Hi everyone. We've had those of us who were out there an amazing welcome to this land earlier this morning. It's my job to welcome us to Socap where we're gathering to build trust, trusted relationships. We need the indigenous wisdom that we've felt and seen and heard today more than ever. I flew in late last night from Dubai where I'd spent a week. I've been involved in various conversations about things happening there. And so I also want to pause and acknowledge not just the conflict there but the conflicts around the world that are taking place. We've lost, forgive me if I get emotional, but we've lost more than 220,000 people to conflict around the world in the last year. We've lost 6,000 in that region in the last two weeks. So not wanting to put a dark cloud over things but I'll just ask us to pause for a few seconds and acknowledge them and honor them in their passing. Thank you. As we gather here, there are certainly multiple perspectives on what's happening in that region and we've had some issues already even this morning as we begin. And so I start with an ask, a request. Let us not let our differences of opinion stop us from our work of building the world that we want. Let us honor them not with more conflict here but with trust. Let us listen with respect. Let us talk with respect. Let us show appreciation and even show love. This morning we had the Manari blessing to awaken wisdom within us to help us rise up and be more conscious as humans. That reminded me of a Maya Angelou poem which I quickly modified my comments today to include. She said, you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still like dust I'll rise. Just like the moons and like the suns with the certainty of tides just like hopes springing high still I'll rise. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise, I rise, I rise. Let us rise to build trust. In this time of conflict, let us rise and choose trust. In this time of political polarization, let us rise and choose trust. In this time of social polarization on so-called social media, let us rise and choose trust. In this time of talk show gladiators, let us rise and choose trust. Let us choose unity. Hemingway said, the best way to learn if you can trust someone is to trust them. Let us lean into that here together these next three days. We gather to build trust, not as a cute theme, not as a tagline, but as a path forward and a way to accelerate our progress, accelerate our impact through collaboration. Trust, Stephen Covey said, trust is the glue of human relations. Trust, end quote, this is me now. Trust makes everything better, faster, easier, more enjoyable. Trust powers our collaboration, which accelerates our impact. Some of you know I recently had a birthday and I'm reading 52 books this year, a book a week. The one I'm reading now, and I was reading on the way over here, is Malcolm Gladwell talking to strangers. And in there he outlines that we as humans have a bias towards trust. We have a natural default to trust. That's why sometimes we get duped by strangers. But as social scientists, even economists have looked at this, they've found that net net, it is far better to choose trust. That trust is rightfully placed more than 90% of the time. And it's worth it for the occasional times when trust is broken. So choose trust, extend trust, lean into trust. Use this time to build and accelerate trust so we can collaborate to build the world we all want. To close, I'll read a haiku that I wrote in a jet-lagged stupor. We'll see how it goes. I will admit also on the side, I had a little help from chatGPT when I was stuck. Mistrust blocks the sun. Trust opens doors to new light. Hope blooms when we are one. Welcome to SoCAP23.


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Hi, this is your something party and we are here at the open source summit in Bilbao spending today We have with us Florian Billy the staff data engineer at back market and also made dinner of Delta RS Florian is ready to have you on the show Thank you for having me swap. Let's talk about Delta RS let's talk about the larger project the larger open source project Which is about all about rust about Delta Lake and then we'll talk about your involvement I can introduce a bit what is Delta Lake So Delta Lake is part of the Linux foundations it was fully open source as a Technologies that provides Reliability performance and quality on data lake So it's it's kind of solutions that break down walls between data warehouse and data lake So my project was more about Delta RS Which is an application the software written in rust Integrated into the Delta Lake ecosystem. You are the maintainer of Delta RS talk a bit about When the project was contributed to the Linux foundation How it came to exist? Yeah, it was a long time ago. I think we have like primary needs around how we can integrate To the Delta Lake ecosystem without having python dendings or Ability to access the Delta tables and nothing was there to to like a really light well solution for for us That's why we start to look over different libraries and we found Delta RS, which was created by script In rust and it was really interesting because they have like really a small layout to connect with python and it was Since then that's back market join to and incorporate and to improve the binding To connect more into the python ecosystem with Delta Lake with a simple efficient and reliable Library, so it was one layer with python connected to one layer with rust and Back market joined the effort by improving these python bindings and since then we contribute a lot to the open source and Right after Delta Lake all the ecosystem Was under the next foundation to to drive innovation on At industry wise around that had driven and data ecosystems. I want to talk about rust language Talking about language kind of is a sensitive topic. You know, it also become kind of religious also I want to avoid all of that and also even if you talk about the hey technical advantages technical benefits That also becomes tricky, you know, but since you are involved with of course Delta RS rust And we have been we have seen a lot of you know adoption a lot of developers are moving towards rust As I said, everybody has different reasons for going to a specific language But but in general talk about what are the advantages? What are the benefits that you see modern developers see with the rust that they are moving towards it? Yeah, so it's really good questions. I think according to the last survey of Stack Overflow Rust has been the for the fifth consecutive years the most loved programming language And I think rust has worn the heart of developers And I think the main reason why is because you provide a very efficient and allowable programming language without Promising the features of high-level abstraction API and I think when you are starting to Think about performances or a label system You can think about CC plus plus is kind of low level for performance reasons But you often encoders the same pitfall like memory management data risk collision Segmentation fault all these kind of issues that really complex Complexifier beats the developer experience and we rusts by having this mechanism of ownership or these kind different features you can have the efficiency and Also high-level API abstraction, and I think it's really something nice when you debug We are new product system to have a language that are created for developers And I'm when I'm thinking rust I've been thinking about other tools like cargo wiki Which is a package manager first is really helpful to and convenient if you want to test to To to publish to build your your crate, which is the artifact to build by its rust I think it's really helpful to have this and the compiler is really friendly And it's like a mentor for us because you could help to say hey you have an issue there Hey, maybe you can improve your code base by doing so. So it's really a nice language, and I think right now for my personal usage It's also we are thinking about the energy consumption of the language, and I think rust was the second after see on if efficiency programming across different programming language and I think we we need to take this into consideration when we are building systems to be more Energy aware about the impact in regarding the carbon emission and so on so for me. It's also the best the best compromise between performances reliability high-level abstraction without consuming to not too much resources Let me talk about energy consumption of language a lot of people they don't understand the importance and impact So so talk a bit about When you talk about energy consumption by a certain language What is the scope of that because it's not just you know the the system running on your laptop It's also about the data centers and it goes beyond that also so talk about What do you mean when you say you know that this language is more you can say climate change friendly or you know more eco-friendly Yeah, I think it's you are totally right when you are thinking about Software you have to think about the software life cycle. It means you develop on your local Laptop and it's depending where you are because it's not around building the system But it's running into a specific location It can be in location and where the carbon emission is really low or it can be really high So it depends where you are it's the same process when you will publish or going to the CI your continuous Integration mode that we do build tests in the cloud environment So again, you consume energy and at the end when you publish something and it makes it available for everyone It's depending on where the software is launched So it can be on cloud providers that take Consideration into the carbon emission emitted or not so it's not depending But when you are thinking about the energy conception You think about large use case where your library will be used everywhere by a lot of you of software and they will Trigger download and use every time your code base So if you have a slight way of improve a bit the code base You can have a drastic impact on the energy content conception and right now I feel like we have a lot of power in our hands, you know Not only on for the cost, but we can launch the GPU CPU really easily on different cloud providers So having this kind of mental representation on the impact could help a bit And I think we need to take into consideration that with Active facial intelligence and other topics. You can imagine the workload Required for memory CPU network exchanges and so on. So this is kind of things that I'm on my personal side I am interested in to knowing more of the impact, but I think we need also to take some time and consideration into this kind of Key key key part. It's hard to really predict What can adoption what what what the future looks like for a specific language five years from now because the COVID has taught us, you know And these things change very frequently. But if you look at the trends, you know that what do you see where rust is heading? What kind of adoption you're seeing will be there? Just just talk about that. Yeah, I think rust has been as I said before really a most loved programming language and I see the usage in Particular in my ecosystem in my work around data I think a lot of library was rewritten or improved by Incorporating rest into the Python bindings to improve the performance and the efficiency And I think you have a lot of open source libraries to help you to improve this data processing data ingestion and so on like Apache arrow Which you can the standard format colon oriented in in in rest So you can leverage this kind of library really easily That's why I thinking about rust in the data ecosystem will have a huge impact You can think about web assembly, which is a technology that can run on the browser side and make it compatible with JavaScript So you have a large area of improvements there and the last part will be more on the generative eye with a large language models right now a lot of of Software is built with Python And I think we can have an improvement to integrate rust into this kind of Processing to reduce the inference time to reduce the memory and CPU conception for for this for this model So the AI will have a huge impact in the years to come So I think