http://tidbits.com/ After listening to a speech by U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to a roomful security professionals, Jeff Porten muses about just how we should react to Napolitano’s statement that cyber attacks are the biggest threat we face. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 EDT editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13257?rss#comments_15696 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:33:27 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13257#comments_15696
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Seeing our 'lower' minds as programmable is hardly new - and yet the wish to simply play the game of believing our 'self' as we personally define it runs deeper than we perhaps like to admit. Yet to observe the program (the thinking) that is running, is the only real freedom, for it is outside the box of what the thinking itself dictates. Therefore in the midst of a difficulty, we may suddenly catch ourselves (in act) own our mind and thus release what isn't working. This is experienced as insight, illumination, an impulse of communication or of a desisting of reaction in which a practical and encouraging outcome replaces a painful or conflicted situation.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13257?rss#comments_15694 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:28:50 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13257#comments_15694 This gives rise to a completely different kind of system than one of educated responsibility - and the rate of technological expansion and dependency means this is happenning now and not in some near future. I am sounding alarm - not as a call to fear, but to simply bring attention present.

It is not enough to personalize the situation in terms of individuals and corporations or alliances of such - but to identify the program or mind that is at work as it is - and not as it presents itself. This is like undrawing the curtains around the Wizard of Oz. He could no longer pretend to be the Great Wizard of Oz - once innocently exposed.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13257?rss#comments_15692 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:24:01 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13257#comments_15692
I feel the mentality which the article points toward, is much more pervasive than might seem so - just as those who unconditionally trust that all the security policies and measures that are being implemented are in FACT serving their true interests.

The story of Chicken Licken whose fears escalate in the telling, leads to the manipulation of those caught up in fearful perceptions by Foxy Loxy. This is so much the case that fear and false hopes that can be used to generate fear, are at the root of the psychology of our economy (sic).

Education is more than information. It is expressing a wisdom and discernment that has a sense of the needs of the part in relation to the whole. contd:]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13257?rss#comments_15650 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:28:45 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13257#comments_15650 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13257?rss#comments_15627 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:24:25 EDT http://tidbits.com/article/13257#comments_15627
Posturing doesn't help - prescriptive guidance and tools do, as well as info sharing about strategies & techniques (vs. just telling me more about the threats alone). Risk is always subjective and context-driven, but articulation of risk should drive response and decisions - not just hand wringing and worry. I appreciate you bringing this up (and love the image of the Dobermans!).

BTW - this week, I heard form Mark Weatherford (who works for Napolitano) and he had more meaningful content than I usually see in those kinds of addresses. There is hope.]]>