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Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about the security problems introduced by internet-connected medical devices know as IoMT. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig We still today have some of that same equipment that hospitals had 20 years ago. And most of it never gets updated. And the big reason is they say, Well listen, if we change the software in it if we do an update or an upgrade then recertification is necessary. Hey, happy hump day, everybody. Greg Peters here on this morning on mains radio stations with Matt, and we talked about a couple of my top issues this week. Matt always picks the best ones out of the hat. Matt 736 on the WGAN Morning News. It is Wednesday morning. On a Wednesday at that time means that it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays to talk about all things technology. Craig, welcome to the program. Craig Hey, that's me. Matt That it is. You are also heard at this very station some other time. Right? What is it exactly that you're on this thing? The weekend or something? I don't know. Unknown Speaker 1:04 Saturday at one o'clock. We go into, of course, more detail and, and more of the articles that I publish every week. Like those, I send it to you, Matt. Matt Indeed, indeed. So let's talk I was talking a moment ago about telehealth and whatnot. So let's get the health prognosis on the security of some cool devices known as IoMT devices. Am I getting that right? Craig Yeah, exactly. That's the internet of medical things. Matt Ah, another good acronym for me to remember. Craig Exactly. Well, at least, you know, in the computer world, we have a lot of TLS three-letter acronyms. And this is an FMLA, a four-letter acronym. Oh, yeah. Matt All right. Well, it's a good question, though. Because with all of the medical connections we're making, I guess you could say. People are probably very concerned about the security of their health data and everything. Else than that, perhaps it is getting passed back and forth by these things. So how, how secure are they? Craig Yeah, well, here's your big problem. These devices are utterly insecure, for the most part. Excellent. Isn't that wonderful? Good news. Good news. Welcome to Hump Day. Yeah, here's the problem. We have all of these medical equipment in our hospitals. That's hooked up to the internet. I remember the first time I got a chain of hospitals as a client, man, and this would have been the mid-90s, I think it was. And they had all of these different machines, X-ray machines and others hooked up to their network. And I started to look into it back then it's been a long time and found Well, first of all, they had a flat-network. They were doing everything wrong. But we still today have some of that same equipment that hospital had 20 years ago. And most of it never gets updated. And the big reason is they say, Well listen, if we change the software, and if we do it An update or an upgrade requiring recertification. We're talking about everything from pumps through an implanted, auto distributed, or pacemaker that might be in someone's chest, these x-ray machines, these CAT scan machines, all of these things. Hospitals do seem to think that they just cannot do an update because then they actually would violate the law. The federal government kind of cleared up over the last few weeks, here saying no, no, no, no, in fact, we are encouraging you to run updates. Put them on, because these older machines are still running, believe it or not, Windows 95 XP or Windows seven. Operating systems that are no longer supported. Many of these machines have never been upgraded, which puts us all at risk, in this case, physical peril. Matt I'm talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us periodically to talk about what's going on in the world of technology. Speaking of privacy, and questions like this, what's Amazon up to these days? I understand they told Congress something that was not true. Is that accurate? Craig One might think that that never happens, right? But here's what's going on. If you are a small business, of course, right now, things are probably more challenging for you than for a big retailer. Many small companies have been selling through Amazon, and it's been a great little channel for them. With almost half of the products sold on Amazon are being sold by third parties. But the problem that right now is that Amazon has come out with its own line products. Now, you might not be aware of this, but Amazon does have some of its own brands, that it's selling online. These are their private-labeled brand. There's more than 145 of them now. And you'll see them like Amazon essentials, which is Amazon, right and Amazon basic. They have other things like spotted zebra, which is a kid's clothing, clothing line, Hayden rose, stolen being those are all Amazon brands. Now apparently, they lied to Congress. No, they told Congress that they don't use merchant data. What they were doing is looking at all of these small vendors saying what is selling? Well, what kind of a margin could we have if we sold the same or similar products and went right around that small vendor that might have developed this product, and then introducing them as one of these hundred and 45 private label brands? Several regulatory probes are starting up concerning this in the US and the European Union. They opened, in fact, the EU and investigation last year. And they're probing Amazon's use of quote, "competitively sensitive information about the marketplace, sellers, their product transactions on the marketplace," unquote, to boost their own retail business. Matt Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us on Wednesdays to talk about the world of technology. And you can hear him on this very station Saturdays at one o'clock, where he goes into more depth and detail about all of these stories and so many more, Greg, appreciate it as always, and we look forward to talking to you again next week. Craig Take care, man. Bye. You bet. Matt All right, coming up next. Hey, everybody, take care Craig Craig Peterson here and we'll be back this weekend with my radio show. Some more podcasts. I did a Facebook Live. I don't know if you were able to attend them this week. I did not promote them. But I will be, I'll tell you. We'll have people sign up for a select live list for my email, so make sure you're on that Craig peterson.com slash subscribe. Take care. Bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

