The Level1 Show April 25 2023 - ICANNot Believe These Changes

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It's the 25th, and it's time for government and security links with friends. You might notice Krista is gone—I didn't until we actually started recording. Oh, harsh well, I didn't mean that in a harsh way; I just meant it because I'm completely spaced out. But anyway, she's glamping—or hiking, I guess. Maybe they're the same thing? She was worried about her calorie intake because she was like, "This is going to be 5,000 calories a day. How am I gonna eat that much?" We'll hear all about it and her menu next week.

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**Government News: FTC Targets AI**

The FTC is trying to be more proactive these days. They see something on the horizon that everyone with three brain cells can see will be disruptive, and they want to get their hands on it. The US FTC leaders will target AI that violates civil rights or is deceptive. So, what are they targeting? Calls to call my mom under "deceptive" wouldn't make sense—it's like saying all AI at the moment is deceptive.

The civil rights angle is another thing you can shape into anything. I'm not saying we don't need these rules, but I don't think that's the thing we should be basing them on. There isn't a scary amount of AI alarmist stuff coming, and it's not just from the oh-my-gosh-it's-going-to-disrupt-everything economically because it'll be able to do a lot of jobs. But people are worried about strange things.

Look at what they did with some of the robot dog: "Oh, the robot dog might be biased—we must stop it." The cops just like, "We removed the bias—it's back. It's a stupid argument because it can't be proven or disproven in any real way. Let's just observe them for what they are, which is terrifying enough but that would be inconvenient for the big donors."

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**SEC Reopening Exchange Definition Proposal**

The SEC is considering reopening the "quote-unquote exchange definition proposal." Decentralized Finance platforms may or may not be able to skirt rules if they can fit themselves outside the definition of exchange. The SEC wants to close that loophole while simultaneously saying, "No, don't be silly—you're an exchange."

We're dealing with the whole registered versus unregistered Securities thing. It seems like the government is already doing what they want. This would give them more control—it almost seems like someone in a closed-door session told the SEC, "You need to go after them. Don't worry about it if it doesn't fit in the law; we'll fix that later."

The crypto space was a lawless horrible wild west of a world, and bad things happened. It always goes that way.

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**State Attorneys General Urge Congress on Right-to-Repair Bill**

Montana or Colorado—let's think about which one had Roger? I think it was Montana last week. But anyway, they did like an actual retro repair that might actually have some teeth that upset the big deer, which is a good sign.

The floodgates broke for Apple. Hopefully, it broke.

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**CFPB Staffer Transferred 256K Consumers' Data**

A CFPB staffer transferred 256,000 consumers' data to a personal email account in a "quote-unquote major incident." The most baffling thing is that the employee hasn't confirmed or even attested that they've deleted the email. They were probably fired when they found out about this, but before being fired, they didn't deal with the emails—so the emails are presumably still out there.

They haven't sent confirmation of deletion. You just test that I have deleted this—which you can't trust. How revealing is it that the attorney generals are used to things like Apple's malicious compliance to such an extent that they're like, "Please just do this at a federal level because it's going to make it impossible for us."

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**China's Transnational Repression Schemes**

40 officers of China's national police were charged with transnational repression schemes targeting US residents. The stuff happening in Canada wasn't weird—it was happening in the US; we just weren't paying attention.

This was all online stuff, but if they have physical presence like in Canada, it can't happen without some kind of approval at the local level. Imagine if you and I started a private security company and started doing stuff like this in this area—what if the CCP doesn't have to have local people? What if they can just pay other people to go rough up people they don't like?

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**Coinbase Regulatory Crackdown**

Coinbase is feeling the crunch of the regulatory crackdown. Are they going to be punished for being an exchange or not an exchange—are there Securities registered or unregistered? They're tired of this fight and are saying, "Maybe we just leave Coinbase could move away from the U.S if no regulatory clarity."

Brian Armstrong said it's really brilliant. Coinbase is laying the groundwork for incredible legal defense if the SEC ever does anything with them because they're out in front saying hey, this is what we do—we're being really transparent; we're trying to dot the eyes and cross the t's.

They're creating a paper trail but by doing these kinds of things and saying, "Hey, we're looking for clarity—what should we be doing here?" They're giving the SEC conflicting information and saying, "Oh, you should do this, and I said, well, we can't do that if we also do this." The SEC seems completely unprepared to deal with that level of insanity.

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**Pentagon Floats Theory for Unexplained UFO Sightings**

The Pentagon released a report with 350 unexplained sightings. Sean Kirkpatrick leads the new Pentagon anomaly resolution office, and Avi Loeb has a history of these kinds of things. It's not about alien civilization but rather something that can be debunked.

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**.NET Domain Seizure Update**

There's an update at the end: the .net TLD (top-level domain). It's already happened with .com—it's true. The language in the article says that if you're in violation of certain things, a government can simply grab your domain name.

This is about the .NET domain, but it already happened with .COM like you said. Some people pointed out to them, "Hey, bro, this already happened with .com," and they were like, "Oh my God, I looked it up—it's true."

