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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas, Jakob Morris, and Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• John Oliver’s Anti-Charter School Rant Is Clever, Glib, and Uninformed https://reason.com/blog/2016/08/22/john-olivers-anti-charter-school-rant-is
• Five Reasons Measles is Better Than Autism http://www.modernalternativehealth.com/2016/08/19/five-reasons-measles-is-better-than-autism/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: MY123, Slipstream, and Pretty Much Everybody http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/uefi-secure-boot-hack.html

• Security Now 573: Memory & Micro Kernels https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-573.htm

Idiot Extraordinaire: The Democratic National Committee https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160815/09190935246/democratic-national-committee-creates-cybersecurity-board-without-single-cybersecurity-expert.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door.” —Kevin Mitnick

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Hack Brief: Hackers Breach the Ultra-Secure Messaging App Telegram in Iran https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hack-brief-hackers-breach-ultra-secure-messaging-app-telegram-iran/
  • Telegram Hack – Possible Nation State Attack By Iran http://www.darknet.org.uk/2016/08/telegram-hack-possible-nation-state-attack-by-iran/
• 6:17 – The FDA is prohibited from going germline http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/545.full
  • DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
• 10:25 – Kickass Torrents Asks Justice Department To Drop Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/17581635187/kickass-torrents-asks-justice-department-to-drop-case.shtml

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Clinton Body Count” Conspiracy Theorists http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

31:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/18065135188/no-new-study-does-not-say-uber-has-no-effect-drunk-driving.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• Japan knife attack: At least 19 dead http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/world/japan-knife-attack-deaths/
• Obama signs bill requiring labeling of GMO foods https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/obama-signs-bill-requiring-labeling-of-gmo-foods/2016/07/29/1f071d66-55d2-11e6-b652-315ae5d4d4dd_story.html
• The KickassTorrents Case Could Be Huge https://www.wired.com/2016/07/kickasstorrents-piracy-case/
  • Kim Dotcom’s lawyer will also represent alleged KickassTorrents founder http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/kim-dotcoms-lawyer-will-also-represent-alleged-kickasstorrents-founder/
  • Top Torrent Sites Respect Copyright Takedowns, Just Like Google https://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-sites-respect-copyright-takedowns-just-like-google-120604/
  • The Pirate Bay vs KickassTorrents: TPB Ignores DMCA Takedown as KAT Deletes 2400 Torrents in Minutes http://en.yibada.com/articles/128214/20160601/the-pirate-bay-vs-kickasstorrents-tpb-ignores-dmca-takedown-as-kat-deletes-2400-torrents-in-minutes.htm
  • Content Removal Regulations https://web.archive.org/web/20160710224701/https://kat.cr/dmca/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: Salon.com (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.salon.com/2016/07/31/the_moral_case_for_hillary_clinton_even_if_you_might_dislike_her_this_isnt_the_year_to_back_a_third_party_candidate/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Jill Stein http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/08/jill-stein-thinks-wi-fi-could-be-dangerous-for-our-brains/

This Week’s Quote: “Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.” —E.O. Wilson