Hello, everyone. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how you can perform message passing between components. So, first I will be demonstrating the concept with the help of private property. Then I will be converting that private property into public property so that you can understand how through one Lightning Web component we can pass value to another Lightning Web component. So, jumping to visual studio code. So, here, like for previous demonstration, I created two components, child and parent. So, I will be reusing them. So, I am on child.html. So, here I'm removing this code and I'm writing hello then comma. So, I'm just clicking on this Explorer so that it will be available in the whole page. So, here I'm writing hello and then a property first name and then exclamation sign. So, hello is a plain text that will display as is and first name is a property that will be changing its value as per the value assigned in the JavaScript file. So, this is my child.html. Now, I'm jumping to child.js. So, here I'm removing this code and here I'm creating the first name property and here I'm assigning first name as Sanjay. So, this is a property which I declared in JavaScript and this property is having value as Sanjay. And if I save this code so that property will be rendered on this child. HTML file. Right now I'm going to implement the parent component. So, in the parent component here you can see I just implemented a lightning card. So, this I also demonstrated in the previous video. So, here we have Dev which is having a class then we are calling the child component. So, from here I'm just removing this parameter and from here also I'm removing this parameter. So, why I removed that parameter because in child component the js is having this property and this property is not annotated with adverite API. So, this property will be treated as private property. Right, so it is a private property. Right, so if a component is having a private property then you cannot expose that property to other component. So, it means parent component won't be able to access that property to assign any value. Right, but the child component we can use in the parent component and whatever is available in child component that will be rendered with the help of this parent component. So, I called child component twice. Right, so two outputs will be available on the UI and that output will be based on this first name property. It is having Sanjay. So, Sanjay will be rendered twice. So, output will be hello Sanjay and in next line it will be displayed again like hello Sanjay because here we are calling the child component twice. So, after these changes I just need to redeploy the components. So, first I am right clicking on the child component. So, this child component will be deployed from source to R and after that I need to deploy parent component. So, I right click and I am selecting deploy source to R. So, both the components are deployed. So, right now I am just demonstrating you the use of private property like if you have created private property. So, you cannot expose that to other component. So, I am jumping here. So, this output is available here. So, this I demonstrated in the previous video. Now, I am just refreshing the page and you will see the different result. So, you can see hello Sanjay is available twice because the parent component is calling child component twice. So, this was about private property. Now, if you want to pass masses from parent component to the child component. In the previous video I showed you that with the help of getter and setter. Now, if you don't want to implement getter setter and you just want to use a simple property that we declared here as first name. So, what you can do, you can just annotate it with at the rate API. Right. And if you annotate it with at the rate API. So, at top you can see API functionalities all automatically imported. Right. Now, first name is public because we are using at the rate API decorator with it. So, now what we can do in this parent component here, I can just pass the value. So, I am just going to use first iPhone name and equals two. So, here I am going to pass the class. Okay. So, remember like if you're using first name so everything will be in small case. Here we are using camel case. camel case means first word is small and second word onwards first letter is capital. But when you are using this property here. So, it will be using kebab case in kebab case everything will be in small letter. And if you have more than one word so they will be separated with hyphen. So, I'm just going to copy it and pasting it. And here I am writing first name as Arush. And here I just used these component twice. So, if you want to have it for one more time so you can just copy and paste. So, here I can write one more. I can pass one more first name like I'm passing a third. So, here like child component I called three times in the parent component. So, three output will be rendered on the UI. Right. So, this way I hope you understood if you have created a property. So, I'm not talking about getter and setter they are different. This is just a property and it is declared as public using at the rate API. And if I call this component in the parent component or in any other component. So, at the time of call I can just pass the value to that property because it is declared as at the rate API. So, that became the public property and public property can be exposed to other components as well. Right. So, with this like you got to know with at the rate API like property can receive value from like components. Like we received record ID earlier. Now, we are just receiving value from other components. So, from record base you can receive record ID into public properties and from any other component you can just receive values. Like we are passing value from parent component to child component. So, now first of all I'm going to redeploy child component. So, I'm selecting deploy source to our because I modified the JavaScript of this component. And now I'm going to redeploy parent component because it is also modified. So, it has been deployed from source to all. And this time like these default this default value won't be displayed it will be overwritten because parent component is passing values to ease child instance that we are using here. So, if I jump here and if I refresh the page, so you will see three outputs here with different first names. So, you can see hello because hello Irish and hello, so this way three different names are displayed here on the components. Right. So, this way I hope you understood how we can pass messages between components. So, one thing you need to remember if you want to pass message from one component to another. So, you need to make that property public with the help of at the rate API, then only you will be able to expose that property to other component and the other component can pass value to the previous one. So, here we created child component where the property was public declared and when we called child component in the parent component. So, parent component was able to pass value to that public property. And if you use more than one instance of that child component, so you can pass different different values to that public property. So, this is all about how we can pass messages between components in lightning web component.


Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I have a question for the men out there This part is just for men, but women can watch this too because I'm betting you don't know this either Here's the question. Do you know how to shave? Now right off the bat. I know a lot of people are saying well sure shave all the time. No Do you know the proper way that you're really supposed to shave? I'm gonna tell you What you're supposed to do is first you're supposed to use a little bit of warm water and you're actually supposed to wipe your face off first with the warm water and you know Let it just sit for like a few seconds or whatever and then you take your shaving cream and you put it in your hand and You put it all on your face and you kind of rub it in a little bit And you rub it in really nice Then you let it sit for about three to five minutes and what that does is it gets everything really soft and Makes it easier so that when it's time to shave it'll go a lot smoother than normal It doesn't matter whether you've got kind of like coarse hairs like you know like like people have or whether your hair is a little Straighter and softer This actually makes the process better and it makes it easier to shave Then what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to wipe off the shaving cream And in in sections so you wipe it off and then you shave and you go with the grain You don't go against it, but you go with the grain now It's okay if you end up going over it a couple of times But you go with the grain and you go relatively slow, so it's kind of like this And that's you know how you're supposed to shave then When you're all done and you've gotten Every inch every part of the face that you want to shave because sometimes you have to go back a little bit further for some people or Further down on the neck or whatever and when you're done with all that Then you're supposed to get cool water not hot water Which is what a lot of people do but cool water and you're supposed to put that on there And one of the things is you can use aftershave But it's not recommended because they put all that extra junk in there So what you can use if you don't want to use cool water is you can use alcohol Basically, that's what aftershave is except it's got the perfumes, but alcohol, but cool And that's how you really supposed to shave now that entire process will probably end up taking anywhere from you know Six to eight or nine minutes depending on how much hair you have or how often you shave But it's worth it if you're looking for a smooth shave and if you're looking for a comfortable shave and Of course one of the things that going with the grain is that maybe you might end up having to shave just slightly more often than normal Maybe I'm one of those people where when I was shaving against the grain or when I do that I pretty much don't have to shave for a couple of days. I get a little bit of stubble here and there But you know in general I don't get that now Here's the next question Since I just taught you how to shave the next question would be well, why don't we do that? How come none of us do that? Probably because we most of the time don't have that kind of time. We really don't It's kind of a luxury thing. I do it from time to time, you know when I'm in the hotel room I almost never do this at home. This is the truth But when I'm here in the hotel room some nights I just feel like taking a little bit a little bit of time and so I'll put it on and then I'll go and I'll put stuff in the dishwasher I may wash something or do whatever and then I will come back and I will shave I will make it part of the process. Like I said, I never do this at home and Probably because at home I never feel like I have enough time to really get everything done Whereas these days since I'm in the hotel room for up to three weeks at a time I feel like you know, I've got nothing but time. I don't have as many distractions I almost never turn the TV on when I'm in the room is just being on the computer So when I want to get away from it and do something else I take a little bit of time So that's one of the reasons that we don't do that But the other reason is sometimes we feel like we have other ways There's a lot of other ways for instance You can use electric razor and go pretty fast or you can just put something on and go, you know Really quickly some people like to shave in the shower, you know, we are one of those Generations we're one of those periods of time where we want instant gratification. I'm no different than anybody else I want my stuff now if I go out to a restaurant I want my food within five minutes not gonna happen most of the times if you go to a quality place There's not a Japanese or Chinese restaurant where they actually have cooked a whole bunch of stuff So they can just like put it together really fast or barbecue places Right now. I'm consulting in the South and I have been amazed at how fast you get Me at a barbecue place and your sightings, you know, usually it's way within five minutes I've gotten stuff in two minutes, which is really shocking because you're not expecting that at least from, you know, up in central, New York That never happens at home. So It's amazing stuff, but we want the instant gratification, but we also want to do things our way We don't necessarily always want to follow all of the rules We want to kind of break the mold and and do these things our own way and feel like we're our own person By the way, I hope the ladies are back now Actually, I don't know how many women watch my videos. That'd be interesting I'll have to find that out one day, but we like to do things our own way so if We feel like we don't have the time and we like to do things our own way That how come so many people keep doing and saying the same things over and over and over again Without ever noticing that hey, geez, you know, nothing is changing for me. I'm not getting any better I'm not getting any better responses and I'm making any more money You know, why is that I could ask myself the same question You know, I put out the videos on this channel and my other channel every once in a while a video Hits the mark and it gets a lot of people who are watching it But most of the time they don't I don't and I know that probably I could benefit from some editing software I could probably benefit by Advertising a little bit more or being a little bit more overboard, you know Maybe take a video and promote it 10 to 20 times before I make another one. Why don't we do that? Why don't I do that? I don't do that because I don't want to be pushy Hey, which is a bad business thing by the way because you know Although I don't make these particular videos necessarily for business One of the things is that I'm looking to be in my own way kind of a personality someone who people will invite Into their organizations to speak or at their events You know, I've done some professional speaking here and there you may not be able to tell it by the video But you know, it's kind of hard just doing this and staring at a video and not editing But I'm great live. Yeah, I'll tell you that I actually have a tape somewhere. Oh, geez. I said a tape Yeah, I made it in 2004. So it's a tape But it's out there somewhere but you know we just Always kind of forgetting that we have these things that we want to do we want to be different We want to stand up from the crowd and yet we pretty much end up doing the exact same thing as everybody else Why is that? I don't really have an answer this time. I don't have an answer So I'm putting it out there asking you guys Why do we tend to pretty much keep doing the same things when we're not getting the kind of responses that we want from it Or the kind of results from it. Let me know, you know Like it comment on it share it, but let me know give me some ideas. Why? Why do you think I'm not doing it? Why are you not doing it? No trolls allowed That one's still out there. That one will always be out there. Anyway, this is Mitch Mitchell. Hope y'all have a great day and shave well


Welcome back. So in the last snippet we had looked at the first law for open system. So currently we will have two small snippets with some kind of a review. So I will just write down the first law for open systems again and discuss a few things and similarly I will write down the first law again in another snippet and write down some more few things that you must notice. So let me write down the first law again right now. So this is the first law as we wrote it and you realize that the inlet and exit plugs do not any longer exist here and as the delta t goes to 0 this is also okay their effect really should not no longer be taken. You will also notice that the q dot and w dot s were really applied for the closed system but finally here they appear as applied to the open system. You also notice that this expression for h i has come in after we added u and p v and this is one of the main reasons that h is defined as it is always. In open system analysis that addition of terms u and p v comes so often that there is a necessity for such a short form and by far this is the place where you will find h used the most. In closed systems normally you will find h being used whenever there is a constant pressure process but in open systems the flow term will always show up that is the work involving flow and that is always coming up along with u and hence the h term always comes. So this is something that you must notice that whenever we are analyzing open systems the term h always comes in because of the flow work. Now you also realize that we this is a reasonably general form but of course this is for a simplified system whenever we have more exits and inlets these terms can be added over the inlets and exits. If things are not uniform across an inlet and exit then you can of course integrate it similarly these terms are net q dot and at different places there could be different q dot you will have to sum all the q dots similarly for w dot there may be different modes of work you will have to separate this w dot s into all those components of work and so on. So though this is a reasonably general equation you should realize what should be done whenever you encounter different situations. One can also think of situations where the heat transfer is not important and we will discuss that in which case the q dot term will go off sometimes you will realize that the work transfer is not important and hence the w dot s term will go off. Sometimes there is no inlet sometimes there is no exit and whenever there is no inlet this entire term with m dot i disappears similarly whenever there is no exit this entire term with m dot e can disappear and only the remaining terms can be there. Sometimes the energy in the control volume does not change it is a steady state system in which case the left hand side can be 0 and each of these terms or each of these situations will be encountered as we move along. So these are some of the things that you must keep in mind as we move along. So in the next snippet we will just discuss the small differences between how the expressions look like for the first law in a closed system and for the first law in an open system and similarly the conservation of mass. Thank you.


