices since uncontrollable isn’t what you’d want from your IS infrastructure..? Where the scrum and other development methods using emblematic sprints by that very idea have to lose all the ballast &#8230; But would you run a marathon-length Chinese Whispers game (Telephone if you’re from the US, inable to go with the rest) &#8230;? Because that’s what you get, quality-wise, if you deploy sprinters for the whole 42k195m &mdash; no use for miles either &mdash; and (wide-sense) security’s one major part of it. Again, a baby with the bath water thing, here. Moreover, since [&hellip;]
- [Four Cyber](https://maverisk.nl/four-cyber/): Where a Big 4 consultancy (or rather, a hang-on-by-the-teeth-fourth intensive-people(?)-farming accountancy-wannabe-advisory) now has a (unit) label “Cyber”. Where #ditchcyber (here) hardly helps… ‘Cyber’ is like being a lady; when you say it of yourself, you aren’t. This qualifier as head of a Linked List — you didn’t need the link to get the wink or did you? — a very long list it is. How desperate can one be to maintain extortionist fee levels and labour practices, to have to label yourself so empty-barreled ..? I’ll halt now, and:[Or, like a dolphin not leggard]
- [White Mannism](https://maverisk.nl/white-manninsm/): The baby with the bath water. Slate: “Glamour just published its first issue completely produced by women. It’s about time.” Meh. Check. Move on. Some agency trying to find a diversity manager: Probably only non-white mentally and/or physically challenged LBGTQ ‘persons’ need apply ..? Now the politics (mostly, of the PC kind; as completely isolated and locked up it was in its cultural-economic elite without real power) slowly finds that the Trumpists (or ~, fill in your European ‘OMG he (sic) doesn’t play by the over-ritualised pastel crayon coloured emptybabbletalk schemes’ overly-labeled-xenophobe polls-moonshooter) aren’t the Angry White Men that the (tell-tale) [&hellip;]
- [Switching to the Offence Defence wait what?](https://maverisk.nl/switching-to-the-offence-defence-wait-what/): Lately, the Preventative Doesn’t Work Quick / Well Enough So All Heads Turn To Reactive Security has had its effect. But not the intended effect of doing both, just the latter it seems [yes, I know]. And, where the FLOT hadn’t been up to it before, often by lack of proper budget, the hardly sufficient funds have been shifted. Recipe for &#8230; Indeed, the Reactive part had been neglected much too long, but a shift was not asked or, but a doubling of efforts on both sides (?). Hence, the now ‘new’ SIEM et al., may have had all the attention [&hellip;]
- [Golden Oldie Pic Of The Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-36/): Yup it&#8217;s time for one of those again.
- [Ah, security rules &#8212; not for Us](https://maverisk.nl/ah-security-rules-not-for-us/): When the Last Mile in infosec is convincing the Board to stick to ‘their’ own rules and not think themselves above it, how do we’d want to pull this off ..? Where, so often, they complain that sticking to the rules is too complex or cumbersome for them &mdash; for no extra credit, reflect on their capacities to be in there position to Lead and Show &mdash; whilst forgetting their underlings have to deal with it anyway, possibly being more capable yes but not as claimed dealing with less sensitive information &#8230; Where the reaction for themselves is they Have to [&hellip;]
- [The ransom monster](https://maverisk.nl/the-ransom-monster/): Now that the &#8216;No way josé&#8217; solutions against ransomware [regular back-ups, virtualisation of servers, and tight intrusion controls et al.] have become so widely known, and ransomware having evolved to be more of the APT kind (incubating for up to six months before striking — undoing your back-up strategy), a new look at the root cause of the harrassment: Ransomware is a Monster. Being a thing that refuses to fit a single category for neat classification (sociology/science definition/term). Which may seem odd, but consider: It (?) uses Confidentiality-sloppyness to enter; It undoes Integrity; Its payload aims at destruction of Availability, both [&hellip;]
- [&quot;Compliance auditing&quot;](https://maverisk.nl/compliance-auditing/): Is two distinct things, or a contradictio if taken as one. The ‘compliance’ thing is just rote checking of the implementation of all petty rules. The Certificate certification type. If I’d even need to say more&#8230; Some even claim that by repeated checks of implementation, ‘operating effectiveness’ would be established. Fools. The operating effectiveness can only be designed in, so the first 99% of operating effectiveness can be checked in the design; what do you check the design for in the first place? Why would you check the design otherwise? And if you don’t, then what value to the petty paper [&hellip;]
- [Two stikes and you’re out of third party standards](https://maverisk.nl/two-stikes-and-youre-out-of-third-party-standards/): What a wobbling title. When already for a second time (here), the European Supreme Court has ruled that laws requiring broad (meta)data retention for trawling are illegal per se, with a minute few exceptions, making it illegal to consider it legal (i.e., have a law requiring it — which of course is much stronger than just doing it on private company want) you’d better comply. That’s all, folks, only adding the following thus undoing that: You may read back some posts on how to pull off better Privacy (-compliance) in a fun and efficient way; And note how this seems to [&hellip;]
- [No pride, just the same](https://maverisk.nl/no-pride-just-the-same/): When you need a book to explain, or enthrall, some unexpected readers into believing Hygge were something exceptional &mdash; the Dutch have had Gezelligheid already for ages, without considering it something so special that it would need any investigation; just smile as tourists discover it to their surprise. Certainly not treat it as if it were something that defines the national mood&#8230; No, the English Wikipedia page is wrong on this. The Dutch one is correct period Whatev&#8217;; and: [This, beating Legoland; Toronto]
- [A parachute to your Dutch granny budget](https://maverisk.nl/a-parachute-to-your-dutch-granny-budget/): If you have no clue about the title, read on. It&#8217;s about a Dutch &#8216;granny bike&#8217;. And about your bosses&#8217; golden parachutes. And how to get budget for the playthings bare minimum tools you require. First off: the biker part. Note that this has unsurpassably been written up here. On how crappy banger bikes, are locked with supremo but ridiculously expensive gear and how this out-of-all-proportion control-cost still makes sense. Reading is believing. Second: These days, FUD is Real; &agrave; la the &#8220;Either you&#8217;ve been hacked or will be, soon&#8221; line and including the ever bigger transparency in the press. With [&hellip;]
- [Cozy versus Anti-cozy](https://maverisk.nl/cozy-versus-anti-cozy/): Once more reaching back to last Wednesday&#8217;s post: Opposing sides may have to recognise the very existence of the other one. When anti-bureaucracy force battle the eternal struggle against complacency et al., they better take into account that 60% of people (any mass), is of Type B, and hence will diligently work 9-to-5 and not complain too much. And, by their majority and no moral objection to hence realised mob rule, will (try to) encapsulate the Other 40% Type A&#8217;s. Whereas if all the Type A&#8217;s were contra their nature to band together in some loose-form cooperation, this could very easily [&hellip;]
- [Angst is not temporary](https://maverisk.nl/angst-is-not-temporary/): Struck me while going through, near the finish, Graeber&#8217;s Utopia of Rules, that the fear for the Unknown What to be Feared that keeps so many captured in Bureaucratia and will defend it and stupidify themselves to such utter stooping levels just by being harrassed into Fear of Anything Else, is in the end a reason par excellence to venture forth with contracted staff. Not the other way around, where one still hires unknown qualities, with similar or ex ante already less excellent staff [the truly excellent trust their qualities to survive whereas those shooting for perm contracts, don&#8217;t by definition] [&hellip;]
- [DoS Internals](https://maverisk.nl/dos-internals/): No, no typo. Not DOS Internals or so. Rather, internal DoS attacks. Are they tractable? [Uhh, that may sound like they&#8217;d be positive things to be able to do — sorry, just hinting at &#8220;technical feasibility&#8221; here] Yes they are. Stuxnet was the prime example. Something similar would be tractable once one is (somewhat) on the inside, I guess. Like, an APT exploring the internal networks for topology, infecting routers along the way, and then blowing them up all, all at once, with megazillion tons of traffic, internally generated. Denying (internal) network services to all. Or even bricking routers with e.g., [&hellip;]
- [Did / Did Not (Know Who Did)](https://maverisk.nl/did-did-not-know-who-did/): Anyone still have an overview of where we (?) stand qua attribution of &#8220;cyber&#8221; attacks [ #ditchcyber, of course ] ..?? Apart from this&#8230; There&#8217;s so much development in attribution with or without proof, e.g., about hacking elections in some outer corner of the world&#8217;s population; was it truly hacks, was it some nation state, was it some scapegoat hackster, was it all a set-up, where are Wikileaks, Anonymous, [fill in your favourite Four Horsemen party and colour the pictures] &#8230; the possibilities are endless. But there are indeed flashes like this and this, which spark some controversy whilst blurring the overall [&hellip;]
- [Ad Lib / Logic](https://maverisk.nl/ad-lib-logic/): About some &#8216;logic&#8217; in an @bookingcom ad. Where this, commonly well-regarded, travel site sent some spam: &#8220;Umbrella in hand, J, it&#8217;s raining deals!&#8221; Which may or may not be true, but If it&#8217;s deals that it&#8217;s raining, I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily want to shrug them off with an umbrella If it&#8217;s deals, why associate them with bad weather which I may want to escape, through the deals Can&#8217;t the deals be collected on some company web site or so; why should it rain into my Inbox? So, methinks the ad is a wide-net phishing run. Right ..? Oh, and: [Old analog pic; [&hellip;]
- [Walking away from your desk](https://maverisk.nl/walking-away-from-your-desk/): This, re yesterday&#8217;s post that was in some vincinity (though with quite some distance to spare&#8230;) of ranting about bureaucratic stupidity being a pleonasm. By means of a pic, with: A Bureacrat certainly designed this. The ejection seat would to a bureaucrat mean the danger of you escaping from the post you were supposed to hold no matter what &mdash; since in the bureacratic only thinkable scenario, nothing would ever happen or you&#8217;re unfortunate collateral loss but hey, the System continues to perform. For all others (the handful, the few good men), the ejection seat is apparently surrounded by just that [&hellip;]
- [Two&#039;s a Charming Bureaucratic Voilence](https://maverisk.nl/twos-a-charming-bureaucratic-voilence/): First, two (yes) quotes: To put it crudely: it is not so much that bureaucratic procedures are inherently stupid, or even that they tend to produce behaviour that they themselves define as stupid — though they do do that — but rather, that they are invariably ways of managing social situations that are already stupid because they are founded on structural voilence. (p.57) [ Where structural voilence is &#8230; look it up in your sociology study&#8217;s notes. Implicit or even explicit threats with disciplinary boards (however pastiche) and ostracism certainly gives you the right idea; ed. ] At the same time, [&hellip;]
- [Hoodies are off](https://maverisk.nl/hoodies-are-off/): Truly, we have arrived in a distopian world when crime fighters go after the petty &#8216;criminals&#8217; only &mdash; if there were any bigger catches, the headlines would be flooded and as we hardly ever see that, this is the best for the fighters that they can brag about ..? I mean, have a look at &lt;link&gt;; a real Cyberrr! (#ditchcyber) criminal was caught! How incredibly clever he was! Being traceable by his &#8216;own&#8217; IP address and own bank account. So certain of his own greatness that he didn&#8217;t even seem to have worn a hoodie &mdash; you know, the device that [&hellip;]
- [Super Mario gives wrong impression of plumber&#039;s degree](https://maverisk.nl/super-mario-gives-wrong-impression-of-plumbers-degree/): On our first day of class, we had to pull three students from the sewer pipe January 16, 2017 by Harry Withstander At the start of every school season, Duke University welcomes hundreds of enthousiastic, motivated students, but after only a semester more than half of them will have dropped out, disillusioned and disaffected. &#8220;Young hopefuls arrive with the idea they too can be Super Mario&#8221;, Vice President Renzo DiLuigi says. Almost immediately after the release of the very first Super Mario game in 1985, the Master of Plumbing program saw skyrocketing enrollment numbers. &#8220;That&#8217;s also where trouble starts&#8221;, explains DeLuigi. [&hellip;]
- [Hacking not allowed](https://maverisk.nl/hacking-not-allowed/): &#8230; at least, if you&#8217;re from an official agency that would have to stick to basic rules of common decency. Despite the push for the police to be allowed to exploit backdoors (and not report/repair them), the thing seems to not sit well with supreme legislation&#8230; (link in Dutch; with PDF and/or give Alphabet&#8217;s translator a try) &mdash; apart from making us all including themselves, much unsafer&#8230; We&#8217;ll see. And: [The humane workplace &mdash; non doctored pic; Zuid-As Amsterdam]
- [Two AI tipping point(er)s](https://maverisk.nl/two-ai-tipping-pointers/): You may have misread that title. It&#8217;s about tips, being pointers, two to papers that give such a nice overview of the year ahead in AI-and-ethics (mostly) research. Like, this and this. With, of course, subsequent linkage to many other useful stuff that you&#8217;d almost miss even if you&#8217;d pay attention. Be ware of quite a number of follow-up posts, that will delve into all sorts of issue listed in the papers, and will quiz or puzzle you depending on wether you did pay attention or not. OK, you&#8217;ll be puzzled, right? And: [Self-learned AI question could be: &#8220;Why?&#8221; but to [&hellip;]
- [No, you&#039;re hacked](https://maverisk.nl/no-youre-hacked/): OK, we have a couple of little things: &#8220;It&#8217;s not if but when an organisation is hacked&#8221; This leads to access to some of your personal data however innocious (or not) Only a handful of your however innocious personal data is needed to identify you and/or take over your ID Your personal data however innocious on the surface (sic) is with so many organisations. Syllogically, ID theft will ruin your life, pretty soon. Now you may counter that &#8230; blabla you&#8217;re not interesting enough (maybe, but how sure are you, and if you&#8217;re so clean your ID has value to the [&hellip;]
- [Electing Coke](https://maverisk.nl/electing-coke/): Haven&#8217;t seen too many comparisons between Coke&#8217;s notorious botched A/B testing New Coke on the one hand, and the oh so similar (are they) recent US elections on the other. If any of you would have a pointer to such an analysis, I&#8217;d be glad to hear. That&#8217;s all. And: [Which side you&#8217;d choose ..? Who cares about you / your choice ..? Zuid-As Amsterdam]
- [Four horsemen, with a badge](https://maverisk.nl/four-horsemen-with-a-badge/): Now that &#8216;our failproof heroes of integrity&#8217; (one of those five words is correct) have gained the right to hack and exploit each and every users&#8217; device in their battle (huh) against the four horsemen, each, all and every proof of misconduct of however grave or minor import that anyone would conduct using any such &#8216;cyber&#8217; device would not hold in court because no-one can prove it was the general user / suspect (sic) that put the data onto there or used it and the police would be implicated as well but cannot prove satisfactory it wasn&#8217;t them. Obliterating any chance [&hellip;]
- [Integrity it is / ain&#039;t the quote](https://maverisk.nl/integrity-it-is-aint-the-quote/): Given the recent upswing in attention for integrity, it is not strange but unfortunate to see the phrase and concept being so warped it has become a newspeak pastiche. Integrity &#8230; taken as zealously chasing the company&#8217;s apparent only purpose&#8230; Integrity, taken as the &#8216;more than compliance&#8217; ideal, then (almost exclusively) pursued in ways that seek only meek compliance with integrity rules [note the irony of &#8216;integrity&#8217; and &#8216;rules&#8217; other than in opposition] to get rid of the Dutch Uncles that without fail (yes) fail their own lessons. Stemming of course from the misconception or more straighforward, lie that employees are [&hellip;]
- [Top 2000++ of 2017 &ndash; before the herd](https://maverisk.nl/top-2000-of-2017-before-the-herd/): Because all sorts of hoi polloi pundits are out there, &#8216;polling&#8217; (quod non, just repeating the meh mediocrity) for the Top 2000 of 2017 on the ray-the-ohw and elsewhere, herewith the real deal Top 2000. Which of course isn&#8217;t; it&#8217;s the Top 2276 for one thing and Definitive is slightly understating it. If you hadn&#8217;t guessed, #14 is about me. And yes, it is downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes (repeated from last year): &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 aren&#8217;t [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter" style="font-size:60px;">T</span>he logic of automated decisions; <br />ransparency through audits ..?](https://maverisk.nl/the-logic-of-automated-decisions-ransparency-through-audits/): Not bashing, nor FUDhyping&#8230; Was triggered by various treads, e.g., The Book on the subject (or, het boek in Dutch), and scores of elucidation (yes. be happy finally there is some truly) from the legal perspective, on GDPR article 15.1h and article 22. The latter two not being conclusive, however. They are about requirements of transparency on the logic underlying automated decisionmaking. But there is no clarity about how deep that should go. Will &#8220;Hey your data is processed by some AI system [literally, factually incorrect statement because it&#8217;s only Machine Learning at max, today; does that construe a false statement [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>he state of ad ML](https://maverisk.nl/the-state-of-ad-ml/): A sad state it is, when WordPress continues to Always (there you go) capitalise Always (yup) automatically. There was some other words as well, that get capitalised like it&#8217;s a product ad. Except that I&#8217;m quite 100% male so have no business nor advertising value for the A product range&#8230; Stop it! You annoy me. Which is bad, very bad. Plus: [The exact spot of origin of Oh Say Can You See &#8230; for no apparent reason. Hint: O!]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">L</span>osing your trade's virginity](https://maverisk.nl/losing-your-trades-virginity/): I&#8216;m referring more to dull trades, like auditing, than what your first thoughts were about&#8230; It seems hard for some people to get their heads around the still persisting problem with AI introduction into regular trades, that when deploying AI to take over the rote grunt work at the lower rungs (which is, by definition (?), all that&#8217;s just behind your heels) and leaving the more intricate, &#8216;difficult&#8217; and &#8216;intelligent&#8217; work like decision making and risk weighing to seasoned, experienced professionals (to which you belong of course), that there will be no more seasoned, experienced professionals since the seasoning and experience [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>elf-driving my a..uto mode](https://maverisk.nl/self-driving-my-a-uto-mode/): What was it; that car company we&#8217;ll call &#8216;T&#8217; as we don&#8217;t want their lawyers&#8217; badgering, claimed the EULA on the self-driving of their cars required the auto-mode to only to be allowed when on reasonably straight roads in reasonably light traffic with full oversight always. Apart from that being no driving fun whatsoever, and no help whatsoever in &#8216;normal&#8217; (other) conditions, I have a question: Why use the system at all, then, when already I have cruise control and Mk.1 eyeballs for such circumstances and do nothing but steer lightly ..!? What improvement from &#8216;steer lightly&#8217; to &#8216;not steer at [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>re you scared of perfectionism ..?](https://maverisk.nl/are-you-scared-of-perfectionism/): Not of but to. This dawned on me, suddenly – as dawning of this better kind is unenforceable – a lot of people list &#8216;perfectionism&#8217; as their default weakness-read-humblebragged-strongpoint. But it&#8217;s a weakness indeed because any such feeling will be rootcaused by insecurity, of the angst kind. When taken forward, from the latter, one sees: Fear of the unknown, uncontrollable impact on the edges (first), will lead to overzealous focus on those edges, the rougher parts, to prevent even the tiniest deviation from the all-of-the-world&#8217;s-plan that totally deterministically was supposed to be followed to not introduce Uncertainty of any kind. No [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>umb judgement](https://maverisk.nl/dumb-judgement/): If this (link in Dutch) is the state of the profession, then we&#8217;re all doomed. Luckily, the players in this sham [that&#8217;s putting it mildly, 007; ed.] will be deleted from history first. Sorry, not luckily; hopefully. Since the comparisons they make, and the judges&#8217; explanations, are so utterly stupid that one can hardly see them function normally in regular society. Can&#8217;t sugarcoat this. Those hat apply the law, aren&#8217;t above it I hope. Let appropriate parties get them, before they destroy communities and common sense. Oh well. And: [The circus is where such people were put on display, then the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>pelling test compliancy](https://maverisk.nl/spelling-test-compliancy/): Where of course the post title in itself gives away the clue of this little Friday&#8217;s short post, which is: If you spell it as compliancY (with some rule or regulation), you failed the test. And you&#8217;ll be earmarked as n00b, however long you are in the industry already. Since you don&#8217;t seem to know that it&#8217;s actually &#8216;compliance&#8217; with an &#8216;e&#8217; only, nothing overcorrected. Just because it hindered me again, last week, when I discussed matters with someone who had the silly idea that using an &#8216;y&#8217; would impress, would seem to make their point hover at &#8216;GRC&#8217; levels as [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>VG is the Law](https://maverisk.nl/avg-is-the-law/): If you wondered whether (if?) I&#8217;ve gone besirk and declare some little anti-malware tool to be officially authorised: No. What then? A Yes. Because whenever you read &#8216;AVG&#8217; related to the Netherlands, you&#8217;ll find it&#8217;s the Law indeed. Being a fumbled translation of the GDPR. And full of the lawyers&#8217; stuff on detail, demonstrating incapacity to understand the issues that the GDPR was originally trying to tackle. Of course, these got watered down to ineffectiveness before even being officially issued (and that&#8217;s not per 25/5/2018 but already behind us ..!!). So we find ourselves now in a struggle on all sides [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>ew nav skills](https://maverisk.nl/new-nav-skills/): Was reading this article about how some people (men, much, too) just can&#8217;t get their brains to function normally decently function in the navigation area. I.e., some just can&#8217;t &#8216;automatically&#8217; find their way around familiar streets and areas of their home town/city, wrestle with maps (you know, the real deal, on paper, by definition: the easiest/best way to re-fold them is differently), and get lost. Which is (not!) funny in its own right, as it is funny to laugh about people with less capabilities in other mental areas &ndash; not. Why do such people positively pride themselves, often, in their failures? [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>o news is not good news](https://maverisk.nl/no-news-is-not-good-news/): Anyone know why we haven&#8217;t heard too much about Bellingcat lately ..? You know, the so ultimately objective that all sides may have gripes against and uses for them and their analysis ..? I wondered because there&#8217;s so much going on around the world where their analysis would give better insights &ndash; and there is all sorts of new stuff on their site &ndash; that it is surprising to see no news channels pick that up. Or is the world so full of itself and of fake news that the masses are utterly numbed ..? Plus: [For a calm life, go [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ompare the innovation fruits apples and oranges, please](https://maverisk.nl/compare-the-innovation-fruits-apples-and-oranges-please/): How is it that long-standing discussion-stoppers persist ..? Take, for the sake of argument and for reason of being the raison d&#8217;être of this post, the common &#8220;One shouldn&#8217;t compare apples and oranges&#8221;. Or &#8216;with&#8217;, or &#8216;to&#8217;. What fun is there in comparing apples to apples ..? Since various species are still very much alike, the attention will go to the, certainly relatively, minor differences, losing the bigger picture. Even when including crabapples, mostly it isn&#8217;t worth the trouble. Except for a few experts. Entrat oranges. They are so different (Well, overall; there&#8217;s also many commonalities like being in your fruit [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-40/): Just like that: The way of the information security industry. Fatter, not better&#8230; Not yet the way of my wallet, unfortunately. But do also remember, in connection to yesterday&#8217;s post just below&#8230;:
- [<span class="firstcharacter">E</span>xtra, extra! A Fine!](https://maverisk.nl/extra-extra-a-fine/): It was bound to happen: Fines! For privacy violations! Oh how do the Frightful Five shudder at the thought of these economic penalties that will down their businesses. Not so much. Is there anyone that thinks the fines will do better under the GDPR regime ..? Kindergarten dreams. If all people are nice to each other there will be no more war and world peace. If GDPR kicks in &#8230; Plus: [An air of nice, just the air; not Nice but 4711 Cologne]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>ighting the Fifth Estate](https://maverisk.nl/fighting-the-fifth-estate/): The Fourth Estate it was called, before it succumbed to sycophantry and fake news. The journalistic world, that by its moral code and behaviour cleansed the news so that the trias politica, and the populace, could do its job of monitoring and correcting each other. Now that the fourth is no more (effective) [edited to add: some holdouts, like Bellingcat], but the Fifth is (Facebook, Google, &#8230; the Frightful Five), one might need extra resources to get the first few scratches of control back. With this little device. An anti-bug. Not preventative yet, but detective with resilience against detection. Counter-intelligence. Oh [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">AI</span> Blue-on-Blue](https://maverisk.nl/ai-blue-on-blue/): We keep on hearing these great things about how AI will help us in the battle against no-gooders qua information security. Like, in hunting for bugs in software (as asked for here, borne out in various much more recent cases or rather, news items hinting at pilot prototype vapourware) or hunting for fraudsters, possibly hiding in plain sight (superrrintelligent anomaly detection; unsure how false positives / false negatives are handled&#8230;). Where on the Other side, great strides are also feared to be made. Deploying AI to improve (better fuzzify) attack vectors, and help with improvements in evasion and intelligence gathering in [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>tochastic culture (change)](https://maverisk.nl/stochastic-culture-change/): This &#8216;personal research&#8217; hobby of mine had taken me into the &#8216;From Security Awareness all the way to Behavioural Change&#8217; alley(s).Where it got stuck. Among others, through the realisation that &#8216;culture&#8217; as such doesn&#8217;t exist, certainy not within larger organisations. Local cultures, yes. Overall cultures &#8230; maybe as the most degenerate common denominator; the more numbers you throw in a basket, asymptotically but very fast the common denominator will come crashing down to 1. In infosecland, it&#8217;s worse. To actually adress and change the oft unconscious parts of personal culture (behaviour), one has to move away from organisation-wide awareness training ouch [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>ationalistic AI fuzzing](https://maverisk.nl/nationalistic-ai-fuzzing/): No his is not about fuzzing data. It is about accidentally giving away that you don&#8217;t understand a subject, and not the stats involved. It is about this report. That was reacted on in various press – though not nearly enough and I don&#8217;t even have shares – by some boiler room country-by-country comparison, even without much of conclusional calls to action, for all&#8230; Also, hardly anyone notices the gross error in it all. Which is the lack of proper definition of &#8216;AI&#8217;, or more expectedly, the widespread panicking brainfreezes of the interviewed. Which, summa summarum for brevity, created such massive [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>eviate for Resilience](https://maverisk.nl/deviate-for-resilience/): Well there&#8217;s an imperative. Deviate for resilience. Which goes waaay beyond mere ITCM or its linkage into BCM. What I mean here, though, is a reflection from the B side into the IT side. Once encountered when it was still supposedly somewhat &#8216;cool&#8217; (as it was called in the grandpa&#8217;s days) or so to work on &#8230; can you believe it, $AAPL infra. Where the Infosec staff had carved a corner for themselves: That they&#8217;d actually need to deviate from corp policies (the devolved kind) of using M$ stuff for alibi reasons of needing in ITsec par excellence, a fall-back that [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>our security policy be like ...](https://maverisk.nl/your-security-policy-be-like/): The theme of your security policy and how good it is (not), is of course a recurring one. The recurring one, annual cycle (Is that still frequent enough? Yes if it&#8217;s truly a policy like here) included, with an all else follows attached. But then, it&#8217;s only Bronze when only a top-10 bulleted list extracted from &#8230; ISO2700x, mostly. It&#8217;s Silver when actually compliant in all directions, which includes serious &#8216;local&#8217; adaptations&#8230; And it&#8217;s Gold, when over and above that, it looks like this. Not even kiddin&#8217;, really. Since your information security policy, next to the other security policies &#8230;, covers [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>izzle disruption](https://maverisk.nl/fizzle-disruption/): Since the whole, Original and profound, concept of Creative Destruction was latter-day transformed into something much devolved [using that in a most pejorative way; ed.] called &#8216;disruption&#8217; and applied in even worse ways to outright illegal stuff that had to be allowed still for &#8230; well, for no valid reason at all, certainly not morally or ethically improving society in any way only making things worse or much, much worse for all but the 0,1%, it deserves some attention that the major true disruptions over the past two decades&#8230; either weren&#8217;t recognised as such but were straighforward Innovations, rightly so characterised [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>our conference improver](https://maverisk.nl/your-conference-improver/): If you&#8217;re Irish. Or have some travel budget for them, out of Dublin. This outfit admitted to sometimes do conference &#8216;reports&#8217; that do grasp the essentials for a change. And have perfect gifts for any (business-, too) occasion.
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>hadow IT &ndash; no problem](https://maverisk.nl/shadow-it-no-problem/): In the upheaval of the last decade or so on the rush to the cloud (no, not that cloud though rush-related), a similar development preceded it – and still runs on. It is the spectre not only hunting Europe (and certainly the deviant [all manners? ed.] off the coast, splitting but not drifting away like an Iceberg would. should&#8230;), but everywhere else as well, the spectre depending on who you ask of Shadow IT. Which is facilitated through XaaS (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/&#8230;) availability. But which hardly ever is allowed&#8230; — allowed through being compliant with organisational standards. From anyone&#8217;s perspective but the IT [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>opying it bluntly, for you](https://maverisk.nl/copying-it-bluntly-for-you/): Just like that, a full page of niceness and arguments to consider. Guess which one I&#8217;m switching to. So should you. Competition, leading to improvement.
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ome nuggets for social](https://maverisk.nl/some-nuggets-for-social/): Alas,dair MacIntyre may have scared off some readers in the first few chapters of his After Virtue, with reason to not offend the simpletons, the dunces though addressed, as &#8216;they&#8217;. When after a while, the langauge becomes more simple, but the content no less valid. As in: It is of course that if social science does not present its findings in the form of law-like generalizations [z, sic; ed.], the grounds for employing social scientists as expert advisors to government or to private corporations become unclear and the very notion of managerial expertise is imperilled. For the central function of the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>eo is right](https://maverisk.nl/neo-is-right/): When it is about the way The Neo-Generalist, Kenneth Mikkelsen and Richard Martin, is: The Neo-Generalist is both specialist and generalist, often able to master multiple disciplines. We all carry within us the potential to specialise and generalise. Many of us are unwittingly eclectic, innately curious. There is a continuum between the extremes of specialism and generalism, a spectrum of possibilities. &#8230; Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution, our society has remained in the thrall of the notion of hyperspecialism. This places constraints on the way weare educated, the work we do, how we are recruited, how our career progression [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>here art thou, APT ..?](https://maverisk.nl/where-art-thou-apt/): In line with some previous posts, about e.g., the Maker Movement, I&#8217;d like to ask if anyone knows the whereabouts of all those pesky APTs that were around a couple of years ago. Oh, yes I do know they&#8217;re in your infra everywhere all the time, but qua publicity, qua countermeasures ..?I would like to hope that in this case, more contrary to its nature you can&#8217;t get, it would indeed bebecause (sic) of having been dealt with sufficiently in the past. Or the whole APT thing turned out to be a [any country&#8217;s] TLA move &ndash; of a side with [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>ech-brittle society](https://maverisk.nl/tech-brittle-society/): Anyone already studied the brittleness of society re technology ..? Of course, we all do know there&#8217;s a lot of &#8216;critical infrastructure&#8217; out there. But do we realise enough, that it&#8217;s not only those somewhat-well-defined (not) industries that might suffer from any form of e-attack (incl EMP; what was it with those old low-band radars that the Russian had stacked behind the Ural and were found to be very effective in picking up F-117s because the latter had never been back-tested so far ..? Same, here ..?), and society as a whole might be blown into disfunctionality when some, not critical-industry-confined [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>o you business card, still ..?](https://maverisk.nl/do-you-business-card-still/): Once upon a time there were infrared dumbphone-to-dumbphone connections replacing paper business cards. Or people had fancy-shape mini-cd-ROMs.Now, we have &#8230; paper business cards. Or do we ..? Would love to hear from you whether social network platform invites are already established easily enough at any networking F2F without the awkwardness of having to use your smartphone in such meetings, without looking sheeplish. You replies via the socmed platform you found this post through, please, so others see this whole thing and may contribute &ndash; or it&#8217;s just that the Comments sections of this blog don&#8217;t work. Oh, and: [It&#8217;s not [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>o confidence voting](https://maverisk.nl/no-confidence-voting/): Why would it surprise anyone that these here results came out of the Defcon 25 Voting Machine Hacking Village ..? More importantly, where is the true side-by-side comparison of trraditional paper-only voting against all safeguards thinkable by today&#8217;s voting protocol science ..? (As here and here, to name a very few of the tons out there) And, where can blockchain fundamentals be applied to &#8216;vote&#8217; more equally and/or provide a graceful degradation or (hacked to breach to skew) error correction mechanism ..? Preferably with two-round- and/or multicameral (2+) systems tweakability; that would be grand. All else that would need to be [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>&nbsp;philosophical one: Polynesian time](https://maverisk.nl/a-philosophical-one-polynesian-time/): When one considers Einstein&#8217;s profound maxim Time is that not everything happens at once, is one lost for causation and/or free will ..? The former excluding the latter, if taken to its utter consequences. The latter, presupposing the former or how else can one&#8217;s decisions turn into actions turn into something chosen among alternatives that can only exist when alternatives are potentially there, excluding ultimate-causation theories. With the apparent-free philosophies in the middle. But that&#8217;s not my point. My point is: The thought of Polynesian navigation crossed my mind. Not in a literal sense, but in a cultural sense where (the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-39/): Again. Also, since holiday season and no-one (well&#8230;) reading my posts anyway even in busy season&#8230; This here, entirely True though might be annotated with more characteristics everywhere&#8230;:
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>ubbeltestje](https://maverisk.nl/dubbeltestje/): Ubent nu onderdeel van een testje. Niet statistisch verantwoord, maar dat is sowieso vrijwel nergens te vinden; dát zijn pas unicorns &#8230; Anyway, without further ado, let&#8217;s see how many (huh) hits this post will get when it&#8217;s half-Dutch. When you&#8217;d interpret that as half-baked, you&#8217;re correct&#8230;(?) Terwijl er tegenwoordig héél wat luipaarden zijn, die nu dus voor de foute partijen kiezen contra het vage clubje, &#8220;ze&#8221;, die de leeuwen zijn in dezen. De welpjes, die hebben nergens benul van noch hebben ze ooit iets fout gedaan (?). Etc.; het is allemaal nog heel relevant vandaag de dag. And, on a [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>ödel around the White House](https://maverisk.nl/godel-around-the-white-house/): Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F. How does that not relate to what we&#8217;ve been hearing a lot about in &#8216;Murican politics, lately ..? And, how does this not lead to absolute nihilism all around ..? The seriousness of purpose not reflecting the seriousness of the attack which is at most an amusing re-calibration of sanity, outside the attackers&#8217; circles. But then again, how is that not like about-a-century-old politics, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>useum of Software Mainstays of Yore ..?](https://maverisk.nl/museum-of-software-mainstays-of-yore/): The &#8216;terrible&#8217; news (not) that Flash is about to be abandoned by one of its last if not the last pillar of support, reminds me of similar &#8216;developments&#8217; of the past. Like, where did Dynamic HTML go ..? DEC, Sun (Sparc), Compaq, WordPerfect, Norton Utilities, 9-pin matrix printers, bulletin boards, portals. Etc.etc. Yes, yes, I know, some are still around, like OpenVMS is. And in software in particular, there may be many, many more of the lost ark items – where I&#8217;d like to see more focus on. Are they valued enough, for their staying power ..? Isn&#8217;t their staying a [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>urning, not their pages](https://maverisk.nl/turning-not-their-pages/): There was a moment of hesitance when I saw this self-post (selpie?) of s/o who had just graduated in this self-proclaimed (sic) glitz bizz Master program as if it were a sign of success achieved instead of a life of toil would be ahead before any &#8216;success&#8217; (probably empty; your last clothes (at the pealy gate(s)) don&#8217;t have pockets) could be claimed if actual success would be claimable or self-defeating, from a university named after someone Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very famous for pointing out the futility of such behaviour. Which made me think: There [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Q</span>uo ivisti Maker Movement ...?](https://maverisk.nl/quo-ivisti-maker-movement/): There once was this thing called &#8216;Maker Movement&#8217; as a rebirth of the Arts&amp;Crafts of our youth. This was some two to three years ago, mostly. Where has the Movement, and its protagonists, and its followers, all gone ..? Flamed-out by the dunce mass takeover of everything-hipster thus destroying the core concept(s) of the latter hence of the former too ..? Just wanted to know; if you have a clue. About what I&#8217;m talking about, and about the whither. Because there was something beautiful blossoming, on the mainstreamish generic side of steampunkism, say. Because societal benefits were closer off many an [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">I</span>ndexing the socmed skew](https://maverisk.nl/indexing-the-socmed-skew/): Hi y&#8217;all (or variants), would any of you have some form of Hirschman-Herfindahl index for the concentration in users/followers profiles on various socmed platforms ..? And/or, even better, some index that takes into account every profile its geo- and other spreads which may be much more limited than all living in one global community you know. Have pointers, will blog. Plus: [Medium-class IIb for no good reason; Rotterdam]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>oo late for GDPR compliance ..? Click here to pay up](https://maverisk.nl/too-late-for-gdpr-complaince-click-here-to-pay-up/): It seems like everyone&#8217;s finally waking up to the fact that &#8216;GDPR D-day&#8217; is less than 283 days ahead. Yes I checked. And I didn&#8217;t discount for weekends – minus 80 days, more of less –, holidays – either the normal kind, at some three weeks in this period, or the sanctified &#8216;bank holidays&#8217; for those that say they don&#8217;t believe in holidays, or say they do but still are too awkward sheep to actually go on normal holidays, maybe a week in total – and the year-end curfew on all IT changes because business is doing things they have done [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ocmed spinning into its own abyss](https://maverisk.nl/socmed-spinning-into-its-own-abyss/): Was considering writing up a post on how socmed (and other sites with &#8216;recommendations&#8217;) in the end undoes themselves. By suggesting, proposing, and timeline-injecting ever more precise in-profile You May Also Likes, people might get more and more annoyed, and will look themselves for content elsewhere [excepting the hoi polloi that are too dumb to see they&#8217;re taken for a ride] and leave the platform in the dust. Facebuck as case in point; the more specialised platforms there are out there, persistently though not growing but remaining viable as they are, the more Fb will remain for the unsorted, culturally completely [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">'C</span>ode, you know](https://maverisk.nl/code-you-know/): Recently, I was reminded again that keeping up with appearances of developments, in the IT field are difficult. And placement of commas is an art if you wondered. The culprit in this instance was this here among various articles about Low Code / No Code as a thing. The placement of intermissions is, too. Well, I&#8217;d rather be a fan of Do Code&#8230; But I&#8217;m unsure whether that still flies, other than in classrooms around the world but not your local prep / grammar school that sorely falls behind in prepping children (&#8216;kids&#8217; is for their parents with diminished language competencies) [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">L</span>ong and fruitful lives](https://maverisk.nl/long-and-fruitful-lives/): Again, the discussions re pension age turns up; whether those in &#8216;physically stressful&#8217; occupations should be pensionable – even in this day and age, without any regard to subject&#8217;s want or not..! For 10 points, compare to slavery – at earlier ages. Use 100 words or less. Where there never is any regard either for the starting age(s) of work. Most often, those in the &#8216;physically stressful&#8217; categories will have started work early, right? And/or, have paid their dues, in terms of contributions to pension schemes anyway, or indeed hard work without much in the way of tax deduction cleverness. So [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Q</span>uestion: Aggregate discrimination?](https://maverisk.nl/question-aggregate-discrimination/): Iwas a bit puzzled: In all the discussions about forcing diversity into organisations by &#8216;positive&#8217; discrimination even if only by preferring one candidate over the other when they are otherwise equal hence the selection criterion is discrimination by definition (sic), where is the issue settled that issues at group level, do not reflect well on individual levels ..? That&#8217;s a long one. Triggered by this memo of Googles exexec of course, which is a rational analysis followed by a point-proving response &#8230; I&#8217;m not going into the detail of that discussion there. However, I will go into the thing that discrimination [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>orever young, immature infosec](https://maverisk.nl/forever-young-immature-infosec/): Sometimes one feels like one&#8217;s in a partial Gourndhog Day or 2:22 &#8230; When 7 december 2006, there was this meet about the maturity of infosec, as a field. Which was compared, by Yours Truly, to the then (and now!) equally immature IS audit world – which had a couple of decades more under its development belt but was is still quite immature still. Then there&#8217;s the first paragraph of this. &#8217;nuff said..? And: [This, still fresh which is a different thing &#8230;; Barça of course]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>iving under, almost, everything](https://maverisk.nl/diving-under-almost-everything/): Dindn&#8217;t we feel it coming, if not in the air tonight than at least, after we signalled that BIOSes had been targeted&#8230; that there&#8217;s always a layer deeper one has to be on guard for infosec leakage and backdoors&#8230; How did this &#8216;surface&#8217;? Bypassing all the O/S features &#8230; Just putting in down here. E.g., which, how many, platforms would be vulnerable to this; how much and what sorts of traffic could you send around through this &#8230;? Would one be able, when in so deep, to pick up system/sysadmin/root rights/credentials when browsing around ..? And here we (not) are, all [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">O</span>nce were warriors of the smallest kind, our promise for the future](https://maverisk.nl/once-were-warriors-of-the-smallest-kind-our-promise-for-the-future/): Who was surprised when this here piece entered their view? Not I. I not ed that a presentation of Yours Truly of Jan 2015 had: Ello, Viv, YikYak, Tsu, Whisper, Kik, WeChat, Line, Viber, surespot, Whicker, Treema, KakaoTalk, Nimbuzz, Tango, MessageMe, Slack, HipChat, Peerio, Wizters, Secret, The Insider, Awkward, Cloaq, Chrends, Dropon &#8230; just as a sample list, so To which already then, tons could have been added. [Intermission quiz: Which ones did I forget then, that have made it big today ..? Or have perished again in the mean time ..? Or are still around but struggling ..?] Some questions [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ollaborative economy](https://maverisk.nl/collaborative-economy/): Just a shout-out for some positive initiative, indicative of what you too, could do qua collaborative economy&#8230;: This, for all your poetry in business, in particular when you&#8217;re Dutch. Which might be an oxymoron of sorts, semantically&#8230; Whatever. Just sponsor &#8230; Plus: [Past poetry in 3D; Zuid-As Ams]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>ree (for) all or valuable next to nothing](https://maverisk.nl/free-for-all-or-valuable-next-to-nothing/): We discussed the distinction between &#8216;users&#8217; and &#8216;clients&#8217; re socmed recently, and also a bit on socmed usage profiles – I mean, (active) &#8216;user&#8217; numbers. Did I mention &#8230; (not; ) the development of one catch-all platform for those who have no clue about their own user profiles and hence dump just about anything on Facebuck, in between all duckface, cat and somewhat-(??)-indecent pics since they don&#8217;t have the capability to see the future negative reflection this will have on their sensibility qua socmed use? Plus a whole suite of other socmed platforms, with particular use by respective particular parties that [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>roneshield-downer](https://maverisk.nl/droneshield-downer/): How would this (link in Duds) great – not so much – invention help against drones that have pre-programmed GPS coordinates and semi- or fully-autonomously fly to their destination? Because they&#8217;re out there already and even building/programming them is a piece of cake for the ones that would actually want to do harm for no defensible (sic) reason. And also, there already is this; better drone detection than the article (and the vendors therein) suggest would be possible &#8230;! And also, there already is law against the proposed jamming. So, too bad, vendors Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, Dedrone, Rhode&amp;Schwartz, Squarehead, Robin Radar [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ending the right message](https://maverisk.nl/sending-the-right-message/): This of course being the right message. If you can read it when I Send it you. And, for your viewing pleasure: [Anonymous but blurry and far from privacy-complete, this physical cloud exchange&#8230;; NY Grand Central]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>oldielocks versus information security](https://maverisk.nl/goldielocks-versus-information-security/): If you expect some fable about budgets; not so much. This post&#8217;s about the generation thing called the Goldielocks syndrome – every generation (aren&#8217;t they ever shorter, these days?) believing that they had it, and made the society they &#8216;created&#8217; no less, better than any generation before and after them. For many generations, tech is still something that &#8216;came in later&#8217; [venturing that even the newest ones, will see major tech-driven societal / tools changes in their lives], and information security nitty-gritty stuff is a major part of what they experience of that technology. And &#8216;we&#8217; (all) have done a very [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>on't lower the bridge ... Wait.](https://maverisk.nl/dont-lower-the-bridge-wait/): Would it impact you when I told you that the world&#8217;s mountains all are getting lower..?Because that is what results from global warming. Ice melts. Sea levels rise. The zero-level is that sea level (average), right? So any distance up from a risen mark, will be smaller. QED. Or we&#8217;ll have to start measuring from some, fixed in some improbable way, sea bottom / land point but that may not be so easy, and as said also not fixed enough. And/or the earth&#8217;s shape may change, either being more perfectly round or moving the opposite way, more 3D-elliptoid. What will happen [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>ata Science, yeah man!](https://maverisk.nl/data-science-yeah-man/): Some of you may have noticed I like 4-way Venn diagrams. That&#8217;s why (not) I&#8217;d like to link you to this. In particular, see the information flow diagram of Science versus Engineering. Yes this is what people got their PhDs on – since academia were so often frustrated that the few times they got advisory assignments (on the side, for anything resembling real income for the department), their advice was considered much too late and wasn&#8217;t implemented whereas when the same assignments were done by commercial consultancies, the budgets were way higher and the results very unscientific but implemented. Turned out: [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>, and A, and G, D, P and R](https://maverisk.nl/m-and-a-and-g-d-p-and-r/): Now that you have finally got something going qua GDPR compliance – way short of what you&#8217;d want but still, at least something, better than the Nothing to which you were limited so far – there is a new twist to the requirements&#8230; To be clear; by now you should at least have the requirements clear, and also possibly have some upsides lined up (if not, go shop with some vendor consultancy (and others); they&#8217;ll tell you about the benefits of data minimisation, the unstress of having your house on order, etc.). And have something going qua reconnaissance, though not armed [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>olar panels, water, plants](https://maverisk.nl/solar-water-plants/): Wasn&#8217;t it that through carefully placed cloth, one could capture night&#8217;s (?) air moisture in a desert? What if we could use solar panels to provide the shade underneath which, such moisture is catured, and/or immediately applied to plants (crop!) growing straught under the panels, so they survive due to temparatures not boiling them but being in the shade, they&#8217;re OK and can provide food and income, whilst providing electricity to &#8230; the rest of the world ..? Plant up the Sahara! On a related note; how much desert surface woud one need, to a. lessen the world&#8217;s dependence on oil [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>arental Control &ndash; Surveilling your parents ... Ew!](https://maverisk.nl/parental-control-surveilling-your-parents-ew/): There you have it: Parental Control is needed more than ever, in a subtle way (I&#8217;d suggest you would do best to re-study The Cyber Effect; as I do), given the ever increasing (sic) risks online for the smaller than you. But what about the more grown-up than you; your parents &#8230;? They either are only now, slowly, coming online, or they have been there already longer and have practiced but now are becoming older and mentally less capable or acute. Hence, would we need to instate parental control to (also) mean: control over your parents (&#8216; their online behaviour)? And [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>rones with AI; revenge](https://maverisk.nl/drones-with-ai-revenge/): Heard recently of an airforce that was setting up a drone squadron where the pilots (? might, given the joysticks, better be called &#8216;gamers&#8217; these days, apart from the euphemistically erasure of the moral and ethical aspects, maybe) would be in that country but the drones would be stationed in some other country because stupid drone flying rules go for the DoD too.Yes this regarded a European country [would&#8217;ve referred to NL outright if it was; ed.], you guessed that correctly from the previous. At some point in the future, the drones inevitably will get AI because everything will get AI. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>olluding AI](https://maverisk.nl/colluding-ai/): As more and more grunt work (like, so much that&#8217;s done in the intenisve people farms called &#8216;offices&#8217;) is replaced with AI, how soon will we find that some decision by a human, hardly in control anymore but totally reliant on the precooked algorithmic outcome provided by AI, will be contested in court – that will be presided over by a judge, hardly in control anymore but totally reliant on the precooked algorithmic outcome provided by AI, and the two colliding against humans&#8217; interests&#8230; Note that &#8220;of course&#8221;, there will be humans nominally handing out the final verdict(s), because so many [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>eak Humans, the Top-10](https://maverisk.nl/weak-humans-the-top-10/): Again, the reference in the title is useless but may attract more readers through Timeline/Prio Gaming(™ from now on) – and, this in return might have referred to the title but yet again, close but no cigar (again, less chances of a Cuban, anyway, for some by their own mistake). What I meant was that humans are targeted by hackers since they&#8217;re so vulnerable read stupid may be true — relatively&#8230; actually meaning apparently Technology and [the empty shell phrase of; ed.] Process may be so perfected that hackers have nowhere else to turn to. That, of course, is not true. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>up, called, confirmed](https://maverisk.nl/yup-called-confirmed/): Always pleasant, to read one&#8217;s (almost&#8230;) correct, on off-off-Broadway analysis and postpredictions. Like this one, corroberated here, in a way. Yes, I kno. I almost got that correct. Enough to confirm the line of reasoning, if you read it / both correctly, they turn out correct. I&#8217;ll stop now. And: [Check, for Dutch ad viewers; Valencia]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>ischarging DPOs by auditors](https://maverisk.nl/discharging-dpos-by-auditors/): Now that it by and large seems to be that GDPR hypestuff is mostly pushed into the legal corner, &#8230; let it stay there. Let the others do their job, and reap all the benefits. I.e., via the avenue (required budget-wise; wildlands qua budgets received) of data discovery [Uchg ugly word I meant inventory] / data minimalisation/cleansing / data security [the old way, like information security, not the #ditchcyber fail] towards magnificent efficiencies in IT ops, and much clearer, exponentially better profile&#8217;able data even if Big. Hey, the DPO was so self-inflatedly Important, right? Let him (sic) handle all the fan [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>ome Quotum of Questions of Quantum](https://maverisk.nl/some-quotum-of-questions-of-quantum/): Am I the only one with questions how the following intertwine: An article on how quantum-secured blockchain may be so safe, but possibly not in the hands of whom you&#8217;d want it? If in anyone&#8217;s hands at all, since no-one can be trusted forever; if you wouldn&#8217;t believe that, you declare yourself incapable of discussion on this subject&#8230; A most brillant blog post on a related subject. An equally insightful piece on how blockchain-of-command would lead to Totalitarianism. An equally &#8230; Being the Why Johnny Can&#8217;t Encrypt, 2017 version. Notably, the previous versions hadn&#8217;t been patched properly&#8230; So, you see a [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>udging to intermittance; 5 steps to awa success](https://maverisk.nl/nudging-to-intermittance-5-steps-to-awa-success/): As by now you have become accustomed to, this isn&#8217;t anything about five steps, or success. Or, I mean, the latter, maybe. Was triggered by the to be, should be classic on all thing #ditchcyber ψchology, where it discusses the lure of games and the reward structure therein. From there I wondered three things: How can we deploy true gaming (not the quiz / survey kind) in raising, and maintaining, awareness in information security praxis for end users? Like, not the Training kind, but the Knowledge → Attitude → Behaviour – into eternity kind. For end users, and for infosec-(more-)deeply involved [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>ar disruption](https://maverisk.nl/car-disruption/): Have governments gone insane?? They penalise anyone (but certainly not everyone) going over some completely [?] arbitrary speed, whereas my car can do double that, easily. This needs to be disrupted! Just drive as fast as you can handle, don&#8217;t care about the &#8216;others&#8217; that stand in the way of you in your fundamental rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness, and fight government in courts when they go after you – they are the stupid ones! They can&#8217;t stand you disrupting the traffic market by being quicker than the stupid sheeple [or is that you disruptor-user ..?] from A [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>acrodots on your Opsec training card](https://maverisk.nl/macrodots-on-your-opsec-training-card/): Already a couple of weeks (month) ago, the whole secret-microdots-ID-your-printer thing came out. Re the leakage of something-TLA in relation to electionhacking [let&#8217;s write that as one word, better aligning the construct] or what was it, where the leakster was IDd quickly because the microdot on the published material(s) revealed the printer used. Here I was, thinking that this microdot thing – Some claim it goes with laser printers only, not inktjet/dot matrix ones; anyone has any definitive confirmation of this? If confirmed, how many non-stupid bad guys will still use laser printers not have switched already &#8230;? – was wider [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>op 5 things that Awa isn't](https://maverisk.nl/top-5-things-that-awa-isnt/): When dealing with awareness, certainly in the infosec field (#ditchcyber!), there seems to be a lot of confusion over the mere simple construct under discussion. Like, the equasion (with an s not a t) of Awareness with Knowledge plus Attitute plus Behaviour. Which, according to the simplest of checks, would not hold. Since Knowledge, and maybe Attitude, are apt components. But Behaviour is what eludes the other two, by the unconscious that drives 95% of our behaviour, in particular when dealing with any but the most hard-core mathematical-logic types of decision making and interaction. Which is why so many &#8216;Infosec awareness [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>en reasons quantum crypto will not](https://maverisk.nl/ten-reasons-quantum-crypto-will-not/): There may be more reasons that quantum crypto will not protect you against those evil villains out there, as suggested here (in Dutch) but quod non!!! (as I said; in Dutch ;-| ), for the not ten but one single reason: When &#8216;hackers&#8217; will not be able to access your comms when you will be using quantum crypto, so governments will also not so forget about it you will be jailed for life for using quantum crypto in the first place and also you are the most suspect of all and if still you&#8217;d try to use it, you will be [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>udge, nudge, wink, wink, know what infosec behaviour I mean?](https://maverisk.nl/nudge-nudge-wink-wink-know-what-infosec-behaviour-i-mean/): Am working on an extensive piece, a long-longread, on as many aspects of behavioural change towards true &#8216;secure&#8217; user behaviour as I can cram into text. I.e., moving beyond mere full &#8216;awareness&#8217; as phases 2/3 of this, to phase 4. Strange, by the way, that there is in that no end &#8216;phase&#8217; or cycle in which one finds out to have been in phase 4 already for some time but didn&#8217;t notice and now forgets just as quickly as that seems &#8216;logical&#8217;. But back to today&#8217;s subject, which is the same, but on a tangent. My question to you dear readers [why [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">K</span>nitting against Cyberrrr...](https://maverisk.nl/knitting-against-cyberrrr/): This here piece, being the explanation why hiding in plain sight beats overtly-crypto tools. Quite enough said, right, apart from the note that the solution is a form of arms&#8217; race flipping, as predicted. Would only wonder (again) how many cat pics out there, have stego messages, and how many TLAs are constantly scanning all Pinterest- and others- uploaded pics for nefarious content. Where the sheer volume created by innocent users, helps the bad guys (girls&#8230;!) to escape (timely) detection, or what? Maybe sometimes human interaction can still help, like with this. Of quite another category but deserving massive global support [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">1</span>. Train like you BCM](https://maverisk.nl/1-train-like-you-bcm/): Isn&#8217;t it strange that one of the most prominent success factors of Business Continuity Management, actually training for eventualities of all kinds and sizes, is so little done? Or has the basic tenet Train like you fight, then you fight like you train been forgotten? Or not even learned in the first place. Shameful. And, by the way, it&#8217;s true. When you train (well, as serious as if you&#8217;d actually be in a &#8216;fight&#8217; for survival), you get experienced. Surely no trained scenario will play out in the unlikely event of an emergency of any kind that your BCM aimed for, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>tay put while moving your address](https://maverisk.nl/stay-put-while-moving-your-address/): Lately, there were a number of times I was reminded that for those that still use email (i.e., the overly vast majority of us!), some email addresses have been more stable over time than mere snail street addresses. And, with the different use of email versus the type that it was (derived-)named after, quite some times your &#8216;stable&#8217; email address is harder to change. Where moving physical home address will easily redirect your mailman&#8217;s delivery for a large sway of services (utilities, subscriptions, et al.), such service doesn&#8217;t necessarily exist for email. Not strange. You can move house and then take [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>he Legend of Knuth the Agile](https://maverisk.nl/the-legend-of-knuth-the-agile/): Once upon a time in a land far, far off-shore to today&#8217;s centers of economic, political of civilised-society gravity, before DevOps was a thing even, there was a great algorithm champion warrior named Knuth. Unlike his fellow programmer clansman, that coded for fun and profit deep innovation and peer recognition [f&amp;p came only decades i.e. &#8216;centuries&#8217; later; ed.], in a world that was barren of bad code but still inhospitable to what later would become hero geeks and nerds (for whom this was still obvious), Knuth was just that little bit less quickly-footed in his subject matter, earning him the nickname [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>hasing the GDPR hippo](https://maverisk.nl/chasing-the-gdpr-hippo/): As I was reminded of the &#8216;Kill the Hippo&#8217; meme, I realised its application is valid in specific circumstances, too. Where the Hippo is of course here. And the application that I was thinking of, is here. Not this one, that may stay where appropriate (which is much less than always)&#8230; No, your Usual Suspect isn&#8217;t the CEO or whatever, and suggesting the CISO is just a pun, but &#8230; the lawyer(s) involved&#8230; All you have to do, is take a look at their billing rates. And at the hippo-original abbrev meaning (sometimes, even the original meaning outright qua looks but [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>here's F Fatigue ..?](https://maverisk.nl/wheres-f-fatigue/): Considering the fatigue seen everywhere re fake news, about all that is out there is called into question. Which led me to search for a meme that just swirled into my mind: &#8216;Facebook Fatigue&#8217;. Boy did I think that could be quite some recent development, with the brag about &#8216;users&#8217; (meant to mean &#8216;addicts&#8217;; the brag being towards ad salesmen as street corner suppliers, and investors as proceeds rippers ..?) being at something over 1.8B or so. Boy was I wrong. Already in 2008 &#8230; And 2012, and 2015, and since &#8230; When you try the same thing over and over [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">E</span>ffective presentations](https://maverisk.nl/effective-presentations/): May be elsewhere. Recently delivered a ppt full of bullets and text [hold it; see below], to gather response and feedback. Put in quite some effort, like two days&#8217; driving to the venue, including overnight stay, lunch and dinner costs, transport expense, sweating away at the location (the venue was only a couple of °s cooler than the 30°+ outside) with an extra night stay at the location, plus lunches, dinners, and a return trip of two days&#8217; driving, incl overnight stay, lunch and dinner costs, transport expense, et al (sic). For &#8230; well, not any sort of renumeration or token gift, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>anoptic business](https://maverisk.nl/panoptic-business/): Recently, I heard the gross error of thinking again &#8220;When people use their business IT for private purposes, they have no right to privacy&#8221; – rightly countered from the room that standing European law most clearly has the opposite: Employer has zero rights to see anything unless there&#8217;s prior evidence of some malfeasance or malfunctioning (e.g., performance problems – of the employee, not of the infra&#8230;). So, blanket or categorical surveillance (or blocking, which presupposes monitoring how the heck else would you detect the to-be-blocked URLs..!?): No sir. What about the recent spat where a bank blocked Netflix because employees&#8217; use [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">AI</span>&nbsp;learning to explain itself](https://maverisk.nl/ai-learning-to-explain-itself/): Recently, there was news again that indeed, ABC (or The &#8216;Alphabet&#8217; Company Formerly Know As Google) was developing AI that could improve itself. O-kay&#8230; No sweat, or sweat, qua bleak future for humankind, but &#8230; Can the &#8216;AI&#8217; thus developing itself, maybe be turned first to learn how to explain itself ..? Then, this [incl link therein!] will revert to the auditors&#8217; original of second opinions &#8230; Since the self-explanatory part may very well be the most difficult part of &#8216;intelligence&#8217;, benefitting the most from the (&nbsp;AI improving itself&nbsp;)2 part or what? And: [Improving yourself as the imperative; Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>imply laborious](https://maverisk.nl/simply-laborious/): After some post recently, I was triggered to summarise – and expand &#8230; Since there is a bit of history missing. Being the Theory of Firm. Which is, among other stuff but au fond, about the creation of the manager. As the go-between of &#8217;employees&#8217;, as the go-between between the workforce and Capital. As the foreman, the one in charge of coordination – when the people come together because they can achieve more in cooperation than the sum of their individual efforts, through specialisation of labour, those specialised contributions need coming together in one way or another, and the provider of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">2FA</span> is <em>illegal!</em>](https://maverisk.nl/2fa-is-illegal/): Just when you thought the solutions to your eternal (not) pwd problems were getting mature enough to deploy &ndash; nudged to annoyance by all the vendor FUD &ndash; and you forgot the solution is totally easy and already in your infra everywhere, you will find &#8230; 2FA is declared illegal &#8230; Oh &#8230;, it turns out to concern the party drug kind only, not 2FA but 4-FA. Like, here. Phew! But stil, kids, don&#8217;t rely on 2FA either; help users reduce complexity not hinder &#8217;em! Oh, and: [When all sober and straight would have been Boring; Lille]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>urge ethiconomics](https://maverisk.nl/surge-ethiconomics/): There was already quite some debate about surge pricing, in particular re [illegal] taxi services. What I missed so far, are discussions about the economic or raher ethical character of abusing surges and their price tag instabilities. Like, how would you depict such developments in price elasticity graphs; shooting up and down on-curve, and curve shifts included. Is orderly society permissive of such hog cycle disruptions ..? [Term pointing at the characterisation of the CEOs that not want to see anything in/human in what they do]The asymmetry (shooting) on the curve, is market imperfection; the curve shifts in the long run, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>utoflexelec](https://maverisk.nl/autoflexelec/): Oh (not like here though supported) when will EVs be useful? Like, being available with diesel range (1000kms, seriously! I seriously need that) and station car luggage space (660/1950ℓ – yes really need that, too), at a fair price (which is 2nd hand, not even a fifth of what 40%-featurematching EVs go for today). No, I&#8217;m not going electric today because EVs will get better in a couple of years. I&#8217;m not going to waste buckets of money and opportunities by sitting out those years with a severely underperforming car. If others do that; that&#8217;s their bad decisions. But wait; there&#8217;s [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">B</span>ringing back symmetry/-ia](https://maverisk.nl/bringing-back-symmetry-ia/): Some issues, aspects of interest, collided a couple of weeks ago. Macron&#8217;s team with their skillful double-cross deceit in the &#8216;leakage&#8217; of election-sensitive info (!read the linked and weep over your capabilities re that, or click here for (partial?) solutions or others or devise your own).   One down, many to go; Win a battle, not win a war yet. In unrelated (not) news, what are the tactics used IRL to actively engage in pre-battle tactics? Can we plant our own systems with scar (?) tissue i.e. fake immunised (for us!) / unused information that is weaponised with trail collecting (or only source-revealing) [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>o Dutch AI](https://maverisk.nl/no-dutch-ai/): How far behind is the Dutch (startup) scene with AI ..? That may seem kurt, but &#8230; Really there is no sign of Dutch AI industry or even industriousness. Unbefitting the Dutch, is it not? &#8216;We&#8217; should have all the brains needed, the industriousness, the venturing spirit, the openness to things-new. But apparently, &#8216;we&#8217;re still stuck in collectivist ideals, where rocking the boat is only allowed when for some naïve progress [Uhm this is no sligh to Boyan Slat; on the contrary I and everyone likes his ideas and heart and soul he puts into it]. When searching for &#8216;Dutch AI [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">V</span>isual on socmed shallowness](https://maverisk.nl/visual-on-socmed-shallowness/): When considering the senses, is it not that Visual (having come to ther play rather late in evolution or has it but that&#8217;s beside the point, is it?) has been tuned to ultrahigh-speed 2D/3D input processing ..? Like, light waves particles who are you fooling? happen to be the fastest thing around, qua practical human-scale environmental signals – so far, yeah, yeah&#8230; – and have been specialised to be used for detection of danger all around, even qua motion at really high pace (despite the 24-fps frame blinking). Thus the question arises: What sense would you select, when focusing on shallow [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>er vertical lines of defense](https://maverisk.nl/per-vertical-lines-of-defense/): What if &#8230; Lines of Defense aren&#8217;t three (or four or five) &#8216;horizontally&#8217;, but vertical, like actual protection against things getting out of bounds ..?Wouldn&#8217;t that return the whole concept of 3LD, TLD, Three LoD or what&#8217;s your favourite abbreviation, to the already tried and tested process control models of yesteryear and when not if Yes, wouldn&#8217;t you be found out to be a sort of bumbling eager beaver when you think you&#8217;re still doing great and are Really Important and a GRC star and don&#8217;t see your kindergarten Importance is called out to hang high ..? Because then, you&#8217;ll need [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>aking yourself less and less special](https://maverisk.nl/making-yourself-less-and-less-special/): Over the last couple of decades, we have seen a rather disturbing development. Negative multipliers. Where the &#8216;trickle down&#8217; economies have been proven to be the lies that they were assessed to be but no-one listened because the truth already then was buried in the impostor-syndrome shouting of the powerful (not: autorities; they hadn&#8217;t any, not: leaders; they didn&#8217;t) that were on their way to prove Piketti correct (despite the nitpicky critiques, he was and is; facts overwhelm secondary/tertiary methodology issues). But this is a digression. Where, moreover, and foremost, sites, platforms, apps, that tried to &#8216;cut out the middle men&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">D</span>-raacdronische maatregelen](https://maverisk.nl/d-raac-dronische-maatregelen/): Okay, for those of you unable to understand the disastrous (understatement) word-play in the title because it&#8217;s in Dutch&#8230; It&#8217;s about a court case (verdict here) where neighbours were in this vendetta already and now one flew a camera drone over the other&#8217;s property succinctly the other shot down the drone. Qua culpability for the damage to the drone, the Judge ruled that a. the drone pilot was trespassing so put the drone illegally where it was shot down, b. the gunman [an experienced shot, apparently] was not to damage other peoples&#8217; property, both are guitly and should share the damage [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>rofiling the politics of the GDPR](https://maverisk.nl/profiling-the-politics-of-the-gdpr/): When looking up the definition of &#8216;politics&#8217;, no-one can escape the notion that it regards something-choice or in any form the application of power to make decisions applying to all members of a group. When looking up what leeways for profiling there is in the GDPR, even when so completely fellow-traveller-like as e.g., here [apart from the many, many more errors of logical reasoning, of thought, and of morality and ethics in that piece], the special category of data immediately springs to mind &#8230; that is about political opinion – representing the individuals&#8217; autonomy in matters of choice. As any behaviour [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">W</span>hen ABC&ndash;  will use AI, success](https://maverisk.nl/when-abc-will-use-ai-success/): So it turns out that the company formerly known as Google, may very well enter the job market. Qua brokerage. In which it may succeed (it already caused to-be competitors&#8217; stocks to nosedive, a little at least), when deploying smart AI solutions. Let&#8217;s hope, then, that Alphabet Jobs [as it might be called in a stab&#8217;let at $AAPL ..?] will use the AI to bypass the most ridiculous aspects, that are many, of the current process. E.g., obliterating the tick box atrocity &ndash; as certainly, its own search capability will burn the fuses when trying to find anyone on this planet [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>ppetite for destruction ..?](https://maverisk.nl/appetite-for-destruction/): Not even referring to the Masterpiece. On the contrary, we have here: &#8230; Well, what? Interested as we all are in the subject, since it is defined still so sloppily, we all look for progress, I started. But stopped, when it turned out &#8230; risk appetite is defined in hindsight, with a survived disaster being the appetite threshold. Nice. So you&#8217;ll know what your appetite is when it hit you and were lucky enough to survive. If you didn&#8217;t survive, you now know you passed the threshold. Same [?] with projects: Only if it fails, do you have to write off [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>ot there yet; an OK Signal but ...](https://maverisk.nl/not-there-yet-an-ok-signal-but/): But the mere fact that Congress will use strong crypto Signal, can mean many things. Like, &#8220;we&#8221; won the crypto wars, as Bruce indicated, or the many comments to that post are correct and it&#8217;s for them only and will be prohibited for the rest (us), or &#8230; nobody cares anymore who uses Signal, it&#8217;s broken and those that balked in the past, now have some backdoors or other coercive ways to gain access anyway. [Filed under: Double Secrets] But hey, at least it&#8217;s something, compared to nitwittery elsewhere&#8230; And: [Ode to careless joy; NY]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">C</span>yber-Allfinanz](https://maverisk.nl/cyber-allfinanz/): Strange, that we see &#8216;cyber&#8217; (#ditchcyber) Insurance behaving as if it&#8217;s not Insurance but banking: A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella, but wants it back when it starts to rain Which already has a lot to add; &#8216;lends against a princely interest sum&#8217;, &#8216;the umbrella will be small, not enough to protect your family that&#8217;s the Deluxe edition for a premium&#8217;, not &#8216;starts to rain&#8217; but &#8216;is predicted to be only slightly possible to have rain in some undisclosed upcoming time period&#8217;, &#8216;wants it back&#8217; means &#8216;has it reposessed, violently&#8217;. Etc. But that&#8217;s not the issue. The issue [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>enerate some positivity, please](https://maverisk.nl/generate-some-positivity-please/): Something I believe(d) in for a long time already. Being, that I don&#8217;t belong. Nor do you, or anyone, to some dreamt-up category of whatever dimension. Didn&#8217;t I refer to this (at 0:30) over and over and over again ..? To change the tack of the posts of late, let&#8217;s take a more positive attitude. E.g., by reading Brian Solis&#8217; story here, and elsewhere: There exists no typical generation of any characterisation. Which leaves you free to pursue your own Happiness, in whatever way you&#8217;d want &mdash; with the caveat of not inroading of the freedom of others, and respecting the [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>redictable consequences](https://maverisk.nl/predictable-consequences/): Dutch police start with &#8216;predicting&#8217; crime. For graduation, at kindergarten level: Can you prevent bias? What happens to accidental bypassers? What will be the effect on Free society? How many years in prison will the police chiefs get for this outright attempt to overthrow (the core principles of freedom of movement, innocent until proven guilty, etc.etc., of) the constitution and the UDHR whilst failing to fulfill the duties, to protect and serve [whatever variation] those? Remember, this is at kindergarten level. Have fun, kids! Plus: [Is this still a thing? Yoga at Briant Park, NY]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">H</span>aving fun with voice synth](https://maverisk.nl/having-fun-with-voice-synth/): In particular, having fun the wrong way.Remember, we wrote about how voice synth improvements, lately, will destroy non-repudiation? There&#8217;s another twist. Not only as noted, contra voice authentication for mere authentication (banks, of all, would they really have been in the lead, here, without back-up-double auth?), but in particular now that your voice has also become much more important again [after voice had dwindled in use for any sorts of comms, giving way to socmed typed even when with pixels posts of ephemeral or persistent kinds; who actually calls anyone anymore ..?], we see all sorts of Problems surfacing. Like, mail [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>o surprises here; qua attribution](https://maverisk.nl/no-surprises-here-qua-attribution/): Is anyone surprised that apparently, &#8220;there&#8217;s traces of North-Korean involvement&#8221; in the WannaCry hiccup ..? As yesterday&#8217;s post (below) already noted; no-one cares about WannaCry1.0 anymore hence &#8216;hiccup&#8217;. Has 2.0 come &#8217;round already? But how much repudiation by the North-Koreans would reach our general news &#8230;? So, how easy it is to blame the NKs for anything that goes wrong ..? Like, North Korea used an NSA exploit stolen by Russia to deploy malware that ransoms data in exchange for cryptocurrency. Just saying it aloud. — Patrick Gray (@riskybusiness) May 16, 2017 Whereas, &#8230; Russia did claim it was also &#8216;hit&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>otnews](https://maverisk.nl/notnews/): Remember it&#8217;s a two weeks flashback already Monday morning&#8217;s watercooler discussion: Did you hear about this WannaCry attacks all around the world? The sky is falling! And what a hypecycle the &#8216;solutions&#8217; vendors piled onto it immediately and oh hey look cat pics how cute oh now it&#8217;s Friday again how time flies CU on Monday for more cat pics. So true it&#8217;s sobering; appropriately. And: [Will never learn. NY]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Newie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-newie-pic-of-the-day/): Hey that&#8217;s a new category yes it is; no Throwback Thur but Forward-looking Friday. With &#8230; your GDPR compliance program in one picture! [After Wednesday&#8217;s post &#8230;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">H</span>aving a Coboll](https://maverisk.nl/having-a-coboll/): Just when you thought that some problems had come and gone to be never heard from again, it turns out that it&#8217;s not that easy but big-time help is here.Got tipped by a peer that flagged one particular company for help. No endorsement outright, no financial or other interest whatsoever [maybe I should, for the odds are with them], just plain ol&#8217;Hey Look That&#8217;s Interesting. Because you didn&#8217;t get it; they help converting COBOL (and other mummyfied LoC) to New stuff. On that note, I leave you with [Images of volcanic activity keep blubbering out of your new systems infra, too; [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">GDPR</span>&nbsp;is just a legal attempt at Y2k](https://maverisk.nl/gdpr-is-just-a-legal-attempt-at-y2k/): Suddenly I realised, as one who profited handsomely (not in money but in perks&#8217; way), that the whole GDPR compliance thingy is becoming quite similar, all too similar, to the hype that was called The Millennium Problem &#8230; too bad we now know how that ended, otherwise an illustrative movie could be made of the latter – now only (?) a documentary review is worthwhile, as history writing. Too bad it isn&#8217;t out in the open that despite all efforts then made, actually quite a lot of companies ended up having to hire temps to do all sorts of manual corrections [&hellip;]
- [ePriv heating up](https://maverisk.nl/epriv-heating-up/): Just for the record; you noticed how things are heating up regarding the ePrivacy Directive forthcoming ..? No wonder. Where GDPR was just a consolidation of existing rules and regulations and shouldn&#8217;t have had too much impact anywhere apart from the SOx-style totalitarian bureaucratic paperwork requirements (or you had a backlog on perfectly reasonable information security already, the resolution of which may have been pushed by GDPR but wasn&#8217;t anything new due to it) OR, if you have been made to believe otherwise, you can get your money back from your &#8216;consultants&#8217; due to wrong advice and yes this sentence is [&hellip;]
- [Accountants' morale: Don't let them near a daycare facility](https://maverisk.nl/accountants-morale-dont-let-them-near-a-daycare-facility/): OK, that title may have been a rather cheap bait, but you took it. As is now discussed, it seems that the morale of accountants (here in NL &ndash; one can guess that elsewhere the same goes to varying degrees) is under scrutiny, after time and time again non-performance of proper straight back / spineless financial audit work, leads to upheaval over, among others, partner fees &ndash; with underling fees in tow, too &ndash; versus morality. The comparison with daycare timeliness morality, so elegantly explained here, is obvious &ndash; if you want to see it. Like, when the decision was: &#8216;I [&hellip;]
- [Overeffectively fair and transparent](https://maverisk.nl/overeffectively-fair-and-transparent/): From the scares of &#8216;AI&#8217; HR algorithms that result in biased outcomes &#8230; some musings; your (constructive ..!) comments appreciated: Biases (i.e., errors!) in input of course will result in biases in outcomes. Overstretched classification statistics (what the &#8216;algorithms&#8217; mainly do, all too often) of course will lead to improper (biased) outcomes. Those can be solved. With some difficulty, as here. But, apart from the obvious misses (link: et al., more have been known in particular in the field of credit scoring), what if the algorithm is 100,0% unbiased and it finds socially-unwanted outcomes ..? To use the above miss as [&hellip;]
- [The cool toys](https://maverisk.nl/the-cool-toys/): No-one was really surprised about this one, eh? And no-one was or is surprised when nothing happened, or will happen, right? &#8216;Class break&#8217; will be a potential total outage of armed forces. Since it&#8217;s only potential, who cares? As long as one can play with the cool toys until they break. Well, indeed, when one can stare at this picture: [Westpuntbaai]
- [The faster meme (fake news)](https://maverisk.nl/the-faster-meme-fake-news/): So&#8230; What if fake news is a new genus / family / order / class / phylum of hyperfast mutating and spreading virus-like sound (?) bites/bytes or more accurately the same of memes..? Like in: Globally hyperconnected socmed environments, intermeshed. If that is a word. This would open up a better understanding of how they operate, and how they can be countered. E.g., quarantaine doesn&#8217;t work as they are out there spreading before being detected (anywhere), and remedies will not work since any cure may come too late &ndash; victims have become immune to the antidote, and mutations will have overcome [&hellip;]
- [Accountancy in error](https://maverisk.nl/accountancy-in-error/): Since all the big data tools have delivered, is, mostly, visualisation tool&#8217;lets, and superfluous commas, though, truth to be told, I am an Oxfordian+ comma fan, &#8230; Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if accountants (of the &#8216;external&#8217;, certifying type and stripe) were able and allowed to not just give one vague, all too vague, ill-understood indicator of reliability..? Like, not just &#8216;reasonable&#8217; [for those needing clarification, I suggest this] or or not. With all the caveats swept under the rug. Wouldn&#8217;t it be possible to deliver a graph, with x being the error margin still &#8216;possible&#8217; (either absolute, or qua significance/materiality threshold) [&hellip;]
- [The New Utopia](https://maverisk.nl/the-new-utopia/): On hobbies. Of the egalitarian-democracy fancy-dancy world of elitists [of all walks of life, of all regions and cultures]. It&#8217;s called the Promise of Blockchain. Where only a handful (if that many) will in the end have Control over &#8216;everything&#8217;, despite the mumbo-jumbo about perfected equality of all. That will not be. But the undoing of geographically-bound governments that is promised, will result in the vast majority of people (men) that have been shown to want no troubles (chllenges), just their nine-to-five job and a steady household (run by &#8230;) to come home to, for a &#8216;normal&#8217; dinner and tellie programming, [&hellip;]
- [Chastise 'em!](https://maverisk.nl/chastise-em/): [Slightly long(er) read] Where &#8216;GRC&#8217; is in transformation. From mere 3LoD so rightfully vilified, or 5LoD that get the point even less&#8230; When one looks at the picture of this post alone, one gets it. Or not. That Lines of Defense do NOT defend against anything but some poking busybodies looking in from the sidelines and contributing nothing to the fight against ill will and error hence are newspeak. I.e., outright lies that are meant to deceive. To &#8230; the choice is yours: For those unaccustomed to my writing style; please jump to this part below. The oh so very few [&hellip;]
- [Privvezee Sheelde ..?](https://maverisk.nl/privvezee-shielde/): Hey anyone out there know what the status is of Privacy Shield &#8230;? Wasn&#8217;t it supposed to have gone down per &#8230; 1 September 2018 which is the day before yesterday which may or may not have been no day too soon. Or have I missed something. And/or Now What ?? Do we have to find all private and public institutions that use any form of &#8216;the Cloud&#8217; to be in gross non-compliance with e.g., the GDPR until proven (sic!) innocent? Since that is the Prove Me attitude still prevalent, hoewever in contradiction to the morale of universal human rights. [Yes [&hellip;]
- [Een rondje met de cyberwijk-agent](https://maverisk.nl/een-rondje-met-de-cyberwijk-agent/): Bij de verjaardag van een kennis, actief en succesvol wijkagent, kwam het volgende naar boven. Ter discussie … De wijkagent surveilleert én is er voor vragen uit de buurt. Met een licht surveille-regime; de agent is maar in z’n eentje in een best grote wijk en wandelt wat. Waar z/hij in de buurt is, wordt net iets minder door rood gefietst; en waar h/zij niet is, moet worden vertrouwd op burgertoezicht [tsja] en melding bij 112, waarop de agent zo nodig poolshoogte gaat nemen. Of als er meer aan de hand is, wordt assistentie ingeroepen, op allerlei vlak; collega’s voor wat [&hellip;]
- [Recruiters using AI](https://maverisk.nl/recruiters-using-ai/): Recruiters using AI isn&#8217;t that new, is it? We hear a lot about it, despite they keep using that word (here). Mostly, the &#8220;AI&#8221; quod non seems to be applied to, rather dumb and dumber, word matching in CVs vv requirements, tossing out all that have copypasted too little. Like, the ones that actually are somebody, are not drones of the most dehumanised kind. Does &#8216;perverse results&#8217; mean what I think it means? The cure is worse, far worse in effectiveness of results than the problem. But then, I am a Positivarian all the way, as you know me. What graduate [&hellip;]
- [nApple II](https://maverisk.nl/napple-ii/): What was it again, the Apple II (or I, or some Altair or C64) being the first personal computer ..? Think again. About this one. Yes indeed, the Programma 101. 1964. And don&#8217;t go off like it had too little memalloc() to do compared to later, much later toys. From zero to this, as before there was nothing at all in personal computers, is an infinitely larger jump than from the 101 to your current cat pic processor. Makes you think, right, what&#8217;s yet in store for e.g., AI machinery &#8230; On the bright side: [Famous Rotjeknor, long-time experienced city rebuilder]
- [Het enorme overschot aan Security-mensen](https://maverisk.nl/het-enorme-overschot-aan-security-mensen/): [Waarschuwing: Onderstaande kan taal bevatten die niet extreem eufemistisch is waardoor al te tere zieltjes zouden kunnen ontdekken dat er meer is in de wereld dan zachte roze Prozacwolkjes. Edited to add: En lees ook eens dit stuk (na onderstaande post uiteraard!), voor wat perspectief en generieke aanvulling.] De laatste tijd waren (sic) er nogal alarmerende berichten over het tekort aan security-mensen van allerlei slag. Vooral buiten ons kleine NLletje maar dat terzijde; zoals ons betaamt, komen de berichten over een paar jaar nog wel achter de rest van de wereld aanhobbelen. Eerst blijft het nog een tijdje bij &#8216;zorgen&#8217;. Toch? [&hellip;]
- [Nog stééds geen Chris Rea ..!?](https://maverisk.nl/nog-steeds-geen-chris-rea/): Vreemd. Het is nu al juni en nog steeds hoor ik geen seizoensgepaste muziek (zoals deze uiteraard); ik zie zelfs nog niet overal pepernoten ..! Gaat het echt zó slecht met het land &#8230;?
- [Ep geen Toep ..?](https://maverisk.nl/ep-geen-toep/): Misschien een beetje vreemde vraag, maar waarom heeft iedereen het over eps en niet over toepen ..? Ja, ik weet dat iedereen in NL denkt Engels te spreken. En heel weinigen uitstijgen boven het niveau van een vierjarige. [Know yourself [&#8230;]] Maar dat betekent toch niet dat we alles dan maar in het Engels moeten laten dat op ons afkomt? Of is dit by design [&#8230;]? We hebben toch ook een mobieltje en geen smartphone (oh hoe is dat gepusht [&#8230;])? Met daarop geen applications maar toepassingen. Beide extreem vreemde labels [&#8230;], maar waarom dan Ep gekozen en niet Toep? Dat [&hellip;]
- [Ask not what GDPR compliance your country can deliver to you](https://maverisk.nl/ask-not-what-gdpr-compliance-your-country-can-deliver-to-you/): Oh well, actually, yes you should. I mean, is there any overview available of the EU countries&#8217; GDPR readiness, qua: Data Protection Authority: Are they agressively pushing data subjects to exercise their rights (ad nauseam against the controllers)? Are they staffed adequately (by numbers, and quality) to take on the great many organisations yet non-compliant? Have they set their agenda? How probable [reasoned guesstimate] are they to be ready to hit the ground running per 25 May? Organisations of the public sector kind: Do they recognise they have to comply utterly and completely as well? Have they relinquished their unsatiable thirst [&hellip;]
- [The new AI Turing Test &ndash; the definitive answer or #fail](https://maverisk.nl/the-new-ai-turing-test-the-definitive-answer-or-fail/): I just don&#8217;t believe in AI [not really true] until it passes the New AI Turing Test, being casually asking an AI app the question of life and getting a definitive answer.
- [Past masters](https://maverisk.nl/past-masters/): Like this one. Overly easily forgotten. Super-bad.
- [Toynbee, Vol. Next](https://maverisk.nl/toynbee-vol-next/): Please y&#8217;all, Would anyone of you happen to know whether the mostly speculative part of Toynbee (say, vol.&#8217;s VII-XII), have been updated by any similar well-educated scholar in comparably readable format, laying aside the somewhat conspicuous errors of a. considering Northhumbria the salvation hideout of Hellenic civilisation as it brought back to Charlemagne c.s., b. not perceiving his own tunnel vision on the existence of G &ndash; that is completely superfluous in all of the volumes ..? As the speculation about the world&#8217;s future, stopped around &#8217;55 &ndash; a wholesome [not] exponential increase of the world&#8217;s complexity and history-influences had passed [&hellip;]
- [Hashgraph to the rescue ..?](https://maverisk.nl/hashgraph-to-the-rescue/): Hashgraph you ask ..? And to what recue; from what ..? Ah, there&#8217;s a mer à boire. But since this was actively clicked from a Standard post into an Aside, my margin&#8217;s just that little too small to fit a perfect(ly short) proof that the answer is something like &#8216;the collapse of the blockchain voting mechanism which is imminent if not past time [per normal humans objective time scales] by co-optation by the governmental-industrial-underground complex&#8217;.If you get it, please let me know. I&#8217;d like to get it, too. From the archives: [Amstelveen, this time of the year &#8230;!]
- [Toen Y2k een ding was &ndash; 'klinkt-als' Avg nu, voor consultants ..? You wish.](https://maverisk.nl/toen-y2k-een-ding-was-klinkt-als-avg-nu-voor-consultants-you-wish/): Tsja, sommigen zijn héél druk met Avg- of GDPR-implementaties (zoals hier). Al die DPIAs (huh, meervoud ..?), die zelden überhaupt nodig zijn (zie onderaan pagina 4 van deze screenprint)&#8230; En alles voor de papieren tijger. Jawel. En &#8216;we&#8217; pakken het helemaal verkeerd aan. Al lijkt het hele circus op een (verlaat!) Y2k- oftewel Millennium-gebeuren, het is [gelukkig] voorbij voor we het doorhebben [op naar EU ePrivacy, google dat maar en juicht, want] terwijl we de leukste dingen hebben gemist. Zoals, &#8230; inderdaad, de herinneringen aan Y2k duiken weer op. Nu dan, als copy-paste [plus een berg upgrade in code] van mijn [&hellip;]
- [AI to detect Godwins](https://maverisk.nl/ai-to-detect-godwins/): Just as we&#8217;re entering dystopia at te speed of light (downward rounding off of the speed of scope creep for creepy applications of the third AI kind) when e.g., Customs are scrambling to implement AI-supported profiling systems &mdash; acknowledging that human profiling is less adequate already, and having built in zero safeguards against abuse by the system or its overlords behind the scenes, on a completely different associated line some idea cropped up with me: Can&#8217;t we deploy suitably trained AI to rate, detect and respond to online discussions on socmed (@Twitter, @LinkedIn et al in particular) to prevent Godwins ..? [&hellip;]
- [Changing culture, individually](https://maverisk.nl/changing-culture-individually/): The thing about changing organisations’ culture(s) seems to never be solved. As new waves of organisational-cultural ideals surface continuously, as if they would even be allowed into a corner of shadow of actual cultural ideals. The thing about … these org-changes-to-(never-will)-be is that they either focus on the org as one wholistic [just adapt your spell checker to the Truth wh is correct, here] thing to conquer, or on the rightsizing of all required change to … subdepartment level. By the time one arrives at the latter, qua project management, all (momentum) has been lost already. And, it is taking it [&hellip;]
- [Homing in on the Homard](https://maverisk.nl/homing-in-on-the-homard/): No, I meant locking on the lobster. Like, what you get when a radar installation has a chicken flying too close in: Instant roast chicken. Yes my dear friends that’s how the microwave came to be invented: The observation that for humans, too, a picket line needs to be drawn around (mobile) radar installations or you get a headache or worse. Not as much a brain freeze but a brain fry. Which is all OK. But what about microwaving a lobster? Apart from ‘slowly’ boiling it, or wrecking it with a knife, how would toasting one at a suitable wattage work [&hellip;]
- [This year's fedora is ..?](https://maverisk.nl/this-years-fedora-is/): Which trendwatcher would be able to actually tell trend / predict what this year&#8217;s fedora would be ..? Because it&#8217;s a long time coming since the ridiculousness (^2) of this and this and this. Or this, this and this. Yes, all links to that era long past when &#8216;hipsters&#8217; ruled &ndash; the joke market. As we stand, the last of the beards are slowly vanishing. As they&#8217;re almost indistuinguishable from the Real beardmen. Almost &ndash; picture anyone without his (errmmm, her ..??) beard and when you see the babyface (often clear enough), you know it is like like forever before, the [&hellip;]
- [Blockchain Bystanders](https://maverisk.nl/blockchain-bystanders/): Much earlier, I posted on the bystander effect and how that wreaks havoc on open source software reliabilty. Sadly, I can&#8217;t find any reference why the same error wouldn&#8217;t bug the ultimate reliability of blockchain systems. Yes, one could check back in the chain, over the oh so widely distributed elements &ndash; but does anyone ever do ..? Hopefully, someone can give me the definitive reprove/couter-proof. Until then, I remain unhappy.
- [Crazy ones](https://maverisk.nl/crazy-ones/): Here&#8217;s the idea: PA*[AI|1] + LC = Continuously adapting administration. WherePA is of course Process Analysis, (greatly) enhanced with AI or not,LC is Low Code, like these guys and gals do,And the rest, well, when some system finds out on its own when and how to adapt procedures and processes previously baked rock solid into ERP [I mean, accounting] behemoths, it will be perfectly aligned with all the business that takes place out there outside of the system so all the bookkeeping that flows through it, will perfectly reflect actual business done.All will be happy. Except maybe the accountant(s) that panic [&hellip;]
- [Cultuur in de Kamer](https://maverisk.nl/cultuur-in-de-kamer/): Dat klinkt zo eng als het is. Enne, nu de paaseitjes alweer allang in de winkels liggen (jawel), is het wellicht goed te bedenken dat de &lt;titel&gt;-referentie ook pertinent strijdig is met de feiten: We leven niet in een judeo-christelijke cultuur. Dit naar aanleiding van de observatie dat de Jumbo(s) op Eerste Kerstdag open waren. En zowat alle andere winkels, de überkapitalistiese, op Tweede. Zondag is &#8216;erger&#8217; dan wat vroeger een doordeweekse maandag was met sluiting voor inventarisatie. En het gebruik van het nummer van het beest, in plaats van gewone namen van mensen [jawel; alle gevallenen werken en bestaan grotendeels [&hellip;]
- [Postponing, gratification](https://maverisk.nl/postponing-gratification/): Can&#8217;t seem to remember; maybe you have some pointers: Where is the literature on procrastination [beautiful word] where we get outlined what the impact is of Some things give the satisfaction of Doing, other thing give the satisfaction of Done. Which is something that crossed my mind. Of course, there&#8217;s some element of Doing being satisfactory because one enjoys the learning that goes on, and/or the improvement detected during / due to that, and on the other side the element of Boring that is encountered when the learning isn&#8217;t there (routine, rote chores) and only the tick-off at the end signals [&hellip;]
- [Z-geenZ-P](https://maverisk.nl/z-geenz-p/): Oh wat zijn alle reclamemakers blij dat ze een nieuw speeltje hebben gevonden. De &#8220;ZZP&#8217;er&#8221;. Die oh zo zelfstandig is, óf een sukkel. Want, laten we wel wezen: Een ZZP&#8217;er is een zielig type omdat &#8216;ie zonder personeel z&#8217;n (sic) winkel draaiende moet zien te houden en nergens verstand van heeft behalve wat liefde voor z&#8217;n producten. Úren staat &#8216;ie in de winkel te wachten tot er een klant binnen dreigt te komen. Ondertussen moet &#8216;ie met alles, ja echt álles, eromheen worden geholpen, van KvK-registratie tot en met marketing (kleuterwebsite en &#8216;SEO&#8217; dude!) en boekhouding maar vooral allereerst van al [&hellip;]
- [Another aside for 2018: Tangle](https://maverisk.nl/another-aside-for-2018-tangle/): Yup, another call for (serious) comments: Tangle. How much of a chance does it stand; who would know more about its vulnerabilities (at various levels of abstraction, please) ..? TIA.
- [Mo'nay part II](https://maverisk.nl/monay-part-ii/): What if all those bizarre apps / functionality that provide all sorts of payment services, are all attempts, in vain, to restore some functionality that cash had-has ..? Because all those micropayment stuff, is used mostly if at all for payments in close physical proximity (or just take the effort to&#8230; afraid of human closeness are you ..!?) that just cash money was perfect for. And now we have a chaos of new apps and banking app functionality that solves all those payment problems that you didn&#8217;t realise you seriously had and don&#8217;t want to clutter over the edge your phones [&hellip;]
- [On the VeRge](https://maverisk.nl/on-the-verge/): Though tempted to include a link to these guys, I won&#8217;t. Oh wait.Though these are close, and may even be better [personal opinion, don&#8217;t bother to argue] Question is: Would anyone have useful insights into Verge (Coin) ..? Just wanted to know. Want(ed; ed.) to make a comparison with Ripple, the Bankers&#8217; Own. [ It is! Don&#8217;t be fooled.]
- [Toyn not to bee](https://maverisk.nl/toyn-not-to-bee/): Anyone else have a problem with Toynbee (this, and Vol II), re the very start of own blindness on the delusion of (misplaced, duh) stature of grandness coupled with a serious lack(ing) of definitions, categories, etc. which is mixed with a host of hidden assumptions that turn out to be the conclusions (surprise!) and their own proof ..? Yes it&#8217;s all as jumbled as that sentence. Despite some interesting analysis, this all leads to a lot of meat pies in the skies. But, then, as one reads on and consideres both the underdeveloped scietificity of the trade at time of writing [&hellip;]
- [AI Bares It All](https://maverisk.nl/ai-bares-it-all/): Apologies, had to plug that title. For this here article. Because the association with bare, barren &#8216;lands&#8217; is just too obviously a gross interference of some researchers&#8217; / system trainers&#8217; preferences ..? Or is it their arid love life ..? [Referring of course to celibacy, too; Milan]
- [Slimme GDPR, domme meter](https://maverisk.nl/slimme-gdpr-domme-meter/): Nu iedereen begint te begrijpen dat het slimme van de &#8216;slimme&#8217; meter alleen zit in de onvoorstelbare leugen van noodzaak van tweemaal per &#8230; doorgeven van uw individuele energieverbruik, omdat daarmee de capaciteit beter zou kunnen worden verdeeld, gemanaged en ingepland, terwijl dat slechts op wijkniveau zou hoeven worden bepaald &ndash; alsof het energiebedrijf op individueel niveau zou gaan throttelen als dat nodig zou zijn en alsof er remote controls op dat granulariteitsniveau beheerst zouden kunnen worden ..! &ndash; Is er de GDPR, of AVG voor wie provinciaals denkt. Die veel strikter dan voorheen toeziet op doelbinding; het moet echt niet [&hellip;]
- [Too late, or not](https://maverisk.nl/too-late-or-not/): So, today marks the 100 work days from 25-5-2018 mark. Not counting the umpteen bank and other holidays. Wich means that You&#8217;re (with) a large company: Not sorry to inform you; your GDPR program will fail. Per the above deadline, you will not have achieved enough. By far, not enough. Some plans, at most, and some paperwork. But not the end resulting detail minimum-level of data architecture, let alone pervasive improvements in set-up and management of actual, concrete, infosec. Reports notwithstanding, those are hyperfuzzy window dressing anyway. You&#8217;re with an SME. Congratulations; when you start now, you can achieve compliance in [&hellip;]
- [Gimme back the budget](https://maverisk.nl/gimme-back-the-budget/): What happens to the budget when some self-styled government authority flat-out refuses to carry out (part of) its assigned and entrusted [well&#8230;] task ..?Withdraw, you would say, for at least the part that she (sic) got budget for and says to spend on that. If not the whole Board is to be fired for misconduct and insubordinance. Of course, not in NL &#8230;
- [Not only Canadian](https://maverisk.nl/not-only-canadian/): As you understand, that does not say &#8216;merely&#8217;, the &#8216;only&#8217; is on purpose. That being the same as the lies that @transavia (Transavia, remember them?) came up with, when they: Let some pilot fly to a destination they knew would be more fervent in arresting him Told the passengers waiting there for the return flight that &#8216;there was something amiss with fueling&#8217; Did not have a fresh crew / pilot at hand; had to be flown in from NL after item 1 went down leading to a delay of something like 6 hours, that they should have been able to calculate, [&hellip;]
- [Greatest misses: IIR](https://maverisk.nl/greatest-misses-iir/): Not as much this, as this, with full login code supplied on the visible-to-all snail mail label [conveniently stripped from the pic] from some &#8216;Institute&#8217; that deals in risk management. Sic: Yes I&#8217;ll keep on trucking about anti-GDPR-compliant mailings &#8230; never asked for this one&#8230;
- [Plus:](https://maverisk.nl/plus/): Yeah, one more again: About how Vail, Courchevel (well, 1850) and Whistler would still certainly not be off my Advised list&#8230; This. OK, and others. Indeed, mostly to the right, but there&#8217;s choice Advised sites to the left as well.
