The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Our Lives

One of the most significant concerns with the rise of emerging technologies is the potential security risks they pose. For instance, the fact that Windows can't trust Android apps to stay inside their app gardens has implications for both sides. On one hand, this could create a situation where Windows security takes an advantage over its competitors, as users might be hesitant to install apps from outside the controlled environment of the Play Store. This could lead to a shift in the dynamics of the mobile market, with Android's reputation being tarnished by its lack of trustworthiness.

Furthermore, the modified versions of older games and phone apps that bypass these limitations could become the superior version of their original counterparts. This is because they don't have the same restrictions, making them more appealing to users who want a better gaming or app experience. For example, older games might not be compatible with the new security measures in place, leading to issues like flakiness and instability.

On the other hand, Android's openness has its benefits. The ability to sideload apps can be convenient, but it also increases the risk of malware and other security threats. Since Android doesn't believe in sandboxing applications, there is no guarantee that an app won't contain malicious code that can steal user data or compromise their security. This lack of control over what is installed on a device makes users more vulnerable to attacks.

In addition to these technological concerns, there are also social and economic implications of emerging technologies. For instance, the rise of Vape detectors in bathrooms has raised concerns about surveillance and control. The fact that these devices are being paid for by companies like Jewel, which lost a court case against them, raises questions about their true purpose. It seems that instead of using the funds to promote awareness about vaping-related health issues, they are being used to implement security lockdowns.

Moreover, the increasing reliance on technology has led to a phenomenon known as "irritation fatigue." With so many distractions and notifications competing for our attention, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and frustrated. This could be mitigated by implementing more effective ironing strategies, such as using an iron built into the wall or leaving clothes in the dryer until needed.

The use of technology has also led to a new form of anxiety known as "social comparison." Social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook showcase curated versions of people's lives, making it easy to compare and feel inferior. This can lead to feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. It's essential to be aware of these social pressures and take steps to mitigate their impact on our mental health.

In conclusion, emerging technologies have the potential to both empower and control us. As we move forward, it's crucial to consider the implications of these developments and work towards creating a more balanced relationship between technology and humanity. By acknowledging the risks and benefits of each innovation, we can harness their power while minimizing their negative effects on our lives.

The rise of vape culture has also led to concerns about nicotine addiction and its impact on youth. The vaping industry has become a lucrative market, with companies like Avis facing issues related to data security. In one recent incident, 300,000 rental car customers' personal information was compromised, including their driver's licenses, credit card numbers, and addresses. This highlights the need for stricter regulations and better cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive user data.

The prevalence of vape use among young people has also raised concerns about nicotine addiction and its long-term effects on developing brains. Nicotine can have devastating consequences for brain development, particularly when it comes to attention span, memory, and impulse control. Schools are now implementing measures like vape detectors in bathrooms, paid for by companies that have lost court cases, to try and mitigate this issue.

However, some argue that these efforts might not be effective. Instead of implementing daily blood tests or surveillance systems, schools could focus on education and awareness campaigns about the dangers of vaping. By promoting healthier alternatives and providing support for those who want to quit, we can help reduce the prevalence of vape use among young people.

In the meantime, it's essential to acknowledge that nicotine addiction is a serious issue that requires comprehensive solutions. The use of technology has created new challenges in addressing this problem, but it also presents opportunities for innovation and progress. By working together and leveraging our collective knowledge, we can develop more effective strategies for preventing nicotine addiction and supporting those who are struggling with its consequences.

The rise of AI-powered surveillance systems has raised concerns about personal data security and the potential for abuse. The fact that some malware can steal crypto recovery phrases from images highlights the need for robust cybersecurity measures to protect our sensitive information. These threats are real, and it's essential to take steps to mitigate them.

In the world of smart home devices, AI-powered systems are becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these technologies also pose significant security risks if not implemented properly. The fact that some malware can load images and run AI on local devices highlights the need for better controls and safeguards to prevent exploitation.

