It's a pleasure to be here. I think three years ago we were in Dublin together and Jim and I shared a Guinness toast on stage to celebrate 10 years of OAN's existence. And since then we've continued to grow. And I'm always reminded that when I come to an LF event of a conversation that Jim and I had just about 10 and a half years ago, his daughter had yet to be born. I met his wife that day and it was my first face to face meeting with Jim. And he talked about his ambition of really being able to create a series of projects. And I don't think at that point he could have possibly conceptualized just how this community has grown and just how the LF has become a fostering agent and a professional management organization to be able to help nurture projects like what Shirley just described, very important project related to the energy sector globally. And Jim talked about the idea, the vision of having these projects. And most of them was a very frank conversation. We talked about what licenses they'd be done under, how they would be administered, what kind of commitment, what kind of resourcing it would take. It was really the architecture of the transformation of the LF from 10 and a half years ago through to today. And obviously it has great momentum going forward. And we talked about how if we're doing these projects largely on permissive licenses which have relatively weak intellectual property protection components related to patents that we would need to partner up, that we would need to live in the slipstream of what the LF was creating. And really we've done that from that date onward. It helped me actually that session because I think I'd probably been in the CEO role for two or three months at that point and was really just getting my feet wet and understanding the community. Doing a lot of outreach, talking with a lot of people, whether it was the Richard Stolmans of the worlds or talking to DFSFE in Europe, SFLC in the States. And really understanding how I could have an impact and how OIN could be transformative, what its role would be. I mean there are stars and water carriers in this world and I've always viewed that once I understood from that conceptualization discussion with Jim and kind of understanding the ambition of the LF that OIN's best position is as a water carrier where the companies that you work for and many thousands of other companies not even represented in this hall today are the stars because they're investing billions of dollars in open source code. They're investing in technology development. They're investing in new pathways to be able to create a more effective way of collaboratively developing technology to drive innovation in ways that we couldn't have even conceptualized 30 or 40 years ago. And really out of those earliest discussions I recognized that we were gonna need to develop a vehicle to be able to protect what was inevitable, which is the world moving toward open source in a very profound and significant way. I'm here today to talk about some element of manifest destiny probably and I've used this term with Microsoft, but when I first came into my role there's a history and rather than go into the history I'd prefer to talk about the future but Microsoft's participation in OIN and agreeing to support patent non-aggression in the core of Linux represents a sea change and I've gotten so many notes from many of you in the audience and others that I've had the chance to meet and get to know over the years congratulating me on this activity and what it would do is congratulate Microsoft on facing the inevitability of the world as it is versus the world as a former CEO and former CEOs of Microsoft would like to have thought it would continue from the late 90s onward but the world has changed and you've changed the world and I think that's a testament OIN what OIN has accomplished is a testament to the growth of this community that the LF has fostered and the realization of every company sitting here and so many other companies of the importance of open source to their own competitiveness. I think for a lot of people they ask the question what really just happened? We've had many, many articles published by different journals whether they be industry journals or Fortune Online, Yahoo News, many other media outlets, ZDNet, what happened, how it happened and why it happened I think are critical questions and I wanted to kind of delve into this to kind of demystify what actually has happened and what Microsoft is committed to. The press release we put out basically talks about the support for innovation and how they've agreed at the core of Linux all the core technology which we include in something called the Linux system which is Linux kernel code plus adjacent open source code that's really central to many of the projects that Linux Foundation has authored and managed and projects such as OpenStack, Apache and many others. I picked out these headlines because they probably characterize the perceptions that are in the last 10 days since the announcement and the press release have really started to circulate. The bears repeating Microsoft has signed the OIN license, what have they done? Yes, it's true because for so many people for so long it's been viewed as the Microsoft has been through its own behaviors and rhetoric has allowed itself to be villainized but it's evolving and that's why this is a perfect forum with the theme of this event around the evolution of open source. No company has come further from being the most successful proprietary software company in the history of the world to now be a company that recognizes its need for interdependence. Its need to participate collaboratively with others in the world lest it fall behind, lest it not have the ability to effectively offer solutions that people wanna buy. The why of it is really about you. If this community, if the LF, if other project management organizations were not successful in generating billions of lines of code and getting participation from the best and the brightest people around the world to be able to code and contribute to projects, then we would not exist. We would have no reason to exist. We'd still have the 31 licensees that when I came into OIN after the first three years of its operation we had, instead of the 2,800 plus that we have now and a hundred of which have joined just in the last five working days since the announcement of the Microsoft license. And so it's the community on which we stand and the community on which we are building our platform. I said in Dublin three years ago that we stand on the shoulders of those who have pioneered open source legal issues that have been fighting in Europe, in the US, in Asia to be able to support freedom of action and freedom to operate and ultimately choice. If you think about this, this may look like something that's very sudden but if you look at this piece that was actually presented 10 years ago to UCLA's business school, the Anderson School of Business, there have been many, many people that have been pushing on the rudder that have felt like they've been pushing on the rudder of the Titanic inside Microsoft, some of whom are here today to be able to drive change, to be able to drive a new awareness. And that awareness takes time when you're especially, when you're coming from where they've come from. But that change is not over. It's merely midstream but one important manifestation of that change is the recognition that patents and control are not the vehicle to be able to enjoy competitiveness, in a competitive situation, and to be able to tap into creativity. If you wanna hire the best people, then you basically recognize the code of conduct that they accept. And I think it's significant that people ask me, well, how long has this been going on? I've been talking to Microsoft for nine years and some conversations have been cordial, some not so much. We've agreed to disagree on certain things and we've looked for areas where we had common interests. And for the last three years, we've been in active productive dialogue around the new realities, these realities that I'm describing, the ones that Jim and Shuli have described as well about the new world order. The whole idea of this modality of collaborative development that one plus