Welcome to
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User Friendly 2.0 with host Bill Sikkens,
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technology architect.
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And this is User Friendly 2.0.
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I am your host Bill Sikkens.
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Joining me my co-host Gretchen and Bill.
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Welcome to this week's show. Hello there.
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So here we are
at the end of January already.
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It seems like time is going by fast.
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Or maybe we can slow the earth down
or something a little bit.
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Anyway, well, you know, they can do it in
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science fiction, and we seem to be moving
closer to that every day, so why not?
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You know,
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anyway, speaking of such things,
we're going to be talking some changes
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on Star Wars Disney that are coming
with the change of the leadership.
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We'll be talking about that in the latter
half of this segment.
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And the next segment.
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We're going to be talking about compromise
smart home devices and things you can do
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to protect yourself.
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And some of the scary stuff that has
happened with that over the years.
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It's interesting to take a look at that
and a lot of questions
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that you have sent in
on this kind of prompted that.
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And when we started doing some research,
I don't know, I was a little surprised.
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I knew about some of these things,
but not all of them.
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So I think you'll find it interesting.
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So stick around for the second half
and we will dive into that.
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But with no further ado,
let's go ahead and do the news
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and then we can talk Star Wars.
What do we have in the news today?
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All right Samsung Galaxy
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Z trifold goes on sale soon.
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So let me ask a question to both of you.
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What would a phone
need to have in it to wear?
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You would even consider
spending $3,000 for it,
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because that's how much this thing costs.
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Oh, you
better be able to do a lot of stuff.
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Yeah, it should act like a tricorder
and translate like,
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like the enterprise does,
you know, actually, this thing might.
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I mean,
it does have a lot of functionality in it.
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I have to give it that.
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But $3,000 for a for a phone, I don't.
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Yeah, that's crazy
what that's going to do.
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I mean, you know, there's no lasers.
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Yeah.
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One commentator on
this said the Samsung Galaxy
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Z trifold, nearly $3,000 price
might unfold your whole wallet.
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And I think that's about right.
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So what this is, is it's a
step up on the Samsung Fold.
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So the fold is a phone
that's actually two screens.
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And you close it together
and it's the same size as a smartphone.
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They also have a smaller one that I like
called a flip that folds in half.
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Okay. So it's a folding screen.
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This one folds into three screens.
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So it's almost like a tablet.
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And so it's
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a two hinge device
and it's starting on sale.
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I believe it actually came out yesterday
with, asking price of $2,900,
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about three times the price of the,
like ship Galaxy S20 five.
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So, you know, it's interesting to
look at this and kind of think about it.
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I, I don't know, I early on a cell
phone was cheap.
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And then we had the smartphones.
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And I do think they do a lot.
So it's worth having them.
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But even when we were getting
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into the threshold of $1,000, 1500
for some of the iPhones and things,
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it becomes
this is a device you're carrying.
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You can drop it.
All kinds of things can happen.
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At what point does it become a gold bar
that should sit on the shelf
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instead of something that you're able
to just stick in your pocket like a phone?
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I think, and I think that would be
the biggest issue here as far as a device
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looks great.
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And everything that I've seen about this
and the reviews on it are good. It's
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considered one of the most technically
impressive handsets released in the US.
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But again,
are people going to buy this thing?
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And if they do, I mean,
you know, the other question that I would
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have to ask on something like this is
how much is the insurance going to cost?
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Because normally when you get a new phone,
you have a monthly thing
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you can buy through Squaretrade
or your cell phone company, or whatever
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that you know, if you drop it
or something, you will get it fixed.
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And these can be $23 a month or whatever,
depending on what you have.
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But if you're looking at something
that's $3,000 to replace, I mean, that's
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almost like a car insurance policy
in some ways,
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and it's going to cost a lot more.
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So I don't know.
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Samsung's
equipment is usually pretty versatile,
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so I don't think it's
going to be that easy to break.
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But you know, again, who knows.
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And the other thing of course is theft
or something that expensive.
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I think you'd be targeted.
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I think you use it
in, you know, regular places.
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It's I don't know,
it's it's going to be interesting to see.
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Now, one of the things with modern
cell phones or smart phones,
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it's because of the way they lock down.
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There's less of a problem with that
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because you basically can't use it,
and the bad guys know that.
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But the thing of it is,
it's like a chop shop for a car.
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You might not resell the car,
but you might be able to resell the parts.
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Again, you know, I think it's going to be
interesting to see where this goes.
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As far as I know,
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this is going to be the most expensive
mainstream phone, that I'm aware of.
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At least if there's something else,
please let me know.
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I do a comment at User Friendly Dot show,
because I'd love to see
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what more than a $3,000 phone
would actually look like.
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Maybe if it has a Star Trek transporter
then it'd be worth it. But,
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Just why do you need Microsoft's
new emergency
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windows patch in the black screen
bug to watch for?
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Well, because you want windows to work,
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number one, which Gretchen
that something like put her to work.
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This has actually been an issue
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because they had an update
that just came out.
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That was kind of a bummer.
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And what I mean by that is it
introduced more bugs and fix.
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So they've actually sent out this will be
the second out what they call out-of-band
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patch to try to fix some of the glitches,
you know, caused by this thing.
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I haven't gone mine.
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It's they're they're coming out now.
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You will?
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It's just, and they don't all
come out at once, but it's an emergency
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patch, that's going to fix
another number of problems.
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One of them is the printer thing, which
it seems like what's happening with that?
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And it seems like it's HP printers
mainly that are having this problem is
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you go to print something
and it'll prime the printer, you'll hear
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it start, and then that's all she wrote.
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And it gets very frustrating because it's
hard to get it going again.
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You can't clear the queue and you have to,
you know, practically stand on your head
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and do a ritual to the old pagan gods
to get the printer to print.
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I never got mine to print,
and I tried turning it off and on again.
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I tried, you know, clearing out the
whatever the spooler
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or the cache or whatever
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Nothing worked.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Now, some of the other things
that this fixes that they introduced
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as problems is outlook will once again
open your emails.
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Well that's good being that
that's an email program.
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Apparently there was a bug
that if you stored your email file
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which is called a T, for Microsoft
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on your OneDrive, it stopped working.
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You couldn't get to your email,
which would be a bit of a bummer.
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Other things, connections
to windows, cloud devices that stopped.
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Oh, and definitely some other things
that also carries the security fixes.
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Improvements from the original,
update that went out on January 13th,
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preferably without the bugs. Last time.
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Yeah,
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I'm going to look forward to that
because I really want my printer to work.
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Okay. Details.
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James Webb Telescope previews
the death of the sun
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and glorious new Gods eye image.
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Explain what that means.
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Well, number one, I like the other name
for this, which is the eye of siren.
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For our Lord of the rings fans. Oh, okay.
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Basically, what's going on
here is in however many billion years
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of probably a time
I don't need to really worry about,
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our sun will die,
and with it'll take out the earth
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and all this stuff's going to happen.
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We're going red giant and eating planets
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and just being a bad day to be on planet
Earth.
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What's happening here?
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And what they're talking about is a nebula
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where this is happening now.
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It's called the Helix Nebula,
and it's an idea of a sun
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that's, going into this phase now
and what's happening with it?
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Basically,
as these things happen, the sun dies
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because it's used up its fuel,
you know, and it, so
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and then when that happens, it starts
blowing stuff off, which are actually
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the building blocks for our kind of life,
and that gets out into the universe.
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And then restructures.
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So it's kind of,
you know, cycle of life timeline.
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And with the James Webb Telescope,
they're actually being able to watch this.
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Wow. And see what is going on.
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So it is actually kind of amazing.
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NASA has this on their, website.
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So you can take a look
at what's going on here and see.
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It's really some very unique photos where
what they're getting is actually starting
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to look like, you know, what we saw
in sci fi, but it's real at this time.
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So anyway.
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But yeah, our sun, by the way,
I wouldn't be too worried about it.
