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The most commonly used password last year one two three four five six some might argue we havent learned anything from the data bridge scandals of the past and theyre growing more and more come. e-mails online chats address books and calendars all leave the data trail that makes us vulnerable more than a thousand public figures in germany celebrities journalists and politicians who recently hopped on their data was released on the internet police have arrested a twenty year old suspect and thats...

A growing number of people are using biometric data to access digital devices like mobile phones. the data are easy to use and you cant forget that as you might a password. but most people dont realize that when they access their devices they leave a data trail. and how do you unlike your phone which in fact my finger fingerprint faiza fingerprint its safer and i think its safer to say you said the phone they figure a pretty good friend felony but i figure enough the pin number. because its easi...

A growing number of people. are using biometric data to access digital devices like mobile phones. the data are easy to use and you cant forget that as you might a password. but most people dont realize that when they access their devices they leave a data trail. and how do you unlike your phone which in fact my finger fingerprint thats always a fingerprint is its safer and i think its safer i use the phone they figure a pretty good friend felony but why they figure enough the pin number. becaus...

The data trail. by looking at the trail, a particular region doesnt identify the human being or group of people behind it but we have become pretty smart pointing the finger. the problem is we are not smart enough or well equipped enough internally in the us to not just point the finger but actually smokes them like a bug so they dont get into the country. carley: we have to work to do. rob: china and russia are key figures. >> china, russia and iran are leaders in disrupting our digital infrast...

Data is a new world perspective its so powerful it will impact all areas of our lives. just like the printing press did or the renaissance or perhaps the industrial revolution so research. but what is big data exactly most of its leave behind a data trail through emails and photos when we search something on google or use apps worldwide we produce two and a half trillion bytes of data every day. if that data were put on blu ray disc than piled up it would be four times higher than the eiffel tow...

Joining us is kevin roose. last week kevin decided to try to go off the grid for 24 hours. he writes this -- "for the next 24 hours im going to live completely surveillance free. i will foil chinese hackers and the nsa with encrypted texts and vpn tunnels, i will find ways to give things online without any personal connection and i will wear a funny looking hat with small light bulbs in it that will protect me from being caught on camera. i will attempt to stick to my normal routine for an entir...

Call thats being made. whether its a connection between a charge, an american express charge, where a phone calls made in a particular place. overseas, connected to america. i think whats interesting, though, is that people dont care nearly as much as i think most folks thought they would. >> right. yeah. >> startling. >> i think that weve started to realize, i mean, this is an argument that was actually made with some eloquence by the guy who says he is the leaker saying, you know, the internet...

How we do it is actually pretty hollow and i think they kind of know that. >> it seems like were getting two arguments. one, this program has been irreparably harmed by discussing the details of it, and, two, the program is very, very effective, we just cant tell you how. neither of those is is an argument for we should be doing this. we are now as a country having an argument about whether we should be doing this. we didnt know to argue about it before because we didnt know for sure it was happ...

Between a charge, an american express charge, where a phone calls made in a particular place. overseas, connected to america. i think whats interesting, though, is that people dont care nearly as much as i think most folks thought they would. >> right. yeah. >> startling. >> i think that weve started to realize, i mean, this is an argument that was actually made with some eloquence by the guy who says he is the leaker saying, you know, the internet is a tv that watches you. that this is a device...

Neither of those is is an argument for we should be doing this. we are now as a country having an argument about whether we should be doing this. we didnt know to argue about it before because we didnt know for sure it was happening. we all suspected it. do you feel we were having a reasonable debate thats well informed? >> i think right now whats happening is people are coming around again and again. it takes a while. its taken the american people i think a while for their eyes to adjust, if yo...