clean what's going on the same grave and here with another video and in this video I am I'm gonna be honest with you now I know I said it before and I've been I'm on record saying it and if y'all been around this channel for the past well you have to be around this channel for a little while because I said it a while back I said I think that the dolphins I said it from beginning of the season I said I think that the dolphins are gonna split with the Patriots I think the dolphins are gonna split with the Patriots but even though I said that I'm still right now I'm surprised to be having this jersey on because y'all know when we do the post game videos we have the jersey of the winning team and I'm gonna be real with you I'm gonna be real with you I did not expect the dolphins to come out of this game with a win I know like I said I know I picked them to split with the Patriots then that was early in the season but before tonight I did not expect the dolphins to come out with a win so really quick shout out to all your dolphins fans man I'm down here Miami I got a lot of family that are dolphins fans I'm not one of them but shout out to all the dolphins fans I'm happy for y'all and I know I know after beating us last night Steelers are even happier why because the Steelers have just been elevated to the number one spot the number one spot the number one spot so Steelers are feeling great right now dolphins got just the biggest confidence boost to all season because all this talk of a Patriots number one seed Patriots number one seed Patriots number one seed and it's not quite over till it's over and it's still three weeks left so things can happen things can change it is still Steelers and Patriots obviously going to be at the top but those two could bounce back and forth depending on how things play out and this this adds even more fire to the game for next week because we all know that the Patriots recently have owned the Steelers we know that the Patriots have owned the Steelers recently but now this big bad Patriots team that owns the Steelers they got on tonight they got on tonight and I don't want to disrespect the Miami Dolphins by talking so much about Patriots Steelers game that hasn't even happened yet we need to talk about the game tonight so really quick before we get into it and this is gonna be brief let me introduce myself me I mean Graven vid this is my YouTube channel engraving vids and I am a Ravens fan but even though I'm a Ravens fan even though on this YouTube channel we talk about Ravens we talk about the Dolphins we talk about Patriots we talk about everybody so if you a fan of either one of those teams you just love football you just love talking football make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel turn your notifications on and like my guy Ryan Mallison every single video make sure you leave a like on the video make sure you leave a like on the video click the thumbs up button it's 60 people in here but it's only 20 likes yes let's y'all make sure you click the thumbs up button now Jay Cutler who was playing tonight who had on that Jay Cutler jersey I don't know who had on that Jay Cutler jersey who was that guy the guy killed it he killed it but the dolphin he didn't turn the ball over he and he scored he wasn't no game manager then this game he scored yes the commentators are pretty bad the guy John Gruden I don't he's alright but the other guy I don't even remember his name he's just so dry to me he's very dry very very dry and not not the good kind of dry he's like he's not the family guy funny dry with dry humor he's just dry period and he's just just yeah oh yeah okay I see a lot here on the comment section don't like Gruden even Taliban don't like them a little Eric don't like them all right so yeah hey I appreciate that Mike thank you man thank you thank you um but yeah with y'all got me getting started on these commentators um really quick while we still talking about the commentators if Tony Romo could commentate every game that would be great I know that's impossible but if he could commentate every single game Tony Romo like I've said it before Tony Romo has been just he is a piece done the perfect transition from football to commentary he's been great man great I love Tony Romo and I appreciate that man I appreciate that 19-year-old politician thank you man but he's been great but either way like I said dolphins dolphins they they shot the world they shot the world dolphins showed they not scared of Brady they kept this this in this division rivalry going they beat them they beat them they beat the Patriots and they beat the number one seed or now forming number one seed but they beat the number one or the ex number one seed a Monday night football in front of the world at their home stadium they got to be feeling themselves right now they got to be and they're technically still not out of the playoff race yet I mean their hopes are very slim they literally need everything in front of them and everybody in front of them to completely collapse they need everything in front of them and everybody in front of them to completely collapse but so they still have a shot but it's not a realistic I mean it's not a real it's not a realistic shot but they still got a shot and it ain't over to the soul it ain't over to the soul Brady did not look comfortable all night Brady did not look he looked off this entire night he looked off he didn't look like he was having fun I mean who has fun when they're losing so there goes that they just he did not look good now when dolphins were up late in the fourth quarter they were up by two scores I almost start and there was a lot of time left there was a lot of time left I was thinking oh boy these dolphins they found they actually they stopped scoring and they're gonna let Brady come back he's gonna come back they're gonna come back there was one point where the dolphins were up 17 I said oh yeah they're gonna let them come back the Patriots gonna pull something out of their hat and they're gonna make the big comeback but they didn't they didn't do it they didn't do it yeah you're right Terry said the whole team looked bad let alone the offense yeah offense defense everything everything dolphins they I think they only sack Brady like one time but they did not let that dude get comfortable they did not let him get comfortable they didn't and Jay Cutler he got sacked I believe he got that he got sacked twice he got sacked twice but obviously he did a lot more work than Brady did tonight he did a lot more Brady the lot more work than Brady did tonight he did his thing now does this mean that the that the dolphins are gonna run a table for the next three games possible but it may still not be enough to get them in that doesn't mean the Patriots have completely fallen off no no oh yeah Howard Howard the cornerback who picked him off twice shout out to him man shout out to him with the Patriots does it mean they they've completely fallen off no no this is not for Patriots fans it's not anything to freak out about it's not the end of the world you're the number two seed in it in the AFC you'll be fine for dolphins fans should they get hyped up off of this yeah be hyped be hyped they need to be hyped they deserve to be hyped they just beat the the the team the quarterback that always has the media all over them every single game no matter what your game you watching they'll mention Tom Brady in there I was even playing and this is no lie I'm not even exaggerating I was even playing in NBA 2k not NFL 2k I was every I was even playing NBA 2k NBA 2k NBA 2k 18 yesterday I was playing it yesterday and they even mentioned Brady and NBA 2k I don't know if any of y'all have seen it if any of y'all have heard it when y'all playing 2k2 but hey I they mentioned Brady in NBA 2k2 so why I said he heard them all fraud but what's up man he's everywhere though but I mean and of course he's he's got yeah I definitely heard it man but and he's earned all the hype that he gets he's done a lot he has all the accolades all the numbers all this good stuff and whatnot so he's earned it but um he got beat tonight and dolphins earned it I see y'all I swear the bills fan I know I saw bills fan in here where'd he go where'd he go where'd he go he's been talking about the bills the whole the whole time like where'd he go I'm looking for a comment oh he said oh oh Taishan he said they not beating the bills don't Patriots the Patriots and the dolphins still play the bills there he goes you say they not beating the bills bills man I was I was rooting for them coats yesterday I say man y'all got to get bills off our back I was I was rooting for the coach I was rooting for the charges I'm like all these teams just need to go away so my Ravens can't get it they need to go away so my Ravens can't get it we want that last playoff spot we need that last playoff spot it's been too long it's been too long too long I'm sure you say not sure if Ron would have made a difference tonight I'm sure he would have made somewhat of a difference but I mean we'll never know we'll never know we'll never know oh yeah Juan said the dolphins punched him in the mouth they sure did man they sure did oh DJs have been rolling with the passengers 1999 dolphins losing to the bills twice all you think they're gonna pull out the broom and sweep them we'll see man we'll see we'll see bug 27 blunts so yeah five Super Bowls with two giant losses yeah but I mean the good definitely outweighs the bad and that if that if my team had five Super Bowls five Super Bowl wins but they have been to seven Super Bowls over the period of just the last 20 years and they didn't even been 20 years but over the last 20 years my team had had been to seven Super Bowls and won five of them and and they they lost to the same team twice oh well I just don't want to play that that team in the Super Bowl we're still great I mean they you can't I mean that that's like when people try to say LeBron is sorry that's when people try to say LeBron is sorry I just don't get that they oh yeah he went he he lost all these times in the finals but I mean he's getting there the only team the only reason that his team is getting there is because of him that dude but anyway anyway I'm gonna go ahead and get off of here now I thought it was gonna be quick I intended it on this being quick and this is quick as a usual but really quick shout out to y'all dolphins fans man shout out to y'all dolphins fans man shout out to you dolphins fans y'all deserved it y'all earned it and y'all got it and I'm sure y'all and gonna enjoy your your whole week is gonna be set even if the dolphins don't make the playoffs their week is gonna be set because they just beat New England they just beat New England so when this season is over when the trash talk starts or when it continues between dolphins fans and pagers fans the dolphins will be 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Hi stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Beth and I'm here to share with you a die set that I think is a hidden gem in the annual catalog. If you look at page 174 of the annual catalog right now, you'll see the rugged icons dies. These are standalone. They don't have a stamp set that coordinates with them and this is really the only place in the catalog that they're featured. I found these dies and was so inspired to work with them so we ordered them right away and I got to work. I love that in the die set there is an abundance of different images. There's this mountain scene, there's a beard, a fishing pole, a drill and a guitar.  