What is good, Marvel Squad? Welcome back to our channel. I hope you guys are having a great holiday weekend. Christmas is almost here, and today I gotta be getting some lingerie for my girlfriend's twin freaking sister. I know it sounds crazy. You guys saw the thumbnail, this is legit. My girlfriend, Mariah, is with Megan, which is her twin sister, at the apartment. I'm at Target. I just pulled up right now, and I'm about to go in, find some lingerie, or some sexy outfit, and buy it for her. I'm gonna get done a gift bag. I'm gonna wrap it up, make it look legit, and see how Megan reacts. I don't know, because we didn't tell Jordan about this, which is her boyfriend, and obviously Megan does not know. So she's literally gonna think that I got this girl some lingerie for Christmas. It's crazy. It's gonna be a little sketchy, but I've seen this idea floating around, and I just had to do it. I feel like Megan is the most gullible person ever, and if you did not know, before Mariah and Mariah started dating, Megan actually liked me before Mariah did, so not that there's feelings there anymore, but the fact that we had that history is kind of funny. Getting her this gift is gonna be pretty wild. I know this is not the normal filming spot. If you know our channel, if you know our cars, you know where I am. I'm literally in the dead mince of Chicago. It's winter. It's literally 20 degrees out here. I have not had to put a coat on since I moved to Florida a year and a half ago. This is the first coat I've worn, and trust me, I do not miss it. I feel bad for everyone that has to live in the snow, because I did it for 21 years, and I will never go back. Only for parties is good for me, but I'm at Super Target right now, and because it's Christmas weekend, it's super packed. I'm gonna have to run in there. Hopefully nobody sees me buying lingerie. Not that it's a bad thing, but it's just weird for a guy going into a store buying lingerie and all that stuff. You already know. It's kinda awkward, but wish me luck. I find something good. I'm gonna be thinking of Megan the whole time, which is kinda weird, but let's go. Let's get it, and most of all, let's see how she reacts. Enjoy. Oh! It is cold out there. God dang. I've done this park all the way at the other end of the parking lot. I don't know why. I'm really scared of people door-ding in my car, and definitely not the move when you're in cold, freaking weather. But good news, guys. I'm sorry for the crappy lighting in advance. This is not the normal setup, but we're just gonna work with what we got, because this is literally all I have at the moment. So I saw these perfect, perfect pair of lingerie and my face lit up because I know this is gonna be such a better reaction. Like the better lingerie we have, the better reaction it will be, and I literally smiled ear to ear. Whoever was in the aisle, I'm sorry. I know I look creepy checking out all the lingerie, but you never know. They might think it's just for like a Christmas party or something for my girlfriend. How do I say party? Christmas gift. All right, so I bought two things. This is the first thing that caught my eye. Are you ready? It is a lingerie. It's hot for your girl or for my girlfriend's sister, that is. And it's pretty cute. This is the closest thing they had to some sexy lingerie. And I like it because it's Christmas theme. It's red. It's cute. Megan will be very, very disgusted that I got this for her, but there's more, okay? I'm gonna tell her that I'm just kidding.  Or maybe I'll put them in both bags and I'll just tell her to look more.  It is gonna have something worse and way more showy, which is this next top. Not only is a top that's see-through, but it goes all the way down to the crotch area. It's TMI, I know.  So super inappropriate for a gift for my girlfriend's sister. And not only that, but she's my girlfriend's twin sister that liked me five, six years ago. So let's get these all packed up and ready to go because I'm about 40 minutes away from their house and they are ready for me to come over and hang out. And she doesn't also know she's getting a gift yet.  All right, and that's it. This looks professional. I actually did a good job with this. I should do this for Mariah's gift, like an actual real gift. Got some streamers, some tissue paper. I put one of them on the bottom, covered it with tissue paper, and then put another one on top, covered that with tissue paper, and topped it off with some streamers. This looks legit. It looks like we actually put some effort into it, but it's not. Megan, I'm sorry in advance. I don't want you to have this. I would like to see Mariah wearing this, but today is not a day for Mariah. Today's a day to make you super uncomfortable. Let's get it, guys. I'm gonna drive over to the house right now and give this to Meg. I'm sorry, guys, literally. We've been so scrambled this week. Christmas parties, so much food, so much going on. And we're flying back to Florida tomorrow, so this is the absolute perfect time to get Megan's reaction. Let's get it, wish me luck, and let's get to driving. Let's go! All right, guys. I just arrived to Megan Jordan's house. I'm coming in through the back door, but I just got word that their mother is here as well. So this might get hella awkward. I got the gift right here, ready to go. I'm gonna tell her not to open it right away. I don't know if I want her mom in the same room, but God, I hope she doesn't. I hope she's not in the same room, but let's get inside and see what happens. Hello? Hi! All right, Megan. We got Maggie here, and we got her a gift. I'm scared.  Because this is something special that I picked out, okay? And we got your whole family here. What is it? Huh? What is it? It's something special that I picked out solely for you. Mariah had nothing to do with this. I'm scared. But this has been a long time coming. We also got Mariah's, Megan's mom in the background. Say what up. A long time coming, so should I open it now? Oh my gosh. I hope you like it. What? What is it? What is it? Damn! Wait, you actually got that from her? How did you do that? Yeah. Yeah! Wait, there's one more in there. I was picturing you the whole time I was picking these out. No, I went to the Target.  I don't understand what's wrong with it. It's literally just like, I don't know why. I just like, we needed to get Meg something. And I was like, you know what? She would look good in some lingerie, you know what I mean? All right. Don't be shy.  No, but for real. Do you like your gift? Yeah, but it's really weird that you bought that for me, though.  It's really weird that you bought that for me, though. Are you sure something's wrong? It was me and Mariah's money. But like, it was out of my thought. Yeah, but why did you think about putting it with this? Because, okay, come on. Jordan wouldn't, she look good in it, probably. Yeah, probably. I'm saying. But now I'm going to make Jordan look good. I don't even know if Jordan's going to want Meg wearing that because I'll leave this thing on. Yeah. No, no, no. Dude, that would make it so much more exciting. Yeah! All right, all right, this is looking a little too much. It was a prank. It was a prank, yeah. I wanted to prank you. You can keep it if you want, yeah? But beware. Every time you wear it for your man, you're going to think of me, so it might be a little bit weird. I like it, so always. I do. Jordan, I'm, I really don't know what to say, right? She's going to come out and say it, I'm just going to be, I'm going to be, I'm going to be like, this is the next time you do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.  I'm not expecting that. Do you like your gift, though? I love my gift. Merry Christmas, buddy. I hope you enjoyed it. Appreciate it, it's very cute. Hopefully it's good. I actually really like it, not gonna lie. I know. It's a little weird, but I like it. Good, I'm glad. That was the whole point, I'm sorry. But it was a joke, you know, obviously. But that's funny that your mom was here, though. Target, everything's targeted. Thank you. Everything. I know how to shop, especially for the girls that used to like me. I know how to shop. All right, that's enough, that's enough. I'm going to have to close this video out before it gets too crazy, guys. We got a family gathering here. We need to send their half this out, but Megan, I'm glad that you like your gift. I put a lot of thought into it. And how many people are looking at me in the aisle? Like, that was this guy doing in the laundry. Oh, wait, hold on. I swear, I was in Target, and I'm like, I'm like, holding it up. I'm like, what's this thing, dude? I was like, I was like, no, not that one. There's like a black one, like the red one. Like right when it caught my eye, I smiled and I ran over to it. It was like, it was like the weirdest thing ever, yeah. But all right, you guys, we're gonna end the video right here. I hope you enjoyed today's video. It's definitely a successful mission. Yes. We completed it, yeah. We'll see you guys in the next video, but until then, peace, love you guys.


