Tahukah anda bahawa negara kita Malaysia adalah negara ketiga paling banyak menerima panahan kilat di dunia, selepas Rwanda dan Congo.
Namun negara kita tiada program kesedaran mengenai langkah yang perlu diambil ketika mula kedengaran guruh, nampak awan hitam, hujan renyai atau lebat dan sebagainya untuk berlindung dari kemungkinan panahan kilat menyambar pada bila-bila masa.
Bak kata seorang jurutera perunding dan pakar kilat Encik Hartono Zainal Abidin dalam artikel akhbar The Star, “We shouldn’t wait until lightning strikes a VIP before we take strong action.”
Berikut adalah panduan untuk mengurangkan risiko panahan kilat;-
LANGKAH 1 (Fahami aktiviti kilat) 1). Kilat berlaku sebelum, semasa dan selepas hujan. 2). Ambil langkah keselamatan apabila kilat berlaku iaitu dengan mengetahui jarak kilat. Bagi mengira jarak kilat, anda boleh menggunakan teknik ‘Flash to Bang’ atau ‘Kilat ke Guruh’. Cara kiraan 5 saat dari masa kilat kelihatan dan guruh kedengaran ialah jarak 1.6 km dari kedudukan anda. Ia bermaksud, jika 10 saat bersamaan 3.2 km, 20 saat bersamaan 6.4 km dan 30 saat bersamaan 9.6 km dari kedudukan anda.
LANGKAH 2 (Sekiranya anda berada di luar rumah) 1). Hentikan semua aktiviti luar dan cari tempat perlindungan sebaik sahaja anda melihat awan gelap muncul. Kilat tidak semestinya diiringi hujan dan masih boleh memanah anda walaupun awan gelap itu berada pada jarak 15 km dari tempat anda berada. 2). Cari perlindungan dalam bangunan yang besar dan kukuh, kenderaan atau struktur yang besar seperti jambatan dengan pantas. 3). Cari tempat perlindungan sebaik sahaja anda melihat pancaran kilat. 4). Jika tiada tempat berlindung berdekatan anda, segera turun dari tempat tinggi dan berlindung di tempat rendah atau masuk ke dalam longkang yang kering. 5). Jangan tunggu sehingga hujan turun sebelum mencari perlindungan kerana kilat boleh memanah anda walaupun sebelum hujan turun. 6). Jangan gunakan payung ketika adanya panahan kilat (kerana payung turut diperbuat dari logam). 7). Sekiranya hujan, basahkan pakaian anda kerana pakaian basah membantu mengurangkan kecederaan serius jika anda terkena panahan kilat. 8). Segera duduk dalam ‘Kedudukan Pertahanan Kilat’, iaitu bercangkung dengan kedua belah kaki dirapatkan dan menutup telinga dengan tangan. 9). Jangan sentuh objek besi seperti pagar, tiang dan orang lain. 10). Jangan berlindung di bawah pokok, khemah, bangsal kecil, kongsi, rotunda atau gerai makanan di tepi jalan. Jika anda berlindung di tempat yang sempit atau kecil, pastikan ia dilengkapi sistem pertahanan kilat.
LANGKAH 3 (Sekiranya anda berada dalam rumah atau tempat perlindungan) 1). Jika anda di dalam tempat perlindungan, jangan sentuh peralatan elektrik dan tanggalkan plug dari soket jika perlu. 2). Jangan gunakan telefon rumah atau pejabat. Gunakan telefon bimbit jika perlu sahaja. 3). Jauhi balkoni, beranda, pintu, tingkap, dinding, atau tiang yang menghadap luar rumah. 4). Elakkan berada di dalam bilik air atau berhampiran dengan paip air yang dibuat daripada besi. 5). Pastikan anda berada di dalam tempat perlindungan untuk tempoh sekurang-kurangnya 30 minit selepas guruh yang terakhir kedengaran. Anda perlu ingat bahawa kilat masih lagi boleh menyambar walau pun hujan telah berhenti.
Setiap aplikasi yang terpasang pada telefon anda, biasanya akan mengakses beberapa tetapan lain atau data pada telefon pintar dalam menawarkan beberapa perkara – seperti akses ke internet untuk memaparkan kemaskini pada aplikasi Facebook, akses kepada kamera untuk merakamkan gambar pada aplikasi Instagram – dan pelbagai penggunaan dan akses yang lain.
Google sendiri sering memaparkan akses yang diminta oleh sesuatu aplikasi ketika anda ingin memasangnya melalui Google Play Store – tetapi daripada pengamatan kami, sejumlah besar pengguna tidak mengambil peduli mengenainya.
Ketika anda memilih untuk memasang aplikasi – sama ada melalui web Play Store ataupun pada aplikasi di Android anda, ia akan memaparkan sebuah pop-up dengan sejumlah akses yang diperlukan untuk aplikasi tersebut berfungsi.
Mungkin untuk aplikasi popular, ia sering dipantau oleh komuniti dan pelbagai maklumbalas dikongsikan melalui laman sosial mahupun ruangan komen. Namun, dengan jutaan aplikasi yang terdapat di PlayStore, ada baiknya anda juga turut melakukan semakan untuk sesuatu aplikasi berkenaan.
Sebagai contoh, kadang-kala anda mungkin akan dapat melihat aplikasi berbentuk permainan yang meminta akses ke buku alamat, dan beberapa aplikasi yang meminta akses untuk pelbagai perkara yang tidak diperlukan untuk ia berfungsi.
Kadang-kala masalah ini timbul kerana masalah kod ketika pengaturcaraan – dan anda boleh mengambil tidak untuk memasangnya, dan menghantar emel kepada pembangun bagi memberitahu mengenai masalah tersebut.
Pada masa yang sama, anda juga turut boleh melakukan semakan berkala kepada aplikasi yang sedia terpasang pada peranti mudah-alih anda. Salah satu aplikasi yang membantu dalam perkara ini adalah aplikasi Permission Friendly Apps.
Menggunakan aplikasi berkenaan, anda akan dipaparkan dengan akses yang dipohon oleh sesuatu aplikasi yang terdapat pada peranti mudah-alih anda. Anda kemudiannya boleh memilih untuk membuang aplikasi berkenaan, ataupun kekal menggunakannya.
KEADAAN Rosniza Fadzil yang kini dirawat di Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah setelah parah apabila nekad terjun dari kereta bekas suaminya dan dilanggar lori dalam kejadian di Simpang Pinang Jaya Bukit Pinang, Alor Setar, Kedah, semalam.
ALOR SETAR 26 Feb. – Seorang wanita kini bertarung nyawa selepas cedera parah akibat tindakan nekadnya terjun dari kereta bekas suaminya yang sedang bergerak di Simpang Pinang Jaya, Bukit Pinang di sini hari ini.
Tambah malang, mangsa, Rosniza Fadzil, 30, kemudian dilanggar lari oleh sebuah kereta lain yang melalui jalan berkenaan kira-kira lima minit selepas terjun daripada kereta jenis Proton Wira milik bekas suaminya berusia awal 50-an. Difahamkan, Rosniza yang bekerja sebagai tukang masak di Taman Siswa, Jitra dalam perjalanan dari rumahnya di Kampung Lengkuas ke tempat kerja sebelum motosikal Yamaha Ego yang ditungganginya dikatakan dihimpit oleh kereta dipercayai dipandu bekas suaminya itu. Mangsa dipaksa masuk ke dalam kereta itu oleh bekas suaminya dan ketika tiba di Simpang Pinang Jaya, Bukit Pinang di sini, dia bertindak terjun kerana mahu melarikan diri. Akibat kejadian tersebut, mangsa yang mengalami pendarahan pada kepala dan patah kaki kini mendapat rawatan di Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah (HSB) di sini. Saksi kejadian, Nor Ain Abd. Kadir, 57, berkata, insiden berlaku kira-kira pukul 6.30 pagi di depan gerai makan miliknya ketika dia sedang membungkus nasi lemak. “Saya nampak sebuah kereta Proton Wira dari arah Kampung Lengkuas ke Kepala Batas dibawa laju melalui jalan di depan gerai saya. “Tiba-tiba saya terdengar bunyi kuat dan ternampak seorang wanita yang memakai seluar jeans dan baju t-shirt jatuh terlentang di tepi jalan. Saya nampak ada tali pengikat kain langsir yang telah terungkai pada kedua-dua tangan wanita tersebut. “Orang ramai yang melihat kejadian ini ingin mengalihkan wanita tersebut namun secara tiba-tiba ada kereta lain yang datang lalu melanggar wanita berkenaan,” katanya kepada pemberita di tempat kejadian. Dalam pada itu, ibu mangsa, Roshilah Abu Bakar, 57, berkata, dia mengesyaki bekas suami yang telah tiga kali bercerai dengan anak perempuannya itu melakukan perbuatan tersebut kerana sebelum ini lelaki berkenaan telah dua kali menyerang anaknya di rumah mereka. “Anak saya telah berkahwin lebih kurang enam tahun dengan lelaki tersebut dan dalam tempoh itu mereka telah bercerai dan rujuk semula. “Namun apabila telah bercerai buat kali ketiga dan tidak boleh rujuk semula bekas suami anak saya ini mula datang ke rumah dan bulan lalu dia mencekup muka anak saya dengan sarung bantal. Awal bulan ini dia menjerut pula leher anak saya dengan tali sehingga dia terpaksa dimasukkan ke hospital,” jelasnya. Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Kota Setar, Asisten Komissioner Adzaman Mohd. Jan ketika dihubungi mengesahkan menerima laporan kes tersebut. “Ekoran kejadian itu, polis sedang mencari seorang lelaki, Rodhi Kasa, 53, bernombor kad pengenalan 620601-08-6485 untuk membantu siasatan kes ini,” katanya.
