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- 01 / 03 / 18 -
Kyle and Emmanuel are in Bucharest where it's 3 am, changing attitudes regarding technology in the east, thoughts on the way the Chaos Communication Congress turned out, HOPE tickets and speaker submissions will be opening up in the next few days, the desire for more lights and artwork at HOPE, a call for ideas, the challenge of getting to the States, the chilling effect on hacker conferences from the MalwareTech arrest, the difference between government and the people, parallels between staying in Budapest and attending HOPE, some history concerning Bucharest, how one person heckling can lead to major change, a discussion about bathrooms at the conference, Kyle explains the infrastructure at CCC, the conference had a 400 gigabit uplink, a Morse code message sent via network activity, what's unique about Romania, the possibility of visiting Moldova, Kyle describes the infrastructure in Bucharest, passport control in the region, two major flaws are discovered in the world's computers, what kinds of computers this vulnerability will affect, what the Secure Elections Act is all about, 2600 meetings are coming up this week.
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January 3
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- 01 / 10 / 18 -
It's the 58th birthday of WBAI, Brad from BSides New York joins the conversation, what this event is all about, the relationship with the John Jay School of Criminal Justice, what's good about holding a conference in the middle of the winter, Brad's first 2600 meeting, what's included in the BSides ticket price, how Brad got involved in this, how people can still get tickets, the idea of a law firm BBS, Emmanuel Macron's plan to block websites that contain fake news, Hack of the Week: Kodak gets its stock to jump with the announcement of its own cryptocurrency, Steve Rambam joins the conversation by phone, an issue concerning Vonage voicemails disappearing, a vote on extending Section 702 of FISA will occur tomorrow, the death of James Dolan of SecureDrop, the importance of reaching out when suffering from depression, Kyle and Emmanuel may be trapped in Ukraine.
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January 10
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- 01 / 17 / 18 -
An emergency alert warning of an impending ballistic missile strike goes out in Hawaii, Trey Fogerty of the National Emergency Number Association joins the conversation, the good news in this story, how the failsafes failed in this instance, how 911 data is received, how this works with Wi-Fi, what has been learned from the Hawaii incident, the next generation 911 system, why there isn't a lot of open source software in the public safety community, ticket sales to HOPE have opened, the call for participation is also open, listeners have started to receive Rob's paintings, a complication as the station gives away more than the allotted amount of paintings, Trump uses a controversial word that can't be said on the radio, Chelsea Manning files papers to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland, an update on the new Kodak cryptocurrency, the specter of compulsory ID checks on porn sites in the U.K., Section 702 of FISA is renewed, a call concerning smart televisions.
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January 17
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- 01 / 24 / 18 -
Alex is just back from Dubai, what that city is like, how things get built incredibly fast, Kyle and Emmanuel are in Iceland and finally connected after jumping through some hoops, the story of traveling from Moldova through Ukraine, the trouble that was encountered trying to get out of Ukraine, the fruitless attempts to see the Northern Lights, Kyle and Emmanuel have driven around Iceland in the middle of winter, a different way to measure the wind, how people in Iceland react to Americans, water quality in Iceland, the insane prices in Iceland, Reykjavik is a late night city, a listener donates an Icelandic phone book which is unique because it lists people by first name, how a second phone book was obtained in a town that Bobby Fischer used to live in, questioning whether there's still a need for phone books, wondering how people manage to get unknown phone numbers, how phone calls have dramatically changed over the years, the surprising outgoing message that was left on the White House comment line, the thisisarecording.com site, using the White House phone numbers for shopper loyalty programs, an update to last week's story on Hawaii's false emergency alert, more shenanigans involving comments to the FCC on net neutrality.
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January 24
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- 01 / 31 / 18 -
Kyle and Emmanuel are back, the hoax of the Northern Lights, what's impressive about Iceland, why coffeeshops should also sell books and vinyl records, hearing Scottish radio stations in Iceland, the mysterious 666 kilohertz radio station, the sound of Iranian jamming that was heard at 1575 kilohertz, wondering where the actual jamming is coming from, a call for submissions for The Circle of HOPE, tickets for HOPE are selling quickly, a review of ExpressVPN for watching TV programs while overseas, frustration trying to acquire the "Trainspotting 2" soundtrack through Amazon, the thinking behind these artificial restrictions, how this sort of thing inevitably hurts the artists, a Burger King net neutrality commercial that really gets it, Emmanuel details the long ordeal involved in trying to get a roaming issue resolved through T-Mobile while in Berlin, a transcript of an interaction with a customer service representative, how the connection between T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom was no help whatsoever, the hassle that can be attached to auto-renewals of domains, the tale of an automated Romanian laundromat that required a Facebook account to get in, Emmanuel's impressions of the Hawaiian emergency, CNN makes things worse by sending a text message repeatedly with details on the initial story, some common sense items that weren't followed during the alert test, the winter fundraiser begins next week, 2600 meetings will be taking place this week.
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January 31
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