Today Show: Hacker Hijack

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When Less Is More

I had a slightly engaging discussion regarding the scoring of impact, with human life being one of the factors. (Think a negative event with the factors being reputation, financial, property, human life as part of the equation)

What value do we place on ourselves when it’s an injury? Or loss of limb? If… and again, this was just a thoughtful discussion… so not to be taken too seriously, a person is missing a limb… are they worth as much? Does that count as a 1 in a chart where likelihood is one loss in x number of years?

Possibly to an employer, but to the person who lost that limb, they probably value their life even more! They probably mean more to their families who may care for them even more than before!

The discussion can be further taken by looking at the probability of a threat to a grouping of people. Horrific, I’m sure. But the same threat to a hospital with disabled people who may be missing limbs… the value of human loss is magnified. At least in the public eye.

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Arizona Renaissance Festival 2017

We went to the Renaissance Festival today.

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Arizona Aloha Festival

Today we went to the Arizona Aloha Festival in Tempe. Holy crap it was hot and packed!

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CIA Hacking Tools

According to Wikileaks

Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized “zero day” exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation. This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.

The agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence(CCI), had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other “weaponized” malware. Such is the scale of the CIA’s undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook. The CIA had created, in effect, its “own NSA” with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified.

More can be read here.

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Cousin Thelma Visits Phoenix

My cousin messaged me a week ago and wanted to just get away and come visit. So we spent the weekend showing her around the State!

Mexican food at Valle Luna, where she even ate some of the leftovers for breakfast the next morning.

Our cool zen backyard.

 

Up to Montezuma’s castle

Stopped in Sedona for a quick look and some coffee

 

 

A quick stop so Thelma can get some fresh air and not feel so car-sick

Damien made a cute snowman

The Grand Canyon

A quick dinner at McDonald’s before heading home

The next day, we had Filipino food while Damien was at school

Thelma, coming from Seattle, had to go to a Mariner’s game

We were going to go to Papago, but it was rush hour, so we went for a hike at Thunderbird Park. Damien and Thelma ran up to the top!

Then we stuffed ourselves with sushi!

Last meal together before flying home, had to visit the Place.

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Spartan Race Instagram

We don't think even the real Superman could do this obstacle gracefully. #FailFriday

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then, seconds later…

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Spartan Super 2017

We finished the Spartan Super! 8.47 miles of what felt like mostly only going uphill in shitty terrain! Would definitely have done better if my knee wasn’t messed up. Also, Damien was just getting over a really bad cold.

It was great hanging out with old friends I haven’t seen in a long time. Most obstacles are easy, it’s the terrain and challenges that suck, like carrying heavy sandbags or buckets of rock up and down hillsides worn smooth by countless other Spartans and trying not to fall.

I definitely love Arizonans, there are so many friendly people at events who are supportive, encouraging, and motivating. 

It was definitely an experience. One more for the trifecta!

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The whole team (minus four no-shows/postpones)

Ran into Cory, my Marine brother!

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Valentine’s Day

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Hey, Will You Be My Valentine

Phishing Victim?

Be on the lookout this week for phishing attacks that play on Valentine’s day. <eom>

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