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Craig is on WGAN this morning with Ken and Matt in their usual banter. They discussed the tech solutions for border security, the tech trends for 2019, and how to rename Alexa.

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: 01/23/2019

Tech Solutions For Border Security - Russia Using Bitcoin To Bypass US Sanctions - Renaming Alexa

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey everybody, I hope you've taken the time to look at that special report that I offered this week. Of course, it's it's free, right? Isn't that always the case and I have a little bit of an upsell for you, it's really cheap. And I just want to cover my costs on a webinar that we're going to hold about this on Friday. But you can freeze your
credit and you can do it for absolutely nothing. And then I personally think it's way better than going to these credit monitoring companies that all they'll do is after the fact try and help you clean up a little bit of the mess right. So freeze it, make sure you get that that special report if you haven't already checked your email because you should have gotten an email from me.

So this morning with our friends Ken and Matt we of course, had a few different discussions we talked about the border because they had been going on and on they were yelling. Ken yelling actually not mad, I had a guest that had called him a was crazy all about the border border security. And I had to kind of straighten out a couple of things here about what technology could do, what are the basic problems and even kind of tip my hat little bit as to which way I lean on that one. So we talked about that we talked about your Amazon Alexa and how to change its name, so that it isn't waking up all the time by someone saying the wrong wake up word. And there are three words you can use to wake it up. So I talked a little bit about that. And one more thing when we're talking about our security and and what you should be doing, I've got a special course that's going to be starting up here in just a few weeks. And it's not just a course because I know you don't all want to be security experts, right? You just want to solve your security problem, I get it. Finally, I think okay, so I, I have this whole thing we're going to back you up. I've got commitments from my technology people, my engineers that work for my company, my technicians all the way up to my third level tech support, I'm going to be offering a complete technology turnaround for you from you know, security standpoint, in just a couple of weeks. And I'm going to work with you, I'm going to explain how this all works. I'm going to show you how to secure your computers absolutely secure them. And we're also now going to be able to have tech support available for you as part of this all inclusive package. How's that for a big deal.

So if you are a tech guy at a company, we're not going to move in on your space, we're going to help you with securing your business doesn't matter how big the businesses can be a Soho can be a multi million dollar public company, because we we deal with everything in between, frankly, including both of those edges. So I am so excited about this. I went through this yesterday with my team. And we explained what was going to happen and laid out all of the plans. And there's a lot of work for us involved. We've never offered this before. In fact, no one has ever offered this before. But it's a complete security technology turnaround, where we will hold your hand, we're not just going to sell you some software and run away. In fact, you don't even have to buy any software from us. This is all about educating you about the security problems, how to fix them yourselves. And you are backed by our engineers. Now thinking about thinking about our friends at Microsoft. If you ever called Microsoft for tech support,

Unknown 3:54
right? Have you ever paid them the $300 they want I know I've even paid the the $300 they want for a single tech support call one call lasting no more than two hours. And when you think about all of the computers that you have, and you're trying to get those computers all fixed up and working. Don't you wish you had somebody to explain it all to you. Right there are you one of those people who's tried it and and stumbled and said, Forget about it. And you don't want to upgrade your computer because you just know something's going to break. And you just know yet can be able to fix it. And you just know you're not going to be able to open a dozen support tickets with Microsoft and four or $5,000 later you might be back on your feet, right? If that's the case,

Unknown 4:47
do you think that would help you that this whole thing would help you because that's what we're going to be offering. So this is exciting. This is new, we've never done it before. So keep your eyes on because this is coming up in a couple of weeks. I am going to be sending out some emails on this in a couple of weeks. And you'll find out more. And I'm going to have a webinar kind of explaining what we're doing that I'm going to make an offer. And that's it. I'm only doing this this one time. And hopefully if it's right for you. You will sign up. So anyhow, here we go with Mr. Ken and Matt on WGAN and all of their affiliates in Maine

Unknown 5:31
Ken got some food and a little happier now.

Unknown 5:38
So I got a little... by the way do I might sound

Unknown 5:43
Do you think Craig Peterson.

Unknown 5:45
Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He has you know, you joke about me having 17 kids. He actually may have 17. I think probably older than me.

Unknown 5:52
probably say let me guess you I'm going to say 50 now. 45.

Unknown 6:01
You're like this to my youngest kid is 23. Oh my god. Our eldest is 35.

Unknown 6:07
So you got to be me. And then you could have been 20, you know.

Unknown 6:10
Well, that's my my wife turned 60 this year. Wow.

Unknown 6:14
Alright, so that's Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Unknown 6:18
39. Yeah,

Unknown 6:20
well,

Unknown 6:22
too. So

Unknown 6:25
there you go. Hey, Ken. Yes. All of this discussion about the border? I thought maybe we might want to talk about a couple of little technology things that might

Unknown 6:33
please do take my mind off this. I think that's a great idea.

Unknown 6:36
lasers.

Unknown 6:38
Me, what about late

Unknown 6:40
Are you talking about lasers pointed at Tom Brady's face at football games? Because I'm a little concerned about that.

Unknown 6:46
Exactly. Now, it's an interesting debate, frankly, because there are so many aspects of it. That's too bad that there's just so much focus strictly on the wall. I you know, you look at this, what's the wall for courses, physical barrier to prevent people from crossing. But as you guys have both talked about before, we've got a big problem with people overstating visas, we're trying to keep people out of the country illegally. We, you know, we talked a few weeks ago about these new biometric systems like the ones that will scan your eyes looking for a potential lies that that was I'm actually I don't think we spoke about it. That was in my, you know, my website. But here's some of the technologies they're looking at right now. If you fly out of Orlando, there's this new biometric system that does look at your eyes. But to identify you, as a unique person, we've got other biometric systems that are starting to be deployed. And the idea is that we can catch people very quickly, who are trying to enter illegally. So someone, for instance, decides that they're going to come in the country, they come here, they commit a crime of some sort, they are arrested. And if we do capture their biometric information, and then they leave to go home to visit family or whatever, and they come back at that point, now we can stop them, we can catch them, we can detect illicit behavior with different types of scanners, we can screen migrants, we can put more technology at our ports and, and more scanning more surveillance to see what's going on. It's like President Trump that suggested that. And what we're talking about here are, again, what Ken was mentioning this morning, we know that most of the drugs that are crossing the border are coming to our major ports of entry. Of course, we don't really know how much is coming elsewhere, because we don't monitor that closely. But we can do a much better job of even having dogs at the borders that are sniffing that are looking for some of these things. But then you run into problems like I have clients, a couple of them, I can think of off and that have parts of their equipment manufacturer to Mexico, and then they ship it up here, they do final assembly in the US and then they sell their products. Well, at that point, now you're causing problems for our economies, and for American businesses, American jobs, because you're stopping the some of the flow of this, or at least you're slowing it down impeding it, but you know, there are some things we can do with our existing ports that are going to improve things. Obviously, we can't track people, even the little bit of biometric things we've heard about before, where you stick a chip under the skin that's just playing not going to work because the only can be helpful if they're right there at a scanner. So forget those types of ideas. But it's very difficult problem. There is some technology that divine to try and solve some of this problem. But I also want us to be a little bit cautious here because both sides are pretty upset about what's happening right now. And I want to be conscious because we tend to need jerk many times and I don't want to have this backscatter radar problem like we've had at the airports where you've got backscatter x rays being used, and there's a lot of questions about how much harm they were doing, initially, how much time they still might be doing, and we put them in places a quick response to some of the terrorist actions that happen that are very rare and should we be should we be knee jerk? And I don't know I I don't think so. But there's a lot of discussion frankly, from my standpoint, it's frustrating that the democrats completely reject an empty and and Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi rejected Trump's proposals before he even made the proposals. How do we have a national dialogue about this? And how do we come to a new set of laws and new technology, new regulations, new employees, when nobody seems to want to talk this want to yell?

Unknown 11:08
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, just talk about the world of technology. And what's happening, talked a little bit about border wall stuff. Let's get into more general technology topics, though, if you will. I you know, there's a lot of things we look back at 2018 and sort of see the trends that we saw starting to develop and things that we saw in technology and whatnot, what as you look forward to 2019, do you see as the top trends that we're going to be talking about

Unknown 11:34
all year? Yeah, this is kind of interesting. We've had a bunch of different trends over the years. And I said in the past, hey, this is that the year of the medical hack, for instance, right, where I think that our, our, our hospitals are going to be hacked, etc. And we've had years where it was, wow, this is the year of high def TV this year, I don't think we're going to have any big breakthroughs, you know, over iPhone was more than a decade ago now. And then the iPad came shortly afterwards. But I think this year is going to be kind of setting the pace for the future, and the groundwork for the future. And it's going to be really big, it's going to make change the world within the next two to three years, frankly, in some ways, you're not going to recognize the future five years from today, because of some technology that's rolling out this year. Now, we've mentioned before the 5G rollouts that are starting to happen, this is the new technology for our cell phone systems. And what this technology does is it provides incredibly fast service 10 times faster or more in some cases than what we have today for our cell phones, and also provides for many more millions, actually more than billion new devices to be attached to these networks. So what does that mean ultimately? Well, that means that our friends in the cable TV business are going to finally face some serious competition and our cable TV, if you will, you know, our TV is going to be in the future in most areas of the country. Of course, if you're in rural rural Maine, you're not going to see this right away. But it's in his faith major competition, because our cell phone carriers are going to be able to provide very inexpensive, very high speed internet that will be price competitive with what you have in your house, even right now. So so your cable may not even be used for internet anymore. And they'll be providing streaming video services, including local TV, that's all coming in about two to three years, Apple isn't even going to do a 5G phone this year. They said that won't happen until next year. But some of the other vendors are going to do it, they're going to kick their toes in. And 2019 is going to be known as the year of really kind of laying the groundwork for a much different future when it comes to data. And I want to add one more thing to this. And that is we are seeing serious push back now to large lack of privacy, misuse of data. And people are very upset. Government agencies are upset. As you know, the chairman pie of the FCC. FCC is very upset about this. And there is work of foot in Congress as well. So we're going to see more regulations. We're also going to see the industry itself try and pull up at socks. So expect to see a little bit of a an industry movement probably let her friends at Facebook, because they've got such a black guy this year. It's going to try and protect our privacy, which I think very important thing because we really haven't been doing anywhere near enough about it.

Unknown 15:09
We're talking to Craig Peterson is our tech school joins us Tuesdays at 7:38.

Unknown 15:14
before we let you go you know I did get Alexa for Christmas. And I

Unknown 15:18
Alexa play who

Unknown 15:20
I did

Unknown 15:20
change it to computer though, because I thought it was much better. That's called a computer. Ah,

Unknown 15:25
so what you can change? Yes.

Unknown 15:27
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Unknown 15:29
Limited. A sorry, Craig. We're going to talk we're talking to our tech experts. Only a few seriously, you can

Unknown 15:35
say Alexa changer, your

Unknown 15:39
your name

Unknown 15:40
yet.

Unknown 15:42
or changing reading or?

Unknown 15:43
Yeah, I'll

Unknown 15:44
use a computer. I can do like a star trek thing. And I can be like, computer

Unknown 15:47
computer. Yeah, but

Unknown 15:51
that's happening today. I'm gonna go ahead and go home.

Unknown 15:53
What else? It is on store for us from Amazon. Are they going to have this and every wall we have? Are they going to be having cameras? This

Unknown 16:00
is this a minority report? Are we turning into Minority Report? That's my question. I'm talking about biometrics reading eyeballs. That's the first thing I thought about was Tom Cruise going into the gap.

Unknown 16:10
Minority Report.

Unknown 16:11
By the way, for those of you whose radio who's electrodes are now streaming live, which is what I do in the morning, when I wake up, you can change this culture wake up word. And the way to change it to computer is you're going to your Alexa app on your phone. You tap that little hamburger menu settings and scroll down to wake word.

Unknown 16:31
Yeah. And then we have

Unknown 16:32
that drop down menu.

Unknown 16:35
Yeah. And then you can call it either Amazon Echo or computer,

Unknown 16:40
right? All right. And that's all you have to do. We didn't get major Barrett's voice to do it back to you know, yes.

Unknown 16:47
You know what I have? I have a skill that all I have to do is say le x a red alert and it sounds the virus from the original Star Trek series

Unknown 17:03
Barrett some

Unknown 17:06
point

Unknown 17:08
because I don't think you can buy that one. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of cool. So yeah, there's 100 million dollar these things now in people's hands. These Alexa and they are continuing to grow. And they are being embedded now. And more and more devices. Apple this year at CES. That was their big thing, if you will, their announcement was Apple is now making Siri available in TVs and other third party devices. So we're going to see more and more integration. And it looks like Amazon might be winning this smart speaker were

Unknown 17:42
indeed. All right, Craig. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joining us, you know, as it usually does on Wednesdays here can you say joins, we have about two minutes left Craig. So make this one a brief one, but Russia and bitcoins is this some way of getting around sanctions?

