35 Burst results for "MFA"
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Rashida Tlaib Melts Down Over Ilhan Omar's Committee Exit
"Time is expired. Not be silenced. The gentlewoman's time. To conquer Omar. Expired. That our country is failing you today through this chamber. It's no longer recognized. What would Freud call that? I'm not a big fan of Freud. But I think he had a label for that, something to do with hysterical women. That Rashida Tlaib, that's the woman who in her office is in Congress, sticks a post it note over a map showing Israel and calls it Palestine. That is the ungrateful, bigoted, racist America hater, who, on the day she is sworn in to one of the most prestigious positions in the world as a member of Congress in front of her child, screams, in front of an audience, including her child standing right next to her, we're going to impeach the MFA. That's Rashida Tlaib, screaming, breaking down, crying because of what, because Ilhan Omar, the woman who said 9 11 was some people doing something, who said the relations between Israel and America are just about the benjamins was kicked off the foreign affairs committee as is the right. Of the Speaker of the House and was stripped of her access to the materials you acquire as a member of that committee. She never should have been there.
Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
"mfa" Discussed on Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
"Is that? What are you looking at? We've been hacked. But it says our existing security monitoring process allowed our teams to quickly identify the issue and move to respond. Our top priorities were to make sure the attacker no longer had access to our systems to ensure user data was secure and that Uber services were not affected and then to investigate the scope and impact of the incident. Here are some of the key actions that they took, they say. They identified any employee accounts that were compromised or potentially compromised and either blocked their access to Uber systems or required a password reset. They disabled many affected and potentially affected internal tools. They rotated keys, effectively resetting access basically. They locked down their code base, preventing any new code changes. And then when restoring the access to internal tools, they required employees to re authenticate. They are also furthering strengthening their multi factor authentication, the MFA, policies, and they added additional monitoring of their internal environment to keep an even closer eye on any further suspicious activity. One thing that I did not hear in there that is concerning to me is there is no mention of encryption. So for those of you not familiar with why that would matter, if you have something that's encrypted, it's basically you have a key that's broken in half. And without that key, you can't unencrypt or decrypt the data. Without massive computing power to try to and that data is essentially scrambled. It's scrambled in a way that without the key it's unusable. Think of a library and you take a bunch of books off the shelves and you rip the pages out, but you take a page from this book and you throw it over here and then you grab a different book and you throw it that page on top of so you've got hundreds of books, each with pages that are unrelated. It's not usable information, right? Right. I hear no mention of encryption at all in that response. Now encryption is a way to potentially, it can still be broken, but it's a next, it's a best effort, it's keeping that information locked down, potentially the FBI could show up with this guy's door before it leaks, right? Right. If it's still encrypted. Well, it's just out there. And now he can just start selling that stuff back on the dark web. And the problem that I have here is if it was encrypted, Uber should be telling people that, and that is definitely something that you want to use as a reassurance.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Who Is Jim Hanson, President of Security Studies Group?
"But let's start at the beginning because this is what we do with all our long form guests. So tell them who is Jim Hanson. What is he done and how did he get to be the head of this organization? Wow. The real way I got to be it was I went to the university of Wisconsin Madison as a young 18 year old back when UW mad city was the number one party school in America as rated. And I got serious number one. This is number one by Playboy magazine. They rated UW max city number one. I took a bunch of classes. I took Hebrew because I was thinking about joining the IDF. I took astronomy to stop that. Okay, so can you just explain that? Why are we going to join these red defense forces? Because of entebbe. Is the greatest commando raid? Are you circumcised? Yeah. And I mean how to speak the alphabet? I had a body in my unit in the British intelligence reserves, went to serve with the what do they call them multinational for MFR? The MFA in the Sinai. And he fell in love with Israeli. I wanted to. 8 32, you had to get circumcised. Ouch. Don't know, please don't go there. Okay, so Hebrew I'm taking tags I'm doing that. I'm thinking about all those things. But top party school in the country. I got 5 incompletes. That's impressive. My dad was not impressed. Who is the Vietnam vet and West Point grad? No way. Yeah, to two tours of Vietnam. So he got the envelope and he opens it up and he looks at it and looks at me and looks at it again and looks at me. Crumples it up, throws it in the fireplace and says, you need to find a place to live and a job because I'm not paying for school anymore. So you out. I kicked me out and said, you might want to consider joining the army because they can't fire your raising butt. So are you a good joke? That kicks you out and joined the army. That is a good story. It's a great one. It should be pretty commercial because after that, things
Leadership and Success with Coach BZ
"mfa" Discussed on Leadership and Success with Coach BZ
"Their experienced team of engineers and consultants assist organizations of all sizes to implement and manage IT systems that meet the technical requirements in deforest and cmmc. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of one, two, three, CMM. My name is Dana mantilla, and I will be your host and our guest today is bob Zynga. Hi, bob. How are you? Hey. Thank you so much for having me on your show today. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming. Appreciate it. We have a very exciting topic. Today we are going to talk about MFA and security awareness. So let's jump right in. So what is MFA? So MS is that multi factor authentication. So basically, in 2021, 21st century, it's pretty much absolutely not acceptable for anybody to be able to log into any systems, really. Without having at least a second factor of authentication. For most people out there, the only control will they have right between what they care about their sensitive or confidential data and the actors out there is just their password. So that's one factor of authentication. So you need to have multiple at least at least two for all of the systems. You've got that's really the best security practices today. Yeah. You're right. It's something that everybody really needs to start taking seriously because the idea of just having the same password or the same email that everyone uses to log into every single different account and all the data breaches that have been out there. It's out there somewhere. That's the way you're operating. It's definitely probably been exposed somewhere. So that's absolutely the great majority of all that I've reached out out there. They really exploit two things. One is the password, and number two phishing. That's pretty much all they do. So here's something that some people might not even have thought about. So what is the difference between how is MFA different from two FA? So I guess two FA is a subset of MFA. MFA is multi factor authentication to a phase only only two. So when we talked about multi factor authentication, there are guest three non categories. One is something you know, like your password. Another one is something you have, for example, in the military, we all have tagged military card, which we actually have to have in order to be able to access our system. So you put in your account something you have. And then something you know, your pin number or your password. So that's two factor authentication right there. But then there is a short category as well, something you like biometrics. For anyone who has a modern phone or mobile device, they're going to have no session or fingerprint or anything like that something you are. So was that kind of the categories of multi factor authentication. And you need at least two of them for really any systems you log into. Something kind of funny, I think it was maybe three or four years ago. One of the banks I bank with, I've been with them for quite a while. For whatever reason they didn't have two FA for logging. All they had is just using them and password. I'm like, no, there is absolutely no way I'm going to continue banking with you guys if you don't enable to FA. I actually shipped them on Facebook and a few months later they went ahead and gave us at least three options to enable two FA. Really in 2021, I'm going to tell you if your bank doesn't give you the option to enable to a thanks somewhere else. Because you always can't really get act and you're going to lose real real money. That is a very, very good point. And that's definitely a good first account to go check on. Is your bank account? So that's great that you did that and that they actually followed through and said, oh, he's right here. We should probably do this, but that's a good one. Just put your money somewhere else if it's not good. They don't give you the option to do that. So that's really good. All right, so obviously now. So why is MFA important? Yes. MFA is extremely important, especially today because even if you use a complex password, the long password like no upper case or case special characters and later, eventually, especially with quantum computers, which is on the rising now, it's just going to be a matter of time before anybody really really wants to get into your account may be able to break into your password. However, if you have multi factor authentication, even if they get one of those factor, which is not something you know, your password, they can not be who you are or they don't have what you've got. So by having a second factor whether it's a text to your phone or an application that gives you a unique random code or your fingerprint or your fiscal, then even if they break into your password, they still can access your data because they only have one factor of several factor to get into the data if that makes make sense. So again, that's why in 2021. And we just celebrated the 18th anniversary for national cybersecurity awareness month last month October, but really the message going forward is yes. You absolutely have to enable at least two FA on all of the accounts you are using very, very critical. Yeah, one thing I'd like to point out too is in addition to the two FA having the multi factor is because let's say for example, you have your phone and someone takes your phone and you don't have a passcode on your phone and they can get right into that phone, they can then start resetting your password or getting the text message for the two FA. So that's the other thing too. But put a lock on your phone. Number one, and then having that third application that wouldn't be able to do that because they are not them. So they would not have something that was them, like a retina scan or something. So. Absolutely. And if you add in more devices phone and iPad table, absolutely have two FA. You need to have at least a passcode and some type of fingerprint of fiscal or password, like something you are something you have and something you know. Very, very, very critical. Because if you just think about it today, almost everything we do, we have to have the phone now. I can't really imagine life without my phone today. Absolutely my entire digital life is on this little device. So if this device is lost in somebody is able to get into it, I mean, my life is pretty much over. So it is very important. So make sure to keep it safe and secure. And update your phone software. As well. Frequently. Takes two seconds to set up, right? Yes. Okay, so now the next one is, are all MFAs equal? Well, not exactly. Especially when you come to the second factor something you have. I think the simplest way of doing that is after you enter your password, you could get like a text message like SMS and Tapping the code. One problem with SMS is it's already been working because people are able to actually use. And exploit them and be able to receive somebody else's text on their phone. So that has already been built on. It's not easy to do, but it's already been done. What is even much better than that is if you use an application like Google authenticator, I love Alfie or Microsoft and scatter is another one. That's an actual application where you have to authenticate again, and then it gives you the unique code you need to then access whatever website you are trying to get into. That's much, much more secure than just adding a text message. Because if you think about that, many people instead of using the phone number, they get from their ISP provider, they actually have Google Voice numbers, which you can access from the Internet, just using your email. So if somebody is able to break into your email, they're going to be able to get that SMS text very, very easy, right? So that's why it's really, really better if you can to use an application like Google reference data or afi and then be able to use that as your second on.
