Who is david lightman

I was in web design in the mids. I worked at Microsoft and Oracle. At Oracle, I was director of e-business. I was a vice president at the Meta Group, which got swallowed by the Gartner Group. VB: Your youthful indiscretions set you on the right road into your career? DSL: Yes. This [clean tech] is an area that will stay hot for a long time.

By contrast, when I worked in e-business, it became a four-letter word when the bubble burst. Security always remained pretty good as an industry when the rest of the sectors collapsed. VB: What are you doing now? DSL: I went to China five years ago. It was a whacky thing to do. I wound up as vice president of business development for two of the IT outsourcing firms here. I worked with them on their outsourcing.

A friend pulled me into a solar business. What observations do you have about security technology and information warfare? DSL: On information security, we now recognize the power of organized crime in this arena. Intelligence agencies, both domestic and foreign, are involved.

We know China has done some penetration into the West and visa versa. We know those games are being played. Signature-based detection systems suck. I used that term broadly. But it will be applicable in information security for the foreseeable future.

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A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3.

Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing? Pokemon trading card game. Who is David Lightman based on? Is the WOPR real? How do I download Defcon? How long does a game of Defcon last?

There wouldn't be any time to be sorry David Lightman : [sits on a large piece of driftwood] Oh, Jesus! I really wanted to learn how to swim! I swear to God I did. Jennifer : What is it doing? David Lightman : It's learning.

McKittrick : See that sign up here - up here. It should read "Defcon 5," which means peace. It's still on 4 because of that little stunt you pulled. Actually, if we hadn't caught it in time, it might have gone to Defcon 1.

You know what that means, David? What does that mean? McKittrick : World War Three. Jennifer : [on the phone] David, are you watching the news? David Lightman : Jennifer, yeah, I'm watching. Jennifer : David, is that us on TV? Did we do that? David Lightman : It. Oh, Jesus, Jennifer, what am I gonna do? They're going to come get me. I'm really screwed! I am screwed! David Lightman : [typing] People sometimes make mistakes. Joshua : Yes, they do. David Lightman : [to Joshua] Come on. Learn, goddammit.

David Lightman : Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure. Schneider : So what, do you think you kids own this place? Schneider : You know you're not supposed to leave the group, don't you? David Lightman : Yes. Schneider : So why don't you get back there! David Lightman : OK. Excuse me. Schneider : Go on. David Lightman : Thank you very much, sir.

David Lightman : People sometimes make mistakes. Joshua : Yes. They do. David Lightman : [on the computer] Hello, are you still playing the game? Joshua : Of course. I should reach Defcon 1 and release my missiles in 28 hours. Would you like to see some projected kill ratios? David Lightman : Is this a game or is it real?

Joshua : Which side do you want? David Lightman : What he did was great! He designed his computer so that it could learn from its own mistakes. So, they'd be better the next time they played. The system actually learned how to learn. It could teach itself!

David Lightman : This is unreal! You don't care about death 'cause you're already dead! I know a lot about you. I know you weren't always like this.