Jan 28, 2019
This morning, Craig was on with Jack Heath discussing two things: One was the software sold by an Israeli used to track Khashoggi, and the impact of the current government shutdown.
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Airing date: 01/28/2019
Impact Of Government Shutdown - Hacked Phone May Have Led Killers To Khashoggi
Craig Peterson 0:00
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So this morning, I was on with our friend Jack Heath. And we talked about two different things. One really was, I think, frankly, very disturbing. And that is some software sold by an Israeli firm that may have been used to track Khashoggi the, you know, that quote, journalist, unquote. And, of course, there's all kinds of articles one way or the other on that, but CNN wires, and it was also repeated another places in the news, Fox had this story as well. But I've got this up on my website. The story from CNN wires is saying that this software is called Pegasus, and it's dangerous. And it's being used by some of the worst regimes in the world to track people. And then in this case, maybe even killed people. Of course, they're denying it. We talked a little bit too, about the impact of the government shutdown. And there was, I think, a very big impact. I've been reading articles about what's been happening with some of the contractors who are never going to get paid for this government shutdown, who are handling security for various federal government agencies. So we talked a little bit about that. And of course, I mentioned the surveillance state and surveillance by government. But there's a whole new concept and you might find this interesting. It's an article that was in The Guardian, I have it up on my website at http://CraigPeterson.com. But welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism. Now, I'm not fond of the term capitalism here because it's really not a capitalistic thing, per se. But the everybody from your phone company on out is selling your personal data. So what does that mean to you? I think you might find that interesting up on my website. So here we go with Mr. Heath
Jack Heath 3:44
Right now. We bring in our tech talk guy Craig Peterson. His show
Tech Talk airs on iHeart news talk station. He joins us on the Auto
Fair listener lines. Craig, is there a tech talk angle or
connection to the government shutdown? I mean, did we learn
anything about you know, how we're doing in terms of efficiencies
and all that, When, when, when there are fewer government workers?
Or, or is that something you didn't look at?
Craig 4:08
Hey, good morning Jack, that the shutdown have had a number of
impact. And when it comes to some of the technology side, and one
of the biggest ones that people have been worried about is the
impact to our cybersecurity. And of course, that's something I pay
close attention to. And with the government shutdown in place,
there were a number of different agencies that did not have all of
this cybersecurity people that they would normally have available.
Remember that we're talking about a number of different types of
people impacted, you've got the employees who will be paid,
apparently, within the next week or so. But you also have the
contractors, many of whom will never be paid. And many of the
people who are handling security for various federal government and
state government agencies. But in this case, of course, certainly
concerned about the Fed, many of those people are actually
contractors, and with more than 1 million unfilled security jobs
nationwide, I'm afraid what might well have happened here is that
many of these contractors who are good security, they can find a
job in the private sector and our setup with this whole government
mass have left the via employee, basically, at the federal
government are now going over to the private industry. And we may
have seen some serious, unforeseen circumstances here where the
best people who can easily get another job did get another job and
the cyber security specialist. So the ones that I'm very, very
worried about,
Jack 5:50
Well, again, then other people would say, unless they had a
household where they had a federal worker, in some cases, couples
are married, they both work for the federal government unless you
were directly impact. And a lot of people said, Well, you know, I
didn't really didn't affect my life that much.
Craig 6:02
Well, if you get outside those contractors who are doing security,
and I've read a few articles about some, but if you get outside of
those contractors, frankly, there doesn't seem to have been a ton
of impact on the technology front, you know, some things have
slowed down, the IRS has multiple attempts at trying to put a new
computer system in place, and they continue to fail, of course,
that was put aside and, and various other things. So we, from a
technology standpoint, I think the biggest impact is going to be on
some of the contractors who were not paid and will never be paid,
and frankly, may never be able to recover that money. So you're
right, Jack. I think that the impact is is a little bit overblown
in the media. But I do know some people who were directly impacted
in the security realm.
Jack 6:53
Interesting right, what else is catching your eyes we begin this
week?
Craig 6:57
Well, we of course know about to show be a little bit here and what
ended up happening with his stats and the, you know, alleged murder
at this point, there is an Israeli based cyber company called the
NFL group. And so and they were condemned as the worst of the worst
by Edward Snowden. Remember him the NSA whistleblower? Well,
apparently they have been selling software to governments,
including Saudi Arabia, and other governments who are very
repressive. And these tools that they have are set up for spying on
people for burglary. And in fact, their software which is called
Pegasus, you can look it up and find out a lot about it is malware
that is used by governments to to send a message to someone on
their smartphone or on their computer, but in this case, into
Shelby with Khashoggi it's the smartphone and all they have to do
is click on the link in that text message comes in, and now the
phones compromise they have access to the microphone and camera and
depending on the phone, which is why again, I keep advising people
don't use Android, but apparently they may have had some
involvement with a showpiece das although they're denying that they
did anything wrong because the Saudis had access to Pegasus or
something similar, and it was used to track him find out where he
was at what he was doing. He was monitored. And this is alarming,
frankly, in this age of surveillance. where companies are severely
miss our government surveillance and more. We've got to be very,
very careful because the bad guys are doing it as well.
Jack 8:49
Interesting. All right. Craig. Check it out. Craig Peterson, O-N.
http://CraigPeterson.com. Thanks, Craig.
Craig 8:54
Hey, thanks, Jack.
Craig 9:00
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