Nota Editor: Artikel ini asalnya diterbitkan di laman Facebook milik tuan Shak Hassan. Shak Hassan merupakan salah seorang penganalisa data di Datago. Kami kongsikan semula di sini dengan kebenaran beliau, semoga artikel ini boleh dijadi panduan kepada mereka yang menjadi mangsa langgar lari di Malaysia. Isteri saya mengalami trauma yang teruk. Ia jelas kedengaran dalam vibrasi suaranya saat dia bercerita melalui telefon tentang langgar lari yang baru sahaja berlaku ke atas dirinya. Untuk ibu yang sepenuhnya memberi susu badan kepada bayi, ini adalah tidak bagus sama sekali. Dalam nada yang tersekat-sekat, maklumat yang tercerap hanyalah nombor pendaftaran kenderaan, jenis kereta dan imej ingatan yang berpecah-pecah terhadap rupa fizikal si pesalah. Perkara pertama yang saya lakukan adalah log masuk ke MYEG. Sistem MYEG, azalinya, membenarkan orang awam yang mendaftar sebagai pengguna memeriksa rekod urusan yang berkaitan dengan kenderaan mereka. Saman JPJ atau PDRM misalnya. Di halaman ‘Summons Service’ PDRM, saya memilih ‘drop down menu’ Vehicle No. dan kombinasinya harus bersama ‘radio button’ Non Malaysia. Masukkan susunan teks ‘captcha’ dan tekan butang ‘Check Summons’. Tiada rekod. Kesimpulannya tiada apa-apa yang MYEG dapat sediakan untuk saya buat masa ini dalam mengesan pesalah terbabit. Sekiranya kenderaan terbabit mempunyai rekod kesalahan jalan raya, keputusan carian akan memaparkan perincian kesalahan bersama maklumat pemilik kenderaan (nama penuh dan nombor kad pengenalan). Berdasarkan ayat sebelum ini, sedarlah kita bahawasanya nama penuh pemilik dan nombor kad pengenalan boleh diakses di MYEG berdasarkan nombor pendaftaran kenderaan. Kombinasi tiga data ini adalah cantuman padu yang boleh diguna untuk pelbagai tujuan. Saya aktifkan tab yang lain pada pelayar Chrome dan menaip URL ini di kotak alamat web : https://www.mycarinfo.com.my/ISearch. Web ini membenarkan pengguna memeriksa insurans kenderaan yang diambil oleh pemilik. Yang menariknya, ia mengembalikan juga nombor polisi dalam keputusan carian. Apakah data yang perlu dimasukkan untuk melakukan carian di MyCarInfo? Nombor pendaftaran kenderaan. Sebaik sahaja saya mendapat nombor polisi insurans kenderaan yang melanggar kereta isteri saya. Saya aktifkan satu tab lagi pada pelayan web dan log masuk ke akaun yahoo yang saya telah daftarkan khusus untuk tujuan ini. Saya klik pada butang ‘Compose’ dan taip emel berikut : Hi, Could you please send cover note (softcopy) for my car policy to me? This is important and please help as I need it for some urgent matters. Vehicle Reg. No : XCX XX8X Policy number : XX2XX3XXXX Policy period : 23 Jul 2014 – 22 Jul 2015 Thanks in advance. Regards. Apakah makna emel di atas? Penyamaran. Saya menulis emel seolah-olah saya adalah tuan punya kenderaan. Apakah sentimen dalam praktis ini? Keyakinan terbina dalam minda pihak insurans apabila saya menyediakan kombinasi nombor pendaftaran kenderaan dan polisi. Percaya atau tidak – 4 daripada 5 pihak insurans di Malaysia tidak mempunyai prosedur validasi pengecaman pelanggan sebelum melepaskan data. Sebelum habis waktu pejabat, salah seorang daripada pegawai yang bertugas telah membalas emel saya berserta lampiran ‘Cover Note’ yang mengandungi data pemilik kenderaan – nama, nombor kad pengenalan, nombor telefon, alamat rumah, nombor casis kenderaan, jumlah yang diinsurankan dan pelbagai lagi yang anda boleh bayangkan yang harus tertera di atas helaian maklumat insurans kenderaan anda. Yang saya karangkan di sini adalah 3% daripada kaedah menggali data di bawah cabang Social Engineering. Tiada SQL/XML/XSS/Header Injection, waima sebaris kod pun yang terlibat. Tiada brute force. Tiada server yang dilanggar masuk tanpa autoriti. Tiada kenalan yang bekerja di PDRM/JPJ. Tiada. Nil. Manusia adalah entiti lemah yang terdedah kepada manipulasi psikologi dalam sesebuah seni bina sistem bersekuriti, walaupun, yang paling kebal. Kaedah konvensional seperti ini mempunyai kelangsungan hidup tahap tinggi yang merentas kepintaran algoritma. Barangkali manusia, adalah bug yang paling sukar untuk diurus selesaikan. Sebagai meraikan betapa rapuhnya data pengguna di Malaysia, saya menghubungi brader yang melanggar kereta isteri saya di Bangsar tempoh hari dan mengajaknya pekena kopi di kedai mamak :) Shak Hassan Data Analyst | Datago.my
PUTRAJAYA - Sebanyak 23 pertubuhan di negara ini diisytiharkan sebagai pertubuhan kongsi gelap yang menyalahi undang-undang mengikut Seksyen 5 (1) Akta Pertubuhan 1966 (Akta 355), menurut Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) hari ini.
KDN dalam kenyataan menyebut pengisytiharan itu dibuat Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi hari ini, dengan nombor pewartaan P.U.(A) 34/2015.
Pertubuhan kongsi gelap tersebut adalah Geng 3821; Geng Ngo Sek Kee; Geng Gee Hor Sia; Geng Chong Woh; Geng Gee Long San; Geng Gee It Leng; Geng Gee Hon San; Geng Guat Sam Sia; Geng It Tiam Ang; Geng Lian Heng Siah dan Geng Ang Mor Low.
Turut disenaraikan ialah Geng Sio Or Leng; Geng Loong Foo Thong; Geng 969 (Kow Lak Kow); Geng 32 Sar Jee; Geng Chaun San; Geng Fong Hong San; Geng Jin Jee Tong; Geng Gee Lam Kok; Geng Hong Fah; Knight Right Keepers @ Kappa Rho Kappa (KRK); Malin Kundang (Sandakan) dan Special Force (Lahad Datu).
Semua pertubuhan berkenaan didapati menjalankan kegiatan yang memudaratkan ketenteraman awam di negara ini, seperti sindiket pengedaran dadah, pelacuran, perjudian dan mencuri kereta, menurut kenyataan itu.
Pertubuhan terbabit turut memeras ugut, menimbulkan pergaduhan di antara pertubuhan-pertubuhan kongsi gelap, melakukan huru-hara dan penyeludupan.
Selain itu, terdapat pertubuhan yang dikenal pasti memberi bantuan logistik dan maklumat persembunyian pihak berkuasa di negara ini, kepada kumpulan penculik dari selatan Filipina seperti kumpulan KRK.
Selaras dengan pengisytiharan tersebut, maka tiada sesiapa boleh menggunakan semula nama, simbol, lambang atau logo pertubuhan terbabit berdasarkan kepada peruntukan Seksyen 7(3)(b) Akta Pertubuhan 1966.
Selain itu, tiada seseorang boleh memegang jawatan, menjalankan kerja sebagai seorang anggota, membenarkan sesuatu mesyuarat dalam bangunan, menyiar dan bertindak bagi pihak atau wakil pertubuhan kongsi gelap yang disenarai itu.
Pihak yang didapati menjalankan sebarang aktiviti pertubuhan-pertubuhan kongsi gelap yang disenarai akan disiasat dan didakwa di mahkamah kerana melakukan kesalahan di bawah Akta 355.
"Sebagai contoh Seksyen 6(2) dan 6(3), Seksyen 42 dan Seksyen 48 Akta Pertubuhan 1966 serta Seksyen 142 Kanun Keseksaan," menurut kenyataan itu.
Sehubungan itu, masyarakat diminta memberi kerjasama dalam membantu usaha kerajaan membanteras jenayah dan pertubuhan kongsi gelap yang bercanggah dengan undang-undang sedia ada demi ketenteraman awam. - Bernama
KUALA LUMPUR 4 Feb. - Satu sindiket dipercayai menjual ratusan Pas Lawatan Sosial (PLS) sehingga RM11,000 setiap satu kepada warga Pakistan di Sabah, berjaya ditumpaskan berikutan penahanan tujuh pegawai imigresen termasuk seorang berpangkat Timbalan Penolong Pengarah di negeri itu kelmarin.
SEORANG suspek (kiri) ditahan oleh anggota penguat kuasa Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia dipercayai terlibat menjual PLS kepada warga Pakistan di Sabah.
Penahanan yang disifatkan terbesar di Sabah membabitkan pegawai imigresen itu dilakukan oleh Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM).