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**Seagate Pays $300M Penalty for Shipping Huawei Hard Drives**

Seagate is going to pay 300 million USD as a penalty for shipping Huawei 7 million hard drives. It was apparently 1.1 billion dollars of hard drives—this seems weird.

300 million will almost certainly wipe out their profit margin but probably not eat too much into their costs. It's like, "Oops, didn't get away with it that time. Gosh darn it."

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**Google Wins Appeal Over $20M Patent Verdict**

Google wins appeal of its 20 million dollar U.S patent verdict over Chrome technology. The malware one—anti-malware.

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**EU's Push for Algorithmic Transparency and AI Regulations**

The EU is desperate to change the AI race. They're pushing for an AI research hub to apply accountability rules to Big Tech. Spain-based algorithmic transparency Center to support enforcement of EU's Digital Services Act.

Press releases talk about opening up the algorithm, but in reality, with modern AI, you can't necessarily do that because it's too large and complex—it doesn't work like that.

The whole point of the large language models is that you really can't explain why they get from A to B. You could follow it from A to B—you could give them new training data and say, "No, don't do that," or "Yes, do more of this." But in terms of showing variable a and variable b and how that leads to variable c—it doesn't work like that.

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**EU's Chip Subsidy Plan**

The EU takes on the US and Asia with a chip subsidy plan. They set aside about 50 billion Euros—doesn't go very far these days, and less in the future probably.

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**Stable Coins vs Central Bank Digital Currencies**

Stable coins are a direct threat to central bank digital currencies because they serve the same purpose—they don't appreciate or depreciate (at least in perfect conditions) and facilitate trade. The Bank of England considers limits on stable coin payments as Parliament debates new crypto rules.

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**UK Police Illegally Recorded Calls via App**

Surrey and Sussex police unlawfully recorded phone calls via app Watchdog finds so. This was an app if you installed it on your phone, it would just record everything—even if you were talking to a confidential informant or whatever—it would record everything. They weren't supposed to use it on every phone, but someone didn't read the full documentation and said, "Everybody install this," and most of the cops did.

They proceeded to record every interaction they had with the public, which wasn't supposed to be done. When they wanted to go through those recordings to see if anything egregious happened—they were like, "Oh sorry, it's all gone. Can't let you do that." There were so many egregious things—so many most of the cops didn't know it was actually doing that.

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**Canada Court Dismisses Appeal Against Proctorio**

The BC court of appeals dismisses a former UBC staff member's appeal at an ongoing battle against proctorio. This is the link-letter case we covered a year or two ago. He lost his case, which seemed weird because it was obviously a slap-type situation—something that would crush an individual.

Proctorio is the software that monitors your e-learning stuff and it's terrible—it monitors everything you do but doesn't really tell people using it that well. They pointed out in their case that in the YouTube terms of service, it said treat an unlisted video as public. So they sued him, which seems like a lawsuit meant to silence.

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**UN Predicts India Will Surpass China as Most Populous Country**

The UN says we're getting ready mid-year for a huge Changing of the Guard—India will surpass China as the world's most populous country by mid-year. Canada has moved way down on the list of freest places.

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**Asia: Forced Sterilization and NSO Spyware in Mexico**

In Mexico, the government doesn't like people investigating mass graves or drug cartels. They use NSO group's Pegasus spyware to hack journalist phones. Three more instances of NSO spyware variations zero-click were found under the radar.

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**Apple Targets Ransomware and Tax Time Warnings**

The headline ransomware isn't usually a thing, but that's gonna be changing because Apple security isn't that great. The lock bit group from Russia is spreading malware via fake Chrome updates.

Tax time is over, but if you used online prep software or purchased some software—you might have noticed a sneaky little checkbox. This gives them permission to do things like ads tailored on all the stuff they know about you from your taxes.

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**Valve Bans Steam Reviews for Controversial DRM**

Valve banned 2500 Steam accounts for liking a review about a game called "Warlander." Valve later admitted that the bans were a mistake. The Sentry anti-cheat stays on your machine after you uninstall it—that's just cool, it's disgusting.

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**Japan's Cybersecurity Nightmare and Southwest Airlines Glitch**

Japan is starting to experience a horrible wave of ransomware—a cyber security nightmare affecting everyone else's problem too. Japanese companies won't pay the ransom but will go back to doing things without computers until they can restore them.

Southwest delayed hundreds of departures Tuesday due to a networking glitch caused by a third-party firewall that failed. At least it stopped all traffic when it failed instead of being a fail-open firewall.