Rock N Roll Archaeology
"mfa" Discussed on Rock N Roll Archaeology
"You'd think they'd be ready to get some critique they've spent you know three or four years in workshops but in workshops now mfa programs. You can't really be honest because he'll offend and you can't critique things anymore it's just it's unbelievable it's a real disservice to say the least. It's not just a disservice to the art. But it's contributing to its decline culturally. Poetry's always had a hard time kind of at least seeming to be relevant. I mean poetry is not going. I know poetry is not going anywhere. It's always been a kind of underground current that's essential part of that stream that goes culture. Mu goes downstream. Poetry is a major part of that ecosystem flowing and But there are so many poets or quote poets quote unquote justed. Air quotes terrible punch myself. I'm glad this isn't video. Air quotes poets who Graduated from these programs. it's something like it's thousands every year. They don't know how to take criticism. They don't know how to criticize. They don't know how to how to articulate why they don't like something or even why they like something you know it's And i think to be an artist you have to be able to take criticism otherwise you just not going to learn and it shows in there in the work. That's being published predominantly now in in major journals. It's just not it's really not about. The language is more about politics when what's going to happen is you. You've got all these artists in in various media. Not just poetry. But in in a lot of other mediums where they can't take the critique and so they don't learn from it and so the generation that follows is going to be on critiqued because this generation can't they can't put into words what they like or what they don't like about the work that they're being shown and so i see it may be getting even worse. I think so. Yeah it's going to continue to get worse and what's the you know it's got to end at some point or or turn into something else i don't know i don't know what's going to happen with the mfa world but I wish it would collapsed completely. I'd never understood why. And i have friends who did this. Because i wanted to photography to do it commercially. I mean i love the final aspect of it. I do a lot of it now. Because i don't. I'm not a professional photographer anymore. But i had friends who were going through the fine arts program. And i've always curious as to what they expected to achieve by the end of it and nobody could ever really give me an answer. It's the same. Poetry is what do you what do you want out of this because you know out of thousands of graduate every year what two percent one percent will actually get a job teaching creative writing so it can't be about that you know 'cause you needed a two year or three year break from the world and that you're gonna be you're now you're in debt for for most of your life. I've heard that excuse. I wanted some uninterrupted time to work on my writing. But that's another thing if you're if you're in it for life if you're really devoted to poetry you'll find the.
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Is that the most important thing in the world. sometimes forget forget the two years of mandatory mandatory military training. That's what i used to think that everybody needed. It's two years at least a food service. Oh yeah absolutely. Yeah i think the hobart is a good thing though the weeds start. Speak the lingo eighty. Six right you're outshining once you once you are in the business. It's difficult to go to a restaurant again and not understand how it works right. You're no longer kind of a passenger. You are on the inside and you you you start to spot things right okay. That's how many table section that person has you. What's that great movie with ryan reynolds. The in waiting terrific movie cannot believe in economic believe in didn't win an oscar. it's fantastic. I mean this is now a really getting the but if you are all interested in food service industry and light comedy and i still think it's one of the closest representations of what it's actually like to work in a restaurant go check out the movie waiting with ryan reynolds justin long just ferris like all kinds of famous. That comedian guy was in it like that. That started a lot of careers. Yeah it was You know some little indie flick. I think within the last twenty years or so. I'm not sure when it came out but it was immediately a cult classic. I think for people who were in the restaurant biz. Jim i love what how you did. You describe it. You remember how you describe that movie office space for the food service industry. Oh that's right. Yep yeah why go out. Check it out. It came out in two thousand and five. I looked it up so we can feel old together but Louise phone waiting. Definitely recommendation to check out I think so. You know we'll go ahead and leave it for this week but before we do. I want to give Roger in the team here also to a a chance to kind of any final thoughts around our conversations around multi factor indication. Roger will start with you. We'll go to jim islands. My reason for living is to help. Security defenders really focus on. What's the top ways of jury attacked which is usually social engineering on patch. Software sometimes passer guessing type south and realize that that is ninety percent of the battle in all these other. Things are just really distractions. From what the primary things are you in one day. Social engineering patch software in passwords will not be top three reasons why you're successfully attack. Just figure out what the top things are in focus on those things to. They're no longer the top things. That is the secret to being a better computer security defender right on about jim yourself. I think it's pretty similar to what rogers said which is look at the show that we put onto the a about hacking. Mfa is meant to discourage you from implementing mfa. Right the the idea as a information security professional is Continue to advance all forward. Continue to shrink the defenses. But let's stick our head in the sands and think that oh if i implemented mfa. I'm bulletproof right. The the ideas continue the research continue to educate ourselves and try to stay one. Step ahead of the adversary Mfa definitely puts you one step ahead of if you didn't have them. Fa at a very minimum next level is pastoralists. Next level is stronger fe because one of the things. We're my big takeaways. From rogers book is that you know there yet. Twelve ways to pack..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Two large. Tv's and walmart or somewhere at the same time and they let my transaction go through in the denied hers like two minutes later saw. There is little sms message going. Is this really you trying to buy this. Not me well. That's kinda probably the. I think the ultimate future of authentication if they see you coming from your your same device in location that you're going to be allowed to do what you do. The watcher action. See what you do seem. It seems like normal there will be this constant monitoring of what you do and it as long as you're doing what you normally do and it's not something higher risk you're probably not going to be bothered but if you go to transfer ten thousand dollars than maybe you have to provide an mfa. Token provide the last four digits of your credit card or something like that. So i i do think if future is not linked password bliss but i think token was i think for the most part Twenty years from now. Our grandkids are gonna laugh about the archaic methods that we used to do authentication because it just gonna be a fabric of what they do. And for the most part they're not going to be bothered until it becomes like a higher risk event. It'll be like you don't when people here like a modem and now and the there's like these flashbacks back to hearing modems modem signals and people staying off the phone. It'll be the same type of concept where you used to do what to log into things like you had to log into things you kids. Don't know how hard it wasn't. I had to remember twenty different passwords different passwords with different patterns for different sites. Some they're going to. They're going to go what they're not gonna be able to comprehend. I think you're right. You know you're going to be old when someone says what's password remember. My daughter got Three daughters in the summer one of my my youngest daughter was telling her france. My dad remember what it was like when. Dvd's were used you know. Like indeed. i do..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"But no matter how you authenticate once you've successfully authenticated behind the scenes it's all treated the same. I think like early. On when i was didn't really understand identity and authentication while enough i felt like if i did a fingerprint scan in my head i thought the fingerprint was being sent to the database of trying to log into the database like yep. That's roger grimes his fingerprint. He's allowed to access the database. I didn't know it was just a koros token or ticket. Or whatever in the background or cookie and it was the same regardless of how i logged in in that token can be captured by attackers. Amanda middle attack in evil jinx. I think hold that token is like back in the day when i started realizes when they're using a hacking tool on firefox browser all fired sheep but it would just kept your token once. It has your token. That's your identity. That's your driver's license. That person that your token can become you a and that was a big misunderstanding. So people won't protected. You are with mfa protected and authentication attack which are not protecting. Its anything after you indicate. So if you've got unpacked software if you've got somebody that's in on your on your computer or another computer and they get session cookie it or token it's game over no matter how you log basically talking about a fake. Id and he got into the bar with somebody who has a higher quality ticket. Because it's a it's a one replica. It but that's the same kind of concept. I hear and i see a lot of things. Now the space around continuous authentication and not just authenticating wants to get into resource. But using signals and other parts of data to try and have a more continuous authentication model in place curious. What your thoughts are on that things a great idea. You know this whole idea that we authenticate once at the beginning it's binary and then we're end is kind of silly so i like this sometimes called zero. Trust or something. But this idea that we are being authenticated based upon not only are successful authentication. But what we're doing howard doing it you know. Even maybe like keystroke dynamics how fast you typed in your password. Not your just your password. But how fast you type in your bathroom. One letters you hit. How fast apart..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"I know but it depends on how you define fishing designs bomb. What i guess like one of the most common ones that are. That's the hardest. To prevent from. Fishing is me sending new to a fake website. So it looks just so you click on a link that goes to the wrong place and then i completely fake your experience. A lot of the the best resilient. Mfa tokens won't even activate if you go to the wrong website. But all i have to do as the attacker is fake. Like it worked and then go. Hey we're having an error when you're token we're going to have a text or call you talk about replacing your token and then you start asking much personal questions what you logging. Id fishing them. Or you think you log into a bank like oh we need to confirm your credit card or having a problem token we need to confirm your credit card from your debit card information at the bank. It is almost impossible for an mfa vendor to prevent a completely thick website from just faking the experience. And that's why it's tough to prevent phishing. They're thinking about fishing as still in a password or this or that but to prevent all fishing. I don't know the solution. A lot of it comes back to the quality of the attempt rate when we think. We're all familiar with the terrible. Irs calls that we get right. We're going to be thrown in jail right if we don't answer the call right there that second and talk to somebody but i think it's just a matter of time where one know one for one replica of a site makes it extremely convincing for people and we're talking about. You don't need you know this is. This is a numbers game right. They're trying to get anything and everything. They only have to succeed once to be successful. Whereas if you're on the other side and trying to do defense against this you have to be right every single time. I think it's a very difficult challenge for a lot of folks that are out there. Yeah yeah exactly in. Let's say so. I said i sold a lotta. Mfa solutions in my career. Almost everybody that ever hired me to put an mfa had been compromised one or more times badly. Compromised like nolan proactively. Prior to this year one proactively clouds. Hey i don't wanna get mfa. It's always because they've been compromised so like i need to get mfa. I would go in and spend in. Be these million dollar projects in multiple months of time and i would get accolades on time on budget which that the computer is just insane right on time and on budget but every single one of those customers eventually got hacked again not through them face solution but through unpack software social engineering in most cases or could be miss configuration overly permissive permissions on aws towards bucket or something. You know it's it's it..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"There's some remote system than ask for your fingerprint. They can now start. Duplicating the fingerprint in using it in you always have the biometric vendors gone. There's no way they'll be able to fake our fingerprints or Retina scan or a facial in the next day there's like some eighteen year holden youtube showing how he faked the facial scan like a dollar eighty of materials. Like it's. it's just a joke. Mike is thirty years of by which vendors telling me. Oh we've figured out how to stop people from faking it. In thirty years of them absolutely failed. You know by some kid the next day. They all have their like. All you know. Hardware tokens and smart cards in a time based one time passwords verses event based one. Time passer tokens once you tell me that type of mfa that you have there is a as soon as you. Tell me what it is. There is at least five ten hacks that apply to your solution just because what it is and it isn't a bug. It's not like they're going to go out in patch. Something like the time based one time password. Once have ac- database of someone compromises the database. They can create a duplicate instance of your of your like your google or something. It's not above that. They're gonna fix all they could but it's literally something that's an inherent weakness in the type of mfa that it is and they all have their strengths and weaknesses in. I've heard a lot of discussion different types of fan one. That's come up as we've talked with vendors in the past this idea of fissionable versus nonfish abol. fa may think of your your fingerprint story. And i wonder. Is there really a difference between fishbowl. Non-official favors that just marketing speak. Well you so. There are certainly some that more resilient against common types of fishing Fido two tokens f. Idea that's an alliance is a standard an open standard. They are resilient against the man in the middle attack like i just described with evil jinx. Like jim and i were talking about because they required device registration to the actual website vice versa. So that if you were man in the middle attack your token is actually not going to activate because it is not registered for the mana middle site website that you're at and so it that makes it not official in that way but there are other types of phishing attacks that i guess the vendors not considering an limited. I get that a lot i get. You can't hack it this where you can. Yeah i can hack it like can i finish every single. Mfa token type. That is out there. There is no doubt in my mind that i can send a phishing attack and that's the thing once. Mfa protects you against about thirty percent of attacks. But once i know that you're using a particular type of dokan it actually probably makes you more likely to fall because the average person thinks. Mfa makes them uninhabitable and then they get hacked and very very common asked all these point. There's one thousand point pitch users using mfa that cost tens of millions of dollars. They thought they were told. If i'm using. Mfa on so much. I'm using high security so much likely not to be hack. And then but i got hacked because somebody sent me a phishing. Email like the. They're always like this rut row moment and they're like oh. No one told me that. I could just be senate phishing email. So you know isn't kim. Is there an anti. Is there an unofficial. Mfa not that..