restaurant where we used a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics. almost immediately, we were hacked. so as you re going to it, did you see where it said downloading? yeah, i did. it s actually downloading a piece of malware. malicious software hijacked our phone before we finished our coffee. stealing my information and giving hackers the option to tap and record my phone calls. anything i say on this will endanger my financial security, maybe even my physical security. even physical. depending on who s listening? exactly. one of the largest computer security companies in the world is charged with protecting the games, but experts here say visitors will bring so many devices the hackers will have plenty of targets. all this protection, of course, because every segment of this huge, huge, huge infrastructure can be under attack. back at the hotel, wilhoit was using specialized software to monitor my two computers, and sure enough, they d
said. listen. and, oh, one more wrinkle for you, jeff? yeah. can t remember if i told you this or if i only told washington this, that when i talked to jeff feltman this morning, he had a new name for the u.n. guy, robert seary. did i write you that this morning? yeah, i saw that. he s now gotten both seary and ban ki-moon to agree seary could come in monday and tuesday. okay. that would be great i think to help glue this thing and have the u.n. help glue it and, you know, [ bleep ] the eu. so, yeah, what we had to bleep there, that s why it became international news. i mean, to be fair, you can hear this, i think, to be fair to victoria nuland, from the tone of the phone call and the conversation leading up to it, it doesn t appear to be a malicious attack on the eu when she says bleep the eu. she seems to be implying, if we can have the u.n. involved to fix this thing, who cares how much help we do or don t get from the eu.
counsel to go to the port authority and investigate this matter directly as soon as you found out about it? you did? that is not what you said before. you guys all want to keep chasing it around, chase it around. it s your business. but i m not running around doing independent investigation. i heard senator baroni s testimony. i don t assume people are lying. especially not people like senator baroni whom i ve known for a very long time. if you re asking me if i ve done any independent investigation, the answer is no. pressed repeatedly on what he had done to try to get to the bottom of this bridge situation, governor christie not only never mentioned before this week that in october, as soon as he learned what happened, he sent his chief counsel and his chief of staff to investigate at the port authority. he not only never mentioned that before this week, he overtly said a bunch of times i am not looking into this. i m not investigating this. i have done nothing to check out what
so, yeah, what we had to bleep there, that s why it became international news. i mean, to be fair, you can hear this, i think, to be fair to victoria nuland, from the tone of the phone call and the conversation leading up to it, it doesn t appear to be a malicious attack on the eu when she says bleep the eu. she seems to be implying, if we can have the u.n. involved to fix this thing, who cares how much help we do or don t get from the eu. screw them for lack of a better phrase, we can do this with the u.n. that s not exactly what she said. she didn t say screw. victoria nuland later apologized for her salty language. here s the bigger question about this story today. where did this recording come from? who recorded this? how did a conversation between two of our top diplomats on a very sensitive topic get leaked to the public? paging edward snowden. white house press secretary jay carney was quick to point out today the recording was first tweeted out by a member of the russian gove
anything like that anywhere else in the world? reporter: i don t really know, frankly. we set up this experiment to see what would happen if we were to be hacked. it s possible we could be hacked in china or russia or china or new york or other places that we travel, but hackers here are very aggressive. a lot of cyber attacks come from russia, and we had been told by numerous experts that with all of the world leaders and athletes and journalists coming to russia right now for the games, that it would be a very opportune time. so we know this time because we brought a security expert with us what happened. see as soon as we plugged our machines in and started surfing on the internet and turned on the phone and did a little brou browsing, we were quickly compromised. in terms of how people can defend themselves, i guess, what is the advice people are getting on how to travel so what happened to you with the security expert in that