**DuckDuckGo's Search Issue and Microsoft's Script Problem**

In recent news, DuckDuckGo has been found to be using Bing search instead of its own proprietary search engine. This was discovered when users realized that their searches were being directed through Bing, rather than DuckDuckGo's own system. As a result, users are not getting the full benefits of DuckDuckGo's strict privacy protection.

In an effort to address this issue, DuckDuckGo has announced that it will be implementing stricter privacy measures in its browser version. However, it appears that some of these changes may not apply to users who rely on DuckDuckGo for search purposes. This has led to concerns about the company's ability to protect user data.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been facing heat from the UK government over its handling of sensitive data related to its Azure cloud services. The issue stems from a lack of transparency and cooperation with law enforcement agencies. The government is seeking greater oversight of Microsoft's operations in the country, citing concerns about national security.

**Horse Collapses in New York City**

In another bizarre incident, a horse collapsed in New York City, leaving residents and tourists alike in shock. The horse was part of an old-fashioned carriage tour of Manhattan, which has been a popular tourist attraction for centuries. However, the collapse has raised questions about the welfare of the horses used in these tours.

Many have criticized the use of live animals in this way, citing concerns about their safety and well-being. In response to public pressure, some companies are now offering alternative options, such as robotic horses or rickshaws. However, it's unclear whether these alternatives will be widely adopted.

**Elon Musk and Robotic Horses**

When asked about the collapse of the horse in New York City, Elon Musk suggested that a solution could be to use robotic horses instead. While this idea may seem far-fetched, some experts argue that it's not entirely impossible. In fact, companies like Tesla are already exploring the development of autonomous vehicles for various industries.

However, there are significant technical and logistical challenges to overcome before robotic horses become a reality. Nevertheless, Musk's suggestion highlights the growing interest in using technology to improve public transportation and reduce reliance on live animals.

**Heat Waves and Hospital Chaos**

In other news, heat waves have caused chaos in London hospitals, with data centers failing due to overheating. The issue has resulted in significant losses for companies that rely on these services, including major healthcare organizations.

The problem is particularly acute because many of these organizations had planned for the air conditioning systems to fail during peak summer months. However, when the failure occurred unexpectedly, it left them unable to recover quickly enough. This highlights the need for more robust disaster recovery plans and backup systems in critical infrastructure.

**Raspberry Pi Anti-Tracking Tool**

In a more positive development, researchers have developed an anti-tracking tool using Raspberry Pi hardware. The device can scan for phones around its user, alerting them if it detects repeated activity from the same phone.

This tool has significant implications for individual privacy and security, particularly in public spaces where surveillance is often prevalent. By providing users with this level of awareness, the developers aim to empower individuals to take control of their own data protection.

**The War on Individualism**

As we move forward into an increasingly interconnected world, the threat of government overreach and corporate exploitation looms large. The concept of "individualism" is under siege from multiple fronts, with calls for greater collectivism and conformity on the rise.

Some experts argue that this trend towards collectivism will lead to a loss of individual freedoms and creativity. Others contend that it's necessary to prioritize the collective good over personal interests in order to address pressing global issues like climate change and economic inequality.

