Originally published October 17, 2014 at 12:03 PM | Page modified October 17, 2014 at 12:16 PM

YOU REALLY have to go to Holly to get there.

It is unincorporated and way out of the way; the place where the road ends, hunkered down beachside behind brambles along Hood Canal in the southwestern corner of Kitsap County. Even Wikipedia will tell you that Holly is known for its isolation.

But thats also what makes it so very special.

Its inspiring for me to be at Holly, says Paige Stockley. Its important for me to be at Holly.

Paige looked at a weedy, soggy beachside lot whose only features were a choked-near-to-death creek and a Breaking Bad-type double-wide. Her sister saw the place and called it grisly.

Paige saw home.

This is real, she says. This is not about making a fire by flipping a switch.

Paige and Holly. Quite the pair. Forces of nature, the both of them. Theyve been friends all of Paiges life. Her grandfather had a place across the cove. Her mom and dad, Peggy and Tom Stockley, brought Paige and her sister to Holly since they were babies.

The girls parents, though, are gone now two of 88 people killed Jan. 31, 2000, when Alaska Flight 261 crashed off California on the way back from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. (Tom Stockley was the wine writer and assistant editor of this magazine.) But when Paige is here, they are with her.

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STEVENSVILLE Building a home in 72 hours, constructed with lumber donated by Montanas seven mills, the Forests for Humanity Blitz Build kicked off in Stevensville on Friday and launched the third annual Montana Forest Products Week.

The project requires the labor of more than 40 local volunteers each day, with support from the Society of American Foresters, Missoula Federal Credit Union, University of Montanas Carpentry Program, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Ravalli County Habitat for Humanity and more.

Habitat partner family and future homeowners Lori Call and her daughter Miranda Rivera were at the site Lori pounding nails and Miranda hobbling along in a cast.

The flurry of construction ceased for a brief ceremony at noon.

Gov. Steve Bullock said, The suggestion at times is somehow that the community is actually helping out Lori and Miranda, but in many ways Lori and Miranda are helping out a community.

Its when we all come together be it the seven mills, be it the high school students and Key Clubs, be it the boards, be it everybody who says we can all work together on something thats a little bit bigger than any one of us as individuals. So the gift isnt given to you two, you two are giving this gift to this community and, indeed, the state.

Said Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Director John Tubbs: This week brings a focus to the forest products industry in Montana and how important it is for our communities for having those seven operating mills.

The ceremony also honored Darby Schools Rick Scheele and Victor Schools Lyle Thompson for their wood energy programs and Dirk Kruger of the Montana Logging Association.

Then construction resumed.

Ravalli County Habitat for Humanity executive director Mike Kibler said the Blitz Build was proceeding right on schedule.

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The only way prospective buyers of recently constructed homes in the ACT can be sure a property is covered for structural and other defects is by demanding to see the original contract between the commissioning owner and the builder and the home warranty insurance certificate.

The warranty insurance covers homeowners against structural defects up to six years after a certificate of occupancy is issued and other defects for up to two years.

It also protects customers in the event their builder goes bust, dies or disappears before the project is completed.

Planning Minister, Mick Gentleman, has told Fairfax it is not the responsibility of private certifiers or the Constructions Occupations Registrar to verify the information provided to them for the issuing of commencement certificates and certificates of occupancy which are accepted as proof valid warranty insurance is in place.

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Jerry Howard, the deputy executive director of the ACT Master Builders, disagrees saying "there is an expectation on the part of the consumer that the ACT Government regulator will do its job properly".

"The Constructions Occupations Registrar and the certifier (dealing with the project) need to cross reference the insurance certificate with the building contract," he said. "Under no circumstances should a commencement notice be issued unless the certifier and the regulator are absolutely convinced the build is covered by valid home warranty insurance."

Fairfax is aware of at least six former clients of failed builder Sublime Constructions who have been refused coverage under their home warranty insurance policies because QBE, the insurer, claimed the entity that took out the cover, Sublime Builders, was not the entity that actually built their homes.

