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

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I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about How Contract Tracing Apps Work and Fail, Massive Spying on Google Users, Major Justice Overhaul For Facebook, and Twitter. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN.

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Craig Peterson: This sort of thing that South Koreas been mandating for everyone.

[00:00:03] Matt Gagnon: Yeah.

[00:00:03] Craig Peterson: And China's been mandating if you go to China.

[00:00:07]Matt Gagnon: Look at my shocked face. I know you can see it through the radio right now.

[00:00:11] Craig Peterson: Yeah, absolutely. Now you brought up the security, right? So that was me with Mr. Matt this morning, we talked a little bit about the justice department and their big overhaul it's underway right now. Massive spying on users of Google Chrome and contact tracing apps. Did you know how they actually work and what they can do for you? And frankly, to you. Let's get going. Here's Matt.

[00:00:42] Matt Gagnon: It's a technological revolution, your Google home, your Alexa, just tell it to listen to the news, radio WGAN and the like Craig Peterson.

[00:00:51] You can listen to the program. Cause I know he does every day. Craig, welcome to the program this morning.

[00:00:56] Craig Peterson: I Do. I use my little Amazon Alexa? I have a little echo dot and it's fantastic. Even on in my car. I can just ask my Alexa app to go ahead and tune it in WGAN and off it goes.

[00:01:09] Matt Gagnon: Indeed. So it's a great technological advancement, which is a nice thing to do. Now that we're talking to you, the tech advisor for the WGAN morning news. So I wanted to start off Craig, by noting something that I have noticed recently, which is that there's a lot of people freaking out about what's on their phones for contact tracing apps and stuff. That's kind of being done in the background of their phones to try to keep track of the coronavirus and whatnot, but it goes into, I think, nicely into the story that you want to talk about, about the contact tracing apps and how they are failing miserably at basic security.

[00:01:47] Craig Peterson: Yeah, they sure are. And then there's a lot of confusion around these things too. You can't just download a contact tracing app and somehow thinks that it's going to trace all your contacts. First of all, that's just not going to work. Then there are two basic types of these apps. There's one that's GPS related.

[00:02:07] So it can be handy and it will let you know, if you come up down with symptoms later on, we'll let you know, we'll remind you. Oh, you went here, you grab a sandwich there, you did this, you did that. And so if the public health people want to know, where have you been, who might you have had contact with at least tells you where you are.

[00:02:29] The second type of app is typically based on a platform that both Apple and Google put together. And that platform is designed to use the near field Bluetooth stuff. The 10-year phones. So with Bluetooth at the latest versions of it, it can detect how far you are away or the devices away from another Bluetooth device.

[00:02:55] And those are the types of that. We'll let you know, first of all, Hey, you're within six feet of a coworker. So a lot of businesses are using those just to remind coworkers to stay apart. And secondarily it could be used by public health services to let them know who you came close to.

[00:03:13] Matt Gagnon: I am sorry but that is so sketchy.

[00:03:17] Craig Peterson: It is. Yeah, it really is.

[00:03:18] That's the sort of thing that South Korea has been mandating for everyone. And China's been mandating. If you go to China.

[00:03:26] Matt Gagnon: Look at my shocked face. I know you can see it through the radio right now.

[00:03:32] Craig Peterson: Yeah, absolutely. Now you brought up the security, right? Who trusts the government anymore?

[00:03:39] I guess there are some people right who trust the government, but most people know that. Okay. There's potentially legitimate purpose here may be well-intentioned, but giant security mistakes. And in fact, right now there are more than 2000 of these trackers out there. And the trackers that have been checked have been found to not keep your data private, not to keep your information.

[00:04:06] Matt Gagnon: You're kidding, You're kidding.

[00:04:07] Craig Peterson: Weird isn't it. So, yeah, it'd be, be careful with these things. They are not a panacea. The only way they might be effective is if some people saying 50%, some people say 70% of the population has them on their devices and that's never going to happen anyway.

[00:04:27] Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

[00:04:32] You can also hear him on Saturdays, on this very station with a longer-form version of this chat, where he gets into more depth and detail about all of these stories and more, coming up next. Craig, I want to talk about the spying. Speaking of people you don't trust, Google. And go with the spine that's being done on Google Chrome.

[00:04:50] What's happening here.

[00:04:51] Oh, this is an interesting problem. Google has, yeah, there's been some massive spying that's been going on and it's entirely around Google Chrome that we're going to talk about right now.

[00:05:03] Craig Peterson: Of course, there are all kinds of spying going after our businesses they are stealing our data. We know that we've talked about that before, but there's been this spyware effort for extensions on Google's Chrome web browsers.

[00:05:19] Then this is kind of an interesting problem here because there are malicious ad-on's and Google has from the official play store removed more than 70 of them. So number one only uses the official play store. Right. And I hate to have to say that, but a lot of people don't. A lot of gamers don't because a lot of the games are not available from the official store.

[00:05:46] So in this case, Google removed those extensions that violated their policies, which is really kind of nice, but here's the biggest problem. There have been apparently millions of people's records downloaded by some of the spyware, including your contacts, banking information, et cetera, et cetera. So this is a problem and it's going to continue to be a problem.

[00:06:13] It's not unique to Google. It is a general problem out there. So if you're going to put an extension on your browser, be very careful. And my best advice is, do not add search bars to your browser.

[00:06:28] Matt Gagnon: Oh God, you ever do that?

[00:06:30] Geez. Those things are terrible.

[00:06:31] Craig Peterson: Oh, they're the worst.

[00:06:32] Matt Gagnon: Yeah, don't do it. Don't do it is pretty much good advice for most things I'd say. Craig Peterson joins us on, right now to talk about what's going on in the world of technology before I let you go, Craig, I have one more question I want to get to you. And this one could spiral into a seven-hour discussion, but section two 30, has been, of the communications. Decency act of 1996, by the way, is where that comes from, has been sort of at the center of this debate about free speech online, and what social media platforms are doing.

[00:07:01] And, and the justice department has now proposed a set of new things to do to update that what are they proposing?

[00:07:09] Craig Peterson: Well, here is the bottom line. If you're using that telephone and you threaten someone, or you say something that is illegal, the telephone company, isn't prosecuted, the telephone company doesn't go to jail.

[00:07:24] So what section two 30 was all about is saying, well, you know, some of these businesses out there are kind of like common carriers kind of like the telephone company and we should not hold Facebook or Google to the same standards as we might hold a third party, a little website that's publishing hate speech, for instance.

[00:07:45] Well, that was put in place so that Google, Facebook, et cetera, did not have to do any form of censorship and they would not be held accountable. Guess what they're doing right now, Matt,

[00:07:58] I have a guess, Craig Peterson.

[00:08:01] It's censorship, right? They have been labeling speech. They have been demonetizing people.

[00:08:07] They have been removing accounts. Even they have been acting less like the telephone company and more like just a regular publisher. Just like a newspaper would get sued as long as they're not the New York times by the customs department. and, would be prosecuted and bad things could happen. So the department of justice is trying to come up with some ground in the middle here saying Google, Facebook, Twitter, et cetera.

[00:08:39] If you are going to quote fact check unquote, which of course is in fact-checking people. And if you are going to demonetize them, if you're going to remove them, if you're going to eliminate their right to speech, we're not going to protect you anymore.

[00:08:56] Matt Gagnon: Yeah, that's an interesting way of going about it.

[00:08:57] And I know that we're basically at a time, you're correct, but I've always been critical of this move to try to shift some of the things that are in section two 30 because I think that while a lot of the people that have assigned that as the reason why Facebook and Google are doing terrible things to you, it gives a lot of power.

[00:09:14] To the federal government just sort of started policing some of these private entities. I mean, they're, they're publicly traded corporations. Right.

[00:09:22] Craig Peterson: Yeah.

[00:09:22] Matt Gagnon: And

[00:09:22] Craig Peterson: it makes

[00:09:23] Matt Gagnon: me deeply, deeply uncomfortable to give say like Barack Obama, that power. Right. It's, you know, it's one thing in the hands of your friends and another thing in the hands of your, political opposites, but that's

[00:09:34] You may trust it today but what about tomorrow.

[00:09:38] That is an interesting way of going about it though. The kind of like the middle ground here saying that you still actually have. The afforded protections. But if you get into the habit of curating and, and, and trying to police speech on your platform, then you are taking a more active hand in the management of what's on the platform.

[00:09:55] Ergo. You're not really a platform anymore. Right? I mean, like, that's, that's the core of it. I, you know, you might be able to get me on that. You know, its an interesting idea.

[00:10:04] Craig Peterson: It says one I'm kind of agreeing with, but I hate the potential fallout, right? The unforeseen circumstances.

[00:10:11] Matt Gagnon: Yeah. I mean, again, this could go into like a 10-hour conversation.

[00:10:14] Tech policy is like that, you know, you're talking, you had done, you pull one string and then 25 other strings go with it. So we could, we could talk about this for ages, but Craig Peterson, we appreciate you talking for as long as you have. We'll talk to you again next week. And of course, listen to him on Saturday.