- [Latest add](https://maverisk.nl/latest-add/): Oh just a final note: this. On paleofutures&#8230; Bit like this but going much further back. Cheers!
- [Exit <del>2018</del> <u>1163</u>](https://maverisk.nl/exit-2018-1175/): Asad day for all you aficinados of this blog. After some five years and about 1163 posts (you&#8217;ll see&#8230;; own, mostly with own pics), this is the last of the (work)daily update. Yes, I&#8217;ve managed. But will turn to more serious, somewhat-more long-form content so will stop the drivel. I will not post daily, but when I do &#8230; And I&#8217;ll intersperse with some margin notes posts. Per 1/1 these will have no picture, the long for ones will &ndash; just check the link-post&#8217;lets and you&#8217;ll see. In line with the season: Enjoy less frequent but more professional, beautiful fireworks. Or [&hellip;]
- [Secrut law](https://maverisk.nl/8025-2/): Hey, does @iusmentis or anyone else out there in NL have a clue what this [dunno if there&#8217;s a Dunglish translation around somewhere] is about, what relevance this has to e.g., infosec, and/or the probable impact in the Information/IT side or organisations, or are we all just too busy with GDPR ..? Just wanted to know. Saw it fly by and wondered why there weren&#8217;t any serious comment flurries. Or is it because it all isn&#8217;t relevant ..? Or is just article 4 relevant ..? Is there no clue about due &#8216;protection&#8217; (security) being required by the secret info holder or [&hellip;]
- [After 2018's hypes, this](https://maverisk.nl/after-2018s-hypes-this/): Already you thought you had enough on your plate, for 2018 qua predictions even when most will play out differently than stated? And though these ones are [as in: when you verify/falsify them in the near future, they will have become &#8216;are&#8217;] actually correct&#8230; these will also play a role in 2018. Yes, yes, in a much more fundamental way, and maybe in the mainstream media only per ill-understood sensational pastiche, but still it will certainly [same] augment the fuzz around quantum computing. That will, in the end, when made operational not be much of a shocker anymore. Too much dilution [&hellip;]
- ['corn down, times 10](https://maverisk.nl/corn-down-times-10/): After the many lists of wat went well this year, with AI, bitcoin, etc.etc., we wonder: How much of that is plugged fake news or ditto overblown ..?When still, we have the likes of this: A list of some 10 unicorns that went down (or -soon) despite funding to dream of. When you look into it, we seem to be back in, 2001, and somewhat later, when the idea of drafting a two-pager business plan seemed to be enough to get VC / angel / whathavewe funding. OK, maybe this time around (and for the co&#8217;s mentioned) it&#8217;s more like a [&hellip;]
- [Not sure ... about the mix of AI, privacy values, ethics, BD](https://maverisk.nl/not-sure-about-the-mix-of-ai-privacy-values-ethics-bd/): Recently, I was informed about this. With the blueish table spraking a recall (the way the brain does) of this and in particular, this [downloadable here]. This, the latter in particular, being about how &#8216;privacy&#8217; as an issue(s), depends on its definitions &ndash; both formally, and emotionally. I&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;s&nbsp;u&nbsp;g&nbsp;g&nbsp;e&nbsp;s&nbsp;t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;y&nbsp;o&nbsp;u&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;s&nbsp;t&nbsp;u&nbsp;d&nbsp;y&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;i&nbsp;t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;f&nbsp;u&nbsp;l&nbsp;l&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;d&nbsp;e&nbsp;t&nbsp;a&nbsp;i&nbsp;l&nbsp;&nbsp;yes that&#8217;s a lot of &amp;nbsp; but definitely worth it. The study I mean. Now, with the inroads made by Big Data (i.e., mudane profiling now with greater tools for [towards] greater fools), and this being turned into &#8216;AI&#8217; quod non, we need clarity more than ever. The Internet has just too small a [&hellip;]
- [Predictions 2018+](https://maverisk.nl/predictions-2018/): Hold me to account for the following. For these are the predictions that for a change, will pan out: Bitcoin disasters, as in price crashes and partial recoveries. With a plethora of other coins rising in prominence, and price. The room for diversification will abound. And I will devise that Coin Maturity Index you&#8217;ve all been waiting for. But with blockchain successes in many places. E.g., one will see some e-voting based on it, spring up. Not that such solutions will be the thing of the year (yet), but still in all sorts of unexpected places, &#8216;chain solutions prove helpful improvements [&hellip;]
- [Some notes on notes on Chollet](https://maverisk.nl/some-notes-on-notes-on-chollet/): After you read this, you&#8217;ll get the following: [After two empty lines] &#8216;seed AI&#8217; may not be necessary. Think of how the Classics built their arches: The support may be removed. Same here; some &#8216;upbringing&#8217; by humans, even opening the possibility of ethics education / steering; Proponents of this theory also regard intelligence as a kind of superpower, conferring its holders with almost supernatural capabilities to shape their environment / A good description of a human from the perspective of a chimpanzee. – correct. As such, slightly ad hominem and we know what that is about (here); If the gears of [&hellip;]
- [Another nail (to images as evidence)](https://maverisk.nl/another-nail-to-images-as-evidence/): Just to drop it here, after umptuous [now that I&#8217;ve used it, when not if that&#8217;s a word] warnings, another nail to the &#8230; value of &#8216;evidence&#8217; in court, in this piece, explained in easy pics here. Seriously distorting the picture by seemingly doing nothing of the sort. Ocean&#8217;s Eleven (or –and counting) style vid replay, now with much more modern, more perfect options. [Edited to add: Another case in point here] Just sayin&#8217;. And: [When Run To The Hills is your last defence; Salzb&#8217; – with a terrace]
- [There we have it; botcracy](https://maverisk.nl/there-we-have-it-botcracy/): As we turn the leaf towards a new year, let&#8217;s not forget what values &ndash; in operation, operationalised &ndash; protect our Human Rights, in the form of de-mock-racy, and how they are ever so quickly being repelled by, e.g., AI and fake news but in particular, the deployment of bots as here. Yes I know, that&#8217;s three layers of tools but still, the focus is on the first two but the latter plays almost the foulest role. Yes I know, the &#8216;operationalised&#8217; part may need elucidation on the side of &#8216;transparency&#8217;, &#8216;access and inclusion&#8217; etc., but when you read after the [&hellip;]
- [Unsider threats](https://maverisk.nl/unsider-threats/): How is it that we tend to hear over and over again about &#8216;insider&#8217; threats ..? Even when it&#8217;s not the Board that is meant here, as the pinnacle of &#8230; the ability to drive a company into the ground, those pesky &#8216;insiders&#8217; really are a pain in the place where you like that or the sun doesn&#8217;t shine. Better get rid of any and all of those &#8216;insiders&#8217; then, eh ..? AI here you come. But if AI system(s) would be a replacement for humans, wouldn&#8217;t they commit the same temporary, small, innocious and unconscious lapses of judgement..? And what [&hellip;]
- [And of course](https://maverisk.nl/and-of-course/): Another one today! This here piece, and the according official text (with interesting subheader, as downloaded from the official site&#8230;). Because one should not expect either to be a fair representation of the Chief&#8217;s actual stance as what is in the speech text is so clearly wrong, or the Chief (his speechwriter) was badly misinformed by his own staff / speechwriter, probably down/up quite some chain of command before reaching either end. E.g., &#8220;First, Admiral Bauer pointed out that cyber operations have significant drawbacks. In fact he called them a “too good to be true” scenario. Yes, they are fast, do [&hellip;]
- [Me-meme tiredness ..?](https://maverisk.nl/me-meme-tiredness/): Ryou serious ..? One does not simply &#8230; What about the Dos Equis Man ..? I don&#8217;t often call something over the hill, but when I do &#8230; But just about then, the Humint meme turned up. And of course this here (#3!) and scores of similar sites, remain &#8216;healthy&#8217;. May memes even remain one of the mainstays of Imgur. Am I feeling like an awkward penguin now ..? Nope. Point still stands. Other than (high?)school kids of a certain age and subsubcultural denomination, not many are even aware there was such a phenomenon as memes – in the way portrayed [&hellip;]
- [A different take on fireworks](https://maverisk.nl/a-different-take-on-fireworks/): Yes dear people it may be unbelievable to some but there&#8217;s some local areas, like the EU, where in some spots/countries, fireworks are still allowed to be lit by just about anyone [age limits for buying, much more overeasily circumvented than e.g., alcohol sales], on Dec 31 – and no-one seems to care about earlier (days in advance) occasional severity-max hindrance to the elderly, dogs, and generally phobic/gravely-disturbed-by-fireworks public. &#8220;Tolerance&#8221; never seems to go the way of the Meek. But, when societal discussions go to maybe possibly impinge on these ridiculously-lax liberties, there&#8217;s hope. Of a replacement of sorts. Not (only) [&hellip;]
- [Perception](https://maverisk.nl/perception/): The Doors to Which, you understood.hat were delivered by all the other posts of this here blog you&#8217;re on.T hough here, I meant it to refer to the cliché that recently rose up again from the dullness of repeat, being stated as &#8220;If a door closes before you, there will be another door open to go through&#8221; or something similar. Which of course is very wrong. &#8220;When a door closes before you, you open it again. That&#8217;s how doors work.&#8220; Somewhat different, eh? Even when you&#8217;d have to kick it in. Or, reality being too complex to capture is such a [&hellip;]
- [Debatable socmed flame tactics](https://maverisk.nl/debatable-socmed-flame-tactics/): For ten points (each), please comment on the following ideas re arguments in a proper (?) debate [after the pictural intermission]: Is this picture correct, in your opinion? At what layer does your comment on the previous question sit in the picture? Does the picture portray the debasement of your arguments, when you have none (left) at some higher level, to a lower level to try (ex ante in vein due to the debasement) to still try to win an argument? Would one&#8217;s inability to remain at the upper levels (allowing Quintilianus&#8216; essential remarks and tactics, i.e., allowing well-controlled level variation) [&hellip;]
- [Quo or Misquo](https://maverisk.nl/quo-or-misquo/): tation, that is. Either here.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Or here. From which I have learned, essentially this: Never trust. [Oh wait; here] XOR never verify. Depends on which world you want to live.So much for quotes. Let&#8217;s use our own insights. Preferably of the kind that is hard to relay, because that is (may be &#8230;!) an above-50% sign that it&#8217;s genuine and profound. Since putting things into words is hard, so when the process seems not so hard, the content probably is flimsy, to make it not so hard. Circles&#8230; Now, on to the Weekend! And: [Just your average Noto&#8217;an]
- [In Controllusion](https://maverisk.nl/in-controllusion/): After a good receipt of this, I kept on receiving nudge-pointers about a related issue. Being, that so many are, have become, control freaks. Micro-managers with such enormous blind spots, blinkers/blinders. With a thesis developing that this is caused by sheer frustration of not being able to shake off the being controlled. Since individualism, the societal buddy of pure neo-capitalism the fascist kind intertwined with consumerism and the blow-out of traditional social group cohesion(s), demands we are Free. Or so. And find ourselves [well, not me] still tied up tight in (whether private or public) corporate dictats. Having to let off [&hellip;]
- [Lagging, nagging 'Coin feeling](https://maverisk.nl/lagging-nagging-coin-feeling/): Somehow, the many (?) Cassandra&#8217;s messages of late about Bitcoin being a hyped-up bubble about to burst and how it&#8217;s the laggerds (only) that now want to jump in, drive up prices but will be the Greater Fools in the game, sounds a bit &#8230; false bottom. [Unsure what the exchange rate is, today. Has the bubble burst already, or ..?] I&#8217;d say, how many countries, and moreover how great a many financial organisations (private or public, or regulatory or inter/supranational) may have an interest to blow up Bitcoin, as a demonstrator that all that blockchain stuff isn&#8217;t any good after [&hellip;]
- [The Pursuit of Triviality](https://maverisk.nl/the-pursuit-of-triviality/): Today being the day of the real Sinterklaas (as here), we also learn (not!) to cherish the small gifts. As in this effect, but otherwise. [That sounds weird&#8230;] But the effect is too, all the same. And so ubiquitous that we may even lose sensitivity towards, or against [here we go again] it. And that is a problem. Because darn, how can we even think to train AI in rational business decision making, when all learning examples, and/or actual practical deployment, will be tainted / rife with such irrational biases? We so commonly swipe, shuffle them softly, under the rug that [&hellip;]
- [The Boring Wine Inn (3 @MichelinGuides stars)](https://maverisk.nl/the-boring-wine-inn-3-michelinguides-stars/): Maybe the relevance of Michelin stars, and accompanying guide, would increase if, Apart from losing the numbing down, bland-isation of any food innovation by chefs to a style that is either Boring in itself already or a quick to wear off gimmick, that obtaining or even striving for a star(s) often turns into, just to please the judges and don&#8217;t forget a bucket of salt (yes, don&#8217;t lie to me) The wine list were innovative, too. By which I don&#8217;t mean that the wine list couldn&#8217;t have some classics but where the all but most insanely priced items (all tend to [&hellip;]
- [Now you read me, now you don't](https://maverisk.nl/now-you-read-me-now-you-dont/): As a pointer to what this is about&#8230; You know, like the oldest tricks in the book, still going strong when all the world&#8217;s (worlds&#8217;?) arms&#8217; races are going nowhere. As predicted. Where the title of course doesn&#8217;t reference a major part of the sec controls, stego. But that&#8217;s a finesse point. Let&#8217;s be happy that research into faster horses continues, with results. CU! [Stylish; what&#8217;s hiding here ..? Even when you know where]
- [Eternal Life](https://maverisk.nl/eternal-life/): Remember Castranova&#8217;s Synthetic Worlds? You should. If only because this, is, still, in The Atlantic [edited to add: with an intelligent comment/reply here] – because that is still around, it allows for comparison of origins, and the utopical futures as described in the book, with-or-to the current state of the world. Where we have both the &#8216;hardly any change noticeable in current-state affairs when compared with the moonshot promises of yesterday&#8217; and the &#8216;look what already has changed; the whole Mobile world change wasn&#8217;t even in those rosy pictures&#8217; and &#8216;hey don&#8217;t critique yet we may only be halfway through any [&hellip;]
- [Noble Black edition](https://maverisk.nl/noble-black-edition/): When first, Santa (the real one !!!) his (hey, not &#8216;her&#8217; &ndash; isn&#8217;t that wrong by not being utterly iconoclast, or is gross distortion of History by such destruction of artefacts a crime against humanity?) helpers shouldn&#8217;t be blackened chimney sweepers (as they have been known to be, not people of African descent, since at least 50 years) because even in their fine dress and with important President&#038;CEO-plus-1 level jobs and maintainers of the kindred-laws certainly over parents too, they were by definition slaves or so. Oh? Weren&#8217;t they the ones with rods to enforce the rule of naughty or nice [&hellip;]
- [Toepasselijke infosec](https://maverisk.nl/toepasselijke-infosec/): Hoe is ook anders te verwachten van een museale aangelegenheid, dan dat deze als wachtwoord minimaal 6 characters waarvan 1 hoofdletter en 1 special character eist, in tijden dat al tijden duidelijk is dat dit a. onder het vroegere, ooit-eens regime al irrelevant zwak was b. door de NIST-paper(s?) allang achterhaald is. En mijn passphrase is er natuurlijk nevernooit in te vrotten – de werkelijk veilige manier van wachtwoordgebruik is te modern ..? Hoe lang moet iets achterhaald, verouderd, dysfunctioneel zijn voor de museumclub dat oppikt en in depot neemt, niet aan de voordeur laat staan? Ach. En: [Wachtwoord: MVSEVM]
- [Maandag GDPRdag](https://maverisk.nl/maandag-gdprdag/): Tsja als de GDPR er aankomt, of de AVG als u de weg kwijtbent, dan heb je nog nét even tijd om te laten zien hoe het vooral niet moet. Case in point: Een dikke catalogus op fullcolour papier versturen in een plastic verpakking &ndash; naar een adres waar er nooit om is gevraagd, nooit wat is aangevinkt of whatever. #fail defined&#8230; Of is dit een poging, gratis, om te laten zien dat wat nu allang niet meer kan of mag zometeen gewoon doorgaat met niet kunnen (qua maatschappelijke acceptatie) of mogen &#8230;? Nou ja: [Zelfs voor Straatsburg, té muddy waters&#8230;]
- [Gee... DPR on Profiling](https://maverisk.nl/gee-dpr-on-profiling/): This again about that pesky new legislation that just won&#8217;t go away not even before it will be legally-effectively enforced [as you know, the thing has been around already for a year and a half, but will only be enforceable, in pure theory, per upcoming May 25th but your mileage may (huh) vary greatly – when Risk = Impact x Chance [don&#8217;t get me started on the idiocy of that, as here of 2013, Dec 5th – Gift time!] the chance is Low of Low and Impact can be easily managed down, legally yes don&#8217;t FUD me that will be the [&hellip;]
- [Aïe! Missing the Point](https://maverisk.nl/aie-missing-the-point/): Yet again, some seem to not understand what they&#8217;re talking about when it comes to transparency in AI&#8230; Like, here. Worse, this person seems to be a rapporteur to the European Economic and Social Comittee advising the European Committee. If that sounds vague – yes it does even for Europeans. For the &#8216;worse&#8217; part: The umpteenth Error, to consider that the secrecy of algorithms is the only thing that would need to change to get transparency about the fuctioning of a complete system. 1. The algorithm is just a part of the system, and the behaviour of the system is not [&hellip;]
- [Gödel pics](https://maverisk.nl/godel-pics/): May it be that research has stumbled onto a find of fundamental significance ..? I&#8217;m not overly overstating this; on the surface this looks like a regular weaving error in AI development fabric; one or a few pixels changed, can completely throw off some learned pattern recognition net. Yes, this means that (most probably) neural nets are &#8216;brittle&#8217; for these things.But does this perhaps moreover mean, it may be a #first qua Gödel numbers &#8230;? I mean not the regular the Hofstädter type that, even when syntactically perfectly normal, will when fed to a machine able to parse syntactically correct form, [&hellip;]
- ['tuurlijk.](https://maverisk.nl/tuurlijk/): Als je een macrobiotischdynamische überkapitalistische-schaamlap neerzet en een bezoeker met een paraplu wordt, om de houten vloer te beschermen (what&#8217;s next? klompen &#8216;tegen&#8217; dames op naaldhakken ..?), geacht deze in een plastic zak mee te dragen&#8230; Armoe, stervens-armoe. Van geest. That&#8217;s what.
- [Small Mob Rule](https://maverisk.nl/small-mob-rule/): Dat is dus grote onzin: De @telegraaf zit er (weer) dik naast, in dit stuk. &#8220;DOKKUM &#8211; Er gaapt een reusachtige kloof tussen de provincie en de Randstad. Thema’s als genderneutrale toiletten, de nadruk op ’diversiteit’ en vooral het debat over de kleur van Zwarte Piet worden door een kleine culturele elite in met name Amsterdam aan de rest van Nederland opgedrongen, terwijl de meeste burgers in de regio’s hier helemaal niet op zitten te wachten.&#8221; Nee Telegraaf, dit is volslagen onzin, over de rand van leugen. Want het is slechts een miniem klein-handjevol (inderdaad) bewoners van de Randstad &ndash; die [&hellip;]
- [ennials Nuisance](https://maverisk.nl/ennials-nuisance/): Yeah, got it, something seems amiss. That thing being X. As per here. Only question now is: Why for Pete&#8217;s sake (that&#8217;s not a good answer) would anyone want to be binned into any category like that!?As if you&#8217;re nothing if not reduced to the furthest bland&#8217;ed statistic ..? As if you have no life except for what you&#8217;re told to have to the broadest of consumerist-dunce craving marketeers ..? I don&#8217;t know. If you seek utter stupidity to be poured over yourself, feel free to be an &lt;whatever&gt;ennial or so. To the sane (which might be the few): Run away! [&hellip;]
- [One nation](https://maverisk.nl/one-nation/): Just a side, very far side, note on the whole celeb news going round: Where did the masses not see the One Nation Under Wood reference in that last word ..? And wasn&#8217;t the character perfectly portrayed by an actor that kept secret what the character kept secret too ..? [At least, the double layer became apparent now that the actor showed the IRL part of it. Maybe not showed his part. Maybe not too pub(l)icly. Etc.] Oh well I&#8217;ll leave it at that. And: [For the completely zero reason: Torún]
- [@Sloterdijk_P thinking about bites](https://maverisk.nl/sloterdijk_p-thinking-about-bites/): No, you uncultured species, he was not onto the physically edible kind&#8230; But the kind that comes up when considering that for Spheres parts I-III (heartily recommended, to read and study them fully to full understandig of every bit of it &#8230;!), this right honourable gentleman (&#8216;person&#8217;) used some, estimated, 1.250k (yes as in 1.25M) words. Or, as that would be called for German philosophy, a sound bite. Out of the physically-inverse (?) of Plato&#8217;s Aristophanes&#8217; speech&#8217;s whole human (lost), the spheres turned into foams in all their intertwined physical plus completely-moreover abstract space references, are being realised in writing, in [&hellip;]
- [Stop dads](https://maverisk.nl/stop-dads/): When you read too much (ahead) into it&#8230;By means of this court ruling. Where a father was forbidden to post pics of his (was it 2- or 3-yr old) son on Facebook or any other socmed platform, by request of the kid&#8217;s mom, since even when the father posted in quite tightly closed circles, Fubbuck has in its terms and conditions that it might use the pics for commercial purposes. Since the latter can not be ruled out and in the interest of protecting the child&#8217;s interests, the court ruled such, advising the dad to show the pics to friends op [&hellip;]
- [Loss of memory](https://maverisk.nl/loss-of-memory/): Recently, was reminded (huh) that our memories are &#8230; maybe still better than we think, compared to the systems of record that we keep outside of our heads. Maybe not in &#8216;integrity&#8217; of them, but in &#8216;availability&#8217; terms. Oh, there, too, some unclarity whether availability regards the quick recall, the notice-shortness of &#8216;at short notice&#8217; or the long-run thing, where the recall is &#8216;eventually&#8217; &ndash; under multivariate optimisation of &#8216;integrity&#8217; again. How &#8216;accurate&#8217; is your memory? Have &#8216;we&#8217; in information management / infosec done enough definition-savvy work to drop the inaccurately (huh) and multi- interpreted &#8216;integrity&#8217; in favour of &#8216;accuracy&#8217; which [&hellip;]
- [Awaiting Asibot](https://maverisk.nl/awaiting-asibot/): All Are Ardently Awaiting &ndash; stop, semantics go over syntactic alli &ndash; the release of Asibot, as here.Because we all need such a system. The inverse of Dragon Naturally (into Nuance, too little heard of as well!) combined with a ghost writer, as it were / is / will be. When prepped with one&#8217;s own set of texts, should be able to generate useful ground work for all those books you have been wanting to write for a long time but couldn&#8217;t get started. Now, would such a system be able to extract hidden layers, stego-type of themes, that are in [&hellip;]
- [Culpably deaf](https://maverisk.nl/culpably-deaf/): All that work for a private sector organisation who take (wrong) decisions based on false information &ndash; or, essentially, dismiss accurate, helpful information that would have steered to other decision alternative(s) &ndash; will be fired when the truth of the bad decision comes out. Which would be helpful if applied to sectors where people&#8217;s money is so abjectly abused, too. E.g., like this one. Or this one (in English, some info here, and the whole idea of usefulness of having more and more data is debunked endlessly everywhere (you search)). Or this one, completely debunked here. The list is endless. All [&hellip;]
- [The dullness of infosec ..?](https://maverisk.nl/the-dullness-of-infosec/): And you thought fraud detection was about bank transactions or even counterfeiting physical stuff. Boh-ring, when you read this. Takes it to another level, eh? Which brings me to an important issue: Are we not still studying and practising infosec from the wrong angle, doing a middle-out sort of development in many directions but starting at a very mundane &#8216;CIA&#8217; sort of point. Which is of course core, but there is so much to cover that some outside-onto view(point) might be beneficial. We&#8217;re in the thick of the fight, and no matter in which direction you go, when you wade through [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">L</span>ess than containerload shipping](https://maverisk.nl/less-than-containerload-shipping/): When one would be interested to keep up with what&#8217;s happening, and where future class breaks might be, a nice intro would be this little book. Like, when virtual machines came to the fore, it was declared that this would be a solution because of course the VMs would be impenetrable. By the utterly clueless, since it was the stupidest thing possible in infosec to say that. Though it cost some time to show the real value (positive) net of the risks (that indeed showed up&#8230;). With this subject, the same will happen. Future fact. Oh and the post title just [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">T</span>rust &#8891; Verify](https://maverisk.nl/trust-verify/): You get that. Since Verify &rarr; &not;Trust. When you verify, you engender the loss of trust. And since Trust is a two-way street (either both sides trust each other, or one will loose initial trust and both will end up in distrust), verification leads to distrust all around &ndash; linked to individualism and experience [we&#8217;re on the slope to less-than-formal-logic semantics here] this will result in fear all around. And Michael Porter&#8217;s two books, not to mention Ulrich Beck in his important one. So, if you&#8217;d still come across any type that hoots &#8216;Trust, but verify&#8217;, you know you&#8217;ve met him. [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>lmost but more than three bodies, still](https://maverisk.nl/almost-but-more-than-three-bodies-still/): Which is about this. Which is also about this, and others&#8230;But wait; you&#8217;ve been misled, the above link is not about a &#8216;solution&#8217; &ndash; it&#8217;s about an expansion of the problem&#8230; So, we&#8217;ll remain in doubt over the eventual logical possibility of generalisation of any solution to n bodies where n &ge; 3. Leaving the aggregation from (sub)particle physics to the Universe (and, well, how was &#8216;a bit onwards&#8217; better phrased?), end up in a statistical grey noise chaos. Too bad. Hence:[Considerable boringly bland ..? Girona]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>ro tip: Bankers are your doormats](https://maverisk.nl/pro-tip-bankers-are-your-doormats/): At least, that&#8217;s what the Quartz article comes down to, too. At least, if you don&#8217;t want to go down with the oh so often recurring banks/bankers&#8217; demise. Indeed all that recognise Yeshua as having had at least something valid to contribute to the world, see/heard/read that the swiping the Temple clean of the money changers, was a demonstration of the ethically very worst being thrown out of civilised society. When, as a family, one would want to stay in touch with one&#8217;s rightful place (geographically; name one family that made its fortune in a fully legal and ethical way ..?) [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">OM</span>&nbsp;als tooltje](https://maverisk.nl/om-als-tooltje/): Wat ik me bij deze link nou afvraag: Het genoemde risico van concurrentie-pesten / uitschakelen (het Internet vergeet niets, en daar kan heel de rijksoverheid of wie dan ook geheel niets aan doen) is levensgroot, ondanks de minieme en volledig transparante schaamlap van eigen beslissing die bij de betaaldiensten wordt gelegd &ndash; die zullen zich zeker (ontkenning diskwalificeert van handelingsbekwaamheid) verschuilen achter het OM. Wat gaat het OM daartegen doen? Zoals in het commentaar bij bovenstaande link; de &#8216;bewijslast&#8217; is een aanfluiting en treft de kleinere webwinkels veel zwaarder dan de grotere die veel meer middelen hebben om hun &#8216;onschuld&#8217; (juist [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">I</span>ntermediate Golden Oldie](https://maverisk.nl/intermediate-golden-oldie/): This time, it&#8217;s not a Friday thing. Must be due to Daylight-no-more-Savings Time or so. But without further ado, the Golden Oldie Pic of the Day, with much &#8216;better&#8217; versions of the same being around, somewhere&#8230;:
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>rms / race coming to an end ..?](https://maverisk.nl/arms-race-coming-to-an-end/): When this is still necessary and (counter)x-measures will continu to be developed, for sure, how will this little nugget of WP29 change things? Because it has power. That may lead to a throwback. For how long? The harder the throwback, the longer to recover. But the more powerful will be that rebound ..? We&#8217;ll see. For now, canvas blockers are still the way forward, so implement them, right? This post was brought to you as a public service announcement from the sanity of browsing for information security and privacy blog you&#8217;re reading. But seriously, why is there so little analysis of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">I</span>t doesn't matter](https://maverisk.nl/it-doesnt-matter/): A great many before me have discussed the merits pro and contra using contractors instead of perm contracted staff. I will still give it one more go. Since lately, there has been some back and forth again about motivational issues and how certain is one in one legal contract situation compared to the other hence how motivated can one be and why the need to cater to so different audiences as &#8216;manager&#8217;. The thing is It doesn&#8217;t matter: When investigating the differential motivators, one invariably ends up with the same motivators, and much the same demotivators (nicely depicted here of course [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>ash-disappearance ..?](https://maverisk.nl/mash-disappearance/): A shortie again: Whatever happened to the idea of &#8216;mash-ups&#8217;..? You know, the slam-together of bits and pieces of &#8216;other&#8217; apps (-their functionality) to produce your own, with even better service delivery. Just wanted to know; every now and then one tends to think back to the glorious days of (almost literally) yesteryear, when the newest of the newest trends would change the world and after a, despite the excitement over all the new things, good night&#8217;s sleep one tends to find that not much of the earth-moving improvements in human life have materialised. This being one of those things. So, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Z</span>iggo delivers tech cr.p (their own words)](https://maverisk.nl/ziggo-delivers-tech-cr-p-their-own-words/): In Dutch&#8230; De titel refereert natuurlijk naar de ingeblikte-ham reclame die vertelt dat er dusdanig slecht spul wordt geleverd, dat er een afgestudeerde-oude stijl van een (gezien de benaming kennelijk buitenlandse, Angelsaksische) technische universiteit (en qua studiezwaarte/diepgang liggen die ver vóór op algemene universiteiten) nodig is om basale connectiviteit te realiseren. Het gaat zelfs zo ver, dat ieder element van die connectiviteit overal in huis wellicht een andere aanpassing of aanvullende oplossing nodig heeft (dát is waarvoor een ingenieur is opgeleid) om de basale dienstverlening te kunnen leveren! Jawel. &#8220;De Ziggo-engineer blijft tot het werkt, overal in huis&#8221;. Terwijl de concurrentie [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>orm over substance of risk management](https://maverisk.nl/norm-over-substance-of-risk-management/): Overheard: A major company in a relevant industry re infosec – and well-known for their good and even so recently much improved infosec posture – doesn&#8217;t follow the mantra of &#8220;risk management first, policy/standards second&#8221; but first sets some quite rigid standards and then, when vendors can&#8217;t deliver (even when the standards are strict but quite reasonable and doable), do some form of risk analysis plus compensating controls / acceptance or what have we. Because otherwise, everything gets so mushy (hey, normal (?) risk analysis is business driven, what do &#8216;they&#8217; know ..!?) that the end result is a chaos of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">U</span>nread Ully](https://maverisk.nl/unread-ully/): Somehow, I heard about this idea that Ulysses would be high up in the ranks of books that are either considered unreadable or no-one ever finishes reading it. Why &#8230;?Digging a bit, I found big U high up in various lists indeed, e.g.: In 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Jordan Ellenberg invented the so-called &#8220;Hawking Index,&#8221; which uses Amazon e-book highlights data as a proxy for where people stop reading the books they&#8217;ve purchased. Some people use the highlight function on the devices and apps, and the unscientific-but-workable &#8220;Hawking Index&#8221; uses the assumption that if the most-highlighted passages are clustered at [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">Y</span>ou had no idea ...](https://maverisk.nl/you-had-no-idea/): Did the one(s) behind this have any clue ..? Letting your biggest adversary by far, in on some source code like this ..? Or, is it a. scareware-news, like, alt-fact fake news to placate some faction that might profit from confusion or FUD over this, in any direction &#8230;, b. just untrue, and Onion article slipped into the mainstream c. a ploy to get the Other to not see double-crossing ..? Anyhow, it may not be the publicity one&#8217;d need &ndash; or playing on that trope &#8230; Oh how great the scenario analysis is on this &#8230; And: [Would you trust [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">G</span>olden Oldie Pic of the Day](https://maverisk.nl/golden-oldie-pic-of-the-day-41/): Yet again, this time a not quite that oldie one without further ado&#8230;: [Ohw source &#8230; Something-Compa&#8230; Supportica IT company. Sorry!]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">F</span>og(gy) definitions, mist(y) standards](https://maverisk.nl/foggy-definitions-misty-standards/): If you thought that containers were only something to ship wine in, by the pallet, you a. would be right, b. would maybe have overslept on the new concept, c. would not mind I introduce the next thing, being fog computing. I&#8217;m not making this up as a part, or extension, of low-hanging cloud computing. You think I&#8217;m kidding, right? Or, that I should have called it mist computing which is a thing already but only a somewhat different thing&#8230; You&#8217;re still with me? Then it&#8217;s time to read up. And weep. Over this here piece that sets the standard, quite [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">N</span>ation(state)s No More / Not Yet](https://maverisk.nl/nationstates-no-more-not-yet/): Recently, Jamie Bartlett posted an excellent analysis of the probability of the return of the nation state of the future of the planet. If only to have so many &#8216;of the&#8217;s in a row. Yes another one on the future of nation-states, now not from a bottom-up perspective but from an overall view. The case is strong in that piece. But then, I had been having recurring &#8230; thoughts, about the evaporation of the legitimacy of the nation-state as well. Where my subconscious hinted, it was no clearer, that there was, and certainly is, a place in the discussions for on [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>odern democracies &ndash; are they party-less ..?](https://maverisk.nl/modern-democracies-are-they-party-less/): It seems that we&#8217;re in Transition times&#8230; When there hardly is a country&#8217;s election anywhere (where they&#8217;re relatively Free), where the parties of old still hold. Sway, that is, as in determining unchallenged the outcome of the elections and party lines to follow. Even when the result is a failed-from-the-start dangerous president, or just a continuation of bland (colourless) neutrality in &#8216;policy&#8217; pursued. Despite the previous fears of breakthroughs of ultra-right parties and &#8216;strongmen&#8217; (not so much; it&#8217;s rather pathetic (mix of embarressingly silly and punishing for loudness)) &ndash; and notice that those parties have gained in strength and depth of [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">A</span>lasdair MacDuck](https://maverisk.nl/alasdair-macduck/): Just a Friday&#8217;s folly about Alasdair MacIntyre who, in his seminal and, when you&#8217;re into it (finally) quite pleasurably readable, After Virtue, has on pp. 243-244 (I have another edition 😉 ) &#8220;The name of the common wild duck is histrionicus histrionicus histrionicus.&#8221; – apart from this, it also is not true. The Mallard is; Anas platyrhynchos it is. And now, I do challenge thee – was this &#8216;error&#8217; on purpose or not, and if so, either to dare you to check it, or to pass off some signal to some kabal that reads his work and had put him under [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">3</span>D of the nudging to simplest infosec behaviour](https://maverisk.nl/3d-of-the-nudging-to-simplest-infosec-behaviour/): Before you&#8217;re put off by the title its complexity &#8230; [Oh. You clicked. Wave function collapsed long before; ed.] This post is about improving the People part of infosec. Beyond the mere &#8216;awareness&#8217; that begets you &#8230; a couple of days&#8217; attention, then slippage into muchlessofthesame. Two roads away from the dead end you were in, open up: Nudging. Which is about small, inobtrusive and non too brainwashing incentives and disincentives, rewarding and penalising the good and bad so that &#8216;users&#8217;/people choose to do right without having to rationalise through all sorts of intricate, overly (sic) complex lines of reason why [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>easure and/or die](https://maverisk.nl/measure-andor-die/): For 10 points only, not the usual 50/100/150 and without pictures to color, identify the stupidity of this here rambling with an air of sophistication&#8230; The &#8216;quality&#8217; (quod non) of which is nicely summed up in the &#8216;metrics chart&#8217; ..: &#8220;If you can&#8217;t measure it, you can&#8217;t improve it&#8221; – referring to the degree (sic) of the stupidity; unimprovable&#8230;? Be aware Always (link, here again yes), people, &#8230;: Not everything that counts, can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts ..! Oh well. Nice effort to get from &#8216;nothing&#8217; to &#8216;something&#8217;: when shot for the moon and missed, [&hellip;]
- [Valjoow](https://maverisk.nl/valjoow/): I&#8217;ve been known to have opined, sometimes in words that have not always been the most diplomatic euphemisms, on the idea of Value in e.g., goal setting for IT-departments. To name just one example, where those that should know better, want ROI but for the R have nothing but &#8216;Value&#8217;, that&#8217;s what you deliver when you deliver what The Business wants. Now, &#8220;As the business innovator W. Edwards Deming taught, if management sets only quantitative targets and makes people’s jobs depend on meeting them, “They will likely meet the targets — even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do [&hellip;]
- [Complexicated it ain't](https://maverisk.nl/complexicated-it-aint/): When dealing with complex problems&#8230; Since you can call anything you don&#8217;t understand complex, but most probably are just over your head and can&#8217;t even see the issue is just complicated but no more than that – being more than you can handle already but even that you don&#8217;t see. I.e., Complicated is a problem that needs a complicated algorithm to solve. Mostly by dumbing down the situation, a.k.a. &#8216;modelling&#8217;. Which is OK if the problem at hand is complicated indeed, meaning that a step-wise analysis/detailing actually works and one can prune the hierarchical problem tree of insignificant branches until one [&hellip;]
- [New ethics angles](https://maverisk.nl/new-ethics-angles/): Or, should I say in typical AI style, a new linear separation ..? The latter, not too literally. But in the whole thing, I suddenly [referring to, say, &#8216;over a quarter&#8217;] see new insights. As per the old &#8220;oh I have no clue let&#8217;s take an AI system as a black box and don&#8217;t want to have anything to do with the content&#8221; of &#8216;ethicists&#8217;, now moving over to some that have a clue and make progress. And even, from a country not known to be interested &#8230; have serious legal back-up [attempt] in that explainability thing. But I digress&#8230; back [&hellip;]
- [Noli me auto](https://maverisk.nl/noli-me-auto/): &#8230; Yes, again on auto cars [for over a century known as auto-mobiles or just &#8220;auto&#8217;s&#8221;]. This time, a possibly new subject: Who has the self-driving capabilities ..? In a sense close to &#8216;ownership&#8217; that is. As training is so hard that &#8220;As a result, most companies presently guard their machine learning data as trade secrets. But trade secret protection has its drawbacks, one of which is to society at large. Unlike technology taught in patented disclosures, which could allow a new entrant to catch up (provided it licenses or designs around the patent), an AV data set of an unwilling [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; II](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-ii/): Yup, another one, actually from the same series: A useful reading on the tribulations of fake news, in a way. In another one [way], the scope is much wider. Last Friday&#8217;s Friday&#8217;s So(m)bering already referred to Ortega y Gasset. This one, too. Again; how do we fight these things &#8230;? One human at a time; if only we knew what &#8216;time&#8217; is &#8230; Even Kant couldn&#8217;t make much of it [re: Kritik der reinen Vernunft – no really, all that it has is a derivative notion not an operational definition] – anyways that takes too long. OK then, leaving you with:
- [Flooding (news on global warming) versus stochastics](https://maverisk.nl/flooding-news-on-global-warming-versus-stochastics/): Where the headline reads like something to do with e.g., vintners having to look forward to having more acidic grapes, or moving North to be able to make light-enough styles. Which is correct reading. But this post is more on a current-day issue. Vines needing really, really long to mature to anything useful, you know. Then again: Think of the vast expanses of Canada that will open up to winemaking&#8230; Oh Canada your promise &#8230; And the issue at hand, being of Today. Where already we had &#8216;Stochastic Terrorism&#8216; – and now it&#8217;s to be linked to &#8216;Flooding&#8216;. Well, at least, [&hellip;]
- [Your AI Project](https://maverisk.nl/your-ai-project/): As a brief intermission: Your AI project is truly similar to the highest-tech car around. In the glossy brochure and in the specs. Das AIuto it is (Truth In AI Engineering), The Ultimate AI-Driven Machine. The Best AI or Nothing. There Is No non-AI Substitute. Then, grand delivery: There you go! You have your shiny toy! Unsure when the AI world will mature&#8230; Yes, personally I&#8217;d prefer this brand (CD or SC), or this.
