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 Problems with Mac OS if you're a Mac user. Craig explains an eleven-year-long vulnerability and why it has not been fixed.

DNA data breaches.  Craig discusses why it is such a big deal and why we have to be worried about it.

Cryptocurrency is in the news again.  Craig tells you why this blows his mind.

Police can unlock iPhones. (Well they brute force attack it -- so if you have a 15 number password it will take them over 200 years)

Hey, you heard the police can unlock iPhone's right. Well looks like there's a new feature that might stop them.

Also, ambulance chasers they've been around a long time. Well, we're going to talk about a new type a digital ambulance chasers.

Do you drive a BMW car? They've been found to have more than a dozen security flaws.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free you just 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: 06/16/2018

Apple Macintosh 11-year-old security hole and Apple could kill police iPhone unlockers.

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody.

[00:00:01] Craig Peterson here. Of course we're going to be talking about technology its impact on us what we'll be talking about security. We've got some great information here including some problems with Mac OS if you're a Mac user. This is an 11 year long vulnerability that just hasn't been fixed yet. We're going to talk about DNA data breaches I don't know if you've heard of these before but it's becoming a big thing and it's something we need to think about. We've got a cryptocurrency story this week that just blows my mind. Hey you heard the police can unlock iPhone's right. Well looks like there's a new feature that might stop that an ambulance chasers they've been around a long time. Well we're going to talk about a new type a digital ambulance chasers and BMW cars. They've been found to have more than a dozen security flaws. 

[00:00:54] You know there's probably a lot more. Don't worry. Here we go. You're listening to Craig Peterson on the air now for going on 20 years. We've got tens of millions of podcasts downloads and hopefully we'll be able to give you a couple of things today that not only educate you, but I think you'll find surprising. So here we go. 

[00:01:17] Well first off, we're going to talk about this hack. This is a problem that is only in Mac OS. Now we talk a lot about problems that only exist in the Windows world of course. The Android world which has been a real cesspool when it comes to security breaches and the main reason for that as we've discussed before is that people are not updating their Android devices and many times that's because you just can't update the android device, right. You buy them because they're cheap. And even if there expensive there are thousands of variations of Android because of the device drivers they're all using different components and sometimes the exact same model phone from the exact same manufacturer will have different versions of hardware in them or even completely different hardware. So, it's really difficult for these companies that are manufacturing the phones and the carriers that are further modifying the phones to keep everything up to date. Think about that, if you're Google, and you are making an operating system and you’re selling it and you’re getting blamed for all of these Android problems and in reality, the problem is there are a bunch of people putting their fingers into your code messing around with it in order to make it compatible for their customers right. So, think about that for a sec you’ve got the android device so you are shipping it now to some door operating systems are you shipping now to some device maker that’s going to take your operating system and put it on their device well the devices all vary in the CPU in the speed that think about the displays they’re all different. 

[00:03:01] The way you touch them to interact is actually different. Those are all different device drivers. You also have, of course, the cellular data modem that might be in there to get data you’ve got the Wi-Fi chipsets. There’s a whole ton of pieces and they’re all buying them from more or less the same manufacturers depending on what it is but they’re having to modify it. So now your Google operating system your Android is being modified by the device manufacturer who now is going to ship it off to your carrier. So you have a contract with who with Verizon with T-Mobile, Sprint whoever it might be. So, they’re going to want to get their fingers into it too. They’ll do a few little things they might be using specific band frequencies, for instance, for your internet. And in fact, that’s true for Wi-Fi as well because depending on where you are in the world there are different frequencies sets different bands for the Wi-Fi.

[00:03:57] So now you’ve got the manufacturer, who has modified it, you've now got the ISP or the phone provider the carrier who's modifying that device and shipping it out. Many times, You'll also find that the people who make the component hardware for the device will also be modifying that device before they ship it out. So, the list kind of goes on and on. The people who have the fingers in it. So, now your Google, you found a security problem. Now what are you going to do about that security problem. How are you going to get your code out there, while you're going to make effects or patch and you're going to send it to the device manufacturer. Now the device manufacturer says you know we haven't sold that phone and years. OK. So, we've got other things we have to do. We have our people now working on the next release of the next greatest phone. So, they're not going to make an update for your phone. And the same thing with the component manufacturers they're not going to have an update for some old chip that they manufactured years ago. And even if it's a fairly recent chip and they do provide an update, it's got to go back to the manufacturer who now has to integrate it and then distribute the changes, right. And then it has to go back to the carrier who sold you the device who no longer has a relationship with you potentially right you might switch carriers. How are they going to get their changes in how they're going to get out to you? So, it's very, very, difficult in some cases. Google can send out patches directly to you. You can get them. You know you've got to Google Play store and you can get various types of updates and stuff from there directly from Google. But it's a real, big problem and that's one of the biggest problems we have right now in security. Certainly, the biggest problem in mobile security now. Apple has been known to be rather safe and secure because it was designed that way from the start. 

[00:05:55] Remember the whole Internet thing started in government and in academia and the big guy out there in academia who had a lot of operating system technology was AT&T and they had something called Unix and Unix was designed to be able to run on all of the different hardware AT&T had and that's a lot different hardware. Think about the big old phone companies. They had old machines new machines they had machines that were huge main data processors they had other machines that were teeny tiny sitting right by a Pole pack then couldn't really put one of them on a pole very easily, but you know you could it happened.

[00:06:35] And so they had this operating system called Unix that worked really well. While UC Berkeley University of California Berkeley took some of those concepts, licensed some of that software the version 7 Unix, back in the day, and they ran with it and they started adding in more ability to have networking. Now think about this for a minute, in your school system our university system. You also have the same types of problems AT&T has had plus a few more because you also have a lot of pieces of equipment that you have to make and modify maintain

[00:07:13] Run different software on and at the same time. Now you have a new problem which is you have all these students that want to hack in and change their grades, right and do all of the stuff you might not want them to do. 

[00:07:26] So, it becomes a little bit of a problem. So, guess what. AT&T and UC Berkeley particularly Berkeley they built in a lot of security. They designed the Internet, basically. And because of that Internet implementation let's put it that way they didn't really design it, but they certainly implemented it but because of that implementation and its security you now had an operating system called Unix back in the day that was very secure it was ready to go. And then you had a Torval, come along and he went there and made his own Unix lookalike and called it Linux and it doesn't have all of the same safety features. But it has much of the same thinking that was there in the original Unix’s of the world. So, fast forward to Apple, Apple had its operating system that was frankly kind of a toy it ran on some of the Mac’s number of those little boxy ones way back when. But it wasn't a great operating system and it wasn't something that could really build on to a lot of good things with it had its advantages. I can already hear you. Here come the text messages right. You know already here you're talking about it but in reality, they needed something a lot better.

[00:08:42] And so that's what they did. They took Unix.

[00:08:45] In fact it looks like what they did is it took free BSD looking down on the kernel and they were able to put their windowing interface on top of it. And you know there's times actually to a couple of other companies. Steve Jobs had some involvement with but. We're trying to make this simple right. This is not a history of Apple computers. What I'm trying to explain why they are more secure than Windows and so they took all of this wonderful code that was designed to be secure. They put a window in interface on it and out they go. They had a very good very productive operating system. Well one of the things that they did to make it more secure and they added on was that the applications became signed applications. So, a developer would sign an application and you knew now that the developer had basically approved it said it was good and Apple would sign them so that you knew. Yes, indeed this was reviewed by Apple and it was something you should pay attention to. You don't have to worry about any more of the machine automatically just accept the software, and if there are problems of course the machine will pop up a little warning saying well the software is not signed I don't recognize it and unless you change some settings it will not lead to install that software. While there is a bit of a problem here because Apple, remember they changed their processors. Now they're using Intel processors. They may actually be switching processors again within the next year or two, but they changed to Intel processors from the power PC stuff and I love PowerPC stuff. 

[00:10:26] It was really, really, good but they changed their processors, so they had to have these universal wineries so developers and Apple themselves or write software that would run on the Old Power PC architecture or it would run on the new Intel architecture. How could it do that? Well, that actually kept both binary as both programs in one program. So, the operating system would start to run the program it would launch a program it would look at it and say Oh, okay I'm a PowerPC I am going around the PowerPC code or Intel so I'm going around the Intel code and that makes sense to you. It was actually a great little idea and it worked really well. The problem that has surfaced now is that for the last 11 years since they put this whole thing in place we've had a we've had a real problem and that problem is that Apple apparently was only checking the very first binary for a signature. Isn't that a problem. It sounds like a problem to you. So, all a hacker had to do was put in a binary into you know into this little package and that binary just had to contain the one signed piece of code. That's all it needed was one signed piece of code and off it went to and the rest of the code could actually be nasty, nasty, nasty, so keep an eye out. Don't install software that is that you don't you don't know where exactly where it came from because it could end up biting you and in a very big way the signature check bypasses. These are these are very big deal so watch out for that 

[00:12:16] This next one is very controversial frankly. What should you be able to do, if you were the police or the FBI, should you be able to monitor someone's private communications. Well we know the Constitution lets us be safe right to keep our private papers and other things. And I think that all makes a whole lot of sense. But when we're talking about the digital world should the government have a back door. Now this debate has raged on for a very, very, long time. I mean crazy, long time. Certainly, my entire career in computers and technology with encryption. So, the police right now have a way to unlock iPhones and not all of the police departments have this. But there's some technology that they can license, and they can buy a little box, they can ship an iPhone overseas and for as little as 15 hundred bucks they can get the contents of the iPhone. And I can see absolutely see how on in some cases on occasion they could catch criminals that way they could stop something really nasty like a terrorist attack right. And you can probably see the same sorts of things. Well, this is an interesting problem because you have civil libertarians on one side saying no they should not have access to them. 

[00:13:46] But, they kind of do, and the way they have access to your iPhone right now is because of a bug, if you will, Right. A loophole, maybe is a better word, and it’s in the iPhone hardware and software that all iPhone’s have. Basically, it’s a USB connector on them, and that connector, when connected up, can be used to start a diagnostic session with the phone. That’s what they use at the Genius Bar, in order to work on your phone to fix it, Right. They use that little port whether it's the old 30-pin or whether it's the brand-new connectors or the new ones apparently next year are going to be USB-C based. So, they use that in order to get into your phone and check it out and fix things. Well there is a problem here. There is a company called Grayshift, and you know they've been out there. They have a product called Greykey and there is an Israeli firm called Cellebrite. They've been using that port on your iPhone in order to break into the iPhone. Now back in the day it was pretty easy to break into nowadays it's really nowhere near as easy. So, what are they going to do.

[00:15:04] Well, Apple in its iOS beta releases since 11.3 has had a little feature that's built into it and that feature is that when you connected to a USB accessory the phone has to have been unlocked within the last 60 minutes. So, if you go into the Apple store for instance and they want to run some diagnostics they can't just take over your phone anymore. You now have to log into your phone and once you're on your phone then they can plug into that port right now, it doesn't have to be unlocked at the time you give it to, them but it will have to have been unlocked within the last hour. Now that means that this is probably going to break GrayShift's products that are being used by police departments, worldwide, in order to hack into your iPhone. You know is that a bad thing or is that a good thing. You know I work on security and I've worked with the FBI on hacking and I run the FBI’s webinars to keep the Infragard people up to date. Right. The Infragard webinars. So, how does this impact them while I think it might impact them in a very, very, big way. This might kill those products, entirely, unless the company comes out with products that are literally there in the police car or are there in the FBI vehicle that allows them to grab the phone from the bad guy and hope for the suspect let's say, and hope that that phone has been unlocked within the last hour and then they're off and running. 

[00:16:51] So, this one-hour timeline a major change from earlier tests where the time limit was a one-week period. 

[00:16:59] But it is significant because Grayshift, had been advising its customers to simply make sure they unlock the iPhone soon after obtaining it. And that's according to some documents that motherboard was reporting on earlier this year. So, it's easy to do within a one- week time limit harder to do with just an hour. This also means to you, that if your phone gets messed up you're not going to have as many options when it comes to having the Apple guys or your tech people go ahead and help fix your phone, Right. So, don't lose that passcode, right. Important safety to remember. As I've been talking I've had some text messages come in. People are wondering here IOS not IOS users but Mac users OK. They're wondering about that 11-year history. 

[00:17:52] So just to make it clear for those who might have missed a little bit of it and I'm going to delve into it just slightly more. Right now.