[00:10:28] He'll definitely be here at WGAN and talk more about this. Thanks a lot, Craig.

[00:10:32] Craig Peterson: Exactly 1:00 PM.

[00:10:34] Matt Gagnon: 1:00 PM on Saturday. All right. So coming up next, Joe Biden,

[00:10:37] Craig Peterson: I'm thinking about dropping the weekend radio shows that I've been doing for more than 20 years, a long time. But I'm not sure that, the reason is I'm not sure that I'm really getting traction out of them that I need to get. Cause I want to help a lot of people. I also need to pay my bills. Right. And I just, I'm not getting the feedback from the radio shows. So. I think I might drop them, but I'd love to hear from you guys what you think. So I would still do these morning hits on, on radio, maybe some TV morning hits. but the radio shows on the weekend just takes hours and hours to do and I just don't know if it is worth it. Anyways. Email me M E at Craig Peterson dot com. Let me know what you think. It'll also let me do a little bit more when it comes to these podcasts and maybe posting some stuff, doing Facebook and YouTube Lives, et cetera. So let me know [email protected]. Everybody, have a great day and at least this weekend we'll be back on Saturday.

[00:11:45] Take care. Bye-bye.

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Good morning everybody!

I was on with Matt this morning and we had a good discussion about How Contract Tracing Apps Work and Fail, Massive Spying on Google Users, Major Justice Overhaul For Facebook, and Twitter. Let's get into my conversation with Matt on WGAN.

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

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Craig Peterson: This sort of thing that South Koreas been mandating for everyone.

[00:00:03] Matt Gagnon: Yeah.

[00:00:03] Craig Peterson: And China's been mandating if you go to China.

[00:00:07]Matt Gagnon: Look at my shocked face. I know you can see it through the radio right now.

[00:00:11] Craig Peterson: Yeah, absolutely. Now you brought up the security, right? So that was me with Mr. Matt this morning, we talked a little bit about the justice department and their big overhaul it's underway right now. Massive spying on users of Google Chrome and contact tracing apps. Did you know how they actually work and what they can do for you? And frankly, to you. Let's get going. Here's Matt.

[00:00:42] Matt Gagnon: It's a technological revolution, your Google home, your Alexa, just tell it to listen to the news, radio WGAN and the like Craig Peterson.

[00:00:51] You can listen to the program. Cause I know he does every day. Craig, welcome to the program this morning.

[00:00:56] Craig Peterson: I Do. I use my little Amazon Alexa? I have a little echo dot and it's fantastic. Even on in my car. I can just ask my Alexa app to go ahead and tune it in WGAN and off it goes.

[00:01:09] Matt Gagnon: Indeed. So it's a great technological advancement, which is a nice thing to do. Now that we're talking to you, the tech advisor for the WGAN morning news. So I wanted to start off Craig, by noting something that I have noticed recently, which is that there's a lot of people freaking out about what's on their phones for contact tracing apps and stuff. That's kind of being done in the background of their phones to try to keep track of the coronavirus and whatnot, but it goes into, I think, nicely into the story that you want to talk about, about the contact tracing apps and how they are failing miserably at basic security.

[00:01:47] Craig Peterson: Yeah, they sure are. And then there's a lot of confusion around these things too. You can't just download a contact tracing app and somehow thinks that it's going to trace all your contacts. First of all, that's just not going to work. Then there are two basic types of these apps. There's one that's GPS related.

[00:02:07] So it can be handy and it will let you know, if you come up down with symptoms later on, we'll let you know, we'll remind you. Oh, you went here, you grab a sandwich there, you did this, you did that. And so if the public health people want to know, where have you been, who might you have had contact with at least tells you where you are.

[00:02:29] The second type of app is typically based on a platform that both Apple and Google put together. And that platform is designed to use the near field Bluetooth stuff. The 10-year phones. So with Bluetooth at the latest versions of it, it can detect how far you are away or the devices away from another Bluetooth device.

[00:02:55] And those are the types of that. We'll let you know, first of all, Hey, you're within six feet of a coworker. So a lot of businesses are using those just to remind coworkers to stay apart. And secondarily it could be used by public health services to let them know who you came close to.

[00:03:13] Matt Gagnon: I am sorry but that is so sketchy.

[00:03:17] Craig Peterson: It is. Yeah, it really is.

[00:03:18] That's the sort of thing that South Korea has been mandating for everyone. And China's been mandating. If you go to China.

[00:03:26] Matt Gagnon: Look at my shocked face. I know you can see it through the radio right now.

[00:03:32] Craig Peterson: Yeah, absolutely. Now you brought up the security, right? Who trusts the government anymore?

[00:03:39] I guess there are some people right who trust the government, but most people know that. Okay. There's potentially legitimate purpose here may be well-intentioned, but giant security mistakes. And in fact, right now there are more than 2000 of these trackers out there. And the trackers that have been checked have been found to not keep your data private, not to keep your information.

[00:04:06] Matt Gagnon: You're kidding, You're kidding.

[00:04:07] Craig Peterson: Weird isn't it. So, yeah, it'd be, be careful with these things. They are not a panacea. The only way they might be effective is if some people saying 50%, some people say 70% of the population has them on their devices and that's never going to happen anyway.

[00:04:27] Matt Gagnon: Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology.

[00:04:32] You can also hear him on Saturdays, on this very station with a longer-form version of this chat, where he gets into more depth and detail about all of these stories and more, coming up next. Craig, I want to talk about the spying. Speaking of people you don't trust, Google. And go with the spine that's being done on Google Chrome.

[00:04:50] What's happening here.

[00:04:51] Oh, this is an interesting problem. Google has, yeah, there's been some massive spying that's been going on and it's entirely around Google Chrome that we're going to talk about right now.

[00:05:03] Craig Peterson: Of course, there are all kinds of spying going after our businesses they are stealing our data. We know that we've talked about that before, but there's been this spyware effort for extensions on Google's Chrome web browsers.

[00:05:19] Then this is kind of an interesting problem here because there are malicious ad-on's and Google has from the official play store removed more than 70 of them. So number one only uses the official play store. Right. And I hate to have to say that, but a lot of people don't. A lot of gamers don't because a lot of the games are not available from the official store.

[00:05:46] So in this case, Google removed those extensions that violated their policies, which is really kind of nice, but here's the biggest problem. There have been apparently millions of people's records downloaded by some of the spyware, including your contacts, banking information, et cetera, et cetera. So this is a problem and it's going to continue to be a problem.

[00:06:13] It's not unique to Google. It is a general problem out there. So if you're going to put an extension on your browser, be very careful. And my best advice is, do not add search bars to your browser.

[00:06:28] Matt Gagnon: Oh God, you ever do that?

[00:06:30] Geez. Those things are terrible.

[00:06:31] Craig Peterson: Oh, they're the worst.

[00:06:32] Matt Gagnon: Yeah, don't do it. Don't do it is pretty much good advice for most things I'd say. Craig Peterson joins us on, right now to talk about what's going on in the world of technology before I let you go, Craig, I have one more question I want to get to you. And this one could spiral into a seven-hour discussion, but section two 30, has been, of the communications. Decency act of 1996, by the way, is where that comes from, has been sort of at the center of this debate about free speech online, and what social media platforms are doing.

[00:07:01] And, and the justice department has now proposed a set of new things to do to update that what are they proposing?

[00:07:09] Craig Peterson: Well, here is the bottom line. If you're using that telephone and you threaten someone, or you say something that is illegal, the telephone company, isn't prosecuted, the telephone company doesn't go to jail.

[00:07:24] So what section two 30 was all about is saying, well, you know, some of these businesses out there are kind of like common carriers kind of like the telephone company and we should not hold Facebook or Google to the same standards as we might hold a third party, a little website that's publishing hate speech, for instance.

[00:07:45] Well, that was put in place so that Google, Facebook, et cetera, did not have to do any form of censorship and they would not be held accountable. Guess what they're doing right now, Matt,

[00:07:58] I have a guess, Craig Peterson.

[00:08:01] It's censorship, right? They have been labeling speech. They have been demonetizing people.

[00:08:07] They have been removing accounts. Even they have been acting less like the telephone company and more like just a regular publisher. Just like a newspaper would get sued as long as they're not the New York times by the customs department. and, would be prosecuted and bad things could happen. So the department of justice is trying to come up with some ground in the middle here saying Google, Facebook, Twitter, et cetera.

[00:08:39] If you are going to quote fact check unquote, which of course is in fact-checking people. And if you are going to demonetize them, if you're going to remove them, if you're going to eliminate their right to speech, we're not going to protect you anymore.

[00:08:56] Matt Gagnon: Yeah, that's an interesting way of going about it.

[00:08:57] And I know that we're basically at a time, you're correct, but I've always been critical of this move to try to shift some of the things that are in section two 30 because I think that while a lot of the people that have assigned that as the reason why Facebook and Google are doing terrible things to you, it gives a lot of power.

[00:09:14] To the federal government just sort of started policing some of these private entities. I mean, they're, they're publicly traded corporations. Right.

[00:09:22] Craig Peterson: Yeah.

