**The Unsettling World of Malware and Job Scams**

In recent times, it has become increasingly difficult to navigate the digital landscape without falling prey to various forms of scams and malware. One such phenomenon that has gained significant attention is the prevalence of malware on Android devices, particularly during the recovery process. This type of malware can be transmitted through seemingly innocuous apps or updates, leaving users vulnerable to identity theft and financial loss.

For instance, in one particular incident, a person observed their phone's call logs indicating that a box was making calls to unknown numbers. Upon further investigation, it became clear that the device had been compromised with malware. This experience highlights the importance of being vigilant when using Android devices and taking necessary precautions to protect oneself from such threats.

Moreover, job scams have also become a significant concern in recent years. Many people, particularly those looking for remote work opportunities, have fallen victim to scammers who promise lucrative jobs but demand payment as a condition of employment. This is often done through fake job postings on social media platforms or websites that appear to be legitimate. The scammers may claim that the applicant needs to purchase equipment or software in order to perform their duties, only to use the information provided for nefarious purposes.

The example cited in the transcription illustrates this phenomenon all too well. A person was offered a work-from-home job that required them to purchase $15,000 worth of equipment. The scammer claimed that they would reimburse the applicant upon completion of their tasks. However, it became clear that this was simply another form of identity theft and financial exploitation.

The perpetrators behind these scams often rely on psychological manipulation to convince their victims to part with sensitive information or payment. In some cases, they may even pose as legitimate employers or authority figures to gain trust and credibility. It is essential for individuals to be cautious when dealing with job offers that seem too good to be true or require payment as a condition of employment.

**The Power of Wi-Fi: A New Frontier in Surveillance**

In another disturbing development, scientists have made significant progress in using Wi-Fi signals to detect and visualize human presence through walls. This technology relies on the fact that the human body absorbs 2.4 gigahertz radiation at a much higher rate than surrounding objects. By analyzing this radiation, researchers can create detailed images of people's bodies, even behind solid objects.

While this technology may seem like science fiction, it has already been demonstrated in real-world experiments. Researchers have successfully used Wi-Fi signals to detect and track individuals, even when they are not in the same physical location as the signal source. This raises significant concerns about privacy and surveillance, as well as potential implications for law enforcement and national security.

The implications of this technology are far-reaching and unsettling. It has the potential to revolutionize various fields, such as healthcare and search and rescue operations, but it also poses significant risks to individual privacy and autonomy. As with any new technology, it is essential to weigh its benefits against its potential drawbacks and take steps to mitigate any negative consequences.

**A Final Note from the Author**

As we wrap up this article, I would like to apologize for the brief interruption earlier in our conversation. It seems that my computer had other plans! Nevertheless, I am pleased to have been able to continue our discussion and share some of the fascinating yet unsettling stories that are making headlines in recent times.

For those who may be interested, I will be taking a short break from my Minecraft server duties to attend to some pressing matters. As you know, I have been working on various projects, including my November project, which is rapidly approaching its completion deadline. While I am eager to share more about it with you all in the future, I may need to push the deadline back by a week or two.