While AI has the potential to revolutionize various industries, it's crucial to acknowledge its limitations and vulnerabilities. By prioritizing cybersecurity and transparency in the development of these technologies, we can minimize their risks and maximize their benefits.

As we move forward, it's essential to consider the implications of emerging technologies on our lives and society as a whole. By acknowledging both the opportunities and challenges presented by these innovations, we can work towards creating a more balanced and secure relationship between technology and humanity.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHello everybody welcome back today is September 17th and we're doing government and security stories at the start of your week we've got some interesting uh Federal agency activity this week the FTC which is off the chain this year has decided to go after everyone's favorite new technology Tech crunch headline is Senate leaders asked the ft to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive and this is one of those things that we always get sidetracked on which is maybe a fun discussion we could start with this week I don't know if we're trying to chat about things the when you search on Google and Google gives you an AI summary of the first result it's going to the first result and using AI to process it and then return it back to you theoretically there's nothing wrong with that under current copyright law but senators are saying wait a minute you're taking away the traffic from the person that has to actually go to the website and look at that I mean that was the case before even without AI in it so I'm a little foggy well they're saying that they do the work and then Google basically just summarizes it right they never get to click right I mean that makes sense but that's how it existed even before AI like it would still give you the summary a lot of times but you controlled that summary that's true and they would clickbait it and they would not tell you yeah so you do the click more yeah a in a way here I never even considered that but AI is circumventing clickbait here yeah which is kind of a service but I don't feel comfortable still yeah I still I still typically like if I do a web search in Google I usually I will go to the web tab because I don't care about the AI summary as much here's the engagement Challenge on this particular one what if you have your own browser plugin that you write or you have an agent running on your local machine that in the background clicks the link and loads the page and summarizes it you get the click a human being never looks to that page your own AI summarizes it for you running on your local machine which is a lot more computationally responsible to try to do that in the cloud in the first place still screws the advertisers though absolutely screws the advertisers yeah that's okay if if the the advertisers are the ones who get hit I mean there's three entities here right clickbait writing garbage news providers ad providers store. level in Tex and Google and they're all horrible who do you root for uh you got to try to just do I gu say what's right I don't know what it is in that situation and social media is it inherently bad for us it seems like the powers that be are telling us that it is but they're too cowardly to actually come out and say that which is weird because they'll tell you it's bad for kids so isn't it all so bad for me but I'm just allowed to make the decision anyway uh we're all idiots and we need printed labels in order to tell us these things 42 State Attorneys General demand a Surgeon General warning label for social media apps I think you would need the same kind of a label for things like credit cards or you can do far more damage to yourself taking out a credit card with a 30% interest only having a fuzzy understanding understanding of compound interest rates far more damaging than uh you know seeing thin people on social media well the the thing though you were talking about like with kids I mean we do that with alcohol like kids aren't allowed to have that and we still have a warning printed on it mhm what about cars well they have to have a license for that and they have to take safety training before they're allowed to drive it they would love to have a social media license that would make them so happy I do think like do any of those really help like do the do the warning labels really help that much like I went to a restaurant recently and they had the big Surgeon General thing like as soon as you came in like if you are pregnant or it said this was weird to me or if you before you become pregnant alcohol can mess it up and I was like isn't how alcohol most how most babies get here like I don't I was a little puzzled by the wording but I mean they had a warning up there too well would we read the warnings and should we even read them are all of us equipped to understand once the industry gets in there and massages the wording and contr because remember when we did the warning labels for the isps remember all that wrangling was like well this price could be this or could be that and so we question does it really help if no one can understand it or if the people who are put in charge of understanding it have no chance of understanding it us proposes requiring reporting for advanced Ai and Cloud providers this I took this as uh Reuters explaining to us that if somebody on Amazon is renting up a whole bunch of stuff and it's like wait a minute it looks like they're training AGI to do something that that would have to be reported like one entity is buying up enough GPU power to do something toward