What We Believe

More than Anything Else, We Must Be a Positive and Motivating Force for Change

At Summerland Camps we believe people must want to change.  The knee-jerk reaction to parenting is often to punish, yell, or take away.  But this does not build intrinsic motivation, and the results are only temporary.

Therefore, we take a “coaching” philosophy with our counselors as opposed to an authoritarian stance.  We have the campers pick positive, healthy goals they want to work on and we help campers develop a realistic plan to move forward in their life.  Difficulty with social interactions, low frustration tolerance, and poor decision making become grist for the mill in therapy.  What this means is that campers will start to open up and discuss their issues and even try out new ways of coping if we can help them identify a motivating force for change.

The Summerland Difference

One of the main differences between Summerland Camps and other behavior change programs is our positive and motivating outlook on the behavior change process. We don’t see your child as broken- they simply have fallen into some poor habits and behavioral patterns and they need the guidance and motivation to break these habits in practice new behaviors in their place.

It’s one thing to say you are positive, but quite another to have a curriculum with built in methodology for staying positive.  At Camp we conduct our group process around systematic-self monitoring methodology.  This is just a fancy way of saying goal and daily behavior tracking.  We teach our camper the same behavior change process Olympic and professional athletes use.  When campers are finished with camp, they are true behavior change experts.

At Summerland Camps, this is what we believe:

The Problem

Adolescents and teens are growing up in a different world today than their parents.  Screens are literally everywhere, and technology is a part of our lives.  So we need to learn to live in balance.  Many of our children will grow up to work with computers, and will get their news from a tablet instead of a newspaper.  So the problem cannot be solved by just swearing off screen time- it’s almost everywhere we look today.

gaming addiction treatment

We stay positive at Summerland Camps- our core belief is that change is best when it comes from within.

At Summerland Camps we don’t like to say the word “addiction.”  Yes, you can find it on our website, but that is simply to discuss the problem and also to help people find our camp when searching online.

A better term is, “habit.”  Habits are learned, and habits can be changed.  Often people think of an “addiction” as over powering, and it’s a built in excuse to fail.  Historically, an “addiction” involves tolerance and withdraw effects, in addition to psychoactive changes.  While it can be argued that computer gaming produces these effects, we take a different approach.

Something that compounds the problem is how new digital media or “screen time” overuse is.  Doctors and therapists alike usually have no training in the subject, and the term “gaming addiction treatment” is so new hardly anyone knows exactly that that entails.  We do know however that gaming addiction treatment is best achieved when a teen is removed from their home environment for a total reset opportunity.

The Solution for Gaming Addiction Treatment and Media Overuse

At Summerland Camps, we believe that the solution to changing screen time overuse habits is to apply similar methodology used by psychologists to change other habits including smoking, over eating, and a wide array of other habits.  Everything we do is based in “best practices” for habit reversal.  We use peer-reviewed scientific research to develop our clinical curriculum and our overall approach.  Our behavioral coaches at camp take a coaching viewpoint of the problem.  We are changing habits and behaviors just like a coach would with a professional athlete.  This way we say positive in our approach.

Staying positive is key at Summerland camps. You probably already gathered that from our website.  How many other programs are you going to find such an array of team build opportunities, sports and hobbies, drama and the arts, or whitewater rafting, rock climbing or caving offered..or would you find the Director in an Elvis costume?  Our philosophy is that changing behavior can be fun!  We believe it’s so much more effective to have change bubble up from within, not to be hammered down from above.

We also believe that a multi-modal approach works best as well, and scientific research on outcomes of behavioral programs supports this notion.  What that means on a practical level is that we do many things simultaneously such as providing training on goal setting, we provide education and discussion groups, and we introduce campers to other activities.  The parental component is invaluable as well to producing positive outcomes, and we know through scientific research how important this piece is.

What Parents Can Do

Parents play a critical role in the change process.  Parental involvement has been correlated with positive outcomes of other behaviorally based programs.  We provide workshops for parents where they get the knowledge, training, and support to help their camper be successful back home.

We will provide behavioral contracts for parents to use in order to best support their camper.  We will also role play and problem solve with you in order to find solutions to ongoing family conflicts over screen use.

Gaming Addiction Treatment Versus Other Digital Media

It’s important to understand that overuse of all digital media is not the same.  Consider for a moment someone that binge watches episodes on Netflix all day versus someone who plays X-Box for hours and hours.  Different parts of the brain are activated with each activity.  The gamer is receiving much higher levels of stimulation than the TV watcher.  Add to this the notion of a social context such as with Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games.

Speaking of social reinforcement, abusers of social media have different reasons for digital media overuse than both the binge TV watcher and the X-Box player.  At camp we treat each of these campers differently and place them in groups to cater to their needs.