Until then, I hope you have enjoyed this article and will continue to stay vigilant when navigating the digital landscape. Remember to always be cautious of suspicious job offers and malware, as well as any new technologies that promise too good to be true benefits.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello welcome back to the L1 Show links with friends today is January 24th and I immediately forgot the sections we're doing I can see how you would because it's only the same every week yeah government and security it does change sometimes it does always government because there's not a lot of government stories sometimes not this week we do have a fair amount and most of them are um here's a shock you're right it's being trampled U.S law enforcement has warrantless access to many money transfers a low profile surveillance program is Raising major privacy concerns this is something that has already been going on we we told you this has been happening for years and it's funny because the article mentions how they weed out transactions that are less than five hundred dollars because there was too much noise in the signal to noise ratio from randos sending money home this is outside of the banking system so Western Union venmo all that you know direct money and stuff uh if that goes across the border and even sometimes if it doesn't it all gets hovered up into this one big thing and law enforcement has open access to that no warrant needed just because like hey search this guy's name and see if he sends money overseas yep he does and uh Mexico you might think well that's some cartel stuff some other places in South America okay maybe Canada so they're getting contacts from Canada well I mean In fairness El Chapo did tweet at the Mexican president like please save me SOS and when it comes to violating our uh rights with surveillance it's nothing new of course been going on since God knows when the 80s the creation of the alphabet agency as long as I've been alive at least uh far more than that but they got a real shot in the arm right around 2001. man everything was given the label of why are we doing this why are you trampling our rights it's because of Terror now the Specter of Terror has faded so we can assume that all those programs have come to their Sunset correct the NSA director urges Congress to renew controversial intelligence Authority it's it's funny to testimony he's like we're we're saving American people this is really amazing I would just like to say that you know if the NSA were doing this competently they would have been in a position to thwart things like the Juniper hacks and the Cisco hacks and the OPM hack you know where the office of personnel management lost a bunch of stuff you know some of these these ransomware attacks that have shut down you know like parts of the airline industry at the NSA really was actually doing anything other than after the fact surveillance on this kind of stuff then wouldn't we have had early warning of those kinds of things for the airline thing wasn't that also them not upgrading their stuff for years even though their tech people begged yeah yeah well I don't know if we should expect the NSA to have a hand in that although they'd probably monitor it well if the NSA showed up to tell your CTO hey you need to upgrade your stuff because uh you're being targeted by hackers do you think that they would I don't think the NSA would do that because I don't think they're paying attention to that uh the thing about it is this was all about Terror this was about you know the Middle East mostly when in 2004 when it was created but now there's no mention of that obviously because that's not the the thing anymore now it's all about ransomware um and basically they didn't mention Russia it's weird you think that'll be an easy one but they didn't mention it's just a slam dunk or Iran or we've got so many stories on that where you connect the dots so you need to remember this story because we're going to refer back to it especially in the business section because it's like wait a minute that guy was talking about ransomware and here's an example of where they failed catastrophically to prevent anything remotely useful with ransomware but you can't mention Iran because that would remind people hey that's the reason you created this thing you got to make them think that it was always about ransomware we've always been at war with oceans and the federal election committee has finally gotten to the bottom of all that election nonsense that went on turns out there wasn't any the Federal Election Commission dismisses the RNC complaint that Google spam filters were boxed against conservatives according to CNN business we'll go ahead well they don't say that it didn't happen because it's provably true that it did happen their argument is it was a business decision not a political decision here's a here's another like thing to put in your noodle what if it was just conservative websites were just poorly designed and optimized and that's why Google penalized them no this was emails oh and don't put things in my noodle oh I'll put things in your noodle and the Supreme Court has some big things playing out soon but I imagine we're going to see a full court press yeah from all the various entities trying to push one direction or the other here get ready for an onslaught of propaganda Supreme Court poised to reconsider key tenants of online speech this is section 230 protections and or lack thereof and or changes to section 230 for it's like if Facebook undertakes any sort of moderation of things posted does that take away their uh section 230 protection against crap that users post and can the tech CEOs be held accountable for what's posted on their sites yeah I'm honestly surprised we're not seeing more leverage of the children to bring forth the argument one way or the other because oh Tech CEO should be responsible for what our children are exposed