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- 03 / 02 / 05 -

Bernie is using a better quality phone, the crappy sound of cell phones compared with older phones, thoughts on The Gates in Central Park, Bernie gets yelled at for taking a picture of an open New Jersey Transit ticket machine, the Madrid bombings investigation has a New York connection, a Bruce Schneier column on Secure Flight, a new subway map with 2012 Olympic venues appears, Redbird explains the latest on the Paris Hilton T-Mobile security breach, how personal data is at risk, a mobile phone virus is on the loose, 3896 calls to 911 are placed from a single house, information on the MPAA ratings board, an appeal for more information, Arseny reports on the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), facts on podcasting the radio show, Bernie will be going to the CeBIT conference next week, fingerprinting at Disneyworld, Mike gives an update on the Indymedia subpoena, more tales of harassment, more episodes of "Brain Damage" will be made available online this week, HOPE VCDs and "Off The Hook" DVDs will also be available.

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March 2
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- 03 / 09 / 05 -

Bernie is in Germany, trouble leaving the country during a blizzard, what the CeBIT conference is all about, a T-Mobile policy that requires showing a passport before buying a SIM card, feedback to Bernie's camera incident, a decision has yet to be reached concerning photography in the New York City subway system, supposedly pictures can't be taken at PATH facilities, more on Disneyworld, the BTK killer is tracked from his digital signature, remote fingerprinting of hardware, faking a bar code for a license, an update on Redbird's card reader plans in the next issue, a special edition of "Off The Hook" will be performed at the Trenton Computer Festival, the "Freedom Downtime" Easter Egg contest, an opinion piece on the death penalty for hackers, more on MPAA ratings, Arseny gives specifics on how to get a film rated, the possibilities of joining the ratings board, the possibility of an alternative ratings system, the return of Rebel, some not so well known federal facilities in Manhattan, the usefulness of holding onto an old AMPS phone.

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March 9
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- 03 / 16 / 05 -

Trying to reach Bernie in Prague, the tenth anniversary of Bernie's arrest, a German supermarket plans to use fingerprints for grocery shopping, new powers against terrorism are approved in the U.K., protesters in India demonstrate against unfair mobile phone policies, new mobile policy in Nepal, the quality of wireless carriers, social engineering via email, some airport security stories, feedback on MPAA ratings, where "Off The Hook" is broadcast, 811 is allocated by the FCC for excavation activities, Kevin Martin is the new FCC chairman, using #344, a mystery 911 call.

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March 16
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- 03 / 23 / 05 -

Emmanuel releases info on the specific CD player causing problems at the station, Hanneke and Sasja visit from the Netherlands and give info on What The Hack, various encounters with DHS officials on the way into the country, sentences are handed out for Dutch denial of service perpetrators, Xs4all in the news again, a digital copying case in France, Utah plans to come up with a list of all the porn sites on the net, places where 2600 is blocked, a bagel store in Brooklyn gets in trouble with the MTA, ways of using a cell phone in an emergency, Emmanuel's plans to take the Trans Siberian Express with Hanneke and Sasja, the challenge of doing the show from Mongolia, the possibility of using a satellite phone, results of dialing 811, the ESRB video game ratings service, an answer to Mike's letter concerning a border search he and Emmanuel were subjected to last summer, Arseny calls in from Switzerland, what connectivity is like in Switzerland, how outdoor hacking events work, how DECT phones work, Redbird discusses the Boston transit system, a famous song about the system.

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March 23
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- 03 / 30 / 05 -

Bernie surprises Mike by faxing him a story, a Berkeley laptop containing information on 98,000 individuals is stolen, ways of ensuring that data is erased from a hard drive, the time in Australia, a "phreaking" attack in Australia, memories of extenders and PABXs, Bernie's confession, mobile cameras in England trace vehicles, weird postal regulations, cameras at the post office, an anarchist site is targeted by the FBI, lessons to be learned, why support networks are essential, plans to install cameras on police cars in Illinois that would be able to listen to conversations on the street, the Fox Blocker, Redbird makes a secret sound for the listeners to guess, theories on how a caller got connected to the police, more on the MPAA ratings system, the capalert.com ratings system, edited "R" versions of films, the hijacking of the Republican Party by the religious right, how to disarm those people in favor of school prayer, forbidding language and nudity on television, how people dealt with the Hot 97 situation, how the FCC is being fooled, the approval of torture on the "24" TV show, Redbird reveals the mystery sound.

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March 30
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