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Hello, welcome back. Craig Peterson here, you're listening to me on WGAN. And of course online as well at Craig Peterson dot com. We're going to get into these electric vehicles right now. And I can remember when they first came out, and what Lou, you know, rumors and things. And I was very involved with emergency services back then. And what I thought was just fascinating. When we started delving into some of this stuff was that wait a minute, we've got a lot of batteries in the car, which means we have a whole lot of electric potential electricity sitting there, right. And then we have to route that power to the electric motors that are either one on every wheel or maybe there's a central motor with some form of a transmission that takes it out to all of the other wheels. That is a true hazard to first responders. Because we would get on the scene many times you'd have to cut people out of a vehicle, which is obviously a bit of a problem if you're cutting into the vehicle, and there is a power cord there. And then, of course, cars in an accident, sometimes they will kind of break apart and then you have exposed wires that could cause electric shocks and burns to the occupants of the vehicles. It was very concerning and so a lot of the electric vehicle manufacturers came out with guides that they would give to the emergency medical responders to police departments, fire departments, you know, the people who are likely to kind of be first ish on the scene. And we would have to know Okay, wait a minute. Now this manufacturer that model so we have to Worry about the power is right over here. And if I want to disconnect it for this particular car, we're gonna have to disconnect there. Because time was batteries were always under the hood of the car in a pretty specific place either the right or the left who could just pop the hood and then cut the wires one of the very first things you do on this scene, you just pop the hood cut the wires on the battery tena, guess what you're not going to get a shock because the battery is completely disconnected. And now in some cars, as you looked at some of the BMW where they were trying to do and even weight distribution, they would have the battery in the under the backseat or sometimes in the trunk. But we knew which cars were which because there just weren't that many of them out there that you had to worry about how you know, lots of different things started getting very confusing and then now you've got all these electric cars with different types of batteries and different ways to route the power. Well, now we have all kinds of These cars out there, including Tesla. And what Tesla is doing for their battery power is basically they're using laptop batteries. They're using lithium ion batteries, which are phenomenal batteries. And they don't get the memory that all of the previous generations used to get. In fact, did you see the guy that invented lithium ion batteries, he just got the Nobel Prize this year and the guy is pretty old. We talked about him last year too because he came up with the new technology. He called it lithium glass and it got rid of almost all of the problems that lithium-ion has. But we're still using lithium ion battery. So let's get into the problems. You probably know that I had a laptop because I've talked about it on my show before but my laptop, I would put it on the table. And have you noticed that all four corners sit nicely, right and if they don't, it's usually because of You've got a foot missing. So you find okay the feet fell off so you find another foot that fits and you put it on and hopefully the laptop balances on the table.

Well, I had all four feet on my laptop and I looked at it I said wait a minute now and I called over my son I said, Hey Steve, come over here. Have a look at this. And we put it on another flat surface and we got down low and we looked and sure enough, there was a bulge pretty much in the middle of the bottom of my laptop. Well, that was a very big sign to me that it's ball Jean because the battery is swollen. That is one of the problems of the lithium-ion batteries. Now this has been true with nickel-metal hydride and I kept before it but when that battery swells in the lithium-ion battery, it gets very, very, very dangerous. This is where you start seeing fires. Where the lithium ion batteries Because they're swelling up, and they have layers inside, that when some of these layers come in contact with each other, you now have a short inside the battery. Now think how long your device last, my laptop can last seven hours on a chart, depending on what I'm doing right if I'm doing video editing, I'm down to about an hour. But if I'm doing some writing a little bit of research online and stuff at six or seven hours pretty consistently, that is a lot of power, even only for the one hour words running eight cores, and a GPU trying to do the video editing and if you're watching online, you can see some of my video stuff on this computer behind me This is an iMac five k that I use for some of my video editing and recording of the show so you can see this if you're watching me on YouTube or on Facebook. But this becomes a bit of an issue for people. Frankly, because all of that power that's going to charge, or excuse me, run my computer for the next six or seven hours is now shorted out. Now have you ever been working on a car and you're under the hood, and you've got a wrench in your hand or a spanner for those of you from the UK in your hand, and you get near the battery, maybe you're trying to disconnect the battery and you accidentally short circuit between the positive terminal on the battery and the ground. Almost all cars worldwide use a negative ground nowadays. didn't use to be that way. So you accidentally shorted out to ground. Have you seen what happens? It goes zap there are sparks flying everywhere. And there's now a chunk missing out of your wrench. Right? Maybe Maybe not a huge trunk depends on the battery. But you have melted that part of the wrench. That is a lot of power that's in there. Well, it's a different amount of power in one of these lithium-ion batteries that we have, but it is still a lot of power. And so when it shorts out, it starts fires. Now we've seen that with Samsung phones have been famous for that, certain models of their phones. And that wasn't really the model of the phone that was as much of a problem as a manufacturer, the battery sometimes it is the model of the phone because it's putting pressure on the battery and sponsors shouldn't put the pressure on. Again, if you're watching on video, you can see me doing this what happens if you put pressure on the wrong spot as part of the battery. It'll show that again. Okay, so there are real potential problems here. So I knew that my laptop because that battery was swollen That I could have serious problems, I could have a fire on my laptop. Now I took it back to the manufacturer, which was Apple because of course, that's who I use mostly and then actually wasn't even made by Apple was made by contract, right. And they come they replaced it entirely and they fix the swelling and everything. And then they eventually ended up recalling all of those laptops. And it was a 15 inch MacBook Pro from one was I think it was a 2017 model.

And that, that I think was a good thing because they thought Well, they've seen a few of these. And you've seen pictures of these phones beyond people's nightstand. So you have your phone and your phone is, of course, a device running off a battery and most likely a lithium-ion battery. So that lithium-ion battery is there in the phone. If it starts to fail, usually the phone will swell. So if you have any devices that are starting to swell, any battery power devices starting to swell, it's time to get very concerned and take it back to the place you bought it from or take it back to the manufacturer. Because when it swells, it can easily start a very smoky, nasty fire. And we've all probably seen videos of this happening in airplanes. So when we get back we're going to talk about this poor man who died this 48-year-old and the news that came out of California, just this week about his Tesla, and the batteries. You're listening to course to Craig Peterson, right here on WGAN. And also online, Craig peterson.com. Stick around, because we'll be right back

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Hello Everyone, Welcome Back. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. We've been talking about lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them. I've got here my lithium polymer batteries now I had turned these on putting them on a charge which is just in this case just plug the batteries directly into micro USB connectors. If you're watching this on video, you can see it and you can see one of them's got a little red stripe on it. It's been kind of alternating the battery This is a triple-A if you can imagine this okay very small battery. It not only has built into it this micro USB connector, but it has a hold of the charging circuits logic and everything else. This can be used as a regular triple-A battery. It's called pale blue. You will have seen it on Kickstarter as well. And I'm right there on Kickstarter. It's so cool. They've got all kinds of neat stats about it. So they sent me a few of them to play with. I'm going to play with them and I'll let you know how it goes. But this is another generation of lithium batteries. Lithium Polymer batteries is what these are called a very rapid charge. But we've been talking about the lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them when they start to swell and of course, that's the sum of the internal components short out. There is an incredible amount of energy in those batteries, particularly if they're close to fully charged. And then when they short out, of course, it heats up and they catch fire. Now, this is all tied into this Tesla death and an article that I got from Yahoo here actually it's from Bloomberg. But you know, through Yahoo. And here's what happened. This guy, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist, he was driving his least Tesla in February, when he lost control on a South Florida Parkway, and the car slammed into a palm tree. Now they filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Broward County because the police could not open the doors to the Tesla. Now if you own a Tesla, you know this, but if you haven't seen how this works, you're probably not familiar with it. Normally in the car, you walk up to the car and you can grab the door handle. Personally, I have refused to buy cars that don't have a handle like you know Ford cars have that Solid handle that you can grab on to you can put your whole hand around it. And you can pull directly right, though those little stupid little handles that you put in your fingers kind of into underneath the handle and you pop it out. I don't like those I don't think those are safe. I've never thought they were safe. And the reason why is I was involved in emergency medicine, and we would get to the scene of a vehicle. And if the vehicle had that kind of handle like my, my forks do, where you can grab that handle, and you can yank it. You can get people out of the car, you most of the time, you know, sometimes it's tough to cut the doors open, but that you have the leverage you have something to hold on to those stupid little handles that you stick your fingers under and flip forward to open the door. There is no leverage right? At that point, you have to break the window, and you try and grab the door. And you certainly have a little bit of leverage here. But it's much easier to hold a handle. that's meant to take some abuse while you're trying to pull the door open. And seconds can mean the difference between life or death or be maimed permanently or just having a temporary injury. So I have never liked that kind of handle. Well, what does Tesla have on it? Well, it has an even worse handle. Now I've talked on the show before about how Tesla with the safety crash tests that were done on them. The Tesla Model S did phenomenally well. It broke the testing equipment that the test ratings, you know where it's five stars on this and five stars on that. It scored higher than five stars on some of these tests. Well, that's kind of cool when you get right down to it. Wow, that is a Really nice, safe car. But those tests were designed for normal vehicles.

