Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity

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Craig Peterson
Hey guys, Craig Peterson back again. Welcome. Welcome to everybody. If you haven't heard me before, I am on the radio every Saturday from one till 3 pm here on WGAN. And we talk a lot about technology and my business is entirely based on technology, on networks and security and securing regulated businesses including financial businesses, medical businesses, and DFARs security for military contractor businesses as well. So that's what I do. Why do I talk a lot about security? Because I have been in the boat before where I didn't know what was happening. I got hacked, different type of technique. Basically I got hacked two decades ago. And I almost lost the business that I had been building because of this hack. I was all of a sudden the de facto security person in the business as the owner of the business, right, and as the owner, you have to wear a lot of hats. And then I started helping other business owners with it, and then started helping their people, the office managers, that's a very common title of the people that I work with, who are the de facto it and security people. So I, you know, I've been working with them over the years and I have found that almost to a person, they need some help because it's, it's so complicated. And so many people out there are lying to them, just like we talked about a couple of segments ago with VPN, how these VPN companies are building. Line line line online, which is really, really bad if you ask me. So I try and help straighten them out and straighten it out here on the show. We have a lot of home users, a lot of home listeners, a lot of retirees here who are listeners on the radio. And you guys are some of the biggest targets, believe it or not, because the huge, multi-billion dollar corporations, they can afford security. If you have less than 1000 employees, you can't. And the basic reason you can't is that you can't afford the security people that you need. You might be able to afford some of the equipment that you need. You probably can, but you can't afford to have the people that you need to design that to set it up and to run it. It's a full-time job for a staff of people. And so that's where we come in for those types of companies that really need really want the security but can't afford it, and can't do it themselves and really need help. So that's, that's my business side of things. And you know if you have any questions at all if we can help because this is complicated, let me know. Just email me at Craig Peterson dot com that'll come to me. And I answer pretty much every question that comes our way. Sometimes I answer them here on the radio, if particularly if it's a common question a lot of people have. Sometimes I will just go ahead and email you back. I also have a text number so that you can send questions to me, and my texting number is just 855-385-5553 you can text me anytime. If it's the middle of the night. I'm not going to answer for him in the meeting right. Not answer right away anyways. 855-385-5553 to be things right now. And we'll get to them because this is our last segment of the day. So I have to get to them right now. But I want to get to these. One again is from Ars Technica. Another one is from dark reading. So we got a couple of articles from each of these sites this week. This one is about Facebook. And this has been kind of everywhere online. If you go ahead and do some searches, you'll see this, but Facebook has facial recognition software. And if you go into your security controls on Facebook, you'll see right there that Facebook has a little checkbox that lets you turn off facial recognition. And the idea is with Facebook, hey, listen, we want to let you know when you're in a photo from a friend or a relative. Right And personally, I'd like to know if I'm in a photo from a friend or a relative, right. I think that'd be a great thing. Facebook will let you know.

But that this facial recognition technology is far from perfect. And it's been used by the Chinese socialist government to track people and penalize them if they don't do what the government tells them to do. And it's being used in London the most surveilled city in the world. It's being used there to track people. And it's being used, as I mentioned by Facebook. So another landmark lawsuit underway here of federal court declined to hear another appeal to stop a $35 billion class-action lawsuit against Facebook. That's real money. Well, it's real money to you and me, you know, not so much for Facebook, right. But in San Francisco last week, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which means it's almost always Going to be overturned. It is the most overturned district Circuit Court in the country. But I think this particular ruling might stand. But the US court of appeals to the Ninth Circuit denied Facebook's protection petition for an unborn Karen in the case. So usually appeals cases are heard by three judges that are picked within the district court. And so they were looking to try and get a larger group of judges, maybe all of them to hear. So in the Ninth Circuit, there's 11 of the 29 judges, judges that would sit for the unbanked punk cases, and the court said none on the three-judge panel was enough. So this class acts as a class action suit that can now move forward includes these three different Illinois residents who filed suit against Facebook back in 2015. That's how long these things take. Okay? The suits that were rolled together into one class action complaint argue that Facebook's collection of users faces for tagging proposes violates the Illinois biometric Information Privacy Act. And that's a law that requires businesses to gather consent from residents of Illinois before the biometric data is used or even collected. Ok. So the Facebook find in Illinois be five grand for each nine violation. There are about 7 million Facebook users in Illinois, hence the $35 billion that they're going for. A very, very big one. Massachusetts brands branch of the ACLU. This week also released results of a test it ran on Amazon's recognition software, in which it mistakenly match many New England professional athletes to mug shots from a database. So fascinating, isn't it? absolutely fascinating. These facial recognition systems not only don't do well with Caucasian faces, but they are horrible. with Chinese, many of the Asian faces, they can't tell them apart. The very bad with African faces. And it's there. There's just a lawsuit potential all over the place for people that are arrested or detained or charged, based on facial recognition, particularly if they are air quotes here, minorities, right? so fascinating stuff there, Facebook's in more trouble. Now, this is from a company called Veracode. You might have heard of them. I've talked about them before on the code. They've got this annual State of software security report. And what they found I thought was very, very interesting. There's something in the software business called regression testing. Now, if you've known me for a while, you know, I was involved very heavily in what's called Colonel software, I helped to develop windows in the kernel, various versions of Unix, in the kernel, various network protocols again in the colonel, and I've done it for some of the biggest names in the world. Okay, absolutely.

So we would always do regression tests. In other words, we fixed a bug. Well, before we fix a, you know, and release that, that fix for the bug, we have to test it. And then we put that test into a series of what are called regression tests. So let's say a year or two years from now, there, somebody else has made some changes and, and it might have not touched our code. It might have touched the code that I fixed, right? But it's been a few years. So what happens is, the good companies will do a regression test and they'll make sure that That bug fixed two years ago, did not reappear. Well, it turns out that businesses aren't doing regression tests. And the more at least many of them aren't. Because according to this, many enterprise organizations are to increase breach risk because of aging unaddressed application security flaws. And this isn't just applications like apps that might be on your phone. These are applications that might be web apps, they might be applications that are used to run anything from a green screen through a Mac or Windows computer. They did security tests on more than 85,000 applications and found that on average, companies fix just 56% of all software security issues they discover between the initial and final scans. Most of the flaws that are fixed tend to be newly discovered ones well older previously discovered issues are neglected and allowed to accumulate dangerously. So very codes calling this security debt. It's increasing breach risks that many organizations. And when you get right down to it, those older flaws are usually the easiest for the bad guys to breach. Because it's well known how to breach using those flawed vectors. Very interesting. So, bottom line, pull up your socks companies out there that are developing any sort of software. And don't think that just because you're using a cloud vendor for part of it, are you using various API's to go to various cloud vendors to put your overall business operations together? Don't think that makes you safe because it doesn't. And what we're finding now is more and more, that's actually a dangerous, more dangerous way to do it, than writing the code yourself. Then there's all the open-source code and the problems people have had with that. So anyhow, hopefully, you guys, you were attended my security summer this year. We went through a lot of great security stuff that was absolutely free. My master class this week on VPN, hopefully, you attended that. It was absolutely free. had a lot of great questions that we answered. I also want to remind you of coming up this week, the masterclasses about mobile devices coming up probably Thursday afternoon. Sign up now Craig Peter song.com slash masterclass. Okay, Craig Peterson calm. You'll see it on my homepage as well. Have a great week. You've been listening to me on WGAN and online as well.

