Letter Mark Zuckerberg Welcomed His First Child

Dear Max,

Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You've already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.

Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.

While headlines often focus on what's wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. Poverty is shrinking. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be dramatically better than ours today.

We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.

We believe all lives have equal value, and that includes the many more people who will live in future generations than live today. Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.

But right now, we don't always collectively direct our resources at the biggest opportunities and problems your generation will face.

Consider disease. Today we spend about 50 times more as a society treating people who are sick than we invest in research so you won't get sick in the first place.

Medicine has only been a real science for less than 100 years, and we've already seen complete cures for some diseases and good progress for others. As technology accelerates, we have a real shot at preventing, curing or managing all or most of the rest in the next 100 years.

Today, most people die from five things -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases -- and we can make faster progress on these and other problems.

Once we recognize that your generation and your children's generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to tilt our investments a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part.

Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we're making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.

There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world.

• • •

Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential and promoting equality.

Advancing human potential is about pushing the boundaries on how great a human life can be.

Can you learn and experience 100 times more than we do today?

Can our generation cure disease so you live much longer and healthier lives?

Can we connect the world so you have access to every idea, person and opportunity?

Can we harness more clean energy so you can invent things we can't conceive of today while protecting the environment?

Can we cultivate entrepreneurship so you can build any business and solve any challenge to grow peace and prosperity?

Promoting equality is about making sure everyone has access to these opportunities -- regardless of the nation, families or circumstances they are born into.

Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.

Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to offer. The only way to achieve our full potential is to channel the talents, ideas and contributions of every person in the world.

Can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?

Can we provide everyone with basic healthcare?

Can we build inclusive and welcoming communities?

Can we nurture peaceful and understanding relationships between people of all nations?

Can we truly empower everyone -- women, children, underrepresented minorities, immigrants and the unconnected?

If our generation makes the right investments, the answer to each of these questions can be yes -- and hopefully within your lifetime.

• • •

This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.

We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.

We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.

We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.

We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.

We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.

We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.

• • •

Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.

Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.

Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.

Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.

We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.

Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.

But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.

Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.

• • •

Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.

People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.

It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.

The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.

Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.

If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.

This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.

But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.

• • •

Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.

Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.

Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.

Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.

Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.

If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.

If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.

By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.

It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.

• • •

For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.

Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.

We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.

As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.

We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.

We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.

And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.

Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.

Love,

Mom and Dad

Cybersecurity is Realpolitik

Cyber Security And Politics

Hallo the bloggers see you again with me, the most handsome home. (but still jomlo, I was so gantengnya: v)

I will share a record information that may be useful for all of us.

Information that is sometimes forgotten but had a correlation that is essential for life. primarily a political problem.

Calm brother, don't go just yet. Although we would I convey relates to politics but do not hypocritical because our lives everywhere will always intersect with other people is mainly a political issue. So let's check out this entry.

Cybersecurity as realpolitik

Good morning and thank you for the invitation to speak with you

These days. Plaintext talks have been made available to the

organizers. While I won't take questions today, which

Welcome to call me later and I'll do what I can reciprocate. For

simple clarity, let me repeat an abstract to speak:

There is power to be used. Some desire for cyber security, which they

will not get. Others are hoping for cyber order, that they will not

Get. Some have eyes to distinguish the cyber policies "_ FITTED

The most worst thing; " Maybe they fill the void of wishful thinking.

There are three professions who beat their practitioners to

State of humility: agriculture, weather forecasting and security.

I practice two of them, and, as such, let me assure you that

the recommendations that follow are presented in all humility. Humility

does not mean timidity. On the contrary, it means that when the very holding

This belief is proven wrong, that people of modest changes their minds.

I hope that my proposal will result in a considerable push-back,

and change my mind may also follow. Although I will say it again

later, this speech is me talking to myself.

As if it needed saying, cyber security, attention is now

the top issue in a lot of places that are more important than this one. This is the

not to insult the Black Hat; rather it is to be noted that each speaker,

every writer, every practitioner in the field of virtual security

It has been hoped that with the topic, and we with it, has taken seriously

got their wish. Virtual security * is * considered serious,

which, as you know is not the same as brought useful,

coherent, or it could be saved. Whether we are talking about the law as

Digital Millennium Copyright Act or the computer fraud and abuse

Legislation, non-action or legislation but perhaps even more significant

that executive agencies do, "our" and cyber

the issue of security has never been more at the forefront of the policy.