one plus one doesn't equal three, it equals six or 10 or 20, when we bring smart creative people to come together to solve technical challenges, to create new innovation. And this partnership that we've had from really my first face-to-face meeting with Jim that I described a short while ago has really been profoundly important to, I believe, the fact that we've had precious little litigation in the community. OAN is a blip on the screen and it's a unicorn. To think that some of the most patent-centric companies in the world like IBM and Sony and Philips would come together with SUSE and Red Hat, NEC and ultimately with others who came in like Google and Toyota to put real capital out to serve a paternalistic role, to be able to support this modality, to protect this way of creating value in a new economy is somewhat amazing. And to have the foresight to create something that would appeal to those who on one hand are completely anti-software patent, maybe anti-patent across the board, to those who have grown their businesses around the idea that patents are actually relevant to innovation. Fortunately, I don't have to pander to one community or another, I basically present this elegant solution that was developed by 23 lawyers 13 years ago, 14 years ago now, and it has brought appeal.  And if you were not out there, if open source were not relevant, Microsoft would not be in a position where it's exposing its 60,000 patent application portfolio to a cross-license based on what the Linux system is. This whole idea of legal collaboration that parallels technical collaboration is an idea that Jim and I forged 10 years ago and this partnership is one that we live, as I said, in the slipstream of every project that you'll see listed. Every project that is here and those that don't fit on the page, managed by the Linux Foundation and others, we live in the slipstream of those projects. We take common code that's used in many projects. We take also project specific code and we bring it in, have it evaluated, we do outreach to the community to make sure this code is representative of what the core of Linux is and we create a patent no-fly zone around it. It's not a terribly complex concept, which is why when people dig in, look at it, they ultimately see it as valuable. The how of this, our mission is really simple. It's to enable choice. If you look at the title of the slide, the Microsoft slide that was presented at UCLA 10 years ago, it's really about choice. The developers, coders, the lead developers inside Microsoft at that time through today have understood that. At every organization, developers and coders have understood that. And really what we're trying to do is, again, create a patent no-fly zone that supports uptake. One of the things that would have really created, you look at the auto industry, you look at banking, the people that are joining the Hyperledger project, these are industries that have notoriously been risk averse when it comes to patent issues. Would they have actually embraced these significant projects 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, probably not? But it's a time and place thing where the community has evolved, risk mitigation has evolved to the point where it was acceptable for these companies to participate. OIN's membership includes these companies that have, as I said, funded OIN. We have over 2,800 participants. We've invested $100 million in patents that we provide a royalty-free license to, to be able to enable and encourage participation in the community. The cost is zero. This is just a sample of some of the companies that are participating from a whole variety of industries. And it's a global solution. This is not about an American-driven solution. It's increasingly becoming Asian because that's where more and more of the participants are coming from as ELF has done a great job of bringing in more and more participants to their projects. And so our representation reflects where Linux is and where it's going. China is a very important environment for us, one that we measure against Japan, which is really the foundation in Asia of open source adoption. And we keep track of this because it's a measure of how well we're doing in terms of our global mission. The bottom line is companies that don't participate in OIN are doing so for one reason because they want to reserve the right to sue on core Linux. There's no other explanation that's a legitimate characterization of why you wouldn't. And so I'd encourage those who are present to talk to inside your companies, to talk to your IP directors, your legal teams to encourage participation because we are increasingly moving toward a time when the community and this whole movement is around the notion of the elegance of kind of this collaborative development model that's self-organizing. It's also self-regulating. And I think more and more people are recognizing as Microsoft has that talent is attracted to behaviors, to norms and to an ability to articulate a clear vision for a company. If you wanna bring people in, then you have to adhere to a code of conduct and our license is really nothing much more than that. It's a code of conduct and a set of norms that are established as to how you deal in a world that where we've inherited a lot of proprietary technology and we've inherited a patent system. Rather than pretend that it doesn't exist, we have to deal with what we find, make the best of it and carve out a space for projects like those at the LF and others have launched to flourish. Thank you very much. Thank you, Keith.


In this video, I will be taking a look at the SCP that got me into the foundation many years ago. It's also very similar to the back rooms in a few ways, and that is right in this video I will be going over SCP 3008 the infinite Ikea. I'll be talking about its history, its details, and all of the lore surrounding it. Without any more introduction and all that stuff, let's hop into it, shall we?  Obviously. Its object class is Euclid. Euclid means that the level is sentient in and of itself and can't be predicted. When someone walks into SCP 3008, which is just a normal Ikea store, through the main entrance doors, they will be inside of the regular building at first. So when you go past that entrance and you lose eyesight of the doors you came through, you will be translocated automatically to the area called SCP 3008-1. Now, you won't notice this transition instantly because you won't sense any changes.  The only way you'll know is when you try to go back to the exit, only to find that the exit doesn't exist anymore. Interesting. SCP 3008-1 is this area that you've been translocated to. It looks like the inside of a regular Ikea, but it's way bigger than any Ikea store ever. Even though from the outside, it looks like a regular building. The inside is just impossibly big for the walls to contain. Kinda like those tents from Harry Potter that look really small on the outside, but are huge inside. There's no accurate measurement on just how big this Ikea is, but it's estimated to be 10 kilometers squared. However, there has been some tests done with lasers to find out how long it goes, but they don't seem to measure any distances. So this means that it's most likely an infinite space. This 3008-1 area is home to a large but unknown population of people who were trapped here before the SCP Foundation got ahold of it. Apparently these trapped people have set up basic civilizations and lived together in a couple of different fortifications. These forts were built to keep a creature called SCP 3008-2 out and away from them. So 3008-2s are semi-humanoid creatures that resemble humans. Kind of. But they're extremely exaggerated. Like they'll have two long arms and then short legs, or they'll have a really big head, but a really small body. Some are really tall and skinny, some are short and fat, it just depends. They don't actually have a face, it's just a smooth patch of skin, but they wear Ikea worker uniforms, which is a yellow shirt and blue pants. And they're really aggressive at night time, especially to the people trapped here. Which is why people have to make the makeshift forts and stay together. So the main area, 3008-1, actually has sort of a day-night cycle. But it's not with the sun because there's no windows, but it's instead with the lights in the ceiling. They'll come on for the daytime and they'll go off at night time. It's during the night time, or when the store closes, that 3008-2s start to get really aggressive towards everything on this level. When they're in this rage fit, they'll start to yell phrases in English like, the store is closing, the store is now closed, please exit the building, that kind of stuff. Even though they don't have a mouth, they still say this stuff, which is really creepy if you ask me. Once the daytime starts though, the angry 3008-2s will be passive and they'll just go back to randomly walking around the level. When they're in this daytime state, they won't just attack you, and they also won't even answer you or acknowledge that you exist. You can just walk right past them.  