Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter
P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.
My CISO called me at 3 AM last Tuesday.
"We caught someone."
I asked, "Caught them doing what?"
He said, "Typing."
Let me explain.
We have an employee in IT. Great worker. Always online. Never complained. Perfect Slack etiquette.
One problem.
His keystrokes were arriving 110 milliseconds late.
One hundred and ten milliseconds.
That's 0.11 seconds.
The average American remote worker has 20-40ms of latency.
This guy? 110ms. Every. Single. Keystroke.
My security team ran the numbers.
That latency doesn't come from a bad router in Ohio.
That latency comes from Pyongyang.
Our "Senior DevOps Engineer" was a North Korean operative.
Running his work laptop through a laptop farm.
In America.
While he worked from a government building.
In North Korea.
He passed the interview. He passed the background check. He passed the vibe check.
He did not pass the speed of light.
Here's what people don't understand about physics:
Light travels 186,000 miles per second.
But it still has to go through China.
And China adds latency.
Since April, Amazon has caught 1,800 of these attempts.
Eighteen hundred.
I called an emergency meeting with my board.
I said, "We need to implement Keystroke Velocity Auditing across all remote employees."
They said, "That sounds invasive."
I said, "You know what else is invasive? The Democratic People's Republic of Korea in your Jira tickets."
They approved the budget.
We now monitor keystroke timing to the microsecond.
If your latency exceeds 60ms, you get a call from HR.
If it exceeds 100ms, you get a call from the FBI.
We've already flagged 47 employees.
Turns out 44 of them just have bad Wi-Fi.
3 of them are "still under investigation."
The lesson?
You can fake a resume.
You can fake a background check.
You can fake an American accent on Zoom.
But you cannot fake the speed of light.
Physics is the ultimate background check.
Hire accordingly.
Someone going by "wwwiesel" on GitHub picked up @securitymeta_’s tradition this year and dropped a full list of #BlackFriday deals in the #InfoSec space
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