For you to kind of glue that together about trust. Yeah, either about trust or convenience. Mm-hmm I mean Hansel and Gretel comes to mind. Okay. That's that's when I hadn't considered. I was looking at some of the grim fairy tales the other night and One of them was this this one of a cat and a mouse that were friends And they were hanging out they were living together that I think they were like just roomies or something They're trying to save on rent because it's by the Bay Area. They're just yeah, there's roommates. Yeah Well, but it was like getting winter time and so they're like oh winter's gonna come and you know We don't want to starve.  We just church house. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, it's a church cat and mouse and So they hid this and what would have ended up happening and was the cat kept on sneaking off to the jar and sneaking some of the fat the notes to the mouse and it was really unfortunate because here came winter and and The mouse goes oh man.   Mm-hmm. Do you think he like rings them up?  I hear you're like figured out some things about preparing for winter I learned some lessons last winter myself, right love to love to swap ideas. Mmm. And then the fox is calling up being like hey, so Yeah, there were these pigs, but they're all in this brick house now. I need a place to crash I heard that you like roommates It says here on your referrals that you lived with a mouse, but I had a hard time getting in contact Yeah Hmm Hmm, I mean you've got excellent credit. So we'll give it to you. But yeah, you're like a you're like scores amazing Hmm.  It lens said he'll just pop in. Oh Let's do a podcast he gets. Yeah Here we in a world where technology Changes faster than the human race can adapt There's only one place to turn The Daily Tech news show with Tom Merritt and guests But they need your help Go to Daily Tech news show comm to find out how This is the Daily Tech news for Friday March 4th 2016 I'm Tom Merritt if you're not watching House of Cards. This is the Daily Tech news show. Hello, Darren kitchen. How are you today? I Am epic and so is Nick serve because he just told me that we're friends. So there you go Yeah, so so I'm here way back. I hope the Len pops in with Chan serve and then we're all gonna have a party Yeah, Len Peralta is illustrating the show today, but he had a little computer trouble. So he's rebooting He should be popping in here at any moment He'll let you know when he's in here But we he will be illustrating the show Len Peralta store.com to see his great works folks Go check them out buy yourself some prints. They're not that much game by digital ones back. I'm on patreon all that kind of stuff But speaking of epic Darren from hack 5.org Our first headline is a is pretty epic Shall we yes, we shall That was Sweeney of you Epic games co-founder Tim Sweeney is what that means wrote an editorial in the Guardian criticizing Games written for Universal Windows platform saying because they must be sold through the Windows Store that gives Microsoft a cut 30% cut and Yeah, there is a setting that allows side loading, but it's buried Most people won't bother to turn it on Sweeney claims that some new Windows features are available Exclusively on the wind Universal Windows platform and he fears that that will only get worse trying to force developers into the Microsoft Ecosystem at the same time UWP does not yet support things like SLI or crossfire Making developers choose Compromises Kevin Gallo VP of Windows told the Guardian the Universal Windows platform is a fully open ecosystem available to every developer That can be supported by any store Oh Finally man, we were in a slump there You know at the the Microsoft since bomber left has just been like very confusing and there's like cross platform stuff going on I say if this is 2003 Everyone just doesn't believe Gallo They're just like for yeah, what of course it's gonna be open But there is a there is like Phil Spencer saying we plan to improve Gallo saying no the other stories can use this So maybe there's a chance Darren that Microsoft comes out With some details that show that hey, no you can you can publish on the Windows platform and still publish in Steam And we made it easy. We just didn't give you the details before It's at least conceivable, right? It's happened before with Vista when they tried to you know take over gaming Oh, yeah, you know Right, and you know, here's the thing. It's not even just like Microsoft trying to do this It's it's everyone wants to be a platform. Yeah, I mean look, it's you know You've got steam certain steam games aren't available if they're from EA you have to get origin, right? So everyone wants to be a platform. It makes sense. It's just I'm just heart-warmed Because this is the anti-competitive Microsoft that I know and love that you've come to you've come to love over the 90s And early 2000s. Yeah, I have a feeling there's some more shoes to drop here Phil Spencer very famously has been very user centric and also very developer friendly There is a tension to be served here, which is the Windows store If it's going to compete with Android and iOS Needs to lock people in that's what and Sweeney even brings that up He's like that's the problem with Android is that even though it's supposedly open Google locks you in You have to develop it for Android Microsoft coming out with these platforms that they're saying look you can develop You know, they just bought Xamarin you can develop on this platform and publish everywhere They've been putting their software on non Microsoft devices It wouldn't be fitting with their recent performance for them to lock you into the Windows store when they're really trying to pitch themselves As the solution to make things easy for you Right and isn't that the whole idea of the PC anyway is that as opposed to the proprietary nature of consoles that it is an open platform So Yeah, that's kind of hindering the whole I my take on this is Sweeney is asking Exactly the right questions bringing up exactly the right criticisms and it's now in Spencer's court Or in Microsoft's court to answer that and go like, okay How are you how are you gonna make this work because I love the idea of the universal Windows platform where I can buy a Game on Xbox play it on Windows and vice versa. That doesn't mean I want to be locked out of other stores I still want to be able to buy stuff on steam I still want developers to make it easy and that's Microsoft's advantages They could say hey right at once it'll go to the windows store and steam and everywhere else like that's the message I want to hear we'll see Let's not also forget that when I say like the PC is an open platform Windows is just one of those components of it and we see awesome stuff happening in gaming like vulcan being supported on Linux So there you go Oculus founder Palmer lucky has been making his own public comments about platforms Regarding why Oculus is deferring support for Linux and particularly OS 10 he told Shaq news if they meaning Apple ever release a good computer We will do it ouch and then added if they prioritize higher-end GPUs like they used to for a while back in the day We'd love to support Mac Basically pulling no punches and saying you you're putting mobile GPUs in your laptops and that's not gonna be good enough for an Oculus thanks to cold spring for posting this on the subreddit the rift is launching only on windows development kits had supported OS 10 and Linux, but only got a launch on windows see all you have to do Tom is put a GTX 980 PCI card in your Mac book or your iMac you can do that right oh Well, you might need to solder Hmm, but maybe there's a way. I'm not gonna say there isn't a way Yeah, I'm sure you could in a Mac Pro, but still yeah, it's got very good points and Looks like Len Peralta has has jumped in and is is drawing away So so good for Len we will get to him at the end of the show. Thank you for joining us Len I don't know if he can hear us though. He may still be have he's all tk421 Yeah, why he but he is at his post good ours technical reports that France's National Assembly passed an amendment yesterday that would penalize companies that do not Provide access to encrypted data during terrorism investigations Get back to that in a second Penalties for not doing this include fines up to 350,000 euros and up to five years in jail The amendment is part of a bill to combat terrorism and organized crime So they passed the amendment being added to the bill, but the bill itself has not been passed National Assembly will vote on that bill March 8th, and then it would move on to the Senate So there's a lot of debate to be had about this But they're trying to get it in under these other protections that they want to pass and essentially this would say Any company that makes an encrypted product has to keep the key. You can't let the user have the key and nobody else Yeah, okay, so Real quick how I feel Governments of the world France included our attack vectors on secure systems and that any entity What wanting to develop such a secure system needs to factor that in and build it in such a way that compliance is impossible period Well, but then the company that that allowed that encryption on their product if they were in France would have to pay 350,000 euros and spend five years in jail or they might have to just leave France and France might have to say oh You know, we don't allow perfect encryption systems So we'll just ban those importing to our country and then France will be stuck in 2015 for the rest of their lives And that's okay Well, it's not okay if you live in France. I wouldn't think well, we'll hear from Patrick He's and he doesn't even live in France. No Encryption stuff now and I'm joking. Yeah. Yeah, the San Bernardino district attorney filed an application for an amicus brief So you'll see it reported that they filed an amicus brief They actually filed the application to file an amicus brief in the Apple case Stating that the iPhone 5c that Apple has been asked to help break into may have been used quote To introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino's infrastructure That's one of the things they're looking could be on there. They don't get in the phone They might not know Security researcher Jonathan Jarski told ours Technica quote the world has never seen what he is describing coming from an iPhone Thanks to carry out of for posting this on the subreddit. I mean, I I'm new to this So maybe I just missed it, but I have never heard of a cyber pathogen before no no cyber pathogens are Something that only DA district attorneys are able to come up with when they're up late at night watching bad 1990s era cyberpunk the movies got something. I mean, there may be that there may be the plans for an Intergalactic highway that will go through earth I mean IRC can probably tell us all sorts of things that might be on the phone as well But this is classic for this is fear. This is uncertainty This is doubt and it's being used to to sway the opinion and to make claims of some sort of cyber bomb And it seems like a tactic that almost like someone trying to use fear would use some something like a like what do we call those? Like terrorists like I think that's what terrorists usually try to terrorize someone into do. Yeah It's interesting Well, this is just a filing for an amicus brief not an actual amicus brief nor an actual filing from one of the plaintiffs or defendants in the case But Jonathan Jarski did say there also might be a unicorn on that phone That I was like, well, wait a minute now. Maybe we should get into you know who else Put their name on an amicus brief recently was Amazon And I hear that things are changing up with them and they fire OS Yes, we did I did I skip past that or something? Yeah, it's okay Yeah, thanks for catching that My scrolling has been off lately Amazon told TechCrunch quote in the fall when we released fire OS 5 We removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren't using All fire tablets communication with Amazon's cloud meet our high standards for privacy and security including appropriate use of encryption Thanks to Captain Kipper for posting this on the subreddit this in response to the Mainstream discovery that fire OS 5 said hey, we're removing encryption So you can either not upgrade to fire OS 5 or you can not have your device be encrypted.  