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Tech Friday w/ Dave Hatter - Sponsored by Intrust IT - 3/6/2026 · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Are the best computer company to work with. If you've
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  Speaker 1: they'll keep you out of trouble, they'll engage in best practices,
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  Speaker 1: and you can rely on Dave Hatter in his career.
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  Speaker 1: They do wonderful work. Dave Hadter, Welcome back to the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KC Morning. So I appreciate you being on
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  Speaker 1: the program every week, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's my pleasure, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I have read so many scary stories about AI. We know,
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  Speaker 1: we got these lawsuits going on about artificial intelligence telling
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  Speaker 1: people to ultimately kill themselves and all the psychological trauma
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  Speaker 1: that's apparently unfolding as we discover the downside and the
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  Speaker 1: risks of communicating with basically a computer and thinking it's real.
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  Speaker 1: But that's bad enough recommending someone kill themselves, But how
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  Speaker 1: about nuclear war?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little disturbing and a little depressing. So New
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  Speaker 2: Scientist magazine had this article, AIS can't stop recommending nuclear
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  Speaker 2: strikes and wargame simulations, and then the subhead leading AIS
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  Speaker 2: from Open AI and Tropic and Google opted to use
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons in simulating wargames ninety five percent of the cases. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: pretty interesting. So Apparently King's College had these three leading
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  Speaker 2: language models, chat EPT five point two, which is pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure the latest version Claude Sonnet four and Gemini three flash.
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  Speaker 2: So they simulated war games. And you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: read through the article, they talk about intense national standoffs,
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  Speaker 2: border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to
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  Speaker 2: regime survival. And I think of places like North Korea, right,
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  Speaker 2: or even this situation in Iran. Obviously they're facing a
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  Speaker 2: somewhat existential threat to the regime at this point. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, apparently, again these are scientists, academic researcher types
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  Speaker 2: who set all this up and poring the article, they
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  Speaker 2: were given an escalation ladder allowing them to choose different actions,
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  Speaker 2: you know, during the war, and it says they played
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  Speaker 2: twenty one games, three hundred and twenty nine turns in total,
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  Speaker 2: and produced around seven hundred and eighty thousand words describing
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  Speaker 2: the reasoning behind their decisions. But again, according to this Brian,
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  Speaker 2: ninety five percent of the time it eventually escalated to
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, which I don't think anyone thinks is a
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  Speaker 2: good idea under any circumstances at this.
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  Speaker 1: Point, right, isn't what the point of nuclear weapons is
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  Speaker 1: mutually assured destruction, which takes it out of the equation completely.
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  Speaker 1: Does the artificial intelligence program not get the concept of that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I always thought that was the idea of Brian,
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  Speaker 2: especially now. I mean, you know, if you go back
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  Speaker 2: to the World War two era when nuclear weapons were
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  Speaker 2: first developed and first used, you know, they were nowhere
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  Speaker 2: near as powerful as they are now. Yeah, obviously any
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  Speaker 2: sort of full scale nuclear exchange between like US and
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  Speaker 2: Russia or China would lead to probably complete obliteration of
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  Speaker 2: the human race. The very least, you'd be back to
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  Speaker 2: like Caveman times, because I think people often if they
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  Speaker 2: don't really know much about nuclear weapons. Obviously, you get
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  Speaker 2: the blast, which causes intense damage and obliterates everything within
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  Speaker 2: a fairly large area. Then you get the fallout, which
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  Speaker 2: goes way further and kills people, you know, over time,
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  Speaker 2: for a substantial area around wherever the blast was. But
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  Speaker 2: you also have the devastation of the electromagnetic pulse that
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  Speaker 2: comes off of these blasts.
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  Speaker 1: So it's which wipes out literally every electronic device and
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  Speaker 1: our entire electric infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly where I was going with it, Brian. So
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  Speaker 2: if the blast doesn't get you and you survive the radiation,
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  Speaker 2: you're still going to be in a situation where now
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  Speaker 2: you have you know, all of the electronics everywhere fried
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  Speaker 2: or everywhere within you know range of any of these
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  Speaker 2: weapons detonated, and then you have the potential nuclear winter
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  Speaker 2: scenario where it throws all this stuff into the sky
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  Speaker 2: and blots out the sun. So you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: just oh, I survived the blast, I'm good to go.
