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An introduction to the Ashtanga practice – the tradition, the sequence, the terminology (vinyasa, drishti, bandha, ujjayi, tristasana).
A slower pace, which would allow better body alignment and self-observation.
The classes are in English.
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Both iDeal and bank transfer are available.
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Parents want their children to be taken care of after they die. But children with disabilities have increased financial and care needs, so ensuring their long-term welfare can be tricky. Proper planning by parents is necessary to benefit the child with a disability, including an adult child, as well as assist any siblings who may be left with the caretaking responsibility.
Special Needs Trusts
The best and most comprehensive option to protect a loved one is to set up a special needs trust (also called a supplemental needs trust). These trusts allow beneficiaries to receive inheritances, gifts, lawsuit settlements, or other funds and yet not lose their eligibility for certain government programs, such as Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The trusts are drafted so that the funds will not be considered to belong to the beneficiaries in determining their eligibility for public benefits.
There are three main types of special needs trusts:
- A first-party trust is designed to hold a beneficiary's own assets. While the beneficiary is living, the funds in the trust are used for the beneficiary's benefit, and when the beneficiary dies, any assets remaining in the trust are used to reimburse the government for the cost of medical care. These trusts are especially useful for beneficiaries who are receiving Medicaid, SSI or other needs-based benefits and come into large amounts of money, because the trust allows the beneficiaries to retain their benefits while still being able to use their own funds when necessary.
- The third-party special needs trust is most often used by parents and other family members to assist a person with special needs. These trusts can hold any kind of asset imaginable belonging to the family member or other individual, including a house, stocks and bonds, and other types of investments. The third-party trust functions like a first-party special needs trust in that the assets held in the trust do not affect a beneficiary's access to benefits and the funds can be used to pay for the beneficiary's supplemental needs beyond those covered by government benefits. But a third-party special needs trust does not contain the "payback" provision found in first-party trusts. This means that when the beneficiary with special needs dies, any funds remaining in the trust can pass to other family members, or to charity, without having to be used to reimburse the government.
- A pooled trust is an alternative to the first-party special needs trust. Essentially, a charity sets up these trusts that allow beneficiaries to pool their resources with those of other trust beneficiaries for investment purposes, while still maintaining separate accounts for each beneficiary's needs. When the beneficiary dies, the funds remaining in the account reimburse the government for care, but a portion also goes towards the non-profit organization responsible for managing the trust.
Life Insurance
Not everyone has a large chunk of money that can be left to a special needs trust, so life insurance can be an essential tool. If you've established a special needs trust, a life insurance policy can pay directly into it, and it does not have to go through probate or be subject to estate tax. Be sure to review the beneficiary designation to make sure it names the trust, not the child. You should make sure you have enough insurance to pay for your child's care long after you are gone. Without proper funding, the burden of care may fall on siblings or other family members. Using a life insurance policy will also guarantee future funding for the trust while keeping the parents' estate intact for other family members. When looking for life insurance, consider a second-to-die policy. This type of policy only pays out after the second parent dies, and it has the benefit of lower premiums than regular life insurance policies.
ABLE Account
An Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) account allows people with disabilities who became disabled before they turned 26 to set aside up to $15,000 a year in tax-free savings accounts without affecting their eligibility for government benefits. This money can come from the individual with the disability or anyone else who may wish to give him money.
Created by Congress in 2014 and modeled on 529 savings plans for higher education, these accounts can be used to pay for qualifying expenses of the account beneficiary, such as the costs of treating the disability or for education, housing and health care, among other things. ABLE account programs have been rolling out on a state-by-state basis, but even if your state does not yet have its own program, many state programs allow out-of-state beneficiaries to open accounts. (For a directory of state programs, click here.)
Although it may be easy to set up an ABLE account, there are many hidden pitfalls associated with spending the funds in the accounts, both for the beneficiary and for her family members. In addition, ABLE accounts cannot hold more than $100,000 without jeopardizing government benefits like Medicaid and SSI. If there are funds remaining in an ABLE account upon the death of the account beneficiary, they must be first used to reimburse the government for Medicaid benefits received by the beneficiary, and then the remaining funds will have to pass through probate in order to be transferred to the beneficiary's heirs.
Get Help With Your Plan
However you decide to provide for a child with special needs, proper planning is essential. Talk to your attorney to determine the best plan for your family. To find a directory of members of the Academy of Special Needs Planners, visit https://specialneedsanswers.com/USA-special-needs-planners.


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Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions
By Stephen J. Dubner / December 4, 2007
Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru
Bruce Schneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every
question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing
mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly
thinks like an economist: search below for "crime pays" to see his
sober assessment of why it's better to earn a living as a security
expert than as a computer criminal.
Thanks to Bruce and to all of you for participating. Here's a note
that Bruce attached at the top of his answers: "Thank you all for your
questions. In many cases, I've written longer essays on the topics
you've asked about. In those cases, I've embedded the links into the
necessarily short answers I've given here."
Q: Assuming we are both still here in 50 years, what do you believe
will be the most incredible, fantastic, mind-blowing advance in
computers/technology at that time?
A: Fifty years is a long time. In 1957, fifty years ago, there were
fewer than 2,000 computers total, and they were essentially used to
crunch numbers. They were huge, expensive, and unreliable; sometimes,
they caught on fire. There was no word processing, no spreadsheets, no
e-mail, and no Internet. Programs were written on punch cards or paper
tape, and memory was measured in thousands of digits. IBM sold a disk
drive that could hold almost 4.5 megabytes, but it was five-and-a-half
feet tall by five feet deep and would just barely fit through a
standard door.
Read the science fiction from back then, and you'd be amazed by what
they got wrong. Sure, they predicted smaller and faster, but no one
got the socialization right. No one predicted eBay, instant messages,
or blogging.
Moore's Law predicts that in fifty years, computers will be a billion
times more powerful than they are today. I don't think anyone has any
idea of the fantastic emergent properties you get from a billion-times
increase in computing power. (I recently wrote about what security
would look like in ten years, and that was hard enough.) But I can
guarantee that it will be incredible, fantastic, and mind-blowing.
Q: With regard to identity theft, do you see any alternatives to data
being king? Do you see any alternative systems which will mean that
just knowing enough about someone is not enough to commit a crime?
A: Yes. Identity theft is a problem for two reasons. One, personal
identifying information is incredibly easy to get; and two, personal
identifying information is incredibly easy to use. Most of our
security measures have tried to solve the first problem. Instead, we
need to solve the second problem. As long as it's easy to impersonate
someone if you have his data, this sort of fraud will continue to be a
major problem.
