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silvereyecertification · 1 year ago

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Streamlining WPC Registration: Simplify Compliance with Silvereye Certifications

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bis-certification · 2 years ago

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Ensure Compliance with Your Label

Are you looking for a WPC-ETA certificate for Wireless Items for Your Product? As a compliance consultant for the WPC-ETA certificate for Wireless Items, EVTL India is involved. We support everything from certificate application, testing, and certification all the way through to compliance. We are able to guide our clients through the entire procedure and ensure that their products meet all requirements thanks to our extensive compliance experience and knowledge.

We help our customers get the certifications they need to sell their products in the market. EVTL India has a team of experts who are familiar with the certification procedure and can assist our customers in navigating it. In order to help our customers maintain compliance long after the certification has been obtained, we also provide support.

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jaikoyaki · 29 days ago

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Stop staring, Kang Haerin!

CHAPTER 4:

A selfie?

SYPNOSIS:Haerin, the vice president of the debate club, always seemed to give you cold, dismissive looks—or at least, that's what you thought. Convinced she couldn’t stand you, you never expected to have anything to do with her. You assumed she just hated you. But when the club loses a key member before an important competition, you—known for your academic excellence—are the obvious choice to step in.

Prev - Masterlist - Next

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!WARNINGS!:Parental Pressure,Self-Doubt/Identity Struggles, prob cringe writing, not proofread

You had always been cautious.

As far back as you could remember, you were the type to hold back—watch, analyze, hesitate. You grew up learning to read between the lines, to pick apart the smallest nuances in a conversation, as though every word was a code you needed to crack. It wasn’t that you wanted to—no, this was survival. In a home where praise felt fleeting and love seemed conditional, you learned to question everything, to always be on alert.

Your parents weren’t cruel, but they were inconsistent—unpredictable. One moment, they’d praise you for being smart, the next, they’d remind you not to get too full of yourself. You never knew what to expect—whether a small mistake would be brushed off or turned into a lecture. So, you started to overthink, analyzing every word, every gesture, trying to figure out if their affection was real, or if it would slip away just as easily as it came.

You were always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The inconsistency followed you, trailing behind every interaction like a dark cloud. By the time middle school rolled around, you were already fluent in the art of overthinking. You’d question every compliment, dissect every act of kindness. It wasn’t that you didn’t want to believe in people—it was that experience had taught you not to.

You still remembered the science project you’d worked on in middle school. You’d spent hours on it, proud of the result—an A. You’d brought it home, eager for that rare moment of approval. And your father did smile. He even ruffled your hair. “Good job,” he said. But before you could savor it, he added, “But why didn’t you push for an A+?” The joy vanished as quickly as it had come.

What was the point of doing well if it was never enough?

From that moment, you stopped reaching for praise. Instead, you worked to avoid criticism, keeping your head down, working hard so that nobody could question your worth. But even that became exhausting. No matter how well you did, it felt like it didn’t matter. An ‘A’ was expected, a ‘B’ was a disappointment, and an ‘A+’? That was just barely enough to keep the peace.

That pressure—it never let up. By the time you reached high school, you were already measuring your worth by the numbers on a report card, a gold star, or a certificate hanging on the wall, You learned to smile when you got it right and swallow the bitter disappointment when you didn’t. Academic success became your identity. If you weren’t the smartest, If you didn't excel in everything—then who were you? What were you?

It was your safety net, the only thing you could control. And yet, no matter how many awards you racked up, none of them quieted the gnawing doubt inside you. Was any of it worth anything if you weren’t perfect all the time?

Which is why Haerin terrified you.

She wasn’t unkind, not really. But her stares—those unreadable, piercing gazes she’d send your way—set you on edge. She never gave anything away. No matter how hard you tried to decipher her looks, you couldn’t tell what she was thinking. Was she judging you? Was she annoyed? Did she think you weren’t good enough? Or maybe she was just indifferent, and it was all in your head.

But uncertainty… uncertainty was something you couldn’t deal with.

So you pulled away. It was easier that way. Easier to assume she didn’t like you than to risk letting her in, only to be hurt later. If you never let yourself hope, you could never be disappointed.

Yet here you were, sitting in a cafe, wearing your favorite oversized sweater and warm joggers, the soft fabric comforting you as the rain pattered outside. The café was a place you always retreated to when school pressures built up, a familiar refuge where you could focus. But today, your laptop lay forgotten in front of you, headphones resting around your neck, blocking out the usual soothing sounds,

Your eyes were glued to your phone’s screen, fingers hovering over the keyboard. How the hell do you reply to this?

Haerin had texted you half an hour ago, and you were still staring at it. Technically, you hadn’t even initiated the conversation—thank NingNing for that. And you fully expected Haerin to ignore the message.

Instead, she responded. With a “Heyyyy to you too” You would’ve cringed at the corniness if it hadn’t been followed by something that completely threw you off—a selfie.

On the first conversation. Who even does that? It wasn’t like you two were texting buddies, sharing insta reels at 2 a.m. or anything. You barely talked in person.

