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Methinks, I had another idea!! What if we gave a lot of the old Windows 7 computers to people in India? The computers are probably still good then almost everyone could have a computer in India or Microsoft and other Pc makers could also make low cost computers for less developed countries. Probably a dumb idea because I don’t know what they do now!! Seems like the world has all the resources to take care of the less fortunate and give them the opportunity to grow with the world economy!! A win win!!!
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/catona-climate-to-deliver-microsoft-350-000-tonnes-of-carbon-removal-through-agroforestry-project-302066748.html
Microsoft wants to be carbon neutral. Do they have solar energy like Tesla has with Hawaiian power on Kauai to make data centers carbon neutral along with Tesla’s battery packs and hopefully the data servers have TPMs in them?? There could be data centers not using up so much energy from the electric grid by using Tesla’s technology!! Then Wave’s Trust at the Edge and Microsoft’s protected cloud could really do wonders in protection of data for the world!! Do we really need to make a big carbon footprint by getting rid of all the Windows 7 machines? Wait until the India economy really picks up, everyone there will have a computer and Tesla in no time!! I’m sure that would make the Microsoft CEO happy!! Then Microsoft could sell its good services rather than all this complicated AI stuff!!! Methinks, I really value your opinions and how is Infineon doing? Wave worked with all the TPMs!!!
Methinks, sorry to post so much, but I thought this article was interesting!! If an organization gets hacked once, one would think that the ratings agencies would start downgrading these companies or the ratings agencies could risk their reputations as ratings agencies!! And isn’t it time for companies to have activated hardware security protecting them and which is already built in to enterprise computers already!! If the government doesn’t make hardware security mandatory surely ratings agencies would after this year after year cybersecurity debacle!!! Ratings agencies should have been downgrading these companies already!!!!!
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/moodys-says-hack-against-unitedhealth-group-is-credit-negative-company-2024-02-23/
Ok Methinks, here is a mainstream publication publishing the benefits of having the TPM!! The TPM is even more important for organizations!! Why isn’t there a mainstream publication for organizations explaining what the TPM and Wave can do with device authentication?? Many consumers don’t seem to give a rip about the TPM and think it’s bad, but really the TPM is bad ass for organizations and the TCG should be spreading the word and it’s activation in organizations should be mandatory!! Microsoft should move over and let Wave/ESW lead the way!! And the government and organizations should have recognized this a LONG time ago!!! Microsoft has been too busy pushing AI and HSMs which are costly cybersecurity and lock organizations in to that security!!
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/what-is-a-tpm-and-why-do-i-need-one-for-windows-11
Methinks, I’ll stop blabbing and let you and unixguy share because what do I really know. I’ve got a lot more to learn in life, but what if we made all this commercial space in NY call centers for charity and customer service. We need people who can talk in English and other languages not the round about that we get from speaking to computers over the phone. I think we need to speak to humans and companies who have great customer service would have more people want to be customers of their companies. IMO NEW YORK could be the customer service capital of the world!!! Just a crazy idea!!
Methinks, I thought Warren Buffet was an investor in Wave awhile back. Maybe he just decided to go invest in Bill and Melinda Gates charities and not back the brilliant Wave because of the power Microsoft had!! He probably knew that Wave had the better security but didn’t have the money! Warren went with the money!! Wouldn’t it be nice if he donated to the old vets and people who have lived in this country at least the last five years and been homeless!! My dream is the world lives in peace, gets along and that Wave helps out the world with its trusted computing so we don’t have all these data breaches and bad guys on the networks!!!
Methinks, and not to be judgey but Tony Robbins owns a whole lot of this, that and the other thing!!! Maybe he should walk the walk rather than own so much!! I’m doing okay, but I try to give to those who deserve it like hardworking McDonalds employees. You wonder why they don’t get tips yet they have the Ronald McDonald charity boxes at the cash registers. Does that money all really go to the charity? I like to give the guy or girl who waits on me a few bucks, but they’ve gotten expensive because where is the money going!! Help the employees!!!
