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252: The Arctic World Archive, a place for your data? Who misused $40,000 to fund mobile gaming addictions. Handbags using reconstructed T-Rex DNA. Gwen Way shares the "Interrupt" device, a network testing and hacking tool | Air Date: 5/13 - 5/19/2025

• Nathan Mumm • Season 7 • Episode 252

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Deep beneath the frigid Arctic landscape, humanity's digital legacy sleeps in a vault carved into frozen rock. The Arctic World Archive, nestled in a decommissioned coal mine near the North Pole, represents our most ambitious attempt to preserve crucial data against time itself. With deposits from over 30 countries—including Vatican manuscripts and 3D scans of the Taj Mahal—this modern-day Library of Alexandria raises profound questions about what we choose to save for future generations.

Meanwhile, the boundaries between ancient biology and modern commerce blur as scientists develop luxury leather goods from reconstructed T-Rex DNA. By extracting collagen preserved for 80 million years and engineering it in laboratory conditions, researchers have created what might become the most exclusive fashion material ever conceived. This startling fusion of paleontology and consumer products forces us to reconsider our relationship with extinct species—are we preserving their legacy or simply commodifying them?

Digital security takes center stage with the "Interrupt" device—a portable hacking tool that puts professional-grade network testing capabilities into an affordable, Game Boy-sized unit. Priced at just $199, this powerful gadget demonstrates how cybersecurity tools have become dramatically more accessible, democratizing techniques once restricted to specialists. While marketed for ethical testing, its potential for misuse highlights our ongoing struggle to balance technological advancement with responsible usage.

From a Catholic priest who embezzled $40,000 for mobile gaming addictions to Newark Airport's frighteningly outdated air traffic control systems still running on floppy disks, we examine how technology shapes our vulnerabilities as much as our strengths. Whether preserving our past in frozen vaults or struggling with the consequences of our digital lives, one thing becomes clear: the choices we make today about technology will echo long into humanity's future.

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Speaker 1:

Broadcasting across the nation, from the East Coast to the West, keeping you up to date on technology while enjoying a little whiskey on the side, with leading-edge topics, along with special guests to navigate technology in a segmented, stylized radio program. The information that will make you go, mmmmm. Pull up a seat, raise a glass with our hosts as we spend the next hour talking about technology for the common person. Welcome to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm.

Nathan Mumm:

Welcome, welcome. Welcome to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm the show that makes you go mmm. Technology news of the week. The show for the everyday person, talking about technology, broadcasting across the nation with insightful segments on subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We welcome our radio audience of 35 million listeners to an hour of insightful technology news. I'm Nathan Mumm, your host and technologist, with over 30 years of technology expertise. Our co-host, microday, is in studio today. He's the award-winning author and our human behavior expert. Now we're live streaming during our show on four of the most popular platforms, including YouTube, twitch TV, facebook and LinkedIn. We encourage you to watch us online or visit us at techtimeradiocom and become a patron supporter by going to patreoncom. Forward slash techtimeradio Now. We're friends from different backgrounds, but we bring the best technology show possible weekly for our family, friends and fans to enjoy. We're glad to have Odi, our producer, at the control panel today. Welcome everyone. Let's start today's show.

Speaker 1:

Now on today's show.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, On today's show we're going to be talking about three of the most interesting subjects to lead off our series. Then we have Gwen Wei joining us with, of course, her Gadgets in Gear segment, and we have a technology fail that'll make you not want to fly, that's right. Plus, we have, of course, Mike's mesmerizing moment, our technology fail of the week, and impossible Nathan Nugget. And, of course, our pick of the day whiskey tasting, To see if it gets one, two or three thumbs up. We're going to see if it gets one, two or three thumbs up. We're going to see if Mark likes it too, since he's drinking it today before the end of the show. But now let's head on to the latest headlines in the world of technology.

Speaker 1:

Here are our top technology stories of the week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right Story number one, high above the Arctic Circle, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. North Pole.

Gwen Way:

Frozen the mainland Norway and the North.

Speaker 5:

Pole.

Gwen Way:

Frozen the North.

Nathan Mumm:

Pole.

Mike Gorday:

The North Pole Frozen mountainous and remote.

Nathan Mumm:

It's home of hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. And snowmen and the most intensive collection of digital data in the world. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this story.

Speaker 5:

Long year by of digital data in the world. Let's go to Lisa Walker for more on this story. Longyear Bayan, the world's northernmost town, in a decommissioned coal mine is the Arctic World Archive, an underground vault for data. Customers pay to have their data stored on film and kept in the vault for potentially hundreds of years. This is a place to make sure that information survives technology, obsolescence, time and aging, says founder Rune Bjerkestrand. With a headlamp on, rune descends a dark passageway and follows the old rail tracks just under 1,000 feet into the mountainside until we reach the archive's metal door, just like you see in the TV or game series Fallout. Inside the vault stands a shipping container stacked with silver packets on which the data is stored. It's a lot of memories, a lot of heritage, mr Bjergestrand says. It's anything from digitized art pieces, literature, music, motion pictures, you name it. Okay, now that's cold storage. Back to you guys in the studio All right, so let's talk about this.

Nathan Mumm:

What the fallout vault? So there's a storage place right, we just talked about it All the way up next to the North Pole, halfway between Norway and the North Pole itself, and all this is is a storage that stays sub-zero for people to put their storage in cold storage. So cold storage is a term used in data management all the time, which means you normally take off-site storage and you move it to some location. So if I'm a business company and I have information that I want to be taken care of, there's a concern with that maybe going into the wrong hands, maybe getting compromised on a security breach. What you do is you put it on a big drive and you send it off to a cold storage place. This, literally, though, is a cold storage place.

Nathan Mumm:

Now, the archive company AWA launched eight years ago. Now, more than 100 deposits have been made by institutions, companies and individuals from 30-plus countries. Among these include artifacts of 3D scans of the Taj Mahal, ancient manuscripts from the Vatican Library, satellite observations from Earth and space, norway's treasured painting, the Scream, and many different stuff. Now, this was inspired by the Global Seed Vault. Have you heard about the Global Seed Vault? Oh, yeah, okay, so the idea of the Global Seed Vault, kind of the same thing.

Mike Gorday:

It's up there too, around the North Pearl.

Nathan Mumm:

That's right. So it's only 100 feet away, so the storage is a little bit. So it's the same company that owns the Global Seed Vault decided that they should do a storage company with guess what? Uh, data and technology now runes. Says that there's a lot of risks with information and data the terrorism, war, cyber hackers and this is far enough away from everything that you won't have to worry about it and people can come and have this information stored there.

