of data retention even possible here to break down all of this and more as our two web producer andrew blake straight from the barbershop you know you don't text me that much anymore though i don't text you that much when you usually g. chat so i held it up for my far enough and that's so that's a horse of a whole other color if you want to start talking about that kind of surveillance but you know this is so something that's worth talking about today all right well why don't you break it down for us i mean how first of all let's just start with the storage space is it even possible to store this much information yeah sure i mean the money's just a little piece of text but right now we're talking about. billion text messages in the united states every single day like two trillion a year according to statistics from twenty ten twenty eleven i believe so it's a lot of information but we do know there is a whole n.s.a. data center being built over in utah and people say they're just collecting information is there even know how to handle it right now but law enforcement says that there is this

web producer andrew blake so andrew we do report here a lot on our t.v. about you know possible threats to citizens privacy is this kind of a glimmer of hope that we're seeing all asleep when i see a glimmer is the right word you want to hear especially in vermont which the course of the state is going to be a tiny little stuff but it's funny that two hundred years after you know we first draft of the bill of rights were still trying to iron out exactly how we go about enforcing things like the fourth amendment protections docs americans goes on wanted search and seizure and right here we are seeing. that there are being some thrive if you see if there is being put in place to make sure that police can't just rifle through every electronic item that you have your house which is exactly what state. originally. ruling which i'm sure will be appealed at least attempted to that the judge can actually say look we can put some limits on what the police can access and what they do with that stuff so just as a judge can limit physical searches now prove that a ju

time now to check in with our web team and see what they're working on today the web producer andrew blake is in the newsroom to bring us more hey andrew you've been working very hard all day today christine for us i am so sleepy it's been such a long monday so what will people see when they click on our web site r t dot com us slash usa is the place to go bunch of great stories today we've got something about how the u.s. military might be getting some stealth drones for the armed for the air force we got some stories we dissect last week's labor statistics and talk about the actual labor workforce participation rate and what it really means in the grand scheme of the whole thing the recession still being an actual things that you know grim scary stuff you know the usual stuff so you're not going to find they were also something that that we just finished earlier today which i think is a really interesting story for anyone who has to use a computer is our old pal barry brown who is a member barrett yeah there we used to have on the show all the time he said about him all the time until he

that was our producer andrew blake. one hundred nine years ago the wright brothers celebrated their first flight a corporate space travel group space x. celebrated with the launch of its highest test rocket to date the grasshopper. here it is you're looking at the grasshopper take a twelve story at leave and a test flight recently in mcgregor texas the grasshopper has a fully controllable and reusable first stage launch vehicle for future trips to orbit and beyond this launch reached one hundred thirty one feet and lasted twenty nine seconds before returning back to its launch pad and if you look very closely you can see a cowboy manic at the space x. founder says it got to hop on the grasshopper in order to prowl provide a sense of scale space experts believe that the key to keeping the cost of space launches down is to make more of the launch vehicle reusable. well today russian president vladimir putin signed a law banning americans from adopting russian children americans have adopted over sixty thousand russian chi

can we once again to talk about the blurring lines between man and machine are two web producer andrew blake shared his thoughts in a few of his fears i first asked him what the difference between driverless cars cars and the drone technology we already have what it what the difference is that all the muscle systems more and more provide like we're already expecting thirty thousand pounds by the year twenty twentieth's. i've heard and we actually wrote about you know just lieberman was talking about we were about that archie dot com a few weeks ago and how at the l.a. auto show when they asked these big auto manufacturers you know what do you envision for the police patrol car of the future it seems like so many of them were just like defaulted to saying it's going to be drone technology it's going to be unmanned aerial vehicles that are going to be able to be dispatched you know either by hand or shot off of another police car and that's going to be able to be deployed to be able to track down anyone anywhere so it's the same kind of technology we're seeing right now where you're able to pu

web producer andrew blake actually had a chance to attend one of these crypto parties and brings us this report. right now right this second you're being watched no there might not be spies snooping around the corner or a vast surveillance system that may or may not be catching your every move what is for certain though is just about any activity conducted on computers can be collected and monitored but is there something you can do about it the answer is yes it's called a crypto party and they're happening right now around the world in places like boston chicago oakland and cairo people are getting together and learning about the basics of digital encryption from learning how to use the tor project a program that allows people to connect to the internet by sending data through a series of nodes to essentially make traffic almost impossible to monitor or using a simple plugin to ensure conversations are encrypted from others here a beginner's guide computer cryptography secure it out in a single setting where amateurs novices experts and well anyone can explore and learn how to make sure

studio by our to read producer andrew blake and really nice to see you so i was well you spent a lot of time you know on computers as i recall the guy either say what about it i mean there are some areas inside of our bodies that's a little terrifying hollow terrifying but i mean we just saw those people out here a little package there they're talking about you know having their heads we generally froze and preserved till the end of time to make sure that they can get through the regular i think this is a fountain of youth i mean we can actually advance our bodies so that we don't even one day we won't even get sick and the best in science fiction for centuries so people are actually saying it's about to happen you know maybe it's just my own. refusal to take my own more mortality seriously i've always kind of penance for all by the idea of being able to live forever but i reckon right now i feel like humans have been fascinated with that yet so i'm not the only ones who are not i was the weirdo. but growing up i was always you know i'd never read that much science fiction i was alwa

here to talk more about this case and more instances of federal entrapment are to our producer andrew blake abbi what's going on and. so tell us more about all metaphor and why it's different than other entrapment cases here almost like you said for starters this is the first time we've seen at least in new york state where he was tried on state level terrorism charges now in new york as recently as october we saw a big would be terrorism plot foiled by the n.y.p.d. along with your systems of the f.b.i. but in all of these cases we've seen there's been countless going back to september eleventh we always see the f.b.i. or not always but a good number of times the f.b.i. has a very very hands on approach about busting up these criminals and but this instance we did see the n.y.p.d. actually follow through from start to finish and as the f.b.i. would you want a federal level this time they actually took matters into their own hands and more or less coached someone into initiating some sort of terror plot so while we do have someone who admitted that yes i did maybe want to do some some harm a

singular five to seven years that information says you know mega little to send a text messages for andrew blake on december whatever date is seventh tour so that information could be accessed by by congress by investigators by law enforcement if they all have their way but but right now it's not mandated telecom's can do whatever the hell they want to do with this information but like you said we have this group the major chiefs are major cities chiefs of police so if you. ssion and that's officers from new york l.a. chicago miami there are asking for this and at the same time other groups national district attorneys association national sheriffs association they are also there in their head into this and saying look congress you should consider doing this of course it's not going to matter until congress actually goes and revamp the electronic communications privacy act which isn't going to happen till next year but it could at least be brought up and can be put on the table in it's serious and which one are they trying to store in particular the metadata or everything that's involved in them

the internet certainly still a wide open field without a lot of ramifications drawn out producer andrew blake review of what is trending today on the web site the web site thanks so much. well when we talk about going over the fiscal cliff one of the things lawmakers really on both sides of the aisle fear most are these massive cuts to the defense budget that would go into effect leaders in washington warn pretty much on a daily basis these days that these proposed reductions in defense will hurt national security and lead to another recession but there are some parts of the story that are not being told are window takes a deeper look. with that fighter jets patrolling the skies. and well earned battleships sailing the seas the united states has amassed the strongest military force in the world but some in washington believe proposed cuts to the defense department would be devastating defense cuts that i believe would do real damage to our security our troops and their families and our military's ability to protect the nation in this age of austerity u.s. defense secretary leon panetta painte