We also look at the co-occurring issues that often go along with digital media overuse.  For example, social skill building opportunities may have fallen off due to the time spend online especially with gaming addiction treatment.  We also get camper that have problems with frustration tolerance as well.  At camp we have therapy opportunities to correct all of these issues in both group and individual formats.


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How’d you like to spend a winter here?- Dick Jarvis, chemist of the party, shivered as he looked up from his notebook.
-I’d just as soon spend it in a liquid air tank!- he averred. -These eighty-below zero summer nights are plenty for me.- -Well,- mused the captain, -the first successful Martian expedition ought to be home long before then.- -Successful if we get home,- corrected Jarvis.
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A well-knorcn physicist, Schrddinger, and sevcral of his colleagues, think oI the universe as an cxprcssion of mind. In his excellentbook, ACCENT ON FORM, thc grcat English scientist, Lancelot L. Whyre, emphasizes thc fact that thde are two basic attitudes in the pursuit of knowJedgc, the atomisric and the holistic, and hc bclicvcs that science has largely failed so far to dcal with thc principle of form which refers to the holistic approach. Of coursc, there are immensely complcx cncrgics acting upon the Earth's biospherc arld making their impact upon mcn.

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This article is about Arcann's conquest war. You may be looking for Valkorion's raids.
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The title of this article is conjectural.

Around 3637 BBY, the emerging Eternal Empire launched a campaign of conquest into the Core Worlds, defeating both the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire, the known galaxy's major powers.

Arcann and Thexan - Conquest

Arcann and Thexan leading the raids.

During most of the Sith Emperor's absence from reigning his Sith Empire, he had been secretly developing a new empire, the Eternal Empire, positioned in uncharted territory within Wild Space and with its capital on the planet Zakuul. There, known as Emperor Valkorion, he built and strengthened his forces to one day emerge and conquer the galaxy. By 3637 BBY, the Sith Empire's few outposts in the Wild regions had been wiped out by the Eternal Empire to test the latter's strength although the Sith Empire was unable to discover the culprits. Soon that year, as the Galactic War raged between the Sith Empire, Republic and third parties, the Eternal Empire launched raids and decimated several of their planets, including Korriban, before retreating back into Wild Space.

Darth Marr, de facto head of the Dark Council and the Imperial Military, led a joint Imperial-Republic expedition into Wild Space to pursue the Emperor, only to be ambushed by the Eternal Fleet. Marr and another prominent figure, who would become known as "the Outlander", were captured from Marr's destroyed flagship by Prince Arcann, the surviving son of Valkorion, and brought to the Emperor on Zakuul. Valkorion offered to share his power with his captives if they would kneel before him. Marr, recognizing Valkorion as the Sith Emperor, refused, and was killed for his defiance. As he offered the same to the Outlander, Valkorion was killed, and Arcann assumed the throne in his place. The new Emperor publicly accused the Outlander of his father's assassination, and declared that the Core Worlds would burn as a result. The Outlander was frozen in carbonite, as Arcann sensed that Valkorion lived on within the mind of his "murderer".[1]

The warEdit

"People of Zakuul, the unthinkable has happened. Our beloved Emperor, Valkorion, is dead - murdered by an Outlander who sought to shake the foundations of our great society. The assassin will receive swift and just punishment, and this act of unprovoked aggression will be answered. As your new Emperor, I can promise you this: Zakuul's enemies will face the full power of the Eternal Throne. They will answer for their warmongering ways... and every last one of the Core Worlds will burn!"
―The newly-instated Emperor Arcann declares war on the rest of the galaxy[src]

Arcann's war was swift and brutal. Directing the fleet from the Eternal Throne, the new Emperor attacked both Republic and Empire at once, destroying their shipyards and blockading the major trade routes. The Eternal Empire had numbers and speed on its side; only ships powered with isotope-5 could hope to evade the more powerful vessels of the Eternal Fleet. Within three months, they had achieved naval superiority over both sides, and by the end of the first year, the Republic capital of Coruscant and the Imperial capital of Dromund Kaas were blockaded. The Dark Council of the Sith Empire fought on, but without Marr's leadership, the Council was all but destroyed. Similarly, the Republic's Supreme Chancellor, Leontyne Saresh, refused to submit the Republic to Zakuulan authority - and, incredibly, waged a war against both the Eternal Empire and the Sith Empire, at the cost of millions of Republic lives.[2] Saresh was swiftly overridden by the Galactic Senate, which sued for peace. The Minister of Logistics did likewise for the Empire.[3]

