This week, both hackers and Congress tell the NSA “enough!”, what it’s like when the NSA shows up at your ISP’s doorstep, how stores are tracking you through your cellphone, Netflix competes with the big boys, and Google unveils a new way into the living room.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Comic-Con International: San Diego 2013, Orange is the New Black
Dwayne: Leap Motion
Tosin: Blackberry Z10

Headlines

• For first time ever, feds asked to sit out Defcon hacker conference
• Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
  • NSA spying under fire: ‘You’ve got a problem”
  • Plan to defund NSA phone collection program defeated
  • “What Is That Box?” “” When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company
• Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell

Audible Book of the Week

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
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Music Break: House of Cards (Main Titles) by Jeff Beal

Hot Topic: Streaming Makes a Splash

• Netflix hits it big with Emmy nominations for House of Cards and Arrested Development
  • “Arrested Development” Helps Netflix Add More Than 600,000 Subscribers
  • TV Foresees Its Future. Netflix Is There.
• Hulu’s Owners Say They’re Not Selling, Will Invest Another $750M
• Google’s $35 Chromecast stick pushes Netflix, YouTube to your TV
• Seeking Spark, Microsoft Revamps Its Structure

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Watch Loki Take Over Comic-Con’s Hall H At Marvel Studios Panel

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.