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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So tech and how to affects you and your world
would be done. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on Wood
Radios West Michigan Live. All right, Trent, welcome, Inn. Appreciate
you being here with us today. Always a pleasure, my friend.
Big news it comes to tech with there's always something happened,
especially now, whether it's AI or folks getting hacked or
(00:22):
the great going now, whatever it is, we bring it
to you all straight, no sugarcoated, and of course that's
what we're going to do today. Thank you for being
here with us on an independence week man, good morning,
justin so let's start with this. A couple of big
stories that are out there floating around. You sent me
a few, I saw a few. I just want to
start with us with in Michigan. Michigan hospitals hacked again.
(00:47):
Hackers stole the personal data of seven hundred and forty
thousand people during an attack on a Michigan hospital. This
has already happened. So the reason we're telling you this, folks,
is so that you are aware your information might be
out there. We'll give you some details on what you
can do, but try another story another day. There's another
one of these big stories just happened last week, I think,
(01:09):
or it came out like.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Justin It feels like these our weekly stories that we
see massive, massive data breaches, things that didn't happen, you know,
even five or ten years ago. On this scale, it's
just week after week, and it gets to the point
where people think, well, is anything safe? Is anything secure?
Why these bad guys keep hacking things over and over?
Don't they have everything already? And because of two factor authentication,
(01:34):
because people are changing these passwords, these password leaks, these
data breaches aren't good forever. Hackers need new data, they
need current data. That's kind of the lifeblood of their industry.
So I would just encourage people to make sure you
use a digital password management system that's linked to dark
web scanners. So Apple has a built in free passwords app.
(01:56):
There's third party apps out there, but that is the
key right now, is to use a password management tool
that will tell you if your information has been compromised
or leaked, and then obviously you can reset just those
passwords instead of trying to figure out and reset every
single account that you have, which would probably take me
a week.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, it's interesting too, we note that American hospitals,
infrastructure like energy utilities. They've been on highlert since the
attacks in Iran, those targeted strikes for possible cyber attacks,
whether it's one of those bad actors, Russia or North Korea,
(02:39):
whoever it might be, they're always testing this. They're always
trying to do this. Fact, I saw somebody ask President
Trump about this the other day, and China's trying to
do this to us, So I would China try anything?
He kind of admits, you know, we're always doing it
to them. We're doing it to them too. So this
is a back and forth because I said, this is
sort of the way of the world. I think it
was the interview with Mario over the week again, as
(03:01):
she says, is this the way the way? He said, yeah,
it's bad, but this is it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It justin what it is is, it's probing. It's trying
to look for vulnerabilities. It's trying to look for ways
that we can be attacked. And sadly, these other people,
when their regimes are actively support supporting this, that then
they target our infrastructure. So they're looking for ways to
blackmail us. If you think this whole blackmail or this
(03:27):
extortion or ransomware, whatever you want to call it, is
just on a public company sphere. This is also happening
at governmental levels, and we don't hear about these things
because they keep those under wraps. But I wouldn't be
a bit surprised if government agencies have paid large sums
of money to foreign actors because they've had they've had
(03:48):
ransomware attacks or threatened to release their data. And we've
seen some of that in the past, but that may
be going on on a bigger picture than we understand.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Trent, can it be affordable life store likeness? Can I've
in standale, Grand River Tech the other organization that can
help you with all of these needs. Here's another one
that looks kind of scary. Speaking of which, you have
there with your cookout this weekend and you are you're
swatting it thinks flying around. You never know. It could
(04:19):
be a mosquito, or it could be a mosquito drone.
China has unveiled new tiny spy drones that look like
a mosquito. I don't know if these are real or not,
but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the intelligence
folks are working on stuff like this, and by the way.
I will swap them too.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Justin this is a funny story, because yes, we have
incredible mosquitos this year, more than I can recall in
recent history, and I really hope that's not what it is.
But now on a serious note, these are micro sized drones.
They look like a sort of a mosquito. You can
see the pictures there. These are designed to fly into areas.
They have a pretty short flight time, obviously because they're
so but they are designed to be deployed into very
(05:03):
sensitive areas where they can basically fly in and sit
and listen and they can listen to information. So these
are going to be used at military installations or other
sets of places where China doesn't have, you know, hopefully
it probably doesn't have too much ability to hack like
phone devices. So for average joes to think, hey, I'm
going to swat every mosquito that got into my house,
(05:24):
there's much cheaper ways to target your apps or through
your phone. As an individual user, I won't worry about that,
but this is something that the government has to take
seriously at their military installations. Now there is some technology
to scan for these things. I doubt the military has
that scanning technology because they do have a battery, they
have some transmitters built in. So I think we're going
to see some counter detection equipment going to be installed
(05:48):
at military bases because of these types of threats.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, drones could seem scary. And you know, even these
these small ones of spy drones especially, I get it,
I understand, but not all of them are up to
no good. In fact, there are few that are doing
great work. And here's one that has caught the attention
of folks online. This drone was rescuing a man who
(06:14):
I've never seen anything like this before, Trent, this is wild.