[00:09:22] Matt Gagnon: And

[00:09:22] Craig Peterson: it makes

[00:09:23] Matt Gagnon: me deeply, deeply uncomfortable to give say like Barack Obama, that power. Right. It's, you know, it's one thing in the hands of your friends and another thing in the hands of your, political opposites, but that's

[00:09:34] You may trust it today but what about tomorrow.

[00:09:38] That is an interesting way of going about it though. The kind of like the middle ground here saying that you still actually have. The afforded protections. But if you get into the habit of curating and, and, and trying to police speech on your platform, then you are taking a more active hand in the management of what's on the platform.

[00:09:55] Ergo. You're not really a platform anymore. Right? I mean, like, that's, that's the core of it. I, you know, you might be able to get me on that. You know, its an interesting idea.

[00:10:04] Craig Peterson: It says one I'm kind of agreeing with, but I hate the potential fallout, right? The unforeseen circumstances.

[00:10:11] Matt Gagnon: Yeah. I mean, again, this could go into like a 10-hour conversation.

[00:10:14] Tech policy is like that, you know, you're talking, you had done, you pull one string and then 25 other strings go with it. So we could, we could talk about this for ages, but Craig Peterson, we appreciate you talking for as long as you have. We'll talk to you again next week. And of course, listen to him on Saturday.

[00:10:28] He'll definitely be here at WGAN and talk more about this. Thanks a lot, Craig.

[00:10:32] Craig Peterson: Exactly 1:00 PM.

[00:10:34] Matt Gagnon: 1:00 PM on Saturday. All right. So coming up next, Joe Biden,

[00:10:37] Craig Peterson: I'm thinking about dropping the weekend radio shows that I've been doing for more than 20 years, a long time. But I'm not sure that, the reason is I'm not sure that I'm really getting traction out of them that I need to get. Cause I want to help a lot of people. I also need to pay my bills. Right. And I just, I'm not getting the feedback from the radio shows. So. I think I might drop them, but I'd love to hear from you guys what you think. So I would still do these morning hits on, on radio, maybe some TV morning hits. but the radio shows on the weekend just takes hours and hours to do and I just don't know if it is worth it. Anyways. Email me M E at Craig Peterson dot com. Let me know what you think. It'll also let me do a little bit more when it comes to these podcasts and maybe posting some stuff, doing Facebook and YouTube Lives, et cetera. So let me know [email protected]. Everybody, have a great day and at least this weekend we'll be back on Saturday.

[00:11:45] Take care. Bye-bye.

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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito and we discussed the reality of business security problems today, how they are getting worse and why we have to fix them.  Here we go with Jim.

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Craig Peterson: The way you do that type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's time.

[00:00:11] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. That's S O N you'll find me [email protected]. That was me with Mr. Jim Polito we talked about how things are much worse than we may realize. I got into real-world stuff what's happening right now to our businesses and to our homes. This is, this is something I think everybody needs to be really aware of. And maybe trying to something about it.

[00:00:47]Jim Polito:  He is the man. He is the myth. He is the legend. I'm talking about our good friend and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

[00:01:01] Hey, next Tuesday will be our Canada day Eve edition of our visit with the tech talk guru. Oh, you didn't think I would forget Canada day. Did you?

[00:01:16] Craig Peterson: No Canada got its independence kind of in 1967. I remember that when I was in elementary school and, you know, they taught us the communist song. You know, This land is your land.

[00:01:28] Okay. Canadian version. And we all stood there singing it and, you know, heralding the, our fellow comrades. but yeah, comrades. Yeah.

[00:01:41] Jim Polito: No, that was a Canada day. Yeah, I know. No, believe me. I, I know. Well, speaking of comrades, our comrade, the little guy, rocket man. Has assembled a shall we say an army of 7,000 highly trained, highly skilled individuals.

[00:02:02] Now people may say 7,000. What, what could they do? How about bringing about an Armageddon close to what a nuclear weapon could do. Am I correct that Kim Jong-UN now has a force that could bring about Armageddon.

[00:02:23] Craig Peterson: Oh, you are dead on there. Jim, this is a scary thing, frankly, you know, we think of North Korea and we, we think about all of these people who are in everything are in concentration camps, through the cities, many people out in the rural areas, infected with all kinds of diseases.

[00:02:43] And I don't want to get too gross about this, but if we think of it as really a. Third or maybe fourth world country and in many ways it is. But what has been going on in North Korea is apparently they've been receiving training in China or in Russia to build this massive cyber army. When you talk about bringing about a kind of an Armageddon, it is absolutely the case.

[00:03:16] Look at what's happened with the Wuhan virus shutdown that we have right now. Right. Nobody wants to get Covid-19, which makes a whole lot of sense. Right. But now what these guys and gals could potentially do is go after our power systems and other infrastructure.  If they got to the right place at the right time, they could bring our electric grid back to the 18 hundreds.

[00:03:48]It could take months in order to recover. That would have.

[00:03:54] Jim Polito: Yeah, no, it's bad. It's bad.

[00:03:56] Craig Peterson: So, Kim Jung Un, rocket man, the little guy, while he can't develop the expertise to put together an Intercontinental ballistic missile and, he may have a bomb. Well, he's definitely got a bomb. You know, we can't put all that technology together.

[00:04:17] He can go to his big brother in China. And say, teach me how to do all of this stuff. and we know that he's already really been successful. Remember, what was it? The Sony films hack after that movie, the interview came out. That was a spoof on him. And, to get even he set his dogs on a Hollywood and boy, they, they, they were effective.

[00:04:44] Well, you might remember too, that the White House blamed North Korea for unleashing the Wanna Cry cyberattack back in 2017, three years ago. It was absolutely massive. It caused devastation worldwide. Now here's part of the problem with this, obviously. We don't want North Korea to be getting in and taking over systems or bringing various systems down, but they're a way you do this type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's like black lives matter. You've got people in the street who really are there, their hearts are in it. It's really because they care about black lives and, and who doesn't. Right. Behind all of these people are the Marxists who are throwing the firebombs. So we're doing various things to really stir up and foment all kinds of turmoil.

[00:05:46] That's what we're seeing with North Korea because they can hop onto a computer. That's been taken over, let's say in wherever Eastern Europe, somewhere and from that computer, they hop onto a computer here in the United States. Somebody's own computer for instance and the person whose home computer they're using has no clue any of this is going on.

[00:06:11] Even if they're on their computer at the time. And then they'll hop from that computer to another computer, to another computer. They'll use our computers as what are called botnets to attack our military, to attack our infrastructure. And in reality, Jim, we don't really know where it's coming from.

[00:06:32] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:06:33] Craig Peterson: Big because it's very difficult to trace.

[00:06:35] Now we're talking with our tech talk guru friend, Craig, Peterson. and at the end of this segment, we'll give you a number that you can text my name to and get other information from Craig. Don't think that I'm the genius doing great show prep. He sent me the stuff about Kim Jong-UN and, and I've been reading through it and been and been quite concerned. Okay. I do sometimes hear from people.

[00:06:57] Oh my God, Jim, when you and Craig talk about this stuff, you get me very concerned. Now I'm not talking about like a, business's being hacked. I'm talking about this kind of stuff, shutting down our power grid and things like that.

[00:07:11] Jim Polito: Now, Craig, we have to assume that our government has a counter to this. Is it reasonable for me to assume that

[00:07:24] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it absolutely is. We have first strike offensive capabilities in the cyber world and all branches of our military have Cyber teams that put the 7,000 North Korea have to shame. So we have both defensive capabilities, which frankly we're not using as much as we should because incompetence runs rampant in every field, but we also have both defensive capabilities.

[00:07:57] Jim Polito: God. it's just so the real war in the future, remember that Star Trek episode where the computers. You know, there was war between the computers and the, and the enterprise was attacked and X amount of, members of their crew were supposed to walk off to be executed because, in this war games where there's no, the actual firing of weapons, the computers had determined that they had lost that the enterprise had been hit well in the room.

[00:08:31] Well, I mean here with us, we're not too far away from it.

[00:08:34] Craig Peterson: Yeah. That's one of my favorite episodes is called a taste of Armageddon, the original Star Trek series. And we are not in some ways very far away from that, because most countries don't want to lob a nuclear weapon. Pretty easy to tell where it came from, especially now that almost everybody can look down from space to see where it was.

[00:08:55] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:08:56]Craig Peterson: It's, it's very hard to trace, these attacks that are going on. Now, part of what Kim Jong loon apparently had done, he was able to break into some South Korean defense contractors stole about 40,000 of these things, including information on F 16 fighters and drones. Now, I, I hate to say this next part.

[00:09:22] Because, you know, what I do for a living is I help businesses put their security together.

[00:09:28] Jim Polito: Okay.

[00:09:29] Craig Peterson: So we get calls from businesses every week and saying, Hey, you know, we've got these new CMMC regulations, which are part of the department of defense. You know, ITAR, DFARS, all these different things. we, can you come in and help us out with this and the part I don't want it to say is

[00:09:50] I'm not going to say this is every time we go in but we're seeing nowadays not only a lot of attacks against these extremely small defense contractors, but I'm also not talking about the Raytheon's of the world. I'm talking about the local business that makes an assembly. That sold to a defense contractor that is sold maybe to another defense contractor and sold to the department of defense.

