**The Dark Side of Online Interactions: A Look at Swatting and Data Exfiltration**

In today's digital age, online interactions can take many forms. However, some individuals have taken to using these platforms for nefarious purposes. One such example is the case of a man who was arrested for swatting, a tactic in which someone threatens to commit violence or damage property in order to provoke law enforcement into responding. This can lead to serious consequences, including the death of innocent bystanders.

The case of the Kansas man is a chilling reminder of the potential dangers of online interactions. He was playing Call of Duty when he became involved in an online dispute with someone who was trash-talking him. In a moment of anger and stupidity, he made up an address and threatened to "swat" it, unaware that it belonged to a real person. When law enforcement responded to the fake address, they arrived at the wrong house and ended up killing the homeowner.

The man is currently awaiting sentencing for his crimes, but what's even more disturbing is that he continued to use social media while in custody. He posted on Twitter, boasting about his actions and threatening to do the same again if someone was "talking crap" online. This behavior is a perfect example of how quickly individuals can continue their destructive patterns, even when facing serious consequences.

**The Power of Data Exfiltration**

In addition to swatting, there's another threat that's been gaining attention in recent years: data exfiltration. According to a security expert, it's possible for an individual to send 10 bits per second from a computer over the power connection using no special hardware or software. This can be done by encoding binary data into the CPU's idle cores and using software to spin them up, creating a predictable power load.

The implications of this technology are staggering. Intelligence agencies have already been known to use it to recover private keys, and with more advanced CPUs, it could potentially be used for faster data transfer. However, the speed limit is currently too slow for anything other than recovering private keys.

**A Cautionary Tale: The Importance of Security**

In light of these examples, it's clear that online security is no longer just a concern for individuals and organizations, but also for law enforcement agencies. A single misstep can have devastating consequences, as seen in the case of the Kansas man.

To avoid falling victim to such threats, it's essential to take steps to secure your online presence. This includes using strong passwords, enabling two-factor authentication, and being cautious when engaging with strangers online. Additionally, businesses and organizations must also prioritize security measures to protect their data and prevent malicious activities from occurring on their platforms.

**The Future of Cybersecurity**

As technology continues to evolve, it's likely that new threats will emerge. However, by staying vigilant and taking proactive steps to secure our online presence, we can reduce the risk of falling victim to these threats. Whether it's swatting or data exfiltration, one thing is clear: cybersecurity is no longer just a concern for individuals and organizations, but also for law enforcement agencies.

In conclusion, online interactions can take many forms, some of which are downright disturbing. As we move forward in the digital age, it's essential to prioritize security measures to protect ourselves, our organizations, and our communities from these threats. By staying informed and taking proactive steps, we can reduce the risk of falling victim to swatting or data exfiltration and create a safer online environment for everyone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell today is Tuesday November no it's not November its March it's not Mars it's not March April April 17th or dr. Sharpe and today we're doing policy social media and security this week is gonna be a weird work week for the news it's probable that Friday's news will be pushed to Saturday because of some late-breaking other happenings that are scheduled for Friday because spontaneity is always scheduled right I mean that's how that works but it's gonna be the same news quality so don't worry about that no I don't it's zero the same level I didn't say what quality I said the same clock oh we got a lot of follow-ups to we've kind of we start with some follow-ups we also sprinkle some follow-ups in because my goodness there's a lot of follow-ups this week all right our first follow-up this week is on the founders of back page now here in the u.s. something sort of weird and miraculous happen will give us a little bit of a background err and that is we passed a law that said that if you run an online forum or like a classified ad site and people are using that for you know prostitution or whatever that the owners of that site can be liable which is contrary to all the other laws that we've had on the books for twenty thirty years and what's interesting about this though they did not that's not been signed yet or at least it hadn't when they did this so this is outside of foster system they were already doing this hmm and still like why don't you wait a week well they did I mean no this they mention in this article that they are not using foster cesta - they went back and amended but they had already seized everything and arrested these guys before that happened so they've been charged with money laundering and aiding well it's three guys and one of the guys has already pled guilty but it seems like it's part of a plea deal to go after the other - yeah I think he is totally riding on his bros if he has to go in for any amount of time that's gonna be real bad for him because it's in the news the other funny well funny you know a dark funny is they decided not to go forward with the pimping charges in this case the only got him for like aiding prostitution or something like that I can't wait to see how this case unfolds because like if they really were running a prostitution ring okay but if they were just hapless idiots running a communication site then well I think they knew what they were doing now they did take some steps they took out the I can't remember what they called I think it was called adult services oh yeah they had adult services section of the site they took that out but of course all the hookers just went to the personal section and they kind of probably had to know that was happening but again if you use a little bit of language too you know for subterfuge are you can you expect the website owner to you know get into all that and read out all your deceptions instead of foe I mean even Craigslist you know craigslist is a pretty not controversial company it maybe is perhaps one of the least controversial because it's just so there's it's just text there's nothing there like Craigslist's infrastructure is designed for like five people to be able to run the whole thing and Craigslist even pulled their personals so I because it seems like there's at least some unintended side effect well if there were for sure hookers on Craigslist I think we can say that yeah safely but there's probably hookers and your local newspaper alright like the escort services that's a pretty thinly veiled if you go to a major city and you go into you know a nice hotel they're gonna have a list of services and escort services are gonna be in there so I guess if they were doing all this before those laws passed why did they need to do laws exactly continued role the internet all there's my tinfoil hat a US judge has said that uber drivers are not company's employees now this is sort of contrary to other similar rulings in like the EU where it has been said hey they are employees and I think even like San Francisco the city of San Francisco I think was saying no no Luber drivers or uber employees but because the drivers are free to just work whenever they want and you know sort of do what they want between their assignments the judge has ruled well they're not really employees for federal purposes this was just the limo drivers the ubers got like uber limo which I guess you own your own limo which seems like it would be less of a or it would be more of a professional thing to me like a limos are expensive oh yeah probably like 100 grand for a limo 75 grand yeah but the difference in the limo drivers is for whatever reason they did not have an arbitration clause and their contract with uber so they were able to sue directly but they lost interesting and that means they don't get health benefits and things like that another win for uber this week was also with the FTC the FTC has said that there are no fines for uber over the 2016 data breach that we reported on that's the one that they paid a hundred thousand dollars to cover up if you'll recall and we covered that we covered that pretty extensively when it happened but the FTC has concluded its investigation and said well we're gonna keep an eye on their privacy audit logs but we're not gonna find them or otherwise punish them and this was the second time they had in a previous breach and so the FTC rules they actually have some constraints on what they can do on a first time they're not allowed to do much of anything except warn and basically what they did here but on the second offense they should be able to do more but they've chosen not to interesting so this is the FTC that is going to be expected to go after ISPs when ISPs run afoul of net neutrality as well the very same agency surely that won't end badly and we should remind everybody that this was under the previous CEO was a capital Nick or Callan dick or something like that who everybody hates and he was the one accused of you know being against women sexually harassing in my everything and he demonstrable went to great lengths to cover this up despite all that the FTC doesn't seem to care what's that wrong should I not have done that that's probably I don't know he didn't even tell the next CEO various thing about it no one needs to know about this this can be our little secret because otherwise people freak out their date it's not worth anything no one cares I mean we're gonna have the Equifax breach and then one's gonna care about that well that that was in the shadow of the Equifax breach and I think maybe that's what saved um or one of the things well if we punish Equifax we'd have to punish Eber and when I input okay gather everything so my step over here Tesla has been booted from an investigation into the fatal auto pilot crash now it's really interesting because the NTSB had the third National Traffic Safety Board has said that uber has been booted but uber has saying well we stepped away from the investigation because we wanted to report on what we're finding in the investigation as we find it but the NTSB has a problem with that so it seems like a little bit like he said she said but the NTSB has a policy that you don't say anything about it until the end because obviously what you say about it could be damaging to court cases and businesses and things like that so you really have to wait till you figure everything out I haven't figured anything out so Tesla was kind of you know getting out there and tweeting it's like oh what an art fault duh yep totally driver error and the NTSB was not cool to him I can't imagine why Tesla would ever want to do that just to make people you know like yeah and this was the they've already settled the civil right that's gathered with the families the guy that didn't have his hands on the wheel and hit the divider well it's even weirder than that if made of Tesla's made a lot of in my opinion very strange statements around that things like well when we met with the family we talked to them about you know the victims thoughts on auto pilot and it's like did the victim misunderstand how auto pilot works and so Tesla is saying what the family said which is oh no you totally understood that the auto pilot didn't work and that in this one particular area where the fatal crash occurred that it was known to be unreliable and the data show that his hands was not on the wheel for like six seconds so the family is like yeah I don't know but it looks weird did they say that before after they saw the zeros on that check that was Astrid yeah so that was definitely yeah maybe I might