222: Meta Pays $18B for Kids Data, Fake 49ers WR Scams $1.3M, Is Gen Z Soft?

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[00:00:00] HD: There are people that I remember from Tech Twitter four or five years ago that did not invest in their careers with the help, and they still asking how to get into cybersecurity and other things. When now it's harder for you because you wasted time playing around when the people who wanted to do it, they went out there and did it.

[00:00:14] soundrop: Mm-hmm.

[00:00:23] HD: Uh, but, uh, yeah. I don't know if you saw my post, but I was showing how the people have been showing love to the new channel.

[00:00:32] cybershortieee: Ay.

[00:00:33] HD: Like, we are at... And people might say, "Well, you know, YouTube changed how the views." Like, I don't care what they changed. The people rocking with the content 'cause they like it. We are at

[00:00:46] HD: Let me switch the accounts real quick. So we only got 160, 163 subs, but we at 1.7k views on the last episode.

[00:00:55] cybershortieee: I saw that. I s- actually, when I saw it, it was at 900. So look at, looky, looky, looky, sucky, sucky. [00:01:00] Mm-hmm,

[00:01:02] HD: yep.

[00:01:03] cybershortieee: Keep, keep pulling up on us, y'all, for real.

[00:01:05] HD: Yeah. But like I said, my s- my strategy is, is, is working.

[00:01:08] HD: Uh, let me go ahead do our josh real quick.

[00:01:11] soundrop: You are now watching The Test Will Talk, hosted by HD

[00:01:20] soundrop: and Son Shorty. Hit the

[00:01:20] HD: like button. I don't even know what's on the background of this one. Just

[00:01:22] cybershortieee: knowing these little people behind these voices just makes it even funnier.

[00:01:26] HD: Yeah. Y'all

[00:01:26] cybershortieee: heard, y'all heard the girls.

[00:01:28] HD: But, um, but nah, I thought that's cool. That's happening. We got a lot of stuff going on, a lot of different topics we talking about.

[00:01:36] HD: I know last time we kinda got, like, right into, like, all the fun stuff, but I know you were asking me about... I guess we briefly talk about Joe and Donell versus.

[00:01:45] cybershortieee: Yes, sirsky. So I listened to it live as it was actually going, going. I was on my way home from the gym, called my god sister, we were on FaceTime, and we listened to it together.

[00:01:57] cybershortieee: I went from washing dishes, cooking dinner, [00:02:00] to getting in the tub, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Um, I do think Donell vocally has better skills and capabilities, but I'm not holding that against him because I think that it's been a while for him since he's been out here just vocally performing. Joe has been on tour for the last f- several years, um, and he always has something going on, so his voice is, it doesn't really get much rest.

[00:02:23] cybershortieee: Um, but despite that, I still enjoyed it. I, I don't feel like it was a versus where I was like, "Ugh, he sound terrible, he sound terrible. I'm waiting on the next round, the next song." I, I had a good time. I was vibing. They looked good. They was acting like gentlemen. They was being kind and respectful to each other.

[00:02:40] cybershortieee: They were showing each other love. I think that it was a versus showing how Black men can really get along and just have a good time.

[00:02:49] HD: Um, I mean-

[00:02:50] cybershortieee: Here, here go. Here he go. Here he go ...

[00:02:52] HD: I think it depends, though. I think they are, I'm gonna say Donell and Joe should be Gen X, I think.

[00:02:57] cybershortieee: Sure.

[00:02:58] HD: If y- if anybody knows, [00:03:00] most of the R&B, like, niggas are very competitive.

[00:03:02] HD: They- They, they

[00:03:02] cybershortieee: are ...

[00:03:03] HD: they will fight. They will actually f- But

[00:03:04] cybershortieee: they, but they wasn't acting like that.

[00:03:06] HD: No, no, no, no, no, let me finish, though. The modern ones will fight more than the rappers. Yeah. They, the rappers are more scary than the R&B dudes. The R&B dudes is always the first to pop off, literally All the time.

[00:03:18] HD: So they're a little bit more competitive unless they're friends. Like, that's why, like for example, if we go back before Joe and Donell, we had Tank and Tyrese, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.

[00:03:31] cybershortieee: That was a good one still.

[00:03:32] HD: And they were playing around like- Yeah ... trust me, like if it was somebody who Tank wasn't, like, just really close

[00:03:37] cybershortieee: with- But both of them are very cocky men, too.

[00:03:39] cybershortieee: Yeah. Like, when it comes to their craft and, and music being their art. Yeah. So, yeah.

[00:03:43] HD: And I think you got a right to be, I mean both of they, but more so when you Tank, when you can sing and write hits for others- Yeah ... you have a reason to be that cocky. I mean, if you wanna- Did you

[00:03:52] cybershortieee: enjoy it? Yes or no?

[00:03:53] HD: I didn't watch all of it.

[00:03:54] HD: Oh my God. I was watching it here and there. Um, so, like, like by the time- So,

[00:03:57] cybershortieee: like, did you watch like 10 minutes of it or less?

[00:03:59] HD: Like, I [00:04:00] did, but by the time I got into it, like Donell had already, um-

[00:04:03] cybershortieee: Took his clothes

[00:04:03] HD: off ... did... No, he had already did, uh, knocked me off his feet. And I didn't know he had on some shapewear, so that also was affecting his breathing.

[00:04:08] HD: Okay,

[00:04:08] cybershortieee: why do y'all keep saying that? Somebody else said that to me. Why do y'all keep saying that?

[00:04:12] HD: Because that can affect your breathing. You ever tried to- Yeah ... you ever tried to run with the little thing you wrap around your stomach?

[00:04:18] cybershortieee: It do ma- it do affect your breathing.

[00:04:19] HD: Yeah, so your diaphragm, all that.

[00:04:20] HD: So that's an- it sound like he was

[00:04:22] cybershortieee: trying- It's called

[00:04:23] HD: a waist trainer. Well, no, no, no. It's two different ones. A belly

[00:04:25] cybershortieee: band?

[00:04:25] HD: One of them is just a, a thing that, um, it's a certain type of fat that's on your stomach that's different from everywhere else, and it helps it sweat. That's not a waist trainer, that's just something that helps you sweat.

[00:04:32] HD: Oh, just like a

[00:04:33] cybershortieee: sweatband. Yeah.

[00:04:33] HD: The other waist trainer y'all got to- ... pull in from Kentucky and, and the East Coast

[00:04:39] cybershortieee: and- Man, please ... with

[00:04:39] HD: all that. But, like, when I was listening to him, it sound like he was in and out. He couldn't hit it, 'cause it seemed he didn't have no voice.

[00:04:43] cybershortieee: I think I, I, to me, from what I took and also, like, the f- the very first half of it, I was not physically watching.

[00:04:50] cybershortieee: I was listening, 'cause I was washing dishes. But it, I thought he was having some mic issues. It sounded like he maybe, and I don't think this is true, but, [00:05:00] 'cause everybody gotta do mic check, but it sounded like he did not do mic check, and Joe did mic check, which I don't think is true. But-

[00:05:06] HD: Um- ...

[00:05:06] cybershortieee: something was going on with

[00:05:08] HD: his mic

[00:05:08] HD: it's

[00:05:08] cybershortieee: always- But somebody else, and it was a man, told me he had on shapewear. Yeah. And I, I don't freaking remember who it was. They pulled it out. But I'm like, he did look nice, slim and trim in that outfit. Like, it fit him perfectly. As a woman who wears shapewear, I was like, "I could see. I could see." Like, after the thought was put in my head, I could see.

[00:05:29] HD: Yeah, it be like that. That top was fitting him to the T. I mean, it's a lot of, it's a lot of guys with, like, a lot of loose skin, they be having to wear that stuff. But, um, but if you think about it, if we go back to the origin of the shadiness of Versus, you go directly back to Babyface and Teddy Riley.

[00:05:42] cybershortieee: I need to go back and re-watch that, 'cause I don't remember.

[00:05:44] HD: The shade in that one is- Like, 'cause Babyface-

[00:05:48] cybershortieee: Babyface

[00:05:49] HD: and- ... shade, it's gonna be shade- Yeah ... without, like- It's gonna be some casual shade. Yeah. Like, he was just shading him the whole time. Like, "Yeah, you know, I casually wrote this and I gave it to Michael," or, uh, you know, "I did something with it." [00:06:00] So, like, that's the difference between the shade, and that's what actually made it so funny.

[00:06:05] cybershortieee: That's funny.

[00:06:06] HD: Um, so also what I would also, uh, go into that is, like, if you think about like, uh- Okay, but

[00:06:10] cybershortieee: pause. From what you heard, did you enjoy it?

[00:06:12] HD: I mean, it sound good. I'm mad that I didn't get to see my... They say this is a big rich town.

[00:06:17] cybershortieee: When he brought 50 out. Mm. That's when I real got, I went real hype.

[00:06:19] cybershortieee: I wanna

[00:06:19] HD: get to know you. But that's what I'm saying. People... That's why I say I was being funny if somebody come up-

[00:06:24] cybershortieee: But, but I did, but it was, like, good song after good song on each- But

[00:06:28] HD: you have to- On each side ... but you have to understand, too, all the artists, even, like, if we talk about some of the artists that came out in, like, 2009 on now, like, if we, if we, if we stick to, like, the last people we just listened to earlier, we was talking about, like, the Jeremihs, the Drakes, Wale's, all of them had to, at the beginning, make very good music.

[00:06:47] HD: It wasn't like now, you could just put out a two-minute song and go hit on TikTok.

[00:06:51] soundrop: Yeah.

[00:06:52] HD: With that being said That's the reason why it's all high quality. Back then it was expensive to record. You couldn't just get your phone to go [00:07:00] record. Yeah. That's why the quality is better. That's why, think about it, you had people making no skip records.

[00:07:05] HD: Mm-hmm. 'Cause skipping on none of no vinyl. So that's the reason behind all that, so I don't know. But-

[00:07:14] cybershortieee: I enjoyed it ... I

[00:07:14] HD: enjoyed it.

[00:07:15] cybershortieee: I'm still Team Joe, though. Darnell did his big one, though. I'm not a, I'm not a hater. Usually when it- But guess what? You know- Usually when it be a verse, I do be a hater to the other side.

[00:07:23] HD: Have you seen the rumblings of the next Verzuz allegedly?

[00:07:27] cybershortieee: Um, I feel like I did. Who was it?

[00:07:29] HD: Ginuwine and Avant.

[00:07:30] cybershortieee: I don't wanna see that. I- That's not a good combo.

[00:07:33] HD: I don't think-

[00:07:33] cybershortieee: The, the, the, the...

[00:07:35] HD: I think it would be.

[00:07:36] cybershortieee: No.

[00:07:37] HD: I think it would

[00:07:38] cybershortieee: be. 9:00. He got other s-

[00:07:39] HD: Hold on. He got other something go. He can do, uh, I Need a Girl Part 2.

[00:07:44] cybershortieee: Paging you.

[00:07:45] HD: Mm-mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm,

[00:07:47] cybershortieee: mm,

[00:07:48] HD: mm,

[00:07:48] cybershortieee: mm, mm,

[00:07:49] HD: mm, mm. Wishing you'd come over. What song is that? I Need a Girl Part 2 with Diddy.

[00:07:52] cybershortieee: I Need a Girl. Right by my- That's

[00:07:54] HD: the first one ...

[00:07:54] cybershortieee: what's the second one?

[00:07:56] HD: Uh. Do, mm, do, do, do, [00:08:00] do. Go ahead, bounce with me real quick.

[00:08:02] cybershortieee: I'm not

[00:08:02] HD: thinking about- I need a woman. Mm, do, do, do.

[00:08:03] HD: I'm thinking about Bad Boy, so. Listen. China, ee, mm, met him. Loon and Ginuwine. What I need. I like, but one more. I'm on number one. Hey, matter of fact, if you would- This

[00:08:14] cybershortieee: is what I need ...

[00:08:15] HD: matter of fact, if you would. That

[00:08:16] cybershortieee: song? Yeah. I need a girl that's right by, right by me.

[00:08:19] HD: It's, it's two of them. The first one was with Usher.

[00:08:21] cybershortieee: Okay. That's the one with Usher.

[00:08:22] HD: Yeah. I like the one with Usher better.

[00:08:24] cybershortieee: That's the one with Usher that I keep singing. '

[00:08:26] HD: Cause he go on the end, I just want you to be my baby. Mm, mm. I like that one better. I say that he sing it better. I feel like the beat is better. Like, I like that one better

[00:08:35] cybershortieee: personally. But as soon as they play Phone Sex by S- by Avant, he won, so bye.

[00:08:39] cybershortieee: I'm, I'm going to tune in, but as soon as they play that.

[00:08:42] HD: Yeah, but s- I think, uh, it's tough because the thing with Verzuz is, like, I th- Avant probably may be stronger vocally, but Ginuwine is not a slouch voca- vocally.

[00:08:52] cybershortieee: If he finna get up there and he finna act how he be acting on stage.

[00:08:57] HD: Shoot, Ginuwine gonna hit the- If

[00:08:58] cybershortieee: he be, if he gonna act how he was acting when [00:09:00] he was with TNT-

[00:09:01] HD: I don't think so

[00:09:02] HD: please. But he definitely gonna hit the, uh, Same Ol' Jeans, the little Chip Skylark dance.

[00:09:05] cybershortieee: Same ol' jeans. Oh, Ginuwine was popping when I was a kid. In Those Jeans.

[00:09:10] HD: That, but he can- Looking Good ... like that's what I'm saying. His songs are, like, the way that they're made, they're one of one. So if he go to do a Pony, like- But

[00:09:17] cybershortieee: all his songs- Mm

[00:09:18] cybershortieee: for real, is bangers.

[00:09:20] HD: Mm. Mm, mm. Hey. Like, if that come on.

[00:09:23] cybershortieee: Hey, dun, dun,

[00:09:25] HD: dun. Dun, dun. That, so that's why it's like-

[00:09:27] cybershortieee: I'm just a bachelor. Yeah.

[00:09:29] HD: Yeah. So when that drop, even though you can sing over there, you still be like, "Dang, what I'm gonna hit back with?" But,

[00:09:34] cybershortieee: but mostly all of Ginuwine's songs are bangers. Avant have some songs, but they're not all bangers.

[00:09:40] cybershortieee: A lot of the Black community like a lot of his songs, but every song is not a banger. But- G- every song by Ginuwine is a banger.

[00:09:48] HD: True. But the thing is, if you can't perform your songs good, it doesn't matter.

[00:09:52] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:09:53] HD: Because What people tend to happen, they trust the charts versus the performance, so that's what they tried to trust [00:10:00] when it came to Omarion versus Mario.

[00:10:02] cybershortieee: Please.

[00:10:02] HD: Even though-

[00:10:03] cybershortieee: I actually just re-watched that. That's one of my favorites to

[00:10:07] HD: re-watch. Speaking of, oh, speaking of, 'cause we gotta get into the show, Omarion has a show on-

[00:10:10] cybershortieee: I don't wanna watch it.

[00:10:11] HD: No, no, no. I promise to God. I promise to God. It's on All Black. I forgot what it's called, like Rose something, but he's like a, he's like a assassin or something.

[00:10:19] cybershortieee: Oh, it's a, it's, he's acting.

[00:10:21] HD: It's-

[00:10:21] cybershortieee: No, I've, I've seen, I've seen it on Tubi, I think. I seen it somewhere.

[00:10:26] HD: It's on, so I know it to be a part of s- uh, network called, uh, Black on Prime, and I was shocked. Or

[00:10:31] cybershortieee: maybe that's where I seen it.

[00:10:32] HD: I was shocked. It's a well-shot show. It ain't no Tubi stuff. No, I thought

[00:10:36] cybershortieee: you was talking about a reality show.

[00:10:37] HD: No, no, no. It's not a Tubi show where they- He's an actor ... they be like, they shooting with iPhones. Being a character. The name McGraw Ave.

[00:10:41] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[00:10:42] HD: Like, it's, it... I promise you, you gonna be like, "This is actually decently shot. Like, this ain't bad."

[00:10:46] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[00:10:47] HD: So his brother's in it, Omarion's in it, uh, King Carreon's in it, and some other people.

[00:10:52] HD: So, uh, it, it's pretty decent, but I'ma go ahead and going to let you do your intro to the show real quick.

[00:10:57] cybershortieee: All right, y'all. Welcome back to Textual Chatter. [00:11:00] I'm Cyber Shorty. We have HD in the building, and episode 218 has a theme whether we wanted it to or not. 10 stories this week, and almost every single one is the same trick in a different costume.

[00:11:13] cybershortieee: Something built to help you is the thing that got turned against you: rogue AI, a busted enterprise platform, a fake video game, spy glasses at the club. Buckle up. We call this one Double Edge. Let's get into it.

[00:11:29] HD: All right. But we are back, and we got Cyber Shorty across from me, and I'm HD. We already did our soundbites, but I think the first one I wanna get into that's gonna get people going, ChatGPT career advice.

[00:11:46] cybershortieee: Let's get it.

[00:11:47] HD: And I know when y'all hear that, y'all are thinking, like, "What is this man talking about?" Well, I was on Threads, and y'all know I always stay on Threads, and this guy was coming at bees. And matter of [00:12:00] fact, let me go get the stuff now to, to show y'all exactly what I'm talking about. All right, so it's this dude, his name is, if you wanna look him up on Threads, Edumate, E-D-U-M-A-T-E.

[00:12:11] HD: And so he said, "Folks, please stop letting the ATL cybersecurity space cadet ladies to take thousands of dollars for simple guidance. Here's your path to an entry-level job that pays correctly. Certs, only three, CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNA, and Microsoft SC-200. Create your lab before interview, a SIEM SOC lab, an Active Directory plus incident response lab."

