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- 04 / 04 / 18 -

The appearance of "rogue devices" known as Stingrays being used by foreign governments to spy within the United States, how these devices work, progress in detecting them, a Russian accused of hacking Dropbox and LinkedIn is extradited to the United States, Jeff Sessions' thoughts on hackers, the dangers inherent in trusting these companies, reports that the Trump administration would consider a nuclear response to a cyber attack, identifying what the true threat actually is, an update on the Atlanta ransomware issue, a case of students trying to hack grades in Virginia, questioning why the stakes are higher now, the new normal, hacks against Israeli sites by protesting Palestinians, why this is a healthy means of expression, a caller believes he is being targeted, strong words from the FTC in 2011 designed to protect people against privacy intrusions by Facebook, there are 2600 meetings this Friday.

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April 4
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- 04 / 11 / 18 -

The show starts in Russian, DJ Cornflower is in the studio, Trump's personal attorney is raided by the FBI, Alex examines the claim by Trump that attorney/client privilege is dead, an explanation of the number of federal districts in states, the mob boss analogy and how this is disturbing, theories on what could lie ahead, Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress, contributions by Facebook to the very members of Congress questioning Zuckerberg, a real life troll at the hearing, the issue of shadow profiles, the annoyance of being constantly asked for feedback when making purchases, the surveillance abilities of LinkNYC, the price of abstaining from Facebook, more on the issue of copper lines being phased out by Verizon, how unions fit into this, listener phone calls.

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April 11
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- 04 / 18 / 18 -

A surge in HOPE interest, a substantial amount of good news at WBAI, the station has reached an agreement to get out of the Empire State Building lease and move to a new location, two new transmitters are being obtained, other new developments, how listener support is what helped make this possible, the amount of levelheaded people at the station who don't get enough credit, an extension to the period of time where people can comment on Verizon's plans to retire copper lines, seeing who in the room has taken the time to write a comment, tweets that wake people up, clarification on reading letters over the air, facts about uptime of phone services during blackouts, analyzing the fallout from the release of the James Comey book, how the lack of payphones hurt coverage of a hearing involving Trump's lawyer, the increasing lack of information available via the whois utility, Alex explains how he's able to tie various anti-Comey domains together that have been registered recently, looking at what's on the lyincomey.com site, Emmanuel's opinion on the three people who were most responsible for getting Trump elected, why reporting on one side doesn't imply an endorsement of the other side, a call for a listener to get involved in the station, a tribute to Art Bell.

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April 18
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- 04 / 25 / 18 -

Encouraging people to become BAI Buddies, a computer recycler is sentenced to prison for making restore discs for Microsoft operating systems, how this case transpired, why people plead guilty to things they didn't do, a hacker is imprisoned for hacking into the email accounts of various governmental officials in 2015, how this case was labeled by the judge as "cyberterrorism," the CWA hacker group, more examples of injustices, the challenge of writing a one line program, how even Vice gets it wrong, examples of things that hackers don't do, MSNBC host Joy Reed's absurd claims that point the finger at hackers, what would have had to be done for this scenario to be true, updates on HOPE.

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April 25
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