On this week’s podcast, the culprits behind one of the largest data breaches in history, is your sexual activity being sold to marketers? how Amazon‘s fake radio station pissed off Trumpsters, is this the end of privacy in the U.S.?, and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Refun A100 Tactical Led Flashlight
Dwayne: SXSW, Last Exile
Tosin: Google Cloud Next conference

Headlines

• Google goes after Slack and splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
• Vibrator maker ordered to pay out C$4m for tracking users’ sexual activity

Audible Book of the Week

• Kindred by Octavia Butler
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys

Hot Topic

• Justice Department: Russia’s security services ‘protected, directed, facilitated, and paid’ hackers behind the massive breach of Yahoo
• The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit
• FBI Director James Comey says ‘absolute privacy’ does not exist in the US

Music Break: This is Radio Clash by The Clash

Final Word

• Man In The High Castle’s “˜Resistance Radio’ Launched by Amazon; Angry Trump Fans Think It’s Real

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Children interrupt live BBC News interview

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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 product manager Tosin Onafowokan.