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Tech Wed 1-28-26
Episode 428th January 2026 • User Friendly Flash Briefing • User Friendly Media Group, Inc.
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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User

Friendly

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2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer

with this week's Tech Wednesday.

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We've been talking recently

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on the show about devices that track you

and sell your data, that type of thing.

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And from one standpoint, we’ve gone

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over some common-sense things

you can do to be able to minimize that.

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But what happens when the device itself

is compromised?

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Hundreds of millions of audio devices

need a patch to prevent wireless hacking

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and tracking

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from one major company

that we're going to talk

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about this Saturday here on user friendly

and what you need to do

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to see if your devices are secure

or as secure as they can be.

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Pretty much everything

we have in our house, from our phones

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to our smart speakers to a number of other

things can listen to what we're saying.

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Our monitoring for keywords

to give answers to questions.

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That type of a thing.

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A lot of this is very benign

and designed to help you.

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But there is a side of this,

especially when hackers get involved

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that can compromise

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that and basically place

an eavesdropping microphone in your home.

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Joining us this Saturday on User Friendly

2.0 is we

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talk about this and talk about how you can

check out what's listening to you.

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