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Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Jack and I discussed the significant Vulnerability with Windows, Huawei hacking and 5G, and Iran, and heartfelt condolences to the Marine veteran families who lost loved ones this past weekend in NH

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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/08/2019

Significant Vulnerability with Windows, Huawei hacking and 5G, and Iran, and heartfelt condolences to those Marine corp veteran families who lost loved ones in the Motorcycle crash in NH last weekend.

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Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a wonderful Independence Day celebration, had family around who went to the parade in town fireworks, all that sort of stuff. I hope you did, too. And it's a beautiful thing. Amazing how long we've been able to hold this republic together. Hopefully, we can stay on the right track or maybe get back on it depending on how you're looking at things. This morning, I was on with jack Keith. And we had a little bit of a chance to talk about Marie, one of our listeners and shout out to you, Marie. She wrote to me this weekend, saying that she's glad to be on my email list because I told her about a significant problem that is happening right now that she wouldn't have known about otherwise and saved her a lot of grief. So, a shout out to you. Hopefully, things are going well for everybody. And here we go with Mr.
Jack Heath.

Jack Heath
You get into Monday morning, and its time for Craig Peterson with a tech talk update. Craig joins us on the Autofair listener line. Good morning, Craig.

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, Jack. We've got a big warning this week. I want to make sure everyone's aware of this. Marie, in fact, responded over the weekend to my email. It is from the NSA, the FBI, the CIA is even getting involved with this. But we've got two major things going on right now. Iran is attacking us right now. And it's mainly attacking small businesses. And what they're doing is using some vulnerabilities in Windows and Outlook that had patches released months and months ago. Unfortunately, there are estimated to be some 10 million computers here in the US that are vulnerable because patches were not applied. If you get anything from me ever it is this today, make sure you patch your machines. If you got a Mac, you got to make sure you install updates too, but these are particular windows vulnerabilities. Iran is going after us right now. It is an example of what war will be like in the future. That's why President Trump and so many business leaders are worried about Huawei. They're building of this new 5G network for our data for our phones here in the United States. Huawei has been spying on us. It just came out this past week that China has been in our phone switches here in the United States, and has data going back for years. It is the new face of warfare, Jack.

Jack Heath
Yeah, it's interesting the course of the situation with Iran, still very heightened because of questions about their increasing enrichment and reports of them detaining another tanker. We're going to get an update on the top of the eight o'clock hour. What else is catching your eye on the Tech Talk side of things?

Craig Peterson
Streaming is something a lot of people have been doing. You mentioned cord-cutters, in fact, already this morning, and people are cord-cutting, there's no doubt about it. If you look at some of the deals you can get from Hulu, and our friends at YouTube where you can watch broadcast TV, and it's very inexpensive. Cheaper than your cable service from your cable company. But streaming movies to our TV's is going to get more expensive here soon, and could easily surpass the cost of cable. Here's what's going on. We have everybody in the game. Now we've got Disney involved competing with Netflix with a new offering. We've got Comcast offerings, of course, we mentioned Hulu already. But we've got NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, or even some of the smaller cable channels are now coming up with their streaming channels. The licenses that Netflix and Hulu had are at risk, as they say, we want to stream those shows. So watching your favorite show The Office, as an example. That's the number one show on Netflix right now. But Netflix is going to lose the license to air it in another year and a half.

Jack Heath
Interesting. All right, Craig, make it a good one. Enjoy the beautiful, beautiful weather. I hope you had a good July 4. Craig Peterson Tech Talk. We appreciate it. Craig.

Craig Peterson
I did, thanks, Jack. Bye-bye.

Jack Heath
4500 motorcycles. That is the number estimated to honor the motorcyclists killed in that fatal wreck in Randolph on Saturday.

Craig Peterson

Did you guys hear about it? It was a huge deal here in New Hampshire and made it to the national news. What happened was there was a group of motorcycle riders, they're part of a Marine Corps rider group. These were Veterans, honorably discharged. I think it was only men that were riding with some wives or girlfriends on their bikes. They were riding on a Charity ride here in NH, I think there were 10 in total. Some of them that died were from New Hampshire. They were going along on their merry little way and coming in the opposite direction was one of these trucks, you've probably seen them and kind of like the pickup trucks with a gooseneck trailer on the back, and he was towing some stuff. Well, crossed directly into their lane and hit them head-on. It's caused quite a controversy because it turns out that he had been arrested multiple times in multiple states. He'd had arrests for drunk driving for various other things according to recent reports. And he had a license for Massachusetts as that is where he was currently residing. However, they should have revoked that particular license. Not that that might have stopped him from driving, I guess it might have prevented him from driving, but not necessarily. As it turned out the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Mass located a massive stack of papers from other states that identified drivers Mass licenses that had dramatic driving violations or arrested etc. The Mass registry of motor vehicles had never done anything about any of these. It was just amazing. Just incompetence, every direction. Government agencies, right? A lot of you guys that work for the government are just fantastic. But let me tell you, it can breed incompetence up the line. Indeed, that's been the accusation in the Registry of Motor Vehicles from the very top on down it's just full of incompetent people. We honored those lost, as you just heard jack discussing. There were some more than 4000 motorcyclists that showed up for an honor ride in memory of their death. They were escorted by our State Police here in New Hampshire. If I had known about it, I would have made an effort to get out there, but, I did not hear about the event, until after the fact. My heart and prayers go out to all affected.

If any of you are affected by this, may you know, again, my heart and prayers go out to you. Motorcycle safety is of the utmost importance. If you know me, you know I've been riding for a long time. And I am very, very big on making sure that I'm highly visible. Loud pipes don't save lives. If they don't see you coming, they don't see you coming.

I'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Jim Polito. I am going to be visiting with one of my daughters, that is flying from Norway to do a presentation for the Maritime Administration in DC. Then she's off to speak at a conference in Houston. I am looking forward to seeing her. Later, of course, Wednesday I'll be on WGAN. My Security Summer Summit is coming together. My wife Karen's been putting some material together for me. And we're getting that all together. If you're a business owner, keep an eye on your email, apparently, because I'm going to be sending something out within the next day or so. And I want you to pay particular attention to this because I do have some extra cycles, it is summertime and because of that, if you've ever wanted to work with me directly, now is the time because I'm opening up some slots in my calendar, I'm going to give some one hour coaching sessions, for those interested. It is how I pick up clients, by the way, but this is all about you. It is all about helping you understand your security posture. Are you doing enough or not? Some of you are some of you aren't. Where are your cybersecurity gaps? And more particularly, where are you exposed? What do you not covering when it comes to some of these gaps? And of course, the ultimate question is what is the effectiveness of what you have in place. We can talk about that if you are a business owner. I'm also planning on doing some other things as part of this security summer, and we're going to have three different tracks. We'll see how this goes. But keep an eye on your email. If you're not on my email list, by all means, sign up. I send out all kinds of stuff to help keep you up to date, and you know, this isn't just, sell, sell, sell as some people do. There's going to be a lot of great information this summer. However, if you're not on the list, go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. It's right there on the homepage. That is Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe.

All right, everybody. Take care. Have a great day, and we'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Jack and I discussed the significant Vulnerability with Windows, Huawei hacking and 5G, and Iran, and heartfelt condolences to the Marine veteran families who lost loved ones this past weekend in NH

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

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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/08/2019

Significant Vulnerability with Windows, Huawei hacking and 5G, and Iran, and heartfelt condolences to those Marine corp veteran families who lost loved ones in the Motorcycle crash in NH last weekend.

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Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a wonderful Independence Day celebration, had family around who went to the parade in town fireworks, all that sort of stuff. I hope you did, too. And it's a beautiful thing. Amazing how long we've been able to hold this republic together. Hopefully, we can stay on the right track or maybe get back on it depending on how you're looking at things. This morning, I was on with jack Keith. And we had a little bit of a chance to talk about Marie, one of our listeners and shout out to you, Marie. She wrote to me this weekend, saying that she's glad to be on my email list because I told her about a significant problem that is happening right now that she wouldn't have known about otherwise and saved her a lot of grief. So, a shout out to you. Hopefully, things are going well for everybody. And here we go with Mr.
Jack Heath.

Jack Heath
You get into Monday morning, and its time for Craig Peterson with a tech talk update. Craig joins us on the Autofair listener line. Good morning, Craig.

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, Jack. We've got a big warning this week. I want to make sure everyone's aware of this. Marie, in fact, responded over the weekend to my email. It is from the NSA, the FBI, the CIA is even getting involved with this. But we've got two major things going on right now. Iran is attacking us right now. And it's mainly attacking small businesses. And what they're doing is using some vulnerabilities in Windows and Outlook that had patches released months and months ago. Unfortunately, there are estimated to be some 10 million computers here in the US that are vulnerable because patches were not applied. If you get anything from me ever it is this today, make sure you patch your machines. If you got a Mac, you got to make sure you install updates too, but these are particular windows vulnerabilities. Iran is going after us right now. It is an example of what war will be like in the future. That's why President Trump and so many business leaders are worried about Huawei. They're building of this new 5G network for our data for our phones here in the United States. Huawei has been spying on us. It just came out this past week that China has been in our phone switches here in the United States, and has data going back for years. It is the new face of warfare, Jack.

Jack Heath
Yeah, it's interesting the course of the situation with Iran, still very heightened because of questions about their increasing enrichment and reports of them detaining another tanker. We're going to get an update on the top of the eight o'clock hour. What else is catching your eye on the Tech Talk side of things?

Craig Peterson
Streaming is something a lot of people have been doing. You mentioned cord-cutters, in fact, already this morning, and people are cord-cutting, there's no doubt about it. If you look at some of the deals you can get from Hulu, and our friends at YouTube where you can watch broadcast TV, and it's very inexpensive. Cheaper than your cable service from your cable company. But streaming movies to our TV's is going to get more expensive here soon, and could easily surpass the cost of cable. Here's what's going on. We have everybody in the game. Now we've got Disney involved competing with Netflix with a new offering. We've got Comcast offerings, of course, we mentioned Hulu already. But we've got NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, or even some of the smaller cable channels are now coming up with their streaming channels. The licenses that Netflix and Hulu had are at risk, as they say, we want to stream those shows. So watching your favorite show The Office, as an example. That's the number one show on Netflix right now. But Netflix is going to lose the license to air it in another year and a half.

Jack Heath
Interesting. All right, Craig, make it a good one. Enjoy the beautiful, beautiful weather. I hope you had a good July 4. Craig Peterson Tech Talk. We appreciate it. Craig.

Craig Peterson
I did, thanks, Jack. Bye-bye.

Jack Heath
4500 motorcycles. That is the number estimated to honor the motorcyclists killed in that fatal wreck in Randolph on Saturday.

Craig Peterson

Did you guys hear about it? It was a huge deal here in New Hampshire and made it to the national news. What happened was there was a group of motorcycle riders, they're part of a Marine Corps rider group. These were Veterans, honorably discharged. I think it was only men that were riding with some wives or girlfriends on their bikes. They were riding on a Charity ride here in NH, I think there were 10 in total. Some of them that died were from New Hampshire. They were going along on their merry little way and coming in the opposite direction was one of these trucks, you've probably seen them and kind of like the pickup trucks with a gooseneck trailer on the back, and he was towing some stuff. Well, crossed directly into their lane and hit them head-on. It's caused quite a controversy because it turns out that he had been arrested multiple times in multiple states. He'd had arrests for drunk driving for various other things according to recent reports. And he had a license for Massachusetts as that is where he was currently residing. However, they should have revoked that particular license. Not that that might have stopped him from driving, I guess it might have prevented him from driving, but not necessarily. As it turned out the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Mass located a massive stack of papers from other states that identified drivers Mass licenses that had dramatic driving violations or arrested etc. The Mass registry of motor vehicles had never done anything about any of these. It was just amazing. Just incompetence, every direction. Government agencies, right? A lot of you guys that work for the government are just fantastic. But let me tell you, it can breed incompetence up the line. Indeed, that's been the accusation in the Registry of Motor Vehicles from the very top on down it's just full of incompetent people. We honored those lost, as you just heard jack discussing. There were some more than 4000 motorcyclists that showed up for an honor ride in memory of their death. They were escorted by our State Police here in New Hampshire. If I had known about it, I would have made an effort to get out there, but, I did not hear about the event, until after the fact. My heart and prayers go out to all affected.

If any of you are affected by this, may you know, again, my heart and prayers go out to you. Motorcycle safety is of the utmost importance. If you know me, you know I've been riding for a long time. And I am very, very big on making sure that I'm highly visible. Loud pipes don't save lives. If they don't see you coming, they don't see you coming.

I'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Jim Polito. I am going to be visiting with one of my daughters, that is flying from Norway to do a presentation for the Maritime Administration in DC. Then she's off to speak at a conference in Houston. I am looking forward to seeing her. Later, of course, Wednesday I'll be on WGAN. My Security Summer Summit is coming together. My wife Karen's been putting some material together for me. And we're getting that all together. If you're a business owner, keep an eye on your email, apparently, because I'm going to be sending something out within the next day or so. And I want you to pay particular attention to this because I do have some extra cycles, it is summertime and because of that, if you've ever wanted to work with me directly, now is the time because I'm opening up some slots in my calendar, I'm going to give some one hour coaching sessions, for those interested. It is how I pick up clients, by the way, but this is all about you. It is all about helping you understand your security posture. Are you doing enough or not? Some of you are some of you aren't. Where are your cybersecurity gaps? And more particularly, where are you exposed? What do you not covering when it comes to some of these gaps? And of course, the ultimate question is what is the effectiveness of what you have in place. We can talk about that if you are a business owner. I'm also planning on doing some other things as part of this security summer, and we're going to have three different tracks. We'll see how this goes. But keep an eye on your email. If you're not on my email list, by all means, sign up. I send out all kinds of stuff to help keep you up to date, and you know, this isn't just, sell, sell, sell as some people do. There's going to be a lot of great information this summer. However, if you're not on the list, go to Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. It's right there on the homepage. That is Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe.

All right, everybody. Take care. Have a great day, and we'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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I am on a soapbox today about the politics of climate, so listen in.

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Below is a rush transcript of this segment; it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/20/2019

The Politics of Climate Change, Government and why it Stifles Technology, NASA and the Coming Ice Age, the Dangers of a Cashless Society   

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Hello, everybody. You know, I'm getting fed up with some of this. I don't know about you, but it's just driving me crazy. If you got my newsletter, this morning, you know. Hopefully, you got my email this morning. And I know now I'm trying to send it out when it's most convenient for you to so some people might not get it until Monday. It all depends on when you are typically opening and responding to my emails or send an automated message to me. You know its this whole machine learning which is the first step towards AI, artificial intelligence. That's what we're using now. The entire idea is to make this more convenient for everybody. Okay, this has me so frustrated, politics, right? We've got the left with the whole green thing, right. It's just part of their drive toward socialism in an attempt to take over everything and increase their power and authority.

After all you and me, we are only regular people, we all care about the environment. I've never met anyone nor even heard of anyone who wants to destroy the environment.

