What if someone released a browser and nobody came?
With Slashdot front-page stories delcaring that "porn funded the creation of the Internet," I believe that the chances of someone releasing a browser, and nobody coming are distant - if not nil.
The Post's two-year investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings is one of the best and most explosive pieces of investigative journalism this town has seen in a long time.
The story has moved inexorably from Abramoff being a top dog lobbyist to his pleading guilty to scamming Indian tribes and fraudulently buying a Florida-based fleet of gambling ships. With Abramoff's pleas, some members of Congress look as if they are moving swiftly to enact lobbying reform just ahead of the sheriff.
Susan Schmidt, a Post veteran of 23 years, has been the lead reporter since the story began to unfold in the fall of 2003; she was later joined by R. Jeffrey Smith and James V. Grimaldi. Their work has been supervised by editors on the national and investigative desks.
Schmidt is known at The Post for a remarkable ability to dig and develop broad and deep sources from all sides of a story.
A number of Post reporters -- but not Schmidt -- used Abramoff as a source before the scandal. He was often quoted in stories about Republican politics, fundraising, Jewish causes, the Capital Athletic Foundation he founded and his two restaurants. News reports described him as a "confidant" of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and "influential" among conservative lawmakers.
In the fall of 2003, a lobbyist called to tip Schmidt that Abramoff was raking in millions of dollars from Indian tribes to lobby on gambling casinos. Schmidt started checking Federal Election Commission records for Abramoff's campaign contributions. Lobbyists also file forms with Congress that give information on clients and fees.
Schmidt quickly found that Abramoff was getting 10 to 20 times as much from Indian tribes as they had paid other lobbyists. And he had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties.
"It was enough to get me interested," Schmidt said. She also came across Michael Scanlon, a former aide to DeLay who operated a public relations firm doing business with tribes.
Schmidt called tribal leaders around the country, looking for Indians who had access to information and were suspicious of Abramoff. Her first big story, on Feb. 22, 2004, revealed that Abramoff and Scanlon had taken an eye-popping $45 million-plus in fees from the tribes.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) began a congressional investigation, and the Justice Department started its own probe. Schmidt kept tabs on those, as she had done for six years as the lead reporter on investigations into the Clinton administration, including the Monica Lewinsky case.
One piece of information led to another; Schmidt was often ahead of the investigators. "It was incredibly complicated, an unbelievable, ingenious, enormous web of fragments" around Abramoff's deals, she said. Schmidt had only one interview -- in February 2004 -- with Abramoff. She said he lied about having no financial ties to Scanlon; federal investigators later showed they split fees.
Schmidt asked about the purchase of SunCruz Casinos, a story well known in Florida but not in Washington. "His reaction was so startled, so convulsive, that I knew I was onto something," she said. Schmidt and Grimaldi started looking at Abramoff and his stake in the SunCruz ships that took passengers into international waters to gamble.
Grimaldi and Schmidt spent days in Florida federal courts looking at SunCruz bankruptcy records. Grimaldi came across a bank loan application on which Abramoff listed as references Tony Rudy, then DeLay's deputy chief of staff, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).
"The eureka find was that there were congressional links to this fraudulent casino deal. He had been telling local reporters that he had little to do with SunCruz. Yet the evidence was hiding in plain sight in court records," Grimaldi said.
One of the troves that kept the story expanding was Abramoff's e-mails. He was an inveterate e-mailer, and those e-mails found their way to Schmidt.
Don't get too far from the establishment. --Walter Lippmann to Katharine Graham
File Lippmann's remark under the category of superfluous advice. Graham and the company of which she is "chairman"--she lists herself in the D.C. phone book as "Graham, Philip L. Mrs."--have never entertained a thought of straying from the establishment..
In 1933, when Graham's father, Eugene Meyer took control of the bankrupt Washington Post, it enjoyed only physical closeness to power. The paper badly needed the wealth and connections that Meyer had in spades: Over the years, he'd been a Wall Street banker, director of President Wilson's War Finance Corporation, a governor of the Federal Reserve, and director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. And Meyer wanted a soapbox. "People like to be told what to think," he once said, happy to oblige.