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"My the big problem is average person. Est threesome passwords. They share over a hundred seventy different websites. All my god. that's terrible. They should not share those bastards. Any shouldn't look good luck trying to use a single imma solution that worse across hundred seventy websites because that's an even harder problem to sell so roger Just as a clarification who twelve ways to defeat multi growth indication and that evil jinx Demo was part of that precipitation will have that in the show notes. I saw another youtube where that evil jinx kit was modified to Basically sit in front of google g. Mail and they had some code in their page to help you know in defeat kind of the headless browser which without getting into all the details of the technology behind the scenes evil jinx based on the engine x. reverse proxy technology the apache system But you know obviously really high tech companies like google are pudding features into their webpage to try to defeat this and in this demo. Which i think was at black hat. They showed how even gucci male has were with multi factor could be solan. So this is very realistic. Just yet dummy companies can be. You can have this to them. I mean do you have enough know how even Probably the the top one or two technology companies in the world and google can can faces kind of hacking exploits. Well yeah a lot of times. I i really based upon type of innova- right. You have all different types of innova- biometric Harbor tokens phone as a token software. Tokens you know. There's always different types of of a in just being type of them a makes you susceptible to particular types of attacks. That are many times. Difficult to prevent like biometrics. If someone is zone stills your fingerprints like. I was involved in two thousand. My fingerprints were reported this attack by chinese. Ap t against the us government and they stole five point. Six million people's fingerprints all alternative. The made they got my fingerprints by point. Six main people other people. My wife's fingerprints were in there and she had worked as a teenager in a shipyard thirty years ago. I'm sorry. I'm in ten years ago and she had her fingerprints stolen while once. Your fingerprints are stolen. Unless you do some type of al capone surgery or something like that. What are you going to do if your fingerprint is your authenticate how can any system that's asking freer fingerprint. Along a lot of the fingerprints systems are one factor. Not multi factor. How how can it really no. It's you if you fingerprints stolen you know and and and you know because you're biometric. They're really not secrets right. Anybody can go behind. You pick up a a soda cam that you throw away or a candy wrapper and then all of a sudden. Got your fingerprints..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Are not coming up with the exploits themselves. They're downloading kits off the internet. And maybe doing some some script customization and they're looking for the easy targets and then they attacked the easy target so layering. Mfa is going to thwart some percentage. Why because there's plenty of organizations out there that still have them if they if you're using a very basic form of them. If if is not biometrics if it's not you know kind of you know a little bit more Then you're you're setting yourself up to have a false sense of security. I wonder what you think about that so exactly again. This tape a little bit in the past but a big article. This week is about a bunch of coin base users. People trading cryptocurrencies being compromised in coin. Face getting the money back right. Your currency against a lot of those people were using. Mfa right and the problem was is that they thought. Oh but you know everybody's like used. Mfa this is super high security. They don't tell you know. Mfa solution very few of them. Certainly not the people there like telling you. Hey this high security use mfa and this is high security so they kind of relax. I talk to people all the time. That thank if they're using. Mfa they can't be fish. Like no i can fix you. I can send you email. You click on the link in its game. They're shocked when they learn that now with that said light. What percentage of hacking will be fixed in remediated by. Mfa anybody taking that guest. Good luck but what i will say is if you look at one hundred percent of hacking. Just my best. Guess and i'm i'm around. Mfa a lot. I've been doing it for decades. I bet that. Mfa prevents thirty percent of tacky. And that's no small amount. That's a third of all hacking right but mfa at its best only prevents authentication attacked and doesn't prevent somebody from doing attacking unpacked software or eavesdropping. Or taking control of your in. You know you run. They tricked running a trojan on their desktop. It's game okay right so. Mfa only works prevents some types of authentication attacks. Now with that said it's a large percentage of authentication idex primary thing that mfa stops is simple fishing or sounds like hey give your log in and password and let me say those are a large majority of phishing attacks so using you know you cannot give away your password if you.
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Everything aches that the victim quote victim did was sent to the real server and everything the real server Had all the pictures and things like that were sent back to the victim in and neither side is that there's this man in the middle in between they would. The victim would notice if they saw that the u. r. l. that they're connecting to is not the right. You're out so it you know it was amazing. And i i remember thinking i was like i know how to hack. Mfa a bunch of different ways. So i wrote an article for rural magazine. I wrote for them for fifteen years as a weekly columnist. I call it the hacking thing hacking him. I know ten ways to do it. And by the time i got we writing the ten ways articles i knew twelve ways in the so then i wrote twelve as jack. Mfa didn't he. Book ended up being my most popular webinar. Unless i've done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of webinars it's by far still the most popular webinar presentation. I ever give. I gave it. Rsa in in black cat time. Sue standing room only crowds of thousands of people and people out in the hallways in the overflow rooms and stuff like that my editor for i was trying to talk my editor. Jim mental mandel the publishing a book on quantum cryptography quantum to how quantum computers gonna break a quantum a break. Today's traditional encryption. Which i wrote that book. But he's like roger looking at these crowds. I think you should be writing a hacking them. If able ever that know how to hack. Mfa over fifty. different ways. And i tell people i like. Mfa in everybody should use mfa with the biggest problem is is that most people most sys admins most ceases. Thank that when they have deployed. Mfa that they are significantly less likely to be hacked in. That is not true. I mean i've been some webinars just this week and last week. Some cyber insurance webinars.
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Right if i have a really good content but it's only one hundred pages versus four hundred pages of just whatever is is there a. Is there a key kind of. How long does a book need to be to be considered. Yeah that's a great question. I'd say minimum a two hundred two hundred fifty pages then when they add the index in all the front matter and all that other stuff. They're try. They're trying to get closer to three three hundred pages as kanda magical. Sweet spot at two hundred pages. They may not do it at one. Hundred fifty pages. They're not doing it. But at least two hundred pages probably two hundred fifty plus the additional index in front matter. They get in there so you're really talking about finnish. Finnish book is probably closer to fifty three hundred pages. Any if you're delivering content that you write this less than two hundred pages you know you might as well just ride in e book or along Or some type of that. They're not. They're not going to publish it shorter than that in. Except for in some very side cases. I think my attack in the hacker may have been under two hundred fifty pages but i have actually had my editors come back and say hey this not long enough you need to add. And i've like it so close and she just make the index longer. That's what he starts searching for adjectives right for for all the different things and try to insert as much as you can. Maybe adjust the font size on the periods. That old trick to me. Did you talked about kind of like first steps. And i'm curious here because you know something that that i think jim i thought about in the past. What are we stay away from. What should we not be doing. If we're looking to get into the writing game. Yes certainly not something. That's dead and tired to death. Not you know again the stories. Oh these great stories about finding hackers and just not gonna go anywhere and some people get into topics that are so a specific like some had a master in some java script protection thing. But it's not a book you know so that i would say. Is you know careful. Any of you know how you do need to learn how to write i did. I've been writing for twenty years over eleven hundred magazine articles but i was not a natural writer and it really had to learn how to write a paragraph introductory sentence in finishing structure and that sort of stuff But i the most common thing i get is somebody will tell me that they're gonna write this great book that's about their great times fighting attackers. And i'm like that book is just not going to sell to publishers. And you can try to self publish that book. But i'd say the average estimate another thing. I'm self published one of my books one of my thirteen self myself. I did well. I sold over thirty thousand copies. I got what. I kinda knew what i was doing. Already written another ten or eleven books. Kinda what to do on top of that. I got lucky. The average self self-published book in. There's a lot of ways to do that. These days doesn't sell fifty copies like the average self-published copy burson makes their family and friends by the book and then they sell. Maybe ten more books like there is a rarity that a self published book sells more than hundred and there are. There are people that sell one hundred thousand copies and million copies. But you know it's like how many bands how many bands you know sitting out there in a bar get rich..
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"To that in our show notes. Welcome to the show. Roger glad to be your jeff gemma. Thanks and i just wanna go on record saying is i'm not gonna blame courtney love. There's like this unnatural thing that wants me. Blamed courtney love letting say it's not our fault. That's how i respond to that braid album break music though while roger she is named in the lawsuit so she is one of the big according to the article i read. She's one of the people named in the lawsuit is being sued for one hundred fifty thousand dollars or her role is sex sexual exploitation. It's an interesting story. yeah. I don't i don't know i don't get it but okay well whatever. Why don't we. Why don't we stick tight end. Because i think that's what we all. I think have more of a passion knowledge base on but before we get to that in a roger. Maybe can help us understand your background. And how you actually got into the identity and the info specks infosec base. Is that something that you can kind of take us through is a little of a journey. Here's her story. Yeah yeah. I think you know. Thirty four years of computer security experience is really why got in the ville early on was located like seventeen eighteen nineteen But i did like everybody else. Pc network technician all kinds of stuff on my journey But really will kinda got me in the identity. Space really was kinda my at least my door into it was. I was a big. Pk guy and so. I was doing a lot of pk. I love peaky i love. I love the crypt in typography in the beauty of it and that led to installing smart cards and that led to install a lot of different. Mfa solutions over the years. I probably installed two hundred. Mfa solutions in different places. Probably more than anybody else. i know. I've probably truly hacked paid the hack. A couple hundred others on probably twenty different projects from different companies. I worked for microsoft and other companies Found stone and stuff like that so kinda throat but it was all really through. Pk i that kinda. Got me into smart cards. Which was kind of the original one of the original multi factor authentication solutions and then and everything else and now you're a data driven defense evangelist. Which is a very cool title. And i'm not sure how how you swung that at no before. So what is what do you actually do. These days actually had the best easy job role. I get paid to write in talk actually. That title was funny as i was. I got hired an written a book called daydream computer data driven computer defense instill was an early big fan of it and really is it truly is like my magnum opus Which is literally says. Hey you should concentrate on the stuff of how you really act. And it's really about data like we're we're supposedly somewhat of a mature industry is what you would think. After thirty forty years of computers and computer security and network found out is that we're not really you know that mature in our thinking we're we're gonna like most cybersecurity is best guesses in gut feelings and when you look at the data a lot of times the data contradicts what. Conventional wisdom is like the nist digital identity guideline documents back in two thousand seventeen. That's nist special publication.