I got to get a new one.  But then remove encryption from fire OS because I'm not buying the whole concept of oh, but you know It's an entertainment device. It doesn't need security You know a lot of people we heard from people DTNS heard from people by email who use their Amazon tablets in enterprise situations So I have a feeling that this is not I think it's easy to the knee-jerk reaction is the NSA made him do it or Amazon is turning against the users One of those situations actually make any sense especially because they filed that amicus brief I have a feeling that this is just a poor decision on Amazon's part To improve performance on fire OS because they couldn't tweak more performance out of it And they probably legitimately said not that many people are using the encryption if we got rid of it The performance numbers would go up. Yeah, don't get me wrong I mean I I do I would say consumer electronics the hacker electronics And I know all about prioritizing features and things of that nature But to but security never goes to the bottom just because few people are using it Yeah, I'm not saying it was a wise decision. I don't think it was a malicious decision It was an incompetent decision at best, right?  Yeah does not support privacy Unless you're talking to the Amazon cloud in which I do believe that they do encrypt that connection Which is like that's that response was even more hilarious like oh well when you're sending things to the internet It'll be it'll be Private we just don't believe in protecting your privacy on the device Totally and credit where credit is due, you know, but the difference between like for instance the new Echoes Versus the fire OS is like one hasn't had Encryption where else the other one has and it's now removed. Well the echo has encryption actually Well, okay, we'll learn something new every day. That's fantastic. Yeah, I know like and that which also makes this whole situation We'll remove that next like of the echo probably if you had to say between the two needs encryption less than the other one But it has it. Yeah, which is great because you can say okay, Alexa shop to 56 e EF five to zero for D. No, no, no, you're probably setting up somebody's exact Amazon echo right now Never mind it happens a lot Finally Sony announced a new research and development group Thursday called future lab program promising to share concept prototypes which users Will see while still in the development stage Although they got off to a weird start by showing a really vague video that doesn't tell you much For a project that is being touted to be transparent The first project is going to be called and promises to deliver audio without having to insert an object in your ear And in the video a woman wears a device around her neck So maybe it's some kind of bone induction I don't know Sony says it will show up the end and a few other prototypes at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin next week Oh, man I for one hope so desperately that in the future devices like headphones or VR headsets that we have today that go over your eyes and ears look as ridiculous as I don't know what VR headsets did in the 90s and Just I guess I guess if this worked I could wear it under my shirt Maybe I don't know. I'm just I also think it's really awesome to just see R&D labs opening instead of closing Yeah, and I think the idea is at South by is when they'll actually be opening this was a little bit of a teaser but it's kind of funny when you're being transparent to then also be vague about what You're about to be transparent about mm-hmm Reuters reports Facebook said quote from the start of April UK sales made directly by our UK team will be booked in the UK Not Ireland the move comes in response to changes to tax law in the UK regarding profits shifted offshore Facebook did not clarify if that meant that before now Sales booked by UK staff to UK clients went through Ireland because that would break UK and international tax laws So suddenly a bunch of MPs are not are not saying good job Facebook for for changing your the way you work to be more tax-responsible They're saying oh, so you were breaking the law up to now. Maybe we should investigate that mm-hmm UK those guys are still in the EU, right For now. Yeah, okay Google confirmed that starting next week It will delist right to be forgotten links from all its search results worldwide if The user making the search is detected to come from the EU Google said it will quote use geo location signals like IP addresses Unquote this will be in addition to the current practice of delisting from all European versions of Google search engine Yeah, you know further fragmenting the web and creating into lots of little silos But it's okay because geo location as we know is physically being there. It's a kid If that's the case if that's the case when I if I have an IP address that says I'm in the UK That means I'm in the UK, right? Oh, yeah, if it's a VPN No, no if you're if you're there watching the iPlayer Tom, you're not here So those crimes that you could I mean that somebody else committed were not committed by you If it maybe it was a crime in the state of California, but it's not a crime in the UK I know exonerated because my IP address clearly shows That I was in the UK. Yeah, and I've just been I've been in Moscow all week buying MP3s. Have you doubt? Yes, don't do that. No, that's a good way to get a virus. Hmm. Yeah, and I don't need a computer Nintendo announced a new 3ds XL variant sporting a super Famicom color and graphics scheme For those of you who know the way back day is of the old Famicom It's set for an April release in Japan and we'll retail for around 21,600 yen That's equivalent to about 190 dollars US Nintendo also announced it would be releasing classic SNES games like Super Mario World and F zero for the updated 3ds XL with two analog sticks in the e shop Well, first off F zero is just like about the best game Nintendo's ever done period And you have to use the pink one because that those blue and yellow ones suck anyway If you've ever played it, you know what I mean But also I love the like throwback Famicom stuff. I would like to see one using floppy disks Because those are retro enough to be cool again. Aren't they three and a half? Yeah Well a long time ago I did a mod where I took a floppy disk case and put it around a USB stick I made like a crazy USB drive essentially that was a floppy disk hanging off your USB port and I had more than 1.44 megabytes There's a guy recently did one way better, which was put the USB internals inside The the floppy disk then created a draw a USB drive a USB port that you put the disk in Like you were putting it into a floppy drive and then it worked It does have more than 1.44 megabytes. Nice. Yeah, bring them back Finally Xiaomi CEO Lee June has softened his stance against a possible IPO Tech in Asia reports that June said in a speech that he is quote Considering following Alibaba's lead and setting up an internal options trading system to incentivize employees while we haven't listed and Then said but because we have investors and employees Xiaomi is not ruling out an IPO now if you haven't followed this you may say well all he said is they're not really not an IPO Why is that news? He has been very adamant. We will not do an IPO We are not going public and so having him change the tune to like we're not ruling out an IPO is a big change for him Hmm Thank you to everybody who submitted stories at our subreddit dailytechnewshow.reddit.com It definitely helps us put the show together every day. So get in there and join in do some voting make some comments Have a discussion T.G. Steller is great about putting comment threads in there that relate to our day's discussions So get in there and have some fun dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines Have an interesting story from Bloomberg businesses Selena Wang About alternatives to Apple assistance now Patrick Beja and I were having a conversation earlier this week about whether you could actually image the iPhone drive and then try your 10 password attempts it Deletes its data, but that's an image copy and then you go back and make another copy Ms Ms. Selena Wang went and talked to Jonathan Jarski who is a forensic security researcher and he's been weighing in quite a bit on The Apple controversy he pointed her to a Shenzhen YouTube video of phone drives being upgraded and how they pull the drive the drive out of the iPhone Make a copy onto a 120 like taking a 16 gig drive putting it on 128 gig flash drive Putting the 128 gig flash drive into the iPhone and he says look, you know, yeah If you do that hundreds of time you might damage the chip But they could do this they could research how to do this and get around the problems He says you could also just try to find an exploit software vulnerabilities He said and other options that are brought up in the article is asking the NSA for help Although Susan Landau in her testimony said the NSA may not want to make their methods known even to the FBI FBI director James Comey says that they've asked everybody We have engaged all parts of the US government to see does anybody have a way short of asking Apple and we do not But Landau recommends that the FBI create and fund an investigative center She says bring FBI investigative capabilities into the 21st century, which goes back to what Jarski saying is there are ways This is a hackers race. There are always raised ways Darren what how possible is that how how practical is that forget the side of whether Apple should comply or not? Yeah, I mean could FBI get into this if they put enough elbow grease against it Yes, this is nothing new dumping the ROM off of a chip is standard practice That's how you do it and if you damage the chip you just solder on a new one. It's not rocket science You just make a good pristine backup copy you put that when your cute little envelopes that say is evidence or whatever I know