:00:00. > :00:00.here are cautious. They do not want to be taken for a ride. You're
:00:00. > :00:13.watching BBC News. Now it's time for Click.
:00:14. > :00:36.Deal boss. Why would you answer my e`mails? It's like you don't even
:00:37. > :00:41.understand what I'm typing. This week on Clip, we investigate some
:00:42. > :00:45.real internet enigmas. We will meet a computer and war hero and a movie
:00:46. > :00:51.villain, at least, according to the FBI. We will lift the lid on the
:00:52. > :00:55.mysterious shapes taking over the web. And look at the kit that can
:00:56. > :01:05.send these not so curious signals to your TV. Welcome to click. And
:01:06. > :01:09.welcome to Bletchley Park. During the Second World War, this was the
:01:10. > :01:13.home of the UK's Government Code and Cypher School. This is where some of
:01:14. > :01:18.the world's smartest computer scientists and codebreakers worked
:01:19. > :01:23.together to crack the codes from the German Enigma machine and helped
:01:24. > :01:27.shorten the war. Since then, technology has moved on phenomenal
:01:28. > :01:31.and these days, the internet uses a type of encryption that is so hard
:01:32. > :01:36.even our fastest supercomputers could not crack it in a reasonable
:01:37. > :01:41.time. Encryption lets us do lots of things securely online like banking
:01:42. > :01:43.and e`mailing. It's something that the was a blow at Edward Snowden and
:01:44. > :01:49.WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange both advise using to stop being
:01:50. > :01:57.spied on by the authorities. And that is what this man is hoping to
:01:58. > :02:01.do. Kim Dotcom. Yes, that is his real name, used to run a web locker
:02:02. > :02:08.service called Megaupload, which was used by its users to store and share
:02:09. > :02:12.a lot of pirated movies. The government came after him. His
:02:13. > :02:17.mansion was raided and his assets were seized in dramatic fashion.
:02:18. > :02:20.Since then, he has set up a new service which again allows users to
:02:21. > :02:26.upload anything they want to it. But this time, all the content is
:02:27. > :02:29.included on the way up, meaning Kim Dotcom will not know what the site
:02:30. > :02:34.is hosting. And therefore, he hopes he cannot be held responsible for
:02:35. > :02:38.its contents. He is still fighting extradition from New Zealand to the
:02:39. > :02:42.US, where he is accused of being the criminal mastermind behind a mass
:02:43. > :02:47.conspiracy to commit copyright infringement on a mass scale. That's
:02:48. > :02:51.the official term, by the way. But we were given exclusive access to
:02:52. > :03:00.follow Kim Dotcom as he travelled the country on his own copyright
:03:01. > :03:06.crusade. This is Hollywood's most wanted man. But if he is feeling the
:03:07. > :03:11.heat, he is certainly not showing it. Kim Dotcom is on a high. His new
:03:12. > :03:14.storage website is already worth millions of dollars. Now, he's
:03:15. > :03:19.taking on a new challenge and launching his own political party.
:03:20. > :03:26.The internet party was born out of this injustice. I was pulled out of
:03:27. > :03:30.my happy bubble and my life of creation and innovation. I had all
:03:31. > :03:35.these ideas lined up and all these websites that we wanted to launch.
:03:36. > :03:41.It woke me up to a whole new reality. Kim Dotcom is out on bail
:03:42. > :03:44.and he is now using his money to fund the internet party, which wants
:03:45. > :03:48.to make major changes to the law in New Zealand. We want to bring
:03:49. > :03:52.internet freedom to the agenda and we want to make sure that high
:03:53. > :03:58.technology is an economic factor here in New Zealand. All of that is
:03:59. > :04:01.going to be open sourced. I have been invited to spend some time
:04:02. > :04:05.behind the scenes with Kim Dotcom and his closest advisers as they hit
:04:06. > :04:11.the campaign trail. Today, we will meet a breakaway political group. He
:04:12. > :04:14.wants and needs their support if the internet party is to have any chance
:04:15. > :04:20.of winning a seat in the upcoming election. The goal is to find out if
:04:21. > :04:25.there is common ground for us to work together in an alliance. Kim
:04:26. > :04:29.Dotcom was also hoping to convince the national media that his party
:04:30. > :04:32.should be taken seriously. He received a traditional Mari welcome
:04:33. > :04:39.but the feeling of a media circus was not lost on the mana party's
:04:40. > :04:44.leader. Unconvinced that all of the media in this country is here to
:04:45. > :04:49.listen to what I have two say. With the formalities over, all Kim Dotcom
:04:50. > :04:53.had to do now is win their support. This party is about social fairness
:04:54. > :04:59.and who in his right mind could not be for social fairness? I'm for
:05:00. > :05:01.social fairness. The day had been a success but some still questioned
:05:02. > :05:06.when his motivation was really coming from. Kim Dotcom says a lot
:05:07. > :05:12.of it is down to one man, Edward Snowden. To me, he is a hero. His
:05:13. > :05:17.sacrifice will be remembered as one of the most heroic things of our
:05:18. > :05:20.time. He has opened the eyes of the world to injustice and because we
:05:21. > :05:28.know about it, we can do something about it, so I'm grateful to him.