SCP-3008-1 does have several exits to get back to the original Ikea storefront. But the problem is, the exits are always changing and moving around. Sometimes it could be a random door on display in one of these sections of the store, but then it can move and change positions and just have to be found again. Since the SCP Foundation containment procedures began here, 14 people have been able to leave this infinite Ikea. All of these people have had their minds wiped and have been released. There was one pretty scary instance on a redacted date when a regular guy that was trapped inside of the Ikea escaped back to the regular storefront. 10 seconds after he did that, out of nowhere, an instance of SCP-3008-2 also exited and unalived the guy before the SCP personnel could shoot it. After it did that, it was also then unalived and the body was studied. This is the only recorded time that a 3008-2 has escaped the infinite Ikea area, but it does mean that it's possible for them to do so. Just terrifying to think about. This guy that was sadly unalived was carrying a notebook where he was documenting his stay in the Ikea. Now I'm not going to read all the logs because they're pretty long and I definitely recommend you go check them out if you're interested in that kind of stuff. However, I am going to show you one of his entries that's pretty intriguing. I started talking to people about the stuff that they missed from home during dinner today. Probably not the best idea I've ever had because everyone seemed pretty down after.  Franklin apparently has a pet llama, although I'm not sure I buy that. But apparently some of the people here have some seriously odd gaps in their knowledge. Three of them have never heard of the International Space Station. Two of them seemed to think redacted redacted was the Prime Minister. And one of them had apparently never heard of the Statue of Liberty. I believe them too. They seem just as confused as the rest of us. The more I thought about it though, the more it started to explain a few things. What if the reason no one is looking for all us missing people is because we haven't all come from the same place? This is going to sound weird. Maybe that should be the model for this place. But what if all the people here have come from different dimensions? Realities. Whatever you call it. I've seen enough TV shows to know the drill. There comes from a place where there is no Statue of Liberty. They didn't launch a space station from where Wazom was from. If everyone here came from different places, even the ones that seem identical, there'd be no huge missing persons panic. No mass search. We'd just be a blip. A single missing person in a world of non-stop news. Well, that was a fun train of thought. So yeah, that was a pretty nice entry to his diary. And as you can see, it might confirm that the SCP-3008-1 is a portal to other dimensions or galaxies with other people. Because like this guy wrote, some people didn't know basic stuff about our Earth.  Pretty neat. But as of right now, there are still an unknown amount of people trapped in SCP-3008-1. It is pretty rare for people to find the exits. The attacks are getting bad now, almost every night, and with so many staff that the bodies almost pile high enough for others to climb the walls. I think we're in real trouble here. Exchange is, well, I think exchange is done. We got hit pretty bad last night. Not many casualties, but the wall is wrecked. We finally figured out why the attacks had been escalating too. A box of supplies had a chunk of one of the staff in there. No idea how it happened, but apparently a piece of one will draw them as well as a full body too. Too late now in any case. There are too many bodies for us to haul away and still have time to fix the wall before night. Candice has called a meeting. I suspect there will be talk of abandoning exchange. Maybe try and get a shelter at checkouts or something. It's already getting late though, and I don't think we'll have time to make it. Maybe some of us will. I was fine for that first week out in the dark after all. But then, how often can I keep getting lucky? I'm only riding this for a sense of closure, I guess. For me or for anyone who finds this. If this is the final entry here, I hope whoever reading this is doing so from outside this place. My biggest fear?  So that was the last entry from a person that was trapped here in SCP-3008. It's widely assumed that this writer got separated from his group while they were trying to reach the checkout settlement after being chased by a 3008-2, and that's how he happened upon an exit, and that's how he disappeared. Now, recently on YouTube, there's been a huge found footage craze. It started with cane pixels in the back rooms, and it's bled into other online lore systems, like the SCP Foundation. As such, there are many footages depicting SCP-3008 that have been released. And in these footages, you can really see the similarities between this SCP and in the back rooms.   As an official SCP, through the 3008 entry, but as of this date in March 2024, the two fandoms are not canonically tied together. They're different. Nevertheless, the footages make it seem more real, because it gives it this tangible media that you can consume, and you're not just reading words on a screen, you're visualizing it right in front of your eyes. And I think these footages of 3008 are some of the coolest ones on the platform. SCP-3008 was first uploaded to the Wikidot way, way, way back six years ago in the summer of 2018. And since its release date, it has become one of the favorites in the fandom. Like, literally. With over 3,200 upvotes, it lands at the 10th highest rated page in the history of the foundation, which is absolutely wild. But I can see how it's a fan favorite. It has this perfect mix of otherworldliness, but also realness. We've all been to an Ikea and we've all realized how creepy it is, and this SCP enhances that melancholic goofiness that gives the SCP foundation and the back rooms a good quality, a unique quality even. 3008 has also found its way into other pop culture things, like standalone games, roll blocks minigames, and plenty of other avenues like that. Even people who haven't heard of the SCP foundation have probably heard about the infinite Ikea that you can get trapped in and never escape. It's really that commonplace in the internet. I personally believe that this SCP is a masterclass of execution on how to make a great piece of internet horror. I think the author did a fantastic job encapsulating all the elements of horror while still adding unique twists and turns and a sense of liminality that just make it unique. It's such a fun read. Check it out if you haven't read the whole thing. I hope you had as much fun listening to me talk about it as I did reading it. Thank y'all for watching until the end. Leave a like if you want more SCPs over here on the Broodly Channel. And if you want a specific one, let me know that as well. I'll add it to the list. I have a list on a pencil and paper that I write. And I'll add it there if you want it. Thank you so much for the support across all my channels, Broodly and Spoogey. I cannot thank you enough. They're growing so fast. And I owe it all to you. Just seriously thank you from the bottom of my heart. Make sure you tell somebody you love them because life is too short not to. And with all that said, I will catch you all in the next video. Peace.


