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Airing date: 11/14/2018

How safe is your State’s voting system? We compare New England voting technology with Florida’s and come up with some recommendations.

Unknown 0:00
All things technology tech guru Craig Peterson is on right now. On the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt.

Unknown 0:18
back again here at eggs in issues live at the Holiday Inn by the bay. This is, of course, brought to you by the PLC family of collision centers. To find one near you log on to PLC collision. com. Also carpet specialist covering your flooring needs. Located at Park Road in Westbrook united insurance, your business is different review your business coverage at United insurance.net workgroup technology partners faster, safer and easier IT solutions and support for main business online at workgroup main. com new Gen Hospitality Management. Proudly providing service selection and value for your group or companies hotel and event space needs in Greater Portland and also universe dedicated to making you a customer for life. With all that said, It's time now to turn our attention to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he typically does. Craig, how are you?

Unknown 1:05
Hey, good morning doing well. I'm down in Orlando. In fact right now,

Unknown 1:10
but maybe you could help them do the spouse and Broward County. What do you think about that?

Unknown 1:16
Yeah, exactly. So I was down in the swamp of stuff going on Elmer the land or stuff going on. It presents really kind of an interesting problem. And although there is obviously political implications and opinions on both sides, what seems to be happening right now is frankly, it's kind of a result of the hanging chads, you remember that back in 2000 I named al gore Yeah, exactly. And, and the problem back then really was that Florida was not using current technology because Chad's were part of punch cards, right. And, and that's technology, frankly, out of the 1800s very old technology. And by the year 2000, we had a lot better technology. Well, we're seeing that again, gentlemen. And what we're seeing is that these two counties that are having problems are using the equipment that they bought in 2002, after the federal government came out with a grant. Now, you know, I said forever, you can't have non technology, people making technology decisions, right? It's, you know, it's just such a complex topic, and particularly talking about these voting machines. So the voting machines they bought in 2002 don't hold up well, in humid conditions, guess what they have in Florida, you meditate, and they can only score one race at a time. Which means if you are trying to, for instance, look at the governor's race, you have to run a all of the ballots through the machines for the governor's race. And now we need to score the senate race. So now you got to run all those ballots through the machines, again, for the Senate, race, etc, etc. And down here in Florida, there's another race that really matters. And that race is the agriculture commissioner. I think that's the title. But in that case, obviously, Florida, a lot of agriculture, but the agriculture commissioner is the person who makes the decisions about concealed carry permits down in Florida. So the republicans are all up in arms with that. So here you go, you've got what is a 13 machines, you have to run all 250 ish thousand ballots through these machines multiple times, the machines don't like the humidity that's in the air down here. So they're jamming and just drawing balance. When they jam, it is a complete mess. And then on top of it, you seem to have a woman in charge of it, at least in Broward County, who doesn't seem to really know what she's doing. It's really a crazy thing

Unknown 4:13
that's putting it mildly. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now to go over the world of Well, I guess the election technology would be the best place to start, since that's really dominated the news right now, you've of course, been talking to us about these machines in Florida. What would be a good option? I mean, I don't know how much you know about election machinery and the kind of ballot boxes they have, or whatnot. But you know, here in Maine, we have sort of, you know, we have a paper ballot, that we fill out the oval with, you know, with a pen, and then it gets run through a tabulating machine. And we have, like, the physical we have the physical thing, it's not connected to the internet early so says, Matt Dunlap. So it seems like we do things reasonably smartly here. What's the best system in your mind?

Unknown 4:59
Yeah, frankly, that is the best system, you know, whether or not the software safe, reliable, etc, is a completely different story. But that system allows for a real manual recount. In other words, you filled out those bubbles, right? You took some felt pen, right, and fill those in. That is something that a human to look at, right, you can, you can pull those ballots out. So the right way to do this is people fill out the ballot, the run through the machines, the machines come up with the tally. And then what you do is you spot checks, machines, spotcheck for one race or two races are all of the races and make sure everything is as it should be. Now, there will be a little bit of discrepancy because a human I might be able to determine intent better than an on him and I because some people instead of filling in that oval will, right, yes, and the machine's not going to understand that and they seize the assets spits out the ballot, and in those cases, those ballots can be looked at manually. Many states are using absolutely insane stuff. They've got Windows XP running a touchscreen. And in a lot of cases, in this election cycle, we've seen voters complaining that they tried to vote for someone and another person on the ballot was actually voted for so. So you

Unknown 6:32
aren't Craig, what's the argument for doing it that way? I mean, when I was in Virginia, we had an all digital machine ballot, and I voted that way. And it went smoothly for me. But I don't understand why you would do it that way. Is it really just to save like, on printing costs? I mean,

Unknown 6:46
it's

Unknown 6:48
Yeah, yeah, for accounting, I mean, what is it?

Unknown 6:52
Yeah, it is. The argument for that is that if you're trying to have 5 million people casting votes, it's much easier to have those voting machines where everything is calculated automatically. Some of the voting machines like that do have an audit trail, that they spit out a piece of paper, most of them, frankly, don't have a good audit trail, and there's no way to manually recount them. So it's insanity. We, you know, and you already know, we do not have any national elections, we have 58 elections, and the states typically leave it up to the counties to perform the voting. So we've got thousands of different jurisdictions that are in charge of voting. So they're going to choose different machines, different versions of those machines, they're going to try and update the software on them. Some of these machines are a little on the complex side, although they're getting simpler for the people working, not the polls, but working the election, the secretaries of states and things. So it's a this is a problem, this going to continue on. And last, everybody switches to what main de because I know New Hampshire uses a similar system. In fact, I think it's the same system throughout New England, we have a lot of those, and they're moving around the country. But that's the only way to do it. And then, of course, the other part that's a real problem right now in Florida has to do with people seeing what's happening. The light of day is the best disinfectant. And when you're talking about having the physical balance, like our us here in Maine, it's fantastic because everyone can look at them. You can have multiple people who are monitoring all at the same time, and they're not letting people in to monitor the balance to monitor the accounts or anything else. So that's the political side of it. Right? I personally think that's absolutely insane thing. Let people in light of day make it so they can be hand counted. And I think everything gets a lot better quickly.

Unknown 9:00
We are going to Craig Peterson Tech Talk. He joins us on Wednesday. 738 let's talk about a little fake news. Um, how easy is it to create fake news Craig

Unknown 9:14
I know this is really an interesting case because we now have the technology where we can put a person's face on to someone else so let's say you wanted to show someone committing a crime all you have to do is have an actor some sort go ahead commit the crime all fake you know and then the computers can now monitor everything that's going on track the whole thing map it and put someone else's face on makes a body look similar. It's absolutely crazy you guys remember Lord of the Rings? The movie series? Of course, of course. And did you ever see the behind the scenes the videos of how they did this with Gollum and he had those white golf balls all over him think

Unknown 10:07
that that's how you used to have to do it today You don't have to do it that way at all. So when you're talking about fake news is that extends all the way out to the video world that frankly some of these videos that you're looking at are fake. In fact, one of the videos on Facebook that got millions of views showed this jet airliner just a passenger plane doing loops and slips just before it landed and it was shared like crazy it was absolutely fake there's no way that jet could do what was being shown and yet it went out to millions of people who believe it happened so we're going to have to be very prudent consumers of news as we go forward because it's so easy to fake right it's easy now fake email addresses this easy to fake phone numbers how many times a day you get a call from one of these spam pies right trying to sell you something or they're from the IRS right lately it's been for me it's been insurance and by car insurance but it's it's so fake and it's something we just got to be aware of. Be careful you really can't believe your eyes anymore.

Unknown 11:26
No, you cannot well, Craig Peterson our tech guru, leaving us with that bit of hope and optimism. Appreciate a Craig we will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 11:34
Take care guys. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 11/14/2018

How safe is your State’s voting system? We compare New England voting technology with Florida’s and come up with some recommendations.

Unknown 0:00
All things technology tech guru Craig Peterson is on right now. On the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt.

Unknown 0:18
back again here at eggs in issues live at the Holiday Inn by the bay. This is, of course, brought to you by the PLC family of collision centers. To find one near you log on to PLC collision. com. Also carpet specialist covering your flooring needs. Located at Park Road in Westbrook united insurance, your business is different review your business coverage at United insurance.net workgroup technology partners faster, safer and easier IT solutions and support for main business online at workgroup main. com new Gen Hospitality Management. Proudly providing service selection and value for your group or companies hotel and event space needs in Greater Portland and also universe dedicated to making you a customer for life. With all that said, It's time now to turn our attention to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now as he typically does. Craig, how are you?

Unknown 1:05
Hey, good morning doing well. I'm down in Orlando. In fact right now,

Unknown 1:10
but maybe you could help them do the spouse and Broward County. What do you think about that?

Unknown 1:16
Yeah, exactly. So I was down in the swamp of stuff going on Elmer the land or stuff going on. It presents really kind of an interesting problem. And although there is obviously political implications and opinions on both sides, what seems to be happening right now is frankly, it's kind of a result of the hanging chads, you remember that back in 2000 I named al gore Yeah, exactly. And, and the problem back then really was that Florida was not using current technology because Chad's were part of punch cards, right. And, and that's technology, frankly, out of the 1800s very old technology. And by the year 2000, we had a lot better technology. Well, we're seeing that again, gentlemen. And what we're seeing is that these two counties that are having problems are using the equipment that they bought in 2002, after the federal government came out with a grant. Now, you know, I said forever, you can't have non technology, people making technology decisions, right? It's, you know, it's just such a complex topic, and particularly talking about these voting machines. So the voting machines they bought in 2002 don't hold up well, in humid conditions, guess what they have in Florida, you meditate, and they can only score one race at a time. Which means if you are trying to, for instance, look at the governor's race, you have to run a all of the ballots through the machines for the governor's race. And now we need to score the senate race. So now you got to run all those ballots through the machines, again, for the Senate, race, etc, etc. And down here in Florida, there's another race that really matters. And that race is the agriculture commissioner. I think that's the title. But in that case, obviously, Florida, a lot of agriculture, but the agriculture commissioner is the person who makes the decisions about concealed carry permits down in Florida. So the republicans are all up in arms with that. So here you go, you've got what is a 13 machines, you have to run all 250 ish thousand ballots through these machines multiple times, the machines don't like the humidity that's in the air down here. So they're jamming and just drawing balance. When they jam, it is a complete mess. And then on top of it, you seem to have a woman in charge of it, at least in Broward County, who doesn't seem to really know what she's doing. It's really a crazy thing

Unknown 4:13
that's putting it mildly. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru who joins us now to go over the world of Well, I guess the election technology would be the best place to start, since that's really dominated the news right now, you've of course, been talking to us about these machines in Florida. What would be a good option? I mean, I don't know how much you know about election machinery and the kind of ballot boxes they have, or whatnot. But you know, here in Maine, we have sort of, you know, we have a paper ballot, that we fill out the oval with, you know, with a pen, and then it gets run through a tabulating machine. And we have, like, the physical we have the physical thing, it's not connected to the internet early so says, Matt Dunlap. So it seems like we do things reasonably smartly here. What's the best system in your mind?

Unknown 4:59
Yeah, frankly, that is the best system, you know, whether or not the software safe, reliable, etc, is a completely different story. But that system allows for a real manual recount. In other words, you filled out those bubbles, right? You took some felt pen, right, and fill those in. That is something that a human to look at, right, you can, you can pull those ballots out. So the right way to do this is people fill out the ballot, the run through the machines, the machines come up with the tally. And then what you do is you spot checks, machines, spotcheck for one race or two races are all of the races and make sure everything is as it should be. Now, there will be a little bit of discrepancy because a human I might be able to determine intent better than an on him and I because some people instead of filling in that oval will, right, yes, and the machine's not going to understand that and they seize the assets spits out the ballot, and in those cases, those ballots can be looked at manually. Many states are using absolutely insane stuff. They've got Windows XP running a touchscreen. And in a lot of cases, in this election cycle, we've seen voters complaining that they tried to vote for someone and another person on the ballot was actually voted for so. So you

Unknown 6:32
aren't Craig, what's the argument for doing it that way? I mean, when I was in Virginia, we had an all digital machine ballot, and I voted that way. And it went smoothly for me. But I don't understand why you would do it that way. Is it really just to save like, on printing costs? I mean,

Unknown 6:46
it's

Unknown 6:48
Yeah, yeah, for accounting, I mean, what is it?

Unknown 6:52
Yeah, it is. The argument for that is that if you're trying to have 5 million people casting votes, it's much easier to have those voting machines where everything is calculated automatically. Some of the voting machines like that do have an audit trail, that they spit out a piece of paper, most of them, frankly, don't have a good audit trail, and there's no way to manually recount them. So it's insanity. We, you know, and you already know, we do not have any national elections, we have 58 elections, and the states typically leave it up to the counties to perform the voting. So we've got thousands of different jurisdictions that are in charge of voting. So they're going to choose different machines, different versions of those machines, they're going to try and update the software on them. Some of these machines are a little on the complex side, although they're getting simpler for the people working, not the polls, but working the election, the secretaries of states and things. So it's a this is a problem, this going to continue on. And last, everybody switches to what main de because I know New Hampshire uses a similar system. In fact, I think it's the same system throughout New England, we have a lot of those, and they're moving around the country. But that's the only way to do it. And then, of course, the other part that's a real problem right now in Florida has to do with people seeing what's happening. The light of day is the best disinfectant. And when you're talking about having the physical balance, like our us here in Maine, it's fantastic because everyone can look at them. You can have multiple people who are monitoring all at the same time, and they're not letting people in to monitor the balance to monitor the accounts or anything else. So that's the political side of it. Right? I personally think that's absolutely insane thing. Let people in light of day make it so they can be hand counted. And I think everything gets a lot better quickly.

Unknown 9:00
We are going to Craig Peterson Tech Talk. He joins us on Wednesday. 738 let's talk about a little fake news. Um, how easy is it to create fake news Craig

Unknown 9:14
I know this is really an interesting case because we now have the technology where we can put a person's face on to someone else so let's say you wanted to show someone committing a crime all you have to do is have an actor some sort go ahead commit the crime all fake you know and then the computers can now monitor everything that's going on track the whole thing map it and put someone else's face on makes a body look similar. It's absolutely crazy you guys remember Lord of the Rings? The movie series? Of course, of course. And did you ever see the behind the scenes the videos of how they did this with Gollum and he had those white golf balls all over him think

Unknown 10:07
that that's how you used to have to do it today You don't have to do it that way at all. So when you're talking about fake news is that extends all the way out to the video world that frankly some of these videos that you're looking at are fake. In fact, one of the videos on Facebook that got millions of views showed this jet airliner just a passenger plane doing loops and slips just before it landed and it was shared like crazy it was absolutely fake there's no way that jet could do what was being shown and yet it went out to millions of people who believe it happened so we're going to have to be very prudent consumers of news as we go forward because it's so easy to fake right it's easy now fake email addresses this easy to fake phone numbers how many times a day you get a call from one of these spam pies right trying to sell you something or they're from the IRS right lately it's been for me it's been insurance and by car insurance but it's it's so fake and it's something we just got to be aware of. Be careful you really can't believe your eyes anymore.

Unknown 11:26
No, you cannot well, Craig Peterson our tech guru, leaving us with that bit of hope and optimism. Appreciate a Craig we will talk to you again next week.

Unknown 11:34
Take care guys. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 11/13/2018

Recycling Plastic Bags - How Technology Is Solving The Problem

Jim Polito: [00:00:00] I'm talking about our good friend and our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson: 0:06
Hey, good morning, Jim. You know when it when it comes to plastic bag, there have been some technologies that have come out about that, about being able to because I'm told over and over. Oh, you can't put them in single stream. Because with the other plastics, they'll jam up the machine.

Unknown 0:24
It's like, it's like smart people like you, Craig could figure it out. That's why we have some people like Craig Peterson and others, because they figure out these problems for us. Like they got us to the moon. They got us a smartphone, they got a heart transplant, like oh, that guy's gonna die. Why? Well, he needs a new heart kid. Well, can't you take one from somebody else and put them in there? I never thought of that.

Unknown 0:52
Well, I may a basement stairs guy first off that's where you're like me and Danny. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Unknown 1:00
Choose a plastic bag with a plastic bag as opposed to a plastic flowers. Yeah, you gotta get done. You know, I will have to send you on a plastic flowery thing. Yeah. Craig. So you can be like the rest of the guys. So that's number one, which is the easiest. You guys are already doing it. But there are a couple of new technologies that are out right now. First of all, and this was only discovered this year, they were digging through some of these massive, you know, trash heaps that are out our landfills and what they found was really really interesting they found plastics that has been degrading now it's not supposed to be great when it down on the ground. Yeah, styrofoam was degrading a few other things with the grading and in various ways. And what they found was there's a bacteria that has now come into being that they had never seen before. According to the research I was reading and this

Unknown 2:00
bacteria will digest any and all plastic for, you know, like it's flat 95% of plastics that are out there. So what they're starting to do is they're, they're trying to make sure, first of all that this plastic isn't about to, you know, studied in our cars or something if they spread it around. But the idea is they'll take this and they will start spreading it into the environment of the land cells and it will start eating up all of the plastic which is really good. So that's number one that is brand new. And number two, that's been around for a while. Most of these small plastic bags that we get from the stores such as Walmart and others are designed to be biodegradable, and if they are out in the open and exposed to the sun, they will break down and break down very quickly. It's only a matter of months. And so those tree is brand new and number two, that's been around for a while.

Unknown 3:00
Most of these small plastic bags that we get from the stores such as Walmart and others are designed to be biodegradable and if they are out in the open and exposed to the sun they will break down and break down very quickly it's only a matter of months and so those trees that have plastic bags in them that you mentioned if they're the newer plastic bags they will just fall apart into pieces very small pieces at first and then completely break down wow the problem is already solved frankly thank you but but no we have to feel good and go out there and say we're going to do that and as I said my town is taking away styrofoam too so I'm gonna you know get my takeout order wrapped in newspaper

Unknown 3:53
you know I mean that's that's basically what it's boiling down to

Unknown 3:58
why

Unknown 4:00
But many times that Intel Penn and Teller did an episode about that on their show and they were actually able to convince people to use I think it was 17 different recycling bands you know one for soil toilet paper one score so no timers at different in court or South that have come in contact with raw chicken

Unknown 4:25
and and it was absolutely amazing to be able to do it yeah

Unknown 4:31
no, I didn't is that from their show which I did see some episodes where you can't say the name of the show on the air yes yes that was a cable show and it was it was a good show and then add in its name it had a curse word which was funny

Unknown 4:49
yeah well then you know they did that and I had a chance to talk to potential at but the reason they did that was that they

Unknown 4:59
you can

Unknown 5:00
You can say someone's line and you can't say someone's misrepresenting or misleading but you can call it that subtle swear phrase. Yeah, be banned. We can say BS. There you go. So you can call it BS and you can't be sued for that. That's right. He said, they spent a lot of time with the lawyers on that whole thing. So that's what I called it, but they would they did this study, they found the original guy that had come up with this study that says we're about to be very 10 three deep with trash from coast to coast. Yeah. And this daddy was incredibly flawed, actually had him bottom there show, unbeknownst to him being on their show. But it was incredibly flawed. And they pointed out how all the trash from the whole country would fit into an area that was like 10 miles.

Unknown 5:57
I mean, you people begin to

Unknown 6:00
And then reporters rewrite it and it suddenly becomes the truth and it becomes accepted. And it's Wait a minute, just like the Did you know the whole eight glasses of water a day. No one can tell us where that came from. And there are many physicians who will say, well, it's important to be hydrated but Who said anything about eight glasses of water a day? I wrote I read a study on that one. Yeah, apparently it came as well as the 10,000 steps a day Yeah. came from a Japanese marketing campaign a lovely

Unknown 6:39
there was no science behind it at all. Yeah, but it was a marketing both own channel marketing campaign. Just like you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day of baking in a while. I know bread bacon and eggs was a marketing campaign. Yeah, you didn't eat bacon and eggs for breakfast. It was all marketing Yeah, well.

Unknown 7:00
So, yeah, it people tend to fall into this. It's a headline people read, right? If it bleeds, it leads. Yeah. And so, you know, we heard about that barge of trash of New York City. Oh, yeah, it floated out there. And remember that one? Yeah, man. So all these people are thinking that somehow there's no way to dispose of the trash. But it turns out there is a plastic bag many of them now, and that this technology is easy and cheap can biodegrade in the sun. And we've got a brand new thing nature's taking care of it is, you know, factory of it's breaking it all down. Well, if you believe in natural selection, you believe in evolution. You believe in the origin of species, then you know that Mother Nature will find a way and bacteria that wouldn't ordinarily eat plastic. Well, all of a sudden a mutation and DNA somewhere says hey, look at this and we can eat

Unknown 8:00
Plastic and digest it. Just like there are certain bacteria that can eat oil pollutants. Anything else? Craig? We're running out of time. What's a good ad line from what you've got this week? And then we'll get folks the information so they can get on your list and get everything that's going on this week. Yeah, there's a lot that I think the number one thing that you might want to mention real quickly is that a lot of people have been getting on President Trump with him going out and Shane China is stealing intellectual property. talked about this a little bit on the on your show before. Yes. And the reality is now we have found that China has been hacking Now I mentioned the different type of hacking, China Telecom, big telecommunications company out of China. They have a presence in the United States they've been using their presence in the US to reroute our

Unknown 9:00
traffic through China certain companies they will go after company or an internet service provider and I'm not going to get technical and how they do it but they will route all of the traffic of China they will break the encryption they'll capture everything we're talking about email traffic website traffic banking traffic, everything we routed to China them back to where it's supposed to be. People hardly ever notice sometimes it's been six months or more that they've been monitoring a company or in some cases, government offices and sustainability. So so basically

Unknown 9:37
it's basically like in the old days there the rerouting all of my mail that comes to my house through their processing center. They're opening it up. They're looking at it, resealing it and then having it delivered to my house without a gem. Wow,

Unknown 9:55
Craig, you've been a big help today while actually helping us with the plastic issue.

Unknown 10:00
But not just that with this information. And folks, you can get all this information from Craig Peterson. All you have to do is text my name to this numbe.r 855-385-5563 855-385-5563.

Unknown 10:20
That's right. And Craig will get back to you with that information. Standard data in text rates apply. He will not annoy you. He will not sell your name. He won't try to sell you anything. He's just going to provide you with great information. And Craig, thank you so much for your time, buddy. You were a big help today. Hey, take care. Take care. Bye bye. All right, when we return

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Craig is on today with Jim Polito talking about how technology is helping with our problem with plastic bags and plastic waste and how China has been hijacking the internet backbone of western countries.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 11/13/2018

Recycling Plastic Bags - How Technology Is Solving The Problem

Jim Polito: [00:00:00] I'm talking about our good friend and our Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson: 0:06
Hey, good morning, Jim. You know when it when it comes to plastic bag, there have been some technologies that have come out about that, about being able to because I'm told over and over. Oh, you can't put them in single stream. Because with the other plastics, they'll jam up the machine.

Unknown 0:24
It's like, it's like smart people like you, Craig could figure it out. That's why we have some people like Craig Peterson and others, because they figure out these problems for us. Like they got us to the moon. They got us a smartphone, they got a heart transplant, like oh, that guy's gonna die. Why? Well, he needs a new heart kid. Well, can't you take one from somebody else and put them in there? I never thought of that.

Unknown 0:52
Well, I may a basement stairs guy first off that's where you're like me and Danny. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Unknown 1:00
Choose a plastic bag with a plastic bag as opposed to a plastic flowers. Yeah, you gotta get done. You know, I will have to send you on a plastic flowery thing. Yeah. Craig. So you can be like the rest of the guys. So that's number one, which is the easiest. You guys are already doing it. But there are a couple of new technologies that are out right now. First of all, and this was only discovered this year, they were digging through some of these massive, you know, trash heaps that are out our landfills and what they found was really really interesting they found plastics that has been degrading now it's not supposed to be great when it down on the ground. Yeah, styrofoam was degrading a few other things with the grading and in various ways. And what they found was there's a bacteria that has now come into being that they had never seen before. According to the research I was reading and this

Unknown 2:00
bacteria will digest any and all plastic for, you know, like it's flat 95% of plastics that are out there. So what they're starting to do is they're, they're trying to make sure, first of all that this plastic isn't about to, you know, studied in our cars or something if they spread it around. But the idea is they'll take this and they will start spreading it into the environment of the land cells and it will start eating up all of the plastic which is really good. So that's number one that is brand new. And number two, that's been around for a while. Most of these small plastic bags that we get from the stores such as Walmart and others are designed to be biodegradable, and if they are out in the open and exposed to the sun, they will break down and break down very quickly. It's only a matter of months. And so those tree is brand new and number two, that's been around for a while.

Unknown 3:00
Most of these small plastic bags that we get from the stores such as Walmart and others are designed to be biodegradable and if they are out in the open and exposed to the sun they will break down and break down very quickly it's only a matter of months and so those trees that have plastic bags in them that you mentioned if they're the newer plastic bags they will just fall apart into pieces very small pieces at first and then completely break down wow the problem is already solved frankly thank you but but no we have to feel good and go out there and say we're going to do that and as I said my town is taking away styrofoam too so I'm gonna you know get my takeout order wrapped in newspaper

Unknown 3:53
you know I mean that's that's basically what it's boiling down to

Unknown 3:58
why

Unknown 4:00
But many times that Intel Penn and Teller did an episode about that on their show and they were actually able to convince people to use I think it was 17 different recycling bands you know one for soil toilet paper one score so no timers at different in court or South that have come in contact with raw chicken

Unknown 4:25
and and it was absolutely amazing to be able to do it yeah

Unknown 4:31
no, I didn't is that from their show which I did see some episodes where you can't say the name of the show on the air yes yes that was a cable show and it was it was a good show and then add in its name it had a curse word which was funny

Unknown 4:49
yeah well then you know they did that and I had a chance to talk to potential at but the reason they did that was that they

Unknown 4:59
you can

Unknown 5:00
You can say someone's line and you can't say someone's misrepresenting or misleading but you can call it that subtle swear phrase. Yeah, be banned. We can say BS. There you go. So you can call it BS and you can't be sued for that. That's right. He said, they spent a lot of time with the lawyers on that whole thing. So that's what I called it, but they would they did this study, they found the original guy that had come up with this study that says we're about to be very 10 three deep with trash from coast to coast. Yeah. And this daddy was incredibly flawed, actually had him bottom there show, unbeknownst to him being on their show. But it was incredibly flawed. And they pointed out how all the trash from the whole country would fit into an area that was like 10 miles.

Unknown 5:57
I mean, you people begin to

Unknown 6:00
And then reporters rewrite it and it suddenly becomes the truth and it becomes accepted. And it's Wait a minute, just like the Did you know the whole eight glasses of water a day. No one can tell us where that came from. And there are many physicians who will say, well, it's important to be hydrated but Who said anything about eight glasses of water a day? I wrote I read a study on that one. Yeah, apparently it came as well as the 10,000 steps a day Yeah. came from a Japanese marketing campaign a lovely

Unknown 6:39
there was no science behind it at all. Yeah, but it was a marketing both own channel marketing campaign. Just like you know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day of baking in a while. I know bread bacon and eggs was a marketing campaign. Yeah, you didn't eat bacon and eggs for breakfast. It was all marketing Yeah, well.

Unknown 7:00
So, yeah, it people tend to fall into this. It's a headline people read, right? If it bleeds, it leads. Yeah. And so, you know, we heard about that barge of trash of New York City. Oh, yeah, it floated out there. And remember that one? Yeah, man. So all these people are thinking that somehow there's no way to dispose of the trash. But it turns out there is a plastic bag many of them now, and that this technology is easy and cheap can biodegrade in the sun. And we've got a brand new thing nature's taking care of it is, you know, factory of it's breaking it all down. Well, if you believe in natural selection, you believe in evolution. You believe in the origin of species, then you know that Mother Nature will find a way and bacteria that wouldn't ordinarily eat plastic. Well, all of a sudden a mutation and DNA somewhere says hey, look at this and we can eat

Unknown 8:00
Plastic and digest it. Just like there are certain bacteria that can eat oil pollutants. Anything else? Craig? We're running out of time. What's a good ad line from what you've got this week? And then we'll get folks the information so they can get on your list and get everything that's going on this week. Yeah, there's a lot that I think the number one thing that you might want to mention real quickly is that a lot of people have been getting on President Trump with him going out and Shane China is stealing intellectual property. talked about this a little bit on the on your show before. Yes. And the reality is now we have found that China has been hacking Now I mentioned the different type of hacking, China Telecom, big telecommunications company out of China. They have a presence in the United States they've been using their presence in the US to reroute our

Unknown 9:00
traffic through China certain companies they will go after company or an internet service provider and I'm not going to get technical and how they do it but they will route all of the traffic of China they will break the encryption they'll capture everything we're talking about email traffic website traffic banking traffic, everything we routed to China them back to where it's supposed to be. People hardly ever notice sometimes it's been six months or more that they've been monitoring a company or in some cases, government offices and sustainability. So so basically

Unknown 9:37
it's basically like in the old days there the rerouting all of my mail that comes to my house through their processing center. They're opening it up. They're looking at it, resealing it and then having it delivered to my house without a gem. Wow,

Unknown 9:55
Craig, you've been a big help today while actually helping us with the plastic issue.

Unknown 10:00
But not just that with this information. And folks, you can get all this information from Craig Peterson. All you have to do is text my name to this numbe.r 855-385-5563 855-385-5563.

Unknown 10:20
That's right. And Craig will get back to you with that information. Standard data in text rates apply. He will not annoy you. He will not sell your name. He won't try to sell you anything. He's just going to provide you with great information. And Craig, thank you so much for your time, buddy. You were a big help today. Hey, take care. Take care. Bye bye. All right, when we return

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Airing date: 11/12/2018

Florida Election Technology - China Hijacking Networks

Jack Heath: 0:00

Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guy. His show Tech Talk. Craig Peterson joins us now at the Auto Fair listener lines. Good morning Craig.

Craig Peterson: 0:05
A Good morning. I've been following what's been going on with the Florida week count of ballots. The technology behind all of that stuff Jack, it's really kind of interesting.

Jack 0:16
Yeah? Well, interesting is one way to put it. And who knows what the outcome will be Craig. Your guess is probably as good as the people counting the votes.

Craig 0:24
Yeah, exactly. Well, the problem here really seems to be related to what happened in 2014. Of course the hanging chads, the ballots, and problems back then. Florida and a lot of states around the country after the federal government put some funding in in '02, but Florida bought a bunch of equipment and the equipment they bought to count the votes was out of date when they bought it. So now they're trying to count the votes in Palm Beach County and a few other states have the same stuff. And Jack, they can only count one the election at a time. In other words, they have to run all of the balance sheets through the machine that counts for governor and then they have to rerun, reprogram the machine and rerun all of the ballots on the machine again, now to count the votes for Senator, etc, etc. So it's really crazy all of the work they have to go through. And then the machines themselves are having problems. Because, you know, Florida has this whole humidity thing. And you know what humidity does to paper. And with these old machines that are kind of nearing the end of physical life, as well as technical life, they are jamming up the machines, and that caused voting problems, and it is now causing problems with the recount. So there definitely seem to be some reasons outside of the politics for these counts, taking so long and being done so poorly,

Jack 1:55
Could be a coin toss at the end of the day might be as reliable, I just think they could have three different recounts, get three different results. Is that close?

Craig 2:03
Yeah, it does go that way. Many times in some of these recount, and there's talk now in Florida, that there could well be a manual recount. But you know, on top of all of this, there appears to be some incompetence, mixing in folks that were already deemed to be invalid with valid votes. And we know from two years ago, destroying ballots even though the court order they not be destroyed. So there's the person side of all of this, as well as the technology side. I think more than anything else, in order for people to feel confident that the votes count, we've got to keep up with the technology, we have to be secure. In fact, these machines in Florida two years ago in 2016, were known to be vulnerable to attack and not be secure. So we've got to keep this up so that we can count on our election results being but at least partially valid.

Jack 3:03
Yeah, well, who knows? Who knows where that's. I'll tell you it's gonna be quite a process can be quite some time to in the Lago coast, you know, imagine being these candidates and their campaigns and the intensity in and around this is going to show and not dissipate anytime soon. What else is catching your eye from a Tech Talk point of view?

Craig 3:19
Well, we've got some more evidence about China and China hacking. In fact, right now, we're seeing that China has been involved very, very heavily in hijacking networks of US, not just corporations, but internet service companies. China Telecom, you've been involved in this for a number of years now. And the bad part about all of this, and the way China's doing it is people just won't notice some of these hijacks that have happened, have taken all of the data that was going to or from a company, the websites, their emails, everything else, routing them through China breaking encryption and doing who knows what with that data. So again, this is something that the course the Trump the whole Trump Organization is looking into now and the government but just trying to figure out what's happening? Why is it happening? And I think the administration's on the right track China has been really taking advantage of our US corporations and I picked up a new client a few weeks ago they are small manufacturer right here in New Hampshire and their intellectual property. All their designs are everything that they've worked on for decades now is in the hands of the Chinese. So now they get to compete against their own designs from a manufacturer in China because the Chinese People's Liberation Army hacked their systems and they have no idea. This is a huge problem, Jack and something I've been doing some training with the FBI on on those webinars that I run, but it's happening every day. We gotta be careful not to do something more about it.

Jack 5:07
All right. To learn more, go to Craig Peterson with an O-N.com. http://CraigPeterson.com. Thanks, Craig.

Craig 5:12
Hey. Thanks, Jack.

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Florida Election Technology - China Hijacking Networks

Jack Heath: 0:00

Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guy. His show Tech Talk. Craig Peterson joins us now at the Auto Fair listener lines. Good morning Craig.

Craig Peterson: 0:05
A Good morning. I've been following what's been going on with the Florida week count of ballots. The technology behind all of that stuff Jack, it's really kind of interesting.

Jack 0:16
Yeah? Well, interesting is one way to put it. And who knows what the outcome will be Craig. Your guess is probably as good as the people counting the votes.

Craig 0:24
Yeah, exactly. Well, the problem here really seems to be related to what happened in 2014. Of course the hanging chads, the ballots, and problems back then. Florida and a lot of states around the country after the federal government put some funding in in '02, but Florida bought a bunch of equipment and the equipment they bought to count the votes was out of date when they bought it. So now they're trying to count the votes in Palm Beach County and a few other states have the same stuff. And Jack, they can only count one the election at a time. In other words, they have to run all of the balance sheets through the machine that counts for governor and then they have to rerun, reprogram the machine and rerun all of the ballots on the machine again, now to count the votes for Senator, etc, etc. So it's really crazy all of the work they have to go through. And then the machines themselves are having problems. Because, you know, Florida has this whole humidity thing. And you know what humidity does to paper. And with these old machines that are kind of nearing the end of physical life, as well as technical life, they are jamming up the machines, and that caused voting problems, and it is now causing problems with the recount. So there definitely seem to be some reasons outside of the politics for these counts, taking so long and being done so poorly,

Jack 1:55
Could be a coin toss at the end of the day might be as reliable, I just think they could have three different recounts, get three different results. Is that close?

Craig 2:03
Yeah, it does go that way. Many times in some of these recount, and there's talk now in Florida, that there could well be a manual recount. But you know, on top of all of this, there appears to be some incompetence, mixing in folks that were already deemed to be invalid with valid votes. And we know from two years ago, destroying ballots even though the court order they not be destroyed. So there's the person side of all of this, as well as the technology side. I think more than anything else, in order for people to feel confident that the votes count, we've got to keep up with the technology, we have to be secure. In fact, these machines in Florida two years ago in 2016, were known to be vulnerable to attack and not be secure. So we've got to keep this up so that we can count on our election results being but at least partially valid.

Jack 3:03
Yeah, well, who knows? Who knows where that's. I'll tell you it's gonna be quite a process can be quite some time to in the Lago coast, you know, imagine being these candidates and their campaigns and the intensity in and around this is going to show and not dissipate anytime soon. What else is catching your eye from a Tech Talk point of view?

Craig 3:19
Well, we've got some more evidence about China and China hacking. In fact, right now, we're seeing that China has been involved very, very heavily in hijacking networks of US, not just corporations, but internet service companies. China Telecom, you've been involved in this for a number of years now. And the bad part about all of this, and the way China's doing it is people just won't notice some of these hijacks that have happened, have taken all of the data that was going to or from a company, the websites, their emails, everything else, routing them through China breaking encryption and doing who knows what with that data. So again, this is something that the course the Trump the whole Trump Organization is looking into now and the government but just trying to figure out what's happening? Why is it happening? And I think the administration's on the right track China has been really taking advantage of our US corporations and I picked up a new client a few weeks ago they are small manufacturer right here in New Hampshire and their intellectual property. All their designs are everything that they've worked on for decades now is in the hands of the Chinese. So now they get to compete against their own designs from a manufacturer in China because the Chinese People's Liberation Army hacked their systems and they have no idea. This is a huge problem, Jack and something I've been doing some training with the FBI on on those webinars that I run, but it's happening every day. We gotta be careful not to do something more about it.

Jack 5:07
All right. To learn more, go to Craig Peterson with an O-N.com. http://CraigPeterson.com. Thanks, Craig.

Craig 5:12
Hey. Thanks, Jack.

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Airing date: 11/10/2018

China Monitoring US Communications - Stop Using Microsoft Edge - Cellphones Just Aren't Secure

Craig Peterson: Hello everybody Craig Peterson here for another half hour of Tech Talk. You can hear me online Of course on iHeart make sure you tune into your iHeart Radio stations. You'll find my
podcast also out pretty much everywhere and iTunes I really appreciate it when you take a few minutes and make a comment. I read them all over also on my website so you can go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Well, today we are going to be talking about a couple of things I think

Craig Peterson 0:34
you're going to find interesting one, we're going to tell you why you don't want to download Chrome, or at least ways not to download it. People are really getting scammed here with cell phones. Are they really secure? What does that mean? China has been hacking the vital internet backbone of many Western countries and MIT This is really interesting. We've talked a little bit before on the show about the whole trolley car dilemma we're talking about a little bit now, too, because MIT has conducted a study and they have completed it, I signed up for it and answered some of their questions. This was a while

Craig Peterson 1:13
back that I did it. I think it was the same study. But anyhow, we'll talk a little bit about that showed our self driving cars kill the cat, the elderly, or the baby, the results of the poll are in and they vary based on where you live. Ultimately, here, we're talking about some pretty exciting and interesting stuff.

Craig Peterson 1:36
Now, also, this week, I gotta warn everybody, particularly small business people, we picked up a couple of new clients again this week with major infections. Now the FBI is warning and they put out a warning here very recently about business email compromise. This is for small businesses who don't really have their security together, their people aren't doing the right term meaning. And even if you are, you might get nailed. There was an article in the news this week about one government employee clicking on a link in a website, I guess it came from a website and ended up compromising thousands of government computers. So it is a real problem.

Craig Peterson 2:20
And most businesses that get hit by this stuff end up out of business, the small ones do the bigger ones typically have a bigger budget to deal with. So in the case this week, it's a small company, family owned second generation. And they make things here in the US, which is really rather cool. And they thought they were safe, because they had three computers, that's all they had a couple of dozen employees who did the assembly of their product. And they were very careful about taking their computers offline off the internet when they didn't need to be on the internet. Well, we found 12 different major infections across just one computer. It's amazing what's been happening

Craig Peterson 3:08
and who knows what kind of data has been compromised from. So just, you know, everybody be careful out there. And we're going to have more training courses, keep an eye out. I've been really busy. The whole thing with the FBI Infraguard program where I'm running their webinars for them now, nationally, and it's just been very busy the last couple of weeks, I'm putting some stuff together, we're talking about a big summit that we're going to do maybe in the spring. In fact, this last week, there was a big head honcho meeting down in Quantico talking about it, but hopefully we'll have the security summit next year. I'm really

Craig Peterson 3:44
pushing to make it so that it's not just for FBI government, in regard people, because that's typically what I'm doing when I'm running these webinars for the FBI, you're just as a normal company person, you can't attend them. So I'm trying to get it so that second quarter next year, we can have this big summit anybody can attend for free. That's, that's what I'm aiming at here. Because I'm trying to get the information out and you'll be able to learn a whole lot. It's, you know, the plan is it's going to be a weeklong summit, we're going to have 50 or 60 different topics, different speakers, and we're going to arrange them into different tracks and you know, the whole big thing. So it'll be a huge, huge, huge thing. And hopefully, the FBI is going to say, Fine, go ahead. But you know, sometimes not, it can be difficult to convince them to

Craig Peterson 4:39
do things even if they don't have to do it. If I'm going to do all my work, all the work in my team is going to be helping out. So hopefully we'll be able to do that because there's so much good information that is available and you don't have to become an expert. That's the nice thing about it. Right? If you're trying to run a business, you're you're busy running your business you don't want to worry about the whole thing cyber thing and that's where we've been able to help out a whole lot with the FBI Infragard program free to join it takes a few months they do a basic background check. They don't call it an FBI background check because it's not but it's the FBI that does it but it's not one of these things where

Craig Peterson 5:18
like justice Kevin Oh, where they're drilling into everything in your background everyone we've ever mapped her anything it's just you know, I more like have emerged anyone recently type of background check so check it out Infragard.org you'll find that out there online you can sign up if you're involved in the critical infrastructure and I think it's important to do because there are alerts coming out from there all the time now let's get down to some of the articles from this week and if you got my newsletter this morning hopefully you did you can read along Of course I spent a lot of time doing commentary you're not going to find that in the newsletter and if you do don't

Craig Peterson 6:00
get my weekly newsletter sign up right now Craig peterson.com slash subscribe that's Craig C R A I G Peterson with an o.com slash subscribe. And right there on my homepage to there's a sign up if you want to be informed about some of these other free business webinars that we're having. Again, no charge people. This is

Craig Peterson 6:23
real. I'm I'm the real thing I'm trying to help out. I've been doing this for decades and decades, very long time. And I really want to help out I want to help you out if you're a home us. In fact, we had another brand new client come on board, she attended one of our webinars. And one of the ones that I did on ransomware a couple of
weeks ago, you know what, I'm going to have to send out a thing, invite you guys on to the replay because we got a lot of great feedback from it. But she's a non-paying client. And that's absolutely fine. Her husband in her had a business and he passed on, she sold the asset, shut down the business and had all of this stuff on her computer, which has, you guessed it - ransomware. So we are hopping on her machine and getting her all taken care of, and she is so grateful, you know, just a listener, I don't have a business can you help me out. And that's what we're here to do. So we're doing a cyber health assessment for her indication of compromise clean up after the ransomware, she has a basic backup.

Craig Peterson 7:41
And I thought this company did a better job than apparently, they're doing, I'm gonna have to look into this a little bit more and do a webinar on backups. But according to her, and it's a name, you all know if you know anything about backups. They only keep one generation for her. So she's not sure the backup they have is also encrypted with ransomware.

Craig Peterson 8:05
So she might be in big trouble. But that's the whole 321 rule. When it comes to backups at all, I'll have to explain. If you're interested, sign up. I will explain this. We do this site and kind of stuff offline because I don't want to drill down too deep on the radio show and lose too many people. But we will do one on backups. We've got some other scheduled to how to treat data at rest and encryption, encrypted vaults and all that stuff. Just trying to make it easy for everybody. So she's really worried because, you know, her husband passed on all of the records, they're all of the business records are there and she got ransomware, 60% of small businesses this year are expected to have a similar thing happened to them.

Craig Peterson 8:51
What would happen to your business do you think that would help or hurt? Yeah, yeah, 60% of businesses are expected to get one of these nasty pieces of nastiness from the bad guys. And of those 60%, 50% are expected to go out of business within six months. So by the end of the year, middle of next year, we will have a lot of small businesses who will be out of business and somewhere helping her out and we can help you out to we're not charging This is free. I have committed the resources to do 100 of these small business cyber health assessments to

Craig Peterson 9:32
toward in 2018, so we still have some left that we will do we the last quarter 2018, there's 100 available. You know, we normally charge for these but for listeners, I really want to help believe me, I want to help. That's why I do all of this volunteer work. I volunteer for the FBI and infer guard program to run the webinars. I am here to help bully me know a lot of people will tell you that I have hundreds and hundreds of recommendations along those lines. So don't don't feel afraid. Don't feel pressured because I'm not selling anything. Okay. I just visit right now. Craig Peterson. com, make sure you sign up to get notified about our future webinars because we'll we'll do more and they will continue on past the backup stuff. So let's get into some of the additional stuff China's doing right now.

Craig Peterson 10:30
Well, you know, China has been very involved in espionage. And you've heard it in the news, some of the news like Fox, etc. They tend to carry the whole story, Wall Street Journal, things like CNN whose viewership by the way down 40% in the last year more people according to the stats I saw this week, more people watch Cartoon Network, then watch CNN. So that shows you how credible they are is a news source. But anyhow, the Chinese have been stealing our intellectual property. And we caught the Chinese red-handed, no pun intended in a company or right here, right here, local, which just totally blew me away that they had three back doors into their systems and they were stealing all of their intellectual property.

Craig Peterson 11:24 
Imagine that right? I mentioned this before in the show, but you spend all this time all this effort with developing your intellectual property, developing your hardware, your software, all the designs, and this particular company again, it was an older gentleman that was running it he'd been running it all of his life, his entire investment, his life savings were tied up in the business and the Chinese were headstone and it also imagine competing against your own designs being made in China. Can you imagine that? Imagine how that would turn out. You are competing against your own designed, manufactured in China.

Craig Peterson 12:05
So China has been very busy in stealing our intellectual property. They really are people, this is not just our widgets better than yours. It's, hey, we made your widget better her reminds me of a joke from the 70s of you know, the Russians us invented something, and the Russians, quote, already invented it and quote, and then the Japanese, of course, made it smaller and cheaper back in the day. And of course, it's not Japan anymore. It is China.

