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So one thing I find that I like about Immunity is that we're quite
split up in terms of customer verticals. But historically, one of
our strongest verticals is the NYC financial sector. I went to NY
recently and talked to a number of our customers and one thing I
thought was interesting was that they are extremely, vociferously
annoyed at FISA warrants that go to their cloud providers (aka,
Amazon). They're fine with warrants, but they want to know what was
delivered and when. A lot of our customers now care far MORE about
this than about Chinese APT attacks, which I found completely
unexpected. <br>
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We're seeing a lot of pushback in the news from Google and Yahoo and
Facebook and other technology firms who find that helping the
government the way they have been is "bad for business", but the
financial sector is even more upset, from what I can tell. When you
talk to people in DC about how just monumentally mad industry people
(a huge percentage of whom came in on H1-B's, remember) are at the
IC, they really don't seem to understand. But it's a SEA CHANGE. A
broad and complete transformation in the balance of the world. <br>
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The brings us back to this blog post from the Cornell Professor Emin
Sirir, which I think I've linked to before.<br>
<a
href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/08/01/framework-for-surveillance/">http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/08/01/framework-for-surveillance/</a><br>
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But it also brings us to all of <a href="http://www.shirky.com/">Clay
Shirky's</a> work, which if you haven't read, then you're really
missing out. His work is on how the Internet changes how societies
form. It is, in a sense, the "Guns Germs and Steel" of our world.<br>
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And if you add up all their work I think what you see is that <a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/movement-of-largest-known-dinosaur-recreated-by-computers/2013/10/30/0c698828-40d2-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html">large
scale collection</a> had a second zombie-like life (for both
political and technical reasons). It ate a lot of brains. But it's
_eventually_ going to go away, and only Cybercom will remain.<br>
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-dave<br>
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