You stared at the picture for a good ten minutes before you even began to process what had happened. Your heart stuttered. She looked… different. Calm, almost casual, like the cold wall she usually had up was nowhere to be found. She looked really pretty. Too pretty.

And now you were stuck. What were you supposed to say? Compliment her? Was that too much? Would she think you were flirting? You didn’t even know Haerin like that, not really, so why was your heart racing over something so simple?

You groaned, lightly smacking your forehead. If only Ningning hadn’t meddled…

Your fingers hovered over the keyboard as you typed: You look pretty.

Wait—was that too much? Would she think you were flirting? It was just a compliment, right? But what if she took it the wrong way? You couldn’t deal with the embarrassment if Haerin thought—

click.

Your heart dropped as the screen confirmed what had just happened. You accidentally sent the message.

You stared at your phone in horror. No. No. No. You couldn’t believe it—your finger had slipped. You hadn’t meant to send it yet.

You slammed your head lightly on the table, muffling your frustrated groan. The café’s warm atmosphere wasn’t helping you think straight.

You missed the sound of someone choking on their iced coffee nearby.

30 minutes ago, at Hanni’s place…

“That’s so corny. Are you sure this’ll work?” Haerin frowned, watching Hyein tap away on her phone.

"Shut up and do NOT question my rizzing skills." Hyein, phone in hand, confidently tapped away while Haerin watched in mild horror. She held up a finger to silence Haerin’s doubts "This is how you win hearts, pooks."

"Then, we send a picture!" Hyein added with way too much enthusiasm.

"No." Haerin shot her a skeptical look. "Isn't that kinda weird? I mean, sending a picture in the first convo?" Her voice was barely above a mutter, as if the phone itself would scold her for agreeing to this madness.

"Kitty Kang, listen," Hyein scoffs, dead serious now. "If you want to melt the icy walls around someone’s heart, you NEED to attract them." She dragged out the word "need" like it was some sort of ancient wisdom passed down through the ages. "That’s like rule number two in quantum rizzics."

"…Quantum what?"

"Trust me." With a mischievous grin, Hyein scrolled through Haerin's photo gallery, not even hesitating as her fingers tapped with a deadly precision. "This one," she declared with satisfaction.

“Wait, don’t—!” Haerin lunged for the phone, but it was too late.

Send.

"Lee Hyein-ah!" Haerin groaned, burying her face in her hands. She peeked through her fingers at the screen. The damage was done. The damage was done. Her carefully cultivated image now depended on a single selfie. Meanwhile, Hyein grinned like she had just unlocked the mysteries of the universe.

Before Haerin could scold her further, Minji poked her head through the doorway. "We're eating outside. Wanna come?"

"Isn’t it raining?" Haerin mumbled, her gaze shifting toward the window where sheets of rain drummed against the glass, creating a hazy blur of gray.

"Rain and food are best combo." Minji twirled her keys, shrugging before disappearing.

Reluctantly, Haerin and Hyein followed, finding the others already packed into the car. Danielle and Hanni were chatting animatedly in the back, their laughter filling the space with warmth despite the dreary weather.

“What the hell, man.” Hanni groaned, glaring at her phone as if it had personally betrayed her. “The dim sum place is closed,” she announced, flipping her screen around for everyone to witness the tragedy firsthand.

A collective groan rose from the car like an exaggerated sigh, the group’s disappointment hanging thick in the air, mingling with the damp scent of rain.

“So… where should we eat?” Hyein asked, her voice tinged with the same heartbreak.

“Applebee—” Danielle began, her eyes lighting up.

"No," the rest of the car immediately chorused, cutting her off without hesitation. Danielle pouted, sinking into her seat like a rejected puppy.

"I know a café nearby," Minji chimed in, not looking back as she started the car. "Just down the road."

"Wait—the one with the good strawberry cream cake?!" Hyein’s voice shot up an octave, her hands clapping together in excitement.

Danielle reached over to buckle Hyein’s seatbelt with an exaggerated sigh, muttering about how the youngest always forgot.

“I heard they’ve got amazing coffee too,” Hanni chimed in, nodding in approval from the passenger seat.

“Café it is!” Minji announced, stepping on the gas as the group headed out.

Taglist: @secretcessy @sixflame438 @gayforalll @idkwhatim-doinghere101 @saysirhc @gornoi @rowlflereater @luvvhaerin

#newjeans x reader #newjeans #haerin x reader #kang haerin x reader #haerin #kang haerin #haerin x fem!reader

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brf-rumortrackinganon · 7 months ago

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I’m confused. Why would he get deported? He’s married to (presumably) a US citizen already. Not sure if I missed something?

Well, the simplest explanation is that everyone who immigrates/emigrates to the US has to fill out paperwork to stay here. Doesn't matter who you are, who your family is, who you're married to, where you're from, what money you have. Everyone fills out the paperwork.

Being married to a US citizen only affects the type of visa (Spouse of US Citizen) you get and which application (Form I-130, the Petition for Alien Relative) your sponsor fills out to start the process.

