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How do you protect your data from leaving with Employees? Listen in as Craig discusses what happened at Apple this week and how the lost some significant data.

Can anyone break into your iPhone?  Well maybe, but today Craig explains how Apple is trying to make it harder with their newest iOS release.  

Do you shop at Walmart?  Did you hear about the patent they were awarded this week.  Craig will fill you in on what they are trying to do and why you need to be concerned about it.  

Are you worried about Ransomware?  Craig talks about revealing news from Sonicwall and what they found.

You know the NSA has been collecting data.  But you might find what Craig has to tell you today about what the NSA is now doing and what it means for your privacy.

How valuable is your Face?  Craig will explain how large databases of Facial recognition data is going to be used. 

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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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 07/14/2018

Apple Self Driving Tech Stolen. Facebook Still Abusing Privacy. NSA Deleting Phone Records. Malware Attacks Skyrocket. Walmart Eavesdropping

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi, Everybody Welcome to Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. We've got a lot of stuff to cover today. We're going to be talking about an Apple employee who's been charged with stealing their self-driving cars secrets. Apple has a new mode. You got the iPhone's latest security update. It's called USB restricted mode. We'll talk about that Wal-Mart boy. Do you work for Wal-Mart? You know someone who does well they have a new patent that is really starting to concern some of Walmart's employees. We've got a new stat here from the guys over at Sonicwall about malware attacks and guess what? Surprise, surprise, they are skyrocketing. NSA is deleting millions of phone call and text records over privacy violations. Facebook is still abusing your privacy. So here we go.

[00:00:51] 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.

[00:01:01] 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 or talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri. We're joined right now by the director of Kirkendall technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates Kevin Johnson on the air for more than 15 years.

[00:01:25] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson

[00:01:34] Well you know the bottom line here we have an autonomous cars coming and they're coming at us really really fast. We're going to talk right now about what's happened at Apple and what might happen with your business. Frankly, if you're not really careful. An Apple engineer was just charged with criminal offenses he apparently had been working in Apple's secret autonomous car business and while he apparently might have done something wrong. Now you know President Trump has been talking about the Chinese and how they're trying to steal our technology in fact how they have stolen our technology. We already know that's the case. We already know that some of these laws about privacy about some of the things we take for granted here, patents and things just are not enforced over in communist China.

[00:02:25] Well, apparently what he did was he decided he was going to resign. So, how does he resign? Well, he is told to turn in all of his Apple gear. He's walked out the door. Now Apple has a really great policy that you should probably implement as well in your business and that policy is they walk them out the door. They take the equipment and then they do forensic analysis on that, equipment. When was the last time you did a forensic analysis of equipment for people that were leaving your business? Well, they found that he had done a few things wrong. First of all the activity of copying stuff on the network to and from devices had increased dramatically in the days before he resigned. They also found that he used Airdrop to drop some of these files from his computer to a non-Apple owned computer, apparently that of his wife he was going to take a job over in China. And apparently, he was going to take the secrets with him. So, remember whether you're talking about an employee who might have access to your accounting records or maybe it's an employee who has access to your client records. There's a lot of information you don't want walking out of the door. Can you look back in time to see what an employee has been doing? Can you erase a laptop that just doesn't get returned from an employee? Erase it remotely. Do you want your salespeople or others who have access to this information to walk away with it? And then on an everyday day to day basis. The big question is do you really want all of your employees to have access to everything. I hope you don't. I suspect you don't want that either. So, lock it down keep tabs on it and let's really try and keep this world and our businesses a bit of a safer place. I'll let you know what ends up happening with the charges here. Maybe he's convicted maybe he won't be but we'll see. This is industrial espionage of the highest degree top secret information

[00:04:44] Of course, you've heard about what's been going on with the FBI trying to get into iPhone's, local police department also trying to get into iPhone's.

[00:04:53] These things are locked down pretty well but there are a couple of companies that allow you to get into the iPhone. Employers have been using them, let's say someone leaves their employ, say they move on to a new job. What do you do with the data that's on that iPhone? Because sometimes the employees will just go ahead and lock it up and forget. I'm not going to open it up for you. All the information in there is not only lost to a business but on top of that what's happened is that iPhone has become unusable. If it's not locked to your Apple account. Now there are some ways to deal with that with employee devices reach out if you'd like to know a little bit more. But what we're going to talk about right now is Apple and law enforcement a little bit of the battle going on here. And I I don't know kind of which side they absolutely come down on with this because I don't want the bad guys to have access to complete privacy, right because then they can conduct their bad deeds their evil deeds and deeds in private. But I also don't want to have this problem of having my information available to some bad guy that just grabs my phone and walks away because I'm sitting in a coffee shop. And then they can hook it up and they can hack it.

[00:06:11] Right, do you want that. I know I don't. So Apple introduced in their latest release here in OS it's eleven point four point one. They introduced a new feature which is called USB restricted mode. Now what that does is it locks down your iPhone. You a little port at the bottom of it so that you cannot you or a bad guy, in this case, cannot access the information or the data that's on it. So they can't just plug it in and download everything from it. So, what Apple has done, is they've put a delay in if you haven't unlocked that phone for at least one hour that port is turned off. Now in my case we're talking about this coffee shop obviously, the guy if he has his little apple iPhone copier device there with him he's going to be able to take that information and he's going to be able to hook up your phone right away because you probably opened it up in the coffee shop, right. You probably had it right there so that you could use it. That's why you had it open in the coffee shop. So, it's opening in the coffee shop. He has access to it. He just takes it over to his table and puts it in a bag right. With a little battery powered device that offloads everything from your iPhone and tada he has all of your data.

[00:07:33] Now the same thing is true when we're talking about law enforcement. Obviously, if you are at a border crossing you probably already know or within 50 miles of a border. We're talking about international borders here. They can open up your devices have a look inside them make copies of them just do all kinds of things with them. And that one-hour timer obviously is not going to be, in fact, in effect. But if you lose your phone it's found on the side of the road. This will stop most people from being able to get into it. Law enforcement they're going to be able to gain access to quickly. There are some workarounds in fact that you can use to keep that port alive. We're not going to get into that right now but keep an eye out if you have an iPhone. Obviously, take the latest software update they tend to be very stable, in this case. I have it already. It is stable and I like the idea of trying to block that USB port and the ability for the bad guys to be able to get your data here, Bottom line. But if you don't have a good passcode on it. You're not paying attention to security at all. Well, you probably don't care. Check it out online. Craig Peterson dotcom

[00:08:57] If you worked for Wal-Mart you might want to listen up here right now because they've got a new patent in place. If you compare the two big retailers who are you talking about while you're obviously talking about Wal-Mart because they've got physical retail store out there. But you're also going to be talking about our friends over at Amazon and when we're talking about Amazon and Wal-Mart you're talking about two behemoths who are fighting for your business and my business. Wal-Mart. Great place to go shop you can save a lot of money. Amazon same type of thing. So, how are they going to compete? Amazon has this great advantage when it comes to costs. They don't have to maintain a retail store. They don't have to stock all of those shelves. They don't have to move the merchandise on time for you to be able to buy it. They don't have to have the people at the checkout registers or the checkout registers, right. They don't have to have all of the doors in and out they don't have to have the air conditioning. Think of all of the overhead of retail. And that's the reason why frankly Amazon has killed so many small retailers out there. So, when we're talking about the big battles ahead, Wal-Mart has to find some way to become more cost effective. So, how can they do that? Well, we already know from local Wal-Mart that they have some pretty big self-checkout areas. My local Wal-Mart has eight checkout areas. I've seen them with much bigger check out errors for you to do it yourself. So you scan it. It weighs it when you put it down so that it gets an idea. Making sure you're not trying to steal something.

[00:10:36] So you are not trying to put in something way too heavy or way too light in there and depending on where you live sometimes those scales are really picky sometimes they're not so picky but Walmart's done that helped save some costs who hasn't been to a store whether its Wal-Mart or Target or you name it where you haven't had to wait for a long time in line and that can be a very big deal. Well in this case what we're talking about is Wal-Mart being able to track you and their checkout people in the store and the patent applies to sound technology. We're talking about Wal-Mart now using sound, to figure out what youre doing in the checkout line. It's listening for things potentially like the the crinkle of the bag as a bag is used or the movement of the cart. So they know hey there's a lot of people in line I need to do something about it and even record conversations. Now that's a little bit scary, for both the consumers and for the Wal-Mart employees as well. Whether or not Wal-Mart is actually going to take advantage of this patent or if it's something that they might just license. We'll see. Time will tell. So far it's just a patent that was just awarded this week and it has to do with using sound, to track you in the store while you're buying things and that in conjunction with these RFID tags these radio frequency identifiers that Wal-Mart is already putting into most of the products, that's really going to give them a bit of a leg up, in fact, a huge leg up over other retailers. But, I don't know if it's enough to beat our friend over at Amazon

[00:12:28] We have all kinds of reports that come out about cyber security. Verizon's a real big one. They released reports quite frequently but so do many others WEBROOT. We've talked about on my radio show before there is a new study out right now that is I think there's a little bit of a surprise here. It's from our friends over at Sonicwall and it's talking about what they have been seeing. Sonicwall is a provider of VPN services, you know where you have the hardware there in your business that you want to use. They also have some firewall techniques and some specialized security software that they run. And what they're showing is that in the first half of 2018 ransomware attacks are on the rise again. Now, ransomware attacks are very scary. They're kind of nasty frankly and they're on the rise because they work. If you get hit by ransomware you have to follow a few rules here some bottom line rules. First of all the FBI strongly recommends that you never pay a ransom. However the business realities might dictate that you have to pay the ransom. But if you do pay that ransom for ransomware, remember that you may never actually get your data back up 50 percent of the time according to the FBI your data is never recovered. So remember that the other big problem when it comes to ransomware payments is if you pay and the bad guys receive it. Right. So assuming this transaction happened they now know that you pay ransoms. So, many cases ransomware perpetrators have attacked again and again at the exact same business. So be very careful.

[00:14:22] The best ways to help prevent ransomware and the best ways to help prevent real high cost when it comes to being hit by ransomware are the following. First of all, make sure you have a very good backup. Make sure that backup is tested. Test your backups. Test them frequently to make sure they're working. The next thing is you need to have not just anti virus anti virus does not cut it anymore. I can't emphasize that enough. It is just not enough. You need frankly you need kind of like an onion you need something where there are multiple layers you're you're guarding your DNS. You've got an endpoint piece of software looking at every file on the machine as it's open. You have something that the edge in your firewall. These next generation firewalls and some are better than others obviously. Now my personal preference is Cisco. That's what I sell. But I have something at the edge that says wait a minute here. This is an infected file and hopefully can go ahead and grab it and scrape it back. You know the average time it takes a small business or any business in the United States to be able to find out that it has been hacked is a good six months sometimes even longer. So, you got to be careful you've got to watch that. You have to be prudent when it comes to ransomware because as our friends at Sonicwall just told us ransomware is on the rise and ransomware can kill a business. Most businesses that get hit with ransomware or a good hack are out of business.

