sony may have pulled the plug on releasing the interview this week, but north korea isn t done threatening americans. they warned this is just the beginning. nothing is more miscalculation guessing just a single movie production company is the target. our toughest counter action will be boldly taken against the white house, pentagon and whole u.s. mainland. the president said he didn t consider this an act of war but call this cyber vandalism. take a listen. i don t think it was an act of war. i think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was costly and very expensive. we take it very seriously. we ll respond proportionately. joining me now for more, cnn media correspondent and money
let s take a closer look at how the technology would work. we have cnn s money tech correspondent lori seigel. what can be retrieved? well, so much. i was thinking if a phone is in the water for so long and how would you get anything off of it? i spoke to a cell phone company called h-11 and they told me what you would get. longitude and latitude if they had gps and constantly looking for the signals and time line information and photographs and individu video and text messages and call history and e-mail and social media and if someone was using facebook or trying tick ma a last call, and this is all information and go ahead and say, it is going to be very difficult to find the devices say in the middle of the ocean, but this is all information that could be available and could be recovered potentially. and we still don t know. don t know. and one never knows and sometimes things pop up that you don t expect. and they would need some tech tools in order to get the
southwest interactive film and music festival. that s where snowden is expected to speak via satellite live from russia. cnn s money tech correspondent lori segel is in austin. lori, who invited snowden to speak and why? reporter: you know, the aclu has partnered with snowden to put on this talk. it s a pretty big deal. because he hasn t really addressed as many folks as this group of this group of people. i mean, this conference is all technologists. so the people that are going to be in the audience are the people that have been affected very much so by these nsa revelations, who are unhappy. and they re going to have the opportunity to actually ask questions. you know, one thing he s going to be addressing is how tech can protect people against mass surveillance. i ll say this, deb. he said before he s only released a little bit of what he s got. so i can imagine a lot of folks are probably going to ask what else do you have? that s probably going to be a conversation happening
than just your favorite songs and it is hoping to cash in. pandora is rolling out a new ad service to help political candidates target voters. the next time you listen to a little country or some r&b, you might get pegged as a democrat or republican. let s bring in cnn s money tech correspondent, laurie segall, from new york. tell me more. it is all about your zip code. every time when you sign up for pandora, you put in your zip code. that has a lot of valuable gee graphics cal data. they have said, a lot of folks have voted left or right and been able to target you. they are taking it to a whole new level. now, they are able to say, in a suburb of chicago that generally leans left, a lot of folks are listening to reggae music. they can correlate those and better serve you. you can get out of these ads by signing up for the premium service, $3.99 a month.