David Rice — “Upon the Threshold of Opportunity”
An OWASP keynote, named by Dinis Cruz from memory. The one entry whose anchor is a specific recording that has to be found before it can be linked.
Block 1 The anchor
Upon the Threshold of Opportunity — an OWASP AppSec keynote — David Rice
No canonical URL. Not every anchor has one address — a book, a practice or a personal era does not — and this site links what is linkable rather than inventing a canonical home for something that has none. The wider library below carries what can be linked.
Year and recording unconfirmed. Locating the canonical recording is part of the research plan rather than a detail — N5.
Block 2 In his own words
No first-person statement about this influence exists in the corpus yet. What follows is the site's reading of the evidence, not Dinis Cruz's words — and it stays labelled as such until his briefing document arrives.
A conference talk is an unusual anchor and a revealing one. Books get re-read; a keynote is heard once, and an influence that survives that is an influence that landed at the right moment. What the entry needs is not a summary of Rice's argument — that is available — but why this talk, to this person, in that room, which is the part only Dinis Cruz holds.
Nests under OWASP, where the community-as-influence claim lives.
Block 3 The principle
(hypothesis) Security is an economic and societal opportunity rather than a fear industry — the argument of Geekonomics, made to a room of practitioners.
Constructed from Rice's published book rather than from the keynote, because the keynote has not been located. It is a placeholder for the real principle, not the real principle.
Block 7 The wider library
The rest of the work, linked and never rehosted, each item with one line on what it adds. The full union of every entry's Block 7 is at /library/.
- Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software (2007) — Rice's book, and the fullest version of the argument the keynote presumably made ↗
- OWASP AppSec conference archives — where the recording should be, and where the search starts ↗
Awaiting the briefing document
This entry is a stub, and says so. Named by Dinis Cruz; no corpus trace, and no located recording. Both halves of the entry are open.
The research plan
Two tracks, both in N5. Find the recording: the OWASP AppSec video archives, by year, and confirm which one Dinis Cruz means. Then check the licence before embedding — OWASP's own channels are the preferred source; a commercial conference recording gets a link, not an embed. Alongside: his contemporaneous blog reactions, which are in the unreachable earlier material (R3).
Tracked as N5 in the briefing queue.
The corpus evidence
None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it. That is the definition of the STATED tier, and it is published rather than hidden: an empty evidence block is the most honest thing this page can show.
Where this sits
- Nests under OWASP & the security community — the community-as-influence claim lives there; this entry is one talk inside it