[00:18:00] There are the vulnerability is primarily at third party software here that we're talking about. There are at least eight security tools that are known to have this vulnerability and it does not affect IOS. This is only your macs and one of the tools that does affect is one that I use, every day is called Little Snitch firewall and it's a great piece of software, but it also gets fooled. So, this universal file is also known as a FAT problem does exist, but it really only exists on the Apple Macintosh computers. And I'm sure it'll be fixed pretty soon. All of these developers now are aware of the problem and they're going to be fixing it, frankly. This next one here. This is kind of, I'm kind of this is this isn't a weird category I guess as a way to put this. We've had ambulance chasers probably since the days of lawyers, right. Since the very first lawyer anyone ever had these guys and gals that are out there looking for people who have been injured and then trying to help protect their rights and help them claim some money against whoever might have wronged them. All right, that makes sense I can see that. Well this is a little different because now you have a smartphone with you when you go online. That smartphone is showing new advertisements right. And your smartphone also has built into it a GPS. So, your smartphone knows where it is. How many of you can figure out where I'm going with all of this. 

[00:19:47] OK, well many people who are in emergency rooms or chiropractor's offices or pain clinics in the Philadelphia area or their area excuse me maybe start noticing their phones. The kind of messages that are directed at you because you're an emergency room or to pain clinic, OK. You're only getting fed the ad because somebody knows that you are in an emergency room. So, it's kind of like an attorney putting a digital kiosk inside of an emergency room when you get on the phone you're going to start seeing ads from Attorneys. So, this is kind of interesting. It's grabbing what's known as a phone I.D. from Wi-Fi cell data or an app using GPS. Yes, and the ads can show up for more than a month and on multiple of your devices, as well. Now the Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, said here's a quote from her “private medical information should not be exploited in this way especially when it's gathered secretly without a consumer's knowledge without consent as well”. OK so, Healey's office the first one in the country to go after geo-fencing technology that's being used to catch people while they are seeking care. So, this is going to be really kind of interesting, Mass also reached a deal last year with a Massachusetts based digital advertising firm that was sending advertisements from a Christian pregnancy counseling and adoption agency to people who entered Planned Parenthood clinics. So, when patients go to the clinics they cross a digital fence as these GPS fences you've heard of them, I use them all the time myself personally to remind me to pick up stuff when I’m at store and they'll soon get an advertisement such as you have choices click here for pregnancy help. 

[00:21:57] So, interesting now in Mass they're saying that those ads violate their consumer protection laws. Other states probably don't have the same thing. OK, we can go for a real quick roundup here now. Couple of things I want to get to before the show ends. We've all heard about AI or artificial intelligence and what it's going to be doing. Well MIT fed data from Reddit which is an online bulletin board into an artificial intelligence and that this is just kind of nuts. You know if you have ever seen EXMachina, It is a great movie but our robot even very, very, interesting they ended up calling this AI Norman. As Norman Bates. Because all he could think of was murder, OK. It's crazy they fed it those inkblots right. The Raw Shark Texts and it was just, murder, murder, murder. Kind of crazy cryptocurrency trading app, Taylor, says all other funds have been stolen in a cyber attack. If you didn't need yet another reason not to get involved with these cryptocurrencies. And speaking of that Cayman Island startup has just raised four billion dollars without any product. And what were they raising it with. You guessed it this is they have a blockchain platforms called block 1. 

[00:23:32] It doesn't have a product, Live yet. You should see a picture of this guy. I'll have to make sure it's on my website. But, he looks like he's 10 years old that was running this thing. It's not a great time to be investing. In fact, most of the blockchain currencies are really losing a lot of their value. BMW car computer systems have been found to contain at least 14 separate flaws. This is according to a cybersecurity lab out of China. They allowed hackers take at least partial control of the affected vehicles, and BMW is saying, that that does not allow them to control any of the driving systems in the car. So, that's probably good news. And we had a DNA data breach. This is crazy. The DNA testing service, My Heritage revealed that hackers had breached 92 million, of its accounts. Hard to say exactly what they got, But this is bad news because that data is there forever, and it is not like a password that you can change your DNA is your DNA. Have a lot more podcasting make sure you check that out online. You can find it all at Craig Peterson dot com SUBSCRIBE LEAVE A COMMENT Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. I've been doing pretty much daily podcasts. Well until next week we'll see you in the online space I'll make sure I send out any alerts if there are known major problems during the week. Take care and I’ll Talk to you, later, Bye, Bye.

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 Problems with Mac OS if you're a Mac user. Craig explains an eleven-year-long vulnerability and why it has not been fixed.

DNA data breaches.  Craig discusses why it is such a big deal and why we have to be worried about it.

Cryptocurrency is in the news again.  Craig tells you why this blows his mind.

Police can unlock iPhones. (Well they brute force attack it -- so if you have a 15 number password it will take them over 200 years)

Hey, you heard the police can unlock iPhone's right. Well looks like there's a new feature that might stop them.

Also, ambulance chasers they've been around a long time. Well, we're going to talk about a new type a digital ambulance chasers.

Do you drive a BMW car? They've been found to have more than a dozen security flaws.

Craig is putting up a new membership site (Yes, it is free you just 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: 06/16/2018

Apple Macintosh 11-year-old security hole and Apple could kill police iPhone unlockers.

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Hi everybody.

[00:00:01] Craig Peterson here. Of course we're going to be talking about technology its impact on us what we'll be talking about security. We've got some great information here including some problems with Mac OS if you're a Mac user. This is an 11 year long vulnerability that just hasn't been fixed yet. We're going to talk about DNA data breaches I don't know if you've heard of these before but it's becoming a big thing and it's something we need to think about. We've got a cryptocurrency story this week that just blows my mind. Hey you heard the police can unlock iPhone's right. Well looks like there's a new feature that might stop that an ambulance chasers they've been around a long time. Well we're going to talk about a new type a digital ambulance chasers and BMW cars. They've been found to have more than a dozen security flaws. 

[00:00:54] You know there's probably a lot more. Don't worry. Here we go. You're listening to Craig Peterson on the air now for going on 20 years. We've got tens of millions of podcasts downloads and hopefully we'll be able to give you a couple of things today that not only educate you, but I think you'll find surprising. So here we go. 

[00:01:17] Well first off, we're going to talk about this hack. This is a problem that is only in Mac OS. Now we talk a lot about problems that only exist in the Windows world of course. The Android world which has been a real cesspool when it comes to security breaches and the main reason for that as we've discussed before is that people are not updating their Android devices and many times that's because you just can't update the android device, right. You buy them because they're cheap. And even if there expensive there are thousands of variations of Android because of the device drivers they're all using different components and sometimes the exact same model phone from the exact same manufacturer will have different versions of hardware in them or even completely different hardware. So, it's really difficult for these companies that are manufacturing the phones and the carriers that are further modifying the phones to keep everything up to date. Think about that, if you're Google, and you are making an operating system and you’re selling it and you’re getting blamed for all of these Android problems and in reality, the problem is there are a bunch of people putting their fingers into your code messing around with it in order to make it compatible for their customers right. So, think about that for a sec you’ve got the android device so you are shipping it now to some door operating systems are you shipping now to some device maker that’s going to take your operating system and put it on their device well the devices all vary in the CPU in the speed that think about the displays they’re all different. 

[00:03:01] The way you touch them to interact is actually different. Those are all different device drivers. You also have, of course, the cellular data modem that might be in there to get data you’ve got the Wi-Fi chipsets. There’s a whole ton of pieces and they’re all buying them from more or less the same manufacturers depending on what it is but they’re having to modify it. So now your Google operating system your Android is being modified by the device manufacturer who now is going to ship it off to your carrier. So you have a contract with who with Verizon with T-Mobile, Sprint whoever it might be. So, they’re going to want to get their fingers into it too. They’ll do a few little things they might be using specific band frequencies, for instance, for your internet. And in fact, that’s true for Wi-Fi as well because depending on where you are in the world there are different frequencies sets different bands for the Wi-Fi.

[00:03:57] So now you’ve got the manufacturer, who has modified it, you've now got the ISP or the phone provider the carrier who's modifying that device and shipping it out. Many times, You'll also find that the people who make the component hardware for the device will also be modifying that device before they ship it out. So, the list kind of goes on and on. The people who have the fingers in it. So, now your Google, you found a security problem. Now what are you going to do about that security problem. How are you going to get your code out there, while you're going to make effects or patch and you're going to send it to the device manufacturer. Now the device manufacturer says you know we haven't sold that phone and years. OK. So, we've got other things we have to do. We have our people now working on the next release of the next greatest phone. So, they're not going to make an update for your phone. And the same thing with the component manufacturers they're not going to have an update for some old chip that they manufactured years ago. And even if it's a fairly recent chip and they do provide an update, it's got to go back to the manufacturer who now has to integrate it and then distribute the changes, right. And then it has to go back to the carrier who sold you the device who no longer has a relationship with you potentially right you might switch carriers. How are they going to get their changes in how they're going to get out to you? So, it's very, very, difficult in some cases. Google can send out patches directly to you. You can get them. You know you've got to Google Play store and you can get various types of updates and stuff from there directly from Google. But it's a real, big problem and that's one of the biggest problems we have right now in security. Certainly, the biggest problem in mobile security now. Apple has been known to be rather safe and secure because it was designed that way from the start. 

[00:05:55] Remember the whole Internet thing started in government and in academia and the big guy out there in academia who had a lot of operating system technology was AT&T and they had something called Unix and Unix was designed to be able to run on all of the different hardware AT&T had and that's a lot different hardware. Think about the big old phone companies. They had old machines new machines they had machines that were huge main data processors they had other machines that were teeny tiny sitting right by a Pole pack then couldn't really put one of them on a pole very easily, but you know you could it happened.

[00:06:35] And so they had this operating system called Unix that worked really well. While UC Berkeley University of California Berkeley took some of those concepts, licensed some of that software the version 7 Unix, back in the day, and they ran with it and they started adding in more ability to have networking. Now think about this for a minute, in your school system our university system. You also have the same types of problems AT&T has had plus a few more because you also have a lot of pieces of equipment that you have to make and modify maintain

[00:07:13] Run different software on and at the same time. Now you have a new problem which is you have all these students that want to hack in and change their grades, right and do all of the stuff you might not want them to do. 

[00:07:26] So, it becomes a little bit of a problem. So, guess what. AT&T and UC Berkeley particularly Berkeley they built in a lot of security. They designed the Internet, basically. And because of that Internet implementation let's put it that way they didn't really design it, but they certainly implemented it but because of that implementation and its security you now had an operating system called Unix back in the day that was very secure it was ready to go. And then you had a Torval, come along and he went there and made his own Unix lookalike and called it Linux and it doesn't have all of the same safety features. But it has much of the same thinking that was there in the original Unix’s of the world. So, fast forward to Apple, Apple had its operating system that was frankly kind of a toy it ran on some of the Mac’s number of those little boxy ones way back when. But it wasn't a great operating system and it wasn't something that could really build on to a lot of good things with it had its advantages. I can already hear you. Here come the text messages right. You know already here you're talking about it but in reality, they needed something a lot better.

[00:08:42] And so that's what they did. They took Unix.

[00:08:45] In fact it looks like what they did is it took free BSD looking down on the kernel and they were able to put their windowing interface on top of it. And you know there's times actually to a couple of other companies. Steve Jobs had some involvement with but. We're trying to make this simple right. This is not a history of Apple computers. What I'm trying to explain why they are more secure than Windows and so they took all of this wonderful code that was designed to be secure. They put a window in interface on it and out they go. They had a very good very productive operating system. Well one of the things that they did to make it more secure and they added on was that the applications became signed applications. So, a developer would sign an application and you knew now that the developer had basically approved it said it was good and Apple would sign them so that you knew. Yes, indeed this was reviewed by Apple and it was something you should pay attention to. You don't have to worry about any more of the machine automatically just accept the software, and if there are problems of course the machine will pop up a little warning saying well the software is not signed I don't recognize it and unless you change some settings it will not lead to install that software. While there is a bit of a problem here because Apple, remember they changed their processors. Now they're using Intel processors. They may actually be switching processors again within the next year or two, but they changed to Intel processors from the power PC stuff and I love PowerPC stuff. 

