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[00:00:00] Hey right now, we're going to talk about election interference. What's really going on with Google, not Russia. They're the ones that are interfering and we got evidence

Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here on WGAN. Thanks for joining me today. I really appreciate it. I appreciate your time and all of the emails that I've received. Yeah.

If you heard the first hour, you know, I have received a lot of them and many of them were questioning. Why did you send me this email about not opening your emails? Cause I love your emails. Don't drop me, please.

Um, yeah. Well, it turns out, due to circumstances beyond my control. We've just been so busy. We had the wedding, we had to go to Kentucky and then there's the whole COVID thing, other family issues, and just stuff going on. Including the all-new video

[00:01:00] stuff that I've been working on that we're going to be doing some pieces of training and everything.

It's just been crazy. So I apologize. I apologize, apologize. I think we're going to be able to get this all into control.

So if you've got one of those emails from me, you can ignore them. If you did click on the link for the surprise bonuses for reactivating your account. You got some very cool stuff.

And I want to mention too, if you're not on my email list where you get my newsletter and you will get indications about the upcoming pieces of training and stuff if you want to get on that, I have even more surprises for you. One of them, I guess it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, I'm going to tell you, because I'm excited about this, right?

One of them is the security, reboot guide, something everybody needs. It's great for home users. It is great for, or businesses as well, small and large. I focus on small and medium businesses. That is out there and you can get that

[00:02:00] easily by going to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, Craig peterson.com/subscribe.

And you will get my, hopefully, back to normal, weekly newsletter, plus a bunch of bonuses. So keep an eye on email box for a couple of weeks afterward, cause I'll be dropping some things off to you. Appreciate you guys.

That's how I'm letting you know we put a lot of work into the show and a lot of work into everything we do, because we care. Right.

Well, that's what it's all about here. I do need to obviously make money to keep the lights on. But most people don't need the types of security services that I offer. So I'm offering all of these free services that I possibly can to help people out. The services that I offer, a lot of businesses need them that are in government contracting. So the new CMMC regulations.

[00:03:00] Those are the guys that I help and I help them every day and help them get along and move forward. By the way, the federal government now has decided, I think this is kind of a great idea that since they are requiring our small businesses to comply with the CMMC regulations, which have, by the way, criminal penalties, including 10 years of jail time and millions of dollars in fines.

Well, they're putting that sword of Damocles over your head. They're also saying, "Hey, we'll pay for it. Just pass on your cost upstream." Keep that in mind if you're interested in that. If you're not sure send me a note. M [email protected] [email protected]. And I can send you a couple of records.

You can probably find it if you Google it as well, but I think that's a great idea. They are putting costs. No, it, it

[00:04:00] depends, but basically it can be a hundred thousand dollars a year, fairly easily on these small businesses. And the federal government said, Hey, you can pass these along and we'll pay him so good news there.

So let's get into our next topic here. And this is fascinating. You know, we heard for years that Russia was interfering with our election years. And it always really bothered me because there was no evidence of it. And now we found out that those same people that we're walking out of congressional testimony meetings, you know, the secret hearings that were held by representative Schiff down in the basement, in a skiff and in a secure room that no one could, could listen in on.

Well, now those transcripts have come out. And it turns out every last one of those people who were on

[00:05:00] TV, the saying, uh, yeah, president of drama, he's colluding with the Russians. We have absolute proof of it. Including chairman Schiff himself. We have absolute proof of it and people are going to go to jail and everything else.

In the, in the closed-door hearings, when they were sworn in and giving testimony, all of them denied that there was any evidence that the administration was colluding with Russia. So, what has Russia been doing? Well, they, I definitely have been trying to interfere in the elections, but they've been really mess something awful.

One of their biggest ads on Facebook by the Russians was after the election was over. If you can believe that. Oh, what good did that do? Right. And really what they're trying to do is just stir things up and really confuse people. So they had ads supporting Trump. They had ads supporting

[00:06:00] Clinton and just really kind of mixing it up.

So that's what they're into, that's their game. And they had relatively little impact on the election. Then there are social media sites. And what we're going to talk about right now is a claim from Breitbart news. Now, if you don't know who Breitbart is, they are a conservative website that has reporters and just all kinds of great stuff.

Breitbart himself passed some years back, but it has continued on and a few days after the 2016 election, and the internal meeting was leaked to Breitbart news. So there were top Google executives, including Sundar P Shai, Sergey, Brin, and Kent Walker. And they were just horrified that president Trump had

[00:07:00] won and the top Google executives were comparing Trump voters to extremists and they discussed in the meeting, how they could make Trump's election and the populist movement, a blip in the history.

Now. This is all documented. Now Google top executives on record saying, uh, yeah. We're, we're just, uh, yeah. Yeah. We're gonna make sure that Trump doesn't get reelected basically. So now it's four years later and Google is now deliberately working to interfere with the reelection of President Trump. And apparently there are several ways that Google's interfering.

Now. This is all from Breitbart. I checked on some of these stats they do appear to be correct. Okay. But the, uh, the article call that I'm referring to here that you'll find on my website is focusing primarily

[00:08:00] on political search bias. So if you're a business or you're a political campaign, how are we going to get the word out?

What are you going to get the word out by putting up a website, maybe doing some advertising, trying to drive people to your website, all of the big political campaigns I'm doing that for a long time. Of course, smaller ones can't necessarily afford some of those things. So, what does Breitbart do? Well, they do the exact same thing.

They have a website and they have run some ads in the past. I don't think they're running them right now for reasons. I think that will become apparent to you as we go through this a little bit more, but there are search results are King here. Now, remember Google owns the two top search engines in the world.

Yeah. You heard it right. Google owns not just Google,

[00:09:00] but YouTube. How much of the market do they have? When it comes to searches, it is absolutely amazing. It is absolutely huge. So they have a collective share between Google and yeah. YouTube of about nothing. 92% of all searches performed in the world.

Can you believe that? Absolutely amazing. 92%. So if you want to go online and you want to find out about, well, let's say, vice president, Joe Biden, who's running for the Democrats this time around, you're going to get all kinds of results on Joe Biden. And if I look them up right now and just type in Joe Biden here into Google, I get an ad from old Joe Biden, official team Biden, and another one, Joe

[00:10:00] Biden for president donate.

Now, this is from the act blue website. I get some top stories. Uh, let's see, Washington post Republicans are still trying to frame Joe Biden with Ukraine, uh, political. Even further left than the Washington post-Biden, Latino community is diverse. Unlike the African American community K N surprisingly enough, Fox news Ben Shapiro Warren's Biden falling apart after bizarre interview.

Maybe that's because they know my leanings here. Okay. And then they give a few different things on Twitter here for Biden, Joe Biden for president official campaign website. So you're going to come into this. You're going to look at it and say, Oh, there's a Wikipedia entry, which by the way, Wikipedia is political as well.

Very left-wing. Uh, CNN is coming up here. New York Times. Facebook's uh, Joe [

00:11:00] Biden's homepage on Facebook, the Hill, uh, political and another one. So that's the first page of web results for Joe Biden. When we get back, we're going to talk, talk more about this, and look at the statistics from Breitbart. When it comes to searches for Joe Biden.

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[00:00:00] Hey, the Russians are interfering with our election. But, how much of an impact are they having? Let me tell you, we got some stats here on Google that is shocking.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN of course, online on your favorite podcasting app. I'd love for you to follow me and following me and subscribing to me. And my podcast really, really helps because that shows me that hopefully, you're listening. Right.

I don't really know, but it does show people that I have a good show that's worth listening to, because of those stats. Right. It would really help me. I appreciate it. It would be a wonderful thing. Share it with your friends and family. Isn't that what they say all the time.

[00:01:00] So back to this article here. This is, again from Breitbart, and it's talking about election interference. One of the things that are absolutely not shocking to me is that Google is interfering in elections all over the country and has been for a couple of years. About two years ago, I talked about a study and I showed it, I think it was Orange County, California that was showing what Google was doing to conservative results.

Now, I don't know why. Right? Because Google and Facebook both said, Hey, we're not going to interfere so much, especially Facebook. And Facebook, this week started interfering. They deleted one of president Trump's accounts, Twitter. Suspended him, uh, his account until he deleted it himself. It's incredible.

