Feb 21, 2020
Good morning everybody!
I was on with Ken and Matt. We had a good discussion about the upcoming Nevada Caucus and if they will experience some of the same issues as in Iowa. We also discussed the cybercriminal phishing emails being sent out with the warnings about the Coronavirus that if clicked on will infect your machine and network and also why you should delete apps that you do not use to protect your privacy.
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Craig
saying, Wow, cool new technology is going to be great. Hey, I have
a buddy that worked for Hillary Clinton and ran this, and he's got
this company, and he's got this voting software. That's what tends
to happen. And they're looking for the latest the greatest the
coolest the neatest and yeah, we can brag about how wonderful this
all is. When in reality, it ain't there.
Craig
Hi everybody Craig Peterson here, of course, and I got into this
thing. I don't know, and maybe it was too much this morning about
technology. I was comparing what's been happening with some of the
technology for voting to laserdiscs and Betamax, etc. But we went
this morning with canon Matt talked about that couple of other
things, including the Coronavirus. So here we go.
Ken
Back again 738 on the WGAN morning news with Ken and Matt. It's
time now, ladies and gentlemen, to talk to Craig Peterson.
Craig
Is your phone working now?
Ken
Did that last-minute somebody was a tech expert series tell me how
to fix his phone of a manufacturer.?We have a tech guru, and I
would like to ask about that. But I am going to ask you a quick
question. You know, we've had some primaries and the Nevada
primaries coming up or the caucus, and it's looking like it's going
to go smoothly, but there may be some security flaws. Can you tell
us as a tech guru, what the hell is going on?
Craig
Well, you know, this whole thing with the voting and technology and
what to do you know, we talked last week about you know, where the
governor here in Maine and of course Secretary of State and John
Richardson was on and on, I had said, you know, the, I think the
smartest thing I think it was brilliant. Stick with an unhackable
felt tip pen, Right? I still say that. I also get concerned when
the government gets involved with consumer technology, and when
they get involved with almost anything. But indeed what technology
because the government ends up trying to pick winners or losers,
right? And when I'm talking about tech, what's the best tech? And
so the government gets involved and says, Oh, this is the best
tech, or that's the best tech, and then you dig into it. And you
find out that Hillary Clinton's former staffers are the people who
founded and we're running the company that came up with a software
that just thoroughly discredited the Iowa caucuses. This coming
Saturday, as Matt was kind of jumping in there, looks like it's
going to be a mess as well. How do we secure our elections because
it's not like we can have the normal process of the best technology
wins? Well, maybe that's not always the case because I'm sure Ken,
you must have bought a Betamax video recorders
Ken
Betamax?
Craig
I don't know why anybody would buy a VHS Betamax was so superior to
VHS.
Ken
I have had here this brand new mike 700
Matt
Am I correct? Betamax was better technology. There's no question,
are we talking about the LaserDisc while we're at it? Oh yeah, that
was even better. That was amazing that the laserdiscs amazing size
CD that I had, you know, I had to put like seven of them just to
watch a movie. Don't touch the surface. I remember for some reason,
even though the school was crumbling, and a cockroach once fell
from the ceiling and landed on my book. Okay, even with all that,
they somehow found a way to buy a LaserDisc player, and I remember
the occasional like, you know, Friday, you know, day, where you
weren't, going to do anything. Where they would play a movie in
class or whatever. They had to, like, take that thing out, and then
put a new disk in like five times before the movie was over because
it didn't have any sort of capacity to put a film on it. But I'm
glad we spent all that money. It was worth it.
Craig
That's my point. Why did they buy the LaserDisc player? Because it
was cool? Yeah, exactly. So now here we are looking at our Super
Tuesday coming up. We're looking at all of these other elections
that are happening. All of these people, these people, what do you
mean, these people are out there saying, Wow, cool. New technology
is going to be great. Hey, I have a buddy that worked for Hillary
Clinton and ran this. And he's got this company, and he's got this
voting software. That's what tends to happen. And they're looking
for the latest, the greatest, the coolest, the neatest. And yeah,
we can brag about how wonderful this all is. When in reality it
ain't there. And now we're looking at another mobile voting app yet
another one. It is being used in four different states this year,
including West Virginia. What could possibly go wrong here? And
this new voting mobile app, it's called Votez V-O-T-E-z. Isn't that
cute? And it is just full of some of the most basic flaws ever. But
you know what, guys? It's using blockchain technology, which is
going to solve all of the world's security problems. This is
sloppy. We need to stick with the standard. We need to have a
government and a voting system people are confident in. The people
say, yeah, our votes were counted. If there was a question about
the tabulation or the ballots properly-being cast, you pull the
silly things out of a closet, and you have a look at them. Let's
not run headfirst. Over the cliff into some cool technology, and
then with a whole bunch of Betamax tapes in our closet.
Matt
Do you know how many beta tapes I have in my closet?
Ken
I would say probably 500.
Craig
Yeah, yeah. And you know what those the quality of those is not
quite DVD quality. It's still good, but you just can't find
anything that well.
Ken
The other thing I don't have, I don't know where my Betamax is.
Anymore. By the way, I don't want you to know I did not. I will bet
every FBI instruction. I did not steal any movies. I just want you
to know.
Craig
You know, you've got those things sitting there, Ken, and it was
great technology for today, but it's gotten so much easier
nowadays. Anyhow, that's my stance on voting. Stick with a piece of
paper and unhackable pencil or felt tip pen. Keep the silly things
after people have voted those wonderful little cards, keep those
for at least a couple of years. Do spot audits, a lot of these
states are their secretaries of state are not doing spot audits. I
think that they have to do those just again to keep confidence in
the system. And Matt, you're probably there with me. I am probably
there with you, sir. We're talking to Craig Peterson, our tech
guru. He joins us every once a while. Usually, Wednesdays, to talk
about what's happening in the world of technology. Speaking of
security, I have a lot of Chrome extensions on Chrome, and clearly,
I am now surrendering all of my information to everyone. Tell me
why.
Craig
Okay, my here's my general advice to everybody. I gave this out a
little earlier in the week as well. The primary recommendation is
not to have too many apps on your phones and other devices. Over
the last couple of years, we have found that a lot of those apps
are leaking data. And last weekend on my show, I talked about how
the Department of Homeland Security is buying that data to track
people say, Okay, so now we can find out where you are where you
have been. It was about six, eight weeks ago, that the New York
Times was able to track President Trump's whereabouts as he was
moving around, because they were able to follow one of the phones
of Secret Service personnel, according to the article that they
wrote. This is a real problem. Now we've found that there are more
than 500 browser extensions that have been secretly uploading our
personal and private data to websites that are then selling it. The
number one most evil thing to put onto your browser is one of those
browser extensions, and it's a tab type thing. That gives you
quicker searches and tells you there's a deal on this page on this
site right now. A lot of people have installed those things. Well,
if you have and I have seen so many people with this, get rid of
them now. Delete your browser extensions, these Chrome extensions
that you're not using, or that you don't need. Now, I've got some
tutorials coming out in a couple of weeks about three Google
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, browser extensions that I
absolutely love, that are not stealing your data. I've got some
training on how to know what's what. You know if that if you guys
have one of these Chrome browsers, it is just overloaded with
extensions. You got to delete these things, because some of them
are evil. Some of them are even mining Bitcoin for bad guys in
Eastern Europe, and you don't even know it. You know, here we are
talking about having the privatization. I shouldn't say, of the two
major electric companies in Maine, to save Maine taxpayers are
ratepayers, in this case, some money, which is always great to save
money. Still, we got to have an in-depth look at some of these
things. And we have some of the highest electric rates in the
country. Analyze things up. Why do we want to allow the browser
extensions that will show us a cute little cat video every day?
What do we want to have that browser extension burning our
electricity to make Bitcoin money for somebody else? We've got to
stop doing this sort of thing. Just delete any apps you're using.
Remove the browser extensions you don't absolutely need and be a
little safer online.
Matt
We are talking to our tech guru Craig joins us every Wednesday at
730 dot com. Get the information firsthand or to listen to him on w
ga and in the afternoon on Saturday at one o'clock. Before we let
you go, Craig, I don't know if you've heard about the Coronavirus,
and please do not play the Mexican hat dance.
Craig
Whatever I do, I will not play the Mexican hat dance.
Ken
I was the last thing I will do. I will not play it. I don't want to
trigger. Any technological issues for Mr. Peterson
Craig
One of my sons is a teetotaler. There was a joke going around about
something about lime and salt being the cure. But anyway. Yeah, be
very, very careful, everybody. I'm glad you brought this up. Ken,
we're out of time. So really, really quickly. The bad guys always
Take advantage of things in the news. And one of the big things in
the news now, and I'll be talking about this more on my show on
Saturday at one, is the Coronavirus, Of course, you know it is
called now called covid-19. Don't open emails saying hey, here's a
tracker for the Coronavirus. Don't do any of this stuff. There are
so many fake emails and now fake text messages coming out from
these people. It helped us to get overwhelmed. That's a really
really bad thing. Don't do it. People the bad guys are saying
Coronaviruses that trying to get your open stuff. If you want to g,
the Coronavirus goes online to cdc.gov simple site to remember
cdc.gov, not CDC dash org.gov. There are so many fake sites out
there, just cdc.gov right at the top they've got stuff on covid-19
this respiratory disease, and they have trackers. Still, you know
what right now you're more likely to die from the flu, and we are
at the height of regular flu season, and they're even tracking
that@cdc.gov so there you can keep an eye on everybody.
Ken
All right, that's Greg Peterson ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate
it as always, Craig, and we will talk to you again very soon.
Craig
Take care, guys. Bye. Thanks, all right. Why don't we take a quick
break quick
Craig 13:27
A Shout out to all of you guys out there listening to me, of
course, every week it kind of goes up, which is terrific, and it's
so so appreciated. I had contact by the way from one of our
listeners, a longtime listener, and a bit of a friend frankly
always enjoy chatting with him. He's a little bit older kind of
like me, and he has been out there freaking out about what to do
now with his career. He went to a small school that taught
cybersecurity stuff for a few months and put some money into that.
Now he's out looking for a job. Is anybody else in that kind of a
boat, because I think this might make a fascinating series or
segment or segments or however it turns out for the listeners here,
what if you are a little bit older in life? You are looking to
change careers, maybe, perhaps you've always been interested in the
whole security side of things. And you want to get involved with
that. Let me know just send an email to me at Craig peterson.com.
And we'll kind of go from there and see where this takes us. But I
find this fascinating I I want to help you guys and gals out there
with, you know, making your life a little bit better and helping
you to make other people's lives a little bit better too because I
suspect you're a lot like me, frankly. And that's why you're such
great and regular listeners. Anyhow, take care and everybody. We're
getting closer and closer to having some of those tutorials ready.
I got another one edited yesterday, he says making a sigh, Oh my
gosh this has been so painful I've had to learn a different video
editor because I when I was using just can't handle the type of
content that I'm generating here for these tutorials. It is on some
of the best things you can do for cybersecurity for your family,
for your business all free, even the tools tutoring alone are free.
So this is going to be a huge one I think for pretty much everybody
anyways, me at Greg Peterson calm or sign up for my mailing list
just at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. Take care,
everybody. We'll be back with a weekend show again this week.
Bye-bye.
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