Methinks, I remember Anthony Robbins saying that consuming 70% of our income giving 20% to charity or people in your family who needed it and saving 10%. Imagine if presidents, rich people like Jeff Bezos who cashed out 8.5 billion from Amazon stock lived by that rule maybe the world wouldn’t be so screwed up and not peaceful like it is today!! I think we should all try to give to those less fortunate and before we die so we can feel good about ourselves!! Or just be kind to one another!!!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/23/the-new-sec-cybersecurity-disclosure-rule-is-live-now-what/amp/
By the time the CEOs, board members and IT people or cybersecurity people agree on anything about their cybersecurity posture, the market is going to get hacked BIG TIME!! The government should issue mandatory standards like the TCG and NIST already have in place!! Trusted computing with the help of Wave/ESW could quickly lead organizations to have a much better security posture!! More meetings and manuals with these people isn’t going to get anything done in a timely manner!! Biden should issue an executive order to make these standards and activated TPMs and SEDs the law with a nod from Congress rather than all the bickering that happens when the congress gets back from vacation and gets NOTHING done!!! How many lives were lost because we didn’t have seatbelts and airbags mandatory? Do we need a continued repeat of not having laws to protect us from cyberattacks? As Nike would say-JUST DO IT!!!
Methinks, this is off topic, but I think War and Peace are an important topic and I’ll continue to post about Wave in the future, but I learned a couple of things from two 95 year old Army veteran’s a few years ago. One was that one of the men got home from the war and couldn’t wait to throw his uniform in the garbage!! Another said that one of the rules while they were fighting is if you were commanded to get out of your fox hole and go fight or shoot at the enemy and you didn’t you could be shot by your commander!!! Isn’t war stupid?? Why can’t humans get along? Maybe if we shared a little more and knew our money was being donated to the right places and not scams or going to all these charity leaders!!! Or not all this money going to charity mail marketing. I think people want to donate, but so many charities scam people!! My grandfather said the Salvation Army really helped the soldiers during World War II.
Continued from previous post. Another thought Methinks, why don’t the soldiers we’ve created now learn to be brave and fight like our old veterans did rather than playing video games? Don’t you think money would be better spent going to the veteran’s and securing our nation with cybersecurity that works like Wave/ESW?!!
I don’t think we should have war given what all our old veterans went through. What is the purpose of killing off humanity??
Methinks, isn’t this article just an example of the power and unreasonableness that Microsoft does with the US government? Won’t it be interesting if the government still supports Microsoft Azure after the recent hack? Can you imagine how much better the U.S. cybersecurity would be if they didn’t spend all this money on HoloLens and instead spent half or even less on Wave/ESW and Trusted Computing? Wouldn’t the world really be a better place or is Microsoft’s bottom line that important? Or is the government going to spend precious dollars on Microsoft’s AI too?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23871859/us-army-microsoft-ivas-ar-goggles-success-new-contract-hololens
Methinks, how many verticals have to be hacked before the Biden administration does something besides SEC reporting requirements?! Do the bought off politicians still want to support the Microsoft’s of the world with inferior cybersecurity or go with Wave/ESW and better security so data breaches and cyber attacks don’t keep happening. Better late than never to get behind the TCG and Wave/ESW!!!!
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/change-healthcare-cyberattack/amp/
Methinks, wouldn’t securing these networks with Wave be a great idea given what is going on in the World?? Wave scales up fast!!! Is SKS awake now? Hope Biden is!!!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/massive-atandt-outage-impacts-us-mobile-subscribers/amp/
Methinks, coming from Microsoft, this says a lot about AI!!! What are the ramifications of having AI? AI is scary and unproven!!! Better late than never to use Wave!!!