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Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt and we had a good discussion about how Remote Diagnostics, Remote Work and Coronaviruses, and AI and how this is changing our world.   These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Matt We're back again, and it is 7:38 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. We are now talking to Craig Peterson is our tech guru. And he joins us now. Ken Mr. Craig, your timing couldn't be better because I got a new MacBook because my keys kept falling off the butterfly keyboard, which sucked him. I don't know why Apple did it. So I installed on I migrate everything over. And now, when I put on Chrome, and I tried to Google, I get this thing called Rona that comes on air express or something. And I clicked on it to see what it was and at someplace in Tel Aviv, that that says Nitsa. And so what's fascinating to me, by the way, Craig, I'm sure you can't do tech support from the phone right now. But uh, he got a brand new computer and did nothing. I didn't know it was already there. And on my last laptop. I mean, I thought it I identified it as like malware, right. His previous laptop, I sort of found a way around it or whatever, but like he just doesn't do anything and it's there also. Craig Yeah, but it must have happened when you migrated from your old one, hidden deep somewhere, and got installed during migration. Ken Yeah. Oh, that's why you pulled it from the old computer. I thought it was off my old computer. No, it wasn't I hit it. When I did that screen, I hit it so well, should I email Google? Should I email Chrome? Or I throw the computer against the wall? That is another option. I mean, what's this guy? If I email this guy in Tel Aviv, and said, what's this? Craig Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. For the love of God. Don't do that. Matt They did a scan. They didn't find it. I've done so, give me suggestions. Craig Well, it sounds like you got a good tech support guy there locally to figure it out. But it looks like this is coming from Google, isn't it? He's got Chrome. It comes up from Chrome. I didn't know you didn't Google. Ken When I hit a web Chrome, it comes up instead of saying, "Google," it says, "Search." And then it's a smart search. It has this air Express, Facebook, Twitter, and it's just a standard launch page, but it has this Ollie Express thing next to it. Craig It's malware. Yeah, something new, but they got installed a while ago, a month ago and migrated. Well, that sort of thing takes a little bit to fix, and I definitely can do it. I bring it down virtually. Ken I wonder if I find the mouse if my guy can do it. Craig Yeah, usually the migration, it's not a big problem. And it's, there's a lot of these types of things go around. Well, of course, the biggest one is when people install these toolbars on their browsers. There's nothing but spyware in there. It doesn't sound like that. Matt would notice the difference. The toolbar Yeah, Matt The toolbar Yeah. No, I actually, that's the first thought I had too. I tried to get rid of it. I went to see if it was an extension. It was an extension. Yeah, I think I put Malwarebytes on his computer too. It's got Malwarebytes, and I ran it, and it found nothing. So this is probably not nasty, it's just annoying. Craig Yes. Matt It's trying to sell him something. Craig Yeah. Well, hey guys, I've got to bring something up here that I did almost a week ago now. There are millions of people who are working from home currently. Remote workers, many people even trying to figure out how to start a little business at home. I almost didn't wake up for this morning. Because I've been putting on these webinars, there are nine different webinars on topics related to security, not installing these nasty browser extensions. I did two webinars yesterday. These webinars are free. We talked about a browser extension you can put onto Chrome and other browsers, that is going to save your laptop battery, it's going to speed things up. It's just going to do a whole bunch of great stuff for you. I wanted to bring up today that I again, a bunch of people signed up. My next one is on Thursday. I'm going to do two on Thursday, two on Friday, one on Sunday. And then every day next week, I'm going to be doing two of them. And we're covering all kinds of topics, including some extensions that do stop malware on your browsers. We're going to go into VPN, when can you use them? When should you use them that Norton VPN isn't going to help you at all when it's time to get into the office, using a VPN versus remote desktop software. We're going to be covering your firewalls, and What kind of a firewall should you have? The attacks prevalent right now for home users? For a network router slash firewall? How should you be trading at a Wi-Fi? What do you need to know about Wi-Fi? All of this stuff and all free. And unlike that nastiness that you've got to your machine can I'm not sitting there trying to sell you anything. These are free, and we're talking about 10 hours plus worth of some training here. I'm working from home and doing it securely. And what I'd like to do is ask people to take a couple of minutes right now, because whether you are a retiree, or you are running a 500 person company, this information is something you need to have. And we've had a great response. I love the feedback people have been giving. So that's kind of given me a little bit more energy to do this. But if you are interested, You need to be on my email list because that's where I put the announcements out. I am not one of these marketers and new million pieces of emails a day. But if you go to Craig Peterson comm slash subscribe. It is so important right now because I'm getting notifications every day almost from the FBI, about new scans that the bad guys are running against people who are working from home. It is nuts. So these are not just me lecturing, these are two, and as they are LIVE. I'm answering all your questions, live. I'm showing you how to do things. And it's I hate to say this sounds a little self-serving, but it is thousands of dollars worth of training that I'm doing for free This is to help people out. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe to attend You're going to need you can have a computer you can use your tablet you can use your phone, your smartphone that is and make sure you've got a piece of paper and a pencil ready and handy to do stuff. And anyone who attends gets replays. I have specialized training and special thank you things are people that participate because I know it's a lot of work for you too, but, but I want to get this out right now. It is just it's so important. I don't want you to get nailed or badly by these bad guys. Matt we're talking to Craig Peterson, he's our tech guru, and he joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. No topic gets discussed without Coronavirus as part of it. Ladies and gentlemen, and so that is no exception for you, Craig, companies are trying to respond to this whole thing, and it's making them turn to what appears to be artificial intelligence. Are we creating Skynet here, in response to the Coronavirus? Should I be worried about this? Unknown Speaker 8:08 I heard that Prince Charles tested positive for Coronavirus this morning. Testing positive looks like the world might be coming to an end. Who knows, right? Yeah, here's the trick. We have a lot of companies who don't have all of the workers, and there was just a new story here at the bottom of the hour talking about the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and some of the ironworkers trying to say, Hey, listen, we this is kind of dangerous for us. Workers are just not showing up, or they're being told not to show up. It depends on the company. The big tech companies are trying to use this artificial intelligence now. I don't like the definition that pins these days are using When it comes to artificial intelligence, that word has changed. We used to think of AI and man you too as kind of a Skynet thing. Right? Right? It the computers making decisions, it's learning, it's advancing that smarter than we are, etc., etc. We don't have that yet. It hasn't happened. And there's a lot of warnings about what might happen if that were to happen. But we don't have it. It's not artificial intelligence, and it's barely even machine learning. What it is, is pattern matching. Companies like Facebook, and many others out there right now YouTube, where you're putting content on the site, and people want to make sure that you're not racist, like saying things like President Trump is excellent, which would be horrific. If someone were to say that on Facebook, for instance, tongue firmly planted in cheek there Unknown Speaker 10:02 Who is going to censor the internet now? While they're turning more heavily to computers, machine language programming is looking for patterns, and those particular patterns are what they're calling AI. It is not artificial intelligence. There's throwing that term around again. So Skynet is not a threat. But if you are trying to start a new ad campaign on Facebook, for instance, all ads are reviewed by Facebook. It is going to take longer to get it approved, and there's going to be many more false positives. That is because AI, as they call it, is a little bit more of a curmudgeon than the people who review some of these ads and articles and posts and everything else. So yeah, it this is going to force some movement forward on this AI type front, but the singularity I think, man it is still many, many years away. Matt It is still coming, though. It is today. Ken You just wish to be here fast. Well, we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 738. before we let you go, Coronaviruses are the story of the year, or the websites and have that the talk about screening is well you can't go to a website to get screened, but there is useful information on testing. Craig Yeah, it didn't come out, believe it or not, you can go to google.com slash Covid-19 and find information there. The symptoms are listed there. Of course, they're all over the place. The CDC has, among many others, but one of Google's companies that the company they own did launch just a few days after President Trump announced is called Verily, this primary site allows people to go on and answer a few questions. It comes up with a diagnosis of, yeah, you probably got it, which you could have got that same diagnosis from your cousin. It is very, very simple. They're adding in now where you can go to get tested because, of course, as you guys already know, they don't want you just showing up in the emergency room of a hospital, with potentially Coronavirus where you can spread it. We already know hospitals are the worst place to go if you're sick, because you can catch diseases there, you just can't get anywhere else. They don't want to add Covid-19 to that list. So you can check it out. google.com slash subscribe if you want a little more information. Unknown Speaker 12:48 All right. Greg Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays to go over the world of technology. We're going to leave it there, Craig. So we appreciate you joining us as always, and we will talk to you next week. Unknown Speaker 13:00 All right, I'll be on Saturday, of course, at 1 pm cover some more of these topics everyone needs to know. And then again that URL to sign up as Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe in here guys. Thanks a lot, Greg. Unknown Speaker 13:15 Great. Let's go to the break room, ladies and gentlemen. Go to Eric. He's got all the top stories of the day. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt and Marty (who was sitting in for Ken.) We had a good discussion about election technology and what different states are doing to assure that they are secure.  We also talked about the FBI and Homeland Security about Passwords and Passphrases and security.  Here we go These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig If the Secretaries of State get hacked, I'm not sure we can feel comfortable. Would they even know that hacking occurred? If they did, it would be much after the fact. Craig So well, this morning, I was talking on WGAN in their affiliates about some of the voting technology, you know, Super Tuesday is coming up. I compared some of the election technology in different states. What's good. What's bad. We talked about the new FBI press release that came out, that is I hope going to have a significant impact on security. It is fascinating stuff. So here we go. Craig By the way, I talked a little bit about our tutorials and coming up. Yeah, man, You won't believe the work that went into these all for you. It is part of my give back. I am not trying to sell you, upsell you, or anything else with these. Anyways, here we go with this morning on Ken and Matt more. Joe things technology.t tech guru Craig Peterson is on right now on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Matt Alright, we're back ladies gentlemen it is 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and also Matt. There is no Ken today. There is a Marty Groman he is over there. He is still wearing the Mardi Gras beads. Marty I am, Yeah, the party's just wearing off now. How many Mardi Gras jokes Do you get to do? Is it a party for me? Matt You know, I should have a whole roster of them. Marty But you don't work out times in the early 90s. Back in the good old days. The real Mardi Gras. Yeah, way down there. The crew of Baucus indeed. Matt Well, I don't know if Craig Peterson's ever been to Mardi Gras, but he joins us now to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, How are you this week? Craig Hey, I'm doing well. Yeah, there's a lot of party stuff. A Marty McFly, Cartoon Network has one of their top shows right now as Marty character in it to see. So yeah, he's getting around. Marty Everyone's getting on the bandwagon. Matt I don't know how to segue. So we're going to go ahead and just move into the attack already. Well, we do have an election coming up. Craig Peterson. Of course, in South Carolina, we've already seen a few primaries as well. And they've all gone smoothly with no trouble as we all know. There is an evolving question, though, that every time we have an election, we sort of debate and talk about and ask ourselves a very similar question? How can we make sure that these things are on the up and up? How do we make sure that our voting is secure? How do we make sure that it is all done correctly, and that nobody hacking and changing votes and manipulating things? On a more fundamental level? How do we protect our elections in technology? Craig Yeah, real big question a big problem. There are a few states have and, in fact, quite a few now that are using these election machines that we've grown to know and love, where we have a piece of paper effectively. And you fill in those little ovals there using the pencil or felt tip pen, right. You guys are familiar with those, right? Because you voted, right. Yeah. Those are right now, anyway, the best type of technology used for voting. There are other states and go all the way on the other side, and use these touchscreen voting machines that are running Windows XP. Now Windows XP hasn't been supported for many, many, many years, and they are connecting them to networks. When you vote, you just you touch the screen saying you're voting for so and so but some of these machines, they've got configured steal tickets. So you say, I'm voting Republican, or I'm voting Democrat. Or maybe you have Libertarian in that in a state right. People have repeatedly complained that the machines are improperly registering their votes. They'll say I'm voting for President Trump but somehow was recorded for Bernie Sanders. Right? That's, that's kind of the nightmare scenario. We don't want to see this Fall. If you vote and your votes not counted or correctly counted. When these things hit the news, and there is no audit trail like in some of these states, all you have is this computer that identifies that you voted for Bernie Sanders, even though you meant to vote for Donald J. Trump. They hit the news, all of a sudden everyone's all worried that somehow maybe my vote didn't count. Maybe there's cheating going on. Both of these could be true when using some of these types of technology. So there is a $10 million contract that has been awarded, it was awarded last year to come up with a secure voting machine. It looks like it's going to be more of a secure method of voting. There are so many ways that voting can be hacked. I just mentioned the machines themselves. If they are connected to a network ever, there is a potential for hacking. Optical Scanning machines used in New Hampshire are never connected to networks. They're loaded up, they put a little, basically a thumb drive into them, and they dump what the load is all about. But ultimately, there are multiple places that it could be hacked and could be hacked at the Secretary of State's office, where they're compiling all the votes from all of these machines throughout the state. It could be hacked again at the Secretary of State's office but on the website, where they post results, and where the federal government goes to get the results from the Secretaries of State. There's nothing fancy about how the votes are collected nationally. So your question going right back to it, Matt, have Can we trust the election? How can we trust the vote? Right now, I'd say here in Maine we are in pretty good shape. In the majority of states are in pretty good shape. There was a lot of money. I can't remember the numbers, exact number but a lot of money that was set aside and given to states to upgrade their voting machines. The temptation is always as we talked to with Ken here about this a couple of weeks ago. Should we buy the Betamax right or buy the newest, greatest latest, and coolest technology? We see right now from the FBI and Homeland Security reports, generally speaking at this point, it doesn't look like there will be a lot of problems this year. There was disclosed some significant issues in few states in the 2016 election with problems with hacking attempt, explicitly directed at the Secretaries of States in several different countries. Those Secretaries of State have been informed about it, those of them that come out recently. Ultimately, I guess we won't know how good it is until sometime after the fact. That part of it doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy, is that the average time to figure out a hack occurred is your business is around six months. If the Secretaries of State get hacked, I'm not sure we can feel comfortable, would even know that they've been hacked. If they did, it wouldn't be much after the fact. So just let's stick with the old fashioned way for now, because it's the best way, the brand new way, by the way, that $10 million award. It looks like they are leaning towards a paper solution as well. So it's an electronic voting machine. And you touch the screen so that you vote for people you want. It spits out a piece of paper with your votes on it, you then take that piece of paper with your votes on it, and you give it to ever to whoever is, is running that little local election, they run it through a scanning machine. That is not much different from what we're doing today. And that's, that's a suggestion as to what the most secure type of voting will be. Marty Craig, it's, it's Marty. So yeah, it fills in the Oval for you then. But let me ask you if I may change topics on you a little bit. These trackers kind of drive me bonkers, right. When I when I visit, you know, the onion dot com or something the banner ads seem like they take forever to load. I added the DuckDuckGo extension to Google Chrome, and it cut that right off. I mean, what is your take was was that a good idea? A bad or bad idea? Craig Well, we've just had over 500 extensions removed from the Chrome extensions store, store, even though they're free, right, you have to pay for them. And as a general rule, I advise against using those extensions. In about two weeks, Marty, I'm going to have some training that I'm going to be releasing that's free. I'm not trying to upsell you or trying to sell you anything about some of these extensions that are going to keep your information safe. Now DuckDuckGo is well known as one of the best guys out there when it comes to blocking your tracking. Some of the others that I'm going to be covering in training include Ghostery, and you should be using HTTPS anywhere, which does something a little bit different. pundants amazing. You block origin and others. I'm going to go through those a couple of hours worth of training that I'll be releasing here in a couple of weeks, but Marty, I think you're right, use DuckDuckGo for your search engine. And there are more and more these extensions that are trying to keep your privacy. And I haven't looked at goes. But as a rule, those guys have been great and make sites load faster. Over to you. Marty That's what it does. Craig Ultimately, you know, all of these different extensions that I just mentioned in there, we're going to be doing this training on all of them will make it load faster. And you take a site like forbes.com that just has a crazy number of trackers on it. And the ads that you mentioned, like the ads, loading, and taking time, it makes Forbes go from about it took four minutes for me the other day to completely load everything on Forbes homepage. It was that bad. Then when I turned on these blocker extensions, it went from four minutes down to five seconds. So they're not only tracking us, but they're making our lives miserable. Trying defined to stuff we're looking for on the page. Right, Marty kids are there cluttered with all this junk too, right? Marty Yeah, it's awful. I frankly, I don't miss it. But it does make it all a little bit cleaner. But back over to Matt, I think you had a question. Sure. Matt I got one more quick one for you before we let you go, Craig. The password that I am going to be required to change in like, I think, a couple of days here at the radio station is among the 8000 different passwords that I have to change all the time. And there are no new recommendations. I understand it from the FBI that we are using passphrases instead of complex passwords. So like instead of d3, 724 dashes, but you know, period, whatever, some crazy combination of letters, whatever we should be using passphrases Why don't you explain that a little bit. Craig Yeah, well, get this quick. I'm going to go into this more on my show on Saturday at 1 pm So you can tune in there. And it's a two-hour show, and we go into quite a bit of depth on some of these things. But I'm glad you brought it up because this is one of the essential pieces of advice in the security world in the last five years. About five years ago, a study came out saying that rather than those types of complicated passwords that you just mentioned is not practical based on today's technology. Here's the bottom line recommendation from the FBI and from the research that's been out there, use a string for random words together, and just put a dash in between each of the terms, or space, whatever you'd like. A passphrase is something that might make sense to you, something that might not make sense at all, but something you can remember, and that's the essential part. Now, if your business, like for instance, Matt, your business might require some more company passwords, you might want to share this article with them. So you still might have to have those crazy ones or numbers, letters, uppercase, lowercase, special symbols, etc. But in reality, those are not the best passwords nowadays, make sure it's at least 15 characters long. Throw a few non-related words. For instance, making America great again would be a lousy password. Marty I thought I was going to use I can't drive 65. So there you go. That's probably not one to use now that you mentioned on the air Marty, that's true. Craig Yeah. But those types of passwords are the best. Matt All right, well, Craig Peterson He is our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening. Excuse me in the world of technology. Craig one more time promo for the show, when is it? What time where can you listen to it? What are you going to be talking about? Give me that one more time before you go and then, and then we'll say thanks. Craig Okay. I'm not the automaton that Marty is when you ask that question. The show this Saturday, every Saturday from one till three, I talked about the latest in technology with an emphasis on security. We're going to be talking about some of the cloud services that businesses are using thinking that somehow they're safer, right? But how to make it safer. We'll talk a little bit more about the passwords. Ransomware is on the rise right now. Apple Macintoshes. It turns out there's more malware out there and get a few more things as well. But this weekend shows Saturday at one we're kind of focusing on cloud software. Matt All right, his name is Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Today was no exception to that, Craig, thank you very much. And we will talk to you again next week, sir. Craig Gentlemen, take care. Bye-Bye. All right. Appreciate it, Craig. Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about the dangers of SMS texts as well as some new scary technology from China that will change how we fight wars. Keep an eye out for my Facebook Lives - free information for you and your families. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Privacy, Security, and SMS The Road To Machine Learning Wars Nation-State Cybercriminals and Economic Disruption --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, Man. I don't know if you got snow where you live. We ended up with snow here in the northeast, and my kids took a yardstick out and stuck it in the snow. Now, the way you usually measure snow is they melt the snow and see how many inches of water is present. If it had been raining, how much would it be? Well, a local guy here has a weather station, and it came out to 1.7 inches of rainwater or precipitation. And typically, what happens is you take it, and you say one inch of melted precipitation equals one foot of snow. So if they say, Hey, we're going to get, or we had a foot of snow, it doesn't really mean that you had a foot in your yard. You know, it means that well, heck, it could be six inches. It depends on how fluffy that snow is. So we took a yardstick out, and I remember 1.7 inches of rain is what they said here, the guy who lives about two blocks away from me. And what we measured was drumroll, please. We got about 22 inches of snow. Now you can undoubtedly have a band that would account for more snow, you know, we might have had more water, but it's pretty close because that'd be 1.7 feet of snow according to his measurements. So we got a lot of snow out there that wasn't windy or anything, so we didn't get a lot of drafts or blowing snow. But it just came down. It snowed here for about two days. It was so pretty, and it's kind of pretty out there right now is no fun cleaning at all. But thank goodness that kids are still at home, some of them anyway. And they cleaned it up for me. Anyways, this morning. I was on with Ken and Matt, and we had two topics that I think are extremely important. I'm glad they picked these. They have to do with some of the killer technology that China's selling to Iran in case you're not aware of what's happening in Iran right now. You might want to look it up. They are killing protesters in Iran. I mean, like snipers from rooftops and governments shooting them. It's incredible. And SMS man, that's a technology that needs to go so here we go. tech guru Ken Altschuler Our Tech Guru, Craig Peterson, is on right now on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Matt Gagnon Back again at 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt Craig Peterson. Our tech guru joins us at this time every week this week is no exception. Craig, welcome back to the program. Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, gentlemen, and everybody else out there. I hope you're having a great day enjoying this snow. Ken Altschuler Well, I saw this story on your website about SMS. No SMS and why you shouldn't use it anymore. Do I? Do I use SMS things? Matt Gagnon Yes, you do. Ken Altschuler Hey, why should I not use texting, right? I mean, just basic text is SMS, right? Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly what it's been around for a long time. Ken Altschuler Why should I use it? Craig Peterson It was quite a stretch for a Segway I'm afraid. Well, here's what's going on. SMS is something that we've been using for a very long time. Now not all the time when you're quote texting, unquote. Are you using SMS, but it started way back when we first had cellular phones, and the phones themselves had to have a little data channel so they could communicate with the towers. And then they realized, you know, there's more bandwidth here than we need. And so they came up with this simple messaging service. So that's what you were sending texts on with that little, what did they use to call that Matt, you might remember, but then you had your phone, all it had on it was a keypad. You'd push you to know the button to three times or to get a C, and then you go to the next one, to get the following letter that there was a standard was called t something or that can't remember what it is now. Anyways, we send about 6 billion SMS messages. That's a lot of messages. They were never the system was never really designed. Keep any of that safe or so. Because of that, we have gotten us, shooters, very cheap. Nowadays. SMS is are free and 6 billion that day tells you a lot of people are using that's us alone, by the way, 180 billion each month and you know, almost 3 trillion a year more than that when you get worldwide. So here's the problem with SMS, which is the short message surface and MMS, which is a multimedia messaging service that is both sent absolutely in the clear. And as we found from Lisa Page and Peter Strock, those messages can be recalled, stored, and easily monitored. There are some new standards out there. And the best measure to use just generally speaking is called OTP, which stands for over the top. Now, if you have an iPhone and oh you do, can you use messages I assume on your iPad. Ken Altschuler Um, no, I don't do the I do texting. But I don't do messaging. I didn't excuse me yesterday. I do texting but not messenger. Matt Gagnon You don't? Excuse me. You texted me yesterday. Ken Altschuler But not on messenger. Craig Peterson So do you use messages? The Apple Messages app on your phone or your Mac? Ken Altschuler Yes, I did. Yes. Craig Peterson And have you noticed there are two different colors, particularly if you send a message to someone? Ken Altschuler Okay, let me check. Here are the messages. Okay. Yeah. One is green, and one's blue? Craig Peterson Exactly. So, for instance, when you text Matt, it's going to be green. Did you notice that? Because you know, he uses a Samsung device. You have to be careful. Ken Altschuler Yes. Why? Why? Why is it green when I text them? Craig Peterson Now, if you were to text me, it would be blue. Here's what's going on. It's warning you in green is the standard for SMS, and that's why Apple uses green. But, if you have sent a message to somebody and it's green and means it's not safe, it's the opposite. It isn't normal. It means that Matt, you and Matt just had shared a standard SMS message. It is not encrypted. The carrier saves it. It is not a safe message. If you're using messages and you send a message to me, for instance, on my iPhone or someone else on their iPhone is going to be blue, which means it was encrypted end to end, it is a relatively safe message. And if you're using iCloud storage and you tell it to use it for your messages, then it is stored by Apple, but it's still encrypted. So that's called Ott over the top. Now, there are others out there that you could use to communicate with Matt, there's WhatsApp Facebook Messenger, which I don't use. We chat. There's a few others out there signal is probably one of the best ones you could use. And with those apps, it doesn't matter if you're on Android or Apple. It is end to end encrypted. And it is considered to be generally safe in Facebook Messenger I'd be a little more concerned about, but it is using these highly encrypted protocols. There's more that is coming our way. But here is a big deal. That's happening again. And it started back in the Clinton administration. We had the "clipper chip." The FBI now is out annually, for the last, what, 30 years, 20 something years. They come out, and they say, Hey, listen, we don't like this encryption. We want back doors. As of yet, pretty much nobody has complied with us in recent years. So we're relatively safe for monitoring. We know if the FBI wants to get in that and they can't, that that means the bad guys probably can't get in either. And that's a good thing, keeping the bad guys out. But there's hope the answers your question about snow there. Can don't Use SMS if you can avoid it use one of these apps, which I just mentioned as I message on your Apple equipment Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, we chat and particularly signal si G and Al. Very, very good, very secure. And most of these also let you do video chats as well, which texting does not allow you do but if Ken Altschuler, it's blue, so it's okay to send it. Craig Peterson Yes, if it's blue, you're safe because that means the other person has Imessage, and it is encrypted. If you want to send an encrypted message to Matt, you could use something called Signal. It is an app that works for both Apple and Android. Ken Altschuler But, don't you both have to have the app on your phone? Craig Peterson Yes, they would, And the same thing is true with WhatsApp, and we chat and messenger Facebook Messenger. You have to both have that application. On your device, and obviously, you have to set it and be logged in. I tend to use I message because most people I work with are using that they've got Apple gear. But if I'm not using iMessage, I use Signal. Again, it's one of these over the top (OTP) messaging services, if you will, and, and most of these are free-ish. There is the problem when it comes to Facebook, that you're their product, right? Remember that. So, that's why I don't trust Facebook Messenger that much, but at least it is encrypted. Matt Gagnon Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, my question to you revolves around killer robots once you tell us a little bit more about what China is doing to kill us all. Craig Peterson Oh my gosh, this is something I'd hoped you guys talk about this. Well, you hope right, my friend because I saw killer robots and I couldn't resist. Yeah. It is a scary thing, frankly. Here's what's happening. Did you see the latest movie with Gerald Butler? Where he's protecting the president? Edward Butler? Matt Gagnon Yeah. Was that was the, you know, like Olympus Has Fallen kind of movie. Craig Peterson Yeah, exactly. And you saw what happened in there, and there was a swarm of drones that came and attacked. And it was really, really bad because like their drones could explode. And of course, if you have thousands of these silly things, they're going to be hard to defend against these. We saw an attempt a coup attempt, apparently but least attempt on the life of a president South America here within the last 12 months as well. Well, what China is selling is something that several countries have said they would never, ever do. The United States is not one of those, unfortunately, but that is to have a ton of self-autonomous robots that can kill through the use of explosives or maybe guns. They have the fully autonomous ability to be able to make decisions as to who to kill, or what to bomb. China has started selling drones outfitted with, with machine guns here, small machine guns, small arms. They are selling these drones to these Middle Eastern countries. And they are fully autonomous. And this is their most advanced military, aerial drone technology. And what it means mad is kind of what you were saying, You release these onto a battlefield. And let's say that you've trained the artificial intelligence in the drone to recognize the uniform of your opponent, and he just left these silly things loose, they could be killing hundreds, thousands of people on the battlefield. Look at what's happening there. Wrong right now, where they have snipers' shooting demonstrators dead in the street. Iran could send in one of these programmed drones in to kill anyone in these blocks downtown. Anyone that's not in a police uniform let's say and let them loose and off they go. Now China has this technology is we know we're selling it right. And they're not using it in Hong Kong right now. But Iran, China, some of these countries are barbaric. We do not have any fully autonomous equipment or drones on the battlefield. So I guess that's good news. The United States has said although it's not an official policy near as I can tell, it has said we would not allow the use of lethal force unless a person authorizes a specific into them. So I guess that's good, but as far as the Middle East goes and China. And by the way, the Middle East here means Iran, who is killing their citizens who are demonstrating right now. It is a very, very scary technology man. Ken Altschuler Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk Guru joins us every Wednesday at 738. Craig, thank you. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next Wednesday. Craig Peterson Gentlemen, take care. Bye. Matt Gagnon Alright, thanks a lot, Craig. So we're going to take a quick break. All right, Craig Peterson Everybody, if you would take a minute to read up more on this. And I know there's a couple of online petitions. I think it changed.org, but visit me online, Craig peterson.com. There is lots of great information right there. And we have some changes coming to the website come January. Hopefully, you also have been watching some of my Facebook Lives, and sharing them with your friends. I have been delving in more deeply into a few of these topics. Then you can get that by just going right now. To Craig Peterson, dot com slash Facebook and make sure you follow me like my page. I'd appreciate it and have a look at some of those Facebook Lives. We've been doing some awesome pieces of training over there. Take care, everybody, and we'll be back on Saturday. 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Good morning everybody! I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about Tesla's designs and why it can be dangerous and the huge amount of energy of Lithium-Ion batteries and why they are extremely dangerous when damaged.   I also announced a free one-time master class on Mobile Security.  It Friday, Nov. 1st at 4 PM ET and will run until I have answered all your questions. Sign up to attend on my website.  This master class will not be available on replay. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: They Look Cool but How Safe Are They? --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Hey, good morning, everybody. I was on with, Ken and Matt, but this week Eric Lusk sat in for Matt. And we talked a lot about this whole Tesla thing and a little bit about vehicle testing what's happening out there, and my major concerns about some of these electric car designs that are at this point starting to take lives. You know, it's one thing to be cool as in the hip kids, or what do they call it nowadays? Sick, right, which doesn't make any sense to me. But it's one thing to be cool or sick. It's another thing to be unsafe at any speed. I made reference to that as well. And hey, I am going to be out in Phoenix, Arizona, on at a big conference and have some meetings and things I'll be out there for a couple of a week and a half, I guess is what it boils down to. So I am going to be a little spotty In some things I'm doing, I'm going to try and while I'm going to do the regular radio show and videos for this weekend, my lives and stuff, we're going to change format obviously, because I'm going to be on the road. And we'll kind of, well, we'll take it as we go. I just got a lot to do. And here we go with our friends in Maine. Here we go. On the WGAN Morning News, and what happens every Wednesday when it turns to be 730 or Saturday when it's one o'clock. We talked to Mr. Peterson, this is no exception. Good morning, Mr. Peterson. Hey, Good Morning Ken and Eric Eric is subbing for Matt, so happy to have you on again. You know, I'm so in tech news. I'm so Tesla has a futuristic door handle in their car and they were responsible for a death in a fiery wreck.  Yeah. It isn't a whole lot of fun man technology is everywhere nowadays it's you know people are taking pictures there you are talking about revenge porn earlier today and it just been entering our lives without really a whole lot of fun other than isn't this kind of cool and you know I love this tech and you know I really love high-tech right and although in some cases I avoid it like the plague. For instance, in my car.  I have a 1980 Mercedes Benz diesel. So it's almost you know, zombie apocalypse proof right there. The it's the exact opposite of his Tesla that you're talking about. And we saw just a man about a month ago. I think the video came out of someone supposedly driving sleeping down the mass pike in their Tesla. And it's you know, that's become a bit of a problem. It's almost a meem nowadays that we're seeing. Tesla's use basically the same batteries that are in your laptop. And you've, you've heard about all these different battery problems, right? The Samsung Galaxy phones, for instance, have had serious problems with catching fire people have had them catch fire at night in the evening when they're asleep in bed at night. And they have it right there next to their head on the charger and they catch fire. And, you know, I don't think anyone died from that yet. But it very, very dangerous. Apple had a problem with some of their batteries in their phones that were started to swell and potentially catch fire and there's some photos of a couple of those online airlines do not allow you to bring your lithium-ion batteries which are in our laptops and in our phones into the checked baggage on airplanes. You might have seen videos of these phones I just mentioned have in fact those Samsung's I was talking about completely banned from all planes because of the dangers involved. These lithium-ion batteries contain a lot of power. And what ends up happening with the batteries is that if they get too hot or if they get physically damaged, bad things can do happen. Because internally inside the bones inside these batteries, the the the electrodes the wires if you will and find the batteries short out, and when they short out and all of that power is released. All of a sudden you have a tone of heat due to all that power, think how long laptop so last month, my MacBook Pro that I have my new laptop, it goes eight hours on a battery. And the thing has 16 cores in a 16 CPUs. It has a 32 gig, I think it is a ram. It's got a graphics processor in there. And it requires tons and tons of power. Now, if I'm doing video editing and rendering, then I'm only got about an hour of power. But I think back to my very first laptop that had a battery that only lasted me about half an hour. And that was a course a couple of decades ago. And it's just amazing. So here's what's happening with these. Tesla's two things. First of all, they're using the same basic battery technology that's in your laptop that's in your cell phones. And the myth busters did a great little thing on this and that is you guys might have heard about this These trash trucks catching on fire. And they go around the neighborhood, of course, they collect the garbage. They have the compactor, compact and what MythBusters did is they took one of these lithium-ion batteries, they put it into a rigged up trash truck, so that it was guaranteed to damage that battery when it was compacted. And of course it's caught fire. So, a big problem with lithium-ion batteries in cars, if they are in an accident, what can happen is those batteries of course deform. And now all of that power is released. So in this particular case, we're talking about a 48-year-old anesthesiologist in South Florida who was in a car accident. And sure enough, those batteries lithium-ion batteries in this Tesla caught fire and the fire department had to put the fire out multiple times. Because again, there's so much power and it just shorts out. Now you were talking about The handles, the door handles on his car if you look at them  if you have one, you know that it has little handles, car latches that are called auto-present handles so that when you walk up to the car and you have your phone with you, you have your key with you the Tesla sensors that and it presents the door handles they pop out of the car door so you can pull them out. Well police officers showed up on the scene could not open the door because of the failure that occurred because of the accident and no door handles and all were present. Now can you know that I spent 10 years and I was a volunteer in emergency medicine right? I was an EMT, I had received TP id you know all these different certifications and because of that experience I will not buy a car It doesn't have a big solid door handle on it. Like my Mercedes, for instance, you know you can use and pull laughing like crazy and it'll open because sometimes the first responders have seconds to get you out of that car. And you need some leverage, you have to have something to pull on. Well, I've had cars in the past, made by a US manufacturer or major one that those little handles you kind of stick your fingers underneath and pull them out and pops a door open. Those are useless in the crash for the emergency responders. So this poor guy, 48-year-old anesthesiologist, he's in a car wreck slammed into a car into a palm tree. And now there is a wrongful death lawsuit filed because his car filled with smoke. He was helpless inside. The coroner's report said that he wasn't injured in the crash. And you know, Tesla's are great for that. They're the crash test. They did on the Tesla show it was they had to change the test because it did so well. But what the test didn't account for is those lithium-ion batteries with all of those power in the back, and those batteries catching fire that could not be put out by the fire department for hours. And in this particular case, those door handles that could not be reached and could not be used for leverage is that police officer watched the doctor align inside of you know, apparently he died of smoke inhalation won't get any more details. But this is stuff we have to consider. When we're looking at vehicles. We're looking at electric cars, which by the way, are never zero emissions. That might be zero mission from the car while you're driving it. But there are all kinds of poisonous chemicals that are used in the manufacturing and studies that I've looked at that I agree with looking The science of all show that they are more polluting than anything else almost on the road, even more so than my diesel, Mercedes. So depending on the type of pollution you're worried about, anyhow, Craig, I'm sitting here looking at a picture of a Ford Pinto, which I had this I had a really reminiscent my father had one and I used to ride in the backseat in the bucket seat, which was great. Yeah, I was sitting right behind the driver with the gas can right underneath me. Yeah, exactly. It was leaked into the passenger compartment. Eric, Eric. You know, the gases even a rear-end collision and the Pinto would lead guests right into the passenger compartment. You're right. huge problem. You remember GM with the gas tanks in their trucks and the shuttle tanks and I think it was MBC they were showing the You know, of course, you are going to have a big explosion of here an accident. Mind you they rigged that they put explosives on it, but that Pinto was very dangerous. And then Ralph Nader's career started up and can probably remember, with the unsafe at any speed, the Corvair. Exactly a very cool car but not safe. Tragically, my grandmother died in a Corvair although the absence of a motor in the front of the car didn't have anything to do with it. It will my Yeah, yeah, well, and then Porsche Volkswagens will were in those back in the day, right, the little bugs, and again, nothing upfront, and then back in the 50s. And earlier, the engine, if you were in a head-on that engine would come into the passenger compartment, which is not a fun thing to think about. You know, we've come a long way. And one of the things that have been done electric cars Bocsh has a device and many of them are starting to use forward hasn't been all of their electric cars. I think Audi is using that now and others. And what happens is if you're in a crash, one of the first things that happen just like the airbags, you know, the airbags go off with the sensor. It has an explosive in the back, that severs the power connections. So at least you're not going to get electrocuted and those first responders are not going to get electrocuted. But I think this is a major design flaw in Tesla as I said, I thought that sort of thing since I wasn't involved in emergency medicine you should not have a door that you can't grab that handle and yank and pull to get someone out from inside if there's a fire Craig.   Don't tell me something here is there and is there an argument to be made that at some point, Apple Computer winds up merging with Tesla? You know I don't think I've really heard any good arguments for that. But they could. Apple basically killed it, autumn autonomous car project. So they're almost certainly looking for someone to partner with. And they've got their own maps and everything else now. So, Erica, I wouldn't put it beyond the two of them to live a little bit of a merger. But I think that, of course, the CEO of Tesla is a little headstrong. I'm not sure. How about the might take that he is a hot ticket, isn't he? He is, absolutely! Our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 730. Thank you so much. We will talk to you next Wednesday. Hey, gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye. Okay. We're gonna take a quick break. When we come back. We're gonna take your calls   --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Good morning everybody! I was on with Matt and Marty (since Ken was out.) We started out talking about a Maine classic treat the Whoopie Pie and then we got into some Tech topics.  We discussed encryption, privacy, anonymity, and VPNs.   I also announced a free one-time master class on VPNs.  It is tomorrow at 4 PM ET and will run until I have answered all your questions. Sign up to attend on my website.  This master class will not be available on replay. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Standing our Ground on Encryption - without it, we will lose all Privacy! It is People and Shortcuts Not MFA that’s the Issue and Biometrics is not the Answer Protect your Anonymity is all about Layers  --- Automated Machine Generated Transcript: Craig Peterson Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I am excited about tomorrow at 4 pm. Make sure you're there. It is this Thursday and will not be put up on replay. But I am going to be talking all about VPN. So I'm going to give them a master class on VPN just going to go at least an hour. It could go multiple hours, depending on what kind of questions you guys have. So make sure you join me tomorrow at 4 pm. Now, how do you do that? Well, you have to sign up. I put a signup form right on my homepage at Craig peterson.com. So and a VPN is probably the most important thing you can do for your security. And you can use it you can get it you can find out everything that you might need to know, let me tell you, I will answer any question you have tomorrow at 4 pm. But the only way that you can get in there is if you sign At Craig Peterson calm. Alright, so here we go with the Ken and Matt show, by the way, they picked up another FM station. That sounds like a busy guy is expanding the show. Very cool. Matt Gagnon And we're back. It is 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. And 738 on Wednesday means time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays, Craig, how are you this morning, sir? Craig Peterson Hey, I'm doing well. You know, I haven't had a whoopie pie in literally decades. But what it brings to mind is so many times I won't have eaten something for a few years because I like Marty. I did succeed with the Atkins diet. And I lost about 80 pounds on it. So there are so many things that I didn't eat, and then you try them a few years later, and you say, Oh, my they changed the formulation. It sounds like whoopie pies are still the same as they were. is where is it a main Marty G   It is a Maine classic, Craig, without question. Craig Peterson Well, now I'm doing intermittent fasting so I can eat things like Whoopie pies every once in a while, so I'm going to have to try it again. It's been a long time, give it a shot, Matt Gagnon All right. Well, Craig, why don't we begin with some of the tech topics that are, of course, in the news right now. First of all, let's start with encryption, privacy, big questions that we've got to answer here. Is it true that it is the new battleground we all have to fight on? Craig Peterson It is. I'm going to talk this weekend on my show Saturday at one a little bit about what's happening with facial recognition and Facebook a colossal lawsuit is looking like it's going to head that been for against Facebook anyways. But yeah, it is. Our privacy is a huge deal for a lot of reasons. And we've got to be careful where we're going and how we're going online, and One of the questions I get asked the most when it comes to privacy is, how can I stay safe online. And you know, there's no 100% solution to this. And there are different types of privacy. So for instance, some of us don't mind like myself, I don't mind having marketers watching what I'm doing what I'm looking for, because it's all about to buy a new car. I want to know about competitive vehicles out there. So, I don't mind getting an ad for a brand new pickup truck or whatever when I am looking to buy a truck. So that's one level of privacy. Another level of privacy and the one I am concerned the most about is the hackers and bad guys, who are getting into my information, right? They may be sending me phishing emails, or they might also be trying to get me to do a drive-by download. So I Go to a website and all of a sudden, my machine. My phone is crypto mining. Now, the biggest thing you can do for privacy, in both cases, really is to use it as a reasonably safe browser. And that's kind of hard to do. But I've got a few tips for you. And the first one is I use something called the EPIC browser, E-P-I-C. The Epic browser, it's just like regular Google Chrome, except all of the tracking ability that Google Chrome has built into it is has been removed. It goes a little bit further, and it tells you about how many sites it blocked from tracking you and what's been going on. And since it's using Google Chrome's codebase, it stays up to date, so epic E-P-I-C. The next thing you can do for privacy is to use a VPN, and you hear about This all of the time I yell and scream at the radio when I hear some of these misleading VPN commercials. So here's what I'm doing for all of our listeners. Tomorrow at 4 pm. I'm doing this is, and it is absolutely free per usual, right? I'm doing a master class on VPN just going to be at least an hour long. We're going to answer questions lived, it's probably going to go longer than an hour. Sometimes these things go for two or three hours because I'm trying to answer everybody's questions. But VPNs are essential to us for privacy, especially for businesses. If you want to attend this tomorrow, you can go to my website, Craig Peterson dot com, Peterson P-E-T-E-R-S-O-N. You can sign up there, and I'll let you know the details of what we're doing. But that'll be tomorrow afternoon. So that's the second thing you can do. Now, if you have family or friends that are in countries that have an overbearing socialist government that monitors their people and it, you know, will beat on them, right? What did Chairman z say, break bones and rip muscles or something? So if you have a family that maybe lives in Venezuela, Brazil is getting more like this Cuba. Of course, Russia is still doing a lot of monitoring China, etc. Have a look at the Tor browser to or now we've talked before about the dark web. And this infrastructure is set up by the US federal government bin order to allow dissidents to communicate with each other and to communicate with the United States State Department. And the Tor Browser uses that infrastructure. So if you genuinely want to be anonymous online, if you're tired of it. If all you're tired of is getting ads for what you browse for online, stick with the Epic browser E-P-I-C, it's easy. It's free. It's going to block that advertiser's advertisements. However, If what you're trying to do is communicate with family members or friends who are in some of these crazy countries out there, then you should use the Tor Browser. If you don't want any tracking at all, that's the one to use. There's a lot of details about the Tor Browser in official releases and what they're doing with the onion network. I've got a great article about it up on my website that you can read CSL online had a great news article that I put up there as well on my website at Craig peterson.com. But Matt, that is the ultimate of anonymity when you're browsing online. Matt Gagnon  Excellent. Marty G Craig, Marty jumping in here. So I just did the iPhone update, and I'm guessing you're not a fan of me clicking that button that sends an anonymous user data to app developers to improve performance or something like that. Craig Peterson  Well, as a general rule, it depends on where you're coming from. Yeah, I'm not generally. I don't usually say yes to that. I say no to that almost 100% of the time. The problem that we're starting to see now is that we're getting more and more attacks and one of the things that you know, people do this all the time, I don't know Matt if you've ever jailbroken your phone? Matt Gagnon Actually Yes, Craig Peterson Yeah, rooting the phones. Yeah, I got an Android phone, and the first thing I did with it was I jailbreak the broken, and I did that once with my iPhone as well. I have jailbroken because I'm, you know, I'm a Unix guy. I helped develop the operating system 40 years ago, and I was kind of cool too. Dropdown into a terminal and see what was running and mess around with everything. There is right now a significant hardware vulnerability in pretty much every iPhone that's out there on the news today. Oh great and Marty G  Oh great, and yeah, isn't that funny? I got it on my desk. Craig Peterson But this vulnerability, by the way, Apple can't fix it in the older iPhones. There's also basically no need to fix it in the older iPhones because to exploit the vulnerability, and they have to erase your iPhone. So you know, it's not going to do a whole lot of good.  Here's what's happening people, Marty, are going online, and they are searching for iOS jailbreaks because they have heard that there is this vulnerability this whole, and they want to jailbreak their iPhone. There are some malicious actors out there that have websites that are advertising jailbreak for iOS.  The website for this was called Checkrainn.com. Do not go there. Do not use it. I think the site is down now. It is malicious, and if you go there and download the software to try and jailbreak your iPhone, what it ends up doing is permanently downloading a jailbreak into your computer. It will completely hack your computer, and in a horrible way.  It puts it as part of a botnet and everything else so yeah do the ordinary same stuff guys and Marty you have unlike mad you have decided to use the safest platform out there right Marty G   I'm not sophisticated enough to want to try to jailbreak my phone. I mean, that's funny though I mean I've run across that to you're googling something to help make yourself safer. I guess I'm you should be using the Epic browser to find something to make my own internet experience more secure. And you could get suckered in during that process too. Craig Peterson  Yes, you've got to be very careful online these days. Let me tell you, and the, you know, the browsers that you can use the gentle generic ones, let's not talk about the more extreme ones like epic, which is still pretty simple, or Tor, which is very extreme. But opera OPRA has probably the most security-conscious of the features, while still being more or less regular browser opera, you might want to check it out. And the other one that's a prevalent browser that has security foremost in line is called Firefox and Safari. But I want to encourage everybody if you are thinking about a VPN. You should make sure you spend an hour so with me at about four o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and you're going to have to register in order for me to tell you exactly where it is because I haven't got it all set it up set up yet, but I've got all my course notes in front of me. We're going to go through VPN details free. It is not something where I'm sitting there trying to sell you something. It is one of my free masterclasses. Go to Craig peterson.com. And you can bring up questions, like Marty,  did here on some of the iOS stuff and jailbreak. We're going to go until we are done tomorrow afternoon and maybe even into the evening. Matt Gagnon  All right, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us on Wednesdays, at this time, to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, as always, thank you very much, and we will talk to you again next week. Craig Peterson   Hey, gentlemen, take care. Matt Gagnon  Bye. Bye indeed. All right. Why don't we take a quick Marty G   Why don't we take a quick break here? Transcribed by https://otter.ai --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning we talked about a new book coming out in September that is the memoir of Edward Snowden telling his side of what happened and why he did what he did.  We also discussed some of the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and healthcare decisions. Then we discussed what is happening with Skype for business and why it is being retired. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Edward Snowden His Book  AI in Medicine and its Drawbacks Changes Coming to Skype for Business Online Customers  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning the Amazon employee who stole Millions of Records from Capital One. Iranian cybercriminals using the information found on social media to attack businesses. Elon Musk's new technology venture featuring brains and computing. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Ready for Computerized Brains? LinkedIn No Longer an Asset but Now a Liability --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning we talked about cybercriminals using social media to attack businesses, kids mental health and social media usage, and unified cryptocurrencies. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPoeterson.com --- Related Articles: The Fertile Garden of Social Media is ripe for attracting Cybercriminals to your Business How DMVs Make Millions – Selling Your License Information Big Tech Banks, U.S. says Not So Fast When Governments Demonetize by Force How Cold? Researchers Predict Large Decrease in Sunspot Activity Increases in Teen Depression — Check their Social Media --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 07/24/2019 Cybercriminals using social media to attack businesses, kids mental health and social media usage, and unified cryptocurrencies. ---  Craig Peterson Good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. I hope you're doing well today and are enjoying listening no matter whether you're on that gym treadmill, or one of those exercise bikes, walking, or even in the car. Hey, I'd love to hear how you consume my podcast, you can email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I know a lot of people binge-listen on the weekend while they're out doing their chores on Saturday, etc. Hello to everybody out there. This morning, I was on with Ken and Matt, and little inside baseball for everybody with an announcement about a new radio show starting up here in Maine in a couple of weeks, it's going to be on the same stations as Ken and Matt. So that's cool because I'll now be covering just tons of New England when I add it in. That'll be a two-hour show on Saturday. And I'm thinking about podcasting that as well. I don't know what you guys think about that because there's so much stuff I want to share. Is it better on the podcasts or YouTube? Let me know. I will be kind of a simulcast is maybe the best way to put it as I don't have enough hours in the day to take care of my customers and do all of this as well. But do let me know. Hey, this last week I picked up a new client. So a shout out to Rich and Sue, if you guys are listening. I love going in and helping these businesses. But again, here's somebody that wasn't sure about the state of their security but they did have inklings that something might not be quite right. They had an outsourced firm that was supposed to be taking care of their systems. But there were some issues, right? People usually know when something's not quite right. We went and had a look. We started with a detailed cyber health assessment and produced a 530-page report. Now the systems are getting all cleaned up, and that's a very, good thing. If you would are interested in finding out if your security is up to par, get cyber health assessment done for your business. Just contact me if it is something you would like to have done. We will install some software, on one of your machines and then do a poke around and check the security of that machine. Let us know be glad to help, me at Craig Peterson dot com. Think of this like going to the doctor, right? You think something is not quite right, so you see a doctor. The doctor wants to run some tests, and then they can tell you what's going on. Sometimes they need some more extensive tests, maybe a CAT scan or an MRI. Well, that's what we do when it comes to computers and networks. An excellent place to start is with an assessment. We're not charging for this basic look into one machine, but it can reveal quite a bit but not as much as a Whole Network Scan ( similar to CAT Scan or MRI) which we also offer. Let us know if you need a little diagnosis. Just email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I'll be glad to do a cyber health assessment for you. Let's get into today's appearance with Ken and Matt. Here we go. Matt Gagnon He's back, ladies and gentlemen, Craig Peterson. Great American joins the program every Wednesday at this time. Ken Altschuler You know he's not like the Americans or that cute Russian spy Matt Gagnon I don't know that, but I'm assuming as much for this segment. Craig, how are you this morning? Craig Peterson I'm doing well. You know that I'm not one of the Americans because that show is off the air now. Ken Altschuler True. Yeah. Matt Gagnon Although the actor who was the the the guy spy will appear in that new Mr. Rogers movie, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, where he'll turn up alongside Tom Hanks as a jaded magazine writer assigned to profile Mr. Rogers. I believe he is living with or married to Keri Russell. I think they're married. Ken Altschuler I think they are too. I didn't. But it wasn't like that. And don't tell me because I haven't seen the rest of it. Matt Gagnon She's got a new show coming out. I forget which one it was. Ken Altschuler Keri Russell is in a movie? Isn't she going to be in Star Wars? Craig Peterson With six seasons of the American's, you realize it was the end of an era. It was an excellent performance. However, I must say I was so disappointed with the ending of it. By the way. Don't Ken Altschuler Don't Tell me, Don't tell me. I haven't seen it. Don't tell me. Craig Peterson It was just kind of a letdown. It's the ending you get when you think the show is canceled, at the last minute sort of a thing. Okay, guys, you have to wrap it all up. Matt Gagnon You know, you know, within minutes when Eric and I were talking about the best last shows, it's in the ratings of the top 10 best endings of TV shows. Did you know that? The American's? Yes, it is. Craig Peterson Yeah, I was disappointed. It frankly was expected. I was disappointed. You know, oh, wow. What are you going to do? Matt Gagnon What are we going to do about social media attacks by cybercriminals on businesses, Mr. Peterson? Craig Peterson It is a very, big deal. I did a webinar for the FBI InfraGard program talking about this specifically. We've got a huge problem out there. And this problem is reaching into our businesses. I don't know if you saw right now, but there is another warning out. Did you see this about China? And hacking? Yeah. Last week we were brought into a company to scan their network just last week, that small business here locally. Hey, we don't have any secret stuff. Why would they care? Right. Sure enough, there were keyloggers on their CFOs machine. Keyloggers, which means that someone from the outside was keeping track of everything typed. It means they got passwords. Additionally, we found a password cracker on the machine. It cracked all the passwords on their network on all of their devices. We've got an enormous problem, everybody. Here's is how Social media is playing into what is going on right now. We're still putting things up on social media, and we're even saying stuff on social media that lead the hackers to come after us. You know, we sit around and say why would anybody care about me, as I said, like this, I hear this all the time. I don't have anything top secret. Why would they care? Well, remember, this is an industry in Eastern Europe. It is an industry in Russia. It is the government in North Korea and China. So huge, huge industry, we're talking now 10s of billions of dollars, the last estimate from the FBI that I saw was over $12 billion. It is a vast industry. When we're putting things up on social media, you know, I'm not just talking about Facebook, or you know, the basic ones. I'm talking about LinkedIn, and I'm talking about putting it up on your website. I'm talking about right now this summer, right? The last couple of weeks of August, we're going to take some vacation. We are putting things out there on all these sites saying, Hey, we're going to go on vacation. Yeah, we're taking the kids are going here going there. We link into other people in the organization, making it easy for the bad guys to find all of this stuff about us. That's what I'm talking about right now. And that's what China is using right now. It is also what Iran is starting to use. Iran is using a blunt instrument by probing networks and sending out some of the nasty software that's been available for a long time. But this type of phishing. Spearphishing or direct attacks, it's happening every day. We've got to be careful everybody about what we put up online. And frankly, if you want to keep up with your family. For instance, we all have iPhones, which I'm sure it comes as no surprise to Matt. But with the iPhones, you've got Imessage, which is encrypted end to end. We use this app to share family pictures, and we use that to share vacation information. You can use an email and make a private little email list that you use to send stuff back and forth. Because at least email unless they hack your email account. With an email, it is not out being posted on the public billboard in the town square for everybody to see. Matt Gagnon Excuse me we are talking to Craig Peterson is our tech guru he joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, my son, just went to a baseball camp down in Cape Cod. I still haven't given him a phone yet. I set him up and use a Facebook account, which he never really uses. But I let him use it for this thing. He was sending me messages back and forth while he was there. I guess my point to this little quick mini-story is that he's now using social media, should I be worried that he's now going to end up depressed and suicidal, now? In this social media universe? Should I take it all back? Craig Peterson You know, what I did with my granddaughter, who was living with us for many years, is when it was kind of time that she was going to be out at an event. They have these little watches that you can give a kid, and it's highly controlled and allows you to track the kid, and they can send messages they can call a half a dozen members that you preset, so she can call mom or dad or whomever they might need to reach out to, but it doesn't have social media. That's what we did to solve that problem. Check with your phone vendors see what they have. Now, your question is more specific here. And that is about letting kids onto social media. And there was a study that just came out of Montreal. And they studied 3800 kids from 2012 to 2018. Teens. These adolescents were in grade seven to 11 in 31 different Montreal schools. What the team found was, there was an increase in depressive symptoms when the adolescents were on social media. It wasn't just depression when they were active on social media and watching TV. They had increased symptoms of depression, on platforms like Instagram, where teens are more likely to compare their lives with others. Of course, Instagram is way more popular than Facebook is right now. These social media sites are kind of like echo chambers. They are a reinforcing spiral. It is there's a great article I have up on my website from the CBC talking about this. Because they're so reinforcing, and because of the downward spiral, frankly, it's particularly toxic. They found this was true for kids, of the ones that they studied. So basically, middle school to high school-age kids. They are there have been other studies that showed the same thing in adults. However, the thing is that surprised me, and I think it's going to surprise to both you guys they found that okay, TV was kind of showing symptoms of depression and the kids. However, video games did not contribute to depressive symptoms. It is kind of interesting, because, you know, we've seen studies before, I'm sure you guys have heard about them, where video games are shown to be a problem, and the kids get depressed, etc. That those playing video games are loners, etc. Nowadays, and Matt, this is probably true of your video games, they are not socially isolated, but connect with to other kids interactively. Today these video games are interactive. And you're on there playing against other players where whether it's one of these Super Mario Kart type things or one of these military time games, man, you're playing with other people nowadays. So the study found that video games did not contribute to depression. Ken Altschuler As you know, our tech guru, is Craig Peterson joins us at 738? Will, I be banking at Facebook or Google? Is it possible that I will have a Facebook checkbook or go to them for a loan? Is that going to happen? Craig Peterson Yeah, you're talking about the future here. Of course, we've had some problems. Look at Hong Kong, now with their octopus card where they track everything. In China, they use WeChat, which is their social media. It's fascinating to look at and delve into it. Now we've got Facebook saying, Hey, we're partnering with some credit card companies, and we're going to release our virtual currency our cryptocurrency, then, of course, this is one of President Trump's famous tweets last week, where he said if Facebook wants to do that they should become a bank. I am concerned about it. First of all, I mentioned this when I was talking to you guys before. I love the idea of a universal cryptocurrency. That's what Facebook's new cryptocurrency would become, instantly, 2 billion people worldwide, would be able to engage in commerce. That's the ultimate in capitalism, right. Capitalism is this is the only form of government that is not only just democratized but has brought prosperity to countries and the world. It's a fantastic thing. Now if you have people in the deepest, darkest corners of some country, who can go online, and sell their services, sell their products trade, even within their local community that they couldn't do before. It is phenomenal. The other side, and what I'm starting to get a little more worried about. It boils down to trust. Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg? I don't. Okay. I don't trust him, nor should you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I don't think he can be trusted to keep it secret. I don't trust him doing this at all. Cryptocurrencies aren't that stable yet. I don't trust the government, ultimately. It's like what's happening in Hong Kong right now. Thank goodness, they still have some cash. These protesters are going to these protests are using in cash, as opposed to using cryptocurrencies issued by the government that they track. It is a concern. Can I agree with you? I agree with Matt to we can't t trust Facebook is the bottom line. I don't know where cryptocurrencies are going to go. However, only a big one like this is capable of being solidly backed. Some other cryptocurrencies can do backed by gold, but only to a degree. We'll see what happens here we'll see of Libra, which is the main one that Facebook is proposing, actually comes to be next year. Ken Altshuler All right. Craig Peterson is our tech guru. He joins us at this time every single week, and today is no exception to that, Craig, as always, thank you so much. And we will talk to you again next week. Craig Peterson Gentlemen, take care. Bye. Bye. Thanks a lot. Matt Gagnon All right. We're gonna take a quick break here. When we come back on the land. Craig Peterson Of course, we are working about that today and tomorrow working on finalizing everything for my security summer summit. Keep an eye on your email. If you're not on my email list yet, by all means, go to Craig Peterson calm, you'll see it come up at the top of the screen. Alright, everybody, take care. We'll be back this weekend with more. Take care. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning we talked about Deep fakes and the future for actors, Why you might want to delete Facebook. and About the new Apple MacBooks. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles:   Apple has a problem with Zoom and so should you  New MacBooks Coming Did You Turn of Tracking? Guess What?  Apps are Still Tracking You. Chinese Ministry of State Security Attacks Major Companies Internal Networks Hollywood on the Skids with Virtual Stars Worried About Privacy? Steve Wozniak says Delete Facebook Got Chinese Security Cameras? Just Try to Remove them. --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 07/17/2019 Deep fakes and the future for actors, Why you might want to delete Facebook. and About the new Apple MacBooks. --- Craig Hello again, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I've been thinking about maybe trying to send out a little survey. I don't know, would you guys respond to it? About what content you really would like to see in my security summer? I may end up doing that. Let me know if you think that'd be a good idea because I'm, I'm looking at what we put together, and it's six weeks, five episodes per week. And should we do that I'm looking out my window here. And there's a deer right outside my window eating the grass in the backyard. They've been eating our flowers, and they got into our tomato plants and ate them all. Right now she's just sitting there eating wagging her tail. The chickens are staring at her. Watching her out there. That is so cool. Anyhow, what topics do you want me to cover in this free security summer summit stuff? Please let me know, and I'll be glad to, to bring you up to date on that. Anyhow, this morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And we got into a couple more things here more about deep fakes. And what is going on? What's the future for actors? And are they going to put these deep fakes humans right out of business? And we talked a little bit more to about deleting Facebook, and I even came up with a couple more reasons to get rid of some of these things and stop using Google and stuff. I don't know. I don't think I'll ever completely stop. But anyway, here we go. Matt Gagnon It's that time yet again, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesday at 738 means it is time for a technology update from Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, a friend of the show, and he joins us now Craig, how are you? Craig Peterson Hey, good morning doing well but I am not looking forward to these high temperatures Ken Altshuler From Oklahoma. That's the difference between you and me, Craig? Ken Altshuler Yeah. I was going to ask you about the MacBook Pros. Once again, I have to bring my computer into Apple to fix the T key that fell off. But rather than that, I want to talk about Steve Wozniak first, who, of course, one of the Apple founders, who is saying, and I'm shocked by this, he says, You should delete Facebook. I can't believe he suggests that. Craig Peterson Exactly. Well, you know, we've heard so many reasons to remove Facebook right to delete your account to destroy all of that information. And most of them have to do with privacy. And you know, it's a legitimate argument. But it also sucks. Matt Gagnon FaceTime, or what is it that you call my face? Face my face by my face? Yeah, my face, Ken Altshuler Face, my face, face, Craig Peterson Face to face. There you go, My space. One of the big reasons for this something that I'm sure Matt knows about it. We've had some fascinating revelations that came from Project Veritas. These are guys going to go and do these interviews with people and they tape them without anybody's knowledge, and then they report on it. Well, there is a huge deal going on right now when you are talking about Facebook and Google. And remember, Facebook isn't just Facebook anymore. Now they've got a bunch of different platforms that people are using to communicate. But the real big deal has to do with the manipulation that's going on. There's a new site up right now called Spinquark (https://news.spinquark.com/), you might want to check it out. And the first link there on their homepage takes you to a fascinating article. And what these guys did is they went online to LinkedIn. And they searched around LinkedIn for the senior people on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Were talking about the upper-level managers, directors, etc. And what they found was in all of these companies, of the predominance of them were left-wing, I mean, really left-wing. They found 31 people who were senior people in the Obama campaign and administration, who were all senior managers of these social media companies. 25, associated directly with the Clinton administration, and the Clinton Foundation. 16, who came straight out of the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, and five who worked directly for Speaker Pelosi. When you're talking about people like this, who are involved in very high levels on everything from who should be censored, what should be censored, and what can be said. Then have some of these people coming out directly saying that we cannot allow a mistake like President Trump to occur again. We must do everything we can to stop it from happening again. The Los Angeles Times is even reporting on this right now. Although it came out a few months ago. There was a psychiatrist out there in San Diego, who had done a bunch of research, he looked at several people 47,000 searches that were done by undecided voters. And he looked at three specific newly elected democrat reps from 2018, Porter, Rouda and Levin. He looked at the searches that were done in their districts to try and figure out is there a tie? And if these conservative people had a point. His research found that based on their searches about 35,500 undecided voters or who were on the fence could be persuaded to vote for democrats. How? Entirely due to the "news" that they saw on their feeds from these social media and news sites. We've got to think when we're thinking about a Facebook account, or even at Google, where we're doing searches about things from poisonings search results, which can be kind of fun sometimes to do. So what will happen is someone's searching for something, then you can manipulate the search engine to give them a different result. And maybe it should carry through a Facebook. So for instance, when you first got your Facebook account, and you followed someone, you imitate the celebrity, you would get all of their posts and your feed. And then what Facebook did is they said, Hey, listen, you know this is a little much, we should probably give them information we think they might interest them. If someone mentions a birthday or Congratulations, those are more likely to show up in your Facebook feed, then anything else, frankly. If they are friends of yours and are sharing something more likely to show up in your feed. But now it's come out just this past week, that, in fact, for part of what they're doing is they are purposely manipulating your feed to sway you. Now, when we're talking about influencing you to remember how these guys make money, they make money through advertising, they make money by selling things. So if they have an advertiser that's selling something that you might not otherwise be interested in, show you that end. But it turns out that there may be a lot more manipulation going on, then we thought, and they might even be trying to get you to do into a whole new category of products. Or in this case, also the Los Angeles Times reported. And this is professor, author of algorithms of oppression, how search engines reinforce racism, how they are using their power, by being such big powerhouses in the social media search spaces, to manipulate undecided people. That's what this particular study was about, into voting for the Democrats. So fascinating stuff, you know, because you, you get information from every direction. And nowadays where we've got these photorealistic videos, where they're pasting people's faces, other people's faces on to other people's bodies, etc. And it's hard to tell, how can you know what's right or wrong? You have to listen to Ken, Matt, and Craig. Mm-hmm. Ken Altshuler All right, we're on with Craig Peterson the tech guru joins us periodically. Now let's talk about MacBook Pro. Shall we buy new ones or are they're not changing. The keys now are that you just you're never going to give up the key thing? I'm not, and it is unbelievably irritating to me. Yes. Craig Peterson They are. The latest rumors are they're going to whole new design. They're getting rid of the butterfly design entirely. After three iterations, I think it has been event butterfly keyboard design, that has been a disaster, they are going to be switching. And what it does mean is a slightly thicker computer. I think it's like a few millimeters thicker. Like who cares, right, two or three millimeters, it's going to be slightly thicker. To use different technology, they're not going to go back to the old Chiclets designs, which I kind of like, but they are going to change it. So can you can about time rest easy. Yeah, this is a rumor. You don't know this, the Chinese manufacturers that all of a sudden cancel. So other keyboard orders because they got a large order from some Unknown, Unknown manufacturer. It's all tied back to Apple. But they did do a couple of significant changes here recently in the Mac Book line just within the last two weeks. And those do not have these significant changes yet, so we should be seeing them come this fall. Matt Gagnon We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, I have to ask you about one of the more interesting stories here in your rundown about the future of acting because you see increasingly in a lot of movies. Actors do age to look sort of kind of like they used to 20 years ago you're seeing dead people come back into movies. Well, exactly. I mean, you got the new Star Wars movie coming out later this year the test her, and she's dead. And you had the guy from the very first Star Wars movie, who was put into the last the Rogue One Star Wars movie there. There are holograms of dead people like singing with people in Vegas. You know, there's just crazy stuff happening. I guess the question comes down to this. Will we even need actors anymore in the future or work everywhere? Can we can we can produce? It is, you know, fake or digitally created person to act for us and the future? Craig Peterson Do you remember the movie, Simone? Did you see that with Al Pacino? Matt Gagnon I did see that movie, believe it or not? Craig Peterson Yeah, it's spelled S-I-M-O-N-E. Exciting movie because it's taking this on head-on. And what happens in this movie, it just the basic I'm not going to give it away here even right on what writers in this movie. But it's an artificially created actress. And you have someone who is still voicing that who's always talking who's again doing the acting. That's our next step. You even will have an actor like the terrible job they did with Carrie Fisher phase in Rogue One was awful. Matt Gagnon Targeting grandma off-target was not that great either. That way. There's that uncanny valley thing where it's like, and you could tell Something's Weird About It. You know, even though it sort of looks real. It looks a little rubbery or something. Something's messed up with it. Like they're not quite there yet. They're closed, but they're not Ken Altshuler All the way scar. Craig Peterson Yeah, it'll be about five to 10 years. And here's why it's going to take a little while. Our brains are excellent at being able to tell the difference between phasers, and you know, you think about it, and how can we tell you two apart? You guys look identical? No, we do. Ken Altshuler We like twins. Craig Peterson It's like twins, and it's like five years different. You know, you could argue it. So how can we tell people apart? Well, because our brains have become very, very good at recognizing faces and, and flaws. So anything that shows even a little wrong, you look at like if you look at somebody get plastic surgery, most of the time, you can say oh my god, they need to see a new person plastic surgeon is you can tell. So it's going to be a while yet before we get to this. We've got the further live interaction with Dumbo. And with the Lion King, that's coming out with some animation. CGI, this computer-generated stuff is excellent. When there's not a human face a real human face involved. Stylized, it's very acceptable. For instance, a leader I don't know if you saw that latest movie, where again, it's computer-generated, but it looks computer-generated. Yeah, they made the eyes big and stuff to say, yeah, yeah. So that you don't catch it. How long man, it's not going to be very long, frankly, we're going to be able to with within five years, we'll see this being relatively commonplace. And within ten years, only the best the biggest blockbusters are going to have real people, you know, in every role in there. Because there are some things that humans can't do, even if they have a stunt double. And you will be able to do with science fiction and stuff with some of these fake actors here. Frankly, I think it's kind of cool. I think it's kind of scary. You know, I think we've talked before a little bit about the risks to our security. When it comes to this. We've already got new emails coming in telling the CFO to send money to some vendor that isn't a real vendor, and they're trying to scam us right with phishing attacks. Artificial Intelligence is going to get more involved with this. That's going to improve it dramatically. That's why I say in five to 10 years. I think most actors and actresses are not going to be able to have a job doing that anymore. Voice actors probably sell for a while, but even that's going to go away. Matt Gagnon Well, considering the Emmy nominations and probably wouldn't be any significant loss anyway. Craig Peterson Tech guru joins us every Wednesday. 738. Thank you, Craig. We'll talk to you next week. Craig Peterson Hey, gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye. Ken Altshuler Alright, so we're going to go to a quick break here. When we come back. Craig Peterson If you do have suggestions on topics you want me to cover in this security summer, email me at Craig Peterson dot com. That's me at Craig Peterson dot com. All right, everybody. Take care. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and guest host Erik Lusk. This morning we talked about Apps and how bad they are, Why you should not use Android, Backups why they are really important now.  and what could happen in the future?  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Be Careful What You Browse - Drive-By Malware on the Rise Are You Ready? Iranian Cyber Counter Attacks Cyber Breaches - How far does your liability extend? What We Know About Apollo Missions After 50 years  Trumping Iranian Aggression  Is Your App Safe? Maybe Not! We Will Need 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Professionals by 2021 and They Won't Come Out Of Our Colleges Mac Non-Vulnerability Vulnerability During Travel Is Your Data Safe from Snooping Eyes? Who Is Your Biggest Cyber Liability? Maybe It Is Not Who You Think --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 07/03/2019 --- Craig Peterson Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. Oh my gosh, Independence Day. I want to say Happy Independence Day to everybody out there. Happy Canada Day to everybody who, of course, is from Canada. Some grand celebrations are coming up in France this summer, as well as the UK and all over the world. So, you know, let's give peace a chance as they say, right. Today I was on with my friends Ken Altshuler and Eric Lusk, and I gave Eric a bit of a kidney punch. I talked a little bit about an email I got from the FBI this week and talking about some of the security problems with Android. I am afraid I went on a bit of a rant here, you know, the whole 76% of mobile apps having flaws, security flaws, the Iranian cyber attacks against the United States. And we got into it today. At least I did. They could hardly get a word in edgewise. Anyways, here we go. Have a great week, guys, and I'll be back on Saturday. Bye-bye. Ken Altshuler And it's 738 on Wednesday Morning News. Eric is sitting in for Matt Gagnon, who is taking a few days off. Jeremy Fisher 'll join you after the eight o'clock news with an eye on politics but as usual on Wednesday, 738 none other than Professor Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us. Good morning, Mr. Peterson, how are you? Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, doing well. I love this kind of weather. It is why I live up here. It's just like you were saying. Right? Ken Altshuler Exactly. Craig Peterson I like a warm day, frankly, in the 80s. Maybe a little much. It's a beautiful beach day. But I'm not into the humidity and not into the 90 plus degree weather and everything else. I enjoy this. Ken Altshuler Well, you're in the right place. Enjoy it until winter starts in a couple of weeks. Craig Peterson Yeah. Ken Altshuler It's right around the corner. Winter is coming. Mr. Peterson, Eric Lusk You'll notice the days are getting shorter. Ken Altshuler Exactly right. Craig Peterson Well, you're not going to notice it quite yet. It speeds up a little bit, later on. Right now. We're only losing just you know, a few seconds every day but it does accelerate. Winter is, you know, the winter isn't so bad either. You know. Ken Altshuler There's no good winter, you're wrong. There's no nice way to put it, winter, I mean no way to put a nice spin on it. But no winter is not good. Craig Peterson Well, I look at it this way can I can always put on another layer of clothes in the wintertime. I cannot take off my skin in the summer. Ken Altshuler But you don't need to. You can be basking in the warmth in the heat. I am from Oklahoma, so you're talking to the wrong person. Craig Peterson Oklahoma's nasty. They have the worst of both, right. Ken Altshuler But that heat is super. It's like being in a SPAAA.. Ken Altshuler So let's get into the tech issues. You gave us a lot of tech issues that I didn't know where to start. I went to the one where 76 percent of mobile apps have flaws that allow hackers to steal passwords, money, and tech. So what my iPhone, these people can go on and steal my passwords. You tell me. Craig Peterson Here's the problem, I, in fact, I just forwarded an email to some friends, I'll have to send it out to my whole email list here on as part of this weekend's email that I send out. I sent out this email. It was a summary that I get from law enforcement from the FBI because of what I do with the FBI and Infragard running their webinar programs. On it was just a note that said here's the Android patches for July. It went on for I don't know three or 400 words just describing the critical patches and how only Samsung is going to be releasing fixes for these patches on Android for these significant security problems with Android software. Only Samsung going to be releasing fixes for them within the probably the next60 days. These are highly critical. These are crucial, critical, patches. Other vendors, some may never release patches for them. Okay, so let's start with that in mind. Okay, Android, forget about it. If you care about security at all. Never buy Android. Now, iOS Erik Lusk So much for my cell phone. Exactly. Craig Peterson Ditch it. I can't believe you're in the financial business and you have an Android because it is the most dangerous piece of hardware available today. It's worse than Windows. Ken Altshuler Wow. Craig Peterson Okay. Ken Altshuler Did you hear that? Craig Peterson So, don't Erik Lusk Do you want me to turn around so you can hit the other kidney? Holy smokes! Craig Peterson Is he starting to spit blood yet, Ken? Okay. Sorry about that. But most people don't know this. Right? It's not your fault, Erik. Some vendors are pretending Androids just fine. Right? So how do you know who to trust? I'm not blaming you for this, and it's why I get so upset with the antivirus software, people selling things like Android phones and tablets, televisions with built-in things like how webOS. Samsung said two weeks ago, don't forget to run an antivirus on your TV. Who knows this stuff? Right? The bottom line is, don't use Android ever. Stick with iOS. Going back to Ken's point here, where 76% of mobile apps, according to positive technologies analysis here, 76% of mobile apps have flaws that can allow hackers to steal the passwords, maybe even your money and texts. Okay. Yeah, there is not a device if it has power going to it, If it has a wire going to it - the potential is there that it can be hacked, okay. So Deal with it, bottom line. Poorly written iOS applications are going to use cloud services other than Apple. Now Apple, again, their cloud services are outstanding. However, many of these cloud services, look at the Amazon breaches, we just had another huge one yesterday, that affected TD Bank, according to the reports, they were using a third party contractor. In other words, if you are a business, think about this for a couple of minutes, you're giving your data to who? To salesforce.com to this cloud service. Do you know how good is this cloud provider's security? Many of these apps that we're using are going to the cloud, they're using cloud services, many of the vendors that are upstream from us are taking some of our data, and they're not protecting it. So I, man, I just, I can't emphasize this enough. It's terrible. It's but it's the way of the world, and it's going to continue to be the way the world. That's why I'm hosting my security summer. This summer, I have a six-week program, one hundred percent free for everybody. I want everybody to know what to do because the vendors out there are not telling you the truth. Okay. That's the bottom line. They're selling new software that they have because they have it. Right. They're not selling you solutions that solve basic things, and you need to do those first. It's brass tacks of what you need to do to keep your data safe. It's like you were talking about with distracted driving. Who can afford the latest version of Apple's Car Play? The new one that is just coming out with right now is phenomenal. Android has a similar thing. But again, I don't want you to use Android devices for distracted driving. Who can afford to pay somebody like me to help them? Well, you know, bigger businesses, obviously, Ken, right. The medium-sized companies and larger small businesses can come in, and I can secure it. There are so many defense contractors working just right south here at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that has to have to be DFARS compliance, which is a federal regulation. But they don't know where they can go? How about the little guys that can't afford to hire the real security people that all they do is networks and security. That's what this security summer is all about, guys. If people want to find out more, listen, you got to get ahold of me, I'm more than glad to put you into this class. It's only 10 to 15 minutes sessions twice a week, during the summer. If you miss one, you can watch it on the replay you need to email me at Craig Peterson dot com if you want to be in it and I'll let you know when it starts, okay, this isn't selling new stuff. It is just getting down to the brass tacks and making sure that those are out of the way. Many of these things you can do are free. Some of them are just educational, but they need to know what to do and how to do it. And then some you might want to or need to buy some paid software. I'll tell you what to do. But email me at Craig Peterson dot com. It's not as though I care about this stuff. Guys. I don't want you to think I'm on a soapbox or anything. Okay. Erik Lusk Just a wee bit. Craig Peterson Oh, yea. Ken Altshuler But a good soapbox Erik Lusk Oh, yeah, absolutely! When the city of Baltimore was held hostage by some computer hackers that managed to figure out how to shut down the municipal website. That's no way to live. What's next shutting down our Public Utilities? Craig Peterson You don't? Yeah, well, that's what's happening right now. And maybe that was a cue for me right there. We had this whole thing with Iran, right, they shot down our drone. That was or was not in international waters, Right. So our response was to be in a posture to bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran. Right. Then President Trump called it off at the last minute, right? It is all that we're getting from the news. And then the part that most people haven't been talking about is apparently, President Trump's idea of, hey, listen, you didn't kill anybody in the plane, we don't want to kill anybody. Then in a reciprocal response was that we hacked and shut down their radars, missile radar systems and their missile sites. Their answer is what's happening now with Iran going after our US businesses. They've got some software that wipes your computer. If they get on to your business computers, what they want to do is cause problems with the US economy. Most businesses just are protected well enough. They've got some a break-fix shop that knows a little bit about security and certainly can install the software. And those are, you know, Wow, those are the experts. And so Life is good, right? Hey guys that is not the case. Now we've got Homeland Security coming out this last week here, and warning businesses that Iranian hackers are already targeting US companies. And they're using this wipe software. They're not holding your data ransom, they are wiping clean your computers and anything they can find on your network, rather than stealing the data. That's directly from Chris Krebs. He's the director of Homeland Security's Cyber Security Division Erik Lusk Isn't that an easier thing to do? Rather than to go in and steal the data, isn't it easier to just wipe out somebody's data altogether? Craig Peterson That's the easiest thing to do. And you know what, Eric, there are no fingerprints afterward, Right? Or should I say a very few fingerprints? So for instance, we've gone into companies, we went into one company, and we found that there were Chinese back doors installed. It was a small manufacturer. And they made some dumb parts, right? There's like you think of a screw. Well, who cares about a screw. And the Chinese had multiple back doors, and they were monitoring everything that was going on. But that screw eventually ended up in our military equipment, until the Chinese went after the little guy. It made it now easier, and they had access to the portal to the big defense contractor, etc., etc. So that was very easy to trace because we could see wherever these back doors were talking to how they were accessed. We worked with the FBI, and we were able to straighten it out very quickly, we got them back in business within 24 hours. However, when you're just wiping a computer, there is nothing left because they've completely wiped the silly thing. So yeah, Eric, that's what they're doing because it is the easiest thing to do. That's part of what we're going to do with the security summer the right ways to do backups. And I can tell you 90% of the people I've ever talked to probably really close to 100 are not doing backups properly. But I don't want people to feel bad. A good backup that works can recover your data from that wipe from the Iranians. It can also recover your data from any ransomware attacks coming. Many of those are from Russia. We have one client, and we were looking at their website the other day and the security mechanisms we have in place. Their website was getting attacked five times every second it was a little website. It's crazy. And it was coming straight from Russia, by the way, anyways, blah, blah. I'm going to long in this segment. But there's so much you have to know to do it right. Just email me at Craig Peterson dot com. I want to get you in this. It is free. It's for small-medium businesses. If you're just the IT person because you know the most or you like computers, and "tagged your it" right, like in the game of tag. It is for you. And it's free. And I want you to attend email me at Craig Peterson dot com. Ken Altshuler Great. Craig Peterson dot com and Craig joins us every Wednesday. 738. Craig, we hope you have a great Fourth of July. We'll talk to you next week. Erik Lusk So much for my cell phone. I guess I'm headed over to get something else. Ken Altshuler iPhone time. iPhone time. Yeah. Craig Peterson Have a great Independence Day, everybody. Erik Lusk Thanks, Joe. All right, we'll take a break for CBS News, and we'll be back after this. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning we talked about Deep Fake technology and what could happen in the future.  We discussed a new technological type of aversion therapy for breaking bad habits and we talked about Google search and article theft and what Congress is doing.   These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com   --- Related Articles: The Problem With Deep Fakes Shock Away Those Bad Habits First Amendment Under Surprise Attack --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/26/2019 Deep Fakes, Aversion Therapy and Fair Use --- Craig Peterson Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. It is getting close to July. And coming up probably about the second week of July, I'm going to be doing a little bit of an online summer course we're calling it our security summer. It will be free for anyone who wants to attend. I'm trying to do this for the people who, who can't afford to hire me and I get it. There's a lot of people out there. But it's this. It is going to be mostly a business course.  Yesterday, when I was speaking to a CEO mastermind group, there were a lot more in attendance than I had thought there would be and it went very, very well. Although it did not surprise me that they weren't entirely aware of all of the risks and what's going on. In retrospect, as I think about it, I probably should have put more positive stuff in the presentation. I tried to stress how they could lose their entire business due to their lack of awareness. Many of these are small to medium private companies, and that means it's their retirement, it's their money that's on the line. I tried to stress that they can no longer continue to coast. Anyways, this summer, we're going to teach you the things you need to know the things you need to do and how to do them. So keep an eye out for that. There's a sign up now, on my homepage at Craig Peterson dot com at the very top, you can sign up to get on my email list, you'll get my weekly show notes, and whenever anything really, bad is happening, you'll find out about it as well by email. You will also find out when I'm offering these free courses, or some of the paid ones as well, I'll let you know, believe me, I'm not hounding you.  You know, some of these internet marketers are sending an email every day forever, you know, I might send you an email every day when there's something big going on. But other than that, it just doesn't happen. It's usually a weekly email and may average out to maybe two a week if something big is happening. But hopefully, you will find my emails informative. It's not the sort of thing you can get from your smart uncle. So we are going to go now to our friends over at WGAN and, and talk a little bit with them. And we're going to talk about Google and newspapers, the big fight that's coming up, aversion therapy, and the deep fake problem is hitting Hollywood and where does this lead us ultimately, so here we go. Matt Gagnon And we're back 738 WGAN and Morning News with Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru and joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays at this time to go over the world of technology. Craig Peterson. How are you this morning, sir? Craig Peterson A good morning.  I am doing well, Matt. I like this weather. I'm not an 80s 90s kind of guy. I love it in the 70s a beautiful, dry, day. That's my idea. Matt Gagnon  I get the 80s and 90s as well, Craig.  I love the 90s and hundreds I love it when it's 100 degrees. Ken Altshuler That's because you guys weren't born raised in Oklahoma, which is why Matt Gagnon Oh, it's a dry heat. Ken Altshuler It's not a dry heat. Craig Peterson  It's crazy and not a dry heat. No, no, no, no. They get a lot of humidity. And it gets frigid in the winter. It does. Ken Altshuler Yeah. And by the way, Craig it has it's been 80 degrees, like twice. Where do they get humidity? Well, some irrigation, but also the Gulf? Yes, it does.  Craig Peterson I remember I lived in pretty much northern Canada for a lot of my life. And we would get the warm, humid air would come up from the south, you know, those American clippers? Matt Gagnon Canada, the Arctic?  Craig Peterson Well, yeah, I won't go quite that far. I was about halfway up to the Arctic Circle. So I remember days when the high was 30 below zero, and I was walking to school. If you Matt Gagnon   Don't mind me asking, but why would anybody live there on purpose? Craig Peterson Well, it's not that bad, you get used to it. I guess it's not that I would rather have it be cold than hot. When it's cold, you can always put on another layer of clothes, Matt Gagnon Lots of clothing that you have to put on when the high was minus 30. Craig Peterson  Well, I had a parka. I'd wear the parka. It had a hood on your head. It goes in front of your face, and it goes out to a little tube that's maybe about six inches wide that you kind of look through and breathe out of so that you don't get frostbite on your face or your nose or anything. Matt Gagnon What a fantastic way to live, Craig. Craig Peterson In the summer, we'd get to 75 degrees, and it'd be just absolutely beautiful. You go to the Calgary Stampede, Matt Gagnon Which I did too, by the way. Craig Peterson  Yeah, I haven't been there since the 70 something I've been there since the 70s. But yeah, it's, you know, it's different. And I've been watching this Ice Plane show where they fly these old DC three and four planes from World War Two. They're flying around up there in the Canadian Arctic. It brought back memories, and I thought you know, it isn't so bad. It's a problem. Maybe what happens can is you kind of get gas-lit you don't know any better. Matt Gagnon By the way, why are deep fakes not a laughing matter? I'm curious. Craig Peterson Here's what's been going on you guys. I think even talked about that Nancy Pelosi video right? Where she was slurring her speech, and go, you know, drunk and everything a little different, though. That's not it. That's da that was a manipulated video where they slowed her down and cut it a little bit. But actually, it's a fake. Yeah, exactly. So a lot of people have heard about that one. Well, there's a few more that are out there. Right now. You've got one with our friend Mark Zuckerberg saying whoever controls the data controls the future. Right? That one's a real deep fake because they modeled a face on to him and and and like made it into, like, what a deep fake is.  Matt Gagnon It's like basically taking an actor and having you map their facial stuff to somebody else speaking and using porn quite a bit. Craig Peterson So I have no first-hand knowledge. Yeah, well, that's Photoshop, you know, most of the time, where and people are familiar with this, right? You'll take a picture, and you manipulate it. And some of these models out there say no, I don't want you to do fake me, you know, because it makes women feel inadequate. And yeah, I get that. And also the You see, all of a sudden, wait a minute, they have dimples on their legs, and maybe they're Pfizer a little sicker than you thought they were. So we've had those for a while. No, Ken Altshuler No, no, I hate to disagree with you on that one, Craig. But what he's referring to is the deep fake thing in pornography. Like they're putting like Taylor Swift on regular porn, a porn actress. And I've seen this and making it into the because these facial mapping technologies come so far now that and it's so cheap.  Craig Peterson Absolutely. Well, I'm glad you guys are well familiar with porn. I've only seen them in pictures for models. Now you can go online to YouTube. And you can see Game of Thrones actor who played, of course, Jon Snow, his name's Kevin Harrington, on there apologizing about all of these problems and mistakes in season eight of Game of Thrones. What they're doing is what Matt was saying. They take my mapping of your face and the mapping. Simple, right? It isn't like Lord of the Rings, where they had golf balls all over the guy that was playing that character Golem. Then they had to computers and spent over 100 million dollars spent in the development of the software over to make Gollum on screen. What we're talking about is what you can do right now today with some free software and do it on just a regular computer. And basically, you can make anyone say anything? I think that might be what's happening with some of those supposed tweets that are coming from our president? Matt Gagnon   Do you think they might? Ken Altshuler I would say not because he's known to say things like that. Craig Peterson Here's the problem now, right? If he's known to say things like that, and you can't trust this technology anymore, and we have deep fakes and let's say President Trump is saying things like the bombs are going to start dropping in 15 minutes, which is basically what President Ronald Reagan said years ago. How is someone like Iran going to know whether or not this is a deep fake? And there's been a lot of work going on on this because it has become such a problem on the government on the military side, and they're spending money now to try and figure out how they can tell us deep fake. We've got people in universities right now, doing just that. In one university, they created a couple of neural networks. In other words, artificial intelligence machines, they had one machine making deep fakes. And they had another machine analyzing them to see if something was a deep fake.  They were sharing back and forth. They got good at making deep fakes, where you want your video, and it, you can even change the head movement and everything else in the video, it isn't just like stick a head on top of an actress of Taylor Swift face on top of an actress. They can now manipulate what they're doing where the moving and make it look exactly like that person unless you look very closely, you can't tell. And when I say closely I mean, you can go in and examine it pixel by pixel. So we've got some potential problems here. We could have Russia, China, North Korea, Zimbabwe, go ahead and create a deep fake of our president or someone else threatening war. And this, this could get very dangerous very quickly. Matt Gagnon  We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us now as he always does on Wednesdays to discuss the world of technology.  So, Craig, I have a nasty Mountain Dew habit, if I wanted to kick my Mountain Dew habit, should I be shocking myself as though I'm in some medieval shock therapy? Is this Pavlovian to the extreme? What is this idea that, that I've heard about where you would shock yourself into the kicking horrible habits? Craig Peterson Well, this is about the Pavlock bracelet. We've known about aversion therapy for a long time, and I've used it myself. Have you ever taken a rubber band, put it on your wrist when you're trying to break a habit? You snap it when tempted, or a particular thought comes around? Whether its food or your mountain dew? Do you guys have bad habits? Ken Altshuler I have no bad, I don't hate myself.  Craig Peterson It's a fairly common thing. And the idea is, you want to train your brain, that when you're thinking about having that smoke or when you're thinking about eating that food, whatever it might be, that chocolate cake, you snap yourself on the wrist using the rubber band, and it does work to a degree.  Well, there's now a company out there that has an aversion therapy bracelet. It's called pavlok. Spelled pa-v-L-ok. It has a lightning bolt button on the front of it. When you hit the lightning bolt button, and it sends a shock right into your wrist. And the idea is that every time you think about that something, or you start making a particular bad habit, whatever it might be, you shock yourself to help you change your habit. Why? Your brain is going to associate it, the action or the thought instead of associated with pleasure is going to be associated with pain, and you will do it less. It is just a theory, but aversion therapy has worked for many years in the past. For those who don't have much self-discipline, you can have your friend, your spouse installs the Pavlok app up onto their smartphone and can use it as a remote control to shock you as you're wearing the bracelet. So you know self-control? I don't know. So if your spouse can, if she gives you a Pavlok, you might not want to because she can trigger the 350-volt shock. I think it's worth shot for some. I was going to say shock. But that would be just too bad. If I was morbidly obese and I wanted to quit eating this costs 200 bucks so isn't exactly cheap. But it's probably worth doing. And I  certainly would try it. But it's kind of neat, man. I think this is a decent idea. Ken Altshuler Craig Peterson, he's our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 738. So is Google stealing the News from the New York Times? Craig Peterson Oh, man, this thing keeps hitting the News. Because this week, what's happening is they were talking more about this. And here's what's going on the News Media Alliance is going after Google accusing them of stealing the News. If you do Google search, it'll come up, and it will give you results. And some of those results will be swiped directly from websites as well as news sites. And if you go to News, Google com, it's even worse because it's all swiped from news sites. The big question, of course, comes under fair use.  Is it fair use for Google to grab a few sentences from it, and put it up on their website. The New York Times and other news sources, which include local newspapers have said that this is wrong. And it costs them billions of dollars. Because if you add it all up, more than half of the local newspapers have gone out of business, just this look right here in Portland, look anywhere release so much of the US now do not there aren't local papers anymore. So Congress is currently involved. And there is a real bipartisan bill that has been starting to move. There's one in the house, one in the Senate, where they are trying to carve out an exemption to the antitrust laws for newspapers for four years. And the idea is that they can now collude to try and figure out what kind of a business model works. The reason for this is they don't want the local newspapers to be going out of business.  It is the whole right to free speech, which is getting squashed on every side, you look is being hurt by this lack of local newspapers. Maybe they can come up with something that would work. I know, personally, if I could pay 10 or 20 bucks a month, just like I do for streaming music, I would buy one subscription and get all of the newspapers that I want to get right. But I'm not going to pay 10 bucks to New York Times, Washington Post, and you know, all of these guys, as it would end up costing 50 to a hundred bucks a month. On top of that, I have to track all my subscriptions and everything. It's just too complicated. So we'll see what happens here. We've even got a very conservative Senator Kennedy from Louisiana, who was sponsoring this in the Senate. So we'll see where this goes. But I know I don't say this very often. But I can sympathize with a great lady in this case. Hmm, Matt Gagnon  That is a first. All right. Well, Craig Peterson happens to be our tech guru. And he joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over all the things in the world of technology. Craig, today is no exception. Thanks so much for joining the program. And we will talk to you again. Craig Peterson Next week. Gentlemen, thanks. Ken Altshuler Thanks a lot, Craig. All right, coming up at eight. Oh, Craig Peterson Hey, everybody. Thanks for listening. If you have not already, make sure you subscribe. It helps us out. It gets us on more lists. And that gets the message out to more people. I want to reach more people. I want to help stop some of the nastiness that's going on. That's why I do so much volunteer work. Anyhow, uh, thanks for being with us. I appreciate you guys listening. Take care. Talk to you tomorrow. Well, I guess I won't talk to you till Saturday. Bye-bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we touched on a whole bunch of topics in the news. We discussed Apple's newly announced single sign-on and what they are doing that makes it different.  We delved into DNA testing and some of the legal implications that are currently in the news. We talked about the NSA and the unprecedented step they took to warn everyone about the latest Microsoft vulnerability and why we must take it seriously.  I gave  Ken, a tongue-in-cheek explanation as to how he could fix the problems he is experiencing with his MacBook Pro keyboard.   These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: CEOs and Business Owners Aren't Taking CyberSecurity Seriously - And Are Facing Huge Penalties Week After Week Vulnerability After Vulnerability   Multiple Logins The Bane of Modern Online Life Technology and Database have Murderers and Rapists Crying Foul --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/19/2019 Apple keyboard Issues, Legal implications of DNA databases, Apple's new Single Sign-on, NSA Warnings on latest Microsoft vulnerabilities, --- Craig Peterson Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. This morning, I got to talk with Ken and Matt a little bit. We discussed Ken's problem with his Apple keyboard, and I gave him a couple of solutions. His MacBook Pro. We reminisced a bit of a few things today, in fact, even with Matt. We did finally get to talk about some of the security problems that are out there., right now, There are some things you might want to be sure to give serious attention. We also went into some depth on Apple's new service that even Google is praising and is going to be a major competitor of theirs, right there in the same arena. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Matt Gagnon It is 738 on a Wednesday morning, which means it is time to talk to Craig Peterson who joins us now. Craig, how are you this morning? Craig Peterson Hey, it is, he does, and I'm doing well this morning. Matt Gagon Welcome back to the program. Ken Altshuler Craig my keyboard on my MacBook Pro keyboard keeps falling off. I am getting quite irritated. I'm going to bring it back, and they're going to have to send it to get fixed with a whole new keyboard. I'm not getting my computer back for a week. It has got to stop this insanity. It's got to stop. Craig Peterson Ken such a first world problem. Apple has, I think they still do, have a program for businesses, they had a program you would pay them a few hundred bucks per year. And they would give you loners and everything else if your machine had a problem. Ken Altshuler That is okay I could use Dropbox, and I could probably access it remotely. But you see Craig, nobody uses Word Perfect but me, anymore. Craig Peterson I was about to say that. Yeah, I'm glad you said it. Not me. No word perfect. There are still some lawyers out there that do that. Ken Altshuler It's the greatest ever made. Why would anybody use MS Word, it just sucks? Craig Peterson Well, I yeah, I was a big fan of WordStar to Ken Altshuler I used WordStar, too. Craig Peterson Yeah, I used to like that a lot. Then WordPerfect came along was perfect for attorneys. A lot of attorneys adopted it. Then I moved into Emacs. But I'm a geek. And it's not really for text editing. And I've used some others like TeX and LaTeX and Roff, and man all kinds of different typesetting tools and stuff over the years. I get you like that WordPerfect for your work again. Well, back to your keyboard. You've got that first generation of Apple's butterfly keyboard. Ken Altshuler That's correct. They'd said that they are not on the fourth version of it. Craig Peterson Yeah, they keep making changes to try and fit. What they did is they that they designed it so it would be small and light and narrow. They keep making this thing smaller. My son has one of these, and I think it's a second or third generation of a butterfly keyboard. I tried it, and I don't like it. I didn't feel of it. Right. But there's a certain point where they have to cut their losses. You know I learned on mechanical typewriters, right. 100%. Mechanical. Then a teletype, TTY 33. Back in the day. I liked the motion. I enjoy the click-clack, and it's big deep motion. I don't know, I think it's these kids, it's Matt's generation. Ken Altshuler It is magic. Matt Gagnon I don't know anyone, if you call me that, again, I'm going to come over there and punch you in the face with a baseball bat. Ken Altshuler See how angry they are? That generation. I do have a portable Bluetooth keyboard. However, the problem with that is, when you use it with the MacBook Pro, you have to put it so far out, that you can't see what you're typing because it's so far away. Matt Gagnon Nobody knows what you mean Craig Peterson You need to go to the dollar store and get a different pair of glasses. That will work for you. I have three different pairs of reading glasses, three different strengths, depending on how far away my screen is away. And so on might be all you have to do is you need a prescription. Thank God I don't need a glasses prescription. I need reading glasses. I have like one and a half, one and three quarters and twos. Sometimes I have to put two or three pair at the same time. If I need to read, the faintly printed model number on the back of a Mac. Ken Altshuler I take a picture of it and then enlarge it, to read those. Craig Peterson I've got a magnifying app. Matt, you can go away for a while. Ken Altshuler What's the name? Because I could use one. Craig Peterson I don't remember. I type in magnifier, and then it comes right up. But It's fantastic. It just it goes into super zoom mode and makes it easy to see. But you know that the high tech problems we have Apple are now kind of admitted they have a problem with a keyboard but not totally. But try some different reading glasses. That's what I do. Ken Altshuler I have to get the keys fixed. I've got an appointment at the Genius Bar tomorrow. The heart of geniuses I must say, and speaking of geniuses, why are murderers and rapists upset at technology, prey tell? Craig Peterson Yeah. What do you know about the Golden State Killer? You guys everybody's pretty much familiar with the this is the case of out in California. In California, where they had several murders, this was decades ago. They were never able to solve them. Then what the police did is that they went online, as many of us have done, to one of these DNA testing companies. I've done it, and my family's done it. Well, what happened is that when people have done it. In many cases they have shared their DNA information to find family members. And frankly, that's kind of cool. Sometimes, you'll find second, third, fourth, fifth cousins. Anyway, they go into these public databases, and the terms of views allow anyone to go in and search and try and find family members. Well, in the case of the Golden State killer, they found that it was an ex-cop responsible for the killings. At least, I think that that's might still be an allegation. I don't know, if he's actually been convicted, yet. Well, now we're seeing the same thing happening in another case. But in this case, both parties have conceded that okay, you're, you're obtaining of the evidence was legal. But Ken, this is a really, interesting question because the police used one of these public databases of DNA that people are using to share to find other family members. From that public DNA database that gave them a clue as to where to look. When they started looking more closely at this family because the DNA indicated that it was someone within you know, a few relatives of the suspect and narrowed it down to this one guy. They were able to get, I think it was like like a coffee cup or something, that was discarded by the guy at the crime scene. They pulled the DNA off of that and found it to be an exact match from you know, DNA is never like 100 hundred percent, but consider, yeah, an exact match. And so now they pulled him into court. It's a real, exciting case with unique problems, as you know, from the Legal side. How far does it go? Both sides conceded that, okay, that they legally obtained the initial DNA information, so there will be no challenge in court on that point. However, here's another side of this as well, that is the online website that the police used has since hanged their terms of service. Now they are no longer allowing police to do searches for DNA matches. Ken Altshuler Why? It makes no sense. Craig Peterson They're afraid that people are not going to put their DNA up or do searches any longer, for fear that the police might get involved or their DNA might get used for solving a crime. I agree with you. I don't know why you wouldn't, but, but that's why. It is one of the most significant sites out there for this public sharing of DNA information. They changed the terms of use two days after the police, apparently used it to find this guy. That brings up an interesting question. And I agree with you can I don't know what Matt saying, but you know, why would they do that? But should there? Should there be a law? Reminds me of something my dad always used to say. "there ought to be a law against that," or for that, or whatever. It will put a little bit of a kink into some of these police investigations. Matt Gagnon All right, Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now as he always does at this time on Wednesdays, Craig, the other day, I was signing my son up for soccer, whatever, and I couldn't for the life of me remember the login thing that I had created last year for the site. Like the week before that I had to log into something else that I hadn't logged into in a year. It happens to me pretty frequently. I just had to change my stupid password on this dumb computer. I have about thousand 1000 logins that I need, you know, in my head at any given time, and they are continually making me change my passwords and everything else. I can never keep it all straight. Is someone going to save me? Craig Peterson No. You're doomed? Matt Gagnon Oh, no, that's not the right answer. Craig Peterson Well, you already know about Facebook? Are you've seen sites that say to click here to login, with Facebook. And you've seen websites that do the same thing with Google, you know, use your Google login. There's a few of those out there. I have used them once or twice to see how they worked. I don't personally use those. Well, now Apple has come out with their login. It's a multiple login service, and you know by now that I like almost everything Apple is doing nowadays. They are trying to show "Hey, listen, we're going to keep your data safe, we're not going to keep it, we're not going to share it because we don't have it." "We're going to keep that information other than enough information that's required to get you logged in." I think that the fascinating thing about this is that with this multiple logins, single sign-on thing, that Apple's come up with, oh, btw, it's not quite available yet, but it will be. Apple has deals in place with almost everybody. It is going to be very big. Their concept is better than some of the others. Google has come out and said, "Hey, listen, we don't keep that information, either." Well, this is a company that used to say don't be evil, right, Google said. Google came up with a tacit recommendation for the Apple sign-in service saying, "Hey, listen, this is a read going to be a very, good thing for the internet although we don't share our information." They think this is going to be better, much better than normal logins. Not only do people forget them, and of course, many people misuse it them by using the same password, the same email on multiple systems. It's a bit of a problem. I think that you know if I was going to use one, once the Apple ones when it comes out, that's what I'd use. Under no circumstances would I trust Facebook at all with my data. I never use the Facebook Single Sign-On, on other sites. I don't use the Google Sign on, because frankly, they're trying to collect all of the data they can in the world and I don't trust them. The bottom line with Apple, If I am going to trust somebody at this point. They're the guys I trust, today. Ken Altshuler We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us every Wednesday at 738. You know, the people on our radio station makes us take a security test all the time. Now, are all the CEOs and business owners that conscientious? Matt Gagnon Are we way ahead of the curve? Ken Altshuler Well said. Craig Peterson Matt, Is that true? Or are they just giving Ken the test? Matt Gagnon Sadly, Craig, I have to report that they give it to me as well. Craig Peterson Well, I'm glad to hear that. The techniques and bad guys are using keep changing, and frankly, we have got to keep our employees up to date. Matt Gagnon Okay, that's fair enough, Craig. But there's a man in a gorilla suit in the video. Craig Peterson Really? Matt Gagnon And I can pass the quiz without watching the videos. Craig Peterson Or in a Bunny Suit, one of the two, right? Yeah, you know, we got to get back to the brass tacks of security and making sure employees are up to date at that is a good start. You don't want to overburden them by continually doing some of these pieces of training. I've seen a lot of them. We signed up for a company that provided us with training videos that we could provide your customers. I watched them and about pulled my hair out and stabbed by eyeballs out. They were so bad. We stopped using them. Now we send out a little notification email. Okay, guys watch out for this with a couple of samples, and maybe once in a while a short one to two-minute video explaining it. However, we need to get back to the brass tacks, everybody. That's the bottom line. And that means, the password stuff. Now we've got the NSA doing though this is the first time, it is unprecedented. Ken and I and may Matt, I think you're old enough to remember that the NSA used to stand for no such agency because the federal government denied it even existed. Well, now it's gotten to the point where the NSA has a warning out right now about cyber attacks. They are warning that this could be the worst ever worldwide computer shutdown. It's just incredible. It is all about BlueKeep and some other stuff. Why could this be the worst ever? Remember, two years ago, almost now, we had the shutdown to hundreds of thousands of computers around the world because of an attack - WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya. At the time it was worst ever. It all happened because we were not covering the underlying security best practices. We're not doing the brass tacks of security. We're not making sure we've patched our systems. We're not making sure we're following the right schedules. I have yet to go into a company and find that they've got their basics in order. I don't blame them for having you guys take these little tests. I think it's frankly, generally speaking, an excellent idea. Matt Gagnon All right, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us this time every Wednesday. Craig, we appreciate it. As always, thank you so much. We will talk to you again next week, sir. Craig Peterson Take care, guys. Bye. Ken Altshuler Thanks a lot. Alright. So we're going to take a quick break. Craig Peterson Hey, everybody, have a great day. I'll be back Of course, with my weekend radio show, heard in the Northeast and throughout the Northeast. In fact, and it'll be a whole lot of fun. Of course, we will be talking about all the newest tech news out there. As we readily quickly heard, we are working on getting ready for our big summer of security coming up. We're going to do it. Need information, email me at Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day, everybody. Talk to you later. Bye-bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we touched on a whole bunch of topics in the news. We discussed whether we should trust Google.  We talked about Autonomous vehicles and the societal implications and I talked about two-factor authentication and how you can protect yourself from sim-jacking. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: You Need Two-Factor Authentication Even If Google Screwed It Up?   Autonomous Cars — Are they ready for Prime Time? Why Are We Still Trusting Google?    --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/12/2019 Can You Trust Google?, Security Summer, Autonomous Cars, Two-Factor Authentication --- Craig Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I heard "Big Papi" took his first steps in the hospital today. So, that's good. It brings back thoughts of everyone that has family and friends in the hospital that aren't celebrities and people that are injured. My thoughts and prayers go out to everybody every day. It's just a reminder of how fragile things can be in this life. This morning I was on with our friends Ken and Matt up at WGAN. And as usual, we spoke about a few different things. We had quite a little conversation about trusting Google, should you trust them? Can you trust them? There was a surprising revelation that came out, in fact, just last week about them, and what they've been doing, during the previous 14 years, a significant security problem. We had a chat about two-factor authentication, and I gave them workaround, a way to make it safe, even if you have to use text messages SMS for two-factor authentication because that's not secure. But there is a reliable way to do it. We talked about a little bit more of course about autonomous cars which are all in the news again, and what's the safety factor there? How far away are we? I took a couple of different angles than I made with Jim Polito on that discussion today, as well. So here we go. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer, starting up in July, I will start sending out some emails next week, things have been crazy around here. As you can imagine, with all of the companies now getting hacked, and the losing money coming to me, and you know, everyone in the security business, which, of course, is way understaffed. And shout out to those of you who are trying to get into security, I got another email this last week from someone that was starting into a security career, and he's in his 50s. So there's something to be learned there, I want to encourage everybody. Remember the adage, "You can teach an old dog new tricks." It's a terrible saying. But you can learn a lot of this stuff, you really can. And there's a lot of people out there who have been trying to convince you that you can't do that, really all you need is their little bit of anti-virus software, or whatever it is, you know, they're selling that to you. Because that's all, they have. That's all they know. Well, they're not doing you any favors. They are trying to mess with you. You can learn this stuff. That's what the security summer going to be about this year, and I'm going to be teaching this some free classes. You know, I get paid for doing this too. And if you want more in depth, then you're probably going to want to sign up for one of my courses. But I want to get this information to everybody. Because if you know me well enough, you know, I got hacked. That was 30 years ago, about now, a long time ago. And it scared the daylights out of me. And I started to learn about this and trying to figure it out. It's taken me years, decades, to get to the point where I'm at now. And I am excited to share a lot of this with you. Just watch for my security summer. If you want to find out more, email me at Craig Peterson dot com, ask any questions that you might have. And I'll make sure you know, when I'm starting this whole little program up, because I want you to be aware of all of the major points here, right, I'm not trying to turn into security experts, that takes quite a bit of work. However, I do want you to be familiar with all of the problems. All the talk about hacks that have happened, how it happened, what should have been done by those companies give you an idea, but as well as what you can do to protect yourself a few tips on how to protect yourself, it's going to be kind of a busy summer. And if you sign up, and you'll be able to get a notification as to when these little courses are going to happen. And I'm going to leave them up for about a week or so you know because it does get stale. And I do need to revisit them. I don't want want to put them up blankly for the world to see forever. So keep an eye out. Email me at Craig Peterson dot com, and now we'll go to Ken and Matt. I want to encourage you guys, and you can learn this. There are the people that just been messing with you. You know the bottom line. Ken Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at 738 every Wednesday, and this is 738 on a Wednesday, which means you're talking to Craig Peterson. Craig. Welcome to the program, sir. Craig Hey, good morning. It is a Wednesday but is it every Wednesday? Today? Ken That's a good point. And you know what it is a lie in and of itself because I believe we did not talk to you last Wednesday. So it's most Wednesdays. Craig That's true. Yeah, I took a bit of vacation. I'm a motorcycle guy. And I have a motorcycle that is 32 years old. It's a 1987 BMW with 143,000 miles on it now. The only thing I had to do is replace the rear wheel on that bike. It's just been a phenomenal bike. So, I went up to like George in New York, and we rode around with some buddies for a week. And it was just fantastic. Ken Well, good. But that doesn't mean tech news stops. I hopped on your website, Craig Peterson dot com. To see what kind of top stories you had there and you have one topic here. Why are we still trusting Google? Can you answer that? Matt Great question. Well, they did say early in Google's history that they that their whole operating philosophy was Don't be evil, right. Are they evil? Now? Did you notice they took that off of their website? Right? Craig Yeah, exactly. I don't know why we're still trusting some of these different companies out there. They are selling all kinds of information about us. And, you know, that's not necessarily a bad thing when you get right down to it. Because, frankly, do you want to see car commercials all the time? Or would you rather see a car commercial when you are looking to buy a car, right? And, again, goes back, Matt, to what you've said many times, and that is if you're not paying for something, you might want to consider that you're the product and not the customer. And they have been doing all kinds of things. We're selling our data. But the other big problem that came out very recently, within the last couple of weeks is that in fact, Google has been storing our usernames and passwords for people that were using, basically their G Suite services. But it's been out there for 14 years in the clear. They're pretty good about security, although Android itself isn't the best out there. But now their G Suite customers are a little upset because of what's been out there. I was talking just yesterday with an employee who had been working at a company that was collecting personal information. They were collecting home addresses, phone numbers, and they were taking donations and were selling them. It was a great little company doing just all kinds of super things to raise funds for some good charitable organizations. It turns out they were using Google Forms to collect all this personal information about donors. You know, come on, guys, we cannot trust Google, we're using more and more of these online websites, software as a service. Think about Google Sheets, for instance, as well as Google Forms. And we're putting data in there that may end up getting exposed. We should not be doing that. Think twice about it. In our profession, we refer to this as shadow IT or shadow information technology. Historically, we had these big rooms, these big glass rooms with all of the computers in them. And we had true professionals that were running them, and making sure data was being kept safe, and information was not being stolen and leaked out. Now we've got the marketing department going out and creating contracts with companies that have online services, we have the same thing happening with sales and manufacturing and distribution and our purchasing managers are our data is not safe, and it's never been less secure. So be careful what you're putting out there, what you're given to Google what you're given to these other companies because frankly, it's a real problem. Matt Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us, most Wednesdays at this time to talk about the world of technology. And today is one of those days, Craig, while you're talking, I'm looking at a story on CBS This Morning about Uber's secret self-driving test facility for their self-driving autonomous cars. I know you had a story also about whether or not autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time. And I think it does beg the question, how prepared for prime time are these things? I know, it's a conversation I've had several times, and it seems like the older the person I'm talking to the more it freaks them out that there's no driver behind the wheel. I think it freaks everybody out. It just freaks out, you know, people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s a lot more than it does everybody else. But statistics, you know, are being what they are, you know, often they can be safer, then human behind the wheel. So what do you think? I mean, are they close to ready to take over the roads? Craig Well, I really like I mentioned this yesterday. I liked this story that came out in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. And it said that autonomous vehicles, these self-driving cars are 90% ready and all we have left is 90% to go. In other words, yeah, there's a lot of things that look like we're ready to go and it might be just a few more years, and we'll have autonomous vehicles. In reality, it's probably going to be quite a while yet. And you talk about you know, older guys like Ken and myself who are over 30. And we're looking at some of these things. And we're concerned because we've seen failures before. Do you remember Cadillac v 864? Matt Back then, I wasn't much of a car person. Ken I did have a Mustang in 1960. Matt Do you remember the Corvair? Unsafe at any speed? Craig I do, and you know, Ralph Nader thing, we still have Nader dots on our tires. But that was an example back in the early 80s of Cadillac trying to make cars more efficient, the engines more efficient, and they had a V-8 engine. And what would happen is if you got onto the highway and you started driving, of course, at highway speeds, you're going down the road, you don't need as much horsepower to keep a vehicle going at a pace as you need to get the car starting at that speed. So they said okay, well, we're going to have the system that automatically shut down cylinders. So you'd be a V-8, and you'd be just roaring up and you getting on the highway and you're often running. Then it would cut back to six cylinders, even four cylinders. The concept was wonderful. But what ended up happening is that engine would say, as you're at a stop sign, oh my I need more horsepower, counteract the braking. Of course, They were not thinking about the brakes very well at the time. And then the car would lunge into the intersection so that you could get t-boned. Fast forward not very many years, and we had the Toyota with a sudden acceleration problem. That turned out to be a software error, where much the same thing was happening. A car would jump into the intersection. We're not going to get into all of the details behind it all. But I think with age comes from experience. And we've had some horrible experiences over the years with vehicles and some of this newer technology. So Matt, to answer your question, a lot is going on the autonomous vehicle space. In some cases, the cars are much, much safer, you look at millions of miles driven, compare human drivers to these autonomous vehicles, and the autonomous vehicles almost always win. But we also now have prejudices against the self-driving cars, social warriors are, you know, get on your horses here. Because there are people who when there's an autonomous vehicle on the road, or they think it's a ton of mess, they behave differently. Now they've been tested have been run, I don't know if you've seen any of these pictures with autonomous vehicles, where they took the driver's seat, and they made it quite a bit deeper, think of thicker padding on that seat. And they hid a driver inside the driver's position. You could not see them unless you looked exceptionally close. You could not see that there was a driver in the vehicle. Then the driver just drove around, caught down and of course, the cameras everywhere so they could see what the people's reactions were. People were going out of their way to mess with the car. They pedestrians were jumping in front of it. Vehicles were cutting it off, slamming on their brakes, doing everything they could to make it so that autonomous vehicle would get involved in an accident. I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to see what it would do. Of course, it wasn't an autonomous vehicle. There's a human driver in there. We, as a society, as people, are not ready for these yet. And frankly, I think the Wall Street Journal's right - We're 90% of the way there. And honestly, we have 90% of the way to go. Because there are so many things, we haven't even considered yet. Ken When he joins us, most Wednesdays at 738, to fill us in on tech news. We at the radio station. I don't want to be critical of our radio station. However, they started this two-factor authentication. So every time I get some on my email, they have to send me a text message with a code. I think this is a royal pain in the butt. I want you to tell me they shouldn't do that. Craig Okay, can they not do that. Ken Thanks so much. Thank you for joining us today. Craig I will leave it at that. Yeah, here's what's going to, first of all, there's a big problem with the way they're doing it. That is that there is something called SIMjacking or hijacking of your SIM card. So if they're sending you a text, that is very dangerous. What's been happening is that if you are a target, now they're not doing this in a broad fishing attempt. If you can are a target, and the criminals know they want to go after you, they can now take over your cell phone, and they will get the text. So it doesn't do a whole lot of good from that aspect. We use something called DUO. D-U-O, which is fantastic. For two factor authentication, we use something called Yubi keys, which are very good as well. If your company's requiring you to us a text message for authentication, there is a relatively safe way of doing it. And that is you can use something like Google Voice, assuming your Google account has not been hacked, right. But Google Voice, where there is no SIM card, there is no cell phone that SIM card to hijack. If you use this and it is what I do for places that have to have a text message sent for two-factor authentication. So if they have to send you a text message, it goes to Google Voice. I have my own little phone company, and I use that as well. That way the text message will come in via an app to your phone, you can check the app, and now you're reasonably safe. But yeah, in this day and age, you know two-factor authentication is something that that does make sense. We do have to draw a line, and that one does it make the most sense. I'd like it to authenticate you at most every four hours or once a day, particularly for emails, if you have to do it every time. It gets a little bit old, pretty darn fast. But you know it's the reality of today's world. Matt Craig Peterson, our tech guru, he joins us at this time every Wednesday to find out exactly what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, we only have a couple of minutes left. So lastly, I will ask you whether or not you judge everyone on social media? Are you part of the mob that rules everyone? Craig Oh man. I am not. I don't jump on anybody's back. I just had that happen to me with a significant hacking group. As you know, I run the national webinars for the FBI Infragard program. I'm pretty visible out there in the security world, right. I do lots of radio interviews and TV and stuff. I posted an article on my website and got jumped on by a small mob out there. We've got to be careful remember it's so easy to say something negative online. Our kids are getting bullied every day. Bullying seems to be quite a habit nowadays. I don't know what happened to free speech. We have these militant people out there these fascist like the Antifas. Total fascist don't want to hear what you have to say. And these internet mobs have become a real thing and a very negative thing. From my viewpoint. Anyways. Ken Good news as our tech guru joins us most Wednesdays at 738. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. We will talk to you next Wednesday. Craig Take care. Matt All right. Thanks a lot, Craig. We appreciate it.   --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we got into a whole bunch here about some lawsuits that are in the works on your behalf against Intel. A little bit more about Huawei, but we went into some details on this whole idea of China owning and providing some 97% of precious metals. And those are now getting pulled into this entire trade battle. And some serious time talking about the wake-up call that new grads are going to get when they report for their first job after Graduation. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Intel Has A Problem and So Do You  Colleges Graduates Are Up For Rude Awakening When They Show Up For That New Job The U.S. Has Had Enough of Huawei and China!   --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 05/29/2019 Intel Vulnerability and Inevitable Lawsuits, Huawei, China and Precious Metals and College Graduates Get A Surprise. --- Craig This morning I was on with, of course, Ken and Matt and we spent some time talking about some of the issues of the day. We got into a whole bunch here about some lawsuits that are in the works on your behalf against Intel. A little bit more about Huawei, but we went into some details on this whole idea of China owning and providing some 97% of precious metals. And those are now getting pulled into this entire trade battle. And some serious time talking about a wake-up call for grads. So a lot this morning, and here we go.   Matt 738 on a Wednesday means Craig Peterson joins us as he does now Craig How are you this morning?   Craig   Hey, good morning doing well, I hear you getting chickens.   Matt No, I'm not getting chickens. But my wife says she wants chickens. I think that this is a fad. But, hey, it's possible, you never know.   Craig Well, we have chickens. I've had them for years. They're easy to take care of, and they do keep the bugs down. If you want to get rid of the ticks, which are nasty this year, then chickens can help, but Guinea hens are supposed to be the best, but they are loud and obnoxious.   Matt Yeah, no, I'm not going be doing that.   Ken Neighbors would love that, of course, a better than the rock concert and whisper.   Ken So, Mr. Peterson, who you, by the way, you can go to Craigpeterson.com any time and get his newsletter and find out all about tech stuff. Doesn't every computer have Intel in it? Everything has Intel Inside. So, are we all screwed here?   Craig Yeah, this is a really, big deal here. And I just don't get it. They seem to be getting a pass. You know, Ken if you if someone came to you, I know you deal primarily with marital laws,   Ken I do.   Craig But if someone came to you says, Hey, I bought this device to do this job. It's advertised to do it. And it's only doing it about half as well as advertised. Would they have a case? Would there be a class action to suit?   Ken Yeah   Craig It doesn't seem to be happening here. Here's what's happened. Pretty much every Intel chip made back to 2011 has a significant security flaw. The industry is putting it in 9.5 out of 10 as far as vulnerabilities go. As far as how bad this is, some Intel chips going back afar as 2007 have these flaws well.  Intel has come out and said okay, well, here's what we're going to do, and we're going to release a patch that you can apply for our chips. If you want to be safe, you have to apply this patch. And you have to turn off hyperthreading. Well, Apple, who uses Intel chips in its desktops and their laptops, has said that doing what Intel tells you to do will force you to lose about 40% of the performance on your computer. That is amazing. It's appalling. And Intel is even said Listen, you know if what we'll do, we'll do some patches for the chips going back to 2011. But 2007 forget about it, you guys must buy a new generation of chips if you have a computer with chips made during those five years, that are vulnerable to what's called ZombieLoad, which is the latest nasty piece of hardware problems from Intel. If you have chips made in those five years, Intel isn't going to do anything for you. It is amazing. Now it depends on your circumstance, you know, you may not be fully exposed to this. But this is the second time that there's been a significant flaw discovered in Intel chip security flaw in the last six months. And this one's even worse than the last one. So Intel saying, "Well, is only classifying it as a medium threat." And frankly, if you have a stack of software protecting your computer, and you have a firewall and next generation one that's inspecting everything coming in, including the JavaScript, etc., etc., then, then you might not be very vulnerable.   Craig But the people that are going to be really, really, really ticked off about this are people who run cloud companies. If you are running your stuff in the cloud, think of it like a salesforce.com, Amazon or Microsoft Azure, which have massive clouds of computers, they have to turn on all of the patches and fixes which means turn off hyperthreading, applying the microcode fixes, etc. They are instantly losing up to 40% of the capability of their server speeds. It is going to result in a huge and more likely a massive lawsuit, I'm sure. We're also going to see I would put money on this gentleman. By the end of this year, Apple will say Adios to Intel, and for their lower end laptops and maybe even some lower end desktops, they will no longer use Intel. But will switch over to a proprietary chip design that they've been using for their iPhones and iPads for a while. More and more companies will be doing that. It was just this week, Intel's most significant competitor AMD released stats on how they don't have these vulnerabilities, right.  There's always something. AMD has some new chips using processes that Intel has not even been able to get close to perfecting yet. So AMD is going to be rising dramatically, Intel's going to be falling sharply. I am not giving any investment advice. Okay. I'm not an investment advisor at all. But I'm talking about their presence in the industry. It is an industry game changer. I think in this case, that whole Intel Inside advertisement they used for so many years is going to bite them. Many people in the IT biz are angry with Intel right now.   Ken Talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now, as he usually does on Wednesdays. And this is a Wednesday ladies, gentlemen, not a Tuesday, it's the second day of the week for us, but it is the third day of the week. Today Craig, when you graduate from college these days, let's say the class of 2019, for instance,  and you head off into the job market. And you know, for years you've had kind of certain types of prospects and certain expectations about what you have to do after you leave college and go into the quote "real world" end quote. Things are changing in that respect. Do you think that kids are going to be having to deal with a little bit more of a higher expectation as they are entering the workforce?   Craig   Yeah, this is an excellent article from the Wall Street Journal, and I put it up as well for some more information. There Wall Street Journal's call this a wake up call for grads. Entry-level jobs that are out there and of course, there are many of them are, is anything but any more. In business, and we could talk about this for a long time, but these jobs have been at the low-end jobs are saying well forget it, we're not going to pay these minimum wages, it's not worth it to us. We'll automate, right. Case in point, being a McDonald's. Many people had their first job at McDonald's. However, now what we're finding that automation and outsourcing, have taken away so many of the lower end jobs. Even when you look at a business like journalism, you used to have people combing other people's newspapers doing clipping, clipping services to get some ideas, beating the streets reading the letters to the editor. Now, that's entirely automated. So graduates now are expected to operate at a much higher level than they ever have had to perform before. And when you're looking at skills, these technical skills required in jobs, the turnover is just so fast and new skills, that your future employers are going to be expecting you to be productive almost on day one. Gone are the days where an employer will say in reality, we don't expect anything out of an employee for the first three months. And then it'll be six months before we get anything truly productive. We have employers out there right now who are looking for people to start making sales calls. For instance, on day one great example, so much. The Wall Street Journal article had quotes in here from IBM, who has 330,000 people who are saying we need people who can adapt. So, if you are graduating from college, and it's anytime soon, you are going to have to adjust and fast. Gone are the days like with my father, who at how old is he? I think he said he was 18 years old, and he started working for the Royal Bank of Canada retiring at 65, from the Royal Bank of Canada. And then he took a contract doing some third-party work for about five years at the Royal Bank of Canada. Now we're going to be switching jobs quickly. We have some industry leaders who are saying the best advice they can give to the younger kids is switch jobs and change careers be very flexible. And that is an entire shift from the generation before mine. We baby boomers even had, on average three to five careers. So things are changing guys in a massive way.   Matt We have on Craig Peterson. He joins us every Wednesday at 738 even though we have Memorial Day Monday and so this is Tuesday for us. Great, I can't pronounce the company. I keep messing it up who-who the one in China. How do you pronounce that? It comes up with bad we're not buying things from anymore.   Craig   Huawei, Huawei,   Matt Huawei, sort of a salad age.   Ken So, explain to us what that's all about. I mean, are they evil?   Ken  10:52   Is it that bad?   Craig The question is, are they evil? Some companies claim that they are and others that claim that they're not. You might remember this scare a few months back where servers and Amazon and elsewhere were found to have some hardware on the motherboard that was not part of the schematics designed by major manufacturers like Supermicro.  They said to Huawei. We want you to manufacture this product, China, and we want this done this way. Here's a schematics make it and ship it back to us. There have been a lot of scares, some of them turned out to be, pretty much, correct. There was a bit firmware put on the boards, maybe a little hardware that shouldn't have been there. And then we announced a trade ban with Huawei and of course, we're in a big fight with them. The Canadians arrested their CFO just a lot about three or four months ago for the United States, who has a warrant out on their CFO.   Craig The problem is that we getting going here is the installation of 5g hardware, made by Huawei. So there was a ban put in place where we could not make a trade with Huawei anymore. Google said, "okay, we're going to honor that, and we will not sell them Android OS anymore." Other hardware manufacturers that were licensing their technology to them, also pulled it back. And the government realized that Huawei is the number two smartphone maker in the world, now that they have passed Apple.  So, they are going to be hurting people here in the US. Now, military bases have stopped selling Huawei, all of what, almost two years ago, because of some of the questions around them. Here's where we stand right now, if you have a Huawei handset, the US Commerce Department has given them a 90-day reprieve on all of their hardware patches, and software and licenses. So, for 90 days, they can send updates, patch phones that people have purchased and can get everything they need, but when that window closes, Huawei won't be able to get any more updates from Google Android for security and other things.  Huawei is scrambling, maybe to have their little version of Android because it's open source, but it gets very complicated. Intel, Qualcomm Broadcom, they all make chips, they have all pulled out of Huawei. If you have a Huawei phone, you have 90 days to get all your stuff together get patches and maybe to a new operating system. I would recommend if you have Huawei, it might be time to consider moving to a different hardware platform, seriously. As ride with Huawei is not going to be a fun ride.   Matt We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, ordinarily I'd let you go. But I do have one question for you that I would like to get your perspective on if possible. On Drudge right now, the headline is about rare earth materials. This one isn't on your list of stuff. However, I know that you know that rare-earth materials make up most of our circuits and cell phones.  There's a lot of elements that are necessary for the production of smartphones, electronics in general, right. And virtually all of them come from China. It is not essential because there are places in America where we could do it. There's a, you know, a couple of great places in California, which would be fantastic if they allowed us to use them and we could and dig into the earth. But we don't do that, and we get them mostly from China. And now China due to the trade of dispute between the United States and China,  China is now threatening to slap either tariff or restrict our use rare-earth materials as leverage in the trade war against the United States. Since we're so dependent on it. So, thoughts on that? I mean, you have an entire country, addicted to technology and their smartphones and all these things. And you have a single country, which is a current trade adversary that controlling all of the elements necessary for the production of those things. It seems like a recipe for disaster. Don't you think?   Craig It sounds like it. The last numbers, I saw, show that China has been providing something like 97 percent.   Matt Yep   Craig Yeah of some of these rare earth materials that are used in the manufacturing these electronics. Here's how I've been looking at this because I have been following it. We've got, obviously a bit of a trade war going on. There been a lot of people for years who've been concerned about China, buying up some of these rare-earth plants around the world. We're not that worried in the electronics industry about it, because as you pointed out, we have our own,   Matt Really?   Craig Well, in the short term, there is going to be a hit, no question. But we have our own. Also, on top of that remember much of it, look at the uranium one deal, that uranium is coming from the United States. And ultimately, if we need to gain access to some of the rare-earth materials that are here in the US or, or are in the ground and mined by some of our partners worldwide, all we have to do is call China and say get lost. We don't care if you own it on paper, we are grabbing control of it. And that's what the talk in the industry is right now. That we will use eminent domain to grab back resources in our country and friendly countries to gain access to it because it is critical for both military and civilian use, like our cell phones and computers and the manufacturing of them. Also, there are alternative ways to do some of this manufacturing. And the big one. Number one is it it's so cheap to buy these rare-earth materials from China, we don't even bother recycling most of our gear. And much of the rarer stuff that we need can be recovered from existing electronics. So, that's another angle that we can use to protect ourselves.   Ken Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us every Wednesday 730. Craig will talk to you next Wednesday. Craig Hey, take care, gentlemen.   Matt   Bye-bye. All right. Thanks a lot,   Craig So, with that, hey, I am going to be making some changes to this podcast. And I hope they're going to be what you guys want to hear. It's going to be a little bit more security focused and a little less of the interviews because I've found that, you know, often I end up talking about the same essential topics on all three different radio stations. So, I'm at the very least,  think I'll do cut it up so that we have the best of the three on the individual topics. I haven't decided yet, and we might have me going through each of the issues individually and not even include a whole bunch from these different radio stations. Anyways, as always let me know what you think text me@craigpeterson.com. I've got to throw this out. My heart goes out to everybody in the Midwest and elsewhere. Tornadoes or other natural disasters have hit them. It's been quite a week, two weeks. I blame it on the Canadians. Okay, Canadians listening. Sorry about that. But anyhow, it is the cold air that's a problem. We have so much cold air that's hitting this warm, moist air that's come up from the Gulf from the south. And that is responsible for causing these storms this year, according to the meteorologists and that makes sense, right? That's what you need for a storm, a cold front hitting a warm front. And the fact that we have such cooling going none from some of this cold air coming from the north and hitting this hot and moist Southern air. It's creating a lot of tornadoes this year. So my heart and prayer go out to everybody impacted. Take care of everybody, and we will be back on Saturday. Bye-bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning, they talked about a lot of things. Craig discussed the benefits of intermittent fasting. They also talked about the Israeli bombing cyber hackers, Jeff Bezos getting into the business of freight services, and hospitals pushing device makers to improve security on medical devices. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Microsoft Warns Of A Monster Computer Bug, In A Week Of Them Israel Bombed Cyber Hackers (That Is Historic, For Many Reasons) Jeff Bezos Personally Dumps A Truckload Of Dirt On Fedex’s Future Hospitals Push Device Makers To Improve Security Following Cyberattacks --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 05/22/2019 Intermittent Fasting - Microsoft Warning About Patches - Israel Responded To Hacking By Bombing Craig Peterson  0:00 Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, welcome, welcome. Hey, if you watch me on YouTube, or maybe you attend some of my classes, or you're one of my insiders that I do coaching with, you might have noticed that I have lost a quite a bit of fat. I'm going to say, not necessarily weight, I have lost weight. I've lost a lot, 30, 40 pounds. But I've also put on some muscle. And you might be wondering why and how. I've had quite a few people asked me that are, you know, getting security coaching from me. Well, I am doing something called intermittent fasting as well as my wife. My kids have been doing it. It has been just amazing for general health. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt, I guess Ken had disappeared during this segment. But he had been talking about doing some intermittent fasting a little earlier in the morning. And I was so I got in and I explained what I will learned about intermittent fasting and diabetes and various types of diseases, including cancer. Some Nobel Prize material that had been presented to a Nobel laureate just a few years ago, a major breakthrough in science of medicine. So I talked about that this morning. And of course, we got into all of our weekly stuff as well, including a major warning out this week about Microsoft and doing some of the updates. You know, should you, shouldn't you while we talked about that this morning as well. So here we go. And of course, you'll find all of this at http://CraigPeterson.com. Matt Gagnon 1:38 Again 7:38 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. It is time to talk to our friend Craig Peterson. He joins us at this time every every Wednesday, and this is no exception of course. Craig, How are you this morning? Craig 1:53 Hey, I am doing great. You know, we got to talk about one of my favorite subjects you guys are talking about a little earlier today, too? Matt 2:01 Yes. What is that subject, sir? Craig 2:02 So my wife and I have been doing intermittent fasting for over a year now. And I've read seven books on the topic. I follow a doctor out of the University of Toronto really closely, Jason Fung and he's a doctor. He's been a kidney doctor for the all a very long time. And he was tired of all of his patients dying. And of basically one thing, right, the whole insulin problem, diabetes. And about three years ago, there was a Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to a Japanese researcher who discovered and really documented something called autophagy. And autophagy is the process whereby your cells repair themselves, but your body only repairs itself at one time. And that's when your fasting. So for instance, Matt, you know that you your mom probably told you time and time again, you got to get your sleep, right, give your body a chance to rest and repair. What are you not doing when you're sleeping? You're not eating? Right? And so it was really interesting to me, it started to click and so I read at least a half a dozen books on the topic and looked into the research, read some of the Nobel laureates writings on autophagy and follow Jason Fung who has been able to cure 1200 of his patients have diabetes, including the most severe types of diabetes. Now you got to be careful if you're diabetic, and you're thinking about fasting, intermittent fasting. Make sure you talk to your doctor. But with autophagy basically fixes almost everything. And then a side effect of it all is that you end up losing weight as well, and my wife and I, we've combined lost over 100 pounds over the last year, we are feeling better than I'm feeling better than I can remember in decades now. She is too, but it's absolutely amazing. So from a guy, you know, 10 years I was a volunteer paramedic, so I don't play a doctor on the radio. But I've read a lot about this, it's been very fascinating to me. And once you're trying to do is two things typically Ken. One is you want the results of autophagy, there's a study that just came out of Cambridge, about a month ago by a researcher saying basically, if you fast seven days a year, you it's almost impossible for you to get any type of cancer, because the autophagy clears those cells out of your body there. It's fascinating. You should research it. But taking your vitamins, it's still recommended to do that. Absolutely. But if you're eating less than about 500 calories a day, which you would be if all you took was your vitamins, you're on what's called a fasting mimicking diet. Now you got to be careful about restricting your calories because a calorie restricted diet causes other problems with your body and doesn't actually help with the fasting or the autophagy. What you're trying to do, bottom line here is stop the insulin reaction in your body. You want to slow that down. So eating anything like eating six meals a day, according to everything I've been reading and including what Dr. Fung has been talking about six meals a day is almost the worst thing you could possibly do. So don't snack. When you start out. Well, what we did for months with something called a 16. Eight fast, so we fasted for 16 hours a day. So if you finish your dinner at 6pm, 6am, the next day, there you got 12 hours with no snacks at all, you just drink water basically, or black coffee or tea, and then you don't eat until noon. So basically skip breakfast, you now have fasted for 16 hours and your body has had a chance to repair itself. It's fascinating stuff. After 24 hours of fasting, again, no food, no snacks, just some water and you know clear stuff, no sugars at all. After 24 hours, most of your immune system gets replaced. Your T cells, these white blood cells that protect you if they get rebuilt and replaced. And it's just fascinating, fascinating stuff. I read a bunch of scientific papers on this, as well as a whole bunch of books and studied some diets and things. Ken I absolutely love it. It is the easiest thing we have ever done from any sort of a diet. We've done, you know, bunches of them in the past, and they've all had various results for us. But this intermittent fasting thing has been amazing for us. Matt 6:59 Well, this is the health hour with Craig Peterson. And he's talking with us here talking about all things technology and health related. So let's actually turn our attention a little bit to the technology side of things, if you don't mind. So Microsoft is warning us that there is a gigantic monster evil, malevolent force out there, a computer bug, and we should pay attention to that. So tell us a little bit more about what this warning is. Craig 7:22 Yeah, I sent out another warning yesterday too, that was a Microsoft based one. But here's what happened. Intel, our friends member we have Intel processors CPUs in most of our computers. That's not true of your Samsung phone,Matt. It's not true of your iOS devices there Ken. But Intel processors, it's been found have another extremely major security vulnerability, I hate to have to say that again. And in order to completely block that computer vulnerability, you have to turn off something called hyperthreading, and that causes a 40% performance penalty. So we've got Apple's, Cook is very very, very upset with Intel right now, it's going to cause some more tensions between the two companies. Microsoft released patches for this, as has Apple, all the major manufacturers have released patches for this Intel bug. You will notice your machine will slow down afterwards. But I've got to warn you because Microsoft had 19 severe rated patches that they released this week. You know the Patch Tuesday thing. Be very careful because it breaks machines that are running so folks antivirus as well as some other software out there. So if you have not applied the Microsoft patches from this month's set of patches, don't do them. My Microsoft is calling them a monster computer bug. This is very big. And the likelihood that you're going to get nailed by it right now is kind of low. So be careful, Microsoft issued a warning that they are causing what's called the blue screen of death on Windows computers. So this is one time, you probably don't want to apply the patches quite yet. But you're definitely going to want to apply them. Matt 9:21 We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. And Craig, Equifax got a data breach of course and a lot of their customers information was was taken and there's some huge data breach there whatnot. Apparently that has cost them dearly. Cash wise, what happened? Craig 9:41 Yeah, this is I was just bemoaning Equifax because look at the insane ruined 145 million people's private data, you know, it got released, and some of it was extreme private data. And it was due to the fact that they didn't patch right, they had a six months old patching problem. And really no heads rolled over this. And that kind of upset me too. They just weren't doing anything right. But now we found out because Equifax just had their earnings report last week, we found out that they have they've spent they said more than $1.4 billion because of the breach and that's paying people, covering people for having their credit monitored, etc. And by the way, that does not include the money they keep they paid to Ken and his cohorts. So the 1.4 billion does not include legal fees. So I don't know if I should consider that any form of justice. But yeah, Equifax has paid and paid I would say $1.4 billion, and plus legal fees. This is probably they paid kind of dearly for this. I hope they have changed their practices. You know what people, this reminds us get back to the brass tacks. When it comes to security. get right down to it, make sure you are doing the patches, just wait this month for maybe another week or so for Microsoft to get its act together. But make sure you patch make sure you have the 321 backup stuff in place. Make sure you are taking care of the fundamentals.  Matt 11:25 And Craig speaking of justice, you mentioned the word justice. One of the little tidbits that caught my attention was this. This, this news item about Israel actually bombing cyber hackers or cyber, I don't know if you want to call them cyber terrorists, whatever. So this is a this is sort of a this is a new front on on, I guess the the general idea of welfare, warfare, excuse me. And it's it's historic and different, new and a lot of ways. So describe this to us. Craig 11:59 Well, it is it. We know already the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, they return fire when Hamas sends rockets over the border and stuff. And apparently, Hamas has been very aggressive against Israeli targets on the cyber security front. So they apparently track down where these Hamas cyber operatives are working out of. And it was a group called HamasCyberHQ.exe is what they call themselves. And the IDF came out with with a statement on Twitter that said, following our successful cyber defensive operation, we targeted a building where Hamas cyber operatives work. HamasCyberHQ.exe has been removed. And in Twitter they posted a picture of a U shaped building with the right side of it colored in red. And that apparently was a section that is now wiped off the map. So kinetic conflicts is what it's been called, which I thought was really kind of cool. But yeah, apparently Israel has decided that cyber warfare, it should be treated the same as any other type of warfare. And they took them out with good old fashioned explosives. Matt 13:20 And speaking of taking out that's a good segue or not, but Jeff Bezos is undercutting and taking the knees out of FedEx. He's going going after them directly. What's happening there? Craig 13:35 Did you see this pictures? Matt 13:36  I did. Craig 13:37  Bezos on this big John Deere right, front end loader. And yes, this is really fascinating, because of course, Amazon keeps trying to cut costs. We've talked about that before. And one of the things that they are doing right now just last week, outside of Cincinnati down in Kentucky, because they're right on the border, he's building a 3 million square foot parking garage, he's building his own airport, they're going to call it the Prime Air airport. It hasn't a parking garage for 100 cargo jets. Amazon doesn't own anywhere near that many right now. And he is launching his own freight delivery service. extensively, we're assuming here to be able to move Amazon products around the country. He's putting that one and a half billion dollars into this and saying this is going to create about 2000 new jobs. But as you pointed out, FedEx and UPS have been hauling this stuff for him. So I don't know, maybe it's rubbing a little salt into their wounds, because this is going to hurt their businesses. Matt 14:45 Indeed, it is. Craig we have maybe a minute and a half left here. So a quick question here to wrap up here, hospitals, device makers and proving security following cyber attack. So you hear hospitals and cyber attacks and gonna freak me out a little bit like health records and everything else like what's actually happening here in a couple of minutes? Craig 15:03 Yeah, well, we know health records are especially two years ago, it was the year of the medical cyber hack. Right now what we're seeing is US hospitals very concerned because there was a test done on CT machines and others in the hospitals. And it found that they were very vulnerable to hackers. And that's extremely concerning. Think about what might happen, if you have a had a radiological machine, an x-ray machine that was compromised, and they compromised them throughout the country. And now they're holding people's lives, literally at ransom, because they're saying, Hey, we will overdose people on x-rays. It's a terrible thought. And hospitals are now pushing back to device makers saying we want to know everything about those devices. We're buying, what operating system is inside of them, and go further along the lines. And we've seen that before too even in manufacturing facilities. Some of these devices even are still running Windows XP. These are not just a black box. It's not just sitting there doing nothing, right? It has a computer in it, everybody. We've got to protect it. And so hospitals are really pushing the device makers now.  Matt 16:18 Yeah indeed. All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over what's happening in the world of technology. As always Craig, we appreciate it and talk to you again next Wednesday, sir. Craig 16:29 Take care. Bye. Bye. Matt 16:31 Thanks a lot, Craig. Alright, so we're gonna take a quick break here. Craig 16:33 Hey, if you're interested in having me, I was thinking maybe do a little quick masterclass on this whole fasting thing. Maybe put a little support group together because I know it can be tough. I don't know. Let me know if you think I should or if you have any other questions, just me@CraigPeterson.com. And you know if you're interested, look it up. Study it a little bit. This is free, right? Who's going to pay for TV ads to do something for free, right? Nobody. This stuff just works. I'm just fascinated, amazed by it. Amazed how good it is, how good it's been for me, and how good it's been for thousands of other people that I'm aware of. I don't know what the ultimate number is. Anyways, Take care everybody. We will be back on Saturday. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