We all want to be comfortable. We all want to pass on a world that's better than the world we inherited to our children. There's not a soul that doesn't. I don't know anybody that is in that boat. The left, the socialists, have glommed on to this whole "green agenda thing." If you ask me it's an attempt to take over control of part of the government. It's all part of the power and control. It's like Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman who ever lived and who knew more than any of us. They're better than us, and they should have control of everything.

Wouldn't you agree? I'm sure there's some listening now that don't agree with me. Right. We have a lot of great people who are left-wingers because they've got great heart, right. However, we've got to look at the real motivations behind what's happening. Why are businesses doing what they're doing? We talked about that all the time, right, about the overreach of companies and data mining. They are using it for marketing. Then the bad guys come in and take it much further. So I'm, I'm critical of big business. I'm critical of the Trump administration, and I've been critical of every administration when they did things that I thought were not in the best interest of the people.

I don't want you to think I'm some right-wing wacko, because I'm not. I'm somewhat libertarian, and I'm in the middle, frankly, of everybody that's out there if anybody was in the middle of the libertarians, because we agree with some things democrats do and some things republicans do. But ultimately, I don't trust big anything. When you're talking about big government, big business or anything big you're talking about a real distortion of motivations. Big church, there's a distortion of motives, look at what's happened with the Catholic Church. And I'm not picking on them, right. It's every church out there every organized religion, look at what's happened with you name it, Eastern religions, Western religions, they take on a life of their own. The same things are true with businesses, and big business is the same thing. It is true with government. They are the worst, right? They have the guns, the money and the lawyers behind them. Ultimately, they're the ones that put a gun to your head and say, you will do this because if you don't, you go to jail. Right now they're not doing the horrific things to us, you know, solitary confinement is pretty darn horrible. But you know, they're not torturing us here in the Western world, physically torturing us trying to break us down mentally, the way they still do, and some of these Middle East countries out there. But what frustrates me is when we're talking about politics, entering the realm of something that should be common sense and science. And that's what this whole so-called green thing is. That's what the socialists have been doing. They couldn't get their way with the way they were doing things before. So now it's all about the green. I'm going to talk about green PACs. I think that's, somewhat ironic, right?

I'm talking about their so-called Green agenda, where their friends who are making electric cars are going to be the winners, their friends that are making solar panels are going to be the winners, their friends, who are making these windmills to generate electricity are going to be the winners. They're not going to allow the free market to decide who's the winner. What's the best technology out there?
Hydrogen fuel cells the best?
Is internal combustion the best?
What's the best alternative?
Synthetic fuels?
What's the best?
We will never know because the government has stepped in before the market could decide? Look at the corn look at the ethanol that they're putting into our gasoline. It is easily provable. How harmful it has been to our environment. But who, who makes the ethanol? Where does it come from, the corn growers in Iowa. A State that the politicians who are running for President for political office need to impress. A State they want to win over on to their side. So yeah, look at all the ethanol, look at how we've helped with the farmers in Iowa. Now, we've got all this ethanol, and we're burning our food.

We've got subsidies. You remember Solyndra look at Elon Musk with what's been happening with his cars. Tesla has received it's estimated around $3 billion worth of government money. Is that a crazy amount? You look at this worldwide, my I have a daughter living in Norway, and she's helping to design the next generation of ships. In Norway, if you buy a Tesla, you get a 25% savings. The government is financing 25% of the purchase price. Yeah, it's something to we will look forward to, Right. So they are getting subsidies in Norway through here, where we're giving them hard-earned money, you and me the taxpayers. It is us who are busting our butts supporting these people out in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, that are getting government subsidies, taxpayer money, look at what just happened with Amazon. Amazon is looking for another area for a corporate headquarters. We have all these states and cities saying, hey, we'll give you tax breaks. Well, that's another form of a subsidy.

Think about all the things that the government supports through subsidies like Solyndra, battery technologies, solar panel companies, and installers, the windmills. None of them have to compete on an even footing with the rest of the technologies out there. How many just phenomenal, world-changing technologies got buried because they couldn't get off the ground? How can you compete with someone that has $3 billion, effectively in subsidies when you're trying to get a business off the ground? You can't. It drives me nuts when this happens. Now we hear about all about global warming? Well if you are as old as I am you remember, in the 70s. On the cover of Time magazine said we're in for another Ice Age so, the environmental scientists came up with a plan to pour black soil on the polar ice caps to absorb more solar heat preventing a mini ice age. Of course, that didn't materialize. Then it was, well, how can we use and see people, everybody cares about the environment. So let's do this, let's call this green because everybody wants to save the environment. No one doesn't want to have a great atmosphere, right, which is not what I was saying earlier. So we'll use that to gain more control over people will be able to tell people what to do, and how to do it, because they're too stupid to be able to do this themselves. And there's you'll find tons of information about that online. You know, slips of the tongue, things that people the Obama administration said, things that happened with these researchers, where their emails were exposed, where they were fabricating the so-called science of global warming. That one failed on them, right. Now its global climate change. We've to do something about climate change. Now. I agree. I do. We'll you might think, Wow, Craig, wait a minute. Where are these ideas coming from? Here's what I agree with, we should be looking at this, we should be concerned about this, but don't knee jerk. We don't have enough data and the data that we have is badly tainted, as has been proven by these emails and notes from the researchers that are researching it, severely corrupted.

Now, we've got the media that refuses to report anything contrary to the socialists talking points. (Socialists being those to the left to of the Democrat Party). Or anything that isn't in line with their education in school. If you want to see some craziness, have a look at some of the campus reforms videos out there. Reporters go out, and they give a quote to the students, and the students read the quote and say, well, that's because Trump's a misogynist, a racist, etc. Then the reporter shows them a little video of who the quote was from and then all of a sudden, they just, it was, wow, I didn't think that was the case. Right? They're not researching. They're not thinking they're stuck in a paper bag known as gaslighting. A study came out last month that I bet you have not heard of This is a study from NASA. I bet you won't hear about this anywhere else, frankly. I'm looking right now at NASA's website, science dot NASA dot gov. There is an article from them. It is being reported, but not in the general news circles that the solar minimum is coming. NASA is predicting that the Dalton minimum levels of the sun's radiation.

Now, for some reason, I heard somewhere that the sun might have an impact on the temperature on the Earth. Right? I know It sounds stupid to say that, but today many people are convinced that man is the cause of the temperature increases.

Sorry to pop your bubble, but Earth temperatures fluctuate. And, they have for thousands upon thousands of years.

Earth has had higher carbon dioxide levels in its atmosphere, and it has had higher temperatures than we have now.

Think about this. If it were hotter, and we had higher carbon dioxide levels, we would have more food, and there would be denser vegetation.

Everything would be healthier.

A month ago, June 18, this article came out, here's what's happening. The Earth is an approaching grand solar minimum. As I mentioned, NASA is predicting this right now. And this came from a researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center. These researchers have come up with a new way of looking at sunspots using direct observations of the magnetic fields that are emerging on the surface of the sun. That data has only existed for the last four solar cycles (44 years). They used three different sources of sun observations. They looked at these cosmic cycles, which are about 11 years long.

There are longer cycles, as well, which our green movement friends seem to forget conveniently. These researchers used these to forecast the strength and timing of maximum solar cycles. It was determined using data from 2000 and again in 2008 to predict the solar cycle coming to an end this year. The next solar cycle is going to start in 2020. Guess what? She was dead-on. So, now, here's what is worrying because this is pure scientific research, not the crap that they keep feeding you on the news, it is the stuff that you're not hearing about even though it's been out for more than a month. It is a reality. And the truth is forecasting a return to what's called the dalton minimum which occurred from 1792-1830.

Now NASA is not predicting and not even telling you what happened during the Dalton minimum event.

Here's what happened. Brutal cold, crop loss, famine, war, and powerful volcanic eruptions. Because you remember the sun's magnetic field, which is what part of what she measures one of these three measurements affects us here on Earth. Just look at the northern lights to get an idea but yeah, maybe there is an effect from the solar emissions that are hitting the Earth. So Germany had an what was called the overclock station, and it experienced to two centigrade two degrees centigrade. So give or take five degrees decline over 20 years, devastated Germany's food production. Then in the US even we had a year without summer 1816, and it was caused by this, again, solar minimum, combined with the after-effects of the second-largest volcanic eruption in a thousand years. Mount Tambora was on April 10, 1815. So we had some battles going on during this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo. That occurred June 18, 1815, when the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon. Sixty-five thousand men died at that battle. Wow. They were preoccupied with this. There wasn't a whole lot of coverage about the entire Dalton Minimum that was happening at the time.

So let's go to some records and back then. In June, this from a resident of Virginia, another snowfall came, and folks went slain. On the Fourth of July water froze in cisterns and snow fell again. With Independence Day celebrations moving inside churches where hearth fires warm things a might. Clothes froze on the clothesline in New England. Northwestern Pennsylvania reported ice in ponds and on lakes in both July and August. Virginia had frost in August. The price of oats from 1815 to 1816 increased almost eightfold. Here are some other stories from around the world. The potato crop in Ireland rotted in the ground resulting in widespread starvation.

In England, France, and Germany, wheat crops failed, leading to bread shortages, food riots, and looting. Northern China got walloped with thousands of people starving to death. Southern Asia experienced torrential rains that triggered a cholera epidemic that killed many more. The year 1816 earned a nickname. It was called "800 and froze to death." We've got the politicians out there arguing about whether or not we should have ethanol in our gasoline, whether or not we should be giving another subsidy to Tesla. We are staring at what NASA is predicting, in this next solar cycle, or the one immediately after, as summer that will never come. Now we've heard about "Oh my gosh, temperatures have gone up a little over one degree Celsius." But that is in the last 50 years and those numbers, by the way, are very controversial. And there's ample evidence suggesting that they are not valid. Right now, We have an icebreaker that was that up in the northern waters of the Arctic Circle that was expecting to have full passage all the way through. Did you read about that? There is a new north passage except it is covered in ice and completely frozen now. However, we do not hear the truth all because of politics.

There's a lot of yelling and screaming going on. There's a lot of first-world problems, where we're taking the blame for things that we have no control over. And yet the reality is not that it is not being addressed which frustrates me to no end. It frustrates me to no end. Look at this, wow, we're almost out of time. Hopefully, this was informative to you. You know, my friends on the left and I know you're listening, and my friends on the right, I know you are listening, too. We need to stop the political bickering.

We have to solve the problems that are facing us right now. We have to get together. Congress needs to work with our President, not stonewall and yell and scream against everything the President suggests. There are some things legitimately the federal government can do, which in my estimation is to downsize itself. We have some serious problems out there we don't even have time to talk about today. Now, if you don't get my weekly newsletter, you got to get it because I never have time to get to everything here on the radio. Go to Craig Peterson dot com. There is a little subscribe box at the top, I'm asking for your name and email.

I am not an internet marketer that's nailing you all of the time. Okay, I do have offers, like my security summer summit coming up in a couple of weeks. It's free, it's going to be probably a four-week course at this point, as time slides, and it's gone from six weeks down to about four weeks. In it, there will be multiple sessions every week, and I'm going to try and keep them short. It's on the brass tacks of security, what can you do to meet the Mainstream Security Standard. We will cover what do you need to do for your home or your business. Make sure you sign up for that. You'll also get the newsletter every week when we get them out. I think we got this down now. So you'll be getting the newsletter every week that has all of these articles and more so that you can stay up to date on the most important things out there — the most critical security and tech news. That's where I focus because that's what I do for my clients. A shout out by the way to Rich and Sue, who are new clients this week we're helping them with all of their security. If you have security requirements, make sure you let me know because we can help you out with that too. Whether it's DFARS, HIPAA, or PCI or you want to keep your data safe, so you can sleep at night. Again, Let me know. You can email me with your questions, and you can text me, it's just: me at Craig Peterson dot com, I always answer them, you might have to wait a few days or a week. But I will get back to you. I still do a little research if I need to. So that can sometimes take a bit longer and send you the information that you need to answer your questions. You can text me at any time. And that's simple as opening your phone if you got a question or comment or you want to make sure you get into our security summer, text me. It's simple. It's 855-385-5553, standard data and text rates apply.

I'll answer a lot of these questions on the air because if you have it at least 100 other people who are listening, that have the same question. So I will, frequently, talk about it right here. That's where I get a lot of these articles from, from you guys. So you can text me your question anytime. 855-385-5553 and I can help you out. We can do a cyber health assessment for you, you know this, I do so many things for free. And I do that because I care.

You see, I got hacked, and it was a lot of a long time ago. A long time ago. I think it was in 1991 that I first my company got a worm. I was trying to build my company. We were building websites were hosting email for people, and it was terrible. We got the Morris worm. If you've been on my one of my webinars, you know a little bit about what happened. I don't want that to happen to you, right. Text me or email me at Craig Peterson the meantime.

A couple more articles real quick, and you'll find those in your newsletter this week. Hong Kong protests here are showing us the dangers of this cashless society and showing us that, frankly, a cashless society is a surveillance society. In Hong Kong, they have something called an octopus card, and they use it to pay for everything from the subways transit to retail parking purchases. In China, they have something very similar. It's part of a social media and messaging service called WeChat. It allows for payments. It is easy and effective. In China, you have to use it. In Hong Kong, you don't, but the transactions linked to your identity. Communist Party officials, here known as the international socialists, are using it to track people and zealots. That way they can tell you were in the area of a demonstration when it occurred, and you get tagged. Remember, in China when that happens, you are not allowed onto public transportation, you get barred from using it. Let's keep cash going. Pay with paper money when you can. I think that's important. We don't want to switch to a cashless society. There was a great study out of Montreal, about teams and social media. Again, you'll see links to these in your newsletter. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe because we do not have time to go through all of these but a big surprise, at least to me, in this study that I think you want to hear. I love this quote too from one of the researchers talking about depression with these teenagers social media, and a big surprise about video games. I would almost compare it to smoking in the 1970s where the very adverse effects are still relatively unknown. But they did draw some interesting conclusions.

There is a bill in Congress right now. Great article from Reuters that I posted about big tech companies from offering financial services. It's called the Keep Big Tech out of Finance Act. President Trump commented on it. He's demanding that companies that want to get into this cyber currency business, seek a banking charter, and I agree with him on this one. But this whole Facebook thing that's going to be coming out here probably next year is called the Libra. It's a little scary if you ask me.

A Florida DMV is selling driver's license information, your personal information to bill collectors and data brokers in Florida. They have made more than $77 million on selling your personal information if you can believe that. That's what I don't like about this whole REAL ID thing is that the State is now required by federal under federal law to comply with Real ID. Thank you, Democrats (tongue firmly planted in cheek) who voted for it in here the State when they took over New Hampshire. I don't want the government having that information because I don't want them to resell it.

I'm going to do a special master class around this article from Fast Company. It is about how the hackers are using social media to break into your company and how they're doing it step by step. Keep an eye out for this as well.