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"Geoff. That's jim hey jim. Hey jeff how are you. Oh not so bad yourself. I'm good but you know what Do levels of human stupidity are being reached with all going on the news. I'm going and this is not a news show but the story. I'm going to report on. Is that the baby from nirvana's nevermind album cover is suing the band at kirk cobain's estate for alleged sexual exploitation so so for people familiar with this cover our with his album. The probably doesn't need to be explained but for those who don't know. Iran is never mind album as recorded like thirty years ago. And it's a baby in the pool being lured in by dollar bill on a fishhook and the baby is naked. Sexual exploitation never crossed my mind with this with this cover but apparently this is left. The baby who's now a thirty year old roan person So distraught that he's suing the band members and people associated with the band for ten people for like a hundred and fifty thousand dollars apiece for like one point five million dollars Absolutely crazy what do you think. I don't know i think this sounds a little bit like a money. Grab almost like the picture itself. But that's just me. I don't guess. I don't have an opinion on it. All one way or the other just seems seems kind of kind of a weird time to do it but who knows. I know. it's definitely a money. Grab as being opportunistic. And this is. I mean as why everybody's free to do anything in this society is that you could be sued for absolutely nothing. I'm sorry there's no way anybody would be able to look at this picture and no it. Was this person this thirty year old man. Now if he wasn't out saying that was me and i was exploited. I'm sorry this is this is just craziness to me. I think the guy's been promoting it for a long time and now i'm not sure why now all of a sudden it's an issue but i'm not a judge and i guess not my pig farm alternate on there why i'm interested to hear what our guest is going to say about it. Yeah so why. Don't we get into it a little bit today. We have a pretty cool conversation. We're gonna talk about hacking multifactoral authentication. I think most people when they have conversation on. Mfa they sita's kinda the end all be all and you know. It's certainly better than a password but does not mean that it's perfect So introduce our guest. His name is roger grimes. He's a data driven defense evangelist at before he's also author of multiple books including one called hacking multi factor indication which you can find an amazon dot com. We'll have a link.
LensWork
"mfa" Discussed on LensWork
"Mfa graduate who wrote this because only someone that young could write something like this and seriously mean it. It was just a classic and so having been immersed in art speak and things like this totality of existence. It got me thinking about what all this is about. And how it doesn't really function to fulfil what i believe is the purpose for art and that is to connect one human being to another. I've said for years that to me. Art is all about connection. It's about connecting to our inner self. It's about connecting to the world. We live in. It's about connecting to other human beings through our artwork. It's about shared experiences. Artwork doesn't exist for an individual although an individual can derive benefit from creating artwork. There's no doubt about that but without the connection to something outside of ourselves. The artwork doesn't have much purpose. it doesn't have much meaning and what meaning it does have is strictly limited to within our own heads and that seems to be sort of. I don't know artistic. Masturbation or something i. It just doesn't seem right to me and so when i read these kinds of art speak statements that do everything they possibly can to obfuscate. What the purpose of the artwork is and two seemingly erect a barrier between the viewer of the artwork and the creator of the artwork. It seems like those kinds of statements work exactly the opposite of the way they ought to work. They're not fostering connection. They're not creating a bridge. That makes it easier for that connection. As a matter of fact there sort of not only making it more difficult. But they're making it almost impossible unless you're part of the club in which case the art speak statement doesn't exist so that it communicates to anybody outside the club. It communicates something like you say. Sub textual level to people that are in the club. That says i'm part of the group. And i've learned how to speak this language so that you can recognize that i'm part of the group but it doesn't help anybody else. Connect with the artwork. In which case. It's a total waste of time. I read hundred seventy five to these kinds of statements. Because i had committed to do so and so i- slogged through it but there was not a single one of those art statements that made my understanding of the imagery. Any clear any easier. Any more powerful anymore connective. It was language that seemed to have the exact.
The Voicebot Podcast
Is Standardization Possible in Conversation Design? Conversations with Things Authors Diana Deibel and Rebecca Evanhoe - Voicebot Podcast Ep 220 - burst 05
"It strikes me as interesting that i have a former playwright. Someone who's trained and fiction writing and those are two disciplines that might have best practices. Sometimes processes assuredly certainly formulas the people of used over time but standards. I'm not sure. I don't think i've ever seen that before. Is this just inherently something about writing scripts language conversation that defies standardization. That's such an interesting question and one we've never been asked before i love this question. I would say yeah. I do think there is something really magical special. An unusual about language in that the tiniest variations can make huge differences in how it's understood. The same sentence can be completely differently. Understood by two different people Their the meaning is not fully made from words on a page or words that you hear it is made in your mind. Combining that information with other data. That's coming to you and your whole history so it is a really kind of wild thing to try and express meaning to another person. I do think that there is Something hard about language that it's always shifting. It's always changing In her diana has some some follow up here to rebecca. Tend to do this all the time where we can fight with each other or like specifically take opposing views just to see where we had a but since i i disagree with her kind of in that i think what you're asking brad or what the piece that i'm taking from it is. The standardization can apply both to like the content as well as the form and the form is absolutely standardize. Like when i think of a script for matt A play for matinee. There's there's forums that are standardizing that way an conversation will will leave and go in different places in. There's no sort of standard method of getting from point. Eight point b but when we look at conversations there is always kind of an arc to them which is how storytelling gets told in conversation. There's something that somebody needs or wants at the beginning. And then that is typically satisfied by the end of that conversation or it's unsatisfied and because of that dissatisfaction. The conversation has ended as that. I think also exists in the kinds of conversations that we talk about with bots. Yeah i think that's interesting because there are like Like in fiction either there is like the dramatic arc with rising action conflict falling resolution all those sorts of things. And so like in you know when you get an mfa or you study an art form you learn kind of the rules and you learn you study. Who's breaking them. And what effect. That has a where like art. Fullness comes in so there is there is attention. I guess between like there are rules but sometimes the best things happen when you break them.
Accidental Tech Podcast
"mfa" Discussed on Accidental Tech Podcast
"Kind of an accident of history of like when these devices came out and somewhat the watch too like. They weren't all released at the same time. They weren't conceived at the same time. And so now here. We are all these different standards less of an excuse for the ipads which probably should all be used by now. But you know dem kovykta solo same designs for years and years so we'll we'll eventually get there but it is the watches the worse one. I think mostly because like at least apples watched. Does anyone third party cell watch charters. I don't even know i. So there are few battery packs. That have like an apple. Watch off to the side and they look like it's it's apples part just shoved in there. Yeah it i. I haven't seen anything that looked notably different Like with the different finish different color or anything like that like so. It seems like there is an mfa program for that but it seems like it's not used very much at see also maxine. That's and that's even. That's the bigger problem with maxine to is like their. I don't know if the mfa program is actually going. I know they announced one. I don't know if i don't know if there's actually like like mac safe stuff being developed under the program. But i haven't seen any it. I don't think any of it's actually out yet and this seems like a huge party opportunity. That's just not being used. The worst part of the watch charters the attached cable. If apple started selling just a little watch little thing like if they had sort of a little constructor set of charging things and this is kind of like. Well you have the cable and then you have the thing you attached to and you could attach it to the flat puck or you gonna attached to the watch puck but apple's pension for attaching the cable permanently to. I'm just looking at a picture keyboard thinking about. He realized that apple permanently attached to the keyboard to it's wired. The does it not miss remembering like. This is the wired apple flat. Aluminum keyboard have the cable permanently. Attached to one. I think it absolutely does anyway. It's it's such a limitation because you know travel like you were saying that you know any any kind of thing where you're like. Let me just get my charging stuff to always have. The absolute one off unit tasker in good eats parlance watch charger. That is inseparable attached to its cable. Which is either way too long or way too short depending on the context they wanna use it versus having a somewhat unified charging infrastructure that you could all label as mag safe where you had like. Pucks are landing. Dones are dishes and then you had bricks and you had cables all sold separately. Apple should love it. Yeah so for me. I do use chee charging the only time i plug in my phone for the most part is occasionally carplay. That's the thing marco where your phone appears on your car's infotainment system. It's really nice. You should check it out sometime So i plug it in for carplay occasionally because now i have that dongli thing that i used for short trips only usually plug it in for longer trips I'll plug it in for car plug it in for development and that's usually it on my bedside table. I have chee charging. I do not have mac safe so this must save battery. Pack that i ordered five ten minutes ago will be my first true for safe device. And i'm looking forward to trying it but That'll be but i'm only on she. I i definitely used she all over the place. I just I don't have any mac safe yet at the mar starting hasn't really connected with me. I did buy the magazines puck. When i got my magazine phone but it just never was never a thing that i wanted to do. I did. I didn't want a section down when it wasn't suction down and fell to slippy just didn't fit into the way. I have things on my bedside. So i've got the puck there my bedside and like i said i just put my pods on it. That's all i do and even the air pods. I still feel a little bit of like not really empathy machine. But it's every third amex. Whatever the hell i don't like the idea of it being less efficient and also potentially producing heat that could shorten the life of any of my batteries. And that's probably fine like that. It doesn't actually get that warm. But every time i picked my air pods off the little the little charging puck and they like the case feels warm or i take out the air pods and they feel or being inside. I'm like that's not grave. They don't feel hot. it's just. I don't know i. I don't really care the airports because the battery so small. Hr so fast but everything else plug my stuff and still which. I also don't like it because you know. We have so many lighting devices in this house and so many kids to so many. And i look at the lightning connector and you see the little brown marks from like scorching or whatever that is that one pin that shorts out from charging any. I don't know if it's it's shorting or it's corroding but like it. Just go after the show. Go look at all the lightning cables in your house and look at the little tiny connectors and see they all look uniformly shiny gold with notice coloration or one or two of them have little dark brown smudges on them when i plug in trying to pick like the good of the seventeen cables that are there. Pick the good one with the least of the scorch marks. I don't want that's infecting beautiful and even on my nightstand. Kids charge their.
