improves your visibility, conversion and communicates your brand to your clients. I don't have time for this now. Dad, you really should start creating cool videos and drive more traffic to your website. No, Daniel, I have real work to do. Don't get slapped with a fish. Create more videos for your business. Hello, Slush. We're AdLodge.  We're here to solve that. So digital video advertising has become a $12 billion business in the US alone. But even these big players say that they're having trouble creating that content for that advertising. 55% of marketers say that creating enough content is their biggest pain professionally. Previously, they could either order the videos from a production company, but that's expensive and takes days or even weeks to get ready. And professional video editing programs have more in common with an airplane dashboard than something intuitive to use for marketing. So many of marketers ended up looking like this, and we're putting an end to that. We're calling it AI-powered video creation. This is how it works. With advanced AI and image recognition techniques, we're cruelling for YouTube videos that already have good performance, feeding those into our algorithm and slicing them up. And we can then see what those videos contain second by second. So we'll know what they had on the first second, when the first human person entered the video, what the music was like, what the dramatic curve of that video was like, and how it affected. And by applying this information, we can create a powerful feedback loop of creating better videos over time. And the users only have to input keywords of the kind of video they would like to create. Say, travel, summer, Europe, and we'll just automatically generate that video for them. Also, a lot of our customers say that they have trouble reversing content, so we're able to automatically create different kinds of versions of these videos and push them out to your social media automatically. So what does it look like? This is a result made with AdLaunch. Let's have a look at the market. Is the problem big enough? Facebook themselves predict by 2021 all of their content is going to be in video form. Now, that's a massive shift in how marketing communications is made, and there's lots of opportunities to create that business video content in social media. 90% of users say that seeing a video about a product was helpful in their decision-making process. We've got an award-winning team, a good balance between creative talent, business knowledge, and tech. This is what our service looks like. We've created an intuitive SaaS service that looks like this. Going back to the feedback loop, the user only has to input the keywords, their URL for their business, and we'll automatically grab all the information about their brand, logo, brand colors, and create a video that's relevant for their business. They can still edit manually if they see that, okay, they like three out of those four clips and change that fourth. We don't mind, and we'll also give them new suggestions on what that fourth clip could be. So our business model is a SaaS subscription, and already now we're partnering with AdNetworks, who each are giving us offers of €120,000 per year to get their clients to use AdLaunch to create the content. We're raising €200,000. And remember, if you're thinking video, think AdLaunch. Thank you. Well, we see that there's AdNetworks and there's manual video editing, but we want to combine this into an AI-based pipeline that serves the full pipeline from content creation to actually pushing the video out. So definitely we know that there is competition, but the market is new, and we can improve on that. So you don't have any similar companies yet? Sorry? You don't have any similar companies that yourself yet in the market? There are similar video editors, but we don't want to be an online video editor to replace iMovie. We want to leverage AI and sort of big data in a way that hasn't been done at all yet. I thought it was an excellent presentation, really clear. Understand the vision, the team, what you guys are executing on. One of the things that's not clear to me is when you're taking the content from YouTube, are there going to be any issues around this content being protected? How do you get around that? And are you creating the actual ad content or are you working with the client to come up with the messaging for them? How much do you get involved in the actual end product? OK, good question. So we actually don't use the video content from YouTube, rather we just analyze what makes viral videos perform well in the first place. The footage that we have comes from four sources. We license stock footage. We record footage ourselves. And then there's public domain footage that is licensed for commercial use under Creative Commons 0 license. And then the users can also upload their own footage. So we're talking to NBC Universal in London. They don't want to use stock footage because they're a content company. They own DreamWorks. But they still see the value of re-versioning, say when a new movie comes out, do different kinds of Facebook versions to tease their audience with them. So just to follow up and to clarify, your secret sauce is learning what's already working and telling these clients, we're going to make something like this. Yes. OK, and that's the AI that you're creating. Exactly. The other thing I'll mention, and I think it's in general, some advice. You asked for 200K. Maybe it's not appropriate in this kind of pitch to end with. But the slide that we always like to see after that is, why do you want that? What are you going to do with that money? Is that for hiring? So as you're pitching VCs, it's a really important slide. Most of the time, if people end on, I'm looking for 200K, thank you. That's almost a given no for us because it tells us you don't know what you want to do with that money. What are the milestones you're going to hit? Is that a 12 or 18 month plan? Like a lot more detail around that. Yeah, thanks for the advice. Do you want to hear on that or we can discuss it in depth. Thank you. I think we do want to hear about that actually. OK. Yeah, so now we're partnering with the ad networks. The first one is a UK based one. And we're also partnering with the American Chamber of Commerce to get into the US market. So our next hires are going to be a VP of sales for the US market and additional developing for developing the AI features. So that's our main sort of investments in HR. We're going to do marketing as well, but we feel that the ad networks and partnerships with the big players is more valuable than trying to sort of market this straight on Facebook or social media channels ourselves. And how far, just going back to your questions, because I think those are super relevant, how far will that take you in terms of, is that a 12 month, 18 month plan and where do you expect to be in terms of growth milestones then? And the reason why I ask that is because frequently we see startups succeed really well is that they talk about a long term vision and there's proof points along the way that are used to raise further funding. That's usually growth driven, right? So that's the context there. Good question. So that's a 12 month plan, but we're also already live with the product in its first iteration. So we can also start financing through revenue and then we can sort of scale with that additional investment. And TechS is also supporting our AI development with technology grants, which we're really grateful for. So we've got a good combination of public funding and then smart money funding from our investors. I mean, I think you're very fortunate to be here and TechS being so supportive. I think this is an amazing thing. So thank you TechS for that. Thanks Finland for that. But one thing I would advise you to is to always raise a minimum of 18 month runway and up to 24 months because otherwise you're taking attention away from operations far too frequently and you won't be able to establish that much meaningful traction if you're raising capital all the time. So that's just word of advice. Good point, thanks. Hey, great session. Just wondering what market penetration you're getting at the moment in what areas and where's your geography player? You starting in Europe or are you playing globally in a virtual base? So now we've got 500 users that are early adopters and they're sort of mid-sized company clients. They're usually publicists or social media managers creating the content around one video a week. And as I mentioned now, we've seen that the ad networks are the best partner we can partner with and those are UK based. We were part of a UK based accelerator for ad tech specific companies and we have investors and mentors there who are also helping us patch into clients and then the US market is the next. So big programmatic advertisers like Tube Mogul that were acquired by Adobe for half a billion dollars. So they're based in the US. And is there a price point that you're looking at? Excuse me? Is there a price point? A cost? A price point you're looking at? Yes, so we have different tiers starting from 69 euros per month for five videos and we're gonna tier that up. But many of the ad networks have very different needs on how they wanna scale up. So now we're negotiating a deal by deal. Good luck with that. Times up, that was the seven minutes of grilling from the jurors. Thank you. Let's give a really big round of applause to Adlaunch and Joel Hupen.


