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Craig was on with Jim Polito. Today, they discussed the latest goings on with Huawei and China tech manufacturing, the unprecedented actions by the NSA about the latest Microsoft vulnerability and Russia hacking and our response.

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

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 06/18/2019

Security Summer, NSA Warning on Microsoft Vulnerability, Russia Hackers, China technology issues

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, I guess I'm committed now. Yes, I am going to do a summer security summit. You're going to hear why the security summer summit is essential. We're getting closer to having to do it, now. I was on with Jim Polito this morning. We discussed some of the problems currently inherent in our relationship with China, and what does that mean to our military to our defense. What's China doing right now? What's Russia doing right now? I also talked about real-world stats from this week that I have seen. And what those mean? So, you know, you can listen, and you can hear it, I think this is one of the best segments I've ever done. So, if you've ever liked my show, you're going to love this today. We're going to solve a few of your problems as well. So, here we go with Jim Polito.

Jim Polito
He is the man the myth, the legend, the Tech Talk guru and our good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson
Good morning, man. Have you seen Huawei stuff? Are they in trouble or what?

Jim Polito
I love that you say why way. And no one knows how to spell it. Being the massive Chinese communications company, Huawei? And it's spelled with an A. Don't ask me why. Yes, I have. And I'm anxious. I just read that. Is it the F 35. fighter, Jeff? That had one of the circuit boards in it made by a Chinese company? I don't think I like that.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, we've had some issues with those before. Yeah, we have the F 35? A, B and C are amazing aircraft, by the way, they kind of nailed it. Did you see, by the way, Turkey, it looks like we're not going to ship them any more military gear? And Poland wants some of our f 35's. There is some very cool stuff, Right? Yeah. Here's the problem and we've had them before, we had some upgrades made to some of our older fighter jets. And they required a new processor board. So, the software was mainly the same. They just wanted the more modern, faster chips. It's like, you might be running a new version of a piece of hardware and still running Windows 10, or Mac OS, for instance. We got these boards in, and thank goodness, we did some in-depth testing on them. Why? Well, it turned out that China manufactured them and the chips had some designed and embedded software to allow a third party, get some information and possibly even take over our fighter jets. So I'm glad that this whole thing is going on with President Trump and China, where we're now putting these tariffs on. We now have manufacturers, U.S. manufacturers who have already moved some of their manufacturing out of China, China. Yeah. Some of its back in the states and Apple is beginning to make some of their gear now in Texas, from soup to nuts.

Jim Polito
I don't have any problem with that. So, what's Huawei doing now?

Craig Peterson
Well, Huawei, of course, came out and said, Hey, listen, there's no link between the Chinese government and us. Just because we're socialists and the government owns us, and we're part of the People's Liberation Army, that doesn't mean you shouldn't like us. So, they're saying there's no link. Well, you know we have banned, Huawei from getting access to any U.S. technology. Google's cut them off from Android, chip manufacturers have cut them off from their chips, etc., etc. Now they are admitting, Well, maybe just maybe, our revenues are going to be down a bit, perhaps $4 billion. This year?

Jim Polito
Couldn't happen to a more helpful bunch of guys. No, look, Here's the deal. I don't mind trading with anyone. Part of the reason that we keep our automobile industry, alive and well in this country, is that during World War Two, and we had to mass produce, aircraft, tanks, all those other vehicles. We took all those car factories, and you ask anybody who's a serious car collector, and say, hey, yeah, I want a car. I want a G.M. from 1943. Sorry, no such thing. That's because they were putting out B-17 or something else in that plant. Same thing with Ford. But I worry that Craig, you know, we do a lot of that production for electronics and gadgets overseas. Isn't that going to be the same and the next war as a factory that built cars in World War Two?

Craig Peterson
Well, there are a couple of interesting points here. One, you're right. And here's why. We've got for instance, of you know, the whole Clinton selling our uranium to Russia, right? If we go to war, forget about it. We're not there. We're going to seize that just like we if you buy a Bayer aspirin, right. The whole Bayer company was taken over by the United States in World War Two. TaDa it is a U.S. company right, so there's that side of it.
On the other hand, when it comes to making chips, you have foundries that have to grow these crystals. It's a fantastically exciting process. Right, here in the northeast, right where we're at right now, digital equipment corporation used to have a foundry, here. A bunch of Texas Instruments, a bunch of different companies all had foundry plants, and they were growing and making their chips. What came of those them when those buildings went for sale? They destroyed them before the premises got sold. We didn't want someone else to get a hold of the technology on how they grew the chips and how they did all of this, right? We have almost nothing left here in the United States. Intel, yes, they're making some stuff here. AMD is making some here, and other people are. If, for instance, we went to war, would we need to wonder if our f35 has the U.S. made in control technology? We could, but the problem is kind of what you just outlined. You won't be able to find a chip to put into your computers like you couldn't find your G.M. car during the war. You won't be able to get chips for consumer use, etc. We have a limited capacity to make these things and what capability we do have, would go entirely towards the war effort. But remember what Putin said, he said, the next war is going to be over ones and zeros. Yeah, it is going to be a cyber war. What is one of the best ways for cyberwar, then to maybe infiltrate my boot block with an infiltrated Chinese plan. Or, of course, China is already doing things against us coming against us and sending us poorly designed circuit boards. Boards that are guaranteed to fail. Boards that are designed to collapse once the jet takes a hit from a microwave beam, let's say, it's enough for that chip to fail, as it isn't adequately protected. They design these things that way. Anyway, we have got some issues here. But I've got to say good news. Apple is very upset with our friends at Intel because they've messed up some of Apple's production abilities, they want to come up with new equipment, Intel's been slow, everybody else is faster now. I predict by the end of this year that Apple is going to have a low-end laptop that does not rely on anything except U.S. designed and produced Apple chips, entirely, including the central processing unit. Excellent news, I think overall, for the U.S. and our economy and, and for our, hopefully never, future war footing.

Jim Polito
We're talking with our good friend, Craig Peterson, at the end of this segment, we're going to give you a number. And that number. Will, if you text my name to it will connect you with Craig. You'll be able to get this information. A lot of other excellent information. Standard data and text rates apply. Craig, I want to ask you, It came out this week, that there that the United States was hacking into Russian power grids. And you know, there were those, the Trump administration rather upset that some of this news got out. Then that, you know, became the story? Well, maybe Trump wasn't told because they didn't want him to know, we might have shared that information. Hey, the bottom line is, Craig, from your perspective, I bet we should be hacking into their power grid because they're breaking into ours. We need to be able to show them just like we did during the Cold War, that there's mutually assured destruction. If you knock out our power grid, we will immediately knock out yours. It'll be just like we fired missiles at each other, which actually, is what prevented us from firing missiles each other, the MAD doctrine or mutually assured destruction.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, this is such an interesting question. And unfortunately, only we've got a couple of minutes here. Here's how I look at this. Let me give you a statistic, a personal statistic, you know, already that what I do is I help businesses, large and small with their security. I help multinational corporations down through little doctors and dentists and distributors and manufacturers, right. So, I've been in the middle of this now for about 30 years, and just this week, I was looking at a firewall for a small company, and I was looking at their website and saw as many as five hack attempts against their website, per second. Wow. That is per a second, okay. If I can extrapolate numbers here, we're talking about Russia billions of times throughout a week or a month, trying to get into our U.S. controlled systems. And, you know, in answer to your MAD question, I think you're right. President Trump authorized our Cyber Command to start offensive operations. And that means our Cyber Command is now doing what everybody else has been doing for 10-plus years, look at what happened with Sony and North Korean hacking. We were sitting on the sideline. I'm glad to hear we're getting offensive. I'm not surprised in the least that we were into the Russian power grid. Poor little Putin over there. I am getting a little teared up, you know, heaven forbid, he's getting hacked. I have seen evidence of this forever, China and Russia. But I have to tell you this, looking at these stats, with my customers getting nailed, with millions of attacks. Russia and Putin are actively coming after us, actively pounding us, looking for ways to get in. Think of that, people, they are beating everything all the way around, not just as a gate, but on all the walls, looking for doors, the windows, everything,

Craig Peterson
That's what they're doing right now. And I, and I must remind everyone, that is is okay, it's fine. If you don't use me as your computer security company. I get it. Okay. The NSA did something unprecedented. They warned us, the National Security Agency - our hackers in chief, if you will, that there is another major, huge, huge security hole in Windows, I mean, huge. We could see the whole world's computers go down again, as we did a year and a half ago, almost two years ago. The reason that that could happen is that people and businesses haven't patched their systems. It's that simple. We're ignorant. We've got people who are saying, Well, you know, I'm scared, it didn't work last time. I don't know what to do. It's too confusing, etc., etc.

Jim, I'll tell you what I'll do for the audience here. I'm going to have a security summer summit, and It is going to be free, 100% free. We're going to get back to the brass tacks because I am seeing every one of my clients getting nailed, something awful. (not successfully but attacked none the less) I don't want that to happen to anybody here. I get texts from the audience almost every day with questions and problems. I get emails nearly every day. I don't want this to happen to anybody out there listening. Those who are listening here, you care. You're trying to do something. However, your vendors aren't taking care of you. I'm going to show you how to do it yourself. I guarantee it. I'm going to do that. Give me a few weeks to get something together. But that's going to happen this summer because we are under attack like we have never been before. All right.

Jim Polito
It is why we have our tech talk guru here. Now look, text, my name to this number 855-385-5553 just text Jim, to 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. You'll get all this great information. When there's valuable information like he just discussed, it'll get to you. He will not sell your name. He will not try to sell you anything. And it's an excellent service that our friend Craig Peterson offers to our listeners. Craig, thank you so much for the time, buddy. We'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Take care, Jim, thank you.

Jim Polito
Great session with Craig Peterson. A final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space

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Thanks, everyone, for listening and sharing our podcasts. We're really hitting it out of the park. This will be a great year! 

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Don't miss an episode from Craig. Subscribe and give us a rating:

Craig was on with Jim Polito. Today, they discussed the latest goings on with Huawei and China tech manufacturing, the unprecedented actions by the NSA about the latest Microsoft vulnerability and Russia hacking and our response.

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

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Related Articles:

Week After Week Vulnerability After Vulnerability 

CEOs and Business Owners Aren't Taking CyberSecurity Seriously - And Are Facing Huge Penalties

Do you have a Chinese smartphone?  Huawei is the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, but they rely heavily on U.S. tech for their production.  President Trump said enough.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 06/18/2019

Security Summer, NSA Warning on Microsoft Vulnerability, Russia Hackers, China technology issues

Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, I guess I'm committed now. Yes, I am going to do a summer security summit. You're going to hear why the security summer summit is essential. We're getting closer to having to do it, now. I was on with Jim Polito this morning. We discussed some of the problems currently inherent in our relationship with China, and what does that mean to our military to our defense. What's China doing right now? What's Russia doing right now? I also talked about real-world stats from this week that I have seen. And what those mean? So, you know, you can listen, and you can hear it, I think this is one of the best segments I've ever done. So, if you've ever liked my show, you're going to love this today. We're going to solve a few of your problems as well. So, here we go with Jim Polito.

Jim Polito
He is the man the myth, the legend, the Tech Talk guru and our good friend Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson
Good morning, man. Have you seen Huawei stuff? Are they in trouble or what?

Jim Polito
I love that you say why way. And no one knows how to spell it. Being the massive Chinese communications company, Huawei? And it's spelled with an A. Don't ask me why. Yes, I have. And I'm anxious. I just read that. Is it the F 35. fighter, Jeff? That had one of the circuit boards in it made by a Chinese company? I don't think I like that.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, we've had some issues with those before. Yeah, we have the F 35? A, B and C are amazing aircraft, by the way, they kind of nailed it. Did you see, by the way, Turkey, it looks like we're not going to ship them any more military gear? And Poland wants some of our f 35's. There is some very cool stuff, Right? Yeah. Here's the problem and we've had them before, we had some upgrades made to some of our older fighter jets. And they required a new processor board. So, the software was mainly the same. They just wanted the more modern, faster chips. It's like, you might be running a new version of a piece of hardware and still running Windows 10, or Mac OS, for instance. We got these boards in, and thank goodness, we did some in-depth testing on them. Why? Well, it turned out that China manufactured them and the chips had some designed and embedded software to allow a third party, get some information and possibly even take over our fighter jets. So I'm glad that this whole thing is going on with President Trump and China, where we're now putting these tariffs on. We now have manufacturers, U.S. manufacturers who have already moved some of their manufacturing out of China, China. Yeah. Some of its back in the states and Apple is beginning to make some of their gear now in Texas, from soup to nuts.

Jim Polito
I don't have any problem with that. So, what's Huawei doing now?

Craig Peterson
Well, Huawei, of course, came out and said, Hey, listen, there's no link between the Chinese government and us. Just because we're socialists and the government owns us, and we're part of the People's Liberation Army, that doesn't mean you shouldn't like us. So, they're saying there's no link. Well, you know we have banned, Huawei from getting access to any U.S. technology. Google's cut them off from Android, chip manufacturers have cut them off from their chips, etc., etc. Now they are admitting, Well, maybe just maybe, our revenues are going to be down a bit, perhaps $4 billion. This year?

Jim Polito
Couldn't happen to a more helpful bunch of guys. No, look, Here's the deal. I don't mind trading with anyone. Part of the reason that we keep our automobile industry, alive and well in this country, is that during World War Two, and we had to mass produce, aircraft, tanks, all those other vehicles. We took all those car factories, and you ask anybody who's a serious car collector, and say, hey, yeah, I want a car. I want a G.M. from 1943. Sorry, no such thing. That's because they were putting out B-17 or something else in that plant. Same thing with Ford. But I worry that Craig, you know, we do a lot of that production for electronics and gadgets overseas. Isn't that going to be the same and the next war as a factory that built cars in World War Two?

