**The Dark Side of Technology: Tales from the Internet**

They say "turnkey" terrorism is a bad idea. Well, it worked for a while, but you have to worry about what's interesting. Pirates during the golden age of piracy had a very structured way of divvying up the spoils. Yeah, yeah, it was like a clever system where you knew when you got on that boat what you're gonna get, what percentage you were gonna get.

In today's world of Internet of Things (IoT), it's a bad idea to have control over your guests' capsule bedrooms in a hotel. But Bob had a bad night. He discovered that some hotels offer their guests the means to troll others by controlling the room's bed. You can access the routers and everything are just like cleverly hidden, but you can plug your phone and laptop into them. Once you've done that, you did have to drain the battery out of the iPad because it wouldn't let him leave. That app.

The guy next to him was being loud, nice is this one of those hotels that's like you just get like a little coffin to sleep in? Yeah, yeah, I think that's some dedication to pull out all your tech gear and your little capsule just to mess with the guy next to you. But imagine how annoying it could be if the guy next to you was on the phone at 3 a.m. Oh imagine how i mean look how thin those walls are? Yeah, yeah, that's just a piece of drywall.

We've seen these stories too many times at this point, certainly one time it's too many times but this has got to be like the fifth or sixth time we've seen a major headline about this and in this case, it wasn't the destruction that caused it. But they were smart enough that as soon as they got a whiff of it, they're like just turn it all off, turn the lights off nothing has power right now. When that happens, ransomware attack forces Indiana hospital to turn ambulances away because they turn everything off.

Wow, no one died this time around that we know of but it could be that someone got you know rerouted a lifelong debilitation because they didn't get their treatment quickly. He only was didn't have oxygen to the brain for an extra two minutes, it's fine. Yeah, it's only like 12 iq points, that's looking like 50. He's not going to need those.

**Surveillance and Activism Gone Wrong**

Activists raided by police after downloading London property firm's confidential meeting minutes from a Google search. Someone must have broken in and taken the docs that says leather market community benefits society so they they raided his house, they arrested him, they took him to the police station, and he explained is like i was looking for copies of the meeting minutes which turned up in a google search.

And this company, uh, pulled the ip address from its logs and said this person must have broken into the servers because those are behind a password but they're not really behind a password because the site was not configured correctly. Because Google indexed those documents and so when the police found it, they're like he didn't do anything wrong.

**The Internet's Dark Side**

This is where things get scary. The first result for "leather market minutes" is the pdf now, uh this they don't have the same protections that we have I guess in this case like i get can an ip still identify you over there? I think that that's not really a protection that we have I think here you would probably still be arrested and it would have to make it a little bit further in the process but the supreme court eventually because it is a supreme court ruling, you would say that you would get away from that.

Yeah, and maybe he would have eventually as well. People talk about it's like oh don't worry you'll get arrested but it'll never go anywhere, well that's still super annoying, that's gonna cause me a lot of problems who's going to feed my cats? Who's going to mow your lawn?

**Tomorrow's Stories**

We've got some great stories lined up for tomorrow. First up, we've got a design section with Kirsten. Then there's a black hole story as well. But this time, it wasn't designing anything no except for something more sinister. The black hole was not designed to do that, but it did.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello it's august 17th and we're here for another episode of the level one news today we're doing government and security and uh that awkward pause you just heard was us pausing for the air conditioner we can scrub that out we'd hit 30 seconds and i was like okay 32 32. yeah we're still going but i realize that you can't i can't see that no it's too far away no it's not that it's too far away kristen that's not too far away it's too far away that's not it well let's talk about some uh oh you didn't even tell us what we're getting into here yeah oh uh this is the san pellegrino so i got a case of san pellegrino i think this is the one that i had before but it's it's really good it's been a long week i really pronounced that orange name uh i run seattle that would be my guess yeah um the blood orange i do have the blood orange so somebody sent me the sampler there's like 30 cans in this case of san pellegrino it wouldn't all fit in the fridge now here's you said you tried a couple of them right yes how different are they they're very different it's the spectrum from like lemon there's like two or three lemon varieties i guess and then this one and then there's a blood orange variety as well which everybody has been saying i gotta try the blood orange one let's say i give you two of the regular oranges side by side could you tell them apart no no i don't think so okay what do you mean like i'm just wondering how distinct the orange flavor is oh this this is a the overall distinct flavor of this is or the overall flavor of this is very distinct with 19 orange juice and yet this doesn't taste doesn't have it has a strong taste but it doesn't have a strong orange juice taste like some of the other ones now i remember the i don't whatever the last orange one you tried you've tried the sound pellegrino i've that got high marks yeah this isn't this is like an a plus this is it's also 120 calories so i'm gonna be extra peppy for the news i guess is it sugary it you know it's too big to be 120 calories it doesn't taste sugary but um sugar is the number two ingredient a head of orange juice concentrate oh but that's real sugar huh yeah i guess nice well i don't know i think the usda okay calling high fructose corn syrup sugar really which is unfortunate counter to the public interest i wonder who got bribed for that they added extra citric acid but yeah san pellegrino really it feels it feels very you know very high end i don't know what it is it's pricey isn't it is it i think so i wouldn't know this everyone sends it everyone has been very kind in