Take care, everybody. We will be back on Monday. I'm on with Jack Heath during drive time. Check it all out at Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great weekend, everybody. Bye-bye. Oh, and keep cool, if you can.

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I am on a soapbox today about the politics of climate, so listen in.

My take on how the government stifles technology innovation for most of us and why.

More on climate coming out of NASA concerning solar cycles and how they point at a coming Ice Age.  Did you hear about this? Listen in

Do you use Cash, me too. But I am going to address the dangers of a cashless society.

I am planning a Security Summer for my listeners.  I will have some free courses.  I will also introduce you to some of the software that I use for my clients and how you can use it too.  Also, I have some limited opportunities for businesses who have had enough with their security issues to work with me and my team and put their security problems to rest once and for all.   So watch out for announcements on those.

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Airing date: 07/20/2019

The Politics of Climate Change, Government and why it Stifles Technology, NASA and the Coming Ice Age, the Dangers of a Cashless Society   

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Hello, everybody. You know, I'm getting fed up with some of this. I don't know about you, but it's just driving me crazy. If you got my newsletter, this morning, you know. Hopefully, you got my email this morning. And I know now I'm trying to send it out when it's most convenient for you to so some people might not get it until Monday. It all depends on when you are typically opening and responding to my emails or send an automated message to me. You know its this whole machine learning which is the first step towards AI, artificial intelligence. That's what we're using now. The entire idea is to make this more convenient for everybody. Okay, this has me so frustrated, politics, right? We've got the left with the whole green thing, right. It's just part of their drive toward socialism in an attempt to take over everything and increase their power and authority.

After all you and me, we are only regular people, we all care about the environment. I've never met anyone nor even heard of anyone who wants to destroy the environment.

We all want to be comfortable. We all want to pass on a world that's better than the world we inherited to our children. There's not a soul that doesn't. I don't know anybody that is in that boat. The left, the socialists, have glommed on to this whole "green agenda thing." If you ask me it's an attempt to take over control of part of the government. It's all part of the power and control. It's like Hillary Clinton, the smartest woman who ever lived and who knew more than any of us. They're better than us, and they should have control of everything.

Wouldn't you agree? I'm sure there's some listening now that don't agree with me. Right. We have a lot of great people who are left-wingers because they've got great heart, right. However, we've got to look at the real motivations behind what's happening. Why are businesses doing what they're doing? We talked about that all the time, right, about the overreach of companies and data mining. They are using it for marketing. Then the bad guys come in and take it much further. So I'm, I'm critical of big business. I'm critical of the Trump administration, and I've been critical of every administration when they did things that I thought were not in the best interest of the people.

I don't want you to think I'm some right-wing wacko, because I'm not. I'm somewhat libertarian, and I'm in the middle, frankly, of everybody that's out there if anybody was in the middle of the libertarians, because we agree with some things democrats do and some things republicans do. But ultimately, I don't trust big anything. When you're talking about big government, big business or anything big you're talking about a real distortion of motivations. Big church, there's a distortion of motives, look at what's happened with the Catholic Church. And I'm not picking on them, right. It's every church out there every organized religion, look at what's happened with you name it, Eastern religions, Western religions, they take on a life of their own. The same things are true with businesses, and big business is the same thing. It is true with government. They are the worst, right? They have the guns, the money and the lawyers behind them. Ultimately, they're the ones that put a gun to your head and say, you will do this because if you don't, you go to jail. Right now they're not doing the horrific things to us, you know, solitary confinement is pretty darn horrible. But you know, they're not torturing us here in the Western world, physically torturing us trying to break us down mentally, the way they still do, and some of these Middle East countries out there. But what frustrates me is when we're talking about politics, entering the realm of something that should be common sense and science. And that's what this whole so-called green thing is. That's what the socialists have been doing. They couldn't get their way with the way they were doing things before. So now it's all about the green. I'm going to talk about green PACs. I think that's, somewhat ironic, right?

I'm talking about their so-called Green agenda, where their friends who are making electric cars are going to be the winners, their friends that are making solar panels are going to be the winners, their friends, who are making these windmills to generate electricity are going to be the winners. They're not going to allow the free market to decide who's the winner. What's the best technology out there?
Hydrogen fuel cells the best?
Is internal combustion the best?
What's the best alternative?
Synthetic fuels?
What's the best?
We will never know because the government has stepped in before the market could decide? Look at the corn look at the ethanol that they're putting into our gasoline. It is easily provable. How harmful it has been to our environment. But who, who makes the ethanol? Where does it come from, the corn growers in Iowa. A State that the politicians who are running for President for political office need to impress. A State they want to win over on to their side. So yeah, look at all the ethanol, look at how we've helped with the farmers in Iowa. Now, we've got all this ethanol, and we're burning our food.

We've got subsidies. You remember Solyndra look at Elon Musk with what's been happening with his cars. Tesla has received it's estimated around $3 billion worth of government money. Is that a crazy amount? You look at this worldwide, my I have a daughter living in Norway, and she's helping to design the next generation of ships. In Norway, if you buy a Tesla, you get a 25% savings. The government is financing 25% of the purchase price. Yeah, it's something to we will look forward to, Right. So they are getting subsidies in Norway through here, where we're giving them hard-earned money, you and me the taxpayers. It is us who are busting our butts supporting these people out in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, that are getting government subsidies, taxpayer money, look at what just happened with Amazon. Amazon is looking for another area for a corporate headquarters. We have all these states and cities saying, hey, we'll give you tax breaks. Well, that's another form of a subsidy.

Think about all the things that the government supports through subsidies like Solyndra, battery technologies, solar panel companies, and installers, the windmills. None of them have to compete on an even footing with the rest of the technologies out there. How many just phenomenal, world-changing technologies got buried because they couldn't get off the ground? How can you compete with someone that has $3 billion, effectively in subsidies when you're trying to get a business off the ground? You can't. It drives me nuts when this happens. Now we hear about all about global warming? Well if you are as old as I am you remember, in the 70s. On the cover of Time magazine said we're in for another Ice Age so, the environmental scientists came up with a plan to pour black soil on the polar ice caps to absorb more solar heat preventing a mini ice age. Of course, that didn't materialize. Then it was, well, how can we use and see people, everybody cares about the environment. So let's do this, let's call this green because everybody wants to save the environment. No one doesn't want to have a great atmosphere, right, which is not what I was saying earlier. So we'll use that to gain more control over people will be able to tell people what to do, and how to do it, because they're too stupid to be able to do this themselves. And there's you'll find tons of information about that online. You know, slips of the tongue, things that people the Obama administration said, things that happened with these researchers, where their emails were exposed, where they were fabricating the so-called science of global warming. That one failed on them, right. Now its global climate change. We've to do something about climate change. Now. I agree. I do. We'll you might think, Wow, Craig, wait a minute. Where are these ideas coming from? Here's what I agree with, we should be looking at this, we should be concerned about this, but don't knee jerk. We don't have enough data and the data that we have is badly tainted, as has been proven by these emails and notes from the researchers that are researching it, severely corrupted.

Now, we've got the media that refuses to report anything contrary to the socialists talking points. (Socialists being those to the left to of the Democrat Party). Or anything that isn't in line with their education in school. If you want to see some craziness, have a look at some of the campus reforms videos out there. Reporters go out, and they give a quote to the students, and the students read the quote and say, well, that's because Trump's a misogynist, a racist, etc. Then the reporter shows them a little video of who the quote was from and then all of a sudden, they just, it was, wow, I didn't think that was the case. Right? They're not researching. They're not thinking they're stuck in a paper bag known as gaslighting. A study came out last month that I bet you have not heard of This is a study from NASA. I bet you won't hear about this anywhere else, frankly. I'm looking right now at NASA's website, science dot NASA dot gov. There is an article from them. It is being reported, but not in the general news circles that the solar minimum is coming. NASA is predicting that the Dalton minimum levels of the sun's radiation.

Now, for some reason, I heard somewhere that the sun might have an impact on the temperature on the Earth. Right? I know It sounds stupid to say that, but today many people are convinced that man is the cause of the temperature increases.

Sorry to pop your bubble, but Earth temperatures fluctuate. And, they have for thousands upon thousands of years.

Earth has had higher carbon dioxide levels in its atmosphere, and it has had higher temperatures than we have now.

Think about this. If it were hotter, and we had higher carbon dioxide levels, we would have more food, and there would be denser vegetation.

Everything would be healthier.

A month ago, June 18, this article came out, here's what's happening. The Earth is an approaching grand solar minimum. As I mentioned, NASA is predicting this right now. And this came from a researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center. These researchers have come up with a new way of looking at sunspots using direct observations of the magnetic fields that are emerging on the surface of the sun. That data has only existed for the last four solar cycles (44 years). They used three different sources of sun observations. They looked at these cosmic cycles, which are about 11 years long.

There are longer cycles, as well, which our green movement friends seem to forget conveniently. These researchers used these to forecast the strength and timing of maximum solar cycles. It was determined using data from 2000 and again in 2008 to predict the solar cycle coming to an end this year. The next solar cycle is going to start in 2020. Guess what? She was dead-on. So, now, here's what is worrying because this is pure scientific research, not the crap that they keep feeding you on the news, it is the stuff that you're not hearing about even though it's been out for more than a month. It is a reality. And the truth is forecasting a return to what's called the dalton minimum which occurred from 1792-1830.

Now NASA is not predicting and not even telling you what happened during the Dalton minimum event.

Here's what happened. Brutal cold, crop loss, famine, war, and powerful volcanic eruptions. Because you remember the sun's magnetic field, which is what part of what she measures one of these three measurements affects us here on Earth. Just look at the northern lights to get an idea but yeah, maybe there is an effect from the solar emissions that are hitting the Earth. So Germany had an what was called the overclock station, and it experienced to two centigrade two degrees centigrade. So give or take five degrees decline over 20 years, devastated Germany's food production. Then in the US even we had a year without summer 1816, and it was caused by this, again, solar minimum, combined with the after-effects of the second-largest volcanic eruption in a thousand years. Mount Tambora was on April 10, 1815. So we had some battles going on during this time, the Napoleonic Wars and the Battle of Waterloo. That occurred June 18, 1815, when the Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon. Sixty-five thousand men died at that battle. Wow. They were preoccupied with this. There wasn't a whole lot of coverage about the entire Dalton Minimum that was happening at the time.

So let's go to some records and back then. In June, this from a resident of Virginia, another snowfall came, and folks went slain. On the Fourth of July water froze in cisterns and snow fell again. With Independence Day celebrations moving inside churches where hearth fires warm things a might. Clothes froze on the clothesline in New England. Northwestern Pennsylvania reported ice in ponds and on lakes in both July and August. Virginia had frost in August. The price of oats from 1815 to 1816 increased almost eightfold. Here are some other stories from around the world. The potato crop in Ireland rotted in the ground resulting in widespread starvation.

In England, France, and Germany, wheat crops failed, leading to bread shortages, food riots, and looting. Northern China got walloped with thousands of people starving to death. Southern Asia experienced torrential rains that triggered a cholera epidemic that killed many more. The year 1816 earned a nickname. It was called "800 and froze to death." We've got the politicians out there arguing about whether or not we should have ethanol in our gasoline, whether or not we should be giving another subsidy to Tesla. We are staring at what NASA is predicting, in this next solar cycle, or the one immediately after, as summer that will never come. Now we've heard about "Oh my gosh, temperatures have gone up a little over one degree Celsius." But that is in the last 50 years and those numbers, by the way, are very controversial. And there's ample evidence suggesting that they are not valid. Right now, We have an icebreaker that was that up in the northern waters of the Arctic Circle that was expecting to have full passage all the way through. Did you read about that? There is a new north passage except it is covered in ice and completely frozen now. However, we do not hear the truth all because of politics.

There's a lot of yelling and screaming going on. There's a lot of first-world problems, where we're taking the blame for things that we have no control over. And yet the reality is not that it is not being addressed which frustrates me to no end. It frustrates me to no end. Look at this, wow, we're almost out of time. Hopefully, this was informative to you. You know, my friends on the left and I know you're listening, and my friends on the right, I know you are listening, too. We need to stop the political bickering.

We have to solve the problems that are facing us right now. We have to get together. Congress needs to work with our President, not stonewall and yell and scream against everything the President suggests. There are some things legitimately the federal government can do, which in my estimation is to downsize itself. We have some serious problems out there we don't even have time to talk about today. Now, if you don't get my weekly newsletter, you got to get it because I never have time to get to everything here on the radio. Go to Craig Peterson dot com. There is a little subscribe box at the top, I'm asking for your name and email.

I am not an internet marketer that's nailing you all of the time. Okay, I do have offers, like my security summer summit coming up in a couple of weeks. It's free, it's going to be probably a four-week course at this point, as time slides, and it's gone from six weeks down to about four weeks. In it, there will be multiple sessions every week, and I'm going to try and keep them short. It's on the brass tacks of security, what can you do to meet the Mainstream Security Standard. We will cover what do you need to do for your home or your business. Make sure you sign up for that. You'll also get the newsletter every week when we get them out. I think we got this down now. So you'll be getting the newsletter every week that has all of these articles and more so that you can stay up to date on the most important things out there — the most critical security and tech news. That's where I focus because that's what I do for my clients. A shout out by the way to Rich and Sue, who are new clients this week we're helping them with all of their security. If you have security requirements, make sure you let me know because we can help you out with that too. Whether it's DFARS, HIPAA, or PCI or you want to keep your data safe, so you can sleep at night. Again, Let me know. You can email me with your questions, and you can text me, it's just: me at Craig Peterson dot com, I always answer them, you might have to wait a few days or a week. But I will get back to you. I still do a little research if I need to. So that can sometimes take a bit longer and send you the information that you need to answer your questions. You can text me at any time. And that's simple as opening your phone if you got a question or comment or you want to make sure you get into our security summer, text me. It's simple. It's 855-385-5553, standard data and text rates apply.

I'll answer a lot of these questions on the air because if you have it at least 100 other people who are listening, that have the same question. So I will, frequently, talk about it right here. That's where I get a lot of these articles from, from you guys. So you can text me your question anytime. 855-385-5553 and I can help you out. We can do a cyber health assessment for you, you know this, I do so many things for free. And I do that because I care.

You see, I got hacked, and it was a lot of a long time ago. A long time ago. I think it was in 1991 that I first my company got a worm. I was trying to build my company. We were building websites were hosting email for people, and it was terrible. We got the Morris worm. If you've been on my one of my webinars, you know a little bit about what happened. I don't want that to happen to you, right. Text me or email me at Craig Peterson the meantime.

