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Are Internet Passwords going away?  Listen is as I explain about a plan to kill Internet passwords.

Is Facebook still tracking you? Today, I will share with you 18 things, you may not know that Facebook is tracking.

Is Minority Report coming to your local Police force? I will explain about this new, creepy, artificial intelligence out there. This may be the future, and it is, unfortunately anticipatory.

How do you feel about Automated Grocery Stores?  What do you think is going to happen when you walk into a store and you never interact with anyone? I will explain what I think about this and some of the drawbacks of this technology.

Remember the extortion case involving bitcoin and Mitt Romney's tax returns?  I will discuss what happened this week to the criminal involved.

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

Airing date: 06/30/2018

Microsoft Passwords - Facebook and Microsoft challenging Amazon Go - Killing Passwords - AI predicting the Future - 18 Surprising things Facebook is tracking about you

Craig Peterson: [00:00:03] Hi everybody, Happy Saturday. Well, this is when the show, of course, airs every Saturday on Clear Channel and I Heart Radio. And, I hope you enjoy it if you are watching this online. Of course, many of you might be watching at any time of day anywhere in the world, it's kind of cool. And, then also it's available via podcast so, hopefully, you've been paying attention to my podcasts and watching those as well. Today, we're going to cover a few different topics, so, I want you to kind of stick around. They're all important. We're going to talk about what you need to know, about the plan to kill Internet passwords, we mentioned this on the show before. I've got some more details. List of 18 things, you may not know that Facebook is tracking, about you. We've got a pretty new, creepy, artificial intelligence out there. This may be the future, and it, unfortunately, is anticipatory. So, we'll talk about what it's doing. We've talked before about checkout-less stores. Do you think they're going to affect you? What do you think is going to happen when you walk into a store and you never interact with anyone? Is that something that could change your life for the better or the worse? We're going to talk about that, and a story that is changing the world and it's just not been reported. I reported on it, because I got this information directly from the Secret Service some months ago, while the guy involved has gone to jail. But you know if one of your family members is kidnapped you would want to know these things. First of all, you've got to solve it quickly before that family member gets hurt or killed. You also know that the odds of getting your family member back aren't that great. Depends on where this is all happening, right. 

[00:01:50] So, kidnapping is really a bad thing. Well, what do you do when there's a kidnapping? We're going to talk about that, and we're going to talk about the new high tech kidnappings that are going on. And, this is not good not good at all. And particularly we're going to talk about a kidnapping involving U.S. presidential Republican candidate Mitt Romney. I mean, this is this is just absolutely phenomenal you probably haven't heard about it unless you heard it from me so, welcome. We're getting into the show right now. 

[00:02:26] So, first of all, let's talk about this. Check out this store, OK. This is really huge because think about if you go into the store. Think about you interacting with the cash register people, right. You put all your stuff out of your grocery cart you put it on the conveyor belt. They ring it up right. They scan it, back in the old days. They knew all the prices of everything, just because they type them, right there, Right. Nowadays, they try and scan it, if it is not can they just don't know what to do, Right. Call a manager while they're trying to change all of us because of course those employees can get kind of expensive and there's not a huge margin in the grocery market. You know, I have mixed feelings about this one. I have mixed feelings, in fact about a lot of automation projects that are going on. And the reason, I have mixed feelings about this one, is frankly, the checkout and the bagging. That's the first job, for many people, Right. That's where many of us got our start and an understanding of business. In fact, to look at the problems we have in the world today, with the younger generations, and not understanding the work ethic, and you know the real entrepreneurial drives education when you're young out there selling lemonade. I delivered newspapers, right. I have had jobs, forever. I worked for some pretty big corporations when I was young, and then went on for the rest of my life to be entrepreneurial.

[00:03:59] I haven't worked for someone else since I was 18. That is a big deal, Right. So, very entrepreneurial. And, you have these opportunities to have a starter job where you learn not to mouth off to the boss. You learn that you're not the smartest person in the room, even though you are 18, and you do everything right. All of these things, think back to when you were younger. Think back to the things you learned, so now apply that to your kids or your grandkids or even to yourself. And, then let's move on to this. Check out this war that started, Amazon's been busy at it. And, we know that already. It's called Amazon Go when they have, I think that's it. I know they have at least one test store and they may have more than that right now. And, the idea is you walk in the store when you walk in you take your smartphone, and you put it on the sensor and it knows who you are. And, you have an account and your credit cards linked into the account. And, now you go around the store and there are sensors and cameras that watch you take things off the shelf, and put them in your cart. Now, there is a grocery store in the Northeast that is now basically out of business. But it is one of the last things they had tried, in order to get their business up. 

[00:05:15] I think it was Stop and Shop, they had something very similar but you would take your smartphone to scan each item, you'd put it there in your cart and then at the very end you'd get the checkout button and you'd check out and you were all done that simple. Isn't that kind of cool. Well, they went, out of business. We used it a few times I just liked the convenience and not having to stand in lines waiting for the checkout. Not having to deal with them not being able to scan it, or whatever right. I absolutely loved it. But I'm not normal. I think we've established this. So, now think about going into the store never having to wait in line never having to do anything. Do you think that there will be more theft from the store? What do you think the downside of this is? No, I'd really like to know because I think there are some very real downsides to these problems. They've got this cashier free, automated grocery store that opened in early 2018. And, they have got more planned for Chicago and San Francisco. But Amazon is not the only one out there. Turns out that Microsoft has been busy trying to do much the same thing. They have a team now, it's only what 10 to 15 people, apparently according to this report. And, I've got it up on my Web site. This is from Fortune magazine. These 10 or 15 people are working on automated systems that will allow a store to just have you check out. One of the contracts I had years ago, was with NCR ,and I developed a system that allowed them to do way more than they'd be able to do before, when it came to checkouts. 

[00:06:59] And you know front office, back office, all sorts of things that you have to consider. But, one of these people is a computer vision expert, who used to work for Amazon Go, according to Reuters. So, that means you can expect Microsoft to get into this game. Cashier-less is coming. So, if you are working in checkout and I know my local store, my favorite store for groceries, frankly is Market Basket there are people who've been working there for 30 years, or even more. And you know good for them. But hey, if that's your only job, and automation is definitely coming to you, in coming your way, I I want to give you a little bit of warning, OK. So, keep an eye out. Very cool. How's that going to change your life? I know it will make mine a little quicker, a little easier, as I go forward, and I'm not going to be buying as much candy from that little, the little stand, they have right there at the edge, right to buy stuff, at the last minute or seconds. You know, it's probably going to hurt those supermarket tabloid magazines as well.

[00:08:10] All right, let's talk about this creepy, AI machine. This is a very cool article from The Daily Mail and it's talking about a machine that is going to work to help us, Right. Isn't that how all the science fiction shows start out. We're here to help, the right serving, human. I think that over the years so artificial intelligence is going to be helping us. And, if you are using Google's assistant, you already know they're using some machine learning to try and help you. All right, Now, the machine learning is all well and good, but in this case what's happening is right now today with assistant is looking at your calendar and send your reminder, hey listen you got that meeting coming up with your chiropractor, you need to get over there, and need to leave now or in five minutes it can remind you of things and even make suggestions your wife's birthday is coming up in two weeks. You might want to add something for her. 

[00:10:51] So, it is now accurately able to per detect what people are going to do next. So, it was built by a team of people over the University of Bonn in Germany. And what it did is it watched cooking videos. So, you know don't worry it's not Skynet yet, some pretty cool pictures I printed them up in black and white here, but you'll find them on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. This whole thing he believes, Dr. Gall that the intelligent software will eventually be able to prophesy your actions hours before they happen. So, if this team manages to fine tune this algorithm this program to be able to anticipate your actions that far in advance you can think of a lot of cool things from home gadget automation to kind of big brother's stuff. Now, do you have an Amazon Echo at home from Amazon? You just wake it up and look in a way. Now for all of you people who do have that Amazon device but think about the interfaces now, you can install different software modules onto your echo and have those software modules now control different things in your homes. So, think about controlling, for instance, the television it warms it up. Now, you need to warm up TVs anymore remember you had to turn them on wait for a few minutes for the tubes to warm up. 

[00:12:23] But you know it schedules your recordings on your DVR it is automatically going to get that cup of coffee ready for you in the morning because you're going to have a unit that has the grinder built right into it and so you just fill let up with your coffee beans and it's going to auto eject all of that coffee beans or maybe the pods into a trash can for you. And it's also going to remind you when you're shopping and you’re in the coffee aisle and are in front of the pods, Hey you need to pick up more pods because we're going to run out next Tuesday afternoon. It's going to be very, very, specific. 

[00:13:06] So, all the AI right now is really it was just watching you cooking these sorts of things are going to be used to help us understand you more. Now they used 40 different videos to teach this artificial intelligence. The recordings are about six minutes long and it was able to predict how people cook. So, they looked to recognize it. Now, remember they're not programming it to recognize something they are programming that to learn and to and to observe patterns. So, it isn't really understanding that they're cooking but it understated stood there's a second sequence of events that we needed to prepare the dish and a very far from trivial by the way and then tested how successful the learning process was. So they confronted the AI with videos and had never seen before and they were told the eye was given 20 30 percent of the clip and the AI had to kind of fill in the rest. And it did okay its accuracy right now is over 40 percent for short forecast periods and then dropped further, of course, the further it had to look into the future. It's not that smart yet, but this is coming. This is going to change our lives. And, I want to see if you have any of these concerns yourself right. 

[00:14:30] Why are people so worried about AI. Again, this is from the Daily Mail they came up with the list. I love this list so it's an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world. We know that we've talked about that before. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, we have many other top scientists who are worried about this and they're concerned that the AI may take over that part of the reason why Elon Musk wants to develop a colony on Mars. Elon Musk described AI as our biggest existential threat and like it's likened its development to summoning the demon. He believes super-intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Stephen Hawking said it's nearly certain that our major technological disasters will threaten humanity in the next 1000 to 10000 years. Well yeah, I think so too. Obviously, they're going to be taking jobs more than 60 percent of the people fear robots will lead to there being fewer jobs in the next 10 years. Do you think that's true? You know I do. There's a lot more. You'll see those again up on my Web site over at Craig Peterson dot com. So, make sure you check it out and get up to date on all the latest. So, Facebook, we know Facebook has been tracking us. Facebook has been promising Congress that they're really not tracking us a whole lot. 