Menurut sumber, semua mereka ditahan di pejabat masing-masing iaitu lima di Lahad Datu manakala dua lagi di Kota Kinabalu.
Modus operandi pegawai terlibat dipercayai termasuklah menerima sijil nikah palsu daripada ‘bakal pembeli’ warga Pakistan terbabit, bagi tujuan kelulusan PLS Jangka Panjang.
Sijil nikah merupakan bukti penting dikehendaki pihak imigresen daripada pemohon PLS Jangka Panjang iaitu di bawah kategori pemohon adalah suami atau isteri kepada warganegara Malaysia, bagi membuktikan perkahwinan itu wujud.
Sumber memberitahu, SPRM turut merampas wang tunai berjumlah RM50,000 di rumah salah seorang daripada mereka, dua keping cek bernilai RM175,000 dan RM7,500 serta beberapa fail berkaitan di Pejabat Imigresen Lahad Datu.
“Sindiket ini dipercayai telah mengeluarkan ratusan PLS Jangka Panjang termasuk kepada warga Pakistan sejak tahun lalu dengan harga mencecah RM11,000 setiap satu,” katanya ketika dihubungi di sini hari ini.
Sebelum memperoleh PLS Jangka Panjang, pemohon yang bernikah dengan warganegara Malaysia mestilah mendapatkan Pas Khas yang perlu diperbaharui setiap bulan atau PLS jangka pendek (tempoh sah tiga bulan) untuk tinggal di negara ini.
Sedangkan, tempoh sah PLS Jangka Panjang enam bulan, setahun, tiga tahun atau lima tahun itu.
Seseorang yang mempunyai PLS Jangka Panjang dan telah tinggal sekurang-kurangnya lima tahun di negara ini, boleh memohon taraf Pemastautin Tetap (PR) Malaysia.
Sumber tersebut menambah, tangkapan ini dilakukan ekoran aduan berkaitan terdapat warga Pakistan memperoleh pas tersebut dengan menggunakan sijil nikah palsu.
Sementara itu, Pengarah SPRM Sabah, Datuk Hishamuddin Hashim ketika dihubungi mengesahkan penahanan tersebut dan memaklumkan semua suspek kini direman antara empat hingga tujuh hari sejak semalam.
“Majistret mengeluarkan perintah tahanan reman selama tujuh hari bermula semalam kepada lima pegawai yang ditahan di Pejabat Imigresen Lahad Datu manakala empat hari kepada dua lagi yang ditahan di Kota Kinabalu,” katanya di sini hari ini.
Tambah Hishamuddin, kes tersebut disiasat mengikut Seksyen 17(a) Akta Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia 2009.
Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia hari ini mengumumkan kadar baru bagi pembaharuan dan permohonan pasport antarabangsa Malaysia.
Mulai hari ini, pasport dua tahun dimansuhkan manakala pemohon pasport boleh menikmati kadar diskaun sebanyak RM100 diskaun bagi pasport untuk tempoh lima tahun.
Berikut adalah senarai harga baru pasport antarabangsa Malaysia (untuk tempoh lima tahun):
Malaysia pada hujung tahun 2014 telah dilanda musibah yang dikatakan kejadian banjir terburuk yang pernah dicatatkan dalam sejarah negara. Semoga kejadian yang melanda negara menjadi pengajaran kepada pihak yang berkaitan pada masa akan datang. Alhamdulillah, terima kasih diucapkan kepada individu dan kumpulan yang bertungkus lumus membantu dan memberikan bantuan kepada mangsa yang terlibat.
Walau bagaimanapun diharapkan satu sistem penyampaian yang lebih berkesan dalam memberikan info dan maklumat situasi kawasan yang dilanda banjir. Kita seharusnya peka akan keperluan yang diperlukan oleh mangsa-mangsa banjir, bukannya mendermakan secara membabibuta sehinggakan berlakunya pembaziran dan lambakan yang akhirnya menjadi sampah.
Beberapa hari lepas saya didatangi seorang ibu bersama anak gadisnya yang berumur 15 tahun, anak bongsu beliau.
Daripada riak mukanya saya tahu ini bukan kes biasa-biasa tentang haid yang tidak teratur.
Namun saya sengaja bertanya, datang sebab haid tak teratur ke?
Gambar Sekadar Hiasan
Wanita itu mungkin dalam lingkungan awal 50an. Bertudung hitam labuh. Malah anaknya juga datang dengan seragam sekolah agama dan tudung labuh hitam.
Dia kelihatan serba salah dan tidak tahu untuk memulakan kata.
Entahlah doktor, entahlah doktor, saya tak tahu nak kata apa, katanya berulang-ulang kali. Wajahnya seperti mahu menangis, dadanya kelihatan sesak dan dia sangat gelisah.
Lalu saya menerjah-mengandung ke anak Puan?
Selepas itu kata-katanya keluar bagai empangan pecah-tak dapat dibendung lagi.
Bermacam-macam cerita keluar dari tingkatan satu ke tingkatan 2 dan kini di tingkatan 3.
Berbagai juga kata-kata pedih ditujukan pada anaknya yang kini menundukkan kepala saja.
Bodoh. Tak faham bahasa. Kurang IQ.
Rupa-rupanya anaknya ditangkap tidak hadir ke sekolah, tetapi telah keluar bersama lelaki. Anaknya jua telah mengaku kepada guru bahawa beliau telah berzina.
Namun dia percaya anaknya tidak melakukan apa-apa. Tak sampai peringkat zina.
‘Dia tak tahu doktor. Dia tak faham. Mungkin sekadar sentuh-sentuh dia fikir sudah melakukan. Dia ni bukannya pandai.
Saya rasa dia tak buat doktor. Dia tak tahu..”
Saya minta wanita itu keluar dan saya bersemuka dengan anaknya.
Ternyata anak yang ‘tidak pandai’ ini telah melakukan zina sejak di Tingkatan 1-tanpa disedari ibubapa. Dengan ramai lelaki.
Berbagai bangsa.
Berbagai umur.
Dia tidak kelihatan seperti anak nakal dan liar. Dia kelihatan baik dan ya, mungkin sedikit naif-atau bodoh seperti kata ibunya.
Namun di sinilah lelaki-lelaki jahat mula memasukkan jarumnya.
Saya tanyakan bagaimana permulaannya. Saya tanyakan apakah beliau menonton video lucah.
Lalu dia menceritakan kepada saya awal mula penglibatannya menjadi seorang ‘pelacur’.
Tinggal di kawasan Kampung Pandan yang terdiri dari majoriti Melayu, lelaki jahat pertama yang membawanya mengenali dunia seks dalam keadaan akal dan jiwanya belum bersedia dan belum disediakan adalah seorang lelaki Indonesia. Bermula dengan mengajak menonton video lucah.
Pastinya didahulukan dengan kata-kata manis dan pujian. Hingga akhirnya mahu melakukannya dan sehingga merasa ketagihan.
Kemudian disambut oleh lelaki-lelaki jahat yang lain sambung menyambung sehingga yang terakhir ini.
Ada yang mengambil kesempatan merakam dirinya dan kemudian mengugut untuk menyebarkan videonya. Sehingga anak baik yang tidak tahu apa-apa ini terpaksa mencuri sejumlah wang ibubapanya untuk diberikan kepada lelaki tersebut.
Lelaki terakhir ini, sebelum perbuatannya diketahui adalah seorang lelaki berumur 30 tahun yang sudahpun ada 2 isteri.
Kata anak malang ini, –walaupun saya sudah tidak suka melakukannya, tetapi lelaki itu selalu merayunya sehingga dia merasa kasihan, lalu menurut kemahuan lelaki tersebut—–dapat saya bayangkan bagaimana lelaki jahat ini menggunakan kelebihan akalnya memanipulasi anak ini untuk memuaskan nafsu binatangnya.
Setelah saya kisahkan pada ibunya, longlai tubuhnya dan tersepuk dia di kerusi. Tidak disangkanya langsung anak bongsu manjanya telah jauh melangkah dalam keadaan dia sentiasa dalam ‘denial’- pura-pura tidak nampak atau tidak mahu percaya.
Pecah lagi empangan rasanya buat kali kedua. Menceritakan bagaimana sibuknya dia dan semua terletak atas bahunya. Anak yang ramai, ada yang punya masalah jiwa sedang dalam rawatan, anak dan menantu yang silih berganti bersalin dan beliau yang menjaga.
Tentang malunya sedangkan dia adalah ketua wanita di dalam sebuah NGO Islam. Suaminya pengerusi surau. Bagaimana dia merasakan tuntutan dakwah untuk menyampaikan kepada masyarakat.
Dalam kesibukannya, dia tidak sedar anaknya sedang mengalami perubahan hormon. Dada anaknya sudah memutik dan ada rasa yang tidak difahami dalam dirinya. Namun, dia tidak perasan itu semua. Baginya anak bongsunya ini masih ‘baby’.
Namun ada mata-mata liar yang perasan. Yang boleh menghidu naluri semulajadi remaja ini. Yang akalnya sudah masak dan matang.
Kita melihat anak kita sebagai baby, namun ada mata lelaki jahat yang melihatnya seperti kucing melihat hidangan menggiurkan di depan mata……yang melihat sampai ke dalam-dalamnya….baginya ini ada daging baru yang enak…
Lalu lelaki jahat ini akan memulakan jarumnya. Kenal-kenal dulu. Puji-puji. Minta nombor handphone. Memasang ayat-ayat….