secretion nightmares with Ron and Frank very good. Thank you. Not too dark, please and as Has been said already we would like to have the cyber We'd like the audience to whisper the word cyber cyber cyber. Thank you Thanks a lot, right now This is the 20th edition in decimal anniversary For those that like decimals I've almost forgot. I almost forgot Last time we were using octals and then sometimes hexadecimal numbers and then suddenly I Didn't realize until I noticed oh 20 that is kind of important to as well. So That's why we have a 20-year look back shortly, but that will be an exception. We won't do that every year Who here is here for the first time? Okay, nice What was that a third? 20 to 25 percent who was there at the first time? for those that can still calculate this that was in 16 C3 at the house. I'm currently in park in Berlin who was there. Ah, yeah, five Imagine that and then who wasn't born by that time more Actually, if you go back 20 congresses including this one, it would be 17. Okay back then in the house at Curnish Park There were about half as many people as Are in this hall just in this hall right now. That was the overall audience in 1999 Before the turn of the millennium that was the first time we used the NNC3 acronym or abbreviated acronym and the second Event and the house of Curnish Park in Berlin very nice location and We had half as many people there as fit into this hall alone And that was in the whole house and it felt rather full Yeah, because you have to know that the house of Curnish Park had a large hall and that could Fit so many people as many people in as would fit into the whole of the Eiderstetter Burger House the first location in Hamburg Could someone just do the calculation there where we will be in 20 years from now Okay, but we are post growth now we notice that these growth thing is difficult The planet is going to be exhausted at some point. So we'd better not grow anymore right okay, and The Congress was only three days back then So you could do this in one go Without sleeping Who of you have tried? In the four days, come on. Yeah, be embarrassed. Well, they're not here. They're just lying around anywhere dazed right, I Can remember when I was at a four-day Congress for the first time and I thought oh that can't be true That's just an attack on your health Yeah, I think this correlation we went to four days and assert grew massively. I think that is no coincidence But at the end it's good right four days Who believes that it's a crime to hack at him to be kicked out after four days? So that's half of you who would like one month of Congress in in a row Okay, right So that's two-thirds again or something like that Yeah seamless transition from camp to Congress That is Good idea because 1999 was the year when the first camp to place who was there Yeah, five again, right Now those are the veteran Spectators or no, not just spectators. So what was the big issue in 1999 and that was of course the year 2000 Who still regrets the purchase of a generator? Well, no not regret. I Didn't pay it for any way because the company bought it Boat it simply went bust in January and they had ordered it And didn't pay the pill so next year will be a leap year so if you If you're going to be Saying overnight from the 28th to the 29th of February to the 1st of March take an extra roll of loo paper Yeah, the year 2000 what was one of the first topics where this dependency of IT kind of entered the public conscience because of that panic and Until now it's not quite clear whether that was a panic that was unjustified or whether the panic made sure that enough energy and time and money was spent to prevent it from being a problem and I think up to now that is has not been clarified and we are all Looking towards the year 2038 with great glee which is coming closer So 2038 is closer to us now then the first security night miss are away from us by now just as a point of reference right so we were sitting around there and Listening to Professor Brunstein's talk with a certain sense of horror Who would we explain to us how the world would end and well right those were the days Right the shocking thing is that the years from 1999 to 2019 Can be summarized in a single image a screenshot Warning the document your opening contains macros or customization some macros may contain viruses that could harm the computer If you're sure this document is from a tercid source click enable macros If you're not sure about to prevent any macros to click this able macros macros when we prepared We were kind of miffed by the fact that in those 20 years. We haven't had any real progress on this front Which what we had is massively this year was several ransomware attacks which for the largest part still are transported via Office macros as a transport vector and that was and was not any different in 1999 in between It was a bit less But by now we're back at the very same issue and we have to ask is this human humanity actually capable of learning How many out there in in business?  Oh come on kick them while they're down Right now About the regular program of ten years ago That's a regular issue ten years ago We were talking about cloudy computing and thought that malware and the cloud would converge and Who of you have seen this come to reality become a reality? Yeah eight The message was I think that a lot of malware would be migrating into the cloud and the cloud in its Perhaps non-security would become a problem But in fact, I think we've observed something else It looks a bit like if only the cloud is the thing that can be defended or at least Many try to create that impression right well on the other hand All those antivirus snake oil things went into the cloud. They are now all selling cloud antivirus and And they all are selling cloud everything cloud everything. Yeah Hypervisor root kits is something that we announced at the time We just had debated this for a while How did we actually reach that impression and we then found that yes, of course they exist There are some tool kits with which you can break out of those hypervisor frameworks but in the wild they are quite rarely used because the necessity of Such a hugely elegant solution simply it doesn't isn't there because the thing that's within those virtual machines is So bad that it simply is not worth the effort to go that go through that Go that go that long way and That's how wrong you can be so realistic assumptions about self-equality I think we've learned that shitty secretion at mess never Turned into reality. That's right. So the question is if Office macros would no longer be around what we have this instead This the search engine user profile obfuscation The idea here was that you were sitting in front of your search engine and asking one question after the other and that of course is Every question to Google is an answer to Google. That was the motto And so how do you obfuscate yourself and I have to say I haven't seen any plug-ins that simply Is searching for Britney Spears in between or whatever is current at the time something harmless I think if you would search for Britney Spears these days a bizarre fetish would be assumed So that was ten years ago. Of course. That was the message then right Street view was an issue ten years ago That Kept Germany that burnt Germany so hard that Google now would rather not publish anything and Everyone else didn't take part either My impression but that's maybe just my filter bubble my impression is that Everyone's kind of regretting this that everything is just rotting there in street view and nothing's updated Well, actually, I think that is quite interesting To this is a kind of living archaeology. You can see how it looked like a few years ago. What has changed since then Well, right the problem is that Street view by then was state-of-the-art and these days we have When we looked in preparation current aerial imagery The platforms have a 10 centimeter resolution so you're not quite there with reading number plates yet, but not that far either and What is actually fascinating here is I think it was this year that we had the discussion What's it like about aerial images? They are always getting better and I think Bing started this say How did they call it bird view and Apple is calling it flyover or something and they really have good data there and Nothing is pixelated at least I didn't find anything and This outcry that went through Germany back then I Have to pixelate my house that seems to Through those aerial images that just seems to have evaporated did we have anything I think that has two reasons the one reason is With the aerial images you have the top view Maybe a bit of a side view, but you can't really read Writings the number plates you can't really recognize faces that way and the algorithms that That they put in about Pecalating faces and number plates They do need some time to to get there There was this whole thing I'm going to pixelate the whole storefront, but I Think that the development will be quite quick if fixed 5g is rolled out. Yeah, there are devices that say okay 5g huge bandwidth we can put in this this 360-degrees cameras and put them on taxis or Been collecting trucks and have a live update of Street View Just streamed out via 5g and then Paste it there and of course then we will need those algorithms to pixelate images because of data protection and paste the pixelate faces and that opens interesting perspectives because With your storefront if you don't want to be in that live stream you have to take the font that is used for number plates and Set up your storefront with that and That will automatically get pixelated and that will then lead to number plate wallpaper that you paste to your house perhaps to make it disappear and clearly It's not over yet. The issue has just been dormant the live-street view thing will come and The air images are one pathway that they are sneaking in now The flash mob renters And our bot herders the bot net defense federal care people That was just an announcement at the time So that was the bot free dot-dee bot free dot-dee will started just a year later And the reason of course was that that was the year of the confecate virus and We were told that five percent of Business PCs are infected and Germany was on the second at on rank two with of countries with the most botnet infections and then the things were done and Few years later Germany was out of the top ten and Until now It isn't in the top ten now either So the whole thing was kind of scaled down And the interesting thing is that Japan last year the in Japan the government Authorized itself to scan for iot's and they started this year. I think I haven't seen any results yet. I assume that they are trying to Catch people that have bad passwords with iot devices and contact these people as we've seen with infected system Systems, so I think next year we'll have an update on that Yeah, we already had that topic back then it was about intelligent electrical meters the discussion of the conflict between the environment and data protection the The question is if we want to save the planet is it justified to implement Surveillance state kind of initiative and do we need