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Speaker 1: It's time for tech Talk.

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Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.

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Speaker 3: This is tech Talk, brought to you by sky Net.

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Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman joins US Traveler extraordinaire. Have you been noticing

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Speaker 1: any problems with the airports today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not really.

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Speaker 3: I've been traveling a lot since the shutdown and it's

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Speaker 3: the same. It's fitting miss anyways, but no, nothing really.

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Speaker 3: I'm at LaGuardia right now. But it's more about wind

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Speaker 3: than I think politics.

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Speaker 4: To be honest, we understand that our congratulations is an

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Speaker 4: order for a twenty fifth wedding anniversary.

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Speaker 2: My goodness, thank you, yes, thank you.

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Speaker 3: That's not so spring chickens. Yes, my wife Kelly and

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Speaker 3: I are celebrating yesterday with our twenty fifth wedding anniversary.

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Speaker 3: So I had to go to New York anyways for

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Speaker 3: a TV gig today, which means I would have to

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Speaker 3: have left on our anniversary, which would have really been good.

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Speaker 3: And so my lovely better half came with me and

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Speaker 3: we bumped it up a day earlier because so we're

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Speaker 3: her name is Kelly, and I'm a Mark, and we

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Speaker 3: went to see the Live with Kelly and Mark show

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Speaker 3: yesterday as well.

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Speaker 2: You know, the live show, we didn't get a shout out.

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Speaker 2: What can you do?

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Speaker 3: Like, I mean, look, we got tickets, which is fine,

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Speaker 3: it's free, but we like I mean, if if you

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Speaker 3: don't get a shout out for its for having the

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Speaker 3: exact same names as the host, albeit with different spellings,

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Speaker 3: or a twenty fifth winning anniversary, then I don't know what.

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Speaker 3: But I just I clearly didn't write to the right

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Speaker 3: producer ahead of time. But we we enjoyed the taping.

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Speaker 3: Anderson Cooper was one of the guests, so it was

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Speaker 3: a good.

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Speaker 4: I'm never going to watch it again. We're never going

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Speaker 4: to watch it right right, complete trash nerve You're going

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Speaker 4: to get so we shout outs, so it's gonna be crazy.

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Speaker 3: That's so sweet, honestly, can't f I and I heart

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Speaker 3: listeners are the best. I got to tell you the

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Speaker 3: amount of messages I do get every week after our

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Speaker 3: Tech Talk Thursday segment. And I'm glad we didn't do

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Speaker 3: it last week because I was going to like say

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Speaker 3: that the Blue Jays were going to win, and so

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Speaker 3: I would have probably got a lot of hate mail

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Speaker 3: from your listeners.

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Speaker 4: Now and nobody hates you know what I mean, nobody

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Speaker 4: hates the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 2: We all learned that it was a good series. It really,

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Speaker 2: it was a good series. What could I say?

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Speaker 3: So, Yeah, we had a lot of fun here in

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Speaker 3: New York. And yeah, so sorry for the poor audio

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Speaker 3: quality today, but I didn't want to miss our segments.

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Speaker 3: Doing that on my phone from the airport on our

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Speaker 3: way home sounds good.

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Speaker 1: We have been We know that the companies that we

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Speaker 1: work for, all of us have the ability to kind

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Speaker 1: of keep track of our emails, especially if we use

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Speaker 1: the computers at work or use the email servers at work.

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Speaker 1: But there's a new way that they're actually tracking us

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Speaker 1: that is a very, very big brother. It seems like

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Speaker 1: a step up from what it was before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people not happy about this. I

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Speaker 3: wrote an article for readers Digest about Microsoft Teams rolling

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Speaker 3: out a new feature come December that will snitch on

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Speaker 3: you if you're not in the office, because we know

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Speaker 3: a lot of companies are calling their employees back to

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Speaker 3: the office, but the boss may not know that you're

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Speaker 3: actually not in the office, that you are working from home,

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Speaker 3: which many people prefer for several reasons. And so going forward,

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Speaker 3: if you do use Microsoft Teams as a communication and

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Speaker 3: collaboration platform, which loans of companies do. Then it will

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Speaker 3: tell the boss if they enable this feature and you

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Speaker 3: opt in for it. Not sure if that's really voluntary,

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Speaker 3: but it will start telling the boss as of December

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Speaker 3: that hey, no, they're at home. They're not in the

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Speaker 3: office even though they say they are, because the boss

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Speaker 3: may be traveling, right, So it's going to snitch on

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Speaker 3: you because of the way teams is going to know.