[00:10:17] I'm not going to say that I go into these businesses and every time, but over the last, basically, since at least the beginning of the year, we have found it Chinese back doors wide open. And what's that mean? Is, yes, our defense contractors. You look at this, right. And then, apparently, North Korea bought these plans for the F 16 fighters and drones.

[00:10:45] Well, how do they do that? Well, they get these back doors installed and then. Every case we have where we found these things. And in fact, we found a very small defense contractor that I had the worst infection ever seen by the Boston FBI office. And they all had antivirus software. They all had walls. They all thought the word safe.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: And they're not. Wow.

[00:11:18] Craig Peterson: So you didn't hear from me, but that's the real skinny on what we're seeing out there on the streets right now.

[00:11:26] Jim Polito: Okay. Yeah. this is not good. This is not good, but what you need to do. Is to protect yourself by getting the latest information. And that's by listening to the segment with Craig Peterson, but that is also getting on his list, his good list where he will not try to sell you stuff or hack you.

[00:11:44] And all that you have to do is tax my name to this number (855) 385-5553.

[00:11:53] Craig Peterson: So you can text Jim to (855) 385-5553. And I also answer questions. It may take me a few days. We're pretty busy, but just send an email to [email protected] about any questions, whether you're a defense contractor or you're a home user, right. I'm helping people in their eighties every day as well. Jim.

[00:12:16] Jim Polito: All right. And standard data and tax rates apply Craig. An excellent segment as usual, and we look forward to talking with you on Canada day Eve. Next Tuesday.

[00:12:30] Craig Peterson: Thanks, Jim. I'll buy the Molson.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: Thanks, buddy. Bye-bye. All right. When we return a final word.

[00:12:36] Craig Peterson: Awesome. All right, everybody, we'll be having a great week. We have some amazing stuff planned. this Karen and I were sitting down. Trying to figure out how can we help the most people, what's the most important thing for us to do. And we are going to be teaching that we've got all of the basics put together.

[00:12:56] It's going to take us probably a couple more weeks. I know it's always a couple of weeks, right. And we're going to show you exactly. How to tell if your computer needs a little bit more security or maybe a lot more security. So keep an ear to the ground. This is going to be absolutely free training and it's coming up.

[00:13:18] I Got you guys.

[00:13:20] Take care. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

Craig Peterson: The way you do that type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's time.

[00:00:11] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. That's S O N you'll find me [email protected]. That was me with Mr. Jim Polito we talked about how things are much worse than we may realize. I got into real-world stuff what's happening right now to our businesses and to our homes. This is, this is something I think everybody needs to be really aware of. And maybe trying to something about it.

[00:00:47]Jim Polito:  He is the man. He is the myth. He is the legend. I'm talking about our good friend and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

[00:01:01] Hey, next Tuesday will be our Canada day Eve edition of our visit with the tech talk guru. Oh, you didn't think I would forget Canada day. Did you?

[00:01:16] Craig Peterson: No Canada got its independence kind of in 1967. I remember that when I was in elementary school and, you know, they taught us the communist song. You know, This land is your land.

[00:01:28] Okay. Canadian version. And we all stood there singing it and, you know, heralding the, our fellow comrades. but yeah, comrades. Yeah.

[00:01:41] Jim Polito: No, that was a Canada day. Yeah, I know. No, believe me. I, I know. Well, speaking of comrades, our comrade, the little guy, rocket man. Has assembled a shall we say an army of 7,000 highly trained, highly skilled individuals.

[00:02:02] Now people may say 7,000. What, what could they do? How about bringing about an Armageddon close to what a nuclear weapon could do. Am I correct that Kim Jong-UN now has a force that could bring about Armageddon.

[00:02:23] Craig Peterson: Oh, you are dead on there. Jim, this is a scary thing, frankly, you know, we think of North Korea and we, we think about all of these people who are in everything are in concentration camps, through the cities, many people out in the rural areas, infected with all kinds of diseases.

[00:02:43] And I don't want to get too gross about this, but if we think of it as really a. Third or maybe fourth world country and in many ways it is. But what has been going on in North Korea is apparently they've been receiving training in China or in Russia to build this massive cyber army. When you talk about bringing about a kind of an Armageddon, it is absolutely the case.

[00:03:16] Look at what's happened with the Wuhan virus shutdown that we have right now. Right. Nobody wants to get Covid-19, which makes a whole lot of sense. Right. But now what these guys and gals could potentially do is go after our power systems and other infrastructure.  If they got to the right place at the right time, they could bring our electric grid back to the 18 hundreds.

[00:03:48]It could take months in order to recover. That would have.

[00:03:54] Jim Polito: Yeah, no, it's bad. It's bad.

[00:03:56] Craig Peterson: So, Kim Jung Un, rocket man, the little guy, while he can't develop the expertise to put together an Intercontinental ballistic missile and, he may have a bomb. Well, he's definitely got a bomb. You know, we can't put all that technology together.

[00:04:17] He can go to his big brother in China. And say, teach me how to do all of this stuff. and we know that he's already really been successful. Remember, what was it? The Sony films hack after that movie, the interview came out. That was a spoof on him. And, to get even he set his dogs on a Hollywood and boy, they, they, they were effective.

[00:04:44] Well, you might remember too, that the White House blamed North Korea for unleashing the Wanna Cry cyberattack back in 2017, three years ago. It was absolutely massive. It caused devastation worldwide. Now here's part of the problem with this, obviously. We don't want North Korea to be getting in and taking over systems or bringing various systems down, but they're a way you do this type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's like black lives matter. You've got people in the street who really are there, their hearts are in it. It's really because they care about black lives and, and who doesn't. Right. Behind all of these people are the Marxists who are throwing the firebombs. So we're doing various things to really stir up and foment all kinds of turmoil.

[00:05:46] That's what we're seeing with North Korea because they can hop onto a computer. That's been taken over, let's say in wherever Eastern Europe, somewhere and from that computer, they hop onto a computer here in the United States. Somebody's own computer for instance and the person whose home computer they're using has no clue any of this is going on.

[00:06:11] Even if they're on their computer at the time. And then they'll hop from that computer to another computer, to another computer. They'll use our computers as what are called botnets to attack our military, to attack our infrastructure. And in reality, Jim, we don't really know where it's coming from.

[00:06:32] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:06:33] Craig Peterson: Big because it's very difficult to trace.

[00:06:35] Now we're talking with our tech talk guru friend, Craig, Peterson. and at the end of this segment, we'll give you a number that you can text my name to and get other information from Craig. Don't think that I'm the genius doing great show prep. He sent me the stuff about Kim Jong-UN and, and I've been reading through it and been and been quite concerned. Okay. I do sometimes hear from people.

[00:06:57] Oh my God, Jim, when you and Craig talk about this stuff, you get me very concerned. Now I'm not talking about like a, business's being hacked. I'm talking about this kind of stuff, shutting down our power grid and things like that.

[00:07:11] Jim Polito: Now, Craig, we have to assume that our government has a counter to this. Is it reasonable for me to assume that

[00:07:24] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it absolutely is. We have first strike offensive capabilities in the cyber world and all branches of our military have Cyber teams that put the 7,000 North Korea have to shame. So we have both defensive capabilities, which frankly we're not using as much as we should because incompetence runs rampant in every field, but we also have both defensive capabilities.

[00:07:57] Jim Polito: God. it's just so the real war in the future, remember that Star Trek episode where the computers. You know, there was war between the computers and the, and the enterprise was attacked and X amount of, members of their crew were supposed to walk off to be executed because, in this war games where there's no, the actual firing of weapons, the computers had determined that they had lost that the enterprise had been hit well in the room.

[00:08:31] Well, I mean here with us, we're not too far away from it.

[00:08:34] Craig Peterson: Yeah. That's one of my favorite episodes is called a taste of Armageddon, the original Star Trek series. And we are not in some ways very far away from that, because most countries don't want to lob a nuclear weapon. Pretty easy to tell where it came from, especially now that almost everybody can look down from space to see where it was.

[00:08:55] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:08:56]Craig Peterson: It's, it's very hard to trace, these attacks that are going on. Now, part of what Kim Jong loon apparently had done, he was able to break into some South Korean defense contractors stole about 40,000 of these things, including information on F 16 fighters and drones. Now, I, I hate to say this next part.

[00:09:22] Because, you know, what I do for a living is I help businesses put their security together.

[00:09:28] Jim Polito: Okay.

[00:09:29] Craig Peterson: So we get calls from businesses every week and saying, Hey, you know, we've got these new CMMC regulations, which are part of the department of defense. You know, ITAR, DFARS, all these different things. we, can you come in and help us out with this and the part I don't want it to say is

[00:09:50] I'm not going to say this is every time we go in but we're seeing nowadays not only a lot of attacks against these extremely small defense contractors, but I'm also not talking about the Raytheon's of the world. I'm talking about the local business that makes an assembly. That sold to a defense contractor that is sold maybe to another defense contractor and sold to the department of defense.

