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

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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning to discuss Apple and their announcement to use their own chips over Intel.  We also got more on the Twitter Hack and If you can believe how dumb some hackers are -- some Iranian hackers posted their training videos on IBM servers.  Here we go with Jim.

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

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Craig Peterson: That's how they did it. They uploaded it to a cloud server, which was not secured.  IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training. Hey, we've never said that hackers were smart. Can you believe these guys from Iran? This is amazing.

[00:00:24] Hey, Craig Peterson here and I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning in Western mass in Springfield and Worcester. I guess we should give the hackers a bit of a break, right? They're human too.

[00:00:38]Jim Polito:  Last week we had a twofer with Craig, Peterson had him back for that whole Twitter hack thing.

[00:00:45] Well, this is his regular time and there's nothing regular or ordinary about this segment. I'm talking about our tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

[00:00:57] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. Yeah, In a follow-up to Thursday where we were talking about this whole Twitter hack. The bottom line right now is it looks like it was a couple of kids that did this whole hack of you named them? Right. The famous accounts. It's just mind-boggling. What could be done if the bad guys really put their minds to it? It could have been terribly destructive.

[00:01:23] Jim Polito: Well, isn't this like, um, uh, Matthew Broderick and, um, you know, uh, what was it? War games, the eighties movie. He was able to hack into NORAD, you know, as a kid. Well, these two kids hacking into Twitter.

[00:01:41] Craig Peterson: Yeah, that's basically what it was kind of an inside job on top of it all. That was a great movie, by the way, war games. Of course, even back then, I remember seeing it theater and I was sitting next to my buddy, ok no he can't do that. No, that's impossible.

[00:01:55] It is absolutely happening and it's happening to all of us. And the bad guys as always are taking advantage of what's happening right now. Which of course is still this COVID thing.

[00:02:07] Jim Polito: Yeah. I mean, it's all over. I, I wanted to lighten it up because this made me happy when you sent it to me that some Iranian spies and we know the Iranians, like the North Koreans, like the Russians, like the Chinese, they have serious hackers working for them anyway, that some Iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of them hacking.

[00:02:31] So almost like giving the evidence there. What, what's the story?

[00:02:37] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Said that absolutely something here. So IBM apparently had been monitoring this server. That's out in the cloud. Now, this is a word of warning to businesses because I see this all of the time, businesses look at the cloud as, Oh my God, this is a panacea. I'm going to be safe the cloud is wonderful. It's going to save me money and this is going to provide security by the way, none of which is necessarily true. Okay. It's not all fall, but most of the bigger businesses have moved to the cloud have now moved back to their own data centers for many of these core functions. So what happened here is Iran as a bunch of hackers working other they're not doing anything that's terribly sophisticated, which is. The disappointing, but it's also a word of warning here. Not terribly sophisticated, but it needs a lot of people in order to do it.

[00:03:36] I've been watching that C S E E show that Apple plus, you know, Apple TV thing they've got out.

[00:03:43] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:03:43]Craig Peterson: How there's just all of this manual labor going on. And I watched it too, a documentary, its called hot roads, and it's all of these roads all over the world. So each hour they're talking. What about something?

[00:03:58] And this particular one was in Bangladesh. It's cheaper to have. Manual labor, they're digging the holes, carrying the dirt out, et cetera, to do road repairs than it is to bring a Digger in. That's what this reminds me of in Iran. They have tons of people, China as well, tons of people doing not terribly sophisticated attacks but being successful, nonetheless.

[00:04:27] So in this case, these guys apparently recorded videos of them hacking into Google accounts, Yahoo accounts, and others. Exactly how they did it. They. Well, did it to a cloud server, which was not secured. IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training.

[00:04:53] So I don't even know where to begin with all the lessons we can learn from this one.

[00:04:58] Jim Polito: I know we're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru who really pulls back the curtain. Craig, I will say this I've learned one thing from you in the years we've been together. There just isn't enough being done.

[00:05:15] Um, it seems to me like it takes. Uh, for a company to really have an embarrassing hack for them really to get their act together, but then they take corrective actions, but then the further they get from that incident, the morning they slip into their old bad habits, again, kind of like we do, you know, you get a speeding ticket then, you know, for the next month or so you're very careful about how you drive and this and that.

[00:05:48] And then. And then after a while, you know, you kind of forget that it seems to me to be the same thing in a corporate mentality.

[00:05:56] Craig Peterson: It really is. And compare corporations. To government. Okay. I'll look at it. Land. They had ransomware. They could not collect taxes. People could not pay their water bills.

[00:06:10] They could not register their cars. So Atlanta was of course a bill. They had some of the best IGS, smartest security people in the world, working there in Atlanta. And so they closed up the whole supposedly, right. They spent millions of dollars. They paid ransoms and then a month or six weeks later, boom.

[00:06:31] Another ransomware attack that successful and knocks Atlanta off the arrogance. My recollection is that happened to them three times in the course of fewer than 12 months. So I don't know if they just do, does that mean that the city government just never learn their lesson? You're right. About many businesses, you know, unfortunately, nowadays, if you are a business and you get hacked, the odds are.

[00:07:00] Better than 50%, you will lose your business. Now we'll look at people that are, you know, our age and well, you know, you're in your fifties or sixties or seventies, and you have been building this business your whole life because this business is your retirement. You're going to milk it as a cash cow, or you're going to sell it to someone, a merger and have that wonderful little exit that happens.

[00:07:26] And all of a sudden you're hacked. And you lose that whole business. There goes your retirement there goes everything. Yeah. So you're right. We're not paying enough attention. And part of the problem is, yeah, there aren't enough people that know about it and I'm going to do something about it. I've already started.

[00:07:47] I've been redoing my studio here. I met this last weekend with a great editor guy, video guy. And, uh, I'm going to be putting out little daily pieces of training for people. Absolutely free, right. Little daily pieces of training that they can subscribe to watch the video, listen to it because you're right as usual, Jim

[00:08:10] Jim Polito: Well, I'm not right. It's usual. I just, you know, I'm paying attention to what the tech talker who says, I mean, it's kind of like regurgitating, you know, it's like a trained monkey. Come on. But anyway, um, let me ask you this part because I know where it's going to lead. So you sent me some information on, on Apple's new Mac book.

[00:08:31] That's going to be coming out and you know, I mean, you, you, you pay more for that, but often it's you get what you pay for? So apparently they're new MacBook is going to solve the biggest problem that people have with working remotely. Is, is that just, you know, an advertising tagline or is that, is that the real deal?

[00:08:57] Craig Peterson: No, this is absolutely the real deal. There's a great article from inc magazine. I'll be putting up on my website and you can follow it too. If you're on my email list at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, you'll get it on Saturday. But, um, The biggest problems people are having, working from home, have to do with security and they also have to do with the equipment that they have at home.

[00:09:21] How long does it last Apple announced that they are completely ditching Intel processors. Now what that means is wow. Completely gone. Goodbye. Okay. So that little relationship is over.

[00:09:37] Jim Polito: That's. over Wow.

[00:09:39] Craig Peterson: I  remember on the front cover of PC magazine, where they said the best.

[00:09:43] PC for windows is a Mac because the hardware is so good.

[00:09:49] Kind of like what you were saying. If you have a tit for tat comparison of a, I have a windows laptop and an Apple laptop, both those are Intel, let's say, and you compare all of the hardware inside, how long it's going to last Apple when hands down.

[00:10:05] Right now, in fact, the average lifespan of a windows laptop that you'll buy. Now that includes the ones you'll get at the big box stores. The average, lifetime is seven months.

[00:10:18] Yeah. The average lifetime of the Apple laptop is five to 10 years. Okay. So Apple has said, we need more battery life. We need more processing power. So they're taking the chips. They've been developing themselves that are in the iPad Pro, which is as fast as most PCs that are out there. So they're taking the chips from the iPad and they're putting them into laptops and we're going to see laptops from Apple two of them by the end of this year, not using any Intel chips. Using chips made by Apple, designed by Apple ball actually made by contractors,.But designed by it Apple, and they will last you more than a day. So you get Apple security, which is really, really good. Yeah. You get a laptop that lasts all day long and Intel is left holding the bag.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: Oh, wow. And I am sure that, you know, all those years they used Intel, uh, they, you know, we're paying attention to exactly how that chip works when they develop their own. I'm sure.

[00:11:31] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah, well,, they're using a standard chip, um, basic design architecture that even Microsoft is using for some of their embedded systems and, you know, the surface tablet type things too. So, uh, Intel just hasn't kept up. That's why they switched. Remember Apple didn't use to be Intel-based. It used to be a power=PC based. Uh, they, they switched, and before that, it was Motorola based.

[00:11:56] Jim Polito: Now here's the quick question. And then we've got to wrap up, obviously, as I said earlier, you get what you pay for Apple is a lot more expensive.

[00:12:06] Yeah, it is. Yeah. What would you, what would you say the different, you know, like the basic, uh, um, laptop, like from HP versus the basic laptop from Apple price-wise.

[00:12:21] Craig Peterson: Well, I don't know that that's a great comparison because of what you need to do is be comparing the HP or the Dell enterprise laptops.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: You're right. Okay. So what's the difference? Yeah. What is the differential there?

