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Your next visit to your doctor may be with an artificial intelligence. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 10/30/2018

Your Next Doctor Visit May Be With An Artificial Intelligence

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here this morning. I was on with Jim Polito. And of course he is down in mass covers pretty much the whole state, parts of Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut. So it's always fun to be on with him, too. Because not only does he have a lot of listeners, but he's a fun, great guy. Love the guy. Now, he was talking about his doctor's office, and how he thinks they might be using this artificial intelligence to book appointments, change appointments, etc. And he's been meaning to ask me about that for a while. So I had, I think, some great information that many people will be interested in. And I think you're going to be interested in it for real personal reason, this could be happening to you. And if you're in the medical field, or you know, someone in the medical field, you're going to listen to this as well, because there will be huge impacts throughout our whole society. So here we go with Jim

Unknown 0:57
as a topic for today. I'm talking about our tech guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 1:03
Good morning.

Unknown 1:05
Well, listen, here's the deal, I swear. And I've been meaning to ask my doctor's office and the guy is a British accent. So it's either an answering service that answers for them a calling center, or its actual artificial intelligence. And I feel like with the little bit of a delay in the way that he answers that it could actually be a computer I'm talking with, and you're saying we're not doing it could be right. Yeah,

Unknown 1:34
absolutely. In fact, that there's a couple of audio samples in today's in the email. Yeah.

Unknown 1:41
Danny, you know what? Because of my problem with my computer, can you pull up some of those audio, he embedded them right, in the email Craig did. And before we play one of them, Craig, this is actually now possible to have a conversation with a computer. Yeah,

Unknown 1:59
this is happening more and more out. And, and it shocked me. It really it started in a few different websites, for instance, there. Have you ever use this site called Facebook?

Unknown 2:13
Oh, yeah, of course.

Unknown 2:16
Actually. It's open right now on my computer. And but I have a problem with this desktop right now with my email. So go ahead. Yeah, so Facebook,

Unknown 2:26
Facebook Messenger. And there are a lot of companies that have taken messenger now and tied it into what are called bought. So when you send a message to somebody to some company, and you get a pretty quick response, that's almost always the computers that tech has been around for a while you're asking about your doctor's office, which is interesting, because as you pointed out, there's companies like an angel, there's a couple of others out there, that what they do is they listen to your voice. And they have kind of a pre-program, very limited script. In the you're also mentioned that which is, you know, say the extension here calling or tell me what problem you're trying to solve today. And it's obviously a computer. Well, things have changed lately, because of the whole advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence. And it's gotten to the point where, at the very high end, yeah, these systems can have a conversation with you. And that conversation, you really can't tell that it's a computer, and that's the ultimate touring casts you touring was the guy and Bletchley Park over in the UK. Yeah, who came up with the code breaker for the German Enigma machine. So we were able to break the German code for all the last time for so the war and he just a brilliant man, but he said, the ultimate tasks will be can you tell the difference between talking to a human or talking to a computer? Yeah, yeah,

Unknown 4:12
that was just a movie that came out about that it didn't do well. And it was kind of weird, but it was a very wealthy IT person conducting what would be an illegal test to determine that the Turing test Yeah, can you tell the difference? Are you able to know? Yeah,

Unknown 4:33
we are literally just years away from a passing missions pass the Turing test. So in answer to your question about your doctor, your years, probably a pause because the guy probably is in the UK or, or some other place. And so it takes a little while for the data for your voice to get there to come back. Okay. And you notice that on shelves for so for instance, you and I are talking this morning and there is a one or two-second delay, I'm I'm down in Washington, DC in the belly of the beast. Oh, boy.

Unknown 5:10
You feel sorry. Please. prayers for me. If you

Unknown 5:13
don't forget to take a shower before you leave there, you know. Yeah,

Unknown 5:16
so your doctor? Probably not. Okay. There's a great example. Hopefully, Danny.

Unknown 5:25
Danny, why don't you play that audio of this artificial intelligence? having a conversation happening healthier?

Unknown 5:30
Hi. I'm calling to book a woman's haircut for our clients. I'm looking for something on May 3.

Unknown 5:37
Give me one second.

Unknown 5:40
Mm hmm.

Unknown 5:43
Sure. What time are you looking for? Well,

Unknown 5:47
at 12 pm, we do not have a 12 pm available. The closest we have to that is a 115. Do you have anything between 10 am and 12 pm? Depends what service she would like. What services she looking for.

Unknown 6:04
Just a woman's haircut for now. Okay. We have a 10 o'clock. 10 am is fine. Okay. What's her first name? The first name is Lisa.

Unknown 6:15
Okay, perfect. So I will see Lisa at 10 o'clock on May 3. Okay, great. Thanks. Great. Have a great day. Bye.

Unknown 6:23
Now. The computer was making the appointment right Craig?

Unknown 6:28
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. digital system that's it

Unknown 6:32
now nobody all the day did was teach it to make that appointment and but also be able to understand the responses from the woman answering the phone? Yeah,

Unknown 6:43
well, it was a little bit more than that they this was really kind of a first-generation artificial intelligence developed by Google and they had trained is all about phone calls, phone call etiquette. How human make phone calls and all about women's beauty salon. So the AI knew about that. And did you notice that she did a couple of things like she like the artificial intelligence through and some Yeah,

Unknown 7:15
I mean, you could tell it was a little, you know, but there's no way that that woman on the other end of the line was suspicious at all.

Unknown 7:25
No, I don't think she was she was busy with their job. But that's that's what Google's aiming for. And these other companies is, you know, we've got things like Alexa their homes and offices and that Google Home and apple and I, Siri and others, those are all aiming at this will know what you like thing, know what you need, and they will be able to not only make care appointments for you, but think about this thing. Like your doctor's example. your doctor's office might have an artificial intelligence as well. So you'll have to a ice hockey I know

Unknown 8:04
but you know, I was I was actually changing an appointment when I made that call. And that's why I thought this is strange. But anyway, that's very, very interesting. Is the other example that you put in the same as this one

Unknown 8:19
different Apple much more difficult looking at a restaurant

Unknown 8:25
restaurant reservation. Okay, let's try this.

Unknown 8:30
I hear you. Hi. I'd like to reserve a table for Wednesday. The second

Unknown 8:37
seven people.

Unknown 8:39
Um. It's for people for people

Unknown 8:46
Wednesday at 6 pm.

Unknown 8:49
Oh, actually. We need to fill light opera like a five people healthier for me. Well, you can come

Unknown 8:57
How long is the way usually to be seated.

Unknown 9:01
When? Tomorrow week? A

Unknown 9:04
for next Wednesday. The seventh? Oh, nice. Not too easy. If you can cover for

Unknown 9:13
Oh, I gotcha. Thanks.

Unknown 9:16
That was pretty good. Because the woman had a language issue and wasn't answering because of that was giving incorrect answers. And the computer which was the man calling to make the reservation was able to adapt. Wow,

Unknown 9:35
that's something when we're thinking about your doctor's appointment with your kind of how we started this whole conversation. Yeah, we're getting into the point now. Where

Unknown 9:49
I hate to say it. Yeah, but artificial intelligence Now, depending on what the diseases but just generally, the tests that have been done much attentive to the patient needs

Unknown 10:04
gifts, the correct like most Yeah, at a much higher rate.

Unknown 10:11
It's good. It's gonna be like Star Wars, there's gonna be a droid over me taking out my appendix.

Unknown 10:18
That's what's gonna happen. It's when it's like what we're doing. Now. I have a service that I use that I can get on Skype with and cost your doctor and you know, the doctor can prescribe certain basic medications. Yeah, but now the doctor says, Yeah, you better go to the emergency room. Right? Right. You know, so the next step beyond that isn't the doctor on guy, it's an AI on Skype, or the phone or whatever, helping you out, tried to do bit of attack, gnosis have been sending you to maybe a hospital, if that's what you mean. And it's hard to be way for anything we have today. And it's going to be very efficient. And I don't know how the bedside manners going to be. But you listen to these calls, then the artificial intelligence in both cases was very polite. Yeah. And maybe it'll be better. But no,

Unknown 11:16
you never know. This was fascinating. Folks. This is just one topic with Craig Peterson and weekly he provides me with many. And if you would like to actually get the same information that I receive every week, you can do it all the job to do is not the artificial intelligence and text My name to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. But I promise you, the real Craig Peterson will get back to you not an Android, right. And when I say right, I mean, the Google hardware. I mean, like in the old movies, we used to call them androids, right?

Unknown 12:08
Enjoy Yeah. droids. But Google is

Unknown 12:14
a statement from George Lucas Craig was this was fascinating and so when I get the English guy again, I'm I am going to ask them Are you a computer

Unknown 12:27
question is how should they answer

Unknown 12:29
right yeah, no, Jim I'm not a computer. Yeah,

Unknown 12:35
there are proposed was that says that if you ask and a

Unknown 12:40
half good proposed lot, not there yet.

Unknown 12:45
Open the pod bay doors. How open the pod bay doors how

Unknown 12:51
Craig theaters on our tech talk crew fascinating segment. Thank you, Greg.

Unknown 12:55
Thanks, Jim.

Unknown 12:56
Bye-bye. Bye. Bye. We will be back with a fun

Unknown 12:58
Hey, don't forget to visit online http://craigpeterson.com. Sign up for my weekly emails. You'll get everything that we just talked about with Jim, in fact, a whole lot more because I think I had eight different articles that I curated this week and we only got two one so make sure you visit me online http://craigpeterson.com. Also that's where you will find out about these special free master classes that I have no credit card required absolutely no commitment on your part other than to show up and these are great training. You should see the feedback I've gotten on my webinars. I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of positive comments from people so I know you'll enjoy them. But the only way you'll find out make sure you subscribe. http://craigpeterson.com/subscribe. Hey, we'll be back tomorrow. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Your next visit to your doctor may be with an artificial intelligence. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

Craig is on today with Jim Polito as they discuss this in depth on The Jim Polito Show on WTAG.

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

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Your Next Appointment May Begin By Talking With An Artificial Intelligence

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 10/30/2018

Your Next Doctor Visit May Be With An Artificial Intelligence

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here this morning. I was on with Jim Polito. And of course he is down in mass covers pretty much the whole state, parts of Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut. So it's always fun to be on with him, too. Because not only does he have a lot of listeners, but he's a fun, great guy. Love the guy. Now, he was talking about his doctor's office, and how he thinks they might be using this artificial intelligence to book appointments, change appointments, etc. And he's been meaning to ask me about that for a while. So I had, I think, some great information that many people will be interested in. And I think you're going to be interested in it for real personal reason, this could be happening to you. And if you're in the medical field, or you know, someone in the medical field, you're going to listen to this as well, because there will be huge impacts throughout our whole society. So here we go with Jim

Unknown 0:57
as a topic for today. I'm talking about our tech guru Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 1:03
Good morning.

Unknown 1:05
Well, listen, here's the deal, I swear. And I've been meaning to ask my doctor's office and the guy is a British accent. So it's either an answering service that answers for them a calling center, or its actual artificial intelligence. And I feel like with the little bit of a delay in the way that he answers that it could actually be a computer I'm talking with, and you're saying we're not doing it could be right. Yeah,

Unknown 1:34
absolutely. In fact, that there's a couple of audio samples in today's in the email. Yeah.

Unknown 1:41
Danny, you know what? Because of my problem with my computer, can you pull up some of those audio, he embedded them right, in the email Craig did. And before we play one of them, Craig, this is actually now possible to have a conversation with a computer. Yeah,

Unknown 1:59
this is happening more and more out. And, and it shocked me. It really it started in a few different websites, for instance, there. Have you ever use this site called Facebook?

Unknown 2:13
Oh, yeah, of course.

