Speaker 1: Here it is nine first one of wether forecasts. It's
Speaker 1: going to get colder today. Wait for around noon when
Speaker 1: the rain shows up, and that's when the temper is
Speaker 1: going to drop. From where we are right now, today's
Speaker 1: ie fifty five overnight down to twenty eight ran. I'll
Speaker 1: turn to snow sometime around or after eight pm. Get
Speaker 1: a sunny day tomorrow with a higher forty three clouds
Speaker 1: over night down to thirty one, and I guess, depending
Speaker 1: on what pointed down on Friday rain and snow predicted Fridays,
Speaker 1: I will be forty nine. It is fifty five now
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Speaker 2: To crawl thanks to two separate two car accidents blocking
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Speaker 2: forty five minute delay. Northbound seventy five slows out of
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Speaker 1: Seven forty one Fast Perching seven forty two fify five
Speaker 1: K City talk Station. God love the American veteran and
Speaker 1: God love everybody with the Claimont County Veteran Services and
Speaker 1: the other services of Veteran Service Commissions who are all
Speaker 1: doing wonderful work helping out our American veterans. In studio,
Speaker 1: Steve Belzow, Executive director, Welcome back, Steve. It's always great
Speaker 1: having on the show. Brian is good. It's another day
Speaker 1: to breathe, another day to exist, another day to create.
Speaker 1: So thanks for having us aboard. My friend can't thank
Speaker 1: you enough for the positive attitudes. Attitude Steve, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you you really have. You get a big charge
Speaker 1: out of and enthusiasm and a smile on your face
Speaker 1: from the work that you do for the American veteran. Oh.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, this is in some sense it's we as marines,
Speaker 3: we call it regreening. It's oh when when you get
Speaker 3: around those in uniform, it's like, come here, let me
Speaker 3: smell you. You smell like a cash exchange. You smell like
Speaker 3: uniform wool. Right, And sometimes just getting back around the presence.
Speaker 3: It's like regraining with veterans. We're all speaking the same language.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the closest I can come up with
Speaker 1: that sense of camaraderie is with my fraternity brothers. We're
Speaker 1: celebrating one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of our house
Speaker 1: chapter this weekend, and I just know how what a
Speaker 1: charge is to be around the brothers. And I know
Speaker 1: you feel that way about the veterans absolutely, And I
Speaker 1: know you have tremendous amount of concern about the veterans
Speaker 1: being able to access online their healthcare information. And some
Speaker 1: of the veterans have a bit of a stumbling block
Speaker 1: and a bit of a challenge with the my Health
Speaker 1: that website. So let's talk about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the you know, you can look at there's
Speaker 3: multiple facets of way to look at this. The two
Speaker 3: most prominent are the US government and the protection of
Speaker 3: the veterans.
Speaker 1: Yeah right.
Speaker 3: The other ones the veteran trying to access their benefits.
Speaker 3: The US government says we have been infiltrated multiple times
Speaker 3: on our website to include listen to the statistic. In
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, the Federal Trade Commission received more than
Speaker 3: one million reports of identity theft.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez.
Speaker 3: That same year, veterans or military retirees also reported to
Speaker 3: the Federal Trade Commission three hundred and fifty million in
Speaker 3: losses to fraud.
Speaker 1: That's heartbreaking.
Speaker 3: So how do you prevent that? Right? This is and
Speaker 3: actually you know, we say I'm from the government here
Speaker 3: to help, and everybody runs away. Right, But this is
Speaker 3: a positive step forward in securing the personally identifiable information
Speaker 3: we call it PII of the veterans accessing their healthcare
Speaker 3: on the internet.
Speaker 1: We're going to enter into another Tech Friday with Dave
Speaker 1: Hatter's segment here. But no, good security, aren't we good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what you're here for. You're subbing in for Dave Hatter.
Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Tell Dave? He owes me right, well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what with that as a sort of
Speaker 1: teaser for the next segment, where Steve can identify how
Speaker 1: they are protecting and better serving the American veteran with
Speaker 1: the changes to the website access. We'll take a quick
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Speaker 2: Cruise continue to work with a couple of accidents. Inbound
Speaker 2: seventy four left lane's block before you got the seventy
Speaker 2: five traffics backing to North Bend inbound seventy four running
Speaker 2: close to a forty five minute delay into town. Southbound
Speaker 2: seventy five slowed through block. On northbound seventy five. There
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Speaker 1: Sety nine fifty five krcy Detoxation Brian Thomas with Steve
Speaker 1: Bolzo from the Klimic County Veteran Services dealing with the
Speaker 1: challenges some of the veterans are facing accessing their healthcare online,
Speaker 1: and it's all about helping the veteran rather than hurting them.
Speaker 1: We're talking about things like two factor authentication, aren't we, Steve?
Speaker 1: We are absolutely all right. So walk my veteran friends
Speaker 1: through what's going on the process and the information of
Speaker 1: where they need to go in order to get through this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, great question. The veteran is used to accessing
Speaker 3: We all know multiple websites and we have VA. Dot
Speaker 3: gov is a landing page for various things. But then
Speaker 3: we had my Healthy Vet. We also had e benefits,
Speaker 3: all separate websites. What the VA is doing is trying
Speaker 3: to bring them underneath one umbrella, one stop shopping, one
Speaker 3: stop shopping. However, most are still used to it. It's
Speaker 3: muscle memory. Yeah, I go to my Healthy Vet and
Speaker 3: I order my medications. But now I'm told I have
Speaker 3: to log in a different way than what I'm used
Speaker 3: to for the past ten fifteen years. Moving to an
Speaker 3: id ME or login. Dot gov requires now a two
Speaker 3: factor we call it multi factor authentication, so that you
Speaker 3: need you on all your password, but an application to
Speaker 3: either you can have it on your phone to give
Speaker 3: you a rolling six digits every thirty seconds, or you
Speaker 3: have the government text you the six digits. The problem
Speaker 3: with that sometimes it's lagging too far behind to send
Speaker 3: you the text and now you're logged. Now you've got
Speaker 3: to start the whole process all over again.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez.
Speaker 3: The difficulty becomes brian though, in creating your new login
Speaker 3: dot gov or id me, because you have to take
Speaker 3: a picture of your driver's license. And if we look
Speaker 3: at Ohio's driver's license, it's got a clear film over
Speaker 3: the top, it's got gold foil underneath. It's got different
Speaker 3: identifiers you know, void do not copy, And so when
Speaker 3: you try to take a picture of it, all that
Speaker 3: flat is back at the camera. It bounces back to
Speaker 3: light and then the system says, not a good picture.
Speaker 1: Oh geez.
Speaker 3: But you're only given ten attempts. After the tenth attempt,
Speaker 3: you have to wait a period.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It took me eight tries, me myself. You coming from
Speaker 3: an IT company for almost ten years, it took me
Speaker 3: eight tries out of the ten to get a capture.
Speaker 3: So what we've done at my office in Clarmont. We
Speaker 3: have a actual like a hood to take photos from
Speaker 3: and it reduces and rebounces the flash away from the
Speaker 3: ID card. So it helps the veteran to not only
Speaker 3: create their presence of who they are, but then they'll
Speaker 3: also help them set up a multi factor authenticator authenticator
Speaker 3: app on their phone on their laptop if they can
Speaker 3: bring it in.
Speaker 1: Or I've had so you walk them through the process,
Speaker 1: you get them completely logged in correct, and then once
Speaker 1: this is established, then they will work with the multi
Speaker 1: factor authentication. So they're established in the system, the information
Speaker 1: has been verified. When they go to log in, they'll
Speaker 1: get a text saying, you know, here's your six digit code.
Speaker 1: You pop the code in and that's when you get access.
Speaker 1: That's to keep someone else from logging in on your
Speaker 1: behalf or against your will. That's right.
Speaker 3: And it goes back to that three hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: million that veteran's lost. Yeah, right, So this is a
Speaker 3: way that they're protecting the veteran's identity because it is
Speaker 3: too hard to replicate every thirty seconds a rolling six
Speaker 3: digit number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I guess are there plans in the
Speaker 1: work to sort of change that at all, because if
Speaker 1: it's not going out fast enough, I mean that sounds
Speaker 1: pretty damn frustrating and I can feel for the veteran
Speaker 1: on that one.