[00:10:26] It was really, really, good but they changed their processors, so they had to have these universal wineries so developers and Apple themselves or write software that would run on the Old Power PC architecture or it would run on the new Intel architecture. How could it do that? Well, that actually kept both binary as both programs in one program. So, the operating system would start to run the program it would launch a program it would look at it and say Oh, okay I'm a PowerPC I am going around the PowerPC code or Intel so I'm going around the Intel code and that makes sense to you. It was actually a great little idea and it worked really well. The problem that has surfaced now is that for the last 11 years since they put this whole thing in place we've had a we've had a real problem and that problem is that Apple apparently was only checking the very first binary for a signature. Isn't that a problem. It sounds like a problem to you. So, all a hacker had to do was put in a binary into you know into this little package and that binary just had to contain the one signed piece of code. That's all it needed was one signed piece of code and off it went to and the rest of the code could actually be nasty, nasty, nasty, so keep an eye out. Don't install software that is that you don't you don't know where exactly where it came from because it could end up biting you and in a very big way the signature check bypasses. These are these are very big deal so watch out for that 

[00:12:16] This next one is very controversial frankly. What should you be able to do, if you were the police or the FBI, should you be able to monitor someone's private communications. Well we know the Constitution lets us be safe right to keep our private papers and other things. And I think that all makes a whole lot of sense. But when we're talking about the digital world should the government have a back door. Now this debate has raged on for a very, very, long time. I mean crazy, long time. Certainly, my entire career in computers and technology with encryption. So, the police right now have a way to unlock iPhones and not all of the police departments have this. But there's some technology that they can license, and they can buy a little box, they can ship an iPhone overseas and for as little as 15 hundred bucks they can get the contents of the iPhone. And I can see absolutely see how on in some cases on occasion they could catch criminals that way they could stop something really nasty like a terrorist attack right. And you can probably see the same sorts of things. Well, this is an interesting problem because you have civil libertarians on one side saying no they should not have access to them. 

[00:13:46] But, they kind of do, and the way they have access to your iPhone right now is because of a bug, if you will, Right. A loophole, maybe is a better word, and it’s in the iPhone hardware and software that all iPhone’s have. Basically, it’s a USB connector on them, and that connector, when connected up, can be used to start a diagnostic session with the phone. That’s what they use at the Genius Bar, in order to work on your phone to fix it, Right. They use that little port whether it's the old 30-pin or whether it's the brand-new connectors or the new ones apparently next year are going to be USB-C based. So, they use that in order to get into your phone and check it out and fix things. Well there is a problem here. There is a company called Grayshift, and you know they've been out there. They have a product called Greykey and there is an Israeli firm called Cellebrite. They've been using that port on your iPhone in order to break into the iPhone. Now back in the day it was pretty easy to break into nowadays it's really nowhere near as easy. So, what are they going to do.

[00:15:04] Well, Apple in its iOS beta releases since 11.3 has had a little feature that's built into it and that feature is that when you connected to a USB accessory the phone has to have been unlocked within the last 60 minutes. So, if you go into the Apple store for instance and they want to run some diagnostics they can't just take over your phone anymore. You now have to log into your phone and once you're on your phone then they can plug into that port right now, it doesn't have to be unlocked at the time you give it to, them but it will have to have been unlocked within the last hour. Now that means that this is probably going to break GrayShift's products that are being used by police departments, worldwide, in order to hack into your iPhone. You know is that a bad thing or is that a good thing. You know I work on security and I've worked with the FBI on hacking and I run the FBI’s webinars to keep the Infragard people up to date. Right. The Infragard webinars. So, how does this impact them while I think it might impact them in a very, very, big way. This might kill those products, entirely, unless the company comes out with products that are literally there in the police car or are there in the FBI vehicle that allows them to grab the phone from the bad guy and hope for the suspect let's say, and hope that that phone has been unlocked within the last hour and then they're off and running. 

[00:16:51] So, this one-hour timeline a major change from earlier tests where the time limit was a one-week period. 

[00:16:59] But it is significant because Grayshift, had been advising its customers to simply make sure they unlock the iPhone soon after obtaining it. And that's according to some documents that motherboard was reporting on earlier this year. So, it's easy to do within a one- week time limit harder to do with just an hour. This also means to you, that if your phone gets messed up you're not going to have as many options when it comes to having the Apple guys or your tech people go ahead and help fix your phone, Right. So, don't lose that passcode, right. Important safety to remember. As I've been talking I've had some text messages come in. People are wondering here IOS not IOS users but Mac users OK. They're wondering about that 11-year history. 

[00:17:52] So just to make it clear for those who might have missed a little bit of it and I'm going to delve into it just slightly more. Right now.

[00:18:00] There are the vulnerability is primarily at third party software here that we're talking about. There are at least eight security tools that are known to have this vulnerability and it does not affect IOS. This is only your macs and one of the tools that does affect is one that I use, every day is called Little Snitch firewall and it's a great piece of software, but it also gets fooled. So, this universal file is also known as a FAT problem does exist, but it really only exists on the Apple Macintosh computers. And I'm sure it'll be fixed pretty soon. All of these developers now are aware of the problem and they're going to be fixing it, frankly. This next one here. This is kind of, I'm kind of this is this isn't a weird category I guess as a way to put this. We've had ambulance chasers probably since the days of lawyers, right. Since the very first lawyer anyone ever had these guys and gals that are out there looking for people who have been injured and then trying to help protect their rights and help them claim some money against whoever might have wronged them. All right, that makes sense I can see that. Well this is a little different because now you have a smartphone with you when you go online. That smartphone is showing new advertisements right. And your smartphone also has built into it a GPS. So, your smartphone knows where it is. How many of you can figure out where I'm going with all of this. 

[00:19:47] OK, well many people who are in emergency rooms or chiropractor's offices or pain clinics in the Philadelphia area or their area excuse me maybe start noticing their phones. The kind of messages that are directed at you because you're an emergency room or to pain clinic, OK. You're only getting fed the ad because somebody knows that you are in an emergency room. So, it's kind of like an attorney putting a digital kiosk inside of an emergency room when you get on the phone you're going to start seeing ads from Attorneys. So, this is kind of interesting. It's grabbing what's known as a phone I.D. from Wi-Fi cell data or an app using GPS. Yes, and the ads can show up for more than a month and on multiple of your devices, as well. Now the Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healey, said here's a quote from her “private medical information should not be exploited in this way especially when it's gathered secretly without a consumer's knowledge without consent as well”. OK so, Healey's office the first one in the country to go after geo-fencing technology that's being used to catch people while they are seeking care. So, this is going to be really kind of interesting, Mass also reached a deal last year with a Massachusetts based digital advertising firm that was sending advertisements from a Christian pregnancy counseling and adoption agency to people who entered Planned Parenthood clinics. So, when patients go to the clinics they cross a digital fence as these GPS fences you've heard of them, I use them all the time myself personally to remind me to pick up stuff when I’m at store and they'll soon get an advertisement such as you have choices click here for pregnancy help. 

[00:21:57] So, interesting now in Mass they're saying that those ads violate their consumer protection laws. Other states probably don't have the same thing. OK, we can go for a real quick roundup here now. Couple of things I want to get to before the show ends. We've all heard about AI or artificial intelligence and what it's going to be doing. Well MIT fed data from Reddit which is an online bulletin board into an artificial intelligence and that this is just kind of nuts. You know if you have ever seen EXMachina, It is a great movie but our robot even very, very, interesting they ended up calling this AI Norman. As Norman Bates. Because all he could think of was murder, OK. It's crazy they fed it those inkblots right. The Raw Shark Texts and it was just, murder, murder, murder. Kind of crazy cryptocurrency trading app, Taylor, says all other funds have been stolen in a cyber attack. If you didn't need yet another reason not to get involved with these cryptocurrencies. And speaking of that Cayman Island startup has just raised four billion dollars without any product. And what were they raising it with. You guessed it this is they have a blockchain platforms called block 1. 

[00:23:32] It doesn't have a product, Live yet. You should see a picture of this guy. I'll have to make sure it's on my website. But, he looks like he's 10 years old that was running this thing. It's not a great time to be investing. In fact, most of the blockchain currencies are really losing a lot of their value. BMW car computer systems have been found to contain at least 14 separate flaws. This is according to a cybersecurity lab out of China. They allowed hackers take at least partial control of the affected vehicles, and BMW is saying, that that does not allow them to control any of the driving systems in the car. So, that's probably good news. And we had a DNA data breach. This is crazy. The DNA testing service, My Heritage revealed that hackers had breached 92 million, of its accounts. Hard to say exactly what they got, But this is bad news because that data is there forever, and it is not like a password that you can change your DNA is your DNA. Have a lot more podcasting make sure you check that out online. You can find it all at Craig Peterson dot com SUBSCRIBE LEAVE A COMMENT Craig Peterson dot com slash iTunes. I've been doing pretty much daily podcasts. Well until next week we'll see you in the online space I'll make sure I send out any alerts if there are known major problems during the week. Take care and I’ll Talk to you, later, Bye, Bye.

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Airing date: 06/13/2018

Routers, Hacking, Electronic Voting, & USB Drives

[00:00:00] All things technology, tech guru, Craig Peterson is on right now on the WGAN Morning News With Ken and Matt.

[00:00:17] All right we're back again at 738 on the WGAN Morning News With Ken and Matt, Craig Peterson is with us as usual at 738 on Wednesday and Craig, How are you this morning Hey, Doing good man How are you guys doing great and welcome back from North Korea. 

[00:00:31] Craig was very successful you had. I want to congratulate you on that. And by the way thanks by the way. And while you were there did you have any discussions with Vladimir Putin about malware or what's going on with Malware now.

[00:00:45] This is this is absolutely crazy. First of all, you know President Trump and I had a great time, we had a little bit of a beer summit afterward but they didn't televise that. So, you guys might not be aware of it. But here's the issue we're having right now with the latest information all this is coming from the FBI working with Cisco Talos and the issue is that this whole malware thing on routers is worse than we thought it was initially. In fact, it's a whole lot worse. They're able to not only just basically take over your routers and look for information but they've developed a very powerful platform that they've been using to capture all kinds of banking information personal information. OK so we knew about that. But they can go to the next step. Now if you visit your site and they remove money from your account as you go through a pink site the next time it's capable of actually modifying the bank site's pages to show your correct balance before they stole all the money from you. So, this is going on and on. It's getting worse and worse and we're finding out more as time goes on. Now the thing to do. You know the FBI came out with a statement about rebooting your routers and now, it's gone a little further. 

[00:02:07] And what we really need to make sure happens, if you have some of these lower-end routers that are used in homes and are used in small businesses you need to do factory resets on these things and you need to upgrade the firmware that's in them because the bottom line you could be infected in a power cycle is not necessarily going to clean things up for you. Now if you have a router from for instance your cable company or one of these other providers Internet providers you're probably OK. We're talking about the types of routers that you might get if you go to a local Staples store or Wal-Mart etc. You might have ordered online. And so, people are kind of scrambling trying to figure it out. I'm surprised many people haven't done anything about this because it's a very real threat. We're talking about more than half a million devices that are being compromised. And, it's your personal information that your financial information. I think we have to be very careful of that. And you know that ties in. Also, we were talking about Russians and the hacking and the accusations about Russian collusion ties into yesterday. Of course yesterday we had a primary here in the state and there we were voting and we're using electronic voting machines and I know Matt you and Ken were talking about having a box sitting there that you could shove your ballot, right. 

[00:03:31] You know, yeah I'll take that 1920’s technology. No question, but having our paper ballot is ultimately very important because not just the Russians but many other entities I'd say are trying to get into some of our voting systems. We had an examination of what happened during the last presidential cycle here in 2016. And they found that Connecticut was the only state here in New England that actually had attacks against it that we know about. So being able to fill out a piece of a paper ticket into the machine have that machine count the vote is a very reasonable thing to do because that Matt can be audited you can spot audit and make sure that the counts pretty much match up right. I don't think anything is perfect don't think any person's perfect. But in this day and age where we've got Russia we've got China coming after us. I pick up a new client that had Chinese backdoors in their systems, this is a small military subcontractor. In this day and age, we've got to be cautious so I'm not so sure having that box there is the worst thing that could happen.

[00:04:45] Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time, just talking about the world of technology.

[00:04:51] Craig, this isn't the stuff you sent us every week, but I had to ask you about this Korean summit happens and of course journalists go to cover it because it is a historic occasion and the press kit for the for the people who went to this thing included a you know it's hot. It's hot in Singapore so they included a little USB fan and this USB fan you know you could plug into your computer and then it would use the electricity inside of it and activate the fan and it keeps it cool. I was sitting there typing away on your you know your journalistic laptop there.

[00:05:23] How stupid, how stupid, are reporters to plug that into their computer 

[00:05:26] I mean seriously, up here at a North Korean summit is a USB thing you can plug into your computer. Go ahead. It's fine. Don't worry about it. 

