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Programming community and this is an open source community. and to understand that, these are programmers who really have donated their time to build out the internet in what is known as open source or rather open ssl. very complex term. but it stands for secure socket layer. don't ask me what that is. if you want to know the answer, talk to somebody with one of those plastic pen holders in his pocket. but it created a flaw that was previously unknown and it permits people to tap in and get information from you and i. >> do we know who is behind this? >> we do not. obviously cyber criminals wo...

What websites? >> just about any. "new york times," any of these major sites might have some apache server in there. right now you can go to lastpass.com to check whether or not the sites are clear, what is really important to understand here, this is supposed to be what was attack and what is the big vulnerability is the area that is supposed to be most secure. ssl, stands for secure socket layer. it is handshake that is supposed to protect you and that is what has been broken. the big problem, so widespread, been around so long, there is no easy way to know which sites have cleaned up the me...

The administration was so concerned about meeting the deadline and getting it on line, that they ignored the soiber security issues? >> they blew right by it. they didn't have time to do the testing let alone figure out what the results of the testing were. to the point that chairman smith made a hearing, they didn'ts iniallyine know what was happening or not happening. this is going on for a long time. i don't have the confidence they resolved that if they can't softball and tell us that 100 percent of the data is going through a secure socket layer. ntoday as we speak, if you are feeling tha...