supporting us so thank you i don't remember what i paid for that little package i bought but it's over there in the fancy section i'll say that well you got to give it a letter grade in a venue and i think you give the last one a venue product of italy oh it's 120 degrees there last week that's uh you think that'll hurt the orange harvest that's yeah that's bad i would uh i would drink this after a very hard week where i'm just sort of tired of everything would you drink it if you'd uh so it's the end of the week and you're out of energy but you need to go to the green pass protest yeah this would be a good choice one of those that would be a good choice they're doing a lot of that over there well when we're not talking about oranges we like to talk about tech news and let's talk about some government and security tech news and there's a lot a lot of money floating around up there in washington and they're just dying to give it out the dod has awarded a 1 billion dollar contract to periton to counter misinformation now you read this and it's like that's not horrifying at all and then you read it and it's like well okay it's to counter misinformation from foreign governments about this that or the other are you sure they're going to limit it to that no i would say why would they contract it out if they weren't trying to get around some sort of loophole law yeah i kind of doubt it they uh there was a quote in there something about like you know the narrative and disinformation and all that stuff and it's like well that's really just your narrative isn't it yeah remember when it was the department of war and we don't say that anymore we don't that's not palatable to the american public because you know all those defense events that happen on the mainland oh wait shell shock to post-traumatic stress disorder uh so they're not new though they've been uh we've been giving them money for a long time and they've been doing this for a while just in some other venues some of the other government agencies have already hired them to do other stuff that's a lot of money and the lawmakers they definitely picked the headlines the tech headlines more than ever and used them to immediately go into some sort of bill or something i think that's exactly what this is uh reuters reports us lawmakers introduced bill to rain in apple and google app stores i everybody's writing this up i think everybody's missing the mark look if you wanna if you wanna they're basically saying that it's predatory for apple and google to get involved in the transactions between developers and their customers but none of the language of the bill and none of this stuff really faces it head on it's like everybody's afraid to call it what it is which is like if i have a customer and the customer wants to do business with me they should be able to directly do business with me could there possibly be anything more american than that level of of entrepreneurship okay here i'm gonna make an argument i'm gonna devil's advocate this is it okay if i bring my mcdonald's into your subway and eat it i wouldn't care if i was an employee at once but some people really do care about that yeah some people really see it that way and that's a little different it's kind of a lot different but um yeah it's like i've committed to subway and because i've committed to subway subway does not want me eating anywhere else i would rather that i starve than eat anywhere else because i've committed a subway and let me tell you if subway could figure that out they would absolutely try to do that eating they're not tuna products it's not unprecedented i mean we had the first cell doctrine laws come about because book publishers were doing this kind of thing so this is not really anything new it's just you know the old thing with computers and it is a little different i will admit because in that analogy subway is not trying to take a piece of your mcdonald's order that you paid all right like there's not a a corking fee yeah at the subway thanks for the fries bro it just takes them out of your bag basically that's what we're talking about here so yeah they're saying that the payment system should not be part of the ecosystem this should be you should be able to pay however you want yeah well it's okay for the payment system to be part of the ecosystem but you should be able to have as many as you want and we also have a follow-up from a headline last week if you remember that facebook they had this group of researchers and they had this pretty impressive browser plugin that was measuring the things that facebook wouldn't let them look at by letting you know the crowd sourcing the information facebook not a fan and shut them right down so some lawmakers said wait a minute techcrunch says senators pressed facebook for answers about why it cut off misinformation researchers so one of the components of the research which is really i think pretty damning for what facebook is doing here was the researchers were screen scraping volunteers it was like hey you want to help us research we're going to screen scrape all your stuff from facebook and then the researchers would buy ads targeting demographics and political ads targeting demographics which facebook has said repeatedly and explicitly that they've given a lot of attention to but the researchers were able to demonstrate that that was all lies and the people participating could tell the researchers some things about themselves and what they've opted into and what they haven't and kind of prove that facebook was not being honest yeah and the sample size was pretty good sized here so this is a little bit of a smoking gun i think that's what upset facebook the most is how many people were willing to participate in this because they hate facebook very interesting so will anything come from that no no i mean we do have this you know it's it's open season on facebook right now so a financial punishment maybe we could get facebook's would be like we don't allow scraping look what happened with cambridge analytica and it's like well this is a different kind of scraping guys come on also in cambridge analytica the user was completely ignorant of everything in this situation the user is fully informed about everything i would go a step farther and say that the user was actively tricked because it was you know which kardashian are you and that just as you played that game it was just mining all of your stuff in the background she's not really a courtney which one do you think you are is it just the daughters we pick from i guess i don't even know how many there are i think there's three or four right yeah they're different it's a different lineage there's different fathers in there interesting yeah not really