The longer/more detailed explanation of the process, and the background for the lawsuit about Harry's visa application, is this:

(Apologies for how small the text is. I didn't want it to be a multi-page thing.) I'll describe it below the jump.

But essentially, Harry's process to become a legal permanent resident through his marriage to a US citizen is:

Sponsor/Meghan submits Form I-130 to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), requesting approval to bring her spouse to live with her in the US.

USCIS reviews the form and will approve (left green circle) or deny (left red circle) the application. If they deny it, that ends the process. They can try again later. If they approve it, then:

Sponsor/Meghan pays a bunch of fees and a visa case is opened.

(The big giant square text) More paperwork and documents are submitted. Meghan and Harry do this together. (I'll explain this in a bit.)

The Spouse/Harry has his immigration interview.

USCIS will review the visa case file and make a decision on whether to approve or deny the visa request. If they deny the visa, then depending on the justification for denial, the Spouse/Harry may request a waiver or he can submit additional documentation for further consideration. If the visa is approved, then the Spouse/Harry is given approval to travel to the US and once he's here, he gets permanent residency - aka "the green card."

Now, getting back to the giant text block and the "more paperwork" requirement. In this phase of the process for a spousal visa, the couple must provide:

An affadavit of support from the Sponsor/Meghan (this basically says that she has enough income to support Harry and they won't need government assistance)

Supporting financial documents (probably tax declarations)

Harry's passport

Additional photographs of Harry

Form DS-260, the Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration Application from Harry (this is Harry's application for residency)

Harry's birth certificate

Their marriage certificate

Harry's military records (the US requires anyone with military service in any country to submit)

Harry's police certificate (information about whether he has been arrested or charged with crimes/what kinds)

Harry's Medical Examination form (which sometimes is done after the interview)

Form DS-260 is the big one. It basically asks the immigrant (Harry, in this case) about everything in his life: his childhood, his work history, his social media accounts, where he's lived, his family of origin, his children, previous travel to the US, medical and health details (including history of substance abuse. communicable diseases, and vaccination record), criminal history, security and background details, and social security.

If you're found to have lied about anything on this form - for instance, something pops on the background check that isn't disclosed or your answers in the interview are inconsistent with what's reported on the form or your social media tells a totally different story - it's grounds for your application to be denied and, if you're already here in the US, you to be deported.

This is what the DHS/Homeland Security lawsuit is about. The DS-260 has a question about drug use. The Heritage Foundation (the plaintiff in the case) is suing DHS to find out what Harry reported about his drug use on the form and in his medical history because historically, the US does not allow people with drug addictions or past drug use into the country. After Harry's admissions in Spare that he's basically a functioning addict, the Heritage Foundation assumed that Harry said "no" on the drug use question (which would be a lie) and they want to find out if he was given special treatment because of being Queen Elizabeth's grandson. (I also suspect the Heritage Foundation wants to find out if Harry has a regular passport or is traveling/living in the US on a diplomatic passport as well.)

So going back to your original question, yes, Harry can still be deported even if he is the spouse of a US citizen and even if he is a permanent resident. All the marriage to a US citizen means is what forms get filled out and what supporting documentation is submitted. That's all; there aren't any other protections involved in being married to a US citizen.

But there is a benefit to immigrating via a "green card marriage" - if you come to the US on any other kind of visa, the requirements are much stricter and the waiting period for eligibility can sometimes take much longer. Particularly on the latter, the US actually has requirements on how many people per country can immigrate/travel in a given a year, even if you're sponsored by a business or a friend or a family member (eg a brother or uncle). So some people end up waiting years to move to the US; that's just the demand on the system. But with a "green card marriage," you get to jump most of the queues and your waiting period for eligibility disappears in an instant. You can literally begin your application to move to the US the day you get engaged to a US citizen or the day you get married.

But you still have to go through all the hoops and fill out all the paperwork anyway. No way around that. No matter who your grandmother is.

Now for the part that makes all of this even more complicated: COVID.

A lot of rules government-wide were relaxed because of the COVID national emergency. One of the areas in which a lot of rules, standards, and regulations were relaxed is immigration, which caused an enormous backlog of paperwork and cases. Why? Because we're the goverment, y'all, and we move at slower-than-glacial-pace. In March 2020, we still processed a million things by hand on actual physical paper. (Remember, I'm a fed. I've got horror stories for days about this.) So part of the issue with everyone going home is that the paperwork didn't come home with us. It just kept stacking up and stacking up and stacking up in the office because we were still using paper systems and there hadn't been enough time to automate processes or digitize systems when we were ordered to work from home on March 16th. (Particularly in the DC area, talks/plans to send us all home started literally the week before, on March 9th. That was zero time to do anything but scale up the VPN and give everyone a laptop so whole entire agencies can work from home - because remember, before March 2020, it wasn't a thing for us in government to work from home.) So in June/July 2020 when the local stay-at-home orders were finally lifted, we all went back to the office to huge backlogs of paperwork and casework. Backlogs that were still growing by the day, and backlogs that needed to be handled quickly. As a result, there were a lot of decisions made to just "rubber-stamp" everything as quickly as possible. In DHS/USCIS, that meant citizenship and visa applications weren't as closely reviewed as they may have been in the past because the bosses were telling us "just get it done" because the Trump Administration was breathing down everyone's necks to deliver results that they could use in his re-election campaign.