Regardless of one's perspective, there are many voices calling for greater awareness and action on these issues. As we move forward into an uncertain future, it's essential to remain vigilant and proactive in defending our rights as individuals.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's august 16th and this is a weird episode of the link show that's not the thing but i don't know it's government social and security and security because business is really long business tomorrow will be although this did turn out to be a little bit longer it never splits evenly yeah the quarter's over the earnings are in there's so much business news well there's also quite a bit of government stuff going on it seems like the ftc in particular is working hard and this is more of a a warning shot i suppose data quote unquote surveillance crackdown begins with ftc privacy pitch a bloomberg law is talking about this like this is well i read this and i was excited by the headline and some of the summaries but then i read more into it and it seems like the fc ftc is going to give companies a pass on collecting a lot of information but there are some cases where it would be over the line yeah like the whole let's just not have data brokers not on the table yeah i guess that would be too destroying the economy maybe because we depend on it now yeah think about like craigslist or uh i was going to ask christa about uh the facebook marketplace something like that so you know you just have your name in your email address this seems like that would give that a pass or like the level one forums is like uh you know you're you're just talking to people online that's not really a thing whereas uh maybe if you were uploading your medical records into a medical portal then maybe there would be some liability there but for like the cambridge analytica stuff where it's not really super personal information it seemed like that would give them a pass that's bad also we should mention that kristy is out this week uh as far as we know she's out for all three episodes so everybody always asks i was out i was no i made the news i was out for the weekend i've got something bacterial going on well people in the comments are always like where's so and so when i hear and obviously the answer is nanya somebody will respond to your comment tell you what that is last week we talked about the fcc and they were looking at spacex and they were like well spacex we told you we were going to give you this money but at the time your service seemed really amazing remember when the first numbers came out yeah for uh starlink everybody was like oh my god you think they can keep that going well maybe the answer is no or maybe they just didn't want to give him money because everyone hates elon musk now and the government fcc cancels 886 million in funding for spacex's starlink and this is uh the fcc this is not lena khan this is uh the other one frozen morsel rose and morseville yeah yeah they had harsh things to say about the uh about starlink now on the one hand elon musk did over promise he said that it was it was going to be a hundred megabit down slash 20 meg upload and according to the fcc most people are only able to just barely get close to a hundred but the upload is more like 12 not 20. and so that's what the fcc is citing in this they're saying well you didn't you didn't meet what you promised how much money did we claw back from traditional isps for the same reason zero dollars and how many of those would be guilty of this all of them that's that's kind of what i wanted to point like as a practical matter if you live in the middle of nowhere even though you know even though it's it's elon musk he's still doing a better job than the incumbent isp so if you're gonna play this game fcc what you should do is uh isps like the guy with the mule in vermont those kind of isps are at the top of the list and then you know somewhere in the middle is elon musk with starlink and then at the very bottom is all of the incumbent companies which actually enjoyed most of the funding anyway yeah so that's the only real fair way to do it i really think that i don't think yeah i i don't agree with the fcc on this i think they should give starlink a little bit of a pass here or maybe a little bit of the money yeah doesn't have to be all or nothing irs has been in the news this week and uh not popular headlines turns out people don't like the irs pretty universally and uh this is not gonna win the many new friends either the irs ramps up its effort to attack the crackdown on crypto tax evaders so uh this was uh s fox if you've been dealing in s fox uh sorry they're hiring 87 000 new agents and oh boy we've got some stories in the uh in the nonsense section as well it's probably to be bad and this may seem like a bit of a time warp no this is a new one this one is based on the ad business the doj is reportedly prepping an anti-trust suit against google over its ad business so this has to do with publishers and what rates google pays the publishers and you know a lot of there's a lot of dirty laundry here it's going to be interesting the targeting yeah the data is it too much is there something in there about being pregnant what's the new line that we can't cross it it's you know i was thinking about it in the beginning google as an ad broker kind of made a lot of sense but where we are now does the old model make more sense in the modern world than the new model which is when you want to advertise on such and such website you just contract with such and such website and there is no middleman see that makes it difficult because the tracking it's so easy when the tracking is built in because that's the hard part about building that right it's not