We're living under an attempted coup, pen testing democracy, imbalance of power, how technology is fueling tribalism, new covid restrictions in NYC, Patrick Ryan - technical program manager at TikTok - joins the panel to discuss the TikTok employee lawsuit against President Trump.
Fundraising show, customize Waze with OTH panelist voices, Iowa's right to be forgotten act, Jason Torchinsky - senior editor of Jalopnik - is on to discuss a case where Tesla remotely removed features from a car after it was sold to a third party, listener phone calls.
Off The Hook - Apr 15, 2020 - 2600
An update on Alex's health, more healthcare workers threatened with termination for speaking out, Dr. Nisha Mehta discusses the situation healthcare workers are facing, protests in Michigan, listener phone calls.
A late start, to laminate or not to laminate, the backlash against vaccine passports, Kyle's vaccination experience, Trump campaign fundraising scam, personal data from 533 million Facebook accounts available online.
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 ?
Fundraising show, an experiment comes to fruition, Emmanuel and Kyle discuss their trip to Schefferville in northern Québec, an experiment with SMS, the Iowa caucus app failure.
Off The Hook - Sep 08, 2021
Hurricane Ida floods NYC, mandatory 10-digit dialing and new 3-digit codes, Butte Public Library training ethical hackers, repair shop owner at center of Hunter Biden saga loses lawsuit against Twitter, AI's can't file for patents.
A late start and getting our bearings, the president is a murderer, spam calls ruined contact tracing, confusing spam, a brief lesson on contract law, gaming Amazon's delivery system, sending kids back to school.
FBI hacking into computers, Azimuth named as vendor who unlocked San Bernardino terrorist iPhone for FBI, uncovering radio history, robots delivering pizza
# 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.