Jan 23, 2019
Craig is on WGAN this morning with Ken and Matt in their usual banter. They discussed the tech solutions for border security, the tech trends for 2019, and how to rename Alexa.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 01/23/2019
Tech Solutions For Border Security - Russia Using Bitcoin To Bypass US Sanctions - Renaming Alexa
Craig Peterson 0:00
Hey everybody, I hope you've taken the time to look at that special
report that I offered this week. Of course, it's it's free, right?
Isn't that always the case and I have a little bit of an upsell for
you, it's really cheap. And I just want to cover my costs on a
webinar that we're going to hold about this on Friday. But you can
freeze your
credit and you can do it for absolutely nothing. And then I
personally think it's way better than going to these credit
monitoring companies that all they'll do is after the fact try and
help you clean up a little bit of the mess right. So freeze it,
make sure you get that that special report if you haven't already
checked your email because you should have gotten an email from
me.
So this morning with our friends Ken and Matt we of course, had a few different discussions we talked about the border because they had been going on and on they were yelling. Ken yelling actually not mad, I had a guest that had called him a was crazy all about the border border security. And I had to kind of straighten out a couple of things here about what technology could do, what are the basic problems and even kind of tip my hat little bit as to which way I lean on that one. So we talked about that we talked about your Amazon Alexa and how to change its name, so that it isn't waking up all the time by someone saying the wrong wake up word. And there are three words you can use to wake it up. So I talked a little bit about that. And one more thing when we're talking about our security and and what you should be doing, I've got a special course that's going to be starting up here in just a few weeks. And it's not just a course because I know you don't all want to be security experts, right? You just want to solve your security problem, I get it. Finally, I think okay, so I, I have this whole thing we're going to back you up. I've got commitments from my technology people, my engineers that work for my company, my technicians all the way up to my third level tech support, I'm going to be offering a complete technology turnaround for you from you know, security standpoint, in just a couple of weeks. And I'm going to work with you, I'm going to explain how this all works. I'm going to show you how to secure your computers absolutely secure them. And we're also now going to be able to have tech support available for you as part of this all inclusive package. How's that for a big deal.
So if you are a tech guy at a company, we're not going to move in on your space, we're going to help you with securing your business doesn't matter how big the businesses can be a Soho can be a multi million dollar public company, because we we deal with everything in between, frankly, including both of those edges. So I am so excited about this. I went through this yesterday with my team. And we explained what was going to happen and laid out all of the plans. And there's a lot of work for us involved. We've never offered this before. In fact, no one has ever offered this before. But it's a complete security technology turnaround, where we will hold your hand, we're not just going to sell you some software and run away. In fact, you don't even have to buy any software from us. This is all about educating you about the security problems, how to fix them yourselves. And you are backed by our engineers. Now thinking about thinking about our friends at Microsoft. If you ever called Microsoft for tech support,
Unknown 3:54
right? Have you ever paid them the $300 they want I know I've even
paid the the $300 they want for a single tech support call one call
lasting no more than two hours. And when you think about all of the
computers that you have, and you're trying to get those computers
all fixed up and working. Don't you wish you had somebody to
explain it all to you. Right there are you one of those people
who's tried it and and stumbled and said, Forget about it. And you
don't want to upgrade your computer because you just know
something's going to break. And you just know yet can be able to
fix it. And you just know you're not going to be able to open a
dozen support tickets with Microsoft and four or $5,000 later you
might be back on your feet, right? If that's the case,
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do you think that would help you that this whole thing would help
you because that's what we're going to be offering. So this is
exciting. This is new, we've never done it before. So keep your
eyes on because this is coming up in a couple of weeks. I am going
to be sending out some emails on this in a couple of weeks. And
you'll find out more. And I'm going to have a webinar kind of
explaining what we're doing that I'm going to make an offer. And
that's it. I'm only doing this this one time. And hopefully if it's
right for you. You will sign up. So anyhow, here we go with Mr. Ken
and Matt on WGAN and all of their affiliates in Maine
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Ken got some food and a little happier now.
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So I got a little... by the way do I might sound
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Do you think Craig Peterson.
Unknown 5:45
Craig Peterson, our tech guru. He has you know, you joke about me
having 17 kids. He actually may have 17. I think probably older
than me.
Unknown 5:52
probably say let me guess you I'm going to say 50 now. 45.
Unknown 6:01
You're like this to my youngest kid is 23. Oh my god. Our eldest is
35.
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So you got to be me. And then you could have been 20, you know.
Unknown 6:10
Well, that's my my wife turned 60 this year. Wow.
Unknown 6:14
Alright, so that's Wow. Okay. Yeah.
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39. Yeah,
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well,
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too. So
Unknown 6:25
there you go. Hey, Ken. Yes. All of this discussion about the
border? I thought maybe we might want to talk about a couple of
little technology things that might
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please do take my mind off this. I think that's a great idea.
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lasers.