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Hi everyone. Thank you so much for having us. We are here to present tick tick tick boom you're dead. A brief history of tech in the FTC so if you do not know me I am Whitney Merrill. I am the founder of the crypto and privacy village here at DEF CON and this is my first time speaking on a main track. I'm an attorney as well as a hacker and I'm pleased to be joined by my former bosses, bosses, bosses, boss. Well thanks for that introduction. Is this working? Yes. Hello. I'm Terrell McSweeney. I'm a federal trade commissioner at the federal trade commission which is an agency that has a lot to do with consumer protection. We also are sort of a data protection information security consumer protection agency as well and we're going to be talking a little bit about that today in our talk. I'm super thrilled that Whitney is joining me for this. I'm super sad that she has actually moved on from the FTC so she doesn't actually have to give the disclaimer that I'm about to give which is that these are not the official views of the FTC. I'm going to give you my individual views not necessarily the views shared by anybody else at the FTC so take that with a grain of salt. So what is the FTC? Why are we here? Why are we talking about this at DEF CON? Actually again the FTC has been at DEF CON for a number of years now and we're really thrilled to continue our partnership with the security researcher community because your research helps inform our cases. What do I mean by that? Well the FTC is a 100 year old consumer protection agency. It's actually about 103 years old so it's older than DEF CON at 25 years and it's older than the internet or even the worldwide web but we've had this authority basically to protect consumers from unfair deceptive acts and practices and we've taken it from the brick and mortar world and brought it into the online one. So I'm thrilled about this talk today because we're actually going to spend a minute just going back in time and looking at some of the first cases the FTC brought and then comparing them to some of the cases we're bringing today and we're going to end by talking to you a little bit about how we do investigations, how your work can help us and what we're looking for from the research community as well. It's great to have a retrospective in the 25th year of DEF CON and so we're going to take some time to do that now. We'll be looking at cases that we've brought and we're also going to be talking about other tools the FTC uses to shape policy in the US government. We hold workshops, we write reports, increasingly we do our own research and present that and we also do consumer and business education so we'll be covering all of those topics today. So we're going to take you back as Terrell was saying you know when we were discussing what kind of talk we wanted to submit to DEF CON I said we should do something that honors the 25 years of the hacker community and how can we basically look and show how the FTC has been working hand in hand basically with that community over the past 25 years. What have we done and how has it been applied? So this is a quote from an attorney probably 25 years ago at this point and says this is standard stuff it's just in a new medium. And that's exactly what we will show. Yeah so one of the first things that's incredibly standard in human behavior from the dawn of time is fraud. It is a thing that we spend a lot of time and resources going after at the FTC both in the brick and mortar world but also in the online world. The case that I'm about to talk about actually we can queue that up was one of our first cases involving fraud on the internet. This was a case in which the company was running ads on AOL offering a $99 credit repair kit that was basically worthless. For those of you free consumer tip credit repair is basically always worthless. Don't sign up for that stuff. It is a scam. So this was that kind of opportunity. Also just history lesson for the young people in the room in 1994 which is about DEF CON was about two years old at that point. America online was the way in which most Americans connected to the thing called the World Wide Web. They did that via the dial up service, you know, on a modem. They use the AOL email. I still love it if people have AOL emails today or like retro fabulous. And AOL was a primary web portal for a lot of users. So it was a really important part of protecting consumers, American consumers on the internet.  I actually had a fortunate opportunity to work on the mail order rule type cases and it's more fascinating than you'd expect. But basically the rule says if somebody says that they are going to ship something to you by a particular date, they must do that. And if they don't do that, it's a unilateral modification of contract and you are a harmed consumer. So in this particular case was from 1996 and this was the first time this older rule was applied to business done over the internet. In this particular instance, Branzel was supplying the world with computer parts. He was offering memory chips over Usenut and ultimately never shipped those chips. And so the FTC brought a case against Branzel and got restitution for the consumers who were harmed. Okay, next, deceptive advertising. This is also an area the FTC takes a lot of time and energy and uses a lot of resources on. Essentially what deceptive advertising is all about is looking at claims that are being made, claims that are relevant to whether a reasonable person would decide whether or not to use a product and assessing whether they are true or not and the assessment of truth is called substantiation. So one of our first internet related deceptive advertising cases was a case involving a product that was coding to put on your glasses to protect you from the harmful rays coming out of your computer. Turns out there was a deep line if this were true. There wasn't a lot of science behind the harmful rays coming out of your computer claim or even the product. And so this was a site for Suarez case that the FTC brought saying look, that's deceptive advertising claim being made. So many of you may be in the room and you were enticed by the title and you didn't read the abstract and you were like, oh, this looks really crazy. I'm going to go to this talk and you're like, oh, this is about law and policy. Well. You can look now. No judgment. Other consumers may have had similar fears which were there was an advertisement run from 1992 to 1993 by Hayes Microcomputer and it looked exactly like that one. It appeared in computer magazines and networking magazines and it basically said tick tick boom, you're dead. And here they said that they were telling consumers that a time bomb might be lurking in their computer. Specifically they said well, like you're thinking what's the time bomb? And it was an accidental escape sequence. And the modem company said that if you didn't use their improved escape sequence with guard time that your data would be destroyed. Simply this was not true, theirs was no better than the competitors. But even worse they said hey, give us your information and we'll send you a free kit to test your computer to see if it's dangerous. And it was basically malware installed on a user's computer that would force the competitor's modem to hang up. The FTC specifically my mentor when I was in the San Francisco office of the federal trade commission Linda Badger who will hate that I'm giving her a shout out right now but she deserves it. Saw this ad and said this is baloney, brought the case. And so the FTC here basically said note this is not true, a modem's failure to incorporate this improved escape sequence with guard time. So fancy. Doesn't create any substantial risk of data destruction. I think what's really interesting about this is this is an early case but we still see this kind of fraudulent practice all over the place all the time. Now that takes more of the form of a tech support scam. We still have tons of cases involving scaring consumers about security vulnerabilities in their product and causing them to download malware or buy services that are useless. It's also something that companies do to entice you to buy their product. And so FUD, fear, uncertainty and doubt is not a new thing that we see in security or privacy. Here's a case from 2004 that was also using FUD to entice people to purchase a security product. How many people have seen that before in maybe your recent time? This here was the internet alert. They would pop up throughout your browsing enjoyment and basically claim that your computer might be insecure through banners and pop ups online. When they appear to consumers they'd like look like alert boxes so a consumer would be enticed to click. It would then take the user to the internet alert software website where they could purchase this software that really had no proof that the individual user's computer was insecure. So the FTC brought this case and basically prevent said to bonsai software that you cannot advertise in this particular way because it is deceptive to consumers. This is a little bit different. Also an advertisement. This product actually works I think as it was purported to work but it's really the problem with the thing in and of itself. This was Cyber Spy, a business that was selling spyware and showing people how to remotely install it without other people's knowledge or consent. I think the tagline in the ad says it all spy on anyone from anywhere. Exciting and interesting. We said look you can't be enticing people to install keylogger software on other people's computers without their consent. That's a huge problem. So it's not really that the product is illegal. It's just that you can't be using it on people in a deceptive way. So we've discussed a lot about deceptive practices and sort of the more traditional type of consumer protection cases that the an agency like the FTC would bring. We're going to talk specifically now about ones that involve security and thinking I bet some of those FUD cases look like security cases too. And the reality is that security falls into really two different branches. There's deceptive practices and then unfair security practices and so we'll kind of highlight some of those for you. But most importantly here to emphasize is like the FTC's involvement in advocating for security practices over the past 25 years. So in this particular case at the time it was called modem hijacking. It might now be considered more like ransomware. But in this particular case defendants maintained adult entertainment websites at beavisandbutthead dot com, sexygirls dot com and oneadult dot com. And when a user would visit that website they would doubt they would be told you should download this program to view more free images with an exe called david.exe. And when it was downloaded and executed the program disconnected the computer from the consumer's own access provider, turned off the consumer's modem speakers, dialed an international telephone number and then reconnected the computer to our remote foreign site. In this particular case the international call would be charged to consumers for more than $2 a minute. I don't know if anyone remembers how expensive telephone calls were way back when and how fast- Those are telephones for folks in the room who are younger. They were things that we had in our houses connected to wires. That's how people got on America online.  