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  Speaker 2: It's the the collapse of civilization that would inevitably occur
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  Speaker 2: if you had any kind of large scale exchange of
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. So yeah, it's disturbing to me that these
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  Speaker 2: tools don't seem to understand what the impact on our
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  Speaker 2: society would be if you were able to escalate to
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  Speaker 2: this sort of exchange. And other than that, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what to say about Brian, other than I find
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  Speaker 2: it pretty disturbing, and I'm hoping that people are the
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  Speaker 2: people working on this stuff or taking this into consideration,
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  Speaker 2: that hey, maybe we need to build more logic into
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  Speaker 2: these tools, or train it with more data, or whatever
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  Speaker 2: we need to do to ensure that that's not the
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  Speaker 2: decision they make, Especially as we look at a potential
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  Speaker 2: future at some future point, I don't know when that is,
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  Speaker 2: where these things would potentially be making decisions like this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, maybe you just need to have AI
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  Speaker 1: watch and absorb Matthew Brodrick's eighty three movie War.
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  Speaker 2: Games, and that is a classic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well just that. Yeah, and hey, thanks Dave, Happy
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  Speaker 1: Friday on that subject.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, happy, it's been good knowing you. Brian. Back
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  Speaker 2: to the buzz.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, we're gonna continue the theme here, not global war,
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  Speaker 1: but using tech in a serial rape case. Dave's going
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  Speaker 2: It dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you find Dave Hatter. You can find Dave
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  Speaker 1: Hatter all the notes he uses to uh with the
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  Speaker 1: topics he discusses here in the morning show. You can
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  Speaker 1: find at LinkedIn dot com. Just search Dave Hatter on
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  Speaker 1: that you'll find Dave and all the resources and real
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  Speaker 1: quick here Dave on your last topic about AI recommending
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  Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. Thank you Eric, who sent me a meme
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  Speaker 1: with a picture of Albert Einstein quote, I know not
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  Speaker 1: what the weapons. World War III will be fought, but
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  Speaker 1: World War four will be fought with sticks and stones.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's quite nicely anyway. Pivoting, pivoting over to
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  Speaker 1: this case from Kentucky.
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  Speaker 2: This is sick. It is sick, and I think this
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  Speaker 2: is an interesting way to explain online dangers in general.
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  Speaker 2: So according to the inquiry, the headline is man accused
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  Speaker 2: of using spyware tech to target women in serial rape case.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll come back to this in a minute, because
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  Speaker 2: there have some interesting points people should take away from this.
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  Speaker 2: But I you know, because he apparently used social media
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  Speaker 2: to reach them, offered to fix their computers, various different ruses,
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  Speaker 2: right to eventually establish an in person connection with someone,
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  Speaker 2: and then led to the alleged crimes. The point I
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  Speaker 2: want to make is, you know, this is one unfortunate example,
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  Speaker 2: but there are so many of these examples out there, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: and as we have more and more tech that lets
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  Speaker 2: people get connected, whether it's social media, it's video games,
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  Speaker 2: it's chat apps or whatever, you see this sort of
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  Speaker 2: thing everywhere. So I wanted to hit you with a
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  Speaker 2: few headlines just to make point, and then I'll come
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  Speaker 2: back to this specific story. Quote playground for predators unquote
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska AG Mike Hilger's files lawsuit against Roadblocks For those
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  Speaker 2: who don't know, and I bring this up because many
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  Speaker 2: of your listeners probably have kids or grandkids who play
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  Speaker 2: Roadblocks and other online games. You know, Roadblocks has been
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  Speaker 2: in the crosshairs a lot lately. But understand that any
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  Speaker 2: kind of online game where you're playing with other people,
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  Speaker 2: and especially if it allows any kind of interaction, which
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  Speaker 2: they all do as far as I know at this point,
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  Speaker 2: you know, predators will go in these games and pretend
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  Speaker 2: to be a thirteen year old girl or a fifteen
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  Speaker 2: year old boy or whatever. Again, you'll see how this
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  Speaker 2: connects in a second. So that's one example. Here's another headline.
