# David Rice — “Upon the Threshold of Opportunity” *Source: · markdown twin of the entry page.* *An influence on **Dinis Cruz** — one of 25 entries in his register.* - **tier** stated — on Dinis Cruz's list, thin or absent in the corpus, awaiting his briefing document - **kind** presentation - **status** stub — blocks 1 and 3, plus the research plan — awaiting Dinis Cruz's briefing document - **briefing** requested 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 **Year and recording unconfirmed.** Locating the canonical recording is part of the research plan rather than a detail — [N5](../../admin/comms.html#n5). *Linked, never rehosted.* ## Block 2 — In his own words 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](../owasp/index.html), 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 - **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 Named by Dinis Cruz; no corpus trace, and no located recording. Both halves of the entry are open. **Research plan.** Two tracks, both in [N5](../../admin/comms.html#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](../../admin/comms.html#r3)). ## The corpus evidence None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it — which is the definition of the STATED tier. --- CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.