Nathan Mumm:

Now it's interesting when you actually take a look at the video of how they open this lock. This this is like it sounds kind of funny, but this lock is like one of those locksmith type of deal vault locks that I would have on the back of my storage shed or something into that extent. So it's pretty unsecure. So all I'm thinking about when I'm doing research on this article is if I wanted to steal all of the information and some spy deal. You always see the spies go into these places in the middle of nowhere. This would make perfect sense for me just to break into this location steal all the information.

Mike Gorday:

Are you playing Goldeneye Well?

Nathan Mumm:

I kind of? That's exactly what I thought about. Is you know what? Here's all this information storage. I bring myself some bolt cutters and guess what? I can have all the storage that's available, but it's in a proprietary system on tape, so it's not necessarily just hard drives you can grab, but I'm sure it's pretty easy to take care of. Now the back of the chamber has large metal boxes containing such items like GitHub's cold vault. So GitHub is all the developer information's available. They're pretty big information. It's got software development, hundreds of reels of open source code, the building blocks of computer operating systems, software websites, apps and more. There's a public repository of information written by over 150 million different users that are stored up there. Now would you be okay? What's really interesting is all of this is stored with QR codes.

Mike Gorday:

Would I be okay? Would I be okay with what?

Nathan Mumm:

So would you be okay with taking your information, putting it up into the middle of no man's land, norway, to keep your security information safe, in case the world gets destroyed and then people can travel up there?

Mike Gorday:

I guess up there maybe it'll be warm by then if the the world you act like this is like a library that you know the world's gonna end and then the survivors are gonna be like, hey, can I check out?

Nathan Mumm:

that's what he's selling it to. He's selling to the client. See how much it costs to buy a data tray of storage up there how much does it cost about? 300 million dollars oh, wow 300.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh wow, $300 million to have? Yeah, definitely, I'll do that tomorrow. That's your starting deal to own a tray in his storage. Now all he has to do is sell it. I just think of this. He sells it to like one person Boom, he's made his profit of whatever he did to convince somebody to throw a storage container down in the middle of.

Mike Gorday:

He's got to pay for all that storage.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, clients pay to have their data stored there. Transfer to tape have it taken care of Now? This will save us from the digital dark age is what they're taking care of. Many firms have offered long-term data storage. Now cassettes and magnet tapes, known as LTRs, allow you to store information and data that can be retrieved at a later time. Now Microsoft's working on Project Silica, which is developing a two-millimeter thick plane of glass which a chunk of data is transferred by powerful lasers. There's other universities out there that have created the 5D memory crystal that records human genome and different information there. But this is now a place where you can store all of the great stuff for mankind to retrieve it later.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you excited about that? Well, I'm excited about that.

Mike Gorday:

I'm just always interested in your take on these things, because you have such a weird view of it's, like would you take your data and stick it in this place?

Nathan Mumm:

I don't know, I don't have 300 million bucks. Okay, but if you're a company and you're going to store something there, this has nothing to do with securing your data.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, it has to do with securing your past.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah.

Mike Gorday:

It's not about your data, it's about your past.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, and we can talk about that later Maybe I'll bring that up on your mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

That's a very important piece of understanding our human society is looking at the things from our past.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. I got a question for you already in my head, all right, okay, all right. Are you ready for story number two? Sure, all right. What do we got going?

Mike Gorday:

on. Here we're going to talk about dinosaurs what, oh, you like dinosaurs.

Nathan Mumm:

You play dinosaurs on video games all the time, don't?

Mike Gorday:

you I'm.

Nathan Mumm:

I briefly considered becoming a paleontologist when I started when I started college, but I did is that before jurassic park or after jurassic park?

Mike Gorday:

uh, that was before jurassic okay, okay, okay so yes, I don't know if you know this, but uh, they have discovered dinosaur dna, right I have heard about that. Yeah right saying while it was previously believed that dinosaur DNA wouldn't survive for millions of years, recent discoveries have found collagen preserved in various dinosaur fossils.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, including in the 80s. This isn't the mosquito in the ember. No, no, no. This is real stuff.

Mike Gorday:

You have to really get off the fiction here.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right, okay, okay.

Mike Gorday:

So this is real. No, I, I, yeah, absolutely so. They found. They even found one for an 80 million year old t-rex. Oh, wow, okay. So last year, mit researchers decoded how the collagen lasted so long and, interestingly, they discovered a specific atomic mechanism that shields collagen from water's damaging effects. Isn't that awesome. That's kind of cool, yeah, that has nothing to do with the story. Oh, it doesn't. You know what the story is?

Nathan Mumm:

Let's talk about the story. What is that?

Mike Gorday:

It's like, okay, if you have dinosaur collagen, what would you do with it?

Nathan Mumm:

I would probably rebuild a dinosaur, but I wouldn't mix it with raptors.

Mike Gorday:

You might think so. Okay, but we're going to talk about how this company wants to take all that wonderful dinosaur stuff and make handbags out of it.

Nathan Mumm:

What, what? Okay, so tell me more.

Mike Gorday:

What's going on here? So Creative Powerhouse VML, genomic Innovators, the Organoid Company and sustainable biotechnology firm Lab Grown Leather have joined forces to develop the world's first t-rex leather made using the extinct creature's dna okay, so hang on.

Nathan Mumm:

So we find collagen, which is muscle tissue.

Mike Gorday:

We find this muscle tissue t-rex dna and the first thing we we come to it is like I need to make a handbag. It's just not enough. Are you serious? Okay, keep on going, I'm gonna. You know it just not enough.

Nathan Mumm:

Are you serious? Okay, keep on going, I'm going to.

Mike Gorday:

you know, it's not enough that I'm going to go, and, you know, kill an alligator and make a bag out of that. I'm going to, you know, dig up a fossil, yeah, Get its collagen out of its bones and make a handbag out of a T-Rex.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh boy, okay, all right, tell me more. It sounds good.

Mike Gorday:

So sounds good. So, as you know, the t-rex, or the tyrannosaurus rex, was one of the biggest and most dangerous predators ever on the face of the world, right, yep? So these people are taking this stuff, and reports suggest that the first product could be available by year end okay they claim this next gen material, but it could be a high quality, cruelty free and eco-friendly alternative to standard leather okay, so hang on, so we can, maybe we can get.