And you don't see anything anymore.

I hope that I can tell you that it is still possible for one

people to hold the big picture firmly in their mind's eye, to track

everything important that happens in our field, to make it a little if

the sin of omission. This is not possible; sometimes passing phase

in the last six years. I certainly have tried to keep up but I

will be less bright though not to say that I know that I

'm not keeping, not even keeping up with what's going on I

own country let alone all countries. Not only has the cybersecurity

achieve a level of concern, it has spread to almost

every corner. If the area is the product of the height and width, then

in the footsteps of cybersecurity has gone beyond our understanding.

The rate of technological change is definitely part of it. When would

young people ask for my advice about what they should do or learn to

make a career in security, I can only advise specialties.

Those who are in the game early enough and that has been successfully

to maintain a generalist knowledge over arching cannot be replaced

It is very easy because while absorbing new information most most

time may perhaps when we start practice, there is no one

starting from scratch could do that now. Specialty series

Now all one can do in a practical way. Just look at the

Black Hat program will confirm that to be really good at one of

of the many topics presented here require all but shut out

good demands on others.

Why is it important? Speaking for myself, I'm not interested

excess or shortage of a few bits of technology unless I

can understand how it is that the technology works. Every time I see

marketing materials that tell me all the good things that are adopted

This or that technology makes possible, I remember what George

Santayana said, that "the skepticism the sanctity of the intellect;

It's a shame to give up too quickly, or to the first settlers. " I

assuming that most of you have similar skepticism--"is

Magic! " Security is not the answer someone will ever receive. By

and big, I can tell * what * something good for once I know * how *

the way it works. Tell me how it works and then, but only then, tell me

Why did you choose to use these specific mechanisms for

the things that you have chosen to use it

Part of my feelings stem from a long-held and Well-substantiated

the belief that all technology is dual utilization of cyber security. Maybe

Double utilization are a truth for any and all of the surgical knife to

hammer for gas can--they can be used for good or bad--but I

know that dual utilization of inherent in cyber security tools. If You Are

the definition of "tool" is quite wide, I suggest that the cyber

security breach favors set of tools today. Chris Inglis, just

retired NSA Deputy Director, said that if we want to Score cyber

how we Score soccer, tally will 462-463 twenty minutes

in the game, [CI] namely, all violations. I will take the comment as

confirmed at the highest level not only the utilization of double nature

Cybersecurity but also confirmed that the offence is where innovation

that only States can afford is going on.

However, this essay is the development of, the extension of

the importance of that increased cybersecurity. With humility

I speak, I do not claim that I have the last word. What I

do claim is that when we talk about our policy on cybersecurity

no longer engage in a kind of parlor game. I claim that the policy

things are now the things that are most important, that all topic areas,

such as cybersecurity, became interlaced with almost every aspect of

life for almost everyone, the differential between the good results

bad policy and expand, and the ease of finding the answers

fall. As H.L. Mencken so trenchantly put it, "for every complex

no problem is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. "

Four Government verities are:

. Most important interesting ideas

. Ideas are the most important interesting

. Not every problem has a solution that's good

. Each solution has its side effects

This certainly applies to the verities Quartet interaction between

Cybersecurity and daily affairs. During my life

have public expectations of what Government can and should do

spectacular expanded from ensures that you can engage in

"pursuit of happiness" to ensure happiness in and of

itself. Dynamic internal Government Center is, and always

already, the only way to Executive and legislative

to control many of the sub unit of Government is by the way how many

the money that they can hand out. Guarantee of happiness has the same dynamic

--that the Government is really the only tool has been achieving results

Everyone happy or everyone who is healthy or any person who is safe at all times

from things that go bump in the night is through dispenser

money. This is true in foreign policy; one can fairly argue

that United States troops 2007 "surge" in Iraq provides a

an increase in safety. One could also argue that their work

the troops, some of whom gave what Abraham Lincoln called the last "

full measure of devotion, "materially assisted by less publicized

the arrival of the C-130 is full of $ 100 bills that were used to buy from the potential

fighters. Why cybersecurity should be different?

