but regulators and lawmakers like senator ted kaufman of delaware have other concerns. >> clearly, liquidity's up. but what i say is, liquidity's always trumped by transparency and fairness. you can't have fairness if you don't have transparency. >> senator kaufman, who has both business and engineering degrees, says he's a big fan of technology, but he thinks it's gotten way ahead of financial regulators' ability to monitor it. right now, it's not even possible to determine for sure who is making high-frequency trades or what they're telling their computers to do. >> we do not know what's going on inside those boxes. there's all types of allegations about what's going on inside there. and basically what can happen is, you can have these meltdowns where you can have a computer just go crazy and cause all kinds of problems. >> come on! >> which takes us to the mini crash on may 6, 2010, and one of the scariest rides in stock market history, when the dow industrials at one point plunged 600 points for no apparent reason. turns out it was triggered when a mutual fund's computer dumped $4.1 billio