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Good morning, everybody. I was on with Jim Polito this morning to discuss Apple and their announcement to use their own chips over Intel. We also got more on the Twitter Hack and If you can believe how dumb some hackers are -- some Iranian hackers posted their training videos on IBM servers. Here we go with Jim.

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Craig Peterson: That's how they did it. They uploaded it to a cloud server, which was not secured. IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training. Hey, we've never said that hackers were smart. Can you believe these guys from Iran? This is amazing.

[00:00:24] Hey, Craig Peterson here and I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this morning in Western mass in Springfield and Worcester. I guess we should give the hackers a bit of a break, right? They're human too.

[00:00:38]Jim Polito: Last week we had a twofer with Craig, Peterson had him back for that whole Twitter hack thing.

[00:00:45] Well, this is his regular time and there's nothing regular or ordinary about this segment. I'm talking about our tech talk guru. Craig Peterson. Good morning, sir.

[00:00:57] Craig Peterson: Hey, good morning. Yeah, In a follow-up to Thursday where we were talking about this whole Twitter hack. The bottom line right now is it looks like it was a couple of kids that did this whole hack of you named them? Right. The famous accounts. It's just mind-boggling. What could be done if the bad guys really put their minds to it? It could have been terribly destructive.

[00:01:23] Jim Polito: Well, isn't this like, um, uh, Matthew Broderick and, um, you know, uh, what was it? War games, the eighties movie. He was able to hack into NORAD, you know, as a kid. Well, these two kids hacking into Twitter.

[00:01:41] Craig Peterson: Yeah, that's basically what it was kind of an inside job on top of it all. That was a great movie, by the way, war games. Of course, even back then, I remember seeing it theater and I was sitting next to my buddy, ok no he can't do that. No, that's impossible.

[00:01:55] It is absolutely happening and it's happening to all of us. And the bad guys as always are taking advantage of what's happening right now. Which of course is still this COVID thing.

[00:02:07] Jim Polito: Yeah. I mean, it's all over. I, I wanted to lighten it up because this made me happy when you sent it to me that some Iranian spies and we know the Iranians, like the North Koreans, like the Russians, like the Chinese, they have serious hackers working for them anyway, that some Iranian spies accidentally leaked videos of them hacking.

[00:02:31] So almost like giving the evidence there. What, what's the story?

[00:02:37] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Said that absolutely something here. So IBM apparently had been monitoring this server. That's out in the cloud. Now, this is a word of warning to businesses because I see this all of the time, businesses look at the cloud as, Oh my God, this is a panacea. I'm going to be safe the cloud is wonderful. It's going to save me money and this is going to provide security by the way, none of which is necessarily true. Okay. It's not all fall, but most of the bigger businesses have moved to the cloud have now moved back to their own data centers for many of these core functions. So what happened here is Iran as a bunch of hackers working other they're not doing anything that's terribly sophisticated, which is. The disappointing, but it's also a word of warning here. Not terribly sophisticated, but it needs a lot of people in order to do it.

[00:03:36] I've been watching that C S E E show that Apple plus, you know, Apple TV thing they've got out.

[00:03:43] Jim Polito: Yeah.

[00:03:43]Craig Peterson: How there's just all of this manual labor going on. And I watched it too, a documentary, its called hot roads, and it's all of these roads all over the world. So each hour they're talking. What about something?

[00:03:58] And this particular one was in Bangladesh. It's cheaper to have. Manual labor, they're digging the holes, carrying the dirt out, et cetera, to do road repairs than it is to bring a Digger in. That's what this reminds me of in Iran. They have tons of people, China as well, tons of people doing not terribly sophisticated attacks but being successful, nonetheless.

[00:04:27] So in this case, these guys apparently recorded videos of them hacking into Google accounts, Yahoo accounts, and others. Exactly how they did it. They. Well, did it to a cloud server, which was not secured. IBM kind of stumbled across all of these videos of Iranian hackers hacking that they were going to use for training.

[00:04:53] So I don't even know where to begin with all the lessons we can learn from this one.

[00:04:58] Jim Polito: I know we're talking with Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru who really pulls back the curtain. Craig, I will say this I've learned one thing from you in the years we've been together. There just isn't enough being done.

[00:05:15] Um, it seems to me like it takes. Uh, for a company to really have an embarrassing hack for them really to get their act together, but then they take corrective actions, but then the further they get from that incident, the morning they slip into their old bad habits, again, kind of like we do, you know, you get a speeding ticket then, you know, for the next month or so you're very careful about how you drive and this and that.

[00:05:48] And then. And then after a while, you know, you kind of forget that it seems to me to be the same thing in a corporate mentality.

[00:05:56] Craig Peterson: It really is. And compare corporations. To government. Okay. I'll look at it. Land. They had ransomware. They could not collect taxes. People could not pay their water bills.

[00:06:10] They could not register their cars. So Atlanta was of course a bill. They had some of the best IGS, smartest security people in the world, working there in Atlanta. And so they closed up the whole supposedly, right. They spent millions of dollars. They paid ransoms and then a month or six weeks later, boom.

[00:06:31] Another ransomware attack that successful and knocks Atlanta off the arrogance. My recollection is that happened to them three times in the course of fewer than 12 months. So I don't know if they just do, does that mean that the city government just never learn their lesson? You're right. About many businesses, you know, unfortunately, nowadays, if you are a business and you get hacked, the odds are.

[00:07:00] Better than 50%, you will lose your business. Now we'll look at people that are, you know, our age and well, you know, you're in your fifties or sixties or seventies, and you have been building this business your whole life because this business is your retirement. You're going to milk it as a cash cow, or you're going to sell it to someone, a merger and have that wonderful little exit that happens.

[00:07:26] And all of a sudden you're hacked. And you lose that whole business. There goes your retirement there goes everything. Yeah. So you're right. We're not paying enough attention. And part of the problem is, yeah, there aren't enough people that know about it and I'm going to do something about it. I've already started.

[00:07:47] I've been redoing my studio here. I met this last weekend with a great editor guy, video guy. And, uh, I'm going to be putting out little daily pieces of training for people. Absolutely free, right. Little daily pieces of training that they can subscribe to watch the video, listen to it because you're right as usual, Jim

[00:08:10] Jim Polito: Well, I'm not right. It's usual. I just, you know, I'm paying attention to what the tech talker who says, I mean, it's kind of like regurgitating, you know, it's like a trained monkey. Come on. But anyway, um, let me ask you this part because I know where it's going to lead. So you sent me some information on, on Apple's new Mac book.

[00:08:31] That's going to be coming out and you know, I mean, you, you, you pay more for that, but often it's you get what you pay for? So apparently they're new MacBook is going to solve the biggest problem that people have with working remotely. Is, is that just, you know, an advertising tagline or is that, is that the real deal?

[00:08:57] Craig Peterson: No, this is absolutely the real deal. There's a great article from inc magazine. I'll be putting up on my website and you can follow it too. If you're on my email list at Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe, you'll get it on Saturday. But, um, The biggest problems people are having, working from home, have to do with security and they also have to do with the equipment that they have at home.

[00:09:21] How long does it last Apple announced that they are completely ditching Intel processors. Now what that means is wow. Completely gone. Goodbye. Okay. So that little relationship is over.

[00:09:37] Jim Polito: That's. over Wow.

[00:09:39] Craig Peterson: I remember on the front cover of PC magazine, where they said the best.

[00:09:43] PC for windows is a Mac because the hardware is so good.

[00:09:49] Kind of like what you were saying. If you have a tit for tat comparison of a, I have a windows laptop and an Apple laptop, both those are Intel, let's say, and you compare all of the hardware inside, how long it's going to last Apple when hands down.

[00:10:05] Right now, in fact, the average lifespan of a windows laptop that you'll buy. Now that includes the ones you'll get at the big box stores. The average, lifetime is seven months.

[00:10:18] Yeah. The average lifetime of the Apple laptop is five to 10 years. Okay. So Apple has said, we need more battery life. We need more processing power. So they're taking the chips. They've been developing themselves that are in the iPad Pro, which is as fast as most PCs that are out there. So they're taking the chips from the iPad and they're putting them into laptops and we're going to see laptops from Apple two of them by the end of this year, not using any Intel chips. Using chips made by Apple, designed by Apple ball actually made by contractors,.But designed by it Apple, and they will last you more than a day. So you get Apple security, which is really, really good. Yeah. You get a laptop that lasts all day long and Intel is left holding the bag.

[00:11:16] Jim Polito: Oh, wow. And I am sure that, you know, all those years they used Intel, uh, they, you know, we're paying attention to exactly how that chip works when they develop their own. I'm sure.

[00:11:31] Craig Peterson: Yeah. Yeah, well,, they're using a standard chip, um, basic design architecture that even Microsoft is using for some of their embedded systems and, you know, the surface tablet type things too. So, uh, Intel just hasn't kept up. That's why they switched. Remember Apple didn't use to be Intel-based. It used to be a power=PC based. Uh, they, they switched, and before that, it was Motorola based.

[00:11:56] Jim Polito: Now here's the quick question. And then we've got to wrap up, obviously, as I said earlier, you get what you pay for Apple is a lot more expensive.

[00:12:06] Yeah, it is. Yeah. What would you, what would you say the different, you know, like the basic, uh, um, laptop, like from HP versus the basic laptop from Apple price-wise.

[00:12:21] Craig Peterson: Well, I don't know that that's a great comparison because of what you need to do is be comparing the HP or the Dell enterprise laptops.

[00:12:32] Jim Polito: You're right. Okay. So what's the difference? Yeah. What is the differential there?

[00:12:37] Craig Peterson: It's in the noise. You can right now get an Apple laptop, a Mac book air for under a thousand dollars. And I think most people would be fair. Yeah, I'm very happy with it. And they can go all the way up to about 5,000. If you want something that will do edit a movie.

[00:12:55] Okay. If video, huge blockbuster movie.

[00:12:59] Jim Polito: Yeah, but if you just want to look cool and Starbucks, like you're writing a screenplay, you can do it for under a thousand dollars. You know with the little light-up Apple on the other side of your laptop, Craig as usual great information as usual.

[00:13:16] So let's get, let's get folks a way that they can get more information from you. How do you want them to do it? Absolutely.

[00:13:24] Craig Peterson: .Well, first of all, I think I'm still on the air on these stations on, is it Saturday at 11. Its Saturday, I believe at 11 o'clock I do a deeper dive into a lot of these it's an hour-long, which is great.

[00:13:38] And if you have any questions, if you want these little training videos, they are going to, people are telling me they're there changing their lives if they have the mind, but no longer all worried about it. But if you want that, just go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe. That'll get you in my newsletter. You'll be able to find out about these.

[00:13:58] I'm starting to do more lives as Facebook lives. I'm even Jim. I'm planning on doing some of our morning hits here on Facebook live and then I'll stay on and answer questions.

[00:14:13] Jim Polito: Yeah. I'm gonna, I'm gonna owe you for that. That's gonna open me up to a wide audience. I'm going to owe you for that. All right. So, Craig, uh, this is all great stuff as usual. I appreciate everything you're doing. And uh, we look forward to talking with you again next Tuesday, sir.

[00:14:32] Alright, take care, Jim. Bye. Bye.

[00:14:34] Hmm. Bye-bye. Alright. When we return a final word, you're listening to the Jim Polito show from my kitchen with pops who's quiet right now. This is your safe space.

[00:14:44] Craig Peterson: Yes, it's true. I am working on all of that. I'm just jazzed as can be anyhow. This is going to be fantastic. So I'll make sure you're on my email list. Craig Peterson dot com slash subscribe. All right, everybody, take care. I'm going to be on the road here for a few days. So, uh, well, we'll see how it goes. If you send me an email at me@craigpeterson.com, it might take me a little bit longer than usual to respond, but I always do take care, everybody. Bye-bye.

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