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Craig is on the Jim Polito Show this Tuesday morning. Today the talked about the cost of healthcare, Google's new feature, and about Facebook being protected by the government.

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: 05/14/2019

The Real Statistics About Healthcare - Facebook Using Guns To Stop Competitors - New Google Feature

Craig Peterson 0:00
Oh boy, hey, Craig Peterson here. I don't know, would you call this a full pile? I'm not sure. You know, you have some people out there like Ann Coulter. Have you seen her book Shut Up And Sing where she's all upset about Hollywood, because these people that really don't know anything about a topic, go and shoot their mouths off, right? And, and they're just actors or singers. So just, you know, do your singing and get lost, right, you don't really know what you're talking about in the political realm. So I don't know that this morning. I was on with Jim Polito and he had been talking this morning about healthcare and what Bernie Sanders has been saying as well as other candidates running for the Democrat party nomination. And I just I could not bite my tongue. So you're gonna have to let me know what you think. Was this a shut up and sing moment? Obviously, I know what I'm talking about here and as you listen to the interview, you'll realize it as well. But it is so upsetting to me. So anyways, we talked about that. He got me going with Facebook again this morning. And you know the protections that Facebook has that most people don't realize you know that Facebook has, they're keeping competitors out of the market at a point of a gun quite literally. And a little bit about Google and a new feature they're coming out with that everybody should turn on and and once it's on I'll let you know about that. So anyhow, here we go with Mr. Polito. Make sure you send me let me know really I'm serious here. Let me know what you think was this at total full powers, is this something I should do? I know most of the people listening are tend to be libertarian, like I am. Some are conservative. There's some that are you know, confiscal conservative, and some are of you know, socially, not so conservative. And I get it this but this I think affects, I know, affects every last one of us. Let me know what you think [email protected]. So here we go with Mr. Polito. 

Jim Polito 2:12
Here he is. Uniquely qualified to explain everything you need to know in the simplest of terms, our good friend and Tech Talk guru. Former Canadian, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. How are you?

Craig 2:28
Good morning, man. You're talking about healthcare. They're like three topics this morning I got to talk to Jim about. But this is one that is going to kill people. People will die.

Jim 2:40
Yeah, I mean, tell us about Canada. How lovely it is.

Craig 2:44
Oh, I do not have you you know, as you know, and many listeners might not but I was born and raised in the Great White North. And being from Canada. I have most of my family's still up there brothers, sisters, parents, uncles, everybody, aunts and people somehow point to Canada as being some sort of a great place and, and Bernie talking about how expensive it is here and we're going to cut costs and and your great explanation of hey, it's already heavily subsidized by those of us that do carry insurance. So I thought I'd just point out a couple of things Jim.

Craig 3:27
If you look up right now and I sent you a couple articles. I texted them to you, hopefully you got them. 

Jim 3:33 
No, we got them.

Craig 3:36
I sent them to the right number, not some, oh okay. Bottom line here, per capita healthcare spending in the US. Okay. So per person here in the US annually it's a little north of $10,000. Now, look at some of these European countries like the Netherlands, Austria, Austria, Belgium. It's half the spending it is here in the US. Now, what do you think it would be like in Canada, right. It's Bernie's talking about all these efficiencies you're going to get when you get the government involved when you don't have the insurance companies. When you don't have the competition. It's going to get cheaper. Well, in Canada as an example here, this is from the Fraser Institute out in BC. They are a nonpartisan independent Canadian public policy Think Tank. And what they've come up with here the average spent on a healthcare per person in Canada is almost 50% higher than the US right now.

Jim 4:44
I am, I am sorry, but that is that is impossible. That is impossible. That is fake news. You are making up those numbers. Mr. Peterson, I am sorry, but I have to hold you accountable.

Craig 5:00
A typical Canadian family quoted the Fraser Institute Vancouver, British Columbia will pay $13,000 for healthcare in 2018. That's what the bottom line was. And it varies based on how much money you make. Now this is actual payments, people okay. This isn't the government paying on your behalf. This is the hidden taxes and the direct taxes that goes specifically for healthcare and nothing else. So we're paying 100% more than most European countries, the average, by the way, in Europe is about $5200 a year. We're paying more than 10,000. And Canadians are paying on average, almost 13,000. That's $70 less. 13,000 a year for it. And some families in Canada, if you have an income outlet of $300,000, you are paying $40,000 in taxes for your healthcare, explicitly for healthcare. So government involvement doesn't make things cheaper. Now and to top it all off, the care in Canada My mother has had a pancreas attack here, pancreatitis, and so she's up there in a hospital. Now. You're not gonna believe this, Jim and Bernie, there's no way he's gonna believe this. She spent three days on a gurney in a hallway, in the hospital, she needs an MRI, but they can't get her one. The waiting list for MRIs  is longer than some people's life expectancies that need them. This is my mother. And they're paying 50% more than we are. 

Jim 6:51
Yeah. People just don't realize, all you have to do is look at the registry of motor vehicles and say, okay, these are the people who are going to be running my healthcare. Man, seriously.

Jim 7:04
By the way, with all due respect to a lot of fine people who work for the registry, because I know fine people who work for the registry with all due respect there, though. No, no, absolutely, absolutely not.

Craig 7:16
It's the efficiency of the registry combined with the heart and soul of the IRS.

Jim 7:23
Wait a minute, that deserves a... (RIMSHOT)  Alright, let's, I  appreciate that. And that's good,

Craig 7:29 
Sorry about that. I had to say something.

Jim 7:33
No, I'm glad you did. We're so glad that you did. Now I want to talk about a couple of things and you said you had some stuff you wanted to talk about. But I want to talk about Google. I have been erasing all of my Google history and and going through all the different things. And I have noticed that I'm not getting those annoying ads for the last thing that I looked at online or the last thing I searched. And that you know, they keep telling me, Jim, this isn't, you know, it's not going to help with your suggestions, but I don't care. I know what I want. I'll look for it myself.

Craig 8:13
Yeah, it's I think this is great news. Okay. And I frankly, I think this came from Facebook, you know, staring down the highest fine ever in US history. And so what Google has been doing, they've had for a while now, controls you can go in and you can manually turn things off. That's what you've been doing. Right?

Jim 8:33 
Right. Exactly.

Craig 8:35 
Here's what they're doing right now. They will within the next couple of months here probably as early as June. You can already go to Google account. There's simple on off controls for location, history, web and app activity. But what they're adding is auto delete controls. Because if you're searching for new pair of shoes, right? A there's nothing wrong with being ads for shoes. But you don't want to see that for the next six months or whatever.

Jim 9:04
I don't. I use that example earlier. Yeah, looking for a specific kind of loafers for the summer. And it's like, okay, I already got them, I don't need the ads anymore.

Craig 9:16
Well, they're gonna have a rolling delete function, you can choose a time limit between 3 and 18 months, after which all of the data is going to be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. That I think is great. Yeah, it's a little bit of a privacy thing. It's a balance really, between absolute privacy that Apple afford you and what Google and Facebook have been doing. I think it's great. So keep an eye out for that. We'll make sure we'll let you know when, when that actually happens. So you can turn that on,

Jim 9:50
That is good. We're talking about Craig Peterson, a tech talk guru. At the end of this segment, we're going to give you a number and other than the Canadian stuff unless you want to include it in that that stuff that you texted me. He'll give you everything we talked about today and more. An d I will explain to you how to do that. Craig, Facebook, you know, I am a free marketer. Facebook, people have been talking about busting it up about the monopoly busting. First of all, I don't know how you, you do busted up if you wanted to. But what are your feelings?

Craig 10:31
Well, I think it could be for instance, they could split out things like some of the advertising, marketing, and you know, they've been buying various apps and things. There's ways to break them up. But personally, I think we've got two basic problems here. One is the government, if you're too big, you are too big to fail. And so businesses don't look at it and say, well, if we paid two billion dollars to buy this other company, that's going to hurt our cash position, or maybe it's not going to be worth it. Maybe we're going to go out of business and lose our phony baloney jobs on the board of directors. Okay. So we come in and we bail out companies. So that's the first problem. And therefore they continue to grow, grow bigger and bigger. And then the Anti Trust Act, and it comes in the government says whether or not they should be able to merge. Free market, they probably should be able to do whatever they want to do, but let them fail. Okay. Number two, the biggest problem I have right now with Facebook and many others is in Facebook is being protected by the federal government, not just from failure, like if they were really hurting financially, but they are being protected because of the way our patent laws are written now. Remember, they were rewritten not too many years back. Right? And the Constitution, they it says that Congress is supposed to promote the product, rest of science and useful arts by securing for limited times the right to their discovery, writing. Okay. So what the government's doing now is they're allowing Facebook to say, Well, you've got a business process, you've got a way of selling advertising, you've got a way of connecting families and people together, etc, etc. So the government is now enforcing the monopoly. So you can have another little Facebook come up. So right now you you've got somebody that is kicked off of Facebook, demonetized on YouTube, whatever it is. problem was, they would go to a different platform, and they'd be often running, there shouldn't be a half a dozen Facebook competitors out there right now that are doing quite well. But because of the way the patent laws are written, and they don't need to be this way, they are not conforming with the basics of what the Constitution says. But because the way they're written, Facebook can take their lawyers, can sue the company to death very, very quickly. Yeah, so they're just not bothering to try and compete. We've got to take the right to an invention, codified that in law, but an idea is not an invention. The next logical step in software is not an invention, you can tell upset about this, because I had this happened to me. I've had Microsoft do this sort of thing to friends of mine. It's a terrible thing. And it's resulting in a real bad situation in the economy for consumers.

Jim 13:30
I couldn't agree with you more. I could not agree with you more, because it's just that I think it you know, like people talk about where's the conservative Facebook? Where's that? Where's their Facebook for that? We know that when you do a Google search, there's evidence to suggest that you're going to get CNN, you're going to get CNN, New York Times, and you're going to get the Washington Post, even though those are not the sites with the most volume and that's just not fair. And there should be competition in that market. All right. We're out of time Craig but we're not out of material for the listeners. If you text my name to this number.

Craig 14:21
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

Jim 14:25
You will hear from my passionate friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. And he'll provide this information to you. Standard data and text rates apply, and he will not annoy you and he won't sell your name to somebody who will try to sell you a supplement. Okay, so don't worry about it Craig, great segment. Thank you so much for your time.

Craig 14:49
Hey, thank you. I'm gonna climb down off my soapbox and get back door.

Jim 14:52
No. You get on that soapbox anytime you want a great job, Craig, thank you very much.

Craig 14:57 
Thanks.

Jim 14:57 
All right, a final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

Craig 15:03
Whoo, I think maybe I'm finally calming down a little bit. Well, it got me going. Anyways, have a great day. We'll be back on tomorrow. Take care everybody. Bye bye.

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Craig is on the Jim Polito Show this Tuesday morning. Today the talked about the cost of healthcare, Google's new feature, and about Facebook being protected by the government.