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I think we still have
about 5 billion years ago.
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Cool. Yep.
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Another space news.
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Star Wars
officially recast six actors in 2026.
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Clone Wars sequel.
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So I'm glad number one here.
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You know, originally around this,
that there was the sequel, which is,
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you know, while shadow Lord,
which is coming up here
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and I'm glad to hear that
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they're keeping the consistency, you know.
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So again, we're going to be talking
Star Wars.
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A little more details.
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I'm not going to dwell on this right now.
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We'll get into it
here in a minute or two after the news.
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But the direction they're going now
does seem like there's
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going to be a lot more consistency.
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So anyway, you know, that's,
just stay with us and talk to there's a
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deep dive into that.
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Women filmed in
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secret for social media content
and then rest online.
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Please explain that. Yeah.
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So this is, you know, technology
and I've said this before is benign.
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It's what you do with it.
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And we're starting to see smart glasses
not just starting.
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They've been around
for a little while now.
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Google Glass being the first 1 in 2013.
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I think it was.
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But people most people would use it
in a very good way.
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But there's the small percentage of people
that don't.
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They were dubbed glass holes,
in the Google Glass.
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I'm sure that's a play on some other word
that I'm not going to say
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on the air, but,
you know, you get the idea.
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What's happening
now is you don't look quite
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so cyborg when you're wearing the modern
smart glasses.
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But a mirror has one,
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and there's some other ones out there
that have a camera built in.
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I have a pair of these, I love it.
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We were at the airshow last year
and I was able to just look and film
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what I was looking, and it was great.
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And downloaded or and content.
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But the other side of this is as well
the glasses, at least in my case,
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do have a light that comes on.
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It seems like what's happening is
the bad guys are covering that light up
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with like a piece
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of electrical tape or something,
so that you can't see that it's running,
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and then they're secretly
recording people.
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In this particular case,
it was a guy trying to,
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I think, pick up on a on a woman
and going through some stuff
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and got her to say some things
that should have remained private.
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And then he posted it on social
media, got a whole lot of views
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and really embarrassed the lady,
which is not cool,
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especially when it is, something
that she didn't even want to.
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Yeah, she didn't know about it. Yeah.
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1.3 million views.
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And it was under the premise
that he was trying to show people
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how to pick up girls.
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Yeah, she didn't know that he was just
using her to do this film.
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And it's also something,
you know, and again, I'm not a lawyer, but
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just some of the stuff that I've been told
on these things, like here in Oregon,
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I believe that's actually illegal to film
somebody in public
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and they don't know about it.
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And, you know, that vary state by state,
country by country, I'm sure.
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But the thing of it is, is this type of a
thing is not
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something that should be done.
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Because what happens is, is, number one,
people get scared of the new tech
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because one person's
kind of running for everything else.
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And you know, this is my opinion,
I honestly say.
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But the thing of it is, is I don't think
this person was trying to educate anyone.
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He wanted 1.3 million
views on his TikTok video and he got him.
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Yeah, you know, yeah, it'd the
embarrassment of somebody that absolutely
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had no role to play in it at all
and wouldn't have done so otherwise.
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And the other thing about this is, is
if somebody really was trying to do
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this for an educational thing,
although I don't know why you need to,
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they could have somebody
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and just, you know, play it up, you know,
maybe like an actress or something.
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If you're going to do online video,
put it together that way.
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So the person knows what they're doing.
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It is giving information that is going
to embarrass them in the long run,
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and they at least know that it's something
that's going to be on social media.
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It would have serve the same thing,
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but this is more of a shock value thing
in some ways.
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And it just seems like,
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I don't know, I guess
pro tip, as a programmer, don't do this.
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Just don't.
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So, yeah, so that's what happened there.
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And the last thing I want to talk about
today, before we get into our Star Wars
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segment is Tesla has removed
autopilot as a standard feature,
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and they're moving to a subscription
thing at $99 a month for the next year.
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Up on that.
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And people are complaining about that,
something that just went away.
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But they want to make everything
subscription, not just Tesla.
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We're seeing that all over the place
because it earns
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a lot more money
than actually selling your stuff one shot.
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So that's where these things are going.
All right.
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Well that's our news.
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So in an effort
now to talk about something,
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Gretchen,
I know you're going to just hate covering.
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Let's talk a little Star Wars,
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okay.
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So I was able to reach out
and actually get some information on
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what the post
Kennedy era is going to look like.
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So just to kind of give a summary
on this is, Kathleen
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Kennedy has been the CEO of Star Wars
for the past 14 years.
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Now. She's, I think, an excellent producer
on some of these things.
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But some of her decisions at Star
Wars, Disney
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has been a little bit controversial,
to say the least.
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And there's a school of thought that loves
her, a school of thought that doesn't.
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But whatever the case may be,
she has stepped down as of 2026,
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and she's passing the reins along to Dave
Filoni,
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creative lead on The Mandalorian, Clone
Wars Saga, and a number of other things,
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and just a general, wonderful Star Wars
person that's very invested
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in this question.
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Why don't you talk about Dave Filoni,
his background a little bit?
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Just 10,000, actually.
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I actually don't know
his exact background, but I also know
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that he did work on The Last Airbender
series.
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The cartoon,
and that was really well done.
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Now that's when we need him at Comic-Con.
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Well, we didn't personally meet him,
but we saw him in a big room
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with a bunch of other happy people and,
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at a panel and we have the really cool,
clone trooper
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helmet poster that came,
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everybody who went got one of those.
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So it's souvenir to
take a little bit of a leave here
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and just say we met him,
you know, at least.
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Okay. Right.
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There you go. Right.
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But anyway, he he is absolutely the
right person, in my opinion, to do this.
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I agree.
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And then, Logan Brennan
is going to be the co president handling
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business operations.
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So this is going to be a completely new,
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new team on the
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block really for going forward with that.
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So what is this going to mean for us?
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Well, Mandalorian and Grogu movie
that's coming out
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this year, it's going to be released in
May 22nd, is still happening
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and definitely I think we'll need to take
one for the team.
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And all of us need to go see it and,
you know, be able to talk about it.
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Right? Right.
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Sure.
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Twist my arm. Oh.
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So anyway, some of the other stuff
they're looking at changing though
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fundamentally is instead of doing movies,
going back and doing series on Disney
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Plus and this is a direction
that they were moving away from.
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Now, Mandalorian as a series
of course, was very successful.
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And what they're going to look at
is see how The Mandalorian
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Grogu movie does if it doesn't perform
strongly at the box office.
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Or they're saying even if it does,
they may change some of the other things.
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Mandalorian
crossover film called era of the Empire
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maybe work into a limited series
on Disney Plus as a for example.
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Okay, some of those things
are talking about, upcoming movies.
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Daisy Ridley Rey film. Okay.
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I might have butchered that
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title, but this is going to remain
in development.
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But again,
a lot of this is going to be looking at
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what is going to happen
with The Mandalorian movie coming up here.
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So, yeah, I don't know now.
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But now the thing is, is,
he was really prominent in,
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influencing a lot of the cartoon stuff.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And,
I think that Disney had followed through.
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I thought rebels was done.
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Well, Bad batch, the,
the additional Clone Wars stuff.
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There's something else
that I'm forgetting.
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Oh. They did some experimental,
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series that were that talked
about some of the different characters.
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A lot of these cartoons are really done
well, and people
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who just can't launch say that they hate
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Disney and Disney, Star Wars.
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I can't imagine that they're actually
watching these incredible cartoons,
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and they have so much depth to them.
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And I, I, you know,
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if you're one of these people who thinks
that all the cartoons are garbage,
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please take the time
and take a peek at these.
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Try watching a couple of episodes.
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You know, and it might change your mind.
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Why would be a bit surprised.
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Some of the assumptions are coming
from the last three movies.
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Yeah, well, the movie those three movies
have nothing to do with those cartoons.
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I understand that
that's a front facing thing.
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And I think what's important
to point out here
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is there's different creative people
involved in different aspects of that,
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not just now,
but even when it was still running things.
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So you have very different,
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things like Rogue One is, for example,
was a good movie, in my opinion, like the,
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the, the last three, episodes of Star
Wars.
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Well, you know, in progressive order,
getting worst of the final one.
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Yeah. I don't recommend that.
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But that doesn't mean everything was bad,
and it doesn't mean it's going to be bad
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going forward.
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In fact, hopefully,
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you know, a Filoni running this now
we're going to see
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a very different approach on somebody
that really is invested in Star Wars
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and what the original creator,
George Lucas, wanted it to be.
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Well, you know, it's also Dave Filoni was
the person who came up with Ahsoka.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So character.
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So he's very emotionally invested in this
and Star Wars.
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It's not like just,
oh, this is a paycheck right now.
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So, so but anyway, some of the stuff
that's coming up for series,
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from the response
I got back, Star Wars, Maul, shadow
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Lord, coming out April 6th
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and I'm just in plus and after watching
the trailer on that, I'm already hooked.
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Yeah, I love the rework on his outfit.
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It just makes him look,
I don't know, it's cool.
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Now I want to be the
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I he's
he's already started to look that way.
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If you've watched the cartoons
and Sam Witwer
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is amazing as the voice, he
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it gives him such depth and power
and that angst and intelligence.
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So now he's a great,
great voice actor now.
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And absolutely.
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So this is going to be fun to see.
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And then they're
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also talking about new seasons of a soul,
Skeleton Crew, the Acolyte, okay.
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And possibly Rogue Squadron, and others.
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So three again,
one that needs to go away.
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Yeah, I gonna say three of those
I look forward to.
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Yeah. I don't know, the actual.
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I just didn't connect with me.
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It wasn't Star Wars.
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It just flat out wasn't Star Wars at all.
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It it needs to go in the round
barrel off to the side.
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And I don't know why they did that
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now, but I think the skeleton crew
has a lot of potential.
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It had that star Wars spirit to it.
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And it's great for the kids
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and it's actually fun for adults
to watch as well.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So and Lucasfilm
is doubling down on Disney
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Plus for the platform for all of this,
which absolutely makes sense
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that that's where it would go.
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And you know Disney
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Plus is there's so many subscriptions now
and you kind of have to pick and choose.
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But one of the good things about this,
you know, the over the top stuff
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like this, over the top internet,
not the,
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local on that, meaning that
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it's stuff you watch on the internet
as opposed to like cable TV
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is a good way to do it,
because what you can do is wait
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until a season of something
you want to watch drops, subscribe
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for the month, watch it, and then,
you know, get rid of the subscription.
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At that point if you want to switch
between these services.
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So, it's an interesting way to be able
to get to these things and watch them,
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you know, in a way that actually kind of
does make sense.
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There's also a new video game
in development.
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This is something,
that I thought was kind of interesting.
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Star Wars feed of the Old Republic,
action Archie PG
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game from Lucasfilm Games.
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We'll have to see what this ends up being.
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And Bill, you and James will have
to review this for us when it comes out
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and let us know what you think of it.
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I don't know a lot of details on this.
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I tried to look
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it looks like it's going to be PlayStation
and Xbox and possibly switch platforms.
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I don't know if there's
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going to be a PC version,
but a lot of that information is not.
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I don't even think they've
completely determined that.
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But one of the other things
I thought that was really cool
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that they're talking about
is a toy, which is a Lego smart brick
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for Star Wars.
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And smart bricks are an interesting thing
just in our of them selves.
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It's Legos
that do things really well, which is,
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yeah, which is actually something
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we probably should cover here
because it's a fun thing,
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especially if you have kids
that are interested in Stem and stuff.
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You can take Legos to the next level,
but it allows you
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to be able to really create and program
and all that kind of stuff.
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And having a Star Wars
version of this actually kind
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of makes a lot of,
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a lot of fun, you know, and,
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I don't think that they were talking about
is changing the canon a little bit.
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And again,
no one was willing to confirm this,
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but they're talking about rewriting
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or refocusing elements from The Rise of
Skywalker and adjusting canon directions.
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And I think that might be
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a very nice way of saying that
they're going to fix some of the problems.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, anyway,
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so we'll have to see where we end up going
with all of this and where it goes.
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But, you know, creative shift under
Dave Filoni I think this is really a step
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in the right direction streaming
first approach,
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looking at having series instead of movies
and that type of a thing.
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And we'll see where we end up
going from there.
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All right.
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When we get back in the second segment,
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we're going to be talking
about smart devices
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All right, so we've been talking over
the past couple of weeks about tracking
487
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and some other things that a lot of modern
technology is allowing to be done.
488
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Some of it kind of creepy.
489
00:24:52,190 --> 00:24:54,559
And one of the things that we wanted to
touch on
490
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is what has been going on
491
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with some of the past devices
that have been compromised.
492
00:25:03,101 --> 00:25:06,071
So what I wanted to do is go through
some of the different things.
493
00:25:06,071 --> 00:25:08,406
These are actually things
that have happened.
494
00:25:08,406 --> 00:25:11,710
And then we're going to talk about
some steps you can take to minimize this.
495
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So let's just go ahead and jump right in.
496
00:25:14,045 --> 00:25:16,615
First one is under the category of smart
toys.
497
00:25:16,615 --> 00:25:18,517
That teddy bear isn't just listening.
498
00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:19,751
It's remembering
499
00:25:19,751 --> 00:25:23,221
internet connected toys of like children's
voices, names and family messages.
500
00:25:23,221 --> 00:25:26,124
Hackers didn't break into homes.
They simply logged out.
501
00:25:26,124 --> 00:25:30,729
So what this is talking about is
children's devices a specific teddy bear.
502
00:25:30,729 --> 00:25:33,365
In the past,
this was on the news when it happened
503
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that is able to hear your child
504
00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:39,437
or anything around,
you know, and be able to interact with it.
505
00:25:39,971 --> 00:25:43,842
So it's, talked tied to an eye
or something of that nature.
506
00:25:43,842 --> 00:25:44,609
And can respond.
507
00:25:44,609 --> 00:25:48,747
Now, this isn't like teddy rub skin
or some of those from the 80s that either
508
00:25:48,747 --> 00:25:52,484
had very, very rudimentary voice
recognition or played a tape.
509
00:25:52,984 --> 00:25:53,818
All that was close.
510
00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:56,555
These are actually connected
to the internet,
511
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,891
and the hackers were actually able
to get in listening to
512
00:25:59,891 --> 00:26:02,260
what the child was saying
and respond back to them
513
00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:05,230
and make it sound like it was coming from
the toy in the toys voice.
514
00:26:05,797 --> 00:26:06,898
That's creepy.
515
00:26:06,898 --> 00:26:07,899
That that's creepy.
516
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:09,134
Yeah, I warned you.
517
00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:11,169
Going into this,
we're going to have some creepy things
518
00:26:11,169 --> 00:26:13,538
here, but it's just some of the stuff
that has happened
519
00:26:13,538 --> 00:26:15,440
and it's important
to be aware of this stuff
520
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,843
because you can do things
to make this a lot less of a problem.
521
00:26:19,377 --> 00:26:20,712
Next one is security cameras.
522
00:26:20,712 --> 00:26:21,947
They're everywhere.
523
00:26:21,947 --> 00:26:26,551
Ring cameras, nest cameras,
you know, and on and on that list goes.
524
00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:30,789
And hackers have taken over smart cameras
and spoken to people through them.
525
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:31,623
In some cases,
526
00:26:31,623 --> 00:26:35,527
thousands of feeds were exposed at once
hospitals, homes, even offices.
527
00:26:35,527 --> 00:26:36,962
This happened about three years ago
528
00:26:37,929 --> 00:26:41,232
and a lot of our equipment,
529
00:26:41,232 --> 00:26:46,037
most of our equipment is internationally
made, a lot of it in China, and there's
530
00:26:46,037 --> 00:26:49,674
different levels of quality control
with all of this stuff that comes out now.
