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Nearly all of my earlier writings have been compiled, edited, expanded and integrated into a work calledMastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book. I think it is one of the more practical and technically detailed manuals for high-level insight and concentration practice available, and its maps of spiritual terrain and advice for navigating in unusual territory are world-class. It is available in Adobe (.pdf) format for download below and is about 1.4 megabytes. When printed, the book is about 392 pages. In 2007 and 2008 I rewrote a substantial portion of the chapter on the Models of the Stages of Enlightenment.
The current version is also available at the Dharma Overground Wiki in wiki form. A Spanish version is being created and can be found here. An older version of the book is also available in blog format (blook).
I am working on a second edition, and hopefully it will be available sometime mid 2018, and should be available from Aeon Publications, out of London. It should be of real value to those who actually want to hold a book in their hands and not some large unbound thing they printed off on the office laser printer. It will also available for order from your local independent bookstore or any of the standard mega-sources, including the likes of Amazon. A free online version will also be available.
My book has parts of it that are suitable for beginners, but some of it is likely to be somewhat daunting unless you are into hardcore practice.
You may quote my book if you reference it properly, do not alter the text you quote, and do not use quotes out of context. Please realize that it is bound by the standard limitations of language and the author.
Enjoy! To download, click the link below...
Also, some guy going by the name of Vajrapriya sent me .epub and .mobi versions of the book. Thanks for his help.
There is an audiobook version available also. It was most kind of the creators to make it and publish it as they did.
It is also available in other languages, with many thanks for the diligent work of the various translators for the generous gift of their time and talents:
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha in Swedish (ATT BEMÄSTRA GRUNDEN I BUDDHAS LÄRA , En ovanligt handfast bok om Dharma), translated by Ingrid Wennerhag.
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha en Español (El Dominio De Las Enseñanzas Centrales del Buda, Un Libro Excepcionalmente Duro de Dharma) translated by Andrés Coca Lopez. This is also a work in progress. The translation by Lopez was not completed and more of it is being generously worked on as time permits by Oscar Franco. Updates found
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha in German (DIE KERNLEHREN DES BUDDHAS MEISTERN), translated by Bernhard Payr and Michael Zeh. This is a work in progress, with more to come when it is available. Many thanks to both translators for their work on this.
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha in French. Frederic Giraud and Jessica Lachello, perhaps with the help of Tristan Crunchant, will be attempting a translation of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha in French. It will be posted here as more becomes available. Many thanks for their work on this.
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha in Russian, a work in progress translated by Anastasia Gosteva, with many thanks to her for her work Links will be posted here as they become available:
- http://vnimatelnost.com/2013/03/24/дэниэл-ингрэм-развитие-прозрения-ча/
- http://vnimatelnost.com/2013/03/27/дэниэл-ингрэм-развитие-прозрения-ча-2/
- http://vnimatelnost.com/2013/05/13/дэниэл-ингрэм-развитие-прозрения-ча-3/
I am actually in the process of revising it, creating something called either MCTB 2 or Remastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (as has been recommended independently by numerous people), and I will let you know when that is done. My work-life has nearly totally derailed everything else, so MCTB-2 (or ReMastering the Core... as some are calling it) will be somewhat delayed.
Slate Star Codex was kind enough to review the book here.
Also available is a simple 2-page handout on basic insight practice in Word (.doc) format:
Insight Practice Instructions #1
A legal-size 2-page handout of insight practice with slightly more information than the one above is also available:
- Insight Practice Instructions, Legal-Size, Adobe (.pdf)
- Insight Practice Instructions, Legal-Size, Microsoft Word (.doc)
A 11x17 handout of the stages of insight and awakening with a detailed table of defining criteria may be found below:
- Nanas, Jhanas and Paths Handout pages 1-2, 11x17 (tabloid size paper), Word (.doc)
- Nanas, Jhanas and Paths Handout page 1, 11x17 , Adobe (.pdf)
- Nanas, Jhanas and Paths Handout page 2, 11x17 , Adobe (.pdf)


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kareno wrote:Yeah, cheese will likely be alluring for quite a while. But, if you avoid it long enough, that feeling will eventually go away.
Yea, Karen is totally right. I used to be a big cheese fan, ate it with everything I could. After going vegan, it was a tough transition. I never gave in, which made it easier to pass quickly, but I really missed it. At the time, we didn't even have any decent vegan brands lol, they all had the consistency of rubber & didn't taste too swell.
Now when I smell cheese, I gag. I smell the animal in it, if that makes any sense. Like, it smells like a barn lol.
