Yeah, I talk a lot about the story of self. This story is becoming obsolete. It's becoming no longer true. We don't resonate with it anymore. And it's actually generating crises that are insoluble from the methods of control. And that's what's clearing space, clearing the space for us to step into a new story of self and a new story of the people. This movement against the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Occupy movement, Arab Spring, these are all signalers of the emergence of the world's biggest and most profound social movement. And out of that love and that connection of people to each other, they're going to create a different way to do things. There's a holiness to the temple that is beautiful and sacred and I love being a part of that. Very much like the Playa, the temple is really the blank canvas for all of the things that we are carrying with us. Tamira is a research center for peace. It's a community with a huge vision of shifting the entire culture of this planet from one of war to one of peace. Even to start thinking about what that is, is a huge step. I live in a world where I'm not a brilliant businesswoman living out my dreams. And a DJ that makes music and talks about vaginas and sex, which is a complete and utter lie because I am exactly those of those things. Thank you all for being here at this incredible event. So I come to you actually from pretty far away from the west coast of Canada. My family comes from a background English and Irish in origin. And I was born right near the traditional territories of the Swaylertooth Nation, just outside what the newer arrivals call Vancouver. And I really made it my life's mission to try to find these pieces of this emergent culture that I think are sprouting up all around the world. I mean in places like Tamira, places right here at New Frontiers, and really tried to look at how can I gather in these seeds and really capture them and amplify them in a particular medium. In this case, for me, most of it is films. And more recently I really started to become aware of I think the process by which I went about this journey. A lot of the film clips you just saw, sometimes I even forget what I worked on because I just seem to be kind of going from one piece to the next as it just becomes apparent that this is the next step. This kind of new technology, you could say, intuitive technology, one word for it is synchronicity. And one definition of synchronicity is really that it's sort of this higher order perhaps that a lot of us may not necessarily be able to draw the connections to. We might not say, well, clearly that led to that, which led to that, and that's how I made it here. But really this kind of surrender into that there's this deeper unfolding going on of which we were all part. And that perhaps just as Benjamin talked about this idea of knowing truth, when there's that shared space of truth between us, at the same time I think all of us know when we're on the path. On the path of like, ah, yes, this is the next thing that I'm supposed to do as we all awaken to service towards this more beautiful world. My story really begins as far as filmmaking. This screenshot there is from the TED talk I gave actually where I came out with the Occupy Mask on. Because for me it really represented both, on the one hand my grandma said it was kind of creepy, the Occupy Mask, but at the same time it actually represented to me one of the core memes I think of the time that we're in, which is this energy of this trickster. This idea that we don't really know exactly how to get where we're trying to go. And I think this combination of imagination and creativity and maybe a bit of irreverence, in fact, is this sort of audacious possibility that we can be in service. And for me one big piece for that was actually recognizing after reading the book by Charles Eisenstein named Sacred Economics, in the end of that book he actually has this passage where he says if you're in a position where you have any sort of a surplus, let's say any kind of anything really, the best thing you can do now is invest it back in this more beautiful world. And for me at the time this is back in 2011 I thought well honestly I could scrape together enough to buy a plane ticket out to visit Charles because I had this idea that I could make a film. I could film about his book Sacred Economics. That's as far as I got. I Skyped him the next day and I said hey Charles I'd like to come and shoot this film with you. Can I come stay at your place? And he said sure. And then he said wait no I gotta ask my wife. And then he went and asked her and then he's like yeah okay you know you can do it. So I came out there and I really just just tried to be in a deep place of listening of like what is this film that I feel needs to be born but not knowing how to make it. And at the same time the Occupy movement actually erupted on the scene that basically while I was out there shooting all of a sudden New York was you know a flame with the seeds of this movement and he was asked to come speak there and so I ended up following him of course that was a thing to do down to Wall Street where there was this moment I think of recognition where I believe it was Nome Klein who had this beautiful quote where she said you know while a lot of the commentators at the time and particularly in the US I don't know what these hippies need or want with their bongo drums and nobody knows what they want whereas Nome Klein said well the rest of the world is saying what took you so long that there was this deep recognition almost emergent you know vision among all of these different groups that for so long have felt like they were alone like they were the ones kind of toiling away and nobody else seemed to to also be in service and that was one of the moments I think we all recognized like ah yes so many of us share this conceptions of this world and that maybe for the first time then a lot of these groups started to see each other and started to link up and you know for me that also led to this invitation I got to go to Tamara because after seeing that film they reached out and said ah we're doing some really amazing work here with these new models for the future you know would you be interested in coming out to check it out and that was before I had enough spaciousness and time to get out there which became the seeds of the film clip you saw there called Healing of Love which is really looking at again their models in love and partnership in a wider framework of trying to build this new piece culture since then as well I've made Amplify Her you saw a little bit there which for me is really this question of what is it about this rising feminine you know that clearly seems to be could be one of these emergent threads of this new world also how do we ground it in the experiences of real women in this case because of my own experience in the electronic music scene I thought oh interesting like how is it showing up for female DJs and producers and what is it that they're grappling with themselves as women in this time and the feminine and how is that actually again applicable across so many so many realms that we're seeing that film is actually coming out this summer I'm proud to say and hopefully it'll be premiering somewhere nearby I'd love for you to come visit so how do we understand the time we're in there's this writer named Jonah Sacks from San Francisco he wrote a book called Winning the Story Wars he also created a company called Free Range Studios and they have some of the most brilliant pieces of social activist video one is called The Story of Stuff which some of you may have seen The Matrix, Grocery Store Wars and lots of these beautiful pieces that really aimed at creating these pieces around this new story or understanding at least what is the depths of the old story that we're in and in this book he wrote about this thing called the myth gap where just as the myths that have guided the dominant civilization for so long they're really beginning to break down and that perhaps 2012 if anything really a key point where all of the unintegrated shadow of the dominant culture was now to be brought to light and then in fact this whole idea of the end of time or the end of apocalypse for the world was really this question of again are we willing to actually face the shadow of the dominant culture and what is that actually going to catalyze it has it catalyzed I think in all of us here in this world we're trying to build and so you could almost say that we do have a crisis of stories we have a crisis of myths with which we can really live into in fact for this world I think we can obviously look to the past there's tremendous wisdom of course in the peoples that have been living in a proximity to the land and in relationship for so long time and yet even then with the whole monolithic civilization built upon it again it's a different time that we're in and maybe what's being asked of us isn't to go back of course but again how do we actually go along together this is the thing that's also different this is a word called the noosphere it was coined almost 100 years ago but really what it refers to is just as we have these different layers encircling the globe such as the geosphere the biosphere some might even say the technosphere which is the sphere of the sort of technological landscape that we've created there's the noosphere which can be seen as the layer of human consciousness around the planet this is really something of course that's new at least new from a technological perspective some might argue that maybe there's already a psychic sphere that maybe we've lost our ability to access but this emergence of the noosphere is actually it's unprecedented and I think it's really important to understand actually what opportunities actually provides just as you know the latest video of a cat falling out of a tree or a gongum style might rock it around the planet I believe gongum style is up to something like 4 billion views or something right on youtube and on the one hand you could say oh that's silly why are we again sharing something silly kind of Korean pop culture video and yet what I see is the very possibility that video could be seen so many times says something about how interconnected we've now become and in fact I think we have the real possibility of consciously creating these memes consciously creating memes and then injecting them into the noosphere in a way of accelerating this more beautiful world and I want to spend a little bit of time around this idea of mind bombs so I with the founder of Adbusters magazine which is actually the fellow who is credited with coining or at least branding the Occupy movement their Adbusters magazine based out of Vancouver was the one that actually put a full paid spread in their magazine and said based upon and inspired by Egypt what was going on in Taylor Square had said you know what if we decided to occupy Wall Street and they had this big spread that said September 17th bring tent and that was really it and there was some on the ground activists that had been contacted were sort of seeding this momentum but really they didn't