il but the Joridota Trail is the symbol of everything that's going on with the homelessness in this town you can't take a single year over the past decade that you've seen the home situation get better there's the study that comes out this is our numbers have gone down oh but they've been pushed off the off the train tracks and now they're just more visible when they redid the smart line all that stuff the homeless we call them homeless squatters because the ones that are outside of Sam Jones Hall which just changed their sobriety requirements and their curfew has become more intrusive on the public around us they've become more violent that we've dealt with in our neighborhood this injunction or the combination of the change at Sam Jones Hall with their sobriety has created a worse situation in the neighborhood i sent each of you an email last week involving an incident when a homeless man was jerking off to my wife i didn't get a response from either one of you but one of you was nice enough to send it to the chief of police who sent it down through the chain of command of their sergeants one of which contacted me these are the situations that we're dealing with police took over an hour for that response that sergeant called me gave me reasons why i understand i'm in public service i understand sometimes but this is what we're dealing with we are getting to the point of i don't even know what to call it i really don't thanks thank you justin glover uh my name is justin glover i'm actually a petaluma resident um and a practicing architect um and i wanted to just just say a few words i came here today to to talk about the reach codes that are being considered here in santa rosa and many other jurisdictions around the bay area in the state of california i've spent the last couple months and probably will the next couple months going to meetings like this and meeting with different jurisdictions around the bay area to advocate for the adoption of these reach codes it's i think it's a very important piece of meeting the state carbon emission goals that have been set on a statewide basis and we're we're really not going to get there unless the local jurisdictions take the action to move into specifically electrification that's tied to the major portions that are supplied by natural gas lines currently part part of these reach codes i'm sure you guys have been looking at all this and understand is we're we're trying to move away from natural gas as a as a fuel source and trying to electrify our buildings our building stock um so that we can further make that more efficient down the road but the the big issue now is that we need to get natural gas uh out of out of away out of the fuel source mix for our buildings um and that is so critical to do now because we can make our buildings more efficient later right but if we have before building now buildings are going to be dependent on a a source of fuel that has methane and CO2 emissions tied to it into the future endlessly um we're just we're never going to get there um so i just i just wanted to um put some of these these pieces out there for everybody um in addition i think some other other important pieces are you know PG&E is actually like what is actively trying to get rid of gases source too right so they're they it's it's a risky asset for them and i think that's an important important piece to take into account um i've i've been to some of these meetings in Cupertino, Hildsburg, and Petaluma and in in each of these sessions i'm sure you guys are going through this as well but it's come out also as a cost-effective measure it's not more expensive to to transfer these new technologies even without incentives um so i just wanted to to push for that and say i hope you're all considering it um and i'll i'll plan to come up next month when it's uh when you're going through the first reading thank you thank you do we have any additional cards okay item 15-1 and 15-2 been continued till November 12th no written communications no further items on the agenda meeting adjourned


I think it's safe to say that Rachel Maddow is officially the left-wing equivalent of Sean Hannity She's also the MSNBC equivalent of H.A. Goodman because she really found this one issue that Drill ratings it got her views and clicks online and it made her incredibly popular it essentially made her period and Because she found this one issue She chose to stick to it because monetarily speaking it behoofed her to do just that now I don't have to tell you guys what that issue is. We all know which issue I'm talking about Russia Russia Russia hate Russia Russia Russia Putin Russia Russia Russia Russia Russia Russian Russian Russian Russia Russia Russia, Russia of Moscow, Moscow, Russia, Russian, pro-Russian, Russian, Russia, Russian, Russian, the Russians, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian Russia. Russian. Russian. Russia. Russia. Putin. Putin. Putin. Putin. Putin. Russia. Russian. Russian. Russia. The Soviet Empire. The second of the 20th century's great evils. Communism. Russia. Communism. Russia. Assault by Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia. Putin despises the West in general and the United States in particular Soviet Empire. Russia. Russia. Russia. They're the adversary. They want to bring us down the Soviet Union. Okay, that was, that's all for that show. That was one, that was from one show. Yeah. So it's safe to say that she talked about Russia non-stop for two years because that's what helped her tremendously. It gave her a huge ratings boost. She actually became number one at numerous points over the course of the last two years because a lot of people looked to her as the person who would give them coverage of this Russia story that they were so captivated by. However, after Mueller's investigation concluded and the report was put out and confirmed that this collusion theory was bogus, which essentially was the driver of the mystery, this treason hypothesis. Well, what happened?  So obviously that's a disappointment. And in cable news, ratings is everything. If you don't have good ratings, that can threaten you existentially. So Rachel Maddow, she knew that she had to make a choice after the Mueller report came out. Am I going to pivot now and actually do my job as a journalist and educate my viewers about the issues that they need to hear about? Or am I going to try to milk this Russia Gates story a little bit longer in order to see if I can still salvage this story, get a little bit more views and clicks? She chose the latter. And now what's happening is this Russia story has graduated. It's no longer just about Russia and how they're controlling Donald Trump. Now it's about Russia bad and the United States needs to always take an adversarial stance against Russia no matter what. So here's what she said recently about Russia. And what you're going to see here is she's going to take this issue, the story that she's been covering, and she's now going to weaponize it to attack Trump. But simultaneously as she's attacking him, she's trying to go to him into intervention in Venezuela. Literally, this is an MSNBC host, a supposed left-winger who's going to side with John Bolton here.  Right, regardless of what you thought about John Bolton before this of his whole career and his track record, I mean, just think of John Bolton as a human being. This is what John Bolton, human being, thought his job was this week. Again, whether you like what he's saying here or not, this is what they've had him out there saying. The Trump administration has also made the claim that Russia is very much involved in propping up the Maduro regime. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told my colleague, Wolf Blitzer yesterday that there was a plane waiting to take Maduro to Cuba, but the Russians talked him out of it. What exactly is the Russian role here? Look, the Russians like nothing better than putting a thumb in our eye. They're using the Cubans as surrogates. They'd love to get effective control of a country in this hemisphere. We've made it clear to the Russians in a lot of conversations at a lot of different levels, some of which are going to continue today, why we think this behavior is unacceptable to us. Yeah, you thought that was your job, but it turns out not at all, not after Vladimir Putin gets done with President Trump today. He is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela other than he'd like to see something positive happen for Venezuela. Putin doing anything in Venezuela? Who said Putin's doing anything bad in Venezuela? Who have you been listening to? I'm with him. He says he's not.  Good luck delicately and carefully shaving around that impressive mustache when you have to look at yourself in the mirror in coming days, Mr. National Security Advisor. I mean, this is who you're working for. You thought your job was to push Russia back because of what they're doing in Venezuela. The President spent an hour on the phone with Vladimir Putin today. Putin told him he's not in Venezuela. So now the new position of the U.S. government is that Putin is not in Venezuela. She officially belongs on Fox News because it was always a sure bet that if you tuned in to Fox News, they would always take the pro war stance because they have defense contractors that advertise on their stations. And of course, you'd expect MSNBC and CNN to do this, but never to the extent that Fox News does it, never explicitly in the way that Fox News does it. But here she is, siding with John Bolton. Now, if she wants to agree with John Bolton about the extent to which Russia is influencing the situation in Venezuela, fine. But the underlying implication in that segment was that this is bad. And as a result, because this is bad, then subsequently what should logically follow? We take action to stop that influence in Venezuela, to stop Vladimir Putin from meddling in Venezuela. If she were a real journalist, she would be asking why we're in Venezuela and why we're allowed to meddle in Venezuela, but Russia isn't. Why is it just assumed that us being in Venezuela is inherently good and Russia being in Venezuela is inherently bad? Maybe all countries should leave Venezuela alone. Maybe all countries should stop meddling. But over the course of the last couple of years, she was screeching about how Russia meddled in our election. And here she is explicitly advocating for us to meddle with Venezuela's affairs. This is about the oil. Now Rachel Maddow should be telling people about this. She's smart enough to know what's really happening here. But what is she choosing to do? She's making the choice to not tell people the truth and instead to focus on the aspect of this story that will get her the most ratings. If you can spin this and make it about Russia and not about the US empire intervening in another Latin American country, well that's better for ratings than just telling people the truth. So this is what a sell-out looks like, ladies and gentlemen. Rachel Maddow has sold her soul for ratings and views. And she knows that she brought people along on this ride, this Russian ride, and she is determined to convince you that Russia is the greatest threat to international peace and security. And if we don't fight them at every step of the way, fight them at every turn, be overtly adversarial, then that's inherently evil. And yet, conservatives have the nerve to say that there's this liberal bias. Someone who's advocating for war on MSNBC, I wouldn't call them liberal. I would call that individual a conservative tool of the military industrial complex, who is doing exactly what they want her to do. Add to this case that Trump has currently tried to build that legitimizes their potential military efforts in Venezuela if it comes to that.  And what's devastating is that I know a lot of lefties in person who still absolutely adore and respect Rachel Maddow and they take whatever she says as gospel. And this is what she's doing. Because she has that legitimacy, this makes her particularly even more dangerous, I'd argue, than Sean Kennedy. Because I think a lot of people can look at Sean Kennedy and dismiss him because this guy is clearly cuckoo for cocoa puffs. But Rachel Maddow is seemingly intelligent. She's articulate. She knows what she's talking about presumably. So for her to do this, that makes her uniquely dangerous because the people who have legitimacy and parrot this type of propaganda, this pro-war propaganda, they're especially dangerous.