say that too now last week we reported on the whole Sinclair thing and if you haven't seen the video of this you really got to check it out there's a video on YouTube of a whole bunch of TV stations over a hundred two hundred two hundred saying the same exact thing in the same exact cadence with all their little local anchors and it's because they're all owned by Sinclair broadcasting we're talking about fake news and how important it is to get real news from Sinclair owned stations so a bunch of senators asked the FCC to look into this because historically that's something the FCC has dealt with when people are abusing airwaves things and of course cherub debts that's a G PI that's our old buddy Ajit PI you'll remember him from last week is the hardest working man in corruption and he responds very very oddly to this yeah he's pulling the old First Amendment thing which they you know they whip that out a lot and of course you know there is a part of me that thinks if you own something you do what you want with it but when it comes to calling yourself news and you know having this monopolistic control over all these little news organizations maybe maybe not you know because you do have to think now the but the deal breaker for me is these people revealed all these news broadcasters after they were you know derided in public and on Twitter for this they didn't have a choice and they were actually threatened that if they even talked about this they might be fired and if you get fired or you quit from Sinclair you have to pay them so all those things together is really disgusting and yeah I think maybe the FCC should look into that yeah it seems like somebody should look into something seems like lawmakers as as disconnected as they are we'll find out more about that in the later program well the other thing about this argument he he shapes it as just because they say something you don't like you're not allowed to go after them with the FCC but that's not what's happening here they're saying something they don't like with a gun to their head essentially you know a financial gun a journalist with quotation marks are at it yeah so it's not genuine his argument here I can't imagine someone would have disingenuous arguments as the head of the SEC how could this happen I mean it's like when you can't win the one argument argue something else and hope everyone's distracted it's called a straw man work switching gears we reported that a Foxconn is coming to America Foxconn is gonna develop a really amazing factory that was one of the big Trump wins you know he's bringing manufacturing back to America to support the little people we're getting a lot of angry reports from those little people there they're very upset about some of the happenings that are going into this so belt magazine brings us a story about the site where the factory is going to be constructed apparently they're going to use eminent domain to seize a bunch of people's houses but in order to do that they have to mark the houses as blighted because the people don't want to sell but the houses are not in any way blighted yeah you think about the term blighted and you know it conjures some extreme imagery I think of in plants you know it's like diseased beyond repair well they don't there was a lawyer here there's like a pro bono log law firm that's jumping in here and it's like oh yeah we know all about this they've done this before and they don't talk about every requirement for blighted but one requirement for blighted is you have to have 50% higher crime rate in the surrounding counties that's just not the case here this is a rule it's a little farm country with you know like low population density just rolling beautiful farmland cows and horses it's idyllic in a lot of ways and they're saying that it's blighted and they're basically just scraping out the land a lot of people are holding out for a better offer but some people including there's one couple that has a brand-new home that's less than a year old and they've never actually gotten an offer on what exactly their home is worth now you know eminent domain for progress okay fine in situations like this you probably should pay the homeowners you know 20% above market value maybe as much as 50 percent above market value as a taxpayer I would support that I think 140 percent is so you know 40 percent above market value is the norm but they haven't gotten offers but they also talked about how working farmland which is not residential and can't be blotted was getting five hundred percent hmm and all of those cases in the same area so I would be really really suspect about the misuse of the terminology here another thing in Wisconsin law apparently is that if one of the conditions for being blotted is that the blighted area is not going to be immediately conveyed to a commercial interest yeah or a thriving interest a year or something like that which it's not even it's gonna be like a week because they want to get started as soon as possible they also had one lady who had filed for you know you have to get some sort of permit or something to completely renovate her home and they approved it like a month ago knowing damn well that this was gonna happen that doesn't seem exactly honest that seems like that lady should maybe be in that five hundred percent Bradley oh it's not good China we always like reporting on China right because China has removed for news apps from their smartphone from smartphone stores or they've asked smartphone stores like the Apple Store in the Google Play Store to remove news apps and worth it surprising things about this is ten cent is makers of one of the apps yeah and it's not necessarily I think most of these are just news aggregation apps no not it's not it's not like the cinnamon square update that yeah it's not something that I don't think it's particularly partisan or incendiary or anything it's just not I think it's pulling in stories foreign stories and stuff like that I just simply don't want the air they don't have control of it so they've yanked it although I think that you know you mentioned Apple I think the Apple store is the only one that hadn't complied at this point hmm that's interesting considering that Apple is the one that can one of the ones that complied early with the VPN applications I mean Apple pulled a lot of VPN applications at the request of the Chinese government so it might just be that the bureaucracy of Apple takes a long time to get things done Oh we'd love reporting on things in India because India is working on that whole global national biometric database and things sort of go wrong with that we've got a pretty good article here from the New York Times we're unfortunately out of the free articles we've got opening the incognito yeah you can't see that but you can yourself when you look at the one tab open it in incognito you will always speak to paywall approach it a program is that criminal I don't think so I think so but a Big Brother in India requires fingerprint scans for food phones and finances they've got some quotes in here from the people and they're just like this is an unnecessary headache this is worse than it was before why do we have to do this yeah the ID I can't pronounce the name of the thing it translates into foundation the foundation program is retina scans and fingerprints and that ties into everything it ties into your credit card your entitlements your school your travel because they have a lot of public transportation in India you can't get on public transportation unless you scan your fingerprint stuff like that so it's not only or Willian you know what's funny is they mentioned that article the term Big Brother in India the translation is when somebody like like if you're broken down on the side of the road and a Good Samaritan stopped to help you you refer to them as Big Brother so that's like a good thing in their terminology but yeah a lot of people are complaining now here's the crazy part you think about the super technologically advanced biometric retina scans and thumb prints and some of the people who are being negatively affected are the leprosy victims so the same country that has all this amazing technology still is a huge problem with leprosy there's a disconnect there this is only a technology news program how are we expected to solve the world's problems the other problem is it's such an agrarian economy outside of the cities that people you know working your fingers to the bone they're literally doing that in such a way that also their fingerprints are not recognizable from month-to-month that's the thing that's that's a legit thing with farmers that stuff just yeah hands a lot your fingerprints wear off me so that they estimated as much as 20% of people who previously got some kind of entitlement are now just simply unable to get it which I guess that's big savings if your government well here we would probably accuse business owners to do that of trying to line their pockets by making it more difficult for the entitle EES to collect whatever it is that they're entitled to well this is purely through the government though so local to the local is it like the sheriff that we had where the sheriff was running the inmate program he just to pocket the money by the way the local politicians get to pocket the miser question I don't know if they get if each meanest municipality gets like a stipend or like hey we didn't use all the entitlement budget we'll just roll that into the equipment budget mm-hmm I remember when they were talking about doing away with cash what happened was the black market sort of stepped in and people would still get something but it would be less and then somebody else was siphoning off a lot so I'll be curious to know what from anybody that's there I think we've got a few people in the audience that are there sort of experiencing this I'd be curious to know how that is we've had an interesting dichotomy in the comments on this over the years because you know I remember when we first reported on this and they're like no this is a good thing it's totally not gonna be abused and we're like it's gonna be abuse in this way and then fast-forward six months and it was abuse in exactly the way that we predicted the other thing is they reported on one woman and she was you know like the perfect candidate for this thing she was middle-class young and totally following all the rules that we talk about how this is so such an optimistic program that meets the reality of these little rural municipalities she say she had ago I think four different times and it failed the first three times so then she would have to schedule another one wait in line again and it was just failure to upload so she would go through like the scanning process I didn't like the sorry I didn't upload so she'd go and try to get her whatever with a fingerprint like no you don't exist wow that sounds like voter disenfranchisement here but I'm sorry you can't vote today because whatever because reasons other bad news for technology people trump proposes rejoining the trans-pacific partnership now there's lots and lots of aspects of this that are negative that have nothing to do with technology but the technology aspect of it which is what we care about on this channel means that this is probably going to make the trade Wars thing worse not better I would think because we're doing the whole China trade Wars thing so importing electronics may start to get sketchy here in America and I think that Trump is hoping that some negotiation here will result in more favorable trade deals from like Japan but I just I think this is gonna be bad well we've got the tariffs of course and that's become kind of a mess because they've turned right around and put tariffs on our corn and soybeans which like we we can we probably will buy the technology and you think that okay no the iPhone owners you know they'll feel better about themselves from that iPhone costs $2,000 but if it makes more sense to buy the corn and soybeans from somebody else then what are we gonna do with it those farmers cannot sell it locally we are diesel yeah we're up to our ears in corn in America we have too much do you have to sell up to somebody but the other thing about this is Trump one of his campaign promises to get out of this this is one of his campaign promises that he immediately