[00:12:37] Craig Peterson: It's in the noise. You can right now get an Apple laptop, a Mac book air for under a thousand dollars. And I think most people would be fair. Yeah, I'm very happy with it. And they can go all the way up to about 5,000. If you want something that will do edit a movie.

[00:12:55] Okay. If video, huge blockbuster movie.

[00:12:59] Jim Polito: Yeah, but if you just want to look cool and Starbucks, like you're writing a screenplay, you can do it for under a thousand dollars. You know with the little light-up Apple on the other side of your laptop, Craig as usual great information as usual.

[00:13:16] So let's get, let's get folks a way that they can get more information from you. How do you want them to do it? Absolutely.

[00:13:24] Craig Peterson: .Well, first of all, I think I'm still on the air on these stations on, is it Saturday at 11. Its Saturday, I believe at 11 o'clock I do a deeper dive into a lot of these it's an hour-long, which is great.

[00:13:38] And if you have any questions, if you want these little training videos, they are going to, people are telling me they're there changing their lives if they have the mind, but no longer all worried about it. But if you want that, just go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. That'll get you in my newsletter. You'll be able to find out about these.

[00:13:58] I'm starting to do more lives as Facebook lives. I'm even Jim. I'm planning on doing some of our morning hits here on Facebook live and then I'll stay on and answer questions.

[00:14:13] Jim Polito: Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna owe you for that. That's gonna open me up to a wide audience. I'm going to owe you for that. All right. So, Craig, uh, this is all great stuff as usual. I appreciate everything you're doing. And uh, we look forward to talking with you again next Tuesday, sir.

[00:14:32] Alright, take care, Jim. Bye. Bye.

[00:14:34] Hmm. Bye-bye. Alright. When we return a final word, you're listening to the Jim Polito show from my kitchen with pops who's quiet right now. This is your safe space.

[00:14:44] Craig Peterson: Yes, it's true. I am working on all of that. I'm just jazzed as can be anyhow. This is going to be fantastic. So I'll make sure you're on my email list. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. All right, everybody, take care. I'm going to be on the road here for a few days. So, uh, well, we'll see how it goes. If you send me an email at [email protected], it might take me a little bit longer than usual to respond, but I always do take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Welcome!

Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning to discuss Apple and their announcement to use their own chips over Intel.  We also got more on the Twitter Hack and If you can believe how dumb some hackers are -- some Iranian hackers posted their training videos on IBM servers.  Here we go with Jim.

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

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

Craig Peterson: That's how they did it. They uploaded it to a cloud server, which was not secured.  IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training. Hey, we've never said that hackers were smart. Can you believe these guys from Iran? This is amazing.

[00:00:24] Hey, Craig Peterson here and I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning in Western mass in Springfield and Worcester. I guess we should give the hackers a bit of a break, right? They're human too.

[00:00:38]Jim Polito:  Last week we had a twofer with Craig, Peterson had him back for that whole Twitter hack thing.

[00:00:45] Well, this is his regular time and there's nothing regular or ordinary about this segment. I'm talking about our tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

[00:00:57] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. Yeah, In a follow-up to Thursday where we were talking about this whole Twitter hack. The bottom line right now is it looks like it was a couple of kids that did this whole hack of you named them? Right. The famous accounts. It's just mind-boggling. What could be done if the bad guys really put their minds to it? It could have been terribly destructive.

[00:01:23] Jim Polito: Well, isn't this like, um, uh, Matthew Broderick and, um, you know, uh, what was it? War games, the eighties movie. He was able to hack into NORAD, you know, as a kid. Well, these two kids hacking into Twitter.

[00:01:41] Craig Peterson: Yeah, that's basically what it was kind of an inside job on top of it all. That was a great movie, by the way, war games. Of course, even back then, I remember seeing it theater and I was sitting next to my buddy, ok no he can't do that. No, that's impossible.

[00:01:55] It is absolutely happening and it's happening to all of us. And the bad guys as always are taking advantage of what's happening right now. Which of course is still this COVID thing.

[00:02:07] Jim Polito: Yeah. I mean, it's all over. I, I wanted to lighten it up because this made me happy when you sent it to me that some Iranian spies and we know the Iranians, like the North Koreans, like the Russians, like the Chinese, they have serious hackers working for them anyway, that some Iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of them hacking.

[00:02:31] So almost like giving the evidence there. What, what's the story?

[00:02:37] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Said that absolutely something here. So IBM apparently had been monitoring this server. That's out in the cloud. Now, this is a word of warning to businesses because I see this all of the time, businesses look at the cloud as, Oh my God, this is a panacea. I'm going to be safe the cloud is wonderful. It's going to save me money and this is going to provide security by the way, none of which is necessarily true. Okay. It's not all fall, but most of the bigger businesses have moved to the cloud have now moved back to their own data centers for many of these core functions. So what happened here is Iran as a bunch of hackers working other they're not doing anything that's terribly sophisticated, which is. The disappointing, but it's also a word of warning here. Not terribly sophisticated, but it needs a lot of people in order to do it.

[00:03:36] I've been watching that C S E E show that Apple plus, you know, Apple TV thing they've got out.

[00:03:43] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:03:43]Craig Peterson: How there's just all of this manual labor going on. And I watched it too, a documentary, its called hot roads, and it's all of these roads all over the world. So each hour they're talking. What about something?

[00:03:58] And this particular one was in Bangladesh. It's cheaper to have. Manual labor, they're digging the holes, carrying the dirt out, et cetera, to do road repairs than it is to bring a Digger in. That's what this reminds me of in Iran. They have tons of people, China as well, tons of people doing not terribly sophisticated attacks but being successful, nonetheless.

[00:04:27] So in this case, these guys apparently recorded videos of them hacking into Google accounts, Yahoo accounts, and others. Exactly how they did it. They. Well, did it to a cloud server, which was not secured. IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training.

[00:04:53] So I don't even know where to begin with all the lessons we can learn from this one.

[00:04:58] Jim Polito: I know we're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru who really pulls back the curtain. Craig, I will say this I've learned one thing from you in the years we've been together. There just isn't enough being done.

[00:05:15] Um, it seems to me like it takes. Uh, for a company to really have an embarrassing hack for them really to get their act together, but then they take corrective actions, but then the further they get from that incident, the morning they slip into their old bad habits, again, kind of like we do, you know, you get a speeding ticket then, you know, for the next month or so you're very careful about how you drive and this and that.

[00:05:48] And then. And then after a while, you know, you kind of forget that it seems to me to be the same thing in a corporate mentality.

[00:05:56] Craig Peterson: It really is. And compare corporations. To government. Okay. I'll look at it. Land. They had ransomware. They could not collect taxes. People could not pay their water bills.

[00:06:10] They could not register their cars. So Atlanta was of course a bill. They had some of the best IGS, smartest security people in the world, working there in Atlanta. And so they closed up the whole supposedly, right. They spent millions of dollars. They paid ransoms and then a month or six weeks later, boom.

[00:06:31] Another ransomware attack that successful and knocks Atlanta off the arrogance. My recollection is that happened to them three times in the course of fewer than 12 months. So I don't know if they just do, does that mean that the city government just never learn their lesson? You're right. About many businesses, you know, unfortunately, nowadays, if you are a business and you get hacked, the odds are.

[00:07:00] Better than 50%, you will lose your business. Now we'll look at people that are, you know, our age and well, you know, you're in your fifties or sixties or seventies, and you have been building this business your whole life because this business is your retirement. You're going to milk it as a cash cow, or you're going to sell it to someone, a merger and have that wonderful little exit that happens.

[00:07:26] And all of a sudden you're hacked. And you lose that whole business. There goes your retirement there goes everything. Yeah. So you're right. We're not paying enough attention. And part of the problem is, yeah, there aren't enough people that know about it and I'm going to do something about it. I've already started.

[00:07:47] I've been redoing my studio here. I met this last weekend with a great editor guy, video guy. And, uh, I'm going to be putting out little daily pieces of training for people. Absolutely free, right. Little daily pieces of training that they can subscribe to watch the video, listen to it because you're right as usual, Jim

[00:08:10] Jim Polito: Well, I'm not right. It's usual. I just, you know, I'm paying attention to what the tech talker who says, I mean, it's kind of like regurgitating, you know, it's like a trained monkey. Come on. But anyway, um, let me ask you this part because I know where it's going to lead. So you sent me some information on, on Apple's new Mac book.

[00:08:31] That's going to be coming out and you know, I mean, you, you, you pay more for that, but often it's you get what you pay for? So apparently they're new MacBook is going to solve the biggest problem that people have with working remotely. Is, is that just, you know, an advertising tagline or is that, is that the real deal?

[00:08:57] Craig Peterson: No, this is absolutely the real deal. There's a great article from inc magazine. I'll be putting up on my website and you can follow it too. If you're on my email list at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, you'll get it on Saturday. But, um, The biggest problems people are having, working from home, have to do with security and they also have to do with the equipment that they have at home.

[00:09:21] How long does it last Apple announced that they are completely ditching Intel processors. Now what that means is wow. Completely gone. Goodbye. Okay. So that little relationship is over.

[00:09:37] Jim Polito: That's. over Wow.

[00:09:39] Craig Peterson: I  remember on the front cover of PC magazine, where they said the best.

[00:09:43] PC for windows is a Mac because the hardware is so good.

[00:09:49] Kind of like what you were saying. If you have a tit for tat comparison of a, I have a windows laptop and an Apple laptop, both those are Intel, let's say, and you compare all of the hardware inside, how long it's going to last Apple when hands down.

