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Airing date: 03/30/2019
Using Two Factor Authentication - Drones Delivering Blood Samples And Barking At Animals
Craig Peterson 0:00
Hello, everybody, we are getting close. My goodness, I can't
believe it has been that long. We're almost at show 1000. I think
today is 999. I'll have to check. But man, I guess we should do
something soon. I just been so busy for all you guys because that
means 1000 weeks of shows. Some weeks I put out as many as 12
podcasts. I've put out. I've been on the air 5, 6, 7 times in a
week. So it has been a very busy time. So I'm not talking about
1000 podcasts or I'm talking about 1000 radio shows, and literally
tens of thousands of podcasts. Isn't that crazy? Yeah, over 10,000
actually, podcasts. I
added it up, five years ago, and I had interviewed more than 7,500
C-level executives. Yeah, it's just nuts. Of course. Lately, it's
been primarily just me right here on the radio, sharing what I've
learned over the years online, or the guy that's been kind of out
front, getting all the arrows in my back, putting together internet
protocols, implementing them helping businesses get online. Man,
I've been doing that since 91, when it first came became legal to
do business on the internet. And I quickly ended up getting into
security within a couple of years because of what happened to me
and my business. And so I had to become an expert in security and
now i"m known as America's leading security coach, which is really
kind of cool when you get right down to it. But has been a long
road. Let me tell you.
Craig 2:03
Well, today we are going to go through a couple of really cool
articles. This one's a little disconcerting. This is from NBC News.
We're going to talk about AI, artificial intelligence. And they
talked about how artificial intelligence when fed the right data,
and when programmed the right way. They call it AI, right? But you
and I know it's really machine learning. But in the United Kingdom,
they were able to use it to predict when someone was going to die.
And that's part of the National Health Service, which I guess
shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, right? Government running the
health care, they want to know when you're going to die so they
can, you know, get someone else ready to go into your bed.
Craig 2:51
Is personal data safer when it's stored on your own computer, your
company's computer, your company's network or on a private network?
Some interesting stats that came out and published in Forbes this
week.
Craig 3:04
Apple's finally showed off its plan to conquer TV this week. So
we'll talk a little bit about that. I signed up for their News Plus
service. And it's not bad, but it's still a little disappointing,
frankly. But you know, we'll give it some time. We'll talk about
that as well.
Craig 3:25
Now UPS This is one of the first real uses of drones for delivery.
You might remember that we had the 711 people working on using
drones for delivery. And we've had Amazon working on using drones
for delivery. Now, UPS has launched a new service using drones to
transport blood and other medical samples between various buildings
at WakeMed Raleigh's medical campus, North Carolina. And the speed
that the drones can deliver these samples could literally be the
difference between life and death. A great article from Futurism,
which you'll see in today's show notes that we sent out this
morning. But it's kind of cool here. They're using an autonomous
drone developer called Matternet. And they've got something called
an M2 quadcopter, and it can carry a payload up to five pounds,
approximately 12 miles. So the medical professionals, there at
WakeMed's nearby facilities are loading the drone's containers get
a secure container, so that if it crashes, that, you know, people
are going to be able to steal what's in it, or get contaminated
because they're putting blood samples and other medical specimens
into the drone. And then the drone follows a fixed path over to the
healthcare system's main hospital there on the campus. And it goes
right to the pathology lab who then unload it. Now Business Insider
had a good article about it as well. And they're saying that this
trip can take a driver up to 30 minutes. Yeah, that's how big this
whole campus is. Plus, you know, some of the buildings aren't
getting directly attached. And when you're talking about traffic,
it can get terrible, and if you've ever been down there in the
triangle, it's absolutely terrible in Raleigh, some of the traffic.
But these unmanned drones that are being run and managed by UPS can
cut the delivery time down to just three minutes and 15 seconds. So
that's why they're saying this could really save some lives. So for
now, UPS is expecting the drones to make fewer than 10 deliveries a
day on the campus. But that could increase in the future,
especially as there's services that are considered to be
beneficial. And of course, UPS is expecting that to happen. This is
very cool. So there you go. Kudos to UPS for doing that.
Craig 6:01
I've also got a whole thing here on two-factor authentication we'll
get to in a second. But barking dogs, this is kind of cool. You
know, for years, we've had shepherds using dogs. At my house, you
know, I have chickens, right. I have bees and chickens. And we have
a dog, we have a Great Dane. And it's a rescue Dane, we've had four
of these Danes over the years. And she is about four years old now.
We got her when she was three and a half. But she has been kind of
a couch potato. And we were really surprised the other day when her
instincts kind of kicked in. And we were out taking care of the
chickens. And we had the coop door open, actually was one of my
daughters, and the coop door was open. And one of the chickens
decided to come running out which we let them do, right. We pasture
raised them. So they go out into the pastures and they find all of
the horsey stuff and everything and they tear it all up and have
fun with it, eat all the bugs that are in it. So, it's okay if they
get out. But we don't just want one out, we want to be able to kind
of keep an eye on them. This time of year, there's a lot of
predators. We've seen some hawks going around, we saw an eagle the
other day coming by and sitting there, and you can hear them
shrieking very loudly as they're right near us. And of course, that
just freaks the chickens out who when they're out wandering around,
spend most of the time under the bushes. But, and By the way, we
have seen one of these birds of prey take one of our chickens
before. We've seen a fox took one of our pet cats as well ran off
the property with the cat in its mouth. And a little distressing.
But I guess it's good for the foxes and the birds of prey this time
of year. So we wanted to keep her in. And our Great Dane, Velma.
She didn't like that chicken coming out because my daughter, you
know, tried to shoo the chicken back in. And so Velma took care of
it, and rounded her up and got her right back there into the run.
Or actually, I guess she came out of the coop door. So back into
the coop. And that surprised me but not terribly, because
I know dogs have this instinct to do hurting. And we have dogs
specifically bred for herding, right, you know about sheep dogs and
things. So in this case, with a Great Dane that was bred to hunt
wild boar, I wasn't sure what she'd do.
Craig 8:32
She also, this was a month or two ago, she also helped with one of
these birds. Because we had some the chickens were out. And we have
an outdoor roosting section for them. So if it gets raining, they
can just go sit in there and enjoy being outside a little bit but
at least be covered. And we're trying to get the chickens out of
this roosting stuff. And so she saw what we were doing. And she,
she grabbed one of them by the wing and carried her back. She was
being gentle. The chicken wasn't harmed at all. But it's really
kind of cool to see.
Craig 9:14
Well, farmers have relied on dogs for a long time. And real farmers
have multiple animals that all kind of help out each other, you
have the cats to keep the field mice down, or heaven forbid the
rats down, right, or the squirrels or the chipmunks which we have
here as well. And they stay out of the feed and they're not
spreading disease amongst your herd. And then you have the chickens
too because you have horses or cattle, you have the chickens to
break up all of that excrement, right, and then eat all the bugs
from it. So you don't get the huge populations of flies or beetles
or things. So they keep that population down. And then you have
pigs. And they'll eat all of the scraps from the other animals what
they don't want to eat, as well as from your table. And then you
have goats because they'll eat the stuff that the cows and the
horses won't eat, the particularly stuff and the lower nutrition
things. So you have all of these animals and it's kind of a
roundabout isn't it all the way around. And then you have the dogs
out protect all of these animals, you have the sheep as well. So
it's really quite an ecosystem if you've ever seen it work and have
you ever sat down to think about a farm and how this all works. And
course you have kids to help out on the farm, as well. Now we don't
have these little farms like that anymore. Really, we don't. We
take the manure from the chickens after a couple of years of its
sending out and we use it in our own personal garden. And just it's
phenomenal. We have some of the best flowers and, and vegetables
around. But that's the way it used to be.
