Ryan Montgomery
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Let's say you're going to a country or you're in a meeting or something and you don't want anything to go in or out.
like you could just bring something like this like without giving their company oh i have a million of them yeah okay i don't know what they are i don't use them anymore because i think it's useless and i think my phone's already controlled so it's like well you've been hacked you know you many times but to avoid being hacked there's things you can do and yeah and one thing that in my experience because i do it every day for a living is know what's out there on yourself know what your digital footprint is
Check out Pentester.
Sorry for being that guy.
But check out Pentester because it's worth it.
Throw in your email.
See what comes back.
Spend a couple dollars to make sure that you're protected.
Remove as much personal data about yourself as possible so you don't have to worry about somebody being able to find your address or find your information online.
And then take some of the stuff that I'm showing you, these devices.
As of right now, criminals are not...
It's super sophisticated, but these younger kids, they're growing up around computers, and they're going to learn about this technology, and this technology is only going to advance.
Just continue to keep yourself in the loop, and don't just be stagnant and think that this is never going to happen to you.
It doesn't mean that it will, but don't be naive.
I mean, I would personally, even if I didn't like the device, I would put it on what's called a virtual LAN or similar to like a guest network, how it's like kind of segregated.
You know, I...
I'm not super concerned about it.
I even have like a vacuum in my house right now that I know is sending data to a Chinese cloud server.
I made a video about it and it went insane because, you know, it's China, a cloud server, people like that for whatever reason on the internet.
And I still have the thing plugged in.