[00:10:05] Right now, in fact, the average lifespan of a windows laptop that you'll buy. Now that includes the ones you'll get at the big box stores. The average, lifetime is seven months.

[00:10:18] Yeah. The average lifetime of the Apple laptop is five to 10 years. Okay. So Apple has said, we need more battery life. We need more processing power. So they're taking the chips. They've been developing themselves that are in the iPad Pro, which is as fast as most PCs that are out there. So they're taking the chips from the iPad and they're putting them into laptops and we're going to see laptops from Apple two of them by the end of this year, not using any Intel chips. Using chips made by Apple, designed by Apple ball actually made by contractors,.But designed by it Apple, and they will last you more than a day. So you get Apple security, which is really, really good. Yeah. You get a laptop that lasts all day long and Intel is left holding the bag.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: Oh, wow. And I am sure that, you know, all those years they used Intel, uh, they, you know, we're paying attention to exactly how that chip works when they develop their own. I'm sure.

[00:11:31] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah, well,, they're using a standard chip, um, basic design architecture that even Microsoft is using for some of their embedded systems and, you know, the surface tablet type things too. So, uh, Intel just hasn't kept up. That's why they switched. Remember Apple didn't use to be Intel-based. It used to be a power=PC based. Uh, they, they switched, and before that, it was Motorola based.

[00:11:56] Jim Polito: Now here's the quick question. And then we've got to wrap up, obviously, as I said earlier, you get what you pay for Apple is a lot more expensive.

[00:12:06] Yeah, it is. Yeah. What would you, what would you say the different, you know, like the basic, uh, um, laptop, like from HP versus the basic laptop from Apple price-wise.

[00:12:21] Craig Peterson: Well, I don't know that that's a great comparison because of what you need to do is be comparing the HP or the Dell enterprise laptops.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: You're right. Okay. So what's the difference? Yeah. What is the differential there?

[00:12:37] Craig Peterson: It's in the noise. You can right now get an Apple laptop, a Mac book air for under a thousand dollars. And I think most people would be fair. Yeah, I'm very happy with it. And they can go all the way up to about 5,000. If you want something that will do edit a movie.

[00:12:55] Okay. If video, huge blockbuster movie.

[00:12:59] Jim Polito: Yeah, but if you just want to look cool and Starbucks, like you're writing a screenplay, you can do it for under a thousand dollars. You know with the little light-up Apple on the other side of your laptop, Craig as usual great information as usual.

[00:13:16] So let's get, let's get folks a way that they can get more information from you. How do you want them to do it? Absolutely.

[00:13:24] Craig Peterson: .Well, first of all, I think I'm still on the air on these stations on, is it Saturday at 11. Its Saturday, I believe at 11 o'clock I do a deeper dive into a lot of these it's an hour-long, which is great.

[00:13:38] And if you have any questions, if you want these little training videos, they are going to, people are telling me they're there changing their lives if they have the mind, but no longer all worried about it. But if you want that, just go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. That'll get you in my newsletter. You'll be able to find out about these.

[00:13:58] I'm starting to do more lives as Facebook lives. I'm even Jim. I'm planning on doing some of our morning hits here on Facebook live and then I'll stay on and answer questions.

[00:14:13] Jim Polito: Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna owe you for that. That's gonna open me up to a wide audience. I'm going to owe you for that. All right. So, Craig, uh, this is all great stuff as usual. I appreciate everything you're doing. And uh, we look forward to talking with you again next Tuesday, sir.

[00:14:32] Alright, take care, Jim. Bye. Bye.

[00:14:34] Hmm. Bye-bye. Alright. When we return a final word, you're listening to the Jim Polito show from my kitchen with pops who's quiet right now. This is your safe space.

[00:14:44] Craig Peterson: Yes, it's true. I am working on all of that. I'm just jazzed as can be anyhow. This is going to be fantastic. So I'll make sure you're on my email list. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. All right, everybody, take care. I'm going to be on the road here for a few days. So, uh, well, we'll see how it goes. If you send me an email at [email protected], it might take me a little bit longer than usual to respond, but I always do take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing Apple's new hardware and what it means for all of us - especially road warriors and the latest on the big Twitter 'God-Mode" hack. Here we go with Jack.

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

Craig Peterson: And the Uber employees we're using God mode in order to monitor celebrities, where they were going, sports people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that. Well it turns out in the Twitterverse, they had a similar program.

[00:00:16] Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, and Jack and I got into not just what's happening with Apple , but the whole Twitter thing.

[00:00:27]Some interesting stuff came out over the weekend about who actually seems to have pulled this off.

[00:00:34] Jack Heath: Right now with the tech talk, a tech stock update. Craig Peterson joins a slab nano affair with friends. Good morning, Craig.

[00:00:41] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning, Jack.

[00:00:42] Jack Heath: Hey, uh, working from home and trying to keep it secure. You have an update when it comes to Apple.

[00:00:48] Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is kind of interesting. Now Apple has been busy, of course, as they always are trying to come up with some new devices. What Apple's decided to do is solve really the worst thing about working remotely.  How do you keep that computer going all day long, all day real battery life, and the biggest complaint about the laptops.

[00:01:08]So Apple has decided to drop Intel processors. That's a very, very big announcement they made about a month ago. They're switching over to their own in-house designed processors. The new iPad pro has been clocked faster than most windows notebooks out there. They're going to be using the version of that processor in the laptop.

[00:01:33]We're expecting to see two new Macs from Apple this year using their own chip sets. No more Intel processors.

[00:01:43]Jack Heath:  I don't know. The other thing is, uh, how people, I guess today people, can you go to your own room? You have your phone, but I mean, you got these homes now with the students, I guess they're sort of schools right now so that you don't have the virtual learning going on right now, but people all trying to share that electrical outlet or their chargers, try to charge something and kind of balance it all with homes. It's sort of taken on a new meeting.

[00:02:04] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it sure has. We used to go to coffee shops that sit there and work. I think that'll start happening more. I actually have enjoyed sitting outside in my backyard and doing work, during some of the whole COVID thing and getting a little bit past the nature we live in New Hampshire.

[00:02:23] Right. You just mentioned people are moving here. Part of the beauty of it is to be out in the beauty.

[00:02:29] Then there's Twitter this week, Jack.

[00:02:31]Jack Heath: Yeah, I know the big, the big, , I, I,

[00:02:34] Justin McIssac: Craig, I heard there was, there was something like a, like, I don't know, a large amount of money. People actually fell for the scan with the, uh, the Bitcoin people hacking into major Twitter accounts and Twitter really got kind of knocked on its heels. Huh?

[00:02:48] Craig Peterson: They really did. You know, you might remember Uber and how they got nailed for the God mode. Do you remember hearing about that? A couple of years back where Uber employees could look at anybody anywhere in the world at any time that was in an Uber car. The Uber employees were using God mode in order to monitor celebrities where they were going sports, people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that.

[00:03:15] Well, it turns out in the Twitter verse, they had a similar program, right. We've seen this over and over again, by the way, this isn't just Uber or Twitter.  They have a program that allows their contractors and employees to potentially see just about anything. In fact, there were some postings out there on Twitter showing Beyonce's page in this kind of God mode where they could see what was going on with her.

[00:03:44]What happened here, apparently, what we know right now is. Some kids did. So they took over Barak Obama's account and dozens of other high profile, celebrity types.

[00:03:57] Jack Heath: They didn't miss many people on that one. Alright.

[00:04:00] Craig Peterson: They didn't. And then they said things like, Hey, listen, we want to give back, send us a thousand dollars in Bitcoin for the next 30 minutes, we'll double it and send it back to you.

[00:04:10] And as Justin just said,

[00:04:15] Alright, sorry about that. Had a meltdown in the board. Alright. Hey Craig, we have to run. Thank you very much, Craig Peterson. Thank you very much.

[00:04:20] Should we come back?

[00:04:21] Oh my it's one of those days, right? What happens on Mondays? Everything goes wrong. Port Justin with the board. He's been, uh, he's been having a bunch of problems getting beat up on this morning too.

[00:04:32] I had the best meeting over the weekend, with a guy JJ, who maybe helping us here with producing more videos, training everything else. I am so excited about this. I've been telling you guys that I'm getting my studio redone.  I'm going to be also of course, putting out the podcast like I have been right now.

[00:04:54] So audio podcast, probably video podcasts. We're going to be trying to do these radio shows alive, my hits live and then take questions and talk about other things potentially. The words every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings. So that should be kind of cool. And we'll, we'll do it. I I'm thinking on Facebook, but I don't know.

[00:05:17] I'd love to hear from you guys. See what you think the options as I understand them right now, anyways, cause I don't have the ability to do LinkedIn lives. LinkedIn hasn't allowed me for whatever reason, I just don't get that one. But, at any rate,  Facebook lives, we could do YouTube lives potentially.

[00:05:35] We could just stream this on like my own , I have my own rooms over on WebEx as well that you could get to just with the browser. You don't have to. To download a WebEx app or anything. Let me know if you guys have a preference because we can talk about this. I love to and engage with you, people, you, people about this stuff too.

[00:05:58] So let me know what you think. Just email me M [email protected] and I'm pretty darn good about getting back to people. Usually within a couple of days, give or take. So give me a break of this, particularly if I'm out of town for a week, I just don't have time to pay much attention to email, but I, I do try and always get back.