remember when they rolled out all those it was like here's six things that Trump has done and he promised in the first quarter of his first year whatever this was one of those things but it seems like he very quickly changed his mind on it like he got in a room with some people and they were like you should have never left the TPP and he was like you're right we should go back how do you change your mind that quickly it's the TPP I see is a win for copyright owner owners and drugs it's like you can copyright and patent drugs and there are a lot of drugs that should have entered the public domain a long time ago but for whatever reason manufacturers won't manufacture them or there are trade deals like this that prevent their manufacture it's a very subtle and nuanced complicated situation no matter how you cut the cheese and I think that it's ultimately bad for the population but good for business which is oh yeah still probably bad for the pop Relation it's bad for those he was talking to a small amount of farmers who export most of their crops and yeah it's bad for them because again they're selling everything to China and Japan and places like that but to be so quickly swayed although you know of course the other story this week which we don't cover here because it's not really technology but he also changed his mind on that whole Syria thing pretty good you know what else he changed his mind about the postal service so an audit of the Postal Service has been ordered after suggesting that Amazon is to blame for his troubles what's really funny is that that audit was already done a few years ago and the reason that the Postal Service is having trouble financially is because it's the only organization in America that is required to pre-fund its retirees health benefits and from time to time the government will go into that piggy bank and use that money for other reasons that's a big problem now of course we look at our you know teacher firemen policemen systems maybe not a terrible idea to pre-fund those because they're in a bad shape but to give that as an interest-free loan to the government when it needs it terrible idea that has not really worked out so far I mean the other programs that we have that have been tapped for things like that the other social programs that we have other than you know the postal services retirement benefits there are other programs in the US government that that are not they're kind of pre funded at least the money is collected but then we end up using the money for other things and by the time it rolls around that the money is needed especially in times of economic downturn the money's not really there so this is just that on another larger scale so this is just it's it would be amazing if the report comes in and it's like yeah we should ask the postal service to operate like any other company with regard to how they fund stuff its financial problems will go away it would actually be making money hand over fist still probably not a bad idea to pre-fund it but this is just it's this level of dishonesty is just baffling it's I think you if you really look at it yeah okay the postal it's probably got some problems now if we really sit down and we look at all the numbers and stuff it probably has some problems on a list of most important problems in America that's a round number eight thousand five hundred seventy six I'm just gonna guess somewhere that I really the e FF did a write up this week on some recent happenings in DC not just one case but a couple of cases actually but a DC Court has ruled that accessing public information is not a computer crime and this is really really important in the context of kind of in the context of old cases like Aaron Swartz but specifically in this case where someone had automated downloading java without the McAfee malware toolbar pop up whatever and also Det automating downloading some information from public websites you know in the terms of use it says don't do that and so some districts have said that is a computer crime if you do something on a website that is against the website's Terms of Service but a DC Court is it no that's not we're not gonna interpret it that way because that opens Pandora's box that's remember the LexisNexis one that was a big one oh yeah and we said the Oracle one that was it now you know what this could apply to is Cambridge and lyrica yeah cuz I do you call that public information it was on a website they had access to it's a it's a Terms of Service violation with Facebook Facebook keeps referring to it as a contract it's like is there enough stuff to execute when Elle's contract Vic this this ruling I don't know if it came out and said it but in the when they were interpreting they were like nobody reads the Terms of Service and you can't make up your own laws in the Terms of Service and expect those to be enforced by the government yeah up to this point websites can say you violated their Terms of Service that is a criminal act and it's like whoa that should be a misdemeanor at worst so there's a rare for those of all of you who are like man this shows okay but it sure does depress me there's a little silver lining for you you know when the good things happen we cover them they just don't happen very often we've got another another silver lining for you and that's Google has won and lost a right to be forgotten case so the headline for the BBC is Google has lost the right to be forgotten case there were actually two cases won one and lost one the one that they won was someone who'd committed a fairly serious crime and served like six years in prison right and so that person would like those records expunged from Google they lost somebody else was was spent like six months in jail or three months in jail for a relatively minor offense that person won and Google will have to expunge search results for that individual but that's I think that's terrible because it doesn't set any sort of case law but what it does do is say you have to go to court if you want this to happen and a judge has to decide the judge said part of his ruling was because of one guy showed remorse is that that should be a factor so what this does is it creates a situation where okay you can you have the right to be forgotten if you if you're rich enough and influential enough to sue Google see it to the end and you have the courts in your pocket it seems like that would turn into a Streisand effect really quickly though for were the rich and famous because like you know if Britney Spears went to jail for doing cocaine or whatever and then she was suing Google to have that expunged it seems like that which is being the news all over again mmm that's probably true but this guy you know that the winner yeah we don't know his name we don't know what he did I didn't bother to look it up I thought that was remarkably responsible of the BBC because here in America we would have been like they wanted the guys to remain anonymous but his home address is this and you can search for that home address to see everyone that's ever lived there and it's just like oh hi but I don't know we certainly in this country you know you've got the it's so much fun to look at the criminal databases and see the mug shots and everything so we kind of go with the idea that like okay yeah you're a criminal people need to know what you did and we're gonna nail this up on the cathedral door on Sunday and this goes against that I'm not sure if I'd like the idea of you know once you've done the time for the crime that that's it it's over you need to move on but at the same time there are definitely patterns of behavior and so it's like if you've done a series of crimes and done the series of time those crimes that probably should still be in the public record but again you're creating this crazy set of rules that it will can never adhere to so it would have to go through a court system in order for somebody to suss out the specific situation because that's there's so much work I mean people are already waiting you know for for civil cases or even they're waiting in jail for two years to get a criminal case heard we don't need more court cases so maybe what you're saying is we should change as a society and it's like yep dude was totally having a bad day whose address arrested for drunk and disorderly we all have bad days it's fine let's move on uh I guess it was what he was doing he was driving now yeah you make up your own mind it should not be so stigmatic I guess would be would be as a society we need to not stigmatize those people so bad cuz like some convicted felons are genuinely trying to do really good when they get out to vote also those guys are in the UK right yeah so it's not even it's not really the same apples and oranges Dubai is launching a digital vehicle number plate now this I was like ok cool it's gonna be like a QR code that can be read by machines automatically nope it's an electronic plate that tracks you at all times and literally the number can change so the correct it's so Orwellian the more you get into it so not only can they disable it so like if you don't pay your registration or whatever does turn your number off literally your number will go away and but the other thing is they automatically deduct the fees so if you get a traffic fine you might find out about it when you see the debit from your account as your license plate is tied to your bank account think about how crazy that is how amazing is that gonna be in the future where you like you just drive around the city and it's like oh this drive today cost me $50 I had no idea I was going through a construction zone yeah and that's just a trial version but if they figure out that it's cost-effective and I guess it will be when they start fining everybody for every little thing they're gonna roll it out to the entire country now Mark Zuckerberg has been in the news a bunch we've covered him to death and there's a lot more news this we con Zuckerberg but we're not really so many good names well has so many what we're not really gonna I think I feel like everything has been covered not really gonna rehash it if you want to check that out last week's news episode was no luck for the suck you should check that out because we basically covered everything that was before his congressional testimony since then there are a couple of things that will highlight some Facebook employees are reportedly quitting or asking to switch departments over ethical concerns so this you know the headline you could paint a lot of pictures with this but there are a lot of employees that are sort of saying well you know we might have raised some flags internally we're gonna just sort of migrate over here yeah they talk about the the buzzword the the one that everybody's tweeting about it's the golden handcuffs because what are you supposed to do they talk to these people and it's like yeah I kind of know that we're evil but you have no idea how easy this job is and how much I get paid so I don't really want to walk away from this some of them have wanted to go to Instagram and some of the other Facebook own things but you know I think the when you read between the lines in that article they all knew what was going on yeah I don't think um if you're working in a technical aspect and we've talked about this before where sometimes people will hire you to work on their website and they don't understand it's like once you have access to the database you have everything you can't there is no privacy at that point you get whatever you want and if you're working at that level of course you knew what was happening at Facebook and I think what really riled them up is the fact that they found out it got Trump elected they imagined that it did well then so that now there's outrage and they're clearly good that's so offense if I don't understand suck testified with the Senate to the Senate and the Democrats proposed a tough opt-in privacy law this is a pretty good summary of that but you really should go check out the video because there are some amazing amazing clips of that and the news itself is not like it was a grilling I mean you know like a burger is testifying and answering questions and the news is not really like as anybody watching this program I don't think they're going to get a lot out of it technologically speaking record basically had a