[00:16:00] They're out of business within six months. Not good by the way.

[00:16:04] Mystics 6 billion malware attacks during the first six months of this year compared with 3 billion attacks over the last half of 2017. We're talking about a 100 percent rise in ransomware attacks. By now everybody worldwide knows who the NSA is it's no longer. No such agency. It's the National Security Agency and the guys and gals over there have been sweeping up data. We've certainly talked about it before on my show. But did you know what they're doing now. This is a big surprise to pretty much everybody out there. The NSA has been collecting not just metadata but all kinds of data. And we've heard about FISA warrants in the news recently as it appears President Trump's campaign was monitored due to one of these FISA warrants which are designed really to help to catch spies and other foreigners who might be trying to do harm here in the U.S. Well, apparently a number of these FISA warns were flawed. And the new management that was put in place by President Trump over at the NSA has been looking at what's going on not obviously just maybe what went on with the Trump case but they are looking at all of the data what's been captured what did the Obama administration orchestrate when it started capturing all of the data on all Americans dealing with all of their communications.

[00:17:49] Well, its turned out now that under the Trump administration the NSA has started purging i.e. deleting billions of records yes those records that they were recording that are now under questionable jurisdiction are being deleted. What they're saying is they think that they may have intercepted communications between people that frankly they were not really authorized to do so instead of trying to play games with it or just try and keep it secret. They have come out and have officially announced that they did capture data. They probably shouldn't have. And rather than go through it all and try and figure out what's what what's where they're just deleting it. They're calling it technical irregularities and we're talking about a purge right now of over 685 million phone and text records records. Now that's really really huge. You know is the NSA to blame. They certainly have collected billions over the years but seeing that they are getting a little bit of oversight now makes me feel good in knowing that the NSA has identified some of these records as records they should not have and they're deleting them. So kudos. Good on you guys over there. The NSA

[00:19:18] Well, if you're a Facebook user and you've been paying attention you know that Mark Zuckerberg about three months ago agreed to stop tracking much of the information online. To be more transparent about it and to of course allow you to control some of your data. But we have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg right now due to some more information that's come out. First of all how are you making things more open and more transparent when the European Union introduces new laws about privacy. California has almost the exact same laws going into effect in 2020. So when those laws went into effect about you keeping data private about you at Facebook not only keeping the data private but letting people control their own information how is it that you try and move and that you did over a billion records from the European Union to the United States hopefully out of reach of the European regulators at least that's what it looks like to me. That's what it looks like to a lot of people who have had closer looks at it than I have. Well, now FaceBook they're facing yet another problem, because what they're also doing is they are using specialized facial recognition software. Now this software is designed for them to be able to figure out who's who in which pictures.

[00:20:50] Bottom line. What Facebook is saying is they're using it to protect your identity online. I'm not sure how much protection there is by having Facebook capturing my face and measuring all of the coordinates on my face and taking all of that data now and and putting it on to a bigger database which now becomes a database they can sell so that if I'm recognized down the street who knows what's going to happen. You remember Tom Cruise, walking by a billboard and the billboard greeting him with a new sale at the store has on just for him. You know that could be great. All right. As a marketer my marketing hat here I have that hat on and I'm thinking wow this is great. I don't have to bother people or not to interrupt people who might not be interested in my product. So, if I know who they are and I know what they've been looking for I can target them better and they're going to have a better experience overall.

[00:21:53] But the reality is some of this data is already being used elsewhere. We know in China they have a new whole new way of classifying people. They are doing kind of a social media trick over there where you have a social cred. This is what they're calling it your social cred. So if you jay walk across the street it recognizes your face because they have it on a database. It then uses that data now to lower your social cred. Doesn't that sound like something from a sci fi twilight zone type episode. So, it lowers your social cred. And then there are things you won't be able to do if you have a low social cred. So having a low social cred could stop you from getting on an airplane from opening a bank account. Obviously getting a loan. That type of data has already been used here in the U.S. for well more than a decade we've been protecting things like the Super Bowl using facial recognition technology where we have our federal databases of the bad guys of the known criminals. When you walk into that venue it looks at your face and it says Okay you're clear it's hundreds of others today anyways a gate that comes down so no you can't enter. But the police will respond if you are spotted in a stadium and you are thought to be a terrorist. So, today there is some false positives as time goes on there probably be fewer of them but maybe not, right. It depends on on how strong the state gets and whether or not it continues to move towards a socialist or communist type fascist state right. We've certainly seen that progression in the last 50 years. So, how could this possibly go wrong.

[00:23:44] Mark Zuckerberg having our information about our faces that's a biometric piece that could be used in a lot of different ways. Now, remember an iPhone 10. Right, what does that have on the front of it. It has a sensor that reads your face. And we have Android devices that will be coming out with it and more and more. So, if you can read someone's face what do you think's going to happen with the facial recognition software. What kind of value do you think there will be in a database of people's faces, Yeah. We've already seen where some of these facial recognition programs can be faked and fairly easily frankly so as time goes on as those those databases are hacked and stolen or sold, will the bad guys be able to get into my iPhone 10 or other device. Right. Will they be able to get into this thing and be able to use the this to excuse me in my face to get into this. We've got 3-D printers. If you've got a really good face print if you will because you've captured my face from the front from the side aren't all of the photos I've uploaded to Facebook all of the family photos on me and that it's it is automatically tagged me and I've noticed that by the way the auto tag thing where it's using facial recognition technology and saying hey listen we think we found this person in your picture. You want to tag them. How do you think that's working? So, will they be able to use this technology that you may not even know you're giving Facebook the permission to use, Right. Your face. Will they be able to use that technology to hack our devices.

[00:25:34] Almost certainly at least that's my bottom line.

[00:25:37] Visit me online. Hope you have a great week ahead.

[00:25:41] Craig Peterson dot com. Take care guys. Thanks for joining us today.

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How do you protect your data from leaving with Employees? Listen in as Craig discusses what happened at Apple this week and how the lost some significant data.

Can anyone break into your iPhone?  Well maybe, but today Craig explains how Apple is trying to make it harder with their newest iOS release.  

Do you shop at Walmart?  Did you hear about the patent they were awarded this week.  Craig will fill you in on what they are trying to do and why you need to be concerned about it.  

Are you worried about Ransomware?  Craig talks about revealing news from Sonicwall and what they found.

You know the NSA has been collecting data.  But you might find what Craig has to tell you today about what the NSA is now doing and what it means for your privacy.

How valuable is your Face?  Craig will explain how large databases of Facial recognition data is going to be used. 

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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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 07/14/2018

Apple Self Driving Tech Stolen. Facebook Still Abusing Privacy. NSA Deleting Phone Records. Malware Attacks Skyrocket. Walmart Eavesdropping

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi, Everybody Welcome to Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. We've got a lot of stuff to cover today. We're going to be talking about an Apple employee who's been charged with stealing their self-driving cars secrets. Apple has a new mode. You got the iPhone's latest security update. It's called USB restricted mode. We'll talk about that Wal-Mart boy. Do you work for Wal-Mart? You know someone who does well they have a new patent that is really starting to concern some of Walmart's employees. We've got a new stat here from the guys over at Sonicwall about malware attacks and guess what? Surprise, surprise, they are skyrocketing. NSA is deleting millions of phone call and text records over privacy violations. Facebook is still abusing your privacy. So here we go.

[00:00:51] 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.

[00:01:01] 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 or talk right now with the guys and gals behind Siri. We're joined right now by the director of Kirkendall technology. We're joined right now by the CEO of Ebates Kevin Johnson on the air for more than 15 years.

[00:01:25] Over 20 million podcast downloads. This is Tech Talk with Craig Peterson

[00:01:34] Well you know the bottom line here we have an autonomous cars coming and they're coming at us really really fast. We're going to talk right now about what's happened at Apple and what might happen with your business. Frankly, if you're not really careful. An Apple engineer was just charged with criminal offenses he apparently had been working in Apple's secret autonomous car business and while he apparently might have done something wrong. Now you know President Trump has been talking about the Chinese and how they're trying to steal our technology in fact how they have stolen our technology. We already know that's the case. We already know that some of these laws about privacy about some of the things we take for granted here, patents and things just are not enforced over in communist China.

[00:02:25] Well, apparently what he did was he decided he was going to resign. So, how does he resign? Well, he is told to turn in all of his Apple gear. He's walked out the door. Now Apple has a really great policy that you should probably implement as well in your business and that policy is they walk them out the door. They take the equipment and then they do forensic analysis on that, equipment. When was the last time you did a forensic analysis of equipment for people that were leaving your business? Well, they found that he had done a few things wrong. First of all the activity of copying stuff on the network to and from devices had increased dramatically in the days before he resigned. They also found that he used Airdrop to drop some of these files from his computer to a non-Apple owned computer, apparently that of his wife he was going to take a job over in China. And apparently, he was going to take the secrets with him. So, remember whether you're talking about an employee who might have access to your accounting records or maybe it's an employee who has access to your client records. There's a lot of information you don't want walking out of the door. Can you look back in time to see what an employee has been doing? Can you erase a laptop that just doesn't get returned from an employee? Erase it remotely. Do you want your salespeople or others who have access to this information to walk away with it? And then on an everyday day to day basis. The big question is do you really want all of your employees to have access to everything. I hope you don't. I suspect you don't want that either. So, lock it down keep tabs on it and let's really try and keep this world and our businesses a bit of a safer place. I'll let you know what ends up happening with the charges here. Maybe he's convicted maybe he won't be but we'll see. This is industrial espionage of the highest degree top secret information

[00:04:44] Of course, you've heard about what's been going on with the FBI trying to get into iPhone's, local police department also trying to get into iPhone's.

[00:04:53] These things are locked down pretty well but there are a couple of companies that allow you to get into the iPhone. Employers have been using them, let's say someone leaves their employ, say they move on to a new job. What do you do with the data that's on that iPhone? Because sometimes the employees will just go ahead and lock it up and forget. I'm not going to open it up for you. All the information in there is not only lost to a business but on top of that what's happened is that iPhone has become unusable. If it's not locked to your Apple account. Now there are some ways to deal with that with employee devices reach out if you'd like to know a little bit more. But what we're going to talk about right now is Apple and law enforcement a little bit of the battle going on here. And I I don't know kind of which side they absolutely come down on with this because I don't want the bad guys to have access to complete privacy, right because then they can conduct their bad deeds their evil deeds and deeds in private. But I also don't want to have this problem of having my information available to some bad guy that just grabs my phone and walks away because I'm sitting in a coffee shop. And then they can hook it up and they can hack it.

[00:06:11] Right, do you want that. I know I don't. So Apple introduced in their latest release here in OS it's eleven point four point one. They introduced a new feature which is called USB restricted mode. Now what that does is it locks down your iPhone. You a little port at the bottom of it so that you cannot you or a bad guy, in this case, cannot access the information or the data that's on it. So they can't just plug it in and download everything from it. So, what Apple has done, is they've put a delay in if you haven't unlocked that phone for at least one hour that port is turned off. Now in my case we're talking about this coffee shop obviously, the guy if he has his little apple iPhone copier device there with him he's going to be able to take that information and he's going to be able to hook up your phone right away because you probably opened it up in the coffee shop, right. You probably had it right there so that you could use it. That's why you had it open in the coffee shop. So, it's opening in the coffee shop. He has access to it. He just takes it over to his table and puts it in a bag right. With a little battery powered device that offloads everything from your iPhone and tada he has all of your data.

