Assimilating The Network.

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In his 1632 Dialogue Galileo Galilei presented a physical theory to account for tides, based on the motion of the Earth. This would have been a strong argument for the reality of the Earth's motion. A major upset in what had been considered eternal truths concerning the heavens and the writings of God led the more unconventional thinkers to look seriously at the new ideas of astronomy in which the Earth moved and the Sun stood still. His offending dialogue was banned; and publication of any of his works was forbidden, including any he might write in the future.



People tend to take things at face value and do not think it through. It's the same false popular believe that darker colors emit more heat than lighter colors. It's completely false in some applications because it depends if light is involved. Heat and light are different things, Heat depends on the infra-red spectrum and doesn't have anything to do with colors, which are in the visible spectrum. Light absorption can produce heat, but objects that do not absorb light but radiate heat do emit the same kind of amount heat. So a white radiator gives off as much heat as a black one. You see, it's only a matter of proper definition to come to a closer reality. The problem is that it takes some serious amount of knowledge or science to understand this, hence the reason why many people fall for myths because they do not understand it, they plunge into faith rather than facts.



It is hard for people to assimilate new ideas, for the reason that it takes away all their faith in the things they believed in. It makes them uncertain, and uncertain people do strange things in order to regain their comfort and faith of how things work, and how they came to be. Religion is based upon faith, taken at face value by people who enchanted their followers and substituted another world view. It is only a matter of how you perceive it and playing dumb. It is something we inherited from our forefathers who ate fruits in the trees. We are mammals, mammals live in groups. groups give security, and so anyone who wants to be secure must stay in the group. This means that turning against the group only harms yourself, even if you are trying to help the group with new ideas or thoughts. It takes a brave individual to question oneself and the whole group. When doing so there is the risk of being "out-casted". Rejected from the cast they live in, and they are on their own. Quite a contradiction actually, because I always say that you can only form a true group, if all members are real individuals. Otherwise you do have a group, but it is only a bunch of carbon copies instead of new and fresh information, thought provoking evolving entities.



This is very interesting for many reasons, because usually the outcasts go on exploring the environment beyond their group or cast. As to say: they go into the world, the spiritual or the scientific. In ancient cultures, the out casts go into the wild and stay there for many years. Sleep under the sky and ponder reality, quite often when they return to the cast or group they can be accepted again. When this happens, they often take on the role of medicine man, spiritual adviser, scientist or philosopher once they proved they have knowledge that can benefit the group.



The network.



It are these particular individuals who help the group move along, quite strange they are always in minority. They have a sense of awe and wonder about everything. they posses some kind of playful attitude to anything, they wonder and ponder about the smallest things in life. Examine any tiny detail to get the whole picture. They are in quest for knowledge, and truth. In other words, they are out of the cast, the group, the box. They can think outside the box and approach it in different angles and viewpoints. Hackers posses the same kind of spirit or soil, they too can think in ways other people cannot. when they see a table, they say that the table has more than four corners. Smashing a table apart, and it is no longer a table it's a pile of wood. The really good ones assimilated knowledge and ideas to create new knowledge or new ideas. They can think in terms of unity and networks.



A network is a interconnected system, a web. Any part of that web makes the whole network. Any part that is vulnerable can be used to enter other parts of the network. Parts aren't parts anymore, it's a holistic system that can be attacked. Consider a network that consists of a range of servers. 99 percent is patched and relative secure. Exactly the 1% that might be a vulnerable server, or a vulnerable program that can give access to all other servers. They understand that everything in security is procedural, a network. You either are relative secure or you are not. There isn't much ground between them. Not all hacks are intellectual exercises that are tough to grasp, many hacks are simple. But it are the most simple hacks that can cause a great deal of trouble. Simplicity is tough assimilate, it is zooming back from the details and attack the process itself, instead of it's parts. Instead of attacking secure programs, he could attack the server, or the firewall, or any other part. Let alone to social engineer himself into the server of a company. yet those things may seem simple for you and me, but those are hard to assimilate for other people. Just because they have the faith that no one will go through all the hassle of deciphering your self built encryption scheme, or your security through obscurity.



Hackers can find ways, new ways sometimes. Ways you never anticipated because you never questioned other possibilities, like they do. When a hacker approaches you with your mistakes it is so important to go into a dialogue with him and try to assimilate the things he says to you. You can become like him, you can become as skilled as any hacker if you only listen and absorb. You might have some hidden talent that makes you an out of the box thinker also and can defeat him on his own game through it. But look at this in a playful way, while playing you learn more. You gain knowledge that will benefits the group as a whole. because what is discordant at a low level can be at harmony on a higher level.



The assimilation of another idea.



Duality is really a manifestation of unity. Everything is related, networked, or webbed. It only requires the understanding of this to change your whole view about anything. About the Internet, about your reality, about your faith and moral values and about other people or the group that out casted you. In biology their are some analogues to this as well. The cells in your body can form an organ. The organ is a part of your body: the organism. These organs form you as a human being. All connected and working together as one unity. One organs fails and usually the other collapse as well. They are networked together. Now, the cells of organs contain of particles, atoms. even they are parts, but they form a cell. Just as everything on this earth consist of the same chemicals only in different amounts. Now even these particles or cells communicate with each other. Everything communicates, only in different ways. Like hormones in the human body. Humans also communicate with other human beings in the form of language. Language is network communication too, just another protocol, wireless that is.



Understand the protocol and you can communicate, denying a protocol and you don't understand that communication that takes place. So in these terms it is really important to understand that everything is related, everything stems from the same thing only in different forms and shapes. The make up of parts do not deny it's fundamentals, and the root is basically one giant network. If we can be certain of anything it is that life itself, the whole universe is a network. Consider the standpoint from biology or chemistry or theories about strings. Really, if you could walk around on sub-atomic level you could not make up the difference between a star, a tree, and human. The only thing you would see is pattern in motion.



Last week nature gave me a show for free. I walked into my local park and sat down on a bench, and watched a group of birds for almost an hour. A huge swarm of birds flocked and made patterns in the sky. it was beautiful, they formed as individual birds a whole group which almost became one huge organism, just like individual cells form a human body. All it takes is the level of magnification to understand this principle of nature. To see the birds communicating with each other, going left, going right and all in harmony is astonishing. I believe everything is connected to each other, but we do not see the connections. They are hidden to our eyes, but they are there. We only need to look for them and understand them in order to reveal the true network. Others may ridicule it, just like they ridiculed Galileo Galilei, but all I ask is to assimilate any dialogue with anyone.



What do you got to lose? only another way of looking at things.