t your neighbor wasn't reading your other mail either. I mean your neighbor wasn't getting into your text messages. So you only have two kinds of people: the people who can't get into your messages at all or don't care, and the people like the government who really do want to see your messages, and they can do it, right?

So this example of the mafia super secret encryption being, I don't know if it was easily, but they did crack it, that should tell you everything you need to know about secret information. Don't write anything down in any form if it's bad. Don't ever write incriminating things at all ever. Don't write anything encrypted or that's private and would get you in trouble.

All right. In a related story, and I'm not sure what to think about this yet, but did you hear that the FBI managed to somehow get back the ransomware that was paid for the Colonial Pipeline hack? Is that still true? I mean I heard that yesterday, but it looks like it wasn't in the news this morning. Did something happen to the story? Can somebody confirm that that happened? Is it true that the FBI somehow clawed back the, I think it was Bitcoin, and somehow clawed back that money that was paid? Can I get a confirmation on that? Partially, some of it, not all of it, somebody says. Well, probably because some of it already had passed through to another wallet. They got a portion of it, somebody's saying.

Okay. Now you might ask yourself, hey, I thought the whole point of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is that it was secret. So how did the FBI get a hold of the secret passcode, the secret code that led them into the wallet of the bad guys to take their money out? How'd they get it? Because these crypto things are supposed to be all secret and secure, right? It's why criminals use them.

How secure is Bitcoin? Well, here's the problem. Apparently there's a history of the FBI hackers hacking hackers. So in other words, if you had already known you had a hacker group, you might not be able to get directly into their Bitcoin business, but you can control their network so that everything they do you can see, in theory, right? We don't know if this happened in this case, but in theory you could hack their whole network and anything they did, including typing in a Bitcoin password, might be known.

So you don't need to penetrate the Bitcoin itself, you know, the blockchain, etc. You don't need to penetrate that. That still might be secure. But you might be able to get their entire network and then catch them when they're typing in their passcode or something. Now I think that's the thing, right? Can somebody who's a little more technically astute tell me the answer? Is if you could control somebody's computer such that you can see every keystroke, couldn't you get their passcode? I mean I think you could, right?

So yeah, a key logger is what it's called. A key logger. So if the good guys hacked the bad guys, they could certainly get a hold of their passcode and then empty their wallets. Don't know if that's what happened. Could have been an insider. Could have been something else. I don't know. I doubt they've penetrated the blockchain in some way that they could get a hold of. I don't think it's possible to do it directly. I think they would have to go after the people, not the technology.

All right. Key loggers are easy to find. Yeah, you would think high-end hackers would be protecting themselves from being hacked. So I doubt it's as simple as a key logger, but that's the basic idea. They left it on Coinbase, which is dumb. But being on Coinbase doesn't automatically give somebody a backdoor into it. You know, that alone wouldn't make a difference.

All right. Vice President Harris made the mistake of trying to speak in public. Vice President Harris speaks in public as well as Joe Biden climbs stairs in public. In either case it's an adventure, and you're probably a little nervous when you see it if you're a supporter.

And one of the stories that we hear is that she's quietly receiving what's called media training. In other words, and by the way, did I ever tell you that this would happen? I told you that sooner or later somebody was going to be training Harris and how to talk in public because she does not know how to talk in public. Her biggest problem is her nervous giggle. It's a really big problem. And I don't know how hard it is to teach somebody not to do that if it's a lifelong habit. But man, if she doesn't beat that, I don't know how she could ever be president.

But she did an interview with Lester Holt in which he was asking her about having not visited the border. And she said glibly, but I also haven't been to Europe, so what's your point? What? Somebody gave her media training and she answered that way? But I also haven't been to Europe, so what's your point? Oh my God. I don't know how you could be any worse.

Now first of all, I assume that she means she's been to Europe personally but not on official business. So it wasn't like she's never been to Europe. I assume. I mean that was my interpretation of it. But you need to answer that question directly, right? That was a fair question. Why haven't you been to the border? A completely fair question. It is also a question you know you're going to be asked. Fox News reports the number of days she hasn't visited the border every day. The number of days she hasn't visited the border is reported in national news. She knew the question was coming and she wasn't ready for it.

Are you kidding me? She wasn't ready for the most obvious question about her job? I mean that's just really bad work. That's somebody who doesn't look like they did the homework at all. I mean you can't even say she tried hard but failed. This doesn't look like trying at all. This looks like literally being absent from your duties if you can't answer a simple question like that.

So the direct answer would have been this. I would like to, here, let me give you the correct media answer, okay? Vice President Harris, people are concerned that you haven't visited the border and yet you're in charge of making sure Central America doesn't send more people across the border. Don't you think you should visit the border?

Here's the correct answer. I think it's very important that everybody visits the border who's involved in the decision making. So yes, I'm definitely going to visit the border. But in terms of priorities, my first priority is specifically working with these countries to make sure that there's less problem on the border in the first place. But yeah, absolutely I'll visit the border. We just need to work that into the schedule. At the moment, frankly, you know, we have enough reporting from the border that I know what's going on there. But I do think that for the benefit of the public, the public needs to see me there