Merry Christmas! The 36th Chaos Computer Congress starts on Friday, Mitch Altman is on the phone to discuss the upcoming conference, Verizon outage in NYC, Android app issues and privacy risks in the news, listener phone calls.

Two hour fundraising show, weather is exciting, new three digit dialing code, The Hacker Digest lifetime subscription, 2600 tote bag, 3 year subscription to 2600 Magazine, the Hacker Portrait, Ring camera intrusions, listener phone calls, the Brooklyn impeachment bell.

Jason Scott is in the studio, fundraising show, The Hacker Digest lifetime subscription, 2600 tote bag, 3 year subscription to 2600 Magazine, the Hacker Portrait, OTH is moving back to the 7pm time slot beginning next week, an update on the Virgil Griffith case, Jason Scott discusses the drastic scale back of Yahoo Groups.

Virgil Griffith arrested and charged with helping North Korea evade US sanctions, Fabio Pietrosanti - who attended the blockchain conference in North Korea with Virgil - explains what was actually discussed at the conference.

OTH is broadcasting from the new studio, fundraising show, 2600 tote bag, The Hacker Digest lifetime subscription, 3 year subscription to 2600 Magazine, the Hacker Portrait, .org registry is being sold, listener phone calls, hacking in the news.

Two-hour fundraising show, next week's show will be in the new studio, 2600 tote bag, The Hacker Digest lifetime subscription, 3 year subscription to 2600 Magazine, the Hacker Portrait, Joseph Menn - technology projects reporter for Reuters - discusses his book "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World", Alex calls in from Washington DC, listener emails.

WBAI is back under local control after a takeover attempt by a rogue faction of the Pacifica National Board, next year's HOPE conference has a new home, listener phone calls.

A special online-only show from the Commons Cafe in Brooklyn.