necessarily know exactly how it would play out and yet just that spark I think was able to ignite a lot of this latent longing in fact to really participate in this unfolding when I spoke to this fellow named Kelly Lassen he's the founder of Adbusters and I asked him what do you think where should the Occupy movement go next this is back now in 2012 oh we forget Occupy like what's next again his understanding about what he was doing and the way of actually creating these these mind bombs was that they serve for a time that in fact the most responsive expression or articulation of a certain meme is very specific to a time and once that moment's passed again we don't get attached to form that in fact we say okay that was beautiful at the time and then recognize you know what it never was about camping out in a park or the financial district but in that moment it was the most brazen revolutionary thing that we could do and since then we've actually seen other expressions take over for instance in Canada that started the Idle No More movement a lot of the indigenous activists there were able to catalyze this wave both in North America and I think as well in the US there's the Black Lives Matter again this idea of like how do we galvanize a type of shift by really harnessing the power and tapping into this noosphere and I think now the question is upon us as well I mean I start getting obsessed of course with this idea that there's such a thing as the perfect mind bomb that is the thing is the one thing that can be shared into the noosphere and that's the transformation from that one piece very likely not going to be like that I think the deep lesson that all of us are learning here and other gatherings around the world is that there's unity in diversity and in fact we need a diverse we need diverse expressions of this new story but all shared I think within this holistic framework that they're all trying to articulate something of which no single thing can possibly do it justice and so I want to share just a sort of key story selling strategies you know for all of you who may already be storytellers in some fashion whether you're aware of it or not or if you want to look at really crafting consciously these memes these mind bombs around your own work which is so necessary just here's a very brief best practices short's better than long you'd be surprised you'd be surprised to think about how planetary the first 20 minutes just reduced him to tears and like many others whereas the rest of it you know again was maybe just secondary to that initial incarnation of the beauty and the love that we have for this place and maybe that alone right could have been enough of an offering let's say also again in this kind of world that's constantly competing for attention you'd be surprised or maybe you aren't that if you are sent a video you open one up what's the first thing you do you look at how long it is exactly and if it's usually longer than two or even three you might say maybe later you know maybe I'll file it away for later and of course maybe you never go back so short is better the next thing is distill the meme and by this I mean again connect what you're expressing even though that'll have a specific expression about the particular thing you're doing whether it's integrated agriculture or water retention landscapes or things it's important to also distill what is the core myth that you're actually tying it to that this expression is a part of Charles Eisenstein in sacred economics for me and what I tried to express in that was he articulated very beautifully that the old story of which so many of our institutions are built on including the economic system is the story of independence you're an independent being in an indifferent universe driven to maximize your own self-interest and so forth and so we built an economic system based on that core myth what would an economic system look like based on another myth and he's called it in many others the myth of the interdependent being where now the money system is in service actually to creating systems which reinforce and in fact enact that type of interdependence it's very possible and in that particular book he goes over specific strategies but I think it's important that again as we don't as we go forth with the very specific work that we're trying to do to not get lost in the details when we're trying to convey to other people because just like for instance permaculture for me is such a deep reordering about our understanding of nature that it becomes one of courtship instead of domination right again those types of core memes are like whoa and they have to be in there and I got the time up so I'm just going to finish quickly finally think about film as a tool that in fact sacred economics I crafted deliberately for people who were already doing the work on the ground and needed something in which to galvanize people to get involved and so they could use the film as a tool and say oh this is the kind of core frame now in our own regional areas how do we make this happen right here so I encourage you to think about again has your crafting these stories can be used as tools for people to really bring this more beautiful world home and lastly these three things are really alive for me right now again what is the role of healing the masculine in this culture of ending of patriarchy the role of decolonization and re-indigenization actually for so many of us that have lost connect contact with our own ancestral roots and finally what is the role of grief in fact about the time we're in the necessary role that doesn't say you know collapse in a heap of it's all over nothing to be done but how does actually inform our way of being human in the world today lastly this idea of living from the future I think we do as we're trying to create this more beautiful world we can really get involved with this idea that if we just get to hear you know everything will be okay and if we don't everything's over it's done and I think it's important to understand that the world over we're going through collapse we're going through regeneration we're going through you know multiple iterations of story and it's not happening everywhere all at once and in fact that the future in this way becomes a willingness to be in the world now as if we're already there what does it look like to be in the world and with each other from that place, Thomas Huble this spiritual teacher from Austria he says it's living from the future is embodying the future consciousness now and in that way we're already there so thank you


Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Gen. I'm Shannon and today we're gonna be taking a look at Ghostbusters 101 issue number 4 This issue hit shells today But if you're lucky and you have comic zoology and pre-ordered it then you would have gotten a chance to read it early because at exactly 11 p.m. Central Standard Time Amazon sent the digital copy to subscribers kindles It didn't actually show up on our comic zoology accounts though until about 9 a.m. Central Time But with that being said once again Burnham sconing and Delgado hit it out of the park I won't go as far as Ghostbusters news did by saying that it was the best Ghostbusters comic yet as that title is reserved for Mass hysteria, but I will say it comes pretty close the issue opens with Peter Aaron Patti Ray Winston and Holtzman aboard the Ecto 8 which is the repurposed garbage barge from Ghostbusters the video game Venkman is completely astonished by Holtzman and offers to try and help her as a psychologist and even goes so far as to see about Prescribing her medication Patti realizes that Winston looks exactly like her uncle only 30 years younger and Aaron realizes Ray and Peter look just like the cab driver and Martin Heist from the answer-to-call movie to which Ray announces that it's not uncommon for people and faces to pop up across the Multidimensional spectrum of course Kevin and Kylie get off on the wrong foot when Kevin calls her tiny goth to which Kylie states that she Doesn't like him during which time he also begins telling everyone even strangers who call the firehouse That all of their stuff has shown up and that he's labeled everything that belongs to the answer the call Ghostbusters We get to see a callback to the Ghostmasher stories when Ray notices that the answer to call Ghostbusters don't trap ghosts But instead disperses them which causes the ecto energy to merge creating a massive ghost Aaron quickly gets on Holtzman's bad side when she uses the proton bazooka even after Holtzman calls dibs Not to mention Ray getting on her bad side by revealing the ectocopter that he had been hiding from her I really enjoyed this issue and can't wait for the last two issues if You haven't done so yet make sure to pick up your copy today If you'd like some insight into the creation of IDW's Ghostbusters Check out our interview with Dan Sconing and Eric Burnham You can probably check it out if you're watching this via a playlist it may show up right after this episode So be sure and check that out check out our other videos in the playlist. We have tons of Ghostbusters videos for you Take care guys and go out and pick you up a copy of IDW's Ghostbusters 101 issue number four today


Lithuania urges West not to wait for another Pearl Harbour. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabriels Lansbergis believes the West is on the verge of repeating historical mistakes by supporting Ukraine insufficiently in its fight against Russian aggression and has warned against waiting for a Pearl Harbour effect. For nearly 25 years, we have been kicking the can down the road, trying to contain Putin's imperialism with dialogue and diplomacy while he continues to ignore borders and flatten cities the official stressed. Lansbergis pointed out that the Minsk agreements had provided a pause after Russia's hybrid aggression against Ukraine in 2014 but actually only postponed the war to the future. Tomorrow always comes. The problem of Russia's imperialism didn't disappear in 2014 and to most eastern flankers it was clear that the next phase of the invasion would be costlier and deadlier. And so it was. When Russia attacked again, the war suddenly became today's problem. Again we think we can solve it by making it tomorrow's problem. But the premise has not changed. Russia's imperialist, revanchist ambitions will remain. The Lithuanian Foreign Minister stressed. Gabriels Lansbergis stressed that the next phase of the hot war might be directed not only against Ukraine, Georgia or Moldova but also against a NATO country and the cost of repelling such aggression would be even higher. We could wait for what I have called the Pearl Harbour effect, a moment in history when the problems of tomorrow finally became the problems of today but at an enormously inflated price. Meanwhile we could treat this as today's problem and start solving it today. We are on the verge of repeating historic mistakes. I am convinced that if we won't defeat Russia now that means our chosen path is to suffer unimaginable and unnecessary losses before we eventually decide it's time to step up and win. He added.


