Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's Wednesday. We need to start looking ahead towards the weekend, towards weekendly rewards, which will be coming out on Thursday. And talk about a few things on the market this week related to Thursday flipping because that's something that we do every week on FIFA Ultimate Team. Getting some cards to flip for Thursdays that will link to Team of the Weeks or right now at this period of time when we're in Team of the Season, looking at some cards that might link to other Team of the Season cards. And we're going to look at Bundesliga cards in general this week. And that's really what I'm going to focus on with you guys is focusing on some Bundesliga cards that are going to link to these TOTS cards that people will be packing from footchamps rewards. And as well as looking at some cards from other leagues as well, and maybe starting our investing for the next league, LaLiga, looking at some of those cards early on, because I want to look at a couple cards today that have risen so much throughout the course of this week. And their cheapest points last week were on Wednesday and Thursday. So I want to take a look at some of those cards. But first off, in order to know what we want to invest in, we need to think about these footchampions rewards. Now they're going to be the same as last week as the Premier League. There's going to be a lot of people that are packing the player picks for the Bundesliga, packing a lot of these cards during rewards. Now last week, the entire side of the Premier League team of the season went shooting up, except for those lower rated guys that a lot of people packed that were being packed plentifully on Thursday rewards. And I think the same thing is going to happen this week. But instead of last week having as much demand, I think you're going to have a little bit less demand this week. But you're going to have more demand on some other certain cards. Now if we look at this team, you guys can probably guess this just as well as I can. Who are people going to pack a lot of out of the Weekend League picks? They're going to get Campbell, Summer, Cruz Schultz, Volland, Kostich, Holstenberg, Trap. You know, those are the types of guys that a lot of people are going to get out of their player picks. But those aren't the people that everybody wants. So that's what I'm thinking. Investing in these Tots cards or just if you want one for your team, pick them up today. Pick them up before Weekend League rewards. Wait to skip, there's any type of a sell-off or some panic before then. Because today, after the guaranteed SBC, a couple cards rebounded, but most of them stayed the same. DeCosta went up 40k, Brandt went up a bunch. He went up about 100,000 coins. And so did Nabri. He went up about 100,000 coins as well. But a lot of the top tier cards didn't really move much. Because I think after last week, people bought them this morning. They were thinking that, okay, they're going to get Panic Sold this morning, which they did dip down, but and they did push up a bit afterwards. But I think a lot more people were educated this week on the rises and the falls of these cards. But these cards aren't done rising yet. I still think 460,000 coins for this Nabri card is decently cheap. I think that card will easily be 500k come the Weekend, just because the lack of the right wings in the Bundesliga available on the market. Now, it's a key thing I do want to point out. Obviously, we had Robin SBC, which a lot of people were interested in. And we do have a couple other cards, the Inform Nabris and stuff. But this card is by far the best value for money. And it's way above the other right wings, right mids in the Bundesliga. So I do think this card will get picked up a lot more as well as the Brandt. I think this Brandt card is going to shoot up and DeCosta.  But that's also going to mean that when people open the rewards this week, they're going to be getting like these guys down here. So obviously, people are going to go out and they're going to want to buy some of these cards with their coins that they have. If you pack in, let's say you get gold and you or let's say you get elites and you get one of those premium Bundesliga Tots players packs and you get Volund, Schultz and Kruse. Well, you just made like 500,000 coins, 550k on that pack.  Now this week, I do want to speak about how I think there's going to be a lot of people making hybrid squads. And that's why this week when we look at certain investments, I'm really looking at the green link investments that link to the Tots cards that people are going to be pulling from the rewards. And I do think some of these Prem Tots have another chance to go back up in price as well. Some of them have kind of dipped back down. But I think a lot of people this week are going to, you know, make one side be Prem and one side be Bundesliga because a lot of people are going to have untradable cards again this week from the team that sees in picks and from weak and the rewards that they're going to go out and try to maybe make some sort of hybrid team. And I think that's the best way to invest in this week is to really look at those green links. Now I have a couple cards pulled up over here in footprint that I want to look at especially just because they provide really good links and they're in weak areas in this Bundesliga Tots team where you need a link if you want to put some cards together. So Pulasik at 130,000 coins. He was a little bit lower than that on the drop on Friday. I remember seeing him at 120. And that was very cheap for his card. But for right mids in the Bundesliga, other than that new Nabri card, there's not a ton of options out there on the market. So this pairs such at 130,000 coins looks very good to me. If you can pick a couple of these up, I think this is a good shout for a rise because he's rare. He's a really good card and he's a cheaper option for people. Let's say you pack a Vitzel. One easy way to link that Vitzel card at center mid is going to be linking him to like a right back Hakimi and then a right wing Pulasik in your team. If you can't afford the Jadon Sancho that is already a very high up in price. So Pulasik is one that I like. Don't go out and just buy Pulasik cards because I said that, you know, you can even look at his this road to the final version, which I think is like it basically discard value or close to it. It's up a little bit. But this could be an option as well. It shows he's 18k right now in Xbox. But if you can get him for run 12, this might rise up to like 17 or 18 this weekend, 19,000 coins, just because it's a Bundesliga player and there's not a lot of right wings in this league. Now let's look at a few more options. David Alaba, David Alaba, whatever you want to call him. This is somebody who really interests me because he has two different cards that we can look at this week, especially this card right here. The introduction of the foot or the team of the season Goretzka card really makes me intriguing or intrigues me to look at this card because you can now have a right back that is German and from the Bundesliga and get a strong link to Goretzka. And you can also have this right mid Alaba for squad linking with Goretzka. And even with his hero left back card, which is leaving packs really soon, that is an option as well. So Alaba looks pretty good to me just because of the fact that he has got multiple cards and he's going to be able to link to a lot of these Tots players in many different ways, especially if you have that Goretzka and you want to move some people around your team. Now for this Alba, especially, I do like him around 180,000 coins on the Xbox. And I think back here what you're seeing, this is when Lewandowski got that Team the Week card. He had a higher rise than normal throughout the week. I think you're going to see that again with this card. It's very rare, foot birthdays are rare. This card could very easily be 210K on the Xbox 220, 230 on the PS by the end of the weekend. Now I want to talk about center backs because a lot of, there are not a lot of center backs from the Bundesliga. Upamakano and Whitzel. Those are, whoa, caps lock. Those are two of the cards that are at center back that are, oh my gosh, 180K. He was 100 and, wow, that's a huge rise. And this is what I'm going to talk about with LaLiga players here in a second. But a lot of these are so, so high unless you see a massive sell off today. A lot of people are already looking at these cards and people have them in their teams. If you see this get back to 150, I would be tempted to say, look at this card again. And same thing with the Upamakano. If you see his card go back to like 250 over here on the Xbox, maybe like 300 or below 300 on PS, that's where I would feel comfortable with you guys maybe investing in that for Thursday flip. But buying him right now, he's gone up so much. Yes, he could go up a little bit more, but I think that is a little bit risky on that part. So maybe stay away from the center backs. That's going to be an area where, yes, there's not a lot of supply, not a lot of players in there. But you know, you're just going to have to be careful with how you choose to invest in those cards. One that I just thought of was Matt's Hummels. And we can also look at some UCL Rare cards as well, because they are not dead. But it looks like he's up in price. His UCL Rare card and his team in the group stage versions are both very up in price, which is, I would have definitely thought that was going to happen. But again, you're going to want to look for the green links this week. That's why I pointed out Pulisic. That's why I pointed out Alaba for the green links to the SBC players and to these players in Team of the Season. Now, one way where you can find easy links and go search through some more players is you can basically go over here to Footbin, search all players, and then sort by the Bundesliga League and just scroll through here and kind of look around see what you see. Okay, actually someone that interested me that I want to go back and look at. Manuel Neuer's 91 rated UCL Rare card, 79,000 coins. That is really low and it hasn't moved. Now I know there are other cards that are in this team of the season that are new, but this is a card that is tried and true for a lot of people. So this could be one to watch. It hasn't moved much, but that could be something to keep on your radar just because people are going to pack summer, people are going to pack trap, but people know that Neuer is good in FIFA Ultimate Team. Other than that, just look through here, find some other players that are rare cards like the Tiago, that was an SBC, but the Carnival Moller is interesting to me. Frank Ribbery has risen up a bit, but this card kind of interests me as well. 56k, you might see this hit 70k over the weekend just because people on lower budgets putting some squads together. That's one thing to watch as well, but so much of the Bundesliga stuff is just so very high. That's why be careful when you're looking around the market because you want to invest in the links, you want to invest in that kind of stuff that is Bundesliga because last week a lot of the Prem stuff went up, but there's a lot more cards in the Prem, excuse me. There are a lot more cards in the Prem that could go up and a lot more areas to invest in with Bundesliga. It just feels really limited to me, especially by the team this season that we have for Bundesliga. We have so many attacking options in this squad, like cams, strikers, they're all, you know, cruise. I talked about this before, we have so many German attackers in this team. We have to really look elsewhere for link investments to this, and there's not as many special cards in the Bundesliga. There's still some out there, but not as many as the Prem. So if you're looking for Thursday flips related to Bundesliga, look for the hard links, the Pula sick, maybe even some gold cards, maybe a gold noir would be interesting, but a lot of the like this Sancho card is so very expensive right now because his team of the season card is so high and there's a lot of hype around this league. So obviously those cards have risen a lot. Now, I want to go back and talk about one thing. Now you did see me pull up the Royce card, the 92 Royce, I think it was the headliner version of that Royce card. I want to take a look at this card and show you guys the movements that it made this week. Right now it shows 620k. I doubt that's actually his price.  