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read it in the feedbag segment later on. Feedbag, of course, is a mix of feedback and mail bag. Yes, now you know. Guests this week Arthur Edelstein of Privacy tests dot org. He can tests. He conducts open source tests of web browser privacy that's going to be an interesting conversation. Neil O'Farrell, founder of the Center for AI Crime, will share the ways that AI is accelerating all kinds of

scams and frauds. Well, this week got me thinking. We've had a couple of major things that happened this week. First off, if you have AT and T, maybe you didn't have a signal for a while. AT and T had a network outage impacting wireless customers in the US. You know they have about two hundred million of them. This outage went on for hours, and of course people

wondered why it was happening. They woke up to an SOS signal on their iPhone or their Samsung or their Pixel or their Android and didn't know what was going on. People were restarting their phones. They thought it was a problem with their house. Who knows. It's confusing when you wake up and you just don't have a signal. But it came out later on that it wasn't outage. This was pretty widespread. It was caused by a software update that went wrong during a network expansion, and of course

people wondered if it was a cyber attack. That's always a consideration Now that was not but this was Change Healthcare, part of United Health's Optium business, suffered a cyber attack suspected to be by a nation state. The company was forced to disconnect services, which caused outages to prescription processing systems for over sixty seven thousand pharmacies. So if you needed a prescription that day, you probably couldn't get it.

So this got me thinking, with all this stuff happening, and as these companies get bigger, and as we get more connected, and as we become more nationwide with everything. Remember everything used to be local. Now everything is nationwide. When I first moved to California, there was not a bank that you could go to that was both in New York City and in Los Angeles. There wasn't any

It wasn't heard of. Now banks are everywhere. It's the same chain across the entire United States, across the entire world. The question is, as these issues get bigger, things are going to have more of an impact. Right when we have an issue, when there's an interruption, where there's a something goes wrong, more people are impacted. So do you have a plan. That is my question for you today. What if you woke up and you had zero signal on your cell phone. Now you might say, Rich, I've

got WiFi. I'm okay, okay, Well what if the Wi Fi didn't work? So, first off, a lot of people were confused when they looked at their iPhone when this thing had happen, because there is an SOS icon on the iPhone and there's also a satellite icon. Only the iPhone fourteen and fifteen have that satellite icon. That means that you can get satellite service for an emergency. So if you have an emergency, you're still covered as long as you can see the sky. That's called SOS Emergency

over Satellite. The SOS icon means that your phone can dial nine one one, and one thing to note here in the US, your phone, whether it has service or not, can still dial on nine one one. And it doesn't necessarily just dial nine one one on your carrier. It can also reach out to the other carriers. Here in the US, we have three major carriers. We have T Mobile, we have AT and T, and we have Verizon. Your phone can dial nine one one on all three of those.

Hopefully you're not in a place where all three of those are gone, but some places are so AT and T during this outage said to turn on Wi Fi calling, So if you haven't set that up on your phone, it's probably a good idea to do that before you need it. So when cellulars on a vail, your phone can use Wi Fi for both calls and texts, which is really nice. And that also works overseas, so if you ever go overseas and you have a Wi Fi signal, you can still use your phone without charging roaming fees.

Just make sure that roaming is turned off. Now. When it comes to the backups in your home, so you might have a hot spot from work, you could use that perhaps if your cellular isn't working on your main account on your phone. Ring also has something called Backup Cellular, so they offer a subscription where you can get twenty four to seven backup Internet, which means if the Internet goes out in your home, you can still use cellular data through their router and it will send it. If

you have eros in your house. You know that's also owned by Amazon, which also owns Ring, you would be

able to use their cellular signal throughout your house. Now it's only a small amount, it's three gigs, but it's mostly for the fact that if you don't have a Wi Fi signal, which is what your alarm system typically uses, it would fall back to cellular and then if you had an emergency, it would still be able to get that signal out, but you'd also be able to surf on your devices as you typically would in that time period where the cellular doesn't work. Do you have one

of these a portable power station? Because I do, and my father in law actually texted me a picture of his. He said, I'm prepared for anything. Companies like Jackerie anchor Blue Eddy, they all make these things. They cost anywhere from one hundred and fifty to up to thousands of dollars depending on how much power they hold. But I

think this is something that you should absolutely have. It's something like a portable battery pack for your phone, but it's for all of your gadgets in your house, so you can plug things in, you know, emergency stuff, whatever you need. Some of them even have built in lights on them so you can use it as a light as well. But I highly recommend you get one of these things. Also, a whole house battery is also becoming very popular. This is something you install in the garage.

You could work off solar, or it could just be plugged in and it powers your entire house. Now, if you have an electric car, a lot of these cars are coming with something called bidirectional charging. So if you have an electric car, a lot of them can plug you can plug your house into the car, and then that car would provide power for your home, and an average of seventy kilowatt hours of energy in a average electric car might provide backup power for about two days

to your house. So that's another option you've probably seen the commercials Ford was advertising that heavily where you can plug your whole house into the F one fifty lightning. Now I mentioned the iPhone SOS over satellite. This is if you have the iPhone fourteen or fifteen models, get to know this service. You can go into your settings and try a demo. Basically, if your phone has a clear view of the sky, you'll be able to call

for help, and it goes through a relay center. It doesn't dial directly, but you can also send your location via satellite. So if you're going on a hike or something and you're in a place where there's no cellular you can update your friends where you are via the find My app on the iPhone. Now, this is a feature that's really really handy. It's built into the iPhones. We're still waiting for that to come to Android, but in the meantime, you can get a third party device.

So there's a device called the Moto DeFi and this is a small satellite messenger device and you can use it on its own, or you can link it to a phone where it will send and receive messages and all kinds of updates through satellite. And that's about one hundred and fifty bucks. And then another one that a lot of the rescue folks like is the Garment in Reach and this works on its own. I think the Motorola DeFi needs to be linked up with Bluetooth on

your phone. It runs through that. But the Garment in Reach, I believe will work all by itself. And then the SOS features on your phone, you should really make sure they're set up before you need to use them. So I'm Samsung. They have the Emergency SOS. You can press the side button five times after you set it up and that will send it alert to your emergency contacts. Attach a five second audio recording and also pictures from both the front and rear cameras. Be very careful when

you set this up. Don't make the mistake I did where I sent a picture of my legs to my mother in law because it took a picture and sent it when I was setting it up. So be careful. Look at those settings very carefully. Apple Watch has fall detection, The iPhone has crash detection. Make sure that's turned on. The pixel phones have crash detection. Make sure that's turned on. You do need a simcard in your phone for that

to work. And then taking it a step further. You know my kids, and you know we always I don't know why my kids are so morbid, but they always talk about what happens when I'm not around anymore. But you have to think about this stuff as morbid as it is. Apple has the ability to set up a legacy contact, someone who can get access to your data after your death. This can include photos, messages, notes, files, all kinds of things. Google has something called Inactive Account Manager.