few canned answers well a lot of canned answers but the questions that a lot of senators were reading to him they really struggled with like the more disturbing thing here is that the Senators even with all the I don't know what would you call it conditioning training ahead of this questioning in the world they still got some basic fundamental stuff so wrong well I Dianne Feinstein was my favorite one she can barely sound out the words she had never seen some of those words before she had no concept what was going on I don't think it would be unfair to say that she was not literate and you know she was the only one she's easy to make fun of because she's she's low functioning but there were a lot of those people on that panel that were clearly the people sitting behind him knew what was going on because they wrote those questions but the people presenting the questions and there was one guy who he brought up the whole log out oh you logged out I logged out tracking yeah and that was just brushed under the rug Zuckerberg was like don't know anything about that let's follow up and there was one guy who brought up the Obama campaign yeah of doing the exact same thing as a Canberra general it occur again that guy actually if you go back and listen to that testimony he's like you know Obama did this I'm not gonna ask you to talk about that right now what wipe what up so they didn't understand maybe it was clear to them exactly what was happening it I don't know but it was it was a dog-and-pony show yeah I had the bigger problem here I think would be trying to educate these lawmakers I was also really disappointed with the the age distribution it was definitely skewed way up there well that's just our leaders I mean I don't is it is it a just to say hey maybe the part of the reason these guys just don't get it is because you know are they is it I was actually kind of hopeful more hope I mean it was definitely dog and pony show don't get don't get me wrong and I am an overly optimistic by Nature but it seemed like some of the people up there were genuinely trying to comprehend the gravity of the situation in terms of access to data and how bad things are and you know potentially the potential for abuse it will start like I could see sort of the glimmers of a flicker of maybe oh we this thing is being built and there's not really anything to stop it and it could be abused commercially for really really evil ends and I'm not saying that Facebook is doing that but the machinery is being built and someone will abuse it and it seemed like some of the people we're starting to get clued into that but the fundamental misunderstanding of technology was just so severe that the signal-to-noise ratio I don't think was high enough there that anybody can effectively do anything about it I think it's it was just them you know they're trying to they're always thinking about the reelection that's the problem I'll give you a great example if you go back and you watch the entire Senate there was one I don't know what her name is but there was one person who asked about ice immigration customs and she had this theory that ice was gonna start using social media to they are to go after illegals and stuff like that and of course Zuckerberg was like well nobody's I haven't nobody's contacted me about that which is probably true they put haven't talked to him about it and she just kept going on and on about this thing it has nothing to do with the Cambridge analytical you just soapboxing you know and this is a lot of those people they're just getting up there they're saying what they think that people want to hear yeah and they're trying to present themselves as a certain kind of thing and nothing really ever gets done so it apparently had a pretty good effect on America so nearly one in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook accounts according to a survey my was the third survey thousand people so how accurate can't really be if it's really 10% I mean I gotta imagine things inside a Facebook you've got to be sort of Harry Caray levels of crazy yeah I you know the whole correlation of the small numbers but yeah if it is that many people they have to be scrambling because I'm gonna back you know they've got all that R&D and all those acquisitions behavioral modification programs that's not gonna pay off if they lose their people but more port only they're gonna have to step really carefully in terms of selling data you know what sounds like a really amazing way for Facebook to deflect responsibility a paid see something say something program where literally if you find there's an app and it's like oh you're for an app and it may be abused we'll investigate as Facebook and if they are if they are abusing you could win 500 to $10,000 I think it's just 40,000 is it 40 I thought it was 500 2/10 no no it's like what's the minimum impact needed to be rewarded Oh 10,000 more Facebook users it's the how much can I expect to make $40,000 upwards of $40,000 that end of that one end of that one oh yeah oh wow 40,000 damn but a minimum of 500 yeah I know an app I could report I know about Tanna yeah what they're saying here is like you say it's kind of like you know just pointed out just right somebody out and we'll give you 40 grand and but I don't you would have to be probably working on the app yeah something like the camera general Etica a user of that app would have had no idea no so no clue Instagram which is also a Facebook thing right I mean Facebook owns Instagram or whatever instagram has announced they're gonna let you download your content after criticism about portability and this has been the case with Instagram even before Facebook bought the mist they're designed to make it as hard as possible for you to get your data out of instagrams because if you just have a bunch of photos turns out there's hundreds of services online you can just upload a bunch of photos too big deal yeah so basically they're gonna give you a way to download all the photos you've uploaded to Instagram it's about time and yeah it's one of those things where it's hard to praise them for it basic functionality but I guess that's a good step yeah twitter also wants in on the act because they have announced that they are gonna comply with the honest ads Act to combat Russia's social media meddling now the honest ads Act is not law yet but Twitter is gonna say yeah we can get behind we're gonna go ahead and implement this so this basically just means if you see an ad you can find out who bought it and you know if we say what's going on behind it and that kind of thing so I bet you know political campaigns are upset about that I think that uh I think there are gonna be a lot of media companies that are upset about that I think we're gonna see a lot of shell companies come into the existence but isn't I think that honest ads Act is built to combat that as well because you have to register with them yeah that's what Facebook is doing as well as uh Coburg repeated that many many times in his testimony but the the more dangerous I think the far more dangerous situation especially in the climate of the changes that the FCC has made to net neutrality and data privacy at the ISP level Facebook at least from the beginning has been pretty honest and pretty transparent about what they intend to do with your data if you were paying attention to that kind of thing then the vast majority of the population I really pay attention to that our lawmakers not paying attention to that but the in the same cautions that we gave you at least and I think that a lot of other people in the know with technology gave you I think the much much much more dangerous situation is collusion with companies like Yahoo and AOL and Verizon so they're getting together to be able to read your emails and do stuff with your content and so even if you're using a VPN if you're using Yahoo or AOL it would not matter because your providers are going to get access to your data directly from the service provider in order to mine your habits and build profiles exactly let Cambridge analytic oh yeah and this is not anything new of course Google did this up until sometime in 2017 I think yeah the AdWords would parse through your email and try to find things - that you like to advertise to you with and yeah who's saying that's exactly what they're gonna start doing they've done it before - I think and stopped but you know they're back into it yeah the there are changes to OAuth or out with the or oh that's the parent company of privacy no off of privacy policy and the changes there I think this is gonna fly under the radar until something like Cambridge analytic happens and maybe they'll be careful enough with the data that something like Cambridge analytic n't happen but you can better believe that they were going to exploit the data more than Cambridge analytic ever did well it's not a public profile in any sense but that doesn't mean that there's not gonna be a leak you know this probably more of an Equifax tragedy than a Cambridge analytical tragedy well it doesn't matter that it's not a public profile because well there's two darker aspects of this one is that they're allowed to do this the FCC has explicitly said this kind of thing is completely okay for an ISP to including this Terms of Service the second really disturbing thing is that when we have things like the cloud Act the standard that the government could use to obtain this data is extremely extremely low so if you know for whatever reason you were being surveilled or the government wanted information on you they could just simply request the profile that has been built for you in these systems and I think it would otherwise it's you couldn't otherwise do it at least under the US Constitution because it would be an unreasonable search but if it's happening in a commercial company then it's not really the search is not unreasonable because the information was already given to a third party so that changes the equation a little bit and that's that's the really scary thing we gotta be careful of but this we talked about the Facebook stuff I think it applies here too if you ever thought your Yahoo Mail was not subject to what every guy wanted to do with it including law enforcement you shouldn't be that's Pam I think a lot of people don't realize that in the way that a lot of people did not realize what they were giving Facebook and it's probably to data this one is a fun security article this is really one of one of just a couple of pure security articles but data exfiltration over a PC power supply yeah so if you're at the electrical service panel you can send about 10 bits per second from a computer over the power connection with no extra special hardware or anything like that just by encoding it into how much power idle cores in the CPU you I think it was a hundred at the panel a thousand if you could put the clamp directly on the power cable so what they're doing is they're taking unused cores and the CPU and with the software they're spinning them up which is gonna affect the power load in a predictable way and if they're listening on the other end then they can of course you just in binary but they can send data over the power cable to the switch which is incredible if it's a low enough bitrate to be super annoying I mean intelligence agencies we definitely use this to recover your private keys but yeah that's about it it's too slow for anything else really although you know over time I'm sure they could yeah if you or if you're talking about a CPU that's got 12 cores yeah then maybe they could use three you know and you triple the speed that explains my performance anomaly oh they've already compromised the system now speaking of people that have already compromised the system we've reported an it on this before but there was a guy who was arrested for swatting and this is the Kansas guy right there's a guy that got the guy killed okay yeah yeah right so yeah he will rehash it he was playing call of duty of course you would look at him of course he was playing call of duty and somebody was trash-talking him and he was like oh yeah where do you live and I got just made up an address well it turns out that was a real address this guy swatted that address and the homeowner who knew nothing about this situation had no idea what was going on was killed by the SWAT team in his front door so this guy is a weighting sensing that's the crazy thing here his case has not been settled he is yet to be sentenced for his crimes and he did the stupidest thing in the world and that thing was he posted to Twitter how am I on the internet if I'm in jail oh it's because I'm gonna eat god that's how 9:05 i am on twitter on friday that twitter handles the hairs of the thing it's like blah blah blah 19 minutes later than the same handle said all right now who's Clinton who's talking crap or whatever here your ass I guess is about to get swatted so yeah yeah he threatened to do the same crime while awaiting sentencing now he is not in fact in a god what happened was they have these kiosks in jails these days so you have phone calls and commissary you have all these ways that you can spend money in jail because they're for-profit and you put it you punch in your prisoner number and that's your way of buying all these things so have these electronic kiosks that facilitate all of that well somebody didn't update on one of them and left the internet Wi-Fi turned on or something I guess it wasn't Wi-Fi guess there was the kiosk itself like they gave them browser access or something I don't know but anyway the prisoners immediately discovered the flaw and began using the internet yeah the internet no it'll be interesting to see what happens at his trial I'm good I'm sure the sentencing I'm here this yeah I'm sure that we will be reporting on that yeah and you got to think that will be construed as a threat being pretty credible considering what he's done and he will be charged with if there is any justice he will be charged with additional crimes based on this one can only hope and with that we will see you tomorrow in tomorrow's news which is going to be business news crypto I remember either definitely business news and surprises and surprise I'll see you thenwell today is Tuesday November no it's not November its March it's not Mars it's not March April April 17th or dr. Sharpe and today we're doing policy social media and security this week is gonna be a weird work week for the news it's probable that Friday's news will be pushed to Saturday because of some late-breaking other happenings that are scheduled for Friday because spontaneity is always scheduled right I mean that's how that works but it's gonna be the same news quality so don't worry about that no I don't it's zero the same level I didn't say what quality I said the same clock oh we got a lot of follow-ups to we've kind of we start with some follow-ups we also sprinkle some follow-ups in because my goodness there's a lot of follow-ups this week all right our first follow-up this week is on the founders of back page now here in the u.s. something sort of weird and miraculous happen will give us a little bit of a background err and that is we passed a law that said that if you run an online forum or like a classified ad site and people are using that for you know prostitution or whatever that the owners of that site can be liable which is contrary to all the other laws that we've had on the books for twenty thirty years and what's interesting about this though they did not that's not been signed yet or at least it hadn't when they did this so this is outside of foster system they were already doing this hmm and still like why don't you wait a week well they did I mean no this they mention in this article that they are not using foster cesta - they went back and amended but they had already seized everything and arrested these guys before that happened so they've been charged with money laundering and aiding well it's three guys and one of the guys has already pled guilty but it seems like it's part of a plea deal to go after the other - yeah I think he is totally riding on his bros if he has to go in for any amount of time that's gonna be real bad for him because it's in the news the other funny well funny you know a dark funny is they decided not to go forward with the pimping charges in this case the only got him for like aiding prostitution or something like that I can't wait to see how this case unfolds because like if they really were running a prostitution ring okay but if they were just hapless idiots running a communication site then well I think they knew what they were doing now they did take some steps they took out the I can't remember what they called I think it was called adult services oh yeah they had adult services section of the site they took that out but of course all the hookers just went to the personal section and they kind of probably had to know that was happening but again if you use a little bit of language too you know for subterfuge are you can you expect the website owner to you know get into all that and read out all your deceptions instead of foe I mean even Craigslist you know craigslist is a pretty not controversial company it maybe is perhaps one of the least controversial because it's just so there's it's just text there's nothing there like Craigslist's infrastructure is designed for like five people to be able to run the whole thing and Craigslist even pulled their personals so I because it seems like there's at least some unintended side effect well if there were for sure hookers on Craigslist I think we can say that yeah safely but there's probably hookers and your local newspaper alright like the escort services that's a pretty thinly veiled if you go to a major city and you go into you know a nice hotel they're gonna have a list of services and escort services are gonna be in there so I guess if they were doing all this before those laws passed why did they need to do laws exactly continued role the internet all there's my tinfoil hat a US judge has said that uber drivers are not company's employees now this is sort of contrary to other similar rulings in like the EU where it has been said hey they are employees and I think even like San Francisco the city of San Francisco I think was saying no no Luber drivers or uber employees but because the drivers are free to just work whenever they want and you know sort of do what they want between their assignments the judge has ruled well they're not really employees for federal purposes this was just the limo drivers the ubers got like uber limo which I guess you own your own limo which seems like it would be less of a or it would be more of a professional thing to me like a limos are expensive oh yeah probably like 100 grand for a limo 75 grand yeah but the difference in the limo drivers is for whatever reason they did not have an arbitration clause and their contract with uber so they were able to sue directly but they lost interesting and that means they don't get health benefits and things like that another win for uber this week was also with the FTC the FTC has said that there are no fines for uber over the 2016 data breach that we reported on that's the one that they paid a hundred thousand dollars to cover up if you'll recall and we covered that we covered that pretty extensively when it happened but the FTC has concluded its investigation and said well we're gonna keep an eye on their privacy audit logs but we're not gonna find them or otherwise punish them and this was the second time they had in a previous breach and so the FTC rules they actually have some constraints on what they can do on a first time they're not allowed to do much of anything except warn and basically what they did here but on the second offense they should be able to do more but they've chosen not to interesting so this is the FTC that is going to be expected to go after ISPs when ISPs run afoul of net neutrality as well the very same agency surely that won't end badly and we should remind everybody that this was under the previous CEO was a capital Nick or Callan dick or something like that who everybody hates and he was the one accused of you know being against women sexually harassing in my everything and he demonstrable went to great lengths to cover this up despite all that the FTC doesn't seem to care what's that wrong should I not have done that that's probably I don't know he didn't even tell the next CEO various thing about it no one needs to know about this this can be our little secret because otherwise people freak out their date it's not worth anything no one cares I mean we're gonna have the Equifax breach and then one's gonna care about that well that that was in the shadow of the Equifax breach and I think maybe that's what saved um or one of the things well if we punish Equifax we'd have to punish Eber and when I input okay gather everything so my step over here Tesla has been booted from an investigation into the fatal auto pilot crash now it's really interesting because the NTSB had the third National Traffic Safety Board has said that uber has been booted but uber has saying well we stepped away from the investigation because we wanted to report on what we're finding in the investigation as we find it but the NTSB has a problem with that so it seems like a little bit like he said she said but the NTSB has a policy that you don't say anything about it until the end because obviously what you say about it could be damaging to court cases and businesses and things like that so you really have to wait till you figure everything out I haven't figured anything out so Tesla was kind of you know getting out there and tweeting it's like oh what an art fault duh yep totally driver error and the NTSB was not cool to him I can't imagine why Tesla would ever want to do that just to make people you know like yeah and this was the they've already settled the civil right that's gathered with the families the guy that didn't have his hands on the wheel and hit the divider well it's even weirder than that if made of Tesla's made a lot of in my opinion very strange statements around that things like well when we met with the family we talked to them about you know the victims thoughts on auto pilot and it's like did the victim misunderstand how auto pilot works and so Tesla is saying what the family said which is oh no you totally understood that the auto pilot didn't work and that in this one particular area where the fatal crash occurred that it was known to be unreliable and the data show that his hands was not on the wheel for like six seconds so the family is like yeah I don't know but it looks weird did they say that before after they saw the zeros on that check that was Astrid yeah so that was definitely yeah maybe I might say that too now last week we reported on the whole Sinclair thing and if you haven't seen the video of this you really got to check it out there's a video on YouTube of a whole bunch of TV stations over a hundred two hundred two hundred saying the same exact thing in the same exact cadence with all their little local anchors and it's because they're all owned by Sinclair broadcasting we're talking about fake news and how important it is to get real news from Sinclair owned stations so a bunch of senators asked the FCC to look into this because historically that's something the FCC has dealt with when people are abusing airwaves things and of course cherub debts that's a G PI that's our old buddy Ajit PI you'll remember him from last week is the hardest working man in corruption and he responds very very oddly to this yeah he's pulling the old First Amendment thing which they you know they whip that out a lot and of course you know there is a part of me that thinks if you own something you do what you want with it but when it comes to calling yourself news and you know having this monopolistic control over all these little news organizations maybe maybe not you know because you do have to think now the but the deal breaker for me is these people revealed all these news broadcasters after they were you know derided in public and on Twitter for this they didn't have a choice and they were actually threatened that if they even talked about this they might be fired and if you get fired or you quit from Sinclair you have to pay them so all those things together is really disgusting and yeah I think maybe the FCC should look into that yeah it seems like somebody should look into something seems like lawmakers as as disconnected as they are we'll find out more about that in the later program well the other thing about this argument he he shapes it as just because they