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- 12 / 05 / 07 -

Bernie is in Scranton, Emmanuel encounters working subway signs for the first time, Emmanuel introduces his new phone and tells how difficult it was to obtain, the notion of buying ring tones, a popular ring tone in Spain, recordings of Emma Clarke who until recently was the official voice of the London Underground, a Canadian passport breach, people who pick up lost packages on the New York City subway are targeted by cops in Operation Lucky Bag, a British man is forbidden from discussing his crimes on the Internet, German police admit to difficulty listening in on Skype calls, Cisco VoIP phones in hotels can be used to monitor guests, Bernie looks for pictures of Emma Clarke, a system to disable vehicles by the authorities, Redbird takes exception to the reported frequencies involved, inside info on an electronic voting machine, how cell phones could be used to figure out who attended a rally, some more Emma Clarke recordings, Emmanuel will be at the Carbon/Silicon show tonight.

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December 5
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- 12 / 12 / 07 -

Merriam-Webster names "w00t" as word of the year, some other strange words, an Icelandic teen gets into trouble calling the White House, remembering some old secretive phone numbers, there are only four phone booths left in Manhattan, wondering who still uses rotary phones and payphones, a security breach at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a strange press release on the sale of electronic surveillance products to law enforcement, an update on Emma Clarke's new position, rating the various GPS services available in cars, gang members are tagged with monitoring bracelets and caught in a crime, a story of a man handcuffed for taking pictures of a subway station, getting an SMS on more than one phone at the same time, questions about different names showing up on Caller ID, the difference between Caller ID on landlines and on cell phones.

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December 12
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- 12 / 19 / 07 -

Redbird is behind the board tonight, Bicycle Mark is in town, the Chaos Communication Congress is next week, Emmanuel and Mike will be in Berlin, bass comes through from a neighboring studio, polling people in the studio as to whether or not they have landlines, Mike shows pictures of free payphones near his house, voice quality on cell phones, getting Bernie to experiment with the analog mode of Sprint PCS, a strange advertising billboard in New York City, contacting Redhackt in Finland, Mike uses 311 to complain about an advertising billboard in his neighborhood, an example of the "Ted Koppel effect" with Redhackt's connection, what the Galileo system is all about, more on Caller ID on cell phones, an update on Jim's condition, Bernie's impressions on visiting Jim for the first time, a caller has a loud hum on his line, reaction to a recent FCC ruling on media consolidation, a movie called "Look" is made entirely with surveillance footage, various security systems for making purchases.

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December 19
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- 12 / 26 / 07 -

Bernie is in Wilkes-Barre, Emmanuel is in Berlin for the Chaos Communication Congress, trouble reaching Mike who's on a DECT phone at the conference site, trying to kill time, Redbird attempts to dial Mike on the air, Emmanuel is determined to see what happens to the CCC rocket after the conference, Emmanuel's plans to be in Berlin for New Year's, the steam powered telex display, memories of old teletype machines, a rundown of some of the talks scheduled, a look ahead to HOPE in July, why current U.S. policies shouldn't deter people from coming to the HOPE conference, Mike explains the problem with the DECT system, the huge amount of bandwidth available at the conference, Mike discusses the camera situation at the airport in London, Mike's discovery for cheap cell phone service in Germany, the FBI's attempts to retain biometric records, potential ways of defeating the system, the Situation Room in the White House, a website devoted to pictures of forbidden things, Mike's attempt at photography on the AirTrain to JFK Airport, the end of AMPS is in sight, trying to get on-topic callers, experimentation on people in the U.S. military.

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December 26
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