A couple more articles real quick, and you'll find those in your newsletter this week. Hong Kong protests here are showing us the dangers of this cashless society and showing us that, frankly, a cashless society is a surveillance society. In Hong Kong, they have something called an octopus card, and they use it to pay for everything from the subways transit to retail parking purchases. In China, they have something very similar. It's part of a social media and messaging service called WeChat. It allows for payments. It is easy and effective. In China, you have to use it. In Hong Kong, you don't, but the transactions linked to your identity. Communist Party officials, here known as the international socialists, are using it to track people and zealots. That way they can tell you were in the area of a demonstration when it occurred, and you get tagged. Remember, in China when that happens, you are not allowed onto public transportation, you get barred from using it. Let's keep cash going. Pay with paper money when you can. I think that's important. We don't want to switch to a cashless society. There was a great study out of Montreal, about teams and social media. Again, you'll see links to these in your newsletter. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe because we do not have time to go through all of these but a big surprise, at least to me, in this study that I think you want to hear. I love this quote too from one of the researchers talking about depression with these teenagers social media, and a big surprise about video games. I would almost compare it to smoking in the 1970s where the very adverse effects are still relatively unknown. But they did draw some interesting conclusions.

There is a bill in Congress right now. Great article from Reuters that I posted about big tech companies from offering financial services. It's called the Keep Big Tech out of Finance Act. President Trump commented on it. He's demanding that companies that want to get into this cyber currency business, seek a banking charter, and I agree with him on this one. But this whole Facebook thing that's going to be coming out here probably next year is called the Libra. It's a little scary if you ask me.

A Florida DMV is selling driver's license information, your personal information to bill collectors and data brokers in Florida. They have made more than $77 million on selling your personal information if you can believe that. That's what I don't like about this whole REAL ID thing is that the State is now required by federal under federal law to comply with Real ID. Thank you, Democrats (tongue firmly planted in cheek) who voted for it in here the State when they took over New Hampshire. I don't want the government having that information because I don't want them to resell it.

I'm going to do a special master class around this article from Fast Company. It is about how the hackers are using social media to break into your company and how they're doing it step by step. Keep an eye out for this as well.

Take care, everybody. We will be back on Monday. I'm on with Jack Heath during drive time. Check it all out at Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great weekend, everybody. Bye-bye. Oh, and keep cool, if you can.

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Craig was on with Jim Polito. We talked in some detail about some of the 50 years that have passed since we landed on the moon and the massive changes we have seen in technology. Why Google and Facebook and the whole social media thing are a direct threat to our democracy. 

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Transcript:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.

Airing date: 07/16/2019

50 years since we landed on the moon. Changes we have seen in technology. Google and Facebook and the whole social media thing and the direct threat to our democracy.

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Craig Peterson
Hey good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. We are in for a hot pot time here northern New England is supposed to get up to 99 degrees this weekend. It's going to be hot. I heard this morning down in Phoenix it's going to be 115, but you know Phoenix it's it is a dry heat. I've got to admit that it's just not as bad. I've been to Phoenix quite a few times, and I think it's not bad at all. Up here, man that humidity supposed to be high. It's going to be uncomfortable. You know, I don't know how to live in Florida or not. Where do you retire? Anyhow, I was on with Mr. Jim Polito. And we spent a little bit of time talking about the moon shot and some of the technology out there. But we delved into some reasons that I bet you may not have heard before, maybe you thought about I don't know you guys are pretty smart about why you might want to read move your Facebook, login, get rid of that account, but Google and everything. This whole social media thing and what's been happening online is a direct threat to our democracy. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito

Jim Polito
On this anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon. First man on the moon. I'm sure if he were working, then he would have been right there at the forefront. Joining us now. Our Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning,

Craig Peterson
Sir. Hey, good morning. Oh, that I could have been like goodness, I remember it. So well. Sitting there, watching TV. Oh, man, I was working in my uncle's store selling penny candy. Yeah, for those who aren't aware, candy used to be a penny.

Jim Polito
I remember, we shut the store. Yeah, the whole thing. Wow, son of a gun. I still remember it as a little kid, little boy, and wanting to be an astronaut. Remember, with my brothers and my parents watching it on a black and white TV. And then Teddy Kennedy crashed his car off a bridge and Chappaquiddick. And, you know, he was lucky that they were going to the moon because everybody was paying attention to that instead of him. I remember the day after it was the first time I had ever seen color in the newspaper on the front page

Craig Peterson
Yeah, was a color picture of the moon shot of the moon landing. It was such a time in America. And at the time, I was living the great white North thing. Yeah. And even up there. It was, it was the thing of things. It was just the most incredible thing ever. I don't know that we'll ever have it. If not, then I don't think a Mars landing would have anywhere near the No, no.

Jim Polito
Yeah, no. It was different back then. I mean, technology was reasonable compared to now. And what people expect? No, it would not be as big of a deal. The entire world would never be transfixed as we were then. No, not like we were back then. But back then, you know, guys like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. They were, you know, they had some ideas, and they were smart guys like you. And Steve Wozniak was one of the CO creators of apple. But now he is saying, delete your Facebook account. If you want any online privacy, what's this all about, Craig?

Craig Peterson
Well, this is huge. And I think most people know a little bit about the online privacy for were you mentioned to a friend on Facebook or one of their different platforms, remember, they own that, you know, they have their messenger platform and Oculus, they've got a whole bunch of different platforms. Now, if you mentioned something else, platforms, most people are aware, all of a sudden you start seeing ads for it. And you know, what, what are they trying to do? We've known forever, that Facebook isn't the product. We are the product. They're trying to sell advertising to various vendors out there. I don't think that comes as a surprise to anybody. I think Steve Wozniak had a point about this, too, when you read this particular article from the Daily Mail, remember, this is out of the UK, we don't see this kind of coverage much here in the States. But he says, you know, he's worried about everything. So let's have a look at what's happening. Next year, we've got got a big election coming up. And we've got people who are on the line who are going around, right, talking about the election. But before we get into that, I want to get into one more point about this. How does Facebook make money? The bottom line is they make money, by selling your information to advertisers, so that they can place an ad in front of you. Now, personally, I would prefer to get an advertisement for cars when I'm thinking about buying a car, right? I'm not interested in enlargement or other types of products. Yeah, that you used to see online all of the time. I'm just not interested in those. However, what they're doing now is they're trying to manipulate your decisions. Now. Okay, that makes sense. Should I buy shreddies or something like corn flakes? If shreddies is advertising? Well, that's a Canadian cereal.

Jim Polito
Shreddies, one sec, advert ties with Facebook, they're going to pull up an ad, that's a breakfast cereal, they're going to pay for it.

Craig Peterson
So now Facebook's job is to manipulate you in potentially subtle ways to buy the product of that advertiser. Now, how did they do that? You know, back in the day, if you follow somebody on Facebook, you would see everything that person said. Now what Facebook does is it manipulates what it's showing you. And it's shaping the results "for your benefit." Air quotes around that. In case you're wondering, yeah, and the idea of for your benefit is right, they don't want to waste your time. So they're only going to show you the postings that contain words like Happy birthday, or Congratulations, or little posts that are popular amongst your friends. But they can use psychology, and they do use psychological tricks here to manipulate you into thinking, wow, maybe I should eat some breakfast cereal this morning. And they'll do that by showing you articles, postings and things that are related to products that they're promoting. So they're trying to manipulate your decisions to get you to buy more things to get you to buy things that maybe you wouldn't have bought before. Okay, so that's a fascinating point. So let's move on to Project Veritas. Now, Project Veritas, if you're not familiar with it, this is this guy that runs around, for those that aren't sure what's going on here, and he does undercover reporting. He's the guy that found all kinds of stuff out about Planned Parenthood and selling baby parts. I think everyone's heard that on the news, right? So he had an article that came out that and he brought it up online courses of videos on YouTube, and YouTube almost immediately shut it down. Right. And there's a very intriguing story on the new site called Spinquark (https://www.spinquark.com/) S-P-I-N-Q-U-A-R-K that you might want to check out. And it's looking on LinkedIn. And it has pictures of the pages there on LinkedIn. So if you go to spin, Clark, you'll see it's like the first link on the page. But they went to LinkedIn. And they found who is working for Facebook, who is working for Google, who are the top people in these different companies, and they put up snapshots of the Facebook pages with their names blurred out 31 of these senior people are people who came straight from the Obama campaign. Twenty-five of them from the Clinton campaign. Fifteen of them are former from the DNC. Five of them are directly from Pelosi's office. So we were talking about manipulation, the distillation of results. According to the Los Angeles Times, this just came out last week, and they're talking about a study by a professor in California, who was looking at the search engine manipulation effect. And the ones that he looked at the people he looked at, he had 47,000 searches by dozens of undecided voters in the districts of newly elected democrat reps and Porter router and Levin. And what he found was that there are an estimated 35,500 people's votes. These are voters who are on the fence. They were persuaded to vote for democrats entirely because of the sources that Google sent to them.

Jim Polito
Wow.

Craig Peterson
Now, same things happening with Facebook, you have this many people just very high super high percentage of people working for Facebook working for Google, who came straight from the left-wing politicians who are known to be manipulating search results to favor them who have come out. And some of these people have publicly said that the Trump election was an absolute travesty, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Jim Polito
Did the Project Veritas uncover that Yes, precisely?

Craig Peterson
Now you have an understanding of why someone like Steve Wozniak line like people like me are saying this is and the Los Angeles Times although you know, they've been taking potshots at this, this study. But even the LA Times is saying, hey, people, not only can you be tracked online, they are tracking you online. You are their product, but they are manipulating you. Wow, in every way they possibly can. Okay, so this is a much bigger story than I think most people we're aware of, Jim.

Jim Polito
Look, this story. Other important stories. Did you hear that folks, you can get them from my friend Craig Peterson, even when he's not here? And all you have to do is text My name to this number

Craig Peterson
855-385-5553. That's texting Jim, to 855-385-5553.

Jim Polito
Standard data and text rates apply. But that's it. He won't try to sell you anything you. He won't annoy you. And he will provide you with this kind of information. There are so many things that Craig and I could talk about every week, so much information he gives to me. We don't have the time to do it all. But you can get it all from him. Craig, Thank you. That was fascinating. I appreciate the time, and we'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Hey, take care, Jim. Thanks. Bye, bye.

Craig Peterson
Hey, I reached out to a few of you guys who are on my email list to see if there's something I can help you with help your business with more particularly when it comes to security. So if you haven't responded to that email, please do let me know. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer coming up here in just a couple of weeks. I'm going to make that happen. Keep an eye out on your email for that as well. We're going to go through 24 brass tacks, back to basics getting your business up to a mainstream security standard is what we're starting to call this thing. We might have something there. It covers the things you need to be doing you should be doing, whether you are a CEO, we're going to help you with governance, if you are a home user, what you should be doing in the home. And then also if you're the designated IT person for your business, what you should be doing for the company as well. So we have three different tracks. Keep an eye out. We are working hard on this. All right. Have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow with the WGAN and the interviews happening there. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 07/16/2019

50 years since we landed on the moon. Changes we have seen in technology. Google and Facebook and the whole social media thing and the direct threat to our democracy.

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Craig Peterson
Hey good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. We are in for a hot pot time here northern New England is supposed to get up to 99 degrees this weekend. It's going to be hot. I heard this morning down in Phoenix it's going to be 115, but you know Phoenix it's it is a dry heat. I've got to admit that it's just not as bad. I've been to Phoenix quite a few times, and I think it's not bad at all. Up here, man that humidity supposed to be high. It's going to be uncomfortable. You know, I don't know how to live in Florida or not. Where do you retire? Anyhow, I was on with Mr. Jim Polito. And we spent a little bit of time talking about the moon shot and some of the technology out there. But we delved into some reasons that I bet you may not have heard before, maybe you thought about I don't know you guys are pretty smart about why you might want to read move your Facebook, login, get rid of that account, but Google and everything. This whole social media thing and what's been happening online is a direct threat to our democracy. So here we go with Mr. Jim Polito

Jim Polito
On this anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 to the moon. First man on the moon. I'm sure if he were working, then he would have been right there at the forefront. Joining us now. Our Tech Talk guru and good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning,

Craig Peterson
Sir. Hey, good morning. Oh, that I could have been like goodness, I remember it. So well. Sitting there, watching TV. Oh, man, I was working in my uncle's store selling penny candy. Yeah, for those who aren't aware, candy used to be a penny.

Jim Polito
I remember, we shut the store. Yeah, the whole thing. Wow, son of a gun. I still remember it as a little kid, little boy, and wanting to be an astronaut. Remember, with my brothers and my parents watching it on a black and white TV. And then Teddy Kennedy crashed his car off a bridge and Chappaquiddick. And, you know, he was lucky that they were going to the moon because everybody was paying attention to that instead of him. I remember the day after it was the first time I had ever seen color in the newspaper on the front page

Craig Peterson
Yeah, was a color picture of the moon shot of the moon landing. It was such a time in America. And at the time, I was living the great white North thing. Yeah. And even up there. It was, it was the thing of things. It was just the most incredible thing ever. I don't know that we'll ever have it. If not, then I don't think a Mars landing would have anywhere near the No, no.

Jim Polito
Yeah, no. It was different back then. I mean, technology was reasonable compared to now. And what people expect? No, it would not be as big of a deal. The entire world would never be transfixed as we were then. No, not like we were back then. But back then, you know, guys like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. They were, you know, they had some ideas, and they were smart guys like you. And Steve Wozniak was one of the CO creators of apple. But now he is saying, delete your Facebook account. If you want any online privacy, what's this all about, Craig?

Craig Peterson
Well, this is huge. And I think most people know a little bit about the online privacy for were you mentioned to a friend on Facebook or one of their different platforms, remember, they own that, you know, they have their messenger platform and Oculus, they've got a whole bunch of different platforms. Now, if you mentioned something else, platforms, most people are aware, all of a sudden you start seeing ads for it. And you know, what, what are they trying to do? We've known forever, that Facebook isn't the product. We are the product. They're trying to sell advertising to various vendors out there. I don't think that comes as a surprise to anybody. I think Steve Wozniak had a point about this, too, when you read this particular article from the Daily Mail, remember, this is out of the UK, we don't see this kind of coverage much here in the States. But he says, you know, he's worried about everything. So let's have a look at what's happening. Next year, we've got got a big election coming up. And we've got people who are on the line who are going around, right, talking about the election. But before we get into that, I want to get into one more point about this. How does Facebook make money? The bottom line is they make money, by selling your information to advertisers, so that they can place an ad in front of you. Now, personally, I would prefer to get an advertisement for cars when I'm thinking about buying a car, right? I'm not interested in enlargement or other types of products. Yeah, that you used to see online all of the time. I'm just not interested in those. However, what they're doing now is they're trying to manipulate your decisions. Now. Okay, that makes sense. Should I buy shreddies or something like corn flakes? If shreddies is advertising? Well, that's a Canadian cereal.

Jim Polito
Shreddies, one sec, advert ties with Facebook, they're going to pull up an ad, that's a breakfast cereal, they're going to pay for it.