It's Wednesday morning. Time for the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Today they talked about the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the fake 5-star reviews on Amazon, and how much your tax info is worth on the dark web. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: 5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex Here’s How Much Your Tax Info Is Worth On The Dark Web --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 04/24/2019 Samsung Fold Problem - How Much Your Tax Info Sells For - Matt's Bad Amazon Headphones Craig Peterson  0:00 Hey, everybody, we talked this morning about the Samsung fold problem, how much your tax and photos worth on the dark web and Matt bought some headphones online on Amazon based on the star ratings. And guess what? They aren't so good. So we talked about that as well. So here we go Craig Peterson with Ken and Matt in Maine, this morning. Matt Gagnon0:26 WGAN Wednesday morning, that time and that day means Craig Peterson, man about town and tech guru joins us as he does now. What's going on, Craig? Craig 0:37 Hey, good morning. Caribou still has snow on the ground. But that's a shocker.  Ken Altshuler 0:45 Which is why we should annex it to Canada. It doesn't belong in America, get rid of it. So I didn't see this on your, we're not going, I'm sure you've talked about the Samson folding tablet fiasco. And since I love to talk about how Samsung sucks. Any comment on Samsung? Craig 1:09 You summed it up there in one word. Ken 1:11 Well, thank you for joining us. Matt 1:16 Oh, you fanboys. Ken 1:17 I haven't had that with my iPhone, Matt. Matt 1:19 At least they're trying to develop something new. Craig 1:22 It's a problem. And of course, we're talking about these folding things. With the Galaxy Fold. The screens are breaking and people are kind of getting upset. But it's a cool new technology. Matt's right for once, Ken. You know. Ken 1:37 Matt's never right. Ever. Craig 1:40 Ever? Oh, come on. I was trying to give you one Matt. So here's a problem. It's, how do I even explain this? Okay, here we go. I've got one Matt. The Apple MacBook Pro has a similar problem. And that is that when you're bending these things, sometimes those cables are, and the conductors are extremely, extremely small. And when you bend them a lot, of course you get mechanical breakdowns and that's what's happening right now with the galaxy fold and with the MacBook Pro, in fact, both companies are scrambling Apple's scrambling to get a new MacBook Pro out this September. And it looks like they're kind of pushing it up a little sooner than they had wanted to. Because of the two big problems with the MacBook Pro. One is the keyboard is still an issue for a lot of people. I just I don't like the feel of it. I don't. Ken, you like the feel your MacBook Pro keyboard right? Ken 2:42 I do. Well, I kind of like the raised a little better. I've got a use of this. But that when I was raised lettering, I liked it a little better. Craig 2:52 Yeah, I'd like to the old one little bit better. And then there's some problems with the cables in the screen there. And then the Galaxy Fold from Samsung is incredibly new technology. No one's really tried to do this quite this way before. And so it's it's kind of falling on its face. But also Samsung doesn't have the profit margin Apple does to invest in some of this stuff. So it's impressive what they did. But I'm not sure it'll ever be, well ever is a long time. Right. But anytime soon?  Matt 3:22 I don't know, I guess I don't understand. And I'm a Samsung aficionado, if you will. So I don't get why you'd want it. I don't want to fold my phone. Is it just because you want to get a bigger screen? I guess. And so you can fold it that way? I don't care that much. Yeah, I mean, where is the demand for this? That I mean, I want to have a tablet, but I wanted the size of a phone. I really don't a tablet the size of my phone. Craig 3:47 Well, it's the phablet thing, right? But let's go back again to Apple as an example, Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs. Henry Ford, let's go way back to Henry Ford. He said if we had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. And Steve Jobs said of you know, we came up with the with the iPod and then the iPhone. And it, nobody was asking for it. And then when they came up with these bigger ones, like the one I have sitting right in front of me right now, they came up with a bigger screens and displays people were not asking for that either. And yet, in all of those cases, they became very, very popular. So as a business person, I've got to say, you, you have to what's the word cannibalize your own business, even if you have a business model and your business is doing well, if you don't compete against yourself with some new innovations, someone else is going to compete against yourself with that same innovation that you didn't bother doing. So I've got to in this case, praise Samsung for trying it. And I also agree with both you guys, I don't really want one that big. I have an iPad, if I need it, you know something that's bigger, but you know, having it in my pocket is going to be is going to be problematic. So I think that's why. So good, good on them for trying something new. But they definitely did not pull it off. Matt 5:10 Talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time, every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, when I buy stuff on Amazon, I admit that I am one of the people that will you know, take like three different I actually, here's a good example, I just bought some wireless headphones, so that I could go running and not have the stupid wires in my face all the time. When I did that, I found like four or five different ones on Amazon and I checked out the reviews to see what people thought of them. And I, I will say I gave a couple extra points to the one that had better reviews. And I ended up buying it and I'm not terribly happy with it. Was I taken was was that were there a lot of phony reviews that are on these Amazon items and has this become a problem? Craig 5:53 Well, that's a really good point because there's an article I have up on my site this week. It's from The Hustle. But this one particular was headphones, his iPhone plug it has that little iPhone connector on it. And it was ranked five stars, almost it had almost 4000 5-star reviews. And yet when the guy order did, that connector came right off broke off for like almost the first time right in his iPhone when he was trying to use it. And it's it is a real problem in something that we've kind of known about for a while. But the reason that's happening I think is very interesting. We used to have a, we still do, a lot of people here in the US who are buying stuff in China or from someplace else. They're shipping it over here. And then they are selling it on Amazon, they're reselling. And what's been happening over the last two to three years is these Chinese companies that are making these things have figured out, well, maybe we can get rid of that middleman. And so they've been shipping directly to Amazon. We're not going to get into all of the details here of how that all works. But they ship their stuff over and then they sell it. So there are some things that are going on that are kind of bad. You know, there's 82% of Americans, both all probably all three of us, right? Who checked the reviews, who checked the stars in it. But it turns out that there are sellers in China, who are paying people here in the US, they have secret Facebook groups, they have all closed Facebook groups, and they have other ways of communicating. And they will have you buy their product, they'll reimburse you for having bought it from Amazon. And then they'll give you an extra 10 bucks if you give it a five star review online. And so this guy got into this, he started poking around, he was invited to be a reviewer  of this nice little iPhone charger cable. And he found out that there is a big underbelly here there's a site you might want to check out called Fakespot, F-A-K-E-S-P-O-T. And people are looking at these five star reviews and Fakespot had a look at these. And found that in fact, there there there is star inflation going on. And they use some interesting ways to try and figure it out. But kind of on average, it's about a half a star inflation on some of these products. And when maybe as many as 30% of all of these reviews online are fake. And that is a real problem, Matt. Matt 8:46 So I have this to blame for my wireless headphones not working the way that I want them to. Excellent. Craig 8:50 It might be.  Matt 8:53 I really just want to blame someone, Craig. So I'm gonna go ahead and pick this and call it good. Craig 8:57 Call it good. When you get right down to it, read the reviews and see if they're all the same. I found reviews, I did a search online about this that said I haven't tried this product but and do a search for that. Go to Google and tell it to search Amazon for I haven't tried this product. And you will find reviews where people are giving a five star review and saying I haven't tried this product. So look for those, when you're looking at a product and then also look for people saying almost the exact same thing over and over again. And for me something that spooks me badly is very poor English. And that means that they aren't you know, they aren't people who can speak English well. So maybe they're legit. Maybe they're great people. But I get a little nervous about it. Ken 9:53 We are down with Craig Peterson. He's our tech guru. Matt 9:58 Peterson. Ken 9:59 Exactly what I said. He joins us, everyone Wednesday at 7:38. Sorry for the cough. Matt 10:06 We're now at 7:48. 10 minutes into the segment. Ken 10:09 I didn't. I know, but he joins us at 7:38. Matt 10:11 I'm just saying. Ken 10:12 I didn't know the dark web, I know dark web deals with a lot of bad, you know, kiddie porn, but I didn't know it looked at my taxes. Matt 10:23 Are you saying that you can Donald Trump's taxes on the dark web? Ken 10:26 Yeah. Can we go down and find out?  Craig 10:29 You will if the congressional committee catch all of them. Here's what's going on, I want to give everyone a quick piece of advice here. And that is if you have filed an extension for your taxes, file them as soon as you possibly can. Because what's happening is the bad guys are doing a couple of things. We already know they've got your passwords, we already know they've got your accounts. And we already know that most Americans are still using one of 10 passwords, people. And because of that what they've done now is the bad guys are hijacking People's Bank Accounts unbeknownst to them. So you can still use your bank account, but the bad guys have access to it. And then they are filing fake tax returns. And they're filing those big tax returns. And then they're pulling the money, all of it, including your tax return out of your bank account. And so that's how they get the guys you say well, I don't get much money. Yeah, but you're looking forward to that $500 tax refund. Well so are the bad guys. And they are paying online, anywhere from $1 for up to $52 for W-2s, 1040s, your name, your social security number and your birthdate is worth as little as 19 cents on the dark web. But just think of that. It can take you 300 hours to recover your credit and name and it's only worth 19 cents. And you can if you want to become a bad guy, you can get a how to guide to cash in on a victim's tax return for only $70 on the dark web. So it's our money, our identity isn't worth much. But if it's worth more than 17 cents to you, maybe you should change your passwords and use a password manager like 1Password or Lastpass online because man this is a real problem. And the best way to deal with this particular the taxes is to file your return early before the bad guys file one on your behalf. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Are we living in a virtual world? Is Amazon spying on us? Is your car watching you? Find out more as Craig discusses these topics with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News this Wednesday morning. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa Are We Living In A Simulation? This Mit Scientist Says It’s More Likely Than Not Your Car Is Watching You. Who Owns The Data? --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 04/17/2019 Our Virtual world - Data Cars Are Collecting - The Truth About Amazon Alexa Monitoring Craig Peterson  0:00  Good morning, everybody. I expect I'll be doing a couple of It's a Security Thing podcasts this week. So make sure you check back. Today I was on with Ken and Matt. And we reviewed of course the articles in the news this week we talked about the cars and the amount of data they are collecting on us right now. We spent a little bit of time talking about this whole what's happening with virtual reality thing and, you know, a couple of other topics came up as well. So here we go with Ken and Matt. Matt Gagnon 0:34 Alright, here we go. It is 7:38 on the WGAN Morning News on Wednesday morning. And Craig Peterson joins us as he typically does on this day to go over what's happening in the world of technology Craig Peterson. Welcome to the program, sir. Craig 0:46 Hey, he does you know, I remember back in the, must have been 74, 75 driving down the Decarie expressway in Montreal and having the axle in our car come out the side rear axle. And it was hanging out about two and a half three feet almost ready to completely come out. So we didn't just almost lose a tire or lose a tire. We almost lost the whole wheel and the actual want to happen to be actual came out of our car. That would, let me tell you that was quite a quite an event because the Decarie expressway was was a very busy back then in the mid 70s. Ken Altshuler 1:28 How did the wheel on the other side stay on if your axle came out that far? Craig 1:34 What is the differential in the rear right, rear wheel drive car. So there's really two axles and so the one on the left side somehow the bearing went and became detached from the differential and slid it out. Man, that'll wake you up. Ken 1:51 Yes, it will. Speaking of waking up, Craig Peterson. I thought that Alexa, can't listen to what's going on in your house? Craig 2:02 Yeah, you know, there's been a lot of bad reporting on this. And you know, other than us right here, I think most stations tend to report things incorrectly. Knee jerk. Let me put it that way. Matt 2:15   Are you calling people a fake news? Craig 2:16  Fake news? Yeah, exactly. It's been all over the place just last week. So I'm not surprised you kind of caught up top this one Ken. But here's what they're saying. They're saying they're complaining that the Alexa is listening to you. And worse than than Amazon's people are listening to you. Here's the bottom line on this. And here's what's really happening. If you develop some software, you have to test it. And one of the things I never worked on was voice recognition software. I worked on signature recognition analysis, but never voice. Always a very difficult thing to do. And frankly, I am shocked and amazed how good voice recognition has become. Well, it's become really good. Not because somehow computers have gotten smarter or faster, that has nothing really to do with it. voice recognition has gotten really good because people are analyzing what the computers are doing. So you, you know, breaks down the speech and tries to understand you. And you have to have a human come in afterwards, make sure that computer did it correctly. Maybe you flag something that you want people to listen to, because the person just kept asking basically the same thing and the computer couldn't recognize it. So what's going on here right now is Amazon has a team, a worldwide team, a global team. And they examine a small portion of the recordings that the Alexa has made of your commands. So Matt, for instance, how would you tell an Amazon device to tune in to the radio station this morning? Matt 4:02 Alexa, tune in to WGAN. Craig 4:07  Exactly. And so now Alexa is going to tune in and you have a great radio announcer voice. Ken 4:14  He does. Matt 4:14 Thank you, I appreciate that. Ken 4:15 Nobody says that to me clearly. Craig 4:18 So it would pick it up and it would handle it pretty darn well. But a lot of us kind of mumble and you know, our accents are there from other languages we might speak and things. So the Amazon Alexa, the workers are not sitting there listening to all of your conversations. What's happening is a very small percentage of commands just like Matt gave, are analyzed by humans to make sure it's doing the right things. And then they use that to tune up the Alexa to be able to appropriately answer questions or obey commands. Google does it with their Google Home systems, Siri does it. Apple does it with their systems, and the workers don't have your name, your email address. They don't know who you are. They have nothing personally identifiable about you. All they're trying to do is make the speech recognition better. And they also if they hear something that might be considered suspicious, they do nothing with it, because they have no context. So people have been worried about that, too. And I can tell you, and you know, as an emergency medical professional for 10 years, I was a mandated reporter. And we had to report things that we thought were suspicious. Well, different people have different levels of suspicion. And we saw that in Blue Bloods, I love Blue Bloods on TV here this last week, where you have a woman who is there in a park and doesn't like the way another mother is talking to her and teasing her about this other mother's baby and stuff. So she reports it to the police and everything. So there's different levels of suspicion. And all you're hearing, when you're examining this, when this team is listening to the audio, is a 10 second snippet, a maximum of 30 seconds that you can't really tell what's going on. So don't worry about it. Yeah, they have it. Yeah, they're keeping it Yeah, they're analyzing it. But it bottom line, the best of my knowledge, even though it's been called up as evidence in some court cases, it's never actually been particularly valuable, other than in divorce cases. Matt 6:32 All right, we're talking to Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. He joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. And Craig, I rewatched The Matrix the other day. And I remember 1999, when that came out, which is now 20 years ago, my god in heaven, that it sparked a number of conversations between college philosophy majors about whether or not it was something that would show us that we actually did already live inside a simulation and whether or not The Matrix was real, and the movie was kind of showing us that reality, and so on and so forth. But this conversation is rearing its ugly head yet again, because there's an argument being made right now that we are, in fact, living in a simulation. So Craig, I guess my question to you is, am I currently plugged into a computer somewhere living my life as a simulation? Craig 7:17 Yeah, it's a real interesting question. Oh, my gosh, I got into this in some detail on my podcast, too, because this is something that's fascinated me for at least 25 years before it came out, The Matrix came out. Do you remember the same time? Do you remember two more movies that came out in 98, 99? The 13th Floor and Dark City? Matt 7:38   I remember both of those movies. Craig 7:40 Yeah. All kind of the same thing. Well, here's the bottom line on all this. I'll make this pretty quick. We could go on for hours. But the basic thinking is, we have virtual reality right now. I'm sure Ken uses it every day as he's playing his video games, right. And it's getting better and better as we go forward. At some point, this is going to be better than, well, it's much better than today. But it's going to be as good as the real world you won't be able to distinguish the real world from not it was even in the fifth, The 5th Day, right? Or The 6th Day. What was that Schwarzenegger movie? Matt 8:22 I think it was the 6th Day wasn't it? Craig 8:24  6th Day. Matt 8:26  And I remember when we're talking about. Yeah. Not a lot of people remember that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, Craig 8:28 Well, the guy had a virtual girlfriend. Matt 8:30  Correct. Craig 8:30  So it gets to that point. And our computers are fast enough to be able to simulate people just like they did in these movies, then what's to say that some history major doesn't create a program that spins up a society from 500, a thousand years ago, and lets the program run. Lets things happen within the program, to try and see how people might have acted a thousand years ago, or changing things just a little bit here or there. What would happen? Well, if any of that is possible, and it is all possible, there's no question and then it'll be extremely possible in another, certainly within 50 years, some people are saying 20 or 30 years, then what are the odds that what we are experiencing is real? And in other words, if there was one society that went all the way past where we're at to indistinguishable virtual reality, to be able to create virtual reality, civilizations, what are the odds that we are that initial civilization, and not one of millions of likely virtual civilizations in the future? And so this is from an MIT science as he just came out with a book called The simulation hypothesis. There are quite a few books out about the same topic, but I love that, that title. And he is a computer scientist, Video game developer. He leads the Playlabs at MIT. And I'm assuming it's a he. Yeah, it is a he. Rizwan Virk. R-I-Z-W-A-N Virk. So if he's right, what does it mean to us? Does it matter? You know, does it all of a sudden change our lives in any way? They the answer's no. It's very interesting to think about that though, I agree with you Matt. Ken 10:28 We are talking to our tech guru, Craig Peterson, who joins us every week at this time. 7:30 every Wednesdays. And you can go to http://CraigPeterson.com and get all this news all the time. Before we let you go, are you telling me now that my cars watching what I'm doing? I mean, I have no privacy in my car? Craig 10:47   None whatsoever. Matt 10:49 You don't have any privacy anywhere Ken.  Unknown 10:51 I guess so. Matt 10:52 This is America in 2019. Craig 10:54 Well, you know, when you're really good looking Matt, everyone's watching. Ken 10:54 Exactly, really? Craig 10:55  Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that anyways. Well, I didn't realize this statistic. But cars now are capable, because really, it's just a computer on wheels. In fact, that's not even true. It is 20 to 30, at least computers on wheels in your car. And it can generate about 25 gigabytes of data every hour. Four terabytes a day. And they're saying that in another 10 years, that data from our cars is going to be worth almost a trillion dollars. So the big question out there right now is who owns that data from our cars and and how private is it going to be? Because when we take our cars, and even now, they are plugged into a network and able for instance, with Mercedes, they have engineers in Germany, that examine the data in your car to try and figure out if there's any issues, things you might not be aware of. Acura is doing some of those same things, many high end car brands are doing it and even lower end car brand are set up right now to plug your car into their computers, collect data and do some analysis. So who owns it? How private should it be? Could it be at this point in Europe, they have some laws that that aren't specifically about this, but the GDPR does kind of cover it. California has a lot that goes into effect next year. And that law is going to try and keep this private information private. But as much as 10 years ago, I know speaking of Decarie expressway in Montreal, I know in Montreal on Sherbrooke, they pulled a car over because people had reported it as speeding. The police didn't see it speed, but they pulled it over. They plugged a reader into that port in your car. And it reported that the car had within the last 10 minutes been doing 70 miles an hour on a city street and they issued a  ticket. So things to think about and maybe look forward to hear guys. Matt 13:06  All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Appreciate it Craig as always. And we will talk to you again next week, sir. Craig 13:15 Take care, guys. Bye Bye. Ken 13:16 Thanks, Craig. Craig 13:24 And I'll be back tomorrow. Take care guys. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Craig is on the WGAN Morning News. This morning they talked about the dangers of spam, spear phishing, and sextortion emails. They also talked about the Supreme Court taxing the online stores. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: The US Has Stepped Up Its Tax Game. You Will Want To Read This If You’re Selling Online Latest Tactics Used By Cybercriminals To Bypass Traditional Email Security --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 04/10/2019 Internet Sales About To Be Taxed - Dangers Of Spam Craig Peterson  0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. Sorry, yesterday, I was not able to record a little intro to my Jim podcast. But anyhow, I am today. And we're planning on doing a security thing this week to on Thursday and Friday. So keep an ear out for that. I got a couple of real interesting cases that we're going to be talking about. Some major companies and some small companies and what happened to them this week with leaking sensitive data. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt. And we talked about two different things. We talked about something I did not talk with Jim about yesterday. And that is how the US has stepped up its tax game. And what is happening with the tax jurisdictions, the Supreme Court decision last fall, that really is going to change everything. So I talked to them about that. And then also, of course course about email, and the email problems we're having right now, the switch, frankly, that's been occurring in spearphishing that I saw starting in about six weeks ago, but now it's starting to reach epidemic levels a lot higher than the measles right now. Anyhow, take care. And here we go. be back tomorrow Matt Gagnon 1:21 7:38 WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday, which means that it's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he always does at this time, except for last week when he didn't join us. So he's back. Ladies and gentlemen, Craig, how are you? Craig 1:34 I am. I was at a conference last weekend in Phoenix, Arizona. Matt 1:41 Excuses, excuses. Ken Altshuler 1:41 So let's see probably the same kind of whether you're experiencing this week here in town. Craig 1:46 Pretty much the you know, it was about 70 degrees inside the conference room for five days. And then I heard rumors that it was in the 90s outside. Yeah, I was a good little boy and stayed in there. The whole time learned and contributed. Matt 1:59 Soldiered on. Ken 2:02 So well. Why don't we start off with email security. This is very safe as I know. We don't have to worry about anything about email security now do we? Craig 2:12 Yeah. Well there are some changes in this. I don't know if you guys noticed some of the changes in the emails that are coming in, these these spear phishing attacks? Ken 2:21 Spear phishing attacks. Matt 2:24  I don't really like fish. Ken 2:25 I don't really mind spearfishing, sounds kind of... Craig 2:27 You can't connect, you know, normally when you're spearfishing, you can't you don't get a whole bunch of fish or better with a big net. And for years, that's what they did, what they would do is send out emails, the exact same emails to as many email addresses as they could get their hands on. And some people would respond. And there's some interesting science behind this, you know, the Nigerian prince scams that are still going on, but not at the rate they used to. They would have spelling mistakes and grammatical, you guys must have noticed that right? Matt 3:00  Yeah. A little bit, yeah. Craig 3:02  Yeah. And did you realize that the intention of them putting in, the intent behind putting in the grammatical grammatical errors, as well as the spelling mistakes, was to catch people that weren't terribly smart, because they were thinking, well, if they don't notice, if they can get past all of the grammar errors and things, then maybe we can convince them to send us some money, so that we can rescue the Nigerian prince. And that worked and it worked with a quite a few people over a lot of years. And unfortunately, it really hit the senior community because they, this is all new, they weren't paying that type of close attention. Well, now we've gotten smarter. So rather than casting these huge nets out there, what the bad guys have been doing is they're still phishing but now they're phishing individuals. And this is a problem that comes from all of the data breaches over the years, it seems like almost every week now we hear about another massive data breach. So on the dark web, there are databases of hundreds of millions. We just found one this year already that had 2 billion records in it, of people's email addresses their passwords, etc. So the bad guys are get a little smarter. They've been doing business email compromise attack that we kind of talked about before, FBI has been warning about them for quite a while, over $12 billion in cash stolen over the last few years to the business email compromise attacks. But what I want to talk about now is a new type of email attacks that's been happening, because they have so much data. They've been doing spear phishing attacks in the realm of what's called nowadays, sextortion. And they'll send an email out, the emails look like it's just a regular warning email, it'll say, so the subject might be warning, your end, it'll give your email address ken@gmail.com, for instance, account has been compromised. And then you go into the email because it looks like a warning. And it may look like it's from Google. In fact, right now, the majority, the number one source for these emails is Gmail. So you'll get an email is coming from Gmail. So Google, right you have using, so you open it up, look inside it says, Ken, this is a warning that your ken@gmail.com account has been compromised. And they give you some other information like your password. So with the sextortion email, what they're doing is they're saying, Ken we have a video of you on and they'll name some pornographic website, and your password on that site is this. Now remember what we keep warning people about week after week, and that is don't use the same email address on multiple sites, right? People are still using the same email address on multiple sites. And so the problem that's arisen from all of this is that people are getting the email, it says, we caught you, we have you on video at this porn site. Here's your password for that porn site, pay up now, or we are going to release this information. And right now, which of course is a former blackmail, and it's about 10% of all of the spear phishing attacks, it is increasing. If you are, if you have a business email address that's been compromised in a breach, you're twice as likely to be the target of blackmail now, than business email compromise. So this is a very, very big deal. I've had listeners who have reached out to me and said, Oh, I got this email and they tell me what it is. They say Should I get a lawyer involved? And you know, bottom line? It obviously it's up to you. But this is now the fastest growing type of attack. So advice for everybody how to stop this. Change all your email passwords and addresses. Matt, you said you use LastPass right? Matt 7:26 Yes I do. Craig 7:28 Yeah, LastPass is great. You know, I prefer 1Password. It's a lot better for businesses group account sharing, you know, accounts that you might have to share inside of business with different vaults and things. But both of them are excellent. And what I'll do is everybody that's on my text list, I'll send out this thing later today. And I'll give out the phone number. So you can text me and I'll send it to this, I'm not selling anything, I'm going to send you my report that compares the password services so you can change your password and get that stuff all straight. I'll send that out after we get off the air here. But this is huge. And it's been successful, because people are still using the same email and the same password on multiple websites I live. There's the biggest tip of the day right there. Matt 8:22 Were talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, he joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology, let's say for the sake of argument, Mr. Peterson that I sell stuff online. And and you know what i tax is kind of an open question sometimes. The United States seems to have recently paid a little bit more attention to this and trying to figure out how to actually extract more blood from the stone. So tell us a little bit about what you should be aware of if you're a retailer that sells stuff online. Craig 8:52 Yeah, if you're selling stuff online, there's a US Supreme Court case last year that was heard. And it's between Wayfair, which is this big online furniture and home goods company. Have you, I've seen it online. Matt 9:07 Oh yeah sure, absolutely. Craig 9:08 And Wayfai'r's online and the State of South Dakota, said people in South Dakota who are buying from Wayfair should be paying our state sales tax. Which makes sense, right? I can see that. But the question is Wayfair, who has no presence in South Dakota, no physical presence, know nexus at all, says, Hey, listen, we're not there. And we know that Congress has really protected the internet from sales taxes, and having to pay it because they kind of wanted it to grow. And it's just a nightmare if they had to collect sales tax. So the US Supreme Court overturned the law on not taxing companies that had no state nexus. So now, things are going to get very messy, because companies that are selling online, are going to end up having to collect sales tax for every sales tax jurisdiction in the United States. And it's estimated that there are some 9000 different sales taxes across the United States, because they're not just talking about the state taxes, which range from 4.7 to 13.5%. Right now, but we're including local sir taxes, like, if you live in New York City, you've got New York state tax, you've got the county tax, you've got the city tax, it gets kind of crazy. So they're trying to be kind of reasonable in the ruling. So they're saying there are going to be thresholds. So most, and this is state by state, by the way, which makes it even more of a nightmare. So some states are saying if you sell 100,000 dollars of product in our state, you now have to pay and withhold the sales taxes. And the threshold varies as I said. Now, big companies like our friends over at Amazon, I love this, because they can easily take care of all of us state sales tax and messes and county and the city and everything else. But the little guys can't. And so amazon for quite a while has been saying yeah, yeah, we we are we sure have internet sales tax. If this is going to hurt some companies, obviously $100,000 is quite a few sales. But depending on what you're doing, keep an eye out. Now there are a couple of companies that have popped up in the last little while. Paddle is one of them. But there's others that are able to do this for you. But I think what's going to happen is this is going to help Amazon in another way. And that is if you're selling things online, you're just going to sell them through Amazon, or through eBay, and let them worry about all of the red tape of filing with some 9000 different taxes in, you know hundreds of jurisdictions throughout the country. So you're right about that Matt. And if I could text out the links, I also have something this is a free service that Google has, I'll send you a link to this as well. And what it does is it gives you on your screen, it doesn't send you emails or anything it asks you for your name and email. And it what it does, it doesn't use it other than to try and fool you on the web page. So it'll run you through eight different emails will show them to you on the web page. You can hover over the links and things and it'll help you understand better whether or not you are, you know, educated enough, if you will, about these types of attacks to protect yourself. So we'll give you a little quiz and help you out and answer your questions. So I'll text that out as well. So if you just text either Ken or Matt to me at 855-385-5553. I will send you links to both of those things on the password managers, a big article I wrote on that. And then also a link to Google's really cool little training thing you can use for yourself and people in your company to help your spear phishing. So just Ken or Matt just text either to me 855-385-5553 and I'll send that out to you later on today. I'm not going to spam you. I don't sell these things. I just want to get the information out there because I can't believe these things are working. Ken 13:53 Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. Get all of his information directly from him. Thank you, Craig we'll talk to you next week. Craig 14:05 Hey gentlemen, take care. Bye bye.  Craig 14:10  Alright guys have a great day. It is going to be a busy one today for me because I had my last coaching call from the Cybersecurity Do It Yourself course this afternoon so I gotta get ready for that. Off I go. Take care everybody. Bye bye.  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. They talked about the Y2K-like bug that would strike GPS systems on April 6th, the hackable smart alarms, and Craig's stern warning to ditch Windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 10. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: 'Gps Systems Will Be Struck By Y2k-Like Bug On April 6': Security Expert Says He Will Not Fly On 'Day Zero' After Governments Warn Global Devices Will Reset Due To Calendar Glitch Google Recommends Windows 7 Users To Upgrade To Windows 10 If Possible, As A Kernel Vulnerability Allows For Local Privilege Escalation On The Operating System. No Guns Or Lockpicks Needed To Steal Modern Cars If They're Fitted With Hackable 'Smart' Alarms --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 03/20/2019 Dangers Of Smart Remotes - GPS Y2K Craig Peterson  0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here again. And I was on this morning being Wednesday with three stations up in Maine, up in Maine's capital city, as well, and I was on with Ken and Matt. We chatted about a few different things. I ask them some questions about demonetizing deplatforming. What are the legal requirements there? And it was kind of interesting because of course Ken is an attorney to find out what's going on. The mom in Arizona with the kids on YouTube. Boy, what a mess that is. We've got representative Nunez who is threatening suit due to something very similar and we've seen this happen a lot so where is this line supposed to be drawn? Kind of interesting we also of course talked a little bit about technology and Matt's problem where Matt had his fob reprogrammed for his car and tied right in to a story this week about the smart alarms and how imminently hackable they are. So here we go. Matt Gagnon1:09 Alright, we are back again on 7:37 on the WGAN Morning News. Wednesday morning and get a matter here. And so is Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us now. Craig, how are you? Craig 1:22 Hello. I'm doing well. I am I'm really interested in what's happened here. You guys have been reporting on this case of the Arizona mother who was abusing their children. And we also have I'm trying to remember who this was, someone in Congress just threatened suit or bringing suit against I think it's Twitter. Matt 1:48 Yeah. You were thinking about Mr. Nunez. Craig 1:48 Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Ken Altshuler  1:51 That's what you call a publicity stunt. Matt  1:52 Yes. He's gonna fail miserably. Craig 1:53 You think so? You think that's what it is? Ken 1:54 Of course. Of course. Matt 1:55 Because he knows he's gonna lose. So what else would it be? Ken  1:51 Public figure. Craig 1:56 Yeah. Well that's a really good point. How about we've got the Hallmark Channel cutting ties with Laurie we know this whole college admissions scandal and stuff. How far can that go ultimately? Because, again, they've got clauses in their contracts on saying that they have to be a good character, Ken 2:21 By the way, I pay nearly half a million dollars for my children to go to college, I don't see what the big deal is. Craig 2:28 In Arizona again, obviously, this woman what she's charged with is just absolutely crazy. But can we have all of these social media platforms and other ways that people are making money and trying to get messages out? Can people be deplatformed at the drop of a hat? And should they be? It's an interesting question. I don't know how far this goes. I've heard Nunez and and his complaints. And I've heard other people, particularly conservatives saying that their messages are being stopped or they've been deplatformed. And we've certainly seen that with Alex Jones and some others who Alex isn't accused of anything illegal. It just being a real jerk, I think is is kind of the bottom line for him. But is it again, interesting territory? I don't know. Ken, had the courts really settled any of this stuff yet? Ken 3:20 I think it's basic libel and slander law. I think if you're a public figure it's virtually impossible to be... Matt 3:22 But as it relates to like deplatforming and stuff like that, that's their company, they can do whatever they want with it. I mean, it's if they want to, they want to ban me for having brown hair or blue eyes. I mean, they could do that. Whenever. And perhaps it's not the wisest thing for them to do. And I think it opens a gigantic door for a competitor that isn't such a, you know, terrible company to actually operate. But you know, they want to do that they could do that. Craig 3:51 Yeah, yeah, I agree on that part. That's certainly the libertarian to me coming out for that. Anyhow, it was interesting, I thought I would ask the experts this morning. Ken 4:00 Well, talking about experts, since you're the expert guru in computers, are we going to have another Y2K thingamajiggy? Craig 4:09 Oh, this this is really weird. This one that hit me a few weeks ago and hit my inbox as it were. And Y2K of course, we have a problem with the rollover from a computer is able to use just a two digit year to figure out the time and elapsed time, you know, where they were just use, like 74, I wrote code that just choose the last two digits of the year back in the you know, in the 70s and and it's been going on for a long time. So everyone was worried what's going to happen when it turns from being able to issues 99 to zero, because they're always lower than 99. But it turns out most businesses had fixed the problems and none of these problems were were anything that would have been really earth shattering if they had to get at least not in most cases. Now we've got a security expert who about two weeks ago out at a security conference in San Francisco said that he's not going to fly on April 6 and the reason for that is that older GPS systems don't have the ability to handle dates past April 6 it's actually a specific time on April 6. But here's the problem the counters in the old GPS systems don't have enough digit so they are going to roll back to zero. And we look at what's happening right now with Boeing's jet, the 737 Max 8 right and that jet airliner. How long ago was that designed? Do you guys know? Matt  5:57 The 737? Craig 6:00 What is it? Is that it? Yeah, the Max 8. Matt 6:01 Yes, Max. Yeah, the 737 Max. I have no idea what it is. No, I can't even begin to claim that I have any idea Craig 6:07 Such a 50 year old design and what's been happening over the years is they've been making a minor changes kind of, you know, few changes of the time. So the whole jet airliner has not had to be retested. So for instance, right now they added this system that people are saying like be the problem could be the problem. Boeing saying it's more along the lines of the pilots weren't trained enough, they only had a few hundred hours of flight time. But inside these airplanes are systems that were designed 50 years ago. And so this expert is saying, Hey, listen, this could be a real problem because the GPSs from 20 years ago, cannot handle the rollover the guy's name is Bill Malik. He's a VP over Trend Micro which is a basically a security company and he's concerned because these GPS systems aren't just to use in things like airports and airplanes although I'm sure in pretty much every case the airplane have been updated, right? I'm I don't have a problem with flying on April 6 personally. But we also have these embedded systems that are used for their clock source for that signal. And they're using everything from traffic control systems through a computer systems. Some of the older ones, the bridges, some of the automatic bridges that we have in Maine, like one going down to New Hampshire that that goes up and down based on what the traffic is on the on the water below. A lot of these systems are based on using clocks from GPSs. So Ken we could have a Y2K type problem with anything with an older embedded GPS in them on April 6. And it does bring up the problem of, again, updating our software, our firmware, our hardware, you know, when was the last time you updated the software in your firewall in the router in your home. This statistics on the more or horrific. People just aren't updating them. So it brings it to light. And yeah, GPS could be a problem. And you might even have it with your car GPS, if you have an old GPS for your car. It might just plain old completely stopped working on April 6. Matt 8:38 And we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins who us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, I had a little bit of a car issue a while back a couple weeks ago had to get somebody to basically break into my car and reprogram a fob which he was able to do by basically plugging in a little computer to my car. And about 30 seconds later, he had now taken over the entire security system and it was able to start it remotely and basically we had complete and total control over the car by plugging something in. Is my car a little vulnerable to being taken over by surreptitious evil people trying to steal it in some fashion, or maybe perhaps taking it over for other nefarious purposes? Craig 9:25 You know what kind of car I drive, right? Matt 9:29 Yeah, like an old one. Yeah. Craig 9:30 1980 Mercedes diesel okay. There is missing electronics on it. Yeah, actually, you are. And it's yet another reason to lock your car. Because if they get can gain access to that little computer port inside, many of the cars can be totally hacked. Now, the manufacturers are trying to keep that technology kind of secret. But man is it gotten out and it's in the hands of even people that change locks, you know, the fob you talked about. But we've got this week as a British firm. They're called Pentest Partners. And they had heard about some vulnerabilities with some of the smart alarms that people have been putting in their cars. So they did some testing. And they've come out with a warning and they're warning is that they found that the Viper Smart Start alarm Viper Smart Start alarm, which I'm sure many people here have in their cars get is great to start your car get warmed up in the wintertime and get into a nice warm car. But the Viper Smart Alarms as well as product from Pandora where they're making, not Pandora, the radio app that you might be using, but Pandora, the guys that make the smart alarms. Both of them are riddled with flaws. According to the report. That's a direct quote from them. And it turns out that the manufacturers had inadvertently exposed around 3 million cars to theft and users to hijack. Because what they can do is without even having access to that computer port in the car, they're able to get on remotely and do anything that that smart alarm could do and do it to your car. And it turns out even more than you think the smart alarm might be able to do just like with your car Matt where he could get in and do a whole bunch of different things inside your car. These can too and they found they could remotely hack the car that they could then from that car not only unlock it or start the engine but if you're driving down the highway in that car, they could control the accelerator so they could take you for ransom, floor the car have that car going full speed down the turnpike as fast as it could possibly go with you sitting behind the wheel unable to do anything about it you know. Burn outs, your brakes, etc. So there they did a live proof of concept demo, they could do geo-locate the target car using the Viper Smart Start account. Built in functionality. They set off the alarm so that the driver went out to investigate and stopped, activated the cars and mobilizer once it was stationary, remotely unlock the cars doors. They clone the key fob. They issued RS commands from a user's mobile phone. And even worse, they discovered this function in the Viper API that remotely turned off the cars engine. There, these devices can do a whole lot. So check your smart alarm, your smart remote start, see if it's vulnerable, what the vulnerabilities are not all of the vulnerabilities I mentioned are true for both of these alarms. But they have been shown in the past. We've seen Chrysler's be able to be taken over. Remotely driven off the road. But the hacker had to have access to the car first. Now we're seeing that some of these smart alarms have way more access than we thought they did. And could turn out to be very, very dangerous. Ken 13:15 We are talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. By the way you can go to https://CraigPeterson.com anytime you want to know anything about technology. Thank you, Mr. Peterson. We'll talk to you on next Wednesday at 7:38. Craig 13:27 Hey, take care. Gentlemen, I want to make one quick warning. Before I go. Google has now issued a warning to everyone to abandon Windows 7 right now. They say there's a major security problem with Windows 7 there. Google is advising you to upgrade to Windows 10. And this is a kernel vulnerability problem. Local privilege escalation something. Ken 13:55 I think I have Windows 7. Matt 13:57 I think I have Mac. Ken 13:58 But I have Windows on my Mac. Matt 14:00 That's old. Craig 14:00 Well, it's true for that too. So if you're still running Windows 7, if this isn't the siren call to upgrade, quote unquote, to Windows 10 do it now. But you might be better off and upgrade to a Mac. That's what I did. Ken 14:14  Yeah. But I have a Mac but have Windows on it. Craig 14:16 Yeah, but you're still gonna have to do it. You're gonna have to upgrade your Windows on your Mac that's living in the VM or the dual boot loader Ken 14:23 That's living in VM. That's where it's living. Craig 14:26 Yeah. Which is good that helps keep it separate but you're gonna have to upgrade it. This is bad, this is really bad. Ken 14:33 Okay, thanks for the warning.  Matt 14:35 Craig Peterson. Thanks a lot. Alright, we are going to take a quick break here are we not? Craig 14:41 Hey everybody. Plan is to be here  tomorrow and Friday as well with my security thing, you know, it's just a security thing. Well, how does it matter, right? So hopefully I'll be able to get those done today and we'll get those out. But it's stories of individuals and companies who have been hacked or who averted a hack, what happened? What they did? And what could have been done better about it?. So if you're enjoying those let me know. me@CraigPeterson.com. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Joe Reagan sitting in for Ken this morning. They talked about the new cameras that can spot a shoplifter even before the steal something. They also discussed autonomous cars and their impact and risks. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: These Cameras Can Spot Shoplifters Even Before They Steal Automakers Could Give Police Control Over Your Self-Driving Car Self-Driving Cars Might Kill Auto Insurance As We Know It --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 03/13/2019 Artificial Intelligence Our Safety And Privacy Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here on this morning with WGAN. Ken was out. So we had Joe Reagan in this morning along with Matt and we had a little bit of chat about a couple of things. The new AI stuff, Joe had some interesting points today. I enjoyed having him on. But AI and what does it mean to us when from soup to nuts here shopping, police, our cars, etc. so here we go with the guys over at Maine's number one morning show. Matt Gagnon 0:36 And we're back again. 7:37 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Joe Reagan is in for Ken today and Craig Peterson is on the line with us as he would be typically on 7:38 on a Wednesday. So Craig, are you this morning? Craig 0:50 Hey, I'm doing good, Matt. What? 737 once you just leave it alone. Come on, guys. Matt 0:55 Sorry. I know. A little early this time. So anyway, let's start with our technology topics. Of course. As always, sir, I think the first one I'd like to deal with frankly, is is cameras, right. Spotting shoplifters before they even steal. So basically, we're talking about what Minority Report here they get, like future future crimes, pre cognition. The cameras are basically I assumed, you know, keeping tabs on people and can predict when they're gonna steal what's happening here? Craig 1:26 Yeah, this is part of an overall trend that we've been seeing over the last year or two. We have had in London, of course, we know right, it's the most surveilled city in the world. They are tracking you everywhere you go. They're using facial recognition. And they are using it also to listen listen for bullets been fired, we have that New York City as well. They know instantly when a gun is fired, where was fired, we have now software that's being used by many every major city in the Western world now, that is predicting where crimes are going to be taking place. And in all of these cases, it's kind of ok, still, right? Because basically, if there's an area of the tide crime, you want the police there, right. And it's kind of a normal thing. Now, we also have California doing yet another wacky thing, which is instead of having to go in front of a some form of a magistrate or judge to get bail, and then you post bail, and you can get out assuming you're not a big risk to the community or flight risk. California has decided that they want to get rid of bail bondsmen entirely. And they just want a computer program to decide who gets to get out on on basically on bail. And it's it's really concerning now, as we give more and more power to computer systems which just aren't fallible, if he wants to any Wi Fi show, right. You know, that's true. Matt 3:07 Bad idea. Joe Reagan 3:07 And then great. You know, one thing that's come up a couple times is that when you talk about how these computer algorithms are doing this, so we talked about predictive analysis for shoplifters. A lot of that is based on correlation. And so therefore, one of the critiques of the systems is that it will it actually is discriminatory against usually racial minorities that might be at a statistically more, you know, our might be punished by criminal by crime more often. And so, it's, it's, it seems like it almost turns itself into a, I guess, a self licking ice cream cone, where it's just, you're just making it worse for people. And it's not actually doing predictive analysis in terms of someone's intentions, but actually trying to make judgments based off of past events.  Matt 3:51 I would like to see a self licking ice cream cone. I would be quite... Craig 3:56 Joe, you brought up a really good point. Do you remember Microsoft came out with this little Twitter bot that they had designed to use machine learning Joe 4:09 How can I forget? Like yesterday. Yeah. Craig 4:11  Yeah, you remember this thing? And what it did was. Matt 4:13 Yeah. Turned into Skynet in like 10 minutes.  Craig 4:18 Exactly. They had it monitor all these Twitter feeds. And what did it come back as it came back to as a nasty racist, and it was it was just crazy. Well, and your point about, you know, predictive correlation, etc. is a good one, too, because when you start looking at this in what Matt brought up here was this Japanese startup called Vaak that takes security camera footage and does predictions. So you take this and say, well, is this computer system going to turn into a racist like Microsoft computer system did because it notices that most of these crimes are committed by people who have black hoodies on that are covering the faces of black hoodies. And from a cultural standpoint, that particular type of dress is, is a minority is, is wearing that type of a dress. So now all of a sudden, the system that's supposed to be looking for general body language, general trends is now looking at someone that walks in that's dressed a certain way and automatically, bam, it's accusing them of being potential shoplifters. Now, today, what Bloomberg is reporting is this system is being designed. So that is alert security and security goes over and asks the shopper, hey, do you need some help? And that alone is enough for most cases for them to stop the potential shoplifting that might happen, which is a big deal guys. We're talking about $34 billion in retail shrinkage. It's a biggest source, in fact, to shrink. And so it's a very big deal. But my gosh, where's this all going? We get more and more of this. And we're not anywhere near artificial intelligence yet everybody. And what's going to happen everything so far as Matt pointed out is basically turned into Skynet. Matt 6:20 Yeah, absolutely. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology Okay, so another one that attracted my attention on our news list here today is the potential future in which cops can take over my self driving car obviously self driving cars are inevitable you can be terrified of it if you want to listener who's listening to this right now, but it's coming and you're gonna have to get ready for it. So when you finally are forced to drive your self-driving car when you get pulled over the cops can just like take over your car man. What's what's what's happening here. The is this like, be going to be like some sort of stealthy thing bill into all new cars. You think? Craig 7:02 Well, that's kind of where we're going right now. And you look at what happened a couple of weeks ago, in Hawaii, there was a big conference out there. And they were talking about ethics and the ethics of artificial intelligence. And one of the things they brought up was our, you know, home devices like our Alexas, our Google Home devices, etc. Should have built into them some artificial intelligence that automatically calls the police if it detects something that that just might not be a great home environment, right. As always can figure that out. We already have these really cool things that reminds me of the Fast and the Furious, these remote control little little cars that the police can use. And they drive them underneath the car of a flame suspect. And they set off a small electromagnetic pulse which disabled the engine because of course, all these new engines have computers in them. Have you seen these things? Matt and Joe 8:09  Yeah, yep. Craig 8:10 Yeah, little RC cars, and they'll do 80 miles an hour. So in that case, obviously they're damaging the cars. They just burned out the computers. And now we have people who are driving a semi autonomous cars, for instance, the Teslas and there's a lot of Teslas on the road here in Maine. And they have this kind of semi-auto pilot thing. And the idea is you can have it kind of take over the steering wheel. And while you're on the highway, it'll stay in the lanes. It'll drive down the road. And if the cars in front of you slow down, it'll slow down. It really kind of makes you a really good patron of the roads is the idea and Elon Musk has announced that come next year, he's going to have a software upgrade for the Teslas that makes them 100% autonomous. But in case now we have a couple that we know of, we have drivers that have fallen asleep. And this one case the driver as reported by Bloomberg in December last year was drunk. Fell sound asleep behind the wheel of his Tesla. His auto pilot was engaged and the police were chasing them down the freeway. I'm not sure exactly what they noticed, probably a sleeping driver. Might be something that's worth noting. And they will try to get this car to stop it couldn't wake up the the so called driver, the occupants of the vehicle and so they ended up having to box the car in. They had, you know, you get four police officers, the car has to slow down because the cars around it or slowing down came to a stop. So what do you do. The police are suggesting and Bloomberg's suggesting that maybe what should happen here is the the cops should be able to not only have the car pull over to the side of the road and stop, but they're talking about rerouting cars, as well as been able to force them to pull over. So I don't know, Matt, maybe when you're driving that car down the road, the police will just do that. Let's say Hey, take you right to the local police station. And because you're under arrest and all the doors locked. Matt 10:24 So you're suggesting to me that is that the whole OJ chase thing in 1991 or whatever is the thing of the past. We'll never see that again. Craig 10:31 Yeah, exactly. When was the last night you fell drunk on the road? Joe  10:36 Well, you know that reason is your question because whether you're talking about a vehicle that is fully autonomous or partially autonomous, it raises questions, and this is one of the insurance industry has dealt with for some time is how do you deal with damage that's incurred from mechanical issues, whether that be a computer glitch, or some sort of actual mechanical glitch where the operator may or may not be 100% responsible for something that's happens, I get it soon. This is really changing the dynamic of of how the insurance companies using auto insurance, Craig 11:06 it will in this case, when you're talking about that, Joe, you were talking about 90% of the risk, because right now, 90% of the accidents when they've been been investigated afterwards were attributed to some form of human error. So if you get rid of that 90%, if it's no longer the human who's driving who is causing the accident, or at least a large contributor to the accident, where does that liability go? Because, again, human or you know, involvement here, right? Human risk from the driver? Well, there are humans and I'm assuming I, you know, I got a little implication for what you're saying. I'm assuming that you're also including the humans that wrote to the software. You know, they don't go after the guy that designed the switch that failed on the car. And that caused, you know, I just contributing to an accident. They don't do that nowadays, right? They might go after the manufacturer, they might try and get a recall on the car, get that switch replaced, get that switch repaired. But that guy that misdesigned the switch doesn't go to jail doesn't face criminal charges. What's the future going to hold when now we don't even have most of these car companies making their own software, Apple got rid of their autonomous vehicle division, at least the guys that were going to make the cars and they've decided they're going to make the software so they're not going to make all of the software there's already dozens of computers in modern cars. There's a lot of different software, a lot of different companies. Joe, my gosh, your head's going to explode when you get right down to it and think about where does a liability go? Who has to get insured? How long is this stuff going to get tied up in the courts and you know, Washington DC in state courts and and legislatures. This is this is the hugest part of this huge new problem we're going to be facing with autonomous vehicles. All right. Matt 13:16 Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time to go over the world of technology every Wednesday and today is no exception. Craig appreciate it as always, and we will talk to you again next week. Craig 13:26 Hey gentlemen, take care. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. They talked about Zillow helping to flip houses, the YouTuber who discovered a pedophile ring in YouTube, and an app that might help stop you from procrastinating. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Youtuber Claims Online Pedophile Ring Operates Freely On Youtube Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension Zillow Wants To Flip Your House ---   Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 02/27/2019 Keeping Your Family Safe Online Craig Peterson 0:00 Hi, Craig Peterson here. Have you ever wondered how you can keep your kids off the dark web or maybe what you can do for free, that's going to really help keep the ransomware off of your machine out of your house, out of your very small business. So hope and do it all for free. While that's one of the things I talked about this morning with Ken and Matt. It's also something we're doing a deep dive on this week in my course on DIY cyber security. So here we go. Learn how to do it right now. Unknown 0:36 Well, guess what? We're back again. It's Wednesday at 7:38. And it's Craig Peterson time. He's here to join us to talk about all things technology. Craig, how are you this morning? Unknown 0:45  Hey, good morning. Doing well. Looking forward to 20 whole degrees this afternoon. Unknown 0:50  That's a heatwave. We're having a heatwave. Tropical heatwave. But you know, I don't know that much. You know, I want to stay inside. It's cold outside and I thought I don't have anything else to do. Why don't I go look at the dark web and see what's there. Is that a good idea? Unknown 1:05 The dark web is an interesting place and there's there's a few ways to get on to it. But basically it's probably 90, 95% maybe even worse on the bad side. This is where the Silk Road website was and those the Silk Road website was a place where people would go and they could buy drugs illegally online if they can factor all kinds of illegal activities activity and it was tracked down. They were using bitcoin and and other types of currencies out there in order to do a little trading back and forth and they thought they were safe because it was on the dark web in the dark web supposedly is like 100% faith and they were using bitcoin cryptocurrency because that's supposed to be untrackable as well. But I attended a really interesting lecture by the Secret Service talking about how they tracked it all down. And they arrested the guy that was running the Silk Road there on the dark web. And it's it's not a safe place. There are all kinds of nastiness that we're not going to get into right now, including things told read rooms and others that have questionable at best backgrounds to them. So you do, generally speaking, want to avoid the dark web. It is a place for various types of political activists as well. Good guys and bad guys together and do a little communications but it's also the place where they're trading our personal information. They're selling it online. I just checked it. I had a webinar that I ran to the FBI Infragard program just this week and So we went on to the dark web and poke around a little bit. And we found all kinds of stuff, including software you can use to hack people's computers for as little as $1.99 US. It's kind of a scary place, you might not want to go there Ken. Unknown 3:16 So I should go now. Unknown 3:19 Yeah, exactly. That's why we're not really telling them how to get out to the dark web. Because I'm sure there's some kids out there that might want to go there. And as a parent, you kind of want to keep an eye on this. It doesn't look any different. They're still going to use web browsers are still going to use the web browsers are probably already using although you can certainly use other web browsers kind of depending. But it's kind of hard to police as a parent as to where your kids are going online. That's why I really advise it. And this is part of this week's course that I'm doing. I really advise people use something called OpenDNS. There is a free version online. It's O-P-E-N-D-N-S. And I can send you more info if you want about it. But what that does is it allows you to reconfigure your web browser shows you how to do it that your web browser but your computer it shows you how to do it. They're on their website. Once you start using this it will stop your kids from going on to places like the dark web. It automatically blocks pornographic sites. And it also helps to completely almost completely eliminate ransomware. Open DNS is where you'll find it online. http://OpenDNS.com, they have a paid version which you know, it's probably a really good idea to use. And if you're a little bit more advanced, you can also use a version a version that's only 40 bucks a year and it allows you to reconfigure your router in your home so that even if your kid is a little more technically advanced and knows how to get into the DNS settings of the router in your home who is going to give out OpenDNS for every device, including those nasty Internet of Things, devices in your homes or in your small business. If you're a larger business, you should use Umbrella. But you have to get that from special vendors like like myself, as it turns out, but the OpenDNS stuff is absolutely fantastic. If you do configured on your router in your home, it's going to help protect your whole a whole home and it'll keep Ken from going to the dark web. Unknown 5:31  Which he's known to do. Unknown 5:34  Nothing can stop me from it. Unknown 5:34 He'll go hell or high water. Right. We're going to talk to you here. Craig Peterson here a little bit more about technology as we do every Wednesday at this time. Craig, you know, I was looking through some of these stories to talk to you about today. One of them stood out to me, the the Zillow flip house thing is pretty interesting to me because I've always been trying to figure out exactly how accurate these things are in the first place when they're sort of estimating home value because if some of these things are right then, boy, I'm sitting on a pile of cash right now. But there are people that are exploiting the, the, like the Zillow and places like it on the internet that basically value your house and and look at things to like look for values to flip. Why don't you talk to me about the story a little bit? Unknown 6:18  Yeah you've got an interesting angle on it too when you're talking about this, Matt, because the question is how do you get a good value for your house? You go to someone who wants to buy your house and say, yeah, I'll pay 50 grand for you go to somebody who maybe wants to buy your house for the low price or somebody who wants to sell your house for a commission who says yes, yes, this was 75 grand and then you sit on it for a year or two or three because they've overvalued the house because they want to get every penny of commission out of it they possibly can get right and so that's your I think that's kind of part of your premise, Matt. Is Zillow legit? Is the price that they're saying correct? And they've got these estimates on the Zillow site. I love Zillow. I poke around on it quite frequently, especially when I'm traveling to see what local real estate prices are. So, Zillow has been doing that for a while they use public records and they try and compare your house do to other houses in the area and come up with a reasonable price. But now with all of the flipping that's been going on they're taking a little bit of a different angle which is kind of cool you know there's all these show shows I don't know about you if you watch some I know my wife and kids love these shows on the Home and Garden TV I think it is, that is how to flip your house right? There's a couple that in Waco, Texas. Magnolia I think his name of their company and they buy homes and small buildings, business buildings and fix them up and and then turn around and sell them. And there are constantly people out there with the training programs on how to buy homes with no money down and then fix them up and flip them. And my wife and I looked at that at one point. And we actually went to one of these weekend webinars or seminars, I should say, and we learned a lot, but we didn't feel comfortable enough to do it. So what's happening now with Zillow. Zillow has these estimates you mentioned. They call them Zestimates. And what Zillow is doing now is they're thinking that their database is so good that they will allow you now to go on to the website. Depending on where you are. You can look up your home and see what the value of it might be. And then you can ask Zillow, Hey, I want to get out of my house right now. I want you to buy my house from me. And so Zillow will kind of backup their Zestimate as to what your house is worth and they will buy the house and then sell it for you and what they're going to do, once you sign up with them to do this as they'll send someone out to just double check, make sure there aren't some major defects in the house that they don't know about. They will give you a very hard offer for your house. And then they'll chart you between 6 and 9% for that house for commission which is a lot more. It's almost double what most real estate companies will charge you and they they're done you're out of your house and they can just take a matter of days. And then Zillow will come in and they'll have a crew come in and fix up things that need to be fixed. Paint it up and resell your house. So it's interesting to me to see hey wow. Now the internet is is really putting his money where his mouth is in the case of Zillow. They will backup that estimate for your house they will buy your house and you can be out of that house the matter of well, however long that however long it to do a quick inspection and the closing So, Matt, it's an interesting angle. Unknown 10:06 We're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us, Wednesdays at 7:38. You can always go to http://CraigPeterson.com and get all the information if you can't wait to hear him on Wednesday at 7:38. You know some people believe that Matt procrastinate quite a bit. I'm not one of those people. But there are many people who think they procrastinate. Unknown 10:26 I disagree, but I'll get to it later. Unknown 10:28  Is there an extension that he can do to kind of help him on this. I'm trying to help him. Unknown 10:31  Yeah, there's a few different things that I've used in the past that I really liked when it comes to help him with procrastination. I use something called Vitamin-R and it allows you to break your day into chunks of it. All you're really focused on at that point is what am I going to do for the next 20 minutes or so. And it's based on a message that came out of the mentality and method and the result there's whole books written on This, but the idea is let's go ahead and focus and let's focus for short periods of time. Let's accomplish something, take a five minute break and then move on. And there is a new extension now for Chrome that is come out. It's called HabitLab and you'll find it online. I have it up on my website as well. And if you're kind of compulsive, if you're always kind of poking around on different websites, you get distracted at work or at home. This is going to be interesting for you. Yeah, I think you should have looked at it. It's based on some research that came out of Stanford University and they have all kinds of encouragement in HabitLab, some of them kind of gentle the two back on track other ones just going so far as to say no, you can't go to Facebook or wherever it is, but it really can be a time saver. A big one for people depending on what you want to do. It's got nudges built in based on the book called Nudge, which was really popular with Hillary Clinton and the Obamas to try and get people to do things. But it's based on all of that technology, some more research that came out of Stanford. And if you are online and you have the Chrome browser that you're using, have a look at it. It's called HabitLab, Ken, and it'll help you get your work done, and it'll help you from procrastinating as well. It's really kind of cool. Unknown 12:33 We're talking to our friend Craig Peterson, our tech guru is here to talk to us about technology. Craig, you only have about a minute, two minutes to answer this question. But there's a YouTuber out there who is scaring some parents about a pedophile ring that might be operating around YouTube. Is this true? Should I be running and screaming in terror?  Unknown 13:01 Well, man, this is something that I wish we didn't have to talk about. Well my whole tone has changed. You can probably tell about a week ago Matt Watson who is a YouTuber exposed what he's called it a wormhole into the soft core pedophilia ring and what these guys were apparently doing or are apparently doing is encouraging young kids who are under 13 years of age to post a compromising basically pictures of themselves on YouTube videos of them. Now I mentioned that 13 year age because of the fact that YouTube has a policy against people under 13 posting online. In fact I don't think they can have an account. And yet these were accounts controlled by kids under 13 and posting these pictures and these videos which means if parents were allowing them access to smartphones, were allowing them to have a YouTube account we're monitoring this close enough, but Watson's claiming he found links to actual child porn on the site. We had YouTube ads being pulled by dozens of major corporations when this came out. For some reason that didn't really hit the news, but within less than 24 hours, there is a whole hashtag campaign about this. If you're a Twitter user, check out the YouTube white top hashtag campaign. So it has hurt substantially YouTube's bottom line. Hopefully they'll do something about it. And frankly, just enforcing this under 13 years of age. You're not allowed to include these kids in any videos and they're not allowed to have any accounts. Just enforcing their existing policy would stop this ring. Hopefully people are waking up and complaining to YouTube and YouTube is going to really do something about it this time.  Unknown 15:00 Alright. Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us Wednesdays at this time to go over the world of technology. Craig, as always, thank you very much. And we will talk to you next week sir.  Unknown 15:00 Take care, gentlemen. Thanks. Hey, if you are in my course here, the master course on DIY cybersecurity. I just want a quick note. Sorry I had hoped to get stuff out yesterday. It looks like it's going out first thing this morning. At least the first part of it I put way more work into it than I thought I would. Because it as I was going through some of this course material for this module, I realized that it could be really confusing for some people. So I went seriously above and beyond on this but it's taken me about another day. So sorry about that. But I think you're going to like the results. It's really going to help you just walk right through in making frankly all your computers and your business and your home a lot safer. So anyways quick apology to those people and we will be back hopefully tomorrow will be able to do another one of my real quick here security things so stick around. We'll have more here on this podcast. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on with Ken and Matt on WGAN Morning News. They talked about hackers hacking the Nest devices and the Russians infiltrating US utilities. They also talked about how you can check if your password has been compromised using the Chrome extension Password Checkup and the website Have I Been Pawned. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Hackers Hijacked A Family’s Smart Home, Spammed Nuclear Missile Alerts Chrome Can Tell You If Your Passwords Have Been Compromised Report Highlights The Crazy Lengths Hackers Took To Infiltrate Us Utilities How Hackers And Scammers Break Into Icloud-Locked Iphones --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 02/13/2019 Nest Cameras Being Hacked Craig Peterson 0:00 Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. I had a chance this morning to talk a little bit more about what I talked with Jim Polito about this a bit yesterday. But we talked a little bit more about the hackers and what's happening with them breaking into iPhones, we've got hackers who are breaking into Nest devices. Hey, if you've got any of their stuff, some of their security cameras, etc. You're going to want to hear what's happening. So that's what we covered this morning. And I'm getting a great response to these courses that I've put up. I mean, phenomenal. Really, I'm not I'm not making this up people. So if you missed them, make sure you check them because they are up today. All three of the initial training on security. It's no sales at all. This is entirely trying to help you out with securing your business network. You know it does apply to individuals as well. So you'll find all of that at http://CraigPeterson.com/concierge. You'll also find it on my homepage you can sign up for the Thursday webinar as well there http://CraigPeterson.com. All right here we go with Ken and Matt. Unknown 1:29 7:38, WGAN Morning News Wednesday morning. The day after the storm. Day after the storm. Time now to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig Peterson, how are you sir this morning? Unknown 1:43   Hey that's me. Doing well. Unknown 1:44   Are you having bad weather over there? Unknown 1:46   You know we had a lot of snow and sleet to and I haven't really been out yet this morning to see if we got the rain afterwards. But yeah, there you know the birds are in and the bees haven't come out of their hive so I know it's not the best morning. Unknown 2:00 Okay, so let's talk about some tech stuff. Um, so I have a lot of passwords, and I always worry about the being compromised. Can chrome help me out on this? I do use Chrome.  Unknown 2:10 Yeah, Chrome is one of the better browsers out there are a lot of people have been concerned when it comes to Chrome and security, and how much is Google trying to, you know, monitor what I'm doing, etc, etc. And although Google does want your information and obviously does sell some of the information, it's interesting that they are trying to keep you safe. And I think most of our listeners would like to know about, you know, some of the details behind there but we won't get into that today but into what you're talking about here Ken, I think is really important. There's a couple of different websites out there that have been kind of collecting over time. Some of the breaches you know we mentioned there's a 750 million record file that was released a couple of weeks ago that contain people's credentials. And since then, there have been some other bigger ones. about one and a half billion people's information is out there on the web. Now, we're talking about the dark web here when I'm when I mentioned the web. So what a bad guy does so that you understand how this works is they have a username, they have a password. Now, if they break into a new website, and the website is hopefully fairly secure least the passwords are encrypted, they'll steal the password database, and then they'll run through all of these hundreds of millions of records and try every known password. So it's important for you to not use a password that anybody else has used before. And that's what Google has done here now. There's a new Chrome extension that's called Password Checkup that you can install on your Chrome browser. And then what happens is if you go to a website, and you use credentials on that website that are known to be breached, and the database that Google's uses over 2 billion records of breached passwords and usernames, so if it's a known breach, password or username, it will alert you right then in there, which is really great. So it's called Password Checkup. But I want to mention one other thing because Ken you mentioned you're concerned about passwords and security and that's a website called Have I Been Pawned and this is from an Australian guy out there who put it together and it will tell you much the same information as Google but it'll also if you put in your email address, it will also tell you if your email address shows up anywhere on the dark web in one of these hacks. So what I'll do is everybody that's on my SMS list. I'll text out a link directly to both of those today when we hang up so that everybody has it. You can just click on the link go to the website you can download the Password Checkup plugin you can download the Have I've Been Pawned, well not download it, but you can go to the Have I Been Pawned website and I'll send you direct link. So if you want those, text me and do it right now, so you don't forget. Get out a piece of paper and a pencil. It's 855-385-5553 and I'll send you direct links via text when we hang up. 855-385-5553 but I think this is really good news for people who use Chrome and who want a little bit more security it's really good stuff Ken.  Unknown 6:00 We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he usually does on Wednesdays, to go over the world of technology. Craig mentioned text messages. I remember a while back a lot of people in Hawaii, he got a advanced warning via text message of nuclear holocaust. And apparently this is now happening again, this may be smaller numbers of people, or what have you. Are people going to be hacking into my phone to basically tell me of the coming apocalypse? Unknown 6:27  Well, this is an interesting problem, because in Hawaii, when it happened was somebody messed up in the in the state and it came out as kind of a federal alert and people probably remember that the nuclear missiles were flying from North Korea and were going to strike any minute and people kind of freaked out. Well, there are of course now smart devices. And Matt, you mentioned that you've got some of these Echo devices like I do, right. And Ken do you have any of those in your home as well? Unknown 7:00 Yes, I renamed it computer. Computer, what's the temperature outside and it goes by the way, sometimes it just lights up on its own which worries me a little bit. Unknown 7:12   What color does the light up? Unknown 7:14  Sometimes blue, sometimes yellow. Unknown 7:15  Okay, well the blue is because probably it thinks it heard you say the name. Yeah, say the name. And yeah, so that's probably what that is. But here's what's happening. More and more devices in our homes have built into them Alexa or Google Home or some of these other technologies and they are hackable. Now the Alexa, you know, these little Echo devices, not so much the Google Home the Apple HomePod, not so much. But in this case there. There's a story that came out this week and it was about the Nest security camera. Now interestingly enough Nest has been in the news quite a bit recently for major security problems, including allowing anybody that work that Nest to look at any video stream that is ever been recorded by any Nest camera, right. It's kind of scary when you think about it, because I kind of liked the technology behind Nest. And what the heck are they doing giving everyone access to every security video ever. They've kind of tighten that up a little bit. But in this case, somebody hacked their Nest security cameras and they gone online and this poor family in California started getting this alert that a nuclear war and broken out missiles were headed for multiple US cities and this family California wasn't alone we know about another family this one in Texas where their Nest system was hacked and used to threaten to kidnap the baby's family. In Canada the reporting it as well that some people have been hiring hackers to break into Nest and Wink and and even tried to break into some of the Amazon devices belonging to another family. But it's it's a little bit of a scary world so if your Nest or other device starts warning you about global nuclear war it's probably not true. But little warning systems that are on your phone and do you guys get a warning for instance about this storm that was coming? Unknown 9:27 yeah exactly why do weather.com I got Well that's all you got a weather okay well there are alert systems in place just like the one in Hawaii it's a warned about the nuclear missiles but there are alerts systems in place that will send you things about emergency situations in the area. Some states have amber alerts to go out automatically to completely different system so we're not talking about those devices being hacked at this point it looks like Nest has the most vulnerabilities. Unknown 9:58 We're talking to our tech guru Craig Peterson who joins us every Wednesday at 7:38. http://CraigPeterson.com. If you want to go easy as box anytime you want. So you know we're waiting for Robert Muller's report which we could get in the next year or two. However, you know there are some some evidence of Russian hackers infiltrating our utilities. What's the scoop with that? Unknown 10:25 I love Russians. I watch the Americans. One of my favorite TV shows. Unknown 10:32  That was a great TV show. I hated the ending of that. Unknown 10:37 I'm on season four so. Unknown 10:39 Although it's probably the most realistic ending they could come up with. To be honest with you, though. I mean. Unknown 10:45  Oh shut up both of you. Unknown 10:48 I can't hear you. Yeah, there. There are a number of hack attacks going on right now. The Russians are seriously considering using the internet as a first attack vector against the United States, they're also saying, Hey, we're gonna use it as defensive mechanism. We'll see what ends up happening. But there is a ton of hacking going on. And that's kind of the bottom line about all of this stuff. They are breaking into some of our phones. iCoud locked phones, you remember when people were stealing iPhones back in the early days, just grabbing them at coffee shops, right? And it got to the point that Apple did something about it, which is if you have Find My iPhone turned on on your iPhone, which everybody should do, turn that on. If your phone is stolen or your iPad is stolen, there is almost no way to recover that phone. Apple can unlock it, but that's it. Nobody else can. And so what's happening is the bad guys are coming up to people holding them a nice point or guiding point and saying unlock your phone and turn off Find My iPhone. So the bad guys get a little bit smarter about it so that they can then resell that phone out on the black market or use it as they might want to. There's some rumors about the ability to still break into the newer iPhone 10. And you know, life goes on, right. But it's interesting to see some of the bad guys now on the streets trying to break into iPhones. But so you do it the old fashioned way. They're mugging people. Unknown 12:32 Indeed. All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over the world of technology. Craig, thank you, sir. And we will talk to you again next week. Unknown 12:44 Gentlemen, take care. Thanks. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt as he does every Wednesday morning. They talked about a lot today from the Facebook and Apple feud, the AirBNBs spying on you, the shortage of cybersecurity workers, and the GDPR bagging its first tech giant Google. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: This Lamp With A Hidden Camera Could Be In Your Next Airbnb Nightmare Facebook Shuts Controversial Program To Pay Apple Users For Data Cybersecurity Worker Shortage Hits 3 Million F.B. Purity Hides Annoying Facebook Applications And News Feed Updates --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 02/06/2019 Facebook Battle With Apple - GDPR Snares Google Craig Peterson 0:00 Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, of course. And this morning I was on WGAN and all of their affiliates up throughout the state of Maine and covering the course that also covers parts of New Hampshire. But we talked about the Facebook program, the controversial one, what's happening here, there is a big fight going on between apple and Facebook. I mean a very big fight and it looks like Apple might end up being the police, at least for their platform. They've been trying to keep Of course, our data safe now they're trying to keep the companies like Facebook, in line with our privacy as well. So good for them. So we talked a little bit about what was happening there. In fact, we talked quite a bit about that. And we talked about the EU privacy law and how it has snared its first tech giants. So here we go.  Unknown 1:00 It is the WGAN Morning news. It is Wednesday morning and it is time to talk to Craig Peterson. Craig, how are you this morning Hey, good morning guruing away. Guruing that a verb Can you Unknown 1:09 gurus she gurus they grew all guru Unknown 1:13 it's like French right? Yeah. Sweet to a new songs Unknown 1:17 and French. We've just we've just raised the intelligent closure this this short clip wanted this. So let's talk about Facebook. Let's leave time at Facebook. And so there was a program to pay Apple users for data. Has that been changed now? Yeah this is interesting because I got a couple of different Facebook things in here this week including what I got from mass all new Unknown 1:45 which is kind of cool that Facebook purity thing I checked it out after you mentioned it last week but yeah, Facebook really gotten nail here we found out just a few weeks ago that our Facebook of Unknown 2:00 users were offered something that I kind of knew was going on here. Here's the bottom. I remember I mentioned Facebook had a VPN and don't trust it. Yes. Because VPN are supposed to be protecting your data. And I knew Facebook had a VPN and it was free, and they were tracking all of your data on it, right? So it's kind of the opposite world, right? For what you expected from VPN. Well, Facebook, apparently when a step beyond that and was paying users 20 bucks a month, I guess it was to use the VPN for research purposes. Now, personally, I don't have a big problem with that. But you guys if you know it's for research, you know, the monitor new and they're paying you 20 bucks, you kind of expect them to be monitoring what you doing right? I would assume so. I would assume so. Yeah, I don't think that's a real big deal. But as it turns out, Apple did a little bit of investigation into our friends. Unknown 3:01 Zuckerbergville making up all kinds of words today. Zuckerbergville Unknown 3:09 and what Apple found is that apparently Facebook has been kind of short circuiting some of the Well, some people would say lawyering some of the terms of its policy. And it looks like Apple might actually be forcing Facebook to be honest and not use our data in ways that are part of this overall agreement. That other words, Facebook's been collecting data. So Apple said, If you continue to collect data, we will see the platform. In other words, we won't let you use Apple stuff anymore. Unknown 3:49 And so what they did is they pulled their keys, Apple pulled Facebook keys, so no, all of a sudden all of these geeks out there and Silicon Valley working Unknown 4:00 for Facebook that are used to just pop it up their little internal Facebook app on their iPhones and having a Facebook bus come and pick them up in the morning for work along with their latte already warmed up for them in the bus. No, no, no Apple turned off their keys. So none of the apps worked on iOS anymore. And those portal Facebook we knees were I mean workers were out there waiting for their locked data show up at a bus and and messy work. So there is a big tug of war going on between apple and Facebook right now that looks like Apple might actually force it on iOS for Facebook. To be honest, Unknown 4:46 it's something they're not really known for our right we're talking to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time talking about the world of technology. Craig. Speaking of security and cyber security and whatnot. Is there a person Unknown 5:00 Is there a problem, I guess out there in cyber security whereby we don't have enough human beings to even do the jobs to keep us all safe out there? Is this is this a problem? Well, yeah, it's a problem for a number of different angles Unknown 5:14 right now, according to a study that was just released by Unknown 5:18 it's a nonprofit association that that issues, some certifications and it's all about cyber security and cyber security professionals. According to this study, Unknown 5:30 I was wrong. And you might remember I said that we were about one and a half million cybersecurity workers, Shawn and that's the number have been using for a while now they're saying that we are about 3 million cybersecurity worker shortage. Unknown 5:47 And that's absolutely huge because what that means is two things one, we are of course, we were in great need of people who can keep our system safe from the federal government. Unknown 6:00 All the way through the local mom and pop shops. So that's a problem. It might be good for you if you really wanted to get into the cyber security industry and get a better job better paying jobs, because these are some of the highest paying jobs in the tech field. But it's bad again now because that means everybody and their brother is going to start hanging up. I should go outside their little bio repair computer store to say I'm a computer computer security company. Now I do cyber security and I think that's going to be a problem as well. So it's always been hard to figure out who to hire to help you with your it and it's getting a lot harder to find out who can really do the cyber security for you Unknown 6:47 to great data scientists are tech guru he's doing this morning and he's joining us as he does every Wednesday at 730 I saw on your website a a lamp that could have a hidden camera. Unknown 7:00 And could be put in an Airbnb room. I mean is that can they do that? Well, you know can as a lawyer is you know about two party consent obviously his main considered a two party state I don't remember so one party state is Yeah, one party okay so one party state How about if I were to put a camera in your living room with the width depth somatic is a two party state means that both people have to consent to be recorded and one party state like main means if I'm on a phone call with you, I can record you without your consent. Right, right. Unknown 7:37 I don't think so. Yeah, I think that's it. I don't think you can put a camera and then and then the other person not knowing about it. Well, this is a new a new lamp issue from Panasonic, I think is when you're talking about and it's called the HomeHawk, which is a little bit concerning. And the idea is that you can place it in Unknown 8:00 Your home and it has this very wide angle lens it's 140 degrees. So it's basically takes one whole side of the home. It has a big camera and it streams at 180 red p resolution, which means it's considered to be high def. It's not like 4k or anything but it has a motion sensor built into it. It can detect movement, it has double A batteries to back it up in case there is a power failure. So it is kind of cool. And it's interesting to how they launched this camera. But it is designed to monitor your home. So from that standpoint, if you have it in your home to kind of keep track of maybe burglars breaking in or when the kids get home. We're probably on a good legal ground although you probably want to talk to your lawyer but how about when people might put that into an Airbnb where they're renting out their homes. We've already seen hidden cameras and Airbnb bees that are built into little clock, teddy bears, etc. These nanny cams are put into the homes. And in most cases, these things have been found to be illegal. So it's kind of cool. Maybe for your own home. It's kind of scary when you think about renting somebody else's home. And what kind of cameras might say how to get in the way in there. Unknown 9:31 We're talking to Craig Peterson. Our tech guru joins us now as he does every Wednesday to talk about the world of technology. Craig. Another thing you have any website here is something I saw, I think last week myself, which is about those European Union policies, privacy laws that were recently instituted and they've apparently snag their first giant whale looks like Google as a huge trend that they're gonna have to pay doctors about those privacy laws, specifically in what happened with Google. Unknown 9:58 Yeah, this is kind of interesting because they are coming here. Now California just put a similar line place. And these are called the GDPR, GDPR rules. It's I think it's a global or general data protection rules that are over there in the EU. And it's kind of scary for businesses. Because if you have any data on your team customers, and that means if they even visit your website, they can and will control the data that you have for them. You might ask, Well, how can they do anything? I'm just some little guy years and then main. Well, what they've been doing is they actually have put up a Great Firewall, kind of like the Great Firewall of China. And if you break their data, privacy rules, they block your website throughout the European Union that's already been happening. And for most people, most little businesses, who cares right that's not going to really be an impact to you but Google Unknown 11:00 Nailed by French regulators it's not a big fight for company like Google it was 50 million euros which is a little over $50 million in real money but Unknown 11:13 they they apparently violated these rules It was alphabetic charged under this and they said the company had not properly gained consent from users. Now I want to warn people who are here in the US who are doing email list to might be collecting some data online for people that might sign up for the email list. Even signing up to get something from you is not enough for this new generation of laws that are going to be the fact that in mass and California and other states in the feds are looking at this as well. Even just having them sign up is not considered consent under these laws. They have to take it affirmative action to say absolutely you can send me marketing message. Unknown 12:00 So keep an eye out for this. Google is going to have to pay a fine Facebook's probably not far behind them. And if you're a business person, you might not be far behind them either because these laws already exist to some degree, and they're getting tightened up here in the US as well. So be careful with all of your online marketing and sales activities. Unknown 12:21 Craig Peterson our guru joins us every Wednesday at 730 Guruing away. Thanks for joining us and we'll talk to you next week. Great day. Take care guys. Thanks. Thanks, Craig. All right. We're gonna take a quick break here and  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Matt and Joe. Joe sits in for Ken this morning. They talked about the Apple FaceTime bug that lets you hear what's happening to the other end of the line even before they answer the call.  These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: How A Hacked Phone May Have Led Killers To Khashoggi --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 01/30/2019 Apple Facepalm - Why Is Apple Making These Mistakes - Can We Trust The News Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey, Top of the morning to your Craig Peterson here. And it's been a very busy week. Hopefully you've been getting my emails this week leading up to a big deal. Next week, I'm going to be doing some more free teaching and helping you we're going to do handheld, guided through cleaning up your computers at your office. So this is exciting to me. I've never done this before. And it's something that I'm really dedicating 2019 to do help small businesses clean up their security stance. So this morning, I was on with Ken and Matt will actually Joe and Matt because Ken was out this morning and we got into quite a deep discussion when it comes to this whole face palm problem. Yeah, the problem that Apple's having right now and why is it what happened when Steve Jobs left? What did he really leave behind when we talked about the Apple as the corporation. And we talked about privacy in general are tied it into Khashoggi tied it into surveillance capitalism. And it was quite the discussion this morning. In fact, we went a little bit long in that segment. So here we go and shout out to all of our listeners. And I got some notes this last week to from people from who listened on the weekends. I thought that was kind of cool. They kind of binge listen to my podcast on the weekend, so shout out to the binge listeners and to all of you who reached out to people in the gym and driving into work, etc. etc. Anyways, here we go. with Joe and Matt Unknown 1:45 Back again. 7:38 WGAN Morning News Wednesday. That means time to talk to Craig Peterson. He is with us Joe Reagan in for Ken  this morning and Craig is on the phone. Craig, how are you? Hey, good morning. And I understand you guys have some questions. Unknown 2:00 About face time. Talk to you. Matt will mention a little bit earlier, Craig. We have questions about so many things, so many things. But yeah, I was gonna start and lead off with the FaceTime thing. So is it true that if I dial, you know, a friend of mine on FaceTime, I can secretly hear everything he's doing, and I can spy on him and then use it against him later for blackmail. Oh yeah. And it records it in a broadcast to the CIA and the Russian mafia. The Russians got a bit yeah, yeah. Unknown 2:30 What about the Chinese time Oh, well, that's only if it's a Huawei phone right yeah. Huawei they got a new laptop out to the looks pretty cool but I wouldn't buy it they here's what's going on Apple course has some FaceTime for a long time. One of apples real big things that they're constantly bragging about. We talked about this before is how they put security first, they're not in the business of selling your information. They want to sell you a new people. Unknown 3:00 hardware or some software, etc. And because of that people kind of expect Apple to always be the most secure device out there and it's time for the globe to turn on and off if you have any gloating music there man gloating music that's a good one. I've gotten a good ones. But hold on. Let me look for it because I do want to gloat. So Unknown 3:25 you should probably just keep talking while I'm looking for it. Because I don't think I have anybody go for it. Okay. No gloating music. So here's what happened. Apple introduced a new feature on FaceTime. And this feature set up for group calls. kind of the thing you might have done with Google Hangouts or some of these other pieces of software out there so you can get all your family and friends on and have a call with someone Happy birthday, etc. Really kind of a cool feature with one minor problem and that is that this specific feature in FaceTime this group calling Unknown 4:00 Had the bug that you mentioned. And this particular bug what it is, as soon as you call someone, and their phone started to ring to let them know, hey, there's a group FaceTime call coming in that the microphone would go hot on the devices that were being called. So now you could listen in while that phone was ringing because it was transmitting to you and either the audio from the other side. So as you said, All you had to do is make a group FaceTime call and you could listen in and kind of spy on whoever you're talking to. are going to talk to that even answered the phone yet, and you could hear what was going on. So it's a big phone pod, no question about that. And it is a flaw that was reported to Apple apparently a couple of weeks ago, Apple has turned off the feature so the group FaceTime is where there was a problem there was never reported problem with regular face time but it has Unknown 5:00 has been turned off until they can fix this eavesdropping flaw and it was fired by the way by a kid Unknown 5:07 a 14 year old man yeah exactly the cleanest the face poem by security researchers. In other words, Apple's faces in their palm at this point because Apple security team should have known better should have been tested a little bit better. And a lot of people are saying, Hey, listen, this is what's been happening with Tim Cook. He's a bean counter. He's not in love with this technology. Like, of course, you know, the previous slide that other guy that was there before Unknown 5:39 and we're seeing more books slipping through, in fact, the latest upgrade to iOS and again, what does Apple brag about it Hey, listen, unlike most of the Android phones out there, you're going to be able to get updates are going to just install automatically. In fact, Apple Now by default is automatically installing updates include security fixes. Unknown 6:01 Just going to install is just going to work like just going to be good you know haha you guys with the Android phones they can't get support for new security sorry I can't hear you Craig. I'm playing my gloating music Unknown 6:19 out there now Apple latest update is breaking many people's ability to receive phone calls and use Wi Fi so yeah Facebook is kind of an understatement and apples really got a bit of a black Okay Can I ask you a question though about you know since you just mentioned Tim Cook and how we might not have quite as hands on obsessive of a style as somebody else who may have previously held his job Unknown 6:48 Why does that somehow result in bugs I Why is the CEO involved in that at all like why should Steve Jobs Tim Cook etc be even responsible in the at the end of the day for a bug cropping up? Unknown 7:00 For the technology being a certain way or whatnot, I mean, I suppose they certainly give leadership to the organization and whatnot. But but that really, I mean, this is a really big company with a lot of engineers and people that are creating software and and people that are creating hardware and whatnot, how in the world would it get to the point where Steve Jobs would have to be yelling at people in order to make sure there was no bug well, but that's the culture that was built inside Apple rather than building a company where you have smaller teams who are you know, have a visionary in them and saying this is really what we want to do with this design and and other software teams that that do code reviews and go through it all have more individual responsibility. Steve Jobs set up a company where he was the man he was at, and as you pointed out here, Matt was in I am for that anyway so much you said Steve Jobs would go to the these small group Unknown 8:00 meetings that were implementing one feature in an Apple device and he would just rip them to shreds and check. Can't believe you didn't do this. And there's this problem and that problem because he was so involved. So these teams ended up getting a little bit lazy by most business standards. And we're basically relied on Steve Jobs come down, scream at people and even fire whole departments. Remember what happened with Apple Maps where Apple Maps was a major mess up a piece of trash and he wants in the meeting and said, So who's responsible for this and fired the whole department. It was just crazy. The whole team so I think that's the problem. Now in order to get around that we've got to cook is out there. Now he has a bug bounty and they're paying people who find bugs and Apple software thousands to even hundreds of thousands of dollars at a cracker conference. Unknown 9:00 Just a couple of years ago, Apple made a surprise announcement that it would pay bounties for bugs as high as $200,000 to hackers and responsibly turned over crucial flaws. So instead of finding most of these flaws internally because you're not going to find every one of them, you know, the team that wrote the software is not the team that should be looking at what the flaws are. But they decided, hey, we'll just go to the bad guys and have them pay us well, you know what a major bug and Apple software is worth a lot more than $200,000 look at this other article I have on my site today about to showcase this Israeli company called the NSO group is a creator of some software was called Pegasus and Pegasus sells for millions of dollars and it's used by governments. It's used by oppressive regimes and apparently it might have been used by the Saudis to find peace. Unknown 10:00 Yogi and it uses bugs in software, Apple software, Android software, you name it software in order to get around security that's some place so you end up with a person like Khashoggi you know whether you liked the guy thought he was credible or not but being tracked the software being sold to the worst of the worst according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and use to track people. So if someone's going to go to Pegasus over there, and Israel, the Santa soul group and say, Hey, listen, guys, for a million bucks. I'll tell you how you can just call someone and listen in to the conversation or they gonna go to Apple and say, please Apple, give me $1,000 because I told you about this major problem, Craig and that there is an interesting point because you have a lot of you mentioned a couple times here just some of the mean just part of the the general business model of how tech is evolving towards and you know, also one of the things you're talking about today is there was a new book by Trish Unknown 11:00 Zubov about the business models about how this is all playing into it. And really how this is creating kind of an environment of this surveillance capitalism where we as a as a as a as individuals have ever really surrendered some amount of privacy in order to achieve convenience and because we're not paying for any of these products you know we're not really the true consumer we are at the end of the day the product of this market where our data our our location and all this stuff is being sold and I don't think there's really been a whole lot whether it be whether your government that's that's exploding this or whether your private business there really hasn't been a whole lot of conversation on that right? No, not at all. And there's going to be a conversation because people are getting more and more upset. Look at what's happening with Facebook 10 years ago. Nobody was worried about the we know what Facebook was tracking today and and you had Zuckerberg in some early messages that had been released due to a lawsuit in the year Unknown 12:00 union we had Zuckerberg said he couldn't believe what fools people were giving him this information. So there's going to be more of a conversation. Facebook's kind of pulling up that saw people are eventually going to get completely upset about it Apple is be eventually they're going to go the way of the dinosaur or they're going to pull up their socks. But that's true of every tech company out there. And Joe, when we talk about this surveillance capitalism, where our information becomes the capital that's being used. It's a very concerning thing. And it's something that the industry is talking about. Now. They are putting together some groups they are starting to come up with standards. And by 2020, we are going to see some real privacy standards in place by the industries and we'll see if government tries to do anything about it. But frankly, laws rules and regulations they're always five or more years behind where that Unknown 13:00 technology now, he talked about that. And there's you know, recently with, you know, the European Union has been talked about for the past probably a year, year and a half about some of their things that they've started to bring forward on privacy related legislation. It's caused a huge a lot of questions to be raised about foreign tech companies that might be holding data offshore and in the rights to who owns that data and how and you know, and I think it's funny because I can't tell you any times I've seen someone post that's stupid thing on Facebook that talks about, you know, oh, I hereby resend all my personal data and Facebook has no ownership and that's that's really she's not yes i like about five of those yesterday. Yeah, still making its way around for some reason. Yeah, yeah, there is a big problem guys and gals. If you're concerned about your privacy, there's really only one way to do it in this day and age and that's just connect your devices don't go online. But you know what, I don't think that's ever happened. Unknown 14:00 You know, but no, it's not. Yeah, well, and I think another thing that's interesting too. And it's funny because I watch, you know, the computer I'm logged on to right now, obviously, I am a guest host here. Unknown 14:10 So I do not have an account. So I'm operating off a guest account in the news that feed that I get on this computer is completely different than the news feed. I get on my personal phone. Now, it has two questions. One, what is Ken been searching because I'm getting a lot of the things that must be related to his profile. But how much of that, you know, when you look at how the algorithms and the automation that occurs in presenting information to a set of eyeballs? How much of that controls that information and really raises questions is the legitimacy of of what we're reading each day and taking for faculty. Oh, man, we can talk about that one for hours. But here's the bottom line. We thought the internet was going to be this place that kind of democracy, democratized information. We thought the internet was going to be a place where we could have open discussions and that maybe we could come to some agreements we could negotiate we could have Unknown 15:00 Understand the other side. But ultimately what's happened is the Internet has provided us a place where we can go and we can be more polarized than we have ever been before. And part of the reason for that is what you kind of mentioned here, Joe, that these news feeds know what we like we have a big companies like the gray lady, it's a New York Times that says, if it was not for anti Trump articles, they would not be in business anymore. So with the New York Times is obviously catering to the anti Trump crowd. But that's being pushed through out all of the technology throughout all of these news sources from Twitter, if you want to call it a new source on out where they are catering to what we want to see and not necessarily what we should see. We're seeing stuff from our news feeds that is biased towards our thinking at least. Unknown 16:00 This bias towards what they think that we're thinking and they think we want to see. So it's bad now it's getting worse as news organizations look at the Huffington Post look at what's been happening with a number of online news sites. Now they're laying people off because people aren't going to their site so they're getting more dramatic they're putting more stuff out there that just really clickbait they're making up stuff. They're lying about technology news all the way through political news, just to get your eyeballs to sell advertising and Joe that means we're in a bad spot. And that's why Frankly, I think, you know, radio and I heart is doing so well because we have these discussions, but you aren't going to see those on the Huffington Post. not see anything on the Huffington Post. They're laying off people left and right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Unknown 17:00 Appreciate it. Craig and we'll talk again next week. Gentlemen, take care. Thank you much Craig. You know you mentioned but you know we only have about a minute before the break. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about a number of subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma. Then they got into the Technology and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling. Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can still be manipulated by the biases of the tester. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: 6 Ways You Put Your Data At Risk When You Travel Why I Use Vpns All The Time (And So Should You) The Best VPN Services “Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 01/16/2019 Adopted A Great Dane - Guinea Hens vs Chickens - Staying Safe While Traveling Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. I was just looking at some of my LinkedIn stats and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead in LinkedIn Unknown 0:09 but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his own credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe for my email list. And http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that eye-scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go. Unknown 4:01 And we are back again. It's time for Craig Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception Unknown 4:10 during our you know, except to that 738 Unknown 4:13 Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great? Velma? Unknown 4:29 Velma? The Great Danes are really Unknown 4:31 big. Unknown 4:34 I mean, Unknown 4:35 like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater. Stay warm Unknown 4:41 Velma Unknown 4:43 assume you named after the Scooby Doo character Unknown 4:47 name. She came with Unknown 4:48 and or or or you're great on from 1840 Unknown 4:59 Well, good for you. Unknown 5:03 Well, you know Unknown 5:05 the dog named Blanche Unknown 5:08 doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right. Unknown 5:14 pet stores in California Petros in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to shell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work Unknown 5:26 for Unknown 5:28 low on Yes. Unknown 5:31 First Lady. Unknown 5:33 Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to Unknown 5:44 guns like Beretta. Unknown 5:51 Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth grade Unknown 6:00 he thought about a Bischon or Boston Terrier cute dog Unknown 6:06 or something a little you know I like the big dog that just you know Unknown 6:10 you know what comes out a big dog Unknown 6:12 what outside Unknown 6:14 a happy dog Unknown 6:16 no, I Unknown 6:16 know but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say. Unknown 6:19 For the chickens take care of that though they break it all off and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do and they eat more, of course, then Unknown 6:28 whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens you go to a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you Unknown 6:36 know the chickens do keep away the Unknown 6:39 the text Unknown 6:41 they do actually not as good as getting him but you know on on that point to can Unknown 6:47 about the back Are you from the 1800s what Unknown 6:53 you got chickens Unknown 6:59 we found is he's a technologist Unknown 7:05 that why I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so Unknown 7:11 probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away Unknown 7:13 and see it too about the dog food Ken is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food, I guess I was buying it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to using the word "feed" for the chickens. So I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll track it. It's like a pound for pound it's like eight times as much as pie as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eight says much of it. So worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy. Unknown 8:10 How about some of your chickens are getting Unknown 8:13 slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs. Unknown 8:31 Yes, you do. Unknown 8:32 Yes you do Unknown 8:35 with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal Unknown 8:49 answers Unknown 8:52 animal expertise talking about getting developers Unknown 9:00 ology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent the risk of my data? Or data, Unknown 9:14 data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But Unknown 9:30 oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for because everybody tries to hop on to Wi-Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi-Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi-Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are a different system than they're using for the Wi-Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done, in the study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti-scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built-in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit passcode pin, like how to make sure your devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi-Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either doesn't connect to the Bluetooth in your car or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website Unknown 12:43 talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answer man, who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me. Unknown 12:56 Yeah, Unknown 12:57 well, if you are a politician, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15% Unknown 13:27 more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new eye lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals Unknown 14:47 are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer. com just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week. Unknown 15:04 Take care guys. Thanks. All right. Unknown 15:07 I would never have a great day. What do you say, a huge giant, Unknown 15:15 I could say is leave a big Ken. Alright, everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye-bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about some subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma. Then they got into the Technology, and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling. Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can even be manipulated by the biases of the tester. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: 6 Ways You Put Your Data At Risk When You Travel Why I Use VPNs All The Time (And So Should You) The Best VPN Services “Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 01/16/2019 Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. I was looking at some of my LinkedIn stats, and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead and link-in Unknown 0:09 but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to Craig Peterson comm slash iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe for my email list. And Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends cannon, Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that i scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind Craig peters.com slash subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go. Unknown 4:01 And we are back again. It's time for Greg Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception Unknown 4:10 during our you know, except to that 738 Unknown 4:13 Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great Selma? Unknown 4:29 Selma? The Great Danes are really Unknown 4:31 big. Unknown 4:34 I mean, Unknown 4:35 like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater to stay warm Unknown 4:41 Elmo Unknown 4:43 assume you named after the Scooby Doo character Unknown 4:47 name. She came with Unknown 4:48 and or you're great on from 1840 Unknown 4:59 Well, good for you. Unknown 5:03 Well, you know Unknown 5:05 the dog named Blanche Unknown 5:08 doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right. Unknown 5:14 pet stores in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to sell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work Unknown 5:26 for Unknown 5:28 low on Yes. Unknown 5:31 First Lady. Unknown 5:33 Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to Unknown 5:44 guns like Beretta. Unknown 5:51 Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth Great Dane Unknown 6:00 he thought about a Bijon or Boston Terrier cute dog Unknown 6:06 or something a little you know I like the big dogs that you know Unknown 6:10 you don't come out a big dog's Frank Unknown 6:12 what outside Unknown 6:14 green a happy dog Unknown 6:16 no I Unknown 6:16 know, but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say. Unknown 6:19 For the chickens take care of that though they break it all up and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do, and they eat more of course than Unknown 6:28 whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens, you through a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you Unknown 6:36 know the chickens do keep away the Unknown 6:39 the text Unknown 6:41 they do actually not as good as getting him, but you know on on that point to can Unknown 6:47 about the back Are you from the 1800s what Unknown 6:53 you got chickens Unknown 6:59 is the we found is he's a technologist Unknown 7:05 the when I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so Unknown 7:11 probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away Unknown 7:13 and see it to about the dog food can is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food I guess it is it is buy it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to feed and check it so I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree, and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll take it. It's like, pound for pound it's like eight times as much as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eighth as much of it. So, worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy. Unknown 8:10 How about some of your chickens are getting Unknown 8:13 slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs. Unknown 8:31 Yes you do. Unknown 8:32 Yes you do Unknown 8:35 with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea, not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal Unknown 8:49 answers Unknown 8:52 animal expertise talking about getting developers Unknown 9:00 technology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent risk of my data? Or data, Unknown 9:14 data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But Unknown 9:30 oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for, because everybody tries to hop on to Wi Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been have happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are different system than they're using for the Wi Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done in study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit pass code pin, like how to make sure you devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either don't connect to the Bluetooth in your car, or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website Unknown 12:43 talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answers man who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me. Unknown 12:56 Yeah, Unknown 12:57 well, if if you are a public Titian, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag, and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15% Unknown 13:27 more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new I lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals Unknown 14:47 are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week. Unknown 15:04 Take care guys. Thanks. All right. Unknown 15:07 I would never have a great day. What do you say f huge giant Unknown 15:15 I could say is leaving a big can. Alright everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt as they discuss how the Apple Watch is saving lives, the dangers of IoT on your network, and deleting Facebook from your Android devices. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Apple Watch Can Now Detect Your Irregular Heart Rhythms And Other Problems: Here’s How It Works --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 01/09/2019 Apple Watch Saving Lives - Deleting Facebook From Android - Dangers Of IoT On Your Network Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey, good morning, everybody. I am back from the road. Got to go down to my mother's 80th birthday. It was Wow. It was amazing. down in Florida, sitting on the beach, New Year's Eve, watching the fireworks and just a T shirt, shorts and sandals. It was, wow, this is the life. Anyhow, it was a fun trip. Got to see family members got to meet with a couple of our people down there in Florida, as well as I was kind of traveling around. And you know, it's nice and directors of the organization and things. So it was really, really fun. And this morning I was on WGAN as well as their affiliates in Maine. Got to talk with Ken and Matt, we talked a bit about the Apple Watch for we talked about a couple of potential issues when it comes to Android. Have you tried to delete Facebook from your Android phone lately? Well, apparently, Matt has this was kind of an interesting thing a lot of people might not be aware of. And then of course, we talked about just the general tech, what should you do when it comes to this internet of things with all of these devices that we have? They are dangerous. So how do you mitigate some of those dangers? And so instead of delving into a dozen different Christmas gifts, that might be very dangerous. Uh, we talked about what you can do from a strategy level in order to keep everything safe. So take carrier we go. Unknown 1:35 Excuse us. And it's time for Craig Peterson. He joins us now on the line. Craig, how are you sir? Unknown 1:40 Hey, good morning doing well. Unknown 1:43 So Craig Unknown 1:45 nice couple of weeks over Christmas and New Year's guys. Good. Unknown 1:48 So if I understand correctly, now I can now the tech with I'm having a heart attack on my watch. Unknown 1:56 Yeah, you keep talking about your watch. Can. Yeah, yeah. Big Man. Is he playing with this thing all the time? Unknown 2:02 He was doing it like five or six times this morning already? Yes. Yeah, I've heard I've had to hear about his sleep cycle more than I care to ever hear about. Yeah, Unknown 2:11 yes, you can can. This week is of course the Consumer Electronics Show. drumroll please. And there is a lot going out on out there. But you know, Apple is one of the companies that is only kind of there this week. And it's kind of fun to think about to you probably remember those ads you know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and Apple How long have I been saying this Apple's unique selling proposition there is a reason that you well the the the same that people should care about the most when it comes to looking at Apple has been security and I've said Ted for ever. So what does Apple do apples trolling the androids, another tough it's Vegas, they rented the whole side of a hotel, like whatever, 2030 stories of it. And they put a huge banner up on the whole site. And it says what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone, it's absolutely gorgeous. What a troll thing to say. And do course, Apple's trying to make the point of what they're doing is Shelly new hardware and software and some services, they don't make money off of your personal information. And when you talk about this new Apple I watch for that's out there, which is absolutely phenomenal little device, they finally have done the testing they've gone through and jump through all the hoops, and that the apple I watch is now approved to look for the most common arrhythmia out there, which is a trial stipulation. Now, atrial fibrillation, also called a fib is the major cause of strokes can cause heart attacks, it can Carl cause all kinds of problems. So your little apple I watch you all you have to do is play with account like Chad is doing right now it can read your heart rhythm and tell you if you need to get your body into see your doctor right away. There's going to be more stuff coming up very soon. I'm sure on the apple I watch the ties it not not only giving you the date, you know, you've got a normal sinus rhythm, or you've got a zip ties right into your doctor can be used for more outpatient stuff. And this might be a clue as well that Apple's looking to kind of replace your doctor for all of the common things that happen in your life. where they'll have the sensors available for you right there. And they'll share that information. with your doctor medical professional when necessary. But I love the little state. There remember what Telly Savalas had to say. But what happens on your iPhone and your watch days on your iPhone unless you explicitly send it out? Swear. So it's pretty cool can and you're right, it can detect a certain abnormal heart rhythm. And that can save lives. I've already read stories from a few people saying that it did in fact, save them. So pretty cool. And it sounds like you got a really nice little gadget of your hands there. Can I do you guys Unknown 5:33 the Apple stuff, great leaders on their tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over the world of technology. So if I'm one of those rooms out there that has a Samsung phone I this isn't on your list of topics, Craig but I saw it this morning when I was reading around the inter webs apparently if you have made the decision to delete Facebook from your life, you can't delete it from your phone. Which by the way is interesting to me. Because I am about you could push me over with a feather right now to make that decision absolute like within a micro millimeter from just deleting the whole thing and getting out. So I guess I can't just stuck with it forever on my phone. Is that true? Unknown 6:11 Well, some people are complaining about some of the new Samsung phones, it is impossible to delete. Delete, it is a core element of your phone. That's not going to last we've seen that before with Microsoft in the Internet Explorer. And not being able to delete it. Microsoft saying hey, it's a core element return remove it. And then the court's old isn't there a little bit and boom weird that people were finally able to remove it. Unknown 6:35 You're gonna root your phone and get rid of it anyway. But that's altering your right and right Unknown 6:40 you can and by the way, that's a really bad thing to do. Matt by the way, is because the first things I did when I have a device was I lose this silly thing. But that's a really bad thing to do from a security standpoint, because now you've kind of gotten around some stuff security things a lot of people don't really know what they're doing when they're down there and man it can be a bit of a problem but the European Union's really been getting into Facebook. I don't know if you saw the course New York Times had a big cover story on that, what about a few weeks ago, maybe a month ago on Facebook and what they were doing and they've been monitoring everything. And, you know, we talked before about the VPN that Facebook has this virtual private network that, yeah, private Unknown 7:32 they were using the Facebook VPN to track everything you were doing when you saw your Safe Browsing, because you're using a VPN and the European Union in their investigation. got their hands on some messages from our friends. And yours. Zuckerberg and Mark my friends. Unknown 7:55 Don't slander me like that. It's not Unknown 7:58 okay, friend that went well. I can only use this my face, Unknown 8:02 right. My my, my face. face. Face Face. Yeah, yeah, there you go. My Face Face. Unknown 8:06 But they found Zuckerberg back when he was hurting. Facebook together. This is a quote. And I'm not going to quote him directly. Because it was cool sanity in it. But he says, I can't believe how stupid people are giving me their information because of what he does with it out there. And he's obviously intended to do it all along. So yeah, math is it is a problem. Some of these phones will not let you remove Facebook. Unless, of course, as you just said, You rooted and you go right in and remove the application from from the core system. But that'll change have enough people complain and I would advise you to complain if if you can't remove now if I have to. Unknown 8:49 If I have to. I have this. We are talking to. Craig. rude. Don't. Okay. Peterson joins us every Wednesday at 730. A little bit of sun to come anytime to get first hand information. I know the holiday season is over. I told you I got an Echo Dot. I still my wife is still convinced that is listening to everything we're saying. Are there? Are there a holiday gifts we should be aware of? Unknown 9:17 Well, that Echo Dot, did you get the the version three? I think it is a nice new look at Unknown 9:22 the latest one. Yes. The latest one? Unknown 9:24 Yeah. Yeah. And it's got really nice sound on it. And everything. It's just it's phenomenal little device. That one you really you don't have to worry about. Okay, bottom line, you're you've got some security there. And it's not going to end up being a big problem for you. But yeah, when you get right down to it, there are a number of gifts out there you need to watch out for. And you know what, let me just boil it down this way. Rather than name this one, or that one. Here's your bottom line. holiday gifts. Some of them are safe, some of them really are not safe. And you know, hard to tell with your friends for the normal person. But here's what you should be doing in particularly if you're a business person. But I do this in my home as well. And maybe I'm paranoid I don't know. But when you're talking about these internet of saying devices and Internet of Things devices mean like the light bulbs and your roof but needs your echo.it means you're Sonos system it means you're so any device or your Nintendo switch my Kindles etc, etc. put up a second wireless network for those devices. A network that has none of your personal information on it. In other words, your computers or laptops, your devices you might use to go to the bank, etc. Make sure they're on a completely separate network. And that there's no way for those Internet of Things devices to get into your main network much. Usually the first thing we do when we go into a business or split their network top builders to help keep the information segregated. But you can now do that in your homes as well. So check your wireless device, see if you can set up a second wireless network. But that's not connected to the first wireless network and start moving your TV and your gaming systems and all of these other Internet of Things devices over to it. Because frankly, that's the only way to keep your data safe this year, going to be a huge year for hackers. There are more tools out there there are more problems and people aren't protecting themselves properly. And neither are businesses. So can that's the trick, read the manual or get some help go out to these companies that are out there that are there to help you know Matt just mentioned Tubby Gtech, there are many of them out there. Make sure you or businesses save your data safe in your home because you don't want to lose this stuff. And you don't want to have your bank accounts empty and all from a president. Right? Wouldn't that be a terrible thing to have happen? And Unknown 12:14 it would indeed well, Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time every single Wednesday. And today is no exception. Thanks a lot. Great. Appreciate it. We'll talk to you again next week. Unknown 12:23 Hey, take care guys. Bye Bye. Unknown 12:26 Thanks, Craig. So let's go take a break. Now. Unknown 12:29 Hey, by the way, we've got something really big plan for this year. In fact, quite a few things are going to be doing a lot more master classes and got a master course coming up and just you name it because people have been asking a lot of questions and I've decided here based on the questions that I think most of you understand that you can't deal with all of this security stuff is just getting too complicated. There's too much to do. You don't have the budget for there's just no way you can do it. So that's what I'm going to be doing. Probably the end of January is a do it yourself security course for businesses and we're going to run through all of the stuff you need to know all of the basics and I think it'll be good. So with your permission or going to be doing that make sure you're on my email list. So you find out about it as well as the free classes and other things we're doing throughout the year. And you'll find all of that by subscribing. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, take care, we will be back i don't know i'm probably gonna be doing some Facebook lives where the YouTube lives, lives, etc. But that's not all scheduled yet. But we'll definitely be back Saturday with another radio show. Take care everybody. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Wednesdays at 7:38 means it's time for the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Craig joins them this morning to discuss home schooling; Alexa, Siri, and Skynet; and the biggest hacks of 2019. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 01/02/2019 Socialization And Home Schooling - Biggest Hacks Of 2019 - Alexa Siri And Skynet Matt Gagnon 0:00 Okay, we are back again. 736 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt and 736 on a Wednesday. Because by the way, it's Wednesday means Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson joins us now are you Craig Unknown 0:14 I'm doing well as you guys know, I homeschool my kids right Unknown 0:19 well i don't know i don't know if Ken knows Unknown 0:22 Don't you have like 22 children Unknown 0:24 well that was the start you know but yeah I only ended up with eight Unknown 0:30 eight Matt and 17 you have a ways to go Unknown 0:34 so so so I don't know how to what did you get for president how to respond to that are you talking about our preschool discussion that preschool and socialization and then if you took a socialist yet Unknown 0:46 you know you know what I found is that when then reasonably well the homeschool kids tend to be much better adjusted much better socialize and I think the majority of kids come out of regular school and and the reason why I think that's the case in this is you know theory on my part but if the kids are dealing with adults all the time so they they learn not how to deal with six year olds or 14 year olds or temper tantrums with their classmates and how to get along with a 10 year old they learn how to get along with adults learn how to have conversations with adults and and i i really think the socialization thing is most of the most Margaret hearing Unknown 1:36 education talk with Craig Peterson here on the web and morning Unknown 1:40 well and by the way my kids all went on to get higher degrees and college MBAs and and science degrees and Master's in mechanical engineering and stuff so I don't know overachievers or maybe they're all like your dad Unknown 1:55 um. Perhaps perhaps Unknown 1:58 so what's by the way I my Echo Dot seems to be working well it is not set my information to the government yet that I noticed Unknown 2:08 you know of Unknown 2:09 although I it's too early in the day to tell though I did the other day I was having difficulty working because I said Siri, do this and Siri do that in my wife said no, it's Alexa. Not Unknown 2:20 that's Unknown 2:22 really the same person. I mean, really, Unknown 2:24 they they might be in disguise is kind of hard to tell. I set one up. I'm down in southern Florida. I'm down in Naples this morning. And I've been down because it was my mother's 80th birthday. And we we put all kinds of stuff together. It was a really a lot of fun. But last night, I set up an echo doc for her as well. But she got over the holidays. And she was just absolutely amazed at what it can do. Although it does not respond to Siri. You can change its name a lot of people change it to computer so that it doesn't when we always listen to the radio. Hello testing turn on when when someone says the Alexa word. But yeah, as far as listening, interesting artwork design. Because even though we know Amazon has designed all of their echoes, to not listen and constantly and send that up to the internet, it could be hacked. Right. That's kind of the bottom line. That's the scariest part because we've seen those types of hacks before so the bad guys could listen in. But what Amazon is done that I think is really admirable is it can only do one thing at a time. They basically in order for that microphone to be on and live and listening. It tied it in with the light that's on the top of the Alexa. So they're both basically on the same circuit. So if it's listening for other than just its wake word the LED is on and now that my phone is hot in live. And it's it's an interesting question, an interesting problem, you know, we'll see what happens throughout the year. And one of the articles you'll see up on my website today is about the biggest data breaches of the year. Because you know, you're concerned about your data. That's why you brought up the whole Alexa thing. And if you have the Google Home, and I'm sure a lot of people got Google Home over the holidays as well. Google is doing much the same thing. They're only sending stuff up to the cloud when you have given the wake word, but Google is keeping all of that data and the big question is what happens when that data leaks You know, we've had to everybody this year the top breaches, British Airways, Orbitz million people sling health 100 or 1.5 million T Mobile about 2 million my personality. 4 million people who even heard about exercise right Shaq's Lord and Taylor 5 million The list goes on of course he gets into the really big members when you get down to the number one My Fitness Pal lost 150 million people records Marriott, which is really Starwood at the time, 500 million people and number one out of hard I don't know if they ever heard of these guys add harsh to say Ada Jr. 1.1 billion people's records found this is Indian residents so we've got to be careful but when we bring devices like these into our homes are we exposing ourselves to more problems to potentially having people listening to our conversations we know what are we doing when when the line and that's where artificial intelligence really starts coming in and we're going to see that this week is next week is the Consumer Electronics Show up in Vegas and that's what we're expecting to see a lot about at CES is machine learning a lot more a lot more artificial intelligence we already know about one artificial intelligence that was designed to take pictures and do some conversions on them that she did that went outside the rules that were established for to accomplish its game and it really cheapest and it wasn't designed to cheat so we've got people like Elon Musk in the science fi sci fi writers for decades now warning that's what's going to happen when these artificial intelligence is really start becoming self aware, Unknown 6:34 and Dinah Skynet happens. That's what happens Unknown 6:37 when that happens. Exactly. And if we've got Amazon Echoes in our homes in the Google Homes, and they the series what happens if a sentience essentially essentially and artificial intelligence decides to take over all that stuff? What happens if it gets access to our military systems? We already know those systems have been hacked. You know, Unknown 7:00 where where does this all lead us to? That's, that's where I start getting really concerned. Now, I've got the Alexa I use Siri. I'm not overly concerned about them right now. But the future's going to be an interesting one and challenging one. Look what happens or an AI starts taking over these autonomous cars that are driving around it this is going to be interesting and I'm all with Elon Musk insane. You know, we've we've got to really focus in on on Mars to get a human colony there. Because we could get wiped out by a meteorite that strikes your or an artificial intelligence, potentially. Skynet. Unknown 7:45 Craig Peterson joins us as he does every Wednesday at this time. And being a Wednesday today's no exception. You Craig obviously New Year, you know, people are making resolutions, everybody's taking stock in what they do, how they act, what they what they have their phones, everything else. Should you be deleting every app like it should this be the year that you kind of put the phone down and you take you know, you unplug a little bit. And you just kind of get yourself disentangled from this little smartphone universe you've gotten. Unknown 8:17 Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. Yeah, it might be a really good time to do it. There's, there's one journalist out there that had a challenge. And she decided she was going to this year not use her smartphone at all. So she was going to go back to like the 1990s, early 2000s, which wasn't that long ago. And Unknown 8:40 you're 1999 was 10 years ago, right? Unknown 8:43 Yeah, exactly. In the iPhone came out about 10 years ago, you know, downtown, and of course, is 20 years ago, Unknown 8:51 10 years ago, 10 years, Unknown 8:52 10 years ago was when the iPhone first came out. So it's not that long ago, time wise. But it's not just Facebook, who've got Android iOS app stores. They've got this app economy where these free apps are making money by selling our personal data in our location history to advertisers and to others. Because we know these advertisers are getting hacked, we know that the lot of this information is being intercepted by intelligence communities in our country and other countries. So man, it's such a great question. And there's an article that was published by the New York Times kind of delving into all of this, and I've got it up on my website as well at http://CraigPeterson.com. But, um, what should you do, I gotta tell you, just yesterday, I went through my phone, and I deleted all of the apps that I do not use regularly. Now in the iOS world. And this is true, also an Android, if you paid for an app, or you've got a paid app for free as a promotion, and you delete it off of your device, you still own the own that app essentially. So at a later point in time, even if you delete it off your devices, and you decide you want to use or do you need to use it, you can grab it again, and you don't have to buy it again. So take the time to do that housekeeping because we have granted permission to some of these apps to collect data, even while we're not using them. And iOS has updated its security policies. So you might have installed it before the new policies. Same thing with Android, new security policies. So basically, you'd be best off by the leading apps you you haven't used in a while, probably never re installing them, and maybe even deleting apps you do use frequently. Now remember, if you delete it, now, you're going to lose all of the customization and personalization to put into those. So you may have to reenter passwords, maybe we download things. But Matt, I think you're right in asking the question. And I really do think that the the leading apps and I said I just did this is a very good idea and a great new year's resolution. Unknown 11:17 You never know when I'm going to want to play Angry Birds. I just, you know, I mean, I just don't think I'd let go of it. Craig, I mean, they'll be that day. I'm sitting at the airport. I got an hour wait. And I haven't played Angry Birds in a while. Unknown 11:30 There's even a movie Unknown 11:32 movie if you want to call it that. Yeah, that was that the best way would be to sign by the way go to http://CraigPeterson.com anytime you want to get all the news that's fit to read the text you we were talking about kids and your 27 children and screen time for children. Is this a good time to make a new year's resolution to get your children off the computer? Unknown 11:56 Yeah, it's you know, when we were kids can remember all of the complaints about us getting screen Karmazin watching TV? Unknown 12:03 Yes. And I watched TV like eight hours a day. And I turned out okay, that's all I gotta say. Well, I don't know, man. Yeah, Unknown 12:14 yeah. Well, screen time has always been a little bit of a problem. But there's new studies out of 60 minutes did a show about screen time for these young kids. And what they found is that these young children that are spending time endlessly, scrolling, texting, snapping, it really is affecting their brains. And, you know, even adults, we are being affected by these things. And the scientists did this study 21 sites around the country. They're following more than 11,000 kids for a decade. Now. It's a $300 million research project. And they've done the first wave of brain scans done 4500 kids so far. And the MRI guys are finding some significant differences already in the brains of kids who use smartphones and tablets, video games more than seven hours a day, can you imagine that versus less. And it's very concerning, so far, the data is not going to be in all the way for another decade, frankly. But the way I look at it is, you know, it's like a younger child, you really don't want them using these devices a lot. And unfortunately, their brains are going to continue to develop well into their teenage years. And it's hard to keep them away from those devices when they are teenagers. You know, all the friends are on it. Now, Heck, even schools are requiring them to have some of these devices. So we don't know where that line is. But the younger the child is, the more you don't want them to be on these devices. And certainly, these kids under six, I would really think twice before letting them even have that access, let alone buying them one of these devices. Unknown 14:03 All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he does every Wednesday for some tech updates. Appreciate Craig, Happy 2019. We will talk to you again next week. Unknown 14:13 Hey, gentlemen, take care of things. Thanks. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

