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You'll hear more about nfc. you will take your phone and go to a kiosk at a store and swipe it and pay like you would with your credit card. no touching of anything. just getting the information directly from your phone. why are the credit card companies so interested in this and carriers and phone makers? there is a lot of money at stake here. every one of those transactions, there is a little bit of money at stake. they want to find a way to do this. this is absolutely inevitable over the next few years. >> people hear about that, if we are able to take our phone to the scanner, does that me...

Listen to an iphone user's voice mail. >> if i want to find this, i go into my settings on my phone? >> right. not in your phone. you have to call into your voice mail, go into password options, and what you want to do is say turn on password. and that's universal, no matter who your carrier is. and what type of phone it is. not just smartphonesmartphones, type of phone. >> very good advice. i will tell you this, i already have that. >> that's a good thing too. >> i know people that have this option where they go automatically to their voice mail and there is no pass code and i learned a long ...

Ceo of a big fortune 500 company and know your i.t. department or you didn't know or no one is aware you should password protect your actual voice mail if you're calling it from your actual phone. you may protect your phone if, you know, go into lock mode. but it does not protect it in your voice mail. so if you're someone high profile, i can listen to all your messages by just calling in and that's kind of scary. i don't even need a pass code whatsoever. >> my protection then is to institute a pass code, you say? if my phone has it. >> right. >> do all phones have that ability? >> yes, they d...

Information is it really taking from my phone? you have to remember that, and get spyware on your phone, they can steal that whole application along with your credit card and ear information on there. >> talk specifically about voicemail. this i found fascinating. you've got a demonstration for it. >> correct. we're going to demonstrate how easy it is to listen to someone else's voicemail without knowing their pass code. there's caller i.d. services out that allow you to change, they call them call e i.d. spoofing. call a number, have any number show up in a person's i.d. >> you'll call this n...

Mail. >> that is correct. you can listen -- you will be able to listen in and hear all the information of this phone. for instance, now, i think we are connected. i think -- i think your cnn people in the back are the ones that are making the -- doing the demonstration here. so and i don't think your callers can actually hear that we're actually in their voice mail as we speak. >> but had it worked, though, you would have been -- a danger could have dialled in and listened in to your voice mail and other voice mails. >> it is very scary. how you have to protect yourself is, when you check your...