web01.fireside.fm Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:46:08 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Law Enforcement” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/law%20enforcement Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:00:00 -0400 here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? en-us episodic doggedly zeroing in on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture simon/maral/robert/rosemary here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? yes technology, politics, leftism, cats, pop culture, dumbasses, cryptocurrency simon/maral/robert/rosemary suckerblues@gmail.com episode 004: cops and LAN go hand in hand https://www.hacks.fm/episode-4-robocops 7758e71e-9aba-4a3a-bc21-a09a61fb5856 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 08:00:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary two recent examples of local police departments going buck wild with new technologies, and we tackle the open source community's relationship with ICE. 47:08 yes here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's our cops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiHftejWSvU)! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when they adopt "pre-crime" measures and surveil us without our knowledge or consent. we take a quick look at two new-ish technologies that aim to do both of those things, as well as diving into the recent controversy that struck the open source dev community when some developers took issue with Microsoft's dalliance with the US's Immigrations Customs and Enforcement division, better known as ICE. I'm sorry about all the editing jokes. the TIME story on shotspotter: http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/ law enforcement, podcast, technology, satire, robocop here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's our cops! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when they adopt "pre-crime" measures and surveil us without our knowledge or consent. we take a quick look at two new-ish technologies that aim to do both of those things, as well as diving into the recent controversy that struck the open source dev community when some developers took issue with Microsoft's dalliance with the US's Immigrations Customs and Enforcement division, better known as ICE.

I'm sorry about all the editing jokes.

the TIME story on shotspotter: http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/

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I'm sorry about all the editing jokes.

the TIME story on shotspotter: http://time.com/4951192/shots-fired-shotspotter/

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