Nathan Mumm:

We can get leather right now from from cows. Right, so we can go and we can get leather, yeah, but apparently that you know that's not good enough for us now, so we're taking it from dead creatures, from dna millions and millions of years ago and then make it into handbag. So Gucci's all over this, huh.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, okay, all right, okay, oh boy, okay. So their quote is that this project is a remarkable example of how we can harness cutting-edge genome and protein engineering to create entirely new materials. By reconstructing and optimizing ancient protein sequences, we can design T-Rex leather, a biomaterial inspired by prehistoric biology, and clone it into custom engineered cell line and then sell it to you for the low, low price of something, something however many dollars on late night tv shows okay, okay, so so.

Nathan Mumm:

So. So we're we're not okay with our current leather. Uh, I don't know exploits, yeah, okay so?

Mike Gorday:

so collagen is a protein present that it skin and muscles of various other bodily tissues. Okay. So in this thing, the T-Rex-based leather material creation method differs from plant-based or synthetic alternatives by focusing on growing biological structures in the lab. Okay, Wow, okay, the t-rex to cultivate a new skin. Wow, the sequence will be translated into dna and introduced into lab-grown leathers cells. Okay, successful in implementation of this process is expected to yield a tightly packed collagen structure similar to the dermis layer of animal skin. That's the, you know, the skin, okay, which remains after tan. If successful, it will produce a leather-like material derived from the T-Rex DNA, and then they will fashion it into a fashionable accessory and sell it to you on the open market.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, wow, okay, Did you hear about the Mammoth Meatball? This is the same company. Oh, this is the same company that's doing the Mammoth Meatball project.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, vml is also behind the mammoth meatball project oh my word which was a bold endeavor that used lab-grown meat derived from reconstructed woolly mammoth dna. In 2023, I don't know what happened to that.

Nathan Mumm:

So they did taste testing. They spent all this time doing it it was nasty so. So I believe what happened in the mammoth meatball project is, when they actually tried to sell it and had people taste it, they're like this is like the worst thing ever.

Mike Gorday:

Probably yeah, and then that doesn't go to market.

Nathan Mumm:

You know what VML must be an interesting company to work at I don't know. We take DNA stuff and we try to make common stuff like a meatball.

Mike Gorday:

How do you make that leap? I don't know. Let's take all this wonderful information from bygone years and turn it into a handbag or, you know, give it out at Ikea.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh my gosh, I cannot believe this. I'm going to be the new fashion vista walking down in LA. I don't know.

Mike Gorday:

Stephen King should write a story about this. About the leather.

Nathan Mumm:

T-Rex bag that eats people. It starts going Okay, alright. Well, guess what Story? Number three doesn't.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know, is this an interesting story? Well, it kind of is.

Nathan Mumm:

It is we're talking now about. We now have an American Pope. Yeah, that was great, so guess what we have a technology story that's going to make him so happy to hear about on one of his Catholic priests. Well, this Catholic priest decided to steal over $40,000 of parish funds to fuel his addiction to Mario Kart and Candy Crush. But the good news he's been spared from jail.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh is that the good news. Hang on. How many upgrades do you need in a Mario Kart? Now I play games online and I play Sea of Thieves and I have paid for some skins that look like Captain Jack and a couple other things, clearly.

Speaker 5:

But no more than about $20. $40,000.

Nathan Mumm:

$40,000. Now do you realize that when you play these games, you don't get that back? That digital asset over 10 or 20 years will be gone. So you spent forty thousand dollars on air well, see again.

Mike Gorday:

The funny thing is that you're focusing on the, the, the aspect right, the, at the game, the game he's spending money on the game when what he actually did was siphon $40,000 from his parish.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, he stole $40,000. I still can't get over $40,000 played for upgrades and for video games.

Mike Gorday:

That's why sitting here next to you is always a treat, because you're like I don't know why I spend $40,000 on a video game and I'm like dude, this guy was stealing it from his church to pay for his gaming addiction.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, Lawrence Kozak, 52, pled guilty to siphoning the funds from St Thomas More Church in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. A sentence to 80 hours of community service. What's that, Odie?

Ody:

What was the game?

Nathan Mumm:

Mario Kart and Candy Crush.

Mike Gorday:

I know there was some other stuff. I think, there was some online gambling and stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

No, no, no, there wasn't, so this is the thing, Is it 40K over the full year.

Ody:

No.

Nathan Mumm:

The court heard the priest and he used the parish credit card to drop tens of thousands of dollars on power-ups and Mario Kart and other paid online content. None of these resulted in gambling or receiving money back, so these are all games. If I got $40,000.

Mike Gorday:

I thought he was doing online gambling. No, no, no.

Nathan Mumm:

That's what it gets me. No, so he's not making any additional finances.

Mike Gorday:

What was the time frame of this? Over two years.

Ody:

Okay, so like $20, making any additional finances. What was the time? Frame of this.

Nathan Mumm:

Over two years.

Ody:

Okay, so like 20K a year, what type of upgrades Are you trying to make?

Mike Gorday:

this an easier pill to swallow? No, no, no, no, no. I just try to understand 40K in a year.

Nathan Mumm:

No over two years.

Ody:

Okay, see that. Yes, I guess it is easier to swallow that. He stole 40Kk I know, but the mario kart I don't understand. The candy crush, I can so see that happening really how much money?

Mike Gorday:

it's a very addictive candy all you do is you match stuff?

Ody:

it's texas people fall for those stinking power-ups and like upgrades. What?

Nathan Mumm:

oh, it's a very common thing, you make nothing of it.

Ody:

I wish I could look up, like the most popular players of candy crush and see how much they've spent overall why would you pay any money to pay a tetris game to do this?

Gwen Way:

every single, every you know, you know every.

Mike Gorday:

What mobile games do you play, buddy? We know that you play mobile games. One of these mobile games I I play a football game.

Ody:

They don't have a pack or something.

Nathan Mumm:

No, I buy $9 for the game and I play it until I get taken care of. I don't play tons of mobile games, but what I do. I have a chess game on there. It's free. I play a couple other things, but that's it. I do not play Now. I doom scroll all the time through.

Ody:

TikTok. No, no, no, it's not doom scrolling. I do not play games on my phone.

Mike Gorday:

Clearly you need to hang out with Father Kozak here and figure out what the draw is.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, okay, well, he also did what's really nice. He took some of that money and he got his niece a fire tablet and a couple other things also. He was a good guy, alright, well.

Mike Gorday:

Was he. He only got 80 hours of community service for that $40,000.

Nathan Mumm:

And you know, he may end up being fat.

Mike Gorday:

It's good that Christian people are forgiving you know what.

Nathan Mumm:

He is only on administrative leave and he'll probably pop up someplace else in the United States.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, Well, we've seen this before right. In very different circumstances for priests? Yeah, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, that is our top technology stories of the week. Moving on, gwen will be joining us for our gadgets and gear segment. Next, buckle up as we drive 88 miles per hour into our next segment. We'll catch you after this break.