Both sides sent emissaries - Senator Evran for the Republic, and Darth Vowrawn for the Empire - to Zakuul, where they were brought before Arcann.[4] The Emperor agreed to a ceasefire, provided that the Republic and the Empire pay heavy tribute to Zakuul and submit to armament restrictions. With little option left to them, both sides agreed. In the years that followed, Saresh was out of power, but continued to dictate policy through her successor, Jebevel Madon. Similarly, with the Dark Council practically dissolved, its one visible remaining member, Darth Acina, declared herself Empress of the Sith. Even after this, the war between the Republic and the Empire continued - Saresh unwilling to even consider any form of alliance with the Sith to overthrow the Eternal Empire - and Arcann allowed it to continue, provided that they acknowledge the supremacy of Zakuul, and continue to pay the tribute demanded of them.[3][2]

Rather than control his new holdings with occupation armies, Arcann deployed hundreds of massive battle stations known as Star Fortresses in orbit around major planets, such as Alderaan, Belsavis, and Voss. These battle stations were commanded by Exarchs - Knights of Zakuul enhanced by biological and cybernetic upgrades[5] - and were empowered by great "sun generators", essentially artificial stars (similar to those used on Zakuul itself), and protected by shield generators built on the surface. Any attempts at resistance were answered by the stations venting excess plasma from the sun generators into devastating beams fired at the surface, essentially holding the planets and their populations hostage.[6]

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  2. 2.0 2.1 SWTOR mini Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "State of the Galaxy"
  3. 3.0 3.1 SWTOR mini Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire—Chapter IV: The Gravestone
  5. SWTOR mini Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "The Exarchs of Zakuul"
  6. SWTOR mini Star Wars: The Old Republic—Codex Entry: "Star Fortress"
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On Tennis Ball Levitation

Good evening friends and fans. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your hopeful doggie commentator Chester L. W. Stephens.

As you can see, I have a tennis ball. I am also standing at the top of the stairs.

I am going to set it down and see what it does.

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  2. LOL you know what they say...practice makes perfect. Have a super Saturday.
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Vancouver pronoun change Vancouver public school student Rowan Reimer spoke at the school board's hearing, explaining how she snuck into bathrooms in fear of other students catching her using the "wrong" one. CBC News

After four rowdy rounds of voting, the Vancouver School Board approved a new string of gender-neutral pronouns Monday: "xe," "xem," and "xyr," the Vancouver Sun reports

The grammatical additions, pronounced "zee," "zem," and "zare," according to the Globe and Mail, will replace "he" or "she," "him" or "her," and "his" or "hers," respectively.

The policy intends to better accommodate transgender students in schools. Someone unsure of a transitioning student's gender could use the generic "xe," and students who don't identify with either gender, typically known as agender, could choose to go by "xe," as well.

But not everyone approves of the movement. One of the most vocal dissenters, Cheryl Chang, chair of the Parent Advisory Council for Lord Byng Secondary Schools, thinks gender identity is a medical issue that schools shouldn't address.

"This is not a meaningful conversation. This is politics of division. It's getting people upset and angry," she told CBC News

While some consider "they" gender-neutral, the word is technically plural, enraging old school grammarians. But the school board didn't just pull the idea for specific gender-neutral pronouns out thin air. While it would address some sex-discrimination, the idea is hardly new.

In 1789, William H. Marshall recorded the existence of the gender-neutral pronoun "ou." "Ou will" meant "he will," "she will," or "it will," according to Dennis Baron's "Grammar and Gender." "Ou" stems from the Middle English epicene "a," used in the 14th century by writers for "he," "she," "it," they," and even "I."

From there, Don Rickter is the most widely accepted inventor of "xe," xem," and "xyr" in 1973.

Another modern version of gender-neutral language are the Spivak pronouns. By dropping the "th" from "they," "them, and "their," mathematician Michael Spivak created "ey," "em," "eir," widely used by LGBTQ advocates.

Despite intense debate, English has included provisions for gender-neutrality in grammar well before these issues revealed themselves.


Souped-Up Hyundai Santa Fe Drives Across Antarctica

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A team of adventurers have become the very first to cross Antarctica in a passenger car. The weapon of choice? A modified Hyundai Santa Fe.

Among the adventurers was the great-grandson of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and while the Santa Fe may not be considered as the most rugged vehicle currently on sale, it managed to conquer the Antarctic continent with just a handful of modifications.

The Santa Fe used was customized by expedition leader Gísli Jónsson and outfitted with huge, low pressure tires, new front and rear sub-frames, upgraded suspension components and gears installed inside the wheel hubs. The 2.2-litre diesel powertrain remained stock.

Throughout the treacherous journey, the team had to cross the Ross Ice Shelf. This huge glacier lies beyond the continental land mass, is hundreds of feet deep and is filled with deep, hard-to-see fissures. The Hyundai became the first passenger vehicle to drive across the glacier and was tethered to three support trucks in case one of them fell into the abyss.