[00:15:56] So, you know don't worry about it. Right. Not a big deal nothing to see here, but they are tracking us, and there is a list that you'll find out on Buzzfeed and up on my Web site as well, of 18 things you might not have realized that Facebook is tracking about you. Now a couple of these we talked about before, but I'm going to repeat them for those that maybe didn't catch it on a podcast, or one of my videos. So, this is in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which is going to have his team do some follow up. You remember he did send a follow-up report to Congress. It really didn't get a lot of press because he didn't say anything, right. So, anyhow it was a massive document and it had the written answer. So, here you go. Here's some of the information that was in their Facebook collects information from computers, phones, connected TVs, those smart TVs we've been warning about, and other web-connected devices as well as your Internet service provider or mobile operator because remember they all have access to which sites are you going to. What are you doing when you're there. It tracks the mouse movements on your computer the app and file names and file types that are on your devices. 

[00:17:18] And think about that one, right. Do you have any files on your computer you might not want Facebook to see? And maybe you don't want other sites to see because remember it's not just Facebook that can potentially see this stuff. It's other sites as well. OK. Whether the browser window with Facebook is in the foreground or background the time-frequency and duration of activities. So, they are watching you watching Facebook information about nearby what nearby Wi-Fi access points Beacon's cell towers signal strength and they use all of that to triangulate your location. OK so they also have connection formation like your IP address your Wi-Fi connection a specific location information like the GPS on your device it goes on and on here other devices nearby or on the network your available storage space the installed plugins on your browser. Whether that's your computer or your smart device to ensure using the purchases that you've made on off a Facebook website, so you don't even have to buy something on Facebook to have that happen. Your call information and a whole lot of other stuff. So, Facebook is sucking up a ton of your personal information you might not have been aware of it. 

[00:18:42] There is a lot more here in this list of 18 but it's scary. I want to also remind you about the recap chaabi noticed those and sometimes they change. These are the little boxes that show up to prove that you're not a robot. The story behind those is absolutely fascinating. So, it is tracking when you're in those boxes where your mouse is moving, and you do expect that because that's how it figures out if your robot or not because humans just don't move the mouse the same way a robot does. So, it's more than that. It is really tracking a lot of things. I've got to talk about this. This is extortion. We're going to talk more right now. And man, it's a really big deal and it's changing extortion in the Internet era is not what it used to be. 

[00:19:37] It used to be you would have something that people wanted you to give to them. Or maybe it was something that they didn't want you to disclose at all. And extortion has been around basically forever. Right. It's a very long-running crime very long running problem but it has changed in this Internet era. Now that this guy's been sentenced I can tell you a little bit about what the Secret Service had told me. You know I'd do the InfraGard webinars for the FBI. Very interesting. I get a lot of inside baseball information because of this and my membership in InfraGard, but I want to point out something here and that is that there is information I can share, and I can share it and when it's relevant to everybody I do share. So, we're going to share this one right now because it appeared in a trip wire as well as other places online. There was a guy who wanted to make some money and decided to do it illegally. So, what does he do? Well, he knows Bitcoin is a great way to never be tracked. Now for those who are listening and not watching I'm using air quotes right. So, he thought he could never be tracked. And of course, that's wrong. You can always be tracked and that can be a really big deal when you're tracking. 

[00:21:07] And with bitcoin there's certainly a degree of anonymity but based on how you use it you know and other factors you can be tracked because remember it's a general ledger system. Everyone has a ledger. They all know where the transactions are. So, in this case, he didn't know what his limits are how many times have we done that. Right. Would you have started a business if you knew how hard it would be if you knew all of the regulations and then on top of that you've got to do the marketing and the cash management you got to right take care of everything? Most of us if we knew in advance he wouldn't do it but many of us know enough not to try something we just can't do. When you're 60 years old, you don't want to learn how to skateboard right. I saw a great mean I should try and put this up on my Web site. My daughter sent it today. You know when you're a kid your injuries are, I fell off my bike, I fell out of a tree, right. When you're an adult, your injuries are more serious, I said, it's a very funny mean there's more than that to it. But, we're talking about this, he didn't know his limits. So, he decided he would try and extort money from Mitt Romney. 

[00:22:26] Well, in fact, it was more extort money from the Democrat and the Republican Party. He claimed to have access to Mitt Romney's tax returns. And, you remember the tax returns were kind of a big deal back then and during that election and of course these were a big deal in Trump's election because tax returns tend to be private. And, there are a million ways to interpret these, that are very difficult when you're talking about the complex returns. Even my return, half the time you know you look at it and you say OK, well I got to talk to the accountants about this and that and trying to understand what's going on. So, he claimed to have presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns that he had stolen from the offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers. Now Price Waterhouse Coopers said no, no, no. They released a statement that it didn't happen but, this guy apparently in Nashville, Michael Mann, 37 years old of Franklin Tennessee, He said I got them. I stole them and I'm going to release them. And, then he set up two Bitcoin wallets, and the bottom line on all of this is, he's said whichever wallet reaches a million dollars first, is going to determine what I do.

[00:23:50] So, if you put money into this Republican wallet when it hits a million dollars, I will destroy my copy of Mitt Romney's tax returns. You know it was so mean, the Republicans didn't want that information disclosed. And for the Democrats, he said the opposite. Hey, if you get it up to a million dollars before the Republicans, I am going to guess what disclose the tax returns. We don't have time to finish this on the radio. If you're watching us on video, we're going to continue this. But for a while, this was a very big deal. Have a great week. Enjoy yourself. Visit me online Craig Peterson dot com. And we'll be back next week as well and make sure you subscribe to my podcasts. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, subscribe right there, and I've been doing a short podcast almost every day. I release new information about what's going on. I appreciate everybody who has taken the time to subscribe. So, if you're watching on video stick around, everybody else look, for the video. You go have a great week. Bye-Bye. 

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Are Internet Passwords going away?  Listen is as I explain about a plan to kill Internet passwords.

Is Facebook still tracking you? Today, I will share with you 18 things, you may not know that Facebook is tracking.

Is Minority Report coming to your local Police force? I will explain about this new, creepy, artificial intelligence out there. This may be the future, and it is, unfortunately anticipatory.

How do you feel about Automated Grocery Stores?  What do you think is going to happen when you walk into a store and you never interact with anyone? I will explain what I think about this and some of the drawbacks of this technology.

Remember the extortion case involving bitcoin and Mitt Romney's tax returns?  I will discuss what happened this week to the criminal involved.

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: 06/30/2018

Microsoft Passwords - Facebook and Microsoft challenging Amazon Go - Killing Passwords - AI predicting the Future - 18 Surprising things Facebook is tracking about you

Craig Peterson: [00:00:03] Hi everybody, Happy Saturday. Well, this is when the show, of course, airs every Saturday on Clear Channel and I Heart Radio. And, I hope you enjoy it if you are watching this online. Of course, many of you might be watching at any time of day anywhere in the world, it's kind of cool. And, then also it's available via podcast so, hopefully, you've been paying attention to my podcasts and watching those as well. Today, we're going to cover a few different topics, so, I want you to kind of stick around. They're all important. We're going to talk about what you need to know, about the plan to kill Internet passwords, we mentioned this on the show before. I've got some more details. List of 18 things, you may not know that Facebook is tracking, about you. We've got a pretty new, creepy, artificial intelligence out there. This may be the future, and it, unfortunately, is anticipatory. So, we'll talk about what it's doing. We've talked before about checkout-less stores. Do you think they're going to affect you? What do you think is going to happen when you walk into a store and you never interact with anyone? Is that something that could change your life for the better or the worse? We're going to talk about that, and a story that is changing the world and it's just not been reported. I reported on it, because I got this information directly from the Secret Service some months ago, while the guy involved has gone to jail. But you know if one of your family members is kidnapped you would want to know these things. First of all, you've got to solve it quickly before that family member gets hurt or killed. You also know that the odds of getting your family member back aren't that great. Depends on where this is all happening, right. 

[00:01:50] So, kidnapping is really a bad thing. Well, what do you do when there's a kidnapping? We're going to talk about that, and we're going to talk about the new high tech kidnappings that are going on. And, this is not good not good at all. And particularly we're going to talk about a kidnapping involving U.S. presidential Republican candidate Mitt Romney. I mean, this is this is just absolutely phenomenal you probably haven't heard about it unless you heard it from me so, welcome. We're getting into the show right now. 

[00:02:26] So, first of all, let's talk about this. Check out this store, OK. This is really huge because think about if you go into the store. Think about you interacting with the cash register people, right. You put all your stuff out of your grocery cart you put it on the conveyor belt. They ring it up right. They scan it, back in the old days. They knew all the prices of everything, just because they type them, right there, Right. Nowadays, they try and scan it, if it is not can they just don't know what to do, Right. Call a manager while they're trying to change all of us because of course those employees can get kind of expensive and there's not a huge margin in the grocery market. You know, I have mixed feelings about this one. I have mixed feelings, in fact about a lot of automation projects that are going on. And the reason, I have mixed feelings about this one, is frankly, the checkout and the bagging. That's the first job, for many people, Right. That's where many of us got our start and an understanding of business. In fact, to look at the problems we have in the world today, with the younger generations, and not understanding the work ethic, and you know the real entrepreneurial drives education when you're young out there selling lemonade. I delivered newspapers, right. I have had jobs, forever. I worked for some pretty big corporations when I was young, and then went on for the rest of my life to be entrepreneurial.

[00:03:59] I haven't worked for someone else since I was 18. That is a big deal, Right. So, very entrepreneurial. And, you have these opportunities to have a starter job where you learn not to mouth off to the boss. You learn that you're not the smartest person in the room, even though you are 18, and you do everything right. All of these things, think back to when you were younger. Think back to the things you learned, so now apply that to your kids or your grandkids or even to yourself. And, then let's move on to this. Check out this war that started, Amazon's been busy at it. And, we know that already. It's called Amazon Go when they have, I think that's it. I know they have at least one test store and they may have more than that right now. And, the idea is you walk in the store when you walk in you take your smartphone, and you put it on the sensor and it knows who you are. And, you have an account and your credit cards linked into the account. And, now you go around the store and there are sensors and cameras that watch you take things off the shelf, and put them in your cart. Now, there is a grocery store in the Northeast that is now basically out of business. But it is one of the last things they had tried, in order to get their business up. 