you guys love those and then you just keep trying and every ten times it wipes big deal You pop on a new chip or just do a copy of it Like people that run ROMs on emulators do the same thing with Nintendo's so But that that misses the point the thing Tom is this is has nothing to do with the technical feasibility of Actually hacking this phone. This is all about using the terrorism card to put the push the FBI backdoor agenda You know and you know he has Go ahead. I'm just saying whether or not they have the technical chops It doesn't matter what they you know One is to have Apple do the dirty work for them and set a precedent because these these cases have happened numerous times before But now they've waited until there's a you know a terrorism case with a US company I know this might go down a little differently if this were Samsung for example and as we can see from the hysteria of You know like well Francis National Assembly that we were just talking about in regards to encryption, you know, the terrorism card works Hell we even passed the Patriot Act after 9-11 So, you know, it's obvious that that works and the FBI in this case are just wolves and sheeps clothing So but but hold on let's let's go back to to the technical aspect because you sort of said well That's easy. They could do that. I I've heard several people say it's not that easy Even Jonathan Jarski says well, you'd have to work at it So you're saying it's possible It's but how how difficult would it be? I mean Steve Gibson says that this is actually that that the key is combined with the you with the ID of the phone essentially so you how you could it would be difficult to Make just make an image and use it But this video that Jarski pointed out actually shows them cloning the the phone ID and then putting the the chip back So conceivably you could do that Jarski says usually it only takes about 200 times to guess most passwords Because most people don't use complex passwords because this was the second phone of the suspect. Maybe that's true. Maybe not But Jarski says look They could also ask Apple to make an image for them But Apple could definitely image this and he's like I wondering and this is where we go back to a little bit of what You're talking about of why what the possible motivations might be here Why wouldn't they just ask Apple to make an image that then they could try to brute force and every time that image got locked up You just you know, you have a copy of the image and you try again Especially since as Jarski points out even if they get Apple to make this tool that lets them brute force and get into the phone You don't want to use the phone to examine the data You're gonna have to make an image of it anyway, which would require them to go back to Apple and ask for an image No, no see that's the thing is if that's a very It's a great question and there are many technical reasons why they could just you know break into this phone and use their own Chops to do so, you know dumping the ROM is not impossible and then re-flashing the ROM is not impossible either So there's no reason why they couldn't just you know hack the silicon to get into this device They could even just try pulling off a encrypted file and throw some of those CIA super computers at them to brute force them Instead of brute forcing the lock screen. So they're going about it. They're trying to go in Obviously the front door has got a pretty decent lock on it But they're like hammering on this for some reason and the reason is that they want to set a precedent And it's not even about this lock screen on you know tries and unlocks It's setting a precedent that we can have you develop software to our Specification when we need to break into stuff and that's why this case is being used and and that's why Jarski Says about the imaging is you you ask the court very specifically for software that can brute force a password Not because you want to use it on this particular phone But because you want to have that tool in your arsenal to use later down the road He says you should you should fully expect them to need to go back to Apple and ask for a tool to image the drive Again something they could do on their own But it's going to be faster and more efficient to have an Apple approved version that then they can legally ask for again Because and and if people are wondering well wait a minute if you just get into the password. Why don't you just open the phone and look around? Jarski calls that the equivalent of dumpster diving background processes start to run once you log in They potentially clean up data older Twitter messages get tossed out Just doesn't matter of course and keeping your phone running nicely wicker and telegram support self-destructing messages as soon as you opened up one Of those apps they would start to delete certain messages that were older than a certain age Which is at this point they want the older messages. So what Jarski saying is look to have a forensically sound Investigation of this phone you you need to have an image of it, right? And they not only that but they needed to have not altered and in this case they've altered the evidence I mean if the FBI wanted to they could have already had this but they were completely incompetent with it letting the phone die For instance letting the other sorry letting the battery run run flat you know changing the password when they could have done a Synchronization to iCloud and even Apple said hey we've seen failed attempts to authenticate with iCloud so the FBI It's almost like they purposely blocked themselves. So that The thing is like it's either that they're completely incompetent and maybe they do need better cyber capabilities But it sounds like that's not what they want what they want is citizen cyber crippling So let's set aside like I know I know how much you want to talk about the motivations We've talked about most possible motivations a lot And there are a lot of people in our audience who believe that the FBI has pure motivations that they're not trying to do something Malicious here that they just really want to crack down on crime. So let's let's let's set that aside for a moment In the end is Susan Landau, right if Congress gave them a few hundred thousand dollars or maybe a million dollars Could the FBI create a task force who would be able to get into Fully encrypted phones like this and not need to go to companies and ask for special keys and backdoors Yeah, if I can like sign up for a sands course on hacking iOS there's no reason why the FBI couldn't just put some money in their like cyber training budget and Learn these skills and develop these skills and contact Security researchers and say hey, can we have your proof of concept code to see if we can use it to hack on this thing? That I would much rather see them do that because ultimately that makes for better products anyway when you start hacking on these things and breaking them That's when you know where the vulnerabilities are to fix Exactly they're just going about it the easy way not even the easy way They're just saying hey Apple do the dirty work for us Well, it is more efficient if you can get someone else Fish and what they should do is learn how to fish I think that was Susan Landau's testimony It may beat out word for word, but that was essentially what she was saying is look there We've got this video that Jarski pointed out of a guy copying over the UUID and everything on a phone saying look you can do This you can you can copy these drives? It just takes a little more work to figure this out people jailbreak the base bands of these things if you get Into the base band it doesn't matter what's going on with the operating system. There are loads of ways to get it at that point The the underlying aphorism In the hacking world is generally it's an arms race Somebody's trying to lock you out you figure out how to get around the lock they come up with a better lock Etc etc etc etc nothing is this whole debate is premised on the idea that apple could make encryption so good That no one in the entire world could ever figure a way around it Sorry, there's no such thing. Yeah, but I never would you can you can get good You can get good it you know quote-unquote good enough you can layer enough security you can feel confident but it's it's always about mitigating that risk and You know here what's crazy is that Congress is completely ignoring the incompetence on their level on on the level of the FBI and It's just like to the FBI dude Apple isn't your IT department. You know you broke it fix it And and that really does bear on the case the case itself is saying should a company a private company be compelled To create tools And and again, I go I hate to keep bringing up Susan Landau like it's a broken record But I thought her testimony was very apt, which was you don't need them to do that You you should you should create this yourself. You can create this yourself No, you can't create it the same way because you don't have the the key But there are plenty of ways for you for you to do this and I think that's important to note No matter what side of the debate you're on is is that this we're talking about well, that's how it's traditionally done This is the first time we're instead of just hacking it Yeah, with traditional means you go like hey, we went the easy way Can you just do that and and that's the thing is that's what had been happening previously Was when Apple could just give them the keys? That's what they were doing saying right and well, we can just get the keys. Why would we buy? Yeah, exactly It's like we don't want to you know buy the cow if we can just keep coming to apple and say give us some more milk I get that and apples like we're tired of giving you milk So they make a system that's uh, you know that's designed in such a way that they can't just hand it over and they're like But come on you've been giving us milk this whole time And Susan Landau's like congress just give him money for a cow. Well, yeah, let him buy a cow It's always not the FBI buy a cow Uh not buy a cow who is an excellent member of our community but buy a cow Yeah, like they could get a gateway 2000 and start, you know trying to break the encryption with that Yeah, they could get that kind of cow too. That's I guess that's a good point. Uh, so this this is a Here here's where I'm gonna end my my point on this What I feel like should happen not not regarding the particular case in San Bernardino. I think that's separate what I think should happen is that uh, the FBI should cultivate Relationship with someone who actually knows a lot about encryption how to get around encryption And is experienced in the forensic part of it Which is how to make sure you get the information in a way so that it can still hold up in court Which is a trickier thing and that guy's Jonathan Jarski Hmm, and you know, maybe they should also teach their agents not to ruin evidence I'm just saying maybe the FBI should hire Jonathan Jarski. There you go All right Our pick of the day comes from tim carrying on our theme of a router week We we didn't mean it to be but it has definitely become router week Uh, and tim wanted to offer up