Thankfully, vegans today have Daiya & Blut Island Sheese <3


text: Shop Space Upgrade, Think Versatile October 25, 2013 09:59 PM Tweet As an example of the flexibility of the shop space, Mark Ruff and his employees work from the dedicated set of tools in the service truck. © Margy Eckelkamp TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Margy Eckelkamp Director of Content Development, Machinery Pete Email In its third overhaul, overhead doors maximize this work-focused shop When it was time for his farm to upgrade its shop space, Mark Ruff didn't necessarily aim for a bigger space, but rather a more versatile one. "The original building was a cinder block garage built in the 1950s," says Ruff, who farms near Circleville, Ohio. "Then in the early 1970s, we added a 30'x30' enclosed space with an overhead door and an open air pole shed." In 2012, it was time for Ruff Farms to rethink and rebuild their farm shop. Using the existing building footprint, Ruff starting drawing up ideas for how to maximize its potential. Universal work space. Now, at its widest and longest, the shop measures 45'x130'. The largest modification to the size of the structure was a 15' wide extension to the north side the building. The entire southeast wall of the shop is lined with overhead doors. To compliment the versatility, the southwest end of the building features two overhead doors. "We work in a universal work space," Ruff says. "We can load and unload the building as projects cycle. We wanted our shop to be a work area, not a storage area. I don't want to commit space to anything." In total, there are seven exterior overhead doors, two measuring 24'x14'; four measuring 22'x14'; and one measuring 12'x12'. One interior overhead door separates the 30'x30' section of the building from the newly finished portion, which sits slightly lower. "We can close that area off and use it as a paint bay without disrupting any other projects," Ruff says. There wasn't a significant difference in cost with the contractor he used when comparing finished walls with framing them out for overhead doors. The way he sees it, he paid for the doors, which keeps the space versatile as he intended. The once gravel floor is now 8" thick concrete that slopes toward a drain that runs the length of the shop. Combining the thickness of the floor with the configuration of the doors, Ruff is able to house all three of his semi-trucks during inclement weather. The ceilings are 15' at the highest point. To finish the building, the ceiling has 10" of blown-in insulation, and the sidewalls have 6" batt insulation. "With the doors, no matter the weather, if there is a breeze to be had, we can have it in the shop," Ruff says. "Four overhead fans also help with air flow. In the winter, we use the radiant heaters, and we've found that two provide plenty of heat for us." To add to the versatility of the overall workspace, the Ruffs did additional research for the lighting plan. Working with a local vendor to map out lumens produced, Ruff invested in lighting that rivals a Wal-Mart. "The shop space has to be somewhere you're able to work at night and really see what you're doing," he says. There are three banks of independently controlled lights, totalling 80 pairs of 8' T5 fluorescent bulbs. A unique lighting idea is the wall-mounted bulbs that are placed in the darkest corner of the shop. On the exterior, above the five doors, there are five LED floodlights that each provide a 30' footprint out onto the gravel lot. "Those lights cost about $500 each, but 26 watts is the most they are rated, so they provide a lot of light for a small power pull," Ruff says. When it comes to tools, most of the inventory is mobile. The crew has a dedicated set of shop tools and also pulls from a service truck, which is outfitted with a welder and hydraulic hose maker. "It's efficient for the crew to work out of the truck, but if it's gone, half of the tools are gone," Ruff says. "However, we've never had a big issue–the farthest field is only a 30-minute drive." For electricity, the shop is currently wired for 110 voltage with outlets and exposed conduit between every overhead door and on every interior post. There are extension cords mounted at every outlet, but even so, Ruff estimates the farthest distance between the power outlets is only 20'. There are some aspects of the shop the crew is still working on, including where to run 220-volt power, where to have air lines and if or how large of concrete aprons are needed. In its place. With an open floor design, there are other areas for storage and smaller projects. In the corner of the shop is a small area for lubricant storage. Between the doors on the southwest corner, a metal rack serves as the only rack storage in the space. The connected workroom houses hardware, smaller tools and the only workbench—an L-shaped 12'x16' laminate countertop. The adjacent office has the crew's break room (where weekly staff meetings are held), Mark's office, a full bathroom and a small kitchen. A nearby 20'x20' building stores high-demand parts such as filters, ground engaging points and belts. Ruff says the shop provides the space and utility his crew needs to tackle painting, sandblasting, refurbishing and general maintenance jobs. "We don't do engine or transmission jobs," he says. "But all the yearly tasks we can do in this space. We can unfold the planter. We can have the combine and the head in here. All in all, we can do seven to eight projects at a time." Having one unified space has some intangible benefits. "For the crew, it's a cleaner environment, and they can work together or separately on projects," he explains. "As a manager, I can look out and see what everyone is working on at one time." 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Everyone is jumping on the Honeycomb tablet bandwagon, but many manufacturers are simply not known for making high-end products. Such as Huawei, famous for making entry-level smartphones. Could it be Huawei is about to step it up in the tablet market? It sure seems they're working on a very good tablet: the Huawei MediaPad.
There's not much information known about the tablet, but the specs we do know are actually quite impressive. As we've only seen in the HTC Flyer until now, the processor is clocked at 1.5 GHz. The MediaPad's is equipped with a dual-core Snapdragon, which is simply outstanding (especially coming from Huawei). And the 1280×800 screen resolution is on par with your typical Honeycomb tablets. But remember: this is a 7-inch screen and pixel density will be much higher, making the image more defined. The Huawei MediaPad will ship with Honeycomb (Android 3.x), but this is to be expected of most tablets by now.
Although Huawei is not on our list of favorite manufacturers, this tablet has the potential to be a big game-changer for the company. We can also expect this tablet to be fairly affordable, given the history of Huawei products. What do you guys say? Will you consider purchasing this tablet? Stay tuned for future news on this device, and hit us up with your comments below!


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Hurricane Irma is on a destructive path to the United States, but in its wake were the U.S. Virgin Islands home of San Antonio Spurs legend Tim Duncan.
Duncan hails from St. Croix and he witnessed his home get pummeled by Irma, leaving the residents in desperate need for help.
To help his home, Duncan penned an article on "The Players' Tribune" asking all to help donate to relief efforts noting time is of the essence considering Hurricane Jose is likely to hit the Virgin Islands soon.
Right now as I type this, the U.S. Virgin Islands — the place where I was born and where I grew up — has been badly damaged by Hurricane Irma. The people there, many of whom are old friends of mine, are suffering. Weather reports say that another Category 5 storm, Hurricane Jose, is close behind. No one knows what the place will look like when the rain stops.
Now time is of the essence.
I'm donating $250,000 immediately — tonight — to the storm relief efforts in the U.S. Virgin Islands. And going forward, I pledge to match your donations up to the first $1 million. That's where you come in: You can go here to make a donation. I've included more information at the end of this article, too.
I know not everyone can give, and that's O.K. — after all, a lot of you just got done giving financial support to the victims of Hurricane Harvey and the fires on the West Coast. But if you're able, here's what I can promise: Every dollar donated will go directly to relief efforts on the ground. Starting as soon as the weather permits, I'll be chartering an airplane full of supplies from San Antonio to St. Croix, the biggest town in the Virgin Islands. And I'm already busy putting together a team — some from the Virgin Islands and some who will fly in from elsewhere — to help manage the relief effort.
As Duncan stated, here is the additional information:
To join my effort, go to my Virgin Islands Hurricane Relief Page here.
I will match your financial donations up to the first $1 million. I've just started things off with my initial $250,000 contribution.
And if you're interested in contributing material goods, we have a plane leaving from San Antonio to St. Croix next week that will be carrying all of the supplies and donated items that we receive. Please contact us as soon as possible with what you will be donating so we can make sure we have it on our flight out to the islands.
Thank you in advance for anything you can do to help Duncan, and his home rebound from this natural disaster.