This is going to be fun. Hello, everybody. E here. Welcome to a brand new show. This is called Book Vs. Movie, where we are going to be answering the age-old question, is the book always better? My first episode was supposed to be on JAWS, but somehow I lost my paperback copy of JAWS, so instead we are doing Congo. Or as some of you know it, Congo. So now we are going to go through both of these to find out which one is the better overall experience. Foyler alert, this is no JAWS. So if you are reading the book, first thing you are going to notice is that there of course is more like any literary experience, there is more in-depth background on the characters. I found this interesting in Annie's case, because we got to know much more about the gorilla herself. While the book is better in this regard, it does take quite a bit longer to get going. While Annie's history is interesting, the book takes a while to get off the ground. There is quite a bit of boring technical detail that was a chore to get through. Annie's dreams aren't mentioned at all in the movie, and that was probably my favorite part of her story. I think the biggest change throughout other than the introduction of Tim Curry's character, the biggest change for me was there is no sign language to speech aspect in this one. It is all sign language between her and the main character. As far as the female lead is concerned, there is no love interest. All that was added for the movie version. She plays more of a villain role than she does in the movie. In fact in the movie she doesn't play a villain role at all, she plays one of the protagonists. The entire last third of this book is completely different than the movie. And I think that's to the detriment of the book. I did prefer, even though it's just as unbelievable, I did prefer the movie's ending to the book's ending. And there's no Ross love story. She ends up going over there to try and find the diamonds she wants to find the diamonds, albeit the diamonds are used for something different in the movie version and the book version. But she goes over to try and find the diamonds, whereas in the movie she tells the guy if I'm going over there for the diamonds and not my love interest, which is not in the book, if I go over there and find out, then I'm going to enact revenge. And that I also liked more in the movie than in the book. Now, how does the movie stand up to the book? Bruce Campbell! Anybody else confuse Laura Linney with Helen Hunt? Or is that just me? Amy is far more relatable in the movie than she is in the book. In the book she comes across as just a side character, a support character, and you have the main male character kind of playing the main role, whereas in this one Amy kind of overshadows the main character. Who's Tim Curry playing? In the book, the reason for the lack of communication was solar flares. But in the movie is because Amy knocks everything over. I'm going to go ahead and give it to the book this time, because the monkey knocking things over. Solar flares were at least a little more believable. I want a monkey knocking things over, sure, but if your entire whole second half of your movie depends on monkey shenanigans, then the ghost tribe from the movie is not mentioned at all in the book. One of the coolest aspects that they got right from book to movie transition was the hippo scene. I liked it in both aspects. While I did like the book version a little bit more, they both go by very quickly, but that is one of my favorite parts. The gray gorilla attack scenes look terrible. Time has not cast a good sheen on this movie. The special effects are atrocious. There's a lot of very quick cuts. There's a lot of in your face, try to jump scares. There's a lot of slow mo and speeding up of film and time, and it just comes off very, very badly. But the book's not as action oriented as the movie. So they try to turn a scientific expedition slash communication story into an action film. The director did a terrible job relating that aspect. I have to say, I enjoyed the movie a lot more as an overall experience than I did the book. And the reason for that comes down to time wasted and time spent consuming the product. If I had to choose between either one of these things, I would go for the movie 10 times out of 10. And that is only because I didn't care for the book at all. Now I don't know if this comes through because of nostalgia. I did watch the movie way back in the day when it first came out. I did not read the book until probably about two months ago. And then I watched the movie directly after. So what did you think about Kongo? Would you like the movie more or the book? Are you impartial to either one maybe because of nostalgia? Maybe because of Tim Curry? Let me know down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been Book Versus Movie. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering InterConnect 2017, brought to you by IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone, live here in Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect 2017. This is theCUBE's coverage of InterConnect. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante, my co-host. Our next guest is Deon Newman, CMO of IBM Watson, IOT and Slava Rubin, the founder and chief business officer of Indiegogo. Great keynote today, you're on stage. Welcome to theCUBE, Deon, great to see you. Thanks for having me. So I got to first set the context. Indiegogo, very successful crowdfunding, you guys pioneered, it's now pretty obvious, now looking back, this is creating so much opportunity for people starting companies, whether it's labor of love or growing into a great business, so congratulations on your success. What's the IBM connection? Because there was some stuff on the tweets, I don't want to break the news, but you guys are here, share the connection. What's the packaging, why is IBM and Indiegogo working together? Yeah, so back up to 2008, we launched to be able to get people access to funding and over the last several years, we've done a pretty good job with that, sending over a billion dollars to over half a million entrepreneurs around the world. And more recently, we've had a lot more requests of Indiegogo, can you do more? And we knew that we couldn't do it all on our own. So we partnered first with Arrow to be able to bring these ideas more into reality around components and engineering and supply chain. And we knew we needed more in terms of, these are IoT products, so they need to be smart. And they need software, so we were really excited to be able to announce today the partnership with IBM around everything, IoT clouds, security, and being able to provide all the blockchain and any other elements that we need. Dean, I want to ask you to get your thoughts on, we have the Watson data platform guys on earlier in the segments, and the composability is now the normal around data. This brings the hacker maker culture to IoT, which if you think about it as a sweet spot for some of the innovations. They can start small and grow big, is that part of the plan, is that? Yeah, I mean, if you look at what's going on, we have about 6,000 clients already working with us in the IoT space. They tend to be the big end of town, whether it be a Daimler or Airbus, or whether it be Kone, the world's biggest elevator company or ISS, the world's biggest facilities management company. So we were doing a lot of work up there really around optimizing their operations, connecting products, their wrapping services around them so they can create new revenue streams. But where we didn't have an offering that was being used extensively was in the startup space. And when we saw what Indiegogo had been doing in the marketplace, and when our partner Aro, who is Slava, said has really built up an engineering capability and a component capability to support these makers, it was just a match made in heaven. For an entrepreneur who needs to find a way to capture data, make that data valuable, we can do that. We have the cloud