Identity at the Center
"mfa" Discussed on Identity at the Center
"The security requirements vary so much industry to industry is a lot of commonality in we can focus on that eighty twenty portion but a I hesitate to use the term best practice and but as far as our are we. Baking that into the model here At this stage were focusing more on the on the basic building blocks. You know not so much on. Maybe the templates. That would be a part of a recommended pallet. Future you i can. I can anticipate that happening over time. But at the moment were you still one st here. I kind of feel we're talking almost in terms of like contract language right. We are negotiating. The baseline risk that is acceptable. And then what are the areas that were able to accept risk and that might be setting here or there those sorts of things. So you know. I kind of thinking here. It's like okay. Sounds like a if we can agree at least on a common platform right. We can all agree that. Mfa is good right. We should have all right great and then it becomes okay. Well what are the methods for. Mfa okay. Well sms not really recommended anymore but better than nothing right. What's the target and you kind of go for this negotiation between security compliance in the business to kind of come up with best practice for that organization using maybe a common kind of fundamental security setting that everyone agrees on and then you tweak it from there until you're comfortable with whatever risk is is identified as acceptable agreed and i think in the family factor authentication is is something that a lot of people can agree on is a good thing. It's a step by step up. Its improvement out by the end. The terminology discussion is is fine as an exercise. But i think the real challenge for practitioners is how do we install it implemented especially with all of these legacy systems that were never built in a cloud native way and maybe we don't have source code or don't control it so.
The Book Review
A Desperate Writer Steals 'the Plot'
"Let's start with the premise of this book. And i i want to say upfront. There are a number of big twists plot to us in this book and we are not going to give away anything. So if you haven't read the book please don't fear. We will not ruin it for you. But give us the premise. The is about a a writer who i think we can. Safely say has failed is failing is well on his way to complete obscurity and he is seen in a pretty bottom of the barrel. Mfa program a low residency mfa program in into his classroom into his depression about his life walks. Just the worst of all possible students. He's arrogant he's dismissive. He has no time for anybody especially his teacher. Jake and he basically says i donate any of you people because i am writing this great novel that is going to be so successful that all of the good things that we book world are aware are going to happen to this novel. And jake ecorse dismisses this as the the arrogance of the young and the the early career writer the untried writer but then during a private conference he actually. Here's this plot and he unfortunately realizes that everything that this guy has said is going to come true. Some years later when he's even closer to the terminus of his own career he discovers that this young man has died and has died pretty soon after their encounter air. Go there is no book. There's not even a manuscript. There's only this story and as any writer would agree. This is a story that has to be told so. He writes his own novel with the story and all of the good things that his former student has predicted come true but he can't really enjoy it because he so terrified that somebody is going to step out of the shadows and accused him immense. Somebody does and the rest of the novelist really about his trying to steer clear of this person tried to avoid the disaster that this person represents for his professional life in his personal life and also ultimately to find out who this person is and where the story came. Pro-
Elevate: The Official Podcast of Elite Agent Magazine
Optimizing your reputation online with Sean Smith
"Welcome to another episode of the elevate. Podcast where we into some of the most interesting minds in business in real estate for the very best cheap since strategies it implemented. Elevate your business. I'm smith mclean. Editor relate agent and host of today's show on today's show joined by podium regional sales directors. Sean smith with a background in real estate that includes property management support and also some time we thrill state dot com delay. You sean carter. Focus involves helping agencies obtain and manage their online reviews which is very important. So welcome to the show sean. Thank you samantha. Grades of asia. That was a male phil. Welcome to the show on like this is a bit of alliteration going on there. So let's dive straight in an online reviews and you always hear about the importance of reviews. Why do they medicine much match. Agents online reputation depends when you're talking about online reviews of it is for an agency if they'd just using reviews as a way to get some nice testimonials that they wanna put on their website. That's great doesn't drive new business. So when i think of reviews and the reason i've come over into this space and i'm so passionate about reviews. Specifically in the real estate sector reviews me business. Landlords vandals looking at online reviews. They're only looking for one reason and that's to safer. The next agency is that they appoint to manage their property all sell the property much. That loss check isn't it. Because you do research and you jumping in jump out you do all sorts of other things as it can chamber and then finally before you make that selection you go and look at the reviews right absolutely absolutely any. It could be the difference between someone being photo to a great agent. That person still check those reviews and they might get turned off even if it's the best friends recommendation. Yeah it's an interesting topic but reviews on just about reputation. They're all about search engine optimization as well so can you talk us through how that works exactly questions. I'd encourage everyone listening to this when you get to a desktop buta or a about such real estate agency and then put in the suburb of your agency. If you're not just looking there at agencies that have a couple of reviews you'll get the most recommended agencies in that area and that's tied down to run about eight or nine out of ten. Seo factors with google a purely tied to those reviews whether they've recent reviews whether you consistently and frequently get those reviews and also you start writing in your total number as well but then the baffle the nettle. Yeah that's interesting. So google is actually ranking people based on race of reviews and based on the number of reviews and i also take it. The velocity of reviews like committee reviews of coming over sitting period of time. Absolutely in that in google's is that comes down to they want to make sure that this isn't just a flash in the pan for an office so if an office is ten reviews an and then they go. You know what this is really important. Add an extra hundred reviews next week. We're gonna ask all about science. That might look good in your number of reviews. No star writing but google's not going to look super favorably on that because it's not part of your process if you're looking at reviews as a new business strategy for instance make pot of every process make it part of the selling journey make it part of the. The tenant janis well finding appropriate after. They signed a lease in that secured the premise austin for review. It will just happen day down. Yeah that's interesting. And i want to get to asking for reviews because partying does that exceptionally well. We just talked a lot about google but there are a whole lot of review platforms agents right my agent real estate facebook etc in european. Where should agents focus. Think it depends a lot on what they're trying to which eighth with each of these different viewpoint foams. I'm very biased. Because google has actually backed podium. Not necessarily the best choice to get involved in which platform would always encourage people to find out where the custom is a finding them from. I know that some of those review sites. They're focused on buys intense. We know whether going though if they looking for property reviews probably on really influence. Mfa looking to buy property. Google is the first point. Of course someone doing the research on like i say land rivendell doing the research on the agency that they going to enlist. They'll be agent the agency and the brand. That's what google is absolutely the number one place because it's tied into your phone. It's tied into a web browser you see it straightaway and you can see her as the most recommended agency
Cyber Security Headlines
Cyber Security Headlines 15th January 2021
"Packers waltzed past mfa used by seesaw. On cloud. Accounts multi factor. Authentication is one of the strongest security protocols. We have but it's not infallible on wednesday. The us cyber security infrastructure security agency revealed that malicious actors bypassed mfa to get into its cloud service accounts cease said that the threat actors had tried multiple times to breaches systems by various tactics including fishing brute force logging attempts and possibly a pass the cookie attack which involves the theft of authentication cookies from browsers and related processes. That's how the attackers were able to hijack an authenticated session by using stolen session cookies to access ceases online services social media convulses after capital attack. A widespread shakeup is underway facebook's yanking posts of flyers promoting events leading up to biden's inauguration as terrorism and cyber experts helped the platform to ferret out images calling for harm the walkie talkie app zillow which hasn't proactively moderated content has deleted over two thousand militia related channels after finding it was used by insurrectionists and parlor the social media app favored by trump supporters. May never come back for having been scraped off the app. Stores kicked out by slack and cut by amazon. Ceo john matzec told reuters parlor filed charges on wednesday asking for amazon to be forced to restore its service. Google fixes bug that delayed kovic contact tracing apps. The api bug affected contact. Tracing apps worldwide delaying notifications sent to android users. The apps are built on top of the exposure notification system an api that google released jointly with apple to help health services develop contact tracing apps it looks like the problem only manifested on android devices. Not on ios the api. Let's developers create contact tracing tools that protect privacy by relying on bluetooth to exchange anonymous keys between smartphones an easy way to warn users if they've been in contact with someone who later tested positive apple yanks feature that lets apps bypass mac. Os firewalls and vpn's has removed the content filter exclusion list from mac. Os eleven point. Two beta to k known as big sur. The controversial feature had allowed fifty three of apple's own apps to bypass third party firewalls security tools and vpn apps that users themselves had installed for their own protection. The list included some of apple's biggest apps such as the app store maps and i cloud security researchers had discovered the problem this past october and had called it a security nightmare waiting to happen
Dressed: The History of Fashion
The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion with Petra Slinkard
"You are here to discuss the peabody essex. Museum latest exhibition the women who revolutionized fashion two hundred and fifty years of design as the title suggests. This is not by any means a small topic. Can you tell us about the exhibit and a little bit about the inspiration behind its creation. Sure absolutely So this exhibition actually is a partnership that we did our we're doing i should say With the consortium and then hand in the netherlands and it is an extension of a show. They put on called them. Vitol's strong women and fashion and their show then travelled to belgium and we are essentially kind of the third venue. But it's. It's an interesting collaboration because it's not an identical repaying of their show so they're installation on which was was beautiful and spanned multiple rooms in multiple galleries and our show is going to be designed a little bit differently And part of reason that we were very excited to partner with consortium is that they're so accommodating on really great partners they allowed us to borrow sixty objects from their election which was huge for us because of course the european collection Phenomenal works that represent into the big european designers for which doesn't have that much representation and but of course being in the united states. We really wanted to draw out of some additional stories that pertain to designers the twentieth century. But also american designers For whom there wasn't as much representation in their show the we've been able to augment With twenty five works from our own collection some of which are recent acquisitions and We borrowed a few pieces from the mfa in boston. We brought to pieces from the chicago history museum and then we're working with To private collectors. So there are a hundred eight mannequins in the show. It's a really big show and it does run the gamut. We say two hundred and fifty years. It's not of course the comprehensive look but it does span that timeframe and so why an exhibition dedicated to i mean. This probably goes without saying what inspired you to do. An exhibition dedicated just to women designers. Well that's a great question It actually takes me back to a time in chicago. Because i was working at the post. Your museum as the custom curators there and of course as a social history museum we were definitely thinking about a twenty twenty s. A hallmark year for the anniversary of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. And so even then this back in two thousand seventeen By partner just kapoor. And i were already beginning to catacomb the collection and look to see what we might do in honor of women. Because of museum itself was looking to do a year of women based programming and exhibitions. My life changed. Because i. I moved tuesday when massachusetts became the vashon. Tech's curator the peabody essex museum. Is i kind of put that idea dressed. Rest until i was scrolling through instagram. One evening saw me ho. Hey who's curator at the museum post image of stack of books and i noticed all the names on the books. And they were all women designers. She said something pithy like coming soon. And you know a strong women fashion. And so i sent her a direct message and i said hey. Tell me more what is going on. What are you doing when he planning And she told me about the show. And i said oh. That's really interesting and said you'll have you ever worked with the us institution before she said. No we haven't What would you be interested. And she said yes so. I went and saw the expedition. And i came back and i spoke with our colleagues here in just so happened that we had a are scheduled for twenty twenty and We really been thinking at that point about doing anything dedicated to him in and so it all fell into place We were slated to open in may but of course because of covid that did not happen. but again because we have great partners they were very flexible. And now we're opening number twenty first.
