Insights – Page 7

Babies Know, They Don’t Know

It looks like babies at the age of 19-21 months already have a concept of when they don’t know something and ask for help if it’s available.

Data Is A Toxic Asset

Bruce Schneier also finds data is actually a toxic asset. ?

Politicians

This line from Matt Taibbi sadly sums up what “high-profile” politicians have become.

[…] they’re not even people, but are […] just robo-babbling representatives of unseen donors.
— Matt Taibbi in How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

“Defense Wins”

Nicolas Weaver explains how a “defense wins” policy in a combined offense and defense environment doesn’t sound not very convincing (case in point: the NSA reorganization).

Instead, NSA seems intent on ensuring that they will never be trusted again. The objective reality is this: from the perception of those outside the government, merging the IAD and SIGINT missions is tantamount to eliminating IAD entirely. Trust is a matter of perception as much as reality. “Defense wins?” Whatever the actual truth, for now, the rest of the world says “HA!”