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Speaker 3: It's basically it boils down to your Wi Fi. You're

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Speaker 3: the IP address of the office. If you're not there,

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Speaker 3: it's going to tell the boss because previously, like until now,

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Speaker 3: but yeah, going forward, that's not going to work. So

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Speaker 3: if your company enables it, it will be off by default.

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Speaker 3: But a lot of people are very upset with Microsoft

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Speaker 3: for rolling out this feature, so there's no solution. My

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Speaker 3: article was just warning people that this is coming. There's

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Speaker 3: no work around that I'm aware of, other than logging

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Speaker 3: into your like using a VPN and finding out what

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Speaker 3: your company's IP addresses.

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Speaker 2: And logging in.

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Speaker 3: It's as if you were there in the office, but

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Speaker 3: you're not. Somebody else is gonna rat you out any.

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Speaker 1: It seems like if you're going to go through all

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Speaker 1: the trouble of doing the VPN and masking your actual address,

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Speaker 1: just go to work or find a different job where

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Speaker 1: they're not going to track you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Fair, fair, I think a lot of us got comfortable

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Speaker 3: over the pandemic working from home, right, better life work

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Speaker 3: life balance. In fact, a lot of polls suggest higher morales,

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Speaker 3: better productivity, you know, spending less money on clothes and

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Speaker 3: on food that you would spend in an office. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: companies are as you know, calling everybody back, so it

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Speaker 3: to five days a week in many instances. So this tool,

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Speaker 3: this feature within Microsoft teams will this surveillance tool will

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Speaker 3: rat you out if you are trying to not get

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Speaker 3: back into the office.

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Speaker 2: A good point.

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Speaker 1: Good point, Garrett, there's a whiff of illegality here. Does

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Speaker 1: that come across at all?

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Speaker 3: Nope. No, there's lots of surveillance tools that companies can

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Speaker 3: use and do use. They're supposed to do it with consent.

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Speaker 3: It can vary based on state laws as to how

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Speaker 3: transparent they need to be and if they've crossed that

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Speaker 3: line or not. But no, there are lots of tools

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Speaker 3: including keystroke software that will know exactly what you're typing.

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Speaker 3: They also can remotely access your PC and without like

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Speaker 3: unbeknown to you and see if you're you know, backing

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Speaker 3: up your contacts to a USB drive because you're going

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Speaker 3: to quit in a day and you want to not

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Speaker 3: lose all your contacts. There's there's tools already available, but

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Speaker 3: they're supposed to be consent or in many cases people

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Speaker 3: don't read the fine print or understand it. We blindly

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Speaker 3: sign off on those terms of conditions. But this team's

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Speaker 3: one is really irking a lot of people because that

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Speaker 3: has become the you know, the facto platform for many

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Speaker 2: Many people don't know we know what the tropics like

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Speaker 2: in La, right, So.

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Speaker 4: Seriously, it was really bad today too. Yeah, well, make

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Speaker 4: sure to give Kelly a hug for us and congratulations

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Speaker 4: and safe travels back home. Appreciate that and good luck

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Speaker 4: next base.

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Speaker 2: Got it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So forget that other Kelly and Mark, I'm getting

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Speaker 3: a shout out on KFI.

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Speaker 2: That's all that matters. Thank you, guys, Appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: At least y'all eat food. You know, Sorry that was

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Speaker 4: a blow the belt shot, wasn't it? As opposed to

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Speaker 4: the TV Kelly and Mark, well they what did they

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Speaker 4: eat at home? Like three almonds a day split between

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Speaker 4: the two?

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Speaker 3: Lord?

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Speaker 1: Ouch, that's what happens when you're me friend.

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Speaker 3: You did, I did say to my life to Mike Kelly, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I said, Oh my gosh, Kelly is so thin.

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Speaker 2: Like even in person. Yeah right, Yeah. Mark doesn't look malnourish.

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Speaker 2: I think I don't think he does, but you.

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Speaker 3: Know I'm not going to He just looks like he

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Speaker 3: has zero perdy fat.

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Speaker 4: You know that must be hard to do. Yeah, we

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Speaker 4: hate him Mark, hate them as always.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: And to you have a wonderful rest of your Thursday year.

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Speaker 1: To Mark Saltzman there and make sure you follow Mark

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