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Airing date: 09/01/2018

Fit Feels Good's Oonagh Duncan, Net Neutrality Repeal Benefits, and Business Email Compromises

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Everybody welcome. Of course, tech talk with Craig Peterson. Same time every week, and online as well. Craig Peterson dot com. Today, we've got a couple of different things going on. One I've got a friend of mine I've known for a couple of years who have been using the online world in order to help build a business and help people. You know I'm an entrepreneur, right, and so is she. I think you're going to find this interesting. And if you know anyone who is a woman in their 40s who might have a couple of problems with losing that baby weight that was put on, well she can probably help them out too. But, it's interesting because she's using the modern technology, including some of the stuff that we're constantly complaining about it comes to social media. So, that'll be fun. So, she's up next. We're also going to be talking about a couple of security things, this week. Half of the small businesses believe they're not cybercrime targets. We'll explain why that's a really bad idea. We've got some more information on the DNC, and another hack that appears to be underway. The whole 'Struts' Bug. Hey, if you work in with a bigger company get this fixed. Now, this is critical absolutely critical. This is how Equifax got hacked the same subsystem called Apache Struts 2 Flaw. So, check that out, if you're a bigger business. We've got an Ohio man sentenced to 15 months for BEC scam. We've got new stuff with scanners at airports. AT&T, oh I've got to talk about this. So, we'll get to that and a whole lot more. But first, we are going off to Oonagh. Here we go. 

[00:01:47] We're joined right now by a young lady. No, I say young but she's working with women in their 40s her name is Oonagh Duncan and, Oonagh has been all over the place and associate fitness editor for a magazine. She's been a regular before on all kinds of podcasts and on the air as well as CBC up in the Great White North. And, we're going to talk with Oonagh in a little bit about technology. Now you know tech and you know tech has been influencing us. We've talked about some of the problems social media has caused with all kinds of negative things and when we think about it in kind of a negative stereotype, as well, so many times. The reason we're having Oonagh on is that she has been very busy in helping to build a community of these young women who in their 40's, who want to get back in shape, maybe lose some weight, maybe get that cardiovascular system going. And, then she's doing it using technology. So, I've known her for a while, and I asked her to come on she was gracious enough to do so. So, Hi. 

[00:02:51] Oonagh. Hi, Craig how it been going? It's going really well, now. 

[00:02:55] The first time I met you in person. I suspected that you were probably about 30 years old. You've got more than a decade on that, you've taken good care of yourself. What brought you to the point where you thought you might be able to help other people? And looking online Google, for instance, It has about a thousand people who have rated you 5-stars so, you're obviously good at it too.

[00:03:22] Thank you. Yeah. Oh my gosh, it's been an unbelievable ride. I was I was originally an actor and playwright and then in order to, you know, you would be shocked playwriting is not very lucrative. So, I began to teach fitness classes at 6:00 in the morning and 6 at night. So, I have my whole day to work on my playwriting. And, so I did that for a few years and then I found, that you know, I just kind of getting sick of auditioning all the time, and you know trying to reach my place. So, it's like, no actually, this is the kind of fun. Well, see if I can make a go of it, and it just really took off from there. And, then I noticed that a lot of my clients even though they were exercising, a lot, weren't really seeing the results on their body, that they wanted to because a lot of people don't know this, exercise is not that efficient for a fat loss. It's really efficient to keep off the weight once you've lost it. If you want to lose fat it's going to be almost all about Nutrition. So, I am putting the nutrition component of my program and that I put it all online. So, the only client that had moved away that was sort of my initial impulse but then it just started being like all the strangers come into now I have people in like Mexico, and Germany, and you know Latvia and it's unbelievable. It's so fun because you know I get to log in in the morning, and see how everyone in the UK is doing and then you know before I go to bed and they see everyone on the West Coast and what they have for dinner. So, it's really, really cool the global aspect of it. 

[00:04:49] It is a different world isn't it. You can get an expert to help you from almost anywhere, and that's what you're doing. Tell me about the success here? 

[00:04:58] Two thousand people all over the world with a 100 percent 5-star review. You're having a real shock then. How are you achieving this? 

[00:05:08] Oh, my gosh. Well, you know it is just it's really sort of happened, organically of course, and using Facebook to reach people. But, honestly, I see so much of it is word of mouth, and it's not because you know people are losing weight. My program is called a 28-day transformation challenge. We lose weight, in between. But, because we sort of have snuck in all these psychological triggers that build how bad people are tending to keep the weight off long term. I think that's like making all their friends go. Wait a second. What's going on here, and then? And, so, the word of mouth has just been like spreading wildfire. I think a lot of that is also about the community because there are so many. I mean, I don't know, if you know that there's no many, you know click thirty-nine-dollars to buy a PDF download. This meal plan and workout program that is everywhere. It's not everywhere, it is a life community where everyone is starting the program on the same day. We're all doing it, together. And, you have one on one access to a world-renowned trainer and a nutrition coach. And, it's sort of like sports that we can offer online and know into people's questions. My team, you know before long they're finished hyping it. So, people feel so unsupported, in order. If you were to try and figure that out locally, hey you know, who knows where you live, if you got access to that level of caliber of trainer, nutrition coach, but you know you have to work schedules and then see the cost could be prohibitive. So, really new technology is making history and more accessible to so many people.

[00:06:43] So, you mentioned the kind of the social support side of this. Are you using Facebook? Or, do you have your own membership site? How does that all work? 

[00:06:52] Yea, we do have a membership site but most of the time the membership site we're really just using for, you know, content distribution. It is really all the action happens in the Facebook group. You know we had considered forums because now we have so many people that there's had to be some little you know breakout groups have been new moms, and you know breakout groups women going through menopause and you know you have a little small but really cool dude factor and you know so they might be cool to sort of break that open. Right, now we're just in a big jumble in the Facebook group and sort of organizing with hashtags and you know community memes and stuff like that and it seems to be working pretty well. 

[00:07:30] Now your wife excuse me my wife and you haven't had a chance to talk before. And of course she's almost 60 years old now and she has had a hard time over the years in losing weight and things. So, she has gone out, and we've done everything we've done the app can you name it we've done it and she's found apps online. Some free that she downloaded some she had to pay for and if it was like what you were talking about that 39 dollar PDF and she didn't get anywhere. But, I think maybe even the key that you have really hit on here is this whole idea of social support. Is that why the apps just typically aren't working for people? 

[00:08:15] I think of it, I think to be honest Craig I think part of it is that those are there. You know you pay 20 bucks and they all kind of look the same. You know maybe you get a push notification, if you allow them. But it's so easy to ignore. If you are a real person who follows up and says Hey, Craig what's up? Haven't heard from you for a little while. Hey, I'm looking you know I know you slept in today and you said you really work done after work. 

[00:08:38] I'm waiting for your sweaty selfie. You know. 

[00:08:43] Yeah. And then people were like, Oh yeah I have to do it. So, there's that sense of accountability not only to your trainer and nutrition coach but to the rest of the community because you know you log into Facebook and you see all these other people are like oh my gosh you the soup was fantastic and it The workout was so hard, I can't believe I finished it or whatever. Then you're feel like you're part of something and building the team down if you don't win. And this is a well documented all over the psychology of exercise adherence if you work out as part of a group and that's a team sport or even group exercise in the gym you are hundred percent more likely to adhere to your is to achieve your goal. 

[00:09:20] Yeah. No, part of the problem with the gym, Oonagh, is of course you've you've got to get babysitters, if you have younger kids, and you have a job, more than likely right. So, we only have a couple of minutes left but of course Fit Feels Good, of course, is your website will give that out again in just a minute. But you have this live community aspect that seems to make all the difference. 

[00:09:41] That's right. And you know I'm sure your people are pretty tech savvy so, you know a lot of people are like are you going to go evergreen with this You know make it's sort of passive income that just keep coming in I'm like well yeah I have figured out a way to go evergreen and that we start live you know often. But, it's still a Live start. It still has me physically in the group, Welcoming people, commenting on their things like I can't and I won't ever just turn it into a do it yourself program because I know that doesn't work. 

[00:10:12] Yeah, you've got to have that support. You know I've seen on your Web site you've got some other programs coming up you started with this outdoor kind of a boot camp. You mentioned your 28 day program now. Are you also have something. I think you're trying to set up to go down to Mexico and really kind of bootstrap people, but fit feels good Dot com is your Web site and know your brand is fit Feels good, as well. Can they find everything there or what's the best way to find out more? 

[00:10:42] Yeah. If you go to it feels good dot com. You'll see everything there. You'll see a heading called free stuff and you can grab  free goodies. And, if you find out about my 28 day transformation challenge and next one is starting on the September 10. It actually is a really wicked bonuses going with that one, including you know I've got a celebrity stylist who's going to come in and tell us how to dress for your body shape. I've got a flat belly strong core program. All of that goes with that. So, if anyone is ever interested in taking care of your body, your health, getting lean kind of once and for all if you're done trying all the 39 dollar apps and your like lets get down to business and get this done. And yet come join me September 10th and I will welcome you with open arms and so much accountability. 

[00:11:27] All right. Now, I've known you now for a couple of years I think give or take. And I got to say she's the real thing. She she lives, she loves this. I get on calls with her. And you know on Zoom or WebEx or you know all these types of technology online and she doing well she's on the call she's on a treadmill talking I'm gonna get on the call. All I know she's doing that right now. All right. 

[00:11:54] Well, I am actually pacing right now. 

[00:11:57] There you go. She she lives it, she loves it. The people that work with her absolutely love it. Oonagh is not compensating me in any way, for those of you who don't know me you haven't been listening for the last 20 years. I think she's got some great tech and great heart and is really trying to help out again. She has been an associate editor, fitness editor, in fact, for magazines. She has been all over the place helping women and some men as she said but kind of specializing in women in their 40s when it's really tough when you've got to start taking those pounds off from the kids. Helping them out doing that live and having a whole lot of fun while doing it. And again the Website is fit feels good dot com. Anything else, Oonagh like to add. 

[00:12:43] No that's fantastic. Thank you so much. OK. That was really lovely. Hey 

[00:12:46] You're welcome. Take care. OK. So now we're going to get into the tech side. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about. So here we go.

[00:12:59] You know we had a lot of complaints from people about this whole net neutrality thing and I think the reason is people just didn't understand it. We had a group just like we have right now a group of far leftists, socialists who want the government to control everything. And, if you don't think that's been the case for a while. Look at your tax bills we're over 50 percent now. What do you buy? What do you own, that you think it's worth 50 percent of your income? Right. Anything is your car worth working six months out of the year for?  Remember that means January through June or July. What's worth that? Is government? Are the services government providing you. Are they worth half of your whole income? Well, those same socialists were out there just beating this drum, because in the latter part of the Obama administration the FCC passed this net neutrality rule where they pulled the Internet under direct FCC control, by one simple ruling right. And the FCC said well we don't really have the authority to do this but they did it anyway just like President Obama said that we don't have the authority to do this but I did anyway. They were saying if net neutrality goes through we are out of luck. 

[00:14:17] Right. Because they're going to slow down the Internet. There's going to be advertising everywhere, if it doesn't go through we need it so that everything on the Internet is treated fairly. So, that your soccer team is treated fairly. So, that you're not overpaying for Internet access. And you'll remember at the time my argument to that was hey wait a minute now. Why should the old grandma, who's sitting there in her home doing nothing except waiting to get an e-mail or some pictures from the grandkids? Why should she pay the same amount as some kid sitting in the basement playing full 3D video games and talking to the friends all at the same time and streaming Netflix in the background? Maybe if Hulu in the background, right? Why should grandma pay the same as a super high end user of the Internet. It just doesn't make sense. Well, there's another factor I talked about which is that you will take the incentive to invest in the Internet away. If you have this so-called net neutrality, right. Why would businesses try new things? Why would businesses invest in more bandwidth, if they can't charge for it? Why would they invest in more bandwidth, if the high end users can't be charged more? 

[00:15:39] Right. You remember me talking about that. Well, we now have proof that what I said was absolutely right. Because you know that President Trumps FCC and of course, the head of the FCC Ajit Pai just came out and eliminated that so-called net neutrality rule. Of course, the left was out all over the place saying oh the world is going to fall apart. Well, guess what. not only did it not fall apart, but the Internet has gotten much, much better because of the net neutrality repeal. So, I'm looking at two articles from this week. One is AT&T is investing more now. Iowa right. Not a big state kind of flyover country, as the Clintons like to call it, right. It's not an East Coast-West Coast which gets most of the attention. No, it's in the Midwest. Iowa. AT&T is investing nearly 120 million dollars to boost local networks in Iowa. That's just this week. So, they're boosting reliability coverage, speed, and overall performance for the residents and businesses of Iowa. Including rural Iowa. OK. So, they've already made 365 network enhancements across Iowa including new cell sites, network capacity, and network upgrades, since President Trump removed this so-called net neutrality, which was terrible, terrible to have in place I can't believe they did this. And, again it's the far left that's doing this. Here's another one. Absolute proof as to what's going on. That's just one sample right that article this week from MarketWatch which is an investment website. OK. And that ultimately came from PR Newswire. Our next one. The U.S. Internet speed has gone from 12th place in the world.

[00:17:38] So, we had the 12 fastest average internet speeds. Now the U.S. we invented the Internet, literally invented the Internet. And we've been we've fallen to 12th place in the world under President Obama, as far as internet speeds go. Well, here you go, we got rid of net neutrality. We've got companies like AT&T and of course Comcast and you name it. Everybody investing this week as well. T-Mobile came out wasn't T-Mobile it was a third-party analysis. T-Mobile right now has the fastest 4G LTE speeds of any company. They are just pounding it. And you know I switch personally from Verizon, I've had Verizon Wireless since the early 90s. So, since they first started providing cell service, before it was even called Verizon. So, I've been with them a long time, and I switched to T-Mobile. And, of course, you have to have a newer phone if your Verizon customer moving to T-Mobile because you need the additional bands. But they've done amazing things again since net neutrality was removed. Well, now we've got this article. We were 12th in the world. And, since the repeal of net neutrality took effect on June 11th. Since then, the U.S. Internet speed has gone from 12th in the world 12th fastest in the world we're now sixth fastest in the world. What does that mean? That means that as far as the Internet goes businesses are investing again because they realize that if they put like AT&T 120 million dollars into Iowa, they can get their money back out.

