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

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Airing date: 01/07/2019

CES Technology - Shirt Folding Robot - The Wall Is Ready For Your Home - Apple USP Is Security - Chromebooks

Jack Heath 0:00

Alright joining us now on the Auto Fair Listener lines is Craig Peterson Tech Talk guy and it's always something there when it comes to tech in our life because we're so attached to it literally. Craig, good morning.

Unknown 0:12
Yeah Are we good morning jack there is a lot going on right now and check because it is. drumroll please the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Can you believe it's another year?

Unknown 0:29
But yes, we've got the Consumer Electronics Show. There is a ton of stuff happening out there right now. And one of the things I think is worth noting is that Apple seems to finally be agreeing with me on what is important to them. Now their consumers of course, they have the phones and and they've been quite good, you know, and people like john right. But Apple has rented out bases in hotels are I should I say in hotels? I mean, on hotels, the whole side of the hotel with a massive sign that says, what happens on your iPhone days on your iPhone? It's phenomenal. I've been saying for more than a year Apple's unique selling proposition is IT security, it doesn't make a dime off of your information. I'm like Google and Android. They sell hardware and software. So that was one of the things that greeted people who were coming out to the Consumer Electronics Show this week out in Vegas. I thought that was pretty clever.

Unknown 1:37
Well, they should have listened to you while ago.

Unknown 1:40
Yeah, you know, it's people that they just don't all listen to, you know, you Jack. Are you think of the time but I thought that was pretty cool. A couple of other neat things that are out there. I've also been a big fan of these Chromebooks before, especially for people who are not real computer people who don't really have understand everything that's been going on. There are new Chromebooks that have been released. These things are basically laptop, they cannot run any Microsoft software. So if you have to use Word or you have to use another Windows application, it's not going to work on the However, they are as secure as anything out there on the consumer market today. And we're seeing more and more of those. HP just introduced a brand new one on the Consumer Electronics Show. We've got new drives hard disk drives, the little portable ones that you can use on your computers. They're all the way up to, for instance, LaCie has this five terabyte USB drive jacket. It's incredible amounts of space. We've got folding, Nate, I don't know if you heard about this, but it's it's a robot Jack that folds your clothes for you. Have you heard about this before?

Unknown 2:57
No, no, I have no idea. One of those.

Unknown 3:01
Yeah, I do too. It's been three years. This is their third year at the Consumer Electronics Show. And it hasn't taken off because they can't get the technology right yet. So they remove the option of folding sheets. Because apparently it had a real hard time with folding sheets. But

Unknown 3:19
now it just like me check. But now it can fold your shirts, t shirts, collared shirts and fake cetera, which is really cool. You remember Marty McFly right back to the future. You remember the wall they had in the home with a huge TVs and they'd have different background screens and his boss would would call him up on the wall. Well, guess what just came from China. It's called a wall and it is absolutely massive. This thing is actually a bunch of TVs strung together. You can't see it. It's 219 in the air

Unknown 4:03
watch. Yeah, you could watch the game

Unknown 4:07
play PlayStation while I'm doing it. That's what I need. Let me get my wife on the phone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The wall maybe. Maybe that will be the breaking the budget deal. Maybe it's the chat that that's the wall. They're not building it on a concrete. They're probably gonna steal

Unknown 4:18
right solution. He got

Unknown 4:22
it got a deal China for it. All right. Thanks, Craig. Good stuff and what stays in? What happens on your iPhone stays in your iPhone. Thank you, Craig. All right. Take care. 

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Airing date: 01/07/2019

CES Technology - Shirt Folding Robot - The Wall Is Ready For Your Home - Apple USP Is Security - Chromebooks

Jack Heath 0:00

Alright joining us now on the Auto Fair Listener lines is Craig Peterson Tech Talk guy and it's always something there when it comes to tech in our life because we're so attached to it literally. Craig, good morning.

Unknown 0:12
Yeah Are we good morning jack there is a lot going on right now and check because it is. drumroll please the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Can you believe it's another year?

Unknown 0:29
But yes, we've got the Consumer Electronics Show. There is a ton of stuff happening out there right now. And one of the things I think is worth noting is that Apple seems to finally be agreeing with me on what is important to them. Now their consumers of course, they have the phones and and they've been quite good, you know, and people like john right. But Apple has rented out bases in hotels are I should I say in hotels? I mean, on hotels, the whole side of the hotel with a massive sign that says, what happens on your iPhone days on your iPhone? It's phenomenal. I've been saying for more than a year Apple's unique selling proposition is IT security, it doesn't make a dime off of your information. I'm like Google and Android. They sell hardware and software. So that was one of the things that greeted people who were coming out to the Consumer Electronics Show this week out in Vegas. I thought that was pretty clever.

Unknown 1:37
Well, they should have listened to you while ago.

Unknown 1:40
Yeah, you know, it's people that they just don't all listen to, you know, you Jack. Are you think of the time but I thought that was pretty cool. A couple of other neat things that are out there. I've also been a big fan of these Chromebooks before, especially for people who are not real computer people who don't really have understand everything that's been going on. There are new Chromebooks that have been released. These things are basically laptop, they cannot run any Microsoft software. So if you have to use Word or you have to use another Windows application, it's not going to work on the However, they are as secure as anything out there on the consumer market today. And we're seeing more and more of those. HP just introduced a brand new one on the Consumer Electronics Show. We've got new drives hard disk drives, the little portable ones that you can use on your computers. They're all the way up to, for instance, LaCie has this five terabyte USB drive jacket. It's incredible amounts of space. We've got folding, Nate, I don't know if you heard about this, but it's it's a robot Jack that folds your clothes for you. Have you heard about this before?

Unknown 2:57
No, no, I have no idea. One of those.

Unknown 3:01
Yeah, I do too. It's been three years. This is their third year at the Consumer Electronics Show. And it hasn't taken off because they can't get the technology right yet. So they remove the option of folding sheets. Because apparently it had a real hard time with folding sheets. But

Unknown 3:19
now it just like me check. But now it can fold your shirts, t shirts, collared shirts and fake cetera, which is really cool. You remember Marty McFly right back to the future. You remember the wall they had in the home with a huge TVs and they'd have different background screens and his boss would would call him up on the wall. Well, guess what just came from China. It's called a wall and it is absolutely massive. This thing is actually a bunch of TVs strung together. You can't see it. It's 219 in the air

Unknown 4:03
watch. Yeah, you could watch the game

Unknown 4:07
play PlayStation while I'm doing it. That's what I need. Let me get my wife on the phone. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The wall maybe. Maybe that will be the breaking the budget deal. Maybe it's the chat that that's the wall. They're not building it on a concrete. They're probably gonna steal

Unknown 4:18
right solution. He got

Unknown 4:22
it got a deal China for it. All right. Thanks, Craig. Good stuff and what stays in? What happens on your iPhone stays in your iPhone. Thank you, Craig. All right. Take care. 

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Guess what Facebook is in the news yet again. Listen in and I will tell you about one of the tricks they playing and why you must be concerned.

Did you get an Apple Watch?  Today, I will be talking about what they have done with their new Heart Monitor and how it can help you.

How many Apps do you have?  Are you using them all?  Do you know what information they share?  Today, I will be discussing Apps and how to stop them from tracking you. 

Which browser is your favorite? With Internet Explorer going by the wayside and the Edge Browsers being updated using the chrome engine. it is time to talk about all the options you have and the benefits of each.

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Airing date: 01/05/2019

How Secure Are Our Gifts

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. Welcome to the new year. Where's the time going? You know, it's going to be like that. And is going to be 2020. And we're going to be asking the same question man does time fly? I was at the barber the other day, got my haircut. And it was really funny. I don't know. Maybe she just wanted a bit better tip or something. But she thought I was about 10 years younger than I actually am. Is that legit? Or do you think she was she was just pulling my leg here trying to give complex to bugs out a man or she seemed like a nice enough girl, right? Maybe she's legit. But I don't know, time just keeps marching on. Oh, my family members keep getting older. I'm lucky enough to still have both parents alive, which is really kind of cool. But it's, you know, it's not going to last year forever.

Craig Peterson 1:00
Anyhow, we got a lot to cover about post-Christmas post-gift-giving season, we're going to talk about a few of the gifts that you might have given or received and the security and then one of the things you should be considering what are the things you should do with these devices. We'll talk about some specific devices. And we'll also talk about them in general Facebook. Oh, my gosh, right. Are they ever not in the news? Well, in the news again, because it turns out, they never really did care about expanding the internet to the whole world. It was all about Facebook. And we're going to talk about one of the tricks they played in order to get it so that your Android device would tell them where you are, what you're doing, basically, without you knowing without that little pop-up screen. Coming up, we're going to talk about airdrop assaults. I have seen this before. I've had a couple of my listeners contact me and saying this has happened to me. So we'll talk about what that is Apple Watch, we're going to talk about how the new features in that Apple Watch. You might have gotten as a gift work that can detect certain types of rhythms and that you know,

Craig Peterson 2:12
your regular rhythms, arrhythmias, there you go. That's where I was looking for. And that's really good. It's good news for a lot of people. And we're going to talk a little bit more about how to stop apps from tracking you because they're doing everything they can to track it. We talked a little bit about this, I think

Craig Peterson 2:31
it was last week

Craig Peterson 2:32
of the week before as well. And we are, of course, doing a video again this week. So make sure you check it out at http://CraigPeterson.com. Well, let's get right into our holiday season. You know how I have talked many times in the past about security and privacy, right. That's kind of my thing. Because there's so many of us just don't understand it, we're on doing it the way we should, especially if you're small, medium business, they just they're doing it wrong, right. You can't hire the right people most of the time. So get somebody to come in help you get it all established and then let them run with it. But there is a web browser out there that I've recommended in the past. And I want to talk about web browsers here for a minute. Because most of us would have done some shopping online over the last few weeks.

Craig Peterson 3:22
The big one, of course, you know about his Google Chrome, Google Chrome is about to be adopted by Microsoft, the getting rid of that Edge browser that they've had. That is not a good browser, which replaced an even worse browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, do not use Internet Explorer, any more people don't do it. If you have a vendor that depends on you, using Internet Explorer, in order for your web services to work, have them fix it threatened to go to a new one because it is terrible. And it always has been well, they've decided that edge is also terrible, which it is they just don't have the compatibility. So to go for the ultimate in compatibility. Microsoft is getting into bed with Google, at least for the browser. And they are going to be using the Google Chrome browser as the basis for their new browser. And trying to remember now I think they said they were still going to call it Edge, The Edge browser, but it's going to be chrome in disguise, it will run the chrome plugins and extensions that you're used to running. So kudos to Microsoft I gotta say it again, they haven't proved so much since Steve Ballmer left, you know, getting rid of Steve Ballmer was a wonderful co it's really helped the company they've grown in some wonderful ways it's going to help us share growth in a long term. Bill Gates did not do them any favors in his last years. So I'm very impressed with their new management, I think this is a very good choice for them. So we've got Chrome. And that's now going to be the Microsoft browser as well. We've got Safari on our various Mac devices. But most people nowadays, frankly, are using Chrome. Well, there's another browser out there that you should pay attention to. That's also based on Chrome that's really rather safe. And I just had somebody reach out to me about a month ago, because I asked you guys quite frequently, let me know what you like about the show. Let me know what I should be talking about some of the things that you've learned because that helps me understand what I should be talking about here, what I should be researching because you realize that it takes a lot of research and a lot of work just to do this radio show. And this these videos, the epic browser

Craig Peterson 5:51
API, see is what was mentioned by the listener, and he was saying, Hey, listen, I use the epic, just like you had said that. He uses DuckDuckGo for his searches. By the way, I think it was Google own Duck.com. And they relinquished it. They gave it over to the DuckDuckGo guys.

Craig Peterson 6:10
So pretty soon, I've actually probably haven't tried it in a while. I was just going to DuckDuckGo. But you'll be able to go to Duck.com to do your searches. And yeah, frankly, I think that's a pretty good thing. So that's also a chrome based browser. There's others out there that I use you've got opera, which isn't, you know, reasonably popular browser. But the Mozilla Foundation is one I want to talk about right now. Mozilla has the Firefox browser. And they have designed it to be safe. Now, they, they really kind of pulled in their wings, worked at it, and came up with a very safe version and new faster, they got better tab handling the new version 64, I think is what they're calling it. And it's something to seriously look at because it is designed with security in mind. You can run certain plugins, certain extensions for it, but not all of them are going to work if you're running older extensions, many of those just plain don't work. In fact, most of them don't, because they're trying to be safe. That's their mantra. And you should check it out. If you haven't checked out Firefox in a while. Have a look at it. One of the things I love the most about it is it isn't Google right, who's trying to collect all of the information they can possibly collect on humanity and then sell it to other people or use it themselves for marketing and other things. So have a look at Firefox they've put out the Mozilla Foundation something they're calling privacy not included and I was debating whether I should talk about this before Christmas or wait until after obviously, I didn't talk about it did not before now I'm going to talk about it and what Mozilla's done with this privacy not included as they've looked at some of the most popular gifts and some of the most popular devices out there and tried to figure out is this safe do they spy on us with them. So it's really good. You'll see it up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. There is a lot of different devices that there is a lot that they have reviewed here. The Nintendo Switch coding kit, the Kindle, Hugh light, coffee makers, pet trackers, just a ton of stuff, little robots and things. Roku streaming players. Obviously, we're not going to take the time to go through all of these. But if you have a device you might want to check it out. It's on the foundation.mozilla.org site. It's also up there on http://CraigPeterson.com. But I do want to talk about a couple of things. One, a very popular gift this year was the Nintendo Switch. This is a brand new Nintendo in we've had them over the years. Nintendo what was it the six for I'm trying to remember. And the kids also we had the Nintendo we which Nintendo shot in the head and they moved on this Nintendo Switch is really cool. You've got the main unit. And then you've got the remote controls. And you can play right there. All of these classic video games plus new ones, you can play them right on this little handheld devices. Kind of like a fabulous, you know, very large phone or small tablet. And you can also take the signal and push it up to your TV set in order to watch it very nice. And if you are looking to trade in a gift, maybe this is something you might want to try for me. I have to wear my reading glasses when I'm using it. But it does meet the minimum security standards that Mozilla has

Craig Peterson 9:50
put out, you know, here's what they look at is what

Craig Peterson 9:54
Mozilla is looking at. And here's what you should probably look at as well. First of all, can it spy on you? Do you remember, a week or two ago, I was talking about our kids. And they're playing video games is a serious security risk for us.

Craig Peterson 10:12
Because it is our kids are now being manipulated by online criminals who are getting them to do things via these multiplayer video games. So being able to spy on you. And knowing if it does or not, is an important thing for you.

Craig Peterson 10:31
So the Switch does not have a camera. Now, remember, a lot of these devices need, you have the physical device. And then you also have an app that you use with that device. So you've got the device, you've got the app, so the app is on your smartphone. And that app may, in fact, have built into it the ability to use the smartphones camera or its microphone. So remember that as well as you're looking at these things. So these the Nintendo Switch does not have a camera. And the app does not use the device's camera. It does not have a microphone. But it does use the app's microphone. So that could be a bit of an issue for you. And then from a location tracking standpoint, the device does not track you. And the app does not track you. So those are the dynamics. They look at those of the things that the Mozilla people have been looking at stuff you should look at as well. Now deeper into it, you can't tell

Craig Peterson 11:36
by looking at it, right. Like you can see a camera right, you might be able to see a microphone. This does use encryption, it has a privacy policy that you'd have to have a college degree to read. I love the way they put this right. And it does share your information with third parties for unexpected reasons. But remember, didn't make their minimum standards. It all automatically apply security updates, it deletes data, it stores on you and has parental control. The company manages their security vulnerabilities, which is really nice. We spend a lot of time with our clients trying to keep their machines up to date on the security vulnerabilities. So that's Nintendo Switch. It's well worth doing. You know, you can be tied in with external devices to those have their own security problems. minimum standards met again, here. Privacy not included from Mozilla on the Philips Hue smart light kit. This is something I have, I love these things, the lights come on in the morning, they can dim they can give you kind of a morning dawn type sequence, they can give you different colors of the light in our room, we turn it down to read at night, which is, of course, better for your eyes. So you sleep better. It's the blue lights that really kind of nail you with these. But you can also have the lights dance with your music and jump with the movies and video games is a very, very cool a safety here camera, no on the app or the device microphone. No on the app or the device location tracking know on the app or device. Now Phillips had a security problem with a few balls a few years back that we talked about here, which was that people could remotely turn lights on and off, which is it's a problem. But it's not the worst problem in the world. So they really pulled up their socks. And they've got some nice security in it. Now it does use encryption. It does require a college degree to understand the privacy policy. And it does share your information with third parties.

Craig Peterson 13:44
See, you have to change passwords that have automatic updates at deleting your data that it stores. It has the company controlling security vulnerability. So I'll have a look at that. Okay, hijacking he Philips Hue Bob's much harder than it used to be. This did not get a good privacy rating. And that's the nest learning thermostat.

Craig Peterson 14:06
I like this. I think it's a cool thermostat. And I've been tempted to get one forever. My son in law or one of my sons in law bought one of these thermostats.

Craig Peterson 14:15
And it is neat, and it does save energy and stuff. But it also connects to your network. So a few in my house, we have an IoT network, which is an Internet of Things. So devices like, you know, an Amazon Echo, or Google nasty, etc, those would go on to the IoT network, which has no access to any of our computers in the house. Nothing at all. Okay, so if I hadn't asked, that's where I would put it, I would advise you guys to do that, too, for your homes. Now, businesses, I deal with this all the time with security cameras and other things. Businesses just are not segmenting the networks as they should, it is important to segment them put these types of devices on a different network. If you have manufacturing equipment, make sure that also on a different network. Because frankly, these devices can be and are being used to launch attacks against you these security cameras that you see these Chinese security cameras. Oh my gosh, that's terrible. What's happening with these, many of them are coming pre-installed with backdoors. And then the Chinese are getting into the devices. In some cases, the Russians are hacking them, and they're using them to see all of your data, get all your bank account information, etc, etc. So again, here is an important safety tip. If you're going to have a number of Internet of Things, devices, like these light bulbs, like these thermostats, etc. etc. Make sure they are on a completely separate network. This nest learning thermostat, the app does have and use a camera the microphone again in the app location tracking in the app. So the device itself doesn't have any of those. But the app does and that uses down your smart device. It does have encryption, it apparently does not share your information with third parties. And it has automatic security updates Delete to date at stores on you. And the company manages security policy. So some good news there on a bunch of fronts. So look them up. Go online, you'll see this whole report privacy not included from Mozilla. You can just go to Craig Peterson. com. You can probably find it in a Google search as well. Lots of good information there.

Craig Peterson 16:44
Next up, our friends over at Facebook. In the news again, Mark Zuckerberg. Well, not just Mark but What's your name as well? Oh, my. This is very interesting. Because they were doing some things they promised they would never do. They said they weren't going to spy on people. They weren't going to sell the information that we're going to tell you about stuff, right? And we already know they've just totally ignored all of that stuff. Sheryl Sandberg right is their name. Wow. It turns out that the UK, Britain

Craig Peterson 17:20
seized emails, internal emails from Facebook. And it was part of a parliamentary committee's investigation into Facebook. And isn't this interesting. So of the company Facebook plan to gain users permission to get at the user's call logs and lists of everybody

Craig Peterson 17:44
they had called in texted on their phones without explicitly asking for permission. In fact, they plan to do it as part of an update to the mobile Facebook app. So normally, androids policies would dictate the user See that little pop-up notification if you're an Android user, you're used to seeing that so that notification pop up saying, hey, they want access to your call logs to your phone records to your texting records. And you would say no, I don't want Facebook to have them. Well, apparently, they figured out a way around that so that they could have a new application update come in you to accept the update to the application. And it wouldn't tell you that Facebook was trying to monitor all of your phone call logs, isn't that something. So if Facebook shipped its app update with only one permission request, it would not trigger the permissions pop up. That meant that users would be opting into the call log tracking when they downloaded the update without Android making them aware of what they were opting into a Facebook Product Manager put it this way, quote. This is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective, but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it and quote so that's from one of their internal emails. And obviously, it's pretty shocking. And the UK Government is pretty upset about all of us. And hopefully, we pick up on it here. I don't know what the democrat controlled house what's going to happen. They have a lot of tight ties into Facebook. The Republicans have certainly been investigating Facebook. Hopefully, they will. And everybody needs to know these guys. They are not straight shooters. Absolutely not. So the same email this is again from slate.com up on my site, you'll see to http://CraigPeterson.com, the same email suggest holding off another invasive permissions request not out of respect for users. But due to concern, the backlash from the call logs request would subject the second sensitive permission request to public scrutiny to

Craig Peterson 19:59
So Facebook ultimately went ahead with the update and the collection of Android call logs and succeeded in keeping it quiet.

Craig Peterson 20:07
Oh, my gosh. Okay. So we start off 2019 with some more we're good news about Facebook and what they've been up to.

Craig Peterson 20:18
I don't know if you've heard about these airdrops assaulted, been going on one of one of my sons,

Craig Peterson 20:25
he kind of figured this out. Oh, you're too ago that he would go on to his iPhone. And he'd see who had their airdrop turned on now you can set it up and this is a way I do it. So that only your contacts can see you. On Airdrop he would look and see who has their airdrop wide open. And Airdrop is fantastic. Because you can send photos, videos, documents, anything you want directly to another person locally. So just it's literally airdrop to that person. They don't have to go up the apples clouded. You don't need to use your internet connection forward just goes right to them. So I got a contact from one of our listeners saying they were driving down the highway. And all of a sudden this request came up on their phone. And they're trying to figure out what's going on. Should I accept this? And obviously, they didn't. Right. And they reached out to me after the fact you're trying to figure it out. Well, there's something new called cyber flashing. Now. That's not what my son did. My son would just drop the means on people's phones about turning off air job or securing it. But cyber flashing is the act of sending lewd pictures to unsuspecting victims via the airdrop functionality on their phone.

Craig Peterson 21:49
Okay, very, very bad. Now it's become such an issue in New York and particularly New York City that laws have been created to help prosecute dead digital sexual harassment in Philadelphia, please safe cyber flashing is happening there as well its kind of interesting to read through the article. Again, Associate Professor Temple University Fox School of Business recognizes a vulnerability it goes on and on. But if you get an airdrop request from somebody that you don't know, it could be cyber flashing, you might want to go into airdrop and either just turn it off. Now it's available right from that little-locked screen. So you know how normally you might slide up on the bottom of your phone or the top right corner, depending on what kind of device you have iOS device and you turn on your flashlight. You know how to turn that flashlight? Well, it's on that same screen. So you can turn your air drop off all of the time. And just turn it off. When you're trying to send something or someone else's trying to send something to you. That's probably your safest bet.

Craig Peterson 22:58
Now if you got an app watch over the holidays, a brand new one, the newest model, it is now designed to detect irregular heart rhythms. Now that can save a life frankly, and it isn't like it's monitoring all the time. It's not designed to detect a heart attack in the process. What it does is it waits for you to be calm. So you're kind of sitting, you're not really moving very much. And then it monitors your rhythm. And it's looking for some basic arrhythmias, and it'll inform you about them. It's designed to be used by people over the age of 22, and they're not all designed for people who've already been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation by their doctor. But it can help with all the stuff Apple got first of its kind clearance for the electrocardiogram app from federal regulators in September, they did a preclinical study with 2000 people they did clinical trials was 600 other people and founded it could distinguish between a normal heartbeat and atrial fibrillation. So that's where they're starting. This is going to get a lot faster, better as time goes on. But if you have the latest software on your watch, you can migrate over to the watch app on your iPhone. Then scroll down to heart health, you'll see a new menu of options. And you can enable a set of notifications so that your Apple Watch will detect in your regular rhythm. You can also view your electrocardiogram readings. Once you have taken them, it's they are calling it ECG CD. Often it's EKG. So it's got notifications and ask you for your date of birth to make sure you're over 22. And it kind of goes on from there. So set up the app on the watch, make sure you follow the instructions lightly touch the crown without pressing down on it. And then it'll come up with some screens, telling you some more details about what's going on and give you that data. Pretty cool. If you got an Apple Watch and you don't want to eat just send it to me care of the local radio station. Craig Peterson. Now stopping apps and tracking you this is a very big deal. I've talked about this a couple of times recently. But now we found out that at least 75 companies are receiving people's precise location data from hundreds of apps. Now, people have enabled location services on these apps. Sometimes unwittingly, you know, a lot of times you just don't think about it. And you just click Yeah, except right or allow you got to pay attention to this in the iOS space. As I've mentioned before, it's safer than for tracking than it is an Android it's more clear, Apple's done more about that, but these companies are using the and information they're selling it to advertisers, investment firms, and others. Can you imagine being in a doctor's office or, you know, an emergency room and, and getting a notification that this clinic has the same features half the price etc, right, while you're there in the emergency room, or don't get that abortion because it's seen that you are at Planned Parenthood, etc, etc. So they're collecting all of this data and they are selling it

Craig Peterson 26:31
so it's kind of difficult to know the language for the disclaimers can be pretty dense, pretty hard to understand there's no definitive list. It's just a problem here. So here's what you do to stop location tracking. On iOS. First, you open your settings select privacy, it has a blue icon in a white hand then select location services you're going to see a list of apps along with location setting for each one of them it also has a little icon that tells you if they've used location services recently and turn on the option while using the app and don't let them use it all the time. Because that's where most of the problem comes in. On Android you can go to Settings security and location app level permissions you'll see the list of apps and you got to dig around in order to turn it off but it's good advice to turn that off make sure it's off making sure it stays off because you really don't want all this stuff happening to you. Hey I hope you are planning on a good year I've got a whole series of master classes planned we are starting them up these are master classes on security completely free we're going to give them to you but you have to sign up go to crank Peterson comm slash subscribe to make sure you're on my list http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe we're going to be talking about backups how to do them how to do them for business or we're going to be talking about turning on free security tools what paid security tools you should be loot using six weeks here master classes every week http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Hey, Have a great year ahead. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 01/05/2019

How Secure Are Our Gifts

Craig Peterson: 0:00

Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. Welcome to the new year. Where's the time going? You know, it's going to be like that. And is going to be 2020. And we're going to be asking the same question man does time fly? I was at the barber the other day, got my haircut. And it was really funny. I don't know. Maybe she just wanted a bit better tip or something. But she thought I was about 10 years younger than I actually am. Is that legit? Or do you think she was she was just pulling my leg here trying to give complex to bugs out a man or she seemed like a nice enough girl, right? Maybe she's legit. But I don't know, time just keeps marching on. Oh, my family members keep getting older. I'm lucky enough to still have both parents alive, which is really kind of cool. But it's, you know, it's not going to last year forever.

Craig Peterson 1:00
Anyhow, we got a lot to cover about post-Christmas post-gift-giving season, we're going to talk about a few of the gifts that you might have given or received and the security and then one of the things you should be considering what are the things you should do with these devices. We'll talk about some specific devices. And we'll also talk about them in general Facebook. Oh, my gosh, right. Are they ever not in the news? Well, in the news again, because it turns out, they never really did care about expanding the internet to the whole world. It was all about Facebook. And we're going to talk about one of the tricks they played in order to get it so that your Android device would tell them where you are, what you're doing, basically, without you knowing without that little pop-up screen. Coming up, we're going to talk about airdrop assaults. I have seen this before. I've had a couple of my listeners contact me and saying this has happened to me. So we'll talk about what that is Apple Watch, we're going to talk about how the new features in that Apple Watch. You might have gotten as a gift work that can detect certain types of rhythms and that you know,

Craig Peterson 2:12
your regular rhythms, arrhythmias, there you go. That's where I was looking for. And that's really good. It's good news for a lot of people. And we're going to talk a little bit more about how to stop apps from tracking you because they're doing everything they can to track it. We talked a little bit about this, I think

Craig Peterson 2:31
it was last week

Craig Peterson 2:32
of the week before as well. And we are, of course, doing a video again this week. So make sure you check it out at http://CraigPeterson.com. Well, let's get right into our holiday season. You know how I have talked many times in the past about security and privacy, right. That's kind of my thing. Because there's so many of us just don't understand it, we're on doing it the way we should, especially if you're small, medium business, they just they're doing it wrong, right. You can't hire the right people most of the time. So get somebody to come in help you get it all established and then let them run with it. But there is a web browser out there that I've recommended in the past. And I want to talk about web browsers here for a minute. Because most of us would have done some shopping online over the last few weeks.

Craig Peterson 3:22
The big one, of course, you know about his Google Chrome, Google Chrome is about to be adopted by Microsoft, the getting rid of that Edge browser that they've had. That is not a good browser, which replaced an even worse browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, do not use Internet Explorer, any more people don't do it. If you have a vendor that depends on you, using Internet Explorer, in order for your web services to work, have them fix it threatened to go to a new one because it is terrible. And it always has been well, they've decided that edge is also terrible, which it is they just don't have the compatibility. So to go for the ultimate in compatibility. Microsoft is getting into bed with Google, at least for the browser. And they are going to be using the Google Chrome browser as the basis for their new browser. And trying to remember now I think they said they were still going to call it Edge, The Edge browser, but it's going to be chrome in disguise, it will run the chrome plugins and extensions that you're used to running. So kudos to Microsoft I gotta say it again, they haven't proved so much since Steve Ballmer left, you know, getting rid of Steve Ballmer was a wonderful co it's really helped the company they've grown in some wonderful ways it's going to help us share growth in a long term. Bill Gates did not do them any favors in his last years. So I'm very impressed with their new management, I think this is a very good choice for them. So we've got Chrome. And that's now going to be the Microsoft browser as well. We've got Safari on our various Mac devices. But most people nowadays, frankly, are using Chrome. Well, there's another browser out there that you should pay attention to. That's also based on Chrome that's really rather safe. And I just had somebody reach out to me about a month ago, because I asked you guys quite frequently, let me know what you like about the show. Let me know what I should be talking about some of the things that you've learned because that helps me understand what I should be talking about here, what I should be researching because you realize that it takes a lot of research and a lot of work just to do this radio show. And this these videos, the epic browser

Craig Peterson 5:51
API, see is what was mentioned by the listener, and he was saying, Hey, listen, I use the epic, just like you had said that. He uses DuckDuckGo for his searches. By the way, I think it was Google own Duck.com. And they relinquished it. They gave it over to the DuckDuckGo guys.

