David Rice — “Upon the Threshold of Opportunity”
Source: https://influences.sgit.ai/register/david-rice-keynote/index.html↗ · 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 ↗.
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↗, 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 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/geekonomics-the-real/9780321477897/ ↗
- OWASP AppSec conference archives — where the recording should be, and where the search starts https://owasp.org/ ↗
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 ↗. 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 ↗).
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.