to on Facebook and it's like well uh we literally give people PTSD from reviewing that content are you sure about that well Google has skipped over the protect the children stuff and they've gone straight to the apocalyptic scenarios for what might happen here Google warns the Supreme Court that it could up into the internet through Section 230 changes yeah they would certainly reduce Google's power over the internet although unfortunately it would probably screw people like us as well yeah all I'm thinking about is the Forum and it's like well we have to get rid of the Forum if it gets worse it's uh it is a little bit ambiguous you remember the API thing it's like oh the API is copyrightable and it's like that one was really close and like the VCR historically the the Supreme Court almost decided that the VCR was illegal like it was because it can record stuff off TV it was a tiny tiny thread that the VCR is legal and this is it's not good that things are that split because it seems obvious that it shouldn't be but their treatment of torrent sites is just the modern day interpretation of that yeah it just doesn't affect as many people because we have technology that lets you get around it by paying it is really terrifying and the wheels of Justice oh boy do they turn slowly because this is a blast from the past if you recall the big it was an arson case Google did the Geo fencing what do they call it Geo I think geofence was it geofencing where they just get a warrant for everybody who had been in the area and then a warrant for everybody who had Googled the address of the area if you just like didn't know where a place was and you looked it up you went on this list those cases are finally in court cool keyword search warrants questioned by Colorado lawyers it is sort of an interesting defense like okay does it is that enough to get probable cause is that enough to elicit suspicion that's where he seems pretty poisonous to me man who doesn't just spend time on Google Maps looking around I mean if I have to go to a place oh yeah I think it was what was it a theater or something it was a public place yeah so and Wyoming they just did this for the head this is a troll I mean this is ridiculous yeah Wyoming wants to phase out sales of new electric vehicles by 2035. all 12 residents they're they're just they're just trolling just a troll this is I think this is what is wrong with our country right now is that instead of saying stop telling us what to do our leaders go for no we're going to tell you what to do just based on the stuff we like so it's like no you can't stop us from doing this thing we'll stop you from doing that thing it's like no guys that's not the direction it's not where we want to be and here's a shocker of a headline if you're not sitting down you might want to start because who could have predicted this it was unfined by Regulators for unsafe warehouse work conditions we reported that they would when they found that the conditions were unsafe and that the warehouses have uh what was it eight or ten times the national average for sprains and like minor injuries and they also found that those were systematically under reported because the way that things are structured in the warehouse is those aren't really super well documented a lot of the time a laughably small amount 60 Grand yeah it was very low now here's the most terrifying thing this was OSHA by the way coming after him but here's the most terrifying thing that I was not aware of maybe you guys were amcare Amazon has like a little triage Center that they run and if you get injured you have to go to amcare and per amcare policy you have to wait three weeks before going to an actual doctor to try to give the thing time to clear up the first part of that I was like well it's not too bad most people have like a emergency kit on site and then it's three weeks before you see an actual doctor it's like oh there's the dystopia but they also accuse them of being sort of like uh you know sports doctors right it's like no you're fine yeah yeah don't worry about collapsing from a heart attack it's totally okay everything's good get back to packing those boxes right so uh yeah 60 Grand Amazon looks at that and they're like make it worse listen we brought you back on the field with the defibrillator I mean what more do you want yeah 60ks just slap on the wrist they're gonna keep doing it and the justice department has more uh accusations and charges to hand out to Guess Who cryptocurrency firms founder majority of owner bitslotto and cryptocurrency exchange charged with unlicensed money transmitting and you read this article and you think wow this sounds really bad and then you realize that you could copy you could search and replace bizlotto for PayPal for example and all of this would apply to PayPal well this guy was a he did some dumb stuff as they always do one of the things he did was uh admitted in a chat an internal chat yeah that a huge portion of the business was illegal I think in the beginning PayPal people would have said that I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is on there is having said that about Wells Fargo HSBC HSBC is like yeah we're the we're the bank of the cartels so they know they know and a lot of this uh apocalyptic stuff from Google is because not just the us is going after them this week the UK as well and the UK has gone considerably further with their reach UK lawmakers to vote to jail Tech Executives who fail to protect their kids online can we also jail Ikea because the corners of their coffee tables are real sharp and I'm sure we can find at least one child injury in the UK where a kid fell into the corner of a coffee table and got hurt real bad what does it say about your culture if you expect Tech executive to protect your children I don't think that's their job maybe you need to take a bigger hand in that you created those little monsters I mean if I were raising children