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When athletes train, they focus on the fundamentals, first and foremost. They go through a series of concentrated efforts to trim fat, increase flexibility and hone their skills. The result is a lean, agile body ready to take on the rigors of competition. In team sports, the effort must go further. The athletes must work together to prepare for any situation that might crop up during a game.
A similar process applies to all aspects of what we do in wholesale distribution. In those organizations that "get lean," management works with its team of employees to develop a tightly coordinated system — one that is agile, synchronized and responsive to customers. When put into action, "lean" principles allow companies to serve customers faster, using less space and inventory, at lower transaction costs and with greater accuracy.
Lean practices are not something most of us adopt intuitively. In fact, many wholesale distributors do not know enough about their underlying cost structures — order costs, delivery costs, line-item transaction costs and other key metrics — to know where to begin getting lean. Sometimes, necessary team-building skills and experience may be lacking as well.
If lean is what you want, understand that it will not be an overnight process. Your first instinct may be to throw automation and technology at the problem rather than to manage. But what you'll really need to do is re-evaluate your way of thinking, your management style and most likely your processes.
A Whole New Approach
Based on successful lean and continuous improvement implementations with our clients, we've identified a series of processes that are new to many distributors and pave the way toward a different approach to performance improvement. These are essential to success across the organization and over the long term. They're driven by a desire to improve key company metrics such as order fill rates, delivery costs, warehouse transaction costs and inventory levels.
The lean and continuous improvement process is an extension of the Lean Manufacturing concepts that for several years have provided a framework for improvement at giants such as Toyota and IKEA — companies where less human effort, less capital investment, less time and fewer facilities and inventories are the Holy Grail. Originally known as the Toyota Production System (TPS), the process has morphed into the movement known as Just-In-Time (JIT) and then Lean Manufacturing, the precursor for what has now become Lean Thinking.
Why the new nomenclature? It's not some consultant selling a new bill of goods. Rather, it suggests a different twist: that lean thinking concepts can be applied to a variety of sectors such as warehousing, distribution, retailing, order processing, sales, quoting and service. Our experience indicates that with Lean Thinking in place, performance, as measured by output, improves 30 percent to 50 percent.
What is Lean Thinking Really?
The best starting point is to recognize a small fraction of the total time and effort in any organization actually adds value for both internal and external customers. All non-value activities — or waste — can be targeted for removal, step-by-step. I believe as much as 60 percent of the activities performed add no value at all! Eliminating the non-value-added activities is the greatest potential source of improvement in a distributor's performance.
Further, not all value is provided by your organization alone — think suppliers! The reduction of non-value-added activities has to be pursued throughout the whole "Value Stream" — the entire set of activities across all the organizations and departments, internal and external, involved in delivering product or service. Only then can a distributor understand the real cost structure contained within the value stream and focus on optimizing the whole, ultimately resulting in a "benefit stream."
Lean thinking is exactly what it implies: the conscious effort, tightly focused, to objectively examine one's workplace and working environment. The goals are searching out waste, increasing productivity, lowering total cost and increasing throughput. As part of this search, one must look for evidence of "capacity-constrained resources" — bottlenecks — which limit output, create unneeded inventory or manpower or use unnecessary resources that get in the way of smooth, accurate and timely operations.
Bottlenecks may seem obvious and easy to spot. Many of them, however, are hidden and unrecognized. What we assume to be a bottleneck may really be an "unconstrained resource" where output is actually thwarted by a complex or slow process, but where the impact never has been fully assessed. Quite often, this type of bottleneck is a bureaucratic, paperwork or procedural issue. It may not necessarily be a physical impediment, just an old practice taken for granted. Using lean thinking as a tool to assess one's shop often generates surprising outcomes and can turn constraints into constructive paths for change. Lean thinking provides an operational foundation for service excellence and low total costs.
Identifying the Barriers: What Are The Root Causes and Effects?
In a recent lean implementation, we introduced our client to Kaizen, meaning gradual and orderly continuous improvement, another innovation from Toyota. The company's teams broke down each and every warehouse/distribution center activity — what I often call the "touch points." In some cases they actually mapped the processes on paper, and examined each one for value — what it lent to the overall process and how it was conducted. In other words, they began to identify the barriers to improvement, or the root causes. These barriers were prioritized through team consensus, based on their perceived impact. In some cases, we did allow low-hanging fruit to be given higher priority so the team would have an opportunity for some quick wins. Among the first barriers identified were:
- Lack of personnel training, cross-training and teamwork
- Too many storage locations for the same product
- Poorly sized storage locations
- Too many picking exceptions; i.e., can't find product, insufficient product, wrong product
- Lack of product security for certain products
- Inadequate material handling equipment
- Fast-moving products not easily accessible and poorly located; i.e., long pick-paths
- Poor vendor transportation and delivery scheduling
As the work progressed, more obstacles were added:
- Work hours inconsistent with daily workload
- Lack of timely stock put away and product then misplaced
- Errors in receiving
- Too many backorders
- New products can't be readily located
- Vendor short shipments
This is not an exhaustive list — in our experience, it's not unusual for each team to be able to come up with 30 to 40 or more barriers!
Develop A Corrective Action Plan: The "Little Miracles"
For each of the barriers, in priority order, the team developed corrective actions. As solutions were sought, tried (and in some cases tried again) and found to be successful, the kaizen approach resulted in several little miracles. These individually, and then collectively, had significant positive impact on overall performance:
- Changes in the system of warehouse storage
- Re-slotting inventory in order to shorten picking travel time
- Rearranging some of the footprint of the warehouse facility
- Providing improved storage media and materials-handling resources
- Multiple order-picking process capability
- Revised personnel assignments and work hours
Where inventory accuracy was a major lean initiative, we started by designating a control group of 10 to 20 products to be counted every day. This simplified finding the root causes of inventory inaccuracy and helped us measure the impact of the corrective actions we applied.
Seldom was significant capital investment required. Where warehouse productivity was the issue, increases in picking productivity were 45 to 50 percent. Inventory accuracy would jump to 90 percent when the identified root causes were eliminated. Most of my clients have an objective of 98-percent-plus accuracy, and they continue to identify additional barriers until that objective is met.
