seee-I-Told-you

Awesome!

As a consultant who got caught up in the crazy Crowdstrike stir - I find this song comforting and on point!

Unions are a good thing, definately right now when the competition from "slave owners" in eastern Europe, China etc will exploit workers and outrun competition that way.

For Tesla, with China's export of electric vehicle it would be a good thing to "set the bar" and prevent low cost workers from entering the market - hence securing Tesla's position in Sweden.

And that's what the "Swedish model" of working is all about, Unions "set the lower bar" for what is acceptable and what is not.

Anyone who thinks AI is a threat is either a moron or an agent (agent of influence, power or state). As described in many initiated conversations, AI to date in it's most known form is a glorified autocomplete. Any ML-implementations are rudimentary but valuable.

One of the hardest proponents of "there's a 50% chance of AI will wipe out humanity" are right out not well. Tegmark, the one who uttered this is a real hoax. His "Future of Life Institute" also offered pro-nazi paper "Nya Dagbladet" 100 000 USD. Once uncovered by expo in Sweden (https://expo.se/2023/01/elon-musk-funded-nonprofit-run-mit-p...) the offer was retracted.

The venue, "Nya dagbladet" is connected to Russia and seems to be a broad spectrum investment into the far-right movement.

My perspective is this, and disclosure: I've been working with the FBI on numerous occations.. The FBI is a large organization of around 35 000 - 40 000 employees with 50+ field offices.

The FBI's mission is to uphold the consitution and protect the U.S from foreign intelligence, espionage and terrorism. Note that the U.S. population is ~ 332 million right now.

I think the FBI's dilemma is "damned if you do, damned if you don't", constantly having to find the right balance with regards to "what is too little, what is too much?".

There is also the classic services-dilemma of.. if you get attacked.. everybody will yell "where was the FBI??". If an attacked is stopped in it's tracks the majority of times you won't even know about it.

While the list is certainly good precautions which everyone for the most part should be implementing and thinking about, it is not a complete list. Even though the author would say "it was not intended to be" it still kind of promises "these mitigations are enough".. and of course the world isn't black and white.

Protecting a company or even a sole personal computer is a time staking challenge with multiple dimensions. It involves implementing processes and routines which you stick to, it involves technical solutions for mitigating threats in different categories and it involves planning, configuration and monitoring.

It certainly involves staying well informed on vulnerabilities, present threats and the modus operandi of attackers.

That's why we security consultants (on a senior level) are more or less useless unless we are developers ourselves and stack 30 000 + hours in experience. And still, with all this experience and knowledge the work is not a piece of cake at all.

You have to be prepared to make exceptions, be pragmatic, a good communicator and a good skilled presenter. You have to be prepared to work uncomfortable hours, holidays, weekends etc.