[00:05:36] Exactly. It is in this day and age it's absolutely crazy. And here's why you are Matt. You know this obviously but when you're plugging something into that USB Port you may just be using the power because you can. You can design things just actually only pull power leads to data leads in the USB connector are used. But if you plug something into your computer there's a very real possibility that something bad could happen. Now it can be anything from there. Our USB drives that are designed to destroy your computer physically, like to getting smoke to come out. OK. Be careful too when you're at an airport for instance or you at a coffee shop and you want to plug in your phone to that USB charger that's sitting there. Because again many of those have been hacked. So, you can plug it in thinking you get a great charge and in fact it is hacking your computer it's downloading malware there are all kinds of things that can be done. So yes, when in Singapore China or certainly North Korea they'll plug anything be into your devices. IBM just announced about two weeks ago that they are banning all removable devices from any of the computers that any of their employees have or use. So that's everything. So, think about that when you are thinking about the dangers of using a USP drive you don't know about. And we just had yet another case, Matt, where you must be drives who were shipped from the manufacturer in China and contained a virus right on them.

[00:07:19] We are don't know Craig Peterson, our tech guru by the way you can get a quick response to a company you want and get all of his great information. You know I always use Firefox and I changed Chrome because I think my daughter told me to and I hate it. I'm not sure I remember exactly why I hated it, but I got rid of it and went back to Firefox. Was there a preference for one over the other one?

[00:07:44] Yeah. Here's the problem that we're facing. It's a bit of a dilemma. First of all, if you're using a Microsoft product Windows product you definitely don't use an explorer anymore. There are a number of browsers that are certainly better, but the features that are present in websites, for instance, are available typically in chrome. Chrome has all these wonderful plugins you can put on it to do different things, in fact, it can be kind of an operating system in another cell. So, a lot of us have moved towards Chrome as fast. It was efficient, but the problem was chrome, of course, is the Google really is tracking pretty much everything. So, there is a little bit of a compromise and we're talking about Chrome there's a browser called Epic's BP. I see an epic version of Chrome that was taken by some guys over in India and had all of the tracking code removed from it. For the normal person, however, Firefox is presenting now a really good option for you so using Firefox first of all they've completely redesigned it. It is designed with security in mind security first design in fact and it is now fasters and chrome is which takes away that excuse and there are again many plugins available for it. So, I've taken to using more and more. I have Firefox in fact even on my iPhone and I have it on my iPad as well. It's a really great option for people. 

[00:09:21] All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us every Wednesday this time to give us an eye on technology. CRAIG, We've, got a lot of election stuffed breakdowns we're going to go now. We will talk again next week sir.

[00:09:31] All right take care guys. By the way, I have a list of the bad routers that are going to be very hackable up on my Web site as well. Craig Peterson dot com and you can go in there you can look at the list. I've got instructions for how to reset and restore to factory restores on the routers etc.. All of that right there on my Web site.

[00:09:52] Awesome Thanks, Craig.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 06/13/2018

Routers, Hacking, Electronic Voting, & USB Drives

[00:00:00] All things technology, tech guru, Craig Peterson is on right now on the WGAN Morning News With Ken and Matt.

[00:00:17] All right we're back again at 738 on the WGAN Morning News With Ken and Matt, Craig Peterson is with us as usual at 738 on Wednesday and Craig, How are you this morning Hey, Doing good man How are you guys doing great and welcome back from North Korea. 

[00:00:31] Craig was very successful you had. I want to congratulate you on that. And by the way thanks by the way. And while you were there did you have any discussions with Vladimir Putin about malware or what's going on with Malware now.

[00:00:45] This is this is absolutely crazy. First of all, you know President Trump and I had a great time, we had a little bit of a beer summit afterward but they didn't televise that. So, you guys might not be aware of it. But here's the issue we're having right now with the latest information all this is coming from the FBI working with Cisco Talos and the issue is that this whole malware thing on routers is worse than we thought it was initially. In fact, it's a whole lot worse. They're able to not only just basically take over your routers and look for information but they've developed a very powerful platform that they've been using to capture all kinds of banking information personal information. OK so we knew about that. But they can go to the next step. Now if you visit your site and they remove money from your account as you go through a pink site the next time it's capable of actually modifying the bank site's pages to show your correct balance before they stole all the money from you. So, this is going on and on. It's getting worse and worse and we're finding out more as time goes on. Now the thing to do. You know the FBI came out with a statement about rebooting your routers and now, it's gone a little further. 

[00:02:07] And what we really need to make sure happens, if you have some of these lower-end routers that are used in homes and are used in small businesses you need to do factory resets on these things and you need to upgrade the firmware that's in them because the bottom line you could be infected in a power cycle is not necessarily going to clean things up for you. Now if you have a router from for instance your cable company or one of these other providers Internet providers you're probably OK. We're talking about the types of routers that you might get if you go to a local Staples store or Wal-Mart etc. You might have ordered online. And so, people are kind of scrambling trying to figure it out. I'm surprised many people haven't done anything about this because it's a very real threat. We're talking about more than half a million devices that are being compromised. And, it's your personal information that your financial information. I think we have to be very careful of that. And you know that ties in. Also, we were talking about Russians and the hacking and the accusations about Russian collusion ties into yesterday. Of course yesterday we had a primary here in the state and there we were voting and we're using electronic voting machines and I know Matt you and Ken were talking about having a box sitting there that you could shove your ballot, right. 

[00:03:31] You know, yeah I'll take that 1920’s technology. No question, but having our paper ballot is ultimately very important because not just the Russians but many other entities I'd say are trying to get into some of our voting systems. We had an examination of what happened during the last presidential cycle here in 2016. And they found that Connecticut was the only state here in New England that actually had attacks against it that we know about. So being able to fill out a piece of a paper ticket into the machine have that machine count the vote is a very reasonable thing to do because that Matt can be audited you can spot audit and make sure that the counts pretty much match up right. I don't think anything is perfect don't think any person's perfect. But in this day and age where we've got Russia we've got China coming after us. I pick up a new client that had Chinese backdoors in their systems, this is a small military subcontractor. In this day and age, we've got to be cautious so I'm not so sure having that box there is the worst thing that could happen.

[00:04:45] Craig Peterson our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time, just talking about the world of technology.

[00:04:51] Craig, this isn't the stuff you sent us every week, but I had to ask you about this Korean summit happens and of course journalists go to cover it because it is a historic occasion and the press kit for the for the people who went to this thing included a you know it's hot. It's hot in Singapore so they included a little USB fan and this USB fan you know you could plug into your computer and then it would use the electricity inside of it and activate the fan and it keeps it cool. I was sitting there typing away on your you know your journalistic laptop there.

[00:05:23] How stupid, how stupid, are reporters to plug that into their computer 

[00:05:26] I mean seriously, up here at a North Korean summit is a USB thing you can plug into your computer. Go ahead. It's fine. Don't worry about it. 

[00:05:36] Exactly. It is in this day and age it's absolutely crazy. And here's why you are Matt. You know this obviously but when you're plugging something into that USB Port you may just be using the power because you can. You can design things just actually only pull power leads to data leads in the USB connector are used. But if you plug something into your computer there's a very real possibility that something bad could happen. Now it can be anything from there. Our USB drives that are designed to destroy your computer physically, like to getting smoke to come out. OK. Be careful too when you're at an airport for instance or you at a coffee shop and you want to plug in your phone to that USB charger that's sitting there. Because again many of those have been hacked. So, you can plug it in thinking you get a great charge and in fact it is hacking your computer it's downloading malware there are all kinds of things that can be done. So yes, when in Singapore China or certainly North Korea they'll plug anything be into your devices. IBM just announced about two weeks ago that they are banning all removable devices from any of the computers that any of their employees have or use. So that's everything. So, think about that when you are thinking about the dangers of using a USP drive you don't know about. And we just had yet another case, Matt, where you must be drives who were shipped from the manufacturer in China and contained a virus right on them.

[00:07:19] We are don't know Craig Peterson, our tech guru by the way you can get a quick response to a company you want and get all of his great information. You know I always use Firefox and I changed Chrome because I think my daughter told me to and I hate it. I'm not sure I remember exactly why I hated it, but I got rid of it and went back to Firefox. Was there a preference for one over the other one?

[00:07:44] Yeah. Here's the problem that we're facing. It's a bit of a dilemma. First of all, if you're using a Microsoft product Windows product you definitely don't use an explorer anymore. There are a number of browsers that are certainly better, but the features that are present in websites, for instance, are available typically in chrome. Chrome has all these wonderful plugins you can put on it to do different things, in fact, it can be kind of an operating system in another cell. So, a lot of us have moved towards Chrome as fast. It was efficient, but the problem was chrome, of course, is the Google really is tracking pretty much everything. So, there is a little bit of a compromise and we're talking about Chrome there's a browser called Epic's BP. I see an epic version of Chrome that was taken by some guys over in India and had all of the tracking code removed from it. For the normal person, however, Firefox is presenting now a really good option for you so using Firefox first of all they've completely redesigned it. It is designed with security in mind security first design in fact and it is now fasters and chrome is which takes away that excuse and there are again many plugins available for it. So, I've taken to using more and more. I have Firefox in fact even on my iPhone and I have it on my iPad as well. It's a really great option for people. 

[00:09:21] All right Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us every Wednesday this time to give us an eye on technology. CRAIG, We've, got a lot of election stuffed breakdowns we're going to go now. We will talk again next week sir.

[00:09:31] All right take care guys. By the way, I have a list of the bad routers that are going to be very hackable up on my Web site as well. Craig Peterson dot com and you can go in there you can look at the list. I've got instructions for how to reset and restore to factory restores on the routers etc.. All of that right there on my Web site.

[00:09:52] Awesome Thanks, Craig.

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Airing date: 06/012/2018

5G Dangers? and New Warnings about Routers

Craig Peterson:[00:00:10] He's just out of the G7 summit. Oh my God. Our connection with him dropped. So we'll try to get Craig Peterson back.

[00:00:20] He's up in Ontario right now our good friend our tech guru who we kept waiting so long. Good Morning Craig Peterson. Hey listen. How was the G-7 summit did you? Did you enjoy it? 

[00:00:36] It was pretty good. You know it was it was nice to see Trump relax with Justin. We had a little beer summit afterward.

[00:00:45] Oh that's good. That's good. Listen, I know my good friend Craig Peterson some folks were asking about you this weekend, I was in an appearance and they said why does Craig say Peterson? And I said because that's how he pronounces his last name. I said because he's from Canada, you know, you get it. 

[00:01:05] But India. 

[00:01:07] Hey, you sent me some stuff this week. It's incredible, But I'm not going to be able to get to all of it. And at the end of this segment folks we're going to give you an 800 number and if you text my name Jim to that 800 number you'll get all the information. Plus, you'll be on Craig Peterson's list which is a good thing he won't sell you anything, he won't hack you, but he'll provide you with important information. 

[00:01:33] I know we're getting the 5G right. Ok, we need to get to that in order to have self-driving cars. We need that Wi-Fi technology. You put out some information that this may be hazardous to my health. How is 5G going to hurt people? Because right now we're all running around on 4G. 

[00:01:54] Yeah, there's a lot of people that are concerned about the radiation that comes from the cell phone and we've known that for a long time there are a couple areas in the country where there's no electromagnetic radiation allowed at all and that's because it is typically used for government testing. But the rest of us were exposed to it from everything from power lines through our cell phones. Now the 5G thing is interesting, because now in order 5G work. They have to put up about as many brandnew towers for the cell phones as they put up over the last 20-30 years. 

[00:02:36] Wow. 

[00:02:37] We're going to more than double the number of cell towers because these signals are going to be carrying much more data. They're going to be at a higher frequency typically. And what that means now is there is going to be even more of this radiation that's going to be coming from these towers. I don't want people to get all worried. Right. There's multiple types of radiation. You obviously you have sunlight that the type of radiation, you have the x-rays which is a different type, and than you have what you get from your cell phone. It's called non-ionizing radiation. This is not the stuff that's known to be harmful. It's thought by most people to not be a real big problem. Well, we're talking about the new 5G technology that's coming our way. There will be a lot more of it than we've ever seen before and we could end up with three to four times as many cell towers as we have right now. And it's going to give us basically broadband type Internet on all of our mobile devices like you were saying for cars et cetera. Yes, you could be driving down the road and not only listening to your iheartradio app but your car could be getting a whole new bunch of software. Download everything right there. Live streaming of all of your videos with the kids in the back. From a business standpoint that means that we'll have even more connected devices. We already have clothes that you can wear that have cell technology built into them Levi's introduced to jacket. All that in fact had Bluetooth and other types of technology in it. So, it's opened up a whole new world of possibilities. A lot of people are worried about the radiation that's going to come with that, although it's not to be harmful. 