:05:29. > :05:33.Have you spoken with him? Yes. I don't want to go into that. People
:05:34. > :05:37.here have not always liked Kim Dotcom. At first, he was seen as a
:05:38. > :05:42.rich foreigner using New Zealand as a safe haven `` safe haven but the
:05:43. > :05:47.raid changed everything. He is a celebrity. We watch him on the news
:05:48. > :05:52.and he seems like an honest person. The internet party now has more than
:05:53. > :06:01.1000 members. While I was visiting, he invited them to the mansion. I
:06:02. > :06:05.don't know much about the dude but in honour of his starting something
:06:06. > :06:07.like this which seems to have good intentions, I'm willing to hopefully
:06:08. > :06:14.find out more about it. Even with find out more about it. Even with
:06:15. > :06:18.all of this enthusiasm and energy, Kim Dotcom's legal problems still
:06:19. > :06:22.remain in a lot of people 's minds. Those lawsuits keep on coming and a
:06:23. > :06:28.lot of very powerful people want to see him in jail. It seems to be the
:06:29. > :06:34.Kim Dotcom Parties starring Kim Dotcom. Today, he did not have any
:06:35. > :06:36.candidates beating, it was just him. Distancing themselves from their
:06:37. > :06:42.creator would be something to look into. Kim Dotcom has the support and
:06:43. > :06:47.the money and his own sense of unwavering belief in his innocence
:06:48. > :06:53.but if he is forced to go to the US, none of that will matter. He faces
:06:54. > :06:57.more than 20 years in prison. It is never going to happen. I think the
:06:58. > :07:01.extradition will fail because copyright is not an extraditable
:07:02. > :07:06.offence in New Zealand. They added these extra charges, you know, using
:07:07. > :07:12.the Transnational organised crime treaty to basically sell the court a
:07:13. > :07:18.story here that we are some kind of Mafia. And that is not going to fly.
:07:19. > :07:24.There is no evidence to support that at all. So they are going to lose.
:07:25. > :07:30.I'm happy. I have embraced this site now and I will see it through all
:07:31. > :07:35.the way. Kim Dotcom describes his battle as David versus Goliath
:07:36. > :07:40.versus Godzilla versus the dinosaurs. The question now is if
:07:41. > :07:49.Hollywood will win its fight to put him on trial. If you have any
:07:50. > :07:56.thoughts on what he had to say or on copyright on the internet in
:07:57. > :08:02.general, send our way. Afraid of giving away all your personal
:08:03. > :08:05.information? Well Facebook has unveiled an anonymous login feature
:08:06. > :08:09.that will allow users to sign into applications without using their
:08:10. > :08:13.identity. Those applications will then be forbidden from collecting
:08:14. > :08:19.your personal data. Mark Zuckerberg described it as a way of testing
:08:20. > :08:21.apps without fear. Microsoft has warned consumers that a
:08:22. > :08:26.vulnerability in its Internet Explorer browser could let hackers
:08:27. > :08:32.gain access and user rights to their computer. The floor accounts for
:08:33. > :08:35.almost 50% of the global browser market. Microsoft says it will take
:08:36. > :08:41.the great action to protect its customers. Google has announced it
:08:42. > :08:45.has stopped scanning millions of student Gmail accounts under its
:08:46. > :08:49.Apps for Education scheme after reports of the practice may breach
:08:50. > :08:52.US privacy law. Google highlighted its use of such scans for
:08:53. > :08:56.advertising purposes when it's updated its terms and conditions
:08:57. > :09:00.last month. It also announced it would cease advertisement targeting
:09:01. > :09:04.business and government Gmail accounts. Finally, if you are
:09:05. > :09:08.planning a trip to North Korea or you are simply curious about the