[00:07:33] Now the same thing is true when we're talking about law enforcement. Obviously, if you are at a border crossing you probably already know or within 50 miles of a border. We're talking about international borders here. They can open up your devices have a look inside them make copies of them just do all kinds of things with them. And that one-hour timer obviously is not going to be, in fact, in effect. But if you lose your phone it's found on the side of the road. This will stop most people from being able to get into it. Law enforcement they're going to be able to gain access to quickly. There are some workarounds in fact that you can use to keep that port alive. We're not going to get into that right now but keep an eye out if you have an iPhone. Obviously, take the latest software update they tend to be very stable, in this case. I have it already. It is stable and I like the idea of trying to block that USB port and the ability for the bad guys to be able to get your data here, Bottom line. But if you don't have a good passcode on it. You're not paying attention to security at all. Well, you probably don't care. Check it out online. Craig Peterson dotcom

[00:08:57] If you worked for Wal-Mart you might want to listen up here right now because they've got a new patent in place. If you compare the two big retailers who are you talking about while you're obviously talking about Wal-Mart because they've got physical retail store out there. But you're also going to be talking about our friends over at Amazon and when we're talking about Amazon and Wal-Mart you're talking about two behemoths who are fighting for your business and my business. Wal-Mart. Great place to go shop you can save a lot of money. Amazon same type of thing. So, how are they going to compete? Amazon has this great advantage when it comes to costs. They don't have to maintain a retail store. They don't have to stock all of those shelves. They don't have to move the merchandise on time for you to be able to buy it. They don't have to have the people at the checkout registers or the checkout registers, right. They don't have to have all of the doors in and out they don't have to have the air conditioning. Think of all of the overhead of retail. And that's the reason why frankly Amazon has killed so many small retailers out there. So, when we're talking about the big battles ahead, Wal-Mart has to find some way to become more cost effective. So, how can they do that? Well, we already know from local Wal-Mart that they have some pretty big self-checkout areas. My local Wal-Mart has eight checkout areas. I've seen them with much bigger check out errors for you to do it yourself. So you scan it. It weighs it when you put it down so that it gets an idea. Making sure you're not trying to steal something.

[00:10:36] So you are not trying to put in something way too heavy or way too light in there and depending on where you live sometimes those scales are really picky sometimes they're not so picky but Walmart's done that helped save some costs who hasn't been to a store whether its Wal-Mart or Target or you name it where you haven't had to wait for a long time in line and that can be a very big deal. Well in this case what we're talking about is Wal-Mart being able to track you and their checkout people in the store and the patent applies to sound technology. We're talking about Wal-Mart now using sound, to figure out what youre doing in the checkout line. It's listening for things potentially like the the crinkle of the bag as a bag is used or the movement of the cart. So they know hey there's a lot of people in line I need to do something about it and even record conversations. Now that's a little bit scary, for both the consumers and for the Wal-Mart employees as well. Whether or not Wal-Mart is actually going to take advantage of this patent or if it's something that they might just license. We'll see. Time will tell. So far it's just a patent that was just awarded this week and it has to do with using sound, to track you in the store while you're buying things and that in conjunction with these RFID tags these radio frequency identifiers that Wal-Mart is already putting into most of the products, that's really going to give them a bit of a leg up, in fact, a huge leg up over other retailers. But, I don't know if it's enough to beat our friend over at Amazon

[00:12:28] We have all kinds of reports that come out about cyber security. Verizon's a real big one. They released reports quite frequently but so do many others WEBROOT. We've talked about on my radio show before there is a new study out right now that is I think there's a little bit of a surprise here. It's from our friends over at Sonicwall and it's talking about what they have been seeing. Sonicwall is a provider of VPN services, you know where you have the hardware there in your business that you want to use. They also have some firewall techniques and some specialized security software that they run. And what they're showing is that in the first half of 2018 ransomware attacks are on the rise again. Now, ransomware attacks are very scary. They're kind of nasty frankly and they're on the rise because they work. If you get hit by ransomware you have to follow a few rules here some bottom line rules. First of all the FBI strongly recommends that you never pay a ransom. However the business realities might dictate that you have to pay the ransom. But if you do pay that ransom for ransomware, remember that you may never actually get your data back up 50 percent of the time according to the FBI your data is never recovered. So remember that the other big problem when it comes to ransomware payments is if you pay and the bad guys receive it. Right. So assuming this transaction happened they now know that you pay ransoms. So, many cases ransomware perpetrators have attacked again and again at the exact same business. So be very careful.

[00:14:22] The best ways to help prevent ransomware and the best ways to help prevent real high cost when it comes to being hit by ransomware are the following. First of all, make sure you have a very good backup. Make sure that backup is tested. Test your backups. Test them frequently to make sure they're working. The next thing is you need to have not just anti virus anti virus does not cut it anymore. I can't emphasize that enough. It is just not enough. You need frankly you need kind of like an onion you need something where there are multiple layers you're you're guarding your DNS. You've got an endpoint piece of software looking at every file on the machine as it's open. You have something that the edge in your firewall. These next generation firewalls and some are better than others obviously. Now my personal preference is Cisco. That's what I sell. But I have something at the edge that says wait a minute here. This is an infected file and hopefully can go ahead and grab it and scrape it back. You know the average time it takes a small business or any business in the United States to be able to find out that it has been hacked is a good six months sometimes even longer. So, you got to be careful you've got to watch that. You have to be prudent when it comes to ransomware because as our friends at Sonicwall just told us ransomware is on the rise and ransomware can kill a business. Most businesses that get hit with ransomware or a good hack are out of business.

[00:16:00] They're out of business within six months. Not good by the way.

[00:16:04] Mystics 6 billion malware attacks during the first six months of this year compared with 3 billion attacks over the last half of 2017. We're talking about a 100 percent rise in ransomware attacks. By now everybody worldwide knows who the NSA is it's no longer. No such agency. It's the National Security Agency and the guys and gals over there have been sweeping up data. We've certainly talked about it before on my show. But did you know what they're doing now. This is a big surprise to pretty much everybody out there. The NSA has been collecting not just metadata but all kinds of data. And we've heard about FISA warrants in the news recently as it appears President Trump's campaign was monitored due to one of these FISA warrants which are designed really to help to catch spies and other foreigners who might be trying to do harm here in the U.S. Well, apparently a number of these FISA warns were flawed. And the new management that was put in place by President Trump over at the NSA has been looking at what's going on not obviously just maybe what went on with the Trump case but they are looking at all of the data what's been captured what did the Obama administration orchestrate when it started capturing all of the data on all Americans dealing with all of their communications.

[00:17:49] Well, its turned out now that under the Trump administration the NSA has started purging i.e. deleting billions of records yes those records that they were recording that are now under questionable jurisdiction are being deleted. What they're saying is they think that they may have intercepted communications between people that frankly they were not really authorized to do so instead of trying to play games with it or just try and keep it secret. They have come out and have officially announced that they did capture data. They probably shouldn't have. And rather than go through it all and try and figure out what's what what's where they're just deleting it. They're calling it technical irregularities and we're talking about a purge right now of over 685 million phone and text records records. Now that's really really huge. You know is the NSA to blame. They certainly have collected billions over the years but seeing that they are getting a little bit of oversight now makes me feel good in knowing that the NSA has identified some of these records as records they should not have and they're deleting them. So kudos. Good on you guys over there. The NSA

[00:19:18] Well, if you're a Facebook user and you've been paying attention you know that Mark Zuckerberg about three months ago agreed to stop tracking much of the information online. To be more transparent about it and to of course allow you to control some of your data. But we have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg right now due to some more information that's come out. First of all how are you making things more open and more transparent when the European Union introduces new laws about privacy. California has almost the exact same laws going into effect in 2020. So when those laws went into effect about you keeping data private about you at Facebook not only keeping the data private but letting people control their own information how is it that you try and move and that you did over a billion records from the European Union to the United States hopefully out of reach of the European regulators at least that's what it looks like to me. That's what it looks like to a lot of people who have had closer looks at it than I have. Well, now FaceBook they're facing yet another problem, because what they're also doing is they are using specialized facial recognition software. Now this software is designed for them to be able to figure out who's who in which pictures.

[00:20:50] Bottom line. What Facebook is saying is they're using it to protect your identity online. I'm not sure how much protection there is by having Facebook capturing my face and measuring all of the coordinates on my face and taking all of that data now and and putting it on to a bigger database which now becomes a database they can sell so that if I'm recognized down the street who knows what's going to happen. You remember Tom Cruise, walking by a billboard and the billboard greeting him with a new sale at the store has on just for him. You know that could be great. All right. As a marketer my marketing hat here I have that hat on and I'm thinking wow this is great. I don't have to bother people or not to interrupt people who might not be interested in my product. So, if I know who they are and I know what they've been looking for I can target them better and they're going to have a better experience overall.

[00:21:53] But the reality is some of this data is already being used elsewhere. We know in China they have a new whole new way of classifying people. They are doing kind of a social media trick over there where you have a social cred. This is what they're calling it your social cred. So if you jay walk across the street it recognizes your face because they have it on a database. It then uses that data now to lower your social cred. Doesn't that sound like something from a sci fi twilight zone type episode. So, it lowers your social cred. And then there are things you won't be able to do if you have a low social cred. So having a low social cred could stop you from getting on an airplane from opening a bank account. Obviously getting a loan. That type of data has already been used here in the U.S. for well more than a decade we've been protecting things like the Super Bowl using facial recognition technology where we have our federal databases of the bad guys of the known criminals. When you walk into that venue it looks at your face and it says Okay you're clear it's hundreds of others today anyways a gate that comes down so no you can't enter. But the police will respond if you are spotted in a stadium and you are thought to be a terrorist. So, today there is some false positives as time goes on there probably be fewer of them but maybe not, right. It depends on on how strong the state gets and whether or not it continues to move towards a socialist or communist type fascist state right. We've certainly seen that progression in the last 50 years. So, how could this possibly go wrong.

[00:23:44] Mark Zuckerberg having our information about our faces that's a biometric piece that could be used in a lot of different ways. Now, remember an iPhone 10. Right, what does that have on the front of it. It has a sensor that reads your face. And we have Android devices that will be coming out with it and more and more. So, if you can read someone's face what do you think's going to happen with the facial recognition software. What kind of value do you think there will be in a database of people's faces, Yeah. We've already seen where some of these facial recognition programs can be faked and fairly easily frankly so as time goes on as those those databases are hacked and stolen or sold, will the bad guys be able to get into my iPhone 10 or other device. Right. Will they be able to get into this thing and be able to use the this to excuse me in my face to get into this. We've got 3-D printers. If you've got a really good face print if you will because you've captured my face from the front from the side aren't all of the photos I've uploaded to Facebook all of the family photos on me and that it's it is automatically tagged me and I've noticed that by the way the auto tag thing where it's using facial recognition technology and saying hey listen we think we found this person in your picture. You want to tag them. How do you think that's working? So, will they be able to use this technology that you may not even know you're giving Facebook the permission to use, Right. Your face. Will they be able to use that technology to hack our devices.