platform, we have the AI, et cetera. It's interesting, we were just at the Strada, we have our own big data at Silicon Valley event just last week, and the big thing that came out of that event is finally the revelation, this is probably not new to Slava, what you're doing is that the production under the hood hard stuff that's being done is in some ways stunting the creativity around some of the cooler stuff, like whether it's data analytics, or in this case, starting a company. So Slava, I want to get your thoughts on your views on how the world is becoming democratized, because if you think about the entrepreneurship trend that you're riding, there's a democratization of invention, right? There's a democratization, this is the creative, it's the innovation, but yet there's all this hard stuff that's like what's called production or under the hood that IBM's bringing. What do you expect that to fuel up? What's your vision of this democratization culture? I mean, it's my favorite thing that's happening. I think whether it's YouTube democratizing access to content or Indiegogo democratizing access to capital, the idea of democratizing access to entrepreneurship between our partnership just really makes me smile. I think that capital was just one of those first points and now they're starting to get the money, but lots of other things are hard. When you can actually get artificial intelligence, get cloud capabilities, get security capabilities, put it into a service, so you don't need to figure all those things out on your own, so you can go from a small little idea to actually start scaling pretty rapidly, that's super exciting. When you could be on Indiegogo and in four weeks get 30,000 backers of demand across 100 countries and people are saying we want this, it's good to know that you don't need to start ramping up your own dev team to figure out how to create a cloud on your own or create your own AI. You can tap right into a service that's provided, which is really revolutionizing how quickly a small company can scale. So it proliferates more entrepreneurs starting because they know there's more accessibility, plus it improves their potential for success, which in the long run just means there's more swings at the bat to be able to have an entrepreneur succeed, which I think all of us want. Explain for the audience how it works a little bit. You got the global platform that you built out. Arrow brings its resources and ideation, IBM brings the IoT, the cognitive platform. Talk about how that all comes together and how people take advantage of it. Sure, I mean you could look at it as one example like Waterbot. So Waterbot is an actual sensor that you can deploy against your water system to be able to detect whether or not your water that you're drinking is healthy. You're getting real time data across your system and for some reason it's telling you that you have issues, you can react accordingly. So that was an idea. You go on Indiegogo, they post that idea and they're able to get the world to start funding it. You get customer engagement, you get actual market validation and you get funding. Well now you actually need to make these sensors, need to make these products. So now you get the partnership with Arrow which is really helpful because they're helping with the engineering, the design, the components. Now you want to be able to figure out how you can store all that data. So it's not just your own house, maybe you're evaluating across an entire neighborhood or as a state you want to see how the water is for the whole entire state. You put all that data up into the cloud, you want to be able to analyze the data rapidly through AI and similarly this is highly sensitive data so you want it to be secure. If Waterbot on their own had to build out all this infrastructure, we're talking about dozens, hundreds, who knows how many people they would need. But here through the partnership you get the benefit of Indiegogo to get the brilliant idea, to actually get validated. Arrow to bring your idea from back in the napkin into reality and then you get IBM Watson to help with all of the software components in cloud that we just talked about. Great and how did this get started? How did you guys fall into this and how did it manifest itself? So can I tell a story? Go for it. So I love this story. So Slava's explained at the front end of this it was really a partnership of Arrow and Indiegogo that came out of the need of entrepreneurs to actually build their stuff. You get a funder and then you say, oh boy, now I've got a bunch of orders, how do I now make this stuff? And so Arrow had a capability of looking at the way you designed, looking deeply at it with their engineers, sourcing the components, putting it together, maybe white boxing it even for you. And so they put that together. Now, we're all seeing that IoT and the connected products are moving from just connection to actually generating data and that data having value. And so Arrow didn't have that capability. We were great partners with Arrow. When we all looked at it, the need for AI coming into all of these products the need for security around the connection, a platform that could actually do that connection. We were a logical map here. So we're another set of components, not the physical, where the cloud-based components and services that enable these connected devices to set. If you think about the impact, I mean it's mind-boggling what the alternative, you mentioned that the example you gave, they probably might have abandoned the project. So if you think about the scale of these opportunities, what the alternative would have been without an Indiegogo, you probably have some anecdotal kind of feeling on this. Any thoughts on what data you can share around, you have any kind of reference point of like, okay, we funded all this and 90% wouldn't have been done or 70% would have been done. Do you have any flavor for what's here? Hard to know exactly. Obviously many of these folks that came to Indiegogo, if they could have gotten funded on another path earlier in the process they would have, Indiegogo became really a great choice. Now you're seeing instead of being the last resort, Indiegogo is becoming the fourth resort because they're getting so much validation and market data. The incredible thing is not to think about it at scale when you think about 500 or 700,000 entrepreneurs or over a billion dollars and it's in virtually every country in the world. If you really just look at it as just like one product. So like Flow Hive is just one example. They've revolutionized how honey gets harvested. That product was bought in almost 170 countries around the world. And it's something that hasn't been changed in over 150 years. And it's just so interesting to see that if it wasn't for Indiegogo, that idea would not go from the back of the napkin to getting funded. And now through these partnerships they're able to realize so much more of their potential. So it's interesting the machine learning piece is interesting to me because you think the seed funding which is great product market fit as they say in the entrepreneurial culture is validated. So that's cool. But it could be in some cases small amounts of cash before the next milestone. But if you think about the creativity impact that machine learning can give the entrepreneur with through on their discovery process. So early stage that's an added benefit to the entrepreneur. Absolutely. Yeah, great example there is again smart plate. Smart plate is trying to use the combination of weight sensing plate as well with photo detection if image detection software. The more data it can feed its image detection the more qualified it can know is that a strawberry or a cherry or is that beef, right? And we take that for granted that our eyes can detect all that, but it's really remarkable to think about that instead of having to journal everything by hand or make sure you pick with your finger what's the right product and how many ounces. You can take a photo of something and now they'll know what you're eating, how much you're eating and what is the food composition. And this all requires significant data, significant processing. Well, I'm really pumped about that. Congratulations, Dion, on a great deal. I love the creativity. I think the impact to the globe is phenomenal. Think about what the game changing things that are coming out. Just loving how to ask you and Dion if you could weigh in too. Maybe you have some of your favorites. The craziest thing that you've seen funded and the coolest thing you've seen funded. I mean, cool is hard because it's kind of like asking, you know, well, who's your favorite child? I have like 700,000 children.  