government order. you have microsoft, yahoo, google, facebook, aol, youtube and apple. these are all of the different programs that people go on for chatting web browsing video et cetera where they can start to build kind of a profile of you. how troubled are you by this? i am a former cop former justice intel guy. at some point you say how much does the scope go, are we targeting or fishing? i think that s the real issue we are dealing with right now. if you want to protect your privacy. it is called the tour project. it is used by activists a lot of people out of china even in the
the hackers say they failed to encrypt the credit card details, and that s what you just mentioned. you know, but my question to you is whether they re encrypted or not, does every system have some level of vulnerability? in 2011 we ve seen an extraordinary number of security breaches, financial institutions, sony playstation, the state department. what s embarrassing here, of course, is that this is a security think tank, and you d think they would do a better job protecting their own data. julie: sure. and according to the hackers online postings, i guess the group decided to play robin hood, so they voted to contribute to different charities, cancer and aids research, the american red cross, wikileaks and, my favorite, the tour project which is a software that enables online anonymity. that s right. julie: now that they ve donated
she is being held on $350,000 bail. jenna. jenna: julie. thank you. sure. gregg: new information now on the investigation into wikileaks. the u.s. government obtaining a secret order forcing google and another web company to turn over e-mail information from a wikileaks volunteer. now. this is the important part. there was no search warrant involved. the volunteer isn t being charged with anything. that has a whole lot of people wondering how safe are our e-mails? doug mckelway is in our washington bureau with the latest. reporter: good morning, gregg. the secret court ruling is double-edged sword. it may help those responsible for release of classified material. a lot of civil libertarians worry it could open the floodgates of big brotherism. and allow the government to peer into anybody s private e-mails and correspondents. the focus of the investigation is the member of the tour project, a group of hackers who are committed