[00:10:17] I'm not going to say that I go into these businesses and every time, but over the last, basically, since at least the beginning of the year, we have found it Chinese back doors wide open. And what's that mean? Is, yes, our defense contractors. You look at this, right. And then, apparently, North Korea bought these plans for the F 16 fighters and drones.

[00:10:45] Well, how do they do that? Well, they get these back doors installed and then. Every case we have where we found these things. And in fact, we found a very small defense contractor that I had the worst infection ever seen by the Boston FBI office. And they all had antivirus software. They all had walls. They all thought the word safe.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: And they're not. Wow.

[00:11:18] Craig Peterson: So you didn't hear from me, but that's the real skinny on what we're seeing out there on the streets right now.

[00:11:26] Jim Polito: Okay. Yeah. this is not good. This is not good, but what you need to do. Is to protect yourself by getting the latest information. And that's by listening to the segment with Craig Peterson, but that is also getting on his list, his good list where he will not try to sell you stuff or hack you.

[00:11:44] And all that you have to do is tax my name to this number (855) 385-5553.

[00:11:53] Craig Peterson: So you can text Jim to (855) 385-5553. And I also answer questions. It may take me a few days. We're pretty busy, but just send an email to [email protected] about any questions, whether you're a defense contractor or you're a home user, right. I'm helping people in their eighties every day as well. Jim.

[00:12:16] Jim Polito: All right. And standard data and tax rates apply Craig. An excellent segment as usual, and we look forward to talking with you on Canada day Eve. Next Tuesday.

[00:12:30] Craig Peterson: Thanks, Jim. I'll buy the Molson.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: Thanks, buddy. Bye-bye. All right. When we return a final word.

[00:12:36] Craig Peterson: Awesome. All right, everybody, we'll be having a great week. We have some amazing stuff planned. this Karen and I were sitting down. Trying to figure out how can we help the most people, what's the most important thing for us to do. And we are going to be teaching that we've got all of the basics put together.

[00:12:56] It's going to take us probably a couple more weeks. I know it's always a couple of weeks, right. And we're going to show you exactly. How to tell if your computer needs a little bit more security or maybe a lot more security. So keep an ear to the ground. This is going to be absolutely free training and it's coming up.

[00:13:18] I Got you guys.

[00:13:20] Take care. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

--- 

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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito and we discussed the reality of business security problems today, how they are getting worse and why we have to fix them. 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: The way you do that type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's time.

[00:00:11] Hi everybody. Craig Peterson here. That's S O N you'll find me [email protected]. That was me with Mr. Jim Polito we talked about how things are much worse than we may realize. I got into real-world stuff what's happening right now to our businesses and to our homes. This is, this is something I think everybody needs to be really aware of. And maybe trying to something about it.

[00:00:47]Jim Polito: He is the man. He is the myth. He is the legend. I'm talking about our good friend and tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig.

[00:01:01] Hey, next Tuesday will be our Canada day Eve edition of our visit with the tech talk guru. Oh, you didn't think I would forget Canada day. Did you?

[00:01:16] Craig Peterson: No Canada got its independence kind of in 1967. I remember that when I was in elementary school and, you know, they taught us the communist song. You know, This land is your land.

[00:01:28] Okay. Canadian version. And we all stood there singing it and, you know, heralding the, our fellow comrades. but yeah, comrades. Yeah.

[00:01:41] Jim Polito: No, that was a Canada day. Yeah, I know. No, believe me. I, I know. Well, speaking of comrades, our comrade, the little guy, rocket man. Has assembled a shall we say an army of 7,000 highly trained, highly skilled individuals.

[00:02:02] Now people may say 7,000. What, what could they do? How about bringing about an Armageddon close to what a nuclear weapon could do. Am I correct that Kim Jong-UN now has a force that could bring about Armageddon.

[00:02:23] Craig Peterson: Oh, you are dead on there. Jim, this is a scary thing, frankly, you know, we think of North Korea and we, we think about all of these people who are in everything are in concentration camps, through the cities, many people out in the rural areas, infected with all kinds of diseases.

[00:02:43] And I don't want to get too gross about this, but if we think of it as really a. Third or maybe fourth world country and in many ways it is. But what has been going on in North Korea is apparently they've been receiving training in China or in Russia to build this massive cyber army. When you talk about bringing about a kind of an Armageddon, it is absolutely the case.

[00:03:16] Look at what's happened with the Wuhan virus shutdown that we have right now. Right. Nobody wants to get Covid-19, which makes a whole lot of sense. Right. But now what these guys and gals could potentially do is go after our power systems and other infrastructure. If they got to the right place at the right time, they could bring our electric grid back to the 18 hundreds.

[00:03:48]It could take months in order to recover. That would have.

[00:03:54] Jim Polito: Yeah, no, it's bad. It's bad.

[00:03:56] Craig Peterson: So, Kim Jung Un, rocket man, the little guy, while he can't develop the expertise to put together an Intercontinental ballistic missile and, he may have a bomb. Well, he's definitely got a bomb. You know, we can't put all that technology together.

[00:04:17] He can go to his big brother in China. And say, teach me how to do all of this stuff. and we know that he's already really been successful. Remember, what was it? The Sony films hack after that movie, the interview came out. That was a spoof on him. And, to get even he set his dogs on a Hollywood and boy, they, they, they were effective.

[00:04:44] Well, you might remember too, that the White House blamed North Korea for unleashing the Wanna Cry cyberattack back in 2017, three years ago. It was absolutely massive. It caused devastation worldwide. Now here's part of the problem with this, obviously. We don't want North Korea to be getting in and taking over systems or bringing various systems down, but they're a way you do this type of cyber attack in this day and age is you don't come out and say, Hey, it's like black lives matter. You've got people in the street who really are there, their hearts are in it. It's really because they care about black lives and, and who doesn't. Right. Behind all of these people are the Marxists who are throwing the firebombs. So we're doing various things to really stir up and foment all kinds of turmoil.

[00:05:46] That's what we're seeing with North Korea because they can hop onto a computer. That's been taken over, let's say in wherever Eastern Europe, somewhere and from that computer, they hop onto a computer here in the United States. Somebody's own computer for instance and the person whose home computer they're using has no clue any of this is going on.

[00:06:11] Even if they're on their computer at the time. And then they'll hop from that computer to another computer, to another computer. They'll use our computers as what are called botnets to attack our military, to attack our infrastructure. And in reality, Jim, we don't really know where it's coming from.

[00:06:32] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:06:33] Craig Peterson: Big because it's very difficult to trace.

[00:06:35] Now we're talking with our tech talk guru friend, Craig, Peterson. and at the end of this segment, we'll give you a number that you can text my name to and get other information from Craig. Don't think that I'm the genius doing great show prep. He sent me the stuff about Kim Jong-UN and, and I've been reading through it and been and been quite concerned. Okay. I do sometimes hear from people.

[00:06:57] Oh my God, Jim, when you and Craig talk about this stuff, you get me very concerned. Now I'm not talking about like a, business's being hacked. I'm talking about this kind of stuff, shutting down our power grid and things like that.

[00:07:11] Jim Polito: Now, Craig, we have to assume that our government has a counter to this. Is it reasonable for me to assume that

[00:07:24] Craig Peterson: Yeah, it absolutely is. We have first strike offensive capabilities in the cyber world and all branches of our military have Cyber teams that put the 7,000 North Korea have to shame. So we have both defensive capabilities, which frankly we're not using as much as we should because incompetence runs rampant in every field, but we also have both defensive capabilities.

[00:07:57] Jim Polito: God. it's just so the real war in the future, remember that Star Trek episode where the computers. You know, there was war between the computers and the, and the enterprise was attacked and X amount of, members of their crew were supposed to walk off to be executed because, in this war games where there's no, the actual firing of weapons, the computers had determined that they had lost that the enterprise had been hit well in the room.

[00:08:31] Well, I mean here with us, we're not too far away from it.

[00:08:34] Craig Peterson: Yeah. That's one of my favorite episodes is called a taste of Armageddon, the original Star Trek series. And we are not in some ways very far away from that, because most countries don't want to lob a nuclear weapon. Pretty easy to tell where it came from, especially now that almost everybody can look down from space to see where it was.

[00:08:55] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:08:56]Craig Peterson: It's, it's very hard to trace, these attacks that are going on. Now, part of what Kim Jong loon apparently had done, he was able to break into some South Korean defense contractors stole about 40,000 of these things, including information on F 16 fighters and drones. Now, I, I hate to say this next part.

[00:09:22] Because, you know, what I do for a living is I help businesses put their security together.

[00:09:28] Jim Polito: Okay.

[00:09:29] Craig Peterson: So we get calls from businesses every week and saying, Hey, you know, we've got these new CMMC regulations, which are part of the department of defense. You know, ITAR, DFARS, all these different things. we, can you come in and help us out with this and the part I don't want it to say is

[00:09:50] I'm not going to say this is every time we go in but we're seeing nowadays not only a lot of attacks against these extremely small defense contractors, but I'm also not talking about the Raytheon's of the world. I'm talking about the local business that makes an assembly. That sold to a defense contractor that is sold maybe to another defense contractor and sold to the department of defense.