[00:04:30] We're talking with our good friend Craig Peterson, and in just a minute we're going to give you a number you can you can text my name to, standard data and tax rates apply and get this information. So, I have seen. I know that. yes there are different types of radiation and as you explained it non-ionizing radiation is what basically what cell phones use, some of the European countries say they have evidence that it causes illness and can increase the risk of cancer. And yet there's just as many studies, Craig that show it doesn't that it has no impact. 

[00:05:10] Yeah, I was a keynote speaker last year at an annual board of directors meeting and I was approached by a lady afterwards who came up and asked, “What do you think about cancers, caused by cell phones? Yeah, And I said, “Well you know I have an advanced class amateur radio license, and so I've been around all kinds of radio waves for a lot of years, high powered ones as well”. And I said, “you know I've watched this fairly closely, but I don't think there's any convincing evidence for this yet and then she said “well, I have brain cancer and it's been attributed to me using cell phones almost all day long and my job.” Yeah, you know my jaw kind of dropped, and my heart went out to her. But yeah, there has been information come out from both sides. I tend to stick with the it's probably not causing any harm to pretty much anyone. There are people that think that the power lines caused all kinds of different types of problems, even the power lines in our houses. 

[00:06:18] Well, I mean people talk about having a digital alarm clock right next to your head on the nightstand and how can have the impact, although I kind of think that's been disproven and there has been a lot of research done about the power lines and everything else in a lot of that has been disproven.

[00:06:39] But the I guess we just haven't had cell phone technology n this type of radio frequency and it being so prevalent. I mean we've always had the radio frequency that's going out right now in AM and FM right now with our voices going through. But this other type and this 5G that you're talking about it's gonna be more prevalent it's going to be stronger. And what difference will it make, and I think I think it's an interesting read. I read it with an open mind. I think it's an interesting read. 

[00:07:16] Yeah it is it's something we need to keep an eye on it out definitely be an eye on that. And I've got one more thing.

[00:07:23] Sure I'll keep an eye on this Cisco Talos has come out with a whole investigation into this Russian the hack our routers in our homes and in our businesses. And you know people we've got to pay attention to this. This is future than we thought.

[00:07:42] It's huge is the word but I know that you said huge-er. It's always good when a really smart person says something like that. Huge.

[00:07:50] Yeah well it said it's the whole Trump era you know. And you know.

[00:07:57] So the but this is really, really, really, big and very, very, bad. So, make sure you reset your modem cell just power like. But put them back to factory default upgrade the software that's on them so that you're getting rid of this because this is way worse than we thought. They're collecting way more information being way more manipulative. Take the money from your bank account and then when you go to your bank site they actually modify the web pages as are in transit to make it look like your balance has not changed.

[00:08:32] Ok. This is true. All that's happening right now. Right.

[00:08:37] Our good friend tech talk guru Craig Peterson.

[00:08:42] If people text my name to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 5 3 you'll receive this information plus everything else you need.

[00:08:58] You'll be on the list. Craig Peterson sends out alerts when big things happen. He won't hack you, he won't send you annoying things, and he's here with us. Every Tuesday at this time Craig enjoy your business trip and always a pleasure to talk with you sir.

[00:09:17] Hey, thanks Jim. Take care. Bye bye.

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Transcript:

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

Airing date: 06/012/2018

5G Dangers? and New Warnings about Routers

Craig Peterson:[00:00:10] He's just out of the G7 summit. Oh my God. Our connection with him dropped. So we'll try to get Craig Peterson back.

[00:00:20] He's up in Ontario right now our good friend our tech guru who we kept waiting so long. Good Morning Craig Peterson. Hey listen. How was the G-7 summit did you? Did you enjoy it? 

[00:00:36] It was pretty good. You know it was it was nice to see Trump relax with Justin. We had a little beer summit afterward.

[00:00:45] Oh that's good. That's good. Listen, I know my good friend Craig Peterson some folks were asking about you this weekend, I was in an appearance and they said why does Craig say Peterson? And I said because that's how he pronounces his last name. I said because he's from Canada, you know, you get it. 

[00:01:05] But India. 

[00:01:07] Hey, you sent me some stuff this week. It's incredible, But I'm not going to be able to get to all of it. And at the end of this segment folks we're going to give you an 800 number and if you text my name Jim to that 800 number you'll get all the information. Plus, you'll be on Craig Peterson's list which is a good thing he won't sell you anything, he won't hack you, but he'll provide you with important information. 

[00:01:33] I know we're getting the 5G right. Ok, we need to get to that in order to have self-driving cars. We need that Wi-Fi technology. You put out some information that this may be hazardous to my health. How is 5G going to hurt people? Because right now we're all running around on 4G. 

[00:01:54] Yeah, there's a lot of people that are concerned about the radiation that comes from the cell phone and we've known that for a long time there are a couple areas in the country where there's no electromagnetic radiation allowed at all and that's because it is typically used for government testing. But the rest of us were exposed to it from everything from power lines through our cell phones. Now the 5G thing is interesting, because now in order 5G work. They have to put up about as many brandnew towers for the cell phones as they put up over the last 20-30 years. 

[00:02:36] Wow. 

[00:02:37] We're going to more than double the number of cell towers because these signals are going to be carrying much more data. They're going to be at a higher frequency typically. And what that means now is there is going to be even more of this radiation that's going to be coming from these towers. I don't want people to get all worried. Right. There's multiple types of radiation. You obviously you have sunlight that the type of radiation, you have the x-rays which is a different type, and than you have what you get from your cell phone. It's called non-ionizing radiation. This is not the stuff that's known to be harmful. It's thought by most people to not be a real big problem. Well, we're talking about the new 5G technology that's coming our way. There will be a lot more of it than we've ever seen before and we could end up with three to four times as many cell towers as we have right now. And it's going to give us basically broadband type Internet on all of our mobile devices like you were saying for cars et cetera. Yes, you could be driving down the road and not only listening to your iheartradio app but your car could be getting a whole new bunch of software. Download everything right there. Live streaming of all of your videos with the kids in the back. From a business standpoint that means that we'll have even more connected devices. We already have clothes that you can wear that have cell technology built into them Levi's introduced to jacket. All that in fact had Bluetooth and other types of technology in it. So, it's opened up a whole new world of possibilities. A lot of people are worried about the radiation that's going to come with that, although it's not to be harmful. 

[00:04:30] We're talking with our good friend Craig Peterson, and in just a minute we're going to give you a number you can you can text my name to, standard data and tax rates apply and get this information. So, I have seen. I know that. yes there are different types of radiation and as you explained it non-ionizing radiation is what basically what cell phones use, some of the European countries say they have evidence that it causes illness and can increase the risk of cancer. And yet there's just as many studies, Craig that show it doesn't that it has no impact. 

[00:05:10] Yeah, I was a keynote speaker last year at an annual board of directors meeting and I was approached by a lady afterwards who came up and asked, “What do you think about cancers, caused by cell phones? Yeah, And I said, “Well you know I have an advanced class amateur radio license, and so I've been around all kinds of radio waves for a lot of years, high powered ones as well”. And I said, “you know I've watched this fairly closely, but I don't think there's any convincing evidence for this yet and then she said “well, I have brain cancer and it's been attributed to me using cell phones almost all day long and my job.” Yeah, you know my jaw kind of dropped, and my heart went out to her. But yeah, there has been information come out from both sides. I tend to stick with the it's probably not causing any harm to pretty much anyone. There are people that think that the power lines caused all kinds of different types of problems, even the power lines in our houses. 

[00:06:18] Well, I mean people talk about having a digital alarm clock right next to your head on the nightstand and how can have the impact, although I kind of think that's been disproven and there has been a lot of research done about the power lines and everything else in a lot of that has been disproven.

[00:06:39] But the I guess we just haven't had cell phone technology n this type of radio frequency and it being so prevalent. I mean we've always had the radio frequency that's going out right now in AM and FM right now with our voices going through. But this other type and this 5G that you're talking about it's gonna be more prevalent it's going to be stronger. And what difference will it make, and I think I think it's an interesting read. I read it with an open mind. I think it's an interesting read. 

[00:07:16] Yeah it is it's something we need to keep an eye on it out definitely be an eye on that. And I've got one more thing.

[00:07:23] Sure I'll keep an eye on this Cisco Talos has come out with a whole investigation into this Russian the hack our routers in our homes and in our businesses. And you know people we've got to pay attention to this. This is future than we thought.

[00:07:42] It's huge is the word but I know that you said huge-er. It's always good when a really smart person says something like that. Huge.

[00:07:50] Yeah well it said it's the whole Trump era you know. And you know.

[00:07:57] So the but this is really, really, really, big and very, very, bad. So, make sure you reset your modem cell just power like. But put them back to factory default upgrade the software that's on them so that you're getting rid of this because this is way worse than we thought. They're collecting way more information being way more manipulative. Take the money from your bank account and then when you go to your bank site they actually modify the web pages as are in transit to make it look like your balance has not changed.

[00:08:32] Ok. This is true. All that's happening right now. Right.

[00:08:37] Our good friend tech talk guru Craig Peterson.

[00:08:42] If people text my name to this number 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53 that's 8 5 5 3 8 5 5 5 5 3 you'll receive this information plus everything else you need.

[00:08:58] You'll be on the list. Craig Peterson sends out alerts when big things happen. He won't hack you, he won't send you annoying things, and he's here with us. Every Tuesday at this time Craig enjoy your business trip and always a pleasure to talk with you sir.

[00:09:17] Hey, thanks Jim. Take care. Bye bye.

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Airing date: 06/09/2018

Don't Use Android, Switch Browsers, and Smartphone Intrruptions

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here, With a fan going on me as it is a little hot today. So, I apologize for some of the background noise and I'm a little clogged up also, just allergic to something. Just this time of year. We're going to be talking today about a couple of things to do with cryptocurrency. We're going to get into addiction and I wanted to get to last week as well as Autophagy thing. This guy Dr. Jason Phung won a Nobel Prize a couple of years ago and I've got to tell you what he found has already changed my life, so I'll tell you about that as far as my health goes. And it was really quite surprising to me. Goodbye Chrome. When you talk about why, we've got at least one guy who is leaving chrome and where he's moving to. Smartphones, they are impacting our brain chemistry. Cannon, Oh my gosh. Remember the Cannon EOS, Well, they stopped making them in 2010 and they just ran out of inventory. So, that's it that's the end of an 80-year history of film cameras for Canon. Wow. And, I want to get to Mary Meeker. She's just amazing. She's got her new internet trends report out. I just printed it up. I printed four pages per sheet. This thing is huge it's hundreds of pages long. Almost 300 or I think little over 300 pages. So, we'll talk about what she's seeing for trends in the Internet and of course a whole lot more stick around. Here we go.

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[00:02:27] This is tech talk with Craig Peterson. 

[00:02:32] All right let's get going. Not a whole lot of time. It's hard trying to squeeze this into half an hour, it has been crazy. OK, so everybody should now have their Log-ins for my membership site everyone who asked who is having problems with this whole router update. This whole FBI thing. If you haven't received it let me know. But we were busy this week making sure we gave free account to the listeners who were having troubles who wanted to know more about the routers what models are affected maybe what they should do. We're going to be putting more of that together over the next week. Expect us to come out with something about. OK so now you can reboot is a router for two weeks now. So, what should you replace it with. And by the way you should have rebooted it twice if you do it once per week which is a minimum recommended by the FBI. So, we're putting together something I'm going to try and do a little probably not a Facebook Live, just so many of you guys just aren't listening aren't on Facebook because of frankly good reasons. So, we're probably going to do webinars or we'll do it similar to the last web before we had and kind of go through what your options are what you should do if your business how you can move away from these cheap home routers you don't want to use them now.

