so that s first and foremost. but i think colonel jacobs couldn t be more right. an encryption system, a decryption system that would recognize an attack and render the information useless would be spectacular. colonel jack jacobs and anthony roman, thank you both for your time. you re welcome. this major hack exposed some ugly e-mails involving sony pictures. some of them came from sony pictures co-chair, amy pascal and included racially incen insensitive jokes about president obama. to address those offensive e-mails, i met with miss pascal today here in new york. and we sat along with marc morial of the national urban league and others, saying how offended we were by it, but the offense was based on the context that hollywood has historically
were compromised. alexandra field is live with the hatest from target and the customers. reporter: they re admitting this is a bigger breach than initially reported initially we knew card numbers and names had been taken now we know p.i.n. numbers had been taken. target has said the data was scrambled and it will be difficult to decipher. they re reassuring customers that that information is protected. it reads, the p.i.n. information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted within our system and remained encrypted when it was removed from our system. target says there s no reason to believe that that data is not still encrypted. we spoke to security experts who asked if that is not possible for that to be decrypted. they said the likelihood of that will depend on the specifics of the encryption system. if you re a customer who uses a debit card and are concerned about the money in your account,
incredibly expensive to do. one would assume. i m curious how much it would cost i would assume this is happening to everybody. well, it depends. privately i can for instance get your meta data for $400 or $500. who you call, when you called, the length of the call. it is fairly inexpensive. so for the national security agency, it is nothing. i mean, that is nothing. so i guess the question is, i would assume then that the president s cell phone is being monitor monitored. a throwaway one or whatever will i would assume e is watching everybody. that it is faux outrage that we re hearing from our european allies. exactly. anybody talking on a cell phone who expects privacy doesn t know the way the system works including the president of the united states. there is no way to protect that or his private computer. even the encryption system are all vulnerable. and so if merkel thought she was speaking entirefully private she was wrong.
we haven t said why it is in such trouble. it s because it didn t innovate. it s because you can t internet on it properly. right. i will say once you make the switch to iphone, it took me a long time. but i now can t believe that i didn t switch earlier. [ overlapping speakers ] those who have seen the light. i wonder if the q 10 or z 10 works better. i sent mine back. not encouraging. i read an article today that washington, that the government is one of the big big clients of blackberry. why is that? encryptions, really great encryption system. better than all the other once. and that is why if you look at the statement from fairfax yesterday, they talk about developing secure servers. my gut feeling, and what do i know about this, but my gut feeling is this is going to become a niche product in a very
we haven t said why it is in such trouble. it s because it didn t innovate. it s because you can t internet on it properly. right. i will say once you make the switch to iphone, it took me a long time. but i now can t believe that i didn t switch earlier. [ overlapping speakers ] those who have seen the light. i wonder if the q 10 or z 10 works better. i sent mine back. not encouraging. i read an article today that washington, that the government is one of the big big clients of blackberry. why is that? encryptions, really great encryption system. better than all the other once. and that is why if you look at the statement from fairfax yesterday, they talk about developing secure servers. my gut feeling, and what do i know about this, but my gut feeling is this is going to become a niche product in a very