it s a popular technology for extending cell phone coverage and it had a major security hole that went undetected for years. so joining us, hi. it happened in a network device. a network extender is something you take in your home if you have bad service and put it in there and get better service. spoke with a bunch of hackers. this is a verizon device who were able to tap into it and see basically everything you re doing on your phone. i want to show you how they were able to hack my text messages first of all. check this out. i ve got a phone right here. i can text your phone and you can use this and intercept and see exactly what i m text messaging. we see your text message after it leaves your phone, before it reaches the carrier and recipients phone. i will text him now. i m sending it. before my friend gets the text, these guys are reading it on the computer.
prevents the network extender from being compromised in the same manner and there were no reports of any customer issues. you have to keep in mind these hackers found a flaw in the verizon system. they didn t even look in at&t. it is projected by 2014 there are going to be about 50 million of these devices in homes. this is something to keep in mind. interesting. if the hacker really wants to get your information they can get it, right? pretty much? you know, we operate under the i ask these hackers, what can dwee to protect ourselves? what do we want to do? he said you should first of all operate under the assumption that nothing you do is private. well great. but there are definite apps you can use if you re paranoid about it. there is one called wicker, cell crypt, red phone, so you can play around with these. it s eye opening and important to understand that we are in this age where privacy is in question quite a bit. the person who comes up with a way to where you don t ha