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Foundations of Amateur Radio So, the 19th of February 2024 came and went. As it was, my day started with the highest minimum that month, 27.5 degrees Celsius, that's the minimum overnight temperature. The maximum that day here in Perth, Western Australia was 42.3 degrees. The day before was the highest maximum for the month, 42.9. If you're not sure, that's over 109 in Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit's scale. That same day the Australian regulator, the ACMA, launched a new era in Amateur Radio. Moving from personal amateur licenses we legally became part of a class license regime. We have the option to hand our license back and get a refund, but the cautious side of me prevailed and I've not yet handed back my license, since it's currently the only proof that my callsign is valid, the one issued to me in December 2010. I contacted the ACMA to ask about this and was told that they were having display issues with their system and was sent an image showing both my callsigns and email address. I'm not saying that I don't trust the person sending this to me, but I'm fairly sure that "but your honour, it was in an email" isn't going to cut it if push comes to shove. Curiously my name appears to be missing, showing the word "Blank" instead. Their IT team has been working on displaying F-calls for weeks now. I mean, seriously, these were first issued in 2005. Do we really need to spell this out? The ACMA continues to actively encourage amateurs to hand in their license and points out that any delay in doing so will reduce the amount that may be due. It also points at Schedule 4, Part 2 subclause (7)(1)(d) of the Radiocommunications (Amateur Stations) Class Licence 2023, to assure me that my callsign is mine and mine alone, irrespective of what's in the register. It goes on to say that the letter they sent back in January, the one they had to resend, since they got my callsign details wrong, explained that I could hand back my license and that my ability to operate hinged on my qualification, not my callsign. Here's the rub. Let's say that I'm qualified and that the letter I have proves it. I am required to identify myself on-air, the regulations say so. This means that in order for me to claim that I am who I say I am, there needs to be a register with that callsign. Apparently I'm in the register, but nobody other than the regulator can prove that. One thing that appears to be missing is a solid understanding that the register of callsigns is used by the amateur community to determine if a callsign heard on-air is assigned or not. I mean, I could call myself VK6EEN and without the register who's to say that it's mine? It's not confidence inspiring to say the least. Then there's the register itself. There's an online component, which you can use to search for a callsign. As I said, mine isn't visible, neither is any other four letter F-call. As a test, I've been scrolling, one page at a time, for the past hour, to get to VK6F, starting at VK6A, to see if it shows up, but I'm not holding my breath. For some reason the developers who built this appear incapable of rendering a simple table in anything less than 36 seconds per page, so much so that Chrome thinks that the page has crashed and offers to kill it, every time. Funnily enough, if you extract the URL from within the page and copy it, you can download all 176 pages for VK6 callsigns in less time than it took me to write this sentence. Unsurprisingly, F-calls are not there. Did I mention that this software, released a month ago, is already using depreciated features in my current web browser, which came out a week before the new register went live? It gets better. If you actually want to manage your callsign, you need to create an account on the regulator's portal, called ACMA Assist. When you load the ACMA Assist URL and click the "Sign up or log in" button, 134 different URLs from all over the Internet are hit, across 34 different domains, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Markmonitor, Monsido, several content, font, icon and javascript libraries, and plenty more. This is a Government website, requiring that I authenticate to it, and to do that, I'm required to provide more identity documents than the tax department needs and wait for it, authentication is outsourced to some random domain, so you're entering your details into a third-party service. You have the choice of using the Government identity provider, one that requires a mobile phone and an app, or use a Government owned company that prefers a mobile and a different app, but offers access via a website on yet another domain. Now it gets funky. If you pick "driver's license", you'll discover that everything that's on your license is information that the form wants. So anyone with a photo of your license can sign up and identify as you, like the chemist who required a photocopy of it so you could buy Sudafed for your debilitating hay fever, because instead, you might use it to create methamphetamine, or the nightclub that required it so you could enter the venue because of course they do, or the telecommunications company that provided access to your details during a recent hack. Just so we're clear here. I'm now required to validate my identity to access a callsign that is already in the database, already has my email address linked to it and is for an amateur license that I already have been in possession of and paid for since 2010. Never mind that I used to email the regulator to have them issue an invoice that I paid for via credit