rust as a as a good part to to take to to be in the in this in this landscape and the last part will be more about Bindings I would say because rust is really efficient to create bridge between the programming language So I'm seeing like a growth of a huge factor of growth to integrate with others to say, okay I want to learn a rust so maybe I create bindings and I start to contribute to rusty actually since you're talking about people who wants to learn and contribute I'm looking for a kind of piece of advice for them, but from different perspective one is that Why they should choose rust, you know, that's once again very very loaded a caution But it goes back to the first point that you made about the advantages of that because sometimes folks who are like in a very early Journey, you know, then they they look at these languages and they like because it's a big investment You know, you have to learn that is number one and then as they do embrace this language What is your advice so not only they they they do the adoption correct But they also become a kind of contributing member to the community as well. Yeah, I saw I saw your point I think the most important part about rust is the learning curve is sometimes pretty hard because you have like a new Ways of thinking I'm thinking about the ownership, which is a key in a rust So you have to learn it So I would say a real welcome man to start small to have a simple use cases where you can learn the language The community of open source in rust is really how some people are really benevolent and if They know if it's pretty hard to to start to contribute to to rust So that's why they are really welcome and benevolent to to share the knowledge And I think it's really important one when you need to to learn something on on why choose rust I don't have a really region things to say you need to trust rust be or instead of choosing go or somewhere else My advice will be after learning a rust. I feel like I am more I Learn a lot more about my code and I code better right now. So I'm still Really, I really loved to to work and to learn a lot of different programming languages to learn Concepts and to improve myself and read rust I learned a lot of things around any development and you change a bit the way and I'm developing right now I will advise to start small take a project is a rust Programming language the online the book is really up full with really well defined and you have all the documentation You can follow the comprehensive rust it was created on GitHub by the Google team on mobile and I'm thinking as well about Tick Manara which is the leader of accelerant learning and it's a good place to learn because they have like a really up full Course and training on rust. So again, I fall like I fall in love with the language But it was really because I started to to see the power and the and the reliability in my past I used quite often see C++ and create binding and all the time It was on debugging on ways on findings The right pointers where it falls the memory management and so on Having rust to take care of it is really great and on top having the mechanism or the the concept of high-level language is really nice because you have the best of both so all High-level API and also good efficiency on on the low-level operation


I'd love to welcome everybody back to the Independent Investor Channel live stream here. I've been doing this project for going on five years now. Just reached an impasse just this week. Some fantastic news for you guys that have never been treated to the Independent Investor Channel live stream and they give you a culmination tonight of years worth of work and teaching on this subject that can help a lot of people. It is absolutely a game changer. It's a life changer prepared to mentally exercise with me. It may open your eyes to a lot of different things. It's going to help a lot of people. The sheer reason why I do this message is to help people identify those gaps, perhaps in your life. I'm always looking to identify those gaps in my life or those areas that I think can potentially use some fine tuning. I think the sheer focus that we put on this message every single week is of the utmost importance. I'm going to demonstrate to you guys why I think that to be the case. Why it is that you guys can come into a message like mine for an hour. It's an hour a week for a lot of people. That's a lot. I get it people's time is invaluable. I think with the activity on YouTube and a lot of people justifying coming onto social media to spend much more than just one hour at a time to come on and watch all kinds of different news feeds. Everything is right there, smack in your face all the time. It's something that we're going to have to get used to. It's something that we're going to have to try to control. I think for a lot of people my message, at least I hope this is the idea that you get from me, is that it's okay to define your level of involvement, okay? Even with me. You want to take a break from my channel? No problem. Take a leave, take some time away from social media because when I share this with you guys, what I've done up for you guys, which there's 21 patrons, I kicked off a little bit early. My tone is rather light, but this impact right here really has, it's got the potential to really, really speak to people and help a lot of people. This is the very roadmap that I work off of and as you guys go through here you might look at some of those things that I share with you and you might say, you know what, right on. I've got a few of those things that Ryan has identified going on in my pyramid and that's what I'm going to share with you guys is that pyramid to success and it's one of those tried and true philosophies of life that I abide by. It goes along the lines of the Maslow's hierarchy and I've always been fascinated by the idea that if you're looking to approve upon your life, you need to identify and take stock of no pun intended, what you have, what needs work, what could potentially need fine tuning and more importantly how they all kind of come together and they work together to provide you really that essence of life or that meaning of what makes you tick. Now, the beauty in this whole exercise is I am going to share this. These are some rather intimate insights to what it is that makes me tick and I hope you guys can resonate with this. We will be doing a portfolio review as well. It's been an up week for me kind of a tale of two weeks this week where the front side of the week was quite good and we tailed off a little bit. It was an interesting closing to the market today. I don't know what happened. Everything just kind of took one of those John Madden lefts and within the last couple of minutes I jumped into the $1,000 black and I was down all day. So it's just been kind of that for the last couple of months speaking to the volatility specific drawdowns in the market due to geopolitical types of influence as well as the interest rate discussion. And everybody's asking when is it going to be that this bull market does, in fact, slow down or even come to a halt. I typically the older I get and the more I really wrap my mind around what works in investing for people, I stray away from those types of discussions. And I typically try to put my focus on what I'm going to share with you guys tonight and for the folks that are going to catch this, they're going to catch something really, really special for a lot of people. It's going to be like a real wake up call because for me, I'm going to go through this list with you guys or my pyramid of what it is that really provides me the foundation in my life and I can sit across from the social media audience and I can tell you with 100% certainty, there was a time in my life when I didn't have any of these things. None of them, none of them. I was scraping together to meet some of these basic needs and you'll understand when I share those with you guys, you guys can look at these things and even a category just as simple as clothing. You can look at how specific garments can add into the business persona, the workout persona. It's one of my favorite things actually to buy gear so I'm comfortable in the gym. And you might think, wow, that's really interesting.  But if you think about these aspects of your life and you think about these areas for improvement, if you just deliberately sit back sometimes and look at these different areas of your own personal pyramid, I think you can agree that it becomes a lot more apparent to you and a lot more black and white when you really put pen to paper. So really, really important, again, this week has been a life changer for me. We will be pulling chocks from Virginia Beach and we will be returning to the home of the Independent Investor Channel, New York City. I just found out yesterday morning and I am humbled at the opportunity. It speaks to the top of the pyramid that I'm gonna share with you guys. In that, a lot of the reason why I do, I do with sheer passion and affinity for life, an absolute acknowledgement to the fact that it is all a gift. And to answer to somewhat of a higher calling. And for some of you guys, you may not resonate with that. For me personally, it's what makes me tick.  Why? Because I enjoy waking up at five, of course not, nobody does. But it's buying into that higher calling. And I think for a lot of people, I think you can find that if you do buy into that higher calling for a lot of the different avenues of your life, whether it be family, whether it be what you consume through your diet. I think you'll find that the holistic approach can really be somewhat, it can be absolutely fulfilling and at times it's so beautiful you can taste it. It really is. When you touch on these different aspects of your life, it can really fulfill. And you guys are gonna understand where the financial piece fits into this as well. So as I'm going through these levels of the pyramid, once you guys to kind of pay a particular attention that my financial piece or to this structure is not at the top. It's not at the top. And I would challenge the notion that for a lot of people, they believe that it is at the top. I'm not here to judge. I think if this thing makes sense for you, I think it's a beautiful thing. I think anybody who has the courage enough to take a look at their own self-worth and what it is that they feel like they bring to the table, what it is that they want to improve upon in their own personal application with whatever it is. And trust me, guys, when I disclose this list to you guys, you're gonna find, holy moly man, these are some things potentially that I don't have right now or Ryan's right. There's some times in reflection in my life that I didn't have these things either. And now I do, okay? So if you can draw a very, very distinct distinction to when there was a time in your life when you were void of these things and you just by nature of sheer will, perhaps maybe luck, maybe you are a victim for a lack of better terms of your circumstances. You've been able to fulfill some of these basic necessities and advanced necessities just by nature of you doing what it is that you do in association with family, friends, your interaction with your career, your ability to be lucky.  