85. How Your Parents are Getting Hacked

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Mike Ouwerkerk Accomplished and versatile IT leader with demonstrated success implementing and managing IT infrastructure solutions and services in support of business objectives. Strong history of improving IT Operations efficiency, quality, and cost effectiveness. A skilled leader and manager of technical teams who is well versed in project management methodologies, strategic development, risk analysis and management, and budget and vendor management across Network, Systems and Telecomm platforms. Analytical, articulate, and driven to deliver solutions that work.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:13.1	Today we have Mike Auerkirk on the show.
0:16.4	He was correcting me earlier, but he said this is the harder way to pronounce his name,
0:19.4	Auerkirk, and I don't know if I did that right. I probably still
0:22.3	butchered it.
0:26.5	Mike is from a web safe staff, and for a living, he walks in and teaches the, I guess,
0:34.7	the politically correct way to say it would be the less tech savvy people
0:39.1	to not do really stupid things, which we wouldn't say, basically not click on things,
0:44.5	not do things that are stupid that get the company robbed and, I don't know, click on phishing
0:50.7	emails and various other things that you do. But we are talking about how there is a lack of security training for even maybe,
1:02.3	I guess we would call it residential.
1:04.4	And I was thinking of my father, who is a retired doctor.
1:08.9	He's 85.
1:10.5	We won't call him elderly yet. But he definitely has me coming over to the house to change
1:15.5	passwords and do various different IT related tasks.
1:21.0	And that's where I came up with the idea for this show, because every now and then,
1:24.5	he gets a call from Kevin from Microsoft.
1:30.0	Kevin has a very thick accent, nothing against anyone with a thick accent, but Kevin just happens to have a thick
1:34.9	accent calling from Microsoft and asking my father for $600 to fix his computer, which has
1:40.6	loads of pornography on it. And at that point, I asked my father, dad, do you have pornography on your computer?
1:46.9	And are you watching pornography?
1:47.9	To which he says, no, he's an 85-year-old retired urologist of all things.
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