chrisblask's Profile
Thirty years working in cybersecurity and leading the 2008 Obama Rapid Response team has provided a unique perspective. Cognitive tools used by malicious and benign campaigns, delivered over cyber infrastructures, drive events in the physical world.
Real Name: Chris Blask
DOB: 1965
Gender: Male
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Occupation: Global Security Strategies
Groups: Moose On The Loose
Twitter: chrisblask
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/chrisblask
Diaries published: 71 (1164 days since last diary on Tue Sep 29, 2020 at 09:27 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 1135 (209 days since last comment on Fri May 12, 2023 at 06:22 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 1003
Total Comment Ratings: 5024
Most Recommended Diary: Joe Biden Rocks Sarasota - Townhall, 09-03-08, 48 comments, 79 recommends
People Following chrisblask: 19
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My friend Kellen Squire is at work right now and asked for an update during the debate. Kellen is an ER nurse in Charlottesville who was also on duty when the Nazi victims came in, and coincidentally ran for VA House in 2018. I was just about to...
by chrisblask
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on Tue Sep 29, 2020 at 09:27 PM PDT
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Right after WWII my step father began his career as a young white pastor in a black parish in Tulsa. The Reverend Doctor Lutze's career spanned seventy years. That first parish in Tulsa led him through Selma and organizing voter registration campaigns...
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on Wed Jun 10, 2020 at 08:05 PM PDT
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There has been an aggregating weakening of political and social structures that can be mapped onto the lives of the Boomer Generation. Post-war return to normal was seen by the new generation as liberation or threat depending whether folks were liberal...
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on Wed May 06, 2020 at 10:05 AM PDT
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The president launches Mental DoS (Denial of Service) attacks regularly, using the neural networks (hardware) and cognitive processes (software) of hosts (people) to run sets of self-reinforcing code. The population of infected hosts is divided into...
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on Fri Apr 24, 2020 at 06:21 PM PDT
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I was supposed to get here today, to Ontario. I was supposed to scrape and paint the bottom of our new boat We Can't Dance, a special phrase for my wife and I due to our inability to hold hands and walk more than five places without falling dangerously...
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on Mon Apr 13, 2020 at 10:28 AM PDT
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I have been enjoying myself here in quarantine doing work on the cottage and playing in the water and ice. "Here" is a small rural Canadian town with waterfront second homes or family cottages, a local population who make livings supporting them, and a...
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on Sun Apr 05, 2020 at 08:30 AM PDT
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- It is with profound sadness that I write this. I debated with myself whether or not to do so, but decided that there are enough of you out there who would want to know. ‘Ricki’ (username sricki) , passed away about a month ago. Ricki was not her real...45 comments 199 Recs
- Yeah, that's right, I'm rec-begging this time...because there's a graph at the end which took a *ton* of time to put together, and I'd hate to see it go down the memory hole. First, a quiet, normal ...53 comments 588 Recs
- Dear GOP, For a crowd that loves to bray about the Constitution, it seems you have misplaced your copy. How else to explain your bizarre efforts to destroy the world unless you get your way? You ...189 comments 334 Recs
- From our "see, this is why we can't have good things" department, citizens of Florida learn what happens when you elect morons to control state legislatures -they pass idiotic legislation.163 comments 373 Recs
- ***UPDATE - due to the overwhelming and gratifying response to this diary - it has now become almost impossible for some people to get it to load, and we are struggling to add all of the names of ...2524 comments 1004 Recs
- Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard Part of what is so important about history—to me—is how it is connected to our here and now. As a social scientist, and as ...238 comments 146 Recs
- Take a good look at that wedding certificate. It's my great grandparents'. They were married in the Episcopal Church on the 8th of November 1913 at the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington, ...463 comments 580 Recs
- tomorrow it will be three weeks since my Husband of 27 years and my lover of 4 years longer got sick with a fever and cough... it was a sunday. On January 17... 4 days later this strong man I ...226 comments 397 Recs
- First, I want to thank you all for the outpouring of love from this community. I am deeply touched, as I always am, by the caring this community shows to its members. Today, his twin brother, ...594 comments 808 Recs
- The NRA used to be a grassroots organization lobbying for the right of individuals to own and use guns for lawful reasons, such as hunting or self-defense. For years, the battle was over whether the ...112 comments 162 Recs
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