 Alright, ready? Let's do it. Welcome to Off Topic Tuesday Episode 6. What the hell is today? The 30th. January 30th. Yes, it is. Yes. So, January is almost over already. January 30th, 2018. So, yeah. Anything we say is based around that date because we like to be, it's news as in new things. So, if you're watching this, awesome. Maybe it's the future because future me might watch it. You never know. I don't know. Yeah, I know what I was discussing back then. I mean, this is saved for posterity now. I mean, thousands of years from now, people will be looking at this and going, wow, those guys really had their finger on the pulse. We had their fingers on the pulse of the internet. So, let's just get started because finger on the pulse plays into fitness tracking app Strava, gives away location of US secret army bases. Excellent segue. Excellent segue. And this is fantastic and frightening all at the same time. Yes. Sensitive information about the location, staffing and military bases, and spy outposts around the world have been revealed by fitness tracking app companies. The details were released by Strava and data visualization app that shows all the activity tracked by users of its app, which allows people to record, exercise, and share it with others. This does not secure your wrist from time and time. No, Josh, no. We are not a Strava security wrist. You would see, you'd be like, wow, he has gone from the couch to the refrigerator 17 times in the last hour. Yeah. So, the reality is, I'm aware that I could use a more exercise. I don't know if I'm ready to have any AI system telling me this. Well, now is a perfect excuse to be like, no, I can't. It's a security risk. It's a total security risk. So, let me jump to the global heat map. And this is pretty cool because this allows you to see visually places people were running and using the Strava app and doing exercise. And it has some real world security problems. Does anyone run by our office? That's what I'm actually doing. Oh, yeah. There we go. Like on the surface, it is a very cool app. I mean, you can see, you know, would let you know, like, oh, there are trails here that, you know, maybe I could run on that I, you know, didn't know about, or I can see, you know, this is a place where a lot of people do like to run, whatever. But as we'll talk about, there's some problems. No one runs around our building. Really? What should be our building? I think I'm on the right road. There's no streets on there. Any labels? Hold on. Get labels. I'm on the wrong street. Oh, yeah. You're a little too far south. A little too far south. Let's find out. There we are. There we go. Here's us. All right. There's our building. Does anyone run around? No, God. It's certainly not us. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Some people do walk. So this is our building. Yeah. I'm dancing around with a mouse here. And yes, there's some trail that's going to home. Yeah. They cut it. Well, they're actually cutting through, and I do this when I ride my bike. I come up this way when I ride my bike to work and cut through the parking lot. Oh, sure. That's probably an easy sidewalk. The sidewalk's really bad here. Yeah. So I cut through the parking lot. So that's all this is. Yep. No security. No, not that we need to be secure, but no security problems here. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely. It's an interesting concept, though. And this is always why it's the things you didn't think about. And it's funny. I read it this run into a discussion about a lot of security problems created by people where they just do things, not thinking about it, that could possibly be secure. This is actually a really common problem of security, that it's so constant. And I'm going to say Jason Street, look up some of his talks he's done. He's a physical security hacker, and he talks about all the things that he finds, because like, cool, you have the best firewalls, antivirus, UTMs, almost all the threats are like, look, post-it note. Yeah. And with passwords on it. Yeah. And just really obvious things that people do that make things insecure, including when you're going to put a secret base, and then we're going to give all the guys cell phones, tracking, Facebook, God knows they've posted enough stuff on there. Those have been incidents I have friends in military. And this is like a known issue. They have rules about this. And they're not always followed. No. So these military personnel are using these fitness tracking app and basically mapping out the entire thing. The entire bases where they're at. So like bases that are not even like they're blacked out or just not shown like on Google Earth and things like that. Ladies heat maps over when you know exactly where everything's at. Yes. This reminds me though, speaking, because sometimes the government does it to themselves. They were removing after 9-11 it was like removing things from maps. They were like, oh no, let's remove the locations of power plants and critical infrastructure from plants. Then this is the best part. All you had to do was get the new updated maps that the FAA made for the no fly zones to know where everything was. Right. They just like, well, just delete them as if they'll not exist anymore in the map and