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Do you use or collect Bitcoin?  Today we discuss some of the many problems that go along with all these Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology, and why it is a good idea to steer clear of them.

Facebook is sharing your data and your friend's data.  What Apple is doing to prevent this.

Are you still using XP? There are companies who are.  They have embeded systems that run XP.  So what can they do.  Craig tells you how he handles it for his clients.

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

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Airing date: 06/23/2018

Cryptocurrency Downfall, Apple Closing a Loophole, Windows XP -What to do if you still need it

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hello Everybody, Good Morning, Craig Peterson here. Today we've got two major topics, I'm sure are going to interest you. If you or anyone you know has been buying and are using things like bitcoin, we’ve got a lot of news that we'll be talking about today. Also, we are going to be talking about a couple of major security issues here. Why the military can't quit, Windows XP and should you. If the military's not doing it, well they have a plan. We'll talk about that and what Apple is doing to help make sure that the problem that just happened with Facebook and their developers doesn't happen on the Apple platform. I think they're going to do a very good job of that. So welcome, and here we go. 

[00:00:50] So, we're going to start by talking about blockchain technologies. Now, these are the technologies that are used to make things, like bitcoin, work. The whole idea behind block change technologies is that you have well, to kind of think of it like, a regular ledger that you might have an accounting. You've probably heard of double entry accounting, where things are balanced, right, they're balanced back and forth between, you know, the receivables and payables. But even more, it gets right down into; this money showed up in the bank account, that completely negates this invoice. Therefore, we know everything's balance right, and you know if you want to know more code talk to an accountant right. Well, those types of ledgers can be copied. They can be shared. We've seen them in movies before, where they're used by bad guys to try and cheat people out of money. Let's, put it that way. 

[00:01:45] And that's a problem. But, when we're talking about bitcoin and blockchain here's how it works. How do you know a transaction is valid? How do you know someone has some of this money that's out there? Well, they do it through a system of ledgers, and there are a lot of ledgers. In fact, when it comes to blockchain technology, the idea is that every one that uses a blockchain technology at all, anybody has a copy of all the ledgers. Now you don't know who the people are, necessarily, all you have is a wallet number. So, you know I'm sending money from here to there, and then all of that information is then distributed and shared with everybody else on the blockchain. So, it's cool technology; banks are starting to use it now, where they are doing with the overnight lending they're sending money back and forth. And they need a way to verify that transactions occurred and who got the money and the overnight rate was it at etc. So, that later on, they can go back and get down to it and figure out all of the details. Well, when you're talking about a ledger like this, where everybody's copy of the ledger needs to agree. That's impossible. Some people are going to have a machine that's offline, some people's hard disks are going to crash, and they are going to lose their ledger. So, you can never have 100 percent of these ledgers agree with each other. So, how does it work. 

[00:03:26] Well, the idea here is that 50 percent plus one of the ledgers have to agree. And, that's pretty good when you think about a bitcoin, for instance, you're talking about having thousands. Ten of hundreds, of thousands, of ledgers that are out there and they all have to agree. Now, there is a problem with this, in a few different ways. One is the amount of time it takes, but we're not going to get into that, for the ledgers to become insane. And, even to distribute the data, well, that 50-plus-one-person percent is a problem because theoretically, you could have an attack where someone can somehow modify half of the ledgers that are out there. Well, guess what, here it turns out that this very well-known attack vector has been used. Look at the mono coin, Bitcoin Gold, and Cass Virge, and light coin cash. All of those have had, what's kind of the crypto equivalent of, a bank heist. It's interesting because there's another article that I have in front of me and we put up on the website, that looks at this and see, that in the last six months, there has been one-point-one-billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen, oh think, about that for a minute. What was thought to be the strength or one of the major strengths to these cryptocurrencies, which is that you have to have all these ledgers, and the ledgers have to be pretty much in agreement? And all of that information can be hacked. Now, how is it getting hacked? You know are we talking about people breaking into hundred-thousand-million-plus machines, to manipulate those ledgers, and move that currency, that cryptocurrency, into the black hats bank account. 

[00:05:32] No, actually we're not, and it's kind of smart the way these guys are doing it, here. There's an article I put out from NYU computer science researcher, Joseph Bonneau, and he released research last year where he went through and came up with estimates of how much money it would cost to execute these type of attacks on the top. Blockchain that is out there right now by simply renting power, rather than buying all the equipment and he concluded that these types of attacks were likely to increase. Of course, as we're talking about right now, it turns out he was right. Here is a quote directly from him when he was talking to Koine desk, he said “generally the community thought this was a distant threat. I thought it was much less distant and I've been trying to warn of the risk even. I didn't think it would start happening this soon.” So, there is there is a huge problem. You know, I have never been a proponent of these cryptocurrencies, for a lot of reasons, or one of them is the fact that they're not secure enough, and this has now been proven many times this year with at least a half a dozen different cryptocurrencies, OK. So, it's pretty bad. There's also another problem. 

[00:06:56] You can't prevent someone from spending the same piece of data five or even a thousand times, at once, without trusting the third party to do all the dirty work. So, you've got miners who are the people who are using the machines that are running the blockchain software looking for these highly complex mathematical numbers. So, they are consuming electricity, making sure no one's getting money's stolen, and this article is interesting if you are or have been thinking about getting into it at all, have a look. Have a look at the report that came out in this case. These guys in this one case, they were able to amass more than half of the network's power. We're talking about computing power here. The Bitcoin Gold attacker was able to double spend to very expensive transactions, sent to an exchange. So, it goes on, and Cass explains Amol, how even small coins are at risk. This is huge, it's really, really, huge and it's called a 51 percent attack, although it's 50 percent plus one, and we've got to be careful of it. I have another one that's up there, right now, on my website called Healthcare Info security. It is the place that I grabbed this from, and it's showing again, evidence is continuing to mount, the cryptocurrencies seeking criminals are no longer bent, solely on boosting bitcoin or demanding rent, demanding ransomware, but in actually stealing it, directly by being able to get in showing in here from carbon black. The top 10 currencies that are out there right now, of course, this is not surprising to anyone, but bitcoins number one, the 3M RIPL bitcoin cash-like coin, etc. goes on and on. Now Carbon Black says it's found at least one-point-one-billion in cryptocurrency related thefts since December 2017, and right now when we're talking here, June 2018. So, the crypto thieves are black hats are leveraging malware phishing attacks, fake advertising campaigns, and they're just repurposing old tricks. People are falling for all kinds of cheap attack tools, you can get them from anywhere, from a buck to a thousand dollars. It goes on, Krypto Jack and attacks are continuing.

[00:09:29] So, we've got a couple more here on the bitcoin stuff before we get into what Apple's doing to try and stop developers from sharing their data and also about Windows XP. Believe it or not, it is still in use today, and XP came out a very long time ago now. Bitcoins, price now, I mentioned this on the show about a year ago. I think we were talking about bitcoin and how there was a lot of fishy stuff going on when it was launched, and it looks like a couple of guys were involved, and they were able to get bitcoin up to 1000 dollars per coin very quickly, and it appears insider trading may have been happening. We talked about some of the rumors that were out there, and now we have a little bit more of a solid piece here. This is from the New York Times dated March 30. 

[00:10:27] And of course putting this all together today, because we are in a mode of talking about bitcoin, today we're going to kind of cover that thoroughly. So, this article was saying that a concentrated campaign of price manipulation may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price of bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies last year. Now, this is according to a paper released at the end of March. It's an academic; he has a history of spotting fraud in the financial markets his name is John Gryffen, finance professor over at the University of Texas. Isn't that interesting, here. So, the price the value was driven up artificially and remained artificial because once you get started, that way it just keeps going. Now, it was being manipulated, it looks like, by at least partially backed Livity at Phoenix, it's largest and one of the least regulated exchanges, in the industry register, in the Caribbean offices, in Asia, and it was subpoenaed by American regulators shortly after article started to appear. Talking about, but halted the digital flow of tokens, in and out of the exchange what was going on. Why were these tremendous price increases happening, last year, and, this paper indicates that manipulation played a large part, in those price increases? So, it's a very, very, big deal. 

[00:11:59] Yet, another reason to stay out of this, if you need another reason. 

[00:12:06] To tell your friends, your family, or yourself not to get involved with this. Bitcoin is selling off this year, and they're concerned that this decline. Could cause a lot of damage in the financial markets. So, Bitcoin is now, nearly a third, of its record high that was reached just six months ago. It's dropped by almost two thirds. Isn't that just crazy? So, they're worried that bitcoins, the bursting bubble could spill over into the equity market. Here's a quote from Matt Maylee. He's a strategist over at Miller Tabak, yeah. Miller Tabak, there are things to be concerned about regarding the stock market here with emerging markets and other issues, but I don't think bitcoin is going to be one of them. And he understands the fear or the steep rise and fall in bitcoin prices; it's very reminiscent of the 1990s dot-com bust, he said. But the difference now is everybody's investment wealth. It's a very, big deal. Everybody is talking about both of those things when they're in the bubbles. So, it's looking here, if you look at that article again, we have all of these up on the website, and this particular graph is from CNBC, but it's showing the correlation, between what happened with our tech bubble and what's happening with bitcoin. So, keep an eye out for that. This could be a very, very, bad thing. 

[00:13:43] Now, we all have heard about Cambridge Analytica and what they did with the Facebook data. They were getting information about friends of friends they were using it, they were manipulating it and, of course, before that eight years, well ten years ago now, the Obama campaign got the information on every Facebook user, worldwide, and of course, there are particularly interested in the United States. 

[00:14:08] So, we have a history now of abuse of your Facebook data, here, that stored in social media. So, Apple's been concerned. You know, they are probably one of the number one companies, out there, when it comes to trying to make sure you retain your privacy, right. So, Apple came out with new rules just last week for the developers. The idea is, to limit how developers use information about the iPhone owners friends and other contacts. So, there was a bit of a loophole, the lead app makers store shared data, without people's consent. That loophole is being closed. Now some of the apps that you might use, I use like a contact duplicate merger and things those should still work, but they have to keep the data on your iPhone. This whole practice of trying to get information about your contacts has been used for years. When you sign up for Facebook what does it ask for? Hey, is it OK if I help you find your friends on Facebook LinkedIn did the same thing, and now that Microsoft is running it, it is done even more.

[00:15:18] Right. Double time here. So, this isn't new, but Apple's new strategy is new. Apple has, of course, the world's, well one of them right, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, Android is more popular. But sharing data, as in a friend's data, without consent is what got Facebook into trouble. They announced all of this at their developer's conference, a little bit earlier this year. Contact List abuse is what it's been called, and it's a huge ecosystem and this will make a very, very, big deal. Interesting article. Want to get into more detail, if you are a developer if you have an Apple iOS app, and a lot of businesses do, make sure you double track this. As far as businesses going with developing their apps, I have got to mention something here, and this is a little self-serving. OK, I'll say that up front. But we are, my company is the only one that can sell this particular software, and right now, anyways, and that's why it's self-serving. Apple and Cisco got together to try and solve a major, major, problem. 

