Oct 18, 2019
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Today we are going to discuss Encryption, what it is and why you must fight every attempt to legislate against its use. Listen in to find out more.
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Craig
Hello, everybody. Let's see here. Get those cameras straight. Oh my
it's always something, isn't it? It's not one thing. It's your
mother said Roseanne Roseanne Adana. So let me see it. Switch that
over and I'm going to go pop over to there. We're finally the right
camera. Oh my gosh, Craig Peterson here we're doing some new stuff.
As you probably are noticing right now, where I am doing some live
videos. In fact, this week, we've been talking all about VPN I did.
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on getting those up on the website as well. So have a look for them
there. And right now, of course, you can see these videos too
including today's Video we're talking right now, and some of the
stuff that's important. So I am kind of running the whole show
today is just the way that goes sometimes, right? I don't have
anybody helping me. There we go. So I'm putting my lower thirds on
and moving stuff around and talking than reading and oh my gosh. So
anyhow, welcome to my studio. Welcome to the show. Hopefully, you
will enjoy it today. Now we talk a lot about technology, different
types of tech and things that you might want to look at and
consider and I really emphasize security because it has been such a
problem. You know, you might have heard me on the radio. I have
been on the air, at a number of stations. This whole show is
carried by WGAN man Come on WGAN but I'm on many other stations.
I'm with Ken and Matt and Jim and jack and just all over the place
and I really enjoyed this stuff I really want to help and I enjoy
helping. And so today we are going to be talking about a friend of
ours. And this guy's name is Edward Snowden. Now, you know, friend
foe, I don't know, there are certainly people in the audience that
think Mr. Snowden is somebody that should be serving jail time. I'm
not so sure I disagree with that. But what he did, this is the guy
that was the NSA whistleblower, a true whistleblower, someone that
had first-hand knowledge of some of the problems that were going on
some of the things we were doing in our country that maybe we
shouldn't be doing. And he went and he told us about it. It's just
incredible what we found about the NSA, and the NSA has gone from
that posture where they're monitoring us all the time. Basically,
everything we're doing, to a posture today, that's much more
reserved, and we kind of freaked out after 911 you know, for good
reason, who would not be freaked out. But because we had
freaked out and freaked out so badly, we put in place this whole
Patriot Act, and they just kept renewing it and President Obama
expanded what the NSA was doing. I've heard from a number of people
that hey, listen, if you're president, like, let's say, tomorrow,
you were made president, you would do the same things as anybody
else that was put into that office as President, you do the same as
President Obama did, President Bush did, because you have the same
advisors, you're getting that same advice. And I, you know, I can
see that I can see why that might happen. But the expansion of the
NSA is something that I just, I don't know, I don't think that's
such a great idea, frankly, because the NSA is all about the
surveillance and it was supposed to be surveilling our enemies
foreigners, not our citizens here in us. Well, in this case, it
turned out that the US, UK, and Australia are now taking on
Facebook. We know about encryption fact that's what this whole week
has been about on my lives on Facebook and on YouTube. I've talked
about this right encryption what it is what are they doing? What
does end to end encryption mean? What, which prying eyes? Are they
able to stop with the VPN? What are my recommendations for VPN?
Which services to use, and when not to use a VPN when there's a
drawback. All of this is about encryption. Think about what
happened out in San Bernardino. I lived in San Bernardino for a few
months. And we had out there a just a horrific thing where this guy
came into the office and he killed some people and the FBI was
trying to get into his iPhone and Apple said hey, we're not going
to cooperate and I kind of understand where Apples coming from,
because we do have our rights, our first amendment rights, and
we're supposed to be secure in our papers. Well, nowadays, what are
our papers? What qualifies as our papers? Is it our phones? Is it
our computers? Is that what we have in the cloud? great article
that I put up on the website that my wife and I worked on at Craig
Peterson dot com, going into some more detail on this, and a good
article from the Guardian, and that's the one I shared this week as
well in my newsletter, and you know, if you want to get my
newsletter, great, just go to Craig peterson.com slash subscribe,
if not, hey, I understand it. Our inbox is just too full as it is.