say something you don't like you're not allowed to go after them with the FCC but that's not what's happening here they're saying something they don't like with a gun to their head essentially you know a financial gun a journalist with quotation marks are at it yeah so it's not genuine his argument here I can't imagine someone would have disingenuous arguments as the head of the SEC how could this happen I mean it's like when you can't win the one argument argue something else and hope everyone's distracted it's called a straw man work switching gears we reported that a Foxconn is coming to America Foxconn is gonna develop a really amazing factory that was one of the big Trump wins you know he's bringing manufacturing back to America to support the little people we're getting a lot of angry reports from those little people there they're very upset about some of the happenings that are going into this so belt magazine brings us a story about the site where the factory is going to be constructed apparently they're going to use eminent domain to seize a bunch of people's houses but in order to do that they have to mark the houses as blighted because the people don't want to sell but the houses are not in any way blighted yeah you think about the term blighted and you know it conjures some extreme imagery I think of in plants you know it's like diseased beyond repair well they don't there was a lawyer here there's like a pro bono log law firm that's jumping in here and it's like oh yeah we know all about this they've done this before and they don't talk about every requirement for blighted but one requirement for blighted is you have to have 50% higher crime rate in the surrounding counties that's just not the case here this is a rule it's a little farm country with you know like low population density just rolling beautiful farmland cows and horses it's idyllic in a lot of ways and they're saying that it's blighted and they're basically just scraping out the land a lot of people are holding out for a better offer but some people including there's one couple that has a brand-new home that's less than a year old and they've never actually gotten an offer on what exactly their home is worth now you know eminent domain for progress okay fine in situations like this you probably should pay the homeowners you know 20% above market value maybe as much as 50 percent above market value as a taxpayer I would support that I think 140 percent is so you know 40 percent above market value is the norm but they haven't gotten offers but they also talked about how working farmland which is not residential and can't be blotted was getting five hundred percent hmm and all of those cases in the same area so I would be really really suspect about the misuse of the terminology here another thing in Wisconsin law apparently is that if one of the conditions for being blotted is that the blighted area is not going to be immediately conveyed to a commercial interest yeah or a thriving interest a year or something like that which it's not even it's gonna be like a week because they want to get started as soon as possible they also had one lady who had filed for you know you have to get some sort of permit or something to completely renovate her home and they approved it like a month ago knowing damn well that this was gonna happen that doesn't seem exactly honest that seems like that lady should maybe be in that five hundred percent Bradley oh it's not good China we always like reporting on China right because China has removed for news apps from their smartphone from smartphone stores or they've asked smartphone stores like the Apple Store in the Google Play Store to remove news apps and worth it surprising things about this is ten cent is makers of one of the apps yeah and it's not necessarily I think most of these are just news aggregation apps no not it's not it's not like the cinnamon square update that yeah it's not something that I don't think it's particularly partisan or incendiary or anything it's just not I think it's pulling in stories foreign stories and stuff like that I just simply don't want the air they don't have control of it so they've yanked it although I think that you know you mentioned Apple I think the Apple store is the only one that hadn't complied at this point hmm that's interesting considering that Apple is the one that can one of the ones that complied early with the VPN applications I mean Apple pulled a lot of VPN applications at the request of the Chinese government so it might just be that the bureaucracy of Apple takes a long time to get things done Oh we'd love reporting on things in India because India is working on that whole global national biometric database and things sort of go wrong with that we've got a pretty good article here from the New York Times we're unfortunately out of the free articles we've got opening the incognito yeah you can't see that but you can yourself when you look at the one tab open it in incognito you will always speak to paywall approach it a program is that criminal I don't think so I think so but a Big Brother in India requires fingerprint scans for food phones and finances they've got some quotes in here from the people and they're just like this is an unnecessary headache this is worse than it was before why do we have to do this yeah the ID I can't pronounce the name of the thing it translates into foundation the foundation program is retina scans and fingerprints and that ties into everything it ties into your credit card your entitlements your school your travel because they have a lot of public transportation in India you can't get on public transportation unless you scan your fingerprint stuff like that so it's not only or Willian you know what's funny is they mentioned that article the term Big Brother in India the translation is when somebody like like if you're broken down on the side of the road and a Good Samaritan stopped to help you you refer to them as Big Brother so that's like a good thing in their terminology but yeah a lot of people are complaining now here's the crazy part you think about the super technologically advanced biometric retina scans and thumb prints and some of the people who are being negatively affected are the leprosy victims so the same country that has all this amazing technology still is a huge problem with leprosy there's a disconnect there this is only a technology news program how are we expected to solve the world's problems the other problem is it's such an agrarian economy outside of the cities that people you know working your fingers to the bone they're literally doing that in such a way that also their fingerprints are not recognizable from month-to-month that's the thing that's that's a legit thing with farmers that stuff just yeah hands a lot your fingerprints wear off me so that they estimated as much as 20% of people who previously got some kind of entitlement are now just simply unable to get it which I guess that's big savings if your government well here we would probably accuse business owners to do that of trying to line their pockets by making it more difficult for the entitle EES to collect whatever it is that they're entitled to well this is purely through the government though so local to the local is it like the sheriff that we had where the sheriff was running the inmate program he just to pocket the money by the way the local politicians get to pocket the miser question I don't know if they get if each meanest municipality gets like a stipend or like hey we didn't use all the entitlement budget we'll just roll that into the equipment budget mm-hmm I remember when they were talking about doing away with cash what happened was the black market sort of stepped in and people would still get something but it would be less and then somebody else was siphoning off a lot so I'll be curious to know what from anybody that's there I think we've got a few people in the audience that are there sort of experiencing this I'd be curious to know how that is we've had an interesting dichotomy in the comments on this over the years because you know I remember when we first reported on this and they're like no this is a good thing it's totally not gonna be abused and we're like it's gonna be abuse in this way and then fast-forward six months and it was abuse in exactly the way that we predicted the other thing is they reported on one woman and she was you know like the perfect candidate for this thing she was middle-class young and totally following all the rules that we talk about how this is so such an optimistic program that meets the reality of these little rural municipalities she say she had ago I think four different times and it failed the first three times so then she would have to schedule another one wait in line again and it was just failure to upload so she would go through like the scanning process I didn't like the sorry I didn't upload so she'd go and try to get her whatever with a fingerprint like no you don't exist wow that sounds like voter disenfranchisement here but I'm sorry you can't vote today because whatever because reasons other bad news for technology people trump proposes rejoining the trans-pacific partnership now there's lots and lots of aspects of this that are negative that have nothing to do with technology but the technology aspect of it which is what we care about on this channel means that this is probably going to make the trade Wars thing worse not better I would think because we're doing the whole China trade Wars thing so importing electronics may start to get sketchy here in America and I think that Trump is hoping that some negotiation here will result in more favorable trade deals from like Japan but I just I think this is gonna be bad well we've got the tariffs of course and that's become kind of a mess because they've turned right around and put tariffs on our corn and soybeans which like we we can we probably will buy the technology and you think that okay no the iPhone owners you know they'll feel better about themselves from that iPhone costs $2,000 but if it makes more sense to buy the corn and soybeans from somebody else then what are we gonna do with it those farmers cannot sell it locally we are diesel yeah we're up to our ears in corn in America we have too much do you have to sell up to somebody but the other thing about this is Trump one of his campaign promises to get out of this this is one of his campaign promises that he immediately remember when they rolled out all those it was like here's six things that Trump has done and he promised in the first quarter of his first year whatever this was one of those things but it seems like he very quickly changed his mind on it like he got in a room with some people and they were like you should have never left the TPP and he was like you're right we should go back how do you change your mind that quickly it's the TPP I see is a win for copyright owner owners and drugs it's like you can copyright and patent drugs and there are a lot of drugs that should have entered the public domain a long time ago but for whatever reason manufacturers won't manufacture them or there are trade deals like this that prevent their manufacture it's a very subtle and nuanced complicated situation no matter how you cut the cheese and I think that it's ultimately bad for the population but good for business which is oh yeah still probably bad for the pop Relation it's bad for those he was talking to a small amount of farmers who export most of their crops and yeah it's bad for them because again they're selling everything to China and Japan and places like that but to be so quickly swayed although you know of course the other story this week which we don't cover here because it's not really technology but he also changed his mind on that whole Syria thing pretty good you know what else he changed his mind about the postal service so an audit of the Postal Service has been ordered after suggesting that Amazon is to blame for his troubles what's really funny is that that audit was already done a few years ago and the reason that the Postal Service is having trouble financially is because it's the only organization in America that is required to pre-fund its retirees health benefits and from time to time the government will go into that piggy bank and use that money for other