ellen nakashima what happened this weekend, what got released?> over the weekend, apparently on saturday, mysteriously a cache of nsa hacking tools was released online through file-sharing sites such as bittor ent and dropbox. it really was not noticed until about monday when the computer security community started commenting on it and pushed into whether the nsa had been hacked. >> sreenivasan: paul vicesie if these look tools to break out are out, these are the tools the american government was using what is the consequence if it is in the public sphere? >> well, i think every day everybody is trying to hack everybody. so this is not huge news. what's big news about it is that these tools were built by the u.s. government. some of the lock picks as you call them are now obsolete. they are relying on vulnerabilities that have sincei been closed because the files are about three years old am but at least one of them is active against a very current piece of equip frment cisco. and it is going to lead to a lot of break-ins while the patcheshe are