The basic answer is to stop relying on authenticating the person, and
instead authenticate the transaction. Credit cards are a good example
of this. Credit card companies spend almost no effort authenticating
the person — hardly anyone checks your signature, and you can use your
card over the phone, where they can't even check if you're holding the
card — and spend all their effort authenticating the transaction. Of
course it's more complicated than this; I wrote about it in more
detail here and here.
Q: What's the next major identity verification system?
A: Identity verification will continue to be the hodge-podge of
systems we have today. You're recognized by your face when you see
someone you know; by your voice when you talk to someone you know.
Open your wallet, and you'll see a variety of ID cards that identify
you in various situations — some by name and some anonymously. Your
keys "identify" you as someone allowed in your house, your office,
your car. I don't see this changing anytime soon, and I don't think it
should. Distributed identity is much more secure than a single system.
I wrote about this in my critique of REAL ID.
Q: If we can put a man on the moon, why in the world can't we design a
computer that can "cold boot" nearly instantaneously? I know about
hibernation, etc., but when I do have to reboot, I hate waiting those
three or four minutes.
A: Of course we can; Amiga was a fast booting computer, and OpenBSD
boxes boot in less than a minute. But the current crop of major
operating systems just don't. This is an economics blog, so you tell
me: why don't the computer companies compete on boot-speed?
Q: Considering the carelessness with which the government (state and
federal) and commercial enterprises treat our confidential
information, is it essentially a waste of effort for us as individuals
to worry about securing our data?
A: Yes and no. More and more, your data isn't under your direct
control. Your e-mail is at Google, Hotmail, or your local ISP. Online
merchants like Amazon and eBay have records of what you buy, and what
you choose to look at but not buy. Your credit card company has a
detailed record of where you shop, and your phone company has a
detailed record of who you talk to (your cell phone company also knows
where you are). Add medical databases, government databases, and so
on, and there's an awful lot of data about you out there. And data
brokers like ChoicePoint and Acxiom collect all of this data and more,
building up a surprisingly detailed picture on all Americans.
As you point out, one problem is that these commercial and government
organizations don't take good care of our data. It's an economic
problem: because these parties don't feel the pain when they lose our
data, they have no incentive to secure it. I wrote about this two
years ago, stating that if we want to fix the problem, we must make
these organizations liable for their data losses. Another problem is
the law; our Fourth Amendment protections protect our data under our
control — which means in our homes, in our cars, and on our computers.
We don't have nearly the same protection when we give our data to some
other organization for use or safekeeping.
That being said, there's a lot you can do to secure your own data. I
give a list here.
Q: How do you remember all of your passwords?
A: I can't. No one can; there are simply too many. But I have a few
strategies. One, I choose the same password for all low-security
applications. There are several Web sites where I pay for access, and
I have the same password for all of them. Two, I write my passwords
down. There's this rampant myth that you shouldn't write your
passwords down. My advice is exactly the opposite. We already know how
to secure small bits of paper. Write your passwords down on a small
bit of paper, and put it with all of your other valuable small bits of
paper: in your wallet. And three, I store my passwords in a program I
designed called Password Safe. It's is a small application — Windows
only, sorry — that encrypts and secures all your passwords.
Here are two other resources: one concerning how to choose secure
passwords (and how quickly passwords can be broken), and one on how
lousy most passwords actually are.
Q: What's your opinion of the risks of some of the new (and upcoming)
online storage services, such as Google's GDrive or Microsoft's Live
Drive? Most home computer users don't adequately safeguard or backup
their storage, and these services would seem to offer a better-
maintained means of storing files; but what do users risk by storing
that much important information with organizations like Google or
A: Everything I wrote in my answer to the identity theft question
applies here: when you give a third party your data, you have to both
trust that they will protect it adequately, and hope that they won't
give it all to the government just because the government asks nicely.
But you're certainly right, data loss is the number one risk for most
home users, and network-based storage is a great solution for that. As
long as you encrypt your data, there's no risk and only benefit.
Q: Do you think that in the future, everything will go from hard-wired
to wireless? If so, with cell phones, radios, satellites, radar, etc.
using all the airwaves (or spectrum), do you think there is a
potential for, well, messing everything up? What about power outages
and the such?
A: Wireless is certainly the way of the future. From a security
perspective, I don't see any major additional risks. Sure, there's a
potential for messing everything up, but there was before. Same with
power outages. Data transmitted wirelessly should probably be
encrypted and authenticated; but it should have been over wires, too.
The real risk is complexity. Complexity is the worst enemy of
security; as systems become more complex, they get less secure. It's
not the addition of wireless per se; it's the complexity that wireless
— and everything else — adds.
Q: There has been some work to date on the cost-benefit economics of
security. In your estimation, is this a sound approach to motivate
better security, and do you think it is doomed to begin with since
society disproportionately values other things before it values
security? If so, do you think it's time for us to take up digital
pitchforks and shine some light on the economic gatekeepers' personal
A: Security is a trade-off, just like anything else. And it's not true
that we always disproportionately value other things before security.
Look at our terrorism policies; when we're scared, we value security
disproportionately before all other things. Looking at security
through the lens of economics (as I did here) is the only way to
understand how these motivations work and what level of security is
optimal for society. Not that I'm discouraging you from picking up
your digital pitchforks. People have an incredibly complex
relationship with security — read my essay on the psychology of
security, and this one on why people are so bad at judging risks — and
the more information they have, the better.
Q: Is there an equilibrium point in which the cost (either financial
or time) of hacking a password becomes more expensive than the value
of the data? If so what is it?
A: Of course, but there are too many variables to answer the question.
The cost of password guessing is constantly going down, and the value
of the data depends on the data. In general, though, we've long
reached a point where the complexity of passwords an average person is
willing to remember is less than the complexity of passwords necessary
to be secure against a password-guessing attack. (This is for
passwords that can be guessed offline only. Four-digit PINs are still
okay if the bank disables your account after a few wrong guesses.)
That's why I recommend that people write their passwords down, as I
said before.
Q: With over a billion people using computers today, what is the real
threat to the average person?
A: It's hard not to store sensitive information (like social security
numbers) on your computer. Even if you don't type it yourself, you
might receive it in an e-mail or file. And then, even if you delete
that file or e-mail, it might stay around on your hard drive. And lots
of people like the convenience of Internet banking, and even more like
to use their computers to help them do their jobs — which means
company secrets will end up on those computers.