Craig Peterson
Well, there are a couple of interesting points here. One, you're right. And here's why. We've got for instance, of you know, the whole Clinton selling our uranium to Russia, right? If we go to war, forget about it. We're not there. We're going to seize that just like we if you buy a Bayer aspirin, right. The whole Bayer company was taken over by the United States in World War Two. TaDa it is a U.S. company right, so there's that side of it.
On the other hand, when it comes to making chips, you have foundries that have to grow these crystals. It's a fantastically exciting process. Right, here in the northeast, right where we're at right now, digital equipment corporation used to have a foundry, here. A bunch of Texas Instruments, a bunch of different companies all had foundry plants, and they were growing and making their chips. What came of those them when those buildings went for sale? They destroyed them before the premises got sold. We didn't want someone else to get a hold of the technology on how they grew the chips and how they did all of this, right? We have almost nothing left here in the United States. Intel, yes, they're making some stuff here. AMD is making some here, and other people are. If, for instance, we went to war, would we need to wonder if our f35 has the U.S. made in control technology? We could, but the problem is kind of what you just outlined. You won't be able to find a chip to put into your computers like you couldn't find your G.M. car during the war. You won't be able to get chips for consumer use, etc. We have a limited capacity to make these things and what capability we do have, would go entirely towards the war effort. But remember what Putin said, he said, the next war is going to be over ones and zeros. Yeah, it is going to be a cyber war. What is one of the best ways for cyberwar, then to maybe infiltrate my boot block with an infiltrated Chinese plan. Or, of course, China is already doing things against us coming against us and sending us poorly designed circuit boards. Boards that are guaranteed to fail. Boards that are designed to collapse once the jet takes a hit from a microwave beam, let's say, it's enough for that chip to fail, as it isn't adequately protected. They design these things that way. Anyway, we have got some issues here. But I've got to say good news. Apple is very upset with our friends at Intel because they've messed up some of Apple's production abilities, they want to come up with new equipment, Intel's been slow, everybody else is faster now. I predict by the end of this year that Apple is going to have a low-end laptop that does not rely on anything except U.S. designed and produced Apple chips, entirely, including the central processing unit. Excellent news, I think overall, for the U.S. and our economy and, and for our, hopefully never, future war footing.

Jim Polito
We're talking with our good friend, Craig Peterson, at the end of this segment, we're going to give you a number. And that number. Will, if you text my name to it will connect you with Craig. You'll be able to get this information. A lot of other excellent information. Standard data and text rates apply. Craig, I want to ask you, It came out this week, that there that the United States was hacking into Russian power grids. And you know, there were those, the Trump administration rather upset that some of this news got out. Then that, you know, became the story? Well, maybe Trump wasn't told because they didn't want him to know, we might have shared that information. Hey, the bottom line is, Craig, from your perspective, I bet we should be hacking into their power grid because they're breaking into ours. We need to be able to show them just like we did during the Cold War, that there's mutually assured destruction. If you knock out our power grid, we will immediately knock out yours. It'll be just like we fired missiles at each other, which actually, is what prevented us from firing missiles each other, the MAD doctrine or mutually assured destruction.

Craig Peterson
Yeah, this is such an interesting question. And unfortunately, only we've got a couple of minutes here. Here's how I look at this. Let me give you a statistic, a personal statistic, you know, already that what I do is I help businesses, large and small with their security. I help multinational corporations down through little doctors and dentists and distributors and manufacturers, right. So, I've been in the middle of this now for about 30 years, and just this week, I was looking at a firewall for a small company, and I was looking at their website and saw as many as five hack attempts against their website, per second. Wow. That is per a second, okay. If I can extrapolate numbers here, we're talking about Russia billions of times throughout a week or a month, trying to get into our U.S. controlled systems. And, you know, in answer to your MAD question, I think you're right. President Trump authorized our Cyber Command to start offensive operations. And that means our Cyber Command is now doing what everybody else has been doing for 10-plus years, look at what happened with Sony and North Korean hacking. We were sitting on the sideline. I'm glad to hear we're getting offensive. I'm not surprised in the least that we were into the Russian power grid. Poor little Putin over there. I am getting a little teared up, you know, heaven forbid, he's getting hacked. I have seen evidence of this forever, China and Russia. But I have to tell you this, looking at these stats, with my customers getting nailed, with millions of attacks. Russia and Putin are actively coming after us, actively pounding us, looking for ways to get in. Think of that, people, they are beating everything all the way around, not just as a gate, but on all the walls, looking for doors, the windows, everything,

Craig Peterson
That's what they're doing right now. And I, and I must remind everyone, that is is okay, it's fine. If you don't use me as your computer security company. I get it. Okay. The NSA did something unprecedented. They warned us, the National Security Agency - our hackers in chief, if you will, that there is another major, huge, huge security hole in Windows, I mean, huge. We could see the whole world's computers go down again, as we did a year and a half ago, almost two years ago. The reason that that could happen is that people and businesses haven't patched their systems. It's that simple. We're ignorant. We've got people who are saying, Well, you know, I'm scared, it didn't work last time. I don't know what to do. It's too confusing, etc., etc.

Jim, I'll tell you what I'll do for the audience here. I'm going to have a security summer summit, and It is going to be free, 100% free. We're going to get back to the brass tacks because I am seeing every one of my clients getting nailed, something awful. (not successfully but attacked none the less) I don't want that to happen to anybody here. I get texts from the audience almost every day with questions and problems. I get emails nearly every day. I don't want this to happen to anybody out there listening. Those who are listening here, you care. You're trying to do something. However, your vendors aren't taking care of you. I'm going to show you how to do it yourself. I guarantee it. I'm going to do that. Give me a few weeks to get something together. But that's going to happen this summer because we are under attack like we have never been before. All right.

Jim Polito
It is why we have our tech talk guru here. Now look, text, my name to this number 855-385-5553 just text Jim, to 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. You'll get all this great information. When there's valuable information like he just discussed, it'll get to you. He will not sell your name. He will not try to sell you anything. And it's an excellent service that our friend Craig Peterson offers to our listeners. Craig, thank you so much for the time, buddy. We'll talk to you next week.

Craig Peterson
Take care, Jim, thank you.

Jim Polito
Great session with Craig Peterson. A final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space

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Craig is on with Jack Heath this Monday morning. Today they talked about the Microsoft vulnerabilities, their newest vulnerability and why and the NSA issued a specific warning and said you must patch. We also talked about the Iranians and their attacks on infrastructure, The New York Times revelation that ticked off President Trump and what he had to say about them. 

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

Airing date: 06/17/2019

Craig 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. We are getting ready for our security summer, this is going to be a whole summer's worth of, well it will really be kind of a summit. There will be lessons twice a week. You can attend the live sessions, or you can also go ahead and get yourself a golden ticket if you'd like to, so you will be able to go through it all. This summer, we are getting back to the brass tacks, the basics of what you need to do. We're going go through all of the basics, that's what the security summer is all about. Make sure you keep an eye out for that or send an email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. If you're interested in participating. As I said, it is absolutely free. I'm concerned about people who just don't have the money and are, you know, really in need of help. In my 30 years of doing computer security stuff. I have never been in a business where we did any sort of an audit, or we took over the IT or the security, that did not have security problems. No matter the business, the size, or how good their people supposedly were. That is why I know there are smaller companies out there that just can't afford to pay for one of my more prominent courses. That is why this is free. Now you can upgrade, right, if you want to. But it is excellent information and free. I've done these types of courses in the past, and the responses have been fantastic. I want to help everybody out, I want to make this affordable, and affordable equals free. Then we are going to make it available as well via the golden ticket that way you can get the whole security summer and keep the security summer information. I am doing this information will be going away right as soon as the summer's over and we're only leaving the individual classes up for two weeks. So once the summer's over, it'll be taken down, unless you upgrade to the golden ticket. However, you will have two weeks to watch each one of these videos before I take them down. And I think it's important to, to watch them right to pay attention. And I'm doing the two-week thing so that people will have the motivation to take action if we do that, right? We all have our lives and are just so busy, so many things going on, that many will say hey, listen, I'll do this in three weeks, I'll do it at the end of the summer, I'll have time in September, but it never gets done. It is one of the most critical things you can do for your family and for your business. If you are breached, man, oh man and not just hacked into, but you end up with one of these new zero-day attacks. Or maybe it's something like Equifax had, the patches have been out for more than six months, and they hadn't done the updates they needed to do. Any of those things can cause great heartache on your part. If your business, it can put you out of business. And we've got some new statistics will be talking about coming out of some further studies showing how things really have gotten worse, but how it will affect you. So all of that's part of our security summer, it's going to be absolutely free. Send email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. We will have a sign up ready, here pretty shortly, probably next week for you. So, I'll give you that link. And if you want to kind of poke around, it's going to be at security summer.com. How's that for simple, right? It's not there yet. You try and go there. It's not going to go anywhere, as it is not yet released. We're putting it up, at security summer summit, I think is what we're going to call it security summer summit dot com. It is going to be me teaching a lot of this stuff. We're going to have a few guests on talking about things talking about their hardware and software, and how it works, so that you can make some informed decisions about what you might want to use and what you might want to do. We'll be having all of those guys and gals on our Security Summer summit.com. That's where it'll be.

Anyhow, here we go. This morning, I was on with Mr. Jack Heath. And as usual, we talked about a couple of different things, including a high-security alert came up from the NSA this week. And I kind of went off at a bit of a tangent too, because I thought it was necessary. So, here we go with, Jack.

Jack Heath
All right, Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guy on this Monday morning. And Craig. Good morning. How are you? Hey, good morning, doing well. Good. What's up, what do we have this morning on our tech talk side? You always tell us how to kind of avoid being victims of scam or spam or you name it.

Craig
Yeah, exactly. A lot is going on out there. Well, you might remember about 18 months ago, the world was hit with one of the worst attacks ever. It brought down huge corporations and government offices, it was a terrible thing. Well, we've got some significant warnings out there right now. Even the NSA has stepped in and been providing some notifications of their own. I want to warn everybody I know this sounds like a broken record. Right? Make sure you're patched up. We have something even newer, Iran has been in the news, of course, a lot recently. There was just a break in, apparently of Iranian bad tech guys, their hacker groups, and the Iranian tools were released. Now you might remember back that the NSA tools have been stolen, and were used for hacking as well. And you might think that these incidences are kind of dropping off, Jack. But they are accelerating because we're getting more and more government involved now, as well as organized crime hacking each other. And then we had just over the weekend, President Trump coming out and talking about the New York Times, saying that what they did was traitorous, when they came out and said that we, the United States, was hacking Russian power plants, and have been putting malware into them. So, this whole thing is getting crazy, and unfortunately, it's just the very beginning, Jack.

Jack Heath
Yeah, there's been some reports over the weekend on that. Of course, you know, it just seems that we're not going to be able to, you know stop it. And those speaking of the power grid, and I'm not saying it was any kind of malware but in Argentina, the 10s of millions of pounds 10s of millions of people without power in the in the dark because of a problem with their grid. So, scary stuff. All right, Craig, anything else before we let you get on with your Monday?

Craig
Well, I want to say to everybody, just get back to the brass tacks here. That's what matters. Get back to the basics. Make sure you're patching, make sure you're up to date. That's going to help protect you. We have got some really cool stuff going on as well. Some more news and the autonomous systems that are out there. And I've got a couple of articles about that up on my website as well, at Craig Peterson dot com.

Jack Heath
Craig, thanks for the Tech Talk check and thank you, Craig Peterson.

Craig
Take care, Jack

Craig
All right, everybody, remember is not up yet. It will be up soon. But you can always email me at Craig Peterson dot com, we'll make sure you find out about this. Again, a complete series of free training this summer. You can upgrade and get the whole summit if you want to keep it, as well. However, it's available for free because I want to get this information out to as many people as we possibly can. It's that important. Yes, it is. Security summer summit dot com is where it will be, but it's not there yet. We've had a busy year. Take care, everybody an I'll be back tomorrow.

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Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. We are getting ready for our security summer, this is going to be a whole summer's worth of, well it will really be kind of a summit. There will be lessons twice a week. You can attend the live sessions, or you can also go ahead and get yourself a golden ticket if you'd like to, so you will be able to go through it all. This summer, we are getting back to the brass tacks, the basics of what you need to do. We're going go through all of the basics, that's what the security summer is all about. Make sure you keep an eye out for that or send an email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. If you're interested in participating. As I said, it is absolutely free. I'm concerned about people who just don't have the money and are, you know, really in need of help. In my 30 years of doing computer security stuff. I have never been in a business where we did any sort of an audit, or we took over the IT or the security, that did not have security problems. No matter the business, the size, or how good their people supposedly were. That is why I know there are smaller companies out there that just can't afford to pay for one of my more prominent courses. That is why this is free. Now you can upgrade, right, if you want to. But it is excellent information and free. I've done these types of courses in the past, and the responses have been fantastic. I want to help everybody out, I want to make this affordable, and affordable equals free. Then we are going to make it available as well via the golden ticket that way you can get the whole security summer and keep the security summer information. I am doing this information will be going away right as soon as the summer's over and we're only leaving the individual classes up for two weeks. So once the summer's over, it'll be taken down, unless you upgrade to the golden ticket. However, you will have two weeks to watch each one of these videos before I take them down. And I think it's important to, to watch them right to pay attention. And I'm doing the two-week thing so that people will have the motivation to take action if we do that, right? We all have our lives and are just so busy, so many things going on, that many will say hey, listen, I'll do this in three weeks, I'll do it at the end of the summer, I'll have time in September, but it never gets done. It is one of the most critical things you can do for your family and for your business. If you are breached, man, oh man and not just hacked into, but you end up with one of these new zero-day attacks. Or maybe it's something like Equifax had, the patches have been out for more than six months, and they hadn't done the updates they needed to do. Any of those things can cause great heartache on your part. If your business, it can put you out of business. And we've got some new statistics will be talking about coming out of some further studies showing how things really have gotten worse, but how it will affect you. So all of that's part of our security summer, it's going to be absolutely free. Send email to me at Craig Peterson dot com. We will have a sign up ready, here pretty shortly, probably next week for you. So, I'll give you that link. And if you want to kind of poke around, it's going to be at security summer.com. How's that for simple, right? It's not there yet. You try and go there. It's not going to go anywhere, as it is not yet released. We're putting it up, at security summer summit, I think is what we're going to call it security summer summit dot com. It is going to be me teaching a lot of this stuff. We're going to have a few guests on talking about things talking about their hardware and software, and how it works, so that you can make some informed decisions about what you might want to use and what you might want to do. We'll be having all of those guys and gals on our Security Summer summit.com. That's where it'll be.

