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Have you ever taken an Uber?  Listen in as I talk with Jack about what some Uber drivers are doing, and why it can land them in some legal trouble.

What do you think about drones flying overhead? Today Jack and I discuss the reason that airspace is tightly controlled over certain political events and other venues.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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Airing date: 08/06/2018

Uber drivers live streaming rides. Drone Assassination Attempt in Venuezula.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] For those who are listening, and who wonder how I normally get my radio interviews out here. The simple way is I just take the live stream, of course, Craig Peterson, here, and iHeart Radio has terrestrial, as well as, of course, now apps and streaming audio that you can listen to. So, I'm on the terrestrial radio stations, well the station I was on this morning took a lightning strike over the weekend, a direct strike. So, a lot of their systems were down. So, today we were talking and I was recording my side of the conversation, today, so, you'll get to hear Jack Heath, in this case, being the caller, as it were, and me in the studio. So, it's kind of fun to listen to. This morning we talked about a couple of different things. We talked about what happened with that drone attack, that attempted assassination, which is a really big deal. Of course, as drones are in the news and it gets pretty dangerous, and you know when you think about sporting events and what could happen there. And, we also took a few minutes and talked about Uber. Uber drivers are making a few extra bucks, and it turns out maybe at your expense. So, here we go with Jack. Oh, one more thing. As you listen to me talking, and to Jack responding to Jack at the very, very, beginning, and then you'll hear this. Yes, That's what the stations send to me, or I need to let them know that their audio is on and you're on the air. So, listen for that. OK, here we go with Jack. 

[00:01:38] Well, joining us for some tech talk perspective our regular contributor Craig Peterson on the Autofair listener lines on this Monday morning and he joins us. 

[00:01:45] Craig, Good Morning, sir. Hey, Good Morning. Have we got audio? There we go. Good morning, Jack. 

[00:01:51] Were kicking up, high tech. 

[00:01:53] Mother Nature always is the boss, as you know, we had a lot of strong systems, Friday, Friday night. 

[00:01:59] Back in our studios, in downtown Manchester, they took a direct hit as they say. 

[00:02:04] So, a lot of the electrical computer and digital stuff is being tested, but we're getting back to normal. In a lot of areas some interesting weather, but what's going on in the tech talk world. 

[00:02:12] Yeah, it's interesting too, when you're talking about getting struck by lightning because there is so much power in the lightning. It's been over 100 years since there has been serious work on lightning. But, did you realize Nikola Tesla was really big into trying to harness the power that came from lightning? Of course, that static electricity, it's a little more difficult to manage. But, while talking about a source of power we've got a few things people are worried about out there right now, Jack. For instance, we've got Uber and Lyft and I assume you've used those before, correct. 

[00:02:49] Uber, yes. 

[00:02:49] Yeah, well they're kind of the same. Uber tends to not treat their drivers quite as well as Lyft does, at least according to the drivers I've spoken to. Well, it turns out that there is something going on here. New Hampshire is a two-party consent state when it comes to recording. That means both parties have to agree, to being recorded. There are other states out there, however, that are not two party states and apparently what's been happening is that some Uber drivers have been live streaming. Now, when you get in the car you can see they've got their phone up on the dash. Typically, they're using it as a GPS or are using that to accept riders and to kind of meter everything, if you will, almost like a taxi. Well, some of these guys and gals, apparently, have been using live streaming software such as twitch, to now live stream the whole trip. Now, if you're a driver on Lyft or Uber and you're out there using your car, you don't really know who's getting in your car. So, some of these drivers are saying they're doing it for safety purposes, so their family, for instance, can be watching the live stream on Twitch while they're driving around and they know that the drivers are safe, right. Their family or their friend is safe. But, some of these guys, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, are being paid for the stream, in other words, twitch lets you charge people to watch, and they've had people like this one guy who was making five hundred dollars extra a month by live streaming. He was charging on twitch and your ride, whether you knew it or not, is now being sent and, paid for by these people that want to watch you in the back of the Uber car. I don't get it. There are legality issues with this, again depending on where you live, written all over it. 

[00:04:50] Yeah, yeah. Oh. Now, did you hear about Venezuela. In Caracas, Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro I haven't gotten much verification, but I guess apparently, there was an assassination. 

[00:05:02] that he survived with drones, that were packed with explosives, during a live TV speech did you hear about this. 

[00:05:09] I did. I saw the video, in fact, of this whole thing going down. And, he was doing the speech, of course, Venezuela is a socialist country and is on the verge of complete collapse. 

[00:05:20] And, so right behind Venezuela. 

[00:05:23] Yeah, exactly. All of these guys out there, it has never worked and never will, but that's a different story. So, people are trying to kill, as has always been the case right. The President of a country whether they're left or right or center. It's always happening. And, in this case, you're absolutely right. The video shows him giving his speech, the military in front of him, I mean tons of military. This was an honor. In fact, of their military, he was giving this speech and in come, apparently two, and, this is just absolutely amazing, frankly, but, two drones, and they blow up you can see him look up, to the side, and then all of a sudden people start running the military parade that was in front of him completely disbanded, ran off apparently some of the military personnel were injured. I think it was nine or ten of them. He seems to be just fine. He is now very upset because it was, apparently, an assassination attempt that was, somehow didn't wasn't pulled off quite right. Why didn't they bring them closer, before they blew them up? But, it's a real problem and shows why the Secret Service is controlling all of the air now around the President. And, we have equipment that can be used to jam those drones as they're trying to come in, as well as, knock them out of the sky. There's some pretty cool guns, that are designed to do just that bring those drones down if they are threatening someone.

[00:06:55] Interesting, yeah. And I. Wasn't I wasn't stunned or shocked when I saw that, because I understand, you know technology's not going away, but you know you think of sporting events and all that, and these drones that are buzzing around and you know when you see and you're wondering you know who's flying them around. 

[00:07:13] It seems a little bit, a little bit odd, in how to regulate or keep an eye on them. Not, that I'm a regulation guy, but sometimes you need to know what's up there. 

[00:07:20] It's difficult. It's tough. Remember, it was a Black Sunday? You remember that movie from the 70's, a big football game and they were going to use a blimp. 

[00:07:30] Yep, Not a new idea. 

[00:07:32] Good memory. Well you know that's nothing. It all just comes around. It all just comes around. Craig, Thank you. You make it a good one and stay cool today on this Monday.

[00:07:41] Take care. Thanks, Jack.

[00:07:44] And in case you're wondering how it ends. That's how it ends. Right. They hang up on your but. It's radio. The listeners don't, the listeners don't get to hear that. Now you did, right. That might be the first time for many people who are listening to the podcast. That's how it works when I am calling into a radio show. Now, TV is a little bit different but, we're not covering that today. All right, well have a great day, and we'll probably be back tomorrow, hopefully. Jim Polito is going to be on, and I'll be on with him and we'll be talking about some of the latest in technology news. Have a great day, and enjoy the rest of the summer. It is going by quickly. Bye-bye. 

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Have you ever taken an Uber?  Listen in as I talk with Jack about what some Uber drivers are doing, and why it can land them in some legal trouble.

What do you think about drones flying overhead? Today Jack and I discuss the reason that airspace is tightly controlled over certain political events and other venues.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free, but you have to sign up)  On it will have all his special reports that he puts out and you will be the first to get them.

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

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A Day of Violence and Confusion

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

Airing date: 08/06/2018

Uber drivers live streaming rides. Drone Assassination Attempt in Venuezula.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] For those who are listening, and who wonder how I normally get my radio interviews out here. The simple way is I just take the live stream, of course, Craig Peterson, here, and iHeart Radio has terrestrial, as well as, of course, now apps and streaming audio that you can listen to. So, I'm on the terrestrial radio stations, well the station I was on this morning took a lightning strike over the weekend, a direct strike. So, a lot of their systems were down. So, today we were talking and I was recording my side of the conversation, today, so, you'll get to hear Jack Heath, in this case, being the caller, as it were, and me in the studio. So, it's kind of fun to listen to. This morning we talked about a couple of different things. We talked about what happened with that drone attack, that attempted assassination, which is a really big deal. Of course, as drones are in the news and it gets pretty dangerous, and you know when you think about sporting events and what could happen there. And, we also took a few minutes and talked about Uber. Uber drivers are making a few extra bucks, and it turns out maybe at your expense. So, here we go with Jack. Oh, one more thing. As you listen to me talking, and to Jack responding to Jack at the very, very, beginning, and then you'll hear this. Yes, That's what the stations send to me, or I need to let them know that their audio is on and you're on the air. So, listen for that. OK, here we go with Jack. 

[00:01:38] Well, joining us for some tech talk perspective our regular contributor Craig Peterson on the Autofair listener lines on this Monday morning and he joins us. 

[00:01:45] Craig, Good Morning, sir. Hey, Good Morning. Have we got audio? There we go. Good morning, Jack. 

[00:01:51] Were kicking up, high tech. 

[00:01:53] Mother Nature always is the boss, as you know, we had a lot of strong systems, Friday, Friday night. 

[00:01:59] Back in our studios, in downtown Manchester, they took a direct hit as they say. 

[00:02:04] So, a lot of the electrical computer and digital stuff is being tested, but we're getting back to normal. In a lot of areas some interesting weather, but what's going on in the tech talk world. 

[00:02:12] Yeah, it's interesting too, when you're talking about getting struck by lightning because there is so much power in the lightning. It's been over 100 years since there has been serious work on lightning. But, did you realize Nikola Tesla was really big into trying to harness the power that came from lightning? Of course, that static electricity, it's a little more difficult to manage. But, while talking about a source of power we've got a few things people are worried about out there right now, Jack. For instance, we've got Uber and Lyft and I assume you've used those before, correct. 

[00:02:49] Uber, yes. 

[00:02:49] Yeah, well they're kind of the same. Uber tends to not treat their drivers quite as well as Lyft does, at least according to the drivers I've spoken to. Well, it turns out that there is something going on here. New Hampshire is a two-party consent state when it comes to recording. That means both parties have to agree, to being recorded. There are other states out there, however, that are not two party states and apparently what's been happening is that some Uber drivers have been live streaming. Now, when you get in the car you can see they've got their phone up on the dash. Typically, they're using it as a GPS or are using that to accept riders and to kind of meter everything, if you will, almost like a taxi. Well, some of these guys and gals, apparently, have been using live streaming software such as twitch, to now live stream the whole trip. Now, if you're a driver on Lyft or Uber and you're out there using your car, you don't really know who's getting in your car. So, some of these drivers are saying they're doing it for safety purposes, so their family, for instance, can be watching the live stream on Twitch while they're driving around and they know that the drivers are safe, right. Their family or their friend is safe. But, some of these guys, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, are being paid for the stream, in other words, twitch lets you charge people to watch, and they've had people like this one guy who was making five hundred dollars extra a month by live streaming. He was charging on twitch and your ride, whether you knew it or not, is now being sent and, paid for by these people that want to watch you in the back of the Uber car. I don't get it. There are legality issues with this, again depending on where you live, written all over it. 

[00:04:50] Yeah, yeah. Oh. Now, did you hear about Venezuela. In Caracas, Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro I haven't gotten much verification, but I guess apparently, there was an assassination. 

[00:05:02] that he survived with drones, that were packed with explosives, during a live TV speech did you hear about this. 

[00:05:09] I did. I saw the video, in fact, of this whole thing going down. And, he was doing the speech, of course, Venezuela is a socialist country and is on the verge of complete collapse. 

[00:05:20] And, so right behind Venezuela. 

[00:05:23] Yeah, exactly. All of these guys out there, it has never worked and never will, but that's a different story. So, people are trying to kill, as has always been the case right. The President of a country whether they're left or right or center. It's always happening. And, in this case, you're absolutely right. The video shows him giving his speech, the military in front of him, I mean tons of military. This was an honor. In fact, of their military, he was giving this speech and in come, apparently two, and, this is just absolutely amazing, frankly, but, two drones, and they blow up you can see him look up, to the side, and then all of a sudden people start running the military parade that was in front of him completely disbanded, ran off apparently some of the military personnel were injured. I think it was nine or ten of them. He seems to be just fine. He is now very upset because it was, apparently, an assassination attempt that was, somehow didn't wasn't pulled off quite right. Why didn't they bring them closer, before they blew them up? But, it's a real problem and shows why the Secret Service is controlling all of the air now around the President. And, we have equipment that can be used to jam those drones as they're trying to come in, as well as, knock them out of the sky. There's some pretty cool guns, that are designed to do just that bring those drones down if they are threatening someone.

[00:06:55] Interesting, yeah. And I. Wasn't I wasn't stunned or shocked when I saw that, because I understand, you know technology's not going away, but you know you think of sporting events and all that, and these drones that are buzzing around and you know when you see and you're wondering you know who's flying them around. 

[00:07:13] It seems a little bit, a little bit odd, in how to regulate or keep an eye on them. Not, that I'm a regulation guy, but sometimes you need to know what's up there. 

[00:07:20] It's difficult. It's tough. Remember, it was a Black Sunday? You remember that movie from the 70's, a big football game and they were going to use a blimp. 

[00:07:30] Yep, Not a new idea. 

[00:07:32] Good memory. Well you know that's nothing. It all just comes around. It all just comes around. Craig, Thank you. You make it a good one and stay cool today on this Monday.

[00:07:41] Take care. Thanks, Jack.

[00:07:44] And in case you're wondering how it ends. That's how it ends. Right. They hang up on your but. It's radio. The listeners don't, the listeners don't get to hear that. Now you did, right. That might be the first time for many people who are listening to the podcast. That's how it works when I am calling into a radio show. Now, TV is a little bit different but, we're not covering that today. All right, well have a great day, and we'll probably be back tomorrow, hopefully. Jim Polito is going to be on, and I'll be on with him and we'll be talking about some of the latest in technology news. Have a great day, and enjoy the rest of the summer. It is going by quickly. Bye-bye. 

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Have you seen the Samsung S9?  Listen in to hear what Craig thinks about it and if it is worth getting.

I don't know about everyone in this audience -- but many of you I am sure love to learn and so do I.  Today, I am going to tell you about a new Google learning venture.

Have you ever taken an UBER or a LYFT?  I am going to tell you about what some drivers are doing and why?

More news out of Google! I am going to tell you how Google has prevented phishing in its facilities.

There is so much to talk about that I ran out of time so be sure to check out the related articles below.