Craig Peterson 6:10
So pretty soon, I've actually probably haven't tried it in a while. I was just going to DuckDuckGo. But you'll be able to go to Duck.com to do your searches. And yeah, frankly, I think that's a pretty good thing. So that's also a chrome based browser. There's others out there that I use you've got opera, which isn't, you know, reasonably popular browser. But the Mozilla Foundation is one I want to talk about right now. Mozilla has the Firefox browser. And they have designed it to be safe. Now, they, they really kind of pulled in their wings, worked at it, and came up with a very safe version and new faster, they got better tab handling the new version 64, I think is what they're calling it. And it's something to seriously look at because it is designed with security in mind. You can run certain plugins, certain extensions for it, but not all of them are going to work if you're running older extensions, many of those just plain don't work. In fact, most of them don't, because they're trying to be safe. That's their mantra. And you should check it out. If you haven't checked out Firefox in a while. Have a look at it. One of the things I love the most about it is it isn't Google right, who's trying to collect all of the information they can possibly collect on humanity and then sell it to other people or use it themselves for marketing and other things. So have a look at Firefox they've put out the Mozilla Foundation something they're calling privacy not included and I was debating whether I should talk about this before Christmas or wait until after obviously, I didn't talk about it did not before now I'm going to talk about it and what Mozilla's done with this privacy not included as they've looked at some of the most popular gifts and some of the most popular devices out there and tried to figure out is this safe do they spy on us with them. So it's really good. You'll see it up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. There is a lot of different devices that there is a lot that they have reviewed here. The Nintendo Switch coding kit, the Kindle, Hugh light, coffee makers, pet trackers, just a ton of stuff, little robots and things. Roku streaming players. Obviously, we're not going to take the time to go through all of these. But if you have a device you might want to check it out. It's on the foundation.mozilla.org site. It's also up there on http://CraigPeterson.com. But I do want to talk about a couple of things. One, a very popular gift this year was the Nintendo Switch. This is a brand new Nintendo in we've had them over the years. Nintendo what was it the six for I'm trying to remember. And the kids also we had the Nintendo we which Nintendo shot in the head and they moved on this Nintendo Switch is really cool. You've got the main unit. And then you've got the remote controls. And you can play right there. All of these classic video games plus new ones, you can play them right on this little handheld devices. Kind of like a fabulous, you know, very large phone or small tablet. And you can also take the signal and push it up to your TV set in order to watch it very nice. And if you are looking to trade in a gift, maybe this is something you might want to try for me. I have to wear my reading glasses when I'm using it. But it does meet the minimum security standards that Mozilla has

Craig Peterson 9:50
put out, you know, here's what they look at is what

Craig Peterson 9:54
Mozilla is looking at. And here's what you should probably look at as well. First of all, can it spy on you? Do you remember, a week or two ago, I was talking about our kids. And they're playing video games is a serious security risk for us.

Craig Peterson 10:12
Because it is our kids are now being manipulated by online criminals who are getting them to do things via these multiplayer video games. So being able to spy on you. And knowing if it does or not, is an important thing for you.

Craig Peterson 10:31
So the Switch does not have a camera. Now, remember, a lot of these devices need, you have the physical device. And then you also have an app that you use with that device. So you've got the device, you've got the app, so the app is on your smartphone. And that app may, in fact, have built into it the ability to use the smartphones camera or its microphone. So remember that as well as you're looking at these things. So these the Nintendo Switch does not have a camera. And the app does not use the device's camera. It does not have a microphone. But it does use the app's microphone. So that could be a bit of an issue for you. And then from a location tracking standpoint, the device does not track you. And the app does not track you. So those are the dynamics. They look at those of the things that the Mozilla people have been looking at stuff you should look at as well. Now deeper into it, you can't tell

Craig Peterson 11:36
by looking at it, right. Like you can see a camera right, you might be able to see a microphone. This does use encryption, it has a privacy policy that you'd have to have a college degree to read. I love the way they put this right. And it does share your information with third parties for unexpected reasons. But remember, didn't make their minimum standards. It all automatically apply security updates, it deletes data, it stores on you and has parental control. The company manages their security vulnerabilities, which is really nice. We spend a lot of time with our clients trying to keep their machines up to date on the security vulnerabilities. So that's Nintendo Switch. It's well worth doing. You know, you can be tied in with external devices to those have their own security problems. minimum standards met again, here. Privacy not included from Mozilla on the Philips Hue smart light kit. This is something I have, I love these things, the lights come on in the morning, they can dim they can give you kind of a morning dawn type sequence, they can give you different colors of the light in our room, we turn it down to read at night, which is, of course, better for your eyes. So you sleep better. It's the blue lights that really kind of nail you with these. But you can also have the lights dance with your music and jump with the movies and video games is a very, very cool a safety here camera, no on the app or the device microphone. No on the app or the device location tracking know on the app or device. Now Phillips had a security problem with a few balls a few years back that we talked about here, which was that people could remotely turn lights on and off, which is it's a problem. But it's not the worst problem in the world. So they really pulled up their socks. And they've got some nice security in it. Now it does use encryption. It does require a college degree to understand the privacy policy. And it does share your information with third parties.

Craig Peterson 13:44
See, you have to change passwords that have automatic updates at deleting your data that it stores. It has the company controlling security vulnerability. So I'll have a look at that. Okay, hijacking he Philips Hue Bob's much harder than it used to be. This did not get a good privacy rating. And that's the nest learning thermostat.

Craig Peterson 14:06
I like this. I think it's a cool thermostat. And I've been tempted to get one forever. My son in law or one of my sons in law bought one of these thermostats.

Craig Peterson 14:15
And it is neat, and it does save energy and stuff. But it also connects to your network. So a few in my house, we have an IoT network, which is an Internet of Things. So devices like, you know, an Amazon Echo, or Google nasty, etc, those would go on to the IoT network, which has no access to any of our computers in the house. Nothing at all. Okay, so if I hadn't asked, that's where I would put it, I would advise you guys to do that, too, for your homes. Now, businesses, I deal with this all the time with security cameras and other things. Businesses just are not segmenting the networks as they should, it is important to segment them put these types of devices on a different network. If you have manufacturing equipment, make sure that also on a different network. Because frankly, these devices can be and are being used to launch attacks against you these security cameras that you see these Chinese security cameras. Oh my gosh, that's terrible. What's happening with these, many of them are coming pre-installed with backdoors. And then the Chinese are getting into the devices. In some cases, the Russians are hacking them, and they're using them to see all of your data, get all your bank account information, etc, etc. So again, here is an important safety tip. If you're going to have a number of Internet of Things, devices, like these light bulbs, like these thermostats, etc. etc. Make sure they are on a completely separate network. This nest learning thermostat, the app does have and use a camera the microphone again in the app location tracking in the app. So the device itself doesn't have any of those. But the app does and that uses down your smart device. It does have encryption, it apparently does not share your information with third parties. And it has automatic security updates Delete to date at stores on you. And the company manages security policy. So some good news there on a bunch of fronts. So look them up. Go online, you'll see this whole report privacy not included from Mozilla. You can just go to Craig Peterson. com. You can probably find it in a Google search as well. Lots of good information there.

Craig Peterson 16:44
Next up, our friends over at Facebook. In the news again, Mark Zuckerberg. Well, not just Mark but What's your name as well? Oh, my. This is very interesting. Because they were doing some things they promised they would never do. They said they weren't going to spy on people. They weren't going to sell the information that we're going to tell you about stuff, right? And we already know they've just totally ignored all of that stuff. Sheryl Sandberg right is their name. Wow. It turns out that the UK, Britain

Craig Peterson 17:20
seized emails, internal emails from Facebook. And it was part of a parliamentary committee's investigation into Facebook. And isn't this interesting. So of the company Facebook plan to gain users permission to get at the user's call logs and lists of everybody

Craig Peterson 17:44
they had called in texted on their phones without explicitly asking for permission. In fact, they plan to do it as part of an update to the mobile Facebook app. So normally, androids policies would dictate the user See that little pop-up notification if you're an Android user, you're used to seeing that so that notification pop up saying, hey, they want access to your call logs to your phone records to your texting records. And you would say no, I don't want Facebook to have them. Well, apparently, they figured out a way around that so that they could have a new application update come in you to accept the update to the application. And it wouldn't tell you that Facebook was trying to monitor all of your phone call logs, isn't that something. So if Facebook shipped its app update with only one permission request, it would not trigger the permissions pop up. That meant that users would be opting into the call log tracking when they downloaded the update without Android making them aware of what they were opting into a Facebook Product Manager put it this way, quote. This is a pretty high-risk thing to do from a PR perspective, but it appears that the growth team will charge ahead and do it and quote so that's from one of their internal emails. And obviously, it's pretty shocking. And the UK Government is pretty upset about all of us. And hopefully, we pick up on it here. I don't know what the democrat controlled house what's going to happen. They have a lot of tight ties into Facebook. The Republicans have certainly been investigating Facebook. Hopefully, they will. And everybody needs to know these guys. They are not straight shooters. Absolutely not. So the same email this is again from slate.com up on my site, you'll see to http://CraigPeterson.com, the same email suggest holding off another invasive permissions request not out of respect for users. But due to concern, the backlash from the call logs request would subject the second sensitive permission request to public scrutiny to

Craig Peterson 19:59
So Facebook ultimately went ahead with the update and the collection of Android call logs and succeeded in keeping it quiet.

Craig Peterson 20:07
Oh, my gosh. Okay. So we start off 2019 with some more we're good news about Facebook and what they've been up to.

Craig Peterson 20:18
I don't know if you've heard about these airdrops assaulted, been going on one of one of my sons,

Craig Peterson 20:25
he kind of figured this out. Oh, you're too ago that he would go on to his iPhone. And he'd see who had their airdrop turned on now you can set it up and this is a way I do it. So that only your contacts can see you. On Airdrop he would look and see who has their airdrop wide open. And Airdrop is fantastic. Because you can send photos, videos, documents, anything you want directly to another person locally. So just it's literally airdrop to that person. They don't have to go up the apples clouded. You don't need to use your internet connection forward just goes right to them. So I got a contact from one of our listeners saying they were driving down the highway. And all of a sudden this request came up on their phone. And they're trying to figure out what's going on. Should I accept this? And obviously, they didn't. Right. And they reached out to me after the fact you're trying to figure it out. Well, there's something new called cyber flashing. Now. That's not what my son did. My son would just drop the means on people's phones about turning off air job or securing it. But cyber flashing is the act of sending lewd pictures to unsuspecting victims via the airdrop functionality on their phone.

Craig Peterson 21:49
Okay, very, very bad. Now it's become such an issue in New York and particularly New York City that laws have been created to help prosecute dead digital sexual harassment in Philadelphia, please safe cyber flashing is happening there as well its kind of interesting to read through the article. Again, Associate Professor Temple University Fox School of Business recognizes a vulnerability it goes on and on. But if you get an airdrop request from somebody that you don't know, it could be cyber flashing, you might want to go into airdrop and either just turn it off. Now it's available right from that little-locked screen. So you know how normally you might slide up on the bottom of your phone or the top right corner, depending on what kind of device you have iOS device and you turn on your flashlight. You know how to turn that flashlight? Well, it's on that same screen. So you can turn your air drop off all of the time. And just turn it off. When you're trying to send something or someone else's trying to send something to you. That's probably your safest bet.

Craig Peterson 22:58
Now if you got an app watch over the holidays, a brand new one, the newest model, it is now designed to detect irregular heart rhythms. Now that can save a life frankly, and it isn't like it's monitoring all the time. It's not designed to detect a heart attack in the process. What it does is it waits for you to be calm. So you're kind of sitting, you're not really moving very much. And then it monitors your rhythm. And it's looking for some basic arrhythmias, and it'll inform you about them. It's designed to be used by people over the age of 22, and they're not all designed for people who've already been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation by their doctor. But it can help with all the stuff Apple got first of its kind clearance for the electrocardiogram app from federal regulators in September, they did a preclinical study with 2000 people they did clinical trials was 600 other people and founded it could distinguish between a normal heartbeat and atrial fibrillation. So that's where they're starting. This is going to get a lot faster, better as time goes on. But if you have the latest software on your watch, you can migrate over to the watch app on your iPhone. Then scroll down to heart health, you'll see a new menu of options. And you can enable a set of notifications so that your Apple Watch will detect in your regular rhythm. You can also view your electrocardiogram readings. Once you have taken them, it's they are calling it ECG CD. Often it's EKG. So it's got notifications and ask you for your date of birth to make sure you're over 22. And it kind of goes on from there. So set up the app on the watch, make sure you follow the instructions lightly touch the crown without pressing down on it. And then it'll come up with some screens, telling you some more details about what's going on and give you that data. Pretty cool. If you got an Apple Watch and you don't want to eat just send it to me care of the local radio station. Craig Peterson. Now stopping apps and tracking you this is a very big deal. I've talked about this a couple of times recently. But now we found out that at least 75 companies are receiving people's precise location data from hundreds of apps. Now, people have enabled location services on these apps. Sometimes unwittingly, you know, a lot of times you just don't think about it. And you just click Yeah, except right or allow you got to pay attention to this in the iOS space. As I've mentioned before, it's safer than for tracking than it is an Android it's more clear, Apple's done more about that, but these companies are using the and information they're selling it to advertisers, investment firms, and others. Can you imagine being in a doctor's office or, you know, an emergency room and, and getting a notification that this clinic has the same features half the price etc, right, while you're there in the emergency room, or don't get that abortion because it's seen that you are at Planned Parenthood, etc, etc. So they're collecting all of this data and they are selling it

Craig Peterson 26:31
so it's kind of difficult to know the language for the disclaimers can be pretty dense, pretty hard to understand there's no definitive list. It's just a problem here. So here's what you do to stop location tracking. On iOS. First, you open your settings select privacy, it has a blue icon in a white hand then select location services you're going to see a list of apps along with location setting for each one of them it also has a little icon that tells you if they've used location services recently and turn on the option while using the app and don't let them use it all the time. Because that's where most of the problem comes in. On Android you can go to Settings security and location app level permissions you'll see the list of apps and you got to dig around in order to turn it off but it's good advice to turn that off make sure it's off making sure it stays off because you really don't want all this stuff happening to you. Hey I hope you are planning on a good year I've got a whole series of master classes planned we are starting them up these are master classes on security completely free we're going to give them to you but you have to sign up go to crank Peterson comm slash subscribe to make sure you're on my list http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe we're going to be talking about backups how to do them how to do them for business or we're going to be talking about turning on free security tools what paid security tools you should be loot using six weeks here master classes every week http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Hey, Have a great year ahead. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 01/02/2019

