Dec 5, 2019
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Craig Peterson
Good morning, everybody. Craig Peterson here, Man. I don't know if
you got snow where you live. We ended up with snow here in the
northeast, and my kids took a yardstick out and stuck it in the
snow. Now, the way you usually measure snow is they melt the snow
and see how many inches of water is present. If it had been
raining, how much would it be? Well, a local guy here has a weather
station, and it came out to 1.7 inches of rainwater or
precipitation. And typically, what happens is you take it, and you
say one inch of melted precipitation equals one foot of snow. So if
they say, Hey, we're going to get, or we had a foot of snow, it
doesn't really mean that you had a foot in your yard. You know, it
means that well, heck, it could be six inches. It depends on how
fluffy that snow is. So we took a yardstick out, and I remember 1.7
inches of rain is what they said here, the guy who lives about two
blocks away from me. And what we measured was drumroll, please. We
got about 22 inches of snow. Now you can undoubtedly have a band
that would account for more snow, you know, we might have had more
water, but it's pretty close because that'd be 1.7 feet of snow
according to his measurements. So we got a lot of snow out there
that wasn't windy or anything, so we didn't get a lot of drafts or
blowing snow. But it just came down. It snowed here for about two
days. It was so pretty, and it's kind of pretty out there right now
is no fun cleaning at all. But thank goodness that kids are still
at home, some of them anyway. And they cleaned it up for me.
Anyways, this morning. I was on with Ken and Matt, and we had two
topics that I think are extremely important. I'm glad they picked
these. They have to do with some of the killer technology that
China's selling to Iran in case you're not aware of what's
happening in Iran right now. You might want to look it up. They are
killing protesters in Iran. I mean, like snipers from rooftops and
governments shooting them. It's incredible. And SMS man, that's a
technology that needs to go so here we go. tech guru
Ken Altschuler
Our Tech Guru, Craig Peterson, is on right now on the WGAN Morning
News with Ken and Matt.
Matt Gagnon
Back again at 738 on the WGAN Morning News with Ken and Matt Craig
Peterson. Our tech guru joins us at this time every week this week
is no exception. Craig, welcome back to the program.
Craig Peterson
Hey, good morning, gentlemen, and everybody else out there. I hope
you're having a great day enjoying this snow.
Ken Altschuler
Well, I saw this story on your website about SMS. No SMS and why
you shouldn't use it anymore. Do I? Do I use SMS things?
Matt Gagnon
Yes, you do.
Ken Altschuler
Hey, why should I not use texting, right? I mean, just basic text
is SMS, right?
Craig Peterson
Yeah, exactly what it's been around for a long time.
Ken Altschuler
Why should I use it?
Craig Peterson
It was quite a stretch for a Segway I'm afraid. Well, here's what's
going on. SMS is something that we've been using for a very long
time. Now not all the time when you're quote texting, unquote. Are
you using SMS, but it started way back when we first had cellular
phones, and the phones themselves had to have a little data channel
so they could communicate with the towers. And then they realized,
you know, there's more bandwidth here than we need. And so they
came up with this simple messaging service. So that's what you were
sending texts on with that little, what did they use to call that
Matt, you might remember, but then you had your phone, all it had
on it was a keypad. You'd push you to know the button to three
times or to get a C, and then you go to the next one, to get the
following letter that there was a standard was called t something
or that can't remember what it is now. Anyways, we send about 6
billion SMS messages. That's a lot of messages. They were never the
system was never really designed. Keep any of that safe or so.
Because of that, we have gotten us, shooters, very cheap. Nowadays.
SMS is are free and 6 billion that day tells you a lot of people
are using that's us alone, by the way, 180 billion each month and
you know, almost 3 trillion a year more than that when you get
worldwide. So here's the problem with SMS, which is the short
message surface and MMS, which is a multimedia messaging service
that is both sent absolutely in the clear. And as we found from
Lisa Page and Peter Strock, those messages can be recalled, stored,
and easily monitored. There are some new standards out there. And
the best measure to use just generally speaking is called OTP,
which stands for over the top. Now, if you have an iPhone and oh
you do, can you use messages I assume on your iPad.
Ken Altschuler
Um, no, I don't do the I do texting. But I don't do messaging. I
didn't excuse me yesterday. I do texting but not messenger.
Matt Gagnon
You don't? Excuse me. You texted me yesterday.
Ken Altschuler
But not on messenger.
Craig Peterson
So do you use messages? The Apple Messages app on your phone or
your Mac?
Ken Altschuler
Yes, I did. Yes.
Craig Peterson
And have you noticed there are two different colors, particularly
if you send a message to someone?
Ken Altschuler
Okay, let me check. Here are the messages. Okay. Yeah. One is
green, and one's blue?
Craig Peterson
Exactly. So, for instance, when you text Matt, it's going to be
green. Did you notice that? Because you know, he uses a Samsung
device. You have to be careful.
Ken Altschuler
Yes. Why? Why? Why is it green when I text them?