Unknown 18:00
Interesting story and Bitcoin is Bitcoin apparently because of fraud and initial trading where they did some trading back and forth between a few guys in order to drive the price of bitcoin up. And that's there's there's some evidence to support that now. There is a rumor floating around that our friends over in Russia that are looking to get away around us sanctions and they're going to get around our sanctioned by using Bitcoin in sac what the, the, the whole rumor drives to is that Russia could purchase Bitcoin to replace the US dollar as a reserve currency and there's saying, Hey, how about we use Bitcoin or some other blockchain technology in order to sell oil for oil trading instead of the US dollar? So the big question is, is this real legit, or not? All the research I've done online seems to indicate that it is not legit, although, who knows? Maybe it was a bit of a trial balloon by the Kremlin. But if Russia work to do that, of course, it would drive the value of Bitcoin way up. Because this Russian economist there's only one guy that said this said that Russia was going to put 10 billion in Bitcoin, I would not call that an investment. By the way, this is not investment advice either, but I don't know what's going to happen. But it is an interesting idea with cryptocurrencies. Could other countries get around us sanctions by switching over to Bitcoin or other currencies?

Unknown 19:43
Great question. We're gonna leave it there Craig is we're out of time appreciate you joining us as always, and we'll talk to you again next week.

Unknown 19:48
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks Craig

Unknown 19:50
all right we're gonna come back at the other end of this with our eyeballs

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Craig is on WGAN this morning with Ken and Matt in their usual banter. They discussed the tech solutions for border security, the tech trends for 2019, and how to rename Alexa.

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

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Related Articles:

Is It Feasible For Russia To Use Bitcoin To Avoid Sanctions From The United States?

The Biggest Tech Trends Of 2019, According To Top Experts

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 01/23/2019

Tech Solutions For Border Security - Russia Using Bitcoin To Bypass US Sanctions - Renaming Alexa

Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey everybody, I hope you've taken the time to look at that special report that I offered this week. Of course, it's it's free, right? Isn't that always the case and I have a little bit of an upsell for you, it's really cheap. And I just want to cover my costs on a webinar that we're going to hold about this on Friday. But you can freeze your
credit and you can do it for absolutely nothing. And then I personally think it's way better than going to these credit monitoring companies that all they'll do is after the fact try and help you clean up a little bit of the mess right. So freeze it, make sure you get that that special report if you haven't already checked your email because you should have gotten an email from me.

So this morning with our friends Ken and Matt we of course, had a few different discussions we talked about the border because they had been going on and on they were yelling. Ken yelling actually not mad, I had a guest that had called him a was crazy all about the border border security. And I had to kind of straighten out a couple of things here about what technology could do, what are the basic problems and even kind of tip my hat little bit as to which way I lean on that one. So we talked about that we talked about your Amazon Alexa and how to change its name, so that it isn't waking up all the time by someone saying the wrong wake up word. And there are three words you can use to wake it up. So I talked a little bit about that. And one more thing when we're talking about our security and and what you should be doing, I've got a special course that's going to be starting up here in just a few weeks. And it's not just a course because I know you don't all want to be security experts, right? You just want to solve your security problem, I get it. Finally, I think okay, so I, I have this whole thing we're going to back you up. I've got commitments from my technology people, my engineers that work for my company, my technicians all the way up to my third level tech support, I'm going to be offering a complete technology turnaround for you from you know, security standpoint, in just a couple of weeks. And I'm going to work with you, I'm going to explain how this all works. I'm going to show you how to secure your computers absolutely secure them. And we're also now going to be able to have tech support available for you as part of this all inclusive package. How's that for a big deal.

So if you are a tech guy at a company, we're not going to move in on your space, we're going to help you with securing your business doesn't matter how big the businesses can be a Soho can be a multi million dollar public company, because we we deal with everything in between, frankly, including both of those edges. So I am so excited about this. I went through this yesterday with my team. And we explained what was going to happen and laid out all of the plans. And there's a lot of work for us involved. We've never offered this before. In fact, no one has ever offered this before. But it's a complete security technology turnaround, where we will hold your hand, we're not just going to sell you some software and run away. In fact, you don't even have to buy any software from us. This is all about educating you about the security problems, how to fix them yourselves. And you are backed by our engineers. Now thinking about thinking about our friends at Microsoft. If you ever called Microsoft for tech support,

Unknown 3:54
right? Have you ever paid them the $300 they want I know I've even paid the the $300 they want for a single tech support call one call lasting no more than two hours. And when you think about all of the computers that you have, and you're trying to get those computers all fixed up and working. Don't you wish you had somebody to explain it all to you. Right there are you one of those people who's tried it and and stumbled and said, Forget about it. And you don't want to upgrade your computer because you just know something's going to break. And you just know yet can be able to fix it. And you just know you're not going to be able to open a dozen support tickets with Microsoft and four or $5,000 later you might be back on your feet, right? If that's the case,

Unknown 4:47
do you think that would help you that this whole thing would help you because that's what we're going to be offering. So this is exciting. This is new, we've never done it before. So keep your eyes on because this is coming up in a couple of weeks. I am going to be sending out some emails on this in a couple of weeks. And you'll find out more. And I'm going to have a webinar kind of explaining what we're doing that I'm going to make an offer. And that's it. I'm only doing this this one time. And hopefully if it's right for you. You will sign up. So anyhow, here we go with Mr. Ken and Matt on WGAN and all of their affiliates in Maine

Unknown 5:31
Ken got some food and a little happier now.

Unknown 5:38
So I got a little... by the way do I might sound

Unknown 5:43
Do you think Craig Peterson.

Unknown 5:45
Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He has you know, you joke about me having 17 kids. He actually may have 17. I think probably older than me.

Unknown 5:52
probably say let me guess you I'm going to say 50 now. 45.

Unknown 6:01
You're like this to my youngest kid is 23. Oh my god. Our eldest is 35.

Unknown 6:07
So you got to be me. And then you could have been 20, you know.

Unknown 6:10
Well, that's my my wife turned 60 this year. Wow.

Unknown 6:14
Alright, so that's Wow. Okay. Yeah.

Unknown 6:18
39. Yeah,

Unknown 6:20
well,

Unknown 6:22
too. So

Unknown 6:25
there you go. Hey, Ken. Yes. All of this discussion about the border? I thought maybe we might want to talk about a couple of little technology things that might

Unknown 6:33
please do take my mind off this. I think that's a great idea.

Unknown 6:36
lasers.

Unknown 6:38
Me, what about late

Unknown 6:40
Are you talking about lasers pointed at Tom Brady's face at football games? Because I'm a little concerned about that.

Unknown 6:46
Exactly. Now, it's an interesting debate, frankly, because there are so many aspects of it. That's too bad that there's just so much focus strictly on the wall. I you know, you look at this, what's the wall for courses, physical barrier to prevent people from crossing. But as you guys have both talked about before, we've got a big problem with people overstating visas, we're trying to keep people out of the country illegally. We, you know, we talked a few weeks ago about these new biometric systems like the ones that will scan your eyes looking for a potential lies that that was I'm actually I don't think we spoke about it. That was in my, you know, my website. But here's some of the technologies they're looking at right now. If you fly out of Orlando, there's this new biometric system that does look at your eyes. But to identify you, as a unique person, we've got other biometric systems that are starting to be deployed. And the idea is that we can catch people very quickly, who are trying to enter illegally. So someone, for instance, decides that they're going to come in the country, they come here, they commit a crime of some sort, they are arrested. And if we do capture their biometric information, and then they leave to go home to visit family or whatever, and they come back at that point, now we can stop them, we can catch them, we can detect illicit behavior with different types of scanners, we can screen migrants, we can put more technology at our ports and, and more scanning more surveillance to see what's going on. It's like President Trump that suggested that. And what we're talking about here are, again, what Ken was mentioning this morning, we know that most of the drugs that are crossing the border are coming to our major ports of entry. Of course, we don't really know how much is coming elsewhere, because we don't monitor that closely. But we can do a much better job of even having dogs at the borders that are sniffing that are looking for some of these things. But then you run into problems like I have clients, a couple of them, I can think of off and that have parts of their equipment manufacturer to Mexico, and then they ship it up here, they do final assembly in the US and then they sell their products. Well, at that point, now you're causing problems for our economies, and for American businesses, American jobs, because you're stopping the some of the flow of this, or at least you're slowing it down impeding it, but you know, there are some things we can do with our existing ports that are going to improve things. Obviously, we can't track people, even the little bit of biometric things we've heard about before, where you stick a chip under the skin that's just playing not going to work because the only can be helpful if they're right there at a scanner. So forget those types of ideas. But it's very difficult problem. There is some technology that divine to try and solve some of this problem. But I also want us to be a little bit cautious here because both sides are pretty upset about what's happening right now. And I want to be conscious because we tend to need jerk many times and I don't want to have this backscatter radar problem like we've had at the airports where you've got backscatter x rays being used, and there's a lot of questions about how much harm they were doing, initially, how much time they still might be doing, and we put them in places a quick response to some of the terrorist actions that happen that are very rare and should we be should we be knee jerk? And I don't know I I don't think so. But there's a lot of discussion frankly, from my standpoint, it's frustrating that the democrats completely reject an empty and and Chuck Schumer. Nancy Pelosi rejected Trump's proposals before he even made the proposals. How do we have a national dialogue about this? And how do we come to a new set of laws and new technology, new regulations, new employees, when nobody seems to want to talk this want to yell?

Unknown 11:08
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, just talk about the world of technology. And what's happening, talked a little bit about border wall stuff. Let's get into more general technology topics, though, if you will. I you know, there's a lot of things we look back at 2018 and sort of see the trends that we saw starting to develop and things that we saw in technology and whatnot, what as you look forward to 2019, do you see as the top trends that we're going to be talking about

Unknown 11:34
all year? Yeah, this is kind of interesting. We've had a bunch of different trends over the years. And I said in the past, hey, this is that the year of the medical hack, for instance, right, where I think that our, our, our hospitals are going to be hacked, etc. And we've had years where it was, wow, this is the year of high def TV this year, I don't think we're going to have any big breakthroughs, you know, over iPhone was more than a decade ago now. And then the iPad came shortly afterwards. But I think this year is going to be kind of setting the pace for the future, and the groundwork for the future. And it's going to be really big, it's going to make change the world within the next two to three years, frankly, in some ways, you're not going to recognize the future five years from today, because of some technology that's rolling out this year. Now, we've mentioned before the 5G rollouts that are starting to happen, this is the new technology for our cell phone systems. And what this technology does is it provides incredibly fast service 10 times faster or more in some cases than what we have today for our cell phones, and also provides for many more millions, actually more than billion new devices to be attached to these networks. So what does that mean ultimately? Well, that means that our friends in the cable TV business are going to finally face some serious competition and our cable TV, if you will, you know, our TV is going to be in the future in most areas of the country. Of course, if you're in rural rural Maine, you're not going to see this right away. But it's in his faith major competition, because our cell phone carriers are going to be able to provide very inexpensive, very high speed internet that will be price competitive with what you have in your house, even right now. So so your cable may not even be used for internet anymore. And they'll be providing streaming video services, including local TV, that's all coming in about two to three years, Apple isn't even going to do a 5G phone this year. They said that won't happen until next year. But some of the other vendors are going to do it, they're going to kick their toes in. And 2019 is going to be known as the year of really kind of laying the groundwork for a much different future when it comes to data. And I want to add one more thing to this. And that is we are seeing serious push back now to large lack of privacy, misuse of data. And people are very upset. Government agencies are upset. As you know, the chairman pie of the FCC. FCC is very upset about this. And there is work of foot in Congress as well. So we're going to see more regulations. We're also going to see the industry itself try and pull up at socks. So expect to see a little bit of a an industry movement probably let her friends at Facebook, because they've got such a black guy this year. It's going to try and protect our privacy, which I think very important thing because we really haven't been doing anywhere near enough about it.

Unknown 15:09
We're talking to Craig Peterson is our tech school joins us Tuesdays at 7:38.

Unknown 15:14
before we let you go you know I did get Alexa for Christmas. And I

Unknown 15:18
Alexa play who

Unknown 15:20
I did

Unknown 15:20
change it to computer though, because I thought it was much better. That's called a computer. Ah,

Unknown 15:25
so what you can change? Yes.

Unknown 15:27
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Unknown 15:29
Limited. A sorry, Craig. We're going to talk we're talking to our tech experts. Only a few seriously, you can

Unknown 15:35
say Alexa changer, your

Unknown 15:39
your name

Unknown 15:40
yet.

Unknown 15:42
or changing reading or?

Unknown 15:43
Yeah, I'll

Unknown 15:44
use a computer. I can do like a star trek thing. And I can be like, computer

Unknown 15:47
computer. Yeah, but

Unknown 15:51
that's happening today. I'm gonna go ahead and go home.

Unknown 15:53
What else? It is on store for us from Amazon. Are they going to have this and every wall we have? Are they going to be having cameras? This

Unknown 16:00
is this a minority report? Are we turning into Minority Report? That's my question. I'm talking about biometrics reading eyeballs. That's the first thing I thought about was Tom Cruise going into the gap.

Unknown 16:10
Minority Report.

