The Exchanges

Every argument clarity score on this site is built from rows on this page. Each question and answer was assessed with names hidden, the host's own answers included, on four things from 1 to 5: directness (does it answer the question asked), coherence (do the ideas follow), precision (concrete details and clear references), compression (says a lot per word). The weighted mix (30/30/25/15) is the exchange score. A person's published score averages their exchange scores on raw tape only, at least 8 of them, shrunk toward the cohort mean. Full method →

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q I think you are. Your smile's nicer than theirs. They'll talk to me about things like Panda in China, and Bear in Russia, and how we potentially have a program called Eagle. I rarely get to talk about these because I don't talk to people that are as technically savvy as you are. What are those programs in those countries, and how does your software help folks tackle that, those?

A Okay, those programs are state-sponsored cyber attack. It's just offensive cyber attack. That, um, they create zoos of code that is offensive code as opposed to defensive. Uh, the NSA is a good example. They have a whole bunch of that stuff, which was recently hacked, and then the brokers, uh, which is indeed a shadowy set of people, let these loose. Which brings us to today, where you have this WannaCry ransomware, which has an NSA zero day built in, which is a worm. So this is kind of like a Tomahawk missile that got loose and was used by a ransomware game. Now, um, we of course also have tons of these offensive cyber weapons. Uh, so does Russia. So does China. And, uh, the problem is that hackers go after the weak link in IT security, which is the human. And so they send well-crafted phishing emails to specific people that they know who they're going after with a very, very convincing email and attachment. Somebody opens the attachment and clicks and that workstation is owned.

AI assessment note: “those programs are state-sponsored cyber attack. It's just offensive cyber attack.”

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