Craig Peterson 12:35
Well, there is a new report out right now talking about a Chinese state owned telecommunications company that's been hijacking the vital internet backbone of Western countries. Now, this is according to an academic paper published just this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University. So these are people that really know what they're talking about.

Craig Peterson 13:01
And they're saying that the culprit here is China Telecom. This is the country's third largest telco, and they're an internet service provider, just like it here in the US, right? You might have Verizon or at amp T. Nowadays, Comcast is doing this sort of thing. But in this case, China Telecom has a presence inside North America, and has had presence inside our network since the early 2000s, when it created its first Point of Presence. So how do you think that might affect you, or might affect our networks here, they've been doing this they've had upon your presence for almost 20 years now. And as it turns out, here's what's happening. They've created these points of presence centers, these data centers,

Craig Peterson 13:47
and according to this report, these Chinese data centers are doing nothing more than rerouting internet traffic

Craig Peterson 13:55
between all of the smaller networks that make up the larger internet and are monitoring it now This happens all day. Every day. We do this right. Mike company is an internet backbone router

Craig Peterson 14:10
where we take stuff from archive and smaller networks. And we use protocol called BGP, and we tie all these networks together, and we send it out to the quickest shortest route on other networks. These are called autonomous systems, a SS and now you have huge companies like Google, oh, and Verizon, and others, all the way down through small little guys, you know, university networks, maybe banks, web hosting companies, companies like ours and others that are all doing this.

Craig Peterson 14:42
So apparently, what they've been doing is hijacking BGP announcement and it's kind of interesting because the studies have been showing that China Telecom started abusing this BGP protocol, which is used to route between the network,

Craig Peterson 15:00
China Telecom has been doing it at least ever since it entered into this pact and 2015. Now remember, September 2015, Obama and the president of China entered into this agreement, right, that China was going to stop all government back cyber operations, right. And I laugh as though, you know, really, really, you think they're going to stop it all? Yeah, cuz he asked, right,

Craig Peterson 15:29
no, they didn't stop it. In fact, they ratcheted up right then and there so that this agreement necessitated new ways to them get all the information. So they did enter China Telecom, the research is saying that they've built a route tracing system monitoring, the BGP announcements and distinguishing pattern suggesting accidental or deliberate hijack, you know, we've seen the Russians do this before. And, you know, we really are in a Cold War right now, frankly,

Craig Peterson 16:04
the Chinese are a little more concerning than the Russians are, I don't know if you saw this week. But the Russians biggest dry dock St. And they're only aircraft carrier. The only one the Russians have was damaged when this dry dock saying so Russia is not a huge challenge to us like China is becoming especially in the South China Sea. So they've got a system online, they've been watching it a lot of stat

Craig Peterson 16:32
in October 2016 traffic from several locations us to a large Anglo American bank headquarters in Milan, Italy, hijacked by China Telecom traffic from Sweden and Norway to the Japanese network of a large American news organization hijack to China for about six weeks. Now, the only way people really even notice this is things tend to get a little bit slower February 2016 for about six months routes from Canada to Korea were hijacked by China Telecom and routed through China traffic to the mail server and IP addresses of a large financial company in Thailand hijacked during April, May, July 2017. Some of the hijack attacks by the way, started in the U.S.A, were trying to telecom has a presence.

Craig Peterson 17:25
So it's very, very interesting here, China's network, very cut off on the rest of the world. And China is working with Google right now in developing the system to track all of their people even closer than they're being tracked right now very, very closed and yet their routing all of this traffic through their network so they can have a good look at them. So be careful out there. They really are out to get us it's it's amazing. I'd hate to think that some a war-ish stance or posture was taken by China. And they did all of this stuff more maliciously, than

Craig Peterson 18:02
they're even doing it right now. So be Be careful. And we have seen China now in various customer networks here, right here in the northeast United States. And, of course, other people are seeing them all over the country. We're seeing them, the FBI seen them, everybody seen them, China, it is a real risk right now.

Craig Peterson 18:31
Now, you know, I've talked about Microsoft before, you guys know, I have no love loss for Microsoft. Although I also have to say that I have been using some of their services more and more lately. And, and using them with my customers.

Craig Peterson 18:45
Microsoft has a new Office 365 stack. And they have one that even includes the operating system. And I got to say, given kudos here, because they are doing a very good job with it. Now, they're not solving all the problems. Security isn't the best. But it's not the worst. And I think you're much better off with a no 365 implementation than going for Google's implementation. But that has to do with security. And also has to do with keeping your data confidential.

Craig Peterson 19:17
People who download and install Windows, Windows 10, specifically, you notice there's a new browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a total piece of junk that was so far out of date, it was crazy. So many companies have written software that's dependent on so-called features, also known as side effects in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Explorer browser that you have to be careful. So my little word of advice just off of the side here, if you're in business at all, and you're thinking about having a website and having some features on it, do not use Internet Explorer, don't test for it, that's not your target. Nowadays, the number one browser out there by far as Google Chrome.

Craig Peterson 20:09
So if you're designing a website, make sure chrome works on it. If it works on it, you know, good for you, right? But Windows 10 comes with the Edge browser. And most people are thinking that the Edge browser really has one purpose in life. And that is to download Chrome or Firefox, Firefox being the better of the two at least right now. And if you want to be absolutely safe, you're probably best to run the epic browser, okay, will be very careful. Because if you run edge on your Windows 10 PC, and you don't have the URL for Google Chrome, and you

Craig Peterson 20:53
type download Chrome into the address bar. And if you click the first result provided by Bing search, tried, who's ever heard of being before well being is Microsoft search engine and they had been contracting to third parties to provide the results are trying to do it now themselves. But if you go into your new Windows 10, you open up the web browser, it's called Edge and you type in download Chrome, and you click on the first entry. The first URL, you are going to get highly visible Google Chrome ads for months.

Craig Peterson 21:34
Okay, Google and Firefox know this being can't be bothered, apparently, to fix this problem. So be very careful. Okay. The top result for download chrome was Google online.

Craig Peterson 21:51
It's a fake site. It's a pretty good copy of Google's chrome landing page, it looks general enough genuine enough to fool people the downloads called

Craig Peterson 22:02
chrome setup.exe. And the digital signature if you take a close look is signed by alpha criteria limited, and that's definitely not Google. So go to Google.com. And from Google.com, if you need to do a search is probably the easiest way to do a do a search for Chrome and stop using Edge. It is not a good browser. Okay, just don't use it. Use Chrome or use Mozilla's Firefox, something to seriously look at

Craig Peterson 22:37
and believe how fast this half hours going and goes quick, doesn't it?

Craig Peterson 22:41
Well, we're going to hit a couple more articles here really quickly. One has to do with cell phones. You might remember President Obama when he took office, he had his wonderful little Jimmy have a crack Barry, I think it was he had his little Blackberry that he used. And he didn't want to give it up because

Craig Peterson 22:58
he'd been using it for so many years. And he had so many friends on it. And he could, you know, text back and forth and have great messages, emails,

Craig Peterson 23:07
I can get it right. And now we've got President Trump The 4am 2am

Craig Peterson 23:13
is sending a tweet and he's using just regular phones. And there's anybody can tell. Now

Craig Peterson 23:18
President Obama was finally convinced by the Secret Service to stop using his own personal device. And he got a secured government device. But it looks like President Trump has still been using his cell phone since he became president. And that presents all kinds of potential security vulnerabilities. No question about it, even if it's iOS and fits Apple what Apple being much better than Android when it comes to security. But even if it's Apple, you got problems.

Craig Peterson 23:50
Now, the security rules do prohibit them from using a regular

Craig Peterson 23:52
cell phone throughout his presidency. But apparently he's using Twitter on his phone. So the question is, who else is listening in? Who might grab his Twitter account? Who might be able to listen to cell phone calls, who might be able to turn on the microphone in his smartphone and listen in on the conversation or turn on the camera

Craig Peterson 24:15
in it, right? Many companies or companies, many countries are trying to listen in, we know the NSA is listening in to everything they can they do bulk data collection that get as much

Craig Peterson 24:30
cell phone and texting information as they can possibly get from as many people as I can possibly get. And then they use that later on to figure out who spoke with whom. And if this person is a risk, then that person might be. So who else are they talking to? Right? You get into two hops, three hops, five hops away as they try and figure out who's who, right. Well, some of these other countries are going specifically one on one. And potentially there are two there's two basic places that you can eavesdrop on pretty much any communication system at the end point, obviously, which is the phones themselves. And if it's a smartphone, it can be compromised. I don't care who makes the phone and the other is during transmission. So cell phone attacker could also eavesdropping on the cellular network. And we've talked about those devices, Sting Ray devices that can be put up that are fake cell towers that allow a third party to listen in. Obviously, there's problems with all of this right now. 2016, WikiLeaks they published a series of classified documents listing target selectors. So these are phone numbers the NSA is searching for

Craig Peterson 25:50
and they included senior government officials from Germany including Chancellor Angela Merkel,

Craig Peterson 25:54
France, Japan, many other countries now

Craig Peterson 25:59
other countries don't have the worldwide reads the NSA

Craig Peterson 26:01
has but when you consider what we were just talking about with China and China Telecom being able to get into our networks and reroute traffic eavesdropping, including eavesdropping of the President's phone it's not inconceivable that absolutely for sure. Now if you

Craig Peterson 26:21
missed last week, well I did the ransomware webinar I've got more coming up we're going to be doing a webinar on backup absolutely free not selling anything no credit card needed there it goes out enough disclaimers I really want to help out make sure you visit http://CraigPeterson.com right there on the homepage. You can sign up to be notified when my next webinars going to be these are typically 45 minutes to an hour. They are information packed. I will give you replays of them if you attend and we've got a lot of people that are asking about it. So check it out, http://CraigPeterson.com. http://CraigPeterson.com and have a great week everybody. Take care. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 11/10/2018

China Monitoring US Communications - Stop Using Microsoft Edge - Cellphones Just Aren't Secure

Craig Peterson: Hello everybody Craig Peterson here for another half hour of Tech Talk. You can hear me online Of course on iHeart make sure you tune into your iHeart Radio stations. You'll find my
podcast also out pretty much everywhere and iTunes I really appreciate it when you take a few minutes and make a comment. I read them all over also on my website so you can go to http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes. Well, today we are going to be talking about a couple of things I think

Craig Peterson 0:34
you're going to find interesting one, we're going to tell you why you don't want to download Chrome, or at least ways not to download it. People are really getting scammed here with cell phones. Are they really secure? What does that mean? China has been hacking the vital internet backbone of many Western countries and MIT This is really interesting. We've talked a little bit before on the show about the whole trolley car dilemma we're talking about a little bit now, too, because MIT has conducted a study and they have completed it, I signed up for it and answered some of their questions. This was a while

Craig Peterson 1:13
back that I did it. I think it was the same study. But anyhow, we'll talk a little bit about that showed our self driving cars kill the cat, the elderly, or the baby, the results of the poll are in and they vary based on where you live. Ultimately, here, we're talking about some pretty exciting and interesting stuff.

Craig Peterson 1:36
Now, also, this week, I gotta warn everybody, particularly small business people, we picked up a couple of new clients again this week with major infections. Now the FBI is warning and they put out a warning here very recently about business email compromise. This is for small businesses who don't really have their security together, their people aren't doing the right term meaning. And even if you are, you might get nailed. There was an article in the news this week about one government employee clicking on a link in a website, I guess it came from a website and ended up compromising thousands of government computers. So it is a real problem.