Unknown 16:11
By the way, for those of you whose radio who's electrodes are now streaming live, which is what I do in the morning, when I wake up, you can change this culture wake up word. And the way to change it to computer is you're going to your Alexa app on your phone. You tap that little hamburger menu settings and scroll down to wake word.

Unknown 16:31
Yeah. And then we have

Unknown 16:32
that drop down menu.

Unknown 16:35
Yeah. And then you can call it either Amazon Echo or computer,

Unknown 16:40
right? All right. And that's all you have to do. We didn't get major Barrett's voice to do it back to you know, yes.

Unknown 16:47
You know what I have? I have a skill that all I have to do is say le x a red alert and it sounds the virus from the original Star Trek series

Unknown 17:03
Barrett some

Unknown 17:06
point

Unknown 17:08
because I don't think you can buy that one. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of cool. So yeah, there's 100 million dollar these things now in people's hands. These Alexa and they are continuing to grow. And they are being embedded now. And more and more devices. Apple this year at CES. That was their big thing, if you will, their announcement was Apple is now making Siri available in TVs and other third party devices. So we're going to see more and more integration. And it looks like Amazon might be winning this smart speaker were

Unknown 17:42
indeed. All right, Craig. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joining us, you know, as it usually does on Wednesdays here can you say joins, we have about two minutes left Craig. So make this one a brief one, but Russia and bitcoins is this some way of getting around sanctions?

Unknown 18:00
Interesting story and Bitcoin is Bitcoin apparently because of fraud and initial trading where they did some trading back and forth between a few guys in order to drive the price of bitcoin up. And that's there's there's some evidence to support that now. There is a rumor floating around that our friends over in Russia that are looking to get away around us sanctions and they're going to get around our sanctioned by using Bitcoin in sac what the, the, the whole rumor drives to is that Russia could purchase Bitcoin to replace the US dollar as a reserve currency and there's saying, Hey, how about we use Bitcoin or some other blockchain technology in order to sell oil for oil trading instead of the US dollar? So the big question is, is this real legit, or not? All the research I've done online seems to indicate that it is not legit, although, who knows? Maybe it was a bit of a trial balloon by the Kremlin. But if Russia work to do that, of course, it would drive the value of Bitcoin way up. Because this Russian economist there's only one guy that said this said that Russia was going to put 10 billion in Bitcoin, I would not call that an investment. By the way, this is not investment advice either, but I don't know what's going to happen. But it is an interesting idea with cryptocurrencies. Could other countries get around us sanctions by switching over to Bitcoin or other currencies?

Unknown 19:43
Great question. We're gonna leave it there Craig is we're out of time appreciate you joining us as always, and we'll talk to you again next week.

Unknown 19:48
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks Craig

Unknown 19:50
all right we're gonna come back at the other end of this with our eyeballs

Unknown 19:55
Hey and once again everybody thanks for listening thanks for downloading thanks for subscribing and we'll be back on Saturday with another one of my Saturday weekend radio shows right here and by the way I you know for a little while twice now I've done dailies here for the podcast if you like my podcasts please let me know and also if you think I should be doing dailies go back to dailies if you'd appreciate it if it's worth the effort because I really want to help out here but when I don't get the feedback it's it's hard to know right how helpful my being but let me know me at Craig Peterson calm. Should I start doing more podcasts more direct podcast talking about but what's happening out there or is my weekly Saturday summary and my discussion that I put up here on my Monday Tuesday Wednesday podcast. Is that enough for you? Let me know [email protected]. Have a great day. Take care. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 01/22/2019

Microsoft Recommending iPhones - What Should You Do With Your Old iPhone - Upgrading iPhone

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey good morning everybody. Hopefully you got my emails I sent one out Friday I sent one out on well it sounded Of course my regular email but that special report that I put together you know the free one that talks about how to freeze your credit is available now and it's going to be a you know it's going to make a big difference in your life. I ended up reaching out as a member of the great and powerful media community in the press I reached out to the four major wrist credit reporting agencies out there and I talked to them about what the best ways are to protect your data okay well you got to all this personal information this latest hack 750 million records found online and probably wasn't one hackers probably bunch of data put together all of that stuff in one box 750 million records it's just crazy so you got to make sure that your data is safe that it's all kept safe and what's the best way to do that they told me I put together the special report I've got a free upgrade to you can get the special report better free upgrade coming this Friday I'm going to do a one just one webinar we're going to answer your questions I'm going to review the whole thing explained it all and that will be live on Friday and if you take the upgrade you're going to also be able to get that replay of it so you can work through it later on again so hopefully you got that if not send an email to [email protected] or check your spam box your junk box. Make sure [email protected] is in your contacts. Okay, this is important. And I've got a lot more special reports coming up. I've got a really great offer coming up here in the first week of February. So keep your eyes out for that as well. And everybody have a great day. I spoke with Jim this morning all about the iPhone. So if you've been wondering about upgrading, if you have a Microsoft phone and you heard the latest news, or even if you didn't hear the latest news, listen in because here we go with Jim

Unknown 2:14
man, one of the most popular segments on the show. And I'm talking about our friends at Tech Talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

Unknown 2:24
Hey, good morning. You know, it's it's too bad. That great looking guys like us. You know, our faces don't come through. But at least our voices are there, right.

Unknown 2:37
You and I could scare varnish off a mahogany table.

Unknown 2:42
You know what I mean? You know what happened?

Unknown 2:48
You're very handsome man. Craig. Just like me. How about

Unknown 2:53
two very young, very young to Yes,

Unknown 2:55
very young. Hey, I want to call an audible here much like Tom Brady does. Every once in a while. When he gets up to the line of scrimmage and changes his mind.

Unknown 3:06
In the past couple of weeks. My Apple

Unknown 3:13
iPhone 6 has been 6S or whatever it is, has just been. It's telling me Jim, I want you to put me down. You know what I mean? It's it's telling me that and and I said to Kathy God, I hate to spend money on a new phone. And she said, Well, ask Craig Peterson what he thinks. And I said, Well, I yeah. I said, I'm going to tell him. I want apple. And I'm going to tell him that I don't think I need the apple 10 or whatever it is. So right now I'm with a six. Craig, what would you recommend? I do? Because I know there's a lot of other people out there who have the same dilemma right now.

Unknown 3:57
Yeah, well, in fact, I don't know if you heard about Microsoft is small software company up in Seattle.

Unknown 4:04
rings a little bit of a bell. I I noticed that bill Bella check. had one of their tablets. Yeah, during Sunday night's game, and he threw it if that means anything, he actually threw it. Yeah,

Unknown 4:18
he's done that before. This was

Unknown 4:20
not because the tablet wasn't functioning those because the ref wouldn't pay attention to something he was showing him on the tablet. But

Unknown 4:29
yeah, well, it's at Microsoft. And, you know, they've come up with some all kinds of me to products that include that Surface tablet that was advertised like crazy on the game. Because of course, they had to keep going to replace and they they had Microsoft Surface all over the replay.

Unknown 4:48
But Microsoft has one of the things is their phones, right? They've got Windows Phone, and it's the bend the answer to so many people that just they love and adore windows. And it's what they're used to supposed to be compatible. Yeah, exactly. Well,

Unknown 5:09
about a week ago, Microsoft announced that, hey, switch to an iPhone,

Unknown 5:17
we're not going to have Windows phone anymore. Microsoft is is completely killing off their windows phone line. 100% gone.

Unknown 5:30
So if you thought about switching to Windows 10 Mobile on your Windows Phone, it's time to have a serious look at the iPhone or maybe an Android phone. Because the Windows 10 Mobile support page says that they're going to stop sending as of December 2019 this year. So you got almost a year it's going to stop sending new security updates, non security hot fixes, there will be no more free assessment support options. No technical content updates from Microsoft available unless you pay extra

Unknown 6:07
so it is dead. So Jim, you're constantly one this is I think this is a great tactical move move from Microsoft. Because Come on. There is one phone out there that that people should buy today. And right now that the iPhone, so you're right to say, Hey, listen, I've got this success. Yeah, what should I do next? It probably should be apple. And apparently Microsoft agrees with you.

Unknown 6:36
Hey, listen, if I can get Bill Gates to agree with me that I'm all set. That makes me that makes me brilliant. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's not running the company anymore. is he now? So then? Okay. So then I don't listen. You know me. I don't want to, you know, spend a lot of money I just needed decent, reliable phone. I don't need it to make my coffee in the morning. I need because I can't do my job. Without it. It is it is my show prep. 24/7. Is that device in my hands. So it's

Unknown 7:15
amazing. Yeah, well, there's a couple of things you could do here. So let me run through the options because I'm sure there's a lot of listeners kind of in the same boat right now maybe looking to get out of Android space because it is so dangerous. But here are your options. First of all, Apple has introduced that policy now for very inexpensive battery replacements. And that means as a rule it's less than 50 bucks

Unknown 7:43
done it already I took the deal that you said to take and I put put the battery in for 30 bucks.

Unknown 7:49
Right, even better back then. Absolutely. So that's your first option for people to consider. The next option is if you are really tight for money most carriers have deals on last two generations sometimes even three generations of Apple phone okay so most of these carriers will give you for cheap money you know just we're talking about some of them have even had deals for a box for an iPhone seven Now unlike Microsoft and Android the seven still going to be supported for a few years to come. Right so it's not a bad thing I have an iPhone eight Yeah, I like you did not get the 10 the eight has the same internal gap as the iPhone can get. Ok now the new tans the XR and the access Max and stuff those guys have a little bit faster guts but I can tell you the iPhone eight as the great new camera technology not the absolute latest greatest but it's phenomenal including the real smart portrait mode it even has a processor dedicated to taking pictures Jeremy it will make you a phenomenal picture taker

Unknown 9:10
wow I'm already actually I'm not bragging a good photographer

Unknown 9:14
Well there you go

Unknown 9:17
I know how to compose a shot so wait a minute because my friend Peter who's a regular listeners iPhone 6. Come on Jim time to upgrade to the x axis

Unknown 9:32
if I was in the market today I

Unknown 9:34
Peters a wealthy man. Peters a very well, yeah,

Unknown 9:37
there you go. I would not get the access. And part of it. Reason is, I don't like the newest technology. Here's the tech guys saying I like to stay a generation or so behind unless

Unknown 9:50
somebody else feel the pain, right. So seriously, consider the iPhone eight. It it's a great phone. And I've got to put the burden for Apple to say have dramatically decreased some of the costs options here on the new iPhone axis. And one of them is that you can trade in your older iPhones and get even as much as $300 towards the purchase of a new phone. Wow. And look at the rental options. Because some carriers like T-Mobile, for instance, have a rental deal works an extra depends on the phone, but tend to only it's $30 a month for one of these brand new iPhone access with the facial recognition. And so then what happens is if if you keep the phone and keep reading it for two years, it's yours. And if you decide to leave the plan, you just return the phone. They'll give you a new one if you want to under the rental agreement. So look at that if you can't afford the files of dollars or more even for the newest latest greatest phone look at the iPhone eight and look at rental option for the iPhone tense. But me personally right now, today, I would do an iPhone eight. And if money was really tight, and I could get a great deal on an iPhone seven. Have a serious look at that too. And refurbished phones from Apple come with really great warranties. So have a look at that as well. Because there are repurpose phones available from Apple. And you can save a ton of money by doing that.

Unknown 11:29
I got my answer. And that was a great segment. I know that we didn't get to the stuff that Craig sent me. But I knew that I know that other phone and I can tell now by all of the messages I'm receiving from listeners, Craig, that that was a big deal for everybody. So all the stuff we were going to talk about fear not you can get it you can get it every single week. Did you hear me every single week because Craig puts together all of this information. And all you have to do is text to my name to this number 855-385-5553. 855-385-5553

Unknown 12:18
standard data and text rates apply. But you get all of this great information. And if there's ever a big issue, there's a hack. There's a Oh, one of the credit reporting agencies gets hacked. Craig Peterson is there by your side to tell you what to do. And he doesn't charge you for this. He doesn't sell your name to anyone. And he doesn't take advantage of the fact that he has your cell phone number by bombarding you with texts. So do it. It's it's worth it. And Craig, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate the good advice.

Unknown 12:59
Thank you, Frank German and good idea to follow Cathy's advice too.

Unknown 13:07
Bye Bye. Thanks

Unknown 13:08
Craig Peterson everybody one of the most popular segments on the show when we return a final word you're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

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Airing date: 01/22/2019

Microsoft Recommending iPhones - What Should You Do With Your Old iPhone - Upgrading iPhone

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hey good morning everybody. Hopefully you got my emails I sent one out Friday I sent one out on well it sounded Of course my regular email but that special report that I put together you know the free one that talks about how to freeze your credit is available now and it's going to be a you know it's going to make a big difference in your life. I ended up reaching out as a member of the great and powerful media community in the press I reached out to the four major wrist credit reporting agencies out there and I talked to them about what the best ways are to protect your data okay well you got to all this personal information this latest hack 750 million records found online and probably wasn't one hackers probably bunch of data put together all of that stuff in one box 750 million records it's just crazy so you got to make sure that your data is safe that it's all kept safe and what's the best way to do that they told me I put together the special report I've got a free upgrade to you can get the special report better free upgrade coming this Friday I'm going to do a one just one webinar we're going to answer your questions I'm going to review the whole thing explained it all and that will be live on Friday and if you take the upgrade you're going to also be able to get that replay of it so you can work through it later on again so hopefully you got that if not send an email to [email protected] or check your spam box your junk box. Make sure [email protected] is in your contacts. Okay, this is important. And I've got a lot more special reports coming up. I've got a really great offer coming up here in the first week of February. So keep your eyes out for that as well. And everybody have a great day. I spoke with Jim this morning all about the iPhone. So if you've been wondering about upgrading, if you have a Microsoft phone and you heard the latest news, or even if you didn't hear the latest news, listen in because here we go with Jim

Unknown 2:14
man, one of the most popular segments on the show. And I'm talking about our friends at Tech Talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

Unknown 2:24
Hey, good morning. You know, it's it's too bad. That great looking guys like us. You know, our faces don't come through. But at least our voices are there, right.