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-president-compares-artificial-intelligence-to-terminator-says-we-better-have-a-way-to-slow-down-or-turn-off-ai
The last post should have had this link:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-offers-15-million-bounty-for-info-on-lockbit-ransomware-gang/amp/
Methinks this is a travesty!! The U.S. could have and now should be having organizations using Wave, activated TPMs, and managed SEDs to stop LockBit!! But no, now we are spending $15 million on trying to put a BANDAID on this huge ransomware problem!!! I think money like this should have been better spent awhile ago on WAVE’s better security!! Are these people running the show stupid?? THINK people, THINK!! Wave should be coming to help and not ignored because if they have to resort to this then they are saying that no other security is working!!! Or the government would be using Wave along with all the other organizations across the world. This happening now is assinine!! Trump and Biden should be ashamed at what their leaders have done for cybersecurity. All this money has been spent on it and what did we get?? And now we have AI and quantum computing which looks like a sophisticated coffee maker!!! YIKES!!!!
Methinks that is a great post, and also most organizations’ computer FLEETS have 100% TPMS so the computer network could be secured if Wave activated the TPMS and used its software !! Time is of the essence now!!!
Also Methinks and Unixguy, don’t you think Microsoft should be promoting the TCG since they made TPMs mandatory for Windows11? Why do they want to use HSMs when all that costs more and locks organizations into that security and can’t scale up fast the way Wave can?
Please see previous post too. If the Republicans don’t support it too then they are toast!!!
Methinks, With the weight of the companies in the TCG, I would think that would influence the Biden administration and Wave should be part of the TCG again!! Stop dily dallying around people!! Cybersecurity in the world is crashing and burning and has been for awhile and if the democrats don’t get their act together and make mandatory the standards in the TCG then they have no chance in the election!!
Unixguy, I think Steven Sprague was just trying to do too much with crypto and Rivetz. I don’t think anyone could understand it where Wave is much simpler and Steven was a real pro at explaining it to the masses!! Doesn’t it seem crazy that a computer does all these calculations using up tons of power and then when you derive one Bitcoin you can buy a car with that amount. The micro strategy CEO just seems like someone who is possessed and is delusional in his thinking. If Crypto is going to replace the dollar how are you going to be able to keep track in your head how much you have spent at a few stores? The dollar may soon be worthless and is counterfitable, but what about coins that no one can easily replicate. Wouldn’t they be a good currency? Rather than printed debt!! We use PayPal, credit cards, debit cards, Venmo, crypto, and a lot of people don’t use cash and that instead. What is cash worth? Why not use coins? I think SKS just got caught up in the crypto craze and his true passion was with Wave!! I think he is a brilliant person that has gotten sidetracked with crypto and Wave just never had the financial resources and the market didn’t want to listen to this underfinanced company with awesome ideas about cybersecurity!! TPMs have saturated company computer fleets so many organizations are already to go now and have their networks protected!! I think Microsoft bullied or used some of Waves ideas and Steven was smarter than Bill Gates, but Microsoft had all the money, but Microsoft is too much into the cloud (huge target) and not like Wave which is Trust at the Edge of the network which are scattered one by one targets spread out over a lot a computers with the TPM built in security. I think the Microsoft Cloud/AI model is cruisin for a bruising as it has already shown!!!
Unixguy, a lot of times data breaches are because of phishing like the Microsoft Azure hack and Wave prevents phishing. I have already posted awhile ago about Okta, and Securid! They don’t use DEVICE authentication like Wave does and Palo Alto, Microsoft, and Crowdstrike haven’t taken care of this data breach problem or there wouldn’t be all these data breaches and I’m sorry but AI is a nightmare for reasons I’ve already explained. Thank you for your input!! It’s nice to have you back on the board!!!
Methinks, remember when Wave played that Van Halen song Right Here Right Now what are you waiting for? Well now what is the government, organizations, the TCG, Wave, Steven Sprague, Michael Sprague and Bill Solms and ESW waiting for?? Are they waiting for all the cloud to get hacked like Microsoft with Azure or is everyone still delusional that AI is going to solve the cybersecurity problem? If you ask me, I think the world’s cybersecurity is just too complicated, expensive, and just plain not getting the job done!! What is the matter with the leaders of this world?? They should be ashamed of themselves for letting this cybersecurity MESS go on this long!! Methinks and Unixguy and any Wavoids listening, what do you think??