Hello, good afternoon. My name is Robert Darfia. I came here to talk about blockchain when I was told for the first time that I had to pick up the presentation at Big Data Spring about blockchain, I thought, okay, Big Data, Big Data is about a technology that helps and is data processing while maybe blockchain is the opposite. In blockchain, we use blockchain to provide security and to avoid a bad use of data and to avoid data manipulation. So I said, what can I tell these people about blockchain? So I thought, maybe I can tell them why it's so important for business. Something that is important to know is that a lot of people is talking about blockchain, it's a technology that is making a lot of noise, and it's not because of how about the IT performance, but it's because it can create new business models and a new way of exchanging data and assets between companies. And this is what I'm going to explain during the presentation. I suppose that everybody knows about Bitcoin. Okay, Bitcoin started for the very first time in 2009 as a way of sharing value between peers without the intervention of any bank or any central authority. Okay, Bitcoin, it's a currency, a digital currency, a native digital currency, and the technology that this currency is using to make all this change of value is blockchain. Blockchain is just a set of protocols that allow us to exchange data, tokens, and information between peers, making sure that the origin and the destiny of the data is known and the information of the data that is transferred has not been manipulated. Essentially, blockchain is a network of databases where every time you introduce a registry in this database, we know that the database cannot be manipulated. It's an immutable database because every register is linked cryptographically with the other one by using an algorithm. This algorithm is calculated, creates a cryptogram that is calculated using the data that we are registering, plus the algorithm that was used in the previous registry, which means that all algorithms, all these cryptograms are linked together. That's the reason why this database cannot be manipulated because if you want to manipulate one registry, you have to change the whole database. And on top of that, taking into account that this database is replicated in several places, this is almost impossible to change all the data in one of the databases because the other ones will recognize that the data has been manipulated. But this is an important thing, but what makes unique blockchain is that it can execute scripts, what we call smart contracts. One important thing, a smart contract is not a smart nor a contract. It's just a kind of workflow that you can register in the blockchain and that can be executed. The important thing is that once you introduce this workflow, you set a kind of set of triggers that has to happen in order to execute this smart contract. And this is something that has no manual integration. I mean, there is no interpretation about whether the contact has to be executed or not. Once you set the triggers that must happen, if these triggers happen, the contact will be executed. So this is an important attribute of blockchain. Talking about the technology that blockchain is using, we are not using something new or something unique. For instance, this distributed database layer is just a technology that was used in the 70s. What makes unique is the combination of the public layer, the distributed layer with the cryptography that I mentioned before. This algorithm to link all the registers together and also the asymmetric cryptography, the public and private keys that we use to sign all the transactions. This is a very standard technology that is used, for instance, in credit cards in the banking industry. But the combination of these three technologies is what makes blockchain unique. That technology. Most probably, everybody has learned about public networks. Can you raise your hand who has learned about, who knows about public networks like Bitcoin or Ethereum? Can you? Okay. This is the first application we found about blockchain. Ethereum and Bitcoin, public networks, where anybody can join this network and download the whole database and start making transactions between the different peers. The problem with this type of networks, in order to ensure that this cryptogram is not broken, we use an algorithm called proof of work. This is an algorithm that generates a cryptogram that needs to be solved, aleatory. That means that transactions, in order to be validated, can take minutes, even hours. When in the banking industry, we started to look into this technology, we thought, okay, we cannot use this type of algorithm because if we want to make a transaction, we cannot spend minutes or hours in order to get this transaction to be validated. We need something different. So people started to look into new technologies, then Ripple came into the market. Hyperledger, or now we have Core Room or Pardity as an alternative to Ethereum or Bitcoin. These are essentially similar blockchains like Ethereum, but the main difference is that they can run in what we call private networks. So networks where you can only make transactions between databases, which are certain IP address. So in order to make any transaction, you have to get an agreement with the rest of the nodes in order to be part of the network. By using this kind of private transaction, where everybody, sorry, private networks where everybody knows each other, we can use different algorithms like the consensus algorithms, which can take only a few seconds in order to validate the transaction. This was until last year. And last year, in Spain, we were very innovative, some crazy people from different banks and different companies, we started to think about, okay, can we have something different, something that being between a private and public network so that the network is controlled by a set of trusted companies, but we can open this network to everybody so anybody can join this network to make transactions. And we thought about a new type of networks, like that we called public permission networks, which are public networks where, lastly, anybody can join the network and start issuing transactions. But these transactions are validated, are registered and distributed into the network only by a few set of nodes that are controlled by trusted companies. Essentially, this network was called Alastria. Now we have more than 200 companies already involved, even governmental offices, universities. This is an experiment so far. So we don't know whether this is going to, this can be go live or not. It's an experiment, but it's opening a new way of having something in between the private networks and the full public networks. As I mentioned before, one of the things that scare me about talking here about blockchain is that it's a very immature technology. It's a very new technology. I mean, the combination of these, all these protocols. It's very promising in terms of security, we can make near real time transactions on operations, but it's very immature in terms of, for instance, data usability. One of the problems we have with blockchain is that since it's so secure, it's very difficult to manipulate data, to start data in order to make that analysis and so on. In fact, normally what we do whenever we create an application based on blockchain, next to the blockchain database, we have a MongoDB or Data Lake where we send a copy of the transactions so that the people in data analytics or in customer operations can manipulate this data and can use this data for the analysis. Another big problem, the main problem for this technology is about scalability. When we talk about private networks, most probably most of the existing technology is able to register around 30, 50 transactions per second, no more. And if we think about the payments industry, for instance, this Mastercard, they are able to process thousands of transactions in one second. So it's a big difference in the scale. So when you think about a business case or a use case for blockchain, you have to take this in mind. You can use this only if you need less than 30 transactions per second. It's important. The other big problem is about transparency. Bitcoin was born to have full transparency in the network. So everybody knew which wallet was making transactions with wallet and who are the owners of which quality is the owner of the assets. While in the banking industry, this is something that we don't like because we want customer privacy. So there are some business cases or some use cases where you cannot use a blockchain or you can use different versions of the blockchain where they achieve this privacy issue. For instance, HyperLayer is very, is very used in case you need high privacy, but in case you need a marketplace to exchange tokens, maybe something based on Ethereum, like Quorum or Parity is a better option. The only important thing talking about this technology is that the idea of this technology is to create new rails to exchange information, data and value between companies. That means that you need to create new networks and this means that you also need to create a governance model for this network in terms of SLAs regarding technology, availability of the nodes. So if one company is responsible for one node, they have to have SLAs in order to avoid the network going down every time. And also it's about how we are going to regulate any dispute or any problem in one transaction. So this type of new rails means that you need new governance models and new regalments. So far, I talk about the technology. Some people may think, OK, this technology is not so good as I expected. Why is people so interested in this technology? We are very interested in this technology because it can change the way companies interact with each other in terms of exchanging data, exchanging value and exchanging assets. Taking an example with the banking industry. In the banking industry, essentially a core banking system is just an accounting ledger where each bank registers all the money that we hold on behalf of our customers. And also the money we are lending to some customers. The problem we have is when we want to make, for instance, an international money transfer from one bank to another bank, is that the bank that is receiving the order to make the transaction doesn't know whether the bank that is originating this transaction holds the money, the assets, to cover this transaction. So that means that whenever you have to move transfer from one country to another country, to one person to another person, the person that is going to receive the money doesn't receive the money until the bank receives the money. So this takes maybe two, three days. While using blockchain technology, more or less, the idea is to have all the core banking system connected together so that whenever I start when I receive money transfer order from one bank, I can check whether this bank holds the funds to cover the transaction or not. And this applies to the banking industry, but it also may apply to many other industries, like telecom companies, for instance, when you want to migrate one mobile number from one company to another company, if both telephone companies are connected by a blockchain, they can easily check whether the customer has indeed signed a new contract with a new telephone