Craig Peterson
So now Facebook's job is to manipulate you in potentially subtle ways to buy the product of that advertiser. Now, how did they do that? You know, back in the day, if you follow somebody on Facebook, you would see everything that person said. Now what Facebook does is it manipulates what it's showing you. And it's shaping the results "for your benefit." Air quotes around that. In case you're wondering, yeah, and the idea of for your benefit is right, they don't want to waste your time. So they're only going to show you the postings that contain words like Happy birthday, or Congratulations, or little posts that are popular amongst your friends. But they can use psychology, and they do use psychological tricks here to manipulate you into thinking, wow, maybe I should eat some breakfast cereal this morning. And they'll do that by showing you articles, postings and things that are related to products that they're promoting. So they're trying to manipulate your decisions to get you to buy more things to get you to buy things that maybe you wouldn't have bought before. Okay, so that's a fascinating point. So let's move on to Project Veritas. Now, Project Veritas, if you're not familiar with it, this is this guy that runs around, for those that aren't sure what's going on here, and he does undercover reporting. He's the guy that found all kinds of stuff out about Planned Parenthood and selling baby parts. I think everyone's heard that on the news, right? So he had an article that came out that and he brought it up online courses of videos on YouTube, and YouTube almost immediately shut it down. Right. And there's a very intriguing story on the new site called Spinquark (https://www.spinquark.com/) S-P-I-N-Q-U-A-R-K that you might want to check out. And it's looking on LinkedIn. And it has pictures of the pages there on LinkedIn. So if you go to spin, Clark, you'll see it's like the first link on the page. But they went to LinkedIn. And they found who is working for Facebook, who is working for Google, who are the top people in these different companies, and they put up snapshots of the Facebook pages with their names blurred out 31 of these senior people are people who came straight from the Obama campaign. Twenty-five of them from the Clinton campaign. Fifteen of them are former from the DNC. Five of them are directly from Pelosi's office. So we were talking about manipulation, the distillation of results. According to the Los Angeles Times, this just came out last week, and they're talking about a study by a professor in California, who was looking at the search engine manipulation effect. And the ones that he looked at the people he looked at, he had 47,000 searches by dozens of undecided voters in the districts of newly elected democrat reps and Porter router and Levin. And what he found was that there are an estimated 35,500 people's votes. These are voters who are on the fence. They were persuaded to vote for democrats entirely because of the sources that Google sent to them.

Jim Polito
Wow.

Craig Peterson
Now, same things happening with Facebook, you have this many people just very high super high percentage of people working for Facebook working for Google, who came straight from the left-wing politicians who are known to be manipulating search results to favor them who have come out. And some of these people have publicly said that the Trump election was an absolute travesty, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Jim Polito
Did the Project Veritas uncover that Yes, precisely?

Craig Peterson
Now you have an understanding of why someone like Steve Wozniak line like people like me are saying this is and the Los Angeles Times although you know, they've been taking potshots at this, this study. But even the LA Times is saying, hey, people, not only can you be tracked online, they are tracking you online. You are their product, but they are manipulating you. Wow, in every way they possibly can. Okay, so this is a much bigger story than I think most people we're aware of, Jim.

Jim Polito
Look, this story. Other important stories. Did you hear that folks, you can get them from my friend Craig Peterson, even when he's not here? And all you have to do is text My name to this number

Craig Peterson
855-385-5553. That's texting Jim, to 855-385-5553.

Jim Polito
Standard data and text rates apply. But that's it. He won't try to sell you anything you. He won't annoy you. And he will provide you with this kind of information. There are so many things that Craig and I could talk about every week, so much information he gives to me. We don't have the time to do it all. But you can get it all from him. Craig, Thank you. That was fascinating. I appreciate the time, and we'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Hey, take care, Jim. Thanks. Bye, bye.

Craig Peterson
Hey, I reached out to a few of you guys who are on my email list to see if there's something I can help you with help your business with more particularly when it comes to security. So if you haven't responded to that email, please do let me know. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer coming up here in just a couple of weeks. I'm going to make that happen. Keep an eye out on your email for that as well. We're going to go through 24 brass tacks, back to basics getting your business up to a mainstream security standard is what we're starting to call this thing. We might have something there. It covers the things you need to be doing you should be doing, whether you are a CEO, we're going to help you with governance, if you are a home user, what you should be doing in the home. And then also if you're the designated IT person for your business, what you should be doing for the company as well. So we have three different tracks. Keep an eye out. We are working hard on this. All right. Have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow with the WGAN and the interviews happening there. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 07/17/2019

Deep fakes and the future for actors, Why you might want to delete Facebook. and About the new Apple MacBooks.

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Craig
Hello again, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I've been thinking about maybe trying to send out a little survey. I don't know, would you guys respond to it? About what content you really would like to see in my security summer? I may end up doing that. Let me know if you think that'd be a good idea because I'm, I'm looking at what we put together, and it's six weeks, five episodes per week. And should we do that I'm looking out my window here. And there's a deer right outside my window eating the grass in the backyard. They've been eating our flowers, and they got into our tomato plants and ate them all. Right now she's just sitting there eating wagging her tail. The chickens are staring at her. Watching her out there. That is so cool. Anyhow, what topics do you want me to cover in this free security summer summit stuff? Please let me know, and I'll be glad to, to bring you up to date on that. Anyhow, this morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And we got into a couple more things here more about deep fakes. And what is going on? What's the future for actors? And are they going to put these deep fakes humans right out of business? And we talked a little bit more to about deleting Facebook, and I even came up with a couple more reasons to get rid of some of these things and stop using Google and stuff. I don't know. I don't think I'll ever completely stop. But anyway, here we go.

Matt Gagnon
It's that time yet again, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesday at 738 means it is time for a technology update from Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, a friend of the show, and he joins us now Craig, how are you?

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning doing well but I am not looking forward to these high temperatures

Ken Altshuler
From Oklahoma. That's the difference between you and me, Craig?

Ken Altshuler
Yeah. I was going to ask you about the MacBook Pros. Once again, I have to bring my computer into Apple to fix the T key that fell off. But rather than that, I want to talk about Steve Wozniak first, who, of course, one of the Apple founders, who is saying, and I'm shocked by this, he says, You should delete Facebook. I can't believe he suggests that.

Craig Peterson
Exactly. Well, you know, we've heard so many reasons to remove Facebook right to delete your account to destroy all of that information. And most of them have to do with privacy. And you know, it's a legitimate argument. But it also sucks.

Matt Gagnon
FaceTime, or what is it that you call my face? Face my face by my face? Yeah, my face,

Ken Altshuler
Face, my face, face,

Craig Peterson
Face to face. There you go, My space. One of the big reasons for this something that I'm sure Matt knows about it. We've had some fascinating revelations that came from Project Veritas. These are guys going to go and do these interviews with people and they tape them without anybody's knowledge, and then they report on it. Well, there is a huge deal going on right now when you are talking about Facebook and Google. And remember, Facebook isn't just Facebook anymore. Now they've got a bunch of different platforms that people are using to communicate. But the real big deal has to do with the manipulation that's going on. There's a new site up right now called Spinquark (https://news.spinquark.com/), you might want to check it out. And the first link there on their homepage takes you to a fascinating article. And what these guys did is they went online to LinkedIn. And they searched around LinkedIn for the senior people on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Were talking about the upper-level managers, directors, etc. And what they found was in all of these companies, of the predominance of them were left-wing, I mean, really left-wing. They found 31 people who were senior people in the Obama campaign and administration, who were all senior managers of these social media companies. 25, associated directly with the Clinton administration, and the Clinton Foundation. 16, who came straight out of the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, and five who worked directly for Speaker Pelosi. When you're talking about people like this, who are involved in very high levels on everything from who should be censored, what should be censored, and what can be said. Then have some of these people coming out directly saying that we cannot allow a mistake like President Trump to occur again. We must do everything we can to stop it from happening again. The Los Angeles Times is even reporting on this right now. Although it came out a few months ago. There was a psychiatrist out there in San Diego, who had done a bunch of research, he looked at several people 47,000 searches that were done by undecided voters. And he looked at three specific newly elected democrat reps from 2018, Porter, Rouda and Levin. He looked at the searches that were done in their districts to try and figure out is there a tie? And if these conservative people had a point. His research found that based on their searches about 35,500 undecided voters or who were on the fence could be persuaded to vote for democrats. How? Entirely due to the "news" that they saw on their feeds from these social media and news sites. We've got to think when we're thinking about a Facebook account, or even at Google, where we're doing searches about things from poisonings search results, which can be kind of fun sometimes to do. So what will happen is someone's searching for something, then you can manipulate the search engine to give them a different result. And maybe it should carry through a Facebook. So for instance, when you first got your Facebook account, and you followed someone, you imitate the celebrity, you would get all of their posts and your feed. And then what Facebook did is they said, Hey, listen, you know this is a little much, we should probably give them information we think they might interest them. If someone mentions a birthday or Congratulations, those are more likely to show up in your Facebook feed, then anything else, frankly. If they are friends of yours and are sharing something more likely to show up in your feed. But now it's come out just this past week, that, in fact, for part of what they're doing is they are purposely manipulating your feed to sway you. Now, when we're talking about influencing you to remember how these guys make money, they make money through advertising, they make money by selling things. So if they have an advertiser that's selling something that you might not otherwise be interested in, show you that end. But it turns out that there may be a lot more manipulation going on, then we thought, and they might even be trying to get you to do into a whole new category of products. Or in this case, also the Los Angeles Times reported. And this is professor, author of algorithms of oppression, how search engines reinforce racism, how they are using their power, by being such big powerhouses in the social media search spaces, to manipulate undecided people. That's what this particular study was about, into voting for the Democrats. So fascinating stuff, you know, because you, you get information from every direction. And nowadays where we've got these photorealistic videos, where they're pasting people's faces, other people's faces on to other people's bodies, etc. And it's hard to tell, how can you know what's right or wrong? You have to listen to Ken, Matt, and Craig. Mm-hmm.

Ken Altshuler
All right, we're on with Craig Peterson the tech guru joins us periodically. Now let's talk about MacBook Pro. Shall we buy new ones or are they're not changing. The keys now are that you just you're never going to give up the key thing? I'm not, and it is unbelievably irritating to me. Yes.

Craig Peterson
They are. The latest rumors are they're going to whole new design. They're getting rid of the butterfly design entirely. After three iterations, I think it has been event butterfly keyboard design, that has been a disaster, they are going to be switching. And what it does mean is a slightly thicker computer. I think it's like a few millimeters thicker. Like who cares, right, two or three millimeters, it's going to be slightly thicker. To use different technology, they're not going to go back to the old Chiclets designs, which I kind of like, but they are going to change it. So can you can about time rest easy. Yeah, this is a rumor. You don't know this, the Chinese manufacturers that all of a sudden cancel. So other keyboard orders because they got a large order from some Unknown, Unknown manufacturer. It's all tied back to Apple. But they did do a couple of significant changes here recently in the Mac Book line just within the last two weeks. And those do not have these significant changes yet, so we should be seeing them come this fall.

Matt Gagnon
We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, I have to ask you about one of the more interesting stories here in your rundown about the future of acting because you see increasingly in a lot of movies. Actors do age to look sort of kind of like they used to 20 years ago you're seeing dead people come back into movies. Well, exactly. I mean, you got the new Star Wars movie coming out later this year the test her, and she's dead. And you had the guy from the very first Star Wars movie, who was put into the last the Rogue One Star Wars movie there. There are holograms of dead people like singing with people in Vegas. You know, there's just crazy stuff happening. I guess the question comes down to this. Will we even need actors anymore in the future or work everywhere? Can we can we can produce? It is, you know, fake or digitally created person to act for us and the future?

Craig Peterson
Do you remember the movie, Simone? Did you see that with Al Pacino?

Matt Gagnon
I did see that movie, believe it or not?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, it's spelled S-I-M-O-N-E. Exciting movie because it's taking this on head-on. And what happens in this movie, it just the basic I'm not going to give it away here even right on what writers in this movie. But it's an artificially created actress. And you have someone who is still voicing that who's always talking who's again doing the acting. That's our next step. You even will have an actor like the terrible job they did with Carrie Fisher phase in Rogue One was awful.

Matt Gagnon
Targeting grandma off-target was not that great either. That way. There's that uncanny valley thing where it's like, and you could tell Something's Weird About It. You know, even though it sort of looks real. It looks a little rubbery or something. Something's messed up with it. Like they're not quite there yet. They're closed, but they're not

Ken Altshuler
All the way scar.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, it'll be about five to 10 years. And here's why it's going to take a little while. Our brains are excellent at being able to tell the difference between phasers, and you know, you think about it, and how can we tell you two apart? You guys look identical? No, we do.

Ken Altshuler
We like twins.

Craig Peterson
It's like twins, and it's like five years different. You know, you could argue it. So how can we tell people apart? Well, because our brains have become very, very good at recognizing faces and, and flaws. So anything that shows even a little wrong, you look at like if you look at somebody get plastic surgery, most of the time, you can say oh my god, they need to see a new person plastic surgeon is you can tell. So it's going to be a while yet before we get to this. We've got the further live interaction with Dumbo. And with the Lion King, that's coming out with some animation. CGI, this computer-generated stuff is excellent. When there's not a human face a real human face involved. Stylized, it's very acceptable. For instance, a leader I don't know if you saw that latest movie, where again, it's computer-generated, but it looks computer-generated. Yeah, they made the eyes big and stuff to say, yeah, yeah. So that you don't catch it. How long man, it's not going to be very long, frankly, we're going to be able to with within five years, we'll see this being relatively commonplace. And within ten years, only the best the biggest blockbusters are going to have real people, you know, in every role in there. Because there are some things that humans can't do, even if they have a stunt double. And you will be able to do with science fiction and stuff with some of these fake actors here. Frankly, I think it's kind of cool. I think it's kind of scary. You know, I think we've talked before a little bit about the risks to our security. When it comes to this. We've already got new emails coming in telling the CFO to send money to some vendor that isn't a real vendor, and they're trying to scam us right with phishing attacks. Artificial Intelligence is going to get more involved with this. That's going to improve it dramatically. That's why I say in five to 10 years. I think most actors and actresses are not going to be able to have a job doing that anymore. Voice actors probably sell for a while, but even that's going to go away.

Matt Gagnon
Well, considering the Emmy nominations and probably wouldn't be any significant loss anyway. Craig Peterson Tech guru joins us every Wednesday. 738. Thank you, Craig. We'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Hey, gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye.

Ken Altshuler
Alright, so we're going to go to a quick break here. When we come back.

Craig Peterson
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Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning we talked about Deep fakes and the future for actors, Why you might want to delete Facebook. and About the new Apple MacBooks.

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Airing date: 07/17/2019

Deep fakes and the future for actors, Why you might want to delete Facebook. and About the new Apple MacBooks.

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Craig
Hello again, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I've been thinking about maybe trying to send out a little survey. I don't know, would you guys respond to it? About what content you really would like to see in my security summer? I may end up doing that. Let me know if you think that'd be a good idea because I'm, I'm looking at what we put together, and it's six weeks, five episodes per week. And should we do that I'm looking out my window here. And there's a deer right outside my window eating the grass in the backyard. They've been eating our flowers, and they got into our tomato plants and ate them all. Right now she's just sitting there eating wagging her tail. The chickens are staring at her. Watching her out there. That is so cool. Anyhow, what topics do you want me to cover in this free security summer summit stuff? Please let me know, and I'll be glad to, to bring you up to date on that. Anyhow, this morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And we got into a couple more things here more about deep fakes. And what is going on? What's the future for actors? And are they going to put these deep fakes humans right out of business? And we talked a little bit more to about deleting Facebook, and I even came up with a couple more reasons to get rid of some of these things and stop using Google and stuff. I don't know. I don't think I'll ever completely stop. But anyway, here we go.

