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for local showtimes visit category5.tv ah welcome back we are back we're back category 5 technology tv is on the air i had a bit of downtime did you get any downtime uh i'm always on downtime oh okay yeah well hey that was really really nice thank you to our community for continuing to support us through that uh just a little bit of a break yeah uh we've been doing this show for 13 years and that's the first time we've ever literally taken a break yeah that's true uh we've had some down time because of moving or doing but we're working working working right yeah power but that's the first time i've actually just taken some time with my family and it's it was just very enjoyable so thank you very much speaking of the support of our viewers the show would not be possible without your support and i do want to give a real quick shout out i've got a big long list here of some particular viewers who um who i want to make mention of so just to say a big thanks to bp9 scott barkley ron morrissette jerry kowalski jonathan garby jens nissen ameridroid nomen5 bill marshall and nycad now you folks supported us through the kickstarter campaign to get us into this space of course there are a lot more of you as well who participate in the show and supporting the show through our patreon at patreon.com category5 that's a cool way to support category 5. that's awesome tv i mean the kickstarter was to get us safely into this space get us out of the old studio and into this one during a pandemic yeah but the the patronage is what keeps us going every single month that's right i can't believe how quickly the first of the month comes up on us and you know keeping on top of the bill is doing well that way and it's largely thanks to your support and i appreciate that very very much uh that makes a world of difference for us here at category 5 tv and and we're working on getting some things done and and part of that is um is going to be unveiled tonight with ameridroid's easy portal a really cool simple device we've talked about it yeah and i don't want to get too much into it right now but we've talked about how owning a 3d printer may just be a way to save money by being able to create cool things that do a good job yes and easy portal is one of those products bo at ameridroid came up with that it's just so practical and so just so you know it's basically an easy conduit through a wall through a desk through ceiling tiles whatever you want to go through and it's completely customizable but bo has designed it and made it so that he can 3d print it at ameridroid so what we're seeing tonight is 3d printed yes yes that's flipping so you can order those uh we actually have them through you'll you'll see the links below but also just go to ameridroid.com i'll mention the coupon code in just a couple of moments time but what i love about 3d printing and when bo did this created easy portal specifically because i said like how am i going to hey bo how am i going to get through this wall i got this stupid abs pipe running all the cables into the studio and uh and he came up with this solution to go through you know drywall and six inches of air and and it just made me go wow bo can like invent and create and then 3d print to bring his invention to reality and it's like that's what we live in that's the world that we live in as far as how far technology has come it's mind-bending to me it's true it's not just ameri droid he's a marine vent yeah there you go but it just makes me think that 3d printing is like hey that's the next big thing i think it's around to stay i think it has been for a while i'm behind it right now it's the thing but there's been such a such a slow adoption in the older community and i'll say the older community but like the those of us who you know were working with computers in the 80s 90s it's i think maybe that's a generalization maybe that's us here in canada maybe it's a little different down down south but um i find that we're very slow to adopt these types of technologies because it seems like a fly by night it could fail it could disappear but now i'm seeing the reality of hey 3d printing you can do some amazing things i think also the the big challenge with 3d print printing at the onset was the cost like if you wanted to get a 3d printer do you remember when the toyota 3d was on was on our show and it was like 2 000 and at the time we thought that wow thousand dollars for a consumer 3d printer that's fantastic right at the time there were four thousand dollars yeah well now you can actually go to our website category five dot tv click on shop and you'll see 3d printers there for 250 bucks which is amazing what i know well they do a better job than those two three thousand dollar units it's true i love that we can go to our local library and what we could we could 3d print like sans pandemic yeah well yeah exactly yeah we used to be able to but you could you could 3d print out the library i'm like this is how much 3d printing is has become more readily accessible and it's like man now i want to get a 3d printer at home just to print some cool stuff with my kids you have to if you want to do any 3d printing because all the maker tech spaces and everything at least here are closed yes like we have uh we have um tech spaces where you can you know you use well just before the pandemic we were able to go and just pay a certain fee for an hour's like worth of 3d printing or whatever now you can't so but you can get a 3d printer at home yeah or you just know america yeah but but this is my point bo owns 3d printers yes and so when you say oh i wish i had something to do this he can go okay i'll invent it and then i'll print it and send it to you that's mind-blowing just totally cool that is so awesome and i'm thinking about okay so now we are in a situation at home i mean the kids are supposedly maybe going back to school i don't know if that's a good idea but if they do they have to wear masks it's mandated we have to wear masks any time we're in in a public space so even here at the studio the only reason we're able to take our masks off right now is because we're distant from one another and i'm propelling my moist spittle this way that's a little nod to our prime minister that's right um but um it's like i'm thinking about having a 3d printer and being able to create hooks so that because you've got to wash these things we i've been buying the uh like the reusable right so you can wash it and reuse it right so you know that's that's pretty cool but you gotta wash it so then i'm thinking okay a 3d printed hook system in the laundry room that just has a whole bunch of hooks and like whatever it's just like i could just do that easy peasy if i had a 3d printer so i'm going to work it worth it got to work toward that yeah i want to remind you folks another way you can support us and even just to know that we're producing videos is to go onto linuxtechshow.com click on that subscribe and the bell so that you receive the notifications anytime we post new videos and we are going to be posting tons of videos and in fact jeff when we left studio d there were there was a bank of videos already pre-produced and ready to go online right that never went up because because yeah yeah so those videos are