it's not interesting well the big infrastructure bill do they ever did that actually get passed yet or i know they're fighting real hard about that everybody's trying to get their pork in that and but we will get it eventually we'll get some version of it and when we do there will be 65 billion dollars worth of broadband upgrade money to be spread around now when we started out this bill we were told that we were going to get an emphasis on fiber we were going to get emphasis on small isps and we were going to do something about this whole like making municipal isps illegal those are going to be the big factors of this bill guess what happened to all three things big telecom comes out on top in the 65 billion broadband upgrade all the things ryan mentioned they were gutted so even if you've got a successful municipal broadband they aren't going to get any kind of preferential treatment they can still apply for funds but you know if an isp an incumbent isp that hasn't done their job also submits they're going to get equal funding they're going to get more funding well probably in reality yeah they're going to be more funding chris what do you think about this art i like that art i don't like the article it's attached to but i like the art the blue part's a little weird i guess there wasn't they just kind of gave up on them just scrambling up it's amazing that none of the big companies were like charged for taking the money and not doing anything with it well they were rewarded this is this has been the pattern since the 90s we're gonna do fiber this time really give us money oh when you say since the 90s you mean since the invention of the internet at least the consumer internet i mean we weren't really they didn't have isps prior to that yeah we knew the copper was not going to cut it 30 years ago and here we are well you remember that time that microsoft and amazon were fighting about that big government contract no not that time the other time now microsoft is protesting after amazon won a 10 billion nsa cloud contract the battle has moved from jedi to wild and stormy names that they come up with for these programs i i feel like if i was the person awarding the contract in this case i'd just be like fine neither of you get it because you argued that's what i do with three-year-olds but she needs one of them to do it you need this program the i can't believe the nsa is outsourcing some of this to the cloud it's like was this really a good idea guys but um they said they're going to move a bunch of stuff to the cloud and blah blah blah but there's there is a really interesting tidbit in here which is uh uh microsoft's argument is that their proposal was not properly evaluated because it sounds like they had some analytics data on their solution and it's like our solution addresses your thing in this way log in and take a look nobody logged in to take a look i think so how did you evaluate it and the argument here is basically just a mirror image of the last time yeah it's like just the two companies are just taking turns accusing each other of the same things i'm sure that's true they're probably both doing the worst things that they can maybe the nsa and the dod can get together and it's like all right amazon you get this one microsoft you get that one they're both worth about 10 billion dollars it's fine yeah you just showed your naivete by saying the doj and the dod get together never they will not play with one another there's i mean these new york times articles yeah like they're they don't even summarize what they're trying to tell you in the headline it's just this long meandering but what you're getting out of this one is that the teamsters are getting serious about amazon new york times headline is amazon faces wider fight over labor practices uh i don't think they have a man on the ground for this article this this read like it was sourced from you know interviews with like a rando over the phone or something but there's another warehouse in alabama first of all that is looking at unionizing and uh the teamsters are trying to get stuff organized basically everywhere amazon has a fulfillment center and it's like hey do you have to pee in a bottle yeah well teamsters can put into that now the teamsters unlike most of the unions teamsters aren't that worried about doing the more disruptive stuff like shutting down warehouses or you know having strikes and stuff like that so although the strikes in the past have not been super effective against amazon yeah they're pretty strong against that strong against unions although at the rate of employee attrition that amazon is doing amazon will soon have employed every capable working person what was it one in 160 people in this country are employed by amazon yeah yeah 169 i think yeah so if amazon goes nuclear on people trying to do a union they're going to run out of workers isn't that something they've been we did a story about that see where they had like internal memos they're like we're kind of burning through staff and uh we don't know we'll be able to replace them well they got that crazy thing where the like they fire 10 right yeah constantly fire 10 percent no matter what you have the best workers in the world there were guys managers like yeah i hired people just to fire up so i have to fire my good guys do you think we'll see h-1b visa workers where it's like this this guy is the most amazing what do they call them athletes like uh business athletes it's like this we need an h-1b visa for the industrial athletes from the guy out of mexico or the you know some guys out of some other you know honduras or something it's like these guys need to come in and do our warehouse they're amazing i don't think so because you have to prove a skill level for your h1bs right law skill level for industrial athleticism i guess you'll do a combine the amazon combine will we bring them over and make them run the 40 and bench press 250 god that would be that is a good youtube parody video somebody could get on the amazon combine and you'd have like an over 65 section you know like you'd have different classes the rv team we need to script that and maybe we can get uh linus to help uh produce it or something that would be funny but he's canadian they don't know our plight with amazon i think they kind of do though right they do amazon just abuse everybody all the way down every country they definitely do yeah but i don't think amazon canada has well maybe they do all right engagement challenge does amazon canada have the same reach can they deliver to like the great north unknown is that a thing you need to deliver this to the number 47 spruce tree in the saskatchewan outback the mining camp and it's like here you go there's