Podcast: Monthly Tech Roundup 2.0

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In our monthly tech round-up, we talk about the latest developments in professor Sugata Mitra’s Hole in the Wall project (pictured). Find out what happens when you let kids in a Delhi slum figure out a computer all by themselves. We also talk about Facebook’s half-a-billion users, and about how you use technology to make sense of information during times of crisis. (Screengrab from the Hole in the Wall website)

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Tech Podcast: WikiLeaks’ ‘Afghan War Diary’

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In this week’s technology podcast, we take an in-depth look at WikiLeaks, and their decision to release some 91,000 classified documents from the war in Afghanistan onto the Internet. We also have an interview about Google Maps and border disputes, and hear about so-called conflict minerals. We end with an update on the extradition battle of British hacker Gary McKinnon.

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British computer hacker to face US trial

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The lawyers for computer hacker Gary McKinnon (pictured) intend to challenge the British government’s decision not to block his extradition to the US. McKinnon who has Asperger’s syndrome, has been charged with illegally accessing computers, including at the Pentagon. He says he was seeking UFO evidence. Marco Werman talks with Gary McKinnon’s mother, Janis Sharp. Download MP3

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British hacker may face trial in US

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The British man US authorities call the “biggest military hack of all time” may lose his fight against extradition to the United States. Gary McKinnon is accused of hacking into nearly one hundred US Army, Navy, Air Force, and NASA computers just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The World’s Clark Boyd has the story.

Gary McKinnon extradition update, and Pirate Parties go global

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Once again, the technology podcast delves into the strange story of Gary McKinnon, the Briton accused by the US government of committing “the biggest military hack of all time.” McKinnon admits hacking (quite easily) into critical US systems in the weeks following 9/11, but that his intent was never malicious. Today, a British High Court ruling brought his extradition to the United States to stand trial one step closer.

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