Sorry I got a frog in my throat just in time.

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Welcome Back!

We are closing up today's show discussing the Class Action lawsuit against Facebook and why Business Applications are leaking information.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Plaintiffs in Facebook Class Action Awarded Standing 

Are your Apps Leaking? Unpatched Vulnerabilities Lead to Leaking Apps 
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Craig Peterson
Hey guys, Craig Peterson back again. Welcome. Welcome to everybody. If you haven't heard me before, I am on the radio every Saturday from one till 3 pm here on WGAN. And we talk a lot about technology and my business is entirely based on technology, on networks and security and securing regulated businesses including financial businesses, medical businesses, and DFARs security for military contractor businesses as well. So that's what I do. Why do I talk a lot about security? Because I have been in the boat before where I didn't know what was happening. I got hacked, different type of technique. Basically I got hacked two decades ago. And I almost lost the business that I had been building because of this hack. I was all of a sudden the de facto security person in the business as the owner of the business, right, and as the owner, you have to wear a lot of hats. And then I started helping other business owners with it, and then started helping their people, the office managers, that's a very common title of the people that I work with, who are the de facto it and security people. So I, you know, I've been working with them over the years and I have found that almost to a person, they need some help because it's, it's so complicated. And so many people out there are lying to them, just like we talked about a couple of segments ago with VPN, how these VPN companies are building. Line line line online, which is really, really bad if you ask me. So I try and help straighten them out and straighten it out here on the show. We have a lot of home users, a lot of home listeners, a lot of retirees here who are listeners on the radio. And you guys are some of the biggest targets, believe it or not, because the huge, multi-billion dollar corporations, they can afford security. If you have less than 1000 employees, you can't. And the basic reason you can't is that you can't afford the security people that you need. You might be able to afford some of the equipment that you need. You probably can, but you can't afford to have the people that you need to design that to set it up and to run it. It's a full-time job for a staff of people. And so that's where we come in for those types of companies that really need really want the security but can't afford it, and can't do it themselves and really need help. So that's, that's my business side of things. And you know if you have any questions at all if we can help because this is complicated, let me know. Just email me at Craig Peterson dot com that'll come to me. And I answer pretty much every question that comes our way. Sometimes I answer them here on the radio, if particularly if it's a common question a lot of people have. Sometimes I will just go ahead and email you back. I also have a text number so that you can send questions to me, and my texting number is just 855-385-5553 you can text me anytime. If it's the middle of the night. I'm not going to answer for him in the meeting right. Not answer right away anyways. 855-385-5553 to be things right now. And we'll get to them because this is our last segment of the day. So I have to get to them right now. But I want to get to these. One again is from Ars Technica. Another one is from dark reading. So we got a couple of articles from each of these sites this week. This one is about Facebook. And this has been kind of everywhere online. If you go ahead and do some searches, you'll see this, but Facebook has facial recognition software. And if you go into your security controls on Facebook, you'll see right there that Facebook has a little checkbox that lets you turn off facial recognition. And the idea is with Facebook, hey, listen, we want to let you know when you're in a photo from a friend or a relative. Right And personally, I'd like to know if I'm in a photo from a friend or a relative, right. I think that'd be a great thing. Facebook will let you know.

But that this facial recognition technology is far from perfect. And it's been used by the Chinese socialist government to track people and penalize them if they don't do what the government tells them to do. And it's being used in London the most surveilled city in the world. It's being used there to track people. And it's being used, as I mentioned by Facebook. So another landmark lawsuit underway here of federal court declined to hear another appeal to stop a $35 billion class-action lawsuit against Facebook. That's real money. Well, it's real money to you and me, you know, not so much for Facebook, right. But in San Francisco last week, the US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which means it's almost always Going to be overturned. It is the most overturned district Circuit Court in the country. But I think this particular ruling might stand. But the US court of appeals to the Ninth Circuit denied Facebook's protection petition for an unborn Karen in the case. So usually appeals cases are heard by three judges that are picked within the district court. And so they were looking to try and get a larger group of judges, maybe all of them to hear. So in the Ninth Circuit, there's 11 of the 29 judges, judges that would sit for the unbanked punk cases, and the court said none on the three-judge panel was enough. So this class acts as a class action suit that can now move forward includes these three different Illinois residents who filed suit against Facebook back in 2015. That's how long these things take. Okay? The suits that were rolled together into one class action complaint argue that Facebook's collection of users faces for tagging proposes violates the Illinois biometric Information Privacy Act. And that's a law that requires businesses to gather consent from residents of Illinois before the biometric data is used or even collected. Ok. So the Facebook find in Illinois be five grand for each nine violation. There are about 7 million Facebook users in Illinois, hence the $35 billion that they're going for. A very, very big one. Massachusetts brands branch of the ACLU. This week also released results of a test it ran on Amazon's recognition software, in which it mistakenly match many New England professional athletes to mug shots from a database. So fascinating, isn't it? absolutely fascinating. These facial recognition systems not only don't do well with Caucasian faces, but they are horrible. with Chinese, many of the Asian faces, they can't tell them apart. The very bad with African faces. And it's there. There's just a lawsuit potential all over the place for people that are arrested or detained or charged, based on facial recognition, particularly if they are air quotes here, minorities, right? so fascinating stuff there, Facebook's in more trouble. Now, this is from a company called Veracode. You might have heard of them. I've talked about them before on the code. They've got this annual State of software security report. And what they found I thought was very, very interesting. There's something in the software business called regression testing. Now, if you've known me for a while, you know, I was involved very heavily in what's called Colonel software, I helped to develop windows in the kernel, various versions of Unix, in the kernel, various network protocols again in the colonel, and I've done it for some of the biggest names in the world. Okay, absolutely.

