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| June 25, 2023
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ChatGPT Hacking: What You Need to Know and Do

ChatGPT Hacking: What You Need to Know and DoChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot. It can interact with users in a conversational way. It is powered by a large language model called GPT-4. GPT-4 can understand and generate natural language responses based on user prompts. People can use ChatGPT for various purposes, such as getting information, entertainment, education, or productivity. ChatGPT is reportedly the fastest-growing consumer application in history. 

Hackers are going after ChatGPTThe artificial intelligent chatbot from OpenAI has been the cool kid on the tech block since November 2022. Followers of the Bach Seat are smart enough to know what that means. Hackers are going after ChatGPT. Recent reports from cybersecurity researcher Group-IB have found over 100,000 ChatGPT logins for sale on the dark-web.

Attractive to attackers

The AI is using you to learn more things. Every time you interact with it, ChatGPT gathers more info about you. Unlike Google, which collects data on what you are doing, you are feeding your info into ChatGPT. The information ChatGPT gathers from you also makes its attractive to attackers.

you are feeding your info into ChatGPTDid you ask it for a strong password for your checking account? ChatGPT remembers.

Did you ask it about a medical condition? ChatGPT remembers it and added it to its “intelligence.”

Did you ask it to proofread your report for the boss? ChatGPT now knows all the confidential corporate info in your report.

Information-stealing malware

Attackers want that info too. They can scoop up the data from a hacked ChatGPT account. Hackers can use the stolen data to impersonate users, access their online accounts, steal their money or assets, blackmail them, or sell their information to other criminals or advertisers.

According to the Singapore based firm, attackers are using the Raccoon information-stealing malware to scoop up ChatGPT credentials. The Raccoon malware is a subscription based crimeware that attackers can license for as little as $200.00 a month and embed in a malware laden email. 

How to protect yourself from ChatGPT hackers

The first step is to be careful about what you share with ChatGPT. Don’t give it any personal or sensitive information that you wouldn’t want anyone else to know. Remember that ChatGPT is not a human friend, but a machine that can store and process your data.

The second step is to use a strong and unique password for your ChatGPT account. Use a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Avoid using easily guessable passwords or reusing passwords from other accounts. Use a password manager to generate and store complex passwords that are hard to guess or crack.

Periodically change your ChatGPT password. This will minimize the risk of unauthorized access. Avoid using the same password for an extended period and ensure new passwords are strong and unique.

The third step is to configure ChatGPT for more privacy.

Clear Your ChatGPT Conversations: To keep the information you’ve shared with ChatGPT away from attackers, regularly clear your saved ChatGPT conversations. To clear your ChatGPT conversations:

  1. ChatGPT GeneralLog in to ChatGPT.
  2. Click on your account name in the bottom left corner of the ChatGPT interface.
  3. Click Clear all chats.
  4. Click again to Confirm.

All of your saved conversations should be deleted. This can limit the amount of data stored on ChatGPT, which can help reduce the impact in case of a data breach.

Turn off chat history and model training: You can prevent ChatGPT from using your personal info to grow the AI. To disable chat history and model training,

  1. Log in to ChatGPT.
  2. Click on your account name in the bottom left corner of the ChatGPT interface. 
  3. Click Settings.
  4. Click Data Controls.
  5. Toggle Chat history & training to off.

ChatGPT says that while history is disabled, new conversations won’t be used to train and improve our models and won’t appear in the history sidebar. They do retain all conversations for 30 days to monitor for abuse.

They also point out that this will not prevent unauthorized browser add-ons or malware on your computer from storing your history.
The other limitation is that this setting does not sync across browsers or devices. You will have to enable it in each device.

Another step is to monitor your ChatGPT activity and report any suspicious or unauthorized actions. You can check your chat history and settings on the ChatGPT website or app. If you notice anything unusual, such as messages you didn’t send or changes you didn’t make, contact ChatGPT support immediately and change your password.

Finally, educate yourself and others about the risks and benefits of using ChatGPT. Read the terms of service and privacy policy of ChatGPT before using it. Learn how ChatGPT works and what it can and can’t do. Share this blog post with your friends and family who use ChatGPT and help them stay safe online.