So there's speculation now that Harry's visa/immigration application is one of those cases that got "rubber stamped" to get through the backlog. And part of that speculation is an attempt to understand when exactly did the visa paperwork get processed and whether there was undue special treatment in doing so. Was he part of the backlog that was grandfathered/rubber-stamped into the US? Or was his application processed before that?

Because if his application was processed before he moved here in March 2020, well, then the Sussexes aren't telling the truth about where they lived or what they were doing. Reason being that typically on a spousal visa, you usually can't already be living here in the US when you apply for it. You apply from your home country and come to the US only once your visa request has been granted.

So did the Sussexes apply for Harry's visa when they were living in Canada, starting the process as early as November 2019 when the BRF forced them into a vacation and panicking in February 2020 when COVID started closing borders? In that case, did the Sussexes apply diplomatic pressure to expedite DHS's review of Harry's case so they could be in the US before borders closed? Or did they say "screw it" and moved to the US without waiting for a decision and then applied diplomatic pressure to have Harry's case approved retroactively?

Or did the Sussexes apply for Harry's visa much earlier, when they were still living in the UK/working as full-time royals? And if that's the case, then did they really go to Canada like they said they did, or did they just hide out in the US for a bit so Harry could pick up his green card, and then they traveled to Vancouver/Canada for New Year's?

Or - perhaps the more tinhatty scenario - did the Sussexes apply for Harry's visa right after the marriage, at the earliest opportunity Meghan could've filed the paperwork? In which case, their secret honeymoon could really potentially have been a trip to the US so Harry could claim his green card.

Option 3 is incredibly farfetched. We know the Sussexes can't keep their stories straight so I feel like if that's what had actually happened, there would've been holes poked into their "fleeing to Canada" narrative already.

I probably lean towards Option 1 (they exploited COVID to move here) but Option 2 is pretty plausible too.

Anyway, that's a ton more than you/anon probably expected. (It's a whole lot more than I expected to write about too.) But hopefully this clears up some confusion about what exactly is happening with Harry's immigration status, why it's possible he can still be deported, and sheds a little light on the Homeland Security lawsuit.

Edit: added some clarification (see bolded part under the flowchart)

#ask #sussexes #theories

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lightsaber-dorphin · 7 months ago

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Jedi Order Bureaucratic Structure

I’ve been working for a while on worldbuilding the inner workings of the Jedi Order. Below is a flowchart of the administrative bodies, their duties, and any other admin bodies they oversee. More details on each below the cut.

These are different groups involved in running the Jedi Order. For different roles within the Jedi, see my Jedi Order Corps and Subdivisions.

High Council: (Finance, bylaws, PR, major trials)

Determines the budget(s)

Relations with the Senate

Only body that can expel members

Librarian's Assembly: (Ensures knowledge is available to Jedi)

Fund academic researchers (many Jedi researchers work directly for the assembly)

Archives: (Run the Archives & research)

Host academic conferences

Protect important artifacts

Run basically directly by the Librarian's Assembly

Department of Classes: (Adult education)

Organize all classes that aren't geneds

Set criteria for certifications/ degrees

Help members get degrees from external organizations

Council of Reassignment: (Oversees transfers & is Jedi CPS)

New Initiate paperwork

Transfers between corps and/or branches

Helps members leave the Order

Checks the CoFK when necessary

Padawanship paperwork filed here (crèchemasters sign off, padawan signs off, check master for red flags/ not allowed to take apprentice, sometimes mind healer signs off)

Council of Justice: (Attourneys & internal justice system)

Try & punish cases committed by Jedi & internal to the Jedi Order

Mediate interpersonal disputes

Lawyers for the Order

Cannot expel members

Council of Outreach: (Manages outposts & patrols)

Assigns Jedi to satellite locations or watchfolk posts

Hires other outpost staff

Ships supplies to & from outposts

Tracks the locations of missions & sends Vanguards to areas that haven't been visited recently

Council of Temple Maintenance: (Oversees internal services and temple upkeep)

In charge of the cleaning droids

Coordinates trash & recycling with Coruscant government

Has the occasional member who can do specialized maintenance (ex. plumber, electrician)

Volunteers sign up to fix things

Hires outside contractors when there isn't a Jedi with the necessary skills

Assigns Jedi to living quarters

Interior decor

Delegates chores such as taking out the trash, mopping, dusting, etc.