The most immediate threat to the average person is crime — in
particular, fraud. And as I said before, even if you don't store that
data on your computer, someone else has it on theirs. But the long-
term threat of loss of privacy is much greater, because it has the
potential to change society for the worse.
Q: What is the future of electronic voting?
A: I've written a lot about this issue (see here and here as well).
Basically, the problem is that the secret ballot means that most of
the security tricks we use in things like electronic funds transfers
don't work in voting machines. The only workable solution against
hacking the voting machines, or — more commonly — innocent programming
errors, is something called a voter-verifiable paper trail. Vote on
whatever touch-screen machine you want in whatever way you want. Then,
that machine must spit out a printed piece of paper with your vote on
it, which you have the option of reviewing for accuracy. The machine
collects the votes electronically for a quick tally, and the paper is
the actual vote in case of recounts. Nothing else is secure.
Q: Do you think Google will be able to eliminate the presence of phony
malware sites on its search pages? And what can I do to ensure I'm not
burned by the same?
A: Google is trying. The browsers are trying. Everyone is trying to
alert users about phishing, pharming, and malware sites before they're
taken in. It's hard; the criminals spend a lot of time trying to stay
one step ahead of these identification systems by changing their URLs
several times a day. It's an arms race: we're not winning right now,
but things will get better.
As for how not to be taken in by them, that's harder. These sites are
an example of social engineering, and social engineering preys on the
natural tendency of people to believe their own eyes. A good bullshit
detector helps, but it's hard to teach that. Specific phishing,
pharming, and other tactics for trapping unsuspecting people will
continue to evolve, and this will continue to be a problem for a long
Q: I recently had an experience on eBay in which a hacker copied and
pasted an exact copy of my selling page with the intention of routing
payments to himself. Afterwards, people informed me that such mischief
is not uncommon. How can I ensure that it doesn't happen again?
A: You can't. The attack had nothing to do with you. Anyone with a
browser can copy your HTML code — if they couldn't, they couldn't see
your page — and repost it at another URL. Welcome to the Internet.
Q: All ethics aside, do you think you could make more money obtaining
sensitive information about high net worth individuals and using
blackmail/extortion to get money from them, instead of writing books,
founding companies, etc.?
A: Basically, you're asking if crime pays. Most of the time, it
doesn't, and the problem is the different risk characteristics. If I
make a computer security mistake — in a book, for a consulting client,
at BT — it's a mistake. It might be expensive, but I learn from it and
move on. As a criminal, a mistake likely means jail time — time I
can't spend earning my criminal living. For this reason, it's hard to
improve as a criminal. And this is why there are more criminal
masterminds in the movies than in real life.
Q: Nearly every security model these days seems to boil down to the
fact that there must be some entity in which you place your trust. I
have to trust Google to keep my personal data and passwords secure
every time I check my mail, even as they're sharing it across their
Google Reader, Google Maps, and Google Notebook applications. Even in
physical security models, you usually have to trust someone (e.g., the
security guard at the front desk, or the police). In your opinion, is
there a business/economic reason for this, or do you see this paradigm
eventually becoming a thing of the past?
A: There is no part of human social behavior that doesn't involve
trust of some sort. Short of living as a hermit in a cave, you're
always going to have trust someone. And as more of our interactions
move online, we're going to have to trust people and organizations
over networks. The notion of "trusted third parties" is central to
security, and to life.
Q: What do you think about the government or a pseudo-governmental
agency acting as a national or global repository for public keys? If
this were done, would the government insist on a back-door?
A: There will never be a global repository for public keys, for the
same reason there isn't a single ID card in your wallet. We are more
secure with distributed identification systems. Centralized systems
are more valuable targets for criminals, and hence harder to secure. I
also have other problems with public-key infrastructure in general.
And the government certainly might insist on a back door into those
systems; they're insisting on access to a lot of other systems.
Q: What do you think needs to be done to thwart all of the Internet-
based attacks that happen? Why it is that no single company or
government agency has yet to come up with a solution?
A: That's a tall order, and of course the answer to your question is
that it can't be done. Crime has been part of our society since our
species invented society, and it's not going away anytime soon. The
real question is, "Why is there so much crime and hacking on the
Internet, and why isn't anyone doing anything about it?"
The answer is in the economics of Internet vulnerabilities and
attacks: the organizations that are in the position to mitigate the
risks aren't responsible for the risks. This is an externality, and if
you want to fix the problem you need to address it. In this essay
(more here), I recommend liabilities; companies need to be liable for
the effects of their software flaws. A related problem is that the
Internet security market is a lemon's market (discussed here), but
there are strategies for dealing with that, too.
Q: You have repeatedly maintained that most of the investments that
the government has made towards counter-terrorism are largely
"security theater," and that the real way to combat terrorism is to
invest in intelligence. However, Tim Weiner's book, Legacy of Ashes,
says that the U.S. government is particularly inept at gathering and
processing intelligence. Does that leave us with no hope at all?
A: I'm still a fan of intelligence and investigation (more here) and
emergency response (more here). No, neither is perfect, but they're
way better than the "defend the target" or "defend against the tactic"
thinking we have now. (I've written more about this here.) Basically,
security that only forces the bad guy to make a minor change in his
plot is largely a waste of money.
On the other hand, the average terrorist seems to be quite the idiot.
How you can help: refuse to be terrorized.
Q: I travel a lot and am continually frustrated with airport security.
What can we, the little people, do to help ease these frustrations
(besides taking a deep breath and strapping on our standard-issue
orange jumpsuits, I mean)?
A: I share your frustration, and I have regularly written about
airport security. But I got to do something you can't do, and that's
take it out on the TSA director, Kip Hawley. I recommend this
interview if you are interested in seeing him try to answer — and not
answer — my questions about ID checks, the liquid ban, screeners that
continually do badly in tests, the no-fly list, and the cover-your-ass
security that continues to cost us time and money without making us
appreciably safer.
As to what you can do: complain to your elected officials, and vote.
Q: What kinds of incentives can organizations put into place to 1)
decrease the effectiveness of social engineering, and 2) persuade
individuals to take an appropriate level of concern with respect to
organizational security? Are you aware of any particularly creative
solutions to these problems?
A: Social engineering will always be easy, because it attacks a
fundamental aspect of human nature. As I said in my book, Beyond Fear,
"social engineering will probably always work, because so many people
are by nature helpful and so many corporate employees are naturally
cheerful and accommodating. Attacks are rare, and most people asking
for information or help are legitimate. By appealing to the victim's
natural tendencies, the attacker will usually be able to cozen what
she wants."