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Nathan Mumm:

All right, welcome back to Tech Time with Nathan Mumm, our weekly show coverage.

Mike Gorday:

I don't know that doesn't trump T-Rex wallets.

Nathan Mumm:

Does it? Or how about storing your storage in the middle of no man's land? That makes norway right. So we got they're gonna.

Mike Gorday:

They're gonna store the t-rex wallets in the in the bin, are they with all with the mammoth meatballs? That's right, we'll go back to tech time.

Nathan Mumm:

if you haven't, if you're just joining us midway through the show and you say what, what the heck are you talking about? Go back for the next 15 minutes and you'll get everything that you need to. Now. We are a technology show that talks about subjects weeks ahead of the mainstream media. We verify the facts, we do it with a sense of humor, in less than 60 minutes and, of course, with a little whiskey on the side. Today, mark Gregoire Whiskey Connoisseurs in studio.

Marc Gregoire:

Mark. What connoisseurs in studio, mark? What have you chosen for us today? Today we have high west burr rye 2025. This is batch 25a23 now from high west website. This is a unique and premium blend of rich bourbon and rye whiskeys, making for a premier sipping whiskey and one of high west's all-time favorites. Now, since this is not very descriptive, I also bring you david tau from drink hacker. He says the palate is easier to pin down toffee, milk chocolate and pecan brittle lead with a little sweetness. These elements are balanced by a hint of salinity and dried fruit think salted dried apricots. It's one of the top high west burr-rize he's ever tried and flat out among the best bourbon and rye blends he's sipped in recent memory.

Nathan Mumm:

You thought that you had some predictions on who would like this and who wouldn't like this.

Marc Gregoire:

We can say that for the mumbles Okay, okay, okay.

Nathan Mumm:

We're just talking about the whiskey. Tell us more.

Marc Gregoire:

So this is from Constellation Brands, of course, who own High West. The distillation is from Utah, indiana and Kentucky and it's a blend of both, as we said, straight whiskeys of bourbon and rye. It's over 10 years old, everything in there, it's 92 proof and it's a blend of five mash bills Two of them are rye and three of them are bourbons and it goes for $130.

Mike Gorday:

Well, we know where this one's not going. That's not going on a Nathan shelf.

Nathan Mumm:

Hey, did you see my top shelf over there? It's very bare. I just had a wedding this last weekend, did you?

Mike Gorday:

take all your top shelf. Yeah, we drank heavily, I. There's something. There must be some correlation with how much, how much liquor you put away and how you felt about that wedding.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh yeah, you're gonna have to hear about that all offline, oh boy all right now.

Marc Gregoire:

Now, whether you're at a wedding or you're sitting on a radio show, always drink responsibly.

Mike Gorday:

Heaven can wait okay, nathan didn't drink responsibly.

Nathan Mumm:

We had lots of people there. There was at least 10 or 20 people there.

Mike Gorday:

He got drunk and bought power-ups from Mario Kart.

Nathan Mumm:

I did not. That's $40,000. Alright, with our first whiskey tasting completed.

Mike Gorday:

The first what tasting?

Nathan Mumm:

Our whiskey tasting completed, we are now moving on to our feature segment. Today we have Gwen Way joining the show. She's an expert in cyber security during the day and a game board geek in the evening, as well as the producer of Tech Time Radio. Now our gadgets and gear gal is set for today. Let's get ready to start our Comcast video stream now.

Speaker 1:

What's new in our gadgets and gear.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, hi Gwen, hi Gwen, hi, welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about yourself for all of the new listeners.

Gwen Way:

Certainly. Certainly. I have been in the technology space not quite as long as Nathan. I've put in a quarter of a century, though, so I feel pretty good about that. And uh yeah, like you say, my focus is cyber security at this point, but I've done a little bit of everything okay, all right now.

Nathan Mumm:

The best part about gwen is she does all of our gadgets and gears this as we started this show five years now, are you sure?

Mike Gorday:

are you sure it's five years? I am, I mean, sure it's five years ago. Okay, I'm just checking. Just checking, because you always get it wrong. Now, I used to do this.

Nathan Mumm:

I used to do this segments and guess what happened? My pocketbook just blew up, because what I'd end up doing is I'd buy stuff that we talk about on the show, and then I'd buy stuff that we didn't talk about on the show.

Marc Gregoire:

You're thinking the whiskey segment?

Mike Gorday:

And I did.

Marc Gregoire:

And that's where you got all these bad bottles that are sitting on your shelf.

Mike Gorday:

We all know that you still buy the stuff I do. I was just at Wise and More and here I am texting.

Nathan Mumm:

Mark. I'm texting. Mark, what do you think about this? What about this? And Mark just responds back you must be at Wine and More. Those are all cheap whiskeys.

Speaker 6:

Isn't that what you said to?

Nathan Mumm:

me. Yeah, that's what you said to me All right, okay, gwen, what is this project? Now, we've done a lot of stuff for you.

Speaker 6:

You like having, which is great, because you do a good job and that saves me some money. You know that I'm a gadget guy for like little robots.

Nathan Mumm:

I love little robots, so that's kind of my deal.

Mike Gorday:

But this is something he can get in trouble with.

Nathan Mumm:

I've got two of these already that I've purchased. Let me just tell you this?

Gwen Way:

What is this unit? This is right up your alley, yes, it is. So for all of our listeners, have you ever wondered how secure your home network is, or maybe your friends or family network? Well, guess what? This is a great tool to test that out. Well, guess what? This is a great tool to test that out. If you go to kickstartercom and search for interrupt I-N-T-E-R-R-U-P-T, you get this wonderful pocket gadget for hackers.

Nathan Mumm:

Now I have one that I've used a lot and I really, really, really like, but I think this one is actually going to be the number one on my list. Tell us what this does, what you can use it for, what the form factor is.

Mike Gorday:

I mean, this is perfectly Nathan's gift, and then we'll guess why Nathan likes it so much. Exactly, you know what I'm?

Nathan Mumm:

getting one for my wife's birthday is coming on up and I decided, you know, I should buy her one too, so that way you're getting yourself a press up for your wife's birthday.

Gwen Way:

What is she going to do with?

Nathan Mumm:

it. She's going to give it back to me and say here you go, honey take care of it.

Mike Gorday:

Here's your spare in case you lose one. That's right, yes.

Gwen Way:

In case. I think it'll be just as vacuum cleaner.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh boy, okay, okay, tell us more about this object.