Unknown 2:37
You and I could scare varnish off a mahogany table.

Unknown 2:42
You know what I mean? You know what happened?

Unknown 2:48
You're very handsome man. Craig. Just like me. How about

Unknown 2:53
two very young, very young to Yes,

Unknown 2:55
very young. Hey, I want to call an audible here much like Tom Brady does. Every once in a while. When he gets up to the line of scrimmage and changes his mind.

Unknown 3:06
In the past couple of weeks. My Apple

Unknown 3:13
iPhone 6 has been 6S or whatever it is, has just been. It's telling me Jim, I want you to put me down. You know what I mean? It's it's telling me that and and I said to Kathy God, I hate to spend money on a new phone. And she said, Well, ask Craig Peterson what he thinks. And I said, Well, I yeah. I said, I'm going to tell him. I want apple. And I'm going to tell him that I don't think I need the apple 10 or whatever it is. So right now I'm with a six. Craig, what would you recommend? I do? Because I know there's a lot of other people out there who have the same dilemma right now.

Unknown 3:57
Yeah, well, in fact, I don't know if you heard about Microsoft is small software company up in Seattle.

Unknown 4:04
rings a little bit of a bell. I I noticed that bill Bella check. had one of their tablets. Yeah, during Sunday night's game, and he threw it if that means anything, he actually threw it. Yeah,

Unknown 4:18
he's done that before. This was

Unknown 4:20
not because the tablet wasn't functioning those because the ref wouldn't pay attention to something he was showing him on the tablet. But

Unknown 4:29
yeah, well, it's at Microsoft. And, you know, they've come up with some all kinds of me to products that include that Surface tablet that was advertised like crazy on the game. Because of course, they had to keep going to replace and they they had Microsoft Surface all over the replay.

Unknown 4:48
But Microsoft has one of the things is their phones, right? They've got Windows Phone, and it's the bend the answer to so many people that just they love and adore windows. And it's what they're used to supposed to be compatible. Yeah, exactly. Well,

Unknown 5:09
about a week ago, Microsoft announced that, hey, switch to an iPhone,

Unknown 5:17
we're not going to have Windows phone anymore. Microsoft is is completely killing off their windows phone line. 100% gone.

Unknown 5:30
So if you thought about switching to Windows 10 Mobile on your Windows Phone, it's time to have a serious look at the iPhone or maybe an Android phone. Because the Windows 10 Mobile support page says that they're going to stop sending as of December 2019 this year. So you got almost a year it's going to stop sending new security updates, non security hot fixes, there will be no more free assessment support options. No technical content updates from Microsoft available unless you pay extra

Unknown 6:07
so it is dead. So Jim, you're constantly one this is I think this is a great tactical move move from Microsoft. Because Come on. There is one phone out there that that people should buy today. And right now that the iPhone, so you're right to say, Hey, listen, I've got this success. Yeah, what should I do next? It probably should be apple. And apparently Microsoft agrees with you.

Unknown 6:36
Hey, listen, if I can get Bill Gates to agree with me that I'm all set. That makes me that makes me brilliant. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's not running the company anymore. is he now? So then? Okay. So then I don't listen. You know me. I don't want to, you know, spend a lot of money I just needed decent, reliable phone. I don't need it to make my coffee in the morning. I need because I can't do my job. Without it. It is it is my show prep. 24/7. Is that device in my hands. So it's

Unknown 7:15
amazing. Yeah, well, there's a couple of things you could do here. So let me run through the options because I'm sure there's a lot of listeners kind of in the same boat right now maybe looking to get out of Android space because it is so dangerous. But here are your options. First of all, Apple has introduced that policy now for very inexpensive battery replacements. And that means as a rule it's less than 50 bucks

Unknown 7:43
done it already I took the deal that you said to take and I put put the battery in for 30 bucks.

Unknown 7:49
Right, even better back then. Absolutely. So that's your first option for people to consider. The next option is if you are really tight for money most carriers have deals on last two generations sometimes even three generations of Apple phone okay so most of these carriers will give you for cheap money you know just we're talking about some of them have even had deals for a box for an iPhone seven Now unlike Microsoft and Android the seven still going to be supported for a few years to come. Right so it's not a bad thing I have an iPhone eight Yeah, I like you did not get the 10 the eight has the same internal gap as the iPhone can get. Ok now the new tans the XR and the access Max and stuff those guys have a little bit faster guts but I can tell you the iPhone eight as the great new camera technology not the absolute latest greatest but it's phenomenal including the real smart portrait mode it even has a processor dedicated to taking pictures Jeremy it will make you a phenomenal picture taker

Unknown 9:10
wow I'm already actually I'm not bragging a good photographer

Unknown 9:14
Well there you go

Unknown 9:17
I know how to compose a shot so wait a minute because my friend Peter who's a regular listeners iPhone 6. Come on Jim time to upgrade to the x axis

Unknown 9:32
if I was in the market today I

Unknown 9:34
Peters a wealthy man. Peters a very well, yeah,

Unknown 9:37
there you go. I would not get the access. And part of it. Reason is, I don't like the newest technology. Here's the tech guys saying I like to stay a generation or so behind unless

Unknown 9:50
somebody else feel the pain, right. So seriously, consider the iPhone eight. It it's a great phone. And I've got to put the burden for Apple to say have dramatically decreased some of the costs options here on the new iPhone axis. And one of them is that you can trade in your older iPhones and get even as much as $300 towards the purchase of a new phone. Wow. And look at the rental options. Because some carriers like T-Mobile, for instance, have a rental deal works an extra depends on the phone, but tend to only it's $30 a month for one of these brand new iPhone access with the facial recognition. And so then what happens is if if you keep the phone and keep reading it for two years, it's yours. And if you decide to leave the plan, you just return the phone. They'll give you a new one if you want to under the rental agreement. So look at that if you can't afford the files of dollars or more even for the newest latest greatest phone look at the iPhone eight and look at rental option for the iPhone tense. But me personally right now, today, I would do an iPhone eight. And if money was really tight, and I could get a great deal on an iPhone seven. Have a serious look at that too. And refurbished phones from Apple come with really great warranties. So have a look at that as well. Because there are repurpose phones available from Apple. And you can save a ton of money by doing that.

Unknown 11:29
I got my answer. And that was a great segment. I know that we didn't get to the stuff that Craig sent me. But I knew that I know that other phone and I can tell now by all of the messages I'm receiving from listeners, Craig, that that was a big deal for everybody. So all the stuff we were going to talk about fear not you can get it you can get it every single week. Did you hear me every single week because Craig puts together all of this information. And all you have to do is text to my name to this number 855-385-5553. 855-385-5553

Unknown 12:18
standard data and text rates apply. But you get all of this great information. And if there's ever a big issue, there's a hack. There's a Oh, one of the credit reporting agencies gets hacked. Craig Peterson is there by your side to tell you what to do. And he doesn't charge you for this. He doesn't sell your name to anyone. And he doesn't take advantage of the fact that he has your cell phone number by bombarding you with texts. So do it. It's it's worth it. And Craig, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate the good advice.

Unknown 12:59
Thank you, Frank German and good idea to follow Cathy's advice too.

Unknown 13:07
Bye Bye. Thanks

Unknown 13:08
Craig Peterson everybody one of the most popular segments on the show when we return a final word you're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

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Have you heard of Ring?  Well they make some pretty cool video doorbells.  But today we are going to tell you about some things they did not get right.

Bitcoin is in the news but so is Russia.  We are going to talk about how huge this is and what Russia is up to.

And we have to talk about Alexa? Did you know there are 100 million of them out there?  We will talk about what that means.

We've got these huge corporate websites and not just any website getting hit but other sites hacking going on an unprecedented scale.

Did you get a Smart TV for the holidays? Did you ever stop to think why was it so affordable?  Well, we will discuss spying and your privacy as it relates to you TV. 

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

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

Airing date: 01/19/2019

New Privacy Concerns with Ring Doorbell Camera, Smart TVs Collecting Your Data, Rumors about new Russian Bitcoin

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey everybody. I love this beat. This is Craig Peterson. This is show number 990. Isn't that just amazing? We get right down to it. That's a lot of weeks because 990 is one per week. Okay, we're not talking about these guys that are doing dailies, although I have done dailies, that's not part of this. That means we are a matter of what a couple of months out from show number 1000. Wow. That's a lot of show. So anyways, welcome everybody. Hope you're having a good day and hope you like this bumper music. I don't know I kind of like this.

It was between this and a kind of a Beatles-ey type rock song. I really like them, right? These songs I think you got to choose it's got to be whoever the host is that decides that

But I'd love to hear from you too. And what you think I I think Sheryll who does most of our show transcriptions might not like having a lot of music in the background. But I'm kind of liking this, I don't know,

I never played the guitar. I played a lot of instruments over the years, you know, back when I was a kid, right? I kind of stopped when I had a family

That's really nice. It's got a nice beat to it. Anyhow, we're going to talk about tech as we always do. And of course, a lot of that tech has to do with security, as it always does. And we've had a few shows this year so far. But it's been a busy year. And I haven't really been trying to keep up on all the latest latest latest stuff. So that's what this week is all about. And I want to start by talking about some of this Bitcoin stuff because I think this is absolutely huge, and what Russia is doing, and this is going to drive up the price of bitcoin. We've got now 100 million Alexa devices that have been sold. So what's next for us out there after they've got 100 million of them? What does that mean to us? We've got this huge corporate website and not just website but other sites hacking going on an unprecedented scale. So what's happening there? What does it mean to your business? Do you think your websites been acting strangely, maybe this has been going on, particularly if it's been acting badly, the top tech trends of 2019 according to the tech experts out there. And the simple reason, by the way, if you got a new Smart TV for the holidays, why was it so affordable? Well, you will believe this, I think, hey, it's kind of scary, frankly.

And if you've been worried about your TV spying on you, while Ben Gilbert from Business Insider has some news for you, and we'll start out with Amazon's Ring. Now, this is a pretty cool device.

In fact, my wife wants one of these for our house. And I've thought a lot about it that the Ring started with just kind of a doorbell with a built-in security camera. You've probably seen these before, right and you can have the strangers come up to your door and ring the doorbell and that I think the commercial shows someone on a beach in an in a tropical area and just sitting there answering the door on their phone and seeing who it is and what's going on which is really cool. But this article from the Intercept is talking about excuse me talk

Rings frankly abysmal privacy practices. And there have been a number of reports about that in the news over the last little while, but they've got cameras all around. Now it's not just the doorbell. These devices are providing high definition feeds from all around the house. We're talking about the doorbells, but also in garages and on bookshelves. And it's not just for keeping tabs on your home while you're away. But a lot of people are using them kind of like nanny cams to find out also when their kids are home when they get home from school, that they bring some friends with them. Maybe some friends, Mom and Dad don't like it. There's all kinds of things are used for neighborhood watches. People are putting together boards where all of the cameras in their neighborhood are on one website you can go to, and you can see what's happening in the neighborhood. You know, that can be really good. I know my wife helped to found a kind of a neighborhood watch thing here in our neighborhood. And everyone kind of keeps tabs on what's going on. And the founder of Ring his name is, or she I'm not sure, Jamie Siminoff, he said that our mission to reduce crime and neighborhoods has been at the core of everything we do at Ring. And you know, that marketing message has really hit with consumers. Frankly, they got a $1 billion acquisition from Amazon, who now owns Ring. And that's kind of nice if you have the Alexa as we mentioned a little bit earlier, 100 million of them out there right now. So that that Ring device ties into all of that.

So despite this mission that they have talked about to keep people a d their property secure, the company's treatment of video feeds has been anything but secure. And this is according to people who have been talking to the Intercept to say they're pretty darn familiar with what's going on. According to one source, starting in 2016, Ring provided its Ukraine based research and development team, virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon S3 cloud storage that contained every video created by every Ring camera everywhere around the world. Now, this is just if this is true, this is just an enormous invasion of privacy. And we're talking about a list of highly sensitive files and could be browsed and viewed by these developers over in Ukraine, you know, could be wonderful people.

But if it's out there on S3, if there are any security lapses, we know Ukraine got hit really badly last year, or actually a little more than a year ago now with some malware, some ransomware that was aimed specifically at Ukraine and companies, what's going on here?

