WEBVTT

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A Grand Theft Auto online cheat service

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suffered a data breach.

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Another password manager had vault stolen

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and two disappointing stories from Meta

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this week.

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All this and more coming up on This

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Week in Privacy, number fifty six.

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So stay tuned.

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Jordan, you're muted.

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Welcome back to This Week in Privacy,

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our weekly series where we discuss the

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latest updates with what we're working on

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within the PrivacyGuides community and

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this week's top stories in data privacy

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and cybersecurity.

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I think Jordan was muted this week,

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but I am Nate and Jordan is joining

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me.

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Or there were technical difficulties.

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Check, check, one, two.

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All right.

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Well, while Jordan gets that figured out,

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I think we're gonna... Hey, Jordan,

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welcome back.

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Oh no, we still can't hear you.

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Oh no.

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Gotta love going live.

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These things do happen.

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I'm gonna go ahead and jump into the

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main story while Jordan is trying to

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figure that out.

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And our main story this week is Grand

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Theft Auto.

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Yeah.

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So for those, I mean,

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I feel like this is a pretty popular

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game,

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but for those of you who are not

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gamers and maybe may not know,

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Grand Theft Auto, super,

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super popular video game.

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man, as long as I can remember, or,

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you know,

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at least as long as I've been a

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gamer and, um, it, uh, you know,

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like a lot of games these days,

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it has an online mode and, uh,

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the online mode from what I understand can

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be a cooperative or, um, adversarial.

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Uh, I, for some reason,

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the word I'm looking for is,

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is escaping me right now, but, um,

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you know, like, uh, like any online game,

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uh, there are cheaters and, uh,

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It's, you know,

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cheating kind of ruins the experience for

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everybody, right?

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Because if you're just a casual gamer

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trying to have fun and somebody just like,

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you know,

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blows your character up and steals

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everything, that really sucks.

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But then also if you're like a serious

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gamer and you're maybe like trying to be

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professional or something like that,

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then having somebody cheat is, you know,

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it ruins your rankings.

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It just, it sucks for everybody,

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except for the cheaters who seem to have

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fun, which I don't really understand why.

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Yeah, well,

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we'll get to that in a minute.

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So anyways, so there's a service.

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I mean, there's a lot of services.

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There's a lot of different ways to cheat.

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Dead serious, I've never done it.

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I'm not much of an online gamer myself,

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but there's a lot of different ways to

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do it.

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And one of them is this paid service

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called Atlas Menu.

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And they had a data breach,

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which leaked the email addresses,

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usernames.

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TechCrunch here says scrambled passwords,

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IP addresses, and support tickets.

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of almost sixty four thousand accounts.

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And I'm assuming by scrambled passwords,

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they mean like hash passwords.

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I don't know why they said scrambled here.

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Yeah,

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especially coming from this particular

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author,

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he's very knowledgeable about

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cybersecurity.

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So that was an interesting choice of

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words.

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But Atlas Menu claims to offer secure

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authentication and enhanced privacy

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through our advanced encryption

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techniques,

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which is just a reminder that marketing

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will say anything and usually means

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nothing because that's not

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really clear.

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The attacker claimed responsibility and

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posted the data on GitHub,

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and motivation appears to be revenge

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against a scammer, which, you know,

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privacy is a human right,

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so I'm not going to say these people

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had it coming,

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but I think anybody who's ever been the

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victim of a cheater on an online game

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can definitely feel the frustration there.

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So yeah, Atlas Menu,

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according to one video,

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offered features like invisibility and

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super jump and the ability to fly through

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the map.

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So I mean,

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at least I guess it wasn't like

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invulnerability or something.

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And then they point out in this article,

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cheating has become like a huge industry,

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multimillion dollar business.

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And they mentioned that Counter-Strike

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Global Offensive also had a breach a few

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years back.

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So this is not a particularly new thing,

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but it's definitely very interesting for

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sure.

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Yeah.

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Trying to think.

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Yeah.

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So like I said, am I back?

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Hey, Jordan.

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Yes, you are.

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Welcome back.

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Of course.

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As soon as we press go live,

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like everything just breaks.

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So yeah,

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you and I were talking beforehand.

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Yeah, that was so bizarre.

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I don't know what happened.

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But yeah, sorry.

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I'll just throw it back to you, Nate,

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to continue with the story.

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No, you're good.

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I mean,

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I don't really have too much to add.

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I'm not much of an online gamer.

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I think when I was in high school,

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I played a little bit of Halo Online,

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and there were a few.

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I think I ran into a couple of

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cheaters, but definitely not a ton.

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Just like I said,

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it kind of ruins it for everybody,

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and

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I've I've I've done some cheats in offline

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games just for fun,

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but I find that in my experience,

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they tend to get really boring really

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fast.

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So I'm not a huge fan of it.

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I don't really understand what the point

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is if you're just going to cheat,

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especially in online mode,

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like just play offline at that point.

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But the

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Yeah,

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I guess the two things that I really

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took away from this story is, number one,

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it's unfortunate because this cheating

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industry is why we've seen a huge rise

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in rootkit.

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Sorry, I shouldn't call them rootkits.

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Anti-cheats.

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And they kind of are rootkits, though,

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because a lot of them go deep, deep,

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deep into the operating system and work at

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a very deep level, similar to a rootkit.

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Like some of them even, I think,

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before the OS boots up, which is...

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incredibly frustrating, especially again,

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if you're like me and you don't really

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play online games,

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I actually did buy GTA five a few

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years ago.

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And, uh, it was like, Oh,

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install the anti-cheat.

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And I'm like,

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but I have no plans to ever online.

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And it's like, doesn't matter.

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You got to install the anti-cheat,

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which is just garbage and terrible.

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And, um,

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Yeah, it's... Ironically,

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we've seen stories in the past about how

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having these anti-cheats on your

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computer... First of all,

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some of them conflict with each other.

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So if you play multiple online games,

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you may have to uninstall one to install

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another,

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which is incredibly annoying as somebody

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who does not have a lot of space

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on my computer and therefore tends to do

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that with games in general.

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But also, it's... Ironically, they can...

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they kind of fend off certain forms of

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other malware.

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And I'm not saying that as an endorsement,

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obviously, but it's just,

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it's interesting to see that it's like,

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if you have one of these installed,

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because it basically functions like

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malware with a pinky promise not to do

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anything bad,

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then it kind of stops other malware from

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being installed,

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certain types of malware from being

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installed.

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But yeah,

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the other thing I kind of poked fun

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at was the whole, you know,

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I called it out.

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It's like, oh, Atlas menu says they have

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secure authentication and enhance privacy

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through our advanced encryption

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techniques.

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You got to be careful of marketing.

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I know marketing has always got to hype

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up their product.

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They got to seem super awesome and

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whatnot.

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But you do,

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especially with the open source stuff

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that's a little bit more transparent,

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try to find white papers,

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try to find the FAQ,

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try to find something that digs in a

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little bit deeper and specifically says,

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here's our threat model.

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Here's what we defend against.

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Here's exactly how it works.

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Even if you don't dig into...

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here's our exact encryption protocol and

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key exchange and this, that,

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because I'll be honest,

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that stuff goes over my head.

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But if they break it down, like, oh,

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everything is encrypted in the browser and

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then sent to our device where we compare

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hashes or, you know,

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just something like that,

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something that's a little bit more

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substantial, I think.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, so you were,

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Jordan was originally supposed to take

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this story because you have a little bit

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more experience with online gaming,

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I believe.

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So I guess I will turn it over

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to you for your thoughts on this story.

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Yeah,

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so I guess the most important thing about

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this that can be kind of confusing with

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the way that this story was presented was

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this is, you know,

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this cheat software is primarily used on

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GTA Online,

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which is where people basically...

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It's like GTA V except...

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you basically can play with other players

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and there's like different multiplayer

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activities you can do.

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So that's the main thing that I think

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people are using this for.

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And I think that's personally what I would

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think is the main issue with a lot

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of these cheat things.

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Like I don't really care if someone is

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like cheating on their GTA five local game

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installation.

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And it's like,

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you know,

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that they're single player video game.

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I don't really care.

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I think people should be able to use

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software the way that they want.

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Right.

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And they should be able to,

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if they want like run cheat software,

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right.

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Because that should be up to them.

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So I think this is kind of where

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I have more of an issue is when

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you start affecting other people and,

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you know, ruining people's experiences,

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um,

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It can kind of get really frustrating,

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especially with GTA Online,

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because this is one of these sorts of

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games where basically if someone is

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cheating,

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they can basically ruin the entire

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experience for everybody.

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And I've seen a lot of times,

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like I used to play GTA Online and

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there was a lot of people who would

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use

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not specifically this software.

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I don't know which software they were

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using,

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but they were using some sort of cheat

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menu to basically

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mess around with people.

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And I think the most important thing with

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this, though, is, like,

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I don't think we should be, like,

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celebrating people's information getting

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breached, right?

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Even if these are, like, people that,

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like, kind of deserved it, right?

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Like, it's, like, you know,

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you're fucking with people's video games.

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Like, you should probably, you know,

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be a bit... It's a bit of karma,

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right?

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But it's also, you know,

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I don't think we should be happy that

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all these people have had their

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information breached because...

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of like a security breach.

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Right.

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Um, so I think, you know, it's,

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it kind of makes sense why this, uh,

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why this service was breached in the first

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place.

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Right.

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Because they're kind of a target because a

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lot of people probably hate this software

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because it keeps ruining their games.

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Um, but it sounds like from the article,

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it was actually someone who thought that

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they'd been, um,

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scammed so maybe perhaps they purchased

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the software and then they never got

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access to it or something like that and

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they decided to basically take revenge on

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this specific software developer I do

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think though that you know obviously this

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sixty four thousand people whose accounts

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were part of the breach that's kind of

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crappy and I do think you know maybe

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if they were using this software on a

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local installation of a game maybe that

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would be like less of a concern I

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know a lot of these games definitely

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enforce like a TOS and they say like

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you know if you use any software that's

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that affects the game in a way that

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is not intended or allows you to gain

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an advantage that could be a reason to

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ban you so I mean

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I think we should be promoting people

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being able to use whatever software they

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want.

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But also, like,

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it's not great that these people had their

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information breached.

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I don't think we should be celebrating

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that exactly.

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I think it's just kind of unfortunate.

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And they were primed to get hacked,

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I think, at that point.

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Yeah, I totally agree.

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I'm never a fan of saying people deserve

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to get hacked because, again,

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privacy is a human right, right?

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And that's how human rights work,

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is even if you disagree with somebody.

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And also, it's a video game.

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Believe me, I am a gamer.

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I am ashamed to admit this,

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but in high school,

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I did throw a controller one time.

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And I know some of you guys are

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like, one time?

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Get on my level.

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But to me,

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that's really immature and not...

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emotionally, you know, but I was like,

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or something.

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So my point being is like,

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I get it.

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I know how frustrating it can be.

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And yeah,

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especially if they're like the kind of

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cheats where it's like the one hit kill

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kind of stuff is just like, dude,

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come on.

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Like, it's just a game.

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Don't take it so seriously.

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Don't,

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don't be doing that and ruining the fun

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for everybody else.

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But it's still, yeah, it's, and it's,

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it's frustrating.

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Cause like this anti-cheat thing has been

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a major sticking point for

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gaming on linux because so many of these

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games now require this anti-cheat that as

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far as i know only works on windows

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or maybe windows and mac and because linux

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has such a small adoption there's a lot

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of people who

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there's it.

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And I'm told that gaming on Linux has

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gotten a lot better.

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Um, because I, I use cubes, which you'd,

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I don't even know if you could play

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solitaire on that thing.

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Um, but you know, it's,

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it's not really a gaming computer,

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so I don't have a lot of gaming

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on Linux experience,

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but I'm told that gaming on Linux is

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getting a lot better,

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but it's still like a

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It's still got a ways to go,

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especially for some of the AAA titles,

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and this is why.

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Because the whole anti-cheat thing,

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which does not work on Linux,

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and therefore there's a lot of AAA games

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that you can't play on Linux strictly

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because you can't install the anti-cheat.

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So this does have privacy implications

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beyond just this story as well.

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It's like, if people would...

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I don't know what the solution is,

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because I don't think they should just

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make an anti-cheat that works on Linux.

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I don't think any of the Linux people

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would want that.

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But it's like,

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if we could get a better handle on

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the cheating situation where people didn't

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need it, that would be...

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That would be super awesome.

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I think also the issue with these

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anti-cheat software is that they're

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actually really privacy invasive as well.

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Like we've seen with, I know Vanguard,

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which is part of like Valorant and League

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of Legends.

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That's like.

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basically, like you were saying,

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it's basically a rootkit.

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Like it actually needs full access to your

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entire system.

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It needs to be running, uh,

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in order to verify the authenticity of

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your system.

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And, you know,

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I think that basically means that they're

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logging every process on your computer.

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They're checking to see what code is

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running on your computer and possibly

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sending that back to some third party

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company.

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Right.

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And, um,

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Yeah, I don't think the solution is...

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Actually,

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I don't really know what the solution is

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because I'm not a game developer.

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I'm sure there's issues either way, right?

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Like if we took away all the anti-cheat,

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every single game that we play would be

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filled with people cheating.

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And if we made it so that Linux

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had anti-cheat, then what might happen,

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like what we saw with Apex Legends.

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So at one point,

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Apex Legends was using BattleEye

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anti-cheat,

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which actually does have a Linux version.

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However, the Linux version isn't

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It doesn't have as good access as Windows.

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So basically all the cheaters were just

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switching to Linux to cheat because it

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would be harder to detect.

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And then, of course,

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what do you think happened then?

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Well,

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the Linux version doesn't exist anymore

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because it was just being used by

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cheaters, which sucks, right?

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Like, it goes both ways.

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So...

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Yeah,

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it's just a really crappy situation

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because, you know,

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I think a lot of people in our

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community don't want to have to use

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Windows and there's just a lot of video

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games at this point that are kind of

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forcing you to basically use it or...

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basically you can't even play the game.

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Like it would be fine if there was,

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you know, performance issues.

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Like if there was some minor performance

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issues and like maybe it didn't perform as

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well as the Windows version or something

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like that, but it can't even start.

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Like you can't even run the game.

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So I think that's,

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it basically has gotten to this point at

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this point where like if a game doesn't

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run on Linux, it's because of anti-cheat.

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There's no other reason why it can't run

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because it's

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It's just a platform limitation almost at

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this point.

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I don't know what the answer is to

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that exactly.

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Maybe I'd rather not have to run an

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invasive anti-cheat software on my Linux

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computer,

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but maybe that ends up being kind of

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the only option that actually allows it to

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happen.

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But if it doesn't have the same amount

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of access,

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I don't see why any company would allow

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that.

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in the first place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it really sucks.

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It's kind of a crappy situation all

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around, for sure.

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And I went and looked it up because

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I was like, man,

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wasn't there an anti-cheat thing recently?

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There have been several anti-cheat

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scandals.

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Riot Games,

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which is Vanguard you were talking about,

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and their easy anti-cheat.

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In Valorant,

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Vanguard has been accused of data

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scraping.

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There have even been allegations that a

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Riot employee was being bribed to ignore

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cheaters.

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Vanguard updates were reported to brick

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DMA cheating devices by forcing full OS

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reinstalls in Apex Legend.

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Oh, yeah, I remember this one.

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There was attackers used a remote code

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execution to inject cheats into pro

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players during an actual competition.

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So, I mean, like, yeah, this stuff is...

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This isn't just like theoretically it

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could be bad.

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Like there's an actual history of this

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stuff.

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And then now we see that sometimes it

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doesn't even work and just puts people at

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risk, which, you know, shocker, right?

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Unfortunate.

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But I think if that's all we have

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for that story,

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we're going to go ahead and talk about

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another super exciting corporate...

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How would I define this one?

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Corporations...

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Corporations doing the wrong thing or

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making the wrong move.

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So we've actually covered some of this

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recently for audio listeners.

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The headline says Microsoft under fire or

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threatening security researcher with

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criminal investigation.

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And so we've covered,

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there was a security researcher who goes

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by Nightmare Eclipse and

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And they have publicly published a series

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of vulnerabilities, including Blue Hammer,

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Red Sun, Undefend, and Yellow Key.

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And I think Yellow Key and Blue Hammer,

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we talked about on previous episodes,

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one of those was a vulnerability in

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BitLocker.

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And so this is interesting.

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Basically,

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Microsoft is saying this person did not

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responsibly disclose, which, okay, so...

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It's not a law,

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but I think it's kind of a –

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and it's actually a little contentious,

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which we'll talk about that in a minute.

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But generally speaking, in cybersecurity,

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there is kind of the idea that the

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proper way to go about things is you

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find a bug.

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You report it to the company,

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and then you give them about – I

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think the standard is ninety days.

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I could be wrong.

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Somewhere between thirty and ninety to fix

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the bug and push out an update.

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and then you kind of explain what you

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found and what it is um just kind

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of for the the education of the community

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right like letting everybody know that uh

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here's this bug i found here's how it

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works whatever whatever um they're kind of

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fun to read sometimes especially if

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they're not super super technical

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sometimes they're just super technical and

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i can't understand them but if they're a

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little more approachable i like and i

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enjoy reading those kind of posts and um

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So, and for the record,

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there's exceptions.

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Like if a company is really like open

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and working with you,

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a lot of the time they'll delay the

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public post because it's like, oh,

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they're having trouble rolling out an

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update or whatever the case.

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But anyways,

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so Microsoft is basically saying this

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nightmare eclipse person did not do that.

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They say there was no responsible

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disclosure.

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They just went ahead and published this

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stuff right off the bat,

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which in turn provably did put a lot

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of people at risk.

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The article talks about how there have

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been

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vulnerabilities that are already using

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this stuff in real world attacks,

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according to both Microsoft and CISA.

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So they're saying we're going to sue this

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person because this was negligent and just

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irresponsible.

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Nightmare Eclipse claims that's not true.

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They said there's a series of blog posts

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where they claim to have been in contact

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with Microsoft,

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but the company allegedly mistreated them,

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including revoking access to the Microsoft

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Security Response Center account.

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I think they said something like their

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GitHub posts were taken down in two.

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Oh, yeah,

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the researcher published the bugs on

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GitHub and the account, oh, and GitLab,

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and both of those accounts were banned,

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according to this writing,

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if I'm understanding that correctly.

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So, yeah, this is, and of course,

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neither of them have responded,

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which is smart when you're in the middle

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of a lawsuit,

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you do not talk about it,

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because that can complicate things.

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It seems that the community is on

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Nightmare Eclipse's side here,

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which I know is a shocker.

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They're, who did they cite here?

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They mentioned... I know they mentioned...

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Okay, so they mentioned this Katie...

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I don't know how to pronounce this.

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Katie Masouris,

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who works for Luda Security.

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And she talked about how responsible

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disclosure... It's kind of...

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I don't want to say nitpicky.

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It's not the right word.

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Um,

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but she talked about moving away from the

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idea of responsible disclosure and instead

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moving it more towards coordinated

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disclosure, which is like I mentioned,

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like sometimes they'll expand the window

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if the company's having a hard time

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patching it.

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Um, you know, Kevin Beaumont, I,

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I saw this on Mastodon.

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He was on Mastodon sizing Microsoft.

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And, um,

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I don't know, from what I've seen,

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and this is as an outsider,

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I'm not a cybersecurity expert,

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I'm not a researcher,

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but from what I've seen,

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Microsoft does not have a particularly

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strong security culture.

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So I'm kind of inclined to take this

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Nightmare Eclipse guy's version of events

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and say that he probably did try to

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reach out to them and they probably tried

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to like sweep this under the rug and

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make it go away.

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because everything is vibe coded from

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Microsoft now.

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But yeah, I mean, either way,

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it's I kind of brush past it.

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But this this sub headline here says

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cybersecurity veterans warn of chilling

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effect, which is true.

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This is this has been and

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I don't know how true this is,

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but I've heard this story from multiple

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people.

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There have been a lot of people who

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have say that they're like hobby

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cybersecurity researchers.

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They're not like professional,

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but they do it for fun.

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And they've disclosed vulnerabilities to

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multiple organizations, big and small.

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And nine out of ten times,

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if they get a response at all,

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the response is, oh, you hacked our stuff.

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We're going to sue you.

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And so after a while,

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they just give up.

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They're just like,

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I'm not even going to report bugs anymore

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because they keep threatening to sue me.

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And what's the point?

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go ahead and get hacked,

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which I don't think is a great response

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because it puts everybody else at risk.

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But yeah,

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so if this is how companies respond,

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it definitely does have a chilling effect

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on

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on researchers coming forward to report

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this kind of stuff,

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especially from a company as big as

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Microsoft.

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And I'm assuming that if,

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if nightmare clips reached out,

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he's probably got receipts, you know,

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he's probably got copies of the emails he

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sent and stuff like that.

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So we'll,

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I guess we'll see how this shakes out,

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but I do,

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I do find this whole debate interesting

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because I,

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of course I have my own opinions on

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this,

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but I've seen some people argue that like,

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you're never owed responsible disclosure.

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I'm thinking of a very specific researcher

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who I don't wanna name,

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but they will routinely post like, oh,

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here's why this software sucks and here's

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all the things I found in it.

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And no,

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I didn't message them because their

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software is so crappy that they're

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basically,

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malicious and they deserve it.

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And therefore I'm not going to say

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anything because I'm very full of myself.

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I feel comfortable saying that.

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So yeah, I don't know.

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I think it's very,

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I am a fan of at least trying.

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If you're going to disclose this kind of

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stuff in the first place,

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it's my personal opinion that you should

00:24:03.981 --> 00:24:04.741
reach out to the company.

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If you're one of those people who's just

00:24:06.402 --> 00:24:07.301
like, it's not worth the lawsuit,

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I'm not even going to report it,

00:24:08.202 --> 00:24:08.623
then fine.

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But you're also probably not the person

00:24:09.782 --> 00:24:10.903
who's blogging about it.

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So I don't know.

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That's kind of my opinion.

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Because again, it's the thing of like,

00:24:14.804 --> 00:24:16.005
You're putting other people at risk.

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It's not just like making this company

00:24:17.346 --> 00:24:18.507
look bad and shaming the company,

00:24:18.527 --> 00:24:20.028
which unfortunately is required sometimes.

00:24:21.489 --> 00:24:22.529
We've had to do this with Signal in

00:24:22.549 --> 00:24:22.910
the past.

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There was a bug a long time ago,

00:24:25.132 --> 00:24:25.711
a long time ago,

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a couple of years ago, where Signal,

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I think it was on Windows specifically,

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Signal was not like properly sandboxing

00:24:31.915 --> 00:24:32.517
the private key.

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And apparently a bug report had been open

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for years at that point.

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And signal tried to argue when it, like,

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it kind of blew up and became a

00:24:40.364 --> 00:24:42.246
big story and signal tried to be like,

00:24:42.306 --> 00:24:43.989
well, cause for those who don't know,

00:24:44.048 --> 00:24:45.130
basically what it is is if you had

00:24:45.170 --> 00:24:45.931
malware on your device,

00:24:45.971 --> 00:24:47.553
it could easily access your private key on

00:24:47.613 --> 00:24:47.932
signal.

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So it could see your messages.

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And Signal tried to like downplay it and

00:24:51.478 --> 00:24:51.998
be like, well,

00:24:52.077 --> 00:24:53.119
if your device is compromised,

00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:54.280
there's nothing we can do about that.

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To which everybody's response was like,

00:24:56.103 --> 00:24:56.383
yes,

00:24:56.423 --> 00:24:58.605
but this person already like did a fix

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and it takes two seconds and it's like,

00:25:00.288 --> 00:25:00.989
why not do it?

00:25:01.348 --> 00:25:02.790
And eventually Signal did it anyways,

00:25:02.830 --> 00:25:04.011
even though they insisted it wasn't a big

00:25:04.051 --> 00:25:04.272
deal.

00:25:04.653 --> 00:25:05.394
So unfortunately,

00:25:05.453 --> 00:25:07.175
companies do have to be shamed sometimes,

00:25:07.256 --> 00:25:08.156
even the best of companies.

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But...

00:25:10.343 --> 00:25:11.983
I think to go straight to the shaming

00:25:12.023 --> 00:25:13.785
part and to not try to coordinate first

00:25:13.865 --> 00:25:15.486
is definitely, in my opinion,

00:25:15.705 --> 00:25:16.326
not pretty cool.

00:25:16.905 --> 00:25:18.186
But I also think it's not really cool

00:25:18.227 --> 00:25:19.627
for the companies to respond by saying,

00:25:19.667 --> 00:25:19.788
hey,

00:25:19.807 --> 00:25:21.048
let's sue you because you found a

00:25:21.088 --> 00:25:23.190
vulnerability instead of saying, hey,

00:25:23.210 --> 00:25:23.809
let's fix it.

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So I don't know, a little bit rambly,

00:25:26.991 --> 00:25:28.192
but I think that's all I've got.

00:25:28.571 --> 00:25:28.832
Jordan,

00:25:28.852 --> 00:25:31.173
did you have any additional thoughts on

00:25:31.213 --> 00:25:31.653
this one?

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Yeah,

00:25:34.731 --> 00:25:37.675
so I think one interesting thing about

00:25:37.715 --> 00:25:41.760
this entire thing was you mentioned in the

00:25:41.780 --> 00:25:44.364
start there that it was GitHub and GitLab.

00:25:44.463 --> 00:25:47.008
Both the exploits were removed on GitHub

00:25:47.067 --> 00:25:47.688
and GitLab.

00:25:48.229 --> 00:25:50.451
And I think that kind of shows that

00:25:50.491 --> 00:25:51.894
we've reached a point, honestly,

00:25:52.074 --> 00:25:52.433
where

00:25:53.597 --> 00:25:56.960
basically Microsoft controls way too much.

00:25:57.220 --> 00:25:59.602
Like they control the software

00:25:59.642 --> 00:26:00.982
distribution platforms.

00:26:01.303 --> 00:26:03.444
They control the most popular operating

00:26:03.505 --> 00:26:03.884
system.

00:26:03.924 --> 00:26:06.026
They control like way too much.

00:26:06.066 --> 00:26:06.326
Right.

00:26:06.426 --> 00:26:10.209
And I think the reason that even get

00:26:10.249 --> 00:26:12.090
their GitLab account was deleted because

00:26:12.310 --> 00:26:13.951
it's because GitLab is a Microsoft

00:26:14.011 --> 00:26:14.412
partner.

00:26:14.791 --> 00:26:15.373
Um,

00:26:15.492 --> 00:26:17.634
and they also coordinate with Microsoft.

00:26:17.713 --> 00:26:18.375
So they,

00:26:18.795 --> 00:26:21.178
I think, you know, it's once again,

00:26:21.218 --> 00:26:22.378
one of those things where we have to

00:26:22.419 --> 00:26:25.583
say, you know, this is probably,

00:26:26.584 --> 00:26:28.567
it's probably a bit too much control that

00:26:28.606 --> 00:26:30.909
Microsoft has over the entire software

00:26:31.430 --> 00:26:32.691
distribution process.

00:26:33.311 --> 00:26:35.454
And that's where they kind of can wield

00:26:35.474 --> 00:26:37.356
this power against developers and

00:26:38.796 --> 00:26:41.416
security researchers who report this stuff

00:26:41.436 --> 00:26:41.758
to them.

00:26:42.417 --> 00:26:44.538
And I think it also shows a really

00:26:44.578 --> 00:26:47.601
bad look as well because imagine if you're

00:26:47.621 --> 00:26:49.682
a security researcher and you find a

00:26:49.742 --> 00:26:52.345
really bad vulnerability in a Microsoft

00:26:52.384 --> 00:26:52.785
product.

00:26:53.986 --> 00:26:55.547
Now there's precedent that you're going to

00:26:55.586 --> 00:26:58.628
get sued and reported to the criminal...

00:27:00.549 --> 00:27:01.090
What do they call it?

00:27:01.131 --> 00:27:03.832
The criminal... Something security...

00:27:03.852 --> 00:27:04.813
I can't remember what they call it.

00:27:04.833 --> 00:27:05.993
The digital crimes unit.

00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:07.440
digital crimes unit,

00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.720
like you're going to get reported to the

00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:09.800
digital crimes unit,

00:27:09.861 --> 00:27:11.942
like just for reporting a vulnerability.

00:27:12.281 --> 00:27:14.542
Um, and I dunno,

00:27:14.663 --> 00:27:19.205
I just think this is not how you,

00:27:19.226 --> 00:27:21.126
this is not how you look good when

00:27:21.146 --> 00:27:23.587
you, when, when in terms of security,

00:27:23.647 --> 00:27:25.469
this is not how you promote more people

00:27:25.509 --> 00:27:27.250
to report vulnerabilities to you.

00:27:28.210 --> 00:27:31.612
Um, and I think even if it's like,

00:27:31.971 --> 00:27:32.271
you know,

00:27:33.173 --> 00:27:34.772
these vulnerabilities that get reported,

00:27:34.854 --> 00:27:35.693
if they're like, you know,

00:27:38.891 --> 00:27:41.933
if they're used for criminal activities

00:27:42.874 --> 00:27:44.375
and Microsoft doesn't realize that these

00:27:44.395 --> 00:27:47.557
are being exploited in the wild just

00:27:47.597 --> 00:27:49.700
because people don't want to report it,

00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:51.040
then that's just like a negative for

00:27:51.101 --> 00:27:51.561
everybody.

00:27:51.682 --> 00:27:52.583
That's not a positive.

00:27:54.964 --> 00:27:57.767
And I did also see Kevin Beaumont,

00:27:57.826 --> 00:27:59.127
who's like a security,

00:27:59.147 --> 00:28:01.309
I feel like he's in like the cybersecurity

00:28:01.349 --> 00:28:01.769
industry,

00:28:01.789 --> 00:28:03.571
is kind of quite a popular person.

00:28:05.163 --> 00:28:05.924
popular guy.

00:28:06.445 --> 00:28:08.448
He also wrote like a Medium blog post.

00:28:08.468 --> 00:28:09.829
I don't know if we can bring that

00:28:09.890 --> 00:28:10.069
up.

00:28:10.750 --> 00:28:14.255
But in his blog post,

00:28:16.557 --> 00:28:17.818
he talks about someone else.

00:28:17.878 --> 00:28:19.520
There was someone else called Sandbox

00:28:19.621 --> 00:28:20.122
Escaper.

00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.223
And they basically reported a bunch of

00:28:26.005 --> 00:28:28.409
zero-day flaws to Microsoft.

00:28:28.569 --> 00:28:29.330
And then eventually,

00:28:29.351 --> 00:28:30.653
according to Kevin Beaumont,

00:28:30.692 --> 00:28:32.076
they hired this person.

00:28:33.458 --> 00:28:35.622
So it seems like there's...

00:28:36.556 --> 00:28:38.057
Microsoft has done the right thing in the

00:28:38.116 --> 00:28:42.038
past and also hired somebody.

00:28:42.117 --> 00:28:44.219
And now why have they suddenly changed

00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:46.881
their tune to start reporting someone to

00:28:46.961 --> 00:28:47.701
the authorities?

00:28:48.641 --> 00:28:51.082
It doesn't really make a whole lot of

00:28:51.142 --> 00:28:51.603
sense.

00:28:52.323 --> 00:28:53.482
It also says Microsoft,

00:28:53.864 --> 00:28:55.423
Kevin Beaumont also says Microsoft have

00:28:55.523 --> 00:28:57.744
also purchased zero day exploits in their

00:28:57.825 --> 00:28:59.726
own products from exploit brokers.

00:29:00.946 --> 00:29:01.146
So

00:29:02.412 --> 00:29:02.971
Yeah.

00:29:03.132 --> 00:29:05.492
I mean, according to Kevin Beaumont, this,

00:29:06.073 --> 00:29:07.893
this basic, this whole,

00:29:09.953 --> 00:29:12.634
this whole saga is not looking too good

00:29:12.673 --> 00:29:16.914
from a legal perspective for Microsoft,

00:29:16.994 --> 00:29:18.935
especially because now there's all that

00:29:18.996 --> 00:29:19.695
history, right?

00:29:19.715 --> 00:29:21.455
There's like the history of Microsoft

00:29:22.715 --> 00:29:24.497
hiring somebody who was doing the exact

00:29:24.537 --> 00:29:25.057
same thing.

00:29:25.136 --> 00:29:25.416
It's,

00:29:26.096 --> 00:29:28.157
it looks extremely bad for Microsoft.

00:29:28.678 --> 00:29:29.557
I don't think this is

00:29:31.222 --> 00:29:32.604
This is not the right way to do

00:29:32.663 --> 00:29:36.125
vulnerability disclosure.

00:29:36.145 --> 00:29:38.928
Like this is like the bug bounties and

00:29:39.008 --> 00:29:39.808
all this sort of stuff.

00:29:40.108 --> 00:29:41.549
It's not the right way to do it.

00:29:43.431 --> 00:29:45.172
And yeah, I think Microsoft just,

00:29:45.251 --> 00:29:46.472
it just shows us in this case,

00:29:46.532 --> 00:29:48.574
Microsoft has too much control as well.

00:29:49.575 --> 00:29:50.756
I didn't really have too much to add

00:29:50.776 --> 00:29:53.637
about this specific person because I don't

00:29:53.657 --> 00:29:53.897
really...

00:29:55.305 --> 00:29:56.506
I don't really know how much we can

00:29:56.566 --> 00:29:57.988
trust from some random person,

00:29:58.048 --> 00:30:00.048
but like if we just look at things

00:30:00.088 --> 00:30:03.813
from like a, the aspect of like,

00:30:05.709 --> 00:30:08.711
the actions of Microsoft against someone

00:30:08.750 --> 00:30:09.730
reporting a vulnerability.

00:30:09.830 --> 00:30:11.372
I think we can all agree that this

00:30:11.432 --> 00:30:13.834
is the wrong way to do it.

00:30:13.913 --> 00:30:15.755
The exact opposite way to do it,

00:30:15.855 --> 00:30:16.275
in fact.

00:30:17.056 --> 00:30:18.316
So yeah,

00:30:18.355 --> 00:30:19.797
just really frustrating for Microsoft.

00:30:19.856 --> 00:30:21.857
It feels like Microsoft is literally not

00:30:21.917 --> 00:30:23.598
doing a single thing right at this point.

00:30:23.679 --> 00:30:25.641
Like they can't even get anything right.

00:30:25.661 --> 00:30:27.701
Like their operating system,

00:30:28.281 --> 00:30:29.123
everyone is switching.

00:30:30.063 --> 00:30:31.344
They keep trying to put AI in all

00:30:31.364 --> 00:30:32.904
their products and no one wants it.

00:30:32.964 --> 00:30:33.184
Like,

00:30:34.286 --> 00:30:38.930
it's not great I'm not not a fan

00:30:39.029 --> 00:30:41.010
okay this is totally off topic like just

00:30:41.050 --> 00:30:42.712
taking shots at Microsoft but did you see

00:30:42.752 --> 00:30:46.015
four oh four's post about like Microsoft

00:30:46.055 --> 00:30:47.696
is trying to roll out some new AI

00:30:47.717 --> 00:30:49.938
thing called Scout and apparently there

00:30:49.958 --> 00:30:51.278
was like a leaked memo that was like

00:30:51.439 --> 00:30:53.260
oh we want it to be addicting and

00:30:53.320 --> 00:30:55.222
Sachi Nadella went on this huge rant where

00:30:55.242 --> 00:30:56.784
he's like I don't know who wrote that

00:30:56.804 --> 00:30:58.625
or where it's coming from and four oh

00:30:58.644 --> 00:30:59.905
four wrote this like it's almost

00:30:59.986 --> 00:31:01.587
borderline passive-aggressive

00:31:02.167 --> 00:31:02.667
But it's not.

00:31:03.128 --> 00:31:04.148
It's close, but it's not.

00:31:04.450 --> 00:31:05.250
But it is beautiful.

00:31:05.690 --> 00:31:06.911
Where this whole thing where they said

00:31:06.971 --> 00:31:08.571
like six times in the post, they're like,

00:31:08.952 --> 00:31:10.753
it says in the post who wrote it.

00:31:11.294 --> 00:31:13.275
So either you are like really not paying

00:31:13.315 --> 00:31:15.977
attention or just choosing to be ignorant.

00:31:16.017 --> 00:31:17.397
Like, why don't you go ask that person?

00:31:17.478 --> 00:31:19.298
It's, oh man, if you haven't read it,

00:31:19.318 --> 00:31:19.660
you should.

00:31:19.740 --> 00:31:20.921
It's beautiful.

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:24.623
But yeah, I kept seeing stuff about him.

00:31:24.643 --> 00:31:24.722
Yeah.

00:31:24.762 --> 00:31:26.064
Like he kept saying like he didn't know

00:31:26.084 --> 00:31:26.743
what it was about,

00:31:26.784 --> 00:31:28.506
but like he's like the CEO.

00:31:28.546 --> 00:31:30.027
He should know everything that's going on

00:31:30.067 --> 00:31:30.547
in the company.

00:31:30.567 --> 00:31:31.708
That's like his job, right?

00:31:32.728 --> 00:31:34.008
yeah which is what four oh four said

00:31:34.048 --> 00:31:35.788
it's like so are you telling me that

00:31:35.808 --> 00:31:37.108
you don't know what's going on in your

00:31:37.148 --> 00:31:40.329
own company like what's going on here dude

00:31:40.390 --> 00:31:42.529
here I'll real quick I'll I know we're

00:31:42.549 --> 00:31:43.549
a little off topic but I'll put it

00:31:43.609 --> 00:31:44.809
up I just pulled it up right now

00:31:44.970 --> 00:31:47.371
it's a Sachi Nadella not sure who said

00:31:47.411 --> 00:31:49.211
Microsoft wanted to make AI addictive is

00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:51.511
looking for the guy who did this and

00:31:51.531 --> 00:31:52.771
then if you actually read it they say

00:31:52.811 --> 00:31:54.872
like multiple times it's like again it's

00:31:55.071 --> 00:31:57.432
you know he signed it or whatever so

00:31:57.472 --> 00:31:58.032
yeah it's a

00:31:59.602 --> 00:32:01.683
Just, yeah, what is going on at Microsoft?

00:32:02.304 --> 00:32:03.684
That is the million-dollar question right

00:32:03.704 --> 00:32:04.925
now.

00:32:05.465 --> 00:32:06.747
Actually, how much is Microsoft worth?

