Craig Peterson - Secure Your Business, Your Privacy, and Save Your Sanity

Good morning everybody!

I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about Google and how they are interfering in our election process. Then we got into the rising costs for businesses when it comes to data breaches. We wrapped up my segment with a discussion on Businesses and Remote work and what improvements can be made. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, Craig Peterson here. I was on with Matt this morning, covering the state of Maine and parts of New Hampshire. We talked about the average cost of a data breach going up. We got into the election interference. Google is showing us via some real stats that are out there. Yeah. Google is interfering.

We've got the three people that were charged for the Twitter hack. If remote work isn't working for you. Hey, I got some tips

Wednesday morning and you know what time it is because Craig Peterson is with us. He's joining us as he always does it this time on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

Matt Gagnon: Craig, how are you, sir?

Craig Peterson: Of course he is. I'm doing well. Power's back on. It came on about four this morning, so that's good news. And I did get all for those little wondering all my beehives strapped down. So they wouldn't get blown all over the place with the wind last night. That was crazy.

[00:01:00] Excellent news. I'm glad to hear that.

So let's talk about data breaches because I know that, this is increasingly a concern for many businesses and when you have a big data breach like that, it is incredibly expensive for you as a not. It is and it's going up, which is really a surprise for many businesses. Right now, this is a study that was done by IBM.

They're showing that the cost of a data breach, on average, is about 3.86 million, almost $4 million. The average cost of a breach. And the reason it's going up is so many businesses are deciding that somehow the cloud, as it were, is some sort of a panacea. And I just want to remind everybody the cloud is just a word for a rented computer that's all it is. You still have to make sure you've got your patches done. You still have to make sure it's configured. Really the number of Amazon cloud services that have exposed data is absolutely astounding.

[00:02:00] Just like last week we found these VPN services that said they were not loggers that were logging. We found all of that information out because of a misconfigured cloud server. So you've got to really be careful with that. it's absolutely amazing. Amazing how we're just still not paying enough attention to this

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, joining us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time, going over what's happening in the world of technology.

We talked a little bit about this, I think last week, Greg, not this specific story, but this subject and this topic, this idea of tech companies and how they're managing speech online. And, I had mentioned off-hand this thing about Google, basically blacklisting, Breitbart, among others. It's not just them, but, it's a, their latest move to try to, in their words, at least as, try to STEM the tide side of misinformation and crazy things. Yeah. Being set on the internet about, about politics. And that is an extremely dangerous little precedent they've set there.

[00:03:00] So tell us exactly what they did and why and where we're going to go from here with this.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is really something. This is really in followup to what we talked about last week. Cause I figured I shouldn't dig into this more, cause I had heard a little bit about Breitbart and what their complaints were. But when you start getting right down to this. The statistics are amazing.

So the best source for this information that I found was Breitbart themselves because they can log how many hits they have, where does it go, come from? What searches were being used. So after May's core search update on May 5th, this year, all of his shotgun, Google search results for Joe Biden never showed Breitbart at all period.

[00:04:00] So Google searches, no

Matt Gagnon: Breitbart wasn't writing on Biden, right?

Craig Peterson: They had been showing about 30,000 impressions for Breitbart links, which is just nice. That's a nice number then after May 5th, both impressions and clicks went to zero. Now that's from a third party company that monitors that sort of stuff.

And looking at some stats here. This is a quote from Dr. Epstein who was looking at some of these stats. He said for the New York Times, the percentage of traffic that's being routed to them, I'm Google on. Joe Biden is about 39%. And right now, overall, of course, Joe Biden, zero going to Breitbart. Zero, going to this fairly right-wing website.

[00:05:00] I think we can agree. But at the moment, Google is responsible for just 9% of Breitbart traffic. So New York times 40% from Google and Breitbart 9%.

Matt Gagnon: Curious to say the least Craig Peterson or tech guru joins us periodically on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

The other thing I wanted to talk about, speaking of politics here, it's politics, but this Twitter hack that happened a while ago, certainly embroiled a lot of political figures. I know Barack Obama was one of them and it was all about. Bitcoin money and we've apparently found yeah, the hackers and, who are they?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, we really did. the FBI IRS secret service, Florida law enforcement. They're all working together to try and find out what happened here, because it looks like the source was in Florida. This is another warning for businesses out there, but for individuals as well. Because what happened here was a spear-phishing attack against some of the Twitter employees, some specific employees.

[00:06:00] So a 17-year-old kid he's out of operating Tampa Florida. Name's Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind what was the biggest security and privacy breach in history. It was you mentioned Obama included Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and the bottom line is he was able to convince some people that he was from Twitter IT.

So Twitter, the information technology, the support people, and Twitter contacted enough. People in Twitter, got them to give him this. God mode is what I call it. Access was, let them see everything, do everything, et cetera. So he got a couple of his buddies involved, you know what? 17-year-old wouldn't and this whole phone spear-phishing attack.

[00:07:00] Where against calling on the phone. Hey, I'm from IT. We're going to be doing an upgrade two Microsoft on your machine tomorrow. So I want to test it out. I need to know what your username or password is so that I can get on and make sure that Microsoft update works properly. That's happening every day right now, Matt.

Matt Gagnon: And Craig, final question for you before I let you go. We've obviously all had to deal in the last several months with the whole work from home phenomenon and everyone is dealing with the remote office. Yeah. Even still, and now the kids are going back to school. I have this nagging suspicion.

It's going to be yet again, a little bit of a boomerang and there's going to be more people working from home, yet again. what's interesting about this though, is that some companies are finding, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Craig Peterson: Yeah, it's not. And those companies tend to be companies that took all of their policies and procedures and everything that they were using in the office and pushed it home, The biggest one being how many meetings people used to have to go to.

[00:08:00] It was just crazy. And so they pulled that into the virtual environment and are running it on one of these teams, apps are having to forbid on zoom and they've found that these types of companies that haven't rethought, how do our employees work? What's the best workflow we can possibly have to make our business work.

Those companies that haven't really thought about it, have found some decreases. So one, a 400 person team that was looked at was using, the team app from Microsoft and seeing, I know 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a 22% increase in 30-minute meetings. that tends to be a good thing. They also found that their one on one meetings have increased by 18% because you're not bumping into people at the water cooler.

[00:09:00] So if you do have people working from home, step back for a minute, have a look at everything that's going on. Realize that it's the same as people being in the office from their workflow standpoint and make some changes. And you might find that job even though it wasn't working out so well for you before things are going to improve on the worker's side, though. The problem is if you're working at home, you just can't ever leave the office.

Matt Gagnon: It's a never-ending office, right?

Craig Peterson: Yeah. It's my life has been for the last, all about it.

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, and you hear him on this very stage then on Saturdays at one, o'clock where he talks about these issues in much more depth. Craig, we appreciate you giving me a preview of them here this morning as we do every Wednesday. And we'll talk again next week, sir. All right.

Craig Peterson: And of course, as you said, Saturday at one.

Matt Gagnon: Indeed. Thanks a lot, Craig.

Craig Peterson: Hey, we lost power with that whole wind thing going on. And I had to reboot everything in the studio, get it back online. It's been one of those mornings, you know how that all goes. All right, everybody.

[00:10:00] We are working where we've recorded on video the last three weekend shows and we haven't put them anywhere yet.

We've so got some stuff to work out and figure out, but it's coming. We have all, a lot of stuff in the works right now.

So keep an eye out, make sure you subscribe to my newsletter and find out about all of these free pieces of training and all of the stuff going on.

Craig, Peterson.com/subscribe. It's just that easy.

And of course, thanks for listening.

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Good morning everybody!

I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about Google and how they are interfering in our election process.  Then we got into the rising costs for businesses when it comes to data breaches. We wrapped up my segment with a discussion on Businesses and Remote work and what improvements can be made.  Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, Craig Peterson here. I was on with Matt this morning, covering the state of Maine and parts of New Hampshire. We talked about the average cost of a data breach going up. We got into the election interference. Google is showing us via some real stats that are out there. Yeah. Google is interfering.

We've got the three people that were charged for the Twitter hack. If remote work isn't working for you. Hey, I got some tips

Wednesday morning and you know what time it is because Craig Peterson is with us. He's joining us as he always does it this time on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

Matt Gagnon: Craig, how are you, sir?

Craig Peterson: Of course he is. I'm doing well. Power's back on. It came on about four this morning, so that's good news. And I did get all for those little wondering all my beehives strapped down. So they wouldn't get blown all over the place with the wind last night. That was crazy.

[00:01:00] Excellent news. I'm glad to hear that.

So let's talk about data breaches because I know that, this is increasingly a concern for many businesses and when you have a big data breach like that, it is incredibly expensive for you as a not. It is and it's going up, which is really a surprise for many businesses. Right now, this is a study that was done by IBM.

They're showing that the cost of a data breach, on average, is about 3.86 million, almost $4 million. The average cost of a breach. And the reason it's going up is so many businesses are deciding that somehow the cloud, as it were, is some sort of a panacea. And I just want to remind everybody the cloud is just a word for a rented computer that's all it is. You still have to make sure you've got your patches done. You still have to make sure it's configured. Really the number of Amazon cloud services that have exposed data is absolutely astounding.

[00:02:00] Just like last week we found these VPN services that said they were not loggers that were logging. We found all of that information out because of a misconfigured cloud server. So you've got to really be careful with that. it's absolutely amazing. Amazing how we're just still not paying enough attention to this

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, joining us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time, going over what's happening in the world of technology.

