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This talk is about the ways the many components of governments interact and respond to challenging and anomalous events–highly relevant to hacking by all definitions and at all levels. If you don\u00edt know the lay of the land, you can not engage in appropriate research and reconnaissance, counter-measures, and operations. The proliferation of reliable reports of unidentified flying objects from the 1940s forward represented just such a challenge. The phenomenon was anomalous, well-documented, and certainly challenging because, as Major General John Samford said, “credible people have seen incredible things.” The UFO History Group includes some of the best researchers in the field. Richard Thieme was privileged to be invited to join the group and their project which resulted, after nearly 5 years of work, in “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” an outstanding work of historical scholarship that nevertheless reads like a fascinating detective story. In almost 600 pages and with nearly 1000 citations, the work illuminates the response of the government since the early 1940s. how and why policies were set, and how they were executed. The book has been recommended by CHOICE, the primary resource for academic libraries, for inclusion by libraries at all levels because the book stands out as “an exception” in a field filled with speculation (there is virtually none in this book). Other reviews say, “this is the best book about the UFO phenomena that was ever written” and “UFOs and Government is a triumph of sober, conscientious scholarship unlikely to be equaled for years to come.” You have never heard a talk like this — about a subject that has been ridiculed and marginalized intentionally for sixty years as a matter of policy and politics. As Don Quixote said, “insanity is seeing things as they really are.” This speech uses UFO phenomena as dye in the arteries of “how things really are.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This talk is about the ways the many components of governments interact and respond to challenging and anomalous events–highly relevant to hacking by all definitions and at all levels. If you don\u00edt know the lay of the land, you can not engage in appropriate research and reconnaissance, counter-measures, and operations. The proliferation of reliable reports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\"The Road to Resilience: Strategies for Playing Through the Pain\" by Richard Thieme at Def Con 26 (August 11 2018) is now available on you tube. 23rd year at Def Con.\u00a0 Connecting with the heart of a left-brain crowd.<\/p>

https:\/\/youtu.be\/TA8GksT707o<\/a><\/p>

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TA8GksT707o&t=364s<\/a><\/p>

The Road to Resilience: Strategies for Playing Through the Pain <\/span><\/p>

by Richard Thieme - www.thiemeworks.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>

At one end of the spectrum, stressful events at work can add up to just another bad day. We have all had those. But toward the other end, information security work \u2013 which shades easily into work for the intelligence and defense communities \u2013 can be traumatic and impact us deeply.<\/span><\/p>

Sometimes the darker knowledge we gather can not be forgotten and abrades the way we like to think of ourselves or life in general. Sometimes we encounter momentous challenges to the ethics or morality we believe governs our actions. Sometimes we are compelled to do things that so seriously assault our core selves \u2013 our very sense of who we are \u2013 that it rises to the level of \u201cmoral harm,\u201d a category of damage often discussed today in relationship to war. <\/span><\/p>

We all bear scars. Resilience includes learning to live with them. But sometimes the challenges go beyond that. We deny or minimize or rationalize our experience in order to deal with it, but those strategies are ultimately self-defeating. The traumatic impact of what can never be forgotten - what we did or know others did while we stood by \u2013 can erode our enthusiasm for getting up in the morning and rising to the challenge of the everyday. <\/span><\/p>

Information security can bring us into situations we did not anticipate when we thought of the job as merely technical. Engaging with malevolent actors from individuals to criminal networks to nation states can call our fundamental assumptions into question. <\/span>The real cost goes beyond dollars. It is measured in family life, relationships, and mental and physical well-being. The real impact of this work on people over the long term has to be mitigated by counter-measures and strategies so scars can be endured or, even better, incorporated and put to use. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>

Richard Thieme has listened closely for 25 years to information security and intelligence professionals who often struggle to \u201cplay through the pain.\u201d He presents meaningful strategies for transcending the consequences of being on the front lines of an undeclared war without borders where attackers have taken the high ground. He discusses these issues aloud to combat the silence that so often attends their mere mention.<\/span><\/p>

This conversation needs to happen.<\/span><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}