Friday Nite Videos -- April 11, 2014

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Snowden: Take Back the Internet. McDonald's Steals From Employees. Joy Behar Roasts Chris Christie. White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock. If Walmart Paid a Living Wage ...

Edward Snowden: How We Take Back the Internet

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 (Mar 18) about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.
 

White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock (1969)

Grace Slick's lyrics for White Rabbit employ imagery from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with a hookah smoking caterpiller and lots of other otherworldly effects.

How Heartbleed Broke the Internet — And Why It Can Happen Again

Robert McMillan Wired
The sad truth is that open source software — which underpins vast swathes of the net — has a serious sustainability problem. Money doesn’t necessarily buy good code, but it pays for software audits and face-to-face meetings, and it can free up open-source coders from their day jobs.

If Walmart Paid a Living Wage ...

In the series "The Secret Life of a Food Stamp," Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What's more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the workers themselves qualify for food stamps—which the employees then often spend at those big-box stores.