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The guys discuss the effect of the Heartbleed virus on small businesses and then provide guidance on exempt employees. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to Legally Sound Smart Business. This is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And this is Matt Staub. NASIR: And this is where we cover business in the news with our legal twist and also answer some of your business legal questions that you, the listener and business owner, can send in to ask@legallysoundsmartbusiness – did we get the dot-com for that? MATT: Yeah, I think we got everyone – dot-com, dot-net, dot-org, dot-pizza. NASIR: Have those come out yet? I don’t know if those subdomains or those domains have come out yet but we’re definitely getting legallysoundsmartbusiness.pizza when it comes out – unless one of our listeners takes it from us and extorts us. MATT: It’s most likely already taken because that would be really popular name that people want to have. NASIR: Especially for a pizza joint, it’d be perfect for them. MATT: When the internet was kind of up and coming, everyone was on the internet at this point but people still didn’t understand, there was a very old – not very old but like ten to fifteen years maybe, ten to fifteen years, somewhere in that range – SNL commercial. I’m not going to say what the website they say on the show. You can go look it up because it’s probably not appropriate but it’s pretty funny. It’s basically making fun of the fact that every URL is taken already and this was at least ten years ago so it’s pretty interesting. NASIR: It’s true. Pretty much every dictionary word is done for dot-coms. Pretty much every dictionary word with another dictionary word seems to be taken. It’s slim pickings now. But that’s why they came up with these other domains. I mean, we have clients that have alternative domain names and we have a lot of startup companies that use alternative domain names – whether it’s dot-co or dot-whatever, you know. And so, it’s becoming more popular and understandable. MATT: Yeah. Well, enough of that, let’s get into the story we have for today. I assume that everyone had heard of this but I was just talking with people yesterday and not everyone was aware. NASIR: How could they not? I’ve gotten five or six emails about this Heartbleed vulnerability and I’m surprised people haven’t heard about it yet. MATT: For those that, I guess, haven’t, there’s this new security flaw that came out. When was this? Last week? At least that’s when we got the emails, I think. NASIR: Yeah, what’s weird is that I think the internet community found out about it one day and then it just started populating after that and then we also found out that the US government knew about it before it was published or released and so forth. This security flaw is huge. It’s basically that encrypted connection that you have with these websites, yeah, all that information that’s passing by, in theory, I guess, some of these people can get that information – including passwords, credit card information, whatever – and with that goes onto the next level. MATT: We’re going to kind of approach it from the small business perspective but, essentially, it did infiltrate all these big websites and a lot of private information so it’s all the personal data that might have been stored by these – they mentioned some of the ones that were effected like Dropbox, for example, that’s a pretty big company. I think there was a lot of precautionary things that people were taking. I’m trying to remember which sites sent me emails. Google, they keep saying change your Google password. NASIR: I didn’t get anything from Google but I got two types of emails – one email was saying change your password and then another email saying, “You don’t have to do anything. We’re not affected.” Because I think everyone was kind of scared about all this so they were just being precautionary. MATT: Yeah, it sounds like it is more precautionary stuff but we want to talk about how this does...