operator just by checking the blockchain database. This can lead into a new way of economy. Imagine that this example that I explained about the banking industry be extrapolated to more sectors. So imagine that, for instance, I don't know if you know about international trade ecosystems. When a company wants to export a product to another country, it's almost a nightmare because you don't know whether the customer at the end and in the other country has the money to pay for the goods and the way around. The company that is ordering a product doesn't know whether the supplier will deliver the product. In the banking industry, we have a quite complex product, quite expensive product, which is very manual intensive, which is called the letter of credit. There is a product that guarantees that the bank of the supplier and the bank of the buyer guarantee the operation. And this is a very manual process because once the customer hires this or contacts this letter of credit, from the time the product is sold to the time the product is delivered, a lot of things may happen in the meantime. For instance, the banks before paying to the other bank we must know whether the product has arrived or not. So we have to receive a confirmation from the logistics operator. And also, whether the customer is selling one ton of oranges, we need to know whether all the oranges arrived perfectly or whether some were lost in the process. Imagine that we have a platform where the seller, the buyer, and the banks and the logistics companies share all this information in a blockchain with several contracts. Imagine we could have one smart contact between the buyer and the seller, a contact for a payment guarantee in which the bank guarantees the payment to the buyer. On the other hand, we have the contact between the seller and the buyer for the goods. And on the other hand, we have a third contract between the seller of the products and the logistics company. So when the product is delivered, the logistics company can confirm in the blockchain that the product has been delivered. Then the bank of the buyer can check that the product has been delivered and make the payment to the seller's bank. This is a new way of interacting between different companies in different sectors. There are more examples, but this is a real example of something that the banks are working right now. You will see later on one platform that we already have in production in Spain with some of our customers. Another example of how this blockchain can facilitate interaction between different companies in different sectors is in the car industry. Imagine that a car manufacturer, BMW, Mercedes, whatever, starts to register all the cars in a blockchain so that when a dealer buys some cars for the stock, this operation can be registered in the blockchain as well so that imagine that this dealer wants to get a finance for these cars he's buying for the stock. We as a bank, we can know whether this operation is real. So this company is buying some cars from the car manufacturer. And we can also know when this car is sold. So once the car is sold, we can ask this dealer to pay the whole loan that he is asking from us. And the same can apply regarding the end customer. When the end customer buys this car, we can offer that loan to this person. The car remains on the name of the bank. And once this person pays the whole car, then we transfer this ownership in the blockchain to the end person. Imagine that we also involve workshops and insurance companies in this ledger so that all the different modifications in the car, all the maintenance that this car has can be registered into the blockchain. So when the insurance and also all the accidents. So when an insurance company wants to issue a new policy to this person, they can check the history of the car. And based on the history of the car, they can put a different price or not. And also when this car is sold in the second market, in the second hand market, the new buyer of the car can check all the history of the car. And based on this, he can make a lower or higher offer to the seller. So this is an example of how a blockchain can change the way we manage the lifecycle of a car, for instance. And if we think further in time, imagine that this new way of exchanging information and value between different companies is extended to the whole world, to the whole organization, even to local governments, to all companies. So imagine that all the relationships, all the contrast between companies, in particular, and with all the regalments in the local governments, are regulated by smart contracts. In that case, there will not be a human manipulation of all the information. Everything will be less, more or less, automatized, depending on the execution of some traders, so that we can go to what we call the Distributed Autonomous Society. So that means that the whole society could be managed just by writing some smart contracts that could regulate the whole relationship between the different actors in one economy. But this is a future vision. We are very far still. But keep it in mind when you think about blockchain and how it can change the way the economy works. Coming back to the present, what we are working on regarding blockchain, we can classify the applications of blockchain in five type of applications. The first one is about value transfer. So this is, for example, Bitcoin. You can move value from one person to the other person. And I say value, no money. It could be money, or it could be something that has some value. The only important thing is around asset tokenization. We can create what we call digital twins of physical elements in the real world. We can tokenize this item. There are specific protocols that are under development right now on how to create these tokens. And you can exchange these tokens. Imagine that you want, for instance, to exchange petrol barrels or even gold. You don't need to physically move the gold from one country to another country. You just need to tokenize the gold, transfer this gold in a blockchain, and in a different country with this operation registered in the blockchain, you can turn this token into a real goal in a different country. Another application that people are working on is around digital AD. And this is what we call self-sovering IDs. Imagine that you have a public Ethereum blockchain network where anybody can register an identity. I can go and register my identity. And I can ask a trusted party, for instance, one university, a bank, a telecom company, to verify my identity. I can contact them, or even a notary. I can contact them, tell them I'm your customer. I have this ID of customer. I register this identity in the blockchain. I want you to verify that I'm this person, the place where I live. This is the way we think that digital identities will work in the future with a distributed ledger like blockchain. And for instance, if you want to make some operations like buying a house or something like that, you can do the same process. But in this case, you will ask a notary to verify your identity in the blockchain. So you can physically go to a notary and say, register this identity in the blockchain. I want you to certify that I'm the person that I claim that I am in the blockchain. So depending on the type of transactions you want to do in the blockchain, you could need different levels of authentication. So maybe from a shared authentication to an authentication made by a third company, a trusted one, like a utility company, a bank, a governmental office, or a very strong authentication made by a notary for instance. We are also working on how to apply blockchain into the internet of things. But here we have a limitation. First, I think we need to have a very strong use case for the internet of things. We need internet of things to be more used in the market. But basically, what we think that blockchain could provide two things in the IoT environment. The first one is about managing all the payments between machines. So we believe that in future, machines will pay for services to other machines, micro payments basically, and blockchain could be a cheap way of managing all these payments. And the other applications that we could have for blockchain in the internet of things is about allowing the interaction with some IoT devices. So imagine, as I mentioned before, one of the applications of blockchain is about transfer of ownership of tokens. Imagine that instead of doing a permanent transfer of ownership, we can allow people in the blockchain to interact with IoT device for certain time. Imagine that we want, for instance, or people wants to check the temperature in one specific country or in one specific city by interacting with a sensor. We can render the sensor and allow the interaction with this sensor using blockchain to allow this interaction. And the most realistic application that is why they're used today and the one that has most cases right now is about business process optimization with third parties and also information reconciliation between parties. Imagine that, for instance, we as a bank, we are financing consumer goods like TVs, like telephones. In this case, these operations are not done by us, but by a retailer, a telephone retailer, or a telephone company, or a TV retailer. In some cases, we have difficulties to match the operations that the retailer claims that he has done with the operations that we think he has done. If we use a blockchain, we can easily reconcilate all the real operations. And these days, also yesterday, it was announced by Telefonica that they plan to use blockchain in order to reconcilate all the international calls between telecom companies. So imagine that you are calling from Spain to France. So by using a blockchain, France Telecom, Telefonica, can reconcil a bit easily the duration of this conference. They know whether the money that Telefonica is claiming is real or not. What are we doing in Santander regarding blockchain? Basically, we work in four big fields of applications for, of course, payments, which is the obvious one. But we are also working in the corporate and commercial banking space because when you deliver financial products to big companies, most of these products are unique. They are not the standard and they involve a lot of manual processes and a lot of manual operations in the back office. By using blockchain, we can automatize a lot of these processes just by using a blockchain that connects the bank with the customer and with third parties involved in the operation. Since we are also a big group, we are present in many countries, we are also working together with the different banks in the different countries in applications that will help us to get efficiency among us, I mean, for instance, in terms of preventing fraud and delinquency. Just by sharing for instance information about delinquent customers or customers that we know in one country that are potential terrorists or money launders, we can exchange this information by using blockchain with all the different banks of the group. And of course, we are very active in participating in consortia and alliance. As I say before, blockchain is a network. It's a way of changing information with companies. There is no advantage of having one blockchain only for one enterprise. It's about sharing and making cooperative business models with