Dressed: The History of Fashion
The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion with Petra Slinkard
"Seven billion people in the world. We all have one thing in common every day. We all get dressed. Welcome to trust the history of fashion. Podcasts are we explore the who what of why we wear. We are fashion historian and your host april kellyanne and cassidy zachary will hello dressed listeners. Today we are very excited to feature an exhibition. That does something that you know. We love to do on dressed. And that is celebrating the work of bad ass ladies from their history and today. And that's right because today we are welcoming the peabody essex museum fashion and textile curator pitcher sling card to the show to discuss. The exhibition. Made it the women who've revolutionized fashion and as the museum's website says through more than one hundred works made it celebrates the stories of women who revolutionized many aspects of the fashion industry and traces how these efforts parallel history of women's global struggle for equity and opportunity exhibition is actually collaboration between pem and the kunst museum didn't hog in the netherlands and it features clothing from both of these museums collections. As well as from private and public collections and so from every designer from elizabeth keck lead to lady. Lucille gordon to madeleine to bonnie cashin and low mary. Quant and then all the way to more contemporary designers like rei kawakubo Irishman herpin gina. Kuma you do not want to miss this exhibition. It actually just opened in its on view until march twenty twenty one yes and alas we will not be able to make it to salem massachussetts in person this year especially right now so what better way to celebrate this exhibition them by being joined by his co. curator patriot. Welcome to the show. He had show welcome to dress. It's such a pleasure to have you here today thank you. I'm excited to be with you. So you are here to discuss the peabody essex. Museum latest exhibition the women who revolutionized fashion two hundred and fifty years of design as the title suggests. This is not by any means a small topic. Can you tell us about the exhibit and a little bit about the inspiration behind its creation. Sure absolutely So this exhibition actually is a partnership that we did our we're doing i should say With the consortium and then hand in the netherlands and it is an extension of a show. They put on called them. Vitol's strong women and fashion and their show then travelled to belgium and we are essentially kind of the third venue. But it's. It's an interesting collaboration because it's not an identical repaying of their show so they're installation on which was was beautiful and spanned multiple rooms in multiple galleries and our show is going to be designed a little bit differently And part of reason that we were very excited to partner with consortium is that they're so accommodating on really great partners they allowed us to borrow sixty objects from their election which was huge for us because of course the european collection Phenomenal works that represent into the big european designers for which doesn't have that much representation and but of course being in the united states. We really wanted to draw out of some additional stories that pertain to designers the twentieth century. But also american designers For whom there wasn't as much representation in their show the we've been able to augment With twenty five works from our own collection some of which are recent acquisitions and We borrowed a few pieces from the mfa in boston. We brought to pieces from the chicago history museum and then we're working with To private collectors. So there are a hundred eight mannequins in the show. It's a really big show and it does run the gamut. We say two hundred and fifty years. It's not of course the comprehensive look but it does span that timeframe and so why an exhibition dedicated to i mean. This probably goes without saying what inspired you to do. An exhibition dedicated just to women designers. Well that's a great question It actually takes me back to a time in chicago. Because i was working at the post. Your museum as the custom curators there and of course as a social history museum we were definitely thinking about a twenty twenty s. A hallmark year for the anniversary of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment. And so even then this back in two thousand seventeen By partner just kapoor. And i were already beginning to catacomb the collection and look to see what we might do in honor of women. Because of museum itself was looking to do a year of women based programming and exhibitions. My life changed. Because i. I moved tuesday when massachusetts became the vashon. Tech's curator the peabody essex museum. Is i kind of put that idea dressed. Rest until i was scrolling through instagram. One evening saw me ho. Hey who's curator at the museum post image of stack of books and i noticed all the names on the books. And they were all women designers. She said something pithy like coming soon. And you know a strong women fashion.
WBZ Afternoon News
Art museum accused of racism names 1st director of inclusion
"Of Fine Arts has named its first director of belonging and inclusion. The facility, says Rosa Rodriguez Williams will play a critical role in helping to make the MFA a museum for all of Boston. Museum was accused of racism last year after black middle school students said they were mistreated on a class trip by other patrons, as well as a staff member
Bookworm
Elizabeth Wetmore Interview
"Today. I'm rejoining Elizabeth what more Beth what more to talk about how? At Age fifty two, she published her first novel Valentine. A novel that not only is superb. It made its debut at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The book is wonderful an impressive demonstration of the power of women's voices to carry a novel. Now, I'm very interested Elizabeth. How is it? That this. Is Your first novel at Age Fifty Two when did you start writing? Well I don't think I wrote my first short story until I was in my late twenties and I was a reader and I loved books and I read voraciously and impulsively as a little girl if somewhat in a somewhat unfocused manner and and really I don't come from a background where one becomes a writer at least not as a profession. So I think that this sort of combination of of a a kind of holding writers in such esteem I as a little girl in even as a young woman, I thought authors were. Other worldly they were sages and priests and rabbis and holy people live all sorts but I didn't think of writers as being particularly human or occupying the same world as the rest of us So I even write my first short story until I was in my late twenties but I read a lot and I love to read and I thought it must be a pretty holy profession to spend your time telling stories. I fell in love with reading and I had a hard time imagining who a writer might be. I, confused my teachers with riders. I thought that they and the books they taught me came from some specially magical and creative source and I felt song lucky. that. There were special classes when I was in elementary school, it had the ugly Title I. G C Intellectually Gifted Children. By the time I was in high school it was called AP advanced placement but whatever it was called we got to read the best books. One of my teachers took us not to the school library but to a public library where the head librarian was a friend of hers and we were able to take out adult books in this book, your new novel your first. Novel. Valentine one of the characters is reading the scarlet letter. There's a beautiful quote it's not identified, but I recognized it from Charlotte's Web. She here's the beauty of language, the children who are readers here that beauty and they find it on the local bookmobile. The comes to a nearby parking lot a parking lot that's near the strip. Strip joint. It's kind of amazing on the one hand you have. lost. Romantic children getting books and on the other hand you have the men watching the women taking their clothes off and that defied is the divide that defines this novel. But at a certain point Beth, you are at Iowa the Iowa Riders Program How did that happen? When I was waiting tables in Phoenix I started taking community fiction workshop It was being taught by to Grad students at Arizona State, and at that particular time, I don't know if they still do this. But at that time they the MFA students had to do some kind of community service project. So these two guys were teaching this community fiction writing workshop and. I sort of made my way into that and that was where I started and then at some point I was able to to sort of I wouldn't say sneak-in but I was able to get permission to sit on an MFA level workshop at Asu and just sort of as a guest It was really lucky and I'm not sure it would happen today. But but the long and the short of it is I was able to sit in on a class being taught by Ron Carlson who really encouraged me than to apply to Grad School, and I'm the first generation of my family to go to college I. Grew up in a really really working class background. So Honestly It wasn't until I was in my late twenties that I even really knew that there were such things as MFA programs when I signed up for that community fiction workshop was when I learned that there were MFA programs out there So So I was encouraged by a by a mentor to to apply and I did and You know initially he had said to me go do some research and come back in. So I, I went and did a little reading and came back with a sort of list of places to fly in University of Texas Syracuse Iowa was not even on my radar until he said, why is in Iowa on? What year is this one, thousand, nine, hundred, nine, I went to I. I was at Iowa from two, thousand, two two. Then I think it's easy to forget that there are whole swats of the you know the population for whom these kinds of things just are not on the radar at all. I mean for me the biggest one of the biggest things that happened in my life ever and and I would hold it in the top ten to this day was the day that book mobile parked on that lot because for me men I could check out books at at my pleasure ride I could just ride my bike up and get them. I didn't have to wait for someone to take downtown to the to the one library you know. So these things were not on my radar. That one could devote one's life to to telling stories into thinking about beauty.
Bookworm
Elizabeth Wetmore: 'Valentine'
"Today. I'm rejoining Elizabeth what more Beth what more to talk about how? At Age fifty two, she published her first novel Valentine. A novel that not only is superb. It made its debut at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The book is wonderful an impressive demonstration of the power of women's voices to carry a novel. Now, I'm very interested Elizabeth. How is it? That this. Is Your first novel at Age Fifty Two when did you start writing? Well I don't think I wrote my first short story until I was in my late twenties and I was a reader and I loved books and I read voraciously and impulsively as a little girl if somewhat in a somewhat unfocused manner and and really I don't come from a background where one becomes a writer at least not as a profession. So I think that this sort of combination of of a a kind of holding writers in such esteem I as a little girl in even as a young woman, I thought authors were. Other worldly they were sages and priests and rabbis and holy people live all sorts but I didn't think of writers as being particularly human or occupying the same world as the rest of us So I even write my first short story until I was in my late twenties but I read a lot and I love to read and I thought it must be a pretty holy profession to spend your time telling stories. I fell in love with reading and I had a hard time imagining who a writer might be. I, confused my teachers with riders. I thought that they and the books they taught me came from some specially magical and creative source and I felt song lucky. that. There were special classes when I was in elementary school, it had the ugly Title I. G C Intellectually Gifted Children. By the time I was in high school it was called AP advanced placement but whatever it was called we got to read the best books. One of my teachers took us not to the school library but to a public library where the head librarian was a friend of hers and we were able to take out adult books in this book, your new novel your first. Novel. Valentine one of the characters is reading the scarlet letter. There's a beautiful quote it's not identified, but I recognized it from Charlotte's Web. She here's the beauty of language, the children who are readers here that beauty and they find it on the local bookmobile. The comes to a nearby parking lot a parking lot that's near the strip. Strip joint. It's kind of amazing on the one hand you have. lost. Romantic children getting books and on the other hand you have the men watching the women taking their clothes off and that defied is the divide that defines this novel. But at a certain point Beth, you are at Iowa the Iowa Riders Program How did that happen? When I was waiting tables in Phoenix I started taking community fiction workshop It was being taught by to Grad students at Arizona State, and at that particular time, I don't know if they still do this. But at that time they the MFA students had to do some kind of community service project. So these two guys were teaching this community fiction writing workshop and. I sort of made my way into that and that was where I started and then at some point I was able to to sort of I wouldn't say sneak-in but I was able to get permission to sit on an MFA level workshop at Asu and just sort of as a guest It was really lucky and I'm not sure it would happen today. But but the long and the short of it is I was able to sit in on a class being taught by Ron Carlson who really encouraged me than to apply to Grad School, and I'm the first generation of my family to go to college I. Grew up in a really really working class background. So Honestly It wasn't until I was in my late twenties that I even really knew that there were such things as MFA programs when I signed up for that community fiction workshop was when I learned that there were MFA programs out there So So I was encouraged by a by a mentor to to apply and I did and You know initially he had said to me go do some research and come back in. So I, I went and did a little reading and came back with a sort of list of places to fly in University of Texas Syracuse Iowa was not even on my radar until he said, why is in Iowa on?