necessarily that they want to track you even though they do or they want to sell your data they do someone could build that business model without that but what you have to do is you have to prove that someone actually clicked on it and you also kind of want to find out if they did anything after that or if they're just clicking from a click farm the publisher would not be able to do that and it would be up to the person buying the ad to have their own infrastructure to do that which they don't have because they're stupid right so no we can't do that we could but it wouldn't be nearly as effective because by default it wouldn't be as evil it seems like whoever is actually running the ad eventually has an overwhelming impetus to just be dishonest about everything that's true of almost everything and what a great example of that so iran they have some sanctions against them they're not allowed to buy certain equipment they're not allowed to do certain things certainly can't do those things in u.s dollars which we'll talk more about later but it's not that hard to get around honestly u.s claims a chinese supplier violated export rules by helping zte sell telco equipment to iran and that wasn't the best headline that they could have gone with for this article because it turns out that the supplier in question said yeah whatever so far east cable bought 164 million dollars worth of zte equipment and then it sold 189.5 million dollars worth of cte equipment quite a nice little profit that's interesting all you have to do is dodge sanctions so easy so uh yeah that's one of those deals though it's like okay we're gonna go after them but what can we really do against them maybe they got a u.s presence i don't know here's a little bit of good news just a a tiny pinch and uh we talked about this right so actually there were several cases like yes yes where you make a post on social media that you know like you're just out in your free time your private life you do that but then all the institutions that you're a part of look at it and they're like oh no no we can't have that that's not model student behavior what right do they have victory federal court upholds first amendment protections for students off-campus social media post even though the student had agreed to a quote-unquote media policy it doesn't matter his first amendment see we need krista here to comment on this crazy art eff intern emma plankey contributed this blog post do you think she did the art i don't know it's good though good job man is it is the joke there that it's a cat of a different color is that a cheshire cat maybe maybe i'm not sure what the concentric stripes mean and uh government one of the things about government is it's hard for like most of the ideas that government comes up with are so bad that we would no one would ever agree to him no sane person and then we have enough partisanship that you could never force it through because the other side is going to be like no that's bad we're not doing it so what you have to do is you have to find something that everyone almost universally agrees on like how about we don't have burn pits for our soldiers that was so hard to get pushed through and then you take that yeah for good reason then you take that and you put what was it 400 million dollars of discretionary spending on it and everybody's like no no we we don't want that part the first part was good but we can't have that part and they're like oh you hate the soldiers so if you just want decent broadband clearly you hate the planet u.s lawmakers always urge joint use of funds for broadband and ev charging stations i you know again elon musk has brought broadband to where no one was willing to bring broadband and those places need broadband before they need an ev charging station yes because guess how many places actually need an ev charging station not very many zero zero charge it at your house if you want to be a hipster it is so beautiful when socio-political things happen and these companies they don't have a choice they have to choose a side and time after time they choose china they do apple warns its suppliers to follow china rules on taiwan labeling what what what does this even mean it turns out that when apple is importing stuff from taiwan to china that if it's not labeled as in yes we're part of china the chinese customs people will just trash it and that might interfere with apple's production of phones might be thinking well that doesn't that make it false doesn't that hurt the whole distribution system because it's not actually telling you where it's from well there's actually two terms that are acceptable and we just got in the paywall here you can be taiwan china or chinese taipei you cannot just be taiwan and uh good lord they've really ratcheted that up but apple isn't really directly involved in this what apple is saying it's like hey all of you supply chain people you better get on board with this because we don't want anything hung up in customs you know what china's other option would be have those phones made in the philippines or in taiwan but taiwan's too expensive maybe because they don't have a repressive government uh but the old chips act uh i didn't put the story in but biden signed it it's good we all knew it was gonna happen it is real now and more companies are coming on board and saying yes we would love to take some of this money micron to invest 40 billion in u.s chip making yeah micron they're the people who partner with intel about the whole optane thing i'm hoping that means octane's not dead but i have no data on that forty thousand jobs five thousand they say you're going to be highly paid which means probably you know what the other thing that has to go hand in hand with