that in order to Comply with environmental regulations that are important and the societal movements that are advocating for that kind of thing Might have to have a stronger discussion or a more focus discussion on this topic If you look at the political spectrum on the very on the green Part of the so the environmental parties They may not hold the data privacy aspect in as higher regard if the trade-off is against the environmental Issues that we're looking at so this is a topic that we will have to discuss some more in the coming years and there will be It will be hard to find a consensus in that regard it's if we were still worried about the Very Data protection aspects for the citizen We had malware with update cycles of weeks or one week back then we're down to the question of an hour or Sometimes even less. This is a good progress obviously We thought that the electronic health insurance card is dead You may want to just have a look at the talk At the Congress this year. There was a talk on the electronic health insurance card and build your own opinion on that There's the internet normality update for 2019. We're just gonna throw out a few numbers For example, there was this Microsoft RDP vulnerability. It was called blue keep When it was published or put out there There was roughly a million system that were immediately vulnerable. That's roughly the order of magnitude. We usually talk about even though a lot of malware is still Replicating quite happily even if you only just have a few 10,000 systems Then there was Gantt Crab It was a larger number In the matter of how much money was earned. It's in the ransomware corner Those numbers are put out there by the group who published the exploit so this is interesting because it was only running 16 months and They claim to have earned about 160 million US dollars The question so the the other side the victims claim that they had almost 10 million in damages so those numbers don't really match up and It's The question is this is really profit After after calculating the numbers if did you discount all the effort you had to put in all the money You spend along the way. This is proper bookkeeping. You're doing or did you round up or down? It's clear that the company say it's Vastly more expensive because they had to do something New while they were or basically they pushed in something that they wanted to do all along and they this was just an opportunity that they had now so they had The the numbers just don't match What's your view in this did where you affected did you have? Do you have a friend of a friend who was affected by ransomware? Oh, so few people That's at most a hundred people So who knows a company that was affected by a ransomware attack No, that's a vastly larger number So who knows a person or a company that actually paid up That's not actually few maybe 15 And how many stars would you give their support system? Customer service five stars So the The industry will have to explain how you reach them they have a lot to do and of course Yeah, the question about customer service did the data come back Who knows anyone who got their data back? Yeah, so customers port is has room for improvement Yeah, there were numbers that we saw I found Basically jumped out of the internet at me. It was an office in Florida that has paid up 600,000 US Dollars and Ransom there were a few others that paid roughly 400k Did any money year of a larger sum than that? Is it official? It's not official, but I heard I know of people who have are tasked with dealing with the fallout with this and cleaning it up They claim that There was one company at least that basically just took their share of the of the revenue that the company generated So they took something like two percent from the numbers that they have in the balance sheet and use that as the demand that they put out in the ransom notice so if you think about it if If you have an outage in production and it lasts for a day Then maybe that's roughly a percent in cost that they incur or lost revenue. So The ransomware topic is One of the points where the the claims that we made in the last few years actually were pretty spot-on Was the the mail actually affected to oh Nice a postcard. Thank you a very nice postcard Time travel is not a crime Yeah, we'll talk about that later This These ransomware attack not all of it is ransomware some of it is actually targeted attacks on companies were it's Then spreading out they're looking for the weakest point in the company. They attack that spot for example something that Sends parcels or something and you for example you you you kill that fulfillment position or maybe it's the finances you to hit them where it hurts and You can see that all the technological depth you have incurred of the years that you've been Keeping around and you don't solve it's basically coming back at you now And we've been asking ourselves why of the last few months. There were so many ransomware incidents that have affected hospitals and similar universities and similar endeavors those have the oldest IT systems with little hope for betterment So basically they're the weakest her members of the herd and they are being called They obviously they they have to Discounted in their credit in the balance sheet But in the end they're more willing to pay because it's easier. So these ransomware attacks now They create an intrinsic motivation to take care of your IT system So maybe it may have positive effects in the end for the individual ball office or company The ransomware infections rose in over 350 percent the bug bounties are rising as well apple also joined the game with 1.5 million US dollars for a zero-day in 2019 we had 19 zero days that made it into distribution In 2018 it was only 12 So maybe for some of you this year was a little busier than usual but Maybe not as much as in 2017 when it was 22 the average cyber damage in Germany is around 2 million euros and Every a German company was affected by some form of cyber attack. Those are numbers where you're saying every 8th that the others not read any emails or these numbers just off or Strange these numbers coming from industry political agencies They're saying the total number of damages to use the cyber attack are in the two-figure billions How are they calculating it? You really have to ask yourself so it's more interesting to look at what else is in there and Yeah, the Basically the calls for help from the industry that's someone maybe not the state was gonna go out there and regulate that whole thing so Maybe that's just the growing despair of the security officers and the companies that they're not getting the money from the CEO or the board or whoever and They're basically looking at other Branches of the industry that are more heavily regulated and they're kind of jealous because they're hoping for more regulation That would allow them to get the budget for the security that they need So let's look back at 2019 So the Chamber Court of Berlin they Had a terrific task of D dusting fax machines actually know that I don't think they had to de dust them. They were perfectly maintained If anything is properly maintained and de dusted is the fax machine did they increase the lines by 10 By a factor of 10 or get something out of the basement or what did they do? Well, they didn't have one stack of paper, but a whole palette and They put the people there to keep putting the paper in the fax machine There's this stupid phrase from lawyers that goes The electronic transfer of documents made it possible to make legal papers Escalate in size so much because otherwise you'd earlier you had to get it through in time So there was a limit on how many hundreds of pages pages to get get transmit in a few hours So if I'm if I keep myself short, I can hide it in later Right Now the e-voting isn't really going away in Switzerland we had the attempt to Which badly failed also thanks to the great work of the Swiss CCC members And applause and the same company that was the Spanish company skytel then what they are these Zombies they just don't go away They do this web server based e-voting and the German social Democrats Were enticed to do that when they asked their members who should lead them this year Who should be the next leader we criticized it heavily and they always respond to our command So it's not just a real election. It's just a survey of members opinions, which the party will then implement And that won't go away. They will go on zombying around and the question now will have to be asked one of our Predictions is becoming true if you have digital voting votes How can you prove that nothing the election has been tampered with and we've seen this in Bolivia in Bolivia, yes the president was Voted out because they ran an election With a digital system and someone said this election was tampered with There was an electoral fraud and no one was able to say no there wasn't it was impossible You could only determine that the system was as broken as all the other digital systems and and that Narrative of we know that's that's that's been that there's been fraud came about so as soon as you have Digital voting and someone later says electoral fraud you've lost Yeah and then this fascinating topic with those ring cameras the issue of password quality and software vulnerabilities, but Much more exciting was what happened in the u.s Where there was this unholy alliance? between police forces local forces and The makers if I understood it correctly and You are Being made to give the police access to cameras to your own cameras And I think what can be foreseen here is that this will be so an issue of social pressure we have These neighbor associations in the better Better of American suburbs and there are rules there how you should design Keep your house and garden intact in order to not degrade the value of the other houses in the neighborhood So don't have your lawn grow any longer because that will degrade the value of these surrounding houses And that's not on and it's completely foreseeable that soon we will reach a state that these people say oh come on We are a ring neighborhood. We