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Airing date: 08/04/2018

Samsung S9 Struggling. Free online business courses from Google. Ridesharing live stream dangers. Google Titan Security key.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody. Craig Peterson, here. We've got another show this next half-hour or actually 25 minutes. We'll see what we can squeeze in. But, we're going to talk about your smart TV how to stop it from tracking what you watch and what video games you're playing. Did you know they track that as well? Russian hackers, a little bit more about them and what they apparently have already done that most of us just plain aren't aware of. Google, Now, I've talked about this a little bit before but they've got their own security key. We've got an update on that, and why you should consider that, right. Ridesharing. Did you know you might be live streamed? It depends on the state that you're in 

[00:00:42] There are people that are paying to watch people taking rides in Uber and Lyft. These free online courses from Google may help you boost your career. And why is Samsung's Galaxy S9, their brand new flagship phone, struggling so badly? So, here we go 

[00:01:09] On the front lines and ahead of the trends in business and consumer technology speaking with the top minds and creators behind the products and ideas that help to drive our everyday lives.

[00:01:19] Dean Kamen is joining us now. He's the inventor of the Segway and the founder of US First. Steve Forbes, I appreciate what you do with Forbes magazine for all these years. It's one of my first go to places. We're going talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri and we're joined right now by the director of Digital technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates, Kevin Johnson, on air for more than 15 years.

[00:01:43] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. 

[00:01:53] Hey, everybody. By the way, if you get my e-mail I send out a weekly with hot items of the week. All of these articles are available to you. There is no chance of getting to them all today, right. But, all of these articles are available you can just click through it'll take you to my website at Craig Peterson dot com. You'll get a summary and then if you want to read more you can click on the read more link at the bottom and that will take you to the original article that I am quoting. Of course, many times these articles are written by me or a member of my team. In which case you, you're gonna see the whole thing right there, and you don't have to hit the read more button. Well, Samsung you know has been selling phones and smartphones for a while and their success came when they switched to the Android operating system. Android, the number one worldwide, as far as installed units go, for mobile device operating systems. Also, the number one world-wide worst operating system for a mobile device if you want security. So I know people who love Android, they've just become hooked on it. They know it well, they don't want a change, and they just kinda of sit there with their fingers in their ears and they say I can't hear you. Can't Hear you NAH NAH NAH NAH

[00:03:12] And they're still using Android, I just don't get it right. So, for my customers, I always advise them don't use Android. Use Apple use iOS, iOS two years ago was finally approved by the federal government for military use. You're not seeing that with your standard Android phone that you're buying at the local retailer. So, if you want security, stay away from Android. But, that doesn't answer the question here about Samsung. Samsung, of course, they are probably, if you're going to buy an Android phone, they're probably the best ones to buy them from. Huawei has out a new phone that's got some really great camera features on them. But, we also know that they're blocked from the U.S. market, at least a large part of it, because the government, now won't buy them, won't use them won't sell them in the NEX/PX on base. Because of potential spying problems that were revealed in Huawei designs and chipsets.

[00:04:16] You might also remember on the show we talked about how they had more than, I think, it was north of a billion dollars worth of fines, which is a pretty hefty fine if you ask me. So, Huawei's kind of out of the market, here. You've got some others, HTC, I'm trying to think of some of them over the years. A few of them are actually out of business, now. Samsung's it, right. They're the big guys, South Korean outfit. They make pretty decent hardware. So, what's happening now? Obviously, the sales are not what Samsung or its investors were hoping for. They added some cool little silly things if you ask me. Which Apple did too, right. You saw with the release of the iPhone 10 you know these emojis'. That will take on some of your facial expressions on iOS. Which is just stupid really. Really, that's going to sell more phones. Who buys a phone for that. Well, Samsung did much the same thing, and they were pretty jazzed about it, right. They have images that look like you, which I think is really kind of cool, but it's no reason to spend eight hundred bucks on a phone. If you asked me, or twelve hundred bucks if you get a fully loaded iPhone Ten. The electronics division over at Samsung just said, that they "had lower than expected sales of the flagship Galaxy S9" and that's the main reason because it wasn't just the nine but their overall profitability was hurt badly because people just aren't buying them 

[00:05:54] You know it gets to a point, where you're good enough, right. Do I really need to spend money on another device? And, the answer to that is, probably no. I usually wait for two major releases before I buy a new one. So, like right now, I have an iPhone 8. Before that, I had an iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 I was using, my wife now uses because she's just plenty happy with it, doesn't need any of the newer features, or you know that new speed or memory stuff that I tend to use. You'd expect that right. Yeah, that's it. That's the reason that's why I got a table saw for Christmas last year. But, you know the newer phones are faster, I can run the newer apps on them so I can test them out. And I have more security stuff because I do use it with some of the clients that I have and there's some information I don't want to get out. So, this handset the S9 was launched in February, and some of the critics are praising these new camera tricks. You know really, really, really, super slow motion.

[00:06:59] What? What's that going to buy you? Are you going to buy a phone because it has super slow motion, really? I don't think I've ever used slow motion on my phone or any of my video cameras. Would you use that? I don't understand it. Here, but anyways despite the speculation in the S9 sales have been the weakest since the Samsung S3. Samsung still not disclosing any of the real numbers and they have a 20 percent revenue drop in the division. Why, are they struggling to stand out? Well, frankly the physical differences between the 8 and 9 are almost nonexistent. Which makes you wonder about Apple? So, many people complaining about that. You know the top center of the apple screen where they've got the camera. So there's this little divot, at the top and people make fun of it. In fact, Samsung came up with some ads making fun of that feature on the iPhone. But, it looks different, doesn't it? It makes it visibly different. Well, there's not much of a difference between the S8 and the S9 as far as looks. A little bit of a difference in the position of the fingerprint sensor. They have a dual aperture lens, which is you know kind of cool. But if you're not a photography geek. Why would you care?

[00:08:22] There just isn't the differentiation.

[00:08:25] We've got the Chinese rivals, also out there, and frankly I think one of Samsung's biggest problems is they're paying too much attention to Apple. All right there's a lot of innovation in the Android space, I'll give you that Samsung's always been able to outspend their competitors on marketing. But I think they're just focusing too hard in trying to, really overstep Apple. And what Apple's doing in the U.S. market. And even with some of the criticism, Apple's been having lately, it just doesn't make sense, it's not worth all of the effort all of the trouble. Samsung, just go ahead and make a difference come up with a really great device that everybody wants and Why don't you let Apple start chasing you for a change. So, on the S9 verdict isn't probably worth your time or your money.

[00:09:23] Hey, if you're looking to learn a little bit more, an uptick your job and your earning potential 

[00:09:30] It's always been around learning, hasn't it. I don't know that it's necessary to have a college degree. I certainly don't think it is in many, many, careers. I think most of the H.R. people are just taking an easy out, by looking for that checkboxes, says yeah you've got a master's or a bachelor's degree. I think they're taking the easy way out. It's you know I think it's kind of insane. What matters are the skills? What skills are you bringing? Oh, you've got five years experience fighting malware on large networks using great Cisco hardware and software and you've been providing tech support. And everybody says wonderful things about you. Well, that's worth way more than a bachelor's degree, that's worth way more than even a certification from one of these companies like you know the Cisco certifications. But you know what are you going to learn in them. This is a good opportunity for you, you'll find these links up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com.

[00:10:31] I've got a link to a great article from Inc. magazine. You'll find it online there, as well. But, they've got a class on getting your startup started. Now, all of these classes they're called Class central. They're all pretty darn basic. And, you know if you ask me, a lot of stuff so basic. So, I don't know maybe it's advanced to you, but it's really aimed more at startup people. People who are just learning. So, this particular course on getting your startup started is going to help you with your mission and vision statement. Find mentors team members. Find financing for your business. Pitch deck to try and get customers or VCs on board. By the way, I would advise getting customers. You need people paying you money, once you have people paying you money, then you can go and find your investors. Frankly, I think that's a way that should work in most cases. I never cheated and went to VC or angel route. But it's a self-paced course takes about three weeks. They've got another one, on App Marketing. If you've got the best idea for the app store or Google Play store. Wow, this is going to be great for you, right. Apps, I don't know there's not that much money in them anymore, unless you are making apps that are aimed at a particular company's internal customers.

[00:11:51] You know their supply chain, but an app marketing course, so you can learn about creating and launching an app. It sounds like can be pretty useful for anybody doing online marketing. So kind of any business owner might want to take this. It's about a two-week course, again from Google. App Monetization. This is a course is targeted at people who want to create apps or some free online content and have it generate income. But, depending on how much you know, it might not be very useful again. It's kind of a beginner thing if you're out of school and you're thinking about maybe making apps, it's a free thing, about a month is what it takes. Product Design. You've got a great idea for a product, that can help you with your idea, create a mock-up design, and quickly connect with potential customers. Check with them to see if your product can be viable. And, of course, the only real test, I go right back to this is, someone gives you money, because people will say they're going to buy it, but they don't, OK. So, it's a good thing to check out, to ask and get a little direction 

[00:13:01] But, if you can get people to pay you money, even before you develop your product, you'll be much better off. In fact, there's a company. What's it called G.T. Solar I think is the name in Merrimack. It was founded and he made he grew some chips for silicon wafers and things in order to make solar panels. And, he was able to fund his company, entirely, from his customers. So his customers were going ahead sending him a few bucks and that few bucks then went the extra mile, frankly because he had his customers fund him as he built all of his systems out. Product Design. Strengthening your LinkedIn network and brand. Again, this is part of the entry level grow with Google curriculum. So, if you're seasoned already as a networker or LinkedIn user it might not be great for you. But these courses and a lot more if you're thinking about doing a little entrepreneurial thing with the market doing so well. The economy doing, so well. Check it out you'll find links to this up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. Look in today's email. It'll be right there for you. You can just click right through and find out anything that you might need, right there.

[00:14:22] Hey, did you hear the news out of New York City this week, if you are a cab driver or wannabe cab driver and you may be doing something for Uber Lyft. Make a few extra bucks with your car. It's really kind of a nice thing. There have been some instances where bad things have happened with Uber and Lyft but I've had bad things happen with regular cabs, as well. Well, in New York City, apparently they passed a new ordinance, that is basically going to ban Uber and Lyft from their streets. We're not going to go into that right now, that's not part of this show. But, you might have a hard time finding Uber and Lyft next time you're in New York City because of that. Well, what we're going to talk about are called live streams. Now, there are a few kinds of cool sites, out there, that you can use in order to live stream. Twitch is one of them T W I T C H and we use it with US Robotics. I don't know if you're familiar with that, great program, if you're not involved. Make sure you get involved and you'll find them online. I think it's us first dot Org. I know they changed its name but anyways I think you can still get their US first dot Org. They use twitch in order to broadcast these competitions that are held all over the world which is really, really, cool.

[00:15:47] I love that thing. Well, when you step into one of these ride-sharing cars, do you realize that you might be on video? Now up on the dashboard, there's usually the little smartphone right and might be Android it might be iOS. And on that, they're running the app from Uber or from Lyft, and that app is tracking where they're going that lets them say you'll pick up this rider and lets them score the rider after, the fact, right. It lets you do all of these things. So, you know there's one other thing that's been happening, you might not have expected. And that is that some of these guys, apparently, have been live streaming on Twitch. So, you get in the car and the whole ride is live-streamed. Now, I can see one side of this, which is it's a safety factor for the driver, because now it is out, in the ether, his wife or her husband or family, whoever can watch it at home make sure everything looks safe everything's good. And, from that standpoint, I think that's really kind of a neat safety feature. Depending on which state you're in, that may or may not be legal. There is something called two-party consent, and that means that both people who are being recorded need to give permission. And, it needs to be explicit permission. Now, I record people all the time from my radio show from my webinars.

[00:17:20] You know, the FBI webinars I do, all of these things. So, all of that is legit because they know they're being recorded, right.I even will say, OK we're going to start recording now, just so I have that. Well, in this case, this particular guy Jason Gargack, I guess it is. He's an uber and Lyft driver and he's been broadcasting apparently hundreds of trips on twitch without explicitly obtaining consent. Now, he's taken steps to protect passengers, so he mutes addresses moderating lewd chat comments, at least some of the customers said they wouldn't have entered the car or if they knew they were being live streamed. And it's certainly possible to identify some of the passengers based on the details that are there in the archived videos. But, he's asserting that the streams are legal. He's in Missouri. Missouri has a one-party recording consent law which means you only have to have one person who consents to the recording. Now, I personally go back and forth on this I think of it's a public official in the performance of their public duties or under the color of law. I think it should always be recordable. Always. It's a public official whether it's a town clerk, a police officer, a fire hydrant inspector, a federal agent, doesn't matter that should be recordable without the consent of the public official. And, many times you see that happening even in two-party states where you have a whole bunch of people out there with video cameras on their smartphones videotaping a police officer in the performance of their duty.

[00:19:07] Right, you see that sort of thing fairly frequently. Well, in many cases it's illegal in my home state, here. It's illegal to do that as well. So, what's happening here? Well, Missouri allows him to record other people without their consent. He has a sticker on his car that tells passengers that they're consenting to be recorded if they enter the vehicle and he describes it, as for security. Now, that's the part I mentioned earlier I think that kind of makes sense, right. Well, here's where things get a little bit fuzzy. Apparently, he is charging some people to get his live stream. Now, his live stream remember is going out on twitch and twitch does allow you to sell access to a stream. So, apparently, there are at least according to one report he's been charging five bucks or more a month. He's got more than 100 paid subscribers. It's really interesting. Uber had shut off his access to the driver's app while it "evaluates his partnership". So, even though live streaming might be legal in Missouri, Uber guidelines bar any kind of inappropriate or disrespectful behavior including comments on appearance. So, who knows, right. Twitch wasn't commenting on it. But, you can find this article up on my Web site as well. OK, so, one more article here for today and this is about security coming out of our friends at Google.

[00:20:52] Now, Google has been using this technology in-house here for a while. And, remember they have tens of thousands of employees and they have not had a single case of a successful phishing attack since they started doing this. That's pretty darn cool, frankly. Google has been following the standard that's out there. It's called The FIDO's specification. But here's the bottom line. It's a key, it's a USB key. It has some smarts in it and it allows a web page to authenticate you. It allows your laptop to authenticate you. Your desktop to authenticate you. So, you have to use this key in order to get your machine to allow you to log in. They've had this by the way since 2014, so that's pretty substantial that FIDO specification. And Google has been supporting it the Google accounts have. So, this titan key is something Google has now released. Anyone who is using their cloud services, the Google Cloud Services, has first dibs on it. You can go out and get it. I've had a couple of my clients now asking about it because they've been following my weekly e-mails and I've been kind of hinting that this is going to be coming and we're probably going to use a different kind of key here. The, you know, the Google Key is now quite yet.