[00:19:31] Very good thing. I love the fact that they're doing this. So it makes a huge, huge difference here. You should see some of these tweets too about this article. Wow. So Ajit Pai. He announced late last year he's going to repeal it and stuff but it's oh it's going on and on and on. Of course, some positive comments and some others. So, my internet speeds have improved dramatically. How about yours? OK. So we're going to talk about new facial recognition stuff and I want to bring up this whole idea. Businesses have that, no one's going to come after me right.

[00:20:16] Now, of course, who robs banks. thanks, Willy. Text me his last name if you remember 8 5 5 3 8 55 53. He Robbed Banks because that's where the money is. So, where are the bad guys going to try and hack? Well, obviously they're going to go after the money. They try and go after banks and try and build up the whole idea behind banks. And they've got the money we're going to have them but the banks have the money to put into fixing their security. So, where else to go if you're the bad guy?

[00:20:52] Yes Sutton, you're right. Hey, thanks for that. 

[00:20:56] Any other comments, you can always send them there to 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty-five fifty-three. 

[00:21:02] But, where do they go now? Well, they go after small businesses because small businesses are not savvy when it comes to security. And, I see that every day. You know I keep mentioning I'm picking up more and more customers two more this week where we're doing scans for them because you know in this case one of those cases was the unknown, unknowns right. I don't know. What I don't know about my security. In accountancy, an accounting company. And so we started looking. And of course they do billing for customers and things and we have a customer right now. Well actually their insurance company is our customer because they were an accounting firm and as an accounting firm, they had all of this data the data. Guess what was stolen? They got hacked. Their firewall right through it because most firewalls are pieces of garbage and they were able to use that stole 180000 dollars in cash from the accountancy's customers. So, if you don't think you're exposed, you're wrong. But, you wouldn't be out of the ordinary, because there is right now 76 percent of small businesses say that they have not activated any sort of multifactor authentication. And we've talked about that on the show before. You know I'm using Yubikeys. I've got my clients moving towards those, as well. We've got the integrated systems so, that if someone comes on board we can give them access to everything from one place and if they leave we can remove their access to everything, from one place. 

[00:22:42] But 51 percent of small business leaders who were polled are convinced that their companies are not our target for cybercrime. Now, have any of you have a board of directors that needs some information. Let me know. We just this week did an FBI webinar that I ran, on this very issue. How do you convince your board of directors that they need to do something and do something urgently? This is not the same world it was five years ago. So, 51 percent of small business leaders are convinced their companies are not a target for cybercrime. And yet at the same time, they are the ones who are getting breached. I pick up a new client at least every week that has been breached and we've got to go in and clean up the mess. Or as I mentioned our help when the in the lawsuits that ensue and get paid by the insurance companies and that's after the business is going out of business because they lost all of their working capital, their cash is gone. So, here's another example an Ohio man got sentenced to 15 months for a BEC scam, business email compromise Olemewa Jumeau. I'm probably mispronouncing that, targeted CEOs, CFOs and other business leaders with fraudulent e-mails. 

[00:24:06] So, Chief U.S. District Judge is this from the from the press report press release, Chief U.S. District Judge Janet Hall last week sentenced him to 15 months in federal prison for his role in a business email compromise scheme targeting organizations in the United States. You know I was looking at the stats from our clients from just last week and it was amazing to me to see wow how many attempts there were we stopped for our clients last week. I think it was like four dozen business email scam attacks directly actually attributed to it. Of course, you know tens of thousands of spam e-mails. But these were really directed attacks where they're going after a specific business. OK. So after 15 months in federal prison, he is going to have three years of supervised release. Now, it just bugs the heck out of me. Fifteen months. Here's a guy that stole the retirement, the livelihood of these business people, right. We're businesspeople, we're trying to run a business. We're hoping that it will support us in our retirement because heaven knows Social Security isn't going to cut it. We're hoping that maybe we have something left to pass on to the children, as long as the government doesn't take it from us. So, they've lost it all. They've lost it all. And this guy. It's 15 months. It's absolutely crazy. 

[00:25:37] So, this guy admitted that he caused losses exceeding 100000 dollars in order to pay 90000 restitution. I don't know what the actual numbers are. That's all he admitted to but, bad news. Make sure you tighten up your security if you want me to talk to your board of directors. I'll be glad to make presentations. I do it all the time for annual meetings and other places. Reach out if you have any other questions or comments, reach out. Just pick up your phone you can text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Keep an eye out in your e-mails, hopefully, you're on my e-mail list because starting this week, every week in September I'm going to be doing a different webinar. We're going to be talking about the big problems out there, ransomware what to do about it. Business email compromise. All of this stuff. So, if you want to be involved in those, let me know is well, free to attend. I have solutions that I'm going to offer, as well, but the free information here 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Have a great week and we'll chat again next week. Bye-bye.

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How is a world class trainer using tech and social media to help people achieve their goals? Listen in as I talk with Oonagh Duncan about her business Fit Feels Good.  

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

Airing date: 09/01/2018

Fit Feels Good's Oonagh Duncan, Net Neutrality Repeal Benefits, and Business Email Compromises

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Everybody welcome. Of course, tech talk with Craig Peterson. Same time every week, and online as well. Craig Peterson dot com. Today, we've got a couple of different things going on. One I've got a friend of mine I've known for a couple of years who have been using the online world in order to help build a business and help people. You know I'm an entrepreneur, right, and so is she. I think you're going to find this interesting. And if you know anyone who is a woman in their 40s who might have a couple of problems with losing that baby weight that was put on, well she can probably help them out too. But, it's interesting because she's using the modern technology, including some of the stuff that we're constantly complaining about it comes to social media. So, that'll be fun. So, she's up next. We're also going to be talking about a couple of security things, this week. Half of the small businesses believe they're not cybercrime targets. We'll explain why that's a really bad idea. We've got some more information on the DNC, and another hack that appears to be underway. The whole 'Struts' Bug. Hey, if you work in with a bigger company get this fixed. Now, this is critical absolutely critical. This is how Equifax got hacked the same subsystem called Apache Struts 2 Flaw. So, check that out, if you're a bigger business. We've got an Ohio man sentenced to 15 months for BEC scam. We've got new stuff with scanners at airports. AT&T, oh I've got to talk about this. So, we'll get to that and a whole lot more. But first, we are going off to Oonagh. Here we go. 

[00:01:47] We're joined right now by a young lady. No, I say young but she's working with women in their 40s her name is Oonagh Duncan and, Oonagh has been all over the place and associate fitness editor for a magazine. She's been a regular before on all kinds of podcasts and on the air as well as CBC up in the Great White North. And, we're going to talk with Oonagh in a little bit about technology. Now you know tech and you know tech has been influencing us. We've talked about some of the problems social media has caused with all kinds of negative things and when we think about it in kind of a negative stereotype, as well, so many times. The reason we're having Oonagh on is that she has been very busy in helping to build a community of these young women who in their 40's, who want to get back in shape, maybe lose some weight, maybe get that cardiovascular system going. And, then she's doing it using technology. So, I've known her for a while, and I asked her to come on she was gracious enough to do so. So, Hi. 

[00:02:51] Oonagh. Hi, Craig how it been going? It's going really well, now. 

[00:02:55] The first time I met you in person. I suspected that you were probably about 30 years old. You've got more than a decade on that, you've taken good care of yourself. What brought you to the point where you thought you might be able to help other people? And looking online Google, for instance, It has about a thousand people who have rated you 5-stars so, you're obviously good at it too.

[00:03:22] Thank you. Yeah. Oh my gosh, it's been an unbelievable ride. I was I was originally an actor and playwright and then in order to, you know, you would be shocked playwriting is not very lucrative. So, I began to teach fitness classes at 6:00 in the morning and 6 at night. So, I have my whole day to work on my playwriting. And, so I did that for a few years and then I found, that you know, I just kind of getting sick of auditioning all the time, and you know trying to reach my place. So, it's like, no actually, this is the kind of fun. Well, see if I can make a go of it, and it just really took off from there. And, then I noticed that a lot of my clients even though they were exercising, a lot, weren't really seeing the results on their body, that they wanted to because a lot of people don't know this, exercise is not that efficient for a fat loss. It's really efficient to keep off the weight once you've lost it. If you want to lose fat it's going to be almost all about Nutrition. So, I am putting the nutrition component of my program and that I put it all online. So, the only client that had moved away that was sort of my initial impulse but then it just started being like all the strangers come into now I have people in like Mexico, and Germany, and you know Latvia and it's unbelievable. It's so fun because you know I get to log in in the morning, and see how everyone in the UK is doing and then you know before I go to bed and they see everyone on the West Coast and what they have for dinner. So, it's really, really cool the global aspect of it. 

[00:04:49] It is a different world isn't it. You can get an expert to help you from almost anywhere, and that's what you're doing. Tell me about the success here? 

[00:04:58] Two thousand people all over the world with a 100 percent 5-star review. You're having a real shock then. How are you achieving this? 

[00:05:08] Oh, my gosh. Well, you know it is just it's really sort of happened, organically of course, and using Facebook to reach people. But, honestly, I see so much of it is word of mouth, and it's not because you know people are losing weight. My program is called a 28-day transformation challenge. We lose weight, in between. But, because we sort of have snuck in all these psychological triggers that build how bad people are tending to keep the weight off long term. I think that's like making all their friends go. Wait a second. What's going on here, and then? And, so, the word of mouth has just been like spreading wildfire. I think a lot of that is also about the community because there are so many. I mean, I don't know, if you know that there's no many, you know click thirty-nine-dollars to buy a PDF download. This meal plan and workout program that is everywhere. It's not everywhere, it is a life community where everyone is starting the program on the same day. We're all doing it, together. And, you have one on one access to a world-renowned trainer and a nutrition coach. And, it's sort of like sports that we can offer online and know into people's questions. My team, you know before long they're finished hyping it. So, people feel so unsupported, in order. If you were to try and figure that out locally, hey you know, who knows where you live, if you got access to that level of caliber of trainer, nutrition coach, but you know you have to work schedules and then see the cost could be prohibitive. So, really new technology is making history and more accessible to so many people.

[00:06:43] So, you mentioned the kind of the social support side of this. Are you using Facebook? Or, do you have your own membership site? How does that all work? 

[00:06:52] Yea, we do have a membership site but most of the time the membership site we're really just using for, you know, content distribution. It is really all the action happens in the Facebook group. You know we had considered forums because now we have so many people that there's had to be some little you know breakout groups have been new moms, and you know breakout groups women going through menopause and you know you have a little small but really cool dude factor and you know so they might be cool to sort of break that open. Right, now we're just in a big jumble in the Facebook group and sort of organizing with hashtags and you know community memes and stuff like that and it seems to be working pretty well. 

[00:07:30] Now your wife excuse me my wife and you haven't had a chance to talk before. And of course she's almost 60 years old now and she has had a hard time over the years in losing weight and things. So, she has gone out, and we've done everything we've done the app can you name it we've done it and she's found apps online. Some free that she downloaded some she had to pay for and if it was like what you were talking about that 39 dollar PDF and she didn't get anywhere. But, I think maybe even the key that you have really hit on here is this whole idea of social support. Is that why the apps just typically aren't working for people? 

[00:08:15] I think of it, I think to be honest Craig I think part of it is that those are there. You know you pay 20 bucks and they all kind of look the same. You know maybe you get a push notification, if you allow them. But it's so easy to ignore. If you are a real person who follows up and says Hey, Craig what's up? Haven't heard from you for a little while. Hey, I'm looking you know I know you slept in today and you said you really work done after work. 

[00:08:38] I'm waiting for your sweaty selfie. You know. 

[00:08:43] Yeah. And then people were like, Oh yeah I have to do it. So, there's that sense of accountability not only to your trainer and nutrition coach but to the rest of the community because you know you log into Facebook and you see all these other people are like oh my gosh you the soup was fantastic and it The workout was so hard, I can't believe I finished it or whatever. Then you're feel like you're part of something and building the team down if you don't win. And this is a well documented all over the psychology of exercise adherence if you work out as part of a group and that's a team sport or even group exercise in the gym you are hundred percent more likely to adhere to your is to achieve your goal. 

[00:09:20] Yeah. No, part of the problem with the gym, Oonagh, is of course you've you've got to get babysitters, if you have younger kids, and you have a job, more than likely right. So, we only have a couple of minutes left but of course Fit Feels Good, of course, is your website will give that out again in just a minute. But you have this live community aspect that seems to make all the difference. 

[00:09:41] That's right. And you know I'm sure your people are pretty tech savvy so, you know a lot of people are like are you going to go evergreen with this You know make it's sort of passive income that just keep coming in I'm like well yeah I have figured out a way to go evergreen and that we start live you know often. But, it's still a Live start. It still has me physically in the group, Welcoming people, commenting on their things like I can't and I won't ever just turn it into a do it yourself program because I know that doesn't work. 

[00:10:12] Yeah, you've got to have that support. You know I've seen on your Web site you've got some other programs coming up you started with this outdoor kind of a boot camp. You mentioned your 28 day program now. Are you also have something. I think you're trying to set up to go down to Mexico and really kind of bootstrap people, but fit feels good Dot com is your Web site and know your brand is fit Feels good, as well. Can they find everything there or what's the best way to find out more? 

[00:10:42] Yeah. If you go to it feels good dot com. You'll see everything there. You'll see a heading called free stuff and you can grab  free goodies. And, if you find out about my 28 day transformation challenge and next one is starting on the September 10. It actually is a really wicked bonuses going with that one, including you know I've got a celebrity stylist who's going to come in and tell us how to dress for your body shape. I've got a flat belly strong core program. All of that goes with that. So, if anyone is ever interested in taking care of your body, your health, getting lean kind of once and for all if you're done trying all the 39 dollar apps and your like lets get down to business and get this done. And yet come join me September 10th and I will welcome you with open arms and so much accountability. 

[00:11:27] All right. Now, I've known you now for a couple of years I think give or take. And I got to say she's the real thing. She she lives, she loves this. I get on calls with her. And you know on Zoom or WebEx or you know all these types of technology online and she doing well she's on the call she's on a treadmill talking I'm gonna get on the call. All I know she's doing that right now. All right. 

[00:11:54] Well, I am actually pacing right now. 