Socialization And Home Schooling - Biggest Hacks Of 2019 - Alexa Siri And Skynet

Matt Gagnon 0:00
Okay, we are back again. 736 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt and 736 on a Wednesday. Because by the way, it's Wednesday means Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson joins us now are you Craig

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I'm doing well as you guys know, I homeschool my kids right

Unknown 0:19
well i don't know i don't know if Ken knows

Unknown 0:22
Don't you have like 22 children

Unknown 0:24
well that was the start you know but yeah I only ended up with eight

Unknown 0:30
eight Matt and 17 you have a ways to go

Unknown 0:34
so so so I don't know how to what did you get for president how to respond to that are you talking about our preschool discussion that preschool and socialization and then if you took a socialist yet

Unknown 0:46
you know you know what I found is that when then reasonably well the homeschool kids tend to be much better adjusted much better socialize and I think the majority of kids come out of regular school and and the reason why I think that's the case in this is you know theory on my part but if the kids are dealing with adults all the time so they they learn not how to deal with six year olds or 14 year olds or temper tantrums with their classmates and how to get along with a 10 year old they learn how to get along with adults learn how to have conversations with adults and and i i really think the socialization thing is most of the most Margaret hearing

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education talk with Craig Peterson here on the web and morning

Unknown 1:40
well and by the way my kids all went on to get higher degrees and college MBAs and and science degrees and Master's in mechanical engineering and stuff so I don't know overachievers or maybe they're all like your dad

Unknown 1:55
um. Perhaps perhaps

Unknown 1:58
so what's by the way I my Echo Dot seems to be working well it is not set my information to the government yet that I noticed

Unknown 2:08
you know of

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although I it's too early in the day to tell though I did the other day I was having difficulty working because I said Siri, do this and Siri do that in my wife said no, it's Alexa. Not

Unknown 2:20
that's

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really the same person. I mean, really,

Unknown 2:24
they they might be in disguise is kind of hard to tell. I set one up. I'm down in southern Florida. I'm down in Naples this morning. And I've been down because it was my mother's 80th birthday. And we we put all kinds of stuff together. It was a really a lot of fun. But last night, I set up an echo doc for her as well. But she got over the holidays. And she was just absolutely amazed at what it can do. Although it does not respond to Siri. You can change its name a lot of people change it to computer so that it doesn't when we always listen to the radio. Hello testing turn on when when someone says the Alexa word. But yeah, as far as listening, interesting artwork design. Because even though we know Amazon has designed all of their echoes, to not listen and constantly and send that up to the internet, it could be hacked. Right. That's kind of the bottom line. That's the scariest part because we've seen those types of hacks before so the bad guys could listen in. But what Amazon is done that I think is really admirable is it can only do one thing at a time. They basically in order for that microphone to be on and live and listening. It tied it in with the light that's on the top of the Alexa. So they're both basically on the same circuit. So if it's listening for other than just its wake word the LED is on and now that my phone is hot in live. And it's it's an interesting question, an interesting problem, you know, we'll see what happens throughout the year. And one of the articles you'll see up on my website today is about the biggest data breaches of the year. Because you know, you're concerned about your data. That's why you brought up the whole Alexa thing. And if you have the Google Home, and I'm sure a lot of people got Google Home over the holidays as well. Google is doing much the same thing. They're only sending stuff up to the cloud when you have given the wake word, but Google is keeping all of that data and the big question is what happens when that data leaks You know, we've had to everybody this year the top breaches, British Airways, Orbitz million people sling health 100 or 1.5 million T Mobile about 2 million my personality. 4 million people who even heard about exercise right Shaq's Lord and Taylor 5 million The list goes on of course he gets into the really big members when you get down to the number one My Fitness Pal lost 150 million people records Marriott, which is really Starwood at the time, 500 million people and number one out of hard I don't know if they ever heard of these guys add harsh to say Ada Jr. 1.1 billion people's records found this is Indian residents so we've got to be careful but when we bring devices like these into our homes are we exposing ourselves to more problems to potentially having people listening to our conversations we know what are we doing when when the line and that's where artificial intelligence really starts coming in and we're going to see that this week is next week is the Consumer Electronics Show up in Vegas and that's what we're expecting to see a lot about at CES is machine learning a lot more a lot more artificial intelligence we already know about one artificial intelligence that was designed to take pictures and do some conversions on them that she did that went outside the rules that were established for to accomplish its game and it really cheapest and it wasn't designed to cheat so we've got people like Elon Musk in the science fi sci fi writers for decades now warning that's what's going to happen when these artificial intelligence is really start becoming self aware,

Unknown 6:34
and Dinah Skynet happens. That's what happens

Unknown 6:37
when that happens. Exactly. And if we've got Amazon Echoes in our homes in the Google Homes, and they the series what happens if a sentience essentially essentially and artificial intelligence decides to take over all that stuff? What happens if it gets access to our military systems? We already know those systems have been hacked. You know,

Unknown 7:00
where where does this all lead us to? That's, that's where I start getting really concerned. Now, I've got the Alexa I use Siri. I'm not overly concerned about them right now. But the future's going to be an interesting one and challenging one. Look what happens or an AI starts taking over these autonomous cars that are driving around it this is going to be interesting and I'm all with Elon Musk insane. You know, we've we've got to really focus in on on Mars to get a human colony there. Because we could get wiped out by a meteorite that strikes your or an artificial intelligence, potentially. Skynet.

Unknown 7:45
Craig Peterson joins us as he does every Wednesday at this time. And being a Wednesday today's no exception. You Craig obviously New Year, you know, people are making resolutions, everybody's taking stock in what they do, how they act, what they what they have their phones, everything else. Should you be deleting every app like it should this be the year that you kind of put the phone down and you take you know, you unplug a little bit. And you just kind of get yourself disentangled from this little smartphone universe you've gotten.

Unknown 8:17
Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. Yeah, it might be a really good time to do it. There's, there's one journalist out there that had a challenge. And she decided she was going to this year not use her smartphone at all. So she was going to go back to like the 1990s, early 2000s, which wasn't that long ago. And

Unknown 8:40
you're 1999 was 10 years ago, right?

Unknown 8:43
Yeah, exactly. In the iPhone came out about 10 years ago, you know, downtown, and of course, is 20 years ago,

Unknown 8:51
10 years ago, 10 years,

Unknown 8:52
10 years ago was when the iPhone first came out. So it's not that long ago, time wise. But it's not just Facebook, who've got Android iOS app stores. They've got this app economy where these free apps are making money by selling our personal data in our location history to advertisers and to others. Because we know these advertisers are getting hacked, we know that the lot of this information is being intercepted by intelligence communities in our country and other countries. So man, it's such a great question. And there's an article that was published by the New York Times kind of delving into all of this, and I've got it up on my website as well at http://CraigPeterson.com. But, um, what should you do, I gotta tell you, just yesterday, I went through my phone, and I deleted all of the apps that I do not use regularly. Now in the iOS world. And this is true, also an Android, if you paid for an app, or you've got a paid app for free as a promotion, and you delete it off of your device, you still own the own that app essentially. So at a later point in time, even if you delete it off your devices, and you decide you want to use or do you need to use it, you can grab it again, and you don't have to buy it again. So take the time to do that housekeeping because we have granted permission to some of these apps to collect data, even while we're not using them. And iOS has updated its security policies. So you might have installed it before the new policies. Same thing with Android, new security policies. So basically, you'd be best off by the leading apps you you haven't used in a while, probably never re installing them, and maybe even deleting apps you do use frequently. Now remember, if you delete it, now, you're going to lose all of the customization and personalization to put into those. So you may have to reenter passwords, maybe we download things. But Matt, I think you're right in asking the question. And I really do think that the the leading apps and I said I just did this is a very good idea and a great new year's resolution.

Unknown 11:17
You never know when I'm going to want to play Angry Birds. I just, you know, I mean, I just don't think I'd let go of it. Craig, I mean, they'll be that day. I'm sitting at the airport. I got an hour wait. And I haven't played Angry Birds in a while.

Unknown 11:30
There's even a movie

Unknown 11:32
movie if you want to call it that. Yeah, that was that the best way would be to sign by the way go to http://CraigPeterson.com anytime you want to get all the news that's fit to read the text you we were talking about kids and your 27 children and screen time for children. Is this a good time to make a new year's resolution to get your children off the computer?

Unknown 11:56
Yeah, it's you know, when we were kids can remember all of the complaints about us getting screen Karmazin watching TV?

Unknown 12:03
Yes. And I watched TV like eight hours a day. And I turned out okay, that's all I gotta say. Well, I don't know, man. Yeah,

Unknown 12:14
yeah. Well, screen time has always been a little bit of a problem. But there's new studies out of 60 minutes did a show about screen time for these young kids. And what they found is that these young children that are spending time endlessly, scrolling, texting, snapping, it really is affecting their brains. And, you know, even adults, we are being affected by these things. And the scientists did this study 21 sites around the country. They're following more than 11,000 kids for a decade. Now. It's a $300 million research project. And they've done the first wave of brain scans done 4500 kids so far. And the MRI guys are finding some significant differences already in the brains of kids who use smartphones and tablets, video games more than seven hours a day, can you imagine that versus less. And it's very concerning, so far, the data is not going to be in all the way for another decade, frankly. But the way I look at it is, you know, it's like a younger child, you really don't want them using these devices a lot. And unfortunately, their brains are going to continue to develop well into their teenage years. And it's hard to keep them away from those devices when they are teenagers. You know, all the friends are on it. Now, Heck, even schools are requiring them to have some of these devices. So we don't know where that line is. But the younger the child is, the more you don't want them to be on these devices. And certainly, these kids under six, I would really think twice before letting them even have that access, let alone buying them one of these devices.

Unknown 14:03
All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he does every Wednesday for some tech updates. Appreciate Craig, Happy 2019. We will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 14:13
Hey, gentlemen, take care of things. Thanks.

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Airing date: 01/02/2019

Socialization And Home Schooling - Biggest Hacks Of 2019 - Alexa Siri And Skynet

Matt Gagnon 0:00
Okay, we are back again. 736 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt and 736 on a Wednesday. Because by the way, it's Wednesday means Craig Peterson and Craig Peterson joins us now are you Craig

Unknown 0:14
I'm doing well as you guys know, I homeschool my kids right

Unknown 0:19
well i don't know i don't know if Ken knows

Unknown 0:22
Don't you have like 22 children

Unknown 0:24
well that was the start you know but yeah I only ended up with eight

Unknown 0:30
eight Matt and 17 you have a ways to go

Unknown 0:34
so so so I don't know how to what did you get for president how to respond to that are you talking about our preschool discussion that preschool and socialization and then if you took a socialist yet

Unknown 0:46
you know you know what I found is that when then reasonably well the homeschool kids tend to be much better adjusted much better socialize and I think the majority of kids come out of regular school and and the reason why I think that's the case in this is you know theory on my part but if the kids are dealing with adults all the time so they they learn not how to deal with six year olds or 14 year olds or temper tantrums with their classmates and how to get along with a 10 year old they learn how to get along with adults learn how to have conversations with adults and and i i really think the socialization thing is most of the most Margaret hearing

Unknown 1:36
education talk with Craig Peterson here on the web and morning

Unknown 1:40
well and by the way my kids all went on to get higher degrees and college MBAs and and science degrees and Master's in mechanical engineering and stuff so I don't know overachievers or maybe they're all like your dad

Unknown 1:55
um. Perhaps perhaps

Unknown 1:58
so what's by the way I my Echo Dot seems to be working well it is not set my information to the government yet that I noticed

Unknown 2:08
you know of

Unknown 2:09
although I it's too early in the day to tell though I did the other day I was having difficulty working because I said Siri, do this and Siri do that in my wife said no, it's Alexa. Not

Unknown 2:20
that's

Unknown 2:22
really the same person. I mean, really,

Unknown 2:24
they they might be in disguise is kind of hard to tell. I set one up. I'm down in southern Florida. I'm down in Naples this morning. And I've been down because it was my mother's 80th birthday. And we we put all kinds of stuff together. It was a really a lot of fun. But last night, I set up an echo doc for her as well. But she got over the holidays. And she was just absolutely amazed at what it can do. Although it does not respond to Siri. You can change its name a lot of people change it to computer so that it doesn't when we always listen to the radio. Hello testing turn on when when someone says the Alexa word. But yeah, as far as listening, interesting artwork design. Because even though we know Amazon has designed all of their echoes, to not listen and constantly and send that up to the internet, it could be hacked. Right. That's kind of the bottom line. That's the scariest part because we've seen those types of hacks before so the bad guys could listen in. But what Amazon is done that I think is really admirable is it can only do one thing at a time. They basically in order for that microphone to be on and live and listening. It tied it in with the light that's on the top of the Alexa. So they're both basically on the same circuit. So if it's listening for other than just its wake word the LED is on and now that my phone is hot in live. And it's it's an interesting question, an interesting problem, you know, we'll see what happens throughout the year. And one of the articles you'll see up on my website today is about the biggest data breaches of the year. Because you know, you're concerned about your data. That's why you brought up the whole Alexa thing. And if you have the Google Home, and I'm sure a lot of people got Google Home over the holidays as well. Google is doing much the same thing. They're only sending stuff up to the cloud when you have given the wake word, but Google is keeping all of that data and the big question is what happens when that data leaks You know, we've had to everybody this year the top breaches, British Airways, Orbitz million people sling health 100 or 1.5 million T Mobile about 2 million my personality. 4 million people who even heard about exercise right Shaq's Lord and Taylor 5 million The list goes on of course he gets into the really big members when you get down to the number one My Fitness Pal lost 150 million people records Marriott, which is really Starwood at the time, 500 million people and number one out of hard I don't know if they ever heard of these guys add harsh to say Ada Jr. 1.1 billion people's records found this is Indian residents so we've got to be careful but when we bring devices like these into our homes are we exposing ourselves to more problems to potentially having people listening to our conversations we know what are we doing when when the line and that's where artificial intelligence really starts coming in and we're going to see that this week is next week is the Consumer Electronics Show up in Vegas and that's what we're expecting to see a lot about at CES is machine learning a lot more a lot more artificial intelligence we already know about one artificial intelligence that was designed to take pictures and do some conversions on them that she did that went outside the rules that were established for to accomplish its game and it really cheapest and it wasn't designed to cheat so we've got people like Elon Musk in the science fi sci fi writers for decades now warning that's what's going to happen when these artificial intelligence is really start becoming self aware,

Unknown 6:34
and Dinah Skynet happens. That's what happens

Unknown 6:37
when that happens. Exactly. And if we've got Amazon Echoes in our homes in the Google Homes, and they the series what happens if a sentience essentially essentially and artificial intelligence decides to take over all that stuff? What happens if it gets access to our military systems? We already know those systems have been hacked. You know,

Unknown 7:00
where where does this all lead us to? That's, that's where I start getting really concerned. Now, I've got the Alexa I use Siri. I'm not overly concerned about them right now. But the future's going to be an interesting one and challenging one. Look what happens or an AI starts taking over these autonomous cars that are driving around it this is going to be interesting and I'm all with Elon Musk insane. You know, we've we've got to really focus in on on Mars to get a human colony there. Because we could get wiped out by a meteorite that strikes your or an artificial intelligence, potentially. Skynet.