[00:05:15] I think it was Stop and Shop, they had something very similar but you would take your smartphone to scan each item, you'd put it there in your cart and then at the very end you'd get the checkout button and you'd check out and you were all done that simple. Isn't that kind of cool. Well, they went, out of business. We used it a few times I just liked the convenience and not having to stand in lines waiting for the checkout. Not having to deal with them not being able to scan it, or whatever right. I absolutely loved it. But I'm not normal. I think we've established this. So, now think about going into the store never having to wait in line never having to do anything. Do you think that there will be more theft from the store? What do you think the downside of this is? No, I'd really like to know because I think there are some very real downsides to these problems. They've got this cashier free, automated grocery store that opened in early 2018. And, they have got more planned for Chicago and San Francisco. But Amazon is not the only one out there. Turns out that Microsoft has been busy trying to do much the same thing. They have a team now, it's only what 10 to 15 people, apparently according to this report. And, I've got it up on my Web site. This is from Fortune magazine. These 10 or 15 people are working on automated systems that will allow a store to just have you check out. One of the contracts I had years ago, was with NCR ,and I developed a system that allowed them to do way more than they'd be able to do before, when it came to checkouts. 

[00:06:59] And you know front office, back office, all sorts of things that you have to consider. But, one of these people is a computer vision expert, who used to work for Amazon Go, according to Reuters. So, that means you can expect Microsoft to get into this game. Cashier-less is coming. So, if you are working in checkout and I know my local store, my favorite store for groceries, frankly is Market Basket there are people who've been working there for 30 years, or even more. And you know good for them. But hey, if that's your only job, and automation is definitely coming to you, in coming your way, I I want to give you a little bit of warning, OK. So, keep an eye out. Very cool. How's that going to change your life? I know it will make mine a little quicker, a little easier, as I go forward, and I'm not going to be buying as much candy from that little, the little stand, they have right there at the edge, right to buy stuff, at the last minute or seconds. You know, it's probably going to hurt those supermarket tabloid magazines as well.

[00:08:10] All right, let's talk about this creepy, AI machine. This is a very cool article from The Daily Mail and it's talking about a machine that is going to work to help us, Right. Isn't that how all the science fiction shows start out. We're here to help, the right serving, human. I think that over the years so artificial intelligence is going to be helping us. And, if you are using Google's assistant, you already know they're using some machine learning to try and help you. All right, Now, the machine learning is all well and good, but in this case what's happening is right now today with assistant is looking at your calendar and send your reminder, hey listen you got that meeting coming up with your chiropractor, you need to get over there, and need to leave now or in five minutes it can remind you of things and even make suggestions your wife's birthday is coming up in two weeks. You might want to add something for her. 

[00:10:51] So, it is now accurately able to per detect what people are going to do next. So, it was built by a team of people over the University of Bonn in Germany. And what it did is it watched cooking videos. So, you know don't worry it's not Skynet yet, some pretty cool pictures I printed them up in black and white here, but you'll find them on my Web site. Craig Peterson dot com. This whole thing he believes, Dr. Gall that the intelligent software will eventually be able to prophesy your actions hours before they happen. So, if this team manages to fine tune this algorithm this program to be able to anticipate your actions that far in advance you can think of a lot of cool things from home gadget automation to kind of big brother's stuff. Now, do you have an Amazon Echo at home from Amazon? You just wake it up and look in a way. Now for all of you people who do have that Amazon device but think about the interfaces now, you can install different software modules onto your echo and have those software modules now control different things in your homes. So, think about controlling, for instance, the television it warms it up. Now, you need to warm up TVs anymore remember you had to turn them on wait for a few minutes for the tubes to warm up. 

[00:12:23] But you know it schedules your recordings on your DVR it is automatically going to get that cup of coffee ready for you in the morning because you're going to have a unit that has the grinder built right into it and so you just fill let up with your coffee beans and it's going to auto eject all of that coffee beans or maybe the pods into a trash can for you. And it's also going to remind you when you're shopping and you’re in the coffee aisle and are in front of the pods, Hey you need to pick up more pods because we're going to run out next Tuesday afternoon. It's going to be very, very, specific. 

[00:13:06] So, all the AI right now is really it was just watching you cooking these sorts of things are going to be used to help us understand you more. Now they used 40 different videos to teach this artificial intelligence. The recordings are about six minutes long and it was able to predict how people cook. So, they looked to recognize it. Now, remember they're not programming it to recognize something they are programming that to learn and to and to observe patterns. So, it isn't really understanding that they're cooking but it understated stood there's a second sequence of events that we needed to prepare the dish and a very far from trivial by the way and then tested how successful the learning process was. So they confronted the AI with videos and had never seen before and they were told the eye was given 20 30 percent of the clip and the AI had to kind of fill in the rest. And it did okay its accuracy right now is over 40 percent for short forecast periods and then dropped further, of course, the further it had to look into the future. It's not that smart yet, but this is coming. This is going to change our lives. And, I want to see if you have any of these concerns yourself right. 

[00:14:30] Why are people so worried about AI. Again, this is from the Daily Mail they came up with the list. I love this list so it's an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world. We know that we've talked about that before. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, we have many other top scientists who are worried about this and they're concerned that the AI may take over that part of the reason why Elon Musk wants to develop a colony on Mars. Elon Musk described AI as our biggest existential threat and like it's likened its development to summoning the demon. He believes super-intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Stephen Hawking said it's nearly certain that our major technological disasters will threaten humanity in the next 1000 to 10000 years. Well yeah, I think so too. Obviously, they're going to be taking jobs more than 60 percent of the people fear robots will lead to there being fewer jobs in the next 10 years. Do you think that's true? You know I do. There's a lot more. You'll see those again up on my Web site over at Craig Peterson dot com. So, make sure you check it out and get up to date on all the latest. So, Facebook, we know Facebook has been tracking us. Facebook has been promising Congress that they're really not tracking us a whole lot. 

[00:15:56] So, you know don't worry about it. Right. Not a big deal nothing to see here, but they are tracking us, and there is a list that you'll find out on Buzzfeed and up on my Web site as well, of 18 things you might not have realized that Facebook is tracking about you. Now a couple of these we talked about before, but I'm going to repeat them for those that maybe didn't catch it on a podcast, or one of my videos. So, this is in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which is going to have his team do some follow up. You remember he did send a follow-up report to Congress. It really didn't get a lot of press because he didn't say anything, right. So, anyhow it was a massive document and it had the written answer. So, here you go. Here's some of the information that was in their Facebook collects information from computers, phones, connected TVs, those smart TVs we've been warning about, and other web-connected devices as well as your Internet service provider or mobile operator because remember they all have access to which sites are you going to. What are you doing when you're there. It tracks the mouse movements on your computer the app and file names and file types that are on your devices. 

[00:17:18] And think about that one, right. Do you have any files on your computer you might not want Facebook to see? And maybe you don't want other sites to see because remember it's not just Facebook that can potentially see this stuff. It's other sites as well. OK. Whether the browser window with Facebook is in the foreground or background the time-frequency and duration of activities. So, they are watching you watching Facebook information about nearby what nearby Wi-Fi access points Beacon's cell towers signal strength and they use all of that to triangulate your location. OK so they also have connection formation like your IP address your Wi-Fi connection a specific location information like the GPS on your device it goes on and on here other devices nearby or on the network your available storage space the installed plugins on your browser. Whether that's your computer or your smart device to ensure using the purchases that you've made on off a Facebook website, so you don't even have to buy something on Facebook to have that happen. Your call information and a whole lot of other stuff. So, Facebook is sucking up a ton of your personal information you might not have been aware of it. 

[00:18:42] There is a lot more here in this list of 18 but it's scary. I want to also remind you about the recap chaabi noticed those and sometimes they change. These are the little boxes that show up to prove that you're not a robot. The story behind those is absolutely fascinating. So, it is tracking when you're in those boxes where your mouse is moving, and you do expect that because that's how it figures out if your robot or not because humans just don't move the mouse the same way a robot does. So, it's more than that. It is really tracking a lot of things. I've got to talk about this. This is extortion. We're going to talk more right now. And man, it's a really big deal and it's changing extortion in the Internet era is not what it used to be. 

[00:19:37] It used to be you would have something that people wanted you to give to them. Or maybe it was something that they didn't want you to disclose at all. And extortion has been around basically forever. Right. It's a very long-running crime very long running problem but it has changed in this Internet era. Now that this guy's been sentenced I can tell you a little bit about what the Secret Service had told me. You know I'd do the InfraGard webinars for the FBI. Very interesting. I get a lot of inside baseball information because of this and my membership in InfraGard, but I want to point out something here and that is that there is information I can share, and I can share it and when it's relevant to everybody I do share. So, we're going to share this one right now because it appeared in a trip wire as well as other places online. There was a guy who wanted to make some money and decided to do it illegally. So, what does he do? Well, he knows Bitcoin is a great way to never be tracked. Now for those who are listening and not watching I'm using air quotes right. So, he thought he could never be tracked. And of course, that's wrong. You can always be tracked and that can be a really big deal when you're tracking. 

[00:21:07] And with bitcoin there's certainly a degree of anonymity but based on how you use it you know and other factors you can be tracked because remember it's a general ledger system. Everyone has a ledger. They all know where the transactions are. So, in this case, he didn't know what his limits are how many times have we done that. Right. Would you have started a business if you knew how hard it would be if you knew all of the regulations and then on top of that you've got to do the marketing and the cash management you got to right take care of everything? Most of us if we knew in advance he wouldn't do it but many of us know enough not to try something we just can't do. When you're 60 years old, you don't want to learn how to skateboard right. I saw a great mean I should try and put this up on my Web site. My daughter sent it today. You know when you're a kid your injuries are, I fell off my bike, I fell out of a tree, right. When you're an adult, your injuries are more serious, I said, it's a very funny mean there's more than that to it. But, we're talking about this, he didn't know his limits. So, he decided he would try and extort money from Mitt Romney. 

