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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Study: No Scientific Basis for Laws on Marijuana and Driving http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/study-scientific-basis-laws-marijuana-driving-38998447
• 7:34 – Linksys WRT routers won’t block open source firmware despite FCC rules http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/linksys-wrt-routers-wont-block-open-source-firmware-despite-fcc-rules/
  • ASUS firmware will change the verification method http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-firmware-will-change-the-verification-method.32357/
• 16:21 – Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/
  • Sorry, Venezuela haters: this economy is not the Greece of Latin America http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty

29:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gizmodo or John McAfee http://gizmodo.com/john-mcafee-apparently-tried-to-trick-reporters-into-th-1776765480

38:07 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/9/nyc-de-blasio-forces-bars-serve-pregnant-women/

This Week’s Quote: “If the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.” —Milton Friedman

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – The Court of Appeal: thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se to be owned by the state http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/hovratten-piratebayse-ska-agas-av-staten/
• 3:43 – Donald Trump on the debt: “You never have to default because you print the money” http://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11639292/donald-trump-default-print-money
• 9:08 – Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ivy-league-economist-ethnically-profiled-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ar-BBsK6RQ?li=BBnb7Kz

15:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paramount Pictures https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160508/00545234378/fight-over-copyrighting-klingon-heats-up-gets-more-ridiculous.shtml

25:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Colorado State University-Pueblo https://reason.com/blog/2016/04/19/female-student-said-im-fine-and-i-wasnt

This Week’s Quote: “Charges of harassment are made so carelessly and on such slight grounds that we now have a genuine witch hunt on many of our campuses…Every man now stands to be accused if he’s ever been alone in a room with a woman.” —Christina Hoff Sommers

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/02/royal-college-of-physicians-says-vaping
  • FDA Will Require E-Cigarettes and Contents to Be Reviewed http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-brings-cigarettes-federal-authority-38897397
• 15:19 – WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/
• 19:42 – The Proper Channels For Whistleblowers Are Still A Joke https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160312/14052833886/proper-channels-whistleblowers-are-still-joke.shtml

25:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Craig Wright http://archive.bogosity.tv/wright/

• How Craig Wright Privately ‘Proved’ He Created Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/2016/05/craig-wright-privately-proved-hes-bitcoins-creator/
• Satoshi: That’s not how any of this works http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.html
• Errata Security: Satoshi: how Craig Wright’s deception worked http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-how-craig-wrights-deception.html
• Steve Gibson on Twitter: “I sure hope this clown is NOT Satoshi. Get a load of this latest spew of nonsense:” https://twitter.com/SGgrc/status/727566800116846592
• I’m Sorry. http://www.drcraigwright.net/

43:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/burr_feinstein_bill_prompts_protests/

• Darik’s Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing http://www.dban.org/
• Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser https://www.justsecurity.org/30740/feinstein-burr-bill-bans-browser/

This Week’s Quote: “Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:32 – England’s Doctors Walk Out of Emergency Wards in First Ever All-Out Strike https://news.vice.com/article/englands-doctors-walk-out-of-emergency-wards-in-first-ever-all-out-strike
• 10:56 – Veteran’s off-the-grid trailer condemned by Huntsville http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/06/veterans_off-the-grid_trailer.html
  • Judge tosses one case against off-the-grid trailer, but owners aren’t home free yet http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/09/judge_tosses_one_case_against.html
  • Marine veteran loses court fight, but vows not to move home http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/11/marine_veteran_loses_court_fig.html
• 22:08 – The FBI paid more than $1 million to crack the San Bernardino iPhone https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/the-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-crack-the-san-bernardino-iphone/

25:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Opera Software http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/

32:27 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cindy Prior (nominated by evensgrey) http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/qut-student-faces-200000-bill-in-facebook-post-racism-row-20160415-go7951.html

This Week’s Quote: “The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged ‘services’ and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.” —Robert Higgs

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – Why Target Is Raising Its Starting Wage to $10 Per Hour http://fortune.com/2016/04/18/target-10-dollars/
• 3:21 – After Vote to Remove Brazil’s President, Key Opposition Figure Holds Meetings in Washington https://theintercept.com/2016/04/18/after-vote-to-remove-brazils-president-key-opposition-figure-holds-meetings-in-washington/
• 8:42 – An Inspection of Border Force Operations at Manchester Airport https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2803760/An-Inspection-of-Border-Force-Operations-at.pdf