You ever meet those people? I can wholeheartedly tell you that I am not one of those people. I'm not. I had a comment come to the channel this week and they says, Ryan, why don't you admit you're wrong on Hylian? And I just chuckle and I think, wow, that sure does speak from a very surface level perspective in trying to evaluate my thought process in admitting that I'm wrong. And I thought, well, if the person wants me to admit that I'm wrong and that'll make them feel better about the specific position that I hold in my speculative aspect of my portfolio, which comprises a very, very small section of this total piece in this puzzle that I'm talking about. It doesn't make up my life. As a matter of fact, I try to keep it as small of an element of my life. And that's what allows me to focus on things and really, truly take in the enjoyment that I had from going on 17 years of devoted service. And for me, it stems back to where it is that I come from, seeking my opportunity in Alaska when I was 19 years old, going to work on a fishing boat, I've never been so scared of my life, never been so scared. And those are the very things that define a person and not everybody's going to have those types of opportunities. And it's kind of cool that you get to sit and sit across from somebody like myself who is humble, not to be braggadocious. Again, I didn't come for money. So the opportunity and the allure to go up and, you know, and face down the perils of the sea in Alaska, put some money in the bank, pay for some of those college bills, you know, as a 19 year old without any filling of any of these voids. If I had drawn this pyramid when I was 19 years old, you would have just had a couple of these things filled. And at times I wouldn't have been able to fill some of these basic necessities, you know, at times. There's there's been times in my life where I haven't had income, you know, having food on the boat was the subject of my reliance upon the very operation that I was involved with. So those deeper perspectives that I share with you guys, I have their intimate memories of my past and where I come from. It gives you guys an opportunity to share with me the very top of my pyramid.  It really does help to define what it is, allows us to take in this life, where we put value, the understanding of how these attributes relate with each other, and it'll really help you provide clarity. That way, when geopolitical risk kicks up, when political uncertainty kicks up, when gas prices are a few dollars more at the pump, you don't fall on tilt. You take a little bit more of an objective opinion, and you really do categorize these things appropriately and don't allow them to creep into your mind and dominate your thought processes. And that's the most dangerous thing in life is where life controls you and not the other way around. So I appreciate you guys kicking in with me. There will be no head shaking tonight. Ethel will not be mentioned tonight. This is going to be one of my more insightful live streams. I do absolutely exercise the right every single week to provide what it is that I consider to be my calling. And I'm just grateful for each and every one of you guys to be part of this journey with me over the last five years of the Independent Investor Channel project. Be with you back in just a moment, guys. There's visual learners in this life, and then there's learners that they make me jealous. I'm the most jealous of people who can hear things and they have a photographic memory and me. I've got to go over it a few times and massage it a few times and then do it again and then read it again. And and then I got it. I'm I'm sharper than the average bear. It's not about it. And I can fit a lot upstairs, but I'm going to share with you the six of the baseline pyramid and the meaning of life right here for me and the meaning of life. You think that's awful, arrogant, right? And you you think you've got it all licked. That's that's the I guess dammable misery of it is that nobody does. But why is it that we need to be apologetic for trying to answer these questions for ourselves and and and challenge our satisfaction of life? And this is the very way that we do it by fine tuning over some of these things as to what what what it is they mean. That's the pyramid right there. You can take a pause on it if you're YouTube. You probably have the advantage. But I can tell you thousands of dollars are spent right here from people who don't have a very good perspective on life. But the very first row is what I'm going to go down. But I wanted to give you guys a visual representation on what I was able to draw up here. And I'm just going to go over them really fast for the bottom line. Transportation. OK, transportation means a lot to me in getting back and forth to providing a lot of the satisfaction that I enjoy. OK, it's coupled with the commute that I have to take 25 miles into downtown to get my job. If we're going to move we've got a move coming up in a couple months. Transportation will be key for most of you guys that have frequented the channel.  I am a service member which requires me to uproot my life and, more importantly, my family's life every couple of years. And we will do that. And transportation is one of those things on the midline that we've been able to really improve upon. Now, some of you guys, you know, if there's younger people, the first car that you get shouldn't be that 40 or $50,000 vehicle. OK, you just don't need it. It's a depreciating asset. But the real value in identifying those necessities in life, I wouldn't have been able to even drive to the jobs to catch the boat, to go to Alaska, et cetera, et cetera, if it wasn't for transportation. So for me, transportation fills this lower first section here. OK, the next two you might think are crazy food and water. These are basic amenities.  This is why I foot stomp this. And there's a lot of people who are like, man, Ryan, I've never really thought about that. You need to. You really do.  OK, there's a lot of people out there that don't have the ability to have good food and nice clean water. And those two can be scrutinized. OK, I'm very, very aggressive with my water. I only drink bottled water. I will not, over time, put into my body what could potentially end up being cancer causing later on in life. And I think water is the key to a lot of what we do. I drink a lot of water. It's super important. It's the most essential thing that we have in our lives. And clean water is something that I'm a stickler for. It's one of those funny, funny things that I'm adamant about. I typically try to stray away from. I will have a water at the restaurant only with a lemon wedge. I'm really anal about that. And if there's going to be anything that I'm going to be a stickler for, it's going to be my water. Now, the food part of it is one of those that I've actually upped an increase in my budget to put a little bit more in the amenity category, because I'm taking on more of a higher protein diet as opposed to some of those cheaper foods. The frozen food aisle, I stray away from that. I do not consume that food. The kids like their chicken nuggets, et cetera, et cetera. But aside from that, I'm really trying to look for those foods that are healthy. And they supplement higher categories in this pyramid. You just think about this for a second. If the food category is always being consumed by fast food, restaurants of sort, you're taking in way too much sodium in your diet. So those things, is there work to be done? I don't know. People are like, man, I tune into this to get the top three stocks so I can buy and be a millionaire. You know what? Very few people will be able to just hear a message like that and end up there. But the masses can absolutely benefit from a message like mine where you understand the holistic approach to this deal. Super, super important. Next on the list here, next to food and water, you can see here, whoop, it's backwards, security. Security is one of those things that kind of goes hand in hand with the home, the fact that I say all the time how lucky we are. I'm a big proponent of law and order. This is not one of those things that needs to be taken for granted. It's super important. It is a basic need. If you don't have the complements of shelter, then you're not going to have the complements of security in your life. And it is a basic need as far as I'm concerned. It's one of those things to where when I was on the boat down in San Pedro Harbor, do you think I felt as safe there as I do now in my home here in Virginia Beach? Of course not. And that's why I can dig deep and tell you guys, man.  I saw some crazy stuff go down in the port because I lived on the boat rent-free. I didn't have money. These are things, again, that I didn't have or were slightly compromised in my younger life. So now it's one of those great things that if you can have that type of perspective, you can understand how awesome it is when you actually have those things. And there's a lot of people that have these things and they don't understand that they have them. That's a real tragedy. And we hopefully can open some people's perspective and understanding how lucky they are. And the bottom line I put fuel, this is an interesting one. And if you think, man, if you removed fuel from your life, how could you cook? How could you put anything? How could you move your car? And a lot of people, their solution is to go electric. I think natural gas is in this portion. If you have the ability to live off of the grid, if you have the ability to produce your own solar, just talk to a colleague of mine this week who installed solar panels on his roof. Those types of things are super important. Now, solar panels are a luxury when we're talking about these basic needs on the bottom line. But think about how important fuel is. It's one of those sunken costs that I identify in my budgeting lesson all the time. And when I go put fuel in my Toyota Tacoma, I give a little couple seconds of thanks because there was a time in my life where I dreaded going to the pump because I didn't have the money to put that into the tank. And now I fill it up and I don't worry about where the money's coming from. That in and of itself is a luxury, okay? And the last thing on the bottom line, you guys might think this is kind of crazy, but clothing is one of those things that is part of the sunken cost category. And you notice a lot of these on the bottom line are sunken cost categories, they sure are. Transportation is the one that gets misconstrued all the time. But clothing for me is super important. And I'm very simple. This is one of those things to where a lot of people will say, well, my basic needs can be met at Nordstroms. Bear with me a little bit here, guys, but I'm an outlet shopper, okay? TJ Maxx is my speed.  So I don't really play. I really like to consume my things. And I'm more of a use case type of a shopper. I'm lucky in that my day to day requires me to wear a uniform every day. So my decision making in the morning to get ready for work is done for me. That in and of itself is a nice luxury, really is. So I strategically think about my wardrobe, okay? When I go to the gym, I want to be comfortable all the way down to everything. Use your imagination, okay? The right shoes, the right socks, the right undergarments, shirt shorts, the air pods. I got to be listening to Metallica or Ramstein when I go to the gym. Those are my two, that's what I wake up to at 5.15. And that's kind of psycho, Ryan. Hey, what's new? You don't tune in to me for me to give you the basic run of the milk goods. I give you the goods. But yeah, Ramstein gets me fired up in the morning, absolutely to go tear it up. And I was in the gym five days this week already. I will be in the gym tomorrow again at five. I've started to just roll it through the weekends because it's allowing me to operate like a Ferrari. It's amazing what it can do for your lifestyle. It is amazing. I highly recommend it. There's a lot of people out there who might just be scared the death of exercising. And I freaking get it, it's scary. I totally get it. And it's like, do I have to go and do I have to do bench press, Ryan? Now you're missing the point. If you can get on an elliptical or get on a treadmill and do a walk for 15 minutes, just give it a try. If you honestly can say it's not for me, I can't do it, Ryan. Then no problem, you've given it a chance. But I'm telling you, I'm right. If you can take on this idea of incorporating something like that, it's super important. But clothing really does play into a lot of that. You can see here how clothing plays such a little part in what I select here to come in and represent because this product right here, what I'm gonna disclose to you guys is right at the top of the pyramid, okay? The second tier to the pyramid is right here. And there's four criteria, okay? You can see those, I'm gonna explain them a little bit. Sorry, I was blocking home, but the next level. And the idea in the pyramid is that you can't move up these levels until you have the basic necessities. Eric says Def Leppard, that's another one. One of my absolute favorites, man. Hysteria is probably one of the greatest albums ever made. It was amazing how they made that album. Pretty legit, man. So absolutely, Def Leppard can get me started in the morning. That's totally fine too. But on that second tier, I talk about this all the time, man.  