Continue To Measure: The "Visual WorkPlace"
As the team conducted its work and implemented changes, each week a new measurement was taken and compared to the baseline. The results were posted in the warehouse and e-mailed each Monday morning to the entire team and management personnel, in both numerical and graph form. The visual feedback is important. There was often great anticipation waiting for the new measurements and a lot of opportunity for satisfaction. Just as importantly, measuring should not stop after objectives are reached.
As with anything new, some team members and employees were skeptical. But because key people were involved in the processes, and because the company had some quick successes with the low-hanging fruit, the approach won over the naysayers. The participants quickly recognized the quality of company life improves when you share ideas, implement successful change and obtain results.
Some of the companies incorporated in this article have now begun to roll out this lean approach to other areas of their organization: customer service, product procurement, accounts payable, returned-goods processing, credit and collections. Some are working closely with suppliers, grasping the concept that the full benefits of lean thinking cannot be achieved until it reaches suppliers. They are addressing issues related to improving the flow of goods, including inventory replenishment cycle time, order quantities, and transportation. Still others are looking at their relationships with customers and seeking lean opportunities for partnership and collaboration rather than the traditional relationships.
It's difficult to obtain leading-edge performance without technology. Just adding technology doesn't solve anything. While there is certainly nothing wrong with using appropriate technology, processes must be figured out first. You can then determine how technology will help.
Your Company's Mindset and The Lean Distribution Vision
For a successful lean approach, the mindset throughout your company needs to be one of challenging existing practices, readiness for change, jumping on the opportunities as they present themselves and tracking key performance metrics. A lean approach is an acknowledgement that someone can figure out a better way. It's a roadmap you can use to explore operational parameters and maximize flow.
The Lean Distribution vision should be built on a solid definition of desired business outcomes linked to operating process changes. The starting point is assessing, quantifying and agreeing on the barriers to improvement. Nothing should be left to gut instinct. Lean methods avoid the "black-box" approach that hides how change will occur, fails to disclose what the implications to various organizational units will be, or conceals what the business will look like in the future. With lean methodology, the shifts are clear and process approaches are well tested. Transforming organizational structures and reporting relationships becomes less of a challenge. What remains is tailoring your lean practices to your markets and operating environment.
Once the lean shifts are agreed upon, assessing and quantifying the key performance metrics, especially those with the most impact on the business, is key. Understand the importance of the organization in this process. If appropriate levels of the organization are not involved, be prepared for failure. Be prepared for how long it takes to build a lean environment. A true lean-thinking organization doesn't happen in a straight-line fashion. It's a combination of little miracles that fit together.
Lastly, acknowledge when you need help. Look for help in someone with experience in team building and helping a company change — not just someone who knows lean techniques. Maybe you will need an outsider to objectively look at and work with your organization. Olympic caliber athletes all need coaches; the same holds true for companies seeking to be lean.
Howard W. Coleman is principal of MCA Associates, Derby, Conn., a 20-year-old management consulting firm that works primarily with distributors on implementing continuous improvement solutions focused on business process re-engineering, supply-chain management, sales development and processes, information systems and technology, organizational assessment and development, and succession planning. E-mail [email protected] or visit www.mcaassociates.com.


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The Football Association are investigating allegations from Chelsea that the 37-year-old official used a term understood to have been interpreted as racist towards John Obi Mikel during the Premier League match against Manchester United on October 28.
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Daily Freeman Life Editor Ivan Lajara talks about journalism, living in the Hudson Valley, language, the Web, cats and even politics. But he shouldn't.
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* The world itself, for being warm to us all.
* Illegal immigrants, for cleaning the lawns, building houses and picking the apples for the people that hate them the most.
* Vice President Dick Cheney's heart, because it's still kicking.
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* Vice President Dick Cheney, for not shooting anybody in the face when he decided to hunt in Dutchess County.
* "Almighty God," for getting busted.
* Bob Dylan, because the man who inspired "I'm not there" was not here when the film premiered. He was here, however, for a concert at Bethel Woods and he rehearsed at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie (but did not not tell anybody).
* Kingston Mayor James Sottile, for getting re-elected and getting slapped.
Feel free to add to the list.
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Max Weisberg, above, dressed as Santa Claus, leaves the Royal Cleaners store in Cherry Hill, N.J., on Monday. Last year Weisberg dropped off his Santa suit at Royal for cleaning but it was lost by the cleaners and never returned to him. He bought a new $374.50 Santa costume and sued when the owners of Royal refused to pay for it. On Monday, Jean Hwang, sister of the owner, said they would be paid for the new Santa suit.
The lesson? Don't mess with Santa. Or else.
IRRELEVANT TANGENT: "Santa Baby," used in my unexplicable headline, was written by Joan Javits (the niece of the late liberal Republican New York Sen. Jacob Javits), Philip Springer and Tony Springer.
Here's Catwoman, I mean Eartha Kitt, in her classic performance, which is much better than those by Madonna, the Pussy Cat Dolls, Kylie Minogue, Ru Paul and all the other wannabes.
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That category, by the way, is number 68, out of 110. We'll see if Helm makes the cut during the broadcast.
Congratulations also to perennial nominee and winner Jimmy Sturr (And His Orchestra), who received a nod for "Come Share The Wine" in the Best Polka Album (Vocal or Instrumental) category (number 76). The Orange County musician has been nominated 21 times and has won 16.
My favorite category this year is the Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Story Telling) because of the nominees:
* Maya Angelou for "Celebrations";
* Barack Obama for "The Audacity Of Hope" (the audacity to go against Angelou!);
* Bill Clinton for "Giving" (save your nasty jokes for later);
* Jimmy Carter for "Sunday Mornings In Plains"; and
* Alan Alda for "Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself" (like "politicians' self-serving books on tape shouldn't be in this category").
Check out the whole list of nominees and suffer with me.
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Volunteer Review: Brett J., Diving & Marine Conservation in Cambodia
It has been a few months now since I left the tropical island of Koh Sdach where I spent three months living and working on Projects Abroad Cambodia's Conservation project. Whilst I've settled back into daily life here in Australia, I will never forget the incredible people I met and experiences I gained from my time in Cambodia.