Anyhow, here we go. This morning, I was on with Mr. Jack Heath. And as usual, we talked about a couple of different things, including a high-security alert came up from the NSA this week. And I kind of went off at a bit of a tangent too, because I thought it was necessary. So, here we go with, Jack.

Jack Heath
All right, Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guy on this Monday morning. And Craig. Good morning. How are you? Hey, good morning, doing well. Good. What's up, what do we have this morning on our tech talk side? You always tell us how to kind of avoid being victims of scam or spam or you name it.

Craig
Yeah, exactly. A lot is going on out there. Well, you might remember about 18 months ago, the world was hit with one of the worst attacks ever. It brought down huge corporations and government offices, it was a terrible thing. Well, we've got some significant warnings out there right now. Even the NSA has stepped in and been providing some notifications of their own. I want to warn everybody I know this sounds like a broken record. Right? Make sure you're patched up. We have something even newer, Iran has been in the news, of course, a lot recently. There was just a break in, apparently of Iranian bad tech guys, their hacker groups, and the Iranian tools were released. Now you might remember back that the NSA tools have been stolen, and were used for hacking as well. And you might think that these incidences are kind of dropping off, Jack. But they are accelerating because we're getting more and more government involved now, as well as organized crime hacking each other. And then we had just over the weekend, President Trump coming out and talking about the New York Times, saying that what they did was traitorous, when they came out and said that we, the United States, was hacking Russian power plants, and have been putting malware into them. So, this whole thing is getting crazy, and unfortunately, it's just the very beginning, Jack.

Jack Heath
Yeah, there's been some reports over the weekend on that. Of course, you know, it just seems that we're not going to be able to, you know stop it. And those speaking of the power grid, and I'm not saying it was any kind of malware but in Argentina, the 10s of millions of pounds 10s of millions of people without power in the in the dark because of a problem with their grid. So, scary stuff. All right, Craig, anything else before we let you get on with your Monday?

Craig
Well, I want to say to everybody, just get back to the brass tacks here. That's what matters. Get back to the basics. Make sure you're patching, make sure you're up to date. That's going to help protect you. We have got some really cool stuff going on as well. Some more news and the autonomous systems that are out there. And I've got a couple of articles about that up on my website as well, at Craig Peterson dot com.

Jack Heath
Craig, thanks for the Tech Talk check and thank you, Craig Peterson.

Craig
Take care, Jack

Craig
All right, everybody, remember is not up yet. It will be up soon. But you can always email me at Craig Peterson dot com, we'll make sure you find out about this. Again, a complete series of free training this summer. You can upgrade and get the whole summit if you want to keep it, as well. However, it's available for free because I want to get this information out to as many people as we possibly can. It's that important. Yes, it is. Security summer summit dot com is where it will be, but it's not there yet. We've had a busy year. Take care, everybody an I'll be back tomorrow.

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Airing date: 06/15/2019

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Come on, is this true? Could it be true?

Are publishers losing money because of Google and Google's news service?

Or is it getting better?

We'll talk about that interesting article from New York magazine and the big complaint by the New York Times.

This last week, we've got another hack to talk about! My gosh, this is just amazing. Another Federal Government database got hacked this week. In that database, there were tons of travelers information, including photos that the government's been hoarding, er I mean collecting.

By the way, you might remember, I was told you a couple of weeks ago about the feds putting in these new facial ID systems at some of the airports, ports of entry various places and the success that the beta test they conducted. They were using that to track people who were here legally or illegally, with an emphasis on illegally, for various reasons, I think, frankly and they also found some impersonators. So we'll talk a little bit about that and what happened there.

Next, we have a murder trial that is getting underway involving a guy arrested last year. Now you've probably heard about the Golden State killer, but I don't think you've heard about this guy. We were hoping this case might set some seriously relevant precedents going forward, but it looks like it might not. However, maybe it will happen in some future cases.

Of course, this is Craig Peterson. And we talk about tech every week right here. And more particularly, we tend to talk about security, because for close to four decades, it has been my passion. I first got hacked back in the early 90s. It was a worm, you know, think of computer worms like the kind that happened here or what a year and a half ago when millions of people were majorly inconvenienced by the what happened with the WannaCry worm that crawled through the internet and ransomed machines galore. It bought whole businesses down, except for my clients, right? I gotta, put that out there. We're going to talk about that today, too.

Hey, this week the NSA took an unprecedented step and issued a warning which is something they rarely if ever do.

Also, Microsoft did something amazing that they have never done before, so we'll get to all of that as well.

But let's go back to my original question here today. And that is, frankly, Google and the New York Times. They have well been going at it, and I would call it a fight if you were to ask me. It boils down to a report that came out of the industry. Now can you believe the industry, right? The industry report, this is from the News Media Alliance - Voice of News Media Industry‎. It is an industry group within the publishing news media. You know what, I love that term study because it can be used for almost anything, right? I'm at Starbucks, and I asked a couple of people questions. Well, I just completed a study, and it showed...

Well, in this particular case, the News Media Alliance says, that Google earned nearly $5 billion in revenue by stealing news articles from them.

So how does that work? If you search for something on Google, they will intermix some news articles in the search results and provide you with a little summary. If you go to news.google com, I don't know if you've ever done that, but news.google.com, you might want to check it out. It has new stories on all kinds of topics, including your local news.

How do you get that information? Or I should say, how does Google get that information? Well, they go out, and it does what is called scraping, and it scrapes news sites that are out there. Scraping is an awful thing, frankly. Because there they are, stealing stuff.

So, let's talk about what I do and what other news commentators do. You know, this is an editorial, Right? I'm a commentator on the news. I'm not a writer, and I'm certainly not a journalist. I'm a commentator, frankly. So when I'm looking at an article, you'll hear me talk about it. So, for instance, I'm going to refer to some material from New York Magazine here. And they've got some great quotes in it, and I am commenting about it, perfectly legal, I can do all of that.

Well, how about Google? When we're talking about the Fair Use doctrine that's in place, and it has been forever in our copyright law? Is it fair use for Google to look through a news site, find an article, summarize that article using some machine learning algorithms. They have some programs that rip thru these articles and summarize it, grabbing a sentence here and there, put it all together and put it up on their site. Google did not write that article. Google may have written, you know, a little bit of the stuff they're showing, but typically, they're just stealing the paragraph or so from the article.

If you were not aware, the courts have heard arguments about this very thing, and the way the law stands right now is that Google has the right to do what they are doing because when you click on that search result, it takes you directly into the original site.

You might remember the lawsuits that happened a few years back, on what they called, deep links. These were where various companies were saying, "No, no, no, We can't link to an article," you can only link to our homepage. That was because they wanted people to have the experience of going through their website. Well, the experience of going through the website, of course, was to see the ads on their homepage, while you were trying to find the article you want to see. By going through a few other pages, they were collecting hits on these pages, which gave them more impressions. More impressions meant more ad revenue. Why? They base ad revenue on the number of impressions. It depends on the algorithm chosen, impressions vs. clicks. That is a different type of payment.

Well anyways, they were hoping they'd get more money. Eventually, those died out as the lawsuits began dying out.

So it was decided, no, you can have a deep link, as I do. I have deep links, where I refer to an article, and it says read more typically, you click on that, bam, it takes you right over to the website that has a synopsis of the article or an editorial commentary and then a link to the original article itself.

So Google is being accused by this news media alliance of stealing their revenue. There is a great article, as I said, it's from New York Magazine, and you'll see reference to it up on my website at Craig Peterson dot com. It noted that Google estimated that Google News or product without ads brought in an estimated 100 million dollars in yearly revenue back in 2008. So that's more than a decade ago. So what happened was the played fast and loose with that number, and extrapolated forward saying, well, that hundred million in revenue means an estimated 4.7 billion of revenue in 2018 to Google from news content. I am sorry, but that is total crap. What does that $100 million number mean? It was Marissa Mayer, you might remember her, she floated that number at a conference when she was the head of Google search, a decade-plus ago. So what does it mean, frankly? Well, it means that Google estimated the value of its news service.

Now, remember, they're not running ads, they're not getting money directly off of that. What's the back end? Well, here's the bottom line on the back end, Google is showing news articles. They have them all there on the news.google.com site, and they're putting them into the search results, as well. The reality is that the traffic from Google search to news publishers sites has risen by more than 25%. Twenty-Five Percent. Now, wait a minute. You're complaining that Google is stealing your news articles, which yes, they are, technically. And you're complaining that this is a massive $5 billion hit approximately, to your industry. But yet, you also in this same press release from the News Media Alliance say that traffic from Google search to the publisher sites went up 25%? Doesn't that stat show that Google News is beneficial to these news organizations? I tend to think so. Frankly, I do.

Now you can't deny that Facebook isn't a significant influence out there. Along with YouTube, Hulu, and now Netflix and HBO, and all of these others that have great content available for cheap money. So maybe it's not just losing traffic, because of the, you know, the fact that Google shown it on the new site. Perhaps, it's because the eyeballs are going elsewhere. In the long run, Google is helping them. I don't know. It is all very confusing. I think maybe that's part of what they're intending. It does not appear to be hurting their business at all.

Hey, I was thinking this morning, as I was listening to some music. And I was thinking, you know, I used to have to buy CDs, and before that I used to have to buy LPs, right? Earlier it was 45s and back before that there were 78s, remember those things? I remember playing in my grandpa's basement, and he had a real old Victrola. He always had some extra needles sitting there next to it, so we could put in a new one when they wore out after playing on those old brittle records. It was quite an experience. Anyhow, you remember those days. Well, I was thinking, you know, when we're talking about Google News, and we're talking about streaming new sites, and streaming video, and streaming audio, how things have changed. Right now, if you subscribe to Apple Music, or Amazon music, or Spotify, or you name it, Pandora out there. Right now, if you're willing to pay about ten bucks a month, you can listen to as much music as you want to, from current artists through old artists. I am talking about decades of music, 10s of millions of songs for ten bucks a month, ten dollars, that's less than it used to cost for a CD. Think about inflation, Right?

When you bought a CD, when did those come out, in the early 80s is when they became quite popular. They were more expensive than an LP. Although they cost a lot less to make that an LP, an LP would cost them about two bucks to three bucks to produce whereas a CD would cost them five cents, but hey could charge more for the CD. Why? The music quality was better, Right? The audio experience was better. So, they could charge more. Oh, I get it. Buying one of those CDs in today's dollars is what about 30 to 40 dollars to listen to, to get one CD, to get less than an hour's worth of music. Typically, sometimes it is only about a half-an-hour or less. Now we get it for ten bucks. It is time for the News Industry to wake up. Everything has changed. Everything is changing. That it's the only constant in the universe, Right?

Of course, there's climate change. There has always been climate change. There will always be climate change. No one I've ever heard of denies that. It's just a fact of life. That gets the big question is, have we caused it?

Well, of course not. But we're not going there right now. Right? If we wanted to have a discussion, think about Star Trek, for instance. Where there is a global calamity going on and the globe is warming, or it's cooling. We have to assume that in Star Trek, they've got 1000 years worth of climate studies and AI that can predict the weather, climate, etc.

Unlike us, who can't get our current weather, right? Even for tomorrow. Artificial intelligence is a real potential, and they have a lot of possibilities here soon and in the future. We don't know what's going on and as someone wise once said: "The only constant, is change."

When you're talking about your business, I want you to think about it for a few minutes here. Whether you're an employee, or the owner, or the CEO of the business, what's going to change in the future? Remember, the future is going to be different than the present. It doesn't matter; there will always be change. Well, that's an interesting problem. It's something that, surprisingly, at least to me, Microsoft is trying to address.

What Microsoft has done is they are launching what they're calling an AI hub. AI is artificial intelligence, and while we don't have real artificial intelligence, today, and it'll still be a while before we do. They predicted that by 2020, we'd have AI running around, not so much. We do have machine learning and a couple of other types of technologies out there. But artificial intelligence where you don't have to train it, and it learns all by itself. Where you don't even need to teach it how to play a game, but it can figure it out by observation or whatever. Is that AI or is that machine learning? I think most of us would consider that machine learning. AI is coming, but here's the problem. Whether you call it AI or you refer to it as machine learning, this type of automation is going to disrupt a ton of jobs and a lot of lives. There's a great article, in CNET, about this right now.

Microsoft has launched this AI hub, and they've done it, explicitly avoiding the east and the west coasts. Now, if you think about the schools that are, you know, on the East coast or West Coast. Right here by me, well just south of me, you've got MIT, you've got Harvard, you've got BU, you've got UNH here in my state. There are all kinds of excellent schools here. Head to the West Coast then you've got Stanford, Berkely, USC, CalTech and many others. And the list goes on and on. So, Microsoft said, hey, listen, we need to find a city where automation will have a substantial impact. That may be in the rust belt or the Midwest. We need to train these people. We need to help them to understand AI help them to understand the transition that will take place. Remember, change is the only constant.
During the industrial revolution, we had people all upset. Of course, you don't remember it personally, and neither do I because none of us were alive back then. I don't think. But do you remember the transition from the horse and buggy to the internal combustion engine? Do you remember what happened? What people were doing? What people were saying? You know, we're going to lose all these jobs as teamsters, think of New York City, you had people whose job was to go around with a shovel and a wheelbarrow and clean up after the horses, and not just during parades, right, this was a constant thing. Those people are going to lose their jobs. The people that provide the feed for the horses, the stables for the horses, the ones who breed the horses, that sell the horses, that drive the horses that load the carts and make the carts and make the wheels, and this is all going to change and it is going to be a horrible world.