We talked a little bit about this, I think last week, Greg, not this specific story, but this subject and this topic, this idea of tech companies and how they're managing speech online. And, I had mentioned off-hand this thing about Google, basically blacklisting, Breitbart, among others. It's not just them, but, it's a, their latest move to try to, in their words, at least as, try to STEM the tide side of misinformation and crazy things. Yeah. Being set on the internet about, about politics. And that is an extremely dangerous little precedent they've set there.

[00:03:00] So tell us exactly what they did and why and where we're going to go from here with this.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is really something. This is really in followup to what we talked about last week. Cause I figured I shouldn't dig into this more, cause I had heard a little bit about Breitbart and what their complaints were. But when you start getting right down to this. The statistics are amazing.

So the best source for this information that I found was Breitbart themselves because they can log how many hits they have, where does it go, come from? What searches were being used. So after May's core search update on May 5th, this year, all of his shotgun, Google search results for Joe Biden never showed Breitbart at all period.

[00:04:00] So Google searches, no

Matt Gagnon: Breitbart wasn't writing on Biden, right?

Craig Peterson: They had been showing about 30,000 impressions for Breitbart links, which is just nice. That's a nice number then after May 5th, both impressions and clicks went to zero. Now that's from a third party company that monitors that sort of stuff.

And looking at some stats here. This is a quote from Dr. Epstein who was looking at some of these stats. He said for the New York Times, the percentage of traffic that's being routed to them, I'm Google on. Joe Biden is about 39%. And right now, overall, of course, Joe Biden, zero going to Breitbart. Zero, going to this fairly right-wing website.

[00:05:00] I think we can agree. But at the moment, Google is responsible for just 9% of Breitbart traffic. So New York times 40% from Google and Breitbart 9%.

Matt Gagnon: Curious to say the least Craig Peterson or tech guru joins us periodically on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

The other thing I wanted to talk about, speaking of politics here, it's politics, but this Twitter hack that happened a while ago, certainly embroiled a lot of political figures. I know Barack Obama was one of them and it was all about. Bitcoin money and we've apparently found yeah, the hackers and, who are they?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, we really did. the FBI IRS secret service, Florida law enforcement. They're all working together to try and find out what happened here, because it looks like the source was in Florida. This is another warning for businesses out there, but for individuals as well. Because what happened here was a spear-phishing attack against some of the Twitter employees, some specific employees.

[00:06:00] So a 17-year-old kid he's out of operating Tampa Florida. Name's Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind what was the biggest security and privacy breach in history. It was you mentioned Obama included Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and the bottom line is he was able to convince some people that he was from Twitter IT.

So Twitter, the information technology, the support people, and Twitter contacted enough. People in Twitter, got them to give him this. God mode is what I call it. Access was, let them see everything, do everything, et cetera. So he got a couple of his buddies involved, you know what? 17-year-old wouldn't and this whole phone spear-phishing attack.

[00:07:00] Where against calling on the phone. Hey, I'm from IT. We're going to be doing an upgrade two Microsoft on your machine tomorrow. So I want to test it out. I need to know what your username or password is so that I can get on and make sure that Microsoft update works properly. That's happening every day right now, Matt.

Matt Gagnon: And Craig, final question for you before I let you go. We've obviously all had to deal in the last several months with the whole work from home phenomenon and everyone is dealing with the remote office. Yeah. Even still, and now the kids are going back to school. I have this nagging suspicion.

It's going to be yet again, a little bit of a boomerang and there's going to be more people working from home, yet again. what's interesting about this though, is that some companies are finding, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Craig Peterson: Yeah, it's not. And those companies tend to be companies that took all of their policies and procedures and everything that they were using in the office and pushed it home, The biggest one being how many meetings people used to have to go to.

[00:08:00] It was just crazy. And so they pulled that into the virtual environment and are running it on one of these teams, apps are having to forbid on zoom and they've found that these types of companies that haven't rethought, how do our employees work? What's the best workflow we can possibly have to make our business work.

Those companies that haven't really thought about it, have found some decreases. So one, a 400 person team that was looked at was using, the team app from Microsoft and seeing, I know 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a 22% increase in 30-minute meetings. that tends to be a good thing. They also found that their one on one meetings have increased by 18% because you're not bumping into people at the water cooler.

[00:09:00] So if you do have people working from home, step back for a minute, have a look at everything that's going on. Realize that it's the same as people being in the office from their workflow standpoint and make some changes. And you might find that job even though it wasn't working out so well for you before things are going to improve on the worker's side, though. The problem is if you're working at home, you just can't ever leave the office.

Matt Gagnon: It's a never-ending office, right?

Craig Peterson: Yeah. It's my life has been for the last, all about it.

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, and you hear him on this very stage then on Saturdays at one, o'clock where he talks about these issues in much more depth. Craig, we appreciate you giving me a preview of them here this morning as we do every Wednesday. And we'll talk again next week, sir. All right.

Craig Peterson: And of course, as you said, Saturday at one.

Matt Gagnon: Indeed. Thanks a lot, Craig.

Craig Peterson: Hey, we lost power with that whole wind thing going on. And I had to reboot everything in the studio, get it back online. It's been one of those mornings, you know how that all goes. All right, everybody.

[00:10:00] We are working where we've recorded on video the last three weekend shows and we haven't put them anywhere yet.

We've so got some stuff to work out and figure out, but it's coming. We have all, a lot of stuff in the works right now.

So keep an eye out, make sure you subscribe to my newsletter and find out about all of these free pieces of training and all of the stuff going on.

Craig, Peterson.com/subscribe. It's just that easy.

And of course, thanks for listening.

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Good morning everybody!

I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about Google and how they are interfering in our election process.  Then we got into the rising costs for businesses when it comes to data breaches. We wrapped up my segment with a discussion on Businesses and Remote work and what improvements can be made.  Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, Craig Peterson here. I was on with Matt this morning, covering the state of Maine and parts of New Hampshire. We talked about the average cost of a data breach going up. We got into the election interference. Google is showing us via some real stats that are out there. Yeah. Google is interfering.

We've got the three people that were charged for the Twitter hack. If remote work isn't working for you. Hey, I got some tips

Wednesday morning and you know what time it is because Craig Peterson is with us. He's joining us as he always does it this time on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

Matt Gagnon: Craig, how are you, sir?

Craig Peterson: Of course he is. I'm doing well. Power's back on. It came on about four this morning, so that's good news. And I did get all for those little wondering all my beehives strapped down. So they wouldn't get blown all over the place with the wind last night. That was crazy.

[00:01:00] Excellent news. I'm glad to hear that.

So let's talk about data breaches because I know that, this is increasingly a concern for many businesses and when you have a big data breach like that, it is incredibly expensive for you as a not. It is and it's going up, which is really a surprise for many businesses. Right now, this is a study that was done by IBM.

They're showing that the cost of a data breach, on average, is about 3.86 million, almost $4 million. The average cost of a breach. And the reason it's going up is so many businesses are deciding that somehow the cloud, as it were, is some sort of a panacea. And I just want to remind everybody the cloud is just a word for a rented computer that's all it is. You still have to make sure you've got your patches done. You still have to make sure it's configured. Really the number of Amazon cloud services that have exposed data is absolutely astounding.

[00:02:00] Just like last week we found these VPN services that said they were not loggers that were logging. We found all of that information out because of a misconfigured cloud server. So you've got to really be careful with that. it's absolutely amazing. Amazing how we're just still not paying enough attention to this

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, joining us as he always does on Wednesdays at this time, going over what's happening in the world of technology.

We talked a little bit about this, I think last week, Greg, not this specific story, but this subject and this topic, this idea of tech companies and how they're managing speech online. And, I had mentioned off-hand this thing about Google, basically blacklisting, Breitbart, among others. It's not just them, but, it's a, their latest move to try to, in their words, at least as, try to STEM the tide side of misinformation and crazy things. Yeah. Being set on the internet about, about politics. And that is an extremely dangerous little precedent they've set there.

[00:03:00] So tell us exactly what they did and why and where we're going to go from here with this.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is really something. This is really in followup to what we talked about last week. Cause I figured I shouldn't dig into this more, cause I had heard a little bit about Breitbart and what their complaints were. But when you start getting right down to this. The statistics are amazing.

So the best source for this information that I found was Breitbart themselves because they can log how many hits they have, where does it go, come from? What searches were being used. So after May's core search update on May 5th, this year, all of his shotgun, Google search results for Joe Biden never showed Breitbart at all period.

[00:04:00] So Google searches, no

Matt Gagnon: Breitbart wasn't writing on Biden, right?

Craig Peterson: They had been showing about 30,000 impressions for Breitbart links, which is just nice. That's a nice number then after May 5th, both impressions and clicks went to zero. Now that's from a third party company that monitors that sort of stuff.

And looking at some stats here. This is a quote from Dr. Epstein who was looking at some of these stats. He said for the New York Times, the percentage of traffic that's being routed to them, I'm Google on. Joe Biden is about 39%. And right now, overall, of course, Joe Biden, zero going to Breitbart. Zero, going to this fairly right-wing website.

[00:05:00] I think we can agree. But at the moment, Google is responsible for just 9% of Breitbart traffic. So New York times 40% from Google and Breitbart 9%.

Matt Gagnon: Curious to say the least Craig Peterson or tech guru joins us periodically on Wednesdays to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

The other thing I wanted to talk about, speaking of politics here, it's politics, but this Twitter hack that happened a while ago, certainly embroiled a lot of political figures. I know Barack Obama was one of them and it was all about. Bitcoin money and we've apparently found yeah, the hackers and, who are they?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, we really did. the FBI IRS secret service, Florida law enforcement. They're all working together to try and find out what happened here, because it looks like the source was in Florida. This is another warning for businesses out there, but for individuals as well. Because what happened here was a spear-phishing attack against some of the Twitter employees, some specific employees.