The trick is to build systems that the user cannot subvert, whether by
malice, accident, or trickery. This will also help with the other
problem you list: convincing individuals to take organizational
security seriously. This is hard to do, even in the military, where
the stakes are much higher.
Q: I am someone that knows little to nothing about computers. As such,
what advice would you give to someone like me who wants to become
educated on the topic?
A: There are probably zillions of books and classes on basic computer
and Internet skills, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to
suggest one. Okay, that's a lie. I do know where to begin. I would
Google "basic computer skills" and see what comes up.
But I don't think that people should need to become computer experts,
and computer security experts, in order to successfully use a
computer. I've written about home computer users and security here.
Q: How worried are you about terrorists or other criminals hacking
into the computer systems of dams, power plants, air traffic control
towers, etc.?
A: Not very. Of course there is a security risk here, but I think it's
overblown. And I definitely think the risk of cyberterrorism is
overblown (for more on this, see here, as well as this essay on
Q: Can two-factor authentication really work on a Web site? Biometrics
isn't feasible because most people don't have the hardware. One-time
password tokens are a hassle, and they don't really scale well. Image
identification and PC fingerprinting technology that some banks are
using is pretty easy to defeat with an evil proxy (i.e., any phishing
Web site).
A: Two-factor authentication works fine on some Web sites. My
employer, BT, uses two-factor access for the corporate network, and it
works great. Where two-factor authentication won't work is in reducing
fraud in electronic banking, electronic brokerage accounts, and so on.
That's because the problem isn't an authentication problem. The
reasoning is subtle, and I've written about it here and here. What I
predicted will occur from two-factor authentication — and what we're
seeing now — is that fraud will initially decrease as criminals shift
their attacks to organizations that have not yet deployed the
technology, but will return to normal levels as the technology becomes
ubiquitous and criminals modify their tactics to take it into account.
Q: How much fun/mischief could you have if you were "evil" for a day?
A: It used to be a common late-night bar conversation at computer
security conferences: how would you take down the Internet, steal a
zillion dollars, neutralize the IT infrastructure of this company or
that country, etc. And, unsurprisingly, computer security experts have
all sorts of ideas along these lines.
This is true in many aspects of our society. Here's what I said in my
book, Secrets and Lies (page 389): "As technology becomes more
complicated, society's experts become more specialized. And in almost
every area, those with the expertise to build society's infrastructure
also have the expertise to destroy it. Ask any doctor how to poison
someone untraceably, and he can tell you. Ask someone who works in
aircraft maintenance how to drop a 747 out of the sky without getting
caught, and he'll know. Now ask any Internet security professional how
to take down the Internet, permanently. I've heard about half a dozen
different ways, and I know I haven't exhausted the possibilities."
What we hope is that as people learn the skills, they also learn the
ethics about when and when not to use them. When that doesn't happen,
you get Mohommad Attas and Timothy McVeighs.
Q: In that vein, what is the most devilish idea you have thought
A: No comment.
Q: What's your view on the difference between anonymity and privacy,
and which one do you think is more important for society? I'm thinking
primarily of security-camera paranoia (as if nosy neighbors hadn't
been in existence for thousands of years).
A: There's a huge difference between nosy neighbors and cameras.
Cameras are everywhere. Cameras are always on. Cameras have perfect
memory. It's not the surveillance we've been used to; it's wholesale
surveillance. I wrote about this here, and said this: "Wholesale
surveillance is a whole new world. It's not 'follow that car,' it's
'follow every car.' The National Security Agency can eavesdrop on
every phone call, looking for patterns of communication or keywords
that might indicate a conversation between terrorists. Many airports
collect the license plates of every car in their parking lots, and can
use that database to locate suspicious or abandoned cars. Several
cities have stationary or car-mounted license-plate scanners that keep
records of every car that passes, and save that data for later
"More and more, we leave a trail of electronic footprints as we go
through our daily lives. We used to walk into a bookstore, browse, and
buy a book with cash. Now we visit Amazon, and all of our browsing and
purchases are recorded. We used to throw a quarter in a toll booth;
now EZ Pass records the date and time our car passed through the
booth. Data about us are collected when we make a phone call, send an
e-mail message, make a purchase with our credit card, or visit a Web
What's happening is that we are all effectively under constant
surveillance. No one is looking at the data most of the time, but we
can all be watched in the past, present, and future. And while mining
this data is mostly useless for finding terrorists (I wrote about that
here), it's very useful in controlling a population.
Cameras are just one piece of this, but they're an important piece.
And what's at stake is a massive loss of personal privacy, which I
believe has significant societal ramifications.
Q: Do you think it will ever be feasible to vote for public officials
via the Internet? Why or why not?
Internet voting has the same problems as electronic voting machines,
only more so. That being said, we are moving towards vote-by-mail and
(for the military) vote-by-fax. Just because something is a bad
security idea doesn't mean it won't happen.
Q: Hacker movies have become quite popular recently. Do any of them
have any basis in reality, or are the hacking techniques fabricated by
A: I've written a lot about what I call "movie-plot threats": the
tendency of all of us to fixate on an elaborate and specific threat
rather than the broad spectrum of possible threats. We see this all
the time in our response to terrorism: terrorists with scuba gear,
terrorists with crop dusters, terrorists with exploding baby
carriages. It's silly, really, but it's human nature.
In the spirit of this silliness, on my blog I conducted two Movie-Plot
Threat Contests. (First contest rules and entries here, and winner
here. Second contest here and winner here.)
As to the movies: they all have some basis in reality, but it's pretty
slim — just like all the other times science or technology is
portrayed in movies. Live Free or Die Hard is pure fiction.
Q: What would you consider to be the top five security vulnerabilities
commonly overlooked by programmers? What book would you recommend that
explains how to avoid these pitfalls?
A: It's hard to make lists of "top" vulnerabilities, because they
change all the time. The SANS list is as good as any. Recommended
books include Ross Anderson's Security Engineering, Gary McGraw's
Software Security, and my own — coauthored with Niels Ferguson —
Practical Cryptography. A couple of years I wrote a reading list for
The Wall Street Journal, here.
Q: Can security companies really supply secure software for a stupid
user? Or do we just have to accept events such as those government
computer disks going missing in the UK which contained the personal
information of 25 million people (and supposedly had an underworld
value of $3 billion)?