Well, of course, what ended up happening was the exact opposite. We ended up with even more jobs. That's been the case with all types of technology over the ages. You know, I have got a great article that we wrote up on my website at Craig Peterson dot com, you should probably read if you're a CEO or business owner, because it addresses you and your problems, when it comes to automation. If you don't pay attention to this, you will be out of business. Okay, so it's a great article. Craig Peterson dot com, you have to read it.

So let's get back to Microsoft here. This project that they're doing is intended to upscale people on how to work alongside AI and robots. They're going to create this learning lab to prepare communities for jobs in the years ahead when this frankly, automation are going to disrupt the economy and the workforce. So, where did they go? What are they doing? They're explicitly avoiding hiring PhDs. And nothing against PhDs. I have a daughter working on hers, right now. It's, it's all well and good, but they tend to be very narrow. It tends not to be the real world, mainly when you're talking about people who are going to be losing their jobs to automation. Yeah, there's going to be some positions lost due to automation. We were talking a minute ago about these newspapers, well, they're all going to lose all of the writers as it will be entirely automated once AI kicks in. Then the same thing holds, for the editors, I don't know maybe editors are going to go first. You can still have people who pick some of the subjects, but eventually, AI will take that over two, because it's going to be better at that as well.

Well, Microsoft chose Louisville, Kentucky. Why Louisville? It is because 28% of the jobs in the Louisville area are at risk from automation.
Louisville has a strong manufacturing base, you know, you talked about Rust Belt. That's the definition of it. And in Louisville, about 12% of all jobs are in the manufacturing sector. So, Microsoft is investing in some new energy, some resources in the area. They're going to be building a center downtown, a real training center. They're going to hire four people to run this. They want people who have a four-year college degree or less. They're going to train them in how to train people in AI automation, working alongside automated systems, Right? Putting it all together. So kudos to them, frankly, great quote from CNET here, saying "we're really interested in seeing if we can help onboard people who have a two year degree, or most a four year degree, they're going to empower them with the tools, the resources, they're going to need to help everybody out. We think that in the next ten years, we will see more change in our society than we've seen in the last 250 years. Where that takes us, we don't even know. There's so much potential for us to reimagine ourselves and our community. That also means that we have to get ready for what the future holds for us."

AI is going to eliminate a lot of low-level jobs, a lot of repetitive tasks, and responsibilities that are easy to automate, like the writers that we talked about. Where are people who are already doing that? I don't know? If you read an article, and you say, man, this is not a very well written, the grammars maybe not great. Well, today people are going out and hiring others that are do something called spinning an article. I hired a writer two years ago, year and a half ago. And she was supposed to be writing original articles for me. She knew that. What I would do is say okay, Here are two or three articles on this topic that have some excellent points. Here are the points I want to emphasize. The idea was I would give her those articles. That way, she had an example of the topic, my detail, and then I would tell her what I thought she should put in the article.

That's pretty simple, Right? That's what you usually do. That's how people write books. That's how people get blamed for plagiarizing because they might have just taken a whole bunch of excerpts from other articles put them together, and then you go through, and you rewrite it because it's the expression of the thought that is copyrightable. The ideas are not copyrightable.

So, what she ended up doing was she'd take the article, and she would run it through some software that spun the material. What the software would do is change some of the verbs, some of the tenses move a few things around in minor ways. That way, it would pass the tests that I would run on it, Right? I'd run it through Grammarly and Hemingway and a couple of other programs. By the way, if you've never used Grammarly, man, you have to sign up for that. Be sure to sign up for the pro version, because it helps you with grammar and you will become a better writer as you see the corrections that it makes to your writing. Also in the paid or the pro version, it lets you know if any of the wording you used is stolen and or plagiarized from copyrighted material somewhere else. So I would run it through that and quickly double check it and clean it up because her grammar was not very good. Then we would post it. Well, I began taking a closer look at her work after a little while when I noticed some patterns. I fired her on the spot because it turned out she was using this spinning software. None of the stuff she had written for me was original content. I went back and tried to find everything that we had posted that she had put up and removed it.

That's what's happening with AI. As AI gets more advanced, and not much more sophisticated, just machine learning gets more advanced, more and more of the articles we see are going to be written by machines. It is estimated right now about half of the new content. Half of it, more than 50%, of the original content posted on the internet is, in fact, machine generated. So consider that.

Consider that with your business. What's your business? Is there any chance it could be automated? If you're, you know, an accountant or a tax preparer, automation can easily replace you. In the security business that I'm in, it is getting automated as we go forward more and more. Like the stacks of security software, that we sell at mainstream dot net and the firewalls, they are all fully integrated. There are a billion endpoints that are part of this, and each one is under constant monitoring. We pay to be part of that network and part of that community. That way we know within an hour when something new is spreading and automatically it's taken care of so, our customers don't get hit with it, Right? All of that happens, but we know it's going to be changing. So, keep that in mind.

At Craig Peterson dot com, got have a great article that we wrote, we did not spin it up on the website right now. It's aimed at CEOs and business owners, and it's talking about what's going on. We've only got a couple of minutes left.

So really quickly here. Maine became the first state in the Union that's prohibiting Internet Service Providers from selling users personal data, without explicit permission to do so. It is from futurism com. It may be the most comprehensive data privacy law in the US. And here's why this is from The Hill. It's the first data privacy law in the US that doesn't put the burden on consumers to make sure they've opted out of the company's privacy infringing practices.

In other words, you have that by default. It's going be interesting to see. Well, I'll let you know how it goes, and I'll keep you up on it.

Haha, there's so much we didn't get to this week. Cybersecurity all about business, not about consumers.

A great article from Alabama regarding the National Cyber Summit conference in Huntsville that happened last week and the two things that came out of the meeting. 1) to some degree, everybody's at risk. 2) nobody cares, according to Dr. Wesley McGrew. We'll have a look at that useful information for all of you.

A hack on a Federal database of photos of travelers coming into and out of the US occurred recently.

There is a murder trial, that's going to allow DNA evidence from a genealogy site, kinda-sorta, maybe you can read more about that. I have it up on my website from wired com.

Man Oh, man, oh, man. When we go into a company, and one of the first things we do is we install software that keeps all our their services, all of their systems, their servers, their desktops, everything up to date, entirely up to date.

Now, it sounds like when Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday, and you have automated patches turned on, okay, maybe that's going to take care of your Microsoft patches. By the way, we don't do it right then when Microsoft releases them. We wait a few days a week, typically, and test them, unless it's ultra-critical to make sure it doesn't break things, right?

Well, now the NSA is warning about this Windows OS bug. It is a huge bug, a huge deal. Its thought that right now, that particular bug could spread as far as WannaCry from a year and a half ago. Okay, this is huge, huge, huge. You heard it here first. It is a massive vulnerability CVE-2019-0708. If you're my client, don't worry about it. We have you taken care of here.

But not only is the NSA issuing a warning notice about this saying to update your systems.

Microsoft has issued patches to address BlueKeep, that's this bug, including taking a nearly unprecedented step of issuing patches to versions of its operating system going back to Windows XP. It is enormous, huge, huge, massive. Okay, it could put you out of business.

If you're home user, this could lock up your computer, maybe forever. So you've got to take care of this.

I think we're going to try and do a webinar on this. Showing you how to use the free tools Microsoft gives you. There's much more you can do and should do as a business. If you want more information, reach out to me, and we can help you — just me at Craig Peterson dot com that is: me at Craig Peterson dot com. If you have any other questions during the week, you can always text me. I am glad to help you out. Just call 855-385-5553 If you join my email list, you can also keep up to date on technology and let you know about seminars, webinars that are coming went up and other essential things, just 855-385-5553 and check to the newsletter from this morning.

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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.

The News Industry says Google is skimming billions from them -- listen in to hear the whole story.

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Airing date: 06/15/2019

Is Google really skimming billions from the news industry, Microsoft planning for future jobs in a unique way, The NSA is warning about the seriousness of a new vulnerability -- solution PATCH now!

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Come on, is this true? Could it be true?

Are publishers losing money because of Google and Google's news service?

Or is it getting better?

We'll talk about that interesting article from New York magazine and the big complaint by the New York Times.

This last week, we've got another hack to talk about! My gosh, this is just amazing. Another Federal Government database got hacked this week. In that database, there were tons of travelers information, including photos that the government's been hoarding, er I mean collecting.

By the way, you might remember, I was told you a couple of weeks ago about the feds putting in these new facial ID systems at some of the airports, ports of entry various places and the success that the beta test they conducted. They were using that to track people who were here legally or illegally, with an emphasis on illegally, for various reasons, I think, frankly and they also found some impersonators. So we'll talk a little bit about that and what happened there.

Next, we have a murder trial that is getting underway involving a guy arrested last year. Now you've probably heard about the Golden State killer, but I don't think you've heard about this guy. We were hoping this case might set some seriously relevant precedents going forward, but it looks like it might not. However, maybe it will happen in some future cases.

Of course, this is Craig Peterson. And we talk about tech every week right here. And more particularly, we tend to talk about security, because for close to four decades, it has been my passion. I first got hacked back in the early 90s. It was a worm, you know, think of computer worms like the kind that happened here or what a year and a half ago when millions of people were majorly inconvenienced by the what happened with the WannaCry worm that crawled through the internet and ransomed machines galore. It bought whole businesses down, except for my clients, right? I gotta, put that out there. We're going to talk about that today, too.

Hey, this week the NSA took an unprecedented step and issued a warning which is something they rarely if ever do.

Also, Microsoft did something amazing that they have never done before, so we'll get to all of that as well.

But let's go back to my original question here today. And that is, frankly, Google and the New York Times. They have well been going at it, and I would call it a fight if you were to ask me. It boils down to a report that came out of the industry. Now can you believe the industry, right? The industry report, this is from the News Media Alliance - Voice of News Media Industry‎. It is an industry group within the publishing news media. You know what, I love that term study because it can be used for almost anything, right? I'm at Starbucks, and I asked a couple of people questions. Well, I just completed a study, and it showed...

Well, in this particular case, the News Media Alliance says, that Google earned nearly $5 billion in revenue by stealing news articles from them.

So how does that work? If you search for something on Google, they will intermix some news articles in the search results and provide you with a little summary. If you go to news.google com, I don't know if you've ever done that, but news.google.com, you might want to check it out. It has new stories on all kinds of topics, including your local news.

How do you get that information? Or I should say, how does Google get that information? Well, they go out, and it does what is called scraping, and it scrapes news sites that are out there. Scraping is an awful thing, frankly. Because there they are, stealing stuff.

So, let's talk about what I do and what other news commentators do. You know, this is an editorial, Right? I'm a commentator on the news. I'm not a writer, and I'm certainly not a journalist. I'm a commentator, frankly. So when I'm looking at an article, you'll hear me talk about it. So, for instance, I'm going to refer to some material from New York Magazine here. And they've got some great quotes in it, and I am commenting about it, perfectly legal, I can do all of that.

Well, how about Google? When we're talking about the Fair Use doctrine that's in place, and it has been forever in our copyright law? Is it fair use for Google to look through a news site, find an article, summarize that article using some machine learning algorithms. They have some programs that rip thru these articles and summarize it, grabbing a sentence here and there, put it all together and put it up on their site. Google did not write that article. Google may have written, you know, a little bit of the stuff they're showing, but typically, they're just stealing the paragraph or so from the article.

If you were not aware, the courts have heard arguments about this very thing, and the way the law stands right now is that Google has the right to do what they are doing because when you click on that search result, it takes you directly into the original site.

You might remember the lawsuits that happened a few years back, on what they called, deep links. These were where various companies were saying, "No, no, no, We can't link to an article," you can only link to our homepage. That was because they wanted people to have the experience of going through their website. Well, the experience of going through the website, of course, was to see the ads on their homepage, while you were trying to find the article you want to see. By going through a few other pages, they were collecting hits on these pages, which gave them more impressions. More impressions meant more ad revenue. Why? They base ad revenue on the number of impressions. It depends on the algorithm chosen, impressions vs. clicks. That is a different type of payment.

Well anyways, they were hoping they'd get more money. Eventually, those died out as the lawsuits began dying out.

So it was decided, no, you can have a deep link, as I do. I have deep links, where I refer to an article, and it says read more typically, you click on that, bam, it takes you right over to the website that has a synopsis of the article or an editorial commentary and then a link to the original article itself.

So Google is being accused by this news media alliance of stealing their revenue. There is a great article, as I said, it's from New York Magazine, and you'll see reference to it up on my website at Craig Peterson dot com. It noted that Google estimated that Google News or product without ads brought in an estimated 100 million dollars in yearly revenue back in 2008. So that's more than a decade ago. So what happened was the played fast and loose with that number, and extrapolated forward saying, well, that hundred million in revenue means an estimated 4.7 billion of revenue in 2018 to Google from news content. I am sorry, but that is total crap. What does that $100 million number mean? It was Marissa Mayer, you might remember her, she floated that number at a conference when she was the head of Google search, a decade-plus ago. So what does it mean, frankly? Well, it means that Google estimated the value of its news service.

Now, remember, they're not running ads, they're not getting money directly off of that. What's the back end? Well, here's the bottom line on the back end, Google is showing news articles. They have them all there on the news.google.com site, and they're putting them into the search results, as well. The reality is that the traffic from Google search to news publishers sites has risen by more than 25%. Twenty-Five Percent. Now, wait a minute. You're complaining that Google is stealing your news articles, which yes, they are, technically. And you're complaining that this is a massive $5 billion hit approximately, to your industry. But yet, you also in this same press release from the News Media Alliance say that traffic from Google search to the publisher sites went up 25%? Doesn't that stat show that Google News is beneficial to these news organizations? I tend to think so. Frankly, I do.