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**Conclusion**

For tomorrow, we've got lots of fun business news that's going to be exciting because the collapse continues. We'll see you then.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit's the 25th it's time for government and security links with friends you might notice Krista is gone I didn't until we actually started recording oh harsh well I didn't mean that in a harsh way I just meant it because I'm completely spaced out but uh she's glamping I guess she's on vacation I don't think she's glamping this time I think she's hiking oh okay I guess that's kind of the same thing maybe not she was worried about her calorie intake because she was like oh this is going to be like 5 000 calories a day how am I gonna eat that much and it's like I don't know well I'm sure we'll hear all about it and her uh her menu next week but let's talk about some government news let's start with the FTC now the FTC is I think trying to be a little bit more proactive these days they see something on the horizon that everybody with three brain cells can see is going to be disruptive they want to get their hands on it the US FTC leaders will Target AI that violates civil rights or is deceptive so what are they gonna Target the calls to call my mom under deceptive wouldn't AI that is deceptive mean all AI at the moment pretty much yeah it's like this isn't really a picture of Danny DeVito wielding an ax also that civil rights thing is it's another one that you can shape into anything I'm not saying we don't need these rules but I don't think that's the thing we should be basing them on there isn't a scary amount of AI alarmist stuff coming and not from the oh my gosh it's gonna disrupt everything economically because it'll be able to do a lot of jobs but more strange things people are worried about strange things because well look what they did with some of like the robot dog right yeah it was like oh the robot dog might be biased we must stop it not the robot dog is dystopian and horrible I must stop it and then the cops are just like we remove the bias it's back it's stupid argument because it can't be proven or disproven in any real way let's just observe them for what they are which is terrifying enough but that would be inconvenient for the big donors I think you know what else is inconvenient the definition of the word exchange well it's convenient for people who are trying to escape the top-down control of the monetary system inconvenient for those who wield the control the SEC is considering reopening the quote-unquote exchange definition proposal and this is because decentralized Finance platforms may or may not be able to skirt rules if they can fit themselves outside the definition of exchange and the SEC is looking to close that loophole while simultaneously saying no don't be silly you actually uh are an exchange and right now we're dealing with the whole registered versus unregistered Securities thing and it seems like the government is already just doing what they want there yeah this would give them more control it almost seems like somebody in a closed door session told the SEC you need to go after them and don't worry about it if it doesn't fit in the law we'll fix that later although we do have to admit that the crypto space was a lawless horrible wild west of a world and bad things happened so yeah two bad choices to choose from it seems like it always goes that way doesn't it and the uh was it Montana or Colorado that did Roger I think it was Montana last week right Colorado was it Colorado there's Colorado I think I'm most happy with Colorado's how about that but anyway they did like an actual retro repair that might actually have some teeth that upset the big deer which is a good sign right like that's how you measure how angry is John Deere that's how we measure the success of this also apple and that was enough what was it did it affect I don't think it just affected Farm stuff right not phones yet yeah apple probably sees Danger on the horizon but that uh hopefully broke The Floodgate 28 State Attorneys General urged Congress to pass a stalled right to repair Bill and this is to avoid a impossible to enforce Patchwork of state to state right to repair bills that the Attorneys General just don't want the headache of dealing with but how revealing though is it that the attorney generals are used to things like Apple's malicious compliance to such an extent that they're like please just do this at a federal level because it's going to make it impossible for us but you can't it's it's sort of like a chicken in the egg right you can't get Federal movement until you force their hand with the state laws but if you have too many different state laws then it becomes horrible and then you want fast and the cfpb if you're wondering what that is the P stands for protection they did not protect a cfpb staffer transferred 256 000 consumers data to a personal email account in a quote unquote major incident the most baffling thing in this report unless it's been updated is that the employee hasn't confirmed or even attested that they have deleted the email it's like what is going on well they were they left or were fired probably fired right when they found out about this but before they fired them they didn't deal with the emails so the emails are presumably still out there they have since my notice that they have to have to delete them and send them confirmation of deletion I'm not sure exactly how you would do that yeah you just a test that I have deleted this which I don't know if we should trust that and uh but yeah that person just has not responded fun time I wonder what kind of legal power they have to go to your personal device and Purge stuff you're not allowed to have on it well they would probably have to get it opened up because like get the law enforcement involved and get it to be a you know theft of data type situation which doesn't might not hold up do you think they could argue that this was a threat to U.S persons or national security hope not well if they could the new restrict act would let them do whatever they wanted with that laptop they could actually have people helicopter in to deal with it and we've talked for a long time about the Chinese diaspora some people said I'm pronouncing it wrong still I used to say diaspora now I say diaspora I don't know that people argue about both the aspara which is why you should never I've triggered them all you should never trust the YouTube com but this was happening yeah the Canada thing but not just the candidates New York had one well yeah and we found several of this is a big built-in Road thing too of course not in the US but in the other countries China will lend you money and then when you can't pay that money back they're like well we'll activate these Clauses in the contract and they send in their own police forces and they create like little Chinese communities all over the world and they're not happy when those people don't follow Chinese laws even though they're not in China 40 officers of China's national police charged with transnational repression schemes targeting U.S residents so the stuff that was happening in Canada we joked that was like well that's weird it's not happening in the U.S it turns out it was happening in