his favorite router dtwrt Open source firmware replacement for a large range of routers common chip sets Roger chang was uh recommending it in our post show the other day as well He uses it based on linux has a large range of advanced networking features not commonly found in most routers One of the best features is policy based routing the ability to send certain traffic Out of a different interface such as a vpn connection that is hosted on the router The usual warnings apply being an open source and community supported project It may not be for everyone, but it does have a decent web GUI And he also said he spends a fair amount of time at a bash prompt So don't let that turn you off. But thank you tim. I'm sure you use dtwrt, you know Yeah, I've used a dtwrt. I actually like the open wrt Uh Distribution instead that's actually what we build our wi-fi pineapple firmware on top of But it's a very similar, you know, linux embedded linux distribution and they're both really great And home users should try them out even though it's like oh server linux sees stuff It's it's not scary at all The modern web interfaces that they put on them are actually better In most cases than what you find off the shelf from the likes of linksys and tp link and such Yeah, I have definitely used dtwrt I think it was back before when wrt was around yet But I I have used it to great effect to repair routers that were having problems So I'll put a link to open wrt in the uh show notes as well. It's on your face to us folks I just hope that it continues to be an option for this is a discussion for another time But I'm now I'm sure in june when the fcc rules on their new proposed regulations when it regards to 5 gigahertz spectrum that uh That was a lot of fun. There's a lot of good going around Uh in that discussion So yeah fingers crossed that that doesn't get f'd up as badly as some people are afraid Send your picks to us folks feedback at daily tech news show dot com You can find more picks at daily tech news show dot com slash picks a couple messages before we get out of here regarding The six flags virtual reality roller coaster. Did you hear about this darin?  Well, you will go to six flags in nine other parks You'll be given a samsung gear vr that you'll put on your head and you will be on a physical roller coaster But having virtual reality paired up with it So the motion of the roller coaster pairs with the virtual experience you're on So what you're saying is six flags is actually using vr in one of their rides Yes So what you're saying is if I want my prediction to come true, which is that That a company will sue someone over using their vr intellectual property because it's so much like the real thing that all I have to do Is make a copy of that video and release it so everybody else with a gear vr can experience it sands the Motion of the roller coaster Technically speaking. Yes, although I would do this while vpn'd to the uk so that obviously it wasn't me It wasn't you obviously that wasn't it Dr. Hill shows clearly that uh, hey The fear that justin and I were talking about is how do you keep these things on your head? so they don't go flying off when you're going loop to loop on the roller coaster and we were Contemplating the idea of bob and fred in the break room discussing this before they put it up Sean Who I believe is an employee of six flags Says bob and fred here from the break room to answer your six flags samsung gear vr questions The devices will be the new galaxy s7 phone inside of a gear vr They are secured with an additional chin strap so that they don't fly off You'll need to be 13 years or older. It's optional and free There are already a bunch of parks in europe and asia that offer vr coaster rides They originally experimented with the oculus units but have since switched to gear vr devices as they are easier to maintain and keep clean We are just brought it. We have just brought it to the united states Added some characters from dc comics and the fighter jet along with the best g force coasters on the planet Here is what we saw at the iappa trade show and sold that sold our team to do this and there's a youtube video there as well So, yeah Got the word straight out of the flags. Wow, so in america So I can I can only imagine how this is going to slow down uh passenger rates on those, uh I wonder coasters, but also it's really interesting to think of a future where there's an option to b y o v r And just you know show up connect to the wi-fi network or whatever have you and how the app installed i'm good Yeah, you'd have to get their harness so that it would get you secure. Yeah. Yeah, if you don't have the chin harness Yeah And joe from huntsville was speculating This will allow them to rebrand and change the ride complexion with just software changes a new adventure each year without having to Risk adding or changing ride tracks. They could put in advertisements. You think nascar could sell advertisements This could allow six flags to place the ads as part of the ride experience And eventually they could allow passengers to select from multiple trips that kind of ties into what you're talking about darin So even if you're in the same ride car with your friend, you could experience different visual environments Oh, yeah, it'd be like the indiana jones ride where you don't know which Which one you're gonna get you know, there's multiple tracks you could take You know your body could be telling you you're going left But you could be your vr could be telling you you're going right and your chin I really need to puke right now, but it can't open my mouth Uh ashish wanted to let us know why he thinks apple has passed jaume as the sixth best selling phone in tier one cities in india He says the brand like everyone else in the world has impeccable brand value talking about apple brand And carrying an iphone is considered a status symbol by many in india not everyone Especially not the savvy folks, but many of the same older versions of the iphone are available in india Way after they stop selling them elsewhere The iphone 4s is still available here today And those who don't understand the fact that it is over four years old or don't care buy it just to have the apple logo on the back Uh resale value is another consideration used iphone sell like hot cakes with much less devaluation than other brands So many simply buy the latest ones then sell them six months or a year later and move on This is my take on the situation. It might be completely wrong. Of course, just my two cents But he is in india. So uh, he's got a better perspective on it than most I think I think we all know the apples of fashion statement And that's not devaluing them in any way. That's a good thing brian says on top of their recent security issues nesan just informed me that my 2014 leaf will no longer have wireless access Over atn t's 2g edge network after december 31st 2016 The letter talks about covering a substantial part of parts and installation of a new telematics control unit But it's vague about the timings and details and he's upset. He's like, I just got this car. It's 2014 Why did you put edge in it? First of all and like really now? We got a we got to worry about buying cars and having to go into the repair shop to get our modem connections replaced This is this is troublesome like no joke On the one hand, you want to see the carriers constantly up their game They can't keep hold of 2g spectrum when they need to roll out 5g But at the same time you want a long-term solution for things like whisper nets that you would you would hope that you're Your kindle for instance your first gen kindle still has access to a very slow version of the internet Much into the future So I hope that somebody can crack that one because there was especially with iot You know like we don't want landfills full of iot gear that could never connect again And especially with cars the car manufacturers are not even if they could make it as easy as popping in, you know One of those. Yeah, one of those modules. They're not going to want to let you Because of the liability So it's going to be a bulky process of like, you know, we got to swap out the modem unless you just let the Liability that would prevent them. I mean there's there's many economic reasons why they wouldn't want you to be able to Well, there's that too But honestly if they say if they recommend like you can just pop out this module and replace your modem And it doesn't work they get sued right and then there's you'd have to think about other things like on star for instance and other Safety features that rely on these connections and you're like well Do we really want to you know? You get to a point where and this is actually scary this happens all the time and in it where it's like Hey, we have this aging infrastructure That we don't want to support anymore And we'd like to replace it with something else But we have all these old systems using it in many cases those things get hobbled together and kept going You know, I know that uh FAA uses tons of old systems like this because it's too expensive to replace them And this is the same kind of growing pains that we're seeing with cars and we will continue to see with iot And then finally Byron was listening to our discussion of the amazon echo yesterday and started wondering if something like that Could be achieved with a raspberry pi and sure enough somebody's done it There's even a few tutorials on how to set up the Alexa voice assistant on your raspberry pi He included a couple of youtube links. We'll throw them in the show notes. That's good stuff Yeah, that's good. Good stuff. There's lots of good stuff like that at hack 5.org HAK 5.org g you guys have been covering the apple encryption debate as well good breakdowns of what all is going on with that Thank you. Yes. There's a lot of shows within the hack 5 uh, uh brand I guess you could say and uh threat wire is one of those that you should check out is just uh It's a weekly dose of technolest from Patrick Norton, Shannon Morris and myself, uh, basically covering security privacy and internet freedom And you can find that at h a k 5.org along with all the rest of our shows like metasploit minute Uh, if you're interested in learning that tool hack 5 uh, shannon. Patrick do tech thing So there's all sorts of good stuff h a k 5.org. Thank you, tom You betcha brother. Thank you. Len peralta for persevering through your reboot Thank you so much and I apologize for interrupting the show. I need a lot of things Uh, well, I guess one of the things i'm going to need is a brand new usb hub Because uh, that was the problem with my headset. It was not uh, connecting and I could not you could hear me But I could not hear you so stupid stuff. Anyway, uh, I have been drawing the uh, the show I was working while and listening while you guys were we're uh, we're talking and um, uh for the video viewers You can see what it is. They uh, it's a uh, I channeled my inner scott johnson with this I think it looks a lot like scott's art. He does a little of the scott style a little bit a little bit And it's a fbi hacking tactics revealed and you have to uh, you'd have to check it