According to recent studies, Apple Watch can add two years to your life. Find out more as Craig is on with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Apple Watch Could Add Two Years To Your Life, Research Suggests Dna-Testing Company 23andme Has Signed A $300 Million Deal With A Drug Giant. Here’s How To Delete Your Data If That Freaks You Out. --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 12/12/2018 Apple Watch Adds Two Years To Your Life - DNA Testing The Why And How Craig Peterson: 0:00 Alright, good afternoon. Good evening. Good night. Good morning this is Craig Peterson I had some comments come into me@CraigPeterson.com about the the Good morning thing from yesterday, but I think I'm going to stick with good morning anyways. All right. But hey, I got the bases covered for everybody. This morning. I was on with Ken and Matt. We talked about the Apple Watch. Why are they saying that it can add two years to your life just because of one of its features, which is really kind of cool. also talked a little bit about the Salvation Army this morning and what they're doing with their new big drive. Did you know you can now donate just using your smartphone and DNA testing. It's hit the news again. So we talked a little bit about that 23 me and ancestry kind of a busy morning a little less eclectic, though the neutral with getting mad. So here we go. Unknown 0:57 Graffiti sounds with us because he dialed the phone to Unknown 1:00 Craig. Hey, good morning. It's a great time with here. I like that sort of thing. You know, the toy drives helping out and Salvation Army you know, they've got a new campaign going on now to with QR codes for those people that just don't carry carry cash anymore as well with the red kettles. Unknown 1:21 Wow. That would be me. I never, ever, ever, ever carry Ken. you make cash when I didn't have cash? Unknown 1:26 And that's like the one I didn't I think I said at the time. It was like the one time in the last year I've had cash on Yeah, Unknown 1:31 so Unknown 1:33 go ahead. People volunteer, they help out and they definitely need to help this year and their donations. You know, people just again, they don't even think about it so many times. I just don't have cash and they walk on by so having the opportunity now to call in and make donations because a really great thing to just a reminder that time of year have you have the money, it's well worth helping out with people. Unknown 1:59 I agree with you now on to come to tech stuff. So I of course, I was going to get the I watch for Christmas. And my wife delayed buying it. So I decided to just buy it for myself. Unknown 2:11 You realize Christmas hasn't occurred yet, right? You could have waited. You don't know what she's gonna do. Unknown 2:15 She she would not commit to it. And I was not gonna Unknown 2:18 there hasn't been some holiday there. And right, Ken? Unknown 2:21 Ken day, 10 days day, we celebrate every day. And so. So do I understand that by getting this watch, I'm going to live longer. Unknown 2:30 Yeah, all you need to do is buy the watch can and you're guaranteed two more years of life. Wow, that is great news. It's really that simple. Yeah, the Apple Watch is kind of cool. Because we've talked before about the new technology that's going into these watches going into these devices. And one of the things that it is doing is helping us be a little more conscious about our fitness. And and it's not just exclusively the Apple Watch. In this case, we're we're talking about some research that was done on about a half a million adults. And they found that people that had fitness trackers, which of course, are built into Apple watches, but also into many other devices that these fitness trackers that have these reward schemes, so activity levels increased by more than a third. And they did all of the math behind it, then they found of these half a million adults that they would probably add about two more years to their expected lifespan. And it brings up something else interest in, which is the whole idea behind some of these reward type programs. It's called gamification. And the idea is you can take most things and turn it into a bit of a game and you get a lot more participation. So we're not just talking about game like, can I run faster than can or match, which Unknown 3:55 you almost certainly could, Unknown 3:58 we're talking about, about games where you're kind of competing against yourself a little bit, and if they try and make it fun. So the more fun it can be, the more interactive it is, the better the odd. So when we're talking about the Apple Watch just the technology behind the gamification and getting you to exercise a little bit more is a huge win way about just the standard fitness trackers. And then that he can, you've got the heart monitor now that's built into the new Apple Watch. Yes, and that's already apparently saved some lives because it's watching that season arrhythmia and informs you about it. And one of the most common arrhythmias that you have in this day and age atrial fibrillation, and you'll see more and more of that as a population continues to age but it detects that and going to help you as well manage various types of irregular heartbeat so you made a good investment on can Unknown 4:57 see this was this is what I'm saying this was an investment not just a toy, this was Unknown 5:03 you're saving your own life is what you're doing. Exactly. Yes. You're giving the gift of time Unknown 5:07 the list of time with cultural every the listener two years. I mean, can you have another hat? Sitting it up? You know, a glass case? No, freaks me out that that's there Unknown 5:15 was Unknown 5:16 another time. Yeah, Unknown 5:18 maybe. Well, correct me, dishonor tech guru joins us telling us about all the things that Apple can do for you. Unknown 5:26 I would have put it that way. Unknown 5:28 So interestingly, I believe it was last Christmas, my wife got me a pretty cool present, which was the 23andMe genetic testing thing, which I actually really enjoy it. I thought that was really cool. Unknown 5:41 They have apparently signed a big deal with a drug company. And I assume some of that genetic material and some of that information, maybe what handed over to them, maybe how's this going to work? And if I'm freaked out about that, what do I do? Unknown 5:55 Yeah, this is really cool. I did the same thing I signed up for 23AndMe and my kids did it. And my dad did it. My mom's going to do it. In fact, I bought her one of these tips to test her DNA that I'm bringing with us at Christmas time it because right now, you can get these kits for half price, which is pretty cool. And of course, the whole idea here is you spit into a little vial that they that they give you it's part of the package and you close it up the a shake it and you put it in the envelope, and you send it back. Now we're all very well old enough to remember when DNA sequencing cost millions of dollars and took a couple of years to do just for one person. Right? Right. You remember those days, I do Unknown 6:45 like the good old days, Unknown 6:48 I remember. Well, now with 23AndMe, and there's some others out there ancestor is doing some kind of similar things, a big difference with ancestry. And 23AndMe is 23 needs, looks at your DNA to look for some and abnormalities as well. So when it has a whole health thing associated with it, and what what's happening here now is that the price has gotten lower the cost of doing it. And the timeframe for doing it is not in the lower it's a few weeks now, instead of a few years. And the show is a few million dollars, we're talking about a 50 to $100, depending on what you want. And as I said, right now, there's even price breaks. But you know, bottom line is it really does actually cost more than they're charging. And the way they're doing this, this this this is reminiscent of Facebook here, Matt, but the way they're doing it is they're selling your data. And in this case, they're selling your data to the major pharmaceutical companies. Now, it's not that they're selling it, and the pharmaceutical companies are going to come back to you. And you know, we give advertising or other things like Facebook or do but in this case, what's happening is they're using it because of the future of our medications and our medical treatments, we are changing everything. This is already true. In some cases, it's going to be true across the board, within 10 years they are going to make medication specifically for Ken Altshuler to fix a very specific problem like his addictions, new Apple watches. And the whole idea is they need a lot of DNA samples to be able to examine and they need you to answer the questions. So Matt, did you get like hundreds of questions that 23 me wanted you to answer? Did you answer any? I did. Unknown 8:49 Yeah. No, I did. I actually have I have long since given up caring about my privacy whatsoever. So I'm happy to assist the genetic research that they do. So I answered probably one of them. I mean, there was a lot of them. Unknown 9:02 Yeah, there are a lot of them. I think, last count, there were some 800 questions kind of depended on on what information they wanted. So we've got Glaxo Smith Klein, for instance, who put $300 million out and bought a stake in 23AndMe, 23AndMe has been selling this data. And it's a very, very big deal. Now you can get your information that you might have already given to 23 meter DNA stuff, you can't get that sharing restricted. And you can do that by going on to your 23AndMe account online and you can look for the bio banking consent, and you can withdraw your consent. But I agree with you, Matt, I, you know, I'm at the point where, you know, we've got 500 million records stolen, or people's, it should say, information stolen from Marriott, and everybody else. And it looks like it was the Chinese by the way, and look, the NSA knows everything about me anyway. Unknown 10:03 I mean, at this point, I don't, you know, besides from what I understand about this, too, I mean, it's not as though 23AndMe and companies like this are handing over a list of names, addresses and phone numbers with your genetic material. It's basically the data, right? I mean, it's they're trying to send over the information that would be of use with I mean, identifying material really doesn't even do anybody any good in the in the kinds of agreements that these are really Unknown 10:28 Yeah, it really doesn't yet. And, but that's where the concern comes in, because of this data, even though it's somewhat anonymized. In other words, they can't figure out that it was mad about DNA that they're looking at Unknown 10:43 right Yeah, exactly. They they you can back door your way into it and that's where people start getting concerned we're still a ways away from that but you know any hi I got a quick thing a Christmas present for everybody who's listening your data is helpful here we know it okay. As you just mentioned, if it's not out there it will be shortly it's just because of all of the staffs and three fifths of Americans have never even checked their credit report so here's what I've been working on the last week and a half with my team this we're absolutely free you know I'm not some big marketer This is trying to sell yourself or get your DNA of I'm putting together something that goes through exactly what you need to do to check your credit report understand your credit report be able to read that credit report and how to use the new laws that the federal government just put in place to freeze all of your credit for free and stop the bad guys from opening new accounts in your name and causing you know when the grief so if you send me an email just me@CraigPeterson.com Once this is finished, I will send it out to you I've scheduled interviews with Equifax and you know the three big credit companies out there so I'm going to be talking with them are going to include those interviews are going to have background information, I'm going to have screenshots I really want to help you out. And that's my Christmas present belated Hanukkah, Kwanzaa you name it. That's my present to everybody who wants to just send an email to me@CraigPeterson.com when we're done, I'll send that out to you. Because as Matt said, we're our information's out there, or it's about to be out there. And this is something you can do and you can do for free. And it's going to really it's going to help you out because so many Americans have already been affected by having their data stolen. Unknown 12:48 Joining us. Our tech guru joins us every Wednesday. Thanks, Craig. We will talk to you next week. Unknown 12:55 Take care, gentlemen. Thanks. Bye bye. --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Time for some friendly banter as Craig is on with Ken and Matt discussing the Yubikey and how to keep safe while shopping online. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: The New YUBIKEY Will Help Kill the Password 10 Cybersecurity Tips for Online Shopping --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 11/28/2018 Yubikey - No Password Logins - Staying Safe - Online Shopping Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson, here this morning. We talked about Yubikey. Have you heard of this thing? This is going to be a game changer for so many people next year. It's a great security tool. And we also talked a little bit more about some of the things you can do to help keep yourself safe online different than yesterday with Mr. Polito. So here we go with Ken and Matt.  Unknown 0:28 All right back again. 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Happy to have you with us here again. It's time to talk to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now. Unknown 0:40 Hey, good morning, gentlemen. That little controversy there not just friendly banter. Unknown 0:50 Craig. I was tempted to start talking first about the porn watching employee then affected the government networks because that's the most common and I was talking about the Yubikey. And I want to talk to you you about two factor authentication. However, since it is was Cyber Monday, and now it's cyber Wednesday, I think you should give us the chips for online shopping before more people get scammed. So let's start there. Unknown 1:16 Yeah, it's a big deal can it always has been. And it's more of a deal this year than in past because, again, more people are shopping online. The deals started early. It wasn't just Black Friday, right? That I did shopping on Thanksgiving Day on Wednesday as well. If you guys have been on you notice the deals are kind of everywhere they are. Unknown 1:38 Yeah, they are indeed. Unknown 1:40 And there's a lot of money to be saved. You never get how much money I shaved today, honey. But here's the bottom line can when it comes to safety online. There's a few things you need to keep an eye out for. I've got 10 of them up on my website. But the first one that has to do with how pay online there are new ways to pay online. A lot of people aren't aware of Obviously, we've talked for years about skipping the debit card, because if the money stolen for your debit card, it comes right out of your bank account. But now you can pay online on websites, many of them using Apple Pay now. So can you've got an iPhone, you've had them for a long time that you use Apple Pay me at all just Yes. And how do you like it? Unknown 2:32 Yes, you go wrong. We walk up. You push a button. And it works. Unknown 2:37 Yeah. And now with your your new phone. It uses the face ID right? To correct her. Right. Yeah. So it's designed to be very safe. So if you go into a merchant, and you buy something, you just hold your phone right up to their card reader, basically. And it verifies who you are using biometrics or your pass code, and it's now gives that merchant transaction ID that they use to get paid from Apple. So the merchant never get your credit card information. They never get any of that information. So it can't be stolen if they don't have it. Well, that same technology now can be used online at various websites. So if you can do use Apple Pay, and then Matt, have you used Samsung Pay before? No, I've actually never used it. Unknown 3:28 Yeah, it's not as good You're such a homework to go use it right now just to spite you. Unknown 3:38 But it's something for people to consider, because you don't have to give your credit cards etc. Another thing to consider if you don't have one of these smartphones, is to go ahead and use PayPal, which has a very good record of not having the data stolen from a much better than the vendors and we should, you know, hundreds of vendors as recently inside one of our favorites websites, healthcare.gov just cut preached again, 75,000 people lost all of their information, social security numbers, everything sold by the government. So we know that there's problems with using our information online. That's just a real quick and easy tip for people use PayPal or use Apple Pay or use Samsung Pay when you're online use sites that are sites that you know a little bit about, you know that we've got Secure Site out there. That doesn't mean your data is secure. But you know, shop at the big guys make sure all of your software is up to date before you go online. There's something that I do and Edward Snowden does as well. And that is don't use your regular computer for doing online shopping. If you can, right now, this can get expensive, obviously. But the idea is, if your machines infected, you could lose your banking or other information. So if you can't afford a separate computer, make sure all of your software's patch shop up today. I just had a listener yesterday, reach out, I wrote a little thing for him about how to even make sure that your software is being properly updated, right. But be careful, don't click on links, emails, scan, have good passwords, all the stuff we always talked about, don't use public Wi-Fi, the shopping apps, you know, some of them are good, some of them are bad, basically use apps that the store itself has, if you're going to do a little bit of shopping, and you just all over this very careful don't give them more information than you need to. Because remember, it could be stolen. They don't need necessarily your date of birth or other things. And so only given the data that they need can just keep it simple. Speaking of Unknown 5:58 only giving things that people need, people are the worst enemy of themselves. I went on a prolonged Facebook re yesterday about that new, that new hack thing that everybody thinks is happening. And all they're doing is getting a message from somebody that says, hey, you've been asked for this message and tell all your friends. And then they're telling all their friends that they've been hacked, even though they haven't done so they spread this thing virally forever, because they are the worst people ever. So my point here is that people are sort of unknowingly spreading stuff and making mistakes and leaving themselves vulnerable and so on and so forth. Which I think dovetails nicely into a security hack I know that you want to talk about that millions of people are actually installing themselves they're they're doing they're doing the work for the hackers for that basically, Unknown 6:41 ya know, we we are security our computer is better than we have before. Now that's not saying that our computers are properly secured right, but we are doing a better job now the FBI is estimating about 60% in NFC and some other stats say maybe as much as 80 percent of all of the hacks are exactly what you said that it's us being our own worst enemies is clicking on the links that you really shouldn't click on and in this case what we're talking about is these little browser extensions so you go to some website and while that this is really cool extension that you can use for shopping it'll tell you when there's something on that page that's cheaper there's a extensions that give you immediate direct access to Google all of these extensions you know think about it for a second everybody have you installed some of these browser add ons because these extensions are in a prime position for hackers to use against you people are installing them voluntarily they are being used by hackers and the same is true even for simple things like one of the biggest hacks schemes that have been going on for a long time again sorry Matt Android phones with their backgrounds you know wallpaper and wallpaper that was stealing people's contact list and the other information including even banking information so don't install these plugins these add ons these extensions don't download wallpaper if you don't need it don't put it on your phone your device because too many of us are hacking ourselves our computers store the bad guys and don't even realize what we're doing but I like I have a really beautiful wallpaper then I downloaded I got delete it now yeah yeah actually you should but if you're on an iPhone Unknown 8:49 it's so attractive it's beautiful It's the whole universe and it's in through dm you touch it and it's great Unknown 8:57 no you depress me I'm we've done a great place on her decks the guru correct Peterson comedy comedy want to get a direct information and I'm going to go on there because you have you have some of the cyber deals on I and I want this is an aside when I was in New Jersey I set up my sister in law's Alexa and i i love it. That was cool. But But and I don't, I gotta find out about all the plugins that she'll turn on your lights for you. But But I don't want talking about that. I want to talk about the Yuba key. Because you know, I'm I mean, I have lots of different passwords, probably not those great ones, and probably haven't changed them enough time. So is there's gonna be something so I don't need to do passwords anymore ever had. Unknown 9:39 Have you heard of this before? Unknown 9:40 No, no, no, no, I have not. Unknown 9:42 Okay, well, they just came out with a new version. Here's what it is. It's a little USB fall. It's just kind of like that some type almost they make them so that they're very small as well. And yes, can it will help you depending on the website. I'm not everybody's supporting this technology right now. But this is part of the whole move towards two factor authentication. And I use USB keys, we everyone in my business uses them whenever we're doing something for one of our clients and what it does in our cases, it provides high levels of encryption, but where it really could help you out here can it and it's not a bad idea to use it because you of course have clients information being an attorney that you don't want to have stolen and I worked with a couple of Law Offices who apparently were hacked by other people maybe law offices that were opposing them in court trying to steal everything that they had about the case it was just amazing the stuff that's gone on but this is a physical token the best security you can have this something you know along with something that you have and that's what you use for it's a new standard that has come out now that these new up keys are supporting called fight out to Microsoft is adopting that Google's adopting Unknown 11:12 protect people magazine your computer or is it when you go on a website and they asked for your password you it if somehow it's more it's better encryption is Unknown 11:24 is it's both Okay, so so here's what it can do. You can use the UB key in order to decrypt files on your machine, decrypt your machine give you access to your machine. So if your machines stolen and they don't have you up key and your password, they have no way of getting the data that's on it. So that's one level that you can use you be key for the other one is a password free side where you still have a password on your computer but you only have one to remember. So the idea is it will be a better password and then on top of it. The USB key is used to authenticate you to these websites. So you're no longer have to log in to websites you be key will do it for you. These things started 45 bucks they go up to $60 and this is going to be big next year is going to be very big next year because it will be password less you won't have to have them anymore and all of the major sites are already starting to support it or do support it so it's why you be I why you be IU be key have a look at it. Unknown 12:35 Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time everyone's day and he made today. no exception to that. So appreciated. Craig, thanks so much for the updates. And we will talk to you again next week. Unknown 12:45 Hey, gentlemen. Take care. Bye bye. Unknown 12:47 All right. Craig Peterson.  --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Craig is on at the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt as they discuss how safe our states' voting system is. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 11/14/2018 How safe is your State’s voting system? We compare New England voting technology with Florida’s and come up with some recommendations. Unknown 0:00 All things technology tech guru Craig Peterson is on right now. On the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. Unknown 0:18 back again here at eggs in issues live at the Holiday Inn by the bay. This is, of course, brought to you by the PLC family of collision centers. To find one near you log on to PLC collision. com. Also carpet specialist covering your flooring needs. Located at Park Road in Westbrook united insurance, your business is different review your business coverage at United insurance.net workgroup technology partners faster, safer and easier IT solutions and support for main business online at workgroup main. com new Gen Hospitality Management. Proudly providing service selection and value for your group or companies hotel and event space needs in Greater Portland and also universe dedicated to making you a customer for life. With all that said, It's time now to turn our attention to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he typically does. Craig, how are you? Unknown 1:05 Hey, good morning doing well. I'm down in Orlando. In fact right now, Unknown 1:10 but maybe you could help them do the spouse and Broward County. What do you think about that? Unknown 1:16 Yeah, exactly. So I was down in the swamp of stuff going on Elmer the land or stuff going on. It presents really kind of an interesting problem. And although there is obviously political implications and opinions on both sides, what seems to be happening right now is frankly, it's kind of a result of the hanging chads, you remember that back in 2000 I named al gore Yeah, exactly. And, and the problem back then really was that Florida was not using current technology because Chad's were part of punch cards, right. And, and that's technology, frankly, out of the 1800s very old technology. And by the year 2000, we had a lot better technology. Well, we're seeing that again, gentlemen. And what we're seeing is that these two counties that are having problems are using the equipment that they bought in 2002, after the federal government came out with a grant. Now, you know, I said forever, you can't have non technology, people making technology decisions, right? It's, you know, it's just such a complex topic, and particularly talking about these voting machines. So the voting machines they bought in 2002 don't hold up well, in humid conditions, guess what they have in Florida, you meditate, and they can only score one race at a time. Which means if you are trying to, for instance, look at the governor's race, you have to run a all of the ballots through the machines for the governor's race. And now we need to score the senate race. So now you got to run all those ballots through the machines, again, for the Senate, race, etc, etc. And down here in Florida, there's another race that really matters. And that race is the agriculture commissioner. I think that's the title. But in that case, obviously, Florida, a lot of agriculture, but the agriculture commissioner is the person who makes the decisions about concealed carry permits down in Florida. So the republicans are all up in arms with that. So here you go, you've got what is a 13 machines, you have to run all 250 ish thousand ballots through these machines multiple times, the machines don't like the humidity that's in the air down here. So they're jamming and just drawing balance. When they jam, it is a complete mess. And then on top of it, you seem to have a woman in charge of it, at least in Broward County, who doesn't seem to really know what she's doing. It's really a crazy thing Unknown 4:13 that's putting it mildly. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now to go over the world of Well, I guess the election technology would be the best place to start, since that's really dominated the news right now, you've of course, been talking to us about these machines in Florida. What would be a good option? I mean, I don't know how much you know about election machinery and the kind of ballot boxes they have, or whatnot. But you know, here in Maine, we have sort of, you know, we have a paper ballot, that we fill out the oval with, you know, with a pen, and then it gets run through a tabulating machine. And we have, like, the physical we have the physical thing, it's not connected to the internet early so says, Matt Dunlap. So it seems like we do things reasonably smartly here. What's the best system in your mind? Unknown 4:59 Yeah, frankly, that is the best system, you know, whether or not the software safe, reliable, etc, is a completely different story. But that system allows for a real manual recount. In other words, you filled out those bubbles, right? You took some felt pen, right, and fill those in. That is something that a human to look at, right, you can, you can pull those ballots out. So the right way to do this is people fill out the ballot, the run through the machines, the machines come up with the tally. And then what you do is you spot checks, machines, spotcheck for one race or two races are all of the races and make sure everything is as it should be. Now, there will be a little bit of discrepancy because a human I might be able to determine intent better than an on him and I because some people instead of filling in that oval will, right, yes, and the machine's not going to understand that and they seize the assets spits out the ballot, and in those cases, those ballots can be looked at manually. Many states are using absolutely insane stuff. They've got Windows XP running a touchscreen. And in a lot of cases, in this election cycle, we've seen voters complaining that they tried to vote for someone and another person on the ballot was actually voted for so. So you Unknown 6:32 aren't Craig, what's the argument for doing it that way? I mean, when I was in Virginia, we had an all digital machine ballot, and I voted that way. And it went smoothly for me. But I don't understand why you would do it that way. Is it really just to save like, on printing costs? I mean, Unknown 6:46 it's Unknown 6:48 Yeah, yeah, for accounting, I mean, what is it? Unknown 6:52 Yeah, it is. The argument for that is that if you're trying to have 5 million people casting votes, it's much easier to have those voting machines where everything is calculated automatically. Some of the voting machines like that do have an audit trail, that they spit out a piece of paper, most of them, frankly, don't have a good audit trail, and there's no way to manually recount them. So it's insanity. We, you know, and you already know, we do not have any national elections, we have 58 elections, and the states typically leave it up to the counties to perform the voting. So we've got thousands of different jurisdictions that are in charge of voting. So they're going to choose different machines, different versions of those machines, they're going to try and update the software on them. Some of these machines are a little on the complex side, although they're getting simpler for the people working, not the polls, but working the election, the secretaries of states and things. So it's a this is a problem, this going to continue on. And last, everybody switches to what main de because I know New Hampshire uses a similar system. In fact, I think it's the same system throughout New England, we have a lot of those, and they're moving around the country. But that's the only way to do it. And then, of course, the other part that's a real problem right now in Florida has to do with people seeing what's happening. The light of day is the best disinfectant. And when you're talking about having the physical balance, like our us here in Maine, it's fantastic because everyone can look at them. You can have multiple people who are monitoring all at the same time, and they're not letting people in to monitor the balance to monitor the accounts or anything else. So that's the political side of it. Right? I personally think that's absolutely insane thing. Let people in light of day make it so they can be hand counted. And I think everything gets a lot better quickly. Unknown 9:00 We are going to Craig Peterson Tech Talk. He joins us on Wednesday. 738 let's talk about a little fake news. Um, how easy is it to create fake news Craig Unknown 9:14 I know this is really an interesting case because we now have the technology where we can put a person's face on to someone else so let's say you wanted to show someone committing a crime all you have to do is have an actor some sort go ahead commit the crime all fake you know and then the computers can now monitor everything that's going on track the whole thing map it and put someone else's face on makes a body look similar. It's absolutely crazy you guys remember Lord of the Rings? The movie series? Of course, of course. And did you ever see the behind the scenes the videos of how they did this with Gollum and he had those white golf balls all over him think Unknown 10:07 that that's how you used to have to do it today You don't have to do it that way at all. So when you're talking about fake news is that extends all the way out to the video world that frankly some of these videos that you're looking at are fake. In fact, one of the videos on Facebook that got millions of views showed this jet airliner just a passenger plane doing loops and slips just before it landed and it was shared like crazy it was absolutely fake there's no way that jet could do what was being shown and yet it went out to millions of people who believe it happened so we're going to have to be very prudent consumers of news as we go forward because it's so easy to fake right it's easy now fake email addresses this easy to fake phone numbers how many times a day you get a call from one of these spam pies right trying to sell you something or they're from the IRS right lately it's been for me it's been insurance and by car insurance but it's it's so fake and it's something we just got to be aware of. Be careful you really can't believe your eyes anymore. Unknown 11:26 No, you cannot well, Craig Peterson our tech guru, leaving us with that bit of hope and optimism. Appreciate a Craig we will talk to you again next week. Unknown 11:34 Take care guys. Bye bye. --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