Well, apparently these files are also not just on S3, but they were left unencrypted. And they said that was it because of the expense of implementing encryption and lost revenue opportunities. Because of restricted access and you know, all the excuses you can think of.

Now, you might be familiar with Uber's God Mode. We talked about it here on the show before Uber, of course, that ride-sharing service where people are taking their vehicles and are driving the streets and picking up strangers for money, right. It's not what mom said not to do when we were a kid. But Uber had this God Mode that let anyone in the company basically look at every ride that was currently occurring, where everyone was, who was getting a ride, they were watching celebrities. And just crazy what Uber was doing.

This is vaguely familiar of that, isn't it? And in fact, I think it's kind of worse because now you've got the video. So who knows, right? reporters, competitors, email addresses, all of these people could view all of their cameras. That's all they needed in order to get at the data. And apparently, there were instances of Ring engineers teaching each other about who they brought home after romantic dates. In other words, they were watching each other as well. So this is something we have to be careful of. We know about some of the risks that we've heard for years, about nanny cams, baby cams being hacked. And believe me, they are. If you bought yourself a camera system for your office, and your little bit worried about it well, if you bought it, and it was just one of these lower-end camera systems that most of these video surveillance companies sell. Or if you bought it at Harbor Freight or the local big box door, almost all of those are a very high percentage. And I've seen numbers as high as 90% of them have been hacked by the Chinese, very hackable, let me put it that way by the Chinese and many of them have been hacked. And we have done that we've seen that we have come into a business who was having security problems, they thought maybe there were security problems, they thought maybe there were viruses on their machines. So they brought us in, we checked, Of course, the word viruses on their machines, but what did they come from, they were being hacked from the camera system that was installed. Some cases one case it was installed by a professional firm, but you know, people don't want to pay money for the good stuff from Cisco or some of these other resellers that really check this and keep tabs on this and so that's what happens so you know, it's going to happen.

If you're using these types of devices hopefully like in the case of Ring, you've got Amazon buying them and Amazon kind of whip you into shape so I think it's important to keep that in mind. Right. Ring very big company they paid a billion dollars for it. You think they do a little bit better than that, don't you?

Well, let's talk about TVs now. Smart TVs.

You know smart TVs, have been all the rage. I who was I was at my one of my brother's houses, I think it was. Oh, it was my mom's house and they had just bought a smart TV over the holidays and they had set it up and I had to help them reconfigure some things because they just didn't have it configured right. And it was kind of interesting to ask some questions of her and her Smart TV because it has all of these features on it. She's got it hooked up to the internet so she can stream Hulu and Amazon and she can stream her CBC stuff that she wants to stream from Canada when she is down in the US. She was completely oblivious to the potential problems here but here's another one to add to your list and to seriously complain when you are going to buy a smart TV about these things spying on you right because you have a right to be upset It doesn't say anywhere on the label that they're spying on you but Have you wondered why that smart TV was so cheap right they remember how much they used to be Why are they cheap well here's a great story Ben Gilbert over the Business Insider and of course all of these articles I've mentioned today including the ones I'm going into more detail on are available at my website http://CraigPeterson.com hopefully you are a member of my insiders email and you got an email comes out every Saturday morning if you're not subscribed, just go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. You'll get all of this and more when there are big hacks or big things happening in the news that I think are worth you knowing about. And kind of jumping on top of I will let you know, and I let you know via that email list. So you will see these articles right there. You just click on the links, I'll take you right to my website.

But here's what Business Insider had to say. The vast majority of televisions available today are smart TVs. We knew that right? You go into any store. That's what you see that they have internet connections, and they aren't connected to the internet. Sometimes it's via wireless because the Wi-Fi in our homes has gotten so good and sometimes as via hardwire, but they've gotten internet connections. I've got advertisement placement as part of the TV where the TV recognizes that maybe the channel you're watching has a commercial coming on right now. So the TV overlays a commercial or to overlay it in the corner. They also have streaming services built into them. So despite the all of this added functionality, think about what that all costs to put together right there. They aren't Roku that aren't making the hardware and then selling streaming services. They aren't Apple TV who is selling new or the Apple TVs set-top box and also making the real money off of streaming services, right. They're not a fire stick where Amazon can give it to you at a great discounted price. Because Amazon selling new video content, right. All of that stuff just plain adds up.
We have to seriously consider what business these people are in. You know, you can go out right now you can buy a 65 inch 4K Smart TV with HDR capability for less than 500 bucks.

That's a massive piece of technology. It's going to last you for years. Are you kidding 4K? I don't have 4K my house. My TV is half the size of this one. Right? How can you get it for that cheap? Well, there is a caveat. Some manufacturers that are selling these TVs are making their money on the back end. Now we understand the back end with your fire stick, you understand the back end with your Apple TV or your Roku because they're all making money off of the streaming. But how about the TV set? Well the TV manufacturer may also have deals with these you know Australian providers so that they get a little bit of a cut in the action just like you buy a Windows PCs especially if you buy it retail you know if you get a Windows PC from us it's going to be clean but these retail machines that you buy come pre-loaded with all kinds of crapware. Right? Right? They've got Norton Antivirus or Symantec can have viruses tho those are going to do you any good. And they've gone to these games that you can play, they've got all of this stuff that you can have, if only you pay them money, right. So you get a free 30-day trial or something. But you know, you have to go through all the trouble taking the software off of your machines. So they make an extra 10 bucks per machine. It's estimated by putting all that junk on your machine before you buy it.

So how are the TV manufacturers going to make that extra money? Well, they are collecting data like the types of show you watch which ads you're watching when you're flipping channels, right? The eyeballs, that's what they want to know, and your approximate physical location. And we talked before on the show about how some of these people manufacturers are actually even using cameras to figure out who's watching the TV.

Now, there is an interview on The Verge. They have a podcast, and they had Vizio chief technology officer on there. I think his name's Bill Baxter, and Vizio is a big TV company. I have one of their TVs. And he was talking about how this technology works. And he said this is a cutthroat industry. This is a direct quote. I've found it here. It's a 6% margin industry. The group greater strategy is I really don't need to make money off the TV. I need to cover my costs. So more specifically, companies like the Vizio, V-I-Z-I-O, don't need to make money from every TV they sell because they're making money on the back end. So there's the answer you can tell your friends if they're wondering why those TVs or smart TVs are so cheap now you know the answer.

And we're going to talk about Russia here right now and the whole Bitcoin thing.

Now we just had a Canadian sentenced to death over in China and we know that two Chinese executives we had, Huawei executives and that made the news was arrested in Vancouver, Canada when she was changing airplanes there. And another Huawei executive with just arrested last week as well I think that was in South Korea but I don't remember and Huawei courses in trouble I heard just I think it was the last couple of days that Huawei is up on some criminal charges, which you normally don't see for Corporation. But it's a real problem.

Why was there a warrant for that Huawei executive to be arrested that caused her to be arrested in Vancouver? Well, there was a warrant because the United States is accused, Huawei of violence, this sanctions against Iran. So Canada honored that warrant and arrested her and you know, the aftermath is still kind of kind of me trying to figure out there.

So what does this all mean? Why did I bring this up? And when I'm mentioning Russia? Well, there are also sanctions against Russia. And there is a lot of fake news out there as well. Right? But the big fake news started with was Dan Rather, right, who was who made up completely made up this story about George Bush, President Bush and his lack of service and what he did in the Texas National Guard, completely fabricated, right. And then he lost his job over the whole thing and got defensive about it, and you know, it, it was the wrong thing to do. And that was really, really the beginning of the fake news that we have today.

So fake news. We've been seeing I'm going to put this up on my website. Hopefully, that'll be up by the time the show's over here. We got my people working on it, but hopefully what we find is that this is fake news as well. So here's what's been going on. If you listen to me before, you know I am not a fan of cryptocurrencies, not because of the fact that cryptocurrencies can help you maintain a degree of anonymity And believe me, it's only degree people can be tracked down, they have been tracked down and they have been arrested, okay, criminals doing evil things with Bitcoin. Now, there's nothing wrong with Bitcoin or these other things, you know, cryptocurrencies, as far as you're using them for legal purposes. And of course, if you make a profit in selling any of these cryptocurrencies, you have to report that to the Internal Revenue Service, right? Pretty straightforward, pretty simple.

Well, how does this tie into Russia and Iran and China? Here's how it ties in. There's rumors that Russia is looking to buy bitcoin and the rumors are that it's going to invest about $10 billion in Bitcoin.

Now, this is an economist that's saying that the guy's name is Vladislav Ginko, and we'll see what happens because he's saying hey, this could start as early as February 2019. Well, first thing why would Russia buy bitcoin?

Well, according to this economist Russia wants to get away from the US dollar as being the world's currency and when you buy and sell oil it's always done in US dollars right so he's saying that we've got our wonderful president or prime minister the president of Russia Putin over there saying hey listen we want to get away from the US dollar so let's make Bitcoin be the reserve currency for the world now uh. How would that be something? What do you think that would do the price of bitcoin? Bitcoin that struggling to get back up to $4,000. Remember it at one point in some markets it was as much as $40,000 but generally speaking was about 18,000, 20,000 at its peak. So it's a lost a lot as have pretty much every other cryptocurrency and these initial coin offerings that were happening every day, last year, they're pretty much dead now. Because the cryptocurrency boom has faded. It's faded in a very big way.

So what do you think that starting a rumor that Russia was going to put $10 billion into bitcoin? What do you think that would do to the value of Bitcoin?

So we're looking at this saying, okay, maybe that's legitimate. We've got the Trump administration, adding some more Russians to the list of sanction entities that US companies and persons cannot trade with. And the sanctions, of course, are this aggressive stance that the Trump administration has had against Russia, although Trump's been colluding with Russia. So he, you know, the Trump administration has been much tougher on Russia than any previous modern administration.

So maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't, but I'm looking at all of this same, you know, maybe really, what we're looking at here is not that Russia is looking to buy bitcoin, and maybe they are, maybe they've considered it, but no one except Ginko was saying that they're seriously considering that is this another fake news and that may be what it is if it's not fake news I don't know maybe Bitcoin to be something to put money into this is not investment advice you know I've never bought any of this stuff I don't want any of this stuff because it's it's frankly way too volatile but I thought I'd bring it up because it's an interesting angle and from what I've been able to tell online doing research on all of these various cryptocurrency websites this is not a legitimate story well we were not going to have time to get to all of the articles today. As I mentioned before you can get them by just going to my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. Read my newsletter that hopefully you get every week my little insider newsletter letter and you get that by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. And hey I want to shout out here and a big thanks to everybody who's left comments we got a few comments on my podcast the more of those we get you know the more coverage we get the more people that are going to hear about the podcast well I've been doing this for a very long time huge labor of love here for everybody I really am trying to help you out so please share but also leave a comment go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes and that'll take you to a place where you can subscribe right there on iTunes. They are the 800-pound gorilla. I would really love it if you subscribe there because that's where the numbers come from. that the show is rated on and leave some five-star comments. Hopefully, I've earned five stars from you. But do it right there. subscribe and leave a comment. I so appreciate it. http://CraigPeter son.com/iTunes.

Okay, so we got a couple more minutes. Let's talk about the biggest tech trends of 2019. This is a FastCompany article FastCompany still seems to be a pretty good magazine, I have a subscription to it. And I enjoy a lot of the articles. But they're saying that this might be more of a quiet year, 2019 more about laying the groundwork than any historic breakthroughs. And what is the groundwork? Well, number one, the growth of AI. Artificial intelligence is really going to grow. It's frankly, most of its still really machine learning. But IBM is actually now selling quantum computers, how's that for amazing? And these things are going to change the whole world of cryptology for prediction for weather, a prediction for earthquakes at a kind of everything. Okay, so that's kind of rolling out right now. I think they've only sold one of those quantum computers. They had one on the floor at CES this year, and they may be putting more of them out there.

We're also going to see technology that is really going to kind of blur some of the boundaries between what's real and what's synthetic. When it comes to the reporting you're reading. You might have noticed this already articles that the English kinda is terrible in right? Have you noticed that? So we're gonna have more synthetic media This year, we're going to have more ethical questions. As we have these autonomous vehicles rolling out an AI rolling out. Consumers may start adopting some more these are you know AR glasses, really, we'll see what happened. 5G is going to really start rolling out this year, it's going to start showing up in some phones, we're going to have new user interfaces available because of the virtual reality an augmented reality, we're going to see more on the wireless side, you might have heard me a few months ago, talking about how Wi-Fi is about to change again, we're going to seem more the slow death of cable TV is has become to be known. It's going to move over to frankly, our wireless devices, voice platforms, you know, you've seen Alexa, Google Home rise up, we've seen Siri kind of plod along but that's going to be improving as well. So keep an eye on your mailbox. You should have gotten an email from me this week. yesterday. Yeah, Friday. And I made a note of it too, in this morning's newsletter. I have something going on right now. This is my first in a series of special reports. It's absolutely free. All you do is make sure you are on my email list and you can sign up for but this is why you should not be buying some of this so-called insurance for identity theft and what you can do for free. So I'm writing that absolutely free. I have a special I actually have like four or five special surprise bonuses that are part of that everything there is for free. And if you want to attend some of my master classes, there's information about all of that there. So check your email for an email from [email protected] and have a great week. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Have you heard of Ring?  Well they make some pretty cool video doorbells.  But today we are going to tell you about some things they did not get right.