this is that if we're gonna have forty thousand jobs in chip manufacturing we don't have enough people in the pipeline for that and a lot of the people that are in the pipeline are student visa holders we're going to have to completely overhaul the way that we do visas and welcome those people to stay in the united states if we want to retain the skills necessary to keep those things running did you get some cash in the mail from pichai because that's exactly what he said and the surveillance state is extreme it just gets worse a lot of people think that the ankle monitors go too far but it is an alternative to being incarcerated so even if it's insanely dystopian is it still better than being in a detention center i have a slightly different opinion but uh the the guardian's headline is facial recognition smart watches would be used to monitor foreign offenders in the uk so basically you're on vacation but you've got some minor criminal offenses maybe you stabbed an ex-lover i don't know i don't think that's the use case here i think you just crawled over some razor wire oh and they rounded you up and instead of putting you on the catapult back over the straight they're going to do this instead which is going to be very expensive you wear a smart watch that's kind of armored looking and it looks at your face and you know figures out if you're really who you say you are and blah blah blah do you remember the stories about the was it the ankle monitors it was some kind of gps device that they had on people and it was overwhelmingly incorrect oh for the location and they would they would literally like come they'd come and arrest them again they'd be like what i've been here all day it's like no no look at this and it was just because it was bad yeah or it wouldn't charge and stuff like that i think that the danger from this is not it's not even that the technology is going to be poorly implemented i mean that's a given but this also kind of has an erosion factor because it's like oh this is much better than the ankle monitor is much better than the incarceration but at that point aren't you just making people used to something that's still pretty insidious yeah well the obvious thing is it's not going to be migrants after a year if it works out pretty well they're going to be like oh let's just do this for everybody yeah exactly oh and it's like oh you already have a thing with a camera on it why don't we just co-opt that and by the way uh we're not going to take pictures just when you look at it we're actually going to always be taking pictures exactly it's a very chipping away kind of thing meanwhile you know you travel back into the 70s and say hey we're going to do all this stuff and the people would freak out their head would explode and we have another sanction story but this one is unique i don't know if this has ever happened before now we did hear about the the github and the version control stuff getting locked out of that but here we have an entire project that we can assume is well i don't know if we can assume it but if it is related to the russian government it's not for them to make money on because it's open source and if you think they're hiding code in it to spy on you you know what you could do you could go look at it but that's not enough tornado cash co-founder reports being kicked off github as industry reacts to sanctions so tornado cash apparently was primarily used or so our department of justice alleges uh primarily used by like north korea or iran or a combination of the two criminal activity and so i think someone in the doj has told github or microsoft's lawyers this project probably shouldn't be on github and i said okay that's all this is but we also sanction tornado cash in general yeah yeah but but i don't think that has anything to do with russia i think that has to do with the old irs story yeah like it's the crackdown on you will not hide from us we will see everything and if you build a tool to get around that even if you're not trying to make money for it it's just like hey i'll give this to the world no you will be punished this is only going to be used for criminal activity well it's not welcome on github then but i mean you could make the same kind of arguments about security tools and that sort of thing it's a really they do yeah and when it comes to iran you might be thinking oh i bet they're hiding a lot of cryptocurrency payments well maybe but i don't know this undermines it because some of them are definitely not trying to hide they're literally press releasing it iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports yep like hey are you using cryptocurrency to import things from sanctioned countries yeah what wouldn't you and we're doing more of it later in the year we're really going to ramp this up we love it good time to get into it right right after the crash yeah i mean i guess we have further to go maybe this is not shocking at all i'm actually uh i watch too much youtube i think it's a little too much a little too much screen time maybe on the old youtube man those police chase videos are so good uh tick tock on the other hand i have no idea about however i did use the youtube shorts for like 10 minutes and i was like oh i see it i see what that's about like when i had my wisdom tooth taken out and i took a vicodin for the first time ever and i was like oh i see i see why that's dangerous yeah i'm gonna stay away from that a fifth of us teens use youtube quote unquote almost constantly with tick-tock not far behind this is actually interesting because i got some insight about how tick-tock is used and it turns out the information the they hoover up about how people are interacting with tick-tock this demographic really likes