[00:10:17] I'm not going to say that I go into these businesses and every time, but over the last, basically, since at least the beginning of the year, we have found it Chinese back doors wide open. And what's that mean? Is, yes, our defense contractors. You look at this, right. And then, apparently, North Korea bought these plans for the F 16 fighters and drones.

[00:10:45] Well, how do they do that? Well, they get these back doors installed and then. Every case we have where we found these things. And in fact, we found a very small defense contractor that I had the worst infection ever seen by the Boston FBI office. And they all had antivirus software. They all had walls. They all thought the word safe.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: And they're not. Wow.

[00:11:18] Craig Peterson: So you didn't hear from me, but that's the real skinny on what we're seeing out there on the streets right now.

[00:11:26] Jim Polito: Okay. Yeah. this is not good. This is not good, but what you need to do. Is to protect yourself by getting the latest information. And that's by listening to the segment with Craig Peterson, but that is also getting on his list, his good list where he will not try to sell you stuff or hack you.

[00:11:44] And all that you have to do is tax my name to this number (855) 385-5553.

[00:11:53] Craig Peterson: So you can text Jim to (855) 385-5553. And I also answer questions. It may take me a few days. We're pretty busy, but just send an email to [email protected] about any questions, whether you're a defense contractor or you're a home user, right. I'm helping people in their eighties every day as well. Jim.

[00:12:16] Jim Polito: All right. And standard data and tax rates apply Craig. An excellent segment as usual, and we look forward to talking with you on Canada day Eve. Next Tuesday.

[00:12:30] Craig Peterson: Thanks, Jim. I'll buy the Molson.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: Thanks, buddy. Bye-bye. All right. When we return a final word.

[00:12:36] Craig Peterson: Awesome. All right, everybody, we'll be having a great week. We have some amazing stuff planned. this Karen and I were sitting down. Trying to figure out how can we help the most people, what's the most important thing for us to do. And we are going to be teaching that we've got all of the basics put together.

[00:12:56] It's going to take us probably a couple more weeks. I know it's always a couple of weeks, right. And we're going to show you exactly. How to tell if your computer needs a little bit more security or maybe a lot more security. So keep an ear to the ground. This is going to be absolutely free training and it's coming up.

[00:13:18] I Got you guys.

[00:13:20] Take care. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye-bye.

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Good Monday morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on with Jack Heath this morning discussing the best collaboration tools to use from a security perspective. Here we go with Jack.

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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:

Craig Peterson: We need to allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things actually.  I got to be with Jack this morning, missed him last week, but we had a good little conversation about what you shouldn't be doing when it comes to our online collaboration meetings and, and everything else.

[00:00:24] It was great. I actually had a few minutes with them and a lot of great info. So here we go.

[00:00:29] Jack Heath: Craig, this is a good example of how the virtual stuff is sticking. I mean, this is the annual swim with the mission. Now they're going to do it virtually because they really have to, that would have been a big event with thousands of people. But it's happening in a few weeks, up in New Hampshire, but virtually that's not just the swim with the mission. It's just about everyone is leveraging the virtual stuff. I don't think much of this is going away.

[00:00:49] Craig Peterson: Yeah, you're absolutely right there. We're seeing some major changes in businesses.

[00:00:54] And we wanted to take a couple of minutes here real quick to talk about what the general classifications of tools are that we can use virtually as well as a little bit about what they do. So you've got the very basic stuff that a lot of people have used for years, like texting back and forth. And that's been used a lot.

[00:01:14] The devices that we have, these smartphones have a lot of capabilities just by themselves, for instance, on your iPhone, you can use face time, which is secure end-to-end and have multiple people on it. You can have 10 people have a quick meeting. It's great for families and the things you're doing. You can use apps like Signal, which is also secure end to end, but it isn't just for an iPhone or an Android signal works for every device it's out there, which is fantastic.

[00:01:46] Again, we can send messages, we can send voice, we can have little video conferences and then you get into the bigger systems. You've got these collaboration tools, the number one that I like out there, and this is one that I sell actually, but it's the Cisco WebEx teams, which is absolutely phenomenal.

[00:02:06] And Microsoft teams. These allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things, but WebEx teams, everything is integrated. It's right there in one piece of software that will run on anything. Microsoft teams use multiple tools that all kind of tie together. You might want to use Skype, et cetera.

[00:02:30] So those are the ultimate.  Then you have Zoom, which  I cannot advise you to use, and things like Slack. But all of these have had major bumps recently, Jack, and they're all very useful to businesses. Everything from basic communications, all the way through these teams, apps that are designed for collaboration soup to nuts.

[00:02:54] Official stores that are out there, the official store for the Chrome browser apps that we're downloading, I should say, uploading all of your contact data, all of your banking, data, everything. So even the official stores can have problems, Jack.

[00:03:12] Jack Heath: All right, Craig Peterson, Craig Peterson. With an O-N on Peterson dot com.

[00:03:16] Thank you, Craig. Make it a good Monday.

[00:03:18] Craig Peterson: Take care.

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Craig Peterson: We need to allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things actually.  I got to be with Jack this morning, missed him last week, but we had a good little conversation about what you shouldn't be doing when it comes to our online collaboration meetings and, and everything else.

[00:00:24] It was great. I actually had a few minutes with them and a lot of great info. So here we go.

[00:00:29] Jack Heath: Craig, this is a good example of how the virtual stuff is sticking. I mean, this is the annual swim with the mission. Now they're going to do it virtually because they really have to, that would have been a big event with thousands of people. But it's happening in a few weeks, up in New Hampshire, but virtually that's not just the swim with the mission. It's just about everyone is leveraging the virtual stuff. I don't think much of this is going away.

[00:00:49] Craig Peterson: Yeah, you're absolutely right there. We're seeing some major changes in businesses.

[00:00:54] And we wanted to take a couple of minutes here real quick to talk about what the general classifications of tools are that we can use virtually as well as a little bit about what they do. So you've got the very basic stuff that a lot of people have used for years, like texting back and forth. And that's been used a lot.

[00:01:14] The devices that we have, these smartphones have a lot of capabilities just by themselves, for instance, on your iPhone, you can use face time, which is secure end-to-end and have multiple people on it. You can have 10 people have a quick meeting. It's great for families and the things you're doing. You can use apps like Signal, which is also secure end to end, but it isn't just for an iPhone or an Android signal works for every device it's out there, which is fantastic.

[00:01:46] Again, we can send messages, we can send voice, we can have little video conferences and then you get into the bigger systems. You've got these collaboration tools, the number one that I like out there, and this is one that I sell actually, but it's the Cisco WebEx teams, which is absolutely phenomenal.

[00:02:06] And Microsoft teams. These allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things, but WebEx teams, everything is integrated. It's right there in one piece of software that will run on anything. Microsoft teams use multiple tools that all kind of tie together. You might want to use Skype, et cetera.

[00:02:30] So those are the ultimate.  Then you have Zoom, which  I cannot advise you to use, and things like Slack. But all of these have had major bumps recently, Jack, and they're all very useful to businesses. Everything from basic communications, all the way through these teams, apps that are designed for collaboration soup to nuts.

[00:02:54] Official stores that are out there, the official store for the Chrome browser apps that we're downloading, I should say, uploading all of your contact data, all of your banking, data, everything. So even the official stores can have problems, Jack.

[00:03:12] Jack Heath: All right, Craig Peterson, Craig Peterson. With an O-N on Peterson dot com.

[00:03:16] Thank you, Craig. Make it a good Monday.

[00:03:18] Craig Peterson: Take care.

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Craig Peterson: We need to allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things actually. I got to be with Jack this morning, missed him last week, but we had a good little conversation about what you shouldn't be doing when it comes to our online collaboration meetings and, and everything else.

[00:00:24] It was great. I actually had a few minutes with them and a lot of great info. So here we go.

[00:00:29] Jack Heath: Craig, this is a good example of how the virtual stuff is sticking. I mean, this is the annual swim with the mission. Now they're going to do it virtually because they really have to, that would have been a big event with thousands of people. But it's happening in a few weeks, up in New Hampshire, but virtually that's not just the swim with the mission. It's just about everyone is leveraging the virtual stuff. I don't think much of this is going away.

[00:00:49] Craig Peterson: Yeah, you're absolutely right there. We're seeing some major changes in businesses.

[00:00:54] And we wanted to take a couple of minutes here real quick to talk about what the general classifications of tools are that we can use virtually as well as a little bit about what they do. So you've got the very basic stuff that a lot of people have used for years, like texting back and forth. And that's been used a lot.

[00:01:14] The devices that we have, these smartphones have a lot of capabilities just by themselves, for instance, on your iPhone, you can use face time, which is secure end-to-end and have multiple people on it. You can have 10 people have a quick meeting. It's great for families and the things you're doing. You can use apps like Signal, which is also secure end to end, but it isn't just for an iPhone or an Android signal works for every device it's out there, which is fantastic.

