On this week's podcast, Aleks Krotoski, Jemima Kiss and Charles Arthur look at the recent spate of hack attacks that have taken down everyone from security firms, law firms, nuclear power plants and the Foreign Office. What effect will the successes of mercenary hactivists like Anonymous – which has claimed responsibility for several high-profile cases including Sunday's Twitter hijack of the CEO of US security firm HBGary – have on the future of protest? And how realistic is William Hague's recent call for an international code of conduct for government and public web users?
Charles offers a sneak preview of next week's Mobile World Congress, and dissects the anticipated shakeup of one of the big companies, Nokia, and a future relationship with Microsoft.
Jemima asks whether we need Wi-Fi everywhere, with the news that in-flight web provider Gogo has recently won another $30m in investment, and home provider Sky have bought The Cloud. Mobile provider O2 has also announced the launch of its own public Wi-Fi network. But shouldn't we all be taking a digital detox?
Finally, the team are joined by Feona Attwood of Sheffield Hallam University, the editor of the book Porn.com, to talk about how the web has transformed our attitudes to sex. Charles wonders if teledildonics – sex toys that are networked via the internet – are for people with intimacy issues, while Kyle Machulis of slashdong.org explains who uses them, and how.
You can read more about the effects of online sex in Sunday's Untangling the Web column in the Observer New Review, and can hear all of the conversation with Kyle at guardian.co.uk/uttw.