Let me preface this review slash rant with a little tale.  The dishes are cleaned up, the kids are put to bed and they relax in the comfort of their own room. They turn on the TV, they don't really have any physical contact because the wife can't stand the look of the husband anymore and I respect that. I mean, this person respects that. And they turn on please don't destroy the treasure of Foggy Mountain or whatever it's called. It's the worst title of a movie I've ever seen ever. It's right up there with Tu Wang Fu, thanks for everything. I don't even think I got that name right, it's so bad. Anyway, the movie starts up getting a few laughs out of it because at the end of the day that's all I'm looking for. But before you know it, the movie can't be finished because the app that it's running on is barely running itself.  Please don't destroy the treasure of Foggy Mountain.  For a movie that doesn't deserve one so bad. We fired this movie up because it was kind of being plastered all over the PS5 and all over, you know, whatever the Peacock thumbnails. And I thought, you know what? It's a comedy, it looks intriguing. You have Conan O'Brien in there who's hilarious. I love him, I'll watch anything he's in. Let's give it a go. So we fire it up and I'm actually kind of into this film.  It's about these three guys that live together, young adults who are not really happy with the trajectory of their life. The mistakes they've made up to this point need to be washed away somehow. One of the buddies has an idea which is to go up into the mountains and try to find a secret treasure using their compass and their ingenuity. These guys are idiots, keep in mind. It's like a modern three stooges with them without the slapstick humor. It's more dialogue driven. And it's modern dialogue, which can be a turn off for some people. A lot of really quick back and forth cutting each other off lines. The camera's moving with each person as they're talking. I dug it, I thought it worked really well here. Conan plays this angry store owner and father of one of the sons. He's not impressed with this kid at all. We made it about, I'd say 35, maybe 40ish minutes into this, rated R hour and a half minute flick that came out this year.  After about 35, 40 minutes, when they start meeting up with the camp, not the camp counselors, the park rangers who are these two funny women. App goes kaput, freezes up. I liked what I was seeing from this film. It had good looking cinematography. It had a playful vibe to it, a good energy. These guys were all very funny. And then boom, it's done. Right as I'm getting to another comical bit, the thing freezes up and shuts off. All right, the PlayStation 5 has had a lot of problems with the Peacock app. Let's try restarting it. Let's try rebooting it. Let's go into safe mode. Let's clear the cache. Let's do all this ridiculous stuff that shouldn't be required of a streaming service that you pay money for. Then I pump the brakes. I say, all right, well, we have a Samsung TV. It's only a few years old. It's the oldest one in the house, but it's still an expensive piece of equipment. We should be able to run it on that, right? Wrong! I tried firing up the Peacock app on it, just a no-go. Just spirals at the loading screen, just spiraling out of control. So I go back to the PlayStation 5. Lo and behold, it works. We finally get it up and running, and we can finish watching this movie on the cock. Right on P.  You shorten it at the front. It's pee. It's piss. You shorten it on the back end.    And that's exactly what this thing is. No-go on the Samsung TV.  It's kind of working. Sure, the quality has gone down to about a 420p, but I'm, you know, that's fine. That's okay. 4K TV at 420p. Sure, why not? That's what I paid for after all. That's why I pay extra a month for my internet provider to give me the best quality internet, like the most bits, the most computation that I can pull in so that I can get a 420p picture that's barely operational. And what would you know? After about five minutes, it's kaput again. And this is not a one-time thing with please don't destroy the treasure of foggy fucktown. No, this has been happening 24 seven, seven days a week, baby, for over a couple of years now. Maybe the app needs to be updated on the PlayStation. That's possible. Very likely it's not operating well with the OS, but that means it also has to be updated on the Samsung TVs. Most of these apps for people that don't know have to be updated on a per-base, I can't think of a word, per-base basis? That doesn't seem right, but I'm gonna go with it. Meaning there's various different versions of this software catered to each individual thing. So Roku has a version of Peacock. The Samsung TVs have a version. The Amazon Fire Stick has a version. All of these have different versions of the Coq. And so P is just not gonna operate well depending on what you have. Maybe the Xbox has a good version. I really don't know. I can't tell you that. We have other family members I've reached out to. I said, hey, what's going on with the Coq? Are you able to watch this new movie? Are you able to watch anything? No, we gave up on that. We gave up on that service. It never works is what the person told me. I went to a complete stranger on the sidewalk. I said, sir, sir. And then they responded, I'm a woman. Oh, sorry, ma'am, you're just hideous on the eyes. But ma'am, what do you think of Peacock? And the ma'am looked at me. The woman had tears in her eyes. She said, sir. She refers to me as sir. Sir, she said with tears pouring down her face. I can't watch Peacock. The app is garbage. No wonder they call it Peacock because it is Coq. And I say, yes, ma'am, and I embraced her. I embraced her until the life was taken out of her lungs and I snapped her and dropped her to the ground. I did her a favor here. I'm not the villain. I'm the hero. She was well past her prime and she did not want to be on this planet anymore. And this service is well past its prime and it needs to be put to pasture as well.  I can't watch anything on it. Why am I paying for it still? I feel like they put more time into their oops, something is wrong screen with the Shrek cat holding his hat, looking at you with those sad eyes and they did on the service itself. They're like, well, listen, we can't get the app to run well on literally anything but we have the puss in boots character here, puss.  We got puss on the cock, ready to rock. And I'm ready to roll. I'm ready to roll.  I can't because I can't watch the movie.  And so the review so far is a tentative give it a shot. It's a from a distance bet middler, try it out. It's a cautiously optimistic go for it but I didn't see the second half. The mountain could have an avalanche that destroys the entire thing for all I know and it's a complete wash or it's a throwaway or it's garbage just like the app. And at that point, it's not my fault. I gave you a cautious suggestion. Let me know about all of this. Are you a peacock fan? Are you for the cock? Let me know in the comments, put it down. Like the video if you had a good time. Subscribe to help support my mental issues. Help me, help me mentally overcome some of these first world problems that make me resort to fictitious scenarios where I'm killing people on the side of the road because why? The rap's not working either and I think the sweet release of death is enough to help them cope. Let me know if you saw this film. I wanna hear if it's any good and if I should try to find a way to continue whether it means jumping on the old pirate ship and sailing the seven seas or if maybe one day down the road, peacock will work if I can get on the phone with ABC or NBC or it's all Disney at this point. I imagine Disney owns all of this probably. Call up Bob Iger or Mickey himself and say, hey, Mick, what's going on?  You having a problem with the app? Oh, come back yourself. And then I hang up and then it's all over because the house of mouse doesn't care about me or you. They got that sweet cheddar for that mouse and he's all full. Okay, that's it. I'm rambling. Thanks for watching. Hopefully I see you next time and hopefully you're having a better experience than I am with this service and many of the streaming services out there. Take care.


Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. It's a noon hour. We're doing Think Tech Tech Talks with an old friend of ours, Tila Suresse. He runs Cylandia. Hi, Tila. Thanks for joining us. Hey, thanks for having me, Jay. Hope you're staying safe. Well, you know, safe is a big word these days. We cannot be complacent, not about our health, not about anything. And one of the things, I get your news letters and I see your videos and I know that it's dangerous time. There are people out there that are nefarious who would take advantage and look for opportunities.  They had too much time in their hands, maybe. And so they're hacking and doing all kinds of bad things. And we have to protect ourselves because otherwise we will be victims not only of the risk of the virus, but of the people who are hacking and fishing and doing what have you. There's been a dramatic increase in the number of people who are doing that and what they're doing and the onslaught continues. Am I right? Yes. And the reason I think it's very timely and it's good that we're doing the show today is because over the past couple of weeks, Hawaii in particular has been under fire. There is a huge increase in business email compromise. We have to deal with it almost daily now. And what that specifically means is that there's a very sophisticated fishing attacks that are coming in and looking like they're coming from someone that you know, right? So it looks like a trusted resource. Folks are clicking on the links and they are essentially their Office 365 accounts are becoming compromised. So we actually have a video series that we're editing today and it's going to be released in the next two days. And that's going to have a step by step process for IT departments on how to remediate this issue because they're becoming overwhelmed. And there's a lot of ways to prevent this kind of stuff from happening, but right now we're just trying to stop the bleed and kick these hackers out of these customers accounts. And it's only happened in the past couple of weeks and it is targeting all industries of Hawaii businesses, regardless of what they're in. So we're seeing it in construction, retail, wholesale, legal, you name it, it's all across the board. And it's and it seems to be targeting Hawaii specifically. We reached out to the FBI for guidance. They're still trying to figure out what to tell us. You know, it's a big problem that they're dealing with all across the board all across the country. But you know, that doesn't help us from day to day, you know, all those phishing coming in. Yeah, where's it coming from? Is it coming from, I mean, do you think it's coming from Hawaii? Or could it be coming from far off land? The phishing comes from far off land. They always do, right? We have no way, we have no way to stop them. But there is a website called Notion.so. They're a service that does like, kind of like a, like an all in one kind of G Suite kind of thing where you can, everyone can collaborate. They got compromised. And so they've been sending out these, these emails. And the emails look like they're from someone that you know. So they have the email signature at the bottom. And they'll say something like, attached as a link to our OneDrive document for that, you know, for those items that we discussed. If you have any questions, don't share the link, just click on the link and download it. And what that does is it allows a malicious payload to show up onto that computer. When that happens, they can sit there and they can either ransom the computer or, you know, just do a straight up data exfiltration. So we'll steal all the files, sell them on the dark web. But what we've been seeing them do is they jump inside the Office 365 account, and then they repeat the process. So they start sending out thousands of emails, then it will also modify. Using the addresses in Office 365. For any previous correspondence. And that's going to give them a better chance of penetration as an attack vector, than just some random phishing email where you can easily identify that it's coming from someone that you don't know. This is someone that you don't know. Let me put my paranoid cap on for a moment. I think we all have to do that. So one of our hosts gets an email. And the from line says from J-FiDale. That's nice. Accepted that, you know, had no context. We hadn't spoken. There was nothing in there that reflected, you know, some, some actual event or conversation. Just flat effect email with a link. Okay.  He's a scientist. He looked, he looks at underneath the J-FiDale. You know, you can click and see, I do that more and more, right? You right click an address and you see who the sender is or the sending address right or wrong. Okay. And it's got, it's got a string of alphabet soup and then the extension FR for France. He says, I didn't, I didn't know that J had a French address. He moved up in the world. Moved up in the world. So he's, so he didn't click on anything. He sends it to me and he says, I didn't know you had a French address. Is he doing me a favor? What is, what is all this going on? I didn't click on it either, but I suspect, you know, that because I have grit on this sort of thing in the past. So if I clicked on it, it might have been quite silent. It might have not done anything. I said, gee, that was easy. That was not threatening. And yet that might have gone into my system to be propagated to my mailing list to other people around the world. I mean, what could happen from this kind of email that I'm telling you about, what's the paranoid look at it? So business email compromise is something that's, I mean, it's been the number one method of compromise for the past three years, I believe. So according to the FBI's IC3 report. So this is nothing new. But what they're doing is they're preying on people's fears, right? So you sent, you got probably would be considered a typical non pandemic type of email compromise request, right? You know, I'll come quick on this link and it comes from a French email address. That's fine. Now the human firewall is something that can be improved through employee education. Right. So if you have an ongoing employee education, they know how to identify, like you mentioned, you have that smart host knows how to identify a fraudulent email. That's fine. Now what we're starting to see, and you'll see this in the video I sent, I put up a couple weeks ago, and it's specifically about how they're using COVID, right? So the email will come from John Hopkins and they'll say, click on the attached Excel file, right? And that attached Excel file will show you the COVID cases over the past across the US over the past month. And if you're interested in that, right, you open that up and that comes some sort of janky Excel file, but it's specifically asked to enable a macro to be run. If that Excel macro script is run, then that infects your system and they move on from there.   