[00:01:46] Again, we can send messages, we can send voice, we can have little video conferences and then you get into the bigger systems. You've got these collaboration tools, the number one that I like out there, and this is one that I sell actually, but it's the Cisco WebEx teams, which is absolutely phenomenal.

[00:02:06] And Microsoft teams. These allow you to share files, workspaces, as well as have meetings, do all kinds of things, but WebEx teams, everything is integrated. It's right there in one piece of software that will run on anything. Microsoft teams use multiple tools that all kind of tie together. You might want to use Skype, et cetera.

[00:02:30] So those are the ultimate. Then you have Zoom, which I cannot advise you to use, and things like Slack. But all of these have had major bumps recently, Jack, and they're all very useful to businesses. Everything from basic communications, all the way through these teams, apps that are designed for collaboration soup to nuts.

[00:02:54] Official stores that are out there, the official store for the Chrome browser apps that we're downloading, I should say, uploading all of your contact data, all of your banking, data, everything. So even the official stores can have problems, Jack.

[00:03:12] Jack Heath: All right, Craig Peterson, Craig Peterson. With an O-N on Peterson dot com.

[00:03:16] Thank you, Craig. Make it a good Monday.

[00:03:18] Craig Peterson: Take care.

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Could artificial intelligence affect your job? And what does it mean to different business sectors? Well, if you're in a higher pain job, you might be surprised what Brookings Institute had to say.

[00:00:18] Hey, welcome back, Craig Peter sauna here, we have had a busy, busy day today. And if you missed any part of today's show, you can go online and find it on your favorite podcasting app. And I'd love to get a little feedback from you. I had one of our listeners just a couple of weeks ago when I asked to show me where you are listening.

[00:00:41] He took a picture of the dashboard of his car. He had it playing there in the car. I thought that was pretty darn cool. And I'd love to know from you too. Where are you listening to the podcast? What are you doing? And you can just email me M E and Craig peterson.com. You know, the thing about podcasts is I know how many downloads there have been, but that doesn't tell me much.

[00:01:05] It doesn't tell me if the person that downloaded it actually listened to it. If they listen to it in Timbuktu, over in Northern Africa, in case you wonder where that is, or if they're listening to it in downtown Boston, it doesn't tell me anything about anybody. You know, the podcast might just be going into Nowheresville.

[00:01:25] Now I know people who listened to him on the radio. Are listening, but I have a similar problem, right? Because I think we could do different things with the show based on where you are and what you're doing. I imagine that a lot of people listen to it while they're driving to and from work. Which is really, you know, very commonplace to listen to it.

[00:01:49] Other people listen to it in the gym, and I know at least one of you listens to it in the truck driving around doing chores on the weekend. But if you would please do let me know. You can just send me a picture or send me a note to [email protected]. Last week I asked for you guys to reach out and, and let me know what you thought about having a show dedicated.

[00:02:13] To windows updates. And I didn't really get a lot of positive responses to that. So I'm going to have to read into that, that you're not interested in understanding how to do updates and windows. If you, if you're one of those people that wants to know, make sure you email [email protected] and let me know, maybe it makes more sense to do it as a deeper dive.

[00:02:37] It's something. Better for a webinar or I think the radio it's tough. Right? How do I explain click here, do this, you know, I can't explain the concepts and I'm going to try and do that next weekend here on the show so that everybody understands basically what's going on. And then maybe what we'll try and do is have a webinar where I'm really just delving deeply into it and helping you guys understand it.

[00:03:05] And I've done these before on it. So it's nothing new to me. So we started out today talking about an application that is absolutely fantastic when it comes to your security and they're adding a new feature to it that will do automatic face blurring. And I gave you a couple of other options. And then we started talking about the new secure DNS settings for Chrome and Firefox and how they can help in some cases.

[00:03:34] And they will definitely hurt and other cases. So if you are responsible for the network at your business, you're going to have to listen to that. And then we talked about insider threats. This is crazy 60% of our insider threats. Involve employees in planning on leaving. So, what are some of those signs that an employee might be a flight risk or that they're taking data?

[00:04:02] What are the most common ways that they're stealing our information? I went over that today too. And then I started talking about the iPhone looters and I track all because I is, is there no low to the stupidity of criminals sometimes? Right here. They are stealing iPhones and of course, Apple's protecting them.

[00:04:24] And then they're posting pictures on Twitter saying, Hey, look at what my iPhone said. It says an Apple is tracking me. Yeah. And now, so is anybody who saw you on Twitter? Uh, we went into something that many small businesses don't realize they've got to pay a lot more attention to, and that is security. If you are a government.

[00:04:46] Sub sub-subcontractor, right? These regulations that the federal government has to roll down Hill. And if you're involved with anything that goes, boom, you know, military-type stuff. Man alive, the things they're doing right now with the new CMMC regulations. And I talked about how we helped a couple of businesses out just this week with some major security problems they weren't even aware of.

[00:05:15] And now what'll happen with these new, new regulations in place, even if all you're doing. Is making a passive component for one of these military contractors that sell to the military, uh, you know, assembles it and sells it. You just make one small component. You could be out of business because of fines.

[00:05:36] There are now 10-year prison sentences, everything else. So we talked about that. We talked about Google getting sued for at least $5 billion over some claimed, um, Inconsistency, shall we say incognito mode? Ain't incognito mode. Let's just leave it at that. A zoom. We just talked about that in how their defenders are citing legitimate reasons to not have end-to-end encryption.

[00:06:06] And what that means. And we also talked about what the electronic frontier foundation had to say on that. And if you know those guys and gals, you certainly know what they probably said, and you'd probably be right. So let's get into this study. This is a study that came out from the Brookings Institute about jobs that are going to be lost when it comes to.

[00:06:31] AI. Now we used to say, Oh, you're gonna lose your job to a robot. Well, that has happened. Obviously some manufacturing jobs are now being done by robots. But what we're talking about right now is intelligence. It's one thing to have a robot that's just repeatedly doing a specific job, but maybe. It has some cameras on it that allowed to adjust a little bit so that it has less of a tight tolerance for finding that bolt.

[00:06:58] It wants to put the nut on too. So that's stage one in that's already happened. Now we're looking at AI artificial intelligence that can do a lot more. So what they found, and this is kind of interesting because the study was put together by a Ph.D. student and he took a whole different way of looking at it and his professors agreed with it and they published it.

[00:07:25] And it's just, it's fascinating to look at it. He's got a lot of stats in there, but here are the basic findings number one. Artificial intelligence could affect work in virtually every occupational group. Now we know this, I don't think this is a big surprise to anybody it's going to affect trucking because these trucks are going to self-drive et cetera.

[00:07:48] Right. So it's going to kind of hurt everywhere. But number two, Two says that better-paid white-collar occupations may be the most exposed to artificial intelligence, as well as some manufacturing and agricultural positions. Now that's interesting. And they have some graphs in this report that are showing.

[00:08:11] That those people that have a high school education or less are basically the going to be the least effective. Those people with a bachelor's degree are the most likely to be affected. And that's typically your middle managers and then slightly less affected by AI and losing their jobs. Are those people with advanced degrees?

[00:08:38] But when you think about those advanced degrees in business finance, Man. Those are the types of things that artificial intelligence can easily do. In fact, do better than most humans. The same. Thing's true in tech industries, they're going to be more exposed as well as natural resource and production industries.

[00:08:59] Now I want to get into security analyst jobs here in just a minute because I think this is fascinating, but AI looks most destined to affect men. Prime age workers and white and Asian American workers. And number five in the findings was bigger. Higher tech Metro areas and communities heavily involved in manufacturing are likely to experience the most AI-related disruption.

[00:09:31] Security is important, right? And security analysts are out there looking at what's going on, trying to figure out what they should do. And a great little article that was up on dark reading called could automation kill the security analyst because we were just talking about it, right? The higher, the skill, the higher the degree, the more likely you're going to lose your job to artificial intelligence.

[00:09:58] Well, how about on the security front? Well there another study that was done over a thousand, it security practice practitioners in the US and the UK it's done by the Panama Institute. And they're saying, wow, wait a minute. Automation and I T security workers must work hand in hand to achieve maximum effectiveness.

[00:10:23] Automation will never replace the need for the human element, especially for security professionals who have the expertise to manage these new technologies. In fact, 68% of respondents said they believe human involvement is important when using automation. So they've got five tips here to become proficient in how automation technologies operate, seek out an experienced mentor.

[00:10:52] And right now we are actually mentoring a couple of people. They don't work for my company, worked for other companies, helping them out with their security roles, highlight, and understanding of automation, technologies, benchmark, how automation is being used, and get involved in organizations to share best.

[00:11:11] Practices. And that's part of what we've been very involved in for many years. AI is going to be a huge, huge disruptor, but just like all of the big disruptors in the past, I don't see artificial intelligence as being an absolutely horrific thing. Look at what happened with, of course of a horse and buggy getting displaced by infernal combustion engines.

