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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:56 – Cindy Prior ordered to pay costs after trying to sue students under 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
  http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/cindy-prior-ordered-to-pay-costs-over-qut-racial-discrimination-case/news-story/466f3168375a6afec461b78e25c98154
  • Cindy Prior: Doctor casts doubts on QUT employee’s 18C racism claim http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/doctor-casts-doubts-on-qut-employees-18c-racism-claim/news-story/acef2c0721cee62b98c564f837bdbeac
• 4:26 – Encrypted messaging app Signal uses Google to bypass censorship http://www.pcworld.com/article/3152769/security/encrypted-messaging-app-signal-uses-google-to-bypass-censorship.html
  • Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/
• 11:10 – White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/did-russia-tamper-with-the-2016-election-bitter-debate-likely-to-rage-on/
  • Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/obama-tosses-35-russians-out-of-us-sanctions-others-for-election-meddling/

16:22 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The news media

• Russian malware detected in US electricity utility – report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/31/russian-malware-detected-in-us-electricity-grid-report
• Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
• US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/

25:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Manville, NJ Board of Education https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/01/02/anti-gun-control-presentation-on-high-school-students-flash-drive-leads-to-psychological-exam-litigation/

This Week’s Quote: “The Second Amendment was written expressly to intimidate government officials and keep them in their place. The fact that politicians and bureaucrats, regardless of their party, detest it and want it obliterated proves that it works.” —L. Neil Smith