I paired these dies with the charming sentiment stamp set. This is also in the annual catalog and I love the different sizes of the sentiments, the different fonts. I thought that they were really fun and easy to create with, but I think that you could use a sentiment stamp set that you have on hand or a multitude of others would work for this die set as well. Let me show you some projects that I created. Here's the fun gift card holder with the drill. I thought that the Ryobi drill was kind of my inspiration for the colors. Super cute. Then I moved on to the guitars. I liked creating kind of a monochromatic background there. I thought that worked really well. The beards just layered them over some masculine colors made it really simple. My dad is a big fisherman so I thought of this one when I made, I thought of him when I made this one. Cute. This one was really easy to cut out too. And then I got to the mountain and I got to the beard and I wanted to do some extra special things with them.  First I created this card. Crazy. It is so, so fun to create the mountain scene from these dies, but you have to cut out a bunch of different colors in order to build that. Let me show you how I've done that and give you some tips on how to make it easier. I cut them out in Night of Navy, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Pill Papaya, Evening Evergreen, and Mint Macaron. And then from the layering circles' framelits I also cut out an Evening Evergreen circle. So that's what you'll need to build this little mountain scene. One way to make it way easier is to put adhesive sheets on your squares before you cut them out. Okay, so you'll take your 2 ½ by 2 ½ square and add an adhesive sheet. If you don't have this product working with these dies, it makes it so much easier.  Now the adhesive sheets kind of hold all the pieces in, which is really nice when you're going through and there's so many different little pieces. I also cut out this circle so that we have something to build upon, and all of these little pieces in between the mountain scene. I didn't want to have to put those back in, so I wanted the Evening Evergreen to show through, and that circle does that for me. So let's start building. We're going to start with our Evening Evergreen. This is what our base behind is going to be, so I'm going to pull out all these little pieces of my Evening Evergreen. And a tool that's really helpful for this is your Take Your Pick tool. I'm just using the little pick end, the sharp end, and I'm going to pop out all of these little pieces. But here's a little tip. I'm ready to adhere this right now. I'm going to grab the edge of my adhesive sheet. It's just like a paper backing, kind of like your dimensionals or a sticker. And I'm going to pull, and look, it's going to pull off pieces for me that I don't want there. So that's going to save me a little bit of time. And now this entire thing is sticky. I don't have to use green glue, which also is an option. That's what I used had I not had these adhesive sheets. I would have used green glue. So there's kind of my little piece that we're going to be layering. I'm going to lay this on top of my Evening Evergreen circle. It's a little bit smaller because I didn't want it to show behind it. So I'm going to just adhere that down. And that's what we're going to build on. So let's start. My palpapaya, my little sun, let's say, I'm going to save these pieces. I'm going to show you what I did with my extras after I finished this card. So I'm going to peel off the backing. And it's just kind of like putting together a puzzle. You just have the little layouts of where they go, and you just pop them in. And it's like a little sticker, and it just stays right where you want it to go. OK, so there's that. My river here, I did a mint macaroon. I'm going to peel off that backing and place that right here. And again, I know exactly where it's supposed to go. Let's do crumb cake. That's what we did on our little mountain scenes here. Now as your pieces get smaller, you'll want to pop out one at a time. If you pop out too many, it's hard to figure out where they go. If you really like putting together puzzles, that's a good time way to do it, I guess. I'll have to search a little bit and put on those. Let's do our old olive scenes here, right around the trees. OK, this gets just a little bit tricky, so let me show you something that I did. Some of these pieces are kind of small when it comes to the little tree scene. Use these two little pieces here and here. Instead of trying to peel off, even on this piece that's kind of small, instead of trying to peel off that backing, I'm just going to use a little dot of green glue and I'm just going to place that on there, just because I think it's easier than trying to wrestle with that little paper backing on the back. And then again, just use your Take Your Pick tool to guide it into place and that will dry just like that. There we go, let's do our sky. And there we go, we've got our little mountain scene. It takes a little bit of piecing, but you'll get your little mountain scene all put together and then you can build wishing you the happiest of birthday cards. So fun. I wanted to make a little bit of an easier mountain scene. So we did this at a recent class. I just put a blue backing behind a little bit bigger than what the old olive is and then added the little sun there. Now to get the sun, our attendees had to cut out a yellow daffodil delight mountain scene. We had them take that and blend with a blending brush right over that onto their envelope. I thought that was kind of cute to add the little mountain scene there as well. Because you have all of these extra pieces after you finished your card, I didn't want to waste those. So I took those and I made this card, another wishing you the happiest of birthdays because you can never have too many birthday masculine cards and I just used those same colors and layered them on there just like that. So those are some fun ideas. My last one I want to show you is with the beard and this one is really simple and I thought just so cute when I saw it. So first you'll want to take a mint macaron square. This is two and a half by two and a half inches and it does have the adhesive sheet on the back and I'm going to run this through on my stamp and cut and emboss machine. I wanted to do this to show you how easily these dyes come out because they are a little more detailed and sometimes when you've got a detailed dye they get stuck or you have to run them through multiple times but let me show you how easy these pop out. So I run it through, right, here's this, I'm just going to pull it out and that adhesive sheet is on there but it's cut all the way through. So for this card I do have to pop out each of these pieces so I could sit and do this with my take your pick tool but I'm going to be adhering it so I'm going to pull off my adhesive sheet and it's going to pull off all those pieces for me. Of course it worked great for the video, I love when that happens. I'm just going to pop out his lips since that's the last little part.  Okay, just lay that down. I already cut out a little beard cut out in the top of that smoky slate piece. Just layer that over and then I've got my beard that I just ran through in mint macaron and I'm just going to place that in the cut out and then you get kind of that positive negative so you can see the detail in the mint macaron beard but you didn't have to piece it behind it. Okay, so here's the card that I made just using the hay there really simple but has such a fun impact with that color. So I hope you've liked these cards that I made. I know that I'm constantly searching for masculine cards and I love making them and making them special so that they have a little bit something different about them. I think that the rugged icons die set could be a great addition to your collection when creating masculine cards. Make sure to play with colors, make sure to get those adhesive sheets so it'll make your creating a little bit easier and your take your pick tool. Those are the two tips that I had for this die set. So if you like these products, make sure you check out the links below the video. They're all linked there. You can go and purchase them from us at StampingDale.com and we'll see you next week for another watching video.


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I've got some new curly hair products for you.  I know you guys get mad because I make you buy so many amazing curly hair products but I want to give you guys options, especially options that are sulfate, paraben and silicone free, because some of y'all think it's so hard to find some that don't have them but I got some right here, presenting Jane Carter Solutions. Yes, I'm finally getting to try these, I've been wanting to try these for so long. This is their entire curls to go line. Now I could do a video, you know, on one product at a time but I got a little excited so I tried all of them so I'm gonna tell you a little bit about them. Throughout the bag, this is an amazing collection of products. I love when a brand has a gel, a styling cream, a leave-in conditioner, a refresher spray, they have a co-wash and a shine spray. So I'm gonna go through all the products one at a time, starting with the curls to go elongating gel. This is the first product out of this that like really caught my attention, one because I'm very much teaming gel right now and the fact that it says elongating is like oh so you gon' fix shrinkage too, like you're just a magical gel? So now let me show you exactly how I applied this to my hair. So right after the shower, after using shampoo and conditioners, I applied this to wet or damp hair and I do one half of my head first and then the other. I like to smooth the product into my hair and then I scrunch it to really bring back that curl definition, so I'm smoothing out and scrunching. Now I had very high expectations for this gel because it's claiming to reduce shrinkage. Like if curly girls were superheroes, shrinkage would be one of our biggest villains. So for you to claim that you could fight that is a very strong claim. So here's my hair after a full day of drying, I do love the definition that it got, it does look very shiny, but I don't know if I could say it elongated my curls, I definitely still had shrinkage. But I had to think about this because to be fair, our hair definitely gets the most shrinkage on day one. So I'm happy to say that although it did not look longer on day one, today I tried it again as a refresher and my curls do look elongated, wouldn't you say? So after my day one of using the elongating gel, I then tried the curl cocktail on day two. So this is the curl cocktail, tames and controls, hard to manage curls, which you know what happens sometimes, has shea butter, coconut oil, aloe vera. This is supposed to restore the moisture and hydrate your hair, tames and controls to create smooth styles. It says it's great for twisting, wet or re-twisting dry hair for all wash and wear styles. This is how you know this is a very curl brand because it knows things like that we're doing twist outs and re-twisting. Like that stuff. This does have a pretty thick consistency. I would say it's comparable to like, you know, a smoothie, any type of thick cream. But I don't think it weighed down my hair, which was a very good thing. Now if you have very dry hair, I'd probably recommend the cocktail over the gel because this one does claim to add moisture. After a full day of wear, I did have very beautiful soft defined curls. But I like a little bit more hold personally. So I would probably go with the