Speaker 3: Right, I don't know how much of that has to
Speaker 3: do with either Wi Fi connectivity, yeah, or cell phone conductivity.
Speaker 3: What's the bandwidth to push those those digits things out
Speaker 3: of the control? Got right? You just don't have control
Speaker 3: over that, which is why to have it on your
Speaker 3: authenticator on your computer, on your laptop, on your iPad
Speaker 3: tablet is going to help you. Or to have a
Speaker 3: multi factor authenticator on your phone. But that means you
Speaker 3: need a smartphone. So what does Uncle Bob do. That's
Speaker 3: got the old cricket flip phone and it's just a phone.
Speaker 3: I don't text, I just receive phone calls old school,
Speaker 3: old school, and some refuse at updating. So now they're
Speaker 3: calling the VA Downtown to call in their pharmacy. They're
Speaker 3: calling the VA Downtown to set up an appointment or
Speaker 3: to find out their upcoming appointments. That takes time and
Speaker 3: it can be frustrating in the loop.
Speaker 1: Huh. But if they don't choose to go down the
Speaker 1: smartphone road, if they still keep the old flip cricket
Speaker 1: phone that doesn't even text. Do they have an option
Speaker 1: to avoid having to make the phone.
Speaker 3: Calls showing up in person? In person right and now
Speaker 3: you've got time gas and maybe they might have time
Speaker 3: as retiree, but still the cost of fuel right now?
Speaker 3: And are they ambulatory? Can they drive themselves?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I'm with you, which
Speaker 1: all of which are pretty good arguments for going ahead
Speaker 1: and making the leave and getting the smartphone. You don't
Speaker 1: have to use apps, you don't have to use it
Speaker 1: for anything other than this and making phone calls. I
Speaker 1: was just telling Steve, I was just telling you off
Speaker 1: the air because my phone's like eight years old or something.
Speaker 1: I've never upgraded it. But then again, I only use
Speaker 1: it for texting and phone calling and looking at my
Speaker 1: email period. That's it.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: I don't need it now.
Speaker 3: I need a way to get a six digit rolling number.
Speaker 3: But it's okay. But technology is advancing, which also means
Speaker 3: the criminals are advancing. Yes they are, which we need
Speaker 3: to ensure our seniors out there as veterans are protected,
Speaker 3: especially their PII. No one's creating additional credit card accounts
Speaker 3: in their name and we've all seen what happens with
Speaker 3: stolen identity.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, and most notably in the senior community,
Speaker 1: because they have that built and God love them for it,
Speaker 1: built in trust. They just have such a high level
Speaker 1: of trust they do, and a low level of familiarity
Speaker 1: with things modern and technical and computer based.
Speaker 3: Sure, and if you ask me, I've got a low
Speaker 3: level patience right now. That computer has slown out a
Speaker 3: window many times. However, there there is a when you
Speaker 3: try to access my healthy Vt, it's gonna send you
Speaker 3: through a multiple cycle, right you how you got to
Speaker 3: go back over to VA dot gov, but you have
Speaker 3: to set up this new login method and then for
Speaker 3: VA dot gov it'll bring you back to my healthy
Speaker 3: Vet instead. For the veteran, go to VA dot gov,
Speaker 3: go through the login process, and my healthy vet is
Speaker 3: a tab off of VA do so one stop is
Speaker 3: VA dot gov, one stop is VA dot Start there
Speaker 3: and then you'll get to my healthy Vet.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, that boiled down. I think that's the
Speaker 1: soundest piece of advice you can give. And apparently Steve
Speaker 1: is now in the cell phone selling game, So get
Speaker 1: yourself a smart er phone so you can at least
Speaker 1: do the two factor authentication that is absolutely for your
Speaker 1: benefit out there. It really is peace of mind. I
Speaker 1: do it all the time with my phone. It's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons I've got one. Absolutely, Steve Belsa, it's
Speaker 1: and great seeing. I appreciate everything you do for the
Speaker 1: American Veteran and the Clarmont County Veteran Services and of
Speaker 1: course veterans. If you don't want to go through all this,
Speaker 1: you want some help, get to the Claarmont County Veteran
Speaker 1: Services Office and they'll be happy to help you out
Speaker 1: in this and so many other ways. God bless you, sir.
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