then the FAA is like, oh, we'll make new no fly zones and tell you why you can't fly over this place in this place because it's critical infrastructure. So yeah, sometimes the government does it to themselves. Right hand me left handed. You played yourself. Know what you're doing. Not going to happen. Well, in other news, we've talked about net neutrality and this is a problem. So VA law markers introduced a Netflix tax bill to the General Assembly and they call it the Netflix tax. The concept is they want to add taxes to streaming services, which would probably negatively affect Netflix, Hulu and probably even YouTube and all those. And you already pay to get your internet. So if you're in the US, there's already taxes on it. Maybe it's different elsewhere, but inside the US, I have a big of my bill. It goes to taxes to pay for internet provisioning. They want to add some VA law makers a extra tax on top of that because it's a streaming service. Obviously, you know where this is going. The cable TV companies are going, but people under 30 don't watch it because it sucks. It's terrible. It's terrible. I cut the cord in 2011 because I realized it was just horrible programming. Matter of fact, it leads to things like just people leaving down those 24 hour banter channels of news, allegedly news and just boring crap. They just find something to keep 24 hours of programming going and everyone turns, and it's not really that good. And we're seeing this unfortunately with some of the streaming services too, but there's just so much bad content, bad programming versus you get great things. Like, you know what we're not on? Cable. Right. But you can get us here on YouTube. You don't want to pay a tax for that. You're already taxed. And I don't get this. This is just a stupid thing. If they think this is going to win over the crowds, this is only going to make them hated more because if there's something people under 30 are, it's generally jaded about the current state of something. Absolutely. I read that too. I was like, wow. And I don't blame them. I'm 42 and jaded. Yeah. Well, I mean, and I think you add a tax like this. Really, it's just going to further entrench those on, you know, people who have cut the cord. Because honestly, like, I'm not going to like it, but like, I know what you're doing and I'm not going to go back to cable. Yes. And I've, you know, I've even seen some people, some of the younger crowd, you know, I don't have, TV was always the cool thing we said. And this is, now it's, I don't even have a Facebook. Some of them are really disconnected. That's all they do is they get their content from the, and it's, I always look at it YouTube or, because you go there looking for a thing or looking for us, but it's a more purposed watch. So you're like, I don't just turn it on and let it go. People who binge and stream certain things. Oh yeah. But I go there for a purpose. Like I'm looking for this movie to watch or this show to watch. And then it's more purpose versus, I don't know, it's just on in the background on these mindless commercials that repeat on, you know, these regular schedule. I don't know. So it's a stupid deal. Looks like it's going to get shot down. Yeah. Well, and it's just in the state of Virginia. So, but it's, And if it does pass in Virginia, register your account not a state. Well, the problem is if it passes in Virginia, like what door does that open? Yeah. That's why I'm sure it will be shot down and let's hope so because I do not want that can of worms opened up. Now, this is this is the discussion we're going to go into here. So face to face real time face capture and reenactment of RGB videos. Now this is an interesting software that was open. This is not actually news. This, but it leads up to news. We'll get there. We'll get there. And I say this is news. You have haven't seen this, but it's pretty amazing. And there's a video and we're going to link to all this here. And it's a really wild to see that you can take one person and map their face onto another person and control what they look like and what they say. And this really this is, you know, a year ago. Well, this is I'm sorry. This is two years ago. That's 2016. Yeah. And so over two years, this technology has gotten dramatically better. It brings into a lot of legal questions of what are we going to have to do to make sure video is good? Video is admissible in court as evidence. And even on the more basic functions, we've seen the face swap apps with Snapchat and things like that. So we have this access some of these technologies with our phones and it's become really easy to use. But obviously begs the question of what's real. I mean Photoshop really is a game changer and people, you know, is looking for the artifacts and things like that to make sure that a photo isn't photoshopped. And we just made the assumption it's just too tricky with video. But Snapchat, my kids can swap faces with me. Right. And, you know, this technology keeps better and better. And then we come to this guy. Oh, yes. And this video is great. It's from, it's a clip from Superman and they put Nicholas Cage's face. I don't remember the actor or the girl who played this. Yeah. Boy, that looks like Nicholas Cage on Netflix. Yeah. It's unnerving. It's