[00:06:19] All right. Everybody take care and we will be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Craig Peterson: And the Uber employees we're using God mode in order to monitor celebrities, where they were going, sports people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that. Well it turns out in the Twitterverse, they had a similar program.

[00:00:16] Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, and Jack and I got into not just what's happening with Apple , but the whole Twitter thing.

[00:00:27]Some interesting stuff came out over the weekend about who actually seems to have pulled this off.

[00:00:34] Jack Heath: Right now with the tech talk, a tech stock update. Craig Peterson joins a slab nano affair with friends. Good morning, Craig.

[00:00:41] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning, Jack.

[00:00:42] Jack Heath: Hey, uh, working from home and trying to keep it secure. You have an update when it comes to Apple.

[00:00:48] Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is kind of interesting. Now Apple has been busy, of course, as they always are trying to come up with some new devices. What Apple's decided to do is solve really the worst thing about working remotely.  How do you keep that computer going all day long, all day real battery life, and the biggest complaint about the laptops.

[00:01:08]So Apple has decided to drop Intel processors. That's a very, very big announcement they made about a month ago. They're switching over to their own in-house designed processors. The new iPad pro has been clocked faster than most windows notebooks out there. They're going to be using the version of that processor in the laptop.

[00:01:33]We're expecting to see two new Macs from Apple this year using their own chip sets. No more Intel processors.

[00:01:43]Jack Heath:  I don't know. The other thing is, uh, how people, I guess today people, can you go to your own room? You have your phone, but I mean, you got these homes now with the students, I guess they're sort of schools right now so that you don't have the virtual learning going on right now, but people all trying to share that electrical outlet or their chargers, try to charge something and kind of balance it all with homes. It's sort of taken on a new meeting.

[00:02:04] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it sure has. We used to go to coffee shops that sit there and work. I think that'll start happening more. I actually have enjoyed sitting outside in my backyard and doing work, during some of the whole COVID thing and getting a little bit past the nature we live in New Hampshire.

[00:02:23] Right. You just mentioned people are moving here. Part of the beauty of it is to be out in the beauty.

[00:02:29] Then there's Twitter this week, Jack.

[00:02:31]Jack Heath: Yeah, I know the big, the big, , I, I,

[00:02:34] Justin McIssac: Craig, I heard there was, there was something like a, like, I don't know, a large amount of money. People actually fell for the scan with the, uh, the Bitcoin people hacking into major Twitter accounts and Twitter really got kind of knocked on its heels. Huh?

[00:02:48] Craig Peterson: They really did. You know, you might remember Uber and how they got nailed for the God mode. Do you remember hearing about that? A couple of years back where Uber employees could look at anybody anywhere in the world at any time that was in an Uber car. The Uber employees were using God mode in order to monitor celebrities where they were going sports, people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that.

[00:03:15] Well, it turns out in the Twitter verse, they had a similar program, right. We've seen this over and over again, by the way, this isn't just Uber or Twitter.  They have a program that allows their contractors and employees to potentially see just about anything. In fact, there were some postings out there on Twitter showing Beyonce's page in this kind of God mode where they could see what was going on with her.

[00:03:44]What happened here, apparently, what we know right now is. Some kids did. So they took over Barak Obama's account and dozens of other high profile, celebrity types.

[00:03:57] Jack Heath: They didn't miss many people on that one. Alright.

[00:04:00] Craig Peterson: They didn't. And then they said things like, Hey, listen, we want to give back, send us a thousand dollars in Bitcoin for the next 30 minutes, we'll double it and send it back to you.

[00:04:10] And as Justin just said,

[00:04:15] Alright, sorry about that. Had a meltdown in the board. Alright. Hey Craig, we have to run. Thank you very much, Craig Peterson. Thank you very much.

[00:04:20] Should we come back?

[00:04:21] Oh my it's one of those days, right? What happens on Mondays? Everything goes wrong. Port Justin with the board. He's been, uh, he's been having a bunch of problems getting beat up on this morning too.

[00:04:32] I had the best meeting over the weekend, with a guy JJ, who maybe helping us here with producing more videos, training everything else. I am so excited about this. I've been telling you guys that I'm getting my studio redone.  I'm going to be also of course, putting out the podcast like I have been right now.

[00:04:54] So audio podcast, probably video podcasts. We're going to be trying to do these radio shows alive, my hits live and then take questions and talk about other things potentially. The words every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings. So that should be kind of cool. And we'll, we'll do it. I I'm thinking on Facebook, but I don't know.

[00:05:17] I'd love to hear from you guys. See what you think the options as I understand them right now, anyways, cause I don't have the ability to do LinkedIn lives. LinkedIn hasn't allowed me for whatever reason, I just don't get that one. But, at any rate,  Facebook lives, we could do YouTube lives potentially.

[00:05:35] We could just stream this on like my own , I have my own rooms over on WebEx as well that you could get to just with the browser. You don't have to. To download a WebEx app or anything. Let me know if you guys have a preference because we can talk about this. I love to and engage with you, people, you, people about this stuff too.

[00:05:58] So let me know what you think. Just email me M [email protected] and I'm pretty darn good about getting back to people. Usually within a couple of days, give or take. So give me a break of this, particularly if I'm out of town for a week, I just don't have time to pay much attention to email, but I, I do try and always get back.

[00:06:19] All right. Everybody take care and we will be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Craig Peterson: And the Uber employees we're using God mode in order to monitor celebrities, where they were going, sports people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that. Well it turns out in the Twitterverse, they had a similar program.

[00:00:16] Hey, good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, and Jack and I got into not just what's happening with Apple , but the whole Twitter thing.

[00:00:27]Some interesting stuff came out over the weekend about who actually seems to have pulled this off.

[00:00:34] Jack Heath: Right now with the tech talk, a tech stock update. Craig Peterson joins a slab nano affair with friends. Good morning, Craig.

[00:00:41] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning, Jack.

[00:00:42] Jack Heath: Hey, uh, working from home and trying to keep it secure. You have an update when it comes to Apple.

[00:00:48] Craig Peterson: Yeah. This is kind of interesting. Now Apple has been busy, of course, as they always are trying to come up with some new devices. What Apple's decided to do is solve really the worst thing about working remotely. How do you keep that computer going all day long, all day real battery life, and the biggest complaint about the laptops.

[00:01:08]So Apple has decided to drop Intel processors. That's a very, very big announcement they made about a month ago. They're switching over to their own in-house designed processors. The new iPad pro has been clocked faster than most windows notebooks out there. They're going to be using the version of that processor in the laptop.

[00:01:33]We're expecting to see two new Macs from Apple this year using their own chip sets. No more Intel processors.

[00:01:43]Jack Heath: I don't know. The other thing is, uh, how people, I guess today people, can you go to your own room? You have your phone, but I mean, you got these homes now with the students, I guess they're sort of schools right now so that you don't have the virtual learning going on right now, but people all trying to share that electrical outlet or their chargers, try to charge something and kind of balance it all with homes. It's sort of taken on a new meeting.

[00:02:04] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it sure has. We used to go to coffee shops that sit there and work. I think that'll start happening more. I actually have enjoyed sitting outside in my backyard and doing work, during some of the whole COVID thing and getting a little bit past the nature we live in New Hampshire.

[00:02:23] Right. You just mentioned people are moving here. Part of the beauty of it is to be out in the beauty.

[00:02:29] Then there's Twitter this week, Jack.

[00:02:31]Jack Heath: Yeah, I know the big, the big, , I, I,

[00:02:34] Justin McIssac: Craig, I heard there was, there was something like a, like, I don't know, a large amount of money. People actually fell for the scan with the, uh, the Bitcoin people hacking into major Twitter accounts and Twitter really got kind of knocked on its heels. Huh?

[00:02:48] Craig Peterson: They really did. You know, you might remember Uber and how they got nailed for the God mode. Do you remember hearing about that? A couple of years back where Uber employees could look at anybody anywhere in the world at any time that was in an Uber car. The Uber employees were using God mode in order to monitor celebrities where they were going sports, people, et cetera, what they were doing and they got nailed for that.

[00:03:15] Well, it turns out in the Twitter verse, they had a similar program, right. We've seen this over and over again, by the way, this isn't just Uber or Twitter. They have a program that allows their contractors and employees to potentially see just about anything. In fact, there were some postings out there on Twitter showing Beyonce's page in this kind of God mode where they could see what was going on with her.

[00:03:44]What happened here, apparently, what we know right now is. Some kids did. So they took over Barak Obama's account and dozens of other high profile, celebrity types.

[00:03:57] Jack Heath: They didn't miss many people on that one. Alright.

[00:04:00] Craig Peterson: They didn't. And then they said things like, Hey, listen, we want to give back, send us a thousand dollars in Bitcoin for the next 30 minutes, we'll double it and send it back to you.

[00:04:10] And as Justin just said,

[00:04:15] Alright, sorry about that. Had a meltdown in the board. Alright. Hey Craig, we have to run. Thank you very much, Craig Peterson. Thank you very much.

[00:04:20] Should we come back?

[00:04:21] Oh my it's one of those days, right? What happens on Mondays? Everything goes wrong. Port Justin with the board. He's been, uh, he's been having a bunch of problems getting beat up on this morning too.