and I felt that I was that incompetent I would probably abstain from having computers at home it's like well you know the family business is knife juggling maybe I gotta put that on hold for a while to race the kid and all the big tech companies of course are equally terrified by this because if you have a tech company where something is online that you could be blamed for and you might have to go to jail but you got to do everything you can to stop there right Wikipedia is even on board criticizing these harsh new Online safety Bill plans so Wikipedia has some articles about some dark historical events I could see them being like ooh you want to catch us plus people edit it you know yeah it's constantly being edited so how do you police all of that it is a crazy plan yeah let's admit but the goal is to come up with something completely insane everybody can agree is completely insane and when they dial it back just to click everybody's like oh that's more sane yeah that's it is a classic psychological manipulation technique why why are not more people immune to it at this point because it happens with everything also you know when the next bad thing happens and people complain the politicians can be like we tried look what we did Ikea came out with a new popular coffee table that really is just bad news for children's foreheads the first draft of the Ikea table is just covered in spikes and then they were like everyone gets angry and they're like well we'll do one with just sharp Corners can you imagine the UK law it's like only coffee tables are only permitted to have at most six spikes yeah we have a new line that's based on the Iron Throne all swords and uh The Pirate Bay this goes back to your comment about VCRs because this is just kind of yeah that's the same level of insanity because the rule is if you link to content that has a copyright but what if you link to content that links to content that has a copyright or linked to content that links to content that links to content how many degrees of separation and it seems like any amount is too many the police complaint a police complaint from the city of London Police has removed a Pirate Bay proxy portal from GitHub this wasn't a link to the Pirate Bay or even a link to proxies for the Pirate Bay it was a tool and a link for a thing that finds the proxies to The Pirate Bay based on what your DNS blocking is or what other stuff is and so this is not super far this is a maybe one click closer would you say than YouTube download to whatever the wall of piracy is maybe yeah about the same I'd say yeah uh so it's removed and it only took a complaint the city of London Police were like we don't think this should be here could have said ah whatever don't care agree totally those people are evil and the old Microsoft Activision deal uh I think it's dead yeah but Microsoft will not accept it and they keep fighting and they keep getting pushed they're going through the stages of grief Reuters has the headline Microsoft faces EU antitrust warning over Activision deal according to sources now this was written before the Microsoft layoffs but the EU today is already uh using the Microsoft layout layoffs which we'll talk about in the business section to go back to this and say see see we told you we told you if you've got extra money yeah what stage would you say they're in uh I would say bargaining right now yeah they are bargaining hard yeah and the EU is warning the social media companies one in particular which they suspect might not comply with this crazy news either you use uh Breton has warned tick tocks the CEO you need to comply with the new digital rules these are the EU rules you know about you EU citizen data staying in the EU and privacy policy and blah blah blah because they think maybe Tick Tock is not uh adhering to those rules how can Tick Tock possibly keep EU data in the EU because they obviously report it back to China they've admitted yeah even if they don't store it in China there are Chinese with access to it which is a violation so and India we've seen uh they have been pushing back really hard against the tech companies this was so funny and they their policy goes even farther than the us or the EU they're not they're taking this very seriously India proposes social media firms rely on fact checking by government agencies so I didn't I didn't read the TechCrunch article on this I read another article that I think was in the Indian language first translated to English and it seemed to be the translation seemed to be saying the reporters seem to be saying that the argument in front of lawmakers was somebody asked facetiously like what do you expect us to do like who's going to do the fact checking have you not considered that and the the lawmaker people on the debate floor earnestly were like well maybe maybe we should check that also so they were just like completely they had no no actual plan yeah they they like the idea of it's like yeah we should be in charge of everything and I like the idea of being in charge so much that they're willing to Buck up against these tech companies and when Google started to come into India and he was like yeah you know we could probably have Android but here's the thing you're gonna have to take all your Google software off of it and Google's like no no no no no no that's impossible but we're about to find out whether it is or not India's Top Court rejects Google's plea to block Android antitrust ruling in a major blow so yeah like you said it's basically just give us Android and mobile phone operating system without all of the Google stuff Google said we can't do that you could still install the Google stuff Google's argument was basically hey apple is bigger than us in Mobile we should be able to do what we want talk about what about is and yeah like just ignore the topic completely and point your finger at somebody else but that's how you do things right meanwhile Android continues