A $5-billion bridge is in the works to replace Montreal's aging Champlain Bridge, will come "at very low or no cost to taxpayers," but is likely to include toll booths, Canada's federal transport minister announced Wednesday.

Denis Lebel called the project "one of the most important of the decade," as he described future plans at a news conference in Montreal, flanked by Mayor Gérald Tremblay.

Tremblay, who has made several public pleas for a Champlain solution, said the investment "will be very important to the [economy] but also the social and sustainable development of the greater Montreal area."

"It has important consequences for Quebec, but also Canada," he said.

Financing details haven't been released, but Lebel said the federal government prefers the project be a public-private partnership (PPP), limiting costs to taxpayers.

He also indicated the new structure would likely be a toll bridge.

Champlain originally pay per use

The Champlain Bridge was officially opened as a toll bridge in 1962. The tolls were eventually abolished in 1990.

Transportation Minister Denis Lebel said the new bridge won't be inaugurated until at least 2021. (CBC)

Even before Wednesday’s announcement, talk of a new bridge had renewed calls by some South Shore politicians to restore and expand toll charges to help pay for municipal infrastructure.

"The governments seem to be out of money," said Brossard city councillor Alexandre Plante.

"We’re facing big challenges in terms of money to put into our infrastructure. If you use the roads, you have to pay for it."

Chateauguay mayor Nathalie Simon said as long as the toll revenues were used to support transit and are fairly divided, she would support charging tolls on all of the city’s bridges and tunnels.

"If the money’s going to help us to provide new bus transportation or public transit or maintain our infrastructure, that’s good," she said.

"But if that goes into a whole budget at the federal level that we won’t see any money, that’s another thing."

New bridge a decade away

'Between the cup and the lip, there are many slips. So all we have is an announcement.' —Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae

Even with the federal commitment, it will still be at least a decade before the new bridge opens.

That drew criticism from Liberal MPs, including interim leader Bob Rae.

"We don’t have a plan today and we don’t have a new bridge today," he said.

"What we have is an announcement. Between the cup and the lip, there are many slips. So all we have is an announcement."

Champlain Bridge Report

Montreal Liberal MP Denis Coderre pointed to a 2006 report which said the Champlain had 10 years of useable life left.

"Well, 2006 plus 10 years is 2016. And then we’re up to 2021. So that’s an important element. It’s a question of safety."

Lebel said the federal government will continue spending to maintain the existing bridge until a new structure is built.

"The Champlain Bridge is safe, but it does need maintenance," he said. "It is clear that we won't be able to repair it forever. We have to take action to replace it."


New Brunswick students are struggling to find work this summer, despite some 36,000 jobs created for students across Canada.

College and university students have been working — or looking for work — since April, and now high school students are joining the search for scarce jobs.

Kerstin Schlote is on summer break from university. Each day, she wakes up, eats breakfast and heads to work — as an unpaid guide in a museum.

She said she has qualifications, but can’t find paid work.

"I'm bilingual, I know German, too.  I quickly learn stuff and I also brought a lot of skills that I learned in my years in university, and basic stuff like computers skills and customer service," she said.

She applied for many jobs, but didn’t hear back from a single one. She has student loans and upcoming expenses for the fall term.

Employers need to help

Anne Soucy, director of the University of New Brunswick’s employment services, said some students need a job just to stay in school.

"Because if you don't have enough money to fund yourself for the next year, it becomes very difficult and sometimes that's a reason why people do not complete," she said.

Students can do all the right things and still not get jobs, she said.

"Employers in New Brunswick need to step up a bit and hire students, because this is an opportunity for them to build relationships with students," she said.

Soucy said even though it's now July, her office is still receiving calls from unemployed students looking for work.

The federal government announced the 36,000 jobs in May, but did not say how many would be in New Brunswick.


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Challenges when it comes to integration

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Integration is more than just an abstract concept. It has many practical issues that need to be addressed, such as transportation, social security system, public services and Hukou, the household registration system. It might need much more effort and a long time to settle, according to a commentary from

The proposal to use one transportation card in Beijing and Tianjin has been discussed for years. Since the railway and public transportation in those two cities report to different departments, which have various operations cooperation and contract firms, the interest from multiple parties needs to be urgently addressed. Meanwhile, how to balance the fiscal subsidies in both cities is also an issue which needs much effort to resolve.

Social security system

Yanjiao county, located in Sanhe, Hebei province, is where hundreds of thousands Beijing people live. With the increasing number of residents, medical facilities in Yanjiao have been fully equipped. However, some private hospitals are unprofitable due to the lack of patients, while hospitals in Beijing have been crammed, since the medical insurance can’t be used among the provinces.

