293: The Golden Touch

This week, the NSA cracks consumer encryption AND your smartphone data, Apple unveils two new iPhones, Sony's new Playstation Vita set-top box, the ultimate twerking fail, and more...

What We're Playing With

Andy: Cookie Clicker
Dwayne & Tosin: Google Chromecast

Headlines

• Yahoo!'s new logo
• Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
  • Encryption libraries, NIST standards now warrant extra scrutiny
  • How to remain secure against NSA surveillance
• Privacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data
  • How the NSA Spies on Smartphones Including the BlackBerry

Audible Book of the Week

• My Brief History by Stephen Hawking
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Fools Gold by Fitz and the Tantrums

Hot Topic: Apple iPhone Announcement

• iPhone 5c: a plastic and colorful iPhone available on September 20th for $99
  • Apple Unveils The iPhone 5s
  • Apple's new iPhone event in under 4 minutes

• Introducing PS Vita...TV

Music Break: Everybody Plays the Fool by The Main Ingredient

Final Word

• Net Neutrality Goes on Trial: A Guide to Verizon v. FCC

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches Fire!

• Jimmy Kimmel Reveals "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches Fire" Prank

• Pranking PAX: When Landos and Potatoes Collide

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.