all have these cameras and they will all be linked up to the local police department and You can then imagine the black men is it mirror scenarios that will come from that Someone runs away and then the cameras in the neighborhood will watch if that face is picked up somewhere and so on so these The cameras that stream directly to the cloud That is a phenomenon That we should really Keep in mind that we've been warning about this for many years and now it is really happening in the Asian area Asian region You have companies that sell you a camera that swims into the cloud and out of all video images it they Cut out everything that looks like a face and put it in the cloud And if any face is recognized and and it's feminine that's this person was under suspicion as a shop lifter Shop owners will get a message saying hello the person that you've seen on your camera has been Recognized as a shop lifter somewhere else and that is a service that is being paid for and and the state of course has access to these data and Can also feed data into the face recognition whether that is only 50% correct or not It doesn't matter as long as the system looks as if it would add value and this integration of state surveillance and private surveillance with the companies that build technology and These are for our forming a kind of conglomerate that that is something we will see much more And we have to get used to the fact that this state versus interested thinking is not going to be applicable anymore It's going to be a one huge conglomerate and If security is so bad that you cannot make sure that every second image will be one of Donald duck That is going to be the challenge now data wealth All kinds of data wealth this year of course, it's clear the remarkable thing perhaps That was two issues One that 30 terabytes of data from the top three antivirus makers were carried out That is quite a good achievement Whether they are not using their own products. Could that be maybe the license expired? And the other thing that I found quite crazy was that some security researchers found a pot of data that Wasn't probably probably secured it contained data from 80 million u.s households all complete with date of birth Address GPS data and income and things like that and that it seems was lying around in a Microsoft cloud thingy and With those data they could not determine who it belonged to it was just hmm That's data large file The format was published on on the website Reducted and there was a call for people to help to find the source and the only thing that happened was that Microsoft quickly shut down the server and those That were going to get billed for that server were notified But they didn't say who that was who that was so that question is still open and unresolved And this will happen more often you can be sure that this will happen more often and data will appear and people say wow That could be long to a bank. Maybe not maybe a tax at counseling company Whatever right so maybe that will be a new classic as well How do these things come about Someone needs a bit of backup space and the IT says Well, the new network attached artists will only be completed in four weeks, but my deadlines next week So what do we do? We just click us a bucket somewhere and upload it there We don't need any crypto. We're going to do it for two days anyway And we don't need security either because it will take longer than and we'll delete it surely and Then on Friday night someone says have you deleted the data yet? I'm going to do it soon. Yeah, and then the coffee cup is knocked over and he's dealing with something else And then goes on holiday and he's gone and the data remains right and Depending on what credit card this is someone will notice or not and such a lot of things will disappear that way And you won't know what it is one of the things that we're Very We're showing this zombie like characteristics this year again was the discussion about increased back doors increased and severe Severe and back doors in certain software and the plot usually works like this The the government or some one of their the organ says we don't want the encryption to become any weaker Because obviously we have attackers like the Chinese or the Russians, but we want some of the companies like the the larger Basically you can Google Amazon Facebook the the regulars They should build their encryption in a way that it has a back door that enables the law enforcement agencies to take a peek and that Basically, they shouldn't build it build anything special But rather what they're saying is maybe just add another key You don't need any special access method another key for example would be fine that the government has access to and then they can Just take a look and the discussion is Rather rather severe in the US The representatives of the companies feel pressured and put on the spot and They're being forced to come up with a solution for this and There's they don't want the responsibility and The government basically said yes all the problem. We don't care, but they also put timelines on it There's deadlines for example by the Senate where they were grilling Apple Facebook Maybe some more and the demand was clear Well relatively it was it was crystal clear If you don't Enable us by the same time next year Some way to do this we're gonna regulate you Well, we're here next time Same time next year and then we can take a look what happened So the discussion is also going on in Germany There's also a bit of a row between the law enforcement agencies and some companies to enable them and It is not so much a matter of What it looks like in the specific countries it will be a little different For example, if you have a chat then They should for example put in a ghost participant in the chat who will just read and Whose key will be? added to the conversation so they can later on look at what was said and The problems that are showing themselves here Are that over the short or long term? Encrypted communication made available by commercial companies that are not Regulated or that are regulated even Cannot be viewed as secure anymore if they submit to this kind of regulation for example Apple Google whatever and They have so many million users that are being affected by this then these companies Are not actually allowed anymore by law to create actually secure encryption. So People who are in need of secure communication actually need to utilize offerings by smaller companies that are unaffected by regulation and The the issue is Basically the state is not happy with the state as it is even after the the leaks made available by Snowden that showed us what what happened and We're still discussing this under the topic of responsible encryption We probably need to speed up a little bit so some some more interesting stuff That we want to discuss We can learn More from the reports from the beaches There were several of those Probably more than over the last few years. So if you're interested maybe Google their specific Companies that were affected for example data breach report for the company's Equifax mask It's very interesting some of the other companies noticed that it's nice for the marketing and for For keeping the customer relation intact if they're very open about what happened and how they reacted to the cyber breach And it is very very Insightful to look at what they put out there and you can learn a lot from it. There was this super critical ira security Gap that was called checkmate in the bootloader that Apple probably won't be able to patch and is only fixed starting iPhone 11 and onwards and that is actually really Better for us It's not the last time this is gonna happen. That's for sure. It only lasts for a while usually the next discussion that is really interesting is And It has been Almost emotional Is DNS over HTTPS so encrypted name resolutions In my view, it's similar to TLS forward secrecy Crypto is becoming better well even communication as a whole the transmission of data Encryption a lot of people say yeah, well, that's annoying. I have to buy something new in order to Take a peek and I need it for my security and I Some people say they need the money in order to support their business model to sell the data which may for example for DNS be quite relevant for the ISPs in the US in Germany It's not allowed at least talcars aren't allowed, but Yeah well for Enterprises, it's more of a nuisance. They can sort of adjust their way of working and put out a better method of distributing software or have policies in place or some other method but the companies that are really affected by this are the data traders and Some other ones that are pissed off about this are the companies edit the governments that want to listen in on the conversations and Yeah, that may not be a bad thing So I Want to throw in just just for a little bit the first Recall of an of a piece of medical security Gadget, baby sickly It was 2017 By the FDA It's crazy how long this takes so this particular radio insulin pump That where we only had a voluntary recall the security researchers Had to be persistent about this for two and a half years in order to To put pressure on them to get the FDA to do it and this is only the tip of the ice book We really don't know what's out there that should really be recalled because it's unsecure We're also observing that the topic of automation and distribution of work Among the malware producers so the Basically the industry in the dark sector is pushing themselves to new heights and Frank already said that the weakest ones are going to be polished off But yeah The one that got removed recently wasn't actually the weakest but still So the companies are gonna take a look and they're gonna evaluate what they really need and they're gonna say okay We need to recover the systems faster Maybe we need an active directory as a hot spare that we can just throw in the network when it's needed and maybe You can already Take the stance That if you have a smaller or a medium-sized incident you can basically say okay We're not gonna pay anything. We don't care go for it. So industry is Seeing these this these trends and they're increasing their efforts from ransom to blackmail so basically before they encrypt them they're taking the data out and They're not just saying if you want your data back if you wanted you need to pay us X amount of bitcoins But their companies are saying yeah, well, we're still backup. We don't care and then the the ransom where Folks are just gonna say yeah, we also have your backups and maybe other people are interested in what you have in your backups so what you what they're doing is basically a torture by a thousand cuts where the affected company is It gets to the point where they're saying maybe it might actually be better to pay up instead of being Hurt anymore. It's a rather traditional model of doing business But it's coming back at in these in this new way that we're seeing in the ransomware sector So we're gonna just skip this. Yeah stealing metadata Interesting is there are now products with more than one backdoor Because During production of the product more than one person was involved or agency actor Maybe that all put in a factor So there's there are several Companies involved in the production chain or in the development life cycle for example the hardware companies the software all of them Are leaving their own trace in there their their own sent even it's There are for example, Chinese companies that are trying to You They put out these IPT cameras in the sub $50 range, which is a very nice and she Gadgets and there are hard-coded passwords in there multiple of them strange strings a lot of This is a lot of entertainment for very few bucks and And Yeah, along the production chain. It's very interesting to see who else was involved This might be something you want to try out in your own hacker space Where you use something from the the sundry money and just buy one of these little gadgets and take a look What you can find All right now to the weather forecast a Short remark last year. We did already say that everything that can betray you will betray you everything will receive a chip everything will be given some memory and record things and will have a sensor and There there will be hardware that will record at which temperature you've charged the battery or did not charge the battery and Things like that and whether it was too warm or too cold and that surely someone will try to use against you by saying no no warranty You are keeping things too warm to cold the battery went too cold the classic with e-bikes, right a modern e-bike was Be left outside at minus 10 degrees and the bike would not work and the maker would say oh come on We can offer you a new one, but there's no guarantee anymore That's stupid But well just data it's maybe something you do about it something do something about it so what you need is the log file stylist and Something that will become stronger is the distribution of the market into privacy business models there will be the lower end so the Sectioning of the market the the Asian cheap business models that have never really heard about data protection Or privacy, so they will give you the low prices and finance those by pre-made apps So the model is you have a phone which costs surprisingly little and there are about 30 apps on that phone everyone buying each one of the app makers has paid something between I don't know $25 around So these are all system apps They have access to all the sensors all the data and they monetize the data directly from the phone So there is no platform involved anymore the apps are doing it immediately or they're building their own platform that way So there's the staircase Starting from that low end and then you have something someone like Apple who say we don't want your money So we don't want your data because we already have your money so the small amounts we could kind of Express from your data. We don't want that anymore And then there's everyone in between such as Google with the pixel phones who say oh It's nice that you've given us your money and now we want a bit more from your data as well When we want all your data, but don't worry we will do no evil, right? They're just for us and And this differentiation according to privacy scales That's something we will see more of in the next year and it's worth looking closer there and to see what the actual Foundations in terms of privacy are and the sad thing is that there will be people that will claim they have Privacy and are there for claiming a higher price, but that don't actually have anything There was this publication there was this notice at heiser the you will learn German IT publication about apps for children and you just You couldn't believe if you read this how they treat the data What they claim their products to to not do and then what they then actually do The cloud is now getting all the data So the motto of course is it's only secure in the cloud and Therefore it becomes the single point of whatever Including the previously mentioned blackmail. So door locks heating says the slide If you as a group operator you have a Company that makes door locks that are connected to the cloud and they have 5,000 customers and you open those doors and you could say Well, we could say we could wonder whether the locks will open for every customer or would they get broken or would you just stay shut Stay shut and get broken at the same time. You could run a scaled business model there and We wondered Whether in the next year we'll have the first large case of API obsolescence whether that will occur This started because in my family I had questions like, oh You know, isn't what's up now going to stop in the next year If I'm still having if I still own an iPhone 4 or an Android, whatever And the answer was well, it doesn't really matter does it but many people do not see it that way and I Then wondered right. Well, what is actually the reality and reality seems to be that Certain things will no longer be supported by certain platforms. No one wants to do a 16-bit anymore things like that and Will that mean that as soon as someone changes something in their API for security reasons That's suddenly a few million end devices will no longer Tick because they don't receive any updates anymore to the new API Yes, and we then thought a while and then we said no probably not maybe they just would not dare or try to Still keep things running on the server side in a way that the old devices can still Use the old API and the new ones will use the new API and they just try to filter out certain things and do this or whatever and We've had enough problems already that was solved in the net and not through updates of the GSM phones for example So maybe nothing will happen ultimately well these Data mountains that will disappear there are two points Where things are developing that will get stronger and one is the official digitalization that is happening We heard about we were laughing about the electronic health card in Germany, but there are other things there The Lawyers Mailbox for example that was a huge fail in Germany So people want to do more and more digitally and use less faxes and send less snail mail and then We also have the issue that the notaries inbox Existed and what you can see what you can read in the media is will gently blow it will simply blow you away I think a journalist asked Kindly even someone from politics. I think Whether an IT security audit had been made and the answer then was that they didn't see a reason to do that Because the makers are trustworthy so if you summarize it the digitalization strategy of today is tomorrow's data wealth and Who of you works in an institution or an? company That is busy developing a digitalization strategy one of the interpreters is raising his hand so about a third or over so that seems to be a thing and Who of those that did not show up? Believes that companies Should have a digitalization strategy their companies, but haven't really started yet ten percent right so the incredible You have this incredible approach That we've just talked about there is no reason to Verify a security then the outcome will be inevitable, but the other side is The invisible data mountains of shadow digitalization Are you shivering yet? This is your aunt everyone who's using digital devices without really knowing what they're doing and Who still have your data and process it and share it and then leave it somewhere and This started with digital photography where you take photos and photos and photos And then you don't weed them out But you simply put them on some disk somewhere that you have lying around and the disc Suddenly is on the local network and then suddenly through a small mistake It synchronizes to the cloud and it's and when it stays there unless the makers change their business model And the fact that storage is getting cheaper and cheaper This is not just happening in the homes But in companies too more and more data is being stored and put somewhere and people are not looking after the cleanup because well so There'll be unbelievable things coming together there and if there is a dam breach and the data lake Data lake nice, right? Data lakes exist in industry Where they collected all kinds of data without throwing it away and then hope that machine learning might extract something and then they realized that Sadly the data aren't that usable for their purposes But they're still lying around because you know you never know something might happen and they may have they may find something to do with that data and the Popular format of business areas and crypto and sport This is the popular section in security nightmares now more companies have a cyber than Had last year So industry has understood that Help is possible and there is incident response and Emergency of this and emergency that's and people you can call if you had a cyber and they will help you to Kind of exercise the cyber and there's so much more connected to that You don't have to be an IT person to join in Cyber emergency Helpline for people that Have been affected by cyber incidents and if you listen in on the industry and how they're mitigating it and There are a lot