[00:04:03] It's just amazing to me that people are still doing it. So, if you still have questions about this or anything frankly you can always text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty five fifty three to get a hold of me. Well, let's get into Mary Meeker's report. She comes out with this Internet trend report every year and the market pays major attention to her. Kleiner Perkins is the company that she works for. And they've got a lot of very cool data in this it just came out the end of May in fact May 30th. So, she is looking at the trends overall of course growth is continuing but is continuing to slow. Now I'm looking at the stats here comparing smartphone unit shipments Android, iOS, and other and year to year growth. And basically, we have leveled out here with about one and a half billion smartphones a year. Now think about that if you're a business person or even if you're running the local soccer teams Web site you've got to seriously consider what people are watching what they're looking at. And another statistic that's in here is that now more than 50 percent of the Internet users are using these smartphone devices. 

[00:05:23] It's just incredible. So, this year we had 7 percent growth versus 12 percent growth last year and our global Internet users we are now more than 50 per cent saturated. In other words, 50 more than 50 percent of every person worldwide has access to the Internet. Now that's a pretty big number. What that means is from a growth standpoint maintaining growth is going to be difficult, but growth still does remain solid. We've got more innovation more competition frankly, you can find all of this report I got it posted a link to it anyways up on my Web site at CraigPeterson.com, WI-FI adoption online payment. This thing goes on and on. She's done a great job here looking to better experience for consumers and video music. The news feeds it is just amazing. So something you should look at if you are an Internet marketer if you are doing anything Internet frankly so have a look at that. Mary Meeker. OK so let's talk about some of these devices. Let's talk about the Android smart devices because here's some statistics that I thought were probably happening and now it's getting confirmed. Yes indeed. Android devices turned out and this is a great article on cyber scoop by Patrick O'Neill.

[00:06:59] Turns out, no one is updating their Android devices, and what have I said about Android for a long time. One is they are more susceptible to hacking than iOS is for quite a number of reasons. The hardware in Android is not as good as the hardware you're going to find in an iPhone. But in addition to that, the biggest problem people have with Android devices is keeping them up to date, most of the manufacturers and remember we're not just talking about the guys that make the phone. We're talking about the companies that are using the phone and are distributing them that are selling them to end users because each one of these carriers is going to have some changes at least to the software in those devices. So, what it's time for a new update when Google comes out with a new version of Android. It might not ever, ever, be available for your Android device. So, when you go back to the standard recommendation of patch early and patch often. You can do it even if you want to. OK. Duel security just came out with the stats here. They released a study about a week ago that found that 90 per cent, nine zero percent of over 10 million Android devices across the U.S. and Western Europe are running outdated versions of Android, 90 percent. And remember New versions of Android aren't just giving you some new features. They aren't just making things cooler, looking nicer. Right. With all those wonderful new little icons and logos and things. No, they are closing security holes, 90 percent of devices not patched up to date is a significant gap. So, you take my advice if you can afford an iPhone you're wrong because if you can afford an android device you can afford an iPhone.

[00:09:11] Now you don't have to buy the latest, greatest iPhone right. This iPhone 10 that cost a thousand or more dollars depending on what you get on it. You don't have to get that device. All you have to do is get maybe an iPhone 6S. For instance, there are still for sale 6 s plus maybe. Still for sale and now they're cheap. They're about the same price as an Android phone. Many of the carriers if you up your contract with them they will just go ahead and flat out give you one of these older phones and the iPhone's are easy, peasy, to keep up to date. Apple puts out security patches for the iPhone for years. And years. Unlike many of the Android devices and so, the updates you get an android often they're kind of haphazard, if you even get them at all and attackers are taking advantage of this. We've got new malware brand new malware popping up that preys on old Android software and hardware. OK. So, Apple is dolling out patches to the App Store. There just isn't the same thing for Google Play and that's because there isn't just one Android phone. There are more than 1000 models. Compare that to Apple that only has to deal with a few dozen. And you can begin to understand why Apple can keep their software patched up and Google cannot, remember this isn't really Google's problem. This is really a problem of the carriers and the phone manufacturers not taking the Google updates and being able to get them out to you. 

[00:11:00] OK, now Duo also found that computers are often left behind and Wes's operating systems 74 percent of Macs and 85 percent of Chrome OS machines are not running the latest software. And that's a travesty. Now it's not so bad necessarily with Apple because even if you're not running the latest operating system they provide security patches for the last couple of operating systems, OK, so it's not too, too, bad. But when we’re talking about Google's chromos it's a bit of a problem. It's really weird too when you look at the ChromeOS from Google which is on these inexpensive typically inexpensive laptops. These machines auto update on every restart. So, it's really weird but chromos is widely hair hailed frankly as one of the most secure really computing environments out there today. So, some of these stats may not tell the whole story but again if you can make sure you ditch your Android device and ditch it quick and get yourself an iPhone or an iPad. Don't worry about the latest model. You don't need it to stay up to date. You need something recent. If you can afford an iPhone 7 or 8 or 10 go for it. But if all you can afford is that six that are still supported I would I would not get anything older than a 6S which is kind of Apple does this half and half right. They do a six and then come out sometime later with a success then they'll do just the seven then the seven-S OK, so try and get the second half of the six that's S series whether it be the big one or the small one. 

[00:12:54] All right so let's talk about Chrome Google Chrome. You know I've been on Google earlier for Android now and again remember it's not so much Google it's the people that are using the Android software that are making the phones that are selling you the phones etcetera. Right. So, we're not going to just completely blame Google for this one. 

[00:13:16] So or not I'm not trying to be nasty about it but here is the bottom line. We know Google has been really big over the years on monitoring everything that we have to say right. You know that it's pretty straightforward. I think pretty much everybody knows that. Right. I'm not crazy here. Google's business is keeping an eye on you and your business right. OK so we're on the same page here. If you are using google chrome and heck I use Google Chrome right. A lot of people do because there are great plugins for it works well. It's relatively fast. Well you know I don't. Are you sick of hearing about data privacy, now. But listen here, in the U.S. there's very little you can do about these big businesses keeping tabs on you. The big business is watching where you're going online what you're buying what you're interested in right. So, they can bring up this ad or that ad. This is a real problem. So how much information do you want to give Google. I was just looking today, at my information that Google holds. You can go in you can customize it you can say I don't want to track where I'm going. Where all my searches are, but there's a lot of options and I advise you to do that you should go in. You should customize your security settings. But the bottom line is they are going to record stuff whether you want them to or not. Now if you live in California you have some options, if you live in Europe you have some options, because of the laws that are there. 

[00:15:08] The rest of us have to look at this seriously and try and figure out what the right way to go is. We've got Cambridge Analytica the personal data of more than 50 million Americans are in their hand. The Obama campaign the personal information of over 1 billion people in their hands. We've watched companies shut down their European branches because of Europe's data privacy regulations. We've seen companies block Europeans from even gaining access to their Web sites. And when you look at the number of breaches that have happened over the last few years it's just going to make your head spin. So, what can you do. Well we've talked about a couple of things before. Duck Duck Go. That's my default search engine. And you just go to my Web site. CraigPeterson.com you can look it up right there. There's a search function right on there. But Duck Duck Go, doesn't keep any information on you. We have the founder of Epic. On our show here. Couple of years back and that's a browser epic browser dot com and it doesn't keep any information on you. But it is based on the Google Code. But they've gone in and they've removed some of those functions. Google has been there to track you. So, what should be the default browser for you. And it's a question only you can answer. You know I use Chrome for some things I use safari on my Mac for other things use Firefox frequently on my devices as well including on my smartphone. 

[00:16:56] I use Firefox, but Chrome has 60 percent of the browser market and Firefox has about 10. Now Firefox has a whole new version of their browser out there now. It is designed to be fast and it's designed to be secure from a. I'm not going to let people steal your information standpoint right. So basically. You want to ditch the browser that supporting a company that uses the data it's gathered about you to sell advertisements right as well as allowing companies to track your movements online. Because just how much privacy do you really think Google is going to give you. Now Firefox's parent company that's Mozilla. It's a nonprofit. They, in fact, I would say they're a little how what's the right word there. They're kind of crazy about some of the security and whether or not they should use this version of open source software open source software or not use it. Right. But they're saying over at Mozilla that the Firefox browser the new one is designed with privacy and convenience. In fact, they say right on the site that Firefox proves that privacy and convenience don't have to be mutually exclusive. And you know I agree, about that with them frankly. So, I agree that you shouldn't be sharing all of this data. I agree you shouldn't be using Chrome, in many cases right. I love having a fast browser and out of the box. Firefox has privacy turned on with Google Chrome you have to go in you have to know what you're doing and you have to configure it. 

[00:18:53] So, let's just leave it at that. OK. They've got this do not track tag that's available in Firefox now. Not every site is going to honor that. But they really are trying to get privacy and get it out to you. The end user. OK so let's move on to the next. We don't have much time here. We only have about five minutes left. I want to remind you that if you're still questioning your router and what you should be doing, I am going to be doing a webinar for you. So, you have to keep an eye out if you want to know about that. If you have any questions about your router it particularly if your business and you wonder if there is an alternative that isn't going to break the bank reach out to me I'm putting this stuff together it takes a little while. Hopefully within the next week I'll have that out and available and we'll be able to chat in the online space in a live webinar. Answer your questions. But until then you can just text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty-five fifty-three we'll get you the information we've been for people that qualify that are trying to figure out what to do but haven't been able to will even send you. We'll create and send you your own log-in to my membership site for free so that you can get all of that information. So, we'll do that for you. 

[00:20:26] But you got to reach out 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. 

[00:20:31] Interesting study that came out and it was talking about constant interruptions from alerts and messages on your smartphone. And what's been interesting about this is they've been going further than just how long does it take you to get back into that train of thought. Have you noticed that when you get interrupted by anyone or anything it can take quite a while to get back to the original train of thought. I know with me when on trying to figure out something and I am sitting there working in particular. I'm trying to program or I'm trying to write something I have the stream of consciousness and someone interrupts me. I've lost a minimum of ten minutes sometimes more than half an hour to try and get back into that flow again interrupting me. To me is extremely painful. I just really hate it. So, when I saw this study I thought wow now this is interesting. Very, very, interesting. This is from CBS local affiliates an affiliate down in Philadelphia but they're talking about this whole thing Dr. Scott B. He's a psychologist over at Cleveland Clinic. He says there's this phenomenon they call switch cost that when there's an interruption we switch away from the task that we were at and then we have to come on back. We think it interrupts our efficiency with our brains by 40 percent. He says our nose is always getting off the grindstone. Then we have to reorient. Ourselves. And they're saying that when you do get that interrupt people get little surges of stress hormone, cortisol, which we've heard of before it causes the heart rate to jump. 

[00:22:14] Some people get sweaty hands and muscles can get tight. So, bottom line they're advising. Put that phone away. Right. If you're getting the interruptions I have mine on silent-mode most of the time I don't even know it's going off right. I check, I poll every once in a while when I need a little bit of a break. I check and see are there any messages any phone calls I have to return. So, he goes on to say initially when you start trying to stay away from technology or confine it you'll be a little uncomfortable. You'll have that fear of missing out or a little anxiety that something is getting past you. But with practice he says your brain can get used to it. So, break the habit. You don't have to carry that phone around with you all of the time. You don't have to be constantly checking. There are some symptoms to this. If you wake up in the morning the first thing you do is get on your phone. You've got a problem. If the last thing you do at night before you go to sleep is check your phone. You've got a problem. It really interesting article you find up on my Web site. And there have been many other articles that are similar to that. 

[00:23:25] You have to disconnect. Read a book even watch a little bit of TV. I promise I talk about Krypto we've only got about a minute left. We had two different things one if you have a security clearance, you might want to listen to this, because at this point they're saying that owning a cryptocurrency could cause you a problem if you're trying to get a security clearance and I can see why. Absolutely see why. And man, I wish we had time to do this. Maybe we should do kind of a whole show on this, but this guy won the Nobel Prize back and I think it was 2016. Dr. Jason Phung and he was talking about Autophagy where cells repair themselves in your body. Know what stops them from repairing themselves. Eating. So, what's interesting is if you know me you know I've been doing intermittent fasting. So, what Basically what he found and won a Nobel Prize for is if you do intermittent fasting you will be healthier. Really interesting article you'll find it at Craig Peterson dot com. There's a ton of information I've read five books on this so far just fascinating and personally I can say it works. Have any questions. Text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Make sure we answer you and visit me online as well. Craig Peterson dot com have a great weekend. We'll be talking again soon. Bye-Bye.