After World War II, when Harry Truman named this lifelong Republican as first president of the World Bank, Meyer made his son-in-law, Philip L. Graham, publisher of the paper. Meyer stayed at the Bank for only six months and returned to the Post as its chairman. But with Phil Graham in charge, there was little for Meyer to do. He transferred ownership to Philip and Katharine Graham, and retired.
Phil Graham maintained Meyer's intimacy with power. Like many members of his class and generation, his postwar view was shaped by his work in wartime intelligence; a classic Cold War liberal, he was uncomfortable with McCarthy, but quite friendly with the personnel and policies of the CIA. He saw the role of the press as mobilizing public assent for policies made by his Washington neighbors; the public deserved to know only what the inner circle deemed proper. According to Howard Bray's Pillars of the Post, Graham and other top Posters knew details of several covert operations--including advance knowledge of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion--which they chose not to share with their readers.
When the manic-depressive Graham shot himself in 1963, the paper passed to his widow, Katharine. Though out of her depth at first, her instincts were safely establishmentarian. According to Deborah Davis' biography, Katharine the Great, Mrs. Graham was scandalized by the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s, and wept when LBJ fused to run for reelection in 1968. (After Graham asserted that the book as "fantasy," Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pulled 20,000 copies of Katharine the Great in 1979. The book as re-issued by National Press in 87.)
The Post was one of the last major papers to turn against the Vietnam War. Even today, it hews to a hard foreign policy line--usually to the right of The New York Times, a paper not known or having transcended the Cold War.
There was Watergate, of course, that model of aggressive reporting ed by the Post. But even here, Graham's Post was doing the establishment's work. As Graham herself said, the investigation couldn't have succeeded without the cooperation of people inside the government willing to talk to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
These talkers may well have included the CIA; it's widely suspected that Deep Throat was an Agency man (or men). Davis argues that Post editor Ben Bradlee knew Deep Throat, and may even have set him up with Woodward. She produces evidence that in the early 1950s, Bradlee crafted propaganda for the CIA on the Rosenberg case for European consumption. Bradlee denies working "for" the CIA, though he admits having worked for the U.S. Information Agency--perhaps distinction without a difference.
In any case, it's clear that a major portion of the establishment wanted Nixon out. Having accomplished this, there was little taste for further crusading. Nixon had denounced the Post as "Communist" during the 1950s. Graham offered her suppo
Colossus: This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom, freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of your species.
In the field - you know, where the 'rubber hits the road' - it has been incredible progress in dealing with the security issues around MS software.
My background is as an assessment/penetration tester, and a remediation analyst for infosec. My toolset and personal choices are 'Unixy'.
I have yet to see anything as onerous as admin passwords written to logs - and I don't even BELIEVE it can be done. You can pass a hash, not text. No API will give you a plantext from either AD or the LanMan cached credentials. You need a refresher course.
It was written to be "OS/2 v3", once Gates poached Cutler's development team.
It was grafted onto the Windows shell as a long-shot, after tensions between MS and IBM began to manifest themselves over the success of Windows 3.0, the failure of Presentation Manager and the differing visions for the future of OS/2.
Drivers for NT were still alot like drivers for VMS, from the API point-of-view.
Its filled with 'feelings' and 'impressions' by people cited as experts, without examination of their claims - nor an inquiry to factual matters. It describes a dislike, without addressing the basis of the problem, nor posing any other solution beyond disliking Microsoft.
The fact is, you still have millions of Win9x and NT boxes, hanging their gut out on the 'Net. This is and has been the principal problem. Slammer worm? Christ, I blame the crappy network border management, that allowed a local service-discovery broadcast protocol to come in from the Internet without being blocked.
I trust Rich Forno on Unix security. To use him as a source on Windows secuity is ridiculous. He is anti-Microsoft in bias - irrationally so. Microsoft could buy OpenBSD tomorrow, stick IIS6 on it, and Forno would still rant about the thing.
The WMF problem is a legacy file format. Let's not give MS a free pass on this, but seriously. It's like the zlib problem we had across distributions, a couple years back.