531
00:26:49,674 --> 00:26:53,545
Most of the name
brands have software and do updates
532
00:26:53,545 --> 00:26:57,182
and all of that to maintain it,
but some of the knockoffs don't.
533
00:26:58,016 --> 00:27:00,285
Yeah, the knockoffs are a lot cheaper.
534
00:27:00,285 --> 00:27:03,755
So getting into this, there was
security cameras that didn't come out.
535
00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:07,492
They're no longer sold here,
but it was a very basic system
536
00:27:07,492 --> 00:27:10,495
that was a copy of,
I believe, the nest camera
537
00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:15,500
and the software on at
the ROMs were not encrypted very well.
538
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,835
Default passwords.
539
00:27:16,835 --> 00:27:18,470
And in a lot of cases, people
540
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:21,473
setting up security cameras
don't even realize there is a password.
541
00:27:21,573 --> 00:27:24,576
You know, it's something that just links
and you're good to go.
542
00:27:24,943 --> 00:27:27,545
And the hackers were able to compromise
these cameras
543
00:27:27,545 --> 00:27:30,548
very easily and watch people
that didn't even know about it,
544
00:27:30,548 --> 00:27:33,251
although they could talk back to you
over the camera.
545
00:27:33,251 --> 00:27:35,053
I mean, talk about creepy, right?
546
00:27:35,053 --> 00:27:35,387
Yeah.
547
00:27:35,387 --> 00:27:35,820
You're saying
548
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:39,691
you're watching television or something,
and that type of a thing happens.
549
00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:43,395
Gretchen, you're smiling there. What?
550
00:27:43,395 --> 00:27:44,829
What you're feeling on that?
551
00:27:44,829 --> 00:27:49,267
Well, I remember,
Jeremy and I house sitting
552
00:27:49,267 --> 00:27:55,407
or checking up on a certain person's house
that was unoccupied.
553
00:27:55,407 --> 00:27:59,844
And you were talking to us
when we went to check on the house.
554
00:28:00,612 --> 00:28:01,246
Yeah.
555
00:28:01,246 --> 00:28:02,647
The certain person is me.
556
00:28:02,647 --> 00:28:04,149
And that was over my ring camera.
557
00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:05,984
Now, that wasn't a hack.
558
00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:10,121
I mean, I had definitely access to it,
but it did surprise you, I remember.
559
00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:11,556
Yeah, you're like,
560
00:28:12,891 --> 00:28:13,391
I was
561
00:28:13,391 --> 00:28:16,528
like, t especially I was in the UK
when that happened to.
562
00:28:16,528 --> 00:28:20,465
So I'm actually sitting in England,
talking to you off camera.
563
00:28:20,498 --> 00:28:23,501
Camera is.
564
00:28:24,536 --> 00:28:25,236
And I think you've
565
00:28:25,236 --> 00:28:28,506
surprised your mom
a couple of times doing that, too.
566
00:28:28,573 --> 00:28:29,941
Yeah, yeah.
567
00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:32,944
You're a bit mischievous, aren't you?
568
00:28:33,745 --> 00:28:36,581
It's one thing
being that I'm the owner of the system.
569
00:28:36,581 --> 00:28:37,916
Now, think about somebody
570
00:28:37,916 --> 00:28:41,453
you didn't know, that you didn't know
was there, then that would be scary.
571
00:28:42,020 --> 00:28:42,987
You know?
572
00:28:42,987 --> 00:28:43,588
Yeah.
573
00:28:43,588 --> 00:28:47,926
And, speaking of such things, smart
speakers, you're all them to play music.
574
00:28:47,959 --> 00:28:50,361
It's been listening ever since.
575
00:28:50,361 --> 00:28:53,631
Smart speakers are designed to wait
for a wake word, but bugs and exploits
576
00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:57,202
have shown they can be triggered
or accessed in ways never intended.
577
00:28:57,202 --> 00:28:59,537
So you're basically placing
a microphone in your house.
578
00:29:00,605 --> 00:29:02,273
I can remember during the Cold War
579
00:29:02,273 --> 00:29:05,276
that something like
this would have been really a no no.
580
00:29:06,177 --> 00:29:09,280
You know, and now, not only is it
581
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,283
everywhere, but we pay money for a, well,
most of the time.
582
00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:13,351
And a big part of this
583
00:29:13,351 --> 00:29:17,422
from the primary makers of this,
which is Amazon, Google and Apple
584
00:29:17,422 --> 00:29:21,459
with their various smart speakers, is
they really don't want this to happen
585
00:29:21,459 --> 00:29:26,197
because like with a lot of technology,
if it started being a thing, it,
586
00:29:26,197 --> 00:29:30,869
would cause people not to be as inclined
to have these type of things now.
587
00:29:30,869 --> 00:29:32,871
Yeah, I'm someone that I freely admit.
588
00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:35,840
I love the smart speakers, I use them,
I have them all over the place,
589
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,911
and it does add a lot and make life easier
in that type of a thing.
590
00:29:40,512 --> 00:29:41,679
But there is the other side.
591
00:29:41,679 --> 00:29:45,817
The convenience comes with the risk of
somebody being able to get in and hack it.
592
00:29:45,817 --> 00:29:50,288
Now I'm a programmer and an engineer,
and I firewall my network
593
00:29:50,321 --> 00:29:52,023
so that if something like this did happen,
594
00:29:52,023 --> 00:29:55,593
I'd know about it at the very least
and probably block the outgoing set up.
595
00:29:56,327 --> 00:29:59,330
But at the end of the day,
that's not most people,
596
00:29:59,831 --> 00:30:02,834
you know, for a device that they can buy,
plug in and use.
597
00:30:03,401 --> 00:30:05,069
And these type of things can happen.
598
00:30:05,069 --> 00:30:09,874
And again, like with the cameras,
the hackers, when they got into these
599
00:30:09,874 --> 00:30:12,977
devices, you didn't know they were there
necessarily.
600
00:30:13,778 --> 00:30:17,649
And I know one of the things that they did
on the Amazon Echo devices,
601
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:20,418
since that happened, it was an echo
where this exploit happened.
602
00:30:20,418 --> 00:30:23,888
But, I would imagine I don't use nest
603
00:30:23,888 --> 00:30:27,292
or, Apple, but I would assume there's
the same thing with that.
604
00:30:27,292 --> 00:30:31,629
When you say the trigger word,
light comes on on the smart
605
00:30:31,629 --> 00:30:33,331
speaker, usually blue, and it's a band,
606
00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:36,201
but it's a little bit different
on some of the different models.
607
00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:39,637
And they changed it
so that whenever the speaker is listening,
608
00:30:39,637 --> 00:30:40,839
now that light comes on.
609
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:45,276
So if someone was
to get in and activate the, microphone,
610
00:30:45,410 --> 00:30:48,847
my understanding is that's hardcoded
into the ROM on the device or it Android.
611
00:30:49,547 --> 00:30:51,316
There's never cat in the hacker world,
612
00:30:51,316 --> 00:30:54,886
but it would be extremely difficult
to be able to disable that.
613
00:30:55,587 --> 00:31:00,491
So making that assumption, if you look at
your speaker is just has its light on.
614
00:31:00,758 --> 00:31:02,794
You want to be a little bit careful.
615
00:31:02,794 --> 00:31:05,230
And I actually did have that happen once.
616
00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:09,734
So I unplugged and plugged it back in and
broke the device because it was doing it
617
00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:12,337
when I was trying to do a software update,
which was somewhat unusual.
618
00:31:12,337 --> 00:31:15,506
I think that was a bug, but I would prefer
619
00:31:15,506 --> 00:31:18,610
to have that happen than just the thing
sitting there open, you know,
620
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,716
again, and there are some times when,
621
00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:27,986
she I'm not gonna say her name
because I might activator.