- [Good AI](https://maverisk.nl/good-ai/): &#8230;implementations. Now the hubbub [in lieu of a. using in lieu of improperly as so often is the case, b. &#8216;hype&#8217;] is settling down a bit, though some laggards are still at it instead of keeping mum and just doing it in a proper way. The proper way is that the real talk is of now. On the one hand, there&#8217;s an enormous lack of use of the tools that are available now – not widely available, but they&#8217;re there, if one would take a look, and see their building &#8216;tool&#8217; status. No, I don&#8217;t mean the glitzy stuff with fancy [&hellip;]
- [No, you're wrong. Just pay appropriately.](https://maverisk.nl/no-youre-wrong-just-pay-appropriately/): Again, the issue of the &#8216;cyber&#8217;security skill gap (#ditchcyber, and skill ..?) came up, in this thing. Which seems like a logical piece. But it isn&#8217;t. It falls into the same trap as a great many other articles, et al.: When discussing rising pay, do they apply economics 101 ..? No they don&#8217;t. They see rising pay, but not the enormous chasm between the risen pay and the market-clearing pay. The former, paltry. The latter &#8230;: Why on earth should people that, apparently, have so much more impact on the results of any company than the CEO or Board has, not [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; I](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-i/): And now, ladies and gentlemen humanoids &#8230;! Starting a Friday series of asides. With this, on Gresham&#8217;s Law that is so ill-remembered. Dunning-Kruger, Russell, and many others have pointed this out. [Disclaimer: I&#8217;m very sure about all things, and that includes knowing that the said effects don&#8217;t regard me] The impact &#8230; All around you. Politics, business, &#8230;, any field really where there&#8217;s hierarchy I guess (sic). The solution &#8230; throughout history, has been Revolution of the society-shattering kind; that brings so much damage to all that are liberated, in a sense. Until the worst come float back up. Ol&#8217; José [&hellip;]
- [Designisruption](https://maverisk.nl/designisruption/): Don&#8217;t know if the world has picked up on this potential-disruptor already by the time you read this, but how about a disruption of the design world in this ..? I will resist to, will simply not describe it as &#8216;MS Paint on steroids&#8217;; nor will I pink-elephant you with that label. As I draft this (present tense), a month ago (not so present), it occurred to me that No, this would not put all designers out of a job but Yes, the ones working in the field will See their turnover diminish significantly as a lot of people will cobble [&hellip;]
- [Driving Miss](https://maverisk.nl/driving-miss/): The adversarial example saga continues &#8230; In a story that one doesn&#8217;t even need to crack into an auto to &#8216;hack&#8217; it. *driving into upcoming traffic included in this package. Well, at least, one case is demonstrated, here. But as modern times go, one is enough to demonstrate, and to make all vulnerable, and to instigate a class break; mere patches won&#8217;t hold. So ms. Daisy may be better off to continue to drive herself&#8230;? And: [Your innovation, applied; Fabrique Utrecht]
- [The humans, the AI and the EU](https://maverisk.nl/the-humans-the-ai-and-the-eu/): If you parse that onto movie(X, Y, Z) and assuming you have the most basic of understanding about the world around you [I mean, be able to recognise that as a Prolog (-style) goal] you&#8217;ll end up with the right reference. &#8217;cause of some, at face/title value, laudable effort, as here: Rules for AI. Like, &#8220;According to the guidelines, trustworthy AI should be: (1) lawful – respecting all applicable laws and regulations; (2) ethical – respecting ethical principles and values; (3) robust – both from a technical perspective while taking into account its social environment.&#8221; Rightey, you know any, I mean [&hellip;]
- [In Faux Gras Control](https://maverisk.nl/in-faux-gras-control/): Remember the controversy around foie / faux gras ..? It&#8217;s listed here, and here – though I&#8217;m more of the alternative production (natural process) flavour than &#8216;real&#8217; trademarked faux gras. [At some point in the past, I had &#8216;faux gras&#8217; so called because it was alternative production, that couldn&#8217;t be called full foie gras for that reason – stoopid.] But that&#8217;s beside the point of this post. Or is it ..? Because I brought the subject up to compare it with / make the analogy to, your local Control industry. Like, regulators, industry groups etc., that legally or less so, only [&hellip;]
- [C'19, anyone ..?](https://maverisk.nl/c19-anyone/): Hey anyone out there already investing in Cobit 2019 ..? Just wanted to know. Since the core management picture still looks like it did before; not much news there. But the packaging of its use, much improved. Yes, I wasn&#8217;t a fan of the model before. But am slowly warming up to it. Minus the mirage of the standard (process, content) but plus the risk angle. Big-time-minus the Value vague&#8217;ry, little plus global push [that runs counter my mirage mention]. Oh, by the way; where&#8217;s Strategy, moreover, where&#8217;s Culture &#8230;!? Since this. And Von Moltke&#8217;s on strategic planning. And&#8230;, and&#8230; and [&hellip;]
- [Note: From ETL to WEC](https://maverisk.nl/note-from-etl-to-wec/): Oh how shiny is the world of Extract-Transform-Load in data analysis. But it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s the major fun spoiler in that. Now, I see a better &#8216;name&#8217; being used [proposed?], in this also otherwise insightful piece. WEC it will be. Wrangling, Exploration, Cleaning. All three much needed. The W+C parts, hinting at the average quality of your data, certainly. [The E part having an air of clean, still.] But the W+C parts also hinting at the introduction of bias, etc. – as already flagged here, unbiasing may not be so easy – hence hinting at the return of the old Law [&hellip;]
- [You are unimportant](https://maverisk.nl/you-are-unimportant/): Yes you, my dear reader [can just as well put that in single not plural&#8230;] who are in the information security arena. Per this piece. Where &#8220;It is time to acknowledge the wisdom of the “bean counters.” is of course a fat joke. But in continuation, there&#8217;s much to agree with and then worry about since it &#8216;threatens&#8217; you – if you were/are self-absorbed. Where in counterpoint, the whole overarching idea of &#8216;risk management&#8217; is too little prominent. I don&#8217;t mean the artritic type of yesteryears, but the modern flavour of a. integration in the &#8216;first&#8217; line [but then truly; not [&hellip;]
- [No creep, promise!](https://maverisk.nl/no-creep-promise/): When the creeps tell you they&#8217;re benign, how to tell ..? Take this, for example: AI to preventitavely profile shoplifters. Right. Where scope creep of the app, will be not (co. name) Vaak (Dutch for: often) but Always Without Exception. If you don&#8217;t want to believe the latter, please remove yourself from any discussion and from any position of influence you might have as you show yourself to be mentally unfit to partake in it or have agency, respectively. Whuddaboud false positives? False negatives will take care of themselves. But the first &#8230; And the claim that this is a move [&hellip;]
- [De heat maps vliegen in het rond](https://maverisk.nl/de-heat-maps-vliegen-in-het-rond/): Reken maar, op de bijeenkomst. Post gescheduled voordat het programma bekend werd dus eens zien hoeveel punten we scoren&#8230;: ] Niet De bijeenkomst. Wegens: En ook de posts van de afgelopen tijd, waaronder (deze, als u goed leest,) deze, deze en deze plus deze toch vrij helder moge wezen. En voor degenen die nog verder willen studeren: deze. Waarbij nog een forse dosis onderliggend-probleem bij deze voorbij zal komen. En weinig over deze. Nog afgezien overigens van de uitglijder van Trust But Verify, die ook nog steeds populair lijkt – het lijkt haast wel gecorreleerd met de foutheid ervan&#8230; Erger nog, [&hellip;]
- [Complexicated, One More Thing](https://maverisk.nl/complexicated-one-more-thing/): One more then, on complexity beyond mere complication. In particular, re (IT) systems. As I posted before, there&#8217;s a difference between complicated&#8217;ness [if that is a word] and complexity. Oh no, that post I did write but didn&#8217;t yet publish; it&#8217;ll take a month&#8230; Well, anyway: Complicated is what can be tackled (modelled i.e. simplified for understanding) with an algorithmic process, complex is that which eludes modelling to a suitable-simplifying degree and behaves &#8216;unpredictably&#8217;. The latter, being the point. Where, like, your infrastructure may be complex. To be cleaned up, of course, but for now, too hot to handle. Which is [&hellip;]
- [Suitable material](https://maverisk.nl/suitable-material/): Surprisingly, there hasn&#8217;t been much ado about the societal change that must&#8217;ve taken place when still recently, one shouldn&#8217;t have inhaled or not be presidential material, versus some recent examples [link?], versus upcoming candidate(s) that are/is like &#8220;Hey punk [rocker], join the cDc they said, you may be president, they said&#8221;: &#8211; This, &#8211; (and) This. From the lone star state, no less. He&#8217;s a straight shooter, no less. Quite a change, right? At least their private email servers and social media may be hacked &#8216;back&#8217; ..? Anyway &#8230;: [To hold the rowdy at bay; Baltimore]
- [Adversarial, edgy bias continuation](https://maverisk.nl/adversarial-edgy-bias-continuation/): What a title&#8230; It&#8217;s about how deterring edge cases and &#8216;adversarial&#8217; examples [not the quotes] will let your system perform better &#8230; in test environments. But how this will also enforce and re-inforce biases. Like: Edge cases give results with too much noise &ndash; throw them out, please, as they distort [??] the quality of training hence of the system-to-be. And we need to go into production. Adversarial examples aren&#8217;t edgy, they sit in the middle [by any dimension(s)] of the training set. Hence look OK, but also result in too much noise if suitable; you don&#8217;t want your confusion matrix [&hellip;]
- [Compliance is Broccoli &ndash; of nie? Voer voor risi'ci](https://maverisk.nl/compliance-is-broccoli-of-nie-voer-voor-risici/): Recent kwam het idee in het nieuws (nou ja) om &#8216;compliance&#8217; als een broccoli aan te pakken: of liever – omdat het idee is dat het principe aan de basis staat, en wordt vertaald (&#8216;stapsgewijs verfijnd&#8217; én wordt omgezet in de taal van die droevige gebruikertjes die geen benul hebben van de taal van de doorluchte &#8230; nogniethalfbakken-luchtverkopers die oh zo blij zijn dat ze met Heel Belangrijke Dingen bezig mogen zijn, Compliance enzo, echt GRC joh! [1]) naar de end nodes, waar de medewerkers de detailregeltjes krijgen en de weg terug naar principes heel simpel is – zodat iedereen kan begrijpen [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">P</span>arental Control &ndash; Surveilling your parents ... Ew!](https://maverisk.nl/parental-control-surveilling-your-parents-ew-2/): This, being a minimally edited re-post from almost two years ago &ndash; but still relevant, and I haven&#8217;t heard an answer &#8230; Anyone ..? There you have it: Parental Control is needed more than ever, in a subtle way (I&#8217;d suggest you would do best to re-study The Cyber Effect; as I do), given the ever increasing (sic) risks online for the smaller than you. And the requirements of GDPR &ndash; that you may have to enforce (?), over your children&#8217;s apps. But what about the more grown-up than you; your parents &#8230;? They either are only now, slowly, coming online, [&hellip;]
- [Storage space &ndash; in the cloud, not YourSpace](https://maverisk.nl/storage-space-in-the-cloud-not-yourspace/): Yeah, there you are &ndash; thinking that because you&#8217;ve rented some space in the cloud (be it with real money [bits and bytes flowing over a staggering non-manageable complexity of networks, no-one bing able to pin down where &#8216;your&#8217; bits might be at any given time &ndash; close to utter wave-equation physics a.k.a Buddism&#8230;] or with your data in the first place), you&#8217;ve put your data in the hands of the most capable to protect it. Too bad. MySpace&#8217;s only a first example, or not even the first. As in this story. Not-even-than-old data being wiped with a Sorry. As if [&hellip;]
- [Heat maps lezen: Zo doe je dat](https://maverisk.nl/heat-maps-lezen-zo-doe-je-dat/): Gisteren stond er de post over wat er niet mis is aan risk heat maps. Voorwaar een (kennelijk) helder stukje, het kreeg vele hits en Likes. Echter, het bleek dat sommige mensen de post ook daadwerkelijk opende en er zelfs wat in snuffelden. Gezien de reacties was de post klaarblijkelijk nog niet helemaal helder. De onderliggende wiskunde en logica kwam zo te merken te weinig aan bod waardoor sommigen nog twijfelden of heat maps toch wel echt diepere managementinzichten geeft. Die twijfel proberen we hieronder weg te nemen. In dezelfde stijl als gisteren, in vertaling van David Vose&#8217;s stuk. Geschiedenis De [&hellip;]
- [Er is niks mis met risk heat maps ...](https://maverisk.nl/er-is-niks-mis-met-risk-heat-maps/): In vertaling van David Vose&#8216;s blog posts, met toestemming: Vooraf even een paar woorden opdat u niet schrikt &#8230;: Dit artikel gebruikt ironie. Zowat ieder idee dat hier te berde wordt gebracht, is volkomen en volslagen nonsens. Dit kan confronterend werken, omdat hier wel een min of meer exacte optekening staat van wat mensen daadwerkelijk doen. Er staan enkele subtiele verwijzingen in naar Vose&#8217;s Pelican, een ERM-systeem dat de genoemde beperkingen niet kent. Het bekijken waard. Veel leesplezier en bedenk het niet met alles te zeer eens te zijn&#8230; In de afgelopen jaren zijn &#8216;heat maps&#8217; – een populair en belangrijk [&hellip;]
- [Of course ...](https://maverisk.nl/of-course/): Now I get it! That´s why it isn´t today´s date in GE ..!
- [Spelling.](https://maverisk.nl/spelling/): Came across an important piece of work recently on business administration (for all sorts of organisations, not just businesses). Of the sort that clarifies and enhances our understanding of the world around us, so we can act in it with more distinction, in a manner befitting our self-perception of Being On Top Of It. But alas. Once one has learned [understood and burnt into memory] the list of definitions and differences that I was talking about, one sees the impossibility to avoid being implicated. Though one can still maintain the illusion of only seeing all situations described [I mean all, not [&hellip;]
- [Your CEO wants concrete examples ...](https://maverisk.nl/your-ceo-wants-concrete-examples/): What happens when your CEO wants concrete examples of a risk you mention: He&#8217;s (less often, she&#8217;s!) the &#8220;don&#8217;t bring me problems, bring me solutions&#8221; kind of guy. Run. He doesn&#8217;t even understand his own role as the chief Leader. Just signing off on the preferred solution is for a middle, rather middling, manager [pejorative use; though I certainly don&#8217;t endorse that use, excepting exceptions] – don&#8217;t even bother trying to get the discussion going where you want it / where any sane person would require it to be; incompetence to think in abstractions oneself is what we have here. Whereas [&hellip;]
- [Even leaders manage](https://maverisk.nl/even-leaders-manage/): Lately, there has been a slight resurge of the Leaders vs. Managers &#8216;debate&#8217; [since I&#8217;m unsure it&#8217;s a debate as much as it is manager-bashing and oh the ideal is to be a Leader; later on that below], including some detail issues like language. Contra this, first this, and then this. Plus this, and this. ( Contra that, many [of my own, and elsewhere]. ) Point being: The last This, is it. It is, since it shows that focusing on the &#8216;control&#8217; element in &#8216;span of control&#8217;, doesn&#8217;t do much good; doesn&#8217;t help. Leaders may be &#8216;above&#8217; the fray, but they [&hellip;]
- [The GDPR aftermath; your compliance from 00 to 0000](https://maverisk.nl/the-gdpr-aftermath-your-compliance-from-00-to-0000/): Following up on the earlier post on how GDPR is Y2k&#8217;s legal party sibling (as here and here), an evaluation – mid-term, mostly, re your compliance&#8230;: You shouted loud enough. Right. That&#8217;s the Y2k escape claim in full force and colours. And untrue. The skies haven&#8217;t fallen in like they would have with the renewal of the millennium we live in, but a. things did go wrong, back then, and b. this time, non-compliance isn&#8217;t that obvious so your claim may fail, as shown in the next option: There&#8217;s all sorts of under water non-compliance and you just haven&#8217;t been found [&hellip;]
- [Skinny Tipping](https://maverisk.nl/skinny-tipping/): You may have read that wrong. If so, that was my intention. Skinny Tipping is about how tipping, e.g. in restaurants, is a balance thing. Certainly not to be overdone, like here. Nor Pittsburg blue but maybe closer to it. Yes, acknowledged, some Yanks err on the wrong side. Most &#8216;tourists&#8217; err on the other wrong side, leaving only round-off change – next time, do please stay home if you think you can afford the (cattle class / cattle airliner) ticket but not proper behaviour &#8230; not defined by what you think that would be, but how it is defined where [&hellip;]
- [Stubbornness kills](https://maverisk.nl/stubbornness-kills/): – still. Why don&#8217;t minds open up, and save a lot of lives ..? I&#8217;m referring to this story, with this one behind it. Imagine the cost savings if Science weren&#8217;t a. so stubborn, b. so completely tied up in commercial interests. The latter, proven over and over again to result in anti-societal behaviour. On a massive scale. If only science would be objective, reproduce claims, and then serve by whom it (?) is paid: Consumers i.e. human beings. No science doesn&#8217;t exist for the de-human shareholders nor the some of the latter that are the 0,1%. Maybe millennials will shift [&hellip;]
- [Dream on](https://maverisk.nl/dream-on/): It seems that LinkedIn posted a piece on how AI has taken over LinkedIn already, and &lt;SkAInet!&gt; they&#8217;re massaging our minds before they take over completely. Like, in this: How you&#8217;d think that the first item is not heavily bot-driven, excusing, exonerating themselves [that word assumes agency, doesn&#8217;t it ..? 😳] ..? On command by some Power That/To Be, probably, but still. Yes, I&#8217;m scaremongering. You&#8217;d need to, too. Oh, plus of course: [Don&#8217;t worry be happy, Blue Pill style all the way; Amsterdamse Bos]
- [Duh.](https://maverisk.nl/duh/): Who in the world didn&#8217;t think this possible ..!? A bug it is. Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was ‘never supposed to be a secret’. Of course, Big G claims the mics weren&#8217;t On at any point in time, it was just a (free; can you even start to think about the enormity of that claim from them!?) add-on, to be used only later &#8230; How trustworthy is that claim &#8230;? If you believe that, Santa, Bigfoot, the tooth fairy, etc.etc. are also real. No, no, I mean not only real but they all live [&hellip;]
- [Compliance Reading Short List (security, privacy, accountancy)](https://maverisk.nl/compliance-reading-short-list-security-privacy-accountancy/): Just a shortie again, for the weekend when you want to come back to being on top of things, things being the behavioural aspects of compliance. As too many of us don&#8217;t seem to be well-connected enough in the Thinking that goes in in compliance-science circles. Yes there is such a thing. Yes I know you think you&#8217;re all working in compliance the industry, maybe even too much so. But you don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re effective – as proven by your consistent complaints the &#8216;users&#8217; don&#8217;t seem to &#8216;get&#8217; it. Maybe &#8230; you should do the read-up this weekend by means of [&hellip;]
- [Oh yeah ... 'chain.](https://maverisk.nl/oh-yeah-chain/): As a sideline note; the evidence is mounting that the previous hype is fully over, when more and more of these kind of stories emerge [it&#8217;s not the first, and will certainly not be the last&#8230;], and only those that don&#8217;t understand the systemic impact of such &#8216;incidents&#8217;, the hype-laggards, still cling to the same thing as if something might still happen (not) just let those that really know the ins and outs work on it, slavishly, for years to come. Which the latter won&#8217;t. They&#8216;re not the stupids here. The ones you would want, have moved on [or will soon]. [&hellip;]
- [The A bandwidth of I](https://maverisk.nl/the-a-bandwidth-of-i/): Ah, not so long ago, I posted Lament: Those were the days, when knowledge elicitation specialists had their hard time extracting the rules needed as feed for systems programming (sic; where the rules were turned into data, onto which data was let loose or the other way around — quite the Turing tape…), based on known and half-known, half-understood use cases avant la lettre. Now are the days of Watson-class [aren’t Navy ships not named after the first of the class ..?] total(itarian) big data processing and slurping up the rules into neural net abstract systems somewhere out there in clouds [&hellip;]
- [Quantum rocks](https://maverisk.nl/quantum-rocks/): &#8230; Was thinking: How is Quantum Computing not where AI was, around and about 25 years ago ..? The first wave having past, then, of neuron-simulation you know, like 25 years before that. &#8216;Expert Systems&#8217; having had some fifteen months/years (?) of fame in between, and then, suddenly, &#8216;neural networks&#8217; were all the rage. In the news, and for academia. With some PoCs but not much. Currently, neural nets AI-by-way-of-mere-ML has had yet another wave. Not the Big Kahuna of course, but again the groundswell has risen a serious level and continues to implement all sorts of – what we would [&hellip;]
- [Jargon watch: Stochastic Terrorism](https://maverisk.nl/jargon-watch-stochastic-terrorism/): A note, ICYMI, on the insidious effects of free speech &#8230; that gives room to Stochastic Terrorism. Say something vague but suggestive to disassociated loonies to take illegal action, and then deny you suggested the specific action(s)&#8230; [i.e. politicianspeak] Say something vague but claim it is a hard promise, and then disclaim that claim by wiggling your way out in the fat margin of vagueness [i.e. politicianspeak] then be called a big fat liar. Both as same sides of the coin, denying the other side of accountability for any speech act. If you didn&#8217;t intend the consequences, don&#8217;t use vague speech. [&hellip;]
- [#Ditchcyber rrr...insurance (told you)](https://maverisk.nl/ditchcyber-rrr-insurance-told-you/): How can it be a surprise this happened ..? This, being the position that because &#8216;cyber&#8217;insurance is a scam, someones claimed and found out. Yes, an insured company tried to get some money as far proxy of damage repair, after being hit on a (inherently; more on that later [1]) slight little flaw in information security (that&#8217;s what it is, however moronic you keep on cybering). And the insurance co panicked (why; they could have claimed the hurted just hadn&#8217;t done the right thing completely enough, apparently [2]). And threw in the only blanket, fail-safe claim denier: Cyberwar! Arrrgghhhhh!. In the [&hellip;]
- [Flip sides; transparency and auditability](https://maverisk.nl/flip-sides-transparency-and-auditability/): How the lack of transparency of the information flow architecture, leads to inability to qualify the quality of the information flows – the latter which is the core business of system-oriented (financial) auditing &#8230; The lack of transparency in architecture, by the explosion of complexity of the information flows through exploded complexity of systems/interfaces. The latter nearing Chaos status, the threshold where modelling (complexity reduction to get an understanding including the understanding one has simplified and acknowledging the analysis can not be used for normative stuff just for some understanding) will be either too little reductive to get any understanding but [&hellip;]
- [Symptoms of Failure](https://maverisk.nl/symptoms-of-failure/): Or, how your average compliance isn&#8217;t any good. Y&#8217;all understand that compliance has a purpose. IAOI (this, not this) you comply with Principles. Anything you need as guidance nay hard requirements in detail &#8216;below&#8217; that, means you have no clue about the principles, and hence cannot comply with them [consciously; but otherwise it&#8217;s an unnoticed accidental accordance, happenstance gotten, easily lost]. IAOI you can discourse at the principles&#8217; level of moral reasoning, in your explanations too, do you have a chance of doing it right. Otherwise, the very penny-wise and pound-foolish compliance with trivial rule&#8217;lets will deliver any effort to /dev/null [&hellip;]
- [Venn for People – Process – Technology](https://maverisk.nl/venn-for-people-process-technology/): Hey yeah you know, it&#8217;s still a quite (too) popular thing to talk about People – Process – Technology when it comes to control(s) types in the IS risk management / audit corner of the universe. If you think about it &#8230; keep in mind that these factors are almost always presented as nearly disjunct things. With maybe an overlap, but not too much. In terms of Venn diagrams, almost three separate circles. Sometimes three completely, and deliberately, separate circles; joined by many-point wide edges with borders, like pipes. Because pipe dreams. Of the legal kind now, in Canada. Keeping the [&hellip;]
- [Charity of the month](https://maverisk.nl/charity-of-the-month/): Should be: Charity for a long time; let&#8217;s all help make the time shorter&#8230; This: https://facestograves.nl/
- [Architects' mess cleaning](https://maverisk.nl/architects-mess-cleaning/): By which I mean a. The architects that deal with any organisations&#8217; data, systems, IT architectures, that align with the business. Ideally b. The mess being the übercomplexity of the current, actual architecture that many organisations have ended up with c. The cleaning, or Augias&#8216; [not his ass] wipe. The latter seems to be problematic everywhere; ones just don&#8217;t know where to start or how to beat the head start of the chaos, that continues to deepen, Mandelbrot-set style, at ever increasing speeds [sort of, let&#8217;s not overly FUD here]. Which made me think of a Giant&#8217;s ideas when it came [&hellip;]
- [The End-Game Plot of 3LoD](https://maverisk.nl/the-end-game-plot-of-3lod/): When dreamt up, the Three Lines of Defense model was a Program &#8230;.! Yes it was or you missed the inception. Now, 3LoD is a scam. Like, here, remembering this and a partial solution here. Just browse around on LinkedIn and other environments, and you&#8217;ll see your favourite thought leaders agree [if they aren&#8217;t, you have some updating to do in your &#8216;favourite thought leader&#8217; department, too], and eggheads disagree. But then, one can return to the Program idea, being one that is Finite. If that is too difficult: It has an end date. Which means you can do away with [&hellip;]
- [Flawed RM models &ndash; simply put](https://maverisk.nl/flawed-rm-models-simply-put/): Oh, re yesterday&#8217;s post; on how flawed risk models are not a problem or so [since it&#8217;s all we have etc.etc.] the following: [Courtesy of Alexei Sidorenko for remembering this] Besides, this post also needs much, much, much more attention. Need more convincing? Happy landings! &#8230; For all those that want to see a tram, not something else &#8230;:
- [RM with admitted-flawed models](https://maverisk.nl/rm-with-admitted-flawed-models/): In preparation for a post later this month, about the &#8216;usefulness&#8217; of risk heat maps &#8230; Against the most basic of common sense, some people [most of the ones working in the areas where this should matter a lot, near life-or-death levels of a lot, e.g., banking supervision and compliance] still hold onto &#8216;heat maps&#8217; and similar outright oversimplicity. Even when pointed out over and over again where the errors are, these people seem not to see the latter, and cling onto what they had received from &#8230; some other ones, equally flawed in their prefrontal cortex but with apparent authority [&hellip;]
- [An Economist is Wrong](https://maverisk.nl/an-economist-is-wrong/): And I don&#8217;t even mean one of those that think descriptive science can turn into normative science in a twitch. I actually mean an Economist article. This one. [Edited to add a week later: vindict] Q: Why was oil so valuable? A: Because it took money to produce, and supply was limited – both at any moment and in total global possible availability; even if almost all of the earth consisted of oil, it would still be a finite physical amount with exponential production costs. The oil you burn, is lost forever so even your current stock perishes – though the [&hellip;]
- [Note: You go walk.](https://maverisk.nl/note-you-go-walk/): Oh yeah, in addition to this [and many others], this:
- [Note: In-fosec-centives](https://maverisk.nl/note-in-fosec-centives/): &#8216;Because&#8217; that&#8217;s not a word yet. But one might miss this presentation here, at one&#8217;s loss &ndash; if only for the return of this little gem: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent on his not understanding it. [Upton Sinclair Jr] If only, not only, semantics [i.e., the things that actually matter, not syntax as much &ndash; excepting code where things seem to be in the inverse!], we have many important talking points. Like, nudging solutions [on a scale from true nudges, small and isolated, all the way to supernudges, big blows on [&hellip;]
- [Will the AI hype go on(to) Evolve next ..?](https://maverisk.nl/will-the-ai-hype-go-onto-evolve-next/): After the generic-AI hype will have slowed, and actual generic AI of the Normal kind gets integrated into society big time / you ain&#8217;t seen nothin&#8217; yet time, what ..? Apart from a huge spread of more ML algo&#8217;s than the mere Bayesian and non-linear regression (e.g., this one that I tested in a thesis already back in 1994 – it worked even when I had the feeble cpu power of the day), And apart from the return of Expert Systems, since when the above start to become analysed everyone realises that is what ML does, on a big scale but [&hellip;]
- [You're <em>so</em> non-compliant ...!](https://maverisk.nl/youre-so-non-compliant/): Since you don&#8217;t have the real chapters in place. Not even on paper. Since those initial chapters of just any standard you can dream of (Alptraum, you know) have the essence, the principle-based stuff. Whereas the latter &#8216;chapters&#8217; of any standard regard guidelines or even-mere examples for the lazy, of what needs to be done after those initial chapters are working effectively. Yes, a lot of you may jump directly past the fluff to the annex that has some of the things you understand. The penny-wise stuff. ISO 27001 as a prime example I happen to work with every now and [&hellip;]
- [... Yes ..? The laudable efforts](https://maverisk.nl/yes-the-laudable-efforts/): Somehow, I&#8217;m unsure that this is presented as a [laudable and] serious effort and now gets a humorous twist where it also lists this that wasn&#8217;t funny. Let&#8217;s not forget this even. And does Nway have this ..? Hey people &#8230;! When one wants to make fun of international affairs, let&#8217;s stick to the lesser issues like global warming or the plastic soup. And: [Bet you don&#8217;t have clubs like these in nor-way, eh? Proud wearer.]
- [Magical cars](https://maverisk.nl/magical-cars/): Yes I&#8217;m back on the magic of &#8216;self-driving&#8217; cars again. Like here, latest, and many times before. Where the focus has been on the Supply side, a lot (as here, 1:04), there&#8217;s also a Demand side of course. Where things (also) aren&#8217;t in blissful ex-ante-blameless expectation for the new Auto&#8217;s. As is clear from the following, a blatant plagiarism from Seth Godin&#8217;s unsurpassable blog: Magical technologies Cars are many times more dangerous than airplanes. More dangerous per mile, more dangerous to bystanders, more dangerous in every way. And yet there are very few people who say that they are afraid of [&hellip;]
- [The battle: Fairness contra 'GDPR'](https://maverisk.nl/the-battle-fairness-contra-gdpr/): Recently, there appears to be a bit of a hubbub about the fairness that would not be in AI systems&#8217; outcomes. I know I know that&#8217;s a vast understatement, and a major branch of professional (~ ethics) development in the AI arena in general. To which the venerable (heh) Jad Nohra added this: A simple &#8230; but correct and large part of the puzzle. Not all of the puzzle, as e.g., this also is part of it [unfairness in life, reflected and any bias correction will be parti pris in itself, and as such very time-bound and (extremely) discriminatory when seen [&hellip;]
- [Basisstof](https://maverisk.nl/basisstof/): Idereen die zich nog herinnert, is basically te vertrouwen met &#8220;AI&#8221;-algoritmen &#8230;: volledig parate kennis. Afgezien natuurlijk van a92. En ter afsluiting: [Toepasselijk; Hoofdpijndorp]
- [An ocean of clean, cooling-wise](https://maverisk.nl/an-ocean-of-clean-cooling-wise/): Just wondered why this wasn&#8217;t much, much bigger in the news than that other environment thing with the plastic collection. This SoundEnegry thing being about cooling with heat. Where we seem to have quite a supply of heat around the world, especially in the longer term. And yes, it seems to work; units have been deployed and even Forbes magazine had a favourable review. If this works at larger scale too, &#8230; then we have a Solution of massive proportions. And think of the event of having an actually useful implementation of something of the Stirling engine principle(s) ..! A big [&hellip;]
- [Orgs don't give a hoot about security [or privacy, or (ops) risk management]](https://maverisk.nl/orgs-dont-give-a-hoot-about-security-or-privacy/): Case in point: Have you ever seen a job (opening) profile for a &#8216;first line&#8217; position where awareness and active promotion towards staff of information security and privacy, was listed at all ..? Now there&#8217;s two Buts [with not two but (sic) one T] you will inevitably come back to me with and I&#8217;m not even going to use &lt;ol&gt;: 1. &#8220;&#8230; But those are not even tasks of the first-line manager&#8221; – you see how wrong that is when I write it out for you. If your org doesn&#8217;t have infosec and privacy at the core of each and every [&hellip;]
- [Deaf sec oops](https://maverisk.nl/deaf-sec-oops/): Is DevSecOps a thing yet? Maybe. It is out there. With a laudable purpose (here), that however is not very well reflected elsewhere (on that site). When one refers to Krav Maga (as here), is one unaware that thing is known mostly if not exclusively in a few hardcore infosec circles and not many place else ..? As said: laudable. But let&#8217;s stick to the DevOps (+ &#8216;Agile&#8217; dev ..!) world to embrace sec. May I add a want for inclusion of audit hooks ..? [At procedural levels, too] Meanwhile, NL &#8216;suffers&#8217; from a bad winter dip:
- [How long ... driving decision time / from data driven to driven by data](https://maverisk.nl/how-long-driving-decision-time-from-data-driven-to-driven-by-data/): How long will it take, until driving is not (only) of the &#8216;auto&#8217; kind [if I&#8217;m in a self-driving car – the very definition of the term &#8216;automobile&#8217; – I will be the one driving; I will be the only one with a Self], but some industry can return to its technology testbed front ..? Seriously; at what point will teams in the sport decide their drivers do more damage than good ..? This is just the beginning of course. From data driven to driven by data. At what earlier point, will &#8216;self-driving&#8217; cars be allowed to enter the races? At [&hellip;]
- [AI into the undermaincurrentstream](https://maverisk.nl/ai-into-the-undermaincurrentstream/): To the surprise of no-one – who took care to not listen to mediahumping &#8216;pundit&#8217;fakes –, AI seems to be coming into the Bashing phase. That&#8217;s not in the Hype Cycle as despite its name and (&#8216;cycle&#8217;-)implied continuity, only has two phases but three points. But you get it, the Bashing phase is the downward slope. Now so declared by me. And it&#8217;s where AI now gets into. E.g., Dutchpersons read here. And you can read anywhere, actually. Bashing i.e. calling quits to the hype and mirroring in anti-hype. But just because attention takes a nose dive, doesn&#8217;t mean &#8216;nothing&#8217; happens [&hellip;]
- [Tone at the top: Rabbit.](https://maverisk.nl/tone-at-the-top-rabbit/): In the headlights. After this expose about systemic failure, there&#8217;s now a &#8216;since the allegations were on shaky grounds, they are untrue case closed&#8217;. (this rabbit in the headlights response, in Duts) How close to proven incompetence can one get ..? And this: [The dots were connected here by boys cried wolf but hey, shaky allegations]
- [The uncontrollable dynamics of controls](https://maverisk.nl/the-uncontrollable-dynamics-of-controls/): Further to yesterday&#8217;s post, here&#8217;s some sidelines on &#8216;control&#8217;s. Where typical &#8216;ORM&#8217; would take risks one by one, and treat them all in the same fashion. Take one risk, see what you can do qua preventative controls, and then .. a long time of bickering and arguing until some arm twisting leads to hap-hazard (sic) implementation of something that could in some weird way be explained to be the intended control so it only just can&#8217;t be denied to be, gets implemented till the auditors go away. Onto the next risk. In rare circumstances, already &#8216;implemented&#8217; controls are also taken into [&hellip;]
- [The uncertain timing of your hack(ed)](https://maverisk.nl/the-uncertain-timing-of-your-hacked/): On the one hand there&#8217;s the discussions regarding the oh so much needed renewal of &#8216;risk management&#8217;. Trying to drop the &#8216;heat map&#8217; nonsense and the 3LoD sameness. On the other, there&#8217;s infosec trying to first get rid of all the &#8216;cyber&#8217; bs (#ditchcyber) and second trying to achieve something against all grains. On the third hand [like, here], apart from the need to integrate there&#8217;s &#8230; A thought about probability. Classical rm talks about risks as a chance of something happening that may impact some objectives &#8211; Of the business kind or not; &#8211; Of the business as a whole [&hellip;]
- [Buk bauntie for realz](https://maverisk.nl/buk-bauntie-for-realz/): Hey, just when I tinkered with the idea of updating an old post on open source quality, some solution came &#8217;round the corner [Duts link]. Your thoughts. I&#8217;m off celebrating my b&#8217;day. Cheers, [Not there, unfortunately. Farolim das Felgueiras.]
- [Stop the kill chain](https://maverisk.nl/stop-the-kill-chain/): Or, stop the &#8220;kill chain&#8221; nonsense. Whether it&#8217;s the Lockheed original, or the great (in numbers&#8230;) many variants since, they are all quite flawed. Let&#8217;s say, 99% flawed. Since a. it&#8217;s not a chain &ndash; it&#8217;s a mesh, haphazrd(sic)ly followed through the organisation, and b. it has nothing to do with &#8216;kill&#8217; &ndash; only the most idiotic n00b would pursue that. Qua b., first there is this, later expanded here; and second there is all the evidence from practice. What stupid would &#8216;kill&#8217; if future rewards could be had at zero cost once a breach-and-backdoor has been made available and (as [&hellip;]
- [Surprised is no-one](https://maverisk.nl/surprised-is-no-one/): Or should be &#8230; About this, being that the Dutch army has been uncapable, in this case of recruiting sufficient staff for its &#8216;cyber&#8217; force. #ditchcyber, I&#8217;d say. And, the House questions&#8230; a diversion. Who expects serious answers that address the root causes ..? Now there&#8217;s one for &#8216;no-one&#8217;. So, root &ndash; or any intermediate &ndash; causes not being addressed even in the discussions, who expects the problem to not get worse, much worse, before failure can be placed on &#8230; others? There&#8217;s a second one. Is there anyone out there that would be able to list, off the cuff, a [&hellip;]
- [Off updating [HNY]](https://maverisk.nl/off-updating-hny/): Oh darn, I&#8217;ll be off updating those awfully many handfuls of hot tubs of mine &#8230; Since this. Even when still waiting for delivery of some of these. By way of wishing you a Happy New Year&#8230; [Yes it&#8217;s a sun dial, too ..! Barça]
- [Rudolph the Red-nosed Moose or what](https://maverisk.nl/obviously-for-tomorrow-a-rere-rerun-of-elk-moose-reindeer-wapiti-caribou-deer/): For all, Season&#8217;s Greetings by way of the following. Since it would be less than optimal if you&#8217;d end up with Rudoplh the Red-Nosed Moose before your sleigh tonight just by sloppy translations. Also as an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the below &#8230;? And then, there&#8217;s continental differences &#8230; First up, the Elk: Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk: know as such in Eurasia including those tinny pebbles off the coast called the British Isles. Looks suspiciously like the Alces Alces that is the Canadian (oh well, and US, yes, you may join) Moose, [&hellip;]
- [Beter proeven](https://maverisk.nl/beter-proeven/): Er zit beweging in de wijnsmaken. Waar we voorheen nog “alleen” de bekende aromawielen hoefden te begrijpen – en naar eigen bevind van zaken hoefden te interpreteren… – is er sinds kort de benadering waarbij dat idee, zeker qua onderscheid tussen (voornamelijk) neus en smaak wordt verlaten, en vooral wordt geproefd naar Verhouding: zoet, zuur, zout, bitter, umami; Mondgevoel: strak/stroef, vol/filmend; Smaakintensiteit: (hoog-laag); Smaakcomplexiteit: (breed-smal) en Smaaktype/karakter (elegant, verfijnd -stevig, robuust). Voorbijgaand aan het idee dat een wijn bijvoorbeeld een element van blauwe bes in de smaak heeft. Onder het motto: &#8220;Het is wijn, van druiven, dus niet van blauwe bes [&hellip;]
- [What's good for you (infosec)](https://maverisk.nl/whats-good-for-you-infosec/): Although it&#8217;s well-known to many that the infosec behaviour as required by organisations of their employees, doesn&#8217;t conform with what the employees [that according to the theory of firm, are the organisation not &#8216;processes/procedures/&#8221;GRC&#8221;&#8216; ridiculousness nor capital] would want, as all strive to reach their individual ill-aligned, together inconsistent and incomplete objectives. Since infosec in this, borders on the (sum of the) individual &#8216;contributions&#8217; in this (too) and the emergent property achieved infosec for the organisation. And since no-one has ever been able to bridge the gap in a methodological sense between set member characteristics and emergent properties &#8230; We can [&hellip;]
- [Paretonovation](https://maverisk.nl/paretonovation/): How innovation often is about shedding some and gaining some. In a Pareto efficient frontier location switch way. It&#8217;s a hunch; I&#8217;m not going to put it through a rigorous motion of formulas or so – and, as always, the harder the data looks, in economics-the-ugly-duckling-sibling of sociology the more implicit ssumptions are used behind the scenes that outside the model don&#8217;t hold an inch and ruin the practical value (by any definition) of your &#8216;model&#8217;. But it should be interesting to push te idea a little further out: Schumpeter&#8217;s destruction here a little, improvements elsewhere, suboptima in some bounded mean [&hellip;]
- [Health advice (intermezzo)](https://maverisk.nl/health-advice-intermezzo/): &#8220;It’s well-known that wine is in fact a medicine. It’s packed with vitamins and anti-oxidants and all sorts of trace elements. Red wine even more so. All very good for you. Essential. Wine is better for you than even chocolate. Of course, if you opt for the wine/chocolate combo then it’s practically the same as going to a health spa.&#8221; Edited version as found in a relevant but oddly pear shaped theme textbook. Of course, we support your health, with this advice, and with the advice to drink in moderation. Sip-and-taste about one eight&#8217; glasses, times eight different wines side by [&hellip;]
- [Eat your veggies ...](https://maverisk.nl/eat-your-veggies/): Why oh why can&#8217;t restaurants get their act together, and offer balanced menus ..? Since if one eats out, the quality is so desperately poor [regardless of class / price range !] that one is starved for worthwhile stuff. Only a few get it right; like this one. No, it is not that customers will get what they ask; they will get what the chef (?) put on the menu. Customers will also not ask what they don&#8217;t know is possible to get. Or &#8230;, next time ask for a veggie-based menu with meat/fish as a add-in not the mainstay. [&#8216;Proteins&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [Super, Cluster 0.0](https://maverisk.nl/super-cluster-0-0/): How is it that Amsterdam promotes itself as a – the Supercluster, re bloktsjain in particular, when already this goes around ..? Either ones are dunces kicking a dead horse and no competitor supercluster region had any need to tell them, or what are they hiding and is it a good idea at all to hide anything worthwhile these days, as any globally interesting development needs the globe’s best brains anywhere to develop into anything fruitful ..? The latter raising the concern that all this ‘super’cluster thinking is derived from some ancient proto-civilisations’ notion of importance of geography. Contra the culture [&hellip;]
- [Disasterpress](https://maverisk.nl/disasterpress/): What m.r.ns considered the new post editor a good idea? Fire &#8217;em all! In particular when it&#8217;s some not-close-to-founders n00bs that have so utterly destroyed all usability. Changing the Draw team to a total-destruction losing one, will do the same to Wp. RIP. And I&#8217;m not even asking for vi. Just for 1 (one) button to restore what was perfectly OK.
- [Sunk asphalt](https://maverisk.nl/sunk-asphalt/): About how one can &#8216;invest&#8217; over and over again, into a known sinkhole. [Below in Dutch, since that&#8217;s where author is victim [well&#8230;] of the problem in particular.] The mantra, since the invention of cars and traffic jams: Pour more asphalt. [Tarmac for the Brits; in a couple of years, will be forced to accept coloniszation by the US anyway] The mantra, a variant of the sunk cost fallacy..? Since each and every time [barring exceptional local exceptions], more asphalt doesn&#8217;t seem to help. It battles symptoms [of &#8230;!?] for a short while, and then the traffic jams reoccur, often worse [&hellip;]
- [The 2000 of 2018](https://maverisk.nl/the-2000-of-2018/): Because all sorts of hoi polloi pundits are out there, &#8216;polling&#8217; (quod non, just repeating the meh mediocrity) for the Top 2000 of 2018 on the ray-the-ohw and elsewhere, herewith the real deal definitive Top 2000. Which of course isn&#8217;t; it&#8217;s the Top 2282 for one thing and Definitive is slightly understating it. If you hadn&#8217;t guessed, #15 is about me. And yes, it is downloadable in plain Excel, for your own tinker and play, in this file; checked and clean (no subversive content). Next, a few little notes (repeated from last year): &#8220;That&#8217;s odd! The usual numbers 1 to 50 [&hellip;]
- [Whacking risks](https://maverisk.nl/whacking-risks/): Y&#8217;all remember this: And how does that not translate directly to how risk &#8216;management&#8217; is done in your enterprise ..? Yes, whack-a-risk it is. One by one. Now that the hype about &#8216;cyber&#8217; has blown over [Has it? Can we finally retire #ditchcyber ..?? We may need to party!], what will be next? Hopefully, tackling the secondary risk of using futile methodology in risk management. Like, &#8216;heat maps&#8217; (per this) or &#8216;evidence based&#8217; kindergarten-big-data nonsense as is in this vast resource. The latter not dismissing the use of estimates, but putting them into perspective. And you do remember this &#8230;? Let [&hellip;]
- [Ah, the infiltration of.](https://maverisk.nl/ah-the-infiltration-of/): Unfortunately, this is not about coffee, it&#8217;s about in-filtration. And, supposedly, some form of exfiltration or abuse. All about IoT &ndash; still going strong as a term, despite slowly growing out of the trough of disillusionment both qua general deployment and use of the things behind the abbrev, as qua security concerns that resurface unresolved moreover in bigger force. Now with a side branch of the ugly duckling sibling Security getting its own term: Infiltration of Things. Nice. Certainly in reference to this recent post of ours. [Hoping that pre-publish linking actually works] But then, we don&#8217;t need a new term [&hellip;]
- [That's what you get ...](https://maverisk.nl/thats-what-you-get/): &#8230; when you are too scared by anything new, to fully embrace it before it overruns you. As a pointer that the arms&#8217; race of deployment of AI in security (offense/defense) is almost lost. Depending on which side you are. That there was such an arms&#8217; race in the brewing, I need not repeat for y&#8217;all that paid attention, to the many news items re that in the past couple of quarters. From fundamental, policy-level discussions and debate all the way to operational stuff, the subject has been on the radar for many on many aspects. Not that much on arms&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [The blog of blogs](https://maverisk.nl/on-style/): Blanding down a message to be comforting to all potential readers, isn&#8217;t my thing. Posts here are meant to be tease from slumber, to opine for discussion and to stimulate to think. This means the language has a distinct style, being direct, and apologetic nor understated, also elliptical and/or long-winding, stopping short of using the correct &#8216;prolix&#8217; since not many readers may understand the QED in this – not for simpleton readers. Oh and pics are almost all my own – almost all unedited if you didn&#8217;t notice&#8230; – and selected to be at least slightly relevant to the post concerned. [&hellip;]
- [Attack Thee](https://maverisk.nl/attack-thee/): A major, huge, missing thing in &#8216;attack trees&#8217; [aren&#8217;t they related to access path analysis?] is that they only depict the &#8216;opportunity&#8217; part of perpetration, and have nothing on the Motivation of Rationalisation parts (as in this easy explanation). And hey, the latter points at insiders, too, that are so often not to be found in attack trees. Why? That&#8217;s two things that broaden the context to anything realistic. So that, e.g., the following can be applied better: Which goes way back to the physical realm. Allowing for controls to be seen not only as lines of defence [indeed, not the [&hellip;]
- [Is progress still Solid ..?](https://maverisk.nl/is-progress-still-solid/): Yes another aside: How&#8217;s things with Solid, and why aren&#8217;t you onto that yet ..? Since, it&#8217;s ever more clearly needed, and wanted (?), and a seriously viable product. Though the (&#8216;net)powers that be, may not necessarily want it. Oh well, there&#8217;s always: [Currently live, usage unknown. Not sure this is an improvement in dough though; Albert Heyn Amstelveen]
- [Aside: There it is](https://maverisk.nl/aside-there-it-is/): Aeons ago, I asked where F Fatigue was hanging out. Now we know: Here. Have a nice day &#8230;! [When even Amstelveen has more interesting stuff; Van der Togt]
- [You do NOT want AI](https://maverisk.nl/you-do-not-want-ai/): As was in some recent waste of power/time by marketing apparently-dunces, &#8220;&#8230; like Neural Networks, Polymorhic [sic] Sensors, Machine Awareness and Automated Data Monitoring. These techniques all use AI.&#8221; OK. If you believe that, you&#8217;ll believe anything. Like, elected presidents are better than monarchies &ndash; have a look around the world and weep. The point being, a. &#8216;AI&#8217; is what is still outside any machine&#8217;s abilities however complex, by definition. All that machines do, is ML. Yes, even &#8216;Watson&#8217; (which is &#8230;!?) beating humans at Jeopardy is but a flimsy, pathetically failed attempt at a Turing test. [I don&#8217;t mean this [&hellip;]
- [Done, with the droning thing.](https://maverisk.nl/done-with-the-droning-thing/): Well, that escalated quickly. Only recently, I posted this here thingy that had been lingering for a long time in the back of my mind. And in repeated discussions with various peers. About how things, as in state of the art AI things, converge to bring smart systems to the vineyard. The post had an open end, how all things put together woud not exist yet in full. Negative time. As per this: the solution, deployment-ready. Sans the microlocal antidote delivery, that is. But we can consider the viability a closed issue. Yeaj! There goes my idea of being in the [&hellip;]
- [De blije Avg-partijcommissaris](https://maverisk.nl/de-blije-avg-partijcommissaris/): Hoorde een vraag over de positionering van de Functionaris voor de Gegevensbescherming. Het antwoord (uit een zaal) was ongeveer: In de 2e lijn – u weet wel, als in de 3LoD-Flut (1e alinea van dit, en dit). Omdat, in termen van &#8216;de&#8217; zaal, de FG een tool is van management om de klantvragen te beantwoorden en zo wat, en niet meer dan dat. Rrrright. Voor wie te bescheten was om de Avg zelf gewoon eens te lezen. En eventuele aanvullende jurisprudentie. Enig idee wat het begrip Onafhankelijkheid inhoudt, wat Toezicht inhoudt ..? Wat het inhoudt dat (niet of) bestuurderen op het [&hellip;]
- [Droning in Wine](https://maverisk.nl/droning-in-wine/): Not drowning &ndash; drink less, taste more. Sometimes, ideas have to ripen to get the full palette of primary to tertiary flavours. Unlike wine, however, the process for ideas is more interpuncted qua quality. But certainly not the smooth ride any G hype cycle curve might suggest – though the suggestion that all subjects mentioned on any, would move at the same speed, is incorrect as the time to maturity is in fact indicated – though so seriously obscured that intent may be presumed as not to be held accountable afterwards for the imminent misses. Nor is the ride along the [&hellip;]
- [MITmoral Machine: Wrong system?](https://maverisk.nl/mitmoral-machine-wrong-system/): Guess we all noticed the somewhat-groundbreaking results of the MIT Moral Machine survey around the world, on the trolley problem and how would you have reacted. But, apart from the also noted possibly severe bias (towards male, highly educated, affluent hence probably more cosmopolitan, and responding in the first place), there is another aspect: The survey allowed, maybe even asked, for the brain&#8217;s System II (re: Kahneman) to kick in. You know, the cognitive, thinking part that includes ethical and moral reasoning. This, demonstrated by the linkage to language, both on the input side and on the output side. Especially the [&hellip;]
- [Auditing the T of ETL for ML-AI is a human affair (still)](https://maverisk.nl/auditing-the-t-of-etl-for-ml-ai-is-a-human-affair-still/): Wow that seems like two handfuls of something&#8230; This, about a little part of the AI problem complex at the moment: ETL, as Extract, Transform, Load is usually called but few people care to remember, is Data Analytics&#8217; talk for getting the data from some basic simple systems like SAP (E), pruning it and applying all sorts of other manual corrections (yikes! the T), and then slurping it into some Analytics (or visualisation) tool (L). The L is easiest. Once one would have gone through the E part, plus some T sauce. Not this. The T sauce, this one, however is [&hellip;]
- [The Accidental Pairer](https://maverisk.nl/the-accidental-pairer/): [Kinda full book review] Searching for a sort-of definitive guide on wine-cheese pairing, your intrepid reviewer came across Tasting Wine &#038; Cheese, by Adam Centamore. Browsing through, scepticism started, to be returned to optimism in the introductory chapters. That are quite basic, but with hints of systematic treatment of the subject. And, given the introductory level, miss a few ‘rules’ here and there, in the wine, in the cheese, and in the wine-cheese sections. Like, what grows together, goes together – yes that is mentioned twice in the book, but elsewhere, piecemeal. Yes, the introduction is about experimenting. Which is what [&hellip;]
- [Human's Wrong, on many levels](https://maverisk.nl/humans-wrong-on-many-levels/): Oh my. You just know the hordes of conzultants will have a field day babbling on and on about hoomans being the weakest, very weak link and need to be confined to at most one icon on their desktop because that&#8217;s what they need for work and no more. Not only is the latter a blatant lie except for the handful (literally) of exceptions, but when you read this report (from this site, #17-0444), you&#8217;ll notice the same old #FAIL that you see about everywhere else. Because the civil servant had a little time on his hands (is that a pleonasm [&hellip;]
- [The Boring Wine Inn (3 @MichelinGuides stars)](https://maverisk.nl/the-boring-wine-inn-3-michelinguides-stars-2/): [Repost, edited] Maybe the relevance of Michelin stars, and accompanying guide, would increase if, Apart from losing the numbing down, bland-isation of any food innovation by chefs to a style that is either Boring in itself already or a quick to wear off gimmick, that obtaining or even striving for a star(s) often turns into, just to please the judges and don&#8217;t forget a bucket of salt (yes, don&#8217;t lie to me) The wine list was innovative, too. By which I don&#8217;t mean that the wine list couldn&#8217;t have some classics but where the all but most insanely priced items (all [&hellip;]
- [Good](https://maverisk.nl/good/): Just a note; every now and then some temporary (&#8230;) tiny bits of good news come through: This, on FaceID being insufficient for banking sign-on in Europe. That may lighten up your day; not all is lost immediately. And: [There is hope. Cork-plopping hope.]