Dan anak yang hidup dalam keluarga besar yang sentiasa sibuk ini, serta sudah dianggap tidak pandai ini, yang barangkali tidak pernah menerima pujian dari kedua ibubapanya, sangat mudah termakan pujuk rayu…dan selebihnya adalah sejarah…
Anak ini tidak jahat. Dia tidak liar. Dia lahir dari keluarga baik-baik , keluarga pendakwah.
Namun kerana adanya lelaki-lelaki jahat yang sepatutnya menjadi pelindung kepada anak ini, dia menjadi mangsa.
Beberapa ingatan yang melintas di kepala sebagai peringatan buat ibubapa.
1. bila anak meningkat remaja – perhati-perhatikan dia. Dia ada keperluan/needs. Jadilah temannya. Bersembang dengannya.
2. Jangan mengutuk anak sendiri. Berilah pujian. Terutama bapa dan abang. Puaskan dia dengan pujian dari lelaki dari keluarganya, supaya dia tak layu lentok dengan pujian lelaki jahat. Ingat wahai bapa, kalau berat sangat mulut dan memuji, tangan berat sangat nak membelai, ada orang lain yang akan mengisi kekosongan itu nanti
3. Keterlaluan dalam kesibukan – walaupun untuk tujuan dakwah. Wahai ibu, tempatmu di rumah. Perhatikan dulu anak daramu sebelum kamu ingin berdakwah.
4. Pendidikan – berikan sedikit pendidikan seksual bila tiba masanya. Biarkan dia mendengar dari mulut kita bukan dari mulut gatal lelaki jahat. Terkadang kerana ‘soleh’nya kita, nak menyebut seks pun kita tak tersebut. Bahkan dalam program reproduksi pun ada yang tak senang bila diajar tentang alat reproduktif kepada kanak-kanak – tak sesuai katanya.
5. Anak-anak perlu diberi pendidikan dan tanggungjawab. Jangan jadikan dia ‘pets’. Yang kita manjakan dan belai-belai selalu tanpa kita beri didikan. Jangan sesekali menyangka anak kita tak akan melakukannya…….ia akan memberikan kita rasa selamat yang palsu.
6. Bila anak kita telah jadi anak dara, seolah-olah ada bauan atau haruman yang tersebar keluar dari rumah kita – lalu menarik banyak ‘bugs’. Fahamkan dia tentang nilai dirinya. Banyak anak gadis hari ini, termasuk anak gadis kita juga, kadang tergedik-gedik dihadapan kamera. Fahamilah wahai ibu, wanita itu seluruhnya adalah aurat. Sangat menarik perhatian. Sangat menggoda. Beritahulah pada anak kita. Tanamkan sifat malu pada dirinya.
Perbetulkan pakaiannya.
Jagalah dia.
Sedikit nukilan dan ibrah untuk dikongsi bersama.
Yang ada anak lelaki tolonglah ajarkan supaya menghormati perempuan, belas dan kasih padanya dan sentiasa melindunginya.
Pasport Malaysia menawarkan akses tanpa visa ke 163 negara
1- Rakyat negara ini umumnya sudah mengetahui tentang kualiti pasport Malaysia dan ia diakui antara yang terbaik di dunia. Istilah ‘terbaik’ dari aspek pembuatan pula membawa kepada kelebihan lain yang ditawarkan kepada pemegangnya. 2- Persoalan seterusnya yang sering ditanyakan adalah: “Sejauh manakah kuasa pasport Malaysia?”
3- Pasport Malaysia sebenarnya berkongsi kedudukan di tangga kesembilan bersama Malta dalam senarai pasport paling berkuasa di dunia. Kedua-dua pasport ini menawarkan akses tanpa visa ke 163 buah negara.
4- Tempat kelapan adalah milik pasport Iceland dengan akses tanpa visa ke 165 buah negara. Ia diikuti pasport Korea Selatan di tangga ketujuh (166 negara).
5- Tempat keenam dikongsi tiga negara iaitu Australia, Singapura dan Greece (167 negara) manakala tempat kelima dikongsi pasport negara Switzerland, Austria dan New Zealand (168 negara).
6- Ireland, Kanada, Perancis, Jepun, Norway, Portugal dan Sepanyol berkongsi kedudukan di tempat keempat dalam senarai pasport paling berkuasa dunia. Pemegang pasport dari negara-negara berkenaan boleh melawat ke 170 buah negara tanpa visa.
7- Tempat ketiga adalah milik Itali, Belgium dan Belanda (171 negara) sementara tempat kedua dikongsi Amerika Syarikat, Jerman, Denmark dan Luxembourg (172 negara).
8- Pasport paling berkuasa di dunia adalah milik United Kingdom, Finland dan Sweden dengan akses tanpa visa ke 173 buah negara.
9- Ciri keselamatan dan pelaksanaan pasport Malaysia, sama seperti kebanyakan pasport negara lain dalam senarai itu digariskan Majlis Pertubuhan Penerbangan Awam Antarabangsa (ICAO).
10- Selain meningkatkan integriti dokumen perjalanan, pasport Malaysia juga ditingkatkan kualitinya bagi mengekang dan mencegah gejala pemalsuan pasport serta melindungi identiti rakyat Malaysia.
11- Kewujudannya membolehkan rakyat Malaysia bergerak dengan selesa di pintu-pintu masuk antarabangsa melalui dokumen yang mempunyai keupayaan pengesahan ketulenan atau kesahihan maklumat pemegang pasport.
12- Pemegang pasport Malaysia juga menikmati kemudahan e-servis dan pintu pemeriksaan automatik (autogate) yang disediakan oleh negara-negara anggota ICAO di seluruh dunia.
13- Sementara itu, pasport paling lemah di dunia adalah milik Afghanistan iaitu pemegangnya hanya boleh merantau ke 28 buah negara tanpa visa. Senarai pasport paling lemah itu diikuti oleh pasport Iraq (31 negara) dan kedudukan ketiga terlemah adalah dikongsi Somalia dan Pakistan (32 negara).
Sambung Bayar” sebenarnya adalah menyalahi undang-undang dan jika sabit kesalahan boleh didenda sehingga RM25,000 atau 3 tahun penjara atau kedua-duanya sekali. Anda tidak mempunyai hak untuk “memindahkan” atau “Sambung Bayar” kemudahan pinjaman bank seseorang kepada orang yang lain.
Akta 212, 36A. Mana-mana pemunya, peniaga, ejen atau orang yang bertindak bagi pihak pemilik yang mengumpul apa-apa bayaran berkenaan dengan perjanjian sewa-beli selain daripada bayaran yang disenaraikan dalam Jadual Kedua atau bayaran yang dibenarkan di bawah Akta ini adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini.
36B. Mana-mana orang yang bukan pemilik, peniaga, ejen atau orang yang bertindak bagi pihak pemilik yang mengumpul apa-apa bayaran daripada penyewa berkenaan perjanjian sewa-beli adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini.
38. Tiap-tiap orang yang, oleh pelupusan atau penjualan apa-apa barang yang terkandung dalam perjanjian sewa-beli, atau dengan pengeluaran barang-barang itu, atau oleh apa-apa cara lain, defrauds atau cuba untuk menipu pemilik adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan di bawah Akta ini dan hendaklah, apabila disabitkan, boleh dikenakan denda tidak melebihi dua puluh lima ribu ringgit atau dipenjarakan selama tempoh tidak melebihi tiga tahun atau kedua-duanya.
Ia juga menyalahi undang-undang bagi mana-mana orang, pengedar, ejen atau syarikat untuk menerima, mengambil atau menerima sebarang deposit tanpa lesen yang sah – 1989: Seksyen 25 (1). Ia juga menyalahi undang-undang bagi mana-mana orang, pengedar, ejen atau syarikat untuk mengiklankan pengambilan deposit secara haram – 1989: Seksyen 27 (A).
Orang ramai disarankan supaya tidak terlibat dalam apa-apa jenis skim “Sambung Bayar” kereta kerana perjanjian anda tidak selaras dengan undang-undang Malaysia dan tidak mungkin boleh diterima pakai jika perkara menjadi kelam kabut yang memerlukan prosiding di Mahkamah.
Baru-baru ini telah dikesan taktik penjenayah yang cuba melakukan rompakan terhadap pemandu kereta yang sedang memandu di jalan raya.
Taktik yang diguna pakai penjenayah seperti berikut:
• Menunggang sebuah motosikal yang dinaiki dua lelaki dan menunjukkan tanda isyarat tangan ke arah tayar bahagian kiri atau kanan.
• Sekiranya pemandu tidak berhenti pada waktu itu, datang sebuah motosikal lain (kedua) dinaiki dua lelaki menunjukkan perkara yang sama bagi mewujudkan rasa khuatir dalam diri pemandu supaya memberhentikan kenderaan ke bahu jalan.
• Apabila pemandu memberhentikan kenderaan, suspek akan turun dari motosikal dan menuju ke bahagian kiri atau kanan tayar dan meminta pemandu melihat kerosakan yang dialami.
• Pada masa yang sama, motosikal yang dinaiki dua lelaki yang pertama turut memberhentikan motosikal mereka tidak jauh dari kenderaan mangsa.
• Apabila mangsa keluar dari kenderaan atau menurunkan cermin kereta. Suspek dari motosikal pertama akan bertindak melarikan kereta mangsa atau memaksa mangsa untuk keluar dari kenderaan sebelum melarikan kereta.
NASIHAT
1. Sekiranya anda berada dalam keadaan yang dinyatakan terus memandu ke balai polis berdekatan atau kawasan yang ramai orang atau berhenti di kawasan ‘safety point’ antaranya 7-Eleven, Pos Malaysia dan stesen minyak Petron.
2. Tidak panik dan kenal pasti nombor kenderaan yang dinaiki suspek seperti (jenis motosikal, warna, nombor pendaftaran, bangsa, pakaian dan jantina).
3. Memastikan nombor telefon bilik gerakan mana-mana balai polis berdekatan.
4. Membunyikan hon kereta beberapa kali untuk menarik perhatian penggunakan jalan raya sekiranya berada dalam situasi kecemasan.
5. Jangan menggadai nyawa sekiranya berlaku pergelutan dengan suspek untuk mempertahankan harta benda.a
Dulu masa saya kecik-kecik, saya selalu dapat no 1 dalam kelas tadika dan sekolah rendah...
Semua orang puji saya dan ibu saya akan gembira dan peluk cium saya....
Dulu saya dapat 5A UPSR...
Semua orang puji saya dan ibu saya akan gembira dan peluk cium saya....
Dulu saya dapat tawaran masuk MRSM...
Semua orang puji saya dan ibu saya akan gembira dan peluk cium saya...
Dulu saya dapat 8A dalam PMR...
Semua orang puji saya dan ibu saya akan gembira dan peluk cium saya....
Dulu saya dapat tawaran buat kursus medic kat Indonesia...
Semua orang puji saya dan ibu saya akan gembira dan peluk cium saya....
Tapi bila saya buang semua keduniaan itu dan berikrar untuk turut berjuang menjadi kebanggaan Rasulullah, saya bawa beg dan merantau ke seluruh dunia, saya berhenti di Afrika untuk belajar ilmu agama, dan balik ke Malaysia dengan kesan-kesan Sunnah Rasulullah di badan saya...
Semua orang mencemuh dan memandang rendah kepada saya....
"Ada ke patut budak lulusan MRSM masuk pondok? Dah la sijil tak diiktiraf, belajar jauh-jauh sampai Afrika pulak tu? Nanti nak makan apa? Bodohnya... Memalukan mak bapak, peluang besar jadi orang besar dilepaskan pulak..."
Kata mereka....
Tapi...
Pada suatu Subuh...
Saya pergi ke masjid bersama ibu saya di mana saya merupakan imam di masjid itu...
Saya bacakan surah Abasa...
Dan sebak ketika sampai ayat:
Yaumayafirrul mar'umin akhih.....
Wa ummihi...wa Abih....
Selesai solat, semasa perjalanan pulang...
Ibu bertanya kenapa saya sebak ketika sampai di ayat itu?
Saya jelaskan....
Ayat itu menceritakan tentang huru hara mahsyar sehinggakan seorang insan itu akan lari daripada saudaranya...
Ibunya...
Ayahnya....
Isterinya...
Anak-anaknya...
Saya katakan...
Di dunia ini, bila kita jadi kaya, orang puji kononnya kita berjaya...
Bila kita gunakan dunia untuk mengejar akhirat, orang akan kata kita gila...
Sedangkan di mahsyar nanti, semua "kata-kata orang" tu langsung tak bernilai kerana ibu, bapa, anak, isteri, saudara yang di dunia ni sangat rapat dengan kita pun, kelak di mahsyar mereka akan saling melarikan diri daripada berjumpa kerana takut dituntut......
Maka saya sebak kerana saya risaukan apa keadaan saya di mahsyar kelak...
Pujian orang ramai selama berbelas-belas tahun tu langsung tak bagi manfaat pada saya...
Kejian selama bertahun-tahun kerana mengorbankan dunia demi agama juga tak bagi mudarat pada saya...
Lalu kenapa manusia masih mengejar pujian orang ramai dan takut dengan celaan mereka?
Ibu sekali lagi memeluk saya, tersenyum sambil menangis dan berkata....
"Sejuk perut mama dapat anak macam bangcik..."
Maka itulah kali pertama dalam hidupku saya berasa sangat gembira akan "pujian" ibuku...
Pelbagai pencapaian demi pencapaian yang saya dapat DULU, saya tidak pernah merasa gembira seperti ini walaupun dulu juga saya dipeluk cium ibu dan dipuji....
Wahai hamba Allah...
Apa sebenarnya yang kalian kejar?
Apa pula sebenarnya yang kejar kalian?
Mengapa kalian masih mengejar pujian sia-sia manusia...
Sedangkan malaikat maut pula tidak pernah lelah siang malam mengejar kalian?
Wahai saudaraku...
Apakah kalian sedar nafas kalian hanya berbaki beberapa lagi?
Sebelum lubang kubur kalian akan digali?
Apa yang aku dan kalian ada.. untuk Allah dan Rasul bangga?
*self-reminder* Masalah KITA yg masih bernyawa ni....dah ambik bekal kah belum...atau masih leka dengan mainan2 sekeliling kita.....
Bak kata kalam saiyidina Ali r.a...."Hidup di dunia ini ramai yg terlena, akhirat nanti baru terjaga."
Jangan kita masuk dalam golongan yg "ramai" tu....sebab yg ramai tu kononnya 'normallah' di akhir zaman ni...
Masuklah dlm golongan yg sedikit...sbb yg sedikit itu akan masuk syurga...selama2nya... "pesanan utk KITA...saya sekali yg banyak dosa ni"
Selain telinga, terapi lilin juga dilakukan pada muka.
Teknik rawatan alternatif bersihkan kotoran dalam telinga, muka
Terapi lilin antara kaedah ditawarkan di kebanyakan spa dan pusat kecantikan.
Terapi ini juga dikenali terapi pembersihan kerana berupaya menyerap keluar toksin dan bau dalam telinga, selain membantu melancarkan peredaran darah, pernafasan, membuang angin serta memberikan kelegaan otot mahupun saraf yang tegang di sekitar leher
Ada yang mempercayai ia teknik rawatan alternatif untuk membersihkan kotoran di dalam telinga, selain membantu menyembuhkan beberapa penyakit telinga.
Kaedah rawatan ini dipercayai berasal dari Amerika Selatan dan diamalkan oleh suku kaum asli, Red Indian, lebih 4,000 tahun lalu. Ia juga dikenali dalam kalangan masyarakat India kuno dan Tibet.
Mereka menggunakan lilin herba terpilih, khusus untuk rawatan seperti madu lebah asli, kulit kayu manis dan herba tradisi Cina yang dipercayai dapat memberikan ketenangan, merehatkan minda serta menyembuhkan penyakit.
Mudah dan pantas
Bagaimanapun, pada masa sama, masih ada yang kurang mempercayai penggunaan terapi lilin ini dan menganggap ia hanyalah gimik untuk mengaburi pelanggan yang mendapatkan perkhidmatan ini. Apa pun, menariknya rawatan dilakukan sangat mudah, pantas dan tidak memerlukan pembedahan. Hanya perlu baring mengiring dan sebatang lilin khas akan dibakar hujungnya dan diletakkan pada hujung telinga.
Prosesnya juga mengambil masa tidak terlalu lama dan tidak menyakitkan langsung. Pada akhir rawatan, hanya hasil yang dinantikan dan dianggap sebagai kekotoran yang keluar dari telinga.
Pakar Aestetik dan pemilik Ananaz MediSpa, Samsinar Mashood, berkata kaedah ini antara alternatif dan usaha yang boleh dilakukan, manakala penerimaannya bergantung kepada individu.
Samsinar berkata, kebiasaannya corong lilin yang digunakan diperbuat daripada kain yang direndam dengan madu dan campuran herba seperti kulit kayu manis, memandangkan ia bahan antiradang.
Katanya, individu yang mendapatkan rawatan berasa lega sedikit selepas menjalani tiga sesi. Tiada kajian saintifik berhubung faedah rawatan ini.
Artikel ini bukan untuk membanggakan zionis tetapi adalah untuk mengetahui, memahami dan mempelajari kekuatan dan kelemahan Zionis.
Cybersecurity in Israel involves a lot more than repelling hackers on the Internet.
While the Israeli Defense Forces are known for their effectiveness and resourcefulness, as you approach the Palmahim Airbase south of Tel Aviv you might be surprised to discover that this is a world-class military facility.
Exiting the highway to a road that is only occasionally paved, there's an abandoned cinderblock facility surrounded by a wire fence with tires and metal objects strewn across the open grassy area. It looks more like something you'd expect in a post-industrial town in Pennsylvania or Ohio than on the base of one of the most high tech fighting forces in the world.
As we drive past the building and head toward our rendezvous, our two IDF handlers turn around and smile and remind us of the rules. The person we're going to meet can only be referred to as "Major S," for safety and security reasons. While our handlers are both young ladies with an air of sweetness and optimism about them, on this point they speak with an unequivocal authority and finality—despite the smiles.
Both are wearing green military fatigues and in the spare moments between their duties as communications reps they are happy to unfold the berets strapped to the shoulders of their uniforms and explain how the colors represent the division of the IDF that they serve. Slender, petite, and energetic, in the U.S. they would likely be preparing for a soccer game or a senior prom. In Israel, the two conscripts are leading a small group of journalists to meet a military officer who runs an operation that protects millions of citizens.
