2012年11月27日 星期二

Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!


- The smartest local people knew better how to solve problem than you; instead of starting initiative, think of how to support their cause.

-> counter case: would it be too small/customized service; impossible to scale? 

- People are important, nobody start company along.



Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability



- Connection: why people can't connect -> shame
- shameful vs. full-hearted: Courage, Compassion, Connection to yourself, Vulnerability

Vulnerability as necessity: the vulnerability to reach out, to trial and fail, to say I love you first, to make attempt.

- been turn down
- been layoff
- initiating sex

You can't selectively turn off (numb) these feeling without numb other good things, too (gratitude);

side effect:
- try to make uncertain certain
- blame, a way to discharge pain and discomfort
- perfect

wired for struggle, but deserved to be loved.

love with our heart, even though there is no guarantee.

2012年11月19日 星期一

Julia Sweeney: Letting go of God





- Age of reason, 7 years old.
- Change of birthday.

- "Did you really believed in that God love you for all his heart?"

2012年11月18日 星期日

David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust




- feces, urine, blood, vomit, rotten flesh, many sexual act, diseased appearance
 Disgust that has something to do w/ survival.

- Disgust thing touch a clean thing; clean thing become disgust.

- Disgust sensitivity has a general pattern: conservative people are more easily disgust. 







- People who have viewed disgusting things became conservative. (Even if it is just a reminder to wash hands.)


2012年11月17日 星期六

Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!


- anonymous: hacker who have a political agenda. They are providing a service to prove that security is useless. They are protecting the internet from the government.

- Demand of security vs. Freedom

- Hacker Profiler Project (UN operation)

- CarderPlanet by a group of Ukrainian hackers. Buy sell credit cards info. Supermarket for cyber criminal. Faced Challenge: How do you do business with the hackers?

-> The escrow system: (Stolen Credit Card #) Customer -> Officer -> Vendor (Money)

- 150,000 dollars/ week; not an advance programmer

- Hackers are only one element in the eco system. And the most vulnerable one.

- China and Russian are mobilizing hacker, making them to use.

Relentlessly obsessive about something. Just looking for a chance to work for something good.







Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net




- The PC virus problem is 25 years old
- Visit the first hackers ever in Pakistan;they got infected themselves, too.

- Online criminal can afford to invest their attack; use around the world.

- You must have something that can works, even when computer fails.
- Invest in backup power, system that works independently from the internet.

- Thinking about backup; thinking about when the service of internet is taken away from you.

- Find the people with the skills but without the opportunity; and give them the opportunity to do good. 

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon


how he analysis what is the target.


- Stuxnet, weapon to attack Iran nuclear facility in Iran 15,000 line of code

- Slowly, creepy, not be able to find it quickly
- Can lead to plant blow up
- Broke spin rate, waste the controller's time

- It turns out that USA develops it, but israelis modify to make it more powerful. It then escape to the target nuclear plan in Iran, and the virus got to the outside world. (more)




- This attack is generic: attack every power plant. Biggest target is USA, euro, JP.


fool input, might lead to a blow up of plant.

use data structure to find where the virus attack

use data structure to find where the virus attack