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one of the biggest hacking conferences in the world. Click

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takes a look behind the show to find out just how safe your tech is.

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Is everything all right? This week on Click we'll find out

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just how easy it is to control the everyday appliances around your

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home. Prepare to get arty, as we enjoy a very different kind of

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gallery visit. And we discover a way to fight off spam in Webscape.

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Welcome to Click. More and more of us are using our mobile devices to

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do pretty much everything in our lives these days. When you switch

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them on the chances of... Are we in? This should be yours. A keycode, if

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you like, that you have to enter. It's yours. It's yours. Don't worry.

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I actually do work for the BBC and Mike has come along for the ride. We

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want to show you something they didn't want to show you ` a hack and

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a serious hack at the world's most important hacking convention.

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Defcon. Running since the early '90s, Las Vegas hosts this annual

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semi secretive shindig for the world's hackers. It only let cameras

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in three years ago. We're going in under the wire, literally, to the

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casino resort where government agents rub keyboards with cyber

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criminals. Everybody is told to play nicely.

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There is a record 16,000 people expected to be in that queue over

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the next few days. At the moment it takes 3.5 hours to get to the front

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when you get one of these, probably the flashiest badge I've ever seen

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at one of these conferences. It looks like something we might want

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to hack. Mike, you're our security expert. What would you do with this?

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It's designed to be hacked. There's a microprocessor here, a USB port,

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various places you can solder on new devices and a competition to see who

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can hack in, in the most crazy and ingenious way. Have you turned the

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Wi`Fi off on your mobile phone? No. This is no ordinary gathering. Leave

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your phone connected to Wi`Fi and it's likely that you will be hacked

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and it will be posted here on the Wall of Sheep, for all to see.

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Everyone here should know better. The world's most hostile network and

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anything within the Defcon Network is here. There is an etiquette, but

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people will be trying stuff out. Of course, visitors don't just hack

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each other. Some of the best talks in cyber security go on here with

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presenters going public on how to bring down anything from a toaster

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to an aircraft. These guys specialise in cars. They've tested

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25 models and ranked them on how easy they are to hack. In the past

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they have taken over the brakes and steering controls by plugging in

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their laptop. Here is the no brake attack. I can't

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stop right now. I'm moving along here. Obviously that's a very

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dangerous attack. So far there's not a lot of risk. It's pretty hard to

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hack your car. But we're looking five years out and seeing that in

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five years more cars will be on the internet and be connected and we

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want to get car manufacturers fixing things now, rather than waiting

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until there's a problem. This year they showed just how dumb

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our so`called smart cities could be. Imagine the traffic in Las Vegas

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grinding to a halt. This is now no longer the fantasy of films. This

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guy can do this for real, with a laptop and off the shelf kit costing

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less than $100. Cesar has discovered a specific wireless traffic

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monitoring system sends all its data unencrypted. Sensors embedded in the

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road detect cars and send that information to receivers. The data

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is used to switch the traffic lights to avoid congestion. Without

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encryption of that data, it's possible to send fake information

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that could lead to a traffic jam or accident. And even to upload new

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software to do the job remotely. He's released all the information

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publicly at Defcon and insists publishing the hack is the right

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thing to do. This is not my fault. I'm just

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pointing out the problem. I'm not creating it. If I keep quiet, the

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problem will remain there. Sooner or later someone else will know it ` it

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could be someone with bad intentions. Pretty scary stuff. What

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do you make of that? It is pretty scary, isn't it? We have devices out

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there in our roads that are vulnerable to very, very basic

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attacks so there's no authentication on the devices. There is no

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encryption. Everyone at home uses encryption on the wireless. That's

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inexcusable. Governments are not checking the security of these. It

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makes me wonder what else is out there. Defcon is also about having

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fun. There are rooms where you can test your lock picking or wireless

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hacking skills. You can hack your hat. Or your hair. Often it's people

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who are the weakest link to data security, so over to the social

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engineering room where two actors were making fake calls to real

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companies trying to illicit compromising information. It's

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illegal to film this conversation in the US, but both attempts we

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witnessed hit gold. Last call we found out this company

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still uses Windows XP, still is on Internet Explorer, a lower version.