I think that's an escape to thinking, to be honest with you, because I'm successful and I'm totally fine and I have a job and I'm lucky to have that job. I encourage anybody out there to look at the prospects of gaining a career out there that you can be proud of, that can provide you a lot of these things that I'm talking about. It can really blossom some of these basic needs that can be supplemented just by nature of having a job. Now a job I don't put on the bottom tier. I put it on the second tier. I really do because it's a higher level of importance and there's so much varying degree between professions that it's super important for people to kind of get this one right. Choose wisely, okay? For me with my service career, it fits me like a round peg. I'm very, very intense. I get rewarded for doing a good job. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm a very hard worker and it works for me. But job is very important. Second is access to credit. You might think, wow, what's the deal there? Access to good credit. If you wanna buy a house or if you wanna finance something, requires you to do other things to compliment your access to credit in a good way. Now if I had access to credit at a 425 credit score, that would be the area of improvement that I would look at here to say, I'm a little deficient in this category. I need to prove upon that. My credit score I checked yesterday is 838. So for you guys that need a benchmark or something to shoot for, right? Credit score is important, access to credit. If the interest rate that is awarded to you is less than the average bear, you're saving thousands over the lifetime. Now credit is a dual-edged sword, okay? And I teach upon how important it is the use of credit. I've told you guys every expenditure that I have in this life goes on my credit card, every single one of them. Now it takes some discipline to deploy a strategy like that. I get paid bonuses. So all of the sunken costs that I just talked to you about, all of that filters through the credit and the credit is what allows me to engage in my consumables, okay? Access to credit. Second on that list, on that second tier is access to insurance. Guys, I just had, I shared with you the procedure off the top of my head last week. I had dental and the procedure in the same week. And this is where I think a lot of people get caught up in the rat race too, in that, well, I'm gonna be an entrepreneur. Okay, great.  And from 20 to 30, you're not gonna have any health issues.  You're gonna brush and floss twice a day and you're good to go, right? What happens when you turn 30? Well, I'm still healthy. I work out every day. Or maybe I didn't because I was too busy killing myself for 20 hours a day because somebody told me that that was the secret to success. And I allowed myself to be let go of, right? I let my body go. I'm out of shape now. You enter into your 30s and 40s and you start to identify a few cracks in the game, okay? Maybe I need a checkup. I don't know. I haven't been to the doctor in eight years. Wonder what they would tell me. Wonder what they would tell me if they actually opened my mouth and actually gave me a dental exam, what I would need. Health insurance, having kids nowadays. You wanna have children, right? Some insurance might help with some of those expenditures you've ever raised to children.  It seemed like every month when I was raising him, the poor little fella. Yeah, mm-hmm. And those bills are not cheap. Those can be a real knock to the bottom line and to not acknowledge how important insurance is in this life, which can be supplemented by the employment. Again, these things really do go hand in hand. And the last thing on the second tier is a home. Whatever you consider to be the home.  That's tier two, all right? On to tier three. This is where it gets it really interesting. We're on to tier three. If you guys, for all you visual learners up there, right here is tier three. And it's made up of diet, financial health. You see the dollar sign right in the middle? That is where my coaching and education to you and the sharing of portfolios, that's where that comes from. And exercise, you notice how diet and exercise are right there on tier with that financial piece. Super, super important to focus on these things, guys. This is why I talk about them all the time. My channel typically has a very similar tone to it. And why not? Why not focus on the things that are important? I like Christopher Bell. I like him with Strongman Personal Finance. I had him on the channel right when he was a brand new channel because I knew that he was charismatic enough to make it on YouTube and the man's make it and on YouTube.  I just don't care. You'll notice that none of that fits into my hierarchy of needs.  Now, am I gonna watch the debate? Yes, I will. And my filter will be on the highest of levels, okay? I will watch it. And it will probably be forgettable just like the Meet Kevin interview. It was forgettable. Why? Because they're both people. They're both human beings. And I have a hard time extracting any type of value as it contributes to my triangle and my meaning of life. But when we're talking about diet and exercise, I can't stress enough look how high it falls right on tier with the financial piece, right as we're climbing the pyramid here toward that top of the pyramid, okay? Diet's super important. You guys can look at that and say, well, I have it or I don't. Okay, it's very simple. And then the exercise piece I know for a lot of people, it's a scary proposition, but I tell you, it took me years to graduate to a place where I became really addicted. I don't like that word, but let's just say incorporated into my lifestyle. Like I have to have it. I have to. And it's just as good at any to be addicted to in this life. Three elements as we approach the top. Second to the top. Second to the top is right here, family and health. Who disagrees with me? Yeah, we deal with some disability in our family. I know people deal with mental health issues. I know people who have gone abroad and working for a nonprofit organization now, at least liaisoning with them with regard to traumatic brain injury, things of that nature, some things that initiatives that are supposed to help those people, count your blessings every now and then. It's worth taking a couple moments on a 60 minute live stream for me to tell you that. And you may know that. Some of you may need to hear it. Others of you may not understand it. And that's all right too. We're human beings. You're not perfect. You're not. And nor am I. Whenever I get away from my focus, these are the types of things that bring me back into focus. And there's people that I talk about all the time that seemingly are out of focus when in fact they should be dialed in focus on the very things that they have in this life. And they're lucky to have those things. Family and health. Family can be extended family. Some of the younger folks in the community are looking to grow families. I bid you all of the best because as far as that goes, and I don't care what your makeup and your family is, that matter. It's all beautiful if you have this in some capacity or another. It's right there at the top. It's right there at the top. All right. Lastly, I will share with you what I mean by the top of that. And in Maslow's hierarchy, talks about self-actualization. It's where you become spiritually aware of yourself and what makes you tick and providing. I put there in one word, a voice.  Make no mistake about it. The reason why, and I hope this is why, you come into my message. And this is where I think some of the messages on YouTube are really, really missing. I don't believe it's as important to them as it is to me. I believe it contributes to money. I believe it contributes to power. I believe it fulfills ego for a lot of people. I believe it fulfills a self-fulfilling prophecy for a lot of people that they have answers and they need to provide those answers to others. In other words, they profess to know things that others need to know about what they have to say and that might be their top of the pyramid, right? I don't know, to each his own. But for me personally, I've explained this top of the pyramid in something in a way that is very personal to me. This found me. I didn't find this. That's right. And if you can provide people an opportunity to come in and share what it is that I've always been insistent upon empowering one investor at a time. Look, guys, there's gonna be people who watch this who are not at the top of the pyramid, not even close. I can look at this very thing and I can say there's an absolute time in my life when I didn't have anything on these lists, even clothing, skinny dipping in the pond being raised in the country. Feeling bad to ask my mom and dad to provide those amenities for me when I knew carte blanche that they didn't have the money to provide to us. Three boys, yeah. So did we have it? Were we flush in that category? No, we weren't. I say many, many times, I would never trade the life that I've had to have the perspective that I have now, to have all of these things contributing to the very wealth, et cetera, the wealth in the capacity that I've been able to build and share with you guys to have the perspective, to understand that I have those things now, not by nature of knowing it all, not by nature of trusting others, not by nature of anything outside of just deploying a strategy that made sense for me and I employ you to do the rest now on the top of the pyramid in one word, the word voice.  I don't believe anybody has that right to do that. But if you find that there's something inspiring and you find that there's something motivating in the delivery and what you get out of the message, the only payment that I would ask is that you carry forward that voice. That's the beautiful thing and I do acknowledge the power of social media and I never know who's gonna kick in here. I have no idea. It's great. I put it out with ferocity every week, understanding that there could be that person who has an absolute void in the triangle and needs a voice and through coming in and sharing what it is from somebody like myself who can sit across confidently from social media and say that I'm solely in the top, there's no doubt. I've been there a while. I've championed it for you guys and I've defined it in some capacities to be somewhat of a curse because I tell you what, when you know for a fact you are not there but you have that insight to try to think and grow rich and navigate this pyramid to get to the top of that pyramid, that's the very demon that eats people like me up. And the sheer fact that I do have that voice and a little bit of success on the Independent Investor channel and not to come and share this with you guys means the world to me. It doesn't get any better. That's why the portfolio and the net worth and the dollars and cents takes a backseat to all of this stuff, does, certainly does. And that's why sometimes I sit back and I watch others try to declare what it is they feel is important for others when in fact, I don't even know if they understand what's important to themselves. And I think before you can get it yourself, I think before you can understand what it is you value in life, I think you should probably refrain from coming on and talking about a successful mindset with others. I really do. So I would encourage each and every one of you to take the exercise, go through your own personal pyramid in life or whatever that means to you. But for me guys, I don't carry this piece of paper with me. This is right here. It comes with me and everything that I do, fill in the gas tank, hit in the gym at five in the morning, taking a promotion at work, working on projects at work to contribute to the greater good, helping people in this capacity for 60 short minutes. Glad to do it. That right there is the very fuel that drives me and I hope you were able to take a little inspiration from it. I don't do these very often guys, I'm glad to do it. These are where the goods are. This is where the people who will tune in and there'll be thousands of people but watch this debate between the great YouTube personality, the Jeremy with financial education and Chris with strong man, personal finance. It'll be funny, I'll watch it. I just typically look at those things with a different lens than most and that's quite frankly what makes me special and unique and dare I say independent in my application. Let's jump into some portfolios guys, man, let's lighten up the mood a little bit. Take a look at how we fared this week. For the most part, we were up or creeping down. Like I said, it was a split week for me. The joint brokerage account, no changes here to note. We were up just fractionally, very little change in this anyway. Just looking for the two to split. It was disappointing. Hyper growth has kind of taken a little bit of a roll off at least the latter part of this week. Highly on has kind of cooled down a little bit which does kind of impact the portfolio when it does sleep. Like I said, we're in a bridging year for highly on looking at the back half of 2023 and very hungry for information. And it's as it's turned out as we look to evolve that small piece to my money pyramid. Remember, highly on is somewhere in this lower corner here.  