4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Water systems in Kansas, Texas and Pennsylvania have already been hit by hackers in China, Russia and Iran. Plus, clothes that block 5G waves, AI coming to Alexa, and Walmart's new digital pricing. We also chat with Joseph Cox about his book "Dark Wire," which is about Anom, the FBI's secret app used by criminals.
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0:00.0 | Hey, it's Kim Commando today, your daily podcast to keep you up to date with all things digital and beyond. |
0:08.1 | And I'd love to have you be a part of our podcast. You can make an appointment to speak with me. |
0:13.2 | Just head over to commando.com. And on the top right, there's a button that says email, Kim. |
0:17.0 | Fill that out. And that's it. |
0:19.4 | We're going to start with an ethics question okay I want you to pay |
0:23.8 | attention is this a moral conundrum yes because I wrote about it in the newsletter and then I got a piece |
0:30.6 | of feedback and I thought it was kind of a weird one but a friend of mine is renting a car in the |
0:36.5 | UK to drive all around the UK. And she's complaining |
0:39.5 | about how much it cost. $922 for about three days. That's a lot. Yeah. So I said, you know what |
0:47.6 | you need to do? Instead of booking it and saying that you're in the United States, why don't you |
0:53.5 | try using a VPN, saying that you're in the United States, why don't you try using a VPN, saying |
0:55.8 | that you're in London, and you want to book the car for those three days, and then what happens? |
1:00.9 | Okay. |
1:01.3 | So she does that, and it comes back for $322. |
1:06.4 | Nice. |
1:07.0 | Okay. |
1:07.4 | So I wrote about, like, so if you're trying to book a car out of the country that maybe what you |
1:11.5 | want to do is to use a VPN to fake your location. |
1:15.3 | Fake. |
1:16.1 | So. |
1:16.9 | You just use the word fake by the way. |
1:18.6 | Yes. |
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