Nov 6, 2019
Good morning everybody!
I was on with Matt and Eric Lusk who was subbing for Ken. We talked about browsers and privacy. Firefox is taking the stance that privacy is where they need to concentrate their advanced efforts and updates. That is great news for everyone. We also hit Passwords and Password Managers and why you should use one and 5G and the internet of things.
I am out in Phoenix at a big conference and will have some big announcements after I return that will help every one of you to cyber secure your life.
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Automated Machine Generated Transcript:
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here. I was on this morning over on WGAN in Maine on their am FM stations and talked a little bit with Eric, who was in for Ken this morning, Eric and Matt, about browsers what you should be looking for. Firefox has a new claim that we talked about this morning, I gave some advice on the thing, you need to download the one plugin that you must put on all of your browsers, and where to get that. And Eric asked a little bit about 5g and how it's going to change his life. So, of course, we got into that as well. So here we go with Eric and Matt.
Well, ladies, gentlemen, it is that time of the day and that time
of the week again, because 738 on a Wednesday, and that means that
it's time to talk to Mr. Peterson. Craig Peterson, our tech guru
joins us now Craig, How are you this morning?
Hey, I am enjoying the conversations this morning between you two.
This is quite a time we live in. It is quite a time ladies and
gentlemen that we live in certainly the day after the election in
Portland which made Matt a happy man. is a great day. Yes, indeed.
So, let's start off in the world of technology, sir, by telling me
something that has been beguiling me for some time. Firefox, so so
there's privacy protections that make website trackers visible here
and I and I used to be a Firefox guy, I guess is where I'm asking
this question. And I switched off what like the rest of America to
Chrome ages and ages and ages ago and I never switched back. But
I've heard good things sort of in recent times about Firefox sort
of being worth it again. What do you what? Generally speaking your
take on all this?
Okay, well, I did a pop-up training about different browsers. And
in this day and age, something worth talking about. Microsoft, of
course, had their internet explorer, aka Internet Explorer, bum,
bum bum, a really poorly designed and implemented browser that
didn't work on many websites out there. And what really kind of got
Microsoft to pull up his socks was what you were just talking
about, which is the Chrome browser out of Google. So Microsoft
realized Internet Explorer was not worth it's salt. So they went
ahead and they replaced it with another browser that they had
created. Internet Explorer was actually created by Paul de and, and
TSA. And they took the code so I won't go into all the details. But
now Microsoft's newest web browser is actually Google Chrome. And
it's rebadged. It's using something called chromium, which is the
basis for Google Chrome. So Microsoft has switched over to Google
Chrome many people So Matt, you're not left alone. I'm sure Eric
uses Chrome as well. I use it from time to time I use Google Chrome
if I try to use the Microsoft Internet Explorer, the 8 gigabytes of
ram just grinds to close. Right? It explodes. Hence the
name Internet exploder. Your question about Firefox is really quite
opportune because there are two worlds there are three browsers out
there that really keep privacy in mind. Now, you might have noticed
over the last two, there are a lot of plugins designed to block
ads, etc. Google removed the ability to block at an in certain
cases, they removed it from Chrome now, because of course, they
make their money through advertising can't blame on the guys over
at Firefox have decided they're going to make privacy there. No Bro
one thing for Firefox, and their latest version, which is verse 70,
settles, the Firefox browser has a lot of privacy protection
built-in. So I like it. I like it a lot. And I'm going to give you
guys a little plugin you can put into your browser that's going to
help no matter what browser use. The other two privacy browsers out
there are opera. And there are rumors that opera has now got some
Chinese connections, I have not been able to verify that. But opera
by far, very, very privacy-related much more so than then Chrome
is. And then the most private browser is called epic epi C. And the
epic browser is also based on Chrome and chromium. So it has a lot
of that same functionality, but it blocks pretty much everything
and cookies. Now here's what I want everybody to write down. If
you're using Chrome or Firefox or anything, something called
Privacy Badger. And its Privacy Badger BADGR. Just like that nasty
little road and to cleanse around from the Electronic Frontier
Foundation. Privacy Badger is available as a plugin for almost any
browser out there. And it watches where you're going. And it looks
for trackers on the website. And it automatically learns which
trackers it thinks should be blocked. And it is the least intrusive
that I have ever seen for keeping your privacy. Privacy Badger.