Now you can't deny that Facebook isn't a significant influence out there. Along with YouTube, Hulu, and now Netflix and HBO, and all of these others that have great content available for cheap money. So maybe it's not just losing traffic, because of the, you know, the fact that Google shown it on the new site. Perhaps, it's because the eyeballs are going elsewhere. In the long run, Google is helping them. I don't know. It is all very confusing. I think maybe that's part of what they're intending. It does not appear to be hurting their business at all.

Hey, I was thinking this morning, as I was listening to some music. And I was thinking, you know, I used to have to buy CDs, and before that I used to have to buy LPs, right? Earlier it was 45s and back before that there were 78s, remember those things? I remember playing in my grandpa's basement, and he had a real old Victrola. He always had some extra needles sitting there next to it, so we could put in a new one when they wore out after playing on those old brittle records. It was quite an experience. Anyhow, you remember those days. Well, I was thinking, you know, when we're talking about Google News, and we're talking about streaming new sites, and streaming video, and streaming audio, how things have changed. Right now, if you subscribe to Apple Music, or Amazon music, or Spotify, or you name it, Pandora out there. Right now, if you're willing to pay about ten bucks a month, you can listen to as much music as you want to, from current artists through old artists. I am talking about decades of music, 10s of millions of songs for ten bucks a month, ten dollars, that's less than it used to cost for a CD. Think about inflation, Right?

When you bought a CD, when did those come out, in the early 80s is when they became quite popular. They were more expensive than an LP. Although they cost a lot less to make that an LP, an LP would cost them about two bucks to three bucks to produce whereas a CD would cost them five cents, but hey could charge more for the CD. Why? The music quality was better, Right? The audio experience was better. So, they could charge more. Oh, I get it. Buying one of those CDs in today's dollars is what about 30 to 40 dollars to listen to, to get one CD, to get less than an hour's worth of music. Typically, sometimes it is only about a half-an-hour or less. Now we get it for ten bucks. It is time for the News Industry to wake up. Everything has changed. Everything is changing. That it's the only constant in the universe, Right?

Of course, there's climate change. There has always been climate change. There will always be climate change. No one I've ever heard of denies that. It's just a fact of life. That gets the big question is, have we caused it?

Well, of course not. But we're not going there right now. Right? If we wanted to have a discussion, think about Star Trek, for instance. Where there is a global calamity going on and the globe is warming, or it's cooling. We have to assume that in Star Trek, they've got 1000 years worth of climate studies and AI that can predict the weather, climate, etc.

Unlike us, who can't get our current weather, right? Even for tomorrow. Artificial intelligence is a real potential, and they have a lot of possibilities here soon and in the future. We don't know what's going on and as someone wise once said: "The only constant, is change."

When you're talking about your business, I want you to think about it for a few minutes here. Whether you're an employee, or the owner, or the CEO of the business, what's going to change in the future? Remember, the future is going to be different than the present. It doesn't matter; there will always be change. Well, that's an interesting problem. It's something that, surprisingly, at least to me, Microsoft is trying to address.

What Microsoft has done is they are launching what they're calling an AI hub. AI is artificial intelligence, and while we don't have real artificial intelligence, today, and it'll still be a while before we do. They predicted that by 2020, we'd have AI running around, not so much. We do have machine learning and a couple of other types of technologies out there. But artificial intelligence where you don't have to train it, and it learns all by itself. Where you don't even need to teach it how to play a game, but it can figure it out by observation or whatever. Is that AI or is that machine learning? I think most of us would consider that machine learning. AI is coming, but here's the problem. Whether you call it AI or you refer to it as machine learning, this type of automation is going to disrupt a ton of jobs and a lot of lives. There's a great article, in CNET, about this right now.

Microsoft has launched this AI hub, and they've done it, explicitly avoiding the east and the west coasts. Now, if you think about the schools that are, you know, on the East coast or West Coast. Right here by me, well just south of me, you've got MIT, you've got Harvard, you've got BU, you've got UNH here in my state. There are all kinds of excellent schools here. Head to the West Coast then you've got Stanford, Berkely, USC, CalTech and many others. And the list goes on and on. So, Microsoft said, hey, listen, we need to find a city where automation will have a substantial impact. That may be in the rust belt or the Midwest. We need to train these people. We need to help them to understand AI help them to understand the transition that will take place. Remember, change is the only constant.
During the industrial revolution, we had people all upset. Of course, you don't remember it personally, and neither do I because none of us were alive back then. I don't think. But do you remember the transition from the horse and buggy to the internal combustion engine? Do you remember what happened? What people were doing? What people were saying? You know, we're going to lose all these jobs as teamsters, think of New York City, you had people whose job was to go around with a shovel and a wheelbarrow and clean up after the horses, and not just during parades, right, this was a constant thing. Those people are going to lose their jobs. The people that provide the feed for the horses, the stables for the horses, the ones who breed the horses, that sell the horses, that drive the horses that load the carts and make the carts and make the wheels, and this is all going to change and it is going to be a horrible world.

Well, of course, what ended up happening was the exact opposite. We ended up with even more jobs. That's been the case with all types of technology over the ages. You know, I have got a great article that we wrote up on my website at Craig Peterson dot com, you should probably read if you're a CEO or business owner, because it addresses you and your problems, when it comes to automation. If you don't pay attention to this, you will be out of business. Okay, so it's a great article. Craig Peterson dot com, you have to read it.

So let's get back to Microsoft here. This project that they're doing is intended to upscale people on how to work alongside AI and robots. They're going to create this learning lab to prepare communities for jobs in the years ahead when this frankly, automation are going to disrupt the economy and the workforce. So, where did they go? What are they doing? They're explicitly avoiding hiring PhDs. And nothing against PhDs. I have a daughter working on hers, right now. It's, it's all well and good, but they tend to be very narrow. It tends not to be the real world, mainly when you're talking about people who are going to be losing their jobs to automation. Yeah, there's going to be some positions lost due to automation. We were talking a minute ago about these newspapers, well, they're all going to lose all of the writers as it will be entirely automated once AI kicks in. Then the same thing holds, for the editors, I don't know maybe editors are going to go first. You can still have people who pick some of the subjects, but eventually, AI will take that over two, because it's going to be better at that as well.

Well, Microsoft chose Louisville, Kentucky. Why Louisville? It is because 28% of the jobs in the Louisville area are at risk from automation.
Louisville has a strong manufacturing base, you know, you talked about Rust Belt. That's the definition of it. And in Louisville, about 12% of all jobs are in the manufacturing sector. So, Microsoft is investing in some new energy, some resources in the area. They're going to be building a center downtown, a real training center. They're going to hire four people to run this. They want people who have a four-year college degree or less. They're going to train them in how to train people in AI automation, working alongside automated systems, Right? Putting it all together. So kudos to them, frankly, great quote from CNET here, saying "we're really interested in seeing if we can help onboard people who have a two year degree, or most a four year degree, they're going to empower them with the tools, the resources, they're going to need to help everybody out. We think that in the next ten years, we will see more change in our society than we've seen in the last 250 years. Where that takes us, we don't even know. There's so much potential for us to reimagine ourselves and our community. That also means that we have to get ready for what the future holds for us."

AI is going to eliminate a lot of low-level jobs, a lot of repetitive tasks, and responsibilities that are easy to automate, like the writers that we talked about. Where are people who are already doing that? I don't know? If you read an article, and you say, man, this is not a very well written, the grammars maybe not great. Well, today people are going out and hiring others that are do something called spinning an article. I hired a writer two years ago, year and a half ago. And she was supposed to be writing original articles for me. She knew that. What I would do is say okay, Here are two or three articles on this topic that have some excellent points. Here are the points I want to emphasize. The idea was I would give her those articles. That way, she had an example of the topic, my detail, and then I would tell her what I thought she should put in the article.

That's pretty simple, Right? That's what you usually do. That's how people write books. That's how people get blamed for plagiarizing because they might have just taken a whole bunch of excerpts from other articles put them together, and then you go through, and you rewrite it because it's the expression of the thought that is copyrightable. The ideas are not copyrightable.

So, what she ended up doing was she'd take the article, and she would run it through some software that spun the material. What the software would do is change some of the verbs, some of the tenses move a few things around in minor ways. That way, it would pass the tests that I would run on it, Right? I'd run it through Grammarly and Hemingway and a couple of other programs. By the way, if you've never used Grammarly, man, you have to sign up for that. Be sure to sign up for the pro version, because it helps you with grammar and you will become a better writer as you see the corrections that it makes to your writing. Also in the paid or the pro version, it lets you know if any of the wording you used is stolen and or plagiarized from copyrighted material somewhere else. So I would run it through that and quickly double check it and clean it up because her grammar was not very good. Then we would post it. Well, I began taking a closer look at her work after a little while when I noticed some patterns. I fired her on the spot because it turned out she was using this spinning software. None of the stuff she had written for me was original content. I went back and tried to find everything that we had posted that she had put up and removed it.

That's what's happening with AI. As AI gets more advanced, and not much more sophisticated, just machine learning gets more advanced, more and more of the articles we see are going to be written by machines. It is estimated right now about half of the new content. Half of it, more than 50%, of the original content posted on the internet is, in fact, machine generated. So consider that.

Consider that with your business. What's your business? Is there any chance it could be automated? If you're, you know, an accountant or a tax preparer, automation can easily replace you. In the security business that I'm in, it is getting automated as we go forward more and more. Like the stacks of security software, that we sell at mainstream dot net and the firewalls, they are all fully integrated. There are a billion endpoints that are part of this, and each one is under constant monitoring. We pay to be part of that network and part of that community. That way we know within an hour when something new is spreading and automatically it's taken care of so, our customers don't get hit with it, Right? All of that happens, but we know it's going to be changing. So, keep that in mind.

At Craig Peterson dot com, got have a great article that we wrote, we did not spin it up on the website right now. It's aimed at CEOs and business owners, and it's talking about what's going on. We've only got a couple of minutes left.

So really quickly here. Maine became the first state in the Union that's prohibiting Internet Service Providers from selling users personal data, without explicit permission to do so. It is from futurism com. It may be the most comprehensive data privacy law in the US. And here's why this is from The Hill. It's the first data privacy law in the US that doesn't put the burden on consumers to make sure they've opted out of the company's privacy infringing practices.

In other words, you have that by default. It's going be interesting to see. Well, I'll let you know how it goes, and I'll keep you up on it.

Haha, there's so much we didn't get to this week. Cybersecurity all about business, not about consumers.

A great article from Alabama regarding the National Cyber Summit conference in Huntsville that happened last week and the two things that came out of the meeting. 1) to some degree, everybody's at risk. 2) nobody cares, according to Dr. Wesley McGrew. We'll have a look at that useful information for all of you.

A hack on a Federal database of photos of travelers coming into and out of the US occurred recently.

There is a murder trial, that's going to allow DNA evidence from a genealogy site, kinda-sorta, maybe you can read more about that. I have it up on my website from wired com.

Man Oh, man, oh, man. When we go into a company, and one of the first things we do is we install software that keeps all our their services, all of their systems, their servers, their desktops, everything up to date, entirely up to date.

Now, it sounds like when Microsoft releases Patch Tuesday, and you have automated patches turned on, okay, maybe that's going to take care of your Microsoft patches. By the way, we don't do it right then when Microsoft releases them. We wait a few days a week, typically, and test them, unless it's ultra-critical to make sure it doesn't break things, right?

Well, now the NSA is warning about this Windows OS bug. It is a huge bug, a huge deal. Its thought that right now, that particular bug could spread as far as WannaCry from a year and a half ago. Okay, this is huge, huge, huge. You heard it here first. It is a massive vulnerability CVE-2019-0708. If you're my client, don't worry about it. We have you taken care of here.

But not only is the NSA issuing a warning notice about this saying to update your systems.

Microsoft has issued patches to address BlueKeep, that's this bug, including taking a nearly unprecedented step of issuing patches to versions of its operating system going back to Windows XP. It is enormous, huge, huge, massive. Okay, it could put you out of business.

If you're home user, this could lock up your computer, maybe forever. So you've got to take care of this.

I think we're going to try and do a webinar on this. Showing you how to use the free tools Microsoft gives you. There's much more you can do and should do as a business. If you want more information, reach out to me, and we can help you — just me at Craig Peterson dot com that is: me at Craig Peterson dot com. If you have any other questions during the week, you can always text me. I am glad to help you out. Just call 855-385-5553 If you join my email list, you can also keep up to date on technology and let you know about seminars, webinars that are coming went up and other essential things, just 855-385-5553 and check to the newsletter from this morning.

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Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we touched on a whole bunch of topics in the news. We discussed whether we should trust Google.  We talked about Autonomous vehicles and the societal implications and I talked about two-factor authentication and how you can protect yourself from sim-jacking.

