BILL KURTIS: From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL me, the NPR news quiz. I'm Bill Kurtis. We're playing this week with Peter Grosz, Roxanne Roberts and Alonzo Bodden. And here again is your host, at TPAC in Nashville, Tenn., Peter Sagal.
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PETER SAGAL, HOST:
Thank you, Bill. In just a minute, to hell with the Ryman Auditorium, this is going to be the rhyming auditorium over here.
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SAGAL: It's our Listener Limerick Challenge game. If you'd like to play, give us a call at 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Peter, according to a new report by digital security experts, hackers are stealing people's personal data. This time, via what device?
PETER GROSZ: Via, not a cellphone or a computer.
SAGAL: No.
GROSZ: Hearing aids.
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GROSZ: Oh, a pacemaker.
SAGAL: I'll try to give you a hint. You think it's just making your stew when it's really stealing your data.
GROSZ: A crock-pot?
SAGAL: A crock-pot.
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GROSZ: I'm surprised for two reasons. A, because - well, mainly one. I didn't know you could hook up your cellphone to a crock-pot.
SAGAL: It's 2016. Crock-Pots are no longer just a thing you use to make bean soup twice and then put away for the rest of your lives.
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SAGAL: It's a back door that hackers can use to get at your data. This is because these newest crock-pots are internet-enabled. So you can use your smartphone to turn it on and off, which is all you can do because it's just a crock-pot.
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SAGAL: This is why - so crock-pots have become the new target for sophisticated data thieves. The next "Mission Impossible" movie will feature Tom Cruise being lowered into a pot of beans.
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ALONZO BODDEN: If you're too lazy to turn on your own crock-pot...
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BODDEN: ...Maybe you deserve to be hacked.
SAGAL: That's true.
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ROXANNE ROBERTS: So how does it work?
SAGAL: The way it works is - so you have a crock-pot that is internet-enabled. And you control it through your smartphone. Your smartphone is data protected. Your wireless router is data protected, but your crock-pot isn't. So somebody want to walk by your house...
BODDEN: Oh, it will be now.
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SAGAL: ...Can walk by, get into your crock-pot, use that to get into your phone and steal your data.
GROSZ: And they can jump into your crock-pot, get in the stew, and then you eat them. And then they're in your body. And then they can hack into your body.
SAGAL: It's like weird. You go over and you, like, you think you're just going to have some, like, navy bean soup, but instead it's like a Nigerian prince in there. And you're like...
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SAGAL: Like, how'd you get in there, man? Peter, Congress has been reluctant to fund Zika research. But that might change because this week scientists said Zika can result in shrunken what?
GROSZ: Um, mmm.
SAGAL: That's exactly the right noise.
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GROSZ: The same thing that testosterone shrinks.
SAGAL: Indeed.
GROSZ: I mean, that steroids shrink. Zika could result in shrunken testicles?
SAGAL: Yes, indeed.
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GROSZ: Oh, I said testicles on NPR. I'm just playing bingo on things I never thought would happen in my life.
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GROSZ: OK. There we go.
SAGAL: Yeah. It turns out Zika virus can shrink them by 90 percent in some cases. So this is where we are - millions of babies around the world might be affected by this. And Congress is like, whatev's (ph)
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SAGAL: But then their like, wait, you're saying it might affect my boys? This is a national emergency.
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SAGAL: The finding comes from lab tests on mice who responded (imitating mouse voice) what the hell, scientists?
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