Before things become mainstream today, we're seeing these things three, five years ago. Things are showing up at CES and you know, these are things we get to see in advance. In terms of something crazy, it's not quite IOT, but I remember when a young woman tried to raise $200,000 to be able to get enough money for her and Justin Bieber to fly to the moon. That's crazy. That didn't quite get enough funding, but something that's fresh right now is Numuno Loops is getting funded right now on Indiegogo Live. And they just posted less than seven days ago and they have Lego compatible tape. So it's something that you can tape onto any surface and then the other side is actually Lego compatible, so you actually put Legos onto that tape. So imagine instead of only a flat surface to do Legos, you could do Legos on any service, even your jacket. It's not the most IOT-esque product right now, but you just ask for something creative and there you go. That's a creative. I think once you go, we'll change that and Justin Bieber and the conversation, I'm out. It's a mic drop moment there. Keep it a fresh. Keep it a fresh. Slava, how does Indiegogo sustain itself? Does it take a piece of the action? Does it have other funding mechanisms for the platform? Yeah, so the beautiful thing about Indiegogo, it's a platform and it's all about supply and demand. So supply is the ideas and the entrepreneurs and demand is the funders. It's totally free to use the website and as long as you're able to get money in your pocket, then we take a percentage. If you're not taking any money into your pocket, then we get no money. As part of the process, you might benefit from actually not receiving money. You might try to raise 100 grand, only raise 31 and learn that your price point is wrong. Your target audience is wrong. Your color is wrong. Your bomb cost is too high. All this feedback is super valuable. You just saved yourself a lot of pain. So really it's about building the marketplace. We're a platform. We started out just with funding. We're really becoming now a springboard for entrepreneurs. We can't do it all ourselves, which is why we're bringing on these great partners. And you know what, we've done just to add to that because I think it's a relevant part here too. We've actually announced a freemium-based service for the entrepreneurs to get onto the cloud, to access the AI, to access the services. As a starting point, it's a complete freemium model. So they can get started very low, very low entry and obviously scale as they grow. What do you call that? Is it IBM IoT freemium or is it? It hasn't got a name specifically to the freemium element of it. It's just a Watson IoT platform available on Bluemix. Right, so it's like a community addition of Watson. So, Dion, new chapter for you. I saw a good quarter for mainframes last quarter. It's still drafting off your great work. And now you've shifted to this whole new IoT role. What's happened like? Relatively new initiative for IBM building on some historical expertise. But give us the update on your business. So about 15 months ago, we announced a global headquarters that we were going to open in Munich and we announced the Watson IoT business which brought together a lot of IBM's expertise and a lot of our experience over the years through Smarter Cities, through the Smarter Planet Initiative. We'd been working the internet of things but we made a three billion dollar commitment to that marketplace that we were going to go big and go strong. We've built out a horizontal platform, the Watson IoT platform. On top of that, we've got market leading enterprise asset management software, the Maximo portfolio, TriRiga for facilities management and then we have a whole set of engineering software for designing connected products as well. So we've built out a very comprehensive, industry vertical aligned IoT business. We added last year, we went from about 4,000 to about 6,000 clients. So we had a very good year in terms of real enterprises getting real outcomes. We continue to bring out new industry solutions around both connected products and then operations like retail, manufacturing, building management, telco, transportation. We're building out solutions and use cases that leverage all that software. So the business is going well. We officially opened the Watson IoT headquarters three weeks ago in Munich and we're jam-packed with clients coming through that building, building with us. We've got a lot of clients who've actually taken space in the building and are using it as a co-laboratory with us to work on PSEs and see the outcomes they can drive. All right, D.N. Newman with IoT, Watson IoT platform, Slava Rubin founder of Indiegogo, collective intelligence is cultural shift happening. Congratulations, crowd sourcing and using all that crowd funding. It's real good data, not just getting the entrepreneur innovations funded, but really using that data and writing your wheelhouse, IoT. Thanks for joining us on theCUBE. Appreciate it. More live coverage after this short break. This is theCUBE live in Las Vegas for IBM Interconnect. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Thank you.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, and Mrs. Henry Jackson. Ladies and gentlemen, honored guests, and Mrs. Helen Jackson. Thank all of you for coming here today. Won't you please be seated. We're here to honor Henry Scoop Jackson, who is one of the great senators in our history, and a great patriot who loved freedom first, last, and always. It's less than a year since his death, but already we can define with confidence the lasting nature of his contribution. Henry Jackson was a protector of the nation, a protector of its freedoms and values. There are always a few such people in each generation. Let others push each chic new belief or become distracted by the latest fashionable reading of history, the protectors listen and nod and go about seeing to it that the ideals that shaped this nation are allowed to survive and flourish. They defend the permanent against the merely prevalent. They have few illusions. Henry Jackson understood that there is great good in the world and great evil too, that there are saints and sinners among us. He had no illusions about totalitarians, but his understanding of the existence of evil didn't sour or dishearten him. He had a great hope and great faith in America. He felt we could do anything. He liked to quote Teddy Roosevelt, We see across the dangers the great future, and we rejoice as a giant refreshed. The great victories are yet to be won. The greatest deeds yet to be done. Scoop came to the Congress in 1941, a year when the locomotive of history seemed wrenched from its tracks. In Europe, the ideals of the West were under siege. In America, isolation is warned against involvement. Scoop watched history unfold. He watched Norway, the country of his immigrant parents, fall to Hitler. He came to see conclusions about the world. From then until the day he died, he rejected isolationism as an acceptable way for a great democracy to comport itself in the world. This view sprang from the heart of the FDR tradition of foreign policy. We accept our responsibilities in the world. We do not flee them. Henry Jackson absorbed within himself the three great strains of thought that go to the making