He was 377 on Thursday in the Panic Cell before this league came out. Now, on Friday we are going to be getting the LaLiga team of the season. So I'm going to go back here and change this to LaLiga and start looking at a we might need to buy these cards earlier this week. People are going to start to catch on the trend as they already did with the Tots card price movements. People are going to start to catch on with this trend. Players that even get in Tots look at what happened to Royce. His Tots card is so expensive that the same thing is going to happen this week with a lot of these cards. We have the foot birthday Griezmann who is a position change card. Those position change cards like Vitzel do so, so well. Last week I flipped this card bought it at 785 on rewards night. Sold it for 830 this weekend right here. It says 935. He was not actually selling that high. He comes back down. He's 798. Watch this card this week and watch other LaLiga cards. You might be buying a bit early and these cards wouldn't be a sell right away but this is more of a pick one up, throw it in your club, maybe put a couple on the transfer list if you want to and these would be cards that you would sell in the next week because you mean you just look at some of the prices of these cards and how much they dropped like next week with the LaLiga Tots. This guy is going to be huge for people putting teams together that are LaLiga related even if he gets a Tots card. I mean it's going to be very very expensive so maybe start to look at some LaLiga cards for investing in the next week. Now we'll be looking at a lot of those cards on Friday as well but maybe take a look at those earlier this week because I mean you saw the rise on Royce but let's look at Sancho as well because the Sancho Future Star card has risen a ton as well. This has been a cool card to trade with. Look where he was 419,000 coins. I bought one for 409 on Friday morning. He goes to 485 which is where he currently is now and has a nice sell-off but he's already back up there and he's going to go even higher again this weekend after rewards so buy a 419, you check one in your club, you know that he's going to get a Tots card but you know that it's going to be very hard to pack. It's going to be very rare on the market and boom he shoots up because nobody can get this best version of the card but it draws attention to him so his card in turn goes up in price. So start to watch those investments as well this week as I'm watching this Pulisic maybe pick it up for a cheeky bid price. Doesn't look like that's going to happen but watch those card prices this week. Whoa whoa that's a cheap one right there, 119. Thank you. We'll send that to the club and my Thursday flipping investing has begun. We're going to send that Pulisic to the club just again look around the market for Bundesliga stuff. You might see a card that just dips low check through football, look at Bundesliga cards that you think people are going to use to link together squads this week, look at of course past team of the week cards but nevertheless look outside of the Bundesliga as well. Rare cards from good nations and good leagues that are easy to hybrid with and that are meta popular players will always rise and sometimes those cards can take an extra hit because people are looking in other areas of the Bundesliga tats you might be able to pick yourself up a nice deal on maybe an Mbappe or a Neymar or other Premier League players like Gen Duzzi or I'm just throwing out random names but those players might drop some because all the focus is on the Bundesliga you might find some deals on other cards in other areas so that's one area to watch for kind of keep your eyes peeled for and to just be mindful of this week as we go into another period of a new team of the season coming out on the weekend a lot of hype surrounding that and of course get on those bids tonight get on those market checks around get a footpin look at team of the season squads from older team of seasons that have been out already look for team of the weeks look for popular meta special cards from all kinds all shapes and colors and of course flip those cards on Thursday after your awards for some big time profit and then we'll be right back at it Friday morning with more panic selling pickups and the rise out of the new team of the season which will be La Liga and the Turkish League I do believe so if you enjoyed the video smash the thumbs up on it comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new good luck with your Thursday flips it's been Nate the photo account catch you guys later peace out


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All right Virgo welcome back. I'm trying to be a little bit more exciting. Hi guys welcome back I am Kelly. This is my channel Virgo only Virgos only Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus Yeah, welcome back you guys. Hope everybody's doing well This is gonna be your love reading of course for the rest of September into October We're going into league while we're in Libra season. All right, you know what you guys everything you need to know personal readings Links to decks all that junk is in the description box below So just go on down there and peruse everything you need to know there and let's jump in okay So Virgo Sun Moon Rising or Venus some of the messages may or may not resonate take a fit sleep the rest Yadda yadda yadda. Okay. Let's get in here So just so you guys know sometimes I kind of Lurk in the chat and I just want to give a shout out to some of my awesome people you guys Melly Haley Orist and his cursed baby pizza and Let's see Jose hello Who else is in that chat?  Hooray All right, you guys look you have cassette outdated thinking Conditioning replaying events over and over and over in your head. Well, isn't that just a Virgo thing?  Why isn't this showing up?  It's on loop. You got something in your head something in your mind That's on loop keeps going keeps going and you just Virgo I feel like you need to stop this whatever this thought process this could be negative thinking Or replaying events some of you are looking at old text messages.  Why is this person doing this? Why are they seeing this the whole nine yards? Okay, it's time to throw away that cassette player It's 20 we're in the 2020s We're doing mp3s now and all that junk. We're not doing cassettes anymore.   Maybe you're putting a playlist together. Okay, let's keep going. So sending right getting away from this cassette ain't any energy So cassette is like old. It's like old. Okay You're ascending you're getting away from it. You're transcending some obstacles. What are you transcending this outdated thinking?  You might have done some self conditioning, but it's like It's not serving you anymore.  It's these thoughts this thinking these processes are no longer certain now They're just residual Okay, there are they all but some of these thoughts in your mind or go have already Become a default you instantly go to that thought process. Okay, so here you are Transcending these these outdated thinking this cassette this loop that keeps going around around is become an obstacle You got to learn from it expand and get a new tape. You got to upgrade your Upgrade your radio system upgrade your player. I don't know what you're doing, but you're preparing yourself for union Okay, so what does this mean? some of you um, I still keep thinking from someone from the past or Maybe not romantically. Some of you might be still kind of like trying to figure out Why didn't that work out or why did that happen that way or what the heck? You know what what's going on? Okay? I feel Virgo for you. It's like I see you in October You're like, you know what? I'm not thinking about this anymore every time the thought comes into my head or I this person An image or they're burned into my brain or anything like that. You're like, nope. I'm transcending this I'm preparing for new union in my life. I have goals. I have dreams. There's things I want to do. Okay, so That's what I feel like is going on here for you. Okay. Yep love unconditional love self-love oneness passion affection and attraction so You know, you may not be in this position right now Okay, some of you might be But I feel like a lot of you are just like, you know It's time for me to stop thinking about that person and start moving forward And start carrying my own heart and start loving myself. Okay, because I feel like Whomever is on your mind is not in your life is out of sight out of mind. Okay So for some of you, you might be still looking at things About that person. Okay, maybe you're spying on them or looking in social media See what they're up to or maybe you're looking at like I said old tech. So you're looking at old pictures Some of you are like I feel Virgo. It's time to let that go and enter in a new phase I feel like spirit universe is trying to bring like they got the door open right in front of you And they're just like come on come on and Virgo's like hold on. Hold on. I'm not done No, you're done Virgo. You're done. Put it behind you. Take that person all their momentos Everything and anything that you have of that person and do a ritual You know put everything in a box if you have any momentos or anything Or if you have messages and stuff print it out if you don't want to let go of anything print it all out and Delete it all from wherever your phones some stuff just throw in the trash put it in a box marked The past and slip it under your bed or hide it up in your closet and move on from it. That's an actual a Physical thing. Okay. Now. I'm gonna take a look at Another person here and see maybe it's this person Okay. Okay. This person All right, so they're kind of heartbroken right now this other person I don't feel like they're in a relationship with another person, but I do feel like they are dating. Okay Because they're heartbroken They're trying to date the most I feel like this person may be doing is receiving or giving kisses Okay, but that's it or they're sending kiss emojis or something like that. This is all this is all like trying to regroup or recuperate their heart by Dating others or you know trying to meet somebody new they're trying to get themselves back out there planning to set a date But deep down inside This person is grieving the loss of a relationship with you and them. Okay, they're deeply deeply hurt very sad They're wearing a mask. They're faking it with everybody else. Okay They're in mourning and they're kind of like like a zombie They're I just I just see this zombie. This is after some kind of separation or a breakup.  You're doing a lot better Okay, and I don't know what the breakup was or what the separation was or what might have occurred between you and another person But I kind of get a sense that whatever it was It needed to end something needed to needed to end needed to happen needed to be done, you know and usually Both parties if it's not a mutual breakup Usually one is going to just get right back out there and and date like a serial dater and break other hearts Okay, not get serious with anyone and the other person is going to just go inward and say you know what? I'm going to start doing me make myself better, right? So that's always the way it goes and I feel like Virgo, you know, it could be reversed So just take it as it resonates, you know your story better than I do But I feel like it's two people who have separated and they're going They're they're dealing with life very differently than the other. Okay, then each other Let's take a look. What do I want to use? All right, so let's see So you're you know, you're looking good and this other person is trying to like recuperate their heart by Either trying to get other people to give them affection or love and stuff like that. All right, let's see what See what else going on here this person And then we're going to take a look at you. Okay Yeah, this person's heart is like completely blocked.  