Food For thought -

I would like to pose a question that is often asked but rarely answered honestly.

So who are you? 

Do you really know why you exist, do you have purpose or are you following someone else's perception of who they think you are?

If your answer to this question entails looking through the eyes of your friends, family and or co-workers do you really understand who you are are?

For my followers I challenge each of you  to today write a single sentence defining who you are.. I look forward to your responses

So do we really understand the ramifications of the latest rise in nation state sponsored cyber attacks?

Fire-Eye cyber attack

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/08/fireeye-hack-cybersecurity-theft

Solarwinds

• https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/12/13/cisa-issues-emergency-directive-mitigate-compromise-solarwinds-orion-network
  

Google Confirms 40,000 Nation-State Cyber Attack Warnings Issued

• https://urgentcomm.com/2020/12/15/after-google-outage-telcos-should-think-twice-about-public-cloud/
  

‘Elite Hackers’ Thought Behind Cyber Attack On World Health Organization

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Groups

• https://content.fireeye.com/apt-41/website-apt-groups

We the people, many of who are not in the know or right line business to fully grasp the totality of these cyber threats, need a simplified account. An accounting that helps towards a better understanding of the impact these type of attacks can and often do have on our personal lives.

The so what:

1. Multiple government agencies were breached through SolarWinds's Orion software
2. Victims of this attack include 
1. FireEye
2. US Treasury Department
3. US Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration
4. US Department of Homeland Security
3. The resent Google outage, and the current shift to the use of third party cloud, presents a new area of concern. As Telco network traffic is being handed off and no longer in their direct control
   
4. APT data shows an upward trend in the number of nation state sponsored cyber attack groups

We should not assume that our personal information (PII) is protected or secure while transiting over Telco infrastructure. This is perhaps even more so true today in that as stated our PII is being hosted and stored in third party clouds. As such we must understand who is liable, but also who or what is most likely a candidate for a cyber attack. 

We need to better understand the information security eco system in place to further educate our selves.

I look forward to continuing this dialog, and your thoughts and comments

 COVID-19 vaccine

What are we not hearing from the Universe on this topic. First we need to educate our self around the technology of DNA and Gene splicing.

The number of scholarly articles is so vast, but to help in your search I provide the following:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=DNA+gene+splicing+and+CRISPR&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/forget-single-genes-crispr-now-cuts-and-splices-whole-chromosomes
2. https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/videos/splicing-and-dicing-dna-genome-engineering-and-the-crispr-revolution/
3. https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/genomicresearch/genomeediting/
4. https://www.jax.org/news-and-insights/2020/june/using-crispr-technology-to-control-rna-splicing
5. The technology behind this phenomenon is known as CRISPR (/ˈkrɪspər/) (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). 
1. http://www.crisprtx.com/

I will try to simplify what this is, in general this is a scientific method for repairing and or replacing areas of the DNA strand to alter the genetic makeup of the subject. 

Whether one for moral or religious beliefs finds this as an unethical technology is open for discussion, and I look forward to a dialog from all. Speaking with my wife, she suggest just such is the case in her view. In retort I asked if this is unethical based on one's moral or religious ideas would then also the use of cancer treatment and other such medical therapy be as well?

I will leave this open ended as a point of discussion.

So, you may now be asking how does CRISPR come in to the discussion of COVID-19 vaccine?

Well allow me share the following:

1. https://bioengineering.stanford.edu/research-impact/prevent-covid-19/new-genetic-method-using-crispr-eliminate-covid-19-virus-genomes
2. https://innovativegenomics.org/projects/crispr-based-dna-vaccine-enhancer-covid-19/
3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-took-the-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-its-a-miracle-for-genetic-medicine/2020/11/09/77e652d0-22bf-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html
4. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200925/Scientists-to-use-CRISPR-gene-editing-technology-for-Phase-1-vaccine-trials-in-humans.aspx

This is what is not publicly shared globally across any NEWS networks.