[00:06:00] So a 17-year-old kid he's out of operating Tampa Florida. Name's Graham Clark. He's accused of being the mastermind behind what was the biggest security and privacy breach in history. It was you mentioned Obama included Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Apple, and the bottom line is he was able to convince some people that he was from Twitter IT.

So Twitter, the information technology, the support people, and Twitter contacted enough. People in Twitter, got them to give him this. God mode is what I call it. Access was, let them see everything, do everything, et cetera. So he got a couple of his buddies involved, you know what? 17-year-old wouldn't and this whole phone spear-phishing attack.

[00:07:00] Where against calling on the phone. Hey, I'm from IT. We're going to be doing an upgrade two Microsoft on your machine tomorrow. So I want to test it out. I need to know what your username or password is so that I can get on and make sure that Microsoft update works properly. That's happening every day right now, Matt.

Matt Gagnon: And Craig, final question for you before I let you go. We've obviously all had to deal in the last several months with the whole work from home phenomenon and everyone is dealing with the remote office. Yeah. Even still, and now the kids are going back to school. I have this nagging suspicion.

It's going to be yet again, a little bit of a boomerang and there's going to be more people working from home, yet again. what's interesting about this though, is that some companies are finding, it's not all it's cracked up to be.

Craig Peterson: Yeah, it's not. And those companies tend to be companies that took all of their policies and procedures and everything that they were using in the office and pushed it home, The biggest one being how many meetings people used to have to go to.

[00:08:00] It was just crazy. And so they pulled that into the virtual environment and are running it on one of these teams, apps are having to forbid on zoom and they've found that these types of companies that haven't rethought, how do our employees work? What's the best workflow we can possibly have to make our business work.

Those companies that haven't really thought about it, have found some decreases. So one, a 400 person team that was looked at was using, the team app from Microsoft and seeing, I know 11% decrease in hour-plus meetings and a 22% increase in 30-minute meetings. that tends to be a good thing. They also found that their one on one meetings have increased by 18% because you're not bumping into people at the water cooler.

[00:09:00] So if you do have people working from home, step back for a minute, have a look at everything that's going on. Realize that it's the same as people being in the office from their workflow standpoint and make some changes. And you might find that job even though it wasn't working out so well for you before things are going to improve on the worker's side, though. The problem is if you're working at home, you just can't ever leave the office.

Matt Gagnon: It's a never-ending office, right?

Craig Peterson: Yeah. It's my life has been for the last, all about it.

Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, and you hear him on this very stage then on Saturdays at one, o'clock where he talks about these issues in much more depth. Craig, we appreciate you giving me a preview of them here this morning as we do every Wednesday. And we'll talk again next week, sir. All right.

Craig Peterson: And of course, as you said, Saturday at one.

Matt Gagnon: Indeed. Thanks a lot, Craig.

Craig Peterson: Hey, we lost power with that whole wind thing going on. And I had to reboot everything in the studio, get it back online. It's been one of those mornings, you know how that all goes. All right, everybody.

[00:10:00] We are working where we've recorded on video the last three weekend shows and we haven't put them anywhere yet.

We've so got some stuff to work out and figure out, but it's coming. We have all, a lot of stuff in the works right now.

So keep an eye out, make sure you subscribe to my newsletter and find out about all of these free pieces of training and all of the stuff going on.

Craig, Peterson.com/subscribe. It's just that easy.

And of course, thanks for listening.

--- 

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Welcome!

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning and we discussed Big Tech censoring conservative powerhouse Breitbart and What is happening with Tik Tok - President Trump, Microsoft, and China. Here we go with Jim.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: If you, go ahead and even censor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but there is no liability for any of these big guys, including Google.

Good morning, everybody. Craig, Peterson here. Hey, I got into a couple of, I think of really important topics with Mr. Jim Polito this morning. And so we're going to get into those right now.

Jim Polito: Here is the man behind it all pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. No, he's pulling back the curtain and showing us the man, our good friend, and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson: Hey, more name it's kinda rainy. This is going to be quite today.

[00:01:00] Jim Polito: Yes, I'm not happy that we're getting a storm, but at least the storm is coming during the day better than overnight in the dark and the like. So we'll ride it out just like we're going to ride out the whole TikTok story. we'll get to that cause I can't wait to hear your insights on TikTok.

But first I want to ask you about this Google censoring, Breitbart. Didn't, we just have a hearing in front of Congress, where Republicans were concerned that big tech is censoring conservative voices.

[00:02:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is a very big deal because Google has been concerned about President Trump's winning for years. In fact, they were involved in beforehand and when President Trump got elected in 2016, an internal meeting that was leaked to Breitbart, itself, top Google executives lamented President Trump's victory and compared Trump voters to extremists. They said back in 2016 that they really wanted to make Trump's election and the populous movement a blip in history. So we know what their intent was. Jim.

Jim Polito: Yeah. Yeah, hence these hearings. Look, they're a private company and private companies can censor whichever way they want, but you also risk, being considered a monopoly and being broken up due to antitrust laws.

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Then there's a law on the books that's been around in the earlier days with the internet that it says these types of companies are basically exempt from all of the rules that you would normally be covered under. So you've been in the press, you've been on television, you're on the radio now. There are libel laws and slander laws. and if you repeat something, if you, go ahead and even sensor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but. There is no liability for any of these big guys, including. Google. So there's a chart I'm looking at here that we're going to put up on the website and it's talking about the Sistrix visibility index.

So this ranks a website's visibility in Google and what it does is it does Google searches every so often and tries to see where the results are. So I'm looking at an article here on Breitbart news, showing this visibility index, cause anybody that publishes online is going to pay really close attention to this sort of thing.

What we're finding on this index is it's absolutely nuts but Breitbart, it was going up a few ups and downs. Think of it as a stock market. Then Google had an update in 2017 called Fred. All of a sudden it started to drop and then right around the end of 2017, the visibility index went from 7 which is absolutely huge.

[00:04:00] I love to have a seven down all the way in now where it's almost zero. Wow.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. the search visibility has just dropped off and Google just killed all the search traffic to Breitbart when it comes to Joe Biden and any Joe Biden related searches. and that happened about May 5th this year.

So there they are obviously censoring. It really is. It really is. So Breitbart. I'm looking at what they've published here showing their number of clicks. They're showing that they were getting about 1200 clicks a day for people searching for Joe Biden, May 5th. It went from 1200 the prior days down to zero.

Jim Polito: My God.

[00:05:00]You've got to look at something like that and say, this is pathetic and this is truly manipulating the news. When you're Google, when you're the pro these figures off the top of your head, I'm sure. But what percentage of the search market share. They have just in the United States. What percentage of it?

Craig Peterson: Remember too, Google also owns YouTube. Google's number one in the US and YouTube is number two in the US and together they garner almost 90% of all search traffic.

Jim Polito: That's bordering on antitrust. I know as you explained, they are exempt from the legislation, you know what it's time to update the legislation.

[00:06:00] Don't you think? Not that I'm a heavy regulation guy, but when you've got something like that going on in the marketplace, and you can say somebody else could do it better. Yeah but I happen to be in antitruster.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's a really interesting problem. Look at the New York times percentage, they get about 40% of their traffic from Google, and now Googles responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic. This percent of any traffic about Joe Biden.

Jim Polito: There is no doubt in my mind that the New York times is the left equivalent of the right, Breitbart.

Craig Peterson: Yes, Absolutely. My wife this morning was reading an article about an NBC producer who just left NBC news. Might want to look this thing up.

Jim Polito: No, I read it. I read it very interesting.

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's these people are out there looking for fringe information on the left, but ignoring stream stuff like Breitbart on the right.

Jim Polito: Yeah, they are, then they will publish anything, fringe, anything that fits the agenda.

All right. Let's get to my favorite, which is TikTok. I have a very funny story for you about TikTok. My two sons were shocked to hear that I was on TikTok and I said to them, gentlemen, My TikTok is much different than your TikTok. And they said, what do you mean? I said I don't get dancing girls. Girls doing dances for the camera. I get stuff on politics, home improvement, old TV shows. They said, yeah. Oh, that's on there. All of that stuff is on there. What frightens me though? About my TikTok experiences up until a little while ago. I never really liked the videos.

[00:08:00] I just went to the for you feed. I gotta tell you, Craig, TikTok knew exactly who I was and exactly what I wanted to see.

Craig Peterson: They've been really good about that. That's why they've become so popular. They really can tell what you want. They watch what you're watching.

Jim Polito: Yeah.

Craig Peterson: The President has is what are they doing outside of that application?

Jim Polito: Yeah,

Craig Peterson: That's where our real problem comes in. So apparently, first of all, from a technology side, they have been caught multiple times stealing information from anybody that has TikTok installed on their phones. Most recently they were stealing your copy buffer.

[00:09:00] So let's say that you've gone to a website on your phone and it's a legitimate bank's website and say you haven't been tricked. You're on your bank's website and it's asking for your account number. So you go when you get your account number, cause you've got it in, hopefully, one password.

Maybe heaven forbid a spreadsheet or something. And so you copy it out of that. And then you go back to the bank's website because I'm not so good at remembering 15 digit numbers. So you go back to the bank's website and you paste it in. And then you go to TikTok. TikTok was caught grabbing the contents of your copy buffer. Automatically.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: So that means any passwords you had copied, any bank information you had copied anything that was in your copy buffer TikTok grabbed. So that's just the lead.