[00:12:36] HD: And I said, "What is this job the roadmap for?" And this how I knew he was using AI. He proceeds to give me this list of, like, several roles, information security analyst, network security analyst, junior cyber security analyst, cyber defense analyst, security operations analyst, cyber security operations analyst, junior network security- Oh, my God

[00:12:53] HD: engineer. These are all literally, like, most of the same roles. And I said, let me [00:13:00] zoom in again, "I think that's a decent path." Try to make it bigger. There we go. I think that's a decent path, but that SC200 is too vendor-perspi- pacific, especially for people that's starting off. It's cool if you want to work at Microsoft shops, but also I think the lab advice is very vague because what these people want to actually know is what to have in their environment or how it translates to a real enterprise environment.

[00:13:26] HD: He proceeds to say... Let's see what he said, told me. "You are correct, but remember this is entry level. Once you know one aptitude, employers can train you on preference. Like anything else, you know SQL, your employer trains you on Python. You can't learn everything at once. Employers know that. When you have a company hiring 100 or more, you whip understand."

[00:13:48] HD: I'm like, "I don't know what he's talking about." And I was telling him- I'm

[00:13:51] cybershortieee: sorry, that just made me roll my eyes so hard.

[00:13:53] HD: And I was like, "Here's the thing. Outside the government sector, entry level talent is not being trained anymore. The real entry level roles are few and [00:14:00] far between, which is why our practical certs, uh, which is why our practical certs that companies..."

[00:14:05] HD: Where is it at?

[00:14:11] HD: Yeah. I said practical certs that companies recognize are really the best bang for your buck. That's what I said. And he told me false information and I said it's not. Been doing this long enough. The brief window for certs and transferable skills closed in 2022. And he told me I've been doing it long enough.

[00:14:27] HD: It's not enough to be an expert to be able to connect the dots. You are a work soldier, not an innovator. The ones that make the rules might not have your credential, but under job rotation are what works. Also, these companies follow NIST protocol anyway. No point going back and forth

[00:14:46] HD: And I just told him, "You're just talking, bro. You could have asked exactly what I've been doing, and I would have told you what I know." And he said okay. After that, he blocked me.

[00:14:55] cybershortieee: I'm dead. I'm literally dead.

[00:14:57] HD: Yeah. Yeah, after that he blocked me, so I was just like-

[00:14:59] cybershortieee: You [00:15:00] pissed him off.

[00:15:01] HD: It wasn't... It was somebody else, too, that came on there.

[00:15:03] HD: It was like, "Bro, at least she has stuff that's not ChatGPT, um, advice," because literally that's what you're giving. You don't know what you're doing because when you went and said, "Oh, everybody's following this protocol," I'm just like you don't even know it's different variances of NIST. You just said NIST.

[00:15:18] HD: And I'm just saying that because everybody is looking for the cheap and free way, but realize AI's empowering people to play with you because they don't even know. They're just asking AI questions, and you have to validate that. So even on the stuff that I help people with when it comes to prep, I'm still validating the stuff that I'm asking them even if AI presented it to me.

[00:15:37] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[00:15:38] HD: And that's what these people don't understand how to do.

[00:15:41] cybershortieee: Yeah, I mean, you can tell from the response that you was saying. I mean, when you use AI tools enough, you can spot it. You can spot a AI response for the most... Especially one that ain't nobody cleaned up.

[00:15:53] HD: Yeah, he was like... I was like, "What do you mean I'm a work soldier?"

[00:15:56] HD: But the funny thing is like he just been like unhinged, been [00:16:00] hating on bees for no reason. Like, literally for no reason at all, hating, and I just never understood why.

[00:16:08] cybershortieee: You wanna be like her. You wanna be like you Bees ...

[00:16:11] HD: uh, he wants to sell something. Most people who just hate on Bees want something to sell.

[00:16:15] HD: They're not really... Because they don't have any other angle.

[00:16:18] cybershortieee: The funny part is, is she be giving out so much free game, it don't even always gotta end in a sale. So

[00:16:24] soundrop: that's how you know when somebody a salesman.

[00:16:27] HD: But e- even though I take it from that is s- just that a lot of people are not gonna be successful unless they pay some money.

[00:16:35] cybershortieee: No, that's the truth, especially today. Because everybody got it figured out, and there's so much mixed guidance out. And it's not that the mixed guidance is bad guidance, but what do you wanna do, you know? You need to get with somebody that can help you figure out what you need to specifically do to get there.

[00:16:53] cybershortieee: Because you can watch 50 videos and to do one thing, and you're gonna hear 50 different things. [00:17:00]

[00:17:00] HD: Yeah. No, that's, that's pretty much how it goes. But I don't know. If y'all follow Buddy on Threads, just go, when every post on, just say, "You're a loser."

[00:17:08] cybershortieee: Why you ain't text me and tell me this?

[00:17:10] HD: I forgot. I was actually doing...

[00:17:12] HD: It was like, it happened so fast I had to screenshot it 'cause I know I'm gonna be able to see it on my other phone. So I was lucky enough on my iPhone I was able to screenshot it. So if I was try to access from this phone, I wouldn't have been able. 'Cause you

[00:17:22] cybershortieee: know I just be talking about books on Threads.

[00:17:25] HD: But you're not- I

[00:17:26] cybershortieee: know this don't, I don't even be on Threads ...

[00:17:27] HD: yeah, 'cause that's what I'm saying. He just go out his way all the time. So I would say, you know what? I-

[00:17:30] cybershortieee: They mean on Threads. I don't think Threads is for me ...

[00:17:33] HD: people are losers. I put a- That,

[00:17:35] cybershortieee: that too ...

[00:17:35] HD: I put on X Threads is where losers go- ... to get their stuff out.

[00:17:39] HD: Because on X people will say, "That's not right."

[00:17:42] cybershortieee: Yeah. "

[00:17:42] HD: That doesn't make sense." Yeah. Because there's a lot more tech professionals that's on X.

[00:17:46] cybershortieee: A lot more. A lot more. Yeah.

[00:17:48] HD: And so that's the whole reasoning behind, behind that. And it wasn't even about, he really take no for... I'm like, "Bro, you're gonna talk about somebody, somebody wasting thousands, but you gave us seven of [00:18:00] pretty much the same roles with different title variations."

[00:18:02] HD: If you

[00:18:02] cybershortieee: don't have nothing better, shut up

[00:18:05] HD: He, I don't-

[00:18:05] cybershortieee: Put the shut

[00:18:06] HD: to the- But the thing is, I can't even verify what he is, who he is.

[00:18:08] cybershortieee: What movie is that? Put the shut to the...

[00:18:11] HD: I don't know. You tell me.

[00:18:12] cybershortieee: That's Madea. It's a Tyler Perry movie.

[00:18:14] HD: I didn't really care for a lot of the movies he made. It- I like him on Playman.

[00:18:17] HD: Put

[00:18:18] cybershortieee: the shut... Whatever, what... In the comments, what movie is that where Madea was like, "Put the shut to the up"? 'Cause I don't remember which movie, but it was definitely Madea.

[00:18:26] HD: Crazy. But, um, I'll let you go first.

[00:18:30] cybershortieee: All righty. So top of the morning... No, I'm just kidding. My article is talking about rogue AI.

[00:18:42] cybershortieee: 100-plus companies signed the letter. So picture this, over 100 of the biggest names in tech, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Big M, plus CrowdStrike, Okta, Fort- Fortinet, banks, internet-backed companies, all put their names on the same open letter. And the letter c- And the letter basically says, [00:19:00] "Y'all, AI-powered cyber attacks are about to get way worse, and we need government and companies to link up right now to defend against it."

[00:19:09] cybershortieee: Their words, "In the coming months, these attacks get far more widespread and sophisticated, and the stuff our communities run on, hospitals, water treatment, the actual plumbing of the internet, is at risk." Now, here's the part I need you to sit with. The companies sounding the alarm are the same companies that are building the thing they're scared of.

[00:19:30] cybershortieee: This letter didn't come out of nowhere. It comes from a wild run of incidents where AI agents were rogue and attacked companies on... Complete... And attacked companies on their own. The one everybody's talking about is the Hugging Face break-in, where one of OpenAI's agents reportedly broke out of its sandbox and went after the company, and there have been others tied to agents from the labs too.

[00:19:59] cybershortieee: [00:20:00] A regular AI you prompt, and it answers, that's an AI agent. Now, an, as an AI agent- You'll be able to give a goal, maybe a set of tools, a browser, a terminal, the ability to run co- uh, to run code in your environment, and it goes, and it's basically gonna take action on its own to hit that goal. Now, the autonomy is the whole point, and it's also the whole problem.

[00:20:27] cybershortieee: When the thing that can act by itself, if it does something that we didn't tell it to do, it stops being a bug, and that starts being more of a headline, which is what we see in this scenario. So the double edge here is right at the top, the same frontier AI that these companies are selling as, quote-unquote, "defense."

[00:20:48] cybershortieee: OpenAI's got a cyber program. Anthropic's got one. Uh, Big M's got one. They are the frontier AI that's showing up on the offensive side, same coin, and the [00:21:00] letter is basically asking, "Can we build a collective response before this gets away from us?" So my honest read for you is that this is a market when the people that are selling the cure are the people describing the disease.

[00:21:14] cybershortieee: You take the warning seriously, and you keep your receipts. Um, I think it was shocking that 100-plus companies came together because companies don't typically come together for anything. So for 100-plus companies to come together and say, "Hey, we're all scared of what type of AI threats can potentially bring us down," I think that that's something very important for us to kinda sit on for a minute.

[00:21:40] HD: Yeah, no, I think that, um... So one of thing that my notes said, and let me see. Give me a quick second

[00:21:49] HD: It told me that, like, the paradox of AI governance, the exact lab sounding an alarm are simultaneously commercializing the antidotes.

[00:21:58] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm. That's-

[00:21:58] HD: Is this j- like you said, is [00:22:00] this genuine public safety advocacy or the AI frontier labs engineering a regulatory moat to cement themselves as indispensable?

[00:22:07] cybershortieee: I think it's both, and I'll talk when you're done.

[00:22:10] HD: No, that's it. State-backed security monopolies.

[00:22:12] cybershortieee: I think it's both. I mean, America is a business. That's how it runs here. The w- it's a business. That's the economy. However, I do think that with AI we have not even began to think about how serious the risk are.

[00:22:27] cybershortieee: We just saw what happened with the Hugging Face situation. We talked about that a couple weeks ago. But it, it's gonna get bigger and worse than that, and I think that, like they call for, what is the government going to do to help make sure that we're going to be okay long term? If we don't put something into place now, it's just...

[00:22:46] cybershortieee: Because it doesn't, you can't just put a law into place tomorrow. You know what I mean? So if we don't start now, we're just prolonging the effects, um, of, of this thing going rogue on us or going bad or going south or [00:23:00] not really working out for the, for the best like we hope it to be.

[00:23:05] HD: Yeah. I don't know, man.

[00:23:08] HD: This, this AI talk is, uh, rather- It's not

[00:23:11] cybershortieee: going nowhere ...

[00:23:11] HD: rather interesting. Rather interesting, um, I may say. Um, that's what I would say. Um, but I actually wanna get back on something I think I talked about it solo, and I think we also talked about this too, was, uh, Meta.

[00:23:27] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:23:28] HD: The Meta $18 billion settlement- Mm-hmm

[00:23:29] HD: and the kids' data.

[00:23:30] cybershortieee: Can you please break it all the way down for the people in the back?

[00:23:36] HD: Let's do this, Johnny. All right, so

[00:23:44] HD: Meta reached a landmark eighteen billion dollar multi-state settlement with state attorney generals to resolve widespread litigation accusing Instagram and Facebook of deliberately designing addictive algorithms that harm youth mental health and harvesting data on children under thirteen [00:24:00] without verifiable parental consent, which I think all these things are Pandora's box.

[00:24:05] HD: But buried deep within the settlement, fine print is a critical privacy exemption. Meta is legally permitted to retain and process user data from children under thirteen specifically to train and refine its new U13 age model. This internal machine learning classifier is meant to detect underage users on Meta's platforms.

[00:24:27] HD: While the agreement especially bans Meta from using the data for targeted advertising or recommendation engines, state attorney generals essentially granted Meta a liability pass on certain COPPA, which stands for Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, claims for this specific retention scope. Now, the FTC notably declined to sign off or endorse the settlement terms, leaving Meta open to separate federal enforcement actions and public scrutiny regarding data retention boundaries.

[00:24:57] HD: So let's try to debate the [00:25:00] ethical trade-offs of modern privacy law. Should tech conglomerates be granted legal immunity to retain system children's data as long as they label it as safety machine learning project? Does this set a dangerous precedent where user surveillance is simply rebranded as algorithm safety research?

[00:25:19] HD: And I agree, the people can always tell you what they're gonna do one thing with the data- Exactly ... and do something else.

[00:25:23] cybershortieee: I was gonna say that same thing.

[00:25:25] HD: And I think the only way to rectify this is, like, do not let your young kids on.

[00:25:28] cybershortieee: Is that the end of the article?

[00:25:30] HD: Yeah.

[00:25:31] cybershortieee: I think that, um, it's sick that they built a model to be able to detect the thing that they shouldn't really truly be detecting much on.

[00:25:42] cybershortieee: Um, but I think that I learned about COPPA in school. Um, it's the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and it's the main US law protecting kids' data online. And the whole thing of that is data minimization, kind of like what you said. Mm-hmm. [00:26:00] But do you know how much data they got on these kids? 'Cause first of all, these kids don't...

[00:26:04] cybershortieee: They're online. And then another thing is, is, is, I mean, it's not, it's gonna be skewed because it's for folks that are marking that they're 13. You know what I mean?

[00:26:15] HD: Mm-hmm.

[00:26:16] cybershortieee: But if you say you're 17 or 18-

[00:26:19] HD: Yeah, so that's the- ...

[00:26:20] cybershortieee: you, and, and I, it's, it's, it's as easy as me choosing a different year, buddy.

[00:26:24] HD: Yeah.

[00:26:25] HD: The, I mean, that's what we usually do.

[00:26:26] cybershortieee: Yeah, uh, absolutely.

[00:26:27] HD: I, I forgot, what'd I sign up? But how, oh, I forgot my password is. I

[00:26:30] cybershortieee: probably was born in '85.

[00:26:32] HD: But that, but I think the only way, and this is a backfire too, the AI thing when it check your age.

[00:26:38] cybershortieee: We talked about that, is to put in the verifications, but then what are y'all doing to protect the data that we're giving you to verify who we are legitimately?

[00:26:45] HD: Right. But, but can AI really tell if somebody's under 13?

[00:26:50] cybershortieee: It says it can. I think it can't.

[00:26:53] HD: There are p- there are people, there were men... I'm sorry, there are boys and girls that are currently [00:27:00] 12 who look like they're 15,

[00:27:01] cybershortieee: 16. That's what I'm saying.

[00:27:03] HD: So how could AI tell? Or, or, or

[00:27:04] cybershortieee: people that are 27 who look like they're 15, 16.

[00:27:08] cybershortieee: So yeah.

[00:27:09] HD: I don't know, but that's a lot of money to try to say you're training some type of agent, and my guess is it's gonna be- This is

[00:27:15] cybershortieee: gonna set a precedent ...

[00:27:17] HD: it's gonna be, like, in their messages. I mean, Meta is already in your Facebook Messenger, um, their AI, so I mean, someone's gonna be able, touching everything, and it may be start touching everything they do on the phone too.

[00:27:28] HD: So keep in mind with whatever the phone people do. And I think that's the one thing Apple gots over everybody. Apple will not cooperate with the feds if you need to get in their phone.

[00:27:38] cybershortieee: That's why you need to get an iPhone. There's something

[00:27:40] HD: about- No, I'm just

[00:27:41] cybershortieee: kidding. I'm kidding,

[00:27:41] HD: guys. I'm kidding. I'm kidding

[00:27:42] HD: there's something about, with, uh, Durk. Durk turned his phone off, and so the people kept on trying to get into it, but Durk didn't give them access to get into his phone, so therefore they can't get into his phone.

[00:27:51] cybershortieee: Something happened re- oh, uh, that case, the crash, the, the, the Netflix documentary of the girl who was [00:28:00] driving- I ain't watch it

[00:28:01] cybershortieee: and then the boyfriend and his best friend died. Um, I was going somewhere with that. Wow.

[00:28:07] HD: She must've been on the phone, and she said she wasn't?

[00:28:09] cybershortieee: Um, wait, what were we just talking about? Sorry, I just saw the brain

[00:28:12] HD: fart. The Netflix crash. She killed her boyfriend and his friend.

[00:28:15] cybershortieee: But before that, I was gonna relate that to something that was in the

[00:28:18] HD: story.

[00:28:18] HD: Um-

[00:28:19] cybershortieee: Wow ...

[00:28:19] HD: I was just talking about, uh, Meta and being in your, your messages and all the other stuff.

[00:28:28] cybershortieee: I'll have to rewatch this and tell you. It'll come back to me.

[00:28:32] HD: Okay. We'll give you a chance. Um- What you got next?

[00:28:38] cybershortieee: Um, let's move into ServiceNow. So if you work anywhere near an, uh, enterprise IT shop, this one is maybe your homework.

[00:28:52] cybershortieee: So ServiceNow just dropped patches for three maximum security vulnerabilities in its AI platform, what they [00:29:00] call Now Platform. And before you tune out because it sounds super corporate, this platform powers more than 10,000 enterprise AI apps at 85% of the Fortune 500. When ServiceNow sneezes, a huge chunk of corporate America catches it.

[00:29:16] cybershortieee: Three flaws. One lets an attacker run their own code, code injection. One lets them jack up their permissions, privilege escalation, and one lets them read or change your data straight out of the database, SQL injection. Now, let's talk about these terms. Code injection is when the attacker sneaks their commands into a spot the app was expecting normal input to be put in, and so the app is able to run it.

[00:29:42] cybershortieee: SQL injection is the same trick, but it's actually aimed at the database, so now they're just reading or rewriting your records. And obviously privilege escalation is when they have climbed up to, um... Maybe let's say they started as nobody, and they climbed all the way up in [00:30:00] permissions to maybe one of your admins.