reasons that's a big problem now of course we look at our you know teacher firemen policemen systems maybe not a terrible idea to pre-fund those because they're in a bad shape but to give that as an interest-free loan to the government when it needs it terrible idea that has not really worked out so far I mean the other programs that we have that have been tapped for things like that the other social programs that we have other than you know the postal services retirement benefits there are other programs in the US government that that are not they're kind of pre funded at least the money is collected but then we end up using the money for other things and by the time it rolls around that the money is needed especially in times of economic downturn the money's not really there so this is just that on another larger scale so this is just it's it would be amazing if the report comes in and it's like yeah we should ask the postal service to operate like any other company with regard to how they fund stuff its financial problems will go away it would actually be making money hand over fist still probably not a bad idea to pre-fund it but this is just it's this level of dishonesty is just baffling it's I think you if you really look at it yeah okay the postal it's probably got some problems now if we really sit down and we look at all the numbers and stuff it probably has some problems on a list of most important problems in America that's a round number eight thousand five hundred seventy six I'm just gonna guess somewhere that I really the e FF did a write up this week on some recent happenings in DC not just one case but a couple of cases actually but a DC Court has ruled that accessing public information is not a computer crime and this is really really important in the context of kind of in the context of old cases like Aaron Swartz but specifically in this case where someone had automated downloading java without the McAfee malware toolbar pop up whatever and also Det automating downloading some information from public websites you know in the terms of use it says don't do that and so some districts have said that is a computer crime if you do something on a website that is against the website's Terms of Service but a DC Court is it no that's not we're not gonna interpret it that way because that opens Pandora's box that's remember the LexisNexis one that was a big one oh yeah and we said the Oracle one that was it now you know what this could apply to is Cambridge and lyrica yeah cuz I do you call that public information it was on a website they had access to it's a it's a Terms of Service violation with Facebook Facebook keeps referring to it as a contract it's like is there enough stuff to execute when Elle's contract Vic this this ruling I don't know if it came out and said it but in the when they were interpreting they were like nobody reads the Terms of Service and you can't make up your own laws in the Terms of Service and expect those to be enforced by the government yeah up to this point websites can say you violated their Terms of Service that is a criminal act and it's like whoa that should be a misdemeanor at worst so there's a rare for those of all of you who are like man this shows okay but it sure does depress me there's a little silver lining for you you know when the good things happen we cover them they just don't happen very often we've got another another silver lining for you and that's Google has won and lost a right to be forgotten case so the headline for the BBC is Google has lost the right to be forgotten case there were actually two cases won one and lost one the one that they won was someone who'd committed a fairly serious crime and served like six years in prison right and so that person would like those records expunged from Google they lost somebody else was was spent like six months in jail or three months in jail for a relatively minor offense that person won and Google will have to expunge search results for that individual but that's I think that's terrible because it doesn't set any sort of case law but what it does do is say you have to go to court if you want this to happen and a judge has to decide the judge said part of his ruling was because of one guy showed remorse is that that should be a factor so what this does is it creates a situation where okay you can you have the right to be forgotten if you if you're rich enough and influential enough to sue Google see it to the end and you have the courts in your pocket it seems like that would turn into a Streisand effect really quickly though for were the rich and famous because like you know if Britney Spears went to jail for doing cocaine or whatever and then she was suing Google to have that expunged it seems like that which is being the news all over again mmm that's probably true but this guy you know that the winner yeah we don't know his name we don't know what he did I didn't bother to look it up I thought that was remarkably responsible of the BBC because here in America we would have been like they wanted the guys to remain anonymous but his home address is this and you can search for that home address to see everyone that's ever lived there and it's just like oh hi but I don't know we certainly in this country you know you've got the it's so much fun to look at the criminal databases and see the mug shots and everything so we kind of go with the idea that like okay yeah you're a criminal people need to know what you did and we're gonna nail this up on the cathedral door on Sunday and this goes against that I'm not sure if I'd like the idea of you know once you've done the time for the crime that that's it it's over you need to move on but at the same time there are definitely patterns of behavior and so it's like if you've done a series of crimes and done the series of time those crimes that probably should still be in the public record but again you're creating this crazy set of rules that it will can never adhere to so it would have to go through a court system in order for somebody to suss out the specific situation because that's there's so much work I mean people are already waiting you know for for civil cases or even they're waiting in jail for two years to get a criminal case heard we don't need more court cases so maybe what you're saying is we should change as a society and it's like yep dude was totally having a bad day whose address arrested for drunk and disorderly we all have bad days it's fine let's move on uh I guess it was what he was doing he was driving now yeah you make up your own mind it should not be so stigmatic I guess would be would be as a society we need to not stigmatize those people so bad cuz like some convicted felons are genuinely trying to do really good when they get out to vote also those guys are in the UK right yeah so it's not even it's not really the same apples and oranges Dubai is launching a digital vehicle number plate now this I was like ok cool it's gonna be like a QR code that can be read by machines automatically nope it's an electronic plate that tracks you at all times and literally the number can change so the correct it's so Orwellian the more you get into it so not only can they disable it so like if you don't pay your registration or whatever does turn your number off literally your number will go away and but the other thing is they automatically deduct the fees so if you get a traffic fine you might find out about it when you see the debit from your account as your license plate is tied to your bank account think about how crazy that is how amazing is that gonna be in the future where you like you just drive around the city and it's like oh this drive today cost me $50 I had no idea I was going through a construction zone yeah and that's just a trial version but if they figure out that it's cost-effective and I guess it will be when they start fining everybody for every little thing they're gonna roll it out to the entire country now Mark Zuckerberg has been in the news a bunch we've covered him to death and there's a lot more news this we con Zuckerberg but we're not really so many good names well has so many what we're not really gonna I think I feel like everything has been covered not really gonna rehash it if you want to check that out last week's news episode was no luck for the suck you should check that out because we basically covered everything that was before his congressional testimony since then there are a couple of things that will highlight some Facebook employees are reportedly quitting or asking to switch departments over ethical concerns so this you know the headline you could paint a lot of pictures with this but there are a lot of employees that are sort of saying well you know we might have raised some flags internally we're gonna just sort of migrate over here yeah they talk about the the buzzword the the one that everybody's tweeting about it's the golden handcuffs because what are you supposed to do they talk to these people and it's like yeah I kind of know that we're evil but you have no idea how easy this job is and how much I get paid so I don't really want to walk away from this some of them have wanted to go to Instagram and some of the other Facebook own things but you know I think the when you read between the lines in that article they all knew what was going on yeah I don't think um if you're working in a technical aspect and we've talked about this before where sometimes people will hire you to work on their website and they don't understand it's like once you have access to the database you have everything you can't there is no privacy at that point you get whatever you want and if you're working at that level of course you knew what was happening at Facebook and I think what really riled them up is the fact that they found out it got Trump elected they imagined that it did well then so that now there's outrage and they're clearly good that's so offense if I don't understand suck testified with the Senate to the Senate and the Democrats proposed a tough opt-in privacy law this is a pretty good summary of that but you really should go check out the video because there are some amazing amazing clips of that and the news itself is not like it was a grilling I mean you know like a burger is testifying and answering questions and the news is not really like as anybody watching this program I don't think they're going to get a lot out of it technologically speaking record basically had a few canned answers well a lot of canned answers but the questions that a lot of senators were reading to him they really struggled with like the more disturbing thing here is that the Senators even with all the I don't know what would you call it conditioning training ahead of this questioning in the world they still got some basic fundamental stuff so wrong well I Dianne Feinstein was my favorite one she can barely sound out the words she had never seen some of those words before she had no concept what was going on I don't think it would be unfair to say that she was not literate and you know she was the only one she's easy to make fun of because she's she's low functioning but there were a lot of those people on that panel that were clearly the people sitting behind him knew what was going on because they wrote those questions but the people presenting the questions and there was one guy who he brought up the whole log out oh you logged out I logged out tracking yeah and that was just brushed under the rug Zuckerberg was like don't know anything about that let's follow up and there was one guy who brought up the Obama campaign yeah of doing the exact same thing as a Canberra general it occur again that guy actually if you go back and listen to that testimony he's like you know Obama did this I'm not gonna ask you to talk about that right now what wipe what up so they didn't understand maybe it was clear to them exactly what was happening it I don't know but it was it was a dog-and-pony show yeah I had the bigger problem here I think would be trying to educate these lawmakers I was also really disappointed with the the age distribution it was definitely skewed way up there well that's just our leaders I mean I don't is it is it a just to say hey maybe the part of the reason these guys just don't get it is because you know are they is it I was actually kind of