Where is MFA?

Multi-factor authentication is the gold standard for securing your online accounts. You should enable 2FA whenever possible. 2FA adds an extra layer of security by requiring an additional verification step, such as a unique code sent to a mobile device, to access the account. But ChatGPT does not offer this basic security tool.

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We have seen this list after years and years of preaching account security. ChatGPT should receive the same level of attention you give to other sensitive accounts like your email, take the necessary steps to protect your ChatGPT account and yourself.

ChatGPT is an amazing technology that can enrich our lives and experiences. But like any other technology, it comes with some challenges and dangers that we need to be aware of and prepared for. By following these steps, you can enjoy chatting with ChatGPT without compromising your security or privacy.


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Ralph Bach has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his Bach Seat about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Email the Bach Seat here.

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| November 27, 2020
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Does that Doggy E-Toy Protect Privacy?

Does that Doggy E-Toy Protect Privacy?Thanks to COVID it is the virtual silly season. No more jamming into malls it is online shopping now. Half of shoppers spend some of their money on pet treats and other supplies this holiday season. If your virtual gift list includes presents for your four-legged buddy – be careful, there are some puppy toys out there that can compromise your privacy while Fido is entertained. Mozilla’s “Privacy Not Included” project analyzed the security of pooch-gifts, and the results are not good for your privacy.

Internet of ThingsAll of these technologies can become part of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT technology interconnects them. For example, IoT connects the camera in your living room with the smartphone on your desk, allowing you to monitor your pet while you’re at work. IoT enables the collection and interconnectivity of data, which is extremely important when considering your safety and privacy.

Dogness iPet Robot – This doggy toy costs $299.00 and has all the bells and whistles to keep Fido entertained. It moves and chases your pooch. It has an HD video camera with night vision to record your pup, two-way audio to talk to your doggo, a laser to chase, and the ability to toss treats to your buddy with the click of a button in the app. The iPet Robot connects over Wi-Fi so your home network better be secure – otherwise, somebody could take over the rolling spybot and catch your pooch – or you – in a compromising position.

Dogness iPet RobotThe Dogness iPet Robot also comes with Mozilla’s “*Privacy Not Included” warning. The bot can roll around your house with a night vision camera and microphone while connected to Wi-Fi. Mozilla says that both the Dogness device and app can snoop on you. The researchers report the device doesn’t encrypt your data. Dogness doesn’t state what information is collected from the robot, or what they do with it. Dogness uses artificial intelligence, but the reviewers could not determine how the firm uses AI.

If that is not scary enough, in March 2020, it was reported that Dogness left its Amazon ElasticSearch server exposed, containing the usernames, emails, clear-text passwords, and session cookies of its users. The unprotected information has led to the complete exposure of its production SQL database and application source code and the complete takeover and control of its pet feeding devices and associated accounts.

Mozilla could not determine if the Dogness iPet Robot meets its Minimum Security Standards.

Cheerble WickedboneCheerble Wickedbone Interactive Gaming Toy For Dogs –This $78.99 interactive bone is next on the naughty list. You can control this interactive bone through an app on your phone that connects through Bluetooth. From the app you can make the bone roll around and change colors. When you get bored, a 20-minute interactive mode can entertain your pup without you.

The app requires access to your phone’s GPS location data—why? That’s a good question. Additionally, the reviews could not determine if the firm encrypted your data, required strong passwords, or used AI to make decisions about you. And like most IoT devices, it doesn’t seem to have a way to manage security vulnerabilities. Mozilla says this pet toy does not meet its Minimum Security Standards for these reasons.

Fitbark GPSFitbark– I first wrote about Fitbark back in 2013. The Fitbark GPS costs $99.95 + subscription + the costs of Verizon’s LTE-M cellular network coverage. It is a bone-shaped tracking device that goes on your dog’s collar and will track her just about anywhere in the U.S. It also connects to Wi-Fi.