all the different companies in the ecosystem. Some examples of the projects we have right now that are already in the news purpose. Regarding payments, international payments, we are part of the utility settlement coin which is a consortium of banks that we are working together with the British regulator in order to, and the European Central Bank, in order to create a new ecosystem of payments based on blockchain for dollars, euros, and pounds. The way it works is that either we get a credit line from the Central Bank or we deposit money in the Central Bank and in exchange we get Euro tokens, Euro dollar tokens, or pounds tokens that we can exchange in this network. By doing this, we don't need to wait until we're cleaning all the operations before paying the end customer, but we can exchange these tokens in the network so we can make money transfers in the same day instead of waiting for two or three days. This is an important improvement for the customer. The platform I mentioned before regarding a letter of credit, it's called WeTrade. WeTrade is a consortium of 14 banks. We are using this case, well, in the previous one, we are using a version of Ethereum. In this case, we are using HyperLayer from IBM. We are working with IBM in this project. We have set up a dream venture with all the 14 banks. And the idea is to facilitate a digital platform to speed up international trade between small and medium enterprises because with blockchain, we can reduce the cost of the letter of credit just by using a digital platform instead of the classical letter of credit. The other application we are working on is the one I mentioned before about sharing information about delinquent and potential fraudulent customers. In this case, we are working also with the British regulator and also with internal application within our banks to exchange this information with other British banks and also internally within our banks, as I said before. And we are now the presidents of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance. This is a consortium of companies, IT and bank companies, mainly, that we are trying to define the specification for enterprise use of Ethereum-like blockchains. As I said before, we cannot use real or full public blockchains but private ones because of scalability problems and also because of all things about transparency and privacy for the customers. And well, this is all I had to tell you so I don't know if you have any question regarding blockchain. Any question? Don't be shy. You mentioned blockchain being used for managing digital IDs and the most useful blockchains are currently distributed ledger and public, so wouldn't keeping people's information there make it available for everybody? Yeah, for instant GDPR, no? And who would be in control of? Okay, this is a very interesting question. The idea is to register in the blockchain only all the certifications that this person has achieved. Imagine that I register my ID in the blockchain. My name will not be there. My address will not be there. But what I will have is that I have an ID, imagine XZeta302, and that this ID has been certified. The address of this ID and the identity of this ID has been certified by Santander, for instance, that he has a university degree certified by a certain university. But the actual data will not be in the blockchain, but to what we call off-chain. So if imagine that I want to get, for instance, to get a new account open with a different bank, I can ask, with an application, the new bank will check that I have my ID already checked by Santander. So I can allow Santander to provide my personal information to this new bank. And this exchange of information will not be done in the blockchain, but off-chain. So the blockchain will only regulate all the permission in to get the access to information and which information has been certified or not. Any other question? My question is related to Alastria. Which are the use cases that you plan to test in the short term? So what is the vision of Alastria in the next two or three years? OK, the first use case that Alastria is working on is ID, the digital ID. We are defining in Alastria all the requirements for this digital ID and the strongest of the ID that you need depending on the use case. For instance, if you want to register into a website, maybe you need a very weak identification. But if you want to get a new bank account, maybe you need a stronger one. And if you want to make a big operation like, for instance, buying a house or buying a car, maybe you need to go to the notary and get your ID validated by the notary. And this is the first use case. On top of that, a lot of companies are thinking about potential applications for this. For instance, I know that the MetoBaseza is working in an application to facilitate all the utilities. When someone buys a car, sorry, buys a house, to facilitate to get all the utilities for this new house by using the blockchain. Thank you. You're welcome. There's another person over there. Hello. My question is, nowadays, the banks are a source of trust. So for example, if there's a mistake on a system or there's a bug or you want to roll back a transaction that has been done or rollback a process, you can buy manually or dramatically, you can do it so. But with those technologies, how do you handle that situation in which you have to rollback a transaction? OK, is it possible? In a certain way, yes. The important thing to know is one of the properties of blockchain is that once you've registered information in the blockchain, this information remains forever. You cannot change this information in the blockchain. But what you can do is to issue another transaction that changes the information of this one. I mean, it's like adding a new registry. Imagine that you have a registry that you are sending money, $5 from A to B. But this is a mistake. You can issue a check back, saying that from B to A, you are now moving this $5, so this will reverse the transaction. So this is what you can do. But for instance, as I mentioned before, if you register any public or personal data, this data cannot be removed. So that's one of the reasons why, in order to meet with GDPR, you cannot put personal data into the blockchain. But you keep the personal data what we call off-chain. But the important thing to know is that, as you mentioned, banks are more or less a trusted party. By using blockchain, the blockchain will be the trusted party. So that will be the source of the two. This is the key thing. Any other question? OK, thank you very much.


Hi guys, welcome to another vlog. Margo and Emily are here. Today is the live show day. We're having a great weekend vlog. Very excited. Margo, how are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm, you know, taking it hour by hour. So for me right now, it's not the live show, you know? For me right now, it's the workout and that's what I have to get through. We're on our workout, which by the way, it wasn't even my idea, it was Emily's idea.  The best part is when you go, she's so toxic and I had already replied, yeah, I'd love to. Emily texted in the group chat earlier, was like, anyone want to work out Friday? I mean, Emily, there's a core power, is that where we're going? No. I didn't realize you had a core power like every day. I thought you like went to other. No, because I just got from the membership side. Well, no, if I would have known that, I would have taken you to try hot pilates. I just knew you weren't looking too much. She expanded her horizons. Well, no, I only went to the hot pilates for like years. Hot pilates. No, I'm happy to switch it up. Yeah. I'm wearing earvars as my set. Oh God, do I do it all the way around? I'm actually not wearing earvars. I'm wearing set active. I wish I was wearing earvars. I'm always wearing earvars or set active. I love earvars. Here we are. Guys, this is so funny. Oh my gosh. All right, guys, I'm packing my bag for the green room. We're gonna go to Onibar for lunch. I'm wearing cowboy boots after we have a table. We're going to the whip. So I'm bringing a dress and cowboy boots so I don't have to wear sneakers. Margot is a genius. We just showered, it's pouring today. It's so annoying. But I'm very excited for Onibar. And then we start makeup at like 3 p.m. There's three of us. And Margot and I are doing hair. Dom is doing makeup too. Dom just is very specific about her brows. So you never know what she's gonna end up doing. But very excited. I'm just like ready to be there I think. I'm actually really not nervous yet. So we'll see. Margot, that you really should get that. It's so you. So cute.  All right. Dom's practicing her stand-up off. So Onibar we go. It is raining. So beautiful. Guys look, it's my lunch. My most ideal lunch. So cute. Okay, I got the pan seared. Oh, we're twin. We're twinning. Margot lied, she said she wasn't gonna get a drink. I pulled an audible. I kind of figured that was gonna happen. Pay, I'll compare to you. Like the fact that you didn't include me in your spray tan is like. It was before you came. Yeah, but like you would have should have told me to come earlier. I would have gotten the spray tan. I just feel like. You would have flown earlier. I feel like you were working against me because you want to look better. I thought you would have just tanned. I forgot, I'm busy. Yeah, but you still would have. You still did. Thank you. Oh, you mean like a tan luxe? Yeah.  I forgot. Anyways, if I would have known I could have had them come like this morning or something for you. Yeah. I didn't realize that you needed a tan. I know. I could have got one too. Here we go. You did. Really, Dom? Yeah. I think I literally am clenching my butt cheeks right now. Oh my God. I just need to make sure I make a nice tune before we go on stage. Why do you put lip gloss on? Like you literally don't make a bun. I always put lip gloss on. Okay. Dom, it's okay. That was raising my cortisol levels. Hi guys. We've arrived. We've arrived. Thank you. Welcome to a little green room tour. So here we are. Little, behind the scenes, little backstage moments. Here's a clothing rack for my clothes. This is for the club after. So don't mind that. Come on in to our two green rooms that you can do it. You can do hair in one, makeup in the other. This is green room number one. We have a bathroom up here. Nice shower in case it's needed. Which honestly, it could be. Really nice. Look over here. Love. Now I'm gonna be over here. We have green room number two. Very cute. Same thing. It's a ladder in here. Oh, and then you have, this is actual operator. And then, oh, floor length mirror. Little bathroom again. I mean, it's amazing. Love this so much. Hope you guys are enjoying. Guys, so we're in the green room. Kristen, who always does my makeup. She's also Presley's sister. People get very confused when they think Presley does my makeup because of your last name. She's stealing my credit. Yeah, I know. I know. I just have to clarify. This is Anna, also both in Dallas. Hi. I'm both starting in hair and makeup. Very excited. Wow. How are you feeling? Thank you so much. I'm so excited to be in Margo. Yeah, super humble too. Yeah, she's so humble. Like she never say this down the town. Never. The lights look so cool. Hey vlog squad. I'm here. I'm here in the war room right now with Kensington. She's getting her glam on with the girly cat. And Margo is