Episode 330 – Caston Thomas, Internet Advisor, Dave Sucks at Event Scheduling

IMPORTANT NOTE: due to Dave not paying attention, the networking event this month is on the 23rd at Detroit City Distillery.  We know, it's always 3rd Thursday... he screwed up, it's a thing, move on.  That being said, tonight we're joined by Caston Thomas to chat about our recent appearance on the Internet Advisor show, as well as an upcoming seminar series he's doing about securing iOT devices and networks that you probably want to pay attention to... Happy patch Tuesday. This a special recording of the IT in the D show recording a day late. But that's all right. We've got a special guest in the studio Caston Thomas in the house. We're going to be talking about all of the fun stuff that you, a and security that we just got off on. WJR to go home and home are thrilling experience on am radio. Yeah, yeah. We were talking about that and talking about security and property security. Uh, you know what, Dave, you may fire when ready going on. Thanks for hanging out. This is the one and only it in the D show. Broadcasting live here in studio three and podcast. He traded beautiful Royal Oak. Michigan has chaos. May have it happens. They say, is Bob the sales guy? That was Dave the geek. Randy. I do. The Twitters is doing the Twitters. Find a some ways. Find us online it in the D. dot com. Do us a favor, give us a like on the socials and subscribe to us everywhere. Fine podcasts are sold. And so because I'm an idiot and I freely own it and I admit it. Uh, so the meetup for this month was not set up for the third Thursday. It was set up for the fourth Thursday. So it is not this Thursday. It is next Thursday, the 23rd. Uh, it will be at Detroit city distillery. Come on out. Hang. Should be a fun night. Love the venue. Love the liquor. It's a good time. I'm not gonna lie, it's big coming. Extremely difficult to book a venue in this town. It is, and we've talked about this for two years now. We're like, you know, places that, you know, we went for, you know, six, seven, eight years when nobody cared about them and nobody went there. All of a sudden now they want, they got the a, they got the no, because they've got somebody booked a holiday play there and now they think everybody's got 1000 bucks an hour. My ass Russell, they booked an M and M video and how they think they can get top dollar, but like I called a, it's a new retro bowling alley in Royal Oak. That's shall not be named that has pull in the name. Um, I'm only like 200 bucks an hour just to show up. No food. No, I'm good. Thanks. It's kind of like, Hey, and I said, we can always just crash a joint. Right? Yeah. But I don't want to do that because then we, you know, the people ask, the thing is you need to have buy in from the front desk. Like, Hey, I'm here for it in the day. True. Whoa. What? Yeah. Um, so like I go, Hey, there's going to be like 30 to 50 and flash mobs or so, 2001 we don't, do they need to die? Well, they know. I say this is the way I set it up. I go, we don't charge because here's the thing, I can understand what the venue is when you charge. Like, Hey, I'm going to use your 50 bucks to walk in the door and then I charge you 20 bucks. Like kiss my ass. Yeah. But I'm saying, Hey, we don't charge cover. We don't take sponsors. There's no speakers. Everyone's on their own for food and whatever they want to order. Um, we just need someplace to hang out. Yeah. Okay. It'll be 200 bucks an hour. Like for, for, for, for what? Bye-bye. Yeah, exactly. Cause you're so crowded on a random Thursday night that you can't use the additional business, you know, then smell you in the window. You know, if you're, if you're, if you know someone that's a bar owner, like literally that would want us reach out to us. Please. We're glad to hear about it. These phone calls, it's ridiculous. Like, or we'll just keep doing all of our events at whiskey in the jar. It'll be that simple. We'll just be there every, we don't have, do we have friends at Ember anymore? No. No. Rusty's still there. Rusty's, you're going to pork around. Um, uh, I don't know. Maybe I just don't like that venue that I think it's, you know, nobody plays pinball, but it's just cool to have them in the background. Exactly. It's a fun spot. I'm sure we can find someplace. So the baby, I mean it's not anywhere convenient, but like dude, that arcade place and Frazier would like cut off their arm to have us come to that. Yeah. And speaking of that like major magic is making a comeback. They are, they're right there. Right around the corner from me. Here's an interesting, I never really, I don't think I ever talked to you about this. Um, when major magics said they were coming back and I happened to pop up my note on, on LinkedIn or Facebook saying, Hey, you know, invested in a brewery in the past didn't work out. I see you're coming back. Want to know what you're doing with it. You wanted to see if you wanted to like maybe adult