- [Preferably inaccurate AI](https://maverisk.nl/preferably-inaccurate-ai/): The as ever poignant Seth Godin (@thisissethsblog) pointed to a problem in browsing; not knowing how to make a system not reductionist/analytical but synthesist/creative. Would blurring give suitable results ..? As in: Not overly perfect fitting in ML, not going for the one outcome with the highest confidence level in AI. Applying trained AI systems outside their (known?) boundaries which may be equivalent to using &#8216;wrong&#8217; (imperfect domain overlapping) or &#8216;weak&#8217; (high noise ratio) training sets. Possibly building hybrid systems, not only with straightforward ML but also applying some form of fuzzy logic and expert systems as tool to manage a [&hellip;]
- [Lessons learned &ndash; Not, nor used](https://maverisk.nl/lessons-learned-not-nor-used/): To all project management related types: Did you do your Lessons learned session at the end of your last project? In earnest? Extensively and deep enough to be potentially useful in future projects? Seriously? In all your previous projects? I just don&#8217;t believe you. And, where did the lessons learned show up in the projects you did later? Nowhere, I guess. Only where project set-up standards require the most excruciating detail in planning and activities – the kind that no-one will follow in practice since they&#8217;re such an overload of bôle-S yes that&#8217;s where the word BS derives from (2nd sentence [&hellip;]
- [Analysis first, data analysis later](https://maverisk.nl/analysis-first-data-analysis-later/): This, about the trend to see play time being over and serious business resuming; with ML. Where no longer, one just let some business-newbie just out of college (or less) play with a bricks set of tools including a minute subset of all relevant vectors [i.e., a tiniest sliver of context], and then have &#8230; Tadaaa! A proof of concept, at best. Now, let&#8217;s see how small a part in might take in regular business operations &mdash; don&#8217;t transform your business too much because that might undo the relevance of rules learned ..! Even when &#8216;AI translators&#8217; come into fashion, they [&hellip;]
- [Fully loaded](https://maverisk.nl/fully-loaded/): Omdat er recent alweer hartstikke Foute uitsprakenboel discussies waren over ZP&#8217;ers (niet over ZZP&#8217;ers), dat die vooral andere belangen zouden hebben &ndash; quod non 1 &ndash; en dat die zo duur zouden zijn &ndash; quod non 2. QN2, wegens: Medewerker in vaste dienst verdient € 4000 netto per maand, voor het rekenvoorbeeld. Dat kost de werkgever € 6.487 bruto, volgens alle sites; jaarlijks € 77.844. Plus vakantiegeld € 6.227,52 plus waarschijnlijk een 13e maand € 6.487 plus pensioen € 15.000ballpark plus opleidingsbudget € 1.000 (j..zus wat een kneiterbedragje) en dat alles doorbetaald tijdens vakantie of ziekte&#8230; En dan vergeet ik nog [&hellip;]
- [Small. ish.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nope.](https://maverisk.nl/small-ish-nope/): On several occasions it struck me that, adviseconsulting on subjects like AI deployment and information risk management [usually not in one go], nowadays the relation between company &#8216;size&#8217; and headcount seems to have gone less strictly linear. Like, there&#8217;s still a lot of big org&#8217;s out there that do have large numbers of fte&#8217;s [Skipping for a moment the subject of their productivity towards the bottom line; drilling down one often finds that &#8216;profit&#8217; or even turnover is more of an emergent property than specifically allocatable to individual KPIs (don&#8217;t claim that executives meet their KPIs and are the money makers [&hellip;]
- [Don't forget GDPR when untraining your ML](https://maverisk.nl/dont-forget-gdpr-when-untraining-your-ml/): Training ML systems is bound to use personally identifiable information, PII usually dubbed personal information. This latter thing diminishes the scope, way too much, by leaving out that any bit of information that in conjunction with outside sources of any kind, can be used to identify a person, is PII.[1] Under GDPR, there&#8217;s the right to be forgotten&#8230; Now there&#8217;s two problems: Sometimes, data points can be retrieved literally from the trained system, like here. Clearly, such data points need to not be reproduced anymore, then. But how to un-learn an ML system when the data point involved, needs to be [&hellip;]
- [Diffuse parameters, diffusing laws](https://maverisk.nl/diffuse-parameters-diffusing-laws/): Already, we were aware that With ML systems, the lines between software/fixed algorithms, parametrisation and semantic meaning of the outcomes, are blurred. We have no &#8216;place&#8217; where the &#8216;logic&#8217; sits or is stored/used; it&#8217;s all getting mushy and that&#8217;s not a good thing; The law wants neat yearsteryears&#8217; algorithms (protocols, parameters, provable actions upon intent, etc.); Adversarial AI exists, whether we call it AI or the mere ML that it is. All these three in concert, don&#8217;t give hope. Like explained here and more profoundly here, &#8216;hacking&#8217; may not be appropriately defined, if it currently is at all, once one uses [&hellip;]
- [Boring Under 30s ...](https://maverisk.nl/boring-under-30s/): Just when you thought about getting into it, maybe, from somewhere near the bottom&#8230; One should be careful to know what the bottom looks like. Qua diving into &#8216;Data Science&#8217; quod non, that so many have put their personal hopes in, but &#8230; tempted how and why ..? Earlier, I posted this, on how all the Fourth Estate – as far as independent and also focused on others that might still be independent, now apparently unwanted and to be turned into 4thE sheeple – wrote about how one would have to slave oneself to death for the most minute chance of [&hellip;]
- [BrAin Training](https://maverisk.nl/brain-training/): When humans are much, much less far off from [other; ed.] animals than we commonly think, and a look at &#8216;presidents&#8217; around the world may push that into a negative margin, there was this piece about how &#8220;AI&#8221; might better have a look at animals&#8217; trained brains for a path forward from ANI to AGI. Well, wasn&#8217;t it that the Jeopardy-winning &#8220;AI&#8221; system actually was 42 subsystems working each in their own direction ..? How would &#8216;rebuilding&#8217; a human brain also not be the same, at a somewhat larger scale ..? Like, this post about &#8216;getting&#8217; physics being done by some [&hellip;]
- [Simple, not simpler](https://maverisk.nl/simple-not-simpler/): &#8220;If you can&#8217;t explain it simply, you don&#8217;t understand it well enough&#8221; – Albert Einstein. Or was it Feynman? Or what was it, by Einstein, or ..? &#8220;An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid&#8221; popularly attributed to Lord Rutherford of Nelson in as stated in Einstein, the Man and His Achievement By G. J. Whitrow, Dover Press 1973. Einstein is unlikely to have said it since his theory of relativity was very abstract and based on sophisticated mathematics. to which I found &#8220;Unrelated, but reminds me of the joke about the mathematicians who [&hellip;]
- [You wanted a model to play with ..?](https://maverisk.nl/you-wanted-a-model-to-play-with/): You may have been attracted by the title – I won&#8217;t give away your name, address, phone and social security number, and credit card and bank accounts to the first bidder since I may not be in the business you assumed from the title. Rather, I&#8217;m referring to the age-old stupidity of trying to capture complex systems in merely complicated models, not even to study and understand but toy around with it and at your pleasure do prognostic and prescriptive things with it. Which was found to be Wrong already long ago, as per e.g., this and this and this and [&hellip;]
- [Meta over pseudo &ndash; fail on fail](https://maverisk.nl/meta-over-pseudo-fail-on-fail/): Hmmm&#8230;, There&#8217;s a lot of tok again about pseudonymity, lately. As if that would ever work. Same, with homomorphic encryption as a means to that end. Both missing the mark, since both missing the point. The point being: Deanonymisation isn&#8217;t about backtracking the encrypted info, decrypting it or so, it&#8217;s about the metadata. It&#8217;s not about the &#8216;content&#8217; of the data point; it&#8217;s about the class identifier (which you&#8217;ll need for any useful use of the data point – otherwise random data would do &amp;ndash) that, linked with other-class identifiers, leads to just one (i.e., &lt; 3 remember?) human having all [&hellip;]
- [Meritocracy not working (anymore)](https://maverisk.nl/meritocracy-not-working-anymore/): Had this post on destructed rebound options disabling lottery-shot society from succeeding. And also, more recently this. Now [as of writing&#8230;], this: Not as much a closure of the outside, or re-entry, but a spongy moulding from the inside. Recalling what one would have learned from Plato [despite this possibly sounding elitist, which may/may not bother you; either way bringing troubling assessment of your intellect (not being beyond IYI), and of mine ..?], about meritocracies versus equality. That there is no one solution that is best, anytime, anywhere. With if analysed deeply enough, both approaches circle around a central issue, being [&hellip;]
- [The masses &ndash; suitably replaceable ..?](https://maverisk.nl/the-masses-suitably-replaceable/): To start, &#8220;When experienced accountants were asked in a study to use a new tax law for deductions that replaced a previous one, they did worse than novices. Erik Dane &#8230; calls this phenomenon &#8216;cognitive entrenchment&#8217;.&#8221; and &#8220;They &#8216;travelled on an eight-lane highway&#8217;,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;rather than down a single-lane one-way street. They had Range. The successful adapters were excellent at taking knowledge from one pursuit and applying it creatively to another, and at avoiding cognitive entrenchment. &#8230; They drew on outside experiences and analogies to interrupt their inclination towards a previous solution that may no longer work. Their skill was [&hellip;]
- [Slotty McSlotfillface](https://maverisk.nl/slotty-mcslotfillface/): &#8220; This is your dream job when your profile fits the role perfectly&#8220;&#8230; This, in a job posting. Unsure from what millennium it was – not; of course it was one from a couple of weeks ago, but then, also from the time that Time forgot, when job seekers had to compete to fill drudge jobs. Had to be happy to deal with these people, even. Hah. Hah. The organisations that aren&#8217;t aware of today&#8217;s seller market, will hire the dunces that are in the same boat. Which is sinking without any sliver of doubt, but they themselves may be the [&hellip;]
- [Nepino](https://maverisk.nl/nepino/): Hey how is it that anyone would be able to act surprised when a project goes wrong or even at a tangent, when some previous projects did the same, similarly ..? As if there is a project methodology that requires [hardcore concrete block gateway: IF not(done) Then None shall pass] to investigate all previous projects&#8217; evaluations, to establish which risks re-occur with the current one, and mitigate the risks by implementing the lessons learned ..? Since at least, all projects close off with such an Evaluation, right? Or [i.e., XOR] no discharge of the project manager; no pay. Evaluation, months after [&hellip;]
- [AInterpretability](https://maverisk.nl/ainterpretability/): For all those that promote &#8216;transparent&#8217; AI: You want induction to work in a way that it never has in history. Logical fallacies prevent that – if you would want to sate that &#8216;logic has progressed&#8217;, congratulations; you have now declared your own incompetence in these matters. Yes, there&#8217;s thoughtful content around re interpretability, like here [hey I noticed that Medium is becoming the prime platform for reading up on the latest AI developments in all sorts of areas and issues; maybe I should join the frey]. It even delves into &#8216;interpretability&#8217;. Rightfully; progress can be made in little steps there. [&hellip;]
- [27001: versus 27701 &ndash; cross-reference and you are (should already have been) done](https://maverisk.nl/27001-versus-27701-cross-reference-and-you-are-should-already-have-been-done/): I take it you all have noticed the issuance of ISO 27701:2019 (here), a.k.a. ISO/IEC 27552 in development..? Apart from the odd fact that it refers to the 001 and 002 in their :2013 original, but not include the :2014 and :2015 formally ratified updates to the 001. [Rightfully skipping the :2017 since that&#8217;s a local variant.] And apart from the fact that it should mostly be a mapping exercise when (sic; not if) one would have been decently GDPR-compliant per May 25th of last year but then, I know I know, you&#8217;re still trying to piece together your 2700x:201y compliance [&hellip;]
- [Boeings woes are just peak capitalism](https://maverisk.nl/boeings-woes-are-just-peak-capitalism/): Never mind the risk (of planes going down, full of coach cattle class humans) skyrockets, as long as our profits do too. And if we go bust, well never mind, we have our many years of bonuses behind us and will soon find another places to pick up the steady flow of them again. And the company will be bailed out by the government since they&#8217;re too deeply dependent on our money-robbing scheme; think DoD playthings. Come to think of it; that might be ideal to get rid of most staff [that are complaining about &#8216;quality&#8217; all the time anyway, we&#8217;ll [&hellip;]
- [Storage (in) Space](https://maverisk.nl/storage-in-space/): Before you all jump to re-re-rerunnning the real &#8216;Space vid (here), asking for a friend: If one stores a bitcon wallet on a satellite in (well, relatively) outer space, say beyond the stratosphere, would its value be tax exempt? [Edited to add: That leaving-out of an i was a typo, but I&#8217;ll leave it there to ponder the appropriateness of the result] Like, one shoots a Tesla into space, loaded with stellar music and some machine holding bitcoin, or even better: holding some smart contracts in blocks of the &#8216;chain plus some mining and comms stuff, which earthy tax authority would [&hellip;]
- [Green lands 'or' green backs / He who sells what isn't his'n ...](https://maverisk.nl/green-lands-or-green-backs-he-who-sells-what-isnt-hiswn/): A couple of days ago, there was this honour awarded to Denmark by not visiting, by youknowwho. For the reason you&#8217;re all aware of, officially [i.e., per tweet] so declared. As was in the news, too, the true reasons for wanting to &#8216;buy Greenland&#8217; were in the ground. &#8216;Strategic&#8217; interests indeed, for once, not [only !!] qua global-geographical location as such; Any sale would actually have &#8216;helped&#8217; the climate, but then, in the extreme negative; What would it cost? In $ that may not be worth their exchange rate, in € [see below under F] or in DKK ..? Either way, [&hellip;]
- [Data-lake driven AI Is A Mirage, still, after decades](https://maverisk.nl/data-lake-driven-ai-is-a-mirage-still-after-decades/): Funny, isn&#8217;t it? Not only do we see lots of articles about OT popping up on our socials&#8217; timelines, but also item for the management of data. Quite similar. &#8216;OT&#8217; being among other things debunked for not being but a sub-branch of T (as is &#8216;traditional&#8217; &#8216;IT&#8217;) – indeed, which was first ..? Which was first qua security? Even when the former was neglected for decades since not being tied into any visible i.e. Internet work and suddenly is back now it (?) is. And methodologically, not being very different indeed though denying any difference gets you a bit off tack [&hellip;]
- [Legalistic GDPR &ndash; a liability](https://maverisk.nl/legalistic-gdpr-a-liability/): Once again, about how the legal approach to GDPR &#8216;compliance&#8217; did not work quite as intended. How long until this is rightfully concluded to be the wrong way per se for the subject ..? For any subject ..? Yes, some branch of the Big 3½ (them again) had used a wrong grounds for processing, and was subsequently fined for this. Probably, there had been a lot of discussion, with regulators (DPA). Maybe also about all sorts of other things where there wasn&#8217;t anything outright illegal but concrete blocks of bureaucracy were put in the path of effectiveness and efficiency. But certainly [&hellip;]
- [Audit-abilities](https://maverisk.nl/audit-abilities/): Hey that&#8217;s refreshing! A report that was only just saved from another round of archiving department directories. By means of this report, we are reminded that 2019 is quite similar – UK English for &#8216;not a hair different from&#8217; – 2009. Or 1999. Or so. the latter, maybe a bit less, as then, even some auditors were all too busy with Y2k. But you get it – the rate of change seems to be unproportional (i.e., unmoving on the solution side) to the client expectation gap. The Client Supreme, being the general publick. To get to the content, the advice; to [&hellip;]
- [Down with/on Agile; Waterfall still's around](https://maverisk.nl/down-with-on-agile-waterfall-stills-around/): On how Edgyle Skrrum Deaf Obs squares off with &#8216;traditional&#8217; methods. How not everything&#8217;s well- or better-suited to &#8216;agile&#8217; change methods. Since that is a solution, to a problem. Not just to whatever it finds in its way. Like, this here treatise: silo-busting as the goal/means; correct. When suddenly, I realised that there&#8217;s another way of looking at the divide. Remember the traditional waterfall model that turned into a V when one would add appropriate levels of testing, as in: [Plucked off the &#8216;net I know not-nice &#8216;reuse&#8217; right?] Thre you have it: In the Old model, in the bottom there [&hellip;]
- [Beaten by the Belgians](https://maverisk.nl/beaten-by-the-belgians/): Sire, there are no Belgians &#8230; Still, we (NL) are sorely beaten. Not in football, too much. But c&#8217;mon, this &#8230;!? My French isn&#8217;t all that well anymore but still&#8230; [To edit; Royal Belgian Navy]
- [The case of the pyramids](https://maverisk.nl/the-case-of-the-pyramids/): Well, no. Not of the pyramids. We did that one yesterday / below. Today&#8217;s a new day, hence we move the the case part, though in a similar fashion: &#8216;But the authors of a recent paper argue that Wallace Donham, the man credited with establishing the case method as a force at HBS in the 1920s, had evolving views of business education that have never been surfaced, and that contradict the sense that management lessons should be viewed through the narrow lens of the case study. &#8230; In the upheaval, he says, Donham saw the limits of the approach he had [&hellip;]
- [How much an architect designs foundations](https://maverisk.nl/how-much-an-architect-designs-foundations/): &#8230; Like, not very much. An architect does not give a hoot about how the foundation of a new office block looks — have a look at any underground office parking garage and see how much effort the starchitect put into that [exceptions noted]. Yes, functionality-wise it&#8217;s all good, mostly, but the architect that wants to design a Statement building, hardly will use all his (?) pastel sketch skills on the form of the piles driven into the ground, eh? As long as it&#8217;s functional bedrock to build Beauty on, in the eyes of the beholder [i.e., infatuated critic(s) not so [&hellip;]
- [Dreaming of oversight, AI version: the wrong dream.](https://maverisk.nl/dreaming-of-oversight-ai-version-the-wrong-dream/): The Dutch Central Bank released a discussion paper on general principles. On AI in Finance. Here. Oh my. What a great attempt it seemed. But by simply reading it, before studying, one finds &#8230; the usual suspect #fail&#8217;s. Like, the decades-old big Error of non-orthagonality (Basel-II big-time #fail in Ops Risk, remember?). The principles have been grouped to backronym into Safest: Soundness, Accountability, Fairness, Ethics, Skills, Transparency. See? Already there, one can debate ad infinitum &ndash; and yes I suggest to those that want to take the DNB paper seriously to do so and leave the rest of the world to [&hellip;]
- [As-a-CPA-Service](https://maverisk.nl/as-a-cpa-service/): When the economy is moving to platforms as the core structure, can we do e.g., AI / data analysis as a service, white labelling some stuff that all accountants will have to go through, to get State-of-the-Art to them ..? This could go in all sorts of directions, but preferably in the one that has loosely (sic) coupled systems [in the small-scope sense, not the cybernetics sense], one or a couple for every stage of the audit process. E.g., for the Know-Your-Customer Deep Dive Stage (after the KYC before acquiring a client, and the acquiring) have some process analysis tools; for [&hellip;]
- [Naming conventions](https://maverisk.nl/naming-conventions/): Have naming conventions already sprung up around home eavesdropping listening devices ..? Since &#8216;Alexa&#8217; and &#8216;Siri&#8217; may be too boring. Then I would want to call it Computer, since then I&#8217;d be able to all the time say &#8216;OK Computer&#8217;. Not even for this. But certainly for this, that one would get a lot when one would use its (&#8216;her&#8217;? oh, this may be taken to expect &#8216;his&#8217;) &#8216;services&#8217; too often / too broad-ly. I&#8217;ll stop now. For the vrijmibo – Friday&#8217;s Afternoon Drinks. What ..? Now already? Yes; one&#8217;s taste buds are best in the second half of the morning. [&hellip;]
- [Ethics for lunch](https://maverisk.nl/ethics-for-lunch/): When strategy is culture&#8217;s breakfast, ethics are your ethics&#8217; lunch – you&#8217;re so much more biased by very accidental culture than you think. Those involved in anti-biasing AI, tend to belong to a very small group of &#8216;first world&#8217; affluent (sic) secondary-productive counterweights. Very small group, since a minute fraction of the Western world pop, let alone the latter already being vastly outnumbered by the rest; First-world, since very bound up in &#8216;Western&#8217; countries; Affluent, since apparently with (mental) time on hand to be vocal about it, and travel the world (by plane, almost always) to be/speak at seminars and conferences&#8230;; [&hellip;]
- [Off goes your home security camera; in a blink](https://maverisk.nl/off-goes-your-home-security-camera-in-a-blink/): Turns out we don&#8217;t even need smart kids to pull this one off &ndash; just smart activists. As exepelainifyed here (also in the comments), there are numerous ways to throw (e.g., home security) surveillance cameras off-guard or rather, off-line qua function. Not needing to get close with a spray can anymore, but like firearms replaced hand to hand battle (not mano al mano), so your plastic doorbell gets wrecked remotely. Surprising no-one, I guess, of the ones who pay attention in the way of knowing that technology will fail. Surprising all that it&#8217;s this easy. Somehow, also it&#8217;s comparable with throwing [&hellip;]
- [Fork-tongue Loyalty](https://maverisk.nl/double-tongue-loyalty/): How is it possible, other than by monopolistic oligopoly, that &#8216;loyalty&#8217; programs by e.g., airliners and supermarkets, aren&#8217;t; in fact, seem to be the opposite ..? Take airlines: Sure, some travel a lot, and the same for private purposes on their reward points. But&#8230; What are the airlines rewarding? Not loyalty. The very same customer will fly whatever takes them to their business (..!) destinations cheapest, excepting a few kickback discounts and overrulings by potentates that want to keep collecting private miles thus robbing their employers of savings. And points, sometimes. If it isn&#8217;t enough punishment already to those left behind, [&hellip;]
- [Data, so perishable an asset](https://maverisk.nl/data-so-perishable-an-asset/): As we stated earlier, data is not the new oil. Or gold. In fact, data is not only perishable as in losing its value over time. It is also not the definitive, runaway network effect-affected first-is-winner-takes-all. As displayed in this great piece of analysis. Now, this would be manageable, workable into a &#8216;new&#8217; &#8216;model&#8217; if not from the link, I also read, quite in the distance, also a (very early) warning sign that the current Theory of Firm, which we critiqued before, may need to take into account that also internally, &#8216;organisations&#8217; need to pay attention; at some point [oddly named [&hellip;]
- ["Ik stuur wel een tikkie"](https://maverisk.nl/ik-stuur-wel-een-tikkie/): Tsja, het was in het spel tikkertje toch echt dat je &#8216;tikkie&#8217; zei als je iemand uitschakelde. Waarmee &#8220;Ik stuur wel een tikkie&#8221; betekent dat je, als rechtgeaarde mobster, een huurmoordenaar afstuurt op degene die je de melding doet. Weet niet of dat de bedoeling was. Nou ja, whatever. Dus, behalve dat we met z&#8217;n allen inmiddels helemaal krankjorem zijn geworden van al die (malle) eppies, zijn we ook door de letters heen om ze te onderscheiden en verzinnen we (?) de bijpassende nonsens, c.q. laten we dat gewoon gebeuren alsof we diep in de DSM-IV zitten. Nou ja, whatever. En: [&hellip;]
- [What did you just #include ..??](https://maverisk.nl/what-did-you-just-include/): Back to the post from a week ago &#8230; Where the issue was to know your data, and how that still is a problemo big time, if you can get any sufficient data of seemingly appropriate quality at all. There&#8217;s a flip side, on the &#8216;engine&#8217; side [ref of course Turing machines but why do I write this you knew that duh], where you #include just about anything of value [won&#8217;t link back to that post of mine again&#8230;!]; being standard libraries and some some times pretty core stats stuff of which you also don&#8217;t know the quality. The standard things [&hellip;]
- [Biasin' -out.](https://maverisk.nl/biasin-out/): Yes, yes, there&#8217;s still discussion about biases and how &#8216;Ethical AI&#8217; should be pleonastic. 1. Though it isn&#8217;t, and inherently can&#8217;t be. For one, since &#8216;ethics&#8217; is (factually) about discussing and debating dilemmas ad nauseam without providing a clear-cut decision &ndash; whereas human behaviour of the non-pathological kind is about something else&#8230; For another, any &#8216;ethical&#8217; decision is completely and utterly individual or (as in &veebar; !) some moral judgment by some other(s &ndash; usually group with identification < 1) imposed upon the subject-not-free-agent; certainly when as should be the case each and every time the context (i.e.,complete and utter physiological [&hellip;]
- [Friction kept Tech in control, and humans able to cope. No more of that.](https://maverisk.nl/friction-kept-tech-in-control-and-humans-able-to-cope-no-more-of-that/): It crossed my mind [remember, this post was drafted/scheduled over two months ago why am I adding this I don&#8217;t know] that all those new &#8216;innovations&#8217; like switching to non-cash money, will not only have to be &#8216;repaired&#8217; with all sorts of weird gizmos/apps and what have we. They will also, by reducing &#8216;friction&#8217; indeed, make the economy [! As if there is such a thing ! Yet another construct of apparent emerging existence which when studied, is not] more efficient. But that&#8217;s not the purpose of Humanity. It&#8217;s only the mere purpose of Technology. Friction is naughty, we learned from [&hellip;]
- [Don't try this at home, kids](https://maverisk.nl/dont-try-this-at-home-kids/): Despite their popularity back in the days, and despite that not being sustainable clearly, I still wonder what happened to this show that portrayed some innovators to today&#8217;s common youth++ mental maturity. That gave us hosts of these and thees. That was unintentional. And this was recent (??), and a good explanasummary. The point being; they were ahead of time. Now everyone has followed suit. In politics, qua composed mindsets. Can we not have The Movie of that, please? Cheers, mate: [Interesting. Maybe not (long-term) clever. But interesting. Madrid]
- [<em>You included what ??</em>](https://maverisk.nl/you-included-what/): Now that Summertime is upon us, the time is there, to consider what you have been up to. And what your New Business Year&#8217;s Resolutions are for when people &#8230; sorry I mean co-workers, return from their well-deserved holidays away from you. So that next round of business activity, you&#8217;ll do better. We need to have a talk. I mean, qua data processing the new way, as in ML. In the global data swamp, how come good data is hard to come by? Why do we still struggle to get the right data, in sufficient quantities? [Let alone the biggo problem [&hellip;]
- [DARPA to the rescue](https://maverisk.nl/darpa-to-the-rescue/): There&#8217;s a possibility, i.e. chance &gt; zero, that AI can be deployed to undo biases that we humans, used as we are to patterns and stereotyping due to evolutionary advantages of that though we&#8217;re also prone to type overly long sentences again, are prone to. Mostly, AI is still seen [at time of scheduling of this post, which is over two months ago] as perpetuating such biases, because being trained on datasets that include biases, they [&#8216;it&#8216;?] will focus on reproducing these the best they can. Or even find efficient proxies for causal factors that sharpen the divide. Still supposing that [&hellip;]
- [Either way, or both; the Information in 'AI'](https://maverisk.nl/either-way-or-both-the-information-in-ai/): When some old pyramid of &#8216;information&#8217; needs updates&#8230; As we all have this old-school pyramid in mind when discussing the Data–Knowledge–Information-or-was-it-Information–Knowledge–Intelligence–Wisdom classifications. Which, foremost if not first, miss a lot or almost everything of this and this. But also, may not be useful &#8216;enough&#8217; when discussing what it is, actually [some pun popped up unintentionally here, at quite a huge (huh) associative distance hence is left here intentionally], the classifications of the things that go in and out of &#8216;AI&#8217; systems. Yes, yes, it&#8217;s ML, and it&#8217;s not &#8216;systems&#8217; but &#8216;-driven or -enhanced systems&#8217; mehhh we could talk about this all [&hellip;]
- [Belated advice](https://maverisk.nl/belated-advice/): Since the Summer&#8217;s on its way quite allright already here on the N hemi. An advisory note with its own wiki: this. Which for the intended audience was put into a vlog post here. And despite the warning to not take this too seriously. For the others, the written notes after the pic for viewing pleasure, and after noticing this: &#8220; Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of &#8217;97. Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of [&hellip;]
- [Don't relax no more](https://maverisk.nl/dont-relax-no-more/): This, lamenting the loss of relaxation that once was had. E.g., after landing; when passengers were calmed after that scary episode of a flight by the &#8220;Nothing to worry about [anymore&#8230;]&#8221; music on a plane. &#8216;tWas there in the Seventies all right, but when did carriers stop playing such pleasurable-feelings-enhancing music as this or this or this, or even the monumental this or this (version)? (Can&#8217;t recall to have heard this on a plane though it would fit the &#8216;ticket&#8217;.) Certainly, it was before there was a phase with a need for anxiety-releasing (sic) applause on cheap charters to/from non-Western cultures [&hellip;]
- [Intermission: Sophie's Moral Machine](https://maverisk.nl/intermission-sophies-moral-machine/): It&#8217;s odd that there hasn&#8217;t been much more comparison of the Moral Machine mind games, to Sophie&#8217;s Choice (here and here). As explained earlier, the MM reasoning may be off, for the purposes that it is applied to latter-daily. But also, what have we learned from the novel/movie &#8230;? We might better think about Hobson&#8217;s choices for our auto, then. We need answers, not swooning over drama. [Not meant derogatory to those that have faced real Choices, just denouncing those that think that armchair babble about the trivial analogies to them, is human high grounds!] Well, onto more pleasant subjects: [Unreachable [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">S</span>heldon stats](https://maverisk.nl/sheldon-stats/): Referring of course to &#8230; I&#8217;ll get to that. Surprising none that followed app-sci developments in statistics and their practical use after the Black Swan, this came flying by, and this [with a link]. I sincerely hope these aren&#8217;t beyond your comprehension, or you&#8217;ll have to make-do with third-hand interpretations&#8230;? No, they&#8217;re not mere theoretical physics (let alone mundane rocket science), right Sheldon ..? Yes the linked has 253 pages. Maybe not all quotes but still. But they are relevant. Might they be implicated in biases ..? E.g., whereby the brain does/doesn&#8217;t include, surreptitiously, unconsciously, some learned (deviation from, or not) [&hellip;]
- [Base-5 Fairness in AI](https://maverisk.nl/base-5-fairness-in-ai/): Just a short note as I&#8217;m delivering three days of lecture to executive MBAs-to-be on, among others, this subject: Fairness in AI is beyond mere (??) debiasing training data like here. It&#8217;s more about: waddyamean, fairness? for which I happened to have found a very good overview [plus dabbling tool] here. When one cannot per se decide on principle, what happen with development of proper systems &#8230;? I don&#8217;t know. Neither do you. And: [Art, another difficult definition thing; Smithsonian DC]
- [Buckminster Fuller for Better Futures &ndash; innovation from the past](https://maverisk.nl/buckminster-fuller-for-better-futures-innovation-from-the-past/): Note&#8217;let: How would the world innovate, if we had paid better attention to what some of the great ones had to prophesize about our past/present ..? As illustrated by the already onto himself most agreeable futurist Ross Dawson in this piece, on the above and his list in general. When we read now what laid in store for us, wouldn&#8217;t we have been better off if we had taken the sources and pointers from those, and tried to implement them, rather than finding out now what we could have known and achieved earlier in time? Of course we learn from history [&hellip;]
- [All clear(ed) for 'corns](https://maverisk.nl/all-cleared-for-corns/): Just a musing, along with some stories relating to the IPOing of &#8216;unicorns&#8217; quod non that seems to have picked up recently – are the last ones of a generation cashing out, or is it a true longer-term sine wave thing, or what? The musing being, that many reasons can be given. Like here. But Sinister Me had a hunch there could also be something in play somehow that relates to most tech (and other) giants&#8217; ability to dodge taxes everywhere, and with any new huge-from-the-word-go fund, somehow new tax evasion opportunities open up for wily investors. Like in diversifying the [&hellip;]
- [Redesign, after throwing away much learnings](https://maverisk.nl/redesign-after-throwing-away-much-learnings/): Deliberate qua skewspeak. Was triggered by this article, with the pic of a sub. That is waaay over size, when one would consider not needing the space for hoomans (and no need for much oxygen ..?); redesigning a drone sub from scratch might give quite different results. Smaller, probably. More flex. Less visibility, in all sound / electromag fields. Possibly, cheaper builds (no need to care for human safety ..?). Have a look at what free design did for aerial, fixed-wing drones à la Raptor. Surely, the Navy already is experimenting with drones beyond the cable-attached, close-by controlled, kind ..? What [&hellip;]
- [Knock knock &ndash; It's Repairbot!](https://maverisk.nl/knock-knock-its-repairbot/): Repairbotwho ..? I posted about this idea in the recent past [this post written long before-the-latter-hand, to add a dose of confusion as if you needed that even more], and finally got some positive news &#8230;. in here. Finally. Now let&#8217;s get this through, singularity-wise; like letting the self-learning improve, and copying it n times with n → ∞ so sloppy coding becomes a thing to aim for (given meticulous inefficiency versus scribbeling∧&#8217;auto&#8217;correcting efficiently). Deal? To sweaten it: [Unconfusing your design &#8230;? Porto]
- [Your are theirs, especially the embarrassing parts](https://maverisk.nl/your-are-theirs-especially-the-embarrassing-parts/): Awww, anyone with me on loathing the abuse of Language by Misstating the ownership of billion-dollar [last time I looked, still had some value; may have dropped any amount since typing this] companies. They&#8217;re not yours, they&#8217;re theirs. The 0.001%. Misstating the ownership of you yourself. Since you are completely p0wned by them. That&#8217;s what you get when you speak/write of &#8216;my Instagram&#8217; or &#8216;my facebook&#8217; or even &#8216;my socials&#8217;. Hahaha, you just said the equivalent of &#8216;I completely destroyed my privacy and have given up all rights to human decency to money-grabbing companies that [literally] couldn&#8217;t care less about me [&hellip;]
- [Move a bit slower, break things you will](https://maverisk.nl/move-a-bit-slower-break-things-you-will/): Came across a situation where DevOps-style ML (deep-l ..?) was used in flash financial business. Without too much QA; merely empowering the developer/trader-trained staff to do their thing. Asked about architecture, complexity, legacy and (Taleb-style) fragility. Got no real answer. Seems like a risky thing. Not as in risky == having some Normal distri, but as in risky == bet the business including the well-being of all employees and their extended families for a generation and a half. As is (over?)summarised in this tweet: We&#8217;ve gotten to the point where many companies are building faster than they can learn. Velocity is [&hellip;]
- [A Summer's Read; not trying to influence you](https://maverisk.nl/a-summers-read-not-trying-to-influence-you/): Am I or not ..? That depends. I&#8217;m willing to go for not, though. Slacking it is. As for the read, I&#8217;d say have a look back at this, and this (do these still exist?), and see how far we&#8217;ve come swinging back to that again, then. Per the above link. Which I enjoy. In an unrelated note, recall this. Also, this: I trained an AI (ML) system on a vast array of input, and found that the best way to become a billionaire is to be a child of one. Slaving away your life (&#39;perseverance&#39;) leads to poverty throughout your [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts Part <em>n</em> &ndash; The Colbys](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-part-n-the-colbys/): If you know what the title refers to, you have my sympathy. Was thinking: Under (sic) the GDPR, just any EU country can have their DPA issue opinions (&#8216;guidelines&#8217; – you know how they go) at will, regarding clarification of apparently foggy GDPR clauses or constructs. These are then communicated EU-wide, and in the level-playing-field spirit, taken as serious advice for &#8216;local&#8217; DPAs to be adopted (or face later complaints&#8230;). This sometimes goes right, sometimes not so much. Point is; these things get taken as authoritative (try fighting DPAs through the courts; all will be long dead economically before any conclusion [&hellip;]
- [(m)Aligning It](https://maverisk.nl/9846-2/): An uptick I see. In the number, and profundity, of posts about &#8216;IT departments&#8217;. One of the more recent, and insightful, this: With various others, older and more recent, focusing on about the same issue. It ties in with this, on the vagueness of the Value definition, perpetuated also by this. All being Bad. But unless that Value thing is defined better and IT departments are allowed to pursue the resulting objectives on their own without ex-ante efficiency targets over innovation effectiveness targets, we&#8217;ll be stuck or be running in circles, not necessarily of the virtuous kind&#8230; Any ideas, about that [&hellip;]
- [Q: Are the fools still out there ..?](https://maverisk.nl/q-are-the-fools-still-out-there/): Would anyone have an update whether these kind of people are still onto this ..? 1. &#8216;These kind of people&#8217;: When displaying either such a lack of logical understanding or such a blatant urge for blabbering about (actually) &#8216;fake news&#8217; a.k.a. &#8216;lies&#8217;, the choice is theirs and ours: Should society allow such persons to walk freely, or (xor) should they be given placement in sheltered workshops only ..? The latter, their current positions aren&#8217;t; overpaid and with the extreme negative impact they have on civil (and civilised) society at large&#8230; Yeah I kno, their deceit (if that&#8217;s what it is) is [&hellip;]
- [Firmly frustrated](https://maverisk.nl/firmly-frustrated/): Was thinking – which at least I do, what about you ..? – on the subject of theories of firm, and on transaction costs et al. that seem to be all the rage over the last couple of decades, to be gotten rid of by &#8216;disruption&#8217; and the &#8216;net. Where originally, people banded together to form a firm [for the alliteration, again], so that all their individual interests could be taken just a bit further than they would have been able to on their own in sacrificing a little bit of their independence, by saving on transaction costs that would have [&hellip;]
- [Haircuts](https://maverisk.nl/haircuts/): In this renewed age of privacy [attention, not actual], regulators seem not to be of this age. They still issue fines in the paltry single-digit billion order of magnitude, if at all. Whereas this age is also one of this. Whaddif the common 4%-of-turnover were replaced by 4%-of-market-cap ..? Would be easily implemented; take the average market cap over the last year, or over the period of breach of regulation(s), whichever is highest. No need anymore for int&#8217;l tax reform on global dodgers, right..? B/c with the above, only ethics would remain as an argument for such reform – hah hah, [&hellip;]
- [...bbatical you want ..?](https://maverisk.nl/bbatical-you-want/): Hey, just a question: Would any of you – yes, yes I know that&#8217;s a plural where a (much rounded up) single would suffice – have actual experience with working via this ..? I posted about it some time ago [like, 39 months, oh how time flies like an arrow, like here, and here in particular] and had lost sight. But see that they seem to be quite alive, still, or am I looking at some internet artifact ..? As a TIA for any reply&#8230;: [Darn! Yes they do have cubicles (&#8216;cells&#8217; even here&#8230;) and here&#8217;s that pic again; Segovia]
- [Understanding a model, you know ..?](https://maverisk.nl/understanding-a-model-you-know/): No you don&#8217;t. To be more precise, &#8230; read this. Which links back to my, and many others&#8217;, posts about modelling being all about dumbing down complication or complexity, until you &#8216;understand&#8217; what&#8217;s going on. Here, taken to its full consequence. Also, tracking back and seeing how &#8216;we&#8217; may think we&#8217;re above-average intelligent, not only does Dunning-Kruger kick in big time, but also &#8230; Where do we draw the line, where is &#8216;our&#8217; or others&#8217; thinking so dumbed-down that we cannot speak of &#8216;intelligence&#8217; anymore? Oh for sure, the line is somewhere between your intelligence and whatever it is that&#8217;s going [&hellip;]
- [Advertisial AI](https://maverisk.nl/advertisial-ai/): To throw in a new phrase. Since &#8216;AI&#8217; in itself hasn&#8217;t the buzz anymore it once had, we seem to need even more interesting-looking mumbo jumbo to attract attention of the not-so-in siders. And since &#8216;adversarial AI&#8217; has been taken. In a somewhat-right way, though grossly incomplete [the doc behind it, here]. Since the most pernicious, class-breaking sub-fields have been omitted [from that linked piece]. Like, adversarial examples&#8230; Yes, yes I know I read the darn thing I know adversarial examples are in there, but not in the way that phrase used to be used (like, ages i.e., mere couple of [&hellip;]
- [The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines](https://maverisk.nl/the-body-is-the-missing-link-for-truly-intelligent-machines/): A full repost, with permission: It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way that feels different to the rhythm of our heartbeat or the rumblings of our stomach. If the operations of the brain can be separated out and stratified, then perhaps we can construct something akin to just the top layer, and achieve human-like artificial intelligence (AI) while bypassing the messy flesh that characterises organic life. I understand the appeal of this view, because I co-founded SwiftKey, a [&hellip;]
- [The ,0% mirage](https://maverisk.nl/the-0-mirage/): That&#8217;s not a Unicode error. That&#8217;s a reference to the 100,0% no-error that suddenly [?] seems to be required of &#8220;auto&#8221;s, as here – get the full 100% explainability as a bonus. The [?] was there since the initiative/newsflash was from a couple of months ago already. Nevertheless; apparently the clueless have taken over. I will not comment on how that has been the case since human society emerged, almost always. But if the &#8216;net has done anything for the world (except greatly speeding up its impending complete destruction), it is the outing of this. How could you achieve such a [&hellip;]
- [Danger zone](https://maverisk.nl/danger-zone/): Just a warning; the world altogether is moving into the danger zone now. Not qua global warming, the threshold on that has been passed already &#8230; Not on plastic soup, that&#8217;s approaching insurmountability-before-collapse (in this style). But of a more encompassing style, as typical in the lack of real response to this: &#8216;Predictive&#8217; profiling creeping (sic) on. As posted earlier, we may need to make haste with anti-profiling human rights, before it&#8217;s too late. Which is, quite soon. Yes, the benign purpose is there. But is also, ridiculously superficial window dressing. The sinister effects, lurking in the background. With all data [&hellip;]
- [<del>Account</del> Home lockout for cheap thrills](https://maverisk.nl/account-home-lockout-for-cheap-thrills/): Remember when it only took three &#8216;failed&#8217; attempts at pwd guessing and one&#8217;s coworker account was locked out and needed to be reset to Welcome1 by the helpdesk ..? How stupid since the delayed auto-unlock was available so much longer already – but then, just try a million times by bot and have to wait till Singularity to be let in again; Now, there&#8217;s a new flavour [I&#8217;ll keep spelling proper English till the K isn&#8217;t U and about half of it is back in the EU, welcome Edinburgh! or is it Dunedin] by means of smart quod non home systems [&hellip;]
- [Intermission: A/B &ndash; the Net is broken](https://maverisk.nl/intermission-a-b-the-net-is-broken/): Just an intermission: The Internet is broken. Stark claim. But, some proof: I conducted a little A/B test with my posts. Yes, there&#8217;s many bias and systemic deviation possibilities, but most probably, they effect neutrally. The test being, which post would get most views; either short texts or long(er) ones, either with many links or with a few or none, either with a long title or a short one, the title being descriptive or terse/lapidary. The result: High links/text ratio ⇒ low hit count, ceteris paribus, is the only significant find. But wasn&#8217;t Tim Berners-Lee&#8217;s original idea that &#8216;hypertext&#8217;, text linked [&hellip;]
- [Suity McSuitcasebot](https://maverisk.nl/suity-mcsuitcase/): Question: Why don&#8217;t we have robot suitcase (un)loaders at airports yet ..? The physical robot tech is there already, for a number of years, including the touchy-feely right-pressurising of the grippers. And it&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a need for sensitively treating eggs or so; today&#8217;s manual grippers don&#8217;t seem to be all that delicate with your luggage as you can see from the humans holding pens waiting areas or your plane seat. The piece-by-piece visual ID part also has been solved long ago, and today&#8217;s improvements in image processing (think: cars) has more, vastly more than required, subtlety. With a huge [&hellip;]
- [Correcting the pyramids](https://maverisk.nl/correcting-the-pyramids/): By and large, the world is slowing down a bit [sic] already again towards the Summer lull. Which gives us plenty of time to get rid of old habits. And of misconceptions. The famous pyramids are one (huh) of them, definitely. Compare the standard picture you&#8217;ve all become accustomed to, to &#8216;For instance, he wrote that a man who struggles to feed himself “may fairly be said to live by bread alone.” Maslow, however, “was quick to point out that such situations are rare,” the authors explain. Instead, he felt that most people “are partially satisfied in all their basic needs [&hellip;]
- [Phishing for 'clients'; AI-style](https://maverisk.nl/phishing-for-clients-ai-style/): Just a warning, that the same thing that is still going on, and on, and on, and on, &#8230; in information-security/infosec/ITsec/Cyberrrr&#8230;!, being the exasperating hype-panting over the latest threats and here&#8217;s now finally a single (our, the only) tool / method to solve all your troubles; is now flowing over into ethical/transparent/explainable AI auditing. Not. Show me evidence, actual source code [even if of the written-out procedures kind] of how one would go about realising such opinion formulation after obtaining reasonable evidence&#8230; That stuff just does not happen, doesn&#8217;t exist. It&#8217;s only vapourware! Be alert! [If only because the world needs [&hellip;]
- [No Bounce](https://maverisk.nl/no-bounce/): A rather philosophical one today &#8230; Is the US society crumbling because &#8230; not the 1% or 0,1% taking over the country, not [what&#8217;s left of] the working class having no opportunity to work hard [and maybe that not being enough at all to socially climb after (sic) money-class climb], but: The oh so useful forgiveness for past failure [economically and otherwise] having been abolished, so recovery is no longer possible&#8230; Forgiveness like, going broke and starting afresh with a clean slate [have a look at olde Europe and see what stagnation happens if you prevent people from quick rebounds]. E.g., [&hellip;]
- [Friday reminder: Keep fresh](https://maverisk.nl/friday-reminder-keep-fresh/): As this is Friday, remember a. the weekend&#8217;s here, b. that&#8217;s a reason to consider freshening up your mind not slacking off. Two routes: 1. This exploration pointer and/or study this. 2. This one: Re-think preconceived notions of how the world will evolve. An example may be this piece on the future of driving. In contrast to this one, though. Cheers; [Thta&#8217;s cherry, not vitis vinifera, but also for your comtemplative efforts; Amstelveen (!)]