The refund for using medical insurance outside Beijing is a complicated procedure, which means people who live in Yanjiao travel far to hospitals in Beijing. The situation partially reminds us the whole integration process means not only the transfer of industries and population, but also includes other policies and resources, such as medical insurance and the pension system.

Public Services

Whether employees are willing to move out of Beijing should also be considered when state-owned enterprises and universities and colleges are transferring their campuses to a neighboring area.

Hukou, the household registration system, is highly involved with many benefits. Most civil servants and employees from state-owned enterprises have Beijing Hukou, which brings advanced social welfare and helps their children get a better chance to go to elite universities. There should be a solution to address this issue during the integration; otherwise it will be hard for them to move out of Beijing.

Moreover, compared to Beijing, small cities do need to develop their industries and public services to catch up, and help to alleviate the population pressure of big cities.

Thus, medium or small cities need to improve public services and urban functions to catch up with the big cities to accommodate the people and industries who will be living there.

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WannaCry: who did the attack benefit?

On 12 May 2017, the cryptoworm WanaCrypt0r 2.0, also known as WannaCry, infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world. Our investigation into this ransomware reveals some worrying trends.

(Re)read part 2: WannaCry seen from the perspective of an SMB server

(Re)read part 3: WannaCry, a chronological order

North Korea in the spotlight?

On 15 May 2017, the WannaCry worm was linked to the Lazarus hacker group, which is suspected of being backed by North Korea. A researcher at Google published a code sample from the worm that bore a striking resemblance to some of Lazarus’s tools (1). This information was quickly picked up on by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which specialises in the hacker group. On 22 May 2017, Symantec also reported on these similarities (2), theorising that WannaCry could be attributed to Lazarus.

Our knowledge of Lazarus is patchy at best:

  • The group is thought to be responsible for a series of attacks on South Korean government agencies, financial institutions and media organisations between 2007 and 2013.
  • It is also thought to be behind the 2014 hacking of Sony Pictures, a particularly invasive attack that resulted in the theft of unreleased films and confidential information on Sony’s 4,000 employees. The FBI stated that it had proof that North Korea was involved in the attack, which it could not disclose. President Obama indicated that the United States would retaliate (3).
  • The group was linked to the theft of USD$81 million during a series of attacks on banks in Poland and Bangladesh two years later in 2016.

The Lazarus group: politics or profit?

To understand the Lazarus group, we must first establish its motives. In the cybersecurity field, a distinction is often made between groups affiliated with nation-states and hackers looking to make money. Nation-state groups are often politically motivated: they target public facilities, major banks, large companies or government agencies in hostile countries in order to spy on or upset economies. As they are backed by states, they often have impressive technical resources. Profit-seeking hackers generally have fewer resources. Their code is more likely to include bugs or copy from existing tools. They are more opportunistic when selecting targets.

Lazarus’s tools are particularly sophisticated, according to Kaspersky Lab, and many of its targets are political. Unsurprisingly, some of its attacks have centred on South Korea, North Korea’s long-time enemy. Its attack on Sony Pictures has been seen as retaliation for the film The Interview, a parody of the North Korean dictatorship that attracted Pyongyang’s fury. These two clues would seem to indicate that the group is backed by a nation-state.

However, the group’s motives for attacking banks are less clear. They appear to be financial rather than political – and nation-states are not interested in profits, according to a Kaspersky Lab expert. In this case, if Lazarus is backed by North Korea, why would it wage a cybercrime campaign? Once again, Kaspersky Lab has the answer. It considers the group has a special financial operations unit, whose goal is to make money (4).

A modern whodunnit

Despite the analysis above, determining the origins of malicious software is a difficult process, which involves balancing technical, cultural and geopolitical considerations. Information can be voluntarily or involuntarily falsified, leading to erroneous conclusions.

For example, hackers often reuse the code of other well-known hacker groups, resulting in cybersecurity companies mistakenly attributing attacks based on these technical clues. Groups sometimes even publish the code for their own tools so they can be used by other hackers, covering their tracks. Care must therefore be taken when using these indications to draw conclusions.

This also applies to cultural and political clues. Hackers often use “false flags” – fabricated clues – to ensure malware is attributed to a specific group. Documents leaked by Edward Snowden, for example, showed that the NSA had tools that could be used to fabricate false clues. One of these techniques was inserting Cyrillic or Chinese words into code.

Hackers may also include cultural indications to mislead experts. When the French television channel TV5 Monde was hacked in 2015, the group behind the attack called itself the “Cybercaliphate” and published messages supporting ISIS – even though ISIS never claimed responsibility for the infiltration. Later investigations showed that APT28, a high-level hacker group associated with the Russian government, was probably behind the attack.