Are you aware that Facebook accounts are now for sale on the dark web? Craig is on with Ken and Matt on The WGAN Morning News talking about artificial intelligence and the awkward etiquette of iPad tipping. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Your Next Appointment May Begin By Talking With An Artificial Intelligence You Want 20% For Handing Me A Muffin? The Awkward Etiquette Of iPad Tipping 'PAY THE RANSOM - OR WATCH ME WRECK YOUR LIFE': Chilling New Fraud Email That Says You've Been Filmed on An Adult Website After The Hack: People's Facebook Accounts Now For Sale On Dark Web --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 10/31/2018 Artifical Intelligence - Tip Shaming With iPad POS - Watching Porn Email Fraud   Matt Gagnon: Time to talk to Craig Peterson our tech guru who is on the line right now. Craig Unknown 0:03 Are you they doing good? I'm down with the heart of the beast today and down in Washington DC Unknown 0:12 it Halloween? Right? Yes. Waiting ankle deep in the swamp. Unknown 0:16 So speak about artificial intelligence Oh Unknown 0:21 gonna be something that we can just have an artificial intelligence in the White House perhaps crack Unknown 0:27 you know that actually might have Unknown 0:29 some are we talking about robot president here? Unknown 0:34 You are under arrest Unknown 0:38 and Ed tool nine down the street. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the holy I think is really interesting. And we're already seeing chat box and other things out on social networks where you're trying to talk to a company and you're actually talking to a computer. But we're seeing more and more of this artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, we had a friend over at Google demonstrated in artificial intelligence that could call and make appointments, which is really kind of cool. If you heard those demos. In fact, I even sent them this morning in the email. But it is just amazing where it's going. And one of the things that's really starting to changes of the way we consume our, you know, medical services, right? Do you guys have you ever used one of those online services, we get on Skype or something, and you talk to a doctor remotely, Unknown 1:33 I've never done that night, but I certainly know that it exists. Unknown 1:35 Yeah, I've used it before, too, because for as little as like 20 bucks a month, you can subscribe to these things. And if you have something going on, you can just pop on talk to a doctor. And they can actually give some basic prescriptions. And they can also tell you, yeah, don't worry about it, or maybe taking to the emergency room or take them to your physician. So those types of services exist in there cutting some of the medical costs people have, well, when we look far forward, can you know, before the days of the robotic president and learn we're going to be seeing doctors online that are actually artificial intelligence. And the scary thing is the studies that are being done right now for, you know, looking at medicine, looking at computers are showing that computers are more accurate at diagnosing the majority of machine of diseases than the doctors are. So the computers are already doing better in some cases. I guess the ultimate question is, if you end up with something like it at 209 that Matt was referring to where, you know, bedside manner, is it going to be better or worse, if you're working with a computer? I don't know. But it's common. This is gonna be like, the, Unknown 2:56 this is a nerd alert here, I guess was gonna be like the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager. I like this completely artificial intelligence saying treating you arrogant as a terrible bedside manner. Unknown 3:10 Exactly. But yeah, that's kind of what it's going to be you you'll kind of chat with it. The first versions, you'll chat with them online, you'll describe your symptoms, not like going to the doctor, Google people don't just Google all of your symptoms, because you're going to find it that you are sick, it doesn't matter what your symptom is. And obviously, your heads going to fall off next week. But you're going to chat with them. And they will come up with some basic advice. And then the next step will be that it's going to be able to examine you look at your, the new Apple Watch as you get that, yes, Unknown 3:44 no, it's gonna be my Christmas present, you know, okay, Unknown 3:48 well, that Apple Watch today can do some basic cardiac measurements, right. And, you know, give it a few another couple of years, they'll have all kinds of stuff that's they can use that for even the camera on the Apple Watches now are being used to monitor your skin for cancer and various other things. So it's going to be you wearing your shirt to the gym, and your shirts going to be monitoring you telling you, you better stop that treadmill right now, get yourself to the hospital might even call nine one for you. Because I've noticed a major cardiac arrhythmia or your Apple Watch is going to do that it there. Everything's going to change and it's going to be a computer-centric world. Unknown 4:32 Craig Peterson, tech guru Wednesday morning, 738. It is that time and we're talking to Craig right now. Craig is my Facebook account for sale on the evil dark web right now Unknown 4:45 here. This is something right. We talked a couple weeks ago about the big pack some 50 million people's accounts were hacked. And we didn't really know what was stolen and Facebook wasn't being totally upfront about everything. And then downgraded at Facebook settle knows more like 30 million people. Just 30 million. Yeah, give her know what they got, what 2 billion subscribers counter something you know. So yeah, what's 30 million? Well yes, it turns out that Facebook has not only been hacked but their information has made it onto the dark web and you can go on the dark web but right now and you can find on the new marketplace you guys know about so grow right yes i did was Unknown 5:33 i downtown does but I do know I don't Unknown 5:35 want can might remember the original shirt he's probably old enough yeah what is it yeah yeah Unknown 5:41 he's doing a legal briefs Unknown 5:44 reading about matching reading what this thing about porn and fraudulent emails with them and ask them about next. Okay, shut up. Sorry about that. Unknown 5:54 So. So this is going to interesting because between three and co dollars on the dark web, you can go out and buy the information from the hat accounts. So it looks like this is credible. It's on dream market, which is the new big dark web market, you know, Silk Road went away was it was taken down by the FBI, the guy apparently behind it all in, you know, criminal charges and everything and some jail time. So now dream market is the new market that has replaced it. And if your Facebook information was stolen, it is apparently now for sale online. Unknown 6:37 Alright, so Ken has a porn question. But you also have the one about about tipping by your tipping when you buy a muffin. So it's, um, it's a toss up what question I will answer. But well, knowing where your mind goes, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that pornography is. So let me get this straight. Some people are emailing us saying I caught you looking at adult website. And if you don't give me money, I'm going to drop a diamond. You basically can expose that to the public. Unknown 7:04 That's exactly what it is. And when you got that can Unknown 7:11 I said I don't know what you're talking about. Because I don't look at a website. I did. I did google home early this morning. But that was not on a porn website. Unknown 7:25 But that is what's happening. But here's what's going on this. These scammers have found people's email addresses and passwords from a various online systems that have been breached. Now, what can trust me what this whole thing tells me is we are not using passwords properly. You know, you're supposed to be using a different password on every website, even a different username, different email addresses, right. So here's what happened. The bad guys got all of us information that was stolen from a bunch of different websites out there, they put it all together into a pot. And then they started mailing out these pieces of mail saying exactly what you said, Hey, we found your user information out on this porn site. And by the way, here's your password. And here's your username, which is typically your email address. If you don't pay us we will let everybody in your contacts and know that you were at this porn site and that you are a member now it's interesting because this is in fact people are getting scared because it is their password but they never visited that porn site. Unknown 8:43 So sure they have Craig Unknown 8:47 so what it meant in my case is I was using the same password to each site and that's what's happening out there. People are just you're using the same password and all of these sites and they're getting upset and worried because it is the password that they use but it was not hacked that porn site it was just hacked somewhere else so so you Unknown 9:08 just Unknown 9:11 want to make sure since I've never gone to a porn site of course that they look at my camera and be filming me looking at the porn site Unknown 9:18 yeah well that's possible too well I was down here we did a demo of how it only takes about 90 seconds to hack somebody's computer and just from a drive by download and turn on their camera but yeah that's possible that can happen they can watch you watching porn now for me it's just my mouth starts to water cuz I love that porn but um. There's a lot of different types of poor air might not want to have that app don't visit those bites right there the worst when it comes to drive by downloads and viruses and just all kinds of bad Unknown 9:57 let me delete hope yeah okay of nastiness would be the right place the right What do you want to ask your muffin question? Well yeah you know you bring this up that you go into a place on I will miss the place but I go in and I give them my Apple Pay or give them a credit card and they turn around and it has a tip on it I got it I mean they just hated me a muffin Why am I turning around and handing me a muffin Unknown 10:26 something right it's a guilt play my age you feel a little guilty when they interesting my wife said to me one Unknown 10:33 time when you go pick up the Chinese food do you leave a tip and I never asked don't yet but I've started doing it because I think it will they all put in the mail to you always tip your takeout I person Yeah. So I guess in fact, I actually tipped them Oh, I don't really well. I don't either. Unknown 10:49 They know who you are, you know, Unknown 10:51 can I tell your story and Sorry, I'm gonna go ahead and indulge myself here a little bit. But what one of the places that I go a lot, is a famous Daves in Scarborough. Whenever I'm in the neighborhood and they get some get a chicken salad. They're beginning for years. Because I like it. I tip them very well. And I treat them very nicely and they just changed it. Listen to me. They just changed their menu. And like two weeks before they change the menu. They're like, Man, you know, you know that we're changing the chicken. And we want to make sure that we have your opinion on this. So I made you a badge of the new chicken. Would you try it? Oh, wow. Yes, by the way, excellent chicken. But I'm saying you get treated like goals. So if you say you should check them out, your recommendation Unknown 11:29 is a problem is because they have these little, you know, iPad or tablet and they run your card and then they turn it around to you. Now you're standing in line there are people in line behind you plus the guy that just turned this around to you. And the default tip amounts are like 1520 or 25% for handing them a muffin or grabbing some coffee. You know what what's going on here it is it's really awkward and I've been there myself and for usually just say other and I give them some minor tip like a box or something as opposed to the two or $3 it might be recommending it you know, they're not paid terribly well. But I I think that's kind of tip shaming should go away. That's a part of technology. I definitely don't like Unknown 12:22 yes, shaming should go but you should still tipping point shaming should go away to Unknown 12:28 Craig Unknown 12:29 Well, typically Unknown 12:30 absolutely as you should. We're going to go and leave it there Craig, appreciate you joining us and we will talk to you again next week. Sir. Unknown 12:36 Hey, take care guys. Bye bye. Alright, great. So of course Unknown 12:41 ties into a script doing --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

