Are you tired of the usual Black Friday listicles telling you which gifts to buy for your tech-obsessed friends and family? Do you suspect that the authors are really just recycling the same basic gadgets over and over again that seem like something out of an old Sharper Image catalogue?

Then we have the show for you! This week, the guys conduct a single-elimination competition for the Ultimate Techmas Gift Championship™ Extravaganza 2018®. It’s a showdown between fancy Fitbits, end-to-end encryption, a new internet, and smart diapers.

Bill Clinton Helps Al Gore Create the Internet

Alphabet’s Verily has a “smart diaper” design that distinguishes pee from poo, written by Beth Mole

Is Your Fitbit Data Safe?, written by James Swann

Encrypted Messaging isn’t Magic, written by Lily Hay Newman

I Don’t Think Internet Anonymity Means What You Think It Means, written by Annie Edmundson

Protecting Data Privacy Without Destroying the Internet, written by Roslyn Layton

Nothing Is Secure, Free Thoughts Podcast

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