So consumers received telephone bills purported to be made to Moldova when in fact they were only going as so far as Canada. So the the FTC brought a series of cases against the companies that were engaging in this practice to protect consumers. Now one of the things and I'm trying to highlight, we're both trying to highlight here, is that the FTC knew the value of the internet and the value of protecting consumers on the internet in a way that really ensured that they could engage with it. Because if it became this unruly, you know, you'd order your micro trips and never receive them, no one would want to engage or use the internet. So fast forward to last year. And you know, I think no one's going to say that we don't have plenty of work to do as a consumer protection agency every day all the time which is part of why we've been trying to forge close relationships with the security research community as well because we view you all as valuable partners in our work. The Ashley Madison case I think is an interesting one. We've brought actually about 60 cases involving data security either in unfairness or deceptive practices using either one of those authorities. We wanted to highlight a couple of them that are more current. This one I think is particularly interesting because it gets to this trust point. Here we had a huge breach. And you can think, I think it's pretty safe to say that in many situations if you read about a huge breach of sensitive information chances are the FTC is probably going to take a look at what happened there and whether the security practices were reasonable in the organization.  Right there I don't think I need to unpack why this was sensitive information. Unfortunately it had huge consequence for many of the people whose information was exposed. Marriages were ruined. Some people committed suicide. I mean this was not just economic harm like identity theft. It was personal and emotional harm and it was pretty tragic. So we took a look along with our Canadian authorities, Australian authorities, it was actually kind of a global investigation, 13 other states at what was going on. And not surprisingly we found some pretty serious security flaws in the company. So that was part of the case. But there were some other practices we also took a look at that were deceptive. So for example there was a full delete option available on this website.  This was explicitly said. Well turns out that didn't happen. So a lot of people paid for full deleting of information that was not deleted and then it was exposed as well. And then there was a thing that I find particularly interesting and I suspect we're going to see more of this just given all the technology that's out there. There was use of fake profiles and the reason I want to just call this out is there was a lot of marketing to attract people to the platform to thicken it that promised in some cases thousands of women in your city. Now it turned out of the 19 million American users, 16 million were men. And it's like no one in the room has survived. The women are all like yeah. Totally. So mostly it was men on the platform and the fake engagement profiles were being created by the company in order to create the impression that there were thousands of women in cities when in fact there really weren't. And so we said look that's also deceptive practice as well and one that clearly people were relying on because part of the promise of the entire thing was being able to connect with people who were interested in having affairs. Do you want to hit IOT? Yes. Asis, how many people here think internet of things is a problem? I think that's a lot. So basically the FTC has had several initiatives and trying to regulate this unwieldy insecure place that is the internet of things. And in 2016 the FTC brought a case against Asis for being insecure. I want to call out before I discuss this case really in depth is the failure to mitigate disclosed vulnerabilities. In particular Lee, the vulnerability allowed an attacker to bypass a login screen and gain complete access to a computer's connected storage device. Asis failed to encrypt consumers files in transit and personal files were public by default. So that's pretty serious vulnerabilities disclosed to a company. In this particular case in 2013 a security researcher publicly disclosed based on his research that over 15,000 Asis routers allowed for unauthorized access to a disk, basically a storage disk that you could set up in connection with Asis. In his public disclosure he claimed that he had previously reached out to Asis several times and was ignored. And so here the FTC really called that out as a bad security practice, respond to vulnerabilities, patch vulnerabilities disclosed to you. And ultimately, yeah the FTC, they had to deal with the FTC. And importantly that's not our only IoT related data security or privacy case. We have others that are already public, safe to say there are others in our pipeline. I think what's important about what Whitney just said is the presence of the security researcher here helping disclose the problems in the first place. Again incredibly valuable. And it's important to remember that in the absence of any kind of established security standards for the internet of things, the FTC is essentially using its authority again to protect consumers from unreasonable security practices which we have decided are unfair under our authority. And providing education about what we think the best practices are for reasonable security standards. So this is essentially the way in which we're trying to create incentives in the marketplace to improve IoT security. I don't think Whitney and I are standing up here saying that we think it's sufficient. But it's the FTC doing what it can with the authority that it has to try to improve the situation in IoT particularly. Privacy. Yes, so we'll kind of switch over to talk a little bit about privacy. We start with a case from 1993, DEF CON 1. And this is not your traditional privacy case in the sense that it happened online. But I want to flag it because it is one of the earliest cases where the FTC, Sudetrends Union Corporation from taking all the consumer credit data it had and selling those lists to marketers. And the FTC said you cannot take this type of data and not disclose to consumers that you are doing this. It is, you know, unfair and deceptive to that consumer to be marketed in that particular way. All right, so GeoCities. This is actually our first, yeah, AOL GeoCities. Who is on GeoCities? Anybody? Rainforest? Yeah. Okay, good. So this was our, our first official privacy case online and a really important one. It's important to remember that at the time we brought this case it was one of the most popular websites on the worldwide web with about two million users. Which at that time, while that seems tiny today, was a huge amount of people. It was a site that was allowing people to create their own home pages and grouping them into communities. And this won't surprise anybody given the way business models are today. It was asking for an incredibly amount of detailed personal information about people, adults and children, about not just their location, their addresses, but also their preferences and all kinds of things. And then it was selling that to advertisers. So what we said was okay, you have to have notice and you have to get consent if you're going to be monetizing people's sensitive information in that way. And specifically when it comes to children at the time it was under 12, we are going to require verified parental consent. Now that's going to sound really familiar to anybody that deals with children's data on a regular basis because that actually became the law of the land in the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, which again requires parental consent for the collection and use of children's information. So the next case also involves collecting information on children as well as adult users. In this particular case in MOBI, an ad network actively undermined the privacy choices of consumers. How did they do this? Well in an individual app you could choose to opt out of location tracking. And in MOBI instead tracked consumers locations regardless of these permission settings. They used a database of wireless network location information to infer a consumer's physical location and then matched up where you were. The FTC said basically no you can't do this. This is a misrepresentation not only to consumers but also to the developers of the apps because they were not told that this was being done by MOBI. And the FTC issued a four million dollar civil penalty for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and said that a MOBI for the next 20 years must institute a comprehensive privacy program and be independently audited for every two years for the next 20 years. I think what's really important about this case is that this is a situation where there was a clever tech work around that was by that was really working around an expressed privacy choice by consumers. And that's an area that I think the FTC needs to continue to stay really focused on. These cases are hard to detect and we really can't do it without the work and help of people like yourself. So that is that is really important to us as well. Yeah. And unlike the other cases we've discussed earlier in the presentation you know you see an ad and you go this is weird. You know you don't have to be technical to necessarily understand you know the technical problems or the privacy issues of the data security issues. A lot of these newer privacy and data security issues you don't see unless you're actively researching it. And so really it takes a community to find out and search these out which is what you know really all of you are about. And the next case actually was also directly the result of research and information that we gathered and read from media reports about how smart television was working. So this is Vizio which is a case from this year. What's really important about it was that for the first time we are we have a case involving a smart television and we're also taking a careful look at the kind of disclosure that's being made because of the kind of information that's being collected. So what happened in this case was there is a technology being used by Vizio that allowed it to gather second by second viewing information from the televisions for anything that was playing on the TV. So it wasn't just whatever was coming through the cable box or whatever. It was anything on that screen was collected and then it was sent back for monetization. What people are watching when they're watching it, how long they're watching it is incredibly valuable advertising information. Now we took a look at it and it turned out there was a disclosure made to consumers about this practice. It was in the smart interactivity section and it essentially made it sound like this information was being gathered to optimize performance or provide recommendations for viewers or something like that was not at all clear that it was actually being collected and used for targeted advertising purposes and other profiling information. So we brought it we brought a case and said look you have if you're going to be collecting sensitive information in this case second by second television viewing information you have to provide a clear choice to consumers and that needs to be an opt-in choice that they can clearly understand if they're reasonable people like my mom who is a very reasonable person but not a very high tech person. She actually has an AOL account. Awesome. So one of the things we're going to point out in looking you know at the past and the present is you know the workshops and the initiatives that the FTC has done to engage with not only consumers but individual researchers and experts in the area. You know looking back as far as 1995 and 96 the FTC was asking questions about cookies. In 2007 we started to really take a deep dive into behavioral advertising. How were you being used tracked and targeted by ad companies and they've continued to do privacy and security series. Most recently a fall technology series last year involving drones, smart TVs and ransomware with terrible time. Yeah and well so smart TVs there we had a workshop we were looking at a lot of the things that were going on with smart televisions and lo and behold shortly thereafter we had a law enforcement action involving one that was the Visio case I was just talking about. But a word about workshops. Workshops are really valuable for us because they're a chance to both present our own in-house research which we're increasingly capable of doing. They're chance to talk to people in industry and in the community about the trends out there and how technology is shaping our lives. And they're a chance for us to inform ourselves because as I as we said at the outset what the FTC is doing here is trying to figure out when is something deceptive to a consumer and when is it unfair. And we need to make sure that we're being very clear about what the requirements are if we're going to be investigating people for unfair practices. So we spend a lot of time and energy both creating information for ourselves in the form of workshops and gathering it but also in putting guidance back out to businesses and to consumers so that there's information available to people about what the standards are that we are hoping people will be following. So smart TVs was one of our workshops. We've also been working on cross device tracking an area that is changing really rapidly and that we've recommended clear choices for people across their device graphs when that's happening to them. And we're studying ransomware. Don't have to tell anybody in the room that this is a big challenge for consumers. One of the things frankly that keeps me up at night is the prospect of a lot of insecure IOT really harassing people with small ransomware attacks in their daily lives. I think it could be really problematic. And the more we're continuing to rely on end user consumers who are not technically sophisticated to be the frontline defense for their IOT, I think the bigger challenge we're going to have there. That's a different talk. But we've been looking at ransomware trying to provide consumers with information about how to protect themselves and frankly it's pretty challenging. It's basically keep your software and things up to date and back up your information. And we're trying to work with businesses and industry to understand the kinds of attacks that are happening and where they're happening and how they're happening. Important to mention here along IOT and smart televisions is the change of interface you know from a traditional computer. Here you know it really matters usability security, notice and choice, all these buzz words really change when there's no way for you to interact with the device or you spent five hours trying to hang a camera in the corner. And so if it's you know part of a bot right how do you patch that and entice consumers to update. One of the things you may have noticed or seen before if you've been to DEF CON before is the FTC has had a pretty regular presence. In particular we've held contests asking the hacker community for help. How many people have gotten a robo call before? Oh yeah that should be everyone because if not you don't own a phone. I get like three a day and I'm on every list but you know this is a big problem that plagues consumers in particular we named our contests after Rachel from Cardholder Services. And the FTC came to DEF CON and said you know come up with a solution. Come up with a way to solve this problem that's technical because right now you know a do not call list is not sufficient. So we the FTC had zapping Rachel at DEF CON 22 and then at DEF CON 23 a follow up contest to that as well. And one of the applications that came out of that was NOMO ROBO from 22. And we're also just recently wrapped up a contest called the IOT home inspector challenge. So there will actually be a talk tomorrow in IOT village talking a little bit about that Erin you can raise your hand and wave Erin Alva. And really excited about that. That was a $25,000 prize that was given to a new app that will hopefully help consumers understand what IOT they even have on their home networks and whether their software on it is up to date or needs to be updated. Consumer education. This is my favorite. Does anyone know who Dewey the E turtle is? Anyone? Okay, yeah that's not surprising. He was a short lived mascot of the FTC who I actually have a little bit of love for despite his dorkiness appeal. He was introduced and he was like best friends with Clippy. Yeah, Clippy. And mascots were really in the national forest service had the bear whose name is blanking smokey. Yeah. So in 2002 the FTC said, you know, we need to make security culture a thing for children and younger people. They need to be thinking about security a lot. And while Dewey may not have been the best answer for that because clearly none of you remember him, that really goes towards our consumer education initiatives and communities that need this type of information to tell them to think about the information they're giving to communities and how to secure themselves. But other than that we've had a lot of other or the FTC, I keep saying we because I worked there until six weeks ago. We've had a lot of other initiatives to kind of teach consumers about security. And I mean I think it's important to note here that this is a huge task and why we're going to be continuing to engage in it but it's really, really hard to make sure that people have enough information out there in the marketplace because it is so dynamic and changes all the time. We also run identity theft dot gov which is a portal that we have been continually updating to make sure that people who are experiencing a breach or an identity theft situation have a streamlined remediation process that they can use online. And I'm pretty happy to say that in the last year we were able to update that so that now that you can almost automatically walk through all the steps of filing reports and helping secure your credit whether that's putting a freeze on your credit report to actually filing a claim. We have it all there on one website identity theft dot gov. So we're always spending time and energy trying to get consumers the best information possible because consumers are their first best line of defense in an insecure world. But we recognize that it's a huge ongoing challenge. We haven't found the right mascot for it yet. So we'll take a look at the present, not now, not that anything in the past is work that the FTC isn't still continuing to do this day. But these are some particular initiatives that the FTC has been working on. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to do this. So again we've been talking about the role of workshop and conferences. We've been particularly focused in the last few months on working with NHTSA on connected cars. We're also working generally with other government agencies that are sort of expert regulators in their industries thinking about how to incorporate some of the learning from the last 25 years on privacy and security that the FTC has into what they're doing. We work closely with NTIA and their multi-stakeholder processes around these issues. We have very helpful information that we harmonize with the NIST critical infrastructure framework so that we can say look we're all advocating a process based approach to security. We call ours start with security. We have guides available to businesses about learning from our cases and our putting out actually blogs every Friday now that are really helpful tips based on hypotheticals that we've seen in investigations of data security situations that are following on start with security guide. I think we're calling it stick with security. I can't remember. Basically trying to get as much information about the current best practices out into the marketplace as quickly as we can because we recognize that the situation is always evolving so we're putting that out. And we're hoping to have another privacy con next year. This is the thing we started a couple of years ago. We present research on privacy and data security at an annual con in D.C. called Privacy Con. And I think our call for papers is currently open for that and that's on our website. So really briefly some of the questions are running low on time. We will talk about how and why the FTC brings cases. So one way is you can file a report. You go to FTC.gov. You click on file a consumer report. I can tell you people actually read these. I actually read consumer complaints. They do matter and it is how the FTC brings cases.  The security researcher community, the case in Moby mentioned previously was actually brought because of academic research done by a series of researchers in France. The FTC brings cases through tips, news reports, security and privacy blogs and vulnerability reports. But really it's you folks who can shape the type of cases that the FTC brings. And I just note that in our complaint system, which we do read by the way, anybody can complain. We also are working closely with other organizations, state attorney generals, the better business bureaus who are collecting complaints as well and feeding them into our system. So we are trying to form as many partnerships as possible on these issues. So I bet you're wondering, oh, I have this great idea. How do I share my research? Like what really matters? What may matter naturally to you is great. But the FTC looks for particular things in bringing cases. In particular, they're very interested in representation, representations made to consumers, you know, screenshots of where you bought the device software and evidence of what the consumer or the user might have seen. If it's a vulnerability, what is it? What does it impact? What kind of information is at risk? And when you discuss the impact, and I know these are cut off, but I think they'll be out in the world, be creative. Don't just provide reasonable, you know, don't oversell it, but provide very real impact that it has on consumers. And the vulnerability disclosure timeline, if any, is really important. And the content, you know, did you send them emails? You can provide those as well. And where do you send this? Yeah, so just a word on that. One, the more you send us, the easier it is for us to figure out or recreate what it is in the first place, which can be really important. But secondly, if we decide to open an investigation, at that point the presence of that investigation becomes non public, which means we can't say anything about it back out into the world because we want to keep it confidential that we're investigating a company. That's because not all of our investigations result in cases and we don't want someone to have a bad reputation just for us having opened an investigation on them.  This is the email address you can email with research or if you're interested in doing research or participating with the FTC. This is a mailbox that's actively looked at by researchers within the FTC and they'd love to hear from you. And I think that's pretty much it. Yeah, so we hope you've gotten an overview on our talk about the history of the FTC, what we're doing here in the first place, and a bit of flavor for the kinds of cases that we bring. We're hoping that you can use this information to help us with our consumer protection mission. We're serious when we say please do stay in touch, participate in our workshops, in our cons, reach out to research at FTC.gov, follow us on Twitter. We are really interested in continuing the important partnership that we have with the DEF CON community. I think we have a couple minutes for questions and then if we don't get to all of them we're happy to hang out in the hallway. Yeah. Recently a Danish company installed Bluetooth trackers amongst the city to track they could optimize routes and light timings and stuff. But they're doing that because cars are always broadcasting the Bluetooth identity. But that is something that FTC would be interested in if the state and the US and the city were to employ something like that. It could probably be just the information. Alright so the question is, Danish city using Bluetooth trackers to track car location for mapping and traffic flow presumably right? So the question is, would the FTC be interested? Yes but we don't have jurisdictions over what state or local governments do because we're the federal government. So if a government decided to do something we don't really have jurisdiction over them. You know we would say consistent with our guidance that tracking people's precise geolocation and identifiable way is probably a thing people need to have give consent on. But you know I'm assuming probably the technology here is, well I'm not going to assume anything about what it is but I think the facts would matter. And I think we're going to continue to have this conversation in a lot of communities as we think about how we put increasingly autonomous vehicles on the road which is not all together a bad thing right? We want to figure out how to bring this technology which has some real value into the marketplace while making sure that people continue to have some privacy. Yes okay when the FTC, I'll answer the questions were what are your thoughts on consumer class action lawsuits and why are we not going to private law firms to bring cases on behalf of a similarly similarly situated class to get them money because you get money from private class actions. So one I will debunk that the FTC when they receive money from individual cases we actually don't keep that. It goes to consumers. One case in particular was against butterfly labs and the money that they paid ended up being restitution for consumers so you'd file a claim. So one so that's positive. Two class action attorneys are generally limited by arbitration clauses for particular types of violations. The FTC luckily can bring cases on behalf of consumers without having to kind of deal with arbitration. It's also a very expensive foray for some consumers and so you have to take on the depositions and everything that means to be put to be part of that. I mean I think we're here talking about the FTC because it's the agency we know well but there's more than one solution out there for consumers and of course there's state attorney generals who are excellent and doing terrific work as well and we partner with them. They're about to haul us off the stage so congratulations Whitney on your first DEF CON talk. Well thanks Carol. Thank you everyone.


When I was diagnosed by Dr. McDermott with epilepsy I would say that I felt in a way oh my god finally somebody knows what's wrong with me but at the same time I was completely devastated. Sharon was new to me and I met her here and she had tried various therapies for epilepsy and it was at that point unclear as to whether or not she had epilepsy. Sharon had several seizures while she was in the monitoring unit and we were able to demonstrate that the seizures were coming from both the left and the right temporal lobe so both sides of her brain. I recall Dr. McDermott saying when she proposed the RNS device was this is going to be a very good option for you I think Sharon because it's going to be able to record your seizures it's gonna be able to tell us a lot about when you've had a seizure. I had the surgery in the device implanted September 22nd 2015. Something tells me that date will stick in my mind. The neurosurgeon Dr. Schwartz places the device in on in the patient's skull. It recognizes seizure patterns and then stimulates when it recognizes a certain pattern. It can do this up to hundreds of times a day so not necessarily to stop seizures but to stop little patterns that could potentially turn into seizures. To scan it there's just a magnet it's basically a laptop with a wand that is the magnet and you scan it across the implant that's on the side of my head and then you transmit it to Dr. McDermott twice a week. What we have seen in Sharon's case is that patterns that have previously turned into seizures stop and actual seizures that have become full-blown seizures before they ever turn into a seizure they kind of quote-unquote peter out. My last appointment I said do you think it's getting better you know and she said well yeah it's getting better you've only had two seizures in the last month you know. What gave me the fortitude honestly was Dr. McDermott and she has definitely been a fabulous neurologist to work through things together.


The only what I do is I'll come in and right at the front door, I'll go ahead and start scanning my walls up and down all the way around that wall and walk the unit throughout to make sure that everything is like it's supposed to be. If I find an issue say with that outlet, I'll go ahead and write it down on my sheet here to change that outlet or cover or whatever it needs, cable outlet and then come scan the wall again. I don't have any issues when I get to the switches here for the lights and the fan and the fan itself, you know, I'm turning these on, making sure my light comes on and then I'll come up here, make sure my fan turns on, make sure that I'm getting all my speeds that's the low, then I'll click it again to off, there you can see me now, you know, so each room I go through and scan every wall for any issues on that particular wall. If I do find an issue, write it down and then when I'm done with the whole apartment walking through it, then I'll go down to the shop, collect all my parts and as you can see, I've got everything kind of staged to where I'm ready to go ahead and start installing some stuff. So then what I do as I'm installing these parts, I take my list and say the stove needed drip pans, I can go ahead and line that off and every time I do a project, I line off that item and then at the end of the process, go through my list and make sure I've got everything checked and done and pretty much that's it.  This one, fortunately for me, it's not going to be that bad, it's just got a couple of things to install, a couple little projects to do. We do take some stainless steel cleaner and we polish up our stainless steel sink and actually use that same cleaner to kind of give a little shine to our countertops, it's called Sheila Shine. If you're interested in this product, I'll put a link in it below. In a little short video I just did, I made reference to how these blinds, if you've got them facing down where the sun is reflecting on the floor, if your apartment stays vacant for any length of time and with the sun coming in and out on that flooring, it's going to cause your carpet to fade in that area. So like I said in my little short video, make sure that you're always turning these blinds in the up position so that when the sun shines through them, you want it to shine up and knock down on your floors. That's a pretty good idea to do that too, especially in a winter time whenever you, you have these windows that sweat on the inside because of the heat that's inside the apartment. Well, if your blinds are down, facing down, air from the vents, it's not going to be able to get in there to that window to help to keep them dry. You may not always be able to keep them dry, but at least turning your shades in the up down position is going to allow you to get some more air to those windows. Multiple purposes for leaving your blinds in the up position and not in the down position. Just a little tip for you there. Excuse the lighting in this bathroom, but these incandescent bulbs that are still in this light fixture kind of give everything this yellowish tint, but I am in the bathroom and one of the things that I want to do is to make sure that the toilet is flushing like it's supposed to. Make sure the toilet seat is not wobbling. Make sure the toilet seat is in good shape. If there's any scuffs or marks on the toilet seat, go ahead and replace it. Your new resident is going to appreciate that because trust me, they'll call you if there's an issue with that toilet seat. That's kind of a personal thing.  One of the things we do on a turn is we add toilet paper to every bathroom and still in that protective paper wrapping. That's kind of a neat little touch, just something that kind of adds to your selling feature of your apartment. In the middle of all that moving, they might need to go.  One of the things that I like to do when I'm finished with a turn on an apartment, one of the last features, well, I'd say one of the last two features because there's actually two things you can do. But for us, you know, we've got some pretty nice carpet in here. You've been walking around on it, trampling it. If you've already had the carpet cleaned, after you're done with everything you've got to do, they make a carpet rake that it doesn't take a whole lot to come in here and just kind of rake over the carpet, knock down all your little footprints, make it look like it's freshly cleaned. When that resident walks in for the first time, they've got a carpet that's nice and fluffy looking. And, you know, that's the first impression that you're never going to get back, so you might as well make it a good one. Now I'm over in the closet, which a lot of people like walk-in closets, and they're nice because they have shelving, you know, along both sides, and ours actually has a shoe rack here. You want to come into the closet, make sure that all your shelves are sturdy. Make sure nothing is pulled out of the walls. Again, we've got an incandescent bulb in this light fixture, so it's given this yellowish tint, I'm sorry about that. But yeah, make sure all your shelves are solid.  Luckily, we're good in this one. Closet done. This is my water heater closet. It's inside of the apartment, so everything is still kind of clean and nice in here. When you come to your water heater closet, make sure that your covers are on the front of your water heater. Make sure all the screws that hold that are in place. The last thing you want is for somebody to stick their hand into a 240-volt circuit because you didn't take the time to make sure the covers were on. And then now we're at the air conditioning unit. This is our indoor air handler, and you want to make sure that this bad boy that it's all covered. Make sure all your screws are in your panels. Make sure that you don't have a whole lot of dust buildup around this. It really looks nice when they open this door. And when they open that up, they can look at a nice, clean air handler. And make sure that you've got your filter. Replace that on your turn. And we like to leave an extra filter in here. It just kind of gives the residents some incentives to change these on a regular basis. So if you leave them an extra one, they pretty much will do it themselves from then on. Of course, we do quarterly, so it's going to get changed regardless. But you know how a disposable filter is. It's really only good for about 30 days. So you want that resident to change it on a regular basis. So leaving that extra filter for them, like I said, it gives them an incentive to just go ahead and replace it. So now I'm in the kitchen, and I want to make sure that everything in my kitchen is in good shape. I already know that I need to put some drip pans on this stove. That's part of the staging stuff that I have here. So I have that ready to go. But you want to make sure that you have all your items in your refrigerator, your ice bucket. One of the things I like to do is to turn off the ice maker. You want the resident to turn that on when they move in. That way their ice is fresh for them. It's not ice that's been sitting in there, you know, a couple of days, a couple of weeks. However long that unit is vacant, you don't want that old nasty ice going to a new resident. So let the resident turn the ice makers on. Go ahead and check your refrigerator section. Make sure all your drawers are in good shape. There's one that's cracked on ours to replace that. And then something else I like to do is while I'm working in the unit, I like to go ahead and turn on the dishwasher. That way while I'm working in here, I can listen to the dishwasher run. I can hear it go through each cycle that it's supposed to go through. And it also helps to freshen it up and to make it clean on the inside. But you don't know how long that dishwasher has been sitting. So it is nice to go ahead and run it while you're working. That way you can hear it running. You know when you leave the dishwasher is working like it's supposed to. Right now I'm in the laundry room. And one of the things we do to kind of offset some issues with our plumbing here on the property. So we don't have broken lines. We supply washer hoses. So what we'll do is hook these hoses to the washer hookup section here. And make sure it's good and tight. And what that does is alleviates the residents from hooking to our water lines and over cranking these little fittings to the point where they break our water lines. And we've had a few of those happen. So to kind of curb that, we decided to go ahead and invest a little bit of money. I mean I think it's like six bucks for a good stainless steel set of washer hoses. And we supply them. We put them on here. We tighten them up. When the resident moves in with a washing machine, all they have to do is hook one into their machine and turn the water on. They don't have to worry about tightening these up. If you've got this problem, this is a simple fix. We went from probably three or four a month to three or four a year. I mean, you can't stop at all, but you can definitely curb it. So when you get your washer lines hooked up, just set them over in the drain. It's quick and out of the way. If you really want to set yourself apart, now this is a small detail that not a whole lot of people are going to notice. But there are some people that will. And it also is a good way to show your attention to detail. You see how all these screws are facing up and down? Now they're not perfect, but they're pretty close. And this is a little attention to detail that kind of sets you apart from anybody else doing this kind of work. It might take you three minutes to go through the whole apartment and make sure all your screws are tight. And then when you do that, you make sure they're all facing the same direction. You know, it's like I said, it's a small detail that nobody maybe will see. But there may be people out there who do, and you just made a big difference. You just saw how nice the countertops and the sink looks here in the kitchen. I think that's a really nice look, you know, and it's a really nice touch so that when your new resident walks in the door and they look over into their kitchen, it's got a nice shine to everything in there. It's kind of welcoming. And like I said, I'll leave a link in the description area below for the shieldless shine. It's a really good product. I've been using it for 30 years. So it's been around for a long time, too. It's really good on stainless steel. I did roast some on this hood. It's actually a stainless steel polish, and it works really good on stainless steel. But it does good on countertops, as you can see. That's a nice little sheen. I don't put it on too thick. And it really does a good job on your sinks. It gives them a nice little reflective shine. Now, it doesn't last forever. The first couple of times they put water in that sink, it's going to go away. You know, that's fine. As long as that first impression, like I said, you're not going to get a second chance at that first impression. So making a good one right off the bat. So anyway, hey, we're done with this apartment. Got all my parts in place. Everything is looking good. It smells good in here now because that Sheila Shine's got a good smell to it. And I'm just going to let that dishwasher run. I think it's a good idea to let it go ahead and run through the cycle. It's doing everything it's supposed to do, so it's good to go. So that's it, guys. Just turned an apartment that quick. All the parts and everything. Checked them off my list. I'm good to go. Last thing that I wanted to do in here was to rekey my locks. I did that already. So the locks are ready. I've already done all the keys for the resident, the keys that they're going to get. So we're good to go. So we can call this a wrap. Hey, this is Dan Giles. I'll see you in the next video.


Our technology for equal access. Sensory impairments. I'm Eric and I have a visual impairment called Stargarts. And it's a macular degeneration which affects the center of my vision. So it makes it really hard to read fine print and see details. So I use the sides of my eyes to see more in the periphery. Zoom text enabled. The main piece of assistive technology that I use on the computer is ZoomText, which is a screen magnifier that allows me to make everything on the computer screen as big or as small as I need it, depending upon what I'm reading. There's also a built-in screen reader on ZoomText, which I can also use to help read documents because my eyes get tired really easily. I use a TV monitor that I have on my desk that allows me to see the board and what is being projected on the board by the teacher. Hi, I'm Mike. My disability is that I am visually impaired. I can see things up close, but for the way it gets blurry. I use a whole bunch of different technologies in my daily life. My smartphone works brilliantly for what I need it to. It has a whole bunch of different apps on it that will help me in my day-to-day life. I have Voice Stream Reader, which is an input app so you can switch over different types of media. And it will allow it to be read aloud to me. Lyceum, Lyceum to State July, 19, 2000, 1650 p.m. And that's what the sign says. Scanning is very important for somebody with a visual impairment because there are a lot of printed materials in the world, in general, that are very not visually impaired friendly or not blind friendly. Hi, my name is Jessie. I am a fourth year student at the University of Washington. Me and Zoe in informatics with a minor in diversity. And I get to find my son as a staff. So under as a staff technology, I use on your cochlear implant, which is my own postage mouse I need to hear. I use an app and system which I give to my professor so that I can hear the professor more directly through my cochlear implant. It's like a microphone and not a communication. I use almost a VGA. It's called C-A-R-T, which scans for communication access real time. And so what it is, is capturing it to give out that real time captioning that I can read the transcript on the screen while your professor is talking in real time. My name is Takashi. And I have a disease called retinoschesis that affects my retinas. Mostly, I use my phone's camera to take pictures of the whiteboard or homework or whatnot and just blow it up as big as I can. I use screen readers, not so much, but I do like them, and ZoomText on my laptop. Smartphones are such an amazing tool. I am so very glad that I was born in an era with smartphones because I just can't imagine doing school or just living my life without a smartphone. I'm profoundly deaf. I grew up with two hearing aids. And then last year, when I was 17, I got a cochlear implant on my right side because I wouldn't hear anything through my right ear. In school, I use an interpreter, a sign language interpreter, and I also have a note taker for each of my classes whenever I request one. And if the class has a video or a movie showing where we usually have captions or if there's no captions, my teacher will provide a transcript. There's a lot of group projects in my engineering classes and I just use an ASL interpreter pretty much. And I talk to the other students and make sure that they're aware that I'm deaf. So I just tell them to slow down a bit, but speak louder and they're usually very flexible with me. My name is Vincent and I'm currently a PhD student at Georgia Tech in Human Center Computing. As it is with people with all types of disabilities, people with the same disability also access information differently. For example, I'm totally blind and I primarily utilize my computers and I say that because I have five or six different computers with different operating systems and I utilize them different ways. I access a lot using a variety of screen reading programs with hardware and software based synthesizers. I am wearing something no one's even noticed here. I'm wearing something that's off-the-shelf technology now that used to be military and then it was extremely expensive. This is a bone conduction headset designed for runners. I wear one almost continuously. This is off-the-shelf technology that anyone can use right now and it's also my watch is connected to this. When things come through now, I hear them in my head with people around and I just hear the notification of whatever text message is, news updates and now I don't even have to go to my phone anymore. Final thoughts. My name is Cheryl Burgstahler and I direct accessible technology services at the University of Washington in Seattle. As you can see, it's really important that people with disabilities have access to the technology that they need, including assistive technology so that they can be successful in education, in careers and all of the activities that they wish to pursue. It's also important that IT developers, including those that create websites, documents, software and other IT, make those products accessible to people who are using assistive technology and to everyone else. For more information about IT accessibility, consult uw.edu slash accessibility. This video presentation was created with funding from National Science Foundation grant number CNS-104-2260. Copyright 2019, University of Washington. Permission is granted to copy these materials for educational non-commercial purposes provided the source is acknowledged.