The Technology “Grid”

I acknowledge that this class was technical, but I felt it was important to cover this information as these tools are used for evil without most people’s knowledge or awareness.  Given that I have been involved with this technology for nearly 40 years, I felt it was my duty and responsibility to put my knowledge and experience to bear on what is going down in this arena and come up with options on how we can protect ourselves from these issues while helping stay connected and using the technology for good instead of evil.  

I looked into the Telegram application that Landon spoke about and a Wikipedia page that explains it in more detail.   It looks like it provides end to end encryption but currently only for secret conversations.  If there is group chats, then there are vulnerabilities.  So I would recommend that people use caution as the developers work at addressing those issues.  It looks like it is much better than Facebook Messenger or some of the other solutions.  It is still developed by a corporation, but there are open source alternatives which can be used.  Here is a good top 12 review that highlights what some of those open source alternatives are.  

I’m attaching a graphic image (below) that I used during this presentation.  While I don’t have the markups that I was doing in class, people should be able to follow along with what I’m talking about by looking at the image while listening to the audio recording of this class.  If anybody has any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.  

Peace to you all.

Recorded October 4, 2020