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Joining me now is kevin mitnick, once the world's most computer hacker, is now a consultant. i appreciate you being with me, especially with your background. >> hi. >> given the 17 intelligence agencies who say there's no doubt that russia hacked the dnc and joe podesta, russia wants the united states to provide evidence and so do americans as well. there's a question, why not release what they have? you have adam schiff who was asked that this morning. here is what he said. >> we have good sources of information. we don't want to disclose those. the russians would love to know the source so t...

This was intentional. everything is on the table as far as investigators go. there-of-they are also looking at his experience. we know that he had only been on this route a matter of weeks. also today, wolf a law enforcement source is essentially throwing water on this theory that something, a projectile was thrown at amtrak 188, and that may have caused the crash. this source is saying that police they listened to all of the dispatch recorders, and have heard nothing about 188 being shot. they also spoke to passengers and none of them said that the train was struck. >> rene we'll check back. ...

Computer hacker and an expert on cyber security. kevin, i do want to talk about the broader implications of sony's moves. has the u.s. lost its first cyber war? >> i would say the hackers definitely won in this particular case against sony. i think that was a really bad idea. i really think sony should make the movie available for free, publish it on the internet and not allow anyone to do any sort of censorship against anyone in the united states. >> there are a lot of people who share those dues, but i do have to ask you, does this hack prove that sony's i.t. systems were weak? does this pre...

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>> and that wasn't hostile. imagine if this was a hostile attack. we've been fighting this silent digital war for 20 years. people didn't want to talk about it because we didn't want people to understand that it's going on. imagine if a computer hacker from outside of iran can get inside iran, take control of the computer, and shut it down at their energy facilities. martha: that would be helpful. >> it would be helpful, but also remember that they can do that to us. they can take over your atm and suddenly all your digital records are gone. it's a serious problem. energy, transportation, ever...