622
00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:33,258
That I'll be saying something
and all of a sudden she'll say something.
623
00:31:33,258 --> 00:31:36,261
So she must misunderstand. Yeah.
624
00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:38,997
And I'm like, what?
625
00:31:38,997 --> 00:31:41,132
I'm again,
not going to activate various devices,
626
00:31:41,132 --> 00:31:45,069
but you're talking about the, new Amazon
version of the Amazon.
627
00:31:45,136 --> 00:31:49,107
I, which is actually, I have to say,
they've been kind of incredible.
628
00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:51,476
I've been able to hold off
for long conversations.
629
00:31:51,476 --> 00:31:54,879
My relatives find that creepy,
but it's kind of fun. But,
630
00:31:56,114 --> 00:31:59,117
I've noticed, though, with the new system,
which is still in beta,
631
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:02,153
that it is a lot easier
to accidentally trigger it.
632
00:32:02,153 --> 00:32:05,757
The old one didn't seem to do this
as often, but the new one does.
633
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:11,129
And because it's a full, large language
model, you can do things in it.
634
00:32:11,629 --> 00:32:12,430
Like one time,
635
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:13,865
I don't know what I did to trigger it,
636
00:32:13,865 --> 00:32:16,868
and it ended up turning off my television
and all my lights,
637
00:32:17,068 --> 00:32:19,837
and it's like,
I didn't mean for you to do that.
638
00:32:19,837 --> 00:32:21,739
And it's like,
oh, I'm sorry, is what it said.
639
00:32:21,739 --> 00:32:24,542
And then it turned everything back
on, which was also interesting.
640
00:32:24,542 --> 00:32:25,977
But, you know,
641
00:32:27,011 --> 00:32:28,746
okay.
642
00:32:28,746 --> 00:32:29,681
Right. You know, it's weird.
643
00:32:29,681 --> 00:32:32,684
I'm having a hard time
getting used to the different
644
00:32:33,117 --> 00:32:34,619
personality and voice.
645
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:38,222
It's like, I almost feel like I'm
a traitor, you know?
646
00:32:38,222 --> 00:32:42,093
It's like I had the relationship
with the older one, and it's like, now
647
00:32:42,093 --> 00:32:46,130
she's gone and I've just tossed her aside
and it's like, oh, no,
648
00:32:46,197 --> 00:32:50,034
this employee has retired
and it has taken over.
649
00:32:50,034 --> 00:32:53,037
I know, and I keep telling myself that.
650
00:32:54,739 --> 00:32:56,874
And, you know,
when we do pass singularity,
651
00:32:56,874 --> 00:32:58,209
we're going to have to think of it
that way.
652
00:32:58,209 --> 00:33:01,179
So you might as well start now. So, yeah.
653
00:33:01,179 --> 00:33:02,981
Yeah.
654
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:04,615
But now next
655
00:33:04,615 --> 00:33:07,652
one is smart TVs and game consoles
go on this list.
656
00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:10,488
TV is off. It's still awake.
657
00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:13,391
Smart TVs track what you watch,
listen for commands,
658
00:33:13,391 --> 00:33:16,127
and quietly talk to the internet
even when you're not watching.
659
00:33:16,127 --> 00:33:18,296
We talked about this
in the last couple of episodes
660
00:33:18,296 --> 00:33:22,600
because there's actually a lawsuit
in Texas on this right now about smart
661
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,604
TVs, monitoring what you're doing
and sending it back to the provider.
662
00:33:27,338 --> 00:33:30,341
And you may not know that
that is actually going on.
663
00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:33,311
And the final video is is and this isn't
664
00:33:33,544 --> 00:33:37,181
this isn't just televisions that
this is true for, but a lot of devices.
665
00:33:37,181 --> 00:33:39,984
Now, when you turn them off, they're not
off. They go into a standby mode.
666
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:44,155
So and
this has been somewhat controversial
667
00:33:44,155 --> 00:33:47,158
from an environmental standpoint
because they're using a lot more power
668
00:33:47,859 --> 00:33:49,560
than they would need to
if they're actually shut off.
669
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,829
But you're seeing this
with a lot of different things.
670
00:33:51,829 --> 00:33:55,767
Televisions
the PlayStation and Xbox do these do
671
00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:59,370
that as well where you're not turning it
off, you're going into a standby mode.
672
00:33:59,937 --> 00:34:02,607
Part of the reason why this is done is
so that it can receive updates
673
00:34:02,607 --> 00:34:04,876
when you're not using it,
and also when you turn it back on,
674
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:07,512
it doesn't take as long to boot back up
because it's still active.
675
00:34:07,512 --> 00:34:12,183
It's just in a like a sleep mode kind
of thing, but it is still drawing power.
676
00:34:12,183 --> 00:34:17,588
And if these devices get compromised,
it is possible for a hacker to wake it up
677
00:34:17,588 --> 00:34:19,724
out of the standby mode
and turn on the microphones
678
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:22,693
and other things
that are present in these devices.
679
00:34:24,362 --> 00:34:27,131
You know, again, at the end of the day,
it's like,
680
00:34:27,131 --> 00:34:32,770
I don't know, with manufacturers
figuring these things out, especially now
681
00:34:32,770 --> 00:34:36,340
with non-viable memory and stuff,
it isn't as necessary as it used to be.
682
00:34:37,108 --> 00:34:39,410
But one of the other things that I work
with a little bit
683
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:41,212
as a hobby is the retro televisions.
684
00:34:41,212 --> 00:34:42,180
And in that crowd,
685
00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:43,347
if you look at TVs
686
00:34:43,347 --> 00:34:46,350
that were made in the 70s and 80s,
they did the same standby thing
687
00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:48,252
and especially the tube sets.
688
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:51,289
But even the solid state ones,
everything is fried
689
00:34:51,656 --> 00:34:53,458
because it was never off.
690
00:34:53,458 --> 00:34:56,060
So all those components still had power
running through them,
691
00:34:56,060 --> 00:34:58,196
and especially with tubes
and everything else.
692
00:34:58,196 --> 00:35:01,933
I mean, there is a life expectancy
of those things and our modern stuff,
693
00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:06,537
and when it's on, it is on standby or not.
694
00:35:06,971 --> 00:35:09,640
And now with everything being connected,
695
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,043
you definitely,
696
00:35:12,043 --> 00:35:15,947
you know, have some risk of someone
being able to compromise that device.
697
00:35:16,647 --> 00:35:19,217
And one of the things that goes
along with this that has happened,
698
00:35:19,217 --> 00:35:23,154
this isn't a device per se,
but is something called botnets.
699
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:26,591
So for anybody
that's not familiar with that,
700
00:35:26,591 --> 00:35:29,594
hackers
will attempt to take over a lot of devices
701
00:35:29,927 --> 00:35:33,197
and then use them for targeted,
cyber attacks on other things
702
00:35:33,197 --> 00:35:37,568
like taking down websites
or other things of that nature
703
00:35:37,568 --> 00:35:41,572
where what they do is they start throwing
so much traffic at the target
704
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:44,008
that it essentially overloads it.
705
00:35:44,008 --> 00:35:46,611
I'm oversimplifying a little bit,
but that's basically what happens
706
00:35:46,611 --> 00:35:48,779
is denial of service or DDoS attack.
707
00:35:48,779 --> 00:35:51,849
And what it means is the people
that legitimately are trying to get
708
00:35:51,849 --> 00:35:54,819
to that service can't,
because it's overloaded.
709
00:35:54,952 --> 00:36:00,091
And we've seen things like from coffee
makers to refrigerators to other smart
710
00:36:00,091 --> 00:36:03,094
devices, even the things that control
like your lights and stuff,
711
00:36:03,628 --> 00:36:05,129
especially the knock offs
712
00:36:05,129 --> 00:36:08,132
on these things being compromised
and used for that purpose.
713
00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:11,335
So what's going to happen
is now unknowingly, you're part of that.