Gwen Way:

All right, this is a wonderful little toy. It's a little bigger than a Game Boy. It looks very much like a Game Boy, except a Game Boy with a full QWERTY keyboard and a color touch screen. What this particular toy lets you do is hack into your own network to test and see how easy it is to get in there and mess around with stuff. Or, you know, friends, family, keep everybody safe. It's very important to keep cybersecurity top of mind these days.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, so you can get into your network.

Mike Gorday:

Or go into a bar and change all the TV stations.

Gwen Way:

Well, let's say we do not condone that behavior.

Nathan Mumm:

Let me ask. However, it could be used it could be that okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go through some questions because you were with uh.

Nathan Mumm:

You were in a bar when I did that, all right, okay. All right, I'm gonna ask you some questions on what this device can do or cannot do. A little off script here. I know that we have a different thing, but I'm gonna ask you tell me if it can do it or if I can't do it. Okay, can this intercept uh nfc like credit cards, prox cards and grab the identifications of prox cards?

Gwen Way:

it can it can.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, oh, number one. Okay, can this find infrared and ir signals and overtake them and become the main remote for them?

Gwen Way:

TX and RX. Yes, yes.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all right. Can this connect into hardwire networks and take over and capture data from a network?

Gwen Way:

Sure can.

Nathan Mumm:

How about wireless networks? Let's just throw it up there, a wireless network, sure can. How about wireless networks? Let's just throw it up there. A wireless network. That I wanted, of course, only my own wireless network, not my next door, neighbors or somebody in a public location. But can it capture wireless key logging information for a network?

Gwen Way:

It could absolutely connect to a wireless network, your wireless network, and make sure that you can figure out what people are going to be able to grab off of it.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, Okay, alright Now.

Mike Gorday:

So how is this a toy?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, this is an experiment.

Mike Gorday:

We started this off with it being a toy. Now it's like this horrible. No, it's a stem product.

Nathan Mumm:

No, it's a stem product. That's what I tell everybody. Those are stem products, right.

Gwen Way:

Stem is good, Stem is good. You could also just say you know, you're wanting to keep yourself safe and just validate.

Nathan Mumm:

that Is this one of the perils of having Amazon walkway or whatever the heck that is. That's a completely different path of treachery that we can get into. So this device I can configure. Now I'm sure it doesn't come with this. So there's, you're going to it's going to come with like a standard OS and then you have to load these little things side loaded so that you actually get it on the unit itself. Or does it actually come loaded with these tools available right out of the box?

Gwen Way:

It actually comes loaded with the tools. Oh my word. It will work with multiple different linux distributions, but they are also working on their own linux distribution, which will make things a little easier you know you're joking about getting this for for your wife.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, I'm thinking if she actually got this for you, there's nothing more she could do to turn you on and give you. So this is this would be that's true all right, wow, yeah, so now.

Nathan Mumm:

But this could actually be used for a good business sense. Let's say, you're not trying to be a nefarious hacker, but if you wanted to use it, tell me how it can be used non-nefariously.

Marc Gregoire:

Okay, hang on here, hang on here, so this is what it can be used for.

Gwen Way:

Let's say, I'm a company and I have this thing laying around, well, well I if you want to get into pen testing, because pen testing can cost tens of thousands of dollars for companies and for small companies that's an extremely large amount of money. So if you work at a small company, you could certainly go in and run a pen test to see how secure your company is.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, now let's talk about the price. I got some more information here, so a tool like this must be at least $1,500. Or let's say probably no, no, $900. Try again. Oh no, let's move down now. Come on 500 bucks.

Marc Gregoire:

You've already bought a few.

Nathan Mumm:

You've already bought two few You've already bought two.

Mike Gorday:

He already knows.

Nathan Mumm:

Could this be a $179 product?

Gwen Way:

Unfortunately, all of the early birds have been purchased, but right now it's $199 or you can get two For $389.

Marc Gregoire:

How many early birds were there that Nathan bought?

Nathan Mumm:

I didn't get the early bird. I did not get the early bird, I got the package for two. Yeah, but here's the deal.

Mike Gorday:

Here's the big selling point, though right Out of all the technology gobbledygook that he just spit out on the radio, we all know that the reason why you love this is because of the stupid keyboard. I do.

Gwen Way:

He does have a full.

Speaker 8:

QWERTY keyboard. It's a beautiful thing.

Gwen Way:

It's like a big it's bringing back it's a BlackBerry.

Nathan Mumm:

It's a bigger version of a BlackBerry hacking device BlackBerry is walking around.

Gwen Way:

Are there more of the old sidekick phones where you split them out? Oh yeah, I'm just getting so excited. All right, okay, all right. And in answer to your question, mark, there were a thousand early birds that have already sold.

Marc Gregoire:

So this is a hot product.

Gwen Way:

It's pretty popular?

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, come on.

Mike Gorday:

Of course it is Because everybody wants to be hanging around in the bar and change the channels All of a sudden you go through.

Gwen Way:

Now I'm just imagining Nathan fighting with somebody on the other side of the bar.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, I know I'd be like listen buddy, I'm going to be quicker on my See, that's what I would do, remember when I turned off all the TVs. Was it all the TVs or just?

Marc Gregoire:

one, it was just the main one. Or at the regular bar, at the bar, at the bar.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, we were at the bar and he has his little gadget and he's like watch this and sorry, like what, and he's turning the channels on the main tv people are like. The poor bartender is over there. He keeps grabbing the thing.

Marc Gregoire:

Doesn't this come with a warning, turning it off? Don't do this at airports, because security will confiscate.

Nathan Mumm:

Uh, yeah, you gotta be careful flipper is not uh airport safe all right, explain, how do you know? That okay, all right, explain how many units have been bought and how many of these are available, where I can go and get it. A little bit about the company Is this their first Kickstarter, or tell us the big details now.

Gwen Way:

So this is the company's first Kickstarter. They are out of Edmond Oklahoma, so they are made in the USA. They're sooner yeah of Edmond, oklahoma, so they are made in the USA. They're sooner. Yeah, they've got a lot of good information on their Kickstarter page, so go to kickstartercom and search for Interrupt and that'll pull up. They've had 1,900 sold already Wow and have already breaked in about 385,000 of the $10,000 goal. So they're doing really well and if you want one and I highly recommend it you need to purchase it by June 3rd.

Nathan Mumm:

June 3rd. Alright, don't let that date get you by, and if so, then I'm going to rush out right now and get one so.

Gwen Way:

I can F with my neighbor's TV, just so you can fight with Nathan.