Jim Polito: I'm just trying to think on my, I copy. They're going to get a lot of 'em. They're going to get a lot of my show prep because copy, cut, and paste that into an email.

[00:10:00] So I guess TikToks going to get my show prep. I o cut and paste sometimes when I get, when you're supposed to do a third-party verification when you're entering something, and you get texted you the number I will cut and paste that. Huh. So they're getting that, information. No, yeah. Websites I'm around. Okay. they're going to see me. Yeah.

It's not going to be that exciting for them.

Craig Peterson: They're also grabbing your personal information and then your name they'll track the GPS on it and know where your home address is.

[00:11:00] National Weather Service: The national weather service in Boston has issued a tornado warning for Northwestern Hampshire County in Western, Massachusetts, Northwestern Franklin County in Western, Massachusetts until 9:30 AM. Eastern daylight time. At 8:45 AM Eastern daylight time. So if you were thunder stolen, capable of producing a tornado was located over Middlefield or 13 miles East of Pittsfield.

Moving north at 45 miles per hour. Hazards include tornado. Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed damage to roof windows and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. This dangerous storm will be near Cummington around 8:55 AM. Eastern daylight time Plainfield and Holly around 9:00 AM.

Eastern daylight time Charlamagne around nine, 10:00 AM. Eastern daylight time Monroe and roll around 9:15 AM. Eastern daylight time. He's around 9:20 AM. Eastern daylight time.

[00:12:00] Craig Peterson: He's back in China. They're going to have to change, to use Microsoft servers based in the US as well as these other countries. So there's a lot involved. It's going to take months. Show them the bottom line is everybody is very careful. We've, I've warned about TikTok forever. I am, but, TikTok, and say that they're confident in the longterm success of the app, they deny that they are sharing any data with their owners, the Chinese communist party. They already have started moving to the US. TikTok has nearly a thousand people here and plans to hire another 10,000 employees across the US. So all of those things would move under the Microsoft umbrella.

It's interesting. What can be done even if President Trump's? Yeah. Hey, you're gone. I'm banning you. At best it would be removed from the main app stores, but people still be able to get it. And as you pointed out the beginning of this whole thing, it is very addictive because they are so good at knowing what you want.

[00:13:00] Jim Polito: Yeah.

They are. They know exactly what I want. really. politics, everything. They're not sending me, videos that, praise AOC and Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. Do you know what I mean? They're not, they're absolutely not. Wow. Okay. Craig, this is fascinating. and folks can always get more information from you.

How would you like them to do it?

Craig Peterson: How about, because I'm starting to do more training. We have spent the last two weeks and we've got the whole month of August devoted to putting together some more free pieces of training for people, as well as some paid courses. But yeah. Do you want to get these show notes? I send to Jim if you want to know about these pieces of training because we've got to bring people's level of knowledge up, go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe.

[00:14:00]You'll get my news, all of this stuff. Craigpeterson.com/subscribe.

All right, Craig, this has been fascinating. Thank you so much for your time. We'll catch up with you next week.

Hey, take care of Jim. Thanks.

All right.

You too. Okay. Folks, when we return a very important, fine

I just realized I forgot to introduce him at the beginning. Of course, Jim Pollito on WTAG/WHYN big powerhouse stations down in Western and central mass.

Anyhow, it was a lot of fun and I really am getting busy here.

I'm excited. I've wanted to do this for years with some of these pieces of training and things. So keep an eye out and do make sure you go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, and we'll be back tomorrow.

Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Welcome!

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning and we discussed Big Tech censoring conservative powerhouse Breitbart and What is happening with Tik Tok - President Trump, Microsoft, and China. Here we go with Jim.

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: If you, go ahead and even censor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but there is no liability for any of these big guys, including Google.

Good morning, everybody. Craig, Peterson here. Hey, I got into a couple of, I think of really important topics with Mr. Jim Polito this morning. And so we're going to get into those right now.

Jim Polito: Here is the man behind it all pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. No, he's pulling back the curtain and showing us the man, our good friend, and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson: Hey, more name it's kinda rainy. This is going to be quite today.

[00:01:00] Jim Polito: Yes, I'm not happy that we're getting a storm, but at least the storm is coming during the day better than overnight in the dark and the like. So we'll ride it out just like we're going to ride out the whole TikTok story. we'll get to that cause I can't wait to hear your insights on TikTok.

But first I want to ask you about this Google censoring, Breitbart. Didn't, we just have a hearing in front of Congress, where Republicans were concerned that big tech is censoring conservative voices.

[00:02:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is a very big deal because Google has been concerned about President Trump's winning for years. In fact, they were involved in beforehand and when President Trump got elected in 2016, an internal meeting that was leaked to Breitbart, itself, top Google executives lamented President Trump's victory and compared Trump voters to extremists. They said back in 2016 that they really wanted to make Trump's election and the populous movement a blip in history. So we know what their intent was. Jim.

Jim Polito: Yeah. Yeah, hence these hearings. Look, they're a private company and private companies can censor whichever way they want, but you also risk, being considered a monopoly and being broken up due to antitrust laws.

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Then there's a law on the books that's been around in the earlier days with the internet that it says these types of companies are basically exempt from all of the rules that you would normally be covered under. So you've been in the press, you've been on television, you're on the radio now. There are libel laws and slander laws. and if you repeat something, if you, go ahead and even sensor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but. There is no liability for any of these big guys, including. Google. So there's a chart I'm looking at here that we're going to put up on the website and it's talking about the Sistrix visibility index.

So this ranks a website's visibility in Google and what it does is it does Google searches every so often and tries to see where the results are. So I'm looking at an article here on Breitbart news, showing this visibility index, cause anybody that publishes online is going to pay really close attention to this sort of thing.

What we're finding on this index is it's absolutely nuts but Breitbart, it was going up a few ups and downs. Think of it as a stock market. Then Google had an update in 2017 called Fred. All of a sudden it started to drop and then right around the end of 2017, the visibility index went from 7 which is absolutely huge.

[00:04:00] I love to have a seven down all the way in now where it's almost zero. Wow.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. the search visibility has just dropped off and Google just killed all the search traffic to Breitbart when it comes to Joe Biden and any Joe Biden related searches. and that happened about May 5th this year.

So there they are obviously censoring. It really is. It really is. So Breitbart. I'm looking at what they've published here showing their number of clicks. They're showing that they were getting about 1200 clicks a day for people searching for Joe Biden, May 5th. It went from 1200 the prior days down to zero.

Jim Polito: My God. 

[00:05:00]You've got to look at something like that and say, this is pathetic and this is truly manipulating the news. When you're Google, when you're the pro these figures off the top of your head, I'm sure. But what percentage of the search market share. They have just in the United States. What percentage of it?

Craig Peterson: Remember too, Google also owns YouTube. Google's number one in the US and YouTube is number two in the US and together they garner almost 90% of all search traffic.

Jim Polito: That's bordering on antitrust. I know as you explained, they are exempt from the legislation, you know what it's time to update the legislation.

[00:06:00] Don't you think? Not that I'm a heavy regulation guy, but when you've got something like that going on in the marketplace, and you can say somebody else could do it better. Yeah but I happen to be in antitruster.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's a really interesting problem. Look at the New York times percentage, they get about 40% of their traffic from Google, and now Googles responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic. This percent of any traffic about Joe Biden.

Jim Polito:  There is no doubt in my mind that the New York times is the left equivalent of the right, Breitbart.

Craig Peterson: Yes, Absolutely. My wife this morning was reading an article about an NBC producer who just left NBC news. Might want to look this thing up.

Jim Polito: No, I read it. I read it very interesting.

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's these people are out there looking for fringe information on the left, but ignoring stream stuff like Breitbart on the right.

Jim Polito: Yeah, they are, then they will publish anything, fringe, anything that fits the agenda.

All right. Let's get to my favorite, which is TikTok. I have a very funny story for you about TikTok. My two sons were shocked to hear that I was on TikTok and I said to them, gentlemen, My TikTok is much different than your TikTok. And they said, what do you mean? I said I don't get dancing girls. Girls doing dances for the camera. I get stuff on politics, home improvement, old TV shows. They said, yeah. Oh, that's on there. All of that stuff is on there.  What frightens me though? About my TikTok experiences up until a little while ago. I never really liked the videos.

[00:08:00] I just went to the for you feed. I gotta tell you, Craig, TikTok knew exactly who I was and exactly what I wanted to see.

Craig Peterson: They've been really good about that. That's why they've become so popular. They really can tell what you want. They watch what you're watching.

Jim Polito: Yeah.

Craig Peterson: The President has is what are they doing outside of that application?

Jim Polito: Yeah,

Craig Peterson: That's where our real problem comes in. So apparently, first of all, from a technology side, they have been caught multiple times stealing information from anybody that has TikTok installed on their phones. Most recently they were stealing your copy buffer.

[00:09:00] So let's say that you've gone to a website on your phone and it's a legitimate bank's website and say you haven't been tricked. You're on your bank's website and it's asking for your account number. So you go when you get your account number, cause you've got it in, hopefully, one password.

Maybe heaven forbid a spreadsheet or something. And so you copy it out of that. And then you go back to the bank's website because I'm not so good at remembering 15 digit numbers. So you go back to the bank's website and you paste it in. And then you go to TikTok. TikTok was caught grabbing the contents of your copy buffer. Automatically.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: So that means any passwords you had copied, any bank information you had copied anything that was in your copy buffer TikTok grabbed. So that's just the lead.