Unknown 6:38
Me, what about late
Unknown 6:40
Are you talking about lasers pointed at Tom Brady's face at
football games? Because I'm a little concerned about that.
Unknown 6:46
Exactly. Now, it's an interesting debate, frankly, because there
are so many aspects of it. That's too bad that there's just so much
focus strictly on the wall. I you know, you look at this, what's
the wall for courses, physical barrier to prevent people from
crossing. But as you guys have both talked about before, we've got
a big problem with people overstating visas, we're trying to keep
people out of the country illegally. We, you know, we talked a few
weeks ago about these new biometric systems like the ones that will
scan your eyes looking for a potential lies that that was I'm
actually I don't think we spoke about it. That was in my, you know,
my website. But here's some of the technologies they're looking at
right now. If you fly out of Orlando, there's this new biometric
system that does look at your eyes. But to identify you, as a
unique person, we've got other biometric systems that are starting
to be deployed. And the idea is that we can catch people very
quickly, who are trying to enter illegally. So someone, for
instance, decides that they're going to come in the country, they
come here, they commit a crime of some sort, they are arrested. And
if we do capture their biometric information, and then they leave
to go home to visit family or whatever, and they come back at that
point, now we can stop them, we can catch them, we can detect
illicit behavior with different types of scanners, we can screen
migrants, we can put more technology at our ports and, and more
scanning more surveillance to see what's going on. It's like
President Trump that suggested that. And what we're talking about
here are, again, what Ken was mentioning this morning, we know that
most of the drugs that are crossing the border are coming to our
major ports of entry. Of course, we don't really know how much is
coming elsewhere, because we don't monitor that closely. But we can
do a much better job of even having dogs at the borders that are
sniffing that are looking for some of these things. But then you
run into problems like I have clients, a couple of them, I can
think of off and that have parts of their equipment manufacturer to
Mexico, and then they ship it up here, they do final assembly in
the US and then they sell their products. Well, at that point, now
you're causing problems for our economies, and for American
businesses, American jobs, because you're stopping the some of the
flow of this, or at least you're slowing it down impeding it, but
you know, there are some things we can do with our existing ports
that are going to improve things. Obviously, we can't track people,
even the little bit of biometric things we've heard about before,
where you stick a chip under the skin that's just playing not going
to work because the only can be helpful if they're right there at a
scanner. So forget those types of ideas. But it's very difficult
problem. There is some technology that divine to try and solve some
of this problem. But I also want us to be a little bit cautious
here because both sides are pretty upset about what's happening
right now. And I want to be conscious because we tend to need jerk
many times and I don't want to have this backscatter radar problem
like we've had at the airports where you've got backscatter x rays
being used, and there's a lot of questions about how much harm they
were doing, initially, how much time they still might be doing, and
we put them in places a quick response to some of the terrorist
actions that happen that are very rare and should we be should we
be knee jerk? And I don't know I I don't think so. But there's a
lot of discussion frankly, from my standpoint, it's frustrating
that the democrats completely reject an empty and and Chuck
Schumer. Nancy Pelosi rejected Trump's proposals before he even
made the proposals. How do we have a national dialogue about this?
And how do we come to a new set of laws and new technology, new
regulations, new employees, when nobody seems to want to talk this
want to yell?
Unknown 11:08
Craig Peterson, our tech guru, just talk about the world of
technology. And what's happening, talked a little bit about border
wall stuff. Let's get into more general technology topics, though,
if you will. I you know, there's a lot of things we look back at
2018 and sort of see the trends that we saw starting to develop and
things that we saw in technology and whatnot, what as you look
forward to 2019, do you see as the top trends that we're going to
be talking about
Unknown 11:34
all year? Yeah, this is kind of interesting. We've had a bunch of
different trends over the years. And I said in the past, hey, this
is that the year of the medical hack, for instance, right, where I
think that our, our, our hospitals are going to be hacked, etc. And
we've had years where it was, wow, this is the year of high def TV
this year, I don't think we're going to have any big breakthroughs,
you know, over iPhone was more than a decade ago now. And then the
iPad came shortly afterwards. But I think this year is going to be
kind of setting the pace for the future, and the groundwork for the
future. And it's going to be really big, it's going to make change
the world within the next two to three years, frankly, in some
ways, you're not going to recognize the future five years from
today, because of some technology that's rolling out this year.
Now, we've mentioned before the 5G rollouts that are starting to
happen, this is the new technology for our cell phone systems. And
what this technology does is it provides incredibly fast service 10
times faster or more in some cases than what we have today for our
cell phones, and also provides for many more millions, actually
more than billion new devices to be attached to these networks. So
what does that mean ultimately? Well, that means that our friends
in the cable TV business are going to finally face some serious
competition and our cable TV, if you will, you know, our TV is
going to be in the future in most areas of the country. Of course,
if you're in rural rural Maine, you're not going to see this right
away. But it's in his faith major competition, because our cell
phone carriers are going to be able to provide very inexpensive,
very high speed internet that will be price competitive with what
you have in your house, even right now. So so your cable may not
even be used for internet anymore. And they'll be providing
streaming video services, including local TV, that's all coming in
about two to three years, Apple isn't even going to do a 5G phone
this year. They said that won't happen until next year. But some of
the other vendors are going to do it, they're going to kick their
toes in. And 2019 is going to be known as the year of really kind
of laying the groundwork for a much different future when it comes
to data. And I want to add one more thing to this. And that is we
are seeing serious push back now to large lack of privacy, misuse
of data. And people are very upset. Government agencies are upset.
