Off The Hook - Jan 24, 2024

Emmanuel and Kyle are back in the studio, the Columbia University protests, FCC fines Pacifica for underwriting violations, perusing old Off The Hook shows, listener email.

Emmanuel and Kyle are on the road traveling back from viewing the eclipse, Alex is in Boston, visiting Washington DC, AI generated television, reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the state of radio in the rest of the country, outro: "Disinformation Overload" by Jason Didner.

AI Joe Biden endorses the HOPE conference, Emmanuel and Kyle are on assignment, Oregon governor signs nation's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing, jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, Emma Best from DDoSecrets joins the panel to discuss new data related to WikiLeaks, outro: "Press the Yellow Key" by Todd Mazierski.

Alex is in a cab in London, Justice Department considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to reduced charges, YouTube adds new policies for AI generated content, Apple may use Google AI in iPhones.

Alex is in London, House passes bill to ban TikTok, Elon Musk cancels talk show over interview, listener mail, menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy.

University vending machines discovered to have facial recognition technology, Epic Games hackers admit they made it all up, man hacked government auction site to buy cars for one dollar, Florida official's husband arrested for Fox News hack, OpenAI accused The New York Times of hacking ChatGPT.

Cooper Quintin & David Greene from EFF join the panel to discuss how an Indian cyber espionage company used Indian courts to virtually wipe a series of negative news stories about them from the internet.

It's a double holiday, panelists are recovering from various maladies, driverless car attacked in San Francisco, Canada wants to ban Flipper Zero, burglars in Minnesota using WiFi jammers to disrupt security systems, queer.af Mastodon instance disappeared because of the Taliban.

Health maladies plague the panel, HOPE email issues, Signal gripes, examining Gmail's spam folder, Taylor Swift threatens to sue owner of jet tracking accounts, listener mail.

Short and pertinent poetry, MTA's new subway gates are easily defeated, MTA exploring biometric locks for subway conductor cabs, why train conductors point, listener mail, the vagaries of cryptocurrency.