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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 34: Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken

Steve Blank

How do you drop those on North Korea? . Blinken : We found that defectors getting out of North Korea have much greater access than we thought to technology, much of it coming in from China. Then the question is, will their governments allow them to use it and if not, are there workarounds? .

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The Laws Don’t – and Can’t – Keep Up With Technology

Feld Thoughts

Expect more outrage and Facebook bashing on all media channels. But my guess is that not much will change, the outrage will move onto something else (hey – what happened to North Korea?), And lots of talking heads and discussion about what needs to be done. We might even have hearings in Congress.

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

Written language enabled the creation of large societies and with them, governments. And some governments learned how to turn radio into a weapon of mass deception. I spent my first seventeen years in a city where there were just three major TV channels, three major newspapers, and no Internet. — The next wave was Radio.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Making the World a Safer Place

Steve Blank

North Korea. They can do so because most have little legacy organizational baggage, no government overhead, some of the best software talent in the world, cheap manpower costs, no career risk when attempting new unproven feats and ultimately no fear of failure. Yet in the last decade the U.S. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy.