#evolutionary force

“Nonviolence as an Evolutionary Force”–Daily Metta

“Non-cooperation is a process of evolution: it has most aptly been described as Evolutionary Revolution.”-–Gandhi (Young India, February 23, 1921)

Gandhi understood that nonviolent non-cooperation against a State, aka civil resistance, meant a closer form of cooperation among people. Assured that such actions would not lead to disorder or chaos, he put his faith securely in the hearts of people as well as in the principles of nonviolence itself. It is revolutionary. Violent non-cooperation, by contrast, most often lacks vision, unity and strategic thinking about “what next,” not to mention that it denies people’s desire for peace which goes much deeper than their desire for vengeance and retaliation, however intense those may feel.

(This reflects what we’re trying to do at UPenn currently. Withdrawing support without vitriol. It has given us strength and power despite the issue remaining unaddressed)

So what does it have to do with evolution? Whenever we non-cooperate with individuals and systems in the spirit of nonviolence, we show with our lives not only that another world is truly possible, but that we desire that world and are willing to withdraw our support from what is no longer working. And we become empowered in the process: the more we become aware of our underlying unity that is so foundational in nonviolent action, the more we realize that we are not required to obey when misguided leaders, ideologies and institutions try to run the show. It’s an intentional shift from unconscious passivity to conscious action. This is why Gandhi maintains that nonviolent non-cooperation can become a force of evolution; instead keeping us locked into the destructive cycle of violence, it releases us and enables us to moves forward toward unexplored frontiers of the human mind, body and spirit.

Experiment in Non-violence

If you were to non-cooperate with one violent institution, which one would it be? What would replace that institution? Research one new nonviolent institution, such as unarmed civilian peacekeeping.

New Post has been published on http://blog.pureminutes.com/index.php/trust-cloud-trust-phone-mobile-payments/

What Next for Mobile Payments?Trust in the Cloud or Trust in the Phone

Mobile Payments?Trust in the Cloud or Trust in the Phone

Will the arrival of phone based payments act as a revolutionary or evolutionary force?

CARTES, Paris, France – 6 November, 2012 – Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, looks at the approaches for the successful mass adoption of mobile payments among issuers, card schemes, acquirers, merchants and consumers and asks whether the arrival of emerging mobile payment technologies and increasingly secure cloud services will act as a revolutionary or evolutionary force?

Mobile Payments History

The payments industry was defined in an era before the internet, smartphones, the app store and the cloud. As a result any new payments ecosystem built around mobile and cloud connectivity could look very different to the world of payments we are currently familiar with – to both the industry and consumer alike.

To date the most widely discussed and broadly standardized approach to mobile payments has been evolutionary and has focused on effectively turning the phone into a credit card or a wallet full of credit cards. In this model, card issuers, card schemes and acquirers, play a familiar role despite ceding some control and power to new entrants such as Trusted Service Managers (TSMs), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and even handset manufacturers.

They collectively depend on the presence of a specialist security chip within the phone – known as the Secure Element – to protect the critical payment keys that enable the consumer to initiate a contactless mobile transaction at a point of sale terminal, just like the embedded chip in an EMV enabled plastic payment card world.

However, players such as PayPal, Google, Apple and a host of innovative start-ups like Square, take a different approach. Their trust lies in the cloud and the phone is simply a means of connecting to that cloud. The argument being that it is much easier to secure a common cloud service than millions of individual phones and much more in intuitive for users to simply log-on to a service – something they do every day.

Mobile Payments Models

Which of the two models is likely to stimulate the successful mass adoption of mobile payments – the secure element model or the cloud-oriented approach – and what are the opportunities and threats to gain or lose market share? See the table for a high-level comparison of the two potential models and take a look at our new white paper ‘Trust in the Cloud or Trust in the Phone: Security Fundamentals for Contactless Mobile Payments’.

Ian Hermon, mobile payment security specialist at Thales e-Security says

“As an industry we have been talking about the arrival of mobile payments for almost a decade now. Whilst we have seen big players in the retail market, such as Starbucks, invest in mobile payment platforms we are still a long way off from having one universally accepted model. Whether the industry moves to place its trust in the handset or in the cloud, one thing is for certain, the system as a whole will need to be protected from compromise or misuse. Thales is a leader in both the traditional payments ecosystem and in the broader data protection and cloud security markets. Thales hardware security modules (HSMs) are already proven to satisfy the high assurance security requirements of the banking industry and we are therefore exceptionally well placed to help our current and prospective customers implement a comprehensive security infrastructure that embraces both the traditional and the emerging payment worlds.”

Visit us at Cartes 2012, 6-8 November, Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, Stand #074

Tuesday, 6 November – 9:40am

Who will win in the era of mobile payments?

Ian Hermon, Thales and Zilvinas Bareisis, Senior Analyst Banking, Celent will discuss the new initiatives in mobile payments and the security challenges these pose.

Session reference: C06 – Mobile Services: The Wallet Generation

Supporting resources:

• Trust in the Cloud Trust in the Phone: Security Fundamentals for Contactless Mobile Payments

• Anything you can do, we can do better: the merchant response to mobile payments

• Video blog: Trust in the cloud or trust in the phone?

• Encryption in the Cloud report

• Global Encryption Trends study