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For needles increasingly invisible because of end to end encryption. >> a person send a message. such as i want to fight for isis over the web. encryption software scrambles the message. only a recipient using the correct key can unscramble it to see its original meaning. the solution argues the fbi and many lawmakers is to allow law enforcement access to encrypted messages with a search warrant. tech companies however are resisting. concerned theyll lose business from privacy conscious customer...

Problems in office. mr. miller is dedicated to developing policies to help middle classworking families but is neither a republican or democrat. hes 53 and married with two kids. he was unfaithful to his wife with another woman and based on that, nearly half say they wouldnt vote for him. now a group of voters created a position on staff to hire a family member who was unqualified. only 24% said they would most likely vote for him and 2-thirds said they most likely would not. >> computer experts...

Action, google attorneys cited a supreme court decision stating that users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy, so in terms of mining personal data -- >> these services are big honey pots. so the first thing we need to do is decentralize again. >> reporter: mccarthy argues we should all seek out more obscure e-mail providers, which have fewer users and are less attracted to big marketers. or better yet, use an e-mail program that lives in your computer, bypassing the middle man. and...

Sending the message to. and huge e-mail companies with millions of users do just that. with powerful computers they scan every word for clues to help them sell precisely targeted ads. if you write kayak in several messages soon you see ads for river trips. mention cars and you see models burning across the desktop. google attorneys cited a supreme court decision stating users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy. so in terms of mining data. >> these services are honey pots. >> report...

Eli lake explained. >> i would say it was not a telephone conference call in that sense. it was a remote conference, where people are in and its -- it is something like a teleconference. >> something like a teleconference? so we wanted to find out exactly what that means. how does al qaeda talk? and we wanted to figure it out. tom foreman did it and has an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: when al qaeda leaders in far flung corners of the earth need to talk with each other, they dont pick u...

Broke the story and heres what eli lake explained. >> i would say it was not a telephone conference call in that sense. it was a remote conference, where people are in and its -- it is something like a teleconference. >> something like a teleconference? so we wanted to find out exactly what that means. how does al qaeda talk? and we wanted to figure it out. tom foreman did it and has an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: when al qaeda leaders in far flung corners of the earth need to talk wi...

To us. sophisticated encryption software and legal system, is there anything the government can do at all to stop them? >> i think there are a lot of government can and should do. there are technical responses to making use of the new cyber command where we focus for many years on the vulnerability that we face on cyber crimes, but we have some capability we should be using on our own against people like this for exactly this kind of purpose. >> julie: if wikileaks doesnt agree to stop publishin...

>> the hacker who says he tip off the army to wikileaks suspect bradley manning now says at least two m.i.t. students may be involved. barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon this morning. this is an interesting connection. how much do we know about it? >> reporter: well, information really just emerging. good morning, john and kiran. adrian lamo, the former computer hacker who did tip off federal authorities to private 1st class manning now says two men at m.i. 26 t., the massachusetts in...

Lamo says two men from the massachusetts institute of technology in the boston area say they helped manning and one claiming to have allegedly taught manning, the private, how to use encryption software, and now the investigation clearly expanding into the civilian arena, the fbi and justice department looking at this potential boston leak. they will look at the civilian side of this, and the military will focus on private first class bradley manning. defense secretary robert gates still says in...

This widening investigation now, adrian lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to private manning, the main suspect according to the pentagon in this case, lamo says there are two men at m.i. 2679, tm.i.t who say they helped manning use encryption software which may have been used in this matter of the leaked documents. lamo is refusing to identify the men at m.i.t. he has one has already threatened him but this is a real indicator of the widening of this investigati...