that i left it against the root i could totally see you know it's your first day as an amazon canada driver and they give you this like broken down van and they're like yeah just uh take the ice road for 700 miles just peppered with bullet hands uh well electronic vehicles one of the big complaints that a lot of people have about electronic vehicles thus far is that they're kind of a toy of the rich not a lot of entry-level ones that's getting better with uh the ford's got the one there's a thing called like hyundai and honda have a couple that are a little more reasonable but that 80 to 100 000 price tag that is kind of crazy for a car some of the people in the government are saying that same thing no ev tax credit if you earn more than a hundred thousand dollars says us senate the amendment would also limit the tax credit to evs that cost less than forty thousand dollars i don't know i mean i understand the cost less than forty thousand dollars thing but in terms of how much you earn are you saving the planet any less if you're right i mean aren't we isn't that the argument for evs well and this isn't going to affect the super rich because they have little holding companies that own a corporate fleet of vehicles that shuttle them around it's not like those super rich people don't buy a vehicle in their name their company that handles them like their handler company buys it and then it's a corporate purchase and it's in the fleet so it doesn't even matter it seems like they should do everything they can to encourage uptake of that but or could let the market decide that's worked in the past nypd they've got a bad reputation this is like the sixth article we've covered like this and the more you peel back the linoleum the more it's like well here's the impressive thing right you this is the sixth article that we've talked about with this kind of thing we didn't know any of this before now yeah this is all new information and it goes back a long time the nypd secretly spent 159 million on surveillance tech they got x-ray vans they got facial recognition vans they got you know anything stingrays and those fake towers yeah i mean just anything so when you were at a protest in new york city there was something running and scanning you and making a note and doing gate analysis probably just when you were walking down the street to like get a donut or something they've got all the phone unlock subscriptions they've got celebrate plus so yeah they were forced to reveal all this because of freedom of information and it's just a treasure trove of what they've been throwing money at this is the one where the first couple responses to this were uh there's no response of records too they had to be sued so what they yeah they had a slush fund and uh i can't remember what they called it but this they ran everything through the slush fund which kept it out of the official channels which provides x-ray vans that can detect weapons and vehicles 1500 feet away certainly that's never given anybody cancer or detected anything other than a weapon so yeah wow a lot of money and the tax rate if you're in new york city and you're paying those taxes you should be angry about that i'm very angry you know it's funny uh a couple of years ago we were we were on a road trip and we were stopped by police like two or three times and they always wanted to search the car and now that i think about it uh i had injection molding stuff in the trunk which is the same kind of metal that a lot of guns are made out of the same kind of density and i bet it was like setting off something and i just didn't realize it because i was like that seems weird that we've been stopped three times as we travel across the state you let them search it well i mean disgusting didn't really feel like i had a choice most of the time because it's like that we're gonna search it they're counting on you can search it now or we'll be here for three hours and we'll get the dog and it's just like jesus christ oh man i can't remember the 99 problems lyrics but that's the response you give them yeah what that a ain't what yeah you know what that song's about the is a dog the is the search dog right now i've never listened that closely to the lyrics i just know like the chorus so you thought it was about women right nope uh-huh it's about police search dogs well uh i remember when we were getting this big merger and some people were like yeah but what if they did this and they're like are you crazy we would never do that that would be ridiculous and i'm not even gonna listen to it and then a year later bloomberg t-mobile stirs grave concerns at doj on a bid in the old network so it turns out there's millions of users that are still using boost mobile but there's also a lot of like alarm systems and pagers and stuff like that on this old network and t-mobile wants to shut it down it's the old sprint network and that will also force people to buy new phones and the costs will probably go up and blah blah blah so the doj is like wait a minute when when you guys merged you said this wouldn't happen oh it's happening not again they lied again if they're shutting it down and there's no value in it maybe they should sell it to us we could probably make a lot of money on that no they say they got to use it to upgrade everything get it on the new um of course but nobody wants to buy the new stuff are we just going to force that to happen yeah we removed their choice what are you talking about this is the beautiful thing about it yay capitalism you have to upgrade imagine how many jobs that's going to create the navy is uh doing something that yeah it's cool it's impressive but the surveillance implications they're a little worrying the us navy is deploying a solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days and they were saying this is going to be amazing because it can escort ships at sea while have advanced warning of you know pirates or any kind of sea activity for hundreds and hundreds of nautical miles around all of our ships and then you're like wait a minute can these fly over land too and they're like or you know if people get if people have a pesky protest so follow your home is this image like comically large like it feels like the wings are well it has to so it's stretched it's lightweight but it needs to have like a large uh you know footprint for the air to flow over outside yeah and solar it's all solar cells yeah oh i guess that makes sense so they have for the panels they've had these planes before but this one increases the solar capacity and automates the the piloting of it so this thing can just take off and it's just up there beaming back images all by itself yeah sounds great i mean the the solar part is cool but