Nathan Mumm:

You can out right now and get one so I can F with my neighbor's TV, just so you can fight with Nathan. You could take down all of your next door neighbor's wireless signals, have them all locked and secured and then you could be the only one that's getting that internet signal from. Again, we do not condone this behavior. Mike smiled there.

Mike Gorday:

I'm going to start running a protection wing.

Marc Gregoire:

There you go.

Mike Gorday:

You want your internet back. Okay, that's right now. The other question is put some money in an envelope clearly slide it under my door.

Nathan Mumm:

We know that. Uh, nathan's got one, but, gwen, all of our listeners want to know did you buy one of these units?

Gwen Way:

oh, absolutely, I'm going to have so much fun playing around with it and, uh, maybe I'll recommend it to some of my customers. We'll see so.

Mike Gorday:

I don't need to talk about human behavior and and why I'm so, why I'm so freaked out about technology. I just want to pen test stuff.

Nathan Mumm:

I'm not looking to do anything nefarious, I just want to pen test stuff. Exactly what are you talking about? Okay, all right, here we go. All right, gwen, thank you so much for being a part of our show. You do a great job each week, and I want to thank you so much for finding this device and making my pocketbook disappear 300 plus bucks.

Gwen Way:

You are very welcome.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, We'll see you next month. All right, we want to thank Gwen for being a part of the show. She does a great job finding the most unique items each month for tech time radio. Though let's move on to Mike's mesmerizing moment. Welcome to Mike's mesmerizing moment. What does Mike have to say today?

Marc Gregoire:

I'm so curious what question you're going to ask him.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay.

Marc Gregoire:

Because there's just so many questions from today.

Nathan Mumm:

There's so many, all right. So, mike, do you care about preserving the history of our world? Now we're spending millions of dollars to do so, but what about how it was done traditionally through books and scrolls over these thousands of years? Why are we now using this digital?

Mike Gorday:

why are you asking me if I care? I don't, I don't care about it do you care about it at all? No, okay this is.

Mike Gorday:

This is one of the most important things that we can do as human beings is protect our history and understand our history and preserve our history. Okay, I mean, we've talked about we've talked about the eroding internet over the last 10 years, right, and how what was originally on the internet is being scraped off and not not being preserved at all. Right, this is a bad idea. Okay, this keeps these kind of things, keep us grounded in what we're doing, and it also, you know, when you talk about the vault you talked about, you know, if something happens and we need to rebuild civilization, this is going to be an important understanding of that rebuilding okay so, yeah, I care about preserving the history of the world.

Mike Gorday:

Now, when that particular saving has a very high price tag on it, then you know the the limits are. You're getting only a certain cross section of the information history and that information and that will skew the actuality of our world history.

Nathan Mumm:

So so there's organizations out there like the way back machine that tries to take screenshots of, like old internet sites, right, and so that you can keep the history of that. Is it worth keeping that history? Do we need that history or should we just be putting this down in old analog format so that people can do this?

Mike Gorday:

It tells us who we are. It also tells us you know. It can tell us how we made mistakes if we pay attention to it. It tells us where we came from. It tells us so much stuff that if you get rid of this stuff we've talked about this before getting rid of all this stuff and not preserving it disconnects us from our path. It disconnects human beings from where they came from, and that's a dangerous thing. Okay, all right, well.

Nathan Mumm:

Mike, thank, and that's a dangerous way. Okay, okay, all right. Well, Mike, thank you for that mesmerizing moment.

Mike Gorday:

Now I need to go and find a T-Rex handbag.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, up. Next we have this Week in Technology, so now would be a great time to enjoy a little whiskey on the side, as we're going to be doing so during the break. You're listening to Tech Time Radio with Nathan Mumm. See you in a few minutes. Hey, Mike, yeah what's up, hey, so you know what. We need people to start liking our social media page.

Mike Gorday:

If you like our show, if you really like us we could use your support on Patreoncom, or is it Patreon? I think it's Patreon. Okay, patreon, if you really like us, you can like us in Patreoncom.

Nathan Mumm:

I butcher the English language. You know, you butcher the English language all the time it's patreoncom.

Mike Gorday:

If you really like our show, you can subscribe to patreoncom and help us out, and you can visit us on that Facebook platform.

Nathan Mumm:

You know, the one that Zuckerberg owns, the one that we always bag on. Yeah, we're on Facebook too. Yeah, like us on Facebook. Do you know what our Facebook page is? Tech Time Radio. At Tech Time Radio, you know what? There's a trend here?

Mike Gorday:

It seems to be that there's a trend and that's Tech Time Radio, or you can even Instagram with us.

Nathan Mumm:

That's at Tech Time Radio. That's at Tech Time Radio. Or you can find us on TikTok, and it's Tech Time Radio. It's at Tech Time Radio. Like and subscribe to our social media Like us today we need you to like us, like us and subscribe. That's it. That's it, it's that simple.

Speaker 1:

And now let's look back at this week in technology.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, we're going into the Wayback Machine of May 17th 1939. The very first sports TV broadcast happened. Now NBC carries the first broadcast. Is that really?

Mike Gorday:

1939.

Nathan Mumm:

Yep First TV broadcast happened. Now NBC carries the first broadcast. Is that really 1939, yep first TV broadcast. Nbc carries the first broadcast televised sporting event in history the second game of a doubleheader baseball game between Columbia and Princeton. Only about 400 TV sets were capable of receiving the transmission, but it was an important first step in the history of televised sports. Now NBC would later broadcast a Major League Baseball game in August of the the transmission, but it was an important first step in the history of televised sports. Now NBC would later broadcast a Major League Baseball game in August of the same year and the college football game in September, closely followed by the NFL game in October. There you go.

Mike Gorday:

Shouldn't that be the first broadcast in America First?

Nathan Mumm:

sports TV broadcast. Well, so there is a discrepancy a little bit about a broadcast that happened during the olympics over uh in germany. Yeah, right, so that was a part of the story that we originally looked at on our uh upcoming uh, when we do our show prep on thursdays for our show, right, when I actually looked into it, it seems like that broadcast never happened. They video recorded and then they delayed broadcasts, so it wasn't really a broadcast, it was a recording that was later played. So do you like that? Sure, so now it surprised you, didn't you?

Mike Gorday:

No, okay, there you go, you never surprise me.

Nathan Mumm:

Alright, so this was the first TV live sporting event that was broadcast.

Mike Gorday:

Okay, that's the key right.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes.

Mike Gorday:

The first live broadcast.

Nathan Mumm:

Yes, so it doesn't do any good to videotape and then record it later. Okay, all right. Well, that was this week in technology. If you ever wanted to watch some Tech Time history, with over 250-plus weekly broadcasts spanning our four-plus years of videos, podcasts and blog information, you can visit techtimeradiocom to watch our older shows. Now we're going to take a commercial break. When we return, we have Mark's mobile whiskey review. See you after this.