Unknown 2:16
Actually. It's open right now on my computer. And but I have a problem with this desktop right now with my email. So go ahead. Yeah, so Facebook,

Unknown 2:26
Facebook Messenger. And there are a lot of companies that have taken messenger now and tied it into what are called bought. So when you send a message to somebody to some company, and you get a pretty quick response, that's almost always the computers that tech has been around for a while you're asking about your doctor's office, which is interesting, because as you pointed out, there's companies like an angel, there's a couple of others out there, that what they do is they listen to your voice. And they have kind of a pre-program, very limited script. In the you're also mentioned that which is, you know, say the extension here calling or tell me what problem you're trying to solve today. And it's obviously a computer. Well, things have changed lately, because of the whole advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence. And it's gotten to the point where, at the very high end, yeah, these systems can have a conversation with you. And that conversation, you really can't tell that it's a computer, and that's the ultimate touring casts you touring was the guy and Bletchley Park over in the UK. Yeah, who came up with the code breaker for the German Enigma machine. So we were able to break the German code for all the last time for so the war and he just a brilliant man, but he said, the ultimate tasks will be can you tell the difference between talking to a human or talking to a computer? Yeah, yeah,

Unknown 4:12
that was just a movie that came out about that it didn't do well. And it was kind of weird, but it was a very wealthy IT person conducting what would be an illegal test to determine that the Turing test Yeah, can you tell the difference? Are you able to know? Yeah,

Unknown 4:33
we are literally just years away from a passing missions pass the Turing test. So in answer to your question about your doctor, your years, probably a pause because the guy probably is in the UK or, or some other place. And so it takes a little while for the data for your voice to get there to come back. Okay. And you notice that on shelves for so for instance, you and I are talking this morning and there is a one or two-second delay, I'm I'm down in Washington, DC in the belly of the beast. Oh, boy.

Unknown 5:10
You feel sorry. Please. prayers for me. If you

Unknown 5:13
don't forget to take a shower before you leave there, you know. Yeah,

Unknown 5:16
so your doctor? Probably not. Okay. There's a great example. Hopefully, Danny.

Unknown 5:25
Danny, why don't you play that audio of this artificial intelligence? having a conversation happening healthier?

Unknown 5:30
Hi. I'm calling to book a woman's haircut for our clients. I'm looking for something on May 3.

Unknown 5:37
Give me one second.

Unknown 5:40
Mm hmm.

Unknown 5:43
Sure. What time are you looking for? Well,

Unknown 5:47
at 12 pm, we do not have a 12 pm available. The closest we have to that is a 115. Do you have anything between 10 am and 12 pm? Depends what service she would like. What services she looking for.

Unknown 6:04
Just a woman's haircut for now. Okay. We have a 10 o'clock. 10 am is fine. Okay. What's her first name? The first name is Lisa.

Unknown 6:15
Okay, perfect. So I will see Lisa at 10 o'clock on May 3. Okay, great. Thanks. Great. Have a great day. Bye.

Unknown 6:23
Now. The computer was making the appointment right Craig?

Unknown 6:28
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. digital system that's it

Unknown 6:32
now nobody all the day did was teach it to make that appointment and but also be able to understand the responses from the woman answering the phone? Yeah,

Unknown 6:43
well, it was a little bit more than that they this was really kind of a first-generation artificial intelligence developed by Google and they had trained is all about phone calls, phone call etiquette. How human make phone calls and all about women's beauty salon. So the AI knew about that. And did you notice that she did a couple of things like she like the artificial intelligence through and some Yeah,

Unknown 7:15
I mean, you could tell it was a little, you know, but there's no way that that woman on the other end of the line was suspicious at all.

Unknown 7:25
No, I don't think she was she was busy with their job. But that's that's what Google's aiming for. And these other companies is, you know, we've got things like Alexa their homes and offices and that Google Home and apple and I, Siri and others, those are all aiming at this will know what you like thing, know what you need, and they will be able to not only make care appointments for you, but think about this thing. Like your doctor's example. your doctor's office might have an artificial intelligence as well. So you'll have to a ice hockey I know

Unknown 8:04
but you know, I was I was actually changing an appointment when I made that call. And that's why I thought this is strange. But anyway, that's very, very interesting. Is the other example that you put in the same as this one

Unknown 8:19
different Apple much more difficult looking at a restaurant

Unknown 8:25
restaurant reservation. Okay, let's try this.

Unknown 8:30
I hear you. Hi. I'd like to reserve a table for Wednesday. The second

Unknown 8:37
seven people.

Unknown 8:39
Um. It's for people for people

Unknown 8:46
Wednesday at 6 pm.

Unknown 8:49
Oh, actually. We need to fill light opera like a five people healthier for me. Well, you can come

Unknown 8:57
How long is the way usually to be seated.

Unknown 9:01
When? Tomorrow week? A

Unknown 9:04
for next Wednesday. The seventh? Oh, nice. Not too easy. If you can cover for

Unknown 9:13
Oh, I gotcha. Thanks.

Unknown 9:16
That was pretty good. Because the woman had a language issue and wasn't answering because of that was giving incorrect answers. And the computer which was the man calling to make the reservation was able to adapt. Wow,

Unknown 9:35
that's something when we're thinking about your doctor's appointment with your kind of how we started this whole conversation. Yeah, we're getting into the point now. Where

Unknown 9:49
I hate to say it. Yeah, but artificial intelligence Now, depending on what the diseases but just generally, the tests that have been done much attentive to the patient needs

Unknown 10:04
gifts, the correct like most Yeah, at a much higher rate.

Unknown 10:11
It's good. It's gonna be like Star Wars, there's gonna be a droid over me taking out my appendix.

Unknown 10:18
That's what's gonna happen. It's when it's like what we're doing. Now. I have a service that I use that I can get on Skype with and cost your doctor and you know, the doctor can prescribe certain basic medications. Yeah, but now the doctor says, Yeah, you better go to the emergency room. Right? Right. You know, so the next step beyond that isn't the doctor on guy, it's an AI on Skype, or the phone or whatever, helping you out, tried to do bit of attack, gnosis have been sending you to maybe a hospital, if that's what you mean. And it's hard to be way for anything we have today. And it's going to be very efficient. And I don't know how the bedside manners going to be. But you listen to these calls, then the artificial intelligence in both cases was very polite. Yeah. And maybe it'll be better. But no,

Unknown 11:16
you never know. This was fascinating. Folks. This is just one topic with Craig Peterson and weekly he provides me with many. And if you would like to actually get the same information that I receive every week, you can do it all the job to do is not the artificial intelligence and text My name to this number 855-385-5553. That's 855-385-5553 standard data and text rates apply. But I promise you, the real Craig Peterson will get back to you not an Android, right. And when I say right, I mean, the Google hardware. I mean, like in the old movies, we used to call them androids, right?

Unknown 12:08
Enjoy Yeah. droids. But Google is

Unknown 12:14
a statement from George Lucas Craig was this was fascinating and so when I get the English guy again, I'm I am going to ask them Are you a computer

Unknown 12:27
question is how should they answer

Unknown 12:29
right yeah, no, Jim I'm not a computer. Yeah,

Unknown 12:35
there are proposed was that says that if you ask and a

Unknown 12:40
half good proposed lot, not there yet.

Unknown 12:45
Open the pod bay doors. How open the pod bay doors how

Unknown 12:51
Craig theaters on our tech talk crew fascinating segment. Thank you, Greg.

Unknown 12:55
Thanks, Jim.

Unknown 12:56
Bye-bye. Bye. Bye. We will be back with a fun

Unknown 12:58
Hey, don't forget to visit online http://craigpeterson.com. Sign up for my weekly emails. You'll get everything that we just talked about with Jim, in fact, a whole lot more because I think I had eight different articles that I curated this week and we only got two one so make sure you visit me online http://craigpeterson.com. Also that's where you will find out about these special free master classes that I have no credit card required absolutely no commitment on your part other than to show up and these are great training. You should see the feedback I've gotten on my webinars. I have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of positive comments from people so I know you'll enjoy them. But the only way you'll find out make sure you subscribe. http://craigpeterson.com/subscribe. Hey, we'll be back tomorrow. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Did you know that there are some major problems coming up with our election this morning?

Craig spoke with Jack Heath today about election hacking and the new technology coming from China that might give you concerns about your refrigerator.

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

Airing date: 10/29/2018

Election Hacking Already Underway - Concerns About Your New Refrigerator

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey everybody. Craig Peterson here. Did you know that there are some major problems coming up with our election this morning? I spoke with Jack Heath a little bit about that we have some hacking going on. And it's going to throw some of the results really into question. What's, you know, what's the way around this? What, what should we be doing ultimately, and also spoke with Jack Heath about something new to him. Anyway, so IoT. You guys know about this, because we talked about the internet of things all the time. But he's worried about more than just a frozen chicken dropping out of his fridge with all this new technology coming out of China. So here we go with Jack.

Unknown 0:40
All right. Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy for a few moments. Sorry, Craig between the elections and Red Sox World Series championship. And sometimes it's a little more interesting than the latest app but who knows after last night there may be an app out of this

Unknown 0:54
window I'd like about the latest app Hey, I just want before something else in about the elections. You've got the as a and the CIA investigating right now because we've seen a major uptick a

Unknown 1:07
workshop where Trojan, excuse me, is always ransomware that seems to be related to the election this year. It really looks like it might be happening. forensic experts are now saying that it looks like China or Russia are trying to hack into voters machines and then use targeted advertising to get them to change the direction they're going so all full court press here on the technology frontier looks like yeah, they're going to definitely metal this time in the election

Unknown 1:43
or try to right Yeah, yes, they can resist

Unknown 1:48
Absolutely. So if you're in Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Florida, those are all targeted though. It's like they're targeting the districts where there is a close competition right now between the Republicans and the Democrats we're not quite sure what to do. And they tried to sway in one way or the other or just cause us to have a lot of confusion about whether or not our election results are justified if it really was tampered with. So we're gonna have a fun two years trying to figure out what happened.

Unknown 2:19
interesting article in the New Hampshire union leader today in the business section. Cyber Security can frighten and it's just one person talking about he has a smart refrigerator or freezer, allowing me to digitally track its contents receive notifications when temperatures get too high, or even low and when I'm on vacation, but it also has to be connected to the internet placing into the category called the Internet of Things, meaning it's one of 11 billion devices, not counting computers or phones wirelessly connected wirelessly connected to the internet all over the world today is mind-boggling.

Unknown 2:54
Yeah, and he has reason to be concerned because a lot of those refrigerators and other appliances are running operating systems that are not only known to be easily vulnerable or vulnerable from the start. But we now have for instance camera companies that are showing cameras from China but you may not even know it's from China and those devices are then being used to launch attacks against you against other businesses so your fridge rater could be used as a launching pad in order to attack you and get information about your account in fact that you know the Facebook has just happened here a couple of weeks ago we have now started seeing your Facebook account those 50 million people your Facebook account is selling on the dark web for about three bucks right now and if your refrigerator tax you your personal information including your bank accounts with all of your lightning

Unknown 3:53
gear and people all right well, I guess

Unknown 3:56
my clothes for

Unknown 3:58
my refrigerator's been attacking my waistline for years or that bank account my big fears when you open the freezer part and you know some frozen is going to be fall and land on your foot. Usually when you don't have any shoes. All right, Craig Craig Peterson with an O n. com. Thanks, Craig.

Unknown 4:13
Take care. Bye bye. All right. Well, we come back

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

Airing date: 10/29/2018

Election Hacking Already Underway - Concerns About Your New Refrigerator

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey everybody. Craig Peterson here. Did you know that there are some major problems coming up with our election this morning? I spoke with Jack Heath a little bit about that we have some hacking going on. And it's going to throw some of the results really into question. What's, you know, what's the way around this? What, what should we be doing ultimately, and also spoke with Jack Heath about something new to him. Anyway, so IoT. You guys know about this, because we talked about the internet of things all the time. But he's worried about more than just a frozen chicken dropping out of his fridge with all this new technology coming out of China. So here we go with Jack.

Unknown 0:40
All right. Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy for a few moments. Sorry, Craig between the elections and Red Sox World Series championship. And sometimes it's a little more interesting than the latest app but who knows after last night there may be an app out of this

Unknown 0:54
window I'd like about the latest app Hey, I just want before something else in about the elections. You've got the as a and the CIA investigating right now because we've seen a major uptick a

Unknown 1:07
workshop where Trojan, excuse me, is always ransomware that seems to be related to the election this year. It really looks like it might be happening. forensic experts are now saying that it looks like China or Russia are trying to hack into voters machines and then use targeted advertising to get them to change the direction they're going so all full court press here on the technology frontier looks like yeah, they're going to definitely metal this time in the election

Unknown 1:43
or try to right Yeah, yes, they can resist

Unknown 1:48
Absolutely. So if you're in Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Florida, those are all targeted though. It's like they're targeting the districts where there is a close competition right now between the Republicans and the Democrats we're not quite sure what to do. And they tried to sway in one way or the other or just cause us to have a lot of confusion about whether or not our election results are justified if it really was tampered with. So we're gonna have a fun two years trying to figure out what happened.