[00:02:00] What's going on right now, but before the break, we were talking about search visibility. Because that's how we are found online. Right, sir, ginger, and optimization. One of the things, every business I haven't considered a man maybe tried to do, it's a little harder to do today than it was 20 years ago. But it is something that you pretty much have to do.

You have to look at it and say, well, how is a search engine going to look at and grade what I'm doing here? Well, new data is showing that Google has suppressed Breitbart's search visibility by 99.7%. Since the last presidential election cycle. You heard that right! Google suppressed bright Bard search by 99.7% since.

[00:03:00] The last election. So they have posted some statistics using third-party software and third-parties statistical analysis, which I think is important too. Right. We don't just take Breitbart's word or some of this stuff. So in 2016, Breitbart ranked in the top 10 search positions, in other words, above the fold for 355 key search terms.

But now Breitbart is ranking in the top 10 search positions for only one search terms. So they went from 355 key search terms. So if you typed in this term 355 terms that they were trying to be known for, you would see Breitbart in the top 10. And now there's only one that it shows up for. Isn't that amazing.

[00:04:00] So, uh, back in 2016, uh, Breitbart ranked in the top 100 search positions for 17,000 key search terms. But now. By bark ranks in the top 100 positions for only 55 search terms. Are you listening? Are you paying attention to these numbers, election interference by the Russians, which was denied by everyone who testified to shifts committee?

Now that we have those transcripts out, every last one of them said they knew of no evidence of any collusion with the Russians. And yet we're looking at these sorts of numbers in 2016, before the top executives at Google had their little meeting saying we got to do something about Donald Trump and my words here, make sure he doesn't get reelected Breitbart, which is a conservative website, went from having almost 17,000 key search terms.

[00:05:00] That it was known for in the top hundred service search position down to 55. Amazing, absolutely amazing. So organic search traffic to Breitbart is down 63%. Again, comparing it back to 2016 and you look at some of these charts and I'm going to pull one up here on my screen and it is shocking. So in 2017, Google had what they called.

It's Fred update. Google does updates to its algorithms, to its programs, and they do a couple of times a year-ish. Sometimes they do it more. So in 2017 that Fred update. Dropped their visibility. So this is a visibility index published by a third party showing that goo, that Breitbart was up at seven. And then after that Fred update, they dropped down to four in their visibility, and then we move into 2018.

[00:06:00] And it's still in between one and two on this visibility index out of seven. And then it drops down to little less than, yeah. Like, um, looks like about 0.1 and then in July, 2019 updated had a little tick up uptick and then. One way down. So what does way down mean? They've got these maps up on their website showing what's been happening.

The first drop took place, as I said shortly after the 2016 election, the second took place in July of 2019 and the third in may of this year. So unless you type Breitbart into the search bar, You're highly unlikely to get any bright Bart content search results, and Breitbart search results for Joe Biden and other Biden related search terms have gone to zero, absolutely zero and E that's true.

[00:07:00] Even if you search for Breitbart news headlines, you probably won't find them in Google search. That's how bad it is. So Google killed all search fuck to Breitbart for Joe Biden and Joe Biden related searches. It's just absolutely amazing. So on May 1st Google searches for Joe Biden generated about 30,000 impressions for bright bark links.

That means that w Breitbart was shown 30,000 times after May 5th. Both impressions and clicks went to zero. Yeah, they, they spoke Breitbart spoke to a 25-year industry veteran who analyzes traffic from Google's own website portal, their, their search console. And he said he had never seen anything, anything like this graph and it indicates highly probable manipulation on the part of Google.

[00:08:00] It's really, it's a wholesaler. And the search engine experts said he's never seeing such a wholesale removal of rank and visibility on specific concepts on a site. But he, that he's seen here applied to Breitbart. It's absolutely amazing. Yeah. The percentage of traffic to Breitbart from Google search 9% is just a fraction of the average publishers, which is 30 to 50%.

In fact, in the New York times, their percentage is currently 40%. At the moment Google's responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic and youtube is sending a negligible amount if any. So it looks like Breitbart's listed on one or more of Google's blacklists, hidden away, nothing to see here. All we're doing is interfering with an election.

Which they have done before. Plenty of evidence. I've seen studies out of universities on this over the years, we've got to do something about this. What. I'm sorry, I don't have a great answer for, I think maybe we just take away their immunity from prosecution. Maybe that will wake them up a little bit.

[00:09:00] Hey, when we come back, we're going to talk about Intel. Why is Intel on such a downward trend? This is not investment advice, but uh, Hey, some heads of rolling over there at Intel. I think we're seeing major changes on the horizon and I'll tell you why.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN and [email protected].

Stick around. We'll be right back.

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[00:00:00] Hey, the Russians are interfering with our election. But, how much of an impact are they having? Let me tell you, we got some stats here on Google that is shocking.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN of course, online on your favorite podcasting app. I'd love for you to follow me and following me and subscribing to me. And my podcast really, really helps because that shows me that hopefully, you're listening. Right.

I don't really know, but it does show people that I have a good show that's worth listening to, because of those stats. Right. It would really help me. I appreciate it. It would be a wonderful thing. Share it with your friends and family. Isn't that what they say all the time.

 [00:01:00] So back to this article here. This is, again from Breitbart, and it's talking about election interference. One of the things that are absolutely not shocking to me is that Google is interfering in elections all over the country and has been for a couple of years. About two years ago, I talked about a study and I showed it, I think it was Orange County, California that was showing what Google was doing to conservative results.

Now, I don't know why. Right? Because Google and Facebook both said, Hey, we're not going to interfere so much, especially Facebook. And Facebook, this week started interfering. They deleted one of president Trump's accounts, Twitter. Suspended him, uh, his account until he deleted it himself. It's incredible.

[00:02:00] What's going on right now, but before the break, we were talking about search visibility. Because that's how we are found online. Right, sir, ginger, and optimization. One of the things, every business I haven't considered a man maybe tried to do, it's a little harder to do today than it was 20 years ago. But it is something that you pretty much have to do.

You have to look at it and say, well, how is a search engine going to look at and grade what I'm doing here? Well, new data is showing that Google has suppressed Breitbart's search visibility by 99.7%. Since the last presidential election cycle. You heard that right! Google suppressed bright Bard search by 99.7% since.

[00:03:00] The last election. So they have posted some statistics using third-party software and third-parties statistical analysis, which I think is important too. Right. We don't just take  Breitbart's word or some of this stuff. So in 2016, Breitbart ranked in the top 10 search positions, in other words, above the fold for 355 key search terms.

But now Breitbart is ranking in the top 10 search positions for only one search terms. So they went from 355 key search terms. So if you typed in this term 355 terms that they were trying to be known for, you would see Breitbart in the top 10. And now there's only one that it shows up for. Isn't that amazing.

[00:04:00] So, uh, back in 2016, uh, Breitbart ranked in the top 100 search positions for 17,000 key search terms. But now. By bark ranks in the top 100 positions for only 55 search terms. Are you listening? Are you paying attention to these numbers, election interference by the Russians, which was denied by everyone who testified to shifts committee?

Now that we have those transcripts out, every last one of them said they knew of no evidence of any collusion with the Russians. And yet we're looking at these sorts of numbers in 2016, before the top executives at Google had their little meeting saying we got to do something about Donald Trump and my words here, make sure he doesn't get reelected Breitbart, which is a conservative website, went from having almost 17,000 key search terms.

[00:05:00] That it was known for in the top hundred service search position down to 55. Amazing, absolutely amazing. So organic search traffic to Breitbart is down 63%. Again, comparing it back to 2016 and you look at some of these charts and I'm going to pull one up here on my screen and it is shocking. So in 2017, Google had what they called.

It's Fred update. Google does updates to its algorithms, to its programs, and they do a couple of times a year-ish. Sometimes they do it more. So in 2017 that Fred update. Dropped their visibility. So this is a visibility index published by a third party showing that goo, that Breitbart was up at seven. And then after that Fred update, they dropped down to four in their visibility, and then we move into 2018.

[00:06:00] And it's still in between one and two on this visibility index out of seven. And then it drops down to little less than, yeah. Like, um, looks like about 0.1 and then in July, 2019 updated had a little tick up uptick and then. One way down. So what does way down mean? They've got these maps up on their website showing what's been happening.