gonna be going up so it's gonna be really really weird um over the next little while you're gonna start seeing videos coming out that seem new that feature jeff and sasha yeah so sasha and me and jeff standing at studio d those are coming in the next coming week so yeah i miss sasha hi sasha hi sasha now okay speaking of um youtube and subscribing how many subscribers are we at now oh what were we put me on the spot jeff i don't know because do you want to bring up linux techshow.com well because i know at some point was it was it the last was it the last show at some point i do remember something about you uh if we hit a certain amount of subscribers you were going to i do have to do a dance yes yeah are bound now so so we meet we met and exceeded twenty five thousand so we did get there yes so i've i've been working with a uh choreographer i am very slow going on this because i'm terrible i am not a dancer folks so but that's to come that's something you have to look forward to what kind of dancing like she has salsa or no she's integrated um she's got like um a little bit of disco picking the apples she's got a little bit of like head bobbing allah the orville and the macklin dance moves um she's got she's got all kinds of crazy stuff so uh the matrix where i gotta i have to fly back like this and so this is all part this is all like so i gotta just get the timing right get the groove right figure out what i'm gonna do with my feet and my hands i can't and my face so that's coming in the future it is coming in the future yeah you know what else is coming in the future that's right jen and i were talking about this today because someone is his wife yeah it's my wife we were talking about the you know the the kickstarter that we had to get into the studio and and how there was big uber unobtainable nobody's ever gonna do it [Laughter] what i thought was a joke oh let's just throw something crazy on that to to go through simulated labor and we still have to schedule that because somebody was nuts enough to actually i love nuts people you know who i'm talking that's right so we've got to schedule that and yeah we do like we've gotta get it's been a weird time and this is the weird thing it's like okay well when do we do that i'm not allowed to physically be any closer than this to jeff i know so maybe we'll talk to jen and see if she can hook you up and do some of the work for me the whole point i'll stand back is 500 500 paintballs yeah they pelted with sasha was gonna shoot me so we got to get her back here exactly but see our borders are closed at the province level so she can't get out of her province into our province because she's had to move out east too bad there wasn't a way to like simulate like uh use a raspberry pi with a 3d printer i thought about this too a 3d printer to create a device that would allow remote shooting through the app of a paintball gun so that sasha could do it remotely but then i thought if ever i created such a thing i am opening a pandora's box because i don't want to be involved in creating a remote targeting and shooting system so it's like there's uh i don't well just don't put it on github it won't be on my thingiverse yeah that's right oh that'd be that'd be fun so anyway that's coming but i was saying to jenna i'm like when it comes to that we should almost do like a a a an extended broadcast and for the simulated labor just be sitting here doing the thing and just like normal contractions you don't know when they're coming on oh you won't know and have some interface where oh that sounds good where the oh the where our contributor can hit the buttons and adjust the levels crank it up to 11. yeah and just and how does that sound uh it'd be neat if we could do that for a program so take five years to develop that i can do it's not going to take five years four years oh man yeah i can already figure out how to do that yes all right folks so if you want to help me turn a tens machine into an app-driven cloud-based device and then be involved in controlling said device while connected to this guy's gut don't do it while his wife is standing by laughing hysterically the things we do for tech oh yes it's good all right well i mentioned the easy portal from ameridroid we have that to show you in just a couple of moments time before we do that though ameridroid of course as you know is a company based out of california we love them and uh beau and his wife have been here rosemary to visit well not here uh in studio e but um studio d to visit the show so get onto our website category5.tv do a quick search for uh do a search for beau luchnowski no just just search for ameridroid or something but yeah um and and you'll get to see that video and and it was really really neat to have them join us but now we're you know we're finding neat ways to work together because i i just love this company and you know we talk about right now in this time shop local i'm up here in canada ameridroid is down in california but it still feels like i'm supporting local to shop through ameridroid versus shopping through say amazon or some of the bigger companies that that you can buy things from and even buying even so much as to say rather than buying directly from a vendor like the manufacturer of sbcs i'm rather i rather buy through ameridroid so that i'm supporting them and i'm also in turn supporting the sbc manufacturer because obviously ameridroid gets them from them at a discount as well so so it's a cool way to to sort of let it trickle down through a really great company ameridroid.com uh and i want to help you to be able to to shop there so um back before my vacation time i mentioned hey we're going to be giving away a 25 u.s gift card for ameridroid.com and jeff us you 25 us like a billion dollars canadian a billion dollars so jeff has come up with a novel way to figure out who is going to win because we have not got everything set up we can't do a proper draw here so you've come up with an app yes okay yeah and so thank you for your ballots by the way we had some i printed out some that um you know that said some really nice things about ameridroid maybe we can look at those as well absolutely and and some of the ideas that they have but do we just get right into it so for a 25 gift card for ameridroid yup okay so i've taken all the ballot entries i've placed it into the app and it's like a uh prize wheel yes it's a it's a prize wheel and so it is completely randomized i will flip it right here so you don't see can't even bring it up on the screen it's spinning it's spinning william bauman nice you are the big winner what does williams say did i did i print williams uh you did that's how i got it oh fantastic okay let's tell you which one it is all right uh william says doesn't tell us where he's uh viewing from but says that uh he'd like to put this 25 gift card toward getting a night vision for his raspberry pi oh very cool how cool is that some of the things that you can do with a raspberry pi and a camera are awesome making and ameridroid is a great company to talk to about those kinds of things so would that be more so for like security camera at home kind of thing you could use it for that you could use it for uh yeah i mean for surveillance it's great because it's an actual you know camera attached to a single