Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NoCellicast podcast, hosted at podfeat.com, a technology podcast with an ever so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, April 30th, 2023, and this is show number 938. Well, this week on Chitchat Across the Pond, it's another installment of Programming by Stealth, and Bart and I took a few minutes upfront to high five each other for 150 episodes of Programming by Stealth, and we quickly got to work. Way back in the Taming the Terminal podcast, which you can find at ttt.bartifice.net, Bart taught us about stream redirection, what he likes to call terminal plumbing. This was a long time ago, and many folks may not have listened to that great series. So Bart takes us through it again, but from the perspective of writing bash scripts that can do everything we can do in the terminal. We learned about standard input, STD in, standard output, STD out, and standard error, STD error. We also learned how to bifurcate standard out and standard error to produce our desired results. He walks us through how to use the symbols greater than, less than, and our friend the pipe to redirect output from commands and files. I did get stuck for quite a while in quite a few spots here and there. Bart continues to try to convince me that if I'm confused, at least one other learner as well, so hopefully making Bart find different ways to explain these things to help me will help you. You can of course find Bart's fabulous tutorial show notes over at PBS.Bartifisher.net, and you can find programming by stealth in your podcatcher of choice. All right, let's play our last interview from the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference for 2023. I'm in the field and booth with Adrienne Masco and she's got some really interesting products here for blind and low vision and wheelchair users. What are we talking about here? That's right. We designed and handmade these backpacks for the wheelchair users, blind and visually impaired people, people with limited upper body mobility issues. All of our stuff is lightweight and a really padded structure, rigid, almost like a box. So when you open the lid, it's like a box and you can just look in. All the pockets are in there. Everything is really organized and our wheelchair bags are gonna have like eight or nine pockets on the outside. So somebody using a wheelchair or a mobility device can grab their stuff really quickly. So one thing for people who can't see what we're looking at, these are like boxes, like you said, it's standing. It's not a backpack that's gonna flop over when you're trying to get stuff out. And I noticed this first one we're looking at is bright orange on the inside. That's so you can actually see your stuff inside, right? Yes, especially for the low vision user. Our linings are bright orange and we have white ring zippers so that these rings can be really easily located. All my backpacks have these giant rings on them. That's fantastic. They are nice. And now all of our bags have this ring zipper. This is our special Fieldom Patent and Design plastic molded ring zipper. Yeah, it's soft but strong and it doesn't feel like it's gonna break off.  So you were showing us before we started there's labels on the outsides of each pocket. Yes, all of our braille patches are going on the outside of our low vision products. Each bag is gonna come with a set of five braille patches that read one, two, three and four. And then a Fieldom Performance Block, our brand. They are also designed with these beautiful nature designs such as the moon, a seashell, birds and a geometric cube so that somebody who's blind can enjoy that beauty of nature by just touching the patch. That is really cool. Now there's a lot of pockets inside. I love a lot of pockets. I'm very organized. I know where everything goes but a lot of them you can see inside. You've got some mesh on the outside. What's it saying on the, it's kind of like a vertical pouch sort of thing. What is that? Right, all of our low vision backpacks are gonna come standard with a cane pouch. And our cane pouch is going to be, this particular new one is going to be coming out in June or July.  Oh, that is really cool. One of the things you were showing us too is there's locks here or a place to do locks, describe that? Sure, for any bag that has outer pockets it's important to have security. So our newest model called the City Block is taking the city life into account. And we wanna keep people's items safe so that all of the outer pockets have a ring zipper adjacent to a D-ring which is a lockable. And that way nobody's fiddling with your pockets.  They're not waiting out in front hoping somebody will grab them. Right, we wanna keep it as discreet as possible. We wanna protect the valuable items that you're carrying and we also wanna make sure that you're not standing out too much. Yeah, definitely. Hi, I'm blind, I can't see anything. Here, steal all my stuff. So the cane pouch, can you buy that separately as well? We're gonna make that available as soon as possible. And we're gonna make it in as many colors as possible. I'm a big color person and I know that anybody who has a cane is gonna wanna have their own style or their own color if they want, they can get it. That gets back to what people always ask me, why would blind people like that? Cause they're like everybody else, that's why. Yeah, exactly.  It's kind of this light beige actually. She's got a teeny tiny cute little backpack too with the same patented rings and the D-ring for locking as well. Yes, so this particular bag is called the Jiu and it's a small crossbody bag. Like you would find many types of crossbodies, but ours is the only crossbody in the world. Excuse me. That is going to have a separate strap that attaches to wheelchairs. Oh, okay, cool. So you could use it either way? Yes, a lot of wheelchairs nowadays for independent mobile users don't have handles or they don't have bars on the back. They're just really slimmed down.  That's fantastic. Now, for the video audience, we're just gonna step over here for a moment to the backpacks for wheelchairs. Is there anything unique about these that you wanted to point out to us? Well, this is our flagship bag and it's super large, 50 liters. This is called the Max Large. What makes our backpacks for wheelchairs stand out is that they have an eight strap system which is really customizable to all kinds of chairs. And then this particular model has backpack straps for a caregiver to carry separately if need be. Now, you said these are light.  This is really light. That is amazing. And we make all of these in Seoul, South Korea using the highest quality local materials. So why these bags are structured, they are so lightweight because the foam inside is what's called Toilon. And that's a kind of pressurized padded foam that's super lightweight. And that way we can maintain a structure of the bag without adding a lot of weight to it. This is very cool. Okay, so where would someone go to find all of these amazing bags? Well, it's really easy to find our website. It's called fieldomlife.com and I'll spell that out for you. Feel as in feel freedom, F-E-E-L-D-O-M-L-I-F-E.com, again, fieldomlife.com. Very good, thank you so much. This is fantastic. I really like these bags. I'm a bag junkie, so this is great. It's been my pleasure. Thanks for having me on. You may have noticed that I take a lot of screenshots. I use them at my blog posts. I send them to my friends and family and messaging apps to teach them how to do things. I post them to services like Mastodon and Slack and I send screenshots to developers when I need to ask a question. I create screen recordings too from the iPhone for all of the same reasons. Frankly though, I think screenshots on the iPhone looks silly. Now that the phones are tall and skinny, screenshots really look out of proportion and it looks like they're missing some piece of information. The one thing that can make them look better is to put a bezel frame around them that mimics the physical frame of an iPhone. I've experimented with so many different methods to do this and they've all had their drawbacks. I've tried shortcuts made by people who are very good at this sort of thing, but they always go stale when a new version of the iPhone comes out and they're clumsy and a little bit hard to use. My beloved Affinity Photo comes with templates for iPhone and other device frames, but it's really stale. The latest it has is the iPhone XS. Now Apple let you download their official bezels and I put a link in the show notes in case you're interested and I've dropped them into Affinity Photo and then tried to resize my screenshots on a layer under the bezel frame. At best it's tedious, time-consuming and error prone. At worst, I can never get them to be quite aligned properly. For screencasts online work, we do use the official bezel frames and we align them under the video and screen flow, but the more recent ones don't work properly. If the video and frame are aligned and sized correctly, there are these wee tiny little corners of the video sticking out from under the frame. We have to do some real shenanigans to fix it every single time. So every year or so I kind of go on a hunt for a new solution to this annoying problem and this time my hunt was rewarded by a fantastic tool called Pop Frame for iPhone in the App Store. In literally seconds, I can add in a frame to a screenshot of my iPhone. The process to put a frame on a screenshot with Pop Frame could not possibly be any easier. Take a screenshot by holding down the volume up and side buttons and save it to your photos library. Launch Pop Frame and tap the big plus button on the screen. After giving Pop Frame access to your photos library the first time, select your screenshot and almost immediately you'll see your screenshot with a perfect iPhone frame around the image. It will be beautifully displayed on a lovely blurred background that's created from the colors in the screenshot. That's it, that's all you have to do. Pop Frame doesn't even ask you which iPhone you use for the screenshot, it just works. Now if you're happy with the effect, tap the share icon and go on your merry way. But Pop Frame has a lot more options to tailor the image to be even more interesting. After Pop Frame adds the image and background to your image you'll see four buttons right below it. The first button allows control of the background. I mentioned that by default the background is a blurry version of the screenshot itself. You can also choose from a bunch of different gradient backgrounds that look very Apple-y. If you have no joy in your life you can also choose a dark gray, black or white background. You can also choose to have a transparent background if you need to drop that image onto an existing background. If you wanna get back to the blurry image background I described as the default look for an icon representing an image. You know the classic mountains with the sun, it's that one. Now most screenshots I take are of app interfaces and the blurry image background isn't very interesting. But I tried it with a screenshot of a photo in my photos library of some purple and orange flowers with green leaves. The background became a soft blur of purple, orange and green hues. It's actually quite a lovely effect. Now you can control the size and shape of your image using the button that has double arrows going outside. By default Pop Frame creates a square image that's 3000 by 3000 pixels. With the double arrow control you can choose a tall portrait orientation that's 1620 by 2880 or a nice wide image at 4320 by 2430. Now that aspect ratio is perfect for a slide deck because it's 16 by nine. Now there's also an option to show a square close up of the screenshot in its frame. So like say just the top half of the phone or the top third of the phone. If you choose this option you can slide the image up and down until you're showing just the part of the screen that you desire. As you slide the image you get some haptic feedback. Ooh that was hard to say haptic feedback as it jumps between the five different crops you can choose from. Now my explanation sounds really clumsy but if you do it yourself it's really slick. If you take a screenshot with your iPhone in landscape mode Pop Frame adapts beautifully by offering you a square or landscape version of your screenshot with a background. You can choose one of the beautiful gradient options or one of the joyless solid color backgrounds and you can add a drop shadow to the iPhone on those backgrounds. The third button has a circle cut in half with a shadow and that invokes a little slider. As you drag the slider to the right or left it moves the shadow to that side. The first detent in the slider is a nice soft shadow while the end detents are a crisp shadow. If you have no joy in your life put the slider in the middle to remove the shadow entirely. Now the final button on the image shows a little phone frame. This button allows you to change the color of the iPhone frame to itself to match your actual iPhone or maybe the iPhone you wish you had. If you do have joy in your life and just got the brand new yellow iPhone you can have the frame on your screenshot match your favorite color. All right, now I'm gonna tell you the crazy part. Everything I've described for screenshots is completely free with Pop Frame. I would have paid easily five bucks for this app maybe more. Ramik Sadhana, the developer of Pop Frame does have a way to make money and it's by charging a tiny amount to add frames to screen recordings. So everything I described was doing screens for screenshots, doing frames for screenshots I should say. Now if you wanna add all this frame beauty to your screen recordings on your iPhone it will cost you three credits for each video. Ramik gives you 10 credits for free just so you can try it out. If you need more credits you can buy 15 for a dollar, 30 for two bucks or 45 for three bucks. I'm not 100% sure and I'm gonna need to make 15 videos but I wanted to pay Ramik so I bought the fancy 45 credit option for a grand sum of three dollars. But the story gets even better. Let's say you can't afford to pay even this small sum for your screen recordings to look snazzy. Ramik has an option he calls Promote the App which watermarks your video with a little tag on the side of the iPhone that says Pop Frame Apps. I'm sorry Pop Frame App. I thought that was a really cool way to do it. It's very unobtrusive. It's just a little tiny tag. Now in addition to all the options I described for making your screenshots look impressive when you import a video to Pop Frame you also get the option to add touch points to the screen in the video. This is one of the annoying things about doing screen casting for iOS showing people exactly where you tapped within a video. With Pop Frame you get a little slider to scroll through the video and then you could tap in different spots to show where you tapped. If you didn't tap quite right there's a little trash can that'll allow you to delete that touch point. Could not be easier. So expect to see iPhone screenshots looking a lot prettier than they ever did before on podfeat.com thanks to Pop Frame. Check it out in the App Store for the grand price of zero. I'm back with part six of Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I started in order to teach Jill from the North Woods how to move from being an adequate back user to being a proficient one. In case you missed the earlier installments I included links to the first five installments in the blog post for part six. All right, let's start with this first one. One of my favorite party tricks to show new and even seasoned Mac users is to demonstrate that clicking on their trackpad is a lie. If you push on a relatively modern Mac trackpad either the internal one on a laptop or an external magic trackpad you can feel a distinct click just like any other trackpad you've ever used. When it clicks you can feel it move. Now Apple refer to their trackpads in some support articles as force touch trackpads and I'll get into that in a little bit and explain what force touch does in the next tip.   Now try to click the trackpad. It does not move. Now it's not that it's now locked is that it was never actually moving in the first place. Apple trick us by using haptic feedback to give the feeling of a click and it feels like it's actually moving when it isn't. Seriously, try shutting down. It's positively freaky. I got to wondering exactly how Apple simulate that click. I turned to iFixit for a teardown of the magic trackpad. If you scroll down on the link in the show notes to the teardown you'll see the part that performs this magic and even better they explain how it works. The part is called the Taptic Engine, not Haptic Engine because Apple like to invent fun new names for things. The Taptic Engine shown in the teardown is a bracket with four coils of copper wire on four posts and then the end of each wire coil are connected to the bracket. iFixit explained next to the image like this. These coils of copper wire form a powerful electromagnets that push and pull against the steel bar mounted to the underside of the trackpad surface causing the entire surface to rapidly and shortly buzz simulating the sound and feel of a click. So maybe the click isn't a lie as much as maybe a fib the Taptic Engine does buzz inside the trackpad so technically it's moving a little bit but it also explains why when you cut the power to your MacBook or your magic trackpad you can't feel the click. Electromagnets only work when electricity is running through the coils. So next time you're at a boring party get out your trackpad and amaze the other party goers by turning it off and showing them how it doesn't click. That will be sure to liven things up. All right now that we know about the lying trackpad I promise to tell you about Force Touch. On a Mac you can do all kinds of nifty things by pushing just that little bit extra on your trackpad. My favorite thing to do is look up words in things I'm reading. First time you use Force Touch on a word you'll get a pop-up explaining that you've triggered lookup. This explains the kinds of things you can find out with lookup. If you dismiss the pop-up and try again to Force Touch on a word this time you'll be rewarded with the dictionary definition of your word and synonyms from the thesaurus. The word I chose to use in the screenshots for the article was preferences and in the sentence it was in the phrase system preferences. In the pop-up with the definition and synonyms it also explained what system preferences is from Apple. So I think it got it out of context even though I only selected the word preferences. In the bottom of the pop-up you'll also see Siri Knowledge and Siri Suggested Websites. These options are contextual depending on what you've selected with Force Touch. Like I said my example is just a word but you can Force Touch other things. Siri Knowledge for my example of the word preferences gives me a short paragraph from Wikipedia and offers to take me into Wikipedia to read more. Likewise the Siri Suggested Websites options gave me an overview paragraph from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and offered to take me there. While the support article from Apple that explains everything you could do with Force Touch still refers to system preferences instead of the modern system settings it has a great explanation of all the cool things you could do with Force Touch. I really had no idea how many things it could do before researching for this article. Now I'm not gonna read them all to you because this is supposed to be a tiny tip but Force Touch on an address brings up maps, on dates it adds them to the calendar and on flights it gets details of the flight. You can see previews of web pages by force clicking on a link. I'm not even halfway through telling you everything that Force Touch can do. It's really worth exploring the support article to familiarize yourself with all of the options. And system preferences or system settings trackpad you can modify how to invoke Force Touch because Apple loves to use different names for the same thing in the trackpad settings they call it force click and haptic feedback. You can turn force click entirely off if you want. You can still get lookup and data detectors like maps and phone numbers using tap with three fingers or you can turn it all off if you like. Now you may not remember but I told you about another trackpad gesture back in part three of my Mac tiny tips called three finger drag.  All right those last two tiny tips weren't all that tiny. So let's cleanse our palette with a truly tiny tip. Imagine you're working away in Safari or Photos or any third party app and you realize you need to search for a file in the Finder. You could click on the desktop or the Finder icon in your dock to bring forward a Finder window and then you could click in the little search box or you could hit command F to start a search. It turns out you don't have to launch Finder separately. You can start the search while you're inside any application. So while in any app hit command option space and it will instantly open a new Finder window directly to the Finder search field. How cool is that? Now this keystroke may not stick right away in your muscle memory but here's a way to remember it. Command space, launch the spotlight to search and launch apps and throwing in that option key makes it right takes you right into the Finder to execute the search and opens Finder for you right there. Here's another Mac tiny tip that I use all the time. You know if you copy some text from a source like a webpage for example and then you paste it into another document the formatting comes along with it and it looks terrible in your document. There's a lot of tools out there to get past this problem including clipboard managers. They usually have a way to say strip off the formatting but it turns out the Mac has this built into it as an automatic way to paste without bringing the formatting along for the ride. We all use command C to copy and command V to paste right? Throw in that handy dandy option key again and command option V paste without the formatting. Seriously this works in pretty much every text base app I have ever used. I recently posted a tiny tip on how to add a line feed on iOS when the app you're using doesn't have a return key. You can use dictation and say new line instead or thanks to what we learned from Yope a much easier way we learned that tapping the one, two, three button in the bottom left gives you a return key to enter those line feeds. With some apps and services we have the same problem on the Mac of not being able to add a line feed easily. Let's take Apple messages as an example. If you're typing away in messages say telegram or Slack and if you hit enter your text will instantly be sent. Most of the time that's what you want but sometimes you wanna separate two thoughts and have a line feed to make them easier to read. In most apps on the Mac not 100% but most of them if you hold down our favorite option key and then hit enter you will get your precious line feed. And one of my favorite places to use option enter is when I wanna nicely format a column heading in Excel controlling on exactly which word the text will wrap. Now the one chatting app that doesn't obey this rule is Discord where enter sends it turns out shift enter adds a line feed and I can never ever remember it I always have to go back and look it up. So I looked at, I did look in the forums about it and there are comments going back four years to four months ago in the Discord discussions asking for options on this behavior but evidently the Discord team just doesn't wanna change it. Oh well, option enter is available in almost every app for Mac OS. I sure enjoy making these tiny Mac tips and if you have some you haven't heard me mention that will help the new or even seasoned Mac users up their game send them along to me so I can share. This week instead of panhandling for money to support the pod feed podcast I'm gonna do a little podcast swap promotion. 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I listened to a recent episode where the guys interviewed 97 year old almost 98 year old retired US Navy Captain Royce Williams while he told the story of how he single-handedly shot down four Russian MiGs in his Panther aircraft during the Korean War when it was top secret that the Russians were fighting against us. Not only is it an amazing story but listening to how the incredible level of respect the guys had for Captain Williams it was really heartwarming. That was probably my favorite part. I mean, they were just in awe of the greatness they were with on the show. Now I'm gonna warn you the show has a lot of aviation jargon in it but they've actually created a glossary because of this over at So I think I'll get it yet. So there I was dot US. You can go over there if you wanna learn some more about these terms as you're listening to the show.  So there I was, it's how all great aviation tales begin. Look for So There I Was in your podcatcher of choice. Well, it's that time of the week again. It's time for security bits with Bart Busch shots coming from a pollen filled sunny Ireland. Pollen filled sunny Ireland with sporadic thunderstorms it's been quite the day. We have a thing called April showers here and it may be the last day of April but they're in fine form today. It's like blazing sunshine, 19 degrees Celsius downpour. Blazing sunshine, 19 degrees Celsius downpour. Wow. Nice to see you, I assume it. Very humid, but if I could gamify cycling I won like the grand prize today.  I could just see the rain ahead of me and I was like, I'm fine here and the wind is in my back and I just went all the way home with the rain in front of me. It was great. Gamify the storm, I like it, I like it. All right, well are there any thunderstorms in the security world this week Bart? To be honest, no, it's actually, it's grand, it's another fortnight, I'm almost afraid to jinx it but it's another fortnight where it's not too bad. You know, we have some stuff to talk about but not too much. First off, if you're in America you can get your tiny share of the Facebook settlement on Cambridge Analytica. The website has gone live, you have to prove that you were a Facebook user and that you were in America and then you can get your share of the money. Is it millions, what do I get Bart? Well, it's a total of 700 and something million in total of which I'm sure a half is for the lawyers. So then divide that by the population of America and you get a coffee, I think. I wonder if it's by, or is it by the number of people who claim? It will be by the number of people who claim. So the more people who don't bother filling in the website the more the people who do bother will guess. That's always how it goes. Because you divide it up in the class. Yeah, so shh, don't tell anybody. Oh shoot, I shouldn't say anything. Not that I get to apply. We've also talked a few times recently about the fact that the UK government are in the process of drafting a, what I'm gonna just flat out call a daft law to ban end-to-end encryption without backdoors which is another way of saying ban end-to-end encryption. So WhatsApp took the lead on an open letter basically saying if you do this we are sodding off because you either have encryption or you have a backdoor, we're not going to break our encryption for the world. So if you do this, we leave the UK. And the politicians see this as like threatening and I'm sure they'll back down and it's like, no, no, it's math. Like they can't do what you want. It's not possible to do what you want. But anyway, that's what you get when you vote. I thought we knew this a while ago. No, was that pretty new? The open letter is new. The campaign continues. That's why it's in feedback and follow-ups because this is an ongoing developing train wreck. Is anybody else said that, that they're going to leave? Oh, I should have remembered the full list of everyone on that open letter, but it basically all big players. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, so they just took the lead. It's not just WhatsApp by themselves. I got you. Yeah. Okay. And then we have two deep dives. They're not particularly deep, but hey, not that much going on in the news. So shallow dives, I don't know anyway. The first thing is, we've talked a lot recently about iCloud and iPhone security thanks to some excellent work by Johanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen, Nguyen. Nguyen. Nguyen. Nguyen. Nguyen? Yeah. Yes, it's just Nguyen. I don't know how those letters make those photos, but those photos are easy to say, so let's go with this. They do envy it to me. Ah, I'm not very good at envy it to me. It's almost like saying win. You could say Kelly Nguyen. Nicole Nguyen. Nicole Nguyen. Anyway, they've been doing sterling work on educating all of us on why we need to really protect our iPhone passcodes because if someone steals your passcode and your phone, they can not only get into your phone, disable activation lock and sell your phone, which is kind of what they really want. But in order to do that, they also take over your Apple ID because that's how they disable activation lock and then they have your Apple ID. And it turns out that it's even worse than we thought because there's another optional feature, which is again, it's one of those features that was added for people who wanted to take more ownership of their Apple ID. So the normal way it goes is that there is a recovery key for your Apple ID, which is in Apple's servers.  But some people don't feel comfortable having Apple have those keys because if Apple have those keys, Apple could lose those keys. So for many years now, there's been an option to create something called a recovery key. So, and you can find this in the iCloud settings on your phone. And if you create a recovery key, what happens is that key that Apple hold by default leaves Apple and is now your problem or your responsibility. Just by creating the recovery key? I thought it asked you, do you want Apple to save a copy?  It is your responsibility. If you lose this key, we can not get back into your Apple ID because you now have the only recovery code. So the first thing that you described, the owner does not take any active part in it, but a recovery key does exist, but Apple has it. That's the default, yeah, you do nothing. Well, I'm calling it that because we don't know what it's called. It's an internal Apple thing. Okay. But it's a cryptographic key that can be used to recover your Apple ID. Got you. Okay. And if you set up recovery key as Apple called it in the settings app on your iPhone, then effectively that responsibility transfers to you. Okay. So you are now responsible. Apple is now in a, you're now in a zero trust position. You're not trusting Apple because you have the keys and it's all into an encrypted. So it's actually, you have taken a lot of power and responsibility. Now here's this thing in the tail. Most people have not set up a recovery key because why would you? For most people, having Apple be able to help is not a bug, it is in fact a feature for regular folk. Sure. But if I have your iPhone and if I have your passcode, I can go into the iCloud settings and I can turn on the button that says generate me a recovery key. At which point in time, it becomes impossible for Apple to help the legitimate owner of the phone ever get back into the Apple ID ever again. So that's a case of where I didn't put in a recovery key. They can cause there to be a recovery key and I can never get in. What about the inverse? What if I have created a recovery key? Then you cannot have your Apple ID stolen. But don't they have the phone where the recovery key is? No, the recovery key is a piece of paper you print out. Or put in one password or whatever. Or in a safety deposit box or a fire safe or, yeah. So if you are one of the tiny percentage of people who do this, then you are one of the few people who these attackers can't get. Can they still change your, can't they still own your Apple ID? Temporarily, but you can reverse it. But you can take it back. Yeah, you can take it back.  Yes, which puts you at a better position than most. But for almost everyone, what actually happens is that if the attackers are really in a foul mood or whatever, they set up the recovery key and then you cannot get back in. And Apple cannot. It's not that they won't help. It's that they mathematically, like our friends in the UK government, right, it is mathematics now, they cannot waive a magic wand to get you back into Apple ID. So again, protect that iPhone passphrase like it is the key to your digital life, because it is, in fact, the key to your digital life.  The downside is if you have a recovery key and any other scenario happens where you need to get back in your account and you don't have that recovery key, Apple can't help you. Yes. What have you done? Most people, I have not turned it on because as far as I'm concerned, it's a feature, not a bug that I can get back in if things go horribly wrong. So this is the probability of the other happening. Yeah, exactly. So it's a balancing act. I am not a CEO of a high profile company. I am not a journalist. I am, you know, I do not fall into the category of people who need to raise higher shields. So for me, having Apple be able to help is better. Right. But I would imagine. Sorry. Well, I protect my my past phrase. It is not numeric at all. Yeah. I would imagine that there are some changes going to be coming to this because I think the bar needs to be raised for the recovery key. Right. That seems that seems like something more has to be needed to enable that maybe a 24 hour time out where it sends a notification to all of your devices or something that has to be some sort of a ramp put in play, you know, some sort of a speed bump really mean to do this. Yeah, something, anything. I there's a lot of chitter chatter that we might hear some more at the nerdy or sessions at WWDC. The chances are it won't be like an immediate thing, but that there is something in the works to handle this identity thing because the idea of using your device to help you avoid having to contact Apple has backfired. It was it was done to make it easier for people not to get locked out of the Apple IDs and it's now causing people to get locked out of the Apple IDs. So clearly a rethink is needed. And I'm assuming we'll just need to stay tuned on this. But again, if you didn't take it seriously, that you should be very careful of your passcode. Be very careful of your passcode. It genuinely is a big deal. Just just and I just checked on the open letter to the UK that what's apt to lead on the companies are signal, three ma element, wire, session and viber. I've only heard three pretty good signature bunch. I haven't heard of the other ones. Yeah, and other other apps was telegram on that list because telegram have definitely already made their their opinions very known. So that may have been the previous time we talked about this was when telegram rule got involved because this is just the latest letter. So there are others who have voiced their strong concern. OK, OK, yeah, because I thought I remembered us talking about telegram, but there's certainly a lot more companies who do end in encryption who I would think would be on this letter. Well, but like I said, there's been lots of letters and things. And I know telegram have been very vocal on this. So just because I'm on this letter doesn't mean they're not in the campaign. OK. So the second deep dive is a loose collection of stories that just sort of remind us. Now, the TLD or here is the sky is not falling. There is no need to panic. But there is very strong evidence that the Mac is becoming of more interest to bad guys. So the baddies are clearly turning their attention towards the Mac more. So right now, it's not like there hasn't been a sea change. And all of a sudden the world is different. And now we're a Uga, Uga, but the oil tanker is turning. So if you have any lingering complacency, disavow yourself of it soon because they're you know, the directory is clear. So the two stories and they're completely unrelated, but nonetheless, they both happened in the last two weeks. So the first story is Patrick Wardle actually found the first piece of malware. It is a Mac version of an existing ransomware app that's doing massive harm on Windows and Linux. That is now being there's now a Mac version of it. Now, this appears to be effectively a beta of malware because it's full of programming bugs and it actually crashes on launch. But nonetheless, there is a Mac version of lock base being found in the wild. So they haven't perfected it yet, but they're working on it. So it's, you know, it's on the way. That was something that requires user intervention to cause it to be on their machines. At this version certainly does. There are no zero, it's not making use of any sort of zero click exploits. But again, this is a very early beta. So at the moment, it's definitely, definitely still in the Trojan camp and it's also, well, it crashes. So this one is of zero threat. Sure. But that's not the point.  It's something that you actually have to actively download, click a link, click something in an email, install something. This version is. But you know what they want, right? But it is cyber criminals want to zero click. Yeah, like I say, the only reason this is news at all, this is of zero danger to anyone. The only reason this is of news is because the lock bit Chromeware gang, who are one of the biggest Chromeware gangs in the world, are in the process of building a Mac app. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The second story, again, I'll jump straight and say it's a Trojan. So it's again, you're not going to catch it by just surfing the web or whatever. You need to be socially engineered into actually doing something. Although one of the features they advertise is they have a called a very pretty installer. So they basically put a lot of effort into making the installer look professional so that you're more likely to Trojanize yourself. It was discovered on an underground telegram channel. So, you know, telegram, there's lots of stuff on telegram and including some ransom or some crimeware stuff. And there is an app for sale called Atomic Mac OS Steeler or Amos, which you can rent or it's a malware as a service so you can hire it or. I don't know what you'd call the word for anyway. It's a grand a month and then you can have use of this crimeware. If you trick someone into installing it, what you will get is all of the passwords from their key chain. It will hoover up all of the form filling data and passwords from all of the major browsers, it will hoover up all of your crypto wallets as you open them and empty them, depriving you of your cryptocurrency. If you're silly enough to do that Ponzi scheme and it will also go look around for interesting looking files for any other valuable data it could exfiltrate like social security numbers, credit card numbers, anything else they could sell, basically. So it's basically an information ceiling. So they're selling the toolkit or renting the toolkit for a thousand dollars a month and that gives them the ability to do what to me in Telegram to. No, no, on Telegram, they are selling this to criminals. Right. Oh, that's just sort of buys it at this market place. OK, it's a market place, right? There are many market places and one of the market places that is being monitored by this security research company called Cybel is they have managed to sneak their way through some sort of pretending to be someone else. They managed to sneak their way into a secret Telegram channel used by cyber criminals and they're keeping very quiet about the details because it's a very good place to be. But they have observed this malware, this data stealing as a service for sale for a thousand dollars. OK. And then but what their cell, how it affects us, that that's just sort of like this is the storefront they went to to do this, like I was saying before. What what does Amos do to? How do I get it? How does it happen? OK, so it is a Trojan. So you get triggered, you get tricked into installing it with a Chinese installer and during the install, it will ask you for your password. And if you give it your password, it will then do all the things I said, empty your key chain, empty all your browser data, empty your cryptocurrency wallets and search around for interesting stuff and files. OK, excellent trade. All of that and sell it on the black market. I always like to focus on how do I get it? Because that's the only thing we can affect is how do I get it? Right? Whether it exists or not? Either these things would eventually be helped by X protect that Apple put on our machine or no? Is that kind of the kind of thing? Never perfectly, because X protect and the like can only ever protect you against the stuff that's been observed already having stolen stuff from people. Right. So it sort of gives you some protection in the sense that last month's version is now protected against. OK, but this one's version isn't. Right, right, right. So it's a cat and mouse game and it can never be perfect protection. There's still there is still nothing that beats staying patched and not installing random stuff. So can I can I tell you an anecdote? Oh, well, I mean, I, Stephen, I both sold our 2016 MacBook Pros this last week. And I posted mine to a local user group and this woman said she wanted to buy it and but she said. But before I buy it, can it run high Sierra? And I started counting on my fingers backwards. High Sierra is six operating systems ago. A long time ago. Soon to be seven, not not updated in three years. And I my answer was why? And she didn't give me a real good answer. But I said, technically, it was sold with high Sierra. And so I met with her and she had another 2016 MacBook Pro and she was buying mine because they have more storage and she wanted the exact same thing. She wanted exactly the same and no change. And I just begged her, cried, pleaded with her and said, please, don't do that. Don't do it. And so I had her play around in in venture, not in venture. This machine can only go as high as Monterey. And I asked her, why not Monterey?  Monterey is no good. I don't like it. Have you ever run it? You've never used it? Nope. Nope. Never seen it. Never seen. But she hasn't seen you somebody yet for crying out loud. So anyway, I she got on the Mac and she was really versant, like to check the disk size. She went to system information, which is not something I mean, maybe somebody knows disk utility, but to go to system information is a higher level, right? And she was really quick on things. She was checking the battery and stuff. And she she tested the power through the four USB ports. She checked every single one of them to make sure. And she was checking the connectors to see that. I mean, she was not unsophisticated in any way. And I said, and she started going, well, you know, this isn't that bad. I said, why don't you just try it? Just just move your data over, start installing applications from scratch and just try it on, see how it feels. Maybe it goes, OK, I think I will. I was like, oh, geez, six years. Good job. One at a time, we're going to help everybody. Well, that's your good deed done. You've been a good, a good cyber citizen there. That's a. Yeah. Right. Well, that jumps us into action alerts and really just one big story here. Urgent update is how it was headlined over and in to go. Basically, Chromium has some nasty zero days, which means Chrome Edge and Brave are affected. And what that also means is that really every electron app, you need to be making sure that you also install all of their updates. Because remember, electron is just Chrome. Electron is Chrome reskinned. So every time there's a nasty Chrome bug, if your electron apps don't update, you have nasty vulnerabilities. I did not think about that. I don't think we've ever said it explicitly. I've sort of known it academically. But the guys over on Intego called it out and I was like, you know something, that's a really good point. So there you go. Now you know. Yeah. And I'm going to give a little hot tip here since we were just talking about system information. If you go into system information and other software, go to applications, I think if you sort by kind or no, there's electrons. So is it kind? I thought, no, shoot, maybe it doesn't. No, because as far as the mic is concerned, electron is just either an Intel based or another based app, depending on how it was compiled. Yeah. It actually has its own. Yeah, I can see under Intel, I can see things like Fulga, which I know is is electron. And I think Hindenburg is and that's also as Intel. But I thought there was a category we could do. Well, I will find a way. I know there's a way to find out. The chances are that they all have something in there. There's a terminal command. Keep going. And when you're done with the next section, I will have it. Because I know I've run it. Because under the hood, they will all contain the same library inside their application resources folder inside the app. Because an app is just a folder. Well, since we've been doing Bash in programming by cells, it is a Bash script. And I will put the code for that if you don't mind into the show notes to say how to find out your, yeah, it's fairly simple. And I will put in the show notes. Excellent. Okay, that jumps us on then to notable news. And we got a reminder from the good people at Citizen Love in Canada that although the NSO group have gone very, very quiet because they kind of want to be quiet because that's how they work, they haven't gone away. And Citizen Lab were able to find that they have three new exploits in Pegasus that worked against iOS 15 and 16 and the cat and mouse game is very much still on. Now, there being basic Citizen Lab are saying at the moment, NSO group don't know how much we know.  So we don't have all of the details I would like to have for you. What I can tell you is that for sure, one of the three bugs has been patched by a recent version of iOS. So patchy, patchy, patch, patch. I can also tell you for sure that one of the three does not work if you have lockdown mode enabled which is that super secure mode where a whole bunch of features disappear for people who are high risk like journalists. That's a sign of the system working as it should. I cannot tell you if that is true of all three because Citizen Lab are playing their cards close to their vest, but definitely patchy, patchy, patch, patch is the one and only thing anyone can do to protect against any of these kind of vulnerabilities just be as patched as possible. And if you are a journalist or someone working on campaigns where you are at risk of this kind of state level stuff, then you should really consider lockdown mode. It appears to be providing if not perfect protection, a lot of protection and it is specifically designed for high risk people. So if you are a high risk people, you should do that. And like I said, the biggest takeaway for me is that the NSO group may have gone quiet, but they haven't gone away, which is annoying. In other news, Google got a lot of very short-lived praise for finally adding a sync feature to the Google Authenticator app so that you could synchronize your two FA codes between your different devices using Google's, you know, canonical Google Authenticator app. Then someone went, I wonder how well Google are protecting this information they're synchronizing. And that's when the wheels came off. Big time, because they're not. They have an instrument end to end encryption. Yeah. So basically keep using one password for synchronizing your two FA codes because that's doing it properly and don't do this. I hear so many stories of people using Google Authenticator and getting a new phone and not being able to get into their stuff because they didn't do something before they transferred over to the new phone. Yeah. Why doesn't it have sync? And why wouldn't it have good sync? Secure sync? Yeah, it's like, it's a colossal oversight and everyone was immediately happy. And then when the nerds did the digging, everyone was immediately very cranky. It's what that bleep, like, come on. So anyway, we have good password managers that do this, use those. They're better anyway. So anyway, I don't know if this was a big story in America, but here in Europe, it was a major story when a Finnish psychotherapy clinic lost all of their patient records and they were then extorted. Now, they lost them because their cybersecurity was terrible. They were then extorted and the CEO of the clinic didn't tell the patients their data had been breached, but tried to pay off the attackers but couldn't afford the full price. So the attackers then went and extorted each individual customer of the clinic one by one to try to get money that way. And it was a giant big who-how because, well, it's a psychotherapy clinic, like the records included all the interviews with all the patients. And just think of how personal that data is. Huge big story. Good news, the CEO has been locked up for the abject negligence. Yeah, they prosecuted the CEO for failing in living up to his responsibility as a medical provider and the case has gone to court. The court agreed and prison time. So it is literally a crime to be irresponsible with people's health data in Europe. Good. I don't think I've ever heard of it actually coming to that closure. Yeah, so I thought you'd like that. Well, like is a strange word. I thought it was good to hear. And then an interesting story. I've seen some very over the top headlines on this. So Google have decided they want to try dent one of the biggest botnets out there at the moment because it's really walloping Google hard because when you have a lot of resources, a botnet can really cause you stress. And the botnet is based in Pakistan, which means it's kind of in one of those countries where it's hard to get at by the American legal system or any legal system. Really, it's not like Pakistan is known for being such a well-run country. As they're in the middle of like near civil war at the moment. So what Google did is they sued them in America anyway and got an injunction against them in America, which sounds silly, right? I mean, what effect does it have to have an injunction? Well, the answer is because they also got the court to do something else. That injunction doesn't just say that the cyber criminals should stop being criminals, which is obviously meaningless. It also says that Americans who give financial aid to the cyber criminals will be prosecuted. And it says that American ISPs should take reasonable steps to block the botnet. So that's actually really valuable. So that means that Google give a list of IP addresses to the ISPs and they must block the traffic, which immediately stops the botnet doing its thing. So it's actually, despite sounding silly, so I have an injunction against cyber criminals, it's actually quite a clever approach. So that was interesting. So wow, I'm just surprised it ended in a good news there. Oh, yeah. This is kind of in line with Microsoft doing this a lot where they're suing cyber criminals in America and what they want from the court is an injunction against the DNS provider. So that the American court tells the American DNS provider to cut off the domain powering the malware. But this is taking a different step, saying an American court telling American ISPs to block the IP addresses. But again, it's thinking outside the box here and going after cyber criminals trying to evade justice by being in dodgy countries, by going after them in countries where there is a rule of law and then having meaningful technical sanctions to nip these things in the bud. So it's an interesting approach. That's as close as we get to bad news. So that then takes us on to an excellent explainer I wanna draw people's attention to.  So if the choice is none or a text message, fine, get a text message. If the choice is anything else, get anything else.  So Know a Little More about Simswaps, which is the big risk with SMS-based 2FA. I'd love to know a little more by Tom. I mean, he just really digs in deep and describes the details that you kinda wonder in the history behind it sometimes. And it gives you the flavor and color around it better than any other way to learn, I think. Yeah, and as much as I try to be a nitpicky guy and there's never any nits. Oh, it's so hard. It's very, very good. I'm on a quest. Someday I will find Tom making a mistake. I accidentally found one once. I didn't realize I had found one and he went, oh my gosh, this is terrible. It was an article that I found that I read about, it was a newspaper from like 1908 or something and he had gotten the dates mixed up and it was actually ruined in part of his story. But I didn't mean to catch him that time, so that was no fun. But yeah, he's very, very accurate. Very, he puts a lot of work into it. He has, I think there was one of them, he asked me to proofread it upfront to check his work. Can I remember which one it was that he felt I was worthy of proofreading? I was honored to be asked and happy to help, but I didn't find any problems. Darn it. Anyway, that takes us on to some palette cleansing and I have found an excuse to pick another podcast I have fallen in love with recently. So the topic I'm linking to explicitly is their episode on electric motors in Michael Faraday because a lot of Nacilla Castaways are EV owners and really love the fact that we have electric motors making our cars go. How do we get to electric motors? The answer is a guy called Michael Faraday and his story is actually fascinating and really well told on a podcast, like I say, but six months ago I found it and fell in love. It's called Patent It. The little half hour episodes on the backstory of really ordinary things, but they're never boring backstories.  So really, honestly, really fun podcast. They did a recent mini series on the Bond movies, which was double extra fun. But this one on Michael Faraday and the electric motors. So that was a good tie-in to the Nacilla Castaway audience. Oh yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. It's interesting how certain people can just make a topic interesting. When we were on the ship in Antarctica, a guy did a talk on krill.  It was fascinating. I loved it. It was so interesting. It turns out they're really, really important to everything, to life on this planet as it turns out. So anyway, that's cool. I'd like to learn more about Michael Faraday. He's the guy in the cage, right? The Faraday cage. Well, Faraday cage, yeah. That is indeed that Michael Faraday. Yeah, his major discovery was that it's possible for forces to go in circles. Because before Faraday, everyone thought that every force was a straight line because that's what Newton said. And Faraday discovered that if you have a cable with an electric charge, there are circular fields. Right, right. And if force goes in a circle, it can be a motor. And then he also had the intelligence to say, well, what if I do the opposite? What if I move things near a magnet? Will it make electricity? And the answer is, why yes, it does, which is how all of our generators work apart from solar panels. Like the only electricity that is not made through Faraday's invention is solar panels. Everything else involves a generator. Wow, this is kind of amazing. I was just discussing this very thing with my grandson Forbes, who's six years old just yesterday because in our backyard, we have one of those twirly things goes in the wind. It's whole job is to spin and look pretty. And ours has lights in it, but it doesn't have any electricity on it. Nothing, there's no wires, but it's all done with a magnet and some coils and it generates an electric field by the rotating motion. Oh, that's fun. It's very fun. Quite a little discussion about it. He did try to convince me that anything turning makes electricity. And I said, well, it's not just anything. Certain things turning cause it. Yeah, you're close.  He's got a magnet in there. He's six. He's doing pretty well. Yeah. Excellent. That's a fun experiment to do with little kids too, is to give them a magnet and a coil of wire and show them that you can make electricity by moving the magnet or move the magnet by moving the magnet in and out. If you have a coil. Yeah, you just move the magnet in and out and you can make a little LED flash. Very cool. And then a second pick is thanks to an old college buddy of mine who just sent me a link on, I presume you know about this. And I was like, I do not know about this.  And it updates in real time so you can watch them run away. It's just cool. Turn it a long way away. They passed the Oort cloud quite a while ago, right? Four or five years ago, I think? No, they passed the Hedia pause. It was the Hedia pause they passed. The Oort cloud is still further out. Okay. Hmm. So they've been out there for 45 years. Yeah. Seven months, 25 days, five hours, 18 minutes and 59 seconds. No, 19 minutes in one second. They're amazing. Like they're the furthest thing that we have created as a species from Earth. There is nothing further away than those two probes. I don't know, they're currently going through the bit where the sun stops being the most important influence. So they're breaking through into interstellar space which is called the heliopause. And no one knows what happens at the heliopause. It's not like a line. It's like a region. And they're in there, they're in it. They're experiencing it right now. They're going through the heliopause. And no one knows what to expect. It's, oh, fascinating stuff. Now this webpage also shows the instrument status. So it looks like five of the instruments are still on. Some of the stuff has turned off now but cosmic ray subsystem, low energy charged particles, magnetometer, the plasma wave subsystem are on all of them. Both of them and Voyager 2 Plasma Science. It's kind of amazing the A that we're still in touch with them because we're having to listen ever harder to hear them because they're still shouting with the same energy they ever had but they're so far away now. We have to listen really carefully. And they're gone so far beyond the original mission that NASA keep extending the funding for the listening stations. Oh yeah, yeah. So they're not tuning in as often as they used. You gotta be arguing. Yeah, exactly. For years, my username everywhere was Voyager and it was because of these probes. And then Star Trek went and made probably the worst Star Trek series ever and everyone assumed they liked it. Voyager's one of the best. I love Voyager. I'm rewatching it at the moment thanks to the Mission Log Podcast and it doesn't suck as much as I remember but it ain't no DS9. Which is my description of DSD space nine was the worst ever made and Voyager was way, way better. But I didn't hate it as much the second time through watching with Mission Log. I'll give you that. But how about the episode in the movie where they found Voyager? And it was actually Voyager. I also thought that was a fun plot. Yeah, I was totally executed but. Yeah, the slow motion picture I believe we call it. But you know, it's a good concept. I like the concept. Right, right. Yeah. Well, I agree on almost everything but not on best Star Treks. How's a bit Picard rocked? Do we agree on that? The last few episodes rocked. The beginning of the season I thought was pretty terrible. I thought the dialogue was really not good. Not well executed, not well performed but it got better. Ending it on the poker match. Oh, no, it's a spoiler. Don't spoil anything. That's not a spoiler. It's not plot. Don't, for anybody who hasn't watched it. The last three or four episodes are wonderful. Loved every minute of them. They really wrapped up that plot so well and I didn't think you could revisit TNG and do a better job of wrapping up TNG. No, I'm not gonna make any spoilers. I don't know how to make any spoilers. You're so far into spoilers right now. You don't work for anybody. I promise it's no spoiler. My favorite episode ever was the final TNG episode, right? Best of both worlds. I didn't think it got better. I think Picard got better. That is how much I loved how they wrapped it up. That's all I wanted to say. No, I didn't spoil anything. And Patrick Stewart is amazing and so cool to see him right again. Yeah, yeah, he was really fun. Very cool. Oh, he's releasing his autobiography. Do you want to guess what it's called? Make it so? Oh, so close. Making it so. Oh, that's interesting. That's clever. That's clever. Cool title, yeah. Anyway, there we go. That's all I got. I've been vamping for the last five or 10 minutes anyway, but there we go. All right, I think that'll close us out here. It will except for the fact that I forgot my catchphrase. I'm terrible at this. So remember, folks, stay patched so you stay secure. Well, that's gonna wind us up for this week. Did you know you can email me at Allison at podfeed.com anytime you like? If you have a question or a suggestion, just send it on over. You can follow me on mastodon at podfeed at chaos.social. 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No-dose Investigator Johnny dollar to Trinity Mutual Insurance Company, Los Angeles office following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of The real deal matter That's account item one 410 for a tank full of gas on a rental car Half an hour later. I pulled in a Ted Fluggers place on Emerald Bay in Laguna and what a spot that is a Semi-circular natural Bay of clear clean water Surrounded by fine homes nice gardens plenty of trees and with a view over the Pacific second to none Fluggers in his late fifties, I'd say and one of those outwardly gruff individuals with a heart of gold Here now Johnny You think we can get all this stuff in the back of your car? Well, we can certainly try Okay, I'm a tackle there for half a dozen fishermen. Maybe we'll need it. Yeah Yeah, should we take off okay by me And as I said to you when I pulled in said yeah Will Burnett told me to ask you about this fellow Bessam. Just start her up Johnny and head north To the coast highway until we get to Balboa my boats ready and waiting. You're not talking Okay We'll play it your way for now. I Appreciate that journey. You know Ted knowing nothing about a case is somewhat of a handicap But sooner or later Ted you'll have to open up all Ted would talk about was fishing and he knew his stuff Not only about the California coast the most of Mexico as well What to catch and how and when and where to catch them But then as we pass through the little town of Lone Star Beach That's quite a building for a small town like this Wouldn't you say Johnny the big one there on the corner? Yeah Bessam and associate Bessam, ah-ha Big appliance house for all this part of the coast Every year. Oh sure sure Bessam's the guy that Willie Burnett at Trinity Mutual mentioned Bernard W. Bessam Oh red light. Yeah, look at that gorgeous doll What gorgeous oh the girl the convertible Her face is familiar. Mm-hmm. Sure it is then That's the kind of face that you see above the neck of every beautiful girl What's she doing in front of Bessam appliances shilling for the joint? Mr. You'd obliged me more if you'd stare at your watch a minute and tell me the right time. Oh, it's um 10 minutes to three Anything else you'd like to know? No, but there's something else you ought to know. What's that light change? Very funny I'll tell you there ought to be a law what kind a minimum standard for investigators said a girl that pretty involved in every case I wonder what she calls herself. Oh Now tell me about Bernard W. Bessam. What's happened to him? Good man, Barney Bessam known him for years. What about him, son? Real fine fella But those partners of his the real dope brothers Tony and Joe a couple of sharpies Johnny real sharp no Well, tell me what's up, and you know how they made their money and when? Running liquor up from Mexico during prohibition. They were only kids in those days bad kids What about them? I never have trusted them never will and why Barney Bessam did all never know They do anything Johnny anything to get his share of the business away from him What's happened to Bessam Ted? Well, I tried to call him on the phone this morning to see if he'd join us Yeah, he wasn't there Johnny wasn't in his office either. Oh You suspect that another thing. Yes, him. He didn't show for a poker game I'd arranged the last night like he was supposed And the answer is phone man either when I tried to find out why Ted if you're leading up to what I think you are Well Yeah, I guess I am Okay, then Okay, so let's go fishing now wait a minute Ted if something has happened to this man That's driving Johnny. You know something about it. You've got some kind of a lead on where you're going fishing All right, Ted you're the boss only what's out there besides fish? Johnny I'm afraid to find out Second backhand help us pile our stuff into one of the sweetest little fishing craft I ever saw There was a 21-foot lap streak job with a couple of 75 horse electromagnetic outboards windshield convertible top the whole works That's for comfort sometimes it gets pretty rough out there when I saw the tackle that was already stowed aboard I wondered why Ted had bothered bringing any more along never know what we may run into out there Johnny besides I like to show off my fancy tackle. Yeah, I Also still wondered if we really were going out after fish Got all of it my mom Right I got it.   It was so long after dark Well, I kind of got held up out there. Oh, a big fish, baby, isn't your yeah something like that That's right and not just to go fishing maybe now tell me you'll see Johnny When the tide gets low You'll see Okay, if that's the way he wanted it. That's the way it would be Once out of the bay we headed south and west Believe me that hull with those two motors was a real traveler in less than an hour We pulled up on the lee side of San Clemente Island and brother what fishing Yellowtail mad fighting monsters then albacore up to 30 pounds a couple of barn door halibut two that weighed in at over 40 pounds Finally at dusk Ted started the motors again, and we headed back toward the mainland, but toward a spot somewhat The reason the reason we've been waiting so much time in the deep water wasting time with a cat like this I've been waiting for the tide to get all the way down. You have yeah Why Ted come on now, let's let's dispense with all this suspense and get down to cases Okay, Johnny Last night when I got to the place we're heading for it was almost as dark as it is now and the sea was building up pretty fast Getting pretty rough job But visibility was still fairly good, and I saw the boat that was drifting there and the people who were in it and what they were doing But they didn't see me I don't think I hope not. Oh, wait a minute This your friend Bessam and the rildo brothers. I have to be sure Johnny have to be sure That's the reason for going back there again at low tide Under that seat you're sitting on you'll find a couple of big gang of They're almost like a little grappling Then rake one of them onto that heavy rod with a heavy line And I hope it's strong enough Total darkness that we hope to alongside a huge bed of seaweed of kelp Ted put on the running lights Then carefully steered the boat around the edge of it very slowly Almost as though he were feeling his way Yeah, I'm sure I'm sure of it and The tide has to be low enough for what we have to do Then tell me just one now Johnny drop that hook over go ahead. Hi All the way down along the edge of the kelp so it doesn't catch on it Maybe you say once or twice The waterproof electric lander and he kept looking over the side Down into the water By now, of course, it was perfectly obvious what we were fishing for A couple of times the gang who smacked a piece of kelp and I had to clear it They ended hung up again this time for sure easy Johnny easy. Don't try to horse it in don't worry Wait a minute. I hear it coming now. It's coming Gently Johnny, please. Yeah, it's coming up easily now Then maybe it was only kelp Only a piece of jacket The one Barney was wearing While Ted flew through an anchor over the side Then pull the line up tight and gave it a turn around a cleat so we hold our position I stripped to my shorts and went in over the side I guess I don't have to tell you that the body I found down there heavily weighted with lead was that of Barney Besson Even in the dim eerie light the waterproof lamp I carried was all too clean that he'd been badly beaten Carefully then we hauled him on board and gently covered him with a tub Yeah Yeah, Johnny With those crooked partners of his Joe and Tony will I saw them out here I know they're both That in board of theirs even though it was almost as dark as it is now I knew what it was. They were throwing over board who it was Then what could I do against the two of them and they always carry a high-powered rifle on their boat in case of sharks And it was too late They'd already killed him didn't you notify the Coast Guard of the police try to leave them out here at night to a place I could barely find a dust I Had to be sure Johnny absolutely sure and the tide was low enough to find the spot now How about the real though brothers Ted, you know what I find them now I'll find them Johnny Don't you ever worry about that Of course one thing though, it'll be your word against theirs, but I know they did and I know they'll deny it What's more if they know that you know and if there is stuff as you say they are if they are killers doesn't this prove it All right, let's haul up ain't Johnny look The boat bearing down on us and there's spotlight on us And they do know that I Get up the anchor quick. I don't have time for that Ted got a gun on board earlier 22. Where is it up board? All right, I can find it please. We'll be able to make some kind of a showing Here But they're getting close I kill the running lights No use with that spotlight of theirs. They can't miss With a high-powered rifle they have Filter famous let you get away from signal too strong Refines away harsh flavor Refines away rough taste for the mildest taste of all if you want to get away from strong harsh tasting cigarettes change to Kent Remember the finer the filter the milder the taste Directly above the kelp bed where we found Barney Besson's body with that big craft bearing down on us The big inboard roar it up cut it's engine and quickly drifted over to us the powerful spotlight still pulling our faces This is it Johnny. It's the girl from downtown Johnny.  It's not the real though That isn't their boat. Are you sure? Oh, thank you. Hello, miss. I'll come you were suddenly appear out of the night What's your name?  My name is dollar Johnny dollar. That's right Johnny dollar Boyfriend player right here, mr. Tony, and you better drop that feet shooter dollar Tony realdom that thing you're turning I guess I have much choice. That's right. You've got no choice and Joe real Only me and you and my own boat. Yeah, you did all right Molly sure I always do like taking candy from baby beauty and the bees you killed him you too.  You're asking for trouble the same kind that Bessam had right Joey Yeah, right Tony and as soon as the better so go ahead Blast him you ought to know you had not a medal with me fluga when I heard you'd come out here I came to and I found you I saw you sure Joey and I were out fishing yesterday But only the two of us see if old Besson was around anywhere.   You don't think so. You never did have any case against us only this crazy fluga's words Come on. Yeah, Tony But after I put some lead in fluga then maybe you will have a case dolly but not for long See because at the same time I take care of you Only do the job. You got those weights already so we don't have to hang around Yeah, go ahead and let them happen. Okay.  So what not if I shut him over for it? Over you go I'll take care of you. All right. Come on. Welcome aboard again Felicia could have done was give me a hand getting back in here Uh, what happened to our friend Joey when you pushed him over I grabbed him held him under He's pretty wet by now. All right. Let's call him up top side before he gets to water log and Tony too Okay, I'll get a photo Molly boy, let's go. Hello, whatever your name is There is another John aboard this boat. Yeah. Yeah, Johnny. It's up up there under the sun.  I mean what they did the best thing and what they try to do you and fluga. I understand Johnny Honest look you can tell the police. They made me bring my phone out here from sea How would I know what they were up to understand Johnny? Why would a nice girl like me be doing something like this understand Johnny? What do you think look maybe if I turn evidence against them help me Johnny Look after setting up a party like this. Molly. You couldn't get help from your own mother No, but Johnny honey, listen look at me. I could be good here for a nice guy like you and I The only thing you can do is get your pretty hands dirty Having said pull those rats aboard now. Go ahead, but Johnny listen you gotta help me I promise that if you don't get to work. I'll help you over the side now go on It's up to the authorities now And I don't really think they'll have any trouble putting those three where they belong The real reward for all that a couple of days are really great fishing Thanks to Ted Fluger expense account total With only the fare back to Hartford call it 250 even yours truly Johnny dollar How to tell you about next week's story Next week a case. 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There are benefits to consuming raw foods over cooked foods, but it's very important to note that both raw cooked as well as fermented foods, essentially rotten foods, played a role in the diets of every single one of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. What I mean by this is that every single group of human beings has always consumed animal foods in these three forms. Raw, cooked, and fermented for various reasons. Raw foods tend to have a higher nutrient density, especially for the organs. Cooked foods have a higher calorie density. They're good for surviving, especially in colder climates. And fermented foods have specific nutrient as well as beneficial bacteria properties. This video, we're going to have a raw carnivore meal. And the main reason I like raw meals is I feel like they don't sap my energy. When I have a completely raw meal, regardless of what it is, there are a few things that go into keeping my energy levels high. One is that raw food is very easy on the digestive system. The enzymes in the body are meant to digest raw food, especially when hydrochloric acid breaks down protein structures. So just having the food in its raw state makes it more available to the digestive system. Another aspect is you tend not to eat as much food. So you're reducing the bulk of the food you're eating, but you're increasing the nutrient density without necessarily overburdening any of your organ systems to consume an incredibly high amount of food. And the thing I really enjoy is not having to prep it. But I've noticed, you know, when I have a cooked food meal, even with a similar amount of protein, I feel kind of lethargic like I need to take a nap. And a lot of the times I usually do take a nap if I can when I eat a cooked food meal. If I know that I have to do things throughout the day and I don't want to take a nap, I keep my meal raw. Today here, we have some very nutrient dense as well as approachable foods. We're going to achieve a balanced nutrient profile. And what I mean is we're going to get all the vitamins, minerals, elements and fatty acids our body needs in one very low calorie nutrient dense meal, or at least low calorie considering it's all we're eating for today. The only thing we won't be consuming today that might contribute to overall nutrient density is liver. That might be necessary for a higher vitamin A content, but to me, not everyone in every single indigenous group would have had the opportunity to get large amounts of vitamin A from liver in every meal. So this is salmon roe. Most of you guys know this as Ikura, caviar, I refer to them as fish eggs. Fish eggs are really the healthiest food you can consume. The only thing that comes close to them is liver. They have all the vitamins, minerals, elements, fatty acids in high and balanced amounts. The best source of DHA and EPA outside of animal brains, it's something that is actually affordable compared to real caviar. The main goal of the salmon roe for today from a nutrient perspective is going to be its cholesterol content and overall vitamin content. The cholesterol is very important for certain processes in the body, especially the absorption of vitamin D3. Seeing as I've been getting a lot of sun lately, I want to make sure to be eating some cholesterol. Of course, you could eat some eggs, but I am allergic to eggs, so for me, salmon eggs are a way for me to get the nutrients that I might not be getting from eggs normally, such as vitamin E and vitamin K2 in larger amounts. Here I just have a pile of grass-fed ground beef 80-20, completely raw. All of this has sat out to room temperature, so it's a bit more enjoyable than eating it cold out of the fridge. The ground beef is mainly for protein calories, mainly to reduce palatability to some degree. It doesn't taste as good as these other foods, as it's not as heavily salted. And of course, there's nutrients depending on the quality of pasture. In this case, the cows were on winter pasture and hay, so the grass-fed beef here isn't too nutrient dense. Here we have some prosciutto di parma, forgive my Italian, but I'm not really Italian. Prosciutto is a very approachable food. If it's from the parma region, it's usually made from a higher-quality animal. I'm not going to say that it's necessarily super low in omega-6, but it's super delicious. As I said, it's very, very tasty, and it helps us get vitamin K2. When a food ferments, the vitamin K2 content increases. And overall, I kind of miss a lot of foods due to my food allergies. Prosciutto helps me alleviate that to some degree. We're achieving a decent balance of calories, and we have some foods that are pretty tasty and approachable, and all completely raw. So I shouldn't feel like I need to take a nap after this. What I usually do here is I have some Redmond's Real Salt. Redmond's Salt is much more potent than any other salt I've tried. So when you put just a little bit of this on your food, you want to be careful. You want to almost powder it on, because if you put too much of this salt on, the food starts tasting really salty. I believe it's because of the iodine content of the salt being very high. So on the ground beef, I usually just put a little bit of salt. Since the palatability of raw foods is pretty low, they don't really taste that good, it's really easy to gauge your appetite and see if you're truly hungry. This can be very helpful for weight loss, even something as silly as trying to save money on food. I don't actually feel super hungry today, and that might be because I didn't work out yesterday. So I'm just going to try to have the salmon roe and maybe some prosciutto just to get my nutrients in for today, because I think if I get through all this ground beef, I'm not going to be hungry for anything else. I never force myself to eat anything I don't want to. So if I start eating this and I'm not hungry anymore, I'll move on to another food. If you guys want to learn more about fish eggs, salmon roe, I did a video the other week titled Caviar is a Super Food. If you want to check that out. But there isn't really a food that tastes so good after just putting salt on it. Now Frankie Boy gets to enjoy some prosciutto. I will warn you guys, this meal is not for anyone with a histamine intolerance or someone who could not tolerate reasonable amounts of salt. Just bear that in mind, everything here is incredibly salty, the salmon roe, the prosciutto, and it's also high in histamines as these are aged foods.  It's pretty crazy that the government has convinced all Americans that fat is so bad that you have places like Spain and Japan where they literally know the fat is the best part. Total cultural disconnection. I don't know if it's because I'm Italian. I've always almost preferred the taste of pork over beef. It's just the quality of pork is so low, like it's hard to get your hands on good stuff. I guess if more people knew that eating half a pound of prosciutto qualified you to be on the carnivore diet, that I guess there'd be quite a few more people following it. But I'm feeling a little bit silly today because that's literally what I did. I ate half a pound of prosciutto and a couple tablespoons of caviar. But Frankie Boy is living the life of luxury. One day you guys are going to find me all greasy in a cave surrounded by legs of prosciutto and wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. That would be my humble abode if there was an apocalypse. So believe it or not, this is actually a fairly nutrient dense meal even compared to other carnivore dieters. And then we have high quality protein here from animals that were raised properly. We have some fish eggs, salmon roe specifically, providing us with all the micronutrients we need for the day and very high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. I really expected to actually finish some of the ground beef or at least more of the ground beef and make this more representative of a meal. But what do you do? It doesn't happen every day. Following a carnivore diet, especially when I go raw, my appetite usually fluctuates drastically. And when I'm not really active or working out hard, sometimes I only like a pound, a pound and a half of meat a day. You guys gotta understand as much as Frankie Boy likes to maintain the cutie, thick brunette look, it doesn't take a lot of food because I'm five foot eight, like 150, 160 pounds. I maintain a fairly low body weight and I have a small bone structure so my stomach size isn't like too crazy. Thank you guys for joining me. If you guys would like to support me further and develop more of an understanding of the carnivore diet, you can check out some of my other videos. We did a video last week, carnivore diet, essentially how to get started, where I went over macronutrient ratios, nutrients. I have a bunch of other days of eating you can check out as well. And other videos like that caviar video where we sit down and we focus on a food specifically, talk about its nutrient properties, what the pros and cons are. I have also recently launched Frankie's free range meat. My goal being to provide you guys with high quality nutrient dense animal foods at an affordable price.  We are looking to do a lot of things in the future from provide you guys with raw dairy to wild game meats. In addition to that, we're going to be launching fish, very shortly pork, chicken, essentially the highest quality versions of any single animal product you could desire. We have caviar, we have salmon or at a very affordable price. We also sell Sturgeon Roe if you want to treat yourself. We have ground beef and we will have prosciutto in the future. We might be selling Iberico Spanish ham as well, but definitely keep an eye out guys. Please place an order before the first week of June if you guys want to make it out for the first shipment. So again, that is frankiesfreerangemeat.com. Again, thank you guys for watching and enjoy the rest of this beautiful Memorial Day weekend.


This is your host of the most you're born rich from rich TV live, and I absolutely love Bitcoin full disclosure. It's my number one cryptocurrency and today I'm going to talk to you about how and why Bitcoin gives you the best chance in 2023 and beyond to operate and own your own digital bank. It's true. Don't touch that dial exclusively here on rich TV live. So what a lot of people don't know is that Bitcoin actually started at under a penny in 2009 and now this year Bitcoin is 14 years old and we're sitting at 28,000. When Bitcoin hit its high of 69,000 in November of 2021, when you actually look at the lowest it's ever been and the highest it's ever been, at that point Bitcoin was up 8 billion percent. That's right, 8 billion percent giving it a bigger return for investors than any other asset on the planet. So how many people own one or more Bitcoin? Full disclosure, I am one of those people that hold one or more Bitcoin. Based on this study here on Bitcoinist, less than one million wallets in the world own one or more Bitcoin and that's why I believe if you're one of those people like myself that own at least one Bitcoin going into the future you give yourself a chance to own a digital bank because in the future if you own Bitcoin and others need it they're going to need to buy it from people like you. So that's what I believe owning at least one Bitcoin gives you a chance to own a digital bank in the future. Now where do you put your Bitcoin? I keep my Bitcoin in a ledger Nano X. This is what it looks like. It's like a USB. You download Nano ledger live on your computer, connect your ledger to your computer and literally start transferring all of your coins from an exchange to your ledger where you can then save it and keep it for safekeeping. It's the safest and one of the best places to put your crypto. So if you're looking to protect your crypto and you have a lot invested in crypto my advice put it on a ledger or a hard wallet like a tracer. I currently have a ledger X and if you like to learn more about the ledger Nano X just let me know message me and it can let you know how you can get involved. Another reason why I believe that Bitcoin is very very special and it has a chance to be the greatest single investment of your lifetime is that there were only 19 million Bitcoins in existence as of January of this year and that means there was about 1.7 million left to be mined before the limit of 21 million is reached. Now what is so important with the 21 million? We always talk about investing and how you want to invest in assets that have a tight float. Bitcoin has one of the tightest floats out there of any asset on the planet. One of the chief characteristics of Bitcoin is its limited coin supply Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto the anonymous name used by creators of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency design the cryptocurrency with a cap to limit the supply this increase is scarcity it increases its scarcity over time which tends to increase demand and price new Bitcoins are added to the Bitcoin supply approximately every 10 minutes which is the average amount of time that it takes to create a new block of Bitcoin by design the number of Bitcoins minted per block is reduced by 50% after every 210,000 blocks or about one every four hours so those are some of the reasons why I believe Bitcoin is an absolute giant congratulations to anyone that got into Bitcoin when we first started talking about it in 2017 on YouTube and the price was 1000 a coin we go all the way back to 2017 and you can see when we first started talking about Bitcoin the price was actually 1000 a coin so we've come a long way with Bitcoin it's been if not the biggest winner one of the biggest winners for us since we started on YouTube and you can see here when I go all the way to 2017 you can see it was actually at $500 it was at $1,138 in February of 2017 we started talking about Bitcoin in 2017 when it was at $1,000 it's now at $28,000 that gives you 27 times your money how'd you got into Bitcoin when we first started talking about it and investing in it in 2017 and I believe that with the next Bitcoin having coming that the price is going to skyrocket much further I believe we could see a $1,000,000 Bitcoin by 2030 and some believe like some huge institutions and some analysts believe we could see a $1,000,000 Bitcoin in the future which is why I believe that Bitcoin gives you the greatest chance as an investor to own and operate your own digital bank all you got to do is try to get at least one Bitcoin now I must remind you that RichTVLive is strictly for information and education purposes please do your due diligence do your research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss in saying that I believe that Bitcoin has been the greatest single investment of our lifetimes it's only 14 years old it's been up as much as 8 billion percent and I believe that the next move up is going to be generational I believe that we see a new all-time Bitcoin price in the fall of 2025 if not sooner so I believe the next two two and a half years are going to be vital for investors that want to get into this amazing asset Bitcoin thank you for watching love to know what you guys think about Bitcoin I'm a huge fan of Bitcoin and I am a holder of Bitcoin and full disclosure my two biggest coins my two biggest cryptos number one by far Bitcoin which I hold on my ledger and number two Ethereum I hold at least one Bitcoin and one Ethereum always my advice to you would be to try to own at least one Bitcoin and one Ethereum if you plan to have and if you'd like to own a digital bank in the future and have your friends and your family and strangers buying Bitcoin from you all you got to do is own at least one Bitcoin and I believe in the future that'll give you the best opportunity to own and operate your own digital bank thank you for watching you're not winning we're probably not watching bring the winners bring the news chart analysis see you interviews and we bring it to you first we absolutely love Bitcoin thank you for watching rich tv live have yourselves a great day and we'll keep our eyes on the prize Bitcoin the greatest single asset of our lifetimes only 14 years old and up as much as 8 billion percent and I believe we are going much higher stay tuned get your popcorn ready to your host of the most your boy rich rich to be live talking to you about Bitcoin today and why I believe it gives you a chance to own your own digital bank and I'm out