of companies that have to do professional cleanup after this for example data data loss reclamation strategies Digital digital sorrow or digital grief In including restructuring the whole mess afterwards At mask they said well the IT was gone and the emails didn't work anymore, and then we just migrated to what's up So we're organizing ourselves over what's up afterwards and then we created groups there and in the groups we tried to keep the business running and afterwards We were actually Wondering if this might actually be our new company structure the what's up group Maybe we don't even need to turn on the mail service anymore. They didn't say that Anyone who wasn't in the what's up group was terminated later on so there's still a lot to watch out for in the future and You also have the problem that how do you tell these kind of problems to the public? How do you? Spread the word so there's no really really good Way to explain it to the lay person because it's just gotten too complex You can try to find analogies that are so broad that they're not really fitting and you could also try another way and Look at it from another angle if it looks like magic maybe explain it like magic So maybe do a fantasy novel it has similar terminology and you You basically have You were breached by a ransom gang and In you could create a whole cyber fantasy about it. You demons Have breached the outer ring of the the castle They could scale up the walls and go into our rooms and we now need to find brave people to go into the dungeons and Hunt the demons and purge them from the castle So you need professional writers who make a living out of explaining this In a way that makes sense for other people like fantasy and magic So at dawn you now have to You'd not have to slaughter more cyber geese But only at the full moon So Then Kaminsky likes to say data wants to lie to you He wants you to be wrong Data wants to lie to you and not a lot of people have understood this that their data lake is actually out to get them and This is important to understand and to train yourself in in Realizing that there is distortion in your own data Coming out of the sensors out of the way you gather your data From the sources that you use and you have to train yourself to Find these to watch out for them and it's basically the opposite of what happens today Where people are being told yet as great things in your data and they're looking at the noise so long Until they see a pattern in there, which is clearly bogus So we have the phenomenon here that the migration to IPv6 took a lot longer than before initially and Now it seems to happen very suddenly and most of the devices nowadays Seem to actually understand IPv6 in there and in there Do you see a lot of packets on your network and you're saying well wait the monitoring in the firewall Don't know IPv6 and your router doesn't and you suddenly have all this this these practice on there And now there is this new job of an IPv6 Exorcist in trying to purge these from the network and later they have to retrain as the IPv4 Exorcist in order to get rid of the old system and the old frames and messages Turn around I forgot to turn on the cut the crypto Did this this is a thing did everybody understand by now that it's important to Have crypto to encrypt everything that it doesn't work without crypto of graffiti That it's necessary for basically everything. No one Demands anymore that there shouldn't be any crypto. They usually just want a factor and an extra key but the question is is it actually on the whole time or Is it just there and not turned on or if it's misconfigured or does it have the wrong parameters or maybe on some of the time or some of the connections or Did your software update break it again turn it off or maybe fiddle with the parameters or This is there's probably enough software out there That's trying to figure out if the cryptography is still on and the question is if yes, how many of them and We think we really should do something for the IT security Click on each attachment in each area for science We're usually saying you should watch out for it and We're usually saying that the problem exists between chair and keyboard But the problem is actually that the software is crap Every software that I'm using these days should be able To send data via email to not blow up your computer to not put it out in the internet and encrypted to so the question Basically that the message of saying Don't click the attachment and don't click every URL. This is just victim blaming and it's wrong and we need to stop it now So maybe we should talk to the unions and We should tell them that clicking every attachment in every URL it gives you more free time or earlier Close-up business during the day So this is a clear case of we can't keep going on like this and we need to escalate the situation to a fair degree So now from now on click every attachment click anything you can find basically use macros Well, maybe maybe not maybe still turn off the macros So that is basically our appeal to you and this we wish you a lovely New year in 1984 and we see you again next year this


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sounded good real good a weekend at Malibu expenses paid with a cash bonus thrown in but that was before I knew about the henchmen the redhead and the corpse these three in the white Panama hat ruined it all for me from the pan of Raymond Chandler outstanding author of crime fiction comes his most famous character as CBS presents the adventures of Philip Marlowe and now with Gerald Moore starred as Philip Marlowe we bring you tonight's unusual story the Panama hat I was sitting in my office bombing the ashtray on my desk with paper clips wondering what kind of a job a private detective gets when clients stop calling completely I was seesawing between the picture of me as a well starched huckster and the more comfortable portrait of Marlowe author in English tweets man of distinction the telephone brought me to a rude awakening Marlowe speaking my name is Isabelle Gordon Mr. Marlowe I must see you at once my husband Bruce is in terrible danger could you possibly meet me in our at the Pelican Inn it's a small roadside place on the way to Malibu I'll explain everything then Pelican Inn one hour Mrs. Gordon the Pelican Inn was strictly a liquor license with chairs and a board piano player in one corner grinding away the place was empty and I was about to order a drink when the front door opened and a woman entered she was tall and thin and right out of Harper's Bazaar from double-lap ankle strap shoes to close cropped hair one look at her fear crowded eyes and I knew it was Isabelle Gordon I got up and introduced myself then we went to a table and she started to talk for two weeks now Mr. Marlowe my husband Bruce has been receiving unsigned threatening letters I'm almost sick with worry I don't know what to do now wait a minute Mrs. Gordon the first thing to do is to get hold of yourself and tell me the whole thing right from the beginning yes all right well first of all Bruce and I have only been married a little more than a year we're living with my uncle every fair child on an estate out beyond Malibu I've seen what does your husband do for a living this is why he's a photographer movie a commercial but present it's neither you see Bruce has been terribly unsettled since the war lost sort of an then recently he got interested in photography and it's been a great help to him he doesn't exactly work at well he's converted one of the rooms in the guest cottage into a studio and he spends almost all of his time there experimenting with portrait work but he doesn't actually have a job if that's what you mean how does that appeal the uncle Avery I'll be honest with you Mr. Marlowe my uncle thinks the sun rises and sets on me but with Bruce total eclipses edit I'm afraid so all his life Uncle Avery has been concerned only with dollars and cents he simply doesn't understand or sympathize with an artist viewpoint now what about these unsigned letters well Bruce has been getting them for the past two weeks they're always made up of words cut from newspapers and pasted on ordinary paper that's a cheap stunt what do they say each one threatens my husband's life yet both he and uncle Avery consider them nothing more than the work of some harmless crank in spite of the fact for the last several days I've seen a strange man lurking around our place every night can you describe him no no except where he's about your height and build is that all yes no I wait a minute there is something else each time I saw Mr. Marlowe he was wearing a white Panama well it's not much to go on tell me why haven't you called the police Uncle Avery wouldn't hear of it he hates publicity dreads it that's why I suggested contacting you a private detective sort of a bodyguard for Bruce huh yes however Mr. Marlowe Bruce is somewhat temperamental and I know he'd rebel at the thought of being watched over so I'd rather you posed as a house guest in old college chum of mine perhaps my fee is 25 a day plus expenses Mrs. Gordon any price is all right Mr. Marlowe let's see it's a little after seven now can you be at our place at Malibu at nine I think so but it's a fellow alumnus Isabel one last question where'd you go to college Southern California why but I was afraid you might say Vassar after Isabel left her remember that I was already on my expense account so I had a tasteless cold hot blue plate special and a burned cup of coffee and I stepped out of the pelican Inn and headed across the paved parking lot to my car was already dark and I was admiring the full moon and the beautiful wash it made over the ocean when it happened you all right Mr. yeah yeah I think so thanks to your sounding off that nut was aiming right for you yeah looks that way you happen to get his number no what about his face can you describe him no matter of fact I only noticed one thing what was that the hat he was wearing it was a white Panama I tried to be broad minded but there was no other way to look at it the gentleman in the white Panama hat definitely meant business I returned