[00:25:34] Almost certainly at least that's my bottom line.

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[00:25:41] Craig Peterson dot com. Take care guys. Thanks for joining us today.

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Airing date: 07/11/2018

30 Second Free Security For Your Computer and Incognito Mode 

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Good morning Craig Peterson here this morning I was talking with Ken and Matt about a couple of different things but primarily this morning we went over a 30-second change you can make to your computer. Why is it important to have the right DNS settings. The bad guys they've got a lot of nasty software out there. They're being very successful getting that nasty software onto your computers my computers. Well, not so much, actually knock on wood. But, here, here, we talked about what you can do a very quick and easy change. I have some software that costs me money that I charge for my clients. But this-this is free and it gets you about 90 percent towards safety. So, here we go.

[00:00:52] I've had an iPhone phone since the first phone, when you had the iPhone one, and I had the first I thought I skipped every other. I mean I wouldn't get the thee and the five and the seven sure. Yeah and I think great Craig Peterson would have to agree with me that the iPhone is the greatest invention ever in the history of humankind. Would you not agree with me, Craig

[00:01:15] Well I may put fire, maybe the first maybe wheel and then maybe the iPhone. Yeah, so you know it's a funny joke the other day on Facebook somebody said you know my teacher told me in high school that you know you guys have to do this in your head. You know the math in your head because you're not going to have calculators everywhere you walk.

[00:01:34] Yeah, sure sure sure showed them. Because Craig because Matt's wife asked me what photo I have with I like an iPhone, 10 of course because why would anybody not have the iPhone 10. But, I still think the iPhone is still I think the best you can take a mortgage out for that phone. No, I'm out there. Do you pay fifty dollars a month forever for the rest with the rest life contract? But, you could upgrade. Know it doesn't. It doesn't matter what you pay because the person who dies with the most toys wins.

[00:02:07] So, it doesn't make that's true. I did not get the iPhone 10, Ken. I'm stuck with the 8 which by the way looks like are killing off next year the gonna to change the iPhone line. They released this is like the first time I think they've ever done this. Apple decided they would give mock copies of next year's models to the press. So, it looks like the 8 will be dead as of next year. And the reason I didn't do it is I don't know. I love tech. And obviously comes this way Matt I think you might be but I'm cautious with that right. Yes. Like when we're talking about the iPhone 10 you've got that whole new sensor.

[00:02:50] And, I don't know with facial recognition of the facial recognition it recognizes me no matter what you do but I'm sure the NSA also loves that because they've got it stored in a database to find me no matter what. Are you kidding me?

[00:03:05] That's a lot of people are confused about that Matt. When you're talking about whats stored where Apple is way different thing Google is with Android. None of that information like your thumbprint if you use the thumbprint scanner on your iPhone or the facial information none of that ever leaves the phone, right.

[00:03:25] See it's encrypted.

[00:03:27] Yeah. It's sort of encrypted on the phone and what's called the secure enclave. And, in fact, I don't know if you've heard about who's who you have had there.

[00:03:37] There are two paths replaced on their iPhone because they cracked it and then there are some leaders stopped working and they had to take it into Apple and that's because bottom line Apple doesn't want anybody messing with that secure enclaves stuff. And if you change the screen and you got that from the reader there is a potential that you might damage it, slightly because it's packed in elephants snot which is kind of a technical term so, that if anybody did come up with a less gross a technical term, perhaps I just believe that.

[00:04:15] I mean what's that movie with Will Smith. And you're thinking of Enemy of the State, that they could fight back with everything they need to find out about you.

[00:04:24] That movie really good movie. So, why Chapman why hide anything.

[00:04:30] Just a total mind you bought the building because you made a phone call. Right, exactly.

[00:04:36] He was the guy who going to watch the watchers. Who's going Yeah?

[00:04:40] So, many great guys who watch the watchers of the watches and the watchers and watchers. So, that's the most serious things hacking. Now you've got 30-second change your computer setting. The easiest way to stop hackers.

[00:04:56] Well, this is really, really, kind of cool it's up on my website but if you're going to have to find out more because there are instructions, right. But, here's the bottom line. Cybercrime has become huge, right now and it's expected to cost us worldwide here, more than two trillion dollars next year very, very, big deal.

[00:05:21] Ok. And it's hurting little businesses, its hurting big businesses it's hurting you and me just regular consumers as well.

[00:05:29] So, I have a product that I use and it's from Cisco it's called umbrella. And I've been using that with my clients for a long time. And what umbrella does is, if your computer tries to go someplace on the Internet. The first thing that has to do is change the name, into an address, right. You guys know that you put into a web browser something like tune-in for instance Somby go to tune-in radio to listen to the show while you're on the road for that. That doesn't mean anything to the Internet, that name. So, there's something called domain name service but it takes that name it converts it to an Internet address and then it goes to the address, it's just like if, I dropped a piece of mail in the post office and I said deliver this to Matt Gagnon, they wouldn't know where you live right.

[00:06:22] Well, probably not. We may not but you never know.

[00:06:28] He is. Well the NSA was supposed to try. So.

[00:06:33] So, the question is and if that's the case, how does this really interfere with hackers, Right?

[00:06:41] Because if you could stop the hackers from sending their post office stuff home right if you could stop them from mailing all of the stuff they stole home. That's half the battle and that's what this is all about. That's what umbrella is all about. It's not an expensive service, but I found a really great article on Marketwatch. So anybody who wants to can read this can go through the steps and what it does is, it showing you some free services that are kind of like Umbrella.

[00:07:16] They're not as good, but they're quite good. It's 90 percent effective at stopping some of these pieces of ransomware is 90 percent effective at stopping all of the malware. Because, one of the things that these pieces of malware do when they get onto your computer, one of the first things is they call home and say hey I got somebody, what do you want to do now.

[00:07:41] And, so they call home. They now can get the command and control information. OK. We're getting encrypted and it actually has to have a key so that they can now extort money out of you, if that doesn't happen they can't do any of this. So what this does and this is it really is a 30 second changes as Ken mentioned. What it does is it stops any software on your computer, legitimate or otherwise from going directly onto the Internet, and all it does is say, Hey listen before you go anywhere we are trying to figure out what the address is of the place you're trying to go to. Ask me, don't ask somebody else. So it asks that software and my customers cases it just you know umbrella and then umbrella's Whoa. Wait a minute. That is. Known Chinese or Russian or wherever it may be hacking group. We don't want you to go there. So it will now change and it will pop up a little screen that says this is dangerous, you can't go there if you're going on our web browser. But, if it's software that's trying to track your machine, 90 percent plus of the time is trying to phone home and it will be stopped. So, Ken I think this is one of the most important things people can do. It's very, very, simple. There are some free services out there that do a very good job at it and it's going to help to stop you from becoming a victim.

[00:09:12] We're talking to Craig Peterson on our tech guru joins us for some tech updates every Wednesday at this time. Craig final question for me before we let you go here today the Incognito browser. What does it exactly do if people have never used that particular feature on their web browser what is it you you're actually accomplishing.

[00:09:29] Well that's a great question. But, here's the bottom line on Incognito mode. All major browsers have a method they might call it private mode that might call it incognito which is what it is called over on Google's Chrome. But, the idea is it gives you some, Anonimity, a lot of people have been thinking the wrong way about all of this. There was a survey that was just done a little bit of a study. Most people got it wrong. So I'm glad you brought it up here's the bottom line. When you go into incognito mode on your browser it really doesn't hide much. It'll clear your cookies, when you're done. But, let me tell you when you'd want to use Incognito mode and when you wouldn't if you are trying to do something that you really, really, really, don't want anyone to know it's a new business deal or maybe you're trying to collude with Russia. Do not use Incognito mode, because it doesn't protect against anything where it comes in very handy. Let's say you share a computer you right there in the studio you Matt and Ken you share a computer.

[00:10:40] Danny uses that computer from time to time. If you go online and you start searching for a great present for a well for Ken lets say and now can use his computer what he thinks going to happen advertisements and so can begin to see that you were searching for a new table saw for him at his house and these you say, oh I know what I'm getting from my birthday. Right. That's when it comes in handy because those cookies don't get set, the advertisers don't know what you've been searching for. And you can safely browse online for your spouse or friend or whomever and not worry about getting all of those ads popping up on your computer, incognito mode does not protect you in reality 100 percent from advertisers it certainly does not protect you from bad guys. It's just a handy little feature to have. Firefox is the best at incognito mode, among all of the major browsers and the epic browser E-P-I-C is absolutely the best if you want to maintain some online privacy.

[00:11:49] I'm kind of sad that you told him what he is buying me for my birthday. It's kind of sad sad that on our tech guru joins us every Wednesday 738 go to his website Craig Peterson dot com. Thanks Craig we'll talk to you next week.

[00:12:04] Hey gentlemen take care. Have a great day.

[00:12:05] Thanks a lot Craig, I'm going to take a quick break here.

[00:12:07] You think you're getting me a chainsaw instead of a tablesaw. Just curious. You know you seem like the kind of guy I like to work with Sand's builds on this stuff. You see these hands these hands.

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

Airing date: 07/11/2018

30 Second Free Security For Your Computer and Incognito Mode 

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. Good morning Craig Peterson here this morning I was talking with Ken and Matt about a couple of different things but primarily this morning we went over a 30-second change you can make to your computer. Why is it important to have the right DNS settings. The bad guys they've got a lot of nasty software out there. They're being very successful getting that nasty software onto your computers my computers. Well, not so much, actually knock on wood. But, here, here, we talked about what you can do a very quick and easy change. I have some software that costs me money that I charge for my clients. But this-this is free and it gets you about 90 percent towards safety. So, here we go.

[00:00:52] I've had an iPhone phone since the first phone, when you had the iPhone one, and I had the first I thought I skipped every other. I mean I wouldn't get the thee and the five and the seven sure. Yeah and I think great Craig Peterson would have to agree with me that the iPhone is the greatest invention ever in the history of humankind. Would you not agree with me, Craig

[00:01:15] Well I may put fire, maybe the first maybe wheel and then maybe the iPhone. Yeah, so you know it's a funny joke the other day on Facebook somebody said you know my teacher told me in high school that you know you guys have to do this in your head. You know the math in your head because you're not going to have calculators everywhere you walk.

[00:01:34] Yeah, sure sure sure showed them. Because Craig because Matt's wife asked me what photo I have with I like an iPhone, 10 of course because why would anybody not have the iPhone 10. But, I still think the iPhone is still I think the best you can take a mortgage out for that phone. No, I'm out there. Do you pay fifty dollars a month forever for the rest with the rest life contract? But, you could upgrade. Know it doesn't. It doesn't matter what you pay because the person who dies with the most toys wins.