The Fitbark monitors your dog’s activity, sleep habits, scratching habits, and stress 24/7. You can link it to your FitBit, Google Fit, or Apple HealthKit apps and you can stress about your doggo’s health too.

Mozilla reports that Fitbark tracks your dog’s movements and whereabouts with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. With all that tracking, an attacker could keep tabs on you or your pup. The app does collect personal data, including name, email, phone number, address, date of birth, profile photo, dog’s health, and biometric data.

Felik Pet CompanionThe Felik Pet Companion—This mouse-shaped bot costs $129.00. It has a camera and artificial intelligence that tracks your pet, learns from their movements, and reacts to how they hunt so it can simulate real prey. Felik connects to the Wi-Fi in your house and has an app where you can schedule play throughout the day.

Mozilla says the firm seems to take privacy and security seriously. They built security and privacy-aware features into the dog toy, like the ability to toggle Wi-Fi on and off with a physical button, an indicator light when the camera is streaming, and even an on-device firewall.

Since it has a camera and a microphone, it could be sued to snoop on you. The app tracks your location. The product uses AI to analyze your personal data to make decisions about you. However, users can request an explanation about any decisions taken as a result of automated decision-making by contacting Felix.

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The Felik Pet Companion is the only online dog-toy that I would allow in my home.  

The Mozilla *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide investigates the privacy and security of connected toys, gadgets, and smart home products. They flag products they think consumers should think twice about before buying. Mozilla looks at how well they can confirm a product meets a Minimum Security Standard.

 

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| August 22, 2020
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Elephants on the Internet

Elephants on the InternetThe global COVID-19 lockdown is now taking its toll on endangered wildlife like elephants and rhinos around the globe. Global lockdowns have caused a sharp drop in Africa’s wildlife tourism revenue. Wildlife tourism in Africa is a $169 billion industry. It employs 24.6 million people and is often the only employer in areas where wildlife thrives. The tourism business has helped curb poaching in several ways. First, tourists act as a deterrent to poachers. However, with fewer tourists, there are fewer tourist vehicles in parks. They are no longer a deterrent to poachers.

The amount of poaching is on the rise because COVID-19 has reduced funding for law enforcement in wildlife areasAfrica’s wildlife tourism revenue funds help to sustain wildlife reserves across the continent. At many of the reserves more than half of the budget comes from tourism revenues. Matt Brown, with The Nature Conservancy’s Africa program, told ABC News that tourist fees support rangers. Fees such as bed-night, and conservation fees help pay for the rangers‘ salaries. The fees also pay fuel for airplane patrols, and more – hampering security and opening the game reserves to poachers. 

Vulnerable to poaching

Without money to support the rangers — and the highly endangered animals they protect – elephants gorillas and rhinos — are left vulnerable to poachers. The amount of poaching is on the rise because COVID-19 has reduced funding for law enforcement in wildlife areas. 

highly organized illegal poaching threatens rhinos,

CNBC reports that highly organized illegal poaching threatens to send African wildlife into extinction over the next several decades. Most vulnerable to extinction are the black and white rhinos, lions, and elephants. The black rhino population has plummeted 97.6% since 1960. The lion population is down 43% in the last 21 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund. At least 35,000 African elephants are killed each year. There are only 1,000 mountain gorillas and 2,000 Grevy’s zebras that remain on the continent.

According to reports, six elephants were killed on one June day in Ethiopia’s Mago National Park. That compares to 10 in that nation for all of 2019. Officials suspect that most elephant tusks and finished products are shipped to China and south-east Asian countries. To make matters worst, in 2017 the Trump administration rolled back the ban on hunting elephants. The Trump policy allows elephant remains to be imported into the United States. Conservationists believe that elephants in the wild could be extinct within 10 years due primarily to poaching. 

Using IoT to protect elephants

OpenCollar, an open-source modular animal-tracking collar system for wildlife monitoringExtinction does not have to be the “new normal.” FierceElectronics reported on a collaboration using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to protect elephants in the wild from extinction by developing a next-generation elephant tracking collar. The collaboration between Phoenix-based electronic components firm Avnet’s developer community Hackster.io, and conservation group Smart Parks which focuses on technology to protect endangered species, are running a design competition called ElephantEdge.