When Major S enters, he looks barely older than the two conscripts. His green uniform is a one-piece flight suit. The sleeves are pushed up his forearms and the zipper on the front is open down to mid-chest, showing a gray t-shirt underneath. His shy smile makes him look even younger. But when his face straightens, it unmasks a care-worn look in his eyes that reflects all the Israelis in constant danger that he must help protect.
Major S stands in front of a UAV. | Image: Jason Hiner
These kids have old souls.
Major S is the deputy commander of the First UAV Squadron, a division of the Israeli Air Force. Despite his babyface smile, he's actually 30 years old with over a decade of service in the military. The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles that he manages are the eyes in the sky that keep watch on Israel's borders as well as some of its aggressive neighbors who would love nothing better than to push modern Israel into the sea and pretend it never existed. Israel relies on the UAVs to run at least 50 hours of operations every day, according to Major S. Obviously, that means they are running multiple drones in multiple locations at all times. That's a lot of data.
"The most important thing is to collect information... every day of the year," says Major S.
A UAV hovers at 10,000 feet, he says. "You can't hear it and you can't see it from the ground."
Of course, the cynical view is that Israel uses UAVs to spy on its neighbors and invade their airspace. But, Israel has been facing existential threats from its neighbors since the day the modern State of Israel was founded on May 15, 1948 as a result of a UN resolution. Israel has had a bitter peace with Egypt since 1979. It's had a slightly more cordial peace with Jordan since 1994. Lebanon and Syria remain sworn enemies. And, the country's tenuous relationship with the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) is well known.
For the moment, Gaza is the biggest problem spot. When Israel withdrew its occupying forces from Gaza in 2005, the radical elements of Palestine used it to seize power and have been firing rockets at Israeli cities ever since. Israel has, of course, retaliated and civilians have been caught in the crossfire on both sides, but Israel has been losing the PR war. The Palestinians have done a far better job of publicizing the attacks against them and helping create a narrative in the international media that paints Israel as a callous oppressor.
Image: IDF
Major S opens his laptop and plays a video from the bird's eye view of the drone. In this case, a UAV has identified a suicide bomber and is tracking it. The UAV operator is communicating with ground forces to intercept it. Just as they are about to pounce on it, the UAV operator frantically interrupts and tells them to wait as he spots Palestinian kids up ahead of where the bomber’s vehicle is heading. After it clears the area, we see the IDF vehicles cut off the car bomber and the IDF soldiers jump out and surround the car. A soldier with body armour approaches the suicide bomber in the driver's seat, gets hit with several bullets, but pulls the driver out of the vehicle and the soldiers apprehend him. No harm done.
"In the Gaza Strip there are 1.5 to 2 million people and most of them are not terrorists," says Major S. "They just want to live their lives like me and my family. But our enemies know that and they try to [hide near civilians]."
He shows a couple more videos where disasters were averted and Palestinian and Israeli lives were saved from potential attacks. But, he won't let us publish the videos. He says they have released very few of these to the public in the past and he's always reluctant to allow it, because every video will be studied by terrorists and used to figure out how to evade the UAVs.
His implicit message is that his job is not to feed information to the press to make Israel look more sympathetic to the international community. His job is to protect lives. As polite as he is, it's clear that every moment he spends with us is a moment he's not doing his real job, and he needs to get back to it.
He says there is a warehouse that the UAVs have been continually tracking for three weeks. They know there is "bad stuff" being stored in there. As soon as that stuff starts to move then there's going to be a big problem that will need to be handled. His team is working with Israeli intelligence to make sure it doesn't turn into a tragic incident.
"It's a race. Everybody tries to get more capabilities and better technology." Major S
He walks us out to the hangars where the UAVs are located along with the command stations where the UAV operators run them. The command stations are like a whirlwind marriage between a sit-down arcade video game and a server room.
"The wars we have today are not the same as what we had 20 years ago," he says. "It's a race. Everybody tries to get more capabilities and better technology."
He gestures toward one of the newest drones. "If everyone is using this, then the one with the best technology wins."
Israel, the innovator
Israel bewilders you with its contrasts and contradictions.
The Old City of Jerusalem mercilessly floods your senses with its history. Whether you seek out its stories or not, this ancient place will not allow you to remain indifferent to the countless millions who across 60 centuries have streamed here in search of answers to big questions.
The Old City of Jerusalem has a lot of stories to tell. | Image credit: Jason Hiner
Not far away, the modern cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Be'er Sheva pulse with the resistless energy of people searching for answers to smaller questions that fill every day, every hour, every moment.
Israel is a land of mystery, science, faith, reason, tension, and peace. Today, it is most widely known for its long-smoldering geopolitical conflict and its religious sites held sacred by four world faiths. But, the aspect of modern Israel that is having the most significant impact on global civilization in the 21st century often goes under the radar.
Since the rise of the personal computer, Israel has been quietly making major contributions to the technologies that are transforming humanity and giving people tools to solve age-old problems in powerful and exciting news ways. And, these contributions to the global technology ecosystem have accelerated in the past two decades.
Israel was one of the progenitors of the PC revolution in the 1980s when Intel's lab in Haifa designed the 8088 chip that powered the original IBM PC. Intel's Israeli team later created the Pentium chip that helped spread PC computing to the masses.
In the middle of the last decade, Intel's innovators in Israel pushed past objections from their U.S. counterparts and got the company to focus on power-conservation rather than raw speed and delivered the Centrino chip that fueled the growth of laptops. Then the Israelis pioneered multi-core processors to deliver Intel's groundbreaking Core product line that turned Intel around at one of its most difficult moments. Now, it's the Israeli team at Intel that is leading the company's charge into mobile processors.
Intel's new facility in Haifa sets a high standard for green buildings. | Image: Intel
The world's most important tech companies run Israeli research centers, including Cisco, Microsoft, Google, Apple, IBM, Oracle, SAP, EMC, Motorola, HP, Facebook, and eBay. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously said that Microsoft was an Israeli company almost as much as an American company since Microsoft has so many workers in Israel and the work they are doing is so important to the company's future.
Intel and IBM opened research centers in Israel in the 1970s and hired lots of Israeli engineers. More often, tech giants have bolstered their presence in Israel by acquiring startups. Cisco alone has purchased at least 10 Israeli startups (that we know about), including Intucell in January 2013 for $475 million. In July 2013, Google bought the popular Waze mapping software for $1 billion, shining an even brighter spotlight on Israeli startups.
Israel has been dubbed "The Startup Nation" because it has the highest density of startups per capita in the world—one for every 1,844 citizens (or 2.5 times the U.S. rate). More Israeli companies are listed on the NASDAQ than from all European companies combined. Israel ranks third in the world for venture capital availability and second in the world in the availability of qualified scientists and engineers. Yet, this is a tiny country with roughly the same land mass as New Jersey.
The story of how this undersized, continually-threatened nation of 7.5 million people—less than the population of New York City—has become one of the pre-eminent players in the tech world is complicated. Plenty of journalists, researchers, and government officials from across the globe have probed this issue and argued with each other about the genesis of Israel’s technological success.
The influx of technically-savvy Russian immigrants in 1990s played a big part. Conscription of young Israelis into the entrepreneurial ethos of the IDF was an important factor. Facing continual geopolitical conflicts created the confidence to solve problems that others deemed impossible. The fact that many of Israel's founders were scientists and intellectuals certainly laid the groundwork for placing a high cultural value on technology. But, above all, the fact that Israel is such a small country with limited resources confronting multiple simultaneous threats means it must rely on better tools and automation and ingenuity in order to survive.
In one sense, Israel is defined and bolstered by threats against it.
That's also how Israel has created such a center of excellence around cybersecurity. The combination of the country's perpetual concern with defense and its technological prowess have turned cybersecurity into one of its most important exports. In 2013 alone, IBM, Cisco, and GE have all made large acquisitions or investments in Israeli cybersecurity companies. And, because of the new security and privacy issues being raised by the spread of cloud computing, that trend is very likely to accelerate.
The economic anchor
September 3, 2013 opened a new chapter in the history of the tech industry and cybersecurity in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led the inauguration of the Advanced Technology Park on the campus of Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheva.
"Today we are launching the economic anchor that will turn Be'er Sheva into a national and international center for cybernetics and cybersecurity," Netanyahu said at the opening ceremony. "This is a day that will change the history of the State of Israel and we are doing it here in Be'er Sheva."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center right) cuts the ribbon inaugurating the ATP. | Credit: BGU
Culturally, geographically, and technically, things had been leading up to this critical event for a long time. In fact, some of the seeds were planted all the way back at the birth of modern Israel by the country's first prime minister. Nevertheless, this has the signs of a historical turning point written all over it—groundbreaking cooperation among powerful forces, coalescing resources, economic gravitas, and impeccable timing.
ATP creates a symbiotic relationship between three potent entities: 1. Academia 2. Tech companies 3. The Israeli Defense Forces
Where the magic is expected to happen is in co-locating these three onto adjacent campuses where they can collaborate on projects, share data, and feed each other's needs for talent, resources, and thought leadership.