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Life on Koh Sdach is about as relaxed as you can get; you're on Khmer time of course, so no one is in a hurry. The first week of your project is filled with learning how to dive, where you become a certified PADI diver. Anyone thinking about doing so should jump on the opportunity. Being able to breath underwater enables you to venture into a whole new world full of weird and wonderful creatures. The coral reefs surrounding the islands of the Koh Sdach archipelago are like nothing I've ever seen before. The coral is massive and in some cases hundreds of years old. The waters are teeming with schools of trevally and colonies of giant clams. The occasional stingray or even a sea turtle can be spotted if you're particularly lucky.
Diving on this project gives you the opportunity to explore an ecosystem rarely seen by other people, especially tourists, which the locals depend on so much for their food and livelihoods. Unfortunately this ecosystem is facing increasing pressure from fast growing development in the region. The introduction of trawling and the development of a new port are just two of the major threats to the sustainability of these reefs. This is where the volunteers come in.
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Work at the local primary school teaching English is one very rewarding part of this experience. The kids really seem to appreciate you being there and they always have huge smiles on their faces. While I think many of the locals just saw us as silly Barang (white people), interviews conducted with some of the fisherman and youth of the village showed promising signs of support with a desire to move towards a more sustainable fishery and improve the quality of the water.
The work you do on the island is certainly rewarding. But one of the best aspects of this project in particular is the people you meet. This goes for not just the locals on the island, but all the other staff and volunteers from around the world too. You get to live and work with an awesome bunch of likeminded people from a diverse range of backgrounds. You share the experience of a lifetime together and it may sound corny but they really do become like family whilst you're on the island.
We would spend our spare time exploring the untouched jungle that engulfs a large part of the island, taking care to avoid the wild monkeys who can be particularly unpleasant. Or on the weekend we might get a local fisherman to drop us off on an uninhabited island where we would spend the day snorkeling, swimming and chilling in the sun, and the night by a bonfire and swimming with the florescent phytoplankton.
The time I spent on Koh Sdach is one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done. It is a chance to slow things down and really appreciate what is important in life. You forget about your phone and your worries and get to live in paradise with some incredible people.
Brett J.
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What is the effect of smoking on CD count, cd%? If smoking does have an effect, to what magnitude? Lets say a a pack a day, with a cd% of 50.
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Smoking cigarettes stimulates immune system activation which hastens the loss of CD4+ lymphocytes. The effect is variable and depends on many factors including genetic susceptibility. But rather than focus on CD4+ lymphocyte counts as surrogate markers it makes more sense to go right to outcome data. A recent VA study showed that HIV infected smokers have decreased quality of life, more respiratory infections, greater risk of chronic lung disease and double the risk of death.
But for fair balance, these are just numbers and don't reflect individual factors. Take my uncle Joe for example. He is one tough guy. He survived multiple wounds from a German machine gun in WWII and has been smoking 3 packs of unfiltered Camels for over 50 years. He looks kind of grey, but not too bad considering the duration of exposure. But I have to say he did project a tough and daring image when I was a kid. Although I tried the unfiltered Camels to be as tough and cool as him, I could never quite pull it off. The little bits of tobacco kept falling out of the end of the cigarette into my mouth and sticking on my lips, yuck, not cool at all.
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Do The Right Thing - Think Before You Post
A post by ThE_JacO (XSI's forum moderator) inspired me to paste here his words (thanks to him for allowing me to). Our forum has always behaved in a good way, i'm really happy and proud of what we achieved here, but reminding some things doesn't hurt. His post was so well written that i felt it had to be read by everybody. I obviously changed some words here and there to adapt his words to our forum and to our weapon of choice, i think this thread should become sticky if you all agree:
C4D's advanced users are still few, and the new popularity obviously brought in more people in need of help than people who can give it.
This in itself is not bad at all, quite the opposite infact, but you have to understand that the very few veterans of the Maxon scene who are still around in forums have a limited amount of time.
It's a matter of "educating" a user base.
3D as a discipline is still extremely young, and being so young means there's no defined academic path yet and there are hardly any social rules that are widely agreed upon.
If you went into any coding comunity asking what an #ifdef does you'd be ignored on the forum and get subscribed to a lot of zoopr0n spam immediately.
Why? Because the basic rule is that ANYTHING that can be found in a reference should never be asked about unless you show very clearly that you made an effort to look into it.
Frankly speaking I see it as the only good way to go.
I think it's incredibly cool that some people (and it's very often the newcomers) are disposed to spoonfeed other users, it shows one of the most amazing human traits, that is the inclination to share knowledge, which is ultimately why we are all here I suppose.
If you feel like doing it, do so; it's surely not against the rules of Cgtalk but for those who require it you should remember one thing:
learning is a process, as all processes it represents an evolution.
If you just keep bumping into obstacles, wait for them to be removed for you, or to be taught how to perform a basic walkaround, you will be slow, and will never be independant.
Assuming you have an IQ that is average or above, what sets the real pros apart from the rest is, very simply put, the ability to learn, analyze and resolve.
If you don't force yourself into research for these very simple things, you'll be totally baffled the day you will be required to work on anything that is more challenging then a flying logo, this is true for anything, any form of art and any form of tech.
This sad trend that is emerging everyday more in this industry, of focusing on tools and memorizing workarounds or functions, is really not gonna help anybody.
I said it a lot of times and I'll say it again, what really matters IS YOUR STATE OF MIND !
The mental structure to tackle problems that you can only train yourself into if you do things yourself.
The will to study seemingly unrelated material to reach a higher understanding of the process.
The commitment to do things even when they seem totally boring.
The ability to focus, up to the point it borders stubborness, until you UNDERSTAND.
When you've done all this, and still have problems, drop by and ask, and things will turn into interesting discussions, not into sterile Q&A, you have tech support for that.
Oh, and last but not least, remember that even if it seems a remote realm lost behind a monitor, this is a place populated by real people.
On CGTalk you have people from ILM, Weta, DD, AL, Pixar, MPC and a lot more major and smaller studios.
In this industry your reputation is worth its weight in gold and then some.
NEVER make the mistake to assume that your reputation in here will not have any effects on your real life sooner or later.
I got offered jobs from people in here, I recruited people from this site and I got a few good friends that I also had the pleasure to meet in RL.
