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BBT from 2020

Has High Quality Recordings of Our Shows

Breakmaster Cylinder composed and performs our theme music.

Cloud Prospecting 

Christy and Joe welcome 2 callers, Katie (not Cindy) and Bette.  along with iOS 15 even on the iPhone 6s

Call anytime! 775-241-3571 and set up a time to battle your tech!

 

  1. Katie wonders about EPIK breach who got what information how. We talk about out the parts of the internet come together to make a website or service available on the Internet.
  2. Bette has decided that she needs to put an app on her iPhone. We also tell her how to take an app off…just in case.

“What do we say before every update? BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP”

“Domains, Servers, and Hosts” 

“It’s Like Whack-A-Mole

“You Need Four Things To Be On the Web. Well,  Really Three” 

“Do You Remember Popsicle Sticks?”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


Facetime

Video calling previously only on iOS products.

Epik

Network Attached Storage. One or more hard drives or storage devices are connected and accessible by a network. More on TechTerms

AWS

Amazon Web Service allows folks to host their content on the internet. Where most of the “cloud” (a term for the computer resources on the internet) lives.

DOX

Short for Documented. When a person’s personal information such as home address and phone is published on the web. Usually unwanted, often illegal. It is almost always against the terms of use of the service used to publish. 

Side Loading

Getting apps on a phone or protected device outside of the official channel or store for the device. 

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Tuesdays 8 PM Pacific 95.1 FM

Streaming LIVE and on-demand at KNVC.ORG

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775-241-3571

Measuring the Web

Christy and Joe welcome callers Katie, and Bette.

Call anytime! 775-241-3571 and set up a time to battle your tech!

 

  1. Katie asks about the Epic security breach.
     
  2. Bette isn’t sure about putting apps on her phone.
     

“Audio Hesitant”

 

“Remember Popsicle Sticks?” 

 

“Four Things You Need to Get A Website Up…Well, Three.”

 

 

 

BATTLE PLANS


FaceTime

A chat app on the Apple iOS that recently allowed Android users to participate by opening a link on their phone’s Chrome browser sent by an iOS Facetime user. No App is available for Android at this time. More at howtogeek

Anonymous

A group of hacktivists (computer using activists) that are informally link together for cyberattacks against government, organizations, or companies exposing activities the disapproved by the group.

Epik

A Internet Service company that hosts internet services that other providers decline to serve due to their controversial or harmful content. Ron Monster is CEO

Registar

A provider of the “human name” for websites which are aliases for groups of numbers that specify a server where the website is stored.

DNS

Domain Name service, the “yellow pages” that keeps track of all the website names registered by Registars and the actual IP addresses they point to.

Side Load

Putting apps on your device without using the official store or procedures of the phone’s operating system provider.

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Tuesdays 8 PM Pacific 95.1 FM

Streaming LIVE and on-demand at KNVC.ORG

Call

775-241-3571