gel over the cocktail. But if you like no hole, you just want your hair to be really soft and moisturized, go with this one. If you want a little bit more hole, a little bit more definition, I'd do the gel. Next up, they have a co-wash. To be completely honest, I just don't like co-washers in general. I keep trying, but I don't know, I just feel like I have to do some type of cleanser and then a conditioner or a deep conditioner. I tried it, it was all right. I just, I don't know, I'm just not a co-washing girl. If you like co-washes, I mean, you'll like it. It smells amazing. Oh, it smells really good actually. You get a really good amount, there's 16 ounces in here. So this is a really heavy thick jar, but I just personally don't use co-washes. Another thing that I don't normally use is a leave-in conditioner. I know I've been saying this a lot, but I actually love this leave-in. This is called the Untangle Me Weightless Leave-In. It's supposed to hydrate, detangle and reduce frizz. Now I've said this before, most leave-in conditioners are made just to add moisture, but this one is also claiming to reduce frizz. So it kind of has some styler aspects within the leave-in. I think that's why I like it so much. I took a risk one day. On my refresh day, I only used the leave-in and the shine spray. Two products I usually don't use in my hair routine, but I got to say, I was shocked by the results. My curls were so shiny, I literally left the house and got compliment on how shiny my curls look. And I had to stop and go, wow, girl, you're right. The leave-in has mango butter, slippery L, and marshmallow root. It says to apply to wet hair, but yeah, the fact that this can help with detangling and fight frizz and add moisture, this is a three-in-one package type of leave-in. So if you are team leave-in, I definitely recommend this one, because even I like it. And the shine spray. Another product that I'm always like, okay, it's just an extra step, but my curls really were popping. So this is the curls-to-go shine-on curl elixir. It's supposed to control frizz, nourish, and smooth curls. Has argan oil, aloe vera, and macadamia oil, like these ingredients, so good. I think I actually have some footage of my hair when I did use this because it was so good. I just had to like push record to show you guys, but my curls are glistening. So it says for optimal use to spray on dry hair, so let me just add a little sum for you. And then I'm just gonna scrunch it on then there. Ooh, it smells good too. It smells like so fruity, tropical, like fruit punch. I love it.  Every brand needs a refreshing spray, okay? If you haven't joined the bandwagon, you need to become like James Carter and get yourself a curl hydrator. This one says it's supposed to instantly hydrate, strengthen curls, and add shine. Has shea butter, sage, and rosemary. These ingredients just keep getting there. So this is great for like your day two, three, four, five day hair where you already have enough product from the previous day. You just need a little refresher to reduce the frizz and add some shine. That's exactly what this does. So it already comes in a little spray bottle, and I actually like this spray over this type of spray, so love the packaging. It says it's great for daily use to hydrate your curls for second day hair. Another key giveaway to let you know that a brand really knows about curly hair because it says it's for second day hair. I respect that so much because not everyone knows what to do with their curly hair, you know, until they find my channel. So they might not know that they're supposed to be refreshing their hair, but this literally says for second day hair because that is a thing. So those are all the Jane Carter products I have in the curls to go line. Do you need to buy all of them? Yes. Yes, you do. Okay, okay, okay. If I had to choose my favorites, I can't believe I might have to say I love the leave-in, I love the shine spray, the refresher spray is good, the gel, ooh. They're all really good. I am just here for any brand that is really made for curly hair. If they didn't just make some products and slap the word curly on there, like these are really thought out products made specifically for curly hair. All the Jane Carter solution products are made for super curly and coily textures, especially up to type 4 sea hair. So that is everything I have to say about the Jane Carter solutions line. It is definitely, Bianca Renee approved, has amazing ingredients, beautiful results, is going to work for everybody with curly hair, even all the way up to type 4 sea hair. If you have tried any of these products, please leave a comment. Let us know which ones are your favorite and what type of hair you have. All the Jane Carter solution products are available at Sally Beauty, Rite Aid, CVS, and Target. If you love curly hair product reviews, make sure you give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week, once on Friday and once on Sunday. And make sure that we become besties. 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Are you currently motivated? It may seem like a funny thing to ask, but there are people who are often performing very poorly at work and at home. Motivation is what drives you as a person towards your goals. Do you have any goals? What do you want from life? You may not intentionally be choosing not to be motivated. Some habits can make you lose your motivation entirely. In this video, I'm going to share with you 9 habits that are destroying your motivation. 1. Worrying about past failures. Absolutely. No one likes to fail. It is understandable if a time you failed brings you a strong memory. It is, however, not okay to worry about it. A failure is simply an event. It isn't you. If you continue to see a time you failed as your incompetence, you may never find the courage to do something else. Our failure does not define us or determine whether or not we will succeed next time. If we never let go of it, we exchange our motivation for endless regret. How do you stay motivated after failure then? By reminding yourself that so many great people before you have failed at different points in their lives and yet succeeded, take a deep breath.  2. Filling to set your goals. An excellent way to fill is to have no plans. When you have no plans, you also have no goals. You have nothing you are trying to achieve. And because of this, not much in life matters. When you have nothing to lose, you can seldom have the motivation to push for anything. Doing drugs can sometimes put you in this category. It can make you feel like nothing actually matters and draw you into its bliss of horror. Motivation comes from having a clear goal and purpose.  You need to figure out why. Why do you want to become a Senate leader? Why do you want to work in the UN? Why do you want to go to Harvard? Understanding your purpose clearly can strengthen your motivation tremendously. Imagine choosing to work with a non-profit because you grew up in a slum. You never want children in America to experience what you have experienced again. Having a purpose and a goal can be the difference between a person without direction and a successful man. 3. Not being able to make up your mind about anything. Having a clear head when making decisions and sticking with them can really help you with motivation. When you are like the wind and cannot just decide, you can take too much time to act on every issue. Unfortunately, life really does not wait for anyone. If you take too long to decide on issues, you will miss out on a lot of opportunities. This will invariably lead to regrets. And regrets simply do not lead to motivation. According to a Nigerian playwright, Michael Bassie Johnson, you won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be. Even if you are afraid, you have to move past it and act. Fortunately, indeed, does favor the bold. You can never accomplish anything significant without a large amount of courage when you can set your mind on a target and work towards it over some time. If not anything more, the sadness that you have spent so much time on it already can motivate you to keep going. Continuing a goal for the mere sake of finishing is not a great motivation. It is a motivation nonetheless. 4. Comparing yourself with others. Are you happy with where you are with your career? Do you like your job? What are you doing currently? Does it drive you? You can always derive motivation from setting and accomplishing your goals no matter how small. Looking at others will likely not do you any good. You need to understand your path is unique to you. Some can make success for a short while and fade away into oblivion. Your story may be different. According to the American religious leader, Gordon B. Hinckley, you can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a superstructure. Building takes time. If you desire to be president, you may spend more time building a reputation as a youth leader than making investments. Don't compare yourself with your peers that are riding flashy cars or living in luxurious houses. This can slowly rob you of your vision and motivation. Being too focused on the success of others necessarily means being less focused on your own success. Work hard and be grateful for small wins. You may not be the richest man in Ohio, but you can accomplish your targets daily. And you have a target and a lot of time to achieve it. Do not get so derailed from your dream that you no longer even remember what it was about and why you were pursuing it in the first place. Comparing yourself with others will do you no good. 5. 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You may come up with a whole lot of typos and wonder if you were the one that wrote the email in the first place. Trying to do so many tasks at once can slow progress and deplete your motivation. The more you carry on at the same time, the more likely you are to make mistakes. If you are not careful, you may abandon your goals entirely. 8. Focusing on your weaknesses We all have weaknesses. Should we be bound by them? Many of the times, others may not even know of our weaknesses until we show them. You need to acknowledge that you have weaknesses and apply yourself to becoming a better version of yourself. Focusing on your shortcomings also means not focusing on your strengths. Remember that the human mind cannot pay attention to many things at the same time.  9. Procrastinating all the time This is literally the worst thing that can happen to your dream. 