  How is your Wi-Fi?  Listen in as Craig, Ken and Matt discuss why it is going to get a lot better and soon. Do you travel? Do you use Frequent Flyer Miles?  Craig, Ken, and Matt discuss the newest currency of Hackers. Keep your PC on, or Turn it off -- Age-old Question.  Craig, Matt, and Ken discuss the pros and cons and why you should probably turn it off. These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Huge Improvements Coming to WiFi Frequent Flyer Miles Now A Big Target For Hackers Does Turning Your PC Off Every Night Make It Last Longer? This Is What 8 Hardware Manufacturers Have To Say --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 10/24/2018 New Wi-Fi Standards, Stolen Air Mlles, Turning off your PC Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Good Morning, everybody. If you're involved with protecting the computers in your business, or you know someone involved in a government office or an NGO, you really need to look into the Infragard. There's no question about it. It's a phenomenal program. And yesterday I ran webinar for the Infragard program and we were talking about the Chinese and what they're doing it is way worse than I ever thought it was. They are really getting into everything. So just a real quick shout out Infragard.org is where you can find them online. I n f r a g a r d dot org and sign up. It's well worth it. They have to do this lightweight background check and it takes a few months usually but then you're going to start getting up to date information that type of stuff I get. So, if you're really into it, check it out. Alright, so today I was on with Ken and Matt. Then per usual, we went through a few different things. We talked a little bit about turning off the power on your PC's. We also talked about the new Wi-Fi six standards that are going to be coming our way and you know a couple of other things. So, we actually had a little bit more back and forth this morning with Ken and Matt. So, we're gonna go with that. Also. I have tomorrow's webinar ready. This is a public webinar about ransomware and about what you can do. So, make sure you sign up for that. Craig Peterson dot com Craig Peterson dot com. So, here we go. 1:38 It is 739 on the WGAN Morning News. And it is Wednesday. Which means Craig Peterson is with us once again to give us an eye on technology around the world. How you doing, Craig? Hey gentleman, Did you know what the differences between a Fenway Frank and a Yankee Stadium dog, Fenway Franks are still being served right now. Oh, boy, that was perfect. Where's the rim shot? Yeah, I'm done. You can get a Fenway Frank. Yes, you can. 2:04 So, speaking of Fenway Frank's, I'm not going to talk about China and Russia right now, because I'm tired of China, Russia, but I am interested in anything new about Wi-Fi. Because my daughter says it's been like $1,000 to improve the Wi-Fi at our house. Is there hope coming to us? Yeah, we have those little airport- 2:22 things all over the place. Oh, yeah. those are those are actually pretty good. There are some good Wi Fi boxes out there, routers. And, you know, we talked about some of the routers and some of the problems she mentioned with China. But we have new technology coming up for our cell phones. But you already know that right, we've got five g coming out. 5g LTE and Wi-Fi has always been confusing to people. You know, we started with 802 11 A, then B. And then I remembered I think there was a see there is a G, there was an N. Now there's an AX. So, there trying to do two things. One, they're trying to make it a little easier to understand. So they're changing the Wi-Fi logo, you know, that little logo with the three kinds of concentric circles? And it shows you a quarter of the pie. Yeah, in the top. Even Matt, even your Android phone probably has that same logo. 3:20 Yes. My archaic brick of 3:24 that one. Yeah. 3:26 So, what we're gonna do is, to add a little number in there. So now, instead of all of these confusing numbers and letters, it's going to be Pie with a number. So, the current standard will be called Wi-Fi five. And then the older standards, obviously, they're going to go down. But, I think I can see what you're referring to something called Wi-Fi? sec? Yes? Which is the new generation. You're going to need this because do you have a 4k TV right now? 3:54 Yes, I do. 3:55 Yeah. Okay. And do you have like Netflix, or Yes, 3:58 Netflix, and Hulu and Amazon and all those things 4:03 Will get one everything? Well, the problem a lot of people are having with their older WI-Fi is that there just isn't enough bandwidth to be able to run your high def TV at full speed. And, so they come up with a new standard, it's going to be hitting the shelves next year. That they are calling Wi-Fi six. It fixes some of the security problems. Plus, it can run fast enough for your next TV, which is going to be an eight K TV 4:35 forgot? 4:37 Can I even see that? 4:39 You know, honestly, 4:42 one of the things that's kind of neat, if you might not have really noticed this, but a 4k TV looks better with everything because it has some very smart software inside of it. So, you can feed it a pretty crappy old, even a VHS signal, but certainly a DVD and it up scales it to make it look a lot better. So, Matt, in answer to your question. Yeah, you can see it in a very large TV. But, if you're using a smaller TV eight K is not something that's going to make a big difference for you. You know, who really likes are you? Are you a gamer? You can see yourself a gamer at all, man. 5:22 Yeah, man, are you a gamer? Yeah, back in the day, I might have been. But now I have four kids. three jobs and no time. So, now, not really. But I might I do have a PlayStation four. And my son plays it. Yes. So occasionally, once a year or so I might be able to pick it up. 5:35 Well, if you're much beyond Donkey Kong, you're you're going to know about this kind of stuff, you're going to notice the difference. So, all of the all of the Wi-Fi will be faster, it covers your house a little bit better than what you have right now. And it's going to be able to handle all of the future expansion that we're looking at. And frankly, it's needed for the cable companies who are going to have to compete against the cellular networks. Because remember, I mentioned five G, the new standards on cell phones, well, that's going to make it so in most of the more Metropolitan and even suburban areas, you're going to be able to get internet as fast as cable is providing in many areas right over your cell phone. So, they've got to come up with something, that kind of you know, one step further, and frankly, this is a benefit all of this stuff to getting rid of that terrible and you know my opinion on this one, right. But that terrible so-called net neutrality, because it really has reintroduced competition so we're going to see in competition from not just the Wi-Fi devices, but between cable companies and the cellular data companies in the very near future. There'll be some more so it's kind of cool and can get ready to buy that 8K TV 6:55 Do they make it, in I mean I have a 65 inch now, I need a 75 or 80. This is 65 just big enough for me Unknown 7:03 oh they're measuring some of these 8k TVs in feet now. Yeah baby, I found one that's 30 feet or mind you. It was like $60,000 7:19 the Winner in South Carolina can afford that and 7:21 that's exactly 7:22 So, yeah you can get them but you know there's some really big ones and the cheaper lower end ones. Frankly the only ones you might really consider for home use, there only 10 grand right now so you know the rich attorneys probably running out buying them already. Can 7:40 you. Gotta keep up with your show? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's going on in the world of technology. So, Craig I gotta be honest with you. I have flown an awful lot over the last 10 years. I, I fly, I don't know dozens of times a year and I never have signed up for frequent flyer miles because I'm an idiot, however 8:04 I haven't been able to use them and I 8:06 have used I just never I never get around to it. But, anyway the point being frequent flyer miles now apparently are are vulnerable to being hacked. What? Tell me about that. 8:15 Yeah, well I'm just saying kind of ice sign up programs. I don't know that I've actually ever used any miles because there are so clever and making them expire on you. When you know multiply. The the largest black markets on the dark web is called dream market, now. There have been a few there's come and gone but they are now stealing and selling people's frequent flyer miles and there's some pretty good prices, if you don't mind buying stolen stuff but the dark web. You can get some you know hundred thousand miles for as little as 30 euros, there on the dark web. So, you got to be kind of careful. Most people just aren't paying much attention to it. So when they disappear like mine do, because the airline decides to just you know absorb them because you haven't used them in time. They a lot of people just don't notice but you can get 200,000 British Airways miles for 45 bucks on this site right now. 100,000 from Delta. British Airways and I mentioned Emirates Skywards, just about anybody. So, be kind of careful if you are a person who's serious about frequent flyer miles, it's kind of a yet another currency that they're using. And, some basic tips here. Don't just leave your boarding pass around about, you know, get rid of it shredded if you have to. Do not post photos of your boarding pass online. I've been shocked at some of the FBI webinars. I've been running for their Infragard, where they're talking about people posting pictures of, for instance, World Series tickets online. Yeah, I'm going to the World Series. And, then people zoom in and on them and they copy them, they print them and then they're selling these tickets, online worlds. You know, suppose it World Series tickets that I have your ticket number. And then you show up and it's just not any good, any market, somebody already used it. So, it's just happening and it's happening all over the place. So, don't have your airline account numbers kicking around, don't post the pictures. And if you have to live in fear, 10:33 live in fear. You say 10:35 constant fear. Constant fear. Yeah, who knows this person in South Carolina might not be the actual Winner. Who knows, right? It's the bad guys are out there. And they're doing it every day. 10:48 We are done, Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. You know, by the way Peterson saw that coming. Their coming to get all the valuable information directly without even talking to us about it up so quick. I've been told many times to turn off my apple or my PC every night, these little last longer and that's better for and also things do should we be doing that? 11:11 Yeah, it's such a good question. The question of the ages, right? I've always been of the school that. Yeah, you should just leave your computer running because of mental fatigue, you know, turn it on and off, things heat up, cool down and then break. You know, when your computer's dies, it's probably dying, or right after you turn it on or right when you turn it off, because of the surges in power and the heating stuff. There is a great article that I shared up on my website from mandatory.com. Where they reached out to eight different vendors of hardware, each of them had kind of a different answer. And I think my answer today, because also have security concerns is, Yeah, you probably should turn turn off your computer when you're not using it. Because, at the very least, hopefully, you'll notice your computer starting to get busy or get hot if it's a laptop when it's being hacked, being used for mining Bitcoin by some third party with malicious software. And, then from the hardware standpoint, it probably is not going to make an appreciable difference in the life of the divided cell. There you go. Just turn it off now. I think that's probably the best bet. 12:29 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is your tech update of the week. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time to give it to us every week. Appreciate it Craig and we will talk again next Wednesday. Take care gentlemen, thanks 12:40 thanks a lot alright so let's take gives it 12:42 to us every week I heard that Matt. All right everybody take care make sure you sign up for the webinar. You are really going to enjoy this. It's absolutely free, again you know we're not charging for this at all. I'm not selling you anything. This is a give back on trying to help 100 companies by the end of this year. small medium businesses with their security for free. I'm serious. Okay check it out. Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day. 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Find out how an 11-year-old girl changed the results of Florida's presidential vote as Craig talks with Matt and Joe on the WGAN Morning News.   These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Hippies Are Going To End Up Killing Us All! How China Will Win The Deadly Race For AI Weapons Election Systems Are So Insecure, That Even An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida’s Presidential Vote. --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 08/29/2018 Hippies Could Kill Us All - How To Make Elections Safer   Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. Here in the northeast, we are going through a heat wave three H's hazy, hot and humid. Now I know I mentioned this on the FBI webinar I did yesterday I mentioned how hot it was and we're miserable because it's in the 90s and it's humid and poor us and I got notes from people in gas Dallas is hotter than even Houston this year more miserable down there so I get it but for us this is really hot, okay and I'm not really happy about this but you know falls coming that's my favorite time of year I love fall up here in the northeast up in New Hampshire it's just beautiful. So today I was on with Ken was out. So it wasn't Ken and Matt, it was Joe and Matt today. And we talked about two things really, we talked about the hippies in Berkeley and the Bay Area out there and how they are now putting all of our lives at risk. This is a very real threat. So we talked about it and get into some detail and then we get into a little bit about hacking and where things are going and what's happening with our voting system. Because of course, we got a route midterm and then a midterm primaries first. And then the general big election coming up in a couple of years. So what happened out at DEF CON black hat, and, and it's frankly, it's a little scary sides. Oh, here we go. 1:32 Okay. It is 737 on the WGAN Morning News with Canada. We have Joe Reagan in for Ken and we have Craig Peterson, Tech Talk guru who is joining us right now to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig, how are you?  1:46 Hey, good morning. I feel like I'm melting lately. This is kind of nasty. But last time of the year. I suppose I this is your last opportunity to get sweat out of your living room. Yes, absolutely. 1:57 And all you wouldn't look forward to is a very cold, long, cold, snowy winter. Yes. Yes. 2:03 I have a daughter right now over Norway. And she's working over there right now on a project. But anyways, she's saying that right now. She wants to send over her winter clothes because it's already about 32 degrees at night. So yeah, that's to look forward to 2:24 yesterday, just like it was yesterday. Okay. 2:26 So Craig, tell me exactly how the hippies are destroying America. 2:31 Oh, those hippies are back again. That's what you know about the military. You know about DARPA, you know that they're constantly trying to improve the technology to kind of one up bar potential enemies. And they've been doing it for a long time using military contractors and others. Right now, guys, when you're thinking about the most advanced technologies, you're probably thinking about mag AF. Right? 3:02 What you may get Microsoft, Apple, Google Amazon. And let me stop you right there. There are so many acronyms in my brain 3:13 government work, you can't start giving them new ones 3:17 like mega with an F on the end. I thought it would be easy for you. Is there a hat? I can put this on 3:27 Red Hat 3:29 Do you think about right? All these leading tech companies are kind of in the lead when it does come to the different types of technology out there. So what is the military do they go to all of those companies? And particularly, we're going to talk right now about Google. But they go to those companies and say, Hey, listen, you've got this great technology. Now, all of these companies license some of their technologies, you other people, and particularly when we're talking about Google, we've received some great technology. Look at me, Amazon now with the echo because I you guys, you know, those right, you have to have any those. 4:09 I have an echo and echo plus, I've got a tap. Yeah, no, I've got a lot of those things. 4:12 I got an echo show. And I got a couple of them. So I gave one to our granddaughter who's over in Kentucky so that we can chat with her. She can jump in anytime she wants. So I mean, Google Home, do you have Google Home or any of those devices now is now 4:28 home stuff terrifies me. 4:30 You know, a refrigerator tweeting is I don't 4:32 mind the refrigerator, tweeting. It's the security peace behind it. And having the cloud that concerns me. 4:39 Yeah, the IoT, right? The Internet of Things. We're talking about 50 billion devices within a couple of years. So that technology gets license Google, license it to other people, Amazon, license it to other people. So when the military of saying, hey, Google, you've got this really cool artificial intelligence project, and we want to use that in some of our development work every want to give it to them, some startup by contractors, you want to pay you for it, etc, etc. You would expect that to happen, right? That's a legit logical thing they license protect other people, why would they not license it to the military. So it started out with a small group of people inside Google who said, No, I don't want my work being used by the military to potentially kill people. And then it ended up being about three to 5000 people within Google who signed a petition saying, I'm going to quit my job, if you license any of this AI technology to the military. So now, we've got all of these peaceniks, which is bringing back in my mind, memories of the 60s and 70s, these hippies running around saying, No, no, no, you can't use our tech, you can't use our tech nine and I man, 5:58 but in the 60s, the government was investing heavily let me the whole purpose of Silicon Valley expanding was due to government investment in the 80s. Where did we get the internet from the army again, from the military? It was another ARPANET project, they will bring that in the internet today, right? That's right. It was the project of where they were linking universities into the military, linking them all together so they could communicate and develop stuff. It's all military, it was military funded. Heck, we even got pain from NASA, right? That does anyone tell you any more, by the way, 6:39 so that's not really a high bar to said, 6:43 Where's the snare drum there? We need to call 6:48 anyways, it's cold. It's cold room shop 6:51 shop there. So the military has long use high tax the years they're young with some 7:02 now they worked with our universities, etc. And now these hippies are saying, No, you can't use it. Now, here's the problem that's just 7:10 cots technology coming out of Google, DARPA is still doing 7:15 investigative research into those areas. 7:17 Absolutely. DARPA has not stopped doing what they've been doing. And of course, they'll know that's the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency because I have to explain some of the fly is today some of the four letter acronym 7:31 so so that's what DARPA is, yes. But the AI technology that the military was trying to license is critical. And here's why China is ahead of us right now, with at least it appears to be with some of this AI technology. And where this could ultimately lead, if it came down to war could be a very, very bad path. We I'm personally I don't think that those people inside Google are thinking this through. I don't think they realize that by not allowing the military to use the most advanced technology in the world, we are going to start falling behind. And when that happens, I personally think things could turn pretty bad ultimately. But that's where the hippies coming back. Who knew? 8:24 Well, Craig, it's a great point. I think that, you know, looking at as far as foreign policy concerned, but also the impact of technology on our voting systems. I mean, we've had a lot of conversations around the use of the Russians both influencing through social media, traditional media. But then there's also discussions around the actual threats to the physical things in which we use to vote, right. Yeah, 8:46 we just had the big conference out there in Vegas, we had the black hat and DEF CON conferences. Now, these are conferences that every year, it's kind of interesting, because they are talking about how things can be hacked. And if go to one of those conferences, you do not want to bring any electronic devices, because the likelihood is they will be hacked. I don't care what they are, they're going to get hacked out there. And one of the things that they did this year is they expanded it. Well, let me just back up a little bit. You've been to conventions before, and conferences anytime. And they've got tracks, right. So you might have the CEO track or this tracker, that track record, they do the same thing out of these hacking conferences in Vegas. And this year, they had the biggest that they've ever had voting systems online. So they took a whole bunch of wanting system, some of which are in us, in the US and throughout the US. And they put them into a room and they said, have added guys, and they had contests and of course, they were they were all hacked, right? Every one of them. And I got to say that the secretaries of state say, Hey, listen, you know, that's not the real world. Because in the real world, we have more secure networks, we have air gaps, and of course, all that defeated to the thing that's most interesting. Joe, I'm glad you brought this up from the conference here just a couple of weeks ago, is that they also had a junior section. So they had they had let him loose. I mean, kids on voting machines and an 11-year-old girl hack voting machine. And I mean, what she ended up doing was, and this is interesting, right, man, how do the results get disseminated to the press? Most of the time it's via websites, right? You check the website and you've got it. So what does this 11-year-old girl do? She had a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website out there at Black Hat. So again, every part of this is a problem because what happens if in Washington, they're not calling up and saying I'm you're the Secretary of State for me, give me the vote tallies. What was a code word of the week change code words? I know what you so I know the numbers are legit. What happens if they go to the state of Maine's website to find out what the vote tallies are to put them together to say yes, so it's always our new next president. And in fact, all they had to do was had website had the email. So, Joe, you're dead on this is a huge, huge problem. We have not fought all the way through yet. What are some of the solutions that are being proposed, you'd like to hope that when you look at what DEF CON is trying to do, is it's trying to bring in those white hat hackers that can come in and try and identify the problems in the hope that you're gonna have solutions that are going to come out of that. I mean, are there any ways in which we can further secure the voting system or there's being discussed? Well, yeah, I think they are. I think the best way to do this is a spot audience by people. I think that you using a piece of paper where you mark down who you're voting for, you know, and most of the states that are doing the paper ballots now or are using the optical scanners and it's not, you know, it's not Paper Paper till heavier than a sheet of paper. But then the machine reads it and then the machine gives the tallies and I think what should we only way to move forward here because we're gonna have to use some of this technology but he is you have the machines read them and then you have people spot check they manually go through looking for hanging chads rice in a flashback 20 years ago, and that they look at them, they looked at the tallies, make sure everything looks fine. And then we have to have a secure way of making sure that those tallies that are coming from individual districts and counties and state or all shared properly so that we get good final numbers. That's the only way we can really trust it. I think that the recount that we have right now some states have automatic recount. So if it's close enough of a race, some don't have that. But I think we should make recount easier. So if you want to do a recount, no problem. We bring you some of your people in we will watch you guys with the balance making sure you're not doing anything phony baloney so that anyone almost can do a recount so that we can trust the final tallies. That's the only way I think that we can move forward on this job. Because the tech the tech just cannot be 100% trusted. 13:34 Well, on that happy note, Craig, I think we're done. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. So we have to leave it there, Craig, appreciate your appearance. And we will talk to you again next Wednesday. Hey, gentlemen, take care. Thanks so much. All right. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side. --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Has Facebook ever suggested that you tag a person in a picture you posted? Craig joins Ken and Matt to discuss what Facebook is doing with Facial Recognition and why you should be concerned.  Patents are issued every day. Craig tells Ken and Matt about a Patent that Walmart just got and why everyone who shops there should be aware of it.   Are you concerned with someone hacking your iPhone?  Craig explains a new feature available on the iPhone that will protect your iPhone. Find out more on CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles:   Facebook Is Still Abusing Your Privacy   Walmart’s Newly Patented Technology For Eavesdropping On Workers Presents Privacy Concerns Apple’s USB Restricted Mode: how to use your iPhone’s latest security feature --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 07/18/2018 Facebook Facial Recognition, Walmart Privacy Concerns, Apple USB Restricted Mode Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Craig Peterson, here this morning we talked about a couple of things now. One of the subjects I kind of talked with Jim Polito about yesterday is your Facebook privacy but we always take a little bit of a different angle especially with Ken and Matt and we went into some more detail on the privacy that you can get in a Wal-Mart store. What's new patent about? And of course iPhone's right. With the new software update from Apple how much privacy are you going to get from that and who are they trying to protect your information from, anyway.  [00:00:35] So, here we go with Ken and Matt. We are back again 738 and the WGAN Morning News on Wednesday which means it's time to Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you this morning?  [00:00:49] Hey, I can't believe you guys were talking about Dr. Pimple Popper. Did You ever watch that show, man?  [00:00:57] No, he did not have to look it up.  Did you see the view count on some of those videos? There's definitely some sick people out there as well. [00:01:05] It's absolutely amazing and it's showing that something to talk about the fact is sex but Instagram is where she started in 2014 it said in the YouTube in 2015 and they are talking about 4 million people.  [00:01:20] So she gets picked a crazy. [00:01:24] Now, she is a reality TV show. Can I point out that I know nothing about this woman nor do I want to. I'm showing this man I'm going to I'm going. [00:01:32] I don't what I'm going to trick you into watching this. Why am the way I hate it? I was just hearing about it. I mean, realistically all you got to see is about two seconds worth of that video. I can make you see I can fool you and you can think Look get cute puppies or something you can click on and you're like oh my god, no.  [00:01:48] So of course is calm as we go. When he got all his valuable information.  [00:01:54] Let's talk about Facebook are they still abusing me, abusing my privacy. [00:01:59] Was that a big faces type thing you know a nice segue pimpled.  [00:02:06] Yeah. [00:02:08] Very clever, very clever, Yeah. Here is the problem. I remember when the Zuck went and sat before Congress three months ago and Congress kind of drilled him and said, hey privacy what's going on. And, he continually said well I'm going to have to get back to you on that. Do You remember that? Well, he finally got back to Congress and told them kind of what they wanted to hear. Well, that's kind of the bottom line here because he did answer their questions and basically he goes he goes on and on and on for dozens. I think it's more than 100 pages long answering the questions about privacy. But, now we've got another problem with privacy and it's something that we've mentioned a little bit on the show that I know Matt's been concerned about and that is our faces no Ken has a phone and an iPhone 10. And in order to unlock his phone, he has to have his face in front of the phone right. [00:03:06] Yes that's correct. I mean this in fairness since I have been critical of the Apple, Apple cult. You know my face also unlocks my Galaxy Note. So, [00:03:15] There you go. Same sort of thing. But, it's concerning right because I know, Matt, you've expressed concerns. Do you really want Samsung or Google or Apple to have your face on file? [00:03:28] No, no I really don't. Yeah, Yeah exactly. [00:03:31] Now with Apple the face does not leave the phone, none your fingerprint does not leave the phone it's kept in this enclave that sharing passwords.  [00:03:43] But, the bottom line is you really don't know. Well, if you're on Facebook and I know Ken doesn't use Facebook he uses what was my face space, exactly. But over on Facebook if you post a picture you can take someone in that picture, and the way that works is now you say yeah right here's a picture of Matt and I. And, so you post that picture up there on Facebook and you tag Matt. And, now it tells Matt, Hey listen Ken tagged you in a picture and it's kind of cool because wow, ok I remember there that being there you share your picture with your friends Etcetera, Etcetera. It's really kind of a cool feature. Well, have you guys noticed that Facebook is now suggesting people to tag in the US with their facial recognition software. Yes, exactly that's exactly what's going on. And, Facebook has now got this massive database of faces that it's been using and it built it over the years, as kind of an interesting technology, Using basically a kind of, logical deduction, as to who it is in the picture. But, now people are getting concerned because we already know that Facebook, isn't, well you know all big on privacy. That's not their business. And, we know that they are doing this and some people are alleging that, in fact, what actually happened here is that Facebook is not telling people what it is doing. [00:05:19] In fact, there's a number of people that are talking about lawsuits. Congress has gotten involved now because Facebook's core business model of course built around advertising. And I have to mention Tom Cruise here, Minority Report. Remember him without somebody else's eyes walking past a billboard and the billboard yeah changed and offered him a deal. Right. It's just incredible what can happen to expect that in the future. Expect that it's going to recognize you. There are already billboards. That will change based on your car or the predominance of a certain model car on the road and you're going to see that more and more of. The technology is just incredible. But, combine having pictures of people's faces making it easy to find those pictures online. So, let's say Facebook ends up with a face search function and 3D printing where you can now 3D print a mold of maps face. The legal ramifications for this is starting to get really kind of crazy. And, even though we know Apple has done a lot to make sure that you cannot unlock it with a just a picture. Someone Samsung's worked on that too you know the future here it's getting kind of terrifying. Frankly speaking of terrifying surveillance oriented future, is Wal-Mart listening in on their employee's conversations, yes they have filed a patent to do just that. [00:06:54] Are they monitoring their people and why are they doing it. [00:06:57] Why they're doing it? Well. Wal-Mart, of course, in a battle for its life against a company that cannot keep its Web site up. What are Prime specials? Of course, we're talking about Amazon and Amazon, of course, had their big prime day yesterday with all these prime deals. I took advantage of a couple myself. There were a couple of good ones but Wal-Mart is trying to figure out how can we make their stores more efficient. Because Amazon doesn't have cash registers. It doesn't have to keep the air conditioning on, in the whole place. It doesn't have to stock the shelves like Wal-Mart does. You know they can have millions of Skew's Amazon can. So, don't have to be selective about what they carry. So, how can Wal-Mart compete? Wal-Mart was just awarded a patent for technology that listened in to the employees and the people's shopping in the stores. So, it's called listening to the front end, this technology. We don't know if Wal-Mart ever going to build it, but they did get this patent and it will provide them with some performance metrics for employees. It will tell them how many people are up there that front end of the checkout registers it leaves and it's even able to tell how many bags an employee uses to package your goods that you just bought. So, you know all the efficiencies are what they're aiming for. And some employees are kind of concerned as, Matt, just indicated that maybe this is going a little bit too far. And, of course, there's a number of people that agree with that including the professor over Cornell's industrial labor and relations school. [00:08:47] We are happy when Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us. Everyone's here Craig Peterson speak to my apple 10 so is my apple Ten now more secure from prying eyes like police officers or NSA or the government. [00:09:04] Yeah. There's concern about those guys and there's also concern about bad guys. So, for instance, you can go and you can buy a machine for about 30 thousand dollars from a company and all you have to do is plug an iPhone into it. And supposedly it will crack any iPhone. Now, it might take a few months. It seems to depend on how many digits you have in your passcode or whether you use in your face or your thumbprint. But, they can break into them, apparently. They are certainly getting paid for it. And, the government is getting the information. But, how about somebody that just grabs your iPhone off a table at the local coffee shop? How about if you go to China for a business trip? Or you go to Russia? China is known for getting their hands on your devices even while you're sleeping in a hotel room and copying the devices. So, Apple has come up with a new feature. If you just upgraded your iPhone you've got it so if your phone has not been unlocked for one hour they cannot plug one of these devices in order to copy your iPhone. So, I think it's a good idea. This is not just an anti-law enforcement thing. This is a privacy thing. Bad guys in this country, as well as, around the world are using it to unlock the iPhone and now there are some ways around this and we will discuss those right now. But bottom line, if your phone has been locked for an hour your phone, is pretty safe. But if you're in a coffee shop you probably just used it and that bad guys get to have access anyway. [00:10:41] Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us every Wednesday at this time to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig thank you very much. We will talk to you again. Thank you, gentlemen. All right so we're going to take a quick break here and we'll come back on the other side maybe call. --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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Do you own bitcoin or another cryptocurrency?  Listen in as I discuss blockchain technology and cryptocurrency issues with Ken and Matt. Is Rosie the Robot your new GP? This morning, I talk briefly with Ken and Matt about AI, Artificial Intelligence in the Medical Community. Find out more on CraigPeterson.com --- Related Articles: Cryptocurrency Theft: $1.1 Billion Stolen in Last 6 Months Blockchain’s Once-Feared 51% Attack Is Now Becoming Regular Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated, Fueling Skyrocketing Value, Researchers Say The big picture: We’re getting closer to AI doctors Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server Could Allow for Information Disclosure Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products – HIGH THREAT Microsoft Confirms New Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4284835 Issue More Reports of Windows 10 Cumulative Update KB4284835 Failing to Install --- Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/27/2018 Blockchain technology, cryptocurrency attacks, and AI Doctors Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Craig Peterson Here, Hi, Good morning. Boy, did we have a great webinar yesterday, by the way, I did one for the FBI, for their InfraGard program, that the FBI runs, and it was absolutely fantastic. We're talking about solar storms, and their effect on us, and how they could ultimately wipe out civilization. It's scary when you get right down to this stuff. The presenter was a professor at Baylor University, and for 22 years, he was with the Air Force, doing space weather, and he was talking about some of the things that really could affect us, and you know he doesn't like the hype of “hey, listen we're going to go back to the 18-hundreds, because we're going to lose all of our electronics,” but it was really interesting. Maybe we should talk about that someday. Anyhow today, with Ken and Matt, I spent a little bit of time going through two things. First of all, I went into my most in-depth description of how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin actually work, and why they are being compromised, why they're being stolen, and even how they're being stolen. So, if you have any money, or thought about putting any money into Bitcoin, you're going to want to listen in. Does that make sense to you? Right. What's the technology? How's it being stolen? And I've said for a long time that you should avoid buying these types of currencies. And I totally, totally, meant it, OK. It's a very, very, big deal. So, we talked about that, and then we spent a few minutes talking about the AI doctors and artificial intelligence. I went into that, in some detail yesterday, with Jim Polito, but we went briefly over it this morning over on WGAN and all of their affiliate stations in Maine. So, here we go with Kevin Mann. Thanks for joining us and stick around.  [00:02:04] You're going to love this. At least I think you will.  [00:02:08] Ok 739 on the WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday which means it's time to talk Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you?  [00:02:19] Hey, that's me doing good. How are you guys? [00:02:22] Well, I've had some, I've had some the cryptocurrency missing lately, you know. And why would it be missing? If any of it been stolen?  [00:02:31] Do you think you just buy that stuff?  [00:02:34] Come on. I went down to 7-11 and they had some on sale and I got couldn't resist. [00:02:39] You know there's, at least there was, an ATM down in Portsmouth, is that where you bought them from? [00:02:44] That's exactly yes, exactly. Yes. [00:02:47] Oh, ok, Yeah, the whole cryptocurrency thing is starting to fall apart at least the way it is right now. We already know that we had major drops in the value of some of these things, like bitcoin, for instance. But, the big problem has to do with the basic premise of the technology behind so many of these cryptocurrencies and that is blockchain. Now you guys have heard about blockchain before, I'm sure. [00:03:20] Yes, yes.  [00:03:22] Now, the blockchain is really where you have everybody involved, has a ledger and the idea is that you and me, the three of us. We had some sort of a blockchain that we came up with. Right. And the way it works is the three of us will record every transaction that we make with each other, All right. So, for instance, if I give one of my Ken coins to Matt, I will write it down, okay, I gave a Ken coin to Matt and Matt has to write down he got a Ken Coin from Craig and then Ken has to write down. Yeah. Craig gave a Ken coin to Matt. So, follow me so far. [00:04:07] Yes yes.  [00:04:09] So the three of us have all written down in our two ledgers of this transaction occurred. Now let's say that they can for some reason Ken isn't available or maybe he'd missed recording the transaction. The way we know, who has how much, is based on the ledgers. Just like in a bank where you might have a ledger. And the problem comes up when one of us doesn't agree. Why? Because blockchains are based on this premise of 50 percent plus one. In other words, half of the people that are maintaining the ledgers for a particular blockchain currency plus one person have to agree that I gave a Ken coin to Matt. And, if you guys don't agree about whether or not that transaction actually occurred then it's as good as a transaction not occurring at all. So, we're talking about what's called the 51 percent attack, although technically for us that's 50 percent plus one. And here’s what's happening. What I just described is an over-simplification but it is essentially what happens with blockchain currencies. And that's why people love them because it isn't just one entity like the government saying that I owed Matt a Ken coin. So, we are as a group cooperating and sharing the information and validating the transactions. Well, Let's talk about a few here. MonoCoin, Bitcoin Gold, ThenCash, Virge, LikeCoinCash. These are few of the blockchain currencies out there that have been attacked by people, who are creating false ledgers.  [00:06:09] So, this is a very dangerous cryptocurrency attack vector. This is something that, the NYU computer science researcher, Joseph Bono, released some research last year showing how much money you would cost to execute these attacks on the top blockchains by simply renting power, computing power rather than buying the equipment. And he said listen, these attacks are likely to increase, and we have already seen them I just named a few of them. So, you know it doesn't make a lot of sense for these guys to go after small beans. So, they're starting to go after the big ones and we're starting to see some serious attack here. We've had three successful attacks so far against ThenCash. And the guy was able to run away with well over a half-a-million-dollars-worth of the currency. We've had, already of over one point 1 billion dollars in cryptocurrency actually stolen in the last six months. And we have newspapers from the New York Times just about a week ago was reporting on this and I think we've talked about this some months ago. But the New York Times is reporting the Bitcoin price you remember, the almost 20,000 dollar value per bitcoin. Well, it turns out that it was artificially inflated.  [00:07:36] NO, I'm shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked!  [00:07:41] And from the very beginning always the run-up to the thousand-dollar value it looks like was completely fabricated out of thin air. So, we've got subpoenas now by American regulators, who are looking into a number of these different coin offerings. And you know I've said from day one gentleman voice these various bitcoins and and and the like using the blockchain technology is one of the reasons. And this is what we're talking about right now is that technology is not really there, yet, and you could easily lose all of the money that you, I don't want to say the word invest but that you use to buy these various types of coins. [00:08:30] We were talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at this very time to give us an update on the world of technology. Craig, I have a doctor’s appointment a little later this morning. Is it possible that in the future that will be with a robot? [00:08:45] Isn't that an interesting idea? Right. We've always kind of known it was going to happen.  [00:08:50]  Robot doctors, Yes  [00:08:52] Yes, yes.  member of the Jetsons right.  [00:08:55] And they were Joe Jetson and daughter Judy, Jane his wife. And, of course, Rosie. Right. And, the robot.  [00:09:12] Yeah exactly. She was a she. But she did some diagnosis of George you know he's an idiot. I think it was one of the diagnosis. Anyhow. We had some real problems and I have some articles up on my Web site about that and I'll send them out to people who are I'll send them up to everybody who signed up for my text my SMS list because I think this is just amazing as we're spending a few minutes on because right now if you want to do research guys what do you do.  [00:09:44] You want to research something anything you google it. Yeah, exactly you guys are both "Googleizers" right. Indeed.  [00:09:55] So, you go online you Google. Now I want to a word of warning, Dr. Google doesn't have his medical degree, yet. OK. But we're seeing all kinds of interesting problems when it comes to our medical diagnosis. For instance, right now artificial intelligence has been shown to be better than radiologists at reading most x-rays. Now that's a very, very, big deal frankly when you look at it. And during the decade of 2010 to 2020, it's estimated, that doctors will have to have doubled their knowledge three times over the course of that 10 years. And we all know that we're not the best at remembering things, right. We're not the best at figuring things out. And it turns out that physicians are not either, because there are so many advances in technology, medical technology, going on and on and on. In fact, we already had an X Prize awarded for you remember bones in Star Trek with his. You have this sensor right. We already have the next prizes awarded for one of those things although it doesn't sound as good as bones as it was. But here's the bottom line. Give it another five to 10 years, and you will have an app on your smart device that will be able to do analysis, of your medical condition.  [00:11:33] It's going to be absolutely amazing once the stuff and do you'll get a diagnosis. You might go into the human doctor, which of course computers aren't don't have any bedside manner right. I want to talk to somebody who I can talk to I can relate to, Right. So, those are still going to be physicians are still going to be things that computers aren't going to be able to figure out at least for the next couple or a few decades. There's no question about that one, but you can do various types of diagnosis right now just from a photo for obviously for skin cancer and for other things. So, Matt no today you're not going to be able to go see your computer doctor. Some of the human doctors can't remember every possible disease treatment or medical order article, AI can. And there's a lot of money going into having AI, artificial intelligence doctors, and by the way it's going to be free.  [00:12:34] Ultimately, it's going to be, I don't need Obamacare. That's Craig Peterson who joins us every week on the comp at all of the information, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week.  [00:12:55] Hey gentlemen thanks. Bye-Bye. All right time for a quick break.  [00:13:01] Hey, I figured there's probably a few people wondering about InfraGard, real quick. [00:13:06] Just go to InfraGard dot org online I N F R A G A R D dot org, online. Have a great day and we'll chat again tomorrow. Bye-Bye. --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  --- More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com Don't miss an episode from Craig. 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There is an issue with Routers - FBI worldwide alert.  Craig discusses the problems with these routers and what you have to do. Are you addicted to Cryptocurrencies? Craig talks with Ken and Matt about what some Dr.'s are saying and also gives a warning about Cryptocurrencies and your security clearances.   Don't use Cruise Control if you drive a Chrysler or Fiat.  Craig speaks with Ken and Matt about two issues related to cars.  Both can be deadly. Pink Color Jobs?  Craig explains to Matt and Ken what these jobs are and why they have this name. Do you love knowing what technology is coming in the next year?  Craig tells Ken and Matt about Mary Meekers Internet Trend Report and how and where you can access the information.  She is the standard bearer of "what is coming in tech."  Find out more on CraigPeterson.com Related Articles: The FBI Router Warning - What To Do Hospital launches rehab clinic to treat cryptocurrency addiction Fiat Chrysler warns 4.8M Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler and Ram owners to not use cruise control How Social Media Became a Pink Collar Job   Here’s Mary Meeker’s essential 2018 Internet Trends report Transcript: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors. Airing date: 06/06/2018 Chrysler Recall, FBI Router warning, Cryptocurrency issues, Pink Collar Jobs Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here this morning with Ken and Matt. I spent a little time and we talked about of course the FBI warning about our routers and when a little detail. But you guys know about that right. Then we also talked about the Fiat Chrysler warning about 5 million of their vehicles being very, very, dangerous. And social media and how it's now a pink-collar job. Isn't that new. And we talked about Mary Meeker and her latest report the 300 slide internet trends report and what that's all about. And if you are investing in bitcoin or any of these other cryptocurrencies and you have to maintain a security clearance, we've got a big warning for you. So here we go. Have a great day. I'm enjoying myself. I am out in the Adirondacks here doing a little bit of vacationing and meetings of course with friends. That's the way it always goes.  : [00:00:59] So Here we go with Ken and Matt.  Welcome back again its 738 on the WGAN Morning News and it is Wednesday which means it's time for Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday. : [00:01:11] Sir, are you this morning doing, I am well, I'm out in Lake George, at Americade, doing some motorcycle riding yesterday it was a little rainy, but it should be nice the rest of the week.  : [00:01:24] Excellent. Yeah. My wife last asked me if we had a router and I didn't know the answer.  : [00:01:32] So, there's an issue with routers Yeah this is the same one that we've been talking about the last couple of weeks. The FBI has come out now and given a worldwide alert and we've got to be really careful with this because the problem is that the routers that we're using for our homes, and unfortunately many small businesses are using these home routers as well. Those routers are compromised, many of them with a whole bunch of Russian software, that is taking your data and is sending it all the way out or actually to Russia. Today in Russia they are looking at it for bank account information, credit card information, personal information. So, you've got to replace these things. I've had a lot of our listeners have reached out to me on my text number. I gave out a couple of weeks ago. I mentioned the ORBI, you might remember you can get that right now. Best Buy has the best price on it. That's ORBI. You can get it on Amazon. And one of our listeners was concerned because looking at the reviews on Amazon there were a lot of complaints about the ORBI that come up right at the top of the reviews. However, the ORBI device is a great little router and if you look at it the reviews chronologically it's fantastic. : [00:02:54] They had a problem about a year and a half ago with some other firmware that's been pretty much fixed now so the ORBI is what I'm recommending people to replace their home routers. Now, if you have a router from your Internet service provider they are taking care of this problem. If you bought an aftermarket router that's when the problems start coming up and that's when you really should look at replacing it was something new. That’s because there's probably not new firmware to fix this problem. It's absolutely huge. It's devastating. We still haven't really begun to see the fallout from this. But make sure you reboot your router at least weekly for now, and go ahead and replace it. And I'm going to be sending more information to people and explaining things, but have a good look at that ORBI router and it will make a difference for you. Big difference. It's a scary world. : [00:03:52] Speaking of scary worlds, is it possible to be addicted to getting cryptocurrencies. Should I be afraid of, you know, buying them going forward? : [00:04:04] Yes, it is. It's interesting because I've got a couple articles on that this week in my newsletter. But the problem that we're finding is that people are getting kind of a gambler's addiction to buying cryptocurrencies and it's becoming such a problem that we're starting to see not only doctors talking about it but it could end up being something that gets into the AMA standards as well. Cryptocurrency addiction. The other thing that is happening right now with cryptocurrencies is that we've got a problem with background checks and security. You know, if you have a clearance from the federal government, you have an FBI background check, that is required for working, for instance, down at the shipyard and you bought cryptocurrencies. They're saying now that that could be a big mark against you when it's time to get a background check to renew your security clearance. And the reason why is they're saying that with cryptocurrencies they are so frequently used by the black hats, by the bad guys, the criminals, that they may take that cryptocurrency that you have and count it against you thinking that you may be doing illicit things online. That’s because you can use a cryptocurrency to buy drugs, not just marijuana but all the hard stuff, like fentanyl and other things. you can use that cryptocurrency for all kinds of illicit transactions. So are cryptocurrencies back in the news this week and one of the big warnings is the federal government has not made a standard yet but a lot of people within the review board are saying cryptocurrencies are a big mark against you if you have to have a security clearance.  : [00:05:58] Craig Peterson is our tech guru he joins us every Wednesday at 738. Craig, I use cruise control all the time, now I don't have I don't have a fiat. I have a Honda Ridgeline, so, I am kind of safe but, I mean can things go bad with cruise control? Let‘s talk about your Honda for a second.  : [00:06:27] These newer cars including the Honda, In fact, I had to send a thing to my mom about the Honda and how these keys that you don't have to put into the ignition. Right. You just keep them with you. Right. A lot of people tend to leave them in the car or when they lock the car in the garage. And what the problem that we're seeing now is that people are dying because of that. And here's why. Can get them a little key flaw that you have for your Honda. And this isn't just a Honda problem. But if you take it with you even into the house it can be close enough to the car that the car sinks. OK can't hear or see is nearby. And if you forgot to shut off the engine which is you know you look at our generation we've been turning off the key for how many decades right. And now you have to hit that button to shut it off. So, they forget the shut off the engine and that engine keeps running. And what's been happening is people getting been getting brain damage and even dying from the carbon monoxide to creep in from the garage into the house because the car's still running, and we don't know about it. So, a real word of warning here to all of our listeners. This is picking on Honda, I am just picking on Ken. So, because of that problem we'd be very, very, careful especially it's been hitting the older population. Now back to the original thing you're mad about the cruise controls guys. Matt and Kim here's what's going on.  : [00:08:03] The Chrysler Corporation you remember last fall I think it was October or so we were talking about a problem with Chrysler's and how the software in that car could be manipulated so that someone could remotely drive the car and drive it into the ditch. Do you remember that? It was in the news. Yeah, Well now the latest is that there is a bug and Chrysler Fiat. They are warning people that have their cars double checked your model number and I have a list of them up on my Web site that are known to be effective. I should say but be careful because some other cars can in certain situations and it has already happened people. If you have the cruise control on it will not disengage. You can get a break. You can hit the cruise control off button and the cruise control will stay on. So if you're going down the pike at 70 miles an hour that engines going to keep trying to go down the pike at 70 miles an hour. Now if it happens to you, thing to do is STAND on had brakes, because the brakes are designed to overpower the engine and that engine still going to be going, going, like crazy. Get over to the side of the road. After to coming to a full stop and then put the car in park. OK. So Important safety tip for Chrysler Fiat owners out there, cruise control on some of the vehicles can in certain conditions decide it is not going to shut off. : [00:09:40] So contact your dealer they'll have a fix available for you they can let you know if your car is affected or you can do some searches online. The joys of technology you guys. We are talking about Cruise control. Not even autonomous vehicles. I'm just so concerned about the future frankly. : [00:10:01] We're talking to Craig Peters on our tech guru who joins us at this time every Wednesday. CRAIG My final question for you what exactly is a pink-collar job and why is social media one of them.  : [00:10:13] Yeah that's an interesting thing right because we know all the jobs that women tend to move towards and men tend to move towards other jobs. It's turned out that social media for businesses is a job that has been attracting almost exclusively women. And it's a decent job you can do look from home depending on the job position of course. But it's been called the pink-collar job because when it comes to social media it's really been a woman's world. And I've got to mention one more thing if you want to know where the Internet is only Mary Meeker every year puts out her slides. She is brilliant. If you are an investor you've got to check her she's got her 2018 Internet trend report out. And, of course she does mention a little bit about pink-collar in there. But she talks about everything it's almost 300 pages of slides. It's incredible amount of data very dense. But it's everything from people buying online what kinds of devices they're using. We reach saturation e-commerce versus brick and mortar. Hey, it's your business. Check it out. I've got it up on my Web site as well. This is her 2018 internet trends report and it is really the standard bearer when it comes to trying to figure out what's coming our way online.   : [00:11:42] All right, Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday. Appreciate you joining us sir. We will talk to you again next week.  : [00:11:49] A gentleman. Take care.  : [00:11:50] Thank you very much sir. All right.   --- Don't miss any episode from Craig. Visit http://CraigPeterson.com/itunes. Subscribe and give us a rating! Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year!  More stories and tech updates at: www.craigpeterson.com   Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating: www.craigpeterson.com/itunes   Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson   For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