They've got a normal engine upfront. And that normal engine course might come into the passenger compartment. You don't want it to the Mercedes, I think was the first one to have a design where if there was a collision involving the front end, the engine would kind of drop-down so that it didn't end up in your lap and an accident. Well, Tesla doesn't have an engine sitting up front. Electric cars have electric motors, usually right by the wheels. So there's no way you're going to get an intrusion into the passenger environment. And you have all of that space up front to crumble a huge crumple zone that can protect the occupants. That's absolutely fantastic. I love that right. I love that concept. But here's part of what wasn't tested. It was the door handles the emergency responders the firemen em mass, right? All of us getting to the scene. The police officers the police are usually first on the scene because they're already out driving around. You can't yank that handle because it's got the stupid little handle. But even worse than that, if the vehicle is damaged in the wrong way, they will the handles are completely recessed. And that's what happened to this 48-year-old in Florida. She normally you walk up to a Tesla, you have the fog in your pocket. You get near the door, and the little handle pops out. Oh, isn't that cute? Look at that pop. So it's going to save me over the life of this car because of the lack of wind resistance is going to save me all of $5 over the next hundred thousand miles. I don't get it right it's designed thing it's ascetics. Always, not pretty. Right. That's what it was all about. Well, this lawsuit is saying that fire and golf the car and burned Dr. Juan beyond recognition, all because the Model S has inaccessible door handles no other way to open the doors and then unreasonably dangerous fire risk. Now the complaint list the cause of death is smoke inhalation and the state said the doctor existing no internal injuries are broken bones in the crash. In other words, he should have survived the crash. So Problem number one, no handle that you can yank and get serious leverage on problem number two, no handle in this guy's case, right? Because it didn't present itself. By the way. Tesla calls it an auto present. Auto present door handle No door handle at all. And the police officer gets there. And he and the bystanders are standing there helplessly as the car filled with smoke and flames and the doctor was burned. No internal injuries, no broken bones, he probably survived the crash. And then he died from inhalation from the smoke and then was burned. There's no coming back from that one right. Now let's talk about the other problem. We were just talking a lot about the problems with lithium-ion batteries. And how now, by the way, airlines do not allow you to have a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. And there's a very good reason for that. Don't be an idiot and put a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. Because here's what could happen. Let's say it's an electric razor. It might be a laptop. It could be anything that has a lithium-ion battery in it. And that battery is sitting down in the luggage hold of the airplane. And that battery decides that because of air pressure changes, it was already defective, whatever it might be that battery decides it is now time to catch fire. So what we end up with is the whole passenger compartment starting to fill with smoke, toxic, nasty smoke and fire and the airplane catches fire and it's very difficult to fight now, the flight attendants are trained to be able to go down below and try and fight a fire down in that compartment.

And there are fire suppression systems for it. But a fire suppression system is unlikely to completely extinguish Fire caused by a lithium-ion battery. That's why any lithium-ion batteries need to be with you in the passenger compartment. So they can isolate it. If it catches fire, they might just set it in the middle of the floor and let it burn. Because there's nothing much else they can do about it, but at least it's not catching other things on fire, it can be controlled. So what happens now, if you do form a lithium-ion battery? Myth Busters just did a really good one on that. In their new show their Myth Busters, Jr. I think it's called they just re-addressed it. But lithium-ion battery, let's say you throw one out in the trash, and the Trashman comes and gets it and puts it in the trash truck, and the trash truck compresses it. And what happens with compressed tamale it sharks out potentially, and if it short touted causes that fire in the trash truck, you've heard about these right Trash trucks now catching on fire. So what do you think happens when a car that is full of hundreds of lithium-ion batteries? isn't an accident. All you have to do is deform some of those batteries and they will catch fire and that's exactly what happened here. That Tesla continued to burn for hours according to Bloomberg, reigniting several times, even after firefighters extinguished the flames in the car had been towed. This isn't By the way, the only case where Model S is lithium-ion batteries have have burned I've seen a lot of pictures of these before. Another doctor I think it was in Beverly Hills had a car that just caught fire Tesla when they were stopped at a stoplight. the family has an 18-year-old lost control of his Tesla crashing a concrete wall last year. Expect a version of the battery before his death entirely survivable crash. This is going to be interesting. We're going to kind of follow this. But this isn't the only one that's having these problems. So we're going to talk about what Ford's doing. And some other automakers, they're working with our friends over at Bosh on helping to solve some of this problem. So we'll talk about that when we get back we got a lot of other articles here, more spying going on. And VPN, we got to get back to a VPN, which of course was the subject of our masterclass. This past week, so stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson. Here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson dot com. That is Peter s-o-n with an O, stick around because we'll be right back.

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Hello Everyone, Welcome Back. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. We've been talking about lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them. I've got here my lithium polymer batteries now I had turned these on putting them on a charge which is just in this case just plug the batteries directly into micro USB connectors. If you're watching this on video, you can see it and you can see one of them's got a little red stripe on it. It's been kind of alternating the battery This is a triple-A if you can imagine this okay very small battery. It not only has built into it this micro USB connector, but it has a hold of the charging circuits logic and everything else. This can be used as a regular triple-A battery. It's called pale blue. You will have seen it on Kickstarter as well. And I'm right there on Kickstarter. It's so cool. They've got all kinds of neat stats about it. So they sent me a few of them to play with. I'm going to play with them and I'll let you know how it goes. But this is another generation of lithium batteries. Lithium Polymer batteries is what these are called a very rapid charge. But we've been talking about the lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them when they start to swell and of course, that's the sum of the internal components short out. There is an incredible amount of energy in those batteries, particularly if they're close to fully charged. And then when they short out, of course, it heats up and they catch fire. Now, this is all tied into this Tesla death and an article that I got from Yahoo here actually it's from Bloomberg. But you know, through Yahoo. And here's what happened. This guy, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist, he was driving his least Tesla in February, when he lost control on a South Florida Parkway, and the car slammed into a palm tree. Now they filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Broward County because the police could not open the doors to the Tesla. Now if you own a Tesla, you know this, but if you haven't seen how this works, you're probably not familiar with it. Normally in the car, you walk up to the car and you can grab the door handle. Personally, I have refused to buy cars that don't have a handle like you know Ford cars have that Solid handle that you can grab on to you can put your whole hand around it. And you can pull directly right, though those little stupid little handles that you put in your fingers kind of into underneath the handle and you pop it out. I don't like those I don't think those are safe. I've never thought they were safe. And the reason why is I was involved in emergency medicine, and we would get to the scene of a vehicle. And if the vehicle had that kind of handle like my, my forks do, where you can grab that handle, and you can yank it. You can get people out of the car, you most of the time, you know, sometimes it's tough to cut the doors open, but that you have the leverage you have something to hold on to those stupid little handles that you stick your fingers under and flip forward to open the door. There is no leverage right? At that point, you have to break the window, and you try and grab the door. And you certainly have a little bit of leverage here. But it's much easier to hold a handle. that's meant to take some abuse while you're trying to pull the door open. And seconds can mean the difference between life or death or be maimed permanently or just having a temporary injury. So I have never liked that kind of handle. Well, what does Tesla have on it? Well, it has an even worse handle. Now I've talked on the show before about how Tesla with the safety crash tests that were done on them. The Tesla Model S did phenomenally well. It broke the testing equipment that the test ratings, you know where it's five stars on this and five stars on that. It scored higher than five stars on some of these tests. Well, that's kind of cool when you get right down to it. Wow, that is a Really nice, safe car. But those tests were designed for normal vehicles.

They've got a normal engine upfront. And that normal engine course might come into the passenger compartment. You don't want it to the Mercedes, I think was the first one to have a design where if there was a collision involving the front end, the engine would kind of drop-down so that it didn't end up in your lap and an accident. Well, Tesla doesn't have an engine sitting up front. Electric cars have electric motors, usually right by the wheels. So there's no way you're going to get an intrusion into the passenger environment. And you have all of that space up front to crumble a huge crumple zone that can protect the occupants. That's absolutely fantastic. I love that right. I love that concept. But here's part of what wasn't tested. It was the door handles the emergency responders the firemen em mass, right? All of us getting to the scene. The police officers the police are usually first on the scene because they're already out driving around. You can't yank that handle because it's got the stupid little handle. But even worse than that, if the vehicle is damaged in the wrong way, they will the handles are completely recessed. And that's what happened to this 48-year-old in Florida. She normally you walk up to a Tesla, you have the fog in your pocket. You get near the door, and the little handle pops out. Oh, isn't that cute? Look at that pop. So it's going to save me over the life of this car because of the lack of wind resistance is going to save me all of $5 over the next hundred thousand miles. I don't get it right it's designed thing it's ascetics. Always, not pretty. Right. That's what it was all about. Well, this lawsuit is saying that fire and golf the car and burned Dr. Juan beyond recognition, all because the Model S has inaccessible door handles no other way to open the doors and then unreasonably dangerous fire risk. Now the complaint list the cause of death is smoke inhalation and the state said the doctor existing no internal injuries are broken bones in the crash. In other words, he should have survived the crash. So Problem number one, no handle that you can yank and get serious leverage on problem number two, no handle in this guy's case, right? Because it didn't present itself. By the way. Tesla calls it an auto present. Auto present door handle No door handle at all. And the police officer gets there. And he and the bystanders are standing there helplessly as the car filled with smoke and flames and the doctor was burned. No internal injuries, no broken bones, he probably survived the crash. And then he died from inhalation from the smoke and then was burned. There's no coming back from that one right. Now let's talk about the other problem. We were just talking a lot about the problems with lithium-ion batteries. And how now, by the way, airlines do not allow you to have a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. And there's a very good reason for that. Don't be an idiot and put a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. Because here's what could happen. Let's say it's an electric razor. It might be a laptop. It could be anything that has a lithium-ion battery in it. And that battery is sitting down in the luggage hold of the airplane. And that battery decides that because of air pressure changes, it was already defective, whatever it might be that battery decides it is now time to catch fire. So what we end up with is the whole passenger compartment starting to fill with smoke, toxic, nasty smoke and fire and the airplane catches fire and it's very difficult to fight now, the flight attendants are trained to be able to go down below and try and fight a fire down in that compartment.

And there are fire suppression systems for it. But a fire suppression system is unlikely to completely extinguish Fire caused by a lithium-ion battery. That's why any lithium-ion batteries need to be with you in the passenger compartment. So they can isolate it. If it catches fire, they might just set it in the middle of the floor and let it burn. Because there's nothing much else they can do about it, but at least it's not catching other things on fire, it can be controlled. So what happens now, if you do form a lithium-ion battery? Myth Busters just did a really good one on that. In their new show their Myth Busters, Jr. I think it's called they just re-addressed it. But lithium-ion battery, let's say you throw one out in the trash, and the Trashman comes and gets it and puts it in the trash truck, and the trash truck compresses it. And what happens with compressed tamale it sharks out potentially, and if it short touted causes that fire in the trash truck, you've heard about these right Trash trucks now catching on fire. So what do you think happens when a car that is full of hundreds of lithium-ion batteries? isn't an accident. All you have to do is deform some of those batteries and they will catch fire and that's exactly what happened here. That Tesla continued to burn for hours according to Bloomberg, reigniting several times, even after firefighters extinguished the flames in the car had been towed. This isn't By the way, the only case where Model S is lithium-ion batteries have have burned I've seen a lot of pictures of these before. Another doctor I think it was in Beverly Hills had a car that just caught fire Tesla when they were stopped at a stoplight. the family has an 18-year-old lost control of his Tesla crashing a concrete wall last year. Expect a version of the battery before his death entirely survivable crash. This is going to be interesting. We're going to kind of follow this. But this isn't the only one that's having these problems. So we're going to talk about what Ford's doing. And some other automakers, they're working with our friends over at Bosh on helping to solve some of this problem. So we'll talk about that when we get back we got a lot of other articles here, more spying going on. And VPN, we got to get back to a VPN, which of course was the subject of our masterclass. This past week, so stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson. Here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson dot com. That is Peter s-o-n with an O, stick around because we'll be right back.

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Hello Everyone, Welcome Back. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com. We've been talking about lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them. I've got here my lithium polymer batteries now I had turned these on putting them on a charge which is just in this case just plug the batteries directly into micro USB connectors. If you're watching this on video, you can see it and you can see one of them's got a little red stripe on it. It's been kind of alternating the battery This is a triple-A if you can imagine this okay very small battery. It not only has built into it this micro USB connector, but it has a hold of the charging circuits logic and everything else. This can be used as a regular triple-A battery. It's called pale blue. You will have seen it on Kickstarter as well. And I'm right there on Kickstarter. It's so cool. They've got all kinds of neat stats about it. So they sent me a few of them to play with. I'm going to play with them and I'll let you know how it goes. But this is another generation of lithium batteries. Lithium Polymer batteries is what these are called a very rapid charge. But we've been talking about the lithium-ion batteries and some of the problems with them when they start to swell and of course, that's the sum of the internal components short out. There is an incredible amount of energy in those batteries, particularly if they're close to fully charged. And then when they short out, of course, it heats up and they catch fire. Now, this is all tied into this Tesla death and an article that I got from Yahoo here actually it's from Bloomberg. But you know, through Yahoo. And here's what happened. This guy, a 48-year-old anesthesiologist, he was driving his least Tesla in February, when he lost control on a South Florida Parkway, and the car slammed into a palm tree. Now they filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Broward County because the police could not open the doors to the Tesla. Now if you own a Tesla, you know this, but if you haven't seen how this works, you're probably not familiar with it. Normally in the car, you walk up to the car and you can grab the door handle. Personally, I have refused to buy cars that don't have a handle like you know Ford cars have that Solid handle that you can grab on to you can put your whole hand around it. And you can pull directly right, though those little stupid little handles that you put in your fingers kind of into underneath the handle and you pop it out. I don't like those I don't think those are safe. I've never thought they were safe. And the reason why is I was involved in emergency medicine, and we would get to the scene of a vehicle. And if the vehicle had that kind of handle like my, my forks do, where you can grab that handle, and you can yank it. You can get people out of the car, you most of the time, you know, sometimes it's tough to cut the doors open, but that you have the leverage you have something to hold on to those stupid little handles that you stick your fingers under and flip forward to open the door. There is no leverage right? At that point, you have to break the window, and you try and grab the door. And you certainly have a little bit of leverage here. But it's much easier to hold a handle. that's meant to take some abuse while you're trying to pull the door open. And seconds can mean the difference between life or death or be maimed permanently or just having a temporary injury. So I have never liked that kind of handle. Well, what does Tesla have on it? Well, it has an even worse handle. Now I've talked on the show before about how Tesla with the safety crash tests that were done on them. The Tesla Model S did phenomenally well. It broke the testing equipment that the test ratings, you know where it's five stars on this and five stars on that. It scored higher than five stars on some of these tests. Well, that's kind of cool when you get right down to it. Wow, that is a Really nice, safe car. But those tests were designed for normal vehicles.

They've got a normal engine upfront. And that normal engine course might come into the passenger compartment. You don't want it to the Mercedes, I think was the first one to have a design where if there was a collision involving the front end, the engine would kind of drop-down so that it didn't end up in your lap and an accident. Well, Tesla doesn't have an engine sitting up front. Electric cars have electric motors, usually right by the wheels. So there's no way you're going to get an intrusion into the passenger environment. And you have all of that space up front to crumble a huge crumple zone that can protect the occupants. That's absolutely fantastic. I love that right. I love that concept. But here's part of what wasn't tested. It was the door handles the emergency responders the firemen em mass, right? All of us getting to the scene. The police officers the police are usually first on the scene because they're already out driving around. You can't yank that handle because it's got the stupid little handle. But even worse than that, if the vehicle is damaged in the wrong way, they will the handles are completely recessed. And that's what happened to this 48-year-old in Florida. She normally you walk up to a Tesla, you have the fog in your pocket. You get near the door, and the little handle pops out. Oh, isn't that cute? Look at that pop. So it's going to save me over the life of this car because of the lack of wind resistance is going to save me all of $5 over the next hundred thousand miles. I don't get it right it's designed thing it's ascetics. Always, not pretty. Right. That's what it was all about. Well, this lawsuit is saying that fire and golf the car and burned Dr. Juan beyond recognition, all because the Model S has inaccessible door handles no other way to open the doors and then unreasonably dangerous fire risk. Now the complaint list the cause of death is smoke inhalation and the state said the doctor existing no internal injuries are broken bones in the crash. In other words, he should have survived the crash. So Problem number one, no handle that you can yank and get serious leverage on problem number two, no handle in this guy's case, right? Because it didn't present itself. By the way. Tesla calls it an auto present. Auto present door handle No door handle at all. And the police officer gets there. And he and the bystanders are standing there helplessly as the car filled with smoke and flames and the doctor was burned. No internal injuries, no broken bones, he probably survived the crash. And then he died from inhalation from the smoke and then was burned. There's no coming back from that one right. Now let's talk about the other problem. We were just talking a lot about the problems with lithium-ion batteries. And how now, by the way, airlines do not allow you to have a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. And there's a very good reason for that. Don't be an idiot and put a lithium-ion battery in your checked luggage. Because here's what could happen. Let's say it's an electric razor. It might be a laptop. It could be anything that has a lithium-ion battery in it. And that battery is sitting down in the luggage hold of the airplane. And that battery decides that because of air pressure changes, it was already defective, whatever it might be that battery decides it is now time to catch fire. So what we end up with is the whole passenger compartment starting to fill with smoke, toxic, nasty smoke and fire and the airplane catches fire and it's very difficult to fight now, the flight attendants are trained to be able to go down below and try and fight a fire down in that compartment.

And there are fire suppression systems for it. But a fire suppression system is unlikely to completely extinguish Fire caused by a lithium-ion battery. That's why any lithium-ion batteries need to be with you in the passenger compartment. So they can isolate it. If it catches fire, they might just set it in the middle of the floor and let it burn. Because there's nothing much else they can do about it, but at least it's not catching other things on fire, it can be controlled. So what happens now, if you do form a lithium-ion battery? Myth Busters just did a really good one on that. In their new show their Myth Busters, Jr. I think it's called they just re-addressed it. But lithium-ion battery, let's say you throw one out in the trash, and the Trashman comes and gets it and puts it in the trash truck, and the trash truck compresses it. And what happens with compressed tamale it sharks out potentially, and if it short touted causes that fire in the trash truck, you've heard about these right Trash trucks now catching on fire. So what do you think happens when a car that is full of hundreds of lithium-ion batteries? isn't an accident. All you have to do is deform some of those batteries and they will catch fire and that's exactly what happened here. That Tesla continued to burn for hours according to Bloomberg, reigniting several times, even after firefighters extinguished the flames in the car had been towed. This isn't By the way, the only case where Model S is lithium-ion batteries have have burned I've seen a lot of pictures of these before. Another doctor I think it was in Beverly Hills had a car that just caught fire Tesla when they were stopped at a stoplight. the family has an 18-year-old lost control of his Tesla crashing a concrete wall last year. Expect a version of the battery before his death entirely survivable crash. This is going to be interesting. We're going to kind of follow this. But this isn't the only one that's having these problems. So we're going to talk about what Ford's doing. And some other automakers, they're working with our friends over at Bosh on helping to solve some of this problem. So we'll talk about that when we get back we got a lot of other articles here, more spying going on. And VPN, we got to get back to a VPN, which of course was the subject of our masterclass. This past week, so stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson. Here on WGAN. And online at Craig Peterson dot com. That is Peter s-o-n with an O, stick around because we'll be right back.

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Hey, hello, Greg Peterson here on WGAN. And of course online at Craig Peter song.com. Hey, I hope you guys enjoyed it last week. I was doing Facebook Lives pretty much every day and talking about mobile security. I also had my free master class on Thursday. And it went on for a little while, but I made sure I answered everybody's questions. So thanks for all of the questions. I appreciate your involvement here. I'm doing this to help you okay. And if you're not there, obviously, I can't help you. But I really did enjoy the class and teaching it and then helping people out. And coming up this week on Thursday. It looks like, I'm going to have a masterclass on mobile devices. So last week's master class that you guys attended was on Thursday and it was all about VP end. And I will be doing one this coming week. That's all about mobile devices. And we got the got them planned out here for the next few months actually. And it's going to be one ish Master Class A week one ish, right? Because I'm going to be at some conferences, and I have the stuff to do with my clients on different days. I do kind of a chief information security officer. I do that outsourced for a number of businesses, including some multinational public companies, where they need someone on the outside to come in and kind of give them a little bit of coaching and help them out the more senior management in the IT space. So that takes time. From all of this other stuff that I'm doing, it pays for to write. So nobody Can't complain. And we had, I wouldn't say it was about 30 business people on the VPN course, and about two thirds home users and, and these master classes are really aimed at helping small to medium sized businesses, basically under 1000 employees, everything from a small office, Home Office, up to about 1000 employees. That's what these ones are typically aimed at. And about 80% 90%, sometimes, of what we talked about in them has to do with home users as well. So I tend to identify it, say, hey, for you home users, and you business guys, this is for you, or That's for you. And I did all of that too, and my Facebook Live, so if you just want to check out my Facebook Lives, they're all up on replay on both Facebook and on YouTube, by the way, and you can get them on YouTube by just going to Craig Peterson dot com slash YouTube. Guess what? Yeah. Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook I tried to make it simple right now I don't know sometimes this stuff is just so complicated. I'm not sure if you guys understand or if you're going to understand or more maybe there's something else I should explain but anyways, it is complicated if you need help you now know where to go. Now if you want to sign up for the master class Coming up on Mobile Device security, go to Craig Peterson comm slash master class and you can sign up right there. off and on. I put these signups on my homepage as well at Craig Peterson calm so you can kind of figure this all out and follow it just make it simple and sign up there and I will stay in touch. Okay. By the way, these batteries again pale blue. This is really cool. You'll find them over on Kickstarter. You can see them if you're watching the video right now on Facebook or YouTube or on my website as well. But pale blue, this is neat. These are on Kickstarter, they're going to be for sale I think they're predicting next month you can buy them and they'll start shipping from Kickstarter. But this is neat. It's a lithium polymer battery, a very fast charge. And the way you charge these things is with the micro USB port there on the side. And inside that, there's the triple eighth and I'm showing you the camera right now which is a very small battery inside that it has room for the micro USB connector and for the electronics for all of the smart that is needed by it. Plus it has the storage in the bottom of this battery and you just plug it in, it's like a regular USB battery. And then to charge it you can use any micro USB cable It these batteries, there are four batteries in a box and they come with a little four-way cable to charge them. But you just plug them in and then they have an indicator around the ring of them to let you know if they're charging and how much they're charging or if they are charged. And you can see the red indicator here means that these ones are charging and it's just one little LED that red right now, which means they're mostly charged and then this one with the green around it means Hey, I'm charged I'm ready to use. There's nothing simpler. I'm just so excited about this. We'll see how these things all go but you can find them. Just do a search online for pale blue and Kickstarter will show up and pale blue batteries. You have to have batteries to that and it'll show up under Kickstarter. And you can buy him a couple of bucks savings right now if you buy them on Kickstarter, but just one of these batteries. The information that they're showing shown on their website can replace 3000 normal alkaline batteries that can so can save you thousands of dollars for 30 bucks. It's just amazing. So they sent me these things and I appreciate it but I'm, I'm really excited. I think this is very cool technology. And you know sometimes I share the technologies that I use and that are cool right here on the radio show. We've talked about some of them before, like the beautiful.ai stuff. You know, there's another one I use called Canada, and I should try and get their CEO on as well to talk about it but man if you have to design anything for your business, website stuff, I use Canvas all of the time, like the frames, if you let me just I'll pop this up on my screen right now so you can see this. See here, bam. So Right now if you're watching the video you can see this is from one of my Facebook Lives this week. And it says watch this if you use sensitive burst business or personal information on your smartphone, Part Three mobile part three data leaks. So this whole thing was done in Canada in a matter of like two minutes. It's just amazing what you can do with this stuff. So excuse me, I'll have to get Canva on to so we can talk a little bit more about them. I use Canva all the time. I really love that stuff. So anyhow, that's what I'm sharing this obviously, I'm not getting paid to promote any of this stuff. I don't get paid to do any of this stuff that I do unless you're one of my security clients. Obviously, a business that maybe has HIPAA requirements, you know if your medical practice or if you have any the Defense Department stuff, the D Fars or I tar that's where I come in, right I do the more advanced security stuff. I can do the basic stuff too. But I'm, I'm in there to protect you. So you don't go to prison federal prison charged with a felony because data leaked out and you are a military sub subcontractor, right? So a lot of people in the listening area probably are because of the Portsmouth naval base plus here New England. I'm surprised how many real small companies are that are providing parts that are provided to contractors that contract with the military. And all of those security requirements flow downhill, right? Just like all of the other problems that we have. And that's where I come in, and my team and we put stuff in place that helps. So that leads us to this article that came out this week that I think is phenomenal from the washington times. And they're talking about the FBI chasing down in an increasing number of Chinese nationals. Now, this is interesting because it ties into what President Trump has been talking about, where you know, he's working on negotiations with China because China has been stealing our intellectual property. Well, in perhaps the largest action the Justice Department has taken to try and get this old Chinese spying and corporate espionage under control. The Justice Department hit Huawei with a whole bunch of charges including stealing trade secrets from T Mobile. Now T Mobile is who I have been using the air for a little while. And I switched from Verizon saved a whole bunch of money and where I'm using it, they've got good coverage. Verizon, I think still has the best coverage out there, but they're a little expensive. And I may be changing again, we'll see but that's where I am right now. So a federal judge last week sentenced a Chinese national to nearly four years in prison for trying to steal US space technology. And this is part of the whole ramped up protection of American businesses against the Chinese spies out there. Remember, China's a socialist country, they have people in charge that don't really care what you think they don't really care what your living conditions are just as long as everyone's all of the same. So they have all of these people who are living in what we would consider being slave conditions. You know, people that are living below the poverty line in the US are living like kings compared to what people live in the socialist states of the world, including China. Over the past year, the Justice Department has brought public charges against Chinese nationals and entities in 10 separate trade secret cases. So this is absolutely huge 10 cases compared to three that were brought the prior year. Justice also got a guilty plea or conviction and eight other cases. And that's according to The Washington Times, half of the 16 names on the FBI is counter intelligence. most wanted list are Chinese nationals charged with theft of intellectual property or trade secrets for the socialist Beijing government benefits. So very, very big deal. Be careful out there. We have clients that again, military sub-subcontractors, just little companies, 10 employees, seven employees who have been invaded and hacked by the Chinese. It's crazy what's going on out there right now. But thank god they're prosecuting. You're listening to Craig Peterson dot com and WGAN online, Craig Peterson calm. When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about VPN. So stick around, we'll be right back.

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Hey, hello, Greg Peterson here on WGAN. And of course online at Craig Peter song.com. Hey, I hope you guys enjoyed it last week. I was doing Facebook Lives pretty much every day and talking about mobile security. I also had my free master class on Thursday. And it went on for a little while, but I made sure I answered everybody's questions. So thanks for all of the questions. I appreciate your involvement here. I'm doing this to help you okay. And if you're not there, obviously, I can't help you. But I really did enjoy the class and teaching it and then helping people out. And coming up this week on Thursday. It looks like, I'm going to have a masterclass on mobile devices. So last week's master class that you guys attended was on Thursday and it was all about VP end. And I will be doing one this coming week. That's all about mobile devices. And we got the got them planned out here for the next few months actually. And it's going to be one ish Master Class A week one ish, right? Because I'm going to be at some conferences, and I have the stuff to do with my clients on different days. I do kind of a chief information security officer. I do that outsourced for a number of businesses, including some multinational public companies, where they need someone on the outside to come in and kind of give them a little bit of coaching and help them out the more senior management in the IT space. So that takes time. From all of this other stuff that I'm doing, it pays for to write. So nobody Can't complain. And we had, I wouldn't say it was about 30 business people on the VPN course, and about two thirds home users and, and these master classes are really aimed at helping small to medium sized businesses, basically under 1000 employees, everything from a small office, Home Office, up to about 1000 employees. That's what these ones are typically aimed at. And about 80% 90%, sometimes, of what we talked about in them has to do with home users as well. So I tend to identify it, say, hey, for you home users, and you business guys, this is for you, or That's for you. And I did all of that too, and my Facebook Live, so if you just want to check out my Facebook Lives, they're all up on replay on both Facebook and on YouTube, by the way, and you can get them on YouTube by just going to Craig Peterson dot com slash YouTube. Guess what? Yeah. Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook I tried to make it simple right now I don't know sometimes this stuff is just so complicated. I'm not sure if you guys understand or if you're going to understand or more maybe there's something else I should explain but anyways, it is complicated if you need help you now know where to go. Now if you want to sign up for the master class Coming up on Mobile Device security, go to Craig Peterson comm slash master class and you can sign up right there. off and on. I put these signups on my homepage as well at Craig Peterson calm so you can kind of figure this all out and follow it just make it simple and sign up there and I will stay in touch. Okay. By the way, these batteries again pale blue. This is really cool. You'll find them over on Kickstarter. You can see them if you're watching the video right now on Facebook or YouTube or on my website as well. But pale blue, this is neat. These are on Kickstarter, they're going to be for sale I think they're predicting next month you can buy them and they'll start shipping from Kickstarter. But this is neat. It's a lithium polymer battery, a very fast charge. And the way you charge these things is with the micro USB port there on the side. And inside that, there's the triple eighth and I'm showing you the camera right now which is a very small battery inside that it has room for the micro USB connector and for the electronics for all of the smart that is needed by it. Plus it has the storage in the bottom of this battery and you just plug it in, it's like a regular USB battery. And then to charge it you can use any micro USB cable It these batteries, there are four batteries in a box and they come with a little four-way cable to charge them. But you just plug them in and then they have an indicator around the ring of them to let you know if they're charging and how much they're charging or if they are charged. And you can see the red indicator here means that these ones are charging and it's just one little LED that red right now, which means they're mostly charged and then this one with the green around it means Hey, I'm charged I'm ready to use. There's nothing simpler. I'm just so excited about this. We'll see how these things all go but you can find them. Just do a search online for pale blue and Kickstarter will show up and pale blue batteries. You have to have batteries to that and it'll show up under Kickstarter. And you can buy him a couple of bucks savings right now if you buy them on Kickstarter, but just one of these batteries. The information that they're showing shown on their website can replace 3000 normal alkaline batteries that can so can save you thousands of dollars for 30 bucks. It's just amazing. So they sent me these things and I appreciate it but I'm, I'm really excited. I think this is very cool technology. And you know sometimes I share the technologies that I use and that are cool right here on the radio show. We've talked about some of them before, like the beautiful.ai stuff. You know, there's another one I use called Canada, and I should try and get their CEO on as well to talk about it but man if you have to design anything for your business, website stuff, I use Canvas all of the time, like the frames, if you let me just I'll pop this up on my screen right now so you can see this. See here, bam. So Right now if you're watching the video you can see this is from one of my Facebook Lives this week. And it says watch this if you use sensitive burst business or personal information on your smartphone, Part Three mobile part three data leaks. So this whole thing was done in Canada in a matter of like two minutes. It's just amazing what you can do with this stuff. So excuse me, I'll have to get Canva on to so we can talk a little bit more about them. I use Canva all the time. I really love that stuff. So anyhow, that's what I'm sharing this obviously, I'm not getting paid to promote any of this stuff. I don't get paid to do any of this stuff that I do unless you're one of my security clients. Obviously, a business that maybe has HIPAA requirements, you know if your medical practice or if you have any the Defense Department stuff, the D Fars or I tar that's where I come in, right I do the more advanced security stuff. I can do the basic stuff too. But I'm, I'm in there to protect you. So you don't go to prison federal prison charged with a felony because data leaked out and you are a military sub subcontractor, right? So a lot of people in the listening area probably are because of the Portsmouth naval base plus here New England. I'm surprised how many real small companies are that are providing parts that are provided to contractors that contract with the military. And all of those security requirements flow downhill, right? Just like all of the other problems that we have. And that's where I come in, and my team and we put stuff in place that helps. So that leads us to this article that came out this week that I think is phenomenal from the washington times. And they're talking about the FBI chasing down in an increasing number of Chinese nationals. Now, this is interesting because it ties into what President Trump has been talking about, where you know, he's working on negotiations with China because China has been stealing our intellectual property. Well, in perhaps the largest action the Justice Department has taken to try and get this old Chinese spying and corporate espionage under control. The Justice Department hit Huawei with a whole bunch of charges including stealing trade secrets from T Mobile. Now T Mobile is who I have been using the air for a little while. And I switched from Verizon saved a whole bunch of money and where I'm using it, they've got good coverage. Verizon, I think still has the best coverage out there, but they're a little expensive. And I may be changing again, we'll see but that's where I am right now. So a federal judge last week sentenced a Chinese national to nearly four years in prison for trying to steal US space technology. And this is part of the whole ramped up protection of American businesses against the Chinese spies out there. Remember, China's a socialist country, they have people in charge that don't really care what you think they don't really care what your living conditions are just as long as everyone's all of the same. So they have all of these people who are living in what we would consider being slave conditions. You know, people that are living below the poverty line in the US are living like kings compared to what people live in the socialist states of the world, including China. Over the past year, the Justice Department has brought public charges against Chinese nationals and entities in 10 separate trade secret cases. So this is absolutely huge 10 cases compared to three that were brought the prior year. Justice also got a guilty plea or conviction and eight other cases. And that's according to The Washington Times, half of the 16 names on the FBI is counter intelligence. most wanted list are Chinese nationals charged with theft of intellectual property or trade secrets for the socialist Beijing government benefits. So very, very big deal. Be careful out there. We have clients that again, military sub-subcontractors, just little companies, 10 employees, seven employees who have been invaded and hacked by the Chinese. It's crazy what's going on out there right now. But thank god they're prosecuting. You're listening to Craig Peterson dot com and WGAN online, Craig Peterson calm. When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about VPN. So stick around, we'll be right back.