The ElephantEdge challenge asks developers to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies that can help humans protect elephants from extinction. ElephantEdge will combine software, machine learning (ML), and hardware to build the next generation elephant collars. The next generation collars will have better battery life, longer range, and accuracy that can be worn by elephants in the wild.

Elephant IoT collars

The elephant IoT collars will have sensors for audio pickup, location, and position as well as low-power, wide-area antennas that provide wireless connectivity. The new collar will use hardware and software from different vendors:

The ElephantEdge Challenge requires developers to build machine learning models with Avnet’s Edge Impulse Studio and tracking dashboards with Avnet’s IoTConnect– which will provide useful tracking, health vitals, motion, environmental anomalies, and more. ElephantEdge challenge looks to create machine learning  models like:

  • Poaching Risk Monitoring: Identify an increased risk for poaching by learning when an elephant is moving into a high-risk area and send real-time notifications to park rangers.
  • Human Conflict Monitoring: Prevent conflict between humans and elephants by sensing and alerting when an elephant is heading into an area where farmers live by detecting if any mobile phones or WiFi hotspots are near.
  • Elephant Musth Monitoring: Detect and alert when an elephant bull is in musth by using motion and acoustic sensors to discern this state of erratic, loud, and aggressive behavior.

vocal communications between elephants

  • Elephant Activity Monitoring: Collect data on the general behavior of the elephant, such as when it is drinking, eating, sleeping, etc. by using accelerometer data.
  • Communication Monitoring: Listen for vocal communications between elephants via the onboard microphone. 

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This is an example of when IoT tech can do good for the world – protect animals like elephants, gorillas, rhinos, lions, and polar bears which cannot protect themselves from extinction.

Nobody is going to get rich doing this work – challenge winners will receive an Apple Watch 3 and a collectible t-shirt as prizes – but the world will be a better place.

By the end of 2020, ten next-generation elephant collars will be produced for Smart Parks to deploy in selected African parks, in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund. Final software and hardware will be documented and shared freely under an open-source license. 

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| June 11, 2020
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No More Facial Recognition From IBM

Updated 06/19/2020 – Redmond is reporting that the ACLU has uncovered evidence (PDF) that Microsoft was pursuing sales of its facial recognition technology after its vow to stop selling the software. The ACLU says Microsoft continued to pursue sales to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) six days after the announcement. Microsoft president Brad Smith claimed the firm would stop selling facial recognition tech to U.S. police agencies until there is a national law in place that’s “grounded in human rights.”

The article calls MSFT’s Smith’s “stand” last week “as a bit hollow or misleadingly narrow” and “opaque transparency.”

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Updated 06/12/2020 – CNN is reporting that Microsoft has fallen in line with IBM and Amazon. It has announced it will not sell facial recognition technology to police departments in the United States, at least until there is a federal law to regulate the technology.

Following IBM’s stand, Amazon has announced it will stop providing its facial recognition technology to police forces for one year.  TechCrunch makes the point that the Amazon announcement did not say if the moratorium would apply to the federal government. Amazon also did not say in the statement what action it would take after the yearlong moratorium expires.

Both firms are calling for national regulation of the tech. As I predicted below.

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No More Facial Recognition From IBMIBM has made a step in the right direction in the fight against structural racism. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna sent a letter to the U.S. Congress citing concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition software could be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. As a result, IBM will no longer sell general-purpose facial recognition or analysis software.

IBM facial recognition changes

The company is not abandoning facial recognition. Reuters cites an IBM source that says, IBM will “no longer market, sell or update the products but will support clients as needed.” As Engadget points out, the move comes in the midst of protests over police brutality and discrimination capped by the apparent murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers.

The use of AI and facial recognition has a history of privacy and bias problems. In 2019, Pew Research reported that  50% of U.S. adults said they did not trust tech companies to use facial recognition responsibly. 27% of the same group did not trust law enforcement agencies to use facial recognition responsibly. There are good reasons for the distrust of facial recognition. Many reports have found that facial recognition systems can be biased. They have systemic bias’ against non-whites and women. This is particularly true if the training data includes relatively few people from those groups. 