714
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:13,337
And when the bad guy wants to target
something,
715
00:36:13,337 --> 00:36:17,475
they have all of these resources available
and you might not even know about it.
716
00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:20,111
The device may even continue
to work properly.
717
00:36:20,111 --> 00:36:25,283
You know, from your own standpoint,
but it's just something to be aware of
718
00:36:25,283 --> 00:36:29,820
because as we, you know, are in a world
now where everything can monitor.
719
00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:33,624
I mean, my refrigerator has cameras in it
so I can see what I need to buy when I'm
720
00:36:33,624 --> 00:36:36,961
at the grocery store, which I don't think
is necessarily a needed feature.
721
00:36:37,728 --> 00:36:40,932
And they're actually doing something
now with AI, so it can tell if your food
722
00:36:40,932 --> 00:36:41,799
spoiled or not.
723
00:36:44,302 --> 00:36:45,603
Oh yeah.
724
00:36:45,603 --> 00:36:47,138
So yeah.
725
00:36:47,138 --> 00:36:50,541
I don't know, just before
we get into what you can do about it,
726
00:36:50,975 --> 00:36:53,177
what do you,
both of you think about all this
727
00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:55,846
just kind of in summary,
is this somewhat eye opening?
728
00:36:55,846 --> 00:36:57,748
A little bit?
729
00:36:57,748 --> 00:37:01,252
I mean, for me, it's not because I keep up
on this kind of stuff, but,
730
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,289
you know, I think for a lot of people,
it should be.
731
00:37:07,091 --> 00:37:08,693
I don't know, it
just there's something about it.
732
00:37:08,693 --> 00:37:10,595
I just I've mentioned this in the past.
733
00:37:10,595 --> 00:37:13,698
You and I are both looking at new cars,
and I'm
734
00:37:13,698 --> 00:37:16,934
actually very reluctant to get one
because of these kind of things.
735
00:37:16,934 --> 00:37:17,935
It tracks you.
736
00:37:17,935 --> 00:37:18,836
It knows where you are.
737
00:37:18,836 --> 00:37:22,940
I, you know, and I've asked a couple
of different manufacturers,
738
00:37:22,940 --> 00:37:26,611
can I put a Faraday cage over the,
you know, computer in at the block it out.
739
00:37:27,278 --> 00:37:29,380
Yeah, yeah, but it won't work.
740
00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:30,948
You know, it has to do that, right?
741
00:37:30,948 --> 00:37:31,716
So. Okay.
742
00:37:33,484 --> 00:37:34,485
It's just, I think that's a
743
00:37:34,485 --> 00:37:37,588
mistake
that where they keep doing that stuff.
744
00:37:37,622 --> 00:37:40,691
I mean, it is.
745
00:37:40,691 --> 00:37:44,295
I also don't like the fly
by wire or whatever the the fake.
746
00:37:44,662 --> 00:37:48,799
I want brakes that have real
braking systems, not a computer button
747
00:37:49,433 --> 00:37:50,401
being pushed.
748
00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:53,170
I want real stuff.
749
00:37:53,170 --> 00:37:56,440
So I think I think my question though,
with the tracking and all that is
750
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,341
how is that legal?
751
00:37:57,341 --> 00:38:01,445
Because if you put a tracker on someone's
car is illegal in most states.
752
00:38:02,713 --> 00:38:04,315
Oh yeah.
753
00:38:04,315 --> 00:38:07,318
I mean, there's been a lawsuit here
in Nevada about,
754
00:38:07,518 --> 00:38:09,153
was it the Reno mayor or something?
755
00:38:09,153 --> 00:38:09,520
Had it?
756
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,759
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a private
detective did this,
757
00:38:14,759 --> 00:38:17,228
and I vaguely remember that.
758
00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:20,564
Yeah, there's all kinds of stories
759
00:38:20,564 --> 00:38:23,567
like that out there, and,
you know, not again, not as an attorney.
760
00:38:23,834 --> 00:38:27,371
And there are people on the internet,
the deep dive into the legal sides
761
00:38:27,371 --> 00:38:27,905
of these things.
762
00:38:27,905 --> 00:38:30,041
But we're seeing
we're a police department,
763
00:38:30,041 --> 00:38:33,611
put a tracker on a woman's car
and they get it with a warrant.
764
00:38:33,611 --> 00:38:35,046
So it wouldn't have been illegal.
765
00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:38,349
But you're seeing these type of things
all over the place,
766
00:38:38,349 --> 00:38:41,886
and you can buy these trackers
just inexpensively, you know,
767
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:46,791
the AirTags and Bluetooth and even stuff
now that's 5G enabled.
768
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:50,661
The positive side of it
is, is stories like,
769
00:38:50,661 --> 00:38:53,698
oh, we've lost your luggage, but
it's on its way to, you know, the airport.
770
00:38:53,698 --> 00:38:56,233
This happened at, London Heathrow.
771
00:38:56,233 --> 00:38:58,636
And they kept getting told
the other luggage is on its way
772
00:38:58,636 --> 00:38:59,503
and he looks on his phone.
773
00:38:59,503 --> 00:39:01,305
Well, my bag is in Houston,
774
00:39:01,305 --> 00:39:04,308
so how are you going to have it
to my hotel in the next two hours?
775
00:39:04,475 --> 00:39:08,946
Yeah, well, trackers for your pets, too.
776
00:39:09,046 --> 00:39:14,518
Those little tags, you know, so it's,
you know, and it's one of those things to.
777
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:15,386
The technology's great.
778
00:39:15,386 --> 00:39:17,855
Your pet gets lost, you're going
to be able to find them or otherwise.
779
00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:19,724
You probably can't.
780
00:39:19,724 --> 00:39:23,761
But the other side of it is, is just
all this stuff's constantly being traced.
781
00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:24,895
You know, we've talked about your phones,
782
00:39:24,895 --> 00:39:26,764
track
you all that different type of thing.
783
00:39:26,764 --> 00:39:30,401
And, on the more legitimate stuff,
you can turn it off.
784
00:39:30,401 --> 00:39:34,405
But I have for just had it
I think it was it it was one of the,
785
00:39:34,405 --> 00:39:36,841
domestic automakers
here in the United States,
786
00:39:36,841 --> 00:39:39,744
had some federal lawsuit
where they were able
787
00:39:39,744 --> 00:39:41,746
to get them to stop doing this
because they were getting data
788
00:39:41,746 --> 00:39:43,647
and selling it to insurance companies,
other things.
789
00:39:43,647 --> 00:39:47,084
And it was becoming as much
of a revenue stream as making the cars.
790
00:39:47,952 --> 00:39:50,755
Yeah. You know,
which is a wrong motivation.
791
00:39:50,755 --> 00:39:53,290
Exactly. This type of a type of a thing.
792
00:39:53,290 --> 00:39:56,994
And it's just,
yeah, it's a scary situation.
793
00:39:56,994 --> 00:39:58,462
So what can you do to protect yourself?
794
00:39:58,462 --> 00:40:01,465
Well, the best way is to become a hermit.
795
00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:03,000
Let's just rid.
796
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,002
Unplug everything, turn the power off.
797
00:40:05,002 --> 00:40:09,473
You know, get some candles,
leave the planet and fly away again.
798
00:40:09,874 --> 00:40:11,542
I'm sure your spaceship is track, too.
799
00:40:11,542 --> 00:40:12,843
But anyway, you're you're.
800
00:40:12,843 --> 00:40:14,845
I think I said this before,
but I think your toaster
801
00:40:14,845 --> 00:40:17,548
is probably writing a report on
you right now, you know, and setting that.
802
00:40:17,548 --> 00:40:20,217
So my Breville
would never do such a thing.
803
00:40:21,886 --> 00:40:24,789
Thankfully, my $20 toaster only toasts.
804
00:40:24,789 --> 00:40:26,557
Yes. Oh, why?
805
00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:28,759
How last century? You're in just toast.