The first drop took place, as I said shortly after the 2016 election, the second took place in July of 2019 and the third in may of this year. So unless you type Breitbart into the search bar, You're highly unlikely to get any bright Bart content search results, and Breitbart search results for Joe Biden and other Biden related search terms have gone to zero, absolutely zero and E that's true.

[00:07:00] Even if you search for Breitbart news headlines, you probably won't find them in Google search. That's how bad it is. So Google killed all search fuck to Breitbart for Joe Biden and Joe Biden related searches. It's just absolutely amazing. So on May 1st Google searches for Joe Biden generated about 30,000 impressions for bright bark links.

That means that w Breitbart was shown 30,000 times after May 5th. Both impressions and clicks went to zero. Yeah, they, they spoke Breitbart spoke to a 25-year industry veteran who analyzes traffic from Google's own website portal, their, their search console. And he said he had never seen anything, anything like this graph and it indicates highly probable manipulation on the part of Google.

[00:08:00] It's really, it's a wholesaler. And the search engine experts said he's never seeing such a wholesale removal of rank and visibility on specific concepts on a site. But he, that he's seen here applied to Breitbart. It's absolutely amazing. Yeah. The percentage of traffic to Breitbart from Google search 9% is just a fraction of the average publishers, which is 30 to 50%.

In fact, in the New York times, their percentage is currently 40%. At the moment Google's responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic and youtube is sending a negligible amount if any. So it looks like Breitbart's listed on one or more of Google's blacklists, hidden away, nothing to see here. All we're doing is interfering with an election.

Which they have done before. Plenty of evidence. I've seen studies out of universities on this over the years, we've got to do something about this. What. I'm sorry, I don't have a great answer for, I think maybe we just take away their immunity from prosecution. Maybe that will wake them up a little bit.

[00:09:00] Hey, when we come back, we're going to talk about Intel. Why is Intel on such a downward trend? This is not investment advice, but uh, Hey, some heads of rolling over there at Intel. I think we're seeing major changes on the horizon and I'll tell you why.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN and [email protected].

Stick around. We'll be right back.

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Welcome!

Craig discusses how Big Tech is influencing the Election and what can be done about it.

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Read More:

Average Cost of a Data Breach: $3.86 Million

The Future's Biggest Cybercrime Threat May Already Be Here

Election Interference: Google Purges Breitbart from Search Results

Google Has Been Purging Breitbart Content from Search Results Since the 2016 Election

Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

Out-of-Date and Unsupported Cloud Workloads Continue as a Common Weakness

Three people have been charged for Twitter’s huge hack, and a Florida teen is in jail

Remote Work Isn’t Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

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Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] Hey, the Russians are interfering with our election. But, how much of an impact are they having? Let me tell you, we got some stats here on Google that is shocking.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN of course, online on your favorite podcasting app. I'd love for you to follow me and following me and subscribing to me. And my podcast really, really helps because that shows me that hopefully, you're listening. Right.

I don't really know, but it does show people that I have a good show that's worth listening to, because of those stats. Right. It would really help me. I appreciate it. It would be a wonderful thing. Share it with your friends and family. Isn't that what they say all the time.

 [00:01:00] So back to this article here. This is, again from Breitbart, and it's talking about election interference. One of the things that are absolutely not shocking to me is that Google is interfering in elections all over the country and has been for a couple of years. About two years ago, I talked about a study and I showed it, I think it was Orange County, California that was showing what Google was doing to conservative results.

Now, I don't know why. Right? Because Google and Facebook both said, Hey, we're not going to interfere so much, especially Facebook. And Facebook, this week started interfering. They deleted one of president Trump's accounts, Twitter. Suspended him, uh, his account until he deleted it himself. It's incredible.

[00:02:00] What's going on right now, but before the break, we were talking about search visibility. Because that's how we are found online. Right, sir, ginger, and optimization. One of the things, every business I haven't considered a man maybe tried to do, it's a little harder to do today than it was 20 years ago. But it is something that you pretty much have to do.

You have to look at it and say, well, how is a search engine going to look at and grade what I'm doing here? Well, new data is showing that Google has suppressed Breitbart's search visibility by 99.7%. Since the last presidential election cycle. You heard that right! Google suppressed bright Bard search by 99.7% since.

[00:03:00] The last election. So they have posted some statistics using third-party software and third-parties statistical analysis, which I think is important too. Right. We don't just take  Breitbart's word or some of this stuff. So in 2016, Breitbart ranked in the top 10 search positions, in other words, above the fold for 355 key search terms.

But now Breitbart is ranking in the top 10 search positions for only one search terms. So they went from 355 key search terms. So if you typed in this term 355 terms that they were trying to be known for, you would see Breitbart in the top 10. And now there's only one that it shows up for. Isn't that amazing.

[00:04:00] So, uh, back in 2016, uh, Breitbart ranked in the top 100 search positions for 17,000 key search terms. But now. By bark ranks in the top 100 positions for only 55 search terms. Are you listening? Are you paying attention to these numbers, election interference by the Russians, which was denied by everyone who testified to shifts committee?

Now that we have those transcripts out, every last one of them said they knew of no evidence of any collusion with the Russians. And yet we're looking at these sorts of numbers in 2016, before the top executives at Google had their little meeting saying we got to do something about Donald Trump and my words here, make sure he doesn't get reelected Breitbart, which is a conservative website, went from having almost 17,000 key search terms.

[00:05:00] That it was known for in the top hundred service search position down to 55. Amazing, absolutely amazing. So organic search traffic to Breitbart is down 63%. Again, comparing it back to 2016 and you look at some of these charts and I'm going to pull one up here on my screen and it is shocking. So in 2017, Google had what they called.

It's Fred update. Google does updates to its algorithms, to its programs, and they do a couple of times a year-ish. Sometimes they do it more. So in 2017 that Fred update. Dropped their visibility. So this is a visibility index published by a third party showing that goo, that Breitbart was up at seven. And then after that Fred update, they dropped down to four in their visibility, and then we move into 2018.

[00:06:00] And it's still in between one and two on this visibility index out of seven. And then it drops down to little less than, yeah. Like, um, looks like about 0.1 and then in July, 2019 updated had a little tick up uptick and then. One way down. So what does way down mean? They've got these maps up on their website showing what's been happening.

The first drop took place, as I said shortly after the 2016 election, the second took place in July of 2019 and the third in may of this year. So unless you type Breitbart into the search bar, You're highly unlikely to get any bright Bart content search results, and Breitbart search results for Joe Biden and other Biden related search terms have gone to zero, absolutely zero and E that's true.

[00:07:00] Even if you search for Breitbart news headlines, you probably won't find them in Google search. That's how bad it is. So Google killed all search fuck to Breitbart for Joe Biden and Joe Biden related searches. It's just absolutely amazing. So on May 1st Google searches for Joe Biden generated about 30,000 impressions for bright bark links.

That means that w Breitbart was shown 30,000 times after May 5th. Both impressions and clicks went to zero. Yeah, they, they spoke Breitbart spoke to a 25-year industry veteran who analyzes traffic from Google's own website portal, their, their search console. And he said he had never seen anything, anything like this graph and it indicates highly probable manipulation on the part of Google.

[00:08:00] It's really, it's a wholesaler. And the search engine experts said he's never seeing such a wholesale removal of rank and visibility on specific concepts on a site. But he, that he's seen here applied to Breitbart. It's absolutely amazing. Yeah. The percentage of traffic to Breitbart from Google search 9% is just a fraction of the average publishers, which is 30 to 50%.

In fact, in the New York times, their percentage is currently 40%. At the moment Google's responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic and youtube is sending a negligible amount if any. So it looks like Breitbart's listed on one or more of Google's blacklists, hidden away, nothing to see here. All we're doing is interfering with an election.

Which they have done before. Plenty of evidence. I've seen studies out of universities on this over the years, we've got to do something about this. What. I'm sorry, I don't have a great answer for, I think maybe we just take away their immunity from prosecution. Maybe that will wake them up a little bit.

[00:09:00] Hey, when we come back, we're going to talk about Intel. Why is Intel on such a downward trend? This is not investment advice, but uh, Hey, some heads of rolling over there at Intel. I think we're seeing major changes on the horizon and I'll tell you why.