Speaker 6:

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Speaker 1:

The segment we've been waiting all week for Mark's Whiskey, mumble, alrighty, oh, today, May 13th, we are all celebrating All righty.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh, today, may 13th, we are all celebrating. Yes, what are we all celebrating?

Mike Gorday:

today, I have no idea.

Nathan Mumm:

T-Rex wallets. Mike just wants a T-X rock, no matter what they come out. You want a T-X wallet, don't you?

Mike Gorday:

No.

Nathan Mumm:

I want to make jokes about it. That's all I want to do. I think that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard I'm going to buy you a Velcro wallet with a T-Rex on it.

Mike Gorday:

All this stuff, the thing they come up with. Let's make a leather bag.

Ody:

What are we celebrating today, Mark?

Marc Gregoire:

Thank you, Odie. We are celebrating National Leprechaun Day. What Wow? Okay. Though the exact history, Odie, of National Leprechaun Day is unknown, what is clear is the day is dedicated to celebrating leprechauns.

Mike Gorday:

Can't make me pot of gold.

Marc Gregoire:

Supernatural beings. In Irish folklore, the legend of leprechauns can be traced back to the 8th century, when the lore began to spread among the Celtics. Whether or not you believe they exist and hopefully nobody does, but today is a good day to let your imagination run loose.

Nathan Mumm:

Frosted Lucky Charms. They're magically delicious. That's exactly what I expected from Nathan was Lucky Charms.

Mike Gorday:

Hey, the marshmallows were the best part about that. Right, I thought of that stupid movie that Jennifer Aniston did.

Speaker 6:

I think it was her first movie.

Mike Gorday:

Oh, was it actually called Leprechaun.

Nathan Mumm:

Is it called Leprechaun? It's Leprechaun. Is it called Leprechaun? It's.

Mike Gorday:

Leprechaun.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh, okay.

Speaker 5:

Oh, that was like a horror movie.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it was this funny horror movie. Okay, it was funny.

Nathan Mumm:

Was it funny.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, it was funny. It was a funny horror movie.

Marc Gregoire:

All right. Now another legend out there. Only way to catch a glimpse of the cunning and elusive jackalope is to enjoy a glass of truly incredible whiskey. Oh, that is why they made Burr Rye a blend of bourbon and rye. Like the jackalope itself, it's unique, mysterious and gone in a flash.

Nathan Mumm:

Or you could go to Disney's Animal Kingdom park and you can get in a tour and you can see a jackalope run all around on the terrace there, the jackalope population is always reduced by the chupacabra population. What's that?

Mike Gorday:

You don't know what a chupacabra is.

Marc Gregoire:

No, Wow, mexican folklore.

Mike Gorday:

That's folklore. It's a goat sucker.

Ody:

Or you could watch the Bounded Pixar short. It has a jackalope in it.

Mike Gorday:

Oh there you go Okay, all righty, we need to get some collagen so we can make a jackalope wallet. Okay, all right. Or a bag.

Speaker 5:

Okay, so I can put my hacking tool in.

Marc Gregoire:

Let's talk about the whiskey, I've always enjoyed Burr Rye's All right. I love that that blend of rye and bourbon and one of my favorites was a past release of this whiskey from high west. Now, after searching for years, I was thrilled to finally track down a bottle of the 2025 release and actually get a bottle myself of this. Unfortunately, my excitement quickly faded after opening it now. While david from drink drink hacker found it impressive, I find this release slightly astringent and lacking in depth and complexity. It just did not live up to my expectations or my memory of previous expressions. What makes this harder is that I found a second bottle and excitedly reached out to Whiskey Chris, who asked me to pick one up for him as well.

Nathan Mumm:

Oh, whiskey Chris, I like Whiskey Chris, does he? Like this Nathan's. Who asked?

Marc Gregoire:

me to pick one up for him as well. Oh, risky Chris, I like Whiskey. Chris, what is it? Does he like this?

Mike Gorday:

Nathan's been having a lot of whiskey apparently.

Marc Gregoire:

Yeah, at this price point of $130,. I really hope he agrees with David and not me.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, I don't want to say what I'm thinking.

Marc Gregoire:

I'll give my guesses. Yeah, because I had guessed that this is a thumbs down for Nathan, okay, and I had guessed Mike will probably give it a thumbs up, but not a big thumbs up. That was my guess. Okay, all right, we'll see how that plays out.

Mike Gorday:

We'll see how it plays out.

Marc Gregoire:

I'm hoping to be wrong. I hope you both give it big thumbs up.

Mike Gorday:

We need to put all this data in the cold storage.

Nathan Mumm:

All right. Whiskey and technology are great pairings, like Babe Ruth and Home Runs, or like Babe Ruth and drinking before a baseball game, or like drinking before a text show.

Mike Gorday:

Or a wedding.

Nathan Mumm:

Why would you?

Marc Gregoire:

go Babe Ruth and Home Runs. He was so many people.

Nathan Mumm:

Back in the day he was the only guy that could just be totally lit drunk and go on out in a baseball game and either pitch and win or hit a couple home runs and barely walk the bases and still win.

Marc Gregoire:

I think there's various MLB players out there that would disagree with you.

Mike Gorday:

This is why sitting next to Nathan is always a fun day. Because, he comes up with these really off the topic, off the weird things, all right.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, now let's prepare for our technology fail of the week, brought to us by Elitics. How?

Marc Gregoire:

are you doing?

Nathan Mumm:

Karen, congratulations, you're a failure.

Speaker 8:

Oh, I failed. Did I yes, did I yes.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, our technology fail. Comes to us from Newark Airports.

Mike Gorday:

Newark.

Nathan Mumm:

New Jersey, yep, newark airports were hit with another 92nd radar outage shortly before 4 am local time last Friday. Air traffic controllers alerted the FedEx Corporation aircraft that their scopes just went black again. If you care about this, they said, contact your airline and try to get some pressure on them to fix this stuff. The controller said according to a playback of the air traffic control audio. Now the pilot of the plane, identified as fedex 1989, responded sorry to hear about that. Fedex said it's aware of the episode and that his flight arrived safely at his destination without any issues. Now breakdowns in newark are intensified scrutiny on the border state of air traffic control critical infrastructure to ensure the safety of some 45,000 US flights carrying nearly 3 million people each day. Now. The FAA said its towers are about 40 years old and average. The majority of its radar and technology systems are the same. Now outdated technologies such as floppy disk and paper strips are commonplace in the air traffic control tower. Just think of that.