Padawans and initiates are often assigned these chores as punishments

Kitchenmasters: (Mess halls)

Make & serve food in the mess halls

Label the food with which species can eat it

Order food supplies

Supervise initiate clans helping in the kitchens

Quartermasters: (Distribute supplies & manage finances)

Bulk-order supplies for the Order

Provide mission allotments

Desk operators help members pick up supplies

Accounting

Transport Office: (Run the hangar bay & speeder pool)

Responsible for the Order's vehicles

Mechanics

Vehicles are checked in & out like a library for cars & ships

Hire external staff when there aren't enough Jedi

Temple Guard: (Security & emergency response)

Guard against exterior threats to the temple

Security during criminal situations

Really good at sensing danger to temple inhabitants

First responders (fire & police-- MedCorp handles EMS)

Change lightbulbs and smoke detector batteries

Odd jobs on behalf of the CoTM

Uses the lore by Adsecula in "Nameless"

Council of Reconciliation: (Central hub of Jedi outreach & diplomacy)

All aid requests go through them

Sets mission objectives

Approve or deny aid/ mission requests

Reviews behavior of Jedi on missions when there are issues

Mission Consignment: (Assign Jedi to approved missions)

Desk jockeys

Not officially divided by type of mission/ Jedi role needed, but missions will be passed to people who are more familiar with the experts required

Organizes specifics for missions such as transportation and housing

Council of First Knowledge: (Runs Initiate & Padawan dorms, clans, & childhood education)

Initiate clans members live together with their crèchemasters rotating out night shifts

Padawans & Senior Initiates live in individual rooms in designated halls with some crèchemasters living in each hall

Department of Seekers: (Regulates conduct of Seekers)

Create regulates for what Seekers can & cannot do & how they should act

Investigate reported misconduct by Seekers

Crèche: (Organizes care for Initiates)

Sort Initiates into clans

Run events/ field trips/ etc.

Set educational standards

see my post about Living Quarters in the Jedi Temple

Department of Primary Classes: (Classroom education for younglings)

Standard elementary school operation stuff

Provides the general education classes all Jedi take as younglings

Circle of Healers: (Sets certification requirements)

Certified to train medical professionals for a variety of degrees

Determines when Jedi have fulfilled requirements for medical certifications

Sets the qualifications for Force-specific medical degrees

Halls of Healing: (Healthcare within the Order & internal outreach)

Like a local hospital but also has general practitioners

IRB: (Reviews research for ethical concerns)

Institutional Review Board

"Under FDA regulations, an Institutional Review Board is group that has been formally designated to review and monitor biomedical research involving human subjects. In accordance with FDA regulations, an IRB has the authority to approve, require modifications in (to secure approval), or disapprove research. This group review serves an important role in the protection of the rights and welfare of human research subjects."

IRB for the entire Order, not just the MedCorps

#dorphin's jedi lore #gffa worldbuilding #jedi worldbuilding #star wars worldbuilding #lore #mine #jedi #jedi order #pro jedi

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starrmarr · 9 months ago

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Was talking to my dad, formerly incarcerated and now free to talk for hours with me, about how where he lives in the Caribbean was originally a maroon settlement and how his grandmother made sure to share that history. She was born sometime in the early 1900s and we don’t know anything about her parents. She never had a birth certificate, never learned to read or write, never even knew her birth date— the same goes for her husband. I think a lot about how my African ethnic identity was erased, and how much survived despite everything. I think a lot about how I don’t know who came before my great-grandmother who is a mystery I see in my dreams, walking me through the Haitian wilderness, and then taking me to the other side. I saw a picture of her last year and she’s the same woman I see when I sleep. I don’t know where I came from, all we have is oral history to depend on, so powerful on its own, folkloric and beautiful, fantastical and familiar, and yet so incomplete. We have to trust it. The purpose of the slaver was to erase: to make our accounts seem less than real, illogical, ignorant. If my grand-mère says she saw a dead man walk amongst the living after going to his funeral, I believe her. I see it in my eye. Finding out about us is not as simple as sending a saliva sample, to be compared to and by random people, for $130. I don’t really approve of that anyway, something in me tells me it’s twisted— “let’s sell them an idea of the story they cannot confirm because of us in the first place”. It’s not as simple as typing in my last name into an ancestry website and getting no real matches— this isn’t my real name, anyway.

I have a deep sense of longing but I remember, I remember, I remember.

#rememory #a piece of my black history

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agapi-kalyptei · 4 months ago

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crowdstrike hot take 5: so who was incompetent, really?

OK so it's the first Monday after the incident. CrowdStrike (CS) is being tight-lipped about the actual cause of the incident, which Microsoft estimates to have affected 8.5 million devices.

Here's an unconfirmed rumor: CS has been firing a lot of QA people and replacing them with AI. I will not base this post on that rumor. But...

Here's a fact: wikipedia listed 8429 CS employees as of April 2024. Now the updated page says they have 7925 employees in their "Fiscal Year 2024".

Anyway. Here's a semi-technical video if you want to catch up on what bluescreen and kernel-mode drivers are in the contexts of the CS incident by a former microsoft engineer. He also briefly mentions WHQL certification - a quality assurance option provided by Microsoft for companies who want to make sure their kernel drivers are top-notch.

Now conceptually, there are two types of updates - updates to a software itself, and a definition update. For a videogame, the software update would be a new feature or bugfixes, and content update would add a new map or textures or something. (Realistically they come hand in hand anyway.) For an antivirus/antimalware, a definition update is basically a list of red flags - a custom format file that instructs the main software on how to find threats.

