Bogosity Podcast for 20 April 2015
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Co-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner
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News of the Bogus:
- 3:01 – This Prof Dared to Challenge Her Students’ Views on Sex. Here’s How They Retaliated. http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/this-prof-dared-to-challenge-her-student
- 12:55 – EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office
- 18:23 – Stop making the NSA the bogeyman of privacy http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/04/stop-making-nsa-bogeyman-of-privacy.html
- U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/
- Turns Out Feds Actually Tracked Most International Calls For Nearly A Decade Before 9/11 — Didn’t Stop The Attack https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150407/17213830578/turns-out-feds-actually-tracked-most-international-calls-nearly-decade-before-911-didnt-stop-attack.shtml
- 26:03 – New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities
- Response to Ian Brightwell https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/brightwell/
- Tampering with US voting machine as easy as ‘abcde’, audit finds https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/04/17/tampering-with-us-voting-machine-as-easy-as-abcde-says-virginia-report/
- 44:09 – Big Media Companies Insist That VPN Services Violate Copyright Law https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/17453230597/big-media-companies-insist-that-vpn-services-violate-copyright-law.shtml
- TV Companies Will Sue VPN Providers “In Days” http://torrentfreak.com/tv-companies-will-sue-vpn-providers-in-days-150417/
53:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Thomas Piketty http://fee.org/freeman/detail/picking-piketty-apart
1:01:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lisa Wade http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/03/25/are-economics-majors-anti-social/
This Week’s Quote: “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” —Joan Robinson
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