because when they search for something all of the results are super tailored to that person in addition to what they search for which is maybe a little bit of a contrast to what google does so 95 percent of teens use youtube 19 almost constantly whereas sixty-seven percent use tick-tock and uh sixteen percent almost constantly i don't know what almost constantly means i guess like maybe once every every fifteen minutes easy just to get a hit you're a tick tock right yeah pretty much tick tock is like the vape pen of social media and the metaverse we have been big detractors of the metaverse not because i think it can't work as an idea but just because it doesn't exist and we're being sold something as if it is the most egregious thing we're being sold online real estate as metaphors land prices plummet mark cuban says buying digital land is the dumbest stuff ever i can't say anybody if you're a viewer of this program you probably agree with that statement i don't know that's true so they were talking to him about yuga labs which they did a lot of stuff and he was like yeah i mean i still think it's stupid they made a lot of money yeah but i still think it's stupid and all the people that bought that land which was well like six months ago yeah they lost a ton of money well i can't say that maybe they sold early this is a crazy story you don't think of how many different ones are you aware of three or four there's only fans there's another one with fan in its name right fan house is that what it is i don't know and uh we're not allowed to do it on patreon anymore right i think there is a third alternative anyway only fans is very aware of these alternatives because they are pulling an uber only fans bribed meta employees yeah facebook facebook employees to put rival creators on terror watch list what this should be the onion but it's not uh why why is this why is this a thing yeah from from thought to terrorist just from one phone call so they've been caught it's been going on since 2018 meta has identified people inside who've actually done this and uh they ran the money through a hong kong company to hide it there's a lot of smoking guns here interesting that's probably a lawsuit if you're one of those creators huh yeah how would you know if you're even swept up in that well that's the thing about those terror watch lists you can't necessarily like call somebody and be like am i on the watch list they won't tell you i guess you could try to take a flight that's weird they search my luggage every time now what's going on and now i believe i have organized these um oh no no because we're back in why did i put this in government a terrible missouri we'll just roll with it ceo posts crying selfie on linkedin after laying off employees and it goes viral oh it's because we're on social now i forgot okay yeah this is social media i just didn't i don't i don't understand why this went viral other than it was just in terrible terrible taste so they talk about in this article about how ceos are trying to be more personable and real with their employees but they're not how many different selfies do you think he went through before he got one that he liked to post that is the darkest timeline i guarantee that's not one snap he went through he was sitting there going through his camera roll like i don't know no that's not penitent enough oh i handed up too much in that one i'm human i'm relatable no sorry so uh business to business marketing agency hypersocial yeah business to business marketing agency there is no soul behind those eyes i guarantee it you can't run a business to business marketing agency and have that former employees comment the engagement challenge below and elon musk has given his response to the whole twitter debacle and his claims twitter says not very good twitter says musk's spam analysis use tool that called his own account a bot that's the artist technica headline but this is this is the lawsuits like the whole will you buy uh twitter will you not buy twitter why won't you buy twitter 127 pages i i started to dive into that but then i decided i didn't hate myself that much and twitter's lawyer's response to this was basically elon musk is unhinged and nothing in this statement is true like nothing that he's saying here has anything to do with reality he doesn't understand how the technology works it's not a thing and musk really just wanted to double down on the whole no i used your tool and it said my account was a bot which is not correct so the botometer this is twitter's response so they're saying that yeah that counts bots maybe but bots don't have to be spam bots can be real bots can be there for a reason people like bots so you can't just roll them all in the same ball and then musk responds and he says we're still looking but we're definitely finding spam accounts and uh then twitter's response to that is go back and read the contract because there ain't nothing about spam accounts in that contract so i don't know what you're arguing about it's not part of our business transaction you will buy the spam bots because you offered the cash for them elon musk's next argument is probably going to be you're lying to your investors which is going to be really interesting if he goes that route but it doesn't save him no it just hurts them he'll still do it i mean come on but i don't know if that's going to get him out of that purchase but then here's the crazy timeline right he comes back with that destroys trust in twitter as if i mean who has trust in twitter at this point and then comes out with the competing thing no no he's he destroys the faith in twitter and then is forced by the court to buy twitter seems like a win-win as long as that price goes down no i think