the U.S we just weren't paying tension and then we started paying attention and we got a lot of people all across the country now they're going after these individual Chinese police who do not live in the United States by the way this is all online stuff but I don't know if this in the cases where they have physical presence like in Canada that can't happen without some kind of approval at the local level right I think that they were just like leasing commercial space and doing it as like a private security company but I feel like somebody's pockets are getting lined yeah for that to maintain imagine if you and I started a private security company and started doing stuff like this in this area what if the CCP doesn't have to have local people what if they can just pay other people to go rough up people they don't like that might be a thing that already exists because you can totally hire a private investigator yeah I've seen that abused quite a bit but this was more of an online campaign that the government is attacking them over and they talk about how they would create social media accounts track these people down hack them threaten them and so forth and these were people who had left China and then were critical of the Chinese government the uyghur stuff and you know I mean there's a lot to be critical of in China so uh I would say that's probably not fixed I would be careful it's never been the case that Rupert Murdoch has done basically the same thing right well I guess the Australian right where he just hired a bunch of investigators to basically harass somebody people like Ruben Murdoch this is important you know like consideration when you're dealing with that kind of power is like he doesn't consider himself of a country yeah he consider himself himself Above All Nations acting as a God and Soros on the other side right yeah well coinbase is feeling the crunch of the regulatory Crackdown that we were talking about earlier are they going to be punished for being an exchange or not an exchange are there Securities registered or unregistered they're tired of this fight and they're saying you know maybe we just leave coinbase could move away from the U.S if no regulatory Clarity CEO Brian Armstrong this actually is really brilliant so it's not just an argue an argument about regulatory capture and lack of clarity from the SEC and blah blah blah coinbase is laying the groundwork for incredible legal defense if the SEC ever does anything with them because they're out in front saying hey this is what we do we're being really transparent we're trying to dot the eyes and cross the t's there's a bunch of laws that they probably don't have to comply with that they can demonstrate that they are complying with they're creating a paper trail but by doing these kinds of things and saying hey we're looking for clay you know what should we be doing here and getting the SEC riled up and giving them conflicting information and saying oh you should do this and I said well we can't do that if we also do this the SEC seems completely unprepared to deal with that level of insanity and I think this is going to ultimately be really good for coinbase's defense in the future when the SEC ultimately decides they did something wrong which is crazy that the world operates that way account coinbase from day one has always said regulate us but you have to tell us the rules yeah and according to them the SEC has never really laid out any concrete rules for them yeah they seem to like the relationship where it's like well you can operate but we'll tell you when you're in violence it's kind of like the tax code yeah yeah we know how much you owe but how much do you think you owe and they better match or you'll go to jail this article is terrible because the information that this is based on is not at all what this says and beyond that this is 100 theoretical they don't offer and they don't even claim that there's any evidence to this this is just hey we created this new government program let's try to get some PR for it I maybe so the political headline is alien motherships Pentagon official floats a theory for unexplained sightings and that's not that's just not at all what the Pentagon released the Pentagon released a reporter that had like six or nine hundred and some sightings in it it's in the hundreds almost a thousand and uh they said we've got explanations for all of these except for like 350. and so the leap here is that like one or two of those might be other stuff the specific Alien Probe that they're talking about they actually built a mathematical model and they figured it out some other people figured out a plausible explanation for that that could explain as trajectory and everything else but this article is talking about how that could have been a probe launching lots of little mini probes and that's just maybe how it would work which is just nonsense it's basically just a fun little piece of fiction they dreamed of and they admit that that's what but it's uh Sean Kirkpatrick who leads the new Pentagon anomaly resolution office and uh Avi Loeb who has a history of these kinds of things and yeah that do you think it's possible that in the 350 there's like two or three that are basically unexplainable and that's why there's so let's see how the public would react let's let's pick something that can that can be debunked for sure and say that was definitely an alien civilization drawing attention away from something else that's even more evidence of alien civilization that's hard to say it could all be a distraction right because those are valuable these days anytime that you have a big story you don't want people to look at just flood the market with nonsense that we'll get clicks but the actual data that the Pentagon released showed that the vast vast majority or explainable and terrestrial source it was maybe unidentified but it would fit within things that are possible with conventional technology and one thing that you might want to distract people from is something like this which is a tiny little change that comes along and nobody talks about it but it has huge repercussions if certain people desire it to and those people being governments of the world the craziest thing about this is there's an update at the end this is about the.net domain at the end some people pointed out to them they're like hey bro this already happened with.com it's already in that he was like oh my God I looked it up and it's true Red Alert I can't reverse unproposable to allow any government in the world to seize domain names in this article you know you you read it and you get to sphincter pucker level two and uh it's about the.net TLD but this already happened with.com like you said so there's some language here that says that you know if you're in violation of certain things then a government can simply grab your domain now we've done several stories about um the FBI for example with those horrible Splash screens Chris is always complaining about you're like why did they just get that domain what was that process because it was in another country well apparently this is how they do it because any country that's willing to seize a domain it says it's violating something can do so did Nissan ever steal the domain name from that guy named Nissan did they finally succeed at that