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The World on a Wire Show

The World on a Wire Show

By: Dominique Cyprès
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 A podcast about the social history of computers and computingCopyright 2019-2020. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Social Sciences
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  • The social market

    The social market
    Sep 20 2020

    Today internet social media platforms are a big business built on using our own data to manipulate our behavior. But it wasn't always this way. The social internet has a lesser-known non-corporate past, and many alternative futures.
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    47 mins
  • The Case of the Poisoned Certificates

    The Case of the Poisoned Certificates
    Jan 24 2020

    What does privacy mean on the internet? What needs protecting, and from whom? In June 2019 these questions threatened to upend an encryption scheme relied upon by human rights activists and corporations alike.

    Episode transcript available on Patreon.
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    30 mins
  • Beautiful numbers, magic numbers, & illegal numbers

    Beautiful numbers, magic numbers, & illegal numbers
    Sep 9 2019

    Some numbers are works of art, and some are illegal.

    A transcript of the episode is available on Patreon.
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    26 mins
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