[00:22:26] Well, in fact, it was more extort money from the Democrat and the Republican Party. He claimed to have access to Mitt Romney's tax returns. And, you remember the tax returns were kind of a big deal back then and during that election and of course these were a big deal in Trump's election because tax returns tend to be private. And, there are a million ways to interpret these, that are very difficult when you're talking about the complex returns. Even my return, half the time you know you look at it and you say OK, well I got to talk to the accountants about this and that and trying to understand what's going on. So, he claimed to have presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns that he had stolen from the offices of Price Waterhouse Coopers. Now Price Waterhouse Coopers said no, no, no. They released a statement that it didn't happen but, this guy apparently in Nashville, Michael Mann, 37 years old of Franklin Tennessee, He said I got them. I stole them and I'm going to release them. And, then he set up two Bitcoin wallets, and the bottom line on all of this is, he's said whichever wallet reaches a million dollars first, is going to determine what I do.

[00:23:50] So, if you put money into this Republican wallet when it hits a million dollars, I will destroy my copy of Mitt Romney's tax returns. You know it was so mean, the Republicans didn't want that information disclosed. And for the Democrats, he said the opposite. Hey, if you get it up to a million dollars before the Republicans, I am going to guess what disclose the tax returns. We don't have time to finish this on the radio. If you're watching us on video, we're going to continue this. But for a while, this was a very big deal. Have a great week. Enjoy yourself. Visit me online Craig Peterson dot com. And we'll be back next week as well and make sure you subscribe to my podcasts. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes, subscribe right there, and I've been doing a short podcast almost every day. I release new information about what's going on. I appreciate everybody who has taken the time to subscribe. So, if you're watching on video stick around, everybody else look, for the video. You go have a great week. Bye-Bye. 

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Craig Peterson:[00:00:01] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson, here. I want to talk about something that happened to me this week. Now, you know I host a whole lot of web servers and that means I get a lot of traffic in, and I have my own Web site right. It's a business Web site. I try and get information out by using it. This week something happened, and that is that my server was under attack. Right. So, I had a look at the logs trying to figure a few things out. Why am i being attacked? I think you might have a couple of ideas, why you think I might be under attack. But anyhow, bottom line is I started looking at everybody's logs. Did you know that your web server is probably constantly under attack, and that can cause a whole lot of bad things to happen. For instance, your web server might be compromised because of a zero-day attack, or maybe you haven't updated that web server in some time. In many cases, people never update their web servers. I just had a client that we brought on, that had done it, in probably about five years. That's a huge problem. And, I'll tell you why the bad guys want your web server, its so they can spread malware. They want to spread it to other websites, they want to send out some spam e-mails, phishing attacks and other things so, that they can take control and make some money by stealing your information, which is really a bad thing, right.

[00:01:36] Killing your Web site, means your information doesn't get any mailed anymore. They don't really care if it works, or if they break your side or not. They want to do drive by downloads, or they want to distribute malware. There was just a case this week of that happening, where their servers called Docker that lets you download complete machines that will do specific functions on, a lot of people for instance, use these Docker containers, in order to run Java software, or run a web server in this case. So, people were buying, or downloading some of these Web servers, and in this case it was a free one. So, they got it for free from our friends over at Docker. And, once they had it, then they had it installed. One person complained, and they complained that things were slow. There seemed to be a back door, obviously, this is somebody new a little bit about security, right. And, that back door turned out to be used, to have your Docker container, your Web site, mine bitcoin. And, apparently, they had made about 100000 dollars, which is real money, right. You know bottom line. So, pay attention.

[00:02:49] I can tell you on my server, the top five hits, were to the WordPress log in page, and some other control software that many Web sites choose, and I don't use, I just don't trust it. So, they were trying to hack in, just general. This was a drive by. This is a robot trying to hack in, and get at the information on my website to be able to log in take control, to put things up that I didn't want to have up. So, that's the bottom line, for today. Double check your web server logs, double check your security. Let's make sure the bad guys aren't trying to break in, or make sure they haven't already broken in. I found that, in fact, about a month ago, they had already broken in. We shut it down. This is a zero-day attack. We shut it down, immediately. We noticed it within a matter of minutes, because of the software we have in place. We were able to stop them. So, do you know, if the bad guys have gotten into your systems including your web server. Hard to tell, if you don't have the right stuff in place. Check me out online. Craig Peterson dot com and of course I'd be more than glad to answer any questions that you might have just me at

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Craig Peterson:[00:00:01] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson, here. I want to talk about something that happened to me this week. Now, you know I host a whole lot of web servers and that means I get a lot of traffic in, and I have my own Web site right. It's a business Web site. I try and get information out by using it. This week something happened, and that is that my server was under attack. Right. So, I had a look at the logs trying to figure a few things out. Why am i being attacked? I think you might have a couple of ideas, why you think I might be under attack. But anyhow, bottom line is I started looking at everybody's logs. Did you know that your web server is probably constantly under attack, and that can cause a whole lot of bad things to happen. For instance, your web server might be compromised because of a zero-day attack, or maybe you haven't updated that web server in some time. In many cases, people never update their web servers. I just had a client that we brought on, that had done it, in probably about five years. That's a huge problem. And, I'll tell you why the bad guys want your web server, its so they can spread malware. They want to spread it to other websites, they want to send out some spam e-mails, phishing attacks and other things so, that they can take control and make some money by stealing your information, which is really a bad thing, right.

[00:01:36] Killing your Web site, means your information doesn't get any mailed anymore. They don't really care if it works, or if they break your side or not. They want to do drive by downloads, or they want to distribute malware. There was just a case this week of that happening, where their servers called Docker that lets you download complete machines that will do specific functions on, a lot of people for instance, use these Docker containers, in order to run Java software, or run a web server in this case. So, people were buying, or downloading some of these Web servers, and in this case it was a free one. So, they got it for free from our friends over at Docker. And, once they had it, then they had it installed. One person complained, and they complained that things were slow. There seemed to be a back door, obviously, this is somebody new a little bit about security, right. And, that back door turned out to be used, to have your Docker container, your Web site, mine bitcoin. And, apparently, they had made about 100000 dollars, which is real money, right. You know bottom line. So, pay attention.

[00:02:49] I can tell you on my server, the top five hits, were to the WordPress log in page, and some other control software that many Web sites choose, and I don't use, I just don't trust it. So, they were trying to hack in, just general. This was a drive by. This is a robot trying to hack in, and get at the information on my website to be able to log in take control, to put things up that I didn't want to have up. So, that's the bottom line, for today. Double check your web server logs, double check your security. Let's make sure the bad guys aren't trying to break in, or make sure they haven't already broken in. I found that, in fact, about a month ago, they had already broken in. We shut it down. This is a zero-day attack. We shut it down, immediately. We noticed it within a matter of minutes, because of the software we have in place. We were able to stop them. So, do you know, if the bad guys have gotten into your systems including your web server. Hard to tell, if you don't have the right stuff in place. Check me out online. Craig Peterson dot com and of course I'd be more than glad to answer any questions that you might have just me at

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Blockchain technology, cryptocurrency attacks, and AI Doctors

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson Here, Hi, Good morning. Boy, did we have a great webinar yesterday, by the way, I did one for the FBI, for their InfraGard program, that the FBI runs, and it was absolutely fantastic. We're talking about solar storms, and their effect on us, and how they could ultimately wipe out civilization. It's scary when you get right down to this stuff. The presenter was a professor at Baylor University, and for 22 years, he was with the Air Force, doing space weather, and he was talking about some of the things that really could affect us, and you know he doesn't like the hype of “hey, listen we're going to go back to the 18-hundreds, because we're going to lose all of our electronics,” but it was really interesting. Maybe we should talk about that someday. Anyhow today, with Ken and Matt, I spent a little bit of time going through two things. First of all, I went into my most in-depth description of how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin actually work, and why they are being compromised, why they're being stolen, and even how they're being stolen. So, if you have any money, or thought about putting any money into Bitcoin, you're going to want to listen in. Does that make sense to you? Right. What's the technology? How's it being stolen? And I've said for a long time that you should avoid buying these types of currencies. And I totally, totally, meant it, OK. It's a very, very, big deal. So, we talked about that, and then we spent a few minutes talking about the AI doctors and artificial intelligence. I went into that, in some detail yesterday, with Jim Polito, but we went briefly over it this morning over on WGAN and all of their affiliate stations in Maine. So, here we go with Kevin Mann. Thanks for joining us and stick around. 

[00:02:04] You're going to love this. At least I think you will. 

[00:02:08] Ok 739 on the WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday which means it's time to talk Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you? 

[00:02:19] Hey, that's me doing good. How are you guys?

[00:02:22] Well, I've had some, I've had some the cryptocurrency missing lately, you know. And why would it be missing? If any of it been stolen? 

[00:02:31] Do you think you just buy that stuff? 

[00:02:34] Come on. I went down to 7-11 and they had some on sale and I got couldn't resist.

[00:02:39] You know there's, at least there was, an ATM down in Portsmouth, is that where you bought them from?

[00:02:44] That's exactly yes, exactly. Yes.

[00:02:47] Oh, ok, Yeah, the whole cryptocurrency thing is starting to fall apart at least the way it is right now. We already know that we had major drops in the value of some of these things, like bitcoin, for instance. But, the big problem has to do with the basic premise of the technology behind so many of these cryptocurrencies and that is blockchain. Now you guys have heard about blockchain before, I'm sure.

[00:03:20] Yes, yes. 

[00:03:22] Now, the blockchain is really where you have everybody involved, has a ledger and the idea is that you and me, the three of us. We had some sort of a blockchain that we came up with. Right. And the way it works is the three of us will record every transaction that we make with each other, All right. So, for instance, if I give one of my Ken coins to Matt, I will write it down, okay, I gave a Ken coin to Matt and Matt has to write down he got a Ken Coin from Craig and then Ken has to write down. Yeah. Craig gave a Ken coin to Matt. So, follow me so far.

[00:04:07] Yes yes. 