A: I've written about that UK data loss fiasco, which seems to be
turning into a privacy Chernobyl for that country, here. Sadly, the
appropriate security measure — encrypting the files — is easy. Which
brings us to your question: how do we deal with stupid users? I stand
by what I said earlier: users will always be a problem, and the only
real solution is to limit the damage they can do. (Anyone who says
that the solution is to educate the users hasn't ever met an actual
Q: So seriously, do you shop on Amazon, or anywhere else online for
that matter?
A: Of course. I shop online all the time; it's far easier than going
to a store, or even calling a mail-order phone number, if I know
exactly what I want.
What you're really asking me is about the security. No one steals
credit card numbers one-by-one, by eavesdropping on the Internet
connection. They're all stolen in blocks of a million by hacking the
back-end database. It doesn't matter if you bought something over the
Internet, by phone, by mail, or in person — you're equally vulnerable.
Q: Wouldn't the world be simpler if we went back to "magic ink"? How
awesome was that stuff!
A: If you like invisible ink, I recommend you go buy a UV pen. Great
fun all around.
Q: Should I visit Minneapolis anytime soon, what is one restaurant
that I would be wrong to pass up?
A: 112 Eatery. (Sorry, my review of it isn't online.)
Q: What was the one defining moment in your life that you knew you
wanted to dedicate your life to computer security and cryptography?
A: I don't know. Security is primarily a way of looking at the world,
and I've always looked at the world that way. As a child, I always
noticed security systems — in retail stores, in banks, in office
buildings — and how to defeat them. I remember accompanying my mother
to the voting booth, and noticing ways to break the security. So it's
less of a defining moment and more of a slow process.
Q: What's the worst security you've seen for a major financial firm? I
use ING and their site forces you to use just a 4-digit pin.
A: There's a lot of stupid security out there; and I honestly don't
collect anecdotes anymore. I even have a name of security measures
that give the appearance of security without the reality: security
theater. Recently I wrote about security theater, and how the
psychological benefit is actually important.
Q: I read that AES and Twofish have protection against timing
analysis. How does that work?
A: What an esoteric question for such a general forum. There is
actually a timing attack against AES; a link to the specific attack,
and a description of timing attacks in general, is here. This is a
more general description of the attacks and defenses.
Q: How does it feel to be an Internet meme?
A: Surreal. It's surreal to be mentioned in The DaVinci Code, to
appear before the House of Lords, or to answer questions for the
Freakonomics blog.
The hardest part is the responsibility. People take my words
seriously, which means that I can't utter them lightly. If I say that
I use a certain product — PGP Disk, for example — people buy the
product and the company is happy. If, on the other hand, I call a
bunch of products "snake oil," people don't buy the products and the
companies occasionally sue me.
Q: Is it true that there is a giant database of every site we have
ever visited, and that with the right warrant a government agency
could know exactly where we've been? What are our real footprints on
the Web, and would it be possible for, say, an employer to someday
find out every site you visited in college? Is there a way to hide
your presence on sites that you believe to be harmless that others may
hold against you?
A: There really isn't any good way to hide your Web self. There are
anonymization tools you can use — Tor for anonymous web browsing, for
example — but they have their own risks. What I said earlier applies
here, too; it's impossible to function in modern society without
leaving electronic footprints on the Web or in real life.
Q: Is there any benefit to password protecting your home Wifi network?
I have IT friends that say the only real benefit is that multiple
users can slow down the connection, but they state that there is no
security reason. Is this correct?
A: I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password, and
there's no encryption. Honestly, I think it's just polite. Why should
I care if someone on the block steals wireless access from me? When my
wireless router broke last month, I used a neighbor's access until I
replaced it.
Q: Why do large government agencies and companies continue to put
their faith in computer passwords, when we know that the human mind
cannot memorize multiple strong passwords? Why is so much more effort
put into password security than human security?
A: Because it's easier. Never underestimate the power of doing the
easy stuff and ignoring the hard stuff.
Q: Do you still find that lying about successes in counter-terrorism
is an appropriate option for security experts commenting on these
A: For those of you who don't want to follow the links, they're about
the German terrorist plot that was foiled in September, and about how
great a part electronic eavesdropping played in the investigation. As
I wrote earlier, as well as in the links attached to that answer, I
don't think that wholesale eavesdropping is effective, and I
questioned then whether its use had anything to do with those arrests.
I still don't have an answer one way or another, and made no
definitive claims in either of the two above links. If anyone does
have any information on the matter, I would appreciate hearing it.
Again, thank you all. That was fun. I hope I didn't give you too many
links to read.


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Aploblocks adds extra design features to the core wordpress blocks. It is designed for block themes and helps you achieve incredible designs with very little effort. If you know how to use the block editor then you will know how to use AploBlocks. Don't know CSS very well or want to speed up your development? This plugin is ideal for you!
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Like a junkie hooked to the needle, western economy is hooked to the new economical superpower China. While "communist" (what a fucking joke in itself) China is killing unarmed people western politicians are afraid to call for a boycott of the 2008 olympic games. It might ruin the busines...
Well if the don't call for a boycott and the Olympics take part while Tibte's people are maimed and slaughtered it is up to us to BOYCOTT the games. Turn off the TV (well you should anyway) - ignore the games!. An while we are at it: toss the cheap chinese goods where they belong to - in the trashbin for hazardous products.
Tibet is an occupied country.
This is the most important fact to remember when working for Tibetan freedom. At the time when Chinese troops invaded Tibet in 1949, Tibet was an independent nation.
Tibet had its own government, its own language, its own currency, its own postal system and its own legal system.
China's People's Liberation Army took Tibet by force.
When Chairman Mao came to power in 1949, one of the first things he did was send his troops to annex Tibet. Tibet did not have a large or well-equipped army. While there was a determined armed resistance to the Chinese invasion, the relatively small Tibetan army was eventually crushed by the Chinese army.
An agreement was imposed on the Tibetan government in May of 1951, acknowledging sovereignty over Tibet but recognizing the Tibetan government's autonomy with respect to Tibet's internal affairs. As the Chinese consolidated their control, they repeatedly violated the treaty and open resistance to their rule grew. By 1959, the situation had become dire in Tibet. Thousands of Tibetan refugees poured into western Tibet from the east, where Tibetan resistance fighters were engaged in open battle with the Chinese army.
Massive demonstrations broke out in Lhasa, Tibet's capital, when rumors that the Dalai Lama's life was in danger began to circulate. Tenzin Gyatso, Tibet's 14th Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and political leader of Tibet. In 1959, he was only 24 years old. On March 10th 1959, hundreds of thousands of Tibetans massed around the Norbulingka Palace, the Dalai Lama's summer residence, to prevent him from attending an event to which the Chinese authorities had invited him.