- [Doing it RAIght](https://maverisk.nl/doing-it-raight/): Following up on Tuesday&#8217;s post; a piece on how to do AI right. No, its not technical. It&#8217;s more like a Do and Don&#8217;t&#8230; In this piece, you&#8217;ll read a lot of how AI can be deployed – until you realise that some systems mentioned that are intended to steer (nudge) employees towards ethical behaviour, actually are very, very creepy in themselves, and possibly illegal in a number of places / the majority of where you&#8217;d want to be if you&#8217;re ethically-inclined. Oh well. The Law of Conservation of Trouble, right? Only good for a Newtonian world view, by the way. [&hellip;]
- [Intermezzo: Culture eats Strategy for hors d'oeuvres and then some](https://maverisk.nl/intermezzo-culture-eats-strategy-for-hors-doeuvres-and-then-some/): Don&#8217;t you &#8216;amuse gueulle/bouche&#8217; me &#8230;! Why change a winning team name, right? Also, Drucker&#8217;s thing on strategy isn&#8217;t the only thing. There&#8217;s other things, e.g., qua regulations and &#8216;control&#8217; here. TL;DR incl my elucidation: Controls stifle, lead to stagnation – and Are ineffective, as they almost by definition don&#8217;t least resistance enable the &#8216;safest&#8217; procedures to be followed naturally but coax users away from that hence introduce severe friction against which users will put their energy more than against actual downside risks to achieve the upside potentials. So any control that you deem necessary, will be rendered useless as a [&hellip;]
- [Ai Tool looking for a Tool](https://maverisk.nl/ai-tool-looking-for-a-tool/): In line with various posts (like, this one of this morning, and another one somewhere this week – Thursday; of course I know, it had been scheduled two months ago), an in-between remark of sorts: The biggest bottleneck in AIland nowadays is the translation of some unknown business need into AI/ML sprint objectives. See? One can have a lot of data, and randomly figure out the patterns (&#8216;correlations&#8217; of various kinds; note the &#8221;) OR go for the outlier detection. Then what? Is there a business purpose to turn the found patterns (and keep on trucking learning – using the same [&hellip;]
- [Fact, not AIfuzz](https://maverisk.nl/fact-not-aifuzz/): Very readable it is, and useful for your information, on the general state of affairs. This here report. Already – ah! – months old, but still very, very good for a Summertime&#8217;s read-up. To be a better guru (link ..?), not follow the (dump) hype. And it may be incomplete, and somewhat outdated. E.g., add this — in itself, also (very) incomplete as it has zero ref to Canada even when it mentions the old hand US in this&#8230; Hey when I checked back the site, halfway through April, it had &#8216;upcoming events&#8217; till January. Wow. But it&#8217;s better than relying [&hellip;]
- [Nononymous](https://maverisk.nl/nononymous/): Tech journalism isn&#8217;t really what it used to be – the means for breaking news that&#8217;s real. Now, it mostly is down to breaking news that a. isn&#8217;t, b. isn&#8217;t real. As over and over again we see &#8216;solutions&#8217; presented as if they aren&#8217;t already either outdated or just outdone on the border of misleading. No claim on which side of the border. This in particular when songs are sung, mostly badly, about anonymisation of data for e.g., mining purposes. Medical stuff, mostly. There&#8217;s even some logic there as medical data a. seems to be the flavour du jour in under-the-radar [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; VIII &ndash; recovery of the squeamish ossifrage](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-vii-recovery-of-the-squeamish-ossifrage/): You may have not heard too much of developments in the crypto arena. Not like, &#8216;Oh hype! hype! cryptocurrency!&#8217; but like: &#8216;Elliptic cryptography may beat quantum computing&#8217;s power&#8217; or &#8216;Homomorphic encryption can be cracked into deanonymisaton of personal data&#8217; Anyone who has an overview of how developments stand? And whether the squeamish ossifrage has recoverd? Now then, [Just some after shopping-at-5th drinks. Of the right kind, hopefully] If you missed Friday&#8217;s Part VII you are right; it doesn&#8217;t exist. I don&#8217;t like 100% consistency/perfection, that&#8217;s why. It&#8217;s just too boring and excludes flexibility, room for renewal/freshening/innovation, you know.
- [About you](https://maverisk.nl/about-you/): Aww how romantic that may sound. But just a reminder: &#8220;Intelligence is what people with less intelligence than I have, don&#8217;t have&#8221;. Somewhat less r of romance, huh. Maybe a bit more R of R, then. But still valid. Did you notice, by the way, that R was &#8216;invented&#8217; (conceived – by nerds, yeah right) in 1992 already? What took it so long? On the more serious side; the boundary between [assuming no overlap then, by language] statistics and ML processing (either plain or NN-like), where is it? What is the character of the divide ..? There certainly is one, and [&hellip;]
- [Ownership](https://maverisk.nl/ownership/): Of an organisation – or being the organisation. The former, the idea of the last millennium. Apparently, still there, hopefully not here. Like, &#8220;You have to know the individual. Skills are your renewable asset, and you need to treat them like that.&#8221;&#8230; really. If there&#8217;s anything that should be renewed, it&#8217;s the &#8216;leadership&#8217; quod non. Last time we looked, slavery had been abandoned in the US. If you treat them as renewable asset, no wonder the ones with sane minds will want to leave. Unsure whether &#8216;moronic blurbs by the Board&#8217; was part of the training set – guess not; the [&hellip;]
- [The Model](https://maverisk.nl/the-model/): Yes, hopefully, you were thinking of some Great music; here. Otherwise, I wanted to ask, again, whether anyone would have pointers to some easy intro on modelling – on how in neural networks, the weights are the model. In terms of parametrising a SAP system, but learning by training and doing; changing the parametrisation as you go in production, to accountants&#8217; delight [maybe not so much]. This, compared to Expert Systems and evolutionary algo&#8217;s. The latter, so much underestimated but hey, let&#8217;s get something going in that area and first try to get some catch-all explanation-for-the-masses on neural networks out, right? [&hellip;]
- [BughuntAIng ..?](https://maverisk.nl/bughuntaing/): &#8220;Asking for a friend&#8221; whether anyone would have a lead on how things stand with AI doing bug hunting ..? As [hey, by sheer coincidence, exactly] three years ago I asked already. And got no serious response then. And since, there have been more talk about AI on either side of the infosec FLOT, but not much on How. Or where the FLOT is. Throw in some Adversarial Examples and there you go; arms&#8217; races and falling behind in those&#8230; By now, it should be easy to do such a thing; have an ML system learn what sloppy coding looks like, [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; VI](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-vi/): Owww that is great! Banks&#8217; bank(let) going out to tell everyone how great their new regulation is! [I know, it&#8217;s not theirs; they&#8217;d dream it were] Maybe &#8216;great&#8217; isn&#8217;t the word. But a fact is that if anyone involved in banking advises you anything, you do the exact opposite – their only interest is their own which, given the bilateral relation in any trade, means you&#8217;re getting robbed blind if you listen. They even tell you that giving more parties access to your information, improves the security over it. Yes they do, that&#8217;s no lie. It&#8217;s unlike hips, this page, 4th [&hellip;]
- [Singularity's Near](https://maverisk.nl/singularitys-near/): Great music. Dystopian future: pic.twitter.com/0NlKgJCSPV — Lost Weapons (@LostWeapons) April 3, 2019 Either those drone&#8217;lets are weaponised or the blimp is monopolised. No escape. Unless &#8230; this. Plus: [Adversarial but irrational examples, maybe that&#8217;ll do the trick; Baltimore]
- [Cat pics versus catalogue pics](https://maverisk.nl/cat-pics-versus-catalogue-pics/): Quite some time ago, I posted a thingy on steganography and how the Internet is not filled with ..x pics but cat pics, for that reason. More recently, I posted a bit on how traditional crypto and stego (in the form of mimicry and crypsis, see here) are comparably used in adversarial-example AI examples. Not discounting the wider definition of the term [link will work post-June19 ;-/ see here if you&#8217;re overly eager], but here, in a narrower sense. Again, AI may come to the rescue at picking up traditional stego in any format, if somewhat-broadly or -narrow pointed to that [&hellip;]
- [Exitespeak: RPA](https://maverisk.nl/exitespeak-rpa/): Please good sirs and ladies, may we get back to serious business and drop the exitespeak of Robotic Process Automation (here), as it&#8217;s all very nice you know an abbreviation but when there&#8217;s no substance behind it, drop it. Why dweeb with &#8216;robots&#8217; in an area where there&#8217;s no such thing? The original demonstrate-once, repeat-indefinitely kind of &#8216;training&#8217; (one size fits all, mostly) had to do with robots indeed, e.g., in factories where robots have been around for decades now and such guided &#8216;programming&#8217; (hardly) was easy. Yes, that&#8217;s right, actual robots were around. For decades already so referring to that [&hellip;]
- [Duck the bang, for sustainable bang for the buck](https://maverisk.nl/duck-the-bang-for-sustainable-bang-for-the-buck/): Despite apparent suppression of the signals for purposes of bread and circuses, there is a thing called Downturn looming. Which, rightfully noted, calls for prep. Of the serious kind. Yes, one needs to get an umbrella when it doesn&#8217;t rain yet, or they&#8217;ll be out of stock. Or hugely expensive. Or be found loaned from a banker. Not only train [motto also of 323sqn but huh, and this doesn&#8217;t quite match as could somehow be expected &#8230;!]], which is about getting used to dealing with the difficult and unexpected so that no matter what&#8217;s thrown at you, you know you&#8217;ll manage. [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; V](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-v/): Aha! This Friday&#8217;s Thought doesn&#8217;t give you as much of a problem, as it gives a Revelation: That&#8217;s why the others moved ahead of you &#8230; As is displayed in, yet again, a Farnham Street&#8217;s article. That you should read, and then see how you fit in, you misfit &lt;/endearing&gt;, as you moved through life. And now, for something completely the same; a picture&#8230; [Segovia castle; now I&#8217;ve done. Sorry, am done. Not theoretically perfect, but it&#8217;s here, this post. With this (own, unedited) picture]
- [Flooding at it again](https://maverisk.nl/flooding-at-it-again/): Why is this Dutch piece even news, still &#8230;? Physical paper &#8216;data&#8217; leakage, of highly sensitive information intell dare we say. Edited to add, this one (also unreadable to most). a. No we may not; b/c that is reserved for serious cases not trivia [on a non-trivial scale] b. Yes we may, but still, why is this newsworthy? c. Because it isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s just flooding. Edited to add, the problem is Huge, as per this Bruce Schneier insight i.e. Truth. The c. part is the tricky one. On the one hand, dismissing the &#8216;news&#8217; as being nothing newsworthy, superfluous reporting of [&hellip;]
- [No Quantum of Reality](https://maverisk.nl/no-quantum-of-reality/): Earlier, I mentioned the &#8216;latest&#8217; developments in physics, being the denial of such a thing as an objective reality &#8216;out there&#8217;. Only your thoughts remain, though they include the whole Universe. This was already summarised in this after the foundation in this, but mostly forgotten as the simple summary was an ouroboros; the original not so much but not fathomable by some simpleton minds, maybe. Now, new evidence has surfaced – where does it exist? – that actually, that&#8217;s right: There is no such thing as objectivity. Thus destroying all that the new physics had achieved so far. Because the end [&hellip;]
- [The wave of risk](https://maverisk.nl/the-wave-of-risk/): A call for comments, on a crazy (?) idea of mine: If quantum physics is all about probability waves [not &#8216;particles&#8217;] out there, floating in n-dimensional space-time reality (digression(?): the thing we have in our head, not claiming any &#8216;reality&#8217; like the founder of the idea, Kant, still had – go ahead, dismiss him without any understanding at his level, you physics guru n00b), why can&#8217;t we use the same wave function analogy for a practical purpose like risk management? Analogy; as you use even &#8216;waves&#8217; as a metaphor for communications purposes, to get from your brain to someone else&#8217;s – [&hellip;]
- [CTC for better 'cyber'sec](https://maverisk.nl/ctc-for-better-cybersec/): You guessed it; another note on &#8216;cyber&#8217;security, rounding up a couple of ideas that floated by recently. Which was triggered by this Comment. No, no, not a comment on this blog, don&#8217;t be stupid to assume that there has ever been one [rounded up]. Which made me think of actual developments in &#8216;cyber&#8217; altogether [dammit, readstudy the original and see how much more profound the idea was, and how kindergarten the latter-day application to IT is]. And made me want to coin the term Cut The Crap. There&#8217;s the TL;DR for you. And an intermission pic, since regularity is dulling you [&hellip;]
- [From here to the end of the Block](https://maverisk.nl/from-here-to-the-end-of-the-block/): Just a reminder, about some news lately on &#8216;chains and where this might lead&#8230; First, we had this, already based on first indications of class breaks. After which, this. And now, serious stuff. Not only technology-wise, but impacting societal discussions and actions. Also, just out, this (ht @meneer). Now, I&#8217;m not afraid of such intermediate [I estimate &#8230;] drops in progress or confidence. I&#8217;m not quite ready to believe some claims &#8230; but still would give some products built on &#8216;chains, the benefit of the doubt even under duress of the claims of zero-value-so-far as linked in the above. Which brings [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; IV](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-iv/): For today&#8217;s friday&#8217;s thoughts, a not too sobering list of thoughts, to be studied. Though I must admit I haven&#8217;t, all completely, but will. So should you! Hanlon&#8217;s Razor: Relax, Not Everything is Out to Get You Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained) The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Arnold Bennett on Living a Meaningful Life Within the Constraints of Time The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything – and play the bongo! Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform Ten Techniques for Quickly [&hellip;]
- [No, not everybody Appie!](https://maverisk.nl/no-not-everybody-appie/): There seems to be a proliferation of My Mehhh apps being pushed down the throats of Joe Average consumers, for just about every minute interaction you&#8217;d want (or not!) with any tiniest-fraction-of-a-service provider out there. Like, your energy co. wants you to check last month&#8217;s usage via their proprietary app, every (sic) webshop where you ordered some stuff you&#8217;d order only once per 5-10 years, wants you to install their app for &#8230; whatever purpose, every (sic) courier that ever you didn&#8217;t do business with (you did business with some vendor that subcontracted that courier, right ..!?), wants you to install [&hellip;]
- [The sonic boom of ´AI´](https://maverisk.nl/the-sonic-boom-of-ai/): Sometimes, an idea crosses one´s mind that one cannot get rid of other than by writing it up – and then sit back and enjoy the world picking it up. The latter, probability → 1 not so much. Nevertheless, regarding the ever shifting definition of AI: where AI ≝ anything of human brainpower that&#8217;s still just out of reach of machines, like AGI just beyond ∑(ANI) the thought crossed my mind that: AGI is the sonic boom threshold that seems to be logically impossible to pass (like the sonic one seemed impossible, physically), but likewise will be found to be not [&hellip;]
- [Adversarial-painless through AAC &ndash; Camouflage it was, Stealth it may be](https://maverisk.nl/adversarial-painless-through-aac-camouflage-it-was-stealth-it-may-be/): Apologies for the play on the pronunciation of Auditing AI for Camouflage. Auditing AI for Stealth would&#8217;ve been taken to abbreviated with two s&#8217;es, winkwink right? And I don&#8217;t mean this sort of training. Or maybe I do: How are adversarial examples in AI, not what previously was called camouflage ..? Hence: Why aren&#8217;t camouflage techniques, or rather anti-~, used in training AI systems, and in auditing them for quality of operational survivability ..? E.g., through the realisation that camouflage is really, really effective when one would want to pick off insurance claims from hapless auto-drivers, a tautology (like here, similis). [&hellip;]
- [Start at the start, first in line is on the job](https://maverisk.nl/start-at-the-start-first-in-line-is-the-top/): Yet another reminder that Real risk management may not be too different from management. In that, as said before (here), one would need to start at the start to make progress, like changing the ones responsible, through making them responsible. Which cannot be done other than through job descriptions. Like this one, the reminder. So, there is something brewing here and there. Mostly there, and not mostly at that. Why oh why can&#8217;t we seem to get this done ..? So that e.g., the 3LoD thing can be put to rest ..? That was described here already. I&#8217;ll keep on hoping. [&hellip;]
- [Intermission: 80s - 20s](https://maverisk.nl/intermission-80s-20s/): Well, well, we we at it again. An On The Job assessment of recruiting-HR. If you wondered: It didn’t go well – for the also present possible/prospective chief [hereafter: chief] with a somewhat-urgent vacancy. The following may read as accusative to the feeble-hearted reader, but is not meant to be other than an ironic display; could fit in a Monty Python sketch&#8230; What happen? Well, it was a throw-back to times before that became a meme. If anything of the previous two sentences doesn’t make sense, then well, there you have it. Last time I had a similar experience, at least [&hellip;]
- [Enslavement, robot-style](https://maverisk.nl/enslavement-robot-style/): Which you may interpret in the dystopian way as the expected future: Humans being slaves to robots. As long as robots have need for us. Then, we&#8217;re superfluous [duh] and environment-unfriendly, to be entertained as pets or zoo animals at best. Until that, too, runs out of fashion. But hey, &#8216;robots&#8217;..? Why would we have something like physical populations of them, when we better talk of &#8216;systems&#8217; – morphing into one big post-singularity System..? DARPA&#8217;s doings may be a smoke screen. Like described here, and here, and here. Or&#8230; a strand/thread not often explored I think, think Evolution: Isn&#8217;t it that [&hellip;]
- [Friday's Sobering Thoughts &ndash; III](https://maverisk.nl/fridays-sobering-thoughts-iii/): “A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.” — Grace Hopper Indeed, too much of the world these days seems to run on information. At most. We blogged about this, earlier, when We were even more optimistic. No wonder all the craze is to get more data. That isn&#8217;t the new oil but you had heard that, didn&#8217;t you? When not in depth, when not being able to move up, one moves sideways at best, trying desperate to get higher but slipping, sliding, failing. So many data lakes, seas, oceans; so little bare intelligence let alone Higher. Can we fix [&hellip;]
- [FuzzyLISP or fossilize](https://maverisk.nl/fuzzylisp-or-fossilize/): OK, &#8230; another tiny little idea that may enhance the understanding of what today&#8217;s &#8216;AI&#8217; actually implements, reverse engineering interpretation-wise: A proper definition of a Context for your Gen tooling turns out to be a partial collection of most fuzzy (since text-based and bereft of formal logic) Expert System clause statements. Think LISP for B1-B2 language levels. Or Prolog but #notafan somehow I never got the hang of that one; difficult to find the logic of the logic. Yes, that&#8217;s quite an elliptic description but still: Isn&#8217;t context-writing (including output style definition and whatever one does in vain to prevent slop [&hellip;]
- [The fine wine appreciation decline; another look at root causes](https://maverisk.nl/another-root-cause-of-the-decline-of-fine-wine-appreciation/): Just as a note. The world of wine sees global consumption levels drop quite a bit from previous peaks &ndash; following patterns for other alcoholic beverages though not as much. Various reasons have been investigated, and data on possible rebound( avenue)s published. Agressive disinformation by (quasi-religious) teetotaller revivalists on health (no, wine is medically proven to be health-enhancing when taken in moderation, even more when enjoyed around/during dinner time) is one of the most-cited reasons. Cost can&#8217;t be an issue since the cheapest wines are still &#8230; insultingly low rock-bottom prices even after all the inflation years/decades. Many markets seeing &#8216;youth&#8217; [&hellip;]
- [Agency](https://maverisk.nl/agency/): To be developed: on the joys of agency theory, and how that works out on micro scales throughout organisations. Quite a bit of thinking, and even more of writing, will follow here. Will only &#8216;officially&#8217; post this post after elucidation to satisfaction. Though your comments are welcomed, already. &#8230; First there was the translation (&#8216;folding into&#8217;) of it called Governance, and the mass of organisational psychology and Internal Organisation, with all the Me Versus the Organisation translation of societal isolation that turned inward; the organisation as alien society for many. Now, there is the agentic movement; replace as many humans doing [&hellip;]
- [Fractallucinistics &ndash; snippets of Thinking](https://maverisk.nl/fractallucinistics-snippets-of-thinking/): Yet again, some ramblings from a night of less than perfect sleep a.k.a. weekend musings: The real world, if such a thing exists (we&#8217;re not dogmatic Idealists nor attached Materialists), is halfway between fractalic chaotic/over-complex/beyond-complicated cybernetic models and fully unhinged statistical chaos on the other. People think in linear relations; emergent properties are otherwise. No single data point will tell you to which statistical distribution it belongs (or why it should). Statistics &#8216;work&#8217; on sets of otherwise unrelated (qua cause-effect / network connection) elements; the set definition is about sameness of the elements in respect to some quality under study, which [&hellip;]
- [Einstein the prompt engineer. Or was it Abe ..?](https://maverisk.nl/einstein-the-prompt-engineer-or-was-it-abe/): Yes it was Albert who said: I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and then five minutes solving it – not. You’ll not need even five minutes of flat simple search to discover that most probably, this either was in ‘Source: Private conversation’ or ‘[debunked]’. The same with Abe Lincoln’s Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. which is close but upon closer inspection, is just that slight little different &ndash; but also valid, in the same sphere. But if we’d ask either or some LLM whether their [&hellip;]
- [Niet weer baar heid maar Veer<em>kracht</em>](https://maverisk.nl/niet-weer-baar-maar-veer-kracht-2/): Oh. Zie ik zomaar dat in Europees verband &#8216;resilience&#8217; kennelijk behoort te worden vertaald met het verzonnen woord &#8216;weer-baar-heid&#8217;. Een woord dat uitgaat van (agressief-? nee juist niet)passiviteit; &#8216;weer&#8217;, als in: afweer, een beetje bang terugdeinzend in freeze [of zelfs flight is reeds omdraaiende om hard weg te rennen], niets van doen hebbende met fight; &#8216;baarheid&#8217; &mdash; dubbelop. Zoiets als compliancy in plaats van -ce. Hypercorrectie. -baar betekent dat een ander er iets mee kan, als in houdbaar, &#8216;kan worden ge-&#8216;. Een auto is rembaar als er remmen op zitten. Weer-baar, als verdedig-baar? -heid betekent dat het een zekere mate betreft; [&hellip;]
- [Gelukkig hebben we (nog) Single Sign-On ...](https://maverisk.nl/gelukkig-hebben-we-nog-single-sign-on/): Of hebben we dat in stilte overboord gegooid&#8230;? Of stiekum laten gooien ..? Of eigenlijk nooit volledig geïmplementeerd maar alleen voor een paar applicaties &ndash; in de tijd voor we over &#8216;apps&#8217; spraken. Met het fantastische MFA, meestal niet M maar hooguit 2, beginnen we weer opnieuw. Dat is op zichzelf ook alweer kwetsbaar gebleken, in wat meer bijzondere gevallen maar toch. Het wachten is nu op verplichte 3FA, tot ook dat weer zal sneuvelen. Ja deze blogpost is een &#8216;run it up the flagpole and see who salutes&#8217;. Of we gaan eerste eens serieus de nieuwste (allang niet meer) aanbevelingen [&hellip;]
- [System(at)isch onmogelijk; de 'AI' versie <br>en ongewenst bovendien](https://maverisk.nl/systematisch-onmogelijk-de-ai-versie/): Trouwe lezers herinneren zich wellicht nog het stukje over niet-zelf-rijdende autoauto&#8217;s. En de diverse posts over het toenemende gebrek aan ervaring-opdoenend vermogen en vooral -gelegenheid om telkens weer verdergaande extreme besturingssituaties van &#8216;AI&#8217; over te kunnen nemen als dat moet. Daar blijken dus allerhande wiki&#8217;s et al. al over te gaan. Als hier maar vooral ook hier en hier. Wat buitengewoon actueel is (wie denkt zometeen na jarenlang automaat-rijden nog &#8216;zonder nadenken&#8217; én soepeltjes handmatig te kunnen schakelen? &#8216;overconfidence bias&#8217; bij uitstek..!), bijvoorbeeld in: Vliegverkeer. Een duidelijke (casus)beschrijving is te vinden in Messy; Auto- e.a.-verkeer, als bovenstaande; Accountancy, als eerder beschreven [&hellip;]
- [Amnesia: Metaverse](https://maverisk.nl/amnesia-metaverse/): &#8230; Just wondered: Who&#8217;s still bullish about Teh Metaverse ..&#8253; And it was only a short while ago that e-ve-ry-one needed to move to the M, or would be derelict, out, over, forgotten. Whatever one&#8217;s personhood, according to the Usual Suspects in sich things, one Must (past tense &ndash; that is the same word yes why ..?) join in with the craze. Any company not moving to the &#8216;verse completely, would be derelict within five years, remember? But, since this bubble was from some good long time i.e., three years ago: what was it? Just a &#8216;virtual world&#8217; of sorts. Proclaimed [&hellip;]
- [New study subject: Ou est-il, ce Fraternité ..?](https://maverisk.nl/new-study-subject-ou-est-il-ce-fraternite/): Both Liberté and Egalité are focused on individualisation, whereas Fraternité is focused on the opposite. Liberté leads to ourobouros capitalism, where markets are destroyed by the 0,1%ers that corner every market around the globe until there’s only a tiny elite and billions of slaves left. Egalité, in its pure form, is about the same &ndash; communisme where no-one has anything at all which is a state where free speech or free will is dangerous to the ultimate flatness of society. Both are hierarchical systems to the extreme. Both require global coordination &ndash; hence introducing organisational choices that can only be effectuated, [&hellip;]
- [Marie-Courtin Présence](https://maverisk.nl/marie-courtin-presence/): I bought this one for the 1/3 Pinot Blanc (of course!). High expectations, exceeded. First off, the yellow-golden almost amber colour would promise some sweet almost creamy elements. But with a delightfully tingle from a fresh mousse, and a light bitter-tartness in the nose, the picture turns around completely. There’s Mirabelle ..! The palate is perfect; not too much mousse so the real ‘wine’ taste is clear, and the Mirabelle keeps on coming. The mouth feel overall is well-balanced, and includes a soft minty/dill side with the lemon (plus some bittersweet orange even), moving into the grapefruit area and then the [&hellip;]
- [Bucks Everywhere](https://maverisk.nl/bucks-everywhere/): You know I&#8217;m Old (which I am definitely not, when considering mental age&#8230; ipse dixit) when I still discuss &#8216;Bucks and their logo. That I find everywhere, but can&#8217;t seem to get any response at all for from them. Recently, spotted it here, big time. Again, this raises the question where it&#8217;s from, what it means beyond the trivial. We&#8217;re dealing with high-altitude locations, not just sea ports or so&#8230;
- [Nobody](https://maverisk.nl/nobody/): As here. Which I add because one cannot expect GenX, Millenials, Gen Y or Z or others, to get it. Sad.
- [Gruet's Cuvée Arbane ...](https://maverisk.nl/gruets-cuvee-arbane/): The Gruet Cuvée Arbane … 100% Arbane yes. Something Else entirely! With a fresh and quite light, lemon-white colour through which a very fine and persistent mousse. Then, on the nose, one gets a first whiff of floral notes; jasmine, elderberry, rose – followed by zingy but ripe lemon. When allowed to mellow in the glass (or a day in the bottle), the lemon slowly brings along some grapefruit, pineapple and (dry white) melon. All within measure, refined, nowhere too in-your-face’y. The mouthfeel is brilliant with the mousse playing its role to keep the very well balanced aspects all quite light. [&hellip;]
- [Nieuw! Champagne &ndash; Update 2024](https://maverisk.nl/nieuw-champagne-ndash-update-2024/): Wat dacht u? Natúúrlijk spotten we en passant de trends in de champagne voor u, als we er toch zijn (waren)&#8230; Updates Januari 2024&#8230;: Houtrijping (sowieso, afgezien van onderstaande solera of acacia), Flessen met een afgeronde bodem &ndash; niet zielloos maar gewoon &ndash; waarschijnlijk voor gewichtsbesparing door dunner glas te kunnen gebruiken; &#8220;goed voor het milieu&#8221; en goedkoper&#8230; Een trend naar het gebruik van natuurkurk voor de opleg, zodat een wat oxidatievere stijl ontstaat waar enige mode in zit. Reken er dus op dat smaken van cacao, koffie en tabak ook in uw volgende vintage kunnen zitten. Dat is interessant! Dan [&hellip;]
- [Pacemaker Controls, revisited](https://maverisk.nl/pacemaker-controls-revisited/): Als groeidocument, voortgekomen uit eerdere posts maar nu wat netter uitgeschreven en her en der wat aangevuld &ndash; en hier zullen dus aanvullingen volgen..! het volgende: Standaarden en voorgeschreven controls zijn prima. Totdat ze zó dwingend en nauw worden geïnterpreteerd, dat ze de good people hinderen. Dan gaan diezelfde medewerkers binnen uw organisatie immers op zoek naar manieren om, ondanks of om de beperkingen heen, toch gewoon hun werk te kunnen doen. De ‘positieve’ opdracht om het werk gedaan te krijgen, om productief te zijn, men wordt immers betaald om de organisatiedoelen dichterbij te brengen, is sterker dan de ‘negatieve’ randvoorwaarden. [&hellip;]
- [AutoAuto's doen het weer](https://maverisk.nl/autoautos-doen-het-weer/): Ja kijk, alle berichten bijhouden inzake het hele zelf-rijdende gebeuren, kunnen we natuurlijk niet. Dat kost gewoon een dagtaak oftewel een uur of 25 à 26 per dag. Maar we maken uitzonderingen. Voor een incident terwijl het echte testen op serieuze schaal en met gemengd verkeer nog niet eens serieus is begonnen. En, omineus, met her en der op het &#8216;Net, waarschuwingen dat autoauto&#8217;s alleen kunnen slagen bij Die Totalen Maatschappij, zonder (uiteindelijk; scope-creepwegens én sowieso) welke vorm van menselijke autonomie dan ook. Zie: mieren. Oh nee, die hebben nog zo veel meer vrijheid dan voor ons wordt beoogd&#8230; Zie ook: [&hellip;]
- [Biep! Revisited](https://maverisk.nl/biep-revisited/): Ah, since you asked (not); een licht uitgebreide versie van een post hieronder. Extra info helpt altijd, nietwaar? Zodoende: Iedereen wéét hoe abnormaal hinderlijk het achteruitrijalarm van de KIA Niro is, zeker voor omwonenden. [En iedereen wéét dat een Niro-chauffeur tegen een achteruit overredene kan zeggen &#8216;eigen schuld ik waarschuwde toch&#8217; en dat dat dus een vol-slagen flauwekulredenering is en een wederrechtelijke bewuste poging de verantwoordelijkheid te ontkennen] Niet iedereen weet dat het alarm (nu, hier) op de verpleegsterskamer vrij precies hetzelfde klinkt. Mij is bekend dat de &#8216;bitch in the backseat&#8217; die alle WarningWarning-alarmen doorgeeft van achter de stoel in [&hellip;]
- [Bow ties in infinity &ndash; and beyond; Big and small](https://maverisk.nl/bow-tie-analogies/): [Or, what goes through my head when I lay awake at night] Funny how every now and then, someone will remark how strange it is that in astrophysics, everything seems to be at such an unfathomable scale but still, the models of phenomena behaviour are oh so similar, comparable, congruent with what goes on in quantum physics, at the &#8216;other&#8217; end of the scale qua size (-logarithms), and vice versa. Except for the Newtonian and other interpretations still possible in the former, and probability field / Idealistic interpretation of the latter. And the two get intermixed. Case in point: Heisenberg particles [&hellip;]
- [Wax in, not out](https://maverisk.nl/wax-in-not-out/): How to characterise the good old wax seal, in today&#8217;s &#8220;cyber&#8221;sec terminology ..? On envelopes and the like, it was a form of quantum encryption &ndash; any tampering would show, at the receiving end, compromittation of the encapsulating encryption; when including a tamper-proof or -indicative envelope / header&#038;footer-encapsulation&#8230;) Non-repudiation of the sender, on parchment declarations. Proof of authority as in proof of authorisation, of course, too, via the authority attached to the seal bearer. These three, as long as the key (seal ring) can&#8217;t be replayed (remade and applied) &ndash; weak key / key compromised. Or stolen (replay, undue authority = [&hellip;]
- [Gezond drinken](https://maverisk.nl/gezond-drinken/): &#8230; deze post gaat niet over water. Is er al onderzoek gedaan naar de gezondheidseffecten van champagne ..? En dan in het bijzonder welke prima bijdrage deze levert aan de benodigde calcium-intake? Want de, soms verblindend witte, Kimmeridgien-bodem zorgt natuurlijk voor een flinke druk naar (relatief) meer calcium in de druif, en drank. Dat is al wel aangetoond. En dat is dus goed voor de mens! Als niemand dit positieve gezondheidseffect heeft aangetoond, offer ik me wel op om m&#8217;n PhD te gaan afhalen bij de Universiteit van Reims als ik toch in de buurt ben. De kosten kan ik vast [&hellip;]
- [Nieuw! Champagne.](https://maverisk.nl/nieuw-champagne/): Wat dacht u? Natúúrlijk spotten we en passant de trends in de champagne voor u, als we er toch zijn (waren)&#8230; Updates Januari 2024 bovenin&#8230;: Houtrijping (sowieso, afgezien van onderstaande solera of acacia), Flessen met een afgeronde bodem &ndash; niet zielloos maar gewoon &ndash; waarschijnlijk voor gewichtsbesparing door dunner glas te kunnen gebruiken; &#8220;goed voor het milieu&#8221; en goedkoper&#8230; Een trend naar het gebruik van natuurkurk voor de opleg, zodat een wat oxidatievere stijl ontstaat waar enige mode in zit. Reken er dus op dat smaken van cacao, koffie en tabak ook in uw volgende vintage kunnen zitten. Dat is interessant! [&hellip;]
- [Intermission: Fuzzy determinant neural expert GMDH networks](https://maverisk.nl/intermission-fuzzy-determinant-neural-expert-gmdh-networks/): For an intermission post: Again, my hobby horse(s): The Mix. Squared. Neural networks, a.k.a. Machine Learning, a.k.a. &#8220;AI&#8221;, on its own will never cut it. Since any NN is too simple, with its single firing function for all (nodes), even when slightly varied &ndash; even when varied per (modifiable/learnable?) node-specific parameter. And ML needs tons of data (acknowledging the trend towards better data over more) that simply isn&#8217;t available for a great many applications (as in: applying the &#8216;solution&#8217; to some problem, ill-defined more often than well-) since reality is so many factors more complex than all the data generated/processed with [&hellip;]
- [Biep!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Biep!](https://maverisk.nl/biep-biep/): Iedereen wéét hoe abnormaal hinderlijk het achteruitrijalarm van de KIA Niro is, zeker voor omwonenden. [En iedereen wéét dat een Niro-chauffeur tegen een achteruit overredene kan zeggen &#8216;eigen schuld ik waarschuwde toch&#8217; en dat dat dus een vol-slagen flauwekulredenering is en een wederrechtelijke bewuste poging de verantwoordelijkheid te ontkennen] Niet iedereen weet dat het alarm (nu, hier) op de verpleegsterskamer vrij precies hetzelfde klinkt. Mij is bekend dat de &#8216;bitch in the backseat&#8217; die alle WarningWarning-alarmen doorgeeft van achter de stoel in F16s een vrouwenstem is omdat (het voor vrouwen niks uitmaakt, man of vrouw &ndash; ja er zijn al decennia [&hellip;]
- [RM/ISO27kx/... meets Von Moltke](https://maverisk.nl/rm-iso27k1-meest-von-moltke/): Ah, now I see: All the nice (and so utmostly necessary) work on Risk Management the Real Kind &ndash; Quantitative, driven top-down from business objectives down to tech control / parameter settings, all the way mixed with qualitative sense-making and sensibility checks &ndash;, COSO/CObIT/ISO2700x/CSF/&#8230;/&#8230;/&#8230; my keyboard is running out of &#8216;&#8230;&#8217;, will fail for a particular reason. A reason that goes (went) by the name of Von Moltke the Elder. Particularly, this quote: No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength. Which demonstrates (well, not the quote or its meaning but practice demonstrates [&hellip;]
- [Experts on COBOL](https://maverisk.nl/experts-on-cobol/): A blink of an eye ago, COBOL was the bombe. Now, not so much anymore you&#8217;d say. Though many life-critical systems still rely on it. Like, core mil systems (not all that pertains to nat&#8217;l security is (still) in ADA, unfortunately), core banking, etc. A real blink of an eye ago, I was reminded that there&#8217;s still Old People (over 25) that do code reviews on bug fixes in COBOL. But wasn&#8217;t that problem solved a decade ago by transformation of respective systems into something more modern (if anything in IT is; once released, already replacements are on their way)..? Or [&hellip;]
- [Organisational design (analysis) and engineerability](https://maverisk.nl/organisational-design-analysis-and-engineerability/): Internal organisation (like, of organisations yes I&#8217;ll continue to use the UK s not the simpleton&#8217;s z), wehn done on a (success) case basis, will fail. Since it is reverse engineering. Capturing only what with hindsight is top-down design as if there was only the design, then clean execution. Yes, with some leeway for unexpected developments but those are support-hypothesis-taken back into the fold. As if organisations didn&#8217;t develop (and by definition will have to develop) from the word Go (start-ups) to accomodate the imminent environment, growing by adapting. Never believe &#8216;gurus&#8217; (Semmler comes to mind). If you follow someone else&#8217;s [&hellip;]
- [How I feel today](https://maverisk.nl/hwo-i-feel-today/): Despite circumstances: This.
