Transgression II
In the late 1910s some of the best swindlers in America formed a con-artist ring based in Denver, Colorado. In the winter months they would spread across the southern states, plying their trade. In 1920 Joe Furey, a leader of the ring, was working his way through Texas, making hundreds of thousands of dollars with classic con games. In Fort Worth, he met a sucker named J. Frank Norfleet, a cattleman who owned a large ranch. Norfleet fell for the con. Convinced of the riches to come, he emptied his bank account of $45,000 and handed it over to Furey and his confederates. A few days later they gave him his "millions," which turned out to be a few good dollars wrapped around a packet of newspaper clippings.
Interpretation
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some men are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous. Never reject them with an insult until you know them better; you may be dealing with a Genghis Khan.
Over the next year, Khan led a series of guerrilla-like campaigns against the shah's much larger army. His method was totally novel for the time his soldiers could move very fast on horseback, and had mastered the art of firing with bow and arrow while mounted. The speed and flexibility of his forces allowed him to deceive Muhammad as to his intentions and the directions of his movements. Eventually he managed first to surround Samarkand, then to seize it. Muhammad fled, and a year later died, his vast empire broken and destroyed. Genghis Khan was sole master of Samarkand, the Silk Route, and most of northern Asia.
Genghis Khan was sure that this was a mistake that Inalchik had acted without Muhammad's approval. He sent yet another mission to Muhammad, reiterating himself had one of the ambassadors beheaded, and sent the other two back with shaved heads a horrifying insult in the Mongol code of honor. Khan sent a message to the shah: "You have chosen war. What will happen will happen, and what it is to be we know not; only God knows." Mobilizing his forces, in 1220 he attacked Inalchik's province, where he seized the capital, captured the governor, and ordered him executed by having molten silver poured into his eyes and ears.
Muhammad did not know this upstart from the east, who, it seemed to him, was extremely arrogant to try to talk as an equal to one so clearly his superior. He ignored Khan's offer. Khan tried again: This time he sent a caravan of a hundred camels filled with the rarest articles he had plundered from China. Before the caravan reached Muhammad, however, Inalchik, the governor of a region bordering on Samarkand, seized it for himself, and executed its leaders.
In 1219 Muhammad received an embassy from a new tribal leader to the east, Genghis Khan. The embassy included all sorts of gifts to the great Muhammad, representing the finest good from Khan's small but growing Mongol empire. Genghis Khan wanted to reopen the Silk Route to Europe, and offered to share it with Muhammad, while promising peace between the two empires.
Transgressions Of The Law
Transgression I
In the early part of the thirteenth century, Muhammad, the shah of Khwarezm, managed after many wars to forge a huge empire, extending west to present-day Turkey and south to Afghanistan. The empire's center was the great Asian capital of Samarkand. The shah had a powerful, well-trained army, and could mobilize 200,000 warriors within days.
The Plain, Unassuming, and Often Unintelligent Man. Ah, your ears prick up when you find such a tempting victim. But this man is a lot harder to deceive than you imagine. Falling for a ruse often takes intelligence and imagination a sense of the possible rewards. The blunt man will not take the bait because he does not recognize it. He is that unaware. The danger with this man is not that he will harm you or seek revenge, but merely that he will waste your time, energy resources, and even your sanity in trying to deceive him. Have a test ready for a mark a joke, a story. If his reaction is utterly literal, this is the type you are dealing with. Continue at your own risk.
The Serpent with a Long Memory. If hurt or deceived, this man will show no anger on the surface; he will calculate and wait. Then, when he is in a position to turn the tables, he will exact a revenge marked by a coldblooded shrewdness. Recognize this man by his calculation and cunning in the different areas of his life. He is usually cold and unaffectionate. Be doubly careful of this snake, and if you have somehow injured him, either crush him completely or get him out of your sight.