They feared he might be killed secretively.
The demonstrators called for Tibetan independence and for Chinese forces to leave Tibet. When the situation became tense, the Dalai Lama fled under cover of darkness on March 17, 1959 to India, where he has lived since.
Tens of thousands of Tibetans were killed by Chinese forces who broke up the mass protests.
Since 1959, Tibet has been solely under Chinese rule.
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What Does an Elder Lawyer Brooklyn Do?
As many other things in life, Elder Law was birthed out of arising need. It became a specialized branch of the legal profession as a result of the ever-growing population of senior citizens in the country. Back in 2015, the Census conducted recorded almost 48 million senior citizens over 65 years of age and that figure is expected to increase up to 98 million by the year 2060. While having a long life span is a thing of joy, with it comes a lot of problems that affect the individual, and while friends and family can be helpful, nothing beats investing in an Elder Lawyer Brooklyn who specializes in handling the legal affairs that arise with age.
Elder Law has it's focus on old adults.
The purpose of the Elder Lawyer Brooklyn is to help aging citizens in Brooklyn navigate through the tempests that accompanies age.
An Elder Lawyer offers legal assistance in matters such as:
choosing a retirement plan
putting your estate issues in order
making decisions on long-term care
And a plethora of other challenges that come with age.
How the Practice of Elder Law Began
Elder Law is backed by the part of the constitution called the Older Americans Act (OAA). This Act was the first move by the government to give a wide range constitutional provisions for senior citizens, and with it began the practice of Elder Law.
This Act (OAA) was created to ensure that the average senior citizen gets access to services that will keep them healthy and on good standard of living for as long as possible. The Act provides for allocation of varying amounts of money to each state to cater for the up-keep of the aged, granting them access to
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In what areas can the Elder Lawyer Brooklyn help you?
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As you get older, there is need to set in order your estate and create a Will that puts your assets into the hands of another person. The Elder Lawyer Brooklyn will give you professional advice and may also help you draft your will.
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The Elder Lawyer in Brooklyn will help you apply for Social Security benefits that you're entitled to when you've attained age of 61 and nine months old.
3. Medicare & Medicaid, and Long term care.
Medicaid quite differs from Medicare. While all senior adults in the State above 65 qualifies for Medicare; only low-income adults, pregnant women and children, invalids and those with disabilities, are entitled to Medicaid benefits.
You might have to leave your home and go to a nursing home for a long-term care.
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There are important differences in how groups engage children in militant activities. Differences between children in terrorist groups and child soldiers include how children are recruited and what role the parents and community play in recruitment.
Understanding these differences helps us know how best to approach treating the children's trauma, and figure out which children can be rehabilitated and which ones might be vulnerable for recidivism as adults.
Access to youth
Since Syria fell apart, IS has assumed de-facto control over schools and mosques. Though many of the original Syrian schoolteachers remain, they must now teach an IS-controlled curriculum to gender-segregated pupils. Parents continue to send their children to school, although coercion is always present. Failure to do so might place the entire family at risk. IS will punish such families by taking their homes and refusing to provide food and protection.
This is where children systematically learn IS ideology. The school curriculum is little more than indoctrination, but it brings children closer to each other to create a band-of-brothers effect, and brings the children to the attention of IS personnel who talent-scout for children exhibiting early potential for "Cub" status in IS' dedicated training camps. Through a socialization and selection process, IS implies that entry into the Cubs of the Caliphate is a rare commodity and something desirable for each child. By limiting access, IS creates a competition.
It is unlikely that the children share the radical views of the adults. Rather, they have been manipulated, brainwashed or coerced. It is a trend that IS started in January 2014 and has only increased exponentially. Experiences in Swat Valley, Pakistan demonstrate that children barely understand the IS ideology. At most, children parrot what they have heard from the adults, but are not radicalized in any real sense.
Ease of access to children appears to be a key reason why there were so many child soldiers in the 1990s. Whether militias exploited orphans, street children or refugees living in camps for internally displaced persons, a common theme was that children who lacked adult protection and supervision were especially at risk. Some militias transition street children, who were previously organized into gangs, into military units. The ease with which militia groups access camps in search of child recruits exacerbates the problem.
Evidence from Sri Lanka suggests recruiters target schools. Mothers in the areas under control of armed rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, said that they had started to homeschool their children for fear that they would be recruited during the day.
The 15-year-old bomber who was caught with explosives in Iraq had been in an IDP camp for a week when he was sent to blow up a Shi'a school. When stopped for questioning by the police, the child froze in fear and quickly surrendered. Experience shows that children who are coerced will often allow themselves to get caught, since they were coerced in the first place.
Children are the ultimate weapon of the weak. They cannot back out, but they also don't want to carry out the mission.
Child soldiers vs. children in terrorist movements
It is not just terrorist groups and militias that exploit children.
Paramilitaries and rebel groups, and 10 national governments, recruit or conscript youth under 18 to their national armies, including Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, the United Kingdom and Yemen.
The army in Myanmar recruits children en masse. The reason is that the military is required to fill recruitment quotas and recruiters are rewarded accordingly. Recruiters have an incentive to recruit the maximum number of children and youth possible. If adults are unwilling to join the army, children can and will be picked up, threatened and coerced to "volunteer." The children are instructed to lie and claim that they are 18 years old.
The Maoists in Nepal and groups in Palestine recruit children into cultural organizations well before the age of 15. The Maoists go so far as to abduct children for a few weeks to expose the children to the group's propaganda and then let them go.
As with any controversial issue, data collection is complicated. The United Nations does not systematically break down the number of militarized children, which is purported to be in the hundreds of thousands, nor do they explicitly explain their methodology for arriving at that number, saying instead that:
hundreds of thousands of children are used as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. Many children are abducted and beaten into submission, others join military groups to escape poverty, to defend their communities, out of a feeling of revenge or for other reasons.
Volunteering or coerced?
The willingness of parents to provide extremist organizations access to their children is different from children who are forcibly conscripted as "child soldiers." Parental "consent" is further complicated by the exigencies of war and the coercive environment in which the family lives. At times, parents will allow violent extremists access to their children not because they subscribe to the ideology, but because they might have no choice if they are to survive.
At other times, parents have been enthusiastic supporters of the movement and encourage and laud their children's involvement. Such coercion was evident among the parents in the Swat Valley in Pakistan where the Pakistani Taliban went door to door and demanded exorbitant financial payments from residents. Those unable to pay – which comprised most people – then were required to provide one of their children.
