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At the european bioinformatics institute in the u.k. . theres lots of reasons why d.n.a. is a good medium its very very small its very inexpensive to last so a very long time it doesnt require any energy and we will always be able to read d.n.a. so something like a floppy disk is no longer readable in a few years time probably d.v.d.s will no longer be readable because we wont have the technology any longer to do that but d.n.a. we will always have some technology to read d.n.a. the technology c...

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The citizens of the state of alabama, regardless of who they are. >> reporter: the final push for democrat doug jones includes a small army of volunteers who say they knocked on 80,000 doors this past weekend trying to get out the vote. also helping jones, former president barack obama, who recorded a robo-call to help lure crucial young and african american voters to the polls. by comparison, jones opponent, republican roy moore, has not had a public event since last tuesday. he did sit down wi...

This whole episode, it is the fact it looks like when you look at the classifications its not the super secret stuff. its older devices impacted. talked about how to use 3.5-inch floppy disk. maybe this is older stuff. somebody further down the food chain. >> you are going to see the newer stuff coming and some of it is creepy. the computer chip in a microwave in your kitchen when the door is open can be accessed wirelessly as a listening device. who is doing the accessing? the fbi needs to find...

Submarine and they have deteriorated and the worse is the ballistic missiles and russia and china modernized their nuclear arsenal. what are we concern body here? we want mutually insured destruction. if anyone uses a nuclear weapon, it guarantees their te instruction of their own society. that has kept the peace since world war ii. >> leland: i remember that 60 minutes went down in the bunkers and they were launching icbm with floppy disk. i mean the big ones that are five and half and still us...

Using an 8-inch floppy disk. >> where do you buy a floppy disk? i cant imagine what the price is now. and so thats the big threat is this slow, grinding, lower quality, higher cost set of services. >> reporter: the cost of caring for such ancient equipment is now so high the feds dont have much money left over for anything else. among the biggest spenders on i.t., hhs at $13 billion a year, dhs at more than $6 billion a year and the va at nearly $4.5 billion a year. >> the federal government spe...

Using an 8-inch floppy disk. >> where do you buy a floppy disk? i cant imagine what the price is now. and so thats the big threat is this slow, grinding, lower quality, higher cost set of services. >> reporter: the cost of caring for such ancient equipment is now so high the feds dont have much money left over for anything else. among the biggest spenders on i.t., hhs at $13 billion a year, dhs at more than $6 billion a year and the va at nearly $4.5 billion a year. >> the federal government spe...