Matt Gagnon
It's that time yet again, ladies and gentlemen, Wednesday at 738 means it is time for a technology update from Craig Peterson tech guru extraordinaire, a friend of the show, and he joins us now Craig, how are you?

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning doing well but I am not looking forward to these high temperatures

Ken Altshuler
From Oklahoma. That's the difference between you and me, Craig?

Ken Altshuler
Yeah. I was going to ask you about the MacBook Pros. Once again, I have to bring my computer into Apple to fix the T key that fell off. But rather than that, I want to talk about Steve Wozniak first, who, of course, one of the Apple founders, who is saying, and I'm shocked by this, he says, You should delete Facebook. I can't believe he suggests that.

Craig Peterson
Exactly. Well, you know, we've heard so many reasons to remove Facebook right to delete your account to destroy all of that information. And most of them have to do with privacy. And you know, it's a legitimate argument. But it also sucks.

Matt Gagnon
FaceTime, or what is it that you call my face? Face my face by my face? Yeah, my face,

Ken Altshuler
Face, my face, face,

Craig Peterson
Face to face. There you go, My space. One of the big reasons for this something that I'm sure Matt knows about it. We've had some fascinating revelations that came from Project Veritas. These are guys going to go and do these interviews with people and they tape them without anybody's knowledge, and then they report on it. Well, there is a huge deal going on right now when you are talking about Facebook and Google. And remember, Facebook isn't just Facebook anymore. Now they've got a bunch of different platforms that people are using to communicate. But the real big deal has to do with the manipulation that's going on. There's a new site up right now called Spinquark (https://news.spinquark.com/), you might want to check it out. And the first link there on their homepage takes you to a fascinating article. And what these guys did is they went online to LinkedIn. And they searched around LinkedIn for the senior people on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. Were talking about the upper-level managers, directors, etc. And what they found was in all of these companies, of the predominance of them were left-wing, I mean, really left-wing. They found 31 people who were senior people in the Obama campaign and administration, who were all senior managers of these social media companies. 25, associated directly with the Clinton administration, and the Clinton Foundation. 16, who came straight out of the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, and five who worked directly for Speaker Pelosi. When you're talking about people like this, who are involved in very high levels on everything from who should be censored, what should be censored, and what can be said. Then have some of these people coming out directly saying that we cannot allow a mistake like President Trump to occur again. We must do everything we can to stop it from happening again. The Los Angeles Times is even reporting on this right now. Although it came out a few months ago. There was a psychiatrist out there in San Diego, who had done a bunch of research, he looked at several people 47,000 searches that were done by undecided voters. And he looked at three specific newly elected democrat reps from 2018, Porter, Rouda and Levin. He looked at the searches that were done in their districts to try and figure out is there a tie? And if these conservative people had a point. His research found that based on their searches about 35,500 undecided voters or who were on the fence could be persuaded to vote for democrats. How? Entirely due to the "news" that they saw on their feeds from these social media and news sites. We've got to think when we're thinking about a Facebook account, or even at Google, where we're doing searches about things from poisonings search results, which can be kind of fun sometimes to do. So what will happen is someone's searching for something, then you can manipulate the search engine to give them a different result. And maybe it should carry through a Facebook. So for instance, when you first got your Facebook account, and you followed someone, you imitate the celebrity, you would get all of their posts and your feed. And then what Facebook did is they said, Hey, listen, you know this is a little much, we should probably give them information we think they might interest them. If someone mentions a birthday or Congratulations, those are more likely to show up in your Facebook feed, then anything else, frankly. If they are friends of yours and are sharing something more likely to show up in your feed. But now it's come out just this past week, that, in fact, for part of what they're doing is they are purposely manipulating your feed to sway you. Now, when we're talking about influencing you to remember how these guys make money, they make money through advertising, they make money by selling things. So if they have an advertiser that's selling something that you might not otherwise be interested in, show you that end. But it turns out that there may be a lot more manipulation going on, then we thought, and they might even be trying to get you to do into a whole new category of products. Or in this case, also the Los Angeles Times reported. And this is professor, author of algorithms of oppression, how search engines reinforce racism, how they are using their power, by being such big powerhouses in the social media search spaces, to manipulate undecided people. That's what this particular study was about, into voting for the Democrats. So fascinating stuff, you know, because you, you get information from every direction. And nowadays where we've got these photorealistic videos, where they're pasting people's faces, other people's faces on to other people's bodies, etc. And it's hard to tell, how can you know what's right or wrong? You have to listen to Ken, Matt, and Craig. Mm-hmm.

Ken Altshuler
All right, we're on with Craig Peterson the tech guru joins us periodically. Now let's talk about MacBook Pro. Shall we buy new ones or are they're not changing. The keys now are that you just you're never going to give up the key thing? I'm not, and it is unbelievably irritating to me. Yes.

Craig Peterson
They are. The latest rumors are they're going to whole new design. They're getting rid of the butterfly design entirely. After three iterations, I think it has been event butterfly keyboard design, that has been a disaster, they are going to be switching. And what it does mean is a slightly thicker computer. I think it's like a few millimeters thicker. Like who cares, right, two or three millimeters, it's going to be slightly thicker. To use different technology, they're not going to go back to the old Chiclets designs, which I kind of like, but they are going to change it. So can you can about time rest easy. Yeah, this is a rumor. You don't know this, the Chinese manufacturers that all of a sudden cancel. So other keyboard orders because they got a large order from some Unknown, Unknown manufacturer. It's all tied back to Apple. But they did do a couple of significant changes here recently in the Mac Book line just within the last two weeks. And those do not have these significant changes yet, so we should be seeing them come this fall.

Matt Gagnon
We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us at this time every Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, I have to ask you about one of the more interesting stories here in your rundown about the future of acting because you see increasingly in a lot of movies. Actors do age to look sort of kind of like they used to 20 years ago you're seeing dead people come back into movies. Well, exactly. I mean, you got the new Star Wars movie coming out later this year the test her, and she's dead. And you had the guy from the very first Star Wars movie, who was put into the last the Rogue One Star Wars movie there. There are holograms of dead people like singing with people in Vegas. You know, there's just crazy stuff happening. I guess the question comes down to this. Will we even need actors anymore in the future or work everywhere? Can we can we can produce? It is, you know, fake or digitally created person to act for us and the future?

Craig Peterson
Do you remember the movie, Simone? Did you see that with Al Pacino?

Matt Gagnon
I did see that movie, believe it or not?

Craig Peterson
Yeah, it's spelled S-I-M-O-N-E. Exciting movie because it's taking this on head-on. And what happens in this movie, it just the basic I'm not going to give it away here even right on what writers in this movie. But it's an artificially created actress. And you have someone who is still voicing that who's always talking who's again doing the acting. That's our next step. You even will have an actor like the terrible job they did with Carrie Fisher phase in Rogue One was awful.

Matt Gagnon
Targeting grandma off-target was not that great either. That way. There's that uncanny valley thing where it's like, and you could tell Something's Weird About It. You know, even though it sort of looks real. It looks a little rubbery or something. Something's messed up with it. Like they're not quite there yet. They're closed, but they're not

Ken Altshuler
All the way scar.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, it'll be about five to 10 years. And here's why it's going to take a little while. Our brains are excellent at being able to tell the difference between phasers, and you know, you think about it, and how can we tell you two apart? You guys look identical? No, we do.

Ken Altshuler
We like twins.

Craig Peterson
It's like twins, and it's like five years different. You know, you could argue it. So how can we tell people apart? Well, because our brains have become very, very good at recognizing faces and, and flaws. So anything that shows even a little wrong, you look at like if you look at somebody get plastic surgery, most of the time, you can say oh my god, they need to see a new person plastic surgeon is you can tell. So it's going to be a while yet before we get to this. We've got the further live interaction with Dumbo. And with the Lion King, that's coming out with some animation. CGI, this computer-generated stuff is excellent. When there's not a human face a real human face involved. Stylized, it's very acceptable. For instance, a leader I don't know if you saw that latest movie, where again, it's computer-generated, but it looks computer-generated. Yeah, they made the eyes big and stuff to say, yeah, yeah. So that you don't catch it. How long man, it's not going to be very long, frankly, we're going to be able to with within five years, we'll see this being relatively commonplace. And within ten years, only the best the biggest blockbusters are going to have real people, you know, in every role in there. Because there are some things that humans can't do, even if they have a stunt double. And you will be able to do with science fiction and stuff with some of these fake actors here. Frankly, I think it's kind of cool. I think it's kind of scary. You know, I think we've talked before a little bit about the risks to our security. When it comes to this. We've already got new emails coming in telling the CFO to send money to some vendor that isn't a real vendor, and they're trying to scam us right with phishing attacks. Artificial Intelligence is going to get more involved with this. That's going to improve it dramatically. That's why I say in five to 10 years. I think most actors and actresses are not going to be able to have a job doing that anymore. Voice actors probably sell for a while, but even that's going to go away.

Matt Gagnon
Well, considering the Emmy nominations and probably wouldn't be any significant loss anyway. Craig Peterson Tech guru joins us every Wednesday. 738. Thank you, Craig. We'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Hey, gentlemen, take care. Bye-bye.

Ken Altshuler
Alright, so we're going to go to a quick break here. When we come back.

Craig Peterson
If you do have suggestions on topics you want me to cover in this security summer, email me at Craig Peterson dot com. That's me at Craig Peterson dot com. All right, everybody. Take care.

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There was massive, colossal third party hack this week.

Zoom and a considerable security problem tied into a problem they're having in France right now. If you use Zoom on a Mac, listen up.

Congress that requires the federal government to remove some of these security cameras. I will tell you why it's almost impossible to remove these things.

Apple this week made some changes to the Mac books. They discontinued the MacBook itself.

I am planning a Security Summer for my listeners.  I will have some free courses.  I will also introduce you to some of the software that I use for my clients and how you can use it too.  Also, I have some limited opportunities for businesses who have had enough with their security issues to work with me and my team and put their security problems to rest once and for all.   So watch out for announcements on those.

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Airing date: 07/13/2019

A massive, colossal third party hack this week. Zoom security problem. Congress that requires removal of Chinese made security cameras. Apple changes their Mac books.   

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Hey, everybody, welcome. Craig Peterson here, hope you're having a great day. There is a ton to cover today. I'm going to kind of talk a fair amount about something I think is essential. Everybody we've got had a massive, colossal hack this week. But you weren't hacked. But your business wasn't hacked. But there was a third party breach. And this is going to affect many companies in a significant way. So we're going to tell you how to avoid having that happen to you in the future. Exactly what's going on there. Today, we also going to talk about Zoom and a considerable security problem tied into a problem they're having in France right now. If you use Zoom on a Mac, listen up. There is a huge battle going on right now behind the scenes. That's what happened in France to not zoom, but they did the Bank of China. Man, we talked about them before. There was a bill passed in Congress that requires the federal government to remove some of these security cameras. I will tell you why it's almost impossible to remove these things. If you have security cameras, man, oh, man, we have seen those be a huge problem. It's called a launch point for attacks. It's just crazy. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Apple this week made some changes to the Mac books. They discontinued the MacBook itself. So they now have some very cool MacBook Air models and some MacBook Pro models. A lot of people ask me, and this is probably the biggest question I get from people when it's talking about Apple. Especially for those who have not used this platform before. Is it worth it? Well, I think it is, is frankly, they cost a little bit more, upfront. But when you add up the prices, the cost, they're cheaper, they're a lot cheaper, I typically expect a MacBook Pro to last me eight years, maybe 10 we've had in the last 10 or 11 years before, but an eight-year life versus your average laptop, which is two or three years over on the windows side. So I do think it's worth it. Plus, the machines tend to work a lot better, they're smoother, they are less likely to be attacked, and they have a more secure operating system. Although I have to hand it to Microsoft's new CEO, he is pulling up the socks over there, Microsoft on many, many fronts. While I am not an investor, I can say it's finally a company I would consider investing in as they've done some fantastic things.