I beg to differ a bit. My life's just fine. I'd suggest maybe you look in the mirror. How about that? I tell you what, I'll send you a gift certificate to Amazon. You can go get yourself one. They're good. They're good. Some people don't like what they see in the reflection. Hopefully the lesson that I just threw down on for 40 minutes can help change your life. This is Roth number one. We are up week over week on this old girl. We're good to go. No, here, no changes too much, you know, Palantir really nice to see the entry on that. Pepsi paid the dividend this week. All companies I want to own, we're sitting really, really nice. VOO is just killing it. And in this particular portfolio, this one I believe has the B and Q. Yeah, this is the real estate REIT. It's doing good as well. Vanguard's ETFs paid this week. This was a nice little bonus. Kind of cool when all the Vanguard ETFs, they pay at the same time. So it's like winning a little dab of a lottery, you know. Now, notice the lottery wasn't on my list here. Maybe for a lot of people, the lottery is up at the very top. I don't know.  I'm just not lucky enough. I'm telling you, some of those people that had a life for the party, but here's Roth too anyway, doing just fine. Utility's 15%, just fantastic ETF there through the VPU and, you know, the VIG with the dividend appreciation, it fits nicely. This is my portfolio. Reason why I don't go with the total stock market index here is because I've got the S&P 500 in the TSP, the Thrift Savings Plan for government workers. I do have that. And that's growing quite nicely. Here's the sector portfolio we're up. This is the one that I'm talking about. So on a $24,000 portfolio, this paid me 78 bucks in dividends. So all 11 of the sectors paid all at the same time. So it's kind of cool. I checked my phone one morning and boom, there it was.  One portfolio is up sizably week over week. Dividends and value rolled off a little bit. I was a little surprised on this one. This wasn't down too much. It was down 30 bucks or so, but it's actually a little bit of a fractionally down. I sure do love this portfolio. Pays me dividends almost every day. 92 holdings in this portfolio. I share this openly free of charge. If you can add a little bit, wherever it is your dollar sign is located within your pyramid. Maybe you can use some of the framework. If you're just completely lost, I did have a patron to the message ask where they can find more information and they can talk to me. I'm not going to offer coaching because if you just sat through the last 40 minutes, I don't know if you could agree.  Maybe I don't.  And he thinks he's got it all licked. I was quick to say, nobody does, but a lot of people can benefit from somebody like myself, a lens that I do, helping identify those gaps in the portfolio and where that potential dollar sign ends up in your portfolio, excuse me, in your pyramid on where you would like to assign that level of value to your life. I think it's appropriately placed for me, but anyway, the bonds are up. I stopped funding this altogether. I don't fund the bond portfolio anymore. I just wanted to start it, start the dividends, start the compounding growth on this, and all these little portfolios I have strategic goals of building up over time. Excuse me, I jumped right over the TSP. TSP is doing great. I fund this aggressively. I do 20% of my income.  I do 20% just to this. And there's probably thousands of other dollars that I contribute. I'm an aggressive funder. And that's another intangible that I probably won't get to in the other lesson that I had for tonight is that picking your strengths and working towards your strengths, I'm talking to some investors out there, some who just recently started investing for the first time and they're wonderful savers. And if that's your strong suit, wonderful play to that strong suit. If you think you're getting a little overlevered, some of them will hit me up and say, hey, Ryan, what do you think here? Is it a time to be aggressive or should I just be patient and not get too crazy? But having that pedigree of wanting to fund financial markets, that's something that's really difficult to teach people. And if you have it, play to that strength. You bet, it's a strength, you gotta play to it. Here's the Vanguard's growth in Robinhood. This is an exploratory account with just one ETF in there. I believe I got a little bit of Berkshire, Hathaway B shares, but the majority of it is comprised in the Vanguard's growth here. There's Webull, the Midcaps, the Vanguard. I didn't even update this, so I don't even know if it's up week over week. So I do apologize for that. I'm just now noticing that I missed it. GlobeX has taken a nice up, it was up 10% today. Again, it's the company profile of highlight over the next couple of months within the community. I'll be doing some profiling. We're a staunch supporter of the mission here, looking to up-list to the NASDAQ later on this year, 2022. So happy to help support the efforts there for GlobeX, ticker symbol, SwissF. This is just one holding here within the Charles Schwab account. Charles Schwab, I find, is a good one for those OTCQBs, the tougher stuff. I find it so difficult through my Bank of America Merrill app and a lot of others to even buy over-the-counter stocks anymore. It's not for the faint of heart. It's not something I even recommend, but I am sharing openly my difficulty with some brokers to enter into some of these securities. Whereas Charles Schwab is quite good. They've got them all available. So just a little food for thought when you're selecting the broker for you guys. The crypto here has been okay this week. So we're up just a tad, closing on about $400 up from the initial investment. And there's the total portfolio there, kind of that center nucleus. And you can kind of see how this portfolio, it fits into that hierarchy of needs, right? I always knew that I wanted to be a wealth builder. I always knew the power of stock market investing, et cetera, et cetera. For a lot of you guys, you may look at this and say, well, this is peanuts, right? And I'm looking for multi-millions. If I watch enough Graham Stephan, I'm gonna wake up one morning and there will be a Lotus Esprit parked out in my driveway. If I just think really, really hard, just think really, really hard, like Tiger Town, I'm a winner. I'm a winner, I'm a winner.  And if you wanna abide by a philosophy like that, great. If you've just completely blown off the lesson that I so intimately shared with you guys tonight, then perhaps maybe this isn't the message for you guys. But for you guys that do look at this and say, wow, Ryan's kind of a schmuck. All he does is just come on and shake my ears and talk about Ethel all the time.  I'm not one of those fellows that in going to profess that people have the answer enough to sit across from you and tell you to do A, B and C in an effort to get you to X, Y and Z because they know what's right for you. I just, I cannot buy into that philosophy guys, I can't. And even this is where some of the deficiencies, I mean, between these two guys that are debating with Jeremy and Chris, I like Chris. Chris is awesome guy. Jeremy, I don't respect him at all. I don't respect his program. I don't respect how he comes off. I think he comes off really, really arrogant. But when you talk about the below the surface what you can get from a message like that. Look, there's people who hit me up and they're like, Ryan, you're completely wrong. It's for this reason and that reason I've been able to take a benefit. Great, as long as you're a beneficiary from the message then I'm okay with it. My problem is how it could potentially impact the masses. And I think the retail community does just as much to damage their ability to get ahead in life as they do to help it. And if this message at all helps inspire you to get to something like this I'm 43 years old. I did a lot of screwing up in life but this right here is indicative of a plan that just plain works. It's just that simple. You can do it too if you just deploy some of the tried and true fundamentals but it's more than that. It's about taking that holistic philosophy about life and deploying it for yourself. All right, I wanna jump in here. Guys would jump into the comments. My boy here, it'd be the first actually. So he's laughing when someone says that peanuts. How much do they have?   And I just laugh a little bit. Look, if I got enough confidence to come onto YouTube and share it with an audience I certainly don't need to get scrutiny from you. I'm okay. I'm not perfect, okay? And neither are you but the last thing I do is scrutinize others and I had this very thing happen to me this week. It's great to see you, my brother. You're next. I'll be getting in contact with you in the next couple of days. Just another one of those intangibles. I kind of fit the network of folks that I've met through social media into the family category for me. Man, family and friends. And Kyle's just one of those. He's a brilliant investor. No doubt about it. It's awesome to know the guy and me I kind of buy into the philosophy of surrounding myself with successful people and make no mistake about it. This gentleman right here, he's successful. I'd like to see him build out some of those other capacities in his life. In other words, if I get something in the mail maybe an invitation to a nice social event put on by this guy I can't think of a more deserving person than this guy and many others as well in this community. I just want the best for you guys. That's all. I can tell you how sweet it is. It's absolutely worth pursuing and hell, maybe you don't ever make it but at least you'll identify through your efforts trying to fulfill some of those efforts as we evolve and we grow and we fortify our life. It's awesome. It's great to see you, my brother. Very good, very good, obvious in the house. 