Nothing else. There's nobody else really because they're too heartbroken over you That's what I feel it's going on here that they're just they feel lost without you As you're as you're gaining momentum as you're ascending this your person is descending and and they're just like All about the all about the coins all about the money all about they're not even committing to anything serious Okay, very blocked energy not letting anybody else in All right, that sucks, but it is what it is. Okay, let's take a look at you All right, and then we'll see what other messages are coming out here for you. Okay, Virgo, perfect There you are. All right, you and this person were a match. I will tell you that there was a match There was a very strong Connection or similarity between the two of you. Okay, very similar things But something happened and there was a separation. It might have been a tower moment Or you know something just came down out of nowhere and caused some kind of a separation Could have been a person place or a thing. All right, so Virgo, you're like, uh-huh You're looking towards a future making your plans. Maybe traveling You know, you're looking at the globe looking at the map like where do I want to go? Where do I want to take my life? Where's my fate my destiny? Okay, you're standing out there on you know looking at the horizon and Yeah, you're making some decisions in your life Virgo for yourself and it's it's really good. I feel like you Yep, maybe you and a friend you're connecting with a friend as well could be an arrow sign doesn't have to be could be another Virgo You're connecting with another person. There's a lot of truth. There's abundance Maybe you and a friend are making plans to do something or do some things together. I feel like it's same sex. Okay, but it's What's word it's it feels like friendship, okay Word just escapes me Not mutual Platonic it's platonic. Okay. This is like a Making plans making plans. Let me see what else is here Okay, yeah, maybe you and this friend are just like Wounded warriors here.    Keep doing that Whatever it is that you are doing you're starting new things in your life at this time Keep it going every day per severe day in and day out Consistency is how you will see these results. Whatever you're doing Whatever you're building. Okay. Let's see. What else does we're gonna need to know? Okay. Yeah, some of you are like sneaking away. You left somebody out in the cold. That's for sure And you're running away from any of this like bad energy You're you're getting away. Okay, again strategizing Excuse me. How some of you are blaming yourselves for why a relationship ended Okay, you know, I don't know if there's a cause that came from your end or it was mutual or whatever the situation is but some of you are I feel Strategizing how not to be in a position to be abandoned or felt left out in the cold by anyone again Okay.  I don't feel like that is but there's a lot of healing I don't feel like that is what you're doing, but I feel like there's a lot of healing happening for you Whatever it is.  Some of you might be going hiking in the snow There might be snow somewhere. Okay, maybe in October making plans to do that or going camping I'm just hearing some camping energy in October. Okay, so you've got a king of cups here All right, let's see. That's the first court card. So well, it's actually No, no, no, no, no, that's the third court card. What am I the fourth? What the heck am I talking about? Whoa, hold on a second king cups here. So who's showing up here? Virgitoris Capricorn, Libre Aquarius Gemini, Cancer Scorpio Pisces. Okay, but we're reading for you You've got a king of cups here who's given you the silent treatment And it's pretty confident that this is going to make you return Doesn't have to be a water sign. It could be any sign but king cups is generally a sign that is keeps their Feelings doesn't wear the heart on the sleeve keeps everything quiet deep down. Okay, doesn't share They're playing this silent treatment game here and not saying nothing being very passive Could be reaching out but really not doing too much more than that, but it's this is like a You know strength never comes to cross to me as like ego But I feel like this person is super confident that if they don't say anything You're gonna come chasing after them or you're going to inquire. Wow. There's there's the tower That's what I was talking about. Yeah, there was some kind of Virgo, I feel like for you and I posted this quote earlier today And let me tell you and it's very true and I was thinking about the tower when I was posting the quote And I feel like this is where you are at this time in your life Virgo energy can neither be created nor destroyed Only converted from one form of energy to another so that's about redirecting your energy. Okay, and I feel like Virgo. What's going on with you is You have just redirected in your life. Like you're not I don't feel like you're cutting people out.  Like you may have just turned your back on people places and things or someone in particular or a relationship or something you've turned your back on it not because of Hate or not because of fear or anything like that, but because it's time for you now That's what I feel like it is. It's like your time So someone if it may feel like you're giving someone the silent treatment, but I don't feel like you are you're just like Well, there's nothing here, you know, there's nothing that we it ended or something is over or just You know, we just couldn't come together couldn't make it work And somebody here is I feel like they're thinking that you're giving them the silent treatment Okay, that's why over here the four of cut the four of pentacles. This is like blocked remember I said there's blocking this person is deeply hurt, but you are not giving anybody a silent treatment You're just focused on self you know and They're confident that if they stay silent that you're gonna break and you're gonna reach out to them But I don't really feel like this is tip for tat and I'll feel like this is like a competition for you Virgo I feel like you're just like no, I'm just loving myself That's it. I'm just I'm just taking care of you know and opening me opening myself up to other Opportunities that may come my way and attracting love in my life. That's what I feel like you're telling yourself That's what I feel like's going on here Okay, could be a Leo for some of you Okay, yeah, look you're building you're building you're building You know, some of you might be buying a new home You're putting like a ton of money in the bank Okay, building your wealth building your business starting self-employment, you know doing a lot of that energy going on Working in real estate some of you Working in the family business Increasing I just feel like you're you're on the increase here in October and this is the energy that's coming up So, yeah, why yeah because you're also heartbroken a bit Maybe there was betrayal or an argument or cheating or you know, third-party. It could have been like Physical infidelity Romantic infidelity could have just been like people places and things that just tore a relationship apart Could have been like something was in the center here that tore a connection apart, okay? word that was said a deed that was that was done Or other other it's a third-party like I said doesn't always it could have been for some it could have been work Somebody might have been a workaholic and just you know Implant and interjected that in between you and them in the relationship, you know, there's Two's two's company threes a crowd. Okay, there wasn't balance the threes are not balanced Okay, could have been family interference.  I mean, yeah, I do feel like they're this Because it's sitting here on this this court card the king cups or the king of pentacles or it could be a I'd air sign whoever could be a fire sign I do feel like this person wants to reconcile with you But look you've got your back turned to that here at this time in October is where really what I mean You're just kind of like I don't think so I think that there might be a better opportunities out there not that this person's an awful person, but you know, and You may have feelings for them, but it's It's not the full. It's only the piece of the pie and for you. It's like no, I I have hope and I believe That's where I feel like you're at you have hope and you believe in October that there has got to be More out there in your life for yourself. You've got your back turned on a reconciliation in October, okay You do and I don't feel like you are, you know Now maybe in November maybe in December you might have something might change here But during the month of October, it's like no if that person's heartbroken.  So as you guys know, it's gonna be a little bit of a shorter reading tonight But let me get some romance angels I'll do everything that I usually do but I'll just condense it a little bit more to like I guess I have eight minutes left here Let's see Okay to say for you to love Virgo open your heart to give and receive all the highest energy of all So in October, yeah, you will start feeling even better than you do now Okay, you might think oh, I feel great now You're gonna feel even better in October on top of the world. I just saw I just saw I forget their names from the Titanic I'm on top of the world. Okay. You've got a true love coming in here for you You're gonna meet your true love. It may not be your only love But it's gonna be a true love connection and you're attracting this person in October Attracting someone or you're being extremely Attractive you're not playing games Virgo if someone's giving you the silent treatment You might have a water sign giving you the silent treatment. You might have an earth sign who's just blocking Okay, these are all tactics. I feel that you know, okay Well, if I ignore or if I not say anything or if I just just be very still very patient or kind of hide out Virgo's gonna come looking for me Virgo's like I ain't looking for you. Uh-uh Virgo's not looking for anybody Virgo's hanging out with Virgo's friends Sisters family members making plans for the future making plans to get the holidays coming Virgo's very happy Yes, or will be you know, it's predictive.  Go do what you need to do because you're living your life Virgo.  