| The Drill Down 289: Collateral Damage
This week, no silver lining for cloud services in the wake of NSA leaks, Blackberry looks for a buyer, Bitcoin gets subpoenaed, Tesla‘s Elon Musk wants us all to be in the loop, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, BBM, BitCoin, Blackberry, Bradley Manning, cloud services, Cryptocurrency, digital currency, Edward Snowden, Elon Musk, FISA, Hyperloop, iPad, iPhone, John Carmack, Lavabit, National Security Agency, NSA, Oculus, Oculus Rift, PRISM, Silent Circle, SpaceX, Tesla, The Guardian, Tim Cook, WikiLeaks, XKeyscore | |
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| The Drill Down 288: The Post-Bezos Post Era
This week, the launch of the Moto X, the first phone built from the ground up by Google, The Tor anonymity network may have been hacked…by the FBI, Apple gets slapped for e-book price fixing, President Obama bails them out, and your Amazon Gold Box deal of the day… one Washington Post, slightly used…
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Apple, e-book, Edward Snowden, Google, International Trade Commission, iPad, iPhone, ITC, Jeff Bezos, malware, Moto X, Motorola, Motorola Mobility, National Security Agency, NSA, President Obama, The Onion Router, The Washington Post, Tor, Washington Post | |
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| The Drill Down 287: Not Guilty, Not Proven Innocent
This week, Greg Davies, from the BlendoveR podcast and frequent Geeks of Doom contributor (including the Tardisblend podcast), joins us to discuss the ruling for WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, how the NSA collects nearly everything a user does on the net, Feds want user passwords, the UK wants to ban porn, and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Bradley Manning, censorship, Edward Snowden, FISA, National Security Agency, NSA, Passwords, porn, PRISM, The Guardian, WikiLeaks, XKeyscore | |
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| The Drill Down 286: Streaming Is The New Black
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.
...continue reading » Tags: Arrested Development, Chromecast, Comic Con, ComicCon, Defcon, Google, House of Cards, Hulu, Loki, Marvel, Microsoft, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Orange is the New Black, San Diego Comic Con International, SDCC, YouTube | |
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| The Drill Down 282: PRISM of Secrets
This week, Greg Davies from the BlendoveR podcast and frequent Geeks of Doom contributor (including the Tardisblend podcast) joins us to discuss how the National Security Agency is eavesdropping on our phone calls, e-mails, texts, and all online activity in the name of national security. Are we overreacting, or not acting enough? Also, the NSA may have our data, but they can never patent our DNA. Microsoft does a 180 on their followup to the 360, and Google creates a network of floating balloons…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, Digg, DNA, DRM, Edward Snowden, Facebook, Feedly, Geeks of Doom, Google, Google Reader, Greg Davies, Microsoft, National Security Agency, NSA, Ouya, Patent Law, patents, PRISM, Privacy, Project Loon, Spying, Surveillance, TARDISblend, Xbox One, Yahoo | |
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