Jim Polito: I'm just trying to think on my, I copy. They're going to get a lot of 'em. They're going to get a lot of my show prep because copy, cut, and paste that into an email.

[00:10:00] So I guess TikToks going to get my show prep. I o cut and paste sometimes when I get, when you're supposed to do a third-party verification when you're entering something, and you get texted you the number I will cut and paste that. Huh. So they're getting that, information. No, yeah. Websites I'm around. Okay. they're going to see me. Yeah.

It's not going to be that exciting for them.

Craig Peterson: They're also grabbing your personal information and then your name they'll track the GPS on it and know where your home address is.

[00:11:00] National Weather Service: The national weather service in Boston has issued a tornado warning for Northwestern Hampshire County in Western, Massachusetts, Northwestern Franklin County in Western, Massachusetts until 9:30 AM. Eastern daylight time. At 8:45 AM Eastern daylight time. So if you were thunder stolen, capable of producing a tornado was located over Middlefield or 13 miles East of Pittsfield.

Moving north at 45 miles per hour. Hazards include tornado. Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed damage to roof windows and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. This dangerous storm will be near Cummington around 8:55 AM. Eastern daylight time Plainfield and Holly around 9:00 AM.

Eastern daylight time Charlamagne around nine, 10:00 AM. Eastern daylight time Monroe and roll around 9:15 AM. Eastern daylight time. He's around 9:20 AM. Eastern daylight time.

[00:12:00] Craig Peterson: He's back in China. They're going to have to change, to use Microsoft servers based in the US as well as these other countries. So there's a lot involved. It's going to take months. Show them the bottom line is everybody is very careful. We've, I've warned about TikTok forever. I am, but, TikTok, and say that they're confident in the longterm success of the app, they deny that they are sharing any data with their owners, the Chinese communist party. They already have started moving to the US. TikTok has nearly a thousand people here and plans to hire another 10,000 employees across the US. So all of those things would move under the Microsoft umbrella.

It's interesting. What can be done even if President Trump's? Yeah. Hey, you're gone. I'm banning you. At best it would be removed from the main app stores, but people still be able to get it. And as you pointed out the beginning of this whole thing, it is very addictive because they are so good at knowing what you want.

[00:13:00] Jim Polito: Yeah.

They are. They know exactly what I want. really. politics, everything. They're not sending me, videos that, praise AOC and Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. Do you know what I mean? They're not, they're absolutely not. Wow. Okay. Craig, this is fascinating. and folks can always get more information from you.

How would you like them to do it?

Craig Peterson: How about, because I'm starting to do more training. We have spent the last two weeks and we've got the whole month of August devoted to putting together some more free pieces of training for people, as well as some paid courses. But yeah. Do you want to get these show notes? I send to Jim if you want to know about these pieces of training because we've got to bring people's level of knowledge up, go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe.

[00:14:00]You'll get my news, all of this stuff. Craigpeterson.com/subscribe.

All right, Craig, this has been fascinating. Thank you so much for your time. We'll catch up with you next week.

Hey, take care of Jim. Thanks.

All right.

You too. Okay. Folks, when we return a very important, fine

I just realized I forgot to introduce him at the beginning. Of course, Jim Pollito on WTAG/WHYN  big powerhouse stations down in Western and central mass.

Anyhow, it was a lot of fun and I really am getting busy here.

I'm excited. I've wanted to do this for years with some of these pieces of training and things. So keep an eye out and do make sure you go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, and we'll be back tomorrow.

Take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

--- 

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Welcome!

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning and we discussed Big Tech censoring conservative powerhouse Breitbart and What is happening with Tik Tok - President Trump, Microsoft, and China. Here we go with Jim.

For more tech tips, news, and updates visit - CraigPeterson.com

--- 

Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: If you, go ahead and even censor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but there is no liability for any of these big guys, including Google.

Good morning, everybody. Craig, Peterson here. Hey, I got into a couple of, I think of really important topics with Mr. Jim Polito this morning. And so we're going to get into those right now.

Jim Polito: Here is the man behind it all pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. No, he's pulling back the curtain and showing us the man, our good friend, and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

Craig Peterson: Hey, more name it's kinda rainy. This is going to be quite today.

[00:01:00] Jim Polito: Yes, I'm not happy that we're getting a storm, but at least the storm is coming during the day better than overnight in the dark and the like. So we'll ride it out just like we're going to ride out the whole TikTok story. we'll get to that cause I can't wait to hear your insights on TikTok.

But first I want to ask you about this Google censoring, Breitbart. Didn't, we just have a hearing in front of Congress, where Republicans were concerned that big tech is censoring conservative voices.

[00:02:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is a very big deal because Google has been concerned about President Trump's winning for years. In fact, they were involved in beforehand and when President Trump got elected in 2016, an internal meeting that was leaked to Breitbart, itself, top Google executives lamented President Trump's victory and compared Trump voters to extremists. They said back in 2016 that they really wanted to make Trump's election and the populous movement a blip in history. So we know what their intent was. Jim.

Jim Polito: Yeah. Yeah, hence these hearings. Look, they're a private company and private companies can censor whichever way they want, but you also risk, being considered a monopoly and being broken up due to antitrust laws.

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Then there's a law on the books that's been around in the earlier days with the internet that it says these types of companies are basically exempt from all of the rules that you would normally be covered under. So you've been in the press, you've been on television, you're on the radio now. There are libel laws and slander laws. and if you repeat something, if you, go ahead and even sensor, certain types of things, obviously there's a liability, but. There is no liability for any of these big guys, including. Google. So there's a chart I'm looking at here that we're going to put up on the website and it's talking about the Sistrix visibility index.

So this ranks a website's visibility in Google and what it does is it does Google searches every so often and tries to see where the results are. So I'm looking at an article here on Breitbart news, showing this visibility index, cause anybody that publishes online is going to pay really close attention to this sort of thing.

What we're finding on this index is it's absolutely nuts but Breitbart, it was going up a few ups and downs. Think of it as a stock market. Then Google had an update in 2017 called Fred. All of a sudden it started to drop and then right around the end of 2017, the visibility index went from 7 which is absolutely huge.

[00:04:00] I love to have a seven down all the way in now where it's almost zero. Wow.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. the search visibility has just dropped off and Google just killed all the search traffic to Breitbart when it comes to Joe Biden and any Joe Biden related searches. and that happened about May 5th this year.

So there they are obviously censoring. It really is. It really is. So Breitbart. I'm looking at what they've published here showing their number of clicks. They're showing that they were getting about 1200 clicks a day for people searching for Joe Biden, May 5th. It went from 1200 the prior days down to zero.

Jim Polito: My God. 

[00:05:00]You've got to look at something like that and say, this is pathetic and this is truly manipulating the news. When you're Google, when you're the pro these figures off the top of your head, I'm sure. But what percentage of the search market share. They have just in the United States. What percentage of it?

Craig Peterson: Remember too, Google also owns YouTube. Google's number one in the US and YouTube is number two in the US and together they garner almost 90% of all search traffic.

Jim Polito: That's bordering on antitrust. I know as you explained, they are exempt from the legislation, you know what it's time to update the legislation.

[00:06:00] Don't you think? Not that I'm a heavy regulation guy, but when you've got something like that going on in the marketplace, and you can say somebody else could do it better. Yeah but I happen to be in antitruster.

Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's a really interesting problem. Look at the New York times percentage, they get about 40% of their traffic from Google, and now Googles responsible for 9% of Breitbart's traffic. This percent of any traffic about Joe Biden.

Jim Polito:  There is no doubt in my mind that the New York times is the left equivalent of the right, Breitbart.

Craig Peterson: Yes, Absolutely. My wife this morning was reading an article about an NBC producer who just left NBC news. Might want to look this thing up.

Jim Polito: No, I read it. I read it very interesting.

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah. It's these people are out there looking for fringe information on the left, but ignoring stream stuff like Breitbart on the right.

Jim Polito: Yeah, they are, then they will publish anything, fringe, anything that fits the agenda.

All right. Let's get to my favorite, which is TikTok. I have a very funny story for you about TikTok. My two sons were shocked to hear that I was on TikTok and I said to them, gentlemen, My TikTok is much different than your TikTok. And they said, what do you mean? I said I don't get dancing girls. Girls doing dances for the camera. I get stuff on politics, home improvement, old TV shows. They said, yeah. Oh, that's on there. All of that stuff is on there.  What frightens me though? About my TikTok experiences up until a little while ago. I never really liked the videos.

[00:08:00] I just went to the for you feed. I gotta tell you, Craig, TikTok knew exactly who I was and exactly what I wanted to see.

Craig Peterson: They've been really good about that. That's why they've become so popular. They really can tell what you want. They watch what you're watching.

Jim Polito: Yeah.

Craig Peterson: The President has is what are they doing outside of that application?

Jim Polito: Yeah,

Craig Peterson: That's where our real problem comes in. So apparently, first of all, from a technology side, they have been caught multiple times stealing information from anybody that has TikTok installed on their phones. Most recently they were stealing your copy buffer.

[00:09:00] So let's say that you've gone to a website on your phone and it's a legitimate bank's website and say you haven't been tricked. You're on your bank's website and it's asking for your account number. So you go when you get your account number, cause you've got it in, hopefully, one password.

Maybe heaven forbid a spreadsheet or something. And so you copy it out of that. And then you go back to the bank's website because I'm not so good at remembering 15 digit numbers. So you go back to the bank's website and you paste it in. And then you go to TikTok. TikTok was caught grabbing the contents of your copy buffer. Automatically.

Jim Polito: Wow.

Craig Peterson: So that means any passwords you had copied, any bank information you had copied anything that was in your copy buffer TikTok grabbed. So that's just the lead.