So we would always do regression tests. In other words, we fixed a bug. Well, before we fix a, you know, and release that, that fix for the bug, we have to test it. And then we put that test into a series of what are called regression tests. So let's say a year or two years from now, there, somebody else has made some changes and, and it might have not touched our code. It might have touched the code that I fixed, right? But it's been a few years. So what happens is, the good companies will do a regression test and they'll make sure that That bug fixed two years ago, did not reappear. Well, it turns out that businesses aren't doing regression tests. And the more at least many of them aren't. Because according to this, many enterprise organizations are to increase breach risk because of aging unaddressed application security flaws. And this isn't just applications like apps that might be on your phone. These are applications that might be web apps, they might be applications that are used to run anything from a green screen through a Mac or Windows computer. They did security tests on more than 85,000 applications and found that on average, companies fix just 56% of all software security issues they discover between the initial and final scans. Most of the flaws that are fixed tend to be newly discovered ones well older previously discovered issues are neglected and allowed to accumulate dangerously. So very codes calling this security debt. It's increasing breach risks that many organizations. And when you get right down to it, those older flaws are usually the easiest for the bad guys to breach. Because it's well known how to breach using those flawed vectors. Very interesting. So, bottom line, pull up your socks companies out there that are developing any sort of software. And don't think that just because you're using a cloud vendor for part of it, are you using various API's to go to various cloud vendors to put your overall business operations together? Don't think that makes you safe because it doesn't. And what we're finding now is more and more, that's actually a dangerous, more dangerous way to do it, than writing the code yourself. Then there's all the open-source code and the problems people have had with that. So anyhow, hopefully, you guys, you were attended my security summer this year. We went through a lot of great security stuff that was absolutely free. My master class this week on VPN, hopefully, you attended that. It was absolutely free. had a lot of great questions that we answered. I also want to remind you of coming up this week, the masterclasses about mobile devices coming up probably Thursday afternoon. Sign up now Craig Peter song.com slash masterclass. Okay, Craig Peterson calm. You'll see it on my homepage as well. Have a great week. You've been listening to me on WGAN and online as well.

Sorry I got a frog in my throat just in time.

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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

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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?

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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

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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 

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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?

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Craig Peterson 
Mama, this was a great interview this morning. I'm so happy. I was able to do this and share it. And I love when I get listener feedback. Of course, Craig Peterson here, and I was on with Mr. Polito this morning. We've covered three different topics and I went into some depth, you know, the you guys sometimes you have the most brilliant questions, right? I have this big problem of I've been doing too long and a little bit too deeply. And so I get these questions. So, Jim got a question or from a question from a listener via this whole VPN discussion that's been kind of ongoing for a while and that I did on Facebook here this last week. And man, he had a different angle I hadn't thought of before. Here we go with Jim Polito

Jim Polito
Sleeping in like the Dark Knight, right? In a nick of time to rescue us all our good friend and Tech Talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 
Hey, good morning,

Jim Polito
Craig. We got to talk about surfing the web without leaving a trail or awake. I've got a question for you about VPN from a listener. I've got to bring up this first. I don't know if you heard earlier in the show. But somebody assumed my identity online. And is perpetrating a scam?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, I heard that. It happened to me too.

Jim Polito 
Yeah. Is that awful? And I mean, you know, we were raised a quarter a nearly a quarter of a million dollars last week for the Shriners hospitals for children in Springfield. And now somebody who's going around, they created a an online profile and their direct messaging people and saying, hey, contribute to the Shriners Use this link. And obviously it's a scammers link and it's disgusting. And we've got actually I got the attention of the number one social media person in the whole company is working on it, which is great. Maybe I'll get a blue check on Instagram out of this because I have a blue check on Twitter and Facebook. Maybe I'll get an Instagram blue check. What do you think?

Craig Peterson 
I got one as well. I had a guy who was saying he was sending out emails to bands to these small upstart bands trying to make some money right get out music business. And what he was doing is he was representing himself as me contacting these bands and saying that I was the guy at I heart media, who brings brings new bands on in order to give them some publicity and he's basically playing you remember the old game right a little pay yo la where you Me and I'll spin your record during my show. And so I was the guy for all of my heart media that we evaluate these new bands and whether or not they're worth airing. It's just amazing. But some of these bands, these guys, were smart enough to go to my website, find me and reach out to me. And so I went and I applied for blue check. I noticed this happened to a lot of people because I worked with a number of different media people, and they've had similar things happen to them and I said, Hey, I went straight to Facebook. I filled out their forums, I did the same thing for Twitter filled out the forums. I said, hey, there's a guy out there who's scamming artists and saying that I'm the guy at I Heart Radio that does all of this. And you know, a cursory glance is going to show I am kind of a media guy. Media. Yeah. And I never got a blue check out of it. So I You know, I don't know, maybe it's because I'm on the libertarian conservative scale. But I don't know.

Jim Polito
I got mine when I worked at Fox News. And so, you know, even though that's, you know, considered the conservative new news network, I didn't get it when I was doing this here. And I got it when I was on Fox. So I don't know we'll see. But it's terrible. And I've been spreading the word all morning and you know, people who know me know I really don't direct message that often. I rarely direct message even to friends. So it's not it's hopefully nobody gets sucked in by this scam.

Craig Peterson 
Let me add something to about direct messages. And that is nowadays the whole dm thing can be automated. There are bots that you can use the very cheap, very easy to use, that allow you to communicate with people via direct message, and so the some of these bad guys, that's exactly what they're doing. They're trying to assume an identity. Yeah, that's fairly popular that you find who's following that person. And then they try and dm those people. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's really bad. Yeah,

Jim Polito
I feel bad. Especially for the Shriners because they're doing everything they can to raise money and to help a lot of kids. And to have somebody try to cash in on that. It's just disgusting. You know, it's a special place in hell for you for doing that. So, I'll keep you posted on how this progresses. But let me ask you about VPN. Brian, who is a listener? He said I have a question for Craig Peterson. How will his solution the VPN impact a work from home VPN into my employer. So you were talking about creating a VPN button. He's already got one with his employer. How would having to VPN impact him?

Craig Peterson
What a great question. I love it.

Jim Polito
Yeah, it is. 

Craig Peterson
I hadn't really kind of thought of that before. Of course, he might have that problem. Here's what I've been doing, Jim, I haven't mentioned this on your show. But it's been kind of I'm to tee under the radar because I'm practicing if you will. But everyday last week, I did a Facebook Live on my page. And you can get to my Facebook page by going to Craig peterson.com slash Facebook. And I spent the week last week talking about VPN. So I almost every day last week I did a thing on VPN and this week, I am doing a whole week here on mobile security what you can do with your mobile device. And then Thursday this Thursday. And again, this has all been kind of under the radar. I should probably tell more people about it. But I'm going to have a special, absolutely free. 100%. Free, masterclass live on the PNO that people can join, you know, home users, small business, whatever it is okay, and I'm going to take questions, LIVE, I'm going to answer them. These things typically run an hour to an hour and a half long when I do them. So, yeah, I'll have to let them know. I'll send an email out to the people today and I'll send a text, let them know how to how to get on that feeling kind of under the radar VPN are not necessarily what you think they are. And I yell and scream at the radio when I hear these misleading ads for VPN. There, there are companies out there who will remain nameless, right? Now that is completely misrepresenting what they can do with their VPN services. And by the way, three of the top VPN services this week it was disclosed that they were all hacked and all of the private information was launched. Ok. So number one, Jim, AE and anyone else who wants to know more can go to my Facebook page again Craig Peterson com slash Facebook. So that's from my website it'll take you to my Facebook page. And once your because someone stole my slice Craig Peterson on Facebook if you can believe that, and I never got it back. Yeah, so Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook and that will take to the right place and you can go back to you can look at those videos this week. We are talking about mobile threats for your mobile phones and Okay, and I got a lot of stuff, but it's specifically the answer to his question. If he's working from home, and you're using your business VPN to work from home, you should Do not use any other VPN at the same time. Okay, so you can, you can have to you can, but don't use them both at the same time.

