Demonstrations in NYC and surrounding areas, Alex makes an emergency trip into the city, the hacker tote bag, The Hacker Quarterly lifetime subscription, three year subscription to 2600 Magazine, an update on the 2020 HOPE conference, 2600 Magazine is available at grocery stores, NYPD plans to encrypt their radio communications, IBM to stop selling facial recognition software, renaming military bases named after Confederate generals.…
# Off the Hook 05 / 18 / 2022
The show will not be on next week, a call to support WBAI, the deadline for HOPE talk proposals will be on May 31st, how there will be both in-person and virtual talks as well as virtual attendees, the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk is on hold, the issue of fake users, why this deal was a bad idea from the start, wondering how an Elon Musk tweet made it onto the 2600 timeline, some changes to online policy in the wake of the Buffalo white supremacist massacre are proposed by New York Governor Hochul, Alex reports on recently registered white power domains and how they turned out to be different than what they appeared to be, Kyle explains what it will take to make changes, Emmanuel's methods of fighting back against Fox News being played in public settings, Kyle reports on a UFO hearing in Congress, Emmanuel takes exception to the use of UAP instead of UFO, the fact that there was a closed door part of this hearing, memories of Gary McKinnon and the attempts to imprison him for hacking U.S. government computers in search of info on UFOs, a story on 6G hacking, reports on Tesla hacking, reports that Russian hackers were trying to influence this weekend's Eurovision voting, the Ukrainian winning entry.
This week's show is coming from four different locations, an update on Alex's health, how others are dealing with social distancing, New York is the epicenter of the outbreak now, WBAI is running with a skeleton crew, panic over the signal, rating the presidential response, dangerous advice, listener feedback, technology solutions to the health crisis, technology failures.…
Complaints to the FCC about SNL, calls for military action in response to ransomware attacks, video game hacks, hacker risks criminal charges by turning in college employee for child porn.
A post-show stream designed to take listener phone calls off-air and online. The show itself airs from 7 to 8 pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. 2600.com/offthehook
Off The Hook Overtime 2021-12-22
A post-show stream designed to take listener phone calls off-air and online. The show itself airs from 7 to 8 pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. www.2600.com/offthehook
Taking precautions against the coronavirus, remaining NYC payphones to be removed, history of NYC payphone ownership over the years, the last bastion of anonymous public utility use, redboxing, the rise and fall of payphones across the US, calling a payphone, listener phone calls, profiting off of the coronavirus.…
Listener emails, engineering lead Jason Long joins the OTH panel to discuss the Blue Witness project, Distributed Denial of Secrets releases cache of emails leaked from the City of Chicago and Chicago PD, applying the hacker mindset.
Off The Hook - Jan 11, 2023 Arseny joins the panel to discuss his time in Russia, banking and 'right to repair' culture in Russia, Twitter releases contradictory statement regarding leaked data, the LastPass breach, California wants to digitize license plates, Melbourne's anti-graffiti QR codes vandalized, a sad anniversary.
Off The Hook - Sep 28, 2022
GTA hacker arrested, Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, listener email, Girls Who Code books banned from a Pennsylvania school district.