This lets you share parts your account or notify someone if you've been inactive for a long time, so it kicks in after I think it's like ninety days or six months of not using your account, it will send a message to a loved one that you set up in advance, saying Okay, here's my account. And then Facebook has something called a legacy contact. You can set that up and let someone post on your behalf in the unlikely event of your demise. Oh, I say unlikely, but

I guess it is not unlikely. It's going to happen, just a matter of when. But they can't read your messages. I think that's important to know. And they can't log into your account, and they can't friend and unfriend people, so they can't act like a ghost on your behalf,

but they can post something on your page. And then finally, if you're using one of these password apps, this is kind of tricky because you do need to if you want someone to have access to all of your accounts, you need to let them know how to get into your password manager. And so I looked up one password actually has kind of a cool thing. It's called emergency kit. This is a PDF document that lists out all the

details on how to get into your account. Fill it out, and that's a physical piece of paper that you would keep up in a safe place. Other password apps might have something like a recovery key. But again I'm telling you all of this not to be morbid, but we need to plan ahead. We need to think ahead. The digital world presents new complications for our data, for our information.

And if you have something like a photo collection, it used to be in a box that maybe your kids would find in the garage, but nowadays that's all locked up online. And could you imagine not letting them have access to that after you pass? That would not be a good thing. So think about this stuff in advance. I gave you some ideas here. I hope you run with them, and I don't want to be morbid, but I just think like it's better to be prepared for

this stuff than to not be prepared. All right, Coming up on today's show, Authorities Bust a major ransomware hacking group. I'll tell you why you might be able to get your files back if they were locked up. But first it is your turn. Give me a call triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. My name is Rich d'muro and you are listening to rich on tech. Welcome

back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Give me a call if you have a question about technology. This week, international authorities busted a major ransomware hacking group. This involved arrests, indictments, seizures of their infrastructure, and they also developed a free decryption tool to help victims recover their files. This is the lock Bit ransomware group.

They arrested a bunch of people in Poland, Ukraine and some other places, retrieved over one thousand decryption keys to help them create this free software. They seized over two hundred crypto wallets with a bunch of money in them, probably money from victims, I'm guessing, and took down thirty four servers, identified over fourteen thousand rogue accounts used in attacks.

Oh my gosh, this is just a lot. But I tell you this because if you, you know, were affected by this, maybe you run a small business or any kind of business and you just want more information. There is a website that they set up, no more ransom dot org, No more ransom dot org. That is where you can find the free decryption tool. So if you had your files locked up by this lockbit ransomware group, you might be able to unlock them for free. Again, I'll put that on the website website Rich on tech

dot TV. Thurman in Winchester, Massachusetts. You're on with Rich.

Alternative two dot net, and so if you have an app that you like and you're kind of curious what else is out there, this is where you can pop in the name of that app and it will give you the alternatives to that app. And so, for instance, Thunderbird, if you type that in, it also separates it by platform, So you can look at iPhone, Android, Windows, Open Source iPad and you just tap that I tapped Windows, and then it comes up with some of the other alternatives.

And so the alternative that it likes the most is clause Mail claws Mail, and then there's one after that called cea Monkey, and then there's of course Microsoft Outlook, which sounds like I'm sure you've tried. And then there's mail Bird, which is clearly play on Thunderbird, and so that's kind of probably similar to what Thunderbird offers, but maybe they'd looked at some of the things that people don't like about it and they made those features better.

And then there's one called mail Spring and postbox, spark Mail. I mean it goes on and on. I've used spark Mail. Actually that's a pretty good one. But there's so many of these, and I think that that's the best way, because when it comes to recommending software, it's really tough to know what you like and what you specifically want. You mentioned the different inboxes, separating them out, so I would go through and kind of see what which one of these works for you. It's kind of like me

with my note taking app situation. I've been using, you know, for the past year, every single note taking app. I downloaded every single one you can think of, because I was using ever note and it was like one hundred and thirty bucks a year to renew, and I was just like, I'm not going to do that, and so

of course I downloaded every single other app. And what did I do after all these months, I've come back to ever note And by the way, I talked about this, sent out a new newsletter this week for the first time in a while. So if you want to get on the newsletter list, go to rich on tech dot tv on the homepage. It says, sign up for the newsletter rich on Tech Newsletter. It is free. All you have to do is put in your email address and you'll get the newsletter. I'm gonna try to do it

weekly this week. For the first one, I kind of talked about my journey with all the different apps and things that I currently like. So Thurman, hopefully you find something on that website again. It's called Alternative two dot net, Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Email Just go to rich on Tech dot tv hit contact. Of course, that is the website and the way to follow me online at rich on Tech. Coming up in the show, we've got Arthur Edelstein. He runs a website called Privacy tests dot org where he conducts open source tests of web browser privacy. So you're gonna find out which web browser is the most private, which one protects your information the most, And we're gonna ask him about incognito browsing to find out where your info's going when

you do that. Let's go to Bill in San Diego. Bill, you're on with Rich.

There is an app called Imazing I Mazing, and this is sort of like the app that Apple should have put out with the iPhone, but they never did. Apple made it very, very convoluted to get files on and off the iPhone and to get data on and off the iPhone. There might be a reason for that, but I don't know. It just seems very, very unnecessarily complicated. But this app does it a lot easier because you

can drag and drop stuff on or off. So a lot of people when they had like an iPod or an iPhone, they realized after a certain period of time that getting music on that device was very easy. Getting music off that device not so easy. Getting your own files onto that device not so easy. So this app amazing makes it much easier. Imazig dot com. You will have to pay for it, but you can at least test it out. I think there's like a free level of service before you have to pay, and let me

see how much this thing is. But I use this the other day to kind of test the I get a lot of questions about text message extraction from the iPhone because you would think you'd be able to do it in an easy way, but no, you can't. Device license one device is forty bucks. So for forty bucks, you plug this device. You plug your iPhone into your computer.