Suppose, however, that oversight be too cheap to meter,

that is to say too cheap to limit the budget. Whether

that reduces the power of the legislature, or the power

Other executives? I think it's never cheap surveillance substantially

change the balance of power in favor of the Executive Branch and go

of the legislature. While President Obama was referring to the

something else when he said "I have a pen and I have my phone"

He speaks exactly this idea--things that don't need

the allocation is outside the system of Check and balances. Is

ever wider use of censorship in the name of cybersecurity

truly contributing to our safety? Or is it destroying our salvation

in order to save it?

To be clear through repetition, these essays are written by

someone as his own opinion and not on behalf of another person. It's

written without the benefit of supposed insider information; I

hold no Clearance but instead information solely by way of open

the source of the intelligence. This path may be poised to grow easier; If

the main benefit of having Clearance is to be able to look into the

the future a bit further than those without one, then it must be

Follow that as the pace of change accelerating the difference between

how far can you see with Clearance versus how much you can see

without one will shrink.

In other words, there are parallels between cybersecurity and

Intelligence function as far as predicting the future has a strong

role in preparing Your Defense a possible attack. As

Dave Aitel has repeatedly pointed out, the hardest part of the craft

good offensive tools to test them before deployment. Find out what

the tools you will find, and how to deal with it, must be hard

instead of finding exploitable Flaw by itself. This, too, may

grow in importance if the stiffness of the test causes the attacker to use

some parts of the Internet at large as their test platform is somewhat

rig than anything they are able to set up their own store. If

that is the case, then a full-scale traffic logs become indispensable

As far as intelligence tool when the attack seems to be de novo

them with full-scale traffic logs can be in a position to answer

the question "how long this has been going on?" The Company's Net

The witness, now part of EMC, is the one player that comes to mind is

things, and there are others. This idea of looking back to

evidence that you did not previously know enough to find if

must have good intelligence value to the nation State and

the company.

And there is a lot of traffic that we have no grip. John

Quarterman Internet dangers make guess number round that 10%

The Internet backbone traffic is known as Protocol. [JQ]

Did he die with a two-way factor either, that's

still a lot of traffic. Arbor Networks estimates that maybe 2%

All * personal * is the backbone traffic, by using the term, "raw

waste. " [AN] There are many other estimates of this kind, from the

the course. To my way of thinking, all the estimates continue to

reminds us that the design of end-to-end Internet [SRC] is not

some failures of intellect but avoid brilliant design features

to choose between the sad Internet toys are completely safe will

should be the main tool of the Internet versus the State

controls. In other respects, it is more likely to say that our choices

is freedom, security, comfort--choose two.

Let me now turn to some of the policy proposals on pressing suite

current topics. None of the proposals fully formed, but as

you know, people who don't play the game does not make the rules. This

proposals that are not in order of priority, although some more contradiction

with current practice than others and may, therefore, said unto

It became more urgent. There's more where this came from, but it is

Self-talk has a time limit, and there is a meta-analysis at the end.

1. mandatory report--Yes Tiered

United States Centers for Disease Control honored

the world around. When you really get down to it, the three abilities

Describe CDC and why they are as effective as they are: (1)

mandatory reporting of infectious diseases, (2) data stored and

data analytical skills to distinguish from statistical anomalies

plague, and (3) team went to take over, say, the appearance

from Ebola in Miami. Everything else is details. The most fundamental

This is a mandatory reporting of communicable diseases.

At the same time, we have also set the rules about medical

Privacy. The rules are useful; When you check into the hospital

There is a license-based accountability, enforced, need to know

the regime governing the handling of your data. [PHI] Almost every day,

But if you check with the Bubonic Plague or typhus or

Anthrax, you will have zero privacy because they are "compulsory

condition report infectious diseases "as the range of mandate

not just by the CDC but by public health laws in all fifty States.

So let me ask you, it would be reasonable, in public health

How the internet, to have a mandatory reporting regime for cybersecurity

failure? Do you support should You report cyber penetration

company or Your household waste into some branch of Government or some

non-governmental entity? You should face criminal charges if you

failed to create these reports? Forty-eight countries vigorously punish

failure to report child sexual abuse. [SMC] (Us)

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [CFAA] defines a number of criminal law

with regard to computer penetration, and the U.S. code says that it

is the crime of failing to report the crimes of which you have knowledge. [USC]

Is cybersecurity event data types of the data around as you want

to enforce mandatory reporting? Forty-six States require mandatory

reporting a failure in the form of cyber class of their data

violation of the law, [CSB] Verizon Data breach investigations while

Report [VDB] found, and index of Cyber Security [IC] is confirmed,

that 70-80% of the data breach was discovered by unrelated third

Parties, not by the victim, which means that the victim may never

know if they are doing the discovery is to keep calm. If You Are

find a virtual attack, do you have an ethical obligation to report

is it? The law mandates that you must fulfill an obligation?