[00:11:57] There you go. She she lives it, she loves it. The people that work with her absolutely love it. Oonagh is not compensating me in any way, for those of you who don't know me you haven't been listening for the last 20 years. I think she's got some great tech and great heart and is really trying to help out again. She has been an associate editor, fitness editor, in fact, for magazines. She has been all over the place helping women and some men as she said but kind of specializing in women in their 40s when it's really tough when you've got to start taking those pounds off from the kids. Helping them out doing that live and having a whole lot of fun while doing it. And again the Website is fit feels good dot com. Anything else, Oonagh like to add. 

[00:12:43] No that's fantastic. Thank you so much. OK. That was really lovely. Hey 

[00:12:46] You're welcome. Take care. OK. So now we're going to get into the tech side. We've got a lot of stuff to talk about. So here we go.

[00:12:59] You know we had a lot of complaints from people about this whole net neutrality thing and I think the reason is people just didn't understand it. We had a group just like we have right now a group of far leftists, socialists who want the government to control everything. And, if you don't think that's been the case for a while. Look at your tax bills we're over 50 percent now. What do you buy? What do you own, that you think it's worth 50 percent of your income? Right. Anything is your car worth working six months out of the year for?  Remember that means January through June or July. What's worth that? Is government? Are the services government providing you. Are they worth half of your whole income? Well, those same socialists were out there just beating this drum, because in the latter part of the Obama administration the FCC passed this net neutrality rule where they pulled the Internet under direct FCC control, by one simple ruling right. And the FCC said well we don't really have the authority to do this but they did it anyway just like President Obama said that we don't have the authority to do this but I did anyway. They were saying if net neutrality goes through we are out of luck. 

[00:14:17] Right. Because they're going to slow down the Internet. There's going to be advertising everywhere, if it doesn't go through we need it so that everything on the Internet is treated fairly. So, that your soccer team is treated fairly. So, that you're not overpaying for Internet access. And you'll remember at the time my argument to that was hey wait a minute now. Why should the old grandma, who's sitting there in her home doing nothing except waiting to get an e-mail or some pictures from the grandkids? Why should she pay the same amount as some kid sitting in the basement playing full 3D video games and talking to the friends all at the same time and streaming Netflix in the background? Maybe if Hulu in the background, right? Why should grandma pay the same as a super high end user of the Internet. It just doesn't make sense. Well, there's another factor I talked about which is that you will take the incentive to invest in the Internet away. If you have this so-called net neutrality, right. Why would businesses try new things? Why would businesses invest in more bandwidth, if they can't charge for it? Why would they invest in more bandwidth, if the high end users can't be charged more? 

[00:15:39] Right. You remember me talking about that. Well, we now have proof that what I said was absolutely right. Because you know that President Trumps FCC and of course, the head of the FCC Ajit Pai just came out and eliminated that so-called net neutrality rule. Of course, the left was out all over the place saying oh the world is going to fall apart. Well, guess what. not only did it not fall apart, but the Internet has gotten much, much better because of the net neutrality repeal. So, I'm looking at two articles from this week. One is AT&T is investing more now. Iowa right. Not a big state kind of flyover country, as the Clintons like to call it, right. It's not an East Coast-West Coast which gets most of the attention. No, it's in the Midwest. Iowa. AT&T is investing nearly 120 million dollars to boost local networks in Iowa. That's just this week. So, they're boosting reliability coverage, speed, and overall performance for the residents and businesses of Iowa. Including rural Iowa. OK. So, they've already made 365 network enhancements across Iowa including new cell sites, network capacity, and network upgrades, since President Trump removed this so-called net neutrality, which was terrible, terrible to have in place I can't believe they did this. And, again it's the far left that's doing this. Here's another one. Absolute proof as to what's going on. That's just one sample right that article this week from MarketWatch which is an investment website. OK. And that ultimately came from PR Newswire. Our next one. The U.S. Internet speed has gone from 12th place in the world.

[00:17:38] So, we had the 12 fastest average internet speeds. Now the U.S. we invented the Internet, literally invented the Internet. And we've been we've fallen to 12th place in the world under President Obama, as far as internet speeds go. Well, here you go, we got rid of net neutrality. We've got companies like AT&T and of course Comcast and you name it. Everybody investing this week as well. T-Mobile came out wasn't T-Mobile it was a third-party analysis. T-Mobile right now has the fastest 4G LTE speeds of any company. They are just pounding it. And you know I switch personally from Verizon, I've had Verizon Wireless since the early 90s. So, since they first started providing cell service, before it was even called Verizon. So, I've been with them a long time, and I switched to T-Mobile. And, of course, you have to have a newer phone if your Verizon customer moving to T-Mobile because you need the additional bands. But they've done amazing things again since net neutrality was removed. Well, now we've got this article. We were 12th in the world. And, since the repeal of net neutrality took effect on June 11th. Since then, the U.S. Internet speed has gone from 12th in the world 12th fastest in the world we're now sixth fastest in the world. What does that mean? That means that as far as the Internet goes businesses are investing again because they realize that if they put like AT&T 120 million dollars into Iowa, they can get their money back out.

[00:19:31] Very good thing. I love the fact that they're doing this. So it makes a huge, huge difference here. You should see some of these tweets too about this article. Wow. So Ajit Pai. He announced late last year he's going to repeal it and stuff but it's oh it's going on and on and on. Of course, some positive comments and some others. So, my internet speeds have improved dramatically. How about yours? OK. So we're going to talk about new facial recognition stuff and I want to bring up this whole idea. Businesses have that, no one's going to come after me right.

[00:20:16] Now, of course, who robs banks. thanks, Willy. Text me his last name if you remember 8 5 5 3 8 55 53. He Robbed Banks because that's where the money is. So, where are the bad guys going to try and hack? Well, obviously they're going to go after the money. They try and go after banks and try and build up the whole idea behind banks. And they've got the money we're going to have them but the banks have the money to put into fixing their security. So, where else to go if you're the bad guy?

[00:20:52] Yes Sutton, you're right. Hey, thanks for that. 

[00:20:56] Any other comments, you can always send them there to 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty-five fifty-three. 

[00:21:02] But, where do they go now? Well, they go after small businesses because small businesses are not savvy when it comes to security. And, I see that every day. You know I keep mentioning I'm picking up more and more customers two more this week where we're doing scans for them because you know in this case one of those cases was the unknown, unknowns right. I don't know. What I don't know about my security. In accountancy, an accounting company. And so we started looking. And of course they do billing for customers and things and we have a customer right now. Well actually their insurance company is our customer because they were an accounting firm and as an accounting firm, they had all of this data the data. Guess what was stolen? They got hacked. Their firewall right through it because most firewalls are pieces of garbage and they were able to use that stole 180000 dollars in cash from the accountancy's customers. So, if you don't think you're exposed, you're wrong. But, you wouldn't be out of the ordinary, because there is right now 76 percent of small businesses say that they have not activated any sort of multifactor authentication. And we've talked about that on the show before. You know I'm using Yubikeys. I've got my clients moving towards those, as well. We've got the integrated systems so, that if someone comes on board we can give them access to everything from one place and if they leave we can remove their access to everything, from one place. 

[00:22:42] But 51 percent of small business leaders who were polled are convinced that their companies are not our target for cybercrime. Now, have any of you have a board of directors that needs some information. Let me know. We just this week did an FBI webinar that I ran, on this very issue. How do you convince your board of directors that they need to do something and do something urgently? This is not the same world it was five years ago. So, 51 percent of small business leaders are convinced their companies are not a target for cybercrime. And yet at the same time, they are the ones who are getting breached. I pick up a new client at least every week that has been breached and we've got to go in and clean up the mess. Or as I mentioned our help when the in the lawsuits that ensue and get paid by the insurance companies and that's after the business is going out of business because they lost all of their working capital, their cash is gone. So, here's another example an Ohio man got sentenced to 15 months for a BEC scam, business email compromise Olemewa Jumeau. I'm probably mispronouncing that, targeted CEOs, CFOs and other business leaders with fraudulent e-mails. 

[00:24:06] So, Chief U.S. District Judge is this from the from the press report press release, Chief U.S. District Judge Janet Hall last week sentenced him to 15 months in federal prison for his role in a business email compromise scheme targeting organizations in the United States. You know I was looking at the stats from our clients from just last week and it was amazing to me to see wow how many attempts there were we stopped for our clients last week. I think it was like four dozen business email scam attacks directly actually attributed to it. Of course, you know tens of thousands of spam e-mails. But these were really directed attacks where they're going after a specific business. OK. So after 15 months in federal prison, he is going to have three years of supervised release. Now, it just bugs the heck out of me. Fifteen months. Here's a guy that stole the retirement, the livelihood of these business people, right. We're businesspeople, we're trying to run a business. We're hoping that it will support us in our retirement because heaven knows Social Security isn't going to cut it. We're hoping that maybe we have something left to pass on to the children, as long as the government doesn't take it from us. So, they've lost it all. They've lost it all. And this guy. It's 15 months. It's absolutely crazy. 

[00:25:37] So, this guy admitted that he caused losses exceeding 100000 dollars in order to pay 90000 restitution. I don't know what the actual numbers are. That's all he admitted to but, bad news. Make sure you tighten up your security if you want me to talk to your board of directors. I'll be glad to make presentations. I do it all the time for annual meetings and other places. Reach out if you have any other questions or comments, reach out. Just pick up your phone you can text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Keep an eye out in your e-mails, hopefully, you're on my e-mail list because starting this week, every week in September I'm going to be doing a different webinar. We're going to be talking about the big problems out there, ransomware what to do about it. Business email compromise. All of this stuff. So, if you want to be involved in those, let me know is well, free to attend. I have solutions that I'm going to offer, as well, but the free information here 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Have a great week and we'll chat again next week. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 08/29/2018

Hippies Could Kill Us All - How To Make Elections Safer

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. Here in the northeast, we are going through a heat wave three H's hazy, hot and humid. Now I know I mentioned this on the FBI webinar I did yesterday I mentioned how hot it was and we're miserable because it's in the 90s and it's humid and poor us and I got notes from people in gas Dallas is hotter than even Houston this year more miserable down there so I get it but for us this is really hot, okay and I'm not really happy about this but you know falls coming that's my favorite time of year I love fall up here in the northeast up in New Hampshire it's just beautiful. So today I was on with Ken was out. So it wasn't Ken and Matt, it was Joe and Matt today. And we talked about two things really, we talked about the hippies in Berkeley and the Bay Area out there and how they are now putting all of our lives at risk. This is a very real threat. So we talked about it and get into some detail and then we get into a little bit about hacking and where things are going and what's happening with our voting system. Because of course, we got a route midterm and then a midterm primaries first. And then the general big election coming up in a couple of years. So what happened out at DEF CON black hat, and, and it's frankly, it's a little scary sides. Oh, here we go.

1:32
Okay. It is 737 on the WGAN Morning News with Canada. We have Joe Reagan in for Ken and we have Craig Peterson, Tech Talk guru who is joining us right now to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig, how are you? 

1:46
Hey, good morning. I feel like I'm melting lately. This is kind of nasty. But last time of the year. I suppose I this is your last opportunity to get sweat out of your living room. Yes, absolutely.

1:57
And all you wouldn't look forward to is a very cold, long, cold, snowy winter. Yes. Yes.

2:03
I have a daughter right now over Norway. And she's working over there right now on a project. But anyways, she's saying that right now. She wants to send over her winter clothes because it's already about 32 degrees at night. So yeah, that's to look forward to

2:24
yesterday, just like it was yesterday. Okay.

2:26
So Craig, tell me exactly how the hippies are destroying America.

2:31
Oh, those hippies are back again. That's what you know about the military. You know about DARPA, you know that they're constantly trying to improve the technology to kind of one up bar potential enemies. And they've been doing it for a long time using military contractors and others. Right now, guys, when you're thinking about the most advanced technologies, you're probably thinking about mag AF. Right?

3:02
What you may get Microsoft, Apple, Google Amazon. And let me stop you right there. There are so many acronyms in my brain

3:13
government work, you can't start giving them new ones

3:17
like mega with an F on the end. I thought it would be easy for you. Is there a hat? I can put this on

3:27
Red Hat

3:29
Do you think about right? All these leading tech companies are kind of in the lead when it does come to the different types of technology out there. So what is the military do they go to all of those companies? And particularly, we're going to talk right now about Google. But they go to those companies and say, Hey, listen, you've got this great technology. Now, all of these companies license some of their technologies, you other people, and particularly when we're talking about Google, we've received some great technology. Look at me, Amazon now with the echo because I you guys, you know, those right, you have to have any those.

4:09
I have an echo and echo plus, I've got a tap. Yeah, no, I've got a lot of those things.

4:12
I got an echo show. And I got a couple of them. So I gave one to our granddaughter who's over in Kentucky so that we can chat with her. She can jump in anytime she wants. So I mean, Google Home, do you have Google Home or any of those devices now is now

4:28
home stuff terrifies me.

4:30
You know, a refrigerator tweeting is I don't

4:32
mind the refrigerator, tweeting. It's the security peace behind it. And having the cloud that concerns me.

4:39
Yeah, the IoT, right? The Internet of Things. We're talking about 50 billion devices within a couple of years. So that technology gets license Google, license it to other people, Amazon, license it to other people. So when the military of saying, hey, Google, you've got this really cool artificial intelligence project, and we want to use that in some of our development work every want to give it to them, some startup by contractors, you want to pay you for it, etc, etc. You would expect that to happen, right? That's a legit logical thing they license protect other people, why would they not license it to the military. So it started out with a small group of people inside Google who said, No, I don't want my work being used by the military to potentially kill people. And then it ended up being about three to 5000 people within Google who signed a petition saying, I'm going to quit my job, if you license any of this AI technology to the military. So now, we've got all of these peaceniks, which is bringing back in my mind, memories of the 60s and 70s, these hippies running around saying, No, no, no, you can't use our tech, you can't use our tech nine and I man,

5:58
but in the 60s, the government was investing heavily let me the whole purpose of Silicon Valley expanding was due to government investment in the 80s. Where did we get the internet from the army again, from the military? It was another ARPANET project, they will bring that in the internet today, right? That's right. It was the project of where they were linking universities into the military, linking them all together so they could communicate and develop stuff. It's all military, it was military funded. Heck, we even got pain from NASA, right? That does anyone tell you any more, by the way,

6:39
so that's not really a high bar to said,

6:43
Where's the snare drum there? We need to call

6:48
anyways, it's cold. It's cold room shop

6:51
shop there. So the military has long use high tax the years they're young with some

7:02
now they worked with our universities, etc. And now these hippies are saying, No, you can't use it. Now, here's the problem that's just

7:10
cots technology coming out of Google, DARPA is still doing

7:15
investigative research into those areas.