they've been trying probably quietly today maybe uh that's probably a Japanese name or they probably wouldn't let them yeah well I mean you know although that's the Japanese companies I don't know and uh Huawei still being sanctioned now they have seemed to have somewhat pivoted away from the businesses that required all the U.S stuff they're trying hard they're trying to invent their own chips at this point but it turns out that some of that survival might have been because everybody didn't quite follow the rules the Reuters headline is Seagate is going to pay 300 million US dollars as a penalty for shipping Huawei 7 million hard drives so it's apparently 1.1 billion dollars of hard drives which is I guess that's a pretty good price for a modern mechanical hard drive on a per unit basis wait one billion for 7 million hard drives that seems weird doesn't it they charge them a huge premium because it was like oh y'all's gonna buy them from I don't I thought it was low it was one point uh well yeah I mean maybe I had to depend on the size of the drive I guess yeah but uh 300 million will almost certainly wipe out their profit margin but probably not eat too much into their costs so it's like well you didn't make any money on those hard drives but you didn't go in the hole either which maybe doesn't affect them enough to stop them from doing it again yeah it's like oops didn't get away with it that time gosh darn it okay you lose your profit but you get a lot of good will with Huawei in the future right I get the feeling in Scooby-Doo when they catch the bad guy in Scooby-Doo if the bad guy at the last minute just being like ah kids you got me don't don't turn me in they would have been like okay sounds good and it's like the killings can continue it usually wasn't murdered that was a little too harsh for the young minds I think well uh you know who's always in broil in litigation every major tech company and these things take years to decades to play out and you constantly get this back and forth Google wins appeal of its 20 million dollar U.S patent verdict over chrome technology I kind of get my stories confused this was the malware one right yeah yeah anti-malware and uh I had them pegged for losing this one and winning the Sonos one so I got it backwards you would have lost all your money yeah I'm sure it's not the end of it they will try to appeal until the end over in Europe they are uh you know it's the AI race Europe does not have a good starting position no they don't have a lot of AI power and they're desperate to change that AI spins up AI research Hub to apply accountability rules to Big Tech uh civil Spain based algorithmic transparency Center to support enforcement of eu's Digital Services act now this is an AI research lab but really all of their press releases so far talk about the algorithm and opening up the algorithm so it doesn't necessarily really have a lot to do with AI it could have to do with search algorithms Commerce algorithms Amazon with their search result when you go to Amazon to search for you know I don't know 0.5 millimeter flexible flat cable connectors like how the search algorithm interprets that and returns a result would be no longer a black box if you read their press releases at face value to understand how that works but though all that stuff will be AI in the next three to six months so it will apply to that but the black box is a big part of it right you have to be able to explain the algorithm and with modern AI you can't necessarily do that and even if you could you probably wouldn't yeah because that would be the trade secret so they're going to try to force the companies into doing that which may come up with another one of these like well maybe Google just doesn't do business in Europe or maybe Europe gets the old Google search well the the whole point of the large language models though are that you really can't there's too large and too complex to explain why they get from A to B you could follow it from A to B you could give them new training data and say no don't do that or yes do more of this but in terms of you know show me variable a and variable B and how that leads to variable C it's not it doesn't work like that once again the tax code yeah you're never gonna understand it and if they make laws that say that you have to put you an impossible situation doesn't it and they uh and as part of this big push to control AI or get their foot in the door or whatever they of course want to do their own chip plan EU takes on the United States and Asia with a chip subsidy plan I think they literally just called it the EU chip act or something like that like they didn't even bother to yeah call it anything fancy but they've set aside about 50 billion dollars or I'm sorry 50 billion Euro which doesn't go very far these days and less in the future probably yeah unfortunately and uh stable coins we all know that stable coins are a direct threat to Central Bank digital currencies because they serve the same purpose it's literally just a thing that doesn't appreciate or depreciate at least in perfect conditions and facilitates trade and oh boy do they not want to compete with that the bank of England considers limits on stable coin payments as Parliament debates new crypto rules so this would be limiting the kinds of things you could pay with stablecoin like your mortgage which seems like it would limit its usefulness have there been times in the past where certain things were demanded to be paid in certain currencies other than the popular ones by governments never works out and uh it's probably a good idea to record most of what police do because oh boy do they love to be corrupt but when that crosses over into recording everything that the police interact with the public on maybe too much Surrey and Sussex police unlawfully recorded phone calls via app Watchdog finds so this was an app if you installed it on your phone it would just record everything so even if you were talking to a confidential informant or whatever yeah just recorded everything it wasn't supposed to be used on every phone but I guess somebody didn't read the full documentation and they were like everybody install this and most of the cops did and it proceeded to record every interaction that they had I think I think the memo was like this is going to give us new insight into policing and it'll be great and it didn't really talk about what it actually did and boy were they quick to delete it all because they're like hey we want to go through those and see if anything egregious happened or whatever and they're like oh sorry it's all gone can't let you do that there were so many egregious things so many most of the cops didn't know it was actually doing that yeah so you can imagine what would have been uncovered that would be great oh yeah oh our next story is so sad the the the Canada has moved way down on the uh list of freest places they were already long from that uh but there is this famous saying the map is not the territory and I think the new version of that the 2023 version of that is the link is not the content that is what the Canadians have failed to understand BC court of appeals dismisses a former UBC staff member's appeal at an ongoing battle against proctorio this is the link letter case that we covered like a year or two ago and