Apple has made some changes with these Macbooks that they announced this week. And that's an excellent thing. But the 12 inch MacBook is gone. Now. Remember, when they introduced the MacBook years ago, those little plastic ones, which I liked, I had one used one that was quite cute. I think you might like them. There has been a lot in the news over the last few weeks about Amazon listening in. And obviously, you don't want anybody listening to conversations. And you probably already know my opinion on this. But here's the bottom line for those that haven't heard it before. Yes, the Amazon devices, the Google devices, etc. Yes, they can listen, and they have to. But I know with Amazon with their echoes, they've got the hardware setup in such a way that if they're turning on the microphone to send data to record, that little light bar has to come on, they haven't checked it lately, I probably should. But the hardware was designed so that if it's captured audio that light bars on so other than listening for its name, you know, the wakeup word that you would use, it's not capturing anything, it's not sending it up to the cloud. And we've seen court cases a murder cases where they subpoenaed the records, and they wanted to listen in on the conversation that happened just before the murder. And of course, it was not recording it. So there was no conversation that they could playback. And there's nothing they could use in the court case. Now, if you're very, very paranoid, and I know a lot of people that are, and I am on the Paranoid side by myself, you probably don't want to have one of these things. Now I do have them because I want to understand how it works. I found them to be convenient. I use it, frankly, kind of sparingly. But that's what's happening with the Amazon Echo devices, these personal assistants. Now, Google has hit the news just this week, revealing that Google was sharing recordings of people's commands with third parties. Now, in this case, the third parties were developers, software developers, and frankly, you've got to expect them to have access to your, you know, recordings, right? You hopefully aren't thinking that if you ask Alexa or Amazon, Google Home, whatever it is, if you ask them a question, hopefully, you do not think that it's never recorded and never kept because they are. And Amazon keeps the recordings of your voice forever. And unless you go in and manually delete them, and there's some you can't delete, etc. So don't ask stupid questions that you might regret later on. So Google's getting the heat now because some of these Google Home device recordings ended up in the hands of third-party contractors subcontractors to Google now is that much different than having them in the hands of Google employees? Hard to say, I guess you could certainly argue that, once it's out of Google's hands, they don't have access to or control over the data. And because of that, a could be a bad thing, right. And I get that I do get that because hopefully, Google has perfect security. And for everything we've seen, they probably do have some excellent security. But who knows about the subcontractors. Now, that's the bottom line there. So it was disclosed that I think it was like 1000 or so I'm sure the numbers will change over time. But some of these recordings are in the hands of contractors. And so I think the media is frankly, blowing it up here. I'm not going to blow this one up. Because, again, I think if you're asking the electronic assistant to do something for you, you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You know, there's some expectation of privacy. But how often are these devices hacked and everything right? It's just, and it's a constant thing. So you know, don't expect your data to be kept safe. Next up, we talked about deep fakes before. And I saw this, and I was so disappointed. Did you see Star Wars Rogue One, this isn't 2016 Rogue One, A Star Wars story, I thought the story was rather good. It didn't have a whole ton of tie ins. You know, there's like, there's not a fork that I can see that they're planning on running with off of Rogue One. Maybe they are, frankly, you know, early rebellion type things. But in that movie, there was a terrible version of a young Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia. And that actress, there was an actress obviously, that they used her face. And they tried to make it look like Carrie Fisher, and they did a terrible job. But Today, even this was back in 2016. Today, you can do a better job than they the Lucas Films did. Right now with your reasonably high-end home computer. And the question again has come up in this age where we have deep fakes, where we've got Mark Zuckerberg faked online, we've got porn, which they have faked where they're putting some famous actresses face on someone else's body in a porn shoot. How can you tell what's real? And I have talked before about how this could be a huge problem. When it comes to politics. Think about the things that you could have a politician say because it's not the politician that saying that you look at some of the things President Trump says and you kind of roll your eyes. Why would you even say something like that? Right? And you know, this is separate from his policies. But if you have a deep thing that comes out that looks like the person that sounds like something they might say, how can you tell if it's real? And then let's move on to the next step. Remember, Ronald Reagan with the open mic, a lot different than President Obama's open mic where he said, you know, tell Vlad, I'll have more flexibility after the election, right, when he was cooperating with the Russians, and they were colluding together. So, you know, not the President Obama thing, but the open mic with President Reagan, where he was saying, Hey, listen, the bottom line, well, I'm trying to remember the exact quote, but the missiles on Moscow will start falling in five minutes or something like that, I can't remember what it was. And it freaked out the Russians. And some people attribute that to kind of the death nail for the great Soviet Empire. Big all of a sudden now, you know, they couldn't feed their people, they didn't have items on the shelves, it was a socialist system. And as usual, it was failing. And they now figured they had to escalate the arms race and do so much more, because of what President Reagan said. So now fast forward to now, maybe next year and election year, what will happen if they deep fake President Trump saying something that is going to get Iran all up in arms, right, as though there's not enough tension already? Or maybe Russia or China or you name it? How about just one of our good trading partners, Great Britain, or Canada or Mexico? What's going to happen, then? There's, I think, the biggest potential problem with deep fakes because what that means is we are potentially going to see wars started, maybe not between the US and other countries, but maybe between smaller countries, maybe between politicians, right? We already know politicians are out there saying things that are just outrages, taking stuff completely out of context. And even worse, fabricating stuff. So what happens when they can do this and make it look like their opponent set it? Huge, right, huge deal? Well, now the Actors Guild and the actors are starting to get a little bit concerned, because of the potential of these virtual acting stars. Look at what Disney has done lately with Dumbo and the Lion King, where they're pulling the real world in with CGI along with animation. And so much of it is just so seamless. It's amazing. Not that you can't tell that Dumbo isn't a real elephant. Or some of these other characters are actors aren't real, but that's going to change, and that's going to change very, very quickly. So it's going to get to the point where they could hire an actor or actress to act in something. And it's just an, a, b, or c actor. It could be almost anybody off of the street. Now they have to be able to do a little bit of acting; obviously, their facial expressions have to be good, and they have to match. But let's look at the voiceover industry that used to be in cartoons. We had Mel Blanc who was doing all of those things for Warner Brothers, but in cartoons and voiceovers for commercials. You had professional voiceover actors who did a great job. And then it changed a little bit, and Robin Williams was upset because one of the things he did not want to happen has happened he did the voice of the genie in a Latin your remember that I'm sure he did a great job. He improvised the line. Robin Williams had expressed at the time that he did not want the whole voiceover community to be hurt by this he didn't want it to switch to having brand name actors doing voiceovers, you know, doing the comedy sketches basically in the middle of movies. And of course, that's what ended up happening. That the community now has moved from just a straight-up professional voice actor to now, we have regular actors doing commercials and voiceovers, etc. Some of you know it's one thing if they're they're the face of a brand it's another if it's just a straight-up voiceover. So what's going to happen here with the next step, the next evolution in this which will be having voiceover type talent, having an instant? Is it going to be the reverse right? Instead of paying an actress like Carrie Fisher who's passed now button, you know A, B or an A actor to do a scene, they can now come up with a new creative face.

That is just the most beautiful face ever most handsome face has the exact attributes they want. Maybe it's the evilness looking face, and, and create that character that they can use throughout a series like Avengers. Look at we've lost Tony Stark now, in from the Avengers series. And according to what I've been reading, they lost the actor. There are two or three actors that are gone now. Because they wanted too much money to do new movies. And I get it from the actor's standpoint. And you know, you don't want to be typecast, etc. You help build that brand. But when the brand is 100% copyrightable, where they created the face, they created the voice with the work of, let's say, a voice actor or someone else. And they now absolutely own it, then what's going to happen? Very interesting. I think that if you're a waitress, I mean, an actress in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, you might want to think twice about this. Now, we see right now a resurgence of need for actors, actresses, because we have everybody producing content, which is, by the way, going to drive up the cost, you thought streaming was going to save you money over the cable TV, not so much. Because what's going to happen here shortly is as CBS, NBC, and Netflix and Hulu, and Disney and even Comcast compete for the eyeballs, they're going to be creating more content. And that means they're going to be raising their prices. So instead of just subscribing to maybe Netflix and Hulu. Now you're going to have Netflix, Hulu, HBO, NBC CBS, ABC, Fox and each one of those is going to be 10 or 20 bucks a month. So the costs are going to go way, way up. So that's the next evolution in that. But ultimately, within ten years, this technology is going to be cheap. And I don't think we're going to need the actors anywhere near what we need Today. The salaries that they are demanding 10's of millions of dollars to do one movie and these days are going to end. You might even remember, Industrial Light and Magic ILM, and they came out of nowhere from the Star Wars universe. And now they're in every major motion picture. You're going to get studios, like an ILM, that develop a character with a backstory and stuff. The primary thing is a character with some flaws one we can love, one that we like listen to and watch. There will be a voice and video, you know, an entire visual presentation and the whole world will change. It's going to change in a big way. Okay, so next up of with let's get into the big news of this week. You're listening, of course to Craig Peterson, make sure you get the weekly updates I had I just got in a shout out again to Sue hopefully you're listening. Today I met with Sue this week, she had sent in a request we did a cyber health assessment, and we're doing some more stuff for her now. We're doing a deeper dive, and we found some stuff that is not only questionable but negative. So shout out to her. We also had a comment this week. And I want to thank James for this one. And this is where he said hey, thanks, Craig. If I hadn't been on your email list, I would not have known about this vulnerability, and he patched it because, of course, I gave instructions on it. So if you want to know more if you want to make sure that you can get the right patches at the right time make sure you visit my website Craig Peterson calm and are right there on the top of I think pretty much every page now. You are going to find a sign up to sign up for my email list. I believe me I don't scam you spam you anything else. Not like one of these marketers is sending you two pieces of email a day. I keep it minimal, absolutely minimal. So Craig Peterson calm. Okay, next up. So this last week, it came out that there was a breach of a US-based cloud solution provider. Now here's how this affects you and your business. This company, called PCM, is generating 2.2 billion dollars in revenue. They've got more than 2000 customers; each of them is a business. It is an article from Security Affairs. The sources say PCs discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. Those sources say the attacker stole administrative can credentials that PCM uses to manage client accounts within Office 365 a cloud-based filed an email sharing service run by Microsoft now that came originally from Krebs. Krebs on security is a great site, by-the-way, you should check it out. Krebs is speculating that the intruders could be the same that hack the Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro this year. It is fascinating because again, this is further proof that outsourcing your IT outsourcing your cloud management does not make you safe. Very, very big deal. Now, I have to tie something else into this because I think that these two may be related. Microsoft Corp. Now, of course, this is the company that makes office 365. We use Office 365 for a lot of our clients. It depends on their size and specific requirements, and we also host email servers for some of our clients. We use Office 365, before other of our clients, and Microsoft themselves even says, Hey, listen, we're not guaranteeing you any security, we're not guaranteeing you any good filtering for your emails, we're not guaranteeing that your data will be safe if you put it on the Microsoft Cloud. We're not even guaranteeing that your data will be there next week. Because we don't back it up for you, you have to do all of this. So most businesses that I've talked to aren't aware of any of these things. There are huge deficiencies in the O365. But what's Microsoft going to do? Well, especially at the price points they sell it for, they there isn't a margin in it for them. To fix this, Microsoft uses companies like mine and many other companies, not like mine, to resell their office 365. And what Microsoft's thinking was or is, is that we have Mainstream, we have Craig company, authorized to sell, install, help their clients use Office 365 features, right, and so now people using Microsoft Teams, and they're using the Microsoft email and outlook and they've got word and you know, whole office suite and everything. And it's a wonderful thing. But I am as the provider, and I am now the master administrator for my clients. And as a Master administrator, I can create new users for them, and I can take them off, I can add specific licenses. If someone wants to use this particular Microsoft product, but other people don't need it. And they pay by the month and based on what the usages. I can reset the passwords, and I can check the security logs, right? I can do all of this stuff is basically a super administrator for their service, then this is great for Microsoft because now that if someone calls them up and tries to scam them saying, Yeah, I'm on the CEO of IBM, and I want access to my account, I lost my password, reset it for me What? Okay, what do you change it to, right? So someone calling Microsoft, it's going to be hard to validate who they are. But somebody's calling Mainstream. I know who the customers are, right? My people know, we know their voices because we were a small company. We're a family company, yet we have other people that are members of my family. But we're a small company that cares about and works with the clients. So a client calls me and says, Hi, I'm president of x, y, z Corp. We know if they are not right, we know what they do. Typically, we're not going to give away figures out their store to someone that is faking it. So from Microsoft standpoint, it's great because they don't get those calls, they don't have the liability that goes along with it that we have, which is why we provide a million dollars worth of insurance underwritten by Lloyds of London, I think that's an important thing for security for businesses. So if they do get hacked, or something happens, you know, there is coverage, and then we also have that kind of coverage. But anyhow, Microsoft doesn't want all that liability, and they would need a million-dollar, they probably need 100 million dollars. they probably self insure they have plenty of cash. It is a fascinating business model.

Now, a lot of people out there a lot of businesses who were brake fixed shops have said oh, well, you know, we can make more money, recurring monthly revenue or a monthly recurring revenue by selling office 365. Because we'll earn $5 a month, per account, you know, five bucks a month. Are you kidding me? That's, it's hardly worth billing for $5 a month if you're a small company. The collections of follow up, you have to make a phone call because I didn't pay it. But you have the check processing fee from your bank all of this stuff. How's it? How's it worth it? It's not. So what you have to do is you have to bundle it as a service offering so they can call if they have problems and we take care of things. But these other companies, unlike Mainstream, who are out there not I'm not saying every company like this. But these different companies, what do they know about security? What do they know about the in-depth stuff? Right? I've been doing it now I hate to admit this, but for 45 years? Me personally, okay, then when you add in all of the time from all the people working with me, and we're well past the century mark. So there's a huge difference. But how do you know? So a lot of people, we just lost a client. Because of this, though, they'll go out. And they will say how much for we need 500 email boxes are 50 email boxes, how much do you want to charge how much you charge for that. And so we'll quote it, but we don't just quote as email box, because we know we're going to have to do support, we're going to have to back up those email boxes, we're probably going to want to run their email through our high-end filter, before we send it to Microsoft, because Microsoft's email filters are nowhere near as useful. We're going to want to do all of this stuff. And backup restore, we're going to have to account maintenance and everything. And so they say, oh, wow, well, this guy wants like a 10th of what you want, and you know, the answer is, yeah, they're not doing anything near what we're doing. And you're going to get stung. And in fact, this client did this once before, and another product and they got hurt, badly. Okay, so you've, you've got to watch that it is a huge deal that you do not want to get involved with, you know, it's just crazy. So now, this is how this all ties in this breach at PCM. They lost all the administrative credentials for their 2000 business clients. Now, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication for their cloud solution providers. And these are the guys that help companies manage their office 365 accounts to see what's going on here. It sounds like PCM, a $2.2 billion-dollar company was not keeping their clients record safe. That is huge. Now we use multifactor authentication for everything we possibly can we go further than that. And we use these little keys that are encryption keys that we have to put into the devices to even be able to log in. If you remove that key, that physical key, the system shuts off, all access is blocked.

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Airing date: 07/13/2019

A massive, colossal third party hack this week. Zoom security problem. Congress that requires removal of Chinese made security cameras. Apple changes their Mac books.   

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Hey, everybody, welcome. Craig Peterson here, hope you're having a great day. There is a ton to cover today. I'm going to kind of talk a fair amount about something I think is essential. Everybody we've got had a massive, colossal hack this week. But you weren't hacked. But your business wasn't hacked. But there was a third party breach. And this is going to affect many companies in a significant way. So we're going to tell you how to avoid having that happen to you in the future. Exactly what's going on there. Today, we also going to talk about Zoom and a considerable security problem tied into a problem they're having in France right now. If you use Zoom on a Mac, listen up. There is a huge battle going on right now behind the scenes. That's what happened in France to not zoom, but they did the Bank of China. Man, we talked about them before. There was a bill passed in Congress that requires the federal government to remove some of these security cameras. I will tell you why it's almost impossible to remove these things. If you have security cameras, man, oh, man, we have seen those be a huge problem. It's called a launch point for attacks. It's just crazy. So we'll talk a little bit about that. Apple this week made some changes to the Mac books. They discontinued the MacBook itself. So they now have some very cool MacBook Air models and some MacBook Pro models. A lot of people ask me, and this is probably the biggest question I get from people when it's talking about Apple. Especially for those who have not used this platform before. Is it worth it? Well, I think it is, is frankly, they cost a little bit more, upfront. But when you add up the prices, the cost, they're cheaper, they're a lot cheaper, I typically expect a MacBook Pro to last me eight years, maybe 10 we've had in the last 10 or 11 years before, but an eight-year life versus your average laptop, which is two or three years over on the windows side. So I do think it's worth it. Plus, the machines tend to work a lot better, they're smoother, they are less likely to be attacked, and they have a more secure operating system. Although I have to hand it to Microsoft's new CEO, he is pulling up the socks over there, Microsoft on many, many fronts. While I am not an investor, I can say it's finally a company I would consider investing in as they've done some fantastic things.