7:17
Absolutely. DARPA has not stopped doing what they've been doing. And of course, they'll know that's the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency because I have to explain some of the fly is today some of the four letter acronym

7:31
so so that's what DARPA is, yes. But the AI technology that the military was trying to license is critical. And here's why China is ahead of us right now, with at least it appears to be with some of this AI technology. And where this could ultimately lead, if it came down to war could be a very, very bad path. We I'm personally I don't think that those people inside Google are thinking this through. I don't think they realize that by not allowing the military to use the most advanced technology in the world, we are going to start falling behind. And when that happens, I personally think things could turn pretty bad ultimately. But that's where the hippies coming back. Who knew?

8:24
Well, Craig, it's a great point. I think that, you know, looking at as far as foreign policy concerned, but also the impact of technology on our voting systems. I mean, we've had a lot of conversations around the use of the Russians both influencing through social media, traditional media. But then there's also discussions around the actual threats to the physical things in which we use to vote, right. Yeah,

8:46
we just had the big conference out there in Vegas, we had the black hat and DEF CON conferences. Now, these are conferences that every year, it's kind of interesting, because they are talking about how things can be hacked. And if go to one of those conferences, you do not want to bring any electronic devices, because the likelihood is they will be hacked. I don't care what they are, they're going to get hacked out there. And one of the things that they did this year is they expanded it. Well, let me just back up a little bit. You've been to conventions before, and conferences anytime. And they've got tracks, right. So you might have the CEO track or this tracker, that track record, they do the same thing out of these hacking conferences in Vegas. And this year, they had the biggest that they've ever had voting systems online. So they took a whole bunch of wanting system, some of which are in us, in the US and throughout the US. And they put them into a room and they said, have added guys, and they had contests and of course, they were they were all hacked, right? Every one of them. And I got to say that the secretaries of state say, Hey, listen, you know, that's not the real world. Because in the real world, we have more secure networks, we have air gaps, and of course, all that defeated to the thing that's most interesting. Joe, I'm glad you brought this up from the conference here just a couple of weeks ago, is that they also had a junior section. So they had they had let him loose. I mean, kids on voting machines and an 11-year-old girl hack voting machine. And I mean, what she ended up doing was, and this is interesting, right, man, how do the results get disseminated to the press? Most of the time it's via websites, right? You check the website and you've got it. So what does this 11-year-old girl do? She had a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website out there at Black Hat. So again, every part of this is a problem because what happens if in Washington, they're not calling up and saying I'm you're the Secretary of State for me, give me the vote tallies. What was a code word of the week change code words? I know what you so I know the numbers are legit. What happens if they go to the state of Maine's website to find out what the vote tallies are to put them together to say yes, so it's always our new next president. And in fact, all they had to do was had website had the email. So, Joe, you're dead on this is a huge, huge problem. We have not fought all the way through yet. What are some of the solutions that are being proposed, you'd like to hope that when you look at what DEF CON is trying to do, is it's trying to bring in those white hat hackers that can come in and try and identify the problems in the hope that you're gonna have solutions that are going to come out of that. I mean, are there any ways in which we can further secure the voting system or there's being discussed? Well, yeah, I think they are. I think the best way to do this is a spot audience by people. I think that you using a piece of paper where you mark down who you're voting for, you know, and most of the states that are doing the paper ballots now or are using the optical scanners and it's not, you know, it's not Paper Paper till heavier than a sheet of paper. But then the machine reads it and then the machine gives the tallies and I think what should we only way to move forward here because we're gonna have to use some of this technology but he is you have the machines read them and then you have people spot check they manually go through looking for hanging chads rice in a flashback 20 years ago, and that they look at them, they looked at the tallies, make sure everything looks fine. And then we have to have a secure way of making sure that those tallies that are coming from individual districts and counties and state or all shared properly so that we get good final numbers. That's the only way we can really trust it. I think that the recount that we have right now some states have automatic recount. So if it's close enough of a race, some don't have that. But I think we should make recount easier. So if you want to do a recount, no problem. We bring you some of your people in we will watch you guys with the balance making sure you're not doing anything phony baloney so that anyone almost can do a recount so that we can trust the final tallies. That's the only way I think that we can move forward on this job. Because the tech the tech just cannot be 100% trusted.

13:34
Well, on that happy note, Craig, I think we're done. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. So we have to leave it there, Craig, appreciate your appearance. And we will talk to you again next Wednesday. Hey, gentlemen, take care. Thanks so much. All right. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.

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Airing date: 08/29/2018

Hippies Could Kill Us All - How To Make Elections Safer

Craig Peterson: 0:00 Hey good morning everybody. Here in the northeast, we are going through a heat wave three H's hazy, hot and humid. Now I know I mentioned this on the FBI webinar I did yesterday I mentioned how hot it was and we're miserable because it's in the 90s and it's humid and poor us and I got notes from people in gas Dallas is hotter than even Houston this year more miserable down there so I get it but for us this is really hot, okay and I'm not really happy about this but you know falls coming that's my favorite time of year I love fall up here in the northeast up in New Hampshire it's just beautiful. So today I was on with Ken was out. So it wasn't Ken and Matt, it was Joe and Matt today. And we talked about two things really, we talked about the hippies in Berkeley and the Bay Area out there and how they are now putting all of our lives at risk. This is a very real threat. So we talked about it and get into some detail and then we get into a little bit about hacking and where things are going and what's happening with our voting system. Because of course, we got a route midterm and then a midterm primaries first. And then the general big election coming up in a couple of years. So what happened out at DEF CON black hat, and, and it's frankly, it's a little scary sides. Oh, here we go.

1:32
Okay. It is 737 on the WGAN Morning News with Canada. We have Joe Reagan in for Ken and we have Craig Peterson, Tech Talk guru who is joining us right now to give us an eye on technology around the world. Craig, how are you? 

1:46
Hey, good morning. I feel like I'm melting lately. This is kind of nasty. But last time of the year. I suppose I this is your last opportunity to get sweat out of your living room. Yes, absolutely.

1:57
And all you wouldn't look forward to is a very cold, long, cold, snowy winter. Yes. Yes.

2:03
I have a daughter right now over Norway. And she's working over there right now on a project. But anyways, she's saying that right now. She wants to send over her winter clothes because it's already about 32 degrees at night. So yeah, that's to look forward to

2:24
yesterday, just like it was yesterday. Okay.

2:26
So Craig, tell me exactly how the hippies are destroying America.

2:31
Oh, those hippies are back again. That's what you know about the military. You know about DARPA, you know that they're constantly trying to improve the technology to kind of one up bar potential enemies. And they've been doing it for a long time using military contractors and others. Right now, guys, when you're thinking about the most advanced technologies, you're probably thinking about mag AF. Right?

3:02
What you may get Microsoft, Apple, Google Amazon. And let me stop you right there. There are so many acronyms in my brain

3:13
government work, you can't start giving them new ones

3:17
like mega with an F on the end. I thought it would be easy for you. Is there a hat? I can put this on

3:27
Red Hat

3:29
Do you think about right? All these leading tech companies are kind of in the lead when it does come to the different types of technology out there. So what is the military do they go to all of those companies? And particularly, we're going to talk right now about Google. But they go to those companies and say, Hey, listen, you've got this great technology. Now, all of these companies license some of their technologies, you other people, and particularly when we're talking about Google, we've received some great technology. Look at me, Amazon now with the echo because I you guys, you know, those right, you have to have any those.

4:09
I have an echo and echo plus, I've got a tap. Yeah, no, I've got a lot of those things.

4:12
I got an echo show. And I got a couple of them. So I gave one to our granddaughter who's over in Kentucky so that we can chat with her. She can jump in anytime she wants. So I mean, Google Home, do you have Google Home or any of those devices now is now

4:28
home stuff terrifies me.

4:30
You know, a refrigerator tweeting is I don't

4:32
mind the refrigerator, tweeting. It's the security peace behind it. And having the cloud that concerns me.

4:39
Yeah, the IoT, right? The Internet of Things. We're talking about 50 billion devices within a couple of years. So that technology gets license Google, license it to other people, Amazon, license it to other people. So when the military of saying, hey, Google, you've got this really cool artificial intelligence project, and we want to use that in some of our development work every want to give it to them, some startup by contractors, you want to pay you for it, etc, etc. You would expect that to happen, right? That's a legit logical thing they license protect other people, why would they not license it to the military. So it started out with a small group of people inside Google who said, No, I don't want my work being used by the military to potentially kill people. And then it ended up being about three to 5000 people within Google who signed a petition saying, I'm going to quit my job, if you license any of this AI technology to the military. So now, we've got all of these peaceniks, which is bringing back in my mind, memories of the 60s and 70s, these hippies running around saying, No, no, no, you can't use our tech, you can't use our tech nine and I man,

5:58
but in the 60s, the government was investing heavily let me the whole purpose of Silicon Valley expanding was due to government investment in the 80s. Where did we get the internet from the army again, from the military? It was another ARPANET project, they will bring that in the internet today, right? That's right. It was the project of where they were linking universities into the military, linking them all together so they could communicate and develop stuff. It's all military, it was military funded. Heck, we even got pain from NASA, right? That does anyone tell you any more, by the way,

6:39
so that's not really a high bar to said,

6:43
Where's the snare drum there? We need to call

6:48
anyways, it's cold. It's cold room shop

6:51
shop there. So the military has long use high tax the years they're young with some

7:02
now they worked with our universities, etc. And now these hippies are saying, No, you can't use it. Now, here's the problem that's just

7:10
cots technology coming out of Google, DARPA is still doing

7:15
investigative research into those areas.

7:17
Absolutely. DARPA has not stopped doing what they've been doing. And of course, they'll know that's the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency because I have to explain some of the fly is today some of the four letter acronym

7:31
so so that's what DARPA is, yes. But the AI technology that the military was trying to license is critical. And here's why China is ahead of us right now, with at least it appears to be with some of this AI technology. And where this could ultimately lead, if it came down to war could be a very, very bad path. We I'm personally I don't think that those people inside Google are thinking this through. I don't think they realize that by not allowing the military to use the most advanced technology in the world, we are going to start falling behind. And when that happens, I personally think things could turn pretty bad ultimately. But that's where the hippies coming back. Who knew?

8:24
Well, Craig, it's a great point. I think that, you know, looking at as far as foreign policy concerned, but also the impact of technology on our voting systems. I mean, we've had a lot of conversations around the use of the Russians both influencing through social media, traditional media. But then there's also discussions around the actual threats to the physical things in which we use to vote, right. Yeah,

8:46
we just had the big conference out there in Vegas, we had the black hat and DEF CON conferences. Now, these are conferences that every year, it's kind of interesting, because they are talking about how things can be hacked. And if go to one of those conferences, you do not want to bring any electronic devices, because the likelihood is they will be hacked. I don't care what they are, they're going to get hacked out there. And one of the things that they did this year is they expanded it. Well, let me just back up a little bit. You've been to conventions before, and conferences anytime. And they've got tracks, right. So you might have the CEO track or this tracker, that track record, they do the same thing out of these hacking conferences in Vegas. And this year, they had the biggest that they've ever had voting systems online. So they took a whole bunch of wanting system, some of which are in us, in the US and throughout the US. And they put them into a room and they said, have added guys, and they had contests and of course, they were they were all hacked, right? Every one of them. And I got to say that the secretaries of state say, Hey, listen, you know, that's not the real world. Because in the real world, we have more secure networks, we have air gaps, and of course, all that defeated to the thing that's most interesting. Joe, I'm glad you brought this up from the conference here just a couple of weeks ago, is that they also had a junior section. So they had they had let him loose. I mean, kids on voting machines and an 11-year-old girl hack voting machine. And I mean, what she ended up doing was, and this is interesting, right, man, how do the results get disseminated to the press? Most of the time it's via websites, right? You check the website and you've got it. So what does this 11-year-old girl do? She had a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website out there at Black Hat. So again, every part of this is a problem because what happens if in Washington, they're not calling up and saying I'm you're the Secretary of State for me, give me the vote tallies. What was a code word of the week change code words? I know what you so I know the numbers are legit. What happens if they go to the state of Maine's website to find out what the vote tallies are to put them together to say yes, so it's always our new next president. And in fact, all they had to do was had website had the email. So, Joe, you're dead on this is a huge, huge problem. We have not fought all the way through yet. What are some of the solutions that are being proposed, you'd like to hope that when you look at what DEF CON is trying to do, is it's trying to bring in those white hat hackers that can come in and try and identify the problems in the hope that you're gonna have solutions that are going to come out of that. I mean, are there any ways in which we can further secure the voting system or there's being discussed? Well, yeah, I think they are. I think the best way to do this is a spot audience by people. I think that you using a piece of paper where you mark down who you're voting for, you know, and most of the states that are doing the paper ballots now or are using the optical scanners and it's not, you know, it's not Paper Paper till heavier than a sheet of paper. But then the machine reads it and then the machine gives the tallies and I think what should we only way to move forward here because we're gonna have to use some of this technology but he is you have the machines read them and then you have people spot check they manually go through looking for hanging chads rice in a flashback 20 years ago, and that they look at them, they looked at the tallies, make sure everything looks fine. And then we have to have a secure way of making sure that those tallies that are coming from individual districts and counties and state or all shared properly so that we get good final numbers. That's the only way we can really trust it. I think that the recount that we have right now some states have automatic recount. So if it's close enough of a race, some don't have that. But I think we should make recount easier. So if you want to do a recount, no problem. We bring you some of your people in we will watch you guys with the balance making sure you're not doing anything phony baloney so that anyone almost can do a recount so that we can trust the final tallies. That's the only way I think that we can move forward on this job. Because the tech the tech just cannot be 100% trusted.

13:34
Well, on that happy note, Craig, I think we're done. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. So we have to leave it there, Craig, appreciate your appearance. And we will talk to you again next Wednesday. Hey, gentlemen, take care. Thanks so much. All right. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side.