Asian Americana
That's Just The Way The Ball Bounces
"The way we speak in the words we use are shaped by so many things, and that includes the family friends culture and language we grow up around for me growing up bilingual in. Thai. In English meant I was pretty used to code switching between the two for others. There may have been phrases in other languages that have stuck with you. Maybe A. To encourage someone or disapproving deny when you're being wasteful or even an exclamation of when you drop something or. To get someone's attention and these phrases include ones in English to sings like longtime. No see and no-can-do Asian American or rooted in the language of Nineteenth Century Chinese American immigrants. These words can serve lifeline to the boys of our cultural and linguistic heritage. But for some others, they're away to cope to find comfort and solace familiar mindset. They think when this pandemic began, I, was like really spinning out about it and I think my grandma really tapped into that and. She got from repeating this phrase to me thought she used to always say to me when I was a kid, but it wasn't just in this kind of like funny way that she's to always say this when we were growing up, felt a lot more like meaningful and intentional than that. That's Julianne. Parker minutes Chilean. Parker. I'm a documentary film producer in now in pursuing my MFA in creative nonfiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Fourth Generation, Japanese American woman. As she was saying her grandmother's particular turn of phrase had a change in tone, and it also felt really practiced like she was kind of returning to a mind state that she ben in before, and so I kind of wanted to understand that I started to draw parallels. My mind between be sparing says that my grandma has now lived through were she was out this like. Like real loss of control over her own life, and so I, kind of just wanted to understand her mentality a little bit better and see what I could learn from it. Today, we hear from contributor, Julianne Parker as she explores the depth and meaning of her grandmother signature saying in, that's just the way. The Ball Bounces I'm Quincy Sarah Smith and this is Asian Americana. Julianne. Bobby, how are you? Ever. Since I was a kid my grandma I've called each other a few times a week. Cross doing the crossword. So she used to call me every Thursday to remind me to serie chickens at Safeway. We're going on sale the next day. Or Two tell me when Walmart started selling Mentos for five cents cheaper than rose ours. I'm just as quick to call her with good news courtesy. She's always been my most enthusiastic cheerleader. She's eager to shower me with pride in praise for getting a good grade. You're finding a good discount on a pair of shoes. To call because I heard you made us tonight I, did make asparagus night 'cause. Really impressive. Lately, we don't have as much to talk about. It's the spring of two, thousand and twenty and in the midst of waiting out the coronavirus. Parents moved my grandma into their house. When the virus I broke out in nursing homes. In Seattle in hopes, it would lower her risk of exposure. And I'm finishing school remotely. So, our lives have gotten pretty quiet. These days when we call, we usually start by talking about the weather. Beautiful. Weather we've been. Lucky really. Man, and then again update on where she's out with their latest jigsaw puzzle. One. Smaller, and all the lights. Only entertaining thing I have to offer her now are updates about my quarantine inspired virtual dating experiences. So I, really leaning into it. Okay. What's going on with your own dates? We upgraded? We're not just doing folks. We're doing a facetime. For my top house bottom half is You've gotta be kidding. But inevitably, the conversation always turns back to the coronavirus. Everyone. You know everywhere, it just seems strange Oh. This world is. At a standstill, even a small portion isn't that crazy I mean everything's great. You know you know can go how long is because last I've never seen anything like this. I think we all through. And then without fail, the conversation ends with. Well. That's just the way. The boxers.
Good Together: Ethical, Eco-Friendly, Sustainable Living
What Circular Fashion Really Means with Levi's
"Okay, welcome to good together Paul. We're so excited to have you. I'm really excited to be talking to you all today. This is a great time. We've got some exciting exciting product and it's a really. I don't know it's an interesting time to think about changing the way we've been consuming changing the way we've been designing making, and so it seems like a nice inflection point for all. Just sort of. Pause. -olutely. Absolutely I think right now we all are faced with more time than ever before on our hands. It's giving us a great opportunity to be mindful like you just mentioned. BSO listeners were super excited to how Paul Dillinger the together podcast Paul is the vice president head of global product innovation in premium collection design, for Levi, Strauss and company, and I love that we're having the chance to talk with Paul for many reasons. But one reason is because when we think about heritage craft American brands that are known for products that last a long time I. Think everyone has Levi's pop into their head and I'm not just saying that I think has just been a brand that we've all trusted for years. So the fact that we've is is taking a step towards circular fashion were super excited at So Paul I wonder if you wanted to give us a really brief intro of yourself and sort of what you do at Levi's. Sure. Thank you for that introduction I. It's a fancy title and it's but it. It's easy to say I'm a fashion designer. That's that was my training to undergraduate and graduate school. In my MFA in fashion, design and I designed clothes but leave there's a recognition that beyond just the seasonal cycle you know spring clothes fall clothes in spring shows fall shows beyond that just a six month normal fashion cadence. There are some design challenges that take more time. There are some opportunities that you you can't. Really you can't. Tackle problem resolved delivery in in just two seasons sometimes the real. Big changes they need a little more time to be cultivated research developed. And thoughtfully executed and those sorts of projects fall to me. So rather than designing. For next fall or next spring I'm thinking about a systems based approach to changing the design method allergy entirely five years from now or new materials that might actually deliver value ten years from now it's more of a it's a the fashion skillset, but I'm a Senate set to longer view. And and which is interesting because we're the company that straddles this company that straddles. The fashion versus utility space. You Know Levi's were essentially a tool I for minors to make. You know up to. The Goldfields in and and our but. Our value was predicated on technical innovation, right it was the adding the copper rivet to a garment that was wearing out in certain spots and we added that rivet and it made it strong in those spots and we patented it, and then we became like the. Created. This whole this category world's biggest purveyor of Denim, which then slowly changed from being a tool being object of faction. So at once we're this company that has invented A. Thing and durable both in the form and also emotionally durable that people love their genes. Last may become good friends. We're also part of the fashion cycle and we do seasonal product and we try to stay relevant instead of trend and and and and and resonant with the with contemporary consumers, and so there's a dynamic tension in the Levi's in this sort of struggled under. It's sort of carefully weaving those together.
The New Yorker: Fiction
Tommy Orange Reads Louise Erdrich
"This month we're going to hear the years of my birth by Louisa Drake, which was published in the New Yorker in January of two thousand eleven growing up in the midst of a large family I had never registered visitations from my presence. At those rare moments when I was alone as something strange. The first time I was aware of it was when I was taken from Betty and putting the White Room. After that occasionally had the sensation that there was someone walking beside me or sitting behind you. Always, just beyond my peripheral vision. The story was chosen by Tommy Orange whose first novel there there was published in two thousand eighteen and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Hi Tony. Hey Deborah. So what made you choose a story by Louis urging for the podcast so you had published, I think last year. Short story of hers called The stone is a pretty short short story and is it was a strange story and it just struck me So when you asked me to choose a story I went looking for another one of hers. She's actually published a lot in the New Yorker because I haven't known her for Short Sir she only as one collection of short stories you don't with pretty massive career, most of her stories started stories and end up in her novels. Yes. That's what I've heard her say and this one just struck me I think it's such a perfect story. In what way is perfect for you. You know what I love that fiction can do is the way it can get inside a consciousness and the way it can push mystery. There's something. So mysterious in this story and I don't necessarily always like magical realism but what Lewis does so well, in a lot of her work is sort of pushing boundaries of reality where it still believable still realism you never are asked to believe too much sort of realism's magic. There's something so strange and mysterious about it and really powerful the sort of cultural touchdowns that she does. So subtly though a native culture plays into it in the way, white culture comes up. Yeah. It's interesting because there is a supernatural component, but it can also be read as almost completely realistic. You can kind of how much you WANNA. Think of this as a kind of allegorical story and how much you want to think of it as real. Yeah. This is exactly what what I love about this story and what Louise doesn't work like I said. And if you've been reading, Lewis worked for most of her writing career at least. I mean, she's definitely one of my favorite writers of all time but I came to her a little bit later in my reading path. It wasn't until I was going to the Institute of American Indian Arts Getting my MFA a lot of native literature I didn't come to until getting into the program I. Sort of came in through a back door reading. Wise. I read a lot of work in translation, but I read love medicine I and just completely fell in love with her work. And do you feel the connection for you is that you have shared native American heritage? Definitely when I first started reading actually was a little bit turned off to some native fiction because it was. So reservation based and I, I have this urban experience but that was just sort of at the beginning of me thinking about native representation what it would look like in my own work the way that she handles bringing in native culture I think is so perfect. There's a clumsy way to do it and she never does it that way. always comes across really organically. and. Do you think that this story the the years of my birthday this characteristic if that main character as we'll discover is actually not native. Yeah I. Think the way that that works for the reader to something. Really Cool. Sort of putting you into a native family as a white character does a lot of work for the story I think. We'll talk more after the story and now here's Tommy Orange reading the years of my birth by Louise urge. The years of my birth. The nurse had wrapped my brother and a blue flannel blanket and was just about to hand him to his mother when she whispered. Oh God there's another one and out I slid half dead. I then proceeded to diner ernest going from slightly pink to a dull grey blue at which point the nurse tried to scoop me into a bed warm by lights. She was stopped by the doctor who pointed out my head and legs. Stepping between and the mother, the doctor addressed her. Mrs Lascher I've something important to say your other child had a congenital deformity and may die. Shall we use extraordinary means to salvage it? She looked at the doctor with utter incomprehension at first then cried. No.