to my apartment in Hollywood where I shaved showered and packed and I hit it for Malibu at a quarter to nine I was inside the grounds of the Fairchild estate another mile and I was at the front door when I entered Isabel greeted me like I was a keg of brandy around the St. Bernard's neck then we waited through an inch thick carpet to the library where Uncle Avery fat bald and looking like he just bitten into an under-ripe persimmon was waiting I wasn't asked to sit down and I wasn't offered a cigar every fairchild was not one to waste time I'm a very rich man Mr. Marlowe as such on the target for all kinds of fortune hunters confidence men and cranks in my life time I've been threatened and pestered by a score of crackpots each one slightly more psychopathic than the last never bothered me it never will however in this case the approach is a bit different meaning you think somebody's trying to get it you through your nephew or never refer to him as my nephew my niece's husband if you please and don't forget it Uncle Avery Isabel my feelings about your husband are no secret you're being unfair Uncle Avery just because Bruce is an artist and artist is a by Isabel that man's no more an artist than I am a horse jockey everybody hello Bruce hello darling you were saying something Uncle Avery Bruce I want you to meet Philip Marlowe we were great friends at school and when I heard he was in town for a while I insisted that he spend a weekend with us how do you do Mr. Gordon it's a pleasure to have you with us Mr. Marlowe you're very welcome I do the welcoming around here Bruce Mr. Marlowe's had a long trip and I'm certain he'd like to turn in early Bruce darling he's going to stay in the guest cottage the room next to your studio will you show him there please oh I'll be glad to by the way Isabel I I'm going to work late so I'll say good night to you now good night please please be careful yes Bruce by all means be careful remember the true artist belongs to posterity or something guest cottage was only a landscape top skip and a jump from the museum that Uncle Avery called home and as Bruce and I strolled along a flagstone path I feigned a deep interest in photography that was all my host needed he struck at the bait like a shark with malnutrition well Mr. Marlowe it didn't even occur to me that photography might be one of your hobbies Isabel never said a word good for Isabel I'm strictly a dabbler and tell me Mr. Gordon how long have you been at this portrait work all about six months you see I divide my time between my studio here and a school I attend in Hollywood that way I capture both the theory and practical experience at the same time now well here we are would you like to see the studio yes I would I'll be get the light well this is all right and larger two cameras darkroom are these your pictures yes what do you think of them I don't know exactly they're certainly different they are unusual aren't they yeah you see Marlowe each picture is actually made up of two separate studies which are superimposed I call it interpretive photography now this one a splash of light and bent pipe cleaner the sun and the plant shoot it's called metamorphosis oh what about that one there in the corner the girls face and clouds Mr. Marlowe you'll excuse me but that picture is ready for display I'm sorry I didn't mean to pry I thought it was just another interpretive photograph that isn't it isn't finished yet now Mr. Marlowe I'm afraid I've forgotten what my wife said about your long trip shall I show you to your room yes please do Mr. Gordon my room on the other side of the guest cottage was wider than Hollywood Boulevard after Bruce apologized for his display of temperament and bid me a polite good night I climbed into the silk pajamas that were laid out for me stretched out on the bed and tried to figure who belonged to the white Panama hat right an hour past and I wasn't getting any sensible answers so I switched out the light put my gun on the table next to me and snuggled into what felt like a mile and a half of mattress I was almost asleep and the clutter of a shovel falling on the walk outside brought me straight up in bed and grabbed my gun and made for the door the second I threw it open I knew that I'd made a mistake whoever kicked over that shovel it hurt me and met me with a large fist that came straight at my face oh as I came back into the world I was embarrassed to find myself alone and flat on my back when I started to get up it felt like the L.A. Don's water boy and all run over my face my gun was a few feet away and when I went to pick it up I stopped short it was a souvenir from the man with the great big fist a gold cigarette lighter it was engraved to skipper on his birthday putting it in my pocket I picked up my gun and made for Bruce's studio he wasn't there I threw on some clothes went back to the house and found Isabelle in the living room it's about to give her a biased account of the shortest fight on record when I noticed Uncle Avery quietly entering the house from a side door that led to the garden what's the matter Phil Bruce isn't in the studio anymore what now is a bell there's no reason for alarm my Bruce often goes off into the night like this call to the search for beauty or some such rot and what was it you were after just now outside Mr. Fairchild I was looking for my niece Marlowe Isabelle the cousin John telephone to say he wouldn't be down this weekend I didn't know there would be other guests just my cousin John Martin Phil not really a guest he comes down often too often to suit me Uncle Avery please you know that I'm fond of him yes but I don't know why he's a chronic gambler and of no use to anyone living at the Wilshire Gardens when he can't afford it driving expensive cars you're too hard on him skipper is a skipper yes do you know him no no no I don't you're not missing anything believe me I do believe you Mr. Fairchild I believe your every word good night all I left the house and headed straight for my car with the Wilshire Gardens in Hollywood in mind it was just a chance the John skipper Martin might own a white Panama hat I got to the prodigal cousin's bungalow it was dark inside so I pressed one hand close to my gun and the other against the door though there was no answer the side window was open and I started toward it when a nasty voice greeted me from the shadow of a palm tree good evening lovely night isn't that I hadn't noticed I've been busy I know we've been waiting for you for a long time we me and my nice shiny revolver here 38 oh I see well you make a handsome couple and I hope you're both very happy together now what do you want I don't want anything I'm here to give you something advice brother I've already told you I'm busy so if this is a heist let's get it over with fast you know I think you're confused I'm holding the gun Mr. Martin Martin John skipper Martin surprised that I know your name why yes yes I am I don't recall having had the pleasure you haven't people never forget me if Mr. Martin my tag is Brock I mean anything no what you do sing dance tell jokes yeah that's it the last one I tell Joe I can't wait you won't have to Mr. Martin I'm gonna tell you one right now goes like this once upon a time a young punk borrowed ten thousand dollars from a generous gambler on his promise to pay the money back within a week but the young punk never came across so the gambler told a nice fella named Brock to call on the young punk and tell him that he had 48 hours in which to get the money together and that if he didn't he'd never see the 49th hour what's the matter Mr. Martin don't you like jokes brought Grinch of this 38 into a shoulder holster and walked away soon as he rounded the corner I went to the open window and climbed in I rummaged through two closets looking for a white Panama you know what I was about to search a third when I heard something that brought me to a dead stop was a key in the front door lock closed my right hand over the gun in my pocket move flush against the sidewall and waited at the moment the door swung open and telephone rang and the Hulk of a man that ended went straight for it was wearing a gray fedora hello oh hello Isabelle what Bruce are you sure but that's impossible I I mean things like that just excuse me Isabelle I think I have a visitor I'll call you back reach Mr. Martin who are your name is Brock you owe a client of mine $10,000 he wants his money in 48 hours I'll get it I swear I will I'll have it right here on time all of it how you're gonna do that Mr. Martin I've got a way someone's gonna give it to me tonight why why because it's the healthy thing to do that's why that's all you wanted to know isn't it that's all good night Mr. Martin this is Marlo Isabelle I'm calling from a drug store in Hollywood has Bruce returned yet no and he won't he's been kidnapped what's that whoever didn't want $50,000 before morning or we'll never see Bruce alive again I walked my car up at the Wilshire Gardens I felt like my brain had spent the night in a cement mixer I was about to head back for Malibu when I suddenly saw a skipper Martin dash out of his bungalow and pile into a long glossy convertible I followed him out to the Pacific palisades where he made a call at a little house which sat on a bluff overlooking the sea once he was inside I moved up quietly and saw that the name on the mailbox was Miss Colla Winters I crawled up to a lace curtain window where I could see what was going on one look at Miss Winters made the damage I was doing to my tweeds worthwhile she was strictly dragonlady with flaming red hair and a waist you could span with two hands if you were lucky enough to get that close and the rest of the measurements fit just perfect listen Carla I've got myself skipper Martin to look after first last and always remember that why should I you've always been cheap talking no more look at you now you're in trouble so what do you do you holler black male go on down here go here before I kill you and skipper slammed the front door stomped to his car and roared off I couldn't figure any reason legitimate reason that is for calling on color winters so I