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Airing date: 08/28/2018

Psychology And Videogames

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody! Craig Peterson here. And I'm saying good morning cause as you probably already know tape these in the morning. This morning I was on with Jim Polito. Jim was all by himself this morning. He didn't have Danny. His board op and producer to help him out. So, I kind of took it easy with him and we stuck with the one big story in the news this week, which of course is the story about the video game shooting down in Florida. So, we went a little bit more detail obviously a different track than I went on with Jack yesterday. But, you know if you heard Jack's interview you might skip today's, but you might want to listen to today's because there's always a little bit different. 

[00:00:41] So, here we go with Mr. Jim. Here he is, our tech guru, the man with all the answers. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. 

[00:00:55] Good morning, Jim. It's been quite a morning here with all of the video game stuff going on. Mental health issues. Did you know I was the chairman of the oversight board for Health and Human Services in New Hampshire for a couple of years? 

[00:01:11] Yeah, yeah I did not know that. 

[00:01:15] Oh, OK.

[00:01:17] Yet another hat that I've worn. Craig every time you're on the show, it's something else, next going to tell me you were an astronaut. 

[00:01:29] That would be fun I always wanted to go to that place down in Alabama. Are you kidding me? Yeah right. Right. No. Rocketown.

[00:01:40] Absolutely. You're absolutely right.

[00:01:44] No, go ahead. No, I'm just a space cadet. That's all.

[00:01:48] Never ever made it into the space force.  This whole thing is really interesting when you're talking about mental health issues and kids and video games. In fact, a lot of people might not really be aware of what it's like, nowadays. You know you and I might have played some Donkey Kong or I you remember when Pong came out and I had pong.

[00:02:11] I wish I had the original game because my parents bought it for me one Christmas. 

[00:02:18] Do you burn in the TV tube? Pretty much 

[00:02:21] It was an old black and white. And you know eventually, I did. But, nobody cared because it was an old black, a spare black and white that we had. 

[00:02:32] When did you get your first color TV? I remember my family of like 1970. 

[00:02:37] I think we were '72 because it was a tiny one. It weighed a ton. And I actually ended up bringing it to college as my TV. It was a small way too tiny it was one of those so-called portables. But, you know it was like a medicine ball trying to lift the thing. It was around 72 because this is the anniversary right about now the 72 Olympics I was just doing something on it earlier this morning Mark Spitz. I remember watching that small color TV when the Israeli athletes were taken hostage, in the siege and the slaughter. I remember watching Jim McKay on that little-colored TV that weighed a ton. So, it had to be around 72. The first real color TV like a big one. I don't remember but this was 72. The big old console TV.

[00:03:39] Yeah, we had a console TV in the living room, exactly.These games have come a long way. Now, what's happening at this event and if you've never seen one of these or been one of them. I think this will be a real eye-opener for a lot of people because these are huge events, and there is more excitement in the stands than I have ever seen anywhere, except for maybe the U.S. first event, the first robotics. To me, it's interesting Jim because I don't watch professional sports, right. 

[00:04:13] Period. Right. Right. Not even the Canadian Football. Craig, not even Canadian football but that's real football. An extra 10 yards on the field a field and one less down you know by that, by the way, no hockey, Craig. 

[00:04:31] Yeah. I was captain of my hockey team. But, you know I've never watched the game other than my dad was watching or my brothers were watching. My brother was on the minor league team for the Toronto Blue Jays. 

[00:04:45] That's a big deal. 

[00:04:47] It's a very big deal, but not me. Right. So, I just don't get it. Why would you be there cheering on someone? Watching them play a video game because that's what it is. You have the players up in the front and the players are playing, in this case, Madden football and they're they're all up at the front there's huge screens so everyone can watch. Yeah, and they're going through it. Now, there's lots of them. There's a shoot up scenarios you know you can be in World War Two. Yeah, and you're there with your platoon and you're talking back and forth with the other members of your platoon. Your killing zombie nazis and things, right, as you're going around. Now, they have this artificial feeling, like they are actually there. When they might be in their mom's basement and somebody else might be in Siberia, it doesn't really matter. They're all around the world. In reality, they're not building real friendships they're not really communicating, People, there's a whole huge business, look up twitch, a huge business built around people going to twitch and watching other people play video games. And you're not even watching them play the video game watching, you're watching their screen. 

[00:06:11] Yeah right. I don't get it.

[00:06:13] I don't either. I've seen it. I went to what is at PAX East and I watched some competition. Danny, who's not here today. Danny watches other people compete in things like Fortnight. I mean it's actually become something that people do. Watch these competitors on these games. I mean I get it. I do. I do get it. Now, the question is you know psychologically and I know you used to be when we were younger, Craig, people would say oh watching violent movies make people violent, you know. And now it's OK so playing these video games makes people violent. I just don't think that's it. I think it's like my psychiatrist friend years ago, 20 years ago, said to me how do you know if this person didn't have a psychiatric issue. If they wouldn't be violent, anyway. And the same thing about a gamer, just because they're playing the game, maybe if they weren't a gamer they'd still be a violent person. 

[00:07:25] There's a difference between correlation and causation, right. And that's kind of why I was going to add to Jim these types of games are attractive to certain people with certain types of mental disorders. However, the same can be said about circuses or almost anything that you might name, right. This is not causal, near as we can tell. I've had a number of psychiatrists and psychologists on my radio show, talking about this whole issue in general. Is it harmful? I think what we have to look at and I think pretty much everyone's in agreement when the child is very young like, in the single digits of age, particularly the first four or maybe even as much as eight years of their life. Now the first four certainly. Do not expose them to a whole lot of time either in front of the TV or in front of an iPad or in front of a computer. Because their brains need to mature those pathways need to develop. And near as we can tell those pathways don't develop as well when the kid is sitting watching something. As opposed to maybe they're outside or creating. I used to love Lego when I was a kid. Yeah, I made all kinds of stuff, that that's the right things flowing in the brain. Jim, I don't think there's really anything conclusive, there certainly is no agreement as to whether this is just kind of an associative sort of thing at that track that people with these types of disorders and obviously doesn't track a lot of them like this. This isn't happening frequently but it is a different world that I think a lot of people should look into a little bit. You know you mentioned PAX East. I have a son that went to that event. In fact, he went there with a girlfriend because he loves to play the video games on his little video game console. You know when you're 30 35 40 and you're still spending a lot of time in your video game. It's you know it's time to move on to real life.

[00:09:33] I get it. Craig I know we had so much other stuff to talk about today but it's always good to get your perspective when things like this are in the news. Especially I found fascinating, the stuff you sent me about how Google is still tracking me even when I tell it not to. That's a great, great piece and folks that's just some of the stuff, you can get from Craig Peterson if you text him my name Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that is text the Jim or ask any questions you might have.

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[00:10:18] That's right. Standard data and text rates apply. You get great information from Craig Peterson. If there's some type of an emergency with a massive hack or a data breach, he gets you the facts and what you need to do. He doesn't try to sell you anything and it's all free. Craig, thank you so, so much I really appreciate the time and your perspective on that news story.

[00:10:45] Take care, Jim. Already. Bye-bye folks don't go anywhere. Final word when we return you're listening to.

[00:10:52] Hey, everybody. I want you know this is a bit of a heads up. Starting next week for the entire month of September every week I'm going to be doing a special webinar. We're going to talk about how to protect yourself from certain types of attacks. And I have a package I'm going to offer to you if you are on the Webinar some really special deals with some real special bonuses. But, overall a whole lot of learning and stuff. I don't think you are already aware of. So, keep an eye out for that in your e-mail. And if you want to sign up you can always just text me or e-mail me at Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day bye-bye.

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Airing date: 08/28/2018

Psychology And Videogames

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody! Craig Peterson here. And I'm saying good morning cause as you probably already know tape these in the morning. This morning I was on with Jim Polito. Jim was all by himself this morning. He didn't have Danny. His board op and producer to help him out. So, I kind of took it easy with him and we stuck with the one big story in the news this week, which of course is the story about the video game shooting down in Florida. So, we went a little bit more detail obviously a different track than I went on with Jack yesterday. But, you know if you heard Jack's interview you might skip today's, but you might want to listen to today's because there's always a little bit different. 

[00:00:41] So, here we go with Mr. Jim. Here he is, our tech guru, the man with all the answers. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir. 

[00:00:55] Good morning, Jim. It's been quite a morning here with all of the video game stuff going on. Mental health issues. Did you know I was the chairman of the oversight board for Health and Human Services in New Hampshire for a couple of years? 

[00:01:11] Yeah, yeah I did not know that. 

[00:01:15] Oh, OK.

[00:01:17] Yet another hat that I've worn. Craig every time you're on the show, it's something else, next going to tell me you were an astronaut. 

[00:01:29] That would be fun I always wanted to go to that place down in Alabama. Are you kidding me? Yeah right. Right. No. Rocketown.

[00:01:40] Absolutely. You're absolutely right.

[00:01:44] No, go ahead. No, I'm just a space cadet. That's all.

[00:01:48] Never ever made it into the space force.  This whole thing is really interesting when you're talking about mental health issues and kids and video games. In fact, a lot of people might not really be aware of what it's like, nowadays. You know you and I might have played some Donkey Kong or I you remember when Pong came out and I had pong.

[00:02:11] I wish I had the original game because my parents bought it for me one Christmas. 

[00:02:18] Do you burn in the TV tube? Pretty much 

[00:02:21] It was an old black and white. And you know eventually, I did. But, nobody cared because it was an old black, a spare black and white that we had. 

[00:02:32] When did you get your first color TV? I remember my family of like 1970. 

[00:02:37] I think we were '72 because it was a tiny one. It weighed a ton. And I actually ended up bringing it to college as my TV. It was a small way too tiny it was one of those so-called portables. But, you know it was like a medicine ball trying to lift the thing. It was around 72 because this is the anniversary right about now the 72 Olympics I was just doing something on it earlier this morning Mark Spitz. I remember watching that small color TV when the Israeli athletes were taken hostage, in the siege and the slaughter. I remember watching Jim McKay on that little-colored TV that weighed a ton. So, it had to be around 72. The first real color TV like a big one. I don't remember but this was 72. The big old console TV.

[00:03:39] Yeah, we had a console TV in the living room, exactly.These games have come a long way. Now, what's happening at this event and if you've never seen one of these or been one of them. I think this will be a real eye-opener for a lot of people because these are huge events, and there is more excitement in the stands than I have ever seen anywhere, except for maybe the U.S. first event, the first robotics. To me, it's interesting Jim because I don't watch professional sports, right. 

[00:04:13] Period. Right. Right. Not even the Canadian Football. Craig, not even Canadian football but that's real football. An extra 10 yards on the field a field and one less down you know by that, by the way, no hockey, Craig. 

[00:04:31] Yeah. I was captain of my hockey team. But, you know I've never watched the game other than my dad was watching or my brothers were watching. My brother was on the minor league team for the Toronto Blue Jays. 

[00:04:45] That's a big deal. 

[00:04:47] It's a very big deal, but not me. Right. So, I just don't get it. Why would you be there cheering on someone? Watching them play a video game because that's what it is. You have the players up in the front and the players are playing, in this case, Madden football and they're they're all up at the front there's huge screens so everyone can watch. Yeah, and they're going through it. Now, there's lots of them. There's a shoot up scenarios you know you can be in World War Two. Yeah, and you're there with your platoon and you're talking back and forth with the other members of your platoon. Your killing zombie nazis and things, right, as you're going around. Now, they have this artificial feeling, like they are actually there. When they might be in their mom's basement and somebody else might be in Siberia, it doesn't really matter. They're all around the world. In reality, they're not building real friendships they're not really communicating, People, there's a whole huge business, look up twitch, a huge business built around people going to twitch and watching other people play video games. And you're not even watching them play the video game watching, you're watching their screen. 

[00:06:11] Yeah right. I don't get it.

[00:06:13] I don't either. I've seen it. I went to what is at PAX East and I watched some competition. Danny, who's not here today. Danny watches other people compete in things like Fortnight. I mean it's actually become something that people do. Watch these competitors on these games. I mean I get it. I do. I do get it. Now, the question is you know psychologically and I know you used to be when we were younger, Craig, people would say oh watching violent movies make people violent, you know. And now it's OK so playing these video games makes people violent. I just don't think that's it. I think it's like my psychiatrist friend years ago, 20 years ago, said to me how do you know if this person didn't have a psychiatric issue. If they wouldn't be violent, anyway. And the same thing about a gamer, just because they're playing the game, maybe if they weren't a gamer they'd still be a violent person. 

[00:07:25] There's a difference between correlation and causation, right. And that's kind of why I was going to add to Jim these types of games are attractive to certain people with certain types of mental disorders. However, the same can be said about circuses or almost anything that you might name, right. This is not causal, near as we can tell. I've had a number of psychiatrists and psychologists on my radio show, talking about this whole issue in general. Is it harmful? I think what we have to look at and I think pretty much everyone's in agreement when the child is very young like, in the single digits of age, particularly the first four or maybe even as much as eight years of their life. Now the first four certainly. Do not expose them to a whole lot of time either in front of the TV or in front of an iPad or in front of a computer. Because their brains need to mature those pathways need to develop. And near as we can tell those pathways don't develop as well when the kid is sitting watching something. As opposed to maybe they're outside or creating. I used to love Lego when I was a kid. Yeah, I made all kinds of stuff, that that's the right things flowing in the brain. Jim, I don't think there's really anything conclusive, there certainly is no agreement as to whether this is just kind of an associative sort of thing at that track that people with these types of disorders and obviously doesn't track a lot of them like this. This isn't happening frequently but it is a different world that I think a lot of people should look into a little bit. You know you mentioned PAX East. I have a son that went to that event. In fact, he went there with a girlfriend because he loves to play the video games on his little video game console. You know when you're 30 35 40 and you're still spending a lot of time in your video game. It's you know it's time to move on to real life.

[00:09:33] I get it. Craig I know we had so much other stuff to talk about today but it's always good to get your perspective when things like this are in the news. Especially I found fascinating, the stuff you sent me about how Google is still tracking me even when I tell it not to. That's a great, great piece and folks that's just some of the stuff, you can get from Craig Peterson if you text him my name Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that is text the Jim or ask any questions you might have.

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[00:10:18] That's right. Standard data and text rates apply. You get great information from Craig Peterson. If there's some type of an emergency with a massive hack or a data breach, he gets you the facts and what you need to do. He doesn't try to sell you anything and it's all free. Craig, thank you so, so much I really appreciate the time and your perspective on that news story.