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Hacking is a family business here. Children are allowed in and

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encouraged to steal each other's passwords.

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You could break into their account. Jeff Moss created both Defcon and

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Black Hat and defends blowing the cover on all this information.

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Organised crime don't tell us what they're doing. We have to try and

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protect ourselves. Conferences like this, whether they're in the UK,

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France or America, they're one of the few ways we have the information

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out to what's going on that's not being filtered by a company or a

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government. This is what's really happening. Back at DefCon, this guy

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who didn't want to be filmed has managed to bling up his entry badge

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and get it to make other badges flash on his command. It turns out

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it's just as easy to manipulate the stuff in our homes too. This is one

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of the coolest talks I've seen today. We have a group of guys who

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have taken things in the home, TVs, baby monitors, fridges, and breaking

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them, making them do things they're not meant to do. The coolest bit is

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this will all be on the web after this talk and anyone will be able to

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do it. It's not actually that difficult.

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Perhaps "drink all the booze", "hack all the things" sums up this

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gathering. But, for the most part, these aren't the bad guys. They love

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making things work even better and exposing vulnerabilities for

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companies who ought to know better to fix. And intercepting satellite

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broadcasts, yeah, that's included. Cheers. We'll have to wait to see

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whether the manufacturers include it in their latest updates. I hope you

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found that as fascinating as I did. Coming up next, a look at this

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week's tech news. What? What do you mean they didn't see it?

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British football club Manchester United have banned fans from

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bringing tablets and laptops to matches at its stadium. The move

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comes after similar rules were brought into effect at airports. The

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club said the changes were not related to concerns about fans

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recording matches, but rather in response to unspecified security

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intelligence. On the plus side, at least you'll be able to see the

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match without all those slabs blocking your view. Speaking of

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Sony, several months after its announcement, the company has

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finally revealed the launch date and price for its PlayStation TV. It

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Consul has already the available in Japan since last

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year. `` the consol. It will now go on sale in the US on August 14. In

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the UK, a full month later. Finally, behold the salmon cannon. This

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vacuum and tube system helps salmon migrate upstream. The concept relies

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on a change in pressure within the tube, forcing the fish to accelerate

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upwards. Originally designed to transport fragile goods like fresh

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fruit, the new system can transport up to 45 salmon per minute and can

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be streamlined to allow for voluntary entry.

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So then, how much do you trust the gadgets in your house? After our

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piece from Defcon there, I'd say not as far as you could throw them, even

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if they aren't plugged in. A report now on an unsettling take on the

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internet of things. Homes should be the safest place to

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connect your tech, but just in case there's something creepy on the net

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after this tale ` password reset. Welcome to the haunted house of

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hacking horrors. Won't you please come inside?

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Yes, around every corner of this suburban home lurks a hacker, and if

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your device connects to the internet, they will gain control of

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it. For example, this Bluray player has to go online to update its

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programme guide or get more content, but divert that connection and you

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can then inject your own code. You see, if a command looks like it's

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coming from the home network, the device doesn't ask for

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authentication, which means this wireless plug controller is obeying

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the hacker. Spooky. It's all down to so`called protocol, the way machines

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talk to each other. They're running under the assumption

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they're in somebody's house and therefore people can't really do

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anything with them. What we've been able to do is look at those

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protocols and tweak them, bend them to our will, as such, so that we can

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take control of the player, turn the television on, flash lights and play

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spooky music throughout the house. If it wasn't obvious, these people

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aren't really hackers, they're penetration testers. They're paid by

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companies to get into things. It turns out gaining access to devices

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is easy when you know how. This haunted house requires the user name

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and password of the Wi`Fi and they assure me that's reasonably easy to

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attain. Once you've attained it, you can do some very interesting things.

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This programme looks around for things like sound like baby monitors

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on the network. When it finds what it thinks is a baby monitor, you can

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install the commercial app and listen. Another shocking example if

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you haven't put a password on your internet viewable webcam, it's

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possible for anyone to invite themselves in. They just need your

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IP address, the internet equivalent of a post code. The problem is the

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balance between ease of use and security.

