Bar None

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Follow-up to my March post “When Remote Bar Exam Technology Failed, You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.”

“The State Bar of California announced Friday that its beleaguered leader, who has faced growing pressure to resign over the botched February roll out of a new bar exam, will step down in July. Leah T. Wilson, the agency’s executive director, informed the Board of Trustees she will not seek another term in the position she has held on and off since 2017. She also apologized for her role in the February bar exam chaos.”

No idea if Wilson was sued personally.

Read the updated story at https://www.mahoningmatters.com/news/nation-world/national/article305606501.html#storylink=cpy 

Identity Management Platform Frontegg.ai

From HelpNet Security:

“Frontegg launched Frontegg.ai, an identity management platform purpose-built for developers building AI agents….

“[D]evelopers are running into a major roadblock: a lack of identity standards tailored specifically for AI agents. Existing infrastructure was not designed with autonomous agents in mind. When building an AI agent, developers are forced to waste valuable time stitching together ad-hoc authentication flows, security frameworks, and integration mechanisms….

“In an AI‑first world, identity can’t be retrofitted from traditional web and mobile stacks. It needs to be purpose-built for AI agents. Frontegg.ai provides that layer for agent builders…”

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Verify the Supporting Documents Aren’t Forged

From the CBC in Canada:

“The documents were forged Labour Market Impact Assessments, or LMIAs. Employers typically receive the documents from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) if they want to hire a foreign worker.”

Biometrics aren’t enough. The person may be who they say they are, but the documentation they are holding may be fake.

More on this type of fraud: https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7516048

(Forged document from Imagen 3. Lincoln never held a law license in the then-United Kingdom.)

Forgot About Faulds

Nowadays, everybody wanna say that they got big TED talks

But nothin’ comes out when they press their fingers

Just a bunch of gibberish 

And CSIs act like they forgot about Faulds

And my N. P. E. Bredemarket Instagram metabot forgot too.

But at least he didn’t cite Gabe Guo.

And I don’t have a rap career.

Forgot About Faulds.

Too Many Trees in the Forrester?

As far as Forrester is concerned:

“[O]nly a quarter of firms employ a launch process even vaguely approaching best-in-class…”

But I take this with a grain of salt, because Forrester has a product it is marketing.

“We began by introducing attendees to our proprietary Product Marketing And Management (PMM) Model (client login required).”

I’m not a client, so I don’t have a login. But Forrester’s PMM Model appears to cover some important topics.

  • Proposals.
  • Market requirements.
  • Dashboards.
  • Defining your hungry people, although Forrester uses the legacy term target audience. (Hey, I try.)
  • Sales targets.
  • Competitive differentiation.

And that was just the beginning, because Forrester is certainly comprehensive.

Although it sounds like the full Forrester PMM Model process may be completely mystifying and overwhelming if you have no model at all. I know.

Better to start off moving from Level 1 to Level 2 in a maturity model rather than trying to jump to Level 5.

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N. P. E. Bredemarket is Live on Instagram

Now that it’s showing up in search, I will announce what I’ve done. Although I shouldn’t have done it.

I created my own Meta AI character on Instagram.

I was nosing around in my Instagram settings and discovered I could create an AI bot. So I did. You may or may not be able to create your own: see https://help.instagram.com/1675196359893731 for instructions.

“His” name is N. P. E. Bredemarket. Regular Bredemarket blog readers know that NPE stands for non-person entity.

You can find N. P. E. here: https://aistudio.instagram.com/ai/1252267426260667/

Or you can search for it.

Instagram AI search.

Warning: like all AI, he can hallucinate.

#fakefakefake

Visible Light Transmission (VLT) Percentages and Automobile Windows

Here are three questions for you:

  1. When a car pulls up to you, do you want to look inside?
  2. Here’s another question: when a car pulls up to you, and you’re a law enforcement officer, do you want to look inside?
  3. And here’s a third: if you’re driving a car, how much window tint should the car windows have?

The answer to that third question varies on a state-by-state basis, which also affects the effectiveness around the second question.

I’ll use my state of California as an example. According to the “Window Tinting Laws By State” page on Geoshield’s website, the Visible Light Transmission (VLT) percentage on car windows depends on which car window you’re talking about.

  • For the front side windows, the minimum VLT value is 70%.
  • For back side windows and rear windows, any VLT value is allowed.
  • For the windshield, the minimum VLT value is 100%, except on the top 4 inches of the windshield.

But VLT percentages vary on a state-by-state basis. In Arkansas, front and back side windows have a minimum VLT of 25%.

And I would bet that if someone in California drives to Arkansas with “excessive” back side window tinting, they can get in trouble…if the highway patrol officer notices.

So if you’re a criminal, and you don’t want a law enforcement officer to see you, it’s safest for you to sit in the back seat. If you’re a rich criminal, you’re probably being chauffeured anyway, so this should be easy.

By the way, how many of you figured out why I’m asking these questions?

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The Wildebeest Obviously Needs a Snack

It’s time for my (usually) once-a-month edition of Bredemarket’s LinkedIn newsletter, “The Wildebeest Speaks.”

And I revisited a topic that I originally visited in December 2023, but hopefully with a new perspective.

Go to LinkedIn and read the latest edition of my newsletter, “Who Are Your Hungry People?” It is at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-your-hungry-people-bredemarket-xiafc/

Hungry wildebeest buffet images via Imagen 3.
Cheap Trick targets the audience, who responds in a Pavlovian way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qgpewMCVjs.

CVE 2026

As I mentioned earlier, funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program was extended. The details:

“The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that Mitre, which has run the CVE Program since its launch in 1999, can continue to do so until early March 2026. 

“This is a temporary solution. Clearly, the U.S. government wants to get rid of CISA paying for the CVE program. Someone else needs to seize the funding and governance reigns, and the opportunity to do so allows for creating a less U.S.-centric endeavor.”

If a new funding mechanism can ensure technical program continuity—while at the same time providing the $30 million business continuity by shielding the program from the chaotic whims of one country and one person—then this could be a long term solution.

The cybersecurity ecosystem has a little over 10 months to figure out how to fund the CVE program beginning in 2026.

Which means that nothing of substance will get done for the next 9 months. (How’s that TikTok sale going?)

Well, maybe North Korea will volunteer to fund the program…

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