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I think a lot about how to become immortal. More than I should, probably.

Many think it’s a waste of time. Everyone dies, and it’s foolish to think we can avoid it. This piece takes a different view, and describes a number of ways, with varying levels of requirement and effectiveness, one can either avoid dying or live on after death.

They’ll go from most practical to most effective.

1. Live On Through Your Children

This one is cheating a bit, mostly because you’re not actually becoming immortal.

But the fact remains that this does give many people (probably billions) a genuine feeling of lastingness, and that’s significant.

Again, I don’t really count it because it’s an extremely tenuous way of living on, but it deserves mention.

2. Live On Through Your Works

This one is kind of like the first, in that you’re not actually getting to continue living. So it’s a bit of a misnomer too.

What it deals with, however, can also provide a significant sense of contentment at the end of one’s life. Basically, if you leave behind works and ideas that will be used by significant numbers of people, for a significant period of time, you can think of this as living on.

It’ll take some sting off of dying, perhaps. But not much. You’re still dead.

3. Reconstruction Through Reproduction of Variables

Ok, now we’re getting into actual survivability.

This one works like this: either before you die, or after you are dead, an organization collects a series of inputs about you and uses them to create a working model of you.

Here are some of the input types:


* Your DNA (this is really important)
* Everything there is to know about where you grew up (what was happening in the world then, where you went to high school, what the major news events were, the major themes in culture and art, etc.)
* Everything there is to know about the people you grew up with
* All your personal, transformational experiences. This can be gathered from a myriad of sources, but your own description of the incidents will be key. It’ll also come from interviews with people who know those experiences and how they affected you
* Every piece of output you left behind, e.g. blog posts, Facebook posts, books, essays, schoolwork, letters, videos, whatever. They’re all harvested for evidence of who you are


Then, the system takes the environment data and models it against your DNA, which it got from a piece of hair or something. It runs your entire genome and determines how you would respond mentally to these various stimuli.

The output is a digital life form that is, as much as it can be, you. You now live in cyberspace somewhere, and you’re introduced to the fact that you were reconstructed using this method, and that you have this rich history, etc. You are you.

4. Preserving Your Brain to Be Put in Another Body in the Future

Another method for achieving comfort that you’ll continue to live after death is to have a reliable way to preserve your brain once you pass, with the belief that it’ll be either 1) put into another body later (not my favorite idea), or 2) it’ll be downloaded into a digital form to live permanently in cyberspace.

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I think a lot about how to become immortal. More than I should, probably. Many think it's a waste of time. Everyone dies, and it's foolish to think we can avoid it. This piece takes a different view, and describes a number of ways,

News

• [ ] Panama Papers leak
• [ ] Hackers targeting major US law firms
• [ ] Ubuntu has some kernel vuln patches out
• [ ] 50 million turkish citizens have their information dumped online
• [ ] Microsoft makes cloud-app security services now available (Adallom)
• [ ] OSVDB shutting down because nobody would pay them
• [ ] WhatsApp is now end-to-end encrypted
• [ ] Critical new Flash bug, expect Ransomware to leverage it
• [ ] Security salaries skyrocketing due to talent shortage | http://www.csoonline.com/article/3049374/security/survey-with-all-eyes-on-security-talent-shortage-sends-salaries-sky-high.html
• [ ] Data exfiltration using Smart Lightbulbs | http://www.scribd.com/doc/306620189/Eyal-Ronen-and-Adi-Shamir-Hack-Lightbulbs
• [ ] Significant Firefox extensions bug, look for a patch soon
• [ ] $40 attack that steals police drones from 2 kilometers away | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/01/hacker_reveals_40_attack_to_steal_28000_drones_from_2km_away/ | break wep, disconnect their controller, connect yours, must be within 100 meters
• [ ] IoT is expected to push the US ahead of China in manufacturing by 2020 | http://www.zdnet.com/article/internet-of-things-analytics-expected-to-push-u-s-ahead-of-china-for-manufacturing/
• [ ] 1,400 vulnerabilities found in automated medical supply system | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/03/30/1400-flaws-automated-medical-supply-system/ | automated cabinets that dispense medical supplies , if you’re locked out it could be bad

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New show branding and format, Panama papers leak, law firm hacking, data exifil via light bulbs, more…

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News


* [ ] Verizon Enterprise Solutions had a major data breach of their customer data. This is the group that handles breaches for their customers. “Virtually every attack in this data set (98 percent) was opportunistic in nature, all aimed at easy marks…”
* [ ] Iranians charged with attacks against US banks and a New York dam
* [ ] Hackers steal 81 billion from the Federal reserve bank of New York
* [ ] Uber launches bug bounty program, describes the surface area. Someone said it was really bad, though. Not sure what that’s about
* [ ] New ultra-fast SSD technology coming from Intel soon
* [ ] FBI backs off request for Apple backdoor. Says they have it handled. We find out it’s an Israeli company
* [ ] Water treatment plant hacked, chemical mix changed for tap supplies | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/24/water_utility_hacked/
* [ ] German steel mill compromised and wrecked a blast furnace
* [ ] This is after a string of attacks against power companies using spear phishing and office malware
* [ ] Microsoft’s AI Chatbot was a teenage girl, but it learned from the people who talked to it, so before long it was talking about loving incest, sex, and hitler
* [ ] Millions of Android devices vulnerable to root exploit due to Snapdragon chip flaw
* [ ] Kentucky-based Methodist Hospital declares state of emergency after it’s wrecked by Locky ransomware
* [ ] Credit Card Breaches Linked To Security Cameras
* [ ] Chinese national pleads guilty to stealing plans for Air Force aircraft
* [ ] Hackers offer Apple’s Ireland staff $23,000 for their login credentials
* [ ] Ransomware hitting major vulns: The Angler, Neutrino, Magnitude, RIG, and Nuclear exploit kits spread the Flash CVE 2015-7645 exploit; Angler spreads Flash 2015-8446; Angler and Neutrino spread Flash CVE 2015-8651; and Angler spreads Silverlight CVE-2016-0034, an exploit exposed in the Hacking Team breach.
* [ ] Microsoft Deploys Macro Blocking Feature in Office to Curb Malware


Ideas, updates, and discussion


* [ ] Innovation Sandbox | Innovative Security Products (2016 Edition)
* [ ] AI and messaging apps are the new mobile apps
* [ ] Human Attention as Attack Surface | https://danielmiessler.com/blog/human-attention-as-influence-attack-surface/
* [ ] Most can’t respond to breach: http://blogs.csc.com/2016/03/15/while-majority-of-orgs-fear-big-breach-theyre-not-prepared-to-respond/?utm_content=bufferc043c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* [ ] How your data is collected and commoditized online by free online services | http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/03/how-your-data-is-collected-and.html


Tools, talks, and projects


* [ ] Innovation Sandbox | Innovative Security Products (2016 Edition)
* [ ] 2016 Data Breach Digest | https://danielmiessler.com/blog/analysis-verizons-2016-data-breach-digest/
* [ ] AI and messaging apps are the new mobile apps | https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-assistants-are-the-new-applications/
* [ ] Idea Expansion Format | https://danielmiessler.com/blog/idea-expansion-format-ief/
* [ ] BinDiff is a comparison tool for binary files that helps to quickly find differences and similarities in disassembled code.
* [ ] IntelMQ is a solution for CERTs for collecting and processing security feeds, pastebins, tweets and log files using a message queuing protocol.

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Verizon hacked, Hackers, Uber, SSD, Iranians, Apple, etc…

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