[00:04:09] So the three of us have all written down in our two ledgers of this transaction occurred. Now let's say that they can for some reason Ken isn't available or maybe he'd missed recording the transaction. The way we know, who has how much, is based on the ledgers. Just like in a bank where you might have a ledger. And the problem comes up when one of us doesn't agree. Why? Because blockchains are based on this premise of 50 percent plus one. In other words, half of the people that are maintaining the ledgers for a particular blockchain currency plus one person have to agree that I gave a Ken coin to Matt. And, if you guys don't agree about whether or not that transaction actually occurred then it's as good as a transaction not occurring at all. So, we're talking about what's called the 51 percent attack, although technically for us that's 50 percent plus one. And here’s what's happening. What I just described is an over-simplification but it is essentially what happens with blockchain currencies. And that's why people love them because it isn't just one entity like the government saying that I owed Matt a Ken coin. So, we are as a group cooperating and sharing the information and validating the transactions. Well, Let's talk about a few here. MonoCoin, Bitcoin Gold, ThenCash, Virge, LikeCoinCash. These are few of the blockchain currencies out there that have been attacked by people, who are creating false ledgers. 

[00:06:09] So, this is a very dangerous cryptocurrency attack vector. This is something that, the NYU computer science researcher, Joseph Bono, released some research last year showing how much money you would cost to execute these attacks on the top blockchains by simply renting power, computing power rather than buying the equipment. And he said listen, these attacks are likely to increase, and we have already seen them I just named a few of them. So, you know it doesn't make a lot of sense for these guys to go after small beans. So, they're starting to go after the big ones and we're starting to see some serious attack here. We've had three successful attacks so far against ThenCash. And the guy was able to run away with well over a half-a-million-dollars-worth of the currency. We've had, already of over one point 1 billion dollars in cryptocurrency actually stolen in the last six months. And we have newspapers from the New York Times just about a week ago was reporting on this and I think we've talked about this some months ago. But the New York Times is reporting the Bitcoin price you remember, the almost 20,000 dollar value per bitcoin. Well, it turns out that it was artificially inflated. 

[00:07:36] NO, I'm shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked! 

[00:07:41] And from the very beginning always the run-up to the thousand-dollar value it looks like was completely fabricated out of thin air. So, we've got subpoenas now by American regulators, who are looking into a number of these different coin offerings. And you know I've said from day one gentleman voice these various bitcoins and and and the like using the blockchain technology is one of the reasons. And this is what we're talking about right now is that technology is not really there, yet, and you could easily lose all of the money that you, I don't want to say the word invest but that you use to buy these various types of coins.

[00:08:30] We were talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at this very time to give us an update on the world of technology. Craig, I have a doctor’s appointment a little later this morning. Is it possible that in the future that will be with a robot?

[00:08:45] Isn't that an interesting idea? Right. We've always kind of known it was going to happen. 

[00:08:50]  Robot doctors, Yes 

[00:08:52] Yes, yes.  member of the Jetsons right. 

[00:08:55] And they were Joe Jetson and daughter Judy, Jane his wife. And, of course, Rosie. Right. And, the robot. 

[00:09:12] Yeah exactly. She was a she. But she did some diagnosis of George you know he's an idiot. I think it was one of the diagnosis. Anyhow. We had some real problems and I have some articles up on my Web site about that and I'll send them out to people who are I'll send them up to everybody who signed up for my text my SMS list because I think this is just amazing as we're spending a few minutes on because right now if you want to do research guys what do you do. 

[00:09:44] You want to research something anything you google it. Yeah, exactly you guys are both "Googleizers" right. Indeed. 

[00:09:55] So, you go online you Google. Now I want to a word of warning, Dr. Google doesn't have his medical degree, yet. OK. But we're seeing all kinds of interesting problems when it comes to our medical diagnosis. For instance, right now artificial intelligence has been shown to be better than radiologists at reading most x-rays. Now that's a very, very, big deal frankly when you look at it. And during the decade of 2010 to 2020, it's estimated, that doctors will have to have doubled their knowledge three times over the course of that 10 years. And we all know that we're not the best at remembering things, right. We're not the best at figuring things out. And it turns out that physicians are not either, because there are so many advances in technology, medical technology, going on and on and on. In fact, we already had an X Prize awarded for you remember bones in Star Trek with his. You have this sensor right. We already have the next prizes awarded for one of those things although it doesn't sound as good as bones as it was. But here's the bottom line. Give it another five to 10 years, and you will have an app on your smart device that will be able to do analysis, of your medical condition. 

[00:11:33] It's going to be absolutely amazing once the stuff and do you'll get a diagnosis. You might go into the human doctor, which of course computers aren't don't have any bedside manner right. I want to talk to somebody who I can talk to I can relate to, Right. So, those are still going to be physicians are still going to be things that computers aren't going to be able to figure out at least for the next couple or a few decades. There's no question about that one, but you can do various types of diagnosis right now just from a photo for obviously for skin cancer and for other things. So, Matt no today you're not going to be able to go see your computer doctor. Some of the human doctors can't remember every possible disease treatment or medical order article, AI can. And there's a lot of money going into having AI, artificial intelligence doctors, and by the way it's going to be free. 

[00:12:34] Ultimately, it's going to be, I don't need Obamacare. That's Craig Peterson who joins us every week on the comp at all of the information, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week. 

[00:12:55] Hey gentlemen thanks. Bye-Bye. All right time for a quick break. 

[00:13:01] Hey, I figured there's probably a few people wondering about InfraGard, real quick.

[00:13:06] Just go to InfraGard dot org online I N F R A G A R D dot org, online. Have a great day and we'll chat again tomorrow. Bye-Bye.

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Airing date: 06/27/2018

Blockchain technology, cryptocurrency attacks, and AI Doctors

Craig Peterson:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson Here, Hi, Good morning. Boy, did we have a great webinar yesterday, by the way, I did one for the FBI, for their InfraGard program, that the FBI runs, and it was absolutely fantastic. We're talking about solar storms, and their effect on us, and how they could ultimately wipe out civilization. It's scary when you get right down to this stuff. The presenter was a professor at Baylor University, and for 22 years, he was with the Air Force, doing space weather, and he was talking about some of the things that really could affect us, and you know he doesn't like the hype of “hey, listen we're going to go back to the 18-hundreds, because we're going to lose all of our electronics,” but it was really interesting. Maybe we should talk about that someday. Anyhow today, with Ken and Matt, I spent a little bit of time going through two things. First of all, I went into my most in-depth description of how blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin actually work, and why they are being compromised, why they're being stolen, and even how they're being stolen. So, if you have any money, or thought about putting any money into Bitcoin, you're going to want to listen in. Does that make sense to you? Right. What's the technology? How's it being stolen? And I've said for a long time that you should avoid buying these types of currencies. And I totally, totally, meant it, OK. It's a very, very, big deal. So, we talked about that, and then we spent a few minutes talking about the AI doctors and artificial intelligence. I went into that, in some detail yesterday, with Jim Polito, but we went briefly over it this morning over on WGAN and all of their affiliate stations in Maine. So, here we go with Kevin Mann. Thanks for joining us and stick around. 

[00:02:04] You're going to love this. At least I think you will. 

[00:02:08] Ok 739 on the WGAN Morning News on a Wednesday which means it's time to talk Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday. Craig, how are you? 

[00:02:19] Hey, that's me doing good. How are you guys?

[00:02:22] Well, I've had some, I've had some the cryptocurrency missing lately, you know. And why would it be missing? If any of it been stolen? 

[00:02:31] Do you think you just buy that stuff? 

[00:02:34] Come on. I went down to 7-11 and they had some on sale and I got couldn't resist.

[00:02:39] You know there's, at least there was, an ATM down in Portsmouth, is that where you bought them from?

[00:02:44] That's exactly yes, exactly. Yes.

[00:02:47] Oh, ok, Yeah, the whole cryptocurrency thing is starting to fall apart at least the way it is right now. We already know that we had major drops in the value of some of these things, like bitcoin, for instance. But, the big problem has to do with the basic premise of the technology behind so many of these cryptocurrencies and that is blockchain. Now you guys have heard about blockchain before, I'm sure.

[00:03:20] Yes, yes. 

[00:03:22] Now, the blockchain is really where you have everybody involved, has a ledger and the idea is that you and me, the three of us. We had some sort of a blockchain that we came up with. Right. And the way it works is the three of us will record every transaction that we make with each other, All right. So, for instance, if I give one of my Ken coins to Matt, I will write it down, okay, I gave a Ken coin to Matt and Matt has to write down he got a Ken Coin from Craig and then Ken has to write down. Yeah. Craig gave a Ken coin to Matt. So, follow me so far.

[00:04:07] Yes yes. 

[00:04:09] So the three of us have all written down in our two ledgers of this transaction occurred. Now let's say that they can for some reason Ken isn't available or maybe he'd missed recording the transaction. The way we know, who has how much, is based on the ledgers. Just like in a bank where you might have a ledger. And the problem comes up when one of us doesn't agree. Why? Because blockchains are based on this premise of 50 percent plus one. In other words, half of the people that are maintaining the ledgers for a particular blockchain currency plus one person have to agree that I gave a Ken coin to Matt. And, if you guys don't agree about whether or not that transaction actually occurred then it's as good as a transaction not occurring at all. So, we're talking about what's called the 51 percent attack, although technically for us that's 50 percent plus one. And here’s what's happening. What I just described is an over-simplification but it is essentially what happens with blockchain currencies. And that's why people love them because it isn't just one entity like the government saying that I owed Matt a Ken coin. So, we are as a group cooperating and sharing the information and validating the transactions. Well, Let's talk about a few here. MonoCoin, Bitcoin Gold, ThenCash, Virge, LikeCoinCash. These are few of the blockchain currencies out there that have been attacked by people, who are creating false ledgers. 

[00:06:09] So, this is a very dangerous cryptocurrency attack vector. This is something that, the NYU computer science researcher, Joseph Bono, released some research last year showing how much money you would cost to execute these attacks on the top blockchains by simply renting power, computing power rather than buying the equipment. And he said listen, these attacks are likely to increase, and we have already seen them I just named a few of them. So, you know it doesn't make a lot of sense for these guys to go after small beans. So, they're starting to go after the big ones and we're starting to see some serious attack here. We've had three successful attacks so far against ThenCash. And the guy was able to run away with well over a half-a-million-dollars-worth of the currency. We've had, already of over one point 1 billion dollars in cryptocurrency actually stolen in the last six months. And we have newspapers from the New York Times just about a week ago was reporting on this and I think we've talked about this some months ago. But the New York Times is reporting the Bitcoin price you remember, the almost 20,000 dollar value per bitcoin. Well, it turns out that it was artificially inflated. 