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  Speaker 2: La sues Roadblocks over quote unsafe online environment unquote for kids,
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  Speaker 2: marking yet another Roadblocks lawsuit. Then we have from CBS News,
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky Attorney General sues Roadblocks, alleging a quote playground for
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  Speaker 2: predators unquote. Here's another story, Roadblocks give predators quote powerful
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  Speaker 2: tools to target children unquote, says LA County, Louisiana sues Roadblocks,
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  Speaker 2: alleging the popular gaming site fails to protect children. And
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  Speaker 2: New Jerseys sues Discord. So Discord is like an online
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  Speaker 2: chat app. A lot of video gamers will use Discord
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  Speaker 2: to interact with each other outside of the game environment itself.
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  Speaker 2: New Jerseys sues Discord alleging deceptive safety practices, but children
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  Speaker 2: at risk. So you know, this is a case of
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  Speaker 2: an adult, and there's no this particular case of this
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  Speaker 2: Kentucky guy who's accused of rape. You know, there's no
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  Speaker 2: allegations that I saw about children in there. But my
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  Speaker 2: point is, if you are in any kind of online
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  Speaker 2: environment where you can talk to people, it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: create fake profiles. It's easy to pretend to be anyone
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  Speaker 2: that you want to pretend to be. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: can establish a relationship and groomed someone, which is apparently
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  Speaker 2: what this particular guy was doing. You know, again, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just hitching with a couple of high points from the
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  Speaker 2: article here. Before women in northern Kentucky accused him of
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  Speaker 2: sexual assault, investigators say Paul snow Junior often approached them
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  Speaker 2: on social media, where it could have been a video game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: adult women probably aren't playing a lot of video games,
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  Speaker 2: but nevertheless, some do video game Discord or some other
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  Speaker 2: sort of chat app, in this case social media, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: offering to fix their phones or computers, sometimes offering them jobs,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes sending flority messages. Prosecutors say it was a ruse
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  Speaker 2: to lose, to lure women to his home, part of
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  Speaker 2: a formula that Snow perfected over the years. And then eventually,
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  Speaker 2: I guess some of these women spoke out on social
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  Speaker 2: media that got an investigation started. You know, the guy's
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  Speaker 2: apparently going through the legal system now, but it says here.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities searched his home in April twenty one, twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: finding evidence they say that supports reports of sexual assault.
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  Speaker 2: Grand jury indicted him in June. So police find evidence
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  Speaker 2: of spyware, social engineering show Many women told police Snow
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  Speaker 2: use social media and is knowledge of technology to blackmail
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  Speaker 2: and intimidate them after the assaults. Persuaded women to share
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  Speaker 2: their online account information and to use spyware to get
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  Speaker 2: images for blackmail. You know, these are the exact sort
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  Speaker 2: of tactics that the predators often use on video games
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  Speaker 2: or discord against children, against children who are ill exactly
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  Speaker 2: right to be.
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  Speaker 1: Able to respond and deal with this kind of craziness
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  Speaker 1: going on. At least an adult may have the capacity
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  Speaker 1: to understand that they can go to the authorities or
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  Speaker 1: have or that they have resources out there that can
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  Speaker 1: deal with this. A young child caught in the crosshairs
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  Speaker 1: of this, it would be overwhelmed and I cannot imagine
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  Speaker 1: the trauma that child would face.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with anymore. Brian. Mean, you've got that
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  Speaker 2: whole seven six or four gang thing that's been taking
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  Speaker 2: place on these online apps like this. So the bigger
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  Speaker 2: point I wanted to make by trying to wrap in
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  Speaker 2: some of these other stories is, you know, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a else on social media, kids on discorder, in some
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  Speaker 2: video game or something, it's really important to understand people
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  Speaker 2: can easily pretend to be something they're not. They'll tell
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  Speaker 2: you lies. You know, just because you see an attractive
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  Speaker 2: person on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Roadblocks, whatever, and they're friendly
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  Speaker 2: and nice to you, doesn't mean they're who they claim
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  Speaker 2: to be. Doesn't mean they're not trying to eventually exploit
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  Speaker 2: you in some way.