our vibe curator right now. As she does. Come on, Spotify. The Spotify shoddy in the house. Kenzie, tell us about your look that you're going for tonight. I'm classic vlog and then whatever Kristen does. Kristen is the mastermind behind all of Kenzie's glam. Guys, I'm really excited because tonight I get a shine and do what I do best, which is to talk. It's going to be amazing. I'm wearing some Okine. It's going to be amazing. She looks amazing. This is the best my dad hair has ever looked. I love your hair. I need the same thing. Hi guys. Are you ready? Yes, I'm so excited. Guys, dizzy. Oh, we've got a seeker. Oh my gosh. Dom's shirt. That was sick. Thank you. Dom's shirt. Yes, perfect. There's chairs. Like I said, I promise there's people coming. These are all my pants. Literally, when it was two rows, I was like, I can't show that right now. Yeah. Wow. It's chocolate, but I can't really tell, but. Wow. Okay, we're doing a little run of show check. Up on the stage we go. So cute. All right, we're doing a little sound check plan. So exciting. I'm really cool. Literally freezing. Frigid. So we're doing. Frigid. Literally. The music, she'll cue. And then the music will go on for the last time. Oh my gosh, that was so weird. Guys, we just got a delivery on stage from Ryan. I'm literally crying. What an angel. Oh my God, I love him. That was about five minutes. And welcome to the stage. That's exactly it. Love, thanks so much for having me. Of course. Have a wonderful rest of your show. And I'll see you backstage. And goodbye. All of a sudden I appeared. The audience who are looking for their bands. And you will come up, the world of law, and then we need you all to help with them. Yeah. Okay, but. Talk to me about this for a second. So. Oh my God. Hi guys. We're gonna have much more inches on here.  We're back in the green room. We're blittering. I'm so cold. How are you feeling? I'm actually feeling. I feel like you're not actually nervous. I'm not. I know, I am. She did lie to me last time. All day, her and Dom, and I don't know how I didn't see her close friend's story. So did you take me off myth for the day? No, I saw it after. Did I say I was nervous? That I missed it somehow. I was sitting next to her.  I'm just something in the bathroom or whatever. I mean, I react.  I don't mean something off of it. But I saw it right after the show, and you wouldn't have had time. So I think it is misted. Wow, I really totally gambled there. I know. It was risky. I know, I'm actually very excited. I can't lie. I'm very excited. But it'll change for sure. Like I'll definitely be nervous going out there. It's just the two. It's when you're backstage, when you go on. No, it's like when we hear people start filing in, it's like when I'll probably start going quiet. And if I'm quiet, just know I'm nervous. Yeah, I'm the same way. That's why I've been all day. Yeah. I feel really bad. I'm very mad. What? I feel like you've been very chatty. Not in a bad way. No, not like what I'm normally being. That's pretty good. Well, to people who are not as close to it. Like I'm normally like, how are you? I just live my stress. Oh yeah, I feel like. So, I'm very excited. We're having a little impromptu photo shoot. The green room, these pictures are amazing. Riley, our photographer is here. We didn't coordinate our outfits. No, but clearly, clearly. It's a general reveal. You look amazing. No, but they look amazing together. Yeah, it's just like naturally, we're very insane. So insane, God. I haven't been green in like 15, no, in like five minutes. I wasn't doing a meet and greet for the show, but then so many people flew in or drove like hours and hours and hours. So I made it like a little random, like last minute meet and greet for people who traveled in. Cause that's just the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me. Guys, I'm so excited. You can't see like what this actually looks like.   Also, I forgot that we are outroing with Tick Down and Dallas as we should. The best like two or three months of our lives last fall, it was that song. Two months. I was here for a weekend, but yeah. I know, but like I had the great two months. No, but I feel like I was like really part of it at the time that was part of it. No, I agree. And it came, no, it came from you, me, and Dawn. I was there. Yeah, it was just so incredible. So we're outroing with the song. I know. I'm so excited. Try and let us just even know. Yeah, I'll, I'll have someone, I'll let them know. All right guys, about to do meet and greet. And then my friends come and Sophie comes and then it's show time. I'm really excited. Hey, wait, introduce yourself and show the boots that you wore. I love. I'm Maddie and I wore these boots for Kenzie tonight. I love them. Oh my gosh, we're doing a little meet and greet. Say hello. Oh my gosh, it's my favorite song ever. Oh my gosh, so sad at the flop. Are you so excited? Yes. I'm so excited. Sophie said she's nervous. She's nervous. Show them your beanie. Where's it from? The old kind? Yes, it is. So are you gonna be in the audience? Do you know where you're sitting? No. Okay, well, so I'm very happy that you're here. Love you so much. We're in the green room. Nick down in Dallas, we're taking our shot. Our friends just left the room. Oh, Chaser, so. Well, we're ready for the show. I'm really excited. I feel really good about it. Oh my gosh, I'm like, yes. And then we're gonna have people with their mastermind stories. Thank you so much for coming. Thank you for being my guest, Margot. Thank you, Dawn, for everything that you've done tonight. I love you too. Thank you so much for having me. It was a joy and an honor. And Dallas, I love you all. I love you guys. Ready? Guys, we're leaving now. Best I've ever. So much fun. Absolutely. Thank you. Bye guys, thank you. Never stops working. Let's go. I'm gonna sing Claudia this clip. But only Go Puff had the peach, which is lemonade. Pineapple. Pineapple's my favorite. And then grapefruit. And then peach is the new flavor. And where can you find these, Margot? You can find these at places. So it's a total one. Total one. In Texas, I know total ones. I don't know about specs. No, not H-E-B, I don't think. Lots of places. And online. And online. And you can use code Kinsey or Ilysem for 10% off. Just buy online. I'm a fan. Love, love. We're sold, we're sold. Guys, Emily and I, we're at Water Burger. We're getting Margot breakfast. She's got to make it up. I am so shocked that we are okay. I'm like, my face is so puffy, but the undo, the booze pills, guys. Amazing. Amazing. Like, I'm not kidding. My head doesn't even really hurt. Like, I feel good, you know? So, we obviously just woke up. This is me currently. I've been in better states. Good morning, everyone. We got Water Burger. Emily's first time. I'm so excited for it. Oh yeah, guys. Extra honey butter, always. Oh my gosh, I'm so happy. Guys, we're at H2 Supply. Margot is trying her strawberry smash. Yeah, so good. Is it like a green tea shot? No, it's not. I don't taste any green tea. Oh, wow. I don't think this is a legitimate one. These drinks are so good. And the thing that's scary about them is that you can have, Do they get you drunk? Yes, and you can have five of them. And look, look, I'm already almost done. And no issue. Okay, let's count so we can know how many pills to take. Yeah, actually, under the moon. It's my favorite place ever. Yay, thank you. Guys, I'm home. I was born to be in Fort Worth, Texas. I mean that. Well, I know that this sounds crazy. This is the espresso martini, okay? And I know, I know what you're thinking. It's gross, but it's not. It simply isn't. And I need it for caffeine, but I always get one when I'm here. Do you want to try it? Yeah, that's sad. I'm all over the place today. I'm giving up. Go ahead and try, it's vodka.  It's really nice to have. My mom and I just like put them up because they used to be open.  Oh my God, what's happening here? No, I think it's music. We're in the best place ever. Are you so excited? I'm so excited. How are you feeling besides cold? Just cold. But besides that, my spirits are high. I took a nap in the car. It took me a minute to like, truly wake up. We've been having a slow day. It's a, 6.45 and I feel like we're just now awake. The Drovers, my favorite place ever, have a vlog staying here. It was booked this weekend. Oh, shoot, sorry. It was booked this weekend and that's why we're not staying here tonight. No, go through the lobby in the front. We're just gonna get a drink here. It is the most magical hotel in the entire world. I'm obsessed. Thank you. Hold on, do you want me to just have it? Amazing, yeah. Oh, oh my gosh. Amazing, thank you so much. Yay. Guys, the drinks of the Drover are like, let's give you a reference. Lauren's head, my espresso martini. Dom is trying her first martini. Do you like olives? We're literally sitting on the edge of our seats. Like, can you speak up for, like, really unexpected. That's huge. Well, she does my vodka. That's Jen though, boy, that's good. Oh, you might want to get your own glass now, Margot. I really liked that a lot. And the filthier, the more olive juice. I like, yeah. Oh, yeah, uh-huh. I'm like cutting a wedding cake off one. I'm like, so I'm going to start over? No, because sometimes, obviously- It's talking about country music. I'm learning country music in the car. And some people are like, oh, yeah, yeah, like, let's just do it.   Also, it tells you what's important and I think that's very important. I agree, yes, I agree. And be toxic, but at the end of the day, what you need to understand is you cover me up. And also, cut those lyrics, toxic over other genres of lyrics, they're all taught, no. They're all toxic. That's not, yeah. Yo, my point, listen to me and listen to my words. Look at me and listen to me. Country music will save your life.  Tune in, tap in. Tap in. Tap in. Lock country music. Lock in to country music.  I've been in the darkest, I've had the darkest impressions of my life. But Priscilla Block out now.    Down to me, that's your spot. No, she literally will. She actually, sometimes back in college when I get hate comments, I would like see them days later and then it would be John Roberts responding. Like I'm not kidding guys, I'm literally not kidding. Who's that fool that made that video about you? Oh wait. Guys, we forgot to tell you, we're in drama with the Bartiss guy from Love is Blind. I saw Bartiss. I would literally be like, I'm just kidding. I'm not waiting for my exposure Bartiss to me. The Espresso martinis. Oh Jesus. All right, Kenzian, I'm just recording. The Espresso martinis at Hotel Gilbert are the best I've ever had, but Kenzian said she's had better. Lauren's singing this song. We ordered everything on the appetizer menu and it's soon to come. The girls are really hungry and honestly, morale is pretty high though right now. Yeah, they don't have coffee anymore. We're not drinking, but they did have Bailey's. They had Bailey's. So I guess I am into other ones. Hahaha. Margot? Margot has been sitting on top of Emily. She's sitting on top of me first. Well, I feel like two minutes. She was like, she was like, she was like, if I chew boney, I was like, oh wait, Margot. Kenzian, show, Margot, Kenzian, show them your nails. Guys, they are practicing the red nail theory. Yeah, nothing, no one's going to do it. They can't do it without mine. Guys, also, don't we look like we're in a Hallmark movie? Oh, never mind, you're good. Just as in, thank God. I cannot leave. Okay, thank you. That's my vlog takeover. Got another round of espresso martinis with tequila. So good. We ordered every appetizer on the menu. These are not all of them. They're coming and this is our dinner. Well, we've been eating at the bars. We kind of ruined our dinner. Extremely well fed. Yeah. I might eat all of them. Really? Let's see. I'm just trying to make the test and it's like it's perfect. Ooh. Okay, we're leaving Hotel D'Rover and a horse has walked by. It's so good, I forgot. But they passed by so we need to find them again. You wouldn't believe it. This is Emily's first time in Texas and we go, no way. Horses down the streets of New York City. Well, they're both different. But that's like different. Oh, sorry, sorry. No, that's just a myth. That's just him going to work. Just like on a horse, I'm pretty sure. Are we gonna do that here? I guess so, yeah. I feel like no, actually. Yeah, I feel like that's not. At least, open container. I always get confused. I do too, I know. Okay, we're also like, there's actually like cattle that come out. So I feel like a horse is not that big of a deal.  