[00:07:36] NO, I'm shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked, shocked! 

[00:07:41] And from the very beginning always the run-up to the thousand-dollar value it looks like was completely fabricated out of thin air. So, we've got subpoenas now by American regulators, who are looking into a number of these different coin offerings. And you know I've said from day one gentleman voice these various bitcoins and and and the like using the blockchain technology is one of the reasons. And this is what we're talking about right now is that technology is not really there, yet, and you could easily lose all of the money that you, I don't want to say the word invest but that you use to buy these various types of coins.

[00:08:30] We were talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us Wednesdays at this very time to give us an update on the world of technology. Craig, I have a doctor’s appointment a little later this morning. Is it possible that in the future that will be with a robot?

[00:08:45] Isn't that an interesting idea? Right. We've always kind of known it was going to happen. 

[00:08:50]  Robot doctors, Yes 

[00:08:52] Yes, yes.  member of the Jetsons right. 

[00:08:55] And they were Joe Jetson and daughter Judy, Jane his wife. And, of course, Rosie. Right. And, the robot. 

[00:09:12] Yeah exactly. She was a she. But she did some diagnosis of George you know he's an idiot. I think it was one of the diagnosis. Anyhow. We had some real problems and I have some articles up on my Web site about that and I'll send them out to people who are I'll send them up to everybody who signed up for my text my SMS list because I think this is just amazing as we're spending a few minutes on because right now if you want to do research guys what do you do. 

[00:09:44] You want to research something anything you google it. Yeah, exactly you guys are both "Googleizers" right. Indeed. 

[00:09:55] So, you go online you Google. Now I want to a word of warning, Dr. Google doesn't have his medical degree, yet. OK. But we're seeing all kinds of interesting problems when it comes to our medical diagnosis. For instance, right now artificial intelligence has been shown to be better than radiologists at reading most x-rays. Now that's a very, very, big deal frankly when you look at it. And during the decade of 2010 to 2020, it's estimated, that doctors will have to have doubled their knowledge three times over the course of that 10 years. And we all know that we're not the best at remembering things, right. We're not the best at figuring things out. And it turns out that physicians are not either, because there are so many advances in technology, medical technology, going on and on and on. In fact, we already had an X Prize awarded for you remember bones in Star Trek with his. You have this sensor right. We already have the next prizes awarded for one of those things although it doesn't sound as good as bones as it was. But here's the bottom line. Give it another five to 10 years, and you will have an app on your smart device that will be able to do analysis, of your medical condition. 

[00:11:33] It's going to be absolutely amazing once the stuff and do you'll get a diagnosis. You might go into the human doctor, which of course computers aren't don't have any bedside manner right. I want to talk to somebody who I can talk to I can relate to, Right. So, those are still going to be physicians are still going to be things that computers aren't going to be able to figure out at least for the next couple or a few decades. There's no question about that one, but you can do various types of diagnosis right now just from a photo for obviously for skin cancer and for other things. So, Matt no today you're not going to be able to go see your computer doctor. Some of the human doctors can't remember every possible disease treatment or medical order article, AI can. And there's a lot of money going into having AI, artificial intelligence doctors, and by the way it's going to be free. 

[00:12:34] Ultimately, it's going to be, I don't need Obamacare. That's Craig Peterson who joins us every week on the comp at all of the information, Thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week. 

[00:12:55] Hey gentlemen thanks. Bye-Bye. All right time for a quick break. 

[00:13:01] Hey, I figured there's probably a few people wondering about InfraGard, real quick.

[00:13:06] Just go to InfraGard dot org online I N F R A G A R D dot org, online. Have a great day and we'll chat again tomorrow. Bye-Bye.

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Airing date: 06/26/2018

The Future of Medicine: Are Doctors as Good as a Machine

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson Here. This morning I had an interesting conversation. Have you ever wondered about Dr. Google, right? How many of us have not gone online? Typed in our symptoms and tried to do a little bit of self-diagnosis. Well, this morning with Jim, I talked about that problem a little bit I'm glad, Jim kind of saved my butt on that one. But we talked about the stats the studies that have been done looking at medicine and medical practitioners. And we went into some details of what the future of medicine holds and frankly it's going to be in your hand.

[00:00:42] Here we go with Jim Polito, here. He's got a great story for us today and a lot of other great stories I'm talking about our tech talk guru, Craig Peterson. 

[00:00:53] Good morning sir. Good morning Jim. All right so you're telling me. That very soon, I could be going to the doctor and it could be the Robot from Lost in Space. Let me tell ya, he's got some mean pinchers. You know hands, I don't know if I want them you know, doing anything. 

[00:01:15] Are we talking about we're talking about the original one from the 60s. 

[00:01:19] The original one, like you know the one with the with the arms like the dryer vent. You know you like it. Yeah, yeah, that one. OK. So, but tell me now, AI artificial intelligence. 

[00:01:36] You're saying that it's going to be part of the future of healthcare.

[00:01:40] Oh, in a big way and there's a lot of reasons it should be the future. And, there is some really interesting stuff that I dug into, in fact in relation to this particular story. So, for instance, Jim you’re, you know, you're over 40. 

[00:01:58] So, just a little bit just a hair over 40 years old. 

[00:02:03] You know they recommend that you go in for colon cancer screening. 

[00:02:09] Seriously, I've been doing that since I was 40 because my grandmother died of colon cancer. So, yes. 

[00:02:15] How about that? Then women are going in for breast exams, you know it’s very common. And yet in both cases now, we've got a whole lot of dispute in the medical industry for instance, there was a study done on colon cancer experts, recently and it showed that of them agreed it had these, colon cancer experts some said screening has no value all the way through other colon cancer experts who said it absolutely has value. 

[00:02:52] We have things like for instance this is another medical fact, right. It's been around for a long time. If a little kid is sick you're going to see a doctor or you're sick you have a fever. Doctors have been prescribing aspirin for over 100 years.

[00:03:11] Yet recent studies are showing, that prescribing aspirin or other and antipyretic to reduce fevers can be significantly more risk than just allow you to run its course. You know what's a really big here. Right over here. You know we've all heard of old wives tale, right. You know how about Dr. tales. Now another doctor, John Landis he studied the phenomenon and he looked at medical academia and he found that he's come out of the medical academia environment, are more likely to have research claims that are false than research claims that are true. 

[00:04:01] This is not good. So, no this is all bad. 

[00:04:07] All right medicine very complex. It's very hard to find easy answers. And I'm going to tell you about one more real quick study here, and that is how what kind of doctor age do you prefer. 

[00:04:24] You know what. I don't really care. 

[00:04:26] I've never I had to see a specialist when I was a little kid, I had a man who was my pediatrician, then I had a woman. I'm one of those I'm one of those rare people who doesn't care, as long as I feel that you're a competent physician. I don't, It doesn't matter to me at all.

[00:04:44] Well, I'd prefer to see a doctor, you know my GP, my general practitioner, that I can relate to, right. That's kinda number one, right. If its’ a specialist. Yeah, I don't care if they don't have any bedside manner or they can even speak English. it meaningless it doesn't matter to me. Right. But when they're talking to the doctor and we're trying to evaluate if I should have that colon screening or what I should do. I want someone I can relate to that. 

[00:05:14] I mean, Francis Murray, my doc is still out and Springville like you said you heard. Yeah, I mean I can relate to them. I have a great rapport with them. 

[00:05:24] You've gotta have that. But, there's another study out that shows that doctors who are, our age. In other words, doctors who are older who are more than ten years out of medical school are more likely to make mistakes and cause harm to their patients. Than doctors who recently graduated from medical school, even in many cases than interns than some of the older doctors. What I'm kind of building up to here is all of these different studies I was looking at as part of this article are showing that in reality, medicine is, like with computers right, you know, what router should I get because they're all vulnerable right now, right. That the exact question everybody has, and how can you tell if someone is an expert. You're right it's hard. It's almost impossible because this field is changing so fast well the older tech field has a direct impact on medicine as well. So, the thinking here is just like you go to Google right now you might ask a question you know the number one radio show in western Springfield. Very simple. All right. Simple but it's going to get to the point where it will be free for you to get a real diagnosis from your smartphone, probably from Google or Microsoft, or one of these other companies but you won't be able to get a free diagnosis that better than you would get from an expert. Now, it's going to be hard to relate to that non-person. 

[00:07:17] See that's the thing. And where do I have to put that smartphone to get that diagnosis? 

[00:07:23] Yes. I don't know. I don't know if my protective case could handle that. 

[00:07:29] Well, we've already got that for your iPhone. We've already got something that just requires you to you plug it into the iPhone port on the bottom of your phone all you do is put four fingers on it and it will do a cardiac evaluation for you and will send the information directly to your daughters or your doctor. should do with them. Students who graduate in 2020 are going to experience or doubling of knowledge, what they learned in the first three years of medical school will be just 6 percent of what's known at the end of the next decade from 2010 to 2020. We've had four doublings of knowledge and we have had and they expect that to continue. So, how can anybody keep up with that? And that's where AI might be very interesting.

[00:08:21] Oh my god that is fascinating. Now look I I know that people are going to hear what you're saying. and say, oh that means I could just go right online right now and diagnose myself. And that's not what it means. We want to make sure everybody understands that. So, you need to get. One of the actual stories that will describe this to you and the easy way to do that is to text in my name. 

[00:08:46] Jay I am Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that’s 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 and standard data and text rates apply. 

[00:09:04] But you'll get this information plus a whole lot of other information that will help you to make look, right, Craig the wise decisions for yourself. The more information you have the better you can make a decision and that's actually what is best in healthcare.

[00:09:23] You're absolutely right and be careful Dr. Google cannot diagnose and many doctors are going to be very upset when you run in with your printouts from your Google search, it’s not there yet another decade and we certainly will be.

[00:09:39] Wow that's incredible. Craig always a pleasure always an interesting segment and we look forward to talking with you next week sir. 

