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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – Don’t gloat about the Ashley Madison leak. It’s about way more than infidelity. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/19/dont-gloat-about-the-ashley-madison-leak-its-about-way-more-than-infidelity/
  • The Day Someone Signed Me Up For An Ashley Madison Account (That Day Would Be Yesterday) https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/16523632021/day-someone-signed-me-up-ashley-madison-account-that-day-would-be-yesterday.shtml
• 7:56 – EU ‘spends £500m a year promoting itself’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11795146/EU-spends-500m-a-year-promoting-itself.html
• 16:48 – Spanish woman fined for posting picture of police parked in disabled bay http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/16/spanish-woman-fined-gagging-law-photographing-police
• 23:24 – Why Is Chelsea Manning Prohibited From Having Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Issue & The Senate Torture Report? https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/why-chelsea-manning-prohibited-having-caitlyn-jenners-vanity-fair-issue-senate

30:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/07/21/sweden-democrats-plan-gay-pride-parade-through-muslim-areas-leftists-and-gay-rights-groups-decry-the-parade-as-racist/

37:13 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Blech http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/how-not-to-start-an-encryption-company/

This Week’s Quote: “Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can’t break.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Alex Fauble

News of the Bogus:

• 0:36 – “…no one can hack my mind”: Comparing Expert and Non-Expert Security Practices https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/soups2015/soups15-paper-ion.pdf
• 13:06 – Researchers Who Provided Key Evidence For Gluten Sensitivity Have Now Thoroughly Shown That It Doesn’t Exist http://www.businessinsider.com/gluten-sensitivity-and-study-replication-2014-5
• 19:42 – Hillary Clinton Keeps Making Untrue Claims About Her Use of a Private Email Server http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/12/hillary-clinton-keeps-making-untrue-clai

27:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oracle http://archive.bogosity.tv/no-you-really-cant-mary-ann-davidson-blog.html

38:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Scotland http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/09/scotland-to-issue-formal-ban-on-genetically-modified-crops

This Week’s Quote: “I now say that the world has the technology—either available or well advanced in the research pipeline—to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called ‘organic’ methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.” —Norman Borlaug

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Co-Host: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Why A $70,000 Minimum Salary Isn’t Enough For Gravity Payments http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidburkus/2015/08/02/why-a-70000-minimum-salaries-isnt-enough-for-gravity-payments/
• 9:45 – Libertarians, Greens, Constitutionals join forces in SD, OK http://www.oppositionnews.org/articles/2015/q3/libertarians-greens-constitutionals-join-forces-sd-ok/
  • Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) https://www.facebook.com/okvoterchoice
• 24:00 – He Beat the IRS in Court, But They Still Won’t Make Him Whole http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/he-beat-the-irs-in-court-but-they-wont-make-him-whole
• 34:53 – Bad Arguments for Socialized Medicine: American Lifespan Statistics Edition https://mpalumbo.liberty.me/bad-socialized-medicine-arguments-american-lifespan-statistics/

43:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/13/in-economic-address-hillary-clinton-calls-out-gig-economy.html

51:57 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/08/03/venezuelan-president-blames-us-for-supermarket-riot-that-left-one-dead/

• Amid Shortages, Venezuela Forces All Food Distribution into State Hands http://panampost.com/sabrina-martin/2015/07/23/amid-shortages-venezuela-forces-all-food-distribution-into-state-hands/

This Week’s Quote: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” —T.S. Eliot

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150727/16042931768/happy-birthday-copyright-bombshell-new-evidence-warner-music-previously-hid-shows-song-is-public-domain.shtml
• 10:50 – Judge on DRM: Non-Pirates May Hack Away http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70487.html
• 24:37 – Silk Road heroin dealer who helped convict Ulbricht will serve 2.5 years http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/07/silk-road-heroin-dealer-who-helped-convict-ulbricht-will-serve-2-5-years/
  • Kangaroo court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court
• 29:31 – Government Ruins the Dishwasher (Again) http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/government-ruins-the-dishwasher-again

41:52 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lisa Monaco (nominated by Dallas Wildman) https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/edward-snowden

49:38 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Marie Lodi http://jezebel.com/is-office-air-conditioning-a-sexist-conspiracy-1719883384

57:58 – Tag: Erin Pizzey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey

This Week’s Quote: “The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.” —Lori Ziganto

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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

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In the two-week hiatus for the Bogosity podcast, a lot has happened, so we had a Hangout to catch up on all the news and bogosity we’ve missed. Regular podcasts will resume next week.

News of the Bogus:

• LastPass Security Notice | The LastPass Blog https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/
  • Bad news! LastPass breached. Good news! You should be OK… https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/16/bad-news-lastpass-breached-good-news-you-should-be-ok
• Officials: Second hack exposed military and intel data http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d842d757851b4a59aca2aecf2f31995a/union-says-all-federal-workers-fell-victim-hackers
  • The US agency plundered by Chinese hackers made one of the dumbest security moves possible http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-agency-plundered-by-chinese-hackers-made-one-of-the-dumbest-security-moves-possible-2015-6
• The Supreme Court:
  • Obergefell v. Hodges:
    • In historic decision, Court strikes down state bans on same-sex marriage http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/in-historic-decision-court-strikes-down-state-bans-on-same-sex-marriage-in-plain-english/

    • Rand Paul Would Rather End Marriage Than Share It With Gay People http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/06/29/rand_paul_s_plan_to_get_around_legal_gay_marriage_end_government_issued.html

    • New Math Property: The Domino Theory http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=315.msg29824#msg29824
    • Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling Comes as City Pride Weekend Begins http://www.wsj.com/articles/from-city-hall-to-stonewall-new-yorkers-cheer-supreme-court-gay-marriage-ruling-1435337077
    • That Guy T https://www.facebook.com/ThatLibertarianT/posts/1583216541942197
  • King v. Burwell:
    • Court backs Obama administration on health-care subsidies http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/court-backs-obama-administration-on-health-care-subsidies-in-plain-english/
  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores Inc.:
    • Victory for religious rights in the workplace http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/victory-for-religious-rights-in-the-workplace-in-plain-englis
  • Horne v. Department of Agriculture:
    • Supreme Court Rules 8-1: Government Has to Pay You If It Steals Your Stuff https://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/supreme-court-government-has-to-pay-if-it-takes-your-stuff
    • Opinion analysis: Is the New Deal in new trouble? http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/opinion-analysis-is-the-new-deal-in-new-trouble/
• No, Dylann Roof Didn’t Arm Himself Through a ‘Legal Loophole’ https://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/no-dylann-roof-didnt-arm-himself-through
• Bird Flu Sends Egg Prices Up, but Slowing Demand Prevents Shortages – The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/business/bird-flu-sends-egg-prices-up-but-slowing-demand-prevents-shortages.html
• News sites can be held responsible for user comments https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/18/news-sites-can-be-held-responsible-for-user-comments/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Sunday Times https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-report-snowden-files-journalism-worst-also-filled-falsehoods/

• Errata Security: How we really know the Sunday Times story is bogus http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/06/how-we-really-know-sunday-times-story.html

Idiot Extraordinaire: Politic365 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/17/media-outlet-communities-color-lashes-solar-power/

This Week’s Quote: “We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear. The government has been paying farmers not to grow food…Labor unions, business and government conspire to hold back [technology]…The utilities advertise continually that “solar power is at least forty years in the future”…These propaganda advertisements are just a delaying action, because the utilities still haven’t figured out how to put a meter between us and the sun.” —Robert Anton Wilson