card, no authentication at all, and that was for a personal license, issued specifically to me. We'll also ignore that if you signed up with ACMA Assist a year ago, you don't need to validate, not then, not now. Speaking of email. The ACMA has just sent me one telling me that I can request and fill in a form and email or fax it to them to update my records instead. That's interesting, but what about the privacy implications of tracking by the worlds mega corporations on a Government site or even the security theatre for something that according to the regulator isn't even my permission to operate? I'm all for giving the regulator the benefit of doubt, but if this is the future of Amateur Radio Licensing in Australia, I'm beginning to wonder just which Wild West Orwellian landscape I stepped into and I'm asking myself is this the best that our limited tax payer dollars can achieve? If you want to see this for yourself, open up your browser, press F12 and have a look at the network connection tab while you visit the ACMA Assist portal. Finally, I have one question. Why are our so-called representative bodies, the WIA and RASA, not jumping up and down about this? Apparently, I'm Onno VK6FLAB
This week on The Exit: From the Japanese ice cream industry to US Federal Defense, Sascha Mornell has worked in vastly different industries, but throughout his career, achieving an exit has been the common denominator. Sascha has been a part of three exits, the first of which occurred when he joined a startup called Register.com where he was the first employee. That business achieved a successful $800 million IPO and gave him a taste of what it felt like to scale a business towards an exit. From there Sascha started two businesses, the first providing solutions to the civilian and defense markets of the federal government, the second is now the world's largest boat rental marketplace, Get My Boat. He exited both businesses successfully, and shares his truly unique entrepreneurial journey on this week's episode of The Exit. Sascha Mornell is a serial entrepreneur (with three out of five successful exits), philanthropist and investor. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Getmyboat, the world's largest boat rental & water experience marketplace (a majority stake was acquired by Yanmar in 2022). Before Getmyboat he was the co-founder and CEO/Chairman of Phacil (acquired in 2019), a highly decorated and award-winning technology services federal government contractor. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at register.com, which he helped grow and take public in 2000 in a $800 million IPO. Sascha is also the Director and co-founder of the SaraVenture Foundation, a multi-million dollar non-profit (DAF) focused on community, education, youth and leadership causes. He is an angel investor in, and advisor to, Hazon Solutions (acquired by PrecisionHawk), YourMechanic (acquired by Wrench), MarkMonitor (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Osmio (acquired by Aramark/GrubHub), Tint, Perigee and Brij. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saschamornell/ Getmyboat: https://www.getmyboat.com/ Flippa's First Access: https://flippa.com/exit For a Free Flippa Business Valuation: flippa.com/freevaluation -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You'll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/
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In this episode Brian King, Head of Government and Industry Affairs at Clarivate MarkMonitor speaks with Tony Kirsch, Head of Professional Services at GoDaddy Registry on a range of industry topics including the importance of the next round of TLD applications for brand owners. Brian also discusses the following: Lessons from assisting brands in the 2012 round of new TLDs Enhancements in security in the domain industry Innovations from new TLD owners Predictions on the next round of TLDs. Love our podcast? Subscribe, rate and leave us a review. To find out how partnering with GoDaddy Registry for your top-level domain can benefit your business, visit our website at www.registry.godaddy or email hello@registry.godaddy.
Clarivate provides trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. They have built some of the most trusted brands across the innovation lifecycle, including the Web of Science™, Cortellis™, Derwent™, CompuMark™, MarkMonitor™, and Techstreet™. Today, Clarivate is on a bold entrepreneurial mission to help customers reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing innovations. The company is on a mission to change how the world’s risk-takers and trailblazers create life-changing innovations. They believe that human ingenuity can change the world and improve our future. Clarivate is a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. Our vision is to improve the way the world creates, protects, and advances innovation. Jerre is Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clarivate plc. Jerre served as CEO of Churchill Capital Corp until its merger with Clarivate in May 2019. He has led and been on the board of over 50+ companies. He is also a high-net-worth philanthropist who started a children’s hospital in Iowa and created mental health centers across the US. We discuss how cross-global teams can collaborate amid a pandemic after an acquisition and bridging company cultures after an acquisition. We also talk about why are entrepreneurs are so important to the post-COVID economy and how COVID will impact the way people work. Finally, we explore the top trends Jerre is seeing in the health tech sector.