of a noble foreign policy. A love of freedom, a will to defend it, and the knowledge that America could not and must not attempt to float along alone, a blissful island of democracy in a sea of totalitarianism. Scoop Jackson was convinced that there's no place for partisanship in foreign and defense policy. He used to say, in matters of national security, the best politics is no politics. His sense of bipartisanship was not only natural and complete, it was courageous. He wanted to be president, but I think he must have known that his outspoken ideas on the security of the nation would deprive him of the chance to be his party's nominee in 1972 and 1976. Still, he would not cut his convictions to fit the prevailing style. I'm deeply proud as he would have been to have Jackson Democrats serve in my administration. I'm proud that some of them found a home here. Scoop Jackson believed in a strong defense for only one reason, because it would help preserve the peace by deterring military violence. He believed in arms control because he wanted a more secure world, but he refused to support any arms control initiative that would not, in his judgment, serve the security interests of the nation and ensure the survival of the West. His command of the facts and his ability to grasp detail were legendary. At congressional hearings, people often learned more from his questions than they did from anyone else's answers. It was very much like Scoop to see that there was a growing problem in Central America and to see that the challenge of protecting freedom and independence there would require the commitment of Democrats and Republicans alike. He conceived the bipartisan commission on Central America and became one of its most active leaders. He knew that stable democratic institutions cannot be achieved in that region without the security that American assistance can provide. He saw the commission's work completed, and if he were alive today, he would be working tirelessly to get its recommendations accepted by the Congress. Scoop helped shape national policy on dozens of complex issues, on strategic planning and arms control, on the Soviet Union and Central America, on human rights and Israel, and the cause of Soviet Jewry. His support for Israel grew out of his knowledge that political decisions must spring from moral convictions. It wasn't some grand geopolitical abstraction that made him back the creation of Israel. It was seeing the concentration camps firsthand at the end of the war. At Buchenwald, he saw the evil as he said, written on the sky, and he never forgot. He said the Jews of Europe must have a homeland. He did everything he could to strengthen the alliance between the United States and Israel, recognizing that we are two great democracies, two great cultures standing together. Today, both nations are safer because of his efforts. He never stopped speaking out against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, and he was never afraid to speak out against anti-Semitism at home, and he scooped Jackson just would not be bullied. He conceived and fought for the Jackson Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974. There's hardly a soul among the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews who later found freedom in the West, who was not sustained in the struggle to emigrate by the certain knowledge that scoop was at his side. Scoop was always at the side of the weak and forgotten. With some people, all you have to do to win their friendship is to be strong and powerful. With scoop, all you had to do was be vulnerable and alone. And so when Seamus Kudirka was in jail in Moscow, it was Scoop who helped mobilize the Congress to demand his release. When Baptists in the Soviet Union were persecuted, it was Scoop who went again and again to the floor of the Senate to plead their cause. When free trade unions were under attack in Poland, Scoop worked with the American labor movement to help them. A few years ago, he was invited to visit the Soviet Union. The invitation was withdrawn when he said he could not go without calling on Andrei Sakharov. If Scoop were here today, I know he would speak out on behalf of Sakharov. Just as Sakharov, a man of immense courage and humanity, stood up in Moscow and hailed the Jackson Amendment as a triumph of, quote, the freedom-loving tradition of the American people. Scoop Jackson was a serious man, not somber or self-important but steady and solid. He didn't think much of the cosmetics of politics. He wasn't interested in image. He was a practitioner of the art of politics and he was a personage in the affairs of the world. But there was no cause too great or too small for his attention. When he wasn't on the floor of the Senate or talking to the leaders of the world, he was usually in his office on the phone, consoling a constituent in a moment of grief, tracking down a lost social security check, congratulating an honor student, or helping a small businessman who was caught up in red tape. The principles which guided his public life guided his private life. By the time he died, dozens of young men and women had been helped through school by a scholarship fund that he established and sustained. No one knew the money came from Scoop until a change in the financial disclosure laws many years later forced him to fess up. He had never told the voters. He'd never even told his own staff. Other people were embarrassed when the disclosure laws revealed their vanities. Scoop was embarrassed when it revealed his virtues. One night last September, Scoop worked a long day and went home with a cold. There, he fell into the sleep from which he never emerged. The next day it was as if Washington had changed. Something was missing, some big presence. A few days later, in a eulogy for Scoop, it was pointed out that there's a room in the Senate where members of the public are greeted and on the walls of that room are the portraits of five of the greatest U.S. senators, men chosen by the members of the Senate to reflect the best that chamber ever knew. There's Robert Taff, who like Scoop was Mr. Integrity. And La Follette, who like Scoop often swam against the tide. There's Calhoun, who loved the South as Scoop loved the West. And Webster, who tried like Scoop to be a force to hold the nation together in spite of its differences. And there's Henry Clay, a gifted man who like Scoop would have been a great president. It happens that there is no appropriate space on the walls of that room for another portrait. So I'm joining those who would suggest to the majority leader that the Senate make room and commission a portrait so that Scoop Jackson can be with his peers. And when it's all done and in place, I'd be very proud to be among those who would go to the Senate and unveil it, Republicans and Democrats alike. A bipartisan effort on memory of the great bipartisan patriot of our time. And now, I am deeply honored to present to you, Mrs. Helen Jackson, the Medal of Freedom in honor of your husband, Senator Henry Jackson of the State of Washington. Let me read the citation. Representative and Senator for more than four decades, Henry Martin Jackson was one of the greatest lawmakers of our century. He helped to build the community of democracies and worked tirelessly to keep it vigorous and secure. He pioneered in the preservation of the nation's natural heritage, and he embodied integrity and decency in the profession of politics. For those who make freedom their cause, Henry Jackson will always inspire honor, courage, and hope. Mr. President, I'm proud to accept this great honor the nation has bestowed on my husband. I accept this award not only on behalf of Anna Marie, Peter, and myself, but also on behalf of all of those who worked with Scoop and shared his causes and convictions over the years. As Scoop used to say, if you believe in the cause of freedom, then proclaim it, live it, and protect it. For humanity's future depends upon it. Mr. President, we thank you for today from the bottom of our hearts.


