learning those skills in college. this is breaking into one of these devices or a device like this is within the realm of smart people working at home. >> wow. and laurie's joining us now. laurie, the phone you had tested was a vergz e verizon phone. what does the company say about this? >> hey, wolf. they issued a statement. they were very proactive about it. let me read you what they said to us. they said verizon wireless takes security very seriously. the demonstrations seen was for an identified issue that was fixed earlier this year on all network extended devices. they go onto say the fix prevents the extender from being compromised in the same manner. they also say there were no reports of any customer impact. that being said, wolf, i mean, this thing's enough. having your phone hacked by these guys, it's enough to make you a little bit paranoid. >> so if verizon patched it up they say, is it still something the average person needs to be worried about? >> in short, absolutely. i mean, it's projected that they're going to be about 50 million of these network extenders out there by 2014.