out at the store and see what those are Just as a uh, just as a little a hint It's an fbi agent who's saying the fruit device has been cord repeat the fruit device has been poured You know these high level type of government type things. So that's a law enforcement officer type of phrasing I think so I think we have a uh, we have a term that we use in in it and hacking And that is when when everything when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail Yeah, that's right And also I wanted to do this at the top of the show, but I forgot I'm going to turn off my video here for one second It's just so because I'm so excited that uh, if you guys are anywhere near a, uh, a Game shop or anything like that. You can go pick up my the new uh star munchkin guest artist edition Illustrated by myself. I saw this on the shelf last night. I had to buy it. It's so exciting. This is a It's a it's the 15th anniversary of munchkin and I'm I'm one of the guest artists They've asked a lot of different artists and this is my I've redrawn the core set of star munchkin It's available at your store at um at any good game store right now very exciting I was excited when I saw your snapchat about that Yeah, it was uh, I was so I you know, I'm waiting for them to Send it to me, but I'm like I couldn't even wait because I heard that it was uh, it was available So I wanted to did that Um, yeah, so that's kind of cool. Oh and finally if you want to get this thing go to my online store Len Peralta store.com and get the thing I just drew Or you could go to my patreon patreon.com forward slash len and you can uh, you can pledge and get Get it as a high res image that you can put all over the place and show you feel about the fbi and hacking Just go to Len Peralta store.com if only to gander at the amazing hammer and agent Yes as well as all the other ones I've done for the show over the past two years Thanks to everybody who supports the show daily tech news show dot com Support is the place where you can find out how to do that. 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Yeah, yeah pardon my french anti-terror Fbi wants magic beans Oh All right, we'll let that we'll let these percolate a little go go to show about the tv and and make some votes The fbi some code and they'll hack for a day teach them how to code and they'll hack forever Actually, I kind of want this on a t-shirt and I know I said it but apple is not your it department Yeah, you should create a stick or sell that in a hack shop. Yeah I like that You know what the fbi just needs to go to the genius bar had they just gone to the genius bar within be like it broke No, no work. I can't get into it. No problem. Be right back. We have a special tool. Don't tell the fbi. We wrote it Yeah, yeah, this is not that phone. No, hang on. Let me uh, yeah a broken iphone. Uh, just one second in this Uh evidence bag, uh, don't mind that I just do that for a stick. I'm not an fbi agent as far as you know I'm wearing my i'm not a fed Yes Yeah, your government issue suit. Yeah Actually, when you spot the fed at defcon both you get the i spot the fed t-shirt and the fed gets the i am the fed t-shirt So, uh, that's actually pretty poor uh, lots of uh Lots of department and defense people coming out in support of encryption They won't go as far as saying we support apple but making strong statements about encryption Uh, former nsa people saying the same thing. So Well, you know it protects us. It protects them. It's an even playing field. Have it both ways Maybe they already figured a way to crack in they just don't want people Well, that was my thought was like the people who who figure feel confident enough In their teams to be able to get around strong encryption Are in favor of strong encryption and the people who don't understand it Uh fear it are the people against it Tom, this is why they let us win the crypto wars in the 90s No, no joke. It's just whatever. Okay. You know what actually? Yeah, you can have that By the way, we've got a great idea for a random number generator. Yeah, yeah, exactly Uh, check out our rainbow table. Yeah, we just came up with this. It's awesome Dude, this thing generates numbers randomly. Yeah, so random. I mean the the random enough Random to the human you should implement this in all your juniper network routers This is a great find. Thank you. We at juniper networks. Thank you Well, that's what you want them saying that's the thing. Yeah All right, I am going to All right tonight yes tonight is spaghetti night by the way just All right It's spaghetti night today is a fantastic day. It is this is we're back. Everything is right with the world We're back on track You're like a fuller house in real life All right guys, we'll see you next week. All right. Thanks again, line. Bye. Bye I can't wait for the day that I meet Len in rl Oh, yeah No For it's been years now and I've still not met him I'm going with fbi's image issues I met a man uh Was he a nertacular the other way? Probably how'd you meet him? I met him at podcast expo For real. Yeah like in ontario like back in the day. Uh, it was either ontario or the first las vegas one But it was yeah, it was that era. Whoa. That's rad. Uh, I know at the the one in las vegas He introduced me to jonathan colton Oh It's cool. That's how I met jonathan I wish I hadn't been too cool for school back in 05 I wish I hadn't been too cool for school back in 1996. So I get okay. Well, there you go. All right fair enough Wait, were you too cool for school or are you too?  Yeah, but that doesn't really make you too cool for school. No, but it makes you think you are I think that was my point anyway Mm-hmm Nobody is too cool for school. They just think they are yeah All the cool kids end up in continuation school for at least a summer Yeah, it wasn't that I thought I was cool. What I thought I was was punk rock Right.  Oh, yeah, those are some austin 1996 era ones Lookups a brilliant tv ah And then what's beautiful is it's on the internet so it will it'll never go away Nope, even if it's encrypted. Mm-hmm Yeah, I was trying to get us to that that point that was the big point that I wanted to get us to today was There's never perfect encryption No, that's what that's that's okay. But that's there's nothing wrong with that.  It's an imperfect system because it's created by humans imperfect beings And here we are having these imperfect arguments and it's all about percentages, right Strong encryption will keep 99 of the people out what susan landau was basically saying is fbi You need to be the 1% Yeah, stop at 99% and it's still whole true to my statement that you know in this case governments They're just an adversary like anyone else. Yeah, you know just because they can oh, we've got court orders We can make you do something. It's like well Yeah, how is that any different from the black hat that like, you know breaks in anyway and puts up on ransomware and makes you Do something exactly So don't don't let they're like, you know golden tickets of court orders national security letters Break your security your security should be nsl proof your security should be warrant proof your security should be Just it should be rubber hose proof really Because that's the thing is if this goes south, you know, the next step is, you know, the men in black show up with the rubber hoses and Although in this case that person has already passed away. So they're not gonna Oh, really? Okay. Well, yeah, all right, but Uh for precedent for the sake of precedent. Yeah, uh I do I I was throwing out the idea of like no wait a minute if we're worried about going dark No one should be allowed to delete anything because as soon as you delete something They the fbi can't see it if they need it in a case Oh, hey, just think about that terabytes on your phone in the future What would you say 16 terabyte ssd's last week or yesterday? I mean, yeah, we need that in our phones To be standard so we can never delete anything. There you go. Uh the right to be forgotten. I forget that Well, the right to be forgotten publicly But we still need to keep a copy and the uh in the boondestog somewhere I'm just saying how long do you think tim cook would hold up to the rubber hose? You know, he might surprise you and so actually this brings up the even more important discussion Which is don't rely on a tim cook to stand up to the rubber hose for you You need something that is uh rubber hose agnostic that would attract the rubber hose to you though No, but that's like saying don't use encryption because then you're going to be in a database That's no reason why I don't use pg if you want to email internationally. I know I'm in the database That's okay. We should all be in the database. We should be encrypting all the things even our fire os tablets They should be on the show that one's still the fire os one's still The fun fine modeling like the only thing I could think is that they just Like that is that is a developer mindset Who's not thinking about implications going? Nobody uses this feature and this feature slows it down. Let's get rid of this feature Like I could I could see that hey that makes sense of quote-unquote this feature But you so nobody looked at that and said wait a minute in today's climate getting rid of encryption Even if it does improve performance is probably a really bad pr move Even if it's just opt-in, you know, yeah, although I have to say wow major strides I just set up the galaxy s7 and not only was it encrypted out of the box Too too opt-in features that you should turn on if you get a modern smart phone. First of all I had the ability to require a password to unlock the encryption Which by the way if it's encrypted and it doesn't require the passcode to unencrypted What's the point of the encryption? So it was out of the box encrypted but not out of the box secure Anyway, there was that to be said and then the other Thing that was interesting coming out of this android phone first time I've ever seen this Maybe it's part of the marshmallow now the option to opt into the ability to wipe the device after 15 tries Oh, we're now at last 10 because currently that's a knocks thing It could be I need to find out if this is the Samsung thing because we're doing this on hack five We just did a demo of breaking into any android phone with a four digit pin code in in As up to 16 and a half hours And and there's you know, I literally have a screenshot from or not screen I have a photo of my phone saying you've mistyped your password over 9,000 times You're gonna have to wait 30 seconds. Oh, no. Oh 30 seconds We you need to get a quarter order to disable the 30 second Yeah, exactly because otherwise going to take the fbi 16 and a half hours I mean in that time they could have called a security expert or something They could have hired jonathan jarsky There you go or jonathan jarsky will gladly take contract work from them. I am sure I think you become an employee, but They should get both jonathan jarsky and jonathan colton Doesn't they could get a decent song out of it? They could spend it get some good pr You know, this is a this is a triumph Right, this could be an fbi triumph and in their uh, their In their