All right, let me see What other messages here do you need to do hey speed and travel? Oh, you're gonna get some communication That's interesting anger. No one situation in reverse again. All right. Oh Okay Hey speed and travel. Yeah, there's some communication coming in and I feel like are you might be communicating with someone someone new Someone you're attracting in October keep his arrows coming out lots of communication with someone in particular and It's joy. It's a win-win situation for you. I feel like you're if that was yesterday as well, wasn't it? Okay, either I'm an awful shuffler or spirits trying to tell you something I Might be a little bit of both but whatever the case may be. I feel like you're on a mission You know if in the sense of like you're just not dealing with Games, okay, you're not dealing with that kind of stuff like it's like, you know Somebody needs to talk if they have something they need to say they need to speak up and Resolve the issue with you or you know move forward with you if not They you know, they need to like dip out and get on with their life But I feel like there's a tactic here Okay Transition the end of the end of suffering is upon you out with the old in with the new Virgo. Yep That's what's going on with you. No one said it'd be easy or has been this season in your life is Transforming and bringing you into a new hemisphere allowed to happen and go with the flow. It's now time for change This is Libra season Okay, this is what's going on then we go into Sagittarius season things always shift But Libra season is the time for you. Okay, it's Venus. It's loving yourself and attracting love. It's being It's being love. Okay, you exude that when you love yourself. Everybody can see that you exude that energy. It's beautiful All right, let's get some signs and see who else could be showing up here for you All right, Gemini has always got a Capricorn. You've got an Aries and a Scorpio. All right one more roll. Oh Okay, Taurus Virgo again Leo twice. All right now if they can call your person sign, don't worry about it Doesn't mean it's not your reading. All right, let's take a look real quick here Let's see. I'm gonna do something different. I'm gonna see New person sign coming in new Chinese sign new person Chinese sign Okay, tiger. So you're the tiger you guys Okay, this person could be a horse double tiger and one more a snake. Okay, that's new All right new people and old who's this old person a Rat is giving you a hard time pig dog ox double rat Ox again Pig again. What the heck? You got a goat Hmm. Look at that. Just popped out. Love yourself first Virgo. Your self-respect makes you more romantically attractive That's what I was saying. Okay, you got a snake showing up also from the past Rooster from the past now that could be past that could be you could be both of you and a horse. Okay a Couple of charms and we're out. All right, you guys see what other messages you got going on here. I can't believe it was always Halloween I'm super psyched Okay, we've got a sea turtle. Oh And a peacock Okay, I've got a sea turtle some type of connection to sea turtles Okay, sea turtles. They live for a very very long time. Yes. Yes. Yes. They do thousands of years I believe somebody might have a Love for sea turtles or maybe you have like turtle or sea turtle decor. There's something connected to a turtle, okay? for some of you, I Don't know. Maybe you save the turtles or maybe you're part of like some kind of organization Saving the turtles or you have a turtle somewhere around you Maybe a tattoo or somewhere in your house or just like a decal or something along those lines this peacock here This you Virgo your peacock and Yep And if you aren't doing that right now, maybe you'll be doing that in October where you're like flaunting your stuff I don't know what's going on with you What you're doing in October or what you've been working on in self, but I see you Out there Flexing I see you flexing Virgo you're flexing and because you get that self love I'm telling you and it's not that egotistical love. It's not that I'm better than you It's this I'm better than I was before and I feel better and I want everyone to know and see and yeah Virgo, I know some of some Virgos are just not like that. I know some of you are not like that I know some of you are like I am very humble I don't like to do the bragging thing and that is fine.  I am wonderful. I am amazing It's called affirmations. You know look at yourself. Look at your accomplishments. Look at how far you've come and remember Who you are? Okay, and I see you doing that.  I'm doing this I'm doing that and whenever you got to do I have no opinion You do whatever works for you. Whatever makes you feel good You know post that meal post that delicious dinner post that trip you're going on if that's something that you're doing You know even you don't have to be bragging about it or anything like that just Just live your life Virgo. Be happy. I see that okay I do feel like someone's going to try to make a return to you And I think if you miss yesterday's video It was the singles reading and there was also a general love to our reading after that There's time stamps in the comments section. I did see somebody making a return around November 16th. I think it was That could be this past person right now. This is like a game. I feel like somebody's playing a game I'm just gonna keep silent not gonna say anything Virgo's gonna break and Virgo's gonna reach out to me and Virgo's like Boy, bye girl. Bye. I don't think so. All right, you guys. So I'm gonna leave your reading there I hope that you enjoyed that remember I will get back to you guys with the show Oh, you know what? Let me tell you something hold on a minute. I'm gonna do something real quick here because My memory is just like I barely have a memory left. Everything is intuition at this point But I want to just I feel the need to do this for you guys. Just hold on a second. I Am gonna give some of you guys Oh All right, here we go karma Karen shout out to Glenda shout out to Steve B Shout out to TNT you guys are like um you guys are like diehards, you know Terry, let me see who else is here. Who else was here in the chat? Oh stream labs. What's up? See all my regulars I think sanguine sapphire. I think sanguine is kind of new Who else is in here? People that I see you guys are like the diehards.  I think I said just about everybody if you are new keep coming back I'll give you some shout outs as well persephone as usual persephone and I have The exact same date of birth. We are also the exact same Chinese sign and we were also the exact same rising which is super super crazy Sophia is always here Who else always shows up? Who else is always showing up? Oh Scarlett hi Scarlett. I know I see you all the time definitely Sweetheart Bella B. Hello, Bella B Bella B said yesterday. I'm gonna need that VIN number for sure Hilarious, I think Empress one self-love is first Let me see. Let me see. I know I've been seeing self-love is first you guys just make sure you know join in the chat There's such a good community Everybody loves being with everybody here in the chat. It's just make friends connect with everyone And maybe one day I'll do a meet-and-greet. Wouldn't that be fun? We'll have a meet-and-greet maybe sometime next year If you guys can travel Because I hate to tell you this but hi I'm not a plain person. I probably should get back on a plane, but whatever. We'll figure it out We'll do we'll do some kind of meet-and-greet next year All right after the holidays. Okay, so yeah, I'm gonna check you guys out. That's for now That's what I'm seeing for now. So yep shout out to everybody keeps coming back. I love you guys You're so awesome. I'll be back tomorrow with a little bit of a shorter reading from this because I just wanted to reach out to everybody and Yeah, have a fantastic Evening day, and I'll see you all tomorrow. All right you guys take care. Bye


Hi, everyone. Thank you for being here. Do you hear me? All good? Perfect. Thank you so much for being here. I have to say, this is the most beautiful room I have spoken into, and it's incredible. I'm stoked. I feel like a rock star. This is really, really good. And this is a fantastic work, and this is my first time at Work & Posey, and I already love it. So thank you for coming to my talk. I know there's a super busy schedule, so I'm particularly happy that you picked my talk. So what are we going to talk today? We're going to talk about securing WordPress without coding skills. Is there anyone here a security expert? Don't stay here. Or, if I say something completely wrong, please say it. All right. So my name is Francesca. As you can hear from my accent, I'm obviously not from around here. I'm from Turino, Italy. I own more than one t-shirt, but it's very convenient to have an outfit like Steve Jobs that people will recognize it. So in my case, it's a blue shirt with pink glasses. Wherever you go to a work camp, you'll find me wearing this thing, so you'll know who I am. As Steve would say, I'm the WordPress Community Manager at Sideground, the international web hosting company. And before doing that, I was a freelancer making websites for other freelancers, mostly. So giving back to the WordPress community is basically my job. It's part of my job description, and I'm going to brag because I worked hard to get here, right? So I like bragging. I'm not a modest person.  In Italian, we say when you have money that you need to enjoy it because you cannot use it to, and I don't know the word in English, but you will not put it in your coffin, right? All right, so you do the same with knowledge, just share it. It's the most wonderful thing in the world, and I think word camps are amazing because each one has a story to tell. Each one of us has something to give to the other person in the room. So this is why I love going to word camps around the world and sharing my experience, sometimes my failures, sometimes my successes and what I learned from it, and sometimes I get to share things that I learned from my colleagues at Cyclone. So this talk, it's actually a bit of a mix of everything from my previous life as a website owner and designer, developer, plugging installer, and my experience now with a big hosting company behind it. So I'm obviously not a security expert, but I think that... So becoming a security expert is a different job than making websites, okay? It's a very different job than making websites, but I think as a web professional of any kind, we owe it to ourselves and our customers to make the web safer for everyone because everyone has to get something out of it. If the web is safer, it's safer for everyone. And also if you know enough, it will prevent you from making costly mistakes, which is what this talk is based about. It's my mistake and how I solved it and how much it cost it. So we will not talk about technical stuff. What is your name? Josh. If you have any technical questions, Josh is your man and he's here. If you have technical questions about anything related to side ground, come look for me. And after this we're going to ping my colleagues that know about security and technical stuff. So if you have any really technical stuff, Josh is your man or you come see me and we're going to ping customer support and they're going to reply. But today... So I like to think of myself as a common sense dispenser.  That's my superpower I think. And I learned this, as I said, from my experiences and I hope it's going to be helpful for you too if you don't want to become security experts but you want to make the web safer for everyone. So how I learned this, during my time as a freelance web designer, there was one particular accident that led me to research security a little bit more. And the keyword here is awareness. Again, it's not becoming a security expert but know enough not to be dangerous, let's say, like this. So one of the websites that I managed, this Chpubi that was mentioned. So Chpubi is a multi-author website. We're now over 80 people writing for it. So imagine 80 people having access to it, creating their own username and their own password. And so at some point this website got hacked. I suspect because someone had as a password, one, two, three, four. I cannot prove that. So the website got hacked. And we got a season to season letter from an American lawyer that asked us to remove false advertisement that was redirecting to a well-known pharmaceutical product. And we're like, what? We're a bunch of ladies reinventing our career and writing about it. You know, like we talk about marketing and personal branding and sometimes cool pajamas to work from home with. What are you talking about? And then we scanned the website and we realized that content was added to our pages as hidden content with advertisement for a pharmaceutical product. Needless to say, we were very scared because, you know, we're in Italy. Suddenly we get a season disease letter from an American lawyer like, oh, are we going to go to jail? Are they going to revoke my visa? I don't know. It was kind of scary. So we managed to get rid of that. And obviously we had no idea our website was compromised. And we also got a sense of false security because we installed a plugin at the time, not even a plugin, actually a module of a plugin that was supposed to keep intruders out. So we're like, we have a plugin. We're safe. No. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. This is like the most used sentence ever when we talk about security. That says that security is a process and not a plugin. So even if you installed a security plugin, which obviously will help, there are things that you need to do that are your responsibility and that will help immensely. And I learned this, as I said, firsthand, because I thought, all right, we have a plugin. We're good to go. No, that's not how it works. So security is a process. Security is a state of mind. And it starts even before you create your website, I would say. You have to get into this security mindset. Safety, I would like to say, even, you know, it's not just about security, it's about safety even before you start your website. So, and this is where Josh is going to help me. Let's do a bit of a background, very easy. We're not going to get into technical stuff. As I said, who is doing these attacks, okay? So we talk about attacks, hacking. And if you're anything like me, imagine those hackers as Neo in the Matrix with the 25 keyboards, 75 screens typing like that, and going to my website. That's not how it works, apparently. I was very disappointed when I realized that. So there are more or less three bodies that carry out attacks. One is Neo from Matrix, but Keanu Reeves did another movie where it was an hacker. The net? I don't know. It's a very old movie. Anyway, so he was there. So when it's a person, those attacks are very rare. And they attack very high visibility targets. Think FBI. Think, you know, government sites. So think banks. Think about these political parties. Think about this kind of thing. That hacker will not attack Francesca Marano.com. He doesn't know I exist. And he is not really interested in my website. So human attacks are very rare, are very sophisticated, are probably the hardest to detect because they're sophisticated. And then we have bots. Bots are programs that are written by humans, but they potentially hit lots of websites at the same time with usually one specific thing like, you know, getting your password and going to the admin area, whatever. They're not very sophisticated, but they're very efficient because they can hit a lot of websites at the same time. And even more effective than bots are bot nets, which are, as you can imagine, network of bots, which is multiple computers attacking. So imagine large-scale attacks, hundreds of thousands of websites coordinated by computer, a server that is usually called CNC, command and control, and those are deadly because they hit hard. They go to millions of websites at the time. They're not very smart, but they're deadly because they attack a lot of websites at the same time. Now you have to understand that it's nothing personal, especially if you're Francesca Marano.com. If you're FBI.com, it is personal. But if you're Francesca Marano.com, it's not personal. What do hackers want? Because I remember when we got hacked, I was like, what do they want from these ladies? Like we're a bunch of ladies writing useful free content. Why are they attacking us? They don't care. So what do hackers want from your new website that just you and your mom read? They want to gain control as admins of your website so they can write files and they can gain control to do stuff. What kind of malicious stuff? What kind of stuff? For example, sending out spam. They can write the scripts that will send unwanted spam or viruses through your website. They could use your website to upload unwanted content. It could be, in our case it was advertisement, it could be pornography, it could be viruses, it could be even pictures that they don't know where else to put, right? But they will use your website as storage, basically. Or data theft of the most basic kind. If someone sends a comment to your blog, their email is stored inside your website. If you have an e-commerce plugin and someone buys something from you, their email is going to be stored in your website and not even encrypted in the database, unfortunately, but like in the admin page of e-commerce or of any content or comment plugin, you'll see the full email. So they can just basically kind of easily get a database of emails to which they can send spam afterwards. And it's not a very difficult attack to carry on because sadly people use unsecured passwords and then you get into the website, you scrape all the emails, it's really a matter of seconds. Or they could use it to redirect. They could upload content, they could work as a redirect. So for example, your website, your domain still has good reputation for Google. Their domain doesn't have a good reputation, so they will use your as a proxy to go through and go to their website. And they can also use this for having a higher place in the search engine results. Maybe they don't have like a malicious intent. They didn't add any spam or virus, but they're redirecting the traffic, thus having more links, thus climbing the search results. And finally, this is something that I didn't know existed. But when I started researching for this talk, ransomware. Do you know what ransomware is? Except for Josh. Does anyone know what ransomware is? Okay. So basically it's digital ransom. They will get into your account. You will not be able again to get into your account and they will ask for money to release back the password and the account to yourself. Now this is very popular and also this I didn't know on social media. About a year ago, there was a massive, not massive, but there was an attack on Italian influencers on Instagram, about 150 of them, which had very good accounts with over 50,000 followers. They managed to get into their account and they sent to each one an email that said, give us $4,000 or you don't get your Instagram account back. Now you have to imagine, for example, in this case, it was a lot of ladies that were selling their arts and crafts and they worked hard to get to those 50,000 followers and suddenly you have someone that said, no, give me $4,000. Luckily in Italy, and I guess in every country of the world, there are police sectors that deal with that. So they were able in about three days to solve the situation but this is a thing that happens and I didn't know. And obviously there are effects if your website gets hacked. Reputation. Did you ever visit a website that was marked as hacked or insecure and went back to it? I don't think so because once you say, oh, this website is hacked. I don't know what's going to happen to me but I'm not going to go there anymore and it doesn't matter if the people will clean up this website 30 minutes after you visited. That's it. Their reputation is done. They're hacked. So you won't visit them again unless you really, really want to visit them. There's a tool by one of the Google tools is Google Safe Browsing and they will put a notification that the website is not secure. So again, people will not visit that. Or your website might be blocked by your hosting provider, by your internet provider or by the antivirus software you have on your computer. How many times did you get the pop-up that said this website is not secure? And you will not go there. It doesn't matter if they sort it out and let's not forget about cost. So when our website was hacked none of us had any idea how to remove these things and at the time we were with a teeny-tiny hosting in Italy that wasn't really ready for this kind of thing so we had to pay someone to clean up our website and the website was down for... Well, in that specific case that website doesn't make any revenue so we didn't lose revenue but still that website was down for over two days and it's not great and we also had to pay someone to take care of it so it could be also, you know, there's a cost for cleaning this up. Now, I think no one can guarantee you that your website will not be attacked ever and that your website is 100% safe. Am I right, Josh, when I say this? OK. Because I know that a lot of companies use, you know, a super secure service and stuff like that and it's true, obviously both hosting companies and servers or anything will put in place all the measures they have to make it secure but there is no such thing as 100% secure. What we can do, and it starts honestly from your computer right now we can try to reduce the chances of being attacked and it starts with the simplest and most overlooked measure that you have to secure your website and your computer. Use a secure password. It means use a long password. How long? 25 characters. Panic. No one remembers 25 characters. I hardly remember my son's birthday. So this is why the internet gave us password managers which are fantastic pieces of software that will allow you to put all your logins inside an app and you will need to remember just one, the master password to go inside the app itself. Now beware, make your research before you pick the password manager because one very popular one was Act Hacked so it gave out millions of passwords. Now I know that one password has never been hacked so my personal preference is for one password. It's called one password, look it up. It works for Mac, phones, Android, whatever and it's not super expensive. I think it's about $50 a year and it's effective. They changed the UI, I don't really like it but I like to complain when UI changes so maybe it's just me. Don't reuse passwords. That's another thing that we all do because we're lazy and we cannot, again, remember one, you know, too many passwords so we reuse the same password. Why you shouldn't? These bots carry on these automated attacks, right? So they find out they attack thousands of services, online services at the same time. So they find out that that specific email with that specific password they were managed to figure out for Gmail. As soon as they figure out that they will check out the thousands of online services to see if you use the same combination of password and email for other services. So you thought they hacked your Gmail account while in a very short period of time also your LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, bank account, national health security or whatever it's also hacked. The other thing that I like about one password and it's one thing that I'm doing because I realized that I had 90 over 300 websites using the same password which is not my son's birthday to my defense. So what I'm doing now, I'm going through all these services and find new passwords for them instead of using always the same one. The other thing that one password and I imagine every password manager does they also create, they can generate long passwords for you so you don't have to come up with 25 characters on your own. You just get the app to do it and you just copy paste. The other thing that it's so easy and so overlooked keeping it having plugins and themes form trusted sources. Now if you just started your WordPress website you probably don't really know what a trusted source is. For us that have been in the business for many years you mentioned one plugin and I'm like, you're cool. You mentioned another one and I'm like, you know. But this is because we have the experience for that. If you just started, my suggestion would be install things that are inside WordPress.org. And also in that case you're not 100% secure but let's say it's a bit better than going to unknown sources. So you go to WordPress.org and you have this. Plugins, themes, or you go inside your WordPress websites and you go to plugins, add new and then you will have all the plugins that are in the official repo and the same goes for themes. Now look out for this kind of things. What was the plugin last updated? So WordPress used to be updated about two, three times a year. Then we had a year and a half without updates and now we're having updates about two months I would say. So check when it was last updated because now we are at 5.1.1 that was released a few weeks ago. If that plugin that you're using was updated two years ago I can promise you there's a vulnerability somewhere because in the meantime we upped the PHP version we probably changed three major versions of WordPress and with each of these versions we usually make also some security patches. So check when it was last updated. The active installations I would say it's important but I wouldn't base the whole decision on that because we've got to start from somewhere. So good for these people that have five million installs. Can someone guess which plugin that is? Nope, nope. It's Yoast SEO. And I took the screenshot this morning. So they have five plus million active installation because obviously they're a big player in the industry. They've been around for years, they're trusted but there might be some new plugins that they're also very good as long as you see that the developers are involved with the development process as long as you see that they update it as long as you see that they have the minimum requirements and they're involved with the community and they reply to support question then even if they have 100 installs give them a try, they just started. Also Yoast started with one installation right now they have five million plus but if you want to be mega sure and you don't know still the industry so well stick with something like this it's tested up to 5.1.1 which is the latest release of WordPress. You need 4.9 to work. PHP is a bit low but by the end of the year it's going to be better and it has good ratings. It has five stars but with an incredible amount of reviews. This I forgot to change the slide so it's in Italian but it says that in the last two months they had 580 questions in the forum and they replied and closed 535 so they're active, right? I would say at the beginning stick to this WordPress.org things that you have in your repo the other thing that you have to do is update now when I started working with WordPress it was about 2008 I remember my mentor the person that taught me everything about WordPress was like don't touch an update before three weeks I was like why? Oh because there's a number of problems and they're going to release a security patch and you're going to get the white screen of death and all this kind of stuff and this doesn't happen anymore. Updates are absolutely safe to do immediately after they're released and by the way this is what one of the pillars of managed hosting is that the hosting company will do the update for you basically not immediately because obviously it's millions of customers but within a reasonable amount of time. I'm saying this especially because last year in December WordPress 5.0 came out I don't know if you were involved somehow in this thing but it looked like Armageddon it was like the moment they hit the release button millions of websites are going to go belly up and it's going to ruin and destroy everything guess what it didn't happen and I am very lucky to work for hosting, I love data, I love numbers so this is like porn for me you go and see how many websites there are and how many get updated so the thing is we waited for a few days just to be sure and then we started rolling out updates and guess what nothing happened just super custom developed website had some problems there were clearly edge cases everything else just worked I think especially after WordPress 5.0 we should really trust the system and get the updates as soon as they come out but if you don't have a managed hosting company and you do manual updates do them just after you do a backup God they're so boring I mean no one likes to do a backup right? but not only you need to do it make two I know you're looking like you're in pain I know, I empathize I hate doing backups so do backups two of them one with your hosting again, if you have managed hosting the hosting will take care of it but if you still don't have managed hosting just activate it through the user area and save one cop in your computer which means that you also have to backup your computer if you're a Mac user it's pretty straightforward there is this time machine get yourself an external hard drive it costs basically nothing nowadays and keep the backups the other thing test the restore because sometimes you trust the backup you have 30 days of backup and when it's time to do the restore you don't know where to do where to start, it doesn't work the internet goes down, I don't know like the scene in Blue's Bladders when Carrie Fisher arrives all the excuses in the world that's what happens with backups so please always make two and make sure you have everything in place backup your computer use a safe password also for your computer possibly because I don't know where are the word camp I leave my computer everywhere because I trust this community no one is ever going to touch my computer no one is going to steal it no one is going to look at the content but guess what, sometimes it happens there is a saying also in the security word that says something like humans are the weakest link because you might have put super advanced technical stuff in place to secure yourself, then you go work at Starbucks you leave your website on a table you go to the bathroom and you don't put your computer on sleep and then if I'm someone that has malicious intent I just go and grab everything I need or you put your password again, I did it, on a piece of paper and then the piece of paper falls next to your computer, guess what you're hacked so take care of all these things and finally this is the fifth step I have for you so HTTPS doesn't secure your website that's not what HTTPS does HTTPS secures the communication with your website and the rest of the word, what does it mean again I'm not going to go into technical details but it's a protocol that works both ways so I ask to see an HTTPS website the website yes, hello the user, the client says hello, now we know that we have a secure communication, now it's safe to put data don't ever put any, any information of any kind on a website that doesn't have that green locket that says secure now two years ago this was like a fancy thing to have today there is no excuse not to have an SSL certificate on your website one, Google will penalize you in terms of search results if you have a non secure website so if you still use the HTTP protocol two, it's free there's a fantastic body called Let's Encrypt that issues free certificates a lot of the hosting that are here today support Let's Encrypt is an open source project so you don't need to learn how to install an SSL certificate which is kind of difficult, you just need to press a button most of the time in your website, in your web hosting user area and the other great thing is that most hosting Cygram for sure but I'm sure other hosting now force HTTPS to every page on the website because I don't know if you tried to have HTTPS a few years ago then suddenly you had four pages things that didn't work but now I assume that in most of the big host, managed hosting is just the press of a button just to force HTTPS everywhere around the website so honestly there is no excuse, the other thing that we used to say we used to hear is HTTPS will slow down your computer that's also not true because now today most hosting will have under servers HTTPS 2 which is the second version of HTTPS which is much faster, HTTPS 3 also is coming so don't be afraid that HTTPS will slow down your computer and again it's free we all like free things so just get an SSL certificate I will end by saying that security is a shared responsibility now I don't know if some of you already put in place this kind of measures maybe some of you never heard of this you might be a bit overwhelmed oh my god now I have to think about 25 characters to secure my website and I need to learn what is SSL certificate luckily you're not alone in all of this there are at least three stakeholders in the security process us the website owners we will do everything in our power not to get hacked and to secure the communication with the people that hopefully want to visit our website developers that develop themes and plugins pick the right partners because if they care about their plugin and themes they will do whatever they can to make them secure for you and obviously hosting so hosting is a partner in all of this because all the hosting companies will take care of security at a machine level things that you don't like how many of you heard the not Josh obviously how many of you heard the word WAF okay three over I would say 60-70 people I don't know what WAF is and you don't need to know I know it because I did that for a living so these are firewall rules that are written at a server level you need to be a sysadmin to do that you don't need to be a sysadmin just pick a hosting that will give you the security that you need and that's pretty much it from me thank you for having me questions got a question back here I'm coming around is it for me or for Josh? okay I'll take it a weeks ago a month ago at our WordPress meetup we had a speaker from WordFence and she said something that I don't understand or like which was that using a sub domain is a security risk now I like to use a sub domain for some of my projects what was the argument behind it? I couldn't understand it I cannot understand it either let's have Josh something about common access from the cPanel well I mean if you put they're both HTTPS if you put all the measures that we talked about also in place for your sub domain so you have a long password to access it you have HTTPS you know any of this thing a sub domain is the same thing as a domain I cannot think of a reason why ah if the sub domain can we get the mic to Josh he's gonna explain to us why a sub domain might be not is if the sub domain where do you get compromised it would have access to every site that shares with your primary site so any site that was connected in the folder structure could potentially be impacted by one of those sites getting compromised so that's a problem also in general with shared hosting if so inside the same account there might be something compromised and then the same other files in the same account could be compromised one thing that I will suggest you actually to look out on shared hosting is one thing that I never know what it's called but it will come to me CH root no so at least you know that it's inside your account but if another account is compromised it will not compromise your account which is something that was happening back in the days back in the days when you had like a hundred it doesn't matter how many accounts you had on a server 2 or 25,000 if there was not this pretend it's called it's a quick example no but it has something with root I'll look it up and CH root and this will prevent different accounts on the same machine to compromise each other so look out for that so this is a quick question in shared hosting a lot of times you have an opportunity by a dedicated IP getting a dedicate and it's just a small amount of add-on is a dedicated IP do anything to help with security at all dedicated IP has nothing to do with security dedicated IP is just so you have your IP and it's dedicated so if you access the same services or websites or you are at a there's a number of reasons why dedicated IP could be a good idea but security is not one of them no, no alright a big round of applause, thank you very much thank you


I worry that the U.S. government trying to compete on technology, on equal footing against China basically means that you lose. This year, China became the world's first country to begin actively testing its own digital currency. The digital yuan is controlled by China's central bank, the People's Bank of China. It allows cheap and instant payments without the need of a bank account. This has the potential to significantly disrupt cross-border transactions and international trade. The latest report from Crypto Venture Firm Electric Capital suggests that digital yuan will pose a serious threat to the U.S. dollar's dominance on global markets. The firm believes the Chinese government is seeking to replace the U.S. tea-denominated settlement layer used by most of the world. It shifts global trade and these financial markets to start thinking about being denominated in R&B. Can the U.S. stand up to the challenge in the upcoming digital currency war? The U.S. government should just offer a set of features that, inside currencies, that the Chinese government can't offer. And what side, if any, should the crypto industry choose in this conflict? To answer these questions, I track down the co-founder and managing partner at Electric Capital, Avishal Garg. Hi everyone, my name is Giovanni, welcome back to our show. Today, I have the pleasure to be joined by Avishal Garg, the co-founder and partner at Crypto Venture Firm Electric Capital. How are you doing today? Fantastic, good to see you. Talking about central bank digital currencies, we are seeing that China is currently leading the race with its digital R&B. The country is also testing a digital currency-denominated payment system and its own blockchain services network. So you said that for crypto to survive, the crypto community needs to join forces with the U.S. government to prevent China gaining too much power in the future global financial system. So why should the crypto community do that? Yeah, it was a paper that we wrote, great research. So it was a paper that we wrote and it basically said, look, let's walk through the game theory of this. We now know that China is going to launch a digital currency system. And the Chinese government is, by the way, as a background context, there's no value judgment associated here. This is purely from a game theory perspective. Let's just think through how this might play out. And if you have a bunch of rational actors, assuming the Chinese government is rational, assuming the U.S. government is more or less rational, assume entrepreneurs are more or less rational, how should this play out? Like, what is the optimal move here for each party? And so the given here is that the Chinese government has built this digital currency system. It's a two-tier system on the central bank side. It's a really way for them to control M0, like in the China Dial and how much money printing there is. It goes out to commercial banks and fintechs and then they get it out to retail. And the idea in the short term, I don't think, is to get to a reserve currency. That might be on their long-term plan. I don't know, but I don't think that's the short-term goal. The short-term goal is to have a settlement layer. It's the ability for them to really, really quickly settle things in R&B. And that's a real utility. That's valuable for fintechs. There's also really valuable for them on their Belt and Road initiative. The investments that they're making kind of all along the Gulf, into Europe, throughout Eastern Africa, as part of their national strategic initiatives. And so imagine you go to somebody in one of these countries. Let's say you go to an oil trade or somewhere in Europe or Kenya or something, and you say, hey, wouldn't you like to be able to get your money back faster? Like, why are you using this old system? We have to go to a broker and do this oil trade, and then they have to figure out how to convert from shillings to USD, and then it settles, and then it converts back from USD, and it takes seven days for you to get your money back.  You'll get it in 20 minutes. Wouldn't that be great? And that actually is real value for those people. And what it does is it shifts global trade and these financial markets to start thinking about being denominated in R&B. And it allows the Chinese government to have just amazing access into what's happening in these markets and potentially amazing leverage over who gets to participate in those markets. So that's all a given. Like, that's happening, and it's remarkable. Like, I think that the Chinese government is really, really amazing when it comes to adopting and using technology. And so that's happening. So now, if you play that forward and say, OK, well, if that's happening, what is the right thing for the US government to do? Well, one, they should probably start building a digital, central bank digital currency of their own. But the reality is that's going to take a long time. It's going to take many years. So that's not like a thing that you can just flip on and it works in 12 months. So effectively, the Chinese system with a CBDC and a settlement layer, which is what the US should build, it's going to be in market for five to 10 years before the US really gets its own alternative out the market. So then if you're the fed, you start saying, OK, well, what are my alternatives? Well, I think your option two, which you should probably do, is to embrace crypto dollars. Like, we know one of the killer, killer things that's happening in crypto right now on top of DeFi are these stablecoins. And so I think what the government should do is instead of trying to push back on these things like SLO or Libra or USDC, they should just embrace it. They should actually say, you know what, let's get crypto dollars everywhere because that's actually the fastest way to get to market. Like, that's a US dollar that's sitting in a US bank account under jurisdiction of the US. And let's get those things to market as quickly as possible. And I think if they embraced it and sort of green lighted it, you would see a lot of innovation happening very quickly and it would happen inside US tree restrictions. So that's kind of, you know, problem two of the plan, I think, from that the US government should have. So you're basically saying that the US government, since it's going to take many years to develop their own native digital currency, they could kind of bypass a little bit this process by adopting the already existing dollar based stablecoins in order to contrast. And just green light it. And all they have to do is say, you know what, we're not, as long as it's sitting in a US bank, as long as it's backed by crypto dollars, hear the rules, like follow these rules, and you're good to go. Rather than having it sort of get mired in regulation and just, you know, be kind of gray and people don't know whether or not they can do it, you know, give people bank charters, you know, let them custody these dollars. I think the OCC actually did a great job here by allowing people, the office of the controller of the currency inside the Department of Treasury recently, allowed banks to custody crypto keys. And I think that's the kind of stuff where if you just said, yeah, actually we want you to do this, what would happen is all these dollars would, you know, instead of sitting inside, you know, with something like Tether in an unaudited account somewhere in the world who knows where it is, it would actually move to US banks and you could actually audit these things. And everybody would have certainty that that money is actually sitting there. And that's actually better than the alternatives inside the crypto land right now in my opinion. And it's better than the US government's best option, you know, to try to create their own central bank to your currency, because you can do that tomorrow. You can move relatively quickly. And in 12 to 24 months, I think you could basically green light all of these crypto hybrid dollars that are sitting with real US dollars backed in a bank, but they're available on top of Ethereum or anything else. And then the third part from the strategy is, well, how do you actually compete, right? Like, yeah, a lot of the world wants dollars. A lot of these markets would love to have crypto dollars. But you know, I think if you think about this from a startup lens, startups don't win by just offering the same thing that the incumbent offers or doing more of the same startups win because they offer something that structurally the incumbent can't offer. And so I think if you sort of look at the world through that lens, what should the US government do to offer something to the world that structurally the Chinese government cannot do? And this I think touches a little bit on sort of our privacy conversation as well, which is the US government should just offer a set of features that inside currencies that the Chinese government can't offer, for example, privacy. Or, you know, they're not going to be able to take your money away without sort of due process, right? And so it starts to actually look a lot like the crypto ecosystem, which is you should have sovereignty of your money, you have protection from seizure, you have a degree of privacy. And so actually I think there's a case that if the US wants to compete against this Chinese initiative globally, the best way for them to compete is to actually embrace the best features of cryptocurrencies and really push these as sort of an offensive tool against the Chinese DCEP. Because you can offer things that the Chinese DCEP will never offer like true privacy. And if you do that, actually, there's a huge market that will say, you know what, these two things are pretty good, but this other thing gives me a bunch of features that I can't get with the Chinese DCEP system. So I'll just use this sort of crypto system. And if that were to happen, what the US government gets is all of the innovation that's going to happen happens inside the US, right? You get 20 more coin bases, you know, Binance really should exist inside the US. And so from the US government perspective, I think it's actually the right thing to do. So you're basically saying that we should trust the US government when it comes to privacy. However, the US government has not always been such a champion of people's privacy. Just enough to remember the NSA surveillance program uncovered by Snowden or the attempts made by US officials to stop Facebook to include strong encryption into its messaging services. So can we really trust the US government when it comes to privacy? Yeah, it's a great question. I think you're exactly right. I mean, I think every government in the world sort of deals with this tension of essentially security versus privacy. And I think it requires a little bit of reframing. I think part of the reason that happens is that a lot of people, especially policymakers in these countries, are not really deep on the technology of it. And so they tend to think about things like, well, I don't want terrorists to be able to do XYZ, which is absolutely a very reasonable thing. Or I don't want people to be able to evade taxes. And I think if you start enumerating their concerns and you say, okay, people should pay their taxes, people shouldn't do illegal things, people shouldn't give money to terrorists, that kind of stuff. I think actually we have the tools to solve that, which is the US government has control over the fiat on ramps and on ramps. And so actually between KYC, AML, and in terms of actually getting money into the banking system, the US government already has tremendous tooling there to be able to do all of that. And so I think the question that the government has to ask is, it's not, hey, trust me as a government, because I think if they do that, you're right. People will say, well, do I really trust the US government or do I really trust the Chinese government? This thing is faster and better, and maybe I'll use just the faster product. So if you don't compete on novel dimensions like privacy or security, you're kind of competing on equal footing. And I worry that the US government trying to compete on technology, on equal footing against China, basically means that you lose. And so if you think that the US government might understand that they might say, you know what, this is not an area where we have the technological edge right now. Then I think they're forced into thinking about what concessions can the government make from their perspective that offer benefits that the consumers might be willing to take. So I think there's actually a path for the government to offer things like privacy. And especially if people, and this is where I think the interaction with the crypto community comes in, is I think the onus is on the crypto community to explain to the government why they can offer a really great privacy and also achieve all of their objectives. So for example, can you create systems where you can create view keys? So if the IRS thinks that you're dodging taxes, you generate a view key and you send it to the IRS and you say, no, no, no, look, I paid all my taxes. But it's not a default open. What's happening is the US government, just as it does today, says, hey, I think maybe you didn't pay your taxes and so now I'm going to out you. So it's not a default open system. It's a system that you can probe. Or the US government doesn't get all of your financial transactions. They don't see everything sitting in your bank account. They don't get every credit card transaction. And so I think it's actually not that dissimilar from the system that we have today, which is if the government has reason to think that you might be doing something illegal, they can subpoena you, they can go after your records, but it's a default US and people are innocent. And so it's actually a very similar system here. But I think the crypto community has to go and make that case to the government, say actually. And people like Cohen Center are doing a great job of this already, I think. But I think there's actually more room for everybody else, especially on the technology side, to come in and say, no, no, no, actually we're very well aligned here. And actually these systems work very similar to the existing systems in existing finance already. The government doesn't get to see everything. It's only if the government thinks that somebody is doing something illegal, do they get to probe. And actually you can build systems that work exactly that way today and actually make them very secure. I wish all thanks a lot for talking to us. That was very interesting. Pleasure. Pleasure. Thank you for the time. Coin Telegraph. Like, subscribe, and hodl.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell EMC World 2017. Brought to you by Dell EMC. And we're back here at Dell EMC World Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Paul Gillan, and this is theCUBE. And we have with us the three musketeers of Hybrid Cloud. Joining me immediately is my right, Mark Norris, the Group VP of Hybrid Cloud at Atos International, big technical consulting and systems integrator firm. Next to him is Paul Galgen. Did I get that right, Galgen? That's right. Who is a senior director of Microsoft Hybrid Cloud at Dell. And finally, Mike Schutz, who is a general manager of Cloud Platforms, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Division. So, I mean, it's been all about the, everyone's waiting for Azure Stack. This is the big, the big hot thing. How close are we to having a real shipping product? Who wants to take that? I, you know, I am so excited. Last Thursday, we announced the Dell EMC Azure Stack Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack. We're coming out, we've been hard at work. We are ready to announce the details of our offering that will be coming out in the second half of this year. And we think that it's going to be, it is going to be a transformational offering for customers and we'll bring along with Microsoft our unprecedented portfolio of technology offerings to enhance and delight the customers that choose to pursue a hybrid cloud strategy using Microsoft Azure Stack. Now, Mike, this Azure Stack was actually delayed about a year, I believe, from its original announcement. So, in order to get some of the technical details right, are you, and I might be wrong about the timeframe, but there was a delay there. How much anticipation is there in your customer base for this offering? Well, I think in general, and then certainly here at the event, there's a lot of excitement about it. We've talked about it quite a bit here at the event. We've talked to a lot of customers. It's really interesting the use cases that come up. A lot of organizations are trying to think about what digital transformation means for them personally. Cloud obviously plays a big role in that. Converged systems and hyper-converged systems live a big part in how they're transforming their IT. And hybrid cloud kind of sits at the intersection of those two really big trends around hyper-convergence and public cloud. And what we're doing is bringing our global scale cloud platform of Microsoft Azure, serving millions of developers and IT pros every single day, and we're taking that same technology and bringing it to our customers to be able to run on Dell EMC hardware in their data centers, thereby really expanding the reach of cloud to meet our customers where they are. And so it's a pretty exciting offering for us. We're kind of at the final throws of product validation and finishing out some of the features and the partnership with Dell EMC really has been amazing in this regard. Yeah, throws perhaps an appropriate term when you're bringing a new product to market. Mark, I've been in a lot of our viewers in the US haven't heard about those.  Why don't you tell us a little bit about what you do? Well, we are European based, but we are growing very fast. It's 100,000 people company in the meantime. It's about a billion revenue. So it's quite a big company. So we are very excited about the Azure Stack delivery because it's an add-on in our portfolio in the hybrid cloud area. So what we do with customer is a digital journey of the applications. So we are looking to the legacy environments of customers and we are looking to all the applications. And some applications can't move to a central data center or to the public cloud. And their Azure Stack is a great solution that you have the public criteria. You have them on premises. So when we do in some kind of a decision factory where we are moving applications towards Azure Stack or to other important, I think a lot of our applications will move to Azure Stack in the future. So we are really looking forward to the announcement and to the launch of this Azure Stack. Well, you have a lot of big data center legacy environments over there that you're dealing with. Absolutely. Azure Stack fit vis-a-vis those legacy environments. Is this a whole new infrastructure that customers are putting in place? Well, a lot of customers has a few big data centers but they have a lot of onsite applications. And there are a lot of reasons why applications can't move from to a central data center. So you have reasons like latency of the applications, factories who cannot be stopped, the network depending. You have all kinds of compliance, the FDA reasons why we can't move applications or data to the public cloud or to a central data center. So that's why this offering, it puts really the cloud native, the cloud size of solutions that you also can run it onsite. So this is a big, big change. Mike, can you talk about what this means for Azure customers of your public cloud version? What will be the synergies that they'll see between public cloud and their on-premise stack? The whole notion of this is to help customers on that application modernization journey that they're on and do it with cloud native technologies. And so these are capabilities that we've built in the public cloud and battle tested in the public cloud and now customers can run them on Dell, EMC hardware and their own environment. What that means is that we're basically extending the edge of Azure to run in our customer's data centers and bring the cloud to them. And so from an Azure customer perspective, the customer would buy Azure from Microsoft and consume Azure from Microsoft and be able to run their applications in any location. And so we've even gone so far as making the business model, the licensing model, a consumption based model. And so you only pay for the software that you use and the virtual machine hours or the websites that you use in the public cloud or on-premise is a very same consumption based economic model is translating down here to an on-premises world as well, which is great because as more and more customers look toward an OpEx model and they're starting to understand in the cloud world how consumption economics work, they're looking to do that with other software and our on-premises system as well. And so we're also working with Dell and how that might work on the hardware side as well. I want to ask about that. I mean, Pay as you go, we're very familiar with in the cloud. How does that translate to hardware? At some point will customers be able to pay only for the hardware that they use? Absolutely. We are one of the great things about the joining of Dell and EMC together is the breadth of the offerings around our financial services. So we already have some very creative consumption models for the hardware itself and we'll be looking to extend that to a meter consumption as well. Very similar to how customers would be able to consume from the public cloud. And by doing that, what we're hoping to do is take out the kind of the extraneous detritus of the decision process of whether a workload goes into public or private cloud and really auguring in on what is the right fit for that particular workload and where it belongs. Mark, give us an idea of the demand that exists in your market right now for this offering. Let me give a very big customer of us in the healthcare market. He has 200 locations all across the world. And in those locations, there are a lot of very critical applications. So we can do it very cost effective that we do an application transformation that we look at the whole landscape of the customer, how the business processes are working, how the applications are connected to each other. And the way we are doing that, that we have a methodology designed where we can see what is the best fit, the most efficient way to put an application on an infrastructure. And as a stack, probably can take 40% out of the whole landscape, but it can be some customers, we can make everything cloud native, but cloud native is not the full solution. A lot of customers have a lot of legacy applications. So it's really helpful to broaden the portfolio and in this case. So I'm very happy with it. Just very quickly, Dell is unique. Why should someone do business with a hyper cloud business with Dell as opposed to anybody else? That's a great question. So with Dell EMC, we have a very extensive experience, both with the integrated systems. We created the integrated system converge platform market with VC eight years ago. We have a very long history of layering clouds on top of our integrated systems, both with Microsoft and with other partners. And so we'll be bringing those learnings to our Microsoft Azure Stack offering. We're just scratching the surface here. A lot to talk about, but we are out of time. I want to thank all three of my musketeers, Mark Norris, Paul Galgen, Mike Schutz for joining us today. Best of luck with your rollout. You seem very excited about what's coming down the pipe. We're thrilled. Thank you very much. We'll be right back from Las Vegas. This is theCUBE.