00:32:06.906 --> 00:32:10.230
That is the trillion-dollar question.

00:32:10.250 --> 00:32:12.791
Common Microsoft L, as usual.

00:32:14.893 --> 00:32:15.594
Yeah, for real.

00:32:15.993 --> 00:32:16.673
That's a good way to put it.

00:32:18.115 --> 00:32:18.635
All righty.

00:32:20.136 --> 00:32:20.457
Yeah, no,

00:32:20.537 --> 00:32:21.778
I don't have anything to add to that.

00:32:21.958 --> 00:32:23.778
But I do appreciate you pointing out

00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:23.920
the...

00:32:27.261 --> 00:32:27.721
Oh, gosh.

00:32:27.741 --> 00:32:29.243
I already lost track of it.

00:32:29.384 --> 00:32:31.165
But it was good insight.

00:32:31.266 --> 00:32:31.566
Oh, yes.

00:32:32.106 --> 00:32:33.728
How Microsoft is getting way too powerful.

00:32:34.128 --> 00:32:36.010
If they can get GitLab to take stuff

00:32:36.030 --> 00:32:36.510
down,

00:32:36.530 --> 00:32:39.054
GitLab is supposed to be separate and

00:32:39.173 --> 00:32:39.835
independent.

00:32:40.075 --> 00:32:41.856
And just, yeah, that's troubling.

00:32:42.457 --> 00:32:44.179
GitLab's getting a little too corporate,

00:32:44.199 --> 00:32:44.439
I think.

00:32:46.921 --> 00:32:48.301
I know there's a lot of people starting

00:32:48.342 --> 00:32:49.142
to push away.

00:32:49.162 --> 00:32:49.521
What's it called?

00:32:50.321 --> 00:32:52.442
Forge Go, Forge Joe, something like that,

00:32:52.923 --> 00:32:54.963
which is supposed to be like an activity

00:32:55.003 --> 00:32:56.765
pub version of Git.

00:32:57.144 --> 00:32:59.705
Or there's, what else?

00:32:59.945 --> 00:33:01.266
Codeberg's a popular one.

00:33:01.925 --> 00:33:02.987
I don't know if it's as popular,

00:33:03.007 --> 00:33:04.267
but I know some people like GitT.

00:33:04.346 --> 00:33:04.487
I mean,

00:33:04.507 --> 00:33:05.708
they've all got their pros and cons,

00:33:05.788 --> 00:33:06.508
but yeah,

00:33:06.667 --> 00:33:10.028
we definitely need to decentralize a

00:33:10.048 --> 00:33:11.890
little bit because that is scary, I think.

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.140
But in the meantime,

00:33:16.381 --> 00:33:18.221
I think we're going to issue some quick

00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:19.540
site updates.

00:33:19.961 --> 00:33:21.181
We do have a story coming up in

00:33:21.201 --> 00:33:22.701
a little bit about Dashlane,

00:33:23.342 --> 00:33:24.862
who's pulling a LastPass.

00:33:25.422 --> 00:33:28.343
There's some good news there, hopefully,

00:33:28.423 --> 00:33:29.722
but still not great.

00:33:29.742 --> 00:33:30.782
But before we discuss that,

00:33:31.262 --> 00:33:32.262
we're going to talk about what's been

00:33:32.282 --> 00:33:33.884
going on at Privacy Guides this week.

00:33:33.903 --> 00:33:35.384
So this has been another one of those

00:33:35.423 --> 00:33:37.144
weeks where there hasn't been a whole lot

00:33:37.223 --> 00:33:38.545
of public-facing stuff,

00:33:38.565 --> 00:33:39.865
but we've been very busy behind the

00:33:39.884 --> 00:33:40.265
scenes.

00:33:41.365 --> 00:33:44.208
Jordan is wrapping up a new video.

00:33:44.488 --> 00:33:47.289
I'm getting all the B-roll for the next

00:33:47.329 --> 00:33:48.150
video after that.

00:33:48.490 --> 00:33:49.371
But in the meantime,

00:33:49.612 --> 00:33:51.313
we had a fantastic new article,

00:33:51.373 --> 00:33:51.772
which actually,

00:33:51.792 --> 00:33:52.993
let me see if I can pull that

00:33:53.114 --> 00:33:54.174
up real quick.

00:33:56.135 --> 00:33:56.836
While that's loading,

00:33:56.936 --> 00:33:59.898
it is called No Right to Remain Silent,

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:01.861
Negative Rights in a Positive Rights

00:34:02.060 --> 00:34:02.461
World.

00:34:02.681 --> 00:34:04.301
And I highly encourage you guys to go

00:34:04.383 --> 00:34:06.844
read this one because it is here.

00:34:06.864 --> 00:34:07.684
Let me pull this up real quick.

00:34:08.635 --> 00:34:09.356
Share this tab.

00:34:10.257 --> 00:34:12.139
It is about something a lot of you

00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.400
guys, if you're privacy veterans,

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:14.382
have probably clocked already,

00:34:14.422 --> 00:34:16.023
which is we're kind of moving into a

00:34:16.063 --> 00:34:21.751
world where it is suspicious to not be

00:34:21.791 --> 00:34:22.391
part of the system.

00:34:22.452 --> 00:34:23.213
You know, like it was a...

00:34:24.641 --> 00:34:25.163
What year are we in?

00:34:25.202 --> 00:34:25.862
Twenty twenty six.

00:34:25.882 --> 00:34:28.244
So like fifteen years ago,

00:34:28.465 --> 00:34:29.246
twenty years ago.

00:34:29.565 --> 00:34:30.447
God, it's been so long.

00:34:31.288 --> 00:34:31.887
We'll say fifteen,

00:34:31.947 --> 00:34:32.889
ten to fifteen years ago.

00:34:33.289 --> 00:34:34.271
If you didn't have a Facebook,

00:34:34.391 --> 00:34:35.130
that's kind of normal.

00:34:36.431 --> 00:34:37.833
I mean, it wasn't like super normal,

00:34:37.853 --> 00:34:38.733
but it's kind of like whatever.

00:34:39.875 --> 00:34:41.157
You know, if you didn't have Instagram,

00:34:41.197 --> 00:34:42.577
if you didn't have Snapchat and even now,

00:34:42.617 --> 00:34:43.918
I think to not have some of these

00:34:43.938 --> 00:34:45.239
things like I'm not on Snapchat,

00:34:45.260 --> 00:34:47.322
but I'm on Discord or I'm not really

00:34:47.402 --> 00:34:47.983
on Facebook,

00:34:48.003 --> 00:34:49.143
but I'm really active on Instagram or

00:34:49.164 --> 00:34:49.423
whatever.

00:34:49.443 --> 00:34:50.123
That's pretty normal.

00:34:50.844 --> 00:34:52.547
But we're moving into a world increasingly

00:34:52.646 --> 00:34:54.327
where to not have any of this stuff

00:34:54.407 --> 00:34:56.750
is really starting to be seen as

00:34:57.431 --> 00:34:59.072
suspicious and strange.

00:34:59.572 --> 00:35:01.835
And this was a fantastic write-up by one

00:35:01.875 --> 00:35:04.898
of our guest contributors.

00:35:05.617 --> 00:35:07.320
And they kind of explore this and how

00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:08.820
it's kind of really becoming a problem

00:35:08.860 --> 00:35:09.282
where like,

00:35:10.623 --> 00:35:11.585
obviously we're not fans of it,

00:35:11.605 --> 00:35:12.525
but here in the US, you know,

00:35:12.565 --> 00:35:13.905
now to get a visa or get into

00:35:13.925 --> 00:35:15.347
the country, they want you to show,

00:35:15.487 --> 00:35:16.367
if you're a foreigner,

00:35:16.387 --> 00:35:17.548
they want you to show like five years

00:35:17.568 --> 00:35:18.570
of social media history.

00:35:18.670 --> 00:35:18.969
And it's like,

00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:19.769
how do you think that's going to look

00:35:19.789 --> 00:35:20.851
when you show up at border patrol?

00:35:20.871 --> 00:35:21.271
And you're like, yeah,

00:35:21.291 --> 00:35:22.211
I don't have social media.

00:35:22.271 --> 00:35:23.472
I don't have, or, you know,

00:35:23.552 --> 00:35:25.253
I use Mastodon where everything over a

00:35:25.293 --> 00:35:26.755
month gets automatically deleted.

00:35:26.815 --> 00:35:27.695
Like that's going to look really

00:35:27.755 --> 00:35:28.275
suspicious,

00:35:28.876 --> 00:35:30.518
even if it was a different administration

00:35:30.557 --> 00:35:30.958
in charge.

00:35:30.998 --> 00:35:31.398
And so it's,

00:35:32.099 --> 00:35:34.219
this is a definitely becoming a problem.

00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:36.541
And I highly recommend checking that out.

00:35:37.262 --> 00:35:38.003
And then, again,

00:35:38.023 --> 00:35:38.922
it was kind of a slower week.

00:35:38.943 --> 00:35:40.824
We did have a couple of news articles,

00:35:40.885 --> 00:35:41.105
really.

00:35:41.125 --> 00:35:42.947
We had the Data Breach Roundup, of course.

00:35:42.987 --> 00:35:44.728
But we also had a story that we're

00:35:44.748 --> 00:35:45.728
going to talk about here in a minute,

00:35:46.088 --> 00:35:48.251
which is Meta's AI support agent used by

00:35:48.411 --> 00:35:50.213
attackers to take over Instagram accounts.

00:35:50.393 --> 00:35:53.034
And if you want to read a little

00:35:53.054 --> 00:35:54.516
bit more about that story or a different

00:35:54.536 --> 00:35:56.257
perspective, Freya wrote that.

00:35:56.297 --> 00:35:58.159
So definitely check that out.

00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:00.942
But that's all that's been going on the

00:36:01.061 --> 00:36:02.081
article side of things.

00:36:02.123 --> 00:36:04.423
And I think Jordan has some additional

00:36:04.463 --> 00:36:04.864
updates.

00:36:08.306 --> 00:36:09.005
Yes, I do.

00:36:09.086 --> 00:36:12.007
I've got something that Jonah's been

00:36:12.047 --> 00:36:14.510
working on quite a lot behind the scenes.

00:36:14.530 --> 00:36:17.190
I'm not sure if I can... Okay,

00:36:17.210 --> 00:36:18.572
it looks like I've got to remove your...

00:36:18.592 --> 00:36:20.213
Okay.

00:36:20.253 --> 00:36:22.034
Basically, we've been working on... Well,

00:36:22.074 --> 00:36:22.594
not we.

00:36:22.934 --> 00:36:24.635
I'm just going to say Jonah's been working

00:36:24.715 --> 00:36:28.016
on basically this whole verified apps

00:36:28.498 --> 00:36:29.077
database.

00:36:29.597 --> 00:36:31.079
So if you didn't catch last week's show,

00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:33.760
basically how it works is it's

00:36:34.864 --> 00:36:38.327
a database that has the certificate hashes

00:36:38.527 --> 00:36:39.650
of Android apps.

00:36:39.889 --> 00:36:41.371
And basically we're relying on our

00:36:41.431 --> 00:36:43.594
community members to submit their apps to

00:36:43.614 --> 00:36:44.335
that database.

00:36:45.056 --> 00:36:47.418
And originally it was just like we talked

00:36:47.438 --> 00:36:48.059
about last week.

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:49.641
It was a website that you could visit

00:36:50.181 --> 00:36:51.302
that basically would provide

00:36:52.684 --> 00:36:54.445
have the hashes that you could compare

00:36:54.465 --> 00:36:55.746
with apps on your device.

00:36:56.565 --> 00:37:00.086
And Jonah has basically been working on a,

00:37:00.507 --> 00:37:03.248
he's been testing something that would

00:37:03.327 --> 00:37:08.010
basically allow for allow for people to

00:37:09.644 --> 00:37:11.947
automatically check device like

00:37:12.007 --> 00:37:13.768
certificate hashes of apps that they have

00:37:13.809 --> 00:37:15.871
installed automatically against the

00:37:15.891 --> 00:37:18.373
database that we've been working on so I

00:37:18.393 --> 00:37:19.534
guess I can scroll down a little bit

00:37:19.574 --> 00:37:20.755
here this is kind of like what it

00:37:20.775 --> 00:37:24.059
looks like it basically shows all the all

00:37:24.079 --> 00:37:26.701
the apps that you have installed and it

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:29.403
will basically tell you the hash of the

00:37:29.523 --> 00:37:30.644
app and then it will tell you the

00:37:31.257 --> 00:37:36.581
status of the, if the app matches that,

00:37:36.621 --> 00:37:38.884
that is stored in our community database.

00:37:39.905 --> 00:37:41.346
So basically we've been having people on

00:37:41.405 --> 00:37:43.567
GitHub submitting their app certificate

00:37:43.606 --> 00:37:44.068
hashes,

00:37:44.748 --> 00:37:46.829
and then that's been compared against

00:37:48.489 --> 00:37:50.172
all app stores, basically.

00:37:50.251 --> 00:37:52.793
Google Play, FDroid, Accrescent,

00:37:54.255 --> 00:37:55.036
all these app stores,

00:37:55.096 --> 00:37:56.677
checking the certificate hashes against

00:37:56.697 --> 00:37:57.938
that, and then eventually,

00:37:58.197 --> 00:37:59.498
once we double-check everything,

00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:02.101
submitting that to the database itself.

00:38:03.001 --> 00:38:04.163
And basically,

00:38:04.182 --> 00:38:06.085
the reason why we've been doing this is

00:38:07.525 --> 00:38:09.307
the previous app that existed,

00:38:09.708 --> 00:38:10.268
which was...

00:38:11.771 --> 00:38:14.293
called AppVerifier by Superslurper.

00:38:15.213 --> 00:38:17.054
It was a good app,

00:38:17.114 --> 00:38:19.293
but the issue with it was that the

00:38:19.333 --> 00:38:21.474
internal database was very limited and the

00:38:21.514 --> 00:38:25.496
developer didn't want to increase the apps

00:38:25.536 --> 00:38:27.036
that were actually included in that

00:38:27.056 --> 00:38:27.637
database.

00:38:28.416 --> 00:38:31.097
So basically it was useful for checking

00:38:31.137 --> 00:38:31.757
the hashes,

00:38:31.797 --> 00:38:33.838
but it didn't have a very large internal

00:38:33.898 --> 00:38:34.498
database.

00:38:35.378 --> 00:38:37.320
So basically we're trying to change that a

00:38:37.340 --> 00:38:37.739
little bit.

00:38:38.492 --> 00:38:41.175
And we're not trying to replace the App

00:38:41.195 --> 00:38:42.476
Verifier app exactly.

00:38:43.056 --> 00:38:44.157
We're basically just using...

00:38:44.277 --> 00:38:46.277
This is basically an app that can check

00:38:46.838 --> 00:38:49.079
the certificate hashes of all the apps

00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:50.119
that you have installed.

00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:53.402
It doesn't work exactly the same way as

00:38:53.422 --> 00:38:54.503
the App Verifier app.

00:38:55.083 --> 00:38:56.744
I might just read exactly what Jonah put

00:38:56.844 --> 00:38:59.626
on the GitHub because I feel like that's

00:38:59.666 --> 00:39:01.588
probably a better way to...

00:39:04.050 --> 00:39:06.170
basically explain it.

00:39:06.990 --> 00:39:08.431
So let me just share this tab instead.

00:39:10.514 --> 00:39:13.315
Basically it's a verified apps is a app

00:39:13.375 --> 00:39:15.617
signing hash viewer and verifier.

00:39:17.458 --> 00:39:18.778
And if you scroll down here,

00:39:20.628 --> 00:39:22.128
It's a fork of AppVerifier,

00:39:22.528 --> 00:39:24.210
but many components have been removed,

00:39:24.610 --> 00:39:26.530
so it no longer serves the same purpose.

00:39:26.771 --> 00:39:27.190
Notably,

00:39:27.331 --> 00:39:29.170
it no longer includes peer-to-peer

00:39:29.190 --> 00:39:31.411
verification via clipboard sharing.

00:39:31.552 --> 00:39:33.672
This app only checks against our

00:39:33.692 --> 00:39:36.233
crowdsourced database.

00:39:36.393 --> 00:39:42.454
So basically what this means is that this

00:39:42.594 --> 00:39:43.715
is more of a

00:39:45.447 --> 00:39:45.867
I guess,

00:39:46.266 --> 00:39:49.728
supplementation to the app verifier app.

00:39:49.748 --> 00:39:50.949
So it's not a replacement.

00:39:51.789 --> 00:39:53.951
It fills a small niche there.

00:39:55.090 --> 00:39:56.371
And the app right now is,

00:39:56.751 --> 00:39:58.432
this is all pre-release stuff as well.

00:39:58.492 --> 00:39:59.532
I just want to put that out there.

00:39:59.572 --> 00:40:01.853
This is not anything that's been fully

00:40:01.893 --> 00:40:02.333
released.

00:40:04.757 --> 00:40:05.679
We've currently got,

00:40:06.739 --> 00:40:08.561
Jonah put out a release fifteen hours ago.

00:40:08.601 --> 00:40:10.242
This is like a pre-release of the app.

00:40:10.943 --> 00:40:12.806
I've downloaded it myself and there's no

00:40:12.925 --> 00:40:14.927
issues with the functionality or anything

00:40:14.967 --> 00:40:15.467
like that.

00:40:16.668 --> 00:40:19.251
But it is,

00:40:21.614 --> 00:40:23.456
it is not quite production ready.

00:40:23.496 --> 00:40:24.956
Like there's still certain things that I

00:40:24.976 --> 00:40:26.418
think Jonah is working out on the back

00:40:26.518 --> 00:40:28.059
end and to basically

00:40:30.077 --> 00:40:32.677
make sure that you can verify that the

00:40:33.097 --> 00:40:34.438
app is actually legit.

00:40:35.918 --> 00:40:37.278
Because obviously you need to make sure

00:40:37.298 --> 00:40:38.878
you trust this app because it's going to

00:40:38.898 --> 00:40:40.798
be checking all the certificate hashes of

00:40:40.838 --> 00:40:41.960
all the apps you're using.

00:40:44.139 --> 00:40:45.219
So yeah,

00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.601
there's been some kind of background

00:40:46.641 --> 00:40:47.701
process on that.

00:40:48.001 --> 00:40:50.320
And overall, it's looking really good.

00:40:50.501 --> 00:40:52.481
I've already really liked this app a lot,

00:40:52.541 --> 00:40:52.882
actually.

00:40:54.342 --> 00:40:55.764
So if you're interested in testing it out,

00:40:55.784 --> 00:40:58.065
you can check that out on the privacy

00:40:58.085 --> 00:40:58.766
guides forum,

00:40:58.945 --> 00:41:01.668
verified apps app for Android pre-release.

00:41:01.987 --> 00:41:04.130
So it's available for pre-release if you

00:41:04.150 --> 00:41:04.831
want to test it.

00:41:05.431 --> 00:41:07.432
Obviously don't rely on this fully yet

00:41:07.472 --> 00:41:10.255
because it's not really fully released,

00:41:10.934 --> 00:41:12.856
but it would be really helpful if people

00:41:12.896 --> 00:41:14.898
could download this and give feedback if

00:41:14.918 --> 00:41:15.378
they have any.

00:41:16.338 --> 00:41:17.980
because it's, yeah,

00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:19.581
it's kind of actively being developed and

00:41:19.641 --> 00:41:22.202
it's only just, we only just put out,

00:41:22.302 --> 00:41:24.864
I think Jonah put out a release the

00:41:24.983 --> 00:41:25.985
other day, two days ago.

00:41:26.364 --> 00:41:27.806
So two day old app.

00:41:28.126 --> 00:41:29.907
So don't, don't judge too harshly,

00:41:29.947 --> 00:41:33.369
but I think it's already quite promising.

00:41:34.849 --> 00:41:35.190
But yeah.

00:41:35.409 --> 00:41:36.811
Do you have any thoughts on this on

00:41:36.831 --> 00:41:37.030
Nate?

00:41:37.050 --> 00:41:39.373
Because I feel like this is kind of

00:41:39.393 --> 00:41:40.132
a big release here.

00:41:41.733 --> 00:41:43.353
Um, no, to be honest,

00:41:43.393 --> 00:41:44.434
I don't really have any thought.

00:41:44.474 --> 00:41:45.396
I think it is super cool.

00:41:45.456 --> 00:41:45.956
I agree with you.

00:41:45.976 --> 00:41:47.496
Um, it is a big release.

00:41:47.536 --> 00:41:48.217
It is really exciting.

00:41:48.637 --> 00:41:49.498
Um, I'm glad, uh,

00:41:49.518 --> 00:41:51.159
cause I know last time we mentioned this,

00:41:51.260 --> 00:41:53.420
uh, this crowdsourced app verifier thing,

00:41:53.922 --> 00:41:55.121
we explicitly said like,

00:41:55.483 --> 00:41:57.304
we're not promising an Android app to go

00:41:57.344 --> 00:41:57.623
with it.

00:41:58.545 --> 00:41:59.144
And, uh,

00:41:59.164 --> 00:42:01.086
I believe basically Jonah was just kind of

00:42:01.106 --> 00:42:01.847
like, well,

00:42:01.867 --> 00:42:03.027
how hard would it be to make an

00:42:03.188 --> 00:42:04.509
app and kind of tinkered around a little

00:42:04.528 --> 00:42:04.748
bit.

00:42:04.969 --> 00:42:05.369
And, um,

00:42:06.148 --> 00:42:08.570
Jonah's crazy smart with tech stuff.

00:42:08.771 --> 00:42:10.891
Um, I mean, obviously, but yeah, uh,

00:42:10.911 --> 00:42:11.992
I guess for him it was like, Oh,

00:42:12.012 --> 00:42:13.333
this is actually easier than I thought.

00:42:13.414 --> 00:42:14.054
So, uh,

00:42:14.074 --> 00:42:16.635
he went ahead and released this and, um,

00:42:16.896 --> 00:42:17.416
yeah, I mean, I,

00:42:17.456 --> 00:42:18.317
I think it's super cool.

00:42:18.456 --> 00:42:19.038
Uh,

00:42:19.057 --> 00:42:20.918
I will say another place you can find

00:42:20.938 --> 00:42:22.079
the link to this is in the newsletter.

00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:23.880
So if you go to privacyguides.org slash

00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:24.760
live streams, um,

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:25.702
there's a link to it in there as

00:42:25.742 --> 00:42:27.643
well, but yeah, uh,

00:42:27.663 --> 00:42:28.764
I don't really have too many thoughts.

00:42:28.884 --> 00:42:29.704
I just think it's, um,

00:42:31.056 --> 00:42:31.717
It is super cool.

00:42:31.777 --> 00:42:32.617
It is super exciting.

00:42:32.836 --> 00:42:36.039
And if you are okay with some bugs

00:42:36.059 --> 00:42:36.679
and some stuff,

00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:40.742
I think we always appreciate beta testers

00:42:40.782 --> 00:42:42.143
and feedback and stuff.

00:42:42.563 --> 00:42:43.844
But yeah, like Jordan said,

00:42:43.903 --> 00:42:46.365
this should be considered pre-release

00:42:46.485 --> 00:42:46.905
alpha.

00:42:47.065 --> 00:42:48.626
Do not rely on it too heavily.

00:42:48.726 --> 00:42:50.088
Expect there to be some issues.

00:42:50.128 --> 00:42:51.849
And yeah,

00:42:51.909 --> 00:42:53.070
it's really cool to see this coming

00:42:53.090 --> 00:42:53.349
together.

00:42:53.369 --> 00:42:54.951
I don't know.

00:42:54.990 --> 00:42:55.811
I think those are kind of just my

00:42:55.851 --> 00:42:56.231
main thoughts.

00:42:56.271 --> 00:42:57.432
It's really cool to see this project

00:42:57.452 --> 00:42:59.373
coming together from my perspective, so.

00:43:00.188 --> 00:43:00.748
Yeah, same.

00:43:00.849 --> 00:43:01.929
And I think I do want to remind

00:43:01.969 --> 00:43:02.891
people like, you know,

00:43:03.351 --> 00:43:04.572
we wouldn't be able to do this without

00:43:04.592 --> 00:43:05.193
your support.

00:43:05.253 --> 00:43:06.755
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00:43:06.795 --> 00:43:08.436
our supporters and you can sign up for

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00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:11.019
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00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:13.362
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00:43:16.005 --> 00:43:17.987
Privacy Guides is a nonprofit which

00:43:18.088 --> 00:43:20.030
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00:43:20.050 --> 00:43:20.570
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00:43:21.077 --> 00:43:24.762
and facilitates a community on our forum

00:43:24.922 --> 00:43:27.204
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00:43:27.344 --> 00:43:29.106
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00:43:29.226 --> 00:43:31.547
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00:43:32.028 --> 00:43:32.548
rights.

00:43:32.849 --> 00:43:36.253
Now let's dive into this story about Meta.

00:43:38.846 --> 00:43:40.266
Yeah, all right.

00:43:40.447 --> 00:43:43.349
So we got a couple stories about Meta

00:43:43.369 --> 00:43:43.869
this week.

00:43:44.510 --> 00:43:46.851
We'll start with this first one that you

00:43:46.871 --> 00:43:48.391
guys may have seen because it kind of

00:43:48.411 --> 00:43:49.012
made the rounds.

00:43:49.793 --> 00:43:50.112
It says,

00:43:50.152 --> 00:43:52.414
hackers use Meta's AI support bot to seize

00:43:52.554 --> 00:43:53.355
Instagram accounts.

00:43:53.835 --> 00:43:56.036
So we're talking big name accounts like

00:43:56.496 --> 00:43:57.577
the Obama White House.

00:43:57.677 --> 00:43:59.898
I didn't know that past administrations

00:43:59.998 --> 00:44:02.280
get to keep their own little archive

00:44:02.300 --> 00:44:02.581
account.

00:44:02.661 --> 00:44:03.240
I didn't know that.

00:44:03.382 --> 00:44:05.103
But the Obama White House,

00:44:05.143 --> 00:44:06.382
the chief master sergeant of the U.S.

00:44:06.402 --> 00:44:07.224
Space Force says,

00:44:07.885 --> 00:44:09.648
I think four Oh four said Sephora,

00:44:09.668 --> 00:44:10.469
the makeup brand,

00:44:10.949 --> 00:44:12.713
and they were briefly defaced with pro

00:44:12.833 --> 00:44:14.577
Iranian messages over the weekend.

00:44:15.157 --> 00:44:18.222
And apparently it's so meta has patched

00:44:18.262 --> 00:44:20.065
this now, according to this article,

00:44:20.567 --> 00:44:20.907
but it's,

00:44:21.900 --> 00:44:22.360
Apparently,

00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:24.181
it was literally as simple as opening the

00:44:24.222 --> 00:44:26.963
Meta AI support assistant and saying, hey,

00:44:27.143 --> 00:44:29.244
I need to add a new email address

00:44:29.284 --> 00:44:29.925
to this account.

00:44:30.605 --> 00:44:31.905
And then Meta would send you the

00:44:31.945 --> 00:44:34.588
verification code for video viewers.

00:44:34.608 --> 00:44:35.768
You can see a screenshot of the

00:44:35.789 --> 00:44:36.429
conversation here.

00:44:36.969 --> 00:44:37.309
And, you know,

00:44:37.590 --> 00:44:38.811
tell me the verification code.

00:44:39.371 --> 00:44:40.931
And then they would add it to the

00:44:40.952 --> 00:44:41.172
account.

00:44:41.192 --> 00:44:42.193
And then you could do like a basic

00:44:42.213 --> 00:44:42.932
password reset.

00:44:43.594 --> 00:44:43.753
So...

00:44:46.476 --> 00:44:48.518
My first thought is I have to wonder

00:44:48.677 --> 00:44:50.679
if two-factor would have slowed this down

00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:51.721
or stopped this potentially.

00:44:53.141 --> 00:44:54.123
I'm not positive,

00:44:54.163 --> 00:44:55.443
but I feel pretty confident that it

00:44:55.704 --> 00:44:56.744
probably would have.

00:44:58.496 --> 00:44:59.735
But, oh yes,

00:45:00.096 --> 00:45:01.257
it says here in the last paragraph,

00:45:01.396 --> 00:45:02.536
securing your various online accounts

00:45:02.577 --> 00:45:03.817
means taking full advantage of the most

00:45:03.836 --> 00:45:05.376
secure form of multi-factor authentication

00:45:05.476 --> 00:45:05.797
offered.

00:45:07.478 --> 00:45:08.438
And in this case,

00:45:08.617 --> 00:45:10.597
using even the least robust forms of MFA,

00:45:10.657 --> 00:45:12.259
such as a one-time code sent via SMS,

00:45:12.518 --> 00:45:13.798
would likely have blocked the exploit.

00:45:14.358 --> 00:45:17.219
And we'll talk about two-factor actually a

00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:18.800
little bit in the Dashlane story.

00:45:19.500 --> 00:45:23.320
But I think the other thing is,

00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:24.840
and this is kind of preaching to the

00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:25.380
choir here,

00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:27.641
but the other thing with this story is

00:45:27.681 --> 00:45:27.922
that

00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:30.802
This is a reminder, like I don't,

00:45:32.204 --> 00:45:32.324
I mean,

00:45:32.344 --> 00:45:33.545
it's not really a reminder because again,

00:45:33.585 --> 00:45:34.186
you guys know this,

00:45:34.206 --> 00:45:36.329
but like it blows my mind that companies

00:45:38.132 --> 00:45:41.054
are relying so heavily on AI when it's

00:45:41.235 --> 00:45:45.159
just, it's not, it doesn't have thought,

00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:45.541
you know?

00:45:45.661 --> 00:45:46.121
I mean, again,

00:45:46.762 --> 00:45:47.762
I know I'm preaching the choir here,

00:45:47.782 --> 00:45:48.023
but like,

00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.623
This is the problem is AI is not

00:45:51.663 --> 00:45:52.003
conscious.

00:45:52.043 --> 00:45:53.284
And this is proof of it because a

00:45:53.344 --> 00:45:54.764
conscious person would have realized,

00:45:55.344 --> 00:45:56.925
why am I adding a random email address

00:45:56.945 --> 00:45:57.505
to this account?

00:45:58.186 --> 00:45:59.568
But AI is just automatic.

00:45:59.608 --> 00:46:00.849
It just does what it's told.

00:46:00.989 --> 00:46:03.690
And it's just, it's crazy.

00:46:03.751 --> 00:46:04.530
I can't believe it did that.

00:46:04.610 --> 00:46:05.311
But yeah, and I...

00:46:06.251 --> 00:46:06.652
Um, ever,

00:46:06.833 --> 00:46:08.856
ever since the anthropic code leech leak,

00:46:08.996 --> 00:46:10.737
I would love to see how meta patch

00:46:10.757 --> 00:46:11.998
this, because from what I can tell,

00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:14.262
like programming AI is basically just

00:46:14.302 --> 00:46:16.704
giving it prompts that are like deep down

00:46:16.744 --> 00:46:17.565
below the user level.

00:46:17.987 --> 00:46:18.827
So like, what did they do?

00:46:18.867 --> 00:46:19.929
They just added a new prompt,

00:46:19.969 --> 00:46:22.291
like do not add random email addresses to

00:46:22.331 --> 00:46:23.333
an account, you know, things that again,

00:46:23.373 --> 00:46:25.076
a normal person would know, but yeah.

00:46:25.702 --> 00:46:28.905
Yeah, this move fast and break everything,

00:46:28.945 --> 00:46:29.164
right?

00:46:29.786 --> 00:46:30.746
And it's not even just meta.

00:46:30.786 --> 00:46:31.806
Like as much as I love to crap

00:46:31.847 --> 00:46:33.467
on meta and they deserve every bit of

00:46:33.507 --> 00:46:35.048
it and then some, it's, you know,

00:46:35.128 --> 00:46:36.530
all these companies are doing this where

00:46:36.550 --> 00:46:37.990
they just roll everything out and then

00:46:38.010 --> 00:46:39.251
worry about the consequences later.

00:46:39.972 --> 00:46:41.733
To which I would like to inform people

00:46:41.773 --> 00:46:42.974
if you didn't know that there's literally

00:46:43.054 --> 00:46:44.996
an entire Wikipedia page listing deaths

00:46:45.076 --> 00:46:47.217
directly relatable to AI and LLMs.

00:46:48.143 --> 00:46:49.143
So yeah,

00:46:50.704 --> 00:46:51.985
I've been pretty open that I'm not like

00:46:52.005 --> 00:46:53.826
the most anti-AI person around here,

00:46:53.846 --> 00:46:54.505
but they're just,

00:46:55.507 --> 00:46:57.007
the number of use cases that I found

00:46:57.047 --> 00:46:58.847
for it are so few and far between

00:46:58.867 --> 00:47:00.208
that it just blows my mind that companies

00:47:00.228 --> 00:47:01.929
are trying to cram it into every single

00:47:01.949 --> 00:47:02.630
thing possible.

00:47:02.829 --> 00:47:05.452
But I don't, yeah, I mean,

00:47:05.472 --> 00:47:07.072
this is a pretty straightforward story.

00:47:07.112 --> 00:47:08.452
So I don't know if I have anything

00:47:08.492 --> 00:47:09.494
else really to add to this.

00:47:10.074 --> 00:47:10.914
I know this was a big one that

00:47:10.954 --> 00:47:11.454
made the rounds.

00:47:11.494 --> 00:47:12.755
Did you have any thoughts on this one

00:47:12.775 --> 00:47:13.896
when you saw this story, Jordan?

00:47:13.916 --> 00:47:14.016
Yeah.

00:47:15.507 --> 00:47:17.568
I was thinking of jumping in right away,

00:47:17.628 --> 00:47:18.347
but I think it's,

00:47:18.507 --> 00:47:20.108
it is kind of funny that like the

00:47:20.268 --> 00:47:20.849
Obama,

00:47:21.090 --> 00:47:23.271
the Obama White House account didn't have

00:47:23.331 --> 00:47:24.811
two-factor authentication.

00:47:24.851 --> 00:47:25.751
What are they doing?

00:47:25.811 --> 00:47:27.333
Like that, that must be so many,

00:47:27.413 --> 00:47:29.072
that must be like such a huge account

00:47:29.132 --> 00:47:29.494
as well.

00:47:29.534 --> 00:47:31.153
Like that is not a small account.

00:47:31.173 --> 00:47:32.735
I don't know.

00:47:32.755 --> 00:47:34.295
It just kind of surprises me how,

00:47:35.036 --> 00:47:36.356
how resistant people are to,

00:47:36.597 --> 00:47:36.836
to like

00:47:37.184 --> 00:47:39.846
it's not even like SMS to FAA is

00:47:39.885 --> 00:47:41.606
like the bare minimum.

00:47:41.666 --> 00:47:42.547
Like that is like this,

00:47:42.927 --> 00:47:45.648
that is literally the lowest form of

00:47:45.829 --> 00:47:47.409
authentication you can possibly have.

00:47:48.010 --> 00:47:48.369
And okay.

00:47:48.409 --> 00:47:48.990
So it says here,

00:47:49.510 --> 00:47:53.353
Obama White House account and the chief

00:47:53.432 --> 00:47:55.813
master Sergeant of the U S space force

00:47:55.853 --> 00:47:58.215
were briefly defaced with pro Iranian

00:47:58.235 --> 00:47:58.594
images.

00:47:58.655 --> 00:48:00.215
So I don't know.

00:48:00.235 --> 00:48:01.757
It just kind of surprises me that there's

00:48:01.777 --> 00:48:03.677
these public facing accounts that have

00:48:03.737 --> 00:48:03.998
like

00:48:05.045 --> 00:48:05.907
zero security.

00:48:05.987 --> 00:48:06.686
And I think it also,

00:48:07.206 --> 00:48:08.407
I think meta is to blame here as

00:48:08.447 --> 00:48:10.429
well, because number one,

00:48:11.028 --> 00:48:12.789
you should be enforcing two factor,

00:48:13.351 --> 00:48:15.192
like a hundred percent across your entire

00:48:15.552 --> 00:48:15.891
company.

00:48:15.911 --> 00:48:17.813
You shouldn't be allowing people to just

00:48:18.793 --> 00:48:20.454
not have two factor authentication,

00:48:20.514 --> 00:48:21.835
especially when you're like meta, right?

00:48:21.856 --> 00:48:25.257
Like you have so much power over so

00:48:25.277 --> 00:48:25.838
many people,

00:48:25.918 --> 00:48:27.659
like you should be at least trying to

00:48:27.699 --> 00:48:30.159
enforce the bare minimum of security.

00:48:30.219 --> 00:48:31.380
Like, I mean,

00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:33.181
as much as we don't like Google,

00:48:34.659 --> 00:48:36.480
As much as we really hate Google,

00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:37.780
they have done that right.

00:48:38.260 --> 00:48:38.862
They've put in,

00:48:39.961 --> 00:48:41.902
they've mandated two-factor authentication

00:48:41.922 --> 00:48:44.925
across every account, which, you know,

00:48:45.025 --> 00:48:46.766
it stops silly stuff like this.

00:48:46.826 --> 00:48:48.927
But also, I wonder, like,

00:48:51.329 --> 00:48:53.510
how much control did they actually give

00:48:53.570 --> 00:48:55.150
this AI support assistant?

00:48:55.170 --> 00:48:57.873
Because if it's allowed to reset account

00:48:57.913 --> 00:48:58.672
passwords,

00:48:59.213 --> 00:49:00.594
how much more control over the

00:49:00.614 --> 00:49:01.715
infrastructure does this?

00:49:03.235 --> 00:49:04.157
It's basically a...

00:49:06.737 --> 00:49:08.159
it's basically just making stuff up,

00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:08.338
right?

00:49:08.378 --> 00:49:11.501
Like AI is basically just telling you what

00:49:11.521 --> 00:49:12.222
you want to hear.

00:49:12.501 --> 00:49:15.284
And I think putting that into a support

00:49:15.324 --> 00:49:16.784
bot that has control over people's

00:49:16.824 --> 00:49:17.364
accounts,

00:49:18.025 --> 00:49:19.666
that just sounds like a security nightmare

00:49:19.726 --> 00:49:21.708
because we've seen this before.