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Okay, we're back. We're live on Jay Fidel. This is Think Tech Hawaii on a given Monday. Martin Luther King Day, as it were. And we're talking about community matters. And we have a community activist to discuss Martin Luther King Day today. And that's Marcia Joyner, who was also a host on Think Tech Hawaii. Not one, but two shows. And now she joins us for a really special week. She joins us by VoIP phone from remote, and we want to talk to her about Martin Luther King Day. Welcome to the show. Well, Aloha, and thank you so much for being interested in Martin Luther King Day. Of course, this is a big part of American history. Now, I want to qualify you for a minute. You're a community activist, and you started out as a community activist pretty early in the game in the 60s. Can you tell us your background in that regard? Well, I was born into Jim Crow and came of age, rather, in the Civil Rights Movement. I was the first black girl to go to integrated schools in Baltimore. In fact, Brown v. Board of Education was May of 1954, and I entered school in August of 1954. So it was immediately. And you know me well enough to know in all the audiences, I love to talk.  No one spoke to me. No one mistreated me. No one shared their notes. No one sat next to me at lunch. I went through all that with not a word. So what did you take away from all that, Marcia? You get angry with that. Are you angry? No. No. Let me tell you the story. You'll love this little story. So in May, when the decision was handed down, and I'm watching television like everybody else does, and all of these women across the country were screaming and yelling, we're not going to send our children to school with these colored children. And in Baltimore, with this very beautiful, lovely lady, Mrs. Coughlin, dressed in a lovely pink suit and beautiful white hair. And she, in Baltimore, the schools were not only segregated by race, but they were segregated by gender. So in a higher class, the more so. Anyway, she says, I will never see a colored girl graduate from my school. Wow. Wow. How do you like that? August five of us showed up at her school. Okay. Now, she was very nice the whole time we were there. Never a hint of trouble. Never. Ever. However, one week, one week before graduation, Mrs. Coughlin turned her face to the wall and died. She never saw a colored girl graduate from her school. Now, I took it as a personal affront, and it's only been 60 years, and I'll get over it, but not today. Not today, no. Not today. So let's talk about Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King Day. What is his significance in the historical landscape of the country? I mean, he came at a time when people were wrestling with this issue, with racism, trying to find equality, and he surfaced as a great leader. So in my view, and I'm not as close to it as you are, but in my view, I believe that he was one of the great leaders of our nation. And he emerged while you were becoming aware. Yes. Oh, yeah. Now, yes. And I did all the sit-ins and the demonstrations and everything I learned. I learned in the basement of the church because all the Protestant churches gave us the basement of the church. And you know, in the mainland, everybody has a basement because that's where the furnace and everything is. So the churches' works happened in the basement. The typewriters, the telephone, the mimeograph machines, and so everything I learned, I learned how to do what we do in demonstrations and picketing and organizing, and press releases, the whole thing. Those were the women's jobs during the civil rights movement. The men were on the picket line. That's why when you look at pictures, you see very few women. But we were part of it. There'd make no mistake about it. And he was a hero. And in every major city across America, there were heroes, not as eloquent as he, but every bit as forceful and determined and beautiful. Well, that raises an interesting point, Marcia. I mean, there were heroes in a lot of cities. And there was a time when the civil rights movement was coming of age. And it wasn't only Martin Luther King and other ministers around the country. It was people who were not necessarily black who were raising the flag on this. So what was it with Martin Luther King? In Montgomery, with the boycott, the bus boycott, what is not talked about are because most of the people that boycotted the bus were working in the white people's houses. And it was those wives that came together and told the business people of Montgomery, you have got to stop this now. The owner of the bus was a owner. She said to her husband, this has got to stop. We have got to have our people back. They walked the picket line. These white women were out there. It's not talked about. But they were part of it. It was an economic thing. They felt the economic part of it. And they wanted it stopped. This has got, this has got the cease and desist. I know we don't talk about it, but that was, they were as much a part of this as any black person. Well, I'll tell you a short story. When I was stationed in the Coast Guard first in Hawaii, they transferred me back to New York, which was my original home. And when I got back there, I was looking for my boss, who was a commander and a lawyer in the Coast Guard, a very good lawyer. And he was not there. Nobody could explain what happened to him. He had gone on vacation and hadn't returned. This is pretty serious for a senior officer not to return. Where was he? He was in jail in the South. He had been on a freedom ride and he got arrested. And they put him in jail. He could only come back and resume his duties after he got out of jail. He was white, by the way. So, I mean, it was really extraordinary what was happening. I mean, we had a national movement going on. And, you know, there was a lot of people. A lot of people were joining that movement at that time. And certainly Martin Luther King was the leader of that movement then. Why did he, you know, surface as the leader? Why did he, the one person who everybody rallied around, what was it about him? His eloquence, the way he said what needed to be said in a way that people understood it. That the tone of his voice, the eloquence with which he moved. And let's go back to Montgomery and the bus boycott. When he moved to Montgomery, he was the new preacher in town. And he was elected to head the Montgomery bus boycott. And you know the reason why he was elected. Ah, yes, he's a great orator. Make no mistake, I don't want to belittle that. But he was new in town. He did not have a mortgage. He did not have a car payment. He did not have anything in the bank. And that was the way the city fathers controlled people with through finances. They could not control him. They couldn't fire him. They couldn't call in the mortgage or the car payment. So he was the one person, the new preacher in town, that was elected. And that, his experience in Alabama, you know, made him a national figure. He originally came from Atlanta, didn't he? Yeah, he came from Georgia. But even, yeah, and again, we go back a little further, he was on a trip to Europe with his family as a young man. His name was originally Michael and his father's minister. And they learned about Martin Luther, the one man that stood up to the Catholic church. You know, remember the notice on the door of the church? They were so impressed with him taking a stand against the power, because the Catholic church was the power that they changed their names to Martin Luther, from Michael to Martin Luther. And it was that willingness to take a stand, what he studied Gandhi, that willingness to take a stand, because most of us won't take a stand because we're scared. Leadership is a matter of taking stands. Leadership is clearly, you know, taking positions and sticking with them. And if you've seen that movie about Churchill, The Darkest Hour, it might still be planned. That is a very good example of leadership, where he took an unpopular position, everybody was fighting with him about it, but he knew he was right and he stuck with it. And what we need is more of that today, Martha, Marcia. See, I can take a stand because you won't fire me. So let's talk about today, let's talk about today here in Honolulu. There's a parade that started at 9 o'clock here downtown. What is the parade about? Who's involved? Okay. As far as I know, there were a hundred units in the parade and this parade is, unlike any other parade, is a first amendment parade. We operate under a court order. And the court says that the city and county has to allow us this parade, police protection to use of the street and the parks. I don't want a park for the staging area and Kapilani Park for the Unity Rally after. And that is because every unit in the parade is allowed to take a stand. The only thing that's not allowed is hate language. So everybody that's in the parade has an issue about something.  They've all got issues, which makes it really interesting, colorful, because all of these people come together at this one time. And that is magic. It is magic. American tradition. The Rosa Parks bus, the city and county lets us have a city bus that is dedicated to the Martin Luther King parade and Rosa Parks. Big sign on the side says Rosa Parks. And then the city, also, we have the rubbish truck. And the UPW, oh, you can't believe that a rubbish truck would glean, but they have such pride in it to be in the parade. And that says Memphis we remember. Sure. Why don't you tell our listeners about Memphis? What happened in Memphis? Memphis, Martin Luther King went to Memphis to be with the garbage workers who were on strike. And they were terribly treated. It's almost inhumane to think that people were treated like they were, especially, that's because most people don't see that collecting rubbish is as important. But when it's not picked up, you know you get all kind of viruses and rats and stuff. But that they are important to our health and well-being. And so he was there to help with that strike. And somebody somewhere upset the strike the day before. And so it went really crazy. So the night before the day that he was planned to go on strike, to walk with the garbage workers, that's what we wanted. If you look at pictures of Martin Luther King in a march, in crowds, you will see all of the men on the front row have on the same suit. And they have the same flower or whatever on the suit.  So here's this front row.  