[00:16:35] The problem is if you’re a business, how do you keep your data safe when it leaves the office? 

[00:16:45] So, if you have sales people they need access to your data. Don't you think if you have somebody, who has some financial information, they need access to your data? Not all of them, but some of them do. So, how do you control that? Well the way most companies have dealt with it is, they buy some software, and that software runs on that iOS device or that Android device and all of the company data stays within that one. App. One app. So, if you want to use company email, you are using that app to send and receive email. You cannot use any other app; if you want to get into your customer management system, you have to use that app. If you want to get financial data, you have to use that app. If you want to get at your files, you have to use that app, right. So, you're stuck in this one app, and people have hated that for a very, very, long time for good reason. However, the main reason they had to do that was there was no way to have a check and balance on the apps and what they were doing on the phone. 

[00:17:56] Now, with iOS, you can remotely manage, and we do remotely manage iOS devices for businesses. You can, too. There's even free mobile device management MTM. There's free mobile device management software out there that you can use, depending on who you are and what hardware you have and what vendor relationships you have. So, look into that. But, all that lets you do is control what apps can be installed. It doesn't control the flow of data, between the apps, including the flow of data between your apps and what's happening with your business data. All right, So, I said this was self-serving because we've got a got a solution with Cisco and Apple that's been developed and works great that allows us to control all of the flow of data. Think about the military type system. Think about the Orange Book in the old days, right. How have you compartmentalized the data? And how you don't have your private home server for Clinton e-mail dot com, right on. Now, we found out Comey did it too when he was investigating the Clinton e-mail scandal, where he was using Google Mail. It doesn't and does it. 

[00:19:10] It's nutty. So, that became a problem and more of a problem. It just goes on and on. So, with this, you can control everything. And, I think you have to I think we've got to start controlling the apps which don't know what the developers are doing. But you might have a look for this out there. It is available for iOS. It is not generally available right now. We're the only ones in the world that can sell it. I guess that means, we're just kind of cool. But, I guess the other side of that is, isn't it kind of cool that you have a guy, here, that is tied in that tightly, with the security market. 

[00:19:50] In fact, I've got to go as soon I get off the air, here because I'm doing an interview, that we're going to be airing, because I'm running webinars for the FBI. Infragard program, which is the infrastructure guard, if you will, for the businesses that have a critical infrastructure. So, I'm doing that right after this. We're talking about the dark web. In fact, that's who it will be. I'll be doing that interview here shortly. You can join InfraGard if you are involved in critical infrastructure. You can find them online InfraGard dot Org. There are chapters in, I think, every state. 

[00:20:32] Well, you know Windows XP should not be used, right, don't even have to repeat that. But the military still is using it. It's using it in our ships even though the British navy just launched a nuclear submarine a brand-new build from scratch running Windows XP. Now, why do they do that? Well, the bottom line is Windows XP is a known, well-known commodity, very well, known. So, they know where the bugs are for the most part. Microsoft is still supporting it for them at an incredibly high cost, here. But what that means is that the military computers running XP are stuck with legacy hardware. They're stuck with legacy software that runs on it. So, we've got to be careful about this. The rest of the government operations are moving to Windows 10. I think we've got all of our clients on to Windows 10 now that are using Windows, and we're keeping them up to date, obviously, with the patches and we do that all automatically. And we have people that hop on when there are problems, which there are, this week. I'm not getting to it on the radio, but check out my Web site Craig Peterson dot com because there are a bunch of Windows 10 updates and they are not all working. So, I've gotten instructions on how to install them which machines are having problems. 

[00:21:59] What that means for you and what you should do. So, check that out on my Web site, again, Windows 10 update problems this week. So, they are working on trying to get rid of it; they've got Windows XP 2003 other legacy Microsoft products that are out there and the problems just continue to pile up. Now one of the things we have done for companies that are running XP, and you might look at this as well, is we take that Windows XP machine we put it into a virtualized environment, and then we put special firewalls around it with full intrusion detection and prevention. So, you can do that as well, if you're a business and you're stuck with Windows XP. We're doing that for manufacturers, as well, where their hardware, their manufacturing hardware, is running Windows XP. So, we put it in a box, if you will, with all kinds of protection around that. So, keep an eye out, and that's what's happening. Make sure you join my mailing list, so you get my weekly e-mails. They come out on Saturday morning, and we have some special reports. Those people who signed up for my insider club here, there is a membership site. 

[00:23:13] It is closed but we've got some more special reports, we'll be sending them to you along with information on retrieving them. And that's something that we've offered for free. We shut down that Facebook group by the way because we just won't get in the activity. I think people are just used to me telling me what's going on and what should happen right as opposed to the interactive back and forth. 

[00:23:36] Although we had some interactivity, and we still have it, multiple times a week, usually it's via text. If you want to text me, if you want to sign up, if you have any questions, just text me directly 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53, 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 and I'll let you about  any major alerts or other problems that come up, until then, have a great week and we'll see you online. You've been listening to Craig Peterson. 

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Do you use or collect Bitcoin?  Today we discuss some of the many problems that go along with all these Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology, and why it is a good idea to steer clear of them.

Facebook is sharing your data and your friend's data.  What Apple is doing to prevent this.

Are you still using XP? There are companies who are.  They have embeded systems that run XP.  So what can they do.  Craig tells you how he handles it for his clients.

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: 06/23/2018

Cryptocurrency Downfall, Apple Closing a Loophole, Windows XP -What to do if you still need it

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hello Everybody, Good Morning, Craig Peterson here. Today we've got two major topics, I'm sure are going to interest you. If you or anyone you know has been buying and are using things like bitcoin, we’ve got a lot of news that we'll be talking about today. Also, we are going to be talking about a couple of major security issues here. Why the military can't quit, Windows XP and should you. If the military's not doing it, well they have a plan. We'll talk about that and what Apple is doing to help make sure that the problem that just happened with Facebook and their developers doesn't happen on the Apple platform. I think they're going to do a very good job of that. So welcome, and here we go. 

[00:00:50] So, we're going to start by talking about blockchain technologies. Now, these are the technologies that are used to make things, like bitcoin, work. The whole idea behind block change technologies is that you have well, to kind of think of it like, a regular ledger that you might have an accounting. You've probably heard of double entry accounting, where things are balanced, right, they're balanced back and forth between, you know, the receivables and payables. But even more, it gets right down into; this money showed up in the bank account, that completely negates this invoice. Therefore, we know everything's balance right, and you know if you want to know more code talk to an accountant right. Well, those types of ledgers can be copied. They can be shared. We've seen them in movies before, where they're used by bad guys to try and cheat people out of money. Let's, put it that way. 

[00:01:45] And that's a problem. But, when we're talking about bitcoin and blockchain here's how it works. How do you know a transaction is valid? How do you know someone has some of this money that's out there? Well, they do it through a system of ledgers, and there are a lot of ledgers. In fact, when it comes to blockchain technology, the idea is that every one that uses a blockchain technology at all, anybody has a copy of all the ledgers. Now you don't know who the people are, necessarily, all you have is a wallet number. So, you know I'm sending money from here to there, and then all of that information is then distributed and shared with everybody else on the blockchain. So, it's cool technology; banks are starting to use it now, where they are doing with the overnight lending they're sending money back and forth. And they need a way to verify that transactions occurred and who got the money and the overnight rate was it at etc. So, that later on, they can go back and get down to it and figure out all of the details. Well, when you're talking about a ledger like this, where everybody's copy of the ledger needs to agree. That's impossible. Some people are going to have a machine that's offline, some people's hard disks are going to crash, and they are going to lose their ledger. So, you can never have 100 percent of these ledgers agree with each other. So, how does it work. 

[00:03:26] Well, the idea here is that 50 percent plus one of the ledgers have to agree. And, that's pretty good when you think about a bitcoin, for instance, you're talking about having thousands. Ten of hundreds, of thousands, of ledgers that are out there and they all have to agree. Now, there is a problem with this, in a few different ways. One is the amount of time it takes, but we're not going to get into that, for the ledgers to become insane. And, even to distribute the data, well, that 50-plus-one-person percent is a problem because theoretically, you could have an attack where someone can somehow modify half of the ledgers that are out there. Well, guess what, here it turns out that this very well-known attack vector has been used. Look at the mono coin, Bitcoin Gold, and Cass Virge, and light coin cash. All of those have had, what's kind of the crypto equivalent of, a bank heist. It's interesting because there's another article that I have in front of me and we put up on the website, that looks at this and see, that in the last six months, there has been one-point-one-billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen, oh think, about that for a minute. What was thought to be the strength or one of the major strengths to these cryptocurrencies, which is that you have to have all these ledgers, and the ledgers have to be pretty much in agreement? And all of that information can be hacked. Now, how is it getting hacked? You know are we talking about people breaking into hundred-thousand-million-plus machines, to manipulate those ledgers, and move that currency, that cryptocurrency, into the black hats bank account. 

[00:05:32] No, actually we're not, and it's kind of smart the way these guys are doing it, here. There's an article I put out from NYU computer science researcher, Joseph Bonneau, and he released research last year where he went through and came up with estimates of how much money it would cost to execute these type of attacks on the top. Blockchain that is out there right now by simply renting power, rather than buying all the equipment and he concluded that these types of attacks were likely to increase. Of course, as we're talking about right now, it turns out he was right. Here is a quote directly from him when he was talking to Koine desk, he said “generally the community thought this was a distant threat. I thought it was much less distant and I've been trying to warn of the risk even. I didn't think it would start happening this soon.” So, there is there is a huge problem. You know, I have never been a proponent of these cryptocurrencies, for a lot of reasons, or one of them is the fact that they're not secure enough, and this has now been proven many times this year with at least a half a dozen different cryptocurrencies, OK. So, it's pretty bad. There's also another problem. 

[00:06:56] You can't prevent someone from spending the same piece of data five or even a thousand times, at once, without trusting the third party to do all the dirty work. So, you've got miners who are the people who are using the machines that are running the blockchain software looking for these highly complex mathematical numbers. So, they are consuming electricity, making sure no one's getting money's stolen, and this article is interesting if you are or have been thinking about getting into it at all, have a look. Have a look at the report that came out in this case. These guys in this one case, they were able to amass more than half of the network's power. We're talking about computing power here. The Bitcoin Gold attacker was able to double spend to very expensive transactions, sent to an exchange. So, it goes on, and Cass explains Amol, how even small coins are at risk. This is huge, it's really, really, huge and it's called a 51 percent attack, although it's 50 percent plus one, and we've got to be careful of it. I have another one that's up there, right now, on my website called Healthcare Info security. It is the place that I grabbed this from, and it's showing again, evidence is continuing to mount, the cryptocurrencies seeking criminals are no longer bent, solely on boosting bitcoin or demanding rent, demanding ransomware, but in actually stealing it, directly by being able to get in showing in here from carbon black. The top 10 currencies that are out there right now, of course, this is not surprising to anyone, but bitcoins number one, the 3M RIPL bitcoin cash-like coin, etc. goes on and on. Now Carbon Black says it's found at least one-point-one-billion in cryptocurrency related thefts since December 2017, and right now when we're talking here, June 2018. So, the crypto thieves are black hats are leveraging malware phishing attacks, fake advertising campaigns, and they're just repurposing old tricks. People are falling for all kinds of cheap attack tools, you can get them from anywhere, from a buck to a thousand dollars. It goes on, Krypto Jack and attacks are continuing.