You're listening to Craig Peterson here on WGAN and [email protected].

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[00:00:00] You remember those Intel inside commercials, they used to be all over the place. Stickers on computers as well. Things are changing in a big way for Intel

You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and of course, online Craig peterson.com. You'll find all of my shows, interviews, et cetera. Over in podcast form on your favorite podcast app. If you would, I hope I've earned a five star from you. Go ahead and give me that little rating. I know I'd love to see it. Just go to Craig peterson.com/itunes, and give me a five-star rating with a great comment. I'd love to do that. I'd love for you to do that again, Craig Peterson.com/itunes. It's pretty quick and easy to do now.

[00:01:00] Intel has it's been around for a long time. Intel used to be a memory company. And they got approached to make some processors. If you ask me, they've never been a particularly great processor company. I think they made some fundamental mistakes. They've basically stuck with an architecture that's 40 years old now. I think that's really handicapped them.

They are doing a lot of work in what's known as the SIS arena which are these complex chips versus what's happening now everywhere else. Look at that Android phone that you have, those Android phones are not using any of these Intel chips. They might use a well an RF chip, radio-frequency chip. But they're not using any of the main core type stuff.

[00:02:00] Many of the most phone makers now are using like the Qualcomm snapdragons they're using. Samsung has her Exynos. Kirin has one they're high silicone. These are all mobile processors that are used for a lot of different devices that are out there. Of course, Apple has their own too. Right now. I think it's the A12 Bionic is what they call it.

Very, very good processors. And they are using a completely different concept from Intel. They are using a concept of the more simple, the design of the processor, the faster we're going to be able to make it. So they let the compilers that compile the software to make the binary executable that you're using.

[00:03:00] They had the compilers do most of the work. And you look at the statistics between Cisco and risk. And, uh, you could argue in some cases is faster, but overall the risk is faster. Plus these risk chips tend to be a lot cheaper. Now, part of what we have in the chip Wars is the need for speed and also so less consumption of electricity.

And lower consumption. Electricity also typically means lower temperatures. So you don't have to cool them as much. So if you have a mobile device, you wanted to use less power and have less heat so that you can run it longer, right? Wouldn't you rather have a laptop that ran for 1224 hours than one that just ran for an hour or two?

[00:04:00] So way back when Apple switched from IBM's PowerPC design. Okay. Over to Intel chips and one, yeah, the main reasons it did that is because at IBM not delivering on low power consumption processors. Now the power chips are. Amazing amazing. And if you have a server or a desktop and that your software will run on power chips, there is nothing better.

I'm just shocked and amazed running Linux on some of these machines, right? Uh, IBM has done an amazing job with that processor, but because you couldn't put one of these processors, IBM power processors reasonably into a laptop, Intel said, Hey, um, You either have to cut the power consumption and the heat generation, or we're going to have to move.

[00:05:00] And IBM did not meet the deadlines. I'm making a very long story kind of short. And so Apple said goodbye and ended up switching over to Intel who could deliver the power consumption. Apple had been asking for not, not as good as they had asked for, but much, much better than the power PC. As time has gone on these chips are getting faster because of the types of processes that are involved in the manufacturing.

There is. Just to simplify everything. Uh, the thickness of it, the wafers and of the layers makes a very big distance difference because the distance that the electricity has to flow inside of the chip equates to the speed of the chip and can also equate to the resistance the chip provides, which means more heat and more power.

[00:06:00] So you want these chips to be smaller and smaller and have smaller and smaller innards if you will. So, uh, Intel has been promising for a long time that it would have what is called seven-nanometer parts. Well, um, Intel has had just endless problems with. Manufacturing some of these chips. So back in 2013, Intel's original roadmap was just spent 25th, 2014, 2015 to come up with a 14-nanometer node and then moved to 10 nanometers in 2016, 17, but they had an endless string of problems and setbacks with this 10 nanometer.

[00:07:00] So Intel ended up spending five years. With 14 nanometer nodes, which means. Again, more power consumption and more heat and not as fast. So in 2019, they started to deliver, it was kind of shaky here, 10 nanometers. So I don't want to get into this cause, you know, no, I can hear people kind of the brains tuning out a little bit on this and Intel still doesn't have 10 nanometers, desktop or server parts.

And now what they really need is something to compete because AMD advanced micro devices whom I've liked for many, many years. Has really returned to another golden age. They had some amazing processors. AMD had 64-bit processors before Intel and Intel. When they came out with 64-bit processors had to be AMD compatible.

That's how far behind Intel was? How was that for an embarrassment, right. Intel considering themselves. You know, the creator and the arbitrator of these 80 series, if you will, uh, chips that are out there, um, Having to follow the lead of their biggest competitors. You're in the marketplace. Very, very, very bad.

[00:08:00] So AMD now has this, what they're calling Zen architecture, and their thread ripper core counts. It's just clean. Amazing, and MDs is even starting to get attention from laptop OEMs as well. Intel also missed out on the smartphone revolution. So they have been getting black guy after black, after black guy.

And what's the latest Intel is being completely dumped by Apple. Apple has built its own design house, using these simpler designs, which are using a much tighter process than Intel has. They're much cheaper to build. They use less electricity, it goes on and on and on. So it Apple has his own arm design house for the iPhone and iPad.

[00:09:00] It's going to be upscaling these arm chips to the Mac, laptops, and desktops. And we're going to see. Two of those models this year. So guess what people have been losing their jobs over at Intel? What a fiasco over there. It's just absolutely crazy. Right? When we come back, we've got a lot to talk about. Um, We'll talk a little bit about the Twitter hack and remote working here.

Is it not working for you and your company? We'll talk about the likely reasons. Why so stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson right here on WGAN. Make sure you subscribe. Craig peterson.com/subscribe and get my weekly newsletter.

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Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] You remember those Intel inside commercials, they used to be all over the place. Stickers on computers as well. Things are changing in a big way for Intel

You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and of course, online Craig peterson.com. You'll find all of my shows, interviews, et cetera. Over in podcast form on your favorite podcast app. If you would, I hope I've earned a five star from you. Go ahead and give me that little rating. I know I'd love to see it. Just go to Craig peterson.com/itunes, and give me a five-star rating with a great comment. I'd love to do that. I'd love for you to do that again, Craig Peterson.com/itunes. It's pretty quick and easy to do now.

[00:01:00] Intel has it's been around for a long time. Intel used to be a memory company. And they got approached to make some processors. If you ask me, they've never been a particularly great processor company. I think they made some fundamental mistakes. They've basically stuck with an architecture that's 40 years old now.  I think that's really handicapped them.

They are doing a lot of work in what's known as the SIS arena which are these complex chips versus what's happening now everywhere else. Look at that Android phone that you have, those Android phones are not using any of these Intel chips. They might use a well an RF chip, radio-frequency chip. But they're not using any of the main core type stuff.

[00:02:00] Many of the most phone makers now are using like the Qualcomm snapdragons they're using. Samsung has her Exynos. Kirin has one they're high silicone. These are all mobile processors that are used for a lot of different devices that are out there. Of course, Apple has their own too. Right now. I think it's the A12 Bionic is what they call it.

Very, very good processors. And they are using a completely different concept from Intel. They are using a concept of the more simple, the design of the processor, the faster we're going to be able to make it. So they let the compilers that compile the software to make the binary executable that you're using.

[00:03:00] They had the compilers do most of the work. And you look at the statistics between Cisco and risk. And, uh, you could argue in some cases is faster, but overall the risk is faster. Plus these risk chips tend to be a lot cheaper. Now, part of what we have in the chip Wars is the need for speed and also so less consumption of electricity.

And lower consumption. Electricity also typically means lower temperatures. So you don't have to cool them as much. So if you have a mobile device, you wanted to use less power and have less heat so that you can run it longer, right? Wouldn't you rather have a laptop that ran for 1224 hours than one that just ran for an hour or two?

[00:04:00] So way back when Apple switched from IBM's PowerPC design. Okay. Over to Intel chips and one, yeah, the main reasons it did that is because at IBM not delivering on low power consumption processors. Now the power chips are. Amazing amazing. And if you have a server or a desktop and that your software will run on power chips, there is nothing better.

