i want to bring back in our marriol armstrong. marioing you would have to be savvy to do this. but can anybody hack my phone right now. >> yeah, that's the biggest misconception. i'm so glad you're focusing on this because anyone can do this. you don't have to have a technology-related degree by any means. that's why a lot of reporters were able to do this in the first place. it's a thing called spoofing. anyone can look this up. essentially if i know your cell phone number, i can have my phone spoof that number, which would trick the voice mail system into thinking my phone is yours. so i don't know if i just confused you, but essentially what i would do with my phone is be able to call into your voice mail and if you don't have a pass code on it, it thinks this is you calling in. >> okay. now, in that case, it's not like the phone calls coming into my phone would go to yours. we're talking specifically about hacking into voice mails. >> that's correct. that's how this whole -- that's one of the ways that this whole scandal started to

mario armstrong has tips on how to make your computer password more secure. d to see you as always. we all have about 20 passwords we have to log into. can we start with simply the longer the password the better? >> the longer the password is absolutely better, man. this is really, really important. so much identity theft can happen so easily from having the wrong password. here's the bottom line. georgia institute of technology researchers found they could crack an eight character password in two hours. but for a 12 character password, the same process would take 17,134 years. so i say, go with at least a ten character password or more to be safe. >> that is a good tip. the other thing, a lot of us just use letters and numbers. that's a bad idea? >> yeah. because there's only 26 letters in the alphabet and numbers, there's only but so many you're going to use in a password, one through all the way up to nine and zero. you want to use numbers, letters and symbols, but also, upper and lower case. that actually matters when doing a password. you have to make thi

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mario armstrong is here to save you cash and to calculate the best plan for your lifestyle.charging per gigabyte. i don't know what that means. >> you and most people don't understand what that means. it's technical terms for how we measure data which are absolutely right of a charge by these things called the gigabyte. to help people understand that a little bit, you know, a gigabyte is really 1,000 megabytes. and so this kind of mathematics is almost like a foreign language. i don't know about you but i didn't do that great in matt math class. this is how we measure data today though. >> so i guess the bottom line, the question is. what is the best way to keep my bills low, especially if i use my smart phone a lot, if i'm texting, uploading pictures. you don't want to be charged. parents of teenagers are thinking, oh, no, there goes the limited plan. what to do? >> yeah, no, absolutely because you know, today our consumption on these devices is heavy on all types of things from photos to videos to streaming music and things online. so you are right. we need to be aware of

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mario armstrong is here to show us how it works. mario, it sounds a lot like skype, is that true?s it like that or different? >> yeah. great point. you know, here's the deal. it is exactly like skype if you're used to using skype, you will be used to using facebook's video chat as well because essentially it's skype, it's skype's engine. skype has partnered with facebook to make this new feature happen. >> so, is this in response to what google was doing, mark zuckerberg from facebook wanted to get in on this and how does it literally work? you're on facebook and they see you or you have to want them to see you? >> okay. yeah. two things there. number one, i don't think this was in response to google plus who's created hangouts which has a video chat feature. here's how they kind of compare. facebook and google both will let you chat with people within one or two clicks. it's really easy to do. if you're on facebook you basically pull up your chat list of friends and you'll see a little green icon whether or not they are on-line and then when you start -- when you initiate that yo

earlier, i spoke to digital lifestyle expert, mario armstrong, and he gave us tips on picking out thehings called the gigabyte. to help people understand that a little bit, a gigabyte is really a thousand megabytes. and so this kind of mathematics is almost like a foreign language. i don't know about you, but i didn't do that great in math class. but this is how we measure data today, though. >> so i guess the bottom line, the question swb what is the best way to keep my bills low, especially if i use my smart phone a lot? if i'm texting, if i'm uploading pictures? you don't want to be charged, and parents out there of teenagers are thinking, oh, no, there goes the unlimited plan. what do they do? >> absolutely. because you're, you know, today, our consumption on these devices is heavy on all types of things from photos to videos to streaming music and things online. so you're absolutely right. there are a few things you need to be aware of. number one, e-mails look like about 200 or 20, i'm sorry, kill bytes per maile. the things that will charge you the heaviest on your usage will b

let's talk to our digital lifestyle expert, mario armstrong, about this.that this could be a game changer in the industry. >> what you're talking about is going on to walmart's site to be able to actually download the movie right then and there, so that you could watch it, you could stream that movie and watch it from your computer, from your laptop, you know, right in your own house. >> okay, you need anything special here? special equipment? you need a certain type of, you know -- i'll let you get into the technical speech about how much speed you need on your computer and all that to be able to download these, but other than that, you don't need much, do you? >> you don't need much of anything, absolutely not. all you need really is just a laptop or a computer, you need internet connectivity, obviously. the higher the bandwidth with on that connectivity, obviously, the better to be able to really stream those movies and be able to not have what's called buffering and all that hiccupping that sometimes you experience on the web. but, no, other than that,

mario armstrong is here to talk about that.traffic mess we just saw out of baltimore there, so glad you were able to make it. >> it's unlike anything i have ever seen before. it was really weird. >> obviously they're looking for somebody there, and hope it works out okay. how is this thing going to work at the white house with the twitter town hall? >> it's interesting. it will happen 2:00 p.m. eastern time, and they can watch it live at askobamatwitter.com. he's basically only going to talk about two topics, suzanne. jobs and economy. people are going to send questions in via twitter to the president, and then they will curate those and answer some via twitter. >> how does it work for the president, does it limit him to 140 characters? >> yes, just like everybody else. it will be challenging but great to hear how he responds to questions in a very concise and effective way. >> i understand people will go ahead and ask questions. i think he's going to actually go longer, but we'll see how that goes. what is the focus here? >> w

i talked to digital lifestyle expert, mario armstrong who gave us tips on picking out the best plan accordingabyte is really 1,000 megabytes. so this kind of math is almost like a foreign language. i didn't do that great in math class. but this is how we measure data today. >> so i guess the bottom line, the question is, what is the best way to keep my bills low? especially if i use my smart phone a lot. if i'm texting, 81 loading pictures? you don't want to be charged. and parents of teenagers are thinking, oh no, there goes the unlimited plan. what do they do? >> yeah. no, absolutely. because today our consumption on these devices is heavy on all types of things from photos to videos to streaming music and things online. so we need to be aware of those wireless data points. there are a few things you need to be aware of. emails look like about 200 or 20 i'm sorry, kilo bytes for emails. so very low on data. the things that will charge you the heaviest on your usage will be things like video streaming, music streaming, things like photos and doing a lot of those types of interactivity with y

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mario armstrong is a digital expert.ou want to get people nervous, you start peopling about people's privacy. so let's start with that question. how easy is to get hacked? >> unfortunately, it's too easy. you can think about it, number one, so much much us are carrying smart phones today. there's been a 60% increase over the last year. and these things have operating systems, they run software. they're like digital wallets. so people can access your account which can then change services or they can have you download software on to your phone. >> what does a hacker need or reporter need to adequately hack into your phone? how sophisticated is the equipment? >> it's not. a lot of people think it takes a lot. >> secret agent stuff. >> yeah, fbi level stuff. no, it's not. just calling your cellular account, getting a bill out of your trash could easily give anyone enough information or just knowing the phone number is enough information to call the carrier to try to have some things changed. >> so you're sitting at home or