they'd make him pay for a price in that scenario i don't know much about any of this i threw it in just because uh you know of course the click bait headline they don't start with murder which would be the big thing they don't start with this girl's name let's start with instagram because that's what you'll click on instagram model courtney clinty charged with murdering her boyfriend in florida apartment and i know nothing about this well so there she is she's sad she got picked up on a murder charge and uh they have here's the guy so they have some i read a different article but they have some uh surveillance footage of them in a an elevator fighting like fist fighting oh yeah that's i do know about this yeah yeah and apparently the people in the apartment building people three floors above had called the cops because they were like just killing each other fighting and uh she stabbed him she claimed she threw the knife and got the kill shot what no how many human beings could do that how many navy seals could do that but uh i think they could easily prove that he was beating her pretty bad i think she was beating him too will a jury look at that they're all a little pretty girl she was getting beaten domestically although that's not what she told the cops that's not gonna it's not looking good and here's something that i think we've known this for how long have we done this since the 90s i mean the 90s facebook i don't know that they were they didn't have an app in those days today no i guess uh so whenever the facebook app came out that's when this started we probably found out about it three four months after that meta injecting code into websites to track its users research says owners of facebook and instagram is using code to follow those who click links in its apps according to an ex google engineer so have you if you've noticed when you click something in one of meta's apps it doesn't actually leave the app it just opens the web browser in the app and then another click will take you somewhere else but that's so that they can see what you do on the page yeah so they can inject the javascript that continues tracking you as if you were still in the app yeah oh it's like oh look at this you this cook this website has given you a unique identifier we can use that unique identifier to correlate your data with our unique identifier now facebook says of course we do that to protect our users to protect our bottom line which is hurting and moving on to security of course it's a bunch of ransomware cisco was hacked by janela wang oh i think he got pretty close there ransomware again yeah 2.8 gigabytes allegedly selling 2.8 gig doesn't seem like a lot but they apparently had access for a while and moved laterally um cisco caught them but they may have also gotten a bunch of business to business agreements and schematics and things like that if they got a business to business agreement that may be targets for their next uh their next people so that'll be interesting now they actually did not ransomware them i think they got it ahead of time but they did threaten to leak things and i don't think cisco played ball nope so it's gonna be embarrassing for cisco though you know being uh it's like one of the reasons like nobody ever got fired for buying cisco and it's like well you know what do they really bring to the table do you think anybody will get fired at cisco yeah do you think anybody will get fired at curve finance curve finance resolves site exploit directs users to revoke any contracts so this was a cryptocurrency the the front end software for the cryptocurrency contract making thing was compromised and uh they really don't know the extent of the damage yet they're still analyzing i would love to read the email from the developers who actually came up with the crypto software that this runs on to the people who did the front end that got burned here because like we worked so hard so hard to make this secure and look what you did look what you did so that's unfortunate and so going back to the tornado cache thing tornado cache now being sanctioned means that if you touch it you will be immediately presumed to be a terrorist or a criminal why else would you be using it if you get any kind of transaction from that wallet or those what's known to be controlled by them you are immediately going under investigation which can be weaponized someone is trolling celebrities by sending eth from tornado cash so criminals with tornado it's like okay let's take that and let's send non-trivial amounts to known eth wallet addresses for different people including the ceo of coinbase which i thought was really funny jimmy fallon the puma clothing brand a wallet for donations to ukraine that might tell you who might be behind this and uh beeple dave chappelle why does dave chappelle have a public ethereum wallet and are we going on to bugs not necessarily hacks but just bad things that are happening and updates and it appears the the uh you know we know that microsoft is laying off a lot of people yeah does it seem like they're ever going to repopulate the windows testing team windows 11 encryption bug could cause data loss and temporary pc slowdowns on newer pcs that's just windows 11 could cause temporary slowdowns on newer pcs it's just so they didn't implement encryption correctly uh you know you don't have to use windows there are alternatives and uh they have fixed it and the most current update but if you were affected there is no recourse you just lost things good job guys great that one was ready for production that's more bad news for intel this one for once doesn't have anything to do with speculative execution but it does have to do with the new features that they have very widely touted