My answer to the question set is the mirror of the CDC, i.e.

for the strength of the law requires reporting of cybersecurity failure

that is above some limit the severity that we haven't had to negotiate.

Below the threshold, I endorse suggestions made in part two

Last week, "good Diet fruit intoxication," by Richard

Glenn Danzig which he made policy proposals: [RD]

Funding a consortium of data collection that will illuminate

the character and magnitude of cyber attacks against u.s. private

the sector, using the model of voluntary reporting near-misses

the in-flight incident. Using this company also helps

developing metrics about cybersecurity and a common terminology.

While the regulatory requirements for the reporting of the accident flight

established through national transportation safety

The Board, there is no requirement for reporting is much more

numerous and often no less informative near misses. The effort to

set these requirements certainly generate resistance:

The airline did not welcome more regulation and fear of reputation

and maybe the law of unintended consequences of visibility data; In addition,

close more ambiguous than intrinsic crash accident.

Alternative pathways are formed in 2007 when the MITRE, the Government

contractors, established an aviation safety information analysis

and the system of Sharing (ASIAS) receive data near-miss and give

the safety of anonymous, benchmarking and proposed improvement report

for a small number of initially participating airlines and

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Today, airlines 44 participated in the program on a voluntary basis. The

combination of models CDC cyber mandatory for above threshold

events and volunteer ASIAS model for events under the threshold

What I recommend. This left many thinking still to

done; diseases treated by professionals, but malware infections

treated by amateurs. The disease spread within the jurisdiction

before they became global, but malware global from the get-go.

The disease has been predictable behavior, but malware comes from sentient

opponents. Do not think this proposal is an easy one or one without

side effects.

2. net neutrality--options

There is considerable irony in the Federal Communications Commission

classify the Internet as information services and not as a

Communications services as far as temporary may have been gambit

to relieve the ISP telephone-era rules, value

The Internet is the more bits it brings, not train them

bits. The FCC decision is both a couple and now old, FCC

the cables are classified as information services in 2002, classified DSL

as information services in 2005, classified wireless broadband

as the information service in 2007, and classified over broadband

electric current as the information service in 2008. The decision by the

The DC Circuit Court of appeals at this point appear earlier

This year, [VZF] but settled a bit. The question remains, is

Telecommunications service or Internet information services?

I've had something new to tell to you about the facts, the facts, as well as close

distortion lay inherent in the debates over the network

neutrality so far or is still to come. What I can say is that the network

neutrality is no panacea nor a curse; different tastes

and so does the company. What I can say is that tastes vary

need to be reflected in the limited selection than

that the FTC or any other agency can assure happiness if and only

If that, rather than companies or individuals, do not vote.

Channeling to doctor Seuss, if I ran the Zoo I'd call YOUR ISP

and said this:

Hello, Uncle Sam here.

You can charge whatever you like based on the content of what

You bringing, but you are responsible for the content that if it

painful; check out the carry responsibility for what

You learn.

-or-

You can enjoy a common carrier protection all the time, but you

can inspect or act upon the content of the

carry and can only charge for the transportation itself. Bits are bits.

Choose wisely. No refunds or exchanges on this window.

In other words, your ISP get one or the other; they do not get both.

The FCC got some heartache, but also a natural experiment in whether

those who choose common carrier status turns out to be different than

those who choose the value of multi-tiered service with responsibility for exposure.

We already have plenty of precedent and the law in this space. The

United States Postal Service term of art, "sealed against inspection"

reserved for items that are of the highest postage price;

Is it also worth a toss into the mix?

As a side comment, I might add that it was Seuss ' books _ If I Ran

Zoo _ that the word "strange" first appeared in the language of the United Kingdom. If black

The CAP does not yet have an official book, I would suggest this one.