then it's like oh we're gonna use this for something terrible aren't we it's a mobile stingray that's everything the government's ever invented this uh this is pretty cool because you know we here in the in the rural area i'm waiting breathlessly for my fiber rollout you're on the schedule yeah with that other story about atnt i was like oh god that's gonna be me i'm gonna be affected by that but anyway uh you know you gotta get the fiber to you and it takes a long time and it's hard to convince them and guess who's fighting them at every step of the way the battle of the poles these big isps are actually winning that battle in most cases in the uk they have an interesting solution the uk launches a four million dollar fund to run fiber optic cables through water pipes so they're going to use the fiber optic cables to monitor the water pipes for breaks or spills or to know exactly when something bad happens with the water main but you've got these large you know six inch diameter water main pipes and hey that's a clear path from a to b instead of doing all of the work to bury it we can just put a really really small fiber optic cable in with the potable water what could possibly go wrong yes it seems like there's a lot of things that could go wrong though no like what well you can leech all kinds of chemicals out of the plastic jacket i mean i'm thinking about like fire rated plenum cable i would not want to put that in or if you need to make a repair somewhere like wouldn't that be problematic trying to access it i imagine there's going to be some kind of conduit that it's run in right that's going to be more than one line probably and then that condo it leaches chemicals or well pvc i don't know it's the same stuff we're already using it it's a good question and if that conduit fails and water gets in yeah there's yeah you could say that there's probably some issues there but it's municipal water that's already poisoned yeah just drink nestle water yummy delicious someone else's municipal water but it's been reversed on osmosis purified that's what's important i know it comes out of a tap somewhere else probably in colorado river water that they've illegally taken oh it's uh it's public information people have revealed where like based on what brand of nestle you're drinking because they have all the brands like the umbrella corporation they'll tell you where it's coming from actually i think it tells you on the bottle doesn't it yeah uh i'm looking forward to i want some of the glacier water i want to preserve some of the glacier water because it's like this is the last you know fresh melt glacier water on earth because now all the glaciers are gone what would you sell that for in 40 years like four thousand dollars on ebay four thousand dollars that'll be enough for a big mac in 40 years i was hoping we had a bottle around but i don't think we do there's no bottle of water you made yeah i was going to check the label but you've got plenty of nestle water in this jug i can't believe you buy nestle water to put in a reusable bottle and i'm going to lower that level and i make my ice cubes out of it that's the important part you get your eyes out of the refrigerator you're still drinking municipal water see that's where they get you china uh they had a weird week last week or the week before i guess where they were like hey um 10 cent you're done since it was like no and then it was dd you're next and then dd's oh god and then they were kind of like should we keep doing this because we are destroying our stock market and apparently the answer is yes we will continue china signals more regulation for businesses in coming years from bloomberg so they really they really put together a pretty complete and succinct roadmap for the next five years and it does not look good for the traditional big businesses i honestly don't know if that's good or bad for citizenry there wasn't really anything super nefarious in there but i mean they do seem to be doing it in the name of you know like protecting data and stuff like that but there's got to be a hook in there right they're protecting the data for themselves i guess i guess that's the game but why now because they've figured out how powerful that is oh i think they knew there's something going on there very interesting though probably also the the billionaires had more power have had more power in the last five years than ever to fight the incumbent and they're like whoa this is more pushback than we've ever had we got to put an end to that they could also be trying to shake out international investors yeah for coming to war perhaps and uh this is a story that we see over and over and over and uh zombie is an african country right yes this seems to be very popular in african countries when there's an election whatsapp and other social media platforms restricted in zambia after uh amidst ongoing elections because people are freaking out okay they claim this is to fight misinformation a lot of people are questioning that i think it's it's meant to fight campaigning by the non-incumbent parties so they seem to say that every time like oh it's for misinformation and then it's like is it is it really for that right this was uh august 12th they were going to leave this turned off i think until saturday when they the time you guys watch this you'll know yeah they're going to finish counting the votes imagine if no one could have tweeted or gotten on social media between super tuesday for the the last trump election till that saturday it would have we the country would have burned yes yes that was an important uh release valve maybe india has really been cracking down on uh the big tech companies especially the social media ones and it's a question of we know they do it with china to some extent they do it rush to russia will they completely give in and kowtow to india now we have the answer twitter is now in compliance with india's new id rules the government has said so i checked cal urine reporter dude is still in jail probably not looking good for his future india's got a lot of people and twitter recognizes those people not as people but as potential customers oh and you know what else i was reading about apparently unlike wendell most people in the u.s are rejecting sugary drinks they're getting killed on sugary drinks here and they feel that china and india are the answer to that question so they're pushing hard sugary drink engagement challenge if you're in china or india have you seen an influx of drink commercials in advertising i saw somebody refer to uh coke as american black water south korea kind of into that too what's that they have some sort of soda that's like really popular with the youth well i'm sure every country