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: 05/14/2019

The Real Statistics About Healthcare - Facebook Using Guns To Stop Competitors - New Google Feature

Craig Peterson 0:00
Oh boy, hey, Craig Peterson here. I don't know, would you call this a full pile? I'm not sure. You know, you have some people out there like Ann Coulter. Have you seen her book Shut Up And Sing where she's all upset about Hollywood, because these people that really don't know anything about a topic, go and shoot their mouths off, right? And, and they're just actors or singers. So just, you know, do your singing and get lost, right, you don't really know what you're talking about in the political realm. So I don't know that this morning. I was on with Jim Polito and he had been talking this morning about healthcare and what Bernie Sanders has been saying as well as other candidates running for the Democrat party nomination. And I just I could not bite my tongue. So you're gonna have to let me know what you think. Was this a shut up and sing moment? Obviously, I know what I'm talking about here and as you listen to the interview, you'll realize it as well. But it is so upsetting to me. So anyways, we talked about that. He got me going with Facebook again this morning. And you know the protections that Facebook has that most people don't realize you know that Facebook has, they're keeping competitors out of the market at a point of a gun quite literally. And a little bit about Google and a new feature they're coming out with that everybody should turn on and and once it's on I'll let you know about that. So anyhow, here we go with Mr. Polito. Make sure you send me let me know really I'm serious here. Let me know what you think was this at total full powers, is this something I should do? I know most of the people listening are tend to be libertarian, like I am. Some are conservative. There's some that are you know, confiscal conservative, and some are of you know, socially, not so conservative. And I get it this but this I think affects, I know, affects every last one of us. Let me know what you think [email protected]. So here we go with Mr. Polito. 

Jim Polito 2:12
Here he is. Uniquely qualified to explain everything you need to know in the simplest of terms, our good friend and Tech Talk guru. Former Canadian, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. How are you?

Craig 2:28
Good morning, man. You're talking about healthcare. They're like three topics this morning I got to talk to Jim about. But this is one that is going to kill people. People will die.

Jim 2:40
Yeah, I mean, tell us about Canada. How lovely it is.

Craig 2:44
Oh, I do not have you you know, as you know, and many listeners might not but I was born and raised in the Great White North. And being from Canada. I have most of my family's still up there brothers, sisters, parents, uncles, everybody, aunts and people somehow point to Canada as being some sort of a great place and, and Bernie talking about how expensive it is here and we're going to cut costs and and your great explanation of hey, it's already heavily subsidized by those of us that do carry insurance. So I thought I'd just point out a couple of things Jim.

Craig 3:27
If you look up right now and I sent you a couple articles. I texted them to you, hopefully you got them. 

Jim 3:33 
No, we got them.

Craig 3:36
I sent them to the right number, not some, oh okay. Bottom line here, per capita healthcare spending in the US. Okay. So per person here in the US annually it's a little north of $10,000. Now, look at some of these European countries like the Netherlands, Austria, Austria, Belgium. It's half the spending it is here in the US. Now, what do you think it would be like in Canada, right. It's Bernie's talking about all these efficiencies you're going to get when you get the government involved when you don't have the insurance companies. When you don't have the competition. It's going to get cheaper. Well, in Canada as an example here, this is from the Fraser Institute out in BC. They are a nonpartisan independent Canadian public policy Think Tank. And what they've come up with here the average spent on a healthcare per person in Canada is almost 50% higher than the US right now.

Jim 4:44
I am, I am sorry, but that is that is impossible. That is impossible. That is fake news. You are making up those numbers. Mr. Peterson, I am sorry, but I have to hold you accountable.

Craig 5:00
A typical Canadian family quoted the Fraser Institute Vancouver, British Columbia will pay $13,000 for healthcare in 2018. That's what the bottom line was. And it varies based on how much money you make. Now this is actual payments, people okay. This isn't the government paying on your behalf. This is the hidden taxes and the direct taxes that goes specifically for healthcare and nothing else. So we're paying 100% more than most European countries, the average, by the way, in Europe is about $5200 a year. We're paying more than 10,000. And Canadians are paying on average, almost 13,000. That's $70 less. 13,000 a year for it. And some families in Canada, if you have an income outlet of $300,000, you are paying $40,000 in taxes for your healthcare, explicitly for healthcare. So government involvement doesn't make things cheaper. Now and to top it all off, the care in Canada My mother has had a pancreas attack here, pancreatitis, and so she's up there in a hospital. Now. You're not gonna believe this, Jim and Bernie, there's no way he's gonna believe this. She spent three days on a gurney in a hallway, in the hospital, she needs an MRI, but they can't get her one. The waiting list for MRIs  is longer than some people's life expectancies that need them. This is my mother. And they're paying 50% more than we are. 

Jim 6:51
Yeah. People just don't realize, all you have to do is look at the registry of motor vehicles and say, okay, these are the people who are going to be running my healthcare. Man, seriously.

Jim 7:04
By the way, with all due respect to a lot of fine people who work for the registry, because I know fine people who work for the registry with all due respect there, though. No, no, absolutely, absolutely not.

Craig 7:16
It's the efficiency of the registry combined with the heart and soul of the IRS.

Jim 7:23
Wait a minute, that deserves a... (RIMSHOT)  Alright, let's, I  appreciate that. And that's good,

Craig 7:29 
Sorry about that. I had to say something.

Jim 7:33
No, I'm glad you did. We're so glad that you did. Now I want to talk about a couple of things and you said you had some stuff you wanted to talk about. But I want to talk about Google. I have been erasing all of my Google history and and going through all the different things. And I have noticed that I'm not getting those annoying ads for the last thing that I looked at online or the last thing I searched. And that you know, they keep telling me, Jim, this isn't, you know, it's not going to help with your suggestions, but I don't care. I know what I want. I'll look for it myself.

Craig 8:13
Yeah, it's I think this is great news. Okay. And I frankly, I think this came from Facebook, you know, staring down the highest fine ever in US history. And so what Google has been doing, they've had for a while now, controls you can go in and you can manually turn things off. That's what you've been doing. Right?

Jim 8:33 
Right. Exactly.

Craig 8:35 
Here's what they're doing right now. They will within the next couple of months here probably as early as June. You can already go to Google account. There's simple on off controls for location, history, web and app activity. But what they're adding is auto delete controls. Because if you're searching for new pair of shoes, right? A there's nothing wrong with being ads for shoes. But you don't want to see that for the next six months or whatever.

Jim 9:04
I don't. I use that example earlier. Yeah, looking for a specific kind of loafers for the summer. And it's like, okay, I already got them, I don't need the ads anymore.

Craig 9:16
Well, they're gonna have a rolling delete function, you can choose a time limit between 3 and 18 months, after which all of the data is going to be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. That I think is great. Yeah, it's a little bit of a privacy thing. It's a balance really, between absolute privacy that Apple afford you and what Google and Facebook have been doing. I think it's great. So keep an eye out for that. We'll make sure we'll let you know when, when that actually happens. So you can turn that on,

Jim 9:50
That is good. We're talking about Craig Peterson, a tech talk guru. At the end of this segment, we're going to give you a number and other than the Canadian stuff unless you want to include it in that that stuff that you texted me. He'll give you everything we talked about today and more. An d I will explain to you how to do that. Craig, Facebook, you know, I am a free marketer. Facebook, people have been talking about busting it up about the monopoly busting. First of all, I don't know how you, you do busted up if you wanted to. But what are your feelings?

Craig 10:31
Well, I think it could be for instance, they could split out things like some of the advertising, marketing, and you know, they've been buying various apps and things. There's ways to break them up. But personally, I think we've got two basic problems here. One is the government, if you're too big, you are too big to fail. And so businesses don't look at it and say, well, if we paid two billion dollars to buy this other company, that's going to hurt our cash position, or maybe it's not going to be worth it. Maybe we're going to go out of business and lose our phony baloney jobs on the board of directors. Okay. So we come in and we bail out companies. So that's the first problem. And therefore they continue to grow, grow bigger and bigger. And then the Anti Trust Act, and it comes in the government says whether or not they should be able to merge. Free market, they probably should be able to do whatever they want to do, but let them fail. Okay. Number two, the biggest problem I have right now with Facebook and many others is in Facebook is being protected by the federal government, not just from failure, like if they were really hurting financially, but they are being protected because of the way our patent laws are written now. Remember, they were rewritten not too many years back. Right? And the Constitution, they it says that Congress is supposed to promote the product, rest of science and useful arts by securing for limited times the right to their discovery, writing. Okay. So what the government's doing now is they're allowing Facebook to say, Well, you've got a business process, you've got a way of selling advertising, you've got a way of connecting families and people together, etc, etc. So the government is now enforcing the monopoly. So you can have another little Facebook come up. So right now you you've got somebody that is kicked off of Facebook, demonetized on YouTube, whatever it is. problem was, they would go to a different platform, and they'd be often running, there shouldn't be a half a dozen Facebook competitors out there right now that are doing quite well. But because of the way the patent laws are written, and they don't need to be this way, they are not conforming with the basics of what the Constitution says. But because the way they're written, Facebook can take their lawyers, can sue the company to death very, very quickly. Yeah, so they're just not bothering to try and compete. We've got to take the right to an invention, codified that in law, but an idea is not an invention. The next logical step in software is not an invention, you can tell upset about this, because I had this happened to me. I've had Microsoft do this sort of thing to friends of mine. It's a terrible thing. And it's resulting in a real bad situation in the economy for consumers.

Jim 13:30
I couldn't agree with you more. I could not agree with you more, because it's just that I think it you know, like people talk about where's the conservative Facebook? Where's that? Where's their Facebook for that? We know that when you do a Google search, there's evidence to suggest that you're going to get CNN, you're going to get CNN, New York Times, and you're going to get the Washington Post, even though those are not the sites with the most volume and that's just not fair. And there should be competition in that market. All right. We're out of time Craig but we're not out of material for the listeners. If you text my name to this number.

Craig 14:21
855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553.

Jim 14:25
You will hear from my passionate friend Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. And he'll provide this information to you. Standard data and text rates apply, and he will not annoy you and he won't sell your name to somebody who will try to sell you a supplement. Okay, so don't worry about it Craig, great segment. Thank you so much for your time.

Craig 14:49
Hey, thank you. I'm gonna climb down off my soapbox and get back door.

Jim 14:52
No. You get on that soapbox anytime you want a great job, Craig, thank you very much.

Craig 14:57 
Thanks.

Jim 14:57 
All right, a final word when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

Craig 15:03
Whoo, I think maybe I'm finally calming down a little bit. Well, it got me going. Anyways, have a great day. We'll be back on tomorrow. Take care everybody. Bye bye.

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Craig is on the Auto Fair listener lines with Jack Heath. Today they discussed the Pokemon region in the brain as well as what's going on in the Middle East.

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

Airing date: 05/13/2019

Saudi Ships Attacked - Brain Scans Reveal A Pokemon Region

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Well, have you wondered what's going on in the Middle East and some of the technology we're using and maybe China or Russia may end up using against us. So I talked about that this morning with Mr. Jack Heath, as well as a Pokemon region in the brain. My goodness, the things we've been doing to ourselves and we had no idea. So here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 0:28
Alright joining us now on the Auto Fair listener lines for a quick Tech Talk update. Our guy Craig Peterson host of Tech Talk. Craig Good morning. How are you?

Craig 0:37
A Good morning, Jack. You know, we've been talking about some of the tariffs and how it might be hurting individuals. It is worrying our tech sector, I think for a very, very good reason. We've got like Qualcomm, Broadcom have more than 60% of the revenue generated in China. And then we have the other side of this companies like Apple that has most their stuff manufactured in China. So we are going to see some increases in the prices of some of these goods. But the other thing that I think might be good from all of us, Jack is there are quite a few companies now that are looking to their manufacturing from China, to Central America as well as to Mexico. So we're gonna see some real shifts because of these tariffs. 

Jack 1:24
Yeah, right now President Trump his economic advisor Larry Kudlow said they're gonna hold the line and I guess China's already responded saying June 1st, they're gonna respond with some terrifying. Alright, we also have some tensions around the world in the in the Middle East, we have a Saudi Arabian oil tanker saying it was attacked, headed to the US. And of course, we have increased presence here worried about Iranian aggression. We have a Venezuela military, one of the leading military folks who have been really the only wall stopping Nicolas Maduro from collapsing, saying it's time to kind of rise up and then of course, North Korea, the reason why I bring up these foreign policy touch points. Craig Peterson, as you look at technology plays a role in everything I just discussed, because you have advanced military weaponry, advanced military aircraft, and naval craft, but also technology. And I'm just curious, when you look at the world today, it's a smaller place. We hear about things a lot faster, don't we?

