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- 03 / 12 / 14 -

Bernie has a new phone, a strange day in Harlem after a building blows up, the concern that remains in the entire neighborhood, Emmanuel's adventure with fire trucks while traveling to the station, the chemical that gives natural gas its odor, theories on the missing airplane, reports of phones of passengers ringing, how secrecy over spy satellites could keep the real information from being revealed, new information from the Chinese brings up new questions, it's a fundraising edition of the show, the huge expense of the transmitter on top of the Empire State Building, hope for the future, how WBAI has survived over the years, why a signal swap would be a bad idea, the advantage of being in the commercial band, leaked documents are being offered as a premium tonight, why it's important for multiple individuals to look at these documents, Bernie describes the harsh penalties involved with leaking the documents being offered tonight, excerpts from Edward Snowden's talk at South By Southwest, the retributive justice of Senator Dianne Feinstein being spied upon, what's included in the package being offered tonight, what's involved in getting premiums processed. This show includes fundraising.

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March 12
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- 03 / 19 / 14 -

Bernie has switched from Sprint PCS to Verizon after 17 years, why he was forced to do this, an important appeal in a federal courtroom today in Philadelphia, what the Weev case is all about, how AT&T Wireless handled the security hole that was revealed, memories of the Amateur Action BBS case, the federal tactic of picking an unpopular defendant to establish a precedent, how this entire discussion came about from a single unscripted question, a recording of the first transatlantic phone call in the 1920s, what is being offered tonight, Rob explains what "The Eleventh Hour" book from New York Telephone is all about, remembering the old phone companies, Rob gives a dramatic reading from the book, Emmanuel describes how a phone built in the 1950s still has better sound than a much newer one, how people used to make appointments in the days before cell phones, another historic phone call from 1935 that went all the way around the world, a rundown of the package being offered, an invitation for more speakers at HOPE X, some words about "Exploding the Phone," some of WBAI's history, another historic phone call from 1956. This show includes fundraising.

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March 19
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- 03 / 26 / 14 -

Problems making a phone call, the next New York 2600 meeting will also be a HOPE coordinating meeting, the future of dragnet surveillance, the United States makes an exclusive list of "Enemies of the Internet" thanks to revelations by Edward Snowden, Eva Galperin from the Electronic Frontier Foundation joins the discussion, ten percent of all HOPE ticket sales in April will be donated to the EFF, Eva describes the ban on Twitter in Turkey and how people are getting around it, how people can get involved in the Tor Project, Eva describes EFF's involvement in events in Turkey, punishment in Saudi Arabia for using Twitter, how people can get in trouble using Twitter in the United States, the significance of the Weev case, Eva discusses the Obama initiative to change government surveillance, what it's like to sue the NSA, why it's important to be optimistic, how the conversation on surveillance has changed, the effect of the Snowden revelations in such a brief period of time, how whistleblowers have been helping in this fight for years, advice for future whistleblowers, wondering where we'd be without the EFF, there will be a big EFF presence at HOPE X in July, the challenges of making a three-way call, Evan Koblentz joins the conversation to discuss the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival, some of the computers to look forward to, wondering if today's computers will be remembered as fondly in the future, other vintage computer gatherings throughout the world.

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March 26
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