[00:22:20] And some of these other ones are well supported as well. Also, follow the FIDO log in specs. So, we're starting to move some of our customers over. We're already using some of this technology including, DUO, which by the way, I think it was Google just bought this week. So, that's kind of cool, we're once again going to be ahead of the game in keeping our stuff secure. But, this is all available you can check it out Google's advance protection program. I've got a link to all of this up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. And, of course, it's also in this week's newsletter, which you can sign up for also at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We've got subscriptions open, again. Well, there's other stuff we didn't get to today. You might want to check out. We've got Russian hackers. Looks like they may have penetrated hundreds of U.S. based, electrical grid networks. That's a very big deal. Apparently, they could turn off the power, at will, and cause some major havoc here. A lot of victims. This is bad. Your smart TV may be tracking you. If you have a smart TV and you can tell because they have built into them things like YouTube or Netflix or right your Hulu access to those TVs not only track what you're watching because it's easy enough for them to know, but they have a special software that's built into them and did you know even know this existed?

[00:23:49] It's called automatic content recognition, by SAMBA TV, usually. And, this automatic content recognition even recognizes video games that you're feeding into the TV and tracks your use. So, I've got a very detailed article from the New York Times that's up on my Web site Craig Peterson dot com. You can go there and have a look, it's got instructions for all of the major smart TV brands and what you can do to turn that off. I think it's important to do, although, you know the marketing side of it, I can see it's a great thing. I personally would rather only see ads for cars, when I'm looking to buy a car right. Well, they show me things that I'm interested in. But, the problem comes in when the bad guys get their hands on this information. This stuff's eminently hackable. It's been hacked before, it will be hacked again. So, be very, very, careful. You'll find it all. Craig Peterson dot com. Hope you have a great week. We'll be back next week with more. Until then if you have any questions just text me directly 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. How many people do you know to give you their phone number? That's me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 with any questions at all, during the week have a great week. Take care. Talk to you next week. Bye-bye. 

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Airing date: 08/04/2018

Samsung S9 Struggling. Free online business courses from Google. Ridesharing live stream dangers. Google Titan Security key.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody. Craig Peterson, here. We've got another show this next half-hour or actually 25 minutes. We'll see what we can squeeze in. But, we're going to talk about your smart TV how to stop it from tracking what you watch and what video games you're playing. Did you know they track that as well? Russian hackers, a little bit more about them and what they apparently have already done that most of us just plain aren't aware of. Google, Now, I've talked about this a little bit before but they've got their own security key. We've got an update on that, and why you should consider that, right. Ridesharing. Did you know you might be live streamed? It depends on the state that you're in 

[00:00:42] There are people that are paying to watch people taking rides in Uber and Lyft. These free online courses from Google may help you boost your career. And why is Samsung's Galaxy S9, their brand new flagship phone, struggling so badly? So, here we go 

[00:01:09] On the front lines and ahead of the trends in business and consumer technology speaking with the top minds and creators behind the products and ideas that help to drive our everyday lives.

[00:01:19] Dean Kamen is joining us now. He's the inventor of the Segway and the founder of US First. Steve Forbes, I appreciate what you do with Forbes magazine for all these years. It's one of my first go to places. We're going talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri and we're joined right now by the director of Digital technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates, Kevin Johnson, on air for more than 15 years.

[00:01:43] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. 

[00:01:53] Hey, everybody. By the way, if you get my e-mail I send out a weekly with hot items of the week. All of these articles are available to you. There is no chance of getting to them all today, right. But, all of these articles are available you can just click through it'll take you to my website at Craig Peterson dot com. You'll get a summary and then if you want to read more you can click on the read more link at the bottom and that will take you to the original article that I am quoting. Of course, many times these articles are written by me or a member of my team. In which case you, you're gonna see the whole thing right there, and you don't have to hit the read more button. Well, Samsung you know has been selling phones and smartphones for a while and their success came when they switched to the Android operating system. Android, the number one worldwide, as far as installed units go, for mobile device operating systems. Also, the number one world-wide worst operating system for a mobile device if you want security. So I know people who love Android, they've just become hooked on it. They know it well, they don't want a change, and they just kinda of sit there with their fingers in their ears and they say I can't hear you. Can't Hear you NAH NAH NAH NAH

[00:03:12] And they're still using Android, I just don't get it right. So, for my customers, I always advise them don't use Android. Use Apple use iOS, iOS two years ago was finally approved by the federal government for military use. You're not seeing that with your standard Android phone that you're buying at the local retailer. So, if you want security, stay away from Android. But, that doesn't answer the question here about Samsung. Samsung, of course, they are probably, if you're going to buy an Android phone, they're probably the best ones to buy them from. Huawei has out a new phone that's got some really great camera features on them. But, we also know that they're blocked from the U.S. market, at least a large part of it, because the government, now won't buy them, won't use them won't sell them in the NEX/PX on base. Because of potential spying problems that were revealed in Huawei designs and chipsets.

[00:04:16] You might also remember on the show we talked about how they had more than, I think, it was north of a billion dollars worth of fines, which is a pretty hefty fine if you ask me. So, Huawei's kind of out of the market, here. You've got some others, HTC, I'm trying to think of some of them over the years. A few of them are actually out of business, now. Samsung's it, right. They're the big guys, South Korean outfit. They make pretty decent hardware. So, what's happening now? Obviously, the sales are not what Samsung or its investors were hoping for. They added some cool little silly things if you ask me. Which Apple did too, right. You saw with the release of the iPhone 10 you know these emojis'. That will take on some of your facial expressions on iOS. Which is just stupid really. Really, that's going to sell more phones. Who buys a phone for that. Well, Samsung did much the same thing, and they were pretty jazzed about it, right. They have images that look like you, which I think is really kind of cool, but it's no reason to spend eight hundred bucks on a phone. If you asked me, or twelve hundred bucks if you get a fully loaded iPhone Ten. The electronics division over at Samsung just said, that they "had lower than expected sales of the flagship Galaxy S9" and that's the main reason because it wasn't just the nine but their overall profitability was hurt badly because people just aren't buying them 

[00:05:54] You know it gets to a point, where you're good enough, right. Do I really need to spend money on another device? And, the answer to that is, probably no. I usually wait for two major releases before I buy a new one. So, like right now, I have an iPhone 8. Before that, I had an iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 I was using, my wife now uses because she's just plenty happy with it, doesn't need any of the newer features, or you know that new speed or memory stuff that I tend to use. You'd expect that right. Yeah, that's it. That's the reason that's why I got a table saw for Christmas last year. But, you know the newer phones are faster, I can run the newer apps on them so I can test them out. And I have more security stuff because I do use it with some of the clients that I have and there's some information I don't want to get out. So, this handset the S9 was launched in February, and some of the critics are praising these new camera tricks. You know really, really, really, super slow motion.

[00:06:59] What? What's that going to buy you? Are you going to buy a phone because it has super slow motion, really? I don't think I've ever used slow motion on my phone or any of my video cameras. Would you use that? I don't understand it. Here, but anyways despite the speculation in the S9 sales have been the weakest since the Samsung S3. Samsung still not disclosing any of the real numbers and they have a 20 percent revenue drop in the division. Why, are they struggling to stand out? Well, frankly the physical differences between the 8 and 9 are almost nonexistent. Which makes you wonder about Apple? So, many people complaining about that. You know the top center of the apple screen where they've got the camera. So there's this little divot, at the top and people make fun of it. In fact, Samsung came up with some ads making fun of that feature on the iPhone. But, it looks different, doesn't it? It makes it visibly different. Well, there's not much of a difference between the S8 and the S9 as far as looks. A little bit of a difference in the position of the fingerprint sensor. They have a dual aperture lens, which is you know kind of cool. But if you're not a photography geek. Why would you care?

[00:08:22] There just isn't the differentiation.

[00:08:25] We've got the Chinese rivals, also out there, and frankly I think one of Samsung's biggest problems is they're paying too much attention to Apple. All right there's a lot of innovation in the Android space, I'll give you that Samsung's always been able to outspend their competitors on marketing. But I think they're just focusing too hard in trying to, really overstep Apple. And what Apple's doing in the U.S. market. And even with some of the criticism, Apple's been having lately, it just doesn't make sense, it's not worth all of the effort all of the trouble. Samsung, just go ahead and make a difference come up with a really great device that everybody wants and Why don't you let Apple start chasing you for a change. So, on the S9 verdict isn't probably worth your time or your money.

[00:09:23] Hey, if you're looking to learn a little bit more, an uptick your job and your earning potential 

[00:09:30] It's always been around learning, hasn't it. I don't know that it's necessary to have a college degree. I certainly don't think it is in many, many, careers. I think most of the H.R. people are just taking an easy out, by looking for that checkboxes, says yeah you've got a master's or a bachelor's degree. I think they're taking the easy way out. It's you know I think it's kind of insane. What matters are the skills? What skills are you bringing? Oh, you've got five years experience fighting malware on large networks using great Cisco hardware and software and you've been providing tech support. And everybody says wonderful things about you. Well, that's worth way more than a bachelor's degree, that's worth way more than even a certification from one of these companies like you know the Cisco certifications. But you know what are you going to learn in them. This is a good opportunity for you, you'll find these links up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com.

[00:10:31] I've got a link to a great article from Inc. magazine. You'll find it online there, as well. But, they've got a class on getting your startup started. Now, all of these classes they're called Class central. They're all pretty darn basic. And, you know if you ask me, a lot of stuff so basic. So, I don't know maybe it's advanced to you, but it's really aimed more at startup people. People who are just learning. So, this particular course on getting your startup started is going to help you with your mission and vision statement. Find mentors team members. Find financing for your business. Pitch deck to try and get customers or VCs on board. By the way, I would advise getting customers. You need people paying you money, once you have people paying you money, then you can go and find your investors. Frankly, I think that's a way that should work in most cases. I never cheated and went to VC or angel route. But it's a self-paced course takes about three weeks. They've got another one, on App Marketing. If you've got the best idea for the app store or Google Play store. Wow, this is going to be great for you, right. Apps, I don't know there's not that much money in them anymore, unless you are making apps that are aimed at a particular company's internal customers.

[00:11:51] You know their supply chain, but an app marketing course, so you can learn about creating and launching an app. It sounds like can be pretty useful for anybody doing online marketing. So kind of any business owner might want to take this. It's about a two-week course, again from Google. App Monetization. This is a course is targeted at people who want to create apps or some free online content and have it generate income. But, depending on how much you know, it might not be very useful again. It's kind of a beginner thing if you're out of school and you're thinking about maybe making apps, it's a free thing, about a month is what it takes. Product Design. You've got a great idea for a product, that can help you with your idea, create a mock-up design, and quickly connect with potential customers. Check with them to see if your product can be viable. And, of course, the only real test, I go right back to this is, someone gives you money, because people will say they're going to buy it, but they don't, OK. So, it's a good thing to check out, to ask and get a little direction 

[00:13:01] But, if you can get people to pay you money, even before you develop your product, you'll be much better off. In fact, there's a company. What's it called G.T. Solar I think is the name in Merrimack. It was founded and he made he grew some chips for silicon wafers and things in order to make solar panels. And, he was able to fund his company, entirely, from his customers. So his customers were going ahead sending him a few bucks and that few bucks then went the extra mile, frankly because he had his customers fund him as he built all of his systems out. Product Design. Strengthening your LinkedIn network and brand. Again, this is part of the entry level grow with Google curriculum. So, if you're seasoned already as a networker or LinkedIn user it might not be great for you. But these courses and a lot more if you're thinking about doing a little entrepreneurial thing with the market doing so well. The economy doing, so well. Check it out you'll find links to this up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. Look in today's email. It'll be right there for you. You can just click right through and find out anything that you might need, right there.

[00:14:22] Hey, did you hear the news out of New York City this week, if you are a cab driver or wannabe cab driver and you may be doing something for Uber Lyft. Make a few extra bucks with your car. It's really kind of a nice thing. There have been some instances where bad things have happened with Uber and Lyft but I've had bad things happen with regular cabs, as well. Well, in New York City, apparently they passed a new ordinance, that is basically going to ban Uber and Lyft from their streets. We're not going to go into that right now, that's not part of this show. But, you might have a hard time finding Uber and Lyft next time you're in New York City because of that. Well, what we're going to talk about are called live streams. Now, there are a few kinds of cool sites, out there, that you can use in order to live stream. Twitch is one of them T W I T C H and we use it with US Robotics. I don't know if you're familiar with that, great program, if you're not involved. Make sure you get involved and you'll find them online. I think it's us first dot Org. I know they changed its name but anyways I think you can still get their US first dot Org. They use twitch in order to broadcast these competitions that are held all over the world which is really, really, cool.

[00:15:47] I love that thing. Well, when you step into one of these ride-sharing cars, do you realize that you might be on video? Now up on the dashboard, there's usually the little smartphone right and might be Android it might be iOS. And on that, they're running the app from Uber or from Lyft, and that app is tracking where they're going that lets them say you'll pick up this rider and lets them score the rider after, the fact, right. It lets you do all of these things. So, you know there's one other thing that's been happening, you might not have expected. And that is that some of these guys, apparently, have been live streaming on Twitch. So, you get in the car and the whole ride is live-streamed. Now, I can see one side of this, which is it's a safety factor for the driver, because now it is out, in the ether, his wife or her husband or family, whoever can watch it at home make sure everything looks safe everything's good. And, from that standpoint, I think that's really kind of a neat safety feature. Depending on which state you're in, that may or may not be legal. There is something called two-party consent, and that means that both people who are being recorded need to give permission. And, it needs to be explicit permission. Now, I record people all the time from my radio show from my webinars.

[00:17:20] You know, the FBI webinars I do, all of these things. So, all of that is legit because they know they're being recorded, right.I even will say, OK we're going to start recording now, just so I have that. Well, in this case, this particular guy Jason Gargack, I guess it is. He's an uber and Lyft driver and he's been broadcasting apparently hundreds of trips on twitch without explicitly obtaining consent. Now, he's taken steps to protect passengers, so he mutes addresses moderating lewd chat comments, at least some of the customers said they wouldn't have entered the car or if they knew they were being live streamed. And it's certainly possible to identify some of the passengers based on the details that are there in the archived videos. But, he's asserting that the streams are legal. He's in Missouri. Missouri has a one-party recording consent law which means you only have to have one person who consents to the recording. Now, I personally go back and forth on this I think of it's a public official in the performance of their public duties or under the color of law. I think it should always be recordable. Always. It's a public official whether it's a town clerk, a police officer, a fire hydrant inspector, a federal agent, doesn't matter that should be recordable without the consent of the public official. And, many times you see that happening even in two-party states where you have a whole bunch of people out there with video cameras on their smartphones videotaping a police officer in the performance of their duty.

[00:19:07] Right, you see that sort of thing fairly frequently. Well, in many cases it's illegal in my home state, here. It's illegal to do that as well. So, what's happening here? Well, Missouri allows him to record other people without their consent. He has a sticker on his car that tells passengers that they're consenting to be recorded if they enter the vehicle and he describes it, as for security. Now, that's the part I mentioned earlier I think that kind of makes sense, right. Well, here's where things get a little bit fuzzy. Apparently, he is charging some people to get his live stream. Now, his live stream remember is going out on twitch and twitch does allow you to sell access to a stream. So, apparently, there are at least according to one report he's been charging five bucks or more a month. He's got more than 100 paid subscribers. It's really interesting. Uber had shut off his access to the driver's app while it "evaluates his partnership". So, even though live streaming might be legal in Missouri, Uber guidelines bar any kind of inappropriate or disrespectful behavior including comments on appearance. So, who knows, right. Twitch wasn't commenting on it. But, you can find this article up on my Web site as well. OK, so, one more article here for today and this is about security coming out of our friends at Google.

[00:20:52] Now, Google has been using this technology in-house here for a while. And, remember they have tens of thousands of employees and they have not had a single case of a successful phishing attack since they started doing this. That's pretty darn cool, frankly. Google has been following the standard that's out there. It's called The FIDO's specification. But here's the bottom line. It's a key, it's a USB key. It has some smarts in it and it allows a web page to authenticate you. It allows your laptop to authenticate you. Your desktop to authenticate you. So, you have to use this key in order to get your machine to allow you to log in. They've had this by the way since 2014, so that's pretty substantial that FIDO specification. And Google has been supporting it the Google accounts have. So, this titan key is something Google has now released. Anyone who is using their cloud services, the Google Cloud Services, has first dibs on it. You can go out and get it. I've had a couple of my clients now asking about it because they've been following my weekly e-mails and I've been kind of hinting that this is going to be coming and we're probably going to use a different kind of key here. The, you know, the Google Key is now quite yet.

[00:22:20] And some of these other ones are well supported as well. Also, follow the FIDO log in specs. So, we're starting to move some of our customers over. We're already using some of this technology including, DUO, which by the way, I think it was Google just bought this week. So, that's kind of cool, we're once again going to be ahead of the game in keeping our stuff secure. But, this is all available you can check it out Google's advance protection program. I've got a link to all of this up on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. And, of course, it's also in this week's newsletter, which you can sign up for also at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. We've got subscriptions open, again. Well, there's other stuff we didn't get to today. You might want to check out. We've got Russian hackers. Looks like they may have penetrated hundreds of U.S. based, electrical grid networks. That's a very big deal. Apparently, they could turn off the power, at will, and cause some major havoc here. A lot of victims. This is bad. Your smart TV may be tracking you. If you have a smart TV and you can tell because they have built into them things like YouTube or Netflix or right your Hulu access to those TVs not only track what you're watching because it's easy enough for them to know, but they have a special software that's built into them and did you know even know this existed?

[00:23:49] It's called automatic content recognition, by SAMBA TV, usually. And, this automatic content recognition even recognizes video games that you're feeding into the TV and tracks your use. So, I've got a very detailed article from the New York Times that's up on my Web site Craig Peterson dot com. You can go there and have a look, it's got instructions for all of the major smart TV brands and what you can do to turn that off. I think it's important to do, although, you know the marketing side of it, I can see it's a great thing. I personally would rather only see ads for cars, when I'm looking to buy a car right. Well, they show me things that I'm interested in. But, the problem comes in when the bad guys get their hands on this information. This stuff's eminently hackable. It's been hacked before, it will be hacked again. So, be very, very, careful. You'll find it all. Craig Peterson dot com. Hope you have a great week. We'll be back next week with more. Until then if you have any questions just text me directly 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. How many people do you know to give you their phone number? That's me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 with any questions at all, during the week have a great week. Take care. Talk to you next week. Bye-bye. 

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3D Printed Plastic Guns.  The Future without Google and Apple.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody! This morning I was on WGAN and affiliate stations in the state of Maine with Ken and Matt and they were getting kind of teased because some people are saying they're just a comedy show, in fact, it was, I think, a sheriff in northern Maine that said that you guys are just a comedy show, because they were they were talking about a body that was found with a knife in the chest. So, they were postulating that it was murder, right? And, so the sheriff said, "Well you can't say it's a murder, just because there was a knife in the middle of his chest." And, so he said they're just a comedy show and don't pay attention to them. So, this morning I was kind of teasing them because we talked about two very, very, serious subjects, but I had to rib them here on the old comedy show thing. So, this morning we talked about these 3D printed guns. What's the technology behind this? Where is it going? How is this going to change our lives? And, frankly, will it end up changing our lives? Apple just received a trillion dollar valuation. What's happening? I discussed life after Apple and life after Google. Have you thought about life after Google? What's that going to mean to everybody because we're counting on it right now, right? Everybody uses Google. Number one search engine by far in the world. I think I kind of surprised them with my answers, there. So, anyhow here we go with Ken and Matt this morning you're going to love this, I think. 

[00:01:29] All right Craig Peterson back again as he is always is at 738 on a Wednesday. Craig, How are you this morning? 

[00:01:36] Hey doing good. Hey, why aren't koalas actual bears? Yeah, they meet all the qualifications. That's a dead joke. Well, this is a comedy show, was a comedy show, and I have to start with that. 

[00:01:51] Well done. And, in fact, because of that I've got a special sound effect for you. 

[00:01:57] Well done sir. 

[00:02:00] So, so, I just got news and I want to ask you about this because Apple's approaching a value of one trillion dollars 

[00:02:10] Wow, isn't that amazing? To get right down to it. Trillion here, a trillion there, right. Many governments don't have that kind of value.

[00:02:20] Yeah, it is absolutely amazing. They are well on their way to being just an absolute record breaker. But, we've seen this sort of thing before, right. We've got Google out there who is just incredibly valuable. Google has become a verb, but I don't think Apple's a verb, yet. It's still a noun, but Google has become a verb. We're all using it, like 95 percent of searches worldwide, are done on Google. Then there was IBM in the 70's, of course. I've got to bring them up, Microsoft, Microsoft was so not afraid of Apple. They went ahead and helped to fund Apple. They invested in Apple back in the day. Nowadays, of course, IBM is nowhere near the powerhouse it was. Microsoft is nowhere near the powerhouse that they were, and Apple and Google are both going to end up going by the wayside. It's just it's inevitable, and when you're talking about Apple and the trillion dollars worth of value it is just crazy. But, think about Google here now, we can see maybe somebody taking over from Apple, right. Matt, you use a Samsung phone if I remember correctly. Correct. And, a very good possibility that Apple just isn't going to be in the lead. But, can you imagine Google not being here any longer?

[00:03:47] Well no, but you know in 1998, I didn't really imagine AltaVista being gone either. So, you never know.

[00:03:53] Yeah exactly. So, what will the world after Google look like? How about right now? Right now, you if you wanted to find out what book Ken Altshuler had written, where would you go to find his books? You'd probably go to Amazon right. Or come on his show or comedy show.com. Amazon is the place to go, Right now. It is the search engine when it comes to books. It's become the search engine when it comes to trying to find things for your home. When you're talking about smaller items. Amazon is already taking over from Google. The whole concept of e-commerce purchasing, online. So, Google is already starting to fall by the wayside. Look at our mobile devices whether it's an Android or an Apple device. Who owns the advertising on that? It isn't Google. The ads in our online or smart mobile devices, just aren't working anymore. So, it's not going to be long before Apple goes by the wayside because there will be something better. Steve Jobs is the guy that drove all of the apple products that have become what we're appreciating and loving today.

[00:05:11] He's gone. What's going to continue on? Apple's already been stumbling. Google is already stumbling out of first place. It is really not first place when it comes to going online to buy something. We've got a huge Chinese outfit that's out there, called Alibaba, who is competing with Amazon to become the world's biggest retailer. You know Ken that what this boils down to is the companies that we know today and just count as part of our lives. It's just, just so inevitable that they're not going to be here forever and are going to go by the wayside. And, even though Apple's looking great right now and you know, already, I love their products right. We are the only tech, my company is the only ACN, the apple consultors network, the official Apple business guys, here in the Northeast, Framingham, is the next closest one to where I'm at right now. So, it's a different world. It's going to change. And I hope you're making some money off of these stocks but don't count on them always, being in this envious position that they're in right now 

[00:06:24] At least we'll always have 8-track tapes at least we have that.

[00:06:27] And you can listen to those forever. They just keep replaying it until you play them the fifth time and then they break. But that's a different story.

[00:06:35] Craig is on our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday for an eye on technology. Craig, I know this isn't you know this is not on our list of stuff to talk about today, but I do have to ask you about this whole printed gun thing, and the 3-D printing industry in general, right. I mean it's sort of a new concept to a lot of people, who are following this, and you know, the blueprint. Yeah, yeah, it's been on the news about 7000 times this morning. So, you know I don't know exactly what I'm asking you here outside of perhaps just what your thought is on the whole 3D printing craze, in the first place, and what you think the future of it looks like when laws are trying to, you know outlaw certain objects, like a gun, or restrict them in some way. But, anybody could simply print anything. What does that mean for the future?

[00:07:21] This is huge for the future. Imagine the day that instead of having to go to the car dealer to get the part that you just broke on your dashboard, because you were laughing so hard listening to WGAN comedy show in the morning that you can just go and print up at home. This whole thing with these printed plastic guns is a complete misnomer, right now. It is hysteria that just absolutely crazy. Here's what happens right. Your standard 3D printer that's out there is printing something with plastics. Well, consider the quality of a piece of lego. So, if you have a gun that you want to fire, do you really want to barrel, breech, etc. being made out of Lego. The answers no. You can make anything that would fire, once. We learned that from the original Star Trek series, you know it's going to blow up. It's not going to fire very well and it's not going to be accurate etcetera, etcetera. You need metal you need a barrel you need a breach to contain that explosion that happens when that the primer goes off. And, then the main powder goes off, to push that projectile which is also metal down the barrel and out. So, what we're talking about here, in reality, are what is called, the lowers of the gun. So, the parts of the guns that are already being made by manufacturers out of plastics for lack of a better term, but be made out of plastic, those parts you can already print. You cannot print a gun that's going to be an effective long-term, here. 

[00:09:06] If you have a machine shop, however, you can make a gun. And part of what's going on here is they are selling basically a small metal machine shop as well, along with this. So, going forward. Let's talk law right now. We have the same problem we've always had with technology and that is the laws are always staggered behind. And, we all know that. The laws are going to take a while to catch up. And, whenever they do these preemptive type laws without understanding where the technology is going they always mess up. So, I'm a little worried about that. But for now, anyways guns that are quote printed at home unquote are not a huge, huge, deal you can already make some of those lower pieces out of a piece of wood if you're good at woodworking, OK. So, let's not go crazy. But your bigger question, Matt has to do with where is it going right ultimately, Right? And, ultimately we are already seeing Houses, printable houses being made. In fact, there is a company that makes the machine right now that can be taken to a place, say where there was just a massive hurricane they need to build hundreds of thousands of houses. You set the machine down and it has arms that go out and build all of the walls up and can actually build a structure there, in place. Now, that's not terribly efficient. But, there are other printers that will print your house you've seen modular homes before, of course, where yeah they come out and the walls are all there. They just basically put it together like legos on site.

[00:10:50] While there are companies that are already doing that with printable houses. So, they'll print parts of the structure in order to get them out there. Where will we be 10 years, 20 years from now? We already are seeing many of the UPS stores with these printers, there. Right now it's kind of a fad, a cool thing, people are printing fun little keychain things. But ultimately, almost everything's going to be printed like this. You know car dealers will not be what they are today because we're going to have direct to consumer car purchases. And, if you need a new part you are going to take it to a car shop, so that it can be fixed, but they will be printing parts right there. And some of those parts will be metal parts because, in 10 or 20 years, we probably will be able to efficiently print metal that can withstand forces. I don't think we'll be printing engines or gun barrels anytime soon. But, the basic parts of your car that are metal will be printable, right there in the shop. It is really going to change almost everything in our lives, particularly since we already have some leading-edge technology that can print electronic circuits. So, think about that, you could put potentially print, an entire computer in another 10 to 20 years right there, maybe even in your home, and have very specialized equipment. So, it it's kind of cool. I'm excited for the future here, but for now this whole gun thing is a substantial amount of hysteria.

[00:12:32] Our tech guru, Craig Peterson who joins us every Wednesday at 738 Craig Peterson dot com if you want to get all the information firsthand. 

[00:12:40] Thanks Craig, talk to you next week. Hey, gentlemen take care. 

[00:12:44] And by the way, Where do generals keep their armies? Where? In their sleevies? Sleevies? Sleevies? Armies, his arms, where does he keep his arms. Sleevies? For a comedy show, you guys are a little slow on the uptake.

[00:13:04] The problem may be we may need to find another tech guru too,  OK.

[00:13:16] Hey, hey, hey, wait-a-minute guys. What did you think, I write Dad jokes. I get it, but I felt that one was kind of funny. Anyway, let me know what you think.

[00:13:26] Any time, any questions 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Take care guys. Have a great one.

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Airing date: 08/01/2018

3D Printed Plastic Guns.  The Future without Google and Apple.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody! This morning I was on WGAN and affiliate stations in the state of Maine with Ken and Matt and they were getting kind of teased because some people are saying they're just a comedy show, in fact, it was, I think, a sheriff in northern Maine that said that you guys are just a comedy show, because they were they were talking about a body that was found with a knife in the chest. So, they were postulating that it was murder, right? And, so the sheriff said, "Well you can't say it's a murder, just because there was a knife in the middle of his chest." And, so he said they're just a comedy show and don't pay attention to them. So, this morning I was kind of teasing them because we talked about two very, very, serious subjects, but I had to rib them here on the old comedy show thing. So, this morning we talked about these 3D printed guns. What's the technology behind this? Where is it going? How is this going to change our lives? And, frankly, will it end up changing our lives? Apple just received a trillion dollar valuation. What's happening? I discussed life after Apple and life after Google. Have you thought about life after Google? What's that going to mean to everybody because we're counting on it right now, right? Everybody uses Google. Number one search engine by far in the world. I think I kind of surprised them with my answers, there. So, anyhow here we go with Ken and Matt this morning you're going to love this, I think. 

[00:01:29] All right Craig Peterson back again as he is always is at 738 on a Wednesday. Craig, How are you this morning? 

[00:01:36] Hey doing good. Hey, why aren't koalas actual bears? Yeah, they meet all the qualifications. That's a dead joke. Well, this is a comedy show, was a comedy show, and I have to start with that. 

[00:01:51] Well done. And, in fact, because of that I've got a special sound effect for you. 

[00:01:57] Well done sir. 

[00:02:00] So, so, I just got news and I want to ask you about this because Apple's approaching a value of one trillion dollars 

[00:02:10] Wow, isn't that amazing? To get right down to it. Trillion here, a trillion there, right. Many governments don't have that kind of value.

[00:02:20] Yeah, it is absolutely amazing. They are well on their way to being just an absolute record breaker. But, we've seen this sort of thing before, right. We've got Google out there who is just incredibly valuable. Google has become a verb, but I don't think Apple's a verb, yet. It's still a noun, but Google has become a verb. We're all using it, like 95 percent of searches worldwide, are done on Google. Then there was IBM in the 70's, of course. I've got to bring them up, Microsoft, Microsoft was so not afraid of Apple. They went ahead and helped to fund Apple. They invested in Apple back in the day. Nowadays, of course, IBM is nowhere near the powerhouse it was. Microsoft is nowhere near the powerhouse that they were, and Apple and Google are both going to end up going by the wayside. It's just it's inevitable, and when you're talking about Apple and the trillion dollars worth of value it is just crazy. But, think about Google here now, we can see maybe somebody taking over from Apple, right. Matt, you use a Samsung phone if I remember correctly. Correct. And, a very good possibility that Apple just isn't going to be in the lead. But, can you imagine Google not being here any longer?

[00:03:47] Well no, but you know in 1998, I didn't really imagine AltaVista being gone either. So, you never know.

[00:03:53] Yeah exactly. So, what will the world after Google look like? How about right now? Right now, you if you wanted to find out what book Ken Altshuler had written, where would you go to find his books? You'd probably go to Amazon right. Or come on his show or comedy show.com. Amazon is the place to go, Right now. It is the search engine when it comes to books. It's become the search engine when it comes to trying to find things for your home. When you're talking about smaller items. Amazon is already taking over from Google. The whole concept of e-commerce purchasing, online. So, Google is already starting to fall by the wayside. Look at our mobile devices whether it's an Android or an Apple device. Who owns the advertising on that? It isn't Google. The ads in our online or smart mobile devices, just aren't working anymore. So, it's not going to be long before Apple goes by the wayside because there will be something better. Steve Jobs is the guy that drove all of the apple products that have become what we're appreciating and loving today.

[00:05:11] He's gone. What's going to continue on? Apple's already been stumbling. Google is already stumbling out of first place. It is really not first place when it comes to going online to buy something. We've got a huge Chinese outfit that's out there, called Alibaba, who is competing with Amazon to become the world's biggest retailer. You know Ken that what this boils down to is the companies that we know today and just count as part of our lives. It's just, just so inevitable that they're not going to be here forever and are going to go by the wayside. And, even though Apple's looking great right now and you know, already, I love their products right. We are the only tech, my company is the only ACN, the apple consultors network, the official Apple business guys, here in the Northeast, Framingham, is the next closest one to where I'm at right now. So, it's a different world. It's going to change. And I hope you're making some money off of these stocks but don't count on them always, being in this envious position that they're in right now 

[00:06:24] At least we'll always have 8-track tapes at least we have that.

[00:06:27] And you can listen to those forever. They just keep replaying it until you play them the fifth time and then they break. But that's a different story.

[00:06:35] Craig is on our tech guru joins us at this time every Wednesday for an eye on technology. Craig, I know this isn't you know this is not on our list of stuff to talk about today, but I do have to ask you about this whole printed gun thing, and the 3-D printing industry in general, right. I mean it's sort of a new concept to a lot of people, who are following this, and you know, the blueprint. Yeah, yeah, it's been on the news about 7000 times this morning. So, you know I don't know exactly what I'm asking you here outside of perhaps just what your thought is on the whole 3D printing craze, in the first place, and what you think the future of it looks like when laws are trying to, you know outlaw certain objects, like a gun, or restrict them in some way. But, anybody could simply print anything. What does that mean for the future?

[00:07:21] This is huge for the future. Imagine the day that instead of having to go to the car dealer to get the part that you just broke on your dashboard, because you were laughing so hard listening to WGAN comedy show in the morning that you can just go and print up at home. This whole thing with these printed plastic guns is a complete misnomer, right now. It is hysteria that just absolutely crazy. Here's what happens right. Your standard 3D printer that's out there is printing something with plastics. Well, consider the quality of a piece of lego. So, if you have a gun that you want to fire, do you really want to barrel, breech, etc. being made out of Lego. The answers no. You can make anything that would fire, once. We learned that from the original Star Trek series, you know it's going to blow up. It's not going to fire very well and it's not going to be accurate etcetera, etcetera. You need metal you need a barrel you need a breach to contain that explosion that happens when that the primer goes off. And, then the main powder goes off, to push that projectile which is also metal down the barrel and out. So, what we're talking about here, in reality, are what is called, the lowers of the gun. So, the parts of the guns that are already being made by manufacturers out of plastics for lack of a better term, but be made out of plastic, those parts you can already print. You cannot print a gun that's going to be an effective long-term, here. 

[00:09:06] If you have a machine shop, however, you can make a gun. And part of what's going on here is they are selling basically a small metal machine shop as well, along with this. So, going forward. Let's talk law right now. We have the same problem we've always had with technology and that is the laws are always staggered behind. And, we all know that. The laws are going to take a while to catch up. And, whenever they do these preemptive type laws without understanding where the technology is going they always mess up. So, I'm a little worried about that. But for now, anyways guns that are quote printed at home unquote are not a huge, huge, deal you can already make some of those lower pieces out of a piece of wood if you're good at woodworking, OK. So, let's not go crazy. But your bigger question, Matt has to do with where is it going right ultimately, Right? And, ultimately we are already seeing Houses, printable houses being made. In fact, there is a company that makes the machine right now that can be taken to a place, say where there was just a massive hurricane they need to build hundreds of thousands of houses. You set the machine down and it has arms that go out and build all of the walls up and can actually build a structure there, in place. Now, that's not terribly efficient. But, there are other printers that will print your house you've seen modular homes before, of course, where yeah they come out and the walls are all there. They just basically put it together like legos on site.

[00:10:50] While there are companies that are already doing that with printable houses. So, they'll print parts of the structure in order to get them out there. Where will we be 10 years, 20 years from now? We already are seeing many of the UPS stores with these printers, there. Right now it's kind of a fad, a cool thing, people are printing fun little keychain things. But ultimately, almost everything's going to be printed like this. You know car dealers will not be what they are today because we're going to have direct to consumer car purchases. And, if you need a new part you are going to take it to a car shop, so that it can be fixed, but they will be printing parts right there. And some of those parts will be metal parts because, in 10 or 20 years, we probably will be able to efficiently print metal that can withstand forces. I don't think we'll be printing engines or gun barrels anytime soon. But, the basic parts of your car that are metal will be printable, right there in the shop. It is really going to change almost everything in our lives, particularly since we already have some leading-edge technology that can print electronic circuits. So, think about that, you could put potentially print, an entire computer in another 10 to 20 years right there, maybe even in your home, and have very specialized equipment. So, it it's kind of cool. I'm excited for the future here, but for now this whole gun thing is a substantial amount of hysteria.

[00:12:32] Our tech guru, Craig Peterson who joins us every Wednesday at 738 Craig Peterson dot com if you want to get all the information firsthand. 

[00:12:40] Thanks Craig, talk to you next week. Hey, gentlemen take care. 

[00:12:44] And by the way, Where do generals keep their armies? Where? In their sleevies? Sleevies? Sleevies? Armies, his arms, where does he keep his arms. Sleevies? For a comedy show, you guys are a little slow on the uptake.

[00:13:04] The problem may be we may need to find another tech guru too,  OK.

[00:13:16] Hey, hey, hey, wait-a-minute guys. What did you think, I write Dad jokes. I get it, but I felt that one was kind of funny. Anyway, let me know what you think.

[00:13:26] Any time, any questions 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Take care guys. Have a great one.

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There is a new report out from SANS. Today, I will discuss what it said about Anti-Virus. 

Can you believe the Military is using home grade routers and then not even changing the default password?  We will discuss what led to some very important military documents showing up on the Dark Web and how it could have been prevented.

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Airing date: 07/28/2018

Gmail's dirty little secret. Anti-Virus is now ineffective - SANS report. Stolen military drone document.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. I don't know if you can hear that little Roomba going in the background here, she's cleaning up the room. We have we have a few things to talk about. This one is going to be kind of interesting. How well do the global warming predictions stand up? Because we've heard that. Of course, our whole world is about to fall apart. We're going to drown if we live in Florida, and everything is over with. You probably remember some of this, we'll talk a little bit about that. This is very, very cool article from the Cato Institute. We're going to talk about app developers, here when it comes to Google. They have committed to not reading your e-mails, but the same is not true. Yes, the app developer, so what are they doing. Did you realize thi?. Yeah, Hey, we have lots going on there. 

[00:00:52] Yeah.

[00:00:53] Half of cyber attacks are, well, more than half, are undetected via antivirus software. Talk about that. A new report, a new study coming out of SANS, the SANS Institute. We've got military documents stolen. Some plans here, about the drone the number one, in fact, drone, in the U.S. military the MQ9 Reaper drone, and it's all because of something I warned you about here on this show a few months ago if the military had been listening in. I know they do. But, if these guys have been listening in the military, we wouldn't have lost those secret documents. Google. We're going to talk about how they now have had no phishing incidents. More than eighty-nine thousand employees. How did they do that? Well, we'll talk about that the top voting machine vendor has admitted something that I suspected for a very long time. Yeah, how can you trust vendors of software, and make sure they don't install backdoors. How can you do that? Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that a little bit. You know I'm thinking about it we're not going to get all of these today. You ought to check them out on my Web site Inside Facebook and Twitter. The artificial intelligence battle going on over our social lives, and Data, as a fingerprint, in fact, data is a fingerprint. We'll talk about what that means to you, as well. Because you're not a safe and private online as you might think you are. All right, let's see how far we can get today.

[00:02:36] All right. We're going to start here with tech's dirty little secret. Now, we know about Facebook. Do you see their stock this week? Wild ride. I think that Facebook stock was down 25 percent at one point. The way Facebook has been treating its users is just abysmal, frankly. You do remember a few years ago we talked about this, on the show here, but a few years ago when Facebook decided that if you liked somebody's page, so let's say I had a page, which I did, online and a lot of celebrities had a page on Facebook, as well. And they would post stuff for their audience, the people that liked them, Right. So, you could follow any kind of celebrity you wanted on Facebook. You could follow somebody that was a musician because you enjoyed their music and there's a couple of them out there that I really enjoy, some new guys. Anyhow, you could have the musician you could have someone like me or maybe another radio personality, whomever so you follow them, you like their page on Facebook, and when they posted something it would show up in your feed. So, you would see what they had to say, and that was the idea, Right. You followed them, you like them because you wanted to see what they had to say. It is that simple enough for you. And, what's happened now is Facebook says, ok well you have a million followers I'm going to show your post to maybe 500 if you want your post to be seen by more people. You have to pay. And, they do that to me all of the time which is why, I'm not a, you know big Facebook user. Well, one of the reasons, about a big Facebook user but I do post stuff up there and they say "hey pay five bucks, and we'll go ahead, and we will show your post to more people."

[00:04:27] Well, wait a minute these people said that they wanted to follow me. They wanted to hear from me. Why do you not show them my information? So, a lot of the big celebrities just said forget it. Some of the people that had more than a million likes on their Facebook fan pages said forget it, I'm gone. They deleted the whole account. They left. Now, this is a few years ago. Fast forward to today. We've got Facebook doing, even more, deciding because they're the Decider, more deciding about what it is you might want to see. What you don't want to see. Doesn't matter what you say, doesn't matter that you like the page, doesn't matter that they're a family member. If it says congratulations. OK great. They give high your ranking and you're more likely to see it. But, I want to know what my family members are saying. I want to know what the people I'm following are saying. Is that too difficult? Is that something that Facebook can't do for me? Right, I think that's a really, really, big deal, frankly, because that's why I was on Facebook in the first place. To find out what these people had to say. But no, Facebook is busy trying to gain you to get you to click on something to feed you stuff. And particularly those people who are libertarian like myself or maybe they're conservative. And Facebook has been using academics to come in and spend some serious time helping them develop their algorithms. And you know the academics know better than you do. So, they're going to give you what they think you should see which does not include anything that isn't on the Socialist Left, Right. 

[00:06:13] That's kind of the bottom line on this.

[00:06:16] Obviously they're not going to feed anything from the hard right. But the question is? Where's that line? And, so just a regular moderate conservative person who's out there, middle of the road, is considered to be too far to the right by many of the algorithms. So your information is put out there. So, there's a lot of reasons people aren't using Facebook, the way they used to. Their profit forecast was down. So, their stock went way, way, down. And, they've been penalized, Right. The free market at work. Well, Google is getting into, say it has gotten into, and it's continuing to get into some trouble as well.

[00:06:59] What's been going on on the Google front is kind of interesting, because Google was going through all of your mail. If you had Gmail Google went through it. They were looking for things and showing you ads based on what was in your e-mail. So, you know people kind of got upset because all of a sudden Google would be sending out a message about your bereavement. Because there was an e-mail about some uncle Dying or something and you would wonder about those ads. What are those ads all about what's Google doing here? And so Google, committed this was what, two or three years ago. 

[00:07:32] Committed to not going through e-mail and while the dirty secret is that they may not be going through it, but a wall street journal examination found that app developers, software developers, who are using Google's API's are going through your e-mails. One of the companies that they had a look at and this is from an article from Douglas Macmillan over at the Wall Street Journal. One of those companies does Return Path Inc. Now they collect data from marketers, they scan the inboxes of more than 2 million people who signed up for, one of the free apps and Return Paths partner network, using a Gmail, Microsoft or Yahoo email address, so, think about this. Think about the that what was that silly game, that people used to play over on Facebook where you are planting things you know you're a farmer. What is the name of that? If you know the name. Go ahead and text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I can't think of it, anyway.

[00:08:41] Those games when you sign up for them the app developers now gain access to certain of your information, and they don't have to be a game. They can be a tool, and you might remember of course that's what Cambridge Analytica was doing, yeah take our survey and now they've gained access to all kinds of Facebook information about you and your friends and their profiles. Right, then that's why they got into so much trouble. That's why Facebook, also this week, got this huge fine from the European Union. The maximum fine possible under this new G.D.P.R which is the new data protection policy. So, they levied the maximum fine possible which really, Facebook's not going to notice, from a financial standpoint, because it's Facebook just makes so much money. 

[00:09:29] So, Google is giving that information away. You've got to be careful. Oh, yea Farmville. That's what it was. Thanks, guys. Farmville. There are a few of them I guess but that's when I was thinking I was Farmville. 

[00:09:43] So, Return Path is one of them.

[00:09:46] They're analyzing about 100 million emails a day, apparently, and at one point two years ago Return Path employees were reading about 8000 unredacted emails, employees. Okay, real people reading your emails per day eight thousand a day, while they're training their software. So, in another case, we've got Edison software which is another Gmail developer. They make this mobile app for reading and organizing your email. They personally reviewed the emails of hundreds of users to build a new feature and that's according to the company's CEO. So, letting users, employees read private potentially private right not necessarily all e-mails private but you know you consider e-mail private, don't you. That's a reasonable expectation, isn't it? You'd be upset if you found out people were reading your e-mails, Right. So, in this case, it's become common practice, for employees to read your e-mail. And frankly, it's a dirty little secret. Now neither Return Path or Edison asked users specifically if it could read their e-mails. They were just granted access to it. Really, really, bad news here. Now Facebook has allowed outside developers to gain access to the user's data, we know about that because of the Cambridge Analytica breach. Facebook says it stopped it in 2015. We're not going to go into all of that, but it's it's really kind of interesting to look at all of this, but remember, your data is not your data. Again, you are the product, right? We keep having to say that but a lot of people seem to forget about it. You are the product, you are not the customer? So, keep that in mind as you are going online and use your free e-mail and your free Facebook site to your free ecetera. Right. It isn't free. There is a cost

[00:11:55] All right, it is cyber attack time here, with Craig Petersen. You know, that's what I do for a living. I don't attack people I protect them from attacks. In fact most of the time I get involved with a company when they have already been attacked. I picked up three or four new clients, this week alone, that have been attacked. One, of them, basically lost all of their finances. This is a small family owned business and they made, really kind of a cool little device, and wow, things things are bad when your bank account information is used or when your payments are redirected from you when the hackers get into your computers now, gain access to your bank accounts and just wire the money out, it's gone in 90 seconds. it's just nuts what happens out there while SANs came out, the SANS Institute.

[00:12:53] Now, these are great guys and gals, obviously, but the great guys and they put together a number of training courses that you might want to check out, online at SANS dot org. Now one of the things they do is obviously they keep track of the exploits, and they just came out with their 2018 survey on Endpoint Protection and Response. So, they polled almost 300 I.T. information technology professionals. They asked about endpoint security concerns and practices. This year's survey. I want you guys to think about this for yourself. How do you measure up? Where do you fall in? In this survey, if you were asked OK. 42 percent of respondents reported and point exploits. So, that's pretty darn high. That's almost half as getting close to half of the respondents. These are information technology professionals, so, these are people who know the bottom line here of whether or not they're hacked, at least they're supposed to. And, almost half of them said that they did have exploits on endpoints. Now what the endpoint? Those are your computers. Basically, it's your Windows machines for the most part. Maybe your Mac? your Linux machine? Etcetera. Now, what's good about this is they're saying that's down from 53 percent last year, but the number of those who reported that they didn't know that they'd been breached, jumped from 10 percent to 20 percent.

[00:14:36] So, maybe we're getting a little less honest, in some regards, this year with the tools, now.

[00:14:43] You know I've talked about this before, in fact, if you attend one of my webinars I'll go through these stats but what is being reported right now, from our friends over at SANs is, that your traditional antivirus software, just doesn't work anymore. Antivirus systems, according to the survey. Now, these are professionals right. This isn't me. This isn't some marketer, right. Do you believe these guys? Do you believe these I.T. professionals? Well, they're saying that the antivirus systems, the traditional antivirus stuff, only detected endpoint compromise 47 percent of the time, 47 percent. Other attacks were caught through various types of automated alerts end point detection and response platforms, 32 to 26 percent. OK, so the most important attacks are intended to exploit the users. More than 50 percent of respondents reported drive-by incidents on the web. Now, all of this stuff is preventable and I think the industry, the security industry is doing everyone a huge disservice because they're all tooting their horns about how great they are and yet they are not great. None of the standard antivirus software companies you can think of, none of the standard firewall firms you can think of, None of these guys are actually anywhere near as good as they need to be or should be. And, I've I've said this before, right.

[00:16:27] And so how can you believe their marketing. You've got John McAfee out there the founder of McAfee anti-virus saying McAfee antivirus is the worst. You've got Symantec senior executive saying yeah, antivirus is dead, don't use Symantec because it's just not worth it. And, then by the way somehow leaving his position the next day, it's just amazing. So, it goes on and on but, credential theft was used in many of these compromises. So, keep an eye on that. Keep an eye on phishing make sure you know what's happening. You want to use a really, really, good stack. You're not going to find that frankly from anybody, right now except Cisco. And unfortunately, it's not just antivirus software, anymore. It's what we're doing now. And what you're going to see most of the really good security professionals doing is a layered approach. I mean layered, layers, upon layers, there's multiple layers, on the endpoint on the multiple layers, on your computer. There's multiple layers on the network, and there's multiple layers of the network edge, where you might find a firewall. Okay. So, keep an eye out for that. And while it's disappointing but somehow this SANs survey is not surprising. Things are getting worse in Anti-Virus Software it's effective in less than half of the cases.

[00:18:04] Speaking of antivirus and hacks, we talked on the show before, and it was all over the news about what the FBI had to say. Now, you know I worked with the FBI pretty closely I run their, national webinars for the entire InfraGard program which is the infrastructure Guardian stuff. Check it out online infragard dot org if you're involved with protecting your company's physical facilities or maybe your data facilities networks and stuff check it out, infragard dot Org. There are chapters, everywhere, there's like 80 chapters I think eighty plus nationwide and there is every state even here in New England. We have these chapters, so join your chapter. Keep up to date know what's going on, it's so important to have that information, in fact, you got to the webinar, I'm doing, again. We bring in experts, right. But in a few weeks and we're going to be talking with FRSecure, about this very issue here of how do you do security because you know you mentioned before the break in the last segment here how we have multiple layers on every part of the whole infrastructure. Well, he goes into some more detail where he's talking about the employees and the physical infrastructure. It's all well and good if you got the best of you know firewalled and anti-malware prevention and protection software and IDS and IPS, and all this stuff. But what if someone walks out the door with your server? And that's part of the HIPAA regulations. By the way, if you are involved with a medical practice, you've got to make sure all of your devices are physically locked down. All right, So, there's a lot to know, a lot to remember, a lot to learn.

[00:19:52] So we'll be we'll be having him on. I just recorded the Web an hour with him yesterday, in fact, we're having him on soon. So. FBI warned and I brought it up here on the radio show too before the FBI warning came out warned globally that there are hackers who have hacked many of our routers. If you're using a router that has not had a software update a firmware update in a while? Particularly if you're using a lower-end router like a small business router or a personal router for your home. That device has been used, to send all of your data to Russia where important information is harvested out of it, and then it is sent back to you. So, you don't even know it's happened. It's really bad. Some of the stuff is crazy complex that they're doing. So, if you have not updated your router yet, I've got an article about that up on my Web site that leads you through, gives you step by step depending on who the manufacturer is. Some of the older ones you will not be able to update or upgrade. If you have a true business class router, a higher end router, and firewall something you pay north of two-thousand to five-thousand dollars for. And, by the way, you should be paying around five grand for a decent firewall, nowadays. But if you have one of these you're probably OK, at least for now. This article and I mentioned this is the beginning of this show is mind-blowing, because it's our number 1 drone out there, the MQ 9 Reaper drone. This is the number one drone, the top in the world. This thing can send missiles and can just do all kind of stuff. 

[00:21:46] Well we found online in the dark web and by the way, I hope you're doing Dark Web scans for yourself and your family. But we found or having them done, we found out there, the plans not for the reaper itself, but the entire maintenance manual, manual on the MQ 9 a reaper, wow, ok. This is the maintenance. This is Delta training is included in this where it's showing how to use the reaper to attack and to blow up IED's that might be on the road. How to hit a convoy, OK. All of this information and it is being sold for, drum roll please 150 and 200 dollars, for the lot. 

[00:22:39] Isn't that something. How did they get the information? 

[00:22:44] Well, turns out, that apparently, and this is according to bleeping computer, here, Kaitlynn but apparently the military bases I.T. team had not changed their routers default F.T.P. credentials. In other words, the default credentials now they're using a Netgear

[00:23:08] router. WHAT???? That is a personal home router, it is not military grade, it's not business grade. What the heck are they doing, using the Netgear Router or are they NUTS? And for two years give or take we've known that these Netgear routers have a default set of FTP credentials. 

[00:23:34] So, the hacker also bragged about accessing footage of the MQ 1 Predator. My gosh what's going on?

[00:23:44] So, if you're a business don't use these things! If you're the military, what the heck are you doing using these things? And if you're just a listener wondering what's going on, Appreciate you joining us today. Craig Peterson, of course, you can visit me online, all of today's articles including the ones we didn't get to like, 30 years on how well did global warming prediction stand up. Quick answer. They didn't.

[00:24:08] And Google's 90000 employees how did they stop phishing. I'm going to have to do a special on that one. Top voting machine vendor admits it Restall installed remote access software on voting machines, that were sold to states. Your data is a fingerprint. And Facebook, Google, Twitter, they're all using AI to battle over your content. It's kind of interesting lots of stuff. Of course, you don't have time to get to it today. But, I appreciate you guys joining me. Visit me online Craig Peterson dot com. Make sure you get my alerts. The only way to do that is to text me.

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Airing date: 07/28/2018

Gmail's dirty little secret. Anti-Virus is now ineffective - SANS report. Stolen military drone document.

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining us today. I don't know if you can hear that little Roomba going in the background here, she's cleaning up the room. We have we have a few things to talk about. This one is going to be kind of interesting. How well do the global warming predictions stand up? Because we've heard that. Of course, our whole world is about to fall apart. We're going to drown if we live in Florida, and everything is over with. You probably remember some of this, we'll talk a little bit about that. This is very, very cool article from the Cato Institute. We're going to talk about app developers, here when it comes to Google. They have committed to not reading your e-mails, but the same is not true. Yes, the app developer, so what are they doing. Did you realize thi?. Yeah, Hey, we have lots going on there. 

[00:00:52] Yeah.

[00:00:53] Half of cyber attacks are, well, more than half, are undetected via antivirus software. Talk about that. A new report, a new study coming out of SANS, the SANS Institute. We've got military documents stolen. Some plans here, about the drone the number one, in fact, drone, in the U.S. military the MQ9 Reaper drone, and it's all because of something I warned you about here on this show a few months ago if the military had been listening in. I know they do. But, if these guys have been listening in the military, we wouldn't have lost those secret documents. Google. We're going to talk about how they now have had no phishing incidents. More than eighty-nine thousand employees. How did they do that? Well, we'll talk about that the top voting machine vendor has admitted something that I suspected for a very long time. Yeah, how can you trust vendors of software, and make sure they don't install backdoors. How can you do that? Yeah. Well, we'll talk about that a little bit. You know I'm thinking about it we're not going to get all of these today. You ought to check them out on my Web site Inside Facebook and Twitter. The artificial intelligence battle going on over our social lives, and Data, as a fingerprint, in fact, data is a fingerprint. We'll talk about what that means to you, as well. Because you're not a safe and private online as you might think you are. All right, let's see how far we can get today.

[00:02:36] All right. We're going to start here with tech's dirty little secret. Now, we know about Facebook. Do you see their stock this week? Wild ride. I think that Facebook stock was down 25 percent at one point. The way Facebook has been treating its users is just abysmal, frankly. You do remember a few years ago we talked about this, on the show here, but a few years ago when Facebook decided that if you liked somebody's page, so let's say I had a page, which I did, online and a lot of celebrities had a page on Facebook, as well. And they would post stuff for their audience, the people that liked them, Right. So, you could follow any kind of celebrity you wanted on Facebook. You could follow somebody that was a musician because you enjoyed their music and there's a couple of them out there that I really enjoy, some new guys. Anyhow, you could have the musician you could have someone like me or maybe another radio personality, whomever so you follow them, you like their page on Facebook, and when they posted something it would show up in your feed. So, you would see what they had to say, and that was the idea, Right. You followed them, you like them because you wanted to see what they had to say. It is that simple enough for you. And, what's happened now is Facebook says, ok well you have a million followers I'm going to show your post to maybe 500 if you want your post to be seen by more people. You have to pay. And, they do that to me all of the time which is why, I'm not a, you know big Facebook user. Well, one of the reasons, about a big Facebook user but I do post stuff up there and they say "hey pay five bucks, and we'll go ahead, and we will show your post to more people."

[00:04:27] Well, wait a minute these people said that they wanted to follow me. They wanted to hear from me. Why do you not show them my information? So, a lot of the big celebrities just said forget it. Some of the people that had more than a million likes on their Facebook fan pages said forget it, I'm gone. They deleted the whole account. They left. Now, this is a few years ago. Fast forward to today. We've got Facebook doing, even more, deciding because they're the Decider, more deciding about what it is you might want to see. What you don't want to see. Doesn't matter what you say, doesn't matter that you like the page, doesn't matter that they're a family member. If it says congratulations. OK great. They give high your ranking and you're more likely to see it. But, I want to know what my family members are saying. I want to know what the people I'm following are saying. Is that too difficult? Is that something that Facebook can't do for me? Right, I think that's a really, really, big deal, frankly, because that's why I was on Facebook in the first place. To find out what these people had to say. But no, Facebook is busy trying to gain you to get you to click on something to feed you stuff. And particularly those people who are libertarian like myself or maybe they're conservative. And Facebook has been using academics to come in and spend some serious time helping them develop their algorithms. And you know the academics know better than you do. So, they're going to give you what they think you should see which does not include anything that isn't on the Socialist Left, Right. 