Apple has made some changes with these Macbooks that they announced this week. And that's an excellent thing. But the 12 inch MacBook is gone. Now. Remember, when they introduced the MacBook years ago, those little plastic ones, which I liked, I had one used one that was quite cute. I think you might like them. There has been a lot in the news over the last few weeks about Amazon listening in. And obviously, you don't want anybody listening to conversations. And you probably already know my opinion on this. But here's the bottom line for those that haven't heard it before. Yes, the Amazon devices, the Google devices, etc. Yes, they can listen, and they have to. But I know with Amazon with their echoes, they've got the hardware setup in such a way that if they're turning on the microphone to send data to record, that little light bar has to come on, they haven't checked it lately, I probably should. But the hardware was designed so that if it's captured audio that light bars on so other than listening for its name, you know, the wakeup word that you would use, it's not capturing anything, it's not sending it up to the cloud. And we've seen court cases a murder cases where they subpoenaed the records, and they wanted to listen in on the conversation that happened just before the murder. And of course, it was not recording it. So there was no conversation that they could playback. And there's nothing they could use in the court case. Now, if you're very, very paranoid, and I know a lot of people that are, and I am on the Paranoid side by myself, you probably don't want to have one of these things. Now I do have them because I want to understand how it works. I found them to be convenient. I use it, frankly, kind of sparingly. But that's what's happening with the Amazon Echo devices, these personal assistants. Now, Google has hit the news just this week, revealing that Google was sharing recordings of people's commands with third parties. Now, in this case, the third parties were developers, software developers, and frankly, you've got to expect them to have access to your, you know, recordings, right? You hopefully aren't thinking that if you ask Alexa or Amazon, Google Home, whatever it is, if you ask them a question, hopefully, you do not think that it's never recorded and never kept because they are. And Amazon keeps the recordings of your voice forever. And unless you go in and manually delete them, and there's some you can't delete, etc. So don't ask stupid questions that you might regret later on. So Google's getting the heat now because some of these Google Home device recordings ended up in the hands of third-party contractors subcontractors to Google now is that much different than having them in the hands of Google employees? Hard to say, I guess you could certainly argue that, once it's out of Google's hands, they don't have access to or control over the data. And because of that, a could be a bad thing, right. And I get that I do get that because hopefully, Google has perfect security. And for everything we've seen, they probably do have some excellent security. But who knows about the subcontractors. Now, that's the bottom line there. So it was disclosed that I think it was like 1000 or so I'm sure the numbers will change over time. But some of these recordings are in the hands of contractors. And so I think the media is frankly, blowing it up here. I'm not going to blow this one up. Because, again, I think if you're asking the electronic assistant to do something for you, you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy. You know, there's some expectation of privacy. But how often are these devices hacked and everything right? It's just, and it's a constant thing. So you know, don't expect your data to be kept safe. Next up, we talked about deep fakes before. And I saw this, and I was so disappointed. Did you see Star Wars Rogue One, this isn't 2016 Rogue One, A Star Wars story, I thought the story was rather good. It didn't have a whole ton of tie ins. You know, there's like, there's not a fork that I can see that they're planning on running with off of Rogue One. Maybe they are, frankly, you know, early rebellion type things. But in that movie, there was a terrible version of a young Carrie Fisher, Princess Leia. And that actress, there was an actress obviously, that they used her face. And they tried to make it look like Carrie Fisher, and they did a terrible job. But Today, even this was back in 2016. Today, you can do a better job than they the Lucas Films did. Right now with your reasonably high-end home computer. And the question again has come up in this age where we have deep fakes, where we've got Mark Zuckerberg faked online, we've got porn, which they have faked where they're putting some famous actresses face on someone else's body in a porn shoot. How can you tell what's real? And I have talked before about how this could be a huge problem. When it comes to politics. Think about the things that you could have a politician say because it's not the politician that saying that you look at some of the things President Trump says and you kind of roll your eyes. Why would you even say something like that? Right? And you know, this is separate from his policies. But if you have a deep thing that comes out that looks like the person that sounds like something they might say, how can you tell if it's real? And then let's move on to the next step. Remember, Ronald Reagan with the open mic, a lot different than President Obama's open mic where he said, you know, tell Vlad, I'll have more flexibility after the election, right, when he was cooperating with the Russians, and they were colluding together. So, you know, not the President Obama thing, but the open mic with President Reagan, where he was saying, Hey, listen, the bottom line, well, I'm trying to remember the exact quote, but the missiles on Moscow will start falling in five minutes or something like that, I can't remember what it was. And it freaked out the Russians. And some people attribute that to kind of the death nail for the great Soviet Empire. Big all of a sudden now, you know, they couldn't feed their people, they didn't have items on the shelves, it was a socialist system. And as usual, it was failing. And they now figured they had to escalate the arms race and do so much more, because of what President Reagan said. So now fast forward to now, maybe next year and election year, what will happen if they deep fake President Trump saying something that is going to get Iran all up in arms, right, as though there's not enough tension already? Or maybe Russia or China or you name it? How about just one of our good trading partners, Great Britain, or Canada or Mexico? What's going to happen, then? There's, I think, the biggest potential problem with deep fakes because what that means is we are potentially going to see wars started, maybe not between the US and other countries, but maybe between smaller countries, maybe between politicians, right? We already know politicians are out there saying things that are just outrages, taking stuff completely out of context. And even worse, fabricating stuff. So what happens when they can do this and make it look like their opponent set it? Huge, right, huge deal? Well, now the Actors Guild and the actors are starting to get a little bit concerned, because of the potential of these virtual acting stars. Look at what Disney has done lately with Dumbo and the Lion King, where they're pulling the real world in with CGI along with animation. And so much of it is just so seamless. It's amazing. Not that you can't tell that Dumbo isn't a real elephant. Or some of these other characters are actors aren't real, but that's going to change, and that's going to change very, very quickly. So it's going to get to the point where they could hire an actor or actress to act in something. And it's just an, a, b, or c actor. It could be almost anybody off of the street. Now they have to be able to do a little bit of acting; obviously, their facial expressions have to be good, and they have to match. But let's look at the voiceover industry that used to be in cartoons. We had Mel Blanc who was doing all of those things for Warner Brothers, but in cartoons and voiceovers for commercials. You had professional voiceover actors who did a great job. And then it changed a little bit, and Robin Williams was upset because one of the things he did not want to happen has happened he did the voice of the genie in a Latin your remember that I'm sure he did a great job. He improvised the line. Robin Williams had expressed at the time that he did not want the whole voiceover community to be hurt by this he didn't want it to switch to having brand name actors doing voiceovers, you know, doing the comedy sketches basically in the middle of movies. And of course, that's what ended up happening. That the community now has moved from just a straight-up professional voice actor to now, we have regular actors doing commercials and voiceovers, etc. Some of you know it's one thing if they're they're the face of a brand it's another if it's just a straight-up voiceover. So what's going to happen here with the next step, the next evolution in this which will be having voiceover type talent, having an instant? Is it going to be the reverse right? Instead of paying an actress like Carrie Fisher who's passed now button, you know A, B or an A actor to do a scene, they can now come up with a new creative face.

That is just the most beautiful face ever most handsome face has the exact attributes they want. Maybe it's the evilness looking face, and, and create that character that they can use throughout a series like Avengers. Look at we've lost Tony Stark now, in from the Avengers series. And according to what I've been reading, they lost the actor. There are two or three actors that are gone now. Because they wanted too much money to do new movies. And I get it from the actor's standpoint. And you know, you don't want to be typecast, etc. You help build that brand. But when the brand is 100% copyrightable, where they created the face, they created the voice with the work of, let's say, a voice actor or someone else. And they now absolutely own it, then what's going to happen? Very interesting. I think that if you're a waitress, I mean, an actress in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, you might want to think twice about this. Now, we see right now a resurgence of need for actors, actresses, because we have everybody producing content, which is, by the way, going to drive up the cost, you thought streaming was going to save you money over the cable TV, not so much. Because what's going to happen here shortly is as CBS, NBC, and Netflix and Hulu, and Disney and even Comcast compete for the eyeballs, they're going to be creating more content. And that means they're going to be raising their prices. So instead of just subscribing to maybe Netflix and Hulu. Now you're going to have Netflix, Hulu, HBO, NBC CBS, ABC, Fox and each one of those is going to be 10 or 20 bucks a month. So the costs are going to go way, way up. So that's the next evolution in that. But ultimately, within ten years, this technology is going to be cheap. And I don't think we're going to need the actors anywhere near what we need Today. The salaries that they are demanding 10's of millions of dollars to do one movie and these days are going to end. You might even remember, Industrial Light and Magic ILM, and they came out of nowhere from the Star Wars universe. And now they're in every major motion picture. You're going to get studios, like an ILM, that develop a character with a backstory and stuff. The primary thing is a character with some flaws one we can love, one that we like listen to and watch. There will be a voice and video, you know, an entire visual presentation and the whole world will change. It's going to change in a big way. Okay, so next up of with let's get into the big news of this week. You're listening, of course to Craig Peterson, make sure you get the weekly updates I had I just got in a shout out again to Sue hopefully you're listening. Today I met with Sue this week, she had sent in a request we did a cyber health assessment, and we're doing some more stuff for her now. We're doing a deeper dive, and we found some stuff that is not only questionable but negative. So shout out to her. We also had a comment this week. And I want to thank James for this one. And this is where he said hey, thanks, Craig. If I hadn't been on your email list, I would not have known about this vulnerability, and he patched it because, of course, I gave instructions on it. So if you want to know more if you want to make sure that you can get the right patches at the right time make sure you visit my website Craig Peterson calm and are right there on the top of I think pretty much every page now. You are going to find a sign up to sign up for my email list. I believe me I don't scam you spam you anything else. Not like one of these marketers is sending you two pieces of email a day. I keep it minimal, absolutely minimal. So Craig Peterson calm. Okay, next up. So this last week, it came out that there was a breach of a US-based cloud solution provider. Now here's how this affects you and your business. This company, called PCM, is generating 2.2 billion dollars in revenue. They've got more than 2000 customers; each of them is a business. It is an article from Security Affairs. The sources say PCs discovered the intrusion in mid-May 2019. Those sources say the attacker stole administrative can credentials that PCM uses to manage client accounts within Office 365 a cloud-based filed an email sharing service run by Microsoft now that came originally from Krebs. Krebs on security is a great site, by-the-way, you should check it out. Krebs is speculating that the intruders could be the same that hack the Indian IT outsourcing giant Wipro this year. It is fascinating because again, this is further proof that outsourcing your IT outsourcing your cloud management does not make you safe. Very, very big deal. Now, I have to tie something else into this because I think that these two may be related. Microsoft Corp. Now, of course, this is the company that makes office 365. We use Office 365 for a lot of our clients. It depends on their size and specific requirements, and we also host email servers for some of our clients. We use Office 365, before other of our clients, and Microsoft themselves even says, Hey, listen, we're not guaranteeing you any security, we're not guaranteeing you any good filtering for your emails, we're not guaranteeing that your data will be safe if you put it on the Microsoft Cloud. We're not even guaranteeing that your data will be there next week. Because we don't back it up for you, you have to do all of this. So most businesses that I've talked to aren't aware of any of these things. There are huge deficiencies in the O365. But what's Microsoft going to do? Well, especially at the price points they sell it for, they there isn't a margin in it for them. To fix this, Microsoft uses companies like mine and many other companies, not like mine, to resell their office 365. And what Microsoft's thinking was or is, is that we have Mainstream, we have Craig company, authorized to sell, install, help their clients use Office 365 features, right, and so now people using Microsoft Teams, and they're using the Microsoft email and outlook and they've got word and you know, whole office suite and everything. And it's a wonderful thing. But I am as the provider, and I am now the master administrator for my clients. And as a Master administrator, I can create new users for them, and I can take them off, I can add specific licenses. If someone wants to use this particular Microsoft product, but other people don't need it. And they pay by the month and based on what the usages. I can reset the passwords, and I can check the security logs, right? I can do all of this stuff is basically a super administrator for their service, then this is great for Microsoft because now that if someone calls them up and tries to scam them saying, Yeah, I'm on the CEO of IBM, and I want access to my account, I lost my password, reset it for me What? Okay, what do you change it to, right? So someone calling Microsoft, it's going to be hard to validate who they are. But somebody's calling Mainstream. I know who the customers are, right? My people know, we know their voices because we were a small company. We're a family company, yet we have other people that are members of my family. But we're a small company that cares about and works with the clients. So a client calls me and says, Hi, I'm president of x, y, z Corp. We know if they are not right, we know what they do. Typically, we're not going to give away figures out their store to someone that is faking it. So from Microsoft standpoint, it's great because they don't get those calls, they don't have the liability that goes along with it that we have, which is why we provide a million dollars worth of insurance underwritten by Lloyds of London, I think that's an important thing for security for businesses. So if they do get hacked, or something happens, you know, there is coverage, and then we also have that kind of coverage. But anyhow, Microsoft doesn't want all that liability, and they would need a million-dollar, they probably need 100 million dollars. they probably self insure they have plenty of cash. It is a fascinating business model.

Now, a lot of people out there a lot of businesses who were brake fixed shops have said oh, well, you know, we can make more money, recurring monthly revenue or a monthly recurring revenue by selling office 365. Because we'll earn $5 a month, per account, you know, five bucks a month. Are you kidding me? That's, it's hardly worth billing for $5 a month if you're a small company. The collections of follow up, you have to make a phone call because I didn't pay it. But you have the check processing fee from your bank all of this stuff. How's it? How's it worth it? It's not. So what you have to do is you have to bundle it as a service offering so they can call if they have problems and we take care of things. But these other companies, unlike Mainstream, who are out there not I'm not saying every company like this. But these different companies, what do they know about security? What do they know about the in-depth stuff? Right? I've been doing it now I hate to admit this, but for 45 years? Me personally, okay, then when you add in all of the time from all the people working with me, and we're well past the century mark. So there's a huge difference. But how do you know? So a lot of people, we just lost a client. Because of this, though, they'll go out. And they will say how much for we need 500 email boxes are 50 email boxes, how much do you want to charge how much you charge for that. And so we'll quote it, but we don't just quote as email box, because we know we're going to have to do support, we're going to have to back up those email boxes, we're probably going to want to run their email through our high-end filter, before we send it to Microsoft, because Microsoft's email filters are nowhere near as useful. We're going to want to do all of this stuff. And backup restore, we're going to have to account maintenance and everything. And so they say, oh, wow, well, this guy wants like a 10th of what you want, and you know, the answer is, yeah, they're not doing anything near what we're doing. And you're going to get stung. And in fact, this client did this once before, and another product and they got hurt, badly. Okay, so you've, you've got to watch that it is a huge deal that you do not want to get involved with, you know, it's just crazy. So now, this is how this all ties in this breach at PCM. They lost all the administrative credentials for their 2000 business clients. Now, Microsoft will require multifactor authentication for their cloud solution providers. And these are the guys that help companies manage their office 365 accounts to see what's going on here. It sounds like PCM, a $2.2 billion-dollar company was not keeping their clients record safe. That is huge. Now we use multifactor authentication for everything we possibly can we go further than that. And we use these little keys that are encryption keys that we have to put into the devices to even be able to log in. If you remove that key, that physical key, the system shuts off, all access is blocked.

At Mainstream, we keep all of our client confidential stuff highly encrypted digital containers and only decrypt a record when we need it for the client. Microsoft requires that all its cloud solution providers, meet those same standards.

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