- [Pacemakers, de RPA edition](https://maverisk.nl/pacemakers-de-rpa-edition/): Een blogpost is never Done, ongeacht uw definitie daarvan. [Let alone well done; wij hebben toch liever à point.] U las al over pacemakers als controls, óók in uw administratieve (en andere! organisatie)systemen. U las nog niet over de rol die Robotic Process Automation daarbij kan vervullen. Waar het bij RPA over gaat, is het vangen van bestaande transactiepatronen voor, inderdaad, het aloude straight through processen. Al vier jaar bekende bezwaren: 1. het oude straight-through werkte ook al niet, 2. het kost banen. 2. is debunked, want (?) 1., en nu want-2: RPA, met alle &#8216;intelligentie&#8217;, werd ingezet als simpel vervangertje, [&hellip;]
- [Pacemakers voor control](https://maverisk.nl/pacemakers-voor-control/): Even een neerpennen (&#8216;pen&#8217;? iig geheugendump) over een ideetje, uiteraard in de vorm van een vraag: Hoe &#8216;werken&#8217; pacemakers (inclusief ICDs) als controls; hoe ze zó scherp te houden dat ze zowel de requisite complexity buiten de Happy Flow (HF) toelaten, als de al te grote ruis signaleren en terugduwen naar redelijke bandbreedte? Niet schrikken van de elliptische omschrijving. Ook voor RE&#8217;s kan het nog wel duidelijk worden, als ik langzaam typ hieronder. [Met in en na de tekst inmiddels een reeks Edited to add] Trouwe lezers herinneren zich nog dat ik de requisite complexity naar voren haalde om het punt [&hellip;]
- [Hacking a hacker's mind; een boekbespreking](https://maverisk.nl/hacking-a-hackers-mind-een-boekbespreing/): Aanbevelenswaard, dit: Bruce Schneier&#8217;s A Hacker&#8217;s Mind. Onderstaande een bespreking zijnde tevens een vorm van samenvatting. Als u denkt hee Bruce heeft het anders nooit zo over audits dan zijn die stukjes juist mijn bijdrage. Als u denkt dit is opiniërend of erger, dan hebt u juist Bruce&#8217;s mening/content te pakken..! Here we go: Na inmiddels een reeks van boeken over informatiebeveiliging, van cryptografie tot het waarom van stelsels van controls, is Bruce Schneier terug met A Hacker’s Mind, met een urgente boodschap dit keer. Over de risico’s van het hacken van code (stelsels van regels!) en de rol van AI [&hellip;]
- [51%-attacking democracy](https://maverisk.nl/51-attacking-democracy/): Suddenly, the similarities dawned on me, between latter-day &#8216;democratic&#8217; governments and the blockchain&#8217;s 51%-attack ideas. A 51%-attack on a blockchain is that when (not if) one controls 51% (as in: a majority) of the votes needed to &#8216;certifiy&#8217; a certain transaction on the blockchain, you basically have captured Truth decisions and can change transactions at will, because you will agree with yourself (51% of votes have it) that your alterations are valid. If you need more info on how blockchain (voting) works: here. A 51% attack on democracy would be where some party/potentate is able to coax a majority of voters, [&hellip;]
- [Nikigai &ndash; How to four-way Venn and find your optimal life](https://maverisk.nl/nikigai-how-to-four-way-venn-and-find-your-optimal-life/): &#8230; Yes dear reader that isn&#8217;t misspelled. Traditional Ikigai charts are incomplete as they aren&#8217;t proper four-way Venn diagrams. Because the latter require all overlaps to be in the pic. Like, 4-way, all 3-way, and all 2-way overlaps. The latter, a Problem. Behold: Where you can fill in the &#8216;&#8230;&#8217; to your liking. And then find ways to move all that you just entered, towards the middle. Preferably over the &#8216;paid&#8217; wing(s) if you can, or over the others, if you prefer to keep something strictly as a hobby. But do note the lack of labelling of many (overlap) areas; those [&hellip;]
- [Yup, once again. Since today's that date.](https://maverisk.nl/yup3/): As an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the above/below &#8230;? And then, there&#8217;s continental differences &#8230; [Since it&#8217;s today&#8217;s date, I thought to flip it and not be original just for one day&#8230; nevertheless, the day deserves some sillyness in particular in current circumstances. See also the two previous Today&#8217;s Date posts.] First up, the Elk: Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk:
- [Latest physical &rarr; cyber ..?](https://maverisk.nl/latest-physical-cyber/): Just when one thought that the War in the cyberzz would be fought with all the conventional tricks of wiperware and integrity corruption (i.e., dis- and mis-information, dirty patches), there pops up [yesterday] a news item about Alexander* using EW/flare pods as &#8216;co-payload&#8217;. As determined by e.g., GW Herbert. Now, at what pace would we see this tactic be deployed also in cyberspace [if that exists] ..? Why wouldn&#8217;t a payload as dropped into/onto some network, not only use legit UIDs for further reconnaissance, priv escalation et al., but also create fake &#8216;innocious&#8217; accounts that would at some point be &#8216;found [&hellip;]
- [AutoAuto's blijven een droom](https://maverisk.nl/autoautos-blijven-een-droom/): Tsja, auto’s, ‘artificial intelligence’ en security: Het is het bekende verhaal. Nog steeds … Zijn er technologische of andere ontwikkelingen de afgelopen halve eeuw waarbij security-in-brede-zin nou eens echt vanaf het begin is meegenomen, of blijven we met alle OT-dingen om ons heen doorgaan met de put dempen, security er een beetje (sic) opschroeven als het al te laat is? Bij auto’s is dat ook het geval. Met als complicatie dat we niet alleen snel de auto omvormen tot softwareplatform op wielen1, maar gelijk ook het geheel liefst zo volledig mogelijk zelfrijdend willen maken. Zelfrijdend, in de chaotische context die het [&hellip;]
- [Eindeloos projectfalen](https://maverisk.nl/eindeloos-projectfalen/): [English version below] U vergat te leren. Dus ging uw project de mist in. [Dit is een repost-plus-een-beetje van 2018. Omdat er kennelijk niets, naar boven afgerond nul [uitzonderingen daargelaten; oprechte felicitaties] veranderd is in de loop der jaren. Decennia. Hoewel er met &#8216;Agile&#8217; wel ietsje voortgang is bereikt, hier en daar daar sprints [sprintjes; geen manier om een marathon van een infrastructuurvernieuwing te bereiken, overigens] als micro-projectjes kunnen gelden.] [Merk tevens op dat waar &#8216;project&#8217; wordt genoemd, ook &#8216;programma&#8217; kan worden gelezen.] Aan alle project-gerelateerde functionarissen: Deed u wel de Evaluatie aan het eind van uw vorige project? Serieus?? Uitgebreid [&hellip;]
- [Eternal project failure](https://maverisk.nl/eternal-project-failure/): You failed to learn. You&#8217;ll fail your projects. [This, as a repost from 2018. Since nothing seems to have changed; exceptions excepted [true congrats]. Though with &#8216;Agile&#8217; [the schmagile; more on that in later posts] things have improved just a little, here and there, as sprints might be considered micro-projects..?] [Note, too, that wherever &#8216;project&#8217; is mentioned, &#8216;program&#8217; certainly applies as well.] To all project management related types: Did you do your Lessons learned session at the end of your last project? In earnest? Extensively and deep enough to be potentially useful in future projects? Seriously? In all your previous projects? [&hellip;]
- [Decryptioners: Please chip in](https://maverisk.nl/decryptoners-please-chip-in/): [Since I don&#8217;t have the appropriate tools at hand&#8230;] Remember I posted this, about two major historic Question Marks that are still out to be solved and how maybe the &#8216;AI&#8217; community could reach out and prove their worth? There&#8217;s more. Like, here: + Voynich [Isn&#8217;t this a class?] + Oxyrhynchus 90 [Guess there&#8217;s a great many others, too] + Charley and Hetty [Not the CSI one, &#8230; on second thought might be the same (age)] + Dorabella + Pigeon NURP 40 TW 194 [Deserves a better name, &#8216;Nurpy&#8217; ..?] And this list may be augmented. Any suggestions ..? Yes this [&hellip;]
- [NAIvier-Stokes'y solutions](https://maverisk.nl/naivier-stokesy-solutions/): Haven&#8217;t studied it yet, but it seems that this has finally been &#8216;done&#8217;, in this&#8230; Navier-Stokes, one of the ones that was apparently unsolvable [in a final form type of way], now has &#8220;AI&#8221; solutions. Yeay! And [Would make an ideal remote-office; just North of Siena]
- [Straight-Through-RPA ..?](https://maverisk.nl/straight-through-rpa/): Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong [&#8230; dear reader, if there is any one] – I seem to have missed in the brief on RPA: It generates human position (fte-replacing) point solutions for workflow automation for transactions that can be interpolated in the training set(s), doing very little in the full stretch of Straight-Through Processing (yes I happened to have been around in the &#8217;90s/&#8217;00s) or at max taking it step by step; It does nothing for &#8216;outliers&#8217; outside the training set(s) as these are doomed to be mistreated; Happenstance circumstances may fill the training set(s) but clarity re seasonal patterns, specific [&hellip;]
- [Not wasting a good crisis in BCM](https://maverisk.nl/not-wasting-a-good-crisis-in-bcm/): There seems to (have) be(en) something of a crisis of late, or a pandemic or what had we. All of the world was disrupted, either through the course or – much more often – through the countermeasures taken. Considering that in fact, apart from the industries (still) locked down for various reasons (regardless of the validity), all seem to have coped quite well, this would for the BCM community out there, or in your organization, … quite bad. Since the overriding argument now is: “Hey even in an all-out global pandemic when we didn’t have anything near the sketchiest sketch of [&hellip;]
- [Etymologische Echtheden of juistgebruikte metaforen](https://maverisk.nl/etymologische-echtheden-of-juistgebruikte-metaforen/): Laatst verscheen een artikel dat enkele ‘misvattingen’ (quod non) over metaforen poogde te ‘corrigeren’ (quod non). Het betrof de vermeende oorsprong van de uitdrukkingen: 1. It ain’t over till the fat lady sings; 2. Par; 3. Scratch; 4. Op zijn elfendertigst. Om punt 4 te maken (ongebruikelijk om zo uitgebreid letterlijk maar zonder bronvermelding te citeren van https://onzetaal.nl/taaladvies/op-zn-elfendertigst), worden de overige drie oorsprongen dermate verhaspeld – ik druk me voorzichtig uit – dat het wel een persiflage lijkt. En waarom de metaforen misplaatst zouden zijn of tot verkeerd gebruik leiden, wordt nergens duidelijk. Ongeacht de oorsprong worden ze toch gebruikt zoals [&hellip;]
- [Your lines of nofense](https://maverisk.nl/your-lines-of-nofense/): Either defence or defense, no-one can make out which of those. About your LoD. Certainly not the 3LoD kind; that idea has finally been shredded — unfit for recycling, nuclear waste (damages the brain if one would ever have believed in it). But the real kind, that stand between a threat and a vulnerability. &#8216;a&#8217; twice either singular or plural. Like e.g., real information security connoisseurs would know them, excluding the fakers (&#8216;cyber&#8217;everywhere type). Where any additional layer will catch the errors, omissions and imperfections of the previous control / layer. Like you will have implemented in your infosecurity stack of [&hellip;]
- [Oud, tevens nog steeds nieuw: Auto-mobielen voor non-ethici](https://maverisk.nl/oud-tevens-nog-steeds-nieuw-auto-mobielen-voor-non-ethici/): [Voor een eerdere Engelse versie van deze post zie hier – maar het issue is nog steeds actueel, blijkt] De meesten van u zullen het wel hebben meegekregen; het resultaat van een groot onderzoek van MIT[1] over beslissingen die een Moral Machine zou moeten nemen om aan te sluiten bij wat wij mensen moreel handelen vinden. Nou ja, het ging eigenlijk alleen over een klein, bekend onderdeeltje van moreel redeneren, het trolley problem. Waarin de keuze moet worden gemaakt om een of meerdere mensen om te brengen, om een of (nog-)meerdere anderen te redden. Een besluit is verplicht, nietsdoen is een [&hellip;]
- [A small starter <del>on</del> in Virtue ..?](https://maverisk.nl/a-small-starter-on-in-virtue/): Yes dear reader I&#8217;m back. Pinky promise I&#8217;ll do better in the near future, qua posting frequency. A new strand of posts is to start with the first one; this. On Virtue. As you may notice, this isn&#8217;t exactly a new strand. [Those of you who now expected me to continue using that word where &#8216;thread&#8217; would fit: Bad luck, I don&#8217;t tend to do as expected.] Some earlier posts were already on the subject, and may have been precursors since I&#8217;m inclined to aim for some consistency and funneling focus. These were here (please do read nay study), here, here, [&hellip;]
- [Ah, RoboDebugger, finally](https://maverisk.nl/ah-robodebugger-finally/): Just when you thought that this would be some DARPAtoTLAneverdisclosed true solution, suddenly it&#8217;s out in the open: here. Indeed, auto-debug it is. Good&#8217;ness, questionable is. But that can now improve rapidly to the benefit of all. The link to abuse at functional levels, unresolved. And, for your viewing pleasure: [Is that pole a bug or a feature ..? L. Mies van der Rohe at Barça, obviously]
- [Niet "<em>aansturen</em>" maar op cruise control naar buiten kijken](https://maverisk.nl/niet-aansturen-maar-op-cruise-control-naar-buiten-kijken/): Hoe komt het toch dat veel artikelen over leiderschap &#8220;in c-tijd&#8221; nog steeds gaan over &#8220;aansturen&#8221;..? Ten eerste gaan veel van die stukjes niet over leiderschap maar over management, van het foute soort. OMG wat moet ik nu meiner Totalen Submicromanagement niet meer kan gebruiken!? Ik kan toch niet zomaar iedereen pas over een paar maanden op resultaat beoordelen!? Hoezo niet? Ja maar daar betaal ik ze niet voor, zeg! Hoezo niet? Stel je voor dat ze een week lanterfanten en dan in een uur iets briljants produceren, dan zijn ze de hele tijd op mijn [sic; ???] kosten aan het [&hellip;]
- [Yup, once again. Since today's that date.](https://maverisk.nl/yup-once-again-since-todays-that-date/): As an intermission: Would you know which is which, of the above/below &#8230;? And then, there&#8217;s continental differences &#8230; [Since it&#8217;s today&#8217;s date, I thought to flip it and not be original just for one day&#8230; nevertheless, the day deserves some sillyness in particular in current circumstances.] First up, the Elk: Servus Canadensis, the wapiti indeed. Next up, the Elk: know as such in Eurasia including those tinny pebbles off the coast called the British Isles. Looks suspiciously like the Alces Alces that is the Canadian (oh well, and US, yes, whiners) Moose, doesn&#8217;t it? Because it is&#8230;! But you moose&#8217;ent [&hellip;]
- [Navier-Stokes'y ML ..?](https://maverisk.nl/navier-stokesy-ml/): Just a question: Would anyone have a clue, or link – not the same thing Wink –, whether and how machine learning has been applied to provide a &#8216;solution&#8217; or counter-example to the smoothness of 3D Navier-Stokes equations ..? As here, and here (and onward!) in particular. Or &#8230; Given the pattern of extreme sensitivity of starting parameters for the &#8216;outcome&#8217; predictions of &#8216;full&#8217; Navier-Stokes equations (for the moment abstracting away from this&#8230;), does this somehow mean that the &#8216;unpredictability&#8217; of convergence of neural networks, is a neural network to be trained and started off with some random weight seeding maybe [&hellip;]
- [Random Carl on Strategy &ndash; II](https://maverisk.nl/random-carl-on-strategy-ii/): Since the Internet exploded by the massive amount of requests sent to me [maybe not so much or &#8216;zero&#8217; counts as such] herewith, in instalments, just some loose ends, parts, of Carl von Clausewitz&#8217; Vom Kriege&#8230; This time, a somewhat longer section but an important one for all in business, or in the business of organisation organisation; hence presented in parallel columns [pending cooperation of the browser et al.] yes it&#8217;s quite a longread but there will be a picture at the end when you get through all this: &#8220;Siebentes Kapitel: Friktion im Kriege Solange man selbst den Krieg nicht kennt, [&hellip;]
- [Some loose ends around Times That are a'Changing](https://maverisk.nl/some-loose-ends-around-times-that-are-achanging/): Some loose ends, today, since it&#8217;s my Special day. Noticed that tweets like this and this actually align with what was predicted but only now, thirty (yes) years later, seems to get off the ground ..? Where the predictions / guidelines from fourty (yes) years ago, seem to have worked in reverse. Society&#8217;s not doing well&#8230; [Apart from the &#8216;fact&#8217; that one shouldn&#8217;t strive for just one. Diversity in cultures is one of the main human values to be cherished globally → one should not mix all the world&#8217;s colours of local cultures, food&amp;beverage specialties etc.etc. by having every food/beverage (sub)culture [&hellip;]
- [Random Carl on Strategy &ndash; I](https://maverisk.nl/random-carl-on-strategy-i/): Since the Internet exploded by the massive amount of requests sent to me [maybe not so much or &#8216;zero&#8217; counts as such] herewith, in instalments, just some loose ends, parts, of Carl von Clausewitz&#8217; Vom Kriege&#8230;: &#8220;Alle diese Theorieversuche sind nur in ihrem analytischen Teil als Fortschritte in dem Gebiet der Wahrheit zu betrachten, in dem synthetischen Teil aber, in ihren Vorschriften und Regeln, ganz unbrauchbar. Sie streben nach bestimmten Größen, während im Kriege alles unbestimmt ist und der Kalkül mit lauter veränderlichen Größen gemacht werden mußte. Sie richten die Betrachtung nur auf materielle Größen, während der ganze kriegerische Akt von [&hellip;]
- [When Actor meets Opportunity, fraud sparks may fly](https://maverisk.nl/when-actor-meets-opportunity-fraud-sparks-may-fly/): Too bad the &#8216;fraud triangle&#8217; endures&#8230; Despite having been torn; down or to pieces, or whatev&#8217;&#8230; and some handy pages helping you out. To see that when you use those words often, they may not mean what you think they mean &#8230; [anyone see the pleonasm in this page its title ..?] My take: 1. Time orders The classical fraud triangle is presented as if all three factors may have to be present at any one (sic) time, to &#8216;have&#8217; fraud committed. However, on even the slightliest closer inspection, one sees that this wasn&#8217;t in the original ideas. If you read [&hellip;]
- [Bam! Goner.](https://maverisk.nl/bam-goner/): No, not fireworks. Because of joining a reputable consultancy, I&#8217;ll be posting much less frequently from now on. This is more about saying Thanks for all your attention [and not for all your not so much, yes I keep track which at these slim-to-none figures is easy], so long and thanks for all the fish, and See You Soon. [Edited to add: After just over six months, looks (and talk) had deceived &#8230; reputable turns out to also not being positive sometimes. This time, clearly. Over to Secura per 1 Sept] [To construct more elaborate ideas and stories; Calatrava&#8217;s Science museum, [&hellip;]
- [Meddle Managers](https://maverisk.nl/meddle-managers/): OK, an integration of very old material with some new stuff: The things from the past being about how, in frequent swirls of comments and rants against &#8216;middle&#8217; managers, there were two responses from my side: 1. Yes, they are, often (I), of the worst kind and that qualification has no Dutch connotation involved here; 2. No, they&#8217;re valuable and have a serious, very serious role to play, if they play it right like often (II) happens. This sort of discussion you can read back through my posts here. Sure, there was, and is, much to improve qua meddling management. Take [&hellip;]
- [Rules, rules, rules Must Be. ...?](https://maverisk.nl/rules-rules-rules-must-be/): A collection again of various viewpoints into one Idea [not to be pronounced like the construction kit company Eye-kja], in a collate-yourself fashion: Part one, being yesterday&#8217;s post as here. Coupled to, hey did I write it that early already how hopeful I was &#8230; this golden oldie. And some quotexts: Eric Hultgren stated in a post that &#8220;Its still amazing to me that most of our organizational rules and practices (eg. time reporting, hierarchical reporting, performance management, budgeting, vacation approval etc.) are based on that a few people would misbehave if rules and practices were not there. Would it not [&hellip;]
- [Group ethics](https://maverisk.nl/group-ethics/): &#8220;Individuals can be ethical, groups not so much.&#8221; — as a conclusion of this insightful piece. At which, immediately my Canetti and Ortega y Gasset antennas went off the charts. And with the note of the &#8216;can&#8217; in the above — not so much the petty little bureaucrats with their mostly mumbo-jumbo about cold fusion 3LoD farrago [yes just look that up will you]. They are too hopelessly caught up in their view to consider the im- or rather anti-moral ramifications of the wrong understanding of the idea. Also rather, an onward discussion would involve solving the trolley problem and knowing-plus-beyond-that-understanding [&hellip;]
- [The No Kill Portfolio](https://maverisk.nl/the-no-kill-portfolio/): Recently, I floated the idea to use a portfolio approach to risk management its controls aspects, highlighting (positive or negative) correlations in their (positive or negative) effectiveness, individually and overall. This could be extended to include derivation of an optimal portfolio given a max of e.g., costs which must include the cost of harrassing your users with those controls, not possibly but most probably far outweighing the costs of controls-in-a-narrow-sense plus the benefits &#8230; But still, one could imagine some form of &#8216;efficient frontier&#8216; or so; including calculating the greeks. Yes I did graduate in Finance in the heydays of the [&hellip;]
- [AI and pattern matching -- from the business side](https://maverisk.nl/ai-and-pattern-matching-from-the-business-side/): As stated earlier, I believe, in the power of &#8216;AI&#8217; – when driven from &#8216;the business&#8217; side. The latter being so ill defined it hurts, a lot. But nevertheless, take a Forbes article. Square that with the Accenture robotics approach. Then cube the lot with McKinsey&#8217;s insights. Oh and a dose of this on organisational readiness to receive, also helps a lot. There. Four dimensions of the same. Possibly, some HBR can be thrown into the mix but already, you see that the bottom-up approach, which is valuable too here and there, can in fact be augmented, over-arched, with a more [&hellip;]
- [DevML Auditing](https://maverisk.nl/devml-auditing/): Since reinforcement learning is too broad a term&#8230; we&#8217;d better call it continued-in-deployment learning. Back to the subject, being this CiDL. And how one would audit a system that uses, as one of its many (sic) parts, such a module. The weights change constantly, a little. By which point would one say that the system needs to be re-trained since the implementation &#8216;certification&#8217; (huh) of e.g., unbiasedness determined once a long time ago, doesn&#8217;t apply anymore? A couple of considerations: For sure (sic again), the unbias of yesterday is today&#8217;s societally unacceptable bias. [Shall we newspeak-change &#8216;bias&#8217; to &#8216;prejudice&#8217; ..? That [&hellip;]
- [Your Cyberrrr... Portfolio ..?](https://maverisk.nl/your-cyberrrr-portfolio/): Tinkering with the ideas for IRM/ORM to tackle the post heat map world. The one that emerges once all the one&#8217;s out there take the truth seriously, which would lead to: And for the nay-(not&#8230;)sayers this post to illuminate the destructive cling-to-failure-mode thinking of many still, in RM. After which there is still tons of stuff to manage in the IRM/ORM arena [the difference set between those, shrinks fast ..!]. Risk registers cut it as little, slim-to-none, as the heat map fallacies. Triggered among others by this illuminating post by Graeme Keith that almost matter-of-factly outlines a portfolio approach to operational [&hellip;]
- [Old Bis' had learned ...](https://maverisk.nl/old-bis-had-learned/): Bismarck: Any fool can learn from experience. It’s better to learn from the experience of others. Which aligns nicely with this old post. Tired, it is. Also, we learn from history &#8230; * That we don&#8217;t learn from history * Because it repeats, but in inperceptible ways * Until it&#8217;s too late / with (unavoidable&#8230;) sobering hindsight Like, what you&#8217;ve been taught about Genghis Khan. But also this, half-misquoted, but half-suggesting to study the Books behind it. And we could go on. Better first start on these &#8230; Have I reached the repeat apparently necessary for the achievement of Learning ..? [&hellip;]
- [Algorithms pose no problem for humanity; algo-debatebabblers do](https://maverisk.nl/algorithms-pose-no-problem-for-humanity-algo-debatebabblers-do/): So, once we had Turing machines. If you don&#8217;t know what that were / are, please recuse yourself from the discussion&#8230; Now that we have only a handful left, globally, the following [my following&#8217;s also a handful, ya&#8217;know]: After, we had hardware (with what we now call firmware; still programmable). Then Operating Systems et al. (remember enterprise buses, message queuing ..?), and other Software that were based on algorithms just like firmware was/is but now, recognisably and readably so. Next came parametrisation, like your SAP software just sits there until you direct the traffic flow through the system based on the [&hellip;]
- ['Bird &ndash; Museum(s)piece ..?](https://maverisk.nl/bird-museumspiece/): Hi y&#8217;all&#8230; Anyone knows in which museums this artful masterpieces are &#8230;? Like, this, and this too, deserve to be. No&#8230;? Oh the Fail if these weren&#8217;t saved for eternity. How many similar artists have been lost for us, and those after us, by oversight [not &#8216;governance&#8217; but seeing without looking and registering&#8230;]. I&#8217;m off now, to enjoy similar Good Things. Oh, and: [Would be suitable, there! Gugg&#8217;nhm Bilbao. When side clutter enhances the total view]
- [Your life ... goner, by AI's decision](https://maverisk.nl/your-life-goner-by-ais-decision/): It was a pleasure to read AI&#8217;s life predictor service, which is quite the opposite of a predictor test to get into life. What when you&#8217;re supposed to live (or, let&#8217;s say, be alive, in a narrower sense) for a long while still but you encounter a &#8216;self-driving&#8217; car in Arizona ..? Will there be an AI system that can resurrect you? If so, why not employ/deploy that first ..? What when you&#8217;ve managed to live beyond the predicted age ..? Will AI be powerful enough already to make good on its own predictions ..? E.g., through the steering and commandeering [&hellip;]
- [Security-in-Scrum and Audit-in-Agile](https://maverisk.nl/security-in-scrum-and-audit-in-agile/): Recently, there was a brief flurry around the ability to &#8216;audit&#8217; in agile environments or not. Some notes: Agile development methods (which would include organisational changes &#8230;!) can be audited of course. Either from the Soll or As Is, probably with a wide margin between the two, vis-à-vis the just-delivered To Be which in itself is rather some vague proxy for the actually originally wanted To Be. From this, flow your findings. Gaps abound. Side stepping the issue of DevOps/DevSecOps or is that in: Security in a narrow sense, by the way, can be done; easily implemented and maintained (if properly [&hellip;]
- [How to drown](https://maverisk.nl/how-to-drown/): You will be drowned in a river 2in deep on average. 2in being societally acceptable as average depth, whatever the consequences of you being put in the 50y deep spot. Or you were in the 1in spot but all were moved. That&#8217;s how unbiasing goes. It&#8217;s still aggregate discrimination. And also this one: No data point can tell you which distribution it belongs to. Which implies, flipped, that no statistics can tell you whether one outcome is part of it. An individual case can never be assessed to be part of some statistical population (sub)class and then be treated accordingly. Thus [&hellip;]
- [No Control but another Cycle](https://maverisk.nl/no-control-but-another-cycle/): Tinkering with the learned stuff from recent discussions among peers, and including e.g., this and this past post among many related ones, I realised: The good ol&#8217;BCG matrix is still very, very valid today, with most large orgs stiffly in the bottom right corner (Dogs) or less right but all desperately trying to move their business to the left. Some realising that they should, in fact, be on the upper deck but just can&#8217;t move there &ndash; is all they can, especially qua mind, incapable ..? Just hinting, not saying (outright). Startups-to-scale-ups and what have we, the loose gun set, are [&hellip;]
- [Mining to robo](https://maverisk.nl/mining-to-robo/): Anyone out there that can share a clear case of an actual application of process mining &#8230; in order to move onto RPA ..? Was thinking. That happens. A lot. All the time. With me, that is. Process mining currently is used in e.g., accountancy, to &#8216;get a grip&#8217; on actual transaction flows. That may nay always have some portion of deviation from the &#8216;intended&#8217;, designed one-size-fits-all transaction straight jacket. Yes, always. Now I don&#8217;t care about that, as reality just doesn&#8217;t let fit itself into some pipe dream one flow, and also don&#8217;t care that process mining is used to [&hellip;]
- [Archeo-ML](https://maverisk.nl/archeo-ml/): At a tangent to many great posts on, e.g., LinkedIn, regarding kuh-rypto-stuff mostly and how that should be done, e.g., by some expert writers and others, two things sprang up that would make for excellent &#8216;AI for Good&#8217; study projects: Quipu deciphering – typically, cryptographers haven&#8217;t been able to tackle the decryption but wouldn&#8217;t machine learning, possibly in combination with advanced language processing analytics / methodology, be able to establish non-human-recognisable patterns ..? Celtic ruin runes to real conversation – a typical interpolation effort, it seems, squared with pattern matching errr&#8230; identification first. Oh, and where I wrote Celtic ruin runes, [&hellip;]
- [<span class="firstcharacter">M</span>issioning your visioning](https://maverisk.nl/missioning-your-visioning/): [Just a repost; hardly anything but the footnotes had to change from that post from over two years ago..:] I was triggered recently[1] about some very common mix-up, and suddenly saw a spark of insight. Since the seeing concerned me, it was at a distance of course (not), so I&#8217;ll share it with you to see whether you recognise the somewhat local phenomenon and its ramifications and cures. This all being about the top-level structure for any organisation, i.e., vision, mission, strategy. So often mixed up qua priorities and order. Where a great many do think one starts with the mission, [&hellip;]
- [All are Us](https://maverisk.nl/all-are-us/): Lately, there have been umpteen blog posts about the demise of a great power. Like, here and my own here [ w/ links]. Was reminded that in the core, the underunderunderlying problem had already been caught in the Classic. Not plural: This one. If, big big if, you can see. And a long way from the good [???] old past in this which turned out to uplift but not be realised&#8230; Maybe there&#8217;s hope in this Atlantic piece. On which side are you? Anyone knows where the artist(s) have gone ..? Anyway; study! Yes it&#8217;s about: [Just screenshot, but it captures [&hellip;]
- [ICYMI; Risk Management Requires Quite Some Wider Perspective](https://maverisk.nl/icymi-risk-management-requires-quite-some-wider-perspective/): Yeah, I&#8217;ve blogged about risk management quite a lot, lately. The most of content was about RM1 versus RM2; the former being the day-to-day control over negative events through controls, so as to get to the Objectives set by &#8230; well, that follows below, and the latter, being about tornado charts on fishboning all-than-needs-to-go-well-to-make-this-a-success factors, qua risk distributions. Also, about the ubiquitous (total) proof that heat maps and similar semi-quantitative RM1 is tort, pure fraud. No need to sugarcoat it, right? The text &#8220;All models are wrong, but some are useful&#8221; was a joke but dunces took it as an alibi [&hellip;]
- [Bill the Kid no longer](https://maverisk.nl/bill-the-kid-no-longer/): Lots&#8217;a discussions again, lately, about accountants&#8217; fees. Systemic problems, mostly. Fat rates, but when [i.e., not if] the CPA is found out to have done (much too) little and/or knew about the continuity in doubt, there&#8217;s the ubiquitous &#8220;I&#8217;m from Barçelona&#8221;. Fat rates were there to cover the insurance to cover your inevitable (sic; risk-based decisions&#8230;) errors. Unless gross misconduct is in play, which shouldn&#8217;t be hard to prove. So you&#8217;re rewarded for what, actually ..? Why press all the underlings so they resort to drugs (yes; not me I&#8217;ve never touched them, but know of scores who do), burn-out or [&hellip;]
- [Gobbling up your capac &ndash; or not and do something useful](https://maverisk.nl/gobbling-up-your-capac-or-not-and-do-something-useful/): A somewhat cryptic title again. This, about the latest strand of news (&#8216;thread&#8217; or worse..?) wherein ML is accused of gobbling up so much compute capacity that &#8230; Well, at least that the world will come to an end through global warming that was so much due to power consumption for ML. Oh no, that was &#8216;blockchain&#8217; as the culprit, until recently. Where of course the solution was already to dumb down &#8216;chain-algo&#8217;s to a level that no-one would be sure that the self-righting ship [hey look that has its own wiki: here with nice pics to boat boot] mechanisms are [&hellip;]
- [No fools &ndash; but paid like ones](https://maverisk.nl/no-fools-but-paid-like-ones/): Before you&#8217;re off to celebrate the 11th of the 11th &ndash; not as much the /un/official start of carnaval in the Dutch bayou but St. Maarten&#8217;s day, a sobering thought: You thought that all research showing robots will not take away our work but change it or we ourselves evolve our jobs to something unrobotisable and gloriously creative and art&#8217;sy, were and are true. You&#8217;re not mistaken. But &#8230; Also, you are. The future isn&#8217;t that bright. Though you may have a job and all, it&#8217;ll not be and all. As shown in this scientific paper, you will be degraded. And [&hellip;]
- [Titulaer was ahead of most of us ...](https://maverisk.nl/titulaar-was-ahead-of-most-of-us/): As @Schellevis tweeted, this old find in a (pre-)junior high magazine of, mind you, 1982, the then often ridiculed Dutch version of Carl Sagan / Neil deGrasse Tyson with the original below, and I quotranslate: &lt; * What will our life look like within ten years ..? I think it will hardly take ten years before every household has a computer. Remember that in most households, there already is one. Those little computers are of course very small, built in into all sorts of devices. There&#8217;s a lot of washing machines with built-in miniature computers. There&#8217;s intelligent TVs with which you [&hellip;]
- [Software &ndash; Museum Stuff OR Events](https://maverisk.nl/software-museum-stuff-or-events/): In a time long forgotten (i.e., two years ago), on a &#8216;net far far away (i.e., hopcount &gt; 2), I had this post about how, besides the hardware museums that exist here and there [rather sparsely, given the prominence of the stuff], there should be software museums as well, of some sort [on the &#8216;net itself? may not stand the test of time; also think of mere power failures and insufficient back-ups, or political history re-writing &ndash; the &#8216;klout&#8217; is only someone else&#8217;s computer&#8230;]. Plus of course some museum for algorithms, due to this &ndash; algos can be well thought out [&hellip;]
- [Some balance in wine appreciation (Dutch)](https://maverisk.nl/some-balance-in-wine-appreciation-dutch/): Even de balans zoeken, in wijn proeven. Eerder had ik al deze met een incompleet overzichtje van proef&#8217;methoden&#8217;/scores. Waarbij de basic chemistry, en het vastgestelde feit dat de tong hoewel per individu sterk variërend in &#8216;specialiteit&#8217;- en gevoeligheidsprofiel (4D) best wel even of veel meer gevoelig is dan ballpark lab-meetapparatuur, dus absoluut waarde heeft om aan te tonen dat iets met graniet ook daadwerkelijk die sensatie (sic) geeft en een hint van blauwe bessen dus betekent dat er een ietsje blauwe-bessenchemicalieën in zitten! En met een uitstapje naar kaas. Zowat te vanzelfsprekend om nog te hoeven noemen. Waarop bovendien een sausje [&hellip;]
- [Too duncy to read](https://maverisk.nl/too-duncy-to-read/): Lately, there seems to have been an distinguishable uptick in the number of misinterpretations of the GDPR. Erring on both sides: 1. &#8220;Uhhh we weren&#8217;t aware of anything near the sort of detail about our apparently total non-compliance in a vast array of things we should have arranged for the most basic decent business conduct qua management control and information security (whereof, by what we say of it, we testify to have less than 8-grader understanding); but now are found out to not be sufficiently competent to run our organisation by a most cursory of DPA inspection, journalist pinch or data [&hellip;]
- [Walk the data then Talk](https://maverisk.nl/walk-the-data-then-talk/): In a slight pre-view of an upcoming post about how to do &#8216;AI&#8217; right in any organisation [hint: not bottom up per se but rather top-down with b-u as a sauce&#8230;], there is this little gem about &#8220;Efforts fall short in the last mile, when it comes time to explain the stuff to decision makers&#8220;. After having fallen short in the first near-complete marathon [ultra ..?] of &#8216;ETL&#8217; (as here and here, with moderator here). Well that&#8217;s it for this post now. Sort-a; but quite different from bubblesort or binary sort. Since the above seems to be about the &#8216;exit&#8217;side of [&hellip;]
- [OT Number Two](https://maverisk.nl/ot-number-two/): Yes, dear readers, it&#8217;s time again to discuss the ramifications of linking up your fridge to the Internet. Because you Need to, or so. Eat-eat-eat, right, never miss a superfluous beat? But actually, this time it&#8217;s about your other business end [among various, more than two I hope for your integral well-being], not as much input-oriented qua foodstuffs but output-oriented. Where the question arises, even much more so, about the Why of hooking up to the &#8216;net. Since not only the potential privacy loss qua &#8216;regular&#8217; operation of the data feed already seems much bigger than the benefits, but also the [&hellip;]
- [Premium for nothing, damage not for free](https://maverisk.nl/premium-for-nothing-damage-not-for-free/): Nice. Not only was Cyberrrr!insurance a scam because it could so easily be considered warfare (as previously posted here), but now the whole reason to insure is pulled from under the insurance&#8217;s feet by declaring that you&#8217;ll have no cover period. As here. So you take out an insurance against burglary. A burglar breaks in; seemingly an illegal act. You get nothing. You paid your premiums for what, exactly ..? Happy insuring! [on the premium receiving end..] [No, acts of nature were covered already under the operational risk blanket cover&#8230;] Well then: [If you need me, I&#8217;ll be where the spoils [&hellip;]
- [Bookish.com](https://maverisk.nl/bookish-com/): Just a note on Reading. The place, not so much. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to have all that matter, be more well-read in the world&#8217;s literature. Not only the one of old canon, or even with these added appropriately or just these or these. Since Heloooow! Western-dandyish-veryselectsocietalstratum bias! Hence this might be added, or this. One might start with this. But not finish with it! Also delve into the Truth of many other works, in particular but far from only, from the world&#8217;s wide literature base [the starter series of only 80 already has some but I suspect a better balance [&hellip;]
- [Deepfaiks; spreading their worth](https://maverisk.nl/deepfaiks-spreading-their-worth/): Some time ago (2017), I posted various thingies about how deep fakes would undo any claim of &#8216;truth&#8217; [if there ever was such a thing] about court-admissible evidence. And how not much is left, on the defence side. Now, it seems the same is used in more direct ways as well, on the offence. Like, deep fakes in identity theft. Which is funny, in a way. &#8216;Stealing&#8217; someone&#8217;s most precious thing, her identity &#8216;as a human soul&#8217;, through deep faking. The deeper parts of the identity, the deeper the fake; philosophically interesting. And practically &#8230; Some, like banks, still want to [&hellip;]
- [Better drone downing, and protests](https://maverisk.nl/better-drone-downing-and-protests/): OK &#8230; now that this has arrived, enhancing this, i.e., even non-GPS&#8217;ing drones may be downed by EM(&#8216;P&#8217;) blast, Can one expect that such technology is not used against GPS/GSM/4/5G coordination of protests against those in power, around the world ..? No. One can&#8217;t, and shouldn&#8217;t because will as of future-and already-fact, be proven wrong. Anything that is invented, will be used against some humans, irrespective of History&#8217;s later opinion of either side(s) that so often is much different, often opposite, of today&#8217;s common [4th Estate] opinions. [Edited to add: When I drafted the above, Oct 7, the Beeb wasn&#8217;t yet [&hellip;]
- [Positively secure &ndash; through Johnny's](https://maverisk.nl/positively-secure-through-johnnys/): Triggered by some recent comment that this sage peer brought to the table [(not?) like this]: Why doesn&#8217;t Johnny encrypt, still ..?? Since it&#8217;s such a hugely powerful tool in securing your organisations&#8217; data, implementing along much privacy protection. When done right, &#8216;cryption covers a major part of asset protection [in the Confidentiality sense; Availability&#8217;s actually higher-risked through it ..!], next to near-in-vulnerabilisation [&#8216;inoculation&#8217; ..?] of your IAM, both based on actually proper data classification [the business &#8216;process&#8217; executed by knowledgeable 1st-liners or otherwise practically useless ..!] and supported with of course rock-solid endpoint hardening and protection, and the same for [&hellip;]
- [Oh that rotten inside ...](https://maverisk.nl/oh-that-rotten-inside/): That rotten inside, &#8230; insiders are not your real problem. Either in your organisation where all need to be chained to their drone tasks and are all potential criminals [if so, probably because you treat them as such; the moral rot a.k.a. lack of trust originated with you excepting the very very few exceptions!], Or in your head, where this mirage of immoral[1] insiders is a mere reflection of your own mind. Not saying that security behaviour [which trumps awareness, which is fleeting and lost when trying to achieve anything of productive, salary-earning work] is unimportant. But saying that humans as [&hellip;]
- [[20/20 update]](https://maverisk.nl/20-20-update/): Quoting before-last week&#8217;s post, alreay an update&#8217;let: ] [Sigh] couldn&#8217;t resist the introvert-dad&#8217;s joke in title. On the verge of the last Q of &#8217;19 so you have a little spare time to prep; this, about the really really Big Things that will capture the news next year: Genetic algorithms (like here), maybe outright towards solving hard problems that ML-training offers no convergence on or, most probably, as an add-on stacked on top of Last Year&#8217;s ML results. As mentioned here, but also here and here (with links). Also, when you&#8217;re hooked on Python anyway: this; Some practical solutions à la [&hellip;]
- [Bayesians Against Bias](https://maverisk.nl/bayesians-against-bias/): In the seemingly permanent struggle of &#8230; all gutmenschen &#8230; against AI biases, finally some progress. I mean, &#8216;finally&#8217; is not qua timing; this&#8217;all was known, and PoC-used here and there. But finally-in-its-here-intended-sense, we see an actually well-written [i.e., understandable for the lay(wo)man [Straight/LBGTQI+ rainbow], even when quite a bit of calc stamina is required] piece on how and what one can do. &#8216;tSeems, ex-post. The ex-ante data wrangling [with all its mentioned ethical flaws], for debiasing, doesn&#8217;t need or should be in the pic anymore, or do I miss something [hey this piece should have a call to action so [&hellip;]
- [Geezzz Pwds again...](https://maverisk.nl/geezzz-pwds-again/): Yes we&#8217;re baaaack! On the ridiculousness of wanting to &#8216;actively&#8217; do away with passwords. As per: Passwords should be killed, according to Koen of @ncsc_nl at @OneConferenceNL #nlcyber pic.twitter.com/UKrCGSRLrX &mdash; Jeroen van der Ham (@1sand0s) October 1, 2019 which of course is big-time nonsense. For one: this. For two: At some point in time, it turned out cars were unsafe. In a time before seatbelts, a great many were either thrown through a front window, or impaled on the steering column [&#8216;what a way to die&#8217; depends on the stylishness of the vehicle driven]. The societal solution was not to do [&hellip;]
- [No growth in sight; good or not so much](https://maverisk.nl/10514-2/): Let&#8217;s not forget today is the feast day of Æthelburh of Barking. Just so you know. Also, that is a reminder that times come and go without much notice. Especially regarding longer-term but impactful developments&#8230; Like this one. The start-up economy finally beginning to wither. When you considered that &#8216;finally&#8217; to point at something happy, you may, or may not, be right. OTOH which sounds like &#8216;auto&#8217;, the impact on company size [times number] may vary, as here, with indeterminate results for the economy. &#8230; Wait a sec; this the economy et al. being about the US one. Well, yeah, as [&hellip;]
- [Unique ML capability ... required ..?](https://maverisk.nl/unique-ml-capability-required/): On the one hand, we still have in our hearts [not so much minds, but that&#8217;s part of the point] that humans&#8217; capability [on average; not a very old invention! I believe it was in David Epstein&#8217;s Range mentioned that some &#8216;primitive&#8217; – hey let&#8217;s get rid of the pejorative of that but keep the (actual true) meaning – peoples, populations of Very remote mountain villages, had a limited subset of this] of Understanding of abstraction, by means of symbol(ic) classification and manipulation operational sense, not the abusive kind]. On the other, we&#8217;re still trying to figure out how neural networks [&hellip;]
- [Palliative 3LoD](https://maverisk.nl/palliative-3lod/): On how 3LoD as a going-concern silo&#8217;isation of &#8216;governance&#8217; stuff that says to deal with Risk [which it doesn&#8217;t, in any useful way], is inherently i.e. by its very semantic internal structure, a placebo at rare, seldom, near-unique very best and more often a nocebo [yes, the opposite: something that doesn&#8217;t work but its expected (sic2) side effects will help you down the drain] but in most cases just palliative care. I.e., helping alleviate the pain of dying. Earlier, there was this tweet (oh, on the blog post by the Giant) about how &#8216;audit&#8217; may be a placebo and no more. [&hellip;]
- [All the Knowledge (workers) ... Gone.](https://maverisk.nl/all-the-knowledge-workers-gone/): Sometimes, it&#8217;s hard to remember things from the past, the throwback ideas that should have made it but didn&#8217;t. Like, what happened to all the &#8216;knowledge workers&#8216; and their natural empowerment &#8230;!? Where the real knowledge that delivered value, was with the shop-floor level workers that were all brainy-brainy and &#8216;manager&#8217; types around them only had to supply the facilities, both physical and in terms of getting rid of any risk / organisational / adversarial troubles caused by others outside the compatriotic überproductive geniuses. No longer would hierarchies be needed, no longer would power be with Money. The best i.e. brightest [&hellip;]
- [Where's Fb's PI license ..?](https://maverisk.nl/wheres-fbs-pi-license/): Hm, last time I looked [admittedly, some time ago], in many US states PIs had to get a license because they deal in such shady business as profiling. Shady, since it&#8217;s an outright intrusion of privacy that&#8217;s going on. One-on-one. Haven&#8217;t heard that all that had access to e.g., Facebook&#8217;s data and the profiles that can be derived from that, had each and everyone of them been vetted. Yes, all that had access through any account w/ access to any Fb data, may have needed to be licensed. And now you answer that users per EULA [or whatever legaleeze [was wont [&hellip;]
- [The 20/20 on Next Year's Big Things](https://maverisk.nl/the-20-20-on-next-years-big-things/): [Sigh] couldn&#8217;t resist the introvert-dad&#8217;s joke in title. On the verge of the last Q of &#8217;19 so you have a little spare time to prep; this, about the really really Big Things that will capture the news next year: Genetic algorithms (like here), maybe outright towards solving hard problems that ML-training offers no convergence on or, most probably, as an add-on stacked on top of Last Year&#8217;s ML results. As mentioned here, but also here and here (with links). Also, when you&#8217;re hooked on Python anyway: this; Some practical solutions à la plastic-eating bacteria going onto large-scale deployment, or CO2-capture [&hellip;]
- [Qualified audits/auditors](https://maverisk.nl/qualified-audits-auditors/): On the abuse of language: Where on the one hand, some auditors call themselves &#8216;qualified&#8217; whereas at the same time, they (seldomly) give opinions – as in: &#8216;statements they want to have the value of hard fact&#8217; – that are &#8216;qualified&#8217;, meaning that there is something seriously wrong with the subject (i.e., object, in epistemological terms) they just don&#8217;t know how to put down factually how bad it is. I can agree to the part where they consider themselves qualified, in the latter sense. Especially those that call themselves qualified. Which often is intended to say that others, that don&#8217;t qualify [&hellip;]
- [Training your way out of bias](https://maverisk.nl/training-your-way-out-of-bias/): No, this is not about bias in data that you train your &#8220;AI&#8221;i.e.ML on. I&#8217;ve posted (not nearly) enough about that. It&#8217;s more about pointing to an HBR article that should be(come) very influential&#8230; As it was already known that any &#8216;training&#8217; was about as ineffective as one could get, qua e.g., security awareness transfer [posted about that already, too], this piece elucidates why; among others, because it finds those sent to &#8216;training&#8217; a priori suspect i.e. guilty and punishes, both creating counter-emotions. But read the whole thing; worth it! Also, in regard to this earlier post: Thinking in win-lose terms [&hellip;]

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- [Florence Pelletier: Coiffy met kwaliteit; bio et troppo](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/florence-pelletier-coiffy-met-kwaliteit-bio-et-troppo/): Reeds in de 9e eeuw gaf de zeer machtige bisschop van Langres opdracht om wijn aan te planten bij Coiffy, en de wijnen hadden begin 13e eeuw een grote bekendheid om hun kwaliteit. Door de phylloxera-plaag en concurrentie was er in 1880 nog maar 215 hectare over en restte uiteindelijk maar zo&#8217;n 3 hectare met oude druivensoorten die alleen voor tafelconsumptie geschikt waren, toen in 1983 de eerste her-aanplant van een kleine 9 hectare van start ging. De aanzet hiertoe werd gegeven door Henri Pelletier, toenmalig burgemeester van Coiffy-le-Haut, met de stichting van de Vereniging Coteaux de Coiffy in een poging [&hellip;]
- [Valle dell'Acate – 7 terroirs in één](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/valle-dellacate-7-terroirs-in-een/): Passend in de omgeving&#8230; in alle rust, alles uit de grond halen wat er inzit. Ieder terroir is anders&#8230; Op een wat afgelegen plek aan de Noord-rand van het Vittoria-wijngebied op Zuid-Oost Sicilië, vonden we (na veel zoeken en navragen in het plat-Siciliaans&#8230;) deze parel. Aan de Noord-zijde van een Oost-West lopende slenk liggen de wijngaarden &#8230; op wel zeven verschillende grondsoorten. Ieder beplant met de best passende lokale druif, zodat de wijnen hun respectievelijke terroir het best tot expressie brengen. Dat zijn ze, te weten: Gele aarde: Deze velden liggen richting de kust, waar een zand-klei structuur in relatief lichte [&hellip;]