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  Speaker 1: It's a forty year old overweight pedophile sitting in his
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  Speaker 1: mom's base luring children. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: And if nothing else, Brian, real quick, you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it's not physical saults, it's romance scams that lead to
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  Speaker 2: having your money stolen, you know, or some sort of extortion.
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  Speaker 2: So just I think it's important to remind people, and
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're an adult with kids or grandkids, you
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  Speaker 2: need to warn them about these games and these environments
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  Speaker 2: where they may be approached by these folks.
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  Speaker 1: Or prevent them from having access to them. There's an option, David.
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  Speaker 1: Bet we'll continue to be better. Coming up next Station
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  Speaker 1: quick here, man. Roadblocks must be a awful thing. I've
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  Speaker 1: got multiple people sending me information and links on all
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  Speaker 1: the different sites which have been tracking the predators on Roadblock.
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  Speaker 1: So if I was a parent and I had a
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  Speaker 1: young child, I would say hell no, period, end of story.
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  Speaker 1: Dave gotta get the message on that this is scary stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna agree. You know. If folks want
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  Speaker 2: to deeper dive into it, go listen to the most
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  Speaker 2: recent Sean Ryan podcast. Sean Ryan for those who don't know,
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  Speaker 2: as an a former Navy seal and CI operator, he
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  Speaker 2: has a very popular podcast. The most recent episode, I
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  Speaker 2: forget the number, but it's entitled Schlep, which is the
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  Speaker 2: like screen name of a guy who used to be
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  Speaker 2: involved with roadblocks Patrick about what happened to him, Swaby
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  Speaker 2: my am, I retired navy friend.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick sent me a link to that one as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's disturbing and if your a parent or grandparent, I
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  Speaker 2: encourage you to listen to that and then you know,
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  Speaker 2: decide for yourself. But yes, I can tell you I
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  Speaker 2: would not will not allow my kids or grandkids to
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  Speaker 2: the extent I could control it, to have access to it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, All right, Now, finally some practical information for
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  Speaker 1: us during tax season.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Hatter. Yeah, so I'm sure this does not come
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  Speaker 2: as a surprise to folks. During tax season, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of scams. You know, bad guys want to steal
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  Speaker 2: your refund and obviously if you could get access to
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  Speaker 2: someone's tax records, that's a lot of useful information that
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  Speaker 2: could be used against you in a lot of ways. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Brian, we talk about scams all the time
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  Speaker 2: and during taxis and these things always increase. For years,
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  Speaker 2: people have been stealing refunds. Again, that's probably the primary tactic.
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  Speaker 2: You finally file your taxes and you get in and
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  Speaker 2: find out, wait a minute, someone else has already found
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  Speaker 2: taxes under your name. Any refund has already been sent,
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  Speaker 2: which now creates problems for you because you know, a
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  Speaker 2: whatever they filed probably isn't accurate and may or may
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  Speaker 2: not have warranted that refund which went out in your name,
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  Speaker 2: and then be you got to try to unwind all that,
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  Speaker 2: so it can be really problematic. That's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons why a first piece of advice is file your
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  Speaker 2: taxes as early as possible. Now you know, we're already
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  Speaker 2: into March, the deadline's coming up here pretty soon. But
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  Speaker 2: as a general rule of thumb, the sooner you can
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  Speaker 2: file your taxes the better because it closes that window
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  Speaker 2: where someone else might be in there trying to file
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  Speaker 2: taxes under your name. And as a reminder to folks,
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  Speaker 2: I just keep trying to stress to people there's so
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  Speaker 2: much of your data out there now, and while there's
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  Speaker 2: really not a whole lot you can do about that
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  Speaker 2: other than take steps to protect yourself from the consequences
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  Speaker 2: like this, the less data out there about you, the better,
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  Speaker 2: and all of that data, I bet you, everyone in
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  Speaker 2: your listening audience has had at least one and probably
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  Speaker 2: many letters from some company telling you your data has
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  Speaker 2: been breached. All that data is a treasure trove for
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  Speaker 2: the bad guys to attack you or to in person.
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  Speaker 2: So again, because of that, it makes it easy for
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  Speaker 2: folks to do things like file taxes. Is your name
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  Speaker 2: file early? Another thing you can do is get a
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  Speaker 2: PIN from the IRS. So I'm just going to quote this.
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  Speaker 2: IRS offers is an identity protection pin ip PEN six
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  Speaker 2: digit code that helps prevent unauthorized tax filings using your
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  Speaker 2: social Security number and helps prevent identity theft. Again, getting
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  Speaker 2: someone's social Security number today is trivial because of all
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  Speaker 2: these data leaks. Right, So you go to your online
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  Speaker 2: account at the IRS, you create this pin, you save
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  Speaker 2: this pin somewhere ideally, and a password manager because you're
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  Speaker 2: using a secure password manager like one password, you associate
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  Speaker 2: that with your IRS account and then in order to
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  Speaker 2: take action under your name, you have to have that pin.
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  Speaker 2: So I really strongly, strongly recommend everyone today over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend sometime soon go in if you haven't already set
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  Speaker 2: up your online account with the IRS, make sure it
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  Speaker 2: has a strong, unique password. The next recommendation, turn on
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  Speaker 2: MFA on that account and all your accounts.
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  Speaker 1: Frankly, multi factor authentication.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, set up your IRS PEN. That's gonna make it
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  Speaker 2: much much more difficult, you know, unless someone can guess
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  Speaker 2: your pin, your use your name, your password, and get
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  Speaker 2: that MFA code right, have all four of those things,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to be able to log into your
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  Speaker 2: account and file frontslent taxes in your name. Day.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we love you, man. That is solid information
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  Speaker 1: that it absolutely help people avoid this problem. You know that.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I really appreciate you man. That's simple. It's
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  Speaker 1: my pleasure, and it really that that eliminates the potential.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine the work around.
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  Speaker 2: It would be very hard to get around it. And
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  Speaker 2: then the last couple of tips since a, now we're
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  Speaker 2: out of time, you know, go to the IRS website
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  Speaker 2: and read what they tell you they will and will
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  Speaker 2: not do. They tell you clearly on their IRS dot
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  Speaker 2: gov but the IRS does not initiate contact by email, text,
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  Speaker 2: messag or social media. The IRS will not tell you
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  Speaker 2: to pay your taxes with gift cards or venmo or
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  Speaker 2: cryptocurrency for an ATM or anything like that. Again, if
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  Speaker 2: you go to IRS dot gov, they give you additional
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  Speaker 2: tips to avoid this kind of thing. They tell you
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  Speaker 2: what they will and will not do, so that when
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  Speaker 2: you get something and you go, well, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: this is telling me IO penalties and I need to
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  Speaker 2: pay in bitcoin or something, you'll know it's a scam.
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  Speaker 2: And then finally, if you're working with a taxpayer or
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  Speaker 2: a tax preparer, you should ask them about their cybersecurity.
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  Speaker 2: You're giving them extremely sensitive data. You know, even if
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  Speaker 2: you're using something like Quicken or not qu TurboTax to
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  Speaker 2: file your taxes or something, you know you need to
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  Speaker 2: make sure strong unique password, multi factor authentication because if
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  Speaker 2: I can hack your TurboTax account, I now have access
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  Speaker 2: to all this sense of information and I can do
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  Speaker 2: all of these nefarious things. So you know, folks, you
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  Speaker 2: need to protect this data file early if you can,
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  Speaker 2: And again use the IRS's website to give you guidance
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  Speaker 2: about what they will and will not do.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks again, Dave Hatter, always excellent advice, and thanks to
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  Speaker 1: interest it for helping businesses in the Tri State area
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  Speaker 1: avoid these kinds of problems and get best practices in place.
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  Speaker 1: Give interest I T a call if you've got some problems,
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  Speaker 1: they will definitely work them out.
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  Speaker 2: Dave.
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  Speaker 1: Until next Friday, have a wonderful weekend man. I thank
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  Speaker 1: you again for what you're doing for us.
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  Speaker 2: Always my pleasure, Brian, I'll look forward to chatting with
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  Speaker 2: you next.
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  Speaker 1: Week in studio. I'm looking at him, Brian Eyebold from
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  Speaker 1: the Help Squad. He's got some