Craig 2:18
Yeah, we absolutely do. And when when we're talking about technology and regular warfare, not this cyber warfare that North Korea and others are so good at. But we now have Russia and China with supersonic missiles, missiles that can shoot our warships right out of the water. So everything from the most simple little bomb that they can get up next to a wonder what warships through what might be happening now over there, where we have oil tankers that are being hit. All you need is just a small little skip a small boat with some explosives on board. And you can really slow down our international trade. But yeah, technology is huge. Were thinking about these things, we are monitoring them. But we also have our eyes in the sky over in the region that are keeping track of a lot of this stuff. And you can expect more and more as time goes on here, Jack.

Jack 3:13
All right. What else on your Tech Talk side catching as we head start off another week?

Craig 3:17
Well have real interesting studies that just came out about what's called a Pokemon region in the brain. You know, we have Pokemon who came in number two this weekend. And they did lean on people who played Pokemon as kids. And the researchers learned that these people that play Pokemon have a region of their brain that seems to be dedicated to recognizing Pokemon characters more than any other pictures. So it's interesting to think about, but my gosh, Jack, our kids are playing these video games, many of us are playing these video games. Who knows what happened to Justin when he was a kid? 

Jack 3:57
Well, that's a big question we've all been asking this week and last week and the week before.

Justin 4:00 
I could confirm this. My daughter and my little nephew, Nate can identify and there's like a billion Pokemon. They know every single damn one of them. And I don't know how they do it.

Craig 4:11
Absolutely amazing. But it looks like it's a physical change that has been made to these kids' brains. It's called it an eccentricity bias. I know I can say that. And it's really interesting stuff. Expect more in the future here as we age and see what really happened to us from playing all those video games when we were younger.

Jack 4:31
Yeah, and we're still studying Justin. That's right.

Justin 4:34
I'm exceptional. That's why.

Craig 4:36 
It will remain a mystery Right Justin?

Justin 4:37 
Exactly.

Jack 4:40  
All right, Craig. Thanks very much.

Craig 4:42
Hey, take care, guys.

Craig 4:43
Hey, I hope you guys all have a great week. I had. Of course, I'm going to be on the radio a few times and I have a couple of new things that are going to be coming out. So keep an eye out. If you have been wondering what you should do about your security, particularly with the summer coming up and you're not going to be around to guard your computers to guard the computers at the office, etc. We're going to be doing some training on that again, some free training so keep an eye out. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Take care everybody. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 05/13/2019

Saudi Ships Attacked - Brain Scans Reveal A Pokemon Region

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey, good morning, everybody, Craig Peterson here. Well, have you wondered what's going on in the Middle East and some of the technology we're using and maybe China or Russia may end up using against us. So I talked about that this morning with Mr. Jack Heath, as well as a Pokemon region in the brain. My goodness, the things we've been doing to ourselves and we had no idea. So here we go with Mr. Jack Heath.

Jack Heath 0:28
Alright joining us now on the Auto Fair listener lines for a quick Tech Talk update. Our guy Craig Peterson host of Tech Talk. Craig Good morning. How are you?

Craig 0:37
A Good morning, Jack. You know, we've been talking about some of the tariffs and how it might be hurting individuals. It is worrying our tech sector, I think for a very, very good reason. We've got like Qualcomm, Broadcom have more than 60% of the revenue generated in China. And then we have the other side of this companies like Apple that has most their stuff manufactured in China. So we are going to see some increases in the prices of some of these goods. But the other thing that I think might be good from all of us, Jack is there are quite a few companies now that are looking to their manufacturing from China, to Central America as well as to Mexico. So we're gonna see some real shifts because of these tariffs. 

Jack 1:24
Yeah, right now President Trump his economic advisor Larry Kudlow said they're gonna hold the line and I guess China's already responded saying June 1st, they're gonna respond with some terrifying. Alright, we also have some tensions around the world in the in the Middle East, we have a Saudi Arabian oil tanker saying it was attacked, headed to the US. And of course, we have increased presence here worried about Iranian aggression. We have a Venezuela military, one of the leading military folks who have been really the only wall stopping Nicolas Maduro from collapsing, saying it's time to kind of rise up and then of course, North Korea, the reason why I bring up these foreign policy touch points. Craig Peterson, as you look at technology plays a role in everything I just discussed, because you have advanced military weaponry, advanced military aircraft, and naval craft, but also technology. And I'm just curious, when you look at the world today, it's a smaller place. We hear about things a lot faster, don't we?

Craig 2:18
Yeah, we absolutely do. And when when we're talking about technology and regular warfare, not this cyber warfare that North Korea and others are so good at. But we now have Russia and China with supersonic missiles, missiles that can shoot our warships right out of the water. So everything from the most simple little bomb that they can get up next to a wonder what warships through what might be happening now over there, where we have oil tankers that are being hit. All you need is just a small little skip a small boat with some explosives on board. And you can really slow down our international trade. But yeah, technology is huge. Were thinking about these things, we are monitoring them. But we also have our eyes in the sky over in the region that are keeping track of a lot of this stuff. And you can expect more and more as time goes on here, Jack.

Jack 3:13
All right. What else on your Tech Talk side catching as we head start off another week?

Craig 3:17
Well have real interesting studies that just came out about what's called a Pokemon region in the brain. You know, we have Pokemon who came in number two this weekend. And they did lean on people who played Pokemon as kids. And the researchers learned that these people that play Pokemon have a region of their brain that seems to be dedicated to recognizing Pokemon characters more than any other pictures. So it's interesting to think about, but my gosh, Jack, our kids are playing these video games, many of us are playing these video games. Who knows what happened to Justin when he was a kid? 

Jack 3:57
Well, that's a big question we've all been asking this week and last week and the week before.

Justin 4:00 
I could confirm this. My daughter and my little nephew, Nate can identify and there's like a billion Pokemon. They know every single damn one of them. And I don't know how they do it.

Craig 4:11
Absolutely amazing. But it looks like it's a physical change that has been made to these kids' brains. It's called it an eccentricity bias. I know I can say that. And it's really interesting stuff. Expect more in the future here as we age and see what really happened to us from playing all those video games when we were younger.

Jack 4:31
Yeah, and we're still studying Justin. That's right.

Justin 4:34
I'm exceptional. That's why.

Craig 4:36 
It will remain a mystery Right Justin?

Justin 4:37 
Exactly.

Jack 4:40  
All right, Craig. Thanks very much.

Craig 4:42
Hey, take care, guys.

Craig 4:43
Hey, I hope you guys all have a great week. I had. Of course, I'm going to be on the radio a few times and I have a couple of new things that are going to be coming out. So keep an eye out. If you have been wondering what you should do about your security, particularly with the summer coming up and you're not going to be around to guard your computers to guard the computers at the office, etc. We're going to be doing some training on that again, some free training so keep an eye out. http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Take care everybody. Bye bye.

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What do Insurance Companies say about Cyber Attacks?  It might surprise you.

What is two-factor authentication and should you use it?  Today I discuss my thoughts on this

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Airing date: 05/11/2019

Cybersecurity Breaches Are Your Fault - Can't Make Insurance Claim - Google's New Automatic Feature - Facebook Is Government Protected Monopoly

Craig Peterson 0:04
Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, Hey, are you a business owner? Do you work in a business? Are you may be a little concerned about cybersecurity? And maybe you have insurance for a hack. I know a lot of insurance companies have been kind of adding that type of rider on lately. Well, I got some news for you today. The whole thing here about two-factor authentication and Apple, you know, the most security you can have the best security is something you have along with something, you know. Well, that's what 2FA is all about. And we're going to talk about that, what Apple's doing, what you can do, and what we do ourselves and for our clients to keep data safe. Google, Oh, my gosh, they are doing something good. We'll tell you about that and how to take advantage of they're forgetting a promise that they've just made. A really interesting response here from this is a company we use called Duo and their CEO talking about cybersecurity today. And he says the businesses are doing a whole lot of it. But too much funding is going into cybersecurity right now. Because there's so much money that's getting into the whole cybersecurity realm. The CEO and founder or co-founder of a company called Duo, D-U-O, Security. They were bought recently by Cisco. And we were using them before Cisco bought them. It's funny. That seems to happen a lot to us. Meraki, we were Meraki guys. And then Cisco bought them. Duo guys, and many others, Snort and the list goes on and on. But he said that cybersecurity and the investments that funding going into them is way overhyped in a lot of breaches because we're getting the basics wrong. That is absolutely true. And I got to tell you that now. It's not overhyped in that you're not at risk, because you are we've seen the statistics, the hard statistics, even from people admitting that their businesses were hacked. More than half of all businesses say they have already been hacked. Okay. So that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about the money that's going into funding some of these cybersecurity startups. And I can really see this, I understand what he's talking about here. Because so much of the vulnerability that we have is pretty darn basic. And it goes back to passwords. And in the case of Duo Security, the whole concept of two-factor authentication. So here are the basics. In case you're wondering, we're talking about fishing scams. A couple more here. But phishing scams, of course, are those emails that come in that make it look like whoa, wait a minute, now. This is a legitimate email or it's not and then people fall for them. Right. So the basics are phishing, scam, stolen password, and employees using devices that are not up to date or patched. And that's what we really, really emphasize with our clients. One of the biggest services we offer is making sure the machines are all patched up. We do it right. So something messes up. You know, it's our problem and we take care of it.

Craig 3:42 
Stolen user credentials leading cause of breaches. We know about, for instance, Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire and her staff member who admitted to stealing passwords using a keylogger apparently on this senators computer are they. I don't know could even make a movie about this, it'd be pretty boring, wouldn't it frankly. A good book about that, by the way, A Thousand Miles, look it up if you haven't read it already. But smart attackers are going after people now not just systems because that's where the money is. It's kind of the basics. Now, this guy is a very interesting guy. And let's talk about Duo here for a minute, we are the full disclosure a Duo reseller. D-U-O, you can find them online. And they have some very cool technology that we tie into these special fobs, these special little USB keys that allow us to identify ourselves and who we are. So here's what happens too. We have it tied into, for instance, our iPhones. So if we try and log into a system that's, that's privileged, you know, particularly something that has any form of customer information on it, the system comes up and says, Okay, I need to authenticate you. So it now sends a special message to our iPhone. And the iPhone has a thumbprint reader on it. So we have to unlock our iPhone. And then we're going to Duo, and Duo's telling us because it popped up on our phone, hey, somebody is trying to gain access. And then you accept it. You say, yeah, that was me, it's fine. And you give it your thumbprint and a code. And now you can log into that website, you can get on to that computer, you can use that software. DUO is just absolutely fantastic. And frankly, it is crazy important for you to have something like this in your business. And that takes us back to what Apple is doing right now. Some people are annoyed by this, Apple's two-factor authentication. I don't know if you're using anything but remember what I just said the most secure way? Well, the most secure way of securing a computer is to unplug it, rip out all the wires and put it in a vault, right with no electricity. But if you needed to be able to use the computer, two-factor authentication works. And that's part of what Duo is providing here. And just texting, texting, phone numbers back and forth, doesn't cut it, by the way. It sends you a message and you respond because people can steal your phone number. And then life gets really complicated, doesn't it? It gets really competent very quickly. And we've seen that again. And again, people stealing, for instance, Bitcoin accounts, but also stealing access to regular bank accounts and tens of thousands of dollars have been stolen out of it. So what Apple did is this is pre-Duo, pre-a lot of these things, is Apple said well wait a minute, most of our customers have multiple devices. So when I logged onto my computer sitting right here in front of me today, it had a message because this is an Apple computer. And it had a little message and the message said, someone just started using your account on this day and time at this location. And this is the type of computer, was that you? And of course, it was me. So I said yeah, cool. But before I logged into this computer, and I was installing a brand new wealth new to me, right, it's actually kind of old MacBook Air. And I put my account on there and I put my Apple credentials on there. Apple sent a special message to my iPhone saying hey Craig somebody is trying to log on creating an account, etc, etc is this you? So with Apple's two-factor authentication turned on, every time you attempt to sign into an account, you're going to enter your password. And then you're going to receive a second security notification that might come through on your desktop, on your laptop on your iPhone, on your iPad on your iWatch right? Actually, Apple Watch, they should have called it iWatch.

