This Week in Tech 780: The Great Firewall of America




Radio Leo (Audio) show

Summary: <ul> <li>Here's how the Twitter hack happened</li> <li>Tik Tok hysteria - xenophobia or common sense?</li> <li> EARN IT and LAED acts want to eliminate encryption</li> <li> Cloudflare outage takes down a huge swath of the internet</li> <li> "Master," "Slave," "Blacklist" terms on the outs at Apple, Linux, and others</li> <li> Trump expands the CIA's cyberwarfare authority</li> <li> Google spends $10 billion on India, half of that in Jio</li> <li> Amazon Dash Cart checks your groceries out for you</li> <li> World Emoji Day celebrates the new Emoji coming in 2020</li> <li>Who is "Kirk," the person behind the Twitter hack? How long have they had access?</li> <li> What should the response to the Twitter hack be?</li> <li>Instagram's Tik Tok clone Reels launches in August</li> <li> As Tik Tok rises, Quibi falls</li> <li> Google should be pushing contactless payments more</li> <li>Hong Kong VPNs leak user data</li> <li> EU Court shuts down EU - US data transfer agreement</li> <li>Grant Imahara dead at 49</li> </ul> <p><strong>Host:</strong> <a href="https://twit.tv/people/leo-laporte">Leo Laporte</a></p> <p><strong>Guests:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/alex" target="_blank">Alex Wilhelm</a>, <a href="https://twit.tv/people/mike-elgan">Mike Elgan</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/sethr" target="_blank">Seth Rosenblatt</a></p> <p>Download or subscribe to this show at <a href="https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech">https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech</a></p> <p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://bit.ly/salesforceforservice">bit.ly/salesforceforservice</a></li> <li><a href="http://Zendesk.com/twit">Zendesk.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://expressvpn.com/twit">expressvpn.com/twit</a></li> <li><a href="http://LastPass.com/twit">LastPass.com/twit</a></li> </ul>