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- 03 / 06 / 19 -
Wondering where everyone is after a two week absence, Kyle describes what a microphone tree is, progress in the new studio, it's the final week of the winter fund drive, how pledges have made a huge difference, how Pacifica predates NPR, all of the history covered by this one radio show, how listeners to WBAI mean more than listeners to a commercial station, the pending expiration of the USA Freedom Act, how SecureDrop works, a campaign to keep the xs4all site alive, Bill Pollock from No Starch Press joins the conversation, Bill's problem with Amazon selling counterfeit books, how this isn't due to a third party but is directly an Amazon issue, trying to figure out how this could have happened, describing the books being made available tonight. This show includes fundraising.
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March 6
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- 03 / 13 / 19 -
An unauthorized promo, Emmanuel's issue with technological gadgets being triggered by the slightest touch, a Facebook outage today, the effects this did and didn't have, Chelsea Manning is imprisoned for refusing to testify in a secret grand jury investigating Julian Assange, what's different about grand juries, parts of Texas have tornado sirens go off due to a hack, an infinite JavaScript loop is triggered in Japan by a teenage girl, educating children about payphones, an app is created to help keep conservatives safe while dining, security issues that plagued the app, why there's no obligation to help companies fix their security holes before they're reported, some feedback from last week's show, a mysterious power outage in Venezuela, a Douglas Adams reference to payphone hygiene, thoughts on payphone preservation, a call from a former payphone cleaner.
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March 13
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- 03 / 20 / 19 -
It's revealed that Beto O'Rourke used to be a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow, why this should be considered an honor, an excerpt from a dark fiction piece written by O'Rourke as a 15-year-old, trying to get Kyle to be more combative, where cDc stickers show up, how this group compares to other hacker groups, comparing O'Rourke to Mike Pence, MySpace accidentally deletes everything uploaded before 2016, what the fallout will likely be, how an iPhone in Florida was hacked, the inaccurate and exaggerated manner in which this story was presented, New York tenants resist having to use an app to gain entrance to their building, the importance of having physical keys, the shortsightedness of forcing new technology on people, more accusations of bias against conservatives on social media by Donald Trump Jr., examples of how the conservative viewpoint is actually dominating, how Twitter refuses to verify any account associated with 2600, the hashtag issue that only affects 2600, how Instagram won't let 2600 use its own name, why treating Facebook as a primary source of news is a mistake, celebrating the spring equinox.
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March 20
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- 03 / 27 / 19 -
A warning from Microsoft about April Fool's Day, how this may backfire, Alex describes what Article 13 in the European Union is all about, the dangers this will introduce, the ordeal Emmanuel went through to print out a news story about this topic, how this could affect Brexit, a bill to restore net neutrality passes a house committee, the bipartisan support for the bill that exists, the rough road ahead, new legislation in New York that could ban robocalls, how Caller ID is currently being spoofed, how Alex followed up on a bogus robocall, a connection with Google Play cards, the stories people fall for, the promise of "call authentication," how this ability already exists within phone companies, the possibility of a new tax for this service, Kyle's idea for blocking unwanted numbers, how this could be applied to spam, Kyle plays robocall recordings from his phone, how Google is used to generate many of these calls, another common scam used for domain names, explaining a caller's phone mystery, an update on a local payphone from a listener.
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March 27
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