Chasing down alternatives

Determining responsibility for an attack is therefore no simple matter, and WannaCry is no exception. Not only did this worm use NSA exploits, it may also have borrowed code developed by Lazarus.

On 25 May 2017, several days after Symantec released its report, the cybersecurity expert Flashpoint published a blog article suggesting the worm could be of Chinese origin (5). Flashpoint reached this conclusion after analysing the malware’s architecture, as well as linguistic and cultural clues. In particular, it focused on the ransom message, which was translated into multiple languages. Many ransom messages contained syntax errors that were probably due to machine translation. The only messages that appeared to have been written by humans were those in English and Chinese. However, the English message contained grammatical errors indicating that the author was not a native speaker. The attackers’ native language was therefore most likely Chinese.

Does this mean Lazarus was not the culprit? By definition, ransomware is designed to make money and is therefore perfect for profit-seeking hackers. Seen from this perspective, the perpetrator was unlikely to be a state-backed political group like Lazarus. But Lazarus is a law unto itself – from time to time, it does run financial operations. However, WannaCry does not meet the group’s usual criteria. Lazarus uses sophisticated tools to target banks and financial institutions. It is extremely discreet, often hiding deep inside infected networks, sometimes spending several years there. It seeks to avoid publicity at all costs – most of its operations take place outside victims’ work hours, and tools are constantly adapted to take into account researchers’ revelations.

WannaCry was not at all discreet. Many experts even considered it a “draft”, for the following reasons:

  • The EternalBlue exploit seemed to have been copied and pasted into the worm;
  • The ransomware did not perform particularly well, only infecting machines running Windows 7 and 2008 R2;
  • The document decryption key had to be sent manually, unlike the automatic keys used in other recent ransomware, indicating that the hackers did not expect to infect many machines;
  • The kill switch was ineffective and amateurish. Generally, kill switches are more sophisticated: they include several domain names or domain names that change over time, reducing the likelihood that the kill switch will be discovered and the virus stopped. This was not the case with WannaCry, which used a single domain name.

This raises other questions. Why include a kill switch, which is visible to all, if the point of the worm is to spread as quickly as possible? This is especially true given the media coverage following the infection of hospitals and major companies – not ideal, if discretion is the goal.

Technical considerations aside, the Lazarus group does not often use ransomware. Generally, it targets banks and institutions, which are much more profitable. According to the Twitter Actual Ransom bot (6), which monitored WannaCry payments, only USD$120,000 was paid to the hackers behind the attack. Given the USD$81 million stolen from the Bank of Bangladesh, this sum is paltry to say the least.

WannaCry: a test that went wrong?

Another theory is currently gaining ground: WannaCry may have been a worm that escaped the control of its developers. This is the position adopted by the cybersecurity specialist the Grugq (7). The sloppy design of the worm, the amateurish kill switch and the lack of proof that machines were originally compromised by phishing attacks seem to indicate that this was incomplete software that simply exploded out of control.

Supporting this theory, Symantec and Kaspersky Lab published information on earlier, less virulent versions of the malware that hackers tested using Trojan horses or password theft tools. These earlier versions only infected a few computers. Hackers then stepped up their game, integrating NSA exploits into the code – with unexpected results. The malware escaped, infecting high-profile targets before going global.

Seen from this perspective, the WannaCry tool was still being developed, which explains its lack of sophistication, lacklustre performance, manually infected targets and amateurish kill switch. None of these elements make for a successful cybercrime campaign, but they do help slow the spread of a worm under development.

To sum up, WannaCry has all the hallmarks of malware developed by a group of profit-seeking cybercriminals. It may or may not have been developed by Lazarus, which some consider has a financial operations unit. However, the worm’s sloppy design and high-profile targets, which are uncharacteristic of the North Korean hacker group, could be explained by the fact that the malware was still under development. This idea is further reinforced by the low profitability of the worm compared to the group’s other tools: the hackers would most likely have increased the ransom amount once the malware was finished. From this point of view, WannaCry was a typical cybercriminal campaign seeking to make money. But can we disregard the Chinese connection so easily?

Who did the attack benefit?

Regardless of whether the malware was developed by hackers in China, North Korea or elsewhere, we must not forget the big winners. In an article published on 16 May, the Washington Post confirmed what many had been thinking: according to anonymous sources, the NSA informed Microsoft of the flaws exploited by WannaCry before they were leaked by the Shadow Brokers (8). The article went on to explain that the NSA had used EternalBlue and the other leaked tools for more than five years, despite in-house discussions on whether these flaws were so dangerous they should be revealed to Microsoft and other software designers. At least this problem has been solved.

