This week, the man behind the biggest black market on the dark web, the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever, Mark Zuckerberg wants to give the entire world internet access, the iPhone in gold?, the Tesla Model S beats all safety records, our ongoing NSA surveillance coverage, and more…

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Headlines

• Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
  • Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts
• Canonical beats Pebble as the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever
• iPhone 5S will come in gold & likely sport fingerprint sensor
• iTunes Radio to Debut in September
• Zuckerberg launches Internet.org to help bring web access to the whole world
• Tesla Model S Achieves Best Safety Rating of Any Car Ever Tested

Audible Book of the Week

• Lexicon by Max Barry
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Music Break: I Fought the Law by The Clash

Hot Topic

• NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
• New Details Show NSA Surveillance Covers 75% of Nation’s Traffic, Can Snare Emails
• Glenn Greenwald’s partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours
  • David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face
• Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
• Groklaw shuts down rather than risk feds snooping through e-mail

Music Break: Misfits (End Credit Theme) by Vince Pope

Final Word

• The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Streaming Blocked Content Overseas

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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.