Jim Polito: I'm just trying to think on my, I copy. They're going to get a lot of 'em. They're going to get a lot of my show prep because copy, cut, and paste that into an email.

[00:10:00] So I guess TikToks going to get my show prep. I o cut and paste sometimes when I get, when you're supposed to do a third-party verification when you're entering something, and you get texted you the number I will cut and paste that. Huh. So they're getting that, information. No, yeah. Websites I'm around. Okay. they're going to see me. Yeah.

It's not going to be that exciting for them.

Craig Peterson: They're also grabbing your personal information and then your name they'll track the GPS on it and know where your home address is.

[00:11:00] National Weather Service: The national weather service in Boston has issued a tornado warning for Northwestern Hampshire County in Western, Massachusetts, Northwestern Franklin County in Western, Massachusetts until 9:30 AM. Eastern daylight time. At 8:45 AM Eastern daylight time. So if you were thunder stolen, capable of producing a tornado was located over Middlefield or 13 miles East of Pittsfield.

Moving north at 45 miles per hour. Hazards include tornado. Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed damage to roof windows and vehicles will occur. Tree damage is likely. This dangerous storm will be near Cummington around 8:55 AM. Eastern daylight time Plainfield and Holly around 9:00 AM.

Eastern daylight time Charlamagne around nine, 10:00 AM. Eastern daylight time Monroe and roll around 9:15 AM. Eastern daylight time. He's around 9:20 AM. Eastern daylight time.

[00:12:00] Craig Peterson: He's back in China. They're going to have to change, to use Microsoft servers based in the US as well as these other countries. So there's a lot involved. It's going to take months. Show them the bottom line is everybody is very careful. We've, I've warned about TikTok forever. I am, but, TikTok, and say that they're confident in the longterm success of the app, they deny that they are sharing any data with their owners, the Chinese communist party. They already have started moving to the US. TikTok has nearly a thousand people here and plans to hire another 10,000 employees across the US. So all of those things would move under the Microsoft umbrella.

It's interesting. What can be done even if President Trump's? Yeah. Hey, you're gone. I'm banning you. At best it would be removed from the main app stores, but people still be able to get it. And as you pointed out the beginning of this whole thing, it is very addictive because they are so good at knowing what you want.

[00:13:00] Jim Polito: Yeah.

They are. They know exactly what I want. really. politics, everything. They're not sending me, videos that, praise AOC and Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden. Do you know what I mean? They're not, they're absolutely not. Wow. Okay. Craig, this is fascinating. and folks can always get more information from you.

How would you like them to do it?

Craig Peterson: How about, because I'm starting to do more training. We have spent the last two weeks and we've got the whole month of August devoted to putting together some more free pieces of training for people, as well as some paid courses. But yeah. Do you want to get these show notes? I send to Jim if you want to know about these pieces of training because we've got to bring people's level of knowledge up, go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe.

[00:14:00]You'll get my news, all of this stuff. Craigpeterson.com/subscribe.

All right, Craig, this has been fascinating. Thank you so much for your time. We'll catch up with you next week.

Hey, take care of Jim. Thanks.

All right.

You too. Okay. Folks, when we return a very important, fine

I just realized I forgot to introduce him at the beginning. Of course, Jim Pollito on WTAG/WHYN  big powerhouse stations down in Western and central mass.

Anyhow, it was a lot of fun and I really am getting busy here.

I'm excited. I've wanted to do this for years with some of these pieces of training and things. So keep an eye out and do make sure you go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, and we'll be back tomorrow.

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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing TikTok, President Trump, China and How Microsoft might play a part in a new US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand version. Here we go with Jack.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China's been doing.

Hey, I was on this morning with Mr. Jack Heath. We even got our friend, Justin, involved. He was talking about some of these conspiracy theories regarding the White House and what they want to get rid of Tik-Tok.

According to him, it's a campaign thing, but I think I straightened him out pretty well. This is Craig Peterson. I was on this morning, on New Hampshire today. And here we go with Jack Heath.

Jack Heath: Speaking of Tik-Tok. We're going to go to our tech talk guy to talk a little Tik-Tok with our tech talk guy. Get it. Tech talk.

Craig. Good morning. What's going on with this TikTok? I'm barely familiar with it. I know that one guy in New Hampshire though. I did remember this in the Keene area. I think does some kind of amusing, it takes images. I'm doing his music and it's he's got hundreds of thousands of TikTok viewers.

[00:01:00] Justin McIssac: My, my kids have TikTok. They're both insane for every

Jack Heath: tell us what it is, Justin, and then Craig can give us his take

Justin McIssac: It's this video app where a, you can take video and that sound, you can add images. You can do different effects, like a green screen in the background, and they get shared, shared, and commented on and stuff like that.

It is the latest craze. During quarantine, a lot of kids are doing different TikTok dances that go viral.

Jack Heath: In a creative tool with a lot of videos.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. Yeah,

Craig Peterson: Yeah and TikTok has built into it of all, a whole bunch of stuff. In fact, right now, if you're a musician, the place to be is TikTok.

It's the number one music site right now, generally speaking. There's a lot of competitions on it where it's a, let's do this, let's do that. And so people try and one option. The other person and the kids are having a lot of fun.

Jack Heath: My question in the news today, why is president speak with CEO of Microsoft about buying it?

And there's a question and concern about China [00:02:00] what's going on?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is very concerning, frankly, because it is an app and it's living on our phones and we're giving away some personal information and that's where the President's very concerned because remember now the socialist, the communist government in China has control of it every company in China. It is demanding many times from companies, complete client lists, et cetera, which is why I'm absolutely anti-Lenovo for instance, and Lenovo PCs.

But with TikTok what's been happening is the kids have been using it. So we're concerned about having their usernames and the GPS coordinates being sent to China. This means that they can easily tell where people live, who their contacts are, who they're connected to in the online world. Then that's a security problem.

Jack Heath: Interesting. I guess you think Microsoft is going to get involved here or not?

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Microsoft last week was very tight-lipped about it. This week. Microsoft has admitted that it's been talking with the whole of Whitehouse. Trying to figure out what to do here.

They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China has been doing. We caught TikTok just about three weeks ago grabbing your copy buffer every second. In fact, multiple times a second, which means if you had a password that you had copied and were pasting in, or you had a bank account number that you had copied TikTok now had a copy of your bank account number, anything that you had copied to paste on your phone, right?

Whether or not you're planning on pasting it into TikTok. Okay.

[00:04:00] So these other countries are worried about it as well. Microsoft is saying, yeah, we're not hot and heavy on this, but they're going to finish talking with Bytedance, which is the owner of TikTik no later than September 15th. Six weeks minimum before anything starts happening.

And then once it does start happening, it's going to take months because Microsoft says it's going to do a complete code review. Look at all of the software, look at what it's doing. But initially, what they're going to do is just try and move it all to the US on US servers.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. So a couple of things here, Jack.

[00:05:00] So first I think it was four to five months ago. There was a big TikTok fellowship in the US military. When troops would have downtime, they would do like silly TikTok things, which is basically what the app is ostensively for. So I think it was the US military warned all the troops to stop using TikTok. You can be giving away information to China, like where you are and things like that. Yeah, which you don't jeopardize your own different countries to have. The other thing is it's opened up a bit of a debate as maybe not a debate, but a discussion. You're giving away your information all time while you're also giving it away to Jeff Bezos and to Mark Zuckerberg and all these other people. At what point are you not giving all your data away to everybody anyway.

The third thing was. I don't think we mentioned this. The president over the weekend on Friday said he was going to ban TikTok

Jack Heath: Right. That's another part of this.

Justin McIssac: Just wipe it out. Yeah. And, so two things from that, some of that I believe has to do with giving data away to China. The other thing was there was a viral movement on TikTok to try and, kinda mess with the different rallies. I think they got the president's attention.

Jack Heath: I think there's another story. In the middle of everything you just said, Justin and Craig, and that is, I don't have a playbook for the Biden camp or the Trump camp, but I've noticed, and the President did it the other day when he was talking about Herman Cains passing.

When he read, he went back to the China virus. I don't know if you caught it, and I predict, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it okay. Analysis here. As we get closer to this general election, post conventions in the, really intensifying. 2016, who talked about taking it on China, who talked about China.

[00:06:00] I think President Trump is going to get, I think you just, you heard it here. It's saying right or wrong. I'm not asking you again, enter politics, but the ads that are coming out, Paul said this batch of ads you take on Joe Biden, watch for the whole China piece, right or wrong becoming a more prevalent part of the Trump campaign. That's why he mentioned the TikTok thing, the virus, stealing our intelligence, all the stuff about China. I just think it's going to be a big part of the general election. I may be wrong. There's some commentary

Craig Peterson: I think your right on that. A good reason to, but I've seen it firsthand. China's stealing our stuff.

It's been incredible. I've seen businesses completely turned into nothing. Destroyed because China stole their information.

Justin McIssac: Jack, one thing you are saying the name wrong. Its JINA.

Jack Heath: We come back. We're going to check-in

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Hey everybody. Thanks for joining me here on the podcast to make sure you go online.

You got to subscribe. We have been very busy putting some stuff together for you. Go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Right now. So you can find out about all these different free pieces of training and lives. We've got coming up. We've been working hard on getting these put together for you, and they really are going to help you with your cybersecurity in business and if you're a home user, a lot of this stuff applies to you as well.

Take care, everybody we'll be back tomorrow.

Welcome,

Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing TikTok, President Trump, China and How Microsoft might play a part in a new US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand version. Here we go with Jack.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit

- CraigPeterson.com

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China's been doing.