Bitcoin is in the news but so is Russia.  We are going to talk about how huge this is and what Russia is up to.

And we have to talk about Alexa? Did you know there are 100 million of them out there?  We will talk about what that means.

We've got these huge corporate websites and not just any website getting hit but other sites hacking going on an unprecedented scale.

Did you get a Smart TV for the holidays? Did you ever stop to think why was it so affordable?  Well, we will discuss spying and your privacy as it relates to you TV. 

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: 01/19/2019

New Privacy Concerns with Ring Doorbell Camera, Smart TVs Collecting Your Data, Rumors about new Russian Bitcoin

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey everybody. I love this beat. This is Craig Peterson. This is show number 990. Isn't that just amazing? We get right down to it. That's a lot of weeks because 990 is one per week. Okay, we're not talking about these guys that are doing dailies, although I have done dailies, that's not part of this. That means we are a matter of what a couple of months out from show number 1000. Wow. That's a lot of show. So anyways, welcome everybody. Hope you're having a good day and hope you like this bumper music. I don't know I kind of like this.

It was between this and a kind of a Beatles-ey type rock song. I really like them, right? These songs I think you got to choose it's got to be whoever the host is that decides that

But I'd love to hear from you too. And what you think I I think Sheryll who does most of our show transcriptions might not like having a lot of music in the background. But I'm kind of liking this, I don't know,

I never played the guitar. I played a lot of instruments over the years, you know, back when I was a kid, right? I kind of stopped when I had a family

That's really nice. It's got a nice beat to it. Anyhow, we're going to talk about tech as we always do. And of course, a lot of that tech has to do with security, as it always does. And we've had a few shows this year so far. But it's been a busy year. And I haven't really been trying to keep up on all the latest latest latest stuff. So that's what this week is all about. And I want to start by talking about some of this Bitcoin stuff because I think this is absolutely huge, and what Russia is doing, and this is going to drive up the price of bitcoin. We've got now 100 million Alexa devices that have been sold. So what's next for us out there after they've got 100 million of them? What does that mean to us? We've got this huge corporate website and not just website but other sites hacking going on an unprecedented scale. So what's happening there? What does it mean to your business? Do you think your websites been acting strangely, maybe this has been going on, particularly if it's been acting badly, the top tech trends of 2019 according to the tech experts out there. And the simple reason, by the way, if you got a new Smart TV for the holidays, why was it so affordable? Well, you will believe this, I think, hey, it's kind of scary, frankly.

And if you've been worried about your TV spying on you, while Ben Gilbert from Business Insider has some news for you, and we'll start out with Amazon's Ring. Now, this is a pretty cool device.

In fact, my wife wants one of these for our house. And I've thought a lot about it that the Ring started with just kind of a doorbell with a built-in security camera. You've probably seen these before, right and you can have the strangers come up to your door and ring the doorbell and that I think the commercial shows someone on a beach in an in a tropical area and just sitting there answering the door on their phone and seeing who it is and what's going on which is really cool. But this article from the Intercept is talking about excuse me talk

Rings frankly abysmal privacy practices. And there have been a number of reports about that in the news over the last little while, but they've got cameras all around. Now it's not just the doorbell. These devices are providing high definition feeds from all around the house. We're talking about the doorbells, but also in garages and on bookshelves. And it's not just for keeping tabs on your home while you're away. But a lot of people are using them kind of like nanny cams to find out also when their kids are home when they get home from school, that they bring some friends with them. Maybe some friends, Mom and Dad don't like it. There's all kinds of things are used for neighborhood watches. People are putting together boards where all of the cameras in their neighborhood are on one website you can go to, and you can see what's happening in the neighborhood. You know, that can be really good. I know my wife helped to found a kind of a neighborhood watch thing here in our neighborhood. And everyone kind of keeps tabs on what's going on. And the founder of Ring his name is, or she I'm not sure, Jamie Siminoff, he said that our mission to reduce crime and neighborhoods has been at the core of everything we do at Ring. And you know, that marketing message has really hit with consumers. Frankly, they got a $1 billion acquisition from Amazon, who now owns Ring. And that's kind of nice if you have the Alexa as we mentioned a little bit earlier, 100 million of them out there right now. So that that Ring device ties into all of that.

So despite this mission that they have talked about to keep people a d their property secure, the company's treatment of video feeds has been anything but secure. And this is according to people who have been talking to the Intercept to say they're pretty darn familiar with what's going on. According to one source, starting in 2016, Ring provided its Ukraine based research and development team, virtually unfettered access to a folder on Amazon S3 cloud storage that contained every video created by every Ring camera everywhere around the world. Now, this is just if this is true, this is just an enormous invasion of privacy. And we're talking about a list of highly sensitive files and could be browsed and viewed by these developers over in Ukraine, you know, could be wonderful people.

But if it's out there on S3, if there are any security lapses, we know Ukraine got hit really badly last year, or actually a little more than a year ago now with some malware, some ransomware that was aimed specifically at Ukraine and companies, what's going on here?

Well, apparently these files are also not just on S3, but they were left unencrypted. And they said that was it because of the expense of implementing encryption and lost revenue opportunities. Because of restricted access and you know, all the excuses you can think of.

Now, you might be familiar with Uber's God Mode. We talked about it here on the show before Uber, of course, that ride-sharing service where people are taking their vehicles and are driving the streets and picking up strangers for money, right. It's not what mom said not to do when we were a kid. But Uber had this God Mode that let anyone in the company basically look at every ride that was currently occurring, where everyone was, who was getting a ride, they were watching celebrities. And just crazy what Uber was doing.

This is vaguely familiar of that, isn't it? And in fact, I think it's kind of worse because now you've got the video. So who knows, right? reporters, competitors, email addresses, all of these people could view all of their cameras. That's all they needed in order to get at the data. And apparently, there were instances of Ring engineers teaching each other about who they brought home after romantic dates. In other words, they were watching each other as well. So this is something we have to be careful of. We know about some of the risks that we've heard for years, about nanny cams, baby cams being hacked. And believe me, they are. If you bought yourself a camera system for your office, and your little bit worried about it well, if you bought it, and it was just one of these lower-end camera systems that most of these video surveillance companies sell. Or if you bought it at Harbor Freight or the local big box door, almost all of those are a very high percentage. And I've seen numbers as high as 90% of them have been hacked by the Chinese, very hackable, let me put it that way by the Chinese and many of them have been hacked. And we have done that we've seen that we have come into a business who was having security problems, they thought maybe there were security problems, they thought maybe there were viruses on their machines. So they brought us in, we checked, Of course, the word viruses on their machines, but what did they come from, they were being hacked from the camera system that was installed. Some cases one case it was installed by a professional firm, but you know, people don't want to pay money for the good stuff from Cisco or some of these other resellers that really check this and keep tabs on this and so that's what happens so you know, it's going to happen.

If you're using these types of devices hopefully like in the case of Ring, you've got Amazon buying them and Amazon kind of whip you into shape so I think it's important to keep that in mind. Right. Ring very big company they paid a billion dollars for it. You think they do a little bit better than that, don't you?

Well, let's talk about TVs now. Smart TVs.

You know smart TVs, have been all the rage. I who was I was at my one of my brother's houses, I think it was. Oh, it was my mom's house and they had just bought a smart TV over the holidays and they had set it up and I had to help them reconfigure some things because they just didn't have it configured right. And it was kind of interesting to ask some questions of her and her Smart TV because it has all of these features on it. She's got it hooked up to the internet so she can stream Hulu and Amazon and she can stream her CBC stuff that she wants to stream from Canada when she is down in the US. She was completely oblivious to the potential problems here but here's another one to add to your list and to seriously complain when you are going to buy a smart TV about these things spying on you right because you have a right to be upset It doesn't say anywhere on the label that they're spying on you but Have you wondered why that smart TV was so cheap right they remember how much they used to be Why are they cheap well here's a great story Ben Gilbert over the Business Insider and of course all of these articles I've mentioned today including the ones I'm going into more detail on are available at my website http://CraigPeterson.com hopefully you are a member of my insiders email and you got an email comes out every Saturday morning if you're not subscribed, just go to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. You'll get all of this and more when there are big hacks or big things happening in the news that I think are worth you knowing about. And kind of jumping on top of I will let you know, and I let you know via that email list. So you will see these articles right there. You just click on the links, I'll take you right to my website.

But here's what Business Insider had to say. The vast majority of televisions available today are smart TVs. We knew that right? You go into any store. That's what you see that they have internet connections, and they aren't connected to the internet. Sometimes it's via wireless because the Wi-Fi in our homes has gotten so good and sometimes as via hardwire, but they've gotten internet connections. I've got advertisement placement as part of the TV where the TV recognizes that maybe the channel you're watching has a commercial coming on right now. So the TV overlays a commercial or to overlay it in the corner. They also have streaming services built into them. So despite the all of this added functionality, think about what that all costs to put together right there. They aren't Roku that aren't making the hardware and then selling streaming services. They aren't Apple TV who is selling new or the Apple TVs set-top box and also making the real money off of streaming services, right. They're not a fire stick where Amazon can give it to you at a great discounted price. Because Amazon selling new video content, right. All of that stuff just plain adds up.
We have to seriously consider what business these people are in. You know, you can go out right now you can buy a 65 inch 4K Smart TV with HDR capability for less than 500 bucks.

That's a massive piece of technology. It's going to last you for years. Are you kidding 4K? I don't have 4K my house. My TV is half the size of this one. Right? How can you get it for that cheap? Well, there is a caveat. Some manufacturers that are selling these TVs are making their money on the back end. Now we understand the back end with your fire stick, you understand the back end with your Apple TV or your Roku because they're all making money off of the streaming. But how about the TV set? Well the TV manufacturer may also have deals with these you know Australian providers so that they get a little bit of a cut in the action just like you buy a Windows PCs especially if you buy it retail you know if you get a Windows PC from us it's going to be clean but these retail machines that you buy come pre-loaded with all kinds of crapware. Right? Right? They've got Norton Antivirus or Symantec can have viruses tho those are going to do you any good. And they've gone to these games that you can play, they've got all of this stuff that you can have, if only you pay them money, right. So you get a free 30-day trial or something. But you know, you have to go through all the trouble taking the software off of your machines. So they make an extra 10 bucks per machine. It's estimated by putting all that junk on your machine before you buy it.

So how are the TV manufacturers going to make that extra money? Well, they are collecting data like the types of show you watch which ads you're watching when you're flipping channels, right? The eyeballs, that's what they want to know, and your approximate physical location. And we talked before on the show about how some of these people manufacturers are actually even using cameras to figure out who's watching the TV.

Now, there is an interview on The Verge. They have a podcast, and they had Vizio chief technology officer on there. I think his name's Bill Baxter, and Vizio is a big TV company. I have one of their TVs. And he was talking about how this technology works. And he said this is a cutthroat industry. This is a direct quote. I've found it here. It's a 6% margin industry. The group greater strategy is I really don't need to make money off the TV. I need to cover my costs. So more specifically, companies like the Vizio, V-I-Z-I-O, don't need to make money from every TV they sell because they're making money on the back end. So there's the answer you can tell your friends if they're wondering why those TVs or smart TVs are so cheap now you know the answer.

And we're going to talk about Russia here right now and the whole Bitcoin thing.

Now we just had a Canadian sentenced to death over in China and we know that two Chinese executives we had, Huawei executives and that made the news was arrested in Vancouver, Canada when she was changing airplanes there. And another Huawei executive with just arrested last week as well I think that was in South Korea but I don't remember and Huawei courses in trouble I heard just I think it was the last couple of days that Huawei is up on some criminal charges, which you normally don't see for Corporation. But it's a real problem.

Why was there a warrant for that Huawei executive to be arrested that caused her to be arrested in Vancouver? Well, there was a warrant because the United States is accused, Huawei of violence, this sanctions against Iran. So Canada honored that warrant and arrested her and you know, the aftermath is still kind of kind of me trying to figure out there.

So what does this all mean? Why did I bring this up? And when I'm mentioning Russia? Well, there are also sanctions against Russia. And there is a lot of fake news out there as well. Right? But the big fake news started with was Dan Rather, right, who was who made up completely made up this story about George Bush, President Bush and his lack of service and what he did in the Texas National Guard, completely fabricated, right. And then he lost his job over the whole thing and got defensive about it, and you know, it, it was the wrong thing to do. And that was really, really the beginning of the fake news that we have today.

So fake news. We've been seeing I'm going to put this up on my website. Hopefully, that'll be up by the time the show's over here. We got my people working on it, but hopefully what we find is that this is fake news as well. So here's what's been going on. If you listen to me before, you know I am not a fan of cryptocurrencies, not because of the fact that cryptocurrencies can help you maintain a degree of anonymity And believe me, it's only degree people can be tracked down, they have been tracked down and they have been arrested, okay, criminals doing evil things with Bitcoin. Now, there's nothing wrong with Bitcoin or these other things, you know, cryptocurrencies, as far as you're using them for legal purposes. And of course, if you make a profit in selling any of these cryptocurrencies, you have to report that to the Internal Revenue Service, right? Pretty straightforward, pretty simple.