Pues los chicos malos de la seguridad informática Israelí: NSO Group, vuelven a aparecer en los encabezados. Ya previamente escuchamos noticias sobre su software de hackeo PEGASUS que puede controlar completamente tu móvil con sólo recibir un mensaje de texto. De hecho tiene dos vertientes, uno que necesita 1 clic para ser activado y otro que no necesita interacción alguna. También son los mismos que usaron una vulnerabilidad de whatsapp para atacar algunos objetivos. Bueno, pues según la revista Motherboard, un ex-empleado de NSO Group, les filtró información de una dirección IP de un servidor en estados unidos que la firma usó para atacar objetivos fingiendo ser un sitio del equipo de seguridad de Facebook. La revista Motherboard pudo confirmar a través del investigador de citizen lab John Scott-Railton que dicha IP está relacionada con la infraestructura del grupo NSO y que se hospeda en un servidor dentro de la nube de Amazon AWS. A través de servicios que relacionan históricamente los nombres de dominio y las Ips a las que resuelven, revelaron que efectivamente un dominio se usó para fingir ser parte de la estructura de Facebook. De hecho, Facebook, al darse cuenta de esto, adquirió posteriormente dicho dominio a través de la empresa de gestión de dominios MarkMonitor. Y como ya se han de imaginar, el despedorre legal ya se puso al 100. Facebook ya cuenta con demandas activas en contra de NSO y hasta el momento no se sabe si Amazon actuará legalmente contra el grupo israelí por infringir sus políticas de uso. Y la pregunta de los 64mil para nuestros escuchas es ¿por qué la NSO Group cuenta con tanta libertad de acción en suelo americano? ¿Habrá de pormedio algún acuerdo de intercambio de inteligencia que solape dicho comportamiento?
Neste quinquagésimo e comemorativo episódio, Paulo Sant’anna recebe novamente Carlos Botelho, Gerente Técnico de Contas da MarkMonitor, para uma conversa bastante interessante a respeito dos Serviços de Proteção de marcas. Carlos explicou que o Serviço de Proteção de marcas foi criado pela própria MarkMonitor no ano 2000, tornando-se líder mundial no que tange ao monitoramento do uso de marca de terceiros na Internet. O serviço atua na identificação de infrações e situações com determinada marca de uma empresa sendo utilizada indevidamente por outros como, por exemplo, em registro de domínios, logotipos utilizados no conteúdo de sites, páginas e anúncios falsos. entre outros exemplos. Durante o podcast, Carlos apresentou cada módulo que compõe o Serviço de proteção de marcas. São eles: Módulo Websites - Módulo criado para a monitoração do uso da marca em registro de domínios, em conteúdo de sites e logotipos sendo utilizados indevidamente. Módulo MarketPlace - Responsável por realizar a monitoração de 98% dos sites de comércio eletrônico com mais tráfego no mundo e identificar anúncios de vendas de produtos falsificados e indevidos. Módulo Social Media - Realiza o monitoramento das redes sociais como blogs, fóruns de discussão e as principais redes sociais do mundo no intuito de identificar páginas falsas e que estejam utilizando as marcas de forma indevida. Módulo Paid Search - Módulo desenvolvido para monitoração de anúncios pagos nos buscadores que utilizam marcas de forma indevida e redirecionam tráfego para páginas falsas ou para um site competidor, por exemplo. Módulo Mobile Apps - Realiza a monitoração as lojas de aplicações móveis para celulares e tablets em busca de apps que estejam utilizando indevidamente a marca ou que sejam falsas. Ao final, Carlos explicou a respeito da implementação da solução, que é baseada em Software como Serviço (SaaS), não sendo necessária qualquer instalação no ambiente do cliente. A Clavis Segurança da Informação é parceira oficial da MarkMonitor e a principal representante no Brasil. Para saber mais sobre o serviço de proteção de marcas oferecido pela Clavis, clique aqui. Carlos Botelho é Gerente Técnico de Contas da MarkMonitor, Inc., parte da Clarivate Analytics, baseado em Boise, estado de Idaho, nos Estados Unidos. Pelos últimos 7 anos, ele vem trabalhando na área de proteção de marcas, antifraude e gestão de domínios, além de já ter atuado como Analista de Proteção de Marcas, Gerente de Serviços de Anti-Fraude e Gerente de Serviços de Domínios. Carlos também é advogado desde o ano 2000 e possui mestrado em Direito (LL.M) obtido na Faculdade de Direito J. Reuben Clark da Brigham Young University, em Provo, estado de Utah, no Estados Unidos.