Unknown 2:19
interesting article in the New Hampshire union leader today in the business section. Cyber Security can frighten and it's just one person talking about he has a smart refrigerator or freezer, allowing me to digitally track its contents receive notifications when temperatures get too high, or even low and when I'm on vacation, but it also has to be connected to the internet placing into the category called the Internet of Things, meaning it's one of 11 billion devices, not counting computers or phones wirelessly connected wirelessly connected to the internet all over the world today is mind-boggling.

Unknown 2:54
Yeah, and he has reason to be concerned because a lot of those refrigerators and other appliances are running operating systems that are not only known to be easily vulnerable or vulnerable from the start. But we now have for instance camera companies that are showing cameras from China but you may not even know it's from China and those devices are then being used to launch attacks against you against other businesses so your fridge rater could be used as a launching pad in order to attack you and get information about your account in fact that you know the Facebook has just happened here a couple of weeks ago we have now started seeing your Facebook account those 50 million people your Facebook account is selling on the dark web for about three bucks right now and if your refrigerator tax you your personal information including your bank accounts with all of your lightning

Unknown 3:53
gear and people all right well, I guess

Unknown 3:56
my clothes for

Unknown 3:58
my refrigerator's been attacking my waistline for years or that bank account my big fears when you open the freezer part and you know some frozen is going to be fall and land on your foot. Usually when you don't have any shoes. All right, Craig Craig Peterson with an O n. com. Thanks, Craig.

Unknown 4:13
Take care. Bye bye. All right. Well, we come back

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Airing date: 10/27/2018

Chinese Hackers, Future of Medicine and Google AI Chatbots, Facebook Hack showing up on Dark Web, Fake Videos, NIST Security Standards

Craig Peterson: 0:03 Hi, everybody. How's that for a little drum roll introduction. This is Craig Peterson. Glad to be here with you today. We've had a busy week, Back at headquarters. We ran a webinar. Again, another one for the FBI this week. And this one really kind of scared the living daylights out of me. I guess. You know, some people say, hey, Craig, I listen to your show. And I'm always just scared when you're done. Well, listen, I'm scared to. It's crazy what the Chinese are doing when it comes to stealing our technology. Doing it on a government-sponsored basis. You know, I hear from people, that you just can't hide anymore in the world today, unless you've got a government helping you. Well, when it comes to hacking. Think about that just for a minute. Can you protect yourself against the government that's coming for you? And, this week, we had a client, who we got just a few months ago. They were under severe attack, like 5000 an hour, that were directed specifically at them. We are talking about spear phishing emails aimed at them. And they provide, again, some equipment, this is another customer, I haven't talked about these guys before, I don't think on the air, but they provide equipment that is used, ultimately by the government. And it, obviously, it's the Chinese and they're going after this. So, all of our alarms started going off. We were capturing them. The other thing that's really kind of unique, you know, when you think about having your antivirus software and stuff on your computers, and how ineffective it is, frankly. In this case. Obviously, there's anti-virus type software in place. But, we have something that allows a what's called a retrospective pull back. So, we were seeing in the course of an hour, as I said, 5000 attacks coming in, most of those were via email. And, what was really interesting is most of those attacks were with virus type software that had not been seen before. Now, we're not talking about, if you were on my webinar on Thursday, my free webinar, you learned a little bit about what a polymorphic attack is. Where the software is constantly changing itself. And, I found a lot of people didn't even know that was possible. But that's not what was going on with this client. The software wasn't just changing itself, so that it had a different checksum. Because that's how a lot of this anti-malware type software works. It's taking a checksum. It's kind of like your own immune system saying, oh, I've seen this before I know how to deal with this virus. No, it was actually, different ways of trying to get around the protection software. Now, what's really kind of fascinating about this, at least from my standpoint is. this company had approached us a couple of months ago, we actually talked to them about a year ago. And they said, Oh, no, no, we're, we're all set. I think we're okay. We just, we can't afford to kind of try and do this, right. And then they reached out to us two or three months ago, saying, Oh, my gosh, I think we lost all of our intellectual property. We might have lost all the client records, everything. All their stuff was stolen from them. And this is what I warn small businesses about all the time. This is why I'm doing the hundred free cyber health assessments this year. I'm not, you know, I normally charge for these things, anywhere from one to $5,000. But I'm doing just kind of a micro-version for 100 businesses, because I really, really, really want to help businesses. Help them understand what their footing is. Understand what would happen if they got hacked. Well, anyways, these guys came back to us and said, Whoa, is it too late? Is there anything we can do right now. So, we tightened everything up substantially. We put in the proper types of firewalls, not the things you buy at Staples, or that your local break-fix shop that sells your computers to you. Not those types of firewalls, but real ones, professional ones. And professional switches as well, that are all managed, but not just managed. But this all operates as one big network monitor. Everything going on inside of the network is monitored. Everything going on is examined for known problems. And, then it's behavior is analyzed as it's trying to run on a machine or go through network, and further data is gathered. And, it goes so far as we will literally shut down the port that that machine is on if something malicious is happening. So, in this case, what happened is the software came in, it wasn't something that any anti-virus software has seen anywhere in the world. Now, we are tying this in with a billion endpoints around the world. That's a lot of data. And, all of this data is analyzed. And, there's an AI type machine, this looking at it all, plus there's people that look at it. And, in fact, in this case, they looked at it and said, Whoa, wait a minute, because it looked like it might be something going on here. So, we automatically send a copy of that software up for further analysis. And, so the analysis happened and our guys looked at it and said, Whoa, wait a minute. Now, this, this could be a real problem. And so that's where the retrospective analysis comes in. We initially looked at it and said, I'm not so sure about this, we're going to kind of quarantine it, keep an eye on it, make sure it's not going to do anything evil. And if it starts to, we will back it out. And that's what we had to do multiple times this week. Most of that was automated. But just, you know, wait a minute. Now, retrospective is showing that this could be really malicious stuff. And, so we ended up this week, with dozens of different samples of malware that we ended up working with Cisco TALOS on, that they had never seen before. No one has ever seen before. We were debating if we should bring that up with the FBI or not. But you know, that we will let TALOS worry about it this time. But that's what's happening, right now, right here, right here in New England. And, it's happening all around the world, as well. But, this is somebody I know, this is a client, they're coming after us. And I can't emphasize this enough. If you're a small business owner, you can not afford to use that hundred dollar a year anti-virus software and think that you're safe. Because, you're not. So, that's what these webinars for, I'm going to be doing more or less one a week. And we're talking about different aspect of security and, and some of the technology you can use as a business person. I'm not selling anything, okay, people I've been doing this radio show for more than 20 years. And it's all about keeping people up to date. And as a small business person, you've got to stay on top of this. I know you're already losing sleep over it. I know you're fighting with your wife, kids and employees about it. Yeah, you know, who wouldn't be you've got all of your employees online, doing who knows what, all day long. And if you have multiple shifts all night long. And a lot of the times they are causing you nothing but headaches. Because when we talk about the attack this week, we're talking about the thousands of attack attempts against this one company, all it would have taken is that, for instance, just a simple one, one of those emails getting through and one of those employees clicking on that email. Now, in the case of our client, they still would have been okay, because we were stopped it. It could have been backed out retrospectively, if something happened. And clicking on that link and trying to go to another website, we are blocking that proactively, as well, when it becomes a bit of a negative site. So, there's just all kinds of gyrations going on behind the scenes. But it's huge. And then to have an expert that I interviewed on the FBI InfraGard webinar on Chinese stuff. Oh, my gosh, that was just incredible to hear what's going on. And by the way, again, if you're a small business guy or gal, a big business guy or gal, you're involved in any part of the critical infrastructure to this country. This means you're in finance, maybe you're part of a power company, maybe your maybe your law firm that has information or healthcare organization, make sure you join InfraGard. There are chapters all over the country. I think there's like 80 local chapters. Last I checked, you'll find them online at InfraGard or I N F R A G A R D dot org or you can always just send me an email just me, M E at Craig Peterson dot com. That's how you send me an email because I'm Craig Peterson. And I'll point you in the right direction. It's a volunteer organization. We're all volunteers, but to hear what he had to say. And I've got the video done and it's going to be posted up on the Infragard website as well, about the Chinese and the Chinese hackers. But they really are at it out there. It's, it's just going crazy. Let's see, I just had a text come in, and my 855-385-5553 number 855-385-5533 asking who it was. If you want to find out more, you can find them online. The guy's name was Joshua Phillip. He's a senior investigative reporter over the Epoch Times and he's been following China for a long time. And you can find them online at theepochtimes.com that the E P O C H  T i m e s dot com there are some just amazing things that he's uncovered and he was sharing

Craig Peterson 10:14 you know. Unfortunately, the FBI InfraGard webinars that I run are closed, only for InfraGard members. The other ones that I'm running are wide open for anybody, and you're welcome to attend. And we got some pretty cool stuff coming up we're going to be talking next week a little bit more detail about backups and how can you make sure your backup is working. What are some of the backup software packages you might want to look at if you're going to try and do it yourself and all of that? So, it's going to be an interesting time. I'm not sure what day we're going to do it I think we're aiming for Thursday or Friday next week. But I'm traveling next week and the week after so it's gonna make a little difficult but if you sign up on my website Craig Peterson dot com, you will see right there sign up form, and you can get on my waiting list. And I'll let you know when the next webinar comes up. But absolutely free. Just trying to get the information out there and, and help people out. Cause it's a scary world, frankly. Can't imagine some of these people waking up in the morning and having everything stolen. But anyways, mumble mumble right.

Craig Peterson 11:25 Well, we talked how a couple of weeks ago about this Facebook hack. You know about the hack. I'm sure it's been on the news. A lot of media outlets have been talking about it. 50 million users got hacked. And, and Facebook's been kind of slow in saying, Who was hacked? What was taken? Informing people that the hack had happened, right. Well, now we're starting to find out what really happened because the independent which isn't you'll find them online. They're actually based in the UK, Independent co dot uk The Independent newspaper has now found people's Facebook accounts hacked and selling for between three and $12 on some underground black markets. Basically, on the dark web. Now they're being found on dream market, which is probably right now, they are the leading online marketplace for illegal information, stolen information, online. They've got a similar rating system to Amazon. Do you like that? Where they say yeah, these guys are legitimately bad guys. But, you know what, there is honor amongst thieves, so trust us. They are selling the Facebook credentials, and the people that are selling these appear to be pretty well trusted on the dream market. So, the data is probably authentic. You know, we'll have to see. But you've got to use of course these semi-anonymous digital currencies like Bitcoin or Bitcoin cash in order to buy them. So, if they were able to sell them, what would that 50 million Google or excuse me, Facebook accounts be worth bottom line? Well, probably somewhere between 150 and $600 million dollars. Isn't that just amazing when you think about it, personal information is just incredibly valuable out there on the dark web so here's

Craig Peterson 13:31 Bill Connor, he is a security guy out there, and he does a lot of work with the US/UK governments as well. Quote, personal data and personal information is simply too valuable on the dark web as long as stolen data continues to fetch high prices and equip perpetrators with the means necessary to carry out attacks hold victims ransom, extort information, or destroy property, organizations must exhaust all measures to diligently detect and protect their networks, devices, and users. End quote. And then we have what we just talked about, right with China, where we've got nation states also going after all of that data. We got to take this very seriously, I don't, I don't know that we're taking it seriously enough, individually. The federal government has some new rules that went into place in October 2018 this month. And what the feds are saying there is all government agencies have to meet these minimal standards that they have established. And these are basically the NIST standards, but only about half of the federal government agencies meet these standards. And just because they meet the standards does not mean that they're safe. That was another thing we covered on Thursday's webinar. When it comes to you and your business and trying to keep all of your data safe. There are rules, there are regulations, there are standard. So it's also very confusing. Which ones do you follow, and we'll be talking more about that in the open webinars here in the near future. Of course, your listening to Craig Peterson. I'm on these radio stations every Saturday morning at 1130. So, make sure you tune in. And if you want to get a little reminder so that you remember to tune in. Just text me at 855-385-5553, you can ask to be on my weekly email list. You can also ask to get these notifications, and we'll put you on them. I also send out text messages when there is a big countrywide hack or something else going on to make sure people are aware of it. Make sure you know what's happening out there. So we have all of that sort of thing, available and all you have to do is either email or text me 855-385-5553. So, now on to another cryptocurrency problem.