The article also revealed that the NSA had an internal process to determine whether software flaws should be disclosed to vendors or kept secret to build surveillance tools. In 2014, the National Security Council launched a new vetting process for vulnerabilities collected by US security agencies. According to cybersecurity expert Mike McNerney, a former Pentagon cybersecurity official, the process worked for the tools stolen from the NSA. The problem was how this information was communicated: the NSA identified the risk and informed Microsoft, which released a patch. However, no one publicly stated how dangerous this flaw was, meaning that 98% of victims had simply failed to install security patches.

More importantly, the malware highlighted the issue of the stockpiling of vulnerabilities (9). In a press release dated 14 May, Microsoft put the blame squarely on the NSA, calling for a Digital Geneva Conference. According to Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft, governments’ cybersecurity programmes should include good practices such as reporting vulnerabilities to software vendors rather than hoarding them.

Dangerous and unpredictable weapons

The vulnerabilities exploited here are 0days – flaws that have not yet been published or patched. Because no protection exists, malware using these vulnerabilities is very effective and has huge destructive potential, especially when flaws are critical. Consequently, both hackers and government agencies actively hunt 0days. Prices for these flaws can reach up to USD$1.5 million.

To be useful, these tools must be kept secret. After publication, vulnerabilities are practically useless to government agencies, because software vendors release corrective patches. In addition, government targets are generally much more tech savvy than individuals or companies. For this reason, the US government and army were not affected by WannaCry, because they switched to new operating systems in 2014. This partly explains why the NSA reported the flaw to Microsoft after its network was compromised. The stolen tools had become threats and, given their reduced usefulness, it would have been dangerous and counterproductive to keep them secret.

At the end of the day, not only did the US lose costly and effective weapons, it was also forced to reveal its stockpile of vulnerabilities to software vendors. This disarmament only affected the US – its cybersecurity enemies experienced no such humiliation. Furthermore, the media coverage of WannaCry focused on the NSA’s hoarding of flaws, which led to the US government being considered partly responsible for the worm, even though patches were released several months before the attack.

Once bitten, twice shy: the NSA is likely to be much more careful when deciding to keep such a powerful flaw secret in the future. The Russian and Chinese governments, however, will have no such scruples.

From Russia, with love?

Currently, no links have been established between WannaCry and Russia. President Putin put responsibility for the computer worm squarely on the US, stating in response to allegations of a Russian connection that the Americans were “always looking for someone to blame”. However, some cybersecurity experts have indicated that the Shadow Brokers, who originally leaked the NSA tools, are of Russian origin.

This theory is based on one of the leaks posted by the Shadow Brokers in response to the US strikes in Syria. The leak included a political message criticising America’s military action, among other things.If founded, this theory would fit well with the idea of unilateral cyber disarmament. As a political enemy of the US, Russia would gain from the NSA losing credibility with the public. Based on this theory, the hackers not only stole the Americans’ cyber weapons, they also leaked them to ensure a scandal would occur, making US agencies more reluctant to stockpile such tools in the future. Russia is well known for backing hacker groups – such as APT28 – that target enemy companies and governments. Stripping a rival of its arsenal would be a major victory for the Russians.

Nevertheless, no real proof exists to support this theory. Another possibility is that the data was leaked by someone inside the NSA: the political messages posted by the Shadow Brothers are eclectic at best (accusing Trump of “forgetting his [electoral] base”, criticising the departure of Steve Bannon, condemning the strikes in Syria and denouncing his attempts to replace ObamaCare) and could be false flags. The group’s erratic syntax could be the work of an English speaker seeking to hide his or her native language, according to one linguistics professor. Lastly, the documents posted by the group bear a striking resemblance to the content collected by Harold T. Martin III, a former NSA employee who was arrested in February 2017 for stealing agency data (10).

To conclude, three theories are currently under consideration:

  • The initial suspects, the North Korean-backed Lazarus group, have a financial operations unit which could have launched WannaCry given the similarities between the worm and their tools. However, the attack’s sloppiness and lack of discretion are uncharacteristic of the Lazarus group.
  • The malware could be a typical cybercrime campaign waged by a Chinese hacker, as indicated by an analysis of translated ransom messages, but the strategy adopted was flawed and unprofitable.
  • The worm could have “escaped” a laboratory, given the existence of a kill switch, the low ransom amount and the amateurism of the campaign. Its rapid spread would therefore have been accidental. This third possibility does not discount either of the two preceding theories but adds weight to both.

Regardless of whether the Shadow Brokers are a state-backed group or internal whistleblowers, and regardless of whether WannaCry was an attempt to upset the economy or make money from cybercrime, the NSA has been partially disarmed – a boon for its foreign counterparts. Is this just round one of a global cyberwar between the United States and its political and economic opponents?