Jim Polito 
Exactly right. Definitely fit for the business, right? 

Craig Peterson

Definitely fit for the business, right? Yeah, having one is good having to is not necessarily better. And when you're working from home the idea for your businesses, they want to keep their data safe. They don't want data piggybacking over the VPN. So just straight up, use the business VPN, which is what I recommend anyways, for business people always have a VPN at your office that you can use and your employees and you etc, can connect to it. Do not let your vendors connect to it, because then you have other security problems, but that's part of what we're covering in the whole VPN thing.

Jim Polito
All right, we're talking with Craig Peterson, a tech talk guru. All right. Listen to this, because he's going to explain to you now how to go on On the Internet, and not have a trail following you awake, because every time you go on, you know, everybody knows where you're going and what you're doing. And as far as the other stuff at the end of this segment, Craig will give you a number to text My name to standard data rates and text rates apply. But you'll be able to get all the information he's talking about. So Craig, how do I not go to Google and put something in and yet be able to go online and look for things?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, the whole traceability is always been an issue. And there's a few ways to do it depending on how private you really want it to be. For the average user, who wants the the utmost in not being tracked, and at the same time, have it be fairly simple, okay, which they kind of conflict a little bit but it's not too bad. I really recommend something called the Epic browser E-P-I-C. And the epic browser is based on Google's Chrome browser, but they've removed all of the cookie stuff that's being used to track you where you're going what you're looking at. So that way Danny won't get on the sidebars all this crazy stuff. He asked to look up for you, in the morning

Jim Polito
I know because I asked him to look up for some look up some crazy stuff.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, exactly. E-P-I-C and epic browser.com is where you'll find it online. Now, if you are and I know we've had people who are listeners who are in this next boat, and that is they are trying to help and communicate with friends and relatives who are in countries that closely monitor what's being said, okay, you know, I I'm, I can guarantee you that I could never get a visa to China because Because of things I say on my website, right? But there's a lot of people that that really, really don't want to be tracked online. Yeah, well, the way to do this, this is not what I would use for banking. Okay, there, which is a little bit different again. But the way to do this, if you really don't want to be tracked and you want to communicate with relatives or friends who might be in these socialist countries around the world, there's something called the Tor Browser TOR. Okay, and this is the Tor Browser, the onion network, you should probably do a little training on this one to visit. slightly more difficult to use but not too bad. It is available for iOS, it's available for Android for Macs and for Windows. So it's out there, but the to our browser is the ultimate in online anonymity. In this day and age.

Jim Polito 
Now, I have to give up a little something. For this convenience, don't die.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, you do. Yeah. It's not going to be as fast as the other browsers, that's for sure. You're not going to have a setting saved because it's not letting the cookies go through in most cases. Yeah. And, and you are with you're using the Tor Browser, you're part of the dark web. You

Jim Polito
You know, wait a minute.

Craig Peterson
Yeah.

Jim Polito
So this is the way that you know, we're using it so that we can hide from advertisers and the like, and the government. But dark web was really created by our government to provide an outlet for people in repressive countries like China, who want to be able to communicate, and their country controls the regular web. Right?

Craig Peterson
Exactly. Right. That is exactly what this is the TOR browser uses that dark web network that was established and is still maintained by the US federal government. So if you have family in Venezuela, nowadays, even Brazil to Iran, Russia, China, the Tor browser is the way to go online. It's a way for them to go online as well. She's governments keep trying to shut it down. But our I think it's the Navy that actually maintains the infrastructures of few million dollars a year cost them, but they are they're constantly working at odds with these oppressive regimes around the world. So how There you go.

Jim Polito
All right. Hey, this sounds great. Now, how do folks get this information? Well, you text My name to

Craig Peterson
855-385-5553. So you can just text Jim, or your question to me at 855 385 5553

Jim Polito
Standard data and tax rates apply and Craig Peterson will not hack you. And he will protect your information. Craig, this was a big help. Thank you so much.

Craig Peterson
You're welcome. And again, if people want to see that stuff on VPN, just go to my Facebook page and you can find that Craig Peters on comm slash Facebook

Jim Polito
And Man, Brian, the listener says thanks for answering that question about VPN. All right. Thank you, Craig, talk to you next week. Craig Peterson, everybody flies in in the nick of time, a final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Pulito show your safe space.

Craig
Hey, and I appreciate you guys too. And the questions you have I don't want you to feel left out. Okay, this, this wasn't just about Jim's listeners. And I hope you're joining me this week for the VPN master class and then also of course for my friends Facebook Lives that I'm doing pretty much every day, but won't be doing it Thursday because that's what I'm planning the master class. Take care everybody. Talk to you later. Bye-bye

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Craig Peterson 
Mama, this was a great interview this morning. I'm so happy. I was able to do this and share it. And I love when I get listener feedback. Of course, Craig Peterson here, and I was on with Mr. Polito this morning. We've covered three different topics and I went into some depth, you know, the you guys sometimes you have the most brilliant questions, right? I have this big problem of I've been doing too long and a little bit too deeply. And so I get these questions. So, Jim got a question or from a question from a listener via this whole VPN discussion that's been kind of ongoing for a while and that I did on Facebook here this last week. And man, he had a different angle I hadn't thought of before. Here we go with Jim Polito

Jim Polito
Sleeping in like the Dark Knight, right? In a nick of time to rescue us all our good friend and Tech Talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson 
Hey, good morning,

Jim Polito
Craig. We got to talk about surfing the web without leaving a trail or awake. I've got a question for you about VPN from a listener. I've got to bring up this first. I don't know if you heard earlier in the show. But somebody assumed my identity online. And is perpetrating a scam?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, I heard that. It happened to me too.

Jim Polito 
Yeah. Is that awful? And I mean, you know, we were raised a quarter a nearly a quarter of a million dollars last week for the Shriners hospitals for children in Springfield. And now somebody who's going around, they created a an online profile and their direct messaging people and saying, hey, contribute to the Shriners Use this link. And obviously it's a scammers link and it's disgusting. And we've got actually I got the attention of the number one social media person in the whole company is working on it, which is great. Maybe I'll get a blue check on Instagram out of this because I have a blue check on Twitter and Facebook. Maybe I'll get an Instagram blue check. What do you think?

Craig Peterson 
I got one as well. I had a guy who was saying he was sending out emails to bands to these small upstart bands trying to make some money right get out music business. And what he was doing is he was representing himself as me contacting these bands and saying that I was the guy at I heart media, who brings brings new bands on in order to give them some publicity and he's basically playing you remember the old game right a little pay yo la where you Me and I'll spin your record during my show. And so I was the guy for all of my heart media that we evaluate these new bands and whether or not they're worth airing. It's just amazing. But some of these bands, these guys, were smart enough to go to my website, find me and reach out to me. And so I went and I applied for blue check. I noticed this happened to a lot of people because I worked with a number of different media people, and they've had similar things happen to them and I said, Hey, I went straight to Facebook. I filled out their forums, I did the same thing for Twitter filled out the forums. I said, hey, there's a guy out there who's scamming artists and saying that I'm the guy at I Heart Radio that does all of this. And you know, a cursory glance is going to show I am kind of a media guy. Media. Yeah. And I never got a blue check out of it. So I You know, I don't know, maybe it's because I'm on the libertarian conservative scale. But I don't know.