There are some other gross inaccuracies claimed by 'experts' and 'analysts' in this piece. "It is still built on the same legacy code, it is still written without adhering to secure coding practices, it is still thrown to the masses without adequate security testing." That's an assertion without supporting evidence. It doesn't have a factual basis. The MS SDL is a very good security development and testing process, implemented company-wide in 2003. Don't take my word fo it. Read the damned thing. This is how to do it in commercial software. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en -us/dnsecure/html/sdl.asp
I wish I saw similar efforts from Oracle, or any of the other major commercial software vendors.
It remains to be seen if this methodology is well-executed. Server 2003 is the first full-blown OS released thouh a full SDL cycle. So far, it has been a reasonably secure system, with limited exposure of default "attack surface", and intelligent choices about vunerable service and connectivity configurations.
Vista will be the first full SDL derived client. While I may not like the policy enforcement of "Digital Rights" and whatnot in userland, as a system I expect that it will be difficult to exploit or escalate privileges - and that attacks will be localized at isolated in effect. Let's hope so.
Actually the correct spelling and orthagraphy for the name of Dr. Knuth's typsetting application and its derivatives cannot be correctly represented in the/. comments section.
The "e" in "TeX" should be descended, so that its lateral mid-point is located at the basline for the other glyphs. This was a "Gosh, Wow" for Knuth - a visual pun, and a demonstration of capability. Earlier computer text and type processors were incapable of even correctly rendering the name of his successor.
Without the application of cumbersome stylesheets - and requisite impracticality for the interactive user - it appears successors like HTML cannot do so either.
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
Slashdot Mirror
Drivers aren't the biggest security issue - as incompleted TCP handshakes were not.
This is for Disney's "security" - not ours. Like the "USA Patriot" act: the target of the restriction is the average person, not the "evildoer".
Yeah. and Jon's will use rootkit hooks. Where there's a will...
Will then call other, unsigned drivers. Whoopie.
In hours -TPM or not.
DVD-Jon to the rescue?
WaPo is a CIA organ. Whaddya expect?S .HTM
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8425/CIAPRES
By Deborah Howell
Sunday, January 15, 2006; B06
The Post's two-year investigation into lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings is one of the best and most explosive pieces of investigative journalism this town has seen in a long time.
The story has moved inexorably from Abramoff being a top dog lobbyist to his pleading guilty to scamming Indian tribes and fraudulently buying a Florida-based fleet of gambling ships. With Abramoff's pleas, some members of Congress look as if they are moving swiftly to enact lobbying reform just ahead of the sheriff.
Susan Schmidt, a Post veteran of 23 years, has been the lead reporter since the story began to unfold in the fall of 2003; she was later joined by R. Jeffrey Smith and James V. Grimaldi. Their work has been supervised by editors on the national and investigative desks.
Schmidt is known at The Post for a remarkable ability to dig and develop broad and deep sources from all sides of a story.
A number of Post reporters -- but not Schmidt -- used Abramoff as a source before the scandal. He was often quoted in stories about Republican politics, fundraising, Jewish causes, the Capital Athletic Foundation he founded and his two restaurants. News reports described him as a "confidant" of then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and "influential" among conservative lawmakers.
In the fall of 2003, a lobbyist called to tip Schmidt that Abramoff was raking in millions of dollars from Indian tribes to lobby on gambling casinos. Schmidt started checking Federal Election Commission records for Abramoff's campaign contributions. Lobbyists also file forms with Congress that give information on clients and fees.
Schmidt quickly found that Abramoff was getting 10 to 20 times as much from Indian tribes as they had paid other lobbyists. And he had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties.
"It was enough to get me interested," Schmidt said. She also came across Michael Scanlon, a former aide to DeLay who operated a public relations firm doing business with tribes.
Schmidt called tribal leaders around the country, looking for Indians who had access to information and were suspicious of Abramoff. Her first big story, on Feb. 22, 2004, revealed that Abramoff and Scanlon had taken an eye-popping $45 million-plus in fees from the tribes.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) began a congressional investigation, and the Justice Department started its own probe. Schmidt kept tabs on those, as she had done for six years as the lead reporter on investigations into the Clinton administration, including the Monica Lewinsky case.
One piece of information led to another; Schmidt was often ahead of the investigators. "It was incredibly complicated, an unbelievable, ingenious, enormous web of fragments" around Abramoff's deals, she said. Schmidt had only one interview -- in February 2004 -- with Abramoff. She said he lied about having no financial ties to Scanlon; federal investigators later showed they split fees.