[00:06:13] That's kind of the bottom line on this.

[00:06:16] Obviously they're not going to feed anything from the hard right. But the question is? Where's that line? And, so just a regular moderate conservative person who's out there, middle of the road, is considered to be too far to the right by many of the algorithms. So your information is put out there. So, there's a lot of reasons people aren't using Facebook, the way they used to. Their profit forecast was down. So, their stock went way, way, down. And, they've been penalized, Right. The free market at work. Well, Google is getting into, say it has gotten into, and it's continuing to get into some trouble as well.

[00:06:59] What's been going on on the Google front is kind of interesting, because Google was going through all of your mail. If you had Gmail Google went through it. They were looking for things and showing you ads based on what was in your e-mail. So, you know people kind of got upset because all of a sudden Google would be sending out a message about your bereavement. Because there was an e-mail about some uncle Dying or something and you would wonder about those ads. What are those ads all about what's Google doing here? And so Google, committed this was what, two or three years ago. 

[00:07:32] Committed to not going through e-mail and while the dirty secret is that they may not be going through it, but a wall street journal examination found that app developers, software developers, who are using Google's API's are going through your e-mails. One of the companies that they had a look at and this is from an article from Douglas Macmillan over at the Wall Street Journal. One of those companies does Return Path Inc. Now they collect data from marketers, they scan the inboxes of more than 2 million people who signed up for, one of the free apps and Return Paths partner network, using a Gmail, Microsoft or Yahoo email address, so, think about this. Think about the that what was that silly game, that people used to play over on Facebook where you are planting things you know you're a farmer. What is the name of that? If you know the name. Go ahead and text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. I can't think of it, anyway.

[00:08:41] Those games when you sign up for them the app developers now gain access to certain of your information, and they don't have to be a game. They can be a tool, and you might remember of course that's what Cambridge Analytica was doing, yeah take our survey and now they've gained access to all kinds of Facebook information about you and your friends and their profiles. Right, then that's why they got into so much trouble. That's why Facebook, also this week, got this huge fine from the European Union. The maximum fine possible under this new G.D.P.R which is the new data protection policy. So, they levied the maximum fine possible which really, Facebook's not going to notice, from a financial standpoint, because it's Facebook just makes so much money. 

[00:09:29] So, Google is giving that information away. You've got to be careful. Oh, yea Farmville. That's what it was. Thanks, guys. Farmville. There are a few of them I guess but that's when I was thinking I was Farmville. 

[00:09:43] So, Return Path is one of them.

[00:09:46] They're analyzing about 100 million emails a day, apparently, and at one point two years ago Return Path employees were reading about 8000 unredacted emails, employees. Okay, real people reading your emails per day eight thousand a day, while they're training their software. So, in another case, we've got Edison software which is another Gmail developer. They make this mobile app for reading and organizing your email. They personally reviewed the emails of hundreds of users to build a new feature and that's according to the company's CEO. So, letting users, employees read private potentially private right not necessarily all e-mails private but you know you consider e-mail private, don't you. That's a reasonable expectation, isn't it? You'd be upset if you found out people were reading your e-mails, Right. So, in this case, it's become common practice, for employees to read your e-mail. And frankly, it's a dirty little secret. Now neither Return Path or Edison asked users specifically if it could read their e-mails. They were just granted access to it. Really, really, bad news here. Now Facebook has allowed outside developers to gain access to the user's data, we know about that because of the Cambridge Analytica breach. Facebook says it stopped it in 2015. We're not going to go into all of that, but it's it's really kind of interesting to look at all of this, but remember, your data is not your data. Again, you are the product, right? We keep having to say that but a lot of people seem to forget about it. You are the product, you are not the customer? So, keep that in mind as you are going online and use your free e-mail and your free Facebook site to your free ecetera. Right. It isn't free. There is a cost

[00:11:55] All right, it is cyber attack time here, with Craig Petersen. You know, that's what I do for a living. I don't attack people I protect them from attacks. In fact most of the time I get involved with a company when they have already been attacked. I picked up three or four new clients, this week alone, that have been attacked. One, of them, basically lost all of their finances. This is a small family owned business and they made, really kind of a cool little device, and wow, things things are bad when your bank account information is used or when your payments are redirected from you when the hackers get into your computers now, gain access to your bank accounts and just wire the money out, it's gone in 90 seconds. it's just nuts what happens out there while SANs came out, the SANS Institute.

[00:12:53] Now, these are great guys and gals, obviously, but the great guys and they put together a number of training courses that you might want to check out, online at SANS dot org. Now one of the things they do is obviously they keep track of the exploits, and they just came out with their 2018 survey on Endpoint Protection and Response. So, they polled almost 300 I.T. information technology professionals. They asked about endpoint security concerns and practices. This year's survey. I want you guys to think about this for yourself. How do you measure up? Where do you fall in? In this survey, if you were asked OK. 42 percent of respondents reported and point exploits. So, that's pretty darn high. That's almost half as getting close to half of the respondents. These are information technology professionals, so, these are people who know the bottom line here of whether or not they're hacked, at least they're supposed to. And, almost half of them said that they did have exploits on endpoints. Now what the endpoint? Those are your computers. Basically, it's your Windows machines for the most part. Maybe your Mac? your Linux machine? Etcetera. Now, what's good about this is they're saying that's down from 53 percent last year, but the number of those who reported that they didn't know that they'd been breached, jumped from 10 percent to 20 percent.

[00:14:36] So, maybe we're getting a little less honest, in some regards, this year with the tools, now.

[00:14:43] You know I've talked about this before, in fact, if you attend one of my webinars I'll go through these stats but what is being reported right now, from our friends over at SANs is, that your traditional antivirus software, just doesn't work anymore. Antivirus systems, according to the survey. Now, these are professionals right. This isn't me. This isn't some marketer, right. Do you believe these guys? Do you believe these I.T. professionals? Well, they're saying that the antivirus systems, the traditional antivirus stuff, only detected endpoint compromise 47 percent of the time, 47 percent. Other attacks were caught through various types of automated alerts end point detection and response platforms, 32 to 26 percent. OK, so the most important attacks are intended to exploit the users. More than 50 percent of respondents reported drive-by incidents on the web. Now, all of this stuff is preventable and I think the industry, the security industry is doing everyone a huge disservice because they're all tooting their horns about how great they are and yet they are not great. None of the standard antivirus software companies you can think of, none of the standard firewall firms you can think of, None of these guys are actually anywhere near as good as they need to be or should be. And, I've I've said this before, right.

[00:16:27] And so how can you believe their marketing. You've got John McAfee out there the founder of McAfee anti-virus saying McAfee antivirus is the worst. You've got Symantec senior executive saying yeah, antivirus is dead, don't use Symantec because it's just not worth it. And, then by the way somehow leaving his position the next day, it's just amazing. So, it goes on and on but, credential theft was used in many of these compromises. So, keep an eye on that. Keep an eye on phishing make sure you know what's happening. You want to use a really, really, good stack. You're not going to find that frankly from anybody, right now except Cisco. And unfortunately, it's not just antivirus software, anymore. It's what we're doing now. And what you're going to see most of the really good security professionals doing is a layered approach. I mean layered, layers, upon layers, there's multiple layers, on the endpoint on the multiple layers, on your computer. There's multiple layers on the network, and there's multiple layers of the network edge, where you might find a firewall. Okay. So, keep an eye out for that. And while it's disappointing but somehow this SANs survey is not surprising. Things are getting worse in Anti-Virus Software it's effective in less than half of the cases.

[00:18:04] Speaking of antivirus and hacks, we talked on the show before, and it was all over the news about what the FBI had to say. Now, you know I worked with the FBI pretty closely I run their, national webinars for the entire InfraGard program which is the infrastructure Guardian stuff. Check it out online infragard dot org if you're involved with protecting your company's physical facilities or maybe your data facilities networks and stuff check it out, infragard dot Org. There are chapters, everywhere, there's like 80 chapters I think eighty plus nationwide and there is every state even here in New England. We have these chapters, so join your chapter. Keep up to date know what's going on, it's so important to have that information, in fact, you got to the webinar, I'm doing, again. We bring in experts, right. But in a few weeks and we're going to be talking with FRSecure, about this very issue here of how do you do security because you know you mentioned before the break in the last segment here how we have multiple layers on every part of the whole infrastructure. Well, he goes into some more detail where he's talking about the employees and the physical infrastructure. It's all well and good if you got the best of you know firewalled and anti-malware prevention and protection software and IDS and IPS, and all this stuff. But what if someone walks out the door with your server? And that's part of the HIPAA regulations. By the way, if you are involved with a medical practice, you've got to make sure all of your devices are physically locked down. All right, So, there's a lot to know, a lot to remember, a lot to learn.

[00:19:52] So we'll be we'll be having him on. I just recorded the Web an hour with him yesterday, in fact, we're having him on soon. So. FBI warned and I brought it up here on the radio show too before the FBI warning came out warned globally that there are hackers who have hacked many of our routers. If you're using a router that has not had a software update a firmware update in a while? Particularly if you're using a lower-end router like a small business router or a personal router for your home. That device has been used, to send all of your data to Russia where important information is harvested out of it, and then it is sent back to you. So, you don't even know it's happened. It's really bad. Some of the stuff is crazy complex that they're doing. So, if you have not updated your router yet, I've got an article about that up on my Web site that leads you through, gives you step by step depending on who the manufacturer is. Some of the older ones you will not be able to update or upgrade. If you have a true business class router, a higher end router, and firewall something you pay north of two-thousand to five-thousand dollars for. And, by the way, you should be paying around five grand for a decent firewall, nowadays. But if you have one of these you're probably OK, at least for now. This article and I mentioned this is the beginning of this show is mind-blowing, because it's our number 1 drone out there, the MQ 9 Reaper drone. This is the number one drone, the top in the world. This thing can send missiles and can just do all kind of stuff. 

[00:21:46] Well we found online in the dark web and by the way, I hope you're doing Dark Web scans for yourself and your family. But we found or having them done, we found out there, the plans not for the reaper itself, but the entire maintenance manual, manual on the MQ 9 a reaper, wow, ok. This is the maintenance. This is Delta training is included in this where it's showing how to use the reaper to attack and to blow up IED's that might be on the road. How to hit a convoy, OK. All of this information and it is being sold for, drum roll please 150 and 200 dollars, for the lot. 

[00:22:39] Isn't that something. How did they get the information? 

[00:22:44] Well, turns out, that apparently, and this is according to bleeping computer, here, Kaitlynn but apparently the military bases I.T. team had not changed their routers default F.T.P. credentials. In other words, the default credentials now they're using a Netgear

[00:23:08] router. WHAT???? That is a personal home router, it is not military grade, it's not business grade. What the heck are they doing, using the Netgear Router or are they NUTS? And for two years give or take we've known that these Netgear routers have a default set of FTP credentials. 

[00:23:34] So, the hacker also bragged about accessing footage of the MQ 1 Predator. My gosh what's going on?

[00:23:44] So, if you're a business don't use these things! If you're the military, what the heck are you doing using these things? And if you're just a listener wondering what's going on, Appreciate you joining us today. Craig Peterson, of course, you can visit me online, all of today's articles including the ones we didn't get to like, 30 years on how well did global warming prediction stand up. Quick answer. They didn't.

[00:24:08] And Google's 90000 employees how did they stop phishing. I'm going to have to do a special on that one. Top voting machine vendor admits it Restall installed remote access software on voting machines, that were sold to states. Your data is a fingerprint. And Facebook, Google, Twitter, they're all using AI to battle over your content. It's kind of interesting lots of stuff. Of course, you don't have time to get to it today. But, I appreciate you guys joining me. Visit me online Craig Peterson dot com. Make sure you get my alerts. The only way to do that is to text me.

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Airing date: 07/25/2018

Why You Should Delete Old Apps - Secret Tips To Staying Safe Online

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody this morning I talked about some of the tips and tricks for apps. It's the tenth anniversary of the app store. So going a little bit of detail. We really need to think this through. I also talked about some of the tips from a white hat hacker what should you be doing online. What do you need to look for online. What should you not be doing online. So all of that and more this morning with Ken and Matt. Here we go.

[00:00:27] Craig Peterson joins us every Wednesday at 7:38 and guess what. It's seven thirty eight. So it's time to Craig Peterson. Wow.

[00:00:35] I'm doing good. Hey that's really quite the coincidence isn't it.

[00:00:38] It's weird the way my favorite is. Got to get Can't Get No Satisfaction by the rolling SCENE I The Greatest Rock Roll song.

[00:00:45] If you're on a desert island you had to do something on repeat every day for the rest of your life.

[00:00:49] I'll be the one that would be the one that you know the Stones were just the all to it. I'm a kind of a blues guy and of course rock n roll history is kind of in the blues.

[00:01:00] And it's very bluesy and rock'n'roll and I just love that is the greatest rock'n'roll song of all time even though it's not my favorite. I think it's a great little song of all time. Yeah yeah exactly. It doesn't make me cry either by the way this is supposed to make you cry. No no I was saying the song Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors. Every time I hear the song I said oh that was a good movie too.

[00:01:25] Not the original but the one with Rick Moran.

[00:01:27] He was fabulous that you haven't written Maraniss. It's kind of been like at my age for like 20 years right. Did the did the Ghostbusters movies and the Dead I shrunk the kid in 1984 like 1989 movies I remember He's Canadian so he kind of faded into obscurity in the U.S..

[00:01:45] What are you saying about Canadian.

[00:01:46] He used to do a standup stuff up in Canada and you know second city and all that sort of thing in Toronto. And then of course he got those movie roles down here. But it was it was Bob. Dave. Dave Dave and Doug.

[00:02:01] But I'm trying to remember the Hoser thing you know they had a whole staff he and might go in 2009 he did Bob and Doug but then in 2000 didn't go to those on TV. GOLDBERG Yeah.

[00:02:17] So yeah nothing really big but he's done a bunch of stuff up in Canada where the government forces people to play Canadian content because so much with Voltaire. I mean it's great stuff but so he's had a lot of stuff up in Canada but really not so much down here.

[00:02:34] So over the years Sanatan anyhow bigger than Rana's. I have like 300 apps on my phone. Today is an important day in app world particularly when iPhone users. Wouldn't you agree.

[00:02:50] It absolutely is. And I don't know Danny had I guess he didn't have the drum.