Craig Peterson 15:58

You know, I love the fact that called cryptocurrencies, because a lot of people think, oh, cryptocurrency it's cryptographically secure, right? That's not what it's about. Well, in fact, did a test isn't and if you've been studying cryptocurrencies for a while, you know that. You've got to be very careful. And, there are there's a story that was out this is the Reuters feed this week talking about a couple of Peggy and Marco Lockman. And they learned that some hackers had cracked their 40 character password that was used for their cryptocurrency wallet. And the bad guys took about $14,000 right out of the cryptocurrency wallet. Now these two, Peggy and Marco, just they rolled with the punches. They didn't even bother reporting it to the police and the quote from them, is

Craig Peterson 16:56

there a quote there was nothing we could do. And they also said, we've studied cryptocurrencies for about a year before investing. So, we are aware of the risk. So, could you lose all of your money in your account? This problem that Marco and Peggy had really, it's emblematic for this whole cryptocurrency market. There are some rules, but there aren't a lot. There are some rules about initial coin offerings that the securities exchange commission is trying to enforce. But really, it's it's, it's a scam, right? Okay. I said it, and I know there's people that hate me for saying that. I was at a conference a little earlier this year. And there was someone there who was just totally peddling cryptocurrencies. Now, I love the idea of having a currency that is me spending my money, right? You pay cash, just somebody and hopefully, you can't be you can't be robbed of your cash. And that's the idea behind this, isn't it? And there isn't someone in the middle like a credit card company charging the vendor two or 3% plus a per transaction, charge and everything else. Should we be able to just exchange goods for labor, you know, fair, open exchanges, you know, you know, I'm pretty libertarian about all that stuff. But in this case, we're talking about a fool's errand because the police are never going to be able to catch these people. Look at some of the major thefts, millions of dollars worth of these crypto coins that just have not being caught. These people haven't been caught. And then the 50% problem that we've talked about on the show before where if you are a nation state, or if you're big enough bad actor, you can own.

Craig Peterson 18:51 the cryptocurrency. And we're not getting into all of the technical details of how all that works, but it's decentralized. Everybody basically votes on whether or not a transaction occurred. And if you control 50% of the votes, guess what you control the currency. So, there are some estimates showing cryptocurrency crime is on the rise. I know part of the reason for the value of cryptocurrency is crime. It has been ransomware, which we talked about on our webinar this week as well. Our open webinar. So, you know, law enforcement agencies there's not equipped to be able to handle this very often. It looks like are, you know this is a guess, but that most of these crimes are just not in, you know, investigated. The thieves can be anywhere. They can use your money anywhere. It's not like a credit card that can be shut down. So, be very, very careful if you're looking at cryptocurrencies. It is probably the most speculative market that there is out there. And I know there's people that completely disagree with me. That think it's a great investment. That cryptocurrencies are the future. That the whole blockchain technology is what's going to keep our privacy. In fact, and there are people who are saying we should be using blockchain to identify ourselves as being who we say we are in this day and age of stolen identities. I don't hundred percent disagree with them. I think there's some good opportunity there. But, if you're a little older, and you're concerned about losing everything you have. You just might want to think twice about it. Now this article by the way from Reuters. I put up on my website Craig Peterson dot com so you can read it right there.

Craig Peterson 20:44 Well, next up here, your doctor appointment. Have you seen the ads or heard the ads, I know, I've heard them on some of these stations before. But the ads where there is now an app that you can get for a psychiatrist. So, you're having issues need to talk to someone about it? Well, there's an app for that. And as we go forward, there's going to be more and more of those. We've already seen people going to Dr. Google, in order to figure out what might be the problem. And of course, Google is not a great place for that. It can't ask you questions, It can't drill down. It's not really designed to do that. But there are some apps that are. You've got Babylon, Adda, ADA, your MD, doctor dot AI. But right now Babylon is a front-runner because it's been integrated with the UK is National Health Services. So, it's showing how this type of tech can change the way health services are run, and also how they're paid for. And you've seen the new Apple Watch four which has the ability to monitor your cardiac rhythm to a degree. There are more and more medical devices that are being tied in. On the part of this whole IoT, the Internet of Things. And your next appointment with your doctor may well be, just AI based. I have a medical program that I'm a part of where we get as; basically, you get on Skype, and you can talk to a doctor and get a diagnosis, and they can prescribe basically antibiotics, not much more. I was very disappointed by that. But anyway, but you can find out if maybe I need to go to the local clinic or to the hospital just by hopping on to a website. So, this is the future. And you're going to be able to have a chat back and forth, already chatbots that are running on Facebook, you might even have spoken with one before, and a Customer Support Center and not even realize that you were talking to an artificial machine. Earlier this year we had Google demonstrating, its ability to make a hair appointment for someone. It sounded like a real person. But in fact, the phone call was made by a computer robotic voice got on and made that phone call.

Google AI ChatBot 23:20 Hi. I'm calling to book a woman's haircut for our clients. I'm looking for something on May third. Sure. I give me one

Google AI ChatBot 23:29 Mm-hmm.

Hair Salon 23:32 What time are you looking for around? At 12 pm. We do not have a 12 pm available. The closest we have to that is a 1:15. Do you have anything between 10 am and 12 pm? Depending on what service she would like? What services is she looking for?

Google AI ChatBot 23:53 Just a woman's haircut, for now. Okay, we have a 10 o'clock. 10 am is fine. Okay. What's their first name? The first name is Lisa. Okay, perfect. So, I will see Lisa at 10 o'clock on May 3. Okay, great. Thanks. Great. Have a great day. Bye.

Craig Peterson 24:12 Now. If that doesn't freak you out? I don't know what would. That was the Google artificial intelligence calling the hair salon. This is the future and not the distant future. That was real. Now they did another demo of a restaurant with some really weird questions and things that was kind of interesting. But when you're dealing with a human, you never know what you're going to get, right, when it comes to questions and stuff. So, keep an eye out for this. I think AI doctors are right around the corner.

Craig Peterson 24:51 Now we talked a couple weeks ago about some of the

Craig Peterson 24:57 the fake video that's out there, right and how it's so easy to create a fake video. And paste somebody's face on to it that wasn't there. You know, this has huge implications for the future. And I spoke to Jim Polito about it as well, on his radio shows. It's very concerning, and it's very difficult to stop, and I've got an article up from the Washington post on my website at Craig Peterson dot com, talking about this. And it shows a video that was shared in early September on Facebook. And you might have seen this that the caption said a Capital airlines Beijing to Macau for the flight carrying 166 people's made an emergency landing and Shenzhen on 28th August after boarding the landing attempt in Macau due to mechanical failure, the airline said. So, that's what it said. If you watch the video, you saw this plane, big commercial plane doing a full roll maybe a few hundred feet off the ground. Then it looked legit, but it was not. And Geoffrey Fowler, who's the guy that wrote this article did a whole bunch of research into it, contacted Facebook. And Facebook is saying, by the way, they're going to be adding 20,000 people to their investigative team to help detect this type of fake video, in the future. But millions of people were fooled by it. Hey, that's it for today. Make sure you sign up for my webinars. Okay, these things are free. I'm doing 100 free cyber health assessments for small businesses by the end of the year, this year. So you can find out more just go to Craig Peterson dot com. You can sign up. You'll learn a lot about what's happening out there. I go through in some detail, help you understand it, gave you some tools, some how to's. And above all, a good success path to make it through all of these can be confusing things. So, have a great week. Any questions just text me 855-385-5553 or email me at Craig Peterson dot com. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 10/27/2018

Chinese Hackers, Future of Medicine and Google AI Chatbots, Facebook Hack showing up on Dark Web, Fake Videos, NIST Security Standards

Craig Peterson: 0:03 Hi, everybody. How's that for a little drum roll introduction. This is Craig Peterson. Glad to be here with you today. We've had a busy week, Back at headquarters. We ran a webinar. Again, another one for the FBI this week. And this one really kind of scared the living daylights out of me. I guess. You know, some people say, hey, Craig, I listen to your show. And I'm always just scared when you're done. Well, listen, I'm scared to. It's crazy what the Chinese are doing when it comes to stealing our technology. Doing it on a government-sponsored basis. You know, I hear from people, that you just can't hide anymore in the world today, unless you've got a government helping you. Well, when it comes to hacking. Think about that just for a minute. Can you protect yourself against the government that's coming for you? And, this week, we had a client, who we got just a few months ago. They were under severe attack, like 5000 an hour, that were directed specifically at them. We are talking about spear phishing emails aimed at them. And they provide, again, some equipment, this is another customer, I haven't talked about these guys before, I don't think on the air, but they provide equipment that is used, ultimately by the government. And it, obviously, it's the Chinese and they're going after this. So, all of our alarms started going off. We were capturing them. The other thing that's really kind of unique, you know, when you think about having your antivirus software and stuff on your computers, and how ineffective it is, frankly. In this case. Obviously, there's anti-virus type software in place. But, we have something that allows a what's called a retrospective pull back. So, we were seeing in the course of an hour, as I said, 5000 attacks coming in, most of those were via email. And, what was really interesting is most of those attacks were with virus type software that had not been seen before. Now, we're not talking about, if you were on my webinar on Thursday, my free webinar, you learned a little bit about what a polymorphic attack is. Where the software is constantly changing itself. And, I found a lot of people didn't even know that was possible. But that's not what was going on with this client. The software wasn't just changing itself, so that it had a different checksum. Because that's how a lot of this anti-malware type software works. It's taking a checksum. It's kind of like your own immune system saying, oh, I've seen this before I know how to deal with this virus. No, it was actually, different ways of trying to get around the protection software. Now, what's really kind of fascinating about this, at least from my standpoint is. this company had approached us a couple of months ago, we actually talked to them about a year ago. And they said, Oh, no, no, we're, we're all set. I think we're okay. We just, we can't afford to kind of try and do this, right. And then they reached out to us two or three months ago, saying, Oh, my gosh, I think we lost all of our intellectual property. We might have lost all the client records, everything. All their stuff was stolen from them. And this is what I warn small businesses about all the time. This is why I'm doing the hundred free cyber health assessments this year. I'm not, you know, I normally charge for these things, anywhere from one to $5,000. But I'm doing just kind of a micro-version for 100 businesses, because I really, really, really want to help businesses. Help them understand what their footing is. Understand what would happen if they got hacked. Well, anyways, these guys came back to us and said, Whoa, is it too late? Is there anything we can do right now. So, we tightened everything up substantially. We put in the proper types of firewalls, not the things you buy at Staples, or that your local break-fix shop that sells your computers to you. Not those types of firewalls, but real ones, professional ones. And professional switches as well, that are all managed, but not just managed. But this all operates as one big network monitor. Everything going on inside of the network is monitored. Everything going on is examined for known problems. And, then it's behavior is analyzed as it's trying to run on a machine or go through network, and further data is gathered. And, it goes so far as we will literally shut down the port that that machine is on if something malicious is happening. So, in this case, what happened is the software came in, it wasn't something that any anti-virus software has seen anywhere in the world. Now, we are tying this in with a billion endpoints around the world. That's a lot of data. And, all of this data is analyzed. And, there's an AI type machine, this looking at it all, plus there's people that look at it. And, in fact, in this case, they looked at it and said, Whoa, wait a minute, because it looked like it might be something going on here. So, we automatically send a copy of that software up for further analysis. And, so the analysis happened and our guys looked at it and said, Whoa, wait a minute. Now, this, this could be a real problem. And so that's where the retrospective analysis comes in. We initially looked at it and said, I'm not so sure about this, we're going to kind of quarantine it, keep an eye on it, make sure it's not going to do anything evil. And if it starts to, we will back it out. And that's what we had to do multiple times this week. Most of that was automated. But just, you know, wait a minute. Now, retrospective is showing that this could be really malicious stuff. And, so we ended up this week, with dozens of different samples of malware that we ended up working with Cisco TALOS on, that they had never seen before. No one has ever seen before. We were debating if we should bring that up with the FBI or not. But you know, that we will let TALOS worry about it this time. But that's what's happening, right now, right here, right here in New England. And, it's happening all around the world, as well. But, this is somebody I know, this is a client, they're coming after us. And I can't emphasize this enough. If you're a small business owner, you can not afford to use that hundred dollar a year anti-virus software and think that you're safe. Because, you're not. So, that's what these webinars for, I'm going to be doing more or less one a week. And we're talking about different aspect of security and, and some of the technology you can use as a business person. I'm not selling anything, okay, people I've been doing this radio show for more than 20 years. And it's all about keeping people up to date. And as a small business person, you've got to stay on top of this. I know you're already losing sleep over it. I know you're fighting with your wife, kids and employees about it. Yeah, you know, who wouldn't be you've got all of your employees online, doing who knows what, all day long. And if you have multiple shifts all night long. And a lot of the times they are causing you nothing but headaches. Because when we talk about the attack this week, we're talking about the thousands of attack attempts against this one company, all it would have taken is that, for instance, just a simple one, one of those emails getting through and one of those employees clicking on that email. Now, in the case of our client, they still would have been okay, because we were stopped it. It could have been backed out retrospectively, if something happened. And clicking on that link and trying to go to another website, we are blocking that proactively, as well, when it becomes a bit of a negative site. So, there's just all kinds of gyrations going on behind the scenes. But it's huge. And then to have an expert that I interviewed on the FBI InfraGard webinar on Chinese stuff. Oh, my gosh, that was just incredible to hear what's going on. And by the way, again, if you're a small business guy or gal, a big business guy or gal, you're involved in any part of the critical infrastructure to this country. This means you're in finance, maybe you're part of a power company, maybe your maybe your law firm that has information or healthcare organization, make sure you join InfraGard. There are chapters all over the country. I think there's like 80 local chapters. Last I checked, you'll find them online at InfraGard or I N F R A G A R D dot org or you can always just send me an email just me, M E at Craig Peterson dot com. That's how you send me an email because I'm Craig Peterson. And I'll point you in the right direction. It's a volunteer organization. We're all volunteers, but to hear what he had to say. And I've got the video done and it's going to be posted up on the Infragard website as well, about the Chinese and the Chinese hackers. But they really are at it out there. It's, it's just going crazy. Let's see, I just had a text come in, and my 855-385-5553 number 855-385-5533 asking who it was. If you want to find out more, you can find them online. The guy's name was Joshua Phillip. He's a senior investigative reporter over the Epoch Times and he's been following China for a long time. And you can find them online at theepochtimes.com that the E P O C H  T i m e s dot com there are some just amazing things that he's uncovered and he was sharing