remember when we reported it we said oh he lost his case that's weird he's gonna have to go to trial this is so weird because this is obviously a slap type situation which means that this is a lawsuit meant to crush an individual well let's refresh what it was about proctorio is the software that monitors your e-learning stuff and it's terrible and it monitors everything that you do but they don't really tell the people that are using it that well he links to some internal videos which are just unlisted YouTube videos yeah not really protected under any law they pointed out in their case that in the YouTube terms of service it said treat an unlisted video as public so they didn't like that so they sued him which seems like a slap loss like you know it's just it's a lawsuit that's intended to silence and Canada has laws against that but here we are the case the judge the judges in this I can't only malicious contempt could explain how they would rule this way because they said that even though the defense had found links to the materials that link letter linked elsewhere publicly that the collection itself was eligible for copyright and it's like I don't think you understand how copyright works if it's a collection of that's not how that works didn't he curate The Collection well there was yeah and that's their problem is like they're saying that he got the list of links directly from them but the defense found that those links existed pre publicly before Linkletter even disclosed them so even if somehow disclosing an unlisted YouTube link which is dubious at best is a violation link letter wasn't the one to disclose them and so uh but the judge found that because proctorio had them in a a list similar to link letters that the list itself was a violation of copyright and that's just such a paper thin copyright for the whole point of copyright that it just it's stupefying how anybody would interpret it that way unless you've just you've already decided the case and you're trying to distort reality to fit the case which is very disappointing Canada but imagine if you scrape away all the frothy ponds come on the top of this it boils down to proctorio is saying if the public were aware of our internal practices that would be devastating for our business that was actually their argument yeah so maybe if you're if you're in a situation where you have to use that awful software maybe you should complain I go on the list with that guy yeah well uh let's move over to Asia and we don't have solid numbers yet but the United Nations claims to be able to measure these things and they're saying that we are getting ready mid-year for a huge Changing of the Guard India will surpass China as world's most populous country by mid-year the UN says I had there was one modeler that said that this has already happened because China hasn't been honest about how much their population has declined is India honest Well India is honest about how much their population has exploded what they could be saying is more now India is also experiencing a little bit of like that movement into the middle class and China is probably declining because they've already completed that and the more you move up on that ladder the less your fertility rate or the more goes down so India has gone into the more of an educational model you don't go into labor jobs you go into higher education to try to get to be a part of that whole world the white color World they have a particular problem with that India's population is on track to exceed China's but a report says that its Workforce is weighed down by thousands of people with worthless college degrees this talks about how the population is so extreme there's a lot of people needed to do jobs that don't that are not college degree oriented jobs and there's not enough people to do those jobs but there's tons of little tiny schools who don't charge a lot of money but also have teachers that are terrible curriculum that is way out of date and sometimes it's just literally a diploma meal where they take a couple of grand from you and give you a diploma you don't ever even show up for anything so these people are going into the workforce with no value at all sorry but definitely didn't also happen here in the United States well we're all getting Dumber right the numbers are showing that we're declining rapidly also we've talked about the uh India's new law that says that they basically get they're going to create a little unit that has the final say on every social media post if someone complains about a social media post the government will decide if it stays up or down they've been criticized for that obviously they offer this uh rebuttal which Rings a little Hollow India says it's new I.T fact-checking unit will not censor journalism you got a license for that journalism we've seen India Crackdown on journalists yeah Time After Time think about the aforementioned proctorio situations like oh that guy's not a journalist and it's like well he has some valuable things to say about this awful software yeah I don't think they would like that no and the big Tech Giants they have their own uh they have the Asian internet Coalition which is basically all the big Tech Giants getting together to try to figure out how to get the same control over those countries that they have over our country and they don't like it U.S tech Giants won India's fact-checking rule will profoundly infringe on press Freedom they're not wrong but their motives here are not pure once again two horrible entities and we must try to choose the Lesser evil the enemy of my enemy is my friend I don't know I would say you know we probably naively say well maybe the Indian government is better than the horrible tech companies because that's the enemy we know the tech companies I bet Indian people are like nah bro you have no idea which is what I would say about my government I mean the best that the people in India can hope for is that Google is so apathetic about what their local struggles are that they just don't care kind of like the new Twitter and we all remember although actually the world has probably completely forgotten at this point you know as a a collective the big balloon Saga because nothing really happened with the balloon Saga it distracted us from something else that happened that week but it turns out the government did look into it how do we know because of the Minecraft Discord leaks leaked secret documents oh no detail up to four additional Chinese spy balloons and it turns out there's some really interesting technology on those spy balloons one of the things is their power generation capabilities which are more than Earth orbit satellites so it could really it could really generate a lot of energy for whatever it had going on board so they itemize all the stuff that they identified they called it Killeen all of these satellites were named after famous U.S criminals and um based on all of that they still stick with the what they're saying though that these were not that much better than just satellite obser observations it didn't really gain a lot from it maybe a little more convenient I don't know we learned how sophisticated the radar is which is powerful enough to generate a few inches of topsoil so if you have underground corridors that are not buried eight feet down