board computer so you can do a lot more with it you'll be able to set it up for rtsp be able to use it to automatically upload to ftp sites whatever you want to do or i like the rtsp uh idea being able to stream it to like a dvr or something like that as a as a network camera much cheaper than buying like a full integrated camera kit that's oh yeah yeah so thank you everybody for your ballots um and uh we really really love reading through your stories and the things that uh that you hope to do with uh with things that you purchase off of ameridroid of course check out ameridroid.com and they have um a plethora of uh spcs single board computers um so i get raspberry pi's there i get odroids and pine 64 devices that you see on the show plus i i don't i haven't seen arduino boards however there are arduino pieces like sensors and things like that and and that you can add to your raspberry pi uh arduino is neat because you can connect it to the gpio or the the sensors and things like that and be able to do some really cool things we've done a couple of things like the thermal sensor yeah i could see your hand and then i'm thinking we could use that we could use that to to check people's temperature by pointing at their forehead like they're doing right now right we use that same device so there's all kinds of stuff at ameridroid.com plus easy portal which you're going to learn all about right after this quick break stick around remember any time you shop on ameridroid.com use the coupon code cat5 tv supporter at checkout no matter what you're buying you'll get a buck off your final total and 10 of the sales profit will be donated back to category 5 tv to help us produce videos like these we moved into our new studio space in the height of the pandemic contractors weren't allowed to work at the time and even hardware stores were so i couldn't get a conduit installed to run cables into our studio space from the production room nor could i even buy a hacksaw to cut up the single piece of abs pipe that i had on hand so i simply made do by drilling a hole between the two rooms and i laid the abs into the hole and uh that was just there to protect the cables and it's makeshift and it's messy but it got us through the past few months but now i'm ready i want to make find a basically a solution that is going to be more permanent and it's going to look better so i started looking into ready-made solutions out there uh and stuff that i could do myself without having to hire someone else with you know all the mad skills to do contractor work and everything i wanted to be able to do it save some money as well so as it turns out ameridroids easy portal product is exactly what i was looking for it's designed for running cables between rooms you know for networking or things like that but ideal for basically any type of cables if you need to go through walls or through the floor uh through a desktop or ceiling tiles it's really really easy and it's much more tidy looking and it protects your cables as they're passing through as easy portal doesn't require any special tools or skills to install which is perfect for me no skills when it comes to carpentry and things like that but as long as you've got a hole saw which i do or some other kind of tool that will be able to cut the whole to the right size for your easy portal depending on which one you buy easy portal provides a clean pass through for your cables and it's complete with the finished flange which i'm going to show you up close and personal here on both sides of the hole it's customizable to meet your needs with port diameters all the way from itty bitty ones like half inch to two inches and this guy here is the two inch model or maybe a little bit bigger than that uh this one is a custom one that we had built um but i have a three inch hole saw in order to drill uh the hole that i need for this particular easy portal so keep in mind of course the diameter is the inner diameter so when you're ordering it that's the size of the hole not the actual size that's going to be required for the hole through your wall so just keep that in mind um in addition to that the thickness of your wall can be anywhere from 0.4 inches so very very small to 16.15 inches so the smaller one is really ideal for say something like the ceiling tile so this is going to be great when we're doing lighting if you need to hang a projector in your projector room or something like that with a drop ceiling this will go perfectly on the tile so you just drill the hole screw it together and you've got this nice little pass through for the cables to go through and of course you can choose the diameter if you need something wider for the hdmi cable or something like that you can go with something that's going to be you know smaller this way but a little bit larger as far as the whole diameter goes if you contact ameridroid at the time of your order you can even custom print your easy portal in any of the 13 colors that they have available so in my case i actually wanted to have a different color on each side of the of the wall with the green being in the main studio since that matches our logo color and white in the production side because the walls in there are like a light gray so while there's a modest fee for the second color ameridroid was even able to accommodate that request so it's very very custom plus as i mentioned this is an oversized version a little bit bigger than what's generically available on their site so i just requested that we get a larger conduit for the amount of hdmi cables and things that i have to pass through for the studio and they were more than happy to oblige me on that so very very cool easy portal are custom and they are 3d printed at ameridroid so i want to be clear about that due to the very process of 3d printing you're going to get some kind of imperfections visibly but you can see that that is not affecting the performance of the the product at all so that just screws together and clamps onto the wall very very simple but very very nice so the imperfections are you know it's not going to affect your usability whatsoever but if you if that's a problem for you just keep in mind these are 3d printed products so you can see here there is a little bit of imperfection on the visible area it's very very minor and you could actually just like any 3d printed uh product you could if you wanted to use a fine grit wet sandpaper and sand that down if you wanted to you could paint them if you wanted to but again the imperfections are just because of the 3d print and i think that is very very good and in fact this you know i'm i'm quite impressed with this it's it's really really good quality and exactly what i needed so let's see how easy it really is and get the easy portal installed so that's the hole in the on the bridge our production room leading out into the main studio so um so you can see all the wires here going in through the uh the pipe yep so we'll just pull that through and no effort whatsoever to do uh to do the installation you'll see but uh for me it's just getting all this stuff out of the way man i forgot how big and bulky that pipe was oh jeff all right all right speaking of big and bulky check out our old lights that's right now we're all led so anybody want to buy some some old lights now