It will scan the iPhone. It does take a while to do that initial scan, but once you scan it, you can download all of the text messages, some of the text messages, whatever you want, but it will make them all into a nice, easy to understand file. You can export that as a PDF, comma separated value whatever you want. This does it all. So I will put the link on the website in the show notes rich

on tech dot tv. Keep in mind, if you go to the website rich on tech dot tv, right at the top, there is a big red banner it says heard it mentioned on the radio. Links here. You can tap there to get links in real time to anything I mentioned on the show. So if I mentioned a good website like before the alternative to dot net, you can find a link right there. Great question. Sorry for you're a loss. Thank you so much, Bill and San Diego. Sorry that you want to do a canyon right as

we came to you. Let's go to Rose in Los Angeles. Rose in Los Angeles. You're on with Rich.

database that gets breached. All this information makes its way to the web. And then there's companies that scoop it all up and make it easy to find and it comes up in search results. So when you search for someone's name or address or whatever, it will say, oh, we've got their information, and sometimes it is there. Sometimes it's kind of you know, like these Spochio sites and all that, they make you jump through hoops to kind of see some of it, and they want you to

pay to unlock it. But Google, what you're referring to, Google results about you lets you see if your personal contact information, including your home address, phone number, and email address, is in search results, and you have the option to ask Google to take that out of search results when you say that. So basically the way this works is you go on Google, you sign up for this service. It is free. Google will ask you for your name,

your address, your phone number, your email address. You could put a bunch of women in there, and then when it goes out on the web and it searches for that information in search results. When it finds that, it says, hey, we noticed that your information is on this search result. Would you like us to take down that search result. It does not take down the original information from that website. It only takes down Google's link to that website when

people search. If you want the information to be removed completely, and I think the results about you is a good first step because most people are just going to do a quick casual search and find the information on Google and then click. But some people will go directly to an information broker to find information on you. If you want to do that, there are ways of doing it. There are many many services that will do this. But if you want to do this yourself, there is a website.

Let's see if I can find it. Diy. I think it's called delete me. Okay, here it is so delete me is a service that does this for a couple bucks a month. I think it's like ten dollars a month, where they will go out and actually delete requests that you that your information is deleted from these broker websites. But they also have free guides that can help you do it yourself. So it has a whole bunch of guides that will you can request to remove yourself from

all of these different places. And so they have basically DIY guides for all these things and tell us been verified spokio and it gives you a step by step way of how to request removal from those websites. And they're actually pretty good now I will tell you it is. It's a game of whack a mole. So you can take this down from one website and it's going to

pop up on an and another and another. So there are services I mentioned one last week like Mozilla Monitor and Norton has one Experience has one where they will and this delete me where they will constantly monitor for your information and try to get it off these websites. So I've been using this Mozilla Monitor as a way to test it and it has taken my information off of a couple of websites so far. Spokio, id True dot com, Background Alert dot com, peoplewin dot com. But

there are still so many more. I mean, there's just a list of ninety that they still have my information on that they're trying to get taken down. But again, these services are going to cost you money each month, and whether they work or not is you know, it's kind of up in the air. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But most of the websites, if you find your information on a website, you can ask to have

that information taken down. But these these sites are so shady that a lot of times they don't even do it, or they don't you know, it takes so long, or you can't get someone on the phone, or sorry, not on the phone. But you know, it's tough to make these requests. So that's the best way that I know of. I'll put those two links on the show notes so you can look up Google results about me or results about you, and then also the other websites that have

this stuff. But it's it's really it's a lot. It's there's so much information. The other website I talk about is have I Been pooned? H a ve e I beIN pwned dot com? Have I been poned? Pwned? Like owned but with a P and you can put in your email address and it will tell you if that

email address has been available on a website. So my email address has been in twenty seven data breaches and three pastes and pastes are when they just take all this information and they compile it and hackers just use that to kind of figure out email addresses and passwords. So it is it's a lot when you start searching for yourself online. Believe me, you're gonna find a lot of stuff, and it is not easy to take it down.

But remember back in the day, people had the white pages right and you can look up anyone in their address, and that was just thrown at everyone's doorsteps. So it's just a lot easier to find this stuff these days. Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one coming up. I'll tell you about Ring. They are gonna stop selling one of their popular items. People are trying to get a hold of them, and I guess they can't anymore. You are listening to rich on tech.

like a video doorbell for your car. Ring does not give a specific reason for stopping sales, but it's said that there were ongoing delays. So does that mean a component of this was not working or maybe I don't know. I mean, I really I don't see anything that is wrong with the device, but it just I don't know. People couldn't get them apparently, So it looks like people. Emails from Amazon show orders for the ringcarcamp placed in

recent months are now being canceled. Some people have been waiting since January twenty twenty three for the device, with delivery pushback multiple times. We do not know if they are going to resume Ring Carcam sales. I don't know. We'll see Ringcarcam if you want one, It's gonna be tough to get, so we're gonna have to look into some other car cams that are good. People love dash cams nowadays, so we'll have to find when that works.

Pretty well, let's go to Vivian. Vivian in Menefee, California. Vivian, you'r on with Rich.

you're able to unlock the phone. So to me, this seems like it's more of an iCloud issue. And yes, with iCloud, if you forget your log in, which Apple doesn't set by the way, and they don't ask you to reset it. Ever, as far as I've seen, you can you know, leave that passcode indefinitely or password on your account. But what I would do is I would get a trusted friend or family member to help you

set this up. I would ask them to help you change your iCloud password to something that you can remember, and something that you might write down in a physical piece of paper and keep in a safe place that

you can refer to. And then I would also change the passcode on your phone to something that you can remember, and I would keep that on a different piece of paper and in a different safe place, so that if you need to or if this trusted friend, if you say, oh, I've gotten locked out of my phone again, this will be the way that you can get back into those devices.

So that's frustrating for sure. I totally get it. And you know, it's one of these things where if you lose the passcode to your iPhone, there is really no way of getting back in. You have to reset the entire phone factory reset it. And that's why I always recommend that you also have a backup of your phone.

So if you do have a backup and you do forget the passcode, you should be able to get that once you have access to your phone again and you get back into your eCloud, you should be able to bring that backup of your phone to your phone again. So oh man, it's tough to remember this stuff sometimes.

And this actually happened to me. I set up, you know, I'm always setting up something like for you know, testing out, and so I set up this tablet and I always set up I've got like a couple of passcodes that I used, and I set up like kind of a test passcode that I used for my test devices, and I put it on the tablet and then I didn't think about it for a little bit, and then I was going to access it again, and I just kept putting in the pass code and it would not work.

And I was like, I'm like going, you know, in circles, like what is going on here? And so I finally realized after I started typing in because I have a couple of different variations, I realized that the tablet was accepting as many like numbers as I typed in, Like usually a pass code is either four or six digits. Well, at first I was just putting in four, and then I put in six, and all of a sudden I

just started typing more and accepted them. I was like, wait a second, and That's when I realized that the passcode was longer than the four digits I kept trying to type in, and so as soon as I typed in the six digit code and unlocked, and I was like, oh, well, one time I was testing a phone and I forget it was T Mobile or someone, but they sent me a test phone and I must have set it up

in my sleep and forgot about it. And so all of a sudden one day, I'm trying to use this thing to test on air and I cannot unlock it. And I email them like, hey, did you guys set a passcode on this phone before you sent it to me? Like what's going on here? You're like no, we never

do that. And I was going through all these circles and hoops before I finally realized, like, oh, I kept putting in my personal passcode instead of the tester one and it unlocked, and I was so embarrassed I had to like send them an email and be like ooh sorry, just kidding. By the way, this week, Google had to make an apology for its Gemini image generation. This is you know AI image generators or all the buzz right now. So Google recently launched one called Gemini that could create

images of people. Well, it was producing inaccurate or even offensive images in some cases. Google said, all right, we're going back to the drawing board on this one. We have paused image generation of people in Gemini. I guess the problem arose from an over correction. They tried to tune the model to show a wide range of diverse people and it it backfired on them, and the model would sometimes just flat out refuse to generate images of some people. So Google says, we're going back to the

drawing board. We're going to bring this thing back out when it can actually create the images that people want it to create. You know, humans are programming this AI, and humans are you know, they're not infallible, so we make mistakes, and apparently so does AI. Eighty eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one ZJ in Anaheim, California, ZJ. You're on with Rich.

to remain calm here as much as possible. How can I help today's j But here's my issue.

and my automobile is a license plate number. Are all stills showing on Google Maps street view. I don't know what to do to have them accept my request.

be you know, once in a while. Now they're happening much more often than before, but it does, you know, So they're getting a lot of these houses and things, and they have systems in place that automatically blur kind of information that might be identifying. So think about it this way. If someone was driving down your street, they can see your house. I mean, it's it's public domain, it's right there.

most or whatever. So they do give you this ability to remove your information. And what they do is they will blur out your house. So if Google is a photo owner, you can report a photo or request it to be blurred if it contains your face, your home, or other identifying information, or anything that violates the street view policy that they have. So that is the only ask that Google requires. They don't say you have to prove anything that say that you have to say that

you're under threat or something like that. It just says your face, your home, or other identifying information. You can report the photo, request it to be blurred. So you can do this by going searching your address on Google and then clicking little street view, so a little picture, not the map. You have to click the actual street view,

so it brings up the view of your house. And then in the lower right hand corner, in tiny, tiny letters, it says report a problem, and you click report a problem, and now it will give you your street view your address. It will give you a preview of the image, and you can actually adjust that image so that you can blur out your entire house, and it will say why are you reporting this image? Request blurring face, my home, my car, my license plate, a different object, what is

wrong with this image? You can do image quality and then you put in your email address, and you put in a test that you're not a robot, and you press submit, and generally that should work. People usually have pretty good success with that. If that is not working, in the case of U ZJ, I would just continue to submit the request. You did it eleven days ago. Google does not give a guarantee of how long it will take, but it says it generally, quote will review

your report as fast as we can. If you entered your email address in the form, we may contact you to get additional information or to update you on the status of your report. So personally, I would just continue to submit that, and that would send a signal to them that you need business and you want this thing figured out quickly. By the way, I will say that I did do this for a couple of these other

sites like redfin and Zilo. They will also allow you to take your information off of those sites as well, So a lot of times when you sell your house, the pictures of that listing will be on these websites like a Zillo or a redfin, So if someone knows your address, they can just go right into your house and take a look at all the rooms and the bathrooms and see exactly what's going on in there, so that may be an option too to take your information

down from there as well. Now for me personally, I requested, you should be able to do it yourself, but that would not work. I kept logging into my home dashboard on one of those websites and it just was not working. It said delete your pictures. I said delete. I deleted them all. They'd be gone for one second and they'd all pop up again, and so I just went through and I emailed. There's a help link at the bottom of the website. I emailed. I said, here's my address,

here's my house, here's the listing. Can you please take these pictures off? And I'm not kidding. Within a couple hours, I got an email from someone at was It was either redfin or Zillow or one of those, and they said, okay, we took your stuff down, thank you for doing business with us, And I thought that was pretty good. So the reason I tell you this DJ is I don't think that they are trying to actively not take this down, but I think that they are probably swamped with stuff

and they just need some more pushing. So I would maybe even go to another There are some ways you can chat, you know with Google as well, so you might try to chat with them to do something. I know that in you know, with different services, they have some chat applications, So maybe go into Google Maps and see if there's any contact info there that you might

be able to get a chat person on chat. But that's I think the only way they're going to take that that request is probably through the approval the official channels. Let's put it that way. Triple eight rich one o one eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. That is the website. Now you got me on this whole street view thing, and there's a website Google dot Com slash street view. And I don't know if you've seen these little cars going down your street,

but you can actually see where they're going next. So it says where we are mapping this month. We drive and trek around the world to bring you imagery that enhances your experience and helps you discover the world around you. If you want to wave at our team, check out below where they'll be coming to a location near you, and you can put your state in, so I put let's put California, and they'll tell you where they're driving these little cars from one, twenty twenty four to twelve,

twenty twenty four. And it's basically every county in California, so it's not very exact Los Angeles County. Oh, they'll be here sometime this year. That's real good information. Maybe if you live in a smaller state, let's try Kentucky. Kentucky, they'll be in Jefferson, Bullet, Nelson, Spencer, Anderson, Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln. Anyway, Google dot Com slash street view and again, if you want those directions on how to remove the Google Maps information,

open up Google Maps. Look for your street view. Bottom right hand corner says report a problem. Complete the form, click submit, and ZJ keep me posted if they get rid of it. I can't believe it's been a year since they took that down. Eighty eight rich one on one website, richon Tech dot tv. Coming up we will talk about Apple's new mission to make I Message even more secure and the bone I have to pick with I message. Yeah, we'll talk about that coming up. You

are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with Chris in Long Beach. Chris, you're on with Rich.

two factor authentication. In the case of Google, since it's built in, you already have access to your Google account, there is a level of you know, it's a little dicey because if you lost access to your Google you would lose access to these passwords. So that's a consideration. But other than that, my recommendation typically is use what's built into your apps. So if you have iPhone and you're only using iPhone, then iCloud keychain is excellent because

it works with Apple. They just put in some new security restrictions that make that where I can recommend it again before I couldn't, now I can, So iCloud Keychain

is really good there. And then I recommend if you know, if you want free, by the way, and if you want free and you're using Android or you're using an iPhone with Chrome web browser, both on your iPhone and or on your desktop, the Google Password Manager works really well because they added a feature where Google can fill in the passwords across all of your apps on the iPhone, not just on Chrome. So that's really nice and you

can turn that on in your settings. There is an option to auto fill with Google Password Manager, so that's really easy. Those are two free options. They're very simple, they're built into a lot of the things that we use today. The other option, if you want free, is

called Bitwarden, and that will work across all devices. It is cross platform, it is open source, and so a lot of people like that because they do offer a nice free version of that software and people seem to like it and then you can get into paid software. So there's a lot of paid apps that will do this. Y the ones that I like, dash Lane is a great one. There's also one called one Password that a lot of people like that's really good as well. But

again those are going to cost you money. You're in, you're out. So, Chris, the advice I have is if it's working for you, that's great. I would just make sure that you use it consistently, and that you use it across all of your apps and not just you know, selected ones. Are you using this thing most of the time or just some of.

keychain to generate this, but you can change it. Okay. So we're gonna go into settings and then password and accounts and so let's find that. So there's passwords, okay, So you go into passwords and then there's an option where it says password options. There it is, Do you see that? So if you go into setting settings passwords, do you see that?

autofill but also auto generate that password. And so what you need to do is just basically get into a routine of when you set up a new account you're using the Google Password manager to not only create that password, but also save that password, and that autofill is going

to be a key part of that. By the way, you can also go Chris to Google has their password manager online, So if you want to look at passwords dot Google dot com on your Chrome web browser will actually show you all of the passwords that you have saved with Google. So if you want to access those on your computer, you can do that. And then inside Google Chrome you can also go into your tools and your settings and it says passwords and autofill and you

can find your password manager in there as well. It's a little complicated, but it's one of those things you just have to get used to, and once you make it a routine, it is much safer. I'm glad that you're looking out for this though. Coming up, we're going to talk privacy of web browsers. You are listening to Rich on tech. Arthur Edelstein runs a website called privacytests dot org where he does open source tests of web browser privacy. Arthur, thanks so much for joining me today.

of privacy protections there are in reality. So I thought, wouldn't wouldn't it be great if we could objectively evaluate browsers to compare them and to look at those privacy protections. So my thinking was to create a variety of automated open source tests that would basically do leak tests of browsers and see what kinds of private information are leaking from different browsers and be able to compare those browsers, and then I could share those results with everybody with

the public on a website. So the website that I put together has a large number of tests on a

variety of different kinds of leaks. And if you look at the website, you'll see that every column in this big table that I put together is representing a different web browser, and every row of the table is a different leak test, and if a browser is leaking something, then it's failed the test and it gets the red X. But if the browser is protecting your privacy and prevents a particular kind week, then it's going to show a

green check mark. So at a glance, you can basically compare all the browsers and see what the state of browser privacy is today and over time. I'm repeatedly running these tests every couple of weeks because browsers are working on their privacy and things are changing over time, so we get also a longitudinal view of what's happening to browsers and the privacy on the web.

personal profiles of every person. They have, you know, very complex databases that include all sorts of information about you, often really personal information, including your interests, who you likely voted for, who your relationships are, really almost anything you can think of. They are holding that data and they're using that their goal is to target you with advertising. But that's a huge amount of data that's really sensitive that nobody really agreed to have held by these companies.

And what's also quite alarming is that in the past year we've heard there's been a couple of revelations about the US government has been buying up all this data, buying these databases, including a Defense Department and the NSA. And so they're collecting this information indirectly through these advertising companies, and they get all this without a warrant, And to me, that's a very scary thing for our democracy.

looking down the list here this Brave browser. I mean, it seems to check a lot of the boxes, but which browsers tend to have the worst protections out of the box and which ones seem to have the best.

on just providing the impartial data. But what I would say is that you do see some clear trends that some browsers are making a big effort to hide a lot of data that is leaking from from your computer, and other other browsers are not and they really have a long way to go to protect your privacy. So no browser is perfect. There's you know, failures among all browsers, but it's it's very clear that some are doing a lot more than others.

but they also build them. By far the most popular browser, which is Chrome, and they also are involved in tracking users on most websites you visit through a few different services, and they do that to show ads and also to provide analytics to those websites to see, you know, who's who's visiting my website and where did they come from.

just go ahead and delete that card. Number from that system. But I don't think that they got anything else other than your card number. Like I don't think you need to like change your Amazon account or anything like that. Like, it's just a matter of deleting this card where it's saved, and then when you get your new card, put that card into the account. And that's basically it.

It only shares a one time number, and so that will really protect your number from being out there when you are out and about. If you don't want to do that, you always use the chip when possible. Put the chip into the reader instead of swiping. Most of

the time. You know, when you swipe your credit card, your actual card number is being given to that retailer, but when you put the chip in or you use tap to pay, they're getting a one time number that only works for that one transaction, so they really can't

get your number of your card from there. Otherwise, if you are shopping online, when possible, if you can use a one time card number, if you're some of the credit cards and debit cards allow that they give you like a one time number, they'll generate it for you. If not, you try to use whether it's Google pay or Apple pay or even PayPal on these websites as like a third party kind of payment system, so they

don't actually get your real number. Or there is a website called privacy dot com and you can put I believe you have to use your debit card or your bank accounts, so you do have to have a little bit of trust in that to give that information out, which I rarely do. But they can generate a one time number for you, and that's actually quite handy for signing up for subscriptions. So for free you can generate

up to twelve cards per month. And so let me give you an example, let's say you sign up for a free trial of Paramount Plus and it says we'll give you seven days free and on the eighth day we're going to charge you. Well, you can use this privacy dot com to generate a one time number that they can authorize the transaction, but the number is not

going to work after that. So when Paramount goes to charge you on that eighth day, when you forget, by the way, because you inevitably do, that charge will not go through and you'll get an email from Paramount saying, hey, there's a problem with your card. We can't charge you if you're a subscription and you go, oh, let me delete that subscription because I really am I'm okay, I don't need that. So privacy dot com is a good

way to do that. It's a it's kind of a little bit of a trick, a little bit of a game, but it's it's one of those tools to have in your back pocket if you want to protect your information. Thanks for the call, Pam. I know that is always always just the worst when your number is taken and it really is not fun. I had this happen to me years ago. It was someone made a transaction at

like a kind of like the Walmart of Spain. I forget it's called it Carrie for or something, and I was like, what, I'm not in Spain right now, and they used, you know, they made a big transaction. Long story short, When I went to Spain, I was walking down the street and I saw the place like the chain. I was like, oh, that's the place where they took my number that time. Now it was like a chain store, so it wasn't that exact location. Now, if I was

really wild, I would go to that anyway. Samsung, let's give you some Samsung news. Samsung couple of announcements this week. Number one, if you have the Galaxy S twenty four, it got a major update, So go into your settings and update the software for the Galaxy S twenty four series, whether you got the S twenty four, the S twenty four Plus, or the S twenty four Ultra. Samsung was promising this first major update. They said, yes, we listened

to user feedback. We updated the screen. So they added a vividness slider, so if you want to make your screen look more vivid, you can, And they did a lot of fixes for the camera. And I told you that there was a lot of issues with the camera. It's a great camera, but they needed to polish it up a little bit, and they did do that, and I've been using the update. Seems to be better, but I'll have to use it for a little bit to kind of see. But if you have an S twenty

four series, definitely check your settings uh. If you want to check your software updates, you go into UH, let's see, I'll do this right now. Go into settings, go into software Update, download and Install and it will be there. So it should be there. It was there on the

first day they said it would be. Now. If you have an older Samsung device, the S twenty three series, S twenty three FE and one of the new foldables, the z Fold five, the z Flip five, or even some of their recent tablets, you are getting the new AI features. So that will come out in a software update, and that is coming out in March, so sometime in March. That gives them you know, March is just around the corner, but that gives them a whole couple of weeks here.

But you will get all of those AI features that came to the new phone. They are coming to your phone, so are you happy you did an upgrade, because you're getting the upgrade anyway. Eighty to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro. Here the website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. I did send out a newsletter this week, So if you want to

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a lot there. Let's go to Elsa in Plia del Rey, California. Elsa. You're on with Wretch Hi Rich.

my phone on tap to pay. But then when I actually put my card in as a chip, like I took the physical card out of my wallet and put

it in, it went through no problem. Other times I'll notice I'll get a text immediately for my bank and they'll say, hey, was this you that just tried to make this transaction, and it'll give the transaction and the number and the amount and all that stuff, and you press, you know, say why or no, or you know, you'd reply with a Y or an N. But calling I I'm trying to remember if I have ever gotten a call. Maybe banks did that in the past, and maybe there

are still some banks that do that. But also, you're absolutely right, your your red flag scam alert should go up and say hold on, is this really my bank? Because what they're gonna do is they're gonna say, hey, can you confirm your card number, can you confirm your social oh, can you confirm your data? Birth now You've just given someone three identifying pieces of information that they can really use against you. And by the way, in real time as you're telling them that, they're probably using

that number instantly before it gets turned off. So good reminder, Elsa. And have you have you had any issues since?

I'm guessing that if this channel is going streaming only, they're probably gonna come out with an app that would be available on all the major platforms. So what I would do is I would go on to this whatever this channel is, and I would see where it's going to be streaming, So are they coming out with an app? And I would check to see what platform that app is going to be available on there's three major streaming platforms. You've got you got a couple, maybe more than three.

You've got Roku, you've got Fire TV, You've got Google TV, and you've got Apple TV. Those are kind of the main four. So I think for your parents, the easiest is probably going to be the Fire TV stick and that you can get for about thirty five dollars or cheaper on Amazon. You plug it into the back of the TV. It comes with the remote and you can easily just install this app on there and your parents will have it in Is this TV Japan that you're talking about or No.

a month before taxes. Wow. That's interesting.

with like a fireTV stick. Roku also makes a stick that could be easy. But the bottom line is you're gonna have to just, you know, teach your parents once or twice how to get and open this app. And once you figure that out, you know, with them, it'll be pretty pretty smooth sailing from there. Are they ready for this? What's that?

You know, a lot of people are not necessarily tech savvy, but they can be taught how to do what they need to do, especially when they're trying to access something like streaming TV network or you know, music on a you know, smart speaker, whatever it is, give them the instructions. Maybe they have to write it down, but they will figure it out. And just check in with them once in a while. Some people are too embarrassed to say that they can't figure it out, and they'll go like

six weeks without watching TV. Literally just ask, just say, hey, is everything okay with your streaming setup? Is everything working? And they might say, now, I haven't gotten into work for two weeks. Now, well give me a call. Just let them know that, not me, but you if you're helping them, but they can call me too. If you're into sports, Apple has a new sports app called Apple Sports. This is a free iPhone app that provides real time score stats and more. It's very very easy to use.

You download it for the iPhone. It is free. It's available now. It supports a bunch of leagues MLS and NBA college basketball, NHL, a bunch of international leagues. The first question I got from all the people that saw this app when I announced that they came out with this this week, they said, rich, where's football? Where's hockey? I said, don't worry, it's going to come in time for the season. So when you look at this app. It is very simple to use. You choose your favorite

sports teams. It says yesterday, today, and tomorrow or upcoming, and it just shows you when your teams are playing, what time. It gives you all the stats you need. It gives you the final scores, give you the live scores. There is one controversial feature, or I guess I should say somewhat controversial, but it does have live betting odds, and some people were taken aback and said, there's no way that Steve Jobs were to put this in an

Apple app. We don't know. But you can turn off the betting odds in the setting, So if you are don't want that to show up, go ahead, you can turn that off now. Because I saw this on the iPhone, it's so easy to use, I was looking on Android to see if there is something similar, and there are many apps that you can get sports scores from. I think one of the biggest is Yahoo Sports. You can install that, pick your favorite teams. It will show you

all those, but so will Google. If you just type in sports on Google, it will give you all of your favorite sports teams, and if you're in the Google app, it will give you a link a shortcut that you can then put on your homepage. And for me, I've got my favorite teams and it does basically the same thing. And I think one thing that Google does really well when you look up a game is it gives you

where it's playing. So, for instance, tonight, there will be a game that I'm watching it says TV and streaming, and so I just tap there and I could see exactly where it's streaming, which is ESPN and Fubo. So I feel like Google does a really good job of this. Of course, it's Google Apple. It's just simple. It's on

your phone, it's in an app. But it's kind of cool that they came out with this because when they met with me to tell me about it, which you know, the way Apple works, they say, hey, Rich, we'd love to meet with you. What about we can't tell you? So I drive over there, I get into this room and they have all, you know, their big executives sitting there just talking sports. I'm like, who talks sports at Apple? And so it was all to kind of set me up for the fact that they were setting up this

sports app, and I was like, good thing. I just started watching some sports with my kids. Because I kind of was able to hold my own most of the time. I'm just talking technology, but I know a little bit about sports here and there. But anyway, Apple Sports is the app. If you want to link to it, go to the website. Rich On Tech dot TV. All right, coming up, I told you the good about Apple. I'm gonna tell you the bad. I told you I have

a bone to pick with Apple about I Message. I'll tell you about that coming up, plus more of your calls, your messages, and we've got an interview coming up about AI crimes. You are listening to rich on Tech told you have a bone to pick with Apple, and first I'll tell you the good, then I'll tell you the bad. So first off, Apple is making I Message even more secure. They're launching post quantum encryption in I message through some updates on iOS and mac os. And what is post

quantum encryption, you ask, Well, here's the answer. It's algorithms that will protect against potential future attacks from quantum computers. So quantum computers they're expecting to be so powerful that they could crack current encryption methods. So we have a form of encryption right now that is pretty good. But the computers in the future that are going to be so high powered they could potentially crack this encryption that

we already have. So that's coming to I Message, which means that you know, Apple has been on this march with their phones to make them very privacy centric, and I do like that. I do appreciate that about Apple.

I think they've pushed the envelope in so many ways, whether it is Safari, which is not really taken off in a big way on the desktop, but on iPhone that's the default, and it is a more private web browser when you look at you know, you look at those privacy tests that I was looking at earlier, and there's just so many things that these browsers are getting access to, not to mention, you know, things even like

your microphone and camera. So if the web browser is not doing a good job protecting you from cookies and all that stuff, you know, it could be a problem. And you know, these marketers love it, but there could also be more security issues there too, So I'm glad that I Message is becoming more secure. I think that messaging in general is a mess. There are ten thousand different ways to message people, and that is not a

good thing. It's it's I mean, it's a good thing that there's choice, but it's a bad thing that and this is my bone to pick with Apple. I Message has become such a force in the messaging industry. Right every single person that has an iPhone has I Message. It is pretty much turned on by default, and it's an amazing thing. It makes your messages secure. It's end

to end encrypted from iPhone to iPhone. It lets you send big pictures back in the day when you couldn't send full resolution across SMS, full videos, lets you do as little tap back things. That is all really nice. The bad part is about I Message is that they have made I Message such a proprietary thing for Apple and the Apple ecosystem that when people that are outside try to text an iPhone, people with iPhones snub their nose and they really give these people a hard time.

And I was hearing a story the other day of how this happens in the real world at high schools, and we've heard the stories. I've actually talked to students before how they will say with no problem that they feel that people that haven't Android are lesser than the people with an iPhone. And this happens across America. Blue bubble versus Green bubble. We've heard of this before, and so it's really heartbreaking to me when I hear of actual stories of students being ostracized in their schools by

other students because they don't have an iPhone. There is no reason why you need to have an iPhone. Android is just fine. It used to be people thought they were cheaper. They weren't as good. People say, oh, are you going to get an iPhone so you can actually text me properly. Let's not forget about the fact that Apple has made I Message incompatible with other platforms out there. Apple tomorrow could come out with an I message app

that works on Android or works on Windows computers. That would immediately be the number one messaging app in America and it would work across all things. People on Android did pay ninety nine cents a month for access to that maybe more. Apple don't do this. I asked people on my Instagram. I said, hey, have you ever heard of anything like this? One person said, it's awful. High school teacher here, They purposely leave kids out when they

don't have an iPhone. Another person said it happens with adults. I'm not surprised, it's so sad. Someone else said, that's absurd, not unexpected. Kids can be terrible. An adult said, I've been excluded from my entire first grade parent group because I have an Android, so mature. Another person said, I get that as an adult. Bullies will always be bullies must be kids that don't have Snapchat, because that's the only way kids communicate. That is true. You're listening to

Rich on Tech. Joining me now is Neil O'Farrell, founder of the Center for AI Crime. He's been looking into ways AI is accelerating all kinds of scams and frauds. Neil, thanks so much for joining me today.

tell tales that we knew from before. And if it mixes in good social engineering, like with spearfishing, so it sounds familiar, it mentions something about your family, or your job, or your social connections, it's going to be very easy to draw you in.

of it. AI is now changing that. So if I want to mass market spear phishing emails, AI can be used to pick out all the pieces of information about you specifically or your family and craft that into the phishing email so that the language is right, the cues, the comfort cues, the social engineering feels right. It will pick up on something in your past, your favorite teacher, your first power, your first dog, and that makes the spear phishing email or phone call or text message so

much more believable. You'll drop your guard for that precious moment.

not typical of how you would speak in America. AI will change all that, and that the recipient will will get a phone call from someone with an accent identical to theirs. We'll talk about the weather, we'll talk about what their favorite team has to be doing at that time. And for seniors who are a little bit more trusting, who maybe are a little bit lonely or a little bit bored, they're much more likely to be drawn into that. And that romance scam can morph into an investment scam

and all kinds of things. So and that's part of the problem too. We will see these combo scams right where once they have the hook in, it might start as a romance scam and send me money because you care for me. Then as the trust is built, is well, instead of sending me money, let's make money together so I don't have to depend on you. And then finally when they shut it down and say I have no more money. As well, remember those racy photos that you said of me, send me more money or everyone sees

those again. AI is capable of mixing and matching all different attacks into the one.

about what you click on. Use multi factor authentication absolutely everywhere it's offered, freeze your credit, all those things. Do them? Do them now? Do them often. You've also got to be skeptical and vigilant. But also the best defense is the context. It's not who you think is asking you to do something, it's what they're asking you to do, and that's the Does that sound normal? You know that?