As you know, the chairman pie of the FCC. FCC is very upset about
this. And there is work of foot in Congress as well. So we're going
to see more regulations. We're also going to see the industry
itself try and pull up at socks. So expect to see a little bit of a
an industry movement probably let her friends at Facebook, because
they've got such a black guy this year. It's going to try and
protect our privacy, which I think very important thing because we
really haven't been doing anywhere near enough about it.
Unknown 15:09
We're talking to Craig Peterson is our tech school joins us
Tuesdays at 7:38.
Unknown 15:14
before we let you go you know I did get Alexa for Christmas. And
I
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Alexa play who
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I did
Unknown 15:20
change it to computer though, because I thought it was much better.
That's called a computer. Ah,
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so what you can change? Yes.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Unknown 15:29
Limited. A sorry, Craig. We're going to talk we're talking to our
tech experts. Only a few seriously, you can
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say Alexa changer, your
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your name
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yet.
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or changing reading or?
Unknown 15:43
Yeah, I'll
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use a computer. I can do like a star trek thing. And I can be like,
computer
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computer. Yeah, but
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that's happening today. I'm gonna go ahead and go home.
Unknown 15:53
What else? It is on store for us from Amazon. Are they going to
have this and every wall we have? Are they going to be having
cameras? This
Unknown 16:00
is this a minority report? Are we turning into Minority Report?
That's my question. I'm talking about biometrics reading eyeballs.
That's the first thing I thought about was Tom Cruise going into
the gap.
Unknown 16:10
Minority Report.
Unknown 16:11
By the way, for those of you whose radio who's electrodes are now
streaming live, which is what I do in the morning, when I wake up,
you can change this culture wake up word. And the way to change it
to computer is you're going to your Alexa app on your phone. You
tap that little hamburger menu settings and scroll down to wake
word.
Unknown 16:31
Yeah. And then we have
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that drop down menu.
Unknown 16:35
Yeah. And then you can call it either Amazon Echo or computer,
Unknown 16:40
right? All right. And that's all you have to do. We didn't get
major Barrett's voice to do it back to you know, yes.
Unknown 16:47
You know what I have? I have a skill that all I have to do is say
le x a red alert and it sounds the virus from the original Star
Trek series
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Barrett some
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point
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because I don't think you can buy that one. Yeah, yeah, it's kind
of cool. So yeah, there's 100 million dollar these things now in
people's hands. These Alexa and they are continuing to grow. And
they are being embedded now. And more and more devices. Apple this
year at CES. That was their big thing, if you will, their
announcement was Apple is now making Siri available in TVs and
other third party devices. So we're going to see more and more
integration. And it looks like Amazon might be winning this smart
speaker were
Unknown 17:42
indeed. All right, Craig. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joining us,
you know, as it usually does on Wednesdays here can you say joins,
we have about two minutes left Craig. So make this one a brief one,
but Russia and bitcoins is this some way of getting around
sanctions?
Unknown 18:00
Interesting story and Bitcoin is Bitcoin apparently because of
fraud and initial trading where they did some trading back and
forth between a few guys in order to drive the price of bitcoin up.
And that's there's there's some evidence to support that now. There
is a rumor floating around that our friends over in Russia that are
looking to get away around us sanctions and they're going to get
around our sanctioned by using Bitcoin in sac what the, the, the
whole rumor drives to is that Russia could purchase Bitcoin to
replace the US dollar as a reserve currency and there's saying,
Hey, how about we use Bitcoin or some other blockchain technology
in order to sell oil for oil trading instead of the US dollar? So
the big question is, is this real legit, or not? All the research
I've done online seems to indicate that it is not legit, although,
who knows? Maybe it was a bit of a trial balloon by the Kremlin.
But if Russia work to do that, of course, it would drive the value
of Bitcoin way up. Because this Russian economist there's only one
guy that said this said that Russia was going to put 10 billion in
Bitcoin, I would not call that an investment. By the way, this is
not investment advice either, but I don't know what's going to
happen. But it is an interesting idea with cryptocurrencies. Could
other countries get around us sanctions by switching over to
Bitcoin or other currencies?
Unknown 19:43
Great question. We're gonna leave it there Craig is we're out of
time appreciate you joining us as always, and we'll talk to you
again next week.
Unknown 19:48
Hey gentlemen, take care. Thanks Craig
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all right we're gonna come back at the other end of this with our
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