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Most of this tech is reasonably complicated and so the manufacturers

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try to make it a bit easier to set up and configure. As people don't

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understand security, it's the social configuration piece that kind of

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really vulnerable. `` kind of makes them. We see it as a massive area

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for compromise. Before panicking and throwing

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everything away, this is easy to fix. Just change the default

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username and password when you set these gadgets up and your password

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should be hard for other people to figure out, because once hackers get

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hold of them, they could even steal your car.

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This BMWi3 is at the cutting edge of vehicle tech, allowing entry via an

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app. We think there are some security issues with the way you

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sign up to the app. If you know what you are doing and you know about

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your victim, your target, you do a bit of research, there is potential

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to intercept that information, configure something on your phone

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and use that to unlock and steal a car. This works because most people

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unwittingly give clues to their passwords on social media sites.

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Pets, sport teams, and so on. With an easy to guess username on the BMW

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app, Ken can not only get into his friend's vehicle, he can make off

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with it! Come back! The main way to defend against these

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hacks is to be more secure. The moral of the story, make your

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password hard to guess. For social updates, post less. Perhaps then you

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will feel more serene and guard from ghosts in your machine.

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LJ Rich, monitoring the situation. Have you ever had a museum

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completely to yourself? Me neither. But imagine what it would be like to

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be able to roam the place after the doors have shut. Don't worry, there

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are no hungry dinosaurs or even Ben Stiller to worry about. Just a horde

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of robots and Lara Lewington. Fortunately, these bots aren't

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trying to take over the world. They're just after a bit of culture.

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For the last week, the main attraction in the Tate Britain's

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Galleries hasn't been the Constables or the Hockneys, it's been four

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remote controlled robots. Visitors to the Tate Britain's After Dark

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website have been given the chance to explore galleries filled with 500

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years of priceless art, all from their laptops. This isn't about

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creating an alternative to actually visiting an art gallery, it's about

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a totally different experience. How often is it that you actually

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operate a robot anyway? The idea is that you can move around the

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gallery, turning left or right, looking up or down. When you reach a

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dead end, these sensors will light up red, which means you need to

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reverse and replan your journey. It is perhaps more in some ways like an

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unmanned vehicle or a space probe or submarine, remote`controlled

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submarine, exploring the deepest parts of the ocean. It's as much

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about the space as it is about the art. David and the rest of the team

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won the ?70,000 IK Prize, a competition to encourage innovative

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digital uses of the museum. We've been lucky enough to work on a

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number of jobs with different museums recently. We are fortunate

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because we get to walk around the galleries at night in the dark.

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You're basically looking at these paintings by yourself and it's an

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amazing experience. For a long time we wanted to make this project a

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reality. A team of art experts have been on

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hand to provide live commentary about anything interesting the bots

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spot. Who hasn't dreamt of going around a

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gallery after dark alone and encounter those wonderful art

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objects and see what happens in the gallery after dark? It's something

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that I, working in the gallery, have done, but the idea of extending that

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to anybody sitting in an armchair at home is fantastic. What a brilliant

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idea! A big challenge for the project was getting the video feed

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from the robots to the web quickly. Too slow and your command to the

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robots won't match up with what you are seeing. Rather than sending the

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robot video feeds to a central server, this system makes a direct

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connection between the drivers at home and the robots in the gallery.

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That could mean the difference between a smooth viewing experience

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and just getting stuck. This sculpture may be safely encased in

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glass but for anything that's a bit more exposed there will be safety

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barriers put around. Plus the actual shape of the robot should stop it

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from banging into anything valuable. The robots also have built in

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proximity sensors that can kill power and movement if they touch

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anything in the gallery. While this could be the easiest way to spend a

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night in a museum, it is not claiming to be the experience of

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visiting a gallery yourself. Lara Lewington spending a night at

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the museum, virtually, of course. This month This month marks the

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100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. More than 16

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million people died in the fighting and while it can be difficult to