[00:02:58] What's it called you know drum roll drum roll.

[00:03:00] No the snare drum you do it right on the edge.

[00:03:04] Any rimshot rimshot Sheargold.

[00:03:07] There we go for the perfect segue because yeah it's kind of fun because it is the 10th anniversary the App Store. And if you pull out your phone right now can how many apps are on there that you just have not. Well I have about 300 apps and I'd say about 200 97 I don't use exactly what you're about normal. And then over on the math side this is where the real danger comes in is for Android users how many do you have.

[00:03:36] Matt Yeah. How many apps do I have. Yeah I would say probably about 80 or 90. It's not that bad maybe.

[00:03:47] Yeah you're probably a little bit more normal here when the Apple App Store opened it had 500 total apps on it. Now it's got more than two million and it has been 10 years now. Over those 10 years Apple has continued to vet apps and deleted apps. It has gotten rid of some of the apps and the whole idea behind look at your apps doing inventory is because of security. Now whether it's an Apple app or an Android app your app is going to many times go out to the cloud. It might be using some sort of a cloud service or searches or other things out on the cloud. So even if the app itself is perfectly safe what's behind it in the cloud might not be safe according to today's standards because we've got all kinds of new ways to hack into things. Now on the Android side the apps just don't get the vetting that they get over on the Apple side. And we know about some of the wall papers for instance on Android that were actually stealing all your contact information. Even banking information and sending it up to the bad guys.

[00:05:01] So the story here the motto of the story anyways is if you have app it's probably a great time to go ahead and look at them. Get rid of the older apps because they're not vetted like they should have been but you can't get and you can't get everything on the back end up in the cloud. And if you have old Android apps you might really be in very big trouble. So go through get rid of the older apps make sure you keep those apps up to date with the latest versions of them. But some very very big security problem. And by the way you know Ken you mentioned that you probably only use three of those apps. That's actually not abnormal most people do not use most of the apps that are on their phones. In fact the average person's only launch in about nine apps per day and that includes by the way your phone and messages and you only are using about 30 apps over the course of a month. So if you have more than about 30 or maybe even 50 apps on your phone it's time to Collina them.

[00:06:10] I will say that some I use some of the travel apps like de guru and next flight. I use Fregoli when I you know I will use all the time but when I'm when I travel the very alpha1 you know you all obviously I use quite a bit on around as I use quite a bit. So there are some I used pretty frequently Ghafar apps.

[00:06:31] Yeah well I'm the same way. I have a lot of apps on my phone that I use regularly. Like you mentioned flying or on vacation or whatever those apps of course are important to keep on the phone now there's a new trick I don't know if you knew it on your iPhone but now you can tell if you go into your settings general iPhone storage it gives you an option called offload unused apps.

[00:06:56] So what that'll do is automatically delete apps that you don't use that you do not use regularly but it saves all the documents saves the day to go with them and you're going to have to read download those apps if later on you decide to use them again. But it's something that could save you some space on your phone. And Apple is not removing them if you don't need to remove them. So in other words if you turn this on and they offload unused apps you turn it on if your phone gets tight on space it'll just start shooting these old apps ones that you're not using in the head. It will remove them from the phone it'll keep your data but it'll start saving space way.

[00:07:38] Do you know what period of time you like is it if you don't use it for a year or I mean do that.

[00:07:43] Well it depends on how much space you need on your phone. So it's going to start deleting the oldest ones the least used let me put it that way not the longest I've been on the phone. But I was going to start deleting them kind of one at a time as you need space. So if you're for instance you're downloading movies from Netflix or something onto your phone. Is certain to run tight on space. It'll start moving at least to use used apps or at least recently used apps from your phone. So that's what it does it isn't like anything old in the three months it's going to whack it as you need space. It'll start deleting the older one.

[00:08:18] Well now that I'm answering a look at my phone and the apps I've been sitting here playing Snake versus block for the last five minutes. So the last question I have for you before we let you go for the day is related to what you should and shouldn't be doing online and I guess the reason I'm asking that is because there is an actual hacker who has like a real life hacker who's who is revealing to the general public like kind of the dumb things that they do that maybe they shouldn't be doing online.

[00:08:45] What are these warning things that he's telling us not to do father's black hat and white hat black hat or the bad guys in white hat are the good guys in this case. It's actually a lady named Stephanie and she is a hacker of sorts. Hackers didn't used to have the bad connotation it has today. But hackers nowadays I mean someone who is trying to break in and she has been doing this for quite a while. But what she's advising her to do is just kind of some very basic things here. OK. Don't post stupid stuff online. That's kind of her big number one. You know when you're younger you just need you don't have any sense at all. Sometimes those things will come up with you particularly when it's time to go to college or get a job OK. So that's a very big deal out there.

[00:09:38] And some of the things that you've seen it's just amazing. New home owners taking pictures of their new house. And those pictures getting uploaded member those can be geotagged and that obviously now gives a physical location for your new home. Easy to find online. That's another one of her things. Now there are apps you can run on your phone Android or iPhone that will remove the geotagging before you post your photo. And that's something I always advise people do. You know you're taking pictures of a kid at a soccer game for instance and you're uploading them those now are available for their friends to use. And you know about bullying. And I was certainly bullied as a kid. Now today's bullying follows you all the way into the house because there line these bullies from other kids from schools until they can find out where you go after school where you're playing soccer where your home is. Don't upload geotagged employees and then there are pictures and then the employees here too. Same problem. Taking selfies with complete disregard for what's in the background of the picture. So they could be password sensitive information on white boards computer monitors voicemail passwords other passwords taped to their computers and desks and walls. So some people even post pictures of their paychecks. This is not Stephanie had some great advice on what to do what not to do. And I've got all of that up on my Web site right now.

[00:11:12] Links to her article to Craig Peterson our tech guru you can go to dot com. Get all of his information all the time. Join us every Wednesday at 7:38 thanks. We'll talk to you next week.

[00:11:25] Take care gentlemen thanks.

[00:11:26] Thank you Craig. We're going to take a quick break.

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Airing date: 07/25/2018

Why You Should Delete Old Apps - Secret Tips To Staying Safe Online

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody this morning I talked about some of the tips and tricks for apps. It's the tenth anniversary of the app store. So going a little bit of detail. We really need to think this through. I also talked about some of the tips from a white hat hacker what should you be doing online. What do you need to look for online. What should you not be doing online. So all of that and more this morning with Ken and Matt. Here we go.

[00:00:27] Craig Peterson joins us every Wednesday at 7:38 and guess what. It's seven thirty eight. So it's time to Craig Peterson. Wow.

[00:00:35] I'm doing good. Hey that's really quite the coincidence isn't it.

[00:00:38] It's weird the way my favorite is. Got to get Can't Get No Satisfaction by the rolling SCENE I The Greatest Rock Roll song.

[00:00:45] If you're on a desert island you had to do something on repeat every day for the rest of your life.

[00:00:49] I'll be the one that would be the one that you know the Stones were just the all to it. I'm a kind of a blues guy and of course rock n roll history is kind of in the blues.

[00:01:00] And it's very bluesy and rock'n'roll and I just love that is the greatest rock'n'roll song of all time even though it's not my favorite. I think it's a great little song of all time. Yeah yeah exactly. It doesn't make me cry either by the way this is supposed to make you cry. No no I was saying the song Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors. Every time I hear the song I said oh that was a good movie too.

[00:01:25] Not the original but the one with Rick Moran.

[00:01:27] He was fabulous that you haven't written Maraniss. It's kind of been like at my age for like 20 years right. Did the did the Ghostbusters movies and the Dead I shrunk the kid in 1984 like 1989 movies I remember He's Canadian so he kind of faded into obscurity in the U.S..

[00:01:45] What are you saying about Canadian.

[00:01:46] He used to do a standup stuff up in Canada and you know second city and all that sort of thing in Toronto. And then of course he got those movie roles down here. But it was it was Bob. Dave. Dave Dave and Doug.

[00:02:01] But I'm trying to remember the Hoser thing you know they had a whole staff he and might go in 2009 he did Bob and Doug but then in 2000 didn't go to those on TV. GOLDBERG Yeah.

[00:02:17] So yeah nothing really big but he's done a bunch of stuff up in Canada where the government forces people to play Canadian content because so much with Voltaire. I mean it's great stuff but so he's had a lot of stuff up in Canada but really not so much down here.

[00:02:34] So over the years Sanatan anyhow bigger than Rana's. I have like 300 apps on my phone. Today is an important day in app world particularly when iPhone users. Wouldn't you agree.

[00:02:50] It absolutely is. And I don't know Danny had I guess he didn't have the drum.

[00:02:58] What's it called you know drum roll drum roll.

[00:03:00] No the snare drum you do it right on the edge.

[00:03:04] Any rimshot rimshot Sheargold.

[00:03:07] There we go for the perfect segue because yeah it's kind of fun because it is the 10th anniversary the App Store. And if you pull out your phone right now can how many apps are on there that you just have not. Well I have about 300 apps and I'd say about 200 97 I don't use exactly what you're about normal. And then over on the math side this is where the real danger comes in is for Android users how many do you have.

[00:03:36] Matt Yeah. How many apps do I have. Yeah I would say probably about 80 or 90. It's not that bad maybe.

[00:03:47] Yeah you're probably a little bit more normal here when the Apple App Store opened it had 500 total apps on it. Now it's got more than two million and it has been 10 years now. Over those 10 years Apple has continued to vet apps and deleted apps. It has gotten rid of some of the apps and the whole idea behind look at your apps doing inventory is because of security. Now whether it's an Apple app or an Android app your app is going to many times go out to the cloud. It might be using some sort of a cloud service or searches or other things out on the cloud. So even if the app itself is perfectly safe what's behind it in the cloud might not be safe according to today's standards because we've got all kinds of new ways to hack into things. Now on the Android side the apps just don't get the vetting that they get over on the Apple side. And we know about some of the wall papers for instance on Android that were actually stealing all your contact information. Even banking information and sending it up to the bad guys.

[00:05:01] So the story here the motto of the story anyways is if you have app it's probably a great time to go ahead and look at them. Get rid of the older apps because they're not vetted like they should have been but you can't get and you can't get everything on the back end up in the cloud. And if you have old Android apps you might really be in very big trouble. So go through get rid of the older apps make sure you keep those apps up to date with the latest versions of them. But some very very big security problem. And by the way you know Ken you mentioned that you probably only use three of those apps. That's actually not abnormal most people do not use most of the apps that are on their phones. In fact the average person's only launch in about nine apps per day and that includes by the way your phone and messages and you only are using about 30 apps over the course of a month. So if you have more than about 30 or maybe even 50 apps on your phone it's time to Collina them.

[00:06:10] I will say that some I use some of the travel apps like de guru and next flight. I use Fregoli when I you know I will use all the time but when I'm when I travel the very alpha1 you know you all obviously I use quite a bit on around as I use quite a bit. So there are some I used pretty frequently Ghafar apps.

[00:06:31] Yeah well I'm the same way. I have a lot of apps on my phone that I use regularly. Like you mentioned flying or on vacation or whatever those apps of course are important to keep on the phone now there's a new trick I don't know if you knew it on your iPhone but now you can tell if you go into your settings general iPhone storage it gives you an option called offload unused apps.

[00:06:56] So what that'll do is automatically delete apps that you don't use that you do not use regularly but it saves all the documents saves the day to go with them and you're going to have to read download those apps if later on you decide to use them again. But it's something that could save you some space on your phone. And Apple is not removing them if you don't need to remove them. So in other words if you turn this on and they offload unused apps you turn it on if your phone gets tight on space it'll just start shooting these old apps ones that you're not using in the head. It will remove them from the phone it'll keep your data but it'll start saving space way.

[00:07:38] Do you know what period of time you like is it if you don't use it for a year or I mean do that.

[00:07:43] Well it depends on how much space you need on your phone. So it's going to start deleting the oldest ones the least used let me put it that way not the longest I've been on the phone. But I was going to start deleting them kind of one at a time as you need space. So if you're for instance you're downloading movies from Netflix or something onto your phone. Is certain to run tight on space. It'll start moving at least to use used apps or at least recently used apps from your phone. So that's what it does it isn't like anything old in the three months it's going to whack it as you need space. It'll start deleting the older one.

[00:08:18] Well now that I'm answering a look at my phone and the apps I've been sitting here playing Snake versus block for the last five minutes. So the last question I have for you before we let you go for the day is related to what you should and shouldn't be doing online and I guess the reason I'm asking that is because there is an actual hacker who has like a real life hacker who's who is revealing to the general public like kind of the dumb things that they do that maybe they shouldn't be doing online.

[00:08:45] What are these warning things that he's telling us not to do father's black hat and white hat black hat or the bad guys in white hat are the good guys in this case. It's actually a lady named Stephanie and she is a hacker of sorts. Hackers didn't used to have the bad connotation it has today. But hackers nowadays I mean someone who is trying to break in and she has been doing this for quite a while. But what she's advising her to do is just kind of some very basic things here. OK. Don't post stupid stuff online. That's kind of her big number one. You know when you're younger you just need you don't have any sense at all. Sometimes those things will come up with you particularly when it's time to go to college or get a job OK. So that's a very big deal out there.

[00:09:38] And some of the things that you've seen it's just amazing. New home owners taking pictures of their new house. And those pictures getting uploaded member those can be geotagged and that obviously now gives a physical location for your new home. Easy to find online. That's another one of her things. Now there are apps you can run on your phone Android or iPhone that will remove the geotagging before you post your photo. And that's something I always advise people do. You know you're taking pictures of a kid at a soccer game for instance and you're uploading them those now are available for their friends to use. And you know about bullying. And I was certainly bullied as a kid. Now today's bullying follows you all the way into the house because there line these bullies from other kids from schools until they can find out where you go after school where you're playing soccer where your home is. Don't upload geotagged employees and then there are pictures and then the employees here too. Same problem. Taking selfies with complete disregard for what's in the background of the picture. So they could be password sensitive information on white boards computer monitors voicemail passwords other passwords taped to their computers and desks and walls. So some people even post pictures of their paychecks. This is not Stephanie had some great advice on what to do what not to do. And I've got all of that up on my Web site right now.

[00:11:12] Links to her article to Craig Peterson our tech guru you can go to dot com. Get all of his information all the time. Join us every Wednesday at 7:38 thanks. We'll talk to you next week.

[00:11:25] Take care gentlemen thanks.

[00:11:26] Thank you Craig. We're going to take a quick break.

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