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- 06 / 03 / 15 -

An excerpt from WBAI in 1972, how this recording was found, Bernie explains what wire recordings are, some of the premiums that are still available, Rob has secured the givetowbai.org site, Bernie has trouble making a connection to London, major updates in the world of surveillance as elements of the Patriot Act are not renewed, what the Freedom Act is all about, whether or not this is good news, what the Senate hearing was like, more trouble connecting to London, a discussion on kids with cell phones in schools, a challenge to go a day without your phone, Alex from London joins the conversation, more talk on intelligence reform, Rob will be at the Washington DC 2600 meeting this month. This show includes fundraising.

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June 3
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- 06 / 10 / 15 -

An annoying high-pitched whine, Kyle is on the phone from Seattle, an update on future phone lines for listeners at the station, Reggie gets rid of the whine, some of the "dumbest hacks" of all time according to mass media, a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army gets into the U.S. Army website, a new threat to mathematics teachers in Australia, a story in Wired goes overboard demonizing hackers, debating the correct use of the word "hacker," the station continues to build, a new proposal for lifeline service, a U.S. military helicopter is circling over Bernie's house in Philadelphia, many hacked websites are lost opportunities to get a message out, symbolic acts of the past involving PGP and DeCSS, trying to understand why it took so long to figure out if the engineer of the train that crashed in Philadelphia last month was on the phone at the time, Stingrays are reported in the United Kingdom, a critical letter from a listener, more thoughts on the airplane hacking story, prosecutors seek to keep Edward Snowden's name from being mentioned, the show will not be on next week, a massive data breach affects millions of people with security clearances.

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June 10
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- 06 / 24 / 15 -

Bernie is on the East End of Long Island, looking out over Plum Island where animal disease research took place, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment in Alaska, Rob describes the difficulty in getting a CD-R, the amount of physical media that is still available, the debate with people who believe the cloud is the future, the concept of copyrighting landmarks and buildings, the new EU copyright policy, a new law in Australia forces ISPs to block sites associated with piracy, a story about a space alien getting material taken off the net, the issue of anonymity with domain registrations, the Supreme Court rules that a warrant must be granted to force hotels to give out information about their guests, Cuba is being added to various calling plans.

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June 24
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