"This is a day that will change the history of the State of Israel and we are doing it here in Be'er Sheva." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The ribbon-cutting on September 3 marked the official opening of Building #1 of the ATP. This is where the tech industry is taking up residence in a commercial park that will consist of 16 buildings on 23 acres, including office space, labs, a hotel, and a conference center. The ATP is connected to the main campus of BGU by a new walking bridge, with a new train station running right between them so that it can easily whisk scholars, professionals, and soldiers from Be'er Sheva to Tel Aviv, the current technology capital of the country.
The first tenants of Building #1 include tech industry stalwarts Deutsche Telekom, EMC, RSA, and Oracle, as well as three incubators—Jerusalem Venture Partner's CyberLabs, Elbit Incubit, and BGN Technologies (a BGU entity that commercializes academic research). Venture capital firms are in negotiations to take up residence in Building #2, which is currently in development and will open in early 2015.
One of BGU's key catalysts in bridging the gap between academia and industry is its commercialization arm, BGN Technologies, which uses a unique model for what it calls "technology transfer." That is the way that the university takes valuable breakthroughs and brings them to market by partnering with a company or selling the company a patent. BGN Technologies has signed agreements with over 150 companies, including ExxonMobile, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, and General Motors. BGN Technologies has been so successful at this that universities from the U.S. and Europe are studying their approach.
"Our model is that we have no model, which is the strength of it." Dr. Moti Herskowitz on BGU's approach to commercializing tech research
Dr. Orna Berry, corporate vice president at EMC, said, "Normally, researchers do not have good business understanding, so matching researchers with businesses is really the job of [BGN Technologies] and I think they are doing a fantastic job... They go beyond what a commercialization office at a university normally does."
Dr. Moti Herskowitz, BGU's Dean of Research and Development, said that when it comes to technology transfer, U.S. universities tend to want to own everything and then sell the rights, and so they don't sell very much.
"Our model is that we have no model," said Herskowitz, "which is the strength of it. We deal with it case by case."
Building #1 of the ATP opened Sept. 3. It is the first of 16 commercial buildings. | Image: BGU
Netta Cohen, CEO of BGN Technologies, which is wholly owned by BGU but operates as an independent business, said that academia and industry have different goals, different languages, and different cultures. BGN Technologies exists to translate and put together deals. Some companies simply want to buy the rights to develop a technology. Others want to do a joint venture and create a new corporation. Others want BGU to function as their R&D and then the company simply brings the product to market. Thus, BGN Technologies treats every agreement like a "tailored suit" said Cohen. And, it's working. BGU now generates 16% of its research income from the industry agreements negotiated by BGN Technologies. In the U.S., universities generate an average of 7% from industry deals.
BGU expects its numbers to to accelerate with the launch of the ATP.
Dr. Rikva Carmi, BGU President, said, "We are already leaders, but… the fact that leading high tech companies are going to dwell across the street from us is definitely going to boost it very, very much... This is the only place in Israel where there is such an intimate relationship between the industry and academia, and actually an on-going collaborative project. There are relationships with the industry at other universities but it is not like [having] one campus. For our purposes, the ATP and the university is one campus."
"For our purposes, the ATP and the university is one campus." BGU President Rikva Carmi
As a university, BGU has long been overshadowed as an epicenter of Israeli technology by Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Weizmann Institute of Science near Tel Aviv, and the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. Partly, this is due to the fact that Technion (1912), Hebrew University (1918), and Weizmann (1934) have had decades of a head start on BGU, founded in 1969. Part of it is also due to geography. Weizmann, Hebrew, and Technion are located in Israel's three largest and most developed cities—Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, respectively.
Tel Aviv is currently Israel's undisputed tech capital. In fact, The Wall Street Journal has called it "Europe's main technology hub." With a population of 400,000, Tel Aviv is twice the size of Be'er Sheva and is home to over 1200 high tech companies and 700 early-stage startups. About two-thirds of all seed stage startups in Israel are currently located in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. However, if there's one thing that the ATP threatens to change more than anything else, it is moving the nexus of the Israeli tech community 70 miles southwest to Be'er Sheva.
Tel Aviv and Be'er Sheva: Tech hot spots. | Image: Jason Hiner
A big part of that is due to the other force multiplier connected to the launch of the ATP: The new IDF Technology Campus will sit directly next to the commercial buildings of the ATP and will have its own connecting walkway to the campus. There, it will become the new home for the IDF's elite technology units, which will be relocating and centralizing in Be'er Sheva. This will include 5,000 professional staff and cyber soldiers from the IDF's Center of Computing and Information Systems. The vast majority of these jobs will be migrating from Tel Aviv.
According to Carmi, these IDF units will be focused on a combination of traditional cybersecurity plus analyzing data from Israel's borders and sensors that relay information on both physical and digital security. A major component of the IDF's plan involves building a facility that paves the way for collaboration with academia and industry.
"It's not going to look like an army barracks," said Carmi. "It's not even going to have a fence. It's a virtual fence."
Cybersecurity prowess
Ben Gurion University has been quietly developing cybersecurity prowess for a decade. It has also been laying the groundwork for the kind of public-private collaboration that is the foundation of the ATP. The stimulus, in both cases, has been a partnership with Deutche Telekom, which came to BGU looking for an ally to collaborate on tech research.
In 2004, the German telecommunications giant created Telekom Innovation Laboratories (called "T-Labs") and chose BGU as an affiliate to focus on security. T-Labs also opened three labs in Germany and a Silicon Valley Innovation Center in Mountain View, California.
"We have a very good model," said BGU President Carmi. "Deutche Telekom is a very successful collaboration between industry and academia. It has been part of our university for almost 10 years and the kind of students and startups that have come out of this collaboration are really amazing. The whole field of cybersecurity that we are now leading in Israel was actually developed based on this project with Deutche Telekom."
Today, BGU has 20 students (18 graduate students and 2 post-graduate students) working in its Telekom Innovation Laboratories. BGU now offers a masters degree in cybersecurity (technically in Information Systems Engineering with a specialty in Cybersecurity). This graduate degree is closely intertwined with the work for Telekom Innovation Laboratories.
Much of the research that BGU is doing as part of T-Labs focuses on the most important security issues in the tech world today—especially social media and mobile computing. But, Deutche Telekom will sometimes come to BGU with specific questions.
The ATP is across a walking bridge from BGU and next to the new IDF Tech Campus. | Image: BGU
"We were asked by Deutche Telekom to analyze Android to tell whether it is secure," said Dr. Yuval Elovici, Director of BGU's Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and a Professor in BGU's Department of Information Systems Engineering. Dr. Elovici's team of graduate students concluded that Android was "relatively secure." One of the big weaknesses they pinpointed was that Android updates can be used to hijack a device or inject code.
His team has largely discovered: "Any mobile phone today can be attacked and compromised," said Elovici. "They are many, many ways to compromise it."
However, their research also revealed that crowdsourcing information from mobile devices could be used for the public good. For example, the gyroscope motion detector in the iPhone is sensitive and accurate enough to detect earthquakes. If enough iPhone users in earthquake zones opted in to a service, then it could rapidly create a low-cost early detection system.
Where Elovici's team has made its biggest contribution is in the security and privacy issues surrounding social media.
"We were asked by Deutche Telekom to analyze Android to tell whether it is secure." Yuval Elovici, Professor of Information Systems Engineering
"We are very, very concerned about the issue of privacy," said Elovici.
His BGU graduate students have been digging deep on the privacy issues of social networks for several years, since before Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin became so ubiquitous. Of course, that makes their research more relevant now than ever.
One of their big discoveries is how much data can be discovered about a person over the web even if they have a tightly-controlled social profile or don't participate in social networks at all. Age, education, main interests, and other important facts can be derived fairly quickly based on your friends on social networks (or simply by knowing who a few of your close real-world friends are, if you don't have a profile on social networks, and then data mining their information on social networks).
"Our control of our profile isn't in our hands any more," said Elovici. "It's in the hands of our friends."
This research was published but it was pulled from the web because it was so controversial. It was feared that the information could be more useful to bad guys trying to perpetrate these acts than by average users to protect themselves. Now, they are exploring a system that people could connect to that could keep them from being profiled so easily.
"The risk from pedophiles is even stronger," Elovici said. "There are people who are creating fake profiles and connecting to teenagers and then selling them to pedophiles."
This future rendition of the ATP shows Building #1 plus the rest of the buildings filled in. | Image: BGU
BGU's research concluded that 5%-10% of Facebook profiles are fake and these fake profiles are often being used for nefarious purposes, especially by pedophiles and occasionally by agents of industrial espionage. This project was led by one of the program's star grad students, Michael Fire, along with two undergraduate students.
The students not only pinpointed the problem, but they coded a solution. In 2012, they created the Social Privacy Protector, which functions as a Firefox Add-on or a Facebook app (for any browser). It scans your friends list in Facebook and based on the "connectedness" algorithm that the BGU students devised it then flags potentially-suspicious accounts that you have friended. You can then either restrict the information they can see about you or defriend them.
Fire, who is a Ph.D student in Information Systems Engineering, said, "While Facebook encourages connecting with as many people as possible, we advocate limiting users, and have, for the first time, provided an algorithm to scientifically determine who to remove from friend lists... An important feature of our app is the ability for parents to better protect their kids’ privacy with just one click instead of having to navigate the more complicated Facebook privacy settings."