[00:04:32] I had the best meeting over the weekend, with a guy JJ, who maybe helping us here with producing more videos, training everything else. I am so excited about this. I've been telling you guys that I'm getting my studio redone. I'm going to be also of course, putting out the podcast like I have been right now.

[00:04:54] So audio podcast, probably video podcasts. We're going to be trying to do these radio shows alive, my hits live and then take questions and talk about other things potentially. The words every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday mornings. So that should be kind of cool. And we'll, we'll do it. I I'm thinking on Facebook, but I don't know.

[00:05:17] I'd love to hear from you guys. See what you think the options as I understand them right now, anyways, cause I don't have the ability to do LinkedIn lives. LinkedIn hasn't allowed me for whatever reason, I just don't get that one. But, at any rate, Facebook lives, we could do YouTube lives potentially.

[00:05:35] We could just stream this on like my own , I have my own rooms over on WebEx as well that you could get to just with the browser. You don't have to. To download a WebEx app or anything. Let me know if you guys have a preference because we can talk about this. I love to and engage with you, people, you, people about this stuff too.

[00:05:58] So let me know what you think. Just email me M [email protected] and I'm pretty darn good about getting back to people. Usually within a couple of days, give or take. So give me a break of this, particularly if I'm out of town for a week, I just don't have time to pay much attention to email, but I, I do try and always get back.

[00:06:19] All right. Everybody take care and we will be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, are you a devoted user of Google tools? Hey, and you know how to hide stuff online, right? Incognito browser mode. Guess again.

This is Craig Peterson. Thanks for joining me again, everybody. Google has had a mixed history of keeping your information safe. Right? One of the big problems with Google is how they make their money. They make their money by what? Selling your data, selling information about you. Selling it to marketers.

Heck, they're even selling it to the police and China. They are cooperating with the Chinese government and telling them who the dissidents are. That to me is really rather scary. Right?

[00:01:00] Facebook does the same sort of thing in China pretty much. Well, really every US company that has a nexus in China, if they want to be in China, is being forced under the socialist government, to hand over information about anybody that might want a little bit of freedom of choice in their lives.

Personally, I think that's a problem. Many people tend to not think that. Now as part of our hacker killer cybersecurity course, I go into a lot of depth about how to keep data safe and secure.

Even if you go over to China, believe it or not. But, Hey, listen, if you're going to China, you better have a Macbook and it better be using full disk encryption, and you better be using really good passwords.

 I would advise against using their wifi over there, et cetera, et cetera. Anyways, that's the subject for a very in-depth course. We're not going to get into right now.

[00:02:00] How do you as a user, keep your information safe from prying eyes. There are obviously some things we don't want people to know that we're searching about. Look at @amazon.com, for instance, if you're looking for certain types of toys on Amazon, it is not going to show those in your general search history.

They're not going to just pop up and say on the ad on a website as you're on an oh a so-called family-friendly website that is running ads that are paid for by Google. Maybe a third party who's using Google's data. It's not going to pop up about that little toy that you were searching for over at Amazon at the worst possible time. Right?

[00:03:00] We already know that there's data that we don't want to have out there. And many times data are used to blackmail us. We've seen that very frequently recently with the hackers who go on to our computers, particularly our small, medium businesses. Steal the data that's there. They, actually have people who get on your computer and look around on the computers and then all of the other computers on the network to see what kind of information does this guy has, does this company have, right?

What can we do to really screw them over? Right. What ends up happening? Well, they get their hands on set information and then they blackmail you. Well, there's nothing illegal necessarily about what a business does. Right? You, you sell a product. But you're concerned about your intellectual property.

You're concerned about regulatory fines that might come into play. In fact, almost certainly would come into play in some cases, but how would you like to be the company? Like one of the ones that we came in after the fact. They were just having some email problems. So we started poking around and we found the worst case of infection. Chinese, active Chinese back doors that the FBI Boston field office says they've ever seen.

[00:04:00]So that means that you as a business person, and in this case, is a guy in his seventies. Who'd been building this company for decades and had all of these designs, had all of these customers, his pricelist, his everything up there now stolen by the Chinese. That's socialism for you, right?

Well, It's one thing to steal it from some poor guy, some schmuck that spent 30 years building it. And then we'll just go ahead and use slave labor in order to make it really cheap. So now you get to compete against your designs and this something that's always bothered me about the tax code. 

Here you are struggling for 10, 20, 30 years. We were just in the last segment talking about flash and how they struggled for eight years just to come up with a concept for a business that might work. They had businesses that failed.

[00:05:00] So with the tax code. I'm struggling, let's say I'm working for, for 10, 20 years. I'm not even making minimum wage.  I'm going back and forth. I'm trying different things. Then, all of a sudden, after 20 years of hard work, I'm an overnight success, right? Isn't that the way that works, an overnight success, right, that took 20 years. So I make 2 million dollars in that year, 2 million.

Now I have to pay huge taxes on that. But wait a minute now, if you amortize it, cause I didn't get paid for the 20 years. I got paid for it at the very end of the 20 years. So how about we say, instead of making $2 million in year 20, I made a hundred thousand thousand dollars a year, right? A lot different tax bracket, right?

[00:06:00] Anyways it's something that's always really bothered me. The whole socialist idea of the progressive tax system has really bothered me. But in China, they don't bother with that. If you're a good member of the party, you make more money. We'll steal information for you from American companies. You have no idea how often this is happening. It is absolutely insane.

We've been involved in at least one of the 1000 investigations that are underway right now by the FBI. They just don't have enough time to investigate them all.

So now he has lost his 20 years' worth of building this company to the socialists, who are now going to should be selling his product.

Now, remember they didn't have to spend money developing this. They didn't have to spend money on the failures, the things that didn't work, the marketing that didn't work, the products that didn't work, the integrations that didn't work. They didn't have to spend the 20 years learning how to do all of this stuff. Figuring it out on the back of an envelope, all the way through, on, on a computer diagram system. They didn't have to do any of that. No, all they had to do was steal it. Right.

[00:07:00] So you are a regular, small business person. You're a home user, whatever it is. So how do you keep your data safe?

You know, this reminds me, I have a series of tutorials on keeping your browsers safe. I'm thinking maybe I should release those again. Maybe put them together as a little package. Let me know if you guys think I should. These plugins are going to help keep you safe. Email [email protected]. If you think that's a good idea, me, [email protected].

How to keep your online browsing experience safe. I've got others too but, you know, I think that's important.

[00:08:00] What do you do tell people are using incognito mode on their browsers, right? It's called different things in different browsers on the Google Chrome browser, call it incognito mode. There was a suit filed last month filed against Google, saying that Google was tracking people, even when they had incognito mode turned on.

There was a lawsuit filed this last Tuesday that alleges that Google tracks, user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt-out of sharing information. This is a good article by CNET. You'll find it on CNET Angela Lang wrote or she's got some decent stuff. I've got up on my [email protected], but this is a very, very big deal because the lawsuit is seeking class-action status, which means that these individuals that are involved in the suit are saying, Hey, we want thousands of people potentially in on the suit. Very, very big deal.

[00:09:00]Last month, the same law firm filed another suit, related to privacy and Google's Chrome browser. So CNET said, we reached out to Google, of course, they didn't respond in time. Isn't that the norm here? The suits filed it in the US district court for the Northern District of California. So it's in the ninth circus. We're not going to get into a whole bunch of the suit. You can find out more on my website or just do a search online, duck, duck, go search.

Here's the bottom line incognito mode, it does not stop people from tracking you. You're still sending requests out. Remember we talked about DNS before the domain name, service or system DNS. Well, that's another way to track you.

[00:10:00] What websites are you going to? What IP addresses are you visiting? What websites are you looking up? All of this stuff is a way to track you. So. Incognito mode isn't really doing much other than stopping certain cross-site cookies from being looked at. So it's a real, real problem.

Now I have some training specifically on all of this browser safety and security and privacy, but the bottom line, if you want privacy, I would say stick with Safari, just for the general user.

Now, in my courses would go into a lot more detail on different browsers, when you might want to use a tor browser, versus Epic, versus Safari, Firefox, et cetera.

[00:11:00] In reality for the 80% rule, Safari is going to get you a long way because Safari is from Apple. Apple does not make money off of your information. Google does. Apple does not. Apple makes money by selling you hardware, and by selling you services. And that's why it's a little bit safer. Right now, by the way, Apple is in their promotion saying we are 50% faster than Google Chrome. As well as more secure and Google Chrome has removed some of the support for some of the ad word blockers and other things, things that you might want to be using.

So Google Chrome's falling a little bit out of favor. However, on the other hand, you've got Microsoft with their latest incarnation of the Epic browser, which isn't the EPIC browser, which isn't the Epic browser. Which isn't isn't Internet Explorer. It's crazy. And we go into a lot of depth on some of that stuff on my courses.

[00:12:00] But Microsoft Epic is now actually Google Chrome under the hood. Anyhow, stick around. We've got a lot more to talk about her at the start of the hour, and I appreciate you being with me. Make sure you go right now to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Get on my free newsletter list and I'll be sending you information about some of the training.

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[00:00:00] We're going to talk about killing Flash. Did Steve jobs start the death of Adobe Flash Macromedia? Remember all those guys?

