On this post-apocalyptic episode, Carl is still recovering from a massive hangover. On the Techity-Toppity-Three, we discuss anonymity on the ‘net and child porn rings in Deutschland, Wikipedia’s stand against China’s ridiculous blackout on media, and Amazon’s new video service most foul. We devote our entire Gaming Table segment to Jungle Speed, probably the coolest drinking/non-drinking game EVAR. And on Boston in Brief, we discuss art, film, and music, and nerdy pranks du jour.
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- TOR Servers Seized in Germany
- Wikipedia Won’t Bow to Chinese
- Amazon’s Unbox Uncool
- There is No Jungle in Jungle Speed
- MIT Pranks, Pays Respects
- Boston Music Awards And NEMO 2006
- Boston Film Night
- 30 Hours of Art
CARL’S NOTE: On the podcast, I mention that I think Lion’s Gate Films is owned in whole or in part by Disney. This assumption was incorrect. While the two studios have collaborated on projects, Lion’s Gate is an independent studio.
COLIN:Â Because I promised. Carl, the sidewalk ornament.
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Do I even need to add my usual comments on the evils of the Wikipedia?
Also, a golden chance was missed to write any number of unflattering things on Carl, or at minimum you should have gotten a homeless guy to take a picture with him, perhaps hugging Carl.
The evils of Wikipedia? They’re the good guys, this time. Trust me.
Five Jungle Speed sets are on their way to mi casa. GIRD THY LOINS FOR BATTLE!
I think there is a market for Jungle Speed protective gear, not that any realman (or woman) would use any.
[10:30] But if the police can just seize your servers and take away a Tor user’s anonymity, then is there any such thing as truly anonymous internet access? What if the German police take a group of Tor routers for some other reason? What if the Chinese seize a group of Tor servers that were used to post to a pro-Democracy message board?
The good news is that, in principle at least, seizing the exit servers does nothing to reveal the identites of the users that may or may not have routed traffic to the internet from those servers. In fact, if the Tor software is well written, you could seize all the Tor routers in Germany and still be no closer to identifying the users who routed data through those servers than you were in the first place.
[14:30] The reason China needs content providers to cooperate is because they can’t censor the internet themselves.
[16:15] “Obviously, they’re afraid of the truth” — bingo.
[35:20] “When I think of MIT … I think of Hawking”.
Dude, Hawking is at Cambridge. You know, in England. So, uh, you’ll have to commute from MIT to the Uk, I guess?
[36:00] Sooooooooo not funny. So. Bad Carl!
[37:45] http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1994/cp_car/