Dec 9, 2019
Good morning, everybody. The Christmas Holiday season is underway and it comes with a couple of warnings. Today I discussed a couple of them with Alicia Preston, who filled in for Jack Heath and Justin McIssac. Here we go.
I will be doing some Facebook Lives during the holiday season, so keep an eye out.
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Craig
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I had a fun time this
morning, Alicia Preston, and I actually she has a married name, but
she still goes by Alicia Preston. We've been on TV together before
she was a prominent TV host for a long time. And now she is doing
other things. But this morning, Alicia was sitting in for Jackie.
And he Jeff, she and I had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun talking
a little bit about some of the technology and Justin McIsaac, of
course, he jumped in. If that names familiar, and what reminded me
of that when I said he jumped in, You might understand because
Justin used to be a professional wrestler, which is funny. Very,
very, very, very left-wing guy, but Great guy, you can discuss with
him, right? He's not one of these people that just totally blocked
you out. It's like the old days where you could have a political
discussion. Anyways, we talked about a couple of tech things,
what's going on new warnings from the FBI and security at the
airports and a couple of others. It was a fun morning. I hope
everything's going well with you guys. Take care. Here we go with
Alicia.
Alicia Preston
Joining us. Now we have Craig Peterson. He is going to help us with
some tech talk this morning, Craig, how are you?
Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, Alicia. I am doing really, well.
Alicia Preston
So there's some surprising stuff in the news where that I would
call creepy. It concerns some facial recognition programs at a
company. What is up with this?
Craig Peterson
Yeah, there's so much going on right now. When you start looking
into all of the details behind it, it gets frankly, even scarier.
Right now, facial recognition is in our kind of all over the place.
We know the Department of Homeland Security is, but these facial
recognition cameras in at some of the airports, in fact, right at
the gate. So far they've arrested them probably about 12,000.
People who, when they approach the gate, the DHS Homeland Security
goes ahead and double-checks to see if the facial recognition data
that they have on file for them matches who is approaching the
gate, right. In other words, it makes sure you are who you say you
are, while those here illegally and previously arrested get stopped
at those gates. But we're seeing that more and more of a lot of the
more prominent buildings in Boston and New York City require you to
have an idea of paths of some sort that you might swipe for
instance, when you open when you go into that building, a lot of
businesses have those types of cards to keep safe. Now they're
moving more and more towards Hey. We'll give you the option here
that you can use facial recognition. So, they'll take a picture of
your face, and when you approach that little turnstile, the
computer recognizes you and just let you go through. The problem
with this type of biometric data, Alicia, mainly when we're talking
about our faces and has to do with data theft. You know you can
change your password when it gets stolen. You cannot change your
face. And that gets to be such a huge, huge problem, I think for
everybody.
Alicia Preston
Well, with this facial recognition, you know, this seems that 20
years ago would have been a futuristic movie we all would have
opposed.
Craig Peterson
I was going to say there was a movie about this with Nicolas Cage
and John Travolta called Face Off.
Justin McIssac
That could change your face, right, Craig?
Alicia Preston
That was a scary, scary movie.
Craig Peterson
Scary, back in the day, and now we've got the FBI coming out guys.
The FBI is warning about that smart TV you bought on Black Friday.
What they're saying now is that in these new Smart TVs, security is
almost non-existent. Now on my show on Saturday, I was talking
about what's happening compared t iPhones. For instance, like the
most popular iPhone out there by Samsung to an apple, I mean
iPhone, I mean, Android phone to an iPhone. And what we're finding
now is that the Android phones are coming pre-shipped with about
120 backdoors installed ways for hackers to get in not backdoors is
not quite the right term, but methods for hackers to get right in
right when you buy it right when it's new. And Samsung takes about
five to six months to provide updates on the latest phone attempts
on has security updates. And then on top of it, they only support
the phone for two years. It's crazy. And the security is so bad in
Android versus Apple, where it's available the next day after they
released the fixes. You know, it's just crazy. Most Android phones
don't even get security updates. When was the last time you updated
the software on your internet-connected smart TV? These TVs have
built-in cameras that watch you recognizing the faces of the people
in the room and identifies that you're looking at the TV or not.
These units come with a full Android computer onboard, and because
of that, they act as launchpads to attack everything in our home
network. So the FBI came out and said, Hey guys, be very, very,
very careful because so many people using Netflix using Hulu, other
streaming devices. And these smart TVs are not getting security
updates or even worse than Android phones.
Alicia Preston
Well, I do not have a smart TV. I don't have an Alexa. Heck, I
don't even have an easy pass because all this creeps me out.
Craig Peterson
Justin, that's true. But the smart TVs in the cameras Craig is when
I was watching the Patriots yesterday, my TV said to me, Justin, do
you need that seventh beer and I said what?
Justin McIssac
Stop judging me.
Craig Peterson
At least the TV should bring you the beer right.
Alicia Preston
Craig, thanks for joining us with your tech talk. Good stuff.
Craig Peterson
Take care, guys. Have a good day.
Alicia Preston
Matt Mayberry still in the house.
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