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In 2005, the #US Congress laid out a clear mandate: the nation should be able to detect, track, catalog, and characterize no less than 90 percent of all #NEO at least 140 meters 📏 across.

As of today, we have identified less than half and characterized only a small percentage 📊 of those possible threats. Even if we did have a full census, we do not have the #capabilities to rapidly respond to an Earth-intersecting #asteroid ☄️arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

Ars Technica · Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroidBy Paul Sutter

Johan Cruyff on the limits of data:

‘What I know for certain is that the conclusions I would draw from experience are different from the ones based only on figures. Because if Lionel Messi scores three times out of every ten attempts, he might be criticized by someone who sees only the statistics for being just 30 per cent effective. I’d say: just copy him and see if you can get up to that level. It’s practically impossible.’

#quote#data#metrics

The Capability Approach: Towards a New Vision of Social Justice

🌟🧠 Dive into the revolutionary Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum! Discover how this framework redefines social justice by focusing on individuals' real freedoms. A vision that combines human development with respect for personal liberties. #Capabilities #SocialJustice #Philosophy The Capability Approach, developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, offers a groundbreaking perspective…

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Homo Hortus · The Capability Approach: Towards a New Vision of Social Justice🌟🧠 Dive into the revolutionary Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum! Discover how this framework redefines social justice by focusing on individuals’ real freedoms. A vision…

Ukraine Daily Summary - Tuesday, September 17 2024

Estonian President: We have to cross all red lines, then start forcing Russia out of Ukraine -- Russia continues to store ammunition, deploy troops at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant -- Meta blocks Russian state media across its platforms amid "foreign interference activity" -- Latvia to supply Ukraine with British-made CVR(T) armored vehicles -- [Video] Ex-US ambassador on Putin's 'red lines' and US role in Ukraine war -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily Summary - Tuesday, September 17 2024Estonian President: We have to cross all red lines, then start forcing Russia out of Ukraine -- Russia continues to store ammunition, deploy troops at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant -- Meta blocks Russian state media across its platforms amid "foreign interference activity" -- Latvia to supply Ukraine with British-made CVR(T) armored vehicles -- [Video] Ex-US ambassador on Putin's 'red lines' and US role in Ukraine war -- and more
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Ukraine Daily Summary - Sunday, September 1 2024

Why Russian milbloggers and propagandists are freaking out about Telegram's CEO arrest -- Ukraine's Kursk incursion demonstrates that Russia is at the limit of its capabilities says former US NATO ambassador -- Lithuanian FM: West 'chose to be caught off guard' by Russia's invasion -- Societal discontent rises in Russia after Ukraine's Kursk incursion, ISW says -- Why Russian milbloggers and propagandists are freaking out about Telegram's CEO arrest -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily Summary - Sunday, September 1 2024Why Russian milbloggers and propagandists are freaking out about Telegram's CEO arrest -- Ukraine's Kursk incursion demonstrates that Russia is at the limit of its capabilities says former US NATO ambassador -- Lithuanian FM: West 'chose to be caught off guard' by Russia's invasion -- Societal discontent rises in Russia after Ukraine's Kursk incursion, ISW says -- Why Russian milbloggers and propagandists are freaking out about Telegram's CEO arrest -- and more

@polezaivsani The main "body of text" that comes to mind is the Genode documentation, book and associated blogs.

That's not exactly a concise thing, but it does give one a fairly good understanding.

Wikipedia has an article about capability security and a model summary.

The Principle of Least Authority is a very important part of it and behind much of the implicit trust relations as you noticed them.

The distributed-object system Goblins also has some neat stuff about this.

Apart from client and server both trusting ca I assume.

Yeah, this is a bit of abstraction leak due to how SSH is used & works.

genode.orgGenode - Genode architecture documents

1/2 #Analysis | Israel’s Two Key Goals of Hamas War Are Set to Collide

The #IDF’s desire to further harm #Hamas may contradict the effort to secure a deal for the #hostages. IDF General Staff believe if the fighting ends in two weeks, it will not be possible to meet the goals of the war. At the same time, signs of widespread #damage to Hamas' #command are increasing

There is inbuilt tension, which is only intensifying, between the two key objectives of the war in the #Gaza Strip. #Israel wishes to strip #Hamas of its organizational and military #capabilities, but at the same time wants to create the conditions for releasing the civilians and soldiers held captive by Hamas. The IDF claims that it can achieve both goals, and that the more time it has to increase the military pressure on Hamas, the better the chances that Hamas will show some flexibility in #negotiations over the release of hostages.

Given that, the army’s general staff realizes that time is now a critical element. There are growing reservations in the West about the large number of deaths of #Palestinian #civilians in the IDF’s ground offensive, with increasing American pressure on Israel to limit operations in the northern Gaza Strip soon, in a matter of weeks.

So far, the ground offensive has been conducted at a relatively slow pace, in an attempt to minimize risks to IDF forces. Now that regimental battle teams are operating in the heart of #GazaCity and around central Hamas #headquarters, there is an attempt to maximize military a#chievements before the IDF is required to stop.

The debate is not just about the timing of setting a limit on the ground offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, but about the possibility of a temporary #ceasefire allowing a release of #hostages.

At the other end of the spectrum of positions within the defense establishment is the person responsible for captives and missing persons, Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon. He is in charge of a new center, established at the beginning of the war. #Alon is the most senior person there (and not the earlier-appointed Maj. Gen. (res.) Gal #Hirsch, who has been removed from any operational role). Alon attends all the war #cabinet meetings. Under him are thousands of intelligence and operations personnel from the IDF and other agencies, focusing exclusively on the efforts to bring the hostages home. The key person in charge of these negotiations, working in coordination with Alon and answering to the prime minister, is #Mossad chief David #Barnea.

Soon, the two main efforts could collide. Politicians may have to decide how to proceed, while the army worries that it will be stopped, for the sake of a deal, and then find it harder to resume the attacks at the level of force required to hit Hamas. The veteran security affairs analyst David #Ignatius reported in the #Washington Post on Saturday that a hostage deal was taking shape with the mediation of #Qatar. This will involve the release of over 100 people, including #Thai workers, tourists, #Israelis with dual #citizenship, as well as #women and #children, in exchange for a similar number of #Palestinian #women and #minors who are imprisoned in Israel for security offenses.

Ignatius said that negotiations are stuck for now since Israel is demanding that Hamas first release the hostages it holds. A further complication stems from the fact that some of the hostages are held by other organizations, including Islamic# Jihad and a #militia called the #Shabiha, a previously unknown group. Qatari sources told Ignatius that efforts to locate all the hostages would take at least three days. The Qataris presented a specious Hamas argument according to which its members kidnapped only IDF soldiers, with the rest abducted by thousands of Gazan residents who entered #communities along the border.

According to the Washington Post story, Qatar is having difficulties communicating with senior Hamas officials in order to advance the deal. At the beginning of the war, there were indirect talks with Hamas leaders living outside Gaza, most of them in Qatar. However, Israeli bombing disrupted cellphone reception in the Gaza Strip. Whereas previously, every proposal was answered within two to three hours, at present, this can take up to 48 hours.

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@moonchild @corbin @lcamtuf Unfortunately untrusted (and usually #proprietary) software could still get up to shenanigans (if only system performance degradation) and ask for #capabilities it has no legitimate use for.

Some badly designed hardware (GPUs) would also provide avenues for attack that would require any program interacting with them to be both privileged and secure. A paravirtualized broker is possible even now, but such a thing is complex to write securely and with good performance.