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Airing date: 06/12/2019

Can You Trust Google?, Security Summer, Autonomous Cars, Two-Factor Authentication

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Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I heard "Big Papi" took his first steps in the hospital today. So, that's good. It brings back thoughts of everyone that has family and friends in the hospital that aren't celebrities and people that are injured. My thoughts and prayers go out to everybody every day. It's just a reminder of how fragile things can be in this life. This morning I was on with our friends Ken and Matt up at WGAN. And as usual, we spoke about a few different things. We had quite a little conversation about trusting Google, should you trust them? Can you trust them? There was a surprising revelation that came out, in fact, just last week about them, and what they've been doing, during the previous 14 years, a significant security problem. We had a chat about two-factor authentication, and I gave them workaround, a way to make it safe, even if you have to use text messages SMS for two-factor authentication because that's not secure. But there is a reliable way to do it.
We talked about a little bit more of course about autonomous cars which are all in the news again, and what's the safety factor there? How far away are we? I took a couple of different angles than I made with Jim Polito on that discussion today, as well. So here we go. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer, starting up in July, I will start sending out some emails next week, things have been crazy around here. As you can imagine, with all of the companies now getting hacked, and the losing money coming to me, and you know, everyone in the security business, which, of course, is way understaffed. And shout out to those of you who are trying to get into security, I got another email this last week from someone that was starting into a security career, and he's in his 50s. So there's something to be learned there, I want to encourage everybody. Remember the adage, "You can teach an old dog new tricks." It's a terrible saying. But you can learn a lot of this stuff, you really can. And there's a lot of people out there who have been trying to convince you that you can't do that, really all you need is their little bit of anti-virus software, or whatever it is, you know, they're selling that to you. Because that's all, they have. That's all they know. Well, they're not doing you any favors. They are trying to mess with you. You can learn this stuff. That's what the security summer going to be about this year, and I'm going to be teaching this some free classes. You know, I get paid for doing this too. And if you want more in depth, then you're probably going to want to sign up for one of my courses. But I want to get this information to everybody. Because if you know me well enough, you know, I got hacked. That was 30 years ago, about now, a long time ago. And it scared the daylights out of me. And I started to learn about this and trying to figure it out. It's taken me years, decades, to get to the point where I'm at now. And I am excited to share a lot of this with you.
Just watch for my security summer. If you want to find out more, email me at Craig Peterson dot com, ask any questions that you might have. And I'll make sure you know, when I'm starting this whole little program up, because I want you to be aware of all of the major points here, right, I'm not trying to turn into security experts, that takes quite a bit of work. However, I do want you to be familiar with all of the problems. All the talk about hacks that have happened, how it happened, what should have been done by those companies give you an idea, but as well as what you can do to protect yourself a few tips on how to protect yourself, it's going to be kind of a busy summer. And if you sign up, and you'll be able to get a notification as to when these little courses are going to happen. And I'm going to leave them up for about a week or so you know because it does get stale. And I do need to revisit them. I don't want want to put them up blankly for the world to see forever. So keep an eye out. Email me at Craig Peterson dot com, and now we'll go to Ken and Matt. I want to encourage you guys, and you can learn this. There are the people that just been messing with you. You know the bottom line.

Ken
Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at 738 every Wednesday, and this is 738 on a Wednesday, which means you're talking to Craig Peterson. Craig. Welcome to the program, sir.

Craig
Hey, good morning. It is a Wednesday but is it every Wednesday? Today?

Ken
That's a good point. And you know what it is a lie in and of itself because I believe we did not talk to you last Wednesday. So it's most Wednesdays.

Craig
That's true. Yeah, I took a bit of vacation. I'm a motorcycle guy. And I have a motorcycle that is 32 years old. It's a 1987 BMW with 143,000 miles on it now. The only thing I had to do is replace the rear wheel on that bike. It's just been a phenomenal bike. So, I went up to like George in New York, and we rode around with some buddies for a week. And it was just fantastic.

Ken
Well, good. But that doesn't mean tech news stops. I hopped on your website, Craig Peterson dot com. To see what kind of top stories you had there and you have one topic here. Why are we still trusting Google?
Can you answer that?

Matt
Great question. Well, they did say early in Google's history that they that their whole operating philosophy was Don't be evil, right. Are they evil? Now? Did you notice they took that off of their website? Right?

Craig
Yeah, exactly. I don't know why we're still trusting some of these different companies out there. They are selling all kinds of information about us. And, you know, that's not necessarily a bad thing when you get right down to it. Because, frankly, do you want to see car commercials all the time? Or would you rather see a car commercial when you are looking to buy a car, right? And, again, goes back, Matt, to what you've said many times, and that is if you're not paying for something, you might want to consider that you're the product and not the customer. And they have been doing all kinds of things. We're selling our data. But the other big problem that came out very recently, within the last couple of weeks is that in fact, Google has been storing our usernames and passwords for people that were using, basically their G Suite services. But it's been out there for 14 years in the clear. They're pretty good about security, although Android itself isn't the best out there. But now their G Suite customers are a little upset because of what's been out there. I was talking just yesterday with an employee who had been working at a company that was collecting personal information. They were collecting home addresses, phone numbers, and they were taking donations and were selling them. It was a great little company doing just all kinds of super things to raise funds for some good charitable organizations. It turns out they were using Google Forms to collect all this personal information about donors. You know, come on, guys, we cannot trust Google, we're using more and more of these online websites, software as a service. Think about Google Sheets, for instance, as well as Google Forms. And we're putting data in there that may end up getting exposed. We should not be doing that. Think twice about it. In our profession, we refer to this as shadow IT or shadow information technology. Historically, we had these big rooms, these big glass rooms with all of the computers in them. And we had true professionals that were running them, and making sure data was being kept safe, and information was not being stolen and leaked out. Now we've got the marketing department going out and creating contracts with companies that have online services, we have the same thing happening with sales and manufacturing and distribution and our purchasing managers are our data is not safe, and it's never been less secure. So be careful what you're putting out there, what you're given to Google what you're given to these other companies because frankly, it's a real problem.

Matt
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us, most Wednesdays at this time to talk about the world of technology. And today is one of those days, Craig, while you're talking, I'm looking at a story on CBS This Morning about Uber's secret self-driving test facility for their self-driving autonomous cars. I know you had a story also about whether or not autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time. And I think it does beg the question, how prepared for prime time are these things? I know, it's a conversation I've had several times, and it seems like the older the person I'm talking to the more it freaks them out that there's no driver behind the wheel. I think it freaks everybody out. It just freaks out, you know, people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s a lot more than it does everybody else. But statistics, you know, are being what they are, you know, often they can be safer, then human behind the wheel. So what do you think? I mean, are they close to ready to take over the roads?

Craig
Well, I really like I mentioned this yesterday. I liked this story that came out in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. And it said that autonomous vehicles, these self-driving cars are 90% ready and all we have left is 90% to go. In other words, yeah, there's a lot of things that look like we're ready to go and it might be just a few more years, and we'll have autonomous vehicles. In reality, it's probably going to be quite a while yet. And you talk about you know, older guys like Ken and myself who are over 30. And we're looking at some of these things. And we're concerned because we've seen failures before. Do you remember Cadillac v 864?

Matt
Back then, I wasn't much of a car person.

Ken
I did have a Mustang in 1960.

Matt
Do you remember the Corvair? Unsafe at any speed?

Craig
I do, and you know, Ralph Nader thing, we still have Nader dots on our tires. But that was an example back in the early 80s of Cadillac trying to make cars more efficient, the engines more efficient, and they had a V-8 engine. And what would happen is if you got onto the highway and you started driving, of course, at highway speeds, you're going down the road, you don't need as much horsepower to keep a vehicle going at a pace as you need to get the car starting at that speed. So they said okay, well, we're going to have the system that automatically shut down cylinders. So you'd be a V-8, and you'd be just roaring up and you getting on the highway and you're often running. Then it would cut back to six cylinders, even four cylinders. The concept was wonderful. But what ended up happening is that engine would say, as you're at a stop sign, oh my I need more horsepower, counteract the braking. Of course, They were not thinking about the brakes very well at the time. And then the car would lunge into the intersection so that you could get t-boned. Fast forward not very many years, and we had the Toyota with a sudden acceleration problem. That turned out to be a software error, where much the same thing was happening. A car would jump into the intersection. We're not going to get into all of the details behind it all. But I think with age comes from experience. And we've had some horrible experiences over the years with vehicles and some of this newer technology. So Matt, to answer your question, a lot is going on the autonomous vehicle space.
In some cases, the cars are much, much safer, you look at millions of miles driven, compare human drivers to these autonomous vehicles, and the autonomous vehicles almost always win. But we also now have prejudices against the self-driving cars, social warriors are, you know, get on your horses here. Because there are people who when there's an autonomous vehicle on the road, or they think it's a ton of mess, they behave differently. Now they've been tested have been run, I don't know if you've seen any of these pictures with autonomous vehicles, where they took the driver's seat, and they made it quite a bit deeper, think of thicker padding on that seat. And they hid a driver inside the driver's position. You could not see them unless you looked exceptionally close. You could not see that there was a driver in the vehicle. Then the driver just drove around, caught down and of course, the cameras everywhere so they could see what the people's reactions were. People were going out of their way to mess with the car. They pedestrians were jumping in front of it. Vehicles were cutting it off, slamming on their brakes, doing everything they could to make it so that autonomous vehicle would get involved in an accident. I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to see what it would do. Of course, it wasn't an autonomous vehicle. There's a human driver in there. We, as a society, as people, are not ready for these yet. And frankly, I think the Wall Street Journal's right - We're 90% of the way there. And honestly, we have 90% of the way to go. Because there are so many things, we haven't even considered yet.

Ken
When he joins us, most Wednesdays at 738, to fill us in on tech news.
We at the radio station. I don't want to be critical of our radio station. However, they started this two-factor authentication. So every
time I get some on my email, they have to send me a text message with a code. I think this is a royal pain in the butt. I want you to tell me they shouldn't do that.

Craig
Okay, can they not do that.

Ken
Thanks so much. Thank you for joining us today.

Craig
I will leave it at that. Yeah, here's what's going to, first of all, there's a big problem with the way they're doing it. That is that there is something called SIMjacking or hijacking of your SIM card. So if they're sending you a text, that is very dangerous. What's been happening is that if you are a target, now they're not doing this in a broad fishing attempt. If you can are a target, and the criminals know they want to go after you, they can now take over your cell phone, and they will get the text. So it doesn't do a whole lot of good from that aspect. We use something called DUO. D-U-O, which is fantastic. For two factor authentication, we use something called Yubi keys, which are very good as well. If your company's requiring you to us a text message for authentication, there is a relatively safe way of doing it. And that is you can use something like Google Voice, assuming your Google account has not been hacked, right. But Google Voice, where there is no SIM card, there is no cell phone that SIM card to hijack. If you use this and it is what I do for places that have to have a text message sent for two-factor authentication. So if they have to send you a text message, it goes to Google Voice. I have my own little phone company, and I use that as well. That way the text message will come in via an app to your phone, you can check the app, and now you're reasonably safe. But yeah, in this day and age, you know two-factor authentication is something that that does make sense. We do have to draw a line, and that one does it make the most sense. I'd like it to authenticate you at most every four hours or once a day, particularly for emails, if you have to do it every time. It gets a little bit old, pretty darn fast. But you know it's the reality of today's world.

Matt
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, he joins us at this time every Wednesday to find out exactly what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, we only have a couple of minutes left. So lastly, I will ask you whether or not you judge everyone on social media? Are you part of the mob that rules everyone?

Craig
Oh man. I am not. I don't jump on anybody's back. I just had that happen to me with a significant hacking group. As you know, I run the national webinars for the FBI Infragard program. I'm pretty visible out there in the security world, right. I do lots of radio interviews and TV and stuff. I posted an article on my website and got jumped on by a small mob out there. We've got to be careful remember it's so easy to say something negative online. Our kids are getting bullied every day. Bullying seems to be quite a habit nowadays. I don't know what happened to free speech. We have these militant people out there these fascist like the Antifas. Total fascist don't want to hear what you have to say. And these internet mobs have become a real thing and a very negative thing. From my viewpoint. Anyways.

Ken
Good news as our tech guru joins us most Wednesdays at 738.
Thank you, Mr. Peterson. We will talk to you next Wednesday.

Craig
Take care.

Matt
All right. Thanks a lot, Craig. We appreciate it.

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Craig is in the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt. This morning,  we touched on a whole bunch of topics in the news. We discussed whether we should trust Google.  We talked about Autonomous vehicles and the societal implications and I talked about two-factor authentication and how you can protect yourself from sim-jacking.

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Transcript:

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Airing date: 06/12/2019

Can You Trust Google?, Security Summer, Autonomous Cars, Two-Factor Authentication

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Craig
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I heard "Big Papi" took his first steps in the hospital today. So, that's good. It brings back thoughts of everyone that has family and friends in the hospital that aren't celebrities and people that are injured. My thoughts and prayers go out to everybody every day. It's just a reminder of how fragile things can be in this life. This morning I was on with our friends Ken and Matt up at WGAN. And as usual, we spoke about a few different things. We had quite a little conversation about trusting Google, should you trust them? Can you trust them? There was a surprising revelation that came out, in fact, just last week about them, and what they've been doing, during the previous 14 years, a significant security problem. We had a chat about two-factor authentication, and I gave them workaround, a way to make it safe, even if you have to use text messages SMS for two-factor authentication because that's not secure. But there is a reliable way to do it.
We talked about a little bit more of course about autonomous cars which are all in the news again, and what's the safety factor there? How far away are we? I took a couple of different angles than I made with Jim Polito on that discussion today, as well. So here we go. Also, don't forget, we've got our security summer, starting up in July, I will start sending out some emails next week, things have been crazy around here. As you can imagine, with all of the companies now getting hacked, and the losing money coming to me, and you know, everyone in the security business, which, of course, is way understaffed. And shout out to those of you who are trying to get into security, I got another email this last week from someone that was starting into a security career, and he's in his 50s. So there's something to be learned there, I want to encourage everybody. Remember the adage, "You can teach an old dog new tricks." It's a terrible saying. But you can learn a lot of this stuff, you really can. And there's a lot of people out there who have been trying to convince you that you can't do that, really all you need is their little bit of anti-virus software, or whatever it is, you know, they're selling that to you. Because that's all, they have. That's all they know. Well, they're not doing you any favors. They are trying to mess with you. You can learn this stuff. That's what the security summer going to be about this year, and I'm going to be teaching this some free classes. You know, I get paid for doing this too. And if you want more in depth, then you're probably going to want to sign up for one of my courses. But I want to get this information to everybody. Because if you know me well enough, you know, I got hacked. That was 30 years ago, about now, a long time ago. And it scared the daylights out of me. And I started to learn about this and trying to figure it out. It's taken me years, decades, to get to the point where I'm at now. And I am excited to share a lot of this with you.
Just watch for my security summer. If you want to find out more, email me at Craig Peterson dot com, ask any questions that you might have. And I'll make sure you know, when I'm starting this whole little program up, because I want you to be aware of all of the major points here, right, I'm not trying to turn into security experts, that takes quite a bit of work. However, I do want you to be familiar with all of the problems. All the talk about hacks that have happened, how it happened, what should have been done by those companies give you an idea, but as well as what you can do to protect yourself a few tips on how to protect yourself, it's going to be kind of a busy summer. And if you sign up, and you'll be able to get a notification as to when these little courses are going to happen. And I'm going to leave them up for about a week or so you know because it does get stale. And I do need to revisit them. I don't want want to put them up blankly for the world to see forever. So keep an eye out. Email me at Craig Peterson dot com, and now we'll go to Ken and Matt. I want to encourage you guys, and you can learn this. There are the people that just been messing with you. You know the bottom line.