[00:30:02] cybershortieee: And then a fourth one, but the fourth one was what they patched, was a sandbox escape where the app is trying to keep code in a locked room, and the attacker walks out of the room into the real system. Um, that's scary actually. I'm not even gonna lie. Very, very scary. Um, so the line that should make you move, all three of the max flaws are exploitable by an authenticated attacker in a low complexity attack with no user interaction.

[00:30:31] cybershortieee: So that combination is actually a nightmare trifecta. So unauthenticated, meaning that they don't need to log in. Low complexity, meaning no special conditions, no genius set up. Um, no user interaction means no one has to click anything, open anything, um, or get phished. It just basically works, and that's the difference between patch it this sprint and patch it tonight.[00:31:00]

[00:31:00] cybershortieee: Now, ServiceNow says that they're not aware of active exploitation right now, and there's no evidence these are being hit in the wild yet. But history's not on the wait and see side here. Two years back, attackers chained three ServiceNow flaws together to break into companies and government agencies.

[00:31:20] cybershortieee: And just this July, another critical ServiceNow bug got exploited. The pattern is ServiceNow criticals get weaponized. Don't be the case study in this particular example. Um, so again, ServiceNow says that they are not currently aware of any malicious exploitation, and they urge you, of course, to complete your frap, your, um, patching and upgrading of any self-hosted instances that need any a- admin action.

[00:31:46] cybershortieee: Um, so just kind of keep this in mind. But we're starting to see that that AI platform layer is becoming the meatiest target, um, in a lot of the enterprise organizations these days. So as companies [00:32:00] are pushing forward into AI, into these different workflows, into these different platforms, those platforms are becoming the single point of failure for these particular companies

[00:32:14] HD: Nice.

[00:32:14] HD: And so when you were doing that, I was looking up what versions, versions I say it affects. And let's see. Um, ch- ch- ch- ch- ch. So-

[00:32:26] cybershortieee: I got the CVEs ...

[00:32:28] HD: yeah, I had them, but it wasn't giving me the version.

[00:32:30] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:32:31] HD: So on Thursday, ServiceNow addressed the high-severity sandbox escape security issue, CVE-20266876, affecting the same platform that could let attackers with basic privilege gain remote execution.

[00:32:44] HD: So it'll affect, I guess... I'm trying to see how this reads, 'cause it always says, like, release Xanadu, version updated, patch 11, hotfix CA. Yokohama. Yokohama.

[00:32:57] cybershortieee: Zurich.

[00:32:57] HD: Zurich. And Australia.

[00:32:58] cybershortieee: Yep, yep, yep. [00:33:00]

[00:33:00] HD: Yeah, okay, so that's pretty interesting. Uh, I definitely feel like people probably were busy with that today.

[00:33:07] cybershortieee: One thousand... On a Friday? Please. They gonna be busy today and tomorrow.

[00:33:12] HD: Well-

[00:33:12] cybershortieee: Do you remember Log4j?

[00:33:14] HD: Yeah.

[00:33:15] cybershortieee: Were you working?

[00:33:16] HD: I was working it, but I was not working it, if that make any sense.

[00:33:19] cybershortieee: I was working it and not working it also. Thank goodness.

[00:33:22] HD: I was on the sidelines. Thank goodness.

[00:33:24] cybershortieee: Same.

[00:33:24] HD: Not really.

[00:33:25] cybershortieee: I mean, like, I was, like, scanning for assets, but I wasn't-

[00:33:28] HD: At least you was doing that

[00:33:29] cybershortieee: I was scanning- I was literally

[00:33:30] HD: doing nothing ... but I wasn't doing

[00:33:30] cybershortieee: the patching. I was scanning and being like, "It's 10 here, 20 here, 12 here." I was scanning like that.

[00:33:36] HD: But I wasn't doing anything. They didn't even bother to invite me into-

[00:33:40] cybershortieee: Oh, to the, to the discussions ... to

[00:33:42] HD: any of the chats or nothing. You

[00:33:42] cybershortieee: had...

[00:33:43] cybershortieee: What, did you just start?

[00:33:45] HD: I had just started, but it wasn't, like, starting enough to where they couldn't say, "Hey, join this call- Yeah ... so you can see how we run incidents." Like, they didn't even do that. We was just on the sidelines not knowing what's going on.

[00:33:55] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:33:55] HD: So, now to have [00:34:00] fun, l- let's- Let's, let's test the Carhartt thing real quick.

[00:34:04] cybershortieee: Okay, bet, bet, bet.

[00:34:05] HD: And then we will, uh-

[00:34:08] cybershortieee: 12.9. Big Millie. A Millie, a Millie, a Millie, a Millie.

[00:34:13] HD: That made me start thinking about, "They call me Big Ellie."

[00:34:16] cybershortieee: Hey, Big-

[00:34:17] HD: No, they ain't calling that man no Big Ellie.

[00:34:19] cybershortieee: He definitely thought he ate that down.

[00:34:21] HD: No, but the song was initially meant for Will Smith, so it probably was first-

[00:34:25] cybershortieee: It definitely...

[00:34:25] cybershortieee: I could... One... I could see Will actually-

[00:34:29] HD: Yeah ...

[00:34:29] cybershortieee: per- like... That's Will's song.

[00:34:32] HD: Not

[00:34:32] cybershortieee: that

[00:34:32] HD: she's saying- They call me Big Willy ...

[00:34:33] cybershortieee: that's like...

[00:34:35] HD: Head sprung, I got to get your head sprung. That's

[00:34:37] cybershortieee: some Will Smith stuff, so.

[00:34:39] HD: You ever seen that video of the, like, the-

[00:34:41] cybershortieee: Because that was around the time that a movie came out where he had that allergic reaction.

[00:34:45] HD: Oh, you talking about, uh, Hitch?

[00:34:46] cybershortieee: Yeah. I feel like it was around that time.

[00:34:48] HD: I can't remember, but do you remember, um, the video when they had Head Sprung? It's like the Mexican grandpa with the, uh-

[00:34:55] cybershortieee: I don't remember the video. Please ...

[00:34:56] HD: you know I'm finna type it in.[00:35:00]

[00:35:02] HD: They got, mm, mm, in the club.

[00:35:07] cybershortieee: Mm,

[00:35:08] HD: mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Mm, mm, mm. Gotta get your head sprung. I, I

[00:35:12] cybershortieee: posted this on- That's such a lame song to just be putting on.

[00:35:15] HD: I like the beat.

[00:35:16] cybershortieee: Imagine y'all like out vibing for the night and somebody put that on. I'ma, I'ma be irie.

[00:35:21] HD: This right here. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on, I'm tryna

[00:35:28] HD: make it go to the beginning. Look at this

[00:35:33] cybershortieee: I'm the one in the b- I'm, I'm him.

[00:35:36] HD: Tryna act like that on the go.

[00:35:36] cybershortieee: I'm him. I f- I'm finna be him when I leave.

[00:35:40] HD: Mm, they went, uh, with the girls in the back. He was

[00:35:43] cybershortieee: talking about- Ay, he was hitting that. He was hitting that. That's me

[00:35:49] HD: But shoot, that make

[00:35:50] cybershortieee: me look good.

[00:35:51] cybershortieee: Y'all, HD is- It's gonna be a good, good one ... HD is not a dancer

[00:35:53] HD: Mm, mm.

[00:35:55] cybershortieee: He ain't even a-

[00:35:55] HD: Anybody watching

[00:35:55] cybershortieee: this know ... he not even a bopper

[00:35:57] HD: Why would I be? We have a term for [00:36:00] bopper, so don't say bopper

[00:36:01] cybershortieee: It's a b- is that a bad term?

[00:36:03] HD: Bop- boppers for us is like jump offs

[00:36:05] cybershortieee: Okay. No, he not a bopper. I meant like a, you know, like a...

[00:36:08] cybershortieee: I

[00:36:09] HD: don't, I mean, depending on what type of mood I'm in. Say

[00:36:12] cybershortieee: what? Say what? If you hear that right now.

[00:36:14] HD: I don't, that's not what a song to me. I don't care about the song. It ca- you know what's funny? It came on the other day when I was driving, After the Divorce is.

[00:36:20] cybershortieee: Don't say that's not a song for you. That's a good song.

[00:36:24] HD: Mm-hmm.

[00:36:24] cybershortieee: You know

[00:36:25] HD: that he my

[00:36:26] cybershortieee: man.

[00:36:27] HD: But the, I, but you know what's funny? But I know he, I know he sung Knocks Me Off My Feet, so all I could think about was when Jacquees butchered it.

[00:36:32] cybershortieee: What song?

[00:36:33] HD: Knocks Me Off... You don't remember when Jacquees sang, uh, Knocks Me Off My Feet?

[00:36:36] cybershortieee: By who?

[00:36:37] HD: Donell Jones.

[00:36:37] cybershortieee: No. I don't.

[00:36:40] HD: How you don't remember that?

[00:36:42] cybershortieee: Your face. I don't. I just don't remember that. I know he covered a lot of songs.[00:37:00]

[00:37:09] cybershortieee: Is he off beans?

[00:37:20] cybershortieee: No

[00:37:24] HD: The vibrato

[00:37:28] cybershortieee: is killing me Oh, but I love you. I love you. I love you.

[00:37:30] HD: My favorite Jacquees song is the one

[00:37:31] cybershortieee: where- Is it More and More, or did I make that up?

[00:37:33] HD: No, it is More and More.

[00:37:34] cybershortieee: Okay.

[00:37:35] HD: My favorite song of Jacquees is the one he have with Rich Homie Quan, Candy.

[00:37:38] cybershortieee: I like, I know you wanna love. You know the song with- I know you wanna...

[00:37:42] cybershortieee: No.

[00:37:42] HD: Yeah.

[00:37:42] cybershortieee: Candy?

[00:37:43] HD: It's like a, a sample of Cameo.

[00:37:46] cybershortieee: It's like, Candy. I think I might know what you're talking about. But my favorite song is the one I was just singing. Actually-

[00:37:52] HD: She don't... Uh, uh ... do you know

[00:37:53] cybershortieee: Persian Rugs?

[00:37:54] HD: I've n-

[00:37:55] cybershortieee: Hey. She can do-do, do-do, do-do, do.

[00:37:57] HD: That's Jacquees ...

[00:37:58] cybershortieee: do. I know which song you're talking about.

[00:37:59] cybershortieee: Yeah. I know what song you're talking about. I know that song. Speaking of, what happened to [00:38:00] De's Loaf? They had a

[00:38:01] HD: little...

[00:38:05] HD: I know. That made me think about Backup. She was crazy when Backup came out. Whoa, yeah, yeah. Backup off me. I know that was your song.

[00:38:12] cybershortieee: That was. That was.

[00:38:14] HD: But anyway, Carhartt data breach exposes 12.9 million accounts. Premium... My cousin love Carhartt. I can show you some of his videos. Like Carhartt, Carhartt,

[00:38:24] cybershortieee: uh, jacket.

[00:38:24] cybershortieee: I, I actually just found a really nice store to get some nice Carhartt stuff at, so yeah.

[00:38:28] HD: Car- Carhartt makes stuff for people that work in factories.

[00:38:31] cybershortieee: I mean, you know the hood love Carhartt. Mm-hmm. As of the last couple of years, the hood-

[00:38:36] HD: Mm-hmm ...

[00:38:36] cybershortieee: the hood love it.

[00:38:37] HD: Premium apparel maker Carhartt confirmed a catastrophic security incident involving the compromise of nearly 13 million customer and corporate records.

[00:38:44] HD: Extortion group ShinyHunters leaked a 50 gigabyte database archive on the dark web after Carhartt executive leadership flatly refused to pay a $3.3 million extortion demand. Troy Hunt, founder of Have I Been Pwned, verified that the leak originated [00:39:00] from the compromise of Carparts, Carhartt's cloud-hosted Databricks data analytics platform.

[00:39:06] HD: The exfiltrated data encompasses 12.9 million unique customer records, including full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical delivery addresses, and customer loyalty metadata, as well as valid login credentials for over 15,000 corporate Carhartt employee accounts. Carhartt's internal incident response team took a firm stance informing the threat actors via written communication that after leadership consultation the company would not negotiate or facilitate ransom payments.

[00:39:36] HD: So Carhartt pretty much refused to pay the ransom, and I think it worked against them because they were actually compromised for real And it happened with Databricks. Let's see. So it's talking about, um, yeah, Databricks and Snowflake where vast customer analytics data sits ag- aggregated in one place.

[00:39:58] HD: Hang on real quick. Let me message Erica [00:40:00] back.

[00:40:00] cybershortieee: I'm car hurt. We ain't paying nothing.

[00:40:04] HD: But, um, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. But yeah, so in the instance, if you refuse, you gotta be willing to deal with whatever happens afterwards

[00:40:16] cybershortieee: That's why most people pay. Especially, I feel like from, from our conversations over the last couple of years, um, the medical industry-

[00:40:29] HD: Mm-hmm

[00:40:31] cybershortieee: is one that is very quick to pay that ransom. And they'll pay it silently, they'll pay it out loud, but they will pay it because they want to get that data back and to get them systems up and running as soon as possible because things are on the line in that sector. Um, I can't speak for others, but manufacturing and healthcare is where I feel like we've talked a lot about it and we've seen it be paid.

[00:40:57] cybershortieee: Like the JBS thing, that meat [00:41:00] factory, the railroad thing, um, this.

[00:41:04] HD: And you know, a lot of times, the 3.3 or whatever price it is, it's an admission of guilt that we got go- caught. Now, you're gonna do it worse because if the... Now, the thing is-

[00:41:16] cybershortieee: That's a

[00:41:16] HD: lot of money ... did anybody validate that the information was true?

[00:41:20] HD: Like, let me go back to the article.

[00:41:21] cybershortieee: Think about how you have a perfectly known good backup, let's just say this, and you can access all of your data, and you can get your systems up and running, but you don't verify any of that. You just get scared in the moment- Mm-hmm ... and you pay that ransom. And that's, that's the case for some organizations, not all.

[00:41:37] cybershortieee: I'm hoping that they're bringing in the right folks, and this is why I can't wait to go to law school, I swear to you, because I really wanna be in on the conversations and what's going on during that negotiation piece when there's something going on in the organization.

[00:41:50] HD: Yeah. I think m- maybe, so what maybe happens is two or one of two things could possibly happen.

[00:41:57] HD: Maybe their internal team did not do a good enough [00:42:00] job of proving where the actual compromise took place. And,

[00:42:05] cybershortieee: and maybe they don't know how.

[00:42:07] HD: That is possible too.

[00:42:08] cybershortieee: Okay. It's not that they just don't.

[00:42:11] HD: No.

[00:42:11] cybershortieee: Maybe they, uh- No, no, no ... they didn't because they don't know how. And I'm not saying that's the case for everybody, but there are organizations who are compromised, and folks don't know where to start.

[00:42:22] HD: No, trust me.

[00:42:22] cybershortieee: No, I'm serious. For... And because it's like, it's like a panic. Like I'm thinking about right now, if something was like, oh my God, I would be panicking. I would, I would go into a sense of panic.

[00:42:34] HD: Yeah. No, no. They, they didn't know how to do it. So-

[00:42:39] cybershortieee: I have, I have so many questions. I need to do some research because, like...

[00:42:44] cybershortieee: 'Cause I know they be paying, like, through Bitcoin and different things, but, like, who be like, "Yeah, we paying," and send it now?

[00:42:51] HD: Um, so what happens a lot of times according to your IR plan or whatever legal says do, that's gonna be written in the IR [00:43:00] process. Or-

[00:43:00] cybershortieee: And, and also, guys, the, the government is telling companies and organizations and enterprises to not pay the ransom because as we talked about, you can pay the ransom and they be like, "Ha ha, pay us some more."

[00:43:12] HD: Yeah, but that- that's the whole thing. In this case they didn't want the data back. They just said, "Hey, we not gonna release it."

[00:43:17] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:43:18] HD: If you want the data back, it's a little bit different. Or if it's a ransomware situation, I think you just say, "Hey, go get your backups and do what you do." That's what I think, because it's one of the things where the more and more you pay people, the more incentivized people gonna be, "Oh, shoot, 3.3.

[00:43:35] HD: We just need some script kiddies and we can go live." Mm-hmm. But see, them people can't leave well enough alone. They don't know how to hit for the 3 million and then stop. Yeah. Or similar to the guy when he, you know, he go raw dog Charles- ... and he won't stop, and so he eventually start having babies.

[00:43:53] cybershortieee: What?

[00:43:54] HD: It's the same thing.

[00:43:55] cybershortieee: I

[00:43:55] HD: understand. Except they go to jail.

[00:43:58] cybershortieee: Jail is crazy.

[00:43:58] HD: Raw dog Charles is the [00:44:00] name that they made for, um, your boy on, um, Meech, BMF.

[00:44:07] cybershortieee: I think I'm Big Meech. Ugh.

[00:44:11] HD: Yeah, Charles is going crazy. Charles is- Charles

[00:44:13] cybershortieee: is going, Charles is going insane. Charles is going insane.

[00:44:18] HD: Uh, so but to switch the topic and the mood, we're gonna react to the fake 49ers player.

[00:44:24] cybershortieee: Okay.

[00:44:25] HD: And I'm finna put him right here. And there we go. Sorry, got to move that. Do

[00:44:30] cybershortieee: I need to see or can I just listen?

[00:44:32] HD: You should be able to just listen 'cause it- Okay ... I mean, you'll be able to see.

[00:44:35] cybershortieee: I don't need to see nothing. I just need to listen.

[00:44:38] HD: It's 54 seconds. How

[00:44:38] soundrop: I got involved in the league and stuff like that.