[00:02:07] So, it doesn't make that's true. I did not get the iPhone 10, Ken. I'm stuck with the 8 which by the way looks like are killing off next year the gonna to change the iPhone line. They released this is like the first time I think they've ever done this. Apple decided they would give mock copies of next year's models to the press. So, it looks like the 8 will be dead as of next year. And the reason I didn't do it is I don't know. I love tech. And obviously comes this way Matt I think you might be but I'm cautious with that right. Yes. Like when we're talking about the iPhone 10 you've got that whole new sensor.

[00:02:50] And, I don't know with facial recognition of the facial recognition it recognizes me no matter what you do but I'm sure the NSA also loves that because they've got it stored in a database to find me no matter what. Are you kidding me?

[00:03:05] That's a lot of people are confused about that Matt. When you're talking about whats stored where Apple is way different thing Google is with Android. None of that information like your thumbprint if you use the thumbprint scanner on your iPhone or the facial information none of that ever leaves the phone, right.

[00:03:25] See it's encrypted.

[00:03:27] Yeah. It's sort of encrypted on the phone and what's called the secure enclave. And, in fact, I don't know if you've heard about who's who you have had there.

[00:03:37] There are two paths replaced on their iPhone because they cracked it and then there are some leaders stopped working and they had to take it into Apple and that's because bottom line Apple doesn't want anybody messing with that secure enclaves stuff. And if you change the screen and you got that from the reader there is a potential that you might damage it, slightly because it's packed in elephants snot which is kind of a technical term so, that if anybody did come up with a less gross a technical term, perhaps I just believe that.

[00:04:15] I mean what's that movie with Will Smith. And you're thinking of Enemy of the State, that they could fight back with everything they need to find out about you.

[00:04:24] That movie really good movie. So, why Chapman why hide anything.

[00:04:30] Just a total mind you bought the building because you made a phone call. Right, exactly.

[00:04:36] He was the guy who going to watch the watchers. Who's going Yeah?

[00:04:40] So, many great guys who watch the watchers of the watches and the watchers and watchers. So, that's the most serious things hacking. Now you've got 30-second change your computer setting. The easiest way to stop hackers.

[00:04:56] Well, this is really, really, kind of cool it's up on my website but if you're going to have to find out more because there are instructions, right. But, here's the bottom line. Cybercrime has become huge, right now and it's expected to cost us worldwide here, more than two trillion dollars next year very, very, big deal.

[00:05:21] Ok. And it's hurting little businesses, its hurting big businesses it's hurting you and me just regular consumers as well.

[00:05:29] So, I have a product that I use and it's from Cisco it's called umbrella. And I've been using that with my clients for a long time. And what umbrella does is, if your computer tries to go someplace on the Internet. The first thing that has to do is change the name, into an address, right. You guys know that you put into a web browser something like tune-in for instance Somby go to tune-in radio to listen to the show while you're on the road for that. That doesn't mean anything to the Internet, that name. So, there's something called domain name service but it takes that name it converts it to an Internet address and then it goes to the address, it's just like if, I dropped a piece of mail in the post office and I said deliver this to Matt Gagnon, they wouldn't know where you live right.

[00:06:22] Well, probably not. We may not but you never know.

[00:06:28] He is. Well the NSA was supposed to try. So.

[00:06:33] So, the question is and if that's the case, how does this really interfere with hackers, Right?

[00:06:41] Because if you could stop the hackers from sending their post office stuff home right if you could stop them from mailing all of the stuff they stole home. That's half the battle and that's what this is all about. That's what umbrella is all about. It's not an expensive service, but I found a really great article on Marketwatch. So anybody who wants to can read this can go through the steps and what it does is, it showing you some free services that are kind of like Umbrella.

[00:07:16] They're not as good, but they're quite good. It's 90 percent effective at stopping some of these pieces of ransomware is 90 percent effective at stopping all of the malware. Because, one of the things that these pieces of malware do when they get onto your computer, one of the first things is they call home and say hey I got somebody, what do you want to do now.

[00:07:41] And, so they call home. They now can get the command and control information. OK. We're getting encrypted and it actually has to have a key so that they can now extort money out of you, if that doesn't happen they can't do any of this. So what this does and this is it really is a 30 second changes as Ken mentioned. What it does is it stops any software on your computer, legitimate or otherwise from going directly onto the Internet, and all it does is say, Hey listen before you go anywhere we are trying to figure out what the address is of the place you're trying to go to. Ask me, don't ask somebody else. So it asks that software and my customers cases it just you know umbrella and then umbrella's Whoa. Wait a minute. That is. Known Chinese or Russian or wherever it may be hacking group. We don't want you to go there. So it will now change and it will pop up a little screen that says this is dangerous, you can't go there if you're going on our web browser. But, if it's software that's trying to track your machine, 90 percent plus of the time is trying to phone home and it will be stopped. So, Ken I think this is one of the most important things people can do. It's very, very, simple. There are some free services out there that do a very good job at it and it's going to help to stop you from becoming a victim.

[00:09:12] We're talking to Craig Peterson on our tech guru joins us for some tech updates every Wednesday at this time. Craig final question for me before we let you go here today the Incognito browser. What does it exactly do if people have never used that particular feature on their web browser what is it you you're actually accomplishing.

[00:09:29] Well that's a great question. But, here's the bottom line on Incognito mode. All major browsers have a method they might call it private mode that might call it incognito which is what it is called over on Google's Chrome. But, the idea is it gives you some, Anonimity, a lot of people have been thinking the wrong way about all of this. There was a survey that was just done a little bit of a study. Most people got it wrong. So I'm glad you brought it up here's the bottom line. When you go into incognito mode on your browser it really doesn't hide much. It'll clear your cookies, when you're done. But, let me tell you when you'd want to use Incognito mode and when you wouldn't if you are trying to do something that you really, really, really, don't want anyone to know it's a new business deal or maybe you're trying to collude with Russia. Do not use Incognito mode, because it doesn't protect against anything where it comes in very handy. Let's say you share a computer you right there in the studio you Matt and Ken you share a computer.

[00:10:40] Danny uses that computer from time to time. If you go online and you start searching for a great present for a well for Ken lets say and now can use his computer what he thinks going to happen advertisements and so can begin to see that you were searching for a new table saw for him at his house and these you say, oh I know what I'm getting from my birthday. Right. That's when it comes in handy because those cookies don't get set, the advertisers don't know what you've been searching for. And you can safely browse online for your spouse or friend or whomever and not worry about getting all of those ads popping up on your computer, incognito mode does not protect you in reality 100 percent from advertisers it certainly does not protect you from bad guys. It's just a handy little feature to have. Firefox is the best at incognito mode, among all of the major browsers and the epic browser E-P-I-C is absolutely the best if you want to maintain some online privacy.

[00:11:49] I'm kind of sad that you told him what he is buying me for my birthday. It's kind of sad sad that on our tech guru joins us every Wednesday 738 go to his website Craig Peterson dot com. Thanks Craig we'll talk to you next week.

[00:12:04] Hey gentlemen take care. Have a great day.

[00:12:05] Thanks a lot Craig, I'm going to take a quick break here.

[00:12:07] You think you're getting me a chainsaw instead of a tablesaw. Just curious. You know you seem like the kind of guy I like to work with Sand's builds on this stuff. You see these hands these hands.

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How Safe Is Browser Incognito Mode

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Craig Peterson here, this morning we discussed incognito mode. You get to listen in on Jim and I talking about it. But do you fall into the category of people based on this survey who think that the browser incognito mode helps protect their identity? Well, it doesn't. In fact, most people really don't understand it at all. 

[00:00:25] So, here we go with Mr.Jim, I forgot to wish him Happy Canada Day. 

[00:00:32] But, he's not holding it against me. And he's back again with more great information. 

[00:00:37] I'm talking about our Tech Talk, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

[00:00:43] Hey, Good Morning. What a great morning! This isn't so bad. I'm getting used to the air conditioning and staying inside.

[00:00:55] Yeah, you know yeah avoiding the sun, that's Canadians, avoiding the sand any more than six hours of daylight is too much for a Canadian. to much. My daughter, my daughters, my eldest daughter, in fact, she just got a job over in Norway.

[00:01:10] She's only the lead on THE LEAD project managers with a company Kongsberg. They're making the world's first completely autonomous ship. 

[00:01:21] So, she's telling me about how, it's like light, the whole day over there and night and then during the winter time, of course, it's just dark all the time. Yeah. I could take that, I think it's like two weeks or something where she is in Norway and the sun basically doesn't rise.

[00:01:43] I couldn't take that. I mean I would love to be over there now. I couldn't take it. As a kid.

[00:01:51] You know we used to go we used to run around we'd leave in the morning and Mom and Dad would have no clue where we were. And I remember one-night playing kick the can and it was like 10-10 30 at night. And

[00:02:04] This is we've all grown up there in northern Canada and it never really got darker than Twilight. And, so I have no clue what time it was, such a different world out there, AHH, definitely a different world.

[00:02:21] Well look, we've got it speaking of hiding in the dark. So, when you go on your web browser and you want to go into Incognito mode, I always kind of feel like is this for real. Are they really not tracking, where I'm going? Or, is it just a scam? First of all, explain incognito mode and exactly what it really does.

[00:02:53] Sure. Well, all web browsers have something kind of similar to this incognito mode. They might call it a private window, for instance, if you're using Safari, Google Chrome calls incognito mode. And, the basic idea behind this is that you can remain anonymous. At least that's what most people think, Jim. That if you use Incognito mode online, you are somehow completely anonymous and I think you can guess where I'm going with this. 

[00:03:25] Yeah, you're not. OK. So, there you go. Folks, Craig Peterson solved it for you right there.

[00:03:36] Exactly. Incognito mode is kind of nice. What it does do is, it does clear cookies when you leave your session. So, for instance, you might go online now, incognito mode is great. Like, if you are shopping for a present for your spouse or kids or whatever. So, you go into Incognito mode, and then once you're in that mode you do a little bit of shopping and poking around and then you exit incognito mode. Now, why this is nice for buying the present is, if that computer is now used by your husband or wife, for you know the other person, they won't see ads, for what you just were searching for online. So, if I know my wife, for instance, wants a brand new table saw for her birthday. 

[00:04:32] Know I don't think Mrs., I don't think Mrs. Peterson wants a table saw. I think Mr. Peterson does. But I get it. So, the ads don't pop up, because you know what I find especially if I buy a big ticket item or research a big ticket item online or Amazon, I buy one, and then Amazon sends me an ad for another one. Like Hey Amazon, I just bought one. Why would I need two? 

[00:05:01] What you can return them on Amazon. Maybe that's what it is and make the money and the turn, right.