The Verge documents some of the defacto bias’ in facial recognition. In 2018, AI researchers Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru, Gender Shades project was the first to reveal the extent to which many commercial facial recognition systems (including IBM’s) were biased. This work led to mainstream criticism of these algorithms and ongoing attempts to address bias.

Clearview AI Inc., facial recognition software identifies people by comparing their faces with 3 billion images many scraped from social media sites. Clearview took the images from Facebook, YouTube, and Venmo without notifying the people. The facial recognition tool is widely used by private sector companies and law enforcement agencies. Clearview has since been issued numerous cease and desist orders and is at the center of a number of privacy lawsuits. Facebook was also ordered in January 2020 to pay $550 million to settle a 2015 class-action lawsuit over its unlawful use of facial recognition technology.

The Verge points out that IBM is not without a share of the blame. IBM was found to be sharing a training data set of nearly one million photos in January 2019 taken from Flickr without the consent of the subjects. IBM told The Verge in a statement at the time that the data set would only be accessed by verified researchers and only included images that were publicly available. The company also said that individuals can opt out of the data set.

A December 2019 NIST study found:

empirical evidence for the existence of a wide range of accuracy across demographic differences in the majority of the current face recognition algorithms that were evaluated.”

 

Amazon’s facial recognition software 

Notably, NIST’s study did not include Amazon’s facial recognition software Rekognition. Rekognition, has also been criticized for its accuracy. In 2018, the ACLU found that Rekognition incorrectly matched 28 members of Congress to faces picked from 25,000 mugshots.

Despite Amazon’s system providing what the ACLU called a disproportionate number of false matches of congress embers of color, Amazon posted a statement expressing concern over the “inequitable and brutal treatment of Black people in our country.” But the richest man in the world Jeff Bezos and his company are part of the problem. Amazon is profiting off racial profiling of Black people by police.

Amazon has built a nationwide surveillance network. The surveillance network of our homes and communities uses Amazon Ring cameras and its Neighbors app. The company collects the images and then handed its data over to the police. 

What Amazon does with the data:

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Mr. Krishna should be applauded for his public stand. But call me cynical – this is also about business. Morgan Stanley predicts that AI and automation will be a one trillion dollar industry by 2050. Change is coming and big tech – IBM, MSFT, GOOG, FB are trying to get in front of it. The titans are pushing for reform – not abolition for two reasons.

First, they want to use new regulations as a barrier to entry into this market. They want to upstarts like Clearview AI and 45+ other small to multi-national firms who may have new ideas out of the $1T market.

Second – Big tech knows they can buy the politicians in DC cheaper than having to fight off regulations in 50 different states. Big business has done this time and again. they will sit in front of a congressional hearing – say mea culpa and maybe Congress will pass some lame regulation that the lobbyist wrote. Nothing will change because there is too much money on the table to do the right thing to stop the structural racism that led to George Floyd’s death.

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| May 26, 2020
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Pac-Man – 12 Things to Know

12 Things to Know About Pac-Man

Pac-Man turned 40 this Memorial Day weekend. Pac-Man is the best-selling arcade game ever. The video game was created by game designer Toru Iwatani, who was 24 at the time. The idea for Pac-Man came to him when he removed a slice from a pizza. Pac-Man was originally called Puck-Man – but was changed because of how easy it was to turn that into an obscenity.

Pac-Man arcade gameThe game was produced by the Japanese company Namco and distributed in the U.S. by Chicago-based Bally-Midway. Between its debut in a Tokyo theater on May 22, 1980, and 1990 Namco sold 400,000 Pac-Man gaming cabinets to arcades around the world and made $3.5 billion ($7.7 billion in 2020) in lifetime sales. The arcade game was played more than 10 billion times in the 20th century.