3M, oh yeah, 3M's a buy, real simple. I buy 3M here. I don't want to double my position here. It's what I'm looking at right now in the taxable brokerage account. Absolutely. Eric says the BFs, the BFs, the BFs in the house. She's late to the party. The party's going on all the time, Rebecca, you know that. Remember how I talked about keeping it upstairs? Again, I don't keep this folded in my back pocket, okay? It's all right here and you're always part of the community whether or not you're here or not. It's just that simple. Whether or not you're providing healthcare services whether or not you're chilling at home whether or not you're at the gym whether or not you're doing all the things that are awesome and you're always part of the community. It'd be interesting to see how things transpire over the next coming months with my looming and pending move that I've got going on. It's one of those things to where I tell you, life's blown me a lot of different directions and it's not by nature of me being sedentary. It's not by nature of me sitting on my hands all the time that's put me into some really, really uncomfortable situations, that's for sure. And looking out for the kids and getting them into schools those are the challenges that some people look at service people and they're like, that's crazy. Well, it's because they're looking at me and they're thinking there's no way they could do it themselves. And trust me, those challenges are very, very real. But I'm also proud that we do it and we overcome and I'm probably better for it. And in my heart of hearts I actually believe my kids are too. I really do. We tote those kids everywhere we go. I don't GEO, I don't do that stuff. I put them in my back pocket and they go with me because I tell you what, friends have come and go in this life but they only got one dad and that's it. They're gonna go with me. Ashley's in the house man says, I'm very blessed to talk to this guy in person. Absolutely. I really appreciate that. I'm humbled. I would like to think that there's a lot of that in the world and my travels and I'm always interested to meet new people. And I always say there's a lot of people that do disappoint me. I think a lot of it is that they just haven't had the opportunity to be critical of themselves and how they could be a better person. I don't know. When I have people that meet me, I know how have people that meet me that maybe don't like me, that maybe they find maybe a little abrasive. I don't know, but I certainly do acknowledge that I want people to see this. I want people to see the good in bringing that to the table. And like I said about the voice, carrying the voice forward for others. And that's a huge part of my mission, man. It's a big deal. I appreciate those comments, Ashley. Absolutely. That's really, I'm humbled at that and stand by for roles this year. That'd be an interesting couple of months here coming up and no rest for the wicked. Let's go. I've got a calling and I'm dead set on meeting that and nothing's gonna stand in my way. I've been through barriers. I've been stopped by barriers in my life. I've been told no when I didn't want to be told no. And very rarely do I ever have opportunities come my way in the capacity that I had it come my way. This week, and I again, I feel like my decision making is being made for me rather than me deploying my own mental and my heartfelt application about this. It just is what it is. And I accepted the job in about 1.8 seconds. And the person who offered it to me knew that they were talking to a winner. There's no doubt about it. I don't turn down opportunity. I was just explaining that my grandfather, he retired from the Navy as an E6. He was one of the first Naval divers. So the movie, Men of Honor, the one with Carl Rischier, he went to that school before Carl went through the school to give you some idea. So you can imagine how impactful something like this is. And I had my, I don't want to be too detailed with my dialogue here, but I had a colleague of mine say, Ryan, you need to smile more. You just had a big milestone happen. Then it's like, well, I agree, but you don't understand, I'm thinking about him, thinking about that type of thing, you know? So yeah, I'll accept it and I'll do well. There's no doubt about it, but you know, it's a lot more than just me too. I represent a lot of people who have helped me and helped provide me opportunity to take on these, these wonderful opportunities to serve. And again, you notice where things like this actually fall into my priority list. And you know, I would encourage you guys to try to align those priorities. It's never too late. I constantly am going back and forth. I'm a thinker on this topic. So when I am at the gym, I'm just not thinking, this sucks, this sucks, this sucks. I'm actually thinking about things like this. I am a thinker and I love the ability to think about, fine-tuning my life, but also identifying those specific elements of the life that I can share with others and hopefully you guys can resonate with that message. Just no doubt about it. We may be off next week. I'm gonna identify, I think we're on next week and then the week after, we'll be taking a break here but I want you guys to ask yourself after receiving this message, is this a message that you can resonate with long-term? If it is, I would ask for your continued support of the message. I'm gonna be in and out of the channel. All good things must come to an end. And I will be on hiatus this summer to shelf the project, come back to the project when it is convenient for me to do so. There's no love lost between us. There's no love lost. It's been a great ride here in Virginia Beach but as I start to dial down this opportunity and establish a new opportunity in my new location, I would just ask for your continued support of the channel because your continued support of the channel is just a pledge in support of yourself and your own initiative and what you can take for the mission in your own empowerment journey in seeking financial wealth and financial security for you and your family. Guys, thank you so much. Continue into the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube. We'll catch you next week. Have a great, great weekend and be well and take care of each other and we'll catch you next week. Thanks a lot, guys.


NT a little bit or something. Okay. What I do is I do a lot of vulnerability analysis on NT We've done penetration testing on NT On a variety of government firms. Basically what this is for is for the CIS admins Or security type people and it's also for the newbie hacker who wants to learn a little bit more about your system So as I'm giving this information out, this is This is not only for them and they're probably going to be paying it more attention than you are as a CIS admin This is mr. Nasty, which is me doesn't don't I look like that? The arms and everything, huh? Okay And basically what we're going to do is we're using a free tool. Okay, it's a free talk called dump ACL Have you ever used that anybody use dump ACL? You probably have it on your system somewhere. It's in a little bitty Folder up there called dump ACL. Nobody ever really uses it. They just have it out there, right? Okay, we've exploited so many systems using that particular tool because we can go out and dump your ACL lists and Look at everything that's out there on your machine and These are like seriously poorly configured machines that are out there We go on basically what this is is this is pretty much the application here that you can see and this is where to get it And this is where to email me if you if you really want to ask me another question about this or anything Pretty much what I have an agenda here and in a pretty much a cause and I will explain something to you a lot of you CIS admins who work in areas where You have people who want to stand above the policy Can you guys hear me? Okay? It's people who want to stand above the policy and and I'm going to point out two critical individuals because there were two here Yesterday in the Haxer track and they were attorneys one of them is attorneys and the other one is doctors These people want a ride above your policy your policies say that you need to have stronger passwords But doctors feel above the law and they feel like they don't need to have Stronger passwords because they need to have access to all these systems Well, we've been in the hospitals where we could go in and see a doctor logged on five different computers and he's not even there But he's got all this information open What does that have to do with this? Well, if you go and look at his password It's probably a four digit password and it's probably his dog's name or something. Okay But when when we've gone in and we've told security officers you need to just shut them down The security officer will tell us what we've done that we've gone over and we've shut down the machine that doctor goes over to the chief of security of chief of surgery And he'll complain and guess who gets in trouble The security officer he gets his he gets his butt rained for doing his job, but the doctor gets away with it now What better way as a hacker? Okay, this is just some more information on dump a seal. I don't like to read from slides Would you guys rather me read from slides? I could read from slides and it would bore the death out of you I'm not gonna say any four letter words I Wanted to I really did but no This works on Windows 2000 It does it works wonderfully on the windows 2000 if you go over to their website Samarrasoft.com he's got a whole bunch of information over there. You know, he's from a little bitty town in South, Texas I couldn't believe that I would expect him to be from like Silicon Valley or Boston or something Okay I'm kind of nervous so I'm gonna go on a little bit of a rant and more information. Yeah, go ahead Right, you could you could run past felt dot DLL, but you can override past felt dot DLL I mean that is not the silver bullet.  I mean, where did you get from that? What my point is my point is and it to any newbie hacker out there don't identify yourself I don't care who you are to any newbie hacker out there, you know Stop the DDoS attacks and the buffer overflow stuff. I mean those are good to get in what you need to okay into the NT systems and and probably shut down one to get into another because it's probably blocked by some kind of firewall That's not an NT box. It's probably some Solaris Box or something like that out there.   You might as well come out with a little honeypot, right of your own Right a couple of ten thousand dollars or whatever How do you do that? Well use your imagination a little bit doctor's information is privacy Period.  What was it five thousand dollars? So at four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents And there's Right somebody got the joke.  All right This is good for you new system admins. This is good for you people who are taken over a new machine You know, they all of a sudden the director goes over there Whoever is in charge and says okay now you're you're in charge of this box You have no clue what's going on with it So this is a good thing to run when you first initially get there if you put this on your machines I suggest you you You limit the permissions to only yourself and Again, this is a good reason to have a security officer besides the sista admin sista admin's got too many other jobs to do For instance, I don't want to go off on a rant here, but You know sista admin's got a lot of work to do you guys are fixing printer problems And people can't get their monitor up and they can't get their stuff running I had a guy one time run into the office. He was just scared death. He had pulled up a Document on the word and he was like I can't get my word document. I can see it on the screen But I just can't I can't I mean I know it's up there because I can see the the header up here How come I can't get to my word document? I went over to his desk and sure enough There was a word document He had a white background and I could move the cursor around like as it was as if it was going through a document There was like 15 20 pages. I Said did you just change your font to white?  Yeah, they have no idea You know their job is eight to five, you know, it's not these guys who are sleeping on the floor at night You know waiting for the hacker to come in the uber hackers to come in All right. All right. This is a report view. This is all the information that you can get off of I only have half a screen That's a penny them, too. Okay So this is this is the report can you guys see that okay over there probably not right Yeah, believe me if it'll be I'll put it on the Def Con place When I get home not not not while I'm here Anyway, this is a report view.  The question was is this free? Yes, it is free right now It is free. So if you go out to that site, you can get it for free. Okay, so I Don't work for them. I just use the tool Pardon me Same to you I What's the URL the URL is www.Somarasoftsomarsoft.com s-o-m-a-r s-o-f-t.com it's on it's on each one of my slides Okay, it'll be on each one of the slides believe me Okay, this way since you can run it remotely. This is just to prove it You can run it remotely all you have to do is just tap in the slash slash in the computer name And it'll just What is it UNC you can type in UNC or you can type in the IP address of the other computer and you can run it now because it can Be run remotely it somebody can probably run it on your machine I mean on a big networks that we've run you just get in a client side you go in establish an old session Boom you're in you can start downloading the ACL from there and I'll address that in a second pretty much These are the different categories of the dump ACO reports But one of the things I want to ask you guys while this is kind of going up there You want to look at policies groups?  