The video mentions an important thing about the faulty update: while many people say "actually it wasn't a software update that broke it, it was a definition file", it seems that CS Falcon downloads an update file and executes code inside that file - thus avoiding the lengthy re-certification by Microsoft while effectively updating the software.

Some background: On audits in software

A lot of software development is unregulated. You can make a website, deploy it, and whether you post puppy pictures or promote terrorism, there's no one reviewing and approving your change. Laws still apply - even the puppy pictures can be problematic if they include humans who did not consent to have their photos taken and published - but no one's stopping you immediately from publishing them.

And a lot of software development IS regulated - you cannot make software for cars without certifications, you cannot use certain programming languages when developing software for spaceships or MRIs. Many industries like online casinos are regulated - IF you want to operate legally in most countries, you need a license, and you need to implement certain features ("responsible gaming"), and you must submit the actual source code for reviews.

This varies country by country (and state by state, in USA, Canada, etc) and can mean things like "you pay $200 for each change you want to put to production*", or it can mean "you have to pay $40'000 if you make a lot of changes and want to get re-certified".

*production means "web servers or software that goes to end customers", as opposed to "dev environment", "developer's laptop", "QA environment" or "staging" or "test machines", "test VMs" or any of the other hundreds way to test things before they go live.

The certification, and regular audits, involves several things:

Testing the software from user's perspective

Validating the transactions are reported correctly (so that you're not avoiding taxes)

Checking for the user-protecting features, like being able to set a monthly limit on depositing money, etc

Checking the source code to make sure customers are not being ripped off

Validating security and permissions, so a janitor can't download or delete production databases

Validating that you have the work process that you said you would - that you have Jira (or similar) tickets for everything that gets done and put to production, etc, and

...that you have Quality Assurance process in place, and that every change that goes to production is tested and approved

You can see why I highlighted the last point, right.

Now, to my knowledge, security software doesn't have its own set of legal requirements - if I want to develop an antivirus, I don't need a special permission from my government, I can write code, not test it at all, and start selling it for, idk for example $185 per machine it gets deployed to.

And here's the thing - while there certainly is a level of corruption / nepotism / favoritism in the IT industry, I don't think CloudStrike became one of the biggest IT security providers in the world just by sweet talking companies. While there isn't any legal regulation, companies do choose carefully before investing into 3rd party solutions that drastically affect their whole IT. What I mean, CloudStrike probably wasn't always incompetent.

(Another rumor from youtube comments: A company with ~1000 employees was apparently pressured by an insurance company to use CrowdStrike - whether it's a genuine recommendation, an "affiliate link" or just plain old bribery... I do not know.)

WHY what happened is still very baffling

See, this is what would be the process if I was running a security solutions company:

a team is assigned a task. this task is documented

the team discusses the task if it's non-trivial, and they work on it together if possible

solo developer taking the task is not ideal, but very common, since you cannot parallelize (split it between several people) some tasks

while developing, ideally the developer can test everything from start to finish on their laptop. If doing it on their laptop isn't possible, then on a virtual machine (a computer that runs only inside software, and can be more or less stored in a file, duplicated, restored to a previous version, backed up, etc, just by copying that file)

in case of automated software updates, you would have "update channels". In this case it means... like if you have a main AO3 account where you put finished things, and then you'd have another AO3 account where you only put beta fics. So in my hypothetical company, you'd have a testing update channel for each developer or each team. The team would first publish their work only on their update channel, and then a separate QA team could test only their changes.

Either way, after maybe-mostly-finishing the task, the code changes would be bundled in something called a "pull request" or "PR" or "merge request". It's basically a web page that displays what was the code before and after. This PR would be reviewed by people who have NOT worked on the change, so they can check and potentially criticize the change. This is one of the most impactful things for software quality.

Either before or after the PR, the change would go to QA. First it would be tested just in the team's update channel. If it passes and no more development is needed on it, it would go to a QA update channel that joins all recent changes across all teams.

After that, it would be released to an early access or prerelease update channel, sometimes called a canary deploy. Generally, this would be either a limited amount - maybe 100 or 1000 computers, either used internally, or semi-randomly spread across real clients, or it could be as much as 10% of all customers' computers.

THEN YOU WAIT AND SEE IF THERE ARE NO ERROR REPORTS.

Basically ALL modern software (and websites! all the cookies!) collect "metrics" - like "how often each day is this running", or "did our application crash"

you absolute MUST have graphs (monitoring - sometimes this is a part of discipline called "reliability engineering") that show visually things like the number of users online, how many customers are lagging behind with updates, how many errors are reported, how many viruses are being caught by our software. If anything goes up or down too much, it's a cause for concern. If 10% of your customers are suddenly offline after a canary deploy is out, you're shitting your pants.

ONLY after waiting for a while to see everything is okay, you can push the update to ALL clients. It is unfathomable how anyone would do that straight away, or maybe how someone could do it without proper checks, or how the wrong thing got sent to the update.

