November 2022 - Metrocoder

November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

Podcast – Apple’s New Satellite Service

Apple involvement with satellite communication company

In Apples latest service launch they teamed up with Satellite company Globalstar (NYSE: GSAT) and Cobham Satcom to provide connectivity to and from iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro devices.

“A $450 million investment from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund provides the critical infrastructure that supports Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 models. Available to customers in the US and Canada beginning later this month, the new service will allow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models to connect directly to a satellite, enabling messaging with emergency services when outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.”

In 2021, Apple announced an acceleration in its US investments, with plans to make new contributions of more than $430 billion over a five-year period.

How the SOS system works

When an iPhone user makes an Emergency SOS via satellite request, the message is received by one of Globalstar’s 24 satellites in low-earth orbit traveling at speeds of approximately 16,000 mph. The satellite then sends the message down to custom ground stations located at key points all over the world.

The ground stations use new high-power antennas designed and manufactured specifically for Apple by Cobham Satcom in Concord, California. Cobham’s employees engineer and manufacture the high-powered antennas, which will receive signals transmitted by the satellite constellation. Along with communicating via text with emergency services, iPhone users can launch their Find My app and share their location via satellite when there is no cellular and Wi-Fi connection, providing a sense of security when off the typical communications grid.

Once received by a ground station, the message is routed to emergency services that can dispatch help, or a relay center with Apple-trained emergency specialists if local emergency services cannot receive text messages.

Where is the SOS system available

Emergency SOS via satellite is available in the US and Canada starting today, November 15, and will come to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December.

Links:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-made-possible-by-450m-apple-investment/

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-available-today-on-iphone-14-lineup/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426

https://investors.globalstar.com

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November 15, 2022November 15, 2022

US vs. TikTok

FCC asks for Ban of Chinese App TikTok

Data leaks, hackers, phishing attacks, deep fakes and misinformation sound like terms out of sci-fi movie staring your favorite action hero. Unfortunately, the reality is that the battle is going on in your phone and on your computer. The apps you use are the new battle grounds and war zone. Social media is where we are bombarded with propaganda and misleading news. TikTok is under attack by the United States government and the FCC commissioner is requesting TikTok be banned.

Whether TikTok is a security threat seems to be a bit of stretch. But, we can all agree that the application has been increasingly popular for users under the age of 25. Is it safe for our youth, those under 18, to be using TikTok?

No.

Why? Back in 2019 the FCC sued TikTok for “mishandling” children’s data which cost them $5.7 million.

These recent fears stem from Facebook and issues regarding the 2016 US elections which were allegedly manipulated by Russian s. Additionally, the issue related to Cambridge Analytica using social media to sway votes using data provided by Facebook for the US election and Brexit.

These fears are valid and we have seen or felt the effects from the cyber wars taking place in our digital worlds. TikTok is a Chinese company, ByteDance and it is alleged that the Chinese Communist Party is intertwined with Chinese companies. Meanwhile, Meta platforms, Facebooks parent company, were in the US government crosshairs yet isn’t banned or crippled by regulation. My prediction is that TikTok isn’t going away anytime soon and will continue to grow in popularity and influence. It is, however, our responsibility to be informed and protect ourselves from exploitation by these application.

Stay safe on the internet and keep your data as private as possible.

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November 12, 2022November 13, 2022

Podcast – Midterm Election Fuel Misinformation Fears of the Past

Social media platforms “oil” is this data tracking your trends and habits on their platform which is then sold to Data Brokers that then use Data science to build models on how to suggest various information to users like you. Data brokers then sell the access to their trend analysis of this data sourced from social media and other internet entities so that they can now target you.

Social media, the digital space you spend the most time, once again gets paid to run these ads targeting you.

Allegations have been made that Data brokers such as Cambridge Analytica was used by politicians to target voters and sway their opinion come Election Day. The idea is that if you were found to be someone that found the topic of gun control to be a deciding factor on who you would vote for candidates would then be able to target you with their “promise” of making gun control more or less strict depending on your views on the topic which was analyzed by companies like Cambridge analytic were able to decipher.

Cited Sources:

Money spent in the current midterm election: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/11/total-cost-of-2022-state-and-federal-elections-projected-to-exceed-16-7-billion/

FCC TikTok ban: https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/us-government-should-ban-tiktok-fcc-commissioner-brendan-carr-says/

TikTok Class action lawsuit: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/judge-approves-92-million-tiktok-settlement-with-illinois-claimants-receiving-biggest-share/2921881/

For a full breakdown of Algorithms F*cking users over: https://metrocoderlog4j.com/5-times-algorithms-fcked-humanity/

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November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter and Crypto Spikes

Metro Minute Tech News Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter and Crypto Spikes

It’s no secret Elon Musk has taken over Twitter and now people are speculating that Elon might integrate the platform with Web 3.0 technology and implement cryptocurrency for exchange. As a side effect, dogecoin and other altcoin are spiking in anticipation of this integration.