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Airing date: 06/09/2018

Don't Use Android, Switch Browsers, and Smartphone Intrruptions

Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] Hi everybody, Craig Peterson here, With a fan going on me as it is a little hot today. So, I apologize for some of the background noise and I'm a little clogged up also, just allergic to something. Just this time of year. We're going to be talking today about a couple of things to do with cryptocurrency. We're going to get into addiction and I wanted to get to last week as well as Autophagy thing. This guy Dr. Jason Phung won a Nobel Prize a couple of years ago and I've got to tell you what he found has already changed my life, so I'll tell you about that as far as my health goes. And it was really quite surprising to me. Goodbye Chrome. When you talk about why, we've got at least one guy who is leaving chrome and where he's moving to. Smartphones, they are impacting our brain chemistry. Cannon, Oh my gosh. Remember the Cannon EOS, Well, they stopped making them in 2010 and they just ran out of inventory. So, that's it that's the end of an 80-year history of film cameras for Canon. Wow. And, I want to get to Mary Meeker. She's just amazing. She's got her new internet trends report out. I just printed it up. I printed four pages per sheet. This thing is huge it's hundreds of pages long. Almost 300 or I think little over 300 pages. So, we'll talk about what she's seeing for trends in the Internet and of course a whole lot more stick around. Here we go.

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[00:02:27] This is tech talk with Craig Peterson. 

[00:02:32] All right let's get going. Not a whole lot of time. It's hard trying to squeeze this into half an hour, it has been crazy. OK, so everybody should now have their Log-ins for my membership site everyone who asked who is having problems with this whole router update. This whole FBI thing. If you haven't received it let me know. But we were busy this week making sure we gave free account to the listeners who were having troubles who wanted to know more about the routers what models are affected maybe what they should do. We're going to be putting more of that together over the next week. Expect us to come out with something about. OK so now you can reboot is a router for two weeks now. So, what should you replace it with. And by the way you should have rebooted it twice if you do it once per week which is a minimum recommended by the FBI. So, we're putting together something I'm going to try and do a little probably not a Facebook Live, just so many of you guys just aren't listening aren't on Facebook because of frankly good reasons. So, we're probably going to do webinars or we'll do it similar to the last web before we had and kind of go through what your options are what you should do if your business how you can move away from these cheap home routers you don't want to use them now.

[00:04:03] It's just amazing to me that people are still doing it. So, if you still have questions about this or anything frankly you can always text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty five fifty three to get a hold of me. Well, let's get into Mary Meeker's report. She comes out with this Internet trend report every year and the market pays major attention to her. Kleiner Perkins is the company that she works for. And they've got a lot of very cool data in this it just came out the end of May in fact May 30th. So, she is looking at the trends overall of course growth is continuing but is continuing to slow. Now I'm looking at the stats here comparing smartphone unit shipments Android, iOS, and other and year to year growth. And basically, we have leveled out here with about one and a half billion smartphones a year. Now think about that if you're a business person or even if you're running the local soccer teams Web site you've got to seriously consider what people are watching what they're looking at. And another statistic that's in here is that now more than 50 percent of the Internet users are using these smartphone devices. 

[00:05:23] It's just incredible. So, this year we had 7 percent growth versus 12 percent growth last year and our global Internet users we are now more than 50 per cent saturated. In other words, 50 more than 50 percent of every person worldwide has access to the Internet. Now that's a pretty big number. What that means is from a growth standpoint maintaining growth is going to be difficult, but growth still does remain solid. We've got more innovation more competition frankly, you can find all of this report I got it posted a link to it anyways up on my Web site at CraigPeterson.com, WI-FI adoption online payment. This thing goes on and on. She's done a great job here looking to better experience for consumers and video music. The news feeds it is just amazing. So something you should look at if you are an Internet marketer if you are doing anything Internet frankly so have a look at that. Mary Meeker. OK so let's talk about some of these devices. Let's talk about the Android smart devices because here's some statistics that I thought were probably happening and now it's getting confirmed. Yes indeed. Android devices turned out and this is a great article on cyber scoop by Patrick O'Neill.

[00:06:59] Turns out, no one is updating their Android devices, and what have I said about Android for a long time. One is they are more susceptible to hacking than iOS is for quite a number of reasons. The hardware in Android is not as good as the hardware you're going to find in an iPhone. But in addition to that, the biggest problem people have with Android devices is keeping them up to date, most of the manufacturers and remember we're not just talking about the guys that make the phone. We're talking about the companies that are using the phone and are distributing them that are selling them to end users because each one of these carriers is going to have some changes at least to the software in those devices. So, what it's time for a new update when Google comes out with a new version of Android. It might not ever, ever, be available for your Android device. So, when you go back to the standard recommendation of patch early and patch often. You can do it even if you want to. OK. Duel security just came out with the stats here. They released a study about a week ago that found that 90 per cent, nine zero percent of over 10 million Android devices across the U.S. and Western Europe are running outdated versions of Android, 90 percent. And remember New versions of Android aren't just giving you some new features. They aren't just making things cooler, looking nicer. Right. With all those wonderful new little icons and logos and things. No, they are closing security holes, 90 percent of devices not patched up to date is a significant gap. So, you take my advice if you can afford an iPhone you're wrong because if you can afford an android device you can afford an iPhone.

[00:09:11] Now you don't have to buy the latest, greatest iPhone right. This iPhone 10 that cost a thousand or more dollars depending on what you get on it. You don't have to get that device. All you have to do is get maybe an iPhone 6S. For instance, there are still for sale 6 s plus maybe. Still for sale and now they're cheap. They're about the same price as an Android phone. Many of the carriers if you up your contract with them they will just go ahead and flat out give you one of these older phones and the iPhone's are easy, peasy, to keep up to date. Apple puts out security patches for the iPhone for years. And years. Unlike many of the Android devices and so, the updates you get an android often they're kind of haphazard, if you even get them at all and attackers are taking advantage of this. We've got new malware brand new malware popping up that preys on old Android software and hardware. OK. So, Apple is dolling out patches to the App Store. There just isn't the same thing for Google Play and that's because there isn't just one Android phone. There are more than 1000 models. Compare that to Apple that only has to deal with a few dozen. And you can begin to understand why Apple can keep their software patched up and Google cannot, remember this isn't really Google's problem. This is really a problem of the carriers and the phone manufacturers not taking the Google updates and being able to get them out to you. 

[00:11:00] OK, now Duo also found that computers are often left behind and Wes's operating systems 74 percent of Macs and 85 percent of Chrome OS machines are not running the latest software. And that's a travesty. Now it's not so bad necessarily with Apple because even if you're not running the latest operating system they provide security patches for the last couple of operating systems, OK, so it's not too, too, bad. But when we’re talking about Google's chromos it's a bit of a problem. It's really weird too when you look at the ChromeOS from Google which is on these inexpensive typically inexpensive laptops. These machines auto update on every restart. So, it's really weird but chromos is widely hair hailed frankly as one of the most secure really computing environments out there today. So, some of these stats may not tell the whole story but again if you can make sure you ditch your Android device and ditch it quick and get yourself an iPhone or an iPad. Don't worry about the latest model. You don't need it to stay up to date. You need something recent. If you can afford an iPhone 7 or 8 or 10 go for it. But if all you can afford is that six that are still supported I would I would not get anything older than a 6S which is kind of Apple does this half and half right. They do a six and then come out sometime later with a success then they'll do just the seven then the seven-S OK, so try and get the second half of the six that's S series whether it be the big one or the small one. 

[00:12:54] All right so let's talk about Chrome Google Chrome. You know I've been on Google earlier for Android now and again remember it's not so much Google it's the people that are using the Android software that are making the phones that are selling you the phones etcetera. Right. So, we're not going to just completely blame Google for this one. 

[00:13:16] So or not I'm not trying to be nasty about it but here is the bottom line. We know Google has been really big over the years on monitoring everything that we have to say right. You know that it's pretty straightforward. I think pretty much everybody knows that. Right. I'm not crazy here. Google's business is keeping an eye on you and your business right. OK so we're on the same page here. If you are using google chrome and heck I use Google Chrome right. A lot of people do because there are great plugins for it works well. It's relatively fast. Well you know I don't. Are you sick of hearing about data privacy, now. But listen here, in the U.S. there's very little you can do about these big businesses keeping tabs on you. The big business is watching where you're going online what you're buying what you're interested in right. So, they can bring up this ad or that ad. This is a real problem. So how much information do you want to give Google. I was just looking today, at my information that Google holds. You can go in you can customize it you can say I don't want to track where I'm going. Where all my searches are, but there's a lot of options and I advise you to do that you should go in. You should customize your security settings. But the bottom line is they are going to record stuff whether you want them to or not. Now if you live in California you have some options, if you live in Europe you have some options, because of the laws that are there. 

[00:15:08] The rest of us have to look at this seriously and try and figure out what the right way to go is. We've got Cambridge Analytica the personal data of more than 50 million Americans are in their hand. The Obama campaign the personal information of over 1 billion people in their hands. We've watched companies shut down their European branches because of Europe's data privacy regulations. We've seen companies block Europeans from even gaining access to their Web sites. And when you look at the number of breaches that have happened over the last few years it's just going to make your head spin. So, what can you do. Well we've talked about a couple of things before. Duck Duck Go. That's my default search engine. And you just go to my Web site. CraigPeterson.com you can look it up right there. There's a search function right on there. But Duck Duck Go, doesn't keep any information on you. We have the founder of Epic. On our show here. Couple of years back and that's a browser epic browser dot com and it doesn't keep any information on you. But it is based on the Google Code. But they've gone in and they've removed some of those functions. Google has been there to track you. So, what should be the default browser for you. And it's a question only you can answer. You know I use Chrome for some things I use safari on my Mac for other things use Firefox frequently on my devices as well including on my smartphone. 

[00:16:56] I use Firefox, but Chrome has 60 percent of the browser market and Firefox has about 10. Now Firefox has a whole new version of their browser out there now. It is designed to be fast and it's designed to be secure from a. I'm not going to let people steal your information standpoint right. So basically. You want to ditch the browser that supporting a company that uses the data it's gathered about you to sell advertisements right as well as allowing companies to track your movements online. Because just how much privacy do you really think Google is going to give you. Now Firefox's parent company that's Mozilla. It's a nonprofit. They, in fact, I would say they're a little how what's the right word there. They're kind of crazy about some of the security and whether or not they should use this version of open source software open source software or not use it. Right. But they're saying over at Mozilla that the Firefox browser the new one is designed with privacy and convenience. In fact, they say right on the site that Firefox proves that privacy and convenience don't have to be mutually exclusive. And you know I agree, about that with them frankly. So, I agree that you shouldn't be sharing all of this data. I agree you shouldn't be using Chrome, in many cases right. I love having a fast browser and out of the box. Firefox has privacy turned on with Google Chrome you have to go in you have to know what you're doing and you have to configure it. 

[00:18:53] So, let's just leave it at that. OK. They've got this do not track tag that's available in Firefox now. Not every site is going to honor that. But they really are trying to get privacy and get it out to you. The end user. OK so let's move on to the next. We don't have much time here. We only have about five minutes left. I want to remind you that if you're still questioning your router and what you should be doing, I am going to be doing a webinar for you. So, you have to keep an eye out if you want to know about that. If you have any questions about your router it particularly if your business and you wonder if there is an alternative that isn't going to break the bank reach out to me I'm putting this stuff together it takes a little while. Hopefully within the next week I'll have that out and available and we'll be able to chat in the online space in a live webinar. Answer your questions. But until then you can just text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 fifty-five fifty-three we'll get you the information we've been for people that qualify that are trying to figure out what to do but haven't been able to will even send you. We'll create and send you your own log-in to my membership site for free so that you can get all of that information. So, we'll do that for you. 

[00:20:26] But you got to reach out 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. 

[00:20:31] Interesting study that came out and it was talking about constant interruptions from alerts and messages on your smartphone. And what's been interesting about this is they've been going further than just how long does it take you to get back into that train of thought. Have you noticed that when you get interrupted by anyone or anything it can take quite a while to get back to the original train of thought. I know with me when on trying to figure out something and I am sitting there working in particular. I'm trying to program or I'm trying to write something I have the stream of consciousness and someone interrupts me. I've lost a minimum of ten minutes sometimes more than half an hour to try and get back into that flow again interrupting me. To me is extremely painful. I just really hate it. So, when I saw this study I thought wow now this is interesting. Very, very, interesting. This is from CBS local affiliates an affiliate down in Philadelphia but they're talking about this whole thing Dr. Scott B. He's a psychologist over at Cleveland Clinic. He says there's this phenomenon they call switch cost that when there's an interruption we switch away from the task that we were at and then we have to come on back. We think it interrupts our efficiency with our brains by 40 percent. He says our nose is always getting off the grindstone. Then we have to reorient. Ourselves. And they're saying that when you do get that interrupt people get little surges of stress hormone, cortisol, which we've heard of before it causes the heart rate to jump. 