Epic might not work with some websites, Firefox and Opera work
pretty much with all websites, but you can add Privacy Badger to
both of those. So what do I recommend? If you really want the
ultimate and private use? Epic. There is something even more
private called the Tor Browser but then it gets complex. But use
epic. If you want good privacy use Firefox, I would say I use opera
a lot. And in any case, even if you're using Chrome, get the
Privacy Badger. It's free. It's easy to download and install it on
your browser.
All right, we're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He joins us every once in a while, Wednesdays at 738. By, by and large, to talk about what is happening in the world of technology. Craig, tell me a little bit about one password. What is it and why is it changing things for some enterprises?
Well, one password is what I use it because allows me and my teams
to be able to share certain information, one password to keep
passwords and logins for, generate passwords. But it also allows
you to apply it and so as a family, Husband, and wife can share
bank account information with it in business enterprises. Because
now with allows them to have team so you might have a team of
people to work or even just a few people that are working on the
website, for instance, so they can all formation and then if
someone leaves a team, you can instantly remove their access to the
passwords and have someone go through and change all the passwords.
So one password businesses what we're talking about here, they've
got advanced protection mode, as well as all kinds of monitoring
tools that let you know if a website is being compromised, and it
helps take care of the biggest threat to security for most
organizations, and that the people with absolute phenomenal
employees all kinds of factual information in their hands and
sometimes it gets lost. So one password has some holes and some key
levels. recommend to anyone in the business. And both guys, Matt
and Eric, you should be using one password, because it really helps
you keep all of your accounts all of your logins safe. And
remember, I told you that you should lie to your bank. When it
comes to rolling password recovery questions. One password keeps up
straight for you. Because you should be making up the answers to
which high school did you attend? was your first date you know
those questions? Make up the answers use one password to store them
securely so that if you do need to use the password recovery stuff,
you've got the right information, which is the wrong information,
right? Because you're just totally made it up out of thin air for
the eventuality that the websites going to be compromised and to
stop the bad guys from getting the answers to your password caliber
security questions.
Craig, and see if I can get in one quick question. How is 5g going
to change my life compared to 4g technology? Did you
just say that? That was a quick question?
I got two minutes here. Here's the bottom line, Eric 5g is going
to change everybody's life. Because first of all, Data Access is
going to be way faster than it is right now ultimately when it
rolls out, but it's going to be cheaper. And 5g is designed to
handle billions of simultaneous connections. What that means is
everything that can have activity is going to happen. Now, for
instance, your Tesla, two parts in the garage connects via the
internet, the Tesla,
of course, I plug it in every night.
Yeah, exactly. And when you plug it in, and it connects to the home Wi-Fi network, it updates that software automatically. It's 5g. Eric, what's going to happen is everything's going to be internet-connected, your glasses are going to be internet-connected. Because it's so inexpensive, so easy. And it's designed to have so many devices connected, which opens up, of course, a number of worms when you're talking about the things because it will make the internet of things I'm talking about. Anchor, you're going to keep track of how far you walk that morning and everything is going to be online, Greg.
If I could just find my five-year-old sneakers every morning. I would be happy if I could just find them.
Yeah, there's probably going to be an app for that.
Yeah, exactly. There will.
Alright, well, Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us on Wednesdays at this time to go over what's happening in the world of technology. thank you as always, always a pleasure and we will talk again next week.
By the way 1 pm on Saturday.
By the way, 1 pm on Saturday, every Saturday, Craig has a show
right here on WGAN. And thanks a lot, Craig. Appreciate it. And
good luck with the show this weekend. Thanks. All right, so why
don't we take a quick moment here and toss it back over
the news.
Hi, guys, hey, I'm out at a conference. And I'm going to be here for well about another week, actually. And I just want you to keep your head up. Because if you aren't on my mailing list, you are going to find out about some very cool stuff that we're going to be doing later here in the month of November and December, and after the first of the year, too.
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