What is "augmented reality" and how much do you actually know about it, its benefits, and the downsides. This booming tech can make or break your security and privacy. Also, shared with Ken and Matt what the new HomeKit is all about, in case you have or are interested in smart homes.   Related stories: Augmented reality app lets you scan FACES and reveal everything about a person http://craigpeterson.com/radio-show/augmented-reality-app-lets-you-scan-faces-and-reveal-everything-about-a-person-2/11164 Saudi Arabia Has Just Suffered a Series of Major Cyber Hack Attacks http://craigpeterson.com/news/saudi-arabia-has-just-suffered-a-series-of-major-cyber-hack-attacks/11166 World’s first HomeKit community springs up in San Jose http://craigpeterson.com/radio-show/worlds-first-homekit-community-springs-up-in-san-jose/11168 --- More stories and tech updates at:www.craigpeterson.com Still shopping for those you've missed from the holidays, don't forget to visit:www.craigpeterson.com/shopping Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553  

Joined Ken and Matt to discuss more of what "Doxxing" is all about, and how this can work against you. With the holidays just a few days away, I have also shared some tips on how to stay safe while enjoying with your family.   More stories and tech updates at:www.craigpeterson.com With a few days left to shop for the holidays, don't forget to visit:www.craigpeterson.com/shopping Follow me on Twitter for the latest in tech at: www.twitter.com/craigpeterson For questions, call or text: 855-385-5553

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www.craigpeterson.com Craig joins Ken and Matt on The WGAN Morning News every Wednesday. Talked about the latest in the tech news, including where Apple is heading with the possibility of going in-house with the production of their products, how a gang in Europe are hacking ATMs. These and more tech updates. Get Craig's recommended gift list when you visit craigpeterson.com/shopping.

www.craigpeterson.com Craig joins Ken and Matt on The WGAN Morning News every Wednesday. Talked about the latest in the tech news, including how Toyota is entering the smart car trend, and is Russia being attacked by hackers. This plus my list of recommended gift list on craigpeterson.com/shopping.

www.craigpeterson.com Craig joins Ken and Matt on The WGAN Morning News every Wednesday. Talked about the latest in the tech news, including how Apple made top sales over any laptops in the market with the release of the new MacBook Pro, and what are the top 9 skill that get you high paying jobs.

www.craigpeterson.com Talked about the latest in tech news, including how the newly elected president will affect technology.

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www.craigpeterson.com Talked about the latest in technology, including the Apple's possible line-up for 2017, and what happened during the downtime with the major social media over the weekend.

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www.craigpeterson.com Talked about Samsung losing billions because of the Galaxy Note 7 going on fire, and what are the alternatives. Also, discussed why you need to delete your Yahoo account immediately.

www.craigpeterson.com Talked about the latest in tech this week, including the millions of Yahoo email accounts hacked and how this will create a great impact to many Yahoo users as well as the possibility of getting their associated online accounts compromised. Also in the news on how to get the real deals on Amazon.

www.craigpeterson.com Talked about the latest in the tech news, including the US internet control being handed over to ICANN by the Obama administration, and Elon Musk's plan to move to humans to Mars by 2020.

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