Craig Peterson 10:14 you know. Unfortunately, the FBI InfraGard webinars that I run are closed, only for InfraGard members. The other ones that I'm running are wide open for anybody, and you're welcome to attend. And we got some pretty cool stuff coming up we're going to be talking next week a little bit more detail about backups and how can you make sure your backup is working. What are some of the backup software packages you might want to look at if you're going to try and do it yourself and all of that? So, it's going to be an interesting time. I'm not sure what day we're going to do it I think we're aiming for Thursday or Friday next week. But I'm traveling next week and the week after so it's gonna make a little difficult but if you sign up on my website Craig Peterson dot com, you will see right there sign up form, and you can get on my waiting list. And I'll let you know when the next webinar comes up. But absolutely free. Just trying to get the information out there and, and help people out. Cause it's a scary world, frankly. Can't imagine some of these people waking up in the morning and having everything stolen. But anyways, mumble mumble right.

Craig Peterson 11:25 Well, we talked how a couple of weeks ago about this Facebook hack. You know about the hack. I'm sure it's been on the news. A lot of media outlets have been talking about it. 50 million users got hacked. And, and Facebook's been kind of slow in saying, Who was hacked? What was taken? Informing people that the hack had happened, right. Well, now we're starting to find out what really happened because the independent which isn't you'll find them online. They're actually based in the UK, Independent co dot uk The Independent newspaper has now found people's Facebook accounts hacked and selling for between three and $12 on some underground black markets. Basically, on the dark web. Now they're being found on dream market, which is probably right now, they are the leading online marketplace for illegal information, stolen information, online. They've got a similar rating system to Amazon. Do you like that? Where they say yeah, these guys are legitimately bad guys. But, you know what, there is honor amongst thieves, so trust us. They are selling the Facebook credentials, and the people that are selling these appear to be pretty well trusted on the dream market. So, the data is probably authentic. You know, we'll have to see. But you've got to use of course these semi-anonymous digital currencies like Bitcoin or Bitcoin cash in order to buy them. So, if they were able to sell them, what would that 50 million Google or excuse me, Facebook accounts be worth bottom line? Well, probably somewhere between 150 and $600 million dollars. Isn't that just amazing when you think about it, personal information is just incredibly valuable out there on the dark web so here's

Craig Peterson 13:31 Bill Connor, he is a security guy out there, and he does a lot of work with the US/UK governments as well. Quote, personal data and personal information is simply too valuable on the dark web as long as stolen data continues to fetch high prices and equip perpetrators with the means necessary to carry out attacks hold victims ransom, extort information, or destroy property, organizations must exhaust all measures to diligently detect and protect their networks, devices, and users. End quote. And then we have what we just talked about, right with China, where we've got nation states also going after all of that data. We got to take this very seriously, I don't, I don't know that we're taking it seriously enough, individually. The federal government has some new rules that went into place in October 2018 this month. And what the feds are saying there is all government agencies have to meet these minimal standards that they have established. And these are basically the NIST standards, but only about half of the federal government agencies meet these standards. And just because they meet the standards does not mean that they're safe. That was another thing we covered on Thursday's webinar. When it comes to you and your business and trying to keep all of your data safe. There are rules, there are regulations, there are standard. So it's also very confusing. Which ones do you follow, and we'll be talking more about that in the open webinars here in the near future. Of course, your listening to Craig Peterson. I'm on these radio stations every Saturday morning at 1130. So, make sure you tune in. And if you want to get a little reminder so that you remember to tune in. Just text me at 855-385-5553, you can ask to be on my weekly email list. You can also ask to get these notifications, and we'll put you on them. I also send out text messages when there is a big countrywide hack or something else going on to make sure people are aware of it. Make sure you know what's happening out there. So we have all of that sort of thing, available and all you have to do is either email or text me 855-385-5553. So, now on to another cryptocurrency problem.

Craig Peterson 15:58

You know, I love the fact that called cryptocurrencies, because a lot of people think, oh, cryptocurrency it's cryptographically secure, right? That's not what it's about. Well, in fact, did a test isn't and if you've been studying cryptocurrencies for a while, you know that. You've got to be very careful. And, there are there's a story that was out this is the Reuters feed this week talking about a couple of Peggy and Marco Lockman. And they learned that some hackers had cracked their 40 character password that was used for their cryptocurrency wallet. And the bad guys took about $14,000 right out of the cryptocurrency wallet. Now these two, Peggy and Marco, just they rolled with the punches. They didn't even bother reporting it to the police and the quote from them, is

Craig Peterson 16:56

there a quote there was nothing we could do. And they also said, we've studied cryptocurrencies for about a year before investing. So, we are aware of the risk. So, could you lose all of your money in your account? This problem that Marco and Peggy had really, it's emblematic for this whole cryptocurrency market. There are some rules, but there aren't a lot. There are some rules about initial coin offerings that the securities exchange commission is trying to enforce. But really, it's it's, it's a scam, right? Okay. I said it, and I know there's people that hate me for saying that. I was at a conference a little earlier this year. And there was someone there who was just totally peddling cryptocurrencies. Now, I love the idea of having a currency that is me spending my money, right? You pay cash, just somebody and hopefully, you can't be you can't be robbed of your cash. And that's the idea behind this, isn't it? And there isn't someone in the middle like a credit card company charging the vendor two or 3% plus a per transaction, charge and everything else. Should we be able to just exchange goods for labor, you know, fair, open exchanges, you know, you know, I'm pretty libertarian about all that stuff. But in this case, we're talking about a fool's errand because the police are never going to be able to catch these people. Look at some of the major thefts, millions of dollars worth of these crypto coins that just have not being caught. These people haven't been caught. And then the 50% problem that we've talked about on the show before where if you are a nation state, or if you're big enough bad actor, you can own.

Craig Peterson 18:51 the cryptocurrency. And we're not getting into all of the technical details of how all that works, but it's decentralized. Everybody basically votes on whether or not a transaction occurred. And if you control 50% of the votes, guess what you control the currency. So, there are some estimates showing cryptocurrency crime is on the rise. I know part of the reason for the value of cryptocurrency is crime. It has been ransomware, which we talked about on our webinar this week as well. Our open webinar. So, you know, law enforcement agencies there's not equipped to be able to handle this very often. It looks like are, you know this is a guess, but that most of these crimes are just not in, you know, investigated. The thieves can be anywhere. They can use your money anywhere. It's not like a credit card that can be shut down. So, be very, very careful if you're looking at cryptocurrencies. It is probably the most speculative market that there is out there. And I know there's people that completely disagree with me. That think it's a great investment. That cryptocurrencies are the future. That the whole blockchain technology is what's going to keep our privacy. In fact, and there are people who are saying we should be using blockchain to identify ourselves as being who we say we are in this day and age of stolen identities. I don't hundred percent disagree with them. I think there's some good opportunity there. But, if you're a little older, and you're concerned about losing everything you have. You just might want to think twice about it. Now this article by the way from Reuters. I put up on my website Craig Peterson dot com so you can read it right there.

Craig Peterson 20:44 Well, next up here, your doctor appointment. Have you seen the ads or heard the ads, I know, I've heard them on some of these stations before. But the ads where there is now an app that you can get for a psychiatrist. So, you're having issues need to talk to someone about it? Well, there's an app for that. And as we go forward, there's going to be more and more of those. We've already seen people going to Dr. Google, in order to figure out what might be the problem. And of course, Google is not a great place for that. It can't ask you questions, It can't drill down. It's not really designed to do that. But there are some apps that are. You've got Babylon, Adda, ADA, your MD, doctor dot AI. But right now Babylon is a front-runner because it's been integrated with the UK is National Health Services. So, it's showing how this type of tech can change the way health services are run, and also how they're paid for. And you've seen the new Apple Watch four which has the ability to monitor your cardiac rhythm to a degree. There are more and more medical devices that are being tied in. On the part of this whole IoT, the Internet of Things. And your next appointment with your doctor may well be, just AI based. I have a medical program that I'm a part of where we get as; basically, you get on Skype, and you can talk to a doctor and get a diagnosis, and they can prescribe basically antibiotics, not much more. I was very disappointed by that. But anyway, but you can find out if maybe I need to go to the local clinic or to the hospital just by hopping on to a website. So, this is the future. And you're going to be able to have a chat back and forth, already chatbots that are running on Facebook, you might even have spoken with one before, and a Customer Support Center and not even realize that you were talking to an artificial machine. Earlier this year we had Google demonstrating, its ability to make a hair appointment for someone. It sounded like a real person. But in fact, the phone call was made by a computer robotic voice got on and made that phone call.

Google AI ChatBot 23:20 Hi. I'm calling to book a woman's haircut for our clients. I'm looking for something on May third. Sure. I give me one

Google AI ChatBot 23:29 Mm-hmm.

Hair Salon 23:32 What time are you looking for around? At 12 pm. We do not have a 12 pm available. The closest we have to that is a 1:15. Do you have anything between 10 am and 12 pm? Depending on what service she would like? What services is she looking for?

Google AI ChatBot 23:53 Just a woman's haircut, for now. Okay, we have a 10 o'clock. 10 am is fine. Okay. What's their first name? The first name is Lisa. Okay, perfect. So, I will see Lisa at 10 o'clock on May 3. Okay, great. Thanks. Great. Have a great day. Bye.

Craig Peterson 24:12 Now. If that doesn't freak you out? I don't know what would. That was the Google artificial intelligence calling the hair salon. This is the future and not the distant future. That was real. Now they did another demo of a restaurant with some really weird questions and things that was kind of interesting. But when you're dealing with a human, you never know what you're going to get, right, when it comes to questions and stuff. So, keep an eye out for this. I think AI doctors are right around the corner.