:09:09. > :09:12.most secretive country on earth, you will soon be able to download the
:09:13. > :09:16.world's first North Korean travel guide app, featuring thousands of
:09:17. > :09:20.previously unpublished photos, advice from a tour guide with a
:09:21. > :09:23.decade of experience, a price comparison guide and even the GPS
:09:24. > :09:29.co`ordinates of various tourism spots. The app will be available for
:09:30. > :09:36.android and Apple devices from the 7th of May. Of all the people who
:09:37. > :09:40.worked at Bletchley Park, this man is undoubtedly the most famous. This
:09:41. > :09:43.is Alan Shearer in, the man who codesigned the machine that cracked
:09:44. > :09:49.the German Enigma codes. `` Alan Turing. He is widely thought of as
:09:50. > :09:53.one of the founding fathers of theoretical computer science and
:09:54. > :09:56.artificial intelligence, whose work was vital to the Allied cause in
:09:57. > :10:00.World War II and which saved countless lives. And next month
:10:01. > :10:06.marks the 60th anniversary of his death. He took his own life after
:10:07. > :10:12.being convicted of gross indecency in a time when being gay was still
:10:13. > :10:16.illegal in the UK. It was only last year that he received a posthumous
:10:17. > :10:19.royal pardon against his conviction but his place in computing history
:10:20. > :10:28.has been known and certain for decades.
:10:29. > :10:33.And I wonder what he would have made of the latest mystery that has
:10:34. > :10:40.appeared online? Do not adjust your screen. These are some of the many
:10:41. > :10:44.strange videos uploaded to YouTube by a single user in the last few
:10:45. > :10:51.months and when I say many, I mean more than 77,000 of them. Each one
:10:52. > :10:57.is an 11 second sequence of red and blue rectangles and these screechy
:10:58. > :11:00.tones. In the last few days, people have started to wonder what they
:11:01. > :11:11.could possibly mean. Several theories are doing the round. ``
:11:12. > :11:16.doing the rounds. Could this be a hi`tech version of a number
:11:17. > :11:20.station? Those mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts of spoken numbers
:11:21. > :11:25.thought to be coded messages for spies listening in around the
:11:26. > :11:30.world? Could it be part of an internet wide treasure hunt like the
:11:31. > :11:33.notorious SIM card 3301 trial of hidden messages believed to be a
:11:34. > :11:39.recruitment campaign for a secret agency. `` cicada. Are these
:11:40. > :11:43.automated outputs from a piece of browser testing software that
:11:44. > :11:49.happens to share its name with this YouTube user? Some have suggested
:11:50. > :11:53.it's an attempt to talk to aliens. That's aliens who use YouTube, of
:11:54. > :11:58.course. Anyway, we have been doing some digging of our own and we have
:11:59. > :12:03.turned up some interesting stuff. Stephen Beckett is not only one of
:12:04. > :12:06.our researchers, he is also king of his local hacking club and that
:12:07. > :12:11.means he can peek behind the videos and analyse the code that is stuck
:12:12. > :12:16.on the back. I was looking for patterns or anomalies in the videos
:12:17. > :12:20.and there are so many that it's impossible to do it by hand so I
:12:21. > :12:24.made a programme to do it for me. I found that the user had associated
:12:25. > :12:27.their account with Switzerland and also that the videos had been posted
:12:28. > :12:29.throughout the day and night, so it's unlikely they were doing it
:12:30. > :12:35.themselves. A machine had been uploading it. And here is the
:12:36. > :12:39.weirdest thing of all. Steve noticed that amongst the tens of thousands
:12:40. > :12:45.of videos, two of them were very different indeed. Video number one
:12:46. > :12:58.is only watchable if you pay with a French Reddit card. And it's this.
