i'm here to break into the account of dan simmons. joe, you really don't need the gun.to do? let's give this a shot. 0k? hi, yes, i'd like to access my current account, if i can, please? yes, it's probably about £10, something like that. yeah. thanks very much. yeah, that's great. thank you. you failed — but close. wow, look at how close this is over here. look at that! if we come over here, it you can see there's the threshold level, and that — that is pretty close. that was not a bad first go. thatjust came out of nowhere. first go, very good. it came out of absolutely nowhere! very good. but that's how you test the system, isn't it? yes, we that's how we test the system. we tested with twins, and siblings, and imitators. you know, a fraudster wouldn't get three chances, and the reason a fraudster wouldn't get three chances is that we would register the multiple failures, and it would dynamically increase the threshold on the third, and put a flag on the account. right, that is not to say, of course, that it's impossible, is it? it's not impossible, it's just very imp

iam break i am break into the account of dan simmons. you do not need the gun.. .. hello, what do i have to do? letmake this a shot. 0k... hello, iwould like to access shot. 0k... hello, iwould like to a ccess my shot. 0k... hello, iwould like to access my current account, if i can? —— let's give this a shot. yes, it is probably about £10, something like that. thank you very much. that is great. thank you. you failed. but close. if we come over here, it you can see the level, and that is pretty close. that was not a bad first go. first go, very good. it came out of absolutely no way! that is how you test the system, isn't it? that is how we test the system. we tested with twins and siblings and imitators. a fraudster would not get very gentle. and the recently fraudster would not get three cancers is that we would register the failures, and that it would increase the threshold on the third and put a flag on the account. —— a fraudster would not get a third chance. and the reason the fraudster would not get three cancers is that we would register the failures. so

dan simmons, bbc news. uk to replace its on—site air traffic controllers with a remote control digital system, operated from more than a hundred miles away. instead of sitting in a tower overlooking the runway, controllers will watch live footage from high—definition cameras in hampshire. the new system will be operationalfrom 2019. 0ur transport correspondent richard westcott reports. modern airports are dynamic, fast flowing, hundreds of pieces being moved around every minute and all of those movements must be tightly choreographed to keep it safe. this is london city airport and that is just one of the 300 or so take—offs and landings that happen here every day. until now, all of those flights have been coordinated by a group of controllers who look out of these windows here. but in the future those windows are going to be replaced by these high definition tv screens. controllers won't just see the airport, they will be able to hear it as well. the thing is, this digital control tower is 120 miles away f

dan simmons, bbc news.nservative stronghold, prosperous and protected by senior ministers whose constituencies are in the region. but voters have raised fears about cuts in local services in some areas. peter henley, the bbc‘s political editor in the south, reports from the isle of wight. for a small place, there are some big contrasts on the isle of wight. expensive yachts in cowes harbour, picture—postcard villages, and a laid—back lifestyle. but on an island, local issues, even the state of the roads, are what gets people talking. a lot of it is down to local situations and issues. you'll find you get a lot of people voting for local causes, schools, education, things that matter to them. some of the problems are hidden. the citizens advice centre has seen a record number of people getting into debt and using food banks. job security isn't that good, and a lot of work is seasonal. we are making sure people get their rights, people aren't getting holiday pay, not getting sick pay when they are entitled to

i'm here to break into the account of dan simmons. joe, you really don't need the gun.ah. thanks very much. yeah, that's great. thank you. you failed — but close. wow, look at how close this is over here. look at that! if we come over here, it you can see there's the threshold level, and that — that is pretty close. that was not a bad first go. thatjust came out of nowhere. first go, very good. it came out of absolutely nowhere! very good. but that's how you test the system, isn't it? yes, we that's how we test the system. we test it with twins, and siblings, and imitators. you know, a fraudster wouldn't get three chances, and the reason a fraudster wouldn't get three chances is that we would register the multiple failures, and it would dynamically increase the threshold on the third, and put a flag on the account. right, that is not to say, of course, that it's impossible, is it? it's not impossible, it's just very improbable. so, dan, your bank account is still safe, although your twin got away with some pretty cool stationery. yeah, the old fashioned way. were you su

dan simmons, bbc news. take a look at this painting.nd it's just sold at auction for more than £84 million. the 1982 piece, which is untitled, sparked a bidding war at the sale in new york before securing the highest price ever paid for a work by an american artist. iam glad i am glad you said it was an titled because i just spent the last five minutes trying to find online what its title is. you know what it's worth, but not what it is called. it looks like an angry face. it draws you in, doesn't it, but it is quite angry. £84 million and you could buy angry. £84 million and you could buy a decent football player. or three average ones. which would you rather have? just one footballer, just a kick around the garden with. you would have no chance. and harry kane, on fire to be the top scorer once again. harry kane edges closer to the premier league golden boot award . he scores four goals taking his season tally to 26 as tottenham thrash leicester by six goals to one. celtic were also in high scoring mode — they hit five past partick th

we arejoined by dan and joe simmons. tell us what you did.ount, if you set it up with hsbc, all you have to do is say, my voice is my password five times. when you have done that, the bank has a boy sprint. all that my brother needed to do was take my account number, might sort code —— the bank has a voice print. those things are relatively easy to get hold of, and my date of birth, you know that. i do, because i was born first! you sound different to my ea rs first! you sound different to my ears so how hard was it? my voice is slightly lower, and the film crew said, you don't even sound alike so we are not expecting it and i was full of apologies because i have only had to hours sleep! i thought we we re only had to hours sleep! i thought we were not going to cut the mustard and it was only when the camera crew we re and it was only when the camera crew were out and we were filming on your phone that i relaxed and everything fell into place. you are starting to sound more like each other! and i raised the pitch, a little bit, and my voice i