as security for their new chips sgx software guard extensions intel's supposedly impregnable data fortress has been breached yet again uh this is not a repeat well it is kind of a repeat but yeah it's not great yikes it gets uh it reads from something that it shouldn't and doesn't clear it when it's done to be fast turns out that's a bad idea which means that if they can fix it which might not even be possible because it's just you know like on the chip it's going to slow things down yeah sgx is is architecturally flawed it's not uh there's there was uh somebody that came even before this is just like just write it off don't bother well it kind of makes sense they were right whoever predicted that was correct well uh head on over to ebay get yourself a software defined radio before they're all sold out because it's going to be critical yeah well i think people are going to make there's going to be a run on them once we start to figure out that that's the way that you deal with this threat hacker finds a kill switch for submachine gun wielding robot dog so yeah this is fun you just hit the button and the dog goes to sleep yeah well you got to build this it's 433 megahertz and uh if you send it the correct signal over 433 it will shut down it's like an emergency shunt just the dog just curls up like a dead spider how long until the you know the robot the anthropomorphic amazon robot warehouse workers somebody just flies a drone over the amazon warehouse and hits the button and the whole warehouse just shuts down i imagine that the company that makes those those are the chinese dogs i can't write the name of them where it's not the spots but that company is going to stop adding that yeah or you could just put like you know a nice little faraday cloak over your robot dog that might hurt if you're trying to get video back from it and here is a beautiful idea what a great thing i can't imagine they they'll be destroyed by lawsuits soon right i would think how long will they survive a phone carrier that doesn't track your browsing or location the new pretty good privacy phone or pretty good phone privacy service for android hides the data linking you to your mobile device but because it's based on android it was a house built on sand it turns out that when you communicate with a tower it doesn't have to specifically identify you with the isp or the mobile carrier's account in order to work correctly the only reason it has to do that is to make sure that you're a paying customer otherwise other people might be able to piggyback on the network even though they're not paying customers or maybe their account is no longer valid so the reason we can't have any privacy the reason we reason we have data brokers making billions in this country is to make sure that you paid your bill all of them everywhere there's not really any getting around that well you could do this but yeah i imagine they'll find a way to break that and we often find big corporations not taking cyber security seriously and even in you know sectors that you don't expect cyber security to be a big thing and it becomes catastrophic 7-eleven stores in denmark are closed due to a cyber attack sorry denmark it's also hilarious how modern businesses can't do anything without connectivity they just lock the doors that was true for a while with gas prices remember uh a lot of gas stations had to have that low speed satellite link where there was a giant satellite dish on top of the gas station in order for it to work properly oh yeah and they never changed the default thing so you can make a little software defined radio sniffer and you could get some free gas or you could steal credit cards that's terrifying huh yeah think about that pretty soon that's all gonna be going through starlink who's the only fans girl who's now buying gas stations what do you think this cyber security is like at her gas station probably better than average she can afford to properly secure her gas station i don't think she's doing anything like that uh well this happened last week technically but a lot of the headlines came out this week and the big one is not this was a paywall alternative but the big one is what everybody is suspecting is the reason behind this amazon is buying irobot the best irobot vacuum deals on amazon right now cbs this is paid promotion yeah but amazon's buying irobot so be sure to shut it down otherwise amazon's going to have a map of your house and that is what everybody was bringing up that amazon is going to become a data broker for what the inside of your house is like and it can probably tell like what appliances you have how many people are there yep is anybody in there pregnant you know what else the roomba the irobot needs alexa and alexa can listen for commands or even if you don't use alexa it can still listen for those hypersonic tags to know what sort of media you consume and how often your home and lots and lots of other incredibly valuable data and twilio once again i'm sure they sent out the memo but no one reads those memos because they get phished every single week twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies smishing this is actually really like not just the twilio hack but like the whole thing that led to this is actually a worth a read cloudflare caught it and dealt with it properly good job cloudflare but i'm surprised that the number of companies that got caught up in this and we talked about experian and their security issues which they did a very terrible thing they had a it was open you could go in and find out anything about anybody because of the way it communicated so now of course we're going to sue them class action targets experian over account security so it turns out the criminals could