But like cattle, like all along that street, you know? We set the clock in here, Sam. All right, your turn. Guys, we're in the basement bar. This is your magical day. Ty, boys, gone. Okay, shot. Boots, go. Boots, go. It was, I think I ever needed it. But bad news for you, Lauren. What are we doing every single weekend? Why is that bad news? Well, you guys should be in the Uber, but honestly, like, what are we supposed to do? Marco? How are you feeling? I have to pee, but I don't want to talk about it until we're in the car. Oh, okay. Nothing. It's my favorite place in the wide world, the hotel driver. I could cry. Guys, look, we just got back from Fourworth and look what I came home to, this package of a cowboy boot candle from 11-Eleven, I believe, let me see. The actual brand where you can shop it. Oh my God, 11-Eleven. It's the cowboy boot candle collectible. Western collection. What? Is that not your camera? No, I have, I brought my smaller camera because I left my small camera in Lauren's car. This is my actual vlog camera. I have two. Oh, okay. 11-Eleven.  I love these people are, oh, also, let me tell you a little something about these undue the booze pills, okay? Let's not. No, they work, okay? They've really done something for me this weekend and for what they've done for me, I'll never forget. Okay, I'm internally grateful. Guys, no, it's really cool. Oh my God, so much is growing though. I do need to water this later, but look at this, I'm showing Emily the garden. It's not so sad. That's my kale down there. It's so sad. They're sending me a new one though, so it should be here this week, but look, things are actually growing and then over here, there's some ice, so don't mind that plant. Over here we have rosemary, basil, more oregano. Those have been over water. It stormed really bad, so it killed those two plants and that one's fine. Yeah, it's the best thing ever. This is like why I bought this house. I know, fire pit, but I just thought about my garden. It's okay. It's the next day we're at Hudson House. She's wanted this banana-nut espresso martini. Since I posted it last month. For a week. Oh, you love it. Okay, good. I was worried, honestly. It was a lot of buildup. Now she's saying it's the best drink she's ever had. Yeah, I don't need their love. They are incredible. We have ordered pretty much everything on the menu, which is you're coming. Literally everything. We're so hungry. The word, Starship and Colors, 64 points. Beautiful. Thank you. I think I'm struggling with even as I get older because now I'm becoming the age of some of these moms and teachers that were so, I mean, evil to me and my daughter and just very brash. And it's hard for me to now understand I would never, even when she has little beefs with her friends, it's I always smile and still wave because I'm like, I'm 30. I don't care what their issues are. So it's hard for me to now sit back and realize how actually main women were.


So if you've heard about, um, something called the safe working group, and, um, co-ordinated in CNTF, um, this is basically the same group with 1,200 redundant rename, and now it also should be a 6, which is great. Um, so yeah, in this session, I'm going to talk a little bit more about, uh, what exactly we are, what we are trying to do, as well as ways that we are involved in, um, yeah. Um, so what exactly is 6 security? So CNTF 6 security is a group, uh, and our main vision really is to, part of it is to increase the posture of security across cloud native in general. Um, and another thing that we are hoping to be able to do is to be able to make it, um, so that whenever a developer and user, an operator or an auditor talks about creating a cloud native application solution, they should be comfortable with knowing what exactly is the security risk, what are steps that I can take to mitigate, um, um, certain risks within my security solution. Um, so we do this in three areas. One is to be able to observe the entire CNTF landscape and look at areas where we need to have better security or have a bit more focus on. Okay, all right. Okay, um, the second thing that we're doing is we want to be able to have a common understanding of two. So what we do, part of what we do are assessments, basically what we have is we look at certain security-focused projects in CNTF, we do a review of them, and then we give a little bit about, you know, here's the track model that you should be looking at when you're looking at using this product or using this, um, project. So these are things you should consider, these are things, um, if you are, if you need, if you're using this, these are things that you get from me and these are things that you don't get from me. I'll go into more detail later. Um, and the third focus area for this group is also around kind of audit and compliance. And, uh, we often get this issue where auditors come to us and we say that, okay. Hello, this is Ben. Okay. So, um, the third point which is around, um, audit, right? So, um, there are several, um, customers that come to us and, or just, um, vendors in general, and they say that auditors that look at cloud-native, um, solutions and architecture don't really know how to assess the security of it. And this is something that is fairly new and, you know, auditors still have some trouble in, you know, understanding how risk has changed when you introduce something like a, um, CICD process where containers was the isolation in that regard. Um, so these are the kind of the focus areas of the group. Uh, a little bit of history. So, this, um, the Safe Working Group started in December 2017 from, um, casual conversation between a couple folks. Um, and we started the initial Safe Working Group, which is now called SIC Security. And we started with this idea of, okay, we're going to identify all the different personas and use cases in cloud-native in terms of security. All right, um, so we, we continue on this. We merge with the Policy Working Group, um, which there's going to be a talk later that I mentioned. Um, so this is, they're looking at kind of what should cloud-native policies be, what are the policies which, you know, has security considerations, how does Spiffy, how does OPA, how do these projects get integrated with it. Um, and later down the road, um, around last year in August 2018, we created a PR for CNCF considerations. And thanks to our chairs and, um, the, our sponsors at the TOC, we were able to, um, get the SIC status in June of this year. So we are a fatty new SIC, but we, um, have quite a good amount of participation. So right now we have 45 members. Um, it's kind of a diverse set of members. We have people from, um, cloud vendors. We have, um, security providers. We have end users, financial users and so on. So a lot of representation. There's a lot of good security discussion that goes along. Um, and it really is a very open community. Basically we do everything from GitHub. So I'm going to talk about, um, two or three focus areas that, um, we've been, um, putting work into over the past, um, past year. So one of it is landscape. So some of you may be familiar with the CNCF landscape. So this, if you've seen this like big picture with a ton of different logos on the same page, uh, basically classifying, okay, what is this cognitive, um, um, technology, where should it be? Um, is it orchestration? Is it runtime, whatever? All right. So with SIC security, we want to do a similar thing for security, right? So we want to be able to, um, have a bit more of a fine grain control of, of classification of what, uh, security project is, right? Is it something to do with identity? Is it something to do with privacy? And once we are able to classify all the projects into different areas, you can kind of see the gaps and see, oh, this is where more projects should be. Or this is somewhere that, you know, we should put more interest in. Um, another thing which sets us apart from the general CNCF landscape that we're trying to push for is that, uh, when the CNCF landscape, the scope of it really is targeted at the CNCF project themselves. But with security, this is a little bit different because a lot of the security projects that I use in, um, production or in solutions, um, actually, you know, go our generic security solutions. So like key management systems like fault, um, you know, anything in the C groups, name spaces and the nuts kernel, you know, those are all generic security projects, but they're not necessarily cloud native, but they are still important in the ecosystem for security. So we, we have kind of a draft of all these things. They're moving forward. Um, um, if you are interested in helping with anything, um, the issues I've put all on the slide. So if you want to just click into it, you can kind of see, um, what the details that we, we've already drawn up now. And also if you want to contribute, we are definitely very open to that. Okay. So, um, the second thing I want to talk a little bit about is security assessments. Security assessments is something that I'm more involved with. And the idea here is that we're looking at some of, um, for, for stylists, we're looking at some of the security focused projects. So the idea here is, um, three things. One is we're going to look at cognitive security, um, projects or projects in general and make sure they have good security posture. So this, we ensure that, you know, do you have a proper CI, do you do scanning of your images and so on? Um, on top of that, we ensure that all the projects have a, um, security process. So for example, do they have a process for, if there's a vulnerability discovered in a project, is there a security team and what is their response time like? Um, so on top of that, what we do, which I'll show you a bit more details later, is that we really understand what are the threat models and how they, they, um, form a part of the architecture. So we started with two this year and they're almost complete. So the first is in total. In total is a, um, kind of, um, signature verification mechanism, which validates, um, certain processes within the container supply chain, right? To ensure that you have scanning, you have, um, you're