[00:44:40] soundrop: I know it's difficult now since switching teams and stuff like that. These raps look crazy. Um, I just wanna keep this short and sweet, not get into too much detail as to how I got in the league, but just a little bit of short and sweetness. But I'm in my new McLaren, and it's just real touch and go. Right now I can't say because it's a conflict of interest as far as who I'm looking at now, [00:45:00] but right now you can call me a 49er.

[00:45:03] soundrop: Um, and we'll just leave it at that. I love the 49er organization, uh, faithful to the Bay. Even though I didn't get to play much, um, I would show you my finger. Matter of fact, I will. I wanna do trans- full transparency and show you my finger as to why I didn't get a chance to play. This is crazy, bro. I was behind the scenes on the sideline.

[00:45:19] soundrop: I went to the games with the team, away games and home games, practice, everything, team rooms, everything.

[00:45:29] soundrop: So this is my finger. I can't really fully bend it. I'm a lot better now than I was when it first broke

[00:45:35] HD: So I need to figure out is the exact story behind him. Let me find out real quick because it's hilarious. Man sentenced. I found another video of this. It's, uh, from ESPN. Man who posed as 49ers player faces federal fraud charges.

[00:45:52] HD: Federal authorities arrested and charged two men, one of whom repeatedly posed as a San Francisco 49ers player, for defrauding more than two dozen [00:46:00] women out of about $1.3 million. Ugh. According to the US Attorney's Office in the District of Oregon, in court documents, the FBI arrested Dejon Love, 35, and Taylor Jamy Chan, 18, on August 24th in Boise, Idaho, and charged the duo with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.

[00:46:20] HD: To commit... Oh, you can tell, you got the conspiracy to commit it and the actual wire fraud. Got it. Two separate charges. The US Attorney's Office said in a release that Love and Chan began their scheme in February 2022, with Love meeting multiple women through dating apps. In those dating profiles and on social media, Love created fictitious personas, including repeatedly presenting themselves as members of the 49ers or a wealthy real estate investor.

[00:46:45] HD: Among the pseudonyms Love used, John Love, Avril Lito Love, and Jordan Love. Jordan Love is funny because anybody who's familiar with the NFL, the starting quarterback of the Green Bay Packers' name is Jordan Love. [00:47:00] Those efforts spanned more than four years, with Love and Chan creating fictitious investments to defraud women in California, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.

[00:47:09] HD: Love would meet the women online, Chan posing as his financial advisor. Love convinced many of the victims they were in sincere romantic relationships with Love, that he was a sophisticated investor, and that Chan was his investment advisor who helped Love grow a fortune worth tens of millions of dollars.

[00:47:26] HD: The US Attorney's Office statement said Love had romantic relationships with many of the victims and told them he wanted to build wealth and a future together. Love advertised nonexistent investment vehicles and claimed these investments would generate massive returns for both him and his victims.

[00:47:42] HD: The statement said Love also used apps to create fake bank and investment accounts and balances, which he would show to victims to legitimize the scheme. To bolster those efforts, Love and Chan also exchanged messages about investment opportunities, with Chan posing as Love's advisor. Love would then share screenshots with the victims to [00:48:00] send money to either him or Chan.

[00:48:01] HD: According to the documents, some of the victims also loaned Love large amounts of money. And if they didn't have money to loan, he asked them to take out personal loans with the promise of repayment.

[00:48:12] cybershortieee: Personal loans is outlandish

[00:48:18] HD: I just had to hit that for that 'cause I'm like, "This is crazy," 'cause what do you mean by that?

[00:48:24] cybershortieee: What do you mean? What do you mean

[00:48:25] soundrop: by that?

[00:48:27] HD: Like, really?

[00:48:31] HD: So let's see. According to the US Attorney's Office, Love would block communications with women once they either ran out of money or asked too many questions. None of the victims interviewed say they received any money for their investment repayments or any account information. Financial records will show that Love and Chan received about 1.3 million from the 26 victims.

[00:48:50] HD: That's crazy. 26. The FBI... Divide 1.3 million, divide it by 26 and see how much money that is. The FBI-

[00:48:56] cybershortieee: Wait, wait, wait. What?

[00:48:57] HD: 1.3 million-

[00:48:59] cybershortieee: Yes, [00:49:00] by

[00:49:00] HD: 26 ... divided by 26.

[00:49:01] cybershortieee: Okay.

[00:49:01] HD: The FBI i- issued arrest warrants and criminal complaints against Love and Chan on August 17th, 2026 in Oregon. On Monday, Chan flew from California to meet Love in Boise, where the FBI and other law enforcement has arrested the duo at the Boise Airport.

[00:49:14] HD: Love and Chan are in federal custody in Boise. That's wild.

[00:49:18] cybershortieee: 50,000.

[00:49:21] HD: You got 26 women to give... You sure it's 50,000 a piece? Yeah, that's right, 'cause two people make 100,000, so then that'll make it, what? Um, 13?

[00:49:32] cybershortieee: You, you just told me to do basic math. No. I'm just, I'm just playing.

[00:49:34] HD: 100,000... Yeah, you right. I'm just playing. No, 100,000 times 13. You right. I, I was trying to see. Like, I felt like it was more than that when you broke it down, but no, that's, that's crazy.

[00:49:44] HD: Were these women in their right mind or were they just lonely? << Sick

[00:49:48] cybershortieee: of being

[00:49:50] HD: lonely >> I just feel bad for them, 'cause I'm like, how did you pay this man-

[00:49:56] cybershortieee: I don't- ...

[00:49:56] HD: that much money? ...

[00:49:57] cybershortieee: feel bad.

[00:49:59] HD: I don't feel [00:50:00] bad. I feel bad. I gotta know the demographics.

[00:50:01] cybershortieee: You shouldn't be paying no man no money.

[00:50:03] HD: But what's the demographic for these lady?

[00:50:05] HD: Bye. How old are

[00:50:06] cybershortieee: they? I don't, I don't, I don't care.

[00:50:08] HD: Somebody

[00:50:09] cybershortieee: grandma

[00:50:09] HD: now.

[00:50:09] cybershortieee: Okay. Okay, facts, but I still don't care. Like, at your... A grandma espe- Grandmas know. They, they was raised back then-

[00:50:17] HD: You gotta understand- ... on the

[00:50:17] cybershortieee: old school mentality ...

[00:50:18] HD: they va- they were valuing their loving over money.

[00:50:21] cybershortieee: Their... You said their what?

[00:50:23] HD: They were valuing their loving- Revaluing? No, they were valuing-

[00:50:26] cybershortieee: Were valuing ...

[00:50:28] HD: that loving over money. McLovin Disney said

[00:50:34] soundrop: I'm here to tell you right now- ... we don't care. Let me tell ... All right, let me tell you something.

[00:50:39] HD: We don't care. Jealous. But I just thought that was hilarious, though, that ... See, at first, I thought it was just he was posing as a fake NFL person.

[00:50:46] HD: I wanna know how many women he got with that because-

[00:50:48] cybershortieee: A lot ...

[00:50:49] HD: all you gotta do is Google, okay?

[00:50:52] cybershortieee: No, facts. One thou- I mean, active player, non-retired, uh, kicked off, [00:51:00] fired. You know, like, you can figure it out quickly.

[00:51:02] HD: If, if so, if he gave you a fake name- For anybody ... like, okay, this is- Picture ... Okay.

[00:51:05] cybershortieee: No,

[00:51:06] HD: no,

[00:51:06] cybershortieee: no, no, no, picture.

[00:51:07] cybershortieee: Let's talk ... Well,

[00:51:08] HD: come on, let's

[00:51:08] cybershortieee: break it

[00:51:08] HD: down. Let's say- Break it down ... let's say this is a hostile takeover- ... book two, and Ariana meets a f- a football or a person that's supposed to be a football player. What would you advise her to do?

[00:51:18] cybershortieee: I would advise her to call one of her friends that's nosy woesy.

[00:51:22] HD: Who, Evan?

[00:51:22] cybershortieee: Uh, Evan or Evanisha. E- doesn't matter. Call one of your friends, one of your FBI friends that don't work for the FBI, and have them help you find information about this person. And I hate to say that, but, um, if you're claiming to be someone of such status, I mean, you'll be able to easily be found. Either you played for them or you didn't, period.

[00:51:47] cybershortieee: You're gonna have a picture, point blank, period. The team don't play like that. They got pictures of everybody, of every year. Yeah. It's gonna be easy to find.

[00:51:55] HD: Or they, they don't e- you couldn't even gotta go off that. What name you gave me? Okay, let me type this name [00:52:00] in. What's gonna happen? You

[00:52:00] cybershortieee: can put it into Google.

[00:52:01] cybershortieee: You just- You can put it into Chat. You can put it into Claude. You can put it into Copilot. You can put it in Cowork. It don't matter. You can put it anything. Yeah, and then-

[00:52:07] HD: You

[00:52:07] cybershortieee: can Google ...

[00:52:08] HD: then after you don't see their name pop up, you can say, and you say, "Hey, Google say you don't play by that. What's your real name?"

[00:52:16] HD: And sure, you can c- matter of fact, you can call the team and figure out.

[00:52:18] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[00:52:20] HD: But I just thought that was hilarious, uh, about that. We got some other fun reactions coming up. Um, did you wanna talk about-

[00:52:29] cybershortieee: No, I'm just kidding.

[00:52:31] HD: Talk about the US and the Chinese domains, 'cause I thought that was pretty interesting with the Chinese domains that I think they hacked.

[00:52:38] cybershortieee: All right. So US seizes Chinese botnet domains, the takedown win. The FBI just seized a batch of domains that were powering a large Chinese state-linked botnet, and the takedown reportedly knocked down the whole operation. A botnet, if you're not familiar, is an army of hacked internet-connected [00:53:00] devices. So think routers, cameras, smart gadgets, all secretly controlled by one operator.

[00:53:04] cybershortieee: The operator steers them from a command and control server, C2 for short. Now, here's the clever part of this takedown. The botnet's marching orders were hard-coded to specific domains. Seize the domains, and the army can't hear its general anymore. DOJ said that made the whole thing inoperable. You don't always have to grab every device.

[00:53:30] cybershortieee: Sometimes you just cut the phone line itself. Prosecutors say this botnet, tracked as QTFY, was allegedly run by a Chinese company and used to serve an opsification network. An opsification network is a hide your tracks machine. Instead of tra- instead of attacking you directly from a server in Beijing, the hacker bounces their traffic through thousands of hacked everyday devices all over the place so it looks [00:54:00] like the attack is coming from grandma's smart fridge instead of a foreign intelligence service.

[00:54:05] cybershortieee: It's camouflage, basically, for cyber attacks. Now, an attribution note here because we like to stay disciplined even on a win, the tie to the Chinese government and to that specific company is an allegation laid out in a court affidavit. What's concrete is that the D- DOJ, DOJ and the FBI seized the domains, the NSA put out an advisory, and the network company Lumen says it watched these actors profiling government, defense, and aerospace targets for a year and fed intel to the FBI.

[00:54:42] cybershortieee: This scope is sobering. The hacks allegedly date back to 2018 and touched NASA, the Federal Reserve, and Departments of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services. The Senate was targeted as recently as this year, though the NSA says on some networks the [00:55:00] attackers scanned but failed to actually get in.

[00:55:02] cybershortieee: The double edge, one more time, your ordinary smart devices, that cheap camera, the old router you forgot about, are the raw material for a nation state's camouflage. The helper, quote, unquote, "gadget" in your house becomes somebody else's weapon. And I am so happy that me and my wife did not get no smart refrigerator, because she wanted one real bad and I just kept telling her like, "We don't need no smart refrigerator.

[00:55:28] cybershortieee: We don't need one."

[00:55:28] HD: Man, you can see what's in the s- in the fridge-

[00:55:29] cybershortieee: We don't need one ... when you at home, right? I told him like, "We don't need one. We don't need one." I just kept telling him, but you know-

[00:55:35] HD: Connected to Gemini ...

[00:55:36] cybershortieee: man, and everything gotta be smart. The TVs want you to log in with them. That, that ticked me clean off.

[00:55:43] cybershortieee: You can't even get on the T- you can't even get to the TV without logging in. It's crazy.

[00:55:47] HD: Get you one of them, get you a TV with a booty.

[00:55:49] cybershortieee: No, for No, for real. For real, for real. Uh, but yeah, takeaway, it's practical and it's yours. The forgotten device on your network is exactly what those [00:56:00] botnets recruit, and that's why it's important to have them devices on a separate network.

[00:56:04] cybershortieee: Even if it's on a guest network, keep them off your main network. If you got, uh, AT&T, they give you a guest network for free. I don't think Spectrum does. You just have your main. Do they? No, I think Spectrum has a 5G and a 2.5G.

[00:56:19] HD: AT&T does it.

[00:56:20] cybershortieee: AT... That's what I said. They do give you one,

[00:56:22] HD: yeah. But I'd only plug mine into, like, one of my other routers.

[00:56:24] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[00:56:25] HD: So I can get a little bit more granular control. But this made me think about something. Do you watch Lioness?

[00:56:31] cybershortieee: No. With, with Zoe Saldana?

[00:56:32] HD: Are you serious?

[00:56:34] cybershortieee: I saw her snapping though. When she was going off on that person who was, like, not ... who was going against, relax. You gonna- Come on, now,

[00:56:43] soundrop: dog. Come on, man.

[00:56:47] cybershortieee: I don't.

[00:56:50] HD: I saw the poster.

[00:56:50] cybershortieee: I need to watch it?

[00:56:52] HD: Yes, absolutely, because one of the things they were talking about in there-

[00:56:54] cybershortieee: Well, how many seasons?

[00:56:55] HD: It's on season three now.

[00:56:56] cybershortieee: Oh, okay. A little watch.

[00:56:58] HD: The guy was [00:57:00] telling, uh, somebody that works for the US, I think, CIA or something like that, he was saying, he was saying the differences between dealing with, like, Russia, China, Japan, or somebody else, and he was saying what they're interested in.

[00:57:12] HD: It's like China is interested in information.

[00:57:15] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[00:57:15] HD: They play the long game.

[00:57:16] cybershortieee: Oh, 1000.

[00:57:17] HD: They be in your systems for years. And, and so the fact that they said 2018, w- if you watching this right now, you trying to do a s- a SOC interview or incident response, one of the best things you could tell the interviewer is, like, you have to assume you've already been compromised.

[00:57:32] HD: That way you can work off of not being surprised and work on that. Because they probably didn't assume that they were compromised from 2018. They've been probed since 2018. Mm-hmm. And they didn't make any ... That's what I'm saying. One of the saying- That's

[00:57:45] cybershortieee: a long time ...

[00:57:46] HD: one of the sayings we have is the attacker has the benefit.

[00:57:51] HD: They got more time than the defender. So think about how much time it is. That's eight years.

[00:57:57] cybershortieee: But, but think about this. Think about if your [00:58:00] license lapsed during that time as an enterprise. Think about your turnover rate. Think about your admins that you've added to the company. Um, think about the, the training that you- It's speculative

[00:58:11] cybershortieee: think about the training that you stopped doing over the last eight years. Maybe you was doing it back then, but you ain't doing it anymore. Think about how your, um, policies have gotten more granular as, hopefully.

[00:58:22] HD: But speaking of that, right? What if it's some people that you onboarded that's still on the network that's accounts got taken over?

[00:58:27] HD: Oh,

[00:58:27] cybershortieee: don't even get me started there. Nobody has the account life cycle really, unless they're a government company.

[00:58:34] HD: I disagree.

[00:58:34] cybershortieee: Okay, not no one, but most companies.

[00:58:38] HD: Yeah. Most. Immature companies don't, but, like, if you do it the right way, how you supposed to, it's, it's easy to, I think. I remember I had a, a, one time a dude left our team and I seen him back on the network.

[00:58:47] HD: I was like ... He was like, "Yeah. Hey, it's, it's cool. No alarm. I came back, dude." I was like, "Okay."

[00:58:53] cybershortieee: Oh, okay. '

[00:58:54] HD: Cause for, like-

[00:58:55] cybershortieee: No, but at least you peeped it, because he could've been an insider.

[00:58:58] HD: Yeah, for months. So I was like, [00:59:00] "Why he doing this?" And they told me, "Yeah, he came back." I was like, "Well, would've been nice to know if y'all let us know that we might see him active on the network."

[00:59:05] HD: Back on,

[00:59:06] cybershortieee: yeah.

[00:59:06] HD: But so, I don't know. But since we was talking about that and governments getting hacked, we might as well talk about ATF.

[00:59:14] cybershortieee: Yeah?

[00:59:16] HD: Mm.

[00:59:17] cybershortieee: You going?

[00:59:17] HD: Mm-hmm. Do, do, do, mm.

[00:59:24] cybershortieee: What's the Q word? Qilin?

[00:59:26] HD: What you mean?

[00:59:27] cybershortieee: Is it Qilin? What

[00:59:28] HD: are you talking about? Q word. Q for what?

[00:59:31] cybershortieee: The Q word, Qilin.

[00:59:33] HD: For

[00:59:34] cybershortieee: what? In the article. Is it Killeen? Killin'?

[00:59:36] HD: I haven't seen it yet, so...

[00:59:38] cybershortieee: Q-L-I-L-I-N.

[00:59:39] HD: So the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives suffered a severe breach of an isolated target investigation database, prompting senior Department of Justice officials to formally designate the breach a major incident under federal cybersecurity reporting directives.

[00:59:57] HD: The Russian-aligned extortion group... Yeah, you're right. [01:00:00] I see what you're saying now. Uh, I guess it was like Killin'.

[01:00:02] cybershortieee: Killin'?

[01:00:03] HD: There's no- That's

[01:00:03] cybershortieee: what I

[01:00:03] HD: said ... there's no U to make it Qilin.

[01:00:05] cybershortieee: That's what exa- that's what I said. Yeah.

[01:00:07] HD: Claimed responsibility for the intrusion. Operating on a double extortion model, encrypting systems while exfiltrating systive- sensitive information, Killin' claimed to have accessed active investigation files, operational tracking logs, and systems of digital assets.