probably image that from space now also we found out that there were more balloons than we were told about yeah four more so interesting moving over to Korea this is a wild idea and uh the age range is what blows my mind South Korea to give 490 as an allowance to reclusive use to help them leave the house between 9 and 24 who are experiencing extreme social withdrawal so we got this issue in Korea where some people are just like I'm done I'm staying at home not doing anything I guess that's everywhere right imagine though even adjusted for inflation imagine what we could have done with that monthly stipend when we were nine years old could have ordered so much from the back of things the computer Shopper that we're going to talk about later no longer exists in Norwell ever again I thought I've got one issue in my in my office I thought about going to get it for the that episode just to be like look and here it is you should pick up one of the last issues of the two that are still oh frame it yeah yeah at nine years in the 80s that probably would have been like two three hundred dollars right yeah God that would have been amazing to get that every month but they want you to go outside and uh touch grass I don't know if there's a lot of grass in downtown Seoul but they want you to be part of the world I think they're seeing that demographic crisis creeping up right it's a bold strategy I mean and uh was it Colombia I think was the first one to use Chad gbt in a court case yeah which was like wow that's what about the usefully wrong stuff shouldn't we worry about that in court and more and more people are saying yeah you know we're just going to do it Yokosuka becomes the first local government in Japan to begin a chat GPT trial usage so it's going to help them draft public statements for the stuff that they're doing and it's going to help them like proofread and stuff like that they've got their own software that sits on top of it that's supposed to protect against secret stuff getting into it and training it but I wonder how good that is I don't this translation is not super amazing at first it sounded like what they were going to do was take a relatively complicated law that tries to have all of its con loopholes closed and then explain it in plain language what it does but it doesn't seem like a bad thing but then the article talks about other stuff and it made it seem like oh yeah they're trying to hide some stuff maybe you know what's terrifying about that I just thought of this what if one day they take these obscure laws and then they give it to Ai and they're like well the AI interprets it like this and we like that so that's the new law that's horrifying that's like what James Clapper did with the whole I'm not spying on Americans already yeah I'll be honest they kind of just do what they want with it don't they and the Chinese Communist Party do what they want with the Tibetans it's not a good thing we talk about the wiggers more but the wiggers Tibetans were the old school weird population that was completely oppressed and it's not stopped and apparently uh some of our people are making a little money off of it Tibetan police Mass collect DNA and lawmakers say U.S firm is helping was that wrong should we not have done that it's like yeah it turns out you probably shouldn't build this database or it's going to be misused I'm trying to find the name of the company they get like six paragraphs on Richard Gere here that you had to scroll through Pro private investigator tip I guess if if you're you're anonymous internet client says something like hey go get their trash and especially if you can find toiletries or anything that might have DNA on it fish that out of the trash bag it up and send it to us there might be something weird going on so it's Thermo Fisher Scientific they're from Massachusetts and what they're being accused of is basically giving the Communist Party the program and the equipment and coordinating the DNA swapping of all the Tibetan people and that's used to obviously control them track them and pretty much ruin their lives the whole idea here is religion the CCP says the only religion is the CCP nothing comes before us including God the Benz disagree engagement challenge is it just a poor translation when when I read things like we have no problem with you continuing to live out your life we just don't want you to procreate and it's like is that yeah they were doing forced sterilization yeah and offering uh monetary rewards for sterilization but I mean that the language is like we're not you know you don't have to go to jail you can live out your life you can do whatever you want you just can't procreate I think that's exactly what they're going to say because in their mind it's like listen it's our choice if you live or die yeah we're gonna let you live like look how merciful this is and it's just like oh my goodness also much like the uyghurs they will uh move them around it's like in prison if you're getting a little too much if you're joining together with too many people we're going to split you up in the hopes that you will then enter marry and interbreed with non-religious Chinese and we'll sort of remove this problem yeah a little disturbing there and the uh people who are maybe trying to look into this kind of thing this one wasn't in China it was in Mexico but it's the same kind of thing you get an activist or a journalist who's looking into the drug cartels looking into yeah in this case a mass grave something concerning the government doesn't like that so who do they partner with the same old name they were investigating mass kidnapping then their phones were hacked yeah the NSO groups Pegasus were it was used to compromise journalist phones that were investigating Mass Graves that there may or may not be a Mexican government connection too nervous laughter NSO doesn't deny it but they're like hey we only work with governments it's totally legal everything's fine is it though three more instances of NSO spyware variations zero click and that we didn't know about before so that was under the radar for a while they can actually go back with if you have an iPhone now they can go back and tell whether or not you were affected by that also they said that in most cases lockdown mode would protect you from these new threats most people don't use it yeah how about a pine phone would a pine phone protect you from these threats if you're journalist it's like I'm just going to use this potato class cellular modem that's Wi-Fi insulated to my real devices that seems like that would be a little safer probably a little too much to ask for most journalists though we really need to separate the cellular modem from everything else Asus had that one x86 phone where they couldn't figure out how to make it shared and your cellular radio and your compute radio your compute memory space were different so it'd be hard to exploit that well up until now one of the most secure things you could do might have been to buy a Mac right not because the code is all that good but just because it's such a small market share most people don't bother seems that's changing Apple's Mac uh what's the headline ransomware right well apple apple Max ransomware thing it's not usually a thing but that's gonna be changing because the ransomware people have noticed