What's going on everybody? My name is John Hammond and welcome back to their all-army cyber stakes or ACI CTF video I want to be showcasing one of the challenges from the binder exploitation category that didn't have a whole lot of solves This is serial killer for a hundred points in the bin X category currently only has 39 solves It's Saturday at the game ends tomorrow night. So we'll see if that gets any more But this is called serial killer challenge source. We're giving the source code here. So let's download that I'm gonna go ahead and make a directory for me to work with in this I will hop over to the ACI directory that I've been working with and I'll create a directory called serial killer We can go put that in there and W get that file down. Okay. It's also listening on this challenge host and port Okay, we can also connect with this little little client. Let's W get back down as well Okay So if I were to Java tack jar that notekeeper client because it is a jar file I'm assuming this is all written in Java We can go ahead and connect to that host on that port So it needs those as arguments. So I'll supply that host and I'll also supply that port There we go connecting the server there connected to welcome the notekeeper client version 1.42 We could print all the notes add a new note and exit this program. Okay. I will view the notes We have test. This is the main content Shopping list milk eggs and sausage bills. Don't forget to pay the bills do on the 11th Interesting if I add a new note, can I say? Please subscribe body like comment YouTube algorithm Good enough and let's print all the notes. There we go. Now. I have my note in there Okay, that seems to be the all the functionality this program is willing to give me so let's take a look at the source code Let's unzip that serial killer source. I have the client note and server So let's take a look at the client and see what that was doing Importing all these Java classes IO exception object input stream and object output stream. That's kind of peculiar It's local OS IP addresses. You can just apply that Read in the arguments as specified read in every line Connect the server connected good good good and it will display these out to me So it will create a new object input stream new object output stream if We supply some of these things will include a get interesting and it will Have that banner displayed and reach all those out Same thing if you wanted to create things on it will save as needed. Okay Interesting Let's take a look at our server Java util array list object input stream object output stream as usual server socket system and common collections for Collection utils that's peculiar All the notes that are in there by default it adds these and then the server loop will read in input with object input stream This plays out. So it'll only write objects if they include that get or save prefix but We could just very easily netcat to it and send that ourselves could we not we don't need to use that client Let's try that it's not going to send us any banner or anything Hello Okay, that makes it die If why you sent that by string does it exit properly no get no stream corrupted exeception Valve stream header at input stream Okay, so it's using object input stream to read that in an object input stream is kind of like a known bad Java deserialization issue right Java deserialization Object input stream That's a thing Yeah, deserialization of untrusted data. Oh wasp has a good article on it Java object input stream Most likely to be seen in custom code reads an object from an untrusted source and cast it to an object Hack me object Occurs after the deserialization process ends. It's not preventing anything Okay, so object input stream is going to deserialize something and whatever we send it right and That's happening based off of just our raw input So we don't need to if we're trying to attack this with the Java deserialization attack and the challenge is called Serial killer right we shouldn't need to care about this whole client if we just want to send it a payload We could use why so serial to be able to do this So if you haven't heard of why so serial it's a proof-of-concept tool for generating payloads and exploit unsafe Java object deserialization I've used this a bit for Java RMI attacks and it has a bunch of payload types based off of anything that we might already notice and In fact because we found common collections for Common collections for as an option in here and maybe we could go ahead and beat this thing up They use Java attack a jar with why so serial to be able to actually get a payload in here If you want to send a payload would like a Java RMI exploit you can use Java tax EP So let's generate a payload and try and send it right We could very well just download this They have releases here. Yeah Can I download that zip why so serial 0.5 is that the latest? I guess that's the latest. Let's try it. Let's get to our shell Let's W get that guy down slap that in there. We go unzip that 005 a lot of why so serial in there. Do I have why so serial dot jar? No, oh source source There's got to be some releases that actually have the binary They have a Installation down the latest from jitpack. Gotcha. There we go. Okay. That's what I actually want Let's go ahead and grab him copy link location Let's clear out that why so serial source and the zero zero point five because we don't need that We just want the jar file Take a little bit of time to pull that down But we could see if we could get code execution Maybe see it connect back to us because this is out living in the Outside internet. Let's create a little droplet John password Good good good Now we have that why so serial master here. Can I run that why so serial? Yes Okay, so it'll tell me all the options that are available and according to the syntax We can specify the payload type that we want. We know that we're gonna be up against common collections for so we could certainly try that let's use common collections for and Needs what we want to run after it So let's try to net cat Or like ping at the very least John Hammond org Will that work? Why did not work? Master snapshot Does that make a payload let's try that to go to a payload That doesn't seem to work payload is now an empty file Okay, are there other versions of this because master I always have an issue with master snapshot master Try and get me Multi-arg does that one work multi-arg? That's a thing. Let's get that guy in there. Okay. Now we have multi-arg jar Is that file I can download? Yes, it is Maybe multi-arg will behave. I Always struggle with why so serial stuff now. We're downloading multi-arg. Let's try and listen for pings. So pseudo TCP dump tack I Or just I don't care ICMP search for any pings that I get TC P dump not TC dump. There we go. Just as a sanity check. Let me ping myself Good we see it. Okay. Oh Nope didn't mean to close that now that we have multi-arg. Let's try and Java tack jar That one See if he behaves. I need the common collections for did I just have that like spelt wrong or something commons collections I must have had that wrong Yeah That's probably exactly why it didn't work Or not who cares? Let's just use multi-arg with commons collections for and let's say ping Okay, cool. Now. It's gonna try and do stuff. So ping John Hammond org That gave us some raw bytes so we can redirect that as a payload Great. So now hex edit payload payload is a serialized Java object that can be abused and because it's using that common collections for according to our server source code and using that input stream to read it in it will go ahead and actually De-serialize it. So let's try to Netcat back to that guy as we had before but let's cat that payload in and See if he's gonna ping. Nope seemingly not Okay What else could we do? Let me check the hints here. Honestly. Let me transparent here You need to run the client with Java. Yeah, we knew that use client