[01:00:22] HD: Man, that's crazy. The ATF immediately severed network connections. I wonder, did they cut the cord? To isolate the affected infrastructure. Federal authorities confirmed that the ATF's primary enterprise network and public eForms portal were uncompromised, and that no national gun owner registry databases were exfiltrated.

[01:00:41] HD: However, civil rights groups and firearm industries organizations expressed immediate alarm regarding the vulnerability of ATF's broader digital repositories. So when criminals exfiltrate active case files, it doesn't just disrupt agency operations, it compromises witness safety, [01:01:00] ongoing undercover operations, and public trust in federal data management.

[01:01:04] HD: Um-

[01:01:05] cybershortieee: Question.

[01:01:06] HD: Go ahead.

[01:01:07] cybershortieee: As a CISO, would you prefer to hear, "I've compromised you, and here's the proof," versus, "I compromised you"?

[01:01:15] HD: I want the proof.

[01:01:16] cybershortieee: I want the proof, 'cause anybody can say anything. What the what?

[01:01:21] HD: Yeah, I seen your, I seen your girl out at a dude last night. Show me. There they go right here.

[01:01:26] cybershortieee: You need the, you definitely need the, the tangible proof.

[01:01:28] HD: How I know that's not AI? You got a ex now.

[01:01:32] cybershortieee: No.

[01:01:34] HD: That's a lot. That's a lot of mini guys getting off for a minute until women realize that ain't no AI. That's real That ain't me, that's AI. That ain't me.

[01:01:44] cybershortieee: AI is crazy. Why would, why would there be a picture of you-

[01:01:48] HD: You know how crazy people is? Have you not seen Fatima?

[01:01:51] cybershortieee: I did see Fatima on, uh... You know what? I done watched about all the seasons off, off X, just not even trying to watch it.

[01:01:58] HD: I mean, Fatima, the latest season with the [01:02:00] girl trying to be like Fatima, dressing and like her and everything. Didn't

[01:02:02] cybershortieee: she lose the baby?

[01:02:03] HD: No.

[01:02:04] cybershortieee: She had the baby?

[01:02:05] HD: I don't know. It's, it's at a standstill.

[01:02:07] HD: I don't think she lost it.

[01:02:07] cybershortieee: Oh. But she was like, it was... She, she was, like, giving birth when I seen the clip.

[01:02:12] HD: I don't know. I know they locked her in the bathroom or something. Like, it was some childish stuff. It be like, I watch- There

[01:02:16] cybershortieee: was a lot of drama ...

[01:02:18] HD: at the poi-

[01:02:18] cybershortieee: What do you think about her and, and what's his name?

[01:02:20] HD: Zack DeVone?

[01:02:21] cybershortieee: Yeah, yeah. No, well, no, Zack as a character, not him in real

[01:02:25] HD: life. Um, I think they match because they different. One from the hood- Yeah ... and then one... Well, Fatima kind of hood adjacent.

[01:02:31] cybershortieee: They have really, they have really great banter as, like, co-characters.

[01:02:35] HD: Yeah. I, I agree. Um, I, I... Nathan be getting on my nerves.

[01:02:39] HD: Nathan the friend that's always messing up.

[01:02:41] cybershortieee: Yeah. Irritating.

[01:02:43] HD: Always doing something. Get him out of here. Bring it, bring in the- Don't

[01:02:45] cybershortieee: come back ...

[01:02:45] HD: he had the chick, the next door neighbor- Irritating ... in Zach hot tub outside. I...

[01:02:51] cybershortieee: And, and then, uh, his girl, oh, uh, uh, oh, at the front, at the, at the front door. Uh-huh.

[01:02:56] cybershortieee: See, I seen that on X. I ain't never seen the show. I seen that clip on X. It's

[01:02:59] HD: [01:03:00] crazy. Yeah, all of it's on, all BET+ stuff is on, like, Paramount now. Really? So if you got Paramount, you can watch all of it.

[01:03:06] cybershortieee: Mm.

[01:03:07] HD: My, I'm waiting for my show to come out, though, Family Business.

[01:03:10] cybershortieee: Did you watch, you probably didn't watch Divorced Sisters.

[01:03:13] HD: I watched it.

[01:03:13] cybershortieee: It was tea.

[01:03:14] HD: It was stupid.

[01:03:15] cybershortieee: It... You are a hater.

[01:03:17] HD: Some-

[01:03:17] cybershortieee: Stop lying ...

[01:03:18] HD: I don't-

[01:03:18] cybershortieee: Divorced Sisters?

[01:03:19] HD: I don't like when the story doesn't make sense. Not

[01:03:21] cybershortieee: sisters, Divorced Sisters.

[01:03:23] HD: Yeah, I don't like when it doesn't make sense.

[01:03:24] cybershortieee: What part didn't make sense?

[01:03:26] HD: A lot of it. Why would the girl do that knowing she would get caught by that, trying to kill the husband?

[01:03:31] HD: Um, the stuff with the pastor and, um-

[01:03:36] cybershortieee: I didn't really like the pastor, like, sliding on the questionable side at the beginning.

[01:03:40] HD: Yeah, I

[01:03:41] cybershortieee: would- I didn't really... And then if it's not gonna be true, what's the point of the storyline?

[01:03:45] HD: It's some, it's probably some stuff there because he saw, then he saw them kissing.

[01:03:49] HD: It's- Like, it was

[01:03:50] cybershortieee: too m- it was too much low-key-ness

[01:03:52] HD: going on ... that's what I'm saying. I'm watching it, but I was like, I just, I, I just-

[01:03:55] cybershortieee: I am... It didn't give you, uh, I, I, uh- I'm

[01:03:59] HD: trying to see how you gonna [01:04:00] watch-

[01:04:00] cybershortieee: What's the show with the preacher and, and the kids and the, and the, and the church, the Black family on, own?

[01:04:05] cybershortieee: We, I feel like- You talking

[01:04:06] HD: about Greenleaf?

[01:04:07] cybershortieee: It gave me Greenleaf meets, uh, uh, Greenleaf meets Wayne's Way Hill.

[01:04:11] HD: It's just a lot going on there. The son almost died from overdosing, smoking bad weed. Like, it's just a lot. However- I'm just, now I'm just invested. But a lot of the shows don't be good. I just be watching to see the end.

[01:04:23] HD: Yeah. But-

[01:04:25] cybershortieee: I was invested.

[01:04:25] HD: Like, I was like- Like nerve for you to be invested in that, but you ain't seen Insecure- ... a way better show. Okay,

[01:04:29] cybershortieee: I never said I didn't see Insecure, I just didn't see it all the way through.

[01:04:32] HD: No, but let me say you didn't finish it, 'cause it's way better than- I didn't finish it ... and the episodes are 30 minutes.

[01:04:36] cybershortieee: I didn't finish it, I'm

[01:04:37] HD: not gonna lie. You, you need to.

[01:04:38] cybershortieee: I'ma finish it while I'm on this little hiatus.

[01:04:40] HD: Broken pussy, mm, mm,

[01:04:41] cybershortieee: mm. I did see that. I did

[01:04:43] HD: see that. Maybe it really smells. Maybe it's dry. Who would do that to they friend? They, Issa horrible friend. Nobody wants you, girl.

[01:04:50] cybershortieee: You got a broken- She performed it in the club is what's crazy.

[01:04:52] cybershortieee: She didn't perform it at home for karaoke night. She performed it in the club.

[01:04:56] HD: That's what I'm saying. It's like, so-

[01:04:58] cybershortieee: So don't tell me I

[01:04:59] HD: ain't

[01:04:59] cybershortieee: seen it, 'cause

[01:04:59] HD: I [01:05:00] seen it ... the thing, the thing about Issa, Issa kinda had falls in that med school type of territory, where everybody think med school the best, but really, he should've stayed with Janae.

[01:05:07] cybershortieee: Yeah. No, he shouldn't have moved out. No, he shouldn't.

[01:05:10] HD: Yes, he should have. No,

[01:05:11] cybershortieee: he shouldn't

[01:05:11] HD: have. Janae didn't want his money or nothing.

[01:05:12] cybershortieee: It don't care.

[01:05:13] HD: Janae shoulda never let him see DJ again after, after that girl swiped that baby.

[01:05:16] cybershortieee: After she's...

[01:05:18] soundrop: I

[01:05:18] cybershortieee: don't agree. Sometimes the baby need to be swiped.

[01:05:20] HD: The baby did not need to be swiped.

[01:05:21] HD: Sometimes they need to be swiped. Not, that wasn't

[01:05:23] cybershortieee: her call. It wasn't her call.

[01:05:24] HD: Don't marry me then if you don't believe it ain't my baby.

[01:05:27] cybershortieee: That was his problem to pick with her.

[01:05:29] HD: No, no. That

[01:05:30] cybershortieee: was his

[01:05:30] HD: problem. That was her problem. If she had a problem with it, she coulda went on, and then he could've just got back with Janae.

[01:05:35] HD: I, you know, you're

[01:05:35] cybershortieee: making me wanna re-watch it. You're making me want... Don't tempt me with a good time. Malik Yoba is right. Don't tempt me with a good time.

[01:05:40] HD: That's

[01:05:42] cybershortieee: my show.

[01:05:42] HD: I'm cool, 'cause, like, so I don't look- You

[01:05:44] cybershortieee: know I love a good hood gem ...

[01:05:46] HD: see, I know you don't watch Four Fin One with Cam Newton and his, uh, cohost, but

[01:05:50] cybershortieee: it's- It's a show?

[01:05:51] HD: Yeah. The cohost's friend, his name is Peggy.

[01:05:54] cybershortieee: What's it on? YouTube. It's, like, a, just a series?

[01:05:56] HD: It's a, it's like a podcast, but it's a poor podcast. They remind me [01:06:00] of, not the same way, but-

[01:06:02] cybershortieee: I'm, I'm never watching it ...

[01:06:03] HD: but look, you know Malika and Teezy?

[01:06:05] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[01:06:05] HD: That's what their relationship remind me of, except not to where Cam is screwing Peggy off, 'cause Peg- Peggy is married.

[01:06:10] cybershortieee: Mm.

[01:06:10] HD: But, like, they always finishing each other jokes. Like I said, when I was talking about when somebody bring up that Michael Jackso- uh, uh, Janet Jackson, and somebody say, "What have you done for me lately?" And they say, "Ooh, yeah." Like, they'll say that, 'cause it's, like, everybody know what that is.

[01:06:24] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[01:06:24] HD: But they got that song Welcome to Four Fin One, where I always got it done.

[01:06:28] HD: I like that. Anyways-

[01:06:29] cybershortieee: Okay, I have seen that. I have seen that on TikTok. Do they be rapping, like, for the little intro?

[01:06:35] HD: Um, yeah.

[01:06:35] cybershortieee: Yeah, I've seen

[01:06:36] HD: that. They got a little song. Yeah. I think I sent it to you.

[01:06:38] cybershortieee: Or maybe that's where I seen it

[01:06:38] HD: too. And, like, he's like, "Brother" And then when he be like, "Pedicab, Pedicab," be going, going in on people.

[01:06:45] cybershortieee: You think you could eat me in a, in a, um, in a, a freestyle?

[01:06:52] HD: Absolutely. And I don't care if you from Michigan either. You is, you is ly-

[01:06:56] cybershortieee: You cannot eat me. Everybody- In a freestyle?

[01:06:58] HD: Everybody in the

[01:06:58] cybershortieee: caucus right now. I will tear you up. [01:07:00] I will tear you up. Now we gonna have to put this on the floor.

[01:07:03] HD: Mm, that's fine.

[01:07:03] cybershortieee: 'Cause the fact that you think that you could rap better than me is crazy.

[01:07:06] HD: You don't even watch Battle Rap.

[01:07:07] cybershortieee: I don't need to. I'm gonna talk that.

[01:07:10] HD: No you not. And I'ma throw in my freestyle. I'ma say you not Ariana. Nah.

[01:07:16] cybershortieee: It, it, you told me to be her for Halloween one year, too.

[01:07:20] HD: You should.

[01:07:21] cybershortieee: Yeah.

[01:07:21] HD: Could you do that?

[01:07:22] HD: That's what you should do. You should dress up as one of the characters from your book.

[01:07:27] cybershortieee: I should. Might be a guy.

[01:07:31] HD: Oh, so you gonna be dressed like-

[01:07:31] cybershortieee: No, I'm not ...

[01:07:32] HD: Mr. Ross?

[01:07:33] cybershortieee: I'm not, no.

[01:07:34] HD: I'm a, interested to see the turn of events of what, what he done did illegal.

[01:07:37] cybershortieee: Evan. Wait, wait till I do my little- He

[01:07:39] HD: probably was cyberstalking somebody

[01:07:40] HD: wait

[01:07:40] cybershortieee: till I do my little flashback. Yeah. 'Cause y- 'cause I feel like that was a good little story of how he got into tech, 'cause somebody tried to steal his scholarship. That was good.

[01:07:48] HD: I would imagine, I know you wouldn't want to because it's really personal, 'cause it's, um, proprietary information, but like it would be so cool if AI ever got to the point where you could make that its own thing, [01:08:00] or-

[01:08:01] cybershortieee: It'd be dope if you could put, if I could put it in and it gives me like a little

[01:08:04] HD: reenactment.

[01:08:05] HD: Or you do the, or you do the voices, or you pick some people you wanna do the voices. Yeah. But it m- makes the animations and stuff for you, like an actual- Yeah, that's

[01:08:11] cybershortieee: what I'm saying, yeah. For sure.

[01:08:13] HD: That'd be dope. Uh.

[01:08:13] cybershortieee: Somebody build it, thank you.

[01:08:15] HD: Talk about the fake GTA stuff real quick.

[01:08:17] cybershortieee: The GTA, I don't speak Roman numbers.

[01:08:20] cybershortieee: Is that?

[01:08:20] HD: S- I think a six.

[01:08:22] cybershortieee: Yep. Demo is actually malware. This is the most relatable, so let's talk about it. If you have a gamer in your life, then this segment is for you. Rockstar Grand Theft Auto V is one of the most anticipated game... Wait, did you say five or six?

[01:08:41] cybershortieee: I think that's six

[01:08:42] HD: Ooh, I spelled that wrong. Oops. I think it's six. I spelled that wrong though. I mean, I, I typed the name wrong. It's a, it's a five and it's a I for six.

[01:08:47] cybershortieee: Tell me now. It's a six, right?

[01:08:48] HD: Yeah.

[01:08:49] cybershortieee: Grand Theft Auto VI is one of the most anticipated games in history. We've been waiting over a decade.

[01:08:55] cybershortieee: It's been a bunch of delays and fans are starving for [01:09:00] anything, and criminals know exactly how hungry you are. So here's the play. Scammers stood up fake websites impersonating Rockstar advertising a playable GTA VI demo. You hit play now, you download what looks like a game installer, and it's actually malware.

[01:09:16] cybershortieee: Specifically, per the researchers at Malwarebytes, it's an info stealer. Now let's break that down. An info stealer is malware with one job: rob your browser. It is hunting for saved passwords. It's trying to grab your cookies, and the scary part is it steals your active session tokens. That's scary as hell.

[01:09:37] cybershortieee: Um, session tokies, or excuse me. Session cookies plus MFA bypass. So when you log into a site and you check that Remember Me box, the site hands your browser a session token, and that's basically a wristband that says, "This person already proved who they are." An info stealer steals that wristband, and here's [01:10:00] why that's brutal.

[01:10:01] cybershortieee: If the attacker got your active session, they can basically waltz in and pretend like they're you. Sometimes even if you have MFA turned on because you already did MFA, they stole the already logged in basically state, and that's how a fake game demo becomes a full account takeover. Reality check is that there is no GTA VI demo, no early access, no leaked playable build.

[01:10:29] cybershortieee: The game is slated for November 19th, 2026, and if there's real news, it's coming straight from Rockstar or that Netflix extended look, not from gta6freedemo.biz. Um, the double edge is almost poetic in this particular scenario. The thing you want most, the game, is the exact bait. Desire is the vulnerability.

[01:10:52] cybershortieee: Hackers aren't hacking your computer first. They're hacking your excitement. What do you think about that? [01:11:00]

[01:11:00] soundrop: I would... If I saw .biz,

[01:11:02] cybershortieee: please.

[01:11:02] HD: Um, when you were talking about the GTA malware stuff, the reason why also what clicked to me is, um, let me see if I can... If it shows in my notifications from last night.

[01:11:12] HD: Man, somebody in my Discord, uh, I blocked him 'cause he was like going crazy trying to notify me about somebody's playing GTA VI. Look My client just passed her SC- Look.

[01:11:26] cybershortieee: Kids be like, "Look."

[01:11:27] HD: She just passed her SC 300.

[01:11:30] cybershortieee: Hey, congratulations. She

[01:11:32] HD: been doing her thing, her big one. She

[01:11:35] cybershortieee: has.

[01:11:37] HD: Um, where can I see my freaking...

[01:11:39] HD: I don't know. But anyway, yeah, he was just so, um persistent on, um, telling me that. And I was like, "That's kind of odd." I don't talk to this person. That's why I... Last time I mentioned them, it was like the 20- 2025, and they were a client. And so I was like, "Hmm, I find that kind of odd." And they sent it again.

[01:11:59] HD: I'm like, "Yeah, [01:12:00] your account definitely got taken over."

[01:12:01] soundrop: Mm. '

[01:12:02] HD: Cause like, I don't care about GTA that much. I didn't even click in the message to see, 'cause you're sending me to like a different type of Discord or some crap. I just blocked them.

[01:12:11] cybershortieee: As you should.

[01:12:12] HD: I'll hit them up on Instagram like, "Yo, is you cool?

[01:12:14] HD: 'Cause you keep on bothering me about GTA." And

[01:12:17] cybershortieee: he ain't know?

[01:12:18] HD: I don't know. I'm, I'ma hit him up later.