Yeah, you work for the government then I found a Fed Okay Can you see why the logic in that it just doesn't make any sense you want to run as many tests as you can the reason being and The reason why I say this is because going out and running something like this on a on a machine. Yeah me test accounts We can find We can find so many test accounts and and they remain dormant. They're active, but they just they're just dormant there So if you even run Pastel dot DLL and you did it is you know is this Conscientious sys admin, you know so that everybody's gonna have to comply with this stronger passwords You're still gonna have all these dormant accounts that don't comply that somebody can just change the password on any time They want to and usually these test accounts are run by who sys admins and usually they're what they're probably Administrative accounts right and you know what each one of these hackers out here if they didn't know it They know it now So guard them and do what do what it says to do with NT change Hide it decoy that admin account make it something that it's really isn't so that so that newbie hacker will go after that admin account You know what I went to Defconn the guy told me how to get into the NT machine now I'm over there and then he's got this little bitty nothing But he thinks he's got something so let him happy. He's been happy for a while. He's keep track of it Okay a lot of times This stuff goes by itself did I just have to hit a button every once in a while. I'll just start run by itself on the policies You know it dumped what five different five different categories. This is one of the categories basically It's gonna tell you when you run this this makes more sense to you when you get the program It's it's like Greek right now. Okay. It was Greek to me when I first saw this I was like, what does it mean? I don't know but just believe me when it's doing this You'll see it when it comes up with the program You want to run your policies so that you can check to make sure that your policies comply with how Your real policy your written policies are set up your permissions. You don't you know you don't want Okay, I went into one place and the guys were saying hey, we got this really cool way of setting up accounts Okay, it was a conference. I went to last month and they were teaching they were teaching sys admins how to set it up And guess what the guy was real proud of the fact that he was an MCSE Almond MCSE he made sure he stated that and he says guess what what we do is when we get all these new People come in because we got a lot of students coming in in order to save time. We set them up in a guest account So we got 5,000 students that come in every six months and we set them up in a guest account How safe is that? That's real safe, isn't it? That scares me Okay, this is the policy information so I the point there is Don't don't make any assumptions on how you're setting this stuff up.  I mean word. This is windows You guys are all NT people save this as a text column delimited file You'll know when you're going to save as okay file save as The reason being is because then you can pull this up into something like Excel And you can run a lot of analysis on it really quick. Okay, you know the Sort what is that sort fast function or something like that in the Excel? And it pulls up information. It's unbelievable. Okay All right, we'll go in the next one And this particular category here is the group accounts. This isn't that this one isn't as important It doesn't have a lot of Good information, but it's good to know and to keep track of you know You don't know if you're especially if you got 4,000 5,000 accounts out there How do you know you've been hacked? How do you know that there's a new account in there? I mean in some cases.  Probably not, you know, I mean in some of these places, especially if you guys are government people I know that there's probably you know I've seen anywhere between 15 and 25 sys admins all running around They're running around different divisions, but on the same domain and they're installing stuff right and left and all of a sudden Half of the domain goes down They don't know who did it. It was there's only sys admins that are doing it I mean they're hacking into their own systems and crashing them. So they don't need they don't need you newbie hackers running any Kitty script keys against them They're doing it on their own Okay, this is a group accounts. I can't remember what the next one is. Oh By the way, I hope you guys don't mind don't don't try to steal my camera afterwards I took pictures of the group here and the reason why I did is because I'm giving this seminar again in Austin, Texas to a group of government folks I Just want to show them what they're up against Because if the room at the next conference has got like a smidgen of people here and there I just want to show them the odds the ratio You know They're doomed Okay, this is the file system permission reports pretty much. It's going to give you all these information On your file systems There's a red edit or Yeah, reged it report that kind of gives that works alongside this and you can Make changes to your reged it or however you need to So that nobody else can get to it and a lot of systems that we've seen they reg The reged it He's really not set up so it's secure and everybody everybody their brother has access to it So you know go into your system use this particular tool and you know, I'm emphasizing that and I I'm sorry if I'm emphasizing it But the thing is is that not too many people go in and really take a conscientious look at what their system is doing If you guys are the sys admins, you know, I'm pleading with you Please don't also be the security officer as well I mean if you don't know what I'm saying is there's a cross-section of duties there There's not a segregation of duties. I mean Don't be the only one that has to be accountable because you know if legal issues come out at you you're You know you're boxing yourself in pretty much is what I'm saying Okay, boy I had a lot of things here Another thing that what we've seen is a lot of security officers that they put out there They just kind of pick them at random.   Has anybody ever gone looking for? Oh gosh, what is it? I had it on the tip of my tongue earlier Snipe hunting So you know what I'm talking about is they what they're doing is they're just taking these Security officers and they're telling me go snipe hunting if you've never gone and seen a snipe You have no clue to what to look for. It's the same thing with Hacking and looking for somebody hacking into your system. I'm not just talking about your newbies out there I'm talking about the internal people because that's what this tool basically is for is the internal people who are just kind of clicking around going You know, how far can I get? How far can I get up there? All right, if you don't know what kind of Configuration to look for you you're clueless out there, right? I mean the ISO is clueless the information security officers are just completely clueless Oh, by the way, I hope I didn't offend any MCSEs out there This is a share permission report This is a real good report because this this provides you information on your different shares I mean and what you want to do is you want to look at segregation of duties if you don't have a Good knowledge of segregation of duties, you know, you might want to get to with your accounting department and maybe talk to an auditor or something and ask them what How to go about a segregation of duties or maybe run this report and share this with another with an auditor so that they can help you break this out oops by the way There's my pointer the information over here to save as That's just a good rule of thumb just save it as that you know dot txt or whatever before so that you know what What you ran just kind of helps you have a little bit there and As far as these options are concerned for the permissions and reports You want to select certain settings or certain certain information here so that it pulls up this stuff That way when you go back you can kind of refer back to something like this and we'll tell you what's there This is the share permission report It's hot in here is it hot in here to you guys Oh, this is this is awful Okay, I'm gonna try to go through this really really quick so you guys can walk outside because this is I'm about to pass out up here Yes Yeah, you call it what you want to as far as the the question is what is the file extension for the column delimited file You call it what you want to basically it's gonna be you should save it as a txt file Okay, then you can export it or I'm sorry import it into Excel. It's it's really since it's calm delimited I mean that little wizard comes up and it just kind of just go. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes, and then it does the rest for you Any other questions yes What does it run on oh it will Yes, it'll run on. Oh, it won't run on like 9x Okay, it'll run on NT it only run on NT box because usually that's where your servers are located 139 yes Right and it'll also run on an alpha box as well. I ran it on an alpha box as well as an Intel machine So yes, any other questions Yes Yeah, I'm gonna put them on the Defconn slide. I'm gonna give them to them when I get back and they'll be Monday. I'm sorry Yeah DT's website it'll be on his so you guys can get it off there if you really want to what I'm also gonna put On the side is a couple of documents. It'll be in word and you know I'm sorry for anybody unix people out there or whatever, but this is an NT kind of situation So it'll all be in doc format and it's how to set up The everyone groups what this is another problem that I've noticed with people is setting up everyone groups a lot of people just Copy the everyone and just maybe rename it But it keeps all the permissions of the everyone group the problem with that I mean you can obviously see if you're trying to separate the receiving department from say the accounting department Then there's no really no segregation except in the name of the group itself, right? All they have to do is just point and click in the network neighborhood and boom there or wherever they want to go and If you're a sysad man, you know use this along with the security administrator as well I know you don't have a lot of time boy. Your time is really really short and if you work for the government. I You know, I hope you guys more Yes Okay, how can you prevent Somebody from having access to this tool you go you right-click on the folder that it's in or the best Well with that what you have to do is you have to go in and you have to shut down probably 139 But if you do that then how's how people gonna authenticate? Yes, go ahead Okay Right, but you got a okay the question or the other comment basically is to turn off Enumeration inside of your server so that somebody else sitting on an empty box remotely is not going to use this tool as they get it for free and then Scam all this information off of your box Good question apparently it's on techneck Technet and if you do a search on it It will come up. Yes. I mean wait Do you have to run the tools administrator equivalent? Yes, you do Yeah, you can only run this on one PDC at a time you cannot run this on your entire domain Right exactly and that's why I was kind of concerned about the renumeration. Yes Yes a null session attack is that that's what I had mentioned earlier He was just saying about the null session attack that I'd mentioned earlier. Yes Remotely on an NT box you can establish a null session with any with the server that's over there I mean you want exploits on NT, you know Greg Hoagland and I were sitting out there at lunch time We were talking about an exploit that we had done in at the conference in Reno, Nevada Where all you do is set up a server an empty server remotely and then it's going Gosh, I can't remember what we said that anyway what it does is it you set it up as a BDC and and it it Replicates on your on your