[00:09:47] Take care.

[00:09:48] Thanks Jim All righty. Thank you. That was great, man. I'm glad that we discussed that at the end. You have got to be careful do not go to the Internet and try to do the self-diagnosis, it's good to gather information on the internet but the relationship with the doctor that is the most important thing. OK, we have a final word when we return. 

[00:10:12] Ok. Got to point out something else. For those of you who I promised the free insider memberships to. Now, this is something we will end up charging for, but for now, there are a few people I offered it to. So, if you are part of this insiders group where we are sharing all kinds of special reports and things and you're giving feedback kind of helping out with a few things. If you're part of that, I want to let you know we have made some progress and we've got the software set up now so it's ready to send out your logins. We have a bunch of materials already in there. So, those will become available and everything takes longer and costs more. So, sorry it's not out there yet but this. This is exciting. This is a bit of a test for us, something new. We haven't done before you know we tried the Facebook group and we had hundreds of people sign up, but we just didn't have that type of interactivity that I really wanted to see so it wasn't helping a lot. But this insider thing, I think is going to be really good. So, keep an eye out in your e-mails and for those that I promised that I'd sign you up, and I you know I can probably still take a few more people, let me know if that's what you want to do. OK. Take care.

[00:11:30] And we'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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

Airing date: 06/26/2018

The Future of Medicine: Are Doctors as Good as a Machine

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson Here. This morning I had an interesting conversation. Have you ever wondered about Dr. Google, right? How many of us have not gone online? Typed in our symptoms and tried to do a little bit of self-diagnosis. Well, this morning with Jim, I talked about that problem a little bit I'm glad, Jim kind of saved my butt on that one. But we talked about the stats the studies that have been done looking at medicine and medical practitioners. And we went into some details of what the future of medicine holds and frankly it's going to be in your hand.

[00:00:42] Here we go with Jim Polito, here. He's got a great story for us today and a lot of other great stories I'm talking about our tech talk guru, Craig Peterson. 

[00:00:53] Good morning sir. Good morning Jim. All right so you're telling me. That very soon, I could be going to the doctor and it could be the Robot from Lost in Space. Let me tell ya, he's got some mean pinchers. You know hands, I don't know if I want them you know, doing anything. 

[00:01:15] Are we talking about we're talking about the original one from the 60s. 

[00:01:19] The original one, like you know the one with the with the arms like the dryer vent. You know you like it. Yeah, yeah, that one. OK. So, but tell me now, AI artificial intelligence. 

[00:01:36] You're saying that it's going to be part of the future of healthcare.

[00:01:40] Oh, in a big way and there's a lot of reasons it should be the future. And, there is some really interesting stuff that I dug into, in fact in relation to this particular story. So, for instance, Jim you’re, you know, you're over 40. 

[00:01:58] So, just a little bit just a hair over 40 years old. 

[00:02:03] You know they recommend that you go in for colon cancer screening. 

[00:02:09] Seriously, I've been doing that since I was 40 because my grandmother died of colon cancer. So, yes. 

[00:02:15] How about that? Then women are going in for breast exams, you know it’s very common. And yet in both cases now, we've got a whole lot of dispute in the medical industry for instance, there was a study done on colon cancer experts, recently and it showed that of them agreed it had these, colon cancer experts some said screening has no value all the way through other colon cancer experts who said it absolutely has value. 

[00:02:52] We have things like for instance this is another medical fact, right. It's been around for a long time. If a little kid is sick you're going to see a doctor or you're sick you have a fever. Doctors have been prescribing aspirin for over 100 years.

[00:03:11] Yet recent studies are showing, that prescribing aspirin or other and antipyretic to reduce fevers can be significantly more risk than just allow you to run its course. You know what's a really big here. Right over here. You know we've all heard of old wives tale, right. You know how about Dr. tales. Now another doctor, John Landis he studied the phenomenon and he looked at medical academia and he found that he's come out of the medical academia environment, are more likely to have research claims that are false than research claims that are true. 

[00:04:01] This is not good. So, no this is all bad. 

[00:04:07] All right medicine very complex. It's very hard to find easy answers. And I'm going to tell you about one more real quick study here, and that is how what kind of doctor age do you prefer. 

[00:04:24] You know what. I don't really care. 

[00:04:26] I've never I had to see a specialist when I was a little kid, I had a man who was my pediatrician, then I had a woman. I'm one of those I'm one of those rare people who doesn't care, as long as I feel that you're a competent physician. I don't, It doesn't matter to me at all.

[00:04:44] Well, I'd prefer to see a doctor, you know my GP, my general practitioner, that I can relate to, right. That's kinda number one, right. If its’ a specialist. Yeah, I don't care if they don't have any bedside manner or they can even speak English. it meaningless it doesn't matter to me. Right. But when they're talking to the doctor and we're trying to evaluate if I should have that colon screening or what I should do. I want someone I can relate to that. 

[00:05:14] I mean, Francis Murray, my doc is still out and Springville like you said you heard. Yeah, I mean I can relate to them. I have a great rapport with them. 

[00:05:24] You've gotta have that. But, there's another study out that shows that doctors who are, our age. In other words, doctors who are older who are more than ten years out of medical school are more likely to make mistakes and cause harm to their patients. Than doctors who recently graduated from medical school, even in many cases than interns than some of the older doctors. What I'm kind of building up to here is all of these different studies I was looking at as part of this article are showing that in reality, medicine is, like with computers right, you know, what router should I get because they're all vulnerable right now, right. That the exact question everybody has, and how can you tell if someone is an expert. You're right it's hard. It's almost impossible because this field is changing so fast well the older tech field has a direct impact on medicine as well. So, the thinking here is just like you go to Google right now you might ask a question you know the number one radio show in western Springfield. Very simple. All right. Simple but it's going to get to the point where it will be free for you to get a real diagnosis from your smartphone, probably from Google or Microsoft, or one of these other companies but you won't be able to get a free diagnosis that better than you would get from an expert. Now, it's going to be hard to relate to that non-person. 

[00:07:17] See that's the thing. And where do I have to put that smartphone to get that diagnosis? 

[00:07:23] Yes. I don't know. I don't know if my protective case could handle that. 

[00:07:29] Well, we've already got that for your iPhone. We've already got something that just requires you to you plug it into the iPhone port on the bottom of your phone all you do is put four fingers on it and it will do a cardiac evaluation for you and will send the information directly to your daughters or your doctor. should do with them. Students who graduate in 2020 are going to experience or doubling of knowledge, what they learned in the first three years of medical school will be just 6 percent of what's known at the end of the next decade from 2010 to 2020. We've had four doublings of knowledge and we have had and they expect that to continue. So, how can anybody keep up with that? And that's where AI might be very interesting.

[00:08:21] Oh my god that is fascinating. Now look I I know that people are going to hear what you're saying. and say, oh that means I could just go right online right now and diagnose myself. And that's not what it means. We want to make sure everybody understands that. So, you need to get. One of the actual stories that will describe this to you and the easy way to do that is to text in my name. 

[00:08:46] Jay I am Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that’s 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 and standard data and text rates apply. 

[00:09:04] But you'll get this information plus a whole lot of other information that will help you to make look, right, Craig the wise decisions for yourself. The more information you have the better you can make a decision and that's actually what is best in healthcare.

[00:09:23] You're absolutely right and be careful Dr. Google cannot diagnose and many doctors are going to be very upset when you run in with your printouts from your Google search, it’s not there yet another decade and we certainly will be.

[00:09:39] Wow that's incredible. Craig always a pleasure always an interesting segment and we look forward to talking with you next week sir. 

[00:09:47] Take care.

[00:09:48] Thanks Jim All righty. Thank you. That was great, man. I'm glad that we discussed that at the end. You have got to be careful do not go to the Internet and try to do the self-diagnosis, it's good to gather information on the internet but the relationship with the doctor that is the most important thing. OK, we have a final word when we return. 

[00:10:12] Ok. Got to point out something else. For those of you who I promised the free insider memberships to. Now, this is something we will end up charging for, but for now, there are a few people I offered it to. So, if you are part of this insiders group where we are sharing all kinds of special reports and things and you're giving feedback kind of helping out with a few things. If you're part of that, I want to let you know we have made some progress and we've got the software set up now so it's ready to send out your logins. We have a bunch of materials already in there. So, those will become available and everything takes longer and costs more. So, sorry it's not out there yet but this. This is exciting. This is a bit of a test for us, something new. We haven't done before you know we tried the Facebook group and we had hundreds of people sign up, but we just didn't have that type of interactivity that I really wanted to see so it wasn't helping a lot. But this insider thing, I think is going to be really good. So, keep an eye out in your e-mails and for those that I promised that I'd sign you up, and I you know I can probably still take a few more people, let me know if that's what you want to do. OK. Take care.

[00:11:30] And we'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Airing date: 06/25/2018

Is Your Data Safe At The Beach

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. It is a beautiful day in the Northeast. I am just enjoying it. It got me to thinking about being outside of course, its summertime. We love to go to the beach, we love to travel around. So, we can talk a little bit today about some of the misconceptions people have about traveling and using Wi-Fi and security, because yeah, I do. A friend was over last night and while we got to talk about this. Yeah, I had a friend come over last night and he was here, talking about Wi-Fi and going online. He was very interested in the whole concept of being private and safe online. And this is a really big topic for us, as we're talking about, right now. In the summertime, we go to coffee shops, we go to restaurants, we go to the beach and we're often jumping onto Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi. Many times, we're using our cell phones to get to places and you know the cell phones, of course, many of them have shared data plans. Mine does. And on top of that, I have the ability to use my cell phone as a wireless hotspot, as a personal hotspot, which is really, really, cool. So, what should you do? What should you avoid? This is kind of a really, big deal.

[00:01:28] Now, he was saying that he heard an ad and this ad was guaranteeing, it was promising him, that if all he did was use their VPN software that he would be safe, and no one would be able to monitor him. Of course, he is concerned about the bad guys, but they were saying, listen this is so safe, that even the FBI and the government can't monitor you. Not, that he's concerned about that, right, but you know you don't want your information stolen, no matter who it is. And, we know that the Russians are busy doing that right now, and are the Chinese, et cetera, et cetera. So, he thought that just having this VPN would make his life simpler, would make it easier, he wouldn't have to worry about having his bank account information stolen, for his business, right. Imagine one day finding out your payroll checks bounced, because someone had emptied your bank account, right. Can you imagine that? Has that happened to you before? It happened to me once. It was my bank account. Man, this would have been back in the 80’s, it my business bank account. All of a sudden, checks started bouncing. It's a terrible, terrible, feeling. And, he didn't want that. He has a lot of employees and I'm sure you can relate to that too. 