Craig 7:59
And then usually it looks like a text message. It's not a text message. In this case, it's actually built-in, it's a utility part of the operating system, it gives you this six to eight digit code, and you entered into the website. Now in most cases, the websites are going to send you a text I already explained why that's a bad idea. And why it's a good idea to use Duo, it usually takes us a few weeks from start to finish to get a company switched over to Duo, because there's a lot of configuration that has to happen and training that has to happen. And you have to get the right little devices for people to use. But here's what you should do. If you have an Apple device, you should be using their two-factor authentication, because it gets around all of the problems you have with Android devices, for instance, that are receiving SMS messages again, that's what I use Duo, it works on Android as well. So make sure you turn it on, don't turn it off, you're going to get it's going to say Apple ID verification code. And you have to pull that up from another Apple device where you're going to click Allow. But what amazes me, frankly, is that there is a lawsuit going on right now and some people are frustrated and upset about this if you can believe it. So here are some claims in the lawsuit. Apple turned on two-factor authentication without his approval. This guy's name is Brodsky. Yeah. Well, he's trying to help you, you idiot. Two-factor authentication takes too long to set up. No, it doesn't. It's difficult to use. No, it's not. It can't be turned off. After using it for 14 days what logging into a device can take up to five minutes. Oh my gosh. So you might think that you shouldn't use it or simply turn it off like this Brodsky guy that's brought this lawsuit, and I'm sure it's just one of these deepest pockets lawsuits, just like these lawsuits that we're hearing about all the time. Oh, you offended me, you have to remove that because it offends me. Really? One person, a dozen people out of how many millions, we're not offended by that. Forget about it. Okay. But you know, Brodsky is correct that you only have a 14 day trial period. But that should be enough time to figure if you want to use two-factor authentication. And after that's passed that 14 days, you have to continue using it. So the bottom line to everybody out there, use two-factor authentication. If you can, don't use your cell phone for it.

Craig 10:35 
Now, let me give you a little insider secret that I've never heard anybody else talk about. But I think is really handy. You can get a phone number from Google Voice. Have you seen this? Again, another service that I used before Google bought it, Google Voice, they'll give you a phone number, it's free. Now they're going to record your phone calls and your voice messages. They take the voice message, they turn it into text and they text it to you it comes up in their app, it's really, really, really handy. Obviously, you don't want anything too confidential on Google Voice. However, here's the win, when it comes to a Google Voice phone number, or within many cases with a VOIP provider Voice over IP provider, when it comes to these numbers. They can't be stolen from you. Because there's no Sim, there's no little chip, a little SIM card that you put into the phone. That's how people get in around this. That's how people are stealing phone numbers. So if you use your Google Voice number for a website that does not support things, like Duo. So it doesn't support full two-factor authentication, you're going to be all set. It's going to be really nice. So little trick there, right? It can't be stolen it not the normal way anyway, they can't just do the cloning or duplication or try and get your sim move to another phone because there was never a sim there in the first place.

Craig 12:40 
While we're on Google and before we get to our little warning here about the insurance for cybersecurity and CIOs, I get another Google thing. This is from the Associated Press and it was published in Forbes magazine. This is a win I think for everybody. But you have to know about it. In order to take advantage of this. I'm glad they're doing this. Facebook here another story. They are a government protected a monopoly. And they certainly are. I've had problems with patent law for quite a while particularly when it comes to software and processes. You know, way back when there's a great story. It's up on my website, http://CraigPeterson.com. 1954, you've heard this story, I'm sure if you've ever taken a business class. Ray Kroc does that name ring a bell to you? Ray Kroc, K-R-O-C. How about Illinois? How about just outside of Chicago? Anyways, this guy Ray Kroc in 1954 visited a hamburger stand in Southern California. And Ray was selling milkshake mixers and was very interested in how these brothers Richard and Maurice, were able to sell so many milkshakes, this small stand, and I think it was they ordered a four milkshake mixer. So it did four milkshakes at the same time. So he started to look into this about more, a little bit more a little further. He was really impressed. freshly cooked hamburgers delivered to the customers based on an assembly line. Of course, we're talking about Richard Maurice McDonald here in case you didn't know and Ray Kroc decided, wait a minute now this looks absolutely amazing. It works, so well. Ray Kroc stole the idea. You know, he tried to work out a licensing deal and everything. We're not going to get into the whole story here. But the success of McDonald's led to Burger King, Burger Chef, Carl's Jr. Hardee's, Jack in the Box, that used to be one of my favorites when I lived in California, and hundreds of other small hamburger joints and of course, that led up to what we have today with Quoba and other different types of fast food restaurants. Well, the evolution of fast food in America would have been completely different if the McDonald brothers could have applied for a patent to claim exclusivity for the idea of using an assembly line to make hamburgers.

Craig 14:44
Intellectual property, you know, look at article one section eight of the Constitution. Congress was charged to promote the progress of science and useful art by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Craig 15:07
Well, the McDonalds brothers, McDonald brothers did not go for a patent. They didn't apply for this federal protection for their design because it was not a writing, or an invention. They just use existing technology more reasonably and more efficiently than others. And the way it's supposed to work in the patent office is that if something is an obvious next step in the evolution of a business evolution of a process, the evolution of a machine, it's not patentable. However, because there are so many patents being applied form because there's so much technology involved and so much knowledge they need patents are being given willy nilly, it's absolutely amazing. But the greater good was served by allowing businesses to reverse engineer these clever ideas that they saw in patents and spread it from sea to shining sea. Reverse engineer, not just things in patents, because of course, you have a certain amount of exclusivity. But people would take it, they look at the patent, they would modify it enough so that they could start producing something that wasn't covered by that patent. Well, today, fast forward to Facebook and Google and other social media platforms that are banning people for their political beliefs. And in reality, in a healthy society, in a healthy economy where we didn't have the type of crazy overextended patent laws that we have here. Facebook would have been reverse engineered 20 times by now. And people who were banned would have simply gone somewhere else. Well, instead of that our government and the way these laws are set up now is protecting Facebook and these other companies at the point of a gun. Right? Because it breaks the law, see what ultimately happens to those guys and gals that show up in your door? Do they have a gun with them? Or don't they right? So Facebook and other social media sites and other companies are government protected monopolies. They've been able to convince the patent office that their business and their business model is an invention that should be protected by intellectual property laws. Now we have the Department of Justice and the federal courts out there acting as strong arms, strong men, making sure nobody competes with them because they say, this is our business process. We have our process patent on that.

Craig 17:41
And then, of course, they have enough lawyers to protect it.

Craig 17:44
You end up with people like Mark Zuckerberg, who has a crazy, crazy wealth. But is he really helping to further even other sites that are out there social media sites, of course not? He buys them if they're doing fairly well. And he squeezes them, even when he's buying them. So Zuckerberg didn't invent anything, he didn't invent the computer, he didn't invent the microchip. All he did was started messing around with Atari Basic programming when he was a kid. to reward someone who's the first to use an invention to arrive an inevitable function only crushes the competition. And that's what we have today. So that's my word for today. Facebook is a government protective monopoly. And we have to change our patent laws. We've got to set it up so that these obvious inventions if you will, just aren't covered by it anymore.

Craig 18:48 
Okay, let's get into Google here, let's finished that one up. And then we'll get into the insurance and our big warning to Chief Information Officers and business owners. Google will now automatically delete your data for you. This just came out about a week or so ago. This was in front of the Google IO Developer Festival. That was last week as well. But in their security blog, the product managers for Google search and maps say that Google is going to make managing your data privacy and security simpler. So you can already go into your settings in your Google account, you can get simple on-off controls for location history, web and app activity, which I do I have that turned off. And you can choose to delete all or part of that data manually, which I've also done. First, I downloaded it because I wanted to see what Google had about me, right. And what's going to be rolled out now is what's called auto delete controls. So you can set time limits on how long Google can save your data, that going to be huge. They're saying that this is going to arrive within weeks and new controls are going to apply to location history, web browsing, Google searches, app activity data to start with, you're going to be able to choose a time limit of between 3 and 18 months afterward, the data will be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. So thank goodness. But remember, you can already manually delete it if you want. But the ability to delete automatically is long overdue, and I think it's going to help us right. I don't mind them tracking my searches and saying well Craig is looking for a new car, so I'm going to show him this ad because this new car is going to fit. But I don't want that following me for the rest of my life. I don't want to see the car ads after I bought a new car right? So being able to have that automatically purged I think is going to be absolutely phenomenal.

Craig 20:53 
You got to see this video. This I found this on Digg and I put it up on my website http://CraigPeterson.com. Wow, this is a video that was taken by a guy working inside a scam call center over in India. This is a webcam view that he shows the software they're using. You can listen in on some of the conversations. And this is in a city called Kolkata. I guess. K-O-L-K-A-T-A.

Craig 21:21
I don't think that's Calcutta, Kolkata.

Craig 21:25
And there's a group of scammers hunting for victims to swindle and what they do and how they do it. And you know what? You got to watch this again http://CraigPeterson.com, it was a bit of a shocker to me. But these guys think that that they have just as much right to your money to your house to your belongings as you do. And they do everything they can to steal it from you. And why not? You're just a rich American. What do they care? Right?

Craig 21:50 
Okay, on to this. This is from Forbes magazine. Again, up on http://CraigPeterson.com. A new cybersecurity report is out there warning CIOs if you're breached or hacked, it's your own fault. Now think of that when it comes to cybersecurity insurance so many businesses have been purchasing. In fact, this is one of the topics I'm covering. UNH extension here to mastermind is the insurance side of cybersecurity. And what does it mean to you? What does it mean to me? The majority of businesses in the US and UK are still leaving their doors wide open to attacks. I'm going to be doing some training coming up here before summer. So keep an eye out for that on what to do how to lock up your business before summer comes okay.

Craig 22:41
But for all of this focus, we've had on cybersecurity, all of this money that's getting invested. Most of us are still incredibly overexposed.  It's just crazy. These attacks can wipe out your business entirely can stop it for maybe a few hours or, or something somewhere in between. But there was this new cybersecurity survey that was conducted by endpoint management specialists. And also some market researchers Van Bourne, Vanson Bourne. They questioned 690 operations and IT security decision-makers across the US and UK found that 60% of the organizations had been breached in the last two years. And 31% said they'd been breached more than once. What's going on people? Are you just confused?

