| The Drill Down 364: Where’s the Drone Porn?!On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Dwayne and Andy are joined by Greg Davies (from TARDISBlend, Blendover, and Heavy Metal Historian podcasts) as we discuss: Edward Snowden answers almost anything, Reddit wants you to keep your clothes on, how to keep drones out of your backyard, a new Pebble watch… and much much more.
...continue reading » Tags: Adi Shankar, Adware, Apple, celebrities, Citizenfour, crowdfunding, drones, Edward Snowden, GCHQ, Gemalto, Glenn Greenwald, iOS, Joseph Kahn, Kickstarter, Laura Poitras, Lenovo, Man-in-the-middle attack, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, National Security Agency, NoFlyZone.org, NSA, OS, patent trolls, patents, Pebble, porn, Power Rangers, reddit, SIM cards, Smartwatch, Superfish, The Fappening | |
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| The Drill Down 304: It Whips the Llama’s AssThis 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?
...continue reading » Tags: ACTA, Amazon, AOL, cellphone, Edward Snowden, Google, Microsoft, NSA, Nullsoft, porn, Privacy, Shoutcast, SOPA, Spying, Surveillance, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, WikiLeaks, Winamp, Yahoo | |
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| The Drill Down 287: Not Guilty, Not Proven InnocentThis 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 265: How to Succeed on Reddit, A Top User’s Secret TipsWithin the course of seven months, Reddit user Scopolamina went from relative newbie to 2012’s top ranked user on the social news site, amassing an unheard of 1.87 million karma points, the Reddit currency that marks the success and popularity of a particular user. During that span of time, he also submitted well over 37,000 posts, moderated about 300 subreddits (most NSFW), and has personally been responsible for removing countless incidents of spam on the site. Then, in mid-January, as seems to happen with increasing frequency to top Reddit users, he was unceremoniously banned from the site, following allegations of selling his influence to spammers. Joining us to talk about that incident, his experience as Reddit’s top user, and his insider secrets to becoming a top user, is Reddit user Scopolamina…
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