Craig Peterson 2:20
And most businesses that get hit by this stuff end up out of business, the small ones do the bigger ones typically have a bigger budget to deal with. So in the case this week, it's a small company, family owned second generation. And they make things here in the US, which is really rather cool. And they thought they were safe, because they had three computers, that's all they had a couple of dozen employees who did the assembly of their product. And they were very careful about taking their computers offline off the internet when they didn't need to be on the internet. Well, we found 12 different major infections across just one computer. It's amazing what's been happening

Craig Peterson 3:08
and who knows what kind of data has been compromised from. So just, you know, everybody be careful out there. And we're going to have more training courses, keep an eye out. I've been really busy. The whole thing with the FBI Infraguard program where I'm running their webinars for them now, nationally, and it's just been very busy the last couple of weeks, I'm putting some stuff together, we're talking about a big summit that we're going to do maybe in the spring. In fact, this last week, there was a big head honcho meeting down in Quantico talking about it, but hopefully we'll have the security summit next year. I'm really

Craig Peterson 3:44
pushing to make it so that it's not just for FBI government, in regard people, because that's typically what I'm doing when I'm running these webinars for the FBI, you're just as a normal company person, you can't attend them. So I'm trying to get it so that second quarter next year, we can have this big summit anybody can attend for free. That's, that's what I'm aiming at here. Because I'm trying to get the information out and you'll be able to learn a whole lot. It's, you know, the plan is it's going to be a weeklong summit, we're going to have 50 or 60 different topics, different speakers, and we're going to arrange them into different tracks and you know, the whole big thing. So it'll be a huge, huge, huge thing. And hopefully, the FBI is going to say, Fine, go ahead. But you know, sometimes not, it can be difficult to convince them to

Craig Peterson 4:39
do things even if they don't have to do it. If I'm going to do all my work, all the work in my team is going to be helping out. So hopefully we'll be able to do that because there's so much good information that is available and you don't have to become an expert. That's the nice thing about it. Right? If you're trying to run a business, you're you're busy running your business you don't want to worry about the whole thing cyber thing and that's where we've been able to help out a whole lot with the FBI Infragard program free to join it takes a few months they do a basic background check. They don't call it an FBI background check because it's not but it's the FBI that does it but it's not one of these things where

Craig Peterson 5:18
like justice Kevin Oh, where they're drilling into everything in your background everyone we've ever mapped her anything it's just you know, I more like have emerged anyone recently type of background check so check it out Infragard.org you'll find that out there online you can sign up if you're involved in the critical infrastructure and I think it's important to do because there are alerts coming out from there all the time now let's get down to some of the articles from this week and if you got my newsletter this morning hopefully you did you can read along Of course I spent a lot of time doing commentary you're not going to find that in the newsletter and if you do don't

Craig Peterson 6:00
get my weekly newsletter sign up right now Craig peterson.com slash subscribe that's Craig C R A I G Peterson with an o.com slash subscribe. And right there on my homepage to there's a sign up if you want to be informed about some of these other free business webinars that we're having. Again, no charge people. This is

Craig Peterson 6:23
real. I'm I'm the real thing I'm trying to help out. I've been doing this for decades and decades, very long time. And I really want to help out I want to help you out if you're a home us. In fact, we had another brand new client come on board, she attended one of our webinars. And one of the ones that I did on ransomware a couple of
weeks ago, you know what, I'm going to have to send out a thing, invite you guys on to the replay because we got a lot of great feedback from it. But she's a non-paying client. And that's absolutely fine. Her husband in her had a business and he passed on, she sold the asset, shut down the business and had all of this stuff on her computer, which has, you guessed it - ransomware. So we are hopping on her machine and getting her all taken care of, and she is so grateful, you know, just a listener, I don't have a business can you help me out. And that's what we're here to do. So we're doing a cyber health assessment for her indication of compromise clean up after the ransomware, she has a basic backup.

Craig Peterson 7:41
And I thought this company did a better job than apparently, they're doing, I'm gonna have to look into this a little bit more and do a webinar on backups. But according to her, and it's a name, you all know if you know anything about backups. They only keep one generation for her. So she's not sure the backup they have is also encrypted with ransomware.

Craig Peterson 8:05
So she might be in big trouble. But that's the whole 321 rule. When it comes to backups at all, I'll have to explain. If you're interested, sign up. I will explain this. We do this site and kind of stuff offline because I don't want to drill down too deep on the radio show and lose too many people. But we will do one on backups. We've got some other scheduled to how to treat data at rest and encryption, encrypted vaults and all that stuff. Just trying to make it easy for everybody. So she's really worried because, you know, her husband passed on all of the records, they're all of the business records are there and she got ransomware, 60% of small businesses this year are expected to have a similar thing happened to them.

Craig Peterson 8:51
What would happen to your business do you think that would help or hurt? Yeah, yeah, 60% of businesses are expected to get one of these nasty pieces of nastiness from the bad guys. And of those 60%, 50% are expected to go out of business within six months. So by the end of the year, middle of next year, we will have a lot of small businesses who will be out of business and somewhere helping her out and we can help you out to we're not charging This is free. I have committed the resources to do 100 of these small business cyber health assessments to

Craig Peterson 9:32
toward in 2018, so we still have some left that we will do we the last quarter 2018, there's 100 available. You know, we normally charge for these but for listeners, I really want to help believe me, I want to help. That's why I do all of this volunteer work. I volunteer for the FBI and infer guard program to run the webinars. I am here to help bully me know a lot of people will tell you that I have hundreds and hundreds of recommendations along those lines. So don't don't feel afraid. Don't feel pressured because I'm not selling anything. Okay. I just visit right now. Craig Peterson. com, make sure you sign up to get notified about our future webinars because we'll we'll do more and they will continue on past the backup stuff. So let's get into some of the additional stuff China's doing right now.

Craig Peterson 10:30
Well, you know, China has been very involved in espionage. And you've heard it in the news, some of the news like Fox, etc. They tend to carry the whole story, Wall Street Journal, things like CNN whose viewership by the way down 40% in the last year more people according to the stats I saw this week, more people watch Cartoon Network, then watch CNN. So that shows you how credible they are is a news source. But anyhow, the Chinese have been stealing our intellectual property. And we caught the Chinese red-handed, no pun intended in a company or right here, right here, local, which just totally blew me away that they had three back doors into their systems and they were stealing all of their intellectual property.

Craig Peterson 11:24 
Imagine that right? I mentioned this before in the show, but you spend all this time all this effort with developing your intellectual property, developing your hardware, your software, all the designs, and this particular company again, it was an older gentleman that was running it he'd been running it all of his life, his entire investment, his life savings were tied up in the business and the Chinese were headstone and it also imagine competing against your own designs being made in China. Can you imagine that? Imagine how that would turn out. You are competing against your own designed, manufactured in China.

Craig Peterson 12:05
So China has been very busy in stealing our intellectual property. They really are people, this is not just our widgets better than yours. It's, hey, we made your widget better her reminds me of a joke from the 70s of you know, the Russians us invented something, and the Russians, quote, already invented it and quote, and then the Japanese, of course, made it smaller and cheaper back in the day. And of course, it's not Japan anymore. It is China.

Craig Peterson 12:35
Well, there is a new report out right now talking about a Chinese state owned telecommunications company that's been hijacking the vital internet backbone of Western countries. Now, this is according to an academic paper published just this week by researchers from the US Naval War College and Tel Aviv University. So these are people that really know what they're talking about.

Craig Peterson 13:01
And they're saying that the culprit here is China Telecom. This is the country's third largest telco, and they're an internet service provider, just like it here in the US, right? You might have Verizon or at amp T. Nowadays, Comcast is doing this sort of thing. But in this case, China Telecom has a presence inside North America, and has had presence inside our network since the early 2000s, when it created its first Point of Presence. So how do you think that might affect you, or might affect our networks here, they've been doing this they've had upon your presence for almost 20 years now. And as it turns out, here's what's happening. They've created these points of presence centers, these data centers,

Craig Peterson 13:47
and according to this report, these Chinese data centers are doing nothing more than rerouting internet traffic

Craig Peterson 13:55
between all of the smaller networks that make up the larger internet and are monitoring it now This happens all day. Every day. We do this right. Mike company is an internet backbone router

Craig Peterson 14:10
where we take stuff from archive and smaller networks. And we use protocol called BGP, and we tie all these networks together, and we send it out to the quickest shortest route on other networks. These are called autonomous systems, a SS and now you have huge companies like Google, oh, and Verizon, and others, all the way down through small little guys, you know, university networks, maybe banks, web hosting companies, companies like ours and others that are all doing this.

Craig Peterson 14:42
So apparently, what they've been doing is hijacking BGP announcement and it's kind of interesting because the studies have been showing that China Telecom started abusing this BGP protocol, which is used to route between the network,

Craig Peterson 15:00
China Telecom has been doing it at least ever since it entered into this pact and 2015. Now remember, September 2015, Obama and the president of China entered into this agreement, right, that China was going to stop all government back cyber operations, right. And I laugh as though, you know, really, really, you think they're going to stop it all? Yeah, cuz he asked, right,

Craig Peterson 15:29
no, they didn't stop it. In fact, they ratcheted up right then and there so that this agreement necessitated new ways to them get all the information. So they did enter China Telecom, the research is saying that they've built a route tracing system monitoring, the BGP announcements and distinguishing pattern suggesting accidental or deliberate hijack, you know, we've seen the Russians do this before. And, you know, we really are in a Cold War right now, frankly,

Craig Peterson 16:04
the Chinese are a little more concerning than the Russians are, I don't know if you saw this week. But the Russians biggest dry dock St. And they're only aircraft carrier. The only one the Russians have was damaged when this dry dock saying so Russia is not a huge challenge to us like China is becoming especially in the South China Sea. So they've got a system online, they've been watching it a lot of stat

Craig Peterson 16:32
in October 2016 traffic from several locations us to a large Anglo American bank headquarters in Milan, Italy, hijacked by China Telecom traffic from Sweden and Norway to the Japanese network of a large American news organization hijack to China for about six weeks. Now, the only way people really even notice this is things tend to get a little bit slower February 2016 for about six months routes from Canada to Korea were hijacked by China Telecom and routed through China traffic to the mail server and IP addresses of a large financial company in Thailand hijacked during April, May, July 2017. Some of the hijack attacks by the way, started in the U.S.A, were trying to telecom has a presence.

Craig Peterson 17:25
So it's very, very interesting here, China's network, very cut off on the rest of the world. And China is working with Google right now in developing the system to track all of their people even closer than they're being tracked right now very, very closed and yet their routing all of this traffic through their network so they can have a good look at them. So be careful out there. They really are out to get us it's it's amazing. I'd hate to think that some a war-ish stance or posture was taken by China. And they did all of this stuff more maliciously, than

Craig Peterson 18:02
they're even doing it right now. So be Be careful. And we have seen China now in various customer networks here, right here in the northeast United States. And, of course, other people are seeing them all over the country. We're seeing them, the FBI seen them, everybody seen them, China, it is a real risk right now.

Craig Peterson 18:31
Now, you know, I've talked about Microsoft before, you guys know, I have no love loss for Microsoft. Although I also have to say that I have been using some of their services more and more lately. And, and using them with my customers.

Craig Peterson 18:45
Microsoft has a new Office 365 stack. And they have one that even includes the operating system. And I got to say, given kudos here, because they are doing a very good job with it. Now, they're not solving all the problems. Security isn't the best. But it's not the worst. And I think you're much better off with a no 365 implementation than going for Google's implementation. But that has to do with security. And also has to do with keeping your data confidential.

Craig Peterson 19:17
People who download and install Windows, Windows 10, specifically, you notice there's a new browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a total piece of junk that was so far out of date, it was crazy. So many companies have written software that's dependent on so-called features, also known as side effects in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Explorer browser that you have to be careful. So my little word of advice just off of the side here, if you're in business at all, and you're thinking about having a website and having some features on it, do not use Internet Explorer, don't test for it, that's not your target. Nowadays, the number one browser out there by far as Google Chrome.