Craig Peterson
Now, if you were to text me, it would be blue. Here's what's going
on. It's warning you in green is the standard for SMS, and that's
why Apple uses green. But, if you have sent a message to somebody
and it's green and means it's not safe, it's the opposite. It isn't
normal. It means that Matt, you and Matt just had shared a standard
SMS message. It is not encrypted. The carrier saves it. It is not a
safe message. If you're using messages and you send a message to
me, for instance, on my iPhone or someone else on their iPhone is
going to be blue, which means it was encrypted end to end, it is a
relatively safe message. And if you're using iCloud storage and you
tell it to use it for your messages, then it is stored by Apple,
but it's still encrypted. So that's called Ott over the top. Now,
there are others out there that you could use to communicate with
Matt, there's WhatsApp Facebook Messenger, which I don't use. We
chat. There's a few others out there signal is probably one of the
best ones you could use. And with those apps, it doesn't matter if
you're on Android or Apple. It is end to end encrypted. And it is
considered to be generally safe in Facebook Messenger I'd be a
little more concerned about, but it is using these highly encrypted
protocols. There's more that is coming our way. But here is a big
deal. That's happening again. And it started back in the Clinton
administration. We had the "clipper chip." The FBI now is out
annually, for the last, what, 30 years, 20 something years. They
come out, and they say, Hey, listen, we don't like this encryption.
We want back doors. As of yet, pretty much nobody has complied with
us in recent years. So we're relatively safe for monitoring. We
know if the FBI wants to get in that and they can't, that that
means the bad guys probably can't get in either. And that's a good
thing, keeping the bad guys out. But there's hope the answers your
question about snow there. Can don't Use SMS if you can avoid it
use one of these apps, which I just mentioned as I message on your
Apple equipment Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, we chat and
particularly signal si G and Al. Very, very good, very secure. And
most of these also let you do video chats as well, which texting
does not allow you do but if
Ken Altschuler,
it's blue, so it's okay to send it.
Craig Peterson
Yes, if it's blue, you're safe because that means the other person
has Imessage, and it is encrypted. If you want to send an encrypted
message to Matt, you could use something called Signal. It is an
app that works for both Apple and Android.
Ken Altschuler
But, don't you both have to have the app on your phone?
Craig Peterson
Yes, they would, And the same thing is true with WhatsApp, and we
chat and messenger Facebook Messenger. You have to both have that
application. On your device, and obviously, you have to set it and
be logged in. I tend to use I message because most people I work
with are using that they've got Apple gear. But if I'm not using
iMessage, I use Signal. Again, it's one of these over the top (OTP)
messaging services, if you will, and, and most of these are
free-ish. There is the problem when it comes to Facebook, that
you're their product, right? Remember that. So, that's why I don't
trust Facebook Messenger that much, but at least it is
encrypted.
Matt Gagnon
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, joins us at this time every
Wednesday to go over the world of technology. Craig, my question to
you revolves around killer robots once you tell us a little bit
more about what China is doing to kill us all.
Craig Peterson
Oh my gosh, this is something I'd hoped you guys talk about this.
Well, you hope right, my friend because I saw killer robots and I
couldn't resist. Yeah. It is a scary thing, frankly. Here's what's
happening. Did you see the latest movie with Gerald Butler? Where
he's protecting the president? Edward Butler?
Matt Gagnon
Yeah. Was that was the, you know, like Olympus Has Fallen kind of
movie.
Craig Peterson
Yeah, exactly. And you saw what happened in there, and there was a
swarm of drones that came and attacked. And it was really, really
bad because like their drones could explode. And of course, if you
have thousands of these silly things, they're going to be hard to
defend against these. We saw an attempt a coup attempt, apparently
but least attempt on the life of a president South America here
within the last 12 months as well. Well, what China is selling is
something that several countries have said they would never, ever
do. The United States is not one of those, unfortunately, but that
is to have a ton of self-autonomous robots that can kill through
the use of explosives or maybe guns. They have the fully autonomous
ability to be able to make decisions as to who to kill, or what to
bomb. China has started selling drones outfitted with, with machine
guns here, small machine guns, small arms. They are selling these
drones to these Middle Eastern countries. And they are fully
autonomous. And this is their most advanced military, aerial drone
technology. And what it means mad is kind of what you were saying,
You release these onto a battlefield. And let's say that you've
trained the artificial intelligence in the drone to recognize the
uniform of your opponent, and he just left these silly things
loose, they could be killing hundreds, thousands of people on the
battlefield. Look at what's happening there. Wrong right now, where
they have snipers' shooting demonstrators dead in the street. Iran
could send in one of these programmed drones in to kill anyone in
these blocks downtown. Anyone that's not in a police uniform let's
say and let them loose and off they go. Now China has this
technology is we know we're selling it right. And they're not using
it in Hong Kong right now. But Iran, China, some of these countries
are barbaric. We do not have any fully autonomous equipment or
drones on the battlefield. So I guess that's good news. The United
States has said although it's not an official policy near as I can
tell, it has said we would not allow the use of lethal force unless
a person authorizes a specific into them. So I guess that's good,
but as far as the Middle East goes and China. And by the way, the
Middle East here means Iran, who is killing their citizens who are
demonstrating right now. It is a very, very scary technology
man.
Ken Altschuler
Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk Guru joins us every Wednesday at 738.
Craig, thank you. Have a great weekend. We'll talk to you next
Wednesday.
Craig Peterson
Gentlemen, take care. Bye.
Matt Gagnon
Alright, thanks a lot, Craig. So we're going to take a quick break.
All right,
Craig Peterson
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