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- 03 / 07 / 18 -

A skeleton crew due to adverse weather conditions, Kyle drives in some of the worst conditions ever, why people shouldn't be afraid to go outside in cities when the weather is bad, Kyle describes the challenges involved when driving in a snowstorm, the fundraiser is still happening, what premiums are left, the legality of signing a nondisclosure agreement under a pseudonym, a meltdown of another member of Trump's inner circle, the consequences of disobeying a subpoena, Emmanuel's opinion of Roger Stone, reports of Alexa's demonic sounding laugh that seems to occur for no reason, searching for an open source home assistant, appreciating "dead technology," pressure to get the latest updates, when updates make things worse, the annoyance of Windows 10, a rundown of premiums, Emmanuel tries to get Alex to give out confidential information, a call for more listener letters, a site that alters music. This show includes fundraising.

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March 7
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- 03 / 14 / 18 -

It's Pi Day, a computer voice is reading out the first 100,000 digits of pi, how Pi Day only exists in countries that use American-style formatting, the fundraiser is over, Emmanuel's favorite part of the number readout, the passing of Stephen Hawking, the possibility of backing up a human brain, the word connectome, Kyle explains how this is addressed in Cory Doctorow's book, the failure to define consciousness, a listener letter explains why Microsoft sucks, info on open source personal assistants, tying Alexa to law enforcement, theories on why Alexa doesn't respond to television activations, a test over the radio, a possible answer to the mysterious sound in Cuba, Hope Hicks claims to have been hacked, a look at the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Black Hat Hackers," a listener report on problems with Verizon FIOS in a power outage, the advantages of copper, how rotary dial is still useful, an ancestry.com concern, premium issues, a final goodbye to Stephen Hawking.

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March 14
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- 03 / 21 / 18 -

Only Kyle and Emmanuel are able to make it to the show in the inclement weather, Dent drops by, looking forward to Saturday's demonstrations, Dent gives the high school perspective, what shooting drills are like in New York City schools, realizing that some things just aren't normal, where demonstrations are taking place locally, how kids are realizing the power they'll soon have when they're able to vote, the death of Adrian Lamo, how this should be treated, memories of the infamous HOPE panel, questioning the need for lottery passwords in the United Kingdom, the compromising of lottery information, customer data at a travel booking site is exposed, Hack of the Week: the risks of yachts being hacked, an incident involving cryptocurrency and the Department of Citrus in Florida, questioning the advantage of having a refrigerator on the Internet, Dent's experience using the Shodan API to find interesting devices online, more on the forced migration from copper, how people do indeed have power on this issue, the same tactics could be used to save payphones, comparing the performance of a slow robot and a fast robot in the massive CD encoding project that Kyle and Emmanuel are involved in, a call from a failing landline, hanging on to Windows XP, more thoughts on old technology.

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March 21
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- 03 / 28 / 18 -

Alex is back from London, a review of the pizza place in Salisbury where two Russians were poisoned, a ransomware attack hits the city of Atlanta, problems with the 911 system in Baltimore, Shenzhen police are fighting jaywalking with facial recognition, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, how people can begin to protect themselves, how shadow profiling enables Facebook to track people who don't even have accounts with them, how the data involved here will inevitably be used in legal cases, how to get your info from Facebook, why we need to do a better job safeguarding our privacy, how long it took Alex to read through terms of service, how ICE uses Facebook data in their operations, Alex explains how social media companies don't make it easy for investigators serving subpoenas, the story of Microsoft banning offensive language from Skype and other services is mistaken by Emmanuel as an early April Fool's joke, how this is even possible and what the dangers are, the fear of liability and how this is affecting specific sites, ten percent of ticket sales to HOPE in April will be going to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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March 28
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