Pac-Man’s success

A large part of Pac-Man’s success, in an era where almost all games were space-themed shooters (Galaga, Missile Command, Space Invaders), was its non-violent, maze-chase gameplay. The game presented something fresh and new. The new ideas in Pac-Man did something few other games did at that time – it appealed to female gamers. This universal attraction helped bring an unprecedented number of players into arcades around the world, who shoveled billions of quarters into its slots.

Best-selling arcade games of all time - StatistaPac-Man was also a pioneer in character development. The game had a defined main character, which was unheard of at the time. Chris Melissinos, curator of the 2012 Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition “The Art of Video Games.” told CNN

Here comes this game that’s brightly colored and centered around a character that really doesn’t have a gender … And all of a sudden, we found a mascot — the first character in video games that existed not just in the artwork, but in the game itself. 

The ghosts

Mr. Iwatani told Wired that Popeye was the inspiration for Pac-Man’s ability to attack his enemies by eating fruit. Pac-Man’s protagonists, the ghosts Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde each have their own personalities based on early artificial intelligence (AI) routines. Blinky  (red) constantly chases Pac-Man, Pinky (pink) attempts to ambush him, Inky (light blue) is randomized depending on Pac-Man’s position and Clyde (orange) will get close to the player then attempt to flee to the bottom left corner, potentially cutting off escape routes. Mr. Iwatani told CNN, “We introduced an AI-like algorithm that sent the ghosts to surround Pac-Man from all sides.”

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Pac-Man has conquered all media

The popularity of Pac-Man opened the door to the first generation of gaming merchandise. Pac-Man has conquered all media – Online, print, music, and merchandising. Here are 12 other things you should know about Pac-Man.

  1. When a playable version of Pac-Man appeared on the Google Doodle it cost the world almost 5 million man-hours and $120 million in lost productivity.
  2. Pac-Man has appeared in more than 90 games. The Pac-Man spin-off, Ms. Pac-Man, is a top 5 best-selling arcade game, according to U.S. Gamer.
  3. Pac-Man on the cover of Time MagazineHe has been on the cover of Time Magazine.
  4. Pac-Man is a rock star. The Pac-Man inspired song Pac-Man Fever reached number nine on Billboard’s Top 100 chart in March 1982. The song sold more than a million copies
  5. “Weird” Al Yankovic recorded “Pac-Man” in 1981 set to the music of the Beatles classic “Taxman.”  It was not officially released until 2017.
  6. The game’s distinctive sound was an inspiration to early hip-hop pioneers; including Jonzun Crew’s Pack Jam and Newcleus’s Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song).
  7. He is a TV star. In a 1982 episode Taxi, Louie (Danny DeVito) installs a Pac-Man cabinet in the garage and Jim (Christopher Lloyd) becomes addicted to the game. The scene is effectively a how-to guide and an ad for Pac-Man rolled into one.
  8. Pac-Man has appeared on The Simpsons‘ 5 times. In episode 343, Homer was researching previous Super Bowl halftime performances and looked back on a tape of Pac-Man marrying Ms. Pac-Man as the ghosts danced and celebrated to the song “Physical” by Olivia Newton-John.
  9. He has had two television cartoons. First was Pac-Man: The Animated Series from Hanna-Barbera which ran on ABC from 1982-83 and then there was Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013-2016) that was launched to support the new 3-D Pac-Man on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U.
  10. Pac-Man is a merchandising maniac. Sports-card manufacturer Fleer produced three Pac-Man trading card sets. One set is based on the original arcade game, one is centered on Ms. Pac-Man, and a third is based on the Super Pac-Man game.
  11. Chef BoyardeeChef Boyardee Pac-Man pasta released Pac-Man pasta in three varieties: cheese, meatballs, and chicken. Of course, the pasta’s were formed in the shape of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man.
  12. Counter-intuitively, the video game even had a board game. Milton Bradley published the Pac-Man board game in 1982  – which is going for $75.00 on eBay these days.

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I recall playing Pac-Man on a console at Pizzuti’s Pizza while in HS. My arcade game really stepped up when I lived around the corner from Pinball Pete’s in Ann Arbor (which burned down in 2009) and was dodging work while on campus.

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