CVE 2019 14 8 9 9 new vulnerability lets attackers never hijack VPN connections and there's plenty of other new stories on it that it is a really interesting vulnerability and there's lots of headlines but instead of going through all the headlines and that you know news cycles want to get the clicks and they want to tell you the sky is falling to get you to read I'm at least gonna start with the sky is not falling VPNs are still safe but there are some attacks now that are interesting and I'm gonna dive into that and there's ways to mitigate it so how does this work well first this is an attack against VPN clients running on UNIX based systems and we mean like Linux and Mac and BSD and potentially some Android flaws are related to this as well because once again it's kind of loosely based on Linux on the back end this does not affect a Windows side system now this is all client side attacks by the way as this is not something you have to change out your routing for you don't have to change out your VPN server side this is a client side attack and this is really an interesting because I didn't really think this was possible and of course that's what these security researchers do they take something that might be plausible might be interesting and dive into it and attack it and figure out some of the edge cases and we're gonna talk about everything needs to be done to make this attack work to show one it's not easy it's not like one push even if you automated this it still takes a lot of noise on a network to get it going so we're gonna walk through the whole tech and the methodologies and then we'll talk about the mitigation also talk about how this happened and what changes were made in systems to cause this this vulnerability works against open VPN wire guard like V2 and IPsec so this does work against multiple VPN platforms we're gonna talk specifically about open VPN but it does work against the other ones I just happen to have open VPN set up so we'll walk through the scenarios we'll talk about that there are three steps to this attack determine the VPN clients virtual IP address so when you attach with a VPN it's going to hand you a virtual IP address in addition to your local network IP address using the virtual IP address to make an inner inference about active connections this is where things get tricky but they are they found a way to this is a key piece of it to infer what websites you're going to they have to know what websites you're going to then determine the packets so using encrypted replies to unsolicited packets to determine the sequence and acknowledgement numbers of the active connections to hijack the TCP session so the goal is TCP has a series of packets sin act that go back and forth and they have their timed and numbered so they go in order they have to determine that number determine that order and then spoof and insert things within those packets that are going over the VPN which normally the VPN is tunneling and encrypting me so they have to use the in the inference is an important component of this to make it work the victim device connected to AP this is a total scenario of this and actually instead of reading this I put one together to show you what it looked like basically the attacker has to be here they have to be part of the infrastructure so this is public Wi-Fi control of a vector you could also replace this with public switch like if it's not really that there's many public switches that you go to place and plug it in but let's say a bad actor has control of the infrastructure and the routing of it so you have to pass through their equipment that has all the capabilities and tooling on it to be able to pull this attack off that is a first key part of it most likely is obviously public Wi-Fi because when you're on public Wi-Fi a VPN will encapsulate your traffic to get it out past this device and that should be adequate to protect you in prior to this we always assume generally speaking that yes this is how that's mitigated this does not work the same as random user that can also see your IP address so let's say I'm in public Wi-Fi at a public place and other random user on same network there are methods by which they can attack referred to as like ARPS spoofing and this is has a similar attack vector to that so they take the ARPS spoofing they would try to get you to go to their computer this is not that type of attack because the importance of this attack is the local IP which is known by the public infrastructure that you're connecting to the public Wi-Fi should say that's controlled by the bad actor they have to then determine what your VPN virtual IP address is now that is not an arbitrarily easy task that's actually the first part of the attack they don't see it so when you have your local IP and you go through the VPN process and I put my router VPN device whatever that might be or a service you're connecting to if it's a VPN service like one of the you know public ones that offer this type of service you go out to the internet and all of your traffic is tunnel but when you establish this connection over here this device hands you this IP address that's all done through tunneled and encrypted traffic so they don't just get that information no matter how close they watch it because well it's tunneled and encrypted and I have a whole video about TLS encryption and open VPN I can link to where I've dove into some of how that works the way they determine this is rather clever and this is how the attack vectors scroll down here so what they're doing is sending a bunch of RST to there so they're sending resets to your network and hoping to find your IP address for the virtual because this is the flaw the system starts acknowledging that the fact that you have a virtual IP address so they go and are pumping information towards your IP and seeing if they get certain information back from it that's what's a little confusing as to how they're doing it and they don't have the full proof of concept out yet but it's interesting because it was a science CVE it's under review they're waiting for mitigations so with open VPN it's you know a lot of them are set up 192.168.70 dot whatever that range so they can just poke through ranges so that is one of the first channels but once they determine that they can start spoofing it and what allows them to do that was what puzzled me and I had to dive deeper into the reading to understand what allowed them to do this why does the system start responding it was an interesting answer but it starts here of right here most Linux distributions we tested were vulnerable especially Linux distributions that use a version of system D pulled after November 28th of last year so this is 2019 December and this was in 2018 in November that they changed it so let's go all the way over and because well this is a beauty of open source it's open and you don't just arbitrarily make willy-nilly changes in code you have reasons you made them this is the switch change it's called the RP filter was switched from one to two and the use case for it's not because some NSA bad actor got into the open source code and monkey with this this is what people always like to think happens but this is the very simple reason that this occurred the switch is the RFC 3704 reverse path filtering from strict mode to loose mode the strict mode breaks some pretty common reasonable use cases such as keeping connections via default route alive after another one appears i.e. plugging in the ethernet cable while connected to Wi-Fi the strict filter also makes it impossible for an recommender to do connectivity check on a new arriving default route it starts with a higher metric and is bump lower if there's connectivity the kernels default zero no filter but a loose filters good enough you use cases where a strict filled mode may easily override this this just the distribution don't care that the clients use case prefer a strict filter could just ship a custom configuration what this means is this is a change at system D level to establish a default and so distribution such as a bunch of that use system D or Papa West like I'm using when they pull it this is the fault but of course any distribution can override this that's why we don't have the absolute clearest picture yet we have to look on a case-by-case in case any specific distribution did override the setting but what you know the use case for it is really simple let's go back over here I'm plugged into the Wi-Fi here and hooked up but I have my VPN established what if I want to change or I plug in another like a hard line the network cable well you don't want the VPN to drop you want to be able to keep that VPN going even when that changes that's the flaw that's actually allowing us in so here's my computer and here's my IP address and here's my tunneled IP address that extra one on there that you normally would not expect to accept anything other than stuff that goes through the encapsulated tunnel it's kind of interesting the fact that they found a way to get the system to eventually respond with enough basically spoofing information and then they can start going through and getting it to accept that spoofed information provided they get the right sequence and match it up and make more noise essentially is what my understanding is then the standard stream so they can get something in there obviously they could if you're in control of the infrastructure you may want to at the same time that you know the packets are coming back insert your packets and then somehow hold up the packets that would be coming there so it's kind of the playing out some of these scenarios but like I said this is not some easy arbitrary attack and then they were able to insert that traffic what about how what is it they're going to actually accomplish with it well here's the thing I wrote over here unencrypted site that's an important aspect of it so you would say we've tunnel over traffic through the controlled system so they can't see it they threw the internet over to a VPN device maybe it's something on my network and then I go out of this device so I'm encapsulating all my traffic but they infer what website I'm going to and they know what unencrypted website I'm going to what does that mean well now they can look at that traffic and they can start inserting return information it's invalid or different than I would expect in an attempt to attack me but unencrypted is an important part if you're doing all this and then on top of that the site you're going to is an encrypted site well now they have a problem they would have to break the encryption of that site that is not arbitrary thing to do especially if their sites are using the latest TLS 1.3 that's a really solid level of encryption it's technically double encrypted triple if you count the VPN here therefore that's where this attack stops but don't get me wrong it's still serious I'm not saying that this isn't a potential threat I'm just saying the attack is not as likely unless you're also going to an unencrypted site but if you're going to an unencrypted site and doing something confidential that's a bad in general because every hop in between an internet is not just one globe like I show here it's a lot of pieces in between any of your traffic can be seen in between when an unencrypted site that's just a general problem so that's one of the reasons we've had such a big push for encrypting all the sites over the last several years and now here in 2019 will end in 2019 then pretty much every major websites encrypted and even some of the