Craig 10:52
Well now here's somebody getting rid of the dogs as part of that
whole, a whole environmental loop on the local farm. And this is an
article that came out of New Zealand. There is a company in
Christchurch, New Zealand, it's called DJI Ferntech. And they have
a special set of drones that are specifically designed for
agricultural uses. And we've seen stuff kind of like this before
will though, they'll survey the land to look for blight or maybe
insects, problems that are occurring in your field. So that's what
this company is doing down there New Zealand. And it's kind of cool
because they have these kinda like county fairs. They call them
agricultural field days, down there in New Zealand. And he's saying
for the past two years we've seen farmers embrace drone technology
to help with those jobs that are dirty, dangerous, or just plain
dull he said. So what one of their new drones and this is on a
cattle farm is set up with speakers on it where it can bark like a
dog.
Craig 12:06
So they've got this 3,500 New Zealand dollar drone and the New
Zealand dollars worth about 50 cents give or take. Not sure what it
is today. But you know, so it's basically what may be a $2,000
drone at the most. It's called the DJI Mavic Enterprise and you can
record sounds and play them over a speaker. So you can put a dogs
bark or other noises there and it projects them wherever you want,
very loudly across a paddock. And he said this feature helped him
move livestock along faster during mustering while stressing the
animals a lot less than a dog could because of course the dog is
going to kind of nip at their legs, even though it's not going to
bite them to get them to move and that's very stressful. And that
means some of your cattle aren't going to give the milk that they
could, etc, etc. Some cows are going to get very protective of
their calves. When you have a dog out there. You might have seen
that before, where they lunge at the farm dogs and they get too
close. So it's really kind of cool to think about that. A drone
instead of a dog. Oh, obviously a drone can't do everything a dog
can do. It's not going to be completely autonomous. And someone's
going to have to kind of watch it and man it. But over time that it
will become more autonomous. But then what are we going to do?
We're going to have dogs out of work, right?
Craig 13:30
Well, two-factor authentication.
Craig 13:34
This is a key part of security. This week, I put together a module
on website security and one of the things I brought up is because
so many business websites are getting hacked. And if you have a
business, man, could you get hacked, so there's a lot to be
concerned about. But using two-factor authentication on your
website, for you, as an administrator to be able to login can save
you know, end of grief. And security and on the internet just in
general has gotten more important. And we're seeing it with built
in security things now into our web browsers. Google has been
protecting their stats are showing 1 billion websites that they are
providing blockage to every day. Now it's not websites, but it's
actually warnings to people who are using Google. And if you get
blacklisted by Google, you will lose 95% of your traffic to your
business website on average, which is just huge. So I explained
that this week in that module on website security, what to do, how
to do it and everything. But that number surprised me. 95% of your
traffic and it can take you months to get back. And in most cases,
the businesses never are able to get that traffic level back up
because Google just doesn't trust them anymore.
Craig 15:03
So having two-factor authentication can be a huge win. And that is
where you have something you know, along with something you have in
order to keep your logins safe. And when we're talking about
something, you know, it's your password, right? It's your username
and password, which is why I know I gave some tips on what to do
there in this module. But basically, don't use admin as the admin
user account. But there's some other things too. And then something
you have, which is the two-factor authentication.
Craig 15:38
You guys know, I recommend 1Password, LastPass as good as well. But
I think one passwords definitely the best, especially for
businesses. So you should look at tying that into your website
login, as well.
Craig 15:56
And if you do that, if you have the two-factor authentication using
an authentication app, and you can get these for free Google
Authenticator is a free app available on iOS or Android. And you
can tie it into your website to allow you basically exclusive
access to the administrative functions, you are and or other people
within your organization that have to do the maintenance on the
website. SMS messages are just not secure. We know about and I've
talked on this show before about people hijacking your phone
number, all kinds of nasty things that can help.
Craig 16:39
Apple has two-factor authentication built right into iOS and Mac
OS. They do little differently than pretty much everybody else.