Jim Polito
I got mine when I worked at Fox News. And so, you know, even though that's, you know, considered the conservative new news network, I didn't get it when I was doing this here. And I got it when I was on Fox. So I don't know we'll see. But it's terrible. And I've been spreading the word all morning and you know, people who know me know I really don't direct message that often. I rarely direct message even to friends. So it's not it's hopefully nobody gets sucked in by this scam.

Craig Peterson 
Let me add something to about direct messages. And that is nowadays the whole dm thing can be automated. There are bots that you can use the very cheap, very easy to use, that allow you to communicate with people via direct message, and so the some of these bad guys, that's exactly what they're doing. They're trying to assume an identity. Yeah, that's fairly popular that you find who's following that person. And then they try and dm those people. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's really bad. Yeah,

Jim Polito
I feel bad. Especially for the Shriners because they're doing everything they can to raise money and to help a lot of kids. And to have somebody try to cash in on that. It's just disgusting. You know, it's a special place in hell for you for doing that. So, I'll keep you posted on how this progresses. But let me ask you about VPN. Brian, who is a listener? He said I have a question for Craig Peterson. How will his solution the VPN impact a work from home VPN into my employer. So you were talking about creating a VPN button. He's already got one with his employer. How would having to VPN impact him?

Craig Peterson
What a great question. I love it.

Jim Polito
Yeah, it is. 

Craig Peterson
I hadn't really kind of thought of that before. Of course, he might have that problem. Here's what I've been doing, Jim, I haven't mentioned this on your show. But it's been kind of I'm to tee under the radar because I'm practicing if you will. But everyday last week, I did a Facebook Live on my page. And you can get to my Facebook page by going to Craig peterson.com slash Facebook. And I spent the week last week talking about VPN. So I almost every day last week I did a thing on VPN and this week, I am doing a whole week here on mobile security what you can do with your mobile device. And then Thursday this Thursday. And again, this has all been kind of under the radar. I should probably tell more people about it. But I'm going to have a special, absolutely free. 100%. Free, masterclass live on the PNO that people can join, you know, home users, small business, whatever it is okay, and I'm going to take questions, LIVE, I'm going to answer them. These things typically run an hour to an hour and a half long when I do them. So, yeah, I'll have to let them know. I'll send an email out to the people today and I'll send a text, let them know how to how to get on that feeling kind of under the radar VPN are not necessarily what you think they are. And I yell and scream at the radio when I hear these misleading ads for VPN. There, there are companies out there who will remain nameless, right? Now that is completely misrepresenting what they can do with their VPN services. And by the way, three of the top VPN services this week it was disclosed that they were all hacked and all of the private information was launched. Ok. So number one, Jim, AE and anyone else who wants to know more can go to my Facebook page again Craig Peterson com slash Facebook. So that's from my website it'll take you to my Facebook page. And once your because someone stole my slice Craig Peterson on Facebook if you can believe that, and I never got it back. Yeah, so Craig Peterson dot com slash Facebook and that will take to the right place and you can go back to you can look at those videos this week. We are talking about mobile threats for your mobile phones and Okay, and I got a lot of stuff, but it's specifically the answer to his question. If he's working from home, and you're using your business VPN to work from home, you should Do not use any other VPN at the same time. Okay, so you can, you can have to you can, but don't use them both at the same time.

Jim Polito 
Exactly right. Definitely fit for the business, right? 

Craig Peterson

Definitely fit for the business, right? Yeah, having one is good having to is not necessarily better. And when you're working from home the idea for your businesses, they want to keep their data safe. They don't want data piggybacking over the VPN. So just straight up, use the business VPN, which is what I recommend anyways, for business people always have a VPN at your office that you can use and your employees and you etc, can connect to it. Do not let your vendors connect to it, because then you have other security problems, but that's part of what we're covering in the whole VPN thing.

Jim Polito
All right, we're talking with Craig Peterson, a tech talk guru. All right. Listen to this, because he's going to explain to you now how to go on On the Internet, and not have a trail following you awake, because every time you go on, you know, everybody knows where you're going and what you're doing. And as far as the other stuff at the end of this segment, Craig will give you a number to text My name to standard data rates and text rates apply. But you'll be able to get all the information he's talking about. So Craig, how do I not go to Google and put something in and yet be able to go online and look for things?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, the whole traceability is always been an issue. And there's a few ways to do it depending on how private you really want it to be. For the average user, who wants the the utmost in not being tracked, and at the same time, have it be fairly simple, okay, which they kind of conflict a little bit but it's not too bad. I really recommend something called the Epic browser E-P-I-C. And the epic browser is based on Google's Chrome browser, but they've removed all of the cookie stuff that's being used to track you where you're going what you're looking at. So that way Danny won't get on the sidebars all this crazy stuff. He asked to look up for you, in the morning

Jim Polito
I know because I asked him to look up for some look up some crazy stuff.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, exactly. E-P-I-C and epic browser.com is where you'll find it online. Now, if you are and I know we've had people who are listeners who are in this next boat, and that is they are trying to help and communicate with friends and relatives who are in countries that closely monitor what's being said, okay, you know, I I'm, I can guarantee you that I could never get a visa to China because Because of things I say on my website, right? But there's a lot of people that that really, really don't want to be tracked online. Yeah, well, the way to do this, this is not what I would use for banking. Okay, there, which is a little bit different again. But the way to do this, if you really don't want to be tracked and you want to communicate with relatives or friends who might be in these socialist countries around the world, there's something called the Tor Browser TOR. Okay, and this is the Tor Browser, the onion network, you should probably do a little training on this one to visit. slightly more difficult to use but not too bad. It is available for iOS, it's available for Android for Macs and for Windows. So it's out there, but the to our browser is the ultimate in online anonymity. In this day and age.

Jim Polito 
Now, I have to give up a little something. For this convenience, don't die.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, you do. Yeah. It's not going to be as fast as the other browsers, that's for sure. You're not going to have a setting saved because it's not letting the cookies go through in most cases. Yeah. And, and you are with you're using the Tor Browser, you're part of the dark web. You

Jim Polito
You know, wait a minute.

Craig Peterson
Yeah.

Jim Polito
So this is the way that you know, we're using it so that we can hide from advertisers and the like, and the government. But dark web was really created by our government to provide an outlet for people in repressive countries like China, who want to be able to communicate, and their country controls the regular web. Right?

Craig Peterson
Exactly. Right. That is exactly what this is the TOR browser uses that dark web network that was established and is still maintained by the US federal government. So if you have family in Venezuela, nowadays, even Brazil to Iran, Russia, China, the Tor browser is the way to go online. It's a way for them to go online as well. She's governments keep trying to shut it down. But our I think it's the Navy that actually maintains the infrastructures of few million dollars a year cost them, but they are they're constantly working at odds with these oppressive regimes around the world. So how There you go.