that uh Apple security is not really that great and they got a hold of some it looks like betas yeah I mean that's that's software right they got to test it they got to improve it they got to iterate it and they found an early version that's not very effective but it shows they're working on it this is the lock kit group I think was that right lock bit lock bit Yeah there's the one the one out of Russia we think of course even if you're not operating out of Russia you're probably doing everything you can to make it look like you're operating out of Russia it's like ah they're in Russia we'll never get them and a lot of people would never question that because it's convenient or like oh yeah more Russian stuff printed immediately that's a great move if you're Pro ransomware tip pretend you're from Russia it turns out it was a 12 year old in Saskatchewan what's going on and here's an old classic way of getting you to click and get bad stuff but it's becoming uh more prevalent I guess hacked so it's called spreading malware via fake Chrome updates if you see something like that you're gonna have to be suspicious because what they're going to do is try to trick you into installing an update that is a update that's a zip file that they just downloaded and it's a Monero Miner fun times I haven't heard about Monero miners Montreal yeah I've actually gotten the uh the banner ad like the banner ad where it's like you update Chrome now and it's like that's not even how that works but you should open Chrome now they're not lying about the fact that you should update you just didn't use their update Google wants three billion Chrome users to install this emergency security patch ASAP well that's a zero day exploit it's really bad that was on the 16th so you're already too late yeah I'll get it right on that they found it in the wild usually it's just a researcher this one like no it's out there that's why there was so on fire to get that out now it's uh tax time is now passed so most of you have probably already done that if you didn't you're gonna you're gonna have a bad time but if you use some online prep software or even maybe even purchased some software and use that you might have noticed a little check box a sneaky little check box that was part of this year's uh tax prep experience how to file your taxes without selling your soul it turns out if you file online you have to give them permission to do things like a vampire it's like oh you have to invite them into your house and they they do all kinds of things to make you accidentally invite them we can help you do more now what they're actually going to help you do is um give well they're not going to help you do anything actually they're going to sell your data yeah so this is stuff like uh ads that can be tailored much like the Facebook experience but tailored on all the stuff they know about you from your taxes so like well how much money did you make do you want to advertise to people that only make this much money we have that information and because of this little checkbox they've given us permission to share that with you I think the real crime here is making it seem like the checkbox actually does anything that's true it's supposed to by federal law but we all know how that goes you can also opt out after the fact so if you feel like you might have done that by mistake you can turn it off but like window says yeah once they've shared your data with a partner when you opt out it's not going to also forward your opt out to their Partners I guarantee you and steam is our valve is one of the few giant tech companies that still has positive PR yeah they almost no Raspberry Pi is probably pretty good right yeah they they made some missteps by hiring a dude that used Raspberry Pi devices for uh surreptitious he still works there too yeah all right so eliminate them I mean some people don't care but some people really don't like that I don't like that but valve a couple of stumbles of the Year pretty much they've been good but this is probably a situation where you know you hire moderators modern moderators overstep almost automatically because you know people I don't know they feel like they need to be in charge or whatever and this person took offense to someone not liking a a bit of DRM and anti-cheat valve restricted almost 2500 steam accounts for liking a review valve later admitted that the bands were a mistake it looked to me like that valve office was a bot so somebody complained about the drms and they thought it was a like one of those Bots that uh has a bunch of accounts and but a cursory examination of what they were about to ban probably would have confirmed that no it turns out people don't like this he gave the register key entries that you needed to run to remove it from your computer after you uninstall the game and refunded it hopefully the problem here is it wasn't a they didn't ban it from Steam they banned it from posting reviews or comments for 30 days the problem is they also banned everyone who upvoted or awarded a badge to that review for 30 days so if you like the review you now can't interact with steam discussion forum for 30 days you liked a review that was particularly salty I can't do you remember what the game was uh warlander so watch out for warlander apparently it's a defunct now anyway but that the Sentry anti-cheat will stay on your machine after you uninstall it that's just cool it's disgusting yeah you know what valve should do is Ban that yeah that would be the PR move over in Japan uh it's we haven't been getting as much ransomware I feel or maybe they're just not publicizing it well we had the report in the at the end of the last year that there was a record ransomware last year but people weren't paying because economics yeah and I guess they don't want the pr if they're not going to pay for it then we don't want the news but Japan is starting to just experience that horrible wave and it seems to be really affecting them cyber security nightmare in Japan is everyone else's problem too so it turns out Japan a lot of these Japanese companies they won't pay the ransomware but they'll go back to doing things without computers until they can restore things and that's involved some delays in production for things like USB connectors for cars which we sort of need they made the USB connectors that went in cars and this company had to shut down for like two weeks and that was a big part of our car production issue dang it and we have once again someone has made a terrible error another supply chain problem of a third party provider and what happens your whole vacation gets ruined Southwest delayed hundreds of Departures Tuesday due to a networking glitch so Southwest asked the FAA to pause all of its flight departures across the U.S while it worked things out it was a third party firewall that failed but at least it was good enough that it stopped all traffic when it failed rather than just be like ah just let it go it's a fail open firewall that would be an impressive piece of Kit I'm sure he says yeah but the airlines seem to struggle keeping things going it might be a little bit too complex the system at this point fun times all right so for tomorrow we've got lots of fun business news that's going to be exciting because the collapse continues we'll see you then\n"