Hey, I was on this morning with Mr. Jack Heath. We even got our friend, Justin, involved. He was talking about some of these conspiracy theories regarding the White House and what they want to get rid of Tik-Tok.

According to him, it's a campaign thing, but I think I straightened him out pretty well. This is Craig Peterson. I was on this morning, on New Hampshire today. And here we go with Jack Heath.

Jack Heath: Speaking of Tik-Tok. We're going to go to our tech talk guy to talk a little Tik-Tok with our tech talk guy. Get it. Tech talk.

Craig. Good morning. What's going on with this TikTok? I'm barely familiar with it. I know that one guy in New Hampshire though. I did remember this in the Keene area. I think does some kind of amusing, it takes images. I'm doing his music and it's he's got hundreds of thousands of TikTok viewers.

[00:01:00] Justin McIssac: My, my kids have TikTok. They're both insane for every

Jack Heath: tell us what it is, Justin, and then Craig can give us his take

Justin McIssac: It's this video app where a, you can take video and that sound, you can add images. You can do different effects, like a green screen in the background, and they get shared, shared, and commented on and stuff like that.

It is the latest craze. During quarantine, a lot of kids are doing different TikTok dances that go viral.

Jack Heath:  In a creative tool with a lot of videos.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. Yeah,

Craig Peterson: Yeah and TikTok has built into it of all, a whole bunch of stuff. In fact, right now, if you're a musician, the place to be is TikTok.

It's the number one music site right now, generally speaking. There's a lot of competitions on it where it's a, let's do this, let's do that. And so people try and one option. The other person and the kids are having a lot of fun.

Jack Heath: My question in the news today, why is president speak with CEO of Microsoft about buying it?

And there's a question and concern about China [00:02:00] what's going on?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is very concerning, frankly, because it is an app and it's living on our phones and we're giving away some personal information and that's where the President's very concerned because remember now the socialist, the communist government in China has control of it every company in China. It is demanding many times from companies, complete client lists, et cetera, which is why I'm absolutely anti-Lenovo for instance, and Lenovo PCs.

But with TikTok what's been happening is the kids have been using it. So we're concerned about having their usernames and the GPS coordinates being sent to China. This means that they can easily tell where people live, who their contacts are, who they're connected to in the online world. Then that's a security problem.

Jack Heath: Interesting. I guess you think Microsoft is going to get involved here or not?

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Microsoft last week was very tight-lipped about it. This week. Microsoft has admitted that it's been talking with the whole of Whitehouse. Trying to figure out what to do here.

They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China has been doing. We caught TikTok just about three weeks ago grabbing your copy buffer every second. In fact, multiple times a second, which means if you had a password that you had copied and were pasting in, or you had a bank account number that you had copied TikTok now had a copy of your bank account number, anything that you had copied to paste on your phone, right?

Whether or not you're planning on pasting it into TikTok. Okay.

[00:04:00] So these other countries are worried about it as well.  Microsoft is saying, yeah, we're not hot and heavy on this, but they're going to finish talking with Bytedance, which is the owner of TikTik no later than  September 15th. Six weeks minimum before anything starts happening.

And then once it does start happening, it's going to take months because Microsoft says it's going to do a complete code review. Look at all of the software, look at what it's doing. But initially, what they're going to do is just try and move it all to the US on US servers.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. So a couple of things here, Jack.

[00:05:00] So first I think it was four to five months ago. There was a big TikTok fellowship in the US military. When troops would have downtime, they would do like silly TikTok things, which is basically what the app is ostensively for. So I think it was the US military warned all the troops to stop using TikTok. You can be giving away information to China, like where you are and things like that. Yeah, which you don't jeopardize your own different countries to have. The other thing is it's opened up a bit of a debate as maybe not a debate, but a discussion. You're giving away your information all time while you're also giving it away to Jeff Bezos and to Mark Zuckerberg and all these other people. At what point are you not giving all your data away to everybody anyway.

The third thing was. I don't think we mentioned this. The president over the weekend on Friday said he was going to ban TikTok

Jack Heath: Right. That's another part of this.

Justin McIssac: Just wipe it out. Yeah. And, so two things from that, some of that I believe has to do with giving data away to China. The other thing was there was a viral movement on TikTok to try and, kinda mess with the different rallies. I think they got the president's attention.

Jack Heath: I think there's another story. In the middle of everything you just said, Justin and Craig, and that is, I don't have a playbook for the Biden camp or the Trump camp, but I've noticed, and the President did it the other day when he was talking about Herman Cains passing.

When he read, he went back to the China virus. I don't know if you caught it, and I predict, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it okay. Analysis here. As we get closer to this general election, post conventions in the, really intensifying. 2016, who talked about taking it on China, who talked about China.

[00:06:00] I think President Trump is going to get, I think you just, you heard it here. It's saying right or wrong. I'm not asking you again, enter politics, but the ads that are coming out, Paul said this batch of ads you take on Joe Biden, watch for the whole China piece, right or wrong becoming a more prevalent part of the Trump campaign. That's why he mentioned the TikTok thing, the virus, stealing our intelligence, all the stuff about China. I just think it's going to be a big part of the general election. I may be wrong. There's some commentary

Craig Peterson: I think your right on that. A good reason to, but I've seen it firsthand. China's stealing our stuff.

It's been incredible. I've seen businesses completely turned into nothing. Destroyed because China stole their information.

Justin McIssac: Jack, one thing you are saying the name wrong. Its JINA.

Jack Heath: We come back. We're going to check-in

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Hey everybody. Thanks for joining me here on the podcast to make sure you go online.

You got to subscribe. We have been very busy putting some stuff together for you. Go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Right now. So you can find out about all these different free pieces of training and lives. We've got coming up. We've been working hard on getting these put together for you, and they really are going to help you with your cybersecurity in business and if you're a home user, a lot of this stuff applies to you as well.

Take care, everybody we'll be back tomorrow.

Welcome,

Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing TikTok, President Trump, China and How Microsoft might play a part in a new US/Canada/Australia/New Zealand version. Here we go with Jack.

These and more tech tips, news, and updates visit

- CraigPeterson.com

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China's been doing.

Hey, I was on this morning with Mr. Jack Heath. We even got our friend, Justin, involved. He was talking about some of these conspiracy theories regarding the White House and what they want to get rid of Tik-Tok.

According to him, it's a campaign thing, but I think I straightened him out pretty well. This is Craig Peterson. I was on this morning, on New Hampshire today. And here we go with Jack Heath.

Jack Heath: Speaking of Tik-Tok. We're going to go to our tech talk guy to talk a little Tik-Tok with our tech talk guy. Get it. Tech talk.

Craig. Good morning. What's going on with this TikTok? I'm barely familiar with it. I know that one guy in New Hampshire though. I did remember this in the Keene area. I think does some kind of amusing, it takes images. I'm doing his music and it's he's got hundreds of thousands of TikTok viewers.

[00:01:00] Justin McIssac: My, my kids have TikTok. They're both insane for every

Jack Heath: tell us what it is, Justin, and then Craig can give us his take

Justin McIssac: It's this video app where a, you can take video and that sound, you can add images. You can do different effects, like a green screen in the background, and they get shared, shared, and commented on and stuff like that.

It is the latest craze. During quarantine, a lot of kids are doing different TikTok dances that go viral.

Jack Heath:  In a creative tool with a lot of videos.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. Yeah,

Craig Peterson: Yeah and TikTok has built into it of all, a whole bunch of stuff. In fact, right now, if you're a musician, the place to be is TikTok.

It's the number one music site right now, generally speaking. There's a lot of competitions on it where it's a, let's do this, let's do that. And so people try and one option. The other person and the kids are having a lot of fun.

Jack Heath: My question in the news today, why is president speak with CEO of Microsoft about buying it?

And there's a question and concern about China [00:02:00] what's going on?

Craig Peterson: Yeah, this is very concerning, frankly, because it is an app and it's living on our phones and we're giving away some personal information and that's where the President's very concerned because remember now the socialist, the communist government in China has control of it every company in China. It is demanding many times from companies, complete client lists, et cetera, which is why I'm absolutely anti-Lenovo for instance, and Lenovo PCs.

But with TikTok what's been happening is the kids have been using it. So we're concerned about having their usernames and the GPS coordinates being sent to China. This means that they can easily tell where people live, who their contacts are, who they're connected to in the online world. Then that's a security problem.

Jack Heath: Interesting. I guess you think Microsoft is going to get involved here or not?

[00:03:00] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Microsoft last week was very tight-lipped about it. This week. Microsoft has admitted that it's been talking with the whole of Whitehouse. Trying to figure out what to do here.

They would take over TikTok. They would literally own it and operate it in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, other countries, which are really concerned about what China has been doing. We caught TikTok just about three weeks ago grabbing your copy buffer every second. In fact, multiple times a second, which means if you had a password that you had copied and were pasting in, or you had a bank account number that you had copied TikTok now had a copy of your bank account number, anything that you had copied to paste on your phone, right?

Whether or not you're planning on pasting it into TikTok. Okay.

[00:04:00] So these other countries are worried about it as well.  Microsoft is saying, yeah, we're not hot and heavy on this, but they're going to finish talking with Bytedance, which is the owner of TikTik no later than  September 15th. Six weeks minimum before anything starts happening.

And then once it does start happening, it's going to take months because Microsoft says it's going to do a complete code review. Look at all of the software, look at what it's doing. But initially, what they're going to do is just try and move it all to the US on US servers.