Jim Polito
All right. Hey, this sounds great. Now, how do folks get this information? Well, you text My name to

Craig Peterson
855-385-5553. So you can just text Jim, or your question to me at 855 385 5553

Jim Polito
Standard data and tax rates apply and Craig Peterson will not hack you. And he will protect your information. Craig, this was a big help. Thank you so much.

Craig Peterson
You're welcome. And again, if people want to see that stuff on VPN, just go to my Facebook page and you can find that Craig Peters on comm slash Facebook

Jim Polito
And Man, Brian, the listener says thanks for answering that question about VPN. All right. Thank you, Craig, talk to you next week. Craig Peterson, everybody flies in in the nick of time, a final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Pulito show your safe space.

Craig
Hey, and I appreciate you guys too. And the questions you have I don't want you to feel left out. Okay, this, this wasn't just about Jim's listeners. And I hope you're joining me this week for the VPN master class and then also of course for my friends Facebook Lives that I'm doing pretty much every day, but won't be doing it Thursday because that's what I'm planning the master class. Take care everybody. Talk to you later. Bye-bye

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Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Mr. Heath again this morning per usual. His show keeps expanding. It's really kind of cool. He's had on a number of presidential candidates. In fact, usually, they all come through his studio. That's one of the advantages of being here in New Hampshire. So this morning, I talked with him about stolen intellectual property billions of dollars worth it looks like and what the FBI is urging businesses to do right now. Something, in fact, that will help you as a regular consumer as well. So here we go with Mr. Heath.

Jack Heath
Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy this morning. We had some great technology tips and thoughts. Good morning, correct.

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, Jack. We certainly do. And this first one is from our friends at the FBI. They are strongly urging businesses to start using biometric factors for two-factor authentication. Our data has been stolen from business, and just to show that that's actually the fact, China has now released an airplane that they'll start selling in a couple of years, called the C 919. And this is all put together as it turns out, it looks like from a Chinese government back cyber espionage group. Looking into this with some real detail, one of the security experts says the bottom line pretty much every part of the design of this Chinese terrible jet came from the United States and was stolen from our companies here our intellectual property and is now going to go up for sale now. It was stolen from Boeing and Airbus various parts of it. And in about two years, our aviation industries here in the left are going to be competing against their own designs being manufactured in China. And you know, jack, I've even seen this right here in New Hampshire with small businesses. But now that the FBI is coming out and making sure businesses realize that they need to pull up their socks, and one of the quickest, easiest ways to do it for businesses, or for individuals, is to use two-factor authentication. In other words, something you know, along with something you have.  In so in many cases, you've got your username and your password for a website, for instance. But you also might get a text message, which isn't the best way to do it, but it's a start, right? So you get a text message, you enter the number that you're sent. And that helps to make sure that people like the Chinese government here, don't get access to your business information and do everything from stealing your intellectual property through taking the money that is sitting in your operating bank account.

Jack Heath

Good information. People want to learn more, or can they go to your site or how do they go to about this.

Craig Peterson
Absolutely. The easiest way to do it if you go to Craig Peterson dot com you'll see these articles. It's part of my newsletter that I send out every week. So, if you subscribe to that newsletter, you'll get about six or eight different articles with tips on what to do what's going on right now. Craig Peterson dot com

Jack Heath
I appreciate it very much you make it a good Monday enjoy it. And we'll catch you again next Monday, and of course, your show airs Saturdays on right here on news-talk stations. Tech Talk. Thank you, Craig.

Craig Peterson
Take care. All right, we come back Chuck Zodda

Jack Heath
All right, we come back Chuck SATA what's going on the financial side of things

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Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Mr. Heath again this morning per usual. His show keeps expanding. It's really kind of cool. He's had on a number of presidential candidates. In fact, usually, they all come through his studio. That's one of the advantages of being here in New Hampshire. So this morning, I talked with him about stolen intellectual property billions of dollars worth it looks like and what the FBI is urging businesses to do right now. Something, in fact, that will help you as a regular consumer as well. So here we go with Mr. Heath.

Jack Heath
Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy this morning. We had some great technology tips and thoughts. Good morning, correct.

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, Jack. We certainly do. And this first one is from our friends at the FBI. They are strongly urging businesses to start using biometric factors for two-factor authentication. Our data has been stolen from business, and just to show that that's actually the fact, China has now released an airplane that they'll start selling in a couple of years, called the C 919. And this is all put together as it turns out, it looks like from a Chinese government back cyber espionage group. Looking into this with some real detail, one of the security experts says the bottom line pretty much every part of the design of this Chinese terrible jet came from the United States and was stolen from our companies here our intellectual property and is now going to go up for sale now. It was stolen from Boeing and Airbus various parts of it. And in about two years, our aviation industries here in the left are going to be competing against their own designs being manufactured in China. And you know, jack, I've even seen this right here in New Hampshire with small businesses. But now that the FBI is coming out and making sure businesses realize that they need to pull up their socks, and one of the quickest, easiest ways to do it for businesses, or for individuals, is to use two-factor authentication. In other words, something you know, along with something you have.  In so in many cases, you've got your username and your password for a website, for instance. But you also might get a text message, which isn't the best way to do it, but it's a start, right? So you get a text message, you enter the number that you're sent. And that helps to make sure that people like the Chinese government here, don't get access to your business information and do everything from stealing your intellectual property through taking the money that is sitting in your operating bank account.

Jack Heath

Good information. People want to learn more, or can they go to your site or how do they go to about this.

Craig Peterson
Absolutely. The easiest way to do it if you go to Craig Peterson dot com you'll see these articles. It's part of my newsletter that I send out every week. So, if you subscribe to that newsletter, you'll get about six or eight different articles with tips on what to do what's going on right now. Craig Peterson dot com

Jack Heath
I appreciate it very much you make it a good Monday enjoy it. And we'll catch you again next Monday, and of course, your show airs Saturdays on right here on news-talk stations. Tech Talk. Thank you, Craig.