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Good evening everyone and welcome to the next talk for Hope 2020. I hope you are enjoying yourself, and I hope you've been watching lots of Hope talks. We have next up Alexis Hancock who is from the EFF. She is the lead developer currently for HTTPS everywhere. And she's been doing web and system admin work for the better part of 10 years now since she graduated from Rochester in technology RIT. And she's here to talk to us today about Mobile First. So with no further ado, Alexis, thank you very much for coming and over to you. Hello everyone. Thank you for coming to my talk today. I am Alexis Hancock and I am a staff technologist at the EFF. Sorry about the jump around there. And today I'm talking about digital identities and your privacy. So when over my title at EFF, I've been at EFF for about two years almost now. And I am the lead developer on HTTPS everywhere web extension projects. And it's a tool that helps encrypt your web traffic online and are offered in the most major browsers. And I definitely encourage you to download it and definitely encourage open source contribution to it. My other titles are also educator activists for close to 10 years now. And I have been mainly working in the space of helping others get their time together essentially when it comes to doing their work, educating others, or when they want to go organize in some sort of way. With this project at EFF, I have done quite a bit of research when it comes to digital identity in particular and people's privacy when they're online with the technologies with what that looks like and how does that get implemented in the world rather than just looking at data and transit? What does that look like where someone is being able to actually obtain something and go forth safely in security and securely in all modes? So I usually go down a lot of rabbit holes when I'm talking about this really broad, vague discussion of internet and privacy. And so the rabbit hole I'm taking you down today is something called self-sovereign identity. Today I want to talk to you about what that means exactly, the technologies that are involved with that, particularly with standards bodies like the W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, which if you're not familiar with, they also have like an entire organization dedicated to web standards. So that's what the W3C is and the International Standards Organization. And a few other examples that I'll give to you today around the implications of privacy concerns that we have the EFF and that I have and further discussion around disparities around a digital first conversation and what SSI can look like in the future, especially with marginalized communities, compromised threat models, etc. So different parts of identity, you ask different people what identity is and what their identity is, you'll likely get different answers. I have very common concepts of what a person's identity may entail here. Identity doesn't encompass everything of what someone considers their identity. A lot of this is around like production in society. So take that with a grain of salt. Identity is much more than this, obviously. But some of the things you may have is certifications, degrees, government issue IDs and numbers of course would be a very authoritative stance in your identity as a person, as a citizen. Emails and email is very important because you sign up for a lot of online accounts via email. There's other ways to sign up for online accounts now with like single sign on through like maybe Google profiles or Facebook profiles and sort of authentication that way. But generally the standard way to sign up for something is through email. So your email may be tied to many sorts of identities that you may have online in different groups and different services. You may have publications, you may have blogs, you may have academic research, you may have just, you know, whatever forms that you may be involved with with commentary that could look like different things. Your job, a lot of people tie in their job to their identity or they may not. But it's definitely a part of who they are in the day to day function. You may have some awards out there that you may consider a part of your identity. And much, much more hobbies, whatever activities you may be into, these are the things that go for us in form and shape who you are. And that also considers your past and what your future ideals are and your principles. But I'm talking about more tangible things, of course, as you can see with the examples that I give in here. The concept of the self-sovereign identity is something that's been in development since the early 2000s, especially when people have been considering what does identity look like online. So self-sovereign identity has claims or one's identity that, you know, the data pertaining to one's identity is controlled by you and without having to go through the intermediary party or a centralized authority to verify who you are in different scenarios. So at its core, theoretically, identity credentials should be asynchronous, decentralized, and portable. So these go against the principles of centralized authority and identity we may have with like mobile driver's licenses or sorry, driver's licenses in particular or, you know, presenting any of the sort of form of identification like social security numbers, like those things are generally portable by, you know, paper, card or whatever material that's made of. But the sense of being able to verify who you are usually have to go through a process to do that, depending on what part of the process you're in. I mean, with your health data or having to get a referral or having to renew your license, things of that nature. So one of the models I wanted to talk to you about is the W3C verify credentials data model. So this is not in itself a technology. This is a data model that mentions many technologies. And a verifiable credential has been defined to be just a claim that is trusted between issuer, holder, and a verifier. And you can read more on that specification. But the model that gets displayed here is something called like the issuer, holder, verifier, trust model. That's not really a fancy name or term for it, I believe. But the trust model you'll see here with the holder, an issued document from the issuer, they have right privileges to the verifiable data registry and the verifier will have read privileges. And the holder will be able to present a immutable piece of identification digitally to the verifier. So this is what the trust model will look like in its most bird-eye view form. A part of a verify credential is something called decentralized identifiers. So decentralized identifiers or DID is also in working draft with the W3C. And it's a portable URL-based identifier, also known as DID, like I said, but associated with an entity in particular. And it's really important to highlight the context in the ID of where the DID is referenced. And this is a decentralized piece that you're alleged to be able to be portable from repository or repository to verifier or another verifier without linking personal identifiable information with these multiple verifications in different places with your DID. You should be able to express some sort of authentication of who you are with that DID. That's the concept around this. And involved with that would be something called JSON-LD. So there's other types of specifications and technologies that talk about link data sets and what that can look like within the decentralized identifier documents or DID. But right now we're just going to focus on one of the major ones, which is JSON-linked data. And linked data is a concept that programmatically has been discussed for a while. There's a video here explaining JSON-LD. But the irony is not lost on me that I was about to play a video in a video. And I won't put you through that. So built with this in mind was RESTful services. A lot of RESTful services follow JSON object notation. So does data interoperability and unstructured databases. So unstructured databases will look like things like MongoDB, CouchDB, those types of databases. And juxtaposition to the more traditional databases like SQL. So you'll see highlighted here context.id and context.id are very important pieces. I would say the most important piece is when talking about a JSON-LD set. And this gets incorporated into the DID document. So you'll see context.id there. So those two things are very important. And this would qualify as a JSON-linked data set. And being able to use some sort of authentication, you'll see some service here that's in context in public key infrastructure sets here that are linked here within the data set itself in the document. So another piece of technology that gets discussed often is something called a blockchain if you haven't heard of it. Peer-to-peer distributed ledgers is the main concept of blockchains, right? So our blockchain-based technology. And you'll hear blockchain get brought up in talking about decentralized identification measures where they're talking about necessarily the storage of the decentralized identifier in particular and storage in a distributed ledger. So having something that's immutable, easily tracked through a party that's allegedly decentralized and being able to not have to go through a centralized authority to gain such and to access such. So that's usually where blockchain comes in when we're discussing these things. And it's not a requirement. So the specifications that we discussed, like verified credentials, they discussed that blockchain is not required, but they do mention that it is a possible implementation for a data registry. And so going into another standards body, talking about the International Standards Organization here and the Mobile Drivers License Application, or MDL for short. And here you'll see that the MDL interface will mimic the same trust model that we saw earlier with the verified credentials. You'll see an issuing authority, a mobile driver's license holder, and a MDL reader. And that'll be presented by whoever the verifying party is. So in this case, this makes the technologies that we mentioned earlier a little different because this explicitly states something that's on your mobile device. Whereas the previous technology we talked about doesn't necessarily explicitly say your phone or your tablet, but you would generally consider that's how these technologies would get ported. Even though they discuss in a more broader range as in like using it in web applications, this in particular narrows the scenario down to using it to your phone. And this is very much so bird's-eye view of what could happen in terms of being able to exchange a document or your phone instead to verify who you are to an authority that asks for something like a driver's license, which you would think the first scenario popping your head would be law enforcement. This particular standard talks about examples where you have to give over a documentation or a piece of paper or whatever the material is for a driver's license to use. You would have to actually physically hand it over and it would list all the information that you would normally have to the party. And it may be a little bit of oversharing. So you may not want to share your address with the party that's asking for your state ID, but you have to hand over the whole document. This was presented as a means of actually alleviating that and not necessarily having to hand over all information on your driver's license, in particular your ID in one setting, but just having to having the choice of which pieces of information you want to give over that are relevant. So of course, I'm skipping over with MDL at the moment, the concerns that surround that because you can get into situations where it may be a hostile mismatch with law enforcement, where they ask for more information and really to get what happens in those scenarios. So MDL specification in particular talks about, you know, a lot of things like Cypher suites, but all specifications that I discussed go over the security concepts that they would use and the types of session encryptions they would use. But actually before I get into the privacy concerns in particular, I did want to share with you some documentation here, around what that data exchange could look like with a mobile driver's license. So once activated, you'll see it's activated through something maybe like NFC or barcode. And you'll see that transfer device engagement would occur and a very cyclical relationship between the tokenized data set that or the token authentication. That would have with a mobile driver's license reader. So when the MDL reader