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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 1:11 – WikiLeaks: We’ll Work With Software Makers on Zero-Days https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/wikileaks-well-work-with-software-makers-on-zero-days/
• 5:20 – The Feds Would Rather Drop Case Than Give Up Exploit
• 9:50 – Extra Digit Accidentally Typed By Officer Turns UK Man Into A Criminal

14:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Harvard University http://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake

• False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/
• The Baloney Detection Kit https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan http://amzn.to/2nzJvyc

21:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: eBay https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/03/ebay-asks-users-to-downgrade-security/

This Week’s Quote: “There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions—a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.” —Geoffrey Fisher

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:57 – Judge denies QUT admin’s 18C racism appeal http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/03/03/judge-denies-qut-admins-18c-racism-appeal
• 5:30 – Errata Security: Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/03/some-comments-on-wikileaks-ciavault7.html
• 15:00 – Soundcloud Tells Guy It Needs To Kill His Account Of 8 Years Because Someone Else Trademarked His Name https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170301/11320736819/soundcloud-tells-guy-it-needs-to-kill-his-account-8-years-because-someone-else-trademarked-his-name.shtml
  • Nissan.com – Lawsuit – The Story http://www.nissan.com/Lawsuit/The_Story.php

20:23 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Donald Trump (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://indy100.com/article/donald-trump-statements-fact-check-congress-address-work-unemployment-latest-checking-7605351

26:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Mike Pence https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/03/mike-pence-used-an-aol-e-mail-account-for-state-business-and-it-got-hacked/

• Vice President Fails To Demand An FBI Investigation After His Private Email Account Is Hacked https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170303/09045036828/vice-president-fails-to-demand-fbi-investigation-after-his-private-email-account-is-hacked.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.” —Robert A. Heinlein

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Judge: No, feds can’t nab all Apple devices and try everyone’s fingerprints https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/judge-no-feds-cant-nab-all-apple-devices-and-try-everyones-fingerprints/
• 5:00 – Judge Blocks California’s IMDb-Targeting ‘Ageism” Law, Citing Free Speech Concerns https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170223/07353236775/judge-blocks-californias-imdb-targeting-ageism-law-citing-free-speech-concerns.shtml
• 8:03 – Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/border-patrol-agents-stop-domestic-travelers-at-new-york-airport-w468643

10:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/20/venezuelas-crisis-cause-its-people-to-cut-meals-and-lose-weight.html

14:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brianna Wu http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/28/brianna-wu-claims-companies-could-destroy-cities-b/

• Chelyabinsk meteor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

This Week’s Quote: “He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.” —Samuel Johnson

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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Kim Dotcom Extradition to Go Ahead, But Not on Copyright Grounds https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-extradition-to-go-ahead-but-not-on-copyright-grounds-170220/
• 7:09 – Pirate Site With No Traffic Attracts 49m Mainly Bogus DMCA Notices https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/
• 13:32 – Travelers cut, remove tree blocking Highway 17 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/20/travelers-cut-remove-tree-blocking-highway-17/

19:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/22/when-even-prosecutors-cant-be-informed-a

26:58 – Idiot Extraordinaire: U.S. Customs and Border Protection https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/22/border-agents-could-be-forced-to-get-a-warrant-before-searching-devices/

This Week’s Quote: “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:56 – BitTorrent Expert Report Slams Movie Piracy Evidence https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-expert-report-slams-movie-piracy-evidence-170210/
  • Malibu Media loses porn piracy case vs Doe after no downloaded materials found on Doe’s computer http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/510663313-malibu-media-loses-porn-piracy-case-vs-doe-after-no-downloaded-materials-found-on-doe-s-computer
• 6:58 – A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkannavar-detained-cbp-phone-search-trump-travel-ban
• 13:12 – Confirmed: TSA’s Behavioral Detection Program Is Useless, Biased, And Based On Junk Science https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170209/10331936675/confirmed-tsas-behavioral-detection-program-is-useless-biased-based-junk-science.shtml

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CBS11 (Dallas/Ft. Worth) http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/02/03/study-id-fraud-up-since-security-chips-put-into-play/

25:18 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Robert Reich http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/09/robert-reich-publishes-controversial-theory-regarding-yiannopoulos-demonstration/

• Robert Reich (A Yiannopoulos, Bannon, Trump Plot to Control American Universities?) http://robertreich.org/post/156777888615
• Violence as self-defense http://www.dailycal.org/2017/02/07/violence-self-defense/

This Week’s Quote: “Beware of Identity politics. I’ll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.” —Christopher Hitchens

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Bad Idea Or The Worst Idea? Having The FTC Regulate ‘Fake News’ https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170201/23481336610/bad-idea-worst-idea-having-ftc-regulate-fake-news.shtml
• 6:00 – House Votes To Overturn Obama Rule Restricting Gun Sales To The Severely Mentally Ill http://www.npr.org/2017/02/02/513126985/house-votes-to-overturn-obama-rule-restricting-gun-sales-to-mentally-ill
  • Mental Health Myths and Facts https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/myths-facts
• 9:25 – A Hacker Just Pwned Over 150,000 Printers Left Exposed Online https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-hacker-just-pwned-over-150-000-printers-left-exposed-online/

15:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/fbi-foia-records-requests-email-fax/

18:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media http://www.snopes.com/neil-gorsuchs-fascism-forever-club/

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Co-Host: Blake Pettys

News of the Bogus:

• 2:23 – Koch network condemns Trump ban on refugees and immigrants https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/29/koch-network-condemns-trump-ban-on-refugees-and-immigrants/
• 6:25 – Uber was right to disable surge pricing at JFK http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/uber-was-right-to-disable-surge-pricing.html
• 14:58 – Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

21:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Cockrell Hill Police Department https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170131/07340236595/police-say-no-evidence-value-was-lost-ransomware-attack-except-maybe-some-stuff-defense-lawyers-might-find-useful.shtml

27:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nicholas Berthaume https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/01/federal-reserve-staffer-caught-mining-bitcoins-at-work-fined-5000/

This Week’s Quote: “Killing innocent people in retaliation for the sins of other people isn’t justice—it is terrorism. The terrorists were wrong to kill Americans to satisfy their grievances against American foreign policy. And to react to them by killing innocent foreigners would also be terrorism.” —Harry Browne

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Man critically wounded during UW protest; ‘person of interest’ in custody http://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/man-critically-wounded-during-uw-protest-person-of-interest-in-custody
• 8:30 – Obama’s Cyber Legacy: He Did (Almost) Everything Right and It Still Turned Out Wrong http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2017/01/obamas-cyber-legacy-he-did-almost-everything-right-and-it-still-turned-out-wrong/134612/
• 15:05 – Proposal to ban Vietnamese communist flag on San Jose property draws opposition http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/23/san-jose-proposal-to-oppose-displaying-flag-of-vietnam-draws-opposition/

21:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Concerned LastPass User” https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032

27:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://gizmodo.com/the-fdas-newly-proposed-gmo-rules-are-nonsense-1791519749

• FDA proposal to regulate gene edited animals is ‘nonsensical’ https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/01/23/is-the-fda-being-nonsensical-uc-davis-animal-geneticist-criticizes-new-guidance-genetically-altered-animals/

This Week’s Quote: All the food we eat—every grain of rice and kernel of corn—has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops.” —Michael Specter

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:00 – Surprise: President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170117/13431636504/surprise-president-obama-commutes-chelsea-mannings-sentence.shtml
• 6:14 – Illinois Man Sues Cops Who Arrested Him for Burning a Flag http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/16/illinois-man-sues-cops-who-arrested-him
• 10:38 – WhatsApp vulnerability allows snooping on encrypted messages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages
  • There is no WhatsApp ‘backdoor’ https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
  • WhatsApp Security Vulnerability https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/whatsapp_securi.html

18:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oxfam http://fusion.net/story/380433/oxfams-davos-wealth-inequality-wrong-misleading/

25:02 – Silver Cluon Award: Cris Thomas http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/whos-winning-the-cyber-war-the-squirrels-of-course/

30:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170113/08415036481/rudy-giuliani-to-head-up-trumps-cybersecurity-team-as-internet-laughs-giulianis-security-bona-fides.shtml
Trump’s cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient ‘easily hackable website’ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/13/giuliani_joomla_outdated_site/

This Week’s Quote: “National security is becoming an oxymoron in an age of cyberweapons. We need to work towards international security that works for everyone.” —Martin Hellman

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:55 – Without Uber or Lyft, Austin Experiences Skyrocketing DUI Rates https://fee.org/articles/without-uber-or-lyft-austin-experiences-skyrocketing-dui-rates/
• 4:58 – 2017 Chicago torture incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Chicago_torture_incident
  • 22 Things Movies Get Completely Wrong About Mental Illness http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_2338_22-stupid-mental-health-myths-hollywood-cant-stop-spreading_p3/
• 10:37 – News anchor sets off Alexa devices around San Diego ordering unwanted dollhouses http://www.cw6sandiego.com/news-anchor-sets-off-alexa-devices-around-san-diego-ordering-unwanted-dollhouses/
• 17:13 – Watch How Casually False Claims are Published: New York Times and Nicholas Lemann Edition https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/watch-how-casually-false-claims-are-published-nyt-and-nicholas-lemann-edition/

26:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CNN and Buzzfeed (nominated by Neil Purcell) http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/01/omg-fake-news-cia-fell-incredible-golden-showerfable-trump/

• Donald Trump Prostitute Urination Scandal — Other Outlets Had The Dossier For Months But Didn’t Publish It http://www.inquisitr.com/3879007/donald-trump-prostitute-urination-scandal-other-outlets-had-the-dossier-for-months-but-didnt-publish-it/

32:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: David Blaine http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/television/david-blaine-shoots-himself-in-the-mouth-as-famous-bullet-stunt-goes-wrong/news-story/c9e71c2edba1f1c6e25f7b83db64c678

• Penn’s Sunday School #247: I’m The Pluto Of My Wife’s Eye! http://pennsundayschool.com/episodes/

This Week’s Quote: “It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.” —Thomas Jefferson