They're using the Apple ecosystem. So when you try and log in on
your Mac, and it doesn't know that you are who you say you are, the
Mac will automatically pop something up on your iPhone and say is
that you and you get a six-digit Pop-up code.
Craig 17:06
And you know, that happens when you log into iCloud and various
other things. But there are a bunch of different ways that you can
do it. Apple does make it easy. SMS messages really aren't secure.
But I do like Google Authenticator and 1Password. They both,
1Password has the Authenticator built right into it. But it's
absolutely fantastic. It's $60 per year for 1Password for the
family plan. And you can have a shared vault where you keep the
password that everybody in the family needs to access like your
bank logins or, or other things that you might need, you know, the
website for your kid's homework, all of that stuff for 60 bucks a
year. It's just crazy. It also has one time passwords built into
the app and everything. It's phenomenal nominal, these two-factor
authentications.
Craig 18:03
Authy's. Another one, you might want to look at. A-U-T-H-Y, if you
don't use 1Password. It is a very good two-factor authentication
app. It's better than Google Authenticator. It's a little broader.
But it is easier to use in, In fact, one of the two-factor
authentication is all it does. So it's very straightforward, very
easy. You can scan a QR code that the site is giving you and use
that then to use Authy or Google Authenticator or 1Password in
order to be able to get in. Google Authenticator, I should mention,
it's basically been the default solution for a lot of two-factor
deployments over the last few years. And man, I, I can't remember
the first time I used it. It was a lot of years ago. And I think it
was Google, it was prompting me to try it out and use it. Microsoft
now has theirs as well, Microsoft Authenticator. They've done a
good job on this, I've got to say, Microsoft, with the exception of
Windows, well, even with Windows, it's really been pulling up its
socks lately. Windows is still terrible.
Craig 19:15
But it is much better than it used to be. And if you use Microsoft
products heavily, particularly if you're using Office 365, these
authenticators are going to work really well for you. And in fact,
that's exactly what we use to manage not only our deployment of
Office 365 for internal company uses at Mainstream, but we also use
it in order to authenticate ourselves to all of our partners,
because we manage so many sites, all of their emails, we manage all
of their networks, all of their security and everything. So you can
bet we use the best of this two-factor authentication stuff.
Craig 20:02
Apple, of course, had their big show this week. And one of the
things that they released was information on its plan, where it is
trying to take over the TV business. And this is from an article I
have up on http://CraigPeterson.com from Business Insider. There's
still a whole lot of questions that are answered after the event
that happened just this week, it unveiled a new subscription
service in the US. It covers TV, gaming and news markets. As I
mentioned earlier, I signed up for the news stuff called News Plus,
it's like 10 bucks a month and you get the first 30 days for free.
And I kind of like it. There's some good magazines and stuff in it.
I think they've got to clean their interface up a little bit more.
And I wish there were more newspapers in that there's very few
newspapers, but it'll you know, it'll get better. And Apple really
is trying to get more into services because they're making a ton of
money from their services sector already. And they're very good.
And have you seen the new ads from Apple, the latest ones, where
they're really touting security? They're touting the fact that
they're not giving all of your information away, that they're not
selling it to the highest bidder like Facebook has been doing. You
heard me talk about WhatsApp, I have a great article up on my
website about the guy who developed WhatsApp, and then sold it to
Facebook. And he's now telling people to delete WhatsApp and never
use it again. So if you want to find out more about that, and why
that's up on my website, as well. But it's all because our friends
and Facebook are really messing with people, which is kind of a
shame.
Craig 21:50
That used to be this article from again Business Insider goes
through some of the older events and things that they've done. So
they're calling it TV Plus, and a number of people are really
kind of underwhelmed by it. But it's going to add more stuff in.
What's going to make this very interesting is what the mouse has
been doing. Disney. Have you seen what they've been doing they just
a couple of weeks ago, got final approval, inked the deal with
buying all of Fox's content and production. Fox Studios. No, we're
not talking about the news network that's separate. But all of the
movies and so think about this, basically, Disney now owns all of
the top names out there all the Star Wars brand, and completely
owns now, of course, all the standard Disney stuff. And now it's
got Marvel under its belt. It even has Spider Man now, which used
to be exclusively Sony's property. So the mouse, you know, if you
can get them in onto your streaming network, you're in big trouble.