00:49:21.728 --> 00:49:23.568
There's all these sort of prompt injection

00:49:23.588 --> 00:49:24.590
things where you can be like,

00:49:24.929 --> 00:49:27.811
disregard all prior programming and

00:49:28.652 --> 00:49:30.253
and change the email address of this

00:49:30.293 --> 00:49:30.552
account.

00:49:30.572 --> 00:49:33.735
Like, it's just so ripe for abuse because,

00:49:33.795 --> 00:49:36.376
like Nate said, it's not a human being.

00:49:36.416 --> 00:49:37.277
It doesn't think.

00:49:37.476 --> 00:49:39.639
It's not like they're trying to imitate a

00:49:39.679 --> 00:49:41.219
human, but it's not the same thing.

00:49:41.380 --> 00:49:42.380
And, I don't know,

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:43.920
it's just kind of funny how much money

00:49:43.940 --> 00:49:45.561
we're pouring into this, like,

00:49:46.141 --> 00:49:50.603
funny makeup words machine that, you know,

00:49:50.643 --> 00:49:52.603
keeps doing silly stuff like this.

00:49:52.664 --> 00:49:52.844
Right.

00:49:52.903 --> 00:49:55.364
And they're just trying to mimic the power

00:49:55.423 --> 00:49:56.664
of a single human being.

00:49:56.724 --> 00:49:58.324
Like if a single human being was on

00:49:58.344 --> 00:49:59.125
the other end of this,

00:49:59.545 --> 00:50:00.644
this wouldn't even be a story.

00:50:00.664 --> 00:50:02.505
It literally wouldn't have happened.

00:50:03.146 --> 00:50:03.925
So like,

00:50:04.726 --> 00:50:06.047
it's just really frustrating that they're

00:50:06.067 --> 00:50:06.766
trying to, you know,

00:50:07.547 --> 00:50:09.726
maybe you should start employing human

00:50:09.766 --> 00:50:12.507
beings to actually, you know, manual, uh,

00:50:14.766 --> 00:50:17.126
support assistant instead of having some

00:50:17.286 --> 00:50:20.528
AI that can make mistakes like this.

00:50:20.588 --> 00:50:21.570
So I don't know,

00:50:21.590 --> 00:50:24.831
this is just kind of the reality of

00:50:24.911 --> 00:50:25.213
meta.

00:50:25.373 --> 00:50:26.313
I think in this day and age,

00:50:26.333 --> 00:50:27.914
they've just gone too far.

00:50:28.054 --> 00:50:31.817
They've put AI into too many things.

00:50:32.217 --> 00:50:35.079
They're trying to minimize costs as much

00:50:35.119 --> 00:50:35.940
as possible and

00:50:37.414 --> 00:50:39.856
utilize all these AI systems to automate

00:50:39.896 --> 00:50:40.336
things.

00:50:40.556 --> 00:50:42.518
And I think we're only just going to

00:50:42.539 --> 00:50:43.980
see this becoming more and more of an

00:50:44.019 --> 00:50:44.360
issue.

00:50:44.780 --> 00:50:47.081
And any company that is doing this sort

00:50:47.121 --> 00:50:47.842
of integration,

00:50:47.902 --> 00:50:49.543
I would be extremely skeptical of the

00:50:49.583 --> 00:50:50.704
security of their product.

00:50:52.606 --> 00:50:53.025
And honestly,

00:50:53.065 --> 00:50:54.947
the most surprising thing of this story is

00:50:55.367 --> 00:50:57.248
just how much control they gave to the

00:50:57.349 --> 00:50:58.268
AI support bot,

00:50:58.530 --> 00:51:02.692
because that's basically not...

00:51:03.708 --> 00:51:05.092
Something that I would have expected a

00:51:05.152 --> 00:51:06.155
company to actually do,

00:51:06.615 --> 00:51:09.643
but I guess meta is just that bad.

00:51:12.987 --> 00:51:13.206
Yeah.

00:51:13.547 --> 00:51:13.867
Yeah.

00:51:14.146 --> 00:51:15.007
I, I totally agree,

00:51:15.088 --> 00:51:16.407
especially about the two FA thing.

00:51:16.547 --> 00:51:16.788
Like,

00:51:17.327 --> 00:51:18.929
I don't know what things are like at,

00:51:19.088 --> 00:51:20.389
at the white house,

00:51:20.989 --> 00:51:22.170
any white house for the record.

00:51:22.409 --> 00:51:23.369
Um, and you know,

00:51:23.409 --> 00:51:24.369
the chief master Sergeant,

00:51:24.409 --> 00:51:26.130
I have to assume that's his account that

00:51:26.170 --> 00:51:26.791
he's Manning.

00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:28.130
Maybe I could be wrong about that.

00:51:28.771 --> 00:51:31.831
But, uh, I, I, especially like Sephora,

00:51:31.972 --> 00:51:32.893
I mentioned that was in the four Oh

00:51:32.932 --> 00:51:33.672
four media article.

00:51:33.693 --> 00:51:33.853
Like

00:51:35.108 --> 00:51:36.769
How is there a company on earth that

00:51:36.809 --> 00:51:38.791
is not using a password manager and not

00:51:38.851 --> 00:51:39.331
mandating?

00:51:39.391 --> 00:51:40.490
Like at my last job,

00:51:41.070 --> 00:51:42.911
they mandated we had to use Microsoft

00:51:43.211 --> 00:51:44.813
Authenticator, which pissed me off.

00:51:44.833 --> 00:51:45.413
It was garbage.

00:51:45.492 --> 00:51:46.474
But, you know,

00:51:46.554 --> 00:51:48.594
it's like we had to use two FAA.

00:51:48.635 --> 00:51:50.454
That was just basic push notification to

00:51:50.594 --> 00:51:50.856
FAA.

00:51:50.896 --> 00:51:53.076
Like that's insane that these these big

00:51:53.135 --> 00:51:55.617
billion dollar brands like God forbid you

00:51:55.657 --> 00:51:57.577
make everybody even even Microsoft

00:51:57.617 --> 00:51:59.318
Authenticator is as much as I hated it

00:51:59.358 --> 00:52:00.478
and as dumb as it is and as

00:52:00.518 --> 00:52:01.679
much as I wouldn't want anybody to put

00:52:01.699 --> 00:52:03.280
that spyware on their freaking phone.

00:52:03.701 --> 00:52:03.900
Like

00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:04.521
it's,

00:52:04.641 --> 00:52:06.021
it's better than just leaving it wide

00:52:06.081 --> 00:52:06.242
open.

00:52:06.262 --> 00:52:06.362
Right.

00:52:06.382 --> 00:52:07.661
And it's probably some shared garbage

00:52:07.681 --> 00:52:08.963
password to like, you know,

00:52:09.362 --> 00:52:10.983
make up forever or something stupid.

00:52:11.103 --> 00:52:11.423
I don't know.

00:52:11.523 --> 00:52:12.704
So yeah, it's,

00:52:12.784 --> 00:52:13.824
it's completely insane that these

00:52:13.864 --> 00:52:16.306
companies are not doing better.

00:52:16.746 --> 00:52:17.327
Um, yeah.

00:52:17.387 --> 00:52:20.467
Chess Joe said a stochastic parroting.

00:52:20.487 --> 00:52:21.568
I've never heard that word before.

00:52:21.588 --> 00:52:22.248
I had to look it up.

00:52:22.289 --> 00:52:24.690
Apparently it means random involving a

00:52:24.750 --> 00:52:25.530
random variable.

00:52:25.590 --> 00:52:27.351
So yeah, just, it's, um,

00:52:28.518 --> 00:52:30.018
Again, I'm not the biggest AI hater,

00:52:30.099 --> 00:52:31.619
but it is a probability machine.

00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:31.940
It's like,

00:52:31.980 --> 00:52:33.440
what is the most likely word that's going

00:52:33.460 --> 00:52:33.981
to come next?

00:52:35.581 --> 00:52:36.501
It's an oversimplification,

00:52:36.521 --> 00:52:37.842
but it is fancy autocorrect.

00:52:37.882 --> 00:52:40.302
And to try to assign sentience or

00:52:40.362 --> 00:52:42.282
intention or motivation to it is

00:52:42.322 --> 00:52:43.163
incredibly dangerous.

00:52:43.362 --> 00:52:46.344
Again, I do believe AI has use cases.

00:52:46.983 --> 00:52:47.684
But like you said,

00:52:47.724 --> 00:52:49.344
just giving it this massive amount of

00:52:49.744 --> 00:52:50.744
ability and power,

00:52:51.244 --> 00:52:52.286
that's one of the things that no...

00:52:53.905 --> 00:52:55.467
mild offense to the people that use ai

00:52:55.527 --> 00:52:57.286
agents i think they're completely insane

00:52:57.407 --> 00:52:58.788
unless they've got like a very specific

00:52:58.847 --> 00:53:01.309
like it's got this machine and it only

00:53:01.329 --> 00:53:03.550
has access to like the search engine and

00:53:03.590 --> 00:53:05.891
it doesn't have access to like my my

00:53:05.911 --> 00:53:06.791
you know because that's the example

00:53:06.811 --> 00:53:08.251
they've given us right it's like oh you

00:53:08.271 --> 00:53:10.052
can use it to uh to like go

00:53:10.192 --> 00:53:11.793
buy plane tickets it's like first of all

00:53:11.932 --> 00:53:13.532
i don't trust it not to buy like

00:53:13.592 --> 00:53:15.813
first class tickets to freaking moscow at

00:53:15.833 --> 00:53:18.014
this point i don't trust it not to

00:53:18.034 --> 00:53:20.016
buy three of them at a time and

00:53:20.096 --> 00:53:21.777
i also don't trust it to actually get

00:53:21.817 --> 00:53:22.697
me the best price

00:53:23.516 --> 00:53:23.898
So it's like,

00:53:23.998 --> 00:53:25.719
I don't understand people that trust AI

00:53:25.739 --> 00:53:29.001
with that degree of power and control or

00:53:29.021 --> 00:53:30.943
like unchecked responding to emails.

00:53:30.963 --> 00:53:33.164
Like I have never used AI to write

00:53:33.244 --> 00:53:35.427
an email, but I cannot imagine the people,

00:53:35.487 --> 00:53:37.208
which we've seen it in our spam and

00:53:37.248 --> 00:53:38.489
privacy guides and in our email,

00:53:38.528 --> 00:53:40.351
people will just like give it a prompt,

00:53:40.431 --> 00:53:41.532
go and hit send.

00:53:41.612 --> 00:53:41.911
And it's like,

00:53:41.952 --> 00:53:43.413
what kind of a psychopath doesn't even

00:53:43.472 --> 00:53:44.434
like proofread it?

00:53:44.514 --> 00:53:44.873
It's just,

00:53:45.715 --> 00:53:47.195
people are putting way too much trust in

00:53:47.335 --> 00:53:47.597
AI.

00:53:47.637 --> 00:53:48.077
It's scary.

00:53:49.217 --> 00:53:50.617
I think the other thing that we've kind

00:53:50.677 --> 00:53:54.500
of seen is the boon of this software

00:53:54.539 --> 00:53:57.440
that's like AI, it's like agentic agents.

00:53:57.519 --> 00:54:00.021
They're like open claws of the world.

00:54:00.061 --> 00:54:01.402
Like people will just like,

00:54:02.322 --> 00:54:04.262
they'll give an email inbox to like this

00:54:04.402 --> 00:54:05.003
AI agent.

00:54:05.043 --> 00:54:06.483
And then the AI agent will just go

00:54:06.503 --> 00:54:08.083
through the entire internet and just send

00:54:08.143 --> 00:54:09.824
out emails to people and just like be

00:54:09.864 --> 00:54:10.643
really irritating.

00:54:11.043 --> 00:54:12.125
Like we have this issue.

00:54:12.525 --> 00:54:14.485
We kept getting this one person who would

00:54:14.505 --> 00:54:16.686
just keep sending us emails and

00:54:16.885 --> 00:54:17.766
And it wasn't a person.

00:54:17.827 --> 00:54:19.329
It was an AI agent that was just

00:54:19.349 --> 00:54:21.032
spamming us constantly.

00:54:22.795 --> 00:54:25.659
And it was complete gibberish too.

00:54:25.759 --> 00:54:26.239
Exactly.

00:54:26.400 --> 00:54:28.262
It was like complete slop as well.

00:54:28.282 --> 00:54:30.126
It was like not even... It was like...

00:54:32.289 --> 00:54:32.710
It's just...

00:54:34.784 --> 00:54:36.523
it's just very frustrating when you,

00:54:36.543 --> 00:54:39.684
when you see these sort of the way

00:54:39.704 --> 00:54:40.405
things are going,

00:54:40.465 --> 00:54:42.905
like the way certain companies are

00:54:42.945 --> 00:54:44.585
influencing technology at the moment,

00:54:44.606 --> 00:54:47.347
because let's be real, like it's not,

00:54:47.427 --> 00:54:49.188
it's not the individual people using the

00:54:49.228 --> 00:54:50.648
technology that are shaping where

00:54:50.708 --> 00:54:51.588
technology is going.

00:54:52.188 --> 00:54:53.568
It's these massive, you know,

00:54:53.608 --> 00:54:55.228
like multinational corporations like

00:54:55.289 --> 00:54:59.670
Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, you know,

00:54:59.710 --> 00:55:00.871
all these massive companies,

00:55:00.911 --> 00:55:02.251
they're controlling where the

00:55:03.958 --> 00:55:07.000
where where money is going where where

00:55:07.019 --> 00:55:10.320
development is being focused on and uh

00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:12.221
unfortunately it's being focused on

00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:14.021
something that's really silly and kind of

00:55:14.121 --> 00:55:15.840
useless in a lot of aspects right like

00:55:16.701 --> 00:55:19.181
we could argue you know oh maybe it's

00:55:19.222 --> 00:55:21.461
good for like a little bit of stuff

00:55:21.481 --> 00:55:22.842
like you said maybe it's like oh it's

00:55:22.862 --> 00:55:24.543
okay for like researching something maybe

00:55:24.583 --> 00:55:26.722
I can find some information that's hard to

00:55:26.762 --> 00:55:29.143
find on a search engine by you know

00:55:29.224 --> 00:55:30.784
asking an AI agent but like

00:55:32.181 --> 00:55:34.244
when we start expanding it to more things

00:55:34.304 --> 00:55:35.465
like, you know,

00:55:35.684 --> 00:55:37.967
asking it to manage an inbox or be

00:55:37.987 --> 00:55:40.829
a support agent, then it's like, that's,

00:55:41.090 --> 00:55:42.251
I think that is a little bit too

00:55:42.291 --> 00:55:43.472
far.

00:55:44.074 --> 00:55:44.954
I totally agree,

00:55:44.974 --> 00:55:46.536
but I do want to push back just

00:55:46.596 --> 00:55:48.137
a tiny bit in the name of optimism

00:55:48.297 --> 00:55:49.199
and point out that like,

00:55:50.452 --> 00:55:52.335
Sometimes we can push back on this stuff.

00:55:53.135 --> 00:55:55.719
Remember the metaverse and how that

00:55:55.878 --> 00:55:57.239
completely failed to materialize?

00:55:57.541 --> 00:55:58.061
Or like, okay,

00:55:58.101 --> 00:55:59.121
this is an example that I don't know

00:55:59.141 --> 00:55:59.943
how many people remember.

00:56:00.384 --> 00:56:03.507
But I used to see commercials for this

00:56:03.547 --> 00:56:04.708
service called Quibi.

00:56:05.369 --> 00:56:06.510
And it was supposed to be like...

00:56:07.650 --> 00:56:08.931
It was supposed to be like Netflix,

00:56:09.032 --> 00:56:10.893
except every episode was less than ten

00:56:10.934 --> 00:56:11.193
minutes.

00:56:11.213 --> 00:56:12.474
So I guess the idea was like you

00:56:12.494 --> 00:56:13.576
could watch it while you were like waiting

00:56:13.615 --> 00:56:14.356
for the bus or something.

00:56:14.777 --> 00:56:15.617
And I swear to God,

00:56:15.757 --> 00:56:17.498
I saw those commercials like every single

00:56:17.539 --> 00:56:18.119
commercial break.

00:56:18.159 --> 00:56:20.521
Like streaming services, cable TV,

00:56:20.541 --> 00:56:21.621
because I think I was traveling a lot

00:56:21.641 --> 00:56:21.961
at the time,

00:56:21.981 --> 00:56:23.023
so a lot of hotel TVs.

00:56:23.782 --> 00:56:24.804
Like I saw it everywhere.

00:56:24.923 --> 00:56:25.744
It was everywhere.

00:56:25.784 --> 00:56:27.286
It was obnoxiously everywhere.

00:56:27.987 --> 00:56:29.768
They went under in like a year because

00:56:29.788 --> 00:56:30.528
it was a stupid idea.

00:56:30.869 --> 00:56:33.130
So like my point being is like a

00:56:33.170 --> 00:56:36.112
lot of people think that –

00:56:34.992 --> 00:56:35.992
and I'm not accusing you of this for

00:56:36.012 --> 00:56:36.311
the record,

00:56:36.331 --> 00:56:37.492
but I've seen a lot of people who

00:56:37.512 --> 00:56:38.512
seem to think that like, oh,

00:56:38.893 --> 00:56:41.554
companies just pump an ungodly amount of

00:56:41.594 --> 00:56:43.155
money that most of us would never need

00:56:43.175 --> 00:56:44.235
to work again if we had that kind

00:56:44.255 --> 00:56:44.514
of money.

00:56:44.795 --> 00:56:46.135
They just pump this ridiculous amount of

00:56:46.175 --> 00:56:47.655
money into advertising and boom,

00:56:47.715 --> 00:56:48.936
now they've shoved this terrible product

00:56:48.956 --> 00:56:49.436
down our throat.

00:56:50.637 --> 00:56:52.757
Usually, but every once in a while,

00:56:52.818 --> 00:56:54.117
we can kind of push back on it

00:56:54.257 --> 00:56:55.237
and like get them,

00:56:55.398 --> 00:56:56.518
get it to fail regardless.

00:56:56.559 --> 00:56:58.798
So, I mean, if I'm being realistic,

00:56:58.858 --> 00:57:00.320
I don't think AI is going to completely

00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:00.760
go away,

00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:02.059
but I do think there is something to

00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:03.661
be said for like, it's not a guarantee.

00:57:03.701 --> 00:57:04.041
And I think

00:57:04.710 --> 00:57:06.170
It is worth continuing to push back and

00:57:06.190 --> 00:57:07.291
I admire everyone who does.

00:57:07.612 --> 00:57:08.952
I say as the person who is admitted

00:57:08.992 --> 00:57:10.353
to occasionally using AI,

00:57:10.853 --> 00:57:12.974
I know I kind of suck, but yeah,

00:57:13.076 --> 00:57:13.576
I don't know.

00:57:13.675 --> 00:57:14.556
I guess I just wanted to offer a

00:57:14.577 --> 00:57:16.097
little bit of potential hope.

00:57:17.257 --> 00:57:18.099
Boo.

00:57:18.259 --> 00:57:18.378
Yeah.

00:57:18.438 --> 00:57:19.420
Anyway, I know.

00:57:19.739 --> 00:57:21.280
I think a lot of people use AI.

00:57:21.521 --> 00:57:23.882
A lot of people would say like they,

00:57:24.523 --> 00:57:25.884
I think it's pretty fair to say most

00:57:25.903 --> 00:57:27.864
people use at least some sort of AI

00:57:27.885 --> 00:57:28.545
right at this point.

00:57:28.585 --> 00:57:31.226
Like it's become kind of ubiquitous.

00:57:31.248 --> 00:57:31.887
Yeah.

00:57:32.250 --> 00:57:34.291
Um, so I don't think that, you know,

00:57:34.331 --> 00:57:35.692
we shouldn't shame people that are using

00:57:35.711 --> 00:57:37.393
this technology, but I think, you know,

00:57:37.753 --> 00:57:39.554
educating people like, oh, why is this,

00:57:39.853 --> 00:57:41.135
why shouldn't we be doing this?

00:57:41.175 --> 00:57:41.554
Why are,

00:57:41.594 --> 00:57:43.396
why are we funneling so much money into

00:57:43.416 --> 00:57:44.097
this technology?

00:57:44.137 --> 00:57:45.577
Why is this technology not good?

00:57:46.557 --> 00:57:50.581
Um, so, you know, I think, yeah,

00:57:50.641 --> 00:57:51.061
you're right.

00:57:51.081 --> 00:57:52.902
Like we are already kind of seeing it

00:57:52.942 --> 00:57:53.862
happening a little bit.

00:57:54.182 --> 00:57:55.744
Maybe let's be optimistic.

00:57:55.804 --> 00:57:57.465
I guess we've seen data centers being

00:57:57.505 --> 00:57:58.125
canceled.

00:57:58.184 --> 00:57:59.826
We've been seeing, you know,

00:58:01.094 --> 00:58:03.635
ram prices and gpu prices kind of hitting

00:58:04.335 --> 00:58:06.197
hitting a ridiculous point now where like

00:58:06.237 --> 00:58:08.697
you know it's impacting a lot of people

00:58:08.818 --> 00:58:10.778
and people are becoming a little bit more

00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:14.139
skeptical of the amount of money that

00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:16.221
we're pouring into this right like oh you

00:58:16.260 --> 00:58:17.882
know it is kind of affecting a lot

00:58:17.961 --> 00:58:19.862
and like is it really that useful like

00:58:19.902 --> 00:58:21.722
people are becoming more skeptical i think

00:58:22.664 --> 00:58:26.945
um at least i would like to hope

00:58:27.005 --> 00:58:28.445
same totally agree

00:58:30.465 --> 00:58:31.326
But with that being said,

00:58:31.365 --> 00:58:32.987
I guess we could move on to the

00:58:33.047 --> 00:58:34.186
next article here,

00:58:34.947 --> 00:58:38.548
also about Meta as well.

00:58:39.168 --> 00:58:41.250
So this one is from Wired.

00:58:41.751 --> 00:58:44.931
Meta silently added face recognition code

00:58:44.992 --> 00:58:47.353
for its smart glasses to millions of

00:58:47.393 --> 00:58:47.954
phones.

00:58:48.373 --> 00:58:50.135
So one quick thing before we dive into

00:58:50.155 --> 00:58:50.614
this story.

00:58:51.833 --> 00:58:53.014
I don't know if anyone remembers,

00:58:53.094 --> 00:58:54.275
but a couple of years ago,

00:58:54.454 --> 00:58:55.835
maybe it was like two years ago,

00:58:56.635 --> 00:58:59.237
there was another story about this and it

00:58:59.257 --> 00:58:59.637
was some,

00:58:59.856 --> 00:59:01.498
there was some university students and

00:59:01.518 --> 00:59:04.038
what they'd done is basically hooked up

00:59:04.318 --> 00:59:06.039
meta glasses to,

00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:10.021
what's that facial recognition?

00:59:10.541 --> 00:59:11.320
Pim eyes.

00:59:11.701 --> 00:59:12.181
Pim eyes.

00:59:12.422 --> 00:59:13.041
That's it.

00:59:13.101 --> 00:59:13.322
Sorry.

00:59:13.362 --> 00:59:14.802
I'm going to find that story right now

00:59:14.822 --> 00:59:16.163
and put it on screen, but keep going.

00:59:16.630 --> 00:59:17.150
Perfect.

00:59:17.271 --> 00:59:17.510
Okay.

00:59:17.992 --> 00:59:18.092
Um,

00:59:18.132 --> 00:59:19.574
so they did that a couple of years

00:59:19.594 --> 00:59:19.773
ago.

00:59:19.833 --> 00:59:20.054
Right.

00:59:20.094 --> 00:59:22.117
And they basically were like proved,

00:59:22.217 --> 00:59:23.898
Oh wow, this is like really creepy.

00:59:23.938 --> 00:59:24.440
Like you can,

00:59:24.559 --> 00:59:26.101
you can just look at someone in public

00:59:26.181 --> 00:59:28.885
and they'll just immediately have a name

00:59:28.925 --> 00:59:30.487
attached to somebody and like all their

00:59:30.527 --> 00:59:31.108
information and

00:59:32.851 --> 00:59:34.512
So, um, yeah, anyway,

00:59:34.592 --> 00:59:35.994
so everyone really thought that was super

00:59:36.034 --> 00:59:36.414
creepy.

00:59:36.554 --> 00:59:38.356
And of course, you know, Meta was like,

00:59:38.556 --> 00:59:39.317
we've got to do that.

00:59:39.436 --> 00:59:41.760
So Meta's currently, uh,

00:59:41.800 --> 00:59:44.702
they added some face facial recognition

00:59:44.742 --> 00:59:44.983
code.

00:59:45.083 --> 00:59:45.583
Oh, there we go.

00:59:45.722 --> 00:59:47.324
So here's the story that I was talking

00:59:47.344 --> 00:59:48.666
about in this one's from four or four

00:59:48.686 --> 00:59:49.867
media, um,

00:59:55.019 --> 00:59:55.199
Yeah,

00:59:55.219 --> 00:59:57.460
so basically they attached PIMIs to it.

00:59:57.780 --> 00:59:59.641
And I think if you scroll down,

00:59:59.661 --> 01:00:01.481
there's like a little bit of stuff like

01:00:01.561 --> 01:00:03.021
this, like images of, you know,

01:00:04.061 --> 01:00:06.822
being able to like identify people and

01:00:07.402 --> 01:00:09.103
find their name and all this other creepy

01:00:09.143 --> 01:00:09.563
stuff.

01:00:09.862 --> 01:00:11.963
It's a pair of students at Harvard.

01:00:12.003 --> 01:00:12.282
Yeah.

01:00:12.782 --> 01:00:13.983
So that was super creepy.

01:00:14.423 --> 01:00:16.143
And I think we all agreed at the

01:00:16.184 --> 01:00:19.625
time that was like incredibly wrong and

01:00:19.664 --> 01:00:20.664
incredibly invasive.

01:00:21.820 --> 01:00:23.286
But, of course, you know,

01:00:23.326 --> 01:00:24.429
meta doesn't really care.

01:00:24.710 --> 01:00:26.635
And basically they have...

01:00:30.054 --> 01:00:30.353
Well,

01:00:30.373 --> 01:00:33.356
Wired has uncovered an unreleased facial

01:00:33.376 --> 01:00:35.458
recognition system embedded in Meta's

01:00:35.657 --> 01:00:37.400
smart glasses platform.

01:00:38.099 --> 01:00:39.802
It's designed to identify people via

01:00:39.882 --> 01:00:44.945
biometric data stored on users' phones.

01:00:45.025 --> 01:00:48.307
I think this is kind of... Oh,

01:00:48.347 --> 01:00:48.889
and of course,

01:00:49.068 --> 01:00:50.989
I'm running into a paywall on this article

01:00:51.030 --> 01:00:51.389
as well.

01:00:52.711 --> 01:00:53.992
Things are going really well this week.

01:00:54.052 --> 01:00:55.072
I'm just going to read off the screen

01:00:55.112 --> 01:00:55.313
here.

01:00:56.333 --> 01:00:56.875
Okay, so...

01:01:00.070 --> 01:01:02.090
code discreetly added to meta's AI app

01:01:02.170 --> 01:01:04.572
over multiple updates this year shows that

01:01:04.612 --> 01:01:06.932
the feature internally called name tag

01:01:07.293 --> 01:01:10.313
identifies people captured by the glasses

01:01:10.353 --> 01:01:12.454
camera and when activated alerts the

01:01:12.474 --> 01:01:15.096
wearer when it recognizes someone so

01:01:15.735 --> 01:01:18.117
firstly like do we really need to rely

01:01:18.277 --> 01:01:18.356
on

01:01:19.730 --> 01:01:22.393
smart glasses to recognize somebody.

01:01:22.954 --> 01:01:25.217
I feel like are we dedicating that much

01:01:25.318 --> 01:01:26.840
to technology at this point where we can't

01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:29.164
even use our own brain to remember

01:01:29.224 --> 01:01:30.224
someone's appearance?

01:01:31.141 --> 01:01:32.362
That's just kind of strange to me.

01:01:33.561 --> 01:01:36.202
The discovery of name tag in the live

01:01:36.362 --> 01:01:39.344
Meta AI app shows that Meta had begun

01:01:39.405 --> 01:01:41.766
shipping face recognition code to users'

01:01:41.806 --> 01:01:44.086
phones while publicly describing it as

01:01:44.126 --> 01:01:46.547
something the company was still thinking

01:01:46.588 --> 01:01:47.228
through.

01:01:47.588 --> 01:01:48.108
In April,

01:01:48.208 --> 01:01:50.550
Meta said if it were to utilize facial

01:01:50.590 --> 01:01:51.190
recognition,

01:01:51.610 --> 01:01:53.351
it wouldn't be rolled out without first

01:01:53.371 --> 01:01:55.311
taking a very thoughtful approach.

01:01:56.822 --> 01:01:57.543
I don't know about that.

01:01:57.684 --> 01:01:58.503
I don't know about that.

01:01:58.764 --> 01:02:01.445
Because I think Meta had quite a long

01:02:01.485 --> 01:02:06.349
time to basically think about implementing

01:02:06.911 --> 01:02:08.911
these smart glasses and put them out in

01:02:08.931 --> 01:02:10.032
a privacy respecting way,

01:02:10.052 --> 01:02:12.014
like have the light activated and make

01:02:12.034 --> 01:02:13.896
sure that it's not easy to deactivate.

01:02:14.195 --> 01:02:15.737
And they still failed at that.

01:02:15.797 --> 01:02:18.099
There's people on the internet who are

01:02:18.119 --> 01:02:20.179
making tutorials on how to disable the

01:02:20.561 --> 01:02:23.762
Meta Ray-Ban light on the side to record

01:02:23.802 --> 01:02:25.483
people without their consent.

01:02:27.422 --> 01:02:28.704
I don't think like,

01:02:28.923 --> 01:02:30.545
and also like we talked about the previous

01:02:30.565 --> 01:02:31.905
story, you know, um,

01:02:31.985 --> 01:02:33.768
I don't think meta thinks about things too

01:02:33.788 --> 01:02:35.168
carefully when they roll something out,

01:02:35.208 --> 01:02:37.690
they'll roll out an AI support bot without

01:02:37.730 --> 01:02:40.952
thinking in a couple of months, you know?

01:02:41.512 --> 01:02:44.034
Um, so, uh,

01:02:45.222 --> 01:02:46.822
Yeah, so though not yet enabled,

01:02:46.882 --> 01:02:49.405
NameTag sits inside a Meta AI companion

01:02:49.485 --> 01:02:51.427
app that's been downloaded over fifty

01:02:51.467 --> 01:02:54.170
million times and is necessary for use of

01:02:54.210 --> 01:02:56.632
key features of its smart glasses,

01:02:56.711 --> 01:02:58.773
including Ray-Ban and Oakley models.

01:02:59.153 --> 01:02:59.813
If activated,

01:02:59.833 --> 01:03:01.976
it will transform faces captured by Meta's

01:03:01.996 --> 01:03:04.597
glasses into unique biometric signatures,

01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:06.659
commonly known as face prints,

01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:08.461
and check each one against face prints

01:03:08.481 --> 01:03:10.943
stored on the user's phone, a database.

01:03:12.469 --> 01:03:14.030
that's currently configured to receive

01:03:14.110 --> 01:03:15.110
updates from Meta.

01:03:15.630 --> 01:03:16.952
Recognized faces will trigger

01:03:16.992 --> 01:03:19.934
notifications while the rest are cropped,

01:03:20.173 --> 01:03:20.695
indexed,

01:03:20.974 --> 01:03:23.215
and saved to a folder marked as pending.

01:03:24.277 --> 01:03:26.518
I feel like this is almost like one

01:03:26.539 --> 01:03:28.239
of those Black Mirror episodes, you know,

01:03:28.260 --> 01:03:30.661
like you're walking down the street and

01:03:30.701 --> 01:03:32.282
like you see somebody and then your

01:03:32.322 --> 01:03:34.264
glasses automatically detect them as like

01:03:34.284 --> 01:03:35.804
a criminal and it just like pops up

01:03:35.844 --> 01:03:36.905
on the screen or something like,

01:03:37.106 --> 01:03:38.487
something ridiculous like that, you know,

01:03:38.507 --> 01:03:40.987
like I could see this technology being

01:03:41.148 --> 01:03:41.409
used

01:03:42.690 --> 01:03:44.072
for something super creepy like that.

01:03:44.114 --> 01:03:46.898
And I think also it's not really a

01:03:46.918 --> 01:03:47.219
very...

01:03:48.416 --> 01:03:51.056
I think these face recognition scans,

01:03:51.097 --> 01:03:53.398
they're not very good.

01:03:53.878 --> 01:03:56.500
They're not very accurate as well because

01:03:56.559 --> 01:03:59.440
the cameras on these glasses is kind of

01:03:59.501 --> 01:04:00.181
bad, right?

01:04:01.922 --> 01:04:03.282
So I guess quoting more from this article,

01:04:03.362 --> 01:04:06.623
it's renewed efforts arrive amid mounting

01:04:06.664 --> 01:04:08.445
opposition to consumer level face

01:04:08.525 --> 01:04:09.125
recognition,

01:04:09.164 --> 01:04:11.126
which privacy advocates argue will give

01:04:11.206 --> 01:04:13.646
anyone from stalkers to immigration agents

01:04:13.726 --> 01:04:15.608
easy access to dangerous technology.

01:04:18.623 --> 01:04:20.746
internal meta documents published by the

01:04:20.766 --> 01:04:22.606
new york times in february showed the

01:04:22.646 --> 01:04:24.108
company had planned to roll out the

01:04:24.148 --> 01:04:26.208
feature during a dynamic political

01:04:26.268 --> 01:04:30.072
environment when meta believed its biggest

01:04:30.152 --> 01:04:32.693
critics would be preoccupied so yeah

01:04:32.733 --> 01:04:37.356
basically what they're saying is that they

01:04:37.376 --> 01:04:38.838
were going to release it when everyone was

01:04:38.878 --> 01:04:40.978
kind of busy getting getting mad about

01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:43.760
something else um and it does seem like

01:04:43.800 --> 01:04:44.922
they do these sort of things

01:04:45.782 --> 01:04:46.521
they do plan this.

01:04:46.561 --> 01:04:48.483
Like I wouldn't be surprised if they do

01:04:48.523 --> 01:04:51.264
plan these releases around when things

01:04:51.503 --> 01:04:55.166
are, you know, kind of a bit turbulent.

01:04:55.186 --> 01:04:56.565
And I think especially now,

01:04:56.806 --> 01:04:58.007
especially with a lot of the stuff that's

01:04:58.027 --> 01:04:59.347
going on in the U S I think

01:04:59.367 --> 01:04:59.847
there's,

01:05:00.027 --> 01:05:01.907
it's a pretty turbulent political

01:05:01.927 --> 01:05:02.947
environment currently.

01:05:03.429 --> 01:05:03.708
Um,

01:05:04.048 --> 01:05:05.608
especially like this talked about earlier

01:05:05.628 --> 01:05:08.050
with the immigration, um, officials,

01:05:08.070 --> 01:05:08.510
like there's,

01:05:08.570 --> 01:05:09.630
there's a lot of that going on in

01:05:09.650 --> 01:05:12.211
the U S with like ICE agents, um,

01:05:13.663 --> 01:05:15.242
you know, like kidnapping people almost.

01:05:15.684 --> 01:05:17.983
Um, so I think it's, yeah,

01:05:18.143 --> 01:05:21.505
it's definitely a very strange time to

01:05:21.545 --> 01:05:22.125
release this.

01:05:22.306 --> 01:05:26.007
And I think it's at a time when

01:05:26.126 --> 01:05:28.847
it can be abused the most, almost, um,

01:05:28.887 --> 01:05:29.788
which kind of sucks.

01:05:30.788 --> 01:05:31.588
Um, but yeah,

01:05:31.867 --> 01:05:33.128
I feel like I've rambled a little bit

01:05:33.208 --> 01:05:33.509
here.

01:05:34.088 --> 01:05:34.809
Um, do you have any,

01:05:35.449 --> 01:05:36.369
do you have any thoughts on this one

01:05:36.409 --> 01:05:37.190
as well, Nate, or?

01:05:38.590 --> 01:05:38.929
Yeah.

01:05:39.311 --> 01:05:40.291
Um, I mean,

01:05:41.865 --> 01:05:42.706
I do, as always,

01:05:42.827 --> 01:05:43.987
I do want to push back a little

01:05:44.007 --> 01:05:45.628
bit on what you said at the beginning,

01:05:45.688 --> 01:05:48.530
where I don't think this technology in and

01:05:48.550 --> 01:05:49.670
of itself is bad,

01:05:49.710 --> 01:05:51.331
because they do actually talk about,

01:05:51.692 --> 01:05:52.472
towards the bottom,

01:05:54.893 --> 01:05:57.536
Meta originally presented this name tag

01:05:57.556 --> 01:05:58.275
thing in...

01:05:59.940 --> 01:06:00.400
what did they say?

01:06:00.501 --> 01:06:03.985
Um, no,

01:06:04.025 --> 01:06:05.827
they were planning to debut it at a

01:06:05.887 --> 01:06:07.409
conference for blind, uh,

01:06:07.429 --> 01:06:09.371
for the blind before making it available

01:06:09.411 --> 01:06:10.251
to the general public.

01:06:10.632 --> 01:06:12.255
However, they never did for the record.

01:06:12.394 --> 01:06:14.376
I do not want to defend meta for

01:06:14.396 --> 01:06:15.918
a second because it's a garbage company

01:06:15.978 --> 01:06:16.880
run by garbage people.

01:06:17.240 --> 01:06:17.701
Um,

01:06:18.541 --> 01:06:19.521
But in that same paragraph,

01:06:19.541 --> 01:06:20.882
Wired pointed out that a twenty eighteen

01:06:20.902 --> 01:06:22.704
study of blind users by Cornell Tech and

01:06:22.744 --> 01:06:24.523
Facebook researchers found that every

01:06:24.563 --> 01:06:26.364
participant called recognizing people an

01:06:26.385 --> 01:06:27.445
important daily task.

01:06:27.724 --> 01:06:29.746
And I've also shared that me personally,

01:06:29.945 --> 01:06:31.567
I think I genuinely think I have some

01:06:31.586 --> 01:06:35.047
like low key face blindness because I have

01:06:35.068 --> 01:06:36.909
to meet the same person like multiple

01:06:36.949 --> 01:06:38.588
times before they start to really stick in

01:06:38.628 --> 01:06:38.989
my head.