806
00:40:28,759 --> 00:40:32,930
I mean, you know, it's,
Anyway, I'll give my opinion
807
00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:37,435
on combining devices later, but before,
yeah, we did carry separate devices,
808
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:38,636
but I think they did their jobs better.
809
00:40:38,636 --> 00:40:41,071
Sometimes you don't have to worry
about all of these things.
810
00:40:41,071 --> 00:40:43,474
Well, that you just brought up a topic.
811
00:40:43,474 --> 00:40:44,108
Okay.
812
00:40:44,108 --> 00:40:47,845
The,
when an engineer is no longer focused
813
00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:53,317
on making a car a wonderful
driving machine, and they're worried
814
00:40:53,317 --> 00:40:58,489
about making sure it tracks people, it's
no longer about the transportation
815
00:40:58,756 --> 00:41:03,461
or the enjoyment of driving a vehicle
and how it moves on the road.
816
00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:08,699
They've lost sight of what it is,
and again, it's it's pushing for revenue.
817
00:41:08,699 --> 00:41:12,937
Subscription based models on
things are a huge revenue stream.
818
00:41:13,704 --> 00:41:16,841
And I you know, not to be hypocritical,
I'm just say this
819
00:41:16,841 --> 00:41:19,176
because I work on both sides.
As a programmer.
820
00:41:19,176 --> 00:41:21,445
I have clients where we set it up this way
because they're going to make
821
00:41:21,445 --> 00:41:24,448
a lot more money off of whatever product
they're doing.
822
00:41:24,748 --> 00:41:28,552
And the manufacturers of the big things
are not unaware of this.
823
00:41:28,552 --> 00:41:29,787
And this is why it's starting to
824
00:41:29,787 --> 00:41:32,523
become harder and harder to find software
you buy.
825
00:41:32,523 --> 00:41:34,091
Yeah, you just buy a license
and you kept it
826
00:41:34,091 --> 00:41:36,360
as long as, you want it to
and then you bought it.
827
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,095
Upgrade. Now you ran it.
828
00:41:38,095 --> 00:41:41,098
You wouldn't
get updates forever or anything like that,
829
00:41:41,198 --> 00:41:43,133
but you didn't have to pay an ongoing fee.
830
00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:47,338
My big fight on this is, with QuickBooks,
and I've talked about this in the past,
831
00:41:47,938 --> 00:41:51,175
is I would replace my QuickBooks
every 3 or 4 years.
832
00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:55,279
Well, I believe 2020 somewhere around
there was the last one that you could buy,
833
00:41:55,679 --> 00:41:57,414
and they forced a subscription on
everybody.
834
00:41:57,414 --> 00:41:59,016
And I got in quite an argument with them
835
00:41:59,016 --> 00:42:02,019
when we were doing our business payroll,
and I moved to somebody else
836
00:42:02,052 --> 00:42:04,788
because I'm not going to pay a monthly fee
for the software.
837
00:42:04,788 --> 00:42:07,157
I'm still using the 2020 version.
838
00:42:07,157 --> 00:42:09,493
Well, then our payroll is not compatible.
839
00:42:09,493 --> 00:42:11,529
Well, that's your problem, not mine.
840
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:15,099
You know, but these type of things,
I don't need to upgrade that.
841
00:42:15,099 --> 00:42:18,836
And I'm not going to, especially
considering it's like 80 bucks a month,
842
00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:20,004
you know, that's
843
00:42:21,105 --> 00:42:22,239
so anyway,
844
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,276
to kind of circle back here
to what we're talking about today,
845
00:42:25,342 --> 00:42:28,479
other than my rant,
what can you do to help yourself?
846
00:42:28,479 --> 00:42:31,282
Okay. Becoming a hermit, it's an option,
but probably not one for most of us.
847
00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:34,318
So the one big thing is change
the default passwords on your devices.
848
00:42:35,019 --> 00:42:35,920
You think of it this way.
849
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,422
If you're if it came with a password,
so did everyone else's.
850
00:42:38,422 --> 00:42:39,957
And it's going to be the same. Yeah.
851
00:42:39,957 --> 00:42:43,861
So when you're putting things
up, you know change it and use a password
852
00:42:43,861 --> 00:42:46,297
that's not password
or one, two, three, four or something.
853
00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:50,234
I mean, you know, on a device,
it is a good idea,
854
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:54,104
but maybe not as important to use a,
you know, 50 character or random password
855
00:42:54,104 --> 00:42:57,107
like you would on your bank and stuff,
but at least change it.
856
00:42:57,308 --> 00:42:59,877
Change your router password.
That's another one.
857
00:42:59,877 --> 00:43:02,613
Everybody knows that
the most routers are,
858
00:43:02,613 --> 00:43:05,482
you know, admin and password
or router password.
859
00:43:05,482 --> 00:43:08,953
You can look up the model online
and figure out exactly what it is.
860
00:43:09,653 --> 00:43:12,489
And I notice with,
a lot of the newer equipment, it's
861
00:43:12,489 --> 00:43:15,693
awesome that when you set it up now
and for this reason, you know,
862
00:43:16,527 --> 00:43:19,997
and then the second thing that is
important to do is to update your devices.
863
00:43:19,997 --> 00:43:22,566
Bill, you talked about this
a little bit earlier.
864
00:43:22,566 --> 00:43:26,604
And basically
your smart device is a small computer.
865
00:43:27,338 --> 00:43:30,341
And like any other computer,
it has software running on it.
866
00:43:30,941 --> 00:43:32,910
And that software can be compromised.
867
00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:37,881
So the manufacturer does or at least
should update it when that happens.
868
00:43:37,881 --> 00:43:40,884
And this is also done to add new features,
stuff like that.
869
00:43:41,485 --> 00:43:45,122
And when the software gets old,
first of all it's been around longer.
870
00:43:45,122 --> 00:43:47,591
Second of all, it's
probably been updated for a reason.
871
00:43:47,591 --> 00:43:48,759
The hackers know this
872
00:43:48,759 --> 00:43:52,663
and they've had more time in to mess with
it and can break into stuff a lot easier.
873
00:43:53,230 --> 00:43:57,701
So this is not just your computer,
this is your smart devices.
874
00:43:57,701 --> 00:44:00,671
This is your
I had a clock that I just bought
875
00:44:00,904 --> 00:44:05,609
and it goes out and can set online
and does, weather forecast and stuff.
876
00:44:05,609 --> 00:44:07,878
First thing, I need to update my software
when I turned it on.
877
00:44:07,878 --> 00:44:10,180
It's work. Yeah. And that's why,
878
00:44:11,215 --> 00:44:12,716
you know, and keep things new.
879
00:44:12,716 --> 00:44:13,150
It's the best.
880
00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:15,452
But it's especially important
on networking devices
881
00:44:15,452 --> 00:44:17,655
because that's the gateway
and everything else.
882
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:22,292
Your routers, your cable modems,
your devices of that nature
883
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:24,428
are very important to update.
884
00:44:24,428 --> 00:44:26,263
And if somebody gets in and compromises
things,
885
00:44:26,263 --> 00:44:28,866
they can leave software
on the inside of your network
886
00:44:28,866 --> 00:44:31,869
so that even once you do fix these things,
they can still get back around.
887
00:44:31,869 --> 00:44:34,938
And this is happening with businesses
a lot with ransomware and other things.
888
00:44:35,439 --> 00:44:39,143
So the first step is just making sure
that you keep things
889
00:44:39,143 --> 00:44:40,344
as up to date as possible.
890
00:44:40,344 --> 00:44:44,815
Now I have we figured it out
when my system broke down the other day.
891
00:44:44,815 --> 00:44:49,253
I have 231 smart devices on the networks
in my house now.
892
00:44:49,253 --> 00:44:49,787
A few people,
893
00:44:49,787 --> 00:44:53,657
including my girlfriend, has told me that
that's quite a lot, but I don't think so.