Remember it's real people on the other side of the screen, some of which could one day be looking at your reel and remember if you were a lazy SOD or a brillant SOB
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Another great post by JamesMK here, it deserved to be added here:
"Just something I've been thinking about for the last few days...
Current situation: We've got R9 just around the corner with heaps of improvements, workflow enhancements, new tools and whatnot. At the same time, XSI has dropped their prices significantly, and there is a lot of confusion about the upgrade prices for various Cinema 8->9 scenarios. So, the scene looks somewhat like an old western movie where something is about to go very wrong in a saloon, and it's just a few seconds before people will start shooting and hitting eachother in the face.
But the funny thing is that the creative power driving the work we all do here seems to have been pushed back into the shadows. Everything is suddenly about "this feature" and "that feature" and "this doesn't work as well as that, I want that instead" - now, before you jump to any false conclusions: no, I'm not stupid, and I realise that this whole industry is a rat race, for software developers as well as CG producers and individual artists, and that most of it eventually comes down to saving five minutes here and there to gain 2 bucks advantage over that other guy while maintaining a quality that is just one little notch above what he did... and so on. I know that, and I have no illusions about it being any other way.
But still - why is it that we cannot be happy about what's coming, instead of whining about what is not coming? In the end everything still comes down to individual skills and artistic vision. You are not going to make significantly better stuff with R9 than you did with R8.5 - and if you start using XSI, VRAY, Mental Ray, Max, Maya or Houdini you probably will not magically become a better artist either.
CG is in constant (r)evolution, but the personal evolution is the most important piece of the puzzle. Your skills. At any given point, one application will have an advantage over the others in some area. There is not one single application ever that will make you a better artist. There is not one single feature that will enhance your artistic vision or imagination. While everything evolves technically, you should be the pivot point of it, not the technology.
Those of us who have the benefit of receiving a shiny new R9 next month - be happy about what's in it. There's heaps of things that is NOT in it, but that goes for every solution. The same thing will happen with R10. The same thing holds true for every single piece of software on this planet. There will be things missing. There will always be things missing. Don't waste any more energy on this fact, because there is nothing you can do about it.
Those of you who are financially unable/unwilling to upgrade, be happy about the fact that you've still got the current version. Ask yourself if you really master everything about it. Ask yourself if there REALLY is something you cannot do with it. Ask yourself how the hell Jurassic Park could look so good though the CG was made with technology that is today more than 11 years old.
I'm done now. My apologies for dumping core "
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Johann Kliewer was one of the last elders of the Deutsch-Wymysle Mennonite Church (Poland). He was ordained elder in 1885 and joined the local newly established Mennonite Brethren congregation on 17 July 1893, where he continued his service as a minister. On 4 November 1895 he was ordained co-elder of the congregation. The Deutsch-Wymysle Mennonite Church chose Johann Schmidt as his successor. He also joined the Mennonite Brethren.
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Im designing an SMS baking application but i need to research on the security risks involved first... What are the risks around this application? How are such applications normally subverted? Are there any case studies someone can point me to?
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The solution needs to be based on risk.
Where a system uses an SMS response with a separate system (such as a web page), the probability that the banking user is compromised and a fraud is committed, P(Compromise), can be calculated as:
P(Compromise) = P(C.SMS) x P(C.PIN)
Where: P(C.SMS) is the probability of compromising the SMS function and P(C.PIN) is the compromise of the user authentication method
Craig followed up with a blog post:
Many people feel that it is not feasible to model risk quantitatively. This of course is blatantly false. In the past, many of the calculations have been computationally infeasible at worst and economically costly at best. This has changed. The large volumes of computational power that is available coupled with novel stochastic methods has resulted in an efficiently viable means of calculating risk quantitatively with a high degree of accuracy. This can be measured as a function of time (as survival time), finance (or monetary value) or any number of other processes...
Tim Mullen, a guy who I first met in 2002 teaching at Black Hat, responded on full-disclosure:
I'm looping in the FD list because often my replies don't make it to Pen-Test, and this has hit a nerve with me.
I've looked over your post...
Once I was able to get past the overwhelming egoism and self-substantiating claims of your contributions to the industry, I arrived at the conclusion that the only portion of the aforementioned page that is not complete drivel and even laughable to anyone who has actually worked towards ascertaining actual risk in production environments, is where you describe your own words as "ravings..."
I'm fine with you sitting back and gloating about the Security Hero award you got from Northcutt, but when I see that you are actually contributing to ANY level of Critical Infrastructure Protection, it makes me fear for anyone who might be counting on your presumed skillset to actually make intelligent decisions about risk where human safety is at stake.
Your "risk formula" is ridiculous. What number would your formula have yielded 2 weeks before SQL Slammer was released? Where is the variable for unpatched systems? What number do we plug in for malicious employee factorization? More importantly, where is the calculation for self absorbed snake-oil selling academics with no real experience using their calculator to come up with magic numbers that represent the risk of a nuclear power plant being hacked?
Since you are (self-described) as "currently the only GIAC GSE (Compliance) holder globally and the most highly accredited Global Information Security Professional" and thus (presumably, if only in your mind) the greatest security mind in the world, how about accepting a challenge to an open debate on the subject at Defcon? People like you are dangerous and need to be exposed before someone in a position of power actually believes that you know what you are talking about. Bring your abacus.
Craig then responded with some sort of monetary challenge, and Tim and Craig are now debating how to arrange that.
If you want history on why I consider model = clown, please check out the posts on my clown tag.
When I read
"In the past, many of the calculations have been computationally infeasible at worst and economically costly at best. This has changed. The large volumes of computational power that is available coupled with novel stochastic methods has resulted in an efficiently viable means of calculating risk quantitatively with a high degree of accuracy."
it is clear to me Craig is pretty well disconnected from reality. Did we not just suffer a global recession exacerbated by clowns who thought they could model risk "with a high degree of accuracy"?
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As a former employee of Craig Wright, this blog reminds me of the days when he ran his network security company using unsecured WiFi, reachable from a car park across the road.
Its never good when one starts to believe their own hype. Sadly, it appears that Wright has become religious to the point of Jihad about his.
I haven't read all of the discussion so I'm talking of /orifice/alt here, BUTT...