This is a drone that was sent in that actually
was able to do a rescue of a guy, almost
like a helicopter. They pull him up on this and
it's a pretty decent sized jone. It takes a couple
of guys to carry it, but it can go in
and being deployed during heaving rains and flooding can actually help.
(06:34):
And in fact, this is what happened I guess a
couple of weeks back in flooded areas. It can drop belief, surprise,
but it can also pick people up and bring them
to safety. This is wild.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, justin we're seeing these drones used in farms to
spray crops. This is basically a large utility drone. It's
anywhere from four to six feet across, and these drones
are used to pick up fertilizer, they can spray it
on fields, and obviously they can use for utility purposes
like we see in this video here, where they can
take large amounts of material in a bag. In this case,
(07:11):
they were using it to bring goods, people's personal possessions
out of a flood zone and this guy was stranded
on a roof and they just took a rope and
picked this guy up. That's the coolest thing. We're going
to see more of these utility that's was being used
obviously here, hopefully also for rescues. Think of the different
things that happened in the past, burning buildings. They could
(07:33):
absolutely be used for rescues.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, I've got to ask you about this because
it just came up in the chat and I did
see it this week, so I figured I might as
well ask you. I gotta mute this because I don't
know as far as the audio on this, but somebody
did ask about it, so well, Eric, have you seen
Trent the robot caught walking around in Detroit. This is
(07:56):
a Detroit somebody in Detroit catches us on video. There
is a robot walking down the street. And if you
see in the kind of the corner of your eye
on this video, there's a guy seems like he's got
a remote that is working the remote control over him.
This looks looks like a robot and it says it
(08:16):
waves to the car. It says robowar dot com maybe
on it. I'm not sure, but it is kind of
This is kind of strange to see. I I don't
know if it's a preview of what's to come in
the next two years or not, but this was wild.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, justin I don't think there's any laws about taking
your remote control robot out for a walk on the sidewalk,
So I think I think maybe we're gonna see more
of this. But it is creepy. It walks funny, it
looks funny. Doesn't look like some of you're gonna walk
up to and shake their hand and say how you
doing today.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's just crazy stuff like that, and you think about
like that's the future, that's that's what's coming our way.
Very very possib believe could be all right, another quick
one robots. Amazon on the custom of using more they
want to replace humans, so in their factories. This is
one of the things that you can say they look
forward to Amazon that to use more robots than humans
(09:17):
in their factories.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Justin This is a bitter sweet sweet story because on
the one hand, you know, human labor is obviously being
replaced by robots at an incredible pace, and so that
takes jobs from people, that takes the human aspect out
of work, and our American culture that revolved around hard work,
making and building the roads the equipment of our nation.
(09:44):
On the other hand, when robots can do a job
of a human as we've seen in the past, whether
it's the blacksmith you know, making it by hand, or
large industrial forages. Every time we've had a piece of
machinery or technology replace that, there's been some short term
pain in the workforce and the business system. But we've
accomplished incredible things industrially. And then we've also those people
(10:08):
that did work in those fields pivoted to other fields
that were more of a brain types of tasks than
the physical and that's the interesting part of this is
as AI and technology is becoming more you have more
brain power to do things that are not just physical jobs,
but more AI related tasks that people would typically have
(10:29):
to do. It's kind of uncharted territory of what is
the shift going to do. Is it going to provide
an opportunity for people to work in different fields or
is AI going to also stop that? And we're left
with a strange world where people don't have as many
jobs as a whole, and we need work. Work is meaningful.
Work is how we function as human beings, and it
(10:51):
would really mess up society if we had a ton
of people that didn't have that satisfaction, that drive to work.
So that is the interesting part is that we don't
really know exactly where this is going.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, without a vision or a purpose, you know, people perish.
That's what the Bible says. So we've got to have
something to do. I can't imagine not ever working. We're
doing something. I know Trent may take a little time
off for Independence Day weekend, but other than that, he's
there with you and ready to go twenty four to
seven almost but most of the time over at Affordable
(11:23):
Life started Lake, Michigan Drive and standy. I'll check the
website of course for hours, but also because I'm not
serious when I say twenty four seven. But the guy
doesn't stop working. That's it's a wonderful thing about him.
And then Grand River Tech, where he's got folks in
the equipment and what not up and running to keep
you protected. Twenty four to seven. Of course, your your organization,
(11:44):
your church, whatever it might be. Business, he'd love to
help you out there. Trent, always a pleasure, my friend.
Thank you so much for being here with us today.
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks, just have a great day.