894
00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:57,461
But in any event,
the networks bogged down because
895
00:44:57,461 --> 00:45:00,631
there were too many devices and I couldn't
turn my lights on, which was a problem.
896
00:45:01,231 --> 00:45:03,033
So as we're going through that, I'm
thinking about it.
897
00:45:03,033 --> 00:45:06,670
Okay, 231 devices, each with their own
firmware or onboard software,
898
00:45:07,071 --> 00:45:10,207
to try to keep that updated
manually would be a bit of a pain.
899
00:45:10,207 --> 00:45:14,611
While the credible devices usually update
automatically unless you specifically
900
00:45:14,611 --> 00:45:20,350
turn it off so you're okay
as long as you're not changing things.
901
00:45:20,350 --> 00:45:21,351
But again,
902
00:45:21,351 --> 00:45:24,121
if you're using some of the cheaper stuff,
knock offs, that kind of thing,
903
00:45:24,121 --> 00:45:27,124
you want to be very careful
that it will update.
904
00:45:27,257 --> 00:45:29,193
There's updates even available.
905
00:45:29,193 --> 00:45:32,029
And the other thing you can do is just go,
okay, I've got this device, Google
906
00:45:32,029 --> 00:45:35,499
the model number in the make
and you'll be able to see online.
907
00:45:35,499 --> 00:45:38,669
A lot of times if there's been a problem,
908
00:45:38,669 --> 00:45:41,672
you know, a known thing,
from that kind of thing.
909
00:45:41,739 --> 00:45:44,274
Now, if you want to get
a little more into this and this,
910
00:45:44,274 --> 00:45:47,277
if you know how to set up a network or,
you know, have your kid do it or
911
00:45:47,277 --> 00:45:48,545
whatever the case may be,
912
00:45:50,180 --> 00:45:50,914
a piece of
913
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:55,652
advice that's given is most modern
routers, network Wi-Fi routers
914
00:45:56,487 --> 00:45:59,490
have the ability to have
what's called a guest network.
915
00:45:59,623 --> 00:46:03,227
So you have a primary inside network
and then the guest network.
916
00:46:03,460 --> 00:46:06,597
At least the idea or use case on that is,
if you have a friend
917
00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:09,233
come over or business
with clients or something,
918
00:46:09,233 --> 00:46:12,236
you can give them that password
and not the password to your main network.
919
00:46:12,836 --> 00:46:15,305
But one of the things that's advised here
is to put your,
920
00:46:15,305 --> 00:46:18,909
smart devices on the guest network,
not your internal network.
921
00:46:19,676 --> 00:46:22,780
And by the default,
this will separate the two.
922
00:46:22,780 --> 00:46:25,783
There's a firewall built into the routers
and some other things
923
00:46:26,116 --> 00:46:28,485
that allows you to basically partition
the devices.
924
00:46:28,485 --> 00:46:31,588
So if one gets compromised, it's
not a gateway into the rest of your
925
00:46:31,822 --> 00:46:32,723
personal stuff.
926
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:37,394
And again, this
is a configuration thing for 231 devices.
927
00:46:37,394 --> 00:46:39,530
That would take me a little bit of doing,
928
00:46:39,530 --> 00:46:42,699
but it is something I think I'm going to
do, and I think it's a good idea.
929
00:46:43,734 --> 00:46:46,703
And then the other thing of videos
is to disable what you don't use.
930
00:46:46,703 --> 00:46:50,174
So turn off microphones and devices
if you don't need them.
931
00:46:50,607 --> 00:46:53,210
So most smart speakers, if you have one
where you're just listening to music,
932
00:46:53,210 --> 00:46:54,244
you don't need to talk to it.
933
00:46:54,244 --> 00:46:56,780
There's a button on
I know the Amazon devices.
934
00:46:56,780 --> 00:46:59,817
You push it, you get a red light
or some kind of an indication
935
00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:02,820
on the device, and it turns off
the microphone and off camera,
936
00:47:03,387 --> 00:47:04,421
that type of thing.
937
00:47:04,421 --> 00:47:06,523
Cameras that you don't use, cover them.
938
00:47:06,523 --> 00:47:10,127
I think all three of us do that,
where you can get
939
00:47:10,127 --> 00:47:13,130
fancy and buy a little slider
that'll go over it.
940
00:47:13,297 --> 00:47:16,300
Or you can just put a piece of tape
or something like that,
941
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,570
but this is something
to think about doing.
942
00:47:19,570 --> 00:47:22,472
And then the other thing is disable
features. You don't use.
943
00:47:22,472 --> 00:47:27,044
Never have asked for that kind of a thing
and don't rubberstamp the accept.
944
00:47:27,077 --> 00:47:28,979
But when you put in an app
945
00:47:28,979 --> 00:47:32,616
and you know it's a game where we're going
to play solitaire, but for some reason
946
00:47:32,616 --> 00:47:36,520
that needs access to your camera,
microphone, contacts and bank information.
947
00:47:36,787 --> 00:47:38,555
I hate that, just like except,
948
00:47:38,555 --> 00:47:41,892
you know, you might want to think about
why is this the case?
949
00:47:42,459 --> 00:47:42,726
Yeah.
950
00:47:42,726 --> 00:47:46,029
And they depend on a lot of people
because we get busy
951
00:47:46,029 --> 00:47:50,334
and there's so much of this stuff
going on, and, you know,
952
00:47:50,334 --> 00:47:54,171
so a lot of times people, you know,
just don't think of these things.
953
00:47:54,171 --> 00:47:56,506
It's nothing wrong with them. It's
just you're busy.
954
00:47:56,506 --> 00:47:59,943
And then another thing is we've kind of
alluded to this by smart, not cheap.
955
00:48:00,611 --> 00:48:03,380
The cheapest smart
device often cuts corners on security
956
00:48:03,380 --> 00:48:05,382
and never gets updates.
We're just talking about this.
957
00:48:05,382 --> 00:48:08,385
So you know,
you do get what you pay for sometimes.
958
00:48:08,418 --> 00:48:10,888
And the more supported devices
will usually get more features
959
00:48:10,888 --> 00:48:12,723
and stuff on down the road.
960
00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,759
And then the next thing is assume
it's listening.
961
00:48:15,759 --> 00:48:18,762
If a device has Wi-Fi, a microphone,
a camera,
962
00:48:19,129 --> 00:48:21,765
treat it like it's always potentially
watching or listening because
963
00:48:21,765 --> 00:48:24,768
sometimes it is a little creepy
to think about.
964
00:48:24,868 --> 00:48:28,438
And also where you might put these
devices, you know, and that kind of thing.
965
00:48:29,139 --> 00:48:31,475
So, you know, I don't know.
966
00:48:31,475 --> 00:48:33,877
The smartest home
isn't one with most devices.
967
00:48:33,877 --> 00:48:36,880
It's the one that knows when to say no.
968
00:48:37,481 --> 00:48:38,982
And it's just something to think about.
969
00:48:38,982 --> 00:48:40,918
These things are convenient.
970
00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:44,821
They had a lot of quality of life,
and I am not suggesting in any way
971
00:48:44,821 --> 00:48:47,925
that you shouldn't use smart devices,
but know what you have.
972
00:48:48,258 --> 00:48:49,226
Think about where they are,
973
00:48:49,226 --> 00:48:52,229
where they are in your home or office
or that type of a thing.
974
00:48:52,362 --> 00:48:54,631
And just remember, they're never sleeping.
975
00:48:54,631 --> 00:49:00,437
Even when you are those devices out
there are going to be doing their thing.
976
00:49:00,604 --> 00:49:02,139
Office standby.
977
00:49:02,139 --> 00:49:04,708
You know, things are different
from even the way this technology work.
978
00:49:04,708 --> 00:49:07,477
Even as recent as ten years ago.
979
00:49:07,477 --> 00:49:08,679
All right. Until next week.
980
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:14,117
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982
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984
00:49:26,496 --> 00:49:30,500
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00:49:31,201 --> 00:49:35,072
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