Craig 23:36
Make sure you sign up, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. You can get my free training and I have completely free training, not upselling. Okay, I have my paid courses as well. But I'm trying to get the word out. Okay. The vast majority of the successful attacks are using known vulnerabilities in well-known software that has already had patches available by software vendors. The next one down is people falling for email attacks, which can also be prevented. No, they can't be prevented by going out and buying Barracuda spam firewalls. And no, okay, you got to do this right. But my goodness, my goodness, the CIO's team doesn't actually even know in most of these cases here, what the hardware is, it's out there, what software it's running on how they're going to patch it. They don't even know the machines exist. And we see that even in small businesses, you walk in how many computers you have, well, we just have three. And then you start poking around, you find out Oh, wow, they've got this Android tablet, an Android phone is connecting to the business WiFi. And therefore now the business computers are completely exposed. Plus people are working from home, they're using their laptops, using computers right from home. So now that whole network is exposing, that computers now exposed to the home network to the business network, because they're not using the VPN the way supposed to VPN is supposed to be used because they're using the wrong software. Again, and again and again and again. And again. You know, even the IT people, you know, we run into brake fixed shops all the time and the so-called managed services vendors that just have no idea what they're doing. None. Because all they have to do is no more than you know, listen, everybody, it's your responsibility to make sure your business is safe and you cannot pass it off. Okay, here's a quote again. This is from Samir, in the article you see up on my website about CIOs, it's your responsibility. A Forrester industry analyst who's tracking 150 or so security companies said that he's hearing about 5 or 10 new ones almost every weekend security space. And each one is talking of bigger and worse threats and the rest.

Craig 26:09
It's just absolutely amazing. It's I see it again. And again. People go when they take a course. they've got their course on security. And now they think that they're an expert, right? No, a two-week course, a six-month course does not make you an expert. And I know there are a few of you guys because you've reached out to me who listened to this on the radio or on iTunes or on YouTube, who have signed up for cybersecurity classes. I think that's a great thing. But also those people aren't thinking that, well, I've got my shingle I'm now an expert right? No. Six months in an intensive cybersecurity course is going to get your career launched. And God bless you. You're in a great community. Great career ahead of you. Okay, where there's going to be a five-year career or lifetime career. But those people cannot be the people who are running the cybersecurity for your business. You're the one that has to take it. Take that bull by the horns. If you are one of those people, reach out to me, [email protected]. I am more than glad to share resources with you. Absolutely free ok. [email protected]. I can help you out. So frustrating because remember, this happened to me 25 years ago, and I got it taken care of back then. And so I understand where you're at, I was there. I almost lost my business because of a hack. And I don't want you to lose yours. Okay, or your job or your career. Anyhow, [email protected]. Make sure you subscribe to my weekly newsletter. You'll get security updates what's happening out there http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Have a great week everybody. We'll be back on Monday. Be back with Jack Heath on Monday during drive time and the Jim Polito drink drive time. Ken and Matt and much more. So keep an ear out. Or look me up, http://CraigPeterson.com. Take care. Bye-bye.

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What do Insurance Companies say about Cyber Attacks?  It might surprise you.

What is two-factor authentication and should you use it?  Today I discuss my thoughts on this

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Airing date: 05/11/2019

Cybersecurity Breaches Are Your Fault - Can't Make Insurance Claim - Google's New Automatic Feature - Facebook Is Government Protected Monopoly

Craig Peterson 0:04
Hello, everybody, Craig Peterson here, Hey, are you a business owner? Do you work in a business? Are you may be a little concerned about cybersecurity? And maybe you have insurance for a hack. I know a lot of insurance companies have been kind of adding that type of rider on lately. Well, I got some news for you today. The whole thing here about two-factor authentication and Apple, you know, the most security you can have the best security is something you have along with something, you know. Well, that's what 2FA is all about. And we're going to talk about that, what Apple's doing, what you can do, and what we do ourselves and for our clients to keep data safe. Google, Oh, my gosh, they are doing something good. We'll tell you about that and how to take advantage of they're forgetting a promise that they've just made. A really interesting response here from this is a company we use called Duo and their CEO talking about cybersecurity today. And he says the businesses are doing a whole lot of it. But too much funding is going into cybersecurity right now. Because there's so much money that's getting into the whole cybersecurity realm. The CEO and founder or co-founder of a company called Duo, D-U-O, Security. They were bought recently by Cisco. And we were using them before Cisco bought them. It's funny. That seems to happen a lot to us. Meraki, we were Meraki guys. And then Cisco bought them. Duo guys, and many others, Snort and the list goes on and on. But he said that cybersecurity and the investments that funding going into them is way overhyped in a lot of breaches because we're getting the basics wrong. That is absolutely true. And I got to tell you that now. It's not overhyped in that you're not at risk, because you are we've seen the statistics, the hard statistics, even from people admitting that their businesses were hacked. More than half of all businesses say they have already been hacked. Okay. So that's not what he's talking about. He's talking about the money that's going into funding some of these cybersecurity startups. And I can really see this, I understand what he's talking about here. Because so much of the vulnerability that we have is pretty darn basic. And it goes back to passwords. And in the case of Duo Security, the whole concept of two-factor authentication. So here are the basics. In case you're wondering, we're talking about fishing scams. A couple more here. But phishing scams, of course, are those emails that come in that make it look like whoa, wait a minute, now. This is a legitimate email or it's not and then people fall for them. Right. So the basics are phishing, scam, stolen password, and employees using devices that are not up to date or patched. And that's what we really, really emphasize with our clients. One of the biggest services we offer is making sure the machines are all patched up. We do it right. So something messes up. You know, it's our problem and we take care of it.

Craig 3:42 
Stolen user credentials leading cause of breaches. We know about, for instance, Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire and her staff member who admitted to stealing passwords using a keylogger apparently on this senators computer are they. I don't know could even make a movie about this, it'd be pretty boring, wouldn't it frankly. A good book about that, by the way, A Thousand Miles, look it up if you haven't read it already. But smart attackers are going after people now not just systems because that's where the money is. It's kind of the basics. Now, this guy is a very interesting guy. And let's talk about Duo here for a minute, we are the full disclosure a Duo reseller. D-U-O, you can find them online. And they have some very cool technology that we tie into these special fobs, these special little USB keys that allow us to identify ourselves and who we are. So here's what happens too. We have it tied into, for instance, our iPhones. So if we try and log into a system that's, that's privileged, you know, particularly something that has any form of customer information on it, the system comes up and says, Okay, I need to authenticate you. So it now sends a special message to our iPhone. And the iPhone has a thumbprint reader on it. So we have to unlock our iPhone. And then we're going to Duo, and Duo's telling us because it popped up on our phone, hey, somebody is trying to gain access. And then you accept it. You say, yeah, that was me, it's fine. And you give it your thumbprint and a code. And now you can log into that website, you can get on to that computer, you can use that software. DUO is just absolutely fantastic. And frankly, it is crazy important for you to have something like this in your business. And that takes us back to what Apple is doing right now. Some people are annoyed by this, Apple's two-factor authentication. I don't know if you're using anything but remember what I just said the most secure way? Well, the most secure way of securing a computer is to unplug it, rip out all the wires and put it in a vault, right with no electricity. But if you needed to be able to use the computer, two-factor authentication works. And that's part of what Duo is providing here. And just texting, texting, phone numbers back and forth, doesn't cut it, by the way. It sends you a message and you respond because people can steal your phone number. And then life gets really complicated, doesn't it? It gets really competent very quickly. And we've seen that again. And again, people stealing, for instance, Bitcoin accounts, but also stealing access to regular bank accounts and tens of thousands of dollars have been stolen out of it. So what Apple did is this is pre-Duo, pre-a lot of these things, is Apple said well wait a minute, most of our customers have multiple devices. So when I logged onto my computer sitting right here in front of me today, it had a message because this is an Apple computer. And it had a little message and the message said, someone just started using your account on this day and time at this location. And this is the type of computer, was that you? And of course, it was me. So I said yeah, cool. But before I logged into this computer, and I was installing a brand new wealth new to me, right, it's actually kind of old MacBook Air. And I put my account on there and I put my Apple credentials on there. Apple sent a special message to my iPhone saying hey Craig somebody is trying to log on creating an account, etc, etc is this you? So with Apple's two-factor authentication turned on, every time you attempt to sign into an account, you're going to enter your password. And then you're going to receive a second security notification that might come through on your desktop, on your laptop on your iPhone, on your iPad on your iWatch right? Actually, Apple Watch, they should have called it iWatch.

Craig 7:59
And then usually it looks like a text message. It's not a text message. In this case, it's actually built-in, it's a utility part of the operating system, it gives you this six to eight digit code, and you entered into the website. Now in most cases, the websites are going to send you a text I already explained why that's a bad idea. And why it's a good idea to use Duo, it usually takes us a few weeks from start to finish to get a company switched over to Duo, because there's a lot of configuration that has to happen and training that has to happen. And you have to get the right little devices for people to use. But here's what you should do. If you have an Apple device, you should be using their two-factor authentication, because it gets around all of the problems you have with Android devices, for instance, that are receiving SMS messages again, that's what I use Duo, it works on Android as well. So make sure you turn it on, don't turn it off, you're going to get it's going to say Apple ID verification code. And you have to pull that up from another Apple device where you're going to click Allow. But what amazes me, frankly, is that there is a lawsuit going on right now and some people are frustrated and upset about this if you can believe it. So here are some claims in the lawsuit. Apple turned on two-factor authentication without his approval. This guy's name is Brodsky. Yeah. Well, he's trying to help you, you idiot. Two-factor authentication takes too long to set up. No, it doesn't. It's difficult to use. No, it's not. It can't be turned off. After using it for 14 days what logging into a device can take up to five minutes. Oh my gosh. So you might think that you shouldn't use it or simply turn it off like this Brodsky guy that's brought this lawsuit, and I'm sure it's just one of these deepest pockets lawsuits, just like these lawsuits that we're hearing about all the time. Oh, you offended me, you have to remove that because it offends me. Really? One person, a dozen people out of how many millions, we're not offended by that. Forget about it. Okay. But you know, Brodsky is correct that you only have a 14 day trial period. But that should be enough time to figure if you want to use two-factor authentication. And after that's passed that 14 days, you have to continue using it. So the bottom line to everybody out there, use two-factor authentication. If you can, don't use your cell phone for it.

Craig 10:35 
Now, let me give you a little insider secret that I've never heard anybody else talk about. But I think is really handy. You can get a phone number from Google Voice. Have you seen this? Again, another service that I used before Google bought it, Google Voice, they'll give you a phone number, it's free. Now they're going to record your phone calls and your voice messages. They take the voice message, they turn it into text and they text it to you it comes up in their app, it's really, really, really handy. Obviously, you don't want anything too confidential on Google Voice. However, here's the win, when it comes to a Google Voice phone number, or within many cases with a VOIP provider Voice over IP provider, when it comes to these numbers. They can't be stolen from you. Because there's no Sim, there's no little chip, a little SIM card that you put into the phone. That's how people get in around this. That's how people are stealing phone numbers. So if you use your Google Voice number for a website that does not support things, like Duo. So it doesn't support full two-factor authentication, you're going to be all set. It's going to be really nice. So little trick there, right? It can't be stolen it not the normal way anyway, they can't just do the cloning or duplication or try and get your sim move to another phone because there was never a sim there in the first place.

