Hosted by 2600 Enterprises
Episodes
10
Latest episode
Jun 2026
Language
EN
Off The Hook a podcast from 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. It discusses the hacker's view of the emerging technology, and the threats posed by an increasingly Orwellian society. Hear updates on security flaws from the hacker perspective, as well as the latest news from within the hacker community. Follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/hackerradioshow">@HackerRadioShow</a> and Mastodon <a href="https://masto.hackers.town/@OffTheHook">@OffTheHook@masto.hackers.town</a>
Alex is in a karaoke bar in Seville, Knicks drama in NYC, whitehouse.gov propaganda, new head of 60 Minutes Nick Bilton was one of the founders of NYC Resistor, Seattle enacts moratorium on datacenters.
Scott Pelley fired from 60 Minutes after standing up to management, listener phone calls.
World Cup problems, open source OSes will be exempt from age verification, social media problems.
Eric Schmidt commencement speech booed, experts condemn payment of ransom by Canvas, concern about ASU's AI course builder, AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation at Arizona community college, listener email.
Smart glasses being used to covertly film people, datacenter guzzles 30M gallons of water without being billed, fallout from the Canvas hack.
Utah bans VPN used to circumvent age verification, North Carolina found 34k deceased voters on rolls, musician sues Google over AI overview that falsely claimed he was a sex offender, new Christian phone network blocks porn and LGBT content, listener phone calls.
Alex is in Manchester, 2600 meetings are this Friday, weaponization of the US justice system, Trump administration threatens Jimmy Kimmel again, the chilling effect on dissent, nationwide general strike planned, facial recognition glasses for ICE.
Alex had an eventful week, unequal application of laws, Kash Patel sues The Atlantic, Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges, tech companies falling in line with the Trump administration, more age verification problems.
Jason Scott joins the panel, news sites blocking Internet Archive, hard drive shortage, origins of the Internet Archive, disappearing domains, rides of glory, DiscMaster.
The Artemis II mission, Five Nights at Epstein's, Microsoft says not to trust Copilot, Target says it's not responsible for its AI shopping assistant, Amazon abandons old Kindle models.
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