[00:10:45] Take care, Jim. Already. Bye-bye folks don't go anywhere. Final word when we return you're listening to.

[00:10:52] Hey, everybody. I want you know this is a bit of a heads up. Starting next week for the entire month of September every week I'm going to be doing a special webinar. We're going to talk about how to protect yourself from certain types of attacks. And I have a package I'm going to offer to you if you are on the Webinar some really special deals with some real special bonuses. But, overall a whole lot of learning and stuff. I don't think you are already aware of. So, keep an eye out for that in your e-mail. And if you want to sign up you can always just text me or e-mail me at Craig Peterson dot com. Have a great day bye-bye.

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Video Games and Tournaments are interesting.  Jack and I discussed the shooting in Jacksonville, yesterday and the effects of video gaming on the young people today, as well as some of the underlying mental health issues.

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Jacksonville Video Game Shooter.  My experience with gamers.  Mental health issues.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. Unfortunately and you might have seen this in the news. In fact, probably pretty hard to miss, although it's been a very busy news week, this week. There was a shooting at a video game tournament in Florida. So, this morning Jack Heath and I spent a few minutes discussing it. I don't know if you knew that I have also a mental health background. So, this was an interesting discussion. I think you'll maybe pick up a few things, I know Jack was surprised So, here we go. 

[00:00:35] You know one of the stories that we're watching this morning is out of Jacksonville, Florida and that video gaming tournament. Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy, with tech talk which airs on the weekends, on Saturdays on iHeart news talk stations. Craig, I'm not saying video gaming is really all about high tech, but a lot of it is, and this is a separate story, but these video gaming tournaments, have you ever been to one?

[00:01:00] Good morning, Jack. I have been to them before. I've been to a couple of them just to kind of check them out and do some interviews. And, I have one of my sons. He's thirty-four and he just loves to play video games. Now, he doesn't spend his days and nights playing them. But he does enjoy them. These things Jack, are absolutely huge. You get a lot a lot of emotion in the audience, and that to me, you know I guess, Jack, we're the wrong generation. I look at it and say yes, somebody else is playing the video game. Why do I care? But, to these kids, they've played these games many times before. They've been unable to get past some of these obstacles that these professional players are able to get past and then they just go wild at that talent.

[00:01:55] that some of these kids have. I guess, you know you hear the story about this one 24 year old David Katz, who you know, is the apparent killer of two and wounding several others before, taking his own life. And, the other thing I might again there's no correlations here. You know it's the old ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that go to these, you don't have probably incidences, but I think you know this story is all about video gaming and the gun and, so forth versus, I think at the core of this is going to be another mental illness, mental health story, that we just don't seem to be addressing. Another young man, you know I just heard the Fox National Lead on our on our news top of the hour, bottom hour they are saying you know he lost a video game and then apparently lost his mind. I mean that's sort of the way they're portraying this. I imagine once they investigate more, in Baltimore, I think you'll see there were probably some issues in terms of the mental health front. 

[00:02:54] Yeah, I don't know if you're aware of it but I was chairman of Health and Human Services Advisory Board, for a few years. And,  it was troubling to see just how many people have real mental health issues and very few tend to get the treatment that they need. You know families just don't accept the fact that there is a problem you know. Going into the basement, right. The standard depiction of one of these kids going into the basement playing video games online all day long and having mom bring you food and whatever. That's not necessarily a sign that someone's going to be violent. There's no question about that. Kids really getting into video games, again not necessarily a mental health issue. But you know, Jack, you and I have talked many times in the past. And part of what we've discussed is how these kids need to get out. They need to meet people, face to face. You know they have this illusion that somehow they are communicating. They're making friends with people when all they're doing is playing a game together. Again, I don't know how much you've been into some of these games, but I think you know Craig you're in laugh I don't think I've ever played a video game. I think Mario Kart was the last one I played. But what happens with these games now is that kids are sitting there, in their homes. Each one of them has on, usually a headset with headphones, so they don't have to listen to what's going on in the house, and they are but for instance in a platoon together in a war scenario. They could be in World War Two. They could be fighting aliens on a distant planet. They're talking to each other just like you would expect a military platoon to talk to each other.

[00:04:55] And, so now they're living in this fake universe that being created and they're having these experiences that are almost life and death experiences, at least as far as they're concerned. You know the line between reality and fiction, but you know that's a really separate issue because the mental health, mental illness situation, in this state, I think it even underlies the drug opioid, drug crisis because mental illness in some ways can be part of that. It's a more pervasive wider spread, the reality it's affecting more families, and for some reason, the state and the country got away from. And, as you said earlier about five minutes ago a lot of the folks who do need treatment, either go undiagnosed or don't get or don't get the real help. It does it lead to bigger issues. All right, Craig, I appreciate it on this Monday morning. Craig Peterson Tech Talk stuff. Make it a good one. Stay cool.

[00:05:52] Hey you too, Jack.

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Jacksonville Video Game Shooter.  My experience with gamers.  Mental health issues.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning, everybody. Craig Peterson, here. Unfortunately and you might have seen this in the news. In fact, probably pretty hard to miss, although it's been a very busy news week, this week. There was a shooting at a video game tournament in Florida. So, this morning Jack Heath and I spent a few minutes discussing it. I don't know if you knew that I have also a mental health background. So, this was an interesting discussion. I think you'll maybe pick up a few things, I know Jack was surprised So, here we go. 

[00:00:35] You know one of the stories that we're watching this morning is out of Jacksonville, Florida and that video gaming tournament. Craig Peterson, our tech talk guy, with tech talk which airs on the weekends, on Saturdays on iHeart news talk stations. Craig, I'm not saying video gaming is really all about high tech, but a lot of it is, and this is a separate story, but these video gaming tournaments, have you ever been to one?

[00:01:00] Good morning, Jack. I have been to them before. I've been to a couple of them just to kind of check them out and do some interviews. And, I have one of my sons. He's thirty-four and he just loves to play video games. Now, he doesn't spend his days and nights playing them. But he does enjoy them. These things Jack, are absolutely huge. You get a lot a lot of emotion in the audience, and that to me, you know I guess, Jack, we're the wrong generation. I look at it and say yes, somebody else is playing the video game. Why do I care? But, to these kids, they've played these games many times before. They've been unable to get past some of these obstacles that these professional players are able to get past and then they just go wild at that talent.

[00:01:55] that some of these kids have. I guess, you know you hear the story about this one 24 year old David Katz, who you know, is the apparent killer of two and wounding several others before, taking his own life. And, the other thing I might again there's no correlations here. You know it's the old ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that go to these, you don't have probably incidences, but I think you know this story is all about video gaming and the gun and, so forth versus, I think at the core of this is going to be another mental illness, mental health story, that we just don't seem to be addressing. Another young man, you know I just heard the Fox National Lead on our on our news top of the hour, bottom hour they are saying you know he lost a video game and then apparently lost his mind. I mean that's sort of the way they're portraying this. I imagine once they investigate more, in Baltimore, I think you'll see there were probably some issues in terms of the mental health front. 

[00:02:54] Yeah, I don't know if you're aware of it but I was chairman of Health and Human Services Advisory Board, for a few years. And,  it was troubling to see just how many people have real mental health issues and very few tend to get the treatment that they need. You know families just don't accept the fact that there is a problem you know. Going into the basement, right. The standard depiction of one of these kids going into the basement playing video games online all day long and having mom bring you food and whatever. That's not necessarily a sign that someone's going to be violent. There's no question about that. Kids really getting into video games, again not necessarily a mental health issue. But you know, Jack, you and I have talked many times in the past. And part of what we've discussed is how these kids need to get out. They need to meet people, face to face. You know they have this illusion that somehow they are communicating. They're making friends with people when all they're doing is playing a game together. Again, I don't know how much you've been into some of these games, but I think you know Craig you're in laugh I don't think I've ever played a video game. I think Mario Kart was the last one I played. But what happens with these games now is that kids are sitting there, in their homes. Each one of them has on, usually a headset with headphones, so they don't have to listen to what's going on in the house, and they are but for instance in a platoon together in a war scenario. They could be in World War Two. They could be fighting aliens on a distant planet. They're talking to each other just like you would expect a military platoon to talk to each other.

[00:04:55] And, so now they're living in this fake universe that being created and they're having these experiences that are almost life and death experiences, at least as far as they're concerned. You know the line between reality and fiction, but you know that's a really separate issue because the mental health, mental illness situation, in this state, I think it even underlies the drug opioid, drug crisis because mental illness in some ways can be part of that. It's a more pervasive wider spread, the reality it's affecting more families, and for some reason, the state and the country got away from. And, as you said earlier about five minutes ago a lot of the folks who do need treatment, either go undiagnosed or don't get or don't get the real help. It does it lead to bigger issues. All right, Craig, I appreciate it on this Monday morning. Craig Peterson Tech Talk stuff. Make it a good one. Stay cool.

[00:05:52] Hey you too, Jack.

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11-year-old hacks election machines. MAGAF could kill us all. New dangers in satellite systems.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:01] Hi, Everybody. Craig Peterson here. We've got a ton going on as usual. You know the big conference out in Vegas gave us some real surprises, in fact, there's some things that you can learn from it. We'll talk about those DefCon and Black Hat Conferences. You're not going to believe this. Let me tell you what an 11-year-old can do. This is kind of scary when you think about November this year, and going forward. Satellite systems, they can be hacked we've kind of known that for a long time, but have you ever heard about people being exposed to microwave signals, and what happens to them? Well, there's a tie there. And, I really am going to have to do a little bit of a rant here, about our friends out in the Bay Area of California, these Silicon Valley developers just don't understand what's really going on. They may have their hippie ways, but they could destroy us very quickly if you have an internet at your house or on your phone. I've got a couple of tips on how to properly check your internet speed, and how to block and report spam calls and text messages. 

[00:01:10] And, did you know Google they are recording your location even when you tell them not to. So, all of that and more, please stick around. We only got half an hour. So, here we go. Well, I'm going to have to start the show this week with a little bit of bad news again. If you have Wi-Fi enabled, and you have more than one hot spot and even if you don't, even if you only have one, I've got to give you a bit of a word of warning. A huge, huge, huge, issue with Wi-Fi, yet again. Check your e-mail from me this week, I'll be sending something out. It's also up on my Web site. You've got to turn off some specific protocols. It gets kind of complicated, but you'll find it here on my Web site. And, in this week's newsletter Craig Peterson dot com. So we'll leave it at that. Now, we'll get back into our regular show for today. Well, I definitely have to get that data, don't I?

[00:02:14] It's over 20 years now, and I don't do as many interviews as I used to. Well, actually I do do a ton of interviews but they're not on the radio anymore. I do a lot of stuff over on the web, on our side. You know I do stuff with the FBI Infraguard program and, in fact, I'm doing at least a webinar a week so, I haven't had any complaints. I think most people are pretty darn happy with what's been happening here with the show I get lots of great comments from people thanking me for it. So, we'll we'll leave it at that. But, I do have to change that, although I'm updating a few things, as you've noticed. And, we're back up to about almost a full half hour. It's really great. Here we are. We are running solid through our whole time since we got to cut back a little bit. Which is nice because I'm just so busy, as it were. All right today. Wow. More security stuff if you listen to my podcast. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. You saw some major things this week. We were talking about Black Hat all week and what they can do with our voicemail, of course. 

[00:03:24] We talked a little bit about that, on this show, last week, as well. So, if you want to find out about your voicemail how it can be hacked and, in fact, even how it ultimately will be hacked make sure you check out my podcast, again Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, you can see many of them up there. I think I'm close to a thousand weekly shows. How's that for a long time. We've been doing it. The most recent few hundred of them are up there. Some of the oldest ones are lost, forever. I hate it when that happens. I had a backup but it turned out the backup was bad. It was bad. Has that happened to you before? So, I lost all kinds of show information, interviews, videos that I had done, and stuff. Now, C'est la vie, move on. Onward and upward. Better back up now that I test frequently, just like I do for my customers. You know I've always done it for my customers. You try and restore machines or restore files. Just make sure it works. But, somehow again it's the poppers kids. 

[00:04:29] I mean the cobbler's kids that just don't get the shoes. Hacked satellite systems, we've known about this for a long time, and satellites are all over the world, now. They're just everywhere, in northern and southern latitudes, all the way on up. There geostationary satellites, there are satellites that are moving. Typically the geostationary ones are the ones that we're using for data communications and things. But, here's the bottom line. A lot of these satellites are used by my daughter and by my son when they're at sea. Now, you know I have a daughter who was in the Merchant Marine. In fact, she still is in the merchant marine, right now. She is doing some autonomous ship development work for a company out in Norway. But when they're at sea they use, kind of like cell phones, but their satellite phones you might have seen that if you're a fan of Deadliest Catch, you probably saw Sig Hansen on there he was trying to call another ship to find out, because there are rumors that their emergency beacon had gone off and that little phone that he had, that was a satellite phone. And they're getting simpler, they are getting smaller all of the time and the reason for some of that is that the satellites that we're using for the satellite phone calls are getting closer and closer to Earth. There was a license that came out about five years ago, I think it was and they started flying their first satellites, just last year. 

[00:06:03] That's designed to be able to give high-speed Internet and voice to anyone, basically in North America. That's what it's aimed at, but ultimately worldwide, which is really cool. Well, those satellites are close enough to us, that in certain conditions, you could have what is now being called, a hybrid cyber-physical attack. Here's what would happen. This is according to research presented at Black Hat, last week here in Las Vegas, a couple actually two weeks ago, in Las Vegas. But one of these guys is saying based on his study and based on his experience a number of very popular satellite communication systems are vulnerable to a hack. And, what will happen is that the control systems for the satellite are what are actually hacked, and it goes beyond just leaking information. Did you know that these satellites could potentially be used to microwave people on the ground? Think about what happened recently over in Cuba. We expanded or our presence over there, our ambassador, I think we have a full embassy over there now, and some of the workers were complaining about pains, headaches some of them lost some of their hearing, some of them lost all of their hearing, and that was probably due to a directed attack. We don't really know who did the attack. It might have been sonic, but we're not really sure. 

[00:07:40] Well, think about what would happen, if somebody was out there who was controlling those satellites and aiming their beams at people and running them at high wattage.

