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British hacker invades the Defense Department, the Chaos Communications Congress, calling an FBI hotline to catch spies and Russian mobsters, Brock Meeks talks about changes in the EFF and the recent Compuserve controvery over the GIF standard. Also: David LaMacchia is cleared of all charges, the station receives an emergency interrupt, the new carrier access code formats begin to work, and a caller demonstrates his own version of voice dialing. The show is preempted next week.

Jan. 4

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two hour special. Roman Kazan of Escape talks about the upgrading to a T1 and ISDN access, a user discusses virtual games on Escape, Emmanuel plays a minidisc on the air for the first time, an excerpt of Robert Steele's opening address at the HOPE conference, Walter offers perspective on the HOPE conference, Serbs crack down on Albanians listening in on authorities via wireless phones, Emmanuel demonstrates that the listeners exist, Emmanuel's trip to North Carolina and his nightmarish experience with the cops, which had strange foreshadowings of what was going to happen with Bernie S. in a few months. A part of this show only recorded in one channel and due to limitations with Realaudio, it was recorded as silence. This period lasts several minutes at approximately the 21 minute mark. This show includes fundraising.

Jan. 18

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he pledge drive totals more than $800,000, a collage of thank you's from the WBAI staff, a closed captioning tale, Emmanuel reads the edited portions of his letter to Wired with help from the "official voice" of Wired, Phiber on the phone from Echo where there are major system problems, Phiber is named by New York Magazine as one of the 100 smartest people in New York City, the New York Times article on Internet spoofing and hijacking, Emmanuel plays the Burmese national anthem, Phiber's homecoming party at Irving Plaza, the first mention of the upcoming 2600 Internet site, talk of conspiracy and Mormons. A very critical analysis of Clinton's State of the Union address follows.

Jan. 25