you know uncontrolled computation do they they are you're saying that they they don't really understand what it is they're trying to regulate other than somebody might just buy what they need that's to avoid a sanction well I'd go deeper than that I would say that what they're going to do is they're going to use that revolving door to put their people in there or to reward the people that are coming out of there and once they do that a couple of iterations they'll have total control of it just like everything else it's rapidly heading toward you need a license to read a book isn't it certain books for sure and let's look at the timeline of uh what AI will and will not be allowed to do in this world takeover jobs I think we're going to put that in the check column wage war feeling like a checkbox govern us we're easing into that I think most people want that because they see it's going to be less corruption make medical decision think it is they don't understand the corruption's built in medical decisions I would already give a check boox and this one is just a little ways off of that Google's AI will help decide whether unemployed workers get benefits now they assure us that no no no it's not really that that's just an incendiary head line what they're going to do is they're going to go in they're going to look at all your stuff and they're going to summarize it just like those web links and they're going to save time for the human being who actually has to make that decision now we've learned that in the insurance World those people have to make like 10,000 decisions a day so they don't literally have time to do anything but look at the summary and say yes or no that's terrifying CU yeah considering the amount of nuance that could be hiding in the details it's literally the game papers please to real life except not border control just like hey use the AI to do the thing it's like what if the like fundamentally this process is flawed no you don't have time to think about that listen it's so efficient we can afford to have a few mistakes and if if those mistakes impact human lives that's okay at the money we're saving I also wonder about you remember the Industrial Revolution it's like you had all those all those jobs that were displaced really quickly like what if that were playing out today like look at all the stuff that we did when the steam engine and electricity replaced labor and there was a lot of friction and suffering there unnecessarily and suppose something like that is happening again with AI replacing labor like perhaps we could learn something with how we did that the first time to do to do it again any historians in the audience want to give us some engagement challenge like because none of this seems like it remotely takes into account the learnings of a century ago but do you think that you or more importantly anybody in power would be able to mitigate that somehow no like what do you do how do you stop it well you don't stop it but you you could ease the transition somehow it's like hey congratulations you used to be a buggy whip manufacturer and now you can't so I think a lot of those people probably just died poor and then their children found other employment yeah I mean you say somehow just magic wand and uh Google is still having trials shocking and these trials have extended when when did it start was this like0 was this 2018 oh no there was one that was 2018 that was this was a long time ago I think it was 07 right and it's finally just shaking out the rotors headline is Google aimed to control web ad Tech us prosecutor says as trial begins and this is based on fabulously ancient uh happening this is when Google still had the I'm feeling lucky button when I first read this I thought this was the court case where they tried to wave It Away by saying here is the maximum fine that we would have to pay for this no no this is something else but uh you know you know what actually I'm wrong I think the case is recent but they're digging up something someone said from the dawn of time from I think it was 2007 and he said uh yeah we want to crush the competition we want to control it we bought this other company so we could play both sides of it I want to hear the Lamentations of their women he also made a quote he's like we are na we're the New York Stock Exchange and uh whatever the competit the CME or whatever at the same time like that is our position they wish they had our level of power which is sadly probably true and monopolies in space that's almost a guarantee right cuz who has the ability to have a space startup I maybe the richest man in the world but the government's not a fan of that the headline is the FCC chair encourages satellite internet competition and hints that starlink is a monopoly this was a a whole article about like one comment you know what would be amazing for taking starlink down a peg fiber optic infrastructure everywhere but here's something that doesn't help to take starlink down a peg we couldn't get the astronauts home with anybody else the competitor failed so spectacularly that we have kidneys shrinking in space right now you know what's really insane though is like the terrestrial fiber like we've been able to do that since the 80s we had a reasonable plan for that in the 90s and we have we just as a society we have failed to the point that we have not been able to deliver on our promises from 35 years ago in order to deliver and so what did it take it took you know the guy that can get stuff into space launching satellites to actually have nationwide Broadband that doesn't suck like we're so screwed and we're screwed because as all of that gets worse one thing and maybe one only one aspect of Technology other than artificial intelligence is always getting better and always getting more invasive you know what this is the surveillance one I'm I'm going to try to carefully do you see it ah testing Apple vision for use in surveillance because Apple vision is really amazing it's the police they're doing this thing cuz the Apple Vision headset is great for you know playing back video and getting an idea for what's going on spatially so they have a command and control basically you know all everything feeds into one nerve center and they're watching all the cameras and everything and they have a group that you know something out of a sci-fi movie and instead they want something that is literally out of sci-fi movie remember Minority Report yeah when he was like dragging the interface around of stuff like that that's what they're going to get but it's not going to be for your desktop it's going to be for them to surveil everything it's kind of the True Value version of what was shown in Minority Report though we're just getting started was it Clover Valley the the Dollar General brand but Clover Valley would insinuate that it's cheap right it's not cheap the Apple headset is not the cheap way to go there it's going to throw away a lot of money but they also say that hey there's no reason that you know our investigators need to come to the command center to have all this power hour just ship it to their homes what could go wrong just put it in the cloud I missed this one last week I actually alluded to it and then somehow I don't know I must have misclicked or something but we totally missed the Russian disinformation story last week but now we get a little bit of a followup and we can just talk about it the CBS news headline is the US US says Russia funded Media company that paid right-wing influencers Millions for videos and oh boy they did but if we had run this video or if we'd run this story last week we wouldn't have this delicious update from this week which is one of the ways that the prosecutors were able to gather evidence is through WhatsApp and new evidence was submitted where after this was filed they were talking on WhatsApp about WhatsApp being compromised which is amazing please please don't follow influencers level no I meant the I meant the Russian influencers like or the the Russian uh like the FSB people that they were cuz that's what it's also wild that the the influencers are being treated like victims and they're like well there's two possibilities right either one they knew which is the true one or they didn't know and they're so stupid that you shouldn't follow their ideas listen I just enjoy farting around with technology like that's all you should take away way it's like and also being a reasonable human being it's like we're going to try real hard to be a reasonable human being but somebody that's smarter is like how can we weaponize that and once we've weaponized it and gained total control how can we can get the hearts and minds of the people back the NSA has a podcast here's how to decode it no such agency this is an apologetic piece as well yeah it was that was the tone it's actually worth a listen oh it's not evil and awful even though I kind of hint that it is and they've never let me in before one of the one of the the subreddits that I have to avoid because of the existential dread it elicits is the uh subreddit that's called orphan crushing machine oh yeah that's the only thing I could think of as I was reading this article it's just like have we entered the orphan crushing machine I followed like a r uplifting news or something like that to try to find stuff for like nonsense and it's always stuff like that where it's like so in like a child donated their life savings to help someone get medical care and it's like does it does it have to be that way though well one way the did you see those corporate tax numbers they recently just put out like the the breakdown of like somehow individuals pay more taxes than corporations I can believe that just makes no sense but over in the EU they are maybe moving things back in the other direction I don't know that any of this money actually helps the people of the EU but they're getting it Apple defeated in decade long fight with the European Union over Irish tax breaks what an incredible picture yeah she they should have aied it so that she's given them the bird the double bird I mean the EU was just looking at this and they were literally the whole argument the entire time from the European Union was does this profit actually make sense for it to go through an Irish company like are people in Ireland buying this much product no are people in Ireland developing this much product for the world no why does Apple send all of their money through Ireland it's like well it's just cuz you're the cheapest it's like that seems like fraud something something look of the Irish so this is this money has been in escro it was like 14 billion oh it's in the sub headline 13 billion oh 13 billion uh Funny Money Euros that is 14 billion dollars right so uh I guess it's not coming out of Apple's pocket per se like they couldn't count this already but I bet they were counting on it don't you so oh that is the final there's no more appeals after this so that's the final cour that was the highest court as was this Google's 2.4 billion Euro fine upheld by Europe's top court and its EU antitrust probe so this is if you're a US prosecutor and you're looking at this this has got to be pretty sobering because a lot of the stuff that EU is complaining about is stuff that technically happen on us servers but that's not really like there's a lot of European data and rules for how European data is how it's supposed to be handled that a big factor in that as well this was the shopping Google shopping stuff where they were ranking what they wanted High even though that wasn't organic Google's only excuse here was we changed it after they told us we shouldn't be responsible for this it was so long ago and we already changed it I killed that guy but I've changed since then I shouldn't be held accountable for those actions and advertising is also a big problem with Google over in the EU British competition regulator objects Google's adte practices actually not in the EU just to correct myself it's the Brits not the EU which kind of a copy paste relationship isn't it but this was uh was this the one where they had the quote about I might have misquoted earlier where this might have been the the on where he quoted was like we're on both sides of this we control it well they got some really nasty there's always so many like Tech being taken down in Europe stories that I get the details confused of yeah they're so similar and this is a similar one that we've seen before but what we always say when this comes up when countries that vote for this kind of thing in this case it was just like you know Fiat but when they vote for this kind of thing the question is how do you think you're going to enforce this and the answer is they didn't think about that Malaysia has plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day because uh it doesn't work that way so they dictated that all outgoing DNS requests be rerouted to internal DNS controllers which of course doesn't work with DNS SEC which they discovered no one you know the hand raisers no one felt comfortable raising their hand in that room yeah there were probably a few thinking it and like know they're just going to slap my hand I'm not going to do it I think Firefox still does DNS over HTTP by default or https so that would have also defeated that but that is not going to stop the powers of be from trying to prevent any kind of free thought or expression Russia to spend $646 million to block VPN according to this Forbes report I don't think Russia will have to spend that much I think Russia is going to go full great firewall of China and I think they've already got a lot of equipment in to do it so yeah for sure they pretty much already already set up a way to turn it off yeah I just you I I really don't see them spending a lot of money for that but how much money is this going to cost with real enforcement do you go what's what's the punishment here right who if you if a kid gets caught is that the parent there's a lot of questions here Australia plans to limit age uh or age limit to ban children from social media makes sense I I like this as an idea I don't think it's practical to try to enforce right so a lot of children are really terrible people too so like if there's a place where they can hang out and make fun of the weird kid they're going to find a place to hang out and make fun of the weird kid absolutely the the thing he mentioned he was like oh we just want to see more kids being active and like developing social skills in real life and I'm like oh those are all noble goals but like not your job those that also require like developing social skills and maybe pointing out the weird kid can't help it is parenting you're going to have to it's like you might be the weird kid someday yeah there's no way to centralize Parenting but oh boy are they going to try and they are also going to try to control all of social media in terms of things that they don't want posted there Australia threatens fines for social media Giants enabling misinformation the question we always ask is who defines misinformation the answer is power power defines misinformation and uh I don't know about you guys but I find them slightly untrustworthy even even like so like Twitter has become the exact opposite of like it's just insane but a lot of the stuff that musk is saying is just absolutely unhinged and some of the stuff that musk is saying is like okay that's not unreasonable and it's all just mixed together and clearly some of it is misinformation but like it's it's a great asan like it's not a black and white it's like I could see if if you've been huffing paint all your life that you would believe this is true but if we went and listed everything that Australian prime minister have said over the years would you say it's any different yeah no no not at all not even a little bit or even even just anybody inow or even like one of us like if you list at half the dumb things we've said on this podcast over the years there' probably be a few things it's like H that was maybe a dumb thing to say and beyond that I think musk is doing it for uh because he's emotionally a child m not because he's evil the other one I'm not so sure and this points out that uh security doesn't have to be complex or a failure in security you don't have to have like major hacking skills like in the movies with you know the gooey hacking and stuff like that you just need to figure out another person did something really dumb and take advantage of it AR techn has the headline Rogue who is server researcher superpowers no one should ever have so this is Mobi the people that own the do the top lmob let a domain expire this person registered it and then all of a sudden lots of who is requests were coming in into there the reason this is important is because other companies like microsoft. Mobi whenever you say use let's encrypt to generate an SSL certificate let's encrypt would say who is microsoft. Mobi who is responsible