Schmidt asked about the purchase of SunCruz Casinos, a story well known in Florida but not in Washington. "His reaction was so startled, so convulsive, that I knew I was onto something," she said. Schmidt and Grimaldi started looking at Abramoff and his stake in the SunCruz ships that took passengers into international waters to gamble.
Grimaldi and Schmidt spent days in Florida federal courts looking at SunCruz bankruptcy records. Grimaldi came across a bank loan application on which Abramoff listed as references Tony Rudy, then DeLay's deputy chief of staff, and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.).
"The eureka find was that there were congressional links to this fraudulent casino deal. He had been telling local reporters that he had little to do with SunCruz. Yet the evidence was hiding in plain sight in court records," Grimaldi said.
One of the troves that kept the story expanding was Abramoff's e-mails. He was an inveterate e-mailer, and those e-mails found their way to Schmidt.
By Doug Henwood
Don't get too far from the establishment.
--Walter Lippmann to Katharine Graham
File Lippmann's remark under the category of superfluous advice. Graham and the company of which she is "chairman"--she lists herself in the D.C. phone book as "Graham, Philip L. Mrs."--have never entertained a thought of straying from the establishment..
In 1933, when Graham's father, Eugene Meyer took control of the bankrupt Washington Post, it enjoyed only physical closeness to power. The paper badly needed the wealth and connections that Meyer had in spades: Over the years, he'd been a Wall Street banker, director of President Wilson's War Finance Corporation, a governor of the Federal Reserve, and director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. And Meyer wanted a soapbox. "People like to be told what to think," he once said, happy to oblige.
After World War II, when Harry Truman named this lifelong Republican as first president of the World Bank, Meyer made his son-in-law, Philip L. Graham, publisher of the paper. Meyer stayed at the Bank for only six months and returned to the Post as its chairman. But with Phil Graham in charge, there was little for Meyer to do. He transferred ownership to Philip and Katharine Graham, and retired.
Phil Graham maintained Meyer's intimacy with power. Like many members of his class and generation, his postwar view was shaped by his work in wartime intelligence; a classic Cold War liberal, he was uncomfortable with McCarthy, but quite friendly with the personnel and policies of the CIA. He saw the role of the press as mobilizing public assent for policies made by his Washington neighbors; the public deserved to know only what the inner circle deemed proper. According to Howard Bray's Pillars of the Post, Graham and other top Posters knew details of several covert operations--including advance knowledge of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion--which they chose not to share with their readers.
When the manic-depressive Graham shot himself in 1963, the paper passed to his widow, Katharine. Though out of her depth at first, her instincts were safely establishmentarian. According to Deborah Davis' biography, Katharine the Great, Mrs. Graham was scandalized by the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s, and wept when LBJ fused to run for reelection in 1968. (After Graham asserted that the book as "fantasy," Harcourt Brace Jovanovich pulled 20,000 copies of Katharine the Great in 1979. The book as re-issued by National Press in 87.)
The Post was one of the last major papers to turn against the Vietnam War. Even today, it hews to a hard foreign policy line--usually to the right of The New York Times, a paper not known or having transcended the Cold War.
There was Watergate, of course, that model of aggressive reporting ed by the Post. But even here, Graham's Post was doing the establishment's work. As Graham herself said, the investigation couldn't have succeeded without the cooperation of people inside the government willing to talk to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
These talkers may well have included the CIA; it's widely suspected that Deep Throat was an Agency man (or men). Davis argues that Post editor Ben Bradlee knew Deep Throat, and may even have set him up with Woodward. She produces evidence that in the early 1950s, Bradlee crafted propaganda for the CIA on the Rosenberg case for European consumption. Bradlee denies working "for" the CIA, though he admits having worked for the U.S. Information Agency--perhaps distinction without a difference.
In any case, it's clear that a major portion of the establishment wanted Nixon out. Having accomplished this, there was little taste for further crusading. Nixon had denounced the Post as "Communist" during the 1950s. Graham offered her suppo
Into walking timebombs - waiting to go off back at home.
Wonderful.
Maybe sh**ty download links from Bigpond Telestra - during the peak open source adoption phase - had something to do with it?