So that was the whole idea. That was their camouflage that we all look like. So now the idea is that in order to assassinate him, you have to take him out of the crowd. Well, and so the night before he is staying at the Lorraine Hotel, and there was a young man, and I'll have to look up his name for you. And he was singing gospel songs. He's down on the ground. And Lorraine Motel, I think this was the second to look. Martin Luther King comes out on the balcony and talks to him and says, sing my favorite song. And he begins to sing precious Lord, when the shots are fired from behind him. And that's how they picked him out of the crowd and then shot him. Now, I am sure. I can't find it anywhere, but I'm sure that that gospel singer must have gone to his grave feeling guilty. Can you imagine the horrors? But you've heard the speech that he gave the night before. I have been to the mountaintop. Everyone's heard that. Everyone's heard that. Now, in the speech, anybody that's interested scrolled out 23 minutes into the speech. Martin Luther King never said anything short. So 23 minutes into the speech, he begins to say, what we have, what we bring to the table is economic power. And you have got to look at your economic power. You have got to put support such and such a bank. Then he begins to say, you have to stop buying wonderbread. You have to stop buying Coca-Cola. And he went down the list of all of those big corporations that you have got to take your money out of. And the next day, he's dead. See, so I'm sure that they killed it. Well, let's take a short break. I want to come back and I want to tell you about some of the articles about racism that are here in New York Times this very day and get your reaction to that. And we'll discuss more about Martin Luther King Day right after this break. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. I just walked by and I said, what's happening, guys? They told me they were making music. We, Lucas, host of Hawaii is My Main Land here on Think Tech Hawaii Fridays at 3 p.m. Oyan Standard Time. We explore environmental issues, political issues, keeping it local any way we can. Aloha. Okay, we're back. We're live with the Marsha Joyner, the activist. We're talking about Martin Luther King Day. And in fact, the title of our show is Martin Luther King Day Comes at Exactly the Right Time. One of the reasons I say that is I'm looking at the New York Times today online in the top stories. And a good number of them are about racism. And I'll just take off the headlines for you if you haven't heard. I'm not a racist, Trump says, as DACA hopes, dim. He says he's not a racist. Okay, another one, experts fear that the president's remarks have set back American interests in Africa. Another one, in Trump's remarks, black churches see a nation backsliding. Another one. Can I comment on that? Yeah, sure.  That's what he said. They voted. Yeah, that's what he said. But those devoted racists like Duke, whatever his name was, are thrilled that the Donald has sparked an insurgency and open racism. See, that's the trick. It's not... Yeah, okay, so he said one or two words, but he has allowed that to... I'm sure there's a better word than insurgency. But we see it, we hear it from people that we never thought we'd hear it from. Again, I thought this was over, and it's again, and I hear it, even here in Hawaii. Yeah, I've heard it, too. I've heard it, too. It's too bad that in the 60s, you and I both grew up in the 60s. We had maybe Martin Luther King's vision of a better time coming forward, a more greater equality in the country. But to use the term that we're using, that headline, backsliding. We've been backsliding, and a lot of it has been in the last year or two with Trump.  Trump's racism. This is my personal favorite. The definitive list. This is where... I don't know who the journalists were, but the New York Times journalists went through and made a list of all the things that he'd said that proved he was a racist. The definitive list is a long list. Okay, here's another one. Charles Blow, a column. Trump is a racist, period. Same point. George Yancey. Will America choose King's Dream or Trump's Nightmare? Oh, I like that. Yeah. There are more. Interesting question is whether... I guess that's all I can find right now, but whether Trump is making war on the press or whether he's in a war with the press. I know it's a fine point, but I believe that he's making war on the press and I believe that he knows very well he's responsible for some of this racism, if not a lot of it in his term. And what we have is a backsliding. We have more tension now than we did when he started. What kind of an achievement is that? So let's go to, you know, how does the black community feel about this? How do you feel about this? What's the condition of the country on this issue? I am encouraged by the ones that you read about what I hear and see with people, not just black people or Hispanics or Hawaiians who stand up and speak up and say, you know, this is wrong. I don't like this. I don't like the way it feels. I'm encouraged because I think, I haven't seen this kind of organizing, this kind of energy since the 60s and the 70s. People are organized. People are willing to take a stand. And that's good. That feels real good that they are, like Martin Luther King said, a time comes when silence is betrayal and people are speaking up, people. When did you see the most prominent newspaper with headlines like that? Well, you know, what it tells me, though, is that it's not just the black community that's irritated and annoyed by what's happened here on the Trump. It's a lot of people. In fact, it's, well, I think it's most people in the country are irritated by it. How do you like that? And so, you know, we have a problem that's created, maybe it's in Trump's base, if you will, where the problem is enhanced lately. But I think there's a lot of people who would like to see the problem corrected, Mark. I really agree that that is it. And that's why I am saying that the one thing we have, and it doesn't matter what color you are, what gender, is the vote. And if we are going to stand up to the vitriol that he is spewing, and one of the things that Mark Luther King said, that we will rue the day when people of good people say nothing about what this is going on. When we say nothing, that is a problem. People that think they are good and don't say anything. We've got to say something. I totally agree. And I think it's important to have a kind of first amendment experience about this because if you don't do anything and if everybody's quiet about it and it continues to happen, ultimately you lead into much greater contention. You lead into street scenes, riots, what have you. All kinds of breakdown of civil society. And we can't afford that. We have too much to do in this country to be distracted by that. One of the reasons I like what you're saying, I think it's important, many reasons, is that it will avoid further contention. It will avoid further polarization with two racial bubbles. I hate that. The vote is more important than you think. It's important in many ways. And my hero, I know we're running out of time, but my hero is Fannie Lou Hamer. Now I know you've got a whole, everybody just went blank, Fannie Lou Hamer. Who is Fannie Lou Hamer? She was the strongest woman that was ever. She was on a slave plantation in Rule County, Mississippi, Ruleville, Mississippi. And all she wanted to do was register to vote. And she had heard one of Martin Luther King's speeches and she knew she wanted to register to vote. And I'm going to get this past. She came near death trying to register to vote. And she led a movement. The book is titled This Little Light of Mine and Everybody That's Interested. And so August of 1964, a Democratic convention in Atlantic City. And she led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Movement. And it was made of black people and white people and men and women and whatnot. They all went to, well, they get to the convention, of course, and it's all white and mainly men. And she says that they are legally together and they want to be seated. Well, President Johnson interfered. It was a mess. It was a grand mess. And it's really worth reading about. But anyway... This Little Light of Mine, what was it? This Little Light of Mine is the name of the book.  And because of her and all of the things that happened, the Democratic Party changed forever. And in fact, this year, it'll be 50 years. Well, we need some real political juice going forward. And it seems to me that the voting rate here in Hawaii in general is less than 40%. That's an embarrassment. And people care about these issues and care about, you know, making a responsible government. And if they don't agree with Trump all the more reason, they've got to get out and vote. They've got to express themselves. It's the most... Talk about the First Amendment. You know, this is the center of citizen expression. And the same thing with the black community. Their voting percentage was not that high in 2016. And I think things would have been different in the presidential race had they gotten out to vote. More of them. So what, you know, what can happen? What do you want to see? And what is your advice to everyone about this? Come November. Well, you know, there's a primary. We all have to... We are fortunate in Hawaii in that, you know, we only have four candidates for the... two for the House and two for the Senate. Well, only two in the House are running. But last year we had 51 House candidates. 30 of them ran unopposed. You know, but there's nothing to vote for. You know, that's the problem. Well, this comes back to Martin Luther King as a leader. You know, if there are clear leaders, and whatever their persuasion, if there are clear leaders, then people tend to rally around and vote for those leaders. That's the way democracy works. That's the way the reality is.  But we need to look at turnout because if you're not happy with our legislature, every one of them got those seats because of low turnout. So we need to make sure that we turn out because if they see there's no consequence for not doing what we want, they'll continue to not do what we want. Okay, what about the national elections now? Speak to the national elections. It's the same thing. It has to be turnout. We saw what happened in Alabama when there was turnout. Right. And that's what we have to do. We have to be sure that we turn out. We have to be sure that we are registered. Last year, two years ago, we did a national voter registration day. We had 8,000 new people registered. They didn't turn out to vote. Yeah, that's a disappointment. That's a disappointment. You go to all the trouble. And, you know, as we discussed offline, some of these voter registration drives have been very risky business resulted in killings in the past. And so when somebody approaches you and suggests you should register, that's a really serious thing. And if you do register, that's a really serious thing.   It's amazing. But there's nothing to vote for. So we have to make sure there's something to vote for. Yeah, well, I think it's clear enough that we want to vote against racism or anybody who is racist. Yeah. And that's the message of Martin Luther King Day. Marcia Joyner, an activist community activist, also a host on Think Tech, has joined us for a discussion of Martin Luther King Day, which comes today, this time, at the perfect time. Thank you so much, Marcia, for joining us. Thank you. So see you later this week for your shows. Thank you. Aloha. Thank you.


