• The channel weighed the privacy risks of state-level bulk surveillance (PRISM) against consumer wearables like Google Glass, concluding that state programs are far more dangerous yet grassroots campaigns such as “stopthecyborgs” still serve a purpose by spotlighting device-level threats.  
• Participants refined the counter-argument to “I’ve got nothing to hide,” reframing privacy as protection for lawful activities—speech, association, innovation—against chilling effects and future power abuses, and cited Daniel Solove’s paper “‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy” as a key reference.  
• Technical options for embedding open-source browsers were compared: Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) with its Python binding cefpython, WebKit2 replacing the maintenance-mode WebKit1, and assorted Python-to-DOM bridges (wxWebKit, PyWin32 COM/MSHTML, PyjamasDesktop).  
• Automated paywall evasion via paperbot was demonstrated by retrieving PDFs for two research articles—Springer biotech (10.1007/BF00665671) and ACS Langmuir surface-chemistry (10.1021/la401074y)—and a Nature Precedings piece on the “CI-number” alt-metric for scholarly impact.  
• A Wiley bioprocess-engineering paper (10.1002/bit.24856) that paperbot could not parse was instead dumped as raw text to diyhpl.us, illustrating fallback tactics for open-access distribution.  
• Ongoing DIY hardware projects included an open-source laser-cutter build, while the term “sequence kiddies” was coined as a genomics analogue to “script kiddies,” prompting reflection on skill levels in citizen biology.