Unknown 7:45
Craig Peterson joins us as he does every Wednesday at this time. And being a Wednesday today's no exception. You Craig obviously New Year, you know, people are making resolutions, everybody's taking stock in what they do, how they act, what they what they have their phones, everything else. Should you be deleting every app like it should this be the year that you kind of put the phone down and you take you know, you unplug a little bit. And you just kind of get yourself disentangled from this little smartphone universe you've gotten.

Unknown 8:17
Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. Yeah, it might be a really good time to do it. There's, there's one journalist out there that had a challenge. And she decided she was going to this year not use her smartphone at all. So she was going to go back to like the 1990s, early 2000s, which wasn't that long ago. And

Unknown 8:40
you're 1999 was 10 years ago, right?

Unknown 8:43
Yeah, exactly. In the iPhone came out about 10 years ago, you know, downtown, and of course, is 20 years ago,

Unknown 8:51
10 years ago, 10 years,

Unknown 8:52
10 years ago was when the iPhone first came out. So it's not that long ago, time wise. But it's not just Facebook, who've got Android iOS app stores. They've got this app economy where these free apps are making money by selling our personal data in our location history to advertisers and to others. Because we know these advertisers are getting hacked, we know that the lot of this information is being intercepted by intelligence communities in our country and other countries. So man, it's such a great question. And there's an article that was published by the New York Times kind of delving into all of this, and I've got it up on my website as well at http://CraigPeterson.com. But, um, what should you do, I gotta tell you, just yesterday, I went through my phone, and I deleted all of the apps that I do not use regularly. Now in the iOS world. And this is true, also an Android, if you paid for an app, or you've got a paid app for free as a promotion, and you delete it off of your device, you still own the own that app essentially. So at a later point in time, even if you delete it off your devices, and you decide you want to use or do you need to use it, you can grab it again, and you don't have to buy it again. So take the time to do that housekeeping because we have granted permission to some of these apps to collect data, even while we're not using them. And iOS has updated its security policies. So you might have installed it before the new policies. Same thing with Android, new security policies. So basically, you'd be best off by the leading apps you you haven't used in a while, probably never re installing them, and maybe even deleting apps you do use frequently. Now remember, if you delete it, now, you're going to lose all of the customization and personalization to put into those. So you may have to reenter passwords, maybe we download things. But Matt, I think you're right in asking the question. And I really do think that the the leading apps and I said I just did this is a very good idea and a great new year's resolution.

Unknown 11:17
You never know when I'm going to want to play Angry Birds. I just, you know, I mean, I just don't think I'd let go of it. Craig, I mean, they'll be that day. I'm sitting at the airport. I got an hour wait. And I haven't played Angry Birds in a while.

Unknown 11:30
There's even a movie

Unknown 11:32
movie if you want to call it that. Yeah, that was that the best way would be to sign by the way go to http://CraigPeterson.com anytime you want to get all the news that's fit to read the text you we were talking about kids and your 27 children and screen time for children. Is this a good time to make a new year's resolution to get your children off the computer?

Unknown 11:56
Yeah, it's you know, when we were kids can remember all of the complaints about us getting screen Karmazin watching TV?

Unknown 12:03
Yes. And I watched TV like eight hours a day. And I turned out okay, that's all I gotta say. Well, I don't know, man. Yeah,

Unknown 12:14
yeah. Well, screen time has always been a little bit of a problem. But there's new studies out of 60 minutes did a show about screen time for these young kids. And what they found is that these young children that are spending time endlessly, scrolling, texting, snapping, it really is affecting their brains. And, you know, even adults, we are being affected by these things. And the scientists did this study 21 sites around the country. They're following more than 11,000 kids for a decade. Now. It's a $300 million research project. And they've done the first wave of brain scans done 4500 kids so far. And the MRI guys are finding some significant differences already in the brains of kids who use smartphones and tablets, video games more than seven hours a day, can you imagine that versus less. And it's very concerning, so far, the data is not going to be in all the way for another decade, frankly. But the way I look at it is, you know, it's like a younger child, you really don't want them using these devices a lot. And unfortunately, their brains are going to continue to develop well into their teenage years. And it's hard to keep them away from those devices when they are teenagers. You know, all the friends are on it. Now, Heck, even schools are requiring them to have some of these devices. So we don't know where that line is. But the younger the child is, the more you don't want them to be on these devices. And certainly, these kids under six, I would really think twice before letting them even have that access, let alone buying them one of these devices.

Unknown 14:03
All right. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he does every Wednesday for some tech updates. Appreciate Craig, Happy 2019. We will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 14:13
Hey, gentlemen, take care of things. Thanks.

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What's up with Huawei?  We will talk about some of the reasons that the US is very unhappy with them.

What is the next big risk to your privacy? Listen in and I will explain why you must be concerned with your child's video game habits.

Is anonymous data really anonymous? Today we will discuss what MIT has found in researching anonymous data. 

What information are your apps storing? We will talk about what information they store and share.

Are your kids spending an inordinate amount of time on their smartphones?  We will discuss some research that MIT is doing and what it has uncovered about the development of their brains. 

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Airing date: 12/29/2018

Your Information Is Never Really Anonymous

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. We are also, of course, posting the video online. We're trying to get the live streaming work that may or may not work. But you know what the heck, it's the last week of the year. And really the last show of the year too.

Craig Peterson 0:21
I guess it is both, isn't it? And so you will maybe next year that gives us what 52 shows next year to get it right. And speaking of 52 shows, this is show number 987. That's 987 weeks worth of shows many weeks. We have multiple shows. But we stick to the one a week nomenclature because it's just amazing. This I don't use daily show counts and daily show numbers

Craig Peterson 0:48
and our viewership is up of course because we're starting to post some of the videos we have a lot of this narrow insider site that you can find online right now it's free, but it is going to be a paid thing eventually. And also you will find some of this stuff up on YouTube and on Facebook where we're trying to get out there more to help more people so little itchy. Today though we've got a few things to talk about security wise Huawei course you heard all of the uproar and we saw the market kind of not being quite sure what to do when while ways I think she was or is there CFO was arrested in Canada when she was changing planes. And apparently, that was at the request of the United States because of a few different things. Now they talked in the media about one of them, which was a Huawei apparently sold technology to Iran. That was counter to our trade agreement with them with China with many other countries that when we have this embargo against Iran, they shouldn't be trading but there are six other reasons here. We'll talk about today about Huawei. In case you're wondering what company I'm talking about Huawei is spelled H-U-A-W-E-I, okay, this is Huawei is how it is pronounced. So we'll be talking about that we're going to talk about a groundbreaking studying that has examined the effects of screen time on kids. I remember when I was a kid, they were all worried about how much time we spend in front of a TV. And, you know, it probably didn't do me any good project early, maybe a lot of harm, hard to tell. But what's happening now that these kids of ours have iPads, on iPhones and on our grandkids? And how about the generations beyond.

Craig Peterson 2:46
And to that end of the next big, big risk to your privacy is your child's video game habits will talk about that

Craig Peterson 2:55
and how that's going to affect you. We got another thing here about deleting all of your apps. You talked a little bit about it a lot, a lot about it last week. But we've got more information on a do want to know that people to know that you stopped at Planned Parenthood. And I mentioned this as a fact. And guess what comes out in Fast Company.

Craig Peterson 3:18
Yes, yet another confirmation of what Craig said urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it's shockingly easy to re-identify the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in our cities. I mentioned this a few weeks back

Craig Peterson 3:40
because it's been obvious to me,

Craig Peterson 3:43
just like with 23 me thing, remember, I was telling you about a major pharmaceutical company investing 300 million into 23 and me and using that money to gain access to the data that 23andme has. And some people are upset about that some people are concerned. Should they care what the heck, right?

Craig Peterson 4:04
And people say, well, it's anonymized. It doesn't really matter. And yet, we have seen the data already from these DNA research firms being used against us. You remember the arrest out in California, that serial killer, the guy was a cop and he had been a cop I'm apparently nowadays his brain isn't quite all there. But they've found him not because he put his DNA and DNA bank but because the information on the DNA bank pointed to someone that might be a close relative of, of this family member being the killer. So they investigated more investigated more, and they found the killer right. And he's up on charges. I don't think he's been convicted yet. But they have the DNA evidence for from the case. Now 23 and me I use and I used it for both of its features. One the ancestry which proved everything I already knew, which was I'm not the milkman to kid but I am mostly Norwegian, and then North-Western European, as in Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales, all that area. So that's me. And that's kind of what we figured. And then from a health standpoint, I got lots of very good news on I don't have any of the genetic mutations that cause disease. So I wouldn't be able to pass those on to my kids. And I'm unlikely to get sick in my older age, which is very good news. And it's stuff that a lot of people are interested in. Or you might be interested in that too. I have a friend of mine

Craig Peterson 5:48
whose wife came back as having one of the genetic markers for a higher tendency to have breast cancer. And I know some people, including some movie stars that have had both breasts removed, because they had to genetic markers for breast cancer. So there's a lot of good things that come of that.

Craig Peterson 6:08
And there are also good things that are coming from the research in DNA because it's not as though we have this massive book here that says, Well, this DNA strand means this. And this one means that and if you have this one, and that one, but not this one, then this is going to happen. But if you have this, that in this other one, this will happen. We don't have any event, the only way we know anything about DNA is trial and error. And when it comes to animals and plants, we've been using DNA research for a long

Craig Peterson 6:39
time, we've looked at RNA and RNA blocking our an AI, all of this stuff. It's, it's fascinating if everyone to study it, it's just absolutely fascinating. But when it comes to us, as humans, you can't just go ahead and turn off a DNA strand and see what happens. We don't want to do that. Because that might be lethal fatal.

Craig Peterson 7:00
And who's going to volunteer for a test like that, just turn off the strand. See what happens, turn off that one, it's fine to do that with violets. And then we found in the violence we could make a purple violet white, which is really kind of interesting, but not in humans. So when humans what we have to do is study and study and study and study. And that's what the whole 23 me thing is about. They're making a lot of their money, I would guess most of their money, I haven't seen their financials, but they're making a lot of their money by selling the DNA raw data to pharmaceutical companies. Now, why do pharmaceutical companies want this DNA data, they want the data because it's important to them to see the DNA but also to get information from the other part of what 23AndMe does. And that is they asked a lot of questions.

Craig Peterson 7:54
And I sat down, and I answered hundreds of questions, and that you don't have to do it all at once. I did it over the course of you know, I don't remember. It was a couple of weeks, a few weeks and answered hundreds of them. And the idea here is they asked you things like, are you balding? No, no, not balding. Well, that's good, right?

Craig Peterson 8:12
Or do you have a sensitivity to sunlight? you sneeze when you go into the sunlight? And what does a particular herb tastes like to you? Can you smell that? So they're they're getting information. And then they're pulling it all together to try and figure out a precisely what does this all mean. So if everybody that sneezes when they walk into the sun has these jeans, and no one who says they don't sneeze, when they walk out into the sun has these other genes, then we're fine, right? We know we've found it. And so that's what they're doing this a lot of trial and error. And 23AndMe is constantly updating you letting you know, hey, we found this new interpretation of this particular gene or gene sequence. And so they let you know, and they say, here's what changed, or they got more information on some family ancestry. They found some older DNA, they found another strain, they found some root DNA, they're constantly updating it. So having a company like these pharmaceutical companies, getting this information is ultimately going to be good for all of us. Because if you come down with a disease or let's say that this is an even better scenario, the odds are excellent that you're going to get a specific disease. So what they've done is they look at the DNA they say, okay, we know this DNA sequence is like 98% likely to cause this disease. So let's turn off have DNA sequence wisdom that agas Wouldn't you love to be able to do that. So they turn it off, and you will never get that disease. That's what we're aiming for.

Craig Peterson 9:58
And when it comes to medications, recovery, using that some doses of this will work for one person, but you have to have a higher dose for someone else, or this drug doesn't work at all, for someone, my wife, if it's morphine, she gets really loopy and floaty and detached. And she hates feeling

Craig Peterson 10:17
so you know, in surgery, they've got to use different drugs. Why isn't that the same for everybody? Well, it's not the same for everyone, because of DNA, as well as some environmental conditions that could have occurred. So understanding all of this is phenomenal, is going to help us as human beings and help us on the earth, it's going to be great, okay, ultimately, ultimately, rough roads between the here and there in the future. But ultimately, it's going to be really, really good.

Craig Peterson 10:49
However, let's go back to the serial killer in California, he did not give his DNA and yet they were able to track him down. It's figured right now that with as little as I've seen different numbers, but let's just say 20% of the people in in the United States have 20% of the people in the United States have their DNA analyzed, and it's in a database, they will be able to find 100% of any one of people, anybody if they have a DNA sample. In other words, if someone commits a crime, and they don't have their DNA on file,

Craig Peterson 11:33
they will have 100% chance of finding that person. Well, not quite 100, but really, really, really close to 100, because what they'll be able to do is the same thing they did with the with the serial killer. And that is used some statistical analysis on the DNA to figure out what family tree this person is from because they'll know the sex. And right now they know that I'm not balding, just based on the DNA that I'm unlikely to. They know for my DNA, that I have slightly wavy hair, they know all of this stuff. So they'll be able to do a portrait. And there is some really cool work underway that takes your DNA and just from DNA, create a 3d image of what that person is likely to look like. And it is on Tanni if you've seen absolutely uncanny how close they're able to get. So with the DNA, they can tell all kinds of physical attributes, they can even create an almost a photo of that person. Of course, there's other factors, again, environmental, etc. But it's pretty darn close. And then on top of it, it's okay. This person is obviously part of the Peterson family. And we the specifically a family from New Hampshire and this area, and they will be able to narrow right down and say, Hey, do you have an uncle?

Craig Peterson 12:57
And the answer? Yeah, why? Where does he live?

Craig Peterson 13:02
Does he look something like this? And this is months away, frankly, just months away, not the 20% of people having their DNA tested and put on file. But being able to do the rest of this have a picture generated that, more or less looks like the person involved much better than these police sketches from people who are just trying to recall what that person looks like, in most cases, right.

Craig Peterson 13:30
So you can take anonymized data and on anonymize it, re-identify the people. And depending on what the data is, you're going to use different techniques. But when it comes to DNA, we just explained how that works. But the same things true with calling histories, etc. You know, if you're constantly calling numbers in 603, area, code, 805 area code 212 area code, we know that you probably have some ties there. And then we dig into those phone numbers. And we find from those phone numbers, more information about who they are, what they do, oh, wait a minute, these people are part of a family. And they're the only family group that appears to be called from this phone number. So we put all this together. And we know how to again, re-identify you that you are part of this family. This is where you live.

Craig Peterson 14:30
And that's what's been happening with the NSA data collection on just taking basic data points. Even if they don't have the phone numbers, right,

Craig Peterson 14:38
the cell towers that were involved with your phone, they'll know where you work and where you live, because you're going to be pinging that same cell tower all of the time. So be very careful. This group of MIT scientists and urban planners are shown in the study that it's really fairly simple to figure out who is who, anyway, so anonymized data can be D anonymize pretty quickly even when you're working with multiple data sets inside of a city. Well, particularly, excuse me when you're working on that.