Mr. Suspicion. Another variant on the breeds above, this is a future Joe Stalin. He sees what he wants to see usually the worst in other people, and imagines that everyone is after him. Mr. Suspicion is in fact the least dangerous of the three: Genuinely unbalanced, he is easy to deceive, just as Stalin himself was constantly deceived. Play on his suspicious nature to get him to turn against other people. But if you do become the target of his suspicions, watch out.
The Hopelessly Insecure Man. This man is related to the proud and arrogant type, but is less violent and harder to spot. His ego is fragile, his sense of self insecure, and if he feels himself deceived or attacked, the hurt will simmer. He will attack you in bites that will take forever to get big enough for you to notice. If you find you have deceived or harmed such a man, disappear for a long time. Do not stay around him or he will nibble you to death.
The Arrogant and Proud Man. Although he may initially disguise it, this man's touchy pride makes him very dangerous. Any perceived slight will lead to a vengeance of overwhelming violence. You may say to yourself, "But I only said such-and-such at a party, where everyone was drunk...." It does not matter. There is no sanity behind his overreaction, so do not waste time trying to figure him out. If at any point in your dealings with a person you sense an oversensitive and overactive pride, flee. Whatever you are hoping for from him isn't worth it.
Know Who You're Dealing With Do Not Offend The Wrong Person
Opponents, Suckers, And Victims: Preliminary Typology
In your rise to power you will come across many breeds of opponent, sucker, and victim. The highest form of the art of power is the ability to distinguish the wolves from the lambs, the foxes from the hares, the hawks from the vultures. If you make this distinction well, you will succeed without needing to coerce anyone too much. But if you deal blindly with whomever crosses your path, you will have a life of constant sorrow, if you even live that long. Being able to recognize types of people, and to act accordingly, is critical. The following are the five most dangerous and difficult types of mark in the jungle, as identified by artists con and otherwise of the past.
MacOS is een populair besturingssysteem, ontwikkeld door Apple, dat vaak wordt gekozen vanwege zijn beveiligingskenmerken en gebruikersvriendelijkheid. Dit systeem is gebaseerd op Unix, wat betekent dat het van nature enkele inherente beveiligingsvoordelen biedt. In tegenstelling tot Windows, dat het grootste marktaandeel heeft en daarmee een aantrekkelijker doelwit is voor cyberaanvallen, wordt MacOS minder vaak getroffen door malware. Toch is MacOS niet immuun voor cyberbedreigingen, en als cybersecurityspecialist is het essentieel om te begrijpen hoe dit systeem werkt en welke beschermingsmaatregelen genomen kunnen worden.
MacOS maakt gebruik van een aantal beveiligingslagen die samenwerken om het systeem te beschermen tegen kwaadaardige software en onbevoegde toegang. Een van deze lagen is het systeem van rechten en machtigingen, waarbij elk proces of programma specifieke toegangsrechten krijgt. Dit betekent dat een gebruiker of applicatie alleen toegang heeft tot bestanden en mappen waarvoor expliciete toestemming is verleend. Hierdoor kunnen gebruikers ongewenste wijzigingen aan hun systeem beperken.
Een ander belangrijk kenmerk van MacOS is Gatekeeper, een ingebouwde beveiligingstechnologie die voorkomt dat niet-geautoriseerde software op het systeem wordt uitgevoerd. Gatekeeper controleert of de bron van een applicatie legitiem is door het te vergelijken met de digitale handtekeningen die door Apple zijn verstrekt. Als een applicatie van buiten de Apple App Store wordt gedownload, waarschuwt Gatekeeper de gebruiker en vraagt om expliciete toestemming om de app te openen. Dit helpt om te voorkomen dat malware ongemerkt wordt geïnstalleerd.
