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Trust between US tech and the @DeptofDefense is what got burned down. Trust is key. There has been a concerted effort to break that trust to weaken the US position. The US is more resilient than that, and tech is smart enough to see through it. DoD will restore trust. It's time.

Grifting is obsolete. Mass data and AI are pushing time to identify to zero. Risk vs Reward is now upside down.

The Internet is written in ink. Integrity is your most valuable asset. Reputation is your brand. "Guard it with your life."

"Law 5: So Much Depends On Reputation Guard It With Your Life. - The 48 Laws of Power, by https://twitter.com/RobertGreene

Watch the news and solve problems they can't seem to solve.

Dear DoD and IC, U.S. Tech Workers need your help. US tech workers are under constant attack from foreign adversaries and rogue groups, both foreign and domestic. Get the house in order and make protecting the base priority one and all else will follow.

Both practices are bad. Sharing passwords and weak passwords is doubly bad. Don't do that. A $47 billion company like WeWork should know better.

WeWork remains woefully insecure [1] -- IP is likely leaking out of it like a sieve -- and with a real-estate structure that's positioned as a too-big-too-fail [2], what could possibly go wrong...

[1] The Cyber-Insecurity of WeWork – Shared Offices and Cracking WiFi with Weak WPA2 Passwords

https://www.digitaloperatives.com/2018/10/10/the-cyber-insec...

[2] The CBINSIGHTS research report (WeWork strategy teardown)...

"WeWork’s $47 Billion Dream: The Lavishly Funded Startup That Could Disrupt Commercial Real Estate"

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/wework-strategy-t...

Election security is ripe to be solved. Trust is key.

"16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines" https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614148/16-million-america...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20759306

NB: Ben Adida is one person who has been thinking about and working on this problem for years https://ben.adida.net/

One of the problems that just surfaced in the news ... is the realization that almost all prescription meds are manufactured in China. The risk that poses to the US population and DoD is incalculable. How do we get off China meds?

Fake chips have been a problem too, polluting the supply space. All the more reason to protect and verify IP. There's new tech for that. Maybe the next big thing. Hardware verified. Authenticity.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20594065

> Trustworthiness of content (text and soon photo and video) is and will be a fundamental problem. This is the basic attack vector for national and global politics in the last few years. Anyone with a good solution would help the world immeasurably and have their pick of customers.

SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195

Hurricanes and tsunamis come in many forms - some are hard to see...

SOS HN: Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195

You mean AdWords I suspect...

AdWords vs AdSense https://www.google.com/search?q=adwords+vs+adsense&ie=UTF-8

Here's a new one most aren't thinking about yet...

Set up live early warning system for spoofed/deep fake news feeds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748195

Live near real-time diverse independent detection for all providers in all regions/locations.

Think Tsunami early-warning system for the Web...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_warning_system

Manufacturing Consent

True hackers can see the underlying structure of things others don't see. True hackers have the ability to solve problems others don't see. Real hackers are somewhere learning to see and helping others connect what's true so they can see too.

Wisdom takes time. Effort and time. A certain striving few are willing to maintain.

Things change. Fox is not the same.

Fox began its remake first.

China has a history of pegging its currency to the US dollar. Is there precedent for pegging tariffs to the yuan?

You keep seeing the part while missing the whole. Kick your perspective up a level, and maybe you'll put it together.

Yes, fake chips have been a problem too, polluting the supply space. All the more reason to protect and verify IP. There's new tech for that. Maybe the next big thing. Hardware verified. Authenticity.

We will see.

Selling them cars and chips is fine, to a degree. That's different than transferring IP and giving them independent capability because you can stop selling to them if need be.

You're referring to part of the process, I'm referring to the whole process -- i.e. full independent capability / self-sufficiency -- and currently China has zero capability to manufacture advanced chips independently [0] ...

  Huawei would love to source its chips and other components 
  purely from Chinese suppliers, but as of today it is unable 
  to do so ... There is no production line in China that uses 
  only equipment made in China, so it is very difficult to make 
  any chipsets without U.S. equipment.

[0] https://wccftech.com/china-is-still-multiple-generations-beh...

You mapped out a trajectory you think things are going to follow. Things change. No more technology transfer. Protecting IP is the key to what happened yesterday.

You watching the news?

No. Med tech should be as abundant as can be. But with AI there too many unknowns we're still figuring out. How to defend networks against AI attacks, hardening in general, how to handle the containment problem, the proliferation of deep fakes, deep truth and decerning between the two. And what that means at different levels. What are the critical points? What's the optimal path?

Hardware asymmetry is one of the things that secures your advantage. 10th generation chips vs 5th generation chips gives you asymmetric advantage, just like 5th generation fighters vs 3rd generation fighters are no contest. The ability to design and manufacture your own chips guarantees supply and the control to optimize and scale production capacity as demand requires.

We invented the microprocessor and SV has 40+ years of accumulated knowledge and hard-earned experience built into every chip. When an adversary is 40 years behind and has not yet developed the capability to make their own chips, that's significant. We rode that curve from beginning to end, and catching a ride on an exponential rocketship gives you a massive a head start -- a secure long-term advantage, one that's almost insurmountable if you don't give it away. So let's not do that. There's an optimal path. Let's find it.

Funny you bring up the meds thing.

One of the problems that just surfaced in the news yesterday is the realization that almost all prescription meds are manufactured in China. The risk that poses to the US population and DoD is incalculable. How do we get off China meds?

This is not a FB thing -- It's a technology transfer thing. An economic thing. A trade thing. A national security thing...

There's a ton more going on in the news and behind the scenes beyond the Thiel NYT post.