other ones because well with companies like let's encrypt in the act me protocol we've just gone to everything default encrypted so this protects against a lot of this attack because someone has to spoof it but DNS I've done a couple videos on DNS and DNS over HTTPS that's where there's still an issue because if you're still not using the why you're not encrypting all your DNS traffic you're using just standard plain old port 53 DNS well they might have the potential to go hey look they're using a DNS server we can see this traffic we can infer that this is there and we're going to insert different DNS entries to send you to the wrong places so there's still a big risk there but if you're using encrypted DNS especially if you're using encrypted in between your device and your VPN device or you're using DOH for the browsing well there you go if you're using DNS over HTTPS DOH you're good because now they can't encrypt they can't spoof the DNS they can't spoof site because it's encrypted they have been thwarted provided they had all the means by which to do this attack which is fairly complicated to begin with so it's a lot to think about but it's still not the end of the world but it's still something needs to be patched so I never try to downplay any seriousness of security issues but I like to make sure it's clear that this is not the end world and there's some mitigations against it the mitigations enough and release but you go over here and we dive down they have a listing of how to mitigate that and we have here turning off the path filtering being the obvious one potential problem asynchronous routing not reliable and mobile devices this is that problem of why they turned it on the first place and they do say there still might be possibilities to get that attacked. Bogan filtering there's another option where you don't allow the VPN to listen to Bogan networks you know private space networks that would be a way to do it but then they comment that network address use for VPNs and local networks and some nations including Iran include use reserve IP address space for the public space there's another one encrypted packet size and timing and there's a reply on that one that you can actually use in IPsec it's off by default but traffic flow control confidentiality and we see you're creating a padding in there so they can't do the inference of what the website is making the attack kind of go away. Also it's noted in here in this reply that Tor is not affected because of the way the Tor destination address binds to local hosts so I thought that was interesting that it was observed in that that regard to that but only links to this so you can do the reading I just wanted to say one it's a very serious thing I love it with that but also it's not the end of the world I think it's something we'll work through it's something we'll get patched and it's not a server side problem it's not something you replace your server for to make this work it's something on the client side so there'll be an update and a patch released for this and it should work perfectly fine after they fix it they just have to make a determination and like I said I don't have an exhaustive list of every operating system they have a couple of lists in here but obviously we know the major ones are affected because they've been pulling this but it sounds like Ubuntu operating system they confirmed this on Ubuntu 1910 so I'm gonna assume Papa West 1910 as well Fedora pulling system D, Devian 10.2, Arch and Manjaro so there's our ones they've tested FreeBSD, Deepin, Slackware, VoidLinux, MXLinux so there's a couple of them and like they said there's not an exhaustive list don't assume because you're not on a list you don't have the problem it's a matter of whether or not the operating system you're using pulled that information over here from the system D and had those changed from then and didn't change the default from what they pulled so hopefully this clears that up a little it's like I said it's a Linux Unix problem not a Windows problem to my knowledge as of right now we don't know of this being a problem with OpenVPN and Linux but hey you know the once we've uncovered a piece of research and I am surprised myself that the VPN would the virtual IP from the tunnel VPN would even accept a other type of command going to it or other TCP packets I'm absolutely certain more security researchers are going to be attempting this another platform so these these flaws still may exist elsewhere that we just haven't found out about yet but hey look for patches and look for more security researchers and updates but don't don't worry you're generally speaking the whole proof of concept is not out there and it doesn't it doesn't appear that anything is in a wild that we know of right now stay safe and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems dot com fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on if you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums dot Lawrence systems dot com or we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos they're accepted right there on our forums which are free also if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page we have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again thanks for watching and see you next time


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everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armel with the Stock Solution of Reviewing the Market. So we dropped today. We found today. We obviously really had a big sell-off today. We've been selling off all this week. It's been a great week to short. We've been doing a lot of puts. We've been doing a lot of shorts in the room, which of course those of you that follow me know that I love to do. Again, if this market was strong, if it wanted to really get going, it could have done it today. It could have done it yesterday. We bounced yesterday actually into the clothes. So let's take a look at it. Again, here was the bounce. Clothes green yesterday. We got up this morning. We got up. Actually, we were green on the day until we started to sell off, which was early in the morning. Meal, 10, 30, 11 o'clock. We started to drift off. But now a big, big, big, big, big reversal here into the afternoon on a Thursday going into a very important day tomorrow. So it is the unemployment numbers coming out tomorrow morning. And the issue is that we could have bad data and rally. We could have good data and fall. So people are interpreting things the way they want to interpret them. I don't interpret the fundamentals. I look at, I give my opinion on them, of course, but I look at the overall market. I look at the gaps. I look at the gaps and I read the gaps. And I look at the overall trend of what's happening in the market. I look at the gaps each and every single day in the market. I'm looking for a specific stock to trade each day that vary. Again, we did JPM today, which worked and would have worked without the market. But JPM probably had a larger move today because of the market. So it's very, very interesting here when you're looking at something and you want to do a trade, do you need the market?  But when I'm getting it out of my day trades quick, I don't need to worry about the market because the market very often hasn't situated itself till well after 10 o'clock, 1030, just like today. But we are getting a pretty decent sell-off here into today. It means nothing how we close today though because tomorrow's number is out in the pre-market in the morning before the open. So we could flip, we could rally tomorrow, we could fall even further. Again, it's nice to take profits and stuff when you're up. And if you're insurance, the right thing to do would be to take some profits here into this move to the downside today. There were many people that bought the market this morning, retail traders that keep buying every single solitary dip, buying the dips while sometimes it worked does not consistently work to make money. The method I use that I teach in my Golden Gap course consistently works week-over-week, month-over-month, year-over-year. You gotta understand it, you gotta have conviction, and I have a lot of conviction in what I do. Number one, I created the system that I use. Number two, I've been teaching it now for 10 years going on 11. It's a long time to do nothing but that. And I've been trading it for now, it's going on 15 years. So it's just, I don't do any other system except for my Golden Gap rating system. And it's maybe an expert in gaps, reading directional bias, and particularly in the market. So I was on Fox News yesterday morning, early, before the open, and I talked about the possibility the market could fall further this week. I was right, and I said it live on national TV. So again, they had me on the day after to sell off on Wednesday. I said we could certainly sell off again between now and the end of the week. We're doing it now today. So again, it's been a great year to short, in my opinion. Last year was a good year too. You don't know how to short it. If you don't know what you're doing, you gotta learn. You can't just go along everything in the world and you can't even go long, strong stocks right now. You can't even go long stuff and support. You gotta learn what to do. And today is just a beautiful, beautiful day to short. So if you have questions, email me at MelissaTheStalkswish.com. And again, the next Golden Gap class is March 25th and 26th. Have a great day, everyone.


I'm going to talk about midway. There's a lot I have to talk about. I can't do everything, but I'll try to hit some points and hope that that's of interest to you. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Although I'd like to have you wait till the end to ask me the questions. I'll try to get through the presentations as quickly as I can. Notice my first slide, operational intelligence combined with tactical skill and a lot of luck. Gave the US Navy a very great victory. These are some of the kinds of dive bombers that were used against the Japanese in that battle, especially on the 4th of June, where they were the key to tactical success. This is what the Japanese Navy expected to fight in the first six months of World War II. They wanted the Grand Battle, a decisive and dramatic fleet battle, like the one they had fought against the Russians at Shushima in 1905. This is a pre-war postcard that I found that was printed up in Japan, and it is actually very revealing. Here are the battleships in line, battle flags flying, guns blazing away, and what was supposed to be the remnant of the US fleet because what the Japanese wanted to do was attack US forces at night on the surface and do as much damage as possible that way then the next day, bring in their battleships to clean up and achieve that decisive victory. But you can also see other things, you see those little, sort of almost dots, those little airplanes in the upper right-hand corner, those airplanes are flying cover for the spotting aircraft launched by the battleships.  