Craig 12:40 
While we're on Google and before we get to our little warning here about the insurance for cybersecurity and CIOs, I get another Google thing. This is from the Associated Press and it was published in Forbes magazine. This is a win I think for everybody. But you have to know about it. In order to take advantage of this. I'm glad they're doing this. Facebook here another story. They are a government protected a monopoly. And they certainly are. I've had problems with patent law for quite a while particularly when it comes to software and processes. You know, way back when there's a great story. It's up on my website, http://CraigPeterson.com. 1954, you've heard this story, I'm sure if you've ever taken a business class. Ray Kroc does that name ring a bell to you? Ray Kroc, K-R-O-C. How about Illinois? How about just outside of Chicago? Anyways, this guy Ray Kroc in 1954 visited a hamburger stand in Southern California. And Ray was selling milkshake mixers and was very interested in how these brothers Richard and Maurice, were able to sell so many milkshakes, this small stand, and I think it was they ordered a four milkshake mixer. So it did four milkshakes at the same time. So he started to look into this about more, a little bit more a little further. He was really impressed. freshly cooked hamburgers delivered to the customers based on an assembly line. Of course, we're talking about Richard Maurice McDonald here in case you didn't know and Ray Kroc decided, wait a minute now this looks absolutely amazing. It works, so well. Ray Kroc stole the idea. You know, he tried to work out a licensing deal and everything. We're not going to get into the whole story here. But the success of McDonald's led to Burger King, Burger Chef, Carl's Jr. Hardee's, Jack in the Box, that used to be one of my favorites when I lived in California, and hundreds of other small hamburger joints and of course, that led up to what we have today with Quoba and other different types of fast food restaurants. Well, the evolution of fast food in America would have been completely different if the McDonald brothers could have applied for a patent to claim exclusivity for the idea of using an assembly line to make hamburgers.

Craig 14:44
Intellectual property, you know, look at article one section eight of the Constitution. Congress was charged to promote the progress of science and useful art by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Craig 15:07
Well, the McDonalds brothers, McDonald brothers did not go for a patent. They didn't apply for this federal protection for their design because it was not a writing, or an invention. They just use existing technology more reasonably and more efficiently than others. And the way it's supposed to work in the patent office is that if something is an obvious next step in the evolution of a business evolution of a process, the evolution of a machine, it's not patentable. However, because there are so many patents being applied form because there's so much technology involved and so much knowledge they need patents are being given willy nilly, it's absolutely amazing. But the greater good was served by allowing businesses to reverse engineer these clever ideas that they saw in patents and spread it from sea to shining sea. Reverse engineer, not just things in patents, because of course, you have a certain amount of exclusivity. But people would take it, they look at the patent, they would modify it enough so that they could start producing something that wasn't covered by that patent. Well, today, fast forward to Facebook and Google and other social media platforms that are banning people for their political beliefs. And in reality, in a healthy society, in a healthy economy where we didn't have the type of crazy overextended patent laws that we have here. Facebook would have been reverse engineered 20 times by now. And people who were banned would have simply gone somewhere else. Well, instead of that our government and the way these laws are set up now is protecting Facebook and these other companies at the point of a gun. Right? Because it breaks the law, see what ultimately happens to those guys and gals that show up in your door? Do they have a gun with them? Or don't they right? So Facebook and other social media sites and other companies are government protected monopolies. They've been able to convince the patent office that their business and their business model is an invention that should be protected by intellectual property laws. Now we have the Department of Justice and the federal courts out there acting as strong arms, strong men, making sure nobody competes with them because they say, this is our business process. We have our process patent on that.

Craig 17:41
And then, of course, they have enough lawyers to protect it.

Craig 17:44
You end up with people like Mark Zuckerberg, who has a crazy, crazy wealth. But is he really helping to further even other sites that are out there social media sites, of course not? He buys them if they're doing fairly well. And he squeezes them, even when he's buying them. So Zuckerberg didn't invent anything, he didn't invent the computer, he didn't invent the microchip. All he did was started messing around with Atari Basic programming when he was a kid. to reward someone who's the first to use an invention to arrive an inevitable function only crushes the competition. And that's what we have today. So that's my word for today. Facebook is a government protective monopoly. And we have to change our patent laws. We've got to set it up so that these obvious inventions if you will, just aren't covered by it anymore.

Craig 18:48 
Okay, let's get into Google here, let's finished that one up. And then we'll get into the insurance and our big warning to Chief Information Officers and business owners. Google will now automatically delete your data for you. This just came out about a week or so ago. This was in front of the Google IO Developer Festival. That was last week as well. But in their security blog, the product managers for Google search and maps say that Google is going to make managing your data privacy and security simpler. So you can already go into your settings in your Google account, you can get simple on-off controls for location history, web and app activity, which I do I have that turned off. And you can choose to delete all or part of that data manually, which I've also done. First, I downloaded it because I wanted to see what Google had about me, right. And what's going to be rolled out now is what's called auto delete controls. So you can set time limits on how long Google can save your data, that going to be huge. They're saying that this is going to arrive within weeks and new controls are going to apply to location history, web browsing, Google searches, app activity data to start with, you're going to be able to choose a time limit of between 3 and 18 months afterward, the data will be automatically deleted on a rolling basis. So thank goodness. But remember, you can already manually delete it if you want. But the ability to delete automatically is long overdue, and I think it's going to help us right. I don't mind them tracking my searches and saying well Craig is looking for a new car, so I'm going to show him this ad because this new car is going to fit. But I don't want that following me for the rest of my life. I don't want to see the car ads after I bought a new car right? So being able to have that automatically purged I think is going to be absolutely phenomenal.

Craig 20:53 
You got to see this video. This I found this on Digg and I put it up on my website http://CraigPeterson.com. Wow, this is a video that was taken by a guy working inside a scam call center over in India. This is a webcam view that he shows the software they're using. You can listen in on some of the conversations. And this is in a city called Kolkata. I guess. K-O-L-K-A-T-A.

Craig 21:21
I don't think that's Calcutta, Kolkata.

Craig 21:25
And there's a group of scammers hunting for victims to swindle and what they do and how they do it. And you know what? You got to watch this again http://CraigPeterson.com, it was a bit of a shocker to me. But these guys think that that they have just as much right to your money to your house to your belongings as you do. And they do everything they can to steal it from you. And why not? You're just a rich American. What do they care? Right?

Craig 21:50 
Okay, on to this. This is from Forbes magazine. Again, up on http://CraigPeterson.com. A new cybersecurity report is out there warning CIOs if you're breached or hacked, it's your own fault. Now think of that when it comes to cybersecurity insurance so many businesses have been purchasing. In fact, this is one of the topics I'm covering. UNH extension here to mastermind is the insurance side of cybersecurity. And what does it mean to you? What does it mean to me? The majority of businesses in the US and UK are still leaving their doors wide open to attacks. I'm going to be doing some training coming up here before summer. So keep an eye out for that on what to do how to lock up your business before summer comes okay.

Craig 22:41
But for all of this focus, we've had on cybersecurity, all of this money that's getting invested. Most of us are still incredibly overexposed.  It's just crazy. These attacks can wipe out your business entirely can stop it for maybe a few hours or, or something somewhere in between. But there was this new cybersecurity survey that was conducted by endpoint management specialists. And also some market researchers Van Bourne, Vanson Bourne. They questioned 690 operations and IT security decision-makers across the US and UK found that 60% of the organizations had been breached in the last two years. And 31% said they'd been breached more than once. What's going on people? Are you just confused?

Craig 23:36
Make sure you sign up, http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. You can get my free training and I have completely free training, not upselling. Okay, I have my paid courses as well. But I'm trying to get the word out. Okay. The vast majority of the successful attacks are using known vulnerabilities in well-known software that has already had patches available by software vendors. The next one down is people falling for email attacks, which can also be prevented. No, they can't be prevented by going out and buying Barracuda spam firewalls. And no, okay, you got to do this right. But my goodness, my goodness, the CIO's team doesn't actually even know in most of these cases here, what the hardware is, it's out there, what software it's running on how they're going to patch it. They don't even know the machines exist. And we see that even in small businesses, you walk in how many computers you have, well, we just have three. And then you start poking around, you find out Oh, wow, they've got this Android tablet, an Android phone is connecting to the business WiFi. And therefore now the business computers are completely exposed. Plus people are working from home, they're using their laptops, using computers right from home. So now that whole network is exposing, that computers now exposed to the home network to the business network, because they're not using the VPN the way supposed to VPN is supposed to be used because they're using the wrong software. Again, and again and again and again. And again. You know, even the IT people, you know, we run into brake fixed shops all the time and the so-called managed services vendors that just have no idea what they're doing. None. Because all they have to do is no more than you know, listen, everybody, it's your responsibility to make sure your business is safe and you cannot pass it off. Okay, here's a quote again. This is from Samir, in the article you see up on my website about CIOs, it's your responsibility. A Forrester industry analyst who's tracking 150 or so security companies said that he's hearing about 5 or 10 new ones almost every weekend security space. And each one is talking of bigger and worse threats and the rest.

Craig 26:09
It's just absolutely amazing. It's I see it again. And again. People go when they take a course. they've got their course on security. And now they think that they're an expert, right? No, a two-week course, a six-month course does not make you an expert. And I know there are a few of you guys because you've reached out to me who listened to this on the radio or on iTunes or on YouTube, who have signed up for cybersecurity classes. I think that's a great thing. But also those people aren't thinking that, well, I've got my shingle I'm now an expert right? No. Six months in an intensive cybersecurity course is going to get your career launched. And God bless you. You're in a great community. Great career ahead of you. Okay, where there's going to be a five-year career or lifetime career. But those people cannot be the people who are running the cybersecurity for your business. You're the one that has to take it. Take that bull by the horns. If you are one of those people, reach out to me, [email protected]. I am more than glad to share resources with you. Absolutely free ok. [email protected]. I can help you out. So frustrating because remember, this happened to me 25 years ago, and I got it taken care of back then. And so I understand where you're at, I was there. I almost lost my business because of a hack. And I don't want you to lose yours. Okay, or your job or your career. Anyhow, [email protected]. Make sure you subscribe to my weekly newsletter. You'll get security updates what's happening out there http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Have a great week everybody. We'll be back on Monday. Be back with Jack Heath on Monday during drive time and the Jim Polito drink drive time. Ken and Matt and much more. So keep an ear out. Or look me up, http://CraigPeterson.com. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 05/07/2019

New Space Plane - Airport Face Scanning

Jim Polito 0:02
He's here, that music means that he's here. But you know what he's always here because at the end of this segment, I'm going to tell you how you can keep in touch with our Tech Talk guru Craig Pearson. But here is the man right now. Good morning.

Craig Peterson 0:16
Hey, good morning. And speaking to that we've got a kind of a big deal going on right now with Dell. I'm going to be sending out some information on that today.

Jim 0:27
Oh, what's going on?

Craig 0:28
Oh, man.

Jim 0:31 
Oh, boy.

Craig 0:33
Yeah. Well, we know that remote support can be handy. But it really looks like what's happened here with some of these computers. And, and we're going to be picking up and get into more specifics later today. But they have put into the machine itself, the ability for people to do remote support, and it has full privileges.

Jim 0:56
Here we go. So Dell. You're getting a Dell dude. So Dell put this in, I mean, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they put this in, so that it would make it easier for them to help you. So that when you're talking to somebody in Mumbai, on customer service, that they can help you. But now the bad guys know how to do it.

Craig 1:23
Exactly. So it's a remote assist vulnerability, it's kind of a very bad thing. Because it does allow anyone basically on your network. So another computer's been compromised on your network, it allows that computer to be able to get on take over and have complete control of your computer. And it gets very concerning when you talk to you about businesses, with the large numbers of records that are store personal information, confidential information. And when you're talking about servers that might have millions of records them. So it's kind of a very big deal. So keep an eye out because I'll be sending them or specific instructions on what to do later on.

Jim 2:09
All right, and we'll tell everybody how they can get on that list. And it's very simple. And it's very helpful. Okay, so let's get to this. The technology now exists. It's not Buck Rogers stuff. It's not Star Wars. The technology now exists to be able to have a craft, I guess I would say an aircraft leave New York or DC, with passengers and then land in London, One hour later. Is that that true? The technology exists?

Craig 2:51
Almost. It's less than an hour later.

Jim 2:54 
Wow.

