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- 04 / 04 / 12 -

A conference for affluent families worried about finances winds up in Emmanuel's hands, a sampling of some of the talks already approved at HOPE Number Nine, both the paper and Kindle/Nook versions of the spring issue are now out, Volume One of 2600 has also been released online, a reading of an article on hackers from 1984, how perceptions of hackers have changed over the years, how word of the first issue got out, the specter of Google Glasses, an excerpt from a Google promotional video, the threat that augmented reality could pose, Eva Galperin from the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the conversation, a special promotion for the month of April will see ten percent of every HOPE ticket sale get donated to the EFF, the huge number of cases that the EFF is following, the warrantless wiretapping program, Eva's talk at the upcoming HOPE conference, what "nymwars" are, the fight to get data back from the Megaupload raid, the progress that has been made with encrypted communications, the poor audio quality of phone calls these days.

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April 4
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- 04 / 11 / 12 -

Emmanuel calls for a 45 day waiting period before charging anyone with a crime in the wake of the George Zimmerman case, talk announcements for HOPE Number Nine are being released, the EFF promotion continues throughout the month, terms of service violations, cell phone companies are planning on blocking access to stolen phones, Mike's problem with having his phone listed as stolen, what "HD voice" could mean to cellular phone calls, how people don't seem to use phones for talking anymore, Emmanuel and Kyle were connected through two rotary landline phones the other day, replacing payphones in New York City, Emmanuel's challenge in legally downloading music, debating what constitutes a pirate site, how everyone is distracted by their smart phones, issues of sound quality, parallels to the Falklands crisis, studio problems.

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April 11
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- 04 / 18 / 12 -

Emmanuel is in a good mood because of an announcement from Bank of America, a response from the bank, trying to figure out which of these is a fraudulent announcement, it's revealed that The Yes Men were behind this whole thing, Julian Assange has a new television program that's available on Russia Today, a unique noncommercial television station in Philadelphia, old payphones, a new method of disabling stolen cell phones, trying to say something nice about Facebook, what CISPA is all about, action being taken against it, how to support the EFF and get a ticket to HOPE, new talks are being announced every day, how to get involved with the conference as a speaker, more on mp3million.com, a breakdown of royalties based on how music is sold.

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April 18
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- 04 / 25 / 12 -

Emmanuel has a fever, the last program before the spring fundraiser, Mike is also sick, reports of an upcoming format change on the local FM dial, which station will supposedly be affected by this, how a pirate radio station served a multi-day concert community at Watkins Glen in 1973, a server of riseup.net is seized, how this might be tied to bomb threats in Pittsburgh, the value of anonymity, a live Twitter feed goes back 20 years to the Los Angeles riots, how French Twitter users got around regulations concerning premature reports of election results, the question of who owns tweets, the foolishness of thinking that Twitter is anything close to a private means of communication, the hassle of installing Jabber, a kid in Indiana is expelled from school for using bad language on Twitter, Bill Degnan from the Vintage Computer Festival is the guest, examples of what computers are considered vintage, how a mouse was added to a Zenith Z-100, what will be featured at this year's festival, a letter concerning the hassles of downloading music in Germany, the artificial controls that are hurting the artists and consumers, a demonstration of how there's no actual thought behind the system, the Obama administration comes out against CISPA, a Bradley Manning hearing is upcoming.

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April 25
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