returned to the Fairchild place Isabel was somewhere between hysteria and collapse over the fact that she and Bruce had less than $2,000 in their own name Uncle Avery of course was more than reluctant to pay the ransom amended for the return of a man he'd rather not have returned but his niece won out all right Isabel I'll give you the money but understand I'm doing this for you not for that no yes Uncle Avery I understand but can you get that much cash at this hour the banks who said anything about banks you know I don't like them money will be in your hands in 30 minutes and in the meantime tell Mr. Marlowe here what arrangements you've made with your husbands of doctors one minute Mr. Fairchild what about the police the police have already been notified Mr. Marlowe they've agreed not to interfere until tomorrow morning by that time I suppose we'll have Bruce return to us too to us Uncle Avery as a miss slip of the tongue Isabel I'm only paying for his return you take over from there I don't want him a half hour later Avery Fairchild handled me a bundle of bills which added up to $50,000 cash the bills seem slightly dirty the old geezer must have had them buried someplace for a moment I couldn't help thinking boy to get at this place for the shovel sometime but then I got back to the more pressing matters at hand I wrapped up the money in a shoe box and I drove north along the Pacific Coast Highway I covered the 60 miles to the rendezvous which was a junkyard near Ventura in about as many minutes and according to instructions I slowed down to 10 miles an hour I blinked my lights twice tossed out the shoebox I was just about to resume my speed when the headlights of an approaching car fell on a man as he darted back into the junkyard and I saw what I'd been expecting all the time a white Panama hats I was still playing by the rules so there's only one thing I could do about it I slam my foot down on the accelerator and kept it there until I reached the nearest telephone where I telephone skipper Martin at the Wilshire Gardens it was just possible that he owned two hats that little balloon exploded in a hurry Mr. Martin who is this this is Brock remember me oh yes yes of course you mean you got the money right now not this minute but I will have it in a couple of hours you're sure Mr. Martin I'm positive Brock now only one thing figured the man in the Panama I had worked for Skipper Martin it had to be an hour later I pulled in at the Fairchild estate the moment I put my double A over the threshold I knew that the kidnapper to it kept his part of the bargain Bruce Gordon was back safe and sound it happened shortly after you retired Mr. Milo I was working in my studio when a man wearing a white Panama hat yeah but how did you know that Mr. Milo they're very popular this season Mr. Gordon darling Mr. Milo was a private detective but I'll tell you all about that later go on with your story this man was wearing a handkerchief over his face and he forced me to go along with him at gunpoint took me to a car parked in the service driveway and told me to turn around and I was hit from behind and went out cold I came to I was bound hand and foot blindfolded and gagged I had no idea where I was but didn't you see anybody before you were released no uncle Avery before they let me go they they hit me again when I came to that time I was lying on the road out near Ventura untied that's about it I suppose you've told the story to the police already huh no he hasn't missed tomorrow and what's more he isn't going to I'm sorry but I was forced to like you earlier this evening the police mean reporters and they mean publicity and I hate publicity I'm sure you see my point I wouldn't make book on that Mr. Fairchild secrets like this only encourage kidnappers well since we no longer see I do I Mr. Milo I'd suggest that we consider your services at an end I'll have my check at your office in the morning good night sir every Fairchild wasn't the kind of a man you argued with I threw my coat of my arm tipped my head to Isabel and stepped outside I hadn't once mentioned Skipper Martin to the family that might have been a mistake but I still want to look around before I yelled copper as I walked past the guest cottage I decided to go in and check Bruce's studio maybe the man in the white pH had left a few odd footprints on the ceiling I tossed my coat and a corner chance started through the clutter ten minutes later I found nothing I was about to leave when I suddenly remembered the picture of a girl and some clouds that Bruce had been so careful to keep out of sight hadn't been moved and when I brought it into the light I didn't have to look twice it was the portrait of Carla Winters a red-headed dragon lady that Skipper Martin had visited now things began to add up at the chauffeur's quarters there was an outside telephone and I put through a hurry call a lieutenant Ibarra at homicide in LA the best I could get was one sergeant Neely I'm sorry Mr. Marlowe but the lieutenant's out on the call right now there's some kind of a row of time well do you know where he is the address I mean those bungalows at the Wilshire Gardens the Wilshire Gardens that's right what's the special about that maybe nothing I'll know in a minute thanks Neely this is Marlowe Ibarra what brings you to Skipper Martin's at this late hour well it seems as though some person or a person's on own fired a gun several times a little more than an hour ago four shots to be exact what you think Skipper Martin fired him no I'm sure Martin didn't fire them you see he stopped him personally before I hung up I gave Ibarra a quick rundown on the whole story after making me feel like a schoolboy for keeping him in the dark so long he told me to sit on the Fairchild's front steps until he got there well it gave me a half hour to kill most of which I spent walking around aimlessly trying to get something close to four out of two and two but I couldn't finally I heard Ibarra siren up to the front door I was about the head for him with a chill in the morning air reminded me that my top coat was still in Bruce's studio I went back and got it when I turned for the door again I noticed a little slip of paper that had been under the coat fall to the floor I picked it up I must have held it for a full minute before I realized what it meant just a small slip of paper and yet it made everything the kidnapping call of the murder fall right into place when I entered the living room at the house one glance at Isabella and Bruce told me that she'd already knew about Skipper's death only Uncle Avery who was not one to shed crocodile tears hadn't changed Ibarra of course was unhappy Marlowe we can't run any kind of a police department whenever he private detective acts like he's the commissioner himself why don't you call me when this business first began to smell you know better I'm sorry bar and I hate to sound immodest but I happen to be one of the two men in this room who can name Bruce Gordon's kidnapper and Skipper Martin's killer you know what you're saying Marlowe I think so the man in the white Panama had who kidnapped Bruce Gordon Lieutenant is Bruce Gordon himself in other words Bruce Gordon kidnapped Bruce Gordon am I would just still say that Gordon if we paid a call to call a witness and asked her to hand over the $50,000 of a so-called ransom money she's holding for you to oh would you prefer the window we bought words Marlowe Bruce who eventually planned to divorce Isabella and marry call a witness want to have a little steak like $50,000 around first that's right Ibarra but Skipper Martin knew about Bruce and call his plans to marry later and he tried to blackmail them to pay off his gambling debts that's why he came to Bruce's cottage on the slide however he got there just in time to see Bruce leave of his own free will and therefore knew later that he couldn't have been kidnapped which gave him two holes over Bruce that's right but he made a mistake when he went to call his house and got too demanding because she told Bruce about it and before he released himself he took care of Skipper with four gunshots to be exact charming people aren't they borrow lovely sometimes I think I should shoot higher and save the state a lot of money and he almost got away with it by the way Marlowe how do you know that Bruce was the man in the white Panama hat I was pretty certain but I got my proof accidentally promise not to repeat this Ibarra yeah well I practically fell over a little slip of paper in his studio it was a receipt from a department store and it was made out the Bruce Gordon for one Panama hat nothing else but when I finally got back to my place on Franklin Avenue the Sun was already up and the people who work at nice sane jobs were beginning to fill the streets had been on the go for a steady 24 hours so I could think of nothing but my bed I was about to put my key in the lock when a next door neighbor walked by did me a cheery good morning and started down the corridor now that alone wouldn't have disturbed my sleep but why why did he have to be wearing a white Panama hat the adventures of Philip Marlowe created by Raymond Chandler stars Gerald Moore and is produced and directed by Norma McDonald featured in tonight's story where Jack will and DeWitt as Isabelle Gordon Wilms Herbert as Uncle Avery Fairchild Bill Lally as Bruce Gordon Shep Mankin as Skipper Martin and Lou Krugman as Brock detective Lieutenant a bar is played by Jeff Corey the special music was conceived and conducted by Richard Orant be sure to be with us again next week at this same time when Philip Marlowe says when her will was read everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it and that included me but I changed my mind after spending the night on an island with a pig a cat and an ape because in reality they were people tonight Amos and Andy returned to the CBS network and along with all their friends Kingfish Lightnin and Henry Van Porter they're settling down for a permanent stay be listening for them later this evening over most of these same CBS stations this is Roy Rowan speaking for CBS the Columbia broadcasting system