WEBVTT - T-Mobile does damage control after major data hack 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.080 Google releases a new pixel, but it's not the one. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:17.160 How to store a digital vaccine card on your smartphone, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.279 Say goodbye to the magnetic strip on your credit or 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.600 debit card. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.400 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.800 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.120 you should know about. It is also the place where 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.400 I answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.159 reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Thanks so 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:44.720 much for tuning me in. Welcome to the folks listening 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:50.680 on Facebook Live with their rooms feature, which I love. 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:51.280 It's weird. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.639 It doesn't always show up in my app. Sometimes when 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.720 I open the app, it's there, other times it's not there. 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.560 But it's a fun way to reach a lot of 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.760 people that may not listen to the podcast per se, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:05.480 but then they get to see it on my Facebook 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.160 page and they say, hey, what's that? Let me let 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.119 me tune in and let me listen, and sure enough 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.160 they stick around sometimes. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.160 So let's see what's been going on this week? Hm? 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.760 Well, my mom was in town for so long that 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.720 I felt like I was on vacation in my own city. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.720 We were you know, going out to eat. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.400 We were staying out late, we were looking at sites, 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.640 we were going places. I'm sure you do this when 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.679 people come to visit you, but it's really interesting how 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.880 much there is to do that you just don't do 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.880 or you take for granted. Like we went to the beach, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.480 we went to Malibu, we went to different restaurants. I 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.520 got to shout out my friend Brian Tong for okay, 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.039 so I'm not a lobster person. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:46.560 I've only had it like once in my. 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.800 Life, and I thought it was okay, but I wouldn't 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.760 consider myself like I don't really seek it out ever. 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.840 I know people go wild over lobster. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.480 So my mom, which came out here, said the only 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.480 two things I want are fish tacos and a lobster role. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.880 And I said, all right, well, we're in California. I'm 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.280 pretty sure we can find those things. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:04.160 So fish tacos. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.800 We found this little place that was a little hole 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.839 in the wall. Oh gosh, I can't remember the name, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.320 but it was really it was really good and it 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:13.720 was just a little tiny hole in the wall. We 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.679 went there off a yelp and it turned out to 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.560 be fantastic. Giant portions. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:18.720 So that was cool. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.880 Then I'm browsing Instagram and I see my friend Brian Tong, 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:24.880 you know who covers technology. 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:26.720 He posted about this place. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.920 He went to in Malibu that was I think it 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:29.640 was called. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.280 Broad Street Seafood. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.200 Or something like that, and it was a lobster roll 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.200 and I'm like, oh, lobster roll in California, in Los Angeles, okay, So. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.919 I texted him. I said, Brian, is this place legit 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:41.200 or what? 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.800 He's like, absolutely, So my mom and I go and 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.239 she gets the lobster roll. I get some fish tacos, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.120 and I will tell you I had one little bite 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:54.519 of the lobster from her role, and oh my gosh, 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:57.840 I am a convert. Oh wow, it was so good. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.480 It was basically just like something anything doused in butter 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:05.080 is really really good and that's it just tasted like 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.080 a butter soaked piece of fish, not even I mean, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.600 it wasn't really a fishy, but anyway, it was so good. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.640 Now I feel like I have to go back for 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.880 a lobsterole. So it was great. We had a lot 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:16.240 of fun. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.520 I've also been testing out the Galaxy foldable phones all 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.840 this week. Don't quite have my review just yet. But 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.360 you know, it's one of these things where I love 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.200 the fact that Samsung is trying new things and I 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:30.839 want to love one of these phones and I want 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.919 to use one of them like forever, but I just can't. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.720 There's there's too many downsides for me. Like with the 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.440 bigger one, I just love that giant screen in the fold. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.400 When you open it up, it's like having a tablet. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.760 You can use it as a kindle, you can read books. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:49.000 And I just have this like this romanticized version of myself, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.240 like just pulling this phone out and like using it 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.200 for all kinds of cool things. But the reality is 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.400 it's big and it's bulky, and it's just it's cool. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.800 But I don't think it's ready for primetime just yet. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:03.040 And the little flip phone is really cool, but the 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.800 cameras just aren't there and so and also you got 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.360 to flip it open every time, which back in the 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.600 day was really easy because you could do it with 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:11.600 one hand and it was a motorol eraser and it 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.839 was simple and it was lightweight. This is way more 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.200 complicated to open, to flip open every time you need 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.440 to use it. And yeah, they made the outer screen bigger, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.839 but it's still not where it needs to be to 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.440 actually accomplish anything. So to do anything on this phone, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.480 you still want to open the phone. So it's just 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:29.680 it's one of these things where I think, you know, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.320 my reviews will be good of these devices, I just 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.920 can't really recommend the average person to get them just yet. Now, 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.120 if you just want a cool flip phone and you're 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.559 not like a power user, the Flip is kind of cool, 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.280 but the price is still pretty high for you know, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.080 everyday person, like most of the people that text me 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.000 or email me or looking for a phone closer to 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:50.359 the five hundred range. 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:50.800 And so. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.440 I guess that goes right into my first story. Google 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.440 released a new pixel. It's not the pixel that I'm 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:00.719 waiting for, you know, I'm waiting for the Pixel six, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.039 And mark my words, I will switch to the Pixel 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.039 six from the iPhone if it's any good. And by 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.479 any good, I mean they get the processor right, they 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.400 get the memory right, they get the storage right, they 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.680 get the screen right, they get the cameras right, which 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.839 they usually do, and they get kind of like the overall, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.960 the overall package right. Like the pixel is one of 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.599 the best cameras out there, but it's just every year, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:28.680 like the package is like, ugh, it's. 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:29.599 A little damaged. You know. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:31.760 It's like getting a box from Amazon that's just like 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.200 dented in on one side and you're like, ah, I 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.480 can't really like, I can't accept this package the. 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:38.080 Way it is. 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.600 So the new Pixel five A with five G say 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.839 that five times fast. They call it the latest A 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.160 series Pixel phone. So I was talking to my brother 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.080 about this and he's like, what does the A mean? 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.000 And I said, well, I think it's just a. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.280 Delineation that it's not as high powered. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.760 But it's confusing because you're gonna have the Pixel six 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.200 come out, so you've got the Pixel five A and 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.400 then the six. So I guess that makes kind of sense, 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.520 but I don't know. Anyway, the phone's gonna arrive in 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.200 August twenty sixth. It's a IP sixty seven water resistant. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:09.280 Let me just go. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.320 I mean it's basically the Pixel four A five G 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.640 with a couple of little upgrades. Okay, the forur A 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.839 does not have water resistance. The for A, well, I 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:21.760 guess they're getting rid of. 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.359 The four A five G. This is so confusing, but 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:25.360 it's got a good battery. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.640 It's got a forty six hundred eighty milliamp hour battery. 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.400 That is huge. I mean that is really really large. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:37.440 Now, the memory is six gigabytes a RAM, which I 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.760 just wish they would stop scrimping on the RAM on 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.120 these Android phones and just put in you gotta do 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.360 minimum eight twelve is way better. So it's got six. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.520 It's got one hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.680 which is fine. It's got a dual SIM it's got 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.720 a six point three inch full HD plus O lead 0:06:55.120 --> 0:07:00.360 does not have the high refresh rate screen. It's got 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.360 all the camera features you need. It's got the rear cameras. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.560 It's got a dual a twelve megapixel camera and an 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:08.840 ultra wide sixteen megapixel. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:09.040 Which is fine. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.120 It would be nice to have a telephoto lens in 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:12.680 there as well. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:13.400 You don't get that. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.200 It's got that slower Qualcom Snapdragon processor, the. 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:18.880 Seven sixty five g boring. 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.880 But it does have a audio jack, which is really cool. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.920 So I would say, honestly, sight on scene, I guess 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.560 I was not on the list of Google sent this 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.120 phone to pretty much anyone with a with a pulse 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:33.080 except me. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:33.680 I don't know. 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.200 Why did I say something bad about the Pixel. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:36.520 I don't know. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.720 They've sent me every Pixel since it ari, since it 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.520 came out, and this year they decide now we're just 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.200 not going to tell Rich about this. So every single influencer, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.960 every blogger, everyone. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.480 Was tweeting, oh got my free gift from Google. 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:55.320 And someone like myself, who my audience is actually really 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.680 interested in this phone, they did not contact me to 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:00.840 get me this phone to reach. I don't know what 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.000 the deal is. I mean, Google, I thought we had 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:08.120 a good relationship. I guess not so anyway, sight on scene. Honestly, 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.600 this is probably one of the phones I will recommend 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.360 the most this year to the average person. And the 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.679 reason I recommend this phone is because it is so simple. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.480 It has all the features you need. And if you're 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.040 not a wild power user like you need the best, 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.800 the best, the best, the highest specs, the best. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:26.720 Ram, the best screen. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.880 If you just want a phone that you can pull 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.720 out of your pocket, make phone calls on surf the web, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.960 look at Instagram, take amazing pictures on have great battery life. 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.560 That's gonna be the Pixel five A with five G 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.040 I mean, that's the bottom line. And by the way, 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.040 this phone is four hundred and forty nine dollars. That 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:49.960 is a fantastic price. Under five hundred dollars. You buy it, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.000 you get it. It works, it's gonna last for minimum 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.439 three years, and it's It's not the fastest phone in 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:56.839 the world. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.640 It's not the sexiest phone in the world. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.640 But guess what it does what you need it to do. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.360 And for that reason, I really like this phone. It's 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.160 not the Pixel six that someone like me, who is 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.640 a phone sort of power hungry phone nerd needs. It's 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.920 just a phone for the everyday person and it you know, yes, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.680 you might say, rich, why not recommend a Samsung? Well, yeah, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.720 the samsungs are fine, but they've they're so busy, They've 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:26.679 got so much going on that unless you're a Samsung person, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.559 you don't necessarily need all the things that Samsung has 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.480 going on. I think the Pixel five A is going 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.080 to be just fine for a lot of people. So 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.960 I hope that I end up getting my hands on 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.440 one of these. But honestly, I'm buying the Pixel six 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.280 no matter what, so I will I will get that, and. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:44.800 Of course I'll talk about that as well. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.440 All right, let's get to the first question of the show. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.480 Let's see, Ivory says rich, due to the price of 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.000 Adobe Acrobat Pro twenty twenty, what product do you recommend 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.959 that performs similar functions for a Windows ten machine. Now, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.000 Adobe Acrobat Pro. 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.480 Twenty twenty is wow. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:11.000 Is it really four hundred and fifty dollars? WHOA, that 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.800 is a lot of money. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.080 Let's see. So what does it do? 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.440 So it's basically the ability to create PDFs. Most of 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.600 us are just either printing out a page that is 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.960 a PDF, or we're filling in a PDF, or we're 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.880 working with PDFs, or we're converting something to PDFs, all 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.080 things that you can pretty much do for free. But 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.559 if you want to create and like really modify PDFs, 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.800 like if your business driven, you need something like Adobe 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.720 Acrobat Pro. And so what this does is it lets you, 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:45.640 you know, fill in forms, create and combined PDFs, send 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:50.280 documents with your for signature, send track and confirmed delivery, 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:56.160 add or edit text, reorder, delete or rotate pages. And 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.920 you also what's new I don't know anyway, So this 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.480 just this is like a This is like Microsoft Word 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.400 but for PDFs. So if you need that, you're going 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.240 to have to pay for that. Now from what I'm seeing, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.360 it looks like it's about four hundred and fifty dollars, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.520 which is a lot of money. So Ivory if you 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:18.040 want an alternative, The only real product that I know 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:24.520 is from fox It software Foxit, and they have a 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.959 PDF editor that is not free. You know, you get 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.719 a free trial, but if you want to actually purchase it, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:33.120 you do need to pay. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:34.520 And so if you want. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:39.959 The regular PDF editor, there's two versions. There's the PDF 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.800 editor and then there's the pro. So the regular one 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.400 is going to be one hundred and fifty nine dollars. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.440 The pro is one hundred and ninety nine dollars, and 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.760 that's a one time fee. 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.280 So if you want. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.160 Something that's less than half the price of Adobe, it's 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:54.839 going to be. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.199 This is it, this is fox It. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.160 So I have not truly played with this software enough 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.079 to give you a really good explanation of it versus 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.760 the Adobe software. And I assume Adobe is the leader. 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.520 They've got the brand name. There might also be a 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.840 circumstance where you can subscribe to the Adobe software and 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.160 get it for less every month, So that might be 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.320 another thing to look into. If you don't want to 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.840 do fox it and fox it. You know, it's probably 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.120 gonna be fine. I don't know the exact features that 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:26.600 you need. 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.560 Did you. Let's see did Ivory. Let's see did Ivory 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:35.240 write what features she needed? Let's see. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.520 Oh, here we go, password protection, combine several documents into 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.280 one search, convert pdf into word, and vice versa. Okay, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.640 so yeah, I think that the fox at one is 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.520 probably going to do those things. Those are pretty basic functionality. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.000 The convert PDF into word you can actually do with 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:57.520 with Google Docs for free. So if you just upload 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.200 a pdf into Google Docs, there's functionality that it will 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.000 be used to. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can do that. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.880 I've done that before. It might not be pretty, the 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.360 conversion might not be pretty, but it will definitely do 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.600 something similar to that. All right, good question, good question, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:13.200 good question. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:14.320 All right, let's talk. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.960 About the big story of the week, a cyber attack 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.520 on T Mobile. So these cyber attacks are really getting 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.960 gnarly because it's no longer because these companies have become 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.840 such mega corporations with millions and millions and millions of 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.360 customers and tons of data. Every time we hear about 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.040 one of these major hacks. They just get bigger and bigger. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:41.200 And this T Mobile one is pretty scary because what 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.440 happened is they got a lot of stuff seven point 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:51.280 eight million current T mobile customers, includes first and last names, data, birth, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:57.640 social security number, social security numbers, I say, social number, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.600 driver's license. Those are all the things that you need 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.120 to steal someone's identity. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:04.960 Oh. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.840 They also determined that phone numbers as well as your Imei, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.000 which is the number that oh my gosh, that identifies 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:19.040 your smartphone, was also compromised. Oh my gosh. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.560 This is unbelievable. Oh. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.960 They also identified another five point three million customers that 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.080 didn't have social security numbers or driver's licenses on their accounts, 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.880 but they still were impacted. So this number just continues 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.560 to grow. By the way, there was also forty million 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.840 former or prospective T mobile customers who had their oh 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.520 my gosh, this is just wild who had their information taken. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:51.440 So basically you're talking forty eight million plus another five 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:56.960 so you're talking over fifty million people. This is a 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.760 major buzzer alert for T Mobile. 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:01.760 And and I mean, look, what are you gonna do. 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.520 You're gonna are you gonna cancel T Mobile? Probably not 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.200 are you gonna switch to AT and T or Verizon? 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.200 It could have happened to them. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:08.840 Now. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.800 I don't know what the deal is with T Mobile 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.600 systems how this happened. Uh, But you know, it's just 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.480 one of these things that leaves a really bad taste 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.520 in your mouth because this is your highly personal information 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.280 that is now floating around on the internet. And I'm 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.800 talking floating around. I had a T Mobile account at 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.680 one time, and I'm wondering if mine is part of this. 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:38.760 So I mean five point eight forty million customers former customers. Yeah, 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.120 basically this is my information as well. So I'm really 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:41.720 angry here. 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:43.360 Oh. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:48.000 T Mobile says none of the information included financial, credit card, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.360 debit or other payment. Well, who cares about that? I mean, 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.280 don't use your bank account to pay bills, Okay, that's 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.920 number one. At least put a debit or credit card 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.880 between you now, you know, if you listen to my show. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.600 Not a huge fan of credit cards because the implications 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.120 of them. Yes, I have one, I try to use 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.520 it sparingly, but I do like the idea that a 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.680 credit card does put a wall between you and your 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.920 bank account. So if T Mobile shares my credit card 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:17.560 number out there. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:18.560 I really don't care. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.600 Let them charge as much as they want on it, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.880 because guess what, I'm not paying that bill. If it's 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.560 not me making that charge, I don't really care. Let 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.640 let American Express or Capital One or you know these 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.560 Bank of America figure that out. I don't need to 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.480 worry about that debit card. You know, there are limitations 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.880 on your debit card, Like I remember at some point 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.600 it was like a on mine I had. 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.280 I think it was like a five hundred dollars limit. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.040 You can call your bank and ask them what the 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.760 limit is, and you can set like a spend limit 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.600 per day. So if let's say someone got a hold 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.040 of your debit card number, you can actually limit it 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:57.440 to only authorize like a thousand dollars of purchases a day, which. 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.160 I know that's a lot for me. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.360 I'm like, I hope I don't spend that much in 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.520 a day, but if you did, you know it would 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.200 cut off. And that's smart because if a hacker did 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.320 get access to your debit card, you know, they can 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.119 only do so much damage before you know you figure 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.280 it out. And yeah, and in the end, with a 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.760 debit card, you'll still probably get your money back. It's 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.320 just a little bit more of a headache because it's 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.520 your money that's going out and now you have to 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.400 get that money back. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:22.919 So banks, you know. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.320 The way that these cards work is that, you know, 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.840 if I use my debit card at Target, let's say, 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.520 and you know, something happens or it's fraudulent whatever, you know, 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.840 Target doesn't get that money from my bank immediately. They 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.439 get it on like a thirty day rolling basis. So 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.680 if something goes wrong the bank, you know, let's say 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:44.560 it's Bank of America, they just say, oh, Target, by 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:46.600 the way, we're not giving you that thirty three dollars 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:49.600 that rich spent there because that's being contested. And until 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:53.320 that money actually clears the system and everyone agrees that 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.720 the transaction was legit, then they'll get that money. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.760 So that's how that works. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.400 So it's not like, you know, they get the money immediately. Now, 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.800 if it's cash, yeah, it's it's gone. It's out of 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:08.280 your pocket and it's gone. If it's you know, any 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:09.320 other way to pay. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.359 That, that's like immediate. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.240 But if it's a debit card or a credit card, 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:14.280 they pretty much you know, have to wait for that 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.240 money to clear from the bank. All right, what else 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:18.800 do we need to know? So what is T Mobile 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.320 doing about this? They're giving people two years of free 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:28.119 identity services, identity protection from mcaffee or McAfee McAfee. 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.720 Okay, that's a big deal. I mean, sign up for 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:32.359 that for sure. 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.160 T Mobile customers should sign up for the free scam 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.119 call blocking. Oh okay, let me block those scam calls. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.520 They also tell customers that they should reset their pin 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.800 numbers on their account. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:53.960 Oh. Interesting, they change their little website. Huh, that's interesting. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:55.880 They said to. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:02.640 Activate account takeover protection, which I would definitely do. And 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:04.680 it's just one of these things. It's kind of a nightmare. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.560 So I mean, it's out there, it's done. There's not 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.440 much you can do about it. It's it's just really 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:15.159 unfortunate that that happened. But my biggest advice is to 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.680 not share. Just limit how much personal data you share. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.600 I think I mentioned this in the podcast last week, 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.679 but limit how much data you share. That is the 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.440 number one thing you can do is just try to 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.280 keep it, you know, keep yourself from you know, just 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.800 anytime someone asks you for something, think about, do I 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:34.600 really really need to share this information? 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:35.800