to get worse and uh Google has said the same kind of incendiary topics they just copy pasted this memo the entire week and just send it to different press releases about different countries Google says India antitrust order poses a threat to National Security because what are you gonna do go to go go get him huawei's OS if you can't have Gmail then but the Communists have won and China uh China seems to be sort of realizing all of the sudden the demographic and financial Quagmire that they've found themselves in and they are just reversing course on all these policies with no warning whatsoever China lifts ban on Marvel movies it sets release date for black panther 2 Ant-Man and the WASP quantumania this Variety article fails to mention that the reason that uh Black Panther 2 was blocked is racism in China which is sort of was it yeah sort of sort of sort of dark why'd they go after Ant-Man well because you know Western whatever but they're gonna they're they're gonna release the one and then the other one finally yeah at the same time I think they need income yeah any kind of income first of all or distraction yeah give any kind of taxable income that we can get and get people out there back in the economy spending money yeah bread and circuses right and this might be one of the big reasons why because this is a serious problem for economy that's built on cheap labor China's population drops for the first time in decades we I think we first reported on this what was it like October November last year the report that this is usually obvious in it wasn't obvious and this may have been happening for the last couple of years and they just sort of fudge the numbers a little bit but now now it's rough a lot of people believe that these numbers are also fudged and it's way worse yeah which wouldn't be shocking MailChimp caused me a lot of headache a couple of weeks ago boy that was annoying the whole thing just shut down maybe now we know why MailChimp says it was hacked again they got a lot of credentials and API keys and a lot of bad things it's great it's fabulous good job annoying if you have to deal with it they got in but they only hacked about 100 accounts obviously they knew what big players to go after so woocommerce they got everything that woocommerce had oh that sounds like a WordPress connected thing oh no we could have predicted there's something connected to the WordPress economy was a vast disaster obscurity a WordPress plugin oh no and circle CI we heard about their hack but we didn't know how bad it really was now we do Circle CI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers Secrets as you know we foreshadowed when this was first recorded because people were already reporting strange things with their Amazon keys so if you use Circle CI you need to go reset all your crap actually it's probably a little too late for that you'd be surprised how many people don't bother to learn how to keep secrets out of the git repo and they're just like oh it's a private repo not everybody can access the git repository so I can put secrets in it no don't do that they got that new AI That's supposed to help with that because it's so common let's GitHub well no one else has it I'm sure it's coming soon to everybody else and uh Norton LifeLock well that's a valuable service right that'll keep your password safe Norton LifeLock warns that hackers have breached their password manager accounts I looked at what happened with the LastPass and we're like oh oh no guys oh that's gonna happen to us also they've renamed to or Symantec has renamed to gen digital well it's because Symantec you know is such a bad they've destroyed their product it's almost at McAfee levels of insanity so you destroyed their Goodwill so they're like we'll just Rebrand yeah how about the fact that John McAfee was the least bad thing about that brand name he had higher trust yeah and the brand itself despite his lifestyle yeah that was astonishing when's blizzard gonna Rebrand I need to right yeah well they've had bad PR all all year well I think they're hoping to just get folded into Microsoft yeah probably not gonna happen though right or it'll be like Microsoft blizz or Microsoft and uh T-mobile also in the breach section this week T-Mobile suffers another data breach this time affecting 37 million accounts oh I was a bad actor current postpaid and Prepaid customer accounts so they lost everything is it post paid and prepaid just a really convoluted way of saying everybody yeah yeah what's the other category there unpaid the complimentary account people who haven't paid their bill didn't get their stuff leaked so the lesson there is don't pay your bill that's the only way to be secure and uh this is another kind of blast from the past I think this happened a while ago and there was some Ransom negotiation and Gaben stood strong leaker releases valve assets from repository a Discord user released various assets from valves repository including games from Half-Life and Team Fortress 2 and it was just stuff that maybe would go into the story maybe not I mean it's just it's a pretty a lot of pretty mundane things in my opinion I was imagining like just the error assets just a folder full of that everybody wants to know how the half-life story is going to end and the reality is there's probably no satisfying ending to that same way Game of Thrones is gonna end I mean not a TV show but the books the real stuff they're just not going to yeah that sword that I talked about in chapter two of book one it never mattered why those are just extra words I had to read for no reason no reason to watch our remarked I forgot about the fleet yeah why did this happen and you you know it's a tough week when uh ours Technica uses the exploit no it's the exact same stock image for two stories that are equally bad Boulder Realty with a 9.8 severity in control web panel is under active exploits if you use that uh you probably want to