Craig 2:56
It's absolutely amazing. Going from London to Australia in four hours. What we're talking about is a plane. And it's designed to go off into the highest levels of the atmosphere kind of skimming outer space, if you will. Well think about the Space Station, for instance, that's orbiting the Earth, the entire Earth in 90 minutes. It's moving very, very fast and when you get into outer space, certain problems go away. But other problems raised its ugly head. And one of the things that's really been a problem, and this was a problem for the culprits as well. I bet it's something you've never thought about here. Jim.

Jim 3:40
Go ahead. Lay it on me Alexandria Casio Cortez.

Craig 3:46
Here's the issue. If you're in outer space, one of the huge problems you have is what you do with the excess heat? For instance, think about are our bodies right now when you get hot you sweat. And it helps to cool down your body. If you're standing in 70 degree air. Are you cold or hot? You're probably okay. Right?

Jim 4:15
Yeah. You're about comfortable. Yeah.

Craig 4:16
How about 70 degrees water?

Jim 4:19 
No.

Craig 4:21
And the reason for that of course, is the water is pulling the heat out of your body. How about in a vacuum? There is nothing to pull the heat away.

Jim 4:31
No, there isn't.

Craig 4:33
And so many people think all outer space, it's cold. It's absolute zero. And you know, and it's easy to get rid of the heat. It is not easy to get rid of the heat. And it's been one of the problems was the we've had to solve over the years. What do we do with the excess heat for creating? When it come to these airplanes, and this is true with the Concorde, they are restricted because one of the things you don't want to have happen is have your engine melt as you're trying to fly, right?

Jim 5:02
Right. Because the heat has to, right, the heat. I mean, in normal atmospheric conditions, it's going to cool.

Craig 5:07
It will cool. The Concorde even is limited by this problem. Well, they just solved the problem.

Jim 5:17
What did they put like an air conditioner in the engine?

Craig 5:20 
Yeah, exactly. How did you?

Jim 5:23  
You know what I didn't even I didn't even realize how brilliant I was. I didn't.

Craig 5:29
The company's called Reaction Engines. And they made this precooler that can take the temperature of the compressed air because you remember, these various types of engines, jet pipe engines. Let's leave it at that. Keep it simple. Compressed the air, and they can take that air in the engines move it from 1000 degrees Celsius to room temperature in one 20th of a second.

Jim 5:58
Wow.

Craig 5:59  
It's actually absolutely amazing. Which means now they have solved the last major problem with a high speed hypersonic travel.

Jim 6:10
Okay, so let me get this straight. You know the Concorde, which no longer exists? It was a partnership between British Airways on Air France. supersonic jet, I think they were getting you there and what three hours?

Craig 6:26
Yeah, mos two is about where they were running. And yeah, it was just it was a few hours I think.

Jim 6:34
Okay. So we can go faster because the engine won't overheat. How high up are we going?

Craig 6:45
Well, this is this is really neat, when you're talking about faster, our jet fighters etc, can go mos 2 mos 3-ish, as difficult. This can go up to mos 25.

Jim 7:00
Wow. That's 25 times the speed of sound,

Craig 7:03
You got it. You're absolutely right.

Jim 7:05
That's a heck of a sonic boom.

Craig 7:08
Isn't that something? So it's going to get high high up in the atmosphere, right on the edge of the atmosphere. It's going to travel kind of get along 25 times the speed of sound, and get you to where you're going anywhere. You can get anywhere in the world in less than four hours with this engine. It is really exciting. We haven't had a big breakthrough like this in a very long time. You know, rocket engines World War Two is kind of when we got, of course. And this is the very next stage here. It's a different engine, it's got that supersonic air intakes the coolers, compressors, and rocket engines on the back. But it is an absolute revolution. And we can expect to start seeing these planes, you know, just in still early testing stage and another five years or so. But it is just absolutely amazing. And once again, without the aid systems in on this. The European Space Agency. The UK Space Agency. And we're talking about technology for cooling using tubes that are thinner than a human hair. With liquid helium in them. So it is very, very cool. And I think it's something AOC might have an issue with.

Jim 8:36 . 
Yeah, that's I was gonna get at because you know, she wants us all to be on trains and boats. And unless you can make a boat that can get to London in an hour, you know, in Australia in four hours? I don't know.

Craig 8:50
Yeah, well and they're also, this isn't just these guys. But there is another race going on right now. There are few jets that are expected to hit the market in next few years that are supersonic and are going to be flown all over the world. They tell some of the problems that have been existing remember the Concorde was designed for the 70s?

Jim 9:14
I know. I know. You go to museums now to see the Concorde. I remember the course they only had one crash in their entire history. And it was because it was a piece of debris on the runway in Paris that caused the problem. But no, they had a great safety record. It was very expensive, but people loved it.

Craig 9:35
Yeah. This is the future of this along with flying trains. Maybe that's what they should call it. A space train.

Jim 9:43
Yeah. If you call it a train, she won't know the difference. All right. We're talking with our good friend, Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson, and all the information here and then this information he talked about with Dell, he'll get to you and I'll tell you how you can do it at the end of the segment. But before we go, so before I get on this plane that's going to get me to London in an hour. My face will be scanned. What's what's that all about?

Craig 10:13
You saw that didn't you?

Jim 10:13
Yeah, I did. In the material you sent you're going to scan my face for what?

Craig 10:18
Yeah, well, it's already started happening. And this is kind of interesting, because the US Customs and Border Protection is using some facial recognition technology already at 15 airports. And what they're doing is they're matching the faces against passport photos, and what's called open source records, things like everything from drivers licenses through pictures that you might have posted online on social media, etc. Okay. So with the 15 airports that are out there, they've already had 15,000 flights if they want to just what they do is they have the camera right by the Okay, so they know you're about to leave the country. Of those 15,000 flights, over 2 million passengers have been scammed. 7,000 passengers were already caught as overstays on their visas.

Craig 11:19
7,000. And that's what the system and only started in 2017. So Customs and Border Protection is very interested in getting this in use in all airports across the country. It's also been key in identifying imposters, people who trying to enter the US don't match because you remember they're matching it up passports. If you don't match up record for that driver's license or passport, your face doesn't match. They will flag you right then in there for additional inspection. Remember it's kind of like 911. They used to have tables set up right by the gate. So they're going to be doing that again. But I gotta say with 15 airports catching 7,000 people who are here, effectively, illegally. I don't know if we can even say that anymore. Right?

Jim 12:10
Well you can say it on the show Craig. Feel free.

Craig 12:16
Once they spread this out it's really going to cause havoc for people who are in the country illegally. People who for instance, might have been apprehended as a border, given a court date to show up didn't show we have their photos. If they go anywhere near the airport, they're going to be caught.

Jim 12:37
Wow, now that facial recognition, or application of that technology doesn't bother me. Craig folks can get this information plus a whole lot more plus the problem with Dell you discussed earlier. If they text my name to this number.

Craig 12:57
855-385-5553. That's text Jim to 855-385-5553.

Jim 13:10
Standard data and text rates apply. And you'll get all this important information plus more as Craig just said. When an issue comes up, he will send it to you, he will not bother you. He will not try to sell you something Craig thanks so much. Always a pleasure.

Craig 13:27
Thanks. Take care Jim.

Jim 13:29 
You too. Bye bye. All right, a final word about nicknames when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show your safe space. 

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Airing date: 05/07/2019

New Space Plane - Airport Face Scanning

Jim Polito 0:02
He's here, that music means that he's here. But you know what he's always here because at the end of this segment, I'm going to tell you how you can keep in touch with our Tech Talk guru Craig Pearson. But here is the man right now. Good morning.

Craig Peterson 0:16
Hey, good morning. And speaking to that we've got a kind of a big deal going on right now with Dell. I'm going to be sending out some information on that today.

Jim 0:27
Oh, what's going on?

Craig 0:28
Oh, man.

Jim 0:31 
Oh, boy.

Craig 0:33
Yeah. Well, we know that remote support can be handy. But it really looks like what's happened here with some of these computers. And, and we're going to be picking up and get into more specifics later today. But they have put into the machine itself, the ability for people to do remote support, and it has full privileges.

Jim 0:56
Here we go. So Dell. You're getting a Dell dude. So Dell put this in, I mean, you know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, they put this in, so that it would make it easier for them to help you. So that when you're talking to somebody in Mumbai, on customer service, that they can help you. But now the bad guys know how to do it.

Craig 1:23
Exactly. So it's a remote assist vulnerability, it's kind of a very bad thing. Because it does allow anyone basically on your network. So another computer's been compromised on your network, it allows that computer to be able to get on take over and have complete control of your computer. And it gets very concerning when you talk to you about businesses, with the large numbers of records that are store personal information, confidential information. And when you're talking about servers that might have millions of records them. So it's kind of a very big deal. So keep an eye out because I'll be sending them or specific instructions on what to do later on.

Jim 2:09
All right, and we'll tell everybody how they can get on that list. And it's very simple. And it's very helpful. Okay, so let's get to this. The technology now exists. It's not Buck Rogers stuff. It's not Star Wars. The technology now exists to be able to have a craft, I guess I would say an aircraft leave New York or DC, with passengers and then land in London, One hour later. Is that that true? The technology exists?

Craig 2:51
Almost. It's less than an hour later.

Jim 2:54 
Wow.

Craig 2:56
It's absolutely amazing. Going from London to Australia in four hours. What we're talking about is a plane. And it's designed to go off into the highest levels of the atmosphere kind of skimming outer space, if you will. Well think about the Space Station, for instance, that's orbiting the Earth, the entire Earth in 90 minutes. It's moving very, very fast and when you get into outer space, certain problems go away. But other problems raised its ugly head. And one of the things that's really been a problem, and this was a problem for the culprits as well. I bet it's something you've never thought about here. Jim.

Jim 3:40
Go ahead. Lay it on me Alexandria Casio Cortez.

Craig 3:46
Here's the issue. If you're in outer space, one of the huge problems you have is what you do with the excess heat? For instance, think about are our bodies right now when you get hot you sweat. And it helps to cool down your body. If you're standing in 70 degree air. Are you cold or hot? You're probably okay. Right?

Jim 4:15
Yeah. You're about comfortable. Yeah.

Craig 4:16
How about 70 degrees water?

Jim 4:19 
No.

Craig 4:21
And the reason for that of course, is the water is pulling the heat out of your body. How about in a vacuum? There is nothing to pull the heat away.

Jim 4:31
No, there isn't.

Craig 4:33
And so many people think all outer space, it's cold. It's absolute zero. And you know, and it's easy to get rid of the heat. It is not easy to get rid of the heat. And it's been one of the problems was the we've had to solve over the years. What do we do with the excess heat for creating? When it come to these airplanes, and this is true with the Concorde, they are restricted because one of the things you don't want to have happen is have your engine melt as you're trying to fly, right?

Jim 5:02
Right. Because the heat has to, right, the heat. I mean, in normal atmospheric conditions, it's going to cool.

Craig 5:07
It will cool. The Concorde even is limited by this problem. Well, they just solved the problem.

Jim 5:17
What did they put like an air conditioner in the engine?

Craig 5:20 
Yeah, exactly. How did you?

Jim 5:23  
You know what I didn't even I didn't even realize how brilliant I was. I didn't.

Craig 5:29
The company's called Reaction Engines. And they made this precooler that can take the temperature of the compressed air because you remember, these various types of engines, jet pipe engines. Let's leave it at that. Keep it simple. Compressed the air, and they can take that air in the engines move it from 1000 degrees Celsius to room temperature in one 20th of a second.

Jim 5:58
Wow.

Craig 5:59  
It's actually absolutely amazing. Which means now they have solved the last major problem with a high speed hypersonic travel.

