Tech Refresh: Taking down the internet, sending secret messages, tech spring cleaning
Kim Komando Today
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4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Kim has the story of a guy who tried (and failed) to take down the internet. Is that even possible? A look at Google's new ad tracking tech that might be active in your browser right now, and a secret way to send hidden messages from iPhone to iPhone. Find out how the crew cleans their tech inside and out, and see if Ben can fool Mike and Allie in Brand New or Not True.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tech Refresh with Kim Commando and friends from Commander.com with a K. That's K-O-M-A-N-D-O. |
| 0:09.1 | Gangsall here, Kim, Ali, Ben. All right, I'm Mike. And today the deep dive topic is spring cleaning. Oh, your computer. Yes, inside and out. And we've also got secret ways that you can put secret messages to your friends and |
| 0:23.9 | they won't show up on your chat on your phone. All right. So let's get to the news first. Here's Kim. |
| 0:29.7 | Do you remember a couple of weeks ago there was that picture of Chloe Kardashian on the internet? |
| 0:34.0 | Do you remember that guys? Oh, yes. Sure. Yeah. I felt really sorry for her because |
| 0:39.6 | here's a photo of you in a bikini. She's 36. She's had a kid. And she's beautiful. And her whole |
| 0:48.7 | family's like, oh my gosh, we have got to get this off the internet, which begs the question, |
| 0:54.0 | can you ever get anything off the internet? And begs the question, can you ever get anything |
| 0:54.9 | off the internet? And the answer is, no, you can't. I mean, there's just no way you can do it. And the |
| 0:59.6 | reason why I bring that up is that the FBI arrested this guy this past week. Twenty-eight-year-old |
| 1:03.9 | Seth Penley is his name. And he wanted to destroy. He said he could quote unquote kill off |
| 1:10.4 | 70% of the internet by blowing up |
| 1:13.4 | Amazon data centers. And he was going to start with one in Virginia. And so here's how it came |
| 1:18.9 | down. The FBI says that Penley boasts about being present at the January 6th Capitol attack. |
| 1:24.8 | And then it was reported by a citizen a few days later that he posted in a |
| 1:28.6 | forum online about his plan to conduct a little experiment in his words. And then he started |
| 1:34.9 | discussing this plan with FBI informants. And then the FBI gets involved with CIA. And then he was |
| 1:41.3 | arrested after taking some boxes what he thought were plastic explosives from an |
| 1:45.2 | undercover agent and placing them in his vehicle. So luckily we got the guy and he faces 20 years in |
| 1:51.4 | prison. But then this begs the other question. Can the internet ever be destroyed? Is it possible |
| 1:59.0 | for somebody like Seth to put a whole bunch of explosives and data |
| 2:03.5 | centers and then suddenly we're not able to get to Facebook? Oh my gosh, what would we do with that? |
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