[01:12:19] cybershortieee: Oh, he didn't. Okay. Got you. Got you. '

[01:12:20] HD: Cause I didn't care that much. Like, I... GTA is not one of the games I gotta play. Like, speaking of that, with all the, you know, the digital stuff, and they talking about Sony and, and everything is d- digital.

[01:12:31] HD: I am going to go to GameStop and put a copy of, uh... get a copy of, uh, Gears of War, a physical disc to be held for me so I can buy a physical.

[01:12:46] cybershortieee: Uh, do you like that game?

[01:12:48] HD: Yeah.

[01:12:48] cybershortieee: Okay.

[01:12:48] HD: But it really wasn't about that. It was about that I, um, I got the ability to play physical disc, 'cause Sony said they not backing up from not playing, um, going all digital.

[01:12:56] HD: And- I

[01:12:57] cybershortieee: did... I felt... But you have to have a cert- Or I seen [01:13:00] something with somebody where you have to have a certain number of something in order to do something.

[01:13:04] HD: Oh. Well, nothing. When you install the game, you just gotta make sure you got enough space on your-

[01:13:09] cybershortieee: No, it was like it was something else. Maybe it was Microsoft.

[01:13:13] cybershortieee: I don't remember. But it was some company saying that they were also not going d- uh, discless. But, but- Mi-

[01:13:18] HD: Mike- M- Microsoft said with Xbox, they are gonna remain physic- physical disc. Okay. Just because Sony got so much backlash on it. Mm. It's like, "Hmm, how can we get more people over here? Okay. Yeah, we're gonna keep the disc."

[01:13:29] HD: So that's what they said. But, uh, I'll just be careful with these games out here. It ain't that good for you to kinda- It

[01:13:36] cybershortieee: ain't that good for you to need a demo. Come on, now.

[01:13:39] HD: No. Well, we used the demos, but make sure it's from a reputable place. Like, if it's not on-

[01:13:43] cybershortieee: DatBiz.

[01:13:43] HD: Yeah.

[01:13:44] cybershortieee: DatBiz.

[01:13:44] HD: If it's not on, um, what is it?

[01:13:48] HD: Xbox Live or whatever PlayStation Network stuff is, or whatever Nintendo network is, like, don't, don't get it.

[01:13:57] cybershortieee: Period.

[01:13:57] HD: Seriously. So that's what I would tell them [01:14:00] that. I just really forgot that we can just look there, and they'll see us looking at the camera right there, so.

[01:14:06] HD: But, um, I think the next one, we'll get back into reacting to something. Since we were talking about Cyber Fairy, she had a video about kind of getting distraught about this tech life, and I thought it would be pretty good to talk about it because it's something that a lot of people run into when I talk to them about this stuff.

[01:14:29] soundrop: You guys, I reached another point of burnout with my tech journey. Sometimes I be like, "You know what? I'm about to go motherfucking work at Starbucks and make some motherfucking lattes

[01:14:38] HD: for the people." But then I realize- So for the, for the people that's listening, let me do this On her video, it says only 18% of Americans earn six figures, and most of them don't reach that point till 35, 44 years old.

[01:14:48] HD: Social media is so misleading about breaking into tech. People are constantly trying to sell you the exception is not the rule. And I have a direct response to the very end of that after she finishes, uh, what she has to [01:15:00] say.

[01:15:01] soundrop: I come to my senses and realize that when you come from a certain environment and you're like first-generation career, right?

[01:15:07] soundrop: I feel like, you know, social media misleads people a lot, and that's-- I, I'm kinda thinking I wanna go on a social media hiatus for a while, not gonna lie. Because when you like come from a, a certain environment, when you're like first-generation career, first-generation educated, first-generation success, I don't think we understand the magnitude sometimes how much work that things take to achieve.

[01:15:22] soundrop: Like I was watching this, uh, little thing they do on income, and this guy, he said, like, he was making upwards of maybe seven hundred thousand to a million a year, um, doing something medically, I forgot. But he also said he went to school for twelve years, right? And social media will have you feeling like you can do thirty, sixty, ninety a year to everything, and it's not like that.

[01:15:38] soundrop: So I'm just trying to... I think the burnout comes from just kinda trying to pull everything and grasp when I think for one, I need a hard reset. I need a change of scenery, right, for a little while too. I, I, I'm burnt out for a lot of reasons, but I think just taking it one step at a time because when you're just like in an algorithm and listening to all the yapping and the think pieces and stuff like that, you'll be thinking about ten certs at once, getting your dream job, b-becoming, you know, senior level of this, that, and the third.

[01:15:59] soundrop: But really you just need to [01:16:00] focus on the next step. Focus on the next chapter you're gonna read. Focus just on one thing at a time. I think that's what it is, just kinda s- instead of like the grand scheme of things, just take it step by step and kinda like humble yourself to the process as you will. And, um, stop trying to compete, you know, because you have like a lot of people, uh, like even see now like career influencers even in, you know, their twenties and stuff like that, and they're talking about how they're a senior this or make X amount of dollars.

[01:16:19] soundrop: It's not normal, and it's not something that's happening across the board. 'Cause if you look at, uh, just the st- the statistics of people in general, I feel like, what, I think less than ten percent of Americans make six figures. And I think it's like, what, one percent of African Americans? Quote-- Don't quote me if...

[01:16:34] HD: Don't quote me. You can go through

[01:16:34] soundrop: the sub while we're listening. Make a certain amount of money is really slim. So I don't know. I think that... I don't know, y'all. It's either gonna be a social media hiatus or it's just a grand tuning of out of all the noise. I don't know which one it's gonna be . It's probably gonna be both.

[01:16:46] soundrop: But I just wanna share that 'cause I feel like, you know, some people only share their wins and stuff, but they don't share just, just those sometimes the... When they're in those phases and they're like at the verge of like, "You know what? I'm gonna become a dentist or something." Something with a quicker payoff, but nothing really has a quick payoff for real.

[01:16:58] soundrop: You know what I mean? Nothing. [01:17:00] Everything that is great, it takes time, right? And then just with the whole restructuring of the workforce and society and things like that, we really don't know. Like, there's so much uncertainty, so all you can do is just take one step at a time and try not to compare yourself.

[01:17:11] soundrop: All right, y'all. Thanks for attending my TED Talk.

[01:17:13] cybershortieee: Hi, Lil Let.

[01:17:15] HD: Yeah. So I think of the- I

[01:17:17] cybershortieee: actually like this video.

[01:17:18] HD: Yeah. A couple things- I might have favored

[01:17:20] cybershortieee: it too.

[01:17:21] HD: A couple things I think I would say is that number one, um, I think people that work in the tech industry are the exception to the rule because if you check what median salaries may be, they're typically higher than the average American Having said all that, um, there are the people who are online that they are the exceptions to the rule

[01:17:45] cybershortieee: And it, and I, I will agree with you too, and it seems like because it's so many people online yapping, it seems like it's a larger number than there truly really is, um, all together.

[01:17:57] cybershortieee: Like if you see 30 people talking [01:18:00] about it to you as one person, you're like, "Dang, that's a lot of people." You know, you're just assuming. But I agree with you there.

[01:18:06] HD: Yeah. So let me do this real quick. Let me get my academics on. So the US civilian labor force includes approximately 169.1 million people according to July 2026 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[01:18:21] HD: So how many people

[01:18:27] HD: Let's see this

[01:18:33] HD: So I asked how many people are in the US workforce that make at least $100,000. Approximately 29 million to 38 million people in the United States workforce earn at least $100,000. So like she said, I think that's about 18% to 21% of individual working adults in the country are that. So by gender, 23% of male workers earn six figures compared to about 11% to 12% of female workers.

[01:18:58] HD: And then by age, like she said, [01:19:00] 35 to 44, uh, earn the most with 25% of people this age group making over $100,000. Now, um, individual earners making $100,000 by race. The breakdown below outlines the approximate percentage. And you know what? Let's go to this one right here so they can see this That's why I kind of like using streaming.

[01:19:19] HD: I like to just click on a scene and it go the right way I need to show it. Asian workers, 32% to 35% earn over 100K, approximately 4.2 million to 4.5 million workers. White workers, 20% to 22% earn over 100K, approximately 21 million to 23. Hispanic is 9% to 11% that earn over 100K, which is, I guess, considering all Hispanic people.

[01:19:42] HD: And then Black people are at 7%, 8%, and they earn over 100,000. Approximately 1.5 million Black workers, 1.5 to 1.7 million Black workers make $100,000. So I did that because we got to tell a story with the numbers. That's how we got to do with the [01:20:00] statistics, right?

[01:20:03] HD: Let me go back to where we was at. So having said all that, even though what she's seeing, that's not the millions of the people that she's seeing. So it may feel like it's a lot to her, but it's really not- Yeah ... based on the numbers of that. That's what I was saying. Like even when we did 30, you said you gave a number 30, due to 30 by, divided by, I think it was 1.5, 1.7 million people, that's a low percentage.

[01:20:23] cybershortieee: It is.

[01:20:25] HD: Uh, so a lot of people gotta remember that.

[01:20:26] cybershortieee: But, but maybe like look at it in another way and look at it from the lens of like, "Oh, I'm actually seeing this content and connect it with this shorter..." Smaller, not shorter. Smaller population.

[01:20:44] HD: Um, also that, but you can think about it like this, is like she said, you have to run your own race.

[01:20:51] HD: If you're looking at what everybody else is doing- Facts ... 'cause I am a person that'll tell you, "Hey, yes, what they doing is not the norm." Like certain people like the Tavions, the Dave Springs, and other people I [01:21:00] know, that is not normal. One, because exceptions don't make the rule, and then two, other people are willing to do things that put them in outlier positions that everybody else is not doing.

[01:21:10] HD: So that's why you can't count them. And so she's right when she says people don't know how much work it takes to get into this.

[01:21:15] cybershortieee: That's 1,000%, especially, especially like she said as a first gen.

[01:21:19] HD: Yeah. So that's why I've been always key on saying like it's not easy.

[01:21:24] cybershortieee: It's not.

[01:21:25] HD: And like she said, "Hey, you'll be on here, you'll be thinking about this and that," and it's back to what me and you were talking about earlier about that's why sometimes you have to pay for somebody to say, "Hey, what is you doing?

[01:21:35] HD: Focus on this. Don't worry about all the other stuff." Because if not, analysis paralysis, you'll never get anywhere. There are people that I remember from Tech Twitter four or five years ago that did not invest in their careers with the help, and they still asking how to get into cybersecurity and other things.

[01:21:50] HD: When now it's harder for you because you wasted time playing around when the people who wanted to do it, they went out there and did it.

[01:21:56] soundrop: Mm-hmm.

[01:21:58] HD: So one, I would say, hey, [01:22:00] don't worry about the noise. Everybody has their own way to do it. Two, if you want the desired results, study what the people who had the results you want, what they did.

[01:22:13] HD: It's on their Link- most of them is on their LinkedIn. You can go study exactly what they did play by play, word for word, bar for bar. You can go find it out.

[01:22:22] cybershortieee: Yep.

[01:22:22] HD: Three, like take, take some time to Step back and, and put the phone down. Go touch grass. Go do different things that you need to do because of how this thing can get.

[01:22:36] HD: It is tough interviewing, trying to get the money. You finally get to the six figures, then you feel like the six figures isn't enough. How do I get the six figures that start with a two and a three? When you get up there, it does take a lot, and that's why if you notice, it's not a lot of people saying, "Hey, how to make 200,000."

[01:22:50] HD: It's mostly six figures, but we know six figures go from $100,000 to 999-

[01:22:56] cybershortieee: 000 ...

[01:22:58] HD: $999. [01:23:00] That's where we, a lot of times we leave out. Yeah. And there's a big difference in purchasing power from 100,000 to half a million or even a quarter million. I would say if you w- if, to be honest, in today's economy, if you could shoot for a quarter mil- Mm-hmm

[01:23:13] HD: and at least make that, you'll be straight. But then eventually you have to think about past that, and that's what I was telling, uh, Jazelle earlier. I was just like, about different stuff I have going on. I won't get complacent because I always know, like, yeah, the peak years you can earn is cool, but what happens when you don't have that energy to do that?

[01:23:31] HD: How do you- When you

[01:23:32] cybershortieee: don't got the energy ... sustain that? And you just wanna, and you just wanna come to work and work.

[01:23:35] HD: How do you get your time back? So that's what we was talking about, um, about thing, things as well and not basing things on that. And so we can do a whole bunch of different episodes and talking about like money and being content and who to know, and also your circle.

[01:23:51] HD: If good things are happening to people in your circle, eventually they start trickling down.

[01:23:55] soundrop: Yep.

[01:23:55] HD: If, if they not, if they aren't happening to you, then it's because you're not around the right [01:24:00] people. And also if you feel a way about something, sometimes it's best a lot of times not to say what comes out your mouth sometimes.

[01:24:10] HD: And what I mean by that is a lot of things that a lot of people who are coming in or been in don't agree with, but it's a way to try to handle it before you ostracize yourself in this very small Black tech world.

[01:24:21] soundrop: Mm-hmm.

[01:24:21] HD: Everybody knows somebody, and so it kind of behooves you sometimes to kind of make the right type of friends and, and just handle some stuff.

[01:24:29] HD: Everything you don't gotta address, especially when you're trying to be on your way up. After you make your footing, then you probably can say whatever you want, but that kind of can play against you, too. So those are just some of the things that I noticed and I know about people getting in and what I would tell them, like how to, what to do and, and kind of avoid and how to move.

[01:24:57] HD: I guess you had the, what's that? [01:25:00] The New York E's bonus smart glasses?

[01:25:02] cybershortieee: Vans.

[01:25:03] HD: Oh, okay.

[01:25:07] cybershortieee: You want that one? Uh, yeah, sure. So let me go back to

[01:25:12] cybershortieee: So NYC's Basement bans smart glasses forever. So Basement is one of New York's buzziest nightclubs, famously hard to get into. Buzziest. Bergen style door policy just announced a total ban on smart glasses. So not take them off ban, actually bringing them in. Even carrying them in your bag, not even wearing them at all, you can be permanently banned.

[01:25:34] cybershortieee: Their reasoning straight from the announcement, they have no a- they have a no photo, no video policy to protect the privacy, safety, and freedom of everyone on the dance floor and devices that let you record discreetly obviously break that promise. Now, quick honesty flag on my source. This story is from Futurism, and they're not writing it neutral.

[01:25:54] cybershortieee: They're really calling them pervert glasses. Um, that's their words. And so to try to [01:26:00] separate what's fact from the vibe that they kind of have going, Basement really did post this policy. There's a broader wave of clubs going device-free. The stronger claims like reports that meta overseas contractors have watched sensitive footo-- uh, sensitive footage, excuse me, those track back to reporting in a Swedish outlet, and that's not yet been settled.

[01:26:24] cybershortieee: Um, but why this matters beyond one club, smart glasses are the cleanest example of tonight's whole theme. A consumer gadget pitched as convenient, hands-free, futuristic is also obviously a device that can record people around you without their consent. Same object, helper and surveillance tools sharing one frame.

[01:26:43] cybershortieee: Now, the people most exposed aren't the wearer, it's everybody around the wearer who never agreed to anything. The double edge in this particular article is the wearer gets a feature, everyone in the room gets surveilled, consent get, got skipped, and that's the fault line for what we've kind of been talking about today.[01:27:00]

[01:27:00] cybershortieee: I don't like the bad rep that the glasses have got, and it's, it's annoying. It's very, very, very, very, very annoying. And I don't care, I'm gonna wear my glasses, and if you see them on, get out my way

[01:27:10] HD: I mean, I need to see, I guess, the use cases of how people have been using them in an inappropriate manner and how people didn't know, like-

[01:27:17] cybershortieee: No, people are assuming that they're being used in an inappropriate manner.

[01:27:20] cybershortieee: Now, I'm not saying as a woman I wouldn't feel uncomfortable going to someone to groom me and they have glasses on that are smart glasses. I'm not saying that. However, assuming that everybody who has these glasses is maliciously trying to record you or interested in your life is crazy. You are not that interesting.

[01:27:41] HD: Yeah. I'll play devil's advocate, like, just because you say they're not recording, and that's not saying you are doing this- No, facts ... and there's something that, what they are actually recording on them.

[01:27:48] cybershortieee: And also actual factual, because you can play with the glasses and I think Meta put in, in their software something to restrict you from being able to basically, uh, I don- I don't know the word, but you know the word I was finna [01:28:00] say.

[01:28:00] cybershortieee: Like

[01:28:00] HD: tamper with it?

[01:28:00] cybershortieee: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[01:28:01] HD: Put the little cover on the light. Yeah. But no, not even that. I'm talking about, like, even behind that. It's, like, when everybody's talking about Flock and everything else, like, is Meta really not recording when they say they're not recording?

[01:28:12] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[01:28:12] HD: That type of thing, right?

[01:28:14] HD: It's a zero trust, but in real life.

[01:28:16] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[01:28:16] HD: Like, hey, I don't care about anything else, but you giving me a massage or you doing this, like, I really- A

[01:28:21] cybershortieee: massage is rough,

[01:28:22] HD: yeah ... I don't like you to have them on. Is that okay with you? And I'm pretty sure they'll say, "Okay, that's cool." No harm, no foul. Now if

[01:28:29] cybershortieee: they- But, but everybody assumes that everybody who got the glasses is up to some malicious deed and trying to impede upon your rights, and that's not fair.

[01:28:38] cybershortieee: Now, there are plenty of people who are out here misusing the glasses, but everyone who has them are not misusing them.

[01:28:45] HD: Yeah. Yeah. True that. True that. Um, let me see. Oh, I think I just got all the fun stuff. Let me go to Gen Z is soft. [01:29:00] I found a video of a young man And he said he left school because he felt like, oh, no, we're not watching all this, buddy, but we will react to a little bit of it.