has that but there's like a culture around it i think you know what i'll ask one of our mods in south korea i'll ask she says as we've reviewed orange sodas for like six weeks an hour eight well listen i'll ask him actually i won't i'll probably forget by the time we do the stream tonight but well uh moving on to the security section we have a big merger in the security world i'm sure this will be excellent for consumers and overall a good thing right norton lifelock and avast plc emerge an 8.4 billion dollar transaction i don't have any idea how either one of those companies are working i feel like norton in my mind has just as bad a reputation as mcafee and they don't even have the crazy guy who you know poisoned the name for years after yeah lifelock is like one of those identity things that started out as snake oil and then you know they sort of figured out what the product was they're just like like a fear product i think it's still real hard to get any relief from all that right you have to really prove yeah it was something you have to you know like step by step show how it happened kind of like all insurance i guess right well uh this was a big one in the crypto world because we have these d phi sites decentralization the problem with cryptocurrency it's got centralization so what do we do we decentralize it but do we really know how to do that no maybe we don't cross chain d5 site poly network hacked hundreds of millions potentially lost the d5 platform polynek uh poly network was attacked on tuesday with alleged hacker draining roughly 600 million in crypto i thought this was this the one where they agreed to give it back because the okay hackers returned nearly half of the 600 million they stole in one of the biggest crypto heists but that was because the network marked their tokens as having no value so the headline there is a little misleading and they oh they called out they were like hey here's the addresses do not take anything from these addresses don't let any transaction happen from these addresses and so they're like well okay i guess we'll give some of it back they still have to figure out how to launder that other half well they've given more than that since then but yeah you what if they said because they were in communication with them what if they said it's like all right listen let me keep 10. 10 let me keep 10. no 10 million oh 10 million okay i'll take less than 10 just let me keep 10 million and don't hassle me they probably would do that but i don't think the authorities would probably play that game yeah well we all know that if you've played an rpg you know the joys of a master key a key that can open any door wow what a great thing that is unless you work in security and then you find that to be a terrifying thing and when it's not a physical key it's even more terrifying researchers create master faces to bypass facial recognition according to their paper their findings apply the facial recognition systems are extremely vulnerable so they can create artificial faces that are enough generic that it's like oh yeah that's this guy now how great is this how beautiful if you're like a young woke you know revolutionary that the the pro the master people the horrible problem that we have with all of our security are all old white men they do i mean they do kind of have like a certain face type right like i guess this guy's a little bit asian right hard to tell at that age but that's it that's so it turns out that uh old white man face is that's the back door the the top left and the bottom left you can't tell me that's not the same dude no these are all generated by an ai these are not real people at all wow crazy now your algorithm is failing well my vision's failing so that's true those all those are all just pink blobs to you chris i could see him just not real well she drove here i have glo i have contacts in i get my eyes checked every year which is more than i can say for you and yet now i'm gonna go soon i've been meaning to do that next time i get like a four day period without rain i'm gonna do that why why are you attaching it to the weather because i don't drive my car in the rain oh you drive all the way home to get your eyes checked i do that i shouldn't but no that guy has dementia now oh he left all the records are gone yeah nice right wow i'm assuming he probably didn't have a digital backup i no one knows he's just gone he's just in a home somewhere surely he's got staff anyway i think they just noped out wow well i know there's probably some legal pursuit there but i'm gonna go after an old man with dementia yeah he was a nice guy hey we'll start over and it's been like over a decade so probably not much value there anyway right now i do uh one of the things about prison that's unpleasant but you got to understand it right as they listen to everything that you say on those phones and so often people get busted by that like they can't they know it because it plays a little audio recording when you get a call and when you place a call they played prison architect you can tap the phones in that too yeah it's like they don't even game but uh this takes it to a disturbing new level u.s prisons mall ai to analyze inmate phone calls it's like inmate 3621 is uh talking about playing stellaris a bunch and we think that's code for moving illicit material stellaris is code for ms-13 so yeah they're saying that not only would this look for key words like you know flag words like i imagine murder or drugs you can program it to add new words because all that prison slang keeps changing over time and so you can sort of you know set your own rules up and this ai and it'll listen to stuff and then you go back and it'll say oh yeah this is this is what happened here i wonder if you could trick that somehow by like instead of a very defined word just do like a weird noise in your throat you think it would pick that up yeah but you would have to set all that up beforehand because all of your mail and all of your voice is recorded so you don't have time to create this conspiracy when you're already in that's the tough part it's hard to overcome security when you're locked inside of a building that's true that's that's well actually it's not because somehow drugs and phones just can't keep coming into prisons you got to build two fences each 10 blocks apart so people can't throw it over ten blocks yeah and prison architect that's how you oh i thought city blocks no no well what about drones chris are these drones now that's not part of the dlc as far as i know i haven't played the dlc yet but i should add that i should add that well speaking of uh unacceptable levels of surveillance uber has asked a contractor to allow video surveillance in employee