Well, how does this tie into Russia and Iran and China? Here's how it ties in. There's rumors that Russia is looking to buy bitcoin and the rumors are that it's going to invest about $10 billion in Bitcoin.

Now, this is an economist that's saying that the guy's name is Vladislav Ginko, and we'll see what happens because he's saying hey, this could start as early as February 2019. Well, first thing why would Russia buy bitcoin?

Well, according to this economist Russia wants to get away from the US dollar as being the world's currency and when you buy and sell oil it's always done in US dollars right so he's saying that we've got our wonderful president or prime minister the president of Russia Putin over there saying hey listen we want to get away from the US dollar so let's make Bitcoin be the reserve currency for the world now uh. How would that be something? What do you think that would do the price of bitcoin? Bitcoin that struggling to get back up to $4,000. Remember it at one point in some markets it was as much as $40,000 but generally speaking was about 18,000, 20,000 at its peak. So it's a lost a lot as have pretty much every other cryptocurrency and these initial coin offerings that were happening every day, last year, they're pretty much dead now. Because the cryptocurrency boom has faded. It's faded in a very big way.

So what do you think that starting a rumor that Russia was going to put $10 billion into bitcoin? What do you think that would do to the value of Bitcoin?

So we're looking at this saying, okay, maybe that's legitimate. We've got the Trump administration, adding some more Russians to the list of sanction entities that US companies and persons cannot trade with. And the sanctions, of course, are this aggressive stance that the Trump administration has had against Russia, although Trump's been colluding with Russia. So he, you know, the Trump administration has been much tougher on Russia than any previous modern administration.

So maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't, but I'm looking at all of this same, you know, maybe really, what we're looking at here is not that Russia is looking to buy bitcoin, and maybe they are, maybe they've considered it, but no one except Ginko was saying that they're seriously considering that is this another fake news and that may be what it is if it's not fake news I don't know maybe Bitcoin to be something to put money into this is not investment advice you know I've never bought any of this stuff I don't want any of this stuff because it's it's frankly way too volatile but I thought I'd bring it up because it's an interesting angle and from what I've been able to tell online doing research on all of these various cryptocurrency websites this is not a legitimate story well we were not going to have time to get to all of the articles today. As I mentioned before you can get them by just going to my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. Read my newsletter that hopefully you get every week my little insider newsletter letter and you get that by going to http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. And hey I want to shout out here and a big thanks to everybody who's left comments we got a few comments on my podcast the more of those we get you know the more coverage we get the more people that are going to hear about the podcast well I've been doing this for a very long time huge labor of love here for everybody I really am trying to help you out so please share but also leave a comment go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes and that'll take you to a place where you can subscribe right there on iTunes. They are the 800-pound gorilla. I would really love it if you subscribe there because that's where the numbers come from. that the show is rated on and leave some five-star comments. Hopefully, I've earned five stars from you. But do it right there. subscribe and leave a comment. I so appreciate it. http://CraigPeter son.com/iTunes.

Okay, so we got a couple more minutes. Let's talk about the biggest tech trends of 2019. This is a FastCompany article FastCompany still seems to be a pretty good magazine, I have a subscription to it. And I enjoy a lot of the articles. But they're saying that this might be more of a quiet year, 2019 more about laying the groundwork than any historic breakthroughs. And what is the groundwork? Well, number one, the growth of AI. Artificial intelligence is really going to grow. It's frankly, most of its still really machine learning. But IBM is actually now selling quantum computers, how's that for amazing? And these things are going to change the whole world of cryptology for prediction for weather, a prediction for earthquakes at a kind of everything. Okay, so that's kind of rolling out right now. I think they've only sold one of those quantum computers. They had one on the floor at CES this year, and they may be putting more of them out there.

We're also going to see technology that is really going to kind of blur some of the boundaries between what's real and what's synthetic. When it comes to the reporting you're reading. You might have noticed this already articles that the English kinda is terrible in right? Have you noticed that? So we're gonna have more synthetic media This year, we're going to have more ethical questions. As we have these autonomous vehicles rolling out an AI rolling out. Consumers may start adopting some more these are you know AR glasses, really, we'll see what happened. 5G is going to really start rolling out this year, it's going to start showing up in some phones, we're going to have new user interfaces available because of the virtual reality an augmented reality, we're going to see more on the wireless side, you might have heard me a few months ago, talking about how Wi-Fi is about to change again, we're going to seem more the slow death of cable TV is has become to be known. It's going to move over to frankly, our wireless devices, voice platforms, you know, you've seen Alexa, Google Home rise up, we've seen Siri kind of plod along but that's going to be improving as well. So keep an eye on your mailbox. You should have gotten an email from me this week. yesterday. Yeah, Friday. And I made a note of it too, in this morning's newsletter. I have something going on right now. This is my first in a series of special reports. It's absolutely free. All you do is make sure you are on my email list and you can sign up for but this is why you should not be buying some of this so-called insurance for identity theft and what you can do for free. So I'm writing that absolutely free. I have a special I actually have like four or five special surprise bonuses that are part of that everything there is for free. And if you want to attend some of my master classes, there's information about all of that there. So check your email for an email from [email protected] and have a great week. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about a number of subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma.

Then they got into the Technology and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling.

Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can still be manipulated by the biases of the tester.

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Airing date: 01/16/2019

Adopted A Great Dane - Guinea Hens vs Chickens - Staying Safe While Traveling

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey good morning everybody. I was just looking at some of my LinkedIn stats and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead in LinkedIn

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but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his own credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe for my email list. And http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that eye-scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go.

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And we are back again. It's time for Craig Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception

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during our you know, except to that 738

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Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great? Velma?

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Velma? The Great Danes are really

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big.

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I mean,

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like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater. Stay warm

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Velma

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assume you named after the Scooby Doo character

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name. She came with

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and or or or you're great on from 1840

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Well, good for you.

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Well, you know

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the dog named Blanche

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doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right.

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pet stores in California Petros in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to shell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work

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for

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low on Yes.

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First Lady.

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Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to

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guns like Beretta.

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Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth grade

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he thought about a Bischon or Boston Terrier cute dog

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or something a little you know I like the big dog that just you know

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you know what comes out a big dog

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what outside

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a happy dog

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no, I

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know but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say.

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For the chickens take care of that though they break it all off and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do and they eat more, of course, then

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whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens you go to a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you

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know the chickens do keep away the

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the text

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they do actually not as good as getting him but you know on on that point to can

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about the back Are you from the 1800s what

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you got chickens

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we found is he's a technologist

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that why I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so

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probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away

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and see it too about the dog food Ken is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food, I guess I was buying it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to using the word "feed" for the chickens. So I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll track it. It's like a pound for pound it's like eight times as much as pie as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eight says much of it. So worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy.

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How about some of your chickens are getting

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slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs.

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Yes, you do.

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Yes you do

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with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal

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answers

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animal expertise talking about getting developers

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ology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent the risk of my data? Or data,

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data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But

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oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for because everybody tries to hop on to Wi-Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi-Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi-Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are a different system than they're using for the Wi-Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done, in the study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti-scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built-in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit passcode pin, like how to make sure your devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi-Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either doesn't connect to the Bluetooth in your car or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website

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talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answer man, who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me.

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Yeah,

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well, if you are a politician, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15%

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more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new eye lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals

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are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer. com just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week.

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Take care guys. Thanks. All right.

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I would never have a great day. What do you say, a huge giant,

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I could say is leave a big Ken. Alright, everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about a number of subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma.

Then they got into the Technology and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling.

Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can still be manipulated by the biases of the tester.

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

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Related Articles:

6 Ways You Put Your Data At Risk When You Travel
Why I Use Vpns All The Time (And So Should You)
The Best VPN Services
“Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 01/16/2019

Adopted A Great Dane - Guinea Hens vs Chickens - Staying Safe While Traveling

Craig Peterson 0:00

Hey good morning everybody. I was just looking at some of my LinkedIn stats and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead in LinkedIn

Unknown 0:09
but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his own credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe for my email list. And http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends Ken and Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that eye-scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go.

Unknown 4:01
And we are back again. It's time for Craig Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception

Unknown 4:10
during our you know, except to that 738

Unknown 4:13
Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great? Velma?

Unknown 4:29
Velma? The Great Danes are really

Unknown 4:31
big.

Unknown 4:34
I mean,

Unknown 4:35
like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater. Stay warm

Unknown 4:41
Velma

Unknown 4:43
assume you named after the Scooby Doo character

Unknown 4:47
name. She came with

Unknown 4:48
and or or or you're great on from 1840

Unknown 4:59
Well, good for you.

Unknown 5:03
Well, you know

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the dog named Blanche

Unknown 5:08
doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right.

Unknown 5:14
pet stores in California Petros in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to shell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work

Unknown 5:26
for

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low on Yes.

Unknown 5:31
First Lady.

Unknown 5:33
Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to

Unknown 5:44
guns like Beretta.

Unknown 5:51
Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth grade

Unknown 6:00
he thought about a Bischon or Boston Terrier cute dog

Unknown 6:06
or something a little you know I like the big dog that just you know

Unknown 6:10
you know what comes out a big dog

Unknown 6:12
what outside

Unknown 6:14
a happy dog

Unknown 6:16
no, I

Unknown 6:16
know but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say.

Unknown 6:19
For the chickens take care of that though they break it all off and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do and they eat more, of course, then

Unknown 6:28
whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens you go to a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you

Unknown 6:36
know the chickens do keep away the

Unknown 6:39
the text

Unknown 6:41
they do actually not as good as getting him but you know on on that point to can

Unknown 6:47
about the back Are you from the 1800s what

Unknown 6:53
you got chickens

Unknown 6:59
we found is he's a technologist

Unknown 7:05
that why I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so

Unknown 7:11
probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away

Unknown 7:13
and see it too about the dog food Ken is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food, I guess I was buying it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to using the word "feed" for the chickens. So I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll track it. It's like a pound for pound it's like eight times as much as pie as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eight says much of it. So worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy.

Unknown 8:10
How about some of your chickens are getting

Unknown 8:13
slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs.

Unknown 8:31
Yes, you do.

Unknown 8:32
Yes you do

Unknown 8:35
with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal

Unknown 8:49
answers

Unknown 8:52
animal expertise talking about getting developers

Unknown 9:00
ology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent the risk of my data? Or data,

Unknown 9:14
data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But

Unknown 9:30
oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for because everybody tries to hop on to Wi-Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi-Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi-Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are a different system than they're using for the Wi-Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done, in the study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti-scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built-in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit passcode pin, like how to make sure your devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi-Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either doesn't connect to the Bluetooth in your car or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website

Unknown 12:43
talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answer man, who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me.

Unknown 12:56
Yeah,

Unknown 12:57
well, if you are a politician, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15%

Unknown 13:27
more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new eye lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals

Unknown 14:47
are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer. com just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week.

Unknown 15:04
Take care guys. Thanks. All right.

Unknown 15:07
I would never have a great day. What do you say, a huge giant,

Unknown 15:15
I could say is leave a big Ken. Alright, everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about some subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma.

Then they got into the Technology, and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling.

Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can even be manipulated by the biases of the tester.

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

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Related Articles:

6 Ways You Put Your Data At Risk When You Travel

Why I Use VPNs All The Time (And So Should You)

The Best VPN Services

“Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You
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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 01/16/2019

Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. I was looking at some of my LinkedIn stats, and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead and link-in

Unknown 0:09 but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to Craig Peterson comm slash iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe for my email list. And Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends cannon, Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that i scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind Craig peters.com slash subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go.

Unknown 4:01 And we are back again. It's time for Greg Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception

Unknown 4:10 during our you know, except to that 738

Unknown 4:13 Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great Selma?

Unknown 4:29 Selma? The Great Danes are really

Unknown 4:31 big.

Unknown 4:34 I mean,

Unknown 4:35 like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater to stay warm

Unknown 4:41 Elmo

Unknown 4:43 assume you named after the Scooby Doo character

Unknown 4:47 name. She came with

Unknown 4:48 and or you're great on from 1840

Unknown 4:59 Well, good for you.

Unknown 5:03 Well, you know

Unknown 5:05 the dog named Blanche

Unknown 5:08 doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right.

Unknown 5:14 pet stores in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to sell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work

Unknown 5:26 for

Unknown 5:28 low on Yes.

Unknown 5:31 First Lady.

Unknown 5:33 Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to

Unknown 5:44 guns like Beretta.

Unknown 5:51 Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth Great Dane

Unknown 6:00 he thought about a Bijon or Boston Terrier cute dog

Unknown 6:06 or something a little you know I like the big dogs that you know

Unknown 6:10 you don't come out a big dog's Frank

Unknown 6:12 what outside

Unknown 6:14 green a happy dog

Unknown 6:16 no I

Unknown 6:16 know, but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say.