asks for this, this could happen a number of ways NFC Bluetooth Wi-Fi where a web API or web application particularly or OpenID Connect or OIDC. And this is a token set. So you would say that the token would send the needed authorization to be able to verify the person holding the mobile driver's license with the verifying authority. So this I tried to make the black and white graphic from the spec look a little bit more interesting. But either way, this is the graph that they had for the data exchange in particular. So data retrieval will look a little different and setting where they talk about that session encryption piece. And they talk about what they use and what type of hardware modules you would need in order to actually store this type of information on your phone correctly and what type of specifications that verify with me. So let me go back to discussing privacy concerns. And here I talk about what that looks like when you have discussing these digitized identities and a lot of discussions I've had a lot of low risk situations get, you know, explained like, you know, verifying for 21 to a bouncer rather than giving your whole information set from a driver's license. But I've seen in the wild very risky concerning scenarios, talking about different sorts of ways verified credentials get implemented in particular with COVID-19 pandemic that's currently happening with immunity passports and verify credentials immunity passports are not just simple immunization results. It's something that's it's a new type of document. It's a piece of health verification that would guarantee or disband you from actually being able to enter somewhere or venue or possibly keep you from coming back to work or possibly keep you out of some sort of area in particular. If you do not have the need to antibodies and according to health experts immunity passports and immunity testing is very, very elementary right now and the research for it is in solid. So we are concerned about the discussion around immunity passports was verified credentials because of the fact that this is something that's not necessarily standardized within the communities that we have. We don't really have something where immunity passports is a norm for different diseases. So presenting verified credentials doesn't necessarily solve the problem of the meaning passport itself and immunity privilege in the US in particular has a very long history of discriminating results. So With that, I'm sorry. With that said, with self sovereign identity and nationalized IDs. This became concerned when the private sector is using SSI based technology and thought to kind of deviate away from the privacy recommendations and sort of push their product through by using decentralized IDs or Some form of verify credentials in some way and We're concerned that State may go and say, well, this is a secure technology. This is a very well built engineer technology from a standards body. We're going to use this in order to push out and nationalize Our federal ID and that's not the direction we want to go. We don't want to have a nationalized ID and database for everyone to adhere to And we have seen that go wrong in so many ways, especially in places like India where there was a massive data breach with nationalized ID system and a large amount of discrimination. And also been it's been implemented in Latin America and that's also come up with a lot of concerns. One of the examples that I have is the clear company may have seen it in an airport. Next to TSA pre checked and it's pretty much privatized TSA pre check. And for those of you don't may not know what that is. It's just expedited way to get through security and airport. By going through a certain set of background checks and then when you get to the airport, you're verified to be expedite your way through security because you've met the requirements. How arbitrary they may be to go through airport security and clear offers TSA pre check in that way and They're not just a TSA pre check company. They offer themselves up as a digital identity platform. So they have actually pushed through something called health pass And they're advertising this to employers of what this could look like for them by having like some sort of way of the member identifying themselves through biometrics and biometrics is something that Has been very much so discussed as something that would not necessarily guarantee privacy or security in the context of verify credentials. This starts marrying actually more so to your identity than it would if it wasn't in use so This is an example of something that's been very worrisome when discussing verify credentials with other parties where It's not discussed where there could be some sort of discriminatory practice at play or some sort of Reprocussions that could happen because of the fact that you don't have your health pass and what occurs there. Digital first and digital disparities. So we want to talk about how the fact that, you know, even though smartphone access has been increased, even though overall internet access has been increased. It's still very much a huge divide, especially in the United States of Access to broadband internet. Even though the specifications talk about how like offline storage could possibly occur with digital identities. Things update things need to change within your phone system, your operating system and often to more often than not, people don't carry the latest and greatest with them all the time. So they can be susceptible to certain things that may That may occur as something that's a non factor for someone who has high speed internet Privilege to be able to access a new phone at the drop of a hat. And since in the United States, we pay the most for Broadband but have a slowest speeds among nations with similar development. That's something to consider, especially since 23.4 million rule Americans. Internet speeds are so low and with the digital divide, you can't necessarily say that we can get behind digital first identities because of the fact that Access until access is closed often gap until everyone is receiving high speed internet and doable access to New technologies phone software updates, etc. You can't push through digital first identities or you'll just exacerbate the digital divide that's already there. So we want to talk about self sovereign identity and harm reduction because so sovereign identity as a concept and Digital IDs as a concept isn't a bad thing inherently These things can help in probably certain scenarios, especially low risk scenarios with low correlation of personal identifiable information, especially with the age 21 scenario that it's given a lot. Device fingerprinting still exists. So any application that uses This in particular and asked for access to A DID in particular or uses it should be restricted from using the rest of the phones ecosystem that could Automatically marry and make a high correlation and a unique ID based off the information that's passed through. So we definitely need a structure for that for applications that uses and With self sovereign identity things like verify credentials and community and to COVID immunity passports We don't want to introduce new potential barriers for someone Especially if they're marginalized, especially if they're already struggling, especially if they're going through something like we're all going through right now with pandemic We don't want to add more stressors on a person's life by implementing a technology that Initially was marketed to be helpful and Continuing that line of thought Digitized SSI as a requirement situations with central authorities and law enforcement. That's always going to have an imbalanced relationship. So When we talk about driver's licenses when we're talking about any time that we have to go to an authority This defeats the purpose of the overall discussion around having your own ownership around data and having your own ownership That's decentralized and having a portable identification and not have to go through intermediary. It's actually Be able to prove who you are or carry who you are with you And if you should have the choice of whether or not you want to prove or carry who you are to law enforcement Through this means in particular you should have access to be able to minimize contact if needed and If you push through something like digital IDs first or mobile identification first that could cause some issues and handing over your phone to law enforcement may not necessarily need it Especially when you have technologies like NFC where you know, that's worth a knuckle for a centimeter range, right? Or Bluetooth technology with the range is a little bit more Even then those scenarios can be hostile because With the officer just ask for your phone phone wholesale because they're a verifier or their reader isn't working or some sort of Scenario that could could occur where they may ask for your phone Altogether already may ask for you to unlock your phone even though potentially with some of these specifications they say that you can actually preset and be able to Transmit your digital ID without having to unlock your phone These are moral theoretical and they haven't been really displayed in the wild or Deployed in different states as something that's been successful yet So we shouldn't assume these scenarios that they're going to be safe just because we implemented a secure way to transmit data So no matter how well engineered Some something is in particular especially with data in transit and data at rest There's always a risk for a breach. Nothing is unhackable. We all know that so in particular with data breaches We've seen that with national ID systems. I have mentioned one in India where they had a data breach and lots of information was leaked everywhere in terms of what type of information that the citizens had and that in turn Has a discussion around whether or not that digital first or a large set database that's centralized somewhere is a good idea so Even though we are discussing decentralized ID. There's Authorities that have mass amounts of data around about us with you know Driver's licenses etc and having all that information in one place and being able to issue it to a person And so they can have it portable doesn't really necessarily answer that question or help it in any way So issuing authorities have notoriously had issues with also updating status in the system Lots of bureaucracy. It could be on late paperwork It could be delayed paperwork and we should not tie these the same systems with law enforcement So Having digital first with law enforcement may not work out because things like license plates readers can be notoriously outdated to the point where out here in the Bay Area There was someone pulled over in a car that was allegedly dated as stolen when actually it was a rental car that was redeemed from that scenario when it was stolen some months prior and Given to a rental company or they acquired it in some way, but in the police the police saw and the license plate reader that It was a stolen car. So they pulled the people over and it was very hostile situation and it could have ended really badly if Engagement occurred, you know in any sort of way that was deemed quote-unquote threatening. So We don't want to marry these systems together where we have digital first and haven't solved the issue of Centralized authorities and their issues with data and data keeping So considered following if you get the Bill Nye reference cool But either way with self-sovereign identity We want to decouple the constant need to verify one's Personal