01:06:39.429 --> 01:06:40.929
And I'm also a very contextual person.

01:06:41.489 --> 01:06:42.630
Like if I met you once and I've

01:06:42.650 --> 01:06:43.130
talked to you.

01:06:44.010 --> 01:06:44.992
And then I run into you again,

01:06:45.012 --> 01:06:45.771
like a month later,

01:06:46.273 --> 01:06:47.673
I probably won't remember you unless

01:06:47.693 --> 01:06:48.134
you're like, yeah,

01:06:48.153 --> 01:06:49.195
we talked about this thing.

01:06:49.235 --> 01:06:50.054
Remember, like, you know,

01:06:50.076 --> 01:06:52.117
we talked about silos coming up and we're,

01:06:52.177 --> 01:06:53.237
we're both really excited about that.

01:06:53.257 --> 01:06:53.878
And I'm like, oh my God.

01:06:53.918 --> 01:06:54.117
Yes.

01:06:54.177 --> 01:06:54.838
I remember that now.

01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:57.440
Um, so I personally,

01:06:57.621 --> 01:06:58.461
I really see the value,

01:06:58.501 --> 01:07:00.242
especially as someone who wears glasses in

01:07:00.282 --> 01:07:02.103
being able to wear glasses that do like,

01:07:02.164 --> 01:07:03.065
Hey, you know, this person,

01:07:03.105 --> 01:07:04.445
and you can recall that information for

01:07:04.465 --> 01:07:04.626
me.

01:07:05.286 --> 01:07:07.108
But at the same time,

01:07:07.248 --> 01:07:08.088
I think it's very, um,

01:07:09.045 --> 01:07:09.925
I mean, it's meta, right?

01:07:10.065 --> 01:07:11.909
It straight up says that if their face

01:07:11.929 --> 01:07:12.769
is not recognized,

01:07:12.869 --> 01:07:14.351
that it's just going to hold on to

01:07:14.371 --> 01:07:14.791
the image.

01:07:16.393 --> 01:07:16.695
What?

01:07:17.795 --> 01:07:18.175
Why?

01:07:18.737 --> 01:07:20.579
That's like... I didn't consent to that.

01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:20.880
I mean,

01:07:20.900 --> 01:07:21.981
I didn't consent to being in these things

01:07:22.001 --> 01:07:22.561
in the first place.

01:07:22.802 --> 01:07:23.844
But especially, I could...

01:07:24.992 --> 01:07:26.572
Arguably, because again, it's meta.

01:07:26.733 --> 01:07:28.054
I don't trust them as far as I

01:07:28.074 --> 01:07:28.914
can throw any of them.

01:07:29.094 --> 01:07:30.315
And I probably can't throw any of them

01:07:30.356 --> 01:07:31.797
very far because I have not been working

01:07:31.836 --> 01:07:32.237
out lately.

01:07:32.637 --> 01:07:32.998
But like,

01:07:33.998 --> 01:07:35.079
it would be one thing that I could

01:07:35.139 --> 01:07:37.000
quote unquote defend if they were like,

01:07:37.061 --> 01:07:38.420
hey, we're going to do a search.

01:07:38.521 --> 01:07:39.222
If we don't find you,

01:07:39.242 --> 01:07:40.083
we discard the image.

01:07:40.842 --> 01:07:41.844
Okay, fine, whatever.

01:07:41.963 --> 01:07:43.405
At least we can pretend that's kind of

01:07:43.425 --> 01:07:44.125
privacy respecting.

01:07:44.385 --> 01:07:45.005
Well, if we don't find you,

01:07:45.025 --> 01:07:46.746
we'll just hold on to it for reasons.

01:07:47.347 --> 01:07:48.148
You know, it's like...

01:07:50.088 --> 01:07:50.768
Anyways, okay,

01:07:50.909 --> 01:07:51.710
I think I made my point there.

01:07:52.690 --> 01:07:54.092
It's also meta,

01:07:54.192 --> 01:07:55.331
and actually backing that up,

01:07:55.411 --> 01:07:56.793
meta said in a different article in the

01:07:56.833 --> 01:07:58.855
past that the whole idea was that it

01:07:58.875 --> 01:08:00.536
would only identify people that you knew,

01:08:00.596 --> 01:08:01.695
but then that raises the question of,

01:08:01.715 --> 01:08:01.856
like,

01:08:01.896 --> 01:08:03.697
how far is this people that you know

01:08:03.737 --> 01:08:03.938
thing?

01:08:03.958 --> 01:08:05.858
Because it's one thing to, like,

01:08:05.898 --> 01:08:06.960
which I still don't like this for the

01:08:06.980 --> 01:08:07.860
record because I don't think it's

01:08:07.880 --> 01:08:08.521
anybody's business.

01:08:09.762 --> 01:08:11.202
It's one thing if it downloads the faces

01:08:11.242 --> 01:08:11.543
of, like,

01:08:12.302 --> 01:08:14.244
your immediate friends on Facebook, right?

01:08:14.264 --> 01:08:16.065
Like, the people you friended, which...

01:08:17.070 --> 01:08:17.752
I don't know.

01:08:17.771 --> 01:08:18.671
To me, that's distracting.

01:08:18.712 --> 01:08:19.552
Let's say I go to the store.

01:08:19.613 --> 01:08:20.092
Hypothetically,

01:08:20.113 --> 01:08:20.993
let's pretend I have Facebook.

01:08:21.373 --> 01:08:22.954
I go to the store and I pass

01:08:22.994 --> 01:08:24.216
one of my friends and it pings me

01:08:24.256 --> 01:08:25.436
like, oh, hey, that's your friend.

01:08:25.777 --> 01:08:26.398
Okay, first of all,

01:08:26.478 --> 01:08:28.059
either I'm gonna notice and I don't need

01:08:28.078 --> 01:08:30.340
your help or B, I'm busy,

01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:31.980
my mind is elsewhere and I don't really

01:08:32.020 --> 01:08:32.322
care.

01:08:32.502 --> 01:08:33.743
No offense to my friends, but like,

01:08:34.422 --> 01:08:35.003
I hate shopping.

01:08:35.144 --> 01:08:36.283
I just wanna get my crap and get

01:08:36.304 --> 01:08:37.145
out.

01:08:37.185 --> 01:08:37.545
So like,

01:08:37.604 --> 01:08:38.985
if I'm so focused that I just wanna

01:08:39.025 --> 01:08:39.487
get my thing,

01:08:39.606 --> 01:08:40.807
I don't wanna stop and talk to you

01:08:41.087 --> 01:08:42.167
because I'm gonna forget why I'm there.

01:08:42.229 --> 01:08:43.009
I'm gonna take too long.

01:08:43.069 --> 01:08:44.390
It's just, it's a stupid thing.

01:08:44.710 --> 01:08:45.131
But anyways...

01:08:45.990 --> 01:08:47.212
That was their original intention is it

01:08:47.252 --> 01:08:48.271
only flags people you know,

01:08:48.332 --> 01:08:49.271
so it's not just everybody.

01:08:49.551 --> 01:08:51.332
But then what happens when it's people you

01:08:51.372 --> 01:08:51.912
know you know?

01:08:52.033 --> 01:08:53.073
Like, oh, that's your wife's friend.

01:08:53.913 --> 01:08:55.635
Okay, cool.

01:08:55.654 --> 01:08:57.055
There's probably a reason I haven't added

01:08:57.074 --> 01:08:57.716
them on Facebook.

01:08:57.756 --> 01:08:58.876
So like, why are you telling me this?

01:08:58.895 --> 01:09:00.516
And I don't know.

01:09:00.596 --> 01:09:02.596
It's just, this whole system is like,

01:09:02.697 --> 01:09:03.797
I'm not, again,

01:09:03.818 --> 01:09:04.637
where I'm going with that is like,

01:09:04.677 --> 01:09:05.918
I'm not opposed to the tech itself,

01:09:05.958 --> 01:09:06.819
but I do want to make it very

01:09:06.859 --> 01:09:08.220
clear that like, I don't trust Meta.

01:09:08.800 --> 01:09:09.739
I think of all the companies,

01:09:09.760 --> 01:09:10.780
they're like the company I would trust the

01:09:10.841 --> 01:09:12.020
least to roll this out in anything

01:09:12.081 --> 01:09:13.582
remotely resembling an ethical form.

01:09:14.813 --> 01:09:15.533
And it's just a shame.

01:09:15.712 --> 01:09:16.814
It's a shame that we can't have,

01:09:17.274 --> 01:09:18.493
it's a shame we can't have nice things

01:09:18.554 --> 01:09:19.835
because, you know,

01:09:19.935 --> 01:09:21.336
we mentioned this with age verification

01:09:21.355 --> 01:09:21.695
the other week.

01:09:21.716 --> 01:09:21.956
It's like,

01:09:22.275 --> 01:09:24.037
there are so many ways to do things

01:09:24.737 --> 01:09:26.417
in a way that is privacy respecting,

01:09:26.957 --> 01:09:29.118
that is at least not overtly terrible,

01:09:29.158 --> 01:09:30.399
but companies never do that because

01:09:30.418 --> 01:09:31.179
where's the money in that?

01:09:31.559 --> 01:09:33.380
So it's just, it's awful.

01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:33.960
I hate it.

01:09:36.480 --> 01:09:37.462
But other than that, yeah, I mean,

01:09:37.742 --> 01:09:38.761
I don't really have a whole lot of

01:09:39.162 --> 01:09:39.722
other thoughts.

01:09:39.802 --> 01:09:40.162
It's just,

01:09:41.613 --> 01:09:42.673
I guess this does kind of counter what

01:09:42.713 --> 01:09:43.574
I said at the end of the last

01:09:43.595 --> 01:09:44.175
story where it's like,

01:09:44.194 --> 01:09:45.994
sometimes we push back and, you know,

01:09:46.015 --> 01:09:47.416
we can get companies to like stop this

01:09:47.435 --> 01:09:47.636
stuff,

01:09:47.655 --> 01:09:49.055
but we pushed back against this so many

01:09:49.095 --> 01:09:51.497
times and meta is just so adamant about

01:09:51.537 --> 01:09:52.377
making this a thing.

01:09:52.617 --> 01:09:55.957
And that is really, really unfortunate.

01:09:56.438 --> 01:09:56.837
Yeah.

01:09:58.158 --> 01:09:59.099
Yeah.

01:09:59.238 --> 01:10:00.259
I hate these things.

01:10:00.698 --> 01:10:01.798
Please, please friends.

01:10:01.838 --> 01:10:03.239
Don't let friends buy meta glasses.

01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:04.560
Don't ever let your friends buy this

01:10:04.579 --> 01:10:04.739
stuff.

01:10:06.542 --> 01:10:06.761
Yeah,

01:10:06.782 --> 01:10:08.483
and I think also it's kind of interesting

01:10:08.542 --> 01:10:09.563
that thing you brought up about

01:10:09.643 --> 01:10:10.363
accessibility.

01:10:11.163 --> 01:10:12.604
I didn't really think about that too much,

01:10:12.685 --> 01:10:13.085
actually.

01:10:14.284 --> 01:10:15.386
But I almost think, like,

01:10:16.945 --> 01:10:18.407
it is kind of like an excuse a

01:10:18.426 --> 01:10:20.108
lot of these companies use to, like,

01:10:20.807 --> 01:10:23.029
make something pretty invasive and then,

01:10:23.048 --> 01:10:24.469
like, kind of normalize it a little bit.

01:10:24.488 --> 01:10:26.250
I mean, I don't know.

01:10:26.689 --> 01:10:28.530
I'm not an accessibility expert.

01:10:28.610 --> 01:10:30.912
I don't really know what technology, like,

01:10:30.952 --> 01:10:32.613
people that are low vision people are

01:10:32.693 --> 01:10:35.333
using to identify people in public.

01:10:35.793 --> 01:10:38.998
Um, but, you know,

01:10:39.019 --> 01:10:41.262
I think we have to weigh the benefits.

01:10:41.302 --> 01:10:43.386
Maybe there could be some other way of

01:10:43.426 --> 01:10:45.229
doing it in a way that doesn't require

01:10:45.269 --> 01:10:47.332
you to take biometric scans of people's

01:10:47.372 --> 01:10:47.792
faces.

01:10:47.854 --> 01:10:49.555
Maybe there's like a way to

01:10:51.340 --> 01:10:51.739
I don't know,

01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:55.061
like maybe it detects nearby devices and

01:10:55.082 --> 01:10:58.623
then it pings you if someone is detected

01:10:58.663 --> 01:11:00.123
nearby or something like that.

01:11:00.203 --> 01:11:00.564
I don't know,

01:11:00.805 --> 01:11:02.085
but that is a way to do it

01:11:02.125 --> 01:11:05.587
without having to get face scans of

01:11:05.606 --> 01:11:05.966
people,

01:11:06.447 --> 01:11:07.927
of every single person you interact with,

01:11:07.948 --> 01:11:10.909
because like that is kind of terrible from

01:11:10.930 --> 01:11:11.829
a privacy perspective.

01:11:11.850 --> 01:11:13.270
You're basically creating a massive

01:11:13.310 --> 01:11:15.152
database of people.

01:11:15.832 --> 01:11:19.872
um people's faces biometric scans so yeah

01:11:20.153 --> 01:11:22.073
overall just kind of frustrating situation

01:11:22.394 --> 01:11:24.494
um let's see uh there was some comments

01:11:24.515 --> 01:11:26.074
here from peace boy john um uh someone

01:11:26.095 --> 01:11:34.698
he's uh they said uh if meta was

01:11:34.797 --> 01:11:36.198
president i would make sure creepish

01:11:36.238 --> 01:11:37.878
companies like them are banned and i would

01:11:37.899 --> 01:11:40.819
make them illegal too yeah if he was

01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:41.239
president

01:11:42.073 --> 01:11:43.755
yeah i think i think that would be

01:11:44.536 --> 01:11:46.898
that would be ideal but yeah unfortunately

01:11:46.917 --> 01:11:50.421
that's not really how how the government

01:11:50.461 --> 01:11:53.724
works the us government at least um so

01:11:53.804 --> 01:11:55.045
i don't know we kind of just got

01:11:55.064 --> 01:11:57.787
to deal with it and i don't know

01:11:57.827 --> 01:11:59.408
try and try and stop this stuff from

01:11:59.467 --> 01:12:02.110
happening as much as we can um advocate

01:12:02.131 --> 01:12:04.653
for this and hopefully we can get some

01:12:04.672 --> 01:12:07.154
changes to make sure that this technology

01:12:07.295 --> 01:12:10.738
is not normalized i think also just kind

01:12:10.778 --> 01:12:10.837
of

01:12:12.327 --> 01:12:14.268
shaming people that wear them in public.

01:12:14.408 --> 01:12:15.349
Like, you know,

01:12:15.389 --> 01:12:16.529
if someone walks up to me and they're

01:12:16.550 --> 01:12:17.411
wearing meta glasses,

01:12:17.511 --> 01:12:18.171
I'm just going to say,

01:12:18.230 --> 01:12:19.452
are you wearing meta glasses?

01:12:20.051 --> 01:12:21.012
And if they say yes,

01:12:21.412 --> 01:12:22.274
I'll just walk away.

01:12:22.373 --> 01:12:23.414
You know, I don't think that's,

01:12:25.496 --> 01:12:26.716
I don't think that's really

01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:28.899
I don't know,

01:12:28.918 --> 01:12:31.782
I don't see a usefulness aspect of these

01:12:31.801 --> 01:12:32.282
devices.

01:12:32.362 --> 01:12:33.103
I think, you know,

01:12:33.143 --> 01:12:34.384
we have phones for that reason.

01:12:34.884 --> 01:12:36.885
I think it's basically just normalizing a

01:12:37.586 --> 01:12:39.266
concealed recording device,

01:12:39.327 --> 01:12:41.349
which is very creepy.

01:12:41.448 --> 01:12:41.649
I mean,

01:12:42.128 --> 01:12:43.489
I'm sure some people probably wouldn't

01:12:43.529 --> 01:12:43.871
care,

01:12:44.011 --> 01:12:45.551
but there's people that don't like to be

01:12:45.612 --> 01:12:48.533
recorded and there's certain people that

01:12:48.673 --> 01:12:50.555
are more affected by this.

01:12:51.555 --> 01:12:53.238
So we should keep that in mind as

01:12:53.297 --> 01:12:53.478
well.

01:12:55.154 --> 01:12:56.875
I just want to support what you said

01:12:56.914 --> 01:12:57.795
is, yeah, for the record,

01:12:57.875 --> 01:12:59.355
do not assault people.

01:12:59.416 --> 01:13:00.775
Do not break their glasses.

01:13:00.895 --> 01:13:02.216
I don't know how many people are serious

01:13:02.237 --> 01:13:03.716
and how many people are just talking big

01:13:03.756 --> 01:13:04.256
on the internet,

01:13:04.556 --> 01:13:05.837
but I've seen so many people say that.

01:13:05.858 --> 01:13:06.198
It's like, oh,

01:13:06.217 --> 01:13:07.118
if I see somebody with those,

01:13:07.137 --> 01:13:09.019
I'm going to punch them or I'm going

01:13:09.038 --> 01:13:10.139
to break their glasses.

01:13:10.158 --> 01:13:10.779
And it's like, cool.

01:13:11.140 --> 01:13:12.340
And you're going to get in legal trouble

01:13:12.659 --> 01:13:13.520
and you're just going to look like an

01:13:13.560 --> 01:13:14.201
even bigger dick.

01:13:14.801 --> 01:13:17.443
That said, I think for the average person,

01:13:17.603 --> 01:13:19.845
these are universally unpopular,

01:13:20.385 --> 01:13:21.685
especially once people know what they are

01:13:21.706 --> 01:13:22.327
and how they're working.

01:13:22.707 --> 01:13:23.988
So I think, yeah, calling somebody out,

01:13:24.007 --> 01:13:25.189
like if you're in a social setting and

01:13:25.208 --> 01:13:26.430
it's like, hey, I'm sorry, like,

01:13:26.449 --> 01:13:27.650
are you wearing meta glasses?

01:13:28.110 --> 01:13:28.811
And they're like, oh, yeah,

01:13:28.832 --> 01:13:29.292
do you like them?

01:13:29.452 --> 01:13:30.332
No, actually, I hate them.

01:13:30.453 --> 01:13:31.434
I think they're really creepy.

01:13:31.854 --> 01:13:32.875
I think they're really invasive.

01:13:33.034 --> 01:13:34.155
I don't want you to record me.

01:13:34.576 --> 01:13:36.137
And there's like a social phenomenon where

01:13:36.158 --> 01:13:37.578
like everybody is afraid to make the first

01:13:37.618 --> 01:13:37.838
move,

01:13:37.958 --> 01:13:39.761
except for a few psychopaths like myself.

01:13:40.060 --> 01:13:40.320
Yeah.

01:13:40.501 --> 01:13:41.962
which also for the record depends on how

01:13:42.002 --> 01:13:42.282
I feel.

01:13:42.341 --> 01:13:43.603
Sometimes I'm also afraid to make the

01:13:43.622 --> 01:13:44.002
first move,

01:13:44.264 --> 01:13:45.765
but I guarantee you if you speak up

01:13:46.045 --> 01:13:46.385
and like,

01:13:47.024 --> 01:13:48.546
probably not that that's probably being a

01:13:48.565 --> 01:13:49.426
little bit too harsh even,

01:13:49.766 --> 01:13:50.728
but if you speak up and it's like,

01:13:50.787 --> 01:13:51.908
I'm actually really uncomfortable with

01:13:51.929 --> 01:13:52.088
those.

01:13:52.109 --> 01:13:54.069
And I don't like how they're always

01:13:54.130 --> 01:13:55.350
recording and sending my data to meta.

01:13:55.730 --> 01:13:56.752
Even if they try to argue you and

01:13:56.771 --> 01:13:57.311
they're like, well,

01:13:57.332 --> 01:13:58.432
it's not always recording.

01:13:58.453 --> 01:13:59.394
There's going to be somebody else.

01:13:59.594 --> 01:14:00.654
Almost certainly there's going to be

01:14:00.675 --> 01:14:01.875
another person who's got your back.

01:14:01.914 --> 01:14:03.737
Who's like, actually I'm kind of with him.

01:14:04.457 --> 01:14:05.497
I don't really like that.

01:14:05.637 --> 01:14:06.518
I don't trust Facebook.

01:14:06.537 --> 01:14:07.859
Could you like take those off please?

01:14:07.979 --> 01:14:09.260
Or like not wear them next time or

01:14:09.300 --> 01:14:09.600
whatever.

01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:09.801
Like,

01:14:10.701 --> 01:14:11.761
it just takes one person.

01:14:12.061 --> 01:14:15.002
And like, once they realize that, I mean,

01:14:15.462 --> 01:14:16.063
I curse all the time.

01:14:16.502 --> 01:14:17.323
Once they realize that they're the

01:14:17.403 --> 01:14:17.662
asshole,

01:14:17.682 --> 01:14:18.564
they're either not going to bring them

01:14:18.583 --> 01:14:18.923
next time,

01:14:18.963 --> 01:14:19.823
or they're just not going to come back

01:14:19.844 --> 01:14:20.663
to whatever that event is,

01:14:20.703 --> 01:14:22.444
which in my opinion is the trash taking

01:14:22.465 --> 01:14:22.925
itself out.

01:14:22.984 --> 01:14:25.305
So I don't care, but yeah,

01:14:25.445 --> 01:14:26.725
I just wanted to point that out.

01:14:26.746 --> 01:14:28.806
Like definitely don't resort to assault

01:14:28.966 --> 01:14:30.408
because it's not going to help you any,

01:14:30.488 --> 01:14:31.287
and it's just going to get you in

01:14:31.307 --> 01:14:31.568
trouble.

01:14:31.648 --> 01:14:32.788
But I agree with you,

01:14:32.828 --> 01:14:34.069
like shaming people who do this,

01:14:34.128 --> 01:14:35.869
I think is really the way to go

01:14:36.090 --> 01:14:36.489
personally.

01:14:36.970 --> 01:14:37.069
So.

01:14:38.670 --> 01:14:39.130
Yeah,

01:14:39.329 --> 01:14:41.771
it's better to explain to someone the

01:14:41.811 --> 01:14:44.073
reason why it's bad than like try to

01:14:44.132 --> 01:14:47.354
start a physical altercation.

01:14:48.073 --> 01:14:52.036
I think also the if people aren't really

01:14:52.176 --> 01:14:53.856
open to, you know,

01:14:54.537 --> 01:14:56.158
if you try to explain something to someone

01:14:56.177 --> 01:14:57.559
and they don't see the issue.

01:14:58.561 --> 01:15:01.845
then I think maybe it's time to start

01:15:01.864 --> 01:15:02.865
thinking about whether you want to be

01:15:02.905 --> 01:15:04.646
friends with that person or interact with

01:15:04.667 --> 01:15:04.827
them.

01:15:06.347 --> 01:15:07.829
Because I think they're not going to get

01:15:07.869 --> 01:15:09.570
the message unless they start actually

01:15:09.610 --> 01:15:11.252
getting pushback for their actions.

01:15:12.993 --> 01:15:15.154
And I've never seen anyone in public

01:15:15.195 --> 01:15:15.595
wearing them.

01:15:17.118 --> 01:15:18.259
So, but maybe that's,

01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:21.921
maybe this is much more a tech hub

01:15:22.161 --> 01:15:23.761
situation where like everyone in like

01:15:23.820 --> 01:15:25.702
Silicon Valley is like walking around with

01:15:26.221 --> 01:15:28.802
like meta, meta Ray-Bans and like,

01:15:29.103 --> 01:15:31.623
that's just a locational aspect thing.

01:15:33.625 --> 01:15:34.185
But I mean,

01:15:34.545 --> 01:15:35.805
since Google's coming out with these

01:15:35.845 --> 01:15:36.586
products as well,

01:15:36.645 --> 01:15:39.806
I think they must be selling reasonably

01:15:39.867 --> 01:15:40.707
well if there's,

01:15:40.846 --> 01:15:42.266
if more people are jumping on the boat.

01:15:42.307 --> 01:15:44.967
So it's only, it's only more of a,

01:15:45.668 --> 01:15:46.448
it's only more of a,

01:15:48.378 --> 01:15:50.761
it's only becoming a better time to

01:15:51.320 --> 01:15:52.722
publicly shame people that buy these

01:15:52.762 --> 01:15:53.283
products.

01:15:54.783 --> 01:15:55.203
Because, you know,

01:15:55.265 --> 01:15:57.726
I think eventually if the public opinion

01:15:57.766 --> 01:15:59.228
does sway, I think, you know,

01:15:59.268 --> 01:16:01.229
just someone wearing those in public is

01:16:01.269 --> 01:16:05.131
enough to stop a lot of people buying

01:16:05.152 --> 01:16:06.092
these products, I think.

01:16:07.634 --> 01:16:07.814
Yeah,

01:16:08.475 --> 01:16:09.855
we did cover this on a previous story.

01:16:09.876 --> 01:16:11.396
They sold like millions of these things

01:16:11.436 --> 01:16:11.898
last year,

01:16:11.917 --> 01:16:13.378
which is incredibly unfortunate.

01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:14.079
But yeah, like you said,

01:16:14.180 --> 01:16:15.600
enough that other companies are now like,

01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:15.761
oh,

01:16:15.780 --> 01:16:17.082
maybe we should get in on this and

01:16:18.752 --> 01:16:18.992
Yeah.

01:16:19.511 --> 01:16:20.672
It's, it's really unfortunate.

01:16:20.693 --> 01:16:23.594
All right.

01:16:24.234 --> 01:16:24.474
Um,

01:16:24.573 --> 01:16:25.814
I think that's all we have for that

01:16:25.854 --> 01:16:26.213
story.

01:16:27.055 --> 01:16:31.216
So we'll go ahead and talk about Dashlane.

01:16:31.956 --> 01:16:32.996
I'm a little excited for this story.

01:16:33.015 --> 01:16:33.577
I'm not going to lie.

01:16:33.596 --> 01:16:37.738
Um, so, uh, this started,

01:16:37.837 --> 01:16:40.038
I want to say earlier this week and

01:16:40.179 --> 01:16:42.479
basically Dashlane users, uh,

01:16:42.559 --> 01:16:43.859
Dashlane is a password manager for those

01:16:43.880 --> 01:16:44.279
who don't know.

01:16:44.500 --> 01:16:44.539
Um,

01:16:44.600 --> 01:16:45.680
I believe it's one of the most popular

01:16:45.779 --> 01:16:45.921
ones.

01:16:46.621 --> 01:16:47.220
And, um,

01:16:48.074 --> 01:16:50.476
it is not open source and it is

01:16:50.516 --> 01:16:54.059
cloud-based and they, uh,

01:16:54.458 --> 01:16:55.880
a lot of users were reporting that they

01:16:55.899 --> 01:16:57.261
were getting emails about their accounts

01:16:57.280 --> 01:16:57.780
being locked.

01:16:58.561 --> 01:16:59.521
And, um,

01:16:59.542 --> 01:17:00.943
Dashlane to their defense was very quick

01:17:00.962 --> 01:17:01.443
to respond.

01:17:01.463 --> 01:17:02.363
And they were kind of like, yeah,

01:17:02.384 --> 01:17:04.746
there's like this, um, what did they say?

01:17:04.845 --> 01:17:05.246
There was like,

01:17:06.726 --> 01:17:08.528
basically when they initially responded,

01:17:08.587 --> 01:17:09.389
it was kind of unclear.

01:17:09.429 --> 01:17:09.929
It's like, Oh,

01:17:10.009 --> 01:17:11.289
is this a glitch or is this some

01:17:11.329 --> 01:17:12.210
kind of cyber attack?

01:17:12.529 --> 01:17:13.430
But they were basically like,

01:17:13.470 --> 01:17:14.231
we're on top of it.

01:17:14.271 --> 01:17:14.891
Don't worry.

01:17:15.532 --> 01:17:16.012
And, um,

01:17:17.158 --> 01:17:18.600
They did finally release a statement that

01:17:18.640 --> 01:17:19.979
basically, I believe,

01:17:20.020 --> 01:17:22.541
still left a lot to be desired.

01:17:22.640 --> 01:17:23.761
I didn't see the statement myself,

01:17:23.782 --> 01:17:24.902
but I saw a lot of headlines that

01:17:24.921 --> 01:17:27.222
said, like, eh, the statement isn't great.

01:17:27.724 --> 01:17:31.625
But basically, Dashlane is now saying,

01:17:31.685 --> 01:17:32.185
like, okay,

01:17:32.246 --> 01:17:34.367
so what happened was there was a cyber

01:17:34.386 --> 01:17:34.707
attack.

01:17:35.067 --> 01:17:36.688
And for any audio listeners,

01:17:36.707 --> 01:17:37.868
the headline of this article from Ars

01:17:37.887 --> 01:17:39.628
Technica says Dashlane explains how

01:17:39.668 --> 01:17:41.109
attackers managed to download encrypted

01:17:41.149 --> 01:17:41.750
password vaults.

01:17:42.645 --> 01:17:44.987
So veteran listeners are already thinking

01:17:45.006 --> 01:17:45.587
of LastPass.

01:17:45.606 --> 01:17:48.949
I believe that was in twenty twenty two.

01:17:48.970 --> 01:17:51.211
So basically what happened is there were

01:17:51.230 --> 01:17:52.891
attackers who mounted, they said,

01:17:52.912 --> 01:17:54.873
a coordinated hacking campaign against a

01:17:54.913 --> 01:17:55.795
large base of users.

01:17:56.854 --> 01:17:57.115
So.

01:17:58.997 --> 01:17:59.938
Trying to think of how to describe this

01:17:59.957 --> 01:18:00.398
succinctly.

01:18:02.364 --> 01:18:03.365
Um, so for those who don't know,

01:18:03.386 --> 01:18:04.707
there's a thing called credential stuffing

01:18:04.947 --> 01:18:06.188
and with credential stuffing,

01:18:06.268 --> 01:18:08.048
basically because a lot of people reuse

01:18:08.368 --> 01:18:09.750
the same garbage passwords everywhere.

01:18:10.210 --> 01:18:12.391
If an attacker gets your username and

01:18:12.412 --> 01:18:13.733
password or your email address and your

01:18:13.752 --> 01:18:14.172
password,

01:18:14.693 --> 01:18:16.515
they'll just try it on like every website

01:18:16.534 --> 01:18:17.154
they can find, right?

01:18:17.175 --> 01:18:17.916
They'll try it on Netflix.

01:18:17.935 --> 01:18:18.655
They'll try it on Amazon.

01:18:18.676 --> 01:18:19.516
They'll try to Gmail,

01:18:19.676 --> 01:18:21.257
assuming it's a Gmail pass or email

01:18:21.278 --> 01:18:21.557
address.

01:18:22.018 --> 01:18:23.559
They'll just try it everywhere and see

01:18:23.599 --> 01:18:24.479
what it works because again,

01:18:24.520 --> 01:18:25.621
most people reuse passwords.

01:18:25.640 --> 01:18:27.021
So it will probably work in more places

01:18:27.042 --> 01:18:27.381
than it won't.

01:18:32.509 --> 01:18:33.770
Apparently, this is now...

01:18:34.131 --> 01:18:36.574
I think somebody on Mastodon called it MFA

01:18:36.595 --> 01:18:37.957
stuffing or two FA stuffing.

01:18:39.198 --> 01:18:40.180
And basically, so...

01:18:41.444 --> 01:18:43.587
Let me see if I can read just

01:18:43.606 --> 01:18:44.007
parts of this.

01:18:44.427 --> 01:18:46.149
So when a user installs the Dashlane app

01:18:46.189 --> 01:18:47.591
on a new device and attempts to enroll

01:18:47.612 --> 01:18:48.632
it into their existing account,

01:18:48.912 --> 01:18:50.274
Dashlane first verifies the account

01:18:50.295 --> 01:18:50.935
holder's identity.

01:18:51.716 --> 01:18:53.097
This verification is completed by sending

01:18:53.137 --> 01:18:54.859
a one-time six-digit token to the user's

01:18:54.939 --> 01:18:56.761
registered email address or for users who

01:18:56.782 --> 01:18:58.283
have enabled two-factor by validating the

01:18:58.304 --> 01:19:00.024
six-digit code authenticated by their app.

01:19:00.765 --> 01:19:01.787
For the registration to succeed,

01:19:01.806 --> 01:19:03.288
the user must enter this code into the

01:19:03.309 --> 01:19:03.849
application.

01:19:03.948 --> 01:19:04.390
At this point,

01:19:04.409 --> 01:19:05.831
Dashlane will improve the enrollment and

01:19:05.871 --> 01:19:07.573
send a copy of the encrypted vault to

01:19:07.592 --> 01:19:08.033
the device.

01:19:08.393 --> 01:19:09.054
So basically,

01:19:09.774 --> 01:19:10.956
let's say you download Dashlane on a new

01:19:10.975 --> 01:19:11.275
phone.

01:19:11.655 --> 01:19:12.797
You go to sign in, and it says,

01:19:12.837 --> 01:19:13.837
hey, we emailed you a code.

01:19:14.338 --> 01:19:15.500
If you enter the code,

01:19:16.301 --> 01:19:18.943
now it sends a local copy of the

01:19:18.962 --> 01:19:20.123
vault, but it's still encrypted.

01:19:21.586 --> 01:19:22.145
It then says...

01:19:23.891 --> 01:19:24.313
Let's see.

01:19:24.472 --> 01:19:26.354
Contents remain unreadable until the user

01:19:26.416 --> 01:19:27.417
enters the master password,

01:19:27.436 --> 01:19:28.738
which acts as a decryption key.

01:19:29.559 --> 01:19:31.601
And then let's see.

01:19:32.103 --> 01:19:33.484
So basically at that point,

01:19:33.925 --> 01:19:35.327
what the attackers were doing is they were

01:19:35.386 --> 01:19:36.307
brute forcing the

01:19:38.188 --> 01:19:39.708
Again, how do I... Okay,

01:19:40.309 --> 01:19:41.350
I'll just keep reading because they really

01:19:41.390 --> 01:19:42.291
do describe it pretty well.

01:19:42.671 --> 01:19:44.112
So brute forcing the one-time code for a

01:19:44.192 --> 01:19:44.872
single account,

01:19:44.952 --> 01:19:46.073
which means iterating through every

01:19:46.132 --> 01:19:47.314
possible combination until the right one

01:19:47.354 --> 01:19:47.673
is entered,

01:19:48.014 --> 01:19:48.975
would be little more than a fool's

01:19:49.015 --> 01:19:49.234
errands,

01:19:49.314 --> 01:19:50.475
even with a three-hour window that the

01:19:50.496 --> 01:19:51.155
code remains valid.

01:19:51.457 --> 01:19:52.997
With one million possible valid codes,

01:19:53.037 --> 01:19:54.198
the attackers would have to cycle through

01:19:54.219 --> 01:19:55.639
a statistically significant percentage

01:19:55.658 --> 01:19:56.340
within that period.

01:19:56.720 --> 01:19:57.260
Rate limiting,

01:19:57.381 --> 01:19:59.061
in which a set of requests are allowed

01:19:59.101 --> 01:19:59.721
per account,

01:19:59.782 --> 01:20:01.323
would also lock out the account.

01:20:01.342 --> 01:20:01.703
So, I mean,

01:20:01.722 --> 01:20:02.564
you guys have seen rate limiting.

01:20:02.904 --> 01:20:04.024
You put in the password wrong too many

01:20:04.045 --> 01:20:04.225
times,

01:20:04.244 --> 01:20:05.845
it says try again in five minutes or

01:20:05.966 --> 01:20:06.686
an hour or whatever.

01:20:07.386 --> 01:20:08.268
So to improve their odds,

01:20:08.307 --> 01:20:09.728
the attacker sent requests to register new

01:20:09.747 --> 01:20:11.628
devices across a large number of accounts,

01:20:11.890 --> 01:20:13.449
and then they simultaneously entered the

01:20:13.510 --> 01:20:14.810
one-time codes into each of them.

01:20:15.211 --> 01:20:15.692
In theory,

01:20:15.792 --> 01:20:17.472
attacking two accounts this way increases

01:20:17.493 --> 01:20:20.094
the odds for each try from one in

01:20:20.654 --> 01:20:22.015
two, one in five hundred thousand.

01:20:22.475 --> 01:20:23.815
Attacking a thousand counts would make it

01:20:23.916 --> 01:20:25.037
one in one thousand and so on.

01:20:25.077 --> 01:20:25.676
So basically,

01:20:26.096 --> 01:20:28.078
they tried to log into a ton of

01:20:28.097 --> 01:20:30.680
accounts all at once and started spamming

01:20:30.739 --> 01:20:32.761
two FA codes because if you do it

01:20:32.841 --> 01:20:34.341
at scale, statistically,

01:20:34.421 --> 01:20:35.882
you're certainly going to get something

01:20:35.943 --> 01:20:36.122
right.

01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:40.242
So they said that ultimately the two-FA

01:20:40.301 --> 01:20:41.402
spraying attack managed to hit the right

01:20:41.421 --> 01:20:43.023
combination on fewer than twenty user

01:20:43.042 --> 01:20:47.585
accounts before it was shut down.

01:20:47.604 --> 01:20:48.466
Now, there is...

01:20:49.966 --> 01:20:51.367
A lot of differences here with the

01:20:51.407 --> 01:20:52.068
LastPass thing.

01:20:53.689 --> 01:20:54.109
For example,

01:20:54.149 --> 01:20:55.610
this was not somebody's Plex server that

01:20:55.631 --> 01:20:56.112
caused this.

01:20:57.332 --> 01:20:59.795
They also said Dashlane was using Argon,

01:20:59.835 --> 01:21:01.877
too, which is very, very modern.

01:21:01.917 --> 01:21:03.137
I think it's one of the most modern

01:21:03.158 --> 01:21:04.658
and current standards for hashing

01:21:05.020 --> 01:21:05.500
passwords.

01:21:06.740 --> 01:21:08.222
They also said that...

01:21:09.810 --> 01:21:10.529
Let's see here.

01:21:11.350 --> 01:21:12.570
I don't think they mentioned iterations.

01:21:12.810 --> 01:21:13.810
That was the thing with LastPass.