[00:05:08] So, that is what it is good for, is good for, getting rid of cookies. But, even then, you're not anonymous as far as the websites go because the Web sites can track you based on how you have configured your web browser. Yeah exactly. Never ends does it are plugins you have the extensions set. OK. So if you really want to have the best somewhat anonymous while you're online browsing experience, the easiest thing to do is use Firefox. Firefox has added some new features so that when you're in incognito mode on Firefox, it does more than Google Chrome does to kind of keep your information private. Again you know because you don't want to be tracked you don't want cookies you don't want more ads for that new sports car or table saw, right. So, it's a good way to do it and the other one to consider seriously consider and this is the one I use quite frequently is the epic browser now. I've had the guy who founded this on my radio show before and we've talked about it but it is E-P-I-C. I see browser and what it does is it goes far beyond any other browsers in trying to keep your information safe. It does not let them set COOK tracking cookies most cookies are completely ignored. It has all of the features of Google Chrome, and yet no tracking which frankly is I think kind of nice. It's a little bit of a relief to know that and then there's another quick trick. That you can do if you want to do a google search and you're tired of Google coming up with all this information about you and everything else. You can go in you can force all of your cookies and doing that is not only going to get rid of the ads that are targeted at you but flush cookies you're going to lose access to certain Web sites that you might have signed into. You're going to have to re-sign in and stuff 

[00:07:19] Yeah. Yeah, I do. I do mine. I don't mind that too much though

[00:07:25] Right. And you know as we've found out in this last week. Well you know, Jim, you and I talked about this months and months ago. I had a secret service briefing about an extortion attempt against Mitt Romney and the Yeah, Yeah I remember that. And you know so they're using technology they thought would make them anonymous. The guy was caught. He was just convicted this last week and he's facing 20 years in prison. So, you know that bottom line even if you think that you are going to be anonymous, there's nothing anonymous online. Bottom line if you're shopping for a present go ahead and use Incognito mode makes a lot of sense or use the epic browser or Firefox.

[00:08:10] It's great stuff. Now listen, folks. That's just a sampling of the stuff you can get from Craig Peterson. He does it for free, for my listeners. All you have to do is text my name, Jim. to this number

[00:08:26] 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. That's 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. 

[00:08:36] Now, standard data and tax rates apply. You'll get the information on Incognito. Plus this one a 30-second change to your computer settings. The easiest way to stop hackers. This is all great stuff Craig won't bother, won't annoy you. He's a nice guy and when there's big stuff going on like a hack he'll send you an alert. So, you want to do this to the man from the Great White North, Craig Peterson. Craig thanks so much and best for your daughter in Norway. Tell her to enjoy it while she can. 

[00:09:14] Yeah, I absolutely will have a Beauty-day, eh? 

[00:09:19] Thanks, Craig. We'll see. Bye. 

[00:09:22] And for those who ask why we call him Craig Peterson because that's how they pronounce it in Canada. It's not Peterson. Hey, we got a final word. Don't go anywhere. 

[00:09:33] You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

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Airing date: 07/10/2018

How Safe Is Browser Incognito Mode

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Craig Peterson here, this morning we discussed incognito mode. You get to listen in on Jim and I talking about it. But do you fall into the category of people based on this survey who think that the browser incognito mode helps protect their identity? Well, it doesn't. In fact, most people really don't understand it at all. 

[00:00:25] So, here we go with Mr.Jim, I forgot to wish him Happy Canada Day. 

[00:00:32] But, he's not holding it against me. And he's back again with more great information. 

[00:00:37] I'm talking about our Tech Talk, Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

[00:00:43] Hey, Good Morning. What a great morning! This isn't so bad. I'm getting used to the air conditioning and staying inside.

[00:00:55] Yeah, you know yeah avoiding the sun, that's Canadians, avoiding the sand any more than six hours of daylight is too much for a Canadian. to much. My daughter, my daughters, my eldest daughter, in fact, she just got a job over in Norway.

[00:01:10] She's only the lead on THE LEAD project managers with a company Kongsberg. They're making the world's first completely autonomous ship. 

[00:01:21] So, she's telling me about how, it's like light, the whole day over there and night and then during the winter time, of course, it's just dark all the time. Yeah. I could take that, I think it's like two weeks or something where she is in Norway and the sun basically doesn't rise.

[00:01:43] I couldn't take that. I mean I would love to be over there now. I couldn't take it. As a kid.

[00:01:51] You know we used to go we used to run around we'd leave in the morning and Mom and Dad would have no clue where we were. And I remember one-night playing kick the can and it was like 10-10 30 at night. And

[00:02:04] This is we've all grown up there in northern Canada and it never really got darker than Twilight. And, so I have no clue what time it was, such a different world out there, AHH, definitely a different world.

[00:02:21] Well look, we've got it speaking of hiding in the dark. So, when you go on your web browser and you want to go into Incognito mode, I always kind of feel like is this for real. Are they really not tracking, where I'm going? Or, is it just a scam? First of all, explain incognito mode and exactly what it really does.

[00:02:53] Sure. Well, all web browsers have something kind of similar to this incognito mode. They might call it a private window, for instance, if you're using Safari, Google Chrome calls incognito mode. And, the basic idea behind this is that you can remain anonymous. At least that's what most people think, Jim. That if you use Incognito mode online, you are somehow completely anonymous and I think you can guess where I'm going with this. 

[00:03:25] Yeah, you're not. OK. So, there you go. Folks, Craig Peterson solved it for you right there.

[00:03:36] Exactly. Incognito mode is kind of nice. What it does do is, it does clear cookies when you leave your session. So, for instance, you might go online now, incognito mode is great. Like, if you are shopping for a present for your spouse or kids or whatever. So, you go into Incognito mode, and then once you're in that mode you do a little bit of shopping and poking around and then you exit incognito mode. Now, why this is nice for buying the present is, if that computer is now used by your husband or wife, for you know the other person, they won't see ads, for what you just were searching for online. So, if I know my wife, for instance, wants a brand new table saw for her birthday. 

[00:04:32] Know I don't think Mrs., I don't think Mrs. Peterson wants a table saw. I think Mr. Peterson does. But I get it. So, the ads don't pop up, because you know what I find especially if I buy a big ticket item or research a big ticket item online or Amazon, I buy one, and then Amazon sends me an ad for another one. Like Hey Amazon, I just bought one. Why would I need two? 

[00:05:01] What you can return them on Amazon. Maybe that's what it is and make the money and the turn, right.

[00:05:08] So, that is what it is good for, is good for, getting rid of cookies. But, even then, you're not anonymous as far as the websites go because the Web sites can track you based on how you have configured your web browser. Yeah exactly. Never ends does it are plugins you have the extensions set. OK. So if you really want to have the best somewhat anonymous while you're online browsing experience, the easiest thing to do is use Firefox. Firefox has added some new features so that when you're in incognito mode on Firefox, it does more than Google Chrome does to kind of keep your information private. Again you know because you don't want to be tracked you don't want cookies you don't want more ads for that new sports car or table saw, right. So, it's a good way to do it and the other one to consider seriously consider and this is the one I use quite frequently is the epic browser now. I've had the guy who founded this on my radio show before and we've talked about it but it is E-P-I-C. I see browser and what it does is it goes far beyond any other browsers in trying to keep your information safe. It does not let them set COOK tracking cookies most cookies are completely ignored. It has all of the features of Google Chrome, and yet no tracking which frankly is I think kind of nice. It's a little bit of a relief to know that and then there's another quick trick. That you can do if you want to do a google search and you're tired of Google coming up with all this information about you and everything else. You can go in you can force all of your cookies and doing that is not only going to get rid of the ads that are targeted at you but flush cookies you're going to lose access to certain Web sites that you might have signed into. You're going to have to re-sign in and stuff 

[00:07:19] Yeah. Yeah, I do. I do mine. I don't mind that too much though

[00:07:25] Right. And you know as we've found out in this last week. Well you know, Jim, you and I talked about this months and months ago. I had a secret service briefing about an extortion attempt against Mitt Romney and the Yeah, Yeah I remember that. And you know so they're using technology they thought would make them anonymous. The guy was caught. He was just convicted this last week and he's facing 20 years in prison. So, you know that bottom line even if you think that you are going to be anonymous, there's nothing anonymous online. Bottom line if you're shopping for a present go ahead and use Incognito mode makes a lot of sense or use the epic browser or Firefox.

[00:08:10] It's great stuff. Now listen, folks. That's just a sampling of the stuff you can get from Craig Peterson. He does it for free, for my listeners. All you have to do is text my name, Jim. to this number

[00:08:26] 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. That's 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. 

[00:08:36] Now, standard data and tax rates apply. You'll get the information on Incognito. Plus this one a 30-second change to your computer settings. The easiest way to stop hackers. This is all great stuff Craig won't bother, won't annoy you. He's a nice guy and when there's big stuff going on like a hack he'll send you an alert. So, you want to do this to the man from the Great White North, Craig Peterson. Craig thanks so much and best for your daughter in Norway. Tell her to enjoy it while she can. 

[00:09:14] Yeah, I absolutely will have a Beauty-day, eh? 

[00:09:19] Thanks, Craig. We'll see. Bye. 

[00:09:22] And for those who ask why we call him Craig Peterson because that's how they pronounce it in Canada. It's not Peterson. Hey, we got a final word. Don't go anywhere. 

[00:09:33] You're listening to the Jim Polito show, your safe space.

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Airing date: 07/03/2018

Machine Learning vs Artificial Intelligence and Psychotic Machines

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, everybody. Jim Polito has got to get those phone lines fixed I called him again this morning. And what happens is, that it really sounds hollow and tinny on my side and just as bad on the side. Well, I assume they'll eventually get that fixed. I guess we'll see. But this morning, hey this is a big deal. Artificial intelligence, this morning I explained to Jim here, and to all of his listeners, he's got a huge show number one in central and western Massachusetts, It's crazy. But, anyway so millions of people out there, I explained to him and the listeners and of course now to you, right. The difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning, and I gave examples of two different pieces of artificial intelligence that have been in the news over the last month, and it's dramatic. It's scary but you need to understand this, and also which devices are safe to use. Who's tracking you and why? All of that right here, so, here we go. 

[00:01:08] Our good friend Craig Peterson still having trouble getting connected with him. But we will. And, meanwhile what he's going to talk about.

[00:01:18] When you can get at the end of the segment here, we're going to give you a number, and you text my name to that number. And Craig Peterson will send you a whole bunch of information. He won't annoy you he won't pester you, and he'll just send you important things like when there are big hacks and things. Standard data and text rates apply. But here he is, Craig. I was just telling everyone how I forgot to wish you a very Happy Canada Day. 

[00:01:46] Yes, that's right. 

[00:01:49] I missed Canada Day Sunday, July 1st. 

[00:01:52] I should have had a Molson or Labatt or a Musette, I like Moosehead here. So, yeah, it's like a cool time of year. You know we've got all kinds of celebrations. I've got a mom who's got like 10 birthdays, Wow. This is for our family here.

[00:02:16] You're a busy guy, Craig Peterson, busy. OK, Craig, it's time for you to give us the creepy story and scare us to death about a guy that can predict the future. That's I mean, I wanted to predict certain things like the power ball. I don't want him predicting other things. 