"Accordingly your claim is denied as you are ineligible to claim due to the builder not being dead, disappeared or insolvent," QBE's Nick Nithiananthan wrote in a letter to one of the Sublime Constructions victims, Tanya Nguyen, in a letter dated August 15.

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The JPMorgan Chase data breach rocked headlines early this month as the latest in a series of breaches hitting nearly a dozen financial companies in 2014 alone. The news also follows similar breach disclosures from Target, Home Depot, Albertsons and others.

The massive security breach compromised 76 million households and seven million small business accounts. As a result, the bank will no doubt spend millions of dollars over the next few months repairing the extensive damage and working to restore its reputation.

As if the sheer reach of the JPMorgan Chase breach itself isnt bad enough, it spotlights an inherent flaw with most modern information security architectures. Specifically, state-of-the-art prevention technologies are not 100 percent foolproof for detecting and blocking persistent attackers.

Several industry analyst firms like Gartner, for example recognize that decades of information security prevention systems have failed to produce an architecture that can stop committed attackers, and in response, theyre making a dramatic shift in their recommendations to security practitioners.

The good news and yes, there is good news is that JPMorgan Chase was able to identify the network breach and remove the offending malware before any highly-compromising confidential data was stolen and before irreparable harm was done to customer accounts.

According to a filing made by JPMorgan Chase with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, only names, addresses and emails were exfiltrated in the breach. There was no theft of money, account information like credit card numbers, passwords or social security numbers stolen.

Considering many of the other recent breaches in which highly confidential customer information was stolen, this is a success. While a network breach is never good, JPMorgan Chase was able to stop the data exfiltration before it reached a scale that would have caused irreparable harm to customer accounts and corporate brand equity.

Organizations have a lot to learn from JPMorgan Chase on how it caught the attackers before they were able to cause significant damage. There are also several noteworthy lessons learned in understanding why the financial institutions experience was so different from Targets disastrous breach, which resulted in the loss of 40 million customer credit cards.

There are a handful of large and highly profitable organizations like JPMorgan Chase that have vast resources dedicated to information security. With billions of dollars of annual IT budgets, these elite organizations can afford to buy the latest and greatest network logging and security analytics products, and hire large groups of security analysts to filter through and triage the hundreds and thousands of false positive alerts that are generated daily by these products. Wading through all of these alerts takes a considerable amount of time and can consume a team of analysts full-time.

Targets much smaller security team, on the other hand, wasnt able to keep up with the high volume of alerts being generated by its security infrastructure, which involved many of the exact same technologies used by JPMorgan Chase. Its well-documented that Target had deployed many state-of-art security products in its network that produced numerous alerts that a breach was occurring very similar to the situation at JPMorgan Chase. The problem is that those alerts were buried within thousands of other simultaneous false positive alerts, making it extremely difficult for Targets much smaller security staff to react and take action. Mainstream security products, including intrusion detection systems (IDS), sandboxing and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions, are all known to create very high ratios of false positives sometimes on the order of thousands per day.

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The term home automation system is a lot like the word groceries. Its a mixed bag that depends on your tastes and what you need to accomplish when you get home.

What most systems have in common is a hub, a small box that contains the systems brain. It works with a smartphone or other device to give you remote control and monitoring. From there, you shop for the system that gives you the features you want a few or many.

These smart home hubs promise to bring a little gravity to your connected universe.

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The good: With easy-to-install security sensors, wide product compatibility, and no monthly fees, SmartThings gets home automation right. In addition to home security, kits are available for lighting, water detection and energy use. We love that its compatible with IFTTT, the service that enables users to connect different Web applications (Facebook, Evernote, Weather, Dropbox, etc.) together through simple conditional statements known as Recipes.

The bad: The SmartThings Hub is a little limited in terms of range. Also, the newly redesigned SmartThings app feels overcrowded with redundant features.

The cost: Kits starting at $199 at https://shop.smartthings.com.

The bottom line: If youre looking for an easy and (relatively) affordable entry point into home automation, then SmartThings makes a lot of sense.

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