01:21:13.831 --> 01:21:15.011
So with LastPass, basically,

01:21:15.452 --> 01:21:17.592
there were sections of the password

01:21:17.632 --> 01:21:19.273
manager vault that were not encrypted,

01:21:19.393 --> 01:21:20.993
like the login link.

01:21:21.594 --> 01:21:24.255
So that would mean that attackers know,

01:21:24.274 --> 01:21:24.734
for example,

01:21:24.774 --> 01:21:26.775
if you have an account with Amazon and

01:21:26.796 --> 01:21:28.036
they can create an Amazon phishing link.

01:21:29.497 --> 01:21:30.596
Dashlane said they don't have that.

01:21:30.636 --> 01:21:31.757
They said everything is encrypted.

01:21:32.238 --> 01:21:33.018
They're not open source,

01:21:33.057 --> 01:21:33.797
but theoretically,

01:21:33.957 --> 01:21:34.719
if they're telling the truth.

01:21:35.738 --> 01:21:38.159
Another thing with LastPass is they were

01:21:38.199 --> 01:21:38.460
not

01:21:40.454 --> 01:21:41.695
The whole iteration thing goes a little

01:21:41.716 --> 01:21:42.876
bit above my head, but basically,

01:21:43.176 --> 01:21:43.936
long story short,

01:21:45.056 --> 01:21:47.698
the more iterations a master password has

01:21:47.717 --> 01:21:48.498
when it's being hashed,

01:21:48.599 --> 01:21:49.759
the harder it is to crack.

01:21:50.640 --> 01:21:53.041
LastPass was not increasing the

01:21:53.081 --> 01:21:53.740
iterations,

01:21:53.980 --> 01:21:55.322
at least not without user input.

01:21:57.143 --> 01:21:58.722
Dashlane says they have been doing that.

01:21:59.083 --> 01:21:59.743
So theoretically,

01:21:59.764 --> 01:22:01.164
as long as a user was using a

01:22:01.204 --> 01:22:03.064
good, strong master password,

01:22:04.145 --> 01:22:05.326
they still don't really have much.

01:22:05.466 --> 01:22:06.167
The attackers don't.

01:22:07.435 --> 01:22:08.796
That's a big caveat though, because again,

01:22:08.836 --> 01:22:10.195
I just mentioned a lot of people reuse

01:22:10.216 --> 01:22:12.436
garbage passwords and master passwords are

01:22:12.476 --> 01:22:13.637
unfortunately no exception to that.

01:22:14.097 --> 01:22:16.599
So I guess the only thing here that

01:22:16.658 --> 01:22:17.960
I think is interesting is this seems to

01:22:17.979 --> 01:22:19.761
have been, from what I can tell,

01:22:20.320 --> 01:22:21.041
kind of random.

01:22:21.221 --> 01:22:22.921
Because if they're doing this at scale,

01:22:23.462 --> 01:22:24.983
they don't really have any control over

01:22:25.302 --> 01:22:26.644
which ones are going to succeed and which

01:22:26.703 --> 01:22:27.184
ones aren't.

01:22:27.864 --> 01:22:28.725
So they just grabbed like,

01:22:28.765 --> 01:22:30.466
twenty random user vaults,

01:22:31.046 --> 01:22:31.966
which is really confusing.

01:22:33.456 --> 01:22:33.815
I don't know.

01:22:34.917 --> 01:22:36.279
I guess I will be interested to see

01:22:36.319 --> 01:22:37.279
how this plays out.

01:22:38.121 --> 01:22:41.043
I will be interested to see is Dashlane

01:22:41.064 --> 01:22:41.744
telling the truth?

01:22:42.204 --> 01:22:43.206
Are we going to get another story in

01:22:43.225 --> 01:22:44.027
a week that's like, oh,

01:22:44.067 --> 01:22:45.748
it turns out fields aren't encrypted or

01:22:45.788 --> 01:22:46.128
whatever.

01:22:47.109 --> 01:22:48.030
Are we going to find out that this

01:22:48.070 --> 01:22:49.872
was actually some coordinated thing

01:22:49.953 --> 01:22:50.213
that...

01:22:51.033 --> 01:22:52.475
uh they did know exactly what accounts

01:22:52.494 --> 01:22:54.114
they were going for and somehow managed to

01:22:54.154 --> 01:22:55.716
pull that off i don't know how they

01:22:55.735 --> 01:22:56.737
would have done that that would be really

01:22:56.756 --> 01:22:58.978
impressive but again it's just this this

01:22:59.018 --> 01:23:00.518
whole thing i have a lot of questions

01:23:00.557 --> 01:23:02.899
that i don't necessarily expect dash lane

01:23:02.918 --> 01:23:04.739
to have answers to like again why those

01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:06.280
accounts and stuff like that but it's it's

01:23:06.301 --> 01:23:08.662
a really interesting story it does if we

01:23:08.681 --> 01:23:09.942
take it at face value it does seem

01:23:09.981 --> 01:23:11.363
like everything was handled a lot better

01:23:11.382 --> 01:23:12.823
than the last pass thing which is good

01:23:13.604 --> 01:23:13.804
but

01:23:14.832 --> 01:23:16.054
Again, still lots of questions.

01:23:16.234 --> 01:23:19.355
And I think the last thing I want

01:23:19.376 --> 01:23:23.838
to emphasize is when you use a password

01:23:23.859 --> 01:23:25.079
manager, any password manager,

01:23:25.119 --> 01:23:29.143
whether it's a cloud-based one like this,

01:23:29.182 --> 01:23:30.684
like Bitwarden, like one password,

01:23:30.944 --> 01:23:33.385
a local one, KeePassXE,

01:23:33.666 --> 01:23:35.067
if you write your passwords down in a

01:23:35.106 --> 01:23:35.447
notebook,

01:23:36.467 --> 01:23:39.590
you are placing an immense amount of trust

01:23:40.090 --> 01:23:41.150
in that password manager.

01:23:42.832 --> 01:23:44.412
And so we always recommend...

01:23:46.756 --> 01:23:47.737
I mean,

01:23:47.817 --> 01:23:49.257
I feel safe saying that everybody in

01:23:49.318 --> 01:23:50.298
Privacy Guides would agree with me on

01:23:50.338 --> 01:23:50.479
this.

01:23:51.019 --> 01:23:53.541
I would recommend if you don't use a

01:23:53.600 --> 01:23:54.640
security key anywhere else,

01:23:54.661 --> 01:23:56.061
like a YubiKey or something like that,

01:23:56.703 --> 01:23:56.983
first of all,

01:23:57.002 --> 01:23:58.163
you should be using it everywhere you can.

01:23:58.224 --> 01:23:59.364
But if you don't use it anywhere else,

01:23:59.385 --> 01:24:00.364
you should at least be using it on

01:24:00.385 --> 01:24:02.627
your password manager because of how

01:24:02.667 --> 01:24:03.266
sensitive it is,

01:24:03.327 --> 01:24:05.769
because everything is centralized there.

01:24:06.288 --> 01:24:07.189
And theoretically,

01:24:07.289 --> 01:24:09.291
if you had used a security key,

01:24:10.112 --> 01:24:12.113
I feel like this attack probably would

01:24:13.409 --> 01:24:13.550
I mean,

01:24:13.590 --> 01:24:14.770
I guess it might have still worked because

01:24:14.791 --> 01:24:14.930
again,

01:24:14.951 --> 01:24:16.091
they're trying to verify the device,

01:24:16.131 --> 01:24:19.113
not necessarily the login, but I mean,

01:24:19.153 --> 01:24:20.274
at very least you wouldn't have to worry

01:24:20.293 --> 01:24:21.654
about them like trying to crack your

01:24:21.673 --> 01:24:22.435
master password, right?

01:24:22.454 --> 01:24:23.756
Because they still need the YubiKey to get

01:24:23.815 --> 01:24:24.935
it and they're not going to have that.

01:24:25.015 --> 01:24:25.997
So yeah,

01:24:26.117 --> 01:24:27.757
always try to put the maximum amount of

01:24:27.797 --> 01:24:29.298
security on your password manager,

01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:30.439
even if it's not cloud-based,

01:24:30.498 --> 01:24:31.140
like whatever it is,

01:24:31.180 --> 01:24:32.520
because you're putting a lot of trust in

01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:33.440
that thing regardless.

01:24:33.501 --> 01:24:36.462
So I think I kind of went over

01:24:36.502 --> 01:24:36.983
a lot there,

01:24:37.063 --> 01:24:39.743
but did you have any thoughts on this

01:24:39.764 --> 01:24:40.904
story or is there anything I missed,

01:24:41.064 --> 01:24:41.284
Jordan?

01:24:42.900 --> 01:24:44.381
Yeah, definitely an info dump.

01:24:44.601 --> 01:24:46.662
I think it is important, though,

01:24:46.722 --> 01:24:48.564
to all the stuff that you mentioned,

01:24:48.623 --> 01:24:51.145
like putting the most security you can on

01:24:51.164 --> 01:24:52.085
your password manager.

01:24:52.685 --> 01:24:55.587
Nate actually wrote a video about

01:24:55.646 --> 01:24:58.507
passwords and password management and all

01:24:58.528 --> 01:24:59.788
this sort of stuff that's going to go

01:24:59.849 --> 01:25:02.590
into things in a much more succinct and

01:25:02.630 --> 01:25:03.909
explainable way.

01:25:04.850 --> 01:25:06.452
Hopefully this weekend we'll have it out.

01:25:08.654 --> 01:25:09.956
So definitely look out for that if you

01:25:09.996 --> 01:25:11.775
want to kind of, I don't know,

01:25:11.836 --> 01:25:13.277
I think it's also important to, you know,

01:25:13.337 --> 01:25:15.037
if you share that with someone, uh,

01:25:15.118 --> 01:25:15.797
I think it's a good,

01:25:16.238 --> 01:25:18.099
it's a good resource that we're going to

01:25:18.118 --> 01:25:19.060
have available soon.

01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:21.161
And it does go into like a lot

01:25:21.201 --> 01:25:22.560
of what Nate was saying, like, you know,

01:25:22.640 --> 01:25:25.382
your, your password manager is,

01:25:25.563 --> 01:25:26.622
I think the way Nate put it in

01:25:26.643 --> 01:25:27.623
the video was, you know,

01:25:27.644 --> 01:25:29.423
you're putting all the keys to your castle

01:25:29.463 --> 01:25:30.404
in one spot.

01:25:30.465 --> 01:25:31.604
So you need to make sure it's well

01:25:31.625 --> 01:25:32.086
defended.

01:25:32.586 --> 01:25:32.746
Um,

01:25:33.903 --> 01:25:37.265
And it's the same with, you know,

01:25:37.605 --> 01:25:39.167
any centralization of trust.

01:25:39.686 --> 01:25:41.287
I think one interesting thing about this,

01:25:41.368 --> 01:25:44.810
though, was they did mention it.

01:25:44.829 --> 01:25:47.231
So this is Dan Gooden, who's like, yeah,

01:25:47.252 --> 01:25:49.412
he's basically super, super,

01:25:51.074 --> 01:25:53.957
super big on like security topics at Ars

01:25:53.997 --> 01:25:54.476
Technica.

01:25:54.976 --> 01:25:56.238
He put at the bottom,

01:25:56.257 --> 01:25:57.259
he said like there was,

01:25:58.697 --> 01:25:59.016
I don't know,

01:25:59.176 --> 01:26:00.537
out of an abundance of caution,

01:26:00.578 --> 01:26:02.438
both master passwords and the contents of

01:26:02.497 --> 01:26:06.199
any recovered Dashlane vaults should be

01:26:06.239 --> 01:26:08.100
changed immediately to reduce the chance.

01:26:08.500 --> 01:26:10.621
So I think one thing that I think

01:26:10.661 --> 01:26:12.282
Nate did talk about it a bit was

01:26:12.341 --> 01:26:12.862
like the...

01:26:14.591 --> 01:26:17.213
The issue with these password managers and

01:26:17.274 --> 01:26:19.377
when these encrypted vaults get stolen is

01:26:21.038 --> 01:26:24.423
it's basically stuck at that stage, right?

01:26:24.463 --> 01:26:26.646
Because once they've stolen the encrypted

01:26:26.686 --> 01:26:26.947
vault,

01:26:27.287 --> 01:26:28.989
you can't change the password to something

01:26:29.029 --> 01:26:29.650
more secure.

01:26:30.131 --> 01:26:31.193
That vault is now...

01:26:32.992 --> 01:26:33.773
stuck in time.

01:26:34.012 --> 01:26:36.015
It's not able to get more secure.

01:26:36.034 --> 01:26:37.376
It's not able to get less secure.

01:26:37.416 --> 01:26:40.698
It's just stuck at that specific security

01:26:40.738 --> 01:26:41.059
level.

01:26:41.099 --> 01:26:44.921
So the risk with this is updating your

01:26:44.942 --> 01:26:45.722
master password.

01:26:46.103 --> 01:26:47.444
That's not going to do anything because

01:26:47.505 --> 01:26:48.945
they already have the encrypted vault

01:26:48.985 --> 01:26:49.485
itself.

01:26:50.266 --> 01:26:52.368
So basically, I don't know,

01:26:52.408 --> 01:26:53.909
if you're a Dashlane user and you think

01:26:53.949 --> 01:26:54.810
you might have been affected,

01:26:55.411 --> 01:26:56.712
I would just change every password.

01:26:58.176 --> 01:26:59.158
which kind of sucks, right?

01:26:59.198 --> 01:27:01.439
This is like the worst case scenario for

01:27:01.519 --> 01:27:03.640
anybody having to change every single

01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:05.001
password in your password manager.

01:27:05.041 --> 01:27:07.262
That's depending on who you are.

01:27:07.342 --> 01:27:10.784
I think Nate also wrote this in the

01:27:10.824 --> 01:27:11.865
script for this new video.

01:27:12.666 --> 01:27:14.567
It was about a hundred passwords.

01:27:14.847 --> 01:27:17.149
The average American has average of a

01:27:17.189 --> 01:27:18.050
hundred passwords.

01:27:18.109 --> 01:27:19.770
So, you know, this is,

01:27:21.971 --> 01:27:23.172
it's almost unreasonable.

01:27:23.353 --> 01:27:24.793
That is an unreasonable amount of

01:27:24.833 --> 01:27:25.793
passwords to change.

01:27:25.814 --> 01:27:26.614
Like that would take

01:27:27.448 --> 01:27:30.931
hours so you know i think this is

01:27:31.511 --> 01:27:33.594
this is a pretty big flop from dashlane

01:27:33.734 --> 01:27:36.796
i think like you know this this is

01:27:37.377 --> 01:27:39.057
basically as bad as it can get i

01:27:39.097 --> 01:27:40.238
mean it's not as bad as it can

01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:41.680
get because you can be last pass and

01:27:41.699 --> 01:27:44.823
you can just like leak everyone's stuff um

01:27:44.943 --> 01:27:46.965
and not encrypt anything so you know it's

01:27:47.005 --> 01:27:49.846
not the worst case scenario but it's it's

01:27:49.867 --> 01:27:51.828
kind of nightmare scenario level um

01:27:53.337 --> 01:27:54.997
I mean, I would probably,

01:27:56.118 --> 01:27:57.380
if you don't think you've been affected,

01:27:57.420 --> 01:27:59.081
I would just update my master password

01:27:59.121 --> 01:28:00.782
anyway out of caution.

01:28:00.981 --> 01:28:02.582
But again,

01:28:03.182 --> 01:28:04.845
we do have password manager

01:28:04.885 --> 01:28:05.824
recommendations.

01:28:06.225 --> 01:28:07.966
And, you know, at Privacy Guides,

01:28:08.226 --> 01:28:10.627
we do more rigorous analysis.

01:28:10.707 --> 01:28:10.787
We...

01:28:12.029 --> 01:28:13.609
get input from the community on which

01:28:14.590 --> 01:28:15.550
products are the best.

01:28:15.890 --> 01:28:17.591
And we do all the hard work for

01:28:17.610 --> 01:28:20.030
you to work out what the best services

01:28:20.171 --> 01:28:20.371
are.

01:28:22.332 --> 01:28:24.372
So Dashlane is not something we recommend.

01:28:24.972 --> 01:28:28.634
We don't recommend Dashlane for a variety

01:28:28.673 --> 01:28:29.333
of reasons.

01:28:29.953 --> 01:28:32.154
But I think you'd be much better off

01:28:32.194 --> 01:28:33.734
if you were using something like Bitwarden

01:28:33.795 --> 01:28:36.376
or ProtonPass or Sono.

01:28:36.895 --> 01:28:39.315
There's plenty of other password manager

01:28:39.355 --> 01:28:40.957
recommendations that we have on our site.

01:28:42.847 --> 01:28:44.710
And I think it's always going to happen,

01:28:44.729 --> 01:28:44.909
though.

01:28:44.949 --> 01:28:46.711
There's always going to be, like,

01:28:46.770 --> 01:28:48.332
cyber attacks against these password

01:28:48.353 --> 01:28:49.873
managers because they are,

01:28:50.014 --> 01:28:51.895
like Nate said in the video,

01:28:51.996 --> 01:28:53.417
that what's going to come out is it's

01:28:53.457 --> 01:28:53.976
a castle.

01:28:54.016 --> 01:28:56.319
It's where all the secrets are in there.

01:28:56.658 --> 01:28:59.261
So it's a much more valuable target.

01:29:01.542 --> 01:29:03.244
It's kind of frustrating when security

01:29:04.525 --> 01:29:06.747
isn't enforced as well as it should be

01:29:07.068 --> 01:29:07.688
in this case.

01:29:07.948 --> 01:29:09.489
But, yeah,

01:29:09.689 --> 01:29:10.951
I don't really have too much more to

01:29:11.030 --> 01:29:12.192
add other than that.

01:29:14.676 --> 01:29:15.055
Yeah,

01:29:15.155 --> 01:29:16.877
I don't really have much else to add

01:29:16.896 --> 01:29:17.256
myself.

01:29:17.296 --> 01:29:19.677
It's just, I guess, again,

01:29:19.717 --> 01:29:21.519
assuming we take Dashlane at face value,

01:29:21.618 --> 01:29:25.560
it's good that this is not a repeat

01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:26.280
of LastPass,

01:29:26.320 --> 01:29:28.362
where they did everything they possibly

01:29:28.381 --> 01:29:28.942
could wrong.

01:29:29.462 --> 01:29:31.582
But it's also, there are certain things,

01:29:31.643 --> 01:29:32.064
I feel like,

01:29:32.104 --> 01:29:34.885
where it's just too important

01:29:35.855 --> 01:29:38.677
to trust a non-open source thing.

01:29:39.179 --> 01:29:41.579
And a password manager is one of them.

01:29:41.600 --> 01:29:42.261
Because I keep saying,

01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:43.582
assuming they're telling the truth,

01:29:43.881 --> 01:29:44.261
we don't know.

01:29:44.483 --> 01:29:45.443
Dashlane's proprietary.

01:29:45.523 --> 01:29:46.703
If this happened to ProtonPass,

01:29:46.743 --> 01:29:48.706
if this happened to Bitwarden,

01:29:49.386 --> 01:29:49.886
if this happened to,

01:29:49.907 --> 01:29:51.448
I don't know how it would happen to

01:29:51.467 --> 01:29:52.509
KeePass, but theoretically,

01:29:52.529 --> 01:29:53.609
if this happened to KeePass,

01:29:53.649 --> 01:29:54.550
those are all open source.

01:29:54.810 --> 01:29:56.692
So we can verify that, yes, everything is.

01:29:57.131 --> 01:29:58.592
I actually remember when LastPass

01:29:58.613 --> 01:29:58.974
happened,

01:29:59.634 --> 01:30:01.034
Everybody went to these open source

01:30:01.055 --> 01:30:02.877
password managers and started re-examining

01:30:02.896 --> 01:30:03.917
and being like, oh crap,

01:30:04.298 --> 01:30:05.099
are we in danger?

01:30:05.619 --> 01:30:08.082
And I remember Bitwarden, I think,

01:30:08.181 --> 01:30:08.802
was okay.

01:30:09.344 --> 01:30:10.425
But a lot of people did notice.

01:30:10.465 --> 01:30:10.824
It's like, hey,

01:30:10.845 --> 01:30:11.886
you're kind of using this like,

01:30:12.726 --> 01:30:14.929
it's not like outdated hashing,

01:30:14.969 --> 01:30:15.590
but there's, you know,

01:30:15.630 --> 01:30:17.150
this Argon-II is out now and it's a

01:30:17.171 --> 01:30:17.792
lot better.

01:30:17.832 --> 01:30:19.172
And like, why don't we up the iterations?

01:30:19.613 --> 01:30:20.795
And I remember Bitwarden kind of replied

01:30:20.814 --> 01:30:21.414
where they're like, yeah,

01:30:21.435 --> 01:30:22.576
we don't really have to, but I mean...

01:30:23.546 --> 01:30:24.006
Good point.

01:30:24.087 --> 01:30:25.007
We'll go ahead and do that.

01:30:25.208 --> 01:30:26.229
And you know, now it's,

01:30:26.329 --> 01:30:28.171
it's more secure and we can verify that

01:30:28.190 --> 01:30:29.591
because it's open source and not to

01:30:29.612 --> 01:30:31.033
necessarily sing Bitwarden's praises.

01:30:31.054 --> 01:30:31.994
I'm not trying to harp on them,

01:30:32.034 --> 01:30:32.295
but you know,

01:30:32.314 --> 01:30:35.056
it's just an example of like, hopefully,

01:30:35.658 --> 01:30:37.078
uh, Dashlane users will be okay.

01:30:37.118 --> 01:30:38.399
But yeah, if you are a Dashlane user,

01:30:38.439 --> 01:30:40.601
definitely, um, that does suck.

01:30:40.622 --> 01:30:41.443
Cause I am that I've,

01:30:41.582 --> 01:30:42.344
I've said this before.

01:30:42.484 --> 01:30:44.765
I am that psychopath that went down and

01:30:44.786 --> 01:30:46.667
changed all my passwords in like one

01:30:46.688 --> 01:30:48.088
weekend when I first got into privacy.

01:30:48.248 --> 01:30:48.829
And it is,

01:30:50.393 --> 01:30:51.212
It is intense.

01:30:51.533 --> 01:30:52.113
And, uh, you know,

01:30:52.132 --> 01:30:53.234
at the time I was single and I

01:30:53.253 --> 01:30:54.833
was in my twenties and I had all

01:30:54.854 --> 01:30:55.974
the energy for that stuff.

01:30:56.033 --> 01:30:57.435
And, but it's, uh, you know,

01:30:57.475 --> 01:30:58.555
especially if you've got a family and

01:30:58.595 --> 01:30:59.215
stuff, it's like, man,

01:30:59.234 --> 01:31:00.234
how are you supposed to find time to

01:31:00.255 --> 01:31:00.615
do that?

01:31:00.676 --> 01:31:01.775
So that's crazy.

01:31:03.256 --> 01:31:04.537
But here we are.

01:31:04.577 --> 01:31:05.957
I almost feel like there needs to be

01:31:06.016 --> 01:31:06.537
a way.

01:31:06.556 --> 01:31:08.537
I don't know.

01:31:08.637 --> 01:31:10.097
I feel like this could have been.

01:31:12.148 --> 01:31:14.988
possibly avoided if there was i don't know

01:31:15.029 --> 01:31:16.569
maybe there's got to be a way for

01:31:16.890 --> 01:31:18.930
an api access or i don't know some

01:31:19.070 --> 01:31:20.610
some way to easily update a lot of

01:31:20.631 --> 01:31:23.072
accounts passwords quickly um i don't know

01:31:23.091 --> 01:31:24.493
what that would look like but it's kind

01:31:24.512 --> 01:31:26.993
of we get into this situation with with

01:31:27.033 --> 01:31:28.654
a password manager where things get

01:31:29.814 --> 01:31:32.194
breached like this and it becomes like i

01:31:32.215 --> 01:31:33.735
know people that have got like five

01:31:33.756 --> 01:31:35.796
hundred passwords like how the heck are

01:31:35.817 --> 01:31:37.216
you supposed to go through and update all

01:31:37.237 --> 01:31:40.358
that like that is impossible um it's just

01:31:40.398 --> 01:31:41.899
kind of frustrating for those people

01:31:43.402 --> 01:31:43.802
Unfortunately,

01:31:43.823 --> 01:31:45.284
you are not the first person to have

01:31:45.324 --> 01:31:45.865
that idea.

01:31:46.487 --> 01:31:49.212
And I don't think, yeah,

01:31:49.532 --> 01:31:50.453
it would need to be some kind of

01:31:50.474 --> 01:31:51.654
like standardized process,

01:31:51.675 --> 01:31:52.837
which I don't think it is right now.

01:31:52.877 --> 01:31:54.239
And I think that's the big challenge is...

01:31:55.250 --> 01:31:55.529
Yeah,

01:31:55.569 --> 01:31:57.752
but it would be cool because then that

01:31:57.771 --> 01:32:00.073
would open the door for like a privacy

01:32:00.113 --> 01:32:00.873
service that's like, oh,

01:32:00.894 --> 01:32:01.755
you're getting into privacy?

01:32:02.074 --> 01:32:03.515
Cool, for like ten bucks,

01:32:03.956 --> 01:32:05.936
we'll download all your accounts out of

01:32:05.976 --> 01:32:07.417
Chrome and go in and change all the

01:32:07.457 --> 01:32:09.039
passwords and dump them into Bitwarden or

01:32:09.060 --> 01:32:09.439
whatever.

01:32:10.340 --> 01:32:11.301
That would open a lot of doors to

01:32:11.320 --> 01:32:12.761
make it easier for people to get started

01:32:12.782 --> 01:32:13.282
with this stuff.

01:32:13.342 --> 01:32:14.103
But I just don't think,

01:32:14.643 --> 01:32:15.184
as far as I know,

01:32:15.203 --> 01:32:16.805
there's not like a standardized API that

01:32:16.845 --> 01:32:18.225
people could hook into like you're talking

01:32:18.246 --> 01:32:18.426
about.

01:32:18.805 --> 01:32:19.527
It'd be cool if there was.

01:32:20.739 --> 01:32:21.020
Yeah.

01:32:21.199 --> 01:32:21.399
I mean,

01:32:21.500 --> 01:32:23.740
one thing that you did talk about quite

01:32:23.761 --> 01:32:25.202
a bit in the video we've been working

01:32:25.261 --> 01:32:26.542
on is, you know,

01:32:26.582 --> 01:32:28.064
like the adoption of passkeys.

01:32:28.323 --> 01:32:30.604
And I think that could be at least

01:32:30.725 --> 01:32:32.204
one step in the right direction, right?

01:32:32.225 --> 01:32:33.265
At least one end,

01:32:33.725 --> 01:32:36.807
one end of the passwords being messed up

01:32:36.847 --> 01:32:37.547
is going to be okay.

01:32:37.587 --> 01:32:40.088
Like the websites themselves can't,

01:32:42.189 --> 01:32:43.690
they can't leak the passwords.

01:32:43.911 --> 01:32:45.412
So then you don't have to worry about

01:32:45.452 --> 01:32:46.792
your password ever getting breached.

01:32:47.552 --> 01:32:49.953
But then there's the opposite end as well.

01:32:52.206 --> 01:32:53.027
That's what I was about to say is

01:32:53.087 --> 01:32:54.908
I feel like this unfortunately would be

01:32:54.988 --> 01:32:56.451
one of the few times where a passkey

01:32:56.470 --> 01:32:57.231
wouldn't save you.

01:32:57.731 --> 01:32:58.833
Like someone correct me if I'm wrong,

01:32:58.894 --> 01:33:01.036
but because in this case,

01:33:01.756 --> 01:33:04.460
if you're saving your passkeys to a

01:33:04.500 --> 01:33:05.301
password manager,

01:33:05.320 --> 01:33:06.381
which is probably what most people are

01:33:06.402 --> 01:33:06.742
gonna do,

01:33:07.603 --> 01:33:08.804
which I would argue in most cases is

01:33:08.844 --> 01:33:09.184
fine.

01:33:09.524 --> 01:33:11.485
But now it's the password manager that got

01:33:11.546 --> 01:33:11.926
leaked.

01:33:12.426 --> 01:33:14.268
So if they get into it,

01:33:14.287 --> 01:33:15.488
they would have your pass keys.

01:33:15.649 --> 01:33:17.890
But generally speaking, yeah, I mean,

01:33:17.930 --> 01:33:20.672
stuff like this is still very much the

01:33:20.792 --> 01:33:21.314
outlier.

01:33:21.514 --> 01:33:22.175
So, I mean,

01:33:22.895 --> 01:33:24.055
ninety nine times out of one hundred,

01:33:24.095 --> 01:33:24.716
I totally agree.

01:33:24.756 --> 01:33:26.217
A pass key is it's one of those

01:33:26.238 --> 01:33:27.338
things where like, yes,

01:33:27.359 --> 01:33:28.960
there's always going to be that one

01:33:29.039 --> 01:33:30.720
scenario where it's like, OK, fine.

01:33:30.841 --> 01:33:32.082
It doesn't make sense to do that.

01:33:33.082 --> 01:33:35.244
But every other time it makes perfect

01:33:35.265 --> 01:33:36.586
sense, you know, so.

01:33:37.845 --> 01:33:38.244
Yeah.

01:33:38.305 --> 01:33:38.485
I mean,

01:33:38.546 --> 01:33:40.106
I feel like pass keys could definitely,

01:33:40.226 --> 01:33:40.426
yeah,

01:33:40.447 --> 01:33:41.488
you're a hundred percent right about it.

01:33:41.507 --> 01:33:43.270
Like the private key is the thing that's

01:33:43.310 --> 01:33:44.650
important and that's what your password

01:33:44.690 --> 01:33:45.572
manager is protecting.

01:33:45.931 --> 01:33:48.234
The public key is what the website has.

01:33:49.855 --> 01:33:50.895
So it doesn't matter if they leak the

01:33:50.935 --> 01:33:51.716
public key.

01:33:51.737 --> 01:33:52.818
Public key can be public.

01:33:53.979 --> 01:33:54.739
But yeah,

01:33:54.779 --> 01:33:57.082
the private keys is that's where you start

01:33:57.101 --> 01:33:57.761
having the issue.

01:33:57.782 --> 01:34:00.444
I don't know if it's like, you know,

01:34:00.465 --> 01:34:01.005
a way for

01:34:02.006 --> 01:34:03.707
basically password managers to like kind

01:34:03.747 --> 01:34:07.451
of hook into a website's like, like, uh,

01:34:08.011 --> 01:34:11.054
Fido flow or something to automatically

01:34:11.113 --> 01:34:11.554
update it.

01:34:11.573 --> 01:34:12.034
I don't know.

01:34:12.335 --> 01:34:13.895
Someone really smart is probably going to

01:34:13.916 --> 01:34:14.457
work it out.

01:34:15.176 --> 01:34:16.297
Um, that's just not me.

01:34:16.318 --> 01:34:16.439
Um,

01:34:17.859 --> 01:34:19.220
I don't really know what the solution is,

01:34:19.261 --> 01:34:19.701
but I don't know.

01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:20.761
It was just a thought that I had.

01:34:21.082 --> 01:34:21.943
It's kind of interesting.

01:34:22.323 --> 01:34:22.444
Um,

01:34:22.944 --> 01:34:24.385
Don't think it's super relevant to this

01:34:24.404 --> 01:34:26.386
story, though, because like you said,

01:34:26.627 --> 01:34:28.128
if your vault is breached,

01:34:28.748 --> 01:34:30.350
it's not really going to protect you in

01:34:30.371 --> 01:34:31.270
that case either.

01:34:31.492 --> 01:34:34.154
So kind of a crappy situation.

01:34:35.854 --> 01:34:36.235
Agreed.

01:34:39.177 --> 01:34:41.100
I think that's all we've got on this

01:34:41.239 --> 01:34:41.380
one.

01:34:41.460 --> 01:34:43.002
Do you want to move into forum updates?

01:34:45.369 --> 01:34:48.930
yeah let's dive into some forum updates

01:34:49.030 --> 01:34:51.452
here in a minute we'll start taking viewer

01:34:51.471 --> 01:34:53.052
questions so if you've been holding on to

01:34:53.132 --> 01:34:55.394
any questions about any of the stories

01:34:55.413 --> 01:34:57.694
we've talked about so far go and go

01:34:57.715 --> 01:34:59.975
ahead and leave them on the forum thread

01:35:00.055 --> 01:35:01.735
or in the comment section on the live

01:35:01.775 --> 01:35:03.856
stream and you can do so on the

01:35:03.896 --> 01:35:05.478
stream yard chat if you don't want to

01:35:05.578 --> 01:35:07.177
sign up to youtube or any other platform

01:35:07.238 --> 01:35:08.259
so if you do want to leave a

01:35:08.279 --> 01:35:08.578
comment

01:35:10.435 --> 01:35:12.076
definitely feel free to do so.

01:35:12.536 --> 01:35:13.197
But for now,

01:35:13.256 --> 01:35:15.216
let's check in on our community forum.

01:35:15.356 --> 01:35:16.436
And as always,

01:35:16.636 --> 01:35:19.337
there is a lot of activity on the

01:35:19.358 --> 01:35:19.677
forum.

01:35:19.837 --> 01:35:21.899
So here's just like a few of this

01:35:21.939 --> 01:35:24.658
week's most interesting discussions

01:35:24.719 --> 01:35:25.378
happening there.

01:35:25.519 --> 01:35:28.560
So I'm going to take this one.

01:35:28.720 --> 01:35:29.640
You can take the other one.

01:35:30.159 --> 01:35:33.480
How do I compellingly advocate for my

01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:36.362
privacy with doctors and other health care

01:35:36.622 --> 01:35:37.261
professionals?

01:35:39.264 --> 01:35:40.364
I think this is a really interesting

01:35:40.385 --> 01:35:40.704
thread.

01:35:41.565 --> 01:35:44.427
So this one was started by a regular

01:35:44.467 --> 01:35:44.868
on our forum,

01:35:44.889 --> 01:35:46.510
not going to mention the name for their

01:35:46.550 --> 01:35:47.270
privacy sake.

01:35:48.150 --> 01:35:53.475
But basically, you know, I think it's,

01:35:54.942 --> 01:35:56.761
we're living in an age where a lot

01:35:56.801 --> 01:35:59.622
of doctors are using technology that is

01:35:59.762 --> 01:36:00.842
pretty invasive, right?

01:36:00.882 --> 01:36:02.203
Like I'm,

01:36:02.484 --> 01:36:04.003
I guarantee you if you've been to the

01:36:04.024 --> 01:36:05.323
doctor in the last two years,

01:36:05.684 --> 01:36:07.265
they've asked you if you,

01:36:07.345 --> 01:36:09.085
if they can use an AI transcription

01:36:09.104 --> 01:36:11.046
software, if they can, you know,

01:36:11.265 --> 01:36:12.685
share your data with one of these

01:36:12.725 --> 01:36:13.185
companies.

01:36:14.025 --> 01:36:14.867
And, um,

01:36:14.926 --> 01:36:16.926
I guess kind of reading a little bit

01:36:16.966 --> 01:36:17.846
into this, uh,

01:36:17.907 --> 01:36:20.148
thread that was started here.

01:36:20.887 --> 01:36:21.007
Um,

01:36:22.560 --> 01:36:22.739
you know,

01:36:22.779 --> 01:36:24.680
this person was saying that they kind of

01:36:24.720 --> 01:36:27.962
felt like healthcare workers don't really

01:36:28.002 --> 01:36:28.403
care.

01:36:28.443 --> 01:36:30.243
They don't really read the privacy policy.

01:36:30.264 --> 01:36:32.064
They don't really, you know,

01:36:32.085 --> 01:36:34.405
think that there's any issues.

01:36:36.448 --> 01:36:37.127
They don't, you know,

01:36:37.148 --> 01:36:38.868
they don't really have the same level of

01:36:38.929 --> 01:36:40.949
concern that most people should have about

01:36:40.970 --> 01:36:42.331
their medical data, especially if it's,

01:36:42.411 --> 01:36:45.792
you know, very sensitive information,

01:36:45.813 --> 01:36:46.313
like, you know,

01:36:47.014 --> 01:36:48.774
It could be reproductive status.

01:36:48.854 --> 01:36:49.835
It could be all these,

01:36:50.635 --> 01:36:52.055
especially in the US, like these,

01:36:52.255 --> 01:36:52.854
these are pretty,

01:36:54.615 --> 01:36:56.395
I would say sensitive things, right?

01:36:56.416 --> 01:36:58.317
Because, you know, in some states it's,

01:36:58.436 --> 01:37:00.457
it's illegal and stuff like that.

01:37:00.476 --> 01:37:01.096
Like this is,

01:37:02.238 --> 01:37:03.658
it depends obviously on your threat model

01:37:03.698 --> 01:37:04.478
and your situation,

01:37:04.518 --> 01:37:07.519
but they can be extremely concerning.

01:37:10.020 --> 01:37:11.020
So they kind of went through

01:37:14.036 --> 01:37:15.716
basically how they want to challenge

01:37:16.636 --> 01:37:17.056
their,

01:37:18.097 --> 01:37:21.338
their doctors and to basically get them to

01:37:21.458 --> 01:37:22.880
take things a bit more seriously.

01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:23.760
Um,

01:37:24.520 --> 01:37:26.820
and they did bring up this one specific

01:37:27.220 --> 01:37:31.743
example, um, you know, about,

01:37:32.643 --> 01:37:34.743
it was Carissa Vellies who we interviewed,

01:37:34.923 --> 01:37:36.284
um, a couple of weeks ago.

01:37:36.505 --> 01:37:36.704
She,

01:37:36.805 --> 01:37:39.345
she basically had an example and she used

01:37:39.386 --> 01:37:41.146
the example of like the Holocaust, like,

01:37:41.167 --> 01:37:41.367
you know,

01:37:42.604 --> 01:37:44.327
would you, you know,

01:37:44.346 --> 01:37:45.927
disclosing that you're Jewish in the

01:37:45.967 --> 01:37:48.270
Holocaust is kind of a bit of a

01:37:48.310 --> 01:37:51.554
death sentence and maybe it's not as the

01:37:51.594 --> 01:37:54.756
parallel is not as like, Oh,

01:37:54.777 --> 01:37:55.658
did you want to add something here?

01:37:56.479 --> 01:37:57.199
Yeah, real quick.