No longer the case. Now they're doing data axe filtration. So they're interested in what files you have in your system, right? You have your files in Dropbox, OneDrive, whatever, they can still get inside your system and take those files out and put them out into the dark web. And if you have files that, you know, have employee information on there, employee payroll data, customer data that's confidential, personal healthcare data, I mean literally we can't keep up with the number of stories that are coming out that are so mean, right? You know, they're targeting healthcare workers, they're targeting law enforcement. And this stuff just doesn't even make the news. There's so much of it. There's just so much of it going on, police departments. So we just look it up. We go on, I say we're Krebs online, or just go on Google. I mean, this stuff is on CNN, but it gets kind of pushed to the bottom with all the other stories that are going on. So there's not much really we can do to kind of, you know, we don't want to be ringing the alarm bell because it's already ringing. There's no point. So what we're trying to do is talk about how you can actually protect yourself on a day-to-day basis from these kind of things, from ruining your business. You know, one thing you mentioned that is really a little scary is that, so this is a, it's a, this example you gave, it's a spreadsheet. And spreadsheets have scripts in them. You can write all kinds of scripts. You can use the native code for the spreadsheet to write the script. And a script can do anything, go anywhere. There's all these functions and effects that you can make that script do. So that script could actually be hacking script. And you don't even realize, am I right? You open the spreadsheet and now the script is running. This is a 12-year-old, a nine-year-old could do this, you know, out of Eastern Europe and there you go. All you're doing is opening a spreadsheet. Am I right? Well, they do have some smart nine-year-olds in Eastern Europe. I'll tell you that. So what they're starting to discover now, particularly with the, with the event that's occurring in Australia right now, I don't know if you know that, I mean, the whole country's under attack. It's under cyber attack. But that is, you know, those are funded attacks. So those are coming from third party nations. There's this kind of idea that cyber crime is perpetuated by, you know, really young, you know, teenagers working alone, siloed in their basement. And that's really not the case. And these are well-funded organized crime. These are smart people. And when you start thinking of them as, as not smart, that's where you're really getting into trouble. Because these guys are, are very smart, highly organized, well funded. Why do they do it?  They do it from money. They, I mean, short, I mean, beyond ransomware, which we can all understand, what else is there by which they can extort money from you? Well, you have to look at what the data is worth, and what the disruption could also be worth. So now they've been targeting critical infrastructure for about a year now. And what that means is power companies, why water, utilities, those kind of things. And if they disrupt that, then that could be, you know, it's, it's essentially, it's a lot easier to attack a country by attacking a critical infrastructure rather than, you know, try to send planes overhead. It doesn't make and put lives at risk, right? So there is some, I mean, let's be fair, we do this too. But in the state, you know, but we're also a target. So when I say we, I mean the United States, every country does. Well, I think what, you know, what you said a minute ago is a little chilling. It's that in the past, we have envisioned, you know, the nine-year-old or the 12-year-old, but we, we have also envisioned the state actor, like North Korea and Sony a few years ago. And the state has a building somewhere in the capital city. And, you know, say Moscow, say some other city in Russia. What's that city on the eastern edge of Russia? What is Ukraine? Is it Stonia? I mean, there's... Yeah. So anyway, what you have is you have, the government is, has got a building, a facility. The government has got a whole staff of people in there and they're doing like, you know, bad things. But when you, when you add this other dimension, the other dimension of third-party actors, contractors, if you will, who are not that, who are not part of that government, who are hired by that government and who knows the, you know, the amount of connection, then it gets more complicated because it's harder to track back and find that that government is directly responsible. It's only indirectly responsible. And there can be many of those people and they can appear to be very fragmented coming from various places in the world when in fact, there's one rogue government doing it and it's doing it for national purposes with a national agenda of some kind. This is troubling. You know, it's kind of funny. Do you know the story of when 2020 went into Nigeria to arrest those Nigerian hackers? Have you heard of that? So I'll tell you a quick story real quick. So 2020 didn't happen. So they finally tracked down all those Nigerian scheme, you know, for the past 10 years, we've been getting all the schemes from Nigerian scammers, you know, everything from from the tar-covered money to the inherent scams, all these, you know, really kind of silly scams. 2020 went in there and they found them. They said, okay, we're going to go there with the police, with local police. We're going to go arrest and stop these guys. And as they showed up to the village in Africa, Nigeria, where they were going to arrest these guys, the local people were all throwing stones at their cars and blocking where these guys were operating out of.  So maybe there's some manipulation going on. I'm not really sure. It was a job. It was a job that people in that facility were being paid. It was a nice job. And so they don't want to lose their jobs. Yeah. And it's supporting the community and it's doing other things down the flip side. They've shut down call centers in the past few months coming out of India. And those were legitimately, you know, sweatshops and they really did work them very hard. And there's a lot of mind games going on there. So it's all across the board. I would not say that the U.S. is unique in terms of its ability to go out and disrupt the world. But we living in the U.S. also don't want to have that same thing that us. But it gets out of control, though, because you have this whole tier of these companies. And there was a, you know, there was a company that was involved in the 2016 election in London. And this, they made a movie about it. It's a famous company. And when the British authorities got close to it, the Americans got close to it for their manipulation of voting and social media. They disappeared. They disappeared one day. All gone. And you went to the premises there that a whistleblower who made a movie about this, went to the premises and there wasn't a stick in there, nothing. And you know, and they took the computers, they took everything with them. And you know that they could open up again with a very sophisticated, well-healed, you know, high-tech operation anywhere in London, on the continent, in Africa, anywhere in Europe, Russia, what have you. So there's this tier of contractors out there that are working for states or working for, you know, rogue organizations of one kind or another who are, I don't say, it's not fly by night, but they evaporate and then they reform somewhere else. So this is pretty serious here. And if they want to target you or your organization, they can do it. They can and they do, but really a lot of this stuff is automated.  But at the end of it, they may have harvested some data that has some value on the dark web. So when you go and have your credit card info stolen and that gets put on the dark web, that goes for a couple dollars, two to three dollars. But that's because it's very cheap and easy for you to change your credit card number.  