you all know this man, dan simmons, one of click‘s most experienced reporters and famously, if someonebreak it? yeah! well, look, often on this programme we look at new things and we are as excited as anybody to see them, but sometimes, just sometimes, something seems a little bit too good to be true and absolute security, i've never heard anyone in the cyber security industry promise that, but that is exactly what this company are doing. so to prove a point, you're going to try and hack this box? yes. i think i have found somebody who may be able to do it. 0k! scott helm is one of the uk's most respected professional white hat hackers, or penetration testers. he's helped discover some big security flaws in the past, including hacking home routers and electric cars. scott's had the nomx box in his hands forjust a few minutes and he's already suspicious. hey, scott. how's it going? how did you get on? good, yes. i have had a look over this device and i was quite surprised when you first gave it me. so when i flipped it over, we saw what we call the mac address here, which is the device'

dan simmons reports.long with other banks has started using the voice of its customers as their password. they say it is secure... my voice is my password. but a simple with my nonidentical twin brother... welcome to hsbc advance... ..proves otherwise. my financial details and the ability to transfer money, wide open. i am shocked, under no circumstances should two different people be able to get into the same bank account with voice biometric authentication. yes, every voice is unique. however it is up to the system to differentiate between voices, and it hasn't done it in this case, and granted access. unlike a password, a voice is public and experts worry artificial intelligence software can synthesise voices so well that it would soon be able to clone a voice from a sample of 30 seconds or less, a tool which could make the hacker‘sjob much easier. it is a scary application but we are working with security researchers to figure out what is the best way to proceed with this. this is one of the reasons w

dan simmons, bbc news. a look at the weather. some much—needed rainfall over the past two days.d western parts. to the east, cloud producing more persistent outbreaks of rain which will push north this evening into eastern scotland. elsewhere, the heaviest of the showers dying away overnight. many of us will start the day largely dry. a fresh start saturday. outbreaks of rain across northern and eastern parts of scotland through the day. elsewhere across the country, another day of sunshine and showers. similar to today, some of the showers could be heavy and thundery with temperatures in the mid teens. showers fading through saturday night, becoming largely dry as we move through sunday morning. sunday will probably be the better day of the weekend, warmer with fewer showers and we could see temperatures reaching 20 degrees. still a chance of showers in the north—west. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. the lawyer forjulian assange says "he's won" after swedish prosecutors dropped the rape investigation into the wikileaks founder. mr assange has always denied the allegatio

dan simmons, bbc news. ina in a moment, the business news and before that the headlines.as dropping an investigation into a claim of rape against him. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, has criticised conservative plans to introduce a means test for the winter fuel allowance. he said they would cause "great hardship" and anxiety for millions of pensioners us warplanes operating over syria have attacked a convoy carrying pro—government militia forces in a mission to protect british and american forces. it comes as president trump embarks ona it comes as president trump embarks on a visit to saudi arabia, his first foreign trip since taking office. hello. the business news. online food ordering firm just eat is facing an investigation into its takeover of its great rival hungry house. regulators are worried the deal could harm competition — and lead to worse terms for restaurants using the service. london city airport is going to be first in britain to scrap its control tower in favour of a high—tech remote monitoring system. planes will be directed from a centre 100 miles a

dan simmons, bbc news...outh's political editor, is in the south and on the isle of wight. iam isle of wight. i am amongst the miniature figures on the beautiful small island just off the south coast. i am at the model village at guptill. this is the largest constituency in the country. more voters than anywhere else. they've tried to split it up a few times that the islanders have a lwa ys few times that the islanders have always fought back. it is that sort of island spirit, which makes them wa nt to of island spirit, which makes them want to be much more independent. on the other hand, they agree on some things, they disagree bitterly on other things. there are parts of this constituency where the old industry has gone and there is real poverty, there are other parts which are busy with tourists and bursting with innovation. politically there are many contradictions, as well. for a small place there are some big contrast on the isle of wight. expensive yachts in cal ‘s harbour. picture postcard villages an

thank you for opening this up to representatives caroline simmons and tom and dan fox, thank you for being here. i want to get right to this. i am sure you have loads of questions about what is happening and what has happened and i want to answer them. we are going to talk today about a lot of things. the foundation of it, we'll talk about the rule of law. we are going to talk about the simple idea of the root of this country since our founding that no individuals, no matter how powerful or what title stands before their names supposed to be above the set of rules that we all play by. and, that's certainly been the topic of discussions of this country for the last week but frankly we have been talking about in some way shape or form lasting of 110 days. i want to talk a little bit about that today. first, let me say thank you forgiving me the opportunity to do this job. i don't come from a family that has any background in politics. my mom grew up in the housing project of new britain and connecticut or one generation moved from poverty. i get to be a united states senator and whethe

let's talk more with dan abrams and we saw the lawyer right there, big lawsuit here. but it's not easy for a public figure like simmonsse like this. >> it never is. and the first question is going to be, is it false? it's hard to believe that richard simmons would be suing if he'd actually had the surgery so let's assume for a minute for argument sake that at least that part of the story may end up not being accurate. what they will say is even if that's the case we had every reason to believe it was true and that's the legal standard. >> they weren't being reckless. >> when it comes to libel, you have to demonstrate a media entity knew or should have known it was false. but the really interesting legal question here is, is it defamatory to say that someone is getting this kind of surgery, that someone is changing their is it worthy of damages? and that's a novel legal question that could be resolved in this case. >> and finally if it goes to a jury he'd have to testify? >> absolutely. it's a civil case. it's not like a criminal case where you have to say i'll invoke my right not to testify. in a civil case he's the p