[00:22:14] Some people get sweaty hands and muscles can get tight. So, bottom line they're advising. Put that phone away. Right. If you're getting the interruptions I have mine on silent-mode most of the time I don't even know it's going off right. I check, I poll every once in a while when I need a little bit of a break. I check and see are there any messages any phone calls I have to return. So, he goes on to say initially when you start trying to stay away from technology or confine it you'll be a little uncomfortable. You'll have that fear of missing out or a little anxiety that something is getting past you. But with practice he says your brain can get used to it. So, break the habit. You don't have to carry that phone around with you all of the time. You don't have to be constantly checking. There are some symptoms to this. If you wake up in the morning the first thing you do is get on your phone. You've got a problem. If the last thing you do at night before you go to sleep is check your phone. You've got a problem. It really interesting article you find up on my Web site. And there have been many other articles that are similar to that. 

[00:23:25] You have to disconnect. Read a book even watch a little bit of TV. I promise I talk about Krypto we've only got about a minute left. We had two different things one if you have a security clearance, you might want to listen to this, because at this point they're saying that owning a cryptocurrency could cause you a problem if you're trying to get a security clearance and I can see why. Absolutely see why. And man, I wish we had time to do this. Maybe we should do kind of a whole show on this, but this guy won the Nobel Prize back and I think it was 2016. Dr. Jason Phung and he was talking about Autophagy where cells repair themselves in your body. Know what stops them from repairing themselves. Eating. So, what's interesting is if you know me you know I've been doing intermittent fasting. So, what Basically what he found and won a Nobel Prize for is if you do intermittent fasting you will be healthier. Really interesting article you'll find it at Craig Peterson dot com. There's a ton of information I've read five books on this so far just fascinating and personally I can say it works. Have any questions. Text me 8 5 5 3 8 5 55 53. Make sure we answer you and visit me online as well. Craig Peterson dot com have a great weekend. We'll be talking again soon. Bye-Bye.

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Your Identity is getting Stolen.  Jack and I discuss the rise of ID Theft,  and what Governor Chris Sununu did in regard Credit Freezes for NH Citizens.

When you get down to it, the problem is with the use of our Social Security Numbers.

Technology is working on a solution using Blockchain Technology but it is not there yet.

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Airing date: 06/11/2018

Identity Theft, NH Law and Social Security Numbers

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Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Craig Peterson here, New Hampshire just passed a law, in fact, the governor signed it on Friday that provides you with the ability to get a free credit freeze if you are the subject of a data breach. Now this is interesting in fact the way it's set up it's actually the first in the nation and no one else has a law quite like this not going to have to dig into this little more New Hampshire kind of snuck that passed me without me knowing but that's what we talked about this morning with Jack Heath. The bottom line is your identity is getting stolen, and there's not a lot you can do about it. We get into social security numbers and what's the new technology that might stop all of this mess. You know there are things you can do to stop malware. But how about if the data is stolen and you have no control over it. It wasn't malware on your computer but it was some other company some big company or the government, in many cases. MAN OH MAN Here we go Jack.

[00:01:09] Joining us on the Autofair listener line for a tech talk update is Craig Peterson. His show airs on Saturdays on I Heart news talk stations. Craig Good morning. 

[00:01:18] Hey Good morning Jack. This whole thing about this bill that was passed and signed into law by John Sununu is really interesting. You know some of the specifics behind identity theft, but it's a really big deal. 

[00:01:32] Yep, you just you just gave his father credit for signing the bill. The governor is Chris Sununu 

[00:01:36] Yeah, yeah, Chris and his father would take the credit. 

[00:01:41] Sorry wrong Governor Sununu. 

[00:01:44] Tell us what you think about it. Tell us what your opinion of it is.

[00:01:48] Well, I haven't seen the bill and I'm sorry I've fallen down on that I wouldn't have looked that up and read the actual wording of the bill but when we're looking at identity theft, it is a huge deal. And it happened to me just a couple of weeks ago.

[00:02:04] You know we have this big Equifax breach last year which is a very big deal right. And I was part of that breach that happened Equifax. So, I started monitoring my credit report and monitoring the dark web and certainly out on the dark web. My information was there, yeah thanks Equifax and whomever else. But what happened, was, I got an alert on my credit saying my credit score has changed. So, I went online and I started to poke around a little bit and looked at my credit score and my credit report. Because I had signed up for a service where you pay a small amount monthly and it tells you when your credit report changes and lets you have a quick look at it. And, it doesn't bring your credit score down for doing it. Lo and behold there is a credit card that I do not have and that it had something like a 400 dollar balance on it.

[00:03:04] It was 60 days past to so I immediately knew. Wait a minute.

[00:03:11] I didn't open this credit card. That's not my balance right. And it was hurting my credit. And that's how I found out about it. 

[00:03:20] It’s a very simple easy way to tell all of that, but you often won’t get notified.

[00:03:26] No, well I wasn't notified, other than I have a credit report being in place, right.  Having a credit monitoring service is something everybody should do, anyway. But, yeah nobody told me. Hey, listen did you open this X Y Z credit card. Right. That just didn't happen. And when you get right down to the bottom of all of this, Jack, the big problem is our social security numbers right. They were guaranteed that they will never be used for anything other than Social Security. But now our Social Security number is used for everything from our taxes all the way through getting health insurance right. It's just this universal number.

[00:04:09] We don't have a good solution for what could replace this whole security number for with.

[00:04:16] There was an Eastern European country that tried something new. They tried to use some blockchain technology. There was another attempt where they had a card that was one of these smartcards kind like your credit card. If you look on it now it's got that little chip in it. And that little chip has an encrypted handshake it can do with the bank. And that helps to tell them it's really you. So, they came up with the special chip they put it on a card that uses a universal identity. And this is just last year. It wasn't two months before that whole system was hacked. So, you know bottom line here it's one thing to be able to know and hopefully recover your credit. In my case that was pretty simple because it was just a credit card. Someone wasn't pretending they were me. In the worst case, what happens is people use other people's identities when they have been arrested for a crime. And then, you're driving down the road, Jack, and you get pulled over and it's a felony stop and the police have you laying out in the middle of the road. They've got their guns drawn because you supposedly committed a crime right and you didn't. And, now you have to prove it wasn't you. Usually, you can do that without a lot of trouble. But, you're still the subject of a felony arrest. This whole thing is really, really, crazy and I think this move towards in NH to help to you know will help seniors and younger people both of those groups are the ones most likely to suffer the most.

[00:05:57] But, to make it so that you can start that road to recovery afterward, is a good thing. I think it will be years before we finally have a solution. Getting rid of a social security number moving toward something that's more secure by using some of these technologies are looking good but it is not there yet. 

[00:06:18] All right Craig, the other thing if you want to make a lot of boatload of money and I don't know the answer, real quickly. But the other thing is most people cannot remember, they might remember the last four numbers their social but, they can’t remember all these other names and passwords. Trust me they cannot. And someone's going to figure out something to do with that. Anyway, thank you, Craig.

[00:06:34] Hey you're welcome. There is a free report on Passwords and Password security available on my Web site. 

[00:06:38] Cool. I'll check it out.

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Your Identity is getting Stolen.  Jack and I discuss the rise of ID Theft,  and what Governor Chris Sununu did in regard Credit Freezes for NH Citizens.

When you get down to it, the problem is with the use of our Social Security Numbers.

Technology is working on a solution using Blockchain Technology but it is not there yet.

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

Airing date: 06/11/2018

Identity Theft, NH Law and Social Security Numbers

Transcript:

Craig Peterson:[00:00:00] Craig Peterson here, New Hampshire just passed a law, in fact, the governor signed it on Friday that provides you with the ability to get a free credit freeze if you are the subject of a data breach. Now this is interesting in fact the way it's set up it's actually the first in the nation and no one else has a law quite like this not going to have to dig into this little more New Hampshire kind of snuck that passed me without me knowing but that's what we talked about this morning with Jack Heath. The bottom line is your identity is getting stolen, and there's not a lot you can do about it. We get into social security numbers and what's the new technology that might stop all of this mess. You know there are things you can do to stop malware. But how about if the data is stolen and you have no control over it. It wasn't malware on your computer but it was some other company some big company or the government, in many cases. MAN OH MAN Here we go Jack.

[00:01:09] Joining us on the Autofair listener line for a tech talk update is Craig Peterson. His show airs on Saturdays on I Heart news talk stations. Craig Good morning. 

[00:01:18] Hey Good morning Jack. This whole thing about this bill that was passed and signed into law by John Sununu is really interesting. You know some of the specifics behind identity theft, but it's a really big deal. 

[00:01:32] Yep, you just you just gave his father credit for signing the bill. The governor is Chris Sununu 

[00:01:36] Yeah, yeah, Chris and his father would take the credit. 

[00:01:41] Sorry wrong Governor Sununu. 

[00:01:44] Tell us what you think about it. Tell us what your opinion of it is.

[00:01:48] Well, I haven't seen the bill and I'm sorry I've fallen down on that I wouldn't have looked that up and read the actual wording of the bill but when we're looking at identity theft, it is a huge deal. And it happened to me just a couple of weeks ago.

[00:02:04] You know we have this big Equifax breach last year which is a very big deal right. And I was part of that breach that happened Equifax. So, I started monitoring my credit report and monitoring the dark web and certainly out on the dark web. My information was there, yeah thanks Equifax and whomever else. But what happened, was, I got an alert on my credit saying my credit score has changed. So, I went online and I started to poke around a little bit and looked at my credit score and my credit report. Because I had signed up for a service where you pay a small amount monthly and it tells you when your credit report changes and lets you have a quick look at it. And, it doesn't bring your credit score down for doing it. Lo and behold there is a credit card that I do not have and that it had something like a 400 dollar balance on it.

[00:03:04] It was 60 days past to so I immediately knew. Wait a minute.

[00:03:11] I didn't open this credit card. That's not my balance right. And it was hurting my credit. And that's how I found out about it. 

[00:03:20] It’s a very simple easy way to tell all of that, but you often won’t get notified.

[00:03:26] No, well I wasn't notified, other than I have a credit report being in place, right.  Having a credit monitoring service is something everybody should do, anyway. But, yeah nobody told me. Hey, listen did you open this X Y Z credit card. Right. That just didn't happen. And when you get right down to the bottom of all of this, Jack, the big problem is our social security numbers right. They were guaranteed that they will never be used for anything other than Social Security. But now our Social Security number is used for everything from our taxes all the way through getting health insurance right. It's just this universal number.

[00:04:09] We don't have a good solution for what could replace this whole security number for with.

[00:04:16] There was an Eastern European country that tried something new. They tried to use some blockchain technology. There was another attempt where they had a card that was one of these smartcards kind like your credit card. If you look on it now it's got that little chip in it. And that little chip has an encrypted handshake it can do with the bank. And that helps to tell them it's really you. So, they came up with the special chip they put it on a card that uses a universal identity. And this is just last year. It wasn't two months before that whole system was hacked. So, you know bottom line here it's one thing to be able to know and hopefully recover your credit. In my case that was pretty simple because it was just a credit card. Someone wasn't pretending they were me. In the worst case, what happens is people use other people's identities when they have been arrested for a crime. And then, you're driving down the road, Jack, and you get pulled over and it's a felony stop and the police have you laying out in the middle of the road. They've got their guns drawn because you supposedly committed a crime right and you didn't. And, now you have to prove it wasn't you. Usually, you can do that without a lot of trouble. But, you're still the subject of a felony arrest. This whole thing is really, really, crazy and I think this move towards in NH to help to you know will help seniors and younger people both of those groups are the ones most likely to suffer the most.

[00:05:57] But, to make it so that you can start that road to recovery afterward, is a good thing. I think it will be years before we finally have a solution. Getting rid of a social security number moving toward something that's more secure by using some of these technologies are looking good but it is not there yet. 

[00:06:18] All right Craig, the other thing if you want to make a lot of boatload of money and I don't know the answer, real quickly. But the other thing is most people cannot remember, they might remember the last four numbers their social but, they can’t remember all these other names and passwords. Trust me they cannot. And someone's going to figure out something to do with that. Anyway, thank you, Craig.

[00:06:34] Hey you're welcome. There is a free report on Passwords and Password security available on my Web site. 

[00:06:38] Cool. I'll check it out.

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NH Governors Press Release on Senate Bill 303

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