Craig Peterson
Take care. All right, we come back Chuck Zodda

Jack Heath
All right, we come back Chuck SATA what's going on the financial side of things

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Hello, everybody. Let's see here. Get those cameras straight. Oh my it's always something, isn't it? It's not one thing. It's your mother said Roseanne Roseanne Adana. So let me see it. Switch that over and I'm going to go pop over to there. We're finally the right camera. Oh my gosh, Craig Peterson here we're doing some new stuff. As you probably are noticing right now, where I am doing some live videos. In fact, this week, we've been talking all about VPN I did. Facebook Lives YouTube lives every day this week. And we're working on getting those up on the website as well. So have a look for them there. And right now, of course, you can see these videos too including today's Video we're talking right now, and some of the stuff that's important. So I am kind of running the whole show today is just the way that goes sometimes, right? I don't have anybody helping me. There we go. So I'm putting my lower thirds on and moving stuff around and talking than reading and oh my gosh. So anyhow, welcome to my studio. Welcome to the show. Hopefully, you will enjoy it today. Now we talk a lot about technology, different types of tech and things that you might want to look at and consider and I really emphasize security because it has been such a problem. You know, you might have heard me on the radio. I have been on the air, at a number of stations. This whole show is carried by WGAN man Come on WGAN but I'm on many other stations. I'm with Ken and Matt and Jim and jack and just all over the place and I really enjoyed this stuff I really want to help and I enjoy helping. And so today we are going to be talking about a friend of ours. And this guy's name is Edward Snowden. Now, you know, friend foe, I don't know, there are certainly people in the audience that think Mr. Snowden is somebody that should be serving jail time. I'm not so sure I disagree with that. But what he did, this is the guy that was the NSA whistleblower, a true whistleblower, someone that had first-hand knowledge of some of the problems that were going on some of the things we were doing in our country that maybe we shouldn't be doing. And he went and he told us about it. It's just incredible what we found about the NSA, and the NSA has gone from that posture where they're monitoring us all the time. Basically, everything we're doing, to a posture today, that's much more reserved, and we kind of freaked out after 911 you know, for good reason, who would not be freaked out. But because we had freaked out and freaked out so badly, we put in place this whole Patriot Act, and they just kept renewing it and President Obama expanded what the NSA was doing. I've heard from a number of people that hey, listen, if you're president, like, let's say, tomorrow, you were made president, you would do the same things as anybody else that was put into that office as President, you do the same as President Obama did, President Bush did, because you have the same advisors, you're getting that same advice. And I, you know, I can see that I can see why that might happen. But the expansion of the NSA is something that I just, I don't know, I don't think that's such a great idea, frankly, because the NSA is all about the surveillance and it was supposed to be surveilling our enemies foreigners, not our citizens here in us. Well, in this case, it turned out that the US, UK, and Australia are now taking on Facebook. We know about encryption fact that's what this whole week has been about on my lives on Facebook and on YouTube. I've talked about this right encryption what it is what are they doing? What does end to end encryption mean? What, which prying eyes? Are they able to stop with the VPN? What are my recommendations for VPN? Which services to use, and when not to use a VPN when there's a drawback. All of this is about encryption. Think about what happened out in San Bernardino. I lived in San Bernardino for a few months. And we had out there a just a horrific thing where this guy came into the office and he killed some people and the FBI was trying to get into his iPhone and Apple said hey, we're not going to cooperate and I kind of understand where Apples coming from, because we do have our rights, our first amendment rights, and we're supposed to be secure in our papers. Well, nowadays, what are our papers? What qualifies as our papers? Is it our phones? Is it our computers? Is that what we have in the cloud? great article that I put up on the website that my wife and I worked on at Craig Peterson dot com, going into some more detail on this, and a good article from the Guardian, and that's the one I shared this week as well in my newsletter, and you know, if you want to get my newsletter, great, just go to Craig peterson.com slash subscribe, if not, hey, I understand it. Our inbox is just too full as it is. But should we be blocking encryption? That's the big question we've got now are the Attorney General bar saying yeah, we should stop encryption no one needs encryption on a regular basis. Again this is so they can, they can look in on this and that. But this is a new This isn't a Trump administration thing. This goes all the way back to the Clinton administration and the clipper chip that they were trying to pass off. And it goes back to the NSA, who purposely misled the whole wide world on the Data Encryption Standard. But under President Clinton, they said, Hey, everybody - use this chip, because it's guaranteed to be secure is developed by the NSA, these guys know what they're doing. You really want to use this. And Bill Clinton promoted it. The government was promoting it. And then the industry we found out that there was indeed a backdoor in this, in fact, a pretty bad backdoor when he got right down to it. And because of that, we ended up saying no, we don't want this. We do not want to have all of our conversations recorded. Now this clipper chip and the whole Jupyter encryption is also what led us to be able to get Saddam Hussein and his sons, we knew where they were because we could break the encryption. And that was thanks to the Brits. So we're talking about now encryption and frankly, you know, without encryption, in reality, where we could lose all of our privacy, everything that we have been working for, for all of our lives could be stolen. because let me tell you something, and this is something that I'm sure you've thought of before most people have thought of this, you know, kind of off and on over the years. But if you have something and the bad guys know you have something or the bad guy is going to try and get it from you. And the answer to that, I think is an absolute total and complete Yes, you know, the bad guys want to get this stuff from us that they can get that they can steal. So if we're using government-controlled encryption, wherewith that government-controlled encryption, what's happening is they are able to get in that kind of a backdoor, right? Get into our files are papers, then what happens? Really what then what happens? That means there is a key, right there is a way for them to get in the back door. And most people say, Well, you know, why would I care? I don't care if they are going to get to my papers because I have nothing to hide. Well, I'm not going to try and debunk that right now. Because obviously, you do have things to hide. Look at the witch hunts that have happened over the years, rather which is going on today, which is going on in the 1600 and which ones big time in socialist countries. Show me The man, I'll show you the crime. And that's what we want to avoid. So we want to avoid that. But on top of it all, we're trying to keep our data out of the hands of the bad guys. If our federal government has the key to get into our personal data, what do you think is going to end up happening? It's, you know, Willie Sutton is credited with having said, hey, why did you rob banks while I rob banks because that's where the money is. And that, you know, whether or not that's true, he's credited with that. Well, if the bad guys know that the federal government, let's say the NSA, the National Security Agency, the bad guys know the NSA has the keys to the back door. Do you think the bad guys are going to try and get into the NSA? And I've talked about this on the show before the end. Sad themselves were hacked all of their top tools were stolen, and are now being used to hack us. Blue keep is a great example of that. Some of this ransomware is using tools developed by the federal government. So if the NSA can be hacked and they can be hacked and they have been hacked, what's going to end up happening a little bit later on down the road, when the NSA has keys to the backdoor. And they're all going to say, listen, there's no way the keys can get out. These are top secret. Hey, listen. So we're all of the NSA tools that we were using to hack the Russians to hack the Chinese, the North Koreans. So were the keys that the Clinton administration had to the back doors backdoor cryptography that they were trying to push. I'm not blaming, you know, the republicans or the Democrats, both sides Have equally tried to get back doors in place and, frankly, to where we're ending up at is right what we've been talking about right now. If we do not have encryption available to us as regular citizens, frankly, our privacy will be gone. totally gone. So we've got to fight for this and fight hard for this. no two ways about it. Don't let the federal government do back doors and force encryption to be open. All right. When we come back, we're going to talk about the FBI. They are urging businesses to do something business most businesses have never done. So we'll talk about that when we get back so stick around Of course, you're listening to Craig Peterson online and on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com as well.