I'm just shocked and amazed running Linux on some of these machines, right? Uh, IBM has done an amazing job with that processor, but because you couldn't put one of these processors, IBM power processors reasonably into a laptop, Intel said, Hey, um, You either have to cut the power consumption and the heat generation, or we're going to have to move.

[00:05:00] And IBM did not meet the deadlines. I'm making a very long story kind of short. And so Apple said goodbye and ended up switching over to Intel who could deliver the power consumption. Apple had been asking for not, not as good as they had asked for, but much, much better than the power PC. As time has gone on these chips are getting faster because of the types of processes that are involved in the manufacturing.

There is. Just to simplify everything. Uh, the thickness of it, the wafers and of the layers makes a very big distance difference because the distance that the electricity has to flow inside of the chip equates to the speed of the chip and can also equate to the resistance the chip provides, which means more heat and more power.

[00:06:00] So you want these chips to be smaller and smaller and have smaller and smaller innards if you will. So, uh, Intel has been promising for a long time that it would have what is called seven-nanometer parts. Well, um, Intel has had just endless problems with. Manufacturing some of these chips. So back in 2013, Intel's original roadmap was just spent 25th, 2014, 2015 to come up with a 14-nanometer node and then moved to 10 nanometers in 2016, 17, but they had an endless string of problems and setbacks with this 10 nanometer.

[00:07:00] So Intel ended up spending five years. With 14 nanometer nodes, which means. Again, more power consumption and more heat and not as fast. So in 2019, they started to deliver, it was kind of shaky here, 10 nanometers. So I don't want to get into this cause, you know, no, I can hear people kind of the brains tuning out a little bit on this and Intel still doesn't have 10 nanometers, desktop or server parts.

And now what they really need is something to compete because AMD advanced micro devices whom I've liked for many, many years. Has really returned to another golden age. They had some amazing processors. AMD had 64-bit processors before Intel and Intel. When they came out with 64-bit processors had to be AMD compatible.

That's how far behind Intel was? How was that for an embarrassment, right. Intel considering themselves. You know, the creator and the arbitrator of these 80 series, if you will, uh, chips that are out there, um, Having to follow the lead of their biggest competitors. You're in the marketplace. Very, very, very bad.

[00:08:00] So AMD now has this, what they're calling Zen architecture, and their thread ripper core counts. It's just clean. Amazing, and MDs is even starting to get attention from laptop OEMs as well. Intel also missed out on the smartphone revolution. So they have been getting black guy after black, after black guy.

And what's the latest Intel is being completely dumped by Apple. Apple has built its own design house, using these simpler designs, which are using a much tighter process than Intel has. They're much cheaper to build. They use less electricity, it goes on and on and on. So it Apple has his own arm design house for the iPhone and iPad.

[00:09:00] It's going to be upscaling these arm chips to the Mac, laptops, and desktops. And we're going to see. Two of those models this year. So guess what people have been losing their jobs over at Intel? What a fiasco over there. It's just absolutely crazy. Right? When we come back, we've got a lot to talk about. Um, We'll talk a little bit about the Twitter hack and remote working here.

Is it not working for you and your company? We'll talk about the likely reasons. Why so stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson right here on WGAN. Make sure you subscribe. Craig peterson.com/subscribe and get my weekly newsletter.

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Out-of-Date and Unsupported Cloud Workloads Continue as a Common Weakness

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Remote Work Isn’t Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

FBI Releases Flash Alert on Netwalker Ransomware

Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] You remember those Intel inside commercials, they used to be all over the place. Stickers on computers as well. Things are changing in a big way for Intel

You're listening to Craig Peterson on WGAN and of course, online Craig peterson.com. You'll find all of my shows, interviews, et cetera. Over in podcast form on your favorite podcast app. If you would, I hope I've earned a five star from you. Go ahead and give me that little rating. I know I'd love to see it. Just go to Craig peterson.com/itunes, and give me a five-star rating with a great comment. I'd love to do that. I'd love for you to do that again, Craig Peterson.com/itunes. It's pretty quick and easy to do now.

[00:01:00] Intel has it's been around for a long time. Intel used to be a memory company. And they got approached to make some processors. If you ask me, they've never been a particularly great processor company. I think they made some fundamental mistakes. They've basically stuck with an architecture that's 40 years old now.  I think that's really handicapped them.

They are doing a lot of work in what's known as the SIS arena which are these complex chips versus what's happening now everywhere else. Look at that Android phone that you have, those Android phones are not using any of these Intel chips. They might use a well an RF chip, radio-frequency chip. But they're not using any of the main core type stuff.

[00:02:00] Many of the most phone makers now are using like the Qualcomm snapdragons they're using. Samsung has her Exynos. Kirin has one they're high silicone. These are all mobile processors that are used for a lot of different devices that are out there. Of course, Apple has their own too. Right now. I think it's the A12 Bionic is what they call it.

Very, very good processors. And they are using a completely different concept from Intel. They are using a concept of the more simple, the design of the processor, the faster we're going to be able to make it. So they let the compilers that compile the software to make the binary executable that you're using.

[00:03:00] They had the compilers do most of the work. And you look at the statistics between Cisco and risk. And, uh, you could argue in some cases is faster, but overall the risk is faster. Plus these risk chips tend to be a lot cheaper. Now, part of what we have in the chip Wars is the need for speed and also so less consumption of electricity.

And lower consumption. Electricity also typically means lower temperatures. So you don't have to cool them as much. So if you have a mobile device, you wanted to use less power and have less heat so that you can run it longer, right? Wouldn't you rather have a laptop that ran for 1224 hours than one that just ran for an hour or two?

[00:04:00] So way back when Apple switched from IBM's PowerPC design. Okay. Over to Intel chips and one, yeah, the main reasons it did that is because at IBM not delivering on low power consumption processors. Now the power chips are. Amazing amazing. And if you have a server or a desktop and that your software will run on power chips, there is nothing better.

I'm just shocked and amazed running Linux on some of these machines, right? Uh, IBM has done an amazing job with that processor, but because you couldn't put one of these processors, IBM power processors reasonably into a laptop, Intel said, Hey, um, You either have to cut the power consumption and the heat generation, or we're going to have to move.

[00:05:00] And IBM did not meet the deadlines. I'm making a very long story kind of short. And so Apple said goodbye and ended up switching over to Intel who could deliver the power consumption. Apple had been asking for not, not as good as they had asked for, but much, much better than the power PC. As time has gone on these chips are getting faster because of the types of processes that are involved in the manufacturing.

There is. Just to simplify everything. Uh, the thickness of it, the wafers and of the layers makes a very big distance difference because the distance that the electricity has to flow inside of the chip equates to the speed of the chip and can also equate to the resistance the chip provides, which means more heat and more power.

[00:06:00] So you want these chips to be smaller and smaller and have smaller and smaller innards if you will. So, uh, Intel has been promising for a long time that it would have what is called seven-nanometer parts. Well, um, Intel has had just endless problems with. Manufacturing some of these chips. So back in 2013, Intel's original roadmap was just spent 25th, 2014, 2015 to come up with a 14-nanometer node and then moved to 10 nanometers in 2016, 17, but they had an endless string of problems and setbacks with this 10 nanometer.

[00:07:00] So Intel ended up spending five years. With 14 nanometer nodes, which means. Again, more power consumption and more heat and not as fast. So in 2019, they started to deliver, it was kind of shaky here, 10 nanometers. So I don't want to get into this cause, you know, no, I can hear people kind of the brains tuning out a little bit on this and Intel still doesn't have 10 nanometers, desktop or server parts.

And now what they really need is something to compete because AMD advanced micro devices whom I've liked for many, many years. Has really returned to another golden age. They had some amazing processors. AMD had 64-bit processors before Intel and Intel. When they came out with 64-bit processors had to be AMD compatible.

That's how far behind Intel was? How was that for an embarrassment, right. Intel considering themselves. You know, the creator and the arbitrator of these 80 series, if you will, uh, chips that are out there, um, Having to follow the lead of their biggest competitors. You're in the marketplace. Very, very, very bad.

[00:08:00] So AMD now has this, what they're calling Zen architecture, and their thread ripper core counts. It's just clean. Amazing, and MDs is even starting to get attention from laptop OEMs as well. Intel also missed out on the smartphone revolution. So they have been getting black guy after black, after black guy.