Neste episódio, Paulo Sant'anna recebe Carlos Botelho, Gerente Técnico de Contas da MarkMonitor para uma conversa a respeito das Soluções de Anti-fraude e proteção de marca para grandes empresas. Inicialmente Carlos explicou a respeito de fraudes, as principais ações que podem caracterizar uma e os tipos mais comuns. As industrias financeiras, comércio e prestação de serviços foram citadas como alvos constantes das tentativas de fraudes e o Phishing, técnica utilizada por cibercriminosos para tentar obter dados e informações por meio de e-mails e páginas falsas utilizando marcas famosas, o meio mais utilizado atualmente. Durante o podcast, Carlos apresentou a solução da MarkMonitor de anti-fraude, que faz a detecção de ataques de Phishing e Malware e de proteção de marca, que oferece acompanhamento de vários ambientes na internet, tendo uma abrangência multicanal, monitorando o uso da marca por terceiros não somente na gestão do registro de domínios bem como em anúncios pagos em motores de busca e nas redes sociais. A Clavis Segurança da Informação é parceira oficial da Markmonitor e a principal representante no Brasil. Carlos Botelho é Gerente Técnico de Contas da MarkMonitor, Inc., parte da Clarivate Analytics, baseado em Boise, estado de Idaho, nos Estados Unidos. Pelos últimos 7 anos, ele vem trabalhando na área de proteção de marcas, anti-fraude e gestão de domínios e já atuou como Analista de Proteção de Marcas, Gerente de Serviços de Anti-Fraude e Gerente de Serviços de Domínios. Carlos também é advogado desde o ano 2000 e possui mestrado em Direito (LL.M) obtido na Faculdade de Direito J. Reuben Clark da Brigham Young University, em Provo, estado de Utah, no Estados Unidos.
Is your company enterprise-ready? How do you define customer success when creating a product that doesn’t exist on the market? Why is it important to have mentorship programs? Today Shira Abel sits down with Eileen Carey to talk about becoming a global company, diversity and inclusion as a macroeconomic strategy, and the importance of choosing the right partners. About Eileen Carey • Eileen Carey is the Founder & CEO of Glassbreakers, a diversity and inclusion enterprise software company. Eileen has spent the majority of her career in corporate communications and public relations. • She was previously at Citigroup and MarkMonitor, a part of Thomson Reuters. She holds an MBA in International Marketing from Fordham and a BA in English from The University of Maryland. • Eileen grew up in Dobbs Ferry, NY and is currently based in San Francisco. She is passionate about social impact entrepreneurship, philanthropy and the future of inclusion technology. Key Takeaways: • Glassbreakers’ greatest success has been in creating partnerships with customers. Choosing quality and trustworthiness, rather than quantity makes all the difference. • The one thing that you must have to build an enterprise level product is security. • Don't think that you know what your customer needs until you get a quantifiable amount of data to back up your hypothesis. Please rate this podcast. About Shira Abel Shira Abel is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Hunter & Bard (http://www.hunterandbard.com), an inbound marketing and branding agency. Clients include: Folloze, Totango, Cyara, Sarine Technologies, Pushbullet, AXA Tech, CloudEndure, AppsGeyser, Pitango VC, Allianz, and more. Creator and host of the SaaS Insider podcast. Creator of the Behavior Engineering Canvas. Mentor at 500 Startups. Former professor of Marketing for Startups at Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College. MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Loves family time, cooking, and traveling. Hates writing about herself in the third person. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, teen and tween sons and a very large Great Pyrenees. If you would like to be interviewed on SaaS Insider - please contact Shira at the URL above. The SaaS Insider podcast is brought to you by Hunter & Bard, a marketing agency specializing in design, branding, content and marketing automation – helping SaaS companies reduce their marketing debt. It’s also a member of the C-Suite Radio Network. Check out Hunter & Bard today at http://hunterandbard.com