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Hi guys, welcome back Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson calm you'll also find me on Facebook and YouTube and many other platforms actually, of course, tune in to listen to me here on WGAN and you'll find all my podcasts there as well. But if you want to watch the video, you're going to have to go to YouTube or my homepage,  just go to Craig Peterson dot com. Scroll down. You'll see the articles for this week and for each article, I have you guessed it video you get to see me live. Get to see me holding up these pale blue batteries and everything going on here on this part of the studio we have this one camera that I don't usually use in the training and it's kind of a wide shot here of me sitting on my, my movie called these balance balls or what are these things called anyway? which keeps me moving. And most of the time I'm standing and I'm on one of these tables, the whole thing raises and lowers. I just love this table. My daughter got it for me. She worked at a company called SIS I think it was that that makes these things very, very nice. Anyhow, that be as it may, you can check out my studio online, just Craig Peterson dot com. Now I've mentioned a couple of times today about the masterclasses we're holding now. I have a master's course coming up here soon. But these masterclasses are free and we go into a fair amount of depth about a single topic. So this last week's master class was all about VPN, and next week's masterclasses all about mobile devices. Security. Well, we have an article up on my website from dark reading, talking about Nord VPN. So we went into a deep dive, you cannot get the replay, I do not put the masterclasses up for replay. The masterclasses are for you to participate in, right? And I take the masterclasses, and I clean them up, I turn them into courses and I charge for them. All right. So if you want basically my courses that are paid, some of these courses are as much as $5,000. Okay, but you can essentially get the courses for free by attending my free masterclasses. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Because it's the masterclasses are where I'm experimenting with some of my best content, some of my best teaching methods, and I'm doing it live because I want immediate feedback. So We can try it out, I can answer your questions, and you will get your questions answered and you will save a lot of money because they're free again. Okay, so these are where I do my experiment, and I am doing the training with you. And it's usually training that goes on into my paid products. Okay, so you just can't go wrong by attending the masterclasses. Now, I as I said, I can't go into all of the detail into the masterclasses because this is not hours worth of training that I can do here on the radio. But suffice it now to get into VPN and to say the bottom line. I don't trust any of the VPN that are available out there and when I'm talking about the ones that you pay for, so you go and you pay whatever it is, and, and you've heard ads on all kinds of radio stations on TV on stream mean, if you do a search for VP and online, you're going to find all kinds of reviews. Almost all of them are paid, they're compensated reviews. Now, I don't have a problem with that, right? I have personally never done a paid interview. I've never done a paid review. Everything you hear from me is my actual opinion, not swayed by money because I'm not taking money from any of these guys. And if I do have an interest like I, I put together these big Cisco networks for businesses, and these small Cisco networks for businesses, I'll tell you, I am a Cisco installing reseller. In fact, in various quarters here, we have been the top Cisco installing reseller in the entire northeast United States. So well, you know, my company's a pretty big company doing these types of things. So I will tell you When it comes to these VPN reviews, most of them are not telling you anything about them being compensated. So when I went online to put together this master class and started doing research on VPN, it became pretty apparent pretty quickly, that there were 180 degrees, completely opposite opinions about the same VPN from different people.

And then when I checked the links they were using, you know, those, I think 100% of the links I checked, they were all affiliate links, which means they were making money if you signed up for the VPN service. Again, I have nothing against that. But if I use an affiliate link, I tell you, this is my affiliate link. Now, normally these guys are probably making 50 cents for the affiliate link right there. There is a whole lot to be made for some of these affiliate links. But again, they're not being honest. And so I went into some Reddit forums because there's a couple of Reddit forums that are dedicated to VPN and the VPN companies and the people that are promoting them. And I read what they were saying and read it. And indeed, yes, indeed, no surprise, these Reddit, these Reddit were entirely 100% complaining about the exact same thing I had found that they are not they are absolutely not honest reviews. So I said, Okay, let me try one other thing. If I'm going to have a VPN company that sells VPN services, what would it take? So I thought to myself, okay, so what are these guys doing? Well, they are renting space and data centers, which means they are probably just renting server time. They have to have the bandwidth, obviously to get your data in and get your data back out. So let's go to the number one and number two providers of these types of services. And that's Amazon for AWS. And that's Microsoft for is yours. So I went on and I did some pricing. And I figured out okay, what's the average bandwidth someone might be using through these services? What does it cost for the smallest machine possible? Now, we're not going to get efficiencies here by putting a lot of people on one machine. I wanted something that was you know, really fast, really responsive, a really good VPN service. And frankly, I don't see how it could be offered for less than $50 a month. These guys are charging as little as $4 a month $3 and 99 cents a month. So I went into a lot of detail in my master class this week about this, and how In fact, what they're doing is selling your data. And in many cases, they're selling your online web browsing data. They're selling it to government entities. They're selling it to data brokers who are selling it to government entities. And it's being bought also by the bad guys by the hackers that are out there. So how's that for understanding how they make their money? Because I can't see how you could do a good job of a good VPN. That auto destroys itself and recreates itself every session so that there's no chance of logs being tampered with their You're getting a different IP address every time even though it might be an Amazon's IP block or might be an assures IP block, how to do that. And then on top of it, it's how do you get the data out of them, the view of the 14 eyes? So that's what we've discussed in some detail. Nord VPN, they were breached. And it wasn't just Nord VPN that was just admitted that they were breached. Two leading VPN providers this week. Viking VPN Tor guard others here were also breached. And then we had distributed now service attacks at what a week, okay? So I'm afraid to tell you, you have to have your own VPN that you create at home or at the office. We'll be right back talking about Robo tanks, listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN

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Craig 0:08
Hi guys, welcome back Craig Peterson here on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson calm you'll also find me on Facebook and YouTube and many other platforms actually, of course, tune in to listen to me here on WGAN and you'll find all my podcasts there as well. But if you want to watch the video, you're going to have to go to YouTube or my homepage,  just go to Craig Peterson dot com. Scroll down. You'll see the articles for this week and for each article, I have you guessed it video you get to see me live. Get to see me holding up these pale blue batteries and everything going on here on this part of the studio we have this one camera that I don't usually use in the training and it's kind of a wide shot here of me sitting on my, my movie called these balance balls or what are these things called anyway? which keeps me moving. And most of the time I'm standing and I'm on one of these tables, the whole thing raises and lowers. I just love this table. My daughter got it for me. She worked at a company called SIS I think it was that that makes these things very, very nice. Anyhow, that be as it may, you can check out my studio online, just Craig Peterson dot com. Now I've mentioned a couple of times today about the masterclasses we're holding now. I have a master's course coming up here soon. But these masterclasses are free and we go into a fair amount of depth about a single topic. So this last week's master class was all about VPN, and next week's masterclasses all about mobile devices. Security. Well, we have an article up on my website from dark reading, talking about Nord VPN. So we went into a deep dive, you cannot get the replay, I do not put the masterclasses up for replay. The masterclasses are for you to participate in, right? And I take the masterclasses, and I clean them up, I turn them into courses and I charge for them. All right. So if you want basically my courses that are paid, some of these courses are as much as $5,000. Okay, but you can essentially get the courses for free by attending my free masterclasses. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Because it's the masterclasses are where I'm experimenting with some of my best content, some of my best teaching methods, and I'm doing it live because I want immediate feedback. So We can try it out, I can answer your questions, and you will get your questions answered and you will save a lot of money because they're free again. Okay, so these are where I do my experiment, and I am doing the training with you. And it's usually training that goes on into my paid products. Okay, so you just can't go wrong by attending the masterclasses. Now, I as I said, I can't go into all of the detail into the masterclasses because this is not hours worth of training that I can do here on the radio. But suffice it now to get into VPN and to say the bottom line. I don't trust any of the VPN that are available out there and when I'm talking about the ones that you pay for, so you go and you pay whatever it is, and, and you've heard ads on all kinds of radio stations on TV on stream mean, if you do a search for VP and online, you're going to find all kinds of reviews. Almost all of them are paid, they're compensated reviews. Now, I don't have a problem with that, right? I have personally never done a paid interview. I've never done a paid review. Everything you hear from me is my actual opinion, not swayed by money because I'm not taking money from any of these guys. And if I do have an interest like I, I put together these big Cisco networks for businesses, and these small Cisco networks for businesses, I'll tell you, I am a Cisco installing reseller. In fact, in various quarters here, we have been the top Cisco installing reseller in the entire northeast United States. So well, you know, my company's a pretty big company doing these types of things. So I will tell you When it comes to these VPN reviews, most of them are not telling you anything about them being compensated. So when I went online to put together this master class and started doing research on VPN, it became pretty apparent pretty quickly, that there were 180 degrees, completely opposite opinions about the same VPN from different people.

And then when I checked the links they were using, you know, those, I think 100% of the links I checked, they were all affiliate links, which means they were making money if you signed up for the VPN service. Again, I have nothing against that. But if I use an affiliate link, I tell you, this is my affiliate link. Now, normally these guys are probably making 50 cents for the affiliate link right there. There is a whole lot to be made for some of these affiliate links. But again, they're not being honest. And so I went into some Reddit forums because there's a couple of Reddit forums that are dedicated to VPN and the VPN companies and the people that are promoting them. And I read what they were saying and read it. And indeed, yes, indeed, no surprise, these Reddit, these Reddit were entirely 100% complaining about the exact same thing I had found that they are not they are absolutely not honest reviews. So I said, Okay, let me try one other thing. If I'm going to have a VPN company that sells VPN services, what would it take? So I thought to myself, okay, so what are these guys doing? Well, they are renting space and data centers, which means they are probably just renting server time. They have to have the bandwidth, obviously to get your data in and get your data back out. So let's go to the number one and number two providers of these types of services. And that's Amazon for AWS. And that's Microsoft for is yours. So I went on and I did some pricing. And I figured out okay, what's the average bandwidth someone might be using through these services? What does it cost for the smallest machine possible? Now, we're not going to get efficiencies here by putting a lot of people on one machine. I wanted something that was you know, really fast, really responsive, a really good VPN service. And frankly, I don't see how it could be offered for less than $50 a month. These guys are charging as little as $4 a month $3 and 99 cents a month. So I went into a lot of detail in my master class this week about this, and how In fact, what they're doing is selling your data. And in many cases, they're selling your online web browsing data. They're selling it to government entities. They're selling it to data brokers who are selling it to government entities. And it's being bought also by the bad guys by the hackers that are out there. So how's that for understanding how they make their money? Because I can't see how you could do a good job of a good VPN. That auto destroys itself and recreates itself every session so that there's no chance of logs being tampered with their You're getting a different IP address every time even though it might be an Amazon's IP block or might be an assures IP block, how to do that. And then on top of it, it's how do you get the data out of them, the view of the 14 eyes? So that's what we've discussed in some detail. Nord VPN, they were breached. And it wasn't just Nord VPN that was just admitted that they were breached. Two leading VPN providers this week. Viking VPN Tor guard others here were also breached. And then we had distributed now service attacks at what a week, okay? So I'm afraid to tell you, you have to have your own VPN that you create at home or at the office. We'll be right back talking about Robo tanks, listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN

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Craig Peterson 

Hey, welcome back Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Online of course at Craig Peterson dot com you can watch me by going to Craig Peterson dot com as well. You can see the video of today's show here me in the studio, doing it all by myself hitting all the buttons and moving things around. busy busy times. And we got these two articles here that I really, really wanted to get to right now. And so that's exactly what we are going to do. This is kind of interesting. If you have been watching what's been happening over in Syria, and you see that there are the US troops, Syrian troops, Turkish troops, and Russian troops. Okay, this is a very interesting problem. I'm going online right now as we're talking because I wanted to pull up this other article that I read this week. And let me see here. I think I can pull this up. I'm going to show you this picture over on over on the display. So always takes a second right. And I will pull it up, but Russia has a tank over in Syria right now. And they've had it there for a little bit. Okay. And Okay, here we go. Okay, I got a picture of the tank. Let me pull it up. Okay, so if you're watching this on video, you'll see the tank up there right now. But this is a remote control tank and if you look at it, I got I tell you it looks pretty substantial. It's got a pretty heavy gun on it. That's definitely bigger than I don't know might be a 20. Mike Mike definitely bigger than a 50 Cal. It's got looks like for larger tubes, which are probably for surface-to-air-missiles, and for smaller tubes in my BRP. Geez. But this is a picture of the robot tank that's been used by Russia over in Syria. And it was supposed to be leap forward for Russia. But it just plain old did not work. Well. It's had a lot of problems. It didn't fight well. And they revealed it and tested it. It's called a year on nine by the way, and it is remote controlled. They admitted that it didn't meet their requirements. Okay. It's modern Russian combat unmanned ground vehicles, UGV. They're not able to perform the assigned tasks in the classical types of combat operations. In other words, once it hit the ground in Syria, it just didn't work right for them. James, you know who James is right? That's the big military contractor review company that said the system had demonstrated high performance in an operational environment. But Russia came out with a statement that they just plain old didn't agree with it. And there are a lot of these that are in development right now. DARPA, which is our US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been developing things like this tank, and also some armored vehicles that are operationally or what they're doing is they're calling these optionally ma'am like the Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement. And Russia has been much more aggressive towards developing These UGV is unmanned ground vehicles than the US has. But it's interesting to look at, but they were an absolute failure. So now getting to this article that appeared in Ars Technica, this is a picture I'm holding up the article here to the camera. For those who want to see it. You can also see it at Craig Peterson dot com. But on October 18, they announced that there were four companies that have been selected to build the prototype light robot, robotic compact vehicles for the US Army. These are non-developmental prototypes. And what that means is they're based on existing technologies, and they need to be deployable immediately, you know, while it's gonna take a while to ramp up production, but it needs to be something that can be deployed very, very quickly. there we're calling it the robotic combat light vehicle to next-generation combat vehicle. We want these things to be manned or completely remote controlled. For companies that were chosen to develop these first prototypes RHDT Global Oshkosh defense QNQ and Textron. They've already got some combination ground vehicle robotic systems. It's going to be interesting. Textron is based on how one house rips RM five. Have you seen this thing, by the way, the rip saw em five, look it up online and do a search on doc go for the rip saw all one-word RIPSAWM five. These things are amazing. And by the way, one of them was used in fast and furious. Do you remember that thing? It had a just like a tank. It had tracks And it moved really, really fast and could go over almost anything. There was a TV show that kind of featured these guys how and how very cool stuff they've, they've also got backwards backwoods I should say, wheelchairs, so the people that are paraplegic or even in some cases quadriplegic, potentially, but paraplegic, and they had don't have use of their legs can go hiking in the woods because it's kind of a mini tank that they're sitting on top of how and how just amazing what they're doing. Textron is partnering with FLIR and of course they make sensors and cameras, infrared stuff, so it's going to be interesting to see what comes with that I'll kind of keep an eye on this one as well. Our Robo tank I do like this. This picture is obviously an artist rendering although, you know, obvious, right? It looks like it's a real tank sitting in the woods. The next thing time into this our next article, and this is about Microsoft. I think this one is the coolest hack also from Ars Technica this week. They're calling this their dream Walker. And it's a virtual reality system. And right now you have to wear Let me see, I'll pull this picture. Oh, I don't have this picture handy. But it's absolutely amazing. Because it's so huge. Okay, right now the guy has to wear this big backpack. He has to wear a special helmet. There are special transceivers on him but you know, watch this, this is going to end up being on a smartphone. In fact, the rumors are that the iPhone 11 that'll be coming out next year. They might not make it into the I mean the 12 the coming out next year, might not make it into the iPhone 12 might be the iPhone 13 unless they skip that number.