signing done, maybe you have encryption, certain compliance steps that you want to perform. Uh, OPA, which is, um, open policy agent, some of you may be familiar, may have heard that. It's basically a policy language and a policy, um, service that allows you to, um, encode policies and make decisions on them. So what we do is we work with, um, the maintainers and the security team of, uh, the individual projects and we, what, what ends up, um, the process is that we go through, maybe it's usually about two to three weeks. Um, the main aim of this is to get a general consensus of, um, the security of a project and what the result of this is, is, uh, we get this document. So I'm just going to switch here. So this is the CNCF security page, um, around GitHub and you know, if that's basically a ton of information here and everything we have really are in the issues. Um, so if you go to the issues, um, labeled with assessments, right, you can see, uh, a couple over here. So we have OPA and in total. So if we look at the OPA one, we end up with this document, which we think that is really helpful for end users, vendors, or operators. Right. Um, so the, the document sets are really generic with kind of what is this project, what is it trying to provide in terms of security. So like a little bit of background and stuff, uh, and the goals that it's trying to achieve in terms of security, non goals and so on. And so these, these things are kind of very straightforward. You can find that in the repo, but what I think is really interesting, um, for general users, if you go down into the document, uh, what we do is we ask, we perform the security analysis. Um, so basically we're trying to identify, you know, what are the main things that you have to look, look out for. Right. So in this case, we talk about, okay, while a certain attacker scenarios that could happen, if you're, you're, if this component is going to be breached within your, your solution or your cluster, um, what are the things that you have to consider, what are the mitigating steps you can take from downwards. So we go into a few details about, okay. So what are the attack surfaces, what are the things that the project could do better in the short term in the long term, whether it's, um, enforcing better defaults, whether it's, you know, providing better education to users that, uh, this is not, this is something that the platform provides and certain things you should not assume. So this document contains a lot of, um, interesting stuff. Um, and we also have there's some, um, notes on, you know, what are some of the defaults that you should use. So another one I kind of want to share about is in, in total over here. Um, so an example of how this would be useful is that if we look at, um, so this talks about, you know, why, if you have a key compromise, what happens, what's the implications of it. Um, and another thing that I think is really useful here is for certain components. So certain projects rely on certain other components. So in the case of in total, it relies on some kind of storage, um, verifiable storage for the signatures that it creates or the, the, the content blocks that it creates. And so like this document I'll talk about, okay, what are the different tradeoffs? What are the different implications, what are the considerations you need to look at if you're going to choose a different time of back-end for storage? Um, so we, we, we see this document as a way to help assess the security to help the project grow in terms of increasing the security posture, but also as a document that users can take a look at and really understand something about the project in terms of security. All right. So we have a couple of, um, security assessments that are coming up. Um, this one that's going to be on Falco, one that was going to be on Keycloak and possibly Habba. So these are the three projects that we're looking at. If you're interested in participating in security assessments, do ping us on Slack, give us a shout out on the mailing list, um, and also put your name down on the issue. So another thing that's been going on is a policy white paper. So this is not something I'm, um, very involved with. So I don't know, it's a fungus here. Um, he's the one that's really driving this. He's part of the policy work group. And he's going to have a deep dive, um, about the Kubernetes policy work group. You know, I hope, I think he may talk a little bit about this white paper that we're writing.  All right. This is not loading. So I'm going to skip this. All right. So a few things that are coming out is, uh, one, we also have on top of the policy paper, we are also writing a more generic security white paper. So what this, this white paper is going to talk about is, you know, what is, um, how do you do security in cloud native? You know, it's not going to be something specific to Kubernetes. It's not going to be something specific to, uh, certain runtimes, certain products. It's really, you know, um, from a auditor perspective or from a security perspective, what are the, you know, the base things that you have to secure? Um, what are the things they need? Like you need some kind of, um, DevOps pipeline, some kind of verification, runtime verification. Um, so this is something that, um, is coming up. It's something that's already in progress. Like I said, the policy white paper is also ongoing. Um, another big thing that we have is the security microsite. So there's been a lot of, um, ideas around providing education about security. So one of the ones of the, one of the things that we talk about is, uh, the types of vulnerabilities that we generally see in cloud native applications. So one, one example is, uh, the talk time error, the time of track, the time of user average, right? Um, if an object is modified in between where, um, the, the value we can't make assumptions about, uh, generally we see quite a few of those type of, um, vulnerabilities. So the Microsoft is going to serve a few purposes. One of it is to put on articles, um, that share about, you know, here are the types of attacks, here are what you should look at, here's how to mitigate, uh, mitigate them and how to do it right. Uh, we also hope to put more information of how to use certain security tools and security projects. Um, and just security posture, um, articles in general. Um, and last button on these, uh, what I mentioned before, we have, uh, in total opal, we're almost done. Uh, Falco, that, um, security review is led, going to be led by Justin Cormac. I'm going to be looking at keyfork and possibly Harbor, we were still unsure on that. We had to talk to the maintenance. Um, so I just go keep it short so we can, uh, talk after this or you have any questions. Um, you can find lots of GitHub, everything that we have for some GitHub, um, you shouldn't be able to not find any information. We just have to click through a lot of links. Uh, and then we can join us on the site. We're on the CNCF site now with the six security channel. Um, unfortunately we, so we meet every week, but we also understand that, um, it's really difficult to find a time for everyone to meet. Um, so unfortunately our meeting times are not, um, do not work as well with Europe and the Asia area. But what usually happens is the meetings are not compulsory and what happens is like, if you're interested in security assessment, for example, then you know, um, we will form a small group of three to four people and they, they find a good time to meet by themselves. So if you look at the GitHub, um, and the notes on the meetings, um, meetings are really about, you know, what's going on updates from different people, but a lot of the work in the group actually happens offline. All right. Um, thank you so much for coming and, um, do let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. You can see here from HP and I had many conversations with our security act activity in our company and I can fully understand the security people always like the policies, right? The rules. So I'm more interested in, you know, on the how peace, right? How we can address all these security risks and want to be in these more than you just tell us, no, don't do that, right? So, um, so a couple of things. So that is something that we are looking at in the general white paper. Um, so if you go to go, I can't play. So if you, if you look into the issue, we have a security overview white paper. This is the one I'm talking about. So we are currently in progress to talk about, okay, here are the things that you have to secure. Here are some, um, possible, um, ideas or projects. You can look at it. So, yeah, so here's, here's an example, right? Um, this is again, this is, um, really, really rough draft. This is something that we're going to work on next. Um, so the idea is, you know, compute definition of security, what the tools and resources that you have, you can use to help with that. How do you get compliance from that? Um, you know, how do you do runtime enforcement, things like that. So I think these are some of the questions that kind of, you're talking about that may be useful if we provide some, some insight on that as well. Um, and of course, like there are things like network pass storage and stuff like that. So, um, the, the group generally has, um, quite a few people that have also very strong opinions. So, uh, we are very happy to hear more from different people. I think it's really good if we have a discussion on, you know, what are some perspectives on. So another thing is, you know, financial users may have different, um, requirements from other types of users. So, you know, one of the things to consider, maybe we can talk about, oh, should we have multiple tiers of security and compliance?  But if maybe four, five, six isn't really for you, unless you are, for example, working with, um, uh, credit card information and need PCI or something like that. Um, so this is something that's still being worked on. We'll be super happy if, if your team or your architect wants to talk about this with us. Um, you know, every perspective that helps. Yeah, I hope that that addresses. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Um, so what I would recommend doing is, so if you, if you just like drop a, go to a GitHub issue and say you're interested in this, um, and then, um, this, we'll follow up the issue. So, so we work very hard. So we will follow up the issue. And also, um, so this, this one, I think it's owned by Sarah, who is one of our chairs. Um, so if you ping her on the Slack channel, um, I think she, she will get in touch with you as well. You mean the, the, the, the six of me? Oh, I'm located in New York. Yeah. Any more questions? Okay. Thank you.


So you have your own camera, but every time you play the game it spawns a third person character, not a problem. Click your camera, and under Auto Player Activation, set it to Player 0, and now you can see that it's set to the main camera. But it's still spawning the third person character. In order to stop that, right click, create a blueprint class, set it to Game Mode Base. Name it whatever you want, open it, and under Default Pond Class, set it to None. Save, and then under Window, World Settings, and under Game Mode Override, set it to the blueprint you just created. You're done. Hope that helps, and as always, I hope you have a fantastic day, and I'll see you around.