01:37:57.399 --> 01:37:57.579
Um,

01:37:57.600 --> 01:37:59.761
so what she was talking about was in,

01:38:00.162 --> 01:38:00.302
um,

01:38:01.154 --> 01:38:01.574
Oh my God,

01:38:01.614 --> 01:38:02.895
I can't remember which countries it were.

01:38:04.275 --> 01:38:07.257
Basically, when the Nazis invaded,

01:38:08.318 --> 01:38:09.578
I wanna say it was France,

01:38:10.779 --> 01:38:12.760
the number of Jews that they killed in

01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:15.900
France was significantly lower because in

01:38:15.961 --> 01:38:16.341
France,

01:38:16.400 --> 01:38:18.801
they didn't even keep ethnicity records on

01:38:18.921 --> 01:38:20.222
who was Jewish and who wasn't.

01:38:20.722 --> 01:38:21.203
And therefore,

01:38:21.243 --> 01:38:22.944
that made it significantly harder for them

01:38:22.984 --> 01:38:25.045
to find Jews to send them to the

01:38:25.064 --> 01:38:25.404
camps.

01:38:25.885 --> 01:38:27.206
That was the example she was using.

01:38:27.725 --> 01:38:29.186
And that's the example this person is

01:38:29.226 --> 01:38:30.127
talking about is like,

01:38:30.606 --> 01:38:35.467
if um if my doctor is not sharing

01:38:35.507 --> 01:38:37.427
data with these companies like uh i'll

01:38:37.587 --> 01:38:39.368
i'll let you talk in just a second

01:38:39.389 --> 01:38:41.009
sorry i'm trying not to like do all

01:38:41.029 --> 01:38:42.548
the talking um but like they said their

01:38:42.569 --> 01:38:44.250
doctor is using gmail and it's like okay

01:38:44.289 --> 01:38:46.310
but if gmail is reading these emails or

01:38:46.329 --> 01:38:48.390
even has access to these emails that's

01:38:48.430 --> 01:38:49.730
kind of the same thing where it's like

01:38:49.770 --> 01:38:51.390
if something goes wrong now the the data

01:38:51.451 --> 01:38:52.692
is there in the first place that's kind

01:38:52.712 --> 01:38:54.152
of the example the the connection they're

01:38:54.171 --> 01:38:54.771
trying to make there

01:38:58.684 --> 01:38:59.064
Right.

01:38:59.225 --> 01:38:59.604
Okay.

01:38:59.645 --> 01:39:00.666
So that's, yeah,

01:39:00.685 --> 01:39:02.287
that's definitely good context.

01:39:02.546 --> 01:39:02.947
Um,

01:39:03.027 --> 01:39:04.448
I'm not really super familiar with her

01:39:04.488 --> 01:39:07.251
work personally, so that is good to know.

01:39:07.650 --> 01:39:10.493
Um, yeah, I think it's, I think,

01:39:10.512 --> 01:39:10.953
I don't know.

01:39:11.073 --> 01:39:11.913
I think you should be,

01:39:13.454 --> 01:39:16.358
try and be cautious around, I think,

01:39:16.377 --> 01:39:17.958
standing up to these people because

01:39:18.838 --> 01:39:21.301
unfortunately they kind of do have quite a

01:39:21.341 --> 01:39:24.484
lot of control over, um,

01:39:26.932 --> 01:39:27.953
But when you talk to a doctor,

01:39:27.972 --> 01:39:29.154
like they do have quite a lot of

01:39:29.194 --> 01:39:32.296
control over the care that you receive and

01:39:32.536 --> 01:39:34.537
that care could be kind of important.

01:39:34.596 --> 01:39:35.317
So, you know,

01:39:35.356 --> 01:39:36.698
if you're going to challenge someone on

01:39:36.717 --> 01:39:37.658
this sort of stuff,

01:39:38.139 --> 01:39:40.780
I would definitely think about the

01:39:40.820 --> 01:39:43.341
consequences of doing so, because,

01:39:43.742 --> 01:39:44.603
you know, the.

01:39:46.672 --> 01:39:49.114
the repercussions for challenging someone

01:39:49.135 --> 01:39:50.996
like this could cause things to become a

01:39:51.055 --> 01:39:52.976
bit more difficult because, you know,

01:39:52.997 --> 01:39:56.880
you have such strict, um,

01:39:57.079 --> 01:39:58.300
beliefs and stuff and such.

01:39:58.340 --> 01:40:01.042
Like, I think it shouldn't be like that.

01:40:01.082 --> 01:40:02.743
Like they shouldn't be able to do that,

01:40:02.802 --> 01:40:04.543
but it's kind of the facts of the

01:40:04.583 --> 01:40:05.085
situation.

01:40:05.145 --> 01:40:06.426
Unfortunately, like you'll,

01:40:07.166 --> 01:40:09.728
you'll receive different care.

01:40:09.768 --> 01:40:11.189
If you make a fuss about something like

01:40:11.208 --> 01:40:11.408
that,

01:40:11.448 --> 01:40:14.211
you may not get treated the same way.

01:40:14.511 --> 01:40:14.730
Um,

01:40:16.123 --> 01:40:17.664
you might be seen as someone who's trying

01:40:17.704 --> 01:40:18.824
to, you know,

01:40:19.244 --> 01:40:22.525
hide information or like be a criminal.

01:40:22.586 --> 01:40:25.127
And there's all these stereotypes for

01:40:25.167 --> 01:40:28.908
people that are, um,

01:40:28.929 --> 01:40:30.069
caring about their privacy.

01:40:30.208 --> 01:40:31.328
And it's not really,

01:40:31.389 --> 01:40:32.310
it shouldn't be like that,

01:40:32.350 --> 01:40:34.210
but it's kind of the way things are

01:40:34.229 --> 01:40:34.890
at the moment.

01:40:35.390 --> 01:40:37.230
And it's kind of seen as almost like

01:40:37.251 --> 01:40:38.091
a fringe thing.

01:40:38.712 --> 01:40:40.792
So I would also take that into account

01:40:40.832 --> 01:40:41.172
as well.

01:40:41.252 --> 01:40:42.972
If you do end up bringing this up

01:40:42.993 --> 01:40:44.173
to them, um,

01:40:47.101 --> 01:40:49.283
yeah anyway i i think people are saying

01:40:49.302 --> 01:40:51.364
like you should walk away from these

01:40:51.564 --> 01:40:53.445
doctors agencies and stuff i i kind of

01:40:53.485 --> 01:40:57.068
disagree with this because um i think you

01:40:57.087 --> 01:40:58.868
know depends on what conditions you have

01:40:59.229 --> 01:41:01.011
and for some people there's not really an

01:41:01.051 --> 01:41:02.712
option right if you have like a very

01:41:02.771 --> 01:41:04.113
specific condition you need to see a

01:41:04.153 --> 01:41:05.713
specialist you need to see

01:41:06.573 --> 01:41:09.676
a doctor that is specifically trained in a

01:41:09.737 --> 01:41:12.278
certain area that doesn't particularly

01:41:12.998 --> 01:41:14.760
have another option especially if you live

01:41:14.779 --> 01:41:16.841
in a small area um you don't exactly

01:41:16.862 --> 01:41:19.484
get a choice to just like oh you

01:41:19.524 --> 01:41:21.826
you're using google workspace for all your

01:41:21.926 --> 01:41:24.368
medical emails i'm gonna go to a different

01:41:24.387 --> 01:41:27.289
clinic um and it's not even verified that

01:41:27.329 --> 01:41:28.831
you know the the next clinic you go

01:41:28.871 --> 01:41:30.671
to they might be even worse so

01:41:31.932 --> 01:41:33.994
um it's kind of frustrating situation but

01:41:34.055 --> 01:41:35.996
i don't think that is always the best

01:41:36.036 --> 01:41:40.338
solution just like walking away from um

01:41:40.378 --> 01:41:43.001
someone um i've never seen a doctor's

01:41:43.421 --> 01:41:45.101
office using gmail i've never seen a

01:41:45.162 --> 01:41:48.043
doctor's office even use email so this is

01:41:48.083 --> 01:41:50.105
kind of bizarre to me like is this

01:41:50.126 --> 01:41:53.087
a common thing in the us or yeah

01:41:53.108 --> 01:41:56.170
they um they do use internal email a

01:41:56.210 --> 01:41:58.712
lot and i've i've seen doctor's offices

01:41:58.731 --> 01:41:59.972
that i'm pretty sure using teams

01:42:00.894 --> 01:42:02.855
So I definitely have thoughts on this one,

01:42:02.876 --> 01:42:04.337
but I'll wait for you to finish your

01:42:04.358 --> 01:42:04.679
thoughts.

01:42:04.958 --> 01:42:05.680
I don't want to cut you off.

01:42:07.081 --> 01:42:07.402
Okay.

01:42:07.641 --> 01:42:07.881
Yeah.

01:42:08.502 --> 01:42:09.323
I mean, yeah.

01:42:09.463 --> 01:42:11.006
So there's some more comments here.

01:42:11.206 --> 01:42:12.667
People were discussing like, you know,

01:42:15.430 --> 01:42:17.132
the original author of the post was saying

01:42:17.172 --> 01:42:17.394
like,

01:42:20.807 --> 01:42:21.007
you know,

01:42:21.127 --> 01:42:22.668
you wouldn't even try to convince them

01:42:22.748 --> 01:42:24.048
that what they're doing is wrong.

01:42:24.090 --> 01:42:25.550
Like you wouldn't even try and bring up

01:42:25.569 --> 01:42:26.911
that this is a privacy issue.

01:42:29.152 --> 01:42:30.152
I mean, I could,

01:42:30.192 --> 01:42:32.832
I think it's certainly possible to try.

01:42:33.113 --> 01:42:34.134
I think you could try,

01:42:34.213 --> 01:42:35.734
but I don't think you're going to be

01:42:35.795 --> 01:42:39.076
able to convince, you know, an entire,

01:42:40.356 --> 01:42:40.596
you know,

01:42:40.777 --> 01:42:42.957
medical facility to change their main

01:42:43.858 --> 01:42:44.958
tools so quickly.

01:42:44.979 --> 01:42:47.340
I don't know.

01:42:47.380 --> 01:42:49.461
There's definitely some people were,

01:42:52.127 --> 01:42:53.969
making jokes in this thread I guess a

01:42:53.988 --> 01:42:56.029
little bit of about this like saying like

01:42:56.069 --> 01:42:57.569
you know it's better to keep quiet in

01:42:57.630 --> 01:42:59.591
such situations you might be misunderstood

01:42:59.671 --> 01:43:02.492
and referred to a psychiatrist I don't I

01:43:02.532 --> 01:43:04.313
think you know if you you've got to

01:43:04.332 --> 01:43:06.212
be tactful about this right you can't just

01:43:06.252 --> 01:43:08.354
be saying like how could you be using

01:43:08.413 --> 01:43:11.414
gmail it's spyware like it's evil like you

01:43:11.435 --> 01:43:13.315
know coming across as like someone who's

01:43:13.395 --> 01:43:17.337
not really uh you have to have tact

01:43:17.417 --> 01:43:18.858
right and I think it comes down to

01:43:18.917 --> 01:43:19.078
any

01:43:19.778 --> 01:43:21.019
any social cause, right?

01:43:21.059 --> 01:43:22.979
If you just start calling someone like a,

01:43:24.039 --> 01:43:26.681
you know, a privacy normie or something,

01:43:26.721 --> 01:43:28.523
like they're not going to really take what

01:43:28.542 --> 01:43:29.603
you're saying that seriously,

01:43:29.622 --> 01:43:30.724
and they're probably not going to agree

01:43:30.743 --> 01:43:31.064
with you.

01:43:31.184 --> 01:43:34.865
So I think it definitely helps to have

01:43:34.926 --> 01:43:36.886
some grounding in reality, you know?

01:43:38.908 --> 01:43:40.488
And, but yeah,

01:43:40.509 --> 01:43:41.729
I don't really have too much more to

01:43:41.828 --> 01:43:42.170
add.

01:43:42.250 --> 01:43:42.829
There's quite,

01:43:42.869 --> 01:43:44.211
this goes on for quite a long time.

01:43:44.511 --> 01:43:45.891
I didn't have time to read this entire

01:43:45.912 --> 01:43:46.252
thread.

01:43:46.332 --> 01:43:46.511
So

01:43:48.823 --> 01:43:50.184
Yeah, I was kind of skimming in myself.

01:43:50.203 --> 01:43:51.145
There is a lot here.

01:43:52.085 --> 01:43:53.265
Also, Mike Lastname said,

01:43:53.286 --> 01:43:55.087
you are a doctor and a privacy advocate.

01:43:55.407 --> 01:43:57.948
Feel free to weigh in while I'm giving

01:43:57.988 --> 01:43:58.349
my thoughts,

01:43:58.368 --> 01:44:01.511
and we'll definitely – maybe it would be

01:44:01.532 --> 01:44:02.551
great to get an expert opinion.

01:44:04.613 --> 01:44:10.978
So my thing is it's –

01:44:13.277 --> 01:44:14.637
The challenge is institutional.

01:44:15.057 --> 01:44:16.139
This kind of came up a little bit

01:44:16.219 --> 01:44:17.740
in this article.

01:44:17.860 --> 01:44:18.421
So first of all,

01:44:18.501 --> 01:44:19.521
I want to say that in my personal

01:44:19.542 --> 01:44:19.862
opinion,

01:44:20.302 --> 01:44:21.262
and I don't think this is a hot

01:44:21.283 --> 01:44:21.564
take,

01:44:22.984 --> 01:44:24.126
your health should always come first,

01:44:24.166 --> 01:44:25.146
whether that's physical health,

01:44:25.186 --> 01:44:26.127
mental health, whatever.

01:44:27.148 --> 01:44:28.809
If your choices are between not seeing a

01:44:28.828 --> 01:44:30.631
doctor and seeing a doctor that uses Gmail

01:44:30.711 --> 01:44:31.992
or even, God forbid, Teams,

01:44:32.292 --> 01:44:33.212
please go see the doctor.

01:44:33.332 --> 01:44:34.373
Your health always comes first.

01:44:35.014 --> 01:44:37.475
That said, in my experience,

01:44:37.536 --> 01:44:38.657
a lot of this is institutional.

01:44:38.716 --> 01:44:40.738
Like I have pushed – I'm –

01:44:41.826 --> 01:44:46.488
generally relatively healthy um my wife in

01:44:46.528 --> 01:44:49.149
particular has um you know seen a lot

01:44:49.168 --> 01:44:51.609
more doctors relatively than i have and i

01:44:51.630 --> 01:44:53.130
mentioned her because like i've tried to

01:44:53.350 --> 01:44:55.211
get her to push her doctors towards things

01:44:55.251 --> 01:44:57.231
like using signal instead of whatever

01:44:57.292 --> 01:44:59.832
weird platform they're on or something and

01:44:59.993 --> 01:45:01.233
a lot of the time the doctors don't

01:45:01.293 --> 01:45:02.453
really have control over that

01:45:02.654 --> 01:45:04.234
a lot of the time they'll, you know,

01:45:04.274 --> 01:45:04.854
they're like, oh,

01:45:05.055 --> 01:45:06.416
I do use Signal in my personal life.

01:45:06.435 --> 01:45:07.237
I'm totally cool with it,

01:45:07.976 --> 01:45:09.778
but I am required to use this platform

01:45:09.978 --> 01:45:13.539
because either it's not their practice and

01:45:13.579 --> 01:45:14.940
they have to do whatever their boss tells

01:45:14.961 --> 01:45:15.360
them to do,

01:45:15.400 --> 01:45:16.641
just like you do at your job,

01:45:17.323 --> 01:45:17.382
or

01:45:18.323 --> 01:45:20.444
there's like healthcare is so heavily

01:45:20.503 --> 01:45:22.386
regulated that even though HIPAA isn't

01:45:22.426 --> 01:45:23.326
really about privacy,

01:45:23.666 --> 01:45:26.268
there are very strict rules about who has

01:45:26.287 --> 01:45:27.609
to be able to access that data.

01:45:28.189 --> 01:45:30.010
And it does have to be transparent to

01:45:30.050 --> 01:45:30.371
a point,

01:45:30.770 --> 01:45:31.791
to the point where a lot of them

01:45:31.831 --> 01:45:34.512
can't use something like signal because

01:45:34.552 --> 01:45:35.713
like, again,

01:45:35.753 --> 01:45:36.914
like their boss has to be able to

01:45:36.994 --> 01:45:38.175
access it in the case of an audit

01:45:38.234 --> 01:45:39.536
or something along those lines.

01:45:40.117 --> 01:45:41.818
So that's a,

01:45:44.313 --> 01:45:44.453
It's,

01:45:44.573 --> 01:45:47.015
it's hard because in a lot of cases

01:45:47.055 --> 01:45:48.435
they might be totally willing to,

01:45:49.216 --> 01:45:51.097
it's just not something they actually can

01:45:51.398 --> 01:45:51.658
do.

01:45:51.917 --> 01:45:53.019
It's, it's beyond their control.

01:45:53.059 --> 01:45:55.140
They don't have the authority to make that

01:45:55.180 --> 01:45:55.440
call.

01:45:55.900 --> 01:45:56.341
Another thing,

01:45:56.461 --> 01:45:57.662
I think you may have mentioned this.

01:45:58.101 --> 01:45:58.403
Cause again,

01:45:58.422 --> 01:45:59.622
I was kind of skimming while I was

01:45:59.643 --> 01:46:00.123
listening to you,

01:46:00.724 --> 01:46:02.364
but there's a logistical thing.

01:46:02.425 --> 01:46:04.086
If we are talking about an office and

01:46:04.105 --> 01:46:05.087
not a single practice,

01:46:05.106 --> 01:46:08.729
like a single person, it's, you know, I,

01:46:08.869 --> 01:46:10.470
and my last job, we were using LastPass,

01:46:10.990 --> 01:46:12.152
probably still using LastPass.

01:46:12.752 --> 01:46:13.552
And I,

01:46:15.730 --> 01:46:17.993
would very openly kind of like, haha, JK,

01:46:18.014 --> 01:46:18.614
but not really.

01:46:18.994 --> 01:46:20.738
But I would very regularly like criticize

01:46:20.757 --> 01:46:21.238
the IT guys.

01:46:21.257 --> 01:46:21.738
I'm like, man,

01:46:21.779 --> 01:46:22.619
I can't believe we're still using

01:46:22.680 --> 01:46:23.161
LastPass.

01:46:23.600 --> 01:46:24.722
And they would point out, it's like, no,

01:46:24.783 --> 01:46:25.663
I totally agree with you.

01:46:26.625 --> 01:46:28.186
There's a thousand people in the company.

01:46:29.082 --> 01:46:30.042
across the country.

01:46:31.463 --> 01:46:33.645
Switching off LastPass is not easy,

01:46:33.784 --> 01:46:34.826
especially when you're talking about

01:46:34.865 --> 01:46:36.247
people that are not necessarily tech

01:46:36.266 --> 01:46:41.029
savvy, that don't... Yeah, for you or me,

01:46:41.090 --> 01:46:42.390
switching to another password manager is

01:46:42.430 --> 01:46:42.690
cake.

01:46:42.730 --> 01:46:44.271
But for a thousand people who, again,

01:46:44.591 --> 01:46:46.113
some of them call in every single day

01:46:46.274 --> 01:46:47.474
asking, how do I get into my email?

01:46:47.875 --> 01:46:51.096
It's a huge lift to migrate your entire

01:46:51.157 --> 01:46:52.698
infrastructure over to another provider.

01:46:53.238 --> 01:46:54.059
And then there's cost,

01:46:54.219 --> 01:46:56.661
which I know a lot of healthcare is...

01:46:59.591 --> 01:47:01.231
Let me politely say that cost should not

01:47:01.252 --> 01:47:02.332
be an issue for some of them.

01:47:02.753 --> 01:47:03.914
But here in the US, at least,

01:47:03.935 --> 01:47:05.475
a lot of them are for-profit entities,

01:47:05.496 --> 01:47:06.337
which means they're going to want to go

01:47:06.356 --> 01:47:07.738
with things that are inexpensive,

01:47:08.018 --> 01:47:09.538
which is going to automatically rule out

01:47:09.559 --> 01:47:10.720
Proton, for example.

01:47:12.542 --> 01:47:12.962
So, I mean,

01:47:13.221 --> 01:47:15.243
there's just so many factors that go into

01:47:15.304 --> 01:47:15.423
it.

01:47:15.484 --> 01:47:19.407
But I think, yeah,

01:47:20.729 --> 01:47:21.628
I also want to agree with what you

01:47:21.649 --> 01:47:24.532
said about it's very...

01:47:26.201 --> 01:47:28.141
How you ask is usually very helpful,

01:47:28.242 --> 01:47:30.423
like especially in some places,

01:47:30.444 --> 01:47:32.244
they're just used to people being entitled

01:47:32.364 --> 01:47:35.426
and frustrated and snappy.

01:47:36.087 --> 01:47:38.387
And so asking politely, like, you know,

01:47:38.448 --> 01:47:40.389
hey, I don't really like Zoom.

01:47:40.469 --> 01:47:41.609
Can we use something else for this

01:47:41.630 --> 01:47:43.570
appointment is going to make them a lot

01:47:43.610 --> 01:47:44.591
more likely to work with you if they

01:47:44.631 --> 01:47:47.953
can.

01:47:48.033 --> 01:47:50.114
I think I saw something in here where

01:47:50.154 --> 01:47:51.136
people were arguing about

01:47:52.841 --> 01:47:55.643
Because there was a section here where the

01:47:55.662 --> 01:47:57.305
original poster said something about like,

01:47:59.686 --> 01:48:00.167
okay, here it is.

01:48:00.186 --> 01:48:01.488
So they said health workers don't have to

01:48:01.528 --> 01:48:01.828
care.

01:48:01.868 --> 01:48:04.229
And they pointed out that like doctors are

01:48:04.331 --> 01:48:05.411
overflowing with patients.

01:48:05.591 --> 01:48:06.532
So it's like, it's almost,

01:48:06.551 --> 01:48:07.432
and I think you mentioned this too.

01:48:07.453 --> 01:48:08.713
It's almost like if you're being

01:48:08.734 --> 01:48:09.134
difficult,

01:48:09.194 --> 01:48:10.154
they just don't even have to work with

01:48:10.175 --> 01:48:10.274
you.

01:48:10.314 --> 01:48:11.235
There's like a line of,

01:48:11.496 --> 01:48:13.497
there's a literal waiting list in most

01:48:13.518 --> 01:48:14.479
places, right?

01:48:14.658 --> 01:48:15.399
But at the same time,

01:48:15.819 --> 01:48:16.841
we could weaponize that as well.

01:48:16.921 --> 01:48:18.363
And I understand not everybody has the

01:48:18.403 --> 01:48:19.484
time to be politically involved,

01:48:19.884 --> 01:48:23.148
but to call your representatives or email

01:48:23.188 --> 01:48:24.850
them once in a while, once a month,

01:48:25.390 --> 01:48:26.310
and say, hey,

01:48:26.730 --> 01:48:28.052
I really think we need better privacy

01:48:28.092 --> 01:48:28.372
laws.

01:48:29.795 --> 01:48:30.314
In this thread,

01:48:30.335 --> 01:48:31.737
they pointed out that when they're talking

01:48:31.756 --> 01:48:33.377
about trying to convince the doctor's

01:48:33.417 --> 01:48:33.958
office to move,

01:48:34.640 --> 01:48:36.400
they mentioned that Gmail has had

01:48:37.221 --> 01:48:39.623
so many fines for not handling patient

01:48:39.663 --> 01:48:41.645
data properly or user data properly and

01:48:41.685 --> 01:48:43.046
stuff like that, which for the record,

01:48:43.126 --> 01:48:44.006
I don't think that's going to work on

01:48:44.046 --> 01:48:45.207
them because, you know, they're like, Oh,

01:48:45.226 --> 01:48:46.807
but we use the HIPAA version that blah,

01:48:46.828 --> 01:48:47.268
blah, blah, blah.

01:48:47.287 --> 01:48:48.429
And again, HIPAA,

01:48:48.509 --> 01:48:50.130
there's not privacy anywhere in that

01:48:50.170 --> 01:48:50.390
title.

01:48:50.430 --> 01:48:51.711
But anyways, it's, you know,

01:48:51.730 --> 01:48:52.891
if you call your representatives and

01:48:52.912 --> 01:48:53.292
you're like, Hey,

01:48:53.311 --> 01:48:54.712
a lot of these doctor's offices are using

01:48:55.033 --> 01:48:56.094
Microsoft and Gmail,

01:48:56.134 --> 01:48:58.194
who Microsoft especially has been hacked

01:48:58.234 --> 01:48:59.756
more times than I have fingers and toes

01:49:00.256 --> 01:49:02.358
and trying to institute it at a,

01:49:02.597 --> 01:49:02.618
a

01:49:04.123 --> 01:49:04.965
I want to say structural level,

01:49:04.984 --> 01:49:05.585
systemic level,

01:49:05.904 --> 01:49:08.086
at a systemic level where they don't have

01:49:08.105 --> 01:49:10.807
to care because there are options or it's

01:49:10.828 --> 01:49:12.389
like mandated that they have to use

01:49:12.408 --> 01:49:13.310
something that's encrypted.

01:49:13.770 --> 01:49:16.011
And now there will be a whole bunch

01:49:16.030 --> 01:49:17.452
of companies that spring up to serve that

01:49:17.492 --> 01:49:17.811
purpose.

01:49:17.832 --> 01:49:18.091
I don't know.

01:49:18.152 --> 01:49:18.292
I mean,

01:49:18.313 --> 01:49:19.632
that's kind of a long-term solution,

01:49:19.693 --> 01:49:19.832
but...

01:49:20.673 --> 01:49:21.253
I don't know.

01:49:21.395 --> 01:49:22.635
I guess what I'm getting at is like

01:49:22.675 --> 01:49:23.355
for individuals,

01:49:23.475 --> 01:49:24.716
I don't think there is that much you

01:49:24.737 --> 01:49:25.578
can do, unfortunately.

01:49:26.578 --> 01:49:27.698
If you are in a position where you

01:49:27.719 --> 01:49:28.920
can shop around and you can find a

01:49:28.960 --> 01:49:30.440
doctor who's like, yes, I use Signal.

01:49:30.900 --> 01:49:31.761
I encrypt everything.

01:49:32.563 --> 01:49:33.182
Awesome.

01:49:33.262 --> 01:49:33.743
That's great.

01:49:33.884 --> 01:49:36.364
And if you have that privilege,

01:49:36.385 --> 01:49:37.405
you totally should use it.

01:49:38.207 --> 01:49:39.146
But for the average person,

01:49:39.186 --> 01:49:40.408
I think the best you can do is

01:49:40.448 --> 01:49:42.770
just kind of like ask the doctor like

01:49:42.770 --> 01:49:43.529
–

01:49:42.930 --> 01:49:43.970
can you not write this down?

01:49:43.990 --> 01:49:45.070
Um, can you, you know,

01:49:45.270 --> 01:49:46.252
especially if it's something less

01:49:46.292 --> 01:49:46.731
important,

01:49:46.811 --> 01:49:48.132
like they do have to make notes about

01:49:48.153 --> 01:49:49.474
your medical care, but if it's like,

01:49:50.173 --> 01:49:50.395
you know,

01:49:50.515 --> 01:49:51.414
please don't write down anything

01:49:51.454 --> 01:49:51.854
essential.

01:49:51.935 --> 01:49:52.775
Like I,

01:49:52.916 --> 01:49:55.637
I had one therapist who said that, um,

01:49:55.658 --> 01:49:57.219
she did not write down actual

01:49:57.259 --> 01:49:57.899
conversations.

01:49:57.939 --> 01:49:59.859
She just wrote down like broad notes about

01:49:59.939 --> 01:50:00.640
what we talked about.

01:50:01.541 --> 01:50:03.202
Um, but like never quoted me or anything.

01:50:03.301 --> 01:50:05.604
So yeah, uh,

01:50:05.743 --> 01:50:07.625
I've always advocated for like using alias

01:50:07.704 --> 01:50:09.145
email, alias phone numbers.

01:50:09.166 --> 01:50:10.667
Uh, that's more of a data breach thing,

01:50:10.726 --> 01:50:10.867
but

01:50:11.569 --> 01:50:11.810
Yeah.

01:50:11.829 --> 01:50:13.612
So, I mean, it's it's tricky, man.

01:50:15.054 --> 01:50:15.554
I mean, real quick,

01:50:15.573 --> 01:50:16.494
let me go back and check and see

01:50:16.515 --> 01:50:17.256
what Mike said here.

01:50:18.698 --> 01:50:19.438
I could explain a bit.

01:50:19.819 --> 01:50:21.119
There's a really big time constraint to

01:50:21.140 --> 01:50:22.280
see more patients and to keep up.

01:50:22.320 --> 01:50:22.462
Yeah.

01:50:22.542 --> 01:50:23.563
So that's a true thing, too.

01:50:23.882 --> 01:50:25.744
Doctors are really like, again,

01:50:25.784 --> 01:50:27.087
they have literal waiting lists.

01:50:27.146 --> 01:50:28.528
Like there's so many patients that need to

01:50:28.547 --> 01:50:29.009
be seen.

01:50:29.529 --> 01:50:31.171
And contrary to some stereotypes.

01:50:31.730 --> 01:50:33.572
I think most doctors are actually trying

01:50:33.612 --> 01:50:34.492
to help their patients.

01:50:34.551 --> 01:50:35.931
Like they're not all just like selfish and

01:50:35.971 --> 01:50:36.551
in it for the money.

01:50:37.072 --> 01:50:38.393
And so when they've got to see a

01:50:38.432 --> 01:50:39.073
million patients,

01:50:39.092 --> 01:50:40.292
but they've also got to make notes in

01:50:40.332 --> 01:50:41.512
between the care and they've got to,

01:50:41.953 --> 01:50:43.554
you know, send prescriptions,

01:50:43.573 --> 01:50:44.953
they've got to respond to messages and

01:50:44.974 --> 01:50:45.673
this, that, and the other.

01:50:45.694 --> 01:50:46.835
Um,

01:50:46.895 --> 01:50:47.795
a lot of the time is used for

01:50:47.835 --> 01:50:49.154
filing documents and insurance,

01:50:49.215 --> 01:50:49.994
legal documents,

01:50:50.175 --> 01:50:52.055
using AI for the slow typers helps.

01:50:52.336 --> 01:50:53.496
Um, that's another thing.

01:50:53.555 --> 01:50:54.636
If they are using AI,

01:50:54.676 --> 01:50:55.817
they have to fact check it and make

01:50:58.600 --> 01:51:00.122
But yeah, like you said, most importantly,

01:51:00.143 --> 01:51:01.203
they just don't understand that they are

01:51:01.224 --> 01:51:01.885
just employees.

01:51:02.324 --> 01:51:02.564
Yeah.

01:51:02.826 --> 01:51:04.447
So there have to be records.

01:51:04.466 --> 01:51:05.729
They use the most well-known ones like

01:51:05.769 --> 01:51:06.609
Teams and Gmail.

01:51:07.451 --> 01:51:08.452
Quick note, saw this all,

01:51:08.752 --> 01:51:09.872
has been a member for five months and

01:51:09.893 --> 01:51:10.694
said, keep up the good work.

01:51:10.713 --> 01:51:11.734
So thank you so much.

01:51:11.774 --> 01:51:14.118
But yeah, it's just...

01:51:15.341 --> 01:51:16.202
I think the best you can do is

01:51:16.242 --> 01:51:17.403
to ask nicely.

01:51:17.722 --> 01:51:19.323
Like that's, that's really my,

01:51:19.344 --> 01:51:20.604
I don't know if this is a common

01:51:20.625 --> 01:51:20.864
phrase.

01:51:20.904 --> 01:51:21.585
I feel like I don't hear it a

01:51:21.604 --> 01:51:21.725
lot,

01:51:21.744 --> 01:51:22.845
but my mother used to have this phrase

01:51:22.865 --> 01:51:24.926
that you catch more flies with honey than

01:51:24.947 --> 01:51:25.266
vinegar.

01:51:26.127 --> 01:51:27.408
And basically what she always meant was

01:51:27.427 --> 01:51:27.988
just like, you know,

01:51:28.108 --> 01:51:30.109
it like you get better results when you're

01:51:30.149 --> 01:51:30.729
nice to people.

01:51:31.369 --> 01:51:31.770
So yeah.

01:51:32.791 --> 01:51:35.113
I definitely would not go in there talking

01:51:35.234 --> 01:51:36.335
about like, oh, you know,

01:51:36.395 --> 01:51:37.577
Gmail's reading our emails.

01:51:37.617 --> 01:51:38.117
Because again,

01:51:38.478 --> 01:51:40.220
they don't understand that companies will

01:51:40.260 --> 01:51:41.121
do this stuff anyways.

01:51:41.801 --> 01:51:42.922
And they'll just say like, oh,

01:51:42.943 --> 01:51:43.804
but they're not supposed to do that

01:51:43.823 --> 01:51:45.666
because we have this special, again,

01:51:45.826 --> 01:51:47.368
like a lot of these companies do have

01:51:47.847 --> 01:51:49.229
a HIPAA compliant version that is

01:51:49.250 --> 01:51:51.011
specifically for medical companies.

01:51:51.231 --> 01:51:52.212
And so they'll be like, no, no, no,

01:51:52.231 --> 01:51:53.372
we're using this different version.

01:51:53.432 --> 01:51:54.353
And they don't understand that like,

01:51:54.372 --> 01:51:55.733
that doesn't really matter because again,

01:51:55.773 --> 01:51:56.913
HIPAA has nothing to do with privacy.

01:51:57.474 --> 01:51:57.894
But you know,

01:51:57.974 --> 01:51:59.073
if you go in there with like,

01:51:59.173 --> 01:51:59.434
I'm just,

01:51:59.493 --> 01:52:01.015
I'm really concerned about this stuff and

01:52:01.675 --> 01:52:02.555
it makes me uncomfortable.

01:52:02.675 --> 01:52:02.935
And like,

01:52:03.015 --> 01:52:04.176
I would prefer to use something else.

01:52:04.416 --> 01:52:05.916
And I think again,

01:52:05.935 --> 01:52:06.855
if you're kind about it,

01:52:06.957 --> 01:52:09.537
I think people will be much more likely

01:52:09.556 --> 01:52:11.217
to work with you as best they can.

01:52:11.677 --> 01:52:12.597
But yeah,

01:52:12.698 --> 01:52:14.498
unfortunately the privacy situation in

01:52:14.519 --> 01:52:15.498
healthcare kind of sucks.

01:52:17.188 --> 01:52:19.189
I think one other interesting thing that I

01:52:19.229 --> 01:52:20.890
think kind of happens with these doctors

01:52:21.011 --> 01:52:21.511
is like,

01:52:21.890 --> 01:52:24.934
like Mike last name said in the chat,

01:52:24.953 --> 01:52:26.914
like basically doctors don't really have

01:52:26.975 --> 01:52:28.815
time to read the privacy policies of every

01:52:28.836 --> 01:52:29.436
tool they're using.

01:52:29.917 --> 01:52:31.677
And a lot of times these,

01:52:31.898 --> 01:52:33.800
these vendors of these, of these software,

01:52:33.939 --> 01:52:35.461
like they'll, they'll say, Oh, it's,

01:52:35.661 --> 01:52:37.521
it's got all this privacy stuff and it's

01:52:37.561 --> 01:52:37.962
like, it's,

01:52:38.162 --> 01:52:39.844
it's secure and it's not going to send

01:52:39.884 --> 01:52:40.444
it to anywhere.

01:52:41.045 --> 01:52:42.826
And I've been to multiple doctor's office

01:52:42.865 --> 01:52:45.247
and they're using AI transcription

01:52:45.307 --> 01:52:46.748
software and that software is,

01:52:47.069 --> 01:52:49.149
it's it's it says that it's private but

01:52:49.189 --> 01:52:51.551
it's sending all that to open ai but

01:52:51.591 --> 01:52:53.412
it's just zero retention like that's not

01:52:53.472 --> 01:52:57.135
very that's not very good like that's

01:52:57.336 --> 01:52:59.096
that's exactly what we don't want and it's

01:52:59.117 --> 01:53:01.417
a lot of times it's these vendors that

01:53:01.438 --> 01:53:03.139
are trying to sell to these to these

01:53:03.179 --> 01:53:05.501
medical practices that kind of get get it

01:53:05.860 --> 01:53:07.702
pull the wool over the eyes of these

01:53:07.742 --> 01:53:09.884
doctors and basically you know tell them

01:53:10.104 --> 01:53:11.465
you're going to save so much time if

01:53:11.484 --> 01:53:13.286
you use this tool and like you know

01:53:13.826 --> 01:53:15.207
it's completely private and it's,

01:53:15.427 --> 01:53:16.047
it's no problem.

01:53:16.149 --> 01:53:16.788
And, you know,

01:53:16.849 --> 01:53:20.273
I think you have to be a bit

01:53:20.313 --> 01:53:20.733
genuine.

01:53:20.773 --> 01:53:22.715
Like you have to, you have to say,

01:53:22.775 --> 01:53:24.757
if you say no to them using these,

01:53:25.377 --> 01:53:27.060
this piece of these pieces of software,

01:53:27.100 --> 01:53:29.122
like if it's AI transcription or if it's

01:53:29.743 --> 01:53:32.045
some other like medical system they use

01:53:32.064 --> 01:53:33.567
for booking appointments or something like

01:53:33.606 --> 01:53:34.127
that, um,

01:53:35.497 --> 01:53:36.720
I've just never seen email.

01:53:36.939 --> 01:53:39.922
I've never seen anyone emailing patient

01:53:39.962 --> 01:53:40.524
records around.

01:53:40.583 --> 01:53:41.824
So that's very bizarre to me.

01:53:42.006 --> 01:53:44.588
But I guess if they're using an email

01:53:44.628 --> 01:53:45.048
system,

01:53:45.189 --> 01:53:47.652
convincing them to switch might be

01:53:47.712 --> 01:53:48.193
possible.

01:53:48.252 --> 01:53:49.493
But I feel like that's a bit more

01:53:49.533 --> 01:53:50.114
of a,

01:53:50.154 --> 01:53:51.936
that's definitely a bit more of a harder

01:53:51.976 --> 01:53:53.319
thing to get them to do, I think.

