Throbbing Hive with John Moe: Hacking cribs and hip hop interactive timeline
February 02, 2016

Every Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., John Moe stops into the Morning Show to share the latest news in technology.
This week, John Moe stopped by The Current's Morning Show to talk to Jade and Sean McPherson about people hacking into crib monitors and a hip hop interactive timeline.
If you use a baby monitor, John says make sure you have a security system in place and a password that is difficult to guess that you change regularly.
"A lot of those systems are unsecured and use the internet to send you that information," John says. "It's not even really hacking...it's just accessing publicly available information."
Elsewhere in the Hive, the people at Polygraph and Billboard have gotten together to make an interactive hip hop timeline that traces the top hip hop tracks from 1989 to 2015.
"It's a kind of scrolling thing - you get to see the top eight or ten tracks move up and down in the chart position as time goes on, then it plays what was No. 1 at that moment," John says. "You can just sit there and watch the last 26 years go by and all the hip hop that we celebrated that was wonderful and that we celebrated even when it wasn't wonderful."
Listen to the interview to hear a slice of the hip hop timeline and more information from John.
John Moe co-hosts the podcast Conversation Parade (with Open Mike Eagle) on the Infinite Guest network, and is an author of a number of books, including The Deleted Emails of Hilary Clinton: A Parody and Dear Luke, We Need To Talk, Darth: And Other Pop Culture Correspondences.