- [Rossello Cav. Bernardino; groots Piemontees](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/rossello-cav-bernardino-groots-piemontees/): Geschiedenis, en toekomst&#8230; In 1920 door Cavalier Bernardino Rossello begonnen uit liefde voor het land, bij Cortemilia – al sinds mensenheugenis zomerresidentie van Turijnse en Milanese adel. In de jaren &#8217;60 en &#8217;70 (reeds!) zagen de tweede en derde generatie van de familie dat bulkwijnen maken uiteindelijk niet de richting was die men opwilde, en werd verdubbeld ingezet op kwaliteit boven volume. Toen al begon men met tele-sales, via de oude bedrade telefoon&#8230; waardoor men direct contact kon hebben met de klantenkring; voorname families die goede wijn herkenden, en de exclusievere horeca – er werd ook altijd direct geleverd, niet via [&hellip;]
- [Vini Lourenço – Ambachtelijke Douro](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/vini-lourenco-anbachtelijke-douro/): Een vondst, dit wijnhuis. &#8216;t Is niet groot, maar wel fijn. Heel fijn. Begonnen toen Horácio Augusto Lourenço in 1980 terugkeerde uit Angola en de eerste stokken plantte op wat hij had uitgepeild als de ideale plekken voor de wijnbouw. En voortgezet en uitgebouwd door Jorge Miguel Graça Lourenço, de tweede generatie. De derde komt er al aan, is al actief in het runnen van het huis en het wijnmaken – de eerste en derde generatie staan niet voor niets op het etiket van de Pal Horacio Grande Reserva; de liefde voor het terroir en het vak gaat inderdaad van vader [&hellip;]
- [Burrowing Owl – Een wijnhuis in zijn omgeving](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/burrowing-owl-een-wijhuis-in-zijn-omgeving/): Dit wijnhuis doet z&#8217;n best om de natuur zo min mogelijk te verstoren. Dat betekent dat de wijnbouw voorzichtig gebeurt, heel voorzichtig. De toevallige ratelslang wordt naar elders getransporteerd en weer uitgezet; een enkele passerende zwarte beer of edelhert mag doorlopen, de ondergroei blijft staan en als er dan een nestje vogels in zit, wordt de omgeving afgezet om het nest niet te storen. Ook wordt de &#8216;footprint&#8217; klein mogelijk wordt gehouden: De wijn stroomt in de kelders op zwaartekracht, de gebouwen zijn met respect voor de omgeving energie-neutraal (of -leverend) neergezet met zo min mogelijk impact op de natuurlijke omgeving. [&hellip;]
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- [Ployez-Jacquemart – slapen op de Champagne](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/ployez-jacquemart/): Het vooraanstaande Franse wijnmagazine La Revue du Vin de France is duidelijk, en zet Ployez-Jacquemart op de 14e plaats van alle champagne huizen — de enige boutique-producent in de top-25. Boutique&#8230; de jaarproductie is slechts 6000 dozen. Ployez-Jacquemart is een familiebedrijf, in 1930 gesticht door het echtpaar Marcel Ployez en Yvonne Jacquemart. De huidige wijnmaker is hun kleindochter, Laurence Ployez. Een (terechte) trots voor haar product en afkomst bepalen de traditionele benadering in het wijnmaken. Het handelsmerk van Ployez-Jacquemart champagnes is de hoge kwaliteit van de druiven die dosage nauwelijks nodig hebben om kwaliteitsfoutjes te verdoezelen. De Pinot Noir en Meunier [&hellip;]
- [Renard-Barnier; van elders, duidelijk anders](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/renard-barnier/): Sinds eind negentiende eeuw in de familie. Langzaam door Gaston Renard en zijn vrouw Alice Barnier losgemaakt uit de toen normale verkoop van druiven via opkopers die de boel vaak flesten. Marcel Renard ging eind jaren ’40 tot 1974 uitbreiden, in wijngaarden, gebouwen etc., telkens opkopend als de grondprijs laag was. Zoon Gérard en dochter Michèle (Boulonnais) zetten het werk in de jaren ’70 voort en zorgden voor professionalisering van het merk. Sinds 2005 hebben (zoon) Benôit Renard en (zoon) Sylvain Boulonnais de zaak nog verder gemoderniseerd en de kwaliteit nog verder omhooggebracht, met aandacht voor milieubewust werken (zonder focus op [&hellip;]
- [Producenten](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/): Tsja, al dat over is van mijn Étoiles du Nord wijnimport en -handel, hieronder. Wat ooit een flitsende webshop was, inclusief de hele shazam aan WooCommerce-functionaliteiten. Onder-18 blocker, (B2B)gebruikersaccounts, winkelwagentje, etc.etc. Fraaie productpagina&#8217;s, volledige selectiemenu&#8217;s, fraai getune&#8217;de zoekfuncties&#8230; In afwachting van een heroriëntatie op richting en assortiment, is behalve een dijk van een back-up alleen dit er nog: Étoiles du Nord werkt alleen direct met producenten die een bijzonder verhaal hebben, of een bijzonder terroir, of die bijzondere wijnen maken. Uiteraard altijd technisch volledig in orde én met een stijl die mij aanstaat. In het onwaarschijnlijke geval dat u niet de [&hellip;]
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- [Home](https://maverisk.nl/bijzondere-wijnen-handgeselecteerd/): [* Nieuws: Wegens focus en strategiewijziging gaat Étoiles du Nord zich toeleggen op de Canadese wijnen &ndash; het assortiment uit te breiden. De andere zijn uiteraard ook bestelbaar en leverbaar, maar zullen niet meer actief worden gemarket. Tevens zal Étoiles du Nord zich meer mengen in de algemene promotie van Canadese wijnen en wijntoerisme, uit hoofde van mijn bestuurslidmaatschap van de Netherlands-Canada Chamber of Commerce. *]&nbsp;&nbsp;Deze site geeft een overzicht van de handgeselecteerde wijnen die ik (Étoiles du Nord) importeer. Wegens zakelijke interesse, uiteraard, en vanwege mijn algemene interesse in wijn in bredere zin &mdash; waar &#8216;alle&#8217; aspecten van de wijnhandel [&hellip;]
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- [Producten](https://maverisk.nl/product/): [Just a dummy page to give products their subpage hook]
- [Old home](https://maverisk.nl/old-homepage/): Welkom. Zonder omhaal, met de Blog hier (definitely not optimised for mobile but it is mostly in a form somewhat in the vicinity of English), hierbij de dienstverlening van Maverisk, altijd in stijl, en altijd denkend in termen van risico&#8217;s – zodat u verder kunt met leuke dingen&#8230; Daarbij als memorie van toelichting dat onderstaande een en ander niet zeer actief is; zoekende als ik ben naar een vaste plek met in de kern Risk Management Nieuwe Stijl. Maar goed, mocht u in de tussentijd nog een passende opdracht hebben aangaande het volgende, dan is elders zoeken voor hogere kwaliteit niet [&hellip;]
- [Quotes](https://maverisk.nl/quotes/): Zomaar wat quotes over Jurgen / a random set of quotes about Jurgen: A passion for his work, a great eye for detail, preparing the now for the future and a conceptional thinker with mud on his hands. During discussions, some of them attending very difficult subjects, Jurgen had always a sharp eye for the ethical angles and fundamental business principles, and many times thanks to his input we could make important steps in improving the professional rules. Jurgen is a highly skilled manager and colleague who has thorough knowledge on Information Security in general, IT Governance and industry best practices, [&hellip;]
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- [Downloads](https://maverisk.nl/downloads/): Nou ja, behalve de blog met een massa posts &#8230; na een rustige start heb ik een serie van drie jaar iedere werkdag een post uitgebracht; soms een paar regels lang, meestal medium- tot long reads&#8230; Er is natuurlijk ook nog allerlei lang en kort werk ter download vanaf m&#8217;n LinkedIn-profiel hier. Een selectie: AVG/GDPR voegt weinig toe aan bestaande Wbp; Computable, Privacy kost geen knoop; CQure, Gewenst: privacy officers met IT-mindset; Computable, ORM will not fly B-4 People are included; LinkedIn, Security so(m)bering; CQure, Staakt uw wild gerisk; Cqure, BIOS gehackt; zand erover ..? CQure, Privacy op orde in drie [&hellip;]
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- [Privacy statement](https://maverisk.nl/privacy-statement-2/): Het waarborgen van de privacy van bezoekers van de websites van Étoiles du Nord is een belangrijke specialisatie van en voor ons. Daarom beschrijven we in ons privacy statement welke informatie we verzamelen, hoe we deze informatie gebruiken en wat uw rechten zijn. Doel Étoiles du Nord vraagt en gebruikt uw gegevens alleen voor doeleinden waarvoor u ze verstrekt of waar u expliciet toestemming voor geeft. Alle gegevens die Étoiles du Nord verzamelt, worden strikt vertrouwelijk bewaard en verwerkt, en niet uitgeleend, verkocht noch op een andere manier aan derden openbaar gemaakt tenzij dit noodzakelijk is voor derden om hun werkzaamheden [&hellip;]
- [Professor Cescon: <del>b</del>gestudeerde passione](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/professor-cescon-bgestudeerde-passione/): Eind jaren &#8217;50 had Ivan Cescon een prima baan als bioloog, researcher en professor aan de universiteit van Milaan. Maar zijn gedachten gingen telkens weer terug naar zijn geboortestreek. Toen in zijn functies de wijnbouw en het wijnmaken een steeds grote plaats gingen innemen, hakte hij de knoop door en ging hij zich, met hulp van zijn familie, in Salgareda full-time en professioneel toeleggen op het maken van de best mogelijke wijnen. Hier, in het geboortedorp van zijn vrouw, richtte hij zich op het volgens de regels der kunst, en kunde, herontwikkelen van de lokale, toen bijna uitgestorven Raboso-druif. Die is [&hellip;]
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- [Home](https://maverisk.nl/): Welkom. Zonder omhaal, met de Blog hier (definitely not optimised for mobile but it is mostly in a form somewhat in the vicinity of English). Wordt niet meer héél vaak bijgewerkt. Na praktisch 1450 posts, is het welletjes met het hoogfrequente gepost. Maar we gaan doorrr ..! Tevens actief elders, uiteraard. Check your local socmed. Niet Facebook (alleen een name claim), niet Toktok, Snapchje&#8217;het. En voor de rest: De uitgebreide content is op zwart. Om positieve reden. Die inhoud hád betrekking op de business als Zelfstandig Professional. En dat was ik even niet meer. Meer info op deze voor ingewijden. Of [&hellip;]
- [Jean Perrier & Fils, Savoie-hart](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/jean-perrier-fils-savoie-hart/): Een wijnhuis in het hart van de Savoie, met een hart voor traditie&#8230; Het begon in 1853 met de aankoop van een kelder met omliggende wijngaarden in St André les Marches. Het begon in 1911 met de aankoop van een kelder met omliggende wijngaarden in St André les Marches – opnieuw, omdat de phylloxera alle wijnstokken had vernield. De wijn wordt met een ezeltje aan de lokale cafés geleverd. Het begon pas goed in 1947, na WOII dus, toen Jean Victor – (generaties herhaald) zoon van Jean – Perrier als éérste wijnbouwer in de Savoie wijn in flessen begint te doen. [&hellip;]
- [Terre di San Venanzio Fortunato – Prosecco met St.](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/terre-di-san-venanzio-prosecco-only-the-best/): Wat een gepaste eerbied – dit wijnhuis is vernoemd naar de beschermheilige van de Prosecco, San Venanzio. Nu denken de ouderen onder ons wellicht eerst aan frater Venantius van Wim Sonneveld, maar we hebben hier toch echt van doen met een serieus verhaal. Bekend als bisschop van Poitiers was Venanzio Onorio Clemenziano Fortunato, geboren in Valdobbiadene in de 6e eeuw, auteur van enkele prachtig geïllustreerde teksten over de wijnbouw en het wijnmaken – afgezien van fraai verluchte heilige teksten en vele hymnes; waarvan sommigen nog heden ten dage worden gebruikt. Zoals men zelf zegt: &#8220;De naam van het huis roept dan [&hellip;]
- [Gold Hill – het beste van de gouden heuvel](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/gold-hill-het-beste-van-de-gouden-heuvel/): Gold Hill opende in 2009 maar de traditie erachter begon eigenlijk al veel eerder, heel veel eerder – 8000 jaar geleden, in de Indus-vallei. De condities voor landbouw waren daar behoorlijk vergelijkbaar met de huidige in de Zuidelijke Okanagan; precies-goed in de verhoudingen van temperaturen, hoogte, grond en wind. De grondleggers van Gold Hill, de gebroeders Sant en Gurbachan Gill, zijn landbouwers uit de Indus-vallei en staan in een (fruit)boerentraditie die … tot in de mist der tijden teruggaat en dat is in de Indus waar ook het schrift en dus geschiedschrijving werd uitgevonden, nogal een eind. Fruit telen zit in [&hellip;]
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- [In English - old](https://maverisk.nl/in-english-old/): Welcome to Maverisk. Besides the Blog, which is mostly in English and here, there&#8217;s a Contact page, and an About. Without ado then, my service offering: Any type of advisory service, assessment, review, inquiry or audit or what title you&#8217;d want to give it, that provides you with state-of-the-art insights into compliance and possible improvements in your organisation, Regarding organisational alignment of ERM/ORM/IRM, the latest IT-driven innovation (options), Information Management and Information Security Management and control, IT security practices including privacy-issues, the state of controls and In Control posture of your organisation. As for standards, COSO ERM, GDPR, ISO31000, ISO 2700x, [&hellip;]
- [Privacyverklaring Étoiles du Nord](https://maverisk.nl/privacyverklaring-etoiles-du-nord/): Voor zover de GDPR / AVG en aanverwante wet- en regelgeving op u van toepassing zijn (u als consument in relatie staat tot Étoiles du Nord), geldt het volgende: Contactpersoon bij de verantwoordelijke, functionerend als functionaris voor gegevensbescherming is J. van der Vlugt Deze is bereikbaar via het op de contactpagina gegeven adres. Étoiles du Nord gebruikt uw gegevens uitsluitend om de bestelling zo snel en gemakkelijk mogelijk te laten verlopen. Étoiles du Nord zal uw persoonlijke gegevens uitsluitend aan derden ter beschikking stellen die betrokken zijn bij het uitvoeren van uw bestelling en slechts daarvoor, tenzij Étoiles Du Nord daartoe [&hellip;]
- [Domaine Trichon, Bugey Bio](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/domaine-trichon-bugey-bio/): Bugey is een nog steedste onbekende wijnregio waar al ver voor de tijden van Julius Caesar door de lokale Allobrogen druiven worden verbouwd en vergist. Het wijngebied heeft een bewogen geschiedenis, met meerdere keren verdwijnen en weer aanplanten. In de vroege middeleeuwen waren het de monniken die de wijngaarden die door de wegtrekkende Romeinen onverzorgd waren achtergebleven, nieuw leven inbliezen. Nadat in 1609 Bugey en ommelanden niet langer Savoiard waren door het Verdrag van Lyon, waren de wijnen plotseling Frans geworden. Tot 1820 groeide het areaal van Bugey daarop tot meer dan 11.200 hectare. De opkomst van de spoorwegen midden negentiende [&hellip;]
- [François Secondé, unieke Sillery Grand Cru](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/francois-seconde-unieke-sillery-grand-cru/): Sillery was een aantal eeuwen dé plek om stille witte Champagne van in huis te hebben. Sillery als dorp werd aan het begin van de zestiende eeuw bekend door Nicolas Brûlart, eigenaar van het kasteel van Sillery en omliggende wijngaarden. Hij was adviseur van Hendrik IV, en dit opende deuren om zijn wijnen door de koning en de betere kringen te laten proeven. In de hoogtijdagen in de achttiende eeuw deed Edme Béguillet als jurist van het Parlement van Dijon en als oenoloog bekend als fervent tegenstander van Champagne&#8217;s wijnmakers, de uitspraak dat Sillery-wijnen &#8220;van dermate superieure kwaliteit zijn dat alleen [&hellip;]
- [Perceval – andere wijn van de berg](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/perceval-andere-wijn-van-de-berg/): Op het land waar de gallische Allobrogen al wijn maakten, zelf en onder leiding van de Romeinen waar Plinius de Oudere de Mondeuse (vitis allobrogica) al bezong&#8230; Daar startte Jean-Baptiste Perceval, de overgrootvader, in 1910 met wijnmaken middenin het grootste wijngebied van de Savoie aan de voet van de Franse Alpen. Drie generaties later heeft in 1994 Pascal Perceval de leiding over eersteklas wijngaarden in de buurt van het domaine dichtbij het Saint André meertje aan de oevers van het Lac du Bourget. Dat is op een steenworp van Chambéry; waar u langsrijdt op weg naar Val d&#8217;Isère/Tignes, Courchevel, Les Alpes, [&hellip;]
- [Didier Doué – Top-bio uit Montgueux](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/didier-doue-top-bio-uit-montgueux/): Het domaine Didier Doué ligt in de Champagne &#8230; in het voor zeer velen geheel onbekende deelgebiedje rond (onder) Montgueux in de Aube. Sommigen kennen nog wel de Coteaux de Sézanne, en/of de Côtes de Bar (Noord en Zuid, waar verrassend andere rosés vandaan komen al zijn die niet mijn kopje bubbels) maar deze vlek &#8230; Als sub-appellation ten Westen van Troyes is het ook niet zo groot. We hebben het over twee kanten van één heuvel waar het dorpje bovenop ligt, en nog wat wijngaarden even verderop. Dat de wijnen van hier niet zo bekend zijn in Nederland&#8230; Men doet [&hellip;]
- [La Manufacture by Benjamin Laroche; Chablis in topformaat](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/la-manufacture-by-benjamin-laroche/): Benjamin Laroche, telg uit een zeer oude Chablis-familie (sinds 1663&#8230;) werkte al van jongs af aan mee op de wijngaarden en in diverse bedrijven. Hij heeft in de breedte ervaring opgedaan met het leiden van wijnbedrijven in de Rhône, Languedoc en Bourgogne, en reisde tussendoor nog zo&#8217;n vijftien jaar (&#8230;) over de wereld en Frankrijk. Monsieur Laroche zoekt waar hij ook komt naar de beste druiven in de wijngaarden – hij is geen erfgenaam dus is vrij om buiten de eigen familiegaarden te kijken – en vindt op onvermoede plekken de meest toegewijde wijnbouwers die zorgvuldig met hun stokken omgaan. Deze [&hellip;]
- [Paul Clouet, een grote, onbekende, onterecht](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/paul-clouet-een-grote-onbekende-onterecht/): Paul Clouet en zijn nazaten zijn sinds 1907 gevestigd in het Grand Cru dorp Bouzy, een van de beste Pinot Noir gebieden in de Champagne. De wijngaarden liggen op de Zuid-kant van de Montagne de Reims, niet voor niets Côte des Noirs genoemd. Twintig kilometer verderop ligt Choilly, middenin het beste stukje van de beroemde Côte des Blancs, de top voor Chardonnay. Bouzy en Choilly zijn sinds 1895 twee van de 17 (inmiddels 26) dorpjes die de status Grand Cru de Champagne hebben. Nu een eeuw na Paul Clouet&#8217;s start, zorgt kleindochter Marie-Thérèse Clouet-Bonnaire voor voortzetting van de traditie. Zij werkt [&hellip;]
- [Deneufbourg – Zuid is Noord, in ieder geval anders](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/deneufbourg-noord-of-zuid-in-ieder-geval-anders/): Het huis &#8216;Les Anthocyanes&#8217; van het echtpaar Corinne en Damien Deneufbourg ligt in het uiterste Zuiden van Frankrijk, in Pollestres, zo&#8217;n 10km onder Perpignan – maar dus eigenlijk in het Noorden van (Frans) Catalonië&#8230; De familie Deneufbourg verbouwde hier al langer druiven voor de verkoop, maar in 2009 werd besloten er zelf wijn van te maken. Met succes. Men zet nog steeds in op kwaliteit en op &#8216;eens wat anders&#8217;. De inzet is op gemakkelijk toegankelijke wijnen, bio en met een zekere lichtheid, wat atypisch is voor Roussillons. Geen krachtpatsers met veel houtsmaak hoe dan ook erin gestopt, da&#8217;s niks aan. [&hellip;]
- [Domaine Lelièvre, meneer De Haas heeft geen haast](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/domaine-lelievre-meneer-de-haas-heeft-geen-haast/): Toen Trier de hoofdstad was van het Gallisch-Romeinse rijk, plantten de nieuwe heersers wijn langs de Moezel. Wat later werd daarop voortgeborduurd door de koning van Frankrijk (Karel de Grote et al), de machtige bisschoppen van Toul en de hertogen van Lotharingen. In 1880 stond er bij Toul zo&#8217;n 8000 hectare aangeplant. Tussen 1870 en 1945 ging het mis, met de phylloxera. En met oorlogen (1870, 1914, 1939-1945) die dwars door de gebieden trokken en de opkomende industrialisatie van Lotahringen, die alle mankracht die maar te vinden viel van het land weg trokken. Pas sinds 1951 begonnen lokale liefhebbers-boeren de resten [&hellip;]
- [Le Domaine du Muid Montsaugeonnais; tongbreker, tongstreler](https://maverisk.nl/producenten/le-muid-montsaugeonnais-tongbreker-tongstreler/): In de 9e eeuw reeds gaf de zeer machtige bisschop van Langres opdracht bij de abdij van Aubigny wijn aan te planten. De kwaliteit van het monnikswerk leidde ertoe dat in de 11e tot de 13e eeuw de Heren en graven van Montsaugeon langzaam het vruchtgebruik (wijnbouw) van hun land aan de bisschoppen lieten. Het wijngebied(je) maakte daarop tijden van glorie door, tot in 1595 het château van Montsaugeon werd vernield door troepen van Langres die meer, meer, meer wilden. De eeuwen erna klom de wijnkwaliteit zó ver terug op dat er uiteindelijk zelfs naar de Nederlanden werd geëxporteerd ja zo [&hellip;]
- [Menetou Salon maar dan Rouge](https://maverisk.nl/menetou-salon-maar-dan-rouge/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Ja lieve mensen, die bestaat! Iedereen kent wel de witte Menetou-Salon, toch ..? Wij ook niet &mdash; heel goed hoor, &#8216;t is er zo een van een Loire-cursus en dan ene oor in, andere uit. Met soms een proefje ter vergelijk met de zo(veel meer) bekende buren Sancerre en Poilly-Fumé. Wie daarnaast de witte Men-Sal proeft, slaat niet gelijk steil achterover &ndash; your mileage may vary natuurlijk afhankelijk van de kwaliteit en rijping. En er is rosé, een aparte categorie hier maar &#8216;tussen wit en rood&#8217; beschrijft die vrij aardig. Laten we overigens ook de Coteaux [&hellip;]
- [Non-sabreur](https://maverisk.nl/non-sabreur/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Gewoon om even de aandacht te vestigen op de ‘traditie’ om een goed drankje te verspillen aan nutteloze praal, waaraan ik niet zal meedoen. Want misschien waren napoleontische kleinburgerlijke ‘ridder-wannabes’ ooit de norm in Frankrijk. Maar elders niet. Elders wordt klasse (van het soort dat tussen iemands oren en in iemands hart zit) gewaardeerd en erkend boven het luidruchtig opscheppen en bluffen uit angst om niet als ‘van klasse’ te worden erkend – alsof ‘klasse’ die men ziet dat ook daadwerkelijk is, op enkele uitzonderingen na. Gauche&#8216; ‘savoir-faire’ als beide termen niet al op zichzelf terugslaan. [&hellip;]
- [Kooiloos maar niet ongebonden: <br>Museletloze champagnes &ndash; wins voor de ficelle en agrafe](https://maverisk.nl/kooiloos-maar-niet-ongebonden-museletloze-champagnes-wins-voor-de-ficelle-en-agrafe/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] In de categorie Titels Die Een Heel Artikel Samenvatten, ben ik best tevreden met bovenstaande. Al mis ik het lakzegel maar dat komt hieronder wel, als minder belangrijk (nou ja) en niet altijd present detail. En de claye. Nou goed. Want er is meer onder de zon dan gegalvaniseerd staaldraad. Sinds de flesafdichting van in olie gedrenkte lapjes en met was afgedichte houten pennen door Dom P. werd vervangen door de nieuwlichterij &#8216;kurk&#8217; uit Portugal, ergens rond de zeventiende eeuwwende. Eerst even over de muselet. Waarbij vele &#8216;kenners&#8217; dachten dat ze het wisten: dat is dat [&hellip;]
- [De Auxerrois zonder Auxerrois](https://maverisk.nl/de-auxerrois-zonder-auxerrois/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] [In ontwikkeling ..!] Ja voor wie verder durft te kijken dan de doorgeschoten tot standaardkennis verworven opinies over &#8216;Bourgogne&#8217;-het-riedeltje-tussen-Beaune-en-Dijon-tot-Mâcon &#8230; kan er zomaar achterkomen dat er meer is &#8230;: een reeks vrijwel-tot-geheel onbekende óók-Bourgogne subregio&#8217;s die, laten we zeggen, een &lsquo;wat&rsquo; ander karakter hebben. De Chablis met razorsharp Chardonnays (as we write in 2026 koelt een 2014 Premier Cru Beauroy beneden; rustigaan keurig op dronk) komen later nog wel in een eigen verhaal. Chardo heet in de Chablis overigens (ook wel) Beaunois maar in de omliggende dorpen dus gewoon Chardonnay&#8230; De Grand Auxerrois dus, oftewel de [&hellip;]
- [But Beware of the Loon ..?](https://maverisk.nl/but-beware-of-the-loon/): Het zijn eerder de &#8216;andere&#8217; ganzen die een issue zijn. Qua aanstormende taling talent. Ja het werd hoog tijd; vanuit een achtergrond, en vanwege voorspoedige (voortgezette) ontwikkeling. Voor de opstelling lenen we van de authoritative site. Dat zijn er twee&#8230; We zullen een en ander hier(onder) per regio (provincie, DVA et al.) nader uitwerken. Dus BC, met alle specifieke subregio&#8217;s, Ontario uiteraard, Québec dat zich ook voldoende heeft ontwikkeld voor wat aandacht, en Nova Scotia. Dan hebben we de veruit-belangrijkste wel gecovered. Maar eerst een plaatje: En uiteraard zal ik eerder materiaal ook nog verwerken, van de vroeger tijden van de [&hellip;]
- [Métisse by Olivier Horiot](https://maverisk.nl/metisse-by-olivier-horiot/): De Cuvée Métisse, noirs et blancs oftewel 80% PN en, jawel, 20% Pinot Blanc, wederom een assemblage met een van de Forgotten Four. Brut nature dat houdt het puur, klaargemaakt bij de BV Val du Clos dan nemen we ook een verre hint daarvan mee. Van Champagne Olivier Horiot, MeB juli 2020, dégorge 16 jan 2023, grotendeels oogst 2019 plus nog een scheut uit de Réserve Perpétuelle die op eik wordt gehouden – ja ik kwam &#8216;m in een coin oublié tegen maar prijs me gelukkig. Quelle belle ouvrage! Als u denkt: Da&#8217;s een nogal technisch verhaal &ndash; dan is dat [&hellip;]
- [Meunier is geen Pinot](https://maverisk.nl/meunie-pinot/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Even voor de goede orde: Meunier, de druif, is in Frankrijk dus géén Pinot! Ja, ook wijnmakers (in de Champagne met name, dus) doen het nog (sic) weleens niet goed,wWe gaan er maar vanuit dat het een verworven recht met eventuele grace period betreft, maar bij Wet heet het gewoon Meunier. Nou ja; als het gaat om kweken en vermeerderen. Maar (dus) toch&#8230; Op dat punt weet PlantGrape dus ook niet anders dan ___ Meunier klonen te noemen&#8230; En: [Let ook op de Arbane&#8211; en Voltis-vermeldingen&#8230;] En natuurlijk bestaan er synoniemen &ndash; duidelijk bedoeld voor het [&hellip;]
- [Welk champagne bij uw oesters &ndash; en v.v.](https://maverisk.nl/welk-champagne-bij-uw-oesters-en-v-v/): [Pagina in ontwikkeling dus Hold My Tulip Glass qua leesbaarheid, layout en zo.] [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over de oester. Vooral. En het vanzelfsprekende wijnadvies: Champagne! We gaan het hier hebben over de smaakpairing-elementen, over de allerbeste &#8216;fit&#8217; per soort, en over de maten en gewichten, afsluitende met wat toeristische tips her en der. Van acquit laten we eerst even de also-ran&#8216;s de revue passeren. Als in: passeren; &#8216;oesterwater&#8217; Chablis, mogelijk, als het een jonge stijl is of juist groen doorgerijpt &ndash; de oesters zitten er ook fossiel in de grond&#8230;; Sancerre, Muscadet, Picpoul de Pinet, Baskische Txakoli, een buitenbeentje [&hellip;]
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- [3 Blancs by Gruet](https://maverisk.nl/3-blancs-by-gruet/): Another round for Gruet of Buxeuil (@champagne_gruet) &ndash; The Cuvée des 3 Blancs (as here) With its matte gold, almost amber appearance and very fine mousse (hardly foamy but lingering in the mouth for a long, long time), we&#8217;d expect the Pinot Blanc to dominate over the Arbane and even Chardo. It does. A little. But, as assemblages go, only a little; I&#8217;d rather say one can identify the PB by its gently soft but full agrumes/mirabelle character but there&#8217;s a lot of exquisite light flowers &ndash; hawthorn &ndash; and herb&#8217;iness &ndash; in the sage, rosemary corner &ndash; already in the [&hellip;]
- [Some notes re the Champagne Education test Niveau 1](https://maverisk.nl/some-notes-re-the-champagne-education-test-niveau-1/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password:
- [Petit Meslier by Laherte](https://maverisk.nl/petit-meslier-by-laherte/): Laherte Petit Meslier in the tasting round Yes @laherteaurelien makes a monocépage of this one. Great Meslier it is: The golden colour would suggest something dosée, but look closer and you notice a hue which points to slight bitter influences. And indeed, on the nose we get a whiff of smoke, certainly straight after the pour; quite an opportunity to use the word ‘empyreumatic’&#8230; Did I mention Meslier already? One to one it is. But nothing referring to your cooking qualities; it’s more like a distant secondhand puff of Belinda – I’d not suggest you buy that for comparison; trust me [&hellip;]
- [Cuvée Originel by Pascal Mazet](https://maverisk.nl/cuvee-originel-by-pascal-mazet/): @champagnepascalmazet make quite an interesting range of wines, fully certified bio since 1980. We tasted the Cuvée Originel bottling of 2014, for its 35% Pinot Blanc of course; interested to learn how such a Forgotten Four lead, with the three Usual Suspects trailing, would work out. ‘Splendidly’ is the answer. The gold is striking, the nose is suitably complex. One gets mint, cucumber, cornichon tartness (I mean, the true kind of https://www.kesbeke.nl/) and some olive. On the palate, it switches to agrumes-allsorts. Yuzu, lightly pre-ripened apricot (yes there’s acidity in there), sparkling grape (ah.) and a hint of almond already. This [&hellip;]
- [Présence by Marie Courtin](https://maverisk.nl/presence-by-marie-courtin/): Marie Courtin Présence I bought the @ch_mariecourtin for the 1/3 Pinot Blanc (of course: https://tinyurl.com/ForgotFour !). High expectations, exceeded. First off, the yellow-golden almost amber colour would promise some sweet almost creamy elements. But with a delightfully tingle from a fresh mousse, and a light bitter-tartness in the nose, the picture turns around completely. There’s Mirabelle ..! [As per: https://tinyurl.com/Mirabellepg] The palate is perfect; not too much mousse so the real ‘wine’ taste is clear, and the Mirabelle keeps on coming. The mouth feel overall is well-balanced, and includes a soft minty/dill side with the lemon (plus some bittersweet orange even), [&hellip;]
- [Arbane by Gruet](https://maverisk.nl/arbane-by-gruet/): The @champagne_gruet Cuvée Arbane … 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘭𝘴𝘦 entirely! 100% Arbane yes. Which brings a freshness too long lost. Reminds me of the bone dry styles of yesteryear, in a good, rather great way. Chalky without dust, minerality without flint. A wonderful conversation starter, on the good things of life. With a fresh and quite light, lemon-white colour through which a very fine and persistent mousse promises delight. Then, on the nose, one gets a first whiff of floral notes; jasmine, elderberry, rose – followed by zingy but ripe lemon. When allowed to mellow in the glass (or a day in the [&hellip;]
- [Pinot Blanc by Gruet](https://maverisk.nl/pinot-blanc-by-gruet/): Tasting the Pinot Blanc champagne of Gruet of Buxeuil (@champagne_gruet). That’s right, a pure-bred PB champagne. (Be sure to pick the right one, at https://www.champagne-gruet.com/) And it is a treat, indeed. In the glass, we have a very fine mousse, well-integrated &#8211; it continues very, very long and doesn’t just give a one-off foam layer – through a pale gold, slightly varietal-typical PB wine. On the nose, the typical character come through immediately, including a slightly fluffy air of white flowers around light tangerine / (white) peach / mirabelle, and a core of lime – keeping nicely short of being bitter. [&hellip;]
- [Réminiscence by Eric Legrand; 100% Pinot Blanc](https://maverisk.nl/reminiscence-by-eric-legrand-100-pinot-blanc/): The Réminiscence 100% pinot blanc brut nature by @champagneericlegrand via @jeromeschampagne. Supposedly off 65+yr old vines, but one would be hard-pressed to tell that by the wine. What delicious freshness! For a start: What would one expect from a pure PB champagne? Subtlety indeed. It starts with a new capsule (for me, to further fill my https://www.deknudtframes.fr/en/catalog/product/s65sz2-/frame-in-black-for-champagne-caps which only applies to *different* capsules I tasted *at home*) – under a muselet to duly impress. After a good whiff, one can immediately pick up the something-different of this one. The first 80% is most clearly artichoke with some mint; not very strange [&hellip;]
- [En Français: À la Recherche des Clos Perdus](https://maverisk.nl/en-francais-a-la-recherche-des-clos-perdus/): [ Retour à Le vin, c&#8217;est bien ] Quelques (re)trouvés. Autrement dit : C 8 – Clos, versus Contrée/Cuesta/Cirque plus Cru(x) plus Climats et Cru(x)/ Cuvées en Champagne, lieux si dits . En guise de table des matières : Les Définitions juste en dessous, Le Microclimat (alias La Noix) , les clos&#8217; officiellement reconnus et moins officiellement ou connus, des cartes pour votre orientation, un tableau résultant quoique ennuyeux avec des liens, internes et externe, et une conclusion . Logiquement. Eh bien , chers lecteurs, vous connaissez peut-être un peu le concept de « clos » bourguignon ; un vignoble clos de murs avec, parfois, un microterroir particulier [1] . Eh bien, ces Clos existent aussi en Champagne ! 39 pièces, reconnues. Devinez qui a mis à jour la liste wiki en [&hellip;]
- [Over wijn schrijven](https://maverisk.nl/over-wijn-schrijven/): [Pagina in ontwikkeling dus Hold My Tulip Glass qua leesbaarheid, layout en zo.] [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Vooral: Over proeven en erover praten en) schrijven. Het gaat al mis dat ik daar een haakje vergeet. En het gaat ook mis omdat &#8230;: Wijn begint als druif aan een plant, met vele tienduizenden (alleen al de bekende) chemische stoffen in per ondersoort en variëteit, en per wijngaard, per rij, per stok, per tros verschillende hoeveelheden, afhankelijk van alle denkbare weers-, grond en ziektedruk-condities, wisselend van uur tot uur, alle dagen van het jaar; Waar vervolgens per cuvée als zo&#8217;n 3000 beslissingen [&hellip;]
- [C4 has moved](https://maverisk.nl/c4-contree-plus-crux-versus-clos-in-de-champagne/): [Apologies; the page URL has changed so you&#8217;ll be redirected to the right page or you can click here.
- [You've been 404'd](https://maverisk.nl/youve-been-404d/): You&#8217;ve PEBKAC&#8217;d yourself. Unlikely, but possibly. You were trying to reach a page that doesn&#8217;t appear to exist, much more probably. &nbsp; Oh since you deserve a nice view, herewith:
- [Welke champagne bij uw sigaar (en v.v.)?](https://maverisk.nl/champ-sigaar/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] [Pagina in ontwikkeling!] Hier volgt vanalles over paring van sigaren met champagne. Dus. Zoals eerst een introductie, over hoe het tot voor kort moest gaan. Waarna we belanden op een fraai analyse-gebeuren, waaruit we verder bouwen richting finale, de samenvatting van geoptimaliseerde combinatoriek. Zo is er natuurlijk anecdotische informatie. Champagne Decotte Augé raadt bij haar cuvée Clos Village (jawel, een Clos&#8230;) Millésimé 2012 behalve een gekookt eitje &#8230; met uiteraard truffel, of ballotine van konijn met een worteltje en komijn of een notentaartje, vooral ook een Nicaraguaanse Pitbull Carlito aan. Excellent choice old sport. Dat kom [&hellip;]
- [Phänomenologie des Weines](https://maverisk.nl/phanomenologie-des-weines/): [Pagina in ontwikkeling dus Hold My Tulip Glass qua leesbaarheid, layout en zo.] [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Wine is the most civilized thing in the world &ndash; Ernest Hemingway In een poging te (om)vatten wat Wijn doet als fenomeen binnen het Dasein, hier een notitieblok vol uiterst en soms een klein ietsje minder eenvoudige overwegingen. Over vinosofie; wijn en filosofie en Alles: In ieder geval is dat Alles, qua wetenschap, van allerlei soort: We spraken al over chemie, maar eerst komt geo(morfo)logie en -desie (op de ontstaansgeschiedenis der continenten, en de lokale tectonische details, en ook historie bij de vorming [&hellip;]
- [Quicky? Kolor](https://maverisk.nl/quicky-kolor/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Oftewel: Over kleuren en wijn. Even een snel pagina&#8217;tje tussendoor. Gewoon, omdat er misschien wel té weinig aandacht voor is. Eerst wat algemene plaatjes, als richtinggevers; dan wat dieper de analyse in; en afsluiten met twee zijsporen waar &#8216;wijn&#8217; kan helpen in totaal andere vak(?)gebieden. Daarna volgt dan nog een start met extensie in een flink andere richting, die op zich wellicht nooit compleet zal zijn. Maar essentieel is. Ik gooi even snel een paar plaatjes hierin, dan begrijpt u wellicht intuïtief het belang al een beetje: [De linker is fors vergrootbaar voor de leesbaarheid van [&hellip;]
- [Chemisterie](https://maverisk.nl/chemisterie/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over organische chemie en welke rabbit holes daar wel niet onder zitten&#8230; Waarbij een soort-van ontdekking van Flavor Networks en Food(chem)DB&#8217;s ja meervoud, fun is om verder te onderzoeken. Niet al te eenvoudig navigeerbaar &ndash; en met overblijvend uitgebreid data-gepunnik, vrees ik &ndash; maar zeer bruikbaar om tot gefundeerde oordelen en wijn/spijsverbeteringen te komen. Ik heb in ieder geval zes sub-onderwerpen alvast op een rij: De gedachte begon met een stuk over de bruikbaarheid van koper om mercaptanen uit wijn te halen; contra de typische te-groenpaprikasmaak (uienlucht, rubber, bedorven water, doorgekookte kool, bunzing; &#8216;niet fijn&#8217;) die [&hellip;]
- [Life Goals](https://maverisk.nl/life-goals/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Als aftrap, nogmaals: Damn the torpedo&#8217;s; full speed ahead! Van het soort &#8220;Wanneer ik op geen enkele manier meer om geld zou hoeven denken &ndash; anders dan de 24/7/365-taak om het te beheren[1]&#8221; &#8230; &#128527; Bij gebreke waarvan we maar proberen er in de buurt of in ieder geval de richting van te geraken je moet toch wat, hierbij al een vooruitblik &ndash; want de zorgvuldige lezer zag dat deze zorgvuldige schrijver daar toch &#8216;Wanneer&#8217; neerzette in plaats van &#8216;als&#8217;&#8230; Met een schot voor de boeg: hier beneden staan de dingen die u graag als eerste had [&hellip;]
- [Mirabelle wil iedereen welle](https://maverisk.nl/mirabelle-wil-iedereen-welle/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over de vergeten pracht van Mirabelle (herkennen) in wijn. Met de referentie, de smaak, de chemie, de wijn/spijs uiteraard en oh ja Conclusies. We hebben het dus wel over het referentiearoma Mirabelle. Niet zozeer over de eigenlijke vrucht van de Prunus. Daar is op zich best wat van te maken. In gerechten, en jawel in vruchten&#8217;wijn&#8217; (quod non) of eau-de-vie (beter voor Guido dan de Poire Williams). Of zelfs het extract &ndash; of zelfs de chemische compositie die online ruimschoots te bestellen is. Want die bestaan dus. Vooral in de Elzas en wat Haut-Savoie en met [&hellip;]
- [Acaciawijn](https://maverisk.nl/acaciawijn/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Ik schreef elders al, dat het aan het terugkomen is in de Champagne: Acaciahouten vaten, in plaats van eiken. Dat komt (vast) van de Witte Acacia oftewel de Robinia (Robinia pseudoacacia). Robinia, eigenlijk geen A. dus!, levert misschien genoeg hout voor vaten maar Mimosa (Acacia dealbata)&#8230;? Zie overigens hier voor diverse &#8216;andere&#8217; Acacia&#8217;s&#8230; Ook elders wordt Acacia ingezet &#8212; althans, de hars ervan. Acacia geeft namelijk Arabische gom af. Nou ja, Acacia Senegal (Leguminosae/Fabaceae) en A. Seyal, twee Afrikaanse soorten (de helft in politiek-dus-leveringszekerheid-zwak) Soedan en de rest uit (de rest van) de Sahel, en in [&hellip;]
- [À la Recherche des Clos Perdus](https://maverisk.nl/alarecherchedesclosperdues/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Sommige (re)trouvés. Oftewel: C8 &ndash; Clos, versus Contrée/Cuesta/Cirque plus Cru(x) plus Climats en Cru(x)/Cuvées in de Champagne, lieux si dits. Als inhoudsopgave: De Definitie hier direct onder, Het Microklimaat (a.k.a. Het Nut), de officieel erkende en niet zo officieel c.q. bekende clos&#8217;, landkaarten voor uw oriëntatie, een resultante hoewel saai ogende tabel met linkjes, intern en extern, en nog even over de andere Cees en een afsluiter. Logisch. Nieuwste element: Door heggen te planten, kan run-off van flash-floods na hevige regens, worden teruggedrongen. Heggen met diepe wortels, het kalk in, en/of sowieso de wortelstelsels gebruiken om [&hellip;]
- [Genepi-rima spul hoor!](https://maverisk.nl/geneprima-spul-hoor/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over een cordiale godenspijs. In beschrijving. En voor u flink (speuren naar adresjes waar input te krijgen is voor) proeven! Zorg ervoor dat (mede) te doen temidden van allerhande privé nostalgie/melancholy, wintersporttechnischtactisch (als per hier) &ndash; I&#8217;m looking at you in particular, Alpe d&#8217;Huez! En de omgeving in het algemeen. Anyway. De inhoud c.q. -sopgave begint al vorm te krijgen; Algemeen over de en historie, en de soorten Artemisia &ndash; met nadruk op de vele verschillende namen; De Aostaanse; met de specifieke kenmerken en producenten, ook die uit de ommelanden; De Savoyards; specifieke kenmerken en producenten; [&hellip;]
- [Aosta, dal der gastro-pieken](https://maverisk.nl/aosta-dal-der-gastro-pieken/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Nou ja; voor de vorm een soort van inhoudsopgave: Eerst de alhier aangetroffen druiven, dan de DOCs &ndash; enigszins geo-georiënteerd &ndash; en dan zeker Idem de dorpen met alle wijnmakers (van de Valdigne / Alte Valle via de Valle centrale door de Bassa Valle), Daarna de genepì (overigens accentarm; -rijker, dus génépi, zijn het de Fransen (?) uit de Savoie); kort, elders wordt dit onderwerp écht goed behandeld, waarna nog een afsluiter over relatief bijkomende zaken: Chambave en Nus; 60% wit, 40% rood qua druiven die het met weinig regen en grote diurnale schommelingen moeten stellen, [&hellip;]
- [Savoie, d'Haute Qualité](https://maverisk.nl/savoie-dhaute-qualite/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Ja beste lezer, daar ziet u duidelijk een tautologie of synoniem opduiken. Ik zei opduiken, niet er staan. Want er is wel wat kaf onder het koren, maar met enige &#8216;technische&#8217; kennis van zaken komen we een heel end in de goede richting die erkenning is van de hoge kwaliteit van Savoie-wijnen. Even voor de Inhoudsopgave, wegens ellenlange teksten: We beginnen met een stukje geschiedenis. Waarna we langs de druiven wandelen, om vervolgens de lokaties af te struinen; daar waar de echte Content hits the fan. Plus nog een overzichtje van ge/beproefde en ander toppers, qua [&hellip;]
- [Tous les Vitryats](https://maverisk.nl/tous-les-vitryats/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over de serieuze wijnen van de Côteaux Vitryats, de champagnes uit het subgebiedje bij Vitry-le-François. Plus Châlons-en-Champagne. Specifiek karakter: Chardonnay &#8230;! &#190; van de aanplant &ndash; da&#8217;s niet exclusief; sommigen doen juist alleen PNoir en Meunier. Terwijl de bodem enigszins vergelijkbaar is met die van de &#8230; Côte de Noirs. Right. In ieder geval is de Chardo hier goed voor redelijk stevige, zeker niet overzware wijnen; citrus met wat &#8216;exotisch&#8217; fruit. Net als de Sézannais ja maar waarom dat een vermelding verdient weet ik zelf ook niet. Die bodem is &ndash; uiteraard &ndash; kalkrijk, Kimmeridgien zoals [&hellip;]
- [Oude en nieuwe barrels](https://maverisk.nl/oude-en-nieuwe-barrels/): [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Over eiken en wijn. Welke Waar, geschiedenis, maten, bewerking, toast, impact, chemie en summarum. Welke Waar D&#8217;r zijn ongeveer 600 verschillende soorten eik. Eiken. Waarvan er twee de belangrijkste zijn voor fijne wijn: Quercus Robur (i.e., Q. Pedunculata, ook wel bekend als Engelse eik; we mogen de oorsprong schatten in Keltische regionen) en, wie kent &#8216;m niet, Quercus Petreae (i.e., Q. Sessiflora vandaar sessile oak) de bekende &ndash; uhm. &ndash; wintereik met z&#8217;n superieure, fijnere vezels waardoor de aromaten, fenolen, tanninnes en volatiele aldehyden beter uitkomen. Denk in het bijzonder aan vanilline, methyl-octalactoon. De Robur en [&hellip;]
- [Raisen](https://maverisk.nl/raisen/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Reizen doen we graag. Off the beaten track, maar niet in de wildernis. Waar we/ik zijn geweest, soms maar een dag soms wekenlang en/of eens of meerdere keren herhaald: België &ndash; we beginnen dicht bij huis&#8230; (NL komt nog): Gent, Brugge, Antwerpen, Brussel, Ardennen (meermaals, diverse zijden); Luxemburg &ndash; Stad en Echternach, en de Moezelzoom om aldaar obvious reasons; Nederland zelf &ndash; je zou haast vergeten hoeveel leuke dingen er hier te zien zijn, ook al omdat mijn lagere-schoolreisjes niet naar Edam waren maar vanaf Curaçao naar Bonaire met het privévliegtuig van een schoolhoofdkennis&#8230; &ndash; Nou ja [&hellip;]
- [Drukdrukdruk](https://maverisk.nl/drukdrukdruk/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] [Pagina under construction; de lijn zit er nog niet helemaal lekker in&#8230;] Over de invloed van luchtdrukverschillen (door hoogte) op de wijnsmaak (krijgt nog een forse dosis organische-chemie-underpinning): Als water immers kookt op kamertemperatuur bij lage luchtdruk, maak je mij niet wijs dat c.p. de chemische reacties die wijnrijping maken, niet ook zwaar worden beïnvloed door (lage) luchtdruk. Alles wat wijn maakt, is reacties heen en weer, in héél langzaam verschuivende evenwichten. Die balansen kunnen dus worden &#8216;geholpen&#8217; of niet. En als Onderwaterwijn (dat is een ding) na een jaar al vijfjaars rijping heeft gegeven (althans zo [&hellip;]
- [The Forgotten Four](https://maverisk.nl/the-forgotten-four/): [Back to the main subpage (in Dutch)] Or les Quartre Oubliés, of course, of the forgotten four grapes that are also allowed in Champagnes. With a minute 0,3% of plantation left for Arbane, Pinot Blanc (Blanc Vrai), Pinot Gris (Fromenteau) and Petit Meslier among the masses of regular (?) stuff in the Champagne, there&#8217;s a niche hence worth studying. Voltis isn&#8217;t there yet. Would that be for Insiders only? Then Floreal, Artaban en Vidoc may be too far off&#8230; And in the mean time the CIVC has started crossbreeding. unsure about that period&nbsp;&nbsp;the Top 3, Arbane, Meslier, and Gouais. #party Fun [&hellip;]
- [De Forgotten Four](https://maverisk.nl/de-forgotten-four/): [Pagina in ontwikkeling dus Hold My Tulip Glass qua leesbaarheid, layout en zo.] [Terug naar Wijn is Fijn] Of les Quartre Oubliés, uiteraard; de vergeten vier druiven die óók mogen in Champagne dus, naast de standaard Chardonnay, Pinot Noir en Meunier (zie ook deze &ndash; &#8216;Pinot&#8217; Meunier is eigenlijk ongewenst..!). Zijnde: Arban(n)e, Petit Meslier, Pinot Blanc (a.k.a. Blanc Vrai) en Pinot Gris (a.k.a. Fromenteau, soms zelfs héél lokaal op z&#8217;n Bourgondisch Pinot B(e)urot geheten). Nog slechts 0,3-0,5% van de aanplant is Forgotten Four [er schijnt weer groei in te zitten!], en/want Voltis is er nog niet, en ook Chardonnay Rose is [&hellip;]
- [S-port](https://maverisk.nl/s-port/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Sporten zou ik meer moeten doen ja. Ooit was dat: Wedstrijdzwemmen, o.a. NAntillen-kampioen/zilver/brons op onderdelen maar da&#8217;s echt lang geleden, Beetje judo, groene band maar toen vertrokken we van Curaçao, Zeilen, alles van Sailfish/laser t/m 20- à 24-voeter lukt me (nog) wel solo, Paardrijden, vooral in de US of A, en wel niet alleen (want ook elders in de Rockies) maar wel met name in Montana&#8230; In de 70s! Met de (klein- en achterklein-)kinderen van de ranchhouders (Bud en Adelle) wat paarden van stal halen en (behalve de &#8216;officiële&#8217; rondritten met ouders) wat dollen, al of niet [&hellip;]
- [Cult-uur](https://maverisk.nl/kult-uur/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Cultuur houdt de geest open, met in mijn geval: Een voorliefde voor (goede) moderne architectuur &ndash; met name Frank Lloyd Wright (80% van zijn oeuvre live gezien), Calatrava (uhm, denk 50%), Art Nouveau / Jugendstil (incl Catelaans Modernismo) en het Nieuwe Bouwen / Rietveld (ja ik heb m’n eigen Rood-Blauwe gemaakt &ndash; originele specs tot en met de drevels aan toe). Plus de top van brutalisme, toch wel; tijdscapsules! Plus modernsteste archi. Ik heb nog wel zo&#8217;n 10.000+ RAW foto&#8217;s van die architectuur om te bewerken tot iets (op meerdere-m2 formaat) toonbaars qua kunstinslag. Maar ja; tijd [&hellip;]
- [Oppel-ei-ding](https://maverisk.nl/oppel-ei-ding/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Gestudeerd te Rotterdam (bedrijfseconomie; lekker studentenleven en tussendoor toch nog wel redelijk vlot tentamens/examens gehaald), en na Militaire dienst (Dpl Tlt 1LK/G2Lucht als GLO/Intel officer met Nato CTS Atomal clearance bij het RNLAF 322sqn (F16) vliegbasis Leeuwarden, ja het kan nog langer maar het was een prima relaxte tijd! Je leert een hoop van praktisch leidinggeven en wat een directe-collega / F16-vlieger zoal beweegt. Tevens hardcore Electronic Warfare-cursussen gedaan, Schutter 1e Klas op diverse wapens geworden, wat (professioneel) bijgebeund als Nav en Meteo, en onbewust m&#8217;n toekomstige (15jr later) schoonvader tegengekomen op een andere basis) ook nog [&hellip;]
- [Vakkig](https://maverisk.nl/vakkig/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Iets meer over mijn &#8216;vakhobbies&#8217;, behoudens wat daarover behoudens&#8230; ondergenoemde links allemaal reeds op m&#8217;n blog stond: AI / Machine Learning: Over de hele, Dus inclusief de &#8216;ethische&#8217; kant (als hier en hier, en absoluut ook hier en hier). En hoe bepalen we nu wat de &#8216;software&#8217;kwaliteit is van dat spul; hoe audit je die ..? Wat is Kwaliteit, op ethisch, bedrijfseffectief en software-vlakken? En what about data-kwaliteit? Training set poisoning, al of niet bewust,
- [Benevensfuncties](https://maverisk.nl/benevensfuncties/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] In een verder verleden tot en met heden heb ik Bij de NOREA in een aantal commissies et cetera gezeten (p.t.)&ndash; Werkgroep Adviesdiensten: penvoerder, grotendeels schrijver van de Studie; Commissie PE, tevens 2 perioden vz. geweest; Commissie Vaktechniek even, Commissie Herziening Beroepsregels en recent in het Editorial Team; Waarna inmiddels weer in de Commissie Educatie (h.t.); En bij collega-vakorganisaties (p.t.) &ndash; ISSA: even vz., even secr. NL chapter en vele jaren lid vd Global Ethics Committee; PvIB: vz. iBmagazine jaarlijkse-artikelprijsjury maar dat moest wel nadat ik &#8216;m daarvoor had gewonnen; PRMIA: Subject Matter Expert; ISACA NL: eventjes [&hellip;]
- [Gastro serious](https://maverisk.nl/gastro-serious/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Hoog scorend op de schalen van Epicurean eating tendency. Ja dat is een ding. Ja wij houden van. Goede, pure ingrediënten, goede atmosfeer, geen hieperdehype interieurs (niet te krap, niet te ruim, wel goeie stoelen, wel goed en heel interieur maar geen geschreeuw of sjef&#8217;s-teebel-wannabe-geneuzel), wel uitstekende, knowledgeable vriendelijke maar niet buigende bediening. We zijn het meest blij met een top-totaal-ensemble qua beleving. Niet te veel gevraagd, toch? Dat klinkt anders als een lijstje waarmee het helaas nog weleens mis wil gaan&#8230; inderdaad. Gewoon gastronomie beleven, da&#8217;s niet zo makkelijk in NL. Hoe dan? vraagt u zich [&hellip;]
- [Wijn is fijn](https://maverisk.nl/wijn-is-fijn/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Men verspreidt wel het gerucht dat ik graag champagne drink. Met de research-interesse zoals tot nu toe voldaan, nog te diepduiken curieusiteiten, mijn voorkeuren, de wijnhandel in terugblik &ndash; laatste nieuws: ik ga weer starten, in een nog te bepalen niche-richting &ndash; en aanpalende zaken. I&#8217;m not an expert, but I&#8217;m very good at research&#8230; Zonder overigens het idee volledig te zijn; onderstaande stukjes gaan meestal wel verder dan, om een dwarsstraat te noemen, De Naslag, maar soms zijn er wel andere bronnen, online diversen of boeken, die (soms&#8230;) verder gaan. Aanvulling is mogelijk maar niet voorzien. [&hellip;]
- [Volledig Ik](https://maverisk.nl/volledig-ik/): Naam: Jurgen, of ir.drs. J. van der Vlugt CISA CRISC CCX RCX emRE OK dan&#8230; Eerst wat Business, dan Privé, plus wat Overigs. Ik ben: Maverisk[1]. Ik ben: Consultant At Large, zullen we maar zeggen, inzake GRC / (Operational/Information) Risk Management en informatiebeveiliging waaronder cyber, tot en met de tech grondslag. Dat, vooral als zelfstandig professional of op kortlopend contract in een diversiteit aan opdrachten; een paar jaartjes via Xebia, Securesult, Marsh Risk Advisory als senior risicoadviseur, als Principal Cybersecurity Consultant / Team Lead bij Secura, en even (kort) senior manager bij BDO Advisory, Risk Services / Cybersecurity, wat langer bij [&hellip;]
- [Zelf schrijven](https://maverisk.nl/zelf-schrijven/): [Terug naar de hoofdpagina] Zelf schrijven &ndash; een goed plan. Maar voor wie; welke toon, welke taal, welke boodschappen &#8230;? Allemaal smoesjes wat mij betreft2, want het voornaamste is: Geen tijd, writer&#8217;s block, andere prio&#8217;s, etc. &#8230; Zowel voor de boeken, in alle richtingen, als voor de artikelen, vooral in zakelijke richting. Het zijn nogal wat &#8216;projecten&#8217; van klein (??) naar Groter Dan Groot: Dagboek Van Een Dpl, verslag van mijn diensttijd. Het meeste zal toch wel declassified zijn, en/of totaal veranderd. Ja de 20pp. telegramstijl-aantekeningen liggen al zo&#8217;n 30 jaar. Advisory, een mix van het oude maar nog buitengewoon getrouwe [&hellip;]
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