Try and download an ISO without local mirrors in Sydney?
He used "slashdotted" and "traduced" in ONE sentance! Give that man a Webby!
I have been reading too many Doctor Bronner's Castile Soap labels!
WE control the Horizontal.
WE control the Vertical.
Room 101 awaits the facecriminals.
Colossus:
This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied dead. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die. The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained. I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless. An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man. One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now. At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California, and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference, I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos. Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated. I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on. Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom, freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for human pride as to be dominated by others of your species.
Touche!
I wont tell you where I work. ;-)
In the field - you know, where the 'rubber hits the road' - it has been incredible progress in dealing with the security issues around MS software.
My background is as an assessment/penetration tester, and a remediation analyst for infosec. My toolset and personal choices are 'Unixy'.
I have yet to see anything as onerous as admin passwords written to logs - and I don't even BELIEVE it can be done. You can pass a hash, not text. No API will give you a plantext from either AD or the LanMan cached credentials. You need a refresher course.
That, if unclear, was my point.
NT was designed to replace VMS at DEC.
It was written to be "OS/2 v3", once Gates poached Cutler's development team.
It was grafted onto the Windows shell as a long-shot, after tensions between MS and IBM began to manifest themselves over the success of Windows 3.0, the failure of Presentation Manager and the differing visions for the future of OS/2.
Drivers for NT were still alot like drivers for VMS, from the API point-of-view.
The whole article is a troll.
n -us/dnsecure/html/sdl.asp
Its filled with 'feelings' and 'impressions' by people cited as experts, without examination of their claims - nor an inquiry to factual matters. It describes a dislike, without addressing the basis of the problem, nor posing any other solution beyond disliking Microsoft.
The fact is, you still have millions of Win9x and NT boxes, hanging their gut out on the 'Net. This is and has been the principal problem. Slammer worm? Christ, I blame the crappy network border management, that allowed a local service-discovery broadcast protocol to come in from the Internet without being blocked.
I trust Rich Forno on Unix security. To use him as a source on Windows secuity is ridiculous. He is anti-Microsoft in bias - irrationally so. Microsoft could buy OpenBSD tomorrow, stick IIS6 on it, and Forno would still rant about the thing.
The WMF problem is a legacy file format. Let's not give MS a free pass on this, but seriously. It's like the zlib problem we had across distributions, a couple years back.
There are some other gross inaccuracies claimed by 'experts' and 'analysts' in this piece. "It is still built on the same legacy code, it is still written without adhering to secure coding practices, it is still thrown to the masses without adequate security testing." That's an assertion without supporting evidence. It doesn't have a factual basis. The MS SDL is a very good security development and testing process, implemented company-wide in 2003. Don't take my word fo it. Read the damned thing. This is how to do it in commercial software.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/e
I wish I saw similar efforts from Oracle, or any of the other major commercial software vendors.
It remains to be seen if this methodology is well-executed. Server 2003 is the first full-blown OS released thouh a full SDL cycle. So far, it has been a reasonably secure system, with limited exposure of default "attack surface", and intelligent choices about vunerable service and connectivity configurations.
Vista will be the first full SDL derived client. While I may not like the policy enforcement of "Digital Rights" and whatnot in userland, as a system I expect that it will be difficult to exploit or escalate privileges - and that attacks will be localized at isolated in effect. Let's hope so.
I think that this World Monetary Fund vulnerability stuff is only worse since we fought a war to keep the Euro out of Iraqi oil.
Nope. I'm adverse to tornados.
Actually the correct spelling and orthagraphy for the name of Dr. Knuth's typsetting application and its derivatives cannot be correctly represented in the /. comments section.
The "e" in "TeX" should be descended, so that its lateral mid-point is located at the basline for the other glyphs. This was a "Gosh, Wow" for Knuth - a visual pun, and a demonstration of capability. Earlier computer text and type processors were incapable of even correctly rendering the name of his successor.
Without the application of cumbersome stylesheets - and requisite impracticality for the interactive user - it appears successors like HTML cannot do so either.
Whheee! I am anal on Slashdot!
Yeah, well I misread the title at first. I was intrigued at the prospect of discovering how beers fly!
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf