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Hey, welcome back, everybody, Craig Peterson here. WGAN online, Craig Peterson dot com. I am videotaping everything today. So you can watch me online at Craig Peterson dot com slash for YouTube. And we're changing the podcast formats up a little bit as well, trying to put the concepts together and just single podcasts as opposed to how I do things here on the radio show where I might go from one segment to the next segment, and make this just a little more friendly for the general online consumption. Now, before the break, I mentioned that I want you to keep something in mind. Remember President Nixon Nixon, and this is quoted all of the time I want to make one thing perfectly clear. And remember President Trump, let me make this clear. I did not Have with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. Let's read the statement that came out from the company that makes this let me let us be very clear. Sound familiar? Tik Tok does not remove content based on sensitivities related to China. We have never been asked by the Chinese government to remove any content and we would not do so if asked. We are not influenced by any foreign government, including the Chinese government Tik Tok does not operate in China, nor do we have any intention of doing so in the future. So it makes me wonder when I hear let me make one thing perfectly clear. Are they lying? Right? It's like I constantly tell my kids because I know they're not trying to be deceitful, right. If someone starts a sentence with Well, to be honest, You have to wonder where they been dishonest with you before, and now they're being honest. Have you had that happen? I know I caught myself saying that I got into the habit of saying Well, to be honest, even though I had been honest the whole time, and I realized, wait a minute now, I'm painting a picture of me potentially having been dishonest before this. So when were you telling the truth after you said let me make this perfectly clear or before? So the pushback from Tick Tock comes after US senators Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer, requested intelligence officials assess the national security risks posed by Tick Tock as well as other Chinese content platforms. Hundred 10 million downloads in the US alone. It's a potential counterintelligence tool that we just can't ignore. That was in the statement that came out. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg Whose firm competes with Tik Tok, particularly in the youth market has also recently attacked the platform. oversensitive. Concerned. Remember that Zuckerberg makes a competing product. Another US Senator Marco Rubio previously asked us national security panel to review their acquisitions of musically as well that happened this year. Concerns about censoring concerns also, about whether or not these guys are being honest with everybody. So there you go. There's Tik Tok. I've got two more articles. Let's see if we can get through them here in the last segment. One is about the Pentagon. Many people have been looking at stuff saying Oh, man, I'm just moving to the cloud because then I don't have to worry about security anymore or configuration or updating computers. Remember, the cloud is just another word for someone else's computer. Your legal responsibility These to protect your data do not disappear when you move that data to the cloud. And you are oftentimes much more exposed once you're in the cloud than if you kept it on your own machines. So what's happened here now is the Department of Defense is looking at their budgets saying, Hey, listen, if we move everything to the cloud, it's going to be cheaper for us. Now the Pentagon realizes it's not necessarily going to be more secure. And in fact, in this day and age, most cloud services are far less secure because of misconfigurations that humans have made on them so I don't think the Pentagon is looking at as this as a way to make things more secure. Like so many small businesses do unknowingly and end up out of business because of it. But the Pentagon is looking to save money and The winner that everyone was expecting from this was Amazon. And then President Trump came into power and said, Hey, wait a minute now. My administration has been looking at this bidding process for this project and says, it doesn't look like this was fair. It's called the Jedi contract. By the way, J-E-D-I, Jedi Star Wars. It doesn't look like this was fair. So let's have another examination at it. And Amazon came out with a statement because it was awarded to Microsoft. Amazon said that a detailed assessment purely on the competitive offerings would clearly lead to a different conclusion. Amazon said to be evaluating its options after the decision has 10 days to decide whether or not to launch a challenge. And it statement the Pentagon said all offers were treated fairly Microsoft Executive Tony towns, Whitley said the company was proud to have its cloud technologies picked by the Department of Defense to satisfy the urgent and critical needs of today's warfighters. So let's get into this just a little bit more. Amazon has a real problem when it comes to the cloud computers that they have in the cloud systems. And that is, Amazon is a first-generation cloud service. They were the first and the biggest, they still are the biggest out there. And because of that, that the design of the system is difficult for many people to understand. And it's certainly extremely complex, especially when you get into the microcomputing aspect of containers. Very, very difficult. And many of the problems we've seen stem from people making mistakes because of the complexity of configuring Amazon Equifax aside and we'll talk about that one next week. But it's very difficult to configure So Microsoft with their as your platform has an advantage. Because even though they weren't first to market and usually first to market is a very big competitive advantage and it has been for Amazon. So even though Microsoft Azure was not first to market, it has been second or third to market means it's a more advanced system. And in this case, it means it's simpler. So I'm sure that played into the Department of Defense's strategy here when they were looking at it. Microsoft is going to provide artificial intelligence-based analysis and host classified military secrets among other services. They're going to be you Using to run this thing military contractors with the various types of secret top secret, etc. The Normal Microsoft employees won't have any access to this. So I think this might be good as long as they stick to this, right? Because remember, the cloud doesn't solve your security problems. In fact, it makes some major ones. In July, President Trump told reporters he was getting tremendous complaints about the contract with the Pentagon and Amazon. He said that the companies had told him the contract to us and competitively bid. So he took a very, you know, the administration took a very long look at it. Of course, President Trump has repeatedly criticized Amazon and his founder Jeff Bezos, but he criticizes everybody, right equally. He praises the military and criticizes the military, but he gets very specific. It's not as though he hates someone well. Maybe he does. But he hates someone like Jeff Bezos. He's just criticizing Bezos for some of his actions bear a very big blow for Amazon because this is expected to be a 10 billion $11 billion project. The Pentagon saying is going to be 10 separate cloud computing contracts over the next two years. And the statement from the Pentagon is the jet ideal continues our strategy of a multi-vendor multi-cloud environment as the department's needs are diverse and cannot be met by any single supplier. So good on them. And again, they are putting their personnel in the Microsoft data centers, they have their personnel in various data centers because they understand that cloud does not mean secure, but in this case, it is going to save them some money. Well, there are more articles you'll find online that I just don't have time to get to today. One of them is China. Central Bank. They set up a research team five years ago to look into steps into establishing a cryptocurrency. And China, of course, is trying to establish itself as a major, the major world power. Right now the price of oil is determined based on the United States dollar. Our dollar is the world's currency bottom line. And what China is doing at this point is they want to establish this new cryptocurrency as the world currency and get rid of the US dollar as the standard dollar. So China's got a new crypto cryptography law that takes place, in fact on January 1, and it's designed to facilitate the development of the cryptography businesses. All right, I am going to be out of town this week. So I'm will not be making my normal appearances on the various radio stations around the Northeast, I'm on a whole bunch of stations, I probably will do one or two Facebook Lives will see, depending on how my time gets split up here. And I am not planning on doing one of my free masterclasses this week, but I probably will when I get back. We're also going to be launching a mini-course on hardening windows, every step, everything you need to do to make Windows as resilient as possible, basically, as resilient as humanly possible. So a very, very big deal. So keep an eye out for that master actually a mini-course that will be coming out on hardening windows. Make sure you on my email list so you can find out about all these free pieces of training. Also, after I get back I'm going to start sending out emails About the Facebook Lives and things, different trainings I've been doing because I've been doing them under the radar, right you guys know about it, but nobody else does. And so we will start announcing those as well. So keep an eye out. There's just lots to keep track of, and I really appreciate everybody being with me today. Make sure you subscribe to a live podcast. On tune in, listen to me right here live on the radio as well. 123 pm every Saturday. And most Wednesdays not this Wednesday at 7:38 am on with Ken and Matt. Everybody have a safe week. Check out the video of today's show online Craig peterson.com slash YouTube. You've been listening to me on WGAN
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