Off The Hook

Off The Hook

Off The Hook a podcast from 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. It discusses the hacker's view of the emerging technology, and the threats posed by an increasingly Orwellian society. Hear updates on security flaws from the hacker perspective, as well as the latest news from within the hacker community. Follow us on Twitter @HackerRadioShow and Mastodon @OffTheHook@hackers.town

Episodes

April 17, 2024 55 mins
Emmanuel and Kyle are on the road traveling back from viewing the eclipse, Alex is in Boston, visiting Washington DC, AI generated television, reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the state of radio in the rest of the country, outro: "Disinformation Overload" by Jason Didner.
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AI Joe Biden endorses the HOPE conference, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, Oregon governor signs nation's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing, jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, Emma Best from DDoSecrets joins the panel to discuss new data related to WikiLeaks, outro: "Press the Yellow Key" by Todd Mazierski.
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March 20, 2024 56 mins
Alex is in a cab in London, Justice Department considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to reduced charges, YouTube adds new policies for AI generated content, Apple may use Google AI in iPhones.
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March 13, 2024 54 mins
Alex is in London, House passes bill to ban TikTok, Elon Musk cancels talk show over interview, listener mail, menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy.
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March 6, 2024 53 mins
University vending machines discovered to have facial recognition technology, Epic Games hackers admit they made it all up, man hacked government auction site to buy cars for one dollar, Florida official's husband arrested for Fox News hack, OpenAI accused The New York Times of hacking ChatGPT.
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February 21, 2024 56 mins
Cooper Quintin & David Greene from EFF join the panel to discuss how an Indian cyber espionage company used Indian courts to virtually wipe a series of negative news stories about them from the internet.
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February 14, 2024 57 mins
It's a double holiday, panelists are recovering from various maladies, driverless car attacked in San Francisco, Canada wants to ban Flipper Zero, burglars in Minnesota using WiFi jammers to disrupt security systems, queer.af Mastodon instance disappeared because of the Taliban.
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February 7, 2024 55 mins
Health maladies plague the panel, HOPE email issues, Signal gripes, examining Gmail's spam folder, Taylor Swift threatens to sue owner of jet tracking accounts, listener mail.
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January 24, 2024 56 mins
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.
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January 17, 2024 56 mins
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".
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April 9, 2020 55 mins
Making noise, an update on Alex's health, entrenched politics, failures of leadership, doctors punished for speaking out about inadequate protective gear, delivering supplies to those who need them, listener phone calls, 5G cellular towers being attacked.
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