These kind of things are difficult to change. So medical records go from $35 to $40 a difference. Kind of as a threat on you, that your private information would be revealed and you want to pay the extortion fee. Is that what it is? Exactly. And when we have to deal with the FBI out here and Homeland Security, that has to do with something that's more serious that affects critical infrastructure. So they could have, for example, a backdoor into a critical infrastructure network. Homeland Security could be monitoring that and they'll notify the local district office of the FBI that there is a real issue and they'll show up in person to let that organization know that yes, this is a credible threat and here's evidence indicating it. So they could be selling access to critical infrastructure. They could be selling the data that's there. They could be selling access to a specific individual within that organization. You know, like for instance, if someone got ahold of Jay's password and was able to access his email account from Estonia, they could sell that access to someone who might be interested and doing reputation damage, for example. Or just, you know, maybe using your position of influence to try to further their cause. You know, what if Jay was found to be a North Korea supporter? You never know. These things could happen. So this is happening more now in COVID. It strikes me that, you know, COVID, as they always say, everybody always says this, COVID presents opportunities. And the opportunities don't stop at making your business more efficient. They go all over the line, including to the hackers. Well, if the economists are correct, they're saying that we're in a direction from which we cannot change. So the economy is going to be different coming out of this than it was going in. A lot of that has to do with investments and automation. So everything from, you know, a script that ends up in your inbox that could propagate this infection automatically to a bread maker, right? That's something that's a durable good that otherwise would not sell in a down economy now is in higher demand because folks have changed their habits in such a way to accommodate for this pandemic. In the same way, folks are going to be more resistant to becoming close to others. And they're going to look at whether it's worth the risk of going to, you know, a physical location, like say a Walmart to pick up an item or ordering it from Amazon and waiting for it versus before they may not have done that. So in the same way, we're looking at that kind of change happening, you know, more permanently in terms of workforces. We have a lot of interest in remote work as being a more permanent solution as some of the challenges that it provides. To be fair, this remote working situation has only been going on a few months. All studies, all past studies have only indicated that working from remote only works about for about six months. And after that, there's a severe deterioration in productivity.   It's more along the lines of the mental capacity to be able to work and live from home in one place.  So, yeah, that's the thing about that's the thing about not that we're getting too far off here, but that's the thing about working at home in an office, you have structure, you have somebody watching you and human nature, you know, tries to avoid being structured sometimes. And so you go home and then you wind up being less structured, you wind up being complacent about things and you're not so efficient after a while. And I think we're going to find out just a thought here. I think we're going to find out in the COVID experience, ways to motivate people from home, ways to achieve metrics on people, they're working their hours that they put in their product, their achievements at home, rather than just let them go home and do kind of an emulation of what they were doing in the office, but not as not as motivated. We'll see what happens. But I think I think the description, you know, the phenomenon that you described is absolutely right. Can we go to your last newsletter? This is a newsletter that I noticed where you had like eight or nine things that the average consumer, the average user at home, probably, these days would want to watch out for because these are all dangerous things. Can you take through some of them? Well, the idea is that in this last series, we're trying to help out the local community who has been unemployed, right? And there have been a series of unemployment scams that have been really targeting those who have, you know, perhaps not the greatest computer know-how and may fall for some scams that they wouldn't normally fall for, either because they're desperate or because they're really trying to get, you know, they're trying to get through that cluster that's all gummed up inside of the system. So we're seeing everything from unemployment scheme websites popping up that are promising, your ability to get that unemployment check and they'll take care of it for you for a fee. So don't fall for that. And we're seeing text messages. That could be legitimate. No, it could be legitimate. No, only you can file for unemployment gather, get that money. Okay. So if you see a third party stepping in and trying to be a middleman on getting any government benefit to help broker it somehow, that's a sign of fraud right there. Sign of fraud, text messaging, phone calling, they're not going to get in touch with you that way. Of course, you know, there's this temptation to try to take some shortcuts and start Googling. Don't do it. You got to go to your state's website. Now, in those videos, I also posted links. It will probably repose them as well to each of the state's websites that have, you know, they go through step by step on how to file for unemployment. You don't want to cut corners and try to do a third party that's not the way to do it. Let's see. I don't have the list in front of me. So maybe Jay, if you can help me out if you have, I see you clicking. Well, I think my recollection of the list, you know, I can probably find it here, but my recollection of the list is you're going to watch out for the email. You're going to watch out for the websites. You're not going to take third party things that you don't that you never heard of before. You're not going to take unofficial websites. And you're certainly going to be very watchful of unsolicited email that puts you, puts the sender in a brokerage position between you and something you need. You need to go direct. And if you don't go direct, you're going to find that there's a scammer out there who's going to get you into his web. Most of them had a lot to do with that. Because in fishing, and I guess we're talking largely about fishing, in fishing, you're the sucker. I mean, you should know better. They're trading on your fear, your psychology, your need to get something done to try to get through the bureaucracy somehow. And they're fooling you. But if you think about it, you can pretty much, my right to say this, you can pretty much always figure it out because it's no more than fooling you. It's you, it's your weakness, your weakness in the marketplace, your weakness on the web. But you can stop them if you put your brain on it. You can, but you have to remember that most of these folks, all of us in fact, are emotionally compromised