Craig Peterson 20:09
So if you're designing a website, make sure chrome works on it. If it works on it, you know, good for you, right? But Windows 10 comes with the Edge browser. And most people are thinking that the Edge browser really has one purpose in life. And that is to download Chrome or Firefox, Firefox being the better of the two at least right now. And if you want to be absolutely safe, you're probably best to run the epic browser, okay, will be very careful. Because if you run edge on your Windows 10 PC, and you don't have the URL for Google Chrome, and you

Craig Peterson 20:53
type download Chrome into the address bar. And if you click the first result provided by Bing search, tried, who's ever heard of being before well being is Microsoft search engine and they had been contracting to third parties to provide the results are trying to do it now themselves. But if you go into your new Windows 10, you open up the web browser, it's called Edge and you type in download Chrome, and you click on the first entry. The first URL, you are going to get highly visible Google Chrome ads for months.

Craig Peterson 21:34
Okay, Google and Firefox know this being can't be bothered, apparently, to fix this problem. So be very careful. Okay. The top result for download chrome was Google online.

Craig Peterson 21:51
It's a fake site. It's a pretty good copy of Google's chrome landing page, it looks general enough genuine enough to fool people the downloads called

Craig Peterson 22:02
chrome setup.exe. And the digital signature if you take a close look is signed by alpha criteria limited, and that's definitely not Google. So go to Google.com. And from Google.com, if you need to do a search is probably the easiest way to do a do a search for Chrome and stop using Edge. It is not a good browser. Okay, just don't use it. Use Chrome or use Mozilla's Firefox, something to seriously look at

Craig Peterson 22:37
and believe how fast this half hours going and goes quick, doesn't it?

Craig Peterson 22:41
Well, we're going to hit a couple more articles here really quickly. One has to do with cell phones. You might remember President Obama when he took office, he had his wonderful little Jimmy have a crack Barry, I think it was he had his little Blackberry that he used. And he didn't want to give it up because

Craig Peterson 22:58
he'd been using it for so many years. And he had so many friends on it. And he could, you know, text back and forth and have great messages, emails,

Craig Peterson 23:07
I can get it right. And now we've got President Trump The 4am 2am

Craig Peterson 23:13
is sending a tweet and he's using just regular phones. And there's anybody can tell. Now

Craig Peterson 23:18
President Obama was finally convinced by the Secret Service to stop using his own personal device. And he got a secured government device. But it looks like President Trump has still been using his cell phone since he became president. And that presents all kinds of potential security vulnerabilities. No question about it, even if it's iOS and fits Apple what Apple being much better than Android when it comes to security. But even if it's Apple, you got problems.

Craig Peterson 23:50
Now, the security rules do prohibit them from using a regular

Craig Peterson 23:52
cell phone throughout his presidency. But apparently he's using Twitter on his phone. So the question is, who else is listening in? Who might grab his Twitter account? Who might be able to listen to cell phone calls, who might be able to turn on the microphone in his smartphone and listen in on the conversation or turn on the camera

Craig Peterson 24:15
in it, right? Many companies or companies, many countries are trying to listen in, we know the NSA is listening in to everything they can they do bulk data collection that get as much

Craig Peterson 24:30
cell phone and texting information as they can possibly get from as many people as I can possibly get. And then they use that later on to figure out who spoke with whom. And if this person is a risk, then that person might be. So who else are they talking to? Right? You get into two hops, three hops, five hops away as they try and figure out who's who, right. Well, some of these other countries are going specifically one on one. And potentially there are two there's two basic places that you can eavesdrop on pretty much any communication system at the end point, obviously, which is the phones themselves. And if it's a smartphone, it can be compromised. I don't care who makes the phone and the other is during transmission. So cell phone attacker could also eavesdropping on the cellular network. And we've talked about those devices, Sting Ray devices that can be put up that are fake cell towers that allow a third party to listen in. Obviously, there's problems with all of this right now. 2016, WikiLeaks they published a series of classified documents listing target selectors. So these are phone numbers the NSA is searching for

Craig Peterson 25:50
and they included senior government officials from Germany including Chancellor Angela Merkel,

Craig Peterson 25:54
France, Japan, many other countries now

Craig Peterson 25:59
other countries don't have the worldwide reads the NSA

Craig Peterson 26:01
has but when you consider what we were just talking about with China and China Telecom being able to get into our networks and reroute traffic eavesdropping, including eavesdropping of the President's phone it's not inconceivable that absolutely for sure. Now if you

Craig Peterson 26:21
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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 10/31/2018

Artifical Intelligence - Tip Shaming With iPad POS - Watching Porn Email Fraud

Matt Gagnon: Time to talk to Craig Peterson our tech guru who is on the line right now. Craig

Unknown 0:03
Are you they doing good? I'm down with the heart of the beast today and down in Washington DC

Unknown 0:12
it Halloween? Right? Yes. Waiting ankle deep in the swamp.

Unknown 0:16
So speak about artificial intelligence Oh

Unknown 0:21
gonna be something that we can just have an artificial intelligence in the White House perhaps crack

Unknown 0:27
you know that actually might have

Unknown 0:29
some are we talking about robot president here?

Unknown 0:34
You are under arrest

Unknown 0:38
and Ed tool nine down the street. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the holy I think is really interesting. And we're already seeing chat box and other things out on social networks where you're trying to talk to a company and you're actually talking to a computer. But we're seeing more and more of this artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, we had a friend over at Google demonstrated in artificial intelligence that could call and make appointments, which is really kind of cool. If you heard those demos. In fact, I even sent them this morning in the email. But it is just amazing where it's going. And one of the things that's really starting to changes of the way we consume our, you know, medical services, right? Do you guys have you ever used one of those online services, we get on Skype or something, and you talk to a doctor remotely,

Unknown 1:33
I've never done that night, but I certainly know that it exists.

Unknown 1:35
Yeah, I've used it before, too, because for as little as like 20 bucks a month, you can subscribe to these things. And if you have something going on, you can just pop on talk to a doctor. And they can actually give some basic prescriptions. And they can also tell you, yeah, don't worry about it, or maybe taking to the emergency room or take them to your physician. So those types of services exist in there cutting some of the medical costs people have, well, when we look far forward, can you know, before the days of the robotic president and learn we're going to be seeing doctors online that are actually artificial intelligence. And the scary thing is the studies that are being done right now for, you know, looking at medicine, looking at computers are showing that computers are more accurate at diagnosing the majority of machine of diseases than the doctors are. So the computers are already doing better in some cases. I guess the ultimate question is, if you end up with something like it at 209 that Matt was referring to where, you know, bedside manner, is it going to be better or worse, if you're working with a computer? I don't know. But it's common. This is gonna be like, the,

Unknown 2:56
this is a nerd alert here, I guess was gonna be like the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager. I like this completely artificial intelligence saying treating you arrogant as a terrible bedside manner.

Unknown 3:10
Exactly. But yeah, that's kind of what it's going to be you you'll kind of chat with it. The first versions, you'll chat with them online, you'll describe your symptoms, not like going to the doctor, Google people don't just Google all of your symptoms, because you're going to find it that you are sick, it doesn't matter what your symptom is. And obviously, your heads going to fall off next week. But you're going to chat with them. And they will come up with some basic advice. And then the next step will be that it's going to be able to examine you look at your, the new Apple Watch as you get that, yes,

Unknown 3:44
no, it's gonna be my Christmas present, you know, okay,

Unknown 3:48
well, that Apple Watch today can do some basic cardiac measurements, right. And, you know, give it a few another couple of years, they'll have all kinds of stuff that's they can use that for even the camera on the Apple Watches now are being used to monitor your skin for cancer and various other things. So it's going to be you wearing your shirt to the gym, and your shirts going to be monitoring you telling you, you better stop that treadmill right now, get yourself to the hospital might even call nine one for you. Because I've noticed a major cardiac arrhythmia or your Apple Watch is going to do that it there. Everything's going to change and it's going to be a computer-centric world.

Unknown 4:32
Craig Peterson, tech guru Wednesday morning, 738. It is that time and we're talking to Craig right now. Craig is my Facebook account for sale on the evil dark web right now

Unknown 4:45
here. This is something right. We talked a couple weeks ago about the big pack some 50 million people's accounts were hacked. And we didn't really know what was stolen and Facebook wasn't being totally upfront about everything. And then downgraded at Facebook settle knows more like 30 million people. Just 30 million. Yeah, give her know what they got, what 2 billion subscribers counter something you know. So yeah, what's 30 million? Well yes, it turns out that Facebook has not only been hacked but their information has made it onto the dark web and you can go on the dark web but right now and you can find on the new marketplace you guys know about so grow right yes i did was

Unknown 5:33
i downtown does but I do know I don't

Unknown 5:35
want can might remember the original shirt he's probably old enough yeah what is it yeah yeah

Unknown 5:41
he's doing a legal briefs

Unknown 5:44
reading about matching reading what this thing about porn and fraudulent emails with them and ask them about next. Okay, shut up. Sorry about that.

Unknown 5:54
So. So this is going to interesting because between three and co dollars on the dark web, you can go out and buy the information from the hat accounts. So it looks like this is credible. It's on dream market, which is the new big dark web market, you know, Silk Road went away was it was taken down by the FBI, the guy apparently behind it all in, you know, criminal charges and everything and some jail time. So now dream market is the new market that has replaced it. And if your Facebook information was stolen, it is apparently now for sale online.

Unknown 6:37
Alright, so Ken has a porn question. But you also have the one about about tipping by your tipping when you buy a muffin. So it's, um, it's a toss up what question I will answer. But well, knowing where your mind goes, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that pornography is. So let me get this straight. Some people are emailing us saying I caught you looking at adult website. And if you don't give me money, I'm going to drop a diamond. You basically can expose that to the public.

Unknown 7:04
That's exactly what it is. And when you got that can

Unknown 7:11
I said I don't know what you're talking about. Because I don't look at a website. I did. I did google home early this morning. But that was not on a porn website.

Unknown 7:25
But that is what's happening. But here's what's going on this. These scammers have found people's email addresses and passwords from a various online systems that have been breached. Now, what can trust me what this whole thing tells me is we are not using passwords properly. You know, you're supposed to be using a different password on every website, even a different username, different email addresses, right. So here's what happened. The bad guys got all of us information that was stolen from a bunch of different websites out there, they put it all together into a pot. And then they started mailing out these pieces of mail saying exactly what you said, Hey, we found your user information out on this porn site. And by the way, here's your password. And here's your username, which is typically your email address. If you don't pay us we will let everybody in your contacts and know that you were at this porn site and that you are a member now it's interesting because this is in fact people are getting scared because it is their password but they never visited that porn site.

Unknown 8:43
So sure they have Craig

Unknown 8:47
so what it meant in my case is I was using the same password to each site and that's what's happening out there. People are just you're using the same password and all of these sites and they're getting upset and worried because it is the password that they use but it was not hacked that porn site it was just hacked somewhere else so so you

Unknown 9:08
just

Unknown 9:11
want to make sure since I've never gone to a porn site of course that they look at my camera and be filming me looking at the porn site

Unknown 9:18
yeah well that's possible too well I was down here we did a demo of how it only takes about 90 seconds to hack somebody's computer and just from a drive by download and turn on their camera but yeah that's possible that can happen they can watch you watching porn now for me it's just my mouth starts to water cuz I love that porn but um. There's a lot of different types of poor air might not want to have that app don't visit those bites right there the worst when it comes to drive by downloads and viruses and just all kinds of bad

Unknown 9:57
let me delete hope yeah okay of nastiness would be the right place the right What do you want to ask your muffin question? Well yeah you know you bring this up that you go into a place on I will miss the place but I go in and I give them my Apple Pay or give them a credit card and they turn around and it has a tip on it I got it I mean they just hated me a muffin Why am I turning around and handing me a muffin

Unknown 10:26
something right it's a guilt play my age you feel a little guilty when they interesting my wife said to me one

Unknown 10:33
time when you go pick up the Chinese food do you leave a tip and I never asked don't yet but I've started doing it because I think it will they all put in the mail to you always tip your takeout I person Yeah. So I guess in fact, I actually tipped them Oh, I don't really well. I don't either.