Ken
Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at 738 every Wednesday, and this is 738 on a Wednesday, which means you're talking to Craig Peterson. Craig. Welcome to the program, sir.

Craig
Hey, good morning. It is a Wednesday but is it every Wednesday? Today?

Ken
That's a good point. And you know what it is a lie in and of itself because I believe we did not talk to you last Wednesday. So it's most Wednesdays.

Craig
That's true. Yeah, I took a bit of vacation. I'm a motorcycle guy. And I have a motorcycle that is 32 years old. It's a 1987 BMW with 143,000 miles on it now. The only thing I had to do is replace the rear wheel on that bike. It's just been a phenomenal bike. So, I went up to like George in New York, and we rode around with some buddies for a week. And it was just fantastic.

Ken
Well, good. But that doesn't mean tech news stops. I hopped on your website, Craig Peterson dot com. To see what kind of top stories you had there and you have one topic here. Why are we still trusting Google?
Can you answer that?

Matt
Great question. Well, they did say early in Google's history that they that their whole operating philosophy was Don't be evil, right. Are they evil? Now? Did you notice they took that off of their website? Right?

Craig
Yeah, exactly. I don't know why we're still trusting some of these different companies out there. They are selling all kinds of information about us. And, you know, that's not necessarily a bad thing when you get right down to it. Because, frankly, do you want to see car commercials all the time? Or would you rather see a car commercial when you are looking to buy a car, right? And, again, goes back, Matt, to what you've said many times, and that is if you're not paying for something, you might want to consider that you're the product and not the customer. And they have been doing all kinds of things. We're selling our data. But the other big problem that came out very recently, within the last couple of weeks is that in fact, Google has been storing our usernames and passwords for people that were using, basically their G Suite services. But it's been out there for 14 years in the clear. They're pretty good about security, although Android itself isn't the best out there. But now their G Suite customers are a little upset because of what's been out there. I was talking just yesterday with an employee who had been working at a company that was collecting personal information. They were collecting home addresses, phone numbers, and they were taking donations and were selling them. It was a great little company doing just all kinds of super things to raise funds for some good charitable organizations. It turns out they were using Google Forms to collect all this personal information about donors. You know, come on, guys, we cannot trust Google, we're using more and more of these online websites, software as a service. Think about Google Sheets, for instance, as well as Google Forms. And we're putting data in there that may end up getting exposed. We should not be doing that. Think twice about it. In our profession, we refer to this as shadow IT or shadow information technology. Historically, we had these big rooms, these big glass rooms with all of the computers in them. And we had true professionals that were running them, and making sure data was being kept safe, and information was not being stolen and leaked out. Now we've got the marketing department going out and creating contracts with companies that have online services, we have the same thing happening with sales and manufacturing and distribution and our purchasing managers are our data is not safe, and it's never been less secure. So be careful what you're putting out there, what you're given to Google what you're given to these other companies because frankly, it's a real problem.

Matt
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us, most Wednesdays at this time to talk about the world of technology. And today is one of those days, Craig, while you're talking, I'm looking at a story on CBS This Morning about Uber's secret self-driving test facility for their self-driving autonomous cars. I know you had a story also about whether or not autonomous vehicles are ready for prime time. And I think it does beg the question, how prepared for prime time are these things? I know, it's a conversation I've had several times, and it seems like the older the person I'm talking to the more it freaks them out that there's no driver behind the wheel. I think it freaks everybody out. It just freaks out, you know, people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s a lot more than it does everybody else. But statistics, you know, are being what they are, you know, often they can be safer, then human behind the wheel. So what do you think? I mean, are they close to ready to take over the roads?

Craig
Well, I really like I mentioned this yesterday. I liked this story that came out in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago. And it said that autonomous vehicles, these self-driving cars are 90% ready and all we have left is 90% to go. In other words, yeah, there's a lot of things that look like we're ready to go and it might be just a few more years, and we'll have autonomous vehicles. In reality, it's probably going to be quite a while yet. And you talk about you know, older guys like Ken and myself who are over 30. And we're looking at some of these things. And we're concerned because we've seen failures before. Do you remember Cadillac v 864?

Matt
Back then, I wasn't much of a car person.

Ken
I did have a Mustang in 1960.

Matt
Do you remember the Corvair? Unsafe at any speed?

Craig
I do, and you know, Ralph Nader thing, we still have Nader dots on our tires. But that was an example back in the early 80s of Cadillac trying to make cars more efficient, the engines more efficient, and they had a V-8 engine. And what would happen is if you got onto the highway and you started driving, of course, at highway speeds, you're going down the road, you don't need as much horsepower to keep a vehicle going at a pace as you need to get the car starting at that speed. So they said okay, well, we're going to have the system that automatically shut down cylinders. So you'd be a V-8, and you'd be just roaring up and you getting on the highway and you're often running. Then it would cut back to six cylinders, even four cylinders. The concept was wonderful. But what ended up happening is that engine would say, as you're at a stop sign, oh my I need more horsepower, counteract the braking. Of course, They were not thinking about the brakes very well at the time. And then the car would lunge into the intersection so that you could get t-boned. Fast forward not very many years, and we had the Toyota with a sudden acceleration problem. That turned out to be a software error, where much the same thing was happening. A car would jump into the intersection. We're not going to get into all of the details behind it all. But I think with age comes from experience. And we've had some horrible experiences over the years with vehicles and some of this newer technology. So Matt, to answer your question, a lot is going on the autonomous vehicle space.
In some cases, the cars are much, much safer, you look at millions of miles driven, compare human drivers to these autonomous vehicles, and the autonomous vehicles almost always win. But we also now have prejudices against the self-driving cars, social warriors are, you know, get on your horses here. Because there are people who when there's an autonomous vehicle on the road, or they think it's a ton of mess, they behave differently. Now they've been tested have been run, I don't know if you've seen any of these pictures with autonomous vehicles, where they took the driver's seat, and they made it quite a bit deeper, think of thicker padding on that seat. And they hid a driver inside the driver's position. You could not see them unless you looked exceptionally close. You could not see that there was a driver in the vehicle. Then the driver just drove around, caught down and of course, the cameras everywhere so they could see what the people's reactions were. People were going out of their way to mess with the car. They pedestrians were jumping in front of it. Vehicles were cutting it off, slamming on their brakes, doing everything they could to make it so that autonomous vehicle would get involved in an accident. I don't know. Maybe they're just trying to see what it would do. Of course, it wasn't an autonomous vehicle. There's a human driver in there. We, as a society, as people, are not ready for these yet. And frankly, I think the Wall Street Journal's right - We're 90% of the way there. And honestly, we have 90% of the way to go. Because there are so many things, we haven't even considered yet.

Ken
When he joins us, most Wednesdays at 738, to fill us in on tech news.
We at the radio station. I don't want to be critical of our radio station. However, they started this two-factor authentication. So every
time I get some on my email, they have to send me a text message with a code. I think this is a royal pain in the butt. I want you to tell me they shouldn't do that.

Craig
Okay, can they not do that.

Ken
Thanks so much. Thank you for joining us today.

Craig
I will leave it at that. Yeah, here's what's going to, first of all, there's a big problem with the way they're doing it. That is that there is something called SIMjacking or hijacking of your SIM card. So if they're sending you a text, that is very dangerous. What's been happening is that if you are a target, now they're not doing this in a broad fishing attempt. If you can are a target, and the criminals know they want to go after you, they can now take over your cell phone, and they will get the text. So it doesn't do a whole lot of good from that aspect. We use something called DUO. D-U-O, which is fantastic. For two factor authentication, we use something called Yubi keys, which are very good as well. If your company's requiring you to us a text message for authentication, there is a relatively safe way of doing it. And that is you can use something like Google Voice, assuming your Google account has not been hacked, right. But Google Voice, where there is no SIM card, there is no cell phone that SIM card to hijack. If you use this and it is what I do for places that have to have a text message sent for two-factor authentication. So if they have to send you a text message, it goes to Google Voice. I have my own little phone company, and I use that as well. That way the text message will come in via an app to your phone, you can check the app, and now you're reasonably safe. But yeah, in this day and age, you know two-factor authentication is something that that does make sense. We do have to draw a line, and that one does it make the most sense. I'd like it to authenticate you at most every four hours or once a day, particularly for emails, if you have to do it every time. It gets a little bit old, pretty darn fast. But you know it's the reality of today's world.

Matt
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, he joins us at this time every Wednesday to find out exactly what's happening in the world of technology. Craig, we only have a couple of minutes left. So lastly, I will ask you whether or not you judge everyone on social media? Are you part of the mob that rules everyone?

Craig
Oh man. I am not. I don't jump on anybody's back. I just had that happen to me with a significant hacking group. As you know, I run the national webinars for the FBI Infragard program. I'm pretty visible out there in the security world, right. I do lots of radio interviews and TV and stuff. I posted an article on my website and got jumped on by a small mob out there. We've got to be careful remember it's so easy to say something negative online. Our kids are getting bullied every day. Bullying seems to be quite a habit nowadays. I don't know what happened to free speech. We have these militant people out there these fascist like the Antifas. Total fascist don't want to hear what you have to say. And these internet mobs have become a real thing and a very negative thing. From my viewpoint. Anyways.

Ken
Good news as our tech guru joins us most Wednesdays at 738.
Thank you, Mr. Peterson. We will talk to you next Wednesday.

Craig
Take care.

Matt
All right. Thanks a lot, Craig. We appreciate it.

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Craig was on with Jim Polito. Today, they discussed the latest goings on with autonomous vehicles

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Transcript:

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Airing date: 06/11/2019

Autonomous Vehicles

Craig
Hey, good morning, everybody. A little update on Ortiz, he got flown into Boston, the Red Sox flew him in. He's a Boston general, I guess he had like a five-hour operation. And they did more to help with his gunshot wound. It's just crazy. Anyhow, Mr. Technology got pumped off this morning. If this happens, sometimes I'm on a phone call. I am, you know, calling in on the phone to the radio station. I'm talking to them. I got knocked off, and I don't notice that I got knocked off, right. Well, it happened this morning. We will go into some detail about autonomous cars and what that all means including automatic lane change features and those types of things. That's what we talked about this morning with Jim Polito. I thought it was interesting. In fact, that's all we talked about. There are some implications to all this autonomous technology that I don't think many people have really thought about

Jim
Here is our friend, one of the most popular guests on the show. And all around great guy Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru. Good morning to you Craig

Craig
Hey, good morning, Jim.

Jim
Craig we've been spending the morning, the gentleman and I talking back and forth about autonomous cars or self-driving cars. We even get into discussing that adult film that was shot in the front seat of a self-driving Tesla while it was going down the road. We don't need to get into that here. What we want to get into is the question, are these cars ready to hit the road? Are they really prepared to hit the road?

Craig
It's an excellent question. The answer is, and I love this, this explanation that the Wall Street Journal had here about a month or two ago. They were saying driverless cars are 90% here. There's only another 90% left to go.

Jim
See you get it. You get the Tech Talk stuff. And then you get a little bit of comedy. Don't forget to tip your server. So yeah, it does seem that way. Oh, yeah, we're there. But don't try to take a left turn.

Craig
Yeah, exactly. There is a long way to go. There's a lot of acceptance problems still. In fact, I don't know if you're aware of this. But right now human drivers are quote, unquote, these so-called driverless cars. You probably haven't seen one of these.

Jim
Oh, you know what I see it the social justice warriors coming out now. Does the car has feelings? I don't know.

Craig
Here's what's been going on. Several companies have been trying to figure out how people will respond to driverless cars. So what they've done is that they've modified these vehicles, so that they change the driver's seat. So the person is actually sitting there. But they're sitting inside the driver's seat, and they eat. Unless you look very closely, you can't tell there's a person there. And then they have the driver drive the car around. So from just a casual observers point of view, it's just a car driving. You know, it's kind of like those, those body suits. I don't know if you've seen them, and you know, they're completely covered head to toe, yet you can see outright, yeah, the same sort of thing, except they're covered with the fabric of the seat. So they drive these things around. And they've been doing experiments trying to figure out what are we going to do, how we're going to do it? And how people are going to respond things like, you know, do we put a cow catcher on the front or pedestrian capture, right? Do we need to have lights indicating, hey, pedestrians, I'm going to start moving forward now, or I'm going to make a left turn all of these types of things? They've been finding people bullying the cars, knocking them on the hood, stepping into the way of them.

Jim
Oh, my God, you can't do that. These cars have feelings.

Craig
Let's make it even worse. Here's what happened here. When these pretend autonomous cars are driving in traffic, and people notice the car, other vehicles will do stupid things to mess with the autonomous vehicle. They will pull right in front of it, they'll break hard. And the quality of the studies is saying that people are trying to confound these cars, overrule them exploit the driverless vehicles. It has the automakers and tech firms really concerned. Obviously, there's one thing to have technology that works great in a lab, or maybe it works great on the streets of Phoenix, which is where a lot of these tests are going on right now. However when you've got a greedy human driver, and we've all seen them, and of course, it's not on the other guy.

Jim
Of course, it's never the guy in the other cars, always.