Jim 6:10
Okay, so let me get this straight. You know the Concorde, which no longer exists? It was a partnership between British Airways on Air France. supersonic jet, I think they were getting you there and what three hours?

Craig 6:26
Yeah, mos two is about where they were running. And yeah, it was just it was a few hours I think.

Jim 6:34
Okay. So we can go faster because the engine won't overheat. How high up are we going?

Craig 6:45
Well, this is this is really neat, when you're talking about faster, our jet fighters etc, can go mos 2 mos 3-ish, as difficult. This can go up to mos 25.

Jim 7:00
Wow. That's 25 times the speed of sound,

Craig 7:03
You got it. You're absolutely right.

Jim 7:05
That's a heck of a sonic boom.

Craig 7:08
Isn't that something? So it's going to get high high up in the atmosphere, right on the edge of the atmosphere. It's going to travel kind of get along 25 times the speed of sound, and get you to where you're going anywhere. You can get anywhere in the world in less than four hours with this engine. It is really exciting. We haven't had a big breakthrough like this in a very long time. You know, rocket engines World War Two is kind of when we got, of course. And this is the very next stage here. It's a different engine, it's got that supersonic air intakes the coolers, compressors, and rocket engines on the back. But it is an absolute revolution. And we can expect to start seeing these planes, you know, just in still early testing stage and another five years or so. But it is just absolutely amazing. And once again, without the aid systems in on this. The European Space Agency. The UK Space Agency. And we're talking about technology for cooling using tubes that are thinner than a human hair. With liquid helium in them. So it is very, very cool. And I think it's something AOC might have an issue with.

Jim 8:36 . 
Yeah, that's I was gonna get at because you know, she wants us all to be on trains and boats. And unless you can make a boat that can get to London in an hour, you know, in Australia in four hours? I don't know.

Craig 8:50
Yeah, well and they're also, this isn't just these guys. But there is another race going on right now. There are few jets that are expected to hit the market in next few years that are supersonic and are going to be flown all over the world. They tell some of the problems that have been existing remember the Concorde was designed for the 70s?

Jim 9:14
I know. I know. You go to museums now to see the Concorde. I remember the course they only had one crash in their entire history. And it was because it was a piece of debris on the runway in Paris that caused the problem. But no, they had a great safety record. It was very expensive, but people loved it.

Craig 9:35
Yeah. This is the future of this along with flying trains. Maybe that's what they should call it. A space train.

Jim 9:43
Yeah. If you call it a train, she won't know the difference. All right. We're talking with our good friend, Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson, and all the information here and then this information he talked about with Dell, he'll get to you and I'll tell you how you can do it at the end of the segment. But before we go, so before I get on this plane that's going to get me to London in an hour. My face will be scanned. What's what's that all about?

Craig 10:13
You saw that didn't you?

Jim 10:13
Yeah, I did. In the material you sent you're going to scan my face for what?

Craig 10:18
Yeah, well, it's already started happening. And this is kind of interesting, because the US Customs and Border Protection is using some facial recognition technology already at 15 airports. And what they're doing is they're matching the faces against passport photos, and what's called open source records, things like everything from drivers licenses through pictures that you might have posted online on social media, etc. Okay. So with the 15 airports that are out there, they've already had 15,000 flights if they want to just what they do is they have the camera right by the Okay, so they know you're about to leave the country. Of those 15,000 flights, over 2 million passengers have been scammed. 7,000 passengers were already caught as overstays on their visas.

Craig 11:19
7,000. And that's what the system and only started in 2017. So Customs and Border Protection is very interested in getting this in use in all airports across the country. It's also been key in identifying imposters, people who trying to enter the US don't match because you remember they're matching it up passports. If you don't match up record for that driver's license or passport, your face doesn't match. They will flag you right then in there for additional inspection. Remember it's kind of like 911. They used to have tables set up right by the gate. So they're going to be doing that again. But I gotta say with 15 airports catching 7,000 people who are here, effectively, illegally. I don't know if we can even say that anymore. Right?

Jim 12:10
Well you can say it on the show Craig. Feel free.

Craig 12:16
Once they spread this out it's really going to cause havoc for people who are in the country illegally. People who for instance, might have been apprehended as a border, given a court date to show up didn't show we have their photos. If they go anywhere near the airport, they're going to be caught.

Jim 12:37
Wow, now that facial recognition, or application of that technology doesn't bother me. Craig folks can get this information plus a whole lot more plus the problem with Dell you discussed earlier. If they text my name to this number.

Craig 12:57
855-385-5553. That's text Jim to 855-385-5553.

Jim 13:10
Standard data and text rates apply. And you'll get all this important information plus more as Craig just said. When an issue comes up, he will send it to you, he will not bother you. He will not try to sell you something Craig thanks so much. Always a pleasure.

Craig 13:27
Thanks. Take care Jim.

Jim 13:29 
You too. Bye bye. All right, a final word about nicknames when we return. You're listening to the Jim Polito show your safe space. 

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Airing date: 05/06/2019

Facebook's Troubles

Jack Heath 0:00
From our Auto Fair listener lines for a tech talk update our Tech Talk guy, Craig Peterson on this Monday morning. Good morning Craig.

Craig Peterson 0:06
Hey, good morning Jack. We got more news this week about our friends over at Facebook. And Google is winning the war when it comes to drone deliveries. And our horse came in fourth in the derby. We didn't win Triple Crown like last year but fourth is bad.

Jack 0:24
Well, no high tech impacts on the derby. That's good old fashioned horse racing. And we'll see but what's going on in terms of I know, there's been actually quite a bit of news over Facebook in the last week or two.

Craig 0:37
Oh, it's been absolutely huge. There's about 4000 pages of documents that have now been looked at by some of the British parliament members who are investigating and Facebook's data privacy practices. And basically what they're saying, Oh, this is my word. But a blackout comes to mind when I'm looking at some of these articles that are coming out. Even NBC news, apparently what Mark Zuckerberg was doing is he was using the data on Facebook users in order to strong arm competitors, in order to strong arm people that were not considered friends of Zuckerberg. And more information has come up too about 2012 and 2014. Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Well, it turned out that they had kind of covered up an Obama 2012 Facebook app, that collected information on 190 million people without their knowledge or consent. Somehow that hasn't made the news. And something that is making the news right now is that Facebook has warned investors to expect the largest ever civil penalty imposed by the FTC, to be imposed on it as much is a $5 billion fine for basically breaking agreement that they get signed with the Department of Justice from what, five, six years ago.

Jack 2:04
Now I you know, maybe Mark Zuckerberg, because of the the the value because of the wealth, maybe he'd be viewed in contribution contribution no matter what plus Facebook, we've never really had. I mean, in terms of social media platforms, it really was a game changer, even though there's other, you know, platforms that are other ways to whether it's Instagram or other measures or means to communicate, the younger people may not but my point is, it's hard to tell if Zuckerberg and I don't mean this in a good or bad way, is a good or bad guy? I mean, you know, the one hand I think he's put under a lot of scrutiny. there been some things that they've supposedly done during the election, private information. You know, he's put on the suit and gone before Congress and tried to open up and testify but at the end of the day, the jury's kind of still out on him, isn't it?

Craig 2:57
Yeah, it is. You remember that movie of course, talking about the twins and Harvard and how he it supposedly stolen the whole idea from Facebook from these guys. I think looking more and more credible that indeed that is what happened. I don't think Zuckerberg is the kind of guy that you'd want to go into business with or trust frankly, well, Facebook it's starting to fall down and that's always happened right? The big guy gets knocked off the perch

Jack 3:25
Yeah, but it depends on a lot of investors and a lot of value there. We'll see if they can keep up with it and of course the whole thing because it, didn't it also goes to go back to something was it some the original something new with Exeter and then Harvard you know, basically the yearbook the whole idea if he just put that concept onto the web and let people communicate the way you know you do over your yearbook and past class. 

Craig 3:47
Well yeah, that's true. But you know, Jack, one interesting point most people don't know is how did he started? How did you start this little yearbook, this Facebook of rating another CoEd? He stole the photos from the universities' computer systems. So there's allegations of a lot of misuse over the years.

Jack 4:06
Isn't that innovation. No, I'm kidding Craig Peterson. Our Tech Talk guy. Well, you know, while a lot of people will get different news we have tensions mounting in the Middle East.

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Airing date: 05/06/2019

Facebook's Troubles

Jack Heath 0:00
From our Auto Fair listener lines for a tech talk update our Tech Talk guy, Craig Peterson on this Monday morning. Good morning Craig.

Craig Peterson 0:06
Hey, good morning Jack. We got more news this week about our friends over at Facebook. And Google is winning the war when it comes to drone deliveries. And our horse came in fourth in the derby. We didn't win Triple Crown like last year but fourth is bad.

Jack 0:24
Well, no high tech impacts on the derby. That's good old fashioned horse racing. And we'll see but what's going on in terms of I know, there's been actually quite a bit of news over Facebook in the last week or two.

Craig 0:37
Oh, it's been absolutely huge. There's about 4000 pages of documents that have now been looked at by some of the British parliament members who are investigating and Facebook's data privacy practices. And basically what they're saying, Oh, this is my word. But a blackout comes to mind when I'm looking at some of these articles that are coming out. Even NBC news, apparently what Mark Zuckerberg was doing is he was using the data on Facebook users in order to strong arm competitors, in order to strong arm people that were not considered friends of Zuckerberg. And more information has come up too about 2012 and 2014. Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Well, it turned out that they had kind of covered up an Obama 2012 Facebook app, that collected information on 190 million people without their knowledge or consent. Somehow that hasn't made the news. And something that is making the news right now is that Facebook has warned investors to expect the largest ever civil penalty imposed by the FTC, to be imposed on it as much is a $5 billion fine for basically breaking agreement that they get signed with the Department of Justice from what, five, six years ago.

Jack 2:04
Now I you know, maybe Mark Zuckerberg, because of the the the value because of the wealth, maybe he'd be viewed in contribution contribution no matter what plus Facebook, we've never really had. I mean, in terms of social media platforms, it really was a game changer, even though there's other, you know, platforms that are other ways to whether it's Instagram or other measures or means to communicate, the younger people may not but my point is, it's hard to tell if Zuckerberg and I don't mean this in a good or bad way, is a good or bad guy? I mean, you know, the one hand I think he's put under a lot of scrutiny. there been some things that they've supposedly done during the election, private information. You know, he's put on the suit and gone before Congress and tried to open up and testify but at the end of the day, the jury's kind of still out on him, isn't it?

Craig 2:57
Yeah, it is. You remember that movie of course, talking about the twins and Harvard and how he it supposedly stolen the whole idea from Facebook from these guys. I think looking more and more credible that indeed that is what happened. I don't think Zuckerberg is the kind of guy that you'd want to go into business with or trust frankly, well, Facebook it's starting to fall down and that's always happened right? The big guy gets knocked off the perch

Jack 3:25
Yeah, but it depends on a lot of investors and a lot of value there. We'll see if they can keep up with it and of course the whole thing because it, didn't it also goes to go back to something was it some the original something new with Exeter and then Harvard you know, basically the yearbook the whole idea if he just put that concept onto the web and let people communicate the way you know you do over your yearbook and past class. 

Craig 3:47
Well yeah, that's true. But you know, Jack, one interesting point most people don't know is how did he started? How did you start this little yearbook, this Facebook of rating another CoEd? He stole the photos from the universities' computer systems. So there's allegations of a lot of misuse over the years.

Jack 4:06
Isn't that innovation. No, I'm kidding Craig Peterson. Our Tech Talk guy. Well, you know, while a lot of people will get different news we have tensions mounting in the Middle East.

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