Justin McIssac: Yeah. So a couple of things here, Jack.

[00:05:00] So first I think it was four to five months ago. There was a big TikTok fellowship in the US military. When troops would have downtime, they would do like silly TikTok things, which is basically what the app is ostensively for. So I think it was the US military warned all the troops to stop using TikTok. You can be giving away information to China, like where you are and things like that. Yeah, which you don't jeopardize your own different countries to have. The other thing is it's opened up a bit of a debate as maybe not a debate, but a discussion. You're giving away your information all time while you're also giving it away to Jeff Bezos and to Mark Zuckerberg and all these other people. At what point are you not giving all your data away to everybody anyway.

The third thing was. I don't think we mentioned this. The president over the weekend on Friday said he was going to ban TikTok

Jack Heath: Right. That's another part of this.

Justin McIssac: Just wipe it out. Yeah. And, so two things from that, some of that I believe has to do with giving data away to China. The other thing was there was a viral movement on TikTok to try and, kinda mess with the different rallies. I think they got the president's attention.

Jack Heath: I think there's another story. In the middle of everything you just said, Justin and Craig, and that is, I don't have a playbook for the Biden camp or the Trump camp, but I've noticed, and the President did it the other day when he was talking about Herman Cains passing.

When he read, he went back to the China virus. I don't know if you caught it, and I predict, and I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying it okay. Analysis here. As we get closer to this general election, post conventions in the, really intensifying. 2016, who talked about taking it on China, who talked about China.

[00:06:00] I think President Trump is going to get, I think you just, you heard it here. It's saying right or wrong. I'm not asking you again, enter politics, but the ads that are coming out, Paul said this batch of ads you take on Joe Biden, watch for the whole China piece, right or wrong becoming a more prevalent part of the Trump campaign. That's why he mentioned the TikTok thing, the virus, stealing our intelligence, all the stuff about China. I just think it's going to be a big part of the general election. I may be wrong. There's some commentary

Craig Peterson: I think your right on that. A good reason to, but I've seen it firsthand. China's stealing our stuff.

It's been incredible. I've seen businesses completely turned into nothing. Destroyed because China stole their information.

Justin McIssac: Jack, one thing you are saying the name wrong. Its JINA.

Jack Heath: We come back. We're going to check-in

[00:07:00] Craig Peterson: Hey everybody. Thanks for joining me here on the podcast to make sure you go online.

You got to subscribe. We have been very busy putting some stuff together for you. Go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Right now. So you can find out about all these different free pieces of training and lives. We've got coming up. We've been working hard on getting these put together for you, and they really are going to help you with your cybersecurity in business and if you're a home user, a lot of this stuff applies to you as well.

Take care, everybody we'll be back tomorrow.

Welcome!

Craig discusses the truth about the hyped-up statistics that the entire pandemic was based on. The epidemiological methods of Neil Ferguson from Imperial College were questionable from the get-go.

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00:00:00] Hey everybody. Welcome back. Craig Peterson here on WGAN. I am going to talk about something that's going to upset a few people know I'm sure. I can hear. Now, there was a great article this week from the city journal. City journal.org is where you'll find it online. CJ's what they call themselves. They've got a lot of interesting stuff really about London, about the UK, but here also in the US. They've got the eye-on news, the politics of fear, talking about economists and what's happening here. It just goes on and on. They've got a lot of very cool stuff. A bunch of things, Manhattan Institute as well.

In this particular case, they're talking about Britain's hard lesson about blind trust in

[00:01:00] scientific authorities. It was Chris von Csefalvay who wrote this article and I have it up on my website, as well as you'll find it at the city journal. This article goes on for quite a while. it goes into a lot of background on this noted epidemiologist by the name of Neil Ferguson. Neil Ferguson and all of these other epidemiologists from around the world actually met last October and they did some pandemic planning.

What do they need to be concerned about? What might happen if there was some sort of a pandemic and what does it all mean? They went through a whole bunch of stuff. It's called event 201. You can look it up online and it's pandemic tabletop exercise. They looked at a bunch of different scenarios

[00:02:00] based on pandemics that might occur.

So you get these guys like Neil Ferguson who go to these planning practices if you will like the event two Oh one and they get up and bloviate and they talk about it. How we've seen this before the H1N1, Swine flu, SARS, MERS, Ebola, and here's what's happened in the past.

They try and say while this was happening in the past. It's probably gonna come out along the same lines in the future. No, I'm simplifying this. I get it. Okay. But that's the basics of what they do.

So they all sit around and they talk about, what might happen? How might it be different? How could we have done something better in the past? I'm glad they do these things.

But part of the problem that comes from these, is you get people who are all of a sudden

[00:03:00] elevated and they're elevated without peer review. Now peer review, I think, is something that's really important. I'm not talking about P I E R. This is nothing to do without in, in the ocean, on the docs or the piers. Peer review, according to Wikipedia is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work. It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field.

So in other words, peer review is where you have multiple people who understand the field. In this case, the epidemiology, and can review the work that was done and then say, yes, this is valid. Now, many people said, "Oh no, this is coming on so fast. We just can't peer review. we have to go.

[00:04:00] We have to do we have to go. We have to do", and I can understand that right upfront.

We didn't really know. all we really knew was China was lying to us. We've known that for a long time. Although that seems to be news to CNN and various other organizations like the World Health Organization is controlled by China.

But when that's about the only thing we knew, so we said, okay, let's try and protect everybody. Everybody stays home. Of course, totally crashed the economy worldwide. the very bad, very high impact here.

Now Neil Ferguson came up with this report. He called it to report nine and it was titled the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce COVID-19 mortality in healthcare demand.

He used some computational models that he had put together 13 years ago that had not

[00:05:00] been, you guessed it, peer-reviewed. We'll tell you a little bit more about his code here in a few minutes, but he used these computational models that he had put together to predict that absent social distancing and other mitigation measures Britain would suffer a half a million deaths from the Coronavirus and the US would suffer 2.2 million deaths.

He also said that even with mitigation measures in place, the epidemic would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems most notably intensive care units being overwhelmed many times over, so that freaked out parliament in the UK, freaked out prime minister, Boris Johnson. He ended up imposing a national quarantine.

Of course, the US did the same. We stopped flights from China, except for US citizens who could be repatriated. Same

[00:06:00] thing's true with those holding green cards, you could come back into the US as well. At the time everything looked to be pretty solid, and now we're hearing things a lot different.

So here's the bottom line. You're the UK scientific advisory group for emergencies. This is the guys that were tasked with handling the coronavirus crisis said that the model was implemented in thousands of lines of undocumented code written in C. Which is a language you never write this kind of code in. It's what I spent decades writing kernel-level code in. Okay. It is not for researchers. C is for professional programmers. They also said that he refused to publish the original source code. The Imperial college has refused freedom of information act

[00:07:00] requesting the original source code. The Imperial college says the public interest is not sufficiently compelling. Yeah.

Yeah. We only crashed the whole world economy. Ferguson himself even admits that the code was written 13 years ago to model an influenza pandemic. So it raises a bunch of questions here, other than Ferguson's reputation. What did the UK government have in front of them to assess the model and the implementation?

They certainly didn't have peer review. How did they validate the model? What safeguards were implemented to ensure it was correctly applied? This code is a parent, a tangled mess of undocumented steps with no discernible overall structure.

That's according to people that have seen it, even experienced developers would have to make a serious effort

[00:08:00] to understand it. It would not pass a cursory review by a Ph.D. committee in computational epidemiology. In other words, It's a total farce.

This article is written by the way, by a virologist, and part of what he does every day is modeling complex processes. So his opinion, which is what I just read to you here, has some weight behind it, frankly.

So apparently the Imperial college and Ferguson, just used what's called the incumbency effect. Wow. The imperial college has a good reputation and Ferguson has a decent reputation. Therefore, we're going to accept this one.

In fact, they should never have accepted any of this stuff. Ferguson, Imperial college completely refused to examine any of the taxpayer-funded code. None of the

[00:09:00] taxpayer-funded code. this is completely contrary to the UK, certainly to the United States who also followed along. This is what Dr. Fauci followed. These are the things he was saying at the same time Fauci was saying them.

This is just incredible. I really like here how the Manhattan Institute for policy research calls Ferguson's arguments only a little better than the dog ate my homework. Oh, and by the way, Ferguson resigned from the Imperial College task force because he apparently had a tryst with a married woman and did not follow social distancing requirements in the UK and the social distance scene guidelines that he had published and presented to her Majesty's government. So there you

[00:10:00] go.

The whole thing, total farce, an absolute farce. Now obviously we have people dying and that's never good, but we have it every year. What has really put the icing on the cake?

For me personally, they started saying, "Hey, don't pay attention to the comparisons of a normal flu season to Corona" because I didn't know this, these are my words. We've been lying about the number of flu deaths every year". Yes. Yes, indeed. They have these tens of thousands of flu deaths that they've been counting every year.

Apparently a bad flu year is only about 1500 actual flu deaths. So now they're saying. ignore the flu deaths statistics. We've been publishing for a few decades because we've been lying to you, but we're not going to say that. Look at the COVID-19 deaths, which are

[00:11:00] also not COVID-19 deaths.

They have not been doing autopsies to check to see if they actually died of COVID-19. There examples of this, including the one child under the age of 18 that had died in this one city. Turned out, yeah no. COVID-19, but it was reported as a COVID-19. I don't know if we'll ever figure this mess out.

Anyhow, have a great week. Stay out of trouble. I'll be back next Saturday at 1:00 PM. I'll be on with Matt Gagnon on Wednesday morning at seven 34.

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