So tech and how to affects you and your world
would be done. This is Tech Talk Tuesday on Wood
Radios West Michigan Live. All right, Trent, welcome, Inn. Appreciate
you being here with us today. Always a pleasure, my friend.
Big news it comes to tech with there's always something happened,
especially now, whether it's AI or folks getting hacked or
(00:22):
the great going now, whatever it is, we bring it
to you all straight, no sugarcoated, and of course that's
what we're going to do today. Thank you for being
here with us on an independence week man, good morning,
justin so let's start with this. A couple of big
stories that are out there floating around. You sent me
a few, I saw a few. I just want to
start with us with in Michigan. Michigan hospitals hacked again.
(00:47):
Hackers stole the personal data of seven hundred and forty
thousand people during an attack on a Michigan hospital. This
has already happened. So the reason we're telling you this, folks,
is so that you are aware your information might be
out there. We'll give you some details on what you
can do, but try another story another day. There's another
one of these big stories just happened last week, I think,
(01:09):
or it came out like.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Justin It feels like these our weekly stories that we
see massive, massive data breaches, things that didn't happen, you know,
even five or ten years ago. On this scale, it's
just week after week, and it gets to the point
where people think, well, is anything safe? Is anything secure?
Why these bad guys keep hacking things over and over?
Don't they have everything already? And because of two factor authentication,
(01:34):
because people are changing these passwords, these password leaks, these
data breaches aren't good forever. Hackers need new data, they
need current data. That's kind of the lifeblood of their industry.
So I would just encourage people to make sure you
use a digital password management system that's linked to dark
web scanners. So Apple has a built in free passwords app.
(01:56):
There's third party apps out there, but that is the
key right now, is to use a password management tool
that will tell you if your information has been compromised
or leaked, and then obviously you can reset just those
passwords instead of trying to figure out and reset every
single account that you have, which would probably take me
a week.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You know, it's interesting too, we note that American hospitals,
infrastructure like energy utilities. They've been on highlert since the
attacks in Iran, those targeted strikes for possible cyber attacks,
whether it's one of those bad actors, Russia or North Korea,
(02:39):
whoever it might be, they're always testing this. They're always
trying to do this. Fact, I saw somebody ask President
Trump about this the other day, and China's trying to
do this to us, So I would China try anything?
He kind of admits, you know, we're always doing it
to them. We're doing it to them too. So this
is a back and forth because I said, this is
sort of the way of the world. I think it
was the interview with Mario over the week again, as
(03:01):
she says, is this the way the way? He said, yeah,
it's bad, but this is it.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It justin what it is is, it's probing. It's trying
to look for vulnerabilities. It's trying to look for ways
that we can be attacked. And sadly, these other people,
when their regimes are actively support supporting this, that then
they target our infrastructure. So they're looking for ways to
blackmail us. If you think this whole blackmail or this
(03:27):
extortion or ransomware, whatever you want to call it, is
just on a public company sphere. This is also happening
at governmental levels, and we don't hear about these things
because they keep those under wraps. But I wouldn't be
a bit surprised if government agencies have paid large sums
of money to foreign actors because they've had they've had
(03:48):
ransomware attacks or threatened to release their data. And we've
seen some of that in the past, but that may
be going on on a bigger picture than we understand.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Trent, can it be affordable life store likeness? Can I've
in standale, Grand River Tech the other organization that can
help you with all of these needs. Here's another one
that looks kind of scary. Speaking of which, you have
there with your cookout this weekend and you are you're
swatting it thinks flying around. You never know. It could
(04:19):
be a mosquito, or it could be a mosquito drone.
China has unveiled new tiny spy drones that look like
a mosquito. I don't know if these are real or not,
but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the intelligence
folks are working on stuff like this, and by the way.
I will swap them too.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Justin this is a funny story, because yes, we have
incredible mosquitos this year, more than I can recall in
recent history, and I really hope that's not what it is.
But now on a serious note, these are micro sized drones.
They look like a sort of a mosquito. You can
see the pictures there. These are designed to fly into areas.
They have a pretty short flight time, obviously because they're
so but they are designed to be deployed into very
(05:03):
sensitive areas where they can basically fly in and sit
and listen and they can listen to information. So these
are going to be used at military installations or other
sets of places where China doesn't have, you know, hopefully
it probably doesn't have too much ability to hack like
phone devices. So for average joes to think, hey, I'm
going to swat every mosquito that got into my house,
(05:24):
there's much cheaper ways to target your apps or through
your phone. As an individual user, I won't worry about that,
but this is something that the government has to take
seriously at their military installations. Now there is some technology
to scan for these things. I doubt the military has
that scanning technology because they do have a battery, they
have some transmitters built in. So I think we're going
to see some counter detection equipment going to be installed
(05:48):
at military bases because of these types of threats.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Well, drones could seem scary. And you know, even these
these small ones of spy drones especially, I get it,
I understand, but not all of them are up to
no good. In fact, there are few that are doing
great work. And here's one that has caught the attention
of folks online. This drone was rescuing a man who
(06:14):
I've never seen anything like this before, Trent, this is wild.