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So, let's just illustrate the concepts. For this cypher, we have a five-bit plaintext block coming in, a five-bit plaintext cyphtex block coming out, and a three-bit key. So, we could draw that, just draw it up the top saying that our simple cypher, can someone give it a name, give our cypher a name, Bob, okay. The plaintext comes in and our cypher, I need some space, sorry, Bob, that's the name of our cypher, it's not desk, it takes a key in and produces cyphtex that comes out. The length of those, in our case, are five bits, the key is three bits, and the cyphtex is five bits. That's the single version of our cypher, Bob. That's the normal operation. From the perspective of a brute force attack, what's the worst case time to break, Bob? So, we do a brute force, what's the worst case number of operations I need to break this? Eight. Why eight? Two to the power of three. Our key is three bits, we have eight possible values, two to the power of three possible values. Not if I replace Bob with desk on our drawer, but let's say, we just changed the algorithm. Do you remember the key length or the effective key length in desk? The effective key length, 56. The actual key that you choose is 64 bits, but eight, or eight of the bits are unused in encryption. So, we'll say 56 bits here, because in practice, the attacker needs to try and find those 56 bits only. So, with 56 bits with desk, a brute force worst case, two to the power of 56, that's a six. We'll just keep track of both of them. We'll go through the simple example and compare. So, that's the normal case. Of course, our simple cypher is subject to a brute force attack, and in fact, desk today is considered subject to a brute force attack. 56 bits is not long enough. So, the concept of a double cypher, double encryption, we take our plain text in, we apply our cypher, we use one key to encrypt that, we'll get a value that comes out, we'll denote as x, some intermediate value, and then we take that, encrypt that again. But this time using a different key. Same cypher, different key, and get cypher text out. Still, same lengths for our simple cypher Bob, five bits of plain text. X value will also be five bits, C is five bits. The keys each are three bits. So, just apply the cypher twice. Note, if we take a plain text, we get some x that comes out. X should be random with respect to the plain text. That's the idea of the encryption. That is, we'll get a different value out. Then we encrypt that different value. We should get another random value output. So, we'll get a secure cypher text. Now, we use two different keys. The chooser chooses those two keys. So, effectively the user chooses a six bit key. They choose a six bit random value. The first three bits will be used for the first step. The second three bits used for the second step. Let's call this double Bob. We've applied Bob twice, brute force. What's a brute force attack on double Bob? Two to the power of six operations. Again, the attacker has to guess both values of K1 and K2 if they want to do a brute force. So, six bits to guess. Two to the power of six operations. Similar with double desk. How many bits? Well, we expand our key from 56 up to 112 bits. We just use two different keys or two random keys. With double desk, a brute force would take two to the power of 112 operations. And if you look up, if you go back to that table, we gave some example times for brute force attacks. You'll see that with computers today, that's probably not possible. If we try to do calculations of how fast computers are, if you had thousands of computers, it's still going to take many years to do a brute force attack. So that's the idea. Make a brute force attack not possible. Let's see why we can try a different attack to still defeat double desk. And the attack is called meet in the middle. What we will do, we will assume that the attacker has a pair of plain text ciphertext. That is, this attack requires the attacker to have a little bit of extra information to work. The assumption is that the attacker knows from some past encryption by the user, they know plain text and the corresponding ciphertext. So knowing a ciphertext is easy. Intercept and you learn the ciphertext. But we also assume that they know what was the plain text for that case. They don't know the key, but they know one pair of plain text ciphertext where the ciphertext was obtained using the Bob encryption algorithm using some secret key, K1 and K2. We want to find K1 and K2. How can our user or our attacker know a pair of ciphertext and plain text without knowing the key? What we need is somehow that, let's say we can learn ciphertext easy, intercept. How do we learn the plain text? Well, the idea of encryption is we can't learn the plain text if we don't have the key. We don't have the key. How can we assume that the attacker knows the plain text? Well, it may be some, in some cases, possible. Sometimes the ciphertext is encrypted and it only needs to stay encrypted for a certain period of time. Maybe the plain text is released publicly later. Okay, so let's say I encrypt a message. I send the ciphertext to someone. The message only makes sense for one day. After two days, it doesn't matter if someone knows what the plain text message is. So the attacker may discover this old ciphertext corresponds with this plain text value. A simple example of that. Let's say the plain text message is the coordinates of where the military is going to bomb some place, okay? So the headquarters of the military send the exact GPS coordinates. You need to bomb this location. They send it to the plane that's gonna bomb them and they bomb that location. The attacker, of course, they don't send the coordinates in plain text. They send them encrypted so that if someone intercepts, they can't learn where they're going to bomb that location. So the attacker sees the ciphertext. They can't find the plain text, fine. But tomorrow, after they know that that location was bombed, they know the ciphertext and they know the coordinates of where it was bombed because it was actually bombed. So now they know the corresponding plain text with that ciphertext because that information was only really valid for up until the time that the bomb was hit the ground. So that's an extreme example but there's other cases where it's possible for the attacker to learn the plain text, even if they don't have the key. So let's assume that they do. And I'll give you a pair. Let's... We'll use our table to do the encryption. Our meet in the middle attack. This attack assumes that the attacker knows a plain text ciphertext pair. And I'll give you one. And in fact, in practice, when we apply this attack to real desks, usually not just one pair that they have to know, they may need to know a set of pairs, okay, more than one. And at the end, we'll analyze and see how many. Let's give you a second one just in case we need it. This is known by the attacker. Another pair. What that means is that the attacker knows that when P1 is encrypted, we get C1. When we use keys K1 and K2, but we don't know the keys K1 and K2. The goal of the attack is to find the keys K1 and K2. They also know using those same two key values, encrypting the value of P2 gives C2. So this is learnt by the attacker in advance. They need this to be successful. Given that, now they start the meet in the middle attack. And it's quite simple. What they do, given one of the pairs that they know, say with the first pair, they take the plain text P1 and they do a brute force on that plain text using the single version of the cypher, Bob, and find all possible potential values that come out of that. That is what they're going to do in the picture is they know P1, they're going to encrypt P1 with every possible key. They don't know K1, so let's try all possible values. We'll get multiple values of X coming out, potential values, not necessarily the correct one, but possible values, and we'll store them. And then what we'll do is we'll take the known cypher text, C1, and go backwards. That is, we know what C1 is, we know what P1 was that we started with, we don't know K1 or K2. After we try for all possible values of K1 on P, we get potential values of X, then with the cypher text, C1, we decrypt that with possible values of K2. And the idea is that if we know that P1 produced C1 as output, if you encrypt P1 with the correct key, you'll get some X value, and if you decrypt C1 with the correct key, you'll get the same X value. It must be the same because otherwise they wouldn't have produced that correct pair. So what we do is, once we know the potential values of the X in one direction, we work backwards and see if we find a matching X from the cypher text. If we do, then that's a potential key pair. If it's not a match, then it's definitely not the correct key. So we'll try that. The first step, a brute force attack on P1, using our cypher bob, and the key K1 is three bits, so we need to try eight possible keys. So the meat in the middle attack, we're going to start with P1 and encrypt with the eight possible keys. I'll list them. We know what they are. And we're going to get eight intermediate values of X. So look up in the table. Given plain text, 011, 01, key 0, 0, 0, what comes out for our cypher bob? Simply look up in the table, write it down, and then do it for the other keys. So we need to try it for all possible keys here. This is a brute force on the single version of our cypher. Quick, won't take long to find the answer. Eight values of X. How do they know the plain text? There are some examples where the text is owned and because the message was only secret for a short period of time, then maybe the plain text is released later. Maybe the plain text was a message to say, buy these stocks in Apple, buy a thousand shares of Apple at this time, at this price. That was encrypted. Once they are bought the next day, then it's no longer to stay encrypted because if someone sees that you've bought them after you've already bought them, you may not want to keep them secret. You want to keep it secret before you buy them so that someone doesn't know you're going to purchase stocks, for example. So some information, the plain text, is only need to be secret for a short period of time. If that's the case, then the attacker may discover that plain text. What do you get? Write down your values. Look up your table and find out the values of X, which is just the ciphertext that comes out of our bit block cipher. Eight keys. What was our plain text? 01101. 011. Here's our plain text. Encrypt with the first key and we get this value as output. The second key, the next column and so on. So we just get these eight values as output here. Let's write them down and I'll give them values. I'll say it's X, the first value of X11. We'll give these eight potential values of X. This we'll call X18. Keep track of how many operations we do because at the end we need to count how many operations do we do in total or in a typical case and compare it to brute force attack. Here we've encrypted our plain text eight times. So the number of operations is eight or two to the power of three. It depends upon the key length here. Now we give these eight values, we store them in memory. So we have to save them. And then the next step is that with the corresponding ciphertext C1 we decrypt that with potential key values. We know C1, it was given to us, five ones. So decrypt with the potential keys, see what we get. This was X1, we're going to get another X value here, X2. What we do is we take this ciphertext, decrypt with our first possible key. We don't know what the value of the key is, we try this one. What do we get? Look up the table. Five ones decrypted with key 000. We did it before. So decrypt those values as you go. Find the cipher page 107 and decrypt the value 1111 with the key 00. What do we get for the first value of X? 10001, we did that before. Let's just check that. The key was 300, the ciphertext, five ones, which is here. Decrypt this and you get 10001. And then we do that for the next key. This is the X value, X21, we'll denote it as. And you keep going with the other keys. You'll tell me if I write down any errors. This is our last value. So the first stage, encrypt the plaintext with all possible keys. The second stage, take the corresponding known ciphertext for that plaintext that we started with, C1, and decrypt that with what we did with all possible keys. We'll come back later and sometimes we may not need to do all possible keys in the second phase, but we will do that. So in our block model, what we did, P1 encrypted with eight keys, get potential values of X, X1, so X11, X12, up to X18. With C1, decrypt with all possible keys, K2, and get X2, X21, X22 and so on. And we know if we've got the correct K1 and K2, then the X values should match. X1 should equal X2. Because we know that X is the intermediate value when we encrypt to get the ciphertext. So this tells us what are the potential values of K1 and K2. And it's quite easy to see. We look at the values where the X are the same on both sides. Does this value X11 match any of these? See if you find this value in this set. Actually, we'll do it the other way. We'll try with X2 first, because that's what's done in practice. Does 1, 0, 0, 0, 1 appear in the first set of X values? No, it's not there. Okay, so the next value. Does this appear in the first set? Check carefully. No, it's not there. The third one? No. Fourth one? Are we unlucky today? Fifth one? Yes, that's there somewhere. There's a match there. We know that if we've used the right keys of K1 and K2, the potential values of K1 are those that we used when we obtained X1, and the potential values of K2 are those values of the key we used when we obtained X2. So we know if we've used the correct values of K1 and K2, the X values must match. Here we find a match. Any other matches? Which ones? The last value of X2 matches two different places, and that's possible. All the others don't match, which means that the potential values of K1 and K2, well, there are three potential values, three pairs. K1 could be the value we used to get X12, 001, and K2 could be the value we used to get X25, which was 100. So that's a potential key pair. We're actually looking for the entire six bits, but I'll write it down as a pair of keys. K1, K2, we're trying to find. The first potential values are 001 and 100, but there's other potential values, 011 with 111, and the last one, 100, 111. So the attacker now knows that the keys used by the user are one of those three pairs. We want to know exactly which one. How do we find out? Try to print a new message. Well, in fact, I gave you a second one because I knew that's what we would need here. If the attacker has a second plaintext ciphertext pair, like the one given here, they can check which of those three potential key values, if we take our plaintext 2, 11001, encrypt with potential value of K1, you get X, encrypt that with a potential value of K2, if you get this ciphertext value, then you're very confident that it's the correct one, maybe not for sure. If you don't get it, you know it's not the correct key. Try. See which of these three potential values are correct, or which are incorrect. If there's only one left over, that's the correct value. That is, encrypt P2 with K1 and K2001, 00100, potential value. Try.  Start with 11001, P2, and we'll try these first potential values of the keys. If we use K1 as 001, what does the value of X become? Encrypt this value of the plaintext with this key, what's X? If you look up in the table, all zeros, five zeros, good. Now take that X value and encrypt it with the value of K2. 11, what's K2 is the other value in the pair. We're using this pair first, we'll try that. When we do that, we get ciphertexts and 110011. Does that match the expected value of ciphertext? Yes it does. So this key pair that we just tried is a potential correct key pair. We don't know for sure, maybe there's still others that are also potentially correct. One way to find out is to try the others. So do the same with the second key pair, 011, get a value of X, and then the second one, 3 ones. And to be complete, we'll try with the last one. All we're doing here is encrypting using our lookup table. Using the table of the five bit block supper, we know the plaintext in, we know the key, find the output, and then take that as the plaintext in the next step. With the key, find the output, and see what you get. And then check whether the ciphertext values you get out match the known correct value. The known correct value was given in our pair. We know c2 should be this value. Well we got it here. Here we get 10111 out, we try key 111, and you get 10100 out. This is the wrong key pair. We know for sure now that this key pair is not the correct one, because it doesn't give us the right ciphertext value. And we try the last one, and we get a ciphertext value that also doesn't match, and that gets us to the end. We now, of those three potential key pairs of k1 and k2, we tried them all using our second known plaintext ciphertext pair, and we found that two of them don't work. Only one of them works, and that tells us that the correct values of k1 and k2 are the first pair. k1 is 001, and k2 is 100. That's the answer. We found the key for the double version of our cipher bob. Count the number of operations we did with a single version of bob. How many encrypts or decrypts did we do? In the first phase we did a brute force attack on the key. We did eight operations, two to the power of three. The next phase we actually did another eight operations, this time decrypt. But generally with ciphers, encrypt and decrypt take about the same time with block ciphers. So we count them as another eight operations. So we've got 16 operations. And then in the last set of checks, we did one, two, three, four, five, six, another six operations. Another six encrypts or decrypts. Just to check those three pairs. So a total of 22 operations in this case. We have to do these eight. We have to do a brute force here, two to the power of three. We did it again, but going backwards, another two to the power of three. And in this case we have three potential pairs, so we need to do another six to check. We won't always get three potential pairs. Sometimes we'll get just one, and therefore we don't need to check. We've already found the correct key. Sometimes we'll get more than one, so we'll need to check. So the main contribution to the number of operations is doing the first two steps. We have to do the brute force here, two to the power of three always. What we can do when we look at the real desk is that we don't even need to do all two to the power of three here sometimes. What we may do is if we find, let's say in this case, if we found the first matching pair after five operations, then check that with another pair. And the probabilities work when you have a large number of keys like desk, when there's many possible values. The probability that the key pair that we find works for two or even three plain text ciphertext pairs is very, very low if it's incorrect. That is if we find a match, very high chance we've got the correct one. Here because there's only eight to choose from, it's possible to get different possible values. But with desk, the chance of getting multiple and then doing it again and getting multiple is very, very low. So we can actually cut down the number of operations by stopping once we find a correct pair. Even if you do them all, two to the power of three plus two to the power of three plus another six here. So we've got two to the power of three, two times at least. There's meat in the middle attack. Let's write down some of the numbers to compare with brute force. On our version of double bob in that case it took us two to the power of three plus another two to the power of three plus in our case another six, 22 in that case. Our brute force on double bob would have took 32. So we've done better than doing a brute force attack. Brute force tried all 32 keys, two to the power of six. 64, well done. Two to the power of five is 32, even better. Brute force requires two to the power of six operations, 64 operations. We did it in 22. We only checked when we have multiple potential values of the key. Like in this case we had three potential values. So we did two to the power of three. We did another two to the power of three operations. Now we have three possible values. So we checked those three only. Another six operations. We'll come back to that in a moment. Let's summarize the numbers. So with a brute force on double bob it would have took 64 operations. Here, meet in the middle, in our specific case took 22. We're about three times faster than a brute force attack, a third of the number of operations. So that's good. That's where this attack is better than brute force because we can find the key in less time. Double desk. We must do a brute force attack on the single version. So there's two to the power of 56. And then worst case we need to do another two to the power of 56. Similar here. We did two to the power of three of encrypts from one direction. Two to the power of three of decrypts from the other direction. So we do two brute force attacks. Plus some others. In the same here we had plus six. How many do we plus here depends upon how many matches we get. Here we had six. There were three matches. If we have a thousand matches here we have plus 2,000. But compared to two to the power of 56, two to the power of 56 is billions and billions. So the number that we plus on the end is in most cases almost zero. So small. Plus something. Which is approximately if this is very small compared to two to the power of 56. What do we get? If this is zero so two to the power of 56 plus two to the power of 56. Two to the power of 57. Two times two to the power of 56. Brute force on single desk takes two to the power of 56 operations. Brute force on double desk takes two to the power of 112 operations. Meat in the middle attack on double desk takes about two to the power of 57 operations. It's about two times slower than breaking single desk. In other words if you can break single desk in one day you can break double desk using meat in the middle attack in two days. Which is insignificant from the attacker's perspective. If I can break something in one day then if I want to break double desk in one day as well I just spend twice as much money on my computers. So that's why we say that the double desk is not much more secure than single desk. It's about the same. Two times better. So that's why double desk or double encryption in general is not just for desk. Double encryption like this is not a good approach. It doesn't help. It doesn't help by much. So the meat in the middle attack means that we shouldn't just do double encryption to extend the key length. You can try triple encryption. One then another then another. And it turns out that that does make it harder for the attack. And because you can't go back from either end points because there's two X values in the middle. So first let's summarize our meat in the middle attack. In terms of number of operations what we do a brute force on the first key value K1 and then a brute force on the second key value. So equivalent to two brute force attacks. And then possibly a few other operations just to check but usually very small number compared to a brute force attack. So it takes about two times as time to break as a brute force attack on desk using a meat in the middle attack. Now there's some ways to improve that the brute force attack on K2. Again with desk you usually don't have to try all two to the power of 56. Because as soon as you find a match you can confirm that match with another pair and you very high probability that you've got the correct key pair. So in fact usually it's closer to just two to the power of 56 here. Coming back to our specific example. What's the problem with our meat in the middle attack from the attacker's perspective? What do we need to know or what do we need to do to make this attack work? We know that the user hasn't changed his key so that's okay. We assume that the attacker, the normal user is using the same key for every plaintext that they encrypt. We'll come back to that later. A good policy therefore is to change your key. But here they're using the same key. What's the problem from the attacker's perspective? For this to work the attacker needed to know a pair of plaintexts I for text. They needed to know two in our case. So there's one issue. Somehow they must discover this plaintext, ciphertext pair in advance. So this attack depends upon the attacker knowing some information in advance. So that's one limitation. Another maybe more practical limitation is that when they do first brute force on K1 they give these eight values of X. What they must do is they store those eight values because when they're doing the next brute force they compare the generator value of X2 with those eight values of X1. Go through and check, see which one's matched, and if you do get a match you've got a potential key pair. With DES, the number of X values, how many? X1, how many do we need to store? With Bob we store two to the power of three values of X1, that first column. With DES we'd have two to the power of 56 values of X1. So with DES we'd need to store two to the power of 56 values of X1. Then when we go through to find X2 we compare with those two to the power of 56 values. Next one, compare and find the possible matches. The limitation here is the storage. Two to the power of 56 values, how many bytes? Store two to the power of 56. In DES how big would X be? In our cipher X was five bits, a five bit block. In DES it uses a 64 bit block. Two to the power of 56, 64 bit blocks. We need to store them on DESC or in memory. 64 bits is eight bytes times two to the power of 56. That's the number of bytes that we need. Megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes. Only 576,000 terabytes. What's above terabytes? Pedabytes, isn't it? P, I think above T. But a hard disk we measure in terabytes. So we need about half a million hard disks. All right, one terabyte hard disks to store this information in an attack. Here's a practical limitation of the meat in the middle attack. You need a lot of storage space to store that first set of answers and then compare against them. Approximately. And we must know multiple, usually multiple plain text cipher text pairs. So for the attack to be successful, the number of operations is twice as many as a single desk brute force attack. But we must store a lot of information to do the attack and we must know multiple plain text cipher text pairs in advance to be successful. Even though that storage space may be considered not practical today, there may be ways to reduce it or to cut down on how much we store. And this is the double desk is not considered a good design because of the meat in the middle attack. And this was known and people therefore designed triple desk. Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt three times. And you can't take the plain text and the cipher text and go back to get the same point. So you can't meet in the middle in that case. So triple desk is considered secure.


A long time ago, there was a hare and it wouldn't stop teasing a tortoise for his slowness. I'm the faster runner in the woods than you are the slowest one. We should compete, he jeered. One day, the tortoise decided to, tired of the hare showing off, agree to have a run in competition. You may be fast, but I am persistent, he said. The next day, the tortoise and the hare stood at the start, ready for the race. One, two, three, go! said the hare and they started running. The hare was a long way in front of the tortoise when he saw a field of cabbages. He looked back and almost couldn't see the tortoise. Take your time, he shouted to the tortoise. I'll have a snack here and still I'll win the race. When he finished his breakfast, the hare looked around to see how far the tortoise had gone. He still hadn't passed halfway. Feeling sleepy after his snack, the hare thought to himself, I'll have a quick snooze now and when I wake up, I'll quickly run past the finish line. He fell into a deep sleep and dreamed of winning the competition. Time passed and the sun was already setting when the hare woke up. He jumped and looked around to see the tortoise a few steps from the finish line. The hare rushed towards the finish line as fast as he could, but the tortoise was already crossing it when in the competition. The lesson here is simple. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich.  The race of life is not for the smartest, but the persistent ones. To become rich and successful, most people think that they have to be the smartest person on earth, but that's not true. Most people who become successful in life become successful not by the strength of their intelligence, by the strong will of their persistence. Calvin Coolidge said, nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, press on, has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich.  My personal story. I was born as a sickly boy in Africa. Due to my health, I couldn't attend school as regularly as every other kid. Growing up, I was the latest boy in my polygamous family, and even up till this day, I don't have the strength to work long hours day after day. Like most adults of my age. But there's one thing I do better than everyone, and that is, I choose my battles and never stop until I win. Like the tortoise in my previous story, I don't wait on the road to eat. Though I cannot run as fast as a hare, I wake up every morning to run. There are a few lessons here. First, don't do many things at a time. Many people in the world overread their strengths by doing many things at a time. The problem with this is that you get distracted, and you won't be able to focus on what matters. Instead of doing five things together at a time, choose the one thing that can give you the best outcome you desire, and focus on such a single thing. Second, don't listen to the noise in the market. The world is noisy. There are too many things calling for your attention. There's always a new shiny object around the corner. Make money blogging, affiliate marketing, selling on Amazon, stock market trading, stock market trading, cryptocurrency, and a million other things are some of the shiny objects in our days, and a million more are coming next week. The problem with most people who want to be rich is they jump from pillar to post. They do blogging for one month and jump to YouTube next month. They trade stock for one week and jump to Forex next week. They do cryptocurrency one month and jump to something else the following week. You can't be successful this way. To be successful in any field, you have to be willing to invest years into a single thing. Look at YouTube, for example. There are millions of people who have started YouTube channels and never succeeded. Why don't these people succeed? Most of them blame the YouTube algorithm for their failures, but that's not correct. Some people think that some of us who succeed on YouTube have special talents or intelligence. That too is not correct. Instead, behind every single individual who has built a successful YouTube channel are long hours of many years of persistence. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich.  Don't jump from pillar to post. Choose your battles according to your strength and ignore every other noise. This is what I mean by that. I don't buy a stock because stock investments require too many details than I love to do. I love real estate because it's easier and makes better sense for me. I don't buy cryptocurrency because I don't understand the technology behind it well enough. Instead, I love building something from scratch. I don't do forest trading and a million other things out there. Not because they are not good, but because I don't seem to have strength for them. Know who you are and choose the battles within your strength. This will help you become successful even if you're not very intelligent. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich.  Courage and Success Many years ago, I read a quote by Johann Wolfgang Wojta. It says, Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boltness has genius, power and magic in it.   Think about Richard Branson, who had to drop out of school because he has tixlexia. Even worse, think about Albert Einstein, who was sent away from school because he was too dumb to learn. Think about many ordinary people who became rich and successful in life. And one thing will be obvious. All these people dare to step out and try things. The dumbness of these people tends to help them because when they make mistakes and fail, they are too dumb to know that they ought to turn back. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich. You only have to be courageous and persistent. Going back to the competition between the tortoise and the hare. Though the hare is fast and the tortoise is slow, because the tortoise is persistent, he won the race against the hare. It doesn't matter how intelligent you are. If you are like the hare, you'll be poor.  If you wake up every morning to believe in yourself to try difficult things others wouldn't try, to smile whenever you make mistakes and fail, to be courageous and remain persistent just like the tortoise, you'll win and become successful in life. You don't have to be the most intelligent person to be rich. You only have to be courageous and persistent. Thank you so much for watching our videos. 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Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Bridget. Let's talk about calm and chaos. Now, it's kind of ironic actually. Let me just be clear for me to talk about being calm because I am a ball of energy most of the time. I understand anxiety because I am anxiety. Let me just say like personally, like, literally, I understand anxiety because I have it. And not just, oh, I'm stressed, but actual anxiety. Okay, so I get that. So if you are experienced that, I can honestly say I understand that. When I'm talking about calm and chaos, that basically describes life right now, doesn't it? It really does because even people who don't have anxiety, there is stressors and tension and constant bombardment of new crazy things going off the rails. And it is just almost unbelievable how many things have challenged us and created obstacles or pain or this threshold of, I don't believe it. Like what is happening right now? Like you just, there's just disbelief. So I want to give you some guidance based on my experiences about how to be calm when there is chaos around you.  You can't control others. You can't control others. You can try to influence them, but you cannot control them. And it will just frustrate you, make you angry and contribute to the chaos when you try to control the actions of others or the feelings of others. You can't control other people's behavior. You can't control other people's feelings. But what you can do, now this is the key, everyone listen, listen. This is the key. What we can do, what we can do is manage ourselves. Yes, yes, you can manage yourself as you can.   Kenya, come on, nod your head with me. Let's do the head bob. Yes. I'm with you. I'm with you.   There's uncertainty, lack of control. There's all these things that we kind of thought we had these false beliefs, these limited beliefs in action were like, oh, I have some control over my environment. I have some control over other people around me. I have some control over my relationships. Well, not exactly no. So the mind is really messed up right now.  It's really not happy. And so what it's going to do, it's going to buckle down. It's going to get more stubborn. It is going to hold tight. But really? Really? That's not going to help. It's just going to give you headaches. Trust me. I know this. It's going to give you tension headaches and stress headaches. And you're going to eat lots of Carby stuff and sugary stuff and drink extra coffee. Trust me. I know this. I know. I've been drinking extra coffee lately so that I can match the energy of uncertainty, which kind of feels like a fuzzy, an energy of not fuzzy in a good way. Let me tell you a fizzy. How about that fizzy, fizzy pop bottle shaken up? Lots of carbonation. That's how it feels inside. So we eat stuff or drink stuff or do stuff to help us work with that crazy energy that's inside of us, that fuzzy, fizzy carbonated energy. I mean, isn't that really how it feels? Isn't it how it feels right now?  You might physically feel that too. Your stomach might hurt. You might get tension headaches. Your neck and shoulders might scrunch up more than normal. More than normal in those Zoom meetings. More than normal. So now that you know I relate, like I can totally feel this, right? We're all in the same place where our head is nodding. Yes, yes, I can relate. So what do I do about this Bridget? What can I do about this? You can manage yourself. If each of us, if everybody in different cities, different communities, different family groups, different places, if everybody managed themselves, true things would look different because people have different views and such. But if they actually manage their emotions in a way that isn't about control, management and control is not the same thing. Management and control is not the same thing. Management is like managing your energy and your emotion is providing a structure that is safe or creating a container to allow for flow and expression. You have to let your emotions, you cannot control your emotions. You cannot do that. It's not possible. It's not possible. Motions are about freedom and expression. And when you hold those back or tamp those down, that's when you riot inside. Your heart riots.  Do you see that's exactly what's happening inside of you right now? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. The emotions have to flow. They have to move. They have to be somewhere. Let them coexist. Now, I know, I know, I know they're uncomfortable, especially the anxiety stuff. If you actually have like general anxiety disorder or social anxiety disorder, that kind of a thing like legit, you go to a counselor, you go to a psychologist, you talk to a psychiatrist, you have medication, or maybe you should, okay, let's just be honest, maybe really should have some of that stuff, some of that extra help with science and medicine and such. You know what I'm talking about here.  Let's just let's just take a break for a minute. Let's just breathe sometimes that fizzy energy, carbonation can get us rolling, rolling, going, going, spinning, spinning, spinning in our heart space. And then the emotions get all mixed up, they get all confused. It's like, do you remember using watercolors, like when you were little, like at school or something, and you mix paint together. And eventually, it all turns kind of this brownie purpley really kind of darky color. After a while, like it loses each of the individual beautiful colors you put on your paper, if you keep mixing them all together over and over again, without letting each one have its own individual place, its ability in a room to dry, its spot on the page, etc, etc.  Not that brown is bad, but brown is its own color. Okay, let's be clear, use it with purpose and intention. Not as a oops, I'm too much. Ooh, is that a good emotion? Oh my goodness, that's what I have. Let's just cheers to that. Cheers, another drink of coffee. I'm too much. That's one of the emotions. It also happens to be a belief which is connected to your mind, which is a thought. Interesting. Oh, interesting. Look at that. Looky, looky here, looky here. Our mind, our thoughts and our emotions, our feelings are connected. What do you know? What do you know? Hmm, that's a good thing. That's a good thing because you want to work together. You want to be on your own side. You don't want to fight against your mind and to fight against your heart.  This is what people talk about when they talk about self-love or acceptance or honoring yourself or valuing yourself, recognizing your own worthiness. That's what people, that's what people are talking about. They're talking about this battle with the mind and the heart and the emotions and the freedom of thought and the freedom of feeling. They both must coexist and that is not an easy thing. That's why we work with managing our energy of our emotions, not controlling, managing and controlling. It's not the same thing. Think about any boss you've ever had at a job that's a manager. Think about them. Can they really control you? No. Can they influence you? Yes. Can they provide a structure and expectations? Yes. Policy procedure. Yes. Influence. Yes. But they do not control you at all. You are independent. Yes you are. You are free. So let's practice and embrace that freedom. Freedom doesn't come from outside of you.  This energy of calm in chaos, it comes from you. And calm isn't a state where there's a person meditating with their legs crossed and their hair all up in a bun and their hands gently laid upon their lap, focusing upward with a golden sunrise behind them. That is not our reality most of the time. That is not peace or calm. Calm is when you are coexisting when all parts of you have freedom. Your thoughts can be free and your heart feeling and energy can be free to flow, not free outside, not a requirement of somebody else's acceptance of your feelings. Other people do not have to understand. Oh, that's a big one. We should do a whole episode about that. Other people do not have to understand my feelings. Do you know how many people listen to Sunday morning coffee? Not that many. I know that's shocking because it's so great. It's so inspiring, right? I hope so. Thanks for listening, by the way. Not that many people. Oh, more coffee, more coffee. Let's take a break, more coffee. Emotions. I'm going to get emotional here. Not that many people have to understand you and it's okay. You're not made for everybody. Everybody's unique. That's why there needs to be freedom and flow. And that only is a gift that you give yourself. That is not about other people accepting you. You don't need your value from other people. You need your value inside you. And right now, you're not letting yourself find that calmness that you want. You're not at peace with yourself. You're at war because your brain and your thoughts, your old patterns, society, things you're taking in externally, what you're watching unfold in current events is creating a whole conversation in your mind without any input from your heart, your feelings, your emotions, except for fear and negative energy that draws upon all of your past experiences and maybe fear of the future, things that you're afraid of wounds, maybe triggers, all sorts of just really tough emotions come through during that experience with the mind. Where's your spirit in that? Where's your intuition? It doesn't even it's not even at the dang table. We've only been talking about them. Hi, my little dog just came running up to me. You probably heard him. Hi, Toby. We've only been talking about the mind and the heart. But what about the soul, the spirit?  If you're a shock or a person that source that understands you. Okay. That gets you. That's your calm. That's your calm button, your belly button, your calm button. Okay. Push it. Push it real good. All right. Push it. Push it and be present. Be with yourself. Okay. You're not going to be disappointed by what you discover. You're going to have emotions. So you are, and that's okay. Emotions are just information. They are feelings.  And when you do not need somebody else to validate them, people do not have to agree with you. People that don't have to understand you. I know that's a shocker and it's hard because I know, I believe me, I get it. I understand that. I want people to understand where I'm coming from on above life channel on my fairy grass opera channel. I want people to understand so that they can see the benefit, the value and like really take advantage of what I'm sharing here, right? And make their lives better and get empowered and get inspired and be healthy and be, be recognized their own value. Like I want that. I want that. I want people to understand here the purpose, the deeper meaning, the broader purpose beyond the entertainment value of cool afterlife celebrity talks, right? There's more here. I want people to understand that, but some people won't. And you know what, that's okay. That's fine. That has to be fine. That has to be okay. You have to be okay if people don't understand you. That can't be part of your happiness. It just can't be. You're going to be disappointed. So if you want the calm energy during this chaotic space that we're in, don't create the chaos inside yourself. Calm the chaos within. There are so many tools you can use to do that. You can use tapping EFT. If you don't know what that is, Google it up. The tapping solution is a good resource on YouTube. Brad Yates tapping. Brad Yates, Y-A-T-E-S is a good resource for tapping. Meditations and visualizations. I have several that you can utilize if you choose to do that. Here on Sunday morning coffee, I have meditations. Look at the playlist. There are meditations I have shared that will help you. I actually did a series called within that will also inspire you to work within body, mind, heart, and soul. Body, mind, heart, and soul. That's the model I use in my coaching work, in my business, in my intuitive coaching, in my psychic work, body, mind, heart, and soul alignment. You working together within yourself. Check out that within series. I'll put a link to it in this description if I remember. Other tools you can use. Nature. Easy. Stuff is easy. So easy. It's free. Nature, go for a walk. Look at the sky. Do some drawing. Do some writing. Get your journal out. Sketch. Doodle. Go for a walk and gather some natural things like sticks or leaves or seashells or rocks. Bring them home. Put them in a little spot on your table or on your windowsill and feel that energetic support, the basic simple energy support, the peace, the calm. Nature is calming. It's a gentle energy flow. It's easy to shift your energy state into a calming place.  Feel the expanded energy of nature supporting you. The elements of air, the elements of the sun, the element of earth, the energy of water. All these things are to support you. Your solar plexus, your spirit loves that. Loves it. You don't have to understand it because why? Because you don't. Understanding is not a requirement. These are just some tools. These are just some simple, simple tools. Use a card deck. If you're not familiar with card decks, they're not all to row or specifically lineage focused or ancestral or complicated storylines. Just so you know, they're not all complicated. There's some very beautiful to row decks though. Oh my goodness. Use a card deck. If you want to know what those are or what they're not creepier, weird. If you think that then you're limiting yourself, my friends, you're limiting yourself. Check out fairy grasshopper and watch my card readings. I do card readings with awesome card decks. Denise Lynn, she's my fave right now. Denise Lynn, L-I-N-N. She's great. I'll put some links below to some of her card decks that I use. Easy, basic, positive. There's even these card decks that I use that you can have at work. They're not overtly spiritual. You can be incognito in the office and still be inspired and connected and finding your calm in the chaos. And don't you need that in the office space? Oh yeah, you do. I'm thinking in the workspace. Yeah, you might need some calm in the chaos or there'd be a classroom, the nurses station or an office, right? All right. I hope that this Sunday morning copy copy, coffee episode has helped you today find the calm within you. At least begin to connect with all the ways that you can manage that energy within yourself. There really is a freedom in that connection. And I want that for you. You deserve it. And honestly, you need it. I think it's a requirement moving forward that we all have to kind of figure out our own stuff, manage ourselves right now. I think that that's a very valuable skill, but I think it's going to be a prerequisite, a minimum qualification for humanity moving forward. So let's all kind of figure this out together. All right. So I'm Bridget. Thanks so much for listening to Sunday morning coffee with Bridget. I hope you stay inspired by watching above life channel on YouTube, fairy grasshopper, my intuitive and vlogging channel on YouTube and find me on social media, Bridget inspired on Facebook and Bridget inspired on Instagram. Thanks for listening.