Hey, you're listening to Craig Peterson and watching me too. I am getting. Good at trying to post stuff on my website and YouTube videos stuff that is, and I've been updating all of my studio here and it may look kind of the same behind me here on the camera, but believe me, there are a lot of differences.

We're fixing things, I'm producing more stuff. We are going to be having a great, great. year this year, as we get more and more information to you, just like in the last segment here, where we were talking about DNS and what it means to you and how frankly, this Microsoft bug could be the next big ransomware attack vehicle out there.

Absolutely amazing.

[00:01:00] Well Flash, of course, you all know Flash, right? I don't need to really show you Flash. It was designed five years ago. Give or take right now maybe a little bit. And the idea behind Flash was let's give the internet some movement. If you weren't around back then in the mid-nineties, the internet was mostly text-based.

There were all a whole lot of what we would call brochureware sites at the time. Back in the early nineties, I was, I tried to convince businesses they needed to be online and people just weren't listening to me. It's just not worth the investment. Right.

[00:02:00] Of course, now it's people are trying to figure it out. How can I do this? How can I get online? And many people's questions, revolved, run hugger. Make this. More pretty. And that's how Flash kind of started the story on it is absolutely fascinating. And I have it, my [email protected]. It goes on for pages and pages, but how these two guys, they struggle.

They, I had some success in business. They sold the company eight years. They're trying to figure out what should we do? How should we do this? They kind of stumbled on a couple of things that just did not work at all. They went to a couple of big trade shows and sold absolutely none of their product, which was, has sketching product for some of these early.

PDA portable digital assistants that were out there is really kind of a cool product. They only ever sold two of them, by the way. So they tried some things. So if you are an entrepreneur and you are sitting there saying, OMG, it's not selling, I'm not doing the right thing. Everything's coming to an end.

[00:03:00] A friend of mine, Steve Pavlina sent out note just this week that I read that I really, really appreciated. He was talking about how we have to stand up for our principles and, and he was specifically talking about our principals, when it comes to our life and our life values, what do we want to do? How do we wanna do it? When do we want to do it? These two guys never gave up and they didn't know exactly what they wanted to do, but they didn't know they wanted to do something.

And they wanted to make sure that while they were doing it, they were enjoying it. Right. I guess that makes sense. Certainly seems to make sense to me, as well.

So that's exactly what they did. They, they went out and they tried a few different things. As I said, it took him about eight years. Then they came up with this thing that allowed animation.

[00:04:00] And if you remember around 96 is when some of this animation really started to hit we're using Flash or are websites where the entire site was coded up using Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash was really cool. It did some wonderful things, frankly. I was quite impressed with it at the time, and I decided I'm going to learn Flash and maybe fly.

She's going to be my future as well. It was, it was really cool. They got a review from a writer in a magazine and they don't remember the writer's name, but the writer got a preview copy of it and said, Hey, listen, why don't you add some port for buttons, which was easy for them to do so they quickly added support for play button, fast forward button, rewind buttons.

And then they started adding more programmatic stuff to it. And before you know, it. Flash took over the web. And that was kind of around 99, when a foot had graphics that were moving any sort of video, it was all Flash-based. In fact, a lot of the streaming video that was happening back then in the early two thousands was based on Flash, which is really kind of different when you think about it nowadays. Right.

[00:05:00] Things went well through the, the arts, if you will, the double ops here at the beginning of the century for them. And they kind of sold out and moved around and Adobe ended up owning it and integrating it with some of the tools that Adobe had, then came 2010. On April 29th, 2010, I've got that right in front of me here.

Steve jobs published an open letter. He called it Thoughts on Flash. This was probably the beginning of the end for Flash. Now Flash was already known at the time for some security problems because it was really an almost an operating system more than a programming language. It allowed them to access stuff on the computer, make some changes, move things around, read files.

[00:06:00] Does that start to ring bells for you? About how dangerous Flash just might be? Well, it was, and Steve jobs brought that up in his open letter. And he also said in that open letter, the number one reason max crash is Flash. So Steve jobs was complaining about reliability problems, about security problems and about performance problems.

We remember what else happened 2010? The iPhone happened. And Steve jobs is working on that. And he decided right then and there that frankly Flash falls short. And those are, those are actually Steve Jobs words, Flash falls short, and it was never included in any version of iOS. So it wasn't on the iPhone. It wasn't on the later introduced iPad. Absolutely nothing.

[00:07:00] Well, the industry response was kind of mixed because there are a lot of people who had decided yeah. You know, Flashes the way they had big investments in Flash and they couldn't see it going away. But in November, 2011, Adobe pivoted and adopted the new standard.

The one that Steve jobs was promoting than the rest of the internet was behind, it was called HTML five. HTML five allowed your browser to basically act like an operating system. It can actually run multiple programs simultaneously for you, and it could do all of the animation and more than Flash could do it.

Could display videos. HTML five is the answer we're still living with today. A decade later almost. And. When Adobe decided that we're not going to be targeting Flash players anymore, but all of our tools, which were originally developed for Flash by these guys. Those tools are now adapted to use and spit out if you will, HTML five.

[00:08:00] So did Steve jobs killed Flash? Well yeah, kinda, he started it. But I think Flash, Adobe killed it itself. Certainly in November, 2011, Adobe switching over to its HTML five was a very big deal. They didn't keep up on patches. They didn't keep up on the security problems, you know, and they kind of did, but it was, was the stepchild problem that you have, they just didn't care enough about it.

Which is I think a real problem, some great quotes in this article, again, up on Craig peterson.com about what they were doing. They were saying, Hey, listen, this is causing bloating as well. It's not working well on mobile devices because mobile devices don't have as much computeing as a desktop computer does, not even close and they have to use battery.

[00:09:00] And so you're doing something heavy, like interpreting Flash on a browser. That's running on Java. That's being interpreted. I know on a little snap dragon chip or whatever, it might be on an Android device. You're really slow and you're really hogging resources. So Flash is gone burry it it's dead. It is no longer supported in many browsers.

And by the end of 2020, it's going to be completely gone. Even from Google Chrome.

Wow. We are going through fast today. When we get back, we'll get into Google here and how they're getting sued again for tracking people, even though they said they're not. Yes, indeed.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, it only took 17 years to patch. It can't be that bad. Can it? Hello, Microsoft. Why have you had the brakes on this for so long and what it means to you?

Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here. Thanks for joining me. We're going to talk right now about a couple of things. One of these is the bug that took Microsoft 17 years to fix that you better fix right now. Because it's in the wild. Yes, indeed. we're going to talk about Adobe flash, that little pesky pieces software that we've been using for many, many years, but as it turns out, it's been a real pain, right.

Buggy stuff, you know, really the two big ones that you have to worry about all the time. Have been Flash and have been Java. Both of those have had more than their fair share of nightmares associated with [00:01:00] them. I just hate some of this stuff because it has been so nasty. So buggy, it's hard to even think about when you get right down to it.

Right. Well, here's, what's going on right now with Microsoft here. There was a,  released the, just here within the last week. That fixes what appears to be a very dangerous, so longstanding bug in Windows DNS. Now DNS is the domain name system. The domain name service is what I've called it for years. We go into a lot of detail on DNS in our hacker killer course.

We, basically have to because you need to understand the DNS and how it works. If you're going to run an office and all of the computers in it. Right. So we go into a whole lot of detail on that, but DNS.

[00:02:00] The bottom line is what you type into your browser. So Craig Peterson dot com for instance, and turns it into an address like one, two, three main street, any town USA. Even with the zip code. So it turns it into this, this set of octet in IPV four nomenclature, IPV six, it's just this massive, huge address that can address anything that mankind should be able to make over the next year and thousand years, maybe more you can address every pebble of sand on a beach.

Okay. It's just a huge amount of address space.

So DNS is important for your computer, cause it's not just typing google.com or Craig peterson.com or it could be bank of america.com into the browser. It's all of the software on your computer that is using the internet. Because in order to get from your computer to the computer, it really wants to talk to. It needs to know the address.

[00:03:00] So what happens is it asks your ISP typically. So, you know, again, when you computer boots that use the DHCP, it gets an IP address. Again, we cover all of this in the hacker killer course, but it gets an IP address and when it gets that information from your DHCP server, it's also getting an IP address for the DNS server.

Now sometimes the DNS server is your ISP internet service provider, like a Comcast or the telephone company, the, or whomever it is your using to get on the internet. And that's frankly, pretty common. That's where it's located out there for your ISP, from your ISP. So what'll happen is your computer will now go and ask your ISP computer.

[00:04:00] How do I get to Craig peterson.com all at least what's the address of Craig peterson.com getting there? Well, that's a lot more detailed. We probably won't get into that on the show, but involves OSPF and BGP and just all kinds of other running protocols. But anyhow, I'll have to see the address. I need to get there.

So when Microsoft wants to do an update, It uses the name. So it goes to update.microsoft.com. This is an example, right? In reality, it goes to a bunch of different sites, or when the Adobe software update or when Google software, anything wants to update or use a resource like a database online. It's going to go to DNS. DNS is just that important.

Now there have been some problems with DNS over the years, and one of the biggest problems is how can I be sure that I'm talking to an authoritative server. In other words, if I want Craig Peterson's IP address and I get it back from a DNS server. Do I really know that's Craig or is that some hacker?

