This week, the NSA is up to its dirty tricks again & tech companies beef up their security in response, SOPA may be back in a secret treaty uncovered by WikiLeaks, are Amazon employees working themselves sick? and will cellphone use finally be allowed on planes?

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Hot Topic

• NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software
• Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit ‘Radicalizers’
• NSA grapples with 888% increase in records requests
• In the wake of NSA spying, Yahoo promises encryption everywhere by 2014
  • Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
• Wikileaks publishes draft of secretive TPP trade pact

Audible Book of the Week

• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
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Music Break: Against Privacy by Cold War Kids

More Headlines

• Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds ‘fair use’; cites many benefits
• U.S. To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes
• Amazon workers face ‘increased risk of mental illness’

Music Break: Whip the Llama’s Ass by Wesley Willis

Final Word

• End of an era: Once-popular media player Winamp closing down on December 20
  • Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL

The Drill Down Video of the Week

James Franco & Seth Rogen recreate Kanye’s Bound 2 music video

Side-By-Side Comparison With Kanye’s ‘Bound 2’

Outro: Bound by Ponderosa Twins Plus One

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.