[00:02:45] Well, looking at all of this, and looking at the problem, looking at the guarantees, he was saying, hey, listen, is this going to work for me? Is my data going to be safe? If I use this VPN, that's being sold by this company. And, I had to tell him ultimately, No, because there are there's a few problems here. One is, that a VPN is only going to take the data from your computer. Let's say you're running a VPN, on your computer, So, it only can take the data from your computer to their VPN exit point, in an encrypted manner. So, they've got a server, let's say, they have a cloud server, right. Whatever, that means. And, their server is sitting, physically, let's say it's in Kansas City Missouri, just for the heck of it. So, here's what would happen. You're sitting on the beach, here in New Hampshire, or Florida, wherever you are. You're sitting on the beach and you're enjoying the day. You can just feel the rays of the sun coming down, and you're a little worried about getting that sunburn, right. You're watching the kids, you’re just enjoying the day and you've got to get on to your computer, because you just got a little note from somebody at work.

[00:04:05] So, you open up your laptop, and you connect to the VPN. In this case, he's talking about a third-party VPN. We'll talk about business ones, probably some other day, so he connects to this vendor X Y Z, the data from his computer goes to, in this case, were saying Kansas City, Missouri. That data is now safe. Well relatively, depends on the encryption they're using, etc.. But, let's say for all intents and purposes that data is safe. So, that data is hauled to Kansas City Missouri. But, it can it be encrypted forever. Facebook can’t understand what you're saying. Your mail server needs to know, what it is you're trying to do. The e-mail you're reading, what you're trying to send, right. All of these systems have to know. So, once it hits the server in Kansas City, Missouri, it is no longer encrypted. So, all you're doing with that type of a VPN, with one of these public access VPNs is that you pay a little bit and for some of them, they are free. All you're getting is data being safe from the beach, over to Kansas City, Missouri. Now, what some of these VPN companies, do and think about this one for a second, is they monitor your data and your Web sites to know where you're going. Some of them even go so far, as to insert their own advertisement portfolio into the web pages you're going to. So, he was asking me is my data safe right? Have you ever had that question? Have you thought about that?

[00:05:49] Is my data safe? When is it safe? Where's it safe? Well, in this case, we're talking about data is reasonably safe until it gets to that X Y Z VPN vendor in Kansas City, Missouri, because now there's this one exit point. So, think about that, if you're a black hat, when you're out there, and you're trying to break in. Do you want to go after just a regular little business? Or are you going to focus in on maybe one of these VPN providers, compromising their systems. And, now you’d have access to all of the data from 100 million people or 100 million sessions that people are creating and using through X Y Z VPN company. You see what's happening here now. And once the data is over on the other side and it's in the clear, their ISP could be monitoring it. They could have problems with the DNS, sending you to the wrong place, where it adds up to darn quickly. So, the question he asked me, my answer was, no right. What do you think the answer would be? Yeah, it's a little safer. What I said, Right. Craig you're always hedging your bets right. How many times have you said that? Obviously, data is a little safer because, from the time it left the computer on the beach, as you're sitting there, until the time it got to Kansas City. Missouri, it was safe, but you may well, have a very bad company that's doing nasty things with your data. 

[00:07:23] Once, it hits the other side of the VPN, and then on top of it their systems might be compromised, and now your data is not safe, that way either. So, remember all of this. Keep this in mind, here, when it comes to keeping your data safe, a VPN can be an adjunct, but be very careful about who you use. And some other day, if you're interested, let me know, and we'll do this, we can talk about your own private VPN. One doesn't make sense, and this is what I do for my business, and also for my clients businesses. So, have a great day, enjoy the weather. I am going to be sitting back enjoying it. It is that perfect. There's no humidity. It's in the 70’s, which is the way I like it. The sun is out, and you probably know I am little kind of a gentleman farmer here too. I’m going to enjoy some of our animals, while I'm here and as always have a Great Day. Make sure you visit me online at Craig Peterson dot com and we'll be back tomorrow.

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Airing date: 06/25/2018

Is Your Data Safe At The Beach

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here. It is a beautiful day in the Northeast. I am just enjoying it. It got me to thinking about being outside of course, its summertime. We love to go to the beach, we love to travel around. So, we can talk a little bit today about some of the misconceptions people have about traveling and using Wi-Fi and security, because yeah, I do. A friend was over last night and while we got to talk about this. Yeah, I had a friend come over last night and he was here, talking about Wi-Fi and going online. He was very interested in the whole concept of being private and safe online. And this is a really big topic for us, as we're talking about, right now. In the summertime, we go to coffee shops, we go to restaurants, we go to the beach and we're often jumping onto Wi-Fi, public Wi-Fi. Many times, we're using our cell phones to get to places and you know the cell phones, of course, many of them have shared data plans. Mine does. And on top of that, I have the ability to use my cell phone as a wireless hotspot, as a personal hotspot, which is really, really, cool. So, what should you do? What should you avoid? This is kind of a really, big deal.

[00:01:28] Now, he was saying that he heard an ad and this ad was guaranteeing, it was promising him, that if all he did was use their VPN software that he would be safe, and no one would be able to monitor him. Of course, he is concerned about the bad guys, but they were saying, listen this is so safe, that even the FBI and the government can't monitor you. Not, that he's concerned about that, right, but you know you don't want your information stolen, no matter who it is. And, we know that the Russians are busy doing that right now, and are the Chinese, et cetera, et cetera. So, he thought that just having this VPN would make his life simpler, would make it easier, he wouldn't have to worry about having his bank account information stolen, for his business, right. Imagine one day finding out your payroll checks bounced, because someone had emptied your bank account, right. Can you imagine that? Has that happened to you before? It happened to me once. It was my bank account. Man, this would have been back in the 80’s, it my business bank account. All of a sudden, checks started bouncing. It's a terrible, terrible, feeling. And, he didn't want that. He has a lot of employees and I'm sure you can relate to that too. 

[00:02:45] Well, looking at all of this, and looking at the problem, looking at the guarantees, he was saying, hey, listen, is this going to work for me? Is my data going to be safe? If I use this VPN, that's being sold by this company. And, I had to tell him ultimately, No, because there are there's a few problems here. One is, that a VPN is only going to take the data from your computer. Let's say you're running a VPN, on your computer, So, it only can take the data from your computer to their VPN exit point, in an encrypted manner. So, they've got a server, let's say, they have a cloud server, right. Whatever, that means. And, their server is sitting, physically, let's say it's in Kansas City Missouri, just for the heck of it. So, here's what would happen. You're sitting on the beach, here in New Hampshire, or Florida, wherever you are. You're sitting on the beach and you're enjoying the day. You can just feel the rays of the sun coming down, and you're a little worried about getting that sunburn, right. You're watching the kids, you’re just enjoying the day and you've got to get on to your computer, because you just got a little note from somebody at work.

[00:04:05] So, you open up your laptop, and you connect to the VPN. In this case, he's talking about a third-party VPN. We'll talk about business ones, probably some other day, so he connects to this vendor X Y Z, the data from his computer goes to, in this case, were saying Kansas City, Missouri. That data is now safe. Well relatively, depends on the encryption they're using, etc.. But, let's say for all intents and purposes that data is safe. So, that data is hauled to Kansas City Missouri. But, it can it be encrypted forever. Facebook can’t understand what you're saying. Your mail server needs to know, what it is you're trying to do. The e-mail you're reading, what you're trying to send, right. All of these systems have to know. So, once it hits the server in Kansas City, Missouri, it is no longer encrypted. So, all you're doing with that type of a VPN, with one of these public access VPNs is that you pay a little bit and for some of them, they are free. All you're getting is data being safe from the beach, over to Kansas City, Missouri. Now, what some of these VPN companies, do and think about this one for a second, is they monitor your data and your Web sites to know where you're going. Some of them even go so far, as to insert their own advertisement portfolio into the web pages you're going to. So, he was asking me is my data safe right? Have you ever had that question? Have you thought about that?

[00:05:49] Is my data safe? When is it safe? Where's it safe? Well, in this case, we're talking about data is reasonably safe until it gets to that X Y Z VPN vendor in Kansas City, Missouri, because now there's this one exit point. So, think about that, if you're a black hat, when you're out there, and you're trying to break in. Do you want to go after just a regular little business? Or are you going to focus in on maybe one of these VPN providers, compromising their systems. And, now you’d have access to all of the data from 100 million people or 100 million sessions that people are creating and using through X Y Z VPN company. You see what's happening here now. And once the data is over on the other side and it's in the clear, their ISP could be monitoring it. They could have problems with the DNS, sending you to the wrong place, where it adds up to darn quickly. So, the question he asked me, my answer was, no right. What do you think the answer would be? Yeah, it's a little safer. What I said, Right. Craig you're always hedging your bets right. How many times have you said that? Obviously, data is a little safer because, from the time it left the computer on the beach, as you're sitting there, until the time it got to Kansas City. Missouri, it was safe, but you may well, have a very bad company that's doing nasty things with your data. 

[00:07:23] Once, it hits the other side of the VPN, and then on top of it their systems might be compromised, and now your data is not safe, that way either. So, remember all of this. Keep this in mind, here, when it comes to keeping your data safe, a VPN can be an adjunct, but be very careful about who you use. And some other day, if you're interested, let me know, and we'll do this, we can talk about your own private VPN. One doesn't make sense, and this is what I do for my business, and also for my clients businesses. So, have a great day, enjoy the weather. I am going to be sitting back enjoying it. It is that perfect. There's no humidity. It's in the 70’s, which is the way I like it. The sun is out, and you probably know I am little kind of a gentleman farmer here too. I’m going to enjoy some of our animals, while I'm here and as always have a Great Day. Make sure you visit me online at Craig Peterson dot com and we'll be back tomorrow.

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