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- 09 / 04 / 13 -
A skeleton crew tonight, Brazil reacts angrily to revealed spying by the United States, Bernie's choppy connection, thinking of operating system alternatives, the NSA is found to have been buying zero-day exploits, trying to name all of the intelligence agencies, a search engine named Startpage takes a stand against surveillance, a review of their site and the significance of their stance, a new spy satellite is launched, AT&T is reported to have been helping the federal government's Project Hemisphere program with phone records dating back to 1987, a potential privacy risk by Con Edison, problems involving expired PGP keys, there are 2600 meetings this week.
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September 4
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- 09 / 11 / 13 -
The show begins late, the NSA remains in the news, evidence of more violations, Emmanuel's issue with James Clapper, Representative Rush Holt introduces a bill to eliminate much of the escalation in government surveillance power, why it's important not to give up, theorizing on the corporate relationship with the NSA, how reporters covering the NSA leaks may be holding back, Google accelerates an encryption initiative in light of the NSA revelations, a lawsuit claims that Google violates privacy by scanning email through their Gmail service, a surefire way to find out if humans are reading users' Gmail accounts, a disturbing ruling against Google contains major technical inaccuracies, lightning strikes near Bernie, more on the security of encryption, reflections on the anniversary of 9/11.
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September 11
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- 09 / 18 / 13 -
There will be a giveaway of Maker Faire tickets tonight, starting the show with listener mail, Moore's law appears to be bending, thoughts on the future of quantum computers, Gmail is the preferred Internet service provider for terrorists according to the former director of the CIA and NSA, more accusations that Google is colluding with intelligence agencies, 2600 is among the magazines no longer carried on military bases, Sherry Huss from World Maker Faire talks about the fourth year of the event, what's different this time, the 2600 van will be back this year, some of the attractions to look forward to, some of the speakers who will be in attendance, the involvement of kids, the issue of funding from the military, all of the tickets have been given away, how people can still attend for free, use of the word "hacker" in promoting Maker Faire, how to participate in the clemency petition for Chelsea Manning.
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September 18
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- 09 / 25 / 13 -
A report from Maker Faire, what it was like to meet so many listeners, the next Maker Faire will be in Rome, anticipation for the next HOPE conference, more details on the elimination of 2600 from newsstands at military bases, members of the Chaos Computer Club have hacked the fingerprint security system from the new iPhone, what constitutes good security on a phone, Alex is at the gTLD "world congress," some of the new top level domains that will be appearing in the future, using characters from other alphabets, the potential for Cyrillic domains, an upgrade to the 2600 website allows for high fidelity downloads of all of the radio shows, how this has resulted in increased bandwidth charges, a solution involving BitTorrents, how file sharing can improve download speeds and make things better, a call from Ghana, next week is the 25th anniversary of the show.
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September 25
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