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- 11 / 03 / 2021 -
Kyle and Emmanuel are still in Washington, Emmanuel bemoans the fact that the show always follows Election Day, some comforting words, why voting is so crucial, why we need to do better, Emmanuel battles a bad connection to try and share some good news, Rob and Gila tell what Election Day was like in the city, a clip from The Good Liars on Election Day, Alex discusses how many candidates didn't have any opposition, Emmanuel finally gets the word out, how this illustrates the problem of communication, how the governor's race in Virginia was won based on a lie, Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition feature, Gila explains the Hebrew meaning of Facebook's new name, Alex's take on Meta's actions, what Alex saw when monitoring the "meta" string on new domain registrations, Emmanuel takes exception to praising Facebook, Gila explains how Facebook and Google can intrude on family privacy, Clearview AI is ordered to delete its facial recognition data in Australia, how Facebook is luring six-year-olds, the issue of social media and children, Alex describes how kids fall into rabbit holes online, some healthy habits that kids can develop, Yahoo has pulled out of China, an update on the Signal issue, there are 2600 meetings this Friday, how new meetings can get listed, asking for suggestions on places to go for Kyle and Emmanuel as they start to drive east towards New York, the show will not be on next week.
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November 3
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- 11 / 17 / 2021 -
Kyle and Emmanuel are back after five weeks away, resolving technical issues, why avoiding big cities makes for interesting travel, Alex is back from South Carolina and Chicago, a list of the places Kyle and Emmanuel visited, Kyle describes the Personal Rapid Transit system in Morgantown at West Virginia University, Emmanuel explains how talking to people throughout the country is far better than listening to what their representatives are saying, some of the listener-suggested places Kyle and Emmanuel stopped at on the way back, Distributed Denial of Secrets have released police aerial surveillance footage, the kinds of misbehavior by law enforcement that this footage reveals, how Twitter won't allow links to this site, how people can get access to this information, the story of an 11-year-old hacker who got in trouble at his school, an audio clip from his mother, Alex remembers getting into similar trouble years ago, Emmanuel's issue with FedEx not honoring overnight shipping, an update to the 11-year-old hacker's story, how this case could have turned out very differently, preparations for the demolition of Hotel Pennsylvania are underway, why building more office towers in its place makes no sense, a final recording from the hotel phone number.
Overtime: The first edition in over a month, trying to figure out why Rob can't hear Emmanuel, how everything seems to have broken down while not in use, a caller's issue with Verizon, why it's foolish to abandon old technology, an update from FedEx, Alex is in a corporate meeting room, Rob gives an update on the most recent 2600 meeting in New York City, the next meeting may return to Citigroup, more thoughts on places to visit in small town America.
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November 17
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Off The Hook Overtime
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Off The Hook Overtime is also available on the Channel2600 YouTube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zEI8V9qOU
- 11 / 24 / 2021 -
The end of the previous program, adjusting levels, there won't be an "Overtime" tonight due to the holiday, the FBI's email system is hacked which results in hundreds of thousands of fake emails, the Dark Overlord hacker group is implicated, clarifying how exactly this happened, a hearing that may address the Hotel Pennsylvania issue, how the hotel serves a vital purpose, the recurring theme of blindly destroying the old to make way for the new, how nobody is asking for the hotel to be destroyed, a Georgia school district virtual meeting is disrupted by hackers, why this kind of thing really shouldn't be happening anymore, Rob details the latest chapter in the McDonald's ice cream machine saga, Emmanuel tries to sum everything up, Alex describes what was involved with these machines in his history working at a yogurt shop, Kyle explains OBD ports, an example of a modern car making an invalid assumption, Alex issues an appeal for letters of support for Virgil Griffith before his sentencing in January, how there is more to the story than what has been made public, some words on travel to North Korea, how people can see some of Virgil's lectures.
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November 24
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