They are Developing Apple's developing some very cool glasses that have full VR functions. So with this, the researchers and Microsoft have developed some with some VR, which is virtual reality technologies. And it lets you remain fully immersed in a virtual world while you're in public places traveling on foot. So think about this for a minute. If you're walking to work in this city, you can actually be involved in this virtual environment. While you are still, according to Microsoft safely navigating a given route in real-world environments such as a daily walk to work, while seeing themselves strolling a different VR world such as a city, they're choosing. Very, very cool. So this is in their research division. They actually have a prototype that is working, and this is something I think we could expect in the future. They're saying that any Potential obstacles the user encounters while traversing real space are recorded by real-time sensing technologies in the VR operettas including a dual GPNGP deal band, GPS sensor to RGB depth cameras and a Windows mixed reality provided relative world track. In other words, roadblocks, post boxes that might be in the middle of the sidewalk. All of those are going to appear in your VR world automatically. So you know, to navigate around them. Moving carts, everything very, very cool. So that's coming our way. And I'm coming your way again. Here. In our final segment, we're going to talk about a Facebook lawsuit and vulnerabilities that we are not addressing in our businesses when it comes to apps. So stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and online Of course, Craig peterson.com.

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Craig Peterson 

Hey, welcome back Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Online of course at Craig Peterson dot com you can watch me by going to Craig Peterson dot com as well. You can see the video of today's show here me in the studio, doing it all by myself hitting all the buttons and moving things around. busy busy times. And we got these two articles here that I really, really wanted to get to right now. And so that's exactly what we are going to do. This is kind of interesting. If you have been watching what's been happening over in Syria, and you see that there are the US troops, Syrian troops, Turkish troops, and Russian troops. Okay, this is a very interesting problem. I'm going online right now as we're talking because I wanted to pull up this other article that I read this week. And let me see here. I think I can pull this up. I'm going to show you this picture over on over on the display. So always takes a second right. And I will pull it up, but Russia has a tank over in Syria right now. And they've had it there for a little bit. Okay. And Okay, here we go. Okay, I got a picture of the tank. Let me pull it up. Okay, so if you're watching this on video, you'll see the tank up there right now. But this is a remote control tank and if you look at it, I got I tell you it looks pretty substantial. It's got a pretty heavy gun on it. That's definitely bigger than I don't know might be a 20. Mike Mike definitely bigger than a 50 Cal. It's got looks like for larger tubes, which are probably for surface-to-air-missiles, and for smaller tubes in my BRP. Geez. But this is a picture of the robot tank that's been used by Russia over in Syria. And it was supposed to be leap forward for Russia. But it just plain old did not work. Well. It's had a lot of problems. It didn't fight well. And they revealed it and tested it. It's called a year on nine by the way, and it is remote controlled. They admitted that it didn't meet their requirements. Okay. It's modern Russian combat unmanned ground vehicles, UGV. They're not able to perform the assigned tasks in the classical types of combat operations. In other words, once it hit the ground in Syria, it just didn't work right for them. James, you know who James is right? That's the big military contractor review company that said the system had demonstrated high performance in an operational environment. But Russia came out with a statement that they just plain old didn't agree with it. And there are a lot of these that are in development right now. DARPA, which is our US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has been developing things like this tank, and also some armored vehicles that are operationally or what they're doing is they're calling these optionally ma'am like the Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement. And Russia has been much more aggressive towards developing These UGV is unmanned ground vehicles than the US has. But it's interesting to look at, but they were an absolute failure. So now getting to this article that appeared in Ars Technica, this is a picture I'm holding up the article here to the camera. For those who want to see it. You can also see it at Craig Peterson dot com. But on October 18, they announced that there were four companies that have been selected to build the prototype light robot, robotic compact vehicles for the US Army. These are non-developmental prototypes. And what that means is they're based on existing technologies, and they need to be deployable immediately, you know, while it's gonna take a while to ramp up production, but it needs to be something that can be deployed very, very quickly. there we're calling it the robotic combat light vehicle to next-generation combat vehicle. We want these things to be manned or completely remote controlled. For companies that were chosen to develop these first prototypes RHDT Global Oshkosh defense QNQ and Textron. They've already got some combination ground vehicle robotic systems. It's going to be interesting. Textron is based on how one house rips RM five. Have you seen this thing, by the way, the rip saw em five, look it up online and do a search on doc go for the rip saw all one-word RIPSAWM five. These things are amazing. And by the way, one of them was used in fast and furious. Do you remember that thing? It had a just like a tank. It had tracks And it moved really, really fast and could go over almost anything. There was a TV show that kind of featured these guys how and how very cool stuff they've, they've also got backwards backwoods I should say, wheelchairs, so the people that are paraplegic or even in some cases quadriplegic, potentially, but paraplegic, and they had don't have use of their legs can go hiking in the woods because it's kind of a mini tank that they're sitting on top of how and how just amazing what they're doing. Textron is partnering with FLIR and of course they make sensors and cameras, infrared stuff, so it's going to be interesting to see what comes with that I'll kind of keep an eye on this one as well. Our Robo tank I do like this. This picture is obviously an artist rendering although, you know, obvious, right? It looks like it's a real tank sitting in the woods. The next thing time into this our next article, and this is about Microsoft. I think this one is the coolest hack also from Ars Technica this week. They're calling this their dream Walker. And it's a virtual reality system. And right now you have to wear Let me see, I'll pull this picture. Oh, I don't have this picture handy. But it's absolutely amazing. Because it's so huge. Okay, right now the guy has to wear this big backpack. He has to wear a special helmet. There are special transceivers on him but you know, watch this, this is going to end up being on a smartphone. In fact, the rumors are that the iPhone 11 that'll be coming out next year. They might not make it into the I mean the 12 the coming out next year, might not make it into the iPhone 12 might be the iPhone 13 unless they skip that number.

They are Developing Apple's developing some very cool glasses that have full VR functions. So with this, the researchers and Microsoft have developed some with some VR, which is virtual reality technologies. And it lets you remain fully immersed in a virtual world while you're in public places traveling on foot. So think about this for a minute. If you're walking to work in this city, you can actually be involved in this virtual environment. While you are still, according to Microsoft safely navigating a given route in real-world environments such as a daily walk to work, while seeing themselves strolling a different VR world such as a city, they're choosing. Very, very cool. So this is in their research division. They actually have a prototype that is working, and this is something I think we could expect in the future. They're saying that any Potential obstacles the user encounters while traversing real space are recorded by real-time sensing technologies in the VR operettas including a dual GPNGP deal band, GPS sensor to RGB depth cameras and a Windows mixed reality provided relative world track. In other words, roadblocks, post boxes that might be in the middle of the sidewalk. All of those are going to appear in your VR world automatically. So you know, to navigate around them. Moving carts, everything very, very cool. So that's coming our way. And I'm coming your way again. Here. In our final segment, we're going to talk about a Facebook lawsuit and vulnerabilities that we are not addressing in our businesses when it comes to apps. So stick around you're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and online Of course, Craig peterson.com.

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