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TEC145: Is the Elf on the Shelf teaching kids bad privacy hygiene? Dom Bettinelli, Jack Baruzzini, and Thomas Sanjurjo discuss some security experts warnings, plus the faith-based concerns as well. Also, a weird Alexa challenge; the world’s biggest nuke; and a half-billion in Bitcoin in the trash.

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Links for this episode:

• Beware the Elf on the Shelf, Privacy Watchdogs Warn – The New York Times
• North Pole Ninjas: MISSION: Christmas!
• Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny – BBC News
• The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein
• Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump | The New Yorker

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