- Did anybody watch "The Great Hack"?
Oh my goodness, because I've got kids.
I don't think I wanna touch Facebook again.
In fact I don't really think I wanna touch a computer
ever again after watching that, holy.
Good morning.
- Oh, and in case I don't see you,
good afternoon, good evening and good night (laughs).
- Thank you so much for watching.
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In fact there's something I'm gonna show you.
So we've been doing these videos for 41 episodes,
so 41 weeks that is so far.
My stats on YouTube, so 41 weeks in,
we now have 21,800 minutes
in the last 28 days have been watched of me.
Let's just, that is 363 hours of this face,
being watched by people in the last 28 days, you weirdos.
So anyway, off the back of that
hugely, hugely, eyeopening film on Netflix,
which was effectively about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
They basically hacked Facebook
and they got all of the details
of all of the people on Facebook
and used that data
to find the most people susceptible to manipulation
and then manipulated that crowd
to then vote the way they wanted them to vote.
It was used to get Trump elected, it was used to get Brexit,
and these are very, and I mean seriously,
very scary things that big media corporations can do.
And it's not the likes of just Cambridge Analytica,
any media corporation, the amount of power they have
to sway people's minds to their own agenda
is just absolutely nuts.
So, I thought today's video
was worth making about your data security,
and particularly about your encryption
because in today's day and age,
you should never, never, never,
never, never, never,
never, never, never, never, never,
never, be using an unencrypted laptop.
Firstly, what is encryption?
So encryption is a way of protecting
all of the files, folders,
even the operating system, that's on your laptop,
so that somebody without your encryption password
can't actually see anything on your laptop.
They can't, even if they physically removed
the hard disk out and plug it into their own machine,
they can't get the data off of it.
So today we're gonna run through
how to turn on encryption on your machine.
So on your Mac,
you wanna go to the Apple menu in the top left,
go down to System Preferences.
When you go into there, find Security & Privacy,
find the FileVault tab along the top,
and then you want to Turn On FileVault.
All you then do is pop in a password,
and then just let it crack on and encrypt your laptop.
So for Windows machines it's fairly similar,
you want to go to the Start menu,
just search for BitLocker,
and there'll be an option called Manage BitLocker.
Once you're in there you wanna Turn BitLocker On.
And in here you get a few different options,
the first of all you get an option
to Save to your Microsoft account,
which you can do if you're signing in
with a proper Microsoft account.
If you want to save it to a file
which then means you have a file
that you can use to authenticate
or you can print off your recovery key,
which is your final password.
If you lose that password
you don't have access to your data.
And the options you get here
are to encrypt the used disk space only or the entire drive.
Our advice is to encrypt the entire drive,
and click on Next.
If you get the option to do this,
you want to use the new encryption mode, click on Next,
and then click on Start encrypting,
and that again will start off doing a similar thing
as the Mac side of things, it will just crack on.
So whilst we're waiting for that,
I've got something to show you.
Now, some lovely chap from, I think it was LinkedIn,
might have been YouTube,
but anyway, a chap called Chris Jackway
from TeamGeek who is an IT company based in Bristol,
sent me a very, very humbling letter,
and I'm just gonna read it out to you,
'cause it was so, so nice to receive something like this:
Hi Pete, thanks for investing your time,
energy, and resources,
to share your IT and business knowledge
and experience via YouTube.
I found it both interesting and really reassuring
since I'm on a similar journey
albeit a few strides behind Tekkers.
I run a small but growing IT support business in Bristol
and it's great to see another IT support provider
with an ingrained value to always do the right thing.
You're an inspiration to start documenting my own journey
and sharing the knowledge and experience I have.
I hope you enjoy the enclosed chocolate.
Yes, very much so, thank you very much.
"If you ever find yourself visiting Bristol
"then please give me a shout,
"I'll show you round and buy a beer/coffee."
Well, that's just, you are incredible.
Thank you very, very, much.
That is so, so humbling.
And obviously, if you're looking for IT support in Bristol,
he hasn't asked me to say this,
this isn't a paid promotion or anything,
but definitely check this guy out.
So anyway, thank you, really appreciate it.
Also gives me something to eat
whilst we're doing this video.
Anyway those laptops are still encrypting.
So, it's like a bit of ASMR is it?
Cheers!
So anyway, now that's enabled,
you're at least relatively protected
against things like loss or stealing of your own laptop,
or something along those lines.
Now one question you might be asking is,
does it slow down your computer?
The answer is generally no,
but if you're trying to use a very, very, very old laptop,
like a five-year-old laptop, six, seven-year-old laptop,
then yes there is certainly a chance
that it's going to slow your machine down
because firstly it's gotta go through
and encrypt everything,
and then each time you're accessing the files and folders,
it's gotta decrypt those files.
So it is a tiny, tiny overhead.
If you're using a modern computer,
with SSD storage and a decent processor,
a decent amount of memory,
then it should have no problems whatsoever
with the encryption.
And that's all I've got for you today.
Hope that's of help, of use to somebody,
because given that documentary I've just seen
on Cambridge Analytica and Facebook,
I think I wanna move country,
maybe start wearing a tin foil hat,
and generally stop watching YouTube videos.
Books, books are probably where it's at, right?
I've said quite a few times
that my top all-time recommended book
is "Profit First" by Mike Michalowicz,
and that's not because it's all about generating profit
and become rich and famous within a matter of time,
it's just all about a better way of managing your money.
So I'm gonna leave you with one question,
which is, what is your one book?
And I'm not looking for your book recommendations,
I'm not looking for a list of books that I can read,
I actually have about 20 books
that I still have to yet to read on my Audible account.
But, I wanna know, what is the one book, and one book only,
that you have read, or listened to on Audible,
that has, I'm about to sneeze, it's coming.
Sorry, what is the one book,
the one book that you have read or listened to on Audible,
that has made a dramatic improvement
or a dramatic impact to you personally, or your business.
For me it's Mike Michalowicz and "Profit First,"
because that now just sorts out our entire money,
for both personal and for our business life.
So, what's that one book?
Go.