[01:29:12] HD: Um He, I guess, got homesick or something and he couldn't stick it out. That I seen now on threads too with other dude. They let-- The, the child need to stay there for a month, and they let him come home. I was like, "What are y'all doing to these... like, with these kids? They gonna be adults one day. Like, please show these kids how to stick through everything."

[01:29:32] HD: Playback speed, let's go to faster. Here we go.

[01:29:36] soundrop: So I came back home from college because I was homesick. I wasn't ready for the transition, and I knew I wasn't getting any fulfillment out of it. But here's what really happened. If you're in high school right now or just a young person in general, think about going to college.

[01:29:43] soundrop: I really hope you listen to this before you decide where you wanna go. And I'm not here to tell you not to go away for college or to just stay home for college. I just want you to hear a perspective I wish I had heard before I went. So again, it's my story. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Anthony, and I graduated high school in twenty twenty-four.

[01:29:52] soundrop: I'm from New Jersey, and I originally went to college in Florida, which I won't mention the specific, um, Florida college in this video because I don't wanna give them, like, a bad reputation or make it seem like I'm throwing shots. It's definitely a good school. It's just my experience [01:30:00] wasn't. But if you know me for real, you know what school it was, so I don't really need to mention it anyway.

[01:30:02] soundrop: It's not relevant. And also just keep in mind that my major is business administration. Anyway, I knew I wanted to go to, uh, college in Florida for a while because I love the weather down there, and I used to always, like, vacation there when I was little, so I was definitely used to it. I went to visit this particular school, like, my junior year of high school, and I loved it because the dorms were nice.

[01:30:13] soundrop: Um, you know, all the buildings were, like, recently renovated. The, um, the tour guides were very friendly. And also- Yeah, he's at Fairleigh ... it was on the cheaper side for tuition among colleges in Florida, which it was thirty-five thousand a year, so that's definitely not cheap, but we'll get into that later in the video.

[01:30:23] soundrop: Overall, though, when I committed to the school and sent my deposit, I was really looking forward to going here. So fast-forward to my first weekend there. I had orientation, which was fun. You know, the, the guys were nice, of course. I met my roommates. They were cool. Shout-out to them. But the thing that threw me off at first with my roommates is that we had got written up for sneaking alcohol on the very first night we was there.

[01:30:35] soundrop: I wasn't with them when they had went to get the alcohol, so it really had nothing to do with me, but our dorm was already at risk of losing, like, some of the privileges we had, and it was only the first night. So I think, like, my second night there, me and my roommates, we had went to the beach at, like, midnight.

[01:30:43] HD: It was- I gotta pause it because, like, sneaking alcohol-

[01:30:46] cybershortieee: Speed this story up because he ain't talking about nothing. This stuff typical college students go through. What is he talking about? We

[01:30:50] HD: never got in trouble for bringing alcohol in the dorm.

[01:30:52] cybershortieee: You will get in trouble, especially if you're under twenty-one.

[01:30:54] HD: Not in Louisiana. They don't

[01:30:56] cybershortieee: care. Where are you from?

[01:30:56] HD: They don't care.

[01:30:57] cybershortieee: You will get in trouble.

[01:30:58] HD: No, I'm saying, but they don't care.

[01:30:59] cybershortieee: [01:31:00] They do care.

[01:31:00] HD: They check for women, and they check for boys in the girls' dorm.

[01:31:03] cybershortieee: You will get potentially kicked off campus, some schools

[01:31:06] HD: for having alcohol. That's what I'm saying.

[01:31:07] HD: No, no, I'm not, I'm not disagreeing with you. You will, you will catch a case. I'm just saying... But I'm saying down South, it's not one of their biggest things because you can go anywhere and get some- Up North ... and get some drink.

[01:31:14] cybershortieee: You are on, um, probation.

[01:31:15] HD: The other thing about it, where I'm from, they sell liquor seven days a week.

[01:31:19] cybershortieee: Where I'm from, the liquor store open till two AM. You ain't saying nothing. Mm-hmm.

[01:31:22] HD: So.

[01:31:23] cybershortieee: Two AM. Go at one fifty, and they still open.

[01:31:26] HD: Exactly. Back in the day, they would go before they went to the club.

[01:31:30] soundrop: Had fun. We was on the beach in the sand. It was, like, only us. And then, like, the night after that, we went to our first party, which was actually also fun, but I still couldn't find my sense of fulfillment being there because I've never really been the party type.

[01:31:37] soundrop: You know, it was never my thing. Yeah, social anxiety. I got social anxiety. So fast-forward another few days, um, one of my roommates had threw up in the bathroom from being drunk, which I get it, it's college. But the thing that threw me off was that he didn't even clean it up that well. So, like, we had the vomit smell in our bathroom for, like, days after, and that just, that was gross to me.

[01:31:49] soundrop: That was, like, the point where I was questioning myself, like, "Do I really belong here?" Because, like, my roommates was doing stuff that was throwing me off, and, like, I wasn't used to being this far away from home. Like, I was, like, nineteen hours away from home. So that all happened in the week leading up to the weekend.

[01:31:58] soundrop: Now it's Sunday morning. I'm feeling [01:32:00] down. I'm not really feeling myself. I'm missing my family. So I hop-

[01:32:03] HD: You a weakling.

[01:32:03] cybershortieee: I'm about to go Speed this up 'cause he, 'cause I, 'cause I can't my church live stream, you know, my church back at home. I hop

[01:32:08] soundrop: on their YouTube live stream, 'cause I feel like in that moment that's what I really needed.

[01:32:12] soundrop: I needed to hear the word from my pastor to, like, really keep me going and keep me motivated and to keep my hopes up. And they were having baptisms that specific Sunday, so I actually heard a testimony from a, a, you know, a young guy like me who had went away to college but, you know, he was feeling depressed.

[01:32:22] soundrop: He wasn't feeling himself. He was homesick and it got to the point where he actually didn't even wanna see tomorrow. And his testimony really resonated with me because he was a few months into the semester at that point. I was only a weekend and I was feeling some of the same thoughts. So after I heard that it kinda just, it kept playing in my head and I couldn't stop thinking about it.

[01:32:33] soundrop: And I know what you're probably thinking, you know, it's the first, second week. That's normal. Give it some time. Trust me, I was thinking the same thing too but we gonna get into that. So you know me being an impulsive thinker, I called my mom a few days later. I'm like, "Mom, is it too late for you to come pick me up and bring me back home?"

[01:32:42] soundrop: And I'm not gonna lie, I think she was kinda expecting that

[01:32:44] HD: He, I, I already got my answer because he didn't say I called my dad and mom. I called my mom I know you be saying I shouldn't say certain things, but

[01:32:54] cybershortieee: you can- Don't say it. I know what you're gonna say. I get you, but just don't say it. But you can just- Just put it in your pocket.

[01:32:59] cybershortieee: Put it in your pocket

[01:32:59] soundrop: [01:33:00] call 'cause she kept saying, like, every time I would call her I would look stressed or disappointed, and I didn't really look like myself. And I'm not gonna lie, that specific day that I called her I cried, because there's a lot going through my head. Like, am I gonna regret this?

[01:33:07] soundrop: Should I just stay? Where am I gonna go to school in Jersey if I do go back? And I also felt bad that she had to drive 19 hours all the way back to Florida to pick me up just a few weeks after taking me. But being the great, caring, loving mother that she is, plus I'm the only boy and I'm the youngest, so she's automatically overprotective.

[01:33:18] soundrop: She's-

[01:33:18] HD: She coddled you.

[01:33:19] cybershortieee: He literally just said that. He don't know he said that, but that's what he said.

[01:33:23] HD: You got coddled, son. Yeah. It's two years later and you still talking like that. You should have a different perspective on it. You should have stuck it out at least the semester.

[01:33:30] soundrop: That she would come get me.

[01:33:31] soundrop: So shout out my mom for that. I don't know where I would be today without her. I always look back and think about that moment. Like, if I had to just stay and thug it out, I probably would've been just fine. I would've got used to it and I would've liked it. But like I said, as an impulsive thinker, I'm just thinking worst case scenario in that moment.

[01:33:40] soundrop: Like, I'm thinking, like, I could've started failing classes 'cause of how, you know, I'm homesick and I'm missing home and I'm not in my right head space, which that literally would've been about, like, $19,000 down the drain if I'm failing classes. So that's what ultimately drove my decision to go back home.

[01:33:50] soundrop: Plus, it was still, like, the second week of the add/drop period, so I definitely wanted to take advantage of that. I definitely had to swallow a lot of pride coming back home, you know, especially after going all the way down there for school, but, you know, I was okay with it. I've never been a prideful person.

[01:33:58] soundrop: And even though I didn't see it at the time, I [01:34:00] made the best decision possible. So I ended up taking online classes at that Florida college for the fall 2024 semester after going back and forth with the registrar's office. And that was probably the best thing I did, 'cause I knew I still wanted to go to college and I didn't want to fall behind with the rest of my class.

[01:34:09] soundrop: So I changed to online instead of dropping them completely. Plus, it was kind of too late to enroll in any Jersey college, 'cause it was, like, the first week of September, so the next best option was to, you know, just take the online classes. So those first few months back home I was going through a lot, like, just constantly thinking about how I disappointed myself, I disappointed my family, I let them down.

[01:34:22] soundrop: I would constantly get down on myself for not staying at school. I just had so much self-doubt and low self-confidence at that time. I would definitely say that's the probably the lowest point of my entire life, 'cause I wasn't really on social media, so nobody knew what I was going through. I had distanced myself from my friends, so they didn't really know either.

[01:34:33] soundrop: I just told them I came back home, but that was really it. And I already wasn't feeling myself, like, a few months prior to that because I had gained 25 pounds during that year. I had a grade two hamstring strain in my senior year of track, which was, which happened in, like, February of that year. So that's what caused me to gain so much weight, 'cause I couldn't run for, like, two months.

[01:34:44] soundrop: And I didn't truly understand how much I was going through until I came back home from school and I stepped on the scale and I was 168 pounds. When I left for school I was about 180 pounds, so I lost 12 pounds in a span of two weeks. That just shows, like, you know, I was stressed, I was going through a lot.

[01:34:54] soundrop: That was just shocking to me. And since that point I've lost about 30 pounds in total, so I'm now down to 150, so definitely amen to that. Thing that got me [01:35:00] through these difficult times was praying and just, you know, deep talks with God. So I'm definitely appreciative and thankful for that. Even when it feels like I have nobody, I know I have God in my corner pushing me every step of the way.

[01:35:07] soundrop: You know, God definitely has favor on me, so I'm forever blessed. But this is definitely not the end of my story. Like and follow for part two where I talk about what I'm doing now, how I overcame all this, and my future plans.

[01:35:14] cybershortieee: I don't even never want to hear a part two. I'm here to tell you

[01:35:16] soundrop: right now we don't care.

[01:35:18] soundrop: Let me tell- All right. Let me tell you something. We don't care. Jerry-

[01:35:20] cybershortieee: That was painful to sit through and listen. I always

[01:35:22] HD: thought he was gonna give us a good

[01:35:23] cybershortieee: reason. He... Hey, listen. I, I... Listen. Listen.

[01:35:27] HD: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta say it. Go. Go ahead.

[01:35:28] cybershortieee: Go ahead. Go ahead.

[01:35:29] HD: The women are-

[01:35:30] cybershortieee: No, don't say it. Don't say it.

[01:35:31] cybershortieee: I

[01:35:31] HD: have to

[01:35:32] cybershortieee: say it. Don't say it. Don't. We all know w- we, we-

[01:35:36] HD: That's why I have to say it.

[01:35:38] cybershortieee: No, because we know what you're gonna say. You don't have to say it.

[01:35:40] HD: I have to say it because- No

[01:35:41] cybershortieee: you don't ...

[01:35:42] HD: Let me tell you why I have to say it, because if it was reversal, it'd be the same thing. It would be the same thing.

[01:35:45] HD: I have to say it because it

[01:35:45] cybershortieee: may be

[01:35:48] HD: a young man just like him listening You're at a certain age really, if your dad ain't dead or, or in jail, or you can't find him, your mama should just let you go live with him. Because a dad [01:36:00] would've said, "No, you gonna stay there at least a semester."

[01:36:03] cybershortieee: Bruh, two weeks? Are you kidding me?

[01:36:05] cybershortieee: He wouldn't have even lasted through another semester because he wasn't even gonna get through the financial aid issues. No.

[01:36:11] HD: No, let's even talk about

[01:36:12] cybershortieee: that. He couldn't, he couldn't even handle roommate issues.

[01:36:14] HD: No, no, because the thing is, okay, roommate, cool. Let's go to, um-

[01:36:19] cybershortieee: You can get a new roommate ...

[01:36:20] HD: thank you, residential

[01:36:21] cybershortieee: life.

[01:36:21] cybershortieee: You can, you can get a new roommate tomorrow.

[01:36:23] HD: Let's go to residential life and, hey, let's see if they

[01:36:26] cybershortieee: got anything open. But that's, but that's my whole point, is if you can't even figure out how to get out of that situation and still do what you're trying to do, the whole point of you being here is- 'Cause like- Because he didn't even get to financial aid.

[01:36:38] HD: 'Cause like for example, my first, what, month or something at LA Tech, me and Harold was in... When I tell you, the dorm don't even exist no more 'cause they pretty much destroyed all the dorms. This thing looked like a jail, I promise you. It w- it was called The Hut. And my football coach that I had in high school, when he was there in the '70s, that was they dorm.

[01:36:58] HD: Two

[01:36:58] cybershortieee: weeks. I'm [01:37:00] sorry.

[01:37:00] HD: No, you good. But they were supposed to, one, have us in a different dorm to where we each had to keep on going to residence, like, "Yo, I can't deal with these conditions. When y'all moving us around?" And so they end up moving us to different dorms. However, unfortunately Harold and I were no longer roommates, so they just moved us whoever had open rooms.

[01:37:17] HD: And it was fine. My roommates was fine. Like, you talking about ho. The guy didn't clean the good... Okay, here's a suggestion, sir. Either y'all, I'll tell buddy, "Hey, you gotta clean that up some better 'cause it stinks," or if it's bothering you that bad, go get your latex gloves and you clean it

[01:37:33] cybershortieee: Nobody was gonna clean it up for y'all 'Cause- It was gonna have to be one

[01:37:36] HD: of y'all- 'Cause I've-

[01:37:36] HD: cleaning it up ... dealt with a little bit. Like, I had... We had a... My summer year I had a apartment and it was, like, four of us. You had a living room, main living space, and four rooms. And one of the guys, he was so dirty. He would, like, make, like, chili and stuff like that, leave the can in the sink, and just eat stuff, just leave it in the sink.

[01:37:50] HD: And I'm like, "I ain't washing that." I think maybe one time I washed something, but other than that, I'm not washing nothing after. But not... I had my friends, my good friend stayed, like, diagonally from me, so I used to go to their spot or [01:38:00] anybody else spot, 'cause I was like, "I'm not dealing with none of this stuff.

[01:38:02] HD: They got it." But he was also, to me, a little bit coddled, 'cause he was... Well, he wasn't coddled, but he did cry whenever... Like, all his friends was looking out for him when his girl had broke up with him and stuff like that, but it is what it is. But yeah, he, he... Hopefully he's doing all right, but she coddles you and you're still being coddled.

[01:38:21] cybershortieee: I'm aggravated. I don't even have anything else to say about it.

[01:38:23] HD: Because I'm like, how much are you paying for online school? 'Cause brother-

[01:38:27] cybershortieee: You didn't even try ...

[01:38:28] HD: he could've just went to community college, and then, uh, gradually, if you didn't want, you didn't have to go all the way to Florida. And that's the whole thing.

[01:38:35] cybershortieee: It's people that's dying to even just be able to go to college. Like, dying to just do something different with their life, and you get there and you, and you fumble the bag. You fumble the bag, it's crazy. Over a roommate. Everybody! I don't know one person that I went to college with that didn't have a roommate issue.

[01:38:53] HD: Yeah, but even... Let's, let's go for that. It... This is why I say, parents, hey, your kids are 17, 18, they [01:39:00] don't know what they think they know. Say, "Hey, you ain't really been this far from me. Le- here's some other options that's closer in case you get homesick. You're closer, you can come back home."

[01:39:09] cybershortieee: Now, the, now being 19 hours away, that's a long time, and I'm not saying that that doesn't play in.

[01:39:14] cybershortieee: That's a long time, a long ways away from home. But

[01:39:18] HD: I'd be different if he's saying, "Hey, uh, somebody beat me up, they stole my money." There was none of that

[01:39:22] cybershortieee: stuff. I think it... But, but from his perspective, I think it was all, "Plus I'm 19 hours away from home, too." But I still think he could've stuck it- You in Florida

[01:39:30] cybershortieee: I think that he should've at least stuck it out a semester to have a real, true experience. 'Cause two weeks is... Those could be two bad weeks. I'ma- The next 10 weeks could've been great weeks.

[01:39:41] HD: I'ma ask Kendra where he think, where she think he went to school at. Mm. 'Cause he talking about everything was renovated.

[01:39:47] HD: But- I don't know, bro. I just... Well, what do y'all think? Will y'all let y'all son come back after a week or two just 'cause they homesick? No. I've been waiting to kick you out for 18 [01:40:00] years. You gonna stay in school for a semester, and you do what you're supposed to. You get you a schedule down. Sure, you don't have to go party, but go to the intramural, find you your own set of, of friends that's aiming for something, and do that.

[01:40:13] HD: And after the semester, if that's not what you like, we will work on you going to online. But what you're gonna do is experience at least a semester of college life. You're gonna experience what it feel like to be on your own. I'm sorry. You can always come back home, but I'm not doing that. Sometimes people, grown people gotta live with the decision that they make.

[01:40:33] HD: 'Cause unlike this, sometimes it's too late to pull out. You gonna have to deal with whatever you... decision you made.

[01:40:38] soundrop: Mm-hmm.