[00:09:29] So, we've got a couple more here on the bitcoin stuff before we get into what Apple's doing to try and stop developers from sharing their data and also about Windows XP. Believe it or not, it is still in use today, and XP came out a very long time ago now. Bitcoins, price now, I mentioned this on the show about a year ago. I think we were talking about bitcoin and how there was a lot of fishy stuff going on when it was launched, and it looks like a couple of guys were involved, and they were able to get bitcoin up to 1000 dollars per coin very quickly, and it appears insider trading may have been happening. We talked about some of the rumors that were out there, and now we have a little bit more of a solid piece here. This is from the New York Times dated March 30. 

[00:10:27] And of course putting this all together today, because we are in a mode of talking about bitcoin, today we're going to kind of cover that thoroughly. So, this article was saying that a concentrated campaign of price manipulation may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price of bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies last year. Now, this is according to a paper released at the end of March. It's an academic; he has a history of spotting fraud in the financial markets his name is John Gryffen, finance professor over at the University of Texas. Isn't that interesting, here. So, the price the value was driven up artificially and remained artificial because once you get started, that way it just keeps going. Now, it was being manipulated, it looks like, by at least partially backed Livity at Phoenix, it's largest and one of the least regulated exchanges, in the industry register, in the Caribbean offices, in Asia, and it was subpoenaed by American regulators shortly after article started to appear. Talking about, but halted the digital flow of tokens, in and out of the exchange what was going on. Why were these tremendous price increases happening, last year, and, this paper indicates that manipulation played a large part, in those price increases? So, it's a very, very, big deal. 

[00:11:59] Yet, another reason to stay out of this, if you need another reason. 

[00:12:06] To tell your friends, your family, or yourself not to get involved with this. Bitcoin is selling off this year, and they're concerned that this decline. Could cause a lot of damage in the financial markets. So, Bitcoin is now, nearly a third, of its record high that was reached just six months ago. It's dropped by almost two thirds. Isn't that just crazy? So, they're worried that bitcoins, the bursting bubble could spill over into the equity market. Here's a quote from Matt Maylee. He's a strategist over at Miller Tabak, yeah. Miller Tabak, there are things to be concerned about regarding the stock market here with emerging markets and other issues, but I don't think bitcoin is going to be one of them. And he understands the fear or the steep rise and fall in bitcoin prices; it's very reminiscent of the 1990s dot-com bust, he said. But the difference now is everybody's investment wealth. It's a very, big deal. Everybody is talking about both of those things when they're in the bubbles. So, it's looking here, if you look at that article again, we have all of these up on the website, and this particular graph is from CNBC, but it's showing the correlation, between what happened with our tech bubble and what's happening with bitcoin. So, keep an eye out for that. This could be a very, very, bad thing. 

[00:13:43] Now, we all have heard about Cambridge Analytica and what they did with the Facebook data. They were getting information about friends of friends they were using it, they were manipulating it and, of course, before that eight years, well ten years ago now, the Obama campaign got the information on every Facebook user, worldwide, and of course, there are particularly interested in the United States. 

[00:14:08] So, we have a history now of abuse of your Facebook data, here, that stored in social media. So, Apple's been concerned. You know, they are probably one of the number one companies, out there, when it comes to trying to make sure you retain your privacy, right. So, Apple came out with new rules just last week for the developers. The idea is, to limit how developers use information about the iPhone owners friends and other contacts. So, there was a bit of a loophole, the lead app makers store shared data, without people's consent. That loophole is being closed. Now some of the apps that you might use, I use like a contact duplicate merger and things those should still work, but they have to keep the data on your iPhone. This whole practice of trying to get information about your contacts has been used for years. When you sign up for Facebook what does it ask for? Hey, is it OK if I help you find your friends on Facebook LinkedIn did the same thing, and now that Microsoft is running it, it is done even more.

[00:15:18] Right. Double time here. So, this isn't new, but Apple's new strategy is new. Apple has, of course, the world's, well one of them right, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, Android is more popular. But sharing data, as in a friend's data, without consent is what got Facebook into trouble. They announced all of this at their developer's conference, a little bit earlier this year. Contact List abuse is what it's been called, and it's a huge ecosystem and this will make a very, very, big deal. Interesting article. Want to get into more detail, if you are a developer if you have an Apple iOS app, and a lot of businesses do, make sure you double track this. As far as businesses going with developing their apps, I have got to mention something here, and this is a little self-serving. OK, I'll say that up front. But we are, my company is the only one that can sell this particular software, and right now, anyways, and that's why it's self-serving. Apple and Cisco got together to try and solve a major, major, problem. 

[00:16:35] The problem is if you’re a business, how do you keep your data safe when it leaves the office? 

[00:16:45] So, if you have sales people they need access to your data. Don't you think if you have somebody, who has some financial information, they need access to your data? Not all of them, but some of them do. So, how do you control that? Well the way most companies have dealt with it is, they buy some software, and that software runs on that iOS device or that Android device and all of the company data stays within that one. App. One app. So, if you want to use company email, you are using that app to send and receive email. You cannot use any other app; if you want to get into your customer management system, you have to use that app. If you want to get financial data, you have to use that app. If you want to get at your files, you have to use that app, right. So, you're stuck in this one app, and people have hated that for a very, very, long time for good reason. However, the main reason they had to do that was there was no way to have a check and balance on the apps and what they were doing on the phone. 

[00:17:56] Now, with iOS, you can remotely manage, and we do remotely manage iOS devices for businesses. You can, too. There's even free mobile device management MTM. There's free mobile device management software out there that you can use, depending on who you are and what hardware you have and what vendor relationships you have. So, look into that. But, all that lets you do is control what apps can be installed. It doesn't control the flow of data, between the apps, including the flow of data between your apps and what's happening with your business data. All right, So, I said this was self-serving because we've got a got a solution with Cisco and Apple that's been developed and works great that allows us to control all of the flow of data. Think about the military type system. Think about the Orange Book in the old days, right. How have you compartmentalized the data? And how you don't have your private home server for Clinton e-mail dot com, right on. Now, we found out Comey did it too when he was investigating the Clinton e-mail scandal, where he was using Google Mail. It doesn't and does it. 

[00:19:10] It's nutty. So, that became a problem and more of a problem. It just goes on and on. So, with this, you can control everything. And, I think you have to I think we've got to start controlling the apps which don't know what the developers are doing. But you might have a look for this out there. It is available for iOS. It is not generally available right now. We're the only ones in the world that can sell it. I guess that means, we're just kind of cool. But, I guess the other side of that is, isn't it kind of cool that you have a guy, here, that is tied in that tightly, with the security market. 

[00:19:50] In fact, I've got to go as soon I get off the air, here because I'm doing an interview, that we're going to be airing, because I'm running webinars for the FBI. Infragard program, which is the infrastructure guard, if you will, for the businesses that have a critical infrastructure. So, I'm doing that right after this. We're talking about the dark web. In fact, that's who it will be. I'll be doing that interview here shortly. You can join InfraGard if you are involved in critical infrastructure. You can find them online InfraGard dot Org. There are chapters in, I think, every state. 

[00:20:32] Well, you know Windows XP should not be used, right, don't even have to repeat that. But the military still is using it. It's using it in our ships even though the British navy just launched a nuclear submarine a brand-new build from scratch running Windows XP. Now, why do they do that? Well, the bottom line is Windows XP is a known, well-known commodity, very well, known. So, they know where the bugs are for the most part. Microsoft is still supporting it for them at an incredibly high cost, here. But what that means is that the military computers running XP are stuck with legacy hardware. They're stuck with legacy software that runs on it. So, we've got to be careful about this. The rest of the government operations are moving to Windows 10. I think we've got all of our clients on to Windows 10 now that are using Windows, and we're keeping them up to date, obviously, with the patches and we do that all automatically. And we have people that hop on when there are problems, which there are, this week. I'm not getting to it on the radio, but check out my Web site Craig Peterson dot com because there are a bunch of Windows 10 updates and they are not all working. So, I've gotten instructions on how to install them which machines are having problems. 

[00:21:59] What that means for you and what you should do. So, check that out on my Web site, again, Windows 10 update problems this week. So, they are working on trying to get rid of it; they've got Windows XP 2003 other legacy Microsoft products that are out there and the problems just continue to pile up. Now one of the things we have done for companies that are running XP, and you might look at this as well, is we take that Windows XP machine we put it into a virtualized environment, and then we put special firewalls around it with full intrusion detection and prevention. So, you can do that as well, if you're a business and you're stuck with Windows XP. We're doing that for manufacturers, as well, where their hardware, their manufacturing hardware, is running Windows XP. So, we put it in a box, if you will, with all kinds of protection around that. So, keep an eye out, and that's what's happening. Make sure you join my mailing list, so you get my weekly e-mails. They come out on Saturday morning, and we have some special reports. Those people who signed up for my insider club here, there is a membership site. 

[00:23:13] It is closed but we've got some more special reports, we'll be sending them to you along with information on retrieving them. And that's something that we've offered for free. We shut down that Facebook group by the way because we just won't get in the activity. I think people are just used to me telling me what's going on and what should happen right as opposed to the interactive back and forth. 

[00:23:36] Although we had some interactivity, and we still have it, multiple times a week, usually it's via text. If you want to text me, if you want to sign up, if you have any questions, just text me directly 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53, 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 and I'll let you about  any major alerts or other problems that come up, until then, have a great week and we'll see you online. You've been listening to Craig Peterson. 

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Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson, here. And today I want to talk about really what's wrong with the Internet. I think this is kind of crucial. It's critical really. When you get to it, you're going to agree with me. OK, so let's stick around because here we go. Do you know what the basic foundation of what's wrong on the Internet is, smart people and stupid people, get equal airtime? Think about that for a minute now. Well, you remember we had a policy that was in place under the Federal Communications Commission that required equal airtime for opposing views. So, let's say that you have an opinion about something, let's say you have an opinion that no one should live in the middle of an active volcano. OK, so well done, sir was something that I think is pretty darn obvious. Don't live in an active volcano. So, if I were to say that, on the air, and this so-called Fairness Doctrine was in place, what would happen? Well, they'd say, well you have to have an opposing view. So, they would find some idiot that believed living in an active volcano was just fine, right. Those people are out there; they're always out there, you'll see them out there. And, that's the biggest problem with the Fairness Doctrine. But, we're not talking about radio right now, we're not talking about trying to get Rush Limbaugh off the air, what we're trying about right now is what we're trying to understand, the Internet. Now, there's smart people and stupid people and just because you have degrees doesn't mean you're a smart person, right.

