{"id":5060,"date":"2021-08-05T23:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:22:17","slug":"ufos-misinformation-disinformation-and-the-basic-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/videos\/ufos-misinformation-disinformation-and-the-basic-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"UFOs: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Basic Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The talk, “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” given at Def Con 21 was a serious well-documented exploration of the UFO subject based on Thieme’s participation in research into the subject with colleagues. The book of that name is the gold standard for historical research into the subject and is in 100+ university libraries.<\/p>\n

This update was necessitated by recent UFO incidents and the diverse conversations triggered by them. Contextual understanding is needed to evaluate current reports from pilots and naval personnel, statements from senators and Pentagon personnel, and indeed, all the input from journalists who are often unfamiliar with the field and the real history of documented UFOs over the past 70 years.<\/p>\n

Stay with the facts, stay with the data. Sensible conclusions, when we do that, are astonishing enough.<\/p>\n

Reality, as Philip K. Dick said, will not go away just because we refuse to believe in it.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”\/uploads\/Thieme-DefCon-29-UFOs-slides.pdf” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Download Slides PDF” admin_label=”Download Button” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Post Nav Section” _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#ededed” global_module=”2999″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_nav in_same_term=”on” _builder_version=”4.8.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_post_nav][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UFOs: Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Basic Truth The talk, “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry” given at Def Con 21 was a serious well-documented exploration of the UFO subject based on Thieme’s participation in research into the subject with colleagues. The book of that name is the gold standard for historical research into the subject […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4331,"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\/5060"}],"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=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiemeworks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}