[00:07:56] This is a guy named, Ruben Santa Marta, and he did some research that he presented back in 2014, and he said this is a quote "essentially the theoretical cases I developed four years ago are no longer theoretical". So, they're going to be able to use this type of technology connect to the satellite antenna from the ground through the Internet, and then using some security weaknesses in the software that operates the antenna. They're going to be able to seize control of it. So, now the potential damage is going to vary. The very least they could disrupt, they could intercept, they could modify communications are passed through the antenna. So, they could for instance eavesdrop on the e-mails, sent through in-flight Wi-Fi, attempt to launch other hacking attacks against devices connected to the satellite network. That's where my kids come in, because a lot of our vessels, Navy frankly, as well as merchant vessels, are connected to satellites for being able to share data. Now, there are higher risks still, and in some situations for instance in the case of the military, this attack is going to expose the location of this satellite antenna, for the ground equipment or the equipment on the ships that are out there. It could be really bad. Think of the Bond movie The World Is Not Enough, No, Tomorrow Never Dies where there mucking with GPS signals which are used for navigation by the Navy, by our cars right all over the place. Things start getting really bad, and then ultimately they could turn up the wattage on some of these satellite antennas and have them beam microwaves back to the ground. 

[00:09:48] Theoretically, cooking equipment and maybe even people. So, not great news, on that front. Well, we've got another piece of news coming out of the conferences, here just a couple of weeks ago out in Las Vegas Nevada. This particular one has to do with some of the Games they play over at Def Con which is kind of a defense conference and some of the games are as simple and fun as "Spot the Fed", right. Who in the audience is the Fed, and who's not the Fed, out there? But, one of the things that they've been doing, that's been getting more and more popular every year. They have what they call a voting village. Now, this village is where the organizers are setting up decommissioned election equipment, and then they let hackers loose on it and they watch these hackers and see how they can hack in. So, they're finding newer, creative, alarming ways to break in. Well, last year, the conference attendees found some new vulnerabilities for all 5 of the voting machines, and as a single e-poll book of registered voters, over the course of the weekend, was hacked into as well. So that caught the attention of senators, and they introduced some legislation and hopefully, it'll be good, right. Who knows? They just don't understand how this all works. But, this year's voting bigger voting village was bigger. 

[00:11:26] They had more equipment. They had voting machines that ranged from tabulators to smart card readers, equipment that's all currently in use in the United States. Now, they had another little voting village. This is with the little one. This was a room set aside for kid hackers. An 11-year-old girl hacked a replica of Florida Secretary of State Web site. And she hacked it within ten minutes and changed the results. So, what that means potentially is, that if the people who are doing the national tabulations were not directly contacting a known person that the former secretary of state's office. A known person using some form of two-factor authentication. You know like codewords or something. So, they pick up the phone, they call them, the proper code codewords or exchange bidirectionally. And then the Secretary of State of Florida says and here are the election results and gives them to them. So, if that's not what happens. If what happens is they go to the Web site for the Secretary of State's office, and they find the Hacking results, there. Well, now we're talking about some really big trouble. Because if an 11-year-old kid can hack a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website within ten minutes. And, we are relying on Secretary of State's Web sites to have the national results, tabulated. Wow. That is huge. Now, we heard this week as well, from our friends at Microsoft saying that they had discovered some Russian hackers who had put up fake Web sites. Websites that pretended to be Democrat and Republican Web sites, to try and again mislead people and create confusion. 

[00:13:28] And all. We had Russian hackers attacking 2016, and now already we see them attacking 2018, and of course, they're going to continue to do this. Now, I had this week, the CEO of Black Ops partners on a webinar I did for the FBI's Infragard program and we talked about the hacking that's going on. And, it's even worse than any of us thought. And, there was information that he could not disclose even to the FBI InfraGard team. So, that tells you something here too. But, he's telling us that the Chinese have been actively hacking us and the Chinese were talking about their military, the People's Liberation Army, the communist Chinese military has been covering up their tracks. He said they are using plausible deniability in a very, very big way, versus the Russian hackers that don't seem to really care, frankly, some of these Russian hacks, if you ask me may well be Chinese military hacks, disguised as coming from Russia. The Chinese are very, very, good at this. So, there's been some pushback about this voting village, because it was just so notable, this year. And, one of the largest providers of election equipment in the U.S. sent an e-mail to its Customers, assuring them that while attendees will absolutely access some voting machines internal components physical security measures make it extremely unlikely that an unauthorized person with malicious intent could ever access a voting machine. 

[00:15:15] Yeah, yeah. And, then we have the National Association of Secretaries of State quote "Our main concern with the approach taken by Def Con is it uses a pseudo-environment which no way replicates state election systems networks or physical security". So, you know when we're talking about distributing software, a lot of these systems are using thumb drives. Now, remember thumb drives have been hacked. In fact, brand new thumb drives have been shipped with viruses on them. So, you format the thumb drive. Again, there's so many ways, I know ways that I could do, that would fake it enough, that the election systems could be hacked. Believe me, it's very, very possible, even with people that pretty much know what they're doing on the security front. This is this is very concerning to me. Many people say that you know, hey listen, it's just crazy you can't do this. But, here we go. Matt Blaze, he's a veteran of elections security researcher who helped organize voting village said I think the statement was misguided. Talking about the statements from the various Secretaries of State organizations. "It's only through scrutiny that we're going to have confidence in the elections". "That said, the fact that this system has vulnerabilities in it, even incredibly serious vulnerabilities, is not the same as saying any given election has been tampered with. There's an interesting paradox. 

[00:16:47] We know the systems are wildly insecure and there's been precious little evidence of these vulnerabilities so, far being exploited in real elections. I think we've been very lucky and I think there's been a little bit of a ticking time bomb here". I absolutely agree with that. Unfortunately, our copyright laws have made it very difficult for researchers to legally acquire the voting equipment and mess with its software and test it. I think we need to have exceptions in the law for security researchers. And, there are some exceptions for certain security researchers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the DCMA. But, I think it has to be a little better than it has been. All right we're going to get into China, next. And the hippies in Silicon Valley. How were they threatening our security? The hippies, that is. Well, those darn hippies they're back out in California. You remember me talking a few weeks ago about how Google had, well it started with just a few people saying we are not going to work on any projects involved with the Department of Defense. And, it ended up being what was, it like 3000 of these people saying, we will quit our jobs if you have anything to do with the Department of Defense. And we have seen this in a couple of other companies, before. Now, people are stepping back and thinking about what the actual consequences are. Google has a very big artificial intelligence program, underway, and if you use an Apple device there is machine learning behind it. 

[00:18:42] If you're using an Amazon Alexa, Google home, there's machine learning behind it. Machine learning is kind of a subset of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, AI, where machines are figuring stuff out for themselves, is on its way. Don't, don't get us wrong here. Well, these main companies and I've started calling them MAGAF kind of like Magaf with an F on the end. You know MAGA, President Trumps slogan, I'm using MAGAF to stand for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook- MAGAF. So, now you know when I refer to that what I'm talking about. Well last month, some of these companies the biggest names in technology they officially signed a pledge promising to not develop lethal autonomous weapons. Now, I can see that as being a very good thing, right. In many, many ways. We had Google's project maven, where employees said, We will not allow our technology, our work product to be used by the military. And some praise them for these initiatives, as ethical and moral victories, right. That's the typical knee-jerk reaction. That's the simple reaction. Who wants killer robots right? I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger demonstrated that to us quite nicely with Terminator. Who wants Skynet? Nobody. Well, I guess somebody does, but most people absolutely don't. While a senior adviser to NATO by the name of Sandro Gatien has come out with some really great statements and I absolutely agree with him. 

[00:20:35] Here's a quote straight from him. This isn't a NATO adviser "these naive hippie developers from Silicon Valley don't understand. The CIA should force them to work on this development". Now, he is also the founder of the digital society Institute at this Berlin-based business school called ESMT. But, he came up with some very critical device. And what's really good about this is it's bringing to light a schism, about the future development of artificial intelligence for military purposes. On the one side, you have people who believe the pursuing the development of military AI'S is going to lead to an unstoppable arms race, and frankly, I'm kind of on that side. On the other side, people like Gatien believe that the AI arms race has already begun and that Pearl Hibbett Dean AI research for military purposes will not lead to peace but will give the upper hand to authoritarian systems. Now, that's a good point. So, he's saying if the West wants to stay in the lead, if we want to survive, we need to unify around a concerted strategy. quote another quote from him "Within most military and intelligence organizations, it's a real concern and it's bound to be a much larger concern". So, we've got machine learning tools that are being spread already amongst military devices and we have the Chinese. Now, according to Al Scandia, who's an expert in Chinese military strategy, there is a strong belief that machine learning is going to provide an essential tool, in the Chinese building their military strategy far beyond ours. 

[00:22:33] So, we're talking about superiority across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. So, that means faster more insightful AI. It could enable one side to enhance communications, situational awareness other forces, disrupt degrade or deny the adversaries. Think about some of these things we've talked about before, where you have clouds of AI controlled, little things, like the about the size of a bee, that can swarm and kill someone. What would happen if the Chinese had this technology, and they decided to take out the President of the United States? Think about what just happened in Venezuela. Where a couple of drones flew close to their Presidente and blew themselves up. What would happen if one of these matters to land on the President and work its way around? And we're seeing some of this AI type technology, already being used to try and break its way through firewalls, and other things. So, by having these hippies controlling some of the leading AI technologies, saying no, no, no, we're not going to do it. And allowing now the Red Chinese communists, who are trying to develop their AI technology, for military purposes. How are we going to be able to defend ourselves? How will we be able to defend our allies? How will we be able to keep up our NATO commitments? We could very, very quickly, fall behind in this new arms race, and have these other countries like China particularly selling some of this technology.

[00:24:18] Think about that. If some of this AI technology gets into the hands of terrorists, and they use it against us in our large cities, etcetera. Think about what would happen there. All right, we're not going to have time today to get into these other articles. But, I want to encourage you to go online. We've fixed all kinds of problems with the Web site at Craig Peterson dot com, right now or just straight has news on it things from the show, security news. We're going to be enhancing that, we'll be starting to post some of my webinars up there, and things. But, right now, we fixed the bugs we had. So, you can find the articles we just talked about online. Plus, the ones we didn't get to today. So, how to properly check your internet speed. I've got articles there that are going to tell you all of the details of the different apps, and different Web sites you can go to. How accurate they are and in what ways are they accurate. And that includes for some of us, that have ISPs, you may be questioning are we getting what we're paying for. And, by the way, maybe this is no surprise, but you using your ISP speed test may not be the best way. How to block and report spam calls and text messages. Things are getting worse. More than doubled since last year. Some really good hints and tips in there, including a couple of surprising ones. 

[00:25:46] At least, there's a price and the people I was talking to about them. So, you might find them surprising, as well. And Google. They are recording your location, even when you tell it not to and that's for anything, including iOS devices. If you have Google software on them. So check it out online. Craig Peterson dot com. Lots of great articles up there. And, if you have any feedback, any questions, you can just e-mail me at Craig Peterson dot com or one of the simple things to do is just go ahead and text me. You can do that right now, if you're at the gym or wherever. I love to get feedback! What do you like about the radio show? Tell me specifically, what did you like about today's show? Just text me, 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Any questions, any anything. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I hope you have a great week. Be safe, out there. Pay attention to what's going on, and if you're a business owner please, please, please, please, UP your security, and I can give you some great pointers on that. I have all kinds of special reports I can share with you. Again just text. Have a great day. We'll be back Monday morning with Jack Heath, and of course, posting that on my Web site, and on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher of everywhere and even tune-in. Take care. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 08/25/2018

11-year-old hacks election machines. MAGAF could kill us all. New dangers in satellite systems.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:01] Hi, Everybody. Craig Peterson here. We've got a ton going on as usual. You know the big conference out in Vegas gave us some real surprises, in fact, there's some things that you can learn from it. We'll talk about those DefCon and Black Hat Conferences. You're not going to believe this. Let me tell you what an 11-year-old can do. This is kind of scary when you think about November this year, and going forward. Satellite systems, they can be hacked we've kind of known that for a long time, but have you ever heard about people being exposed to microwave signals, and what happens to them? Well, there's a tie there. And, I really am going to have to do a little bit of a rant here, about our friends out in the Bay Area of California, these Silicon Valley developers just don't understand what's really going on. They may have their hippie ways, but they could destroy us very quickly if you have an internet at your house or on your phone. I've got a couple of tips on how to properly check your internet speed, and how to block and report spam calls and text messages. 

[00:01:10] And, did you know Google they are recording your location even when you tell them not to. So, all of that and more, please stick around. We only got half an hour. So, here we go. Well, I'm going to have to start the show this week with a little bit of bad news again. If you have Wi-Fi enabled, and you have more than one hot spot and even if you don't, even if you only have one, I've got to give you a bit of a word of warning. A huge, huge, huge, issue with Wi-Fi, yet again. Check your e-mail from me this week, I'll be sending something out. It's also up on my Web site. You've got to turn off some specific protocols. It gets kind of complicated, but you'll find it here on my Web site. And, in this week's newsletter Craig Peterson dot com. So we'll leave it at that. Now, we'll get back into our regular show for today. Well, I definitely have to get that data, don't I?

[00:02:14] It's over 20 years now, and I don't do as many interviews as I used to. Well, actually I do do a ton of interviews but they're not on the radio anymore. I do a lot of stuff over on the web, on our side. You know I do stuff with the FBI Infraguard program and, in fact, I'm doing at least a webinar a week so, I haven't had any complaints. I think most people are pretty darn happy with what's been happening here with the show I get lots of great comments from people thanking me for it. So, we'll we'll leave it at that. But, I do have to change that, although I'm updating a few things, as you've noticed. And, we're back up to about almost a full half hour. It's really great. Here we are. We are running solid through our whole time since we got to cut back a little bit. Which is nice because I'm just so busy, as it were. All right today. Wow. More security stuff if you listen to my podcast. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. You saw some major things this week. We were talking about Black Hat all week and what they can do with our voicemail, of course. 