here i'm actually kind of measuring all scientific like uh the size of the flange to make sure that the whole because i did pre-drill a hole for the pipe so i needed to actually make this hole a little bit higher which is a little bit difficult because i already had a hole there but i i was able to just kind of quickly figure out how much room i needed for the flange and you can see on the other side and now there's actually a little bit of a broken space on the lower part of the other side of the wall you'll see that in a moment here even better jeff um man it's nice and flush yeah so but here on the other side so i came through from that side so that it would line up really well yeah but i think that um previously there was some there was another hole there that wasn't patched properly so that's why it kind of cracked at the bottom there right however my i'm lucky because the flange is big enough to cover that so even though you can see how bad it looks right there on the other side of the wall it covers it up yeah the flange is big enough that it uh that it really does cover up any of those kind of like the damage look see that wow that fits so smoothly it's perfect so that looks and i like that it covers up my horrible hack job but so super simple so i'm just do it by hand and we wondered if it would spin and i needed someone on the other side and nope it worked perfectly incredible so i'm pushing that through so much easier now to run cable um through the wall and it's only going through that wall i don't have to feed it through a big long pipe which was part of the problem i couldn't i couldn't feed xlr cables through because there's no way to push them through a 10 foot pipe that's right yeah so now i've only got six inches to go through it's perfect so so here what i'm doing is i'm i'm binding the cables together um using a uh like a uh winding that i i picked up off amazon um so that that winding just kind of makes it a lot nicer it makes it like a snake and binds all the cables together so then i can kind of hide them uh in the easy portal so you don't see anything other than that snake sticking out you don't have this mess of wires like i did before which is kind of what we're up against here at the studio because you have so many cables going to all the cameras and everything so yeah wow that is so slick well done ameridroid i like how easy it was jim yeah i guess smart name easy portal look at that so there's my so my snake coming out so there it is on the back of the computer going through the easy portal and out to the outside in the studio that keeps it so clean so there you have it that's easy portal from ameridroid.com don't forget as you're checking out use our coupon code cat5 tv supporter a buck will come off of your final order but they will in turn know that you saw this video and they will throw some money in the category 5 tv tip jar to help support what we do here at the show so i appreciate that very much whether you're just trying to pass some cables through your drop ceiling or wall or desk at home or whether you're a contractor i mean these are very practical very easy to install and anyone can do it if i can do it and uh they're very affordable too so because of because of the customizability i think there's just no end to what you could what you could do with these so you know in our case here we installed one between the two studio spaces for all the hdmi cables but you can obviously do more these are going to be used for the lighting that we're going to be hanging off of our drop ceiling so we're going to get to that as well but you can get them on ameridroid.com just make sure that you reach out to them when you place your order to request your specific colors and things like that thanks for watching so welcome back this is category 5 technology tv and our website is category5.tv jeff it's great to see you it's nice to kind of have everything slowly getting back to normal and yeah having you know this is this is how things are at the moment but um lots of things are going to be changing over the next couple of weeks i don't know um perhaps you know if you follow us on if you're a kickstarter supporter or a patron you you have a bit more of uh well a lot more of behind the scenes knowledge about what's going on um so in the next couple of days uh so the contractor is going to be back again tomorrow so he's done some work on we're yeah we're doing some more backdrops we've got i've got all kinds of backdrops that are going up into the system so that we can pull down different colors and things like that behind us we've got some really great stuff that's happening we're getting the the the wiring is going to be finished and right now the easy portal has made it a lot better to get the cables from the cameras and things like that but they're still like the tv that we're looking at when we're on the air and some cables are hanging down from that and i've got an extension cord going to a power outlet so all that's being hidden in the walls and everything else so there's so much that has to be done and i'm so eager for things to get to the point where we can have an open house and have everybody in and and show you around um and there's already plans in place that uh regardless of whether that can happen in person uh we are going to be doing a virtual open house so awesome so there will be an opportunity to have a tour de la studio if regardless of whether you're local or remote or able to come and visit us or not there will be that opportunity so i'm really looking forward to that yeah that's exciting and we'll shoot you with some paintballs while we're at it sure so we've got to head over to the newsroom here is becca here's what's coming up in the category 5 dot tv news room toshiba shuts the lid on laptops after 35 years the discovery of salt bound to water molecules on serra's the largest asteroid in the solar system suggests that there may be an ocean lurking beneath the akitore crater a convincing phishing scam is targeting targeting cpanel users with a fake security advisory a teenager has spent nearly twenty thousand dollars in twitch donations with their mother's debit card and google is creating a worldwide android phone-powered earthquake alert system stick around the full details and this week's crypto corner are coming up this is the category 5 dot tv newsroom covering the week's top tech stories with a slight linux bias from the newsroom i'm becca ferguson it's official japanese giant toshiba has sold its final stake in the personal computer maker dynabook which means the firm no longer has a connection with making pcs or laptops sharp bought 80 of toshiba's personal computing arm in 2018 for 36 million dollars 27 million pounds and has now bought the remaining shares toshiba said in a statement toshiba's first laptop the t1000 1100 the t1100 launched in 1985. it weighed four kilograms and worked with three and a half inch floppy disks according to the toshiba science museum website it was launched only in europe at first and had an annual sales target of just ten 000 units in the year 2011 toshiba sold more than 17 million pcs but my how times have changed by 2017 this had fallen to just 1.9 million in 2016 it had ceased making consumer laptops for the european market focusing only on hardware