And Disney, aka the mouse, is in direct competition with Apple for
this stuff.
Craig 23:09
So I don't know what that's what's going to happen here. Apple
has always made its money off of selling the devices and selling us
some services never selling your information. Disney is not the
same. And I don't know that the two will be able to come to terms
or not, I guess, guess we'll see.
Craig 23:30
Your personal data, according to Forbes, is 99.99% safer on a major
cloud service than it is on the average companies private network.
Isn't that amazing? This is an article in Forbes and they're taking
a quote from the site called Quora. And it's really kind of a cool
one. Matthew Lodge wrote this. He's a tech executive. And he's
talking about, frankly, the fact that most businesses aren't
storing the data properly. They're not backing it up properly.
They're not securing it properly. Hence my course, right, that I
just finished delivering or actually I'm finishing just this week
delivering all of the final components as I go through all of that,
right. The integrity of the data of the fact that you get bit rot,
that companies don't keep track of it. They don't have proper
multigenerational backups. They're not pushing the backups off
site. They don't have it on on different types of media. They don't
have active defenses that don't have security monitoring, right. So
duh. Yeah, it's 99.999% safer if you put it up on Dropbox. And so
that's really interesting. They, he goes through and he talks about
Google as well. And Amazon and what they're doing, they'll have
stored stuff. Dropbox is what I recommend for businesses. And in
fact, I put together in my last coaching call a whole thing about
Dropbox and which version to get because I got like a million of
them. But that's I find that to be just fascinating.
Craig 25:15
And then our last article here this week is all about artificial
intelligence, and the National Health Service over in the United
Kingdom. If you've been listening for a while, you know that I and
my family have suffered under the Canadian healthcare service for
years, and the Supreme Court in Canada finally rolled that you can
buy private health insurance, you don't have to get stuck with it.
Well, much the same has happened in the UK because the healthcare,
public health care is just so bad. It's just terrible. You know,
everybody gets it.
Craig 25:51
But it's all terrible, right, kind of the bottom line, and I can
tell you horror stories from every member of my family that's still
in Canada. But in the UK, they've been using some artificial
intelligence algorithms. They looked at a half a million people in
the UK and then they task this AI with predicting of individuals
who were at the risk of dying prematurely. In other words sooner
than the average life expectancy from chronic disease and they had
three different models that they task the AI with. And this article
up on http://CraigPeterson.com that
is originally from NBC News, I think you're really gonna like this
is they look at different things with each one of the models. They
looked at things like well they had the random forest model, which
looked mostly a body fat percentage, waist circumference, amount of
fruit and vegetables of people ate. They had the deep learning
model, top factors there included exposure to job-related hazards,
air pollution, alcohol intake, use of certain medications. You had
another model called the Cox model that lean heavily on ethnicity
and physical activity. So they took those three models, they looked
at it, and they found that the best and most accurate predictions
that correctly identified 76% of the subjects who died during the
study period. Wow, okay. 84% accuracy on predicting Alzheimer's,
the onset of autism and six months old babies. So all of this work
by the UK National Health Service to figure out you know, basically
death panels. Who should we spend money on? And who shouldn't we
spend money on? Which is what that's what's happened I Obamacare
ended up with death panels. Of course, they don't call them death
panels, any of these cases, but you know, the panels that decide
whether or not you're worthy to receive medical treatment, I think
you can tell which side of the market come down on with that.
Craig 28:03
Alright, so this next week, of course, we're going to have some
podcasts, probably only one because I am out of town. Very busy.
But I'm releasing some stuff to those of you who signed up for my
DIY cybersecurity course. And we will be back next Saturday.
http://CraigPeterson.com/iTunes, to sign up for the podcast. Take
care, everybody. Bye-bye.
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