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- 07 / 07 / 10 -

A special two hour edition, Kyle is back for The Next HOPE conference, certain deadlines are coming up, what people who pre-register get, Gus goes over some of the conference highlights, how vendors can participate, the issue of ratting people out in the hacker community, why it's important to confront the controversy head-on, debating how to fairly analyze the story, how Wikileaks touches the community, why it's advantageous to be at The Next HOPE even for a little while, Kyle's experiences with prior conferences, parallels to the Daniel Ellsberg case, Pete and Maggie from the Prometheus Radio Project are on the phone, the kinds of radio stations that Prometheus is helping to start, the upcoming Prometheus talk at this year's HOPE conference, what digital radio will mean, hypocrisy in the broadcasting world that prevents new voices from getting on the air, some WBAI election updates, TechDarko is in the studio to discuss Radio Statler at The Next HOPE, how this station will differ from last year's HAR FM, the existence of event radio permits in other parts of the world, the amateur radio activities that will be taking place at the conference this year, restrictions on amateur radio communications, Gus describes what it was like to be on the speaker committee for the conference, Kyle's upcoming talk on the Telephone Pioneers of America, refurbishing an old phone, what troublemen are, the concern over the next generation of telephone workers, parallels to phone phreak history, Bernie recollects some really early history in telephone development, Gus describes what the eight bit concerts at HOPE will be like, Rob's upcoming talk on 2600 meetings, how to see Cuba on television, how to find out the frequency "N2H" will be broadcasting on, bad news concerning the Hotel Pennsylvania hearing, Redhackt discusses the new ticket system, some theoretical scenarios, an interesting fact concerning an old Telephone Pioneers of America meeting in 1931, the dates for the next Chaos Communication Camp in Germany are announced, where the Club Mate shipment is at present.

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July 7
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- 07 / 14 / 10 -

There is a full studio tonight on the show before The Next HOPE, Emmanuel is still in traffic, the air of anticipation tonight, conference setup begins tomorrow, Redhackt describes the ticketing technology, Mitch Altman has just arrived from Vienna, what is planned for the Hackerspace village, HOPE Number Six was Mitch's first hacker conference, Nikgod explains what is involved in constructing a radio station isolation booth for the conference, Emmanuel finally arrives, the new HOPE program guides are out, Mitch explains what circuit bending is, Kyle has the first badge, the first reactions, more people have preregistered for the conference than ever before, more bad news on the hotel front, Kyle describes an old pamphlet that has the proceedings of the 1931 Telephone Pioneers of America annual meeting which took place at the Hotel Pennsylvania, why HOPE is impossible, Lexicon discusses the plan for the two concerts at the conference, there are eight different acts scheduled, an invitation for vuvuzelas, what the lightning talks will be like, Bernie gives out the frequencies of the HOPE amateur radio station, there will be a ham radio license exam on Sunday at the conference, Micah and Andrew discuss various smart phone applications for HOPE, some anniversaries associated with The Next HOPE, Carol Long and Ashley Zurcher from Wiley discuss the new 2600 book, what some of the letters in the book were like, dispelling the black hat/white hat terminology, there will be a book signing at the conference, Notkevin discusses a Telephreak project, Bernie runs down a list of prize donators, final details.

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July 14
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- 07 / 21 / 10 -

There is a huge amount of people in the studio, trying to get a legal ID out of the crowd, Phiber Optik is also in the studio, getting everyone to introduce themselves, Redhackt gives a report on how the new ticket system went, Mitch Altman and Nick Farr discuss the evolution of hacker spaces, how the volunteer system worked, Alessio from Italy describes his experience with the conference, John Harlacher describes the challenging job he had at the conference, John and Kyle discuss new camera technology, an overview of the concerts, how Radio Statler fared, QSL cards from the amateur radio station, Rob reports on the artwork associated with the conference, Phiber and Kyle describe their first experiences on a Segway, the challenging job of security, some of the other talk highlights, some of the fallout from the Wikileaks controversy, how the keynote speaker was safely gotten out of the building, four rooms were packed for the keynote, the hotly contested panel discussion on snitches that included Adrian Lamo, how the audience was a model for democratic discussion, what was gained from this discussion, how informants have always been a reality in the community, audio and video from the conference will be available soon.

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July 21
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- 07 / 28 / 10 -

The president is in town and passing by the station, an update on the Gary McKinnon case, controversy over the extradition policy, wondering where information on UFOs is stored, more secret documents are released by Wikileaks, judging the overall impact of the latest leaks, why it's disturbing when Wikileaks is regarded by the media as being controlled by a single person, the audio and video of a limited number of HOPE talks are already available, a promising statement from the Library of Congress on jailbreaking iPhones and the DMCA, Mike reports on another significant DMCA case involving two corporations, a story about the closing of a mysterious village in the United Kingdom due to budget constraints, an interesting tale of Native Americans attempting to travel to England on tribal passports, Kyle is heading to a hacker camp in Holland, Emmanuel was on "Democracy Now" yesterday, the need for more Native American media, a text message from Bernie, more on why people leak information.

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July 28
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