Craig Peterson 15:09
So they did the test I said, in the end, it took a week to match 17% of the users and 11 weeks to get 95% accuracy rate. And with the added GPS data from smartphones took less than a week to hit the 95% accuracy. So kind of keep that in mind. You just don't have privacy anymore. And there they can D anonymize data. It's happened before. So be careful and think twice about the whole DNA thing. You know, already I've done it, I think it's going to be an amazing benefit to society is going to save lives, save pain, help people avoid misery, so I'm definitely going to do it. And I don't like the excuse of, well, you know, it's, it's going to happen anyways, I don't like the excuse of, well, I haven't committed any crimes anyways, you know, then those I don't think are legitimate because this data could be misused against us, just like having passport number stolen, we talked about last week can be used in your credit cards, your identity. And if you read that special report that I've sent out, you know that all of that information is out there, and the bad guys are using it, right.

Craig Peterson 16:26
So we know where do you draw the line here? That's that's the big question.

Craig Peterson 16:32
Well, hot segment when little bit long. Let's get into the rest of these. You only got about 10 minutes left here in the show. 12 minutes left today. Delete all your apps. We talked last week about the article that came out in the New York Times. This is an article from motherboard you'll see up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com.

Craig Peterson 16:53
but they go into more detail. They're talking about sensitive stops at hospitals, Planned Parenthood, various other places, do you want your employer to have that information? Because remember, now most of us get our insurance or health insurance or more employers do we want them to know that we've been making trips to this type of doctor, that type of doctor, etc, right? How much that information is going to be available in a pre-employment report where they are looking at you as a possible employee, and they find that you're doing something that might end up costing them a lot of money that might end up causing you to not be able to get to work very often, right? How far do you want this all to go? So the New York Times did publish a guide to managing restricting location on specific apps, I told you already how to do that, that might be well worth us doing as well, the best way to guarantee privacy, but the, again, the best platform to maintain your privacy. And this shouldn't be a shock to anybody.

Craig Peterson 18:00
iOS, iOS does a much better job when it comes to informing you about the GPS tracking and also cell tower tracking and allowing you to turn it off. So make sure you go into security and privacy whether it's an iPhone or an Android

Craig Peterson 18:17
phone and turn off the tracking or at least do what I do, which is turn it on only one I'm using the app. And of course, the big tip here is guys and gals delete apps you aren't using. Most of us have apps I have a ton of half I caught for free, right. So I just haven't I bought them I bought them quote-unquote, bought them because they were free. Why wouldn't I, it's a cool app, I might use it and it's sitting there on

Craig Peterson 18:47
my phone

Craig Peterson 18:48
taking up space. Now in the iOS world. It'll automatically offload from your phone if you don't use it and it needs the space which is great iOS has some of the best memory batteries management software out there it's they've done a great job on that but still delete apps you weren't using well let's talk about another big risk of your privacy This is from Market Watch carry Paul wrote this article again it's up on http://CraigPeterson.com.

Craig Peterson 19:15
I try and make sure all of the articles I talked about and I curator up on my website as well. And I just I give you a little bit of a summary here and then you can click through gives you a link to the original article. But this article is kind of interesting because it's telling you to be careful who you play with. online gaming is a growing target for hackers. A new report from identity theft protection, firm experience. Yeah, that's kind of funny, isn't it? They found cybercriminals are increasingly posing as gamers to gain access to the computers and personal data. That's players.

Craig Peterson 19:51
We're not trying to imply that all gamers are hackers but they do live in an anonymous environment, have good computer skills and are in an industry with billions in revenue. So be very careful about that. The gaming business is worth about 4 billion annual revenue globally which is quite big and cybercriminals can easily pose a gamer or take over an avatar the info to infiltrate games and communities they still personal credit card information, valuable game pieces, and tokens according to experience report.

Craig Peterson 20:29
So, be very careful because your kids playing games can come in and you to right, we got a lot of 30 somethings that played video games, maybe a little bit too much talking about games and online does talk about screen time,

Craig Peterson 20:45
Apple introduced a new feature with iOS 12 that tells you week per week if your screen time one up or one down. I think that's great. And kind of, you know, brings it into mind. Now, in my case, it's a little inaccurate, because, frankly, use my iPad and I use my phone to read books. I have the Kindle app on their plots. I read PDFs and other things. So yeah, that that's good. It's bad. But let's talk about our kids.

Craig Peterson 21:13
This is from CBS News. Again, up on http://CraigPeterson.com. 60 minutes goes inside a landmark government study of young minds SC of phones, tablets, and other screens are impacting adolescent brain development.

Craig Peterson 21:28
So if you have kids and wonder if they're spending time on their smartphones, and it's causing problems, the National Institutes of Health launched the most ambitious study of adolescent brain development ever attempted. They have 21 sites across the country, and they were following nine and 10-year-old kids and scanning their brains are going to follow more than 11,000 kids for 10 years and spend $300 million doing it. I guess I'd follow some kids for $300 million.

Craig Peterson 22:00
So here's what they've learned so far, they haven't released it yet, obviously. But the focus when they started talking about doing the study was tobacco, marijuana, all drugs. The screen time component really came into play because we were wondering what is the impact the first wave of data from the scans of 4500 participants is in and it has the Dowling of the doctor Dahlia, the NIH, and other scientists and treating the MRI is found significant differences in the brains of some kids who use smartphones, tablets, and video games more than seven hours a day,

Craig Peterson 22:40
Dr. Dowling says. What we can say is that this is what brains look like of kids who spend a lot of time on screen now there's pictures of these brain scans in this article, again, up on my website. It's really fascinating so that it's color-coded, showing the differences in these brains

Craig Peterson 23:00
thinning of the cortex, which is the outermost layer of the brain that processes information from your five senses is going on. It's it's really, really bad, multinational process. They're doing a lot. If you want to find out more, check it out online at http://CraigPeterson.com. And we've got about four minutes left.

Craig Peterson 23:21
So let's go into Huawei. My gosh, so you know that her name is Ming one, zero. I guess she's how Huawei CFO the daughter of its founder. And it's caused some real tensions between China Canada in the United States. That's not why we're getting go get into this right now. Her Ras and everything. They're just a matter of public record, you can find it quite easily bought Huawei, US sky calm tech, which is a company that deals with a rainy and telecom firms to sell Huawei equipment to Iran, in contravention of US sanctions on the country. That was apparently between 2009 and 2014. So we remember where the Obama administration gave billions of dollars to Iran. We did have some sanctions in place. They were kind of lifted, they've been put back in place. So China is saying that her detention was a human rights violation. But let's talk about why this matters. Huawei is very big in the telecommunications business, not just in, you know, the cell phones, but the very big telecommunications for the equipment that the carriers use base stations antennas that are the world's largest manufacturer, mobile operators use these to run the wireless networks. They carry information that helps run control grids at manufacturing firms.

Craig Peterson 24:54
Think about everything that goes through the cell towers and what Comcast has an etc, etc.

Craig Peterson 25:02
Well, that's why the United States said we're worried. And so they started looking into it more. And they found out that looked like Huawei. Not only was it controlled by the People's Liberation Army of China, that communist government over there, but they had been putting spy equipment, software hardware into things, all kinds of crazy allegations, but backdoors could be used for data snooping it this goes on for on the non-close inspections are missing. And you heard about what happened with the allegations are super micro and the infiltration into Google and Apple. It is really, really crazy. And now we've got the rollout of 5g wireless networks coming and while always right in the middle of that rollout. So we're very worried that Huawei could quite easily be used as a vehicle to launch attacks by the Chinese government. While ways obviously not immune to influences from the Chinese Communist government. They are saying, Hey, listen, we're just a company. Well, yeah, your company owned by the People's Liberation Army of China. We know some of the things, the atrocious things the Communist Chinese have been doing to its citizens,

Craig Peterson 26:18
not just the tens of millions, that they starve to death we're talking about today. Right now, if you speak out against the government, you get blacklisted. You can't even get on a train. You can't get on a plane, you can't go anywhere. It can't do anything because you said something that the government doesn't agree with. So this is a real big

Craig Peterson 26:38
concern. And then add on top of that the fact that the Chinese government considers the cyber war to be full out warfare and they have a huge cyber war department and I forget what the name of it is. It's a number that they're using. We had a briefing on that with the in regard but they are using cyber warfare as a way to attack other countries including the United States. So if we have Huawei equipment critical to our communications and China decides to shut down our communications the impact could be horrific. So there are a lot of reasons why we don't want while way to be doing what they're doing and why we issued an arrest warrant that Canadians us to seize hers she was changing plane so this article

Craig Peterson 27:34
and more course right there on http://CraigPeterson.com. Have a look you'll find it there hopefully this has all been helpful stuff you can use in your daily lives you now know not to use Huawei phones not to use Android if you can avoid it and think twice about your DNA make sure you visit me online subscribe to my weekly newsletter http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Have a great weekend. A Happy New Year. http://CraigPeterson.com Take care guys. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 12/29/2018

Your Information Is Never Really Anonymous

Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. We are also, of course, posting the video online. We're trying to get the live streaming work that may or may not work. But you know what the heck, it's the last week of the year. And really the last show of the year too.

Craig Peterson 0:21
I guess it is both, isn't it? And so you will maybe next year that gives us what 52 shows next year to get it right. And speaking of 52 shows, this is show number 987. That's 987 weeks worth of shows many weeks. We have multiple shows. But we stick to the one a week nomenclature because it's just amazing. This I don't use daily show counts and daily show numbers

Craig Peterson 0:48
and our viewership is up of course because we're starting to post some of the videos we have a lot of this narrow insider site that you can find online right now it's free, but it is going to be a paid thing eventually. And also you will find some of this stuff up on YouTube and on Facebook where we're trying to get out there more to help more people so little itchy. Today though we've got a few things to talk about security wise Huawei course you heard all of the uproar and we saw the market kind of not being quite sure what to do when while ways I think she was or is there CFO was arrested in Canada when she was changing planes. And apparently, that was at the request of the United States because of a few different things. Now they talked in the media about one of them, which was a Huawei apparently sold technology to Iran. That was counter to our trade agreement with them with China with many other countries that when we have this embargo against Iran, they shouldn't be trading but there are six other reasons here. We'll talk about today about Huawei. In case you're wondering what company I'm talking about Huawei is spelled H-U-A-W-E-I, okay, this is Huawei is how it is pronounced. So we'll be talking about that we're going to talk about a groundbreaking studying that has examined the effects of screen time on kids. I remember when I was a kid, they were all worried about how much time we spend in front of a TV. And, you know, it probably didn't do me any good project early, maybe a lot of harm, hard to tell. But what's happening now that these kids of ours have iPads, on iPhones and on our grandkids? And how about the generations beyond.

Craig Peterson 2:46
And to that end of the next big, big risk to your privacy is your child's video game habits will talk about that

Craig Peterson 2:55
and how that's going to affect you. We got another thing here about deleting all of your apps. You talked a little bit about it a lot, a lot about it last week. But we've got more information on a do want to know that people to know that you stopped at Planned Parenthood. And I mentioned this as a fact. And guess what comes out in Fast Company.

Craig Peterson 3:18
Yes, yet another confirmation of what Craig said urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it's shockingly easy to re-identify the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in our cities. I mentioned this a few weeks back

Craig Peterson 3:40
because it's been obvious to me,

Craig Peterson 3:43
just like with 23 me thing, remember, I was telling you about a major pharmaceutical company investing 300 million into 23 and me and using that money to gain access to the data that 23andme has. And some people are upset about that some people are concerned. Should they care what the heck, right?

Craig Peterson 4:04
And people say, well, it's anonymized. It doesn't really matter. And yet, we have seen the data already from these DNA research firms being used against us. You remember the arrest out in California, that serial killer, the guy was a cop and he had been a cop I'm apparently nowadays his brain isn't quite all there. But they've found him not because he put his DNA and DNA bank but because the information on the DNA bank pointed to someone that might be a close relative of, of this family member being the killer. So they investigated more investigated more, and they found the killer right. And he's up on charges. I don't think he's been convicted yet. But they have the DNA evidence for from the case. Now 23 and me I use and I used it for both of its features. One the ancestry which proved everything I already knew, which was I'm not the milkman to kid but I am mostly Norwegian, and then North-Western European, as in Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales, all that area. So that's me. And that's kind of what we figured. And then from a health standpoint, I got lots of very good news on I don't have any of the genetic mutations that cause disease. So I wouldn't be able to pass those on to my kids. And I'm unlikely to get sick in my older age, which is very good news. And it's stuff that a lot of people are interested in. Or you might be interested in that too. I have a friend of mine

Craig Peterson 5:48
whose wife came back as having one of the genetic markers for a higher tendency to have breast cancer. And I know some people, including some movie stars that have had both breasts removed, because they had to genetic markers for breast cancer. So there's a lot of good things that come of that.

Craig Peterson 6:08
And there are also good things that are coming from the research in DNA because it's not as though we have this massive book here that says, Well, this DNA strand means this. And this one means that and if you have this one, and that one, but not this one, then this is going to happen. But if you have this, that in this other one, this will happen. We don't have any event, the only way we know anything about DNA is trial and error. And when it comes to animals and plants, we've been using DNA research for a long

Craig Peterson 6:39
time, we've looked at RNA and RNA blocking our an AI, all of this stuff. It's, it's fascinating if everyone to study it, it's just absolutely fascinating. But when it comes to us, as humans, you can't just go ahead and turn off a DNA strand and see what happens. We don't want to do that. Because that might be lethal fatal.

Craig Peterson 7:00
And who's going to volunteer for a test like that, just turn off the strand. See what happens, turn off that one, it's fine to do that with violets. And then we found in the violence we could make a purple violet white, which is really kind of interesting, but not in humans. So when humans what we have to do is study and study and study and study. And that's what the whole 23 me thing is about. They're making a lot of their money, I would guess most of their money, I haven't seen their financials, but they're making a lot of their money by selling the DNA raw data to pharmaceutical companies. Now, why do pharmaceutical companies want this DNA data, they want the data because it's important to them to see the DNA but also to get information from the other part of what 23AndMe does. And that is they asked a lot of questions.

Craig Peterson 7:54
And I sat down, and I answered hundreds of questions, and that you don't have to do it all at once. I did it over the course of you know, I don't remember. It was a couple of weeks, a few weeks and answered hundreds of them. And the idea here is they asked you things like, are you balding? No, no, not balding. Well, that's good, right?