[00:01:47] Can we can we agree on that? There's lots of different types of IQ, if you will, Right. So, you've got the intellectual quota, you've got the ability to be able to analyze data in and pull it all together. Spatial, social right, there's all kinds of different types of smartness of these quotients that we can come up with. So, stupid people are the people who will argue against something that's just true. And, I don't know why? Many times, I think they're just arguing for the sake of argument. They don't want to be with anybody. They're like me, they're a bit of a rebel, right. Or maybe there are a lot of rebels, and here's the problem. On the Internet, stupid people tend to shout louder and shout longer than people who have wisdom and judgment. Ignorance generally prevails, and we see that all of the time. Look at what's happening. we've got antiphon out there. These people that are saying, hey listen, we're anti-fascist, and yet the tactics they're using are fascist, right. Am I wrong there, right. I'm sure to hear from somebody, right. Somebody is some stupid person. NSA, oh no they're not, you know beating someone because they are trying to exercise a free first amendment, free speech rights. That's not fascist. Well, what is a fascist thing? Well, get right down to it, it might be a little bit too cynical for you.

[00:03:23] OK, how about this one. Do you remember this e-mail? When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it, if you are a windows user, for a two- week time-period for every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you 245 dollars. For every person that you send it to, that forwards that ad on, Microsoft will pay you 243 dollars, and for every third person that receives it, you'll be paid 241 dollars within two weeks. Microsoft will contact you, for your address, and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself. But, two weeks after receiving this e-mail, do you guys remember that one? Do you remember, that e-mail? OK, did any of your friends fall for it? I know, I got it because, why? Because some friend of mine forwarded it to me. How about the one that's more recent? From Facebook and Zuckerberg. Hey, if you like this, you know what? Zuckerberg is going to track it. Facebook is going to track it, and you are going to get paid money. All right, it goes way back cobbled chain letters, you remember those things, Right. So, let's not, for everybody, the stupid will always be with us. OK, Stupid stupidity is not a function of capability. Frankly, I think it's a choice, OK. So, what's the point here? Well, the point is stupidity is cheap and plentiful with stupidity. Your opinions appear to be endlessly open, right. It's crazy. Wisdom is scarce and expensive and usually involved, with upfront commitments, upfront studying, and upfront research. 

[00:05:09] And, when I look at my business, I look at the security business that I'm in, I see stupidity, everywhere absolutely everywhere. I want to tell you a quick story here about a guy that I worked with in Chicago; his name was Miroslav. It was at least 20 years ago 30 years ago. Maybe, he and his family had emigrated from the full former Soviet Union. He knew what it was like. In fact, I had been up in Canada, and I bought a copy of Pravda. You remember that? That's the Russian, the Soviet, the communist, kind of like, Time magazine. And I brought it back, because I thought it was hilarious, because of the way they were portraying the United States, and how everyone in the U.S. was drunk, and they were on street corners, and everybody was homeless, and what a terrible thing capitalism was. So, I showed it to him, and he says I got to take this home, I'll bring it back tomorrow. So, he took it home, and his wife saw it and tore it to shreds. So, remember he promised to bring it back tomorrow. And about a week later, I sent him a slob where's my copy of Pravda, and he says my wife destroyed it and he said I'll get you another one. He never did. By the way, I never got my Pravda back, but he described how he used to have to stand in lines for bread in the Soviet Union.

[00:06:40] Yes that's what you had to do. The shelves were barren.

[00:06:44] I don't know if you've seen the Americans, on TV, but they do a reasonable job of showing what it was like. You can get as many boots as you want. They had so many boots, one style, and only a couple of sizes right. That was the only thing the government, the Soviet government was good at making, back in the day. But he'd stand in the bread line, and he'd have, like no choices. He had his family had to get the bread that was on the shelf, that was it. Right nowadays, you get to decide, do we want to go to Panera, and we can get this bread or that bread. Or, do you want to go to a pan and get some bread from them at the supermarket? And, you know. I’m at my local supermarket; the bread aisle is huge. There are at least a thousand different loaves of bread and different types of bread. So, in the Soviet Union, they had virtually no choice. So, these people would come over to America, and they'd go to a supermarket, and they wouldn't believe what they saw, because there were so many choices. It was everywhere, and that's the joy of true capitalism. It was everywhere. Now OK, I'll argue. Right. We don't have true capitalism in the U.S. anymore which is true. But Kim married to the Soviet Union. It was just incredible. You and I would think, oh wow, that's just a miracle isn't that the coolest thing ever. I love that. But the effect on some of these people that came from the Soviet Union cleared, including Miroslav, you could see it in him. It was overpowering.

[00:08:24] He was amazed, at how much better things were over here.

[00:08:30] Now that conversation happened more than oh 20-30 years ago now, but I still remember what he looked like, and you know what surprised me the most, that he said was that some people came over from the former Soviet Union. Their choices were so dramatic; they couldn't take it, they could not take it, they could not make the decisions. So, the one way that they would return, he told me about people, that returned to the Soviet Union. Well, of course, at that point it had pretty much collapsed because this was right after the collapse, of the Soviet Union, it wasn't very many years after, during the Reagan administration. But you know, we're talking about a thousand times more many more choices, and they were just overwhelmed, they couldn't deal with that. So, they went back. Well, today we have a similar problem. If you go on Google and you look for security, you're going to see you know, anti-virus, anti-malware. How do I get my training and security, that's required by law? How do I get it for my employees? You are going to be overwhelmed. There's not a thousand choices you will get million-page hits, when you do your search online.

[00:09:47] And, you know what, a lot of those people frankly, and then this is scary if you ask me, but a lot of those people, are stupid people

[00:09:57] Their saying, oh this software is the best, I've used it for years.

[00:10:01] There's no problems with the software, and they are completely ignorant of the subject matter.

[00:10:09] You know, in this day and age, we have a continual problem with what are called zero-day attacks. We've never seen them before. We have the president of Symantec, who pretty much got fired because he said that their antivirus software was useless. And yet how many people can you find out there that are peddling Symantec software, right. It's huge; you're saying, hey it's a mess just a mess. These are the stupid people, OK. Kalisz people's not going to help them get a faster internet connection; it is not going to help, a 60-inch widescreen monitor isn't going to help. Being motivated is not going to help. The number one skill you need is discernment, and that's the skill nobody talks about. How do you know, who knows what they're talking about? You have to discern, and that's the problem with the Internet today 

[00:11:08] How can you judge me, from somebody else that has a thousand posts that are all wrong 

[00:11:15] Right, where I've been on the internet since 1983 and doing security for major corporations down through small guys, right. How can you tell the difference? How can you discern? And, I want you to think about it too, from your business standpoint, if you are a business owner, how do you distinguish your business from the other guys that are online? The other guys that are shouting louder and longer than you are shouting, a little bit of food for thought. I appreciate you subscribing. Please make sure you take a second and give this podcast a rating on iTunes. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Let me know, what you think. Hopefully, I’ve earned five stars from you. You have a great day, and we'll be back with more tomorrow. We'll see. what tomorrow brings us, there's always something. Thanks again, Craig Petersen. Out.

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Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi, everybody, Craig Peterson, here. And today I want to talk about really what's wrong with the Internet. I think this is kind of crucial. It's critical really. When you get to it, you're going to agree with me. OK, so let's stick around because here we go. Do you know what the basic foundation of what's wrong on the Internet is, smart people and stupid people, get equal airtime? Think about that for a minute now. Well, you remember we had a policy that was in place under the Federal Communications Commission that required equal airtime for opposing views. So, let's say that you have an opinion about something, let's say you have an opinion that no one should live in the middle of an active volcano. OK, so well done, sir was something that I think is pretty darn obvious. Don't live in an active volcano. So, if I were to say that, on the air, and this so-called Fairness Doctrine was in place, what would happen? Well, they'd say, well you have to have an opposing view. So, they would find some idiot that believed living in an active volcano was just fine, right. Those people are out there; they're always out there, you'll see them out there. And, that's the biggest problem with the Fairness Doctrine. But, we're not talking about radio right now, we're not talking about trying to get Rush Limbaugh off the air, what we're trying about right now is what we're trying to understand, the Internet. Now, there's smart people and stupid people and just because you have degrees doesn't mean you're a smart person, right.

[00:01:47] Can we can we agree on that? There's lots of different types of IQ, if you will, Right. So, you've got the intellectual quota, you've got the ability to be able to analyze data in and pull it all together. Spatial, social right, there's all kinds of different types of smartness of these quotients that we can come up with. So, stupid people are the people who will argue against something that's just true. And, I don't know why? Many times, I think they're just arguing for the sake of argument. They don't want to be with anybody. They're like me, they're a bit of a rebel, right. Or maybe there are a lot of rebels, and here's the problem. On the Internet, stupid people tend to shout louder and shout longer than people who have wisdom and judgment. Ignorance generally prevails, and we see that all of the time. Look at what's happening. we've got antiphon out there. These people that are saying, hey listen, we're anti-fascist, and yet the tactics they're using are fascist, right. Am I wrong there, right. I'm sure to hear from somebody, right. Somebody is some stupid person. NSA, oh no they're not, you know beating someone because they are trying to exercise a free first amendment, free speech rights. That's not fascist. Well, what is a fascist thing? Well, get right down to it, it might be a little bit too cynical for you.

[00:03:23] OK, how about this one. Do you remember this e-mail? When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it, if you are a windows user, for a two- week time-period for every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you 245 dollars. For every person that you send it to, that forwards that ad on, Microsoft will pay you 243 dollars, and for every third person that receives it, you'll be paid 241 dollars within two weeks. Microsoft will contact you, for your address, and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself. But, two weeks after receiving this e-mail, do you guys remember that one? Do you remember, that e-mail? OK, did any of your friends fall for it? I know, I got it because, why? Because some friend of mine forwarded it to me. How about the one that's more recent? From Facebook and Zuckerberg. Hey, if you like this, you know what? Zuckerberg is going to track it. Facebook is going to track it, and you are going to get paid money. All right, it goes way back cobbled chain letters, you remember those things, Right. So, let's not, for everybody, the stupid will always be with us. OK, Stupid stupidity is not a function of capability. Frankly, I think it's a choice, OK. So, what's the point here? Well, the point is stupidity is cheap and plentiful with stupidity. Your opinions appear to be endlessly open, right. It's crazy. Wisdom is scarce and expensive and usually involved, with upfront commitments, upfront studying, and upfront research. 

[00:05:09] And, when I look at my business, I look at the security business that I'm in, I see stupidity, everywhere absolutely everywhere. I want to tell you a quick story here about a guy that I worked with in Chicago; his name was Miroslav. It was at least 20 years ago 30 years ago. Maybe, he and his family had emigrated from the full former Soviet Union. He knew what it was like. In fact, I had been up in Canada, and I bought a copy of Pravda. You remember that? That's the Russian, the Soviet, the communist, kind of like, Time magazine. And I brought it back, because I thought it was hilarious, because of the way they were portraying the United States, and how everyone in the U.S. was drunk, and they were on street corners, and everybody was homeless, and what a terrible thing capitalism was. So, I showed it to him, and he says I got to take this home, I'll bring it back tomorrow. So, he took it home, and his wife saw it and tore it to shreds. So, remember he promised to bring it back tomorrow. And about a week later, I sent him a slob where's my copy of Pravda, and he says my wife destroyed it and he said I'll get you another one. He never did. By the way, I never got my Pravda back, but he described how he used to have to stand in lines for bread in the Soviet Union.