Beyond mobile devices and social networks, the BGU researchers involved with Telekom Innovation Laboratories are also tackling Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), honeytokens and more. If you look at the work that BGU has already done in this one public-private partnership with Deutche Telekom then you can understand why they are so bullish about getting a whole fleet of tech industry giants located across the street. And then, next to that is going to be all of the top technical talent of the Israeli Defense Forces, ready to collaborate in order to find solutions to impossible problems and push Israel's technical advantage farther and faster.
Rise of the Negev
Israelis treasure a biblical verse in Isaiah 35:1-2 that predicts: "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing."
Israel's founding father and first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, who was far more pragmatic than spiritual, nevertheless kept a copy of this verse on his desk. To Ben Gurion, this prophecy encapsulated the hope and the possibilities of Israel's Negev desert. He believed science would unlock those secrets and create those opportunities. He even did a little bit of future forecasting of his own.
The natural beauty of the Negev desert can surprise you. | Image: Jason Hiner
Ben Gurion predicted, "The South will be at the center of Israel's activity and concern. Only in these areas is there a little open space, totally absent in the North, and there is room for additional extensive settlement based on agriculture and pasture as well as on workshops, mines and industry... Only researchers and scientists who live within the gates of the Negev ... will succeed in revealing what is concealed in the bosom of the earth, and the Dead Sea. They will study the blessings of the sky and the sun and the uppermost air which shower endless treasures of energy, dew, winds and beneficial rays which go to waste because we do not yet know how to utilize them to make the wilderness blossom."
Named after the nation's first prime minister, Ben Gurion University of the Negev is the school's official title. Even most of the locals shorten it to Ben Gurion University or BGU, so it's easy to overlook the fact that the Negev remains one of BGU's greatest geographical and political assets—and one of its most defining characteristics.
Be'er Sheva, where BGU is based, sits on the northern edge of the Negev, but serves as its cultural and administrative capital. It's a biblical city (sometimes called "Beersheba") with connections to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. When the UN divided up Israel and Palestine in 1948, Be'er Sheva was actually part of the Palestinian territory. However, during the proceeding Arab-Israeli War of 1948, the Israeli Defense Forces defeated the Egyptian Army in Be'er Sheva and it has been a Jewish city ever since. In fact, there are so few Arabs left in the city that Be'er Sheva's traditional mosque has been converted into the archeological museum of the Negev, despite legal objections from some of the Muslim citizens in Israel.
Today, Be'er Sheva has a population of 200,000 and is one of Israel's fastest growing cities. Meanwhile, outside of Be'er Sheva, there are about 170,000 semi-nomadic Arab bedouin who roam the Negev. It is a stark contrast between a rapidly-advancing modern civilization and a traditional culture that feels increasingly threatened about its future. Nevertheless, there are also now bedouin students attending BGU as well.
The Negev as a whole is the hottest region in Israel, both literally and figuratively.
It comprises Israel's southern desert and it has a completely different character than the coastal towns of Tel Aviv and Haifa or the Jerusalem plateau. As you drive from those northern cities with their cypress trees, sloping hills, and ample ground cover and pass into the Negev with its rocky terrain, craggy mountains, and sparse vegetation, there's no doubt that you have passed from one place into another. The color change from green to brown is unmistakable. The Negev is a desert, but it's not the kind with blowing sand dunes like you see in the movies. It's more like an ancient gravel driveway, stretching and rippling in every direction. If that sounds ominous and undesirable, then the untamed beauty of the Negev can surprise you.
The Negev represents 60% of the land mass of Israel, but is home to only 9% of the population. It is an arid climate that averages only 8 inches of rainfall per year, but the Israelis have turned the Negev into the only desert in the world that is currently receding. Using a combination of high-tech and low-tech research and best practices, Israel has taken advantage of the benefits of the desert while making it a more productive and hospital place to live. Israel has changed grazing patterns of animals, adopted ancient Nabataean farming techniques for growing crops in areas with minimal rainfall, and become a world leader in solar energy research. Israel now reuses over 70% of the country's waste water (mostly then reused for farming the arid land), more than any other country in the world. In second place is Spain, which reuses 17%. The U.S. reuses 1%.
BGU has 20,000 students. | Image: Jason Hiner
Despite the fact that David Ben Gurion and other politicians have been calling the Negev "the future of the country" for over 60 years, the Israeli people have been slow to migrate to the region. Until recently, Be'er Sheva felt too provincial and remote to tempt many citizens of the developed cities of the north to relocate to the desert. However, the city of Be'er Sheva has created cultural momentum over the past decade by developing the arts, theater, libraries, and culinary diversity. This has been funded in part by American Jews who have embraced the vision of the Negev and used their philanthropy to help fund the expansion of BGU and Be'er Sheva.
Over three decades ago, David Ben Gurion put his money where his mouth was and moved to the Negev in 1970 after he retired from public life. Now that the national government, the Israeli Defense Forces, and the technology industry have fully bought into the future of the Negev, the region is expecting explosive economic and population growth over the next decade. The population of the Negev is projected to double to 1.2 million in 2025.
That's another part of the motivation for the ATP. Carmi said, "The basic idea for the park is to provide for high tech jobs for our graduates, for our [students in] computer engineering, computer science, data systems and all kinds of high tech departments, so they stay in the Negev and so they don't go to Tel Aviv."
However, one of the challenges to drawing more citizens to Be'er Sheva is the fact that it's currently in missile range from Gaza and has been a regular target. Be'er Sheva residents have had to get used to regular warning sirens and taking shelter in pre-designated areas. When I was taken to the BGU dorms for visiting scholars and other guests, one of the first things they showed me was where to take shelter if a missile warning went off.
Israel's new Iron Dome defense system has reduced the potential effects of these attacks, but it hasn't reduced the terror of the regular warnings. And, the Iron Dome itself makes bigger, scarier noises than the missiles they are intercepting, in many cases, which adds to the terror for many Be'er Sheva residents.
"Be'er Sheva is great, except for the missiles." Michael Fire, BGU graduate student in cybersecurity
This has affected a number of pioneering Israelis who have made the move to Be'er Sheva in order to support the momentum at BGU. One such professional has suffered from severe anxiety because of dealing with all of the missile warnings. Another has had to deal with family conflict because of a spouse being separated from family in the north along with the emotional toll of nurturing small children through all the missile warnings and evacuations. In both cases, they remain firmly committed to BGU and the larger mission of building the future in the Negev.
Michael Fire, the star BGU graduate student in cybersecurity, said, "Be'er Sheva is great, except for the missiles."
And yet, there's also the flipside to consider. You can make an argument that the constant threats don't ever let BGU researchers or IDF cyber soliders or even commercial businesses forget what's ultimately at stake. That remains one of intangible factors of Israel's success as a tech innovator. For six decades, Israel's existence has been continually under threat. That keeps Israelis sharp. It keeps them focused. It has also forged a pragmatism, a resourcefulness, and a disdain for hierarchy and protocol. They do whatever it takes to find workable answers to impossible problems, and they've learned how to maximize limited resources to do it.
"The opening of the Advanced Technologies Park in Be'er Sheva will be remembered as the turning point in the development of the Negev." BGU President Rikva Carmi
With the ATP, BGU and the State of Israel are counting on the combination of that pragmatism with the collaboration of academia, industry, and the IDF to speed up the development of cybersecurity, fight the new frontiers of national security threats in the 21st century, and tap these developments to incubate commercial products to improve information security across the globe.
That's an aggressive mandate, but if it succeeds then it's destined to magnify the role that Israel's tech ecosystem is going to play on the global stage in the years ahead.
BGU president Carmi proclaimed, "The opening of the Advanced Technologies Park in Be'er Sheva will be remembered as the turning point in the development of the Negev. We have always been at the geographical heart of Israel. Now we are on our way to becoming the true center for innovation and growth."
The next Silicon Valley?
The vision for BGU's Advanced Technology Park came the school's former president, Avishay Braverman, who led BGU from 1990-2006 and before that served as a senior economist for the World Bank.
“My dream that Ben Gurion University will do for Be'er Sheva what Stanford University did for Silicon Valley begins,” Braverman said in a pre-recorded message that was played at the ATP inauguration. The former economist, educator, and administrator is now a member of Israel's Knesset (legislature).
To see more of Jason Hiner's photos from Israel, click the photo above. | Image: Jason Hiner
However, in order for BGU and the Negev to become the next Silicon Valley, it's still going to need two major factors to develop.
First, it will need an even larger infusion of venture capital. While Israel attracts the most venture capital per capita of any nation in the world and Israelis are remarkably resourceful, the ecosystem will still need more if it is going to play in the big leagues with Silicon Valley. The U.S. generates about $30 billion in VC investment annually. Israel generates about $2 billion.
Second, Israel in general and the Negev specifically are also going to need flagship technology brands to arise in Israel and become global anchors in their own right, rather than sell to American firms. It needs its own Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, or Amazon. Or more likely, it's going to need several of them, with headquarters in the Negev flanking the ATP.
Still, if you're looking for where the next Silicon Valley could coalesce, then Ben Gurion University of the Negev is one of the most important places to watch. The groundbreaking work they are doing in public-private partnerships, the cooperation with the Israeli Defense Forces, the sense of mission and destiny that Israelis have about the Negev, and the determination, urgency, and resourcefulness that have been created by Israel's 65-year existential crisis are creating an environment where technology, cybersecurity, and entrepreneurship are uniquely positioned to succeed.
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