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- 07 / 01 / 09 -
Emmanuel is in Moses Lake, Washington where ToorCamp is about to be held, coordinator David discusses what was involved in putting together the first American hacker camp, describing the abandoned missile silo that is a part of the site, what happened when a dust devil came through recently, the expected attendance, how the missile silo site was obtained, the environment inside the silo, how the Chaos Communication Camp helped to inspire ToorCamp, a mysterious object approaches the campsite, Moses Lake Airport is an alternative landing site for the space shuttle, some of the events that will be happening at the campground, Adam Savage uses his Twitter account to fight an $11,000 phone bill, how it's possible for this to happen to anyone, Nick Farr joins the conversation from somewhere in rural Washington State, encouraging people to get involved in the Hackers on a Plane project later this summer, some of the deadlines involved, encouraging people to attend HAR in August, how people can quickly obtain passports, an example of how a story of a kidnapped reporter was kept off of Wikipedia at the request of The New York Times, an update from Austria on the hacker scene, what to expect from PlumberCon this summer, there are 2600 meetings this Friday.
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July 1
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- 07 / 08 / 09 -
Emmanuel reports back from ToorCamp, why he's still wearing a hard hat, a description of the silo tour, how common sense prevailed at the camp, the original purpose of the missile silo, the small village of Odessa, ideas on where the next hacker gathering should be, examples of some of the talks at ToorCamp, what Hackerbot Labs did, various encounters with wildlife, North Korea is being accused of a cybercrime, why the evidence is flimsy at best, a couple is sentenced to prison for distributing obscene material through extremeassociates.com, memories of the Amateur Action case of years ago, the absurdity of cases like this, a story involving ring tones and copyright law, the wife of an intelligence officer in England compromises his security via Facebook, Emmanuel's experience with a hostile company that almost fell for credit card fraud, an epic case of cluelessness and social engineering, the inability of people to not believe anything they're told, the last four phone booths of Manhattan, the year long phone song feature is almost at its end.
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July 8
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- 07 / 15 / 09 -
Mitch Altman will be in the studio tonight, Koen is on from Holland to discuss the upcoming Hacking At Random conference, the last chance to get discounted tickets, Bernie explains why these conferences are so important to attend, almost everyone from the show will be at HAR, when attendees can show up, this will be Mitch's first Dutch conference, language issues, the kinds of people who are expected to attend, "Club Mate Day" is this Saturday, what Club Mate is all about, Mitch gives an update on the brain machines from a previous fundraiser, identifying people by IPs, ways consumers can protect their privacy, a California community wants to record the license plates of anyone entering their neighborhood, Matt from the Free Software Foundation discusses what it means to be an intern at the FSF, a secret program inside the CIA is ended after the new CIA boss finds out about it, a controversial quote on the FISA court from the Bush administration back in 2004, the color coded terror alert system is itself at risk, this is the last night of phone-related songs, a possible way of defeating license plate detectors, the reason why populations are kept in fear.
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July 15
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- 07 / 22 / 09 -
Emmanuel reads a strange piece of spam involving armored cars, Bernie recalls encountering such a vehicle at the airport in Switzerland, calling the company involved, pandora.com is caught asking for users' email passwords, Voltaire explains how this is common practice, words of advice to listeners writing letters, how people may still be able to get tickets to HAR which is now sold out, Mike calls for more hate mail, how an angry caller was charged with making a terroristic threat, how Emmanuel has used such threats in the past to stop telemarketers, SMS jokes about the Pakistani president can lead to prison time, pepper spray is used as a defensive measure in certain South African ATMs, cops in New York City still use typewriters instead of computers, Emmanuel and Voltaire participated in Club Mate Day over the weekend, ClearChannel donates radio stations to minority groups, commercial radio stations that ask for listener donations, the upcoming fate of New York City classical station WQXR, Bernie announces a Hacktory open house, George Orwell books disappear from Kindles, the fate of Pulse FM in New York, more on using Channel 6 for FM broadcasting.
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July 22
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- 07 / 29 / 09 -
The show is coming from a different studio tonight, a skeleton crew supposedly because of rain, next week will be interesting as most of the staff will be traveling, Mike will be in Morocco next week, where Emmanuel plans to be, Emmanuel's scare listening to WBAI the other night, Redhackt finds the new studio, an announcement from the HAR people concerning the unavailability of additional tickets, the case of a woman being sued for tweeting about a moldy apartment, students are forced to give their Facebook passwords to teachers, Emmanuel's strange problem with a Metrocard, the Department of Homeland Security has launched a YouTube channel, British Columbia rules that scanning personal information of nightclub customers is illegal, James Grimmelmann discusses the upcoming Google Books settlement and why it's a bad idea, why people should care, what the Public Index is, a song by Rob T. Firefly.
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July 29
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