MFA: The Parenting Edition
MFA Trailer
"Welcome to MFA: The Parenting Edition, I'm Taisha Cameron. I'm a mom to feisty, fiery, fierce, flailing, finicky toddler and I'm a trained actor. These lessons from the theatre for raising ourselves and our kids came about when I realized my MFA in acting trained me for life as a mommy better than life as a full-time actor. Yes, my quest to slay at conscious parenting led me back to my grueling three year conservatory training at the New School for Drama. Here's what we have to look forward to on this journey. Each week we'll band together in the name of Artistic Parenthood to explore challenging life questions through stories, theatrical explorations and experiments to try at home. We'll end each episode with the Raise a Glass Series, a space for reflection and gratitude centered around the topic of the day, inspired by lyrics from Hamilton: An American Musical. So, let's unite to build a village designed to raise ourselves while guiding our children with humor, respect and compassion. No theatrical experience is necessary for this voyage. All you need is an open mind and a little imagination. From the Method to mommy meltdowns and all the moments in between, welcome to MFA.
Monday Morning Critic Podcast
"Be Water" ESPN 30 for 30 Director: Bao Nguyen.
"From. nyu You received your MFA from the School of Visual Arts also in New, York City how important are those degrees to supplement your ability as director? I mean I, think for. You know film, school and Education, the most important thing I take away from it is like building a community and finding like minded people who love films and you kind of carry on that love after you graduated in your work together on your on your feature, your future projects and and I mean obviously the education is important, but I think the relationships you take away from it or more important now. Is there I mean I know? For those who see the documentary, they know kind of what influence you partially to really loving a certain aspect of Bruce Lee, but is there any other driving forces that really kind of? Propelled you where you are today whether it's a filmmaker or an actor or a movie itself. I remember seeing a hoop dreams when I was pretty young. I was about ten or eleven, and it was just A. He's the first time I really saw documentary like a feature length documentary, and it's such an epic story right also an intimate at the same time, and I think it's informing me of like the type of story said I'm interested in the type of storytelling I'm interested in and also kind of the power of sports in the drama of Sports, and and how you can use sports as a way to talk about bigger issues in society, and so I think that film definitely played a role in how I. How I became a documentary filmmaker and I mean it's not a directly to to be water I. think he can maybe see. Some of the piano correlation. Oh absolutely, absolutely and you know. You've done some really creative and really great projects, but we documentary like be water that you're connected. Do personally that you? Again for anyone that has seen it. For the thirtieth. The world seated at this point. You know you really have a fondness in a your linked emotionally to the person you're you're you're making the documentary on become something else at that point? Right because it's still such a beautiful work of art, but because of your connection because of the way Bruce Lee moved you. Does. It become something else at that point bow. In your for me when I'm making it film. Tired of want to infuse my own voice in the not literally. You don't hear me speaking as a narrator anything like that, but I think that films at I'm kind of drawn to are the ones that feel personal and honest and authentic, and you can really feel the directors hand. Especially in a film, we were talking about such an icon that maybe anyone else could have done a certain style of Bruce. Lee Fill of documentary about Bruce. Lee But I wanted to make sure that this felt like my film, and by kind of going deep into my roots my parents Vietnamese refugees. They left Vietnam on a boat. We're living in Hong Kong refugee camp for for six months and then. Went over to America the very similar story to Bruce's in terms of coming to America. And not having connections, not really having any money, and that was sort of the Bruce Lee that I felt like I didn't know too much. About Bruce Lee as the immigrant American as Asian, American as the other American. So, I tried to infuse like what lessons I learned from my parents, and for my own upbringing as a child of immigrants and use that to make the films feel personal and have that touch point in a way. So yeah that was that was always the intention and I hope people. Felt that kind of personal filmmaking style. Even though we're talking about an icon like briefly. Yeah, I can't even imagine what it's like. Because you talk very very early in a documentary about you know, it's the very first time you recognize yourself. Somebody on screen. That isn't stereotypical or lacking the respect. They deserve I. Mean I can't believe I mean it. Had to be an. You've answered this such a passion project just because of the effect man had on you and millions of others as well. Yeah I mean I could say that. I was in like one of those huge Bruce Lee fans at went out and collected everything and. Watched every single movie ten times over, but as a symbol, and as an icon for representation for kind of hero, and fighting for the underdog, definitely left a mark on me and again it was just trying to unpack that that that iconography that mythology that I felt. Everyone knew, but they didn't know the person, and and that being said I agree responsibility, obviously telling the story of someone like Bruce Lee but I started to think of it more as a privilege that I'm privileged to have the opportunity to tell lead story into. You know mess it up in many ways and I once. I understood it more as a privilege recognized. It made it less of a daunting task I
LensWork
Photographic Literacy
"Here's the editor of Lens. Work Publishing Bruce Jensen. Let me confess right here at the beginning of this podcast that it's not always necessary to know where you've been in order to look ahead and know where you're going but it's awfully useful sometimes to know the history of what it is that you're about to attempt and to know how other people have tried to do what you're about to try to do and to learn from them as they say if. I've seen farther than others is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants. What would this in mind? You can imagine my reaction when the following story occurred. I was attending a photo review session. I was doing reviews there and I was looking through a body of work from a young woman and in the course of normal conversation talking about her work. I said well. This work reminds me a lot of the work of Edward Weston which I intended sort of a compliment but also to indicate to her that what she was doing wasn't necessarily as new and innovative and revolutionary as she thought it was and I was absolutely nonplussed. When her response was who's Edward Weston she had previously explained that she had an MFA in photography. So I wasn't quite sure how to respond to the fact that an MFA graduate in photography had never heard of Edward Weston and didn't know who he was explained a little bit about Edward Weston and the history of photography and she then explained that in the program that she was involved in she did not have to take the history of photography as that was an elective in her program. And I I suppose that's okay but as you can imagine. I was a little bit discouraged by that. But I've softened over the years and I realized that maybe maybe there's more to this than meets the eye because the problem is there's no limit to that train of thought. Okay so maybe you've heard of Edward Weston but you haven't heard of Mortenson okay maybe you've heard of Mortenson but you haven't heard of Ph Emerson. How far back do you go? How much knowledge do you have to have? How obscure a photographer is necessary. In order for you to have what might be considered a legitimate excuse for not ever having heard from of course. Edward Weston's very famous photographer but fame is also something that is curious in this regard. For example I just recently discovered of novelist from the nineteenth century named J S Fletcher. I'd never heard of J S Fletcher and turns out. He was during his lifetime practically the most popular crime novelist of his generation. Rivaling Sir Arthur CONAN doyle and Sherlock Holmes. And all of that J S Fletcher wrote two hundred thirty some odd books and I just discovered I'd never heard of him never heard him referred to in any conversations but yet in his day he was incredibly popular so the farther we look back in history the more some people are going to be obscured by nothing more substantial than time and collective memory that does not however mean that photographic literacy is unimportant in fact. I believe photographic literacy is very important. And here's a good demonstration of why I think so a few weeks ago as in my local library looking through some of the books. They had for sale as part of their fundraiser. And I found an interesting older volume called the reader's digest reader. It's an anthology selection done by Theodore Roosevelt. Not The president. But the president's son I think Published in nineteen forty. The president died in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine so I'm assuming it's Theodore Roosevelt junior who died nineteen forty four. According to Kapiti he anyway so Theodore Roosevelt Junior along with the editors of Reader's Digest. Put together this election published. This book and Roosevelt explains in the forward that he'd stumbled across a box of old copies of Reader's digest which tempted him and he says and I quote. I sat reading back copies for hours every time I finished an article which was off my main course in which I shouldn't have taken the time to read. I thought that I'd read only one other well. At least only one another and then another short run that followed it and another subject piqued my interest and lured me on. Eventually he continues. I dipped into an issue ten years back. But here the interest was even greater the forgotten world came into being not reminiscent Louis but with touches of unmistakable reality. I was astounded to find. How much of the past decade? I'd actually forgotten and how much more I remembered only vaguely. Yesterday's heroes and manners changing social complexions penetrating vignettes tell the story of Art Politics Science and business to find. These things is to have passed before ones is the cavalcade of American Life. And as you refresh your memory. Here's the key phrase by the way Roosevelt says and as you refresh your memory you improve your present perspective. The current scene gains new significance. Close quote what a marvelous way to look at work from the past and couldn't everything that he said about these articles he was finding in old copies of Reader's Digest. Couldn't they apply equally? Well to looking back. At the history of photography that is to say if it's true for the stories in Reader's Digest. Wouldn't it also be true for photography and it motivated me to go back and look through some of the jewels that I have in my photographic library book that I haven't pulled out for a while and I was amazed at what I found for example? Some of those books that I may be purchased thirty or forty years ago seem much more relevant today than they did back then because they were looking ahead in such a way that now in the benefit of hindsight we can see how right they were. And how brilliant? The photography was in. How far ahead of their time? Those photographers were other books. Do don't fare as well. There are others that I have in my library that I looked at from thirty and forty years ago that now I sorta scratch my head and say I wonder why I was so motivated to purchase those books in either case as Roosevelt said the current scene gains new significance. So there's a reason to look back at what other photographers have done. And what the trends in photography have been and we need to recognize that not only is there value but there's no end in that because new photographers from the pastor. Being discovered all the time their archives are being uncovered think. Vivian Maier and that kind of story. But also there's a lot of people a lot of historians who are doing research and discovering really terrific photographers who weren't popular in their time. Maybe they had no audience very small audience and now in the perspective of time we can look back at their work and see. How really terrific was so the idea of developing photographic literacy as a part of our creative life I think is incredibly valuable. And here's another example of why while I was doing all of this digging through my library and looking back I ran across a reference to Henry. Fox Talbot's the Pencil of nature which I had heard about thirty or forty years ago I've known the existence of this very very historically important publication but I never actually looked at it or read it and partly because I didn't know that it had ever been published although I have no doubt that it probably has been
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Fashion college probes runway show criticized as racist
"The fashion institute of technology known as F. I. T. is apologizing for show by an alarm from China where models wore gigantic big bright red lips and oversize black years that many on social media like into black face and monkey years the school which is part of the state university of New York says it will examine what led up to the February seventh event the college's dean of the school of graduate studies and the chair of the MFA fashion design department were placed on administrative leave pending the investigation Julie Walker New York