to connect the server Java 8 Make sure you read the source and cat is installed in the target machine. Oh, okay Can we end cat? John Hammond org on quad 8 So let's listen that cat quad 8 Send that in and we get a connection. Okay, awesome. Okay, so we do have code execution. Maybe ping was just a bad call Regular net cat doesn't seem to just straight work. Does it? Oh It does Well, that would work just fine then. Well, if we have an end cat we could use The tacky and get like a shell bin bash And let's listen one more time get that to call back and Spit it over there. There we go ID Nice. Okay, that's code execution. Excellent. So let's go ahead and Do that one last time just so you can get the shell and see clearly that flag dot text There we go So that's all that you needed to do. I always struggle with why so serial. I don't know why it's very very sensitive and using like Double quotes or quotes around the command that you're trying to run makes it misbehave So I haven't seen that work Maybe that will work now that I've just been talking about it, but let's spend that one more time No, it will fail if you have quotes in there even for multi-arg and I know that there are like two different representations between using multi-arg and using master so if I were to switch this to go run with the master version of Why so serial it just doesn't take that at all Maybe I could use quotes in here and That seemed to have aired but payload is still empty. So that doesn't work whatsoever either so the syntax that I ended up using was using the multi-arg version of Why so serial using common collections for because we knew that was in the source code and that's what it's using and Using end cat without quotes to be able to actually get the code execution in there and redirect it to a payload file LS Payload is in there now with contents so I could send that payload file over to the challenge itself It will deserialize it instantly but upon getting that and I could run commands and find out who I am and cat that flag So that's that challenge I don't know a lot of people haven't solved it and I guess I because of struggling with why so serial I hate dealing with that in Java, but that is that challenge. So That's all that I kind of wanted to showcase I've used your why so serial a bit before for Java RMI attacks But it's kind of a well-known thing especially if you're doing some serialization deserialization why so serial is they just to go to especially for Java so Thank you guys so much for watching if you guys like this video Please do press that like button if you'll be willing leave a comment. Maybe some constructive criticism Hey, John this video sucked stop doing them I Wouldn't faze me. I probably would just keep doing videos, but subscribe if you're willing I'd be so so grateful if you want to support the channel in other ways. There is a patreon and PayPal link in the description. 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Item Number – SCP-193 Object Class – Safe Special Containment Procedures – SCP-193-1 is to be contained in BioSight 42 BioHazard Locker 532-F at all times, except during approved experiments. By 24 hours, all instances of SCP-193-2 are to be removed from SCP-193-1 and incinerated, except on feeding days. Once each week, one instance of SCP-193-2 shall be provided with 30 cc's of human mucus, and left in containment with SCP-193-1. Physical contact with any element of SCP-193 without full Level 2 BioHazard gear is strongly discouraged. Personnel believed to be suffering from exposure to SCP-193-3 shall report to a supervisor for immediate medical examination and assistance. Description – SCP-193-1 is consistent in external appearance with a box of r-brand facial tissue. The bottom folds of the box are abnormally complex, and house a previously unknown soft-bodied invertebrate. The creature's genetics suggest that it is a member of phylum Maluska, but do not match any more specific known taxonomic classification. The cardboard of the box has proven to be a highly specialized shell, generated and maintained by the organism, which will gradually repair damage to the box if able. As compared with cardboard, the shell is many times less flammable and more durable, but is by no means indestructible. SCP-193-1 continuously sheds thin segments of its body, instances of SCP-193-2 at a rate of roughly 1 up to 5 segments per 24 hours, depending on available nutrients and remaining space inside the shell. Instances of SCP-193-2 are gradually forced into the main cavity of the shell, where they dry almost instantly. Such as the shell of SCP-193-1 resembles a cardboard box, instances of SCP-193-2 resemble common facial tissue in appearance and texture. However, both the shell and the segments are composed of chitin, fibroin, and other proteins common in molusks, as opposed to the expected paper products. When SCP-193-2 is brought into contact with the mucous membranes of any mammalian subject, the segment releases 3 to 5 grams of an as-of-yet unidentified odorless, colorless gas, SCP-193-3. If inhaled, SCP-193-3 will permeate the sinus tissue, an increased mucous production by 500 to 800 percent. In humans, the increased mucous production unsurprisingly results in the need for additional facial tissue, typically leading to further exposure to SCP-193-2 and 3 and further mucous production. Repeated exposure to SCP-193-3 can, in roughly 70 percent of cases, lead to permanent dysfunction of a subject's mucous production. The resulting symptoms vary, but include a variety of respiratory issues, prolonged pneumonia, and, in extreme cases, suffocation. In roughly 10 percent of cases of repeated exposure, the opposite effect is observed. Damage to the mucous glands is so severe that the subject is left incapable of mucous production. Such subjects are especially vulnerable to inflammatory respiratory diseases, infection, and damage to the lungs due to inhalation of particulate matter. The 193-1 As of R. Dr. R. R. has confirmed additional properties of SCP-193-2. When exposed to at least 10 cc of mucous and left unattended, instances of SCP-193-2 will attempt to return to SCP-193-1, using a combination of bodily oscillation and gas propulsion via controlled emission of SCP-193-3. The segments appear to detect possible observers via body heat, to determine when they can safely return to SCP-193-1, unobserved. This behavior continues in the presence of thoroughly insulated observers, but not in the presence of large artificial heat sources, supporting the theory that SCP-193-2 detects heat. On reaching SCP-193-1, instances of SCP-193-2 will enter through folds in the bottom of the shell, reintegrating with the main body. These behaviors, combined with the previously cataloged adaptations, are believed to be the hunting and feeding method of SCP-193. More detailed research into the digestion and dietary needs of the organism are ongoing. The locomotion of SCP-193-2 was discovered following an irregularity in Experiment 193 in which several of the used tissues were left unattended for several minutes. When Dr. R. R. returned, he discovered that these instances of SCP-193-2 had surrounded the locker, holding SCP-193-1, but were unable to penetrate containment. Further experimentation led to the discovery of these previously unknown aspects of the organism. Said doctor has been reprimanded for leaving unknown organic SCP unsupervised in a testing chamber. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-192, Flawless X-Ray Machine, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