And both navies knew how to do that and used their aircraft for that. There was a time in the late 1920s and early 1930s when navies were worried about the use of poison gas in naval engagements. And then that concern kind of went away because it was difficult to lay down enough of this poison gas to do enough damage. And finally, what do you see here? These are the heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and they'll pick up any American stragglers, they'll penetrate the American battle line with its battleships and they have these very heavy torpedoes which they can use to knock out large ships. This is what they expected, this is what they wanted. And they wanted to do it as early in the war as possible. The target was the American fleet. That was their target, if you will, their center of gravity in the Pacific. But the real target, the hidden target, was the morale of the American people. And the Japanese military leaders felt if they achieved a decisive victory at sea, then that morale would sink. And the Japanese government would be able to reach a kind of armistice with the United States. I'll talk more about that later. That was their hope, didn't work out that way because what did they get? This, too, is a pre-World War II like a postcard, a print, put together by an artist who was looking at the newer United States Navy aircraft carriers like Enterprise or Town of Wasp. What they got was an ambush by US military aviation. And I say military aviation, not just naval aviation, because the Army played a role in the Battle of Midway with its bombers, B-26s and B-17s. What were the goals of the two navies? Let me make sure I have my notes. Because at my age it's easy to forget things. Oh, yes, I meant to say something about that preceding slide, I wanna do that. Just to set it up. There was a very intelligent, very professional admiral in the United States Navy in the 1930s, Joseph Reeves. And he said, one thing about carrier aviation which the aviators, the senior aviators in both navies believed, and that was timing as everything. Because in the 1930s it was difficult to detect an incoming strike on a carrier, right? No radar then. There's no radar, any aircraft gunner, he's not very good. You can put up a combat air patrol of your own fighters but you can't carry that many and how do you get them out to shoot down the approaching enemy aircraft? So timing was everything. And the US Navy and the Japanese Navy in the 1930s discovered in exercises that the aircraft carrier that could find its opponents first was the one who usually got the victory. It was all or nothing, you rolled the dice. If the airplanes came out of nowhere, that was it. The carrier was either so damaged that it couldn't operate or it was sunk. So timing was everything. And especially on the American side, this is extremely well understood. Now let me go on to the next one. These are the goals of the two navies. That's pretty clear. At the strategic level, the Japanese wanted to get this empire of theirs. They wanted to build a defensive perimeter around it so they could consolidate it and use it. They also wanted an armistice or some kind of settlement with the United States. After all, there was a war in Europe as well because after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States declared war on Japan, Germany declared war on the United States. So the hope on the Japanese side was that US forces would face Europe. They would go to Europe first and give the Japanese time to consolidate their gains in Asia. Also something that's forgotten almost completely today and that was to isolate China. The Japanese had been at war with China since 1937. Serious war, you know, where you have thousands of troops on both sides. And what they were hoping to do was to just get the Chinese to give up to sort of retire and stop fighting so that that would not be a drain on Japanese resources in China. The US goals at the strategic level were there. Stop the Japanese from achieving these goals and coordinating with the Germans. I'll talk about that in a moment. That again is something that I don't think is well understood today. Operational, that's the theater level. The goal for the Japanese was to create and these are their words an invincible strategic position. On the US side, it was to take the operational initiative against the Japanese. Don't give them time to consolidate. Attack, attack, attack. At the tactical level, there it is. Strike first, strike by surprise. The first shot was usually fired by the winner in carrier warfare. You wanted to hit the other person by surprise, the other fleet by surprise and destroy it. Here's the Imperial Natives offensive. This starts in December, 1941, runs into April, 1942. Look at this. There's Pearl Harbor, right? Not close to Japan. Next, that's Rebaul in New Britain, right? So you have a carrier force that sets out from Japan, does the mission of attacking the US fleet in Pearl Harbor, steams down into the South Pacific to support the assault of Rebaul, then goes on to attack Darwin in Australia, then goes into Southeast Asia and eventually goes all the way over to the Bay of Bengal. To Indian territory, to what is now Sri Lanka, what was then Salon. This is a huge sweep, we're talking about what? Over a third of the Earth's surface. This carrier task force of the Japanese, built on six modern aircraft carriers or at least modernized aircraft carriers, and you can see the sweep of all their activity. Now, here's the one I want to stress. This is Franklin Roosevelt's nightmare. He's President of the United States, for those of you who don't know much history, he's the commander-in-chief. He has a nightmare, it's the same one Winston Churchill has. And here it is. The Germans coming down through the Caucasus, in what was then the Soviet Union, coming across North Africa, heading for the Suez Canal. The Japanese, leaving the Bay of Bengal, here, going up into the Arabian Sea, the two nations combining forces to isolate the Soviet Union, they would have isolated China from help from the United States, isolate the Soviet Union from help from Great Britain and the United States, cut off the Suez Canal, isolating the Mediterranean. That's the nightmare. And again, because of the way the war turned out, because this nightmare didn't happen, people tend to forget that it was a nightmare. But if you go back and look at the documents, the ones that are in the Roosevelt, I'm trying to, where is it in New York? Hide Park. Help me, hide park. You see the President's worried about this kind of thing. Now, today you look back on it, say, it's fantastic. They couldn't do this logistically. I mean, how are you gonna support a fleet that's that far from Japan? How are you gonna support the German army? I mean, the logistics of it are daunting. Actually impossible for that time. But people don't know that. They don't know. I mean, the Germans seem to be able to do amazing things with their military forces, and the Japanese seem to be unstoppable in the first couple of months in 1942. Here are the Japanese forces at Midway. I wanna say a little bit more than the chart says. This is the striking heart of the Japanese fleet. And of course, as you know, if you know anything about the battle, the Japanese divided their forces. They not only had divided forces going to Midway, and an invasion force, the first air fleet, the carriers, and then the main body under the commander-in-chief, Admiral Yamamoto. They not only did that, they were also trying to achieve a victory up in the Aleutians. They wanted something up there as a base so that they could stop attacks on Japan, air attacks. You may have heard of Jimmy Doolittle, right? And the raid in April, early April, 1942. These B-25 bombers are put on an aircraft carrier. That's amazing. Put them on an aircraft carrier, steam toward Japan, and bomb Tokyo. Well, Admiral Yamamoto had promised the Emperor, the Americans will get close enough to bomb Tokyo. And the Japanese army came back and said, wait a minute, what about Alaska? So there was an invasion in Alaska as well. It was thought at the time by many to be a diversion. It was not. It was meant actually to put a forward base there to keep the United States from building airfields in the Aleutians and using those airfields to launch air attacks against Japanese territory. But here it is. This is a very, very powerful force. Let me give you a preview of the outcome of the battle. The Japanese lost all four of those aircraft carriers. Their total casualties were about 3,000 sailors and aviators killed. And what's really important as you get into 1942 and 1943 is that when these ships, these big aircraft carriers, were bombed and they were on fire and then they sank. A lot of the folks who took care of airplanes on them were killed or badly injured. So when you look at an air wing, there's a tendency to say, oh, it's the airplanes, right? So a US air wing would have 18 fighters, 36 dive bombers and 18 torpedo bombers. The Japanese had their own air wings. But you have to think, not only of the pilots in the airplanes, you have to think of the ordnance folks, the mechanics, all those people who make an air wing effective. And the Japanese lost a lot of those people at the Battle of Midway. And it was difficult to get them back. You have to train these people. You don't just take them in and get them ready in 60 days or 90 days. It takes a long time to get them ready. As a consequence of the battle, the Japanese lost all of their carrier planes, plus about 10 aircraft catapulted off of cruisers. So they lost about 110 pilots. And as I said, over 700 mechanics and others who took care of the airplanes on the carriers. US forces. Task forces 60 and 17, commanded by rear admirals, Fletcher and Spruance. And again, those names should be familiar to you because they're just part of the lore of the United States Navy. But you can also think of Midway as a stationary aircraft carrier. And it's got a lot of planes on the 4th of June, 1942. 27 Marine Corps fighters, 27 Marine Corps bombers, four Army B-26s, equipped with torpedoes. The B-26 was designed as a bomber, high-speed level bomber for low-level attack. They put torpedoes on them. I've seen, there's one photograph I've seen with the B-26 flying with a torpedo. Oh, I mean, it's Rube Goldberg. Yeah, oh, let's try this. Maybe it'll work. And of course, because pilots are young, they'll do almost anything. In fact, you couldn't have had effective pilots at this time unless they were young. Older people get sense in their heads. They do. You're gonna go through, if you're, there comes a time when you're about 30 or early 30s where you go, God, what was I doing riding my motorcycle? Why was I doing riding my bike? What was I doing trying to become a pilot? The Army also had 19 B-17s. And I'll talk about them in a little bit. The Navy had 32 patrol bombers and also six modern torpedo planes. The trouble is, these were all stuffed into Midway. And there wasn't any overall plan today the armed forces have something called the Joint Force Air Component Commander, or JFAC, you know, the Pentagon were great at acronyms. There was no JFAC. So you have a Navy captain who's trying to deal with the Marines and the Navy aircraft. And then you have the B-17s and Army aircraft under an Army Major General. And they're all stuffed into Midway. If you look at, there's just a few pictures of Midway at this time. But if you look at the one island has the airfield, it's just covered with aircraft. Now, the other thing here, rear admiral English, here he's shown as a captain, not as a rear admiral. He's a command of 19 submarines based at Pearl Harbor. I have to say that only one of these submarines really did well. It was the older submarine USS Nautilus, which was designed as a cruiser submarine. Now what does that mean? A big submarine carried two six inch guns. Okay, anybody ever seen a six inch gun? Right? How much does a shell weigh? About. How much of the shell fired by a six inch gun weigh? About. 100 pounds. Yeah, over 100 pounds. So these submarines were designed to cut off the Japanese merchant marine in the event of war. They would steam mostly on the surface.  They were big. If you have a big submarine at that time, it's unwieldy underwater and it takes time to dive. So one of these older submarines is sort of a hero of midway. Nautilus made two attacks, was heavily depth charged, but stayed in the battle and stayed active. Now, the United States armed forces lost about 150 aircraft destroyed during the battle and lost about 300 dead sailors, army, air, people and marines. But look at those numbers here. You have 233 carrier planes. Out of all of these right here, based on midway, 56 of them are strike aircraft. That is they drop bombs or torpedoes. So if you add 233 to 56, you get 289. And that's actually more strike aircraft or effective strike aircraft than Japanese had. One more thing. Where are the Navy battleships at midway? Navy had seven in the Pacific, had seven. Any idea? They're on the west coast of the United States. Admiral Nimitz doesn't want them. Admiral King says, you ought to have them if the Japanese show up with air battleships.  Admiral Nimitz says, no. Can you guess why? Okay, they're useless, but why are they useless? Yeah, they're too slow to keep up with the carriers and they eat up fuel and fuel is scarce. So Nimitz says, I don't want them. Now, if you're Admiral Nimitz, how do you deal with Admiral King? Did you know anything about Admiral King, Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet? Right? Yes. He, I'm hearing all sorts of words. None of them complimentary. He had a strong temper. The story in Washington was that if he wanted to talk to somebody in New York, he didn't need a telephone. Okay? So here is an aggressive officer who spent his whole life preparing for this war. He wants to do nothing more than smash the Japanese fleet. So he wants to push stuff to Admiral Nimitz. Admiral Nimitz is in command in the theater and he goes, don't want all that stuff. I don't want it all. And Nimitz understands what his problem is. Find out when the Japanese are coming, find out what they're gonna be like generally, then position his forces so his forces can catch them by surprise. He understands what he has to do. And in fact, he doesn't. On the way to Midway is the Japanese carrier force commanded by this officer, Admiral Nogumu. He's a Vice Admiral on the Imperial Japanese Navy. Very experienced officer. But remember, he's been in command of this force for months. They've gone all the way from Japan to Pearl Harbor down into the Southwest Pacific, off into the Indian Ocean, back home. He's been busy. And he's not young anymore. Yesterday, how many of you voted yesterday in Virginia residents vote? Right, I was an election judge. Do you know how long the election judges work on election day in Virginia? From 5 a.m. in the morning to about 8.30 or 9 at night. I did it. I got home.  Where's the bottle? And it was like being in a Pentagon again. I mean, the Pentagon has to have caused a lot of alcoholism. Oh, yeah. And it's fun to laugh at now, but I had days. Remember 2001, September 11th? That was on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Each day was 16 hours for me. And for a lot of folks in the Pentagon. There were people who were sneaking in sleeping bags and sleeping in the building. Which is a very bad idea. Let me try sleeping in the Pentagon. All right. Now, let's look at him. By the way, he and his staff made a plan, an operations plan. Here are their assumptions. The enemy is not aware of our plans. Wrong. The enemy was aware of their plans. Not in great detail, but enough to know what was about to happen. That's the key. Second assumption. It is not believed that the enemy has any powerful unit with carriers as its nucleus in the vicinity. Wrong. All right. The Japanese needed to scout Pearl Harbor. But Pearl Harbor's a long way from any Japanese territory. They had used long range sea planes to do that. But the sea planes couldn't make the round trip. They had to stop somewhere and refuel from a submarine. I don't know if you've ever seen any photographs of the submarines refueling aircraft sea planes. And they wanted to do it again just before midway so that they could find out if there were any US carriers in the vicinity and if so where they were. But the US Navy was clever and it kept their submarines from surfacing. It put armed ships where those submarines would have surfaced to refuel those long range sea planes. So this Admiral did not get the reconnaissance that he wanted and he knew he didn't get it. He knew he wanted it but okay, this is the operation. We're gonna go through with it. We have the best carrier force on earth. Let's do it. But he didn't know that the United States Navy had the intelligence advantage. Now what about the forces? Let me see a little more about that. I've got photographs. I love them. You can learn a lot from photographs. I have a big collection of them that I've obtained on my own. This is a carrier enterprise in Task Force 16. This is the task force with two carriers commanded by Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance who by the way was not an aviator. They knew a lot about aviation and it showed in this battle. And here are the airplanes. This is a Dauntless Dive Bomber. It's carrying two bombs, two light bombs. This is for anti-submarine patrol. And notice how it's, see these funny looking things? Dive breaks. Look, you put the airplane into a dive, right? For dive bombing. What don't you want to have happen? Well, you don't want your wings to fall off, right? You don't want to be going so fast that you stress the airframe too much. So what do you have? Breaks. If you ever get a chance to go down to the Naval Aviation Museum that's in Pensacola, Florida on the base there, go to it.  And notice the red and white stripes. You can't see it, it's not in color, but there were red and white stripes on the tail. That went away after midway. Why? What did the Japanese put as insignia on their airplanes? The rising sun, which is orange. Orange-red, so that went away. And behind them are these devastator torpedo aircraft, which were modern when they first entered the fleet in about 1938. But by 1942, they're obsolete, they're too slow. And they have to go down too low to the water to drop their torpedoes. What you'd really like in a torpedo plane in 1942 is a fast airplane, an airplane has a lot of range, and an airplane can drop a torpedo from say 200 feet in the air, get it down. But of course you gotta have a torpedo that can withstand that shock and will go on to the target. The US Navy didn't have it. So they're fielding these older aircraft, because the new ones haven't come on yet, and you can see one, two, three, five of them back there.  If you're an aircraft carrier commander, the one thing that ruins your day is to get torpedoed by a submarine. That's it, you're done, you're finished, you're out. And it was obvious to both navies that the waters around Midway would contain Japanese and American submarines. So both navies continued their anti-submarine patrols. Again, it's not talked about very much, but it took aviators, time and energy. It kept the carriers busy constantly because they're worried not only about submarines, but about attack by enemy air forces. It's sort of the hidden background. It's the tempo, it sets the tempo for these operations. And the tempo is high. Look at all these folks on the deck. What are they doing? Yeah, they're setting up the airplanes. Getting ready, getting the airplanes off. Look, look how many of them. Okay, now, when things really get hot, as they do on the 4th of June, 1942, these folks are working from before dawn until after dusk. And a lot of the airplanes are moved not with some jiffy little device like we have on carriers now, but with human beings, right? Push the airplane. I'll show you this in a minute. And so you get tired. And it's easy when you're tired to make a mistake. This is Hornet, also in Task Force 16, also commanded the full task force by rear Admiral Spruance. And here you have the folks. Now, this is not Midway. I couldn't find a good picture of an airplane on Hornet's deck at Midway. This is later. This is before I think the battle of Santa Cruz near Guadalcanal. But the picture shows you things. Look at these. See, in the previous picture, nobody's wearing helmets. All right, nobody's wearing life jackets. Now they are, they've learned. Bomb comes down, yeah. Bomb comes down, hits the deck. What's the deck made of? It's made of teak with a steel frame. And wood, when you hit wood with something like that, what happens? Fist, blitters. And so Yorktown was hit by three bombs on June 4th, 1942. Two gun crews for the 1.1 inch anti-aircraft guns were just almost completely wiped out by the splinters and the bombs. And so you wear helmets. You get people to dress for battle to reduce the casualties. And also, look what they're carrying. They're ready for it. They're ready in case the ship sinks, as indeed Hornet did. Next. Yorktown, this is important because it was taken. Bob, it's in your book. In your book. And you can see here, there's two things I want to show you here. First, this is the strike. Yorktown has about 72 aircraft. But they're different. The fighters, right, don't need the takeoff run that the torpedo planes and the dive bombers need. So you set your strike up because you want to send every airplane out at once. You want to saturate the Japanese defenses.  They've all shown up and they're just gonna overwhelm me. So upfront are the fighters. They take off first. They expend a lot of gas waiting for everybody else. Fighters come off, then the dive bombers, then the torpedo planes. The Japanese understood this problem. So what they would do is operate carriers and groups, in this case four, and each carrier will launch half a strike. Not a full strike, but half a strike. You can get half of them off quicker than it takes to get all 72. You can get 36 off pretty quick. So that's what the Japanese did. So just so you see it, look at all these airplanes lined up here. And these folks don't have much room to take off. They got to get up in the air before the carrier runs over them. Which carriers would do? They still will, if you let them. And up there is a patrol bomber, a reconnaissance aircraft essentially. And it was essential to know where the Japanese were. The side that found the other side first was gonna win. That was it. Assuming the attacks went off as planned. But of course, it's war so, do things always work as planned? No, quite the reverse. They rarely work as planned. But you gotta plan anyway. I used to teach planning. And younger officers would say, why do you teach us all this stuff if it doesn't work? And I would say, because it just might. Now, Task Force 17 was only one carrier, Yorktown, commanded by rear admiral Fletcher. Now I've got another, see what else I've got here. Here are the Marine aircraft. The vindicator dive bomber was obsolete by May, June 1942. These airplanes were called wind indicators by Marine pilots, and they were no match for Japanese zeroes, Japanese fighters. But on the 4th of June, when the folks at Midway picked up information about the approaching Japanese and their radar, even before their radar picked them up, they launched all their airplanes. Everything they had. This was it. You had to do it. This is the Buffalo fighter. In early 1942, markings again, you see the tail and the red spot inside the star. That all changed after Midway. These were small, agile fighters, but they were completely outclassed by zero. So the Marines, any Marines? Okay, what do you do when you're told to do something? Once upon a time, I did, yeah.  If you get a command, what do you do? You do what you got. Yeah, you do what you got. Exactly.     Watch out. I used to work for the Naval Assistance Command and we got you the V-22. Yeah, what's that a page? Wow. Hey, this is what makes work in this field so exciting. You meet all these nice people who are instantly your friends. But, so that's it.  They are basically thrown against the Japanese fleet. So what happens is, is the Japanese aircraft are coming into Bomb Midway at 6.30 in the morning. These airplanes are going out to attack the Japanese carrier force. And they do, but they don't do much. These stayed around Midway to try to defend it. They didn't do much either. And it's very sad, it's a good lesson. You don't want to take young people, our young people, and put them in obsolete systems because then they're just targets. I mean, this is what works in aviation. There's, I've heard people say quantity has a quality on its own in aviation. Yes and no, because good pilots, if you put one good pilot and one very good airplane up against 10 mediocre pilots or even good pilots with very obsolete aircraft, they're just all targets. It's target practice. And that's what it was for the Japanese. So you have to get into the swing of this battle. The Japanese attack Midway with half of their striking force. They keep the others down inside the hangar decks of their carriers. As those airplanes are attacking Midway, Midway's airplanes are showing up to attack the Japanese. V-17s from 20,000 feet. The V-26s with the torpedo slung underneath. These vindicators coming in to try to bomb the Japanese carriers. And there were even some Navy torpedo planes on Midway that went out to try to find the Japanese carriers as well. These strikes are not coordinated. They come in helter-skelter and the Japanese combat air patrols with their very excellent pilots and zero aircraft, they mow most of these people down. See if I can find some numbers for you. Maybe I have them on this slide. Oh yeah, here. First phase, I divide the battle into two phases, but that's arbitrary. That's not how the people saw it at the time. Have any of these aircraft carrier hit Midway? As I said, their carriers launch half strikes. You got four carriers. You really got two full strikes, but you get a half strike from each of the four. They keep the others down in the hangar armed, gassed up, ready to go, because they suspect there are American carriers out there. They're waiting to get accurate information and as soon as they get it, they're gonna launch those other strike aircraft. The Midway planes attack the Japanese carrier before the Japanese planes return to their carriers at about the same time the US carriers also launch their own strike aircraft, their torpedo bombers and dive bombers against the Japanese. But look at this, US carrier torpedo bombers attack the Japanese separately as it turns out. The idea was to have them all attack together. You have the torpedo bombers come in low, the dive bombers come in from the top and they're escorted by a couple of fighters and the idea is they overwhelm the defenses. It didn't work that way. They got broken up of the 42 torpedo bombers that went out from the US carriers. 38 of them were lost. Wow, that's a terrible loss figure. I mean, that's almost it. Almost everything's gone. Boom, and nothing to show for it. Not one Japanese carrier torpedo. But the Japanese brought their combat air patrol in closer to their carriers. In fact, these pilots were so well trained you didn't need to tell them what to do. They would collect around their carriers to get rid of these aircraft, these attack aircraft. And while they're doing that, boom, the US carrier dive bombers from two of the carriers show up and in about 10 minutes, they bomb three of the Japanese carriers and put them out of action. It's an amazing morning. This is where the luck comes in. You have two groups of dive bombers, American dive bombers from two different carriers. They haven't been coordinating with one another because you're gonna coordinate what you have to do. Get on the radio. What's happening? Everybody's listening. On the Japanese side and the American side, you have people understand the other guys' language and they are listening for those broadcasts. I mean, they're doing it in real time. So you coordinate without talking. And in this case, the coordination turned out to be perfect. And that was not necessarily what could have happened. This is where the luck comes in. Second phase. No, three Japanese carriers are burning. And I mean, they burned. Why? They got their half strikes in their hangar decks. And the decks are made of wood. So what happens to a 500, 1,000-pound bomb? Goes right through. So there you are, a mechanic on one of the Japanese carriers servicing an airplane, getting it ready for the strike because now the Japanese know the Americans are out there. They're getting reconnaissance reports. You're getting ready for a strike and all of a sudden, literally, the roof falls in.  We don't use high-octane gasoline in automobiles anymore. Is anybody old enough like I am to remember it? It's extremely dangerous. I thought I was gonna get killed one day. Well, you know, I saved myself.  The two things are kind of equivalent. Working around high-octane gasoline and the darned stuff is incredibly volatile. So anyway, the Japanese carriers, just like the American carriers, are floating volcanoes. I mean, that's it. If you hit them right and at the right time, you're gonna get terrible fires and that's what happens to three of the Japanese carriers, but there's one left. The carrier here you launches two attacks. First, it doesn't wait to launch a coordinated strike. The admiral there says, this is it, guys, this is it. The other three have been damaged. You gotta make up for it. So they launch dive bombers at carrier Yorktown. They strike her at noon, hit her three times, three bombs. She stops, dead in the water, and there's a lot of smoke. And people thought that she might not get underway again. But the engineering crew, right, they're trained and she gets underway. But the Japanese from here you send another strike. Torpedo planes this time and they get her at about 2.45 in the afternoon and that stops her. They hit her twice with two torpedoes and she lives heavily and is abandoned. There are pictures you see all over in all the history books showing Yorktown like this. And the captain was afraid she was gonna roll over.  She didn't roll over. She stayed like that through the night. And the next day there was an effort made to save her. It didn't work. It didn't work because the Japanese submarine found her and torpedoed her again. And so she finally sank. And by the way, she's been found. Yorktown has been found. It's on the bottom, out there near Midway Island. On the bottom, sitting right side up. Yeah, just sitting there. It's absolutely fascinating. Who's the guy who did that? The one who found Titanic. Ballard, yeah, Ballard had a team out there and took photographs and had people make drawings of it. And so she's been found. Enterprise and Hornet launch strikes against Hiryu. They get airplanes back. They get them rearmed, refueled. They bomb and cripple her at about five o'clock in the afternoon. Just as Hiryu was about to launch another strike at the US force. I cannot tell you how, what's the word I want? How under pressure the crews were of these carriers because their airplanes come back. First they got to get them aboard, right? Not an easy thing to do. Pilots may be tired, right? They may be wounded. The airplane may be damaged. You got to get the airplanes on board. Then you've got to give them fuel. You got to arm them again. They've got the pilots have to know where they're going, right? They have to get necessary information and off they go again. So the pressure was intense on both sides. And this was it. They all knew this was turning into a very big important engagement they had to win. And as it turns out, the Japanese lose because in one day they lose these four carriers. Now Hiryu was still floating. She was still floating the next day and the day after that. But she was a wreck. And the Japanese decided to torpedo her to keep her from being captured by the United States Navy. As if the US Navy had anything that could do that at the time. But they just didn't want it to fall into enemy hands. And that's basically the battle. There's more to come. There were other things that happened. But that's the heart of it right there. Four carriers against three plus midway against the stationary carrier. So it's sort of four against four. But who gets the strike in first? The US. So it turns out to be four losses for the Japanese and one carrier lost for the United States Navy. And in fact, Admiral King, remember him? He was angry that Yorktown was lost. He thought the ship could have been saved and should have been. His standards for performance were very high. If you didn't meet them, that was the end of your career. Yeah. And in fact, I have worked, oh boy, with Navy officers who had equivalent standards. And you had to be very good or you didn't stick around. OK. Now, what's the point? The point is that the Japanese timetable, the Japanese plan is totally upset in midway. They want to force the United States Navy and the Army and the Marine on the defensive, right? Because midway is for June. What happened in April in the Philippines? American forces there finally surrender. So it looked to sort of look to the Japanese like they could really achieve their objectives. Midway throws that off completely. You lose four carriers.  You lose the crews on at least one of the aircraft carriers. I think it was a Coggy. The engine room crews stayed at work. They kept trying to get power to the engines, despite the damage to the ship. I mean, that's the amazing thing. These are guys down below, right? I mean, if the ship rolls over or if it blows up, they're gone. Do they run away? Of course, where do you run? Let's see. But they don't run away. And they stick to it. That's the amazing thing about this battle to me. On both sides, so many young people, young men, they stick to what they're supposed to do. If they're flying an airplane, they go attack, right? They do it. Even when they know, they may not come back from the mission. If they're down there in the engine room, they keep working. If the ship's been torpedoed, they try to repair the damage. It's an extraordinary example of how professional these two navies work. All right, so now the Japanese have a problem. See if we can do that. This is no longer feasible. Japanese army didn't want to do it either. But the Japanese Navy can't go into the Indian Ocean anymore. They can't do it. And the United States Navy takes the offensive. Admiral King understands. In this war, you don't let anybody sit. You take the offensive. I mean, he's very offensively. I guess I could take that two ways. He's very offensively minded, but he's absolutely right. So he says, what is it we have to do? What is our strategic goal? It is to keep the link between the United States and Australia firm. Keep it solid. Keep it safe, because that's where all the supplies are going. It's where the supply ships are moving. So the Japanese decide they're going to build an airfield. They're going to move in this direction to cut that link. And Admiral King understands that you respond to that kind of threat with the threat of your own. So you go back on the offensive. And at the time, it was a high risk, right? The Marines hadn't practiced these assaults. There hadn't been enough Marine-Navy coordination for an amphibious operation. You know, all that stuff was kind of new. And King said, do it anyway. And so the Navy and Marines did. The Japanese are there. That's the next big battle. That's the real meat grinder around the Solomon's. And it is a meat grinder. Admiral Halsey was put in command here, eventually. Do you know what message he sent out to his forces? Have you ever heard it?    What does it tell you? This is a war of attrition, folks. This is meat grinder time. You're going to take a lot of young men and force them to fight one another. In circumstances that might not be ideal, you're going to suffer a lot of casualties. You're going to lose a lot of ships, airplanes. You're going to have a lot of people die. This is it. Halsey understood. It's attrition, boys. Go in there and fight them out, day in and day out. And they did. If you study the whole campaign down here, it's agonizing. It's brutal. And it's a bad place to fight anyway. And it has left a lingering memory of suffering in the United States and, you know, and understandably. But the point is, the Japanese now are on the defensive. That's it. They're on the defensive, and they never get the offensive back for the rest of the war in the Pacific. And that was Admiral King's goal. And Admiral Nimitz shared it. So let me see. Is there anything else I need to say? Yes, one more thing. I haven't talked too much about the code breaking. This is the consequence of midway, very important. Because it was important in Europe as well. Because what happens in 1942? What happens in the fall and winter of 42? In Russia? On a graph. So 42 is that year when the Allies are on the edge. And they go over to the offensive, and it works. And from that time on, the Axis, I mean, it's it. They're on the defensive. There's one more thing I want to say. There's an interesting book about the code breaking, especially about Commander Joseph Rochefort and his team in the 14th Naval District there in Hawaii. And it's by Elliot Carlson. And it's called Joe Rochefort's War. If you get a chance to look at it, take a look. Elliot Carlson gets down into the details of communications intelligence. And it's really kind of eye-opening if you don't know anything about it. I mean, it's well-written and interesting because of the history, but you get down into the nitty-gritty of the work and of the internal politics of these communications and intelligence organizations. OK, made it. That's it. Any questions? Yes? Oh, sure. The problem for a carrier is that if it turns on lights at night, what happens? Yeah, it's a target. It's a target, yeah. And so there were airplanes returning from strikes. Remember that last strike from Enterprise and Hornet going out after Hear You? They're going out later in the day. They're coming back late. Turn on lights. It was highly controversial. You're taking a great risk. What if there's a Japanese submarine right there? Taking great risks. But victory is not won in a situation like this without tremendous risks. They're just huge risks on both sides. That's what naval battles are about. Does that answer it? Yeah, it was controversial, but it was done. Way back right there. Japanese understood that you're Japanese. I'm not sure I understand the question. Read Elliott Carlson's book. They weren't so careless. But again, when you're planning an operation as large as Midway, plus the Aleutians, right? You had those three forces. Remember those forces going to Midway? Let's go back. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Whoop. That one. Look at this. And this ignores the infrastructure you have to have to support all this. All this has to be coordinated. And the American side, the code breakers, the intercept operators and code breakers, got an advantage because the Japanese had to do a lot of communicating for this operation and for others. So they had more material to work with. The problem for the Japanese was, if you change your code books, what happens? Your own folks have to learn. You've got to prepare your own folks.  Anybody involved in military training of any type? Anybody been a victim of it? OK, no, but I mean, you have to get stuff ready. I was an acquisition guy in the Navy. We can't just produce a missile. Oh, here's a harpoon missile. Here, shoot it. No, no.   And I was told the Navy doesn't talk that way. OK, so the purpose of the manual is enable you to shoot the missile effectively. OK, well, we'll buy that. What's the point of shooting the missile effectively? Hit another ship.  That's what this business is all about. So the Japanese have a problem, which is that they change the code too fast. Folks can't keep up. And they don't. They fall behind. They have a schedule, right? They want to keep, because that's what you do in wartime, keep changing your codes. They had a schedule. They couldn't meet it. They couldn't meet it because of the scope of this operation. And the United States Navy took advantage of it.


This is game chat one episode 127 the next chapter of no man's sky. Oh Boy Welcome to the show Now here's your host born on McCall all the gaming news of this week By the way, that's me Please folks and welcome to episode 127 of game chat one. I got a great show lined up for you Thank you for coming by listening today. I got about four stories to talk about for the week of July 25th ending July 25th 2018 And if you this is your first time the game chat one and we talk about the latest news We try to find some of the better stories to talk about not everything for this past seven days This is produced every Wednesday, so we go from Wednesday to Wednesday to actually talk about that gaming stuff This is on iTunes. This is on Google Play. We're on Spotify. We're on YouTube, but we're on Probably everywhere you can possibly listen. I won't thank everybody for listening Podcasts I haven't been saying that that much but that's my landing page where I talk about or where I put all the episodes and stuff like that This week I've been playing a lot of no man's sky Actually starting yesterday Before that I was playing Warframe on my live stream at twitch.tv slash Warner But we're gonna have a couple stories to talk about with no man's sky If you're into that game or not into that game, maybe you can get some interest out of today's show All right without further ado, let's get it going If our first story we're gonna talk about steam it's like cranking up a car, but it didn't actually crank up We're gonna talk about steam and steam released their new client today to everyone It's been in beta for quite some time Which has a kind of an overhauled look of the client and namely with the social features a lot of people have been noticing some of The changes with chat and the changes with the friends list because they're completely different than what you're probably used to I know the first thing I know this one I got the I got the beta client because I've been using it for a little bit Because I want to ease into it and kind of get used to this whole thing the first thing I know this was that the the the the friends list tries to auto group your friends by by game and by activity and that kind of stuff So it's like some smart filtering going on but they made the widgets and they made the you know A lot of the controls bigger than before so even if you can press the friends list is not going to be as small As it was before so I immediately start to miss pressure the skin I use for steam all the time You know which made that a lot better looking than it normally would the other thing you're gonna know This is a chat the chat is very very Slack slash discord slash, you know modern Chat clients uh gotta admit steams chat was getting a little dated So I'm kind of glad that they're actually looking at modernizing a lot of their stuff for some some smart in beds and a lot more 2018 type of things I guess you can call them But this has changed obviously a lot of people are not gonna like it at first There's a lot of things I don't like at first myself But admit it this is from from the article from rock paper shotgun, and this is what valve explained You know why they did it. It says the new chat broadly makes themes chat less clunky in 2003 ish. Oh gosh. This is a old piece of software and I absolutely agree Kind of what I was just saying it's like it brings it into 2018 and Modernize it a little bit. You know the reason why people Point to discord and point to slack is because they are the forerunners in modern chat clients, you know They're like IRC 2018 and I'm fighting allergies again. You can probably hear it in my voice I don't want to cough or sneeze all over the all over the mic but they're they're the representative clients for for modern chat and You know it's nice to see steam updating hopefully they'll refine it Hopefully the skin makers out there will update their skins to You know to meet this new client. Hopefully still supported I didn't even look into that because you know having the option of having steamed skins is really nice a lot of people out There don't even know that steam support skins, which is kind of you know kind of cool But kind of worrying at the same time because every time I show my steam client like by accident or on purpose on My live stream But how did you make your steam look like that people like going crazy? How'd you do that? That looks amazing like skins? Like what I didn't know Steve had skin And sure and be low and behold I have introduced him to the powerful land Of steam skins, but check the story out I got a link over at rock paper shotgun. They got the details the steams client new client new chat update new Friends list update new social feature stuff has rolled out excuse me to everybody as Of today you'll see you'll get a pretty big steam update if you weren't in the beta You're not going to be using this new client check it out guys if our next story we're going to talk about valve and Steam again. This has to do with bands a record has been broken and in the form of bands 60,000 steam accounts were banned by a VAC or valve anti-cheat on Tuesday July 17th Making it the largest vac wave in the platforms history. This article comes by way of PC games and calm Wow, my goodness This is crazy says but it was on Wednesday morning that The band hammer really started swinging with twenty eight thousand four hundred and eleven accounts being banned throughout the day Nuts looks like the way the wave of bands have to start to slow down But I don't think you know they're talking about that the VAC system watches over a number of games you include including Counter-Strike global offensive Dota 2 the call of duty series and arc survival evolved and Man, I think a majority of these of these bands probably came by way of Counter-Strike global offensive We live in a day and age where cheating is just becoming more and more Rapid and companies are you know valve not valve but Blizzard Has sued some companies in the past and There's just companies out there that are making money off of selling these sheets to people online Well, and there's a lot of you and including my I'll include myself in this because I'm guilty sometimes Why just assume that it's a kid? I'll assume that it's a you know a teenager I should say not a kid because I call people in 20s kids these days.   You're just a young buck. But anyway um It's becoming more rampant cheating is becoming more rampant and It's still generally Socially unacceptable in gaming, but it's becoming so commonplace that people aren't necessarily shocked anymore.  How could they you know, it's it's becoming more commonplace And as you know a nominimity not an anonymity and then Anonymity anonymity anonymity anonymity Manamana do-do-do-do-do as a nominimity is becoming more and more commonplace kids are More likely to do these things Some kids even take the parents credit card some kids even have their own money to use it with and as Bitcoin is becoming more popular I think a lot of kids and adults are Be are able to generate their own currency and their own money to pay for these cheats to the finance their How do you say winning Because if you look at the life of a cheater, it's kind of hard to understand the justification. Why would you cheat? You want to win so bad excuse me you want to win so bad that you just absolutely have to break the rules It's not about getting good. It's about winning. It's not about fun. It's about winning winning winning. So You gotta wonder how much how much of these people's lives is spent Applying to win at any cost. I don't know man, and you know, there are some people out there that defend it Especially people who just generally exploit and do stuff in like PvE games and You know run programs to gain an advantage and The justification is it's not affecting me Therefore, I'm not gonna say anything Which is an overarching kind of a Attitude that's plaguing the internet these days. It doesn't affect me I'm not gonna say anything as long as it's not affecting me. I'm fine Yeah That's where things start to go wrong people. So check this story out guys PC games in has the the story has been all over the web valve banning over 60,000 guys over 60,000 steam accounts and the previous record just got demolished And for our next story, we're gonna talk about no man sky no man sky. Oh man sky No man sky had a major update called no man sky next this has been like teased for weeks now and The headliner is that you know, it's gonna finally add true multiplayer to the game Which was a big topic of controversy at launch because you know, Sean Murray, you know talked about multiplayer being in a game has been a very very light part of it and How you will probably never see anybody to even play multiplayer with so It Shocked everybody that the game didn't have multiplayer when it came out Nick you shown of lying and there was this whole thing about negative blah blah blah. So you remember though, right? Um I'm not gonna dwell on that too much Not gonna talk about that that whole Controversal topic. I want to focus on this update and then we'll come back To possibly that topic. I'll see how it goes No man sky next. This is update 1.5 headliner updates adds co-op multiplayer From their site at no man sky.com slash next update team up with a small group of friends and explore the universe together Or be joined by random travelers Help friends stay alive or pray on others to survive Fight as a pirate or wingman in epic space battles with friends and enemies. Okay, so that's kind of like the The marketing paragraph or a few sentences there Um, they've also updated the base building which was added a couple years ago after launching Uh group up to build communal bases farms and racetracks and share your creations with all players online Explore the galaxy at your own pace And or progress together at the very start of the game and all the way through the story Now one of the big changes with this update is that you'll be able to build more than one base You'll be able to build more than one base now, which is kind of a big deal because When the base building was introduced you were limited to one base which kind of Put a thorn in the whole future. It wasn't as good as it could be Big deal is that soon after the release of no man sky next a few weeks after they're going to start The first season of weekly content and community events to kind of give you something to do And they're going to have rewards and customizations as a result. It's going to be free to all players Just what the game needs, honestly It needs a reason to keep bringing you back because there's a ton of content This is a big update, but people are going to churn through it. They're going to eat through it. I mean gamers are hungry For content, they'll go through this stuff now. I'm numb numb numb. They'll go through it and just destroy it So fresh customizations fresh events to keep you coming back is going to be a big deal Also, they're going to integrate with the mixer because uh as of this release I didn't say it but the game will now be on xbox one And if you don't know mixer.com is an alternative streaming site that's out there uh in competition with twitch And it has some really really tight integrations with xbox one since mixer is owned by Microsoft, but they don't turn away ps4 or pc streamers or anybody like that so they're going to be Uh adding some features to mixer to allow you to either help or hinder the streamer Because you guys like beating us up, don't you? So as a result of this thing, they're launching a galactic galactic atlas website To track all these events and community stuff that's going to be coming out soon A lot of more base building components have been added. So base is going to be a lot more Lot more I guess you can call them varied uh third person view third person view with both uh The soldier view or the man or the on foot as you call it or and on ship so you can fly first person view Character customization has been added you can you can play as the anomaly the gek the viking the corvax the traveler And they've got several different heads torso and armor options and colors That you can just change for free just by going to a space station Fraders have been updated you can assemble and upgrade a fleet of frigates Each specialized to excel in combat exploration trade industry or support and they look really cool um You can command your frigors frigates from the bridge of your uh freighter To complete the real-time fleet missions calling fleet insistence space balance blah blah blah and stuff like that Crafting resources they have really really overhauled and revamped Just the balance of all the recipes and and the resources So if you played this game in the past and you come back to it now Everything is going to be different For example, if you remember you had to use plutonium to power your launcher to basically refuel your launcher so you can take off Well, that's been replaced With a launcher battery thing it's like you have to build it with uh With uh, what is it ferrite with a metal plate and with this this hydrogen based component now They've got some re uh some What they call them deployables where you can build these Machines and you can pick them up and take them with you Deployable tech and it can be carried in your inventory. So they're buildables and you can refine stuff You can build blueprints. You can you know all kinds of cool stuff The planets and the textures have been greatly overhauled No, I haven't got to any opinion stuff. I'm just talking about what's in the update Big time update to the textures and the the planet generation and the animals are now Uh, they roam in you know herds Instead of just having one here and one there you'll see big herds of animals run by it's really really really different Analysis visor enhancement the visor which you use to scan stuff has been completely overhauled Not only does it allow you to scan the animals and get their information You can also scan plants and fauna and rocks. You can also find points of interest On the map. So you can find like things like buried Buried technology you can find a crash pods. You can find like mineral deposits All kinds of stuff just by using The browser a lot has been added to missions graphical enhancements. I talked about that Um, which is really really nice And more the ui has been overhauled I'm scrolling down as fast as I can the space stations have been changed Uh Audio has been different has been added and updated There's so much. So if you go to no man sky.com slash next update, you'll see like these high level These high level uh sections of all the things I talked about but at the bottom there's like detailed patch notes So what do I think? I streamed this game for about eight hours yesterday Probably like nine hours and I would have kept going if my internet didn't go out. Um Uh, uh, I streamed from four o'clock to like one a.m. And at one a.m My internet went out and I had no idea that the time it passed that fast So that kind of gives you a clue how how I feel about the game I titled my stream. Is it worth 30 dollars because I think that was a good Not only a clickbaity title But it's actually what people are coming to streams to find out. Is this game worth it? Common questions were is this game fun now? Uh, did they fix it? Is it worth the money and I say 30 dollars because the game is 50% off Most everywhere it's on sale big sale with this update. So the normal price is definitely 60 dollars So I don't want I don't want the people to try to correct me there But it is now 30 dollars as of as of this recording and it's going to run through july 27th for most outlets So what do I think? It feels like a brand new game There's some things that feel the same but most things feel new And that's good because they're all positive changes Um, all those things that I talked about are in the game. There is no lying There's no deception All those things are in there and they work as design for the most part. There are bugs. Definitely bugs Uh, most of the the negative stuff I've seen so far Uh, well, I didn't talk about performance. Performance is vastly improved. That was one of my things against the game at launch performance has improved One of the negative things I I found about no man's guy next was the Not only the performance of co-op but bugs in co-op and just just just wishy-washy stuff and Haven't been in the software development field for a while I kind of expect that this is a major new feature that has a lot of moving parts And if you've ever developed multiplayer games, you know how many how much stuff you have to do um Just synchronization issues, whether it be internet, whether it be state um When you know someone crashes, how do you handle that situation? How can I handle that situation? For instance this morning I saw on the stream today um Where one player they were they were on another player's freighter And the player's freighter the player who owned the freighter crashed And the other player in a group basically just fell through the ship and died Now that's not very common. I don't think but it's happened to more than one person Also, there are some issues or some some problems. I should say With uh game saves. I think people were reporting some issues with steam cloud And how saves are being handled through steam cloud And how it's not working as design in most cases some people are getting rolled back some And some people are you know, I haven't confirmed this but people are claiming That they lost a lot of time if not their entire save So I heard that and I decided to turn off Steam cloud for now because I haven't confirmed that but just the idea of that being a possibility Kind of makes me worry a little bit and turning off steam cloud is not that big of a deal It's only if you play on multiple machines or you're going to be probably deleting games quite a bit So I just have to remind myself That uh before I If I do decide to delete no man's sky to make room on my ssd, which is probably going to happen at some point Um, I need to turn steam cloud back on so I can synchronize that before I do so But overall guys the game just got you know, it was like over 100k viewers on twitch Probably going to a lot of viewership on youtube as well Twitter's a buzzing about it. It was on the you know, it was on my twitter moments. It was trending no man's sky a very very powerful and um Revigorating update Some people or fans I should say are calling it the game comeback The biggest game comeback of the ever they're not saying up to you. They're saying ever I don't agree with that. It is a bit comeback The steam reviews have gone from overall mostly negative to mixed Which is kind of a huge deal given the amount of negative reviews the game received uh During or at launch Because there was a lot of issues Both with content and with performance and it's the building But this is this is I mean the game has had great updates since launch and a lot of people don't talk about that Because they don't really know about it people don't follow the game that much This is the first update where it was massively promoted by both you know, hello games And the media it was really hyped because of so much stuff that was put inside of it Uh, and the multiplayer headline really caught people's eyes. They're like, oh, they're adding multiplayer That's the only thing I wanted which I don't understand personally, but that's what people were saying um So no man's sky next I really like it.  I've been calling them all kinds of stuff Uh, gravatino, they're called gravatino balls and the video is called the adventures of the gravatino balls And it tells a tale of how I could not resist the shine and luster of those gravatino balls and ended up running from the cops For almost an hour And it was Some some people were calling it one of the best moments on my stream. They've ever seen On my live stream There was lots of yelling. So if you do watch the video turn your volume down. There's lots of screaming lots of frantic statements and then there was like You'd have one minute of logical thinking with me.  Then I see some more gravatino balls And then all that will be erased and I'll get some more and then start this whole thing up again It's like I wasn't thinking pretty hilarious Um, and I've been trying I put together that video I took the 45 minutes and I cut it down to like 20 minutes most of the morning And I was getting ready for this show and I'm just like all I can think about was no man's guy Like I actually want to stream now after I finish Uh, after I finish recording this podcast I actually want to go out and stream no man's guy because there's so much I want to do I want to get a base built. I want to build a farm Um, I want to get those upgrade ones. I want to get a freighter. I want to get trade going So much So the game's been injected with new life now Is everyone going to love this update?  What is wrong with you? Um, and then there's some rational people out there some logical people that are legit asking Is the game actually worth it now because I I agree with a lot of assessments that the game Wasn't really worth 60 dollars at launch I think it was uh, it was an early access title um released on console As a full release and a pc as a full release early access And here we are two years later with the game actually being fleshed out and complete Just like your typical early access game So the blame game can go to sony the blame game can go to Sean Murray can go to hello games It was a small team and six to twelve people With all these weight on their shoulders But the the bottom line is today no man's sky next is out and it has all these features and it's very fun And very fulfilling to play If you own the game, I highly recommend you check it out Highly highly recommend you check out this update if you still feel the same way about the game So be it and and and just like I told the people on my live stream If you're on the fence now's the time to make a decision because the sale will not last that much longer Get the game for 50% off now because when it goes back to full price and you're probably going to be feeling to play it again It's going to be a harder decision. You're going to be paying twice as much Playing twice as much so get on it right now Also, it's on green man gaming.com. I think for 58 off. So it's a little bit cheaper on green man gaming So check the story out guys. I'll link it over to no man sky.com slash next update has all these features laid out and the patch notes at the bottom What a patch what an update is probably the biggest The biggest turnaround of the year I think of any game out there. I think they've really Inject their life into a game that people didn't even they forgot about Check it out guys If our final story, we're going to follow up with no man's sky and talk about gog.com's Version of no man's sky and it was kind of a surprise to me when I read this that no man's sky on the gog platform Did not have multiplayer at launch The drm drm free version which you know gog.com prized himself with Will not have multiplayer a majority of the multiplayer on pc that I know of right now is on on the backs of steam It uses the steam friend to connect the people I'm not sure what technology they use to find random people But this whole thing has been gutted On the gog version all the multiplayer all the co-op stuff It's just not there and the game is sold for the same price you know And from what I saw On their page. I I didn't I didn't see it anywhere You know announced pre-announced, but people just didn't know There was nowhere that said that that was gone until after the fact Um, then there's a forum post i'm gonna link you to which talks about this and that the statement that they have Is that the multiplayer element of next is not yet included in the drm free version of the game um It says from launch the drm free version of no man's sky will include all single player content Included by next third person mode upgraded visuals blah blah blah However, the multiplayer component will not be ready at launch. We expect it to be released later this year As full multiplayer parody remains in the pipeline For a small independent studio Developing the feature across multiple platforms is a hugely ambitious and technical challenge which resulted in this delayed release Hello games is however joining forces with gog.com.com to introduce full multiplayer via the gog galaxy platform We appreciate your immense support and patience. Hello games and gog.com team So I read that and I go Well, why did you release it at all? Because that's the that's the the giant question in my head if the game is not complete Which it isn't it's been gutted a major thing the top headlining feature of the game by the way It's been gutted and you released it anyway same price Why even release it just delay it on gog? Until you get multiplayer in don't even bother releasing a half It boggles the mind a half Built version of the game You're releasing and you you're only going to patch that version later on. I've never heard of anything such So so so crazy and you gotta wonder who's pushing this. I mean Is it hello games or is it gog or is it both? It seems like they're really trying to get money. It seems financially motivated That's the only reason I can think of is I think it's financially motivated to release a gutted version of the game for full price Well, I say full price. I mean the you know the going price. I believe it was 50 off on the gog.com as well As it is on steam and ps4 and xbox one So if you buy it on gog expecting a drm free version of game sure you got that but you also gotta have the game The bit like I said, this is the headlining feature of this patch multiplayer and it's gone I don't really get it The good news is that gog.com is Offering refunds. I think for up to a year. They're gonna extend it up to a year So you can't get a refund if you did buy there, which is good But they're gonna circle back to the question why release it anyway It makes me suspicious of both of these companies now gog.com and hello games. What were you thinking to do this? Check it out guys over on the gog forum page Where the post is they talk about this check it out for yourself. Let me know what you're thinking the comments because I don't know. Like I said, I'm suspicious I mean for all the praise that I gave next and the update and what they did with the developers and stuff The gog thing is like making me go what? Huh? It's like I was just praising you and then you turn around and do this Check it out guys. The story is over there and that concludes episode 127 of game chat with boon. I wouldn't think you're all for coming by Please please feel free to follow the stream on my my my live stream at twitch.tv slash boona Also youtube.com slash boona That's where I post videos this video every wednesday or thursday depending on how late it goes And uh, also you can follow me on instagram instagram.com slash boona as well We're also on spotify itunes and google play I hope you enjoyed the show. I'm going to be playing some no man sky right after I published this I'm hooked. I'm hooked. I gotta say it's got its hooks in me I don't know how long the hooks are going to stay in me, but right now it has gotten me That's all I can think about I want to play today So if you want to watch me play I may be streaming tonight twitch.tv slash boona or That's probably going to reach you a little late for that But uh, I stream daily now at 4 p.m. Until 4 p.m. Eastern So if you're on the east coast You'll be able to catch me when you get off work Central as well I'll stream for a minimum of four hours, but I usually go about eight hours And I think it's going to be a lot of fun I want to be playing no man sky some warframe a lot of games got updated I don't even want to play fortnite safe of world because that got updated they they updated the game to Not have as much screen shake which was giving me nausea Which is why I didn't play fortnite save of world now. 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Well, we had a really great weekend. Conditions weren't great. It was a little chilly, windy, but we learned a lot about playing into wind. Using that to our advantage, I felt like our girls were really focused as we're priming to go down to the D3 national championships next week. So I was real pleased with the way we played. Picked up a nice win against Liberty on Saturday. We hadn't beaten them since 2018, and we beat them 4-1. And so that was a fantastic job. We're trying to peak at the right time. And I really think that we are, as far as we had good competition this week. Loyola was really strong in athletic, and Liberty is always good. So we had good matches to practice on and get some confidence with wins this weekend. So the more reps we get together as teammates, the better we're going to get. So we had our senior day today. It was the Emily Piper show, or senior day, or it was the Piper-Emily show. But both of them, four years, dual sport athletes. And Emily Polini has played at all five of our pairs through her four years. And she's on the ones now with Shannon, and has just done a fantastic job her four years. And then Piper Conner has been a one or two since her freshman year. And it's just a go-to player in the clutch. And so we are going to miss them desperately. But so it was nice to celebrate them today.