As ClownStrike is still silent about the actual cause of the issue, we can only make guesses about how much they circumvented their own Quality Assurance process to push the faulty update to millions of computers.

It gets worse

Here's the thing: CrowdStrike itself allows users to create computer groups and let them choose the update channel. You, as a business customer, can say

these 100 unimportant laptops will have the latest update

these important servers will have N-1 update (one version behind)

the rest of the company will have N-2 update (two update versions behind)

CrowdStrike has ignored those settings. According to some youtube comments, supposedly they pushed the update to "only" 25% of all devices - which is worrying to think this could have gone even worse.

Third time isn't the charm

And hey, do you know what happened two years before CrowdStrike was founded? The CEO George Kurtz was at the time, in 2010, the CTO of McAfee, the controversial / crappy security company (IMO offering one of the worst antivirus programs of all times, that was aggressively pushed through bundled OEM deals). In both 2009 and 2010 their enterprise software deleted a critical operating system file and bricked a lot of computers, possibly hundreds of thousands.

And yes, the trigger wasn't an update to the antivirus itself, but a faulty "definition update". Funny coincidence, huh.

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ivankahasbeentreatedsounfairly · 3 months ago

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By Rachel Maddow

On Dec. 1, 1960, the far-right preacher and racist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith sent out a fund-raising appeal, headlined with a shocking claim in red type across the top: “HOLD YOUR BREATH: KENNEDY MAY HAVE LOST.”

The 1960 election had indeed been close, but the Democrat, John F. Kennedy, had prevailed, and his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, had congratulated Kennedy on election night, over shouted protests from his supporters.

Three weeks later, Smith, the leader of what he called the Christian Nationalist Crusade, was telling his followers it was possible to reverse that result.

If Smith’s followers would only send him money, he would continue what he called his “subtle campaign of pressure” to persuade governors in states won by Kennedy that they should refuse to send Kennedy electors to Washington for the Electoral College count.

“This,” Smith promised, “could turn out to be the most shocking and sensational Electoral College vote in history.”

It was not. There were no shenanigans in the Electoral College count. Kennedy received 303 votes to Nixon’s 219, and the transition of power proceeded peacefully.

Today, it may be worth remembering Smith’s nut-ball campaign to overturn the 1960 election if only to see how far we’ve sunk. You used to have to get out into the far-flung wilds of American political life before you’d find people trying to persuade state or local officials to monkey-wrench the Electoral College by refusing to send their states’ real results to Washington for the Electoral College count. Not anymore.

Since Donald Trump and Ronna McDaniel, the then-chair of the Republican National Committee, phoned local officials in Michigan in November 2020 to encourage them not to certify vote totals, Republicans have quietly seeded county and state election boards with eager allies. Election boards across the country now include Republican officials who have not only propounded Mr. Trump’s lies about the last presidential election being “stolen,” they have tested how far they can go in denying the certification of the vote.

Republicans tried this ploy more than two dozen times in at least eight states since 2020. Two refusenik Republican election board members were indicted in Cochise County, Ariz. That case is pending. Two others were removed from their positions in Surry County, N.C. In New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Nevada, Republican officials who delayed or refused to certify the votes ultimately relented under legal pressure.

But in Georgia, the State Election Board approved a rule this month that gives election officials in each of the state’s 159 counties the option to delay or refuse certification in order to make a “reasonable inquiry” into the results. What counts as a “reasonable inquiry?” The new rule does not say.

Because Georgia law holds that election boards “shall” certify results within a week of the election, this rule almost certainly will face legal challenges. But in a state where Republicans have delayed or refused certification at least seven times since 2020 — more than in any other state — the rule injects a new layer of murk into the legal waters less than 100 days before the election.

On Monday, the board is expected to consider yet another revision to the rules that would afford members of county election boards an additional option for delaying or refusing certification. The rule would allow local board members to demand “all election-related documentation” before certifying the results.

Imagine an election night this November in which the two parties are trading swing-state victories. The Democrats capture Nevada, while the Republicans take Arizona. The Republicans win the big prize of Pennsylvania, while the Democrats top them in Wisconsin and Michigan. The nation is waiting on Georgia. If Georgia goes red, it’s President Trump; if Georgia goes blue, it’s President Harris.

Then, local news headlines start to circulate. There are reports of unspecified “problems” in the vote in Fulton County. And in Gwinnett County. And in DeKalb, Coffee and Spalding Counties. Republican officials are refusing to certify the results in their counties. They say they are making “reasonable inquiries.”

As legal challenges wend through the courts, a wave of disinformation, confusion and propaganda swells, fueled by unproven claims that something is amiss in these Georgia counties, and also by similar noise — and possibly also certification refusals — in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada. (All have seen local Republicans try the certification refusal ruse since 2020.)

Under recently revised federal law, each state has until Dec. 11 to send official, certified state results to Washington for the Electoral College count. But if a state doesn’t meet that deadline, then what?