[00:06:40] Yes that's what you had to do. The shelves were barren.

[00:06:44] I don't know if you've seen the Americans, on TV, but they do a reasonable job of showing what it was like. You can get as many boots as you want. They had so many boots, one style, and only a couple of sizes right. That was the only thing the government, the Soviet government was good at making, back in the day. But he'd stand in the bread line, and he'd have, like no choices. He had his family had to get the bread that was on the shelf, that was it. Right nowadays, you get to decide, do we want to go to Panera, and we can get this bread or that bread. Or, do you want to go to a pan and get some bread from them at the supermarket? And, you know. I’m at my local supermarket; the bread aisle is huge. There are at least a thousand different loaves of bread and different types of bread. So, in the Soviet Union, they had virtually no choice. So, these people would come over to America, and they'd go to a supermarket, and they wouldn't believe what they saw, because there were so many choices. It was everywhere, and that's the joy of true capitalism. It was everywhere. Now OK, I'll argue. Right. We don't have true capitalism in the U.S. anymore which is true. But Kim married to the Soviet Union. It was just incredible. You and I would think, oh wow, that's just a miracle isn't that the coolest thing ever. I love that. But the effect on some of these people that came from the Soviet Union cleared, including Miroslav, you could see it in him. It was overpowering.

[00:08:24] He was amazed, at how much better things were over here.

[00:08:30] Now that conversation happened more than oh 20-30 years ago now, but I still remember what he looked like, and you know what surprised me the most, that he said was that some people came over from the former Soviet Union. Their choices were so dramatic; they couldn't take it, they could not take it, they could not make the decisions. So, the one way that they would return, he told me about people, that returned to the Soviet Union. Well, of course, at that point it had pretty much collapsed because this was right after the collapse, of the Soviet Union, it wasn't very many years after, during the Reagan administration. But you know, we're talking about a thousand times more many more choices, and they were just overwhelmed, they couldn't deal with that. So, they went back. Well, today we have a similar problem. If you go on Google and you look for security, you're going to see you know, anti-virus, anti-malware. How do I get my training and security, that's required by law? How do I get it for my employees? You are going to be overwhelmed. There's not a thousand choices you will get million-page hits, when you do your search online.

[00:09:47] And, you know what, a lot of those people frankly, and then this is scary if you ask me, but a lot of those people, are stupid people

[00:09:57] Their saying, oh this software is the best, I've used it for years.

[00:10:01] There's no problems with the software, and they are completely ignorant of the subject matter.

[00:10:09] You know, in this day and age, we have a continual problem with what are called zero-day attacks. We've never seen them before. We have the president of Symantec, who pretty much got fired because he said that their antivirus software was useless. And yet how many people can you find out there that are peddling Symantec software, right. It's huge; you're saying, hey it's a mess just a mess. These are the stupid people, OK. Kalisz people's not going to help them get a faster internet connection; it is not going to help, a 60-inch widescreen monitor isn't going to help. Being motivated is not going to help. The number one skill you need is discernment, and that's the skill nobody talks about. How do you know, who knows what they're talking about? You have to discern, and that's the problem with the Internet today 

[00:11:08] How can you judge me, from somebody else that has a thousand posts that are all wrong 

[00:11:15] Right, where I've been on the internet since 1983 and doing security for major corporations down through small guys, right. How can you tell the difference? How can you discern? And, I want you to think about it too, from your business standpoint, if you are a business owner, how do you distinguish your business from the other guys that are online? The other guys that are shouting louder and longer than you are shouting, a little bit of food for thought. I appreciate you subscribing. Please make sure you take a second and give this podcast a rating on iTunes. Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Let me know, what you think. Hopefully, I’ve earned five stars from you. You have a great day, and we'll be back with more tomorrow. We'll see. what tomorrow brings us, there's always something. Thanks again, Craig Petersen. Out.

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Ambulance Chasing Attorneys Using Geo-Fencing, Space Mining and DNA Data Breaches

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey everybody, Good Morning. Craig Peterson here. Of course, you might not be listening to this in the morning. I get it, but Good Morning. Such a nice expression, isn't it. I'm glad you're joining me today. And, of course, we're going to be getting into Ken and Matt. Now we went into a little more depth than usual with them because they had some good questions. But we talked about geo-fencing and how lawyers are starting to use that, to direct ads to you. Yes, indeed the ambulance chaser goes 21st century. We'll talk about the Space Force and space mining and how in 2022 NASA's going to start a trend that frankly could destroy the entire world economy. And, a breach of one of these DNA services. This one was bad enough. But what could happen here in the future. All of that and more of course with Ken and Matt and Craig Peterson. Stick around. Here it goes. I really enjoyed it this morning. Hope you do too. Let me know Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Make sure you leave rating. Hopefully I've earned a five-star rating from you and also a comment, Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Here we go.

[00:01:19] Ken and Matt and we have with us, as usual, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at 738 every week. Craig, Good morning. 

[00:01:27] Hey good morning. Doing well. How are the eggs.

[00:01:30] I know how the politics going? Actually, got to tell you the eggs are pretty good. That's not bad. Yeah. The issues are a little suspect, but the eggs are good, so you know and what you don't have. 

[00:01:41] Yeah you know, Craig, my day job, I'm an attorney and so I was wondering if there's any way I can get more business other than chasing the ambulances behind them. So, where I how can get in the ambulance itself.

[00:01:56] I love it. What a segue here. How did you know that? Yeah, this is really kind of an interesting article here, and problem. If you have a smartphone you have a device that can be tracked right. We all know that if you have a dumb phone that device can be tracked as can a cell phone of any sort. But the tracking technology that's in cell phones is just astounding because they've got this GPS and the GPS allows you to find out where you are within a meter or two. Kind of depends but that's a lot of resolution. Now our devices have a facility, whether it's in Android, or it's a new iPhone or an IOS device have a facility that's called geo-fencing and Geo-fencing is where you set up an area a geography as you will and you define a kind of a virtual fence around that area. So, one of the uses for that's really nice. And parents love that is that you can set up a GPS fence for your kid’s school. You can have a geo-fence for your kid’s after-school activity, and you can have a different one for the House, and maybe yet another geo-fence for their best friend's house, and then when they are moving between all of these different places when they're going places. The smartphone that they have, is sending information, by the way, doesn't have to be a smartphone you can get little watch-type devices 

[00:03:32] That is what we did for a granddaughter. Those also have a geo-fencing capability and she can make emergency calls to family members, which is really kind of cool. But, what can happen with the geofencer's, is when the kid arrives at school you're notified, when they arrive at home, or the friend's house, wherever you set up the geo-fences. Well, attorneys Ken I think might be smarter than we've given them credit for, as they should, The patients in Philadelphia now are going to start to notice something a little different. Some of the advertisers in this particular case, attorneys have set up geo-fences around clinics. We're talking about emergency rooms, chiropractor's offices, and even pain clinics. So, all of these places have been defined with geo-fences and what's going to start happening, in Philadelphia, is if you show up at one of these places you are going to start seeing ads from attorneys. So, you kind of mentioned the ambulance chaser, Ken, and that's exactly what we're talking about here right now we've got personal injury law firms are going to be using these medical clinics to target people. And then by the way it's not just like its popping up on your phone.

[00:04:55] Hey, have you been injured? It's going to come up as your normal ads stream. So, if you're on there on Facebook, or you're cruising the Web, you're going to start seeing these things, and they don't stop just because you've left the area. They, in fact, will continue for as many, as much, as a few weeks. Now, this is interesting because there was a case about this, down in Mass, and Maura Healey is kind of upset about it. In a direct quote from her saying “that private medical information should not be exploited in this way.” So, she's concerned and prosecutors down in Mass reached a deal last year with an advertising firm that was sending ads from a Christian pregnancy counseling and adoption agency to people who entered a Planned Parenthood clinics. So, the people would cross this digital fence and they'd start getting advertisements that said things like, “You have choices” and “Click here for pregnancy help.” So, she came up with this deal. They agreed to it, the state called it. The Commonwealth called it a little bit unfair and deceptive and it resulted in the banishment of digital advertising. Digital advertising firm from Massachusetts. So, this is a problem. It's going to continue to get worse as more the technology advances. Yes, Ken, you don't actually have to run after the ambulance’s anymore. 

[00:06:28] Oh that's good news. All right. So, I would love that way too. You have the benefit. 

[00:06:36] We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday for a look on technology. 

[00:06:42] So Craig, when I join the new United States Space force, yeah, this is because I'm signing up as soon as I'm able to, probably spending a lot of time in space and if I were to, I don't know, encounter an asteroid, would I suddenly become a billionaire.

[00:06:59] Wow, that's a great one. Well, first of all I think you're too tall Matt. I think there are limits on that. So, you might not be able to do it, but yeah, the next big gold rush is, in fact, in space and we've already got a number of companies.

[00:07:20] There's a couple of dozen that I know of that are busy trying to get into space. So, why do you want to get up there, I think maybe Matt your, or your, question really revolves around. Does President Trump have an ulterior motive to this new space force? Right. Am I reading this right? 

[00:07:39] Well I mean, is he looking to make his next few billion.

[00:07:43] Yeah exactly. Maybe that's what's happening, I had not even thought of that. So, here's what's happening right now. We have these asteroids in space and you know that we've sent some satellites while some rockets by right with Rover type devices on them they've landed on asteroids have done a little bit of mining to try and figure out what they are. Well, there are all kinds of precious metals that are fairly easy to mine on asteroids. Boy, there has been a lot of science fiction written about this stuff over the years, but one of the major things that they're looking to mine from space rocks is gold. So, the world's first trillionaire. This is an interesting article came out of the U.K. and you'll see this up on my website. But the world's first trillionaire is not going to come from cryptocurrency or some other clever new APP. It looks like they might become rich from asteroid mining and that's what's really kind of interesting. Goldman Sachs is looking at this. They're saying that's what's really going to happen. And NASA's estimating the total value of asteroids, that are easily reachable from Earth, could be up to 700 quintillion dollars. So, that would mean about a hundred billion dollars for every person on earth. OK. Obviously, that's not going to happen, right. Because if you have an influx of gold, gold is going to become less valuable. The same thing is true for all of these, you know, the valuable commodities that might be out there and those asteroids. So, what we have to look at here as the winner is going to be the first one to get up there, to be able to economically grab those asteroids bring back those minerals, and start selling them. Because once it becomes cheap, the price is going to go down.