Given a large enough set of empirical data I don't think that quantitative measures of risk are impossible to achieve. Insurance companies use quantitative measures of risk related to cybercrime. Are they accurate? I'm skeptical.
Craig Wright is a smart guy and I am interested in hearing how he calculates risk. Skepticism is merited given the lack of successful quantitative risk methodologies that exist. But I don't think the personal venomous attacks are merited until he has a chance to present his case.
Insurance works not so much because of their risk models, but because they do everything they can to increase their premiums and/or add customers, and then do everything they can to not pay out benefits.
- higB said...
I don't know about these fancy equations or this chest pounding.. but I do know that we >>really<< hack phones and we >>really<< hack applications on phones that use SMS directed messages as control mechanisms. We eat mobile phones/apps and shit out hacks weekly.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
higB: man that is funny.
There are two things I would like to point out:
1. Those who have never modelled anything critizing models is just as funny as those who have never actually done any real security work thinking models solve problems.
2. Don't blame the models. Your everyday things, like the car you use, bridge you cross, the building you work at, are modelled first then built. The right person with the appropriate knowledge can model things well enough to avoid trial-and-error.
3. The recession wasn't caused by models. It was caused by those ego and greed. They never factored those into the formula. A tool is only as good as it's user. People still make money modeling markets a ton of money. When it comes down to it these are in fact simple trend models of past, present, and future. That's why they need high frequency trading.
"1. Those who have never modelled anything critizing models is just as funny as those who have never actually done any real security work thinking models solve problems."
I didn't have to be a 1890's aeronautical engineer to recognize that none of the models worked and many of them merited criticism. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdtvct6Tf0) So I think criticism of models is fair if models have failed to work effectively in the past.
Maybe the next Wright brothers first name is Craig. We will see.
- Kyle Maxwell said...
Craig Wright probably wouldn't run into this sort of 'personal venomous attacks' if he didn't write in such a bombastic and impenetrable fashion. In communications, style counts. If you don't think so, imagine sending such a response in total 1337-speak and see how seriously you get taken.
At this point, the debate is largely about his self-importance and blowing smoke with misleadingly precise calculations, rather than the core concept of quantitative risk estimation. That's a shame, because the questions surrounding that core concept deserve further research.
- Richard Bejtlich said...
Anonymous said "Those who have never modelled anything critizing models is just as funny as those who have never actually done any real security work thinking models solve problems."
Funny, I built models in undergrad, during a summer program during undergrad, and in graduate school. We did silly exercises like "how many non-white South Africans need to graduate from school each year in order to change the racial mix of the government's civil service by 2000, 2010, etc." or "how many Marines did it take to overwhelm Japanese positions in the South Pacific," and so on. Those and related exercises taught me the futility of applying those approaches to information security "risk."
- Raymond said...
2. Don't blame the models. Your everyday things, like the car you use, bridge you cross, the building you work at, are modelled first then built. The right person with the appropriate knowledge can model things well enough to avoid trial-and-error.
I think it's important to point out that the things you reference are modeled against the laws of physics, aerodynamics, etc... Given buildings for example, you could model for weather variances using statistical averages over long periods to allow for things like snow loads. I'm fairly confident that the same model does not make allowances for the risk of someone driving a truck full of explosives into the same building.
I for one would argue that attempting to model risk in search of an absolute, quantitative value is an exercise in futility, bordering on delusional.
- Dr Anton Chuvakin said...
>P(Compromise) = P(C.SMS) x P(C.PIN)
Guys, I am sure he meant it in jest. Nobody will suggest such hilarity serious, now, will they?
You should check the tag, maybe his post is also labeled "humor."
If not....well... most asylums would admit him, I am sure. For others, he just might be too insane.
- gunnar said...
Did we not just suffer a global recession exacerbated by clowns who thought they could model risk "with a high degree of accuracy"?
Mostly agree, but I think the blame does not all go to models themselves. Everyone who deals with complexity has a model. The problem as you imply is the assumption that the model contains a "high degree of accuracy", also called "false precision" The idea that the model is reality is the dangerous one and the gaps in assurance and security are what we live with when this is the case, so you get the problems that swamp your whole model, as Charlie Munger says - "when you mix raisins and turds, you still have turds"
Or as Warren Buffett said (before the aforementioned false precision induced financial crisis) - "advocates of efficient market theory assume that the market is always efficient instead of mostly efficient. The difference between these two is night and day."
- Michael Cloppert said...
I don't want to comment specifically on any individuals involved in what from a cursory glance looks like a flame war. The following is merely an observation I've made during my career.
I feel the information security domain often finds itself falling victim to physics envy, modeling solutions with equations not logically derived from valid and peer-reviewed theories, which obscure underlying subjective measures. For an example of this as applied to economics, as Richard suggests in his post, I recommend you read this Business Week article and consider for yourself the parallels to our field.
Flame war detector is going off .. but I feel it needs to be said...
I agree with the poster above about style being important. Myself and another friend in the infosec community have run into Craig on mailing lists before. He comes across as someone who likes to chest beat about how amazing he is, and seems more interested in "wowing" people with his amazing experience than genuinely helping people who pose questions.
It's a small community. He doesn't seem to be making many friends.
- Alex said...
@Michael Cloppert is has made the smartest comment in this whole thread. All apologies to Gunnar.
@Richard - agreed that modeling risk is dangerous. It doesn't take a long look at GRC to cause me to weep softly.
@Raymond - I would argue that modeling risk to precision is stupid, However, I would also argue that ignoring risk modeling is impossible. We're all going to get up in the morning tomorrow, go to our jobs, and model risk. The only question is with what rigor and bias.
For me, the last 5 years has yielded the following - neither "side" of the flame war has a leg to stand. Current IRM models are impractical, but yet suggesting that you *really* hack *real* mobile phones is quite a bore to management who sees no history of incidents and cannot create for themselves an adequate picture of impact. Their little Bayesian-like mental processes fold in upon themselves because they have no reference.
Like the APT, risk is real. Like how Richard (or I) feel when we see people denying the reality of APT, I think people who deny the reality of risk-based decisions to be plain silly. And like much of the noise around APT, the noise around "risk management" detracts us from finding real solutions to the real problem.