Craig Peterson 8:12
Or do you have a sensitivity to sunlight? you sneeze when you go into the sunlight? And what does a particular herb tastes like to you? Can you smell that? So they're they're getting information. And then they're pulling it all together to try and figure out a precisely what does this all mean. So if everybody that sneezes when they walk into the sun has these jeans, and no one who says they don't sneeze, when they walk out into the sun has these other genes, then we're fine, right? We know we've found it. And so that's what they're doing this a lot of trial and error. And 23AndMe is constantly updating you letting you know, hey, we found this new interpretation of this particular gene or gene sequence. And so they let you know, and they say, here's what changed, or they got more information on some family ancestry. They found some older DNA, they found another strain, they found some root DNA, they're constantly updating it. So having a company like these pharmaceutical companies, getting this information is ultimately going to be good for all of us. Because if you come down with a disease or let's say that this is an even better scenario, the odds are excellent that you're going to get a specific disease. So what they've done is they look at the DNA they say, okay, we know this DNA sequence is like 98% likely to cause this disease. So let's turn off have DNA sequence wisdom that agas Wouldn't you love to be able to do that. So they turn it off, and you will never get that disease. That's what we're aiming for.

Craig Peterson 9:58
And when it comes to medications, recovery, using that some doses of this will work for one person, but you have to have a higher dose for someone else, or this drug doesn't work at all, for someone, my wife, if it's morphine, she gets really loopy and floaty and detached. And she hates feeling

Craig Peterson 10:17
so you know, in surgery, they've got to use different drugs. Why isn't that the same for everybody? Well, it's not the same for everyone, because of DNA, as well as some environmental conditions that could have occurred. So understanding all of this is phenomenal, is going to help us as human beings and help us on the earth, it's going to be great, okay, ultimately, ultimately, rough roads between the here and there in the future. But ultimately, it's going to be really, really good.

Craig Peterson 10:49
However, let's go back to the serial killer in California, he did not give his DNA and yet they were able to track him down. It's figured right now that with as little as I've seen different numbers, but let's just say 20% of the people in in the United States have 20% of the people in the United States have their DNA analyzed, and it's in a database, they will be able to find 100% of any one of people, anybody if they have a DNA sample. In other words, if someone commits a crime, and they don't have their DNA on file,

Craig Peterson 11:33
they will have 100% chance of finding that person. Well, not quite 100, but really, really, really close to 100, because what they'll be able to do is the same thing they did with the with the serial killer. And that is used some statistical analysis on the DNA to figure out what family tree this person is from because they'll know the sex. And right now they know that I'm not balding, just based on the DNA that I'm unlikely to. They know for my DNA, that I have slightly wavy hair, they know all of this stuff. So they'll be able to do a portrait. And there is some really cool work underway that takes your DNA and just from DNA, create a 3d image of what that person is likely to look like. And it is on Tanni if you've seen absolutely uncanny how close they're able to get. So with the DNA, they can tell all kinds of physical attributes, they can even create an almost a photo of that person. Of course, there's other factors, again, environmental, etc. But it's pretty darn close. And then on top of it, it's okay. This person is obviously part of the Peterson family. And we the specifically a family from New Hampshire and this area, and they will be able to narrow right down and say, Hey, do you have an uncle?

Craig Peterson 12:57
And the answer? Yeah, why? Where does he live?

Craig Peterson 13:02
Does he look something like this? And this is months away, frankly, just months away, not the 20% of people having their DNA tested and put on file. But being able to do the rest of this have a picture generated that, more or less looks like the person involved much better than these police sketches from people who are just trying to recall what that person looks like, in most cases, right.

Craig Peterson 13:30
So you can take anonymized data and on anonymize it, re-identify the people. And depending on what the data is, you're going to use different techniques. But when it comes to DNA, we just explained how that works. But the same things true with calling histories, etc. You know, if you're constantly calling numbers in 603, area, code, 805 area code 212 area code, we know that you probably have some ties there. And then we dig into those phone numbers. And we find from those phone numbers, more information about who they are, what they do, oh, wait a minute, these people are part of a family. And they're the only family group that appears to be called from this phone number. So we put all this together. And we know how to again, re-identify you that you are part of this family. This is where you live.

Craig Peterson 14:30
And that's what's been happening with the NSA data collection on just taking basic data points. Even if they don't have the phone numbers, right,

Craig Peterson 14:38
the cell towers that were involved with your phone, they'll know where you work and where you live, because you're going to be pinging that same cell tower all of the time. So be very careful. This group of MIT scientists and urban planners are shown in the study that it's really fairly simple to figure out who is who, anyway, so anonymized data can be D anonymize pretty quickly even when you're working with multiple data sets inside of a city. Well, particularly, excuse me when you're working on that.

Craig Peterson 15:09
So they did the test I said, in the end, it took a week to match 17% of the users and 11 weeks to get 95% accuracy rate. And with the added GPS data from smartphones took less than a week to hit the 95% accuracy. So kind of keep that in mind. You just don't have privacy anymore. And there they can D anonymize data. It's happened before. So be careful and think twice about the whole DNA thing. You know, already I've done it, I think it's going to be an amazing benefit to society is going to save lives, save pain, help people avoid misery, so I'm definitely going to do it. And I don't like the excuse of, well, you know, it's, it's going to happen anyways, I don't like the excuse of, well, I haven't committed any crimes anyways, you know, then those I don't think are legitimate because this data could be misused against us, just like having passport number stolen, we talked about last week can be used in your credit cards, your identity. And if you read that special report that I've sent out, you know that all of that information is out there, and the bad guys are using it, right.

Craig Peterson 16:26
So we know where do you draw the line here? That's that's the big question.

Craig Peterson 16:32
Well, hot segment when little bit long. Let's get into the rest of these. You only got about 10 minutes left here in the show. 12 minutes left today. Delete all your apps. We talked last week about the article that came out in the New York Times. This is an article from motherboard you'll see up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com.

Craig Peterson 16:53
but they go into more detail. They're talking about sensitive stops at hospitals, Planned Parenthood, various other places, do you want your employer to have that information? Because remember, now most of us get our insurance or health insurance or more employers do we want them to know that we've been making trips to this type of doctor, that type of doctor, etc, right? How much that information is going to be available in a pre-employment report where they are looking at you as a possible employee, and they find that you're doing something that might end up costing them a lot of money that might end up causing you to not be able to get to work very often, right? How far do you want this all to go? So the New York Times did publish a guide to managing restricting location on specific apps, I told you already how to do that, that might be well worth us doing as well, the best way to guarantee privacy, but the, again, the best platform to maintain your privacy. And this shouldn't be a shock to anybody.

Craig Peterson 18:00
iOS, iOS does a much better job when it comes to informing you about the GPS tracking and also cell tower tracking and allowing you to turn it off. So make sure you go into security and privacy whether it's an iPhone or an Android

Craig Peterson 18:17
phone and turn off the tracking or at least do what I do, which is turn it on only one I'm using the app. And of course, the big tip here is guys and gals delete apps you aren't using. Most of us have apps I have a ton of half I caught for free, right. So I just haven't I bought them I bought them quote-unquote, bought them because they were free. Why wouldn't I, it's a cool app, I might use it and it's sitting there on

Craig Peterson 18:47
my phone

Craig Peterson 18:48
taking up space. Now in the iOS world. It'll automatically offload from your phone if you don't use it and it needs the space which is great iOS has some of the best memory batteries management software out there it's they've done a great job on that but still delete apps you weren't using well let's talk about another big risk of your privacy This is from Market Watch carry Paul wrote this article again it's up on http://CraigPeterson.com.

Craig Peterson 19:15
I try and make sure all of the articles I talked about and I curator up on my website as well. And I just I give you a little bit of a summary here and then you can click through gives you a link to the original article. But this article is kind of interesting because it's telling you to be careful who you play with. online gaming is a growing target for hackers. A new report from identity theft protection, firm experience. Yeah, that's kind of funny, isn't it? They found cybercriminals are increasingly posing as gamers to gain access to the computers and personal data. That's players.

Craig Peterson 19:51
We're not trying to imply that all gamers are hackers but they do live in an anonymous environment, have good computer skills and are in an industry with billions in revenue. So be very careful about that. The gaming business is worth about 4 billion annual revenue globally which is quite big and cybercriminals can easily pose a gamer or take over an avatar the info to infiltrate games and communities they still personal credit card information, valuable game pieces, and tokens according to experience report.

Craig Peterson 20:29
So, be very careful because your kids playing games can come in and you to right, we got a lot of 30 somethings that played video games, maybe a little bit too much talking about games and online does talk about screen time,

Craig Peterson 20:45
Apple introduced a new feature with iOS 12 that tells you week per week if your screen time one up or one down. I think that's great. And kind of, you know, brings it into mind. Now, in my case, it's a little inaccurate, because, frankly, use my iPad and I use my phone to read books. I have the Kindle app on their plots. I read PDFs and other things. So yeah, that that's good. It's bad. But let's talk about our kids.

Craig Peterson 21:13
This is from CBS News. Again, up on http://CraigPeterson.com. 60 minutes goes inside a landmark government study of young minds SC of phones, tablets, and other screens are impacting adolescent brain development.

Craig Peterson 21:28
So if you have kids and wonder if they're spending time on their smartphones, and it's causing problems, the National Institutes of Health launched the most ambitious study of adolescent brain development ever attempted. They have 21 sites across the country, and they were following nine and 10-year-old kids and scanning their brains are going to follow more than 11,000 kids for 10 years and spend $300 million doing it. I guess I'd follow some kids for $300 million.

Craig Peterson 22:00
So here's what they've learned so far, they haven't released it yet, obviously. But the focus when they started talking about doing the study was tobacco, marijuana, all drugs. The screen time component really came into play because we were wondering what is the impact the first wave of data from the scans of 4500 participants is in and it has the Dowling of the doctor Dahlia, the NIH, and other scientists and treating the MRI is found significant differences in the brains of some kids who use smartphones, tablets, and video games more than seven hours a day,

Craig Peterson 22:40
Dr. Dowling says. What we can say is that this is what brains look like of kids who spend a lot of time on screen now there's pictures of these brain scans in this article, again, up on my website. It's really fascinating so that it's color-coded, showing the differences in these brains

Craig Peterson 23:00
thinning of the cortex, which is the outermost layer of the brain that processes information from your five senses is going on. It's it's really, really bad, multinational process. They're doing a lot. If you want to find out more, check it out online at http://CraigPeterson.com. And we've got about four minutes left.

Craig Peterson 23:21
So let's go into Huawei. My gosh, so you know that her name is Ming one, zero. I guess she's how Huawei CFO the daughter of its founder. And it's caused some real tensions between China Canada in the United States. That's not why we're getting go get into this right now. Her Ras and everything. They're just a matter of public record, you can find it quite easily bought Huawei, US sky calm tech, which is a company that deals with a rainy and telecom firms to sell Huawei equipment to Iran, in contravention of US sanctions on the country. That was apparently between 2009 and 2014. So we remember where the Obama administration gave billions of dollars to Iran. We did have some sanctions in place. They were kind of lifted, they've been put back in place. So China is saying that her detention was a human rights violation. But let's talk about why this matters. Huawei is very big in the telecommunications business, not just in, you know, the cell phones, but the very big telecommunications for the equipment that the carriers use base stations antennas that are the world's largest manufacturer, mobile operators use these to run the wireless networks. They carry information that helps run control grids at manufacturing firms.

Craig Peterson 24:54
Think about everything that goes through the cell towers and what Comcast has an etc, etc.

Craig Peterson 25:02
Well, that's why the United States said we're worried. And so they started looking into it more. And they found out that looked like Huawei. Not only was it controlled by the People's Liberation Army of China, that communist government over there, but they had been putting spy equipment, software hardware into things, all kinds of crazy allegations, but backdoors could be used for data snooping it this goes on for on the non-close inspections are missing. And you heard about what happened with the allegations are super micro and the infiltration into Google and Apple. It is really, really crazy. And now we've got the rollout of 5g wireless networks coming and while always right in the middle of that rollout. So we're very worried that Huawei could quite easily be used as a vehicle to launch attacks by the Chinese government. While ways obviously not immune to influences from the Chinese Communist government. They are saying, Hey, listen, we're just a company. Well, yeah, your company owned by the People's Liberation Army of China. We know some of the things, the atrocious things the Communist Chinese have been doing to its citizens,

Craig Peterson 26:18
not just the tens of millions, that they starve to death we're talking about today. Right now, if you speak out against the government, you get blacklisted. You can't even get on a train. You can't get on a plane, you can't go anywhere. It can't do anything because you said something that the government doesn't agree with. So this is a real big

Craig Peterson 26:38
concern. And then add on top of that the fact that the Chinese government considers the cyber war to be full out warfare and they have a huge cyber war department and I forget what the name of it is. It's a number that they're using. We had a briefing on that with the in regard but they are using cyber warfare as a way to attack other countries including the United States. So if we have Huawei equipment critical to our communications and China decides to shut down our communications the impact could be horrific. So there are a lot of reasons why we don't want while way to be doing what they're doing and why we issued an arrest warrant that Canadians us to seize hers she was changing plane so this article

Craig Peterson 27:34
and more course right there on http://CraigPeterson.com. Have a look you'll find it there hopefully this has all been helpful stuff you can use in your daily lives you now know not to use Huawei phones not to use Android if you can avoid it and think twice about your DNA make sure you visit me online subscribe to my weekly newsletter http://CraigPeterson.com/subscribe. Have a great weekend. A Happy New Year. http://CraigPeterson.com Take care guys. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 12/26/2018

Christmas Gifts - Instant Pot - Sonos Echo Problems

Matt Gagnon 0:00
Well we're back again it is 7:38 on the WGAN morning with Ken and Matt. 

Unknown 0:09
we're going to have your calls coming up a little bit later 879-9426. Ken has asked you more than once today what was your you know best present you plan on taking things back all that fun stuff so we'll get to those calls coming up so get him writing. 879-9426 it's 946 but Craig is with us right now. Craig How are you sir?

Unknown 0:27
Hey good morning. I don't know what was my best present

Unknown 0:31
what do you know what the tech guru that is? a great question. What can you you have everything so what I couldn't be tackling like Was it a tie

Unknown 0:40
well I don't have an Apple watch you know you don't have it

Unknown 0:47
yeah yeah. No, I I'm kind of into the lower tech gift that you know that's kind of where I'm at now is Yeah, you know a driver but how old is it now? 40 year old cars on this 40 Yeah, I guess it is but you know 1980 diesel

Unknown 1:04
kind of that kind of guy one of the things I got to tell you this is a kind of a newer tech gift and our kids got us a bit of an upgrade to this and today they're on sale by the way is this instant pot you guys use these before

Unknown 1:21
what? Instapot? Instantpot?

Unknown 1:24
well I've got 10s of dead I don't don't you just grow with the way everybody else does I don't instant yeah

Unknown 1:32
yeah the highs like that

Unknown 1:36
No no

Unknown 1:37
I do to edibles so I kind of know what to me I think. But thanks again.

Unknown 1:43
One direct line there. So what do you know it's this is this is for cooking. You know we we've had tanners for a long time. And we use them to do canning every year take things out of the garden. And you know it sits there with the steam pressure go

Unknown 2:00
to timeout. But okay, I believe that but once it gets to

Unknown 2:03
your movement, we did that. Well. Instant part is a model

Unknown 2:08
of a pressure cooker. And and what this thing does. It just it's amazing because it has on the front you have all these different settings. But some do. And some of them also have Bluetooth so that you can program it right from your phone.

Unknown 2:28
And what does it do? Does it growth it is a fast

Unknown 2:32
Yes. It's a pressure you're using pressure cooker.