[00:09:46] Look at oil, the price of oil, of course, has been a cartel for a long time over in the Middle East where they kind of control the price of oil. But, once we started fracking and it was less expensive for us to get the oil, and the extra oil the extra gas the price per barrel plummeted, it went way down, because now there was more oil. So, when there's more gold or there's other planetary resources that are just floating around out there. So, the whole value's going to drop. So, if you've been investing in gold and they start mining it, it's not going to be worth what it used to be worth. But this predicted mineral wealth is just so vast, it could destroy our world’s economy. So, that's a very, very, big deal. We've got NASA back, in 2022, is going to be launching a new mission. They’re going to a metal-rich asteroid that's estimated to be worth, this one asteroid, about twelve thousand quadrillion dollars. That one asteroid. So, boy oh boy. Talking about an economic collapse that just you could make some big bucks up there in space. But ultimately, this could really change everything here on Earth and might even drive up the value of these crypto-currencies. 

[00:11:14] I'd like to see Matt go to space. Sometimes, I'm sure you would it might improve our chemistry, yeah exactly that. 

[00:11:19] We are with Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us on Wednesdays at 730. So, we've heard a lot about hacking and credit card hacking. DNA is kind of a definition My Heritage had some hackers breached their accounts and didn't give me DNA. But is that us. I mean, is that a serious breach something that we should be worried about.

[00:11:43] Yeah, well in this case right now with My Heritage it was passwords usernames and they were basically encrypted. So, not a whole lot of trouble there but it brings up the concern about our DNA being stolen getting our DNA data back for ransom, in fact, that's already happened once, which is just absolutely amazing. 

[00:12:08] We had one Indiana hospital that paid 55 Grand to hackers so that they would not release that, so, it was being held ransom. So, we've got to be very careful here. 

[00:12:18] The data could be sold, on the down low, and could be monetized to  insurance companies could end up out on the web and you could in the future apply for a job that you're denied, not realizing that the company denied you because the deep dark data somewhere in the corporate system knew about your DNA and knew about your proclivity for heavy drinking or maybe some disease. And so, they didn't hire you. This is scary. This is a longer term, we don't have it happening yet, but we're freely giving our DNA, everywhere. Guess what. Those passwords that My Heritage lost, you can change your passwords. You cannot change your DNA. And in the future, this could be a very big deal.

[00:13:06] All right, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us every Wednesday at this time to give us an eye on the world of technology. Thanks so much for joining us Craig, we really appreciate it. We'll talk again next week.

[00:13:15] Hey gentlemen take care. Bye-Bye.Thanks.

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Airing date: 06/20/2018

Ambulance Chasing Attorneys Using Geo-Fencing, Space Mining and DNA Data Breaches

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey everybody, Good Morning. Craig Peterson here. Of course, you might not be listening to this in the morning. I get it, but Good Morning. Such a nice expression, isn't it. I'm glad you're joining me today. And, of course, we're going to be getting into Ken and Matt. Now we went into a little more depth than usual with them because they had some good questions. But we talked about geo-fencing and how lawyers are starting to use that, to direct ads to you. Yes, indeed the ambulance chaser goes 21st century. We'll talk about the Space Force and space mining and how in 2022 NASA's going to start a trend that frankly could destroy the entire world economy. And, a breach of one of these DNA services. This one was bad enough. But what could happen here in the future. All of that and more of course with Ken and Matt and Craig Peterson. Stick around. Here it goes. I really enjoyed it this morning. Hope you do too. Let me know Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Make sure you leave rating. Hopefully I've earned a five-star rating from you and also a comment, Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. Here we go.

[00:01:19] Ken and Matt and we have with us, as usual, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at 738 every week. Craig, Good morning. 

[00:01:27] Hey good morning. Doing well. How are the eggs.

[00:01:30] I know how the politics going? Actually, got to tell you the eggs are pretty good. That's not bad. Yeah. The issues are a little suspect, but the eggs are good, so you know and what you don't have. 

[00:01:41] Yeah you know, Craig, my day job, I'm an attorney and so I was wondering if there's any way I can get more business other than chasing the ambulances behind them. So, where I how can get in the ambulance itself.

[00:01:56] I love it. What a segue here. How did you know that? Yeah, this is really kind of an interesting article here, and problem. If you have a smartphone you have a device that can be tracked right. We all know that if you have a dumb phone that device can be tracked as can a cell phone of any sort. But the tracking technology that's in cell phones is just astounding because they've got this GPS and the GPS allows you to find out where you are within a meter or two. Kind of depends but that's a lot of resolution. Now our devices have a facility, whether it's in Android, or it's a new iPhone or an IOS device have a facility that's called geo-fencing and Geo-fencing is where you set up an area a geography as you will and you define a kind of a virtual fence around that area. So, one of the uses for that's really nice. And parents love that is that you can set up a GPS fence for your kid’s school. You can have a geo-fence for your kid’s after-school activity, and you can have a different one for the House, and maybe yet another geo-fence for their best friend's house, and then when they are moving between all of these different places when they're going places. The smartphone that they have, is sending information, by the way, doesn't have to be a smartphone you can get little watch-type devices 

[00:03:32] That is what we did for a granddaughter. Those also have a geo-fencing capability and she can make emergency calls to family members, which is really kind of cool. But, what can happen with the geofencer's, is when the kid arrives at school you're notified, when they arrive at home, or the friend's house, wherever you set up the geo-fences. Well, attorneys Ken I think might be smarter than we've given them credit for, as they should, The patients in Philadelphia now are going to start to notice something a little different. Some of the advertisers in this particular case, attorneys have set up geo-fences around clinics. We're talking about emergency rooms, chiropractor's offices, and even pain clinics. So, all of these places have been defined with geo-fences and what's going to start happening, in Philadelphia, is if you show up at one of these places you are going to start seeing ads from attorneys. So, you kind of mentioned the ambulance chaser, Ken, and that's exactly what we're talking about here right now we've got personal injury law firms are going to be using these medical clinics to target people. And then by the way it's not just like its popping up on your phone.

[00:04:55] Hey, have you been injured? It's going to come up as your normal ads stream. So, if you're on there on Facebook, or you're cruising the Web, you're going to start seeing these things, and they don't stop just because you've left the area. They, in fact, will continue for as many, as much, as a few weeks. Now, this is interesting because there was a case about this, down in Mass, and Maura Healey is kind of upset about it. In a direct quote from her saying “that private medical information should not be exploited in this way.” So, she's concerned and prosecutors down in Mass reached a deal last year with an advertising firm that was sending ads from a Christian pregnancy counseling and adoption agency to people who entered a Planned Parenthood clinics. So, the people would cross this digital fence and they'd start getting advertisements that said things like, “You have choices” and “Click here for pregnancy help.” So, she came up with this deal. They agreed to it, the state called it. The Commonwealth called it a little bit unfair and deceptive and it resulted in the banishment of digital advertising. Digital advertising firm from Massachusetts. So, this is a problem. It's going to continue to get worse as more the technology advances. Yes, Ken, you don't actually have to run after the ambulance’s anymore. 

[00:06:28] Oh that's good news. All right. So, I would love that way too. You have the benefit. 

[00:06:36] We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us at this time every Wednesday for a look on technology. 

[00:06:42] So Craig, when I join the new United States Space force, yeah, this is because I'm signing up as soon as I'm able to, probably spending a lot of time in space and if I were to, I don't know, encounter an asteroid, would I suddenly become a billionaire.

[00:06:59] Wow, that's a great one. Well, first of all I think you're too tall Matt. I think there are limits on that. So, you might not be able to do it, but yeah, the next big gold rush is, in fact, in space and we've already got a number of companies.

[00:07:20] There's a couple of dozen that I know of that are busy trying to get into space. So, why do you want to get up there, I think maybe Matt your, or your, question really revolves around. Does President Trump have an ulterior motive to this new space force? Right. Am I reading this right? 

[00:07:39] Well I mean, is he looking to make his next few billion.

[00:07:43] Yeah exactly. Maybe that's what's happening, I had not even thought of that. So, here's what's happening right now. We have these asteroids in space and you know that we've sent some satellites while some rockets by right with Rover type devices on them they've landed on asteroids have done a little bit of mining to try and figure out what they are. Well, there are all kinds of precious metals that are fairly easy to mine on asteroids. Boy, there has been a lot of science fiction written about this stuff over the years, but one of the major things that they're looking to mine from space rocks is gold. So, the world's first trillionaire. This is an interesting article came out of the U.K. and you'll see this up on my website. But the world's first trillionaire is not going to come from cryptocurrency or some other clever new APP. It looks like they might become rich from asteroid mining and that's what's really kind of interesting. Goldman Sachs is looking at this. They're saying that's what's really going to happen. And NASA's estimating the total value of asteroids, that are easily reachable from Earth, could be up to 700 quintillion dollars. So, that would mean about a hundred billion dollars for every person on earth. OK. Obviously, that's not going to happen, right. Because if you have an influx of gold, gold is going to become less valuable. The same thing is true for all of these, you know, the valuable commodities that might be out there and those asteroids. So, what we have to look at here as the winner is going to be the first one to get up there, to be able to economically grab those asteroids bring back those minerals, and start selling them. Because once it becomes cheap, the price is going to go down.

[00:09:46] Look at oil, the price of oil, of course, has been a cartel for a long time over in the Middle East where they kind of control the price of oil. But, once we started fracking and it was less expensive for us to get the oil, and the extra oil the extra gas the price per barrel plummeted, it went way down, because now there was more oil. So, when there's more gold or there's other planetary resources that are just floating around out there. So, the whole value's going to drop. So, if you've been investing in gold and they start mining it, it's not going to be worth what it used to be worth. But this predicted mineral wealth is just so vast, it could destroy our world’s economy. So, that's a very, very, big deal. We've got NASA back, in 2022, is going to be launching a new mission. They’re going to a metal-rich asteroid that's estimated to be worth, this one asteroid, about twelve thousand quadrillion dollars. That one asteroid. So, boy oh boy. Talking about an economic collapse that just you could make some big bucks up there in space. But ultimately, this could really change everything here on Earth and might even drive up the value of these crypto-currencies. 

[00:11:14] I'd like to see Matt go to space. Sometimes, I'm sure you would it might improve our chemistry, yeah exactly that. 

[00:11:19] We are with Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us on Wednesdays at 730. So, we've heard a lot about hacking and credit card hacking. DNA is kind of a definition My Heritage had some hackers breached their accounts and didn't give me DNA. But is that us. I mean, is that a serious breach something that we should be worried about.

[00:11:43] Yeah, well in this case right now with My Heritage it was passwords usernames and they were basically encrypted. So, not a whole lot of trouble there but it brings up the concern about our DNA being stolen getting our DNA data back for ransom, in fact, that's already happened once, which is just absolutely amazing. 

[00:12:08] We had one Indiana hospital that paid 55 Grand to hackers so that they would not release that, so, it was being held ransom. So, we've got to be very careful here. 

[00:12:18] The data could be sold, on the down low, and could be monetized to  insurance companies could end up out on the web and you could in the future apply for a job that you're denied, not realizing that the company denied you because the deep dark data somewhere in the corporate system knew about your DNA and knew about your proclivity for heavy drinking or maybe some disease. And so, they didn't hire you. This is scary. This is a longer term, we don't have it happening yet, but we're freely giving our DNA, everywhere. Guess what. Those passwords that My Heritage lost, you can change your passwords. You cannot change your DNA. And in the future, this could be a very big deal.