:12:59. > :13:05.Video 1182 is this. The Eiffel Tower filmed from a nearby balcony. And
:13:06. > :13:11.the flash of a screen. Is this the user's Facebook page? And
:13:12. > :13:20.underneath, this comment from web driver torso itself. What do we
:13:21. > :13:27.know? Well, there is a lot of French in this mystery. There is the Eiffel
:13:28. > :13:32.Tower, the French video of the french fries locked behind a French
:13:33. > :13:35.pay wall. And then there is the rest of the videos, all in the colours of
:13:36. > :13:53.the French flag. These days, more of us are choosing
:13:54. > :13:57.to stream or download movies, TV shows and other video content to
:13:58. > :14:00.watch whenever we want. All this is fairly simple to do on smart phones,
:14:01. > :14:04.tablets and computers. It's never been as easy as I would like, to get
:14:05. > :14:14.that video on to your TV. But it is getting easier. We have been looking
:14:15. > :14:18.at some of the options. They are now a number of small and
:14:19. > :14:26.relatively cheap devices that can plug into a TV.
:14:27. > :14:37.As long as the TV screen has an HDMI socket. Firstly, this little fellow.
:14:38. > :14:40.The Chromecast from Google. But it into the socket, then connected
:14:41. > :14:46.wirelessly to a smartphone, computer or tablet. The dongle itself does
:14:47. > :14:51.all of the streaming with the device that acts as a road control,
:14:52. > :14:54.pointing the box where it needs to go online. Setup is pretty simple
:14:55. > :14:59.and takes a few minutes. `` remote control. There are two ways to get
:15:00. > :15:04.content onto the screen. The first is by using apps that support
:15:05. > :15:09.Chromecast. Hit the icon and away you go. There are overgrown number
:15:10. > :15:13.of applications like TV streaming and photo sharing apps that support
:15:14. > :15:21.the device but it is still pretty limited. But it is growing all the
:15:22. > :15:27.time. Because the Chromecast stick is doing the streaming, the device
:15:28. > :15:31.we used to control it, in this case at tablet, is left free to perform
:15:32. > :15:34.other tasks. It is possible to break away from the confines of apps. You
:15:35. > :15:37.can surf the web using the Chrome browser on your device with results
:15:38. > :15:39.appearing on the TV. But weirdly this feature currently doesn't work
:15:40. > :15:45.with mobile devices are not only computers. Cheap, cheerful and an
:15:46. > :15:52.easy way of bringing some parts of the web, not all of it, to the TV.
:15:53. > :15:55.Next, the broken stick which does much of the same job as the
:15:56. > :16:04.Chromecast but does it in a different way. `` Roku stick. It has
:16:05. > :16:09.this. Remote that doesn't look dissimilar to a normal TV
:16:10. > :16:15.controller. It is simple to set up. Once that's complete, the viewer is
:16:16. > :16:20.presented with an interface which lists the apps that the device will
:16:21. > :16:25.work with, about 500 of them. It all feels a lot more like TV interface
:16:26. > :16:31.at, unlike the Chromecast, this stick lacks a browser. In terms of
:16:32. > :16:35.apps the usual suspects are present, `` are present. Searching using the
:16:36. > :16:41.remote control can be clunky but there is a smartphone app which
:16:42. > :16:44.makes things easier. `` app. The final device isn't a stick which
:16:45. > :16:50.plugs into your TV but a little box that sits in front of it. Amazon
:16:51. > :16:54.Instant Mac Fire TV has a higher specification than the two sticks we
:16:55. > :17:01.have seen. But with that comes a higher pricetag. `` Amazon's Fire
:17:02. > :17:07.TV. Currently only available in the US, if you don't already have an
:17:08. > :17:12.Amazon account Fire TV takes a little bit of time to set up. Once
:17:13. > :17:15.up and running, the user is greeted with a very slick interface, clearly
:17:16. > :17:21.labelling the different content available. It is those `` noticeably
:17:22. > :17:24.faster than other devices on test but that's because under the skin
:17:25. > :17:31.lurks a processor, two GB of RAM and a dedicated GPU. Searching using the
:17:32. > :17:38.Chromecast is pretty easy because you can make use of a tablet or
:17:39. > :17:41.smartphone's keyboard. It is harder using the Roku stick because it has
:17:42. > :17:46.a traditional TV remote control. Amazon Instant has a solution, which
:17:47. > :17:55.is voice controlled search. There is a tiny microphone and if I pushed
:17:56. > :17:59.the button... Breaking Bad. I tell Fire TV what I am looking for and it
:18:00. > :18:08.has found it! Press OK and it delivers the content. While the