by this. I mean, there's a lot that goes into suddenly have to change everything overnight. And so there's certain things that they're doing to take advantage of that. So they're doing it, but they're doing it a little bit differently. So for instance, they're asking for personal information over email or text message. And so this is good practice in general, right? So we worked with HR managers and other IT departments, and we'll see their email messages coming in from job applicants and fellow employees that have social security numbers being sent over Gmail, right? That's a big no, no, just in general. But you gotta remember these criminals, they know that people do this anyway, right? Remember, I told you they're not, they're smart guys. So they know that folks are comfortable sending out their personal identifiable information over on security email. So they're taking advantage of that. They're asking for that kind of information, right? Folks are used to buying gift cards and wiring money, right? So don't do that. And sometimes they'll even do that for a fee, right? To add insult to injury. Yeah, exactly. And they're going out, they're setting up a lot of fake websites.  That's just, you know, just a small amount compared to what's out there. So a lot of these websites that are asking for this information, they're compromised or WordPress sites that weren't built correctly, or they're not maintained correctly, and they end up becoming compromised. And then those kind of, you know, you'll Google it, it'll show up on the listing, and then they'll automatically install some sort of malicious software onto that system. So those are called drive buy downloads. I'm sure you've come across them even on mobile phones. We'll see them.  And they're starting to have that, you know, more frequently on, not just on websites, but on advertising networks as well. So both Yahoo and CNN, they had their advertiser networks compromised. And what that means is you would go to CNN.com, which is a reputable site. But because there's some ads on the side there, and then that network that delivers those ads was compromised. Now, all of a sudden, you know, millions of computers are getting compromised because of this. So then one good rule to follow is don't click on an ad, period. And no matter how seductive it is, don't click on an ad. I mean, I think a lot of people, you know, are more cautious these days about anything that comes to you, so that asking you to buy something. And then you go back to that site, and you never saw the site in the world. It's very persuasive, but you never heard of it before. As soon as you buy it, you're giving them your credit card information. Mistake. And what happens at the end of the day, Attila, this is so interesting, is that you only for safety want to deal with the big guys. So how about Amazon? Amazon is a big guy. If you go to Amazon and you're on Amazon, the official site, you have a level of confidence. If you're on XYZ site that you never saw before, you know, like me, I'm not going to deal with that. And if Amazon costs more, that's okay. I want the reliability, you know, of Amazon. And this makes Amazon bigger and bigger and bigger. It makes it hard for anybody else to compete with Amazon because they're unknown in the marketplace and you're scared, I mean, I am, of dealing with anyone else. Isn't this what's happening? It's sort of a natural process of the bigger get bigger. It really depends on what you're doing. So Amazon also has the ability as a, I'm just a little bit kind of off topic, but they do have the ability to offer you a store for your goods. If you have goods, now if you have services, that's a little bit different story. So a lot of like third-party sellers will try to set up their own shops, maybe using GoDaddy's e-commerce solution to do things like handprints for your kids, right, using Plaster of Paris or something like that. So those kind of service-based organizations, they can try to compete directly by having their own specific website, right? But I guess kind of circling back to it by a reputation, right, so non-deliverable of goods that you paid for, that's number two and three on the FBI's most reported scam. So business email compromise is number one, but then right after that, you get all these, you know, non-deliverables. But you know, back to the scams, you know, I really want to make sure to talk about this one because this is big, job seeker scams, right? So let's say you're out of work, you're collecting unemployment, which is good, you know, we, I've received stories of folks that are having trouble bringing their employees back because at $600 a week is just so tempting so that you can sit there at home and watch that Netflix and that's fine, but you know, we're also doing job seeker scams and job seeker scams are nothing new. They've been around a long time, get a phone call, hey, we have a job that may match your description, we just need some more information from you and they'll draw it out, right? They'll draw it right out of you and what happens? You end up getting your, your identity stolen because of that whole thing. In fact, sometimes they'll even ask for a credit card and then they'll take your credit card number and then they'll perpetuate a scam right away. So they'll go out and they'll start buying a bunch of goods online with your credit card number and that's a real simple one, but these guys are getting bold and they, and part of that I think is maybe a little bit desperation and part of that is I think just a human nature to take advantage of, of a, of a situation, but we have folks that are, we've seen reports of them, you know, setting up COVID-19 testing centers and longs parking lots across the country or CVS, right? So they've set up these, these testing centers, right? It's obviously a fake because it's an actual, it's an actual tent or something in the parking lot. Yeah, in the parking lot. Nobody realizes it's phony. It's all phony.  More and more.  You don't know what's going to happen, but I think we can both say with some degree of confidence that a vaccine is some time off and the virus is still out there. So we don't know how much more desperate people are going to get. We don't know what's going to come next. And that kind of feeling of uncertainty is why these folks and these scammers are getting right on it. They're just taking advantage of what they can't win. That's likely to increase and get more sophisticated.  You could have reasonable trust in before. That's one of the casualties, if you will. It's this kind of marketplace trust that we used to have at least for some parts of the market. Well, well, I tell you, there's miles to go before we cover this. But the one thing you said that I think we can, we can count on is it's going to last for a while and the scamming end is going to get worse. So we have to have this discussion again when you can take off points of concern. And tell us the rest. Cylandia? Cylandia? Cylanda, cybersecurity. Yeah. Okay. Cyland. Cylanda. Cyland. It sounds kind of made up, doesn't it? I'm like a unicorn. What's the website? Cylandia.com. C-Y-L-A-N-D-A.com. Yeah. Feel free to check it out. Okay. Well, we're trying to get some of your videos on our system. That'd be great. So thank you. Thank you, Cyland. Great to talk to you. Talk to you again soon. Aloha. Be well. Stay safe out there. Stay safe.


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