Stripping down science, the naked scientists.

The Naked Scientists. This week we're asking how safe is your information on the internet.

One of the companies we actually find them up and said we've been doing this

scam off the internet and there's just a simple Google search and we are literally looking at a copy of son's passport and his bank statement from 2011 and it was on a web server fully available off the internet.

Plus what your mobile phone could be telling eavesdroppers about you.

Well you've actually got something set up here and you mapped a range of phones that are nearby,

one of which you've even located down to a house in Yorkshire.

Yeah, somebody walked past about five minutes ago and yeah it maps to a location in Yorkshire. There's a a street address I won't say it on air

and a picture of their house yep yep and joining us to discuss how we can keep data safe

and the workings of chip and pin Our Cambridge University Computer Security Group specialists Ross Anderson and Stephen Murdoch.

Hello, it is Sunday, September 2nd.

My name is Chris Smith, and also with us this week is Dave and so hello Dave.

Hello and also on the way a battery so flexible you could tighten in a knot and why

soil is a fertile source of the genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics.

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