Some programs to treat children in militant organizations exist, such as Sabaoon in Pakistan. In Disarmament, Demobilization and Rehabilitation programs in Africa and in Pakistan, a child's family is able to play a positive role in his or her reintegration into society.
With IS, it is often the family that encourages and exposes the children to the violence in the first place, especially among the children of foreign fighters. The children conceivably may need to be separated from their family – making normalization all the more challenging. The number of children who have been exposed to violence in the so-called Islamic State requires efforts be taken to address the trauma, and determine whether these children are victims or perpetrators.


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Since its inception, Hall in good hands with Clarks
On museum's 75th anniversary, family takes time to reflect, look to future
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- The National Baseball Hall of Fame may have been founded for the simplest of reasons: Susan Clark didn't want a dirty baseball on the mantle of her nearby home.
In 1935, her husband, Stephen Carlton Clark Sr., had paid $5 for that baseball, allegedly owned by Abner Doubleday and found in the trunk of a local resident long since having moved to Colorado. The misshapen ball seemingly proved that Doubleday invented the game somewhere in the Lake Otsego area.
"He bought it and my grandmother didn't think it was very attractive," said Jane Forbes Clark, the chair of the Hall's board of directors since 2000. "It came home for awhile anyway and then she said, 'No!' That's when he took it to the mantle of the village office building across the street, and that's where it resided until he built it its home."
Thought the Doubleday myth has long been debunked, that ball is still nestled in a glass case on the second floor of the museum, which celebrated its 75th birthday Thursday with Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. and Phil Niekro presiding over the cake-slicing celebration.
And since then, the Clark family has operated the Hall as part of a non-profit trust. From her grandfather, Stephen Sr., to her father Stephen Jr., and then on to Jane Forbes herself, the gift of baseball's greatest artifacts have rested in the hands of the Clark family.
For the weighty $100,000 piece of the Clark fortune back then, Frank Whiting, a local architect, designed the original building, which replaced a high school gym that had existed on part of the lot near the end of Main Street.
The Clarks were art patrons back then and made a major contribution to the founding of two other local museums -- The Farmers' Museum and the James Fenimore Cooper Art Museum -- and still control both institutions.
The Clark Family foundation donates nearly $3 million to area students for college scholarships and the family owns more than 10,000 acres of land around the lake to protect from development.
The Hall of Fame itself employs 85 people full-time and has a $12 million annual operating budget.
Jane Forbes Clark was 6 years old when her grandfather died at 78 in 1960 and doesn't remember much about the man, the myth or the original Hall.
"I didn't understand a lot of things my grandfather was talking about back then, but it dawned on me as I grew up what a visionary he was by giving Cooperstown things that would take it into the next century," she said Thursday. "I think he would have been very proud of his work. He would be so happy, and even though he was a visionary and saw the world in a much longer-term fashion than most, he would be in awe of what's happened in Cooperstown."
Jane's father put her to work in the museum as a youngster and it was a natural progression for her to assume the lead at the Hall when he passed away. She worked in the basement of the art museum categorizing silver and glass objects and later as a tour guide. Clark was 20 when she became her father's assistant.
"I came with the background of sitting around the dinner table at home at meals, listening to my parents talk about Cooperstown and the family's commitments over generations," Clark said. "But they made me work every summer starting when I was 12. By the time I was 20, I knew all the staffs. Sort of knew the operations, should we say, from the basement up, and it just gave me a passion for working in Cooperstown and for these institutions."
Clark, at 59, is not married and doesn't have any children, but said she's not concerned about an immediate line of succession. The Hall will continue to remain under the Clark family's purview for the long term.
"It's an unbroken chain of Clarks," she said. "I have family members who are interested, who maybe have not had the deep background that I've had, but are interested in a lot of aspects of what we do up here. It will all be very safe."


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VCR Act 2006
The VCR Bill relating to Airguns in the UK
This page has been put together to aid those seeking information about how the Violent Crime Reduction Bill will affect the shooting industry and sport.
The following information has been circulated by the Shooting Industry Fund and Shooting Sports Trust and is their interpretation of how the VCR bill will affect the sales of air weapons and related products.
The Violent Crime Reduction Bill became law in November 2006.
This page is concerned only with low powered air weapons which generate a muzzle energy energy in excess of one joule (0.7375 foot pounds) but not exceeding 8.13 joules (6 foot pounds) for an air pistol or 16.27 joules (12 foot pounds in any other case). Soft air guns are not considered, nor are high powered air weapons that are above the set limit.
Component parts of those air weapons – that is such pressure bearing parts as the barrel, cylinder or air resevoir and piston, (but not screws, springs, stocks and other parts that are not pressure bearing) must be regarded as if they were air weapons in their own right.
Registered Firearms Dealers
Only registered firearms dealers (RFDs) are permitted to sell or transfer air weapons by way of trade or business.
Transfer includes letting on hire, giving, lending or parting with possession.
Air weapons repairers are not required to be RFDs, but the complexity of the law about transfers of air weapons to individuals linked with the fact that most repairers sell at least a small number of air weapons means that most would be wise to become RFDs.
Selling air weapon ammunition is not restricted to RFDs.
Existing RFDs need to keep records of airgun sales and a requirement for face-to-face transactions where airguns are sold.
Sales in Person
The bill requires that all sales be in person. This applies where a person sells an air weapon by way of trade or business to another person in Great Britain who is not registered as a firearms dealer. It does not apply to transfers so that airguns that have been repaired need not be returned in person, but can be sent by carrier. The restriction does not apply to sales that are completed outside Great Britain, for example where air weapons are sold by a person in another country by mail order or via the internet and then posted to someone in Great Britain.
Where this section applies, the buyer and the seller or his representative (the sellers servant, another RFD or his servant) must be present in person so that the final transfer of possession is face to face.


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Nickel electroplating, brass plating and more
Nickel electroplating, brass plating, copper plating and other specialty plating techniques are currently used to prevent corrosion, but are also employed for decorative purposes. Lasalle Plating has accumulated experience and knowledge of these processes and has been offering them for many years.
We offer:
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A crucial element for success in electroplating is the special chemicals used in the process. From brass plating to copper plating, we use high quality materials along with tried and tested techniques. Where Lasalle Plating innovates is with our double cleaning process for each electroplating process. This special cleaning process, when applied to brass plating or nickel electroplating, offers the advantage of eliminating all oil and dirt residue from the parts. This ensures equal and satisfactory coating of the metal parts, which then provides better corrosion protection and prevents any blistering or peeling. We always have a technician to supervise our plating solutions so they are kept clean and free of contaminants. Our brass plating, nickel electroplating and other specialty plating processes ensure we consistently produce high quality parts.
