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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:40 – After Five Years, Dodd-Frank Is a Failure http://www.wsj.com/articles/after-five-years-dodd-frank-is-a-failure-1437342607
• 11:46 – Experian Hit With Class Action Over ID Theft Service — Krebs on Security http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/experian-hit-with-class-action-over-id-theft-service/
• 19:45 – Researcher Receives Copyright Threat After Exposing Security Hole https://torrentfreak.com/researcher-receives-copyright-threat-after-exposing-security-hole-150715/
• 27:50 – Errata Security: My BIS/Wassenaar comment http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/07/my-biswassenaar-comment.html
  • Wassenaar Arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement

36:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: University Of Toronto http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/university-toronto-teaches-students-cancer-good

46:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: U.S. National Institutes of Health http://freebeacon.com/issues/taxpayers-have-now-spent-3-5-million-to-find-out-why-lesbians-are-obese/

• Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat http://dev.cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spend-15-million-study-why-lesbians-are-fat

This Week’s Quote: “Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:57 – MPAA Wants to Kill Domain Name Privacy, For Some https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-wants-to-kill-domain-name-privacy-for-some-150709/
  • CloudFlare Forced to Censor Anti-Censorship Site https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-forced-to-censor-anti-censorship-site-150710/
• 9:45 – Bogus “Copyright Trademark” Complaint Fails to Censor the BBC https://torrentfreak.com/bogus-copyright-trademark-complaint-fails-to-censor-the-bbc-150712/
• 15:51 – Hacking Team Shows the World How Not to Stockpile Exploits http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hacking-team-shows-world-not-stockpile-exploits/
  • Hacking Team Emails Expose Proposed Death Squad Deal, Secret U.K. Sales Push and Much More https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/08/hacking-team-emails-exposed-death-squad-uk-spying/
  • Hacking Team Email Jokes About Killing ACLU’s Chris Soghoian https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/09/hacking-team-employee-jokes-assassinating-aclu-technologist-christopher-soghoian/
  • Hacking Team used shockingly bad passwords http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-wonder-hacking-team-got-hacked/

26:26 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Energy Information Administration http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/07/study-wind-farms-even-more-expensive-and-pointless-than-you-thought/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The TSA https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/27/revealed-tsas-closely-held-behavior-checklist-spot-terrorists/

This Week’s Quote: “We can’t keep weapons out of prisons; we can’t possibly expect to keep them out of airports.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Dept. Of Defense Defends Strong Encryption While Its Impetuous Child — The NSA — Continues To Lament The Coming Darkness https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150703/14441931535/dept-defense-defends-strong-encryption-while-impetuous-child-nsa-continues-to-lament-coming-darkness.shtml
  • Computer Security Experts Release Report Slamming Proposals To Backdoor Encryption, As FBI Makes Latest Push https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150707/16415031577/computer-security-experts-release-report-slamming-proposals-to-backdoor-encryption-as-fbi-makes-latest-push.shtml
• 14:05 – FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150706/23473631567/fbi-homeland-security-now-0-41-predicting-imminent-terrorist-attacks-us.shtml
• 21:08 – What the 2004 Athens Olympics venues look like today http://www.businessinsider.com/2004-athens-olympics-venues-today-2015-7
  • 2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out http://www.businessinsider.com/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5

28:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2015/07/02/sen-baldwin-1st-amendment-doesnt-apply-individuals

35:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Si Robertson http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/duck-dynasty-star-si-robertson-atheists-dont-exist-because-they-use-calendars/

This Week’s Quote: “Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” —John Perry Barlow

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Miscellaneous things we talked about when recording the 6 July  2015 podcast, including more about how diseases are idiotically portrayed on TV, why going with alt-med is a bad idea, Apple vs. Microsoft (or, Why They Both Suck), why smartphones and tablets are more secure, and products that should not be named “Trojan.”

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Co-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:03 – An American Has Died From Measles for the First Time Since 2003 http://io9.com/an-american-has-died-of-measles-for-the-first-time-sinc-1715486613
• 15:47 – BBC sets up list of news article links ‘forgotten’ by Google https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/30/bbc-sets-up-list-of-news-article-links-forgotten-by-google/
• 21:32 – Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-slowing-traffic-speeds
• 30:25 – French Taxis Go to War with Uber, Hold Courtney Love Hostage; French Government Surrenders Immediately http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/french-taxis-go-to-war-with-uber-hold-clients-hostage-french-government-surrenders-immediately
  • https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614018463099568129
  • https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614022179978502146
  • https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614023592871723009
  • https://twitter.com/Courtney/status/614033151984205824
  • https://instagram.com/p/4WhTRrtVGz/
  • https://instagram.com/p/4Wk7V4tVMv/
  • As Uber Crackdown In France Continues, Uber Downloads In France Reach Record Highs https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150630/10493231503/as-uber-crackdown-france-continues-uber-downloads-france-reach-record-highs.shtml
  • Uber downloads in France hit all-time high after strike http://fortune.com/2015/06/30/uber-downloads-in-france-hit-all-time-high-after-strike/

43:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Christopher Cantwell http://christophercantwell.com/2015/06/29/so-you-think-that-rainbow-makes-you-look-cool/

51:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Samsung https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/25/8844819/samsung-disable-windows-update-exe

• Samsung to stop Windows Update shenanigans http://www.computerworld.com/article/2941341/security0/samsung-to-stop-windows-update-shenanigans.html

This Week’s Quote: “Competition is merely the absence of oppression.” —Frédéric Bastiat