Methinks, I forgot to include Cisco Duo under all the other cybersecurity name’s that don’t get the job done like Wave’s device authentication!! Don’t you think that the world should be begging or screaming for Wave’s solutions?
https://hits.medicine.umich.edu/news/trouble-two-factor-paradise-hackers-double-down-duo-scams#:~:text=Duo%2C%20U%2DM's%20two%2D,latest%20technology%20targeted%20by%20hackers.
Methinks, is the world’s cybersecurity TERRIBLE or what? Here is a multinational with 150,000 seats and this happens???
From the article: After gaining access to a target’s network, they moved LATERALLY through the compromised network while stealing sensitive data to use as leverage in ransom negotiations.
Wave can turn on TPMs at scale and use device authentication so this type of crap doesn’t continue to happen!! But no, let’s go with Palo Alto, Microsoft, Crowdstrike, Okta or Securid and AI for protection. Are companies just plain dumb or is Wave not making itself available??
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cactus-ransomware-claim-to-steal-15tb-of-schneider-electric-data/amp/
Methinks, isn’t this TERRIBLE!! I remember Bill Solms saying once that if you ever even made it through the TPM the hackers wouldn’t be able to move laterally on the network like they do here!! I believe it’s harder to crack hardware than it is software so that’s where Wave has a big advantage with software and HARDWARE!!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-hackers-linked-to-defense-sector-supply-chain-attack/amp/
Ok now Methinks, should we go with Trust at the Edge and Wave or Microsoft?? Hmmmmmm!!
https://techreport.com/news/microsoft-azure-hit-with-the-largest-data-breach-in-its-history-hundreds-of-executive-accounts-compromised/
And I have especially enjoyed my time with Methinks!! He is A class in my book and I am SO THANKFUL for him!!!!!
Unixguy, no matter what ends up happening with Wave and all the money that POTENTIALLY was lost, I really enjoyed my time with the Wavoids!! Especially Barge, weby and Snackman and many others!! The world is missing Steven Sprague and Wave because I believe he was a really smart CEO, but had the forces of Microsoft and others with deeper pockets working against Wave!! Now we have ESW and they should be able to equitably share with everyone given the employees and shareholders sacrifices for the company!!! Especially I believe when Wave TAKES OFF!!!!
Why did Microsoft make TPMs standard in windows 11?? Why did a 150,000 seat financial service company sign up with Wave? It’s interesting that the whole computer industry paid for these TPMs to have them put this chip into computers!! Certainly it is strange that Wave is not flourish with its wonderful products!! I’ll text later!!
Oh my gosh unixguy. So good to have an addition to the board. It was getting lonely out here with just Methinks and I!! Yes, I am an original Wavoid who is just believing in his dreams! I miss all the old Wavoids!! Hope a lot of them are still alive! Yes, ESW took over Wave, but stranger things have happened and so sorry to see you lose money, but they say you don’t lose money until you sell! If the TPM wasn’t true why did Volkswagen use them and PWC? There are others too, but I don’t want to bore you. Good luck in your investments and thank you for posting!!!
Methinks, continued from the last post: what I meant to say by interoperable is Wave would get the job done but for whatever reason an organization wanted to go with another vendor they could. Microsoft and AI could lock companies in with their cybersecurity.
HSMs with Microsoft could work well, but by being locked in with Microsoft, Microsoft could make prices unreasonable by locking their customers in and with AI too!!