system. So you actually and then if you want to I mean you can knock the other system down and people Are authenticating on you so you can get passwords right and left on an LM hash, especially I mean Well, it doesn't matter. You have to sand file right there. So you can sit up and run loft crack against it all day long So I mean that's that's something that you need to worry about and you need to look at But you know those are something some things that your information security officer as you as a sys admin needs to do Yes I'm sorry what I Still didn't get that Secure ID for anti-login. Oh using like a third-party log in No at this point. No and part of the reason like I mentioned before it's the doctors You got doctors and lawyers who feel that they don't they cannot be bothered With that, okay, they just cannot be bothered with that and until there's a liability placed on the doctors until there's a liability placed on the doctors that makes them accountable for Securing patient information or for securing client information Then nothing's going to happen to them Okay, and believe me if you go to a doctor and tell him hey, I got patient information Right me at a check for four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents Do you think he's going to go to the CIA or FBI? Well if he does what's going to happen to him he probably loses license. So it's probably cheaper to you one of those Risks of business he probably just writes you out a check for four thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents No, am I encouraging you to do that? No, I don't encourage anybody to do that. Okay? I Guess I should have put a waiver up here And a disclaimer. Yes Right my point though is that even if you do something like that The doctors the doctors themselves for release of patient information poorly secured like that will probably lose their license or Sadly their reputation which is even worse Yes That's the weakest link That's a great one the question is is how do you make end users? Rain dead end users learn to make stronger passwords Well, one of them of course is to put in the past felt that DLL I mean that's going to sort of force them to do it It's going to tick them off But it's going to force them to do it the other thing is just training training users on a regular basis It's called past felt that DLL it's on What is it sp2 on up and I think sp4 has got a better Fix on the old stuff What website is it on the past all that DLL well you can get off microphone soft side, but it's on if you're running Nt. It's it's on your sp What is it sp2 on up? But I think like I said sp4 has got a fix to something that was on sp2 Any other questions yes ACO Yes, okay, the question is can you do modeling with this like engineer your your whole topology there Create policy right. Yes. Yeah, that would be an excellent idea to do something like that You know set it up on a test environment see how it runs set up all your groups and all your individual accounts and everything that works fine And just move it over into the real environment once it works. Yes, excellent idea any other questions Okay, it's hot. Yeah, I'm hot and I feel sorry for the people over at CDC because not only are they hot But they're also going to get a virus. So thank you very much


Multiple U.S. officials confronted about Assange hypocrisy on World Press Freedom Day. Wednesday was World Press Freedom Day and it saw U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House Press Secretary Karin Jampierre, and Deputy State Department spokesman Vedat Patel confronted about the glaring hypocrisy of the Biden administration's persecution of Julian Assange for the crime of good journalism. During an appearance at a World Press Freedom event hosted by the Washington Post's David Ignatius on Wednesday morning, Blinken was confronted by Code Pink activists Medea Benjamin and Tye Berry, demanding justice for Assange before swiftly being dragged off stage. Excuse us, we can't use this day without calling for the freedom of Julian Assange, said Benjamin, holding Assange saying free Julian Assange. The two were immediately rushed by many security staffers and the audio from the stage was temporarily cut. Stop the extradition of Julian Assange, Benjamin can be heard saying. Two hours and not one word about journalist Shireen Abu Akle, who was murdered by the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine, not one word about Julian Assange, said Berry. We're here to celebrate freedom of expression and we just experienced it, said Ignatius, without a trace of irony once the dissent had been silenced. He then returned to the subject of how bad and awful the Russian government is for imprisoning American journalist Evan Gershkovich. Then during a White House press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Karine Jean-Pierre was asked a question by CBS News' Stephen Portnoy, that was so inconvenient the press secretary flat-out said she would not answer it. Advocates on Twitter today have been talking a great deal about how the United States has engaged in hypocrisy by talking about how Evan Gershkovich is being held in Russia on espionage charges, but the United States has espionage act charges pending against Julian Assange. Can you respond to that criticism? Asked Portnoy. What is the criticism? Asked Jean-Pierre. Well, the criticism is that the argument is that Julian Assange is a journalist who engaged in the publication of government documents. Portnoy replied, the United States is accusing him of a crime under the Espionage Act, and that therefore the United States is losing the moral high ground when it comes to the question of whether a reporter engages in espionage as a function of his work. So can you respond to that? Look, I'm not going to speak to Julian Assange in that case from here, said Jean-Pierre. And then she didn't. She just dismissed Portnoy's question without explanation, then babbled for a while about things Biden has said that are supportive of preff's freedoms, and then again repeated, I'm not going to weigh in on comments about Julian Assange. This type of I'm not answering that screw you dodge is a rare move for a White House press secretary. They don't normally just come right out and say they refuse to answer the highly relevant and easily answerable question a reporter just asked. Typically, when the question is too inconvenient, they'll either word salad a bewildering non-response, say the answer is the jurisdiction of another department, or say they'll get back to them when they have more information. It's not the norm for them to just wave away the question without even pretending to provide a reason for doing so. But really what choice did she have? As Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Sabrina Siddiqui recently acknowledged on MSNBC, the job of the White House press secretary is not to tell the truth, but to stay on message and control the narrative. There is nothing about the Assange case that is on message with the White House narrative. Just the other day, Biden said at the White House correspondence dinner that journalism is not a crime, yet his persecution of Assange is deliberately designed to criminalize journalism. There's simply no way to reconcile the US government's story about itself with its efforts to normalize the extradition and persecution of journalists around the world under the Espionage Act. If your job is to make the White House look good, the only way to respond to questions of US hypocrisy regarding the Assange case is not to respond at all. Later in the press conference, Jean-Pierre responded to another reporter's questions about press freedoms in China with an assurance that the Biden administration will quote, hold accountable the autocrats and their enablers who continue to repress a free, independent media. Also on Wednesday afternoon, AP's Matt Lee cited the aforementioned Code Pink protest earlier that day to question Deputy State Department spokesman Vedant Patel about Assange and was met with a similar amount of evasiveness. So then can I ask you, as was raised perhaps a bit abruptly at the very beginning of his comments this morning, whether or not the State Department regards Julian Assange as a journalist who would be covered by the ideas embodied in the World Press Freedom Day, asked Lee. The State Department thinks that Mr. Assange has been charged with serious criminal conduct in the United States in connection with his alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified information in our nation's history, Patel replied. His actions risked serious harm to U.S. national security to the benefit of our adversaries. It put named human sources to grave an imminent risk and risk of serious physical harm and arbitrary detention. So it does not matter how we categorize any person, but this is, we view this as something that's been charged with serious criminal conduct. Well, but it does matter actually, and that's my question. Do you believe he is a journalist or not? asked Lee. Our view on Mr. Assange is that he's been charged with serious criminal conduct in the United States, said Patel. Yeah, but anyone can be charged with anything, Lee replied. Evan Gershkovich has been charged with a serious criminal offense in Russia, and you say that he is a journalist, and he is obviously. And I just want to know whether or not you, the state department, regardless of any charges that he faces, believe that he is a journalist or he is something else. The United States doesn't go around arbitrarily detaining people, and the judicial oversight and checks and balances that we have in our system versus the Russian system are a little bit different, said Patel, before again repeating his line that Assange has been charged with a very serious crime. Okay, so basically the bottom line is that you don't have an answer. You won't say whether you think he is a journalist or not, Lee replied. Again, Patel was left with no safe answers to Lee's questions, because of course Assange is indisputably a journalist. Publishing information and reporting that is in the public interest is precisely the thing that journalism is. That's why Assange has won so many awards for journalism. Trying to contend that Assange is not a journalist is an unwinnable argument. Later in that same press conference, Patel was challenged on his claim that Assange damaged US national security by accuracy.org Sam Husaini. You refer to WikiLeaks allegedly damaging US national security, said Husaini. People might remember that WikiLeaks came to prominence because they released the collateral murder video. And what that showed was US military mowing down Reuters reporters, workers in Iraq. They repeatedly asked the US government to disclose such information about those killings, and US government repeatedly refused to do so. Only then did we know what happened, that the US helicopter gunship mowed down these Reuters workers through the collateral murder video. Are you saying that disclosure of such criminality by the US government impinges US national security? I'm not going to parse or get into specifics, Patel said, before again repeating his line that Assange stands accused of serious crimes in a way that harmed US national security. Journalist Max Blumenthal tweeted about Patel's remarks, according to this State Department flack, Julian Assange's jailing is justified because he harmed US national security. But Assange is not an American citizen. By this logic, the US can kidnap and indefinitely detain any foreign journalist who offends the US national security state. It is good that activists and journalists have been doing so much to highlight the US empire's hypocrisy as it crows self-righteously about its love of press freedoms while persecuting the world's most famous journalist for doing great journalism. Highlighting this hypocrisy shows that the US empire does not in fact care about press freedoms at all, save only to the extent that it can pretend to care about them to wag its finger at governments it doesn't like. Assange exposed many things about our rulers during his work with WikiLeaks, but none of those revelations have been as significant as what he's forced them to reveal about themselves and the links that they will go to to silence a journalist who tells inconvenient truths.