And what's the latest Intel is being completely dumped by Apple. Apple has built its own design house, using these simpler designs, which are using a much tighter process than Intel has. They're much cheaper to build. They use less electricity, it goes on and on and on. So it Apple has his own arm design house for the iPhone and iPad.

[00:09:00] It's going to be upscaling these arm chips to the Mac, laptops, and desktops. And we're going to see. Two of those models this year. So guess what people have been losing their jobs over at Intel? What a fiasco over there. It's just absolutely crazy. Right? When we come back, we've got a lot to talk about. Um, We'll talk a little bit about the Twitter hack and remote working here.

Is it not working for you and your company? We'll talk about the likely reasons. Why so stick around. You're listening to Craig Peterson right here on WGAN. Make sure you subscribe. Craig peterson.com/subscribe and get my weekly newsletter.

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The Future's Biggest Cybercrime Threat May Already Be Here

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Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

Out-of-Date and Unsupported Cloud Workloads Continue as a Common Weakness

Three people have been charged for Twitter's huge hack, and a Florida teen is in jail

Remote Work Isn't Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

FBI Releases Flash Alert on Netwalker Ransomware

Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla's anti-lidar stance

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[00:00:00] Are you like millions of people around the world that's working from home. Maybe your company isn't doing such a great job at it. We'll talk about the reasons why.

Hey, welcome back, Craig, Peterson here. WGAN. Glad to have you along today. It's been a great two hours. I'm on every Saturday from one til 3:00 PM. I really appreciate you guys being with me. I would urge you, if you would, please do me a favor and give me a five-star review, go to Craig peterson.com/itunes.

They still are kind of the 800-pound gorilla, let me know right there. Let other people know what do you enjoy about the show. Craig peterson.com/itunes. And I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions by all means. Just send me an email to me. M E at Craig Peterson.com. I don't know sometimes I think it's cool. Sometimes I think that's maybe a little confusing for people.

[00:01:00] Early on July 31st here this year. The FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement can you can believe all of that. Placed a 17-year-old of Tampa, Florida under arrest named Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind the biggest security and privacy breach in Twitter's history.

He took over the accounts of President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and more. He was trying to perpetrate a huge Bitcoin scam. Now he got away with some money. Got away with probably $120,000 that can never be returned to the people who he bilked it out of because it's basically impossible to send some of this stuff back.

[00:02:00] We'll see what happens. I'm sure the Secret Service can figure it out. They're the ones usually involved, with that sort of thing. So shortly after this Tampa arrest, two more individuals were formally charged by the US Department of Justice. A 22-year-old Nima Fazeli in Orlando, and a 19-year-old, Mason Sheppard in the UK.

They went by some hacker aliases, as they often do Taiwan, according to the DOJ. Let's see two individuals in total are in custody. This is as of a couple of days ago, and an unidentified minor in California also admitted to federal agents that they'd help them access Twitter counts. So there you go. We'll kind of leave it at that. There's a lot of details. If you want to look it up the line, but you're listening here, right? And that's all you need, frankly. They're facing five years in prison, a $250,000 fine. For one count of computer intrusion, that's Fazeli. Shepherd is being charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

[00:03:00] The most serious of which comes with a 20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine here in the US. Apparently some of these guys were just middleman for the scam. It's really fascinating when you dig right into it. Absolutely fascinating.

Okay. Let's get into this because many of us are working from home and it's working for some of us, it's not working for others. The obvious thing is what I talked to Matt about on Wednesday morning, this last week. For the employee, the downside is you're always at work, right? If you're working from home, technically you're always at work and many businesses have been taking advantage of that.

[00:04:00] Having employees handle things after hours, that they normally would not be handling so that's a big downside. Then there are many other downsides too. When a business has just taken the way they do business, all of their processes and tried to put them on top of you working from home. So let's talk about some of the problems people have been having.

This is based on an article out of the New York times that came out here this last week by Claire Kane Miller. In most surveys, people say that even when it's safe for offices to reopen, they want to return, only part of the time, and continue working at home several days a week, right? We've heard that before. I think that's a good thing.

Now, personally, I've been working at home seven days a week for over 20 years. Okay. I'm used to that sort of stuff. But when we're talking about a normal white-collar office, one of the biggest problems they have is you just don't have that physical office space anymore.

[00:05:00] You don't have the water cooler, you don't have the conference rooms. You can't just drop in on a colleague and chat. Sometimes the most productive time is when you're talking about the kids and what they're doing, and then you get that click. Where you say, Oh yeah, you know what? Hold on. I gotta go take care of this right now.

Has that happened to you? It must've right. It's like in the shower, I have some of the best ideas sometimes. So what we found now is that companies that have changed the ways that they work have had much more success with people working at home. In some cases, they've discovered new ways that they want to continue when they return to the office. So all of that I think is really good news, but you have to be paying attention and you have to make sure that you are doing the right things when it comes to meetings. Okay.

[00:06:00] Here are the things that successful businesses have in common, fewer meetings that are long or large, or back to back. Cut back on the meetings. You probably never needed them in the first place. They have meeting-free time for focused work, which I think is hugely important. So that you can sit there and focus and not be having to run into one meeting or another. They offer flexible work hours. In some cases, they kind of take advantage of those flexible work hours.

[00:07:00] As I already mentioned, the best companies are finding ways for colleagues to socialize when they're not seeing one another in person. Now I've seen some businesses that literally have parties. You go out and you buy your beer and you show up on zoom. Hopefully not more than a beer, right? Zoom is very common, but if you have any concerns about security don't ever, ever, ever use Zoom. We'll see what happens if Microsoft takes them over, but we're months away from that.

So stick with either the WebEx, it's teams, which is the one I use. It's the only one that has certifications from the federal government for every security standard you can think of including HIPAA and PCI. Okay.

[00:08:00]So next here, what we're looking at is remote work during a pandemic is not actual remote work. Because we've got also because of the pandemic, the circumstance of crisis. We don't have the childcare we had before. A lot of people are very worried about this COVID. I'm quite sure by the way that I had, as the whole, COVID thing, COVID-19. They came out with a new list of symptoms just this last week. I never had the cough symptom, but I had a half a dozen of the other symptoms that they just released. I'm pretty sure I had it. But many people are absolutely paranoid about it. You've seen videos or you've heard about people that are, macing other people cause they don't have a mask on. Even though the science on masks is divided, but seems to be leaning towards, they're not going to stop you from getting sick.

Also the inability to work in person, even if it's desirable. So those are part of the problems companies are having to deal with. We'll see what ends up happening. Some of the bigger companies who started remote work said it failed, but one of the reasons it failed is they didn't build the right kind of culture that supported it.

[00:09:00] At Microsoft, these teams realized large meetings of an hour or more with vague agendas worked even less. Online, back to back meetings were problematic too. Office people rely on breaks walking from one meeting to the next, use of the bathroom, eat a snack, or check their phones. Many people, if you're on a call center, like one of my daughters is, she's frustrated because they don't get any breaks.

Now they used to get a much more break time when they're in the office than they're getting now, but their phone lines are also being overloaded. I think that's part of the problem now.

[00:10:00]Here's the good news. They had a look at a 400 person team, and they've seen an 11. Now, this is using a team's application from Microsoft. They've seen a little 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a 22% increase in 30-minute meetings. That's interesting. Cause the 30-minute meeting is going to be very long tail. It's going to be to the point. You're not going to be messing around as much, not as much time wasted. One-on-one meetings have increased by 18%. So keep that in mind.

There is a different way that people work when they're remote working, cut back the long meetings, cut back the back to back, eliminate those. And allow these people to have the little 30 minute meetings. They've also found that these little social video meetings, like logging on while people are eating lunch and they can chat.

[00:11:00] Fridays in some of these companies have been designated as no meeting days, so people can focus on a project or recharge. When there's no office to leave the lines between work and life blur, they saw at Microsoft a 52% increase in online chats between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. So shifting hours can be helpful, but can also be problematic.

There are smaller companies that are finding kind of the same things. Some of these companies, particularly the smaller ones, tried letting people pick their hours, allowing them to do afternoons or entire days off but became just too much for a problem to collaborate all of that stuff together. So interesting stuff.