Methinks, with what’s going on in the world (see article) why aren’t we protecting our computers, data and networks from a cyber attack with Wave, activated TPMs and SEDs? AI on top of the Microsoft’s, Palo Alto’, Crowd Strike’s, Okta’s Securid’s etc. haven’t proven themselves the way Wave has!! If these companies and their MFA didn’t really stop data breaches and keep unknown devices off networks then what good is AI going to do? I think companies don’t realize that AI is unproven for cybersecurity, it’s too complex, software updates can be a nightmare and can’t get the job done for cybersecurity. They are just following the herd!! I think people think if they say they have AI in their products their stock will go up so everyone just says we have AI without giving any real thought as to what AI can do!! People just don’t think outside the box!! And with AI I think people are living in an AI box that this mogul in China came up with!! Steven Sprague, Wave and Trusted Computing should help cybersecurity become the security force that works, not AI with these other companies many of which have been hacked or data breaches have occurred in the very organizations they were supposed to protect!!! Way too many hacks, data breaches and unknown devices on organizations networks have occurred while the above companies have been paid way too much to protect these organizations plus Wave is interoperable which means that Wave can be replaced. If AI or HSMs with Microsoft suck how interoperable are they? Wave gets the job done, but companies can use someone else besides Wave for its security if wave doesn’t get the job done!! TIME FOR WAVE TO SHINE!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/world/middleeast/iran-israel-attacks-gas-pipelines.html
Methinks, this post related to why Trust at the Edge with Wave would be less hard on the electric grid than all these data centers that are going to use AI AND Bitcoin mining? Our country and the world could have less targeted (the cloud for cyber attacks), better security, less power consumption and keep older computers from going into landfills by turning on TPMs in Windows 7 computers and possiblly replacing the hard drive with a great SSD SED!! And use an encrypted 1TB external SSD instead of hoping that the cloud will protect your data!! Customers wouldn’t have to spend thousands on a computer with AI Co pilot that would require all kinds of complicated software updates. Seems like a no brainer to me!! Or if your computer is REALLY puttering out only then do you get a new computer!! Why waste a perfectly good old Window 7 computer. Sometimes the old ones are built better than the new ones!!!
Methinks, just think how many Microsoft Windows Hello customers who listened to Microsoft to use facial recognition are now kicking themselves for not using a PIN, the TPM and Wave to start with?! Should their customers keep listening to them about wasting their money on Microsoft’s co pilot AI?? Time to listen to the Trusted Computing pioneer and thought leader (Wave) not a company that keeps getting hacked!!!
Methinks, proven Wave security and TCG standards vs. unproven complicated AI with no standards!! It’s really not a difficult decision. Even Biden with his limited mental faculties and his cronies should be able to put the U.S in the top cybersecurity position by delivering an already thought out set of standards!!! It’s really not that difficult. The NIST supports the hardware standards but may make it difficult to understand, but Wave makes it simple and it’s this better security that could save the world from further data breach disasters and having the unknown on our networks!!! TIME FOR ACTION not more committees and long manuals!!!
Bla bla bla!! Methinks, is AI really ever going to accomplish what Wave can for cybersecurity?? Articles like this just spend more time going through protocols and bla bla bla for AI!! More requirements, more computer processing power, more complexity, more use of a big target in the cloud and more complicated software updates!!! When will Steven Sprague wake up from his nap and trigger some better, brighter Wave security thoughts for the mentally misguided AI herd???
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/ai-and-cyber-security-what-you-need-to-know
Geez Methinks, what about device authentication with Wave? Doesn’t this facial recognition seem a lot less secure now after an article like this? With Windows Hello, wasn’t facial recognition what Microsoft was pushing for?!
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/15/cybercriminals_stealing_face_id/
Ok Methinks, the question is: what are all these companies using to secure their data and networks? Does the market need to be hit over the head with a hammer to wake itself up from this ongoing nightmare and to start using Wave? Is Steven Sprague in bed still or still chasing the crypto advance leading to nowhere but a cliff? Wake up people and REALLY STOP BREACHES unlike the other stupid ads (not saying who but you have seen those dumb ads). What is the excuse this time for not using Wave? Tell me, what else REALLY works?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/prudential-financial-breached-in-data-theft-cyberattack/amp/