To quote Marcus Ranum: "Any number multiplied by bullshit equals bullshit."
- Dave Bowman said...
It's OK, Something Wonderful is about to happen to InfoSec.
Something Wonderful....
- J. Oquendo said...
@Michael you state: "denying the reality of APT" I ask the following:
1) What's so "advanced" about it. Techniques used weren't all that high tech now, they exploited extremely old software (IE6). Nothing advanced about that considering if you're still using IE6, you seriously deserved to be compromised.
2) Aren't all attacks persistent to a degree.
Shouldn't all "malicious hacker attacks" be viewed as "advanced persistent threats", they certainly don't go away and they're certainly more advanced than the admins of those systems. Otherwise, the systems would have never gotten compromised.
Maybe Richard could re-do Extrusion Detection volume 2 and expound on the use of Squid and Snort to the nth degree.
Most of what I read doesn't make me cringe at the thought of anything uber coming out of China. In fact the opposite, makes me think of the stupidity in "security managers" and their bosses who base risk on insanely kooky models. "Still using IE6? WTH?!" How STUPID are we in the US, not how smart or motivated INSERT_GOV_SPONSORED_HACKERS_ARE_HERE
From all I've seen in writing out of "Operation Aurora" doesn't make me think of anything via way of "advanced" more like "obscure." The attacks and the wording used by certain companies describing the attacks, lead me to also believe something doesn't smell kosher and that something isn't coming from the attackers but from those in the security industry spreading half-truths in order to gain market share. Hence the introduction of "Dynamically Unique Metrics Based Analysis for Secure Systems" (DUMBASS)
Hey whatever works for companies. I still don't see how some managers don't get it when it comes to security. AV * EF = JO/KE (no - seriously). I'm just glad I can fall back on my own metrics. RMBSS - Without a shadow of doubt!
- Richard Bejtlich said...
J. Oquendo: You might learn something if you paid attention. Why don't you run back to your "Ninja Chimp Strike Force" while people with real responsibilities do our work?
@Richard: paid attention? To what exactly. And I mean this as respectfully as possible. Paid attention to all that has been offered regarding Aurora, APT? APT is nothing new. None of the attacks used in APT are "awe inspiring"
Paid attention to... Thor vs. Craig? I believe Craig was spot on so please school... Pay attention to what?
- Richard Bejtlich said...
- Bill Lamoreaux said...
Am I the only one that is humored by the fact someone wants to make a "SMS baking application". Has Holly Hobby finally made it to the 21st century?
I should be trolling elsewhere, but Verizon blocked 4Chan... ;)
@J.Oquendo - Fixating on one descibed attack vector (IE6) misses the point.
It has been detailed that the attacks seen as performed by APT's often start with lowest hanging fruit, and more basic malware. Until detection - at which point they alter their methods or malware to more 'advanced' ones.
The 'persistance' is not about the attacks, but about the methodolgy used to remain in the compromised network - different to snatch and grab, or a regular trojan.
I agree that basing all risk on models is not a "good" idea. The problem is that usually the entire company is not IT there are other departments; namely accounting and executive management. You just can't go to them and say "hey they are shitting out hacks give me an unlimited budget for an unknown ROI/Risk Assessment" (they were business majors in college FFS). Best method would be some form of hybrid; such as "Here is the what the model says but by the way blah-blah is being focused on these days so we should give it more weight because of Blah-Blah".
I think the bigger problem is we ALL have seem to have to give names and methods for everything also making every one think it's the best thing since sliced bread...Models, etc. and things such as APT...
APT, AFAICT, is what was called a "targeted attack" in the 70-80s when hackers would infiltrate a network/system and not immediately "show" their hand. Actually have knowledgeable (no script kiddies/metasploit auto hacks)attack vectors in mind before going in to a network because they (or individual)were skilled and had a clear agenda. Not really sure why someone would have to come up with a new catch phrase like APT (unless they want to create buzz for a class they taught to get more students to sign up ;-) ). But to be fair it happens all the time in IT (and maybe in other fields who knows); Cloud Computing vs Clusters? (yes I understand there are slight differences eg. one uses web services/over internet... but really did we HAVE to have another name for it???)
...just my $.02 No flame intended for anyone :-)
- mike said...
Reminds me of a great quip by Steve Martin.... "How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars"... Perhaps the infosec equiv... "I can tell you how to calculate risk. First, add up all the risk exposure you have"
I'm seriously confused. Some troll said Craig was "spot on" but to what? That we have "volumes of computational power coupled with novel stochastic methods"? Does he even know what stochastic means? It mean "random conjecture" people. Oquendo, you are saying that you agree with risk models derived from combining massive amounts of computing power with random conjecture? How can you possibly support this? I agree with Dr. Chuvakin - this is humor at best.
Looks like you need to refer to wikipedia regarding mathematical theory (probability theory) and AI. Sheesh...if you're gonna try and bash someone, at least get the information correct.
"In mathematics, specifically in probability theory, the field of stochastic processes has been a major area of research."
What I don't get, is all the energy expended trying to discredit, denigrate, or deny APT. Seriously, to anyone making these uninformed claims, I have to immediately question your background and/or intelligence. The only thing I can think of, is somehow these persons think they are coming off as experts by labeling ATP as FUD, but really they just look like @sshats.
The really funny thing is that the original post was most likely a homework problem someone was trying to get someone else to answer.
If we take a look at the probability formula, the probability of user authentication being compromised somehow is always 1.
The probability of a remote exploit affecting SMS at some time is very close to 1.world,,
In other words, its virtually certain that in the real, a system compromise will occur at some point in a reasonable time period - say 1-5 years.
On this basis, protecting the assets and having compromise mitigation in place reduce the impact of compromise.
Basically, it depends more on "who" created it, than what it is really!
Aversion to technology and change is nothing new.Complexity doesn't mean that we cannot calculate risk.
We forget that physics is a statistical estimate and not the precise set of equations that we seem to come to from high school. That statistics can provide good models as long as the underlying foundations are sound.
It seems to be overlooked that legislation made it a requirement that banks and others offer loans to those who could not be expected to repay them. Banks of course jumped on this as they had a government guarantee.


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