probably already too late probably time to wipe and reload those servers and they were like now I just got to use it again more than 4 400 Sophos firewall servers remain vulnerable to critical exploits because people it's automatic updates is on by default but a lot of people don't like that because it tends like firewalls are like it's two o'clock on a Tuesday it's time to reboot and uh so people turn that off and then forget about it and this is remotely exploitable so it's real bad also a 9.8 but they dropped the 9.8 here to the sub headline just to give us some variety I like I love this picture because it implies that there's like a touch screen and that's how you find the exploited Zoom that probably protect an average of at least 10 machines is 44 000 computers in that botnet which is uh that's pretty significant and if you are uh if you hate the whole Smart TV thing and you're like yeah I'll never mess with that I'll just get a stick or a box well you can't find those anymore but I'll run my own computer essentially to avoid all that beware of eBay Android TV on the box oh Amazon on Amazon came from pre-installed with malware so it's like I bought it on Amazon yeah it's got malware this happens surprisingly regularly now this guy was not using it as a media PC he was using it for pie hole so he had a lot of vision into what was going out because he was observing that to see what pie hole was catching and I was like wait a minute this box is making calls to somewhere and he looked up those IPS known malware hubs yeah a lot of the time too when you when you're buying something that's based on Android it's not uncommon for it to come with the malware on the recovery partition so even if you reset the device the malware will live on the malware comes back and here's a pro tip a lot of people you know this industry is really being shaken up a lot of people looking for jobs a lot of people pivoting in their careers but here's a very simple rule that's almost always true if you get a job and they ask you to pay then something isn't right potential employees looking for remote work site they've been targeted by scammers offering them fake jobs they prey on people who are vulnerable this is not just people not just scammers asking the applicants to pay an application fee but also people doing identity theft and so it's like oh you need to go to our our HR portal and you know fill out this thing you got the job and it's like okay here's my social security number here's all my stuff and then it's like the I wonder if part of the reason this works is because rental companies can do that yeah you have to pay an application fee just to even get considered for an apartment so people are like oh I guess you can do that for a job now too well what they say so this was a work from home job right so the excuse was you needed to buy the equipment and then they would pay you back for it which doesn't make any sense no but the craziest thing about it is they wanted fifteen thousand dollars for the equipment what kind of home office are you putting together for fifteen thousand dollars people do that for uh what is it MLM the multi-level marketing schemes too where it's like oh you have to buy like five thousand dollars in products and then now you're in the scam is literally whatever people find believable from fifteen thousand dollars of equipment to just give us enough info we can instill your identity whatever that people will actually do she said you know like it was Ultra professional and it was that old scam where they do the LinkedIn thing you know it's like I'm the CTO of X company and it's like not even close to that and uh when she questioned the 15 grand even a little bit she said he just went insane with anger which probably is not what your hiring agent will do yeah if you ask simple questions except maybe a Twitter and we did a story about this quite a while ago been a couple of years at least and we're all like Jesus I hope that doesn't get any better oh it got better bad news scientists are getting really good at using Wi-Fi to see people through walls in detail why because your body absorbs 2.4 gigahertz radiation like there's no tomorrow the people who demonstrated this kind of just ignored the whole privacy thing the ethical consideration of it they tried to sell it as like well think about what you could do if you had like aging parents and you found out they were on the floor wouldn't that be wonderful I'm pretty sure that there's at least like there's a hotline that is just you can't even call because all the police departments in the country are trying to call them to buy that to add to their you know SWAT Vans the switchboard is just like melted you're so busy trying to see if you could you didn't stop to think if you should well this will be the last time we SWAT an empty house foreign I don't think that's ever going away even if they could Wi-Fi it they're still going to want to get in there eventually oh we got paywalled here oh no what was that one that was the same one I just clicked oh I moved the mouse to the edge of the browser and it was like no wait come back don't go away no we're still here we're always here kind of a short one today I didn't expect that yeah I'd say the government wasn't too terribly long well you know put in your final finishing touches on your November project the end of January is rapidly approaching I got sick let you guys know from last week so I haven't been on the Minecraft server I need to check it out and start seeing what everyone's been building I might have to push the deadline out another week or so into February I don't know we'll see sure that they've got a lot of crazy infrastructure going on out there I definitely like I was playing quite a bit in December and there was a lot of infrastructure projects so yeah so much but fun times and fun times on the links with friends it's not really the name I don't know what the name is\n"