for approving an SSL certificate let's send them an email and it would send an email but the who is server was controlled by this Rando and so he could control how SSL certificates were issued on domains that he didn't own or control which would be great for a man in the middle attack you might be thinking well it was a domain they changed it so no traffic would hit it right he said about 7,000 hits within the first hour yeah 76,000 unique IP addresses in the first three days oops and uh we all remember the crowd strike incident which shut down a lot of the internet and was very embarrassing and it pointed out some things about Windows that they let certain people do that might be a bad idea Microsoft is building new windows security features to prevent another crowd strike incident basically a little bit more hardening in the windows kernel to say hey is this program doing something that is actually causing a blue screen in the computer yes okay we should probably recover from that now seems like a good idea but they did some of the people against this pointed out an important thing and I mean just think about about how apple and even Microsoft has behaved in the past what this could do is it could create a situation where Windows security has an advantage because they're saying like oh we can't trust you inside the wall Garden only our product can do this I think one thing too is that for older games I think this will break copy protection in older games and the the games probably won't get an update or it'll make those games flaky absolutely they will not because they were never designed to so once again the uh modified version of the game that doesn't have those limitations is going to be the superior version of the game which is just fabulous and the modified version of your phone apps are getting a lot less secure and there's a lot of reasons not to use them and they once again hey just stay in the wall Garden right spy agent Android malware steals your crypto recovery phrases from images images yeah it can load the images and actually run the AI on your local device which could be useful for recovering recovery phrases there's no guarantee that this won't get into the Play Store but if you sideload you have a huge risk of this because somebody can get an existing thing put their stuff on it and get you with it and you know Android doesn't believe in sandboxing applications in 2024 which is Criminal well you know what's not criminal but it should be is keeping my records on file the moment you don't need them anymore but here we are and pretty much once a week we get burned by it hacker hits rental car provider Avis stealing data on 300,000 people that have rented cars from Avis that's your driver's license number and your credit card and your address and everything else that they need to use those items fabulous to impersonate and you got to teach the security State early and I understand this probably is a problem I'm sure it's super annoying it was annoying when we were kids except we just had plain old cigarettes back in those days and those stink yeah those are really bad mean at the very least the Vapes don't smell bad but I'm sure they're not good for you I'm sure not they not good for little developing lungs or brains that are getting a big nicotine hit schools are putting Vape detectors in bathrooms paid for by Jewel one of the VAP people is that juel just trying to like no no they lost a court case huh they're not giving them any money they lost a court case and it went into escrow and they're taking some of that to it was supposed to be for like awareness you know know uh but instead we're using it for security lock Downs I was thinking more of like oh maybe they're trying to you know Branch out in their revenue streams we're like we'll do detectors too but if if we're going to get kids used to like the police state in this kind of authoritarian control we should just do daily blood tests that would just tell you everything no we just need a a like an Apple Watch style device that constantly monitors and then it can tell if like oh little Billy's hormones are getting out of out of control here separate him from the girls I was thinking more like oh their heart rate one up they've been looking at social media too long they've snuck a phone in how do you you think these are Optical no I think it detects uh chromium or something in the air something that's normally not there some some byproduct it would be so much fun if there were Optical to like come in with like a like a steamer or something keep triggering it be like dude I'm just doing some ironing in here in the bathroom I was feeling a little wrinkled do you think regular cigarettes will come back if it's just regular cigarettes surely have those same chemicals right they have everything it's like what are you doing in the bathroom I'm just ironing my shirt don't mind me it's got to stay fresh well we could I mean engagement challenge how many of you know how to use an iron it's been a I'll be honest it's been a long time for me I don't iron very often my house had an iron built into the wall yeah yeah I had to uh I had to deal with the dress code for a while so I okay I'm I'm a big fan of just throwing it in the dryer for a minute and letting it kind of get the worst of it out I'm a bigger fan of leaving it in the dryer till I need it do that when I lived alone I did that there's a fancy brass uh that's the dishwasher strategy the Dual dishwasher strategy where you have you just leave it in the dishwash except it doesn't cost anything extra yeah you don't double your cost all right chat we will see you guys in the next one bye\n"