homes and bedrooms no thank you yeah because obviously some people work from their bedrooms like if you live in new york and you got a studio apartment you work from every room because there's only the one because new york city and they're saying that you might be cheating about what you're doing so not only do they have screen recording software and keystroke recording software but they're not saying i don't know i think we need to look at you all day what could possibly go wrong well i don't understand that at all now there's never been a time in uber's past where they misused driver data was there oh only the seven or eight times and there would never be a a story about you know like some i.t worker at uber who just likes looking at girls in their bedrooms or boys apple is uh coming under a little bit of fire because maybe they had some scam software on their app store and but their wallet garden is so amazing someone checks every app but here's the thing about it like imagine if you had the walled garden and inside of it there was a hungry bear but there was also a giant neon sign with an arrow pointing down that says come see the bear developers complain that apple promotes scam apps on the app store apple removed the story promoting the apps after the developers pointed it out this one was a slime based app what does that mean jelly slime simulator asmr i don't know so just fart noises is an app i don't i could but it was a subscription and a weekly subscription krista what do you how how much do you think they would charge weekly how much do you think they thought they could get away with two dollars thirteen what yeah we're in the wrong business thirteen dollars a week this we're we're stopping this we have an announcement we're stopping the youtube channel and we're getting into whatever this is scam apps crime krista that's what's interesting that's crime yeah and if you remember the big uh apple icloud automatically detecting the photo hashes thing a lot of companies have come out against that yeah and a lot of people have complained about it but it turns out there's actually a really easy way to avoid it apple can't run csam checks on devices with icloud photos turned off because your photos don't sync to the cloud and they don't run the check on the device yet they will don't worry it runs in the cloud so i don't know if that's really a tip we want to give out but there's other reasons not to want them to look at your pictures than you know traffic in it stuff someone some had suggested that there was some kind of a deal between the doj and apple i think we've been able with this piece of information we're able to piece together what happened the doj threatened to come out come after apple for having illegal material on their servers um unless they played ball with the whole decrypt phones application thing this would be a move against that but you're insinuating that they would have this cozy relationship when clearly based on this story they are the bitterest of enemies apple says it will reject any government demands to use new child sexual abuse images detection system for surveillance and yet that's what that is i don't believe them apparently they just didn't bribe them a high enough number yet if you if you really really carefully into the apple quotation it's like you know to do anything beyond what's required by law so again that sort of plays back into my argument that like i think they were threatened because they don't provide backdoor encryption that they're gonna you know come up with something that apple's doing that's illegal and so apple's like all right if we have to do that to comply with the law that so be it but look at i mean they're doing far more egregious things in markets like the chinese market so this is really shouldn't surprise anybody and it's going to get worse imagine how much more threat or how much more weight that threat holds if you start talking to him if it's like yeah you know we're getting rid of 230 right be a shame if you had a big server full of nasty stuff when we do that amazon uh they have they've created a world where reviews on their site matter an incredible amount commercial financially for businesses big and small so these businesses are doing everything they can to try and get good reviews including cheating right they're buying them yeah but more importantly that one one star review because one one star review will cancel out a lot of purchased reviews yeah what do you do amazon customers when amazon customers leave negative reviews some sellers hunt them down and they'll offer double refunds if you you know take away your negative review i can definitely say that you know on some of the stuff that i've worked on sometimes you have a customer that is so amazingly dumb that it's just impressive and they're like i'm not really happy with this product because you know it's just craziness and they'll leave a thing and people then start to have doubts about it and it's like no you don't understand that person was just incredibly dumb i see a lot of amazon reviews where it'll be a one star review it's like they just left this on my porch and it rained and the box that's like well that's not really the problem now is it and we maybe should have a different review for the seller in a different spot that does exist but it's really hard to find so uh yeah there there's definitely some failure on this on the part of the customer but here's the problem with this story it's not supposed to be possible for them to ever find you outside of your amazon like amazon strips the emails right yeah so how are these companies finding these people some of it is is address-based some of it is you can message them and there's like a speed resolution system you can't do that here because if amazon saw this you'd be done this is outside and they interviewed this one woman and they're like well how did they get your email and she didn't have an answer for them oh yeah and like you say a good i mean krista she doesn't stalk like she used to it might have atrophied a little bit but in her glory days she could have got that email address in like 10 minutes so it's a weird set of skills to develop over time i had to do that recently when we were hiring another editor but like i don't take it to the extreme creep level that i used to find gotta use those muscles krista letting a match well i think people are more privacy minded too like they don't post everything online anymore how's your uh archery going uh it rained the first two days this week and then i was doing garden stuff the rest of the week so i haven't had a chance to shoot this week well a true serious archer krista does not let the rain stop them it was pouring rain