Unknown 10:49
They know who you are, you know,

Unknown 10:51
can I tell your story and Sorry, I'm gonna go ahead and indulge myself here a little bit. But what one of the places that I go a lot, is a famous Daves in Scarborough. Whenever I'm in the neighborhood and they get some get a chicken salad. They're beginning for years. Because I like it. I tip them very well. And I treat them very nicely and they just changed it. Listen to me. They just changed their menu. And like two weeks before they change the menu. They're like, Man, you know, you know that we're changing the chicken. And we want to make sure that we have your opinion on this. So I made you a badge of the new chicken. Would you try it? Oh, wow. Yes, by the way, excellent chicken. But I'm saying you get treated like goals. So if you say you should check them out, your recommendation

Unknown 11:29
is a problem is because they have these little, you know, iPad or tablet and they run your card and then they turn it around to you. Now you're standing in line there are people in line behind you plus the guy that just turned this around to you. And the default tip amounts are like 1520 or 25% for handing them a muffin or grabbing some coffee. You know what what's going on here it is it's really awkward and I've been there myself and for usually just say other and I give them some minor tip like a box or something as opposed to the two or $3 it might be recommending it you know, they're not paid terribly well. But I I think that's kind of tip shaming should go away. That's a part of technology. I definitely don't like

Unknown 12:22
yes, shaming should go but you should still tipping point shaming should go away to

Unknown 12:28
Craig

Unknown 12:29
Well, typically

Unknown 12:30
absolutely as you should. We're going to go and leave it there Craig, appreciate you joining us and we will talk to you again next week. Sir.

Unknown 12:36
Hey, take care guys. Bye bye. Alright, great. So of course

Unknown 12:41
ties into a script doing

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 10/31/2018

Artifical Intelligence - Tip Shaming With iPad POS - Watching Porn Email Fraud

Matt Gagnon: Time to talk to Craig Peterson our tech guru who is on the line right now. Craig

Unknown 0:03
Are you they doing good? I'm down with the heart of the beast today and down in Washington DC

Unknown 0:12
it Halloween? Right? Yes. Waiting ankle deep in the swamp.

Unknown 0:16
So speak about artificial intelligence Oh

Unknown 0:21
gonna be something that we can just have an artificial intelligence in the White House perhaps crack

Unknown 0:27
you know that actually might have

Unknown 0:29
some are we talking about robot president here?

Unknown 0:34
You are under arrest

Unknown 0:38
and Ed tool nine down the street. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, the holy I think is really interesting. And we're already seeing chat box and other things out on social networks where you're trying to talk to a company and you're actually talking to a computer. But we're seeing more and more of this artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, we had a friend over at Google demonstrated in artificial intelligence that could call and make appointments, which is really kind of cool. If you heard those demos. In fact, I even sent them this morning in the email. But it is just amazing where it's going. And one of the things that's really starting to changes of the way we consume our, you know, medical services, right? Do you guys have you ever used one of those online services, we get on Skype or something, and you talk to a doctor remotely,

Unknown 1:33
I've never done that night, but I certainly know that it exists.

Unknown 1:35
Yeah, I've used it before, too, because for as little as like 20 bucks a month, you can subscribe to these things. And if you have something going on, you can just pop on talk to a doctor. And they can actually give some basic prescriptions. And they can also tell you, yeah, don't worry about it, or maybe taking to the emergency room or take them to your physician. So those types of services exist in there cutting some of the medical costs people have, well, when we look far forward, can you know, before the days of the robotic president and learn we're going to be seeing doctors online that are actually artificial intelligence. And the scary thing is the studies that are being done right now for, you know, looking at medicine, looking at computers are showing that computers are more accurate at diagnosing the majority of machine of diseases than the doctors are. So the computers are already doing better in some cases. I guess the ultimate question is, if you end up with something like it at 209 that Matt was referring to where, you know, bedside manner, is it going to be better or worse, if you're working with a computer? I don't know. But it's common. This is gonna be like, the,

Unknown 2:56
this is a nerd alert here, I guess was gonna be like the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager. I like this completely artificial intelligence saying treating you arrogant as a terrible bedside manner.

Unknown 3:10
Exactly. But yeah, that's kind of what it's going to be you you'll kind of chat with it. The first versions, you'll chat with them online, you'll describe your symptoms, not like going to the doctor, Google people don't just Google all of your symptoms, because you're going to find it that you are sick, it doesn't matter what your symptom is. And obviously, your heads going to fall off next week. But you're going to chat with them. And they will come up with some basic advice. And then the next step will be that it's going to be able to examine you look at your, the new Apple Watch as you get that, yes,

Unknown 3:44
no, it's gonna be my Christmas present, you know, okay,

Unknown 3:48
well, that Apple Watch today can do some basic cardiac measurements, right. And, you know, give it a few another couple of years, they'll have all kinds of stuff that's they can use that for even the camera on the Apple Watches now are being used to monitor your skin for cancer and various other things. So it's going to be you wearing your shirt to the gym, and your shirts going to be monitoring you telling you, you better stop that treadmill right now, get yourself to the hospital might even call nine one for you. Because I've noticed a major cardiac arrhythmia or your Apple Watch is going to do that it there. Everything's going to change and it's going to be a computer-centric world.

Unknown 4:32
Craig Peterson, tech guru Wednesday morning, 738. It is that time and we're talking to Craig right now. Craig is my Facebook account for sale on the evil dark web right now

Unknown 4:45
here. This is something right. We talked a couple weeks ago about the big pack some 50 million people's accounts were hacked. And we didn't really know what was stolen and Facebook wasn't being totally upfront about everything. And then downgraded at Facebook settle knows more like 30 million people. Just 30 million. Yeah, give her know what they got, what 2 billion subscribers counter something you know. So yeah, what's 30 million? Well yes, it turns out that Facebook has not only been hacked but their information has made it onto the dark web and you can go on the dark web but right now and you can find on the new marketplace you guys know about so grow right yes i did was

Unknown 5:33
i downtown does but I do know I don't

Unknown 5:35
want can might remember the original shirt he's probably old enough yeah what is it yeah yeah

Unknown 5:41
he's doing a legal briefs

Unknown 5:44
reading about matching reading what this thing about porn and fraudulent emails with them and ask them about next. Okay, shut up. Sorry about that.

Unknown 5:54
So. So this is going to interesting because between three and co dollars on the dark web, you can go out and buy the information from the hat accounts. So it looks like this is credible. It's on dream market, which is the new big dark web market, you know, Silk Road went away was it was taken down by the FBI, the guy apparently behind it all in, you know, criminal charges and everything and some jail time. So now dream market is the new market that has replaced it. And if your Facebook information was stolen, it is apparently now for sale online.

Unknown 6:37
Alright, so Ken has a porn question. But you also have the one about about tipping by your tipping when you buy a muffin. So it's, um, it's a toss up what question I will answer. But well, knowing where your mind goes, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that pornography is. So let me get this straight. Some people are emailing us saying I caught you looking at adult website. And if you don't give me money, I'm going to drop a diamond. You basically can expose that to the public.

Unknown 7:04
That's exactly what it is. And when you got that can

Unknown 7:11
I said I don't know what you're talking about. Because I don't look at a website. I did. I did google home early this morning. But that was not on a porn website.

Unknown 7:25
But that is what's happening. But here's what's going on this. These scammers have found people's email addresses and passwords from a various online systems that have been breached. Now, what can trust me what this whole thing tells me is we are not using passwords properly. You know, you're supposed to be using a different password on every website, even a different username, different email addresses, right. So here's what happened. The bad guys got all of us information that was stolen from a bunch of different websites out there, they put it all together into a pot. And then they started mailing out these pieces of mail saying exactly what you said, Hey, we found your user information out on this porn site. And by the way, here's your password. And here's your username, which is typically your email address. If you don't pay us we will let everybody in your contacts and know that you were at this porn site and that you are a member now it's interesting because this is in fact people are getting scared because it is their password but they never visited that porn site.

Unknown 8:43
So sure they have Craig

Unknown 8:47
so what it meant in my case is I was using the same password to each site and that's what's happening out there. People are just you're using the same password and all of these sites and they're getting upset and worried because it is the password that they use but it was not hacked that porn site it was just hacked somewhere else so so you

Unknown 9:08
just

Unknown 9:11
want to make sure since I've never gone to a porn site of course that they look at my camera and be filming me looking at the porn site

Unknown 9:18
yeah well that's possible too well I was down here we did a demo of how it only takes about 90 seconds to hack somebody's computer and just from a drive by download and turn on their camera but yeah that's possible that can happen they can watch you watching porn now for me it's just my mouth starts to water cuz I love that porn but um. There's a lot of different types of poor air might not want to have that app don't visit those bites right there the worst when it comes to drive by downloads and viruses and just all kinds of bad

Unknown 9:57
let me delete hope yeah okay of nastiness would be the right place the right What do you want to ask your muffin question? Well yeah you know you bring this up that you go into a place on I will miss the place but I go in and I give them my Apple Pay or give them a credit card and they turn around and it has a tip on it I got it I mean they just hated me a muffin Why am I turning around and handing me a muffin

Unknown 10:26
something right it's a guilt play my age you feel a little guilty when they interesting my wife said to me one

Unknown 10:33
time when you go pick up the Chinese food do you leave a tip and I never asked don't yet but I've started doing it because I think it will they all put in the mail to you always tip your takeout I person Yeah. So I guess in fact, I actually tipped them Oh, I don't really well. I don't either.

Unknown 10:49
They know who you are, you know,

Unknown 10:51
can I tell your story and Sorry, I'm gonna go ahead and indulge myself here a little bit. But what one of the places that I go a lot, is a famous Daves in Scarborough. Whenever I'm in the neighborhood and they get some get a chicken salad. They're beginning for years. Because I like it. I tip them very well. And I treat them very nicely and they just changed it. Listen to me. They just changed their menu. And like two weeks before they change the menu. They're like, Man, you know, you know that we're changing the chicken. And we want to make sure that we have your opinion on this. So I made you a badge of the new chicken. Would you try it? Oh, wow. Yes, by the way, excellent chicken. But I'm saying you get treated like goals. So if you say you should check them out, your recommendation

Unknown 11:29
is a problem is because they have these little, you know, iPad or tablet and they run your card and then they turn it around to you. Now you're standing in line there are people in line behind you plus the guy that just turned this around to you. And the default tip amounts are like 1520 or 25% for handing them a muffin or grabbing some coffee. You know what what's going on here it is it's really awkward and I've been there myself and for usually just say other and I give them some minor tip like a box or something as opposed to the two or $3 it might be recommending it you know, they're not paid terribly well. But I I think that's kind of tip shaming should go away. That's a part of technology. I definitely don't like

Unknown 12:22
yes, shaming should go but you should still tipping point shaming should go away to

Unknown 12:28
Craig

Unknown 12:29
Well, typically

Unknown 12:30
absolutely as you should. We're going to go and leave it there Craig, appreciate you joining us and we will talk to you again next week. Sir.

Unknown 12:36
Hey, take care guys. Bye bye. Alright, great. So of course

Unknown 12:41
ties into a script doing

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