the feds have unveiled their greatest technological breakthrough since whatever they used to keep mulder and scully from doing it. they were perfect for each other! print my fan fiction! (cheers and applause) jim? >> our government has had the ability to turn on our web cams on our computers and monitor us at home and we don't even know it. >> the feds are reportedly able to use secret technology to disable the web cam's green light so you have no idea you're on. a source tells the "washington post" that the f.b.i. has been able to hack into our web cams for several years. >> stephen: folks, this is a major breakthrough. previously you wan if you wantey on someone through your web cam you had to pay $1.99 per minute. (laughter) and what they were strapping on was not a suicide vest. (audience reacts) still, there might be times when you don't want a nameless bureaucrat to watch your every move. that's why i have invented a powerful new anti-surveillance security system called total analog personal encryption. or tap-pay. here is the prototype, okay? (applause) folks, for just three easy

>> here at the sandia national laboratories, department of energy security specialists like john mulder to hack into the computer systems of power and water companies and other sensitive targets in order to figure out the best way to sabotage them. it's all done with the companies' permission in order to identify their vulnerabilities, and this is a graphic demonstration of how they could have destroyed an oil refinery by sending out code that caused a crucial component to overheat. >> the first thing you would do is turn it to manual controls so that your automatic controls aren't protecting you. >> what would be your main target here? >> the heating element and the re-circulator pump. if we could malfunction both of those, we could cause an explosion. >> how would you do that? >> the first thing we had to do was actually gain access to the network, and that's--we just got that as launch attack. and then we turn up the btus, and then we're turning off the re-circulator pump. there we go. >> how realistic is this? >> it's very realistic. >> but the companies are under no obligation to f