though you wax that bowstring and you get out and you just get out there and do it i do enjoy it but yeah i just haven't had a chance this week there's a lot of weeding to do i've let a portion of my garden kind of get crazy so i had to go out and just mash weeds for afternoon yeah i'm gonna let that joke go this week moving on to the security section we have uh some bad news if you're running a certain kind of router firmware raptors and modems are that are running the arcadian firmware are under attack yeah they're going to be made part of the botnet so there's a bunch there through adsl wireless routers asus buffalo that was a long list yeah most of them are older but a lot of people don't replace this stuff very often it just mysteriously stopped working i don't understand yikes and here's an interesting one because these international criminal gangs and a lot of them seem to come out of russia this one in fact seems to be confirmed came out of russia but we don't know much about them how do you find out the dark details of these guys well you let their own dysfunction do the work for you step one do a google search ransomware hacker goes rogue and leaks the gang's plan so uh this guy i guess they gotta they were successful with something and this guy was upset because the split wasn't correct right his spoils he did not feel he feel i felt like his contribution was worth more than he was getting so he's like all right let's leak everything and the hilarious thing here are the training documents because really is step one do a google search you have to try and identify how much money they bring in and who the top people might be that you go after to get their identities and their accounts so it's sort of like do your homework and then they have this uh toolkit i think it's called cobalt or something like that cobalt strike and yeah cobalt strike and uh kind of a paint by numbers type of deal it seemed like yeah interesting that you would think they would have a lot more well this is gil that criminal franchising thing where it's like you just outsource the low-level gruntery and cut them in when they you know they hook something turn key terrorism yeah i mean well it worked for a while but you do have to worry about uh you know what's interesting you ever read about how pirates during the golden age of piracy they had a very structured way of divvying up the spoils yeah yeah it was you knew when you got on that boat what you're gonna get what percentage you're gonna get internet of things it's a bad idea want some proof but bob had a bad night iot mischief in a capsule hotel takes neighborly revenge to the next level where you have when you head over control of capsule bedrooms to guests you also offer them the means to troll others so they had a defcon near this capsule hotel oh yeah there it is and somebody was being real loud next to this guy's capsule so he began to deconstruct the room turns out that all the routers and everything are just like cleverly hidden but you can access them and you can plug your phone and laptop into them once you've done that you did have to drain the battery out of the ipad because it wouldn't let him leave that app once he drained the battery and charged it back up he was able to get through that took over and started messing with the guy next to him who was being loud nice is this one of those hotels that's like you just get like a little coffin to sleep in yeah yeah i think that's some dedication to pull out all your tech gear and your little capsule just to mess with the guy next to you but imagine how annoying it could be if the guy next to you he said the guy next to him was on the phone at like 3 a.m oh imagine how i mean look how thin those walls are yeah i mean that's just a piece of drywall so wow and we've seen these stories too many times at this point certainly one time it's too many times but this has got to be like the fifth or sixth time we've seen a major headline about this and in this case it wasn't the destruction that caused it but they were smart enough that as soon as they got a whiff of it they're like just turn it all off turn the lights off nothing has power right now and when that happens ransomware attack forces indiana hospital to turn ambulances away because they turn everything off wow no one died this time around that we know of but it could be that someone got you know rerouted a lifelong debilitation because they didn't get their treatment quickly oh he only was didn't have oxygen to the brain for an extra two minutes it's fine yeah it's only like 12 iq points that's looking like 50. he's not going to need those and here's our uh terrifying surveillance age story of the week because this man did nothing he knew nothing and he had no recourse activists raided by police after downloading london property firm's confidential meeting minutes from a google search someone must have broken in and taken the docs that says leather market community benefits society so they they raided his house they arrested him they took him to the you know the police station and he explained is like i was looking for copies of the meeting minutes which turned up in a google search and this company uh pulled the ip address from its logs and said this person must have broken into the servers because those are behind a password but they're not really behind a password because the site was not configured correctly because google indexed those documents and so when the police found it they're like he didn't do anything wrong so it turns out when you search for uh leather market minutes first result is the pdf now uh this they don't have the same protections that we have i guess in this case like i get can an ip still identify you over there i think that that's not really a protection that we have i think here you would probably still be arrested and it would have to make it a little bit further in the process but the supreme eventually because it is a supreme court ruling you would say that you would get away from that yeah and maybe he would have eventually as well of course i you know people talk about it's like oh don't worry you'll get arrested but it'll never go anywhere well that's still super annoying that's gonna cause me a lot of problems who's going to feed my cats who's going to mow your lawn that's our last story what do we have for tomorrow i don't remember i've been pre-sorting so i don't remember i think it was social and um probably robot right you know we got a design section this week kirsten oh no i didn't see that oh chat i saw there's a black hole story as well that's applied for nonsense right so the black hole was not designing anything no except for your murder don't get too close ah we'll see you bye you\n"