[00:13:06] All right, Craig Peterson, our tech guru, who joins us every Wednesday at this time to give us an eye on the world of technology. Thanks so much for joining us Craig, we really appreciate it. We'll talk again next week.

[00:13:15] Hey gentlemen take care. Bye-Bye.Thanks.

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Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers

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Airing date: 06/019/2018

Police iPhone unlockers are going to be blocked

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a rather long discussion this morning, actually, I guess more of a lecture, I need to stop doing that a lot. Jim Polito and on these other morning show drive hosts kind of say their own thing. But I had a discussion this morning with the Jim about Apple. I don't know if you know it or not, but I found something in the latest beta release of Apple's iOS. And in fact, in the prior one that's going to have a huge impact on law enforcement frankly and on businesses. In fact, there's a bit of a surprise here for most people. So, stick around here we go. We've got about oh say eight minutes with Jim starting right now. Here he is. 

[00:00:52] Our good friend Craig Peterson the tech talk guru and at the end of this segment we're going to tell you how you can get more from Craig without getting annoyed. But joining us now, Apple is testing a new feature 

[00:01:06] that could kill police iPhone unlocker's. What's an iPhone unlocker or what did the police use for that. Well Craig Peterson. We'll explain. Good morning sir. What is an iPhone. Police iPhone unlocker. 

[00:01:24] Well bottom line that is the form of smartphones we have some security built into them. And we like that we want that because what that means is we have some privacy as far back as the Clinton administration the federal government was trying to put some technology, some backdoors into the encrypted phones that were available to them and they were trying to do that, so they could listen in on any conversation that they could get their hands on. Today, it's not just the conversation. You know we tax people. Look at look at what's happening right now with the FBI with Strzok and Page and those types of messages can be recovered because they are kept by the phone companies. Right. So, the FBI and the local police department they'd love to get their hands on your communications device, because you're probably using something other than texting. So, for instance I use iMessage on an iPhone and that's not encrypted end to end Jim. And what that means is no one can intercept it. Well they could potentially intercept. But it's almost impossible to decrypt. So, it just makes it so expensive and difficult to decrypt that message that that they don't bother. 

[00:02:51] Now when you're talking about criminal cases like what happened in San Bernardino with the murders in the office. Right. They wanted to get their hands not only on the iPhone, but on the data in the iPhone. They wanted to see is anybody else out there colluding with these people. And what that might mean is there might be some other people that should be investigated, maybe arrested and maybe they can stop another crime. So, when you lock your iPhone, when your iPhone requires you to give it a thumbprint or passcode or look at your face. Now you are given access to that iPhone and the police have limited ability to get into your iPhone to see what might be on there. Right. There is there is a company that has some tech, Jim in them and that's called an iPhone on Walker. The companies like Cellabrite are Greyshift. They make devices that they can hook an iPhone up to and unlock it as though you had either given your fingerprint or your passcode or your face to unlock it so they can unlock it right. That's about 

[00:04:11] Son OF A GUN. 

[00:04:12] Yeah it cost about fifteen hundred bucks is what these places charge to unlock an iPhone. You have to, frequently, a police department will ship the iPhone over to Israel where this company is located. And then the company will go ahead and pull everything off of the iPhone and encrypt it and send it back to the police department. But what what's happening right now is interesting Jim because the way they unlock the iPhone is they fog in the software. It's like a loophole right think of a loophole with the law and there's a lot of discussion about that. Now in the news with the loophole of the of the illegal immigrants coming up here to the U.S. bring in a young child and getting you know preferential treatment because of that. So, think of it as sort of a loophole that there are bugs in the iPhone that allow them to get in but there's also some features. So, for instance your iPhone, let's say your iPhone isn't working quite right, You get to the appointment for the genius bar, you're go in. 

[00:05:21] Yeah. I hate that name.

[00:05:25] And you talk to the geniuses behind the Genius Bar and they'll plug your iPhone in. And there are special facilities on that iPhone connector that allow them to get into your iPhone to reset it to do some fishing around to see what's going on with your iPhone. And so, what's happening is these companies like, Cellebrite and Greyshift, they've been using that diagnostic port on your iPhone to break into apps and yeah that's where the problem's been coming from. And so what Apple has started doing here and has been in the beta releases is they are basically going to close that door and they're going to make it so that if the iPhone has not been unlocked within the last hour that port will not come on it'll be unusable.

[00:06:23] That's good. That's pretty good. 

[00:06:26] Yeah. So, the question is you know bottom line do you want to head right. How far should the police be able to go with a warrant. But there's one other angle to this that most people haven't talked about. That's a little surprising and that is how about you are an employer and you are providing an iPhones or iPads to your employees and you know you're talking about a thousand dollar device, plus the company information that might be on that device because businesses also use the iPhone unlockers and unlocker companies so, that they can now front employee leaves and just you know scramble their passcode and takes off and refuses to give it to them. So, they can then take, that phone they can ship it to one of these companies and get it on lock get all of that data off that and get the iPhone back, so they can reuse it. So, this fix that Apple is going to be making to the iPhone or at least they're planning on releasing this soon. That fix will break the law enforcement access to the data on the iPhone. It'll break employer access to data on the iPhone and iPad. 

[00:07:41] And the IOS device. Yeah. And I I don't know do you go back to just good old regular policing. How would you capture Strzok and Page those two FBI employees? How would you catch them, if they had been using something like Signal, which is designed to communicate securely there's no records kept of it and the messages just disappear. And if you can't get into their devices how do you make that work. So, this is going to be a big problem for law enforcement coming forward. And I've talked to FBI special agents a little bit about this and they're concerned as well. And it's not just that it makes their job easier it makes their job possible because Apple is doing such a good job with his security on the phones. And we're just talking about iPhone's, because of the Android devices most of them can be broken into easily, frankly mainly because people just aren't updating their Android devices it's just too difficult to do so huge, huge, discussions all this when this software comes out in a few weeks. 

[00:08:55] All right so we know this. There's more information on this, and this is just an example of the stuff that you get from Craig Peterson for free. There's no obligation he doesn't try to sell you anything. He doesn't hack you and he provides this information. He sends me a weekly breakdown of all the big tech stories. So, if you want to get one you can get it. There's no gimmick here is just free. 

[00:09:24] You text my name Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 63 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 with any question that you might have or just Jim I'll keep you up to date and you'll get this information, standard data and tax rates apply, of course. 

[00:09:46] But it's a great service to have and if there's ever a big international hack or some information that you need right away he sends it to you and he sends it to you without all the hype. Craig, thank you so much, buddy we'll talk to you next week. 

[00:10:01] Hey thanks Jim. Take care. 

[00:10:03] Already Bye Bye, everybody.

[00:10:05] Well that's it for today. Hopefully you're going to have a great day and a lot to remember there. Don't forget to sign up if you haven't already to get my weekly show notes. I got some really cool stuff coming so keep an ear out for that too. Take care. Thanks again. Bye bye.

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Apple iPhone are now going to be harder to break into.  Craig and Jim discuss a new change to Apple security that will disable the feature that companys like Cellebrite and Greyshift were exploiting making it harder for anyone to break-in to your iPhone.

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Apple Is Testing a Feature That Could Kill Police iPhone Unlockers

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 06/019/2018

Police iPhone unlockers are going to be blocked

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hey, Good Morning everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a rather long discussion this morning, actually, I guess more of a lecture, I need to stop doing that a lot. Jim Polito and on these other morning show drive hosts kind of say their own thing. But I had a discussion this morning with the Jim about Apple. I don't know if you know it or not, but I found something in the latest beta release of Apple's iOS. And in fact, in the prior one that's going to have a huge impact on law enforcement frankly and on businesses. In fact, there's a bit of a surprise here for most people. So, stick around here we go. We've got about oh say eight minutes with Jim starting right now. Here he is. 

[00:00:52] Our good friend Craig Peterson the tech talk guru and at the end of this segment we're going to tell you how you can get more from Craig without getting annoyed. But joining us now, Apple is testing a new feature 

[00:01:06] that could kill police iPhone unlocker's. What's an iPhone unlocker or what did the police use for that. Well Craig Peterson. We'll explain. Good morning sir. What is an iPhone. Police iPhone unlocker. 

[00:01:24] Well bottom line that is the form of smartphones we have some security built into them. And we like that we want that because what that means is we have some privacy as far back as the Clinton administration the federal government was trying to put some technology, some backdoors into the encrypted phones that were available to them and they were trying to do that, so they could listen in on any conversation that they could get their hands on. Today, it's not just the conversation. You know we tax people. Look at look at what's happening right now with the FBI with Strzok and Page and those types of messages can be recovered because they are kept by the phone companies. Right. So, the FBI and the local police department they'd love to get their hands on your communications device, because you're probably using something other than texting. So, for instance I use iMessage on an iPhone and that's not encrypted end to end Jim. And what that means is no one can intercept it. Well they could potentially intercept. But it's almost impossible to decrypt. So, it just makes it so expensive and difficult to decrypt that message that that they don't bother. 

[00:02:51] Now when you're talking about criminal cases like what happened in San Bernardino with the murders in the office. Right. They wanted to get their hands not only on the iPhone, but on the data in the iPhone. They wanted to see is anybody else out there colluding with these people. And what that might mean is there might be some other people that should be investigated, maybe arrested and maybe they can stop another crime. So, when you lock your iPhone, when your iPhone requires you to give it a thumbprint or passcode or look at your face. Now you are given access to that iPhone and the police have limited ability to get into your iPhone to see what might be on there. Right. There is there is a company that has some tech, Jim in them and that's called an iPhone on Walker. The companies like Cellabrite are Greyshift. They make devices that they can hook an iPhone up to and unlock it as though you had either given your fingerprint or your passcode or your face to unlock it so they can unlock it right. That's about 

[00:04:11] Son OF A GUN. 

[00:04:12] Yeah it cost about fifteen hundred bucks is what these places charge to unlock an iPhone. You have to, frequently, a police department will ship the iPhone over to Israel where this company is located. And then the company will go ahead and pull everything off of the iPhone and encrypt it and send it back to the police department. But what what's happening right now is interesting Jim because the way they unlock the iPhone is they fog in the software. It's like a loophole right think of a loophole with the law and there's a lot of discussion about that. Now in the news with the loophole of the of the illegal immigrants coming up here to the U.S. bring in a young child and getting you know preferential treatment because of that. So, think of it as sort of a loophole that there are bugs in the iPhone that allow them to get in but there's also some features. So, for instance your iPhone, let's say your iPhone isn't working quite right, You get to the appointment for the genius bar, you're go in. 

[00:05:21] Yeah. I hate that name.

[00:05:25] And you talk to the geniuses behind the Genius Bar and they'll plug your iPhone in. And there are special facilities on that iPhone connector that allow them to get into your iPhone to reset it to do some fishing around to see what's going on with your iPhone. And so, what's happening is these companies like, Cellebrite and Greyshift, they've been using that diagnostic port on your iPhone to break into apps and yeah that's where the problem's been coming from. And so what Apple has started doing here and has been in the beta releases is they are basically going to close that door and they're going to make it so that if the iPhone has not been unlocked within the last hour that port will not come on it'll be unusable.