:18:09. > :18:13.voice search does seem to function OK, at the moment it only works with
:18:14. > :18:15.certain content providers, so it doesn't throw up every option
:18:16. > :18:20.available on the device. This is likely to change in the not too
:18:21. > :18:27.distant future. For an outfit like Amazon, a box that sits beneath the
:18:28. > :18:52.TV is another chance for the retail giant. It shows promise but its
:18:53. > :19:10.price codes produced by this thing. Press
:19:11. > :19:12.a letter here and a pleased they let me touch it. Here
:19:13. > :19:17.comes Kate Russell and Webscape. Weather reports have been getting it
:19:18. > :19:21.wrong since the dawn of civilisation but now, thanks to the power of the
:19:22. > :19:31.crowd, we might be getting closer to an accurate forecast. We zoom ``
:19:32. > :19:34.Wezzoo is a free up that lets you see exactly what to expect from the
:19:35. > :19:41.weather by gathering comments and photos from people who are actually
:19:42. > :19:50.out in it. We do love to talk about the weather. It's part of the human
:19:51. > :19:52.condition, I think. But recently, especially in the UK, there have
:19:53. > :19:59.been some very unpredictable weather fronts. Getting the news first`hand,
:20:00. > :20:01.including photographs of the sky, a `` would help us understand what
:20:02. > :20:06.conditions are really like before heading out of the door. Another
:20:07. > :20:12.weather at that uses the power of the crowd is whether is it all for
:20:13. > :20:20.Andrew. `` WeatherSignal. You can check the conditions where you are,
:20:21. > :20:24.including cabbage, light, pressure, and if you are using a recent model
:20:25. > :20:29.even humidity. `` temperature. You can report your findings, building
:20:30. > :20:30.up a picture of the weather the around world that you can view
:20:31. > :20:47.through your handset or a browser. Another topic we think about Arlott
:20:48. > :20:52.in this day and age is how health and there is a booming digital
:20:53. > :20:57.industry to support this online. Lifesum is the latest act to hit my
:20:58. > :21:05.desk, allowing you to monitor and track lifestyle to make sure you are
:21:06. > :21:08.running along a healthy path. I did a round`up of fitness apps and
:21:09. > :21:16.gadgets on Webscape at the end of last year and I have to say I still
:21:17. > :21:22.find my fitness Powell, with its extensive database of foods, the
:21:23. > :21:29.most effective tool for counting calories and nutritional intake.
:21:30. > :21:34.That said, the Lifesum apps and browser interface have a far more
:21:35. > :21:38.stylish design. If you upgrade to the professional version, the life
:21:39. > :21:43.logged and lifestyle plan are for serious people who want to make
:21:44. > :21:48.changes. Another key feature is the ability to specify a diet you are
:21:49. > :21:52.following, like low carbs, high fat. Rozic `` pro users can get
:21:53. > :21:53.integration with other popular apps for tracking and monitoring your
:21:54. > :22:05.health and fitness. If all that sounds a little too
:22:06. > :22:17.active, sit back and make sweet music with the online Multi Player
:22:18. > :22:19.Piano. Actually, don't expect to make anything even vaguely
:22:20. > :22:27.resembling sweet music in the open broom. It is an ivory bashing free
:22:28. > :22:29.for all that will have most people, with even the slightest music
:22:30. > :22:35.inclination, reaching for the earplugs! Instead, make your own
:22:36. > :22:41.private room and invite friends to collaborate via Facebook or Twitter.
:22:42. > :22:48.It's a fun way to pass a few minutes at lunchtime tinkling on the old
:22:49. > :22:56.ivories. Yes, I know, don't give up the day job, Kate.
:22:57. > :23:04.Those links are up on our website as usual. That's it for now from the ``
:23:05. > :23:07.from Bletchley Park. Before we go, I thought I would show you something
:23:08. > :23:13.that has been on the BBC News tech website this week. What do you think
:23:14. > :23:16.happens when you take a team of flying robots and get them to move
:23:17. > :23:22.so precisely that they can make sweet music? `` flying hex rotor
:23:23. > :23:24.robots. I will leave you with the answer. Thanks for watching. See you
:23:25. > :23:51.next time. With clear skies for many to start
:23:52. > :23:57.the weekend, it will be chilly. Even a touch of frost first thing. It
:23:58. > :24:00.will lead to a mostly dry day, with sunny spells that time. More cloud
:24:01. > :24:02.towards the west. That will continue to build as it moves further inland,
:24:03. > :24:03.taking grain across Northern Ireland. Perhaps a few spots for
:24:04. > :24:05.west Wales,