identical identifiable information to gain state benefits. That could be an idea where In many cases there's been studies of when people try to go get benefits and social security They actually have to give over a lot of information about themselves Bill statements bank statements so many things where Something like self-sovereign identity could potentially help where you don't have to keep Shoveling out mass amounts of data to social services or whatever Sort of entity you may have to prove yourself to in order to gain the proper benefits that you need disability or could be Snap benefits or could be some sort of housing benefits veteran benefits, etc That's a potential please piece that could be Explorer SSI that acts as a temporary credential for services and facilities that normally ask for a state or a city-based Identification I'm thinking about New York City in particular where they have the NYC ID where they sort of took care of the need to have a state verified identification to enter and get free museum for a day access or Access library services. So I'm thinking that in low-risk scenarios like this where SSI could act As a temporary credential for a service or facility you may not use all the time You may only need to use it once every other month or you mainly want to go You know to the museum this time of year for this exhibit and you don't necessarily want to get a whole Permanent credential just to go and enter maybe a temporary credential based off of Information that you are already given before So low-risk scenarios online transactions that have Apps for state IDs, I know in particular that some online education platforms they ask for State identification, they want you to take a picture of the front in the back and send it to them and really feels unsafe to do Generally when you do something like that So maybe SSI can stay help here like a bear credential They discuss what bear credentials are more in depth in the W3C spec of verify credentials but basically it's a temporary issued credential one-time single-use thing that you can go through and potentially not have to actually give over your entire driver's license information just to Take a course online. So reducing that risk Reducing the surface area of someone's risk Reducing the amount of data that they have to give over those are great ideas in itself where SSI can possibly come in and actually Be a good solution so in conclusion Like I said, we want to reduce the area risk. We don't want to increase the service area risk with SSI techno solutions Digital identities can be offered, but it should not be enforced and Unless data laws are standardized nationally, we should not trust centralized entities implementing digitized credentials and in particular I'm thinking about like the COVID immunity passports where The state government is in California is looking into and there was other countries as well I believe Germany or the UK was looking into immunity passports where There's centralized authorities that wants to implement something that Generally doesn't have a premise and it doesn't have a good premise if if any so Unless data laws actually are enacted to protect our privacy on a national level in your country And especially here in the unit in the US. We don't want to push for something like this where Just because there's the technology that is there in present doesn't necessarily mean that the technology is the solution itself if the inherent concept causes risk and harm and Possible discrimination in future. You don't want to push an idea through simply because you have all your Needs met on a level of like, okay We have strong encryption strong encryption doesn't necessarily need that the concept that of itself is a good idea so you want to implement good security standards, but what does that mean when you implement something that a Person has to tie to their identity that wasn't there before and now they have to account for this piece of themselves as well to Authorities to venues to their job. We want to think about things like that So I want to conclude this with technology is political this form in dynamics influenced by society So we can't sit there and say that we're going to completely do something or roll a product out saying that hey We're using this web body Standard we're using this standard. We're using using this in order to Accomplish certain techno solution that may be pushed through if you're not thinking about who you're impacting if or who you may harm or who you're helping All together at once you don't want to push through a techno solution And you don't want to use the technology itself as a reason to implement a particular idea You want to implement the idea because you want to actually help the yours of your community help society and not cause more harm or more ways for someone to account for how Someone else can know about who they are online or Another data breach because of the fact that there's yet another data set out there that exists That shouldn't have existed in the first place or someone shouldn't have had access to in the first place Thank you so much for listening to my talk and please download a cps everywhere for Firefox and Chrome and I will be here waiting for your questions. So thank you And welcome back everyone That was the pre-recorded session and now we're going to go into Q&A with Alexis So I see some of you have been putting your questions into the matrix chat if you haven't and you have questions for Alexis Please head over to session Q&A and type in a question for her there What we've seen so far is a few people have thanked you Alexis for your work with HTTPS everywhere I think several of us use that tool and and very happy to See that you were doing that work the the other thing that came up was a question I know you answered in the chat for those that can't see the chat. I'll just read it out Was do you know? Excuse me if there is any existing precedent for US law enforcement reading NFC data of an arrested person with or without a warrant And and so, you know, you indicated that you haven't have seen any legal precedent there, although I think we all know that that happens But certainly that's something to keep an eye on one of the other things that you had mentioned in your talk was Until the digital divide is no more So is that just a very optimistic view Alexis or did you just not want to let your pessimism show through? It's my optimism trying to cover my pessimism as I try to strive for for a better future digitally So if I don't believe in a certain goal, then I'll then what's the use of all my organizing, right? What's the use of doing these talks? What's the use of educating people if I don't think that there's a possibility one day that the digital divide can close I do think there's a way of addressing this especially with broadband in America in particular and the access to it and getting fiber as a priority But until then I do not want to see efforts saying that they want to roll out things digitally and things that are connected to the internet Where the access to internet is highly variable from state to state county to county neighborhood to neighborhood So that's mainly just me trying to establish a baseline more than anything Awesome. All right. So we have a question on on what you were talking about the the question is have you looked at the California real ID standard at all and do you have any opinions about that? So I haven't looked at it in depth I looked at it from a bird's eye view because the real ID measure has hit You know pretty much most of the states in some way at some level. So New York's real ID this this general role indication saying that you need a certain amount of security credentials on card or indicators on a card to Suggest that you know tampering has not been done to that particular document and it's been a lot of issues especially how expensive it can be to switch over to real ID in particular and also obtaining and I and real ID when you already have a driver's license possibly already have an ID and Kind of going towards this more federalized standard of being able to travel state-to-state like I believe Pennsylvania had Was basically told that they do not switch over to real ID that US citizens we passports just to go to another state Because that has a security indicators on it that they wanted so there's been a lot of problems real real ID in general and EFF has Definitely written on this in particular, but I have not looked in in depth in California's real ID Okay, super and and so we have that Q&A channel open for any other questions But while we're waiting on that one question I wanted to ask you, you know, you brought up the question of People asking in various different transactions for a state ID And to what extent has EFF been working Around where that is invalid and and how we can push back on that further So in particular with law enforcement, we have been doing a lot of work especially on the border that's been the most contentious issue in the past couple years where Border security has been brought up as an excuse to Overdo sort of the the amount of Investigation that a law enforcement officer will do in one person if they found some sort of probable cause Or some sort of way to obtain more information than needed in that particular exchange So on the border in particular especially with immigration issues, there was a student that had came into the country And they tried to get them to a certain amount of information sharing social media sharing so We've done a lot of work, especially with that as of late Making sure that you don't have to unlock your phone for an officer if they ask or you don't have to give Biometric data over you don't have to put your fingerprint on the phone And generally we discourage if you go out and you feel like you may be a compromised person or has some sort of threat model that Indicates that you'd be worried about so that sort of thing with interactional law enforcement Generally indicate like do not have biometric systems because of the fact that you can be Subject to some sort of pattern of abuse by law enforcement So we've definitely been doing a lot of work around that and trying to see where that goes and with different cases Great. Thank you. Alexis our next question. You just mentioned being driven to make a positive difference What advice might you give to other people who also would like to choose projects and passions that will make a positive difference? The advice I would give to someone who want to make a positive change in the world is Develop as much empathy as possible for the people around you for the struggles around you and try to figure out How you can help More than anything you don't necessarily have to start an initiative You don't have to start a project. You can just join one see The struggles that happen occur there and you can usually find your place my place has been in tech and tech activism and I first I thought I had to go out and march and protest and Create signs, but then I realized most of my friends and activist friends that were protesting didn't really have a good Secure setup technology wise and I realized I knew a lot more of my network than most people so that's where I found my foot and I started walking in that step, so that's usually how you can find out is how you can help and Where where you can find your place? Usually, so I definitely say you don't have to start anything just start looking start seeing where you fit in and Where your skills are needed most? Okay Do you think that the reduced friction of digital ID will lead to more demands for presenting