Unknown 2:35
I've seen them. I mean, people stopped using pressure cookers because they used to blow a lot. But

Unknown 2:39
yeah, now they don't details cows. And then the terrorists started using them. And they start telling them that stores and they went back and stores know these don't blow up. This is these things are automated. They're very, very safe. And we can take a meat right out of our deep freeze and less than an hour. We're later have the most amazing pot roast or almost you name that made so you just you throw a right in the Instapot. You throw some vegetables in there and you're Spicer put the lid on and you program it's a what is it that you want to do and less than an hour later. It's all done for you. So think See, you know what we call those things where you let it cook of the

Unknown 3:28
crockpot. Yeah, exactly. So think of crock pot where it looks all day long. And how did everything tastes. This is like an instant crock pot and today right now you can get two three court version for 70 bucks online. Check out your favorite online stores, they have a bigger one they have the eight core one which is $50 off of that 90 bucks and if you have if you'd like to cook if you like healthy food but you don't have hours and hours hours to get one so our kids this year they taught us a couple of inserts for the Instapot because these things so popular right

Unknown 4:09
Isn't it just as easy to just go out to dinner yeah I mean really at the end of the day of the dead Applebee's you know i mean damn good pot roast

Unknown 4:20
to true but you know when you have we still have a whole bunch of kids at home we don't have eight at home anymore thank goodness

Unknown 4:28
man is 17 so sir felt like it over Christmas

Unknown 4:32
Yeah exactly. But it can This is fantastic just like this is a way to go because it's going to save you some money it makes it really quick you can cook a lot of stuff and it has less of this puffy you just basically throw it all in like you look for coffee pot and minutes later it's all done for yourself the heck look at that that's what we got that I think our best gifts this year they gave us these little cookers go into it they give us another little insert a ceramic one that goes into an instant pot these things are all great

Unknown 5:09
you know i uh. Craig I had a rough technology weekend because I I got I got the Echo Dot which is what I want to know is very great and easy to set up and then I have a Sony Music system which for some reason my my my internet and my third for library went out and the whole Sonos system and I was on the phone with this guy I don't say he's from India but he was five from India not there's anything wrong with Indians for like an hour trying to get my soul knows to even what Noel I've got a story to tell you later Can you remind me okay about talk to Craig about this to to connect and then I tried to get my Echo to connect to my soul knows and why it shouldn't just be I mean I'm used to Apple just to push a button in the works I mean why why why is it so complicated? Tell me why

Unknown 6:03
Alexa Why are you so complicated?

Unknown 6:08
So noses? You know, I think that's some great

Unknown 6:13
systems and I have their head of technology on their CTO on my radio show and we talked a little bit about it

Unknown 6:22
Why is it so if you lose electricity it takes days to try and reprogram and what the hell's wrong with them?

Unknown 6:29
Yeah they they really news items on your grievances from

Unknown 6:33
festivals Is that what it is

Unknown 6:36
yeah pull away already know what you

Unknown 6:43
know what do they recognize there's a problem there isn't really a very difficult festival is not

Unknown 6:49
a when did the feats of strength start

Unknown 6:53
coming up

Unknown 6:55
Professor so what did the Savior What did the guy say to you

Unknown 6:58
it's well it's it's very complicated system they haven't done the kind of updates to what they need to and more recently they added in this Amazon Echo compatibility I've heard from a few people about problems with it so I don't know if you're right about Apple you know, they there's Siri is nowhere near as good if you ask me as the Alexa is. So how many of those just

Unknown 7:29
Lexus show answer? I mean, I like Alexa in terms of answer. But let me put it this way. my four year old can get Alexa to do stuff so if she can understand that. Yeah, that's scary.

Unknown 7:40
And and the new Dot. I assume you got a brand new thought

Unknown 7:43
I got the I got the brand new Echo Dot.

Unknown 7:46
Yeah. Which is the sound on that is really quite good. I read a prediction that next year, Amazon is going to be the number one speaker seller in the country. Which doesn't surprise me me at all, frankly, and companies like Sonos are starting to already see financial troubles because of what Amazon's been doing Google Home not so much. You know, the Apple not so much. But it they just don't have the funds to throw into it. This is me, this is my opinion. This is some guesses can, based on what I've seen. Sonos has had some good systems for quite a while but now Amazon with their brand new speakers a bigger one to have so much better quality than they used to have and why would you buy just as stupid speaker when you can get the smart stuff and all the integration gets complicated. Sonos was never designed to be tied into something like the Echo system so it's there's bound to be issues but they'll don't get them straightened out but it'll take them a little bit

Unknown 8:52
I will tell you that the I did play the echo next of the songs and I thought the sun was a sound quality was far superior yeah and I did get it to play and then I tried I tried to hook it into Apple Music which I have and I know it's compatible because it added up then it couldn't find it to play it and that's okay but now they have a they actually have a soul knows Echo Dot combination who just came out and I was tempted the Bible was like $300

Unknown 9:22
yeah that's when I was just talking about where they're they're actually integrate those will be a little bit better in the ecosystem but this year 2019 I'm not sure yet right away they get Amazon's gonna come up with some absolutely amazing speakers. Because what they have right now are decent. You know they great for listening to to you guys on tune in. I do that all the time because it's just so convenient. But as far as real music is going to be the year okay to get that quality.

Unknown 9:55
Yeah, you're already I guess putting stuff on our Christmas shopping list next year already. And it's the day after this Christmas.

Unknown 10:04
That's the way it should be

Unknown 10:06
right it is. I want to make a quick note to people who upgraded their phones to iOS to the latest release. Some people are having some trouble with making cellular calling data calling. There's a couple of tricks to get it to work again. Basically just go into your settings turn off the call over Wi Fi but do a search online it's not all in your mind if your fuel her iPhone isn't making phone calls as well as you'd like. And guys check it out. Check out this instant pot. My wife loves it. My kids are even using it now because it's so quick and so easy. And I know the listeners will love it. And it's all three sizes are on sale today online. It's phenomenal little thing.

Unknown 10:50
Okay. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as usual on Wednesdays appreciate it Craig and we will talk to you again next week

Unknown 10:59
all right Take care guys thanks a lot Merry Christmas sir

Unknown 11:01
all right let's toss it back over to Kirk Dyson in you have an Echo Dot I do actually don't use it very much though it's a blast and no real reason I don't really have anything I order from Amazon or anything like that but you know you can say let's what's that Tom what it's for know I know that you can use it for a whole bunch of stuff Yeah, just don't really have any real are using it maybe funded wiring. Alexa, call current Dyson you have my phone number. That's weird.

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Airing date: 12/26/2018

Christmas Gifts - Instant Pot - Sonos Echo Problems

Matt Gagnon 0:00
Well we're back again it is 7:38 on the WGAN morning with Ken and Matt. 

Unknown 0:09
we're going to have your calls coming up a little bit later 879-9426. Ken has asked you more than once today what was your you know best present you plan on taking things back all that fun stuff so we'll get to those calls coming up so get him writing. 879-9426 it's 946 but Craig is with us right now. Craig How are you sir?

Unknown 0:27
Hey good morning. I don't know what was my best present

Unknown 0:31
what do you know what the tech guru that is? a great question. What can you you have everything so what I couldn't be tackling like Was it a tie

Unknown 0:40
well I don't have an Apple watch you know you don't have it

Unknown 0:47
yeah yeah. No, I I'm kind of into the lower tech gift that you know that's kind of where I'm at now is Yeah, you know a driver but how old is it now? 40 year old cars on this 40 Yeah, I guess it is but you know 1980 diesel

Unknown 1:04
kind of that kind of guy one of the things I got to tell you this is a kind of a newer tech gift and our kids got us a bit of an upgrade to this and today they're on sale by the way is this instant pot you guys use these before

Unknown 1:21
what? Instapot? Instantpot?

Unknown 1:24
well I've got 10s of dead I don't don't you just grow with the way everybody else does I don't instant yeah

Unknown 1:32
yeah the highs like that

Unknown 1:36
No no

Unknown 1:37
I do to edibles so I kind of know what to me I think. But thanks again.

Unknown 1:43
One direct line there. So what do you know it's this is this is for cooking. You know we we've had tanners for a long time. And we use them to do canning every year take things out of the garden. And you know it sits there with the steam pressure go

Unknown 2:00
to timeout. But okay, I believe that but once it gets to

Unknown 2:03
your movement, we did that. Well. Instant part is a model

Unknown 2:08
of a pressure cooker. And and what this thing does. It just it's amazing because it has on the front you have all these different settings. But some do. And some of them also have Bluetooth so that you can program it right from your phone.

Unknown 2:28
And what does it do? Does it growth it is a fast

Unknown 2:32
Yes. It's a pressure you're using pressure cooker.

Unknown 2:35
I've seen them. I mean, people stopped using pressure cookers because they used to blow a lot. But

Unknown 2:39
yeah, now they don't details cows. And then the terrorists started using them. And they start telling them that stores and they went back and stores know these don't blow up. This is these things are automated. They're very, very safe. And we can take a meat right out of our deep freeze and less than an hour. We're later have the most amazing pot roast or almost you name that made so you just you throw a right in the Instapot. You throw some vegetables in there and you're Spicer put the lid on and you program it's a what is it that you want to do and less than an hour later. It's all done for you. So think See, you know what we call those things where you let it cook of the

Unknown 3:28
crockpot. Yeah, exactly. So think of crock pot where it looks all day long. And how did everything tastes. This is like an instant crock pot and today right now you can get two three court version for 70 bucks online. Check out your favorite online stores, they have a bigger one they have the eight core one which is $50 off of that 90 bucks and if you have if you'd like to cook if you like healthy food but you don't have hours and hours hours to get one so our kids this year they taught us a couple of inserts for the Instapot because these things so popular right

Unknown 4:09
Isn't it just as easy to just go out to dinner yeah I mean really at the end of the day of the dead Applebee's you know i mean damn good pot roast

Unknown 4:20
to true but you know when you have we still have a whole bunch of kids at home we don't have eight at home anymore thank goodness

Unknown 4:28
man is 17 so sir felt like it over Christmas

Unknown 4:32
Yeah exactly. But it can This is fantastic just like this is a way to go because it's going to save you some money it makes it really quick you can cook a lot of stuff and it has less of this puffy you just basically throw it all in like you look for coffee pot and minutes later it's all done for yourself the heck look at that that's what we got that I think our best gifts this year they gave us these little cookers go into it they give us another little insert a ceramic one that goes into an instant pot these things are all great

Unknown 5:09
you know i uh. Craig I had a rough technology weekend because I I got I got the Echo Dot which is what I want to know is very great and easy to set up and then I have a Sony Music system which for some reason my my my internet and my third for library went out and the whole Sonos system and I was on the phone with this guy I don't say he's from India but he was five from India not there's anything wrong with Indians for like an hour trying to get my soul knows to even what Noel I've got a story to tell you later Can you remind me okay about talk to Craig about this to to connect and then I tried to get my Echo to connect to my soul knows and why it shouldn't just be I mean I'm used to Apple just to push a button in the works I mean why why why is it so complicated? Tell me why

Unknown 6:03
Alexa Why are you so complicated?

Unknown 6:08
So noses? You know, I think that's some great

Unknown 6:13
systems and I have their head of technology on their CTO on my radio show and we talked a little bit about it

Unknown 6:22
Why is it so if you lose electricity it takes days to try and reprogram and what the hell's wrong with them?

Unknown 6:29
Yeah they they really news items on your grievances from

Unknown 6:33
festivals Is that what it is

Unknown 6:36
yeah pull away already know what you

Unknown 6:43
know what do they recognize there's a problem there isn't really a very difficult festival is not

Unknown 6:49
a when did the feats of strength start

Unknown 6:53
coming up

Unknown 6:55
Professor so what did the Savior What did the guy say to you

Unknown 6:58
it's well it's it's very complicated system they haven't done the kind of updates to what they need to and more recently they added in this Amazon Echo compatibility I've heard from a few people about problems with it so I don't know if you're right about Apple you know, they there's Siri is nowhere near as good if you ask me as the Alexa is. So how many of those just

Unknown 7:29
Lexus show answer? I mean, I like Alexa in terms of answer. But let me put it this way. my four year old can get Alexa to do stuff so if she can understand that. Yeah, that's scary.

Unknown 7:40
And and the new Dot. I assume you got a brand new thought

Unknown 7:43
I got the I got the brand new Echo Dot.

Unknown 7:46
Yeah. Which is the sound on that is really quite good. I read a prediction that next year, Amazon is going to be the number one speaker seller in the country. Which doesn't surprise me me at all, frankly, and companies like Sonos are starting to already see financial troubles because of what Amazon's been doing Google Home not so much. You know, the Apple not so much. But it they just don't have the funds to throw into it. This is me, this is my opinion. This is some guesses can, based on what I've seen. Sonos has had some good systems for quite a while but now Amazon with their brand new speakers a bigger one to have so much better quality than they used to have and why would you buy just as stupid speaker when you can get the smart stuff and all the integration gets complicated. Sonos was never designed to be tied into something like the Echo system so it's there's bound to be issues but they'll don't get them straightened out but it'll take them a little bit

Unknown 8:52
I will tell you that the I did play the echo next of the songs and I thought the sun was a sound quality was far superior yeah and I did get it to play and then I tried I tried to hook it into Apple Music which I have and I know it's compatible because it added up then it couldn't find it to play it and that's okay but now they have a they actually have a soul knows Echo Dot combination who just came out and I was tempted the Bible was like $300

Unknown 9:22
yeah that's when I was just talking about where they're they're actually integrate those will be a little bit better in the ecosystem but this year 2019 I'm not sure yet right away they get Amazon's gonna come up with some absolutely amazing speakers. Because what they have right now are decent. You know they great for listening to to you guys on tune in. I do that all the time because it's just so convenient. But as far as real music is going to be the year okay to get that quality.

Unknown 9:55
Yeah, you're already I guess putting stuff on our Christmas shopping list next year already. And it's the day after this Christmas.

Unknown 10:04
That's the way it should be

Unknown 10:06
right it is. I want to make a quick note to people who upgraded their phones to iOS to the latest release. Some people are having some trouble with making cellular calling data calling. There's a couple of tricks to get it to work again. Basically just go into your settings turn off the call over Wi Fi but do a search online it's not all in your mind if your fuel her iPhone isn't making phone calls as well as you'd like. And guys check it out. Check out this instant pot. My wife loves it. My kids are even using it now because it's so quick and so easy. And I know the listeners will love it. And it's all three sizes are on sale today online. It's phenomenal little thing.

Unknown 10:50
Okay. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as usual on Wednesdays appreciate it Craig and we will talk to you again next week

Unknown 10:59
all right Take care guys thanks a lot Merry Christmas sir

Unknown 11:01
all right let's toss it back over to Kirk Dyson in you have an Echo Dot I do actually don't use it very much though it's a blast and no real reason I don't really have anything I order from Amazon or anything like that but you know you can say let's what's that Tom what it's for know I know that you can use it for a whole bunch of stuff Yeah, just don't really have any real are using it maybe funded wiring. Alexa, call current Dyson you have my phone number. That's weird.

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