Copper plating
Copper plating is used mainly as a base on die cast products to properly coat and to improve adherence of nickel. Copper plating can also be used when plating certain electrical or plumbing parts. Copper cyanide processes have improved enormously over the years and don't cause blistering or peeling of the parts.
Nickel Electroplating
Nickel electroplating is used mostly for decorative purposes. Nickel electroplating is similar to other electroplating processes which have improved extensively over the years. A major result of this evolution is the improvement in corrosion performance, without needing to increase the thickness of the deposit. Since many industries require nickel plating, we manufacture a variety of different products, ranging from hooks to cabinet handles or knobs, belt buckles to screws. We offer a bright nickel finish that is shinny and reflective, as well as dull and satin finish nickel.
Brass plating
Brass plating is a cyanide based process. The industries that require this type of plating vary from hardware to decorative household items manufacturers. Most decorative products can be electroplated in either brass or nickel. We offer a bright brass finish, which is pale yellow, and an antique brass finish that is a brownish color and has an antique look.
If you require more information about our various plating services, please do not hesitate to contact us.


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Ms. Ory Okolloh is the Policy Manager, Africa for Google. She is a co-founder of Ushahidi and served as the organization's Executive Director from inception until December 2010.   Ory is also the co-founder of Mzalendo, a website that tracks the performance of Kenyan Members of Parliament.
Ms. Okolloh graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and with a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She was previously a summer associate in Covington and Burling, Washington DC and a Chayes Fellow at the World Bank's Department of Institutional Integrity.
Ory is a frequent speaker at conferences including TED, World Economic Forum, Poptech, CGI, Techonomy, Mobile Web Africa, and the Monaco Media Forum on issues around citizen journalism, the role of technology in Africa, and the role of young people in reshaping the future of Africa.
Ory currently lives in Johannesburg, South Africa with her husband and her two daughters.This blog is outlet for her personal opinions, commentary, and "isn't this cool" links. While this blog is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants.
Props to John Palfrey and Andrew McLaughlin for getting her going way back in 2003.
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Make a Tracker Artifact depend on another Artifact
- A child artifact can have only one parent.
- A parent artifact can have any number of children.
- A parent artifact cannot be closed if a child is open.
or Closed
in this context, refers to a type of status, not the status itself. A tracker administrator can specify a group of statuses such as Deferred
, Fixed
, Rejected
, as equivalent to Closed
, while In progress
and Under consideration
might be specified as Open
statuses. For example, when you look at the artifact summaries at the top of any tracker list page, you are seeing a summary of the status type, not the status, of the artifacts. - On the artifact page, click the DEPENDENCIES tab.
- Choose or create the related artifact.
- If the parent artifact already exists, click Choose Child or Choose Parent. In the pop-up, type in the artifact ID or choose from the list of your recently edited artifacts.
- If the related artifact does not exist yet, click Create Child in or Cread Parent in and select the tracker that the new related artifact will belong to. Fill in the form the same way as you would for submitting an unrelated artifact.
Note: If Choose Parent or Create New Parent is not visible, the artifact already has a parent artifact. An artifact can only have one parent artifact. - Click Next.
- Write a comment that describes the relationship, if appropriate, and click Finish.
Note: When a dependency is added to or removed from a tracker artifact, a notification mail is sent to users monitoring the artifact. An option is provided at site level and user level to make sure whether the notification mail has to be sent or not. For more information on this, see Configure your Site's Settings.
The parent-child relationship between the artifacts is established.
- To cancel a parent dependency, click Remove.
- To cancel a child dependency, select the child artifact and click Remove.
For tasks, a dependency means one task can't start until another task is completed.
Context Menu to create Dependencies, Associations or Add Attachments
Use the context menu available in planning folder list view to quickly choose a "parent" or "child", remove a "parent", add associations, add attachments or clone artifacts.
In the planning folder list view, you can see a down arrow icon next to the artifact ID (as shown in the following screen)when you move your mouse pointer over artifact rows.
Down arrow icon
A context-sensitive menu pops up on clicking the down arrow icon.
Context menu if an artifact has a parent
Context menu if an artifact has no parent
To quickly choose a parent or child, add associations and attachments, or remove a parent:
- Select a planning folder on the List Trackers, Planning Folder and Teams page. The planning folder List Artifacts page appears.
- Move your mouse over an artifact's ID. A down arrow icon appears.
- Click the down arrow icon to see the context menu. Depending on the context, you can do one of the following tasks.
Choose a Child
- Click Choose Child from the context menu. The Selection Children… window appears.
- Select the Enter Artifact ID option and type an artifact ID. This artifact becomes the child.
Tip: You can select the Add from Recently Edited option and choose a child from the list of recently edited artifacts.
- Click Next.
- You mad add a comment in the DEPENDENCY COMMENT text box.
- Click Finish.
Note: You may also click Finish and Add Another to continue adding more children for the same artifact.
Choose a Parent
- Click Choose Parent from the context menu. The Selecting Parent… window appears.
- Select the Enter Artifact ID option and type an artifact ID. This artifact becomes the parent.
- Click Next.
- You may add a comment in the DEPENDENCY COMMENT text box.
- Click Finish.
Remove a Parent
- Click Remove Parent from the context menu. A confirmation message appears as:
Do you want to remove the dependency?
- Click OK.
Add Associations
- Click Add Association from the context menu. The Add Association Wizard appears.
- Select the Enter Item ID option and type an artifact ID for creating an association.
Tip: You can select the Add from Recently Edited option and select an artifact from the list of recently edited artifacts.
- Click Next.
- You may add a comment in the Association Comment text box.
- Click Finish.
Note: You may also click Finish and Add Another to continue associating more artifacts.
Add Attachments
- Click Add Attachments from the context menu. The Add Attachments window appears.
Note: You can add any number of files by dragging and dropping them or by adding multiple files using the Browse button on the Add Attachments window.
- Type a comment for the attachments in the COMMENT TEXT box.
- Click Choose File.
- Browse and select the file you want to attach.
- Click the Attach another file link to add more attachments. Repeat this step for adding more attachments.
- Click Add to attach the selected files to the artifact.
Clone an Artifact
- Click Clone from the context menu. The Clone Artifact window appears.
- Provide a name and description for cloning the artifact.
- Click Clone to clone the artifact.


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