Daarnaast heeft MacOS een ingebouwde firewall waarmee gebruikers hun netwerkverkeer kunnen beheren. Deze firewall biedt een belangrijke beschermingslaag tegen ongeautoriseerde verbindingen en voorkomt dat kwaadaardige actoren toegang krijgen tot het systeem via het netwerk. De firewall kan worden aangepast om bepaalde verbindingen toe te staan of te blokkeren, afhankelijk van de beveiligingsvereisten van de gebruiker. Dit is vooral belangrijk bij het verbinden met openbare netwerken, waar de kans op ongeautoriseerde toegang groter is.
MacOS maakt ook gebruik van XProtect, een antimalwareprogramma dat automatisch werkt om schadelijke software te detecteren en te blokkeren. XProtect controleert het systeem voortdurend en wordt regelmatig bijgewerkt om de nieuwste malwaredefinities te bevatten. Wanneer XProtect een verdachte applicatie detecteert, wordt de gebruiker gewaarschuwd, en de schadelijke software wordt geblokkeerd. Hoewel XProtect niet de uitgebreide bescherming biedt van commerciële antivirussoftware, vormt het een essentiële eerste verdedigingslinie tegen veelvoorkomende malware.
Naast de ingebouwde beveiligingsopties heeft MacOS ook een robuuste infrastructuur voor encryptie. FileVault is de encryptietechnologie die door MacOS wordt gebruikt om gegevens op de harde schijf te versleutelen. Dit betekent dat als een Mac gestolen wordt of verloren gaat, de gegevens moeilijker toegankelijk zijn voor onbevoegden. FileVault maakt gebruik van krachtige AES-256-codering om ervoor te zorgen dat de gegevens veilig blijven, zelfs als de hardware in verkeerde handen valt. Het activeren van FileVault is sterk aanbevolen voor gebruikers die met gevoelige gegevens werken, vooral in sectoren zoals cybersecurity waar gegevensbeveiliging essentieel is.
Een ander belangrijk element van de beveiliging op MacOS is het beheer van systeemupdates. Apple brengt regelmatig updates uit die niet alleen nieuwe functies en verbeteringen bevatten, maar ook belangrijke beveiligingspatches. Het is cruciaal voor cybersecurityprofessionals om ervoor te zorgen dat deze updates zo snel mogelijk worden geïnstalleerd om kwetsbaarheden te minimaliseren. Aanvallers zijn vaak snel om misbruik te maken van bekende zwakke plekken in systemen die nog niet zijn bijgewerkt. Automatische updates zorgen ervoor dat MacOS-gebruikers minder kwetsbaar zijn voor bekende bedreigingen.
Cybersecurity op MacOS vereist echter niet alleen kennis van de ingebouwde beveiligingsfuncties. Het is ook belangrijk om te begrijpen hoe MacOS zich verhoudt tot netwerkbeveiliging en hoe applicaties van derden kunnen worden beheerd. Het installeren van beveiligingstools zoals VPN’s en netwerkmonitoringsoftware kan helpen om verbindingen te beveiligen en verdachte activiteiten op te sporen. Bovendien moeten gebruikers zich bewust zijn van de gevaren van social engineering en phishing, aangezien deze aanvallen vaak onafhankelijk zijn van het besturingssysteem en gericht zijn op de gebruiker zelf.
Voor een cybersecurityspecialist biedt MacOS interessante mogelijkheden om beveiliging te optimaliseren door het implementeren van extra beveiligingslagen. Hoewel de standaardinstellingen van MacOS al robuust zijn, kan het aanpassen van de instellingen voor specifieke beveiligingsbehoeften zorgen voor een hogere mate van bescherming. Het is ook mogelijk om met behulp van terminalcommando’s geavanceerde configuraties uit te voeren en scripts te schrijven die routinetaken automatiseren, zoals het controleren van logbestanden of het beheren van back-ups. Deze mate van controle kan handig zijn om ervoor te zorgen dat alle aspecten van de systeembeveiliging gedekt zijn.