But should we be blocking encryption? That's the big question we've
got now are the Attorney General bar saying yeah, we should stop
encryption no one needs encryption on a regular basis. Again this
is so they can, they can look in on this and that. But this is a
new This isn't a Trump administration thing. This goes all the way
back to the Clinton administration and the clipper chip that they
were trying to pass off. And it goes back to the NSA, who purposely
misled the whole wide world on the Data Encryption Standard. But
under President Clinton, they said, Hey, everybody - use this chip,
because it's guaranteed to be secure is developed by the NSA, these
guys know what they're doing. You really want to use this. And Bill
Clinton promoted it. The government was promoting it. And then the
industry we found out that there was indeed a backdoor in this, in
fact, a pretty bad backdoor when he got right down to it. And
because of that, we ended up saying no, we don't want this. We do
not want to have all of our conversations recorded. Now this
clipper chip and the whole Jupyter encryption is also what led us
to be able to get Saddam Hussein and his sons, we knew where they
were because we could break the encryption. And that was thanks to
the Brits. So we're talking about now encryption and frankly, you
know, without encryption, in reality, where we could lose all of
our privacy, everything that we have been working for, for all of
our lives could be stolen. because let me tell you something, and
this is something that I'm sure you've thought of before most
people have thought of this, you know, kind of off and on over the
years. But if you have something and the bad guys know you have
something or the bad guy is going to try and get it from you. And
the answer to that, I think is an absolute total and complete Yes,
you know, the bad guys want to get this stuff from us that they can
get that they can steal. So if we're using government-controlled
encryption, wherewith that government-controlled encryption, what's
happening is they are able to get in that kind of a backdoor,
right? Get into our files are papers, then what happens? Really
what then what happens? That means there is a key, right there is a
way for them to get in the back door. And most people say, Well,
you know, why would I care? I don't care if they are going to get
to my papers because I have nothing to hide. Well, I'm not going to
try and debunk that right now. Because obviously, you do have
things to hide. Look at the witch hunts that have happened over the
years, rather which is going on today, which is going on in the
1600 and which ones big time in socialist countries. Show me The
man, I'll show you the crime. And that's what we want to avoid. So
we want to avoid that. But on top of it all, we're trying to keep
our data out of the hands of the bad guys. If our federal
government has the key to get into our personal data, what do you
think is going to end up happening? It's, you know, Willie Sutton
is credited with having said, hey, why did you rob banks while I
rob banks because that's where the money is. And that, you know,
whether or not that's true, he's credited with that. Well, if the
bad guys know that the federal government, let's say the NSA, the
National Security Agency, the bad guys know the NSA has the keys to
the back door. Do you think the bad guys are going to try and get
into the NSA? And I've talked about this on the show before the
end. Sad themselves were hacked all of their top tools were stolen,
and are now being used to hack us. Blue keep is a great example of
that. Some of this ransomware is using tools developed by the
federal government. So if the NSA can be hacked and they can be
hacked and they have been hacked, what's going to end up happening
a little bit later on down the road, when the NSA has keys to the
backdoor. And they're all going to say, listen, there's no way the
keys can get out. These are top secret. Hey, listen. So we're all
of the NSA tools that we were using to hack the Russians to hack
the Chinese, the North Koreans. So were the keys that the Clinton
administration had to the back doors backdoor cryptography
that they were trying to push. I'm not blaming, you know, the
republicans or the Democrats, both sides Have equally tried to get
back doors in place and, frankly, to where we're ending up at is
right what we've been talking about right now. If we do not have
encryption available to us as regular citizens, frankly, our
privacy will be gone. totally gone. So we've got to fight for this
and fight hard for this. no two ways about it. Don't let the
federal government do back doors and force encryption to be open.
All right. When we come back, we're going to talk about the FBI.
They are urging businesses to do something business most businesses
have never done. So we'll talk about that when we get back so stick
around Of course, you're listening to Craig Peterson online and on
WGAN and online at Craig Peterson dot com as well.
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