I think all of those points are major. If you're having problems with your business work from home. Have a look at the meetings and the meeting schedules and the people. Have a view parties online, have lunch online so people can chat while they're having lunch.

You have been listening to Craig Peterson Here online and on WGAN.

I appreciate you being with me. Make sure you join me and Matt Gagnon on Wednesday at seven 34.

[00:12:00] We'll be talking about next week's articles in the news and of course, join me here or on my podcast. You'll get all of the latest news in a lot more depth. Also, make sure you get my newsletter.

Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Have a great week, everybody.

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[00:00:00] Are you like millions of people around the world that's working from home. Maybe your company isn't doing such a great job at it. We'll talk about the reasons why.

Hey, welcome back, Craig, Peterson here. WGAN. Glad to have you along today. It's been a great two hours. I'm on every Saturday from one til 3:00 PM. I really appreciate you guys being with me. I would urge you, if you would, please do me a favor and give me a five-star review, go to Craig peterson.com/itunes.

They still are kind of the 800-pound gorilla, let me know right there. Let other people know what do you enjoy about the show. Craig peterson.com/itunes. And I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions by all means. Just send me an email to me. M E at Craig Peterson.com. I don't know sometimes I think it's cool. Sometimes I think that's maybe a little confusing for people.

[00:01:00] Early on July 31st here this year. The FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement can you can believe all of that. Placed a 17-year-old of Tampa, Florida under arrest named Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind the biggest security and privacy breach in Twitter's history.

He took over the accounts of President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and more. He was trying to perpetrate a huge Bitcoin scam. Now he got away with some money. Got away with probably $120,000 that can never be returned to the people who he bilked it out of because it's basically impossible to send some of this stuff back.

[00:02:00] We'll see what happens. I'm sure the Secret Service can figure it out. They're the ones usually involved, with that sort of thing. So shortly after this Tampa arrest, two more individuals were formally charged by the US Department of Justice. A 22-year-old Nima Fazeli in Orlando, and a 19-year-old, Mason Sheppard in the UK.

They went by some hacker aliases, as they often do Taiwan, according to the DOJ. Let's see two individuals in total are in custody. This is as of a couple of days ago, and an unidentified minor in California also admitted to federal agents that they'd help them access Twitter counts. So there you go. We'll kind of leave it at that. There's a lot of details. If you want to look it up the line, but you're listening here, right? And that's all you need, frankly. They're facing five years in prison, a $250,000 fine. For one count of computer intrusion, that's Fazeli. Shepherd is being charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

[00:03:00] The most serious of which comes with a 20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine here in the US. Apparently some of these guys were just middleman for the scam. It's really fascinating when you dig right into it. Absolutely fascinating.

Okay. Let's get into this because many of us are working from home and it's working for some of us, it's not working for others. The obvious thing is what I talked to Matt about on Wednesday morning, this last week. For the employee, the downside is you're always at work, right? If you're working from home, technically you're always at work and many businesses have been taking advantage of that.

[00:04:00] Having employees handle things after hours, that they normally would not be handling so that's a big downside. Then there are many other downsides too. When a business has just taken the way they do business, all of their processes and tried to put them on top of you working from home. So let's talk about some of the problems people have been having.

This is based on an article out of the New York times that came out here this last week by Claire Kane Miller. In most surveys, people say that even when it's safe for offices to reopen, they want to return, only part of the time, and continue working at home several days a week, right? We've heard that before. I think that's a good thing.

Now, personally, I've been working at home seven days a week for over 20 years. Okay. I'm used to that sort of stuff. But when we're talking about a normal white-collar office, one of the biggest problems they have is you just don't have that physical office space anymore.

[00:05:00] You don't have the water cooler, you don't have the conference rooms. You can't just drop in on a colleague and chat. Sometimes the most productive time is when you're talking about the kids and what they're doing, and then you get that click. Where you say, Oh yeah, you know what? Hold on. I gotta go take care of this right now.

Has that happened to you? It must've right. It's like in the shower, I have some of the best ideas sometimes. So what we found now is that companies that have changed the ways that they work have had much more success with people working at home. In some cases, they've discovered new ways that they want to continue when they return to the office. So all of that I think is really good news, but you have to be paying attention and you have to make sure that you are doing the right things when it comes to meetings. Okay.

[00:06:00] Here are the things that successful businesses have in common, fewer meetings that are long or large, or back to back. Cut back on the meetings. You probably never needed them in the first place. They have meeting-free time for focused work, which I think is hugely important. So that you can sit there and focus and not be having to run into one meeting or another. They offer flexible work hours. In some cases, they kind of take advantage of those flexible work hours.

[00:07:00] As I already mentioned, the best companies are finding ways for colleagues to socialize when they're not seeing one another in person. Now I've seen some businesses that literally have parties. You go out and you buy your beer and you show up on zoom. Hopefully not more than a beer, right? Zoom is very common, but if you have any concerns about security don't ever, ever, ever use Zoom. We'll see what happens if Microsoft takes them over, but we're months away from that.

So stick with either the WebEx, it's teams, which is the one I use. It's the only one that has certifications from the federal government for every security standard you can think of including HIPAA and PCI. Okay.

[00:08:00]So next here, what we're looking at is remote work during a pandemic is not actual remote work. Because we've got also because of the pandemic, the circumstance of crisis. We don't have the childcare we had before. A lot of people are very worried about this COVID. I'm quite sure by the way that I had, as the whole, COVID thing, COVID-19. They came out with a new list of symptoms just this last week.  I never had the cough symptom, but I had a half a dozen of the other symptoms that they just released. I'm pretty sure I had it. But many people are absolutely paranoid about it. You've seen videos or you've heard about people that are, macing other people cause they don't have a mask on. Even though the science on masks is divided, but seems to be leaning towards, they're not going to stop you from getting sick.

Also the inability to work in person, even if it's desirable. So those are part of the problems companies are having to deal with. We'll see what ends up happening. Some of the bigger companies who started remote work said it failed, but one of the reasons it failed is they didn't build the right kind of culture that supported it.

[00:09:00] At Microsoft, these teams realized large meetings of an hour or more with vague agendas worked even less. Online, back to back meetings were problematic too. Office people rely on breaks walking from one meeting to the next, use of the bathroom, eat a snack, or check their phones. Many people, if you're on a call center, like one of my daughters is, she's frustrated because they don't get any breaks.

Now they used to get a much more break time when they're in the office than they're getting now, but their phone lines are also being overloaded. I think that's part of the problem now.

[00:10:00]Here's the good news. They had a look at a 400 person team, and they've seen an 11. Now, this is using a team's application from Microsoft. They've seen a little 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a  22% increase in 30-minute meetings. That's interesting. Cause the 30-minute meeting is going to be very long tail. It's going to be to the point. You're not going to be messing around as much, not as much time wasted. One-on-one meetings have increased by 18%. So keep that in mind.

There is a different way that people work when they're remote working, cut back the long meetings, cut back the back to back, eliminate those. And allow these people to have the little 30 minute meetings. They've also found that these little social video meetings, like logging on while people are eating lunch and they can chat.

[00:11:00] Fridays in some of these companies have been designated as no meeting days, so people can focus on a project or recharge. When there's no office to leave the lines between work and life blur, they saw at Microsoft a 52% increase in online chats between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. So shifting hours can be helpful, but can also be problematic.

There are smaller companies that are finding kind of the same things. Some of these companies, particularly the smaller ones, tried letting people pick their hours, allowing them to do afternoons or entire days off but became just too much for a problem to collaborate all of that stuff together. So interesting stuff.

I think all of those points are major. If you're having problems with your business work from home. Have a look at the meetings and the meeting schedules and the people. Have a view parties online, have lunch online so people can chat while they're having lunch.

You have been listening to Craig Peterson Here online and on WGAN.

I appreciate you being with me. Make sure you join me and Matt Gagnon on Wednesday at seven 34.

[00:12:00] We'll be talking about next week's articles in the news and of course, join me here or on my podcast. You'll get all of the latest news in a lot more depth. Also, make sure you get my newsletter.

Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Have a great week, everybody.

---

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Welcome!

Craig discusses some of the issues that businesses are having with Remote workers and why. 

