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Or some other way to share that. along with the technology and those types of things there's going to be a lot of traditional boots on the ground manhunt work at this point until the information or evidence leads them otherwise. >> if you don't mind, mark, the very top of your answer the last few seconds you were hard to hear. how quickly are they able to make a match? >> there will be -- [ inaudible ]. access to databases will be expedited and there will be information available to the investigators immediately and that includes the fingerprint databases and the dna databases that are availab...

Partial previously useless samples making them now eligible for the f.b.i. database and secondly more advanced genetic sequencing machine to analyze samples that in the past were too small to generate a profile and something called genetic genealogy. police run a crime sample against private d.n.a. databases and find a relative of a suspect who may be actually the killer. finally 25 years ago the f.b.i. database had a million d.n.a. samples. it is now 20 million. it is possible the killer is there now when they run the sample. benjamin. >> benjamin: interesting. d.n.a. testing doing a lot of g...

In Maryland and Montana, law enforcement will now require a warrant to access the information.

>> [laughing]. >> all of the questions that it raises are -- first of all, user consent is required? the person can decline or accept? do we want there to be a warrant. that requires what you are seizing. there is no such thing here. does that matter? there is a fine line between private surveillance and government surveillance. does it matter here that the company is the intermediary between the police and the users? it's like all of the dna databases. does someone else's consent to you and that technology has outgrown the legal field. we are trying to put it into that structure. it's based o...

We have a very sophisticated ied finding capability. we can attack networks, we can defeat devices. i remember as the -- one of the leade lead leaders of the counter eid task force, we developed a sophisticated network of dna databases that today has matured across the nation with law enforcement officials into this ability to very quickly find, fix and capture those that do this kind of thing. thank god he was captured. >> charles: to that point, one of the breaks was the envelope apparently mailed to congresswoman maxine waters, the fingerprint on there and goes to this database and how swif...