(2) https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/wannacry-ransomware-attacks-show-strong-links-lazarus-group
(3) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/08/fbi-north-korea-accusation-sony-pictures-hack
(4) https://securelist.com/blog/sas/77908/lazarus-under-the-hood/
(5) https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/blog/linguistic-analysis-wannacry-ransomware/
(6) https://twitter.com/actual_ransom/
(7) https://medium.com/@thegrugq/internet-of-wilderness-of-mirrors-9eaa24bd99d8
(10) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/former-nsa-contractor-may-have-stolen-75-of-taos-elite-hacking-tools/


My heart, so contained
by bones and vessels,
nodes, bronchi, the coming and going
of plasma and platelets
finds love ebbing
with the body’s retreat,
the baking fires
of lively bread now sizzling
into charcoal and smoke
beneath allergy tears
and the dirty water rung
from wash rags,
tasks done and slated
for the washer.

Vim twitches restively
in a bed of its own making
while vigor, gone hunting,
stays out for days.
The air is tinder,
fog-free and dusted
with the leftover heat
of summer, still lingering
in January.

Nobody is playing music
but I imagine that I can dance,
limbs lifting in time
to the melody, muscles
sprung with joy.


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Title: Sparse Named Entity Classification using Factorization Machines

Abstract: Named entity classification is the task of classifying text-based elements into various categories, including places, names, dates, times, and monetary values. A bottleneck in named entity classification, however, is the data problem of sparseness, because new named entities continually emerge, making it rather difficult to maintain a dictionary for named entity classification. Thus, in this paper, we address the problem of named entity classification using matrix factorization to overcome the problem of feature sparsity. Experimental results show that our proposed model, with fewer features and a smaller size, achieves competitive accuracy to state-of-the-art models.
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Helping You Develop a Simple Habit: The Gratitude App for Glass

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The Gratitude App for Google Glass is Glassware that aims to inspire greater positivity and success in the user’s life. Eathan Janney, the app’s creator, has created simple glassware that helps one achieve that higher sense of subjective well-being (or happiness) by nudging the user into recognizing the positive experiences in ones’s life.

Why is this something you should look to do? Although it is commonly thought that success leads to happiness, research into the science of happiness has produced evidence that it’s actually the other way around: happiness is actually the foundation for success.

The Gratitude App prompts the user to express statements of gratitude at regular intervals throughout the day, and records those statements to the user’s timeline. See how easy it is to use it by viewing the video below:

One of the best things about this glassware is what we hit on above: A user’s gratitude statement is recorded as a timeline card, so that the user can also access their statements at a later point. So if you’re having a frustrating day, you can swipe back in your timeline and pop open an audio message that you recorded previously.

Why The Glassware Was Created

Eathan Janney, the app’s creator, is a PhD candidate in Neuroscience at the City University of New York.

gratitude app recording screen“Spending day after day facing experiments that are riddled with obstacles and curveballs, it is easy to feel discouraged,” says Janney. “My wife purchased a couple of books for me on positive psychology, thinking they might help me adjust my general outlook. I’ve since developed a daily routine that includes frequently expressing gratitude.”

Within a few months, Janney noticed an increase in his productivity, and felt generally more optimistic. In fact, he successfully passed an important doctoral exam that he had previously failed. Was it a direct result because of frequently expressing gratitude? Who knows… but it most likely didn’t hurt.

gratitude app speak your messageAfter purchasing Google Glass, he began to explore the capacity of the new technology to fit into his daily life.

“Because of its ability to ask for your attention and easily record voice commands, I realized that Google Glass was the perfect medium to help me to remember to express gratitude,” says Janney, “and by creating an app for this activity, I can share it with others.”

Inspiration Behind The Glassware

Janney was inspired by books such as Authentic Happiness by Penn State University professor and pioneer of positive psychology Martin Seligman and The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. Achor, who studied what makes people happy for 12 years at Harvard University, has also communicated his experiences through a popular TED talk on the subject.

It was Achor’s recommended routine that Janney worked into his daily life–a routine that included writing down three statements of gratitude in a journal each day.

Why Google Glass?

Wearable technologies such as Glass give users a better chance at regulating their behavior and developing healthy habits. With the Gratitude App, it helps remind the user to think of something for which they are grateful on a regular basis, thus increasing the likelihood that gratitude is truly part of their day.

“When I reply to the timeline cards with something I’m grateful for,” says Janney, “it often brings a smile to my face — even if I’m in the midst of a frustrating situation. It reminds me to relax and feel grateful that I have the skills to solve such challenging problems, and that even having the chance to tackle some of these problems is a privilege.”


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