hopeful more hope I mean it was definitely dog and pony show don't get don't get me wrong and I am an overly optimistic by Nature but it seemed like some of the people up there were genuinely trying to comprehend the gravity of the situation in terms of access to data and how bad things are and you know potentially the potential for abuse it will start like I could see sort of the glimmers of a flicker of maybe oh we this thing is being built and there's not really anything to stop it and it could be abused commercially for really really evil ends and I'm not saying that Facebook is doing that but the machinery is being built and someone will abuse it and it seemed like some of the people we're starting to get clued into that but the fundamental misunderstanding of technology was just so severe that the signal-to-noise ratio I don't think was high enough there that anybody can effectively do anything about it I think it's it was just them you know they're trying to they're always thinking about the reelection that's the problem I'll give you a great example if you go back and you watch the entire Senate there was one I don't know what her name is but there was one person who asked about ice immigration customs and she had this theory that ice was gonna start using social media to they are to go after illegals and stuff like that and of course Zuckerberg was like well nobody's I haven't nobody's contacted me about that which is probably true they put haven't talked to him about it and she just kept going on and on about this thing it has nothing to do with the Cambridge analytical you just soapboxing you know and this is a lot of those people they're just getting up there they're saying what they think that people want to hear yeah and they're trying to present themselves as a certain kind of thing and nothing really ever gets done so it apparently had a pretty good effect on America so nearly one in 10 Americans have deleted their Facebook accounts according to a survey my was the third survey thousand people so how accurate can't really be if it's really 10% I mean I gotta imagine things inside a Facebook you've got to be sort of Harry Caray levels of crazy yeah I you know the whole correlation of the small numbers but yeah if it is that many people they have to be scrambling because I'm gonna back you know they've got all that R&D and all those acquisitions behavioral modification programs that's not gonna pay off if they lose their people but more port only they're gonna have to step really carefully in terms of selling data you know what sounds like a really amazing way for Facebook to deflect responsibility a paid see something say something program where literally if you find there's an app and it's like oh you're for an app and it may be abused we'll investigate as Facebook and if they are if they are abusing you could win 500 to $10,000 I think it's just 40,000 is it 40 I thought it was 500 2/10 no no it's like what's the minimum impact needed to be rewarded Oh 10,000 more Facebook users it's the how much can I expect to make $40,000 upwards of $40,000 that end of that one end of that one oh yeah oh wow 40,000 damn but a minimum of 500 yeah I know an app I could report I know about Tanna yeah what they're saying here is like you say it's kind of like you know just pointed out just right somebody out and we'll give you 40 grand and but I don't you would have to be probably working on the app yeah something like the camera general Etica a user of that app would have had no idea no so no clue Instagram which is also a Facebook thing right I mean Facebook owns Instagram or whatever instagram has announced they're gonna let you download your content after criticism about portability and this has been the case with Instagram even before Facebook bought the mist they're designed to make it as hard as possible for you to get your data out of instagrams because if you just have a bunch of photos turns out there's hundreds of services online you can just upload a bunch of photos too big deal yeah so basically they're gonna give you a way to download all the photos you've uploaded to Instagram it's about time and yeah it's one of those things where it's hard to praise them for it basic functionality but I guess that's a good step yeah twitter also wants in on the act because they have announced that they are gonna comply with the honest ads Act to combat Russia's social media meddling now the honest ads Act is not law yet but Twitter is gonna say yeah we can get behind we're gonna go ahead and implement this so this basically just means if you see an ad you can find out who bought it and you know if we say what's going on behind it and that kind of thing so I bet you know political campaigns are upset about that I think that uh I think there are gonna be a lot of media companies that are upset about that I think we're gonna see a lot of shell companies come into the existence but isn't I think that honest ads Act is built to combat that as well because you have to register with them yeah that's what Facebook is doing as well as uh Coburg repeated that many many times in his testimony but the the more dangerous I think the far more dangerous situation especially in the climate of the changes that the FCC has made to net neutrality and data privacy at the ISP level Facebook at least from the beginning has been pretty honest and pretty transparent about what they intend to do with your data if you were paying attention to that kind of thing then the vast majority of the population I really pay attention to that our lawmakers not paying attention to that but the in the same cautions that we gave you at least and I think that a lot of other people in the know with technology gave you I think the much much much more dangerous situation is collusion with companies like Yahoo and AOL and Verizon so they're getting together to be able to read your emails and do stuff with your content and so even if you're using a VPN if you're using Yahoo or AOL it would not matter because your providers are going to get access to your data directly from the service provider in order to mine your habits and build profiles exactly let Cambridge analytic oh yeah and this is not anything new of course Google did this up until sometime in 2017 I think yeah the AdWords would parse through your email and try to find things - that you like to advertise to you with and yeah who's saying that's exactly what they're gonna start doing they've done it before - I think and stopped but you know they're back into it yeah the there are changes to OAuth or out with the or oh that's the parent company of privacy no off of privacy policy and the changes there I think this is gonna fly under the radar until something like Cambridge analytic happens and maybe they'll be careful enough with the data that something like Cambridge analytic n't happen but you can better believe that they were going to exploit the data more than Cambridge analytic ever did well it's not a public profile in any sense but that doesn't mean that there's not gonna be a leak you know this probably more of an Equifax tragedy than a Cambridge analytical tragedy well it doesn't matter that it's not a public profile because well there's two darker aspects of this one is that they're allowed to do this the FCC has explicitly said this kind of thing is completely okay for an ISP to including this Terms of Service the second really disturbing thing is that when we have things like the cloud Act the standard that the government could use to obtain this data is extremely extremely low so if you know for whatever reason you were being surveilled or the government wanted information on you they could just simply request the profile that has been built for you in these systems and I think it would otherwise it's you couldn't otherwise do it at least under the US Constitution because it would be an unreasonable search but if it's happening in a commercial company then it's not really the search is not unreasonable because the information was already given to a third party so that changes the equation a little bit and that's that's the really scary thing we gotta be careful of but this we talked about the Facebook stuff I think it applies here too if you ever thought your Yahoo Mail was not subject to what every guy wanted to do with it including law enforcement you shouldn't be that's Pam I think a lot of people don't realize that in the way that a lot of people did not realize what they were giving Facebook and it's probably to data this one is a fun security article this is really one of one of just a couple of pure security articles but data exfiltration over a PC power supply yeah so if you're at the electrical service panel you can send about 10 bits per second from a computer over the power connection with no extra special hardware or anything like that just by encoding it into how much power idle cores in the CPU you I think it was a hundred at the panel a thousand if you could put the clamp directly on the power cable so what they're doing is they're taking unused cores and the CPU and with the software they're spinning them up which is gonna affect the power load in a predictable way and if they're listening on the other end then they can of course you just in binary but they can send data over the power cable to the switch which is incredible if it's a low enough bitrate to be super annoying I mean intelligence agencies we definitely use this to recover your private keys but yeah that's about it it's too slow for anything else really although you know over time I'm sure they could yeah if you or if you're talking about a CPU that's got 12 cores yeah then maybe they could use three you know and you triple the speed that explains my performance anomaly oh they've already compromised the system now speaking of people that have already compromised the system we've reported an it on this before but there was a guy who was arrested for swatting and this is the Kansas guy right there's a guy that got the guy killed okay yeah yeah right so yeah he will rehash it he was playing call of duty of course you would look at him of course he was playing call of duty and somebody was trash-talking him and he was like oh yeah where do you live and I got just made up an address well it turns out that was a real address this guy swatted that address and the homeowner who knew nothing about this situation had no idea what was going on was killed by the SWAT team in his front door so this guy is a weighting sensing that's the crazy thing here his case has not been settled he is yet to be sentenced for his crimes and he did the stupidest thing in the world and that thing was he posted to Twitter how am I on the internet if I'm in jail oh it's because I'm gonna eat god that's how 9:05 i am on twitter on friday that twitter handles the hairs of the thing it's like blah blah blah 19 minutes later than the same handle said all right now who's Clinton who's talking crap or whatever here your ass I guess is about to get swatted so yeah yeah he threatened to do the same crime while awaiting sentencing now he is not in fact in a god what happened was they have these kiosks in jails these days so you have phone calls and commissary you have all these ways that you can spend money in jail because they're for-profit and you put it you punch in your prisoner number and that's your way of buying all these things so have these electronic kiosks that facilitate all of that well somebody didn't update on one of them and left the internet Wi-Fi turned on or something I guess it wasn't Wi-Fi guess there was the kiosk itself like they gave them browser access or something I don't know but anyway the prisoners immediately discovered the flaw and began using the internet yeah the internet no it'll be interesting to see what happens at his trial I'm good I'm sure the sentencing I'm here this yeah I'm sure that we will be reporting on that yeah and you got to think that will be construed as a threat being pretty credible considering what he's done and he will be charged with if there is any justice he will be charged with additional crimes based on this one can only hope and with that we will see you tomorrow in tomorrow's news which is going to be business news crypto I remember either definitely business news and surprises and surprise I'll see you then\n"