it. Yeah. Make major magics you know, for the nostalgia crowd. I mean Chuck E cheese serves beer. Yeah. And he's like, what's your intention? Like it was really bizarre conversation. Like, I wish I saved it. I wish you could read it. And I'm like, ah, I just want to talk to you. Like maybe we can have a cup of coffee. Well, what, what do you want out of it? Well, I know how much you were looking to. I go, I don't know what it is yet or what it wants to be, and I can't really give you a business proposal when nothing's, I'm not just sitting here on a bag of money looking to do something with like [inaudible] furnace here. I've already done that once. That's why we don't own a brewery anymore. But then low and behold, maybe like six months ago, four months ago, he's like, Hey, are you still interested in? And I'm like, ah, ignore like you're such a weirdo. Like I didn't want nothing. So now apparently it's opening in like Chesterfield or something. No, dude, it's right around the corner from me. Oh, it's on, it's on gross back. It's 15 and gross back. It's in. So do you remember the, there was the taco bell, there was the abandoned taco bell and then the other building. So the, it'd be a crime. Yeah. So the other building was the old Riviera restaurant and that's where they was the Ram's horn. That was the, it was a, it's called Riviera. No, but it was a rent like long time ago, back in the old taste back when I was dragging the day when I hung out on the East side when I was stumbling at a chaplains and went to get French toast. Uh, ya know, so that's, yeah apparently in there, I think they're opening in February if I recall correctly. Like not too long from now. They're probably just, they pay you. The thing is it's probably going to be just a Barcade and he's got like six of the stupid dolls and he's going to set them up. No, apparently it's again I'm just going off the articles I read in that kind of stuff cause I was, I was curious cause I like I've heard you guys, cause it wasn't here when I was here, but I've heard you guys talk about it enough that I'm just curious to grasp it next to the star theater. And apparently like everything that was in that old one was put into storage and they have pulled everything out of storage and, and loaded up the place except for like skee-ball and like, it smelled like, was like jeepers, it smells like feet and piss. Like it's not theirs. They should just call it that. Phoenix. Nice pizza. That's actually probably a website. I'm quite sure. Smell the feet and Piz pizza then in the tokens. Um, but Hey, jumping in, uh, obviously today was patched today. We're, we're recording on Tuesday. If you haven't figured that out yet, today's patch Tuesday. And if you're working in a data center tomorrow, it's gonna be patch Wednesday. What's, you know what, I'm just gonna throw this out there. Can we talk about the windows? Windows 10 flaw for 10 seconds? Sure. Yeah, I know. Right? So here's this. No, this is, to me, this is interesting because the NSA came out with this and the NSA hasn't done this in the past. The NSA has held things for themselves. So apparently there is a pretty wicked windows 10 security patch. Uh, they just basically can expose users to surveillance or, uh, I believe it's with authentication. Yep. Um, but it's funny that back in the day, uh, they did, they did not, they held it back. They, they used it because they wanted that access. Right. So, you know, uh, wanna cry an external blue, uh, basically NSA exploited those for years and didn't say shit. Um, they basically, they develop hacking tools to exploit these holes. Um, and then they gave them to, or they were then found by Russian hacker groups called shadow brokers. Um, eternal blue still use to this day. Well and I think we all know that when we do something fine, but when the Russians do it, no, nah, no, no. Um, but apparently no, this was a even like at work, this is a big deal where it's all hands on deck first thing in the morning. Uh, security teams, all the server teams. Um, you know, this is, yeah, this is like all hands on deck. So yeah, if you're in a data center and, uh, you know, tomorrow should be fun. Hey, I mean Sam a broadcaster just updated and added a new notepad function. So, I mean that was pretty cool cause that's something that everyone's been dying for. I'm just dried mouse. No to like add notes while you're, cause you don't have notepad or WordPad or anything on the computer. You're running it on, you need a notepad in the stupid, just stupid. Speaking of that, there was um, I was thinking, I don't know why I think this is funny all the time, but they did doodle for Google. Yeah. And you can, um, so here's the thing. I don't know why this is funny. So here's the thing. I work, we have a thing at work called brilliant ideas and people could submit a brilliant idea and it goes in front of a panel and they either move forward with it and it could be something really simple. Like, Hey,...