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comprehend the magnitude of that event, one BBC show is using modern

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techniques to try to make the conflict relevant to a modern

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audience. Muddy trenches, bullets through the

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air. Life or death decisions that have to be made in seconds. This is

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Our World War, another programme aiming to show the First World more

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from their point of view of the soldiers who fought in it. It might

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look like a period drama but the team behind it have also created

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what they call an interactive episode. It brings elements of a

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game and stories together to present you with an experience that, if you

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are 16 to 24, you recognise and perhaps become more engaged with it

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because you have a role to play. You go from being viewer to participants

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and that should be satisfying. This episode will be available on

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tablet and desktop and invites the viewer to make choices that could

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affect the story. Participants can also unlock bonus footage and

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experience animated back stories, as well as feedback and analytics on

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the decisions they've made. I chose to take the injured soldier

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prisoner. Apparently, that was the correct decision to make. I have no

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idea whether the decisions I just made will lead to a bad or not quite

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so bad result. The decisions become harder and harder as you work your

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way through. The last decision is really critical and very difficult.

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Unbeknownst to you, what's been happening is we have been scoring

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your tactics and morale. But the main antagonist in the film also has

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an opinion on your decisions and this is perhaps the cleverest bit.

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He will or will not help you in your last decision, I won't give it away,

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depending on the decisions you've made. If he thinks you are right all

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the way through and his morale has been high then he will help you. If

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not, he won't help you. The episode has been put together

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with the help of CGI and animation studio MI, who have designed the

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user interface and hope to offer a seamless video experience. The

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programme makers even believe this could bring in a new era of

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interactive entertainment, that combines the best elements of gaming

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and drama. No matter how safe you try to be,

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whenever you sign up to an online service you're leaving yourself open

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to receiving lots of lovely spam, because apparently you asked for it

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when you gave them your address. Kate Russell has a brilliant

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solution for that next, in Webscape. Yes, Spencer, this really is the

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simplest solution. If you are fed up with getting spam from websites that

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ask you for an e`mail address to confirm your registration, try ten

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Minute Mail instead. It serves you up a temporary inbox to grab that

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registration link before it vanishes into the ether. I've had a free

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e`mail account for years that I've used to try out new services for

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Webscape but it's got so crazy now that I receive hundreds of spam

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messages a week. Not only is that a pain to empty, but I do lose the

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occasionally important message in amongst all of the guff. Bear in

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mind that you won't get any future e`mail updates, but if you aren't

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planning to interact with the website that much, it's enough time

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to confirm signup. If you do need more time, there's the option to

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extend for ten minutes. About 50 earthquakes a day are registered

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globally. But it's estimated millions occur

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each year that are too weak to be recorded. Iseismometer is a free app

:22:24.:22:34.

that turns your smartphone into a seismometer, detecting vibrations in

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real time and displays the strength of the tremor on a graph. So, the

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next time someone asks you if the earth moved, you can get an accurate

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reply. Boinc is an android app that lets

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you harness the newest computing power of your handset to study

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diseases, predict global warming or discover distant pulsars. There is a

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good selection of well and lesser`known scientific projects to

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sign up with, covering disciplines like astrophysics, cosmology,

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mathematics and seismology. The app won't have your phone doing any

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computing until it's connected to a power supply and charged to 90%. So,

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there's no risk of running your battery dry unexpectedly. After the

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excitement of the Rosetta project last week, could the crowd help find

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more interesting rocks in space? Asteroid Zoo wants to help

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scientists scan our solar system for asteroids containing useful

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resources. This could be very valuable information in the years

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ahead. Thank you, Kate. That's it for this

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week but remember we're always keen to hear your thoughts on anything

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going on in your world, well, that's tech related. We don't want to know

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what you had for dinner and no more pictures of cats, please! You can

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get in touch with us at Google+, Facebook and Twitter. We're also on

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e`mail. Thanks for watching. See you next time. No cats, thanks.

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I know we're in the in the middle of August but it will feel like early

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autumn in the next few days. Blustery winds coming down from the

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north, bringing in cool air.

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