Alex is in London, Emmanuel and Kyle are in the Yukon, Greg Newby joins the panel, communicating via Starlink, radio telephones, Greg ran in the Denali135, communications systems for the middle of nowhere, Alex attended the Chelsea Arts Club Ball, visiting Canadian radio stations, Canadian wildfires are still a problem, Facebook to block news content in Canada, smartphone emergency call issues, Fort Worth systems hacked over state's laws against gender affirming care.

Skype problems, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, the Reddit blackout, volt4ire joins the panel, an update on the ChatGPT lawyer story, EU takes first steps toward AI regulation, Hollywood writers' concerns over AI, Amazon Fire kids tablet used to stalk security pro, listener mail.

Alex is in Croatia, news in Canada blocked by tech giants in response to new law, OMNY exposes data that can be used to track NYC subway riders' movements, FAA begins implementing new Remote ID rule for tracking drones.

Alex is in Slovenia, Dildog, Medus4 and The Gibson join the panel to discuss their Veilid project, how the framework reduces costs and secures data for apps built on top of it, The Gibson's motivation for creating hackers.town, reaction to the project since it was announced, user experience, design considerations that went into Veilid, explaining Cult of the Dead Cow, how Veilid can protect against some of the more sinister use cases of personal data, addressing safety of the framework, where the name came from.

MTA to experiment with artificial intelligence, Twitter sues Center for Countering Digital Hate over lost advertising, Mastodon server compromised when admin's home was raided by FBI on unrelated charges, NYPD testing new radio encryption system.

Alex is in Las Vegas for Defcon, remembering Cheshire Catalyst, the WBAI website is down, Twitter fined for delay in complying with search warrant for Trump's account records, security breach exposes UK voters' data.

Remembering Kevin Mitnick, masks at the first HOPE conference, the Free Kevin movement, Kevin's business cards, the Freedom Downtime documentary, the Takedown protests, listener mail, The New York Times' role in demonizing Kevin, how hackers first found out that the FBI was looking for Kevin, news of Kevin's capture.

Alex is back in the country, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, The_Gibson joins the panel to discuss the fediverse, Twitter restricts access to logged in users only, how the fediverse differs from Twitter, Threads might disrupt the fediverse, Google might scrape everything you post online to train it's AI, a preview of a privacy project by The_Gibson and Cult of the Dead Cow.

Emmanuel visited Virgil Griffith in prison, the Maker Faire is coming to Coney Island, broadcast signal intrusion in Russia, misinformation on Twitter, device searches at borders, Gmail sender verification hacked, questionable political donations, poor internal security at Amazon's Ring, Canadian smoke.

WBAI's origins, why radio is better than podcasts, examples of some of the programming on WBAI, notable events in WBAI's history, WBAI has survived multiple takeover attempts, reaction to an April Fools prank, how Off The Hook archives can inspire others, how everyone on the panel found their way to WBAI, WBAI has survived multiple disasters.

The problem with Gmail's spam filters, Google ruined YouTube, the problem with Twitter, the problem with Mastodon, high profile Twitter accounts hacked, International Criminal Court hacked after vowing to prosecute cyber crime, remembering KRT_.

A nationwide emergency alert test will happen next week, Target to close nine stores due to theft, Gmail to remove basic HTML version, NY to ban facial recognition technology in schools, personal health data of Canadian children compromised in mass hack, ransomware group claims to have hacked all of Sony's systems.

The nationwide emergency alert test happened today, Elijah Horland, Scott Schubert and Becky Button join the panel to discuss the return of Maker Faire.

Emmanuel and Kyle were recently vaccinated, causing problems on Mastodon, experimenting with Bluesky, NYC Mayor Eric Adams uses AI for robocalls in other languages, listener email.

Mastodon politics, OMNY website responds to privacy concerns, listener emails, vaguely threatening political mailers, Welton Chang from Human Rights First & Pyrra joins the panel to discuss mis- and dis-information in the Israel-Hamas war.

The fragmentation of social media, poisoning AI data with Nightshade, Meta's AI data deletion process is a "fake PR stunt", more uses for AI generated voices.

A new member joins the panel, YouTube's adblocker crackdown has backfired, YouTube's terrible ad options, vintage phone reseller going out of business, the ten most hacked passwords in Louisiana, class action lawsuit against car manufacturers dismissed.

The Tesla Science Center was damaged by fire, Ron and Mary Knappin from Phoneco join the panel to discuss their vintage phone collection.

Sports Illustrated accused of publishing AI generated articles, Marc Alessi from the Tesla Science Center joins the panel to discuss the fire that damaged the building last week, listener mail, NYPD to begin encrypting radio communications.

Emmanuel got an OMNY card, announcing HOPE XV, the Hotel Pennsylvania is no more, Google is making changes to extensions in Chrome, abusing ChatGPT, 23andMe changes terms of service to protect the company from lawsuits, Scottish official vindicated after confirmation of Russian hack, balloon enthusiast website hacked.

Alex is injured, GTA hacker sentenced to life in a hospital prison, exploring the use of smart speakers to detect domestic violence, listener emails and musical compositions, HOPE XV will be in July and CCC is happening now, remembering Ralph Poynter.

HOPE XV ticket sales off to a slow start, the fragmentation of communications platforms, St. John's University accomodations, 2600 is bad at PR, keeping HOPE accessible to everyone, societal changes, Google Bard outlines reasons to attend HOPE, an update on Alex's injury, scammers target ransomware victims.

HOPE XV Call for Participation is now open, DeCSS judge involved in Trump case, OpenAI quietly removes restrictions on military applications from terms of service, SEC Twitter account compromised, Micah Lee joins the panel to discuss his new book "Hacks, Leaks and Revelations".

Short and pertinent poetry, MTA's new subway gates are easily defeated, MTA exploring biometric locks for subway conductor cabs, why train conductors point, listener mail, the vagaries of cryptocurrency.