The point of these certification refusals may not be to falsify or flip a result, but simply to prevent the emergence of one. If one or more states fail to produce official results, blocking any candidate from reaching 270 electoral votes, the 12th Amendment prescribes Gerald L.K. Smith’s dream scenario: a vote in the newly elected House of Representatives to determine the presidency. Each state delegation would get one vote; today, Republicans control 26 state delegations; Democrats control 22; and two are evenly divided.

Our democratic system is not invincible, but it is strong. Certification of election results is a ministerial responsibility that is not discretionary. Legitimate election challenges are handled with recounts and litigation, not by individual election board members. There is no loophole that allows bad-faith officials to so flummox the electoral system that they take the choice of the next president away from the American people.

But in the past three and a half years, the ad hoc certification ploys that failed to flip the last presidential election to Mr. Trump have been professionalized and systematized by Republican officials and their allies. A recent report in The Times quoted an official with the conservative Heritage Foundation saying that “the conditions” in the country are now such that “most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” Michael Whatley, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, has declined to answer when asked if the party intends to try to block vote certifications.

A contrivance like this is as nutty today as it was when Gerald L.K. Smith tried to make a version of it seem plausible in 1960. But this year, the firepower being brought to bear on the issue by the Republican Party is much more than a “subtle campaign of pressure” from a direct-mail grifter.

Opponents no doubt will fight any certification denials in the courts. Those efforts are important, and every state should be shoring up its own legal and electoral system now to prepare for, deter and defend against any effort to sabotage certification. But stopping such subterfuge also depends on an informed public that refuses to let false narratives take hold.

A cleareyed look at Republicans’ handling of the administration of elections since Mr. Trump’s effort to overthrow the last election should prepare us: Refusals to certify results should not necessarily be seen as indicating real electoral problems; they are more likely part of a bad-faith strategy to mess with the democratic process.

Now is the time to get to know your local election board, especially if you live in a place where election denialism has taken hold, and where certification refusals may be coming. Public awareness and vigilance can make a difference. No one should be surprised when certification refusals happen or when they are then exploited to try to maximize chaos and upset.

After all, the Republican nominee this year is no Richard Nixon.

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Now I'm curious about how the story went in canon with you and Bi Han...

- I imagine he's the type who gets nervous if you're 5 minutes late. -

Honestly bestie it was nothing special lol I was working teaching English in Fengjian at the middle school and one morning after seeing Bi-Han for well over a year or so he woke me up and told me to call in sick. He didn’t give me any explanation, just told me to put on a nice dress and come with him. I was young and curious and always eager to please him so I did as he asked, I called in sick, put on the only dress I owned which was a bohemian esque lilac babydoll dress and followed him into town. He took me to the Civil Affair Bureau and started filling out the paperwork for a marriage certificate, which of course I had no clue he was doing because he didn’t bother to say anything and I can’t understand Chinese. Eventually he was finished with everything, told me to sign next to his name and that we had to wait for the officiate. Still perplexed as to what we were doing and what was going on we sat there waiting until we were called back and the officiate went through the documents and stamped a few pages and congratulated us.

Still clueless I finally ask Bi-Han what was going on and what all the paperwork was for and he just casually replies with “oh that? It was all formality to let you stay here legally, you don’t have to worry about having to go back to America anymore.”

I stared at him incredulously still not understanding, “how did you manage to do that? I’m here on a work visa, I’m not eligible for any others.”

Bi-Han is clearly frustrated at my lack of understanding, “it doesn’t matter if you work or not anymore, you’re my wife you can stay here legally now, I filed everything we need, it should be approved in a few months.”

“Your what?!” I exclaimed utterly shocked by his easy explanation of what just transpired.

“My wife. What did you think we were doing at the Civil Affairs Bureau??” Bi-Han shoots me the oddest expression unable to comprehend my confusion.

“You-you could have at least asked first!” I sputter, clearly flustered by the situation.

“What was the point? I knew you’d say yes so why bother?” He answers confidently, giving me his infuriating -I know I’m right- smirk.

I flush a deep pink at his arrogance and accuracy, “it still would have been nice…”

“Sol, will you marry me?” He holds his hand out as he reluctantly acquiesces to my request.

“It’s a little late now,” I huff childishly and swat at his hand.

He grabs my hand with his lightning fast reflexes and presses a soft kiss to my palm, “come on Mrs. Zhang let’s go celebrate at Madam Bo’s.”

So, yeah that’s basically how it happened, Zhang is the fictional last name I’ve given Bi-Han over the years, though I do have a tendency to use Mrs. Zero in stories too haha We kept saying we’d have a real ceremony someday but 10 years and four kids later and we still haven’t done anything. Later on though he did eventually get me a wedding ring but he doesn’t wear one as it’s a modern tradition and not commonplace for someone like Bi-Han. He’s not exactly romantic so I don’t really push him for a traditional ceremony or for him to wear a ring, his happiness is all I need. Maybe one day we’ll have a traditional ceremony but if we did it would be very small, my family would never travel to China and his strained relationship with his siblings is another huge obstacle so why have a big hoopla just for Sektor and Cyrax lol

Thanks for asking love!

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