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First of all, we start with the news, and as always, here's Kim.

You're not going to believe this. This past week, we had news from the National Security Agency.

You know them, right? The NSA, the ones that are always listening to us. Well, they issued a best practices guide for mobile device security. So think about this. The number of people whose phones are hacked every year is unknown, right? And the evidence suggests that it's just growing astronomically. And then we had a recent investigation to phone hacking on this global media consortium.

And they said that it actually caused these uproars in politics in France and India and Hungary and elsewhere.

But think about everything that you have on your phone, right?

Your digital wallet, maybe your driver's license, your email, your notes, your banking apps.

Of course, instant access to all

your social media accounts, your high scores on words with friends, I mean, that's important,

along with every single place that you've been, how long you've been there, plus what about

all the malware apps that people are downloading, right? So imagine if a hacker got a hold of all of that. So the NSA to make sure that hackers

cannot get into your phone, they issued this advice. What do you think the advice is?

Put on a passcode. Don't turn on your phone. What do you think, Ben? Throw in the river.

Yes. Oh, man. It almost seems like they would do

something backwards to make it easier for them when they think they're protecting us.

You know what? You're right on. To make sure that hackers cannot get into your phone, the National

Security Agency says you should reboot your phone once a week. Oh, come on. That's it. They say that it's a change in how

top hackers are now gaining access, these zero-click exploits. They work without any user

interaction and trying to get you to open something that's infected, right? And so they say once the hackers

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