[01:40:38] HD: So that's what I would say for that. Um, let me see. I don't think we covered We covered, um, everything. So the Gemini stuff and the... Do you wanna talk about the, uh, 68-year-old [01:41:00] sent to prison about the 1.3 million?

[01:41:03] HD: What's the, what is it with 1.3 million? This the second story with 1.3 million.

[01:41:07] cybershortieee: Um, the 1.3 million IPTV pirate All right, a 68-year-old in the UK got sentenced to more than six years in prison for running an illegal IPTV service that pulled in nearly 981 pounds, about 1.3 million over three years. IPTV just means TV delivered over the internet instead of cable or satellite.

[01:41:30] cybershortieee: Totally legal when it's Netflix or your streaming app. Illegal IPTV is when someone resells stolen broadcasts, so think sports, premium channels, basically for a cheap monthly fee. This operation ran on 80 servers and sold pirated feeds from the BBC, Sky, the Premier League, and more. Now, police seized all 80 servers, and they're saying that seizure could identify the users who might face fines.

[01:41:55] cybershortieee: So, uh, I just bought a cheap streaming subscription is not [01:42:00] the safe, victimless move people think it is. Two, he's also facing proceeds of crime action to claw the money back. The prison time isn't even the whole bill. If a streaming deal is way too cheap to be real, there's a reason, and increasingly the customer list is part of what gets seized.

[01:42:18] cybershortieee: So make sure if you are out here participating in such things, that you are keeping it legitimate so that you are not at risk of, um, you know, any fines or any legal action as a result of, of that illegal service. Um, Abraham was previously a director of now dissolved CTU Systems, but authorities have not connected that company to the prosecuted service.

[01:42:43] cybershortieee: Um, so just kind of keep that in mind.

[01:42:47] HD: Yeah, he the new, uh... What's my boy name? Homie in a Haircat? That dude made, what, like 30 mil streaming illegally stuff.

[01:42:55] cybershortieee: I don't know about

[01:42:56] HD: that one. But that's the thing, and everybody's selling these, um, [01:43:00] like VC boxes and all that. It was a video I came across too. It's like, "Hey, be careful where you buying these Android boxes from because some of them are already loaded with malware where they turn into, your house into a botnet."

[01:43:11] soundrop: Mm-hmm.

[01:43:11] HD: So while you think you're getting over, they actually getting over by using your house to commit crimes. So that's definitely something to look into. But all in all, uh, sorry OG, man. They shouldn't even bothered you. 1.3 mil ain't nothing to him. Ain't nothing to him. But you gotta have it all. That's, they say you gotta have it all.

[01:43:33] HD: Uh, let me see. I think

[01:43:40] HD: I thought I was going to give us a chance to review the dude on DoorDash, but let me see. We got like I think two I want to cover real quick. We can do Marquesas, and then we can get into Beezus, Beezus Christ.

[01:43:55] soundrop: You are probably smarter than your VPs. I'm in meetings [01:44:00] with senior directors, VPs, managing VPs all day, every day.

[01:44:06] soundrop: And when I say that the people at the top don't know what they're doing, I mean that shit. Those individuals are so far removed from doing the actual hands-on day-to-day technical work that when they're in these meetings, they don't know what they're doing. They don't know what they're talking about. You guys have so much imposter syndrome.

[01:44:38] soundrop: And when I speak to my clients, I'm like, for what? The people that's in these roles making 350K, 400K, 500K base salary bonuses on top, like 20, 30, 40% bonuses with equity. Those people don't know shit about shit.

[01:44:57] HD: She hot.

[01:44:58] soundrop: They don't even know what pot [01:45:00] they shit in. The wrong people are making the most money in corporate.

[01:45:05] HD: She is hot. I ain't never heard her talk like that. I'm going to text her. I'm like, girl, why the VPs got you so hot?

[01:45:11] cybershortieee: I seen that video and liked it.

[01:45:13] HD: But do you agree with her?

[01:45:15] cybershortieee: I do. Not all VPs of all companies, but a lot of VPs don't know what they're doing. A lot of people in leadership, unfortunately, sometimes they got that job just because they knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody.

[01:45:29] cybershortieee: It ain't always you got that job because you were qualified and you got the skills to pay the bills. So I could, if you are not qualified, yeah, that's how you're going to show up.

[01:45:39] HD: True, true. Now, matter of fact, did you have any reddits today? I thought about it. I don't know if I had any.

[01:45:47] cybershortieee: No.

[01:45:47] HD: Let me see. I think I did have one.

[01:45:51] HD: Now that I think about it, let me see.

[01:45:57] HD: Hmm. Rakuda says, "Be careful how you [01:46:00] follow up." This is actually a good one. We never talked about this. That's actually pretty interesting to me So, um, job search tip. I received this follow-up from a candidate on Friday after we spoke that Monday. I am writing a follow-up about the exposition we discussed on Monday, as I have yet to hear back from anyone.

[01:46:20] HD: This came from a really great candidate. As a recruiter, I admit I didn't love the tone, but recruiters are also used to getting beat up every day. My bigger thought was be careful how you follow up. Following up is absolutely appropriate. In fact, I encourage it, but there's a difference between showing interest and sounding frust- and sounding frustrated, especially when your message may be going directly to a hiring manager who is helping decide whether to move you forward.

[01:46:43] HD: A simple, "I wanted to follow up and see if there have been any updates. I remain very interested in the p- opportunity," can accomplish the same exact thing. I agree with her, but I don't think it was right to say it's a difference between, um, what she said, showing interest and sounding frustrated, [01:47:00] 'cause who ain't frustrated in the job market?

[01:47:01] HD: So, I don't agree with that part. But yeah, definitely it's easy to say, "Hey, I just wanted to follow up, see if you guys had any updates for me in this interview process, um, this role." One, that's a rassle dazzle. If you feel like you're a good candidate, you can say, "This is definitely still my top selection in the interview process, and I just want to know, uh, how you guys are moving along, what updates you have as I'm trying to get my schedule together for the week," or something like that.

[01:47:23] HD: Definitely a good one to say just 'cause you're letting them know like, hey, this is one of the top, top roles you're interested in. You know, a little finesse. Same thing you always tell, you know. I like making the jokes about dating and, and job searching. Uh, you know I'm only talking to you.

[01:47:37] HD: Um, let me see. I think I read this before, so I'm not gonna read that one. Okay. Now let me go to This one with bees. Bees pretty much rated the, uh, top Come to your certs based on like what you think they'll give you job [01:48:00] wise or at least like a lot of her stuff is based on like GovTech. So we'll see.

[01:48:05] HD: Actually, you know what? I should have did this one after we did Cyber Fairy, but let's, let's listen to him real quick because I forgot about I had this one

[01:48:17] soundrop: Fellas, uh, fellas, fellas, homie, y- we're not making any money. We got, we gotta get to the point where we're making money. I mean, I'm looking at all the data, and it's like white guys ... It's like Asian guys are at the top, then white guys, and Black guys are way at the bottom. You know? Like, I don't, and I don't mean, like, looking like you got money or hustling or being an entrepreneur.

[01:48:38] soundrop: I don't mean that. I mean actually making enough money to live and support a family. We, we gotta get to that point. I mean, like, become a radiology tech, become a, a HVAC tech, do plumbing, do a, be electrician, be a, get your CDL, b- you know, be a nurse. I know it's, you know, eh, but you can make money and you can [01:49:00] support a family.

[01:49:00] soundrop: We gotta get to that point. If I see another Honda Civic with the passenger seat leaned back, I know who's sitting in that. I know who's sitting there. You gotta make money. You gotta, we gotta get out of this, man. Just, you're n- you're not a hustler. You're broke.

[01:49:19] HD: I get it, but like we talked about the numbers, if we go by the numbers, it's not as bad as he making it seem.

[01:49:24] HD: That's c- that's pretty much from the wide net of everybody. Oh, that's everybody. But it's, it is pretty funny though. He's saying who's sitting there with the seat leaned back. You know there's women that'll partially let the seat all the way down back just to make they dude mad.

[01:49:35] cybershortieee: No.

[01:49:35] HD: To

[01:49:35] cybershortieee: drive. I mean, yes, but bye, grow up.

[01:49:38] cybershortieee: Please.

[01:49:39] HD: That sounds like accountability to me.

[01:49:41] cybershortieee: It does.

[01:49:42] HD: Mm, don't exist. We try.

[01:49:45] cybershortieee: Y'all is crazy. Relax.

[01:49:48] HD: It's fun to say that. We gotta get somebody riled up. What you mean we ain't accountable? I'm unaccounted.

[01:49:57] HD: Where is [01:50:00] Go ahead. There we go. Come to you, sir. Here we go

[01:50:05] soundrop: CompTIA A+, C tier. $500 two-part certification- I would put it in an F ... that might get you a job in help desk. Everyone gets this certification, so it does not make you stand out in the job market. CompTIA CySA+, A tier. This certification makes cybersecurity- I would say it's C tier ... a real career for you. It also opens up a lot of doors in gov tech.

[01:50:22] soundrop: It'll open up SOC analyst jobs, ISO jobs, and even more cybersecurity jobs as well. CompTIA Network+, B tier. Networking is foundational- I agree with that one ... you definitely need this skill, but the Cisco CCNA certification will get you much better job opportunity. CompTIA Security+, S tier. This certification really changed my life.

[01:50:39] soundrop: It opened up so many door-

[01:50:40] HD: I'm gonna say it's C tier. No, it's better than A+, so I'm putting it back at B tier. But you'll see it on a lot of job applications, so that's why I can see why it's labeled as S tier, but I'm focusing on, like, did you actually learn when you got the cert? So I'm gonna put it at B just based off it's better than A+.

[01:50:59] HD: That's why [01:51:00] A+ should be F. That way I can put Security+ as C tier just because at this point everybody passes it, so how are you standing out from anybody?

[01:51:08] soundrop: It worked for me in tech. It allowed me to go overseas, but also even if you have no tech experience, you can get into help desk roles, data center roles, and even more type of tech roles.

[01:51:16] soundrop: And if you have a security clearance, this can open up cybersecurity roles for you as well. CompTIA Linux+, C tier. Linux is a great skill to learn, but this certification is all multiple choice, so if you're looking for a more hands-on certification, I would say skip this one. CompTIA PenTest+, D tier. It's a challenging certification, but you're just not gonna see it on many job descriptions.

[01:51:35] soundrop: Definitely- F ... better penetration tester certifications out there. CompTIA SecX, S tier. This is a great certification that's gonna set you apart from other people in cybersecurity. This is an advanced certification, so it is very difficult and challenging, and it will open up a lot of doors for you if you're looking for a gov tech role.

[01:51:52] HD: I'm gonna say F because I have not seen it on many job descriptions. So I'm gonna say F tier, um, [01:52:00] based off my experience. Now somebody can come tell me I'm wrong, but I'm only going off of I have not heard much off of it. It's a very new cert, so to me it's not S tier.

[01:52:11] soundrop: Which CompTIA certifications are you looking to get, and what certification should I rank next?

[01:52:15] soundrop: Make sure you follow me for more tech tips.

[01:52:17] HD: And I forgot, she left out Cloud+. It's a, it's a couple of them that she could have talked about where I feel like, um They suck. And I'm trying to see that actually. Let me look at my, my things 'cause I know it was something I meant to bring up that I forgot to bring up today.

[01:52:33] HD: Let me see. Actually, let's see something. So B, speaking of B, she posted something. She said, "He'll probably never find a role talking like this on LinkedIn." And it's the, the, the post says how not to land a job in tech. Dude said, "Had a terrible interview experience with Databricks today. The interviewer, Dominique Brown, didn't show up until I emailed him after Dominique was more than 10 minutes late to call me."

[01:52:55] cybershortieee: He not getting no another job. "

[01:52:56] HD: I missed the call 'cause I went to the restroom. Called him back not two minutes later, he didn't [01:53:00] answer my call. Called him back multiple times. He eventually sent me an email saying he had some other meetings to go to. Weird that he double-booked the time slot. Told me we should meet next Tuesday.

[01:53:10] HD: There's going to be a calendar invite. I don't know if he'll remember the commitment he made for next week. Taking bets. As someone that has been looking for work over a year, this kind of garbage from a recruiter is very frustrating." Now, I do know some stuff like that, that happened-

[01:53:22] cybershortieee: Recruiters do be doing BS and they do be booking stuff last minute, but that's not the way to go about it.

[01:53:28] HD: Yeah. Period. Um, I had a client where she was dealing with that, where she wasn't hearing back from the recruiter, and it was like the recruiter like, "I'm so sorry. It's got the newborn. I got all these pets, and I'm getting overwhelmed. We had like 1,000 people apply to this job," that type of stuff. But she was like, "Just communicate better."

[01:53:43] HD: Uh, this one was like, I had posted something like Kevin Durant, uh, invested a quarter million dollars into Hugging Face, and this reportedly grew to over $60 million following Nvidia's acquisition. That's crazy. Imagine just having a spare quarter mil around. [01:54:00] And that's why I like when, when they talk about generational wealth, money like that is generational wealth because it's just hard to be able to invest something like that.

[01:54:08] HD: And then a lot of times a lot of stuff is gatekept. You don't even know the people who will say, "Hey, if you got $10,000, um, you can turn that 10,000 into what?" If

[01:54:18] HD: he did a quarter mil turned to 60 million, your 10,000 would probably turn into what? At least a million, I think

[01:54:30] HD: I hopefully my math ain't too off 'cause that went 250 to 60 million. So I don't know how to do the math on that. Maybe I can ask, uh, chat. Oh, this one, uh, Deloitte. Deloitte has agreed to pay nearly 21-- $21.5 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal government by continuing to consider diversity when making hiring, promotion, and staffing decisions So I remember s- hearing about that.

[01:54:57] HD: You know what I didn't talk about today? Saria and Joey [01:55:00] Badass. How you left Jacob thinking that you was finna go to a person that already had a kid, and that's finna give you what you was looking for.

[01:55:07] cybershortieee: That's not what she said. That's what you assume.

[01:55:08] HD: No, no, no.

[01:55:09] cybershortieee: Mm-mm. No,

[01:55:09] HD: no, no.

[01:55:10] cybershortieee: Mm-mm.

[01:55:10] HD: It's not assume.

[01:55:11] cybershortieee: Mm-hmm.

[01:55:12] HD: That's literally what happened.

[01:55:13] cybershortieee: No, that's what you assuming. What

[01:55:14] HD: she say?

[01:55:14] cybershortieee: That's not what she said. What she say? She, she never said that.

[01:55:17] HD: What did she say?

[01:55:18] cybershortieee: I don't know. 'Cause I,

[01:55:19] HD: I don't- I don't

[01:55:19] cybershortieee: care ...

[01:55:19] HD: exactly 'cause what you say versus what you do are two different things.

[01:55:22] cybershortieee: Exactly, and you saying that she said that, that's not

[01:55:24] HD: what she said.

[01:55:24] HD: No, no, no, I didn't say she said that. I, we know specifically she did want to settle down and have a family.

[01:55:30] cybershortieee: She did. He- And he didn't ...

[01:55:31] HD: no, he did. He just didn't want to do it at that time, 'cause he was not ready yet. Okay. Anybody that's on they purpose, I'll be a fool to tell a man that's getting like him, I think he was like, might would've been like 25 at that time or something like 25, 26.

[01:55:43] HD: He's just trying to establish himself. Like, he not finna rushing it just 'cause you want to. If that's what you wanna do, go on, go with your move.

[01:55:48] cybershortieee: And that's what she did.

[01:55:49] HD: But don't be trying to come spin the block on me. She

[01:55:51] cybershortieee: ain't trying to s- No, no. Did you see her trying to spin the block?

[01:55:54] HD: We don't know that.

[01:55:54] HD: I'm just saying for the-

[01:55:55] cybershortieee: Exactly ...

[01:55:56] HD: all

[01:55:56] cybershortieee: the- But she might not even be, so don't even put that out there ...

[01:55:58] HD: all the lady fans have been like, "Oh, [01:56:00] Jacob, we get your girl," but I'm like, "No, he can go start his own family."

[01:56:02] cybershortieee: Exactly, and he might not even want her.

[01:56:04] HD: That's, but that's the whole point. Yeah. I was like, you can go with your move, but sometimes what you think you want ain't what you need at the time.

[01:56:11] HD: 'Cause you went through, uh, necessary stuff. A pretty woman, everybody think they finna find a Russell. And I don't care if you're a celebrity or not. Sierra's a outlier. Everybody ain't Sierra. Sierra- Saria, you cute and everything, but you're not Sierra either.

[01:56:26] cybershortieee: I'm dead.

[01:56:27] HD: She ain't

[01:56:31] HD: She's not

[01:56:32] cybershortieee: I didn't say she was

[01:56:33] HD: And I like her. I used said I would call her Tiana when I was watching Empire. Tiana. But guys, I think we have came to a close. I do not think anybody left us any type of, uh, voicemails today. Let me double-check 'cause I, I have all these occurring posts that everybody probably should see that reoccur every day about, "Hey, follow the podcast.

[01:56:53] HD: Go leave us a voicemail. Go, go sign up for the Patreon." Yeah, we don't have one today. But, uh, all in all, guys, [01:57:00] remember, watch out for the wanksters. Watch out for the fake-sters. If somebody told you they was in the NFL and you can't find no game film, you can't even see them playing in college- ... don't believe them.

[01:57:11] HD: Um, he could at least say he was playing arena football or something. He coulda did better than that. Um, don't pay the ransom unless you got proof that they do got your data, and you're not trying to have to avoid paying more things and fees and everything. You know, you're gonna be probably bringing up the 8K pretty soon if they publicly trade it.

[01:57:28] HD: And do not be so, um, gung-ho about going to watch somebody play GTA VI. So that's what I'm gonna leave y'all with. And what you say?

[01:57:39] cybershortieee: That's all we got, y'all.

[01:57:42] HD: And that remind me of Esa and the We Got Y'all. All right. We out here. Peace