Nathan Mumm:

Just think of that we think that's surprising, but it's really not now the us transportation secretary, sean duffy, on thursday announced a sweeping plan to upgrade their air traffic control systems across the country over the next three to four years. I don't know who he's gonna actually do it. They must have to hire outside people. Uh, he's uh flanked by leaders of multiple major us airlines, including united chief executive officer scott kirby, who also says an overhaul is long overdue. Just think of this flying into a tower with your airplane and all of a sudden they have to put that floppy disk into the area to boot up on hold. I'm dead serious DOS things to see your airplane coming on in in a monochrome monitor.

Mike Gorday:

I'm not sure that that's how that works, but you know good yeah.

Marc Gregoire:

So what is more stable generally as a computer system, something running on DOS or something running on a Windows server?

Nathan Mumm:

Come on answer that. Okay, what happens when I put my finger across the floppy disk, shoving it in trying?

Marc Gregoire:

to make sure the point, the floppy disks are troublesome yeah.

Mike Gorday:

There's a reason why space technology is behind modern technology.

Nathan Mumm:

Why is?

Mike Gorday:

that, because it's more reliable.

Nathan Mumm:

So if it had tape or something like that, it's just a floppiness I could just see.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, what kind of floppiness With the five and a quarter.

Nathan Mumm:

No, no no, no, no, no, no, no. They're the big, the big, effing ones. Oh, the old ones, yes, yes.

Marc Gregoire:

Oh my gosh because he's, he's back from that era.

Nathan Mumm:

He's like I still have those at home. All right, we're going to. We're going to head out to our last commercial break. When we return, we still have our Nathan nugget. See you after this.

Mike Gorday:

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Speaker 1:

This is your Nugget of the Week.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, everybody, listen up. Here's a way for you to get $100. You can now submit your claims to Apple's $95 dollar lawsuit payout for siri spying on you. Apple users have eight weeks to claim up to 100 bucks. Now eligible apple customers can apply for their share of a 95 million dollar payout, because siri was listening to you all the time yeah, we know, it happened on air yeah, on air.

Nathan Mumm:

Yeah, we did On air one time. Remember that A website has been set up to distribute the funds allowing Apple device owners in the US who have experienced an unintended Siri activation during private conversations between September 17, 2014 and December 31, 2024. Ten years, if you had an Apple device, you can submit a claim. Now the payout is related to the 2019 class action lawsuit that alleged apple was infringing on its users privacy by capturing conversations overheard by the siri voice assistant without consent, passing the recordings to a third party. Quality control contractors that then were compromised.

Nathan Mumm:

Now apple offered a formal apology and pledged to would no longer retain users recording, but pushed back against additional allegations that it allowed advertisers to target customers based on series recording data. In January 2025, the company agreed to pay the be submitted up to five Siri-enabled devices, including an iPhone, an iPad, apple Watch, a Mac, a HomePod, an iPad Touch and Apple TV, provided the users swear under oath that the voice assistant was unintentionally activated on each device. If approved, the settlement pays out or capped at $20 per device Eligible. Apple device owners already received a claim, identification code and confirmation and are already in the process of being notified about the settlement, but applications can still be submitted by anybody, that is, you, who believes that you could have been absolutely recorded with their tool.

Mike Gorday:

So it's $20, not $100.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, you can get up to five devices, so 20 times five.

Mike Gorday:

Well, it's a good thing, you can do math.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, those are one of the many great qualities that you get here on Tech Time Radio.

Marc Gregoire:

So, yes, I wonder the percentage of our listeners that are Android versus Apple?

Nathan Mumm:

Well, I've had an Apple.

Marc Gregoire:

Well, you've got three of us up here, but I think two of us can't submit a claim. The three of us. You've never had an Apple device.

Mike Gorday:

No iPads. I have an Apple iPhone work phone, okay, well, it could be the same. That's your work.

Nathan Mumm:

That's different.

Marc Gregoire:

That's my work phone.

Nathan Mumm:

I've had Apple devices since the eons of time.

Marc Gregoire:

I've personally never owned one. I've got two phones.

Nathan Mumm:

Android and Apple.

Mike Gorday:

When's the Alexa app going to be sued? I don't know, because that's happened all the time.

Nathan Mumm:

Well, soon they're going to start supporting it if you don't opt in to have them listen to you at all times. You know that we got a story that we're going to talk about next week about a lawsuit on a vacuum device that took pictures of this person because they take pictures of the deal and was used in a lawsuit when this gal was drunk and she ended up killing somebody. They actually went back to footage of her own private vacuum, seeing that she was drunk before she got into the car, and they could establish a timeline that she deliberately was drinking.

Mike Gorday:

Her Roomba was following her around and taking pictures of her. Yeah.

Nathan Mumm:

It doesn't make you feel safe. You buy a device, you bring it home, then it takes pictures of you and then it leaks out there.

Mike Gorday:

Now I understand why my Roomba sits in the middle of the room and just like scrolls over and looks at me and then scrolls back. Yeah, that's what it's, uh-huh.

Nathan Mumm:

All right, now let's move on to our pick of the day whiskey tasting.

Speaker 1:

And now our pick of the day for our whiskey tastings. Let's see what bubbles to the top.

Marc Gregoire:

So today we're sipping on High West Burai 2025, batch 25A23. This is a blend of bourbon and rye, five of them Over 10 years old, 92 proof, $130. I love this, I love this, you love this.

Nathan Mumm:

Wow, I was completely wrong on that one. I love this. I thought it was fantastic. I will give it a huge thumbs up. Mine was gone before we even got into it.

Marc Gregoire:

You should have known I bring bad whiskey. You'd give it a thumbs up.

Mike Gorday:

Yeah, wow, I bring bad whiskey you give it a thumbs up. Yeah, wow, you were spot on with me. I like it, but it's not a huge thumbs up for me. I will say this morning drinking.

Marc Gregoire:

It was the best. I've had it now probably five different days. This was the best. Maybe it takes a while to open up, or it's better to drink in the afternoon. There you go, that could be it or at night, when I normally do.

Nathan Mumm:

Okay, all righty. Well, mike and listeners, we're just about out of time. We want to thank you for being a part of our program. Listeners, we want to hear from you. Visit techtimeradiocom, click on, be A Caller, ask us a technology question and provide comments in our YouTube. We have tons of people watching our YouTube videos. No, just put a comment in there. I'm listening to you, nathan, and that will make me happy and remember all of you out there. The science of tomorrow starts with the technology of today. We'll see you next week Later. Bye-bye.

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