ID in our daily lives? Yes, I've already seen that happen with the specifications that I talked about in the talk Especially with the fact that the immunity passport issue in particular where it's like, okay We have a specification now that's been published. Let's start using it and people have kind of been using the excuse of Okay, we have more ease and more ways of being safe with this But then implementing something that is come entirely new president in America immunity passports are the thing so People asking more and more for a digital identification or digital sort of validation or reference Definitely seems like something that could be a more incurring problem Recurring so I'm definitely watching that so that's why I did this talk in the first place is to not only shed light on the Specifications that have been published and discussing those but kind of discussing those in the context of where I've seen them in Play in action and try to get people to re-scope it back to the privacy concerns That were listed in the first place about these particular issues When you're giving over a digitizer document to someone to a verifier that has a relationship when you're giving over something Especially to an authority like law enforcement that has a relationship. You have to address that dynamic is not even so I Definitely see that coming up more unfortunately and more negative ways and positive Absolutely So we have a couple more questions that are Varying on a tangent again, so I'm gonna take both of them in turn But if anyone has a last question on on the topic at hand, feel free to throw it in the Q&A The first one back to the work you're doing with HTTPS everywhere Which set of challenges are the worst technical political or social? I'm sorry. Can you say that question one more time? The question reads which set of challenges are the worst technical political social or whatever I believe the Challenges are intersection of socio-political. So Technology itself is not a solution in my opinion Techno solutions are not something I Advocate for when there's an existing societal problem when there's an existing political issue I would much rather address the political issue first much rather address the societal issue first before I start introducing technology Okay You brought up this is another one on the digital divide So this question of disparity of internet access and quality of internet between communities The questioner asks is the EFF doing any work to close this divide? Yes, so there's several initiatives. I do know We particularly work on broadband access and the definition of what broadband looks like with the FCC There's a recent post if you go on the deep links blog on EFF or you'll probably see that post in the most recent order Under a nestle Falcon he's the author and he does a lot of work around Trying to address the issue with broadband because the FCC actually has a very low bar of what they define as broadband I think I brought that up in one of my slides with that 25 megabits Versus down and Trying to raise that baseline to where it matches other countries with similar developments. So that's one piece. We do another Body of work around right to repair and I also think that has a lot to do with digital divide because if you're not able to go out And actually be able to fix your own devices and get the proper Management you need and maintenance and not have to go through one singular proprietary Entity just to get your laptop fix just to get your machine fixed in any sort of way I believe that closes the right to To the digital divide in some way being able to actually have that access to the parts You need in order to maintain machine and cut down on you waste and not have to buy an entirely new machine Just because your RAM is soldered in or your battery soldered in which that makes me very mad when I see Machines like that. So I Do think there's other pieces of work that you have does that helps to close the digital divide But those are the two things and the two most active parts of it I believe I've seen as of late that we do a lot of work around Absolutely, so the last question we have actually plays off of that. I think and The conversations we've been having which is can you summarize please Our fourth amendment rights as they relate to being asked for digital ID, right? So and for that matter having digital ID taken without our permission That is definitely something that I feel like one of our lawyers would have a better time my short question, right? Yeah So I feel like with the fourth amendment and being able to actually Summarize along with digital ID doesn't have a lot of legal premise yet But what I want to say around that is with your mobile phone in particular You do not have to go and give over your device to law enforcement without a warrant You do not have to talk to law enforcement My first rule is don't talk to law enforcement that remains silent Utilize that with the fourth amendment in particular You do not have to give over biometrics data. That's tied to the fourth amendment now with legal premise. So In particular of unlocking your phone with biometrics. Well, thank you again, Alexis great talk great Q&A and Unfortunately, we have to wrap it there, but we hope everyone will hang around for the next talk. Thank you


فشرف بالاشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي عالي بن عمرين whose name is Abdullah ibn khattab رضي الله تعالى عنهما may Allah be pleased with him and his father okay the prophet ﷺ he said بنية الإسلام على خمسين ما معنى بنية الإسلام على خمسين الإسلام has been built on five foundations on five pillars and the word بنية shows that the religion is دعائم it's a house and it's building it's got pillars that are holding the built house so if you break this pillar the house will collapse صحيح so you have five some of the scholars after the Shahadaate which is unanimously agreed upon the scholars there are some who made تكفير on a person based on the مباني الأربع it's known as what مباني الأربع and this is called إمام أحمد محمل إمام أحمد used to believe that anyone who leaves this صلاة is a kafir and who leaves his zakati is a kafir and he leaves his siyam fasting is a kafir and he leaves the hajj is kafir those four and he's also narrated from him إمام أحمد that it's not only the صلاة are you with me رحمة الله ورحمة واسعة it's narrated from him so the religion is built on these five the first one is شهادة ألا إله إلا الله وانا محمد الرسول الله the testament شهادةين which is what there's none worthy of worship except who الله تبارك وتعالى so what does شهادة ألا إله إلا الله means لا معبود بحق إن إلا الله لا معبود بحق إن إلا الله so if somebody asks you what is لا معبود معبود means عبادة so if somebody asks you what's the definition of عبادة the scholars they divide the عبادة into two التعبود which then becomes the phial of the action that the person is doing and he has to do with two pillars which is كمالو ذولي مع كمال المحبة and we will leave off the word الذول and we will say خضوع كمالو الخضوع مع كمال المحبة but then the other categorization is متعبد به which is شيخ وليسام يتايمي mentioned in his كتاب العبودية he says that اسم جامع لكل ما يحبه الله ويرضاه من الأقوال والأعمال الغاهرة والباطنة which is it's a general term everything which Allah loves and he speaks with it's an action which is internal and external anything that falls under that definition we just gave it's basically عبادة and you can't divide it for anybody other than other than غير الله فقد أشرك anyone who divides عبادة of Allah to anybody other than Allah he has fallen into شرك he has fallen into شرك so عبادة is the حق of who الله تبارك وتعالى when a person says أشهد الله إلا الله it is what إفراد العبادة لله singling عبادة فأ الله but when you say أشهد أن محمد الرسول الله is what إفرادوا إتباع للرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم you singling the危تباع and is what عبدال européض و نبي و لك message و الإنسان the transana which is و وهان and it comes from it that you go come up إفراد بالأل detect وعلى عبده يتحدث عن القرآن ويقوم بإسلاحه ويسلمه لم يقوله فرحة؟ لم يقوله مسجده؟ يقوله سلاف الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول سبحانه اللي يأصله بعبده ليلة من المسجد الحرامي إلى المسجد الأقصى وأنه لما قام عبد الله الله يخبرنا كل هذه الوقت اللي يفعله كماذا؟  كيف يفعل ذلك؟ لأن عندما you pray the prayer and you truly understand what you're reciting for example the verses that you recite is سورة الفاتح which you have to read at least 17 times a day you say إفراد الله بالعبادة you're singling Allah in عبادة so you're getting rid of what showing off and then what's it you're getting rid of what Arabians you're saying I haven't got power or Allah help me those are the two things that are missing from the gangsters isn't that the case they want to show off what they don't have isn't that what they call it bling bling isn't that what they call it they got cars they got flashy things they want to be what they're not so they're showing off that's true I just want to show you brothers that أقيدة can solve any problem that you guys have and it's not just a theoretical thing you can solve gangsters life but do we truly understand how we can solve problems and how we can go into these issues so he wants to show off which is he shouldn't show it off which gets rid of what arrogance look at how arrogant he is he wants to get respect on the streets he wants to be known on the streets he wants his name to be up there on the streets the truth of the matter is what this earth that you're walking on وفيها نعيدكم ومنها نخرجكم تارة أخرى the earth that you're walking on the way you're walking on right now is going to swallow you it's going to eat you and nothing's going to be left of you nothing's going to be left of you so you're forgetting your true essence you're forgetting what your true essence and what you truly mean صحيح so إفراد الله بالعبادة single Allah in slave servitude وانا محمد الرسول الله means that you follow the prophet in everything brothers if you have the prophet why are you following somebody else for somebody will say I love the prophet if I asked the gangsters and the youngsters on the street yeah and you said you love the prophet I'll like him I'll love him صحيح and he prays worthy for saying that but is that true when you're saying that تعصين إله وانت تزعنوا حبه هذا العمرك في القياسي شنيعه لو كان أحبك صادقة اللي أطعته إن المحبة لما يحبوا مطيع you disobey Allah and you claim his love you disobey the prophet and you claim his love if a wife she requests her husband to go and get her something and he says no I'm not going to get it I was going to go but now that you told me I'm not going to go and then he tells her later wow I love you so much you're the most beloved person to me would she accept that from him the vice versa if the husband told his wife you know do this and whatever he told her she always done the opposite and then he tells her I love you or she tells him that she loves him would he accept that from her the point of the matter is your love has to show on your limbs and it has to manufest in your limbs وذلك الله تبارك و تعالى condition your love whether it's true or not if you follow the prophet قل إن كنتم تحبون الله فالتبيعوني يحببكم الله if you love الله تبارك و تعالى and your true your love is true about Allah then we'll look at it and believe that when we see how you follow the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم so brothers and sisters take time from learning your توحيدة لا إله إلا الله means what it entails from you what it requires from you ولذلك الله says in the Quran فعلم أن لا إله إلا الله واستغفل لدنبك know that there's