image, right this could make their image look good by imaging it And then getting a song out of it There is a common workplace environment where you have a way of doing things and that way stops working And there is a way to make somebody else do that thing For you so that you don't have to relearn something from scratch Uh, and that's what I feel is going on with the fbi. I I honestly and you could mock me for being naive I honestly think the fbi really does just want to catch the bad guys. I don't think they want to spy on me But they have a way of doing things that no longer works And they don't want to have to expend the money and effort in this budget constrained time to come up with new ways And this is a lot easier Yeah, no, I court precedence They'll use their powers for good they think I agree with you that they all believe that that they all want to do good But it's much easier to get the dirty work done for you than learn as you were saying totally And the other thing is that doesn't make it any less scary that the fact that they have good intentions Would you say Roger? Oh, sorry. I had to uh do an emergency change on my daughter. So I'm logging on go ahead. Thanks, man. Talk to you next week Yeah, I'm just I'm just saying it doesn't make it any less terrible even though they have good intentions, right? Absolutely I mean We could come up with example of example after it doesn't even it doesn't make it the right way to go There are lots of times when really good people want to do something because it's easier and People outside go wait. No, that's not that's you shouldn't be allowed to do that That's not the right way to do it because it has these other effects That's what I'm saying And you know surprisingly lots of people have their side Or have apple side saying like hey, you know Um It's not that and I don't think any of the other people supporting apple with amicus briefs and stuff are saying No, we shouldn't fight crime You know, no, they're just saying this is not the way to go about this All right. Well, that is it for this week ladies and gentlemen. Thanks for watching and listening and we'll talk to you next time I hope


Hey mate, 40 here, 40 university, and today we're discussing Sydney Trads so I'm in Sydney Australia with my mate Jim Balden. How's it going Jim? Not bad mate, not bad. Not bad at all. So Jim, how would you describe your politics? Uh, conservative. Conservative.  Yes I did, in my younger days. Okay, so how long have you been conservative? I would say in the last 15, 20 years I began to change my political compass. Right, right, right. Is that like getting married, having kids? Correct. I like to say all sort of few words to our mates. Yeah, yeah, Lopodius and Ashley Bravo. And another one I forgot his name. I am a robber prosper. And prosper, that's right. Robber prosper. And Elliot Blatt and uh, oh some good mates. In Galicia, half Galician. Yeah, half Galician. Yeah, yeah, don't forget the Jews mate, don't forget the Jews. Yeah, so what's it like to be tried in Sydney?  Sometimes we get, we go on a cruise, we get guest lecturers or guest speakers, um various from theology to archaeology to history and modern history, everything and we sort of discuss and have a beer and enjoy ourselves. And you think you might finally like seize power one of these days? Ah, in the next life. Yeah, in the next life, the Sydney Drads are gonna take power. So how do you feel about the current prime minister, Skomo? Skomo? No, no, no. I'm not voting either for labor or liberals. You're not gonna vote for the coalition? No way. You're voting for the nationals? I'm voting for one nation? No, Australia first. Australia first. Is that Cory Bernardi? No, Cory's out of it. Oh, what's his name? He's um, forget his name now. It's just a minor party, but I'm not voting for a major party. They're all the same. There is a new book out on Scott Morrison called The Accidental Prime Minister. Yeah. I want to read it. I mean, I couldn't believe that he put off the 2019 election. No one expected he was gonna do that. Absolutely. I mean, he was simply lucky, I reckon. And the fault is the Labor Party. And how formidable is the current leader of the Labor Party? He used to go to my school. What are you on about it? Albus Leasy. Alban Eazy. What's his first name? He's Anthony Alban Eazy. Anthony Alban Eazy. He used to go to my old school, St Mary's Cathedral, Christian Brothers. And Eazy. In Sydney. He's a better politician than the previous bloke. Oh, yes. They call him each way elbow. Right, right. That's the way to go.  Flexible, exactly. You want to be able to go multiple ways. Absolutely. But he's not exactly charismatic. No, no, he's not. He hasn't got the gift of the gab. Yeah, he's not lighting the water on fire. No. So, so I think. Cicero will not envy. Yeah, Cicero won't envy Alban Eazy. A bit like the Labour Party leader in the UK, too. He's not exactly. Oh, exactly. Oh, what's his name though? Can't even remember his name. Well, he's supposed to be a conservative, but anyway, he's more... Well, he married, he's married to a very radical feminist. Oh, right. You should know that. I've forgotten. And that's why he's sort of changing politics. Who is the former leader of the Labour Party? He's now a Senator for the Nationals. He's like an outspoken bloke. He led Labour against John Howard and last. Oh, oh, what's his name? He's now when Pauline Hanson's party... No, yes. He's in New South Wales, Parliament. His name is, um... What's his name? Interesting bloke. Yes, he's very, very, very term conservative. He's a deputy leader. What's his name? I forget his name. But he led the Labour Party against John Howard. Absolutely, about 15, 20 years ago. Yeah, right. And he's very capable. He's always on television and skype news. He wrote a book that I want to read. I think I'll have it, but you can forgive it to you. I want to read that book. He's a thoughtful guy. I mean, not often do they go from labor to pulling heads. But my favourite was Tony Abbott. Right. Okay. He was a good Catholic boy and the country was in good hands. What's the name of Pauline Hansen's party? No, he's Sue Pauline Hansen. Right, but what is the name of Pauline Hansen's party? One Nation. One Nation. Right, right, right. Yeah. So that's the story. But I find American politics much more interesting. Yeah, because it's more consequential. Just listening this morning on that Kyle Rittenhouse. Oh, yeah, that Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The jury is still out. Oh, right. So they think it looks like LA. So have you been to LA, Jim? No, no, I have not. Oh, okay. It does feel a bit like LA. It's like same type of weather. No, I'll show you when we get to... So what part of town is this? Well, this is about, we're about... This is called Parramatta Road. Oh, Parramatta. Yeah, a road.  Oh, God, about in miles and about six miles, seven miles from Sydney, from the center. CBD, Central Business District. And how's the economy here in Sydney? It's okay. If you've got a house or a unit, you're doing fine. It's one of the most expensive cities in terms of real property. Yeah, it is more expensive than LA or New York. Fifth Avenue or so.  When did you guys get out of lockdown? About three weeks ago. And how is your experience of lockdown? Everybody's gone. I've got about 20 cases. Right? Class actions because of lockdown. People got now sacked. And there's a few cases pending. Bad time. Did you catch the COVID? No, I have not. Are you vaccinated? No, I'm not. My wife is. Oh, mate. Because my wife works for, as I said, for legal aid. Why aren't you vaccinated, mate? Get the jab. Well, get the jab, yeah. I'm too lazy, mate. Oh, mate. If we do it together, we can conquer this thing. Yeah, I suppose so. Anyway, it's the situation. Oh. Yeah. I mean, Sydney's been really expensive for a long time. It is. I think it's the third largest, or third most expensive. The most expensive big city in the world, yeah. I think the first one is... It used to be Singapore. Singapore. Tokyo. Tokyo, and then New York. Yeah. And Sydney. But the house is now... The mean average is about $1.5 million. Australian dollars, which is about $1.1 million, approximately. Yeah. Like the average home in, I think, Los Angeles County is like $800,000. $800,000. So it's... I mean, I've got an older house. It'll seem it's worth about $5,000, $6 million. Back in Sydney. Did you grow up here? Yeah. I went to all Catholic schools. I went to St. Benedict's. Right in the city, the primary school. And then I went to St. Mary's Cathedral. And educated by Christian brothers. There was 85% of them. But they never touched me because I was too ugly. Oh, man. Did that hurt your feelings, mate? Oh, no. So did the Catholic, did the priest, did all many kids in Australia? Our cohort, we've got very, very good cohort in terms of... in terms of academic output. There's a Manning, Dr. Manning. There's about five or six lures. There's about eight accountants. There's a few. Oh, Albanese. Albanese is a politician. He's an old boy. Yeah. Actually, my younger brother was in his class. He's about three years behind me. Three or four years behind me. How do people manage to live there? Like ordinary people with ordinary jobs? Well, I think the standard of living is comparable to America, I think. Yeah, it just sounds very expensive. Very expensive for ordinary people. I think everything is expensive. I'm talking about petrol. Leases, conveyance, things like that. And I'll do famine on Tuesday. Okay, we're back. All right, we're entering... Where are we now? We are now in Five Dock. I'm going into the dock. Yeah, into the dock. I'm in trouble now. My God, I'm so disoriented. I keep feeling like there's going to be a car accident. We're driving on the left-hand side. That's why you're disoriented. No worries.


Hello everyone this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com Today I'll have another episode of Chromebook tips and tricks video and I'll talk about how to connect your Chromebook to any Bluetooth devices. So connecting a Chromebook to any Bluetooth devices could it be a speaker which I have right here or any other Bluetooth devices is very simple and today I'll show you how you can do that very easily. Once you turn on your Chromebook you're going to click on the lower right corner which is going to be right here and you have to set up your other devices to accept Bluetooth connection or connect to a Bluetooth device. So I'm going to just you know turn this on right here and I'm going to switch this mode to Bluetooth so you know it connects to Bluetooth. On the lower right corner of your Chromebook you're going to click on the settings option which is going to be right on the clock or in that area so if you just click on it then it's going to pull up the menu option or settings option and then from here you can see that the first round box or icon is for internet connection and let me just bring a little more closer and the second one is for Bluetooth connection which shows off right now so if you click on it then it's going to show you the devices you have paired or you haven't paired or which devices are available. So right now you can see that you know my Bluetooth connection or Bluetooth device right here which is a wireless speaker is on Bluetooth mode and here you can see that my Bluetooth speaker is in Bluetooth connection mode and it's flashing blue and then the Chromebook is actually showing that unpaired devices which is sound hot before so if I click on it then you'll see the message here that your Chromebook is connecting to the Bluetooth devices and then you'll see another message here showing that Bluetooth device sound hot before has been paired and is not is now available to all users you may remove this pairing using setting so what it's telling is that you know this Bluetooth device is now connected with the Chromebook and if you wish you can just you know remove this later on by going to the same Bluetooth settings. I'm going to play a video from my website just to see if the connection is working and you know it's supposed to be connected to this Bluetooth speaker so let's just let's just play this video right here and you can see that it's playing here okay so these are connected now let me just show you how you can disconnect your Bluetooth device or this pair or you know remove from pairing if you want at some point in the future so you're going to open up the same Bluetooth setting which is right here and then just click on the Bluetooth and then you're going to see a listing of your pair devices right here and then what you can do you can just you know click on the wheel button and then here you're going to see that you know is going showing you all the pair devices and if you want to remove something then you can just click on the three dots and here remove from list and then that's a gun so that's how you remove your pair devices that's all for today thank you for watching this video there'll be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثناء الجميل وشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي سبيل وشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله تعالى today we're going to carry on the introduction to grammar the formation and development which grammar went through and the way that I plan to go through it إن شاء الله تعالى is in the following way the first stage a دور الأول in which grammar went through is called دور الوضع والتكوين what does دور الوضع والتكوين actually mean? it means when grammar was placed when the foundations of grammar was being put and I already mentioned this before دور الوضع والتكوين we mentioned it in the first first first first first lesson and we said this first 100 years was a basri pure basri scholars the كوفيين who we're going to speak about later the scholars from كوفة they had not yet come into the arena right at this moment it's the 100 years of scholars of Basra and we started from who أبي أسود الدؤالي up to who الخليل من أحمد الفراهيدي 100 years عسر أبي الأسود أبي الأسود was chair 69 هجنية up to خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي the teacher of Sheba Waheed 175 5 are we all together the first person from كوفة who actually woke up and said why are we not in the arena why are we not talking about grammar how did the people of Basra beat us to it the first person who came with that was أبو جعفر الرؤاسي الكوفي and that was how many years after it was 100 years after the people of Basra were in grammar they were discussing grammar they were talking about grammar and what we said was the first 100 years of the people of Basra we divided it into 2 levels how many levels 2 levels we said وَلَقَدِشْتَغَلَ فِي بِدْرَاسَةِ النَّحْمِ طَبَقَتَانَ من أعلام الطبقة الأولى the first level is who 3 individuals 3 individuals were the first level of the first 100 the first one is او يو일 style the second one is أبضر اعمان� من أهور موز the second one was يحيي بل na yawmar and then after that came أبي اسحاق الحظرمي عيسة بل عمر السق في and then أبو عمر من العالة and you know him he is one of the imam mr nkiraat ابو عمر من العالة إنه أمام العربية إنه أمام العربية وإنه أمام ماذا؟ إنه أمام القراءات هذه 100 سنوات نحن نتحدث عنها لن يجب أن نتحدث نحن نفعل ذلك في المساعدة هذه 100 سنوات كل هذه المساعدات والبصر أبو أسود أبو أسود كان بصري الآن الناس من كوفا will come with full force يجب أن تفهم هذه الصورة لأنها ستساعدك الكثير من المرات الناس من كوفا are behind 100 years يشعرون المملكة يشعرون التعامل ويشعرون أنهم يريدون أن يساعدون لهم مناسبة لذلك المساعدة بدأت بينهم ومناسبة بسلح الثاني now دورو نمو دورو نمو means brothers what دورو نمو now is that the foundation of grammar was just not put now the grammar concepts are being nurtured and there were distinct things that happened at this period of time I want you to listen to what happened number one the thinking process of the grammarians have changed now write this down brothers their research and their thinking process in the دورو نمو had changed they started to think different guess why why did the thinking process change why did the research change and the way that they researched issues why did it change because there are two groups that are competing and competition brings about benefits the first 100 years because it was basri they were taking it easy everything was simple and it was good all they had to do is just say issues here and there but دورو نمو the people of basra whatever they say the people of kofa will respond back to it and say this doesn't make sense so they had to do thorough research and they had to put down قوائد principle which came from a holistic deduction it had to be تتبع الاستقراء تان also at this stage they focused deeply on the last letters of the Arabic language fully focused on it جاء زي دن رأي تزي دن مراتو بي زي دن why is it changing they put it under they put it under the they put it under the telescope and they look deep into it to see and magnify it what is happening here also at this stage what took place was a new science that was never heard or spoken about as the subject was now introduced which is called what صرف and the person who introduced it is right on this side of the board his name is معايل الحرات معايل الحرات is the father of صرف he's from kofa side you see what kofa did they thought outside the box and they introduced a different science a new science and they came with what صرف they came with what they say that the صرف was not present it wasn't written in the hundred years of the people of Basra because he is present in some of the words and some of the speeches of خلين محمد الفراهيدي and others are we all together brothers but as a science with its principles and the way it's organized they came up with it are we all together brothers the benefit also that's taking place here the benefit that's happening here brothers is the research the school of thought in grammar are now two how many are they two and what are the two بصرا and what كوفا كوفا fully rely on what brothers what did كوفا rely on كوفا rely on what the arab say if they hear the pure bedouin arab's whose language has not altered their speech has not become tainted there and they hear them speak they say this is a way that the arab speak and they say that's it no problem that's Arabic whereas the people of بصرا that's not there is called a yardstick that's not their measuring scale that's not where it is the people of كوفا are we all together brothers the people of كوفا is based on قواعد and principles am I making sense here am I making sense so who's easier in terms of studying books of grammar generally the people of كوفا are easier the people of كوفا are generally easier to study when it comes to grammar than it is for you to study the people of بصرا بصرا's grammar is a bit أعمال with دهلي we'll speak about that some other time so here is the second stage it's called دور نمو the grammar is now growing نمو means what it's growing it's coming up it's bearing fruits now the tree is bearing fruits okay this was just basing putting the foundation down putting the cement down and now you're building it the people of كوفا they were three levels and so are the people of بصرا but بصرا are more in number why are they more in number because they've been in the game longer are we all together brothers it starts from the first one as الأخفش there are three أخفش remember this all the time don't confuse it this أخفش here is the teacher of خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي he's called الأخفش الكبيخ الأخفش الكبيخ الأخفش الكبيخ is the big أخفش there's three أخفش he's the teacher of خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي am I making sense and he's the teacher of سيبوهي am I making sense here the أخفش here is the teacher of سيبوهي who is remember that and then we have خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي he's the teacher of سيبوهيدي and then we have أبو عبد رحمان يونس بن حبيب he's the teacher of سيبوهي as well he's the teacher of سيبوهي as well are you with me brothers and أبو عبد رحمان يونس بن حبيب is who saw also what he's the successor of خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي when خليل من أحمد دايد the person who saw in his chair to teach in بصرة was أبو عبد رحمان يونس بن حبيب he's in كوفا he's in كوفا he took from these two he took from these two when his grandma got criticized his grandma got criticized as well and then when he got criticized he got up and he left and then when he left he came to خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي and خليل من أحمد used to have he said to the people can you tell me the most knowledgeable man in grandma and they said to him yeah go to خليل there's no one better than him then he went to خليل so the people of كوفا who did they take from so when he went when he went he met خليل I want to ask you a question what's the question how did you learn all of this Arabic how did you master it like this and then he said I learned it from the Bedouins خليل is saying this the Bedouins they helped me he said yes they are on the outskirts of كوفا and the outskirts of مكة go to those people you learn a lot from them the people of هديل and the likes of them he said جزاك الله he packed his bags he didn't take much knowledge he didn't take more knowledge from خليل he left and he was away for 10 years and then he came back to meet خليل and to see how he am I good what do you think have I progressed but when he got there خليل had passed away and he was sitting there and then they had a conversation and he wanted to prove that he didn't do anything and then he became aware that he's not good as كسائل and he said you know what this chair is yours take it you have the right to teach from this minute onwards who is saying this but he left and went back to كوفا to teach his people here you have to understand see the way he came see the way he carried on the legacy of the imams before him like خليل من أحمد الفراهيدي he carried on the legacy of who his teacher عبد الرحمن يولوث من حبيب he carried the legacy on but this moment there is a big friction between the كوفيين and the there's a big friction between the كوفيين and the what the بسرين you have to realize كسائل came back he proved عبد الرحمن يولوث من حبيب that he knows more than him he's back he wants to bring honor back to his people that he left are we all together brothers so anyways أبو جعفر الرؤاسي he placed he served it but not much is mentioned about him a lot وعدم الحرات I said he wrote sarf I want to stop here this is the golden this is one of the strongest periods of grammar you have to look into what happened at this time was كسائي and the reason why he was called كسائي by the way is because كسائي went to hajj with his garment he didn't use the إحرام he actually took a cloak on and he went there that's why شارطمي says in his كتاب حرز الأماني و أما علي فالكسائي يلعته لما كان في لما كان في الإحرام فيه تسربلا he didn't wear no إحرام what did he wear he wore he didn't wear إحرام he wore clothes so they called him the cloak because he couldn't get إحرام to wear so he just never clothes he's wearing he did it with hajj he did hajj with that that's why he was called الكسائي كسائي is سابعات القرائل أحد عمة القرائل كبار he's from one of the one of the seven he's from them one and he's an Imam in Arabic language على كل حال كسائي on the other side is بصلا on the other side is what بصلا who's the leader at this time is the same who's on this سيبوهي and who's here كسائي at this moment he's Imam of the people of كوفا they look up to him and سيبوهي is the Imam of the people of كسائي even though he's the Imam of the people of كوفا because that's where he's from originally he's originally Persian by the way he's Persian and he's Persian most of them are Persian men but they are both the imams of the land that they were raised بصلا so what happened was two great imams people always like to see something happen between the two of them they want to see something who's the strongest this idea of her is always in people who's stronger in boxing these two people fight so anyways سيبوهي رحمه الله he was called in to Baghdad they told him to come to Baghdad they invited him over to Baghdad the scholars they differ who invited him and who told him to come and on whose invitation did he come so remember Baghdad was the capital of the Islamic government that's where the Islamic government is the خلافة المسلمين is in where who is in Baghdad at that time who lives in Baghdad at that moment the خلافة المسلمين at that time was حارون الرشيد who was the right hand man not right hand man who was the person who was always with حارون الرشيد الإمام الكسائي رحمه الله كسائي's job was to look after the children of حارون الرشيد back in those days the leaders they used to pick the best imam and they would say can you discipline my child can you educate my child but nowadays the children of the leaders they go to the western countries but that time it wasn't where did they go to they get nurtured by scholars and people of knowledge that's where they get nurtured so when they take over the position they are people of great knowledge and religion على كل حال no one the story scholars they differ on who invited كسائي who told him to come over I'm sorry سيبوهي who invited سيبوهي there is a dispute some scholars they say يحمل خالد البرمكي was the person who invitation he came on and some say no is حارون الرشيد إبنو هشام الأنصاري mentions the story in his كتاب مغل اللبيب على كل حال سيبوهي came to Baghdad came to Baghdad when he came to Baghdad and he landed he came to the palace of حارون الرشيد palace but حارون wasn't in there gathering at that moment no was يحمل خالد البرمكي was not there as well but there were two people who were there خالف الأحمر and الفراء they opened the palace for سيبوهي and they brought him in خالف الأحمر and الفراء these are the two students of they welcomed سيبوهي into the building they said سيبوهي come in so سيبوهي he entered and when سيبوهي sat down خالف الأحمر he said I have questions to ask you سيبوهي can you answer it for me so he asked him a question and then سيبوهي answered and he responded to the question as soon as سيبوهي responded to the question أخطأت you got it wrong what you said is incorrect it was a grammatical question and then he said I have a second question to ask you again when he asked him the question he said to سيبوهي أخطأت again and then he did it a third time he asked a third question and he said to سيبوهي أخطأت you did a mistake and then سيبوهي got angry سيبوهي got angry and he said you are a person of bad etiquette he said I am the people of I am the Imam of the people of بصلة who are you الفرأة he stood up and then he said my friend here in him his hastiness and he is a bit too sharp in his speech to say to you أخطأت and you are the Imam of ألو بصلة was not befitting so he asked the first question when he asked the first question سيبوهي أخطأت he said to him look at what you said again it is a polite way of saying you got it wrong but he wanted to avoid what خلف الأحمر said he didn't want to say it like that he said he went quiet he said second question he asked him the second question and he said to him again نظرة he said question سيبوهي أخطأت لا أتكلمك I am not going to talk to you guys anymore حتى يخرج صاحبك until your teacher the person who educated you guys comes out not long after that he sat and came out he sat and came out يحب الخالد البرمك and the whole everyone came out they put سيبوهي in the middle and كسائيل now what you have to understand is كسائيل is in his territory where is كسائيل كسائيل is in his territory he is in his land and at those times the way that debate would happen and the art of debate was if you were in your land and somebody came and visited you you gave them the respect of saying do you want to start or shall I start that was their way so كسائيل ستسيبوهي كسائيل ستسيبوهي shall I ask or do you want to ask me سيبوهي said you ask ask the question that you have ask me whatever question you have كسائيل said my question is the following sentence كنت أظنه أن العقرب أشد لسعة من الزمبوري فإذا هو هي أما فإذا هو إياها كنت أظنه I used to think I used to I used to think أن العقرب I used to think that the scorpion أشد لسعة من الزمبوري that it stung worse than the wasp I used to believe that the scorpion it stings worse or more severe or excessive or the wasp فإذا هو هي and it is as I thought or فإذا هو إياها how shall I say it shall I say فإذا هو هي or shall I say فإذا هو إياها this is what their question is okay فإذا هو هي أما فإذا هو إياها they just want this here and here which one is right إمام أهل البصر I thought فإذا هو هي that's right he said what about the next فإذا هو إياها what do you think he said it's wrong incorrect he said you did a mistake see boy now this this is not like because and he says it to you you can't say who are you so it hurts see boy that statement now let me explain something to you brothers as a benefit maybe you may not understand it the first time but to repeat it many times you'll understand what the you have to understand grammatically what's happening here the word هو in the Arabic language is a مبتده مبتده requires a كبر just like a فعل requires a does that make sense brothers see boy the whole dispute is the issue of إذا الفجائية is another every time the word إذا what comes after it is a جملة اسمية مبتده على خبر see boy he according to him if there comes a مبتده they have to come a cover so him this is the cover here is the cover which is correct so for him he's got a complete sentence خبر مبتده على خبر but for him this doesn't make sense why does it not make sense because this is a مبتده and this is a word it's مفعول بي مفعول بي so where is the cover okay that's one question where is the is the cover there no it's not there according to see boy it's not there that's one the issue is once you say مفعول بي مفعول بي comes from a where فعلا فاعلا هتبدا so where are they are we all together brothers كيسائي how does he respond to this now the response of كيسائي is هو is a مبتده I agree with you see boy I agree this is a مبتده إياه is a مفعول بي the فعل for this مفعول بي is hidden يساويها that's what the word is يساويها is the فعل مضارية a present verb and the ضمير takes it back to the فعل the question here is where is the خبر he said the خبر is يساويها إياه all of it together are sitting in the position of a خبر does that make sense the whole جملة فعليه the whole sentence of the فعل that he just brought in there which all of them are sitting in the position of a خبر على كل حال سيبويه the Quran supports سيبويه's argument the Quran never uses فإذا هو إياه but the Quran uses فإذا هو إياه we find that in the قبص حف we've never seen the Quran used فإذا هو إياه but we don't say it's wrong because he grammatically explained where everything is but when we look at the Quran it's in line with who سيبويه this issue got to the heart of سيبويه when he said you got it wrong but he's still holding on to hope maybe I've said it's wrong wrong and he's saying it's right then they both looked at يحمل خالد من البرمكي يحمل خالد من البرمكي he said listenakesha the Bedouins who were standing in front of the door there are Bedouins right outside Let's gone to them and asked them so the Bedouins were brought in فهي قلت هذا؟ كان يوضع الله أنه يتعامل again و يتعامل و لذلك المسكولات when they say the word الكتاب the book they mean سيبوهيس كتاب كتاب لا يوجد أيضاً الان it's just called الكتاب the whole story the whole story of what happened of this issue a scholar he summarized it in lines of poetry he said قد كانت العقرب العوجاء أحسبها قدم الأشد من الزمور وقع حما و في الجواب عليها هل إذا هو هي أو هل إذا هو إياها قد اختصم و في الجواب عليها هل إذا هو هي أو هل إذا هو إياها قد اختصم و غاض عمر العلي في حكومته يا ليته لم يكن في أمر حكمة و فجع ابن زياد كل من تحيب من آلي إذ غدا منه يفيض دم و النفس و أصبحت بعده الأنفاس باكية في كل طرص كدمع سحعة و سجمة و ليس يخل مرؤ من حاسد أظم لو للتلافس في الدنيا لما أظمة والغبن في العلم أشجع محنة العلمة وأبرح الناس شجواً عالماً خضمة أو ستوري you're always going to find you're always going to find you're always going to find خلافات and difference of opinion and issues like that happen between scholars but the truth of the matter is it didn't bring us except good why? because the scholars of grammar their dispute and differences actually brought into light a lot of issues that if they were to turn a blind eye we would never know about it are we all together brothers? so Alhamdulillah that these two madhabs came about because they critiqued and checked on each other's works and scrutinized each other's works and he actually made grammar the Arabic grammar one of the best languages to ever study the way it's systematically broken into the way Arabic grammar is broken into I mean in university I studied linguistics English language, linguistics okay and I can reassure you brothers English does not make no sense it doesn't you think the person who wrote it was drunk when they made it they put it together doesn't make sense they cannot explain something to you why this is the case Arabic language they'll explain to you everything why this is this and how this is this they'll explain everything to you and they'll give you an interpretation for it because it's like maths the way it breaks up the way it goes into different charts and different levels إن شاء الله تعالى next week we're going to do the next door a door of thirties the third the third stage إن شاء الله تعالى any mistake or shortcoming I might have come with is from me a shaitan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم أحمدك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله أستغفرك وأتوب إلي