[00:02:34] Yeah, Well this is this is scary. No question about it. You know we've, we don't have, a yes, real artificial intelligence that that kind of thinks for itself not yet, it's not even born yet, really, frankly. Hey now, what, No, in reality, it is just Machine Learning. This is something that we've been working on for a very long time. And machine learning is where a machine can observe a theme and then make some assumptions based on off of those observations, right. That's the machine learning, that's kind of where we're at today. Artificial intelligence is coming around the corner, but it's not quite here yet. And, it's what scaring the living daylights out of everybody. What you're talking about right now is very, very, impressive because I sent this article to you talking about this one, study that has been done, and what they did is say they'll see this artificial intelligence, and they watched some video, and this is really kind of interesting too, and we're talking about the video, and what they were doing. But bottom line this is at the University of Bonn, over in Germany, and they said they watched about 40 different cooking videos. So, these were videos where people were cooking the different thing from salads to dinner. OK. Nothing, we would be terribly worried about. 

[00:04:14] And the computer then learned, OK and so it's watching these videos about cooking and it learned. OK, we like that. We wanted to do that stuff 

[00:04:28] Actually, right, That's right. Now, this particular took over a place a little different than what we had just about a month ago where they said the machine learning this. They said it read a channel or somebody would read it at all.

[00:04:46] Read it. Oh, I know. Read it. Yeah, yeah. 

[00:04:49] And, that people were talking, it's like a big old-fashioned board. This REDDIT. It ended up being psychotic, and everything they asked. 

[00:05:01] Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. You are now assigning reading. So, Reddit which is a program which is you know an app and everything else. OK. And it's got a guy in it, to do some stuff. You're saying that the AI in Reddit that would be like saying the AI in Facebook became psychotic. You're basically assigning a human psychiatric disorder. To 

[00:05:28] Map a program, a Web site.

[00:05:32] Yeah that's exactly what happened, this is an MIT. OK, not too far away. No. And then they made this little machine learning that way. They said it looked at the darkest corners of Reddit, to be honest about it. But they said, it just got sent to the bulletin board these people chatting back and forth about how they ended up having to name it. 

[00:05:55] Norman, what they named it. Well, first of all, you name someone Norman, in all due respect, to normal is out there you're going to automatically become psychotic, it's like you name someone, Jeeves. 

[00:06:07] Have to grow up to be a butler to those people, Right. So, this MIT named this the world's first psychopath. 

[00:06:19] Who were we, were we feeding that all too, say that now, you've seen these Rorschach ink.

[00:06:26] Yes, yes, like they show you the ink blot test. And most people look at them. It's a psychological test and say every time they look at the blot, they say, I see a naked woman. And now people see the blot and tell the therapist what they saw in it, and it's supposed to show some things in their subconscious. What they have written ordinarily offer up, or wouldn't be able to know that, or even there and offer up his, or her trying to do is get to expose what your normal thinking is.

[00:07:02] Yeah, Oh yeah. You see that naked woman, are you? You don't see this, or you like that, they bad this artificial intelligence. Well, in one of those and artificial intelligence came back, and said things like a man is shot dead, a man jumps from the window. Man is electrocuted and is hacked to death. It was just a man get pulled into a snow machine. All of them. OK, so it's totally massively Norman bait. Wow. So, that was just was last month, this month out of Germany we have we have our latest greatest clue. And, this one observing the Food Network. OK. Yeah. And, so they let us learn from watching cooking and then what they did is they said it just some very short videos and after that asked what's going to happen next. And as long as the prediction was only maybe 20-30 seconds into the future, it was actually very, very, accurate. And remember they only added 40 videos. It's not as though one of these machines could possibly go online and find videos to ingest anywhere. There's no YouTube. It just won't. When actually, I guess, YouTube does have some video. So, what's going to happen when we start feeding this type of information into the computers now. Now let's talk about our system. People out there have assistant systems for a home to go home. You've got your own theory which is the most popular one of them, both Google and Amazon right. 

[00:08:52] You've got your Amazon echoes all those things floated by the way everybody thinks Google is going to win. Why are they going to win the war when it comes to the virtual assistant, why, they have your e-mail. They have your calendars. They know where you go. They know where you are, what you know, the restaurants you're in. They basically know everything, now in the last four months. Google has tripled the number of hardware devices, that are using them. So, this year so far there are 16 hundred devices that have this type of intelligence built since and now we're up to five thousand now. Amazon still dominates that field. They've got 12000 different devices, that they have there. And this is going to be a race of races as Apple, Google, Amazon are racing to have these machine learning, the system because already Google system will look at your calendar and will tell you, hey listen I just checked your calendar and you have a meeting down here in Boston and in the traffic right now there's an accident on the pike, there is this other alternate route and that's going to take an extra 20 minutes and I know it takes you 20 minutes just to get into the car so you better go right now.

[00:10:22] They're watching me. 

[00:10:25] And, then we had more phone problems. But, yes they are watching you. The thing to remember here is that the only one of these major companies that are absolutely dedicated to your privacy are our friends over at Apple, so keep that in mind. They do gather some information but, anything that leaves your phone is anonymized. They have no way to figure out who it was that said something, did something, went somewhere. It does store information but only on your phone. But remember that phones encrypted, it's protected, and it is not used for marketing or maybe even used for evil. Hey, did you notice the Google took to do no evil out of their corporate motto? The Web site, anyways. You don't. Don't be evil, that's what it was. It's gone now over Google, anyways. Have a great day. Have a great Independence Day, or Canada Day whatever it is coming up your way. It's a busy month here for us, in my family and it's a great month. I'm actually for the first time, in a long time, I'm actually enjoying summer this year. Even though the temperatures have been horrific, 103 degrees here in New Hampshire which is where I live, Live Free or Die, or Live Fry or Die Today. Anyways we definitely have a big heat wave enters this summer, right if you like summer, you put up with the heat. And I am actually enjoying summer this year, the heat is just not bothering me as much as it used to. Take care, Have a great day. Bye-Bye.

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Airing date: 07/03/2018

Machine Learning vs Artificial Intelligence and Psychotic Machines

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, everybody. Jim Polito has got to get those phone lines fixed I called him again this morning. And what happens is, that it really sounds hollow and tinny on my side and just as bad on the side. Well, I assume they'll eventually get that fixed. I guess we'll see. But this morning, hey this is a big deal. Artificial intelligence, this morning I explained to Jim here, and to all of his listeners, he's got a huge show number one in central and western Massachusetts, It's crazy. But, anyway so millions of people out there, I explained to him and the listeners and of course now to you, right. The difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning, and I gave examples of two different pieces of artificial intelligence that have been in the news over the last month, and it's dramatic. It's scary but you need to understand this, and also which devices are safe to use. Who's tracking you and why? All of that right here, so, here we go. 

[00:01:08] Our good friend Craig Peterson still having trouble getting connected with him. But we will. And, meanwhile what he's going to talk about.

[00:01:18] When you can get at the end of the segment here, we're going to give you a number, and you text my name to that number. And Craig Peterson will send you a whole bunch of information. He won't annoy you he won't pester you, and he'll just send you important things like when there are big hacks and things. Standard data and text rates apply. But here he is, Craig. I was just telling everyone how I forgot to wish you a very Happy Canada Day. 

[00:01:46] Yes, that's right. 

[00:01:49] I missed Canada Day Sunday, July 1st. 

[00:01:52] I should have had a Molson or Labatt or a Musette, I like Moosehead here. So, yeah, it's like a cool time of year. You know we've got all kinds of celebrations. I've got a mom who's got like 10 birthdays, Wow. This is for our family here.

[00:02:16] You're a busy guy, Craig Peterson, busy. OK, Craig, it's time for you to give us the creepy story and scare us to death about a guy that can predict the future. That's I mean, I wanted to predict certain things like the power ball. I don't want him predicting other things. 

[00:02:34] Yeah, Well this is this is scary. No question about it. You know we've, we don't have, a yes, real artificial intelligence that that kind of thinks for itself not yet, it's not even born yet, really, frankly. Hey now, what, No, in reality, it is just Machine Learning. This is something that we've been working on for a very long time. And machine learning is where a machine can observe a theme and then make some assumptions based on off of those observations, right. That's the machine learning, that's kind of where we're at today. Artificial intelligence is coming around the corner, but it's not quite here yet. And, it's what scaring the living daylights out of everybody. What you're talking about right now is very, very, impressive because I sent this article to you talking about this one, study that has been done, and what they did is say they'll see this artificial intelligence, and they watched some video, and this is really kind of interesting too, and we're talking about the video, and what they were doing. But bottom line this is at the University of Bonn, over in Germany, and they said they watched about 40 different cooking videos. So, these were videos where people were cooking the different thing from salads to dinner. OK. Nothing, we would be terribly worried about. 

[00:04:14] And the computer then learned, OK and so it's watching these videos about cooking and it learned. OK, we like that. We wanted to do that stuff 

[00:04:28] Actually, right, That's right. Now, this particular took over a place a little different than what we had just about a month ago where they said the machine learning this. They said it read a channel or somebody would read it at all.

[00:04:46] Read it. Oh, I know. Read it. Yeah, yeah. 

[00:04:49] And, that people were talking, it's like a big old-fashioned board. This REDDIT. It ended up being psychotic, and everything they asked. 

[00:05:01] Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. You are now assigning reading. So, Reddit which is a program which is you know an app and everything else. OK. And it's got a guy in it, to do some stuff. You're saying that the AI in Reddit that would be like saying the AI in Facebook became psychotic. You're basically assigning a human psychiatric disorder. To 

[00:05:28] Map a program, a Web site.

[00:05:32] Yeah that's exactly what happened, this is an MIT. OK, not too far away. No. And then they made this little machine learning that way. They said it looked at the darkest corners of Reddit, to be honest about it. But they said, it just got sent to the bulletin board these people chatting back and forth about how they ended up having to name it. 

[00:05:55] Norman, what they named it. Well, first of all, you name someone Norman, in all due respect, to normal is out there you're going to automatically become psychotic, it's like you name someone, Jeeves. 

[00:06:07] Have to grow up to be a butler to those people, Right. So, this MIT named this the world's first psychopath. 

[00:06:19] Who were we, were we feeding that all too, say that now, you've seen these Rorschach ink.

[00:06:26] Yes, yes, like they show you the ink blot test. And most people look at them. It's a psychological test and say every time they look at the blot, they say, I see a naked woman. And now people see the blot and tell the therapist what they saw in it, and it's supposed to show some things in their subconscious. What they have written ordinarily offer up, or wouldn't be able to know that, or even there and offer up his, or her trying to do is get to expose what your normal thinking is.