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---

Read More:

Average Cost of a Data Breach: $3.86 Million

The Future's Biggest Cybercrime Threat May Already Be Here

Election Interference: Google Purges Breitbart from Search Results

Google Has Been Purging Breitbart Content from Search Results Since the 2016 Election

Heads roll at Intel after 7nm delay

Out-of-Date and Unsupported Cloud Workloads Continue as a Common Weakness

Three people have been charged for Twitter’s huge hack, and a Florida teen is in jail

Remote Work Isn’t Working? Maybe Your Company Is Doing It Wrong

FBI Releases Flash Alert on Netwalker Ransomware

Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-lidar stance

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Automated Machine-Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Are you like millions of people around the world that's working from home. Maybe your company isn't doing such a great job at it. We'll talk about the reasons why.

Hey, welcome back, Craig, Peterson here. WGAN. Glad to have you along today. It's been a great two hours. I'm on every Saturday from one til 3:00 PM. I really appreciate you guys being with me. I would urge you, if you would, please do me a favor and give me a five-star review, go to Craig peterson.com/itunes.

They still are kind of the 800-pound gorilla, let me know right there. Let other people know what do you enjoy about the show. Craig peterson.com/itunes. And I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions by all means. Just send me an email to me. M E at Craig Peterson.com. I don't know sometimes I think it's cool. Sometimes I think that's maybe a little confusing for people.

[00:01:00] Early on July 31st here this year. The FBI, IRS, US Secret Service, and Florida law enforcement can you can believe all of that. Placed a 17-year-old of Tampa, Florida under arrest named Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind the biggest security and privacy breach in Twitter's history.

He took over the accounts of President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and more. He was trying to perpetrate a huge Bitcoin scam. Now he got away with some money. Got away with probably $120,000 that can never be returned to the people who he bilked it out of because it's basically impossible to send some of this stuff back.

[00:02:00] We'll see what happens. I'm sure the Secret Service can figure it out. They're the ones usually involved, with that sort of thing. So shortly after this Tampa arrest, two more individuals were formally charged by the US Department of Justice. A 22-year-old Nima Fazeli in Orlando, and a 19-year-old, Mason Sheppard in the UK.

They went by some hacker aliases, as they often do Taiwan, according to the DOJ. Let's see two individuals in total are in custody. This is as of a couple of days ago, and an unidentified minor in California also admitted to federal agents that they'd help them access Twitter counts. So there you go. We'll kind of leave it at that. There's a lot of details. If you want to look it up the line, but you're listening here, right? And that's all you need, frankly. They're facing five years in prison, a $250,000 fine. For one count of computer intrusion, that's Fazeli. Shepherd is being charged with computer intrusion, wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.

[00:03:00] The most serious of which comes with a 20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine here in the US. Apparently some of these guys were just middleman for the scam. It's really fascinating when you dig right into it. Absolutely fascinating.

Okay. Let's get into this because many of us are working from home and it's working for some of us, it's not working for others. The obvious thing is what I talked to Matt about on Wednesday morning, this last week. For the employee, the downside is you're always at work, right? If you're working from home, technically you're always at work and many businesses have been taking advantage of that.

[00:04:00] Having employees handle things after hours, that they normally would not be handling so that's a big downside. Then there are many other downsides too. When a business has just taken the way they do business, all of their processes and tried to put them on top of you working from home. So let's talk about some of the problems people have been having.

This is based on an article out of the New York times that came out here this last week by Claire Kane Miller. In most surveys, people say that even when it's safe for offices to reopen, they want to return, only part of the time, and continue working at home several days a week, right? We've heard that before. I think that's a good thing.

Now, personally, I've been working at home seven days a week for over 20 years. Okay. I'm used to that sort of stuff. But when we're talking about a normal white-collar office, one of the biggest problems they have is you just don't have that physical office space anymore.

[00:05:00] You don't have the water cooler, you don't have the conference rooms. You can't just drop in on a colleague and chat. Sometimes the most productive time is when you're talking about the kids and what they're doing, and then you get that click. Where you say, Oh yeah, you know what? Hold on. I gotta go take care of this right now.

Has that happened to you? It must've right. It's like in the shower, I have some of the best ideas sometimes. So what we found now is that companies that have changed the ways that they work have had much more success with people working at home. In some cases, they've discovered new ways that they want to continue when they return to the office. So all of that I think is really good news, but you have to be paying attention and you have to make sure that you are doing the right things when it comes to meetings. Okay.

[00:06:00] Here are the things that successful businesses have in common, fewer meetings that are long or large, or back to back. Cut back on the meetings. You probably never needed them in the first place. They have meeting-free time for focused work, which I think is hugely important. So that you can sit there and focus and not be having to run into one meeting or another. They offer flexible work hours. In some cases, they kind of take advantage of those flexible work hours.

[00:07:00] As I already mentioned, the best companies are finding ways for colleagues to socialize when they're not seeing one another in person. Now I've seen some businesses that literally have parties. You go out and you buy your beer and you show up on zoom. Hopefully not more than a beer, right? Zoom is very common, but if you have any concerns about security don't ever, ever, ever use Zoom. We'll see what happens if Microsoft takes them over, but we're months away from that.

So stick with either the WebEx, it's teams, which is the one I use. It's the only one that has certifications from the federal government for every security standard you can think of including HIPAA and PCI. Okay.

[00:08:00]So next here, what we're looking at is remote work during a pandemic is not actual remote work. Because we've got also because of the pandemic, the circumstance of crisis. We don't have the childcare we had before. A lot of people are very worried about this COVID. I'm quite sure by the way that I had, as the whole, COVID thing, COVID-19. They came out with a new list of symptoms just this last week.  I never had the cough symptom, but I had a half a dozen of the other symptoms that they just released. I'm pretty sure I had it. But many people are absolutely paranoid about it. You've seen videos or you've heard about people that are, macing other people cause they don't have a mask on. Even though the science on masks is divided, but seems to be leaning towards, they're not going to stop you from getting sick.

Also the inability to work in person, even if it's desirable. So those are part of the problems companies are having to deal with. We'll see what ends up happening. Some of the bigger companies who started remote work said it failed, but one of the reasons it failed is they didn't build the right kind of culture that supported it.

[00:09:00] At Microsoft, these teams realized large meetings of an hour or more with vague agendas worked even less. Online, back to back meetings were problematic too. Office people rely on breaks walking from one meeting to the next, use of the bathroom, eat a snack, or check their phones. Many people, if you're on a call center, like one of my daughters is, she's frustrated because they don't get any breaks.

Now they used to get a much more break time when they're in the office than they're getting now, but their phone lines are also being overloaded. I think that's part of the problem now.

[00:10:00]Here's the good news. They had a look at a 400 person team, and they've seen an 11. Now, this is using a team's application from Microsoft. They've seen a little 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a  22% increase in 30-minute meetings. That's interesting. Cause the 30-minute meeting is going to be very long tail. It's going to be to the point. You're not going to be messing around as much, not as much time wasted. One-on-one meetings have increased by 18%. So keep that in mind.

There is a different way that people work when they're remote working, cut back the long meetings, cut back the back to back, eliminate those. And allow these people to have the little 30 minute meetings. They've also found that these little social video meetings, like logging on while people are eating lunch and they can chat.

[00:11:00] Fridays in some of these companies have been designated as no meeting days, so people can focus on a project or recharge. When there's no office to leave the lines between work and life blur, they saw at Microsoft a 52% increase in online chats between 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM. So shifting hours can be helpful, but can also be problematic.

There are smaller companies that are finding kind of the same things. Some of these companies, particularly the smaller ones, tried letting people pick their hours, allowing them to do afternoons or entire days off but became just too much for a problem to collaborate all of that stuff together. So interesting stuff.

I think all of those points are major. If you're having problems with your business work from home. Have a look at the meetings and the meeting schedules and the people. Have a view parties online, have lunch online so people can chat while they're having lunch.

You have been listening to Craig Peterson Here online and on WGAN.

I appreciate you being with me. Make sure you join me and Matt Gagnon on Wednesday at seven 34.

[00:12:00] We'll be talking about next week's articles in the news and of course, join me here or on my podcast. You'll get all of the latest news in a lot more depth. Also, make sure you get my newsletter.

Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Have a great week, everybody.

---

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