Jim
The connection is gone bad. He can't hear me. I'm going to drop the call and have him call back. Because we've lost him. Basically, to recap, where Craig was right now is that Yeah, you've got people out there seeing an autonomous car thinking oh, let me see what will happen if I drive in front of it. Or if I do this, it'll mess things up. That is not good. That is not good. And you know what that is? That's going to be an issue. When you have 50%, autonomous cars on the road, and then 50% of people just driving, because you know this is not going to happen overnight, everybody's going to have a self-driving car. It's just not going to work that way. The way it's going to work is some people are going to have them only like right now very few a tiny percentage of people have a car that will self-drive right now. And that's, that's what worries me. Oh, and by the way, if I can just add here a little personal thing. And I think Steve, you'll get a kick out of this is that, I do know that a substantial portion of the people listening to us right now are in cars. So, what if they could be in the car and be watching a video? You know, or listening to you and me?

Jim
Yeah, well, I mean, the two hours of the show is simulcast if you have charter TV three, channel 193. In general, they're sitting there watching Game of Thrones rather than looking at the road. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, but what I mean is I'm talking job security. I'm being very selfish about this concern. Oh, well, we're fine. Were you sure?

Jim
Oh, yeah. These things? Oh, yeah. I mean, I got I just, I understand what Craig is saying, but I don't I just I don't see how and he sort of touched on it. I don't under I don't see how the autonomous vehicles and humans are supposed to interact together. I just I don't really trust either of them. I don't trust humans behind the wheel. And I don't really trust robots behind the wheel, and you couldn't put the two of them together. I think it's a disaster. Know, people. Look, you will talk about looking for insurance claims gamble, throwing themselves in front of cars, people. Yeah, it's one thing to mess with them. It's another thing to be able to sue Tesla and then get rid of your you know, Geo Prism and gets yourself a nice little upgrade.

Jim
Yeah, well, we'll wait a minute. Hold on think I think about this. Okay. Not to be all science fiction here. But you know, with the, you know, with the artificial intelligence, the whole like the matrix, that movie, like the Terminator, that movie. What if all of a sudden, you know, the car gets mad at you for smacking it on the hood? And speaking of slapping it on the hood. Here is Craig back. I'm sorry, Craig, that connection just went south. You couldn't hear us. And you're, you were like in a tunnel. And again, I think it's the phone. I don't think it's anything other than that. I know, the machines are trying to shut you down. But yeah, Craig, I see you smack the car in the hood. And once we have artificial intelligence, it wants to get even with you. And then it's like, the movie Stephen King the book, Christine. And it's, it's running over your car?

Craig
Yeah. Well, here's another aspect of this. And then Sorry, I lost you there I was going on the spin and then nobody. But let's look at, for instance, people's driving culture. And there's a great article that just came out in Fast Company about a week ago, as well. It was talking about people's preference to drive versus flying. What they found is that people today, if it's a five-hour drive, no matter how long the flight is, if it's a five-hour drive, and if they're going to rent a car, on the other side, two-thirds of people prefer to drive. Yeah, and the numbers changed dramatically. If you've got a 10-hour drive, obviously, the vast majority of people want to fly. However, if it's in the tournament vehicle, a truly autonomous where they can have a nap, they can be there reading, they can be working, having meetings, that number goes way up. And what they found is even in the longest drive that they were looking at, which is a 45-hour drive, right now only one in 10 people would prefer to drive themselves. It's a handful. Think about driving to the airport, right all the crap you have to go through. But with an autonomous vehicle that changes to one in six people would prefer to drive themselves on a 45-hour drive, which means a quarter these stats of the airline industry would lose at least 10% of its travelers. And we're also looking at this change, it's also going to make it so that we don't have to expand our roads. They're thinking we could get, you know, 10 years more on the roadways that we're building or expanding than we would otherwise because the vehicles are going to be moving more progressively. You're not going to have somebody who hits the brakes and causes a major slow down and accidents and things. We're not there yet. There are a lot of companies working on it. Remember Fiat-Chrysler, they just broke off their talks with Reneau, yeah. And they turned around. And they got an agreement with his self-driving technology company in California called Brora. We've got another company out now with what's called LIDAR tech. They just got 170 million dollar funding round for self-driving cars. And this is just fantastic technology. And I've talked with the inventors before. This is the this is going to happen. But as we talked about with the Wall Street Journal, we're 90% there, and we only have 90% to go. Because part of the problem, Jim is we don't really even know what problems we're going to. We're going to have just as we talked about, people believe in these autonomous vehicles. Yeah, we're going to be taking small steps and even Elon Musk is aiming towards the small step category now and is stepping back slightly from as a tundras vehicle stuff, but-but they're coming and they're going to be I think they're going to be a godsend, especially when we're our 80s. Right. Well,

Jim
For the elderly, I think, and for people who may have some type of mobility issue. I think they are going to be helpful. Craig Peterson is our tech talk guru. Now we went off on this topic. He's got many more like, Can you still trust Google? So, if you want to get this information, text My name to this number 855-385-5563. So text Jim, or any questions you have 855-385-5553 Alright, standard data and text rates apply, and you'll get a lot of information, and Craig Peterson will not annoy you and not try to sell you something and not sell your name Craig thanks so much for that. We really appreciate the time.

Craig
Hey, thanks. Take care. Jim. Take care

Jim
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Airing date: 06/11/2019

Autonomous Vehicles

Craig
Hey, good morning, everybody. A little update on Ortiz, he got flown into Boston, the Red Sox flew him in. He's a Boston general, I guess he had like a five-hour operation. And they did more to help with his gunshot wound. It's just crazy. Anyhow, Mr. Technology got pumped off this morning. If this happens, sometimes I'm on a phone call. I am, you know, calling in on the phone to the radio station. I'm talking to them. I got knocked off, and I don't notice that I got knocked off, right. Well, it happened this morning. We will go into some detail about autonomous cars and what that all means including automatic lane change features and those types of things. That's what we talked about this morning with Jim Polito. I thought it was interesting. In fact, that's all we talked about. There are some implications to all this autonomous technology that I don't think many people have really thought about

Jim
Here is our friend, one of the most popular guests on the show. And all around great guy Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru. Good morning to you Craig

Craig
Hey, good morning, Jim.

Jim
Craig we've been spending the morning, the gentleman and I talking back and forth about autonomous cars or self-driving cars. We even get into discussing that adult film that was shot in the front seat of a self-driving Tesla while it was going down the road. We don't need to get into that here. What we want to get into is the question, are these cars ready to hit the road? Are they really prepared to hit the road?

Craig
It's an excellent question. The answer is, and I love this, this explanation that the Wall Street Journal had here about a month or two ago. They were saying driverless cars are 90% here. There's only another 90% left to go.

Jim
See you get it. You get the Tech Talk stuff. And then you get a little bit of comedy. Don't forget to tip your server. So yeah, it does seem that way. Oh, yeah, we're there. But don't try to take a left turn.

Craig
Yeah, exactly. There is a long way to go. There's a lot of acceptance problems still. In fact, I don't know if you're aware of this. But right now human drivers are quote, unquote, these so-called driverless cars. You probably haven't seen one of these.

Jim
Oh, you know what I see it the social justice warriors coming out now. Does the car has feelings? I don't know.

Craig
Here's what's been going on. Several companies have been trying to figure out how people will respond to driverless cars. So what they've done is that they've modified these vehicles, so that they change the driver's seat. So the person is actually sitting there. But they're sitting inside the driver's seat, and they eat. Unless you look very closely, you can't tell there's a person there. And then they have the driver drive the car around. So from just a casual observers point of view, it's just a car driving. You know, it's kind of like those, those body suits. I don't know if you've seen them, and you know, they're completely covered head to toe, yet you can see outright, yeah, the same sort of thing, except they're covered with the fabric of the seat. So they drive these things around. And they've been doing experiments trying to figure out what are we going to do, how we're going to do it? And how people are going to respond things like, you know, do we put a cow catcher on the front or pedestrian capture, right? Do we need to have lights indicating, hey, pedestrians, I'm going to start moving forward now, or I'm going to make a left turn all of these types of things? They've been finding people bullying the cars, knocking them on the hood, stepping into the way of them.

Jim
Oh, my God, you can't do that. These cars have feelings.

Craig
Let's make it even worse. Here's what happened here. When these pretend autonomous cars are driving in traffic, and people notice the car, other vehicles will do stupid things to mess with the autonomous vehicle. They will pull right in front of it, they'll break hard. And the quality of the studies is saying that people are trying to confound these cars, overrule them exploit the driverless vehicles. It has the automakers and tech firms really concerned. Obviously, there's one thing to have technology that works great in a lab, or maybe it works great on the streets of Phoenix, which is where a lot of these tests are going on right now. However when you've got a greedy human driver, and we've all seen them, and of course, it's not on the other guy.

Jim
Of course, it's never the guy in the other cars, always.

Jim
The connection is gone bad. He can't hear me. I'm going to drop the call and have him call back. Because we've lost him. Basically, to recap, where Craig was right now is that Yeah, you've got people out there seeing an autonomous car thinking oh, let me see what will happen if I drive in front of it. Or if I do this, it'll mess things up. That is not good. That is not good. And you know what that is? That's going to be an issue. When you have 50%, autonomous cars on the road, and then 50% of people just driving, because you know this is not going to happen overnight, everybody's going to have a self-driving car. It's just not going to work that way. The way it's going to work is some people are going to have them only like right now very few a tiny percentage of people have a car that will self-drive right now. And that's, that's what worries me. Oh, and by the way, if I can just add here a little personal thing. And I think Steve, you'll get a kick out of this is that, I do know that a substantial portion of the people listening to us right now are in cars. So, what if they could be in the car and be watching a video? You know, or listening to you and me?

Jim
Yeah, well, I mean, the two hours of the show is simulcast if you have charter TV three, channel 193. In general, they're sitting there watching Game of Thrones rather than looking at the road. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, but what I mean is I'm talking job security. I'm being very selfish about this concern. Oh, well, we're fine. Were you sure?

Jim
Oh, yeah. These things? Oh, yeah. I mean, I got I just, I understand what Craig is saying, but I don't I just I don't see how and he sort of touched on it. I don't under I don't see how the autonomous vehicles and humans are supposed to interact together. I just I don't really trust either of them. I don't trust humans behind the wheel. And I don't really trust robots behind the wheel, and you couldn't put the two of them together. I think it's a disaster. Know, people. Look, you will talk about looking for insurance claims gamble, throwing themselves in front of cars, people. Yeah, it's one thing to mess with them. It's another thing to be able to sue Tesla and then get rid of your you know, Geo Prism and gets yourself a nice little upgrade.

Jim
Yeah, well, we'll wait a minute. Hold on think I think about this. Okay. Not to be all science fiction here. But you know, with the, you know, with the artificial intelligence, the whole like the matrix, that movie, like the Terminator, that movie. What if all of a sudden, you know, the car gets mad at you for smacking it on the hood? And speaking of slapping it on the hood. Here is Craig back. I'm sorry, Craig, that connection just went south. You couldn't hear us. And you're, you were like in a tunnel. And again, I think it's the phone. I don't think it's anything other than that. I know, the machines are trying to shut you down. But yeah, Craig, I see you smack the car in the hood. And once we have artificial intelligence, it wants to get even with you. And then it's like, the movie Stephen King the book, Christine. And it's, it's running over your car?

Craig
Yeah. Well, here's another aspect of this. And then Sorry, I lost you there I was going on the spin and then nobody. But let's look at, for instance, people's driving culture. And there's a great article that just came out in Fast Company about a week ago, as well. It was talking about people's preference to drive versus flying. What they found is that people today, if it's a five-hour drive, no matter how long the flight is, if it's a five-hour drive, and if they're going to rent a car, on the other side, two-thirds of people prefer to drive. Yeah, and the numbers changed dramatically. If you've got a 10-hour drive, obviously, the vast majority of people want to fly. However, if it's in the tournament vehicle, a truly autonomous where they can have a nap, they can be there reading, they can be working, having meetings, that number goes way up. And what they found is even in the longest drive that they were looking at, which is a 45-hour drive, right now only one in 10 people would prefer to drive themselves. It's a handful. Think about driving to the airport, right all the crap you have to go through. But with an autonomous vehicle that changes to one in six people would prefer to drive themselves on a 45-hour drive, which means a quarter these stats of the airline industry would lose at least 10% of its travelers. And we're also looking at this change, it's also going to make it so that we don't have to expand our roads. They're thinking we could get, you know, 10 years more on the roadways that we're building or expanding than we would otherwise because the vehicles are going to be moving more progressively. You're not going to have somebody who hits the brakes and causes a major slow down and accidents and things. We're not there yet. There are a lot of companies working on it. Remember Fiat-Chrysler, they just broke off their talks with Reneau, yeah. And they turned around. And they got an agreement with his self-driving technology company in California called Brora. We've got another company out now with what's called LIDAR tech. They just got 170 million dollar funding round for self-driving cars. And this is just fantastic technology. And I've talked with the inventors before. This is the this is going to happen. But as we talked about with the Wall Street Journal, we're 90% there, and we only have 90% to go. Because part of the problem, Jim is we don't really even know what problems we're going to. We're going to have just as we talked about, people believe in these autonomous vehicles. Yeah, we're going to be taking small steps and even Elon Musk is aiming towards the small step category now and is stepping back slightly from as a tundras vehicle stuff, but-but they're coming and they're going to be I think they're going to be a godsend, especially when we're our 80s. Right. Well,

Jim
For the elderly, I think, and for people who may have some type of mobility issue. I think they are going to be helpful. Craig Peterson is our tech talk guru. Now we went off on this topic. He's got many more like, Can you still trust Google? So, if you want to get this information, text My name to this number 855-385-5563. So text Jim, or any questions you have 855-385-5553 Alright, standard data and text rates apply, and you'll get a lot of information, and Craig Peterson will not annoy you and not try to sell you something and not sell your name Craig thanks so much for that. We really appreciate the time.

Craig
Hey, thanks. Take care. Jim. Take care

Jim
When we return a final word. You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

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