Does that person that you just met really do you really believe they've fallen so head over heels in love with you that they want you to send money for a ticket to bring the family over if that, you know, crypto investment scheme is so good, Why is this stranger offering to bring you in on it? You know, since when does your local police department accept zell Or a gift card to pay a fine to make it go away.

by far. I mean I always say that the most powerful crime fighting technology of them all is wedged right between your ears. Just switch the thing on.

they catch you and it's something that's quick. It's something that's hasty. And of course we've all heard haste makes waste. That is very true when it comes to these scams as well. People are just acting very quickly, and then when you think about it, you're like, wait a second. You saw that article with the woman the scammed out of the fifty thousand dollars the financial columnist, I mean that was a wild story, and every second of the way you're like, how would someone fall for this? But

yet she did. All right, Neil, we're gonna leave it there. I love this list that you came up with on your website, the website Center for AI Crime dot org. You've got twenty different ways that AI is going or more than twenty actually that AI is accelerating all kinds of scams and frauds. So thanks so much for joining me today, Neil.

are now a thing. Scammers create fake Facebook accounts announcing funeral live streams for recently deceased people. They use real names and photos from legitimate funeral announcements, and when you go there to watch the funeral, it asks you to put in credit card information to watch the live stream,

and this is when they steal your financial data. So obviously these scams prey on grieving friends and family when of course they are emotionally vulnerable, and it causes a lot of stress and confusion because people are wondering what's happening here. Facebook has a policy that says this violates the policy, but four or four Media found dozens of active scam funeral live stream pages on the platform. By the way, this also happens with sports and music events.

I actually heard about this with sports events like Little League sports, I think, where you try to watch your kids' sports on Facebook and they try to get you to do this as well. So again one more thing to be concerned with. Apple this week says putting your wet iPhone in rice to dry it out is not a good idea. Remember all the years we've heard how great rice is for drying out your phone, and once you're done drying out your phone, you can cook up the rice and eat it. It's like a two and one.

Not yet, don't want to do that. But Apple now officially advises against using rice to dry out a wet iPhone. Why because rice particles can get into the charging port and damage the phone. I've talked about this before. It is Apple's goal to get rid of every single port on the phone. They are down to just one, that charging port. It will be gone. One of these days.

We will not have any sort of port. Remember when you first got a phone, it had, you know, a simcard slot, It had a earphone, you know, a headphone. It had you know, the cable connector at the bottom which was huge speaker grill, all that stuff. They want to get rid of everything. So that's happening, but not just yet. The last one is the port. Anyway, So how do you dry out your phone? Tap the phone gently against your hand to remove excess liquid. So point

the port down and then tap it. Get rid of that excess liquid. Let the phone dry out for half an hour. Plug it in. If you see a message on your phone that says the charging port is wet, take the plug back out. Let it dry out for up to twenty four hours. Try again. Do not use a hair dryer, Do not use a can of air. Do not use a cotton swab or a paper towel to dry the iPhone. You know, newer iPhones and pretty much every smartphone is water resistant. They're not water proof,

and liquid damage can still occur. You just need to make sure that you're drying this thing out if it does get wet. But these are not underwater cameras. Let's be real here, these things are not underwater cameras. All right, now, time for the feedbacks feedback segment. These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I get from you. If you want to submit yours, go to Rich on tech dot TV hit contact. We got a bunch about the

whole credit card situation here. While Anett writes in about the I message I teach at the high school level, kids bully for everything, not just iPhones. All the anti bullying rhetoric does nothing. It's so difficult to be around them as everything is driven by social media and what others think about them. They are so addicted to their phones and that's all they think about constantly, and they cannot stop a net. I am not at a school, but I agree and I hear it from my kids.

It is insane. The level of influence social media has on children today absolutely insane. The stuff they do, the things they do, the things they want the things, they'll try the challenges. Everything is driven by social media. Now, when I was a kid, we had the same pressures. Believe me, I bought Zeke Cavalrici's. When I was a kid, I had to have the parachute pants. But it was a different way. It was his mainstream media that really

led the way. And so it was MTV and all these things, and you watch the cool kids on there and you want to what they had. Now it's anyone that has a TikTok account that could influence your kids, whether what they're saying is true or not. Bosmo says, great bumper tunes today, Adam, look at that producer, Adam playing some good tunes. They say. They agree with the caller. That appreciates your tone and patience. We are learning together,

he mentions another radio person. They're not about patients, but that's why we listen to them. Keep up the good work. Let's see. PJ says about stolen credit card numbers. My credit card issuers send an email notification for every transaction. Wow, really that might get annoying. I check every notice. Twice. I've had the number used fraudulently and have had to get a new card. In one case, I was able

to stop the thief from getting their merchandise. Strongly suggests not using a debit card for any type of purchase. PJ the debit card. I love debit cards, and I actually use my debit card by default. And I actually, now that I think about it, I do have a notification on my phone. Every time I use my debit card, I get a notification from my bank that tells me about the transaction. Percent of the time it's someone in my house ordering something off Amazon. I'm like, now, what's

that for. But I do like debit cards because I like to know the whole not going into debt thing. But I get it. Credit card definitely feels like it protects you more, for sure, Vicky says, listening to Today's show and calls on identities of cards. In the past ten days, I've had four credit cards opened in my name, not only in my name, but in my social Security number. I was notified by a credit monitoring service about hard inquiries,

and my credit scores started falling. I've spent over thirty hours so far notifying the credit bureaus, calling the credit card companies, reporting to the FTC and reporting to my local sheriff and Social Security administration. I've had card theft identity several times, so that was easy to fix. My social Security number is a different matter. I've asked for freezes. I got a new inquiry last night. Oh thanks, Vicky, Ah, Vicky.

I know this is the tough part. Once the information's out there, it's really tough to recall it, and that is a struggle for sure. And Shelby says, someone with an older TV can buy you a smart DVD player. The DVD player will be able to stream the channels. The DVD basically turns the TV into a smart TV. Don't be needing to use a DVD for it to work? Yes, but I don't think the app will be on this smart DVD player for sure. I don't. I don't really think it would be there. So I think the the

fire sticks probably gonna be better. And finally, let's see here, I had one more here. Rich sounds like you have a great topic outdoor TVs. Oh well, we'll save that for next week. But they say they use an now TV. No problem, all right, if you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show. You can find links on the website richon Tech dot TV. Find me there at richon Tech next week how AI is being used to fight food allergies. Thanks so much

for listening. There are so many ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here with me.