Daarnaast biedt MacOS ondersteuning voor tools zoals Wireshark, Nmap en Burp Suite, die essentieel zijn voor cybersecurityprofessionals bij het uitvoeren van netwerkbeveiligingstests en kwetsbaarheidsanalyses. De compatibiliteit van MacOS met deze tools maakt het een waardevol platform voor professionals die penetratietests uitvoeren en risico’s in kaart willen brengen.
The Honorable Melissa G. Dalton
General James C. Slife
General Michael A. Guetlein
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing. Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
When questioned, should I become a prisoner of war, I am required to give name, rank, Service Number, and date of birth. I will evade answering further questions to the utmost of my ability. I will make no oral or written statements disloyal to my country and its allies or harmful to their cause.
I will never forget that I am an American, fighting for freedom, responsible for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which made my country free. I will trust in my God and in the United States of America.
What's that supposed to be about baby go free of your vibe stop acting crazy, you know I give you the good loving daily
Robbery is larceny with two additional requirements: (1) the property must be taken from the person or presence of another; and (2) the taking must be accomplished by means of force or fear.
A "claim of right" to property is a belief that the defendant has the right to take the property. A legitimate claim of right negates the intent-to-steal element of larceny and robbery. A defendant who takes property in satisfaction of an liquidated debt or takes more than the amount of the debt has no legitimate claim of right.
Robbery by force requires that the defendant take the property from the person of another by force, however slight. Force is sufficient for robbery if it is sufficient to overcome the victim's resistance or struggle.
Some jurisdictions hold that a defendant may be convicted of multiple robberies if the defendant uses force/fear on multiple individuals even if the defendant only takes property from one person. Other jurisdictions hold a defendant may be convicted of only one robbery if the defendant takes property from only on person even if the defendant uses force/fear on multiple individuals.
Robbery requires that the property be taken from the person or presence of another and be in the victim's possession, actual or constructive. Possession requires the defendant to exercise actual control over the property or have authority to exercise control over the property.
Some jurisdictions require the use of force or fear to facilitate the taking of property itself and thus precede or be concurrent with the taking. Other jurisdictions allow the use of force or fear to occur anytime "in the course of" the theft, including after the taking if the defendant uses the force or fear in resisting an attempt to regain the property or during flight.
Common law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another in the nighttime with the intent to commit a felony.
MPC 221.1(1), Burglary: The entering of a building or occupied structure or separately occupied portion thereof, with the purpose to commit a crime therein.
Breaking: the common-law breaking requirement required the defendant to create the opening in the premises through which the defendant entered.
Entering: Burglary occurs only if the entry into the premises is trespassory, that is, without invitation of the owner. If authority is granted only to enter certain portions of the building, entering other portions is trespassory. Further, if the invitation to enter is obtained by trick, entry is trespassory.
Entry may occur by the defendant's body or an instrument. In most jurisdictions, insertion of an instrument into the premises is sufficient whether the instrument is being used to commit the target felony or solely to gain entry. In common law jurisdiction, insertion of an instrument into the premises is sufficient only if the instrument is being used to commit the target felony, not solely to gain entry.
A dwelling is a place where at least one person resides. Under the MPC, a "building or occupied structure" is one used as a dwelling or as a place for doing business.
The defendant has the requisite mental state for burglary only if the defendant enters while already having the purpose to commit the felony (common law) or crime (MPC).
False pretenses is the false representation of a material present or past fact which causes the victim to pass title to his property to the wrongdoer who knows his representation to be false and intends thereby to defraud the victim.
A representation is material if it would reasonably tend to influence the conduct of the victim.
In some jurisdictions, a promise the promisor does not intend to keep constitutes a statement of present fact. In other jurisdictions, a promise the promisor does not intend to keep constitutes a statement of future fact.
The victim must pass title to the property in reliance on the false representation.
False pretenses requires the victim to actually pass title of the property to the defendant. If the victim merely passes possession to the defendant, assuming the other elements of false pretenses are satisfied, the crime is "larceny by trick" rather than false pretenses.
A defendant has intent to defraud if the defendant purposely deprives the owner of the property by deceit.
