Heartbleed: The OpenSSL Bug That Exposed the Internet's Unpaid Guards
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For two years, a single missing bounds check sat inside OpenSSL, the open source cryptography li...
8 Loka 21min
The Harlem Shake Meme: 30 Seconds That Rewrote the Billboard Charts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 2013 a rigid 30 second video format swept the world. One helmeted person dances alone t...
8 Loka 23min
HTTP Cookies: How a 1994 Shopping Cart Fix Became Web Surveillance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The early web had no memory. HTTP was stateless, so every click arrived as if from a stranger. I...
8 Loka 23min
Grumpy Cat: How Tardar Sauce's Scowl Built a Meme Business Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Grumpy Cat was born Tardar Sauce on April 4, 2012, in Morristown, Arizona, to an ordinary calico...
8 Loka 19min
Google Glass: From Skydiving Hype to Glassholes to the Operating Room
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In June 2012, skydivers jumped from a blimp over San Francisco and streamed their descent live t...
8 Loka 22min
Psy and Gangnam Style: The Local Joke That Hit a Billion Views
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before Gangnam Style, Park Jae-sang, known as Psy, was no rookie. He was a veteran South Korean ...
8 Loka 18min
Silicon Valley: From Apricot Orchards to a Trillion-Dollar Tech Machine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1950s, Santa Clara County was the Valley of Heart's Delight, home to nearly 40 frui...
8 Loka 21min
Friendster: The Social Network That Turned Down Google's $30 Million
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jonathan Abrams founded Friendster in Mountain View in March 2002, naming it after a mashup of f...
8 Loka 21min