none worthy of worship العلم which is what is علم هو إدراك الشي على ما هو عليه إدراك جازمة knowledge is to know something as it is I'm a TPC something as it is with unwavering conviction that's what knowledge is so you need to know لا إله إلا الله properly and you have to study I have to study it when you go to the grave the three questions that you're going to be asked is what ما ربك وما نبيك وما دينك and you're going to have to answer ما ربك ربي الله الذي خلقني ورباني ورب جميع العالمين بنعمي وما معبودي ليس لي معبودي السواء you're going to be asked what's your religion do you need Islam you're going to be asked about your prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and you kind of will say his third name you say that I know the prophet but you're asked now in this world what's his third name you don't even know it but if I ask you about football player you know five names of his how much he was booked by each team and how much he's been sold and why he lives you know it that's the truth of the matter so the truth is that your love of the prophet عليه السلام it shows how much you want to know about his religion and how eager you are for it and how much you want to understand about it نعم so that's what أشدونا محمد الرسول الله means أشدونا محمد الرسول الله إخواني it's not مجرد الدعوة it is not مير claims it is not الدعوة مهلم تقيمة ببينات أبناء وها أدعياء no one can just come and claim what they want whatever you claim okay I can go and claim and say wow you know what this message is mine I own it I bought it with that work claiming is the easiest thing a person can do everything which you claim you have to show it with your actions so if you love the prophet عليه السلام he's the most beloved to you then let this the prophet عليه السلام he's how he looked and how he was let it be seen on you so study لا إله إلا الله when he got the message he came to the noble companion أبو ذر he came to the noble companion أبي منكعبن he said أبي do you know أعظم آية في كتاب الله the greatest verse in the Quran do you know the greatest verse in the Quran and then what did he respond by saying آية الكرسي and that shocks me because how did I really know the answer to that question because how many verses does he have over 6000 something verses in the Quran how did he select the right answer from all of those verses how did he know you know how you can only have known because he must have known that this is on the issue of and that's why he couldn't pick that verse out of all the other in the Quran he said آية الكرسي لا إله إلا الله لا حي القيوم لا تأخذه سنة ولا نوم لهم ما في سماوات وما في الأرض إلى أخل الآية and then when he answered it the Prophet he said ليهنك العلم يا أبو المندر ما الله صفته and may Allah place knowledge for you أبو مندر because he got it accurately and correctly right آية الكرسي because آية الكرسي is what it talks about توحيد العقيد that solidifies the person's belief of Allah سبحانه وتعالى ولذلك the Prophet he says والذي نفس محمد بيديا I swear by the Lord محمد نفس is in his soul لا يسمع بأحد من هذه الأمة يهودية أو نصراني ثم يموت هو ألم يوم بالذي أرسل به إلا كلم إلا كلم إلا إلا tasks والذلك ربِ GOD عالي عنه عمر وقال إلا إلا إلا إيتابعني كل من LINK محمد صلى صلى الله عليه وسلم ليقام Richard اخواني صلاة is عباد الدين. It is the foundation. It is the backbone of your religion. When he died, the scholars are of different opinions whether the person who leaves the Salat is a kafir. And I'm more inclined to the opinion that says anyone who leaves the Salat is a kafir. I'm of that opinion. And I feel like that opinion has more stronger evidences. The Prophet ﷺ said That the covenant between us and Nami is what? Anyone who leaves it is a disbeliever. The Prophet ﷺ said Then a nation came. A group of people came. They forsake the prayer. And when did Allah say They forsake the prayer. Allah is going to make them taste عبدالله عباده رضي الله تعالى عنه. He said what? This is a valley in the Hellfire. That's where they're going to go to. So if you don't pray the Salam, my beloved brothers and sisters And you're going to. The hadith tells us The person who doesn't pray يأتي يوم القيامة ليس له نور ولا برحان ولا حجة He has no light. He has no proof. He has no evidences And he will be resurrected with who رؤوس الكفرة. The heads of disbelief he will be resurrected with them. رسول الله ﷺ has said that رسول الله ﷺ has said that وليهالك الله ترزه إنه قرآن ما سلككم في سقر. قالوا لما كمنا المصلين ولم نكونوا تعمل مسكين وكننا نخوضوا مع الخائذين وكننا نكذبوا بيوم الدين حتى أتانا اليقين. They're going to be in the Hellfire. So they're going to be asked. What brought you to the Hellfire? And from the things that they mentioned, the reason why they come to the Hellfire is وقالوا لما كمنا المصلين. We were not those who used to pray. So if you haven't chosen to put your forehead on the ground for الله تعالى وتبارك وتعالى. Then why do you expect الله to have mercy upon you? إخواني. After the shahadateen, when the person says واشدونا محمد رسول الله. The first thing that is needed from them is the Salah. They have to pray. وليهالك الله سيزن القرآن يوم يكشف عن ساقن ويدعونا إلى السجود. فلا يستطيعون. They go, Allah is going to unveil his shin. And then everyone is going to prostrate for him. إمام محمد سيد رحمه الله وتعالى that the person who won't be able to prostrate is the one who never used to pray. وليهالك إبليس عليه العائل الله. May Allah is consistent and continuous, cast me upon him. إبليس, what did he do? He refused to prostrate to Allah. He refused to prostrate based on Allah's command. When he was told to prostrate for Adam, he refused to prostrate. Then why are you refusing to prostrate? Are you going to take the part of Iblis? Allah said to you Did I not take a covenant with you on an oath? Not to worship Shaytan, for verily الله تبارك وتعالى wants you to worship him alone. So the person should realize, my beloved brothers and sisters honor and success and prosperity that you're looking for isn't to pray. وليهالك and the prophet used to find joy in the prayer. He would say to the companion بلال يا بلال رحنا بالصلاة بلال bring us comfort and tranquility through the salah. So the prophet whenever, if something was hard on him and he was going through a hard time he would find joy in the prayer. He would find what? He would find joy in the prayer. Because he was a true slave of Allah. سبحانه وتعالى. Then the next one is what? وصوم رمضان. And the fasting of what? The month of Ramadan. No, well Hajj. Sorry, ويتاء is zakat. Giving the zakat. The zakat which Allah سبحانه وتعالى made obligatory on his slaves. Well Hajj. And Hajj in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى he made obligatory on the people. قال التعالى الله says ولي الله على الناس حج البيت من استطاع ومن كفر فإن الله غنيه وعن العالمين. الله tells us that best. That upon the people is what? حج الله سبحانه وتعالى which they need to come with. Once in a lifetime. And also what falls on the Hajj is عمرة. عمرة is obligatory once in a lifetime. عمرة according to the strongest opinion of the scholars is that it is واج مرة تنفل عمري just like Hajj is obligatory once in a lifetime. وصوم رمضان. And also fasting in the month of رمضان. It's obligatory on every what? مسلم. مكلف. بالغ. عقل. صحيح. مقيم. It's obligatory on every Muslim who's reached age of puberty who is sane. Who is healthy. Who's a resident. If he's a traveler. Are you with me brothers? And of course مستطيع he's able to do that. He's not ill. The person has to come with what do you call it? The fasting of that month of رمضان. Why didn't he mention jihad? The scholars they spoke. Why isn't the five pillars of Islam never jihad mentioned in it? The scholars they said because jihad the usal of it is that it's فرضو كفاية. It's not فرضو عين. These are فرضو عين. فرضو كفاية means what? إذا قام به بعضهم سقطعني الباقي. If some people do it the rest they don't have to do it. صح? Where as Salah, Siam, Hajj, all are فرضو عين. Everybody has to do it for himself. No one else will take it for you. You know when you teach classes for so long and you're teaching at the beginning everybody was smiling and now it faces just like. I can see faces already. People faces. ايه فضل. But still not there yet. We only took one hadith right? This is one hadith. We got 58 to go. 57 to go. باب أمور الإيمان وقول الله تعالى ليس البر أن تولوا وجوهكم قبل المشرق و المغرب ولكن البر آمن بالله ولكن البر آمن.  يؤكد أنك يقول أمام البخاري رحم الله�الـ.. هل ستقبلم أو لا؟ هل مالذلك؟ يجب أن تقبل الخطر، يجب أن يساعد بعمة الإعادة ليس جيد enough they'll tell you to go so they want to see the CV that you put forward are you really what you claim so now that you said انا مؤمنون ان شاء الله okay let's put it to the test do you follow these characteristics ليس البرأة ان تولوا وجوها كمقبل المشرك والمغرب it's not that you face مشرك or مغرب that remember the فلا نولي انك قبل ان ترضاها فولي وجهها كشطر المسجد الحرام وحيث ما كنتم كنتم تنظر مكة على مقبل المغرب that's what they wanted and they kept looking, the Prophet kept looking at the sky الله was saying to them listen whether you face مقبل المغرب or whether you face the Ka'bah that's not what righteousness is connected to are you there but what righteousness is connected to بير is what والملائكة والكتاب والنبيين وآت المال على حبيه دول القربة واليتامة والمساكين وبن السبيل والسائلين وفي الرقاب والموفون بأحدهم إذا عاهدوا والصابرين في البقساء والضرراء وحين البقس أولئك الذين أصدقوا do you have them أولئك الذين أصدقوا once you've come with those characteristics then your personal is truthful about it and then you're from the متقين also the قوله تعالى قد أفلح المؤمنون الذين هم في صلاة مخاشعون والذين هم عن اللغوي معرضون والذين هم لزكات فاعلون are you like this is that whenever you take you do you part of iman there is more to do there is every time more for you to do that's what that's what you will say insha'Allah because full do do all actions of iman is very very hard so we go fast insha'Allah هو عبدالله ابن محمد ابن عبدالله ابن جعفر ابن اليمال الجعفيه هو حافظ المسندي قال حدثنا أبو عامل العقدي قال حدثنا سلمان ابن بلال أنا عبدالله ابن دي نار أنا بيصالح أبو صالح هو أبو حرير رضي الله عنه بلالك if you ever hear أبو صالح ناريته من أبو حريرا it's always the person who comes to your mind is the kind of Muslim man he's him أبو صالح عن أبو حريرا is him he's the one whose kunya is very well known as أبو صالح or else there are many who narrate from أبو حريرا دا أبو صالح but the one that when he said unrestrictedly it is who is this one أنا بيه رضي الله عنه أبو حريرا is his name is عبدالله ابن عبدالله ابن الصخر أدو سيو بلالكه his name is differed upon in how many opinions 30 30 different names ابن عبدالله بر mentions that in his kitab التمهيد 30 different names that were differed upon but the strongest one is that his name is عبدالله ابن الصخر and we still say there's a niza' there's a long discussion going on أن نبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said ألمانه بدعن وستون شعبة والحياء شعبة من الإيمان بر مهر دخل إلي ما لخل هايه كارين الإيمانه بدعن وستون شعبة والحياء شعبة من الإيمان الإيمان is what بضعن وستون شعبة what does it mean it means 60 and odd branches the إيمان is والذلك الله سيزن القرآن فلا بيه في السجنه بضع سنين and bid a stand starts from what ثلاث إلى السبح ثلاث إلى تسع it's from 3 to 9 it's those odd numbers that's what we say 60 on odd numbers so it can be anywhere from 63 to 69 وذلك الإمام البيه حق رحمه الله روطة بقول كتاب الشعب الإيمان where he talks about the branches of the إيمان so when we say فلا بيه في السجنه بضع سنين وهم من بعد غلب يمسى يغلبون فيه بضع السنين لله الأمر ومن بعد ومن قبل this is what it means بضع السنين is from 3 to 9 we'll stop here إن شاء الله تعالى we'll pray صلى الله عليه وسلم