This is a drone that was sent in that actually
was able to do a rescue of a guy, almost
like a helicopter. They pull him up on this and
it's a pretty decent sized jone. It takes a couple
of guys to carry it, but it can go in
and being deployed during heaving rains and flooding can actually help.
(06:34):
And in fact, this is what happened I guess a
couple of weeks back in flooded areas. It can drop belief, surprise,
but it can also pick people up and bring them
to safety. This is wild.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, justin we're seeing these drones used in farms to
spray crops. This is basically a large utility drone. It's
anywhere from four to six feet across, and these drones
are used to pick up fertilizer, they can spray it
on fields, and obviously they can use for utility purposes
like we see in this video here, where they can
take large amounts of material in a bag. In this case,
(07:11):
they were using it to bring goods, people's personal possessions
out of a flood zone and this guy was stranded
on a roof and they just took a rope and
picked this guy up. That's the coolest thing. We're going
to see more of these utility that's was being used
obviously here, hopefully also for rescues. Think of the different
things that happened in the past, burning buildings. They could
(07:33):
absolutely be used for rescues.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
All right, I've got to ask you about this because
it just came up in the chat and I did
see it this week, so I figured I might as
well ask you. I gotta mute this because I don't
know as far as the audio on this, but somebody
did ask about it, so well, Eric, have you seen
Trent the robot caught walking around in Detroit. This is
(07:56):
a Detroit somebody in Detroit catches us on video. There
is a robot walking down the street. And if you
see in the kind of the corner of your eye
on this video, there's a guy seems like he's got
a remote that is working the remote control over him.
This looks looks like a robot and it says it
(08:16):
waves to the car. It says robowar dot com maybe
on it. I'm not sure, but it is kind of
This is kind of strange to see. I I don't
know if it's a preview of what's to come in
the next two years or not, but this was wild.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, justin I don't think there's any laws about taking
your remote control robot out for a walk on the sidewalk,
So I think I think maybe we're gonna see more
of this. But it is creepy. It walks funny, it
looks funny. Doesn't look like some of you're gonna walk
up to and shake their hand and say how you
doing today.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
It's just crazy stuff like that, and you think about
like that's the future, that's that's what's coming our way.
Very very possib believe could be all right, another quick
one robots. Amazon on the custom of using more they
want to replace humans, so in their factories. This is
one of the things that you can say they look
forward to Amazon that to use more robots than humans
(09:17):
in their factories.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Justin This is a bitter sweet sweet story because on
the one hand, you know, human labor is obviously being
replaced by robots at an incredible pace, and so that
takes jobs from people, that takes the human aspect out
of work, and our American culture that revolved around hard work,
making and building the roads the equipment of our nation.
(09:44):
On the other hand, when robots can do a job
of a human as we've seen in the past, whether
it's the blacksmith you know, making it by hand, or
large industrial forages. Every time we've had a piece of
machinery or technology replace that, there's been some short term
pain in the workforce and the business system. But we've
accomplished incredible things industrially. And then we've also those people
(10:08):
that did work in those fields pivoted to other fields
that were more of a brain types of tasks than
the physical and that's the interesting part of this is
as AI and technology is becoming more you have more
brain power to do things that are not just physical jobs,
but more AI related tasks that people would typically have
(10:29):
to do. It's kind of uncharted territory of what is
the shift going to do. Is it going to provide
an opportunity for people to work in different fields or
is AI going to also stop that? And we're left
with a strange world where people don't have as many
jobs as a whole, and we need work. Work is meaningful.
Work is how we function as human beings, and it
(10:51):
would really mess up society if we had a ton
of people that didn't have that satisfaction, that drive to work.
So that is the interesting part is that we don't
really know exactly where this is going.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, without a vision or a purpose, you know, people perish.
That's what the Bible says. So we've got to have
something to do. I can't imagine not ever working. We're
doing something. I know Trent may take a little time
off for Independence Day weekend, but other than that, he's
there with you and ready to go twenty four to
seven almost but most of the time over at Affordable
(11:23):
Life started Lake, Michigan Drive and standy. I'll check the
website of course for hours, but also because I'm not
serious when I say twenty four seven. But the guy
doesn't stop working. That's it's a wonderful thing about him.
And then Grand River Tech, where he's got folks in
the equipment and what not up and running to keep
you protected. Twenty four to seven. Of course, your your organization,
(11:44):
your church, whatever it might be. Business, he'd love to
help you out there. Trent, always a pleasure, my friend.
Thank you so much for being here with us today.
We appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks, just have a great day.
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