Craig Peterson 24:51 Now we talked a couple weeks ago about some of the

Craig Peterson 24:57 the fake video that's out there, right and how it's so easy to create a fake video. And paste somebody's face on to it that wasn't there. You know, this has huge implications for the future. And I spoke to Jim Polito about it as well, on his radio shows. It's very concerning, and it's very difficult to stop, and I've got an article up from the Washington post on my website at Craig Peterson dot com, talking about this. And it shows a video that was shared in early September on Facebook. And you might have seen this that the caption said a Capital airlines Beijing to Macau for the flight carrying 166 people's made an emergency landing and Shenzhen on 28th August after boarding the landing attempt in Macau due to mechanical failure, the airline said. So, that's what it said. If you watch the video, you saw this plane, big commercial plane doing a full roll maybe a few hundred feet off the ground. Then it looked legit, but it was not. And Geoffrey Fowler, who's the guy that wrote this article did a whole bunch of research into it, contacted Facebook. And Facebook is saying, by the way, they're going to be adding 20,000 people to their investigative team to help detect this type of fake video, in the future. But millions of people were fooled by it. Hey, that's it for today. Make sure you sign up for my webinars. Okay, these things are free. I'm doing 100 free cyber health assessments for small businesses by the end of the year, this year. So you can find out more just go to Craig Peterson dot com. You can sign up. You'll learn a lot about what's happening out there. I go through in some detail, help you understand it, gave you some tools, some how to's. And above all, a good success path to make it through all of these can be confusing things. So, have a great week. Any questions just text me 855-385-5553 or email me at Craig Peterson dot com. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 10/24/2018

New Wi-Fi Standards, Stolen Air Mlles, Turning off your PC

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Good Morning, everybody. If you're involved with protecting the computers in your business, or you know someone involved in a government office or an NGO, you really need to look into the Infragard. There's no question about it. It's a phenomenal program. And yesterday I ran webinar for the Infragard program and we were talking about the Chinese and what they're doing it is way worse than I ever thought it was. They are really getting into everything. So just a real quick shout out Infragard.org is where you can find them online. I n f r a g a r d dot org and sign up. It's well worth it. They have to do this lightweight background check and it takes a few months usually but then you're going to start getting up to date information that type of stuff I get. So, if you're really into it, check it out. Alright, so today I was on with Ken and Matt. Then per usual, we went through a few different things. We talked a little bit about turning off the power on your PC's. We also talked about the new Wi-Fi six standards that are going to be coming our way and you know a couple of other things. So, we actually had a little bit more back and forth this morning with Ken and Matt. So, we're gonna go with that. Also. I have tomorrow's webinar ready. This is a public webinar about ransomware and about what you can do. So, make sure you sign up for that. Craig Peterson dot com Craig Peterson dot com. So, here we go.

1:38 It is 739 on the WGAN Morning News. And it is Wednesday. Which means Craig Peterson is with us once again to give us an eye on technology around the world. How you doing, Craig?

Hey gentleman, Did you know what the differences between a Fenway Frank and a Yankee Stadium dog, Fenway Franks are still being served right now. Oh, boy, that was perfect. Where's the rim shot? Yeah, I'm done. You can get a Fenway Frank. Yes, you can.

2:04 So, speaking of Fenway Frank's, I'm not going to talk about China and Russia right now, because I'm tired of China, Russia, but I am interested in anything new about Wi-Fi. Because my daughter says it's been like $1,000 to improve the Wi-Fi at our house. Is there hope coming to us? Yeah, we have those little airport-

2:22 things all over the place. Oh, yeah. those are those are actually pretty good. There are some good Wi Fi boxes out there, routers. And, you know, we talked about some of the routers and some of the problems she mentioned with China. But we have new technology coming up for our cell phones. But you already know that right, we've got five g coming out. 5g LTE and Wi-Fi has always been confusing to people. You know, we started with 802 11 A, then B. And then I remembered I think there was a see there is a G, there was an N. Now there's an AX. So, there trying to do two things. One, they're trying to make it a little easier to understand. So they're changing the Wi-Fi logo, you know, that little logo with the three kinds of concentric circles? And it shows you a quarter of the pie. Yeah, in the top. Even Matt, even your Android phone probably has that same logo.

3:20 Yes. My archaic brick of

3:24 that one. Yeah.

3:26 So, what we're gonna do is, to add a little number in there. So now, instead of all of these confusing numbers and letters, it's going to be Pie with a number. So, the current standard will be called Wi-Fi five. And then the older standards, obviously, they're going to go down. But, I think I can see what you're referring to something called Wi-Fi? sec? Yes? Which is the new generation. You're going to need this because do you have a 4k TV right now?

3:54 Yes, I do.

3:55 Yeah. Okay. And do you have like Netflix, or Yes,

3:58 Netflix, and Hulu and Amazon and all those things

4:03 Will get one everything? Well, the problem a lot of people are having with their older WI-Fi is that there just isn't enough bandwidth to be able to run your high def TV at full speed. And, so they come up with a new standard, it's going to be hitting the shelves next year. That they are calling Wi-Fi six. It fixes some of the security problems. Plus, it can run fast enough for your next TV, which is going to be an eight K TV

4:35 forgot?

4:37 Can I even see that?

4:39 You know, honestly,

4:42 one of the things that's kind of neat, if you might not have really noticed this, but a 4k TV looks better with everything because it has some very smart software inside of it. So, you can feed it a pretty crappy old, even a VHS signal, but certainly a DVD and it up scales it to make it look a lot better. So, Matt, in answer to your question. Yeah, you can see it in a very large TV. But, if you're using a smaller TV eight K is not something that's going to make a big difference for you. You know, who really likes are you? Are you a gamer? You can see yourself a gamer at all, man.

5:22 Yeah, man, are you a gamer? Yeah, back in the day, I might have been. But now I have four kids. three jobs and no time. So, now, not really. But I might I do have a PlayStation four. And my son plays it. Yes. So occasionally, once a year or so I might be able to pick it up.

5:35 Well, if you're much beyond Donkey Kong, you're you're going to know about this kind of stuff, you're going to notice the difference. So, all of the all of the Wi-Fi will be faster, it covers your house a little bit better than what you have right now. And it's going to be able to handle all of the future expansion that we're looking at. And frankly, it's needed for the cable companies who are going to have to compete against the cellular networks. Because remember, I mentioned five G, the new standards on cell phones, well, that's going to make it so in most of the more Metropolitan and even suburban areas, you're going to be able to get internet as fast as cable is providing in many areas right over your cell phone. So, they've got to come up with something, that kind of you know, one step further, and frankly, this is a benefit all of this stuff to getting rid of that terrible and you know my opinion on this one, right. But that terrible so-called net neutrality, because it really has reintroduced competition so we're going to see in competition from not just the Wi-Fi devices, but between cable companies and the cellular data companies in the very near future. There'll be some more so it's kind of cool and can get ready to buy that 8K TV

6:55 Do they make it, in I mean I have a 65 inch now, I need a 75 or 80. This is 65 just big enough for me Unknown 7:03 oh they're measuring some of these 8k TVs in feet now. Yeah baby, I found one that's 30 feet or mind you. It was like $60,000

7:19 the Winner in South Carolina can afford that and

7:21 that's exactly

7:22 So, yeah you can get them but you know there's some really big ones and the cheaper lower end ones. Frankly the only ones you might really consider for home use, there only 10 grand right now so you know the rich attorneys probably running out buying them already. Can

7:40 you. Gotta keep up with your show? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's going on in the world of technology. So, Craig I gotta be honest with you. I have flown an awful lot over the last 10 years. I, I fly, I don't know dozens of times a year and I never have signed up for frequent flyer miles because I'm an idiot, however

8:04 I haven't been able to use them and I

8:06 have used I just never I never get around to it. But, anyway the point being frequent flyer miles now apparently are are vulnerable to being hacked. What? Tell me about that.

8:15 Yeah, well I'm just saying kind of ice sign up programs. I don't know that I've actually ever used any miles because there are so clever and making them expire on you. When you know multiply. The the largest black markets on the dark web is called dream market, now. There have been a few there's come and gone but they are now stealing and selling people's frequent flyer miles and there's some pretty good prices, if you don't mind buying stolen stuff but the dark web. You can get some you know hundred thousand miles for as little as 30 euros, there on the dark web. So, you got to be kind of careful. Most people just aren't paying much attention to it. So when they disappear like mine do, because the airline decides to just you know absorb them because you haven't used them in time. They a lot of people just don't notice but you can get 200,000 British Airways miles for 45 bucks on this site right now. 100,000 from Delta. British Airways and I mentioned Emirates Skywards, just about anybody. So, be kind of careful if you are a person who's serious about frequent flyer miles, it's kind of a yet another currency that they're using. And, some basic tips here. Don't just leave your boarding pass around about, you know, get rid of it shredded if you have to. Do not post photos of your boarding pass online. I've been shocked at some of the FBI webinars. I've been running for their Infragard, where they're talking about people posting pictures of, for instance, World Series tickets online. Yeah, I'm going to the World Series. And, then people zoom in and on them and they copy them, they print them and then they're selling these tickets, online worlds. You know, suppose it World Series tickets that I have your ticket number. And then you show up and it's just not any good, any market, somebody already used it. So, it's just happening and it's happening all over the place. So, don't have your airline account numbers kicking around, don't post the pictures. And if you have to live in fear,

10:33 live in fear. You say

10:35 constant fear. Constant fear. Yeah, who knows this person in South Carolina might not be the actual Winner. Who knows, right? It's the bad guys are out there. And they're doing it every day.

10:48 We are done, Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. You know, by the way Peterson saw that coming. Their coming to get all the valuable information directly without even talking to us about it up so quick. I've been told many times to turn off my apple or my PC every night, these little last longer and that's better for and also things do should we be doing that?

11:11 Yeah, it's such a good question. The question of the ages, right? I've always been of the school that. Yeah, you should just leave your computer running because of mental fatigue, you know, turn it on and off, things heat up, cool down and then break. You know, when your computer's dies, it's probably dying, or right after you turn it on or right when you turn it off, because of the surges in power and the heating stuff. There is a great article that I shared up on my website from mandatory.com. Where they reached out to eight different vendors of hardware, each of them had kind of a different answer. And I think my answer today, because also have security concerns is, Yeah, you probably should turn turn off your computer when you're not using it. Because, at the very least, hopefully, you'll notice your computer starting to get busy or get hot if it's a laptop when it's being hacked, being used for mining Bitcoin by some third party with malicious software. And, then from the hardware standpoint, it probably is not going to make an appreciable difference in the life of the divided cell. There you go. Just turn it off now. I think that's probably the best bet.

12:29 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is your tech update of the week. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time to give it to us every week. Appreciate it Craig and we will talk again next Wednesday. Take care gentlemen, thanks

12:40 thanks a lot alright so let's take gives it

12:42 to us every week I heard that Matt. All right everybody take care make sure you sign up for the webinar. You are really going to enjoy this. It's absolutely free, again you know we're not charging for this at all. I'm not selling you anything. This is a give back on trying to help 100 companies by the end of this year. small medium businesses with their security for free. I'm serious. Okay check it out. Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 10/24/2018

New Wi-Fi Standards, Stolen Air Mlles, Turning off your PC

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey, Good Morning, everybody. If you're involved with protecting the computers in your business, or you know someone involved in a government office or an NGO, you really need to look into the Infragard. There's no question about it. It's a phenomenal program. And yesterday I ran webinar for the Infragard program and we were talking about the Chinese and what they're doing it is way worse than I ever thought it was. They are really getting into everything. So just a real quick shout out Infragard.org is where you can find them online. I n f r a g a r d dot org and sign up. It's well worth it. They have to do this lightweight background check and it takes a few months usually but then you're going to start getting up to date information that type of stuff I get. So, if you're really into it, check it out. Alright, so today I was on with Ken and Matt. Then per usual, we went through a few different things. We talked a little bit about turning off the power on your PC's. We also talked about the new Wi-Fi six standards that are going to be coming our way and you know a couple of other things. So, we actually had a little bit more back and forth this morning with Ken and Matt. So, we're gonna go with that. Also. I have tomorrow's webinar ready. This is a public webinar about ransomware and about what you can do. So, make sure you sign up for that. Craig Peterson dot com Craig Peterson dot com. So, here we go.

1:38 It is 739 on the WGAN Morning News. And it is Wednesday. Which means Craig Peterson is with us once again to give us an eye on technology around the world. How you doing, Craig?

Hey gentleman, Did you know what the differences between a Fenway Frank and a Yankee Stadium dog, Fenway Franks are still being served right now. Oh, boy, that was perfect. Where's the rim shot? Yeah, I'm done. You can get a Fenway Frank. Yes, you can.

2:04 So, speaking of Fenway Frank's, I'm not going to talk about China and Russia right now, because I'm tired of China, Russia, but I am interested in anything new about Wi-Fi. Because my daughter says it's been like $1,000 to improve the Wi-Fi at our house. Is there hope coming to us? Yeah, we have those little airport-

2:22 things all over the place. Oh, yeah. those are those are actually pretty good. There are some good Wi Fi boxes out there, routers. And, you know, we talked about some of the routers and some of the problems she mentioned with China. But we have new technology coming up for our cell phones. But you already know that right, we've got five g coming out. 5g LTE and Wi-Fi has always been confusing to people. You know, we started with 802 11 A, then B. And then I remembered I think there was a see there is a G, there was an N. Now there's an AX. So, there trying to do two things. One, they're trying to make it a little easier to understand. So they're changing the Wi-Fi logo, you know, that little logo with the three kinds of concentric circles? And it shows you a quarter of the pie. Yeah, in the top. Even Matt, even your Android phone probably has that same logo.

3:20 Yes. My archaic brick of

3:24 that one. Yeah.

3:26 So, what we're gonna do is, to add a little number in there. So now, instead of all of these confusing numbers and letters, it's going to be Pie with a number. So, the current standard will be called Wi-Fi five. And then the older standards, obviously, they're going to go down. But, I think I can see what you're referring to something called Wi-Fi? sec? Yes? Which is the new generation. You're going to need this because do you have a 4k TV right now?

3:54 Yes, I do.

3:55 Yeah. Okay. And do you have like Netflix, or Yes,

3:58 Netflix, and Hulu and Amazon and all those things

4:03 Will get one everything? Well, the problem a lot of people are having with their older WI-Fi is that there just isn't enough bandwidth to be able to run your high def TV at full speed. And, so they come up with a new standard, it's going to be hitting the shelves next year. That they are calling Wi-Fi six. It fixes some of the security problems. Plus, it can run fast enough for your next TV, which is going to be an eight K TV

4:35 forgot?

4:37 Can I even see that?

4:39 You know, honestly,

4:42 one of the things that's kind of neat, if you might not have really noticed this, but a 4k TV looks better with everything because it has some very smart software inside of it. So, you can feed it a pretty crappy old, even a VHS signal, but certainly a DVD and it up scales it to make it look a lot better. So, Matt, in answer to your question. Yeah, you can see it in a very large TV. But, if you're using a smaller TV eight K is not something that's going to make a big difference for you. You know, who really likes are you? Are you a gamer? You can see yourself a gamer at all, man.

5:22 Yeah, man, are you a gamer? Yeah, back in the day, I might have been. But now I have four kids. three jobs and no time. So, now, not really. But I might I do have a PlayStation four. And my son plays it. Yes. So occasionally, once a year or so I might be able to pick it up.

5:35 Well, if you're much beyond Donkey Kong, you're you're going to know about this kind of stuff, you're going to notice the difference. So, all of the all of the Wi-Fi will be faster, it covers your house a little bit better than what you have right now. And it's going to be able to handle all of the future expansion that we're looking at. And frankly, it's needed for the cable companies who are going to have to compete against the cellular networks. Because remember, I mentioned five G, the new standards on cell phones, well, that's going to make it so in most of the more Metropolitan and even suburban areas, you're going to be able to get internet as fast as cable is providing in many areas right over your cell phone. So, they've got to come up with something, that kind of you know, one step further, and frankly, this is a benefit all of this stuff to getting rid of that terrible and you know my opinion on this one, right. But that terrible so-called net neutrality, because it really has reintroduced competition so we're going to see in competition from not just the Wi-Fi devices, but between cable companies and the cellular data companies in the very near future. There'll be some more so it's kind of cool and can get ready to buy that 8K TV

6:55 Do they make it, in I mean I have a 65 inch now, I need a 75 or 80. This is 65 just big enough for me Unknown 7:03 oh they're measuring some of these 8k TVs in feet now. Yeah baby, I found one that's 30 feet or mind you. It was like $60,000

7:19 the Winner in South Carolina can afford that and

7:21 that's exactly

7:22 So, yeah you can get them but you know there's some really big ones and the cheaper lower end ones. Frankly the only ones you might really consider for home use, there only 10 grand right now so you know the rich attorneys probably running out buying them already. Can

7:40 you. Gotta keep up with your show? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yes. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's going on in the world of technology. So, Craig I gotta be honest with you. I have flown an awful lot over the last 10 years. I, I fly, I don't know dozens of times a year and I never have signed up for frequent flyer miles because I'm an idiot, however

8:04 I haven't been able to use them and I

8:06 have used I just never I never get around to it. But, anyway the point being frequent flyer miles now apparently are are vulnerable to being hacked. What? Tell me about that.

8:15 Yeah, well I'm just saying kind of ice sign up programs. I don't know that I've actually ever used any miles because there are so clever and making them expire on you. When you know multiply. The the largest black markets on the dark web is called dream market, now. There have been a few there's come and gone but they are now stealing and selling people's frequent flyer miles and there's some pretty good prices, if you don't mind buying stolen stuff but the dark web. You can get some you know hundred thousand miles for as little as 30 euros, there on the dark web. So, you got to be kind of careful. Most people just aren't paying much attention to it. So when they disappear like mine do, because the airline decides to just you know absorb them because you haven't used them in time. They a lot of people just don't notice but you can get 200,000 British Airways miles for 45 bucks on this site right now. 100,000 from Delta. British Airways and I mentioned Emirates Skywards, just about anybody. So, be kind of careful if you are a person who's serious about frequent flyer miles, it's kind of a yet another currency that they're using. And, some basic tips here. Don't just leave your boarding pass around about, you know, get rid of it shredded if you have to. Do not post photos of your boarding pass online. I've been shocked at some of the FBI webinars. I've been running for their Infragard, where they're talking about people posting pictures of, for instance, World Series tickets online. Yeah, I'm going to the World Series. And, then people zoom in and on them and they copy them, they print them and then they're selling these tickets, online worlds. You know, suppose it World Series tickets that I have your ticket number. And then you show up and it's just not any good, any market, somebody already used it. So, it's just happening and it's happening all over the place. So, don't have your airline account numbers kicking around, don't post the pictures. And if you have to live in fear,

10:33 live in fear. You say

10:35 constant fear. Constant fear. Yeah, who knows this person in South Carolina might not be the actual Winner. Who knows, right? It's the bad guys are out there. And they're doing it every day.

10:48 We are done, Craig Peterson. He is our tech guru. You know, by the way Peterson saw that coming. Their coming to get all the valuable information directly without even talking to us about it up so quick. I've been told many times to turn off my apple or my PC every night, these little last longer and that's better for and also things do should we be doing that?

11:11 Yeah, it's such a good question. The question of the ages, right? I've always been of the school that. Yeah, you should just leave your computer running because of mental fatigue, you know, turn it on and off, things heat up, cool down and then break. You know, when your computer's dies, it's probably dying, or right after you turn it on or right when you turn it off, because of the surges in power and the heating stuff. There is a great article that I shared up on my website from mandatory.com. Where they reached out to eight different vendors of hardware, each of them had kind of a different answer. And I think my answer today, because also have security concerns is, Yeah, you probably should turn turn off your computer when you're not using it. Because, at the very least, hopefully, you'll notice your computer starting to get busy or get hot if it's a laptop when it's being hacked, being used for mining Bitcoin by some third party with malicious software. And, then from the hardware standpoint, it probably is not going to make an appreciable difference in the life of the divided cell. There you go. Just turn it off now. I think that's probably the best bet.

12:29 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is your tech update of the week. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us at this time to give it to us every week. Appreciate it Craig and we will talk again next Wednesday. Take care gentlemen, thanks

12:40 thanks a lot alright so let's take gives it

12:42 to us every week I heard that Matt. All right everybody take care make sure you sign up for the webinar. You are really going to enjoy this. It's absolutely free, again you know we're not charging for this at all. I'm not selling you anything. This is a give back on trying to help 100 companies by the end of this year. small medium businesses with their security for free. I'm serious. Okay check it out. Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 10/23/2018

New Wifi Standards - Should You Turn Off Your PC

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. And this morning I spoke with Jim Polito. Have you wondered about your Wi-Fi, what the next generation is going to be? How can you keep it straight? Do you even know if you have the latest Wi-Fi? What are the benefits to upgrading? Well, that's one of the topics I talked about this morning with Mr. Jim Pulido, who recently just upgraded his Wi-Fi and his router in order to get around this whole problem that's been happening where people's home routers small business routers are being taken over. So here we go with Jim Polito

Unknown 0:40
here he is the man the myth, the legend, our tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 0:48
Hey, good morning. What a show this morning. We got a lot going

Unknown 0:52
on. And I've got some callers waiting. We're going to get to them before the end of the show. Just about plastic bags. policy. Irene Oh, my. I can't. Am I gonna get out anyway,

Unknown 1:06
you know, my local stuff the way they're asking now if we'd like to use if we'd like to have one-time use fake. So they're trying to shame you into. And I and my response was one time use. We keep them. We use them for all kinds. Yes, we have that chicken egg. The number kids. Yeah, one time you

Unknown 1:26
it's not a one time use my Dad,

Unknown 1:30
please. It's just the idiocy. But hey, I've got a question for you. So there's a new generation of y fi coming out. I have two questions. Is Netflix. Going to load quicker? And do I have to get a new router? A new router?

Unknown 1:55
You just upgraded? Yeah. Outer. Yeah, a lot of people have no problem. Because they just their pride. We just had that huge vulnerability that's still going on. In so many routers, yeah. Well, over the years, Wi-Fi has evolved. We started with 802, 11 a.

Unknown 2:12
And then we went to it'll do let them be. And then we had I'm trying to member now G and and and a see you know, and it's all frankly rather confusing to everybody. And when it comes to our cell phones, remember, you've got 4g before that we had three G, right. And that's simpler to figure out. So there's a new standard out there that's coming that's hitting us really quick quickly now, but should be implemented next year. And what they've done is they've decided, Okay, we're just going to make everything ever so much simpler for everybody. And the current 802 11

Unknown 2:54
AC is going to become law, I'm fine. Fine. And then the ones who that is going to be 4321. Okay, as you go through all of these. So they are going to make a change to the naming. And and on your phone. What you're going to see is you know how you have that little kind of a pipe symbol with those three, three lines, right? Yes. So he has Wi-Fi. So it's going to change it's going to happen number in there. So say it'll have a five and bear Oh, is really kind of cool. Yeah,

Unknown 3:25
no, I'm on that.

Unknown 3:27
Yeah, exactly. Now, you asked about Do I need to replace my router? Yeah. And the answer is, it kind of depends, but not for at least two or three more years. So basically, the expected like over your router. Because Wi-Fi 6 is coming. And this is going to be crazy fast, just like the new cellular standards are going to be crazy fast. And it's designed to be able to handle in your whole 8K TV at full speed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be absolutely crazy how fast this stuff's going to be. It has some major security fixes as well. Because we know about problems with Wi-Fi that we have out there. But it's going to be fast, it's going to be reliable. And it's you probably won't be able to upgrade to it, you're probably going to have to buy new equipment. But like for instance, what you have is is an 802 11 ac, which is going to be called Wi-Fi 5. Okay. Frankly, unless you are getting one of these crazy, Super duper high definition right now, these TVs cost you $10,000 more, don't worry about it.

Unknown 4:46
Okay. So So and by the way, folks are talking with Craig Peterson. And we'll give you a number at the end of this segment to be able to get this information and more. So the 4k TVs are pretty much the price on 4k TVs have stabilized. You can get a decent 4k TV, which is a really nice picture

Unknown 5:10
the eight k which is still very, very expensive. But I guess Craig, like everything else, the price is going to come down at some point.

Unknown 5:21
It is absolutely is. Yeah. And you talk to you have Netflix at home. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people do. And it's really very cool. It's very nice.

Unknown 5:30
Here's the trick. A lot of people don't know about the new 4k TVs that are out there right now. And this is important to remember when you're thinking about maybe upgrading your TV. Yeah, the 4k TVs have some extreme computing power in them. That allows them to do what's called an op sample. So for instance, they'll take a regular high def video signal, yes, coming from Netflix or from wherever, and they will turn into a much more beautiful 4k picture. So in other words, if you were to going to take that video stream coming in from that, but you ran it on your old TV, and you took the exact same stream and ran into brand new 4k TV sitting right next to it where data rates the same everything's the same that 4k TV will look stunning. Because of the logic it has some you might even call it artificial intelligence with overstatement. Okay, but it's it is very smart. And it is amazing. Some people might not be aware of it. But you might have a 4k TV in your home right now. And because of your internet bandwidth, that TV might only be getting a 720 p signal at bath. And yet it looks stunning at that's not an optical illusion. It's not your checkbook talking saying you paid for better TVs, you've got a better picture. It really is about better picture without having to have more bandwidth. So from that standpoint, you know, the 4k TVs look amazing. I don't have one. You know, maybe it's just because I'm an old guy. And I don't care, right? Yeah, the but the gamers love them. Because the again, the resolution and the 8k is going to be even better. Again, saving new bandwidth. So you know this slide five six is coming out. You can wait on for quite a while unless you learn to someone who has to be on the bleeding edge.

