Off The Hook

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.

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

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 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_.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.