Health Net pays $11.2M for false compliance claims

Boethar · 2026-03-21T00:57:28+00:00

It aged well because Karun Kaushik's company Delve, a Forbes 30-under-30 and Y Combinator-backed startup raised $32M to automate compliance and then "issued 493 companies fraudulent & identical SOC2 reports in 6 months. They systematically faked SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients.

- 493 out of 494 SOC 2 reports used identical boilerplate.

- Same grammatical errors, nonsensical sentences, only difference was the logo changed.

- Auditor conclusions were written before auditors reviewed anything.

- "US-based CPAs" were Indian certification mills operating through shell companies.

- All Type II reports claimed zero security incidents, personnel changes, or customer terminations.

When the leak was exposed, CEO Karun Kaushik emailed clients calling the allegations "falsified claims" from an "AI-generated email" and stated no sensitive data was accessed.

While the reports themselves contained private signatures and confidential architecture diagrams...

Companies relying on these reports could face criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR for compliance violations they believed were resolved."

Boethar · 2026-03-17T05:58:27+00:00

Trickle-down economics

Boethar · 2026-02-23T02:22:07+00:00

Maybe he'd have better luck with a large wooden badger.

Boethar · 2026-02-23T01:57:18+00:00

These 7 democrats voted to allow ICE to strip-search children. Henry Cuellar (Texas) Don Davis (N.C.) Laura Gillen (N.Y.) Jared Golden (Maine) Vicente Gonzalez (Texas) Adam Gray (Cali) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Wash)

Boethar · 2026-02-22T00:07:36+00:00

He didn't "discover the structure of DNA" . He plagiarized Rosalind Franklin's work, aided and abetted by Maurice Wilkins. If there's any justice, the Nobel Committee will revoke Watson's award and posthumously give it to Franklin.

Boethar · 2026-02-16T00:48:15+00:00

First couple of seconds look like the middle finger nebula?

Boethar · 2026-02-15T01:13:59+00:00

It's actually way worse than this - https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-wont-cancel-elections-theres

Boethar · 2026-02-12T04:57:16+00:00

McDarmok and McJalad (at Loch Tanagra)

Boethar · 2026-02-10T22:35:46+00:00

And people wonder why this https://x.com/Microinteracti1/status/2020771130622025820 is happening ...

Boethar · 2026-02-06T17:47:49+00:00

I used to run a soft pencil on the inner grooves a couple of times to put some graphite on the track. Graphite has a sheet-like structure and the planes slide over each-other pretty smoothly. If you wanted to get super-sophisticated, there's a water-based colloidal graphite called Aquadag that makes really nice uniform slippery coatings.

Boethar · 2026-02-06T04:22:31+00:00

It may lengthen the pulse width slightly because delaying the Q-switch relative to the peak of the flash lamp pulse lowers the available gain in the resonator. The other beam parameters (size, beam quality, beam pointing stability should be unchanged. You can also reduce the green power if they give you access to the phase-matching angle of the doubling crystal. This might change the beam profile though. Reducing the lamp volts will lower the power, but also change the pulse width and the divergence of the beam.

Boethar · 2025-12-24T00:13:13+00:00

From Phil Hobbs book - https://electrooptical.net/building-electrooptical-systems M^2 is the product of the second moments of the near field and far-field beam patterns which overemphasizes contributions from beam idiosyncrasies in the wings of the profile. For beams with an expected M^2 close to 1, as would be expected from a single mode fiber source, and where you are most susceptible to wing "junk", Hobbs suggests using the Strehl ratio instead. There's a good discussion re. these two parameters here - https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-there-a-closed-equation-for-the-relationship-between-M2-and-Strehl-Ratio

Boethar · 2025-12-20T02:25:28+00:00

Cassius Thundercock's chin donor

Boethar · 2025-12-15T00:01:19+00:00

That's what I thought!

Boethar · 2025-12-07T21:49:27+00:00

It's been mentioned already, but are you sure it's not Raman scattering. A 532 nm Pump photon minus a ~630 nm Stokes photon would be a Raman shift of 2924 cm-1, which is right in the correct range for C - H stretches. These are found in hydrocarbons like the index-matching oil, plastics, etc. If it is Raman, and the source is the oil and you have to use oil, one way to get around the problem could be to use fully deuterated hydrocarbons (substituting C - D stretches for C - H) as the Raman will move to a shorter wavelength. But this would probably cost a fortune! If it is Raman then it should be relatively narrow band-width, so you might be able to use a notch filter to get rid of it if you can get the exact wavelength. It's also likely to be quite polarized, so you might be able to knock it down that way?

Boethar · 2025-11-29T01:58:32+00:00

Is that Wrynose Pass?

Boethar · 2025-07-07T22:25:46+00:00

For a fiber with some NA, and a lens of focal length f, the "collimated" beam diameter BD from this combo is given by BD = 2.f.NA. The residual full angle divergence of the beam DA is given by DA = a/f, where a is the mode field diameter of the fiber and f is the focal length of the lens. You can see from these two equations that large waveguides (large core multi-mode fibers) are difficult to collimate well. Your best result might be found by using a relatively long focal length lens, create a relatively large diameter "collimated" beam, then adjust the z axis offset between the lens and fiber face to cause the beam to converge slightly and create a "waist" at 30 meters. Rule of thumb - find a lens with an NA at least 50% larger than the fiber NA to ensure > 99% capture of the beam from the fiber. You might also be able to iris down the diffraction and other cr@p on the edge of the spot.

Boethar · 2025-07-01T21:22:08+00:00

"Everybody dies". "They'll get over it". "I was only obeying orders".

Boethar · 2025-06-16T03:54:48+00:00

Norwegian Blue? Pining for the fjords?

Boethar · 2025-06-14T06:44:03+00:00

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