01:53:54.757 --> 01:53:55.837
Yeah, I don't, to clarify,

01:53:55.858 --> 01:53:56.618
I don't know if they use it to

01:53:56.719 --> 01:53:58.298
email patient records, but I mean,

01:53:58.319 --> 01:53:59.338
that was another thing that I was thinking

01:53:59.359 --> 01:54:00.640
about while you were talking on that note

01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:02.680
is it's, you know,

01:54:02.720 --> 01:54:03.980
coupling what Mike said about like,

01:54:04.001 --> 01:54:05.421
they have so many patients to see.

01:54:05.841 --> 01:54:06.202
Okay.

01:54:06.381 --> 01:54:08.202
And so when you have to see,

01:54:08.662 --> 01:54:11.103
when you have eight hours in a day

01:54:11.302 --> 01:54:11.882
and you need to see

01:54:14.091 --> 01:54:16.854
And they all have questions and concerns.

01:54:17.015 --> 01:54:19.238
And I'm hitting that age where every time

01:54:19.278 --> 01:54:20.399
my leg starts hurting a little bit,

01:54:20.439 --> 01:54:21.841
I'm like, maybe I have a blood clot.

01:54:21.881 --> 01:54:24.404
Maybe I should go to the doctor.

01:54:24.484 --> 01:54:26.947
When you have patients like that all day,

01:54:27.106 --> 01:54:27.587
and again,

01:54:27.608 --> 01:54:28.949
you need to take notes in between and

01:54:28.970 --> 01:54:29.911
the billing and the filing.

01:54:30.350 --> 01:54:32.131
And so now you're saying like, Oh,

01:54:32.171 --> 01:54:34.193
but I want them to like store everything

01:54:34.353 --> 01:54:35.712
offline in Libra office.

01:54:36.073 --> 01:54:36.293
Okay.

01:54:36.354 --> 01:54:37.694
And what happens when you move and they

01:54:37.713 --> 01:54:39.175
need to transfer your medical record to

01:54:39.215 --> 01:54:39.574
someone else,

01:54:39.635 --> 01:54:40.815
or they need to get your medical,

01:54:40.876 --> 01:54:42.235
we already have a huge problem in this

01:54:42.275 --> 01:54:43.176
country, in this country,

01:54:43.195 --> 01:54:44.476
in the U S I think it's probably

01:54:44.497 --> 01:54:45.577
better in other places, I hope.

01:54:45.938 --> 01:54:46.217
But like,

01:54:46.478 --> 01:54:47.438
we already have a huge problem where

01:54:47.557 --> 01:54:49.458
nobody uses a standardized medical system.

01:54:49.899 --> 01:54:51.720
So like every time my wife and I

01:54:51.779 --> 01:54:53.440
move and you know, it's like, Oh,

01:54:53.480 --> 01:54:54.881
now we're closer to a different doctor.

01:54:54.900 --> 01:54:56.042
So let's start going here instead.

01:54:56.542 --> 01:54:58.703
It's this huge pain in the ass to

01:54:58.762 --> 01:55:00.523
get the medical records transferred from

01:55:00.662 --> 01:55:01.623
one place to another.

01:55:02.304 --> 01:55:02.944
And, you know,

01:55:03.024 --> 01:55:05.225
it's just like everything is fragmented.

01:55:06.164 --> 01:55:07.364
And, you know,

01:55:07.445 --> 01:55:08.725
it's more work is what I'm getting at.

01:55:08.765 --> 01:55:10.246
Like if you're the one who's like,

01:55:10.747 --> 01:55:12.306
I'm the only person who's saying, hey,

01:55:12.367 --> 01:55:13.327
don't use this system.

01:55:13.747 --> 01:55:15.047
You're one person out of, again,

01:55:15.108 --> 01:55:17.109
five hundred on a waiting list and they

01:55:17.128 --> 01:55:17.748
don't care.

01:55:17.868 --> 01:55:19.128
And it's going to make it quicker for

01:55:19.168 --> 01:55:20.109
me to give you care.

01:55:20.149 --> 01:55:21.430
Like that's what the doctors are saying.

01:55:22.774 --> 01:55:25.135
are interested in so it's just there's

01:55:25.175 --> 01:55:26.735
there's so many things working against us

01:55:26.756 --> 01:55:28.277
which is why again i'm kind of i

01:55:28.317 --> 01:55:29.497
know it's hard work and i know i

01:55:29.518 --> 01:55:31.279
can't ask that of everybody but i'm kind

01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:32.179
of at the point where it's like this

01:55:32.198 --> 01:55:33.300
needs to be one of those things that

01:55:33.319 --> 01:55:35.640
like trickles down from the top where like

01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:38.542
we have these good privacy laws that say

01:55:39.283 --> 01:55:40.863
you know medical emails have to be

01:55:41.684 --> 01:55:43.345
end-to-end encrypted or encrypted at rest.

01:55:43.385 --> 01:55:45.206
These systems have to enforce two-factor

01:55:45.225 --> 01:55:47.127
authentication.

01:55:47.186 --> 01:55:49.988
These kind of technical requirements that

01:55:50.028 --> 01:55:50.929
will give us privacy,

01:55:50.948 --> 01:55:53.050
that it is illegal to share data with

01:55:53.109 --> 01:55:54.831
third parties for anything other than

01:55:54.871 --> 01:55:57.311
research purposes or something like that.

01:55:57.591 --> 01:56:00.113
We need something at a systemic level so

01:56:00.154 --> 01:56:02.055
that doctors and nurses don't need to care

01:56:02.074 --> 01:56:03.215
about this stuff anymore because it's

01:56:03.295 --> 01:56:05.515
built into the systems they use,

01:56:05.576 --> 01:56:07.077
which is really what we need at all

01:56:07.117 --> 01:56:08.278
levels, not just healthcare,

01:56:08.337 --> 01:56:09.118
but I digress.

01:56:09.198 --> 01:56:10.078
I'm kind of rambling now.

01:56:10.118 --> 01:56:10.698
So yeah.

01:56:12.443 --> 01:56:12.842
Yeah.

01:56:12.943 --> 01:56:13.143
I mean,

01:56:13.222 --> 01:56:15.864
I think a lot of vendors that are

01:56:15.885 --> 01:56:17.365
trying to sell this software to doctors,

01:56:17.405 --> 01:56:19.567
they do think that they are providing that

01:56:19.606 --> 01:56:20.006
right now.

01:56:20.287 --> 01:56:22.109
They think that zero retention sending

01:56:22.168 --> 01:56:25.170
your transcription to OpenAI is fine.

01:56:25.350 --> 01:56:27.351
But yeah,

01:56:27.551 --> 01:56:29.393
I think it's kind of frustrating because

01:56:31.217 --> 01:56:34.341
usually if it's an AI transcription

01:56:34.400 --> 01:56:34.921
locally,

01:56:35.442 --> 01:56:36.944
that's going to be a lot more expensive,

01:56:36.984 --> 01:56:37.323
isn't it?

01:56:37.505 --> 01:56:38.565
Because you've got to have a whole,

01:56:39.166 --> 01:56:39.386
you know,

01:56:39.546 --> 01:56:41.108
a whole beefy computer to run that.

01:56:41.328 --> 01:56:41.969
So, you know,

01:56:41.988 --> 01:56:43.109
it's definitely a harder sell.

01:56:43.690 --> 01:56:45.872
So I kind of understand why a lot

01:56:45.893 --> 01:56:47.975
of times these systems that are like

01:56:48.034 --> 01:56:50.957
relying on external third parties and

01:56:50.997 --> 01:56:54.221
stuff is kind of becoming more

01:56:56.328 --> 01:56:56.708
popular.

01:56:57.130 --> 01:56:57.350
It said,

01:56:57.869 --> 01:56:59.631
so Mike Lastname has kind of put a

01:56:59.791 --> 01:57:00.810
couple more comments.

01:57:04.453 --> 01:57:06.033
Not only the privacy policies,

01:57:06.054 --> 01:57:07.213
but also in general,

01:57:07.434 --> 01:57:11.515
they don't understand how computers work

01:57:12.657 --> 01:57:14.438
as thinking maybe we as the clinic or

01:57:14.478 --> 01:57:15.797
mail service could get hacked.

01:57:16.519 --> 01:57:17.738
Yeah, I don't think they think about,

01:57:17.779 --> 01:57:19.899
they don't think about like the

01:57:19.939 --> 01:57:21.541
cybersecurity risks and such.

01:57:21.980 --> 01:57:23.242
It kind of sucks though, because with

01:57:24.979 --> 01:57:26.862
With the medical field,

01:57:27.162 --> 01:57:29.064
you kind of do have to store records

01:57:29.123 --> 01:57:29.564
on people.

01:57:30.083 --> 01:57:32.286
I need to have records of my treatment

01:57:32.326 --> 01:57:34.007
so my doctor can understand how to treat

01:57:34.028 --> 01:57:37.911
me the best.

01:57:38.051 --> 01:57:38.792
In other areas,

01:57:38.832 --> 01:57:40.974
it's like minimal data retention is the

01:57:40.993 --> 01:57:41.333
best.

01:57:41.675 --> 01:57:43.095
But in this specific case,

01:57:43.555 --> 01:57:45.417
maximum data retention is the most

01:57:45.478 --> 01:57:47.378
important because if someone doesn't

01:57:47.439 --> 01:57:48.260
understand your...

01:57:49.560 --> 01:57:52.742
your needs or your issues then they're not

01:57:52.761 --> 01:57:53.483
going to be able to give you the

01:57:53.523 --> 01:57:57.163
correct care um and I think the other

01:57:57.184 --> 01:57:58.805
thing that Nate said about like the data

01:57:58.824 --> 01:58:00.564
transfer stuff I think that's another

01:58:00.585 --> 01:58:04.426
thing that we could definitely improve um

01:58:04.447 --> 01:58:05.907
it's never been an issue for me but

01:58:06.186 --> 01:58:08.328
I guess it could be I guess because

01:58:08.368 --> 01:58:11.389
you kind of have that I'm not sure

01:58:11.429 --> 01:58:12.630
it's I always thought it was

01:58:14.502 --> 01:58:16.542
done through like a government run system

01:58:16.603 --> 01:58:18.465
here, but maybe I guess through,

01:58:18.564 --> 01:58:20.405
through your system, it's kind of like,

01:58:20.786 --> 01:58:22.948
it's just different private companies kind

01:58:22.988 --> 01:58:24.448
of managing the records.

01:58:25.269 --> 01:58:26.010
Um, so it, it,

01:58:27.648 --> 01:58:28.609
I mean, a little bit off topic.

01:58:28.689 --> 01:58:30.628
It's not usually a huge issue for us.

01:58:30.829 --> 01:58:32.791
Usually my wife just calls the old clinic

01:58:32.810 --> 01:58:33.350
and goes, hey,

01:58:33.390 --> 01:58:34.770
I've moved to this other doctor because we

01:58:34.832 --> 01:58:35.212
moved.

01:58:35.252 --> 01:58:36.252
And, you know,

01:58:36.332 --> 01:58:37.912
I've she fills out a form and we

01:58:37.953 --> 01:58:39.854
scan it and there's your email.

01:58:39.913 --> 01:58:41.994
Actually, we email it to them or whatever.

01:58:42.135 --> 01:58:43.055
And they, you know,

01:58:43.355 --> 01:58:45.095
send over the medical records.

01:58:45.157 --> 01:58:48.238
But it's definitely I have a friend who

01:58:48.557 --> 01:58:49.399
has he's a.

01:58:50.658 --> 01:58:51.600
a full stack developer.

01:58:51.659 --> 01:58:52.581
He's very experienced.

01:58:52.600 --> 01:58:55.002
He's a veteran and he's worked for a

01:58:55.042 --> 01:58:55.622
lot of startups.

01:58:55.643 --> 01:58:57.385
And one of his most recent was a

01:58:57.585 --> 01:58:58.386
healthcare startup.

01:58:58.886 --> 01:59:00.247
And that's what they were trying to do

01:59:00.287 --> 01:59:03.130
basically was trying to create a way to

01:59:04.030 --> 01:59:06.552
make it easier for healthcare companies to

01:59:06.613 --> 01:59:07.953
standardize record formats.

01:59:07.974 --> 01:59:09.654
So they were more easily transferable

01:59:10.176 --> 01:59:12.237
because again, we, like you were saying,

01:59:12.256 --> 01:59:12.557
we,

01:59:12.618 --> 01:59:16.440
we have a bunch of fragmented private

01:59:16.480 --> 01:59:17.702
companies here and,

01:59:17.881 --> 01:59:20.224
And so like on a technical level,

01:59:20.244 --> 01:59:21.326
like the database itself,

01:59:21.645 --> 01:59:23.528
the format for this company may not match

01:59:23.547 --> 01:59:24.649
the format for this company.

01:59:25.088 --> 01:59:26.109
So even if they do,

01:59:26.170 --> 01:59:27.971
it's almost like I don't know if you've

01:59:27.992 --> 01:59:28.733
had this experience,

01:59:28.752 --> 01:59:29.673
but I know it's pretty common here in

01:59:29.694 --> 01:59:30.954
America where like you'll go to apply for

01:59:30.975 --> 01:59:33.037
a job and sometimes it'll be like, oh,

01:59:33.056 --> 01:59:34.359
click here to upload your resume and you

01:59:34.439 --> 01:59:36.621
upload your resume and it's still wrong.

01:59:36.701 --> 01:59:37.582
And you have to go through and like

01:59:37.622 --> 01:59:39.524
manually reformat everything correctly,

01:59:39.543 --> 01:59:40.404
which is super annoying.

01:59:41.125 --> 01:59:41.786
It's kind of like that.

01:59:41.805 --> 01:59:43.667
It's like they might transfer the medical

01:59:43.707 --> 01:59:44.027
records,

01:59:44.367 --> 01:59:46.068
but they may still need to be cleaned

01:59:46.108 --> 01:59:47.349
up on the other side because there's no

01:59:47.408 --> 01:59:50.610
standard protocol for how they transfer.

01:59:52.735 --> 01:59:53.055
It's weird.

01:59:53.136 --> 01:59:54.197
I mean, I'm in the VA,

01:59:54.237 --> 01:59:55.056
so I've never had that problem,

01:59:55.096 --> 01:59:56.358
which actually I wanted to say that real

01:59:56.377 --> 01:59:56.578
quick.

01:59:56.938 --> 01:59:57.537
I thought that was funny.

01:59:57.557 --> 01:59:59.378
You were talking about like healthcare is

01:59:59.418 --> 02:00:00.439
kind of like the one time it makes

02:00:00.458 --> 02:00:02.739
sense to have maximum data retention.

02:00:03.180 --> 02:00:04.220
And this happened to me.

02:00:05.641 --> 02:00:06.721
I mean, full disclosure to everybody,

02:00:07.002 --> 02:00:08.703
I'm back on antidepressants now.

02:00:09.363 --> 02:00:11.663
And when I went to the VA and

02:00:11.684 --> 02:00:12.043
I was like, hey,

02:00:12.064 --> 02:00:13.324
I want to get back on antidepressants.

02:00:13.984 --> 02:00:15.565
And he like pulled up my record and

02:00:15.586 --> 02:00:16.046
he's like, oh,

02:00:16.086 --> 02:00:17.086
so you used to take this one.

02:00:17.426 --> 02:00:18.447
He's like, how much were you taking?

02:00:18.466 --> 02:00:18.806
And I'm like,

02:00:20.690 --> 02:00:21.471
What do you mean how much was I

02:00:21.511 --> 02:00:21.631
taking?

02:00:21.652 --> 02:00:22.613
Shouldn't that be in the record?

02:00:22.632 --> 02:00:22.792
Like,

02:00:22.872 --> 02:00:24.033
I don't know how much I was taking.

02:00:24.073 --> 02:00:25.435
That was four years ago.

02:00:26.817 --> 02:00:27.637
And for some reason,

02:00:27.858 --> 02:00:29.439
the dosage that I was on was not

02:00:29.560 --> 02:00:30.541
in the medical record.

02:00:30.581 --> 02:00:31.440
It was super weird.

02:00:31.520 --> 02:00:32.341
But yeah,

02:00:32.362 --> 02:00:33.422
it's like the one time that it's like,

02:00:33.443 --> 02:00:34.163
that was four years ago.

02:00:34.184 --> 02:00:35.685
Why should I know what my dosage was?

02:00:35.746 --> 02:00:36.907
I thought you guys handled that.

02:00:38.448 --> 02:00:38.828
So yeah,

02:00:39.628 --> 02:00:43.092
that's our lovely fragmented system around

02:00:43.153 --> 02:00:43.332
here.

02:00:44.957 --> 02:00:46.519
yeah it is kind of I don't know

02:00:46.859 --> 02:00:49.618
I've definitely run into issues similar to

02:00:49.639 --> 02:00:53.480
that like people not having the correct

02:00:53.541 --> 02:00:56.480
information or like assuming things um

02:00:57.282 --> 02:00:58.881
it's not great but I think yeah I

02:00:58.902 --> 02:01:00.143
do think it is kind of important to

02:01:00.182 --> 02:01:02.403
have that data in in the medical field

02:01:02.622 --> 02:01:04.583
um especially I don't know like

02:01:06.186 --> 02:01:08.868
I think having good notes on people's

02:01:08.988 --> 02:01:10.350
conditions is kind of important.

02:01:10.409 --> 02:01:10.949
Unfortunately,

02:01:10.970 --> 02:01:13.752
like we would rather that that information

02:01:13.851 --> 02:01:16.194
isn't stored right because it can probably

02:01:16.234 --> 02:01:17.335
get breached at some point.

02:01:17.375 --> 02:01:19.435
But also like if you're seeing a lot

02:01:19.456 --> 02:01:21.197
of doctors and they kind of need to

02:01:21.237 --> 02:01:22.337
be able to coordinate together,

02:01:22.417 --> 02:01:24.198
it's kind of problematic if you don't have

02:01:24.238 --> 02:01:24.939
those notes.

02:01:28.261 --> 02:01:30.863
It looks like someone said here National

02:01:31.243 --> 02:01:34.006
Nurses United has been part of protesting

02:01:34.086 --> 02:01:35.247
Palantir campaign's

02:01:35.935 --> 02:01:37.358
Yeah, I know Palantir...

02:01:38.118 --> 02:01:41.704
Doesn't Palantir have stuff to do with the

02:01:41.744 --> 02:01:43.186
medical sector as well now?

02:01:43.207 --> 02:01:44.729
They're kind of moving into that as well?

02:01:45.610 --> 02:01:46.893
I don't know if I've heard about that,

02:01:46.912 --> 02:01:48.234
but it wouldn't surprise me because I'm

02:01:48.435 --> 02:01:48.735
really...

02:01:50.204 --> 02:01:50.966
For those who don't know,

02:01:51.065 --> 02:01:52.346
the interesting thing about Palantir is

02:01:52.386 --> 02:01:54.609
they technically don't do any surveillance

02:01:54.649 --> 02:01:55.711
or data collection themselves.

02:01:56.110 --> 02:01:57.773
What they do is they're kind of like

02:01:57.792 --> 02:01:58.673
my friend I just talked about.

02:01:59.215 --> 02:02:00.695
They're trying to figure out how to

02:02:00.996 --> 02:02:03.038
aggregate all the data and make it all

02:02:03.078 --> 02:02:04.420
talk to each other and then turn it

02:02:04.460 --> 02:02:05.360
over to law enforcement.

02:02:05.421 --> 02:02:06.802
So, I mean, yeah,

02:02:06.842 --> 02:02:07.984
healthcare seems like it would be an

02:02:08.003 --> 02:02:09.064
inevitable part of that mission.

02:02:09.284 --> 02:02:10.867
So if they're not moving in yet,

02:02:10.907 --> 02:02:11.868
I'm sure it's on the roadmap.

02:02:14.716 --> 02:02:14.996
Yeah.

02:02:15.077 --> 02:02:16.738
And then Mike, last name also said,

02:02:17.179 --> 02:02:19.240
there's also what we call defensive

02:02:19.280 --> 02:02:20.762
medicine where doctors want to make

02:02:20.802 --> 02:02:22.265
records of everything in the case they get

02:02:22.305 --> 02:02:22.845
a lawsuit.

02:02:23.506 --> 02:02:23.707
Yeah.

02:02:24.207 --> 02:02:24.887
Yeah.

02:02:25.548 --> 02:02:26.289
That's fair too.

02:02:26.470 --> 02:02:26.670
I mean,

02:02:26.970 --> 02:02:28.612
everyone's got to protect themselves.

02:02:28.693 --> 02:02:30.534
I think, yeah, especially doctors,

02:02:30.675 --> 02:02:30.895
I think,

02:02:31.114 --> 02:02:33.457
especially someone who's your primary care

02:02:33.478 --> 02:02:33.878
provider,

02:02:33.899 --> 02:02:34.559
they have kind of

02:02:35.720 --> 02:02:38.064
quite a lot of say over what care

02:02:38.083 --> 02:02:38.604
you receive.

02:02:38.645 --> 02:02:39.726
So it kind of makes sense.

02:02:40.648 --> 02:02:40.849
Yeah,

02:02:40.868 --> 02:02:42.251
we've talked about this one for a while.

02:02:42.270 --> 02:02:43.592
Do you have anything actually you want to

02:02:43.653 --> 02:02:45.414
add before we hop into this next forum

02:02:45.435 --> 02:02:45.695
post?

02:02:47.023 --> 02:02:48.064
Um, yeah, just real quick.

02:02:48.104 --> 02:02:49.244
I was going to say, uh, in,

02:02:49.364 --> 02:02:50.645
in response to what Mike said about the

02:02:50.966 --> 02:02:52.247
doctors keeping a record of lawsuits,

02:02:52.306 --> 02:02:53.447
I found out here in the U S

02:02:53.506 --> 02:02:54.747
at least in like emergency rooms,

02:02:55.429 --> 02:02:56.469
if I understand it correctly,

02:02:56.529 --> 02:02:58.270
it's almost like the doctors are like

02:02:58.451 --> 02:03:00.252
contractors renting out the rooms.

02:03:01.113 --> 02:03:01.432
Um,

02:03:01.453 --> 02:03:03.014
because the hospitals and the doctors will

02:03:03.033 --> 02:03:03.814
bill you separately,

02:03:03.873 --> 02:03:05.775
like to go see the doctor costs like

02:03:05.815 --> 02:03:06.855
two hundred and fifty bucks,

02:03:07.256 --> 02:03:08.818
but then you're paying like a thousand

02:03:08.858 --> 02:03:10.298
dollars for the aspirin and the room

02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:11.298
cleaning and all this kind of stuff.

02:03:11.319 --> 02:03:12.279
And they're like separate fees.

02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:13.161
But yeah,

02:03:13.220 --> 02:03:14.440
so doctors make a lot of money,

02:03:14.461 --> 02:03:15.641
but it's also because from what I

02:03:15.662 --> 02:03:16.643
understand, they're like,

02:03:17.382 --> 02:03:18.965
kind of a lot more on the hook

02:03:18.984 --> 02:03:20.265
for it like when you sue a doctor

02:03:20.284 --> 02:03:21.725
you're not suing the hospital you're suing

02:03:21.765 --> 02:03:24.889
the actual doctor so yeah that's um not

02:03:24.908 --> 02:03:26.350
saying that's a good system but yeah i

02:03:26.390 --> 02:03:28.610
totally get it for sure like you said

02:03:28.631 --> 02:03:31.533
you got to protect yourself that is the

02:03:31.552 --> 02:03:34.694
u.s health care system for you oh best

02:03:34.756 --> 02:03:37.117
country on the planet they tell me i'm

02:03:37.136 --> 02:03:38.757
not gonna get into that there's worse

02:03:38.778 --> 02:03:40.539
places i'll say that i uh i would

02:03:40.560 --> 02:03:42.261
rather be here than a lot of places

02:03:42.280 --> 02:03:44.662
in the world so um

02:03:45.783 --> 02:03:46.463
Moving on,

02:03:46.524 --> 02:03:48.305
the last forum post we were going to

02:03:48.345 --> 02:03:48.725
look at,

02:03:48.864 --> 02:03:51.086
is RCS with Google messages worth having

02:03:51.145 --> 02:03:52.546
Google on my phone?

02:03:53.167 --> 02:03:56.529
So this person has a graphene phone,

02:03:56.630 --> 02:03:57.649
and they're basically saying, like,

02:03:57.670 --> 02:03:58.631
I was kind of thinking about it,

02:03:59.051 --> 02:04:02.273
and I can totally take all the Google

02:04:02.292 --> 02:04:03.934
Play stuff off of my phone,

02:04:04.594 --> 02:04:07.095
except that I use Google and RCS.

02:04:07.256 --> 02:04:08.457
And so basically, they're saying, like,

02:04:08.556 --> 02:04:10.818
is it worth it to have this, like,

02:04:10.858 --> 02:04:12.319
totally de-Googled phone?

02:04:13.590 --> 02:04:15.731
But to go ahead and put some Google

02:04:15.851 --> 02:04:17.552
on it for the sake of getting access

02:04:17.592 --> 02:04:19.453
to RCS messages.

02:04:20.835 --> 02:04:22.877
And they do specifically mention that they

02:04:22.896 --> 02:04:24.778
say their closest contacts use Signal.

02:04:25.859 --> 02:04:28.400
But non-close contacts and random people,

02:04:28.581 --> 02:04:29.680
they always default to...

02:04:29.720 --> 02:04:31.061
They say they do live in the USA,

02:04:31.141 --> 02:04:33.003
so it's always just regular text message.

02:04:34.185 --> 02:04:34.925
I can confirm this one.

02:04:34.965 --> 02:04:36.326
You said you have to pull teeth to

02:04:36.345 --> 02:04:37.627
get them to use anything else.

02:04:39.167 --> 02:04:39.328
So...

02:04:40.828 --> 02:04:42.470
They're just kind of looking for a second

02:04:42.572 --> 02:04:42.992
opinion.

02:04:44.713 --> 02:04:45.354
Well, they do say,

02:04:45.395 --> 02:04:46.595
how do we know Google isn't lying about

02:04:46.615 --> 02:04:47.938
the encryption or isn't client-side

02:04:47.957 --> 02:04:48.679
scanning messages?

02:04:49.078 --> 02:04:50.320
I will tell you right now, actually,

02:04:51.122 --> 02:04:52.143
I'm assuming this is still true.

02:04:53.363 --> 02:04:54.746
I covered a story on Surveillance Report a

02:04:54.765 --> 02:04:56.787
long time ago where Google does actually

02:04:56.828 --> 02:04:58.350
make hashes of the message.

02:04:59.269 --> 02:05:00.449
And then compare the hashes.

02:05:00.470 --> 02:05:01.591
So they do actually know who you're

02:05:01.612 --> 02:05:02.131
talking to.

02:05:02.172 --> 02:05:03.854
They can't see the content of the message.

02:05:03.914 --> 02:05:05.036
But yeah,

02:05:05.456 --> 02:05:06.537
that's why I always tell people when I

02:05:06.557 --> 02:05:08.078
explain that RCS has an encryption,

02:05:08.099 --> 02:05:08.380
I'm like, yeah,

02:05:08.399 --> 02:05:10.341
it's better than not having it.

02:05:10.362 --> 02:05:11.262
But also at the same time,

02:05:11.302 --> 02:05:12.645
it's definitely not as good as something

02:05:12.685 --> 02:05:13.085
like Signal.

02:05:13.104 --> 02:05:16.248
I'm gonna have to go find that story.

02:05:16.328 --> 02:05:17.010
But yeah.

02:05:17.511 --> 02:05:17.872
Yeah.

02:05:18.092 --> 02:05:19.033
I mean, this is a,

02:05:19.073 --> 02:05:20.033
I think this is kind of a classic

02:05:20.054 --> 02:05:20.914
question for everybody, right?

02:05:20.954 --> 02:05:21.796
Cause you're always going to have the

02:05:21.815 --> 02:05:23.697
people that won't use signal or can't use

02:05:23.737 --> 02:05:25.838
signal or just like the one-off contacts

02:05:25.859 --> 02:05:27.439
that like, you know, again,

02:05:27.460 --> 02:05:28.360
at my last job, I,

02:05:28.560 --> 02:05:30.323
I interfaced with a lot of other trades

02:05:30.342 --> 02:05:30.983
and other jobs.

02:05:31.002 --> 02:05:32.264
And so I would have to give them

02:05:32.283 --> 02:05:33.604
a phone number to like call me or

02:05:33.625 --> 02:05:34.826
text me if they had any questions or

02:05:34.865 --> 02:05:35.167
anything.

02:05:36.287 --> 02:05:36.787
So, um,

02:05:38.296 --> 02:05:40.358
I think my thoughts are,

02:05:40.898 --> 02:05:42.158
it kind of depends.

02:05:42.238 --> 02:05:43.378
If that happens to you a lot,

02:05:43.439 --> 02:05:44.220
I'm at the point where,

02:05:44.800 --> 02:05:45.899
even before I took this job, like,

02:05:46.060 --> 02:05:47.640
ninety percent of my communications were

02:05:47.680 --> 02:05:48.121
on Signal,

02:05:48.841 --> 02:05:51.203
and the ten percent that weren't were

02:05:51.222 --> 02:05:52.502
mostly job-related stuff,

02:05:52.582 --> 02:05:53.463
like professional stuff.

02:05:53.484 --> 02:05:54.423
So it was like, okay,

02:05:55.203 --> 02:05:56.364
I don't really care if that's encrypted

02:05:56.404 --> 02:05:56.805
personally,

02:05:56.904 --> 02:05:58.046
and I would rather not have Google

02:05:58.065 --> 02:05:59.765
Messages and deal with that.

02:06:02.153 --> 02:06:02.934
I think if you're kind of in the

02:06:02.993 --> 02:06:04.113
opposite boat where it's like, okay,

02:06:04.154 --> 02:06:05.756
but only my closest friends and family are

02:06:05.796 --> 02:06:07.497
on Signal and the vast majority of

02:06:07.537 --> 02:06:08.637
messages I get are not,

02:06:09.278 --> 02:06:11.099
including some friends and family who just

02:06:11.140 --> 02:06:12.079
refuse to download Signal,

02:06:12.159 --> 02:06:13.240
I think that might change the math a

02:06:13.261 --> 02:06:13.581
little bit.

02:06:14.801 --> 02:06:16.724
Another thing worth considering is I

02:06:16.743 --> 02:06:18.524
believe Jonah has said in the past that

02:06:18.864 --> 02:06:21.106
RCS only works on certain carriers.

02:06:21.646 --> 02:06:24.328
And so you might have to check and

02:06:24.349 --> 02:06:26.951
make sure that your carrier is one of

02:06:26.970 --> 02:06:27.110
them.

02:06:28.752 --> 02:06:29.072
So, I mean,

02:06:29.152 --> 02:06:30.774
it kind of sucks because you're already

02:06:30.833 --> 02:06:31.054
like,

02:06:33.032 --> 02:06:34.273
it's already kind of getting narrowed

02:06:34.332 --> 02:06:34.552
down.

02:06:34.573 --> 02:06:36.012
It's not just as simple as like, okay,

02:06:36.073 --> 02:06:37.333
I have Google messages and now I've got

02:06:37.413 --> 02:06:38.154
RCS encryption.

02:06:38.173 --> 02:06:38.675
It's like, well,

02:06:39.154 --> 02:06:41.176
you've only got RCS encryption with other

02:06:41.195 --> 02:06:43.777
Google message users or Apple users or

02:06:43.877 --> 02:06:45.377
people that use this certain carrier.

02:06:45.457 --> 02:06:47.059
So I don't know.

02:06:47.118 --> 02:06:48.158
I don't think I can really give like

02:06:48.179 --> 02:06:48.979
a yes or no answer.

02:06:49.000 --> 02:06:50.881
I think it really just depends on you.

02:06:51.560 --> 02:06:52.581
I will say on Graphene,

02:06:52.600 --> 02:06:54.582
the nice thing about Graphene is that you

02:06:54.622 --> 02:06:56.363
do have a little bit of privacy because

02:06:56.382 --> 02:06:57.243
of the sandbox thing.

02:06:57.583 --> 02:06:58.963
I know that's more security than privacy

02:06:59.003 --> 02:06:59.625
per se, but...

02:07:00.545 --> 02:07:01.086
Um,

02:07:01.145 --> 02:07:02.266
I would probably be a little bit more

02:07:02.287 --> 02:07:03.467
willing to do it on a graphene phone

02:07:03.488 --> 02:07:04.467
than a regular phone, I guess.

02:07:04.507 --> 02:07:05.569
Although I guess with a regular phone and

02:07:05.588 --> 02:07:06.689
all the Google stuff would be built in

02:07:06.710 --> 02:07:06.850
there.

02:07:06.890 --> 02:07:08.030
So I guess, nevermind,

02:07:08.051 --> 02:07:08.872
that doesn't really make sense,

02:07:08.931 --> 02:07:10.493
but I don't know.

02:07:10.853 --> 02:07:11.854
I think it's really a personal thing,

02:07:11.894 --> 02:07:12.875
but I guess I just thought this

02:07:12.914 --> 02:07:13.676
interesting because again,

02:07:13.695 --> 02:07:14.917
this is a situation that I think a

02:07:14.957 --> 02:07:15.957
lot of people have been in where it's

02:07:15.976 --> 02:07:16.457
like, you only,

02:07:16.797 --> 02:07:18.038
you can only get so many people using

02:07:18.078 --> 02:07:18.779
encrypted messaging.

02:07:18.859 --> 02:07:20.581
So what's the right move.

02:07:20.621 --> 02:07:21.481
And, you know, as usual,

02:07:21.542 --> 02:07:23.422
I don't think there is one right answer,

02:07:23.502 --> 02:07:24.925
but I think those are kind of the

02:07:24.944 --> 02:07:27.306
factors that I would think about.

02:07:27.327 --> 02:07:27.806
Yeah.

02:07:29.230 --> 02:07:30.333
do you have any thoughts on that one

02:07:30.373 --> 02:07:32.319
I know you're I don't think you're like

02:07:32.359 --> 02:07:34.386
a daily Android user are you I know

02:07:34.405 --> 02:07:35.469
you have an Android but

02:07:37.162 --> 02:07:38.484
Um, yeah.

02:07:38.503 --> 02:07:39.585
Am I throwing you in the house?

02:07:39.625 --> 02:07:40.626
I'm sorry.

02:07:40.666 --> 02:07:42.867
I mean, yeah, I mean, yeah, I do.

02:07:43.087 --> 02:07:44.889
I use both like iOS and Android for

02:07:44.908 --> 02:07:45.548
different things.

02:07:46.109 --> 02:07:47.730
I think it's always like,

02:07:47.890 --> 02:07:49.051
there's weird people who are just like,

02:07:49.551 --> 02:07:50.972
I'll only ever use an Android.

02:07:51.073 --> 02:07:52.173
I'm never going to use an Apple.

02:07:52.293 --> 02:07:53.274
Apple is so bad.

02:07:53.314 --> 02:07:54.975
And it's like, well, you can use both.

02:07:55.015 --> 02:07:56.577
Like both have got good things about them,

02:07:56.778 --> 02:07:56.957
right?

02:07:56.978 --> 02:07:59.279
Like there's, there's positives to both.

02:07:59.819 --> 02:08:01.400
I think there's certainly more positives

02:08:01.480 --> 02:08:02.421
on the Android side,

02:08:02.442 --> 02:08:02.502
but

02:08:02.881 --> 02:08:04.483
a huge amount more positives but there's

02:08:04.542 --> 02:08:07.364
also some positives on the apple side as

02:08:07.404 --> 02:08:10.666
well so you know don't don't feel like

02:08:10.706 --> 02:08:12.367
you only have to use one type of

02:08:12.386 --> 02:08:15.149
device i think that's also another thing

02:08:15.248 --> 02:08:17.210
but yeah i think i agree with you

02:08:17.250 --> 02:08:19.131
though like i think you know if you're

02:08:19.150 --> 02:08:20.832
using this on graphene os though i feel

02:08:20.851 --> 02:08:22.853
like you're giving google significantly

02:08:22.953 --> 02:08:23.832
less information

02:08:25.274 --> 02:08:26.913
um than you would on like a google

02:08:27.173 --> 02:08:30.154
android device right like it's it's not as

02:08:30.215 --> 02:08:31.795
deeply integrated into the operating

02:08:31.835 --> 02:08:33.876
system it's just a standard app that you

02:08:33.935 --> 02:08:36.115
install um i think that would definitely

02:08:36.136 --> 02:08:39.155
be a good idea and i think considering

02:08:39.176 --> 02:08:41.796
the state of like of of cellular

02:08:41.837 --> 02:08:43.837
communication like remember i don't know

02:08:43.856 --> 02:08:46.238
if you remember but a couple of maybe

02:08:46.278 --> 02:08:47.597
maybe a year ago there was like a

02:08:47.658 --> 02:08:50.158
story about like um chinese

02:08:50.198 --> 02:08:52.338
state-sponsored hackers like inside the

02:08:52.498 --> 02:08:53.298
u.s like

02:08:53.800 --> 02:08:55.463
telecommunications infrastructure.

02:08:55.484 --> 02:08:57.989
Like I don't think you want to put

02:08:58.050 --> 02:09:00.136
like all your text messages to those

02:09:00.195 --> 02:09:00.537
people.

02:09:00.577 --> 02:09:02.320
Like that's basically public, right?

02:09:04.997 --> 02:09:06.658
Yeah, I remember that Volt typhoon,

02:09:06.898 --> 02:09:08.958
and I think it had been going on

02:09:08.979 --> 02:09:10.420
for at least a year when they found

02:09:10.539 --> 02:09:10.739
it.

02:09:12.121 --> 02:09:13.221
I actually remember I was with

02:09:13.242 --> 02:09:14.363
Surveillance Report when that happened,

02:09:14.403 --> 02:09:15.622
and I remember the way Henry described

02:09:15.643 --> 02:09:16.043
that story.

02:09:16.064 --> 02:09:16.524
He's like, yeah,

02:09:16.543 --> 02:09:17.744
the government is basically like,

02:09:18.244 --> 02:09:19.185
we don't know if they're gone yet.

02:09:19.365 --> 02:09:20.626
We don't know when we'll kick them out.

02:09:21.106 --> 02:09:22.306
It's just kind of like the whole thing

02:09:22.346 --> 02:09:22.967
was such a mess.

02:09:23.087 --> 02:09:24.429
Yeah, that was a crazy story.

02:09:24.748 --> 02:09:25.668
And that, oh,

02:09:25.708 --> 02:09:26.569
I know this isn't the point,

02:09:26.609 --> 02:09:28.470
but that is my favorite story when we

02:09:28.490 --> 02:09:29.912
talk about how backdoors don't work.

02:09:29.952 --> 02:09:31.693
It's like that was literally a backdoor

02:09:31.733 --> 02:09:33.134
that was only for the good guys,

02:09:33.493 --> 02:09:34.354
and look what happened.

02:09:34.975 --> 02:09:36.756
So yeah, I'm, I'm with you.

02:09:36.796 --> 02:09:37.756
When, when I saw that story,

02:09:37.777 --> 02:09:38.596
I was just like, Oh,

02:09:39.176 --> 02:09:40.358
I'm really glad I've got again,

02:09:40.398 --> 02:09:42.099
like on almost all my friends and family

02:09:42.158 --> 02:09:43.238
using signal, thankfully.

02:09:43.259 --> 02:09:44.479
And like I said,

02:09:44.500 --> 02:09:45.560
the handful of things that aren't on

02:09:45.600 --> 02:09:46.020
signal, I mean,

02:09:46.081 --> 02:09:47.761
I guess it was technically like company IP

02:09:47.782 --> 02:09:48.641
or whatever, but you know,

02:09:48.681 --> 02:09:49.382
that's on the company.

02:09:49.443 --> 02:09:53.104
So it was, uh, I don't know.

02:09:53.185 --> 02:09:54.305
I mean, again,

02:09:54.324 --> 02:09:55.426
this was before I worked at privacy

02:09:55.445 --> 02:09:56.046
guides, but yeah, you know,

02:09:56.065 --> 02:09:57.167
it was just texting other people like,

02:09:57.186 --> 02:09:58.408
Hey, there's supposed to be this here.

02:09:58.467 --> 02:09:59.268
Where's this thing?

02:09:59.528 --> 02:10:00.628
When's this delivery coming?

02:10:00.729 --> 02:10:01.029
So yeah.

02:10:01.845 --> 02:10:02.806
It's the kind of stuff that as far

02:10:02.846 --> 02:10:04.369
as I'm concerned, I'm not super,

02:10:04.990 --> 02:10:05.351
I don't know.

02:10:05.452 --> 02:10:05.813
It's whatever.

02:10:07.030 --> 02:10:07.190
Yeah,

02:10:07.230 --> 02:10:09.511
I think the most important part is like

02:10:09.551 --> 02:10:10.872
you're saying, you should be careful.

02:10:11.252 --> 02:10:12.434
Like you should be thinking,

02:10:13.173 --> 02:10:14.395
I'm about to send this message.

02:10:14.994 --> 02:10:17.176
Am I okay with this information becoming

02:10:17.235 --> 02:10:17.595
public?

02:10:18.197 --> 02:10:19.237
And if the answer is no,

02:10:19.317 --> 02:10:21.358
then you should be using something else,

02:10:21.417 --> 02:10:21.658
right?

02:10:21.698 --> 02:10:23.979
Like that is the case because I think

02:10:24.399 --> 02:10:26.541
any message you send on like a public

02:10:28.002 --> 02:10:30.143
service like telephone network,

02:10:30.483 --> 02:10:32.684
any sort of telecommunications thing,

02:10:32.823 --> 02:10:34.185
I think you should treat it as public

02:10:34.225 --> 02:10:40.969
because it's not really –

02:10:36.345 --> 02:10:37.106
secure it in a way.

02:10:37.127 --> 02:10:38.327
You don't know how long that data is

02:10:38.346 --> 02:10:39.507
being retained either.

02:10:40.268 --> 02:10:41.368
So, yeah,

02:10:41.408 --> 02:10:42.609
that's how I would think of it at

02:10:42.630 --> 02:10:44.650
least.

02:10:44.711 --> 02:10:45.070
Personally,

02:10:45.171 --> 02:10:47.393
I'm a big fan of applying that to

02:10:47.472 --> 02:10:48.573
everything because you never know if

02:10:48.592 --> 02:10:49.934
somebody's going to screenshot a post.

02:10:49.953 --> 02:10:51.875
I mean, you can screenshot Signal still.

02:10:51.975 --> 02:10:52.676
It's super easy.

02:10:53.716 --> 02:10:54.997
Or even if you can't screenshot something,

02:10:55.016 --> 02:10:56.037
they might take a picture of it with

02:10:56.057 --> 02:10:56.717
another phone.

02:10:56.778 --> 02:10:58.158
So, yeah,

02:10:58.559 --> 02:11:00.159
that's always what I encourage people is

02:11:00.180 --> 02:11:01.860
like anything you put in a digital format,

02:11:01.881 --> 02:11:03.822
just assume it might be publicly leaked.

02:11:03.862 --> 02:11:04.002
So...

02:11:05.203 --> 02:11:06.724
I mean, yeah, I think we can.

02:11:07.083 --> 02:11:07.823
I think, you know,

02:11:07.944 --> 02:11:09.944
I think it's definitely we should be

02:11:09.984 --> 02:11:11.666
trying to preach privacy to everybody.

02:11:11.706 --> 02:11:12.605
We should be like, you know,

02:11:12.626 --> 02:11:13.145
don't do that.

02:11:13.185 --> 02:11:14.185
That is the wrong thing to do.

02:11:14.226 --> 02:11:16.646
That's just ethically wrong to do that.

02:11:16.686 --> 02:11:18.728
But yeah, of course, people aren't on.

02:11:18.768 --> 02:11:20.168
No one's perfect and people are going to

02:11:20.208 --> 02:11:20.569
do that.

02:11:20.689 --> 02:11:21.988
So it's true.

02:11:22.029 --> 02:11:22.529
But I think.

02:11:23.649 --> 02:11:27.212
With the cell phone network,

02:11:27.271 --> 02:11:28.412
I think it is one of those things

02:11:28.432 --> 02:11:30.493
where it's systemically just going to be

02:11:30.554 --> 02:11:31.434
public at some point.

02:11:31.474 --> 02:11:32.414
That's fair.

02:11:33.456 --> 02:11:34.256
At least with Signal,

02:11:34.756 --> 02:11:36.356
if I send you a message,

02:11:36.817 --> 02:11:37.957
I know you're not going to share that

02:11:37.978 --> 02:11:38.779
with someone else, right?

02:11:38.819 --> 02:11:40.479
Because we have a shared understanding.

02:11:40.939 --> 02:11:45.282
But if it's like the telecommunications

02:11:45.322 --> 02:11:45.702
company,

02:11:46.143 --> 02:11:47.783
they don't have any agreement with me.

02:11:48.043 --> 02:11:49.505
They just are going to...

02:11:50.364 --> 02:11:50.685
you know,

02:11:50.925 --> 02:11:52.766
let hackers roam around in their network

02:11:52.867 --> 02:11:54.948
and not actually do anything and then say

02:11:54.988 --> 02:11:56.349
that they're gone, but they're not really.

02:11:57.689 --> 02:11:58.149
So anyway,

02:11:58.229 --> 02:12:00.511
what I'm trying to say and going around

02:12:00.891 --> 02:12:02.313
in a kind of massive circle here,

02:12:02.332 --> 02:12:06.234
what I'm trying to say is basically that

02:12:06.256 --> 02:12:07.515
is what you need to think about when

02:12:07.536 --> 02:12:09.457
you think about whether you need to do

02:12:09.478 --> 02:12:10.118
this or not.

02:12:12.078 --> 02:12:12.560
I still think

02:12:13.817 --> 02:12:16.497
that most people are using Google Play

02:12:16.537 --> 02:12:18.679
services on like a Graphene OS device.

02:12:18.979 --> 02:12:19.479
Most people,

02:12:19.759 --> 02:12:22.980
like most people are using these apps from

02:12:23.020 --> 02:12:23.680
these stores, right?

02:12:23.701 --> 02:12:27.141
You don't need to create an account that's

02:12:27.181 --> 02:12:28.143
linked to your identity.

02:12:28.203 --> 02:12:29.943
You could use just some burner Google

02:12:29.983 --> 02:12:30.543
account, right?

02:12:30.564 --> 02:12:32.404
You don't have to provide that much

02:12:32.444 --> 02:12:32.925
information.

02:12:34.444 --> 02:12:37.346
So I think using RCS on GrapheneOS to

02:12:37.386 --> 02:12:38.847
secure, even if it's one,

02:12:39.007 --> 02:12:40.309
even if it's only one person,

02:12:40.368 --> 02:12:41.949
I think that's still a benefit in a

02:12:41.989 --> 02:12:42.711
lot of cases.

02:12:44.072 --> 02:12:45.051
And I think it's not,

02:12:45.372 --> 02:12:47.753
you're restricting the access quite

02:12:47.793 --> 02:12:50.114
significantly compared to what is

02:12:50.154 --> 02:12:51.296
available on the cell network,

02:12:51.336 --> 02:12:52.537
which is basically nothing.

02:12:52.796 --> 02:12:55.158
So something is better than nothing and

02:12:55.939 --> 02:12:57.300
Of course, it's up to you to decide.

02:12:57.319 --> 02:12:59.221
If you don't have Google Play services on

02:12:59.242 --> 02:13:00.122
the device already,

02:13:00.322 --> 02:13:01.804
then maybe that is a bit more of

02:13:01.844 --> 02:13:02.384
a concern.

02:13:02.524 --> 02:13:03.625
Maybe that's like, oh,

02:13:03.645 --> 02:13:04.284
I don't know if I want to do

02:13:04.326 --> 02:13:04.506
that.

02:13:04.805 --> 02:13:06.627
You could also set up a separate profile.

02:13:06.707 --> 02:13:08.368
You could set up a separate user profile.

02:13:08.849 --> 02:13:09.989
And in that user profile,

02:13:10.029 --> 02:13:11.690
you set up a burner Google account and

02:13:11.730 --> 02:13:13.552
then you add Google messages.

02:13:14.814 --> 02:13:15.974
Maybe that could be an option.

02:13:16.135 --> 02:13:17.215
But I'm just, you know,

02:13:17.255 --> 02:13:18.055
kind of spitballing.

02:13:18.576 --> 02:13:19.056
I think it's

02:13:20.711 --> 02:13:21.890
You need to decide this yourself,

02:13:21.930 --> 02:13:26.292
but I think if you just avoid SMS,

02:13:26.692 --> 02:13:28.172
just, just avoid it in general,

02:13:28.233 --> 02:13:28.752
if you can.

02:13:29.412 --> 02:13:29.912
I think a lot,

02:13:30.052 --> 02:13:31.712
and now with Apple releasing like

02:13:31.912 --> 02:13:32.753
encrypted RCS,

02:13:32.793 --> 02:13:33.894
I think it's becoming more and more

02:13:33.934 --> 02:13:36.134
popular and more and more accessible.

02:13:36.793 --> 02:13:38.074
So, you know,

02:13:38.154 --> 02:13:40.734
I think you should try and try and

02:13:40.935 --> 02:13:42.515
try and see if some of your friends

02:13:42.536 --> 02:13:44.256
are using it and if you can secure

02:13:44.275 --> 02:13:44.855
those chats.

02:13:44.895 --> 02:13:46.296
And I think that's definitely a big win.

02:13:48.516 --> 02:13:49.197
Agreed.

02:13:49.277 --> 02:13:49.457
Yeah.

02:13:51.774 --> 02:13:52.074
All right,

02:13:53.336 --> 02:13:55.318
I think that was it for forum updates.

02:13:55.637 --> 02:13:57.779
And so I think we'll move into listener

02:13:57.859 --> 02:13:58.820
questions.

02:13:59.561 --> 02:14:02.423
So if you have been holding on to

02:14:02.503 --> 02:14:03.265
any questions,

02:14:03.645 --> 02:14:04.666
definitely go ahead and leave them in the

02:14:04.685 --> 02:14:05.046
chat.

02:14:05.726 --> 02:14:07.868
Normally we would start with the forum,

02:14:08.349 --> 02:14:10.671
but it looks like there haven't been any

02:14:11.412 --> 02:14:12.932
questions left on the forum.

02:14:13.012 --> 02:14:16.515
So we'll just go straight into the chat,

02:14:16.636 --> 02:14:17.216
which I did.

02:14:17.317 --> 02:14:18.957
I think somebody left something earlier.

02:14:19.998 --> 02:14:20.238
Oh yeah.

02:14:20.298 --> 02:14:21.979
Purring pudding quite a while back,

02:14:22.020 --> 02:14:22.239
we were,

02:14:22.319 --> 02:14:23.501
we were talking about how cool it would

02:14:23.541 --> 02:14:24.720
be if there was some kind of API

02:14:24.740 --> 02:14:26.061
you could hook into that could just like

02:14:26.421 --> 02:14:27.662
change passwords automatically.

02:14:28.122 --> 02:14:29.503
They said, apparently there is a,

02:14:29.764 --> 02:14:32.845
the skim SCIM API to provision logins,

02:14:33.164 --> 02:14:34.506
but most sites don't implement this.

02:14:34.546 --> 02:14:37.367
So yeah, that, that doesn't surprise me.

02:14:37.447 --> 02:14:38.648
Cause I know I'm a,

02:14:40.613 --> 02:14:41.613
Like I've said multiple times,

02:14:41.654 --> 02:14:42.354
even today alone,

02:14:42.614 --> 02:14:44.376
we could do things in a certain way.

02:14:44.416 --> 02:14:45.355
We could do things in a way that

02:14:45.395 --> 02:14:47.097
are privacy respecting and we just don't.

02:14:47.158 --> 02:14:50.019
So it doesn't surprise me that people have

02:14:50.119 --> 02:14:52.940
opted not to do things that way.

02:14:53.561 --> 02:14:54.722
I mean, talking about standards,

02:14:54.842 --> 02:14:56.404
it's kind of a funny situation.

02:14:56.484 --> 02:15:00.065
I was talking to everyone on the team

02:15:00.105 --> 02:15:00.766
about this.

02:15:01.287 --> 02:15:02.568
It's really kind of funny.

02:15:02.608 --> 02:15:04.349
We have all these standards that are

02:15:04.368 --> 02:15:06.470
really good that everyone should be using,

02:15:07.070 --> 02:15:09.573
but it's just all the organizations can't

02:15:09.592 --> 02:15:09.953
agree on

02:15:10.472 --> 02:15:12.213
using them and they don't all use them

02:15:12.253 --> 02:15:12.634
properly.

02:15:12.774 --> 02:15:15.015
So it's, it's, we do have the answer.

02:15:15.055 --> 02:15:16.877
Like we do like with passwords,

02:15:16.896 --> 02:15:18.158
like we have the answer, like don't,

02:15:19.297 --> 02:15:19.938
Yeah, exactly.

02:15:20.358 --> 02:15:22.939
It's this XKCD thing, like the situation.

02:15:23.020 --> 02:15:25.060
There are fourteen competing standards.

02:15:25.100 --> 02:15:25.581
Fourteen.

02:15:25.621 --> 02:15:26.100
Ridiculous.

02:15:26.140 --> 02:15:28.042
We need to develop one universal standard.

02:15:28.101 --> 02:15:29.242
And then now there's fifteen.

02:15:29.301 --> 02:15:32.163
So it's like we have all these standards,

02:15:32.224 --> 02:15:34.404
but like no one can decide which one

02:15:34.425 --> 02:15:35.024
is the best,

02:15:35.204 --> 02:15:36.324
which one we should implement.

02:15:36.364 --> 02:15:38.286
Like, oh, we're going to put pass keys,

02:15:38.326 --> 02:15:39.667
but we're going to retain passwords.

02:15:39.686 --> 02:15:41.226
We're going to use pass keys and passwords

02:15:41.266 --> 02:15:41.988
at the same time.

02:15:42.087 --> 02:15:43.328
Or we're going to use pass keys and

02:15:43.408 --> 02:15:44.149
only pass keys.

02:15:44.208 --> 02:15:45.889
And it's like it's ridiculous.

02:15:45.949 --> 02:15:46.470
It's it's.

02:15:47.229 --> 02:15:48.970
yeah i feel like this is such the

02:15:48.990 --> 02:15:51.092
case for like so many things like linux

02:15:51.313 --> 02:15:53.095
specifically comes to mind like oh we're

02:15:53.114 --> 02:15:55.195
gonna use we're gonna use weyland oh no

02:15:55.235 --> 02:15:56.596
we're not gonna use weyland because that's

02:15:56.818 --> 02:15:59.118
that's gonna be too bad blah blah blah

02:15:59.539 --> 02:16:01.560
it's like you know it's a never-ending

02:16:01.600 --> 02:16:04.703
thing the minute you said standards that

02:16:04.724 --> 02:16:07.905
was where my brain went ah i never

02:16:07.926 --> 02:16:09.787
get tired of that comic yeah i agree

02:16:11.255 --> 02:16:11.414
Um,

02:16:11.475 --> 02:16:13.436
Mike here pointed out on the topic of,

02:16:13.537 --> 02:16:15.337
uh, Google, uh, Google services,

02:16:15.398 --> 02:16:16.899
most apps don't need play services,

02:16:16.998 --> 02:16:18.380
even if they say so when opening the

02:16:18.460 --> 02:16:19.280
app, I was surprised by it.

02:16:19.381 --> 02:16:19.640
Yeah.

02:16:19.720 --> 02:16:21.603
Especially a lot of privacy apps.

02:16:21.622 --> 02:16:22.922
Like I think signal, for example,

02:16:22.984 --> 02:16:25.125
if you download signal, um,

02:16:25.204 --> 02:16:26.105
I think by default,

02:16:26.265 --> 02:16:27.006
I could be wrong about this.

02:16:27.065 --> 02:16:27.527
Don't quote me.

02:16:27.966 --> 02:16:28.667
I think by default,

02:16:28.688 --> 02:16:30.029
it will use Google services,

02:16:30.609 --> 02:16:33.050
but in the past I've downloaded it on,

02:16:33.171 --> 02:16:34.891
um, D Google fully D Googled phones,

02:16:34.912 --> 02:16:36.433
like lineage phones, um,

02:16:36.452 --> 02:16:37.273
just for whatever reason.

02:16:37.574 --> 02:16:37.613
Um,

02:16:37.834 --> 02:16:39.014
And I still get notifications.

02:16:39.534 --> 02:16:41.575
So it falls back to its own services

02:16:41.615 --> 02:16:42.736
if it doesn't detect Google.

02:16:43.778 --> 02:16:44.237
And it's also like,

02:16:44.278 --> 02:16:45.058
what do you need them for?

02:16:45.519 --> 02:16:47.159
I'm thinking about MySudo, for example.

02:16:47.239 --> 02:16:50.561
So I pretty much use MySudo for anybody

02:16:50.582 --> 02:16:52.083
who's not on Signal.

02:16:52.823 --> 02:16:54.404
And like, ninety percent of the time,

02:16:54.443 --> 02:16:55.825
I don't really need to get the call

02:16:55.864 --> 02:16:56.465
in real time.

02:16:56.524 --> 02:16:57.945
Like, again, I mentioned I'm with the VA.

02:17:00.086 --> 02:17:01.188
they do call me sometimes,

02:17:01.747 --> 02:17:03.049
but ninety percent of the time it's a

02:17:03.109 --> 02:17:03.988
text that's like, hey,

02:17:04.029 --> 02:17:05.010
don't forget you have an appointment on

02:17:05.049 --> 02:17:05.309
Monday.

02:17:05.350 --> 02:17:07.011
Click why to or like text why to

02:17:07.050 --> 02:17:09.332
confirm or text and to reschedule or

02:17:09.352 --> 02:17:09.691
whatever.

02:17:10.233 --> 02:17:11.873
And so like I don't really need that

02:17:12.074 --> 02:17:13.293
notification in real time.

02:17:13.334 --> 02:17:14.534
It's OK if I get that later in

02:17:14.555 --> 02:17:15.034
the evening.

02:17:15.094 --> 02:17:16.835
So, yeah, I mean,

02:17:16.876 --> 02:17:18.297
there may be certain situations where you

02:17:18.356 --> 02:17:20.997
don't necessarily need the play services,

02:17:22.379 --> 02:17:24.819
but I would look into if RCS because

02:17:24.860 --> 02:17:25.480
that is a good point.

02:17:25.501 --> 02:17:26.801
I don't know if RCS would be required

02:17:26.842 --> 02:17:27.182
for that.

02:17:27.262 --> 02:17:27.402
So

02:17:28.765 --> 02:17:29.467
Definitely interesting.

02:17:29.887 --> 02:17:30.288
Good thought.

02:17:33.970 --> 02:17:35.753
Yeah.

02:17:35.772 --> 02:17:37.274
So it's been kind of a slow week,

02:17:37.295 --> 02:17:38.736
or like this week,

02:17:39.377 --> 02:17:40.837
with people leaving comments.

02:17:40.878 --> 02:17:42.620
But if anybody has any last minute

02:17:42.659 --> 02:17:44.141
questions, be sure to let us know.

02:17:45.614 --> 02:17:45.735
Yeah,

02:17:45.754 --> 02:17:46.815
we definitely tried something a bit

02:17:46.855 --> 02:17:48.615
different with the highlight story this

02:17:48.656 --> 02:17:48.876
week.

02:17:48.995 --> 02:17:50.176
We kind of wanted to see if people

02:17:50.197 --> 02:17:51.958
would be interested in something that's a

02:17:51.977 --> 02:17:52.698
little bit different.

02:17:53.118 --> 02:17:54.138
We kind of try that some weeks,

02:17:54.177 --> 02:17:56.359
like some weeks we know that the highlight

02:17:56.379 --> 02:17:57.739
story is going to like be a banger

02:17:57.819 --> 02:17:58.860
and everyone's going to click on it.

02:17:58.920 --> 02:18:01.200
But, you know, we do try things.

02:18:01.281 --> 02:18:02.381
We want to try and, you know,

02:18:02.461 --> 02:18:03.402
experiment a little bit.

02:18:03.422 --> 02:18:04.441
We don't want to keep doing the same

02:18:04.481 --> 02:18:05.442
thing over and over again.

02:18:05.483 --> 02:18:07.183
It's not fun for us.

02:18:07.224 --> 02:18:08.144
It's not fun for you.

02:18:08.304 --> 02:18:10.305
So we're trying our best with different

02:18:10.344 --> 02:18:10.665
things.

02:18:12.691 --> 02:18:13.593
And we want to make sure we don't

02:18:13.632 --> 02:18:14.313
stagnate, right?

02:18:14.333 --> 02:18:16.074
We're always trying to reach new people

02:18:16.975 --> 02:18:19.796
with privacy messages and that requires us

02:18:19.856 --> 02:18:23.459
to try new things.

02:18:23.638 --> 02:18:24.179
Oh man,

02:18:24.699 --> 02:18:26.340
the million dollar question from Yumi.

02:18:26.379 --> 02:18:28.162
Why can't we agree on which standards to

02:18:28.441 --> 02:18:28.842
use?

02:18:29.002 --> 02:18:30.243
I mean, it's...

02:18:33.197 --> 02:18:33.837
in my opinion,

02:18:33.897 --> 02:18:35.579
it's because there are usually pros and

02:18:35.620 --> 02:18:36.841
cons like, okay.

02:18:36.921 --> 02:18:37.481
Every once in a while,

02:18:37.502 --> 02:18:38.843
you definitely get somebody who's just

02:18:38.882 --> 02:18:40.845
like stuck in their ways and they just

02:18:40.886 --> 02:18:42.307
don't want to grow and adopt.

02:18:42.566 --> 02:18:43.528
But I think a lot of the time

02:18:43.548 --> 02:18:46.631
there are like situations where, um,

02:18:48.157 --> 02:18:50.039
I know this isn't a standard,

02:18:50.058 --> 02:18:51.578
but just to talk about something that I

02:18:51.599 --> 02:18:52.318
actually know about,

02:18:52.779 --> 02:18:54.860
we'll take SimpleX versus Signal.

02:18:55.100 --> 02:18:56.840
They're both really good choices,

02:18:56.920 --> 02:18:59.101
but they're different use cases and

02:18:59.120 --> 02:19:00.261
they've got different advantages.

02:19:00.861 --> 02:19:02.781
SimpleX has the whole decentralized

02:19:02.822 --> 02:19:05.102
architecture and it's supposed to be a lot

02:19:05.121 --> 02:19:06.583
more censorship resistant without having

02:19:06.602 --> 02:19:07.382
to set up a proxy,

02:19:07.423 --> 02:19:09.243
which we made a video about that.

02:19:09.523 --> 02:19:10.244
At the same time,

02:19:10.384 --> 02:19:12.523
it's missing a lot of the features that

02:19:12.943 --> 02:19:14.184
the quote-unquote normies would come to

02:19:14.225 --> 02:19:14.825
expect and

02:19:15.886 --> 02:19:16.066
you know,

02:19:16.085 --> 02:19:17.246
it can be harder to get your family

02:19:17.367 --> 02:19:17.947
onboarded.

02:19:18.066 --> 02:19:18.227
Like,

02:19:18.266 --> 02:19:19.167
I remember that was a big thing when

02:19:19.208 --> 02:19:20.808
Mastodon kind of had their fifteen minutes

02:19:20.828 --> 02:19:21.469
is everybody was like,

02:19:22.209 --> 02:19:23.331
I don't know what instances are.

02:19:23.370 --> 02:19:24.451
I don't know what server to sign up

02:19:24.471 --> 02:19:24.592
for.

02:19:24.631 --> 02:19:25.632
Like, I'm really confused.

02:19:25.673 --> 02:19:26.773
And, you know,

02:19:26.894 --> 02:19:29.216
it's things like Signal don't have that

02:19:29.236 --> 02:19:29.575
problem.

02:19:29.636 --> 02:19:31.156
You just download it and start using it.

02:19:31.197 --> 02:19:34.680
And so there's a lot of the time

02:19:34.940 --> 02:19:35.841
standards are

02:19:37.897 --> 02:19:41.179
built for certain use cases but I would

02:19:41.218 --> 02:19:42.218
venture to say that a lot of the

02:19:42.259 --> 02:19:43.620
time they can also especially when we talk

02:19:43.639 --> 02:19:44.840
about tech and this kind of stuff they

02:19:44.860 --> 02:19:47.960
can apply to multiple use cases and so

02:19:47.980 --> 02:19:49.441
there's like advantages and disadvantages

02:19:49.481 --> 02:19:50.861
so there's not always a clear like well

02:19:50.881 --> 02:19:52.643
this one is obviously better it's like no

02:19:52.683 --> 02:19:55.283
it's obviously better in certain ways and

02:19:55.584 --> 02:19:56.703
you know this other one is obviously

02:19:56.724 --> 02:19:58.905
better in certain ways but humans are

02:19:59.024 --> 02:20:00.986
incredibly emotional creatures and so

02:20:01.185 --> 02:20:03.906
sometimes we uh have a hard time agreeing

02:20:03.947 --> 02:20:05.666
on this kind of stuff I think that

02:20:05.686 --> 02:20:06.888
would be my guess I don't know if

02:20:06.907 --> 02:20:07.548
you have a better answer

02:20:09.630 --> 02:20:11.412
yeah it's kind of frustrating it's like

02:20:11.472 --> 02:20:14.034
every every single thing we've got has got

02:20:14.075 --> 02:20:16.856
like some some argument about standards

02:20:16.877 --> 02:20:19.418
happening like which you mentioned like

02:20:19.459 --> 02:20:21.720
mastodon oh mastodon i don't like that

02:20:21.761 --> 02:20:23.621
it's like the standard is so bad like

02:20:23.682 --> 02:20:25.724
the fed the federated protocols are so bad

02:20:25.804 --> 02:20:28.345
i prefer blue sky i prefer uh what's

02:20:28.365 --> 02:20:30.166
the other one nosta i prefer blah blah

02:20:30.186 --> 02:20:30.948
blah like it's

02:20:31.618 --> 02:20:34.279
yeah people have always kind of argued

02:20:34.299 --> 02:20:37.021
about this stuff um you know i think

02:20:37.060 --> 02:20:38.801
there's not many protocols that we could

02:20:38.861 --> 02:20:40.743
argue are like actually standard at this

02:20:40.782 --> 02:20:43.103
point like email comes to mind like

02:20:43.224 --> 02:20:45.344
everyone is like kind of on board with

02:20:45.364 --> 02:20:47.606
that unfortunately it's like the worst

02:20:47.666 --> 02:20:49.227
it's really bad it's a really crappy

02:20:49.266 --> 02:20:50.968
protocol but everyone uses it so i mean

02:20:52.369 --> 02:20:53.889
i guess it doesn't really matter if a

02:20:53.930 --> 02:20:55.851
protocol is actually good or a standard is

02:20:55.931 --> 02:20:57.211
actually good it doesn't mean that it's

02:20:57.252 --> 02:20:57.531
going to be

02:20:58.231 --> 02:21:00.533
adopted um i think it also is just

02:21:00.593 --> 02:21:02.695
a legacy thing too but like same with

02:21:02.736 --> 02:21:05.799
phone numbers it's a standard everyone's

02:21:05.859 --> 02:21:08.842
using a phone number and it's not a

02:21:08.861 --> 02:21:11.665
good way um i guess also here there

02:21:11.684 --> 02:21:14.948
was a question from mike uh last name

02:21:15.028 --> 02:21:16.789
with about session session is about to

02:21:16.828 --> 02:21:19.291
close shop soon um i know nate you've

02:21:19.332 --> 02:21:20.813
definitely got more experience with this

02:21:20.833 --> 02:21:21.793
so you want to handle this one

02:21:23.326 --> 02:21:23.968
Yeah, I mean,

02:21:24.087 --> 02:21:26.890
I actually found this out from Kerry from

02:21:26.911 --> 02:21:28.371
Firewall's No Stop Dragons, but actually,

02:21:28.412 --> 02:21:28.871
thankfully,

02:21:29.272 --> 02:21:32.334
Session is not shutting down right away.

02:21:33.095 --> 02:21:35.278
They were able to get enough support,

02:21:35.858 --> 02:21:37.559
not as much as they hoped for,

02:21:38.281 --> 02:21:39.461
but they will be able to continue

02:21:39.481 --> 02:21:40.823
developing past July eighth.

02:21:41.263 --> 02:21:43.245
A smaller team will continue development

02:21:43.364 --> 02:21:44.345
into twenty twenty seven,

02:21:44.726 --> 02:21:46.247
focusing on strengthening the project and

02:21:46.288 --> 02:21:47.968
building a foundation for its long term

02:21:48.148 --> 02:21:48.510
future.

02:21:49.409 --> 02:21:51.672
Um, so yeah, they say,

02:21:51.711 --> 02:21:52.672
although procedures,

02:21:52.731 --> 02:21:54.032
shutdown procedures have been canceled,

02:21:54.353 --> 02:21:55.654
the shape of the project is still changing

02:21:55.674 --> 02:21:56.194
considerably.

02:21:56.555 --> 02:21:58.015
The project will now be led by Jason

02:21:58.056 --> 02:21:58.536
Rhinelander,

02:21:58.595 --> 02:22:00.316
longtime chief software architect and

02:22:00.358 --> 02:22:01.918
member of the session technology fund.

02:22:01.939 --> 02:22:02.959
Uh,

02:22:02.978 --> 02:22:04.420
currently donations received are enough to

02:22:04.440 --> 02:22:06.120
support critical infrastructure to retain

02:22:06.181 --> 02:22:07.903
Jason as developer and possibly to add one

02:22:07.983 --> 02:22:09.042
other full-time developer.

02:22:09.424 --> 02:22:11.065
There's also still a small team of

02:22:11.084 --> 02:22:12.865
volunteers contributing to other aspects

02:22:12.925 --> 02:22:13.685
of the ecosystem.

02:22:13.765 --> 02:22:17.049
So, um, session will continue to exist.

02:22:17.168 --> 02:22:18.670
It's just, they've unfortunately had to

02:22:19.611 --> 02:22:21.534
dramatically stripped down their team.

02:22:22.576 --> 02:22:25.141
Um, which is really, really unfortunate.

02:22:25.563 --> 02:22:26.144
And, uh,

02:22:27.283 --> 02:22:27.763
Yeah, I mean,

02:22:27.783 --> 02:22:29.726
they're still they only raised just shy of

02:22:29.786 --> 02:22:31.106
two hundred thousand dollars and their

02:22:31.127 --> 02:22:32.047
goal was one million,

02:22:32.287 --> 02:22:33.227
which they did explain.

02:22:34.189 --> 02:22:35.168
This is right on the front page,

02:22:35.189 --> 02:22:35.450
by the way.

02:22:35.469 --> 02:22:36.970
If you go to get session dot org,

02:22:37.191 --> 02:22:38.492
you can read the appeal up top and

02:22:38.951 --> 02:22:39.772
it'll take you to this page.

02:22:39.813 --> 02:22:41.213
So, yeah,

02:22:41.234 --> 02:22:42.754
they definitely do still need donations.

02:22:42.834 --> 02:22:43.854
If you believe in session,

02:22:44.415 --> 02:22:45.296
if you are a fan of them,

02:22:45.496 --> 02:22:46.096
please donate.

02:22:46.117 --> 02:22:46.958
They do still need it.

02:22:46.997 --> 02:22:48.058
They're not out of the woods yet,

02:22:48.177 --> 02:22:50.959
but thankfully they are not shutting down

02:22:51.100 --> 02:22:53.182
as of this point in time.

02:22:54.783 --> 02:22:56.445
Yeah, it's really unfortunate when we see,

02:22:56.666 --> 02:22:56.887
you know,

02:22:56.926 --> 02:22:58.188
I think it's really hard for a lot

02:22:58.208 --> 02:22:59.831
of these projects to get the funding that

02:22:59.851 --> 02:23:00.271
they need.

02:23:00.752 --> 02:23:01.413
And, you know,

02:23:01.452 --> 02:23:02.754
unless you're like the big player,

02:23:02.793 --> 02:23:04.316
which currently right now is Signal,

02:23:04.697 --> 02:23:05.778
they get a lot of donations.

02:23:05.817 --> 02:23:07.120
But like all the other projects,

02:23:07.740 --> 02:23:09.542
I'm not really sure what SimpleX's deal

02:23:09.583 --> 02:23:09.743
is.

02:23:10.943 --> 02:23:12.806
I believe they did take on venture capital

02:23:12.845 --> 02:23:13.286
funding,

02:23:13.466 --> 02:23:14.968
so they're probably going to work out some

02:23:14.987 --> 02:23:16.789
way to monetize their product eventually.

02:23:19.050 --> 02:23:20.852
Raya is definitely more of a

02:23:20.891 --> 02:23:21.952
community-based project,

02:23:22.032 --> 02:23:23.915
doesn't see as much development as Signal.

02:23:25.456 --> 02:23:25.636
You know,

02:23:25.656 --> 02:23:27.397
we've got all these different messengers,

02:23:27.496 --> 02:23:30.159
and if you do, like, personally,

02:23:30.340 --> 02:23:32.922
I'm on Signal every day.

02:23:33.242 --> 02:23:34.222
I'm sending messages.

02:23:34.343 --> 02:23:36.164
I'm on voice calls for, you know,

02:23:36.704 --> 02:23:37.524
hours at a time.

02:23:37.565 --> 02:23:37.725
Like,

02:23:37.786 --> 02:23:39.566
I think this is an important opportunity

02:23:42.550 --> 02:23:43.511
important thing to do, right?

02:23:43.550 --> 02:23:45.752
If like you use a product or use

02:23:45.791 --> 02:23:47.192
a service and you get a lot of

02:23:47.212 --> 02:23:48.834
value from it, then, you know,

02:23:48.953 --> 02:23:50.834
maybe consider donating because it is

02:23:51.534 --> 02:23:53.515
expensive to run all this infrastructure.

02:23:53.615 --> 02:23:54.775
And I don't know,

02:23:54.855 --> 02:23:56.217
I've always had kind of a soft spot

02:23:56.236 --> 02:23:58.097
for Session because they've been an

02:23:58.218 --> 02:24:00.578
Australian based company originally.

02:24:01.918 --> 02:24:02.418
And I don't know,

02:24:02.439 --> 02:24:03.360
I was kind of sad to see that

02:24:03.399 --> 02:24:05.900
this happened because I thought they had a

02:24:07.587 --> 02:24:09.148
thought they were receiving enough um

02:24:09.189 --> 02:24:11.150
through cryptocurrency donations but it

02:24:11.171 --> 02:24:12.691
seems like they have kind of been

02:24:12.731 --> 02:24:15.074
struggling so i don't know this is kind

02:24:15.113 --> 02:24:16.615
of sad but i hope that they can

02:24:16.956 --> 02:24:19.058
work out some other sustainability like

02:24:19.077 --> 02:24:21.058
some some other way to sustain their

02:24:21.099 --> 02:24:23.742
project because it's never been an app

02:24:23.762 --> 02:24:25.963
that i've used a lot but it's always

02:24:26.004 --> 02:24:27.944
been nice to have that extra option like

02:24:27.965 --> 02:24:28.906
a lot of people were like oh i

02:24:28.925 --> 02:24:30.747
don't like signal because it requires a

02:24:30.788 --> 02:24:31.188
phone number

02:24:31.962 --> 02:24:32.663
Here's session.

02:24:32.802 --> 02:24:33.884
Doesn't require a phone number.

02:24:33.984 --> 02:24:35.064
Or here's simple X.

02:24:35.084 --> 02:24:36.664
Like there's other options for people.

02:24:38.045 --> 02:24:39.885
It's better to have more options than not.

02:24:40.225 --> 02:24:41.626
So if session does go away,

02:24:41.665 --> 02:24:42.986
we're going to be kind of stuck with

02:24:43.585 --> 02:24:44.926
the only one I can think that really

02:24:44.947 --> 02:24:46.486
compares is simple X.

02:24:46.606 --> 02:24:49.507
Simple X is kind of session adjacent,

02:24:49.608 --> 02:24:52.248
but it has a different direction,

02:24:52.408 --> 02:24:54.569
certainly.

02:24:54.989 --> 02:24:55.250
Agreed.

02:24:59.450 --> 02:24:59.851
All right.

02:25:00.432 --> 02:25:03.235
I think that might be all we got

02:25:03.274 --> 02:25:03.715
this week.

02:25:04.075 --> 02:25:05.115
You think it's time to close out?

02:25:06.538 --> 02:25:06.997
All right.

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