Unknown 6:19 For the chickens take care of that though they break it all up and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do, and they eat more of course than

Unknown 6:28 whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens, you through a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you

Unknown 6:36 know the chickens do keep away the

Unknown 6:39 the text

Unknown 6:41 they do actually not as good as getting him, but you know on on that point to can

Unknown 6:47 about the back Are you from the 1800s what

Unknown 6:53 you got chickens

Unknown 6:59 is the we found is he's a technologist

Unknown 7:05 the when I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so

Unknown 7:11 probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away

Unknown 7:13 and see it to about the dog food can is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food I guess it is it is buy it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to feed and check it so I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree, and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll take it. It's like, pound for pound it's like eight times as much as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eighth as much of it. So, worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy.

Unknown 8:10 How about some of your chickens are getting

Unknown 8:13 slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs.

Unknown 8:31 Yes you do.

Unknown 8:32 Yes you do

Unknown 8:35 with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea, not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal

Unknown 8:49 answers

Unknown 8:52 animal expertise talking about getting developers

Unknown 9:00 technology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent risk of my data? Or data,

Unknown 9:14 data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But

Unknown 9:30 oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for, because everybody tries to hop on to Wi Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been have happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are different system than they're using for the Wi Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done in study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit pass code pin, like how to make sure you devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either don't connect to the Bluetooth in your car, or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website

Unknown 12:43 talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answers man who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me.

Unknown 12:56 Yeah,

Unknown 12:57 well, if if you are a public Titian, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag, and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15%

Unknown 13:27 more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new I lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals

Unknown 14:47 are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week.

Unknown 15:04 Take care guys. Thanks. All right.

Unknown 15:07 I would never have a great day. What do you say f huge giant

Unknown 15:15 I could say is leaving a big can. Alright everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye bye.

---

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Today Craig spoke with Ken and Matt on the WGAN Morning News about some subjects including following up on their discussion of dogs and Craig told them about his new rescue dog, a Great Dane named Velma.

Then they got into the Technology, and Ken mentioned he was going to be traveling soon and wanted to know how he could protect his data while traveling.

Then Matt asked about the new eye-scanning technology that is being tested now that can identify if you are lying.  Bottom line it still relies on your physical response and can even be manipulated by the biases of the tester.

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

---

Related Articles:

6 Ways You Put Your Data At Risk When You Travel

Why I Use VPNs All The Time (And So Should You)

The Best VPN Services

“Blade Runner” Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You
---

Transcript:

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

Airing date: 01/16/2019

Craig Peterson 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. I was looking at some of my LinkedIn stats, and if you haven't linked into me over on LinkedIn you can go ahead and link-in

Unknown 0:09 but I was kind of cool because one of the videos I put together on Facebook and tracking you got like 1300 watches over on LinkedIn who knew I videos on LinkedIn anyhow that's pretty cool so thanks everybody that watched that and a few people commented so thanks for that as well in my posts over there getting more and more popular in the videos and stuff so this is good all the way around thanks everybody I really appreciate it and I appreciate everyone who subscribes to this podcast if you're not subscribed and this is subscribers that really count with the numbers here so I appreciate you listening but if you subscribe it really helps us out go to Craig Peterson comm slash iTunes or you just search for me on rape whatever platform you like to listen to podcasts on. And there are you know, there's one other Craig Peterson out there. He's up in Washington state he and I have had some run-ins before where he was using my popularity to try and build his credibility and but he's not me, right I'm the guy so the best way is Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe for my email list. And Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes to subscribe to my podcast slash iTunes and you can get this all automatic, then it really does help us out helps out a lot, because that's where the numbers really come from those subscribers is water counted. All right. This morning, I was on with our friends cannon, Matt. And Matt is looking to get a little puppy dog. So there's a litter he's been looking at and trying to figure out which dog that his kids want. And he and his wife one can, what name are they going to have it? So they were talking about that before I got on that the air this morning. So I had the guide get on and straighten them out. Oh, right. Isn't that always the case, though, somehow. And we talked about a couple of topics. We talked a little bit about putting your data at risk when you travel. There's a great article I have up on my website, you probably want to check out. But we talked a little bit about it. And a little bit about the VPN situation. And Matt had a quick question about that i scanning a lie detector as well. We've got our new information data starting to come out we're sending out this week, we're almost done. Wow, talking about a labor of love. Almost done with putting together this whole new special report system for you. You guys are going to love it. And hopefully that's going to happen this week. We've got it all planned out. And we've been working on it every day for the last week or so. Because it's not just this one special report on how to lock down your credit. But we're talking about a whole series of them. We've got 50 of them in the pipeline right now. So we're trying to make this whole system work with a special founding member of my insider portal, which is going to be absolutely free for this basic membership forever. But it's a beta thing. We're going to try a few things out. This is going to be fun, I think. And we've already got a couple of people who are in the alpha test already. So you know, kudos to you know who you are. And those people will be in beta that respond for this latest special report on how to lock down your credit for free and keep an eye out for that. That should be out this week. Again, if you're not on my email list, you already know how just rewind Craig peters.com slash subscribe, right? We got all of that here today. So off we go with Ken and Matt. And we'll be back at this weekend, if not before maybe with a couple more videos. So here we go.

Unknown 4:01 And we are back again. It's time for Greg Peterson, our tech guru to join us he does so at 738 every Wednesday. This Wednesday being no exception

Unknown 4:10 during our you know, except to that 738

Unknown 4:13 Good Mornings whether we got a new puppy to well actually sees three and a half years old. This is our fourth rescue great game and she's just amazing. And her name is Velma. How's that for great Selma?

Unknown 4:29 Selma? The Great Danes are really

Unknown 4:31 big.

Unknown 4:34 I mean,

Unknown 4:35 like I told the girls they need to knit her an orange turtleneck sweater to stay warm

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Unknown 4:43 assume you named after the Scooby Doo character

Unknown 4:47 name. She came with

Unknown 4:48 and or you're great on from 1840

Unknown 4:59 Well, good for you.

Unknown 5:03 Well, you know

Unknown 5:05 the dog named Blanche

Unknown 5:08 doors Well, I wasn't gonna neighbor Hillary right.

Unknown 5:14 pet stores in California, they cannot sell brand new dogs. Is it where they have to sell rescues now? California course. Of course. That's the way things work

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Unknown 5:33 Yeah, like long names my most of my dogs been named after like different guns and other manufacturers of different things over to

Unknown 5:44 guns like Beretta.

Unknown 5:51 Yeah, exactly. And Winchester and you know that's that sort of thing that's what we've had German shepherds and as I said, Our fourth Great Dane

Unknown 6:00 he thought about a Bijon or Boston Terrier cute dog

Unknown 6:06 or something a little you know I like the big dogs that you know

Unknown 6:10 you don't come out a big dog's Frank

Unknown 6:12 what outside

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Unknown 6:16 know, but you'll still step in it that's all I gotta say.

Unknown 6:19 For the chickens take care of that though they break it all up and you know it's also stepped on it right away but yeah they do, and they eat more of course than

Unknown 6:28 whoever thought we'd be talking about dog poop chickens, you through a bag you go to a bag of dog food a week you

Unknown 6:36 know the chickens do keep away the

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Unknown 6:41 they do actually not as good as getting him, but you know on on that point to can

Unknown 6:47 about the back Are you from the 1800s what

Unknown 6:53 you got chickens

Unknown 6:59 is the we found is he's a technologist

Unknown 7:05 the when I drive a 1980 Mercedes diesel right no electronics so

Unknown 7:11 probably hear that thing coming from about six miles away

Unknown 7:13 and see it to about the dog food can is that we found a what's called a higher quality dog food I guess it is it is buy it at the local Walmart or whatever, you know. And we found this other stuff that a dog food store we brought the dog in and they had a food tasting for Velma. And they had like eight different feeds of foods out there for her I'm used to feed and check it so I this feed and she got to try the different the different foods and and which one that she liked. And then they had this treat tree, and she found a treat you really like and so we said okay, well we'll take it. It's like, pound for pound it's like eight times as much as the big box. Right and but she only eats about an eighth as much of it. So, worth something. We felt the same price and she looks so much better. And she has more energy.

Unknown 8:10 How about some of your chickens are getting

Unknown 8:13 slowly he actually got into some chicken because we had we had you know dead ones. We had some and she found the bones in the trash and stuff and she pulled them out and started eating them. But um. Yeah, but you got to be careful chicken bones with dogs.

Unknown 8:31 Yes you do.

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Unknown 8:35 with what Danes turkey gives them because one of our Danes got into the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving and bloody diarrhea, not a good thing to talk about eating breakfast Let's move on. And that's animal

Unknown 8:49 answers

Unknown 8:52 animal expertise talking about getting developers

Unknown 9:00 technology I'm going to be traveling Yeah if I don't catch pneumonia from my wife, or cold from Matt, and a week and a half. So what should I do to prevent risk of my data? Or data,

Unknown 9:14 data? Or data? Yeah, when you're traveling, etc. I had a couple of questions from like, you guys know, I have a weekend radio show that I of course podcast as well that you can find on my website. But

Unknown 9:30 oh, yeah, there you go. Slash iTunes, if you want the past, but I know you guys are also podcasting my segments here. Although people who are listening for the tech today might be slightly disappointed. But the the the whole thing about traveling and data and the show on Saturday was about VPN and trying to keep your data safe the VPN. And of course, we've talked before about how Facebook kind of fool people into thinking using their VPN would make them safe. So I got a great article up on there about traveling and what you have to be careful for, because everybody tries to hop on to Wi Fi. Now, we don't do it with our phones, like we used to. Nowadays, we're doing it with our laptops, because our phones have great data plans, right? Almost everybody. And we all know that come next year, 2020 data is going to get even better. But we've seen breaches in the hotel chains. We know about breaches that have been have happening at airports, even breaches of airplanes systems while they are in flight, and where people took them over the Wi Fi that's onboard the planes. And we're using that to hack into people on the plane who are using the Wi Fi. Now the good news is the planes main systems used for the flight controls are different system than they're using for the Wi Fi. So that's very, very good. But according to a new Pew Center research poll security poll that was done in study, they found that even though there's been all these encrypted networks and websites using encryption, and that's made the internet safer. In general, there's just no such thing as being too careful. So be careful with your credit cards. Use those little anti scanning wallets that you can get. So the RF IDs can't be scanned, use devices built in safeguards, the fingerprints of some print on your phone, whether it's a Samsung, or an apple, that some print reader does tend to be a lot safer, particularly on Samsung than the new facial recognition system. So use the thumbprint on it's available in no one to use 12 digit pass code pin, like how to make sure you devices are encrypted, that standard with Apple. And it's absolutely available for pretty much every other manufacturer out there, including the Android just turn that stuff on, don't connect to public Wi Fi, if you can avoid it, connect to your cell phone. And your cell phone probably has data sharing on it. So you can tell it from your cell phone, etc. etc. You know, your rental cars, your Bluetooth, when you connect to that rental car, that car will usually upload your contact list and things and you don't want that for the next guy to come around and use or the people who are taking care of the cars to steal it. Because it's going to have your home address in there. It's going to have all kinds of stuff. And you got to be careful with that too. So either don't connect to the Bluetooth in your car, or make sure you delete it. When you leave your car at the airport. delete your phone. First of all, your data goes away. Just all kinds of great tips. And again, they are up there on the website

Unknown 12:43 talking to Craig Peterson, our animal answers man who's here occasionally giving us an update about technology. Craig, am I going to have trouble lying to people in the future? Oh, this is this is a concern for me.

Unknown 12:56 Yeah,

Unknown 12:57 well, if if you are a public Titian, you might want to really be careful, okay, because there's this new Blade Runner technology. And what's really kind of interesting about this from my standpoint to is Mark Cuban's, the guy that founded this company back in 2014, it's called the ID tag, and it's kind of like a polygraph for the I have words of it, but it's about 1510 15%

Unknown 13:27 more accurate according to the manufacturer, it's already in use 500 customers 40 countries but what it does is it looks at your eyes and watches for the response of your pupils in your eye as you are being interviewed by someone and the whole idea is if you lie your eyes going to react in a certain way It only takes about 30 minutes as opposed to a couple of hours for a normal polygraph. And I've got to say both cases polygraph and this new I lie detector is not 100% the people who are administering the test are going to introduce their own personal biases on what's going on. But you know, give a little bit of time because ultimately you're going to see something like this at us by our friends, TSA, it's already been used by some of the embassies out there and who knows, we'll see just how accurate it really is. But it's about $25,000 to buy one of these and that makes it a lot cheaper than some of the polygraph equipment that's out there and might be good for just basic research of crimes and potential criminals

Unknown 14:47 are joining us every Wednesday at 730. And if you do have any questions about Great Danes or pets, feel free to go to his website. Craig Peterson, the dog whisperer just click that for joining us. We'll talk to you next week.

Unknown 15:04 Take care guys. Thanks. All right.

Unknown 15:07 I would never have a great day. What do you say f huge giant

Unknown 15:15 I could say is leaving a big can. Alright everybody. Talk to you later. Take care. Bye bye.

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