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- 08 / 05 / 15 -
Bernie is in Maine, a test on area code knowledge, an interesting fact about old area codes, how the show has made Emmanuel a liar, a pledge to somehow take calls tonight, some excerpts from the new Hacker Calendar that's being offered as a premium tonight, Android is now the victim of an MMS message that can take over a phone, encouraging people to hack things, what's involved in patching Android vulnerabilities, how hackers continue to be misrepresented, some more dates from the calendar, encouraging people to fill in the blank dates, a brief history of how payphones got to be printed in 2600, various ways that people can contribute material to the magazine, another premium that's being offered, the question of whether cell phones can cause cancer, good reviews of "Mr. Robot," the hacking of Planned Parenthood sites, a listener accuses the show of radicalizing listeners, what defines a good hack, a recent hack of the New York Magazine web page and why it shouldn't be taken so seriously, the sad hitchBOT story, a fake YouTube video purporting to show its destruction, memories of the "414" hackers, making the attempt to take phone calls in a roundabout way, why hackers aren't good soldiers, why political ideology is irrelevant to the hacker culture, an alleged ISIS hacker is put on the U.S. kill list. This show is two hours and includes fundraising.
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August 5
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- 08 / 12 / 15 -
A small crew tonight, more on the alleged ISIS hacker mentioned last week who has been placed on a kill list, wondering how online radicalization works, the slippery slope of justifying assassination, canceling passports of kids who want to join ISIS, wondering why people get caught traveling to Syria, words to listeners who may have become radicalized, an update on the White House petition on Edward Snowden, theorizing on what would happen to Snowden if he were returned to the States, the SSL certificate for 2600 has expired, why this is nothing to panic over, how the certificate business is tantamount to extortion, Seth Schoen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains a new project called "Let's Encrypt" which will become public in November, what will be different about this new certificate authority, why encryption is always a good idea, the Chaos Communication Camp starts tomorrow, a way to counter the MMS threat, Emmanuel clarifies his remarks on demonstrating vulnerabilities, Google changes its company name to Alphabet, a malfunctioning CD player.
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August 12
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- 08 / 19 / 15 -
Trying to diagnose a microphone problem, wondering how things went at the Chaos Communication Camp, the latest troubles facing Chelsea Manning in prison, an interesting case involving child pornography, what this case reveals about Dropbox and Gmail, Kevin Mitnick joins the conversation, where Kevin has been lately, memories of old phone tricks, Emmanuel's views on another hacker magazine of the past, Emmanuel recommends "Mr. Robot" to Kevin, the challenge of getting the story right, the demonization of the word "hacker," how the word can be salvaged, the "bug bounty," a Facebook violation, Kevin tells how he was able to reveal personal information on a volunteer at a conference, Kevin's perspective on the Ashley Madison data dump.
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August 19
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- 08 / 26 / 15 -
Bernie sounds like he's in a cathedral, Emmanuel demonstrates oddities with the board and the phone, Kyle details some future plans, the show is getting a lot less mail than it used to, theorizing on why this might be, why social media shouldn't be a replacement for traditional correspondence, Mike outlines the problems with email, debating what constitutes good writing, the death of renowned phone phreak Bill Acker, an excerpt from Bill's appearance on the show, Mike reports on the Chaos Communication Camp, how attendance keeps growing at these events, the latest on the Ashley Madison hacks, Emmanuel's problem with the term "ethical hacker," why using the word "hack" for this story is wrong, how ethics are defined, a site where people can check to see if they were compromised, how the DMCA is being used here, the so-called ISIS hacker was assassinated by the U.S., Twitter deletes accounts that call out politicians for tweets they deleted, how this is tantamount to rewriting history, Jeb Bush's views on encryption, a new crayfish species is named after Edward Snowden.
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August 26
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