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Hello, everybody. Let's see here. Get those cameras straight. Oh my it's always something, isn't it? It's not one thing. It's your mother said Roseanne Roseanne Adana. So let me see it. Switch that over and I'm going to go pop over to there. We're finally the right camera. Oh my gosh, Craig Peterson here we're doing some new stuff. As you probably are noticing right now, where I am doing some live videos. In fact, this week, we've been talking all about VPN I did. Facebook Lives YouTube lives every day this week. And we're working on getting those up on the website as well. So have a look for them there. And right now, of course, you can see these videos too including today's Video we're talking right now, and some of the stuff that's important. So I am kind of running the whole show today is just the way that goes sometimes, right? I don't have anybody helping me. There we go. So I'm putting my lower thirds on and moving stuff around and talking than reading and oh my gosh. So anyhow, welcome to my studio. Welcome to the show. Hopefully, you will enjoy it today. Now we talk a lot about technology, different types of tech and things that you might want to look at and consider and I really emphasize security because it has been such a problem. You know, you might have heard me on the radio. I have been on the air, at a number of stations. This whole show is carried by WGAN man Come on WGAN but I'm on many other stations. I'm with Ken and Matt and Jim and jack and just all over the place and I really enjoyed this stuff I really want to help and I enjoy helping. And so today we are going to be talking about a friend of ours. And this guy's name is Edward Snowden. Now, you know, friend foe, I don't know, there are certainly people in the audience that think Mr. Snowden is somebody that should be serving jail time. I'm not so sure I disagree with that. But what he did, this is the guy that was the NSA whistleblower, a true whistleblower, someone that had first-hand knowledge of some of the problems that were going on some of the things we were doing in our country that maybe we shouldn't be doing. And he went and he told us about it. It's just incredible what we found about the NSA, and the NSA has gone from that posture where they're monitoring us all the time. Basically, everything we're doing, to a posture today, that's much more reserved, and we kind of freaked out after 911 you know, for good reason, who would not be freaked out. But because we had freaked out and freaked out so badly, we put in place this whole Patriot Act, and they just kept renewing it and President Obama expanded what the NSA was doing. I've heard from a number of people that hey, listen, if you're president, like, let's say, tomorrow, you were made president, you would do the same things as anybody else that was put into that office as President, you do the same as President Obama did, President Bush did, because you have the same advisors, you're getting that same advice. And I, you know, I can see that I can see why that might happen. But the expansion of the NSA is something that I just, I don't know, I don't think that's such a great idea, frankly, because the NSA is all about the surveillance and it was supposed to be surveilling our enemies foreigners, not our citizens here in us. Well, in this case, it turned out that the US, UK, and Australia are now taking on Facebook. We know about encryption fact that's what this whole week has been about on my lives on Facebook and on YouTube. I've talked about this right encryption what it is what are they doing? What does end to end encryption mean? What, which prying eyes? Are they able to stop with the VPN? What are my recommendations for VPN? Which services to use, and when not to use a VPN when there's a drawback. All of this is about encryption. Think about what happened out in San Bernardino. I lived in San Bernardino for a few months. And we had out there a just a horrific thing where this guy came into the office and he killed some people and the FBI was trying to get into his iPhone and Apple said hey, we're not going to cooperate and I kind of understand where Apples coming from, because we do have our rights, our first amendment rights, and we're supposed to be secure in our papers. Well, nowadays, what are our papers? What qualifies as our papers? Is it our phones? Is it our computers? Is that what we have in the cloud? great article that I put up on the website that my wife and I worked on at Craig Peterson dot com, going into some more detail on this, and a good article from the Guardian, and that's the one I shared this week as well in my newsletter, and you know, if you want to get my newsletter, great, just go to Craig peterson.com slash subscribe, if not, hey, I understand it. Our inbox is just too full as it is. But should we be blocking encryption? That's the big question we've got now are the Attorney General bar saying yeah, we should stop encryption no one needs encryption on a regular basis. Again this is so they can, they can look in on this and that. But this is a new This isn't a Trump administration thing. This goes all the way back to the Clinton administration and the clipper chip that they were trying to pass off. And it goes back to the NSA, who purposely misled the whole wide world on the Data Encryption Standard. But under President Clinton, they said, Hey, everybody - use this chip, because it's guaranteed to be secure is developed by the NSA, these guys know what they're doing. You really want to use this. And Bill Clinton promoted it. The government was promoting it. And then the industry we found out that there was indeed a backdoor in this, in fact, a pretty bad backdoor when he got right down to it. And because of that, we ended up saying no, we don't want this. We do not want to have all of our conversations recorded. Now this clipper chip and the whole Jupyter encryption is also what led us to be able to get Saddam Hussein and his sons, we knew where they were because we could break the encryption. And that was thanks to the Brits. So we're talking about now encryption and frankly, you know, without encryption, in reality, where we could lose all of our privacy, everything that we have been working for, for all of our lives could be stolen. because let me tell you something, and this is something that I'm sure you've thought of before most people have thought of this, you know, kind of off and on over the years. But if you have something and the bad guys know you have something or the bad guy is going to try and get it from you. And the answer to that, I think is an absolute total and complete Yes, you know, the bad guys want to get this stuff from us that they can get that they can steal. So if we're using government-controlled encryption, wherewith that government-controlled encryption, what's happening is they are able to get in that kind of a backdoor, right? Get into our files are papers, then what happens? Really what then what happens? That means there is a key, right there is a way for them to get in the back door. And most people say, Well, you know, why would I care? I don't care if they are going to get to my papers because I have nothing to hide. Well, I'm not going to try and debunk that right now. Because obviously, you do have things to hide. Look at the witch hunts that have happened over the years, rather which is going on today, which is going on in the 1600 and which ones big time in socialist countries. Show me The man, I'll show you the crime. And that's what we want to avoid. So we want to avoid that. But on top of it all, we're trying to keep our data out of the hands of the bad guys. If our federal government has the key to get into our personal data, what do you think is going to end up happening? It's, you know, Willie Sutton is credited with having said, hey, why did you rob banks while I rob banks because that's where the money is. And that, you know, whether or not that's true, he's credited with that. Well, if the bad guys know that the federal government, let's say the NSA, the National Security Agency, the bad guys know the NSA has the keys to the back door. Do you think the bad guys are going to try and get into the NSA? And I've talked about this on the show before the end. Sad themselves were hacked all of their top tools were stolen, and are now being used to hack us. Blue keep is a great example of that. Some of this ransomware is using tools developed by the federal government. So if the NSA can be hacked and they can be hacked and they have been hacked, what's going to end up happening a little bit later on down the road, when the NSA has keys to the backdoor. And they're all going to say, listen, there's no way the keys can get out. These are top secret. Hey, listen. So we're all of the NSA tools that we were using to hack the Russians to hack the Chinese, the North Koreans. So were the keys that the Clinton administration had to the back doors backdoor cryptography that they were trying to push. I'm not blaming, you know, the republicans or the Democrats, both sides Have equally tried to get back doors in place and, frankly, to where we're ending up at is right what we've been talking about right now. If we do not have encryption available to us as regular citizens, frankly, our privacy will be gone. totally gone. So we've got to fight for this and fight hard for this. no two ways about it. Don't let the federal government do back doors and force encryption to be open. All right. When we come back, we're going to talk about the FBI. They are urging businesses to do something business most businesses have never done. So we'll talk about that when we get back so stick around Of course, you're listening to Craig Peterson online and on WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com as well.

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