[00:05:00] That's trying to get me to go to their site instead of my bank site. So one of the ways that were put together here to try and fix this problem is DNS sec. There are some other ones out there now that are some I don't like. They're using DNS over HTTPS, which is a very simple solution. A cloud flare has it, OpenDNS has it, almost everybody has it. It is built into Firefox. Now it is built into a Chrome ish, they're rolling it out. But here's what happens with that. Instead of asking your ISP for the address for the bank, it sets up a secure. Tunnel effectively and SSL tunnel to either CloudFlare or open DNS or one of these other.

[00:06:00] So it goes directly there and says, Hey, what's the IP address for TD bank? And at that point secure. So if I'm asking my ISP using regular DNS for an address. In reality, somebody could be sitting in between. What the hackers have been doing lately is if you have a consumer-grade router, which is most small businesses, frankly we walk into is just kind of crazy.

But if you have a consumer-grade router and that router is not patched up. You've got problems. Now we've been into places where they've been diligent and applying patches the problem is that they haven't issued patches. This one place we went to, just a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. I'm certain, I'm certain, I'm certain.

 I go there every week and double-check and yes, indeed. This is the firmware version that I'm supposed to have installed. When I checked on my router, it's got that firmware version. So. I'm up to date. So then we went with her and we had a little bit of a closer look at it turns out.

[00:07:00] Yeah. Yeah, she was pretty diligent, but the vendor had not released patches in over two years.

 So again, that's why you don't use any of the consumer stuff. That's why you got to stick with prosumer. If you're. On the cheap side, if you had to keep it cost down. And you're not really that concerned about security, but you don't want this to happen to you as well as a thousand other things.

And that's why we have a full prosumer package that we sell. That's all the hardware you need. And it's all automatically kept up to date and with getting machines and functioning properly with all the latest, you know, anti-malware software. So that prosumer stuff is important, but here's what happens.

[00:08:00]They've been going on and connecting to routers just randomly. They just cycle through all of these addresses on the internet and they find a router that is vulnerable to the attack, and then they change the firmware in it so that your computer now asks them what the IP address is for your bank.

So you type in TD bank.com. Your computer says, okay, who am I supposed to ask about this? Oh yeah, yeah. I'm supposed to ask my router about it. Cause that's what I found out from DHCP. So it goes ahead and asks the router about it. The router says, yeah I know bank of America or TD, or where was it you're going to?  It doesn't really matter. Here's an IP address in Russia you should be going to.

We're seeing this happening by the tens of thousands now. So Microsoft has been trying to work their way around it. How can we do that? How do we know that an IP address is legitimate and they really messed up?

[00:09:00] Okay. This is called SIGRed. It not only exploits Windows DNS, but it's what's called a wormable bug. Which means it can crawl through other machines once it's on your network. So be very, very careful. Both Checkpoint and Microsoft say this is a critical flaw. It scores a 10 out of 10 on the CVSs common vulnerability scoring system.

This is bad. Make sure. You've got this patched. It's affecting practically every small and medium-sized organization in the world. It's gone unnoticed for 17 years, but no longer.

 Hey, stick around. We're going to be right back. We're going to be talking about flash and a whole lot more. Make sure you're on my list.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: You've probably heard about the big problems happening for the big names out there. Uncle Joe's giving away millions, Elon Musk.

That's what we're going to start by talking about. How could he miss this? Right. It happened on Wednesday this week. I talked about it Thursday morning on the radio, a few different places, in fact, and hopefully, you might have picked it up on my podcast too.

Twitter is in quite the uproar right now because of this particular little problem. Many, many people are very, very upset and they're upset because. Twitter got hacked.

Now, this isn't hacked in the normal terms, right? Normally when you think of hack, you think of oh there are bad guys and they're maybe trying to hit the router and trying to get in through the router and trying to take over everything.

[00:01:00] It looks like what happened here, is that a few famous people's accounts were compromised in a very, very big way. It's kind of scary. I'm going to just double-check the latest news on this because frankly, it is just shocking.

But here's the bottom line, there are a number of high profile accounts and they're all accounts that have that little blue checkmark next to it. Right? You've seen that before on Twitter. 

It turns out that Twitter was very unprepared to handle this hack and they ended up turning off all of these accounts. It is just absolutely amazing. Twitter stock, of course, took a nosedive and pre-market opening here on Thursday and it was kinda everybody.

[00:02:00] Well, we had Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates. The very top. President Trump was not hacked. I have my theories about why that was. Apple was hacked and many others. Now, at least one of Twitter's own employees appears to have been involved in this particular hack. What happened was apparently, right we'll find out more, the FBI is investigating. Apparently what happened is the there's a tool kind of a God mode tool. Do you remember that with Uber? Where Uber employees who were watching where you and I were going, but okay. They didn't care about us, but they want to know where Beyonce was going and all of these other stars and where were they coming from, and what were their home addresses? Some of them were selling that information. Okay. Not good news so that God-mode on Uber got misused.

Well, as it turns out here on the Twitter front, they have a similar function. Where you can go in and look at anybody's account.

[00:03:00] Now, I mentioned Beyonce because there is a picture that was posted on [00:03:00] Twitter and taken down and posted and taken to heaven and posted of Beyonce's account using this kind of God mode. That's my phrase here, God mode account software. It was showing everything about Beyonce. What she was doing, her account was verified. She had her own domain, et cetera, et cetera.

Well, late last year, the Department of Justice charged two Twitter employees with providing private information from Twitter to Saudi Arabian nationals, according to CNBC. What happened here with the hack in case you're not aware we'll back up a little bit here.

[00:04:00] But these accounts were taken over apparently and they were used to send a message. Now, the message they sent was kind of shocking. It was, "Hey, I'm giving back here or due to the COVID-19" or, "You know, Uncle Joe Biden, he's always given away money." So he said, "Hey, listen, if you over the next four hours if you send me on Twitter Bitcoin to this Bitcoin account number, I'll double it." "I will double it and I'll send the money back to you." "So now you get to have a thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin. Well, now you get $2,000 with a Bitcoin, and apparently there was one guy from Japan who sent $40,000 worth of Bitcoin to the account." Well, the bad guys. I count was apparently just opened up this week and the money was moved very quickly from that Twitter account to other accounts online, which makes a lot of sense, right. Shuffle that money around, make it harder to track. All of that money is now in their hands because one of the reasons bad guys use Bitcoin is that Bitcoin has no way to return the money, to scrape it back, let's put it that way. In other words, if I send money to a Bitcoin wallet, it is there it is gone. Goodbye. Good luck. There's no way for me to take that money back.

[00:05:00] So there's well over a hundred thousand dollars that I'm going to say it here, that some stupid people sent to people using Bitcoin on Twitter. You know what really, really, how could you do that? It just doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to me, but apparently it did.

[00:06:00] Now, Twitter is saying that there was no real coordination between the hackers. Twitter saying that this was social engineering. Now, this is something I cover pretty extensively in my hacker killer cybersecurity course. The whole concept of social engineering, these are the phishing emails, these are phone calls that you might get pretending that it's somebody from it or whatever it might be. Those are all social engineering attacks and those attacks can really cause just incredible amounts of problems for you and me and for very, very good reason as well. Right. Because if we cooperate, unknowingly by clicking on the link, You know, going to a website and then entering information.

Or in this case, we see a message from a blue checkmark Twitter account. The message says, send me money on Bitcoin. One of them said, Hey, I really want to promote Bitcoin. I think Bitcoin's the future. Which, of course, is what Bitcoin wants you to think. Right. They're going to be sitting there and saying, yeah, you're right. You're right. They're going to wait. We should be going all these fools with their bank accounts. They should be using Bitcoin. You are right. So it says, Bitcoin is a wave the future, and I really want to promote it. I really, I want to help you people who've been trying to promote it. So over there next, whatever it was, 30 minutes, four hours, if you send me Bitcoin,  Oh, doubled it. I'm giving back. Elon Musk was one of the accounts that sent this out as well. So there's a little slight degree of, you know, okay. This could be true.

[00:07:00] But in reality, this goes back to what we've known for years. If it seems too good to be true, it's not true. Right? So maybe some of these Twitter employees were scammed using these phishing attacks. Maybe not. We've certainly seen it before with insiders.

We've seen Facebook employees, stocking people. Remember, it's not just employees nowadays, these tools that we're talking about, these God mode type tools. Are given to contractors from all of these major companies, Uber we mentioned already, but Facebook, we already know Facebook has people who are online using these tools to decide whether or not the censor President Trump, right.

[00:08:00] Or you or me. Or watching videos on YouTube and deciding whether or not that should be demonetized because, Oh my gosh, you said something that, you know, a 0.01% of the people might be upset about. And I'm one of that 0.01%. So I'm going to demonetize you, which means. In the real world terms, Hey, listen, if you are a conservative and do you have a YouTube channel and you say something, they don't like, you're not going to be able to make any money from that YouTube video.

We see that all the time from Prager University and many conservative speakers. So did 200 employees cooperate with the hackers, hard to say right now, Given that last fall, Saudi Arabia was able to get a couple of Twitter employees to kind of flip for them. Then the answer to that is kind of maybe.

[00:09:00]How long did it take to stop hackers? It took hours to stop them. Unfortunately, the last thing was posted, I think, Wednesday night at about 6:00 PM. So it took a while and Twitter attempted to slow this whole thing down.