Unknown 7:31
All right. Well, that's good now. Danny's all excited. Because Danny, you're a gamer. And you want 4k Yeah. And even with the TV I have now the 4k TV and already lot of the games are in 4k coming in 4k. So it's nice that it will look at him. Hmm. We're talking with our good friend Craig Peterson Tech Talk crew. And at the end of the segment, we're going to give you a number you can text My name to and standard data in tax rates apply. Craig will get you all of this information and not just that other stuff. When things go wrong. She's there to tell you what to do. All right. Here's the other question. And people still have PCs. I mean, people have laptops and people start PCs. PC typically sits there on the table. It's on all day long. It's on all night long. I just never think about it. Should you turn it off? Does that extend its life? Should I turn it off?

Unknown 8:39
That's the that's the question. Right? We've had forever. The answer in general is kind of it depends. Because you're PCs using power us not to city that they're going to build your for that and most expensive power, right. Yeah, you know, what's the cost of the power versus breaking the PC, turning it off and on is going to break it right. And that's the tradeoff as they were trying to figure out. So I for four decades now, I have recommended that people just leave them on as the most stressful thing you can do to a computer is turned it on. Because now all of us think of that little teeny tiny wires, if you will, by the chips. So inside the chat. Even though it's a piece of silicone, it has a little wires that go from the silicone to the ends of the chip, and then connect to the board. So what happens when you run electricity through a wire ever, ever felt an extension or flogging, you feel it's

Unknown 9:41
warm, it's warm,

Unknown 9:43
that's what happens when a wire starts having like to see going through, it gets a little bit warmer. And when things get warm, they expand when they get cold, they contract, right. So So the idea is, if you're turning it on, first of all, you have a surge of power to some of the devices, devices, components, like the power supply, and others. But secondarily, now you're causing some stress, a mental fatigue on some of the components. So that's been my position for decades. And there's a great article that I snuck up on my website for mandatory.com, they reached out to other I guess it was about 10 different companies out there, including a who's and crucial. Crucial is one of the top memory makers and they Seuss makes great computers. But in ask them their tech support. I turn it off, so I'm not turn it off. Now. In every case, the tech support varied a little bit in their answer. Yeah, but most of them are saying, Yeah, just don't have any turn it off at night. But some of them said, you know, yeah, he might cause a little bit more aware. But we're not sure that really makes that much of a difference. However, all of these guys sell computers and maybe they have an ulterior motive. Maybe. Maybe they want you to buy computers. Yeah,

Unknown 11:06
yeah, turn it off. But you're nowadays you've also got security worry about right. Right.

Unknown 11:11
Because of its own right. It's more susceptible. I get it.

Unknown 11:15
Yeah,

Unknown 11:17
you might be better turning them off. All right. My new mantra.

Unknown 11:23
All right. Well, it's good enough. Look, folks, you've heard it, and you can get more of it. And it's free. And he's not going to try to sell you stuff. He's spreading the good word to those of us who don't understand the tech world. And for those of us who do understand the tech world, he'll understand it better. So text My name to this number

Unknown 11:45
855-385-5553. In fact, on Thursday, we've got a free no charge. You're not selling the thing of webinar on ransomware and what to do. Oh, great. Text me up. How you about that, too? Yeah, 855-385-5553 and stayed your standard data and text rates apply. But you when you're on that list, you're covered. Craig, thank you so much for your time. Always a pleasure. Hey, thanks, Jim. Take care. Take care.

Unknown 12:19
Bye. Bye. Hey, guys. Don't forget this Thursday, we are talking about ransomware. This is the first in our free series. It's absolutely free. I'm not selling a thing where we're trying to help small businesses. In fact, I've committed to doing some of these evaluations I typically do for larger businesses, but I've committed to doing 100 of them for free before the end of the year this year. So we're going to talk a little bit about that on Thursday. Make sure you sign up http://craigpeterson.com. Have a great day. We'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 10/23/2018

New Wifi Standards - Should You Turn Off Your PC

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, good morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. And this morning I spoke with Jim Polito. Have you wondered about your Wi-Fi, what the next generation is going to be? How can you keep it straight? Do you even know if you have the latest Wi-Fi? What are the benefits to upgrading? Well, that's one of the topics I talked about this morning with Mr. Jim Pulido, who recently just upgraded his Wi-Fi and his router in order to get around this whole problem that's been happening where people's home routers small business routers are being taken over. So here we go with Jim Polito

Unknown 0:40
here he is the man the myth, the legend, our tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Unknown 0:48
Hey, good morning. What a show this morning. We got a lot going

Unknown 0:52
on. And I've got some callers waiting. We're going to get to them before the end of the show. Just about plastic bags. policy. Irene Oh, my. I can't. Am I gonna get out anyway,

Unknown 1:06
you know, my local stuff the way they're asking now if we'd like to use if we'd like to have one-time use fake. So they're trying to shame you into. And I and my response was one time use. We keep them. We use them for all kinds. Yes, we have that chicken egg. The number kids. Yeah, one time you

Unknown 1:26
it's not a one time use my Dad,

Unknown 1:30
please. It's just the idiocy. But hey, I've got a question for you. So there's a new generation of y fi coming out. I have two questions. Is Netflix. Going to load quicker? And do I have to get a new router? A new router?

Unknown 1:55
You just upgraded? Yeah. Outer. Yeah, a lot of people have no problem. Because they just their pride. We just had that huge vulnerability that's still going on. In so many routers, yeah. Well, over the years, Wi-Fi has evolved. We started with 802, 11 a.

Unknown 2:12
And then we went to it'll do let them be. And then we had I'm trying to member now G and and and a see you know, and it's all frankly rather confusing to everybody. And when it comes to our cell phones, remember, you've got 4g before that we had three G, right. And that's simpler to figure out. So there's a new standard out there that's coming that's hitting us really quick quickly now, but should be implemented next year. And what they've done is they've decided, Okay, we're just going to make everything ever so much simpler for everybody. And the current 802 11

Unknown 2:54
AC is going to become law, I'm fine. Fine. And then the ones who that is going to be 4321. Okay, as you go through all of these. So they are going to make a change to the naming. And and on your phone. What you're going to see is you know how you have that little kind of a pipe symbol with those three, three lines, right? Yes. So he has Wi-Fi. So it's going to change it's going to happen number in there. So say it'll have a five and bear Oh, is really kind of cool. Yeah,

Unknown 3:25
no, I'm on that.

Unknown 3:27
Yeah, exactly. Now, you asked about Do I need to replace my router? Yeah. And the answer is, it kind of depends, but not for at least two or three more years. So basically, the expected like over your router. Because Wi-Fi 6 is coming. And this is going to be crazy fast, just like the new cellular standards are going to be crazy fast. And it's designed to be able to handle in your whole 8K TV at full speed. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it's going to be absolutely crazy how fast this stuff's going to be. It has some major security fixes as well. Because we know about problems with Wi-Fi that we have out there. But it's going to be fast, it's going to be reliable. And it's you probably won't be able to upgrade to it, you're probably going to have to buy new equipment. But like for instance, what you have is is an 802 11 ac, which is going to be called Wi-Fi 5. Okay. Frankly, unless you are getting one of these crazy, Super duper high definition right now, these TVs cost you $10,000 more, don't worry about it.

Unknown 4:46
Okay. So So and by the way, folks are talking with Craig Peterson. And we'll give you a number at the end of this segment to be able to get this information and more. So the 4k TVs are pretty much the price on 4k TVs have stabilized. You can get a decent 4k TV, which is a really nice picture

Unknown 5:10
the eight k which is still very, very expensive. But I guess Craig, like everything else, the price is going to come down at some point.

Unknown 5:21
It is absolutely is. Yeah. And you talk to you have Netflix at home. Yeah, yeah, a lot of people do. And it's really very cool. It's very nice.

Unknown 5:30
Here's the trick. A lot of people don't know about the new 4k TVs that are out there right now. And this is important to remember when you're thinking about maybe upgrading your TV. Yeah, the 4k TVs have some extreme computing power in them. That allows them to do what's called an op sample. So for instance, they'll take a regular high def video signal, yes, coming from Netflix or from wherever, and they will turn into a much more beautiful 4k picture. So in other words, if you were to going to take that video stream coming in from that, but you ran it on your old TV, and you took the exact same stream and ran into brand new 4k TV sitting right next to it where data rates the same everything's the same that 4k TV will look stunning. Because of the logic it has some you might even call it artificial intelligence with overstatement. Okay, but it's it is very smart. And it is amazing. Some people might not be aware of it. But you might have a 4k TV in your home right now. And because of your internet bandwidth, that TV might only be getting a 720 p signal at bath. And yet it looks stunning at that's not an optical illusion. It's not your checkbook talking saying you paid for better TVs, you've got a better picture. It really is about better picture without having to have more bandwidth. So from that standpoint, you know, the 4k TVs look amazing. I don't have one. You know, maybe it's just because I'm an old guy. And I don't care, right? Yeah, the but the gamers love them. Because the again, the resolution and the 8k is going to be even better. Again, saving new bandwidth. So you know this slide five six is coming out. You can wait on for quite a while unless you learn to someone who has to be on the bleeding edge.

Unknown 7:31
All right. Well, that's good now. Danny's all excited. Because Danny, you're a gamer. And you want 4k Yeah. And even with the TV I have now the 4k TV and already lot of the games are in 4k coming in 4k. So it's nice that it will look at him. Hmm. We're talking with our good friend Craig Peterson Tech Talk crew. And at the end of the segment, we're going to give you a number you can text My name to and standard data in tax rates apply. Craig will get you all of this information and not just that other stuff. When things go wrong. She's there to tell you what to do. All right. Here's the other question. And people still have PCs. I mean, people have laptops and people start PCs. PC typically sits there on the table. It's on all day long. It's on all night long. I just never think about it. Should you turn it off? Does that extend its life? Should I turn it off?

Unknown 8:39
That's the that's the question. Right? We've had forever. The answer in general is kind of it depends. Because you're PCs using power us not to city that they're going to build your for that and most expensive power, right. Yeah, you know, what's the cost of the power versus breaking the PC, turning it off and on is going to break it right. And that's the tradeoff as they were trying to figure out. So I for four decades now, I have recommended that people just leave them on as the most stressful thing you can do to a computer is turned it on. Because now all of us think of that little teeny tiny wires, if you will, by the chips. So inside the chat. Even though it's a piece of silicone, it has a little wires that go from the silicone to the ends of the chip, and then connect to the board. So what happens when you run electricity through a wire ever, ever felt an extension or flogging, you feel it's

Unknown 9:41
warm, it's warm,

Unknown 9:43
that's what happens when a wire starts having like to see going through, it gets a little bit warmer. And when things get warm, they expand when they get cold, they contract, right. So So the idea is, if you're turning it on, first of all, you have a surge of power to some of the devices, devices, components, like the power supply, and others. But secondarily, now you're causing some stress, a mental fatigue on some of the components. So that's been my position for decades. And there's a great article that I snuck up on my website for mandatory.com, they reached out to other I guess it was about 10 different companies out there, including a who's and crucial. Crucial is one of the top memory makers and they Seuss makes great computers. But in ask them their tech support. I turn it off, so I'm not turn it off. Now. In every case, the tech support varied a little bit in their answer. Yeah, but most of them are saying, Yeah, just don't have any turn it off at night. But some of them said, you know, yeah, he might cause a little bit more aware. But we're not sure that really makes that much of a difference. However, all of these guys sell computers and maybe they have an ulterior motive. Maybe. Maybe they want you to buy computers. Yeah,

Unknown 11:06
yeah, turn it off. But you're nowadays you've also got security worry about right. Right.

Unknown 11:11
Because of its own right. It's more susceptible. I get it.

Unknown 11:15
Yeah,

Unknown 11:17
you might be better turning them off. All right. My new mantra.

Unknown 11:23
All right. Well, it's good enough. Look, folks, you've heard it, and you can get more of it. And it's free. And he's not going to try to sell you stuff. He's spreading the good word to those of us who don't understand the tech world. And for those of us who do understand the tech world, he'll understand it better. So text My name to this number

Unknown 11:45
855-385-5553. In fact, on Thursday, we've got a free no charge. You're not selling the thing of webinar on ransomware and what to do. Oh, great. Text me up. How you about that, too? Yeah, 855-385-5553 and stayed your standard data and text rates apply. But you when you're on that list, you're covered. Craig, thank you so much for your time. Always a pleasure. Hey, thanks, Jim. Take care. Take care.

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