[00:06:23] That's good. That's pretty good. 

[00:06:26] Yeah. So, the question is you know bottom line do you want to head right. How far should the police be able to go with a warrant. But there's one other angle to this that most people haven't talked about. That's a little surprising and that is how about you are an employer and you are providing an iPhones or iPads to your employees and you know you're talking about a thousand dollar device, plus the company information that might be on that device because businesses also use the iPhone unlockers and unlocker companies so, that they can now front employee leaves and just you know scramble their passcode and takes off and refuses to give it to them. So, they can then take, that phone they can ship it to one of these companies and get it on lock get all of that data off that and get the iPhone back, so they can reuse it. So, this fix that Apple is going to be making to the iPhone or at least they're planning on releasing this soon. That fix will break the law enforcement access to the data on the iPhone. It'll break employer access to data on the iPhone and iPad. 

[00:07:41] And the IOS device. Yeah. And I I don't know do you go back to just good old regular policing. How would you capture Strzok and Page those two FBI employees? How would you catch them, if they had been using something like Signal, which is designed to communicate securely there's no records kept of it and the messages just disappear. And if you can't get into their devices how do you make that work. So, this is going to be a big problem for law enforcement coming forward. And I've talked to FBI special agents a little bit about this and they're concerned as well. And it's not just that it makes their job easier it makes their job possible because Apple is doing such a good job with his security on the phones. And we're just talking about iPhone's, because of the Android devices most of them can be broken into easily, frankly mainly because people just aren't updating their Android devices it's just too difficult to do so huge, huge, discussions all this when this software comes out in a few weeks. 

[00:08:55] All right so we know this. There's more information on this, and this is just an example of the stuff that you get from Craig Peterson for free. There's no obligation he doesn't try to sell you anything. He doesn't hack you and he provides this information. He sends me a weekly breakdown of all the big tech stories. So, if you want to get one you can get it. There's no gimmick here is just free. 

[00:09:24] You text my name Jim to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 63 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 with any question that you might have or just Jim I'll keep you up to date and you'll get this information, standard data and tax rates apply, of course. 

[00:09:46] But it's a great service to have and if there's ever a big international hack or some information that you need right away he sends it to you and he sends it to you without all the hype. Craig, thank you so much, buddy we'll talk to you next week. 

[00:10:01] Hey thanks Jim. Take care. 

[00:10:03] Already Bye Bye, everybody.

[00:10:05] Well that's it for today. Hopefully you're going to have a great day and a lot to remember there. Don't forget to sign up if you haven't already to get my weekly show notes. I got some really cool stuff coming so keep an ear out for that too. Take care. Thanks again. Bye bye.

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This morning Craig and Jack had a very short discussion about the Tesla Car that caught fire and the safety of litium batteries.

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Airing date: 06/19/2018

Tesla Car Fire and Lithium Ion Battery Safety

Transcript:

[00:00:00] Hi guys. Craig Peterson here, this morning I talked a little bit about the Tesla, the guest who was on the radio before me didn't quite get it right. I guess what else is new, right. Not understanding some of the technology, and there's one thing I forgot to mention that I will add to the end of this recording. So here we go with Jack Heath.

[00:00:26] Great Transition To Craig Peterson our tech talk guy his show airs on the weekends Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. You know I thought of you, because you and I have talked a little about a good light Ford f 150 and all the people that talk about gas and oil and all that stuff is the problem. These batteries tell you and how they're discarded probably are bigger, bigger, threat to the environment than gas and oil. 

[00:00:49] Good morning. You're absolutely right about that when we're talking about the Tesla, we're talking about a car that relies entirely on batteries. It is using batteries that, frankly, are not only dangerous when they catch on fire, but if you're in a car accident. Do you remember the issues that we've seen in phones, as well as these cars, is that those particular batteries, they tend to have a lot of power stored in them, so they can deliver the power very quickly, and that means they're going to heat up a lot, which is a real problem, frankly. When you mention like the F 150 Ford, compared to something like a Prius even the Prius is only good for about a hundred thousand miles before they recommend you replace the batteries that are in there. 

[00:01:39] The Tesla has the same sort of a problem and creating these batteries is very, very, dangerous. 

[00:01:46] There are all kinds of chemical processes, so you're right. When you're talking about what is greener, today anyways, the greenest cars out there, are the cars or trucks that will last 200- 300 thousand miles and that burns gas and they tend to also be the safest still. Remember, I spent 10 years in an emergency medical services responding to the scene of one of these vehicles, can be very dangerous for the occupants and the rescuers, especially if you have to cut into the car.

[00:02:23] Interesting. Great stuff. Craig Peterson, check him out. Craig Peterson with an O.N. on Peterson dot com. Thanks Craig. 

[00:02:30] Ok, so here's the part I did not mention, and that's what happens when they try and cram me in to a very short segment this morning. That's one of the shortest I've been on, it was only about a two-minute hit on the radio. Just because there's a bunch of stations, Jack doesn't mean I shouldn't get more time, anyways. Here's what I didn't mention, and we were talking about Tesla. We're talking about the safety of the vehicles and in reality, the crash tests have shown the Tesla to be one of the safest cars out there. In fact, it even broke some of the testing equipment they had to change the nature of the test so that they could really kind of score Tesla at all, frankly. So, it's not that Tesla's aren't safe because they are, frankly, they tend to be very safe. We were talking specifically about the batteries, and the safety of the batteries. Now, you might remember if you listen to my radio show on the weekends or maybe on the podcast, you might remember that the guy that invented the lithium ion batteries out of the University of Texas. He's, what is he now in his late in the 70’s, I think, he might even be in his 80’s. He's come up with a new type of battery, a lithium glass battery that can be charged, like that. You know a matter of a couple of minutes, and that does not have these discharge problems that the lithium ion batteries have, and that frankly is where all of these problems are stemming from, is the rapid discharge. Then things heat up they catch on fire and then you've got a lithium fire which could be just totally, totally, nasty. 

[00:04:08] So, hopefully that technology progression progresses along, and of course I'll keep everybody up to date on that as well. And we've got a few other things brewing that we're going to be announcing, fairly soon, so keep an eye out some more insider stuff. We're almost done with that site. We have some people we've given away free insider memberships to. And that gives them access to some of the special reports and some of the other things that we are doing here on the radio show. And then we're putting together some, basically a kind of a threat matrix, right. Some threat and analysis when it comes to security, for people who are in business. People in business who are responsible for the security, and even a little bit of training, which is now required by law and regulation. Depending on the industry you're in, you may have a huge requirement. If you’re in a normal business, you realize you actually do have a requirement for security training for your people. So, we're going to be doing some of that as well. So, keep an eye out for that, and have a great day we'll be back with you tomorrow. Bye-Bye.

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This morning Craig and Jack had a very short discussion about the Tesla Car that caught fire and the safety of litium batteries.

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

Airing date: 06/19/2018

Tesla Car Fire and Lithium Ion Battery Safety

Transcript:

[00:00:00] Hi guys. Craig Peterson here, this morning I talked a little bit about the Tesla, the guest who was on the radio before me didn't quite get it right. I guess what else is new, right. Not understanding some of the technology, and there's one thing I forgot to mention that I will add to the end of this recording. So here we go with Jack Heath.

[00:00:26] Great Transition To Craig Peterson our tech talk guy his show airs on the weekends Tech Talk with Craig Peterson. You know I thought of you, because you and I have talked a little about a good light Ford f 150 and all the people that talk about gas and oil and all that stuff is the problem. These batteries tell you and how they're discarded probably are bigger, bigger, threat to the environment than gas and oil. 

[00:00:49] Good morning. You're absolutely right about that when we're talking about the Tesla, we're talking about a car that relies entirely on batteries. It is using batteries that, frankly, are not only dangerous when they catch on fire, but if you're in a car accident. Do you remember the issues that we've seen in phones, as well as these cars, is that those particular batteries, they tend to have a lot of power stored in them, so they can deliver the power very quickly, and that means they're going to heat up a lot, which is a real problem, frankly. When you mention like the F 150 Ford, compared to something like a Prius even the Prius is only good for about a hundred thousand miles before they recommend you replace the batteries that are in there. 

[00:01:39] The Tesla has the same sort of a problem and creating these batteries is very, very, dangerous. 

[00:01:46] There are all kinds of chemical processes, so you're right. When you're talking about what is greener, today anyways, the greenest cars out there, are the cars or trucks that will last 200- 300 thousand miles and that burns gas and they tend to also be the safest still. Remember, I spent 10 years in an emergency medical services responding to the scene of one of these vehicles, can be very dangerous for the occupants and the rescuers, especially if you have to cut into the car.

[00:02:23] Interesting. Great stuff. Craig Peterson, check him out. Craig Peterson with an O.N. on Peterson dot com. Thanks Craig. 

[00:02:30] Ok, so here's the part I did not mention, and that's what happens when they try and cram me in to a very short segment this morning. That's one of the shortest I've been on, it was only about a two-minute hit on the radio. Just because there's a bunch of stations, Jack doesn't mean I shouldn't get more time, anyways. Here's what I didn't mention, and we were talking about Tesla. We're talking about the safety of the vehicles and in reality, the crash tests have shown the Tesla to be one of the safest cars out there. In fact, it even broke some of the testing equipment they had to change the nature of the test so that they could really kind of score Tesla at all, frankly. So, it's not that Tesla's aren't safe because they are, frankly, they tend to be very safe. We were talking specifically about the batteries, and the safety of the batteries. Now, you might remember if you listen to my radio show on the weekends or maybe on the podcast, you might remember that the guy that invented the lithium ion batteries out of the University of Texas. He's, what is he now in his late in the 70’s, I think, he might even be in his 80’s. He's come up with a new type of battery, a lithium glass battery that can be charged, like that. You know a matter of a couple of minutes, and that does not have these discharge problems that the lithium ion batteries have, and that frankly is where all of these problems are stemming from, is the rapid discharge. Then things heat up they catch on fire and then you've got a lithium fire which could be just totally, totally, nasty. 

[00:04:08] So, hopefully that technology progression progresses along, and of course I'll keep everybody up to date on that as well. And we've got a few other things brewing that we're going to be announcing, fairly soon, so keep an eye out some more insider stuff. We're almost done with that site. We have some people we've given away free insider memberships to. And that gives them access to some of the special reports and some of the other things that we are doing here on the radio show. And then we're putting together some, basically a kind of a threat matrix, right. Some threat and analysis when it comes to security, for people who are in business. People in business who are responsible for the security, and even a little bit of training, which is now required by law and regulation. Depending on the industry you're in, you may have a huge requirement. If you’re in a normal business, you realize you actually do have a requirement for security training for your people. So, we're going to be doing some of that as well. So, keep an eye out for that, and have a great day we'll be back with you tomorrow. Bye-Bye.

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