What do you think?

Google Detects Earthquakes with Users Android phones

Google Detects Earthquakes with Users Android phones Did you know that in the background your Android phone is part of the largest Earthquake detection system ever built. Google is using users phone sensor data in combination with the USGS Shake Alert system to track alert users of potential earthquake disasters. Is this a violation of your privacy? Is this okay since it may help save your life?

Links to Resources:

USGS Shake Alert system: https://twitter.com/USGS_ShakeAlert Google Earthquake detection details: https://blog.google/products/android/earthquake-detection-and-alerts/

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November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

Podcast Episode 01

robot pointing on a wall — Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels.com

Apple’s New Satellite Service – MetroCoder Log4J

Apple’s New Satellite Service launched today 1. Apple involvement with satellite communication company In Apples latest service launch they teamed up with Satellite company Globalstar (NYSE: GSAT) and Cobham Satcom to provide connectivity to and from iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro devices. “A $450 million investment from Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund provides the critical infrastructure that supports Emergency SOS via satellite for iPhone 14 models. Available to customers in the US and Canada beginning later this month, the new service will allow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models to connect directly to a satellite, enabling messaging with emergency services when outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.” "In 2021, Apple announced an acceleration in its US investments, with plans to make new contributions of more than $430 billion over a five-year period." 2. How the SOS system works "When an iPhone user makes an Emergency SOS via satellite request, the message is received by one of Globalstar’s 24 satellites in low-earth orbit traveling at speeds of approximately 16,000 mph. The satellite then sends the message down to custom ground stations located at key points all over the world." "The ground stations use new high-power antennas designed and manufactured specifically for Apple by Cobham Satcom in Concord, California. Cobham’s employees engineer and manufacture the high-powered antennas, which will receive signals transmitted by the satellite constellation. Along with communicating via text with emergency services, iPhone users can launch their Find My app and share their location via satellite when there is no cellular and Wi-Fi connection, providing a sense of security when off the typical communications grid." "Once received by a ground station, the message is routed to emergency services that can dispatch help, or a relay center with Apple-trained emergency specialists if local emergency services cannot receive text messages." 3. Where is the SOS system available Emergency SOS via satellite is available in the US and Canada starting today, November 15, and will come to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December. Links: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-made-possible-by-450m-apple-investment/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/emergency-sos-via-satellite-available-today-on-iphone-14-lineup/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213426 https://ast-science.com https://investors.globalstar.com

Things discussed in the first pod is AI, our personal data, self driving cars. These ultimately all are future technologies that will integrate more into our lives but we need to be mindful of the ethical challenges that we will face as we are exposed to these algorithms.

Links:

Infinite conversation: https://apple.news/AVYW7SCODTXuzAzx_4…

infiniteconversation.com by Giacomo Miceli

Deepfake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake

AI in Medicine: https://apple.news/AwBd4E8HwQq6bZ6GxZ…

P-value: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/…

Protein folding: https://foldingathome.org/?lng=en

Self driving car: Tesla Legal issues: https://apple.news/AHRjYrJuLTTaKemQH8…

Self driving Car making ethical choice: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…

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November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

Open-source Dick detecting AI saves humanity

The company behind the popular dating/social app, Bumble, have released an open-source project to detect mens penis’s that are being sent to the DMs. They have released this open-source project to help combat sexual harassment that run amuck in the this filthy digital space.

Now I wonder how they were able to obtain their training dataset for the Artificial Intelligence to learn from? How did they obtain consent of users to have their sexual organ saved and used by a company to build an application with? Does the machine doing the machine learning get harassed in the process?

Watch the Metro Minute on Youtube

Here’s the official release notes from Bumble: https://bumble.com/en-us/the-buzz/bumble-open-source-private-detector-ai-cyberflashing-dick-pics

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November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

iOS 16 Zero Day Vulnerability Patch Released

Apple has released a iOS 16 Security patch for a security vulnerability.

According to the official there was an ability for code to be executed with elevated permissions which could be used to run malicious code on a iPhone users phone. For more details on the security patch: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213489

Please update your iPhone to iOS 16.1