just sign up as you and it's like oh they don't if you've already done that no problem you can do forgot password reset password then say you don't have access to that email address and then they can enter your stolen information and create a new account using your information that that was a problem was brought to their attention i don't know during the experian hack like three or four years ago they haven't fixed it it's weird how all that outrage just evaporated because they're doing the same stuff yeah yeah they literally they just this should be the death penalty the corporate death penalty they are too stupid to do what their corporate charter says that they need to do so they just need to dissolve is it stupidity or is it just apathy and maliciousness yeah it seems like apathy and maliciousness because they're you know they're just they're too stupid to survive i mean people were hitting them over the head with it there for a couple years and they still refuse to really do anything so you got to think that that's on purpose madness doug doug go also got in a little bit of a hot water because it turned out that now if you don't know here's a public service announcement duckduckgo does not have their own search they lease bing search when you use duckduckgo you're using bing they smish bing with other search engines so that it's not just bing but they do a little flavoring ultimately you get bing including the tracking from being yeah that's right all that privacy it turns out they were ignoring it and they're like oh that was a mistake we're definitely going to stop doing that duckduckgo browser's stricter privacy protection will also now apply to microsoft scripts whoops that was totally an oversight that we didn't take out the microsoft scripts are bad sorry guys mia culpa sad oops and that is only their browser by the way when you use their search because it is coming from microsoft microsoft still knows that somebody's searching for that you might not know your unique identifier necessarily but it still gets dated and the uh the heat is still going on in the uk they are not getting a break yeah so there was a horse in new york city that collapsed like the horse things they're just like we can't do these because the horses are dying like a police horse no no it's like the the old the the old town new york tours yeah the horses will just collapse like maybe we should just make that maybe should that be a thing that probably shouldn't be a thing you just not have that be a thing anymore you know what i like is the i like the the japan version the rickshaw oh yeah i'll get some rickshaws out there probably also the same kind of a problem though with the exhaustion and collapse yeah but the horse doesn't have a choice what about elon musk can we get elon musk on this can we get some robotic horses i thought you wanted him to pull the rich anyway they're having a real problem with the heat chaos after heat crashes computers and leading london hospitals so it turns out that they never planned on the hospital getting this hot so the air conditioners in the server closets are failing and the servers are overheating and data is lost and they got to do recovery and it is a mess of the highest proportion and as we learned when the ransomware started happening in hospitals when you turn off that internet connection everything stops yeah i actually knew somebody that ran a major regional hospital and this happened the air conditioner the primary air conditioner failed and the backup failed and it was over like a holiday weekend or something when the regular staff wasn't there their entire storage cluster which was like a 10 million dollar system uh shut down but before it shut down it emailed the company that was under service contract to install it and said hey we're over temperature which avoids the warranty so not only did the thing die horribly it was not you know fixable under any kind of warranty or extension or whatever so yeah because that thing you bought isn't yours yeah it's like i'm gonna just you know die but before i die i'm sending an email to the company to let them know that your warranty's invalid i bet apple is looking at that and they're like we got to get this working for water damage your phone has ordered a new phone on apple pay and finally here's a little bit of good news because you know the thing about it is if you carry your phone anywhere you are being tracked and it's not something that's easy to do without or avoid but it turns out the people who are tracking you are probably also carrying phones so guess what this anti-tracking tool checks if you're being followed this raspberry pi powered device can scan for phones around you and if it keeps spotting the same one it'll send you an alert so the bluetooth beacons the wi-fi beacons whatever else it's like hey you've got a stalker or just co-workers at the office but you know software-defined radio i'm telling you go on ebay right now they're cheap get yourself one you actually did a video on software defined radio for stuff it's on the channel gonna be critical to have one of those in the coming wars the war on individualism the war on not participating in the global machine that's doing bad things yes or as we'll call it the genocide all right what do we got for tomorrow it's all business business it's the end of the quarter or the beginning of a new quarter we covered an amazing amount of stories in 42 minutes have you noticed that we always go faster when chris is not here sorry kristen i don't know that that's her fault i don't know if people actually like that or not i think some people say longer some people say shorter that's goldilocks time 42 minutes is goldilocks it is yeah so we better stop you\n"