[00:07:02] Yeah, Oh yeah. You see that naked woman, are you? You don't see this, or you like that, they bad this artificial intelligence. Well, in one of those and artificial intelligence came back, and said things like a man is shot dead, a man jumps from the window. Man is electrocuted and is hacked to death. It was just a man get pulled into a snow machine. All of them. OK, so it's totally massively Norman bait. Wow. So, that was just was last month, this month out of Germany we have we have our latest greatest clue. And, this one observing the Food Network. OK. Yeah. And, so they let us learn from watching cooking and then what they did is they said it just some very short videos and after that asked what's going to happen next. And as long as the prediction was only maybe 20-30 seconds into the future, it was actually very, very, accurate. And remember they only added 40 videos. It's not as though one of these machines could possibly go online and find videos to ingest anywhere. There's no YouTube. It just won't. When actually, I guess, YouTube does have some video. So, what's going to happen when we start feeding this type of information into the computers now. Now let's talk about our system. People out there have assistant systems for a home to go home. You've got your own theory which is the most popular one of them, both Google and Amazon right. 

[00:08:52] You've got your Amazon echoes all those things floated by the way everybody thinks Google is going to win. Why are they going to win the war when it comes to the virtual assistant, why, they have your e-mail. They have your calendars. They know where you go. They know where you are, what you know, the restaurants you're in. They basically know everything, now in the last four months. Google has tripled the number of hardware devices, that are using them. So, this year so far there are 16 hundred devices that have this type of intelligence built since and now we're up to five thousand now. Amazon still dominates that field. They've got 12000 different devices, that they have there. And this is going to be a race of races as Apple, Google, Amazon are racing to have these machine learning, the system because already Google system will look at your calendar and will tell you, hey listen I just checked your calendar and you have a meeting down here in Boston and in the traffic right now there's an accident on the pike, there is this other alternate route and that's going to take an extra 20 minutes and I know it takes you 20 minutes just to get into the car so you better go right now.

[00:10:22] They're watching me. 

[00:10:25] And, then we had more phone problems. But, yes they are watching you. The thing to remember here is that the only one of these major companies that are absolutely dedicated to your privacy are our friends over at Apple, so keep that in mind. They do gather some information but, anything that leaves your phone is anonymized. They have no way to figure out who it was that said something, did something, went somewhere. It does store information but only on your phone. But remember that phones encrypted, it's protected, and it is not used for marketing or maybe even used for evil. Hey, did you notice the Google took to do no evil out of their corporate motto? The Web site, anyways. You don't. Don't be evil, that's what it was. It's gone now over Google, anyways. Have a great day. Have a great Independence Day, or Canada Day whatever it is coming up your way. It's a busy month here for us, in my family and it's a great month. I'm actually for the first time, in a long time, I'm actually enjoying summer this year. Even though the temperatures have been horrific, 103 degrees here in New Hampshire which is where I live, Live Free or Die, or Live Fry or Die Today. Anyways we definitely have a big heat wave enters this summer, right if you like summer, you put up with the heat. And I am actually enjoying summer this year, the heat is just not bothering me as much as it used to. Take care, Have a great day. Bye-Bye.

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

Airing date: 07/02/2018

Artificial Intelligence in Our Phones.

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning. I Hope you're having a great week, of course, I am when I'm recording this. We are looking forward to Independence Day, the Fourth of July, and all of our fellow Canadians out there will be having a great Canada Day, no longer Dominion Day. I’m just enjoying this time of year. Boy, we've got some serious heat here in the Northeast. I've been talking to some of my friends who are these snowbirds, who go down to Florida and I've asked them to stop bringing the 100 plus degree temperatures here to the northeast, it’s pretty bad. Hey, have you wondered about artificial intelligence. There is a scary new AI, out of the University of Bonn, over in Germany, and that's really, what I talked about this morning with Jack Heath. How's it going to affect you? Who's going to win this war series? Probably, the most well-known of these assistants that are out there. But, who's going to win? That's not always the first to market.

[00:00:58] That's for sure, on this Monday morning, because the tech never stops with Craig Peterson. His show airs on the weekends on our current stations. And, Craig joins us now, Good morning, Mr. Craig. 

[00:01:09] A good morning. You know you have a habit, a pattern of doing things. Jack, you are bound to be maybe a little bit surprised, maybe not. Have you heard about this new artificial intelligence, that is predicting the future?

[00:01:26] David Losh, not kidding. No, I haven't. I mean I've heard about AI. AI, and all this stuff and they say it's the next big the next big groundbreaking tech, but I haven't heard about predicting the future. 

[00:01:35] Yeah, this is really kind of interesting and frankly kind of creepy as well. There's a new artificial intelligence machine that has been put together, here. Over at the University of Bonn in Germany, by the way. And, what they did is they set it up to learn how these machines learn. When you talk about artificial intelligence, I mean they are really able to learn things, from their environment, right. They're not programmed to understand, that you put the right foot in front of the left foot in order to be able to walk there. They're able to understand how to move the muscles, and that's really kind of it, and then they learn how to walk. In fact, that particular computer was able to predict people’s actions. Now they were really looking at a small sample. They had videos of people cooking, and they fed the videos into the artificial intelligence, 40 of them in total and the artificial intelligence was able to look at them, and kind of analyze them about how people cook, Then, what they did is they gave them identity versus knowledge in some different videos, but not the whole video. Just a small amount of it, and then had the artificial intelligence to predict what people will do next. And it was really quite accurate. And frankly, the University of Bonn from now and you kind of scared me by saying they think that these guys will be able to predict our actions, many hours into the future. And that's a really, really, big deal. And, when we look at our new, for instance, our new iPhone, they have machine learning chip built into them and that's the next step toward artificial intelligence. 

[00:03:23] Google has a system that has really started taking hold and get traction. Google, in the last four months, tripled the number of hardware devices that are using the system and the whole goal behind it. And if you're already using Google, just that you know that. But the goal behind it is to be very predictive. So, it will remind you, “Hey you're going to go on the fourth you're going to this place or that place. It'll just remind you, that it kind of thing, without you doing anything. It's already analyzed your calendar and analyzed the traffic conditions your driving patterns how long it takes you to get to the car and told you when to leave. So, I think Jack, we have this to look forward to pretty quickly. And, in fact, Google's system has become so popular over in India, it was just launched, by the way, last month over in India. It's so popular that a half a million Indians have proposed marriage to Google. In other words, they said Google, Will you marry me, please. 

[00:04:27] Amazing. All right, Craig, good stuff. Craig Peterson with than O.N. dot com Craig man, make it a good Monday, and a great Fourth to you too.

[00:04:34] Happy Independence Day. Thank you. And tomorrow morning

[00:04:38] And my best to all of you out there, as well, all of our great listeners, I so appreciate you and appreciate you sharing it. I had a really cool thing happened last week somebody had tagged me in a post, saying. “Hey, this is the guy I was telling you about”. And, they tagged a few different people, so, that was really kind of cool. And a couple of shout outs this week as well we were able to help out a couple of other small businesses and went back and visited because you know once you get the technology in place that's kind of just the start of things right. You have to make sure it's working. It's integrated, the employees understand it. Everything else. So, you know we don't mind it, we like making those follow up visits to make sure all of the technology is in place, anyhow. Have a great week! A great Independence Day. I'll be back tomorrow, and I going to talk to Jim, take care, bye-bye.

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Airing date: 07/02/2018

Artificial Intelligence in Our Phones.

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning. I Hope you're having a great week, of course, I am when I'm recording this. We are looking forward to Independence Day, the Fourth of July, and all of our fellow Canadians out there will be having a great Canada Day, no longer Dominion Day. I’m just enjoying this time of year. Boy, we've got some serious heat here in the Northeast. I've been talking to some of my friends who are these snowbirds, who go down to Florida and I've asked them to stop bringing the 100 plus degree temperatures here to the northeast, it’s pretty bad. Hey, have you wondered about artificial intelligence. There is a scary new AI, out of the University of Bonn, over in Germany, and that's really, what I talked about this morning with Jack Heath. How's it going to affect you? Who's going to win this war series? Probably, the most well-known of these assistants that are out there. But, who's going to win? That's not always the first to market.

[00:00:58] That's for sure, on this Monday morning, because the tech never stops with Craig Peterson. His show airs on the weekends on our current stations. And, Craig joins us now, Good morning, Mr. Craig. 

[00:01:09] A good morning. You know you have a habit, a pattern of doing things. Jack, you are bound to be maybe a little bit surprised, maybe not. Have you heard about this new artificial intelligence, that is predicting the future?

[00:01:26] David Losh, not kidding. No, I haven't. I mean I've heard about AI. AI, and all this stuff and they say it's the next big the next big groundbreaking tech, but I haven't heard about predicting the future. 

[00:01:35] Yeah, this is really kind of interesting and frankly kind of creepy as well. There's a new artificial intelligence machine that has been put together, here. Over at the University of Bonn in Germany, by the way. And, what they did is they set it up to learn how these machines learn. When you talk about artificial intelligence, I mean they are really able to learn things, from their environment, right. They're not programmed to understand, that you put the right foot in front of the left foot in order to be able to walk there. They're able to understand how to move the muscles, and that's really kind of it, and then they learn how to walk. In fact, that particular computer was able to predict people’s actions. Now they were really looking at a small sample. They had videos of people cooking, and they fed the videos into the artificial intelligence, 40 of them in total and the artificial intelligence was able to look at them, and kind of analyze them about how people cook, Then, what they did is they gave them identity versus knowledge in some different videos, but not the whole video. Just a small amount of it, and then had the artificial intelligence to predict what people will do next. And it was really quite accurate. And frankly, the University of Bonn from now and you kind of scared me by saying they think that these guys will be able to predict our actions, many hours into the future. And that's a really, really, big deal. And, when we look at our new, for instance, our new iPhone, they have machine learning chip built into them and that's the next step toward artificial intelligence. 

[00:03:23] Google has a system that has really started taking hold and get traction. Google, in the last four months, tripled the number of hardware devices that are using the system and the whole goal behind it. And if you're already using Google, just that you know that. But the goal behind it is to be very predictive. So, it will remind you, “Hey you're going to go on the fourth you're going to this place or that place. It'll just remind you, that it kind of thing, without you doing anything. It's already analyzed your calendar and analyzed the traffic conditions your driving patterns how long it takes you to get to the car and told you when to leave. So, I think Jack, we have this to look forward to pretty quickly. And, in fact, Google's system has become so popular over in India, it was just launched, by the way, last month over in India. It's so popular that a half a million Indians have proposed marriage to Google. In other words, they said Google, Will you marry me, please. 

[00:04:27] Amazing. All right, Craig, good stuff. Craig Peterson with than O.N. dot com Craig man, make it a good Monday, and a great Fourth to you too.

[00:04:34] Happy Independence Day. Thank you. And tomorrow morning

[00:04:38] And my best to all of you out there, as well, all of our great listeners, I so appreciate you and appreciate you sharing it. I had a really cool thing happened last week somebody had tagged me in a post, saying. “Hey, this is the guy I was telling you about”. And, they tagged a few different people, so, that was really kind of cool. And a couple of shout outs this week as well we were able to help out a couple of other small businesses and went back and visited because you know once you get the technology in place that's kind of just the start of things right. You have to make sure it's working. It's integrated, the employees understand it. Everything else. So, you know we don't mind it, we like making those follow up visits to make sure all of the technology is in place, anyhow. Have a great week! A great Independence Day. I'll be back tomorrow, and I going to talk to Jim, take care, bye-bye.

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