Today is L0pht Day. In 1998 7 hackers in suits told the US Senate the internet was a house of cards. We said we could take it down in 30 minutes. They looked at us like we'd landed from another planet.
28 yrs later, the gap between what the security community knows and what decision-makers act on remains a fundamental problem.
Miss you, Peter Neumann. He testified that day too, with decades of hard-earned wisdom. We owe him.
The work isn't done. It never was.
Harrison Ford Commencement Address at Arizona State Univ.:
"Passion and purpose are not the same thing. Passion brings you joy. Purpose brings you meaning. Passion gets you out of bed in the morning, but purpose allows you to sleep at night.
Find Your Voice, Lead Your Generation, because the world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtFiQsrxWGU
Transcript: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/conventions-events/harrison-ford-gives-the-arizona-state-universitys-undergraduate-commencement-speech/
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The DOGE death count is on pace to more than triple the total deaths of Pol Pot's regime by 2030, with a majority of those deaths being children. An estimated 762,000 attributable increased deaths due to starvation, decreased access to medicine, increased conflict, etc. have already occurred. Approximately 500,000 of those are children. Estimated that we could exceed 9M by 2030.
We've had some massive moral failings in our country's history. This is shaping up to be the worst.
https://www.404media.co/doge-cuts-unleashed-a-deadly-wave-of-violence-across-africa-study-finds/
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