unnerving. Like how good that is. And what all AI tools as we learned last week, they all end up making fake porn. Of course. We're back to this topic again, but I can't help it. The AI system and this is a big story. So AI tools will make it easy to create fake porn just about anybody. And it's because of a redditor that it's called, his name is Deepfakes. And it's basically, he did some coding and it has an entire subreddit. And it's completely not safe for work. Don't open it. Because apparently if you're a programmer and you are upset that your celebrity doesn't perform in the movie that you wanted them in. So you cast them in a new role. Sure. Yeah. Officially. And the AI system that automatically maps the face onto the other person. I mean, and now here's the question. Is this illegal? And there's not, this is where, do you have to take a step back and go what laws are being broken? Because some of celebrities want them taken down, but they're also like, well, it's not really you. It's a depiction of you. Does this fall under fair use? And it's only a depiction of their face. But it is their likeness. It is their likeness. So I mean, like if you, you know, if a company just took a celebrity's put it on a billboard and said, you know, buy Bigby, like, you know, the celebrity has a case that you're not using their, they did not even permission to use their likeness. Right. So I think there's probably a case there. And I want to be on the journey. Because I want to see the evidence. Yeah. This is such a weird problem to have. And this is where technology just, it's accelerating really fast. So we have to figure out what to do. And I'm not, I don't think we need a knee-jerk reaction on this of, you know, go out and create a new law. But it does raise a lot of interesting things of when you can just swap someone's face around. You're like, well, how does that work? It's going to, yeah, it's going to raise questions of like, what is admissible? And a non-porn use. What if, and we see, I mean, they did an amazing job in Star Wars. We had Carrie Fisher in Star Wars, even though she wasn't in Star Wars. Right. Well, actors never die. Well, we go, man, we just really like that person. Right. We're going to buy the rights to their face after death. How does that work? Does the family get the proceeds? Oh, gosh. Do we buy the rights to someone? And we just say, we just map them on everyone now. But I think part of what the actors do that becomes really tricky is the delivery. Because some actors have such a presence. Yeah. And that makes a big difference. So it's not just their face and likeness, but. But there are also people that can do incredible impressions of people, too. Not only that. We go a step further. If you haven't seen this, Adobe has their new software that will do that. Once it has enough work samples, you can just type in and it will re-speak all the sentences in that person's voice. So if you combine that and all these, this guy is not doing that part. He's only doing the face part. What if, though, we took, and obviously with any actor, you just summarize all their movies, take all their lines, feed it into Adobe. I can't remember the name of a program that Adobe makes. They demoed it. I don't know if it's for full release yet or not. But then you can have people saying in their voice and it's being... Once you started down this path. Yeah. It's only going to get better. Or worse, depending on your point of view. Yeah. When you... Oh, wow. So I'm not going to go there, but you could have an entire virtual actor. So you've made the entire likeness. What's that movie with Joaquin Phoenix? He falls in love with the... Her. Her. You don't have real life of this. So that could be... Well, I mean, that's an issue that people have talked about with movies already is like, we're at a point now where do we necessarily need live action actors? I mean, we... There comes a point where this gets... Yeah. Can you just create a person? Can you replace us with that? Can you replace Tom and Marb with this? We don't... We don't want to go there. Well, you can replace Tom and Marb, but there are certainly people you can replace. Anyone with the effort into replacing us? Well, that's just it. Well, I mean, this guy is putting celebrity faces on porn. So... Yeah. So I guess anything is possible. Do us a favor, though. If you are into using this type of software, don't put our faces on porn. Nobody wants that. I don't think anyone's going to waste the CPU cycles. No, gosh. Don't bother. But if you do, send us a link because we watch it. Oh, absolutely. We watch ourselves. Yeah. Give me abs if you're going to do it. Make it healthier, us. Because we're probably not using this Trava app. That is because it's a security risk. Because it's a security risk. Tell us. And we are all about security here. All right. We'll be back next week with hopefully a non... It's not that we wanted... Don't make that promise. Don't make the topic to be not safe for work. But it just keeps happening because people keep using AI for things. Well, it's... Was it Rule 39? Or was it? Rule 34. Rule 34, yeah. Yeah. This is... It's how it works out. It's true. All right. Thanks for watching Off Topic Tuesday. We'll get back to work now. Maybe. Maybe. See ya. Bye.