What really struck me in this conference was how similar certain of the issues broached and also the the tensions revealed were to debates that have taken place within the context of poverty over the last 15 years or so and So given as Winston said that most of my work focuses on poverty I'd like to use it as a lens with which to view some of the issues that have come up here and Perhaps forge some of the linkages between some of the silos that were referred to in the opening plenary so more specifically I'd like to talk about three things and They are multidisciplinary or sorry multi-dimensionality stocks and flows and Lastly the thorny issue of causation So first multi dimensionality for for a long time, you know, it's been recognized that Poverty is not simply about lack of purchasing power proxied by income or consumption and There are many many dimensions of deprivation, you know, that are widely recognized things like inadequate health education personal insecurity lack of dignity and so forth In the last 15 years or so This has really been thrust into the poverty literature and there's been a spate of work on multi-dimensional poverty indices multi-dimensional poverty analysis including a lot of work done here at wider and You know, I see this reflected in The conference where I can just go through one by one. We have separate sessions on hunger personal insecurity via conflict vulnerability education health water and gender violence and You know the elimination of all this stuff may have instrumental value in so far as it brings about other things which we deem to be worthwhile but it's also of intrinsic importance and You know, this may be just restating the obvious, but I think it's worth repeating Okay, so that was my first point with respect to multi-dimensionality Now now I'd like to say something about this distinction between stocks and flows and Within the poverty literature a core distinction of late is between the analysis of poverty status or the stocks of poverty on the one hand and analysis of poverty dynamics or the flows of poverty on the other and For me, I think it has some cutting power here because it maps quite closely on a distinction that was brought up in the plenary by Tony and Raquel and this is a distinction and I'm going to read between continuing crises of poverty hunger and disease on the one hand and Unexpected crises due to wars natural disasters Pandemic and economic shocks. So so let me just do a little unpacking here and then get to why I think this matters Okay, so the the unpacking is this You know in typically until relatively recently when we've had a lot more panel data The Typical form of poverty analysis looked at stocks of poverty So stocks of poverty at one point in time or at multiple points in time So you could say something useful say about Magnitude so poverty percentages or numbers you might be able to say something about trends characteristics and You know if you're lucky causes Okay, poverty dynamics is different. It does different things what it does is it tracks individuals or households over time So in the end you can say something about four different categories of persons Namely those who stay poor Those who exit who escape those who fall into poverty and Those who are never poor Now within this literature Emphasis tends to be placed on those who fall into poverty or who are at risk of falling into Poverty and this is the whole language of vulnerability So the under the associated concept of ill-being or deprivation changes Here we're worried about vulnerability Downside risk the likelihood of a dissent into poverty Typically the triggers of such dissents this gets us into the whole languages of shocks of hazards In in the poverty literature There are six that are deemed to be the most Important for populations in the global south and I'm just gonna read them off and you're gonna see that every single one of them Has been covered in this conference. So the six biggies are Conflict illness natural disaster harvest failure terms of trade deterioration loss of Deployment and so one by one, you know, I actually systematically did it and everything has been covered here now Whether or not these shocks actually lead to dissents to worsening of living condition depends on a number of things Depends on their severity their frequency their bunchiness if they all come right after each other It depends on exposure of populations and also depends on response So-called coping strategies strategies of adaptation Some of this falls under the heading of resilience Okay, so by and large The analysis of poverty is very different now Then it was say 20 years ago. The language has turned has changed the terms have changed The analysis has changed Okay, but so so what right? Does any of this actually? matter for any practical purposes and I think it does matter big time and I think it matters for at least two reasons and the first reason is that Like we're talking about big a big-time phenomena that the magnitude of transitory poverty Can be very very large and so if you define transitory poverty as Those who sometimes are poor and then at other times in different spells are not poor and If you look at many spells if you go from one to two to three or four You see that sometimes the transitory component of poverty is two three four five six times as large as The chronic component so there's a lot more people moving in and out than was previously thought now two caveats here, so I don't overstate this point is one this is part of this is driven by measurement error and to this doesn't necessarily generalize to all dimensions of Deprivation and I learned in the session in nutrition Yesterday that the chronic component of malnutrition is more important by a large order of magnitude than the transitory part associated with recent crises, but nevertheless transitory poverty is a very big deal Okay, and then secondly the other reason why this matters is Because the policy response can be systematically different So the kinds of things we have in mind to address long-term chronic poverty Can and are very different from the sort of things that we have in mind to force all Descents and so the latter often fall under the heading of things like Social protection measures insurance schemes diversification of sources of income at a more macro level capital controls in the context of currency crisis and things like this and you know the the Session I attended on responding to economic shocks I thought was very good in teasing out a number of these appropriate policy responses Okay, so they matter because it's a big-time phenomena and to policy responses tend to be different So let me just make three points about future challenges I you know it said to say something about future challenges So three come to mind with respect to the distinction between stocks flows Dynamics status transitory chronic and here are the three You know I've never really seen a good analysis where you've weighed both pros and cons of strategies To affect transitory versus chronic poverty and in the real world there is a finite pie So investments in one may very well be at the expense of the other So I think that's one challenge to do something like that Secondly and obviously it's the win-win stuff that of course is What everyone's looking for and the paradigm case is health a good Efficient functioning health system tends to be very good for both transitory and chronic poverty there are other things like that and Lastly, there's a there's an older literature that came up I've heard at the conference and it's another way of saying the same thing and this is a literature on linking relief and development so you know Doing things in the immediate to address You know real human suffering, but at the same time doing it with a view towards long-term Effects and given that many of the world's crises are unlikely to be of short duration You know, I think this is an important point Okay, so so much for stocks and flows let me conclude with my my third point and and this is a causation thing and You know as we all know causation is really complex and it's complex because there's a ton of things going on and they're all Going on at the same time So it's hard to know what exactly is driving what and it's in particularly hard empirically to demonstrate this and in the literature on poverty there's many many ways to try and You know make causal claims and to impose a causal structure on it But there's one distinction which once again I find useful I find it has cutting power for this conference and I found this came up like again and again and again in sessions that I attended okay, and the distinction is Is as follows and in this discussion I'm referring mainly to income poverty But you can generalize with appropriate modifications to other dimensions of deprivation, but here's the distinction so on the one hand One causal approach to poverty which is very widespread And I think it tends to be the model which underlies a lot of aid or development assistance Is the view that poverty is caused by a lack or a want of sources of income or consumption growth and The implicit idea here is that of a production function Where on the left hand side the end game is some measure of output or income and Then on the right hand side are all the determinants of this So you can have things like you know your factors of production Land labor physical capital can have human capital Technology technological change have credit and things like that and essentially poverty or low income is due to low levels of these things so in terms of poverty reduction strategies and affecting poverty reduction the key is to increase things like health or education or to invest in rural infrastructure to Think about technological change in agriculture to increase yields and that kind of stuff with a view to increase incomes So that's one view and I've I heard it in a number of conferences and you know It's it's a sensible way to think about the causation of poverty in the context of in particular development assistance and for some purposes Okay, but I also heard a very different Take on what causes poverty here at this conference and this comes out very prominently in the literature and This is going structural and so you're looking at more systemic roots of present-day poverty and so attention shifts from you know correlates of the poor to aspects of some kind of system be it the world Economic system the trade regime the food system or national level structures or subnational structures and You know if you if you scratch structure a little bit You're talking about power and the exercise of power and you know be it political economic military gender-based or what have you and really this is the world of political economy So when you're looking at present-day outcomes like poverty or whatever, you know The immediate question but it comes to mind is who benefits and in whose interest do these things serve? And so, you know, this is the this is what I heard in multiple sessions and it came out In discussion of the global of reform of the global economic system reform of trade question of political economy of food in Security it's like questions of agenda said who's making decisions what issues are on and off the table and so on Okay, and you know, obviously the relevance of this is because you know where you look causally When is where you want to go with respect to remedies? You know things that you think should be done so in terms of challenges or future challenges, I just have two points to make here and the first point is that You know structural change is a lot harder to affect and it's inherently political So, you know, you have this tension but on the other hand if it works it's more far-reaching so you got a tension between effectiveness on the one hand and Reach on the other. I don't know how you mediate that but I just throw it on the table and then secondly You know is the role of development assistance in this in this context And you know, I'm like I'm convinced by Finn's type of analysis that development assistance can work But is it confined to incremental supposed to more transformational change? So these are just some issues which seem to me to be relevant Okay, I think I've talked for too long and I'm sorry about that. So basically I said three things I said multi-dimensionality stocks and flows causation structure versus Production function, that's how I see some of these things hanging together and that's my attempt to De-silo some of these disparate issues. Thank you