[00:03:24] We talked a little bit about that, on this show, last week, as well. So, if you want to find out about your voicemail how it can be hacked and, in fact, even how it ultimately will be hacked make sure you check out my podcast, again Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, you can see many of them up there. I think I'm close to a thousand weekly shows. How's that for a long time. We've been doing it. The most recent few hundred of them are up there. Some of the oldest ones are lost, forever. I hate it when that happens. I had a backup but it turned out the backup was bad. It was bad. Has that happened to you before? So, I lost all kinds of show information, interviews, videos that I had done, and stuff. Now, C'est la vie, move on. Onward and upward. Better back up now that I test frequently, just like I do for my customers. You know I've always done it for my customers. You try and restore machines or restore files. Just make sure it works. But, somehow again it's the poppers kids. 

[00:04:29] I mean the cobbler's kids that just don't get the shoes. Hacked satellite systems, we've known about this for a long time, and satellites are all over the world, now. They're just everywhere, in northern and southern latitudes, all the way on up. There geostationary satellites, there are satellites that are moving. Typically the geostationary ones are the ones that we're using for data communications and things. But, here's the bottom line. A lot of these satellites are used by my daughter and by my son when they're at sea. Now, you know I have a daughter who was in the Merchant Marine. In fact, she still is in the merchant marine, right now. She is doing some autonomous ship development work for a company out in Norway. But when they're at sea they use, kind of like cell phones, but their satellite phones you might have seen that if you're a fan of Deadliest Catch, you probably saw Sig Hansen on there he was trying to call another ship to find out, because there are rumors that their emergency beacon had gone off and that little phone that he had, that was a satellite phone. And they're getting simpler, they are getting smaller all of the time and the reason for some of that is that the satellites that we're using for the satellite phone calls are getting closer and closer to Earth. There was a license that came out about five years ago, I think it was and they started flying their first satellites, just last year. 

[00:06:03] That's designed to be able to give high-speed Internet and voice to anyone, basically in North America. That's what it's aimed at, but ultimately worldwide, which is really cool. Well, those satellites are close enough to us, that in certain conditions, you could have what is now being called, a hybrid cyber-physical attack. Here's what would happen. This is according to research presented at Black Hat, last week here in Las Vegas, a couple actually two weeks ago, in Las Vegas. But one of these guys is saying based on his study and based on his experience a number of very popular satellite communication systems are vulnerable to a hack. And, what will happen is that the control systems for the satellite are what are actually hacked, and it goes beyond just leaking information. Did you know that these satellites could potentially be used to microwave people on the ground? Think about what happened recently over in Cuba. We expanded or our presence over there, our ambassador, I think we have a full embassy over there now, and some of the workers were complaining about pains, headaches some of them lost some of their hearing, some of them lost all of their hearing, and that was probably due to a directed attack. We don't really know who did the attack. It might have been sonic, but we're not really sure. 

[00:07:40] Well, think about what would happen, if somebody was out there who was controlling those satellites and aiming their beams at people and running them at high wattage.

[00:07:56] This is a guy named, Ruben Santa Marta, and he did some research that he presented back in 2014, and he said this is a quote "essentially the theoretical cases I developed four years ago are no longer theoretical". So, they're going to be able to use this type of technology connect to the satellite antenna from the ground through the Internet, and then using some security weaknesses in the software that operates the antenna. They're going to be able to seize control of it. So, now the potential damage is going to vary. The very least they could disrupt, they could intercept, they could modify communications are passed through the antenna. So, they could for instance eavesdrop on the e-mails, sent through in-flight Wi-Fi, attempt to launch other hacking attacks against devices connected to the satellite network. That's where my kids come in, because a lot of our vessels, Navy frankly, as well as merchant vessels, are connected to satellites for being able to share data. Now, there are higher risks still, and in some situations for instance in the case of the military, this attack is going to expose the location of this satellite antenna, for the ground equipment or the equipment on the ships that are out there. It could be really bad. Think of the Bond movie The World Is Not Enough, No, Tomorrow Never Dies where there mucking with GPS signals which are used for navigation by the Navy, by our cars right all over the place. Things start getting really bad, and then ultimately they could turn up the wattage on some of these satellite antennas and have them beam microwaves back to the ground. 

[00:09:48] Theoretically, cooking equipment and maybe even people. So, not great news, on that front. Well, we've got another piece of news coming out of the conferences, here just a couple of weeks ago out in Las Vegas Nevada. This particular one has to do with some of the Games they play over at Def Con which is kind of a defense conference and some of the games are as simple and fun as "Spot the Fed", right. Who in the audience is the Fed, and who's not the Fed, out there? But, one of the things that they've been doing, that's been getting more and more popular every year. They have what they call a voting village. Now, this village is where the organizers are setting up decommissioned election equipment, and then they let hackers loose on it and they watch these hackers and see how they can hack in. So, they're finding newer, creative, alarming ways to break in. Well, last year, the conference attendees found some new vulnerabilities for all 5 of the voting machines, and as a single e-poll book of registered voters, over the course of the weekend, was hacked into as well. So that caught the attention of senators, and they introduced some legislation and hopefully, it'll be good, right. Who knows? They just don't understand how this all works. But, this year's voting bigger voting village was bigger. 

[00:11:26] They had more equipment. They had voting machines that ranged from tabulators to smart card readers, equipment that's all currently in use in the United States. Now, they had another little voting village. This is with the little one. This was a room set aside for kid hackers. An 11-year-old girl hacked a replica of Florida Secretary of State Web site. And she hacked it within ten minutes and changed the results. So, what that means potentially is, that if the people who are doing the national tabulations were not directly contacting a known person that the former secretary of state's office. A known person using some form of two-factor authentication. You know like codewords or something. So, they pick up the phone, they call them, the proper code codewords or exchange bidirectionally. And then the Secretary of State of Florida says and here are the election results and gives them to them. So, if that's not what happens. If what happens is they go to the Web site for the Secretary of State's office, and they find the Hacking results, there. Well, now we're talking about some really big trouble. Because if an 11-year-old kid can hack a replica of the Florida Secretary of State's website within ten minutes. And, we are relying on Secretary of State's Web sites to have the national results, tabulated. Wow. That is huge. Now, we heard this week as well, from our friends at Microsoft saying that they had discovered some Russian hackers who had put up fake Web sites. Websites that pretended to be Democrat and Republican Web sites, to try and again mislead people and create confusion. 

[00:13:28] And all. We had Russian hackers attacking 2016, and now already we see them attacking 2018, and of course, they're going to continue to do this. Now, I had this week, the CEO of Black Ops partners on a webinar I did for the FBI's Infragard program and we talked about the hacking that's going on. And, it's even worse than any of us thought. And, there was information that he could not disclose even to the FBI InfraGard team. So, that tells you something here too. But, he's telling us that the Chinese have been actively hacking us and the Chinese were talking about their military, the People's Liberation Army, the communist Chinese military has been covering up their tracks. He said they are using plausible deniability in a very, very big way, versus the Russian hackers that don't seem to really care, frankly, some of these Russian hacks, if you ask me may well be Chinese military hacks, disguised as coming from Russia. The Chinese are very, very, good at this. So, there's been some pushback about this voting village, because it was just so notable, this year. And, one of the largest providers of election equipment in the U.S. sent an e-mail to its Customers, assuring them that while attendees will absolutely access some voting machines internal components physical security measures make it extremely unlikely that an unauthorized person with malicious intent could ever access a voting machine. 

[00:15:15] Yeah, yeah. And, then we have the National Association of Secretaries of State quote "Our main concern with the approach taken by Def Con is it uses a pseudo-environment which no way replicates state election systems networks or physical security". So, you know when we're talking about distributing software, a lot of these systems are using thumb drives. Now, remember thumb drives have been hacked. In fact, brand new thumb drives have been shipped with viruses on them. So, you format the thumb drive. Again, there's so many ways, I know ways that I could do, that would fake it enough, that the election systems could be hacked. Believe me, it's very, very possible, even with people that pretty much know what they're doing on the security front. This is this is very concerning to me. Many people say that you know, hey listen, it's just crazy you can't do this. But, here we go. Matt Blaze, he's a veteran of elections security researcher who helped organize voting village said I think the statement was misguided. Talking about the statements from the various Secretaries of State organizations. "It's only through scrutiny that we're going to have confidence in the elections". "That said, the fact that this system has vulnerabilities in it, even incredibly serious vulnerabilities, is not the same as saying any given election has been tampered with. There's an interesting paradox. 

[00:16:47] We know the systems are wildly insecure and there's been precious little evidence of these vulnerabilities so, far being exploited in real elections. I think we've been very lucky and I think there's been a little bit of a ticking time bomb here". I absolutely agree with that. Unfortunately, our copyright laws have made it very difficult for researchers to legally acquire the voting equipment and mess with its software and test it. I think we need to have exceptions in the law for security researchers. And, there are some exceptions for certain security researchers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the DCMA. But, I think it has to be a little better than it has been. All right we're going to get into China, next. And the hippies in Silicon Valley. How were they threatening our security? The hippies, that is. Well, those darn hippies they're back out in California. You remember me talking a few weeks ago about how Google had, well it started with just a few people saying we are not going to work on any projects involved with the Department of Defense. And, it ended up being what was, it like 3000 of these people saying, we will quit our jobs if you have anything to do with the Department of Defense. And we have seen this in a couple of other companies, before. Now, people are stepping back and thinking about what the actual consequences are. Google has a very big artificial intelligence program, underway, and if you use an Apple device there is machine learning behind it. 

[00:18:42] If you're using an Amazon Alexa, Google home, there's machine learning behind it. Machine learning is kind of a subset of artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, AI, where machines are figuring stuff out for themselves, is on its way. Don't, don't get us wrong here. Well, these main companies and I've started calling them MAGAF kind of like Magaf with an F on the end. You know MAGA, President Trumps slogan, I'm using MAGAF to stand for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook- MAGAF. So, now you know when I refer to that what I'm talking about. Well last month, some of these companies the biggest names in technology they officially signed a pledge promising to not develop lethal autonomous weapons. Now, I can see that as being a very good thing, right. In many, many ways. We had Google's project maven, where employees said, We will not allow our technology, our work product to be used by the military. And some praise them for these initiatives, as ethical and moral victories, right. That's the typical knee-jerk reaction. That's the simple reaction. Who wants killer robots right? I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger demonstrated that to us quite nicely with Terminator. Who wants Skynet? Nobody. Well, I guess somebody does, but most people absolutely don't. While a senior adviser to NATO by the name of Sandro Gatien has come out with some really great statements and I absolutely agree with him. 

[00:20:35] Here's a quote straight from him. This isn't a NATO adviser "these naive hippie developers from Silicon Valley don't understand. The CIA should force them to work on this development". Now, he is also the founder of the digital society Institute at this Berlin-based business school called ESMT. But, he came up with some very critical device. And what's really good about this is it's bringing to light a schism, about the future development of artificial intelligence for military purposes. On the one side, you have people who believe the pursuing the development of military AI'S is going to lead to an unstoppable arms race, and frankly, I'm kind of on that side. On the other side, people like Gatien believe that the AI arms race has already begun and that Pearl Hibbett Dean AI research for military purposes will not lead to peace but will give the upper hand to authoritarian systems. Now, that's a good point. So, he's saying if the West wants to stay in the lead, if we want to survive, we need to unify around a concerted strategy. quote another quote from him "Within most military and intelligence organizations, it's a real concern and it's bound to be a much larger concern". So, we've got machine learning tools that are being spread already amongst military devices and we have the Chinese. Now, according to Al Scandia, who's an expert in Chinese military strategy, there is a strong belief that machine learning is going to provide an essential tool, in the Chinese building their military strategy far beyond ours. 

[00:22:33] So, we're talking about superiority across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. So, that means faster more insightful AI. It could enable one side to enhance communications, situational awareness other forces, disrupt degrade or deny the adversaries. Think about some of these things we've talked about before, where you have clouds of AI controlled, little things, like the about the size of a bee, that can swarm and kill someone. What would happen if the Chinese had this technology, and they decided to take out the President of the United States? Think about what just happened in Venezuela. Where a couple of drones flew close to their Presidente and blew themselves up. What would happen if one of these matters to land on the President and work its way around? And we're seeing some of this AI type technology, already being used to try and break its way through firewalls, and other things. So, by having these hippies controlling some of the leading AI technologies, saying no, no, no, we're not going to do it. And allowing now the Red Chinese communists, who are trying to develop their AI technology, for military purposes. How are we going to be able to defend ourselves? How will we be able to defend our allies? How will we be able to keep up our NATO commitments? We could very, very quickly, fall behind in this new arms race, and have these other countries like China particularly selling some of this technology.

[00:24:18] Think about that. If some of this AI technology gets into the hands of terrorists, and they use it against us in our large cities, etcetera. Think about what would happen there. All right, we're not going to have time today to get into these other articles. But, I want to encourage you to go online. We've fixed all kinds of problems with the Web site at Craig Peterson dot com, right now or just straight has news on it things from the show, security news. We're going to be enhancing that, we'll be starting to post some of my webinars up there, and things. But, right now, we fixed the bugs we had. So, you can find the articles we just talked about online. Plus, the ones we didn't get to today. So, how to properly check your internet speed. I've got articles there that are going to tell you all of the details of the different apps, and different Web sites you can go to. How accurate they are and in what ways are they accurate. And that includes for some of us, that have ISPs, you may be questioning are we getting what we're paying for. And, by the way, maybe this is no surprise, but you using your ISP speed test may not be the best way. How to block and report spam calls and text messages. Things are getting worse. More than doubled since last year. Some really good hints and tips in there, including a couple of surprising ones. 

[00:25:46] At least, there's a price and the people I was talking to about them. So, you might find them surprising, as well. And Google. They are recording your location, even when you tell it not to and that's for anything, including iOS devices. If you have Google software on them. So check it out online. Craig Peterson dot com. Lots of great articles up there. And, if you have any feedback, any questions, you can just e-mail me at Craig Peterson dot com or one of the simple things to do is just go ahead and text me. You can do that right now, if you're at the gym or wherever. I love to get feedback! What do you like about the radio show? Tell me specifically, what did you like about today's show? Just text me, 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Any questions, any anything. 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I hope you have a great week. Be safe, out there. Pay attention to what's going on, and if you're a business owner please, please, please, please, UP your security, and I can give you some great pointers on that. I have all kinds of special reports I can share with you. Again just text. Have a great day. We'll be back Monday morning with Jack Heath, and of course, posting that on my Web site, and on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher of everywhere and even tune-in. Take care. Bye-bye.

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