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User names, passwords, p.i.n.s, mother's maiden names, all the apparatus of security defeats itself on the internet today, and an -- mark: what is the purpose of all that? >> it's supposedly to stop fraud and to create a basis for transactions on the internet. the internet wasn't designed for transactions. it was designed for e-mail and hypertexting and communication. with communications first protocol. and today, since it's becoming a commercial engine, the internet, it needs a security first protocol, and today, you have to virtually strip naked before the camera in order to

Before the camera in order to conduct a transaction on the internet. you have to know yourself user names and passwords for all the hundreds and thousands of possible web pages in which you might transact. it's just absurd system. mark: cumbersome. >> cumbersome and moreover, it's a porous pyramid that we're all the money and power rises to the top, to companies like google and facebook and whatever. and the cryptocosm is a new architecture for the internet that's based first on security. security first in which rather than having you learn user names and passwords for all websites across the ...

Falls down on the list. their number one priority is to make money off of our private lives. these how they make money. what they are telling us is that user names. contact information such as home phone number, your mobile number. email addresses you may use. your home address. any address you may have put in there for work, where you went to school, your religion, your political preferences, the last 15 places you checked n locations. the litany of what they are giving is amazing. what you can do now though is go online and see if you are one of these victims. >> trish: i do want to? i think...

From federal agencies. one said his take away is that the russians are quote, still at it to an extent it is unnerving. we learned also today hackers that still are unidentified targeted the dnc in another attempt to gain access to democratic voter files. the democratic party's voter database targeted with a sophisticated hacking attempt. a bogus website designed to look just like the access page used by democratic officials and campaigns across the country. a so-called speer phishing attack, trying to get them to use that fake page to get user names and passwords. the dnc told cnn it doesn't ...

>> reporter: when cnn asked senator nelson for specifics about what the russians had c e done, he didn't elaborate, saying that's classified. the florida department of state and the department of home hand security say they've seen no evidence to support nelson's claims. u.s. intelligence officials recently said the russians don't appear to be as aggressive as they were in 2016. >> relative to what we have seen for the midterm elections, it is not the kind of robust campaign that we assessed in 2016 election. >> reporter: still, dan coats says the warning lights are blinking red on america's d...