| 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 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 285: One Hundred Problems
This week, the NSA stands their ground, JAY Z‘s got 99 problems, and his new album’s digital distribution is one, Apple‘s App Store celebrates its 5th Anniversary and you get the gifts, Dropbox remakes itself with DBX, and a closer look at Grand Theft Auto V
...continue reading » Tags: Amazon, Android, App Store, Apple, DBX, Dropbox, e-book, E-M5, Edward Snowden, Europa Report, FISA, FOIA, GTA V, iPad, iPhone, Itunes, Jay-Z, JOBS Act, Kickstarter, NSA, Olympus, OM-D, PRISM, Samsung, SEC, The Drill Down | |
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| The Drill Down 284: Live, From Mars
This week, even more leaked NSA intel from Edward Snowden, Zynga serves two masters, Encryption foils wiretaps for the first time ever, Samsung buys Boxee, a body heat-powered flashlight, and you could be chosen to explore Mars — the catch… it’s a one-way trip. All this and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Apple, bone conduction, Boston University, Boxee, cyborg, Don Mattrick, Douglas Englebart, Edward Snowden, Encryption, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Google Science Fair, innovation, iPad, iPhone, iWatch, Kickstarter, Mark Pincus, Mars, Mars One, Mobile, mouse, NSA, Patent Law, patents, PRISM, RoboRoach, Samsung, set top box, Xbox, Zynga | |
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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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