Hey survivors, in this video I'm going to be talking about why you should avoid taking the narcissist back. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. If you are interested in one-on-one coaching, you can email me at nagsforumcoaching at gmail.com. Check out the new merchandise in the Nags Forever store. We have new designs on our t-shirts, tank tops and mugs. The link to the Nags Forever store is in the video description. Avoid taking the narcissist back. Remember the reasons why you left the narcissist or went no contact. You had enough of them and you didn't want to deal with them anymore. If you take them back, they are not going to act differently or the way that you would like. They will actually be a lot worse than they were before. They have this mentality where they have to inflict pain or suffering on you for what they have gone through. Without realizing or accepting that you left them because you were fed up of how they were treating you. They are not going to reflect on everything that they have done which led to you leaving them. They are not going to reflect on anything that they have done wrong. They might give you a fake apology but that is only to regain you as a source of supply so that they can then punish you for resisting them. It is not a genuine apology, it won't last. It's just something they are using in that moment to get back in with you again. A narcissist cannot maintain appropriate behavior. At some point they will reveal their true colors and then it will be worse than last time. They have to punish you for rejecting and resisting them. They might come back acting like they are the victim or as though they are hurt. But the reality is that they created these circumstances. They brought these unfortunate events on themselves but they refused to acknowledge the source of their problems which actually comes from them. They are the source of the problem and deep down they know it but they refuse to acknowledge it. When you take the narcissist back you are taking back the problem and everything that comes with it. You begin to get caught up in a lot of their stuff just as you did before. The longer you entertain them the more you get sucked into it until you become a part of the problem. When you entertain what they are saying to you it gives them an opportunity to come back. They always create problems for people and get them caught up in stuff. That's just how they are. They will try to convince you that you are a part of the reason why they are the way they are or why they did what they did and once you start believing in that it gives them an opportunity to come back it makes you more accepting of the abuse. You begin to believe that maybe you deserve it maybe you were a part of the problem. So now you need to take them back and help them or give them whatever they need. This is why they want you to share the responsibility of their faults and mistakes. They have to involve you in their dysfunctionality as though you are a part of it. As though you are equally responsible for what had happened. They brought these problems to themselves and they had plenty of opportunities to acknowledge what went wrong but they didn't attend to it. They didn't attend to the problem and follow the correct procedure or take the proper measures which could have been more favourable to them and produced a different outcome. They didn't attend to the problem when they had the opportunity to do it so they are fully responsible.  When it never had anything to do with you it was never based on anything that you had said or done. In most cases it was something that happened to you something that they did to you and they want you to take responsibility for that as well as the consequences of what originated from their ignorance and poor decisions. If they were healthy normal people they would just acknowledge what they have done wrong. Instead of blaming you they would accept that they were the cause of the problem. Even a normal person might feel shameful or embarrassed to acknowledge their faults or mistakes but for a narcissist it's far worse. They have an exaggerated sense of their own abilities or importance. This makes it very difficult for them to acknowledge their faults or mistakes and to genuinely apologise to someone so they want you to share the responsibility for their reckless behaviour. The only way that anything is going to change is if they modify their behaviour and change how they respond to these types of situations. That is the only way that they are going to be able to solve anything. Nothing is going to change with them. When they come back they are just going to do the same thing again and again. Nothing ever changes with them. They have a persistent feeling of ill will or resentment resulting from you rejecting or resisting them. They will come back and do something much worse than they've ever done before but they always find a way to justify it in their minds. Not in a way that is based on facts or logic but in a way that is based on their emotions. Their emotions become facts and if they feel a certain way from you rejecting or resisting them they believe that gives them the right to destroy you. This is what makes them so dangerous. They don't think before they do something. They don't logically assess anything in their minds. It is all based on their emotions and their emotions become the facts. This then becomes a grudge and resentment where they develop this tit for tat mentality and feel like they have to lash out at you.  At some point they will use their feelings of envy and resentment to justify their abusive actions in the future. The way that their minds process these thoughts and emotions makes them very dangerous people to be around. This is what makes them do some of the most unimaginable destructive things that can often be unfearable to them. When you take the narcissist back you are inviting more danger and risk of harm to yourself into your life. You should never have people around you that hold grudges or resentment. They will try to blame you for something without reflecting on all of the things they did that were unacceptable or inappropriate. Which built up over a long period of time and these were things that they caused to begin. When all of these things build up and finally produce a reaction from you they act like they are the victims to make you feel like you have to share the responsibility of what they've done. They will blame you for your reactions or behaviors which occurred from the build up of everything that happened before. But when it comes to the initiating factors they remain ignorant. They don't want to acknowledge or accept what caused you to react or behave in that way. Because they know that if they have to take that into consideration there is no way that they would ever be able to play the victim. They would have to acknowledge everything that you have been through and then understand that you are only operating off the programming that they are installed within you. And that's just too much for them to accept. They can't accept that you were reacting to their negativity or things that happened from the past. They don't want to make that connection because then they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. For them to come to the realization that everything that happened all of that time was caused by something that they did even for a normal person that is a huge pill to swallow. But for them it could send them into a state of fear or panic because the reality is that when they were punishing you they were actually punishing themselves. It was just projected outwards on to you. This is what these people do. They punish the true victim who is a reminder and a reflection of their wrongdoing. They don't want to be reminded of that and they don't want to acknowledge the shame of everything that they have done. So they project it all on to you. They abuse you to regulate their emotions. They project the blame on to you to dodge their shame. So no matter what they've done to you, no matter how bad it was, if they come back all they can do is further abuse you again and again and that will never change. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate my PayPal links in the video description. 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