Computers hold our treasured photographs private emails and all of our personal information.
Rise of hackers mat honan teenagers.
Sanders mat honan eric chien liam o murchu.
Directed by kate dart.
In this murky world scientists are trying to harness the laws of physics and mathematics to protect us from the hackers.
The identity theft issue shows how the twitter account of mat honan a tech writer of wired magazine was compromised by a bunch of teenagers who simply destroyed his digital history and posted racist tweets on his twitter account.
And they were just teenagers.
We shop bank and even date online.
It s just online vandalism.
They thought that this was going to be funny and they were teenagers.
Now powerful cyber weapons are being uncovered.
Honan actually had strong passwords for his accounts.
This data is precious and cybercriminals want it.
A new global geek squad is harnessing cryptography to stay a step ahead of cybercriminals.
From the left john christopher phillip reynolds.
Now nova goes behind the scenes of the fast paced world of cryptography to meet.
From pbs and nova our lives are going digital.