for businesses recent years have been difficult for the conglomerate in 2015 the firm posted a full year loss of 318 million that same year its president and vice president resigned after an independent panel found the company had overstated its profits for the previous six years last year they wound up their nuclear business new gen in the uk after failing to find a buyer for it consumer demand for laptops has soared in the last few months because of the coronavirus pandemic and global lockdowns but overall the market for personal computers has been tough for quite a while analyst marina kocheva from the firm ccs insight says only those who have managed to sustain scale and price like lenovo or have a premium brand like apple have succeeded in the unforgiving pc market where volumes have been falling for years the results of a major exploration mission showed monday that the dwarf planet sarah's long believed to be a barren space rock is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface maria castine christina de santiff from the national institute for astrophysics in italy says of the discovery i'm extremely excited to find some evidence of liquid water together with the fact that this body has a lot of minerals very interesting for the formation of life it's a good combination of chemical compounds that help in forming biological molecules desancti and her colleagues analyzed high-resolution images in sarah's of ceres taken by the dawn spacecraft which orbited the dwarf planet between 2015 and 2018 before it ran out of fuel in his final phase the spacecraft orbited just 35 kilometers above the surface of syrez focusing on the aquitar crater she and her team were able to identify salt by comparing data including images and spectral analysis from the dawn spacecraft with equivalent analysis of chemicals here on earth earlier observations of bright deposits on the crater had hinted at the presence of salty water underneath but the discovery of hydrated sodium chloride provides much stronger evidence of an underground ocean impact fractures on the surface of the aquitar crater analyzed in a separate study suggests the ocean is some 40 kilometers below the surface although the exact size is unknown it's pretty large says the snake tea adding that the present such a large body will certainly have influenced the geology of sores with water coming up from below the surface and bringing minerals with it ralph jaumann of the free university of berlin in germany says the mineralogy is unique and so far not observed on other solar system bodies jawmen says these findings demonstrate that even small bodies like sores could have water in their interior a clever phishing scam is targeting advisory alerting them of critical vulnerabilities in their web hosting management panel cpanel is administrative software commonly installed on shared web hosting services that allow website owners to easily administer their site through a graphical user interface starting last week cpanel and web host manager whm users began reporting a targeted phishing email campaign with an email subject of cpanel urgent update request that was pretending to be a security advisory from the company this fake advisory stated that updates had been released to fix security concerns in cpanel and whm software and recommends all users install the updates in addition to a well-worded email with little or no grammar and spelling issues the threat actors use language commonly found in security advisories the attackers registered the domain cpanel7831.com to make the scam appear as a as an authentic advisory from cpanel and are using amazon's simple email service ses to send out the emails if a recipient of this phishing email falls for the scam and clicks on the update your cpanel and whm installations they were brought to a website that prompted a user to log in with their cpanel credentials as this is a well done and convincing scam it would not be surprising if some users fell for the scam if you received a similar email recently and entered your login credentials at this site it is strongly suggested that you immediately log in to your web hosting provider and change the password on your account you should then perform a complete audit of your site while paying extra attention to the addition of strange php files that can be used as backdoors also be sure to examine the website's dot h t access file for changes that automatically inject malicious code into every web page or redirect visitors that's an interesting story because for a lot of people who don't have a lot of background knowledge in web development to be able to go to a diy web hosting service where you can build your own website with your own cpanel it seems like such an easy thing but most people wouldn't have that tech knowledge to recognize a phishing scam when it came to the cpanel sure and i mean some of the stuff that they get access to if you give them login credentials can really cause problems yeah like if they have linux access yeah but yeah certainly i mean the any like cheap hosting solution is going to have some kind of a portal whether it's cpanel or otherwise but you think about cpanel and and as you say a novice user signing up for the five dollar hosting account not really up on the latest security trends yeah it could be dangerous same thing we see with wordpress you get a wordpress site because you think it's easy to set up and administer yourself but you don't realize necessarily i am generalizing but maybe you don't realize that that leads to major security implications if you are on the up and up it's true super careful so for somebody who's sitting there going uh i do my own website i just happen to update myself your cpanel i just gave my login to these hackers like what i i know that you know becca covered in the story you know checking some certain things but what are some i think well she hit on the the first thing i would do is check for any recently modified files and on a linux server it's really easy because you can do a find dash m time and and sort by the time uh that the file was last modified okay and so you can see any file that was modified in the last 10 days and if you don't you know if you uploaded your site six months ago you know that hey those files are suspect so you can just look at them yeah yeah because it's not like a virus it's not like you're running a virus scan and find the malware no it's like perfectly legit tools that they're using to allow them to con command and control your website yeah or even going so far using the wordpress example of creating users cpanel same thing maybe they create users maybe they add uh an smtp account so they can use your mail server for sending spam that's right that's a big one yeah so if somebody doesn't have the tech knowledge to go in take a look at their account what's another way that they could deal with that go through the hosting provider and say hey can you check my account jeff if you if you really have that low of a knowledge when it comes to that kind of thing you shouldn't you shouldn't be doing yourself hosting right realistically if you're for sure if you're not familiar with terms like ftps ftp and what the difference between those two things is ssh ssl smtp pop3 imap if you don't know what any one of those terms are mysql mariadb if you don't know what any of those words mean then self-hosting is not for you that's right um again i'm b in general but that's those are red flags for me and and you don't want to find yourself in a situation where yes i'm saving money on hosting but i part of that is that you are relinquishing the desire to pay someone to maintain that's right and putting that all on you so it works great if you're knowledgeable and you're getting the five dollar a month hosting account or whatever right as an example because you're able to do that maintenance yourself but this is where church websites become illicit websites yes and other business websites become defaced and data theft occurs and some companies are you know irreparably uh have their reputation damaged yes because of these things um well and also if you have a website where you're doing any monetary payments you know if you're if you're receiving customer payments like that's even that's a whole other can of worms you're getting into there jeff well yeah but you've got to be careful for that kind of stuff so please please please number one change your password just like becca said number two start going through the files on your server to make sure something hasn't changed if you haven't logged into your cpanel for an uh security update chances are you're probably not hit by this but if you did you need to start doing some checking so good advice good advice we've got more coming up a teenager has spent nearly 20 000 in twitch donations on their mother's debit card and google is creating a worldwide android phone powered earthquake alert system becca has these stories coming up plus robert is here with the crypto corner so don't go anywhere welcome to the world of cryptos and welcome to the crypto corner now it has been an interesting week hasn't it let's take a look at it if we look at coin gecko which is my current favorite directory then we see that the market cap has increased since we spoke last time to 364 billion with a small decrease at the moment of 2.7 percent which is normally nothing unusual there if we look at the top coins also nothing unusual here well we've got chain link with minus 8 but it had an increase of 40 already 40 in the last seven days and as always we sort by those seven days and then the picture changes significantly normally we have got around 15 to 20 coins that achieve more than 15 percent this time we've got over 50 coins achieved more than 15 and i guess that one or the other of you is uh contemplating in investing in cryptos now and then i'd like to just uh give you some recommendations the first is if somebody recommends something to you just be very careful because um not everybody has got your best interest in mind and um and you can do the same research they are doing so let's take a look at here band protocol that's an oracle like chain link if i click on this one here i'm just showing you how this this system works then we have got here the current price uh here is the website so if you click on this here you it will be read you will be redirected to the website medium.com that's publications uh etherscan this is an erc20 coin so based on ethereum um then you've got the writ reddit twitter telegram so that's whether you see the community talking about this coin and if we scroll a little bit further down then we've got the numbers of this coin so um in the last 30 days band increased by 600 percent um currently we've got a retracement of 23 uh also i would say this is normal here and if you're interested in buying something then there's some interesting numbers like for example example what was the all-time high it was 17 so that's uh uh one day ago as you can see here one day ago with chief all-time high here and the all-time low which was november 25th on 2019 so nine months ago it increased seven uh 6 399 from that day so that's interesting statistics so probably i would not invest in something just had its all-time high because i assume that short term there will be no significant growth in it if you're interested in any way buying then you click here on markets in markets you have got all those exchanges listed that are that are trading where you can trade uh banned so on binance you have got two or three possibilities one band with usdt with tether with bitcoin and with the binance coin here you see the price so of course there will be all more or less the same and then you've got the debt the debt means how far can you go before there is a significant impact on the price yeah so if i go for example in to hot bit no idea what type of exchange it is and i want to buy four thousand dollars then i will get significantly uh higher than those thirteen dollars thirteen whereby if i've got thousand dollars to invest in binance with finance then it will have no effect of this the price i will get so this is how you read the my plus two percent and a minus two percent it's a it's an interesting number if you want to invest in coins because some of those coins that people are recommending as the next big thing i've got absolutely no liquidity and then it's difficult to buy something and it's very difficult to sell also something yeah and and once you have bought i my recommendation is always not your keys not your coins so um my the recommendation is as always to put it either on uh on a ledger which is this here or on a trezor which is this year um because that's uh currently the state of art in regards to the security of of cryptos if you're planning to buy one of those then go only to the original website um and by there don't buy it on amazon because you can i heard sometimes uh some of those uh hardware wallets have been compromised so always go to the original it takes you probably four weeks or three weeks longer to receive that device but i think that investment is a very important and very good investment otherwise be very careful in where you're investing do your research don't trust i mean listen to what experts have to say whether they recommend band or channeling or whatever they recommend but then do your own research i showed you how to do that so you go into every website and see where you want to put your money there and last but not least also be very careful with exchanges because they're exchanges that are dangerous so i mean finance uh coinbase and so they are here from the western world you can more or less trust them although i would never keep i said never keep any coins on those exchanges um but but you never know if you have to do kyc in other words you have to give your passport picture or driving license address telephone number to these exchanges you don't know what they're doing with that like in the case of coinbase they said that they're going to sell your data so i don't know if that's in your interest anyway that's it from me today so i hope uh you enjoyed you learned something i wish you a fantastic week and i really hope will be uh seeing each other next week again thanks bye bye thank you robert and just a reminder that we're not providing financial advice but only sharing what's happening in the cryptocurrency market always remember that cryptocurrency markets are ever changing and always volatile so you should only spend what you can afford to lose i don't like it when robert says things that make me scared it's like yeah i gave my driver's license to coinbase should i be worried now robert comments oh i don't know while we're thinking we're going to throw back to becca in the newsroom thank you robbie a teenage twitch viewer sent nineteen thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars usd to several streamers using his mother's debit card over the course of two weeks the teen's mother found the charges toward the card between june 14th to june 30th years of savings were taken from her account over the two-week period she says these donations went to popular streamers on the platform the mother who has decided to remain anonymous to protect her family says that nearly all the money she lost has been credited back to her account after struggling to contact anyone at twitch to discuss the issue the woman successfully received a refund from the streaming sites paying service zola using the company's online chat feature she got adjusted credits on nearly all transactions but in exchange was told the account is permanently blocked to prevent future unauthorized charges before contacting sola however she attempted to communicate with amazon and even resorted to sending a registered letter to twitch ceo emmett shearer when all else failed she tried contacting her bank but they could only provide further assistance if she was willing to press charges against her son she found out about sola by discovery by discovering other parents online who also had found success in similar situations although she was able to receive most of her money she said hitting a brick wall with twitch was the most frustrating thing of all the fact that no one would respond and there was no way to speak with anyone was horrible she said that was probably the worst the son is remorseful according to the mother and is going to counseling he's also been limited to one hour of monitored daily playtime with a stipulation that he must do positive activities throughout the day get exercise and interact with the family in a positive manner you know as a father of young kids are very engrossed in youtubers and yeah yeah yeah all that kind of stuff this story makes me go whoo am i glad i'm not giving my kids my debit card when i first got an amazon fire tv stick uh i made the mistake of not setting a pin oh no and of course you're logged into your um your amazon account yeah so um i was at work and suddenly my phone started blowing up i'm like what is going on so finally i pulled out my phone because i'm getting all these notifications one after another after another and i look at my phone and i'm seeing amazon charges one after another after another to the tune of 450 dollars now nothing like 20 000 but this was a case where my son was playing a video game yeah and he determined that if he put zero zero zero zero as the pin because that was the default yep that he could buy anything in the game not realizing not realizing it was actually my credit card so did you get it refunded i did amazon is fantastic that's good for that kind of thing so they reversed it and and no problem whatsoever but i can just i can feel that stress that this woman must have been going through to realize twenty thousand dollars gone from my and and that makes me think like is this a failure in our electronic system right now i mean i think this about tap and how three four years ago at the toronto santa claus parade somebody had a tap receiver attached to their phone you know how you can get these devices and they went through the parade and they stole 20 at a time just by yes approaching people's pockets yes and so walked away with thousands and thousands of dollars and i don't even know i never heard if they ever got caught oh i'm sure they would have everything's tracing yeah so it but it just makes me think about debit cards how they have the visa logo now yes and so like that has happened to my wife um she had a visa debit yeah and remember when debit was the safeguard right i remember that i want to say it was maybe two years ago yeah um she went to use her debit card and she couldn't use it and she was like what's going on oh no went online and found out that her account was locked for suspicious activity so she looked at it so at least they're doing that right yeah so she so she looked into it and over the course of three days there was hundreds of dollars in food purchases from all over california using uh the visa debit function so somehow somebody had gotten her visa debit information yeah and was making food purchases and so because it operates just like a visa exactly yeah and so it was no big deal to do like 20 bucks to this pizza joint and 30 bucks to this restaurant and so whoever was was doing it now thankfully she got all of her money back it all got uh you know returned but i mean in the case of this story so i mean there's a couple things here one is how did the kid get the debit card or was it just registered to the justice but second you'd think the bank accounts most debits have a daily limit of a true and so if he dropped 20 grand over a two-week period either she had a higher daily limit or there was no limit on it i'm thinking mama has 20 000 in the bank she probably has a higher limit than i do well that's probably true i don't think i've ever had twenty thousand dollars not all at once maybe just before my mortgage payment came out just after that i put the money in that's right yeah yeah but but the other thing is the fact that you know there are kids that are out there they're going i want to donate to my favorite person and i mean right my kids are always talking about their favorite youtubers and uh you know our son with his chromebook like i you know i have an email for him because he's at the age you can have an email now and so i have the you know master login for his email and every once in a while i'll just check up on what he's doing and i'm finding oh he's commenting on different youtubers and i'm going okay i need to have a conversation with him about internet awareness and whatnot and so i'm now very aware of what is linked up to that account could he purchase this kind of stuff and so you have to think very security conscious as a parent if you're going to start handing online accounts to your kids that's a tough tough situation now my my producer is is giving us the look that we need to move on sorry but i'm a blabber as a final thought on this particular story as a content creator on platforms like youtube uh a twitch creator who you know that's that's the biggest fear and burn and even i'll be honest with you and some of you may or may not know this but even having had such a successful kickstarter campaign right up until the moment that the money's in the bank you're you're on the edge of your seat as a content creator thinking what if they back down right what if you know i've i've basically budgeted these funds that have been donated what if they retroacted that that would be a real bad situation for me as a content creator so to these content creators who received that twenty thousand dollars from this child from this teenager and then had it reversed where did that leave them like that's such a hard situation so we need to be there need to be things put in place to protect those content creators the kids the parents um there need to be you know i hate to say regulations that's not what i'm talking about but but maybe twitch is irresponsible maybe they're partly to blame for this maybe there's something that needs to be said about that conversation and that's all i go down i don't know all i'm doing is just opening that box and just letting you dive in to comment below what are your thoughts we're going to throw right back to becca google is creating a worldwide android phone-powered earthquake alert system the first part of that system rolled out tuesday if you opt in the accelero accelerometer in your android phone will become one data point for an algorithm designed to detect earthquakes eventually that system will automatically send warnings to people who could be impacted it's a feature made possible through google's strengths the staggering numbers of android phones around the world and clever clever use of algorithms on big data as with its collaboration with apple on exposure tracing and other android features like car crash detection and emergency location services it shows that there are untapped ways that smartphones could be used for something important to the community at large google is rolling out the system in small stages first google is partnering with the united states geogra geological survey and the california office of emergency services to send the agency's earthquake alerts to android users in that state those alerts are generated by already existing shake alert system which uses data generated by traditional seismometers marx delgades principal android software engineer at google says it'd be great if they were just seismometer-based systems everywhere that could detect earthquakes that's not really practical and it's unlikely to have global coverage because seismometers are extremely expensive they have to be constantly maintained you need a lot of them in an area to really have a good earthquake early warning system so the second and third stages of google's plan will be powered instead by the android phones the company is proceeding fairly cautiously though in the second stage google will show localized results in google searches for earthquakes based on the data it's detecting from android phones the idea there is that when you feel an earthquake you'll go to google to see if that's what you felt or not an android phone can become a mini seismometer because it's an excel an accelerometer that's the thing that detects if you've rotated it or not android system uses the data from that sensor to see if the phone is shaking it is only on when an android phone is plugged in and not in use to preserve battery life once it has more confidence in the accuracy of the system google will begin actively sending out earthquake warnings to people who live in areas where there are not seismometer based warning systems over the long term google hopes to create an api based on its earthquake detection system it doesn't plan on using the system on iphones but if the api comes out then apple would be free to use it more interesting though is what other systems would benefit from an earthquake detection api for example somebody could build something that automatically stops an elevator at the next floor and opens the door so that people can get out before the wave comes and you can turn off gas valves automatically you can have something that stops medical procedures or open the door to fire stations ahead of time that's a common problem in earthquakes where fires are a big deal and firefighters often just can't get so you can build something that does that airplanes can stop landing as they're doing this aboard their landing trains can be slowed down there's an entire ecosystem that can be enabled by using this android-based detection and having it publish server-side so that others can plug into it google's plan is to minimize false positives and tune the system right away and users near earthquake fault zones will soon see info in google searches and the inevitable rollout of local notifications it wasn't long ago jeff that simon weckert berlin based artist took 99 android smartphones put them in a red wagon and walked down the main street that was completely devoid of vehicles and yet google's map service showed that there were traffic jams everywhere he went right because there's 99 android phones so you know i hate to put the thought in people's heads but this is the thing with an android-based system such as this while it sounds amazing well it sounds hey this is a very brilliant idea how hard is it to take a raspberry pi and a motor and connect it to one centralized server and share the diagrams of that online and say okay everybody i want you to to build this take a raspberry pi plug it into this motor put your phone in this motor when you go to bed and because it's internet connected they can make it they can set off all the phones vibrating like this in any area of the world where they have these devices it'd be so easy it'd just be it's such an easy hack so it's like how can they trust that data well i think it's brilliant an accelerometer to detect earthquake well and that's the thing like this is an amazing thing that they're doing yeah but with amazing ideas also comes the amazing ability to mess with it thanks to human beings yeah i mean not only were terrible like what if you have you know if somebody decides to use it as a uh a type of social attack so to speak where there's a group of 15 20 people they all of the phones they congregate in a particular area and they just sit there and start shaking their phone and if they also synchronize it with with like raspberry pi's through the internet like you could actually like pick a spot and make an earthquake on google maps because you know it's just so it it'll be interesting to see if that's exercising oh really you got steps just nice that's great brilliant just quickly before becca wraps things up uh robert k uh robert koenig from the crypto corner says hey with coinbase robby you should be okay they are selling your data to the government though and it says i don't understand that because they're centralized yeah yeah and i just like can i assume that the government knows everything about me anyways but probably but the government issued my would that be like irs tax purposes yeah i suppose so but i mean selling my info to the government so i don't hold my crypto in uh in a centralized um exchange at all however i do use the exchange to transfer funds between us dollars and bitcoin for example so um sad sac 963 makes a really good comment about the debit card issue and hack and a child being able to use mom's credit card and says what if the or debit card what if these debit cards had 2fa wouldn't that be superb so what if there was 2fa on your debit card that somehow you you know whether you pull out a an authenticator token or or the authenticator app on your phone whatever it is that you need to to use to be able to yeah i think that's very very smart so thanks for submitting becca big thanks to roy w nash and our community of viewers for submitting stories to us this week thanks for watching the category 5 tv newsroom don't forget to like and subscribe for all your tech news with a slight linux bias and if you appreciate what we do 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