[00:11:38] And we ended up at the Teamsters. Yeah, we got the union out of it, but in reality, we have more jobs now than we used to have, and they're more skilled jobs and that's what we're going to expect to happen in the future. The steam engine did the same thing. The fire probably did the same thing and the wheels certainly did the same.

[00:11:59] But we've always had more and more people. And I am hoping I'm looking forward to the star Trek day, where we have the ability to have unlimited energy. And turn that energy into the matter so that we can own kind of have higher pursuits is going to be an interesting thing. But if you want more information on this and more, you'll find it right on my website.

[00:12:23] Craig peterson.com. All of this week's articles are posted there as is the podcast. So check it out, make sure you get my newsletter. So you get the information. On special pieces of training, the popups, some doing as well as all of the new technology for the week, the things you need to know, and the things that you can share with your friends and family to help them understand some of the stuff.

[00:12:50] You can be the hero to have a great week and we'll be back and next Saturday, one til three right here.

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Could artificial intelligence affect your job? And what does it mean to different business sectors? Well, if you're in a higher pain job, you might be surprised what Brookings Institute had to say.

[00:00:18] Hey, welcome back, Craig Peter sauna here, we have had a busy, busy day today. And if you missed any part of today's show, you can go online and find it on your favorite podcasting app. And I'd love to get a little feedback from you. I had one of our listeners just a couple of weeks ago when I asked to show me where you are listening.

[00:00:41] He took a picture of the dashboard of his car. He had it playing there in the car. I thought that was pretty darn cool. And I'd love to know from you too. Where are you listening to the podcast? What are you doing? And you can just email me M E and Craig peterson.com. You know, the thing about podcasts is I know how many downloads there have been, but that doesn't tell me much.

[00:01:05] It doesn't tell me if the person that downloaded it actually listened to it. If they listen to it in Timbuktu, over in Northern Africa, in case you wonder where that is, or if they're listening to it in downtown Boston, it doesn't tell me anything about anybody. You know, the podcast might just be going into Nowheresville.

[00:01:25] Now I know people who listened to him on the radio. Are listening, but I have a similar problem, right? Because I think we could do different things with the show based on where you are and what you're doing. I imagine that a lot of people listen to it while they're driving to and from work. Which is really, you know, very commonplace to listen to it.

[00:01:49] Other people listen to it in the gym, and I know at least one of you listens to it in the truck driving around doing chores on the weekend. But if you would please do let me know. You can just send me a picture or send me a note to [email protected]. Last week I asked for you guys to reach out and, and let me know what you thought about having a show dedicated.

[00:02:13] To windows updates. And I didn't really get a lot of positive responses to that. So I'm going to have to read into that, that you're not interested in understanding how to do updates and windows. If you, if you're one of those people that wants to know, make sure you email [email protected] and let me know, maybe it makes more sense to do it as a deeper dive.

[00:02:37] It's something. Better for a webinar or I think the radio it's tough. Right? How do I explain click here, do this, you know, I can't explain the concepts and I'm going to try and do that next weekend here on the show so that everybody understands basically what's going on. And then maybe what we'll try and do is have a webinar where I'm really just delving deeply into it and helping you guys understand it.

[00:03:05] And I've done these before on it. So it's nothing new to me. So we started out today talking about an application that is absolutely fantastic when it comes to your security and they're adding a new feature to it that will do automatic face blurring. And I gave you a couple of other options. And then we started talking about the new secure DNS settings for Chrome and Firefox and how they can help in some cases.

[00:03:34] And they will definitely hurt and other cases. So if you are responsible for the network at your business, you're going to have to listen to that. And then we talked about insider threats. This is crazy 60% of our insider threats. Involve employees in planning on leaving. So, what are some of those signs that an employee might be a flight risk or that they're taking data?

[00:04:02] What are the most common ways that they're stealing our information? I went over that today too. And then I started talking about the iPhone looters and I track all because I is, is there no low to the stupidity of criminals sometimes? Right here. They are stealing iPhones and of course, Apple's protecting them.

[00:04:24] And then they're posting pictures on Twitter saying, Hey, look at what my iPhone said. It says an Apple is tracking me. Yeah. And now, so is anybody who saw you on Twitter? Uh, we went into something that many small businesses don't realize they've got to pay a lot more attention to, and that is security. If you are a government.

[00:04:46] Sub sub-subcontractor, right? These regulations that the federal government has to roll down Hill. And if you're involved with anything that goes, boom, you know, military-type stuff. Man alive, the things they're doing right now with the new CMMC regulations. And I talked about how we helped a couple of businesses out just this week with some major security problems they weren't even aware of.

[00:05:15] And now what'll happen with these new, new regulations in place, even if all you're doing. Is making a passive component for one of these military contractors that sell to the military, uh, you know, assembles it and sells it. You just make one small component. You could be out of business because of fines.

[00:05:36] There are now 10-year prison sentences, everything else. So we talked about that. We talked about Google getting sued for at least $5 billion over some claimed, um, Inconsistency, shall we say incognito mode? Ain't incognito mode. Let's just leave it at that. A zoom. We just talked about that in how their defenders are citing legitimate reasons to not have end-to-end encryption.

[00:06:06] And what that means. And we also talked about what the electronic frontier foundation had to say on that. And if you know those guys and gals, you certainly know what they probably said, and you'd probably be right. So let's get into this study. This is a study that came out from the Brookings Institute about jobs that are going to be lost when it comes to.

[00:06:31] AI. Now we used to say, Oh, you're gonna lose your job to a robot. Well, that has happened. Obviously some manufacturing jobs are now being done by robots. But what we're talking about right now is intelligence. It's one thing to have a robot that's just repeatedly doing a specific job, but maybe. It has some cameras on it that allowed to adjust a little bit so that it has less of a tight tolerance for finding that bolt.

[00:06:58] It wants to put the nut on too. So that's stage one in that's already happened. Now we're looking at AI artificial intelligence that can do a lot more. So what they found, and this is kind of interesting because the study was put together by a Ph.D. student and he took a whole different way of looking at it and his professors agreed with it and they published it.

[00:07:25] And it's just, it's fascinating to look at it. He's got a lot of stats in there, but here are the basic findings number one. Artificial intelligence could affect work in virtually every occupational group. Now we know this, I don't think this is a big surprise to anybody it's going to affect trucking because these trucks are going to self-drive et cetera.

[00:07:48] Right. So it's going to kind of hurt everywhere. But number two, Two says that better-paid white-collar occupations may be the most exposed to artificial intelligence, as well as some manufacturing and agricultural positions. Now that's interesting. And they have some graphs in this report that are showing.

[00:08:11] That those people that have a high school education or less are basically the going to be the least effective. Those people with a bachelor's degree are the most likely to be affected. And that's typically your middle managers and then slightly less affected by AI and losing their jobs. Are those people with advanced degrees?

[00:08:38] But when you think about those advanced degrees in business finance, Man. Those are the types of things that artificial intelligence can easily do. In fact, do better than most humans. The same. Thing's true in tech industries, they're going to be more exposed as well as natural resource and production industries.

[00:08:59] Now I want to get into security analyst jobs here in just a minute because I think this is fascinating, but AI looks most destined to affect men. Prime age workers and white and Asian American workers. And number five in the findings was bigger. Higher tech Metro areas and communities heavily involved in manufacturing are likely to experience the most AI-related disruption.

[00:09:31] Security is important, right? And security analysts are out there looking at what's going on, trying to figure out what they should do. And a great little article that was up on dark reading called could automation kill the security analyst because we were just talking about it, right? The higher, the skill, the higher the degree, the more likely you're going to lose your job to artificial intelligence.

[00:09:58] Well, how about on the security front? Well there another study that was done over a thousand, it security practice practitioners in the US and the UK it's done by the Panama Institute. And they're saying, wow, wait a minute. Automation and I T security workers must work hand in hand to achieve maximum effectiveness.

[00:10:23] Automation will never replace the need for the human element, especially for security professionals who have the expertise to manage these new technologies. In fact, 68% of respondents said they believe human involvement is important when using automation. So they've got five tips here to become proficient in how automation technologies operate, seek out an experienced mentor.

[00:10:52] And right now we are actually mentoring a couple of people. They don't work for my company, worked for other companies, helping them out with their security roles, highlight, and understanding of automation, technologies, benchmark, how automation is being used, and get involved in organizations to share best.

[00:11:11] Practices. And that's part of what we've been very involved in for many years. AI is going to be a huge, huge disruptor, but just like all of the big disruptors in the past, I don't see artificial intelligence as being an absolutely horrific thing. Look at what happened with, of course of a horse and buggy getting displaced by infernal combustion engines.

[00:11:38] And we ended up at the Teamsters. Yeah, we got the union out of it, but in reality, we have more jobs now than we used to have, and they're more skilled jobs and that's what we're going to expect to happen in the future. The steam engine did the same thing. The fire probably did the same thing and the wheels certainly did the same.

[00:11:59] But we've always had more and more people. And I am hoping I'm looking forward to the star Trek day, where we have the ability to have unlimited energy. And turn that energy into the matter so that we can own kind of have higher pursuits is going to be an interesting thing. But if you want more information on this and more, you'll find it right on my website.

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