They blocked verified accounts, which means if you had an, a verified account and there are a lot of them out there, a lot of us in the media, in the training realm and celebrities, we have blue checks, by our names. I don't, okay. But many people do.

So because of that, and because of the fact that a lot of these blue check accounts were being used for the scam, twitter said, okay, no more postings from blue check accounts. All right. So it took a while.

It was just a Bitcoin scam. It could have been a lot worse. And there are a lot of businesses out there that use Twitter in order to disseminate information in real-time. So all of those businesses, and that includes a lot of entertainment businesses really got nailed by this.

[00:10:00] I think when you start looking into this a little bit more deeply, We learn it something, there are a few things to learn, but one of the big things that we learned from this is you cannot count on using some of these platforms that are online, you can count on using some of them for your business and keeping your data safe.

Because again, and again, and again, you know, all the way back to 20 years ago, these even the earliest social media sites were plagued by people who were working there. Who were giving the information way? Okay.

President Trump's account was not hacked apparently, really. They were probably able to access private information. Cause you remember, they had this God mode, as I call it. Type tool that they were using. So that's kind of a very big deal. All right.

We only got about a half, half a minute left here, so let's talk about what's up next.

[00:11:00] We've got to talk about this, Microsoft. This is a very, very, very big deal. There's a patch out there right now. We'll tell you about that. We're going to talk also about Google. We've mentioned them before and tracking users and selling user's data. They're getting sued again because apparently. Google has not learned.

Hey, make sure you visit me online. Go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. I've almost got my news studio all done here. We're going to do a lot more pieces of training, a lot more live training, and we're probably going to start offering some of my courses again as well, but stick around because we'll be right back.

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[00:00:00] Craig Peterson: Hey, are you a devoted user of Google tools? Hey, and you know how to hide stuff online, right? Incognito browser mode. Guess again.

This is Craig Peterson. Thanks for joining me again, everybody. Google has had a mixed history of keeping your information safe. Right? One of the big problems with Google is how they make their money. They make their money by what? Selling your data, selling information about you. Selling it to marketers.

Heck, they're even selling it to the police and China. They are cooperating with the Chinese government and telling them who the dissidents are. That to me is really rather scary. Right?

[00:01:00] Facebook does the same sort of thing in China pretty much. Well, really every US company that has a nexus in China, if they want to be in China, is being forced under the socialist government, to hand over information about anybody that might want a little bit of freedom of choice in their lives.

Personally, I think that's a problem. Many people tend to not think that. Now as part of our hacker killer cybersecurity course, I go into a lot of depth about how to keep data safe and secure.

Even if you go over to China, believe it or not. But, Hey, listen, if you're going to China, you better have a Macbook and it better be using full disk encryption, and you better be using really good passwords.

 I would advise against using their wifi over there, et cetera, et cetera. Anyways, that's the subject for a very in-depth course. We're not going to get into right now.

[00:02:00] How do you as a user, keep your information safe from prying eyes. There are obviously some things we don't want people to know that we're searching about. Look at @amazon.com, for instance, if you're looking for certain types of toys on Amazon, it is not going to show those in your general search history.

They're not going to just pop up and say on the ad on a website as you're on an oh a so-called family-friendly website that is running ads that are paid for by Google. Maybe a third party who's using Google's data. It's not going to pop up about that little toy that you were searching for over at Amazon at the worst possible time. Right?

[00:03:00] We already know that there's data that we don't want to have out there. And many times data are used to blackmail us. We've seen that very frequently recently with the hackers who go on to our computers, particularly our small, medium businesses. Steal the data that's there. They, actually have people who get on your computer and look around on the computers and then all of the other computers on the network to see what kind of information does this guy has, does this company have, right?

What can we do to really screw them over? Right. What ends up happening? Well, they get their hands on set information and then they blackmail you. Well, there's nothing illegal necessarily about what a business does. Right? You, you sell a product. But you're concerned about your intellectual property.

You're concerned about regulatory fines that might come into play. In fact, almost certainly would come into play in some cases, but how would you like to be the company? Like one of the ones that we came in after the fact. They were just having some email problems. So we started poking around and we found the worst case of infection. Chinese, active Chinese back doors that the FBI Boston field office says they've ever seen.

[00:04:00]So that means that you as a business person, and in this case, is a guy in his seventies. Who'd been building this company for decades and had all of these designs, had all of these customers, his pricelist, his everything up there now stolen by the Chinese. That's socialism for you, right?

Well, It's one thing to steal it from some poor guy, some schmuck that spent 30 years building it. And then we'll just go ahead and use slave labor in order to make it really cheap. So now you get to compete against your designs and this something that's always bothered me about the tax code. 

Here you are struggling for 10, 20, 30 years. We were just in the last segment talking about flash and how they struggled for eight years just to come up with a concept for a business that might work. They had businesses that failed.

[00:05:00] So with the tax code. I'm struggling, let's say I'm working for, for 10, 20 years. I'm not even making minimum wage.  I'm going back and forth. I'm trying different things. Then, all of a sudden, after 20 years of hard work, I'm an overnight success, right? Isn't that the way that works, an overnight success, right, that took 20 years. So I make 2 million dollars in that year, 2 million.

Now I have to pay huge taxes on that. But wait a minute now, if you amortize it, cause I didn't get paid for the 20 years. I got paid for it at the very end of the 20 years. So how about we say, instead of making $2 million in year 20, I made a hundred thousand thousand dollars a year, right? A lot different tax bracket, right?

[00:06:00] Anyways it's something that's always really bothered me. The whole socialist idea of the progressive tax system has really bothered me. But in China, they don't bother with that. If you're a good member of the party, you make more money. We'll steal information for you from American companies. You have no idea how often this is happening. It is absolutely insane.

We've been involved in at least one of the 1000 investigations that are underway right now by the FBI. They just don't have enough time to investigate them all.

So now he has lost his 20 years' worth of building this company to the socialists, who are now going to should be selling his product.

Now, remember they didn't have to spend money developing this. They didn't have to spend money on the failures, the things that didn't work, the marketing that didn't work, the products that didn't work, the integrations that didn't work. They didn't have to spend the 20 years learning how to do all of this stuff. Figuring it out on the back of an envelope, all the way through, on, on a computer diagram system. They didn't have to do any of that. No, all they had to do was steal it. Right.

[00:07:00] So you are a regular, small business person. You're a home user, whatever it is. So how do you keep your data safe?

You know, this reminds me, I have a series of tutorials on keeping your browsers safe. I'm thinking maybe I should release those again. Maybe put them together as a little package. Let me know if you guys think I should. These plugins are going to help keep you safe. Email [email protected]. If you think that's a good idea, me, [email protected].

How to keep your online browsing experience safe. I've got others too but, you know, I think that's important.

[00:08:00] What do you do tell people are using incognito mode on their browsers, right? It's called different things in different browsers on the Google Chrome browser, call it incognito mode. There was a suit filed last month filed against Google, saying that Google was tracking people, even when they had incognito mode turned on.

There was a lawsuit filed this last Tuesday that alleges that Google tracks, user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt-out of sharing information. This is a good article by CNET. You'll find it on CNET Angela Lang wrote or she's got some decent stuff. I've got up on my [email protected], but this is a very, very big deal because the lawsuit is seeking class-action status, which means that these individuals that are involved in the suit are saying, Hey, we want thousands of people potentially in on the suit. Very, very big deal.

[00:09:00]Last month, the same law firm filed another suit, related to privacy and Google's Chrome browser. So CNET said, we reached out to Google, of course, they didn't respond in time. Isn't that the norm here? The suits filed it in the US district court for the Northern District of California. So it's in the ninth circus. We're not going to get into a whole bunch of the suit. You can find out more on my website or just do a search online, duck, duck, go search.

Here's the bottom line incognito mode, it does not stop people from tracking you. You're still sending requests out. Remember we talked about DNS before the domain name, service or system DNS. Well, that's another way to track you.

[00:10:00] What websites are you going to? What IP addresses are you visiting? What websites are you looking up? All of this stuff is a way to track you. So. Incognito mode isn't really doing much other than stopping certain cross-site cookies from being looked at. So it's a real, real problem.

Now I have some training specifically on all of this browser safety and security and privacy, but the bottom line, if you want privacy, I would say stick with Safari, just for the general user.

Now, in my courses would go into a lot more detail on different browsers, when you might want to use a tor browser, versus Epic, versus Safari, Firefox, et cetera.

[00:11:00] In reality for the 80% rule, Safari is going to get you a long way because Safari is from Apple. Apple does not make money off of your information. Google does. Apple does not. Apple makes money by selling you hardware, and by selling you services. And that's why it's a little bit safer. Right now, by the way, Apple is in their promotion saying we are 50% faster than Google Chrome. As well as more secure and Google Chrome has removed some of the support for some of the ad word blockers and other things, things that you might want to be using.

So Google Chrome's falling a little bit out of favor. However, on the other hand, you've got Microsoft with their latest incarnation of the Epic browser, which isn't the EPIC browser, which isn't the Epic browser. Which isn't isn't Internet Explorer. It's crazy. And we go into a lot of depth on some of that stuff on my courses.

[00:12:00] But Microsoft Epic is now actually Google Chrome under the hood. Anyhow, stick around. We've got a lot more to talk about her at the start of the hour, and I appreciate you being with me. Make sure you go right now to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. Get on my free newsletter list and I'll be sending you information about some of the training.

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