Off The Hook - Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:00:00 EST

Everyone is still sick, Alex is in Greece, listener email, new AI rules for school kids in NYC, Flock camera bans.

Still recovering from HOPE, everyone's sick, listener phone calls, explaining technical terms, X10 home automation, fighting against the commercialization of the Internet.

Post HOPE show, the panel reminisces about their favorite moments of the con, music from the conference, YouTube takes down conference streams, march to the old Hotel Penn site, moderating panels, interacting with people on the street, Renoly Santiago spoke about filming Hackers.

Efrat Sternberg, LambdaCalculus & Kusanagi join the panel to discuss the upcoming HOPE conference, Delta WiFi incident, rewilding the internet, defending against stalkerware, volunteering at HOPE, Hackers Got Talent, some talks to forward to.

Emmanuel has had a day, the weather, rogue AIs, listener phone calls.

Fauci testifies before Congress, US citizen charged with felony for deleting phone data, GrapheneOS.

The first annual Phone Con, software bug registers non citizens to vote in NJ, LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps, harvest now decrypt later.

Skeleton crew today, Canada is on fire, NY imposes moratorium on new data centers, FCC approves sun reflecting satellite, another habeas corpus win, World Cup shenanigans, listener email, more MSG news.

AI redesign of government websites, judge orders $5 million Trump judgment be released to E. Jean Carroll, NY's archaic requirements get an AI overhaul, embracing old technology, origins of the term "ham radio", discovering new technology.

Belgium is playing Senegal in the World Cup today, listener phone calls, Wayve AI driving system, Hasbro wants to replace Peppa Pig child voice actors with AI, listener email, NYC cooling centers, couple climbs Empire State Building, eavesdropping phones.