11:46 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Congress http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/276286-on-obamacare-is-there-one-set-of-rules-for-congress-and

15:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Apple http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/

• (0Day) Apple QuickTime moov Atom Heap Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-241/

This Week’s Quote: “Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.” —Daniel Webster

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with ‘natural’ style to save electricity http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-energy-crisis-president-tells-women-to-stop-using-hairdryers-and-go-with-natural-style-to-a6976246.html
• 8:31 – School’s new policy bans parents from walking children to school http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story
• 13:27 – Supreme Court Rules Against Freezing Assets Not Tied to Crimes http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-freezing-assets-not-tied-to-crimes.html

23:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Brian Bergstein https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/

31:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-says-youtube-is-running-a-dmca-protection-racket-160412/

This Week’s Quote: “Our trend in copyright law has been to enclose as much as we can; the consequence of this enclosure is a stifling of creativity and innovation. If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 1:19 – WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-most-widely-used-end-to-end-crypto-tool-on-the-planet/
  • Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/
• 12:23 – Reddit’s Warrant Canary just died https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/reddits-warrant-canary-just.html
  • We are ACLU lawyers and Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute. We’re here to talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, because Reddit can’t. AUA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_merrill_of_calyx/
• 21:51 – 5th Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal of Misconduct Finding, and throws out Forfeiture Because of Prosecutorial Vindictiveness http://www.prosecutorialaccountability.com/2016/03/25/tx-5th-circuit-denies-prosecutors-appeal-of-misconduct-finding-and-throws-out-forfeiture-because-of-prosecutorial-vindictiveness/

28:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml

34:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

This Week’s Quote: “All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.” —Henry Hazlitt

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:36 – Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/paris-terrorist-attacks-burner-phones-not-encryption/
  • House bill wants to crack down on prepaid ‘burner’ phones http://www.zdnet.com/article/california-lawmaker-wants-to-crack-down-on-pre-paid-burner-phones/
  • Bruce Schneier: Focus on terrorists, not tactics https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/bruce_schneier_focus.html
• 13:40 – Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-16/venezuela-to-shut-down-for-a-week-as-electricity-crisis-mounts
• 19:42 – Texas House Panel Approves Full Legalization Of Marijuana In ‘Unprecedented’ Move http://realhealthtreatments.info/texas-house-panel-approves-full-legalization-of-marijuana-in-unprecedented-move/

23:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: New York http://www.coindesk.com/months-bitlicense-bitcoin-still-startups-await-approval-new-york/

28:31 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Judge Amanda Sammons http://www.knoxnews.com/news/crime-courts/defendants-barred-from-entering-court-arrested-for-being-late-records-show-2d7ac08e-4a20-4080-e053-0-371336111.html

This Week’s Quote: “The similarity of arguments against the abolition of slavery and arguments against the abolition of government (as we know it) should shake the faith of all Americans who still labor under the misconception that ours is a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’ From where I stand, it looks distressingly like an institutional complex that rests on the same shaky intellectual foundations as slavery.” —Robert Higgs

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/whatsapp-encryption.html
• 7:15 – Appeals Court Says Backpage.com Is Not Liable For Sex Trafficking Done Via Its Site https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160315/08201233910/appeals-court-says-backpagecom-is-not-liable-sex-trafficking-done-via-site.shtml
• 17:53 – EU Court Of Justice Advocate General Says Open WiFi Operators Shouldn’t Be Liable For Infringement https://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20160316/13090133923/eu-court-justice-advocate-general-says-open-wifi-operators-shouldnt-be-liable-infringement.shtml

22:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama https://youtu.be/FhFibpHSJFE?t=1h21m17s

• Obama tells tech community to solve encryption problem now or pay later http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/11/11207480/obama-sxsw-2016-fbi-apple-encryption
• Obama Just Made His Dumbest Comments on Encryption Yet http://gizmodo.com/obama-just-made-his-dumbest-comments-on-encryption-yet-1764388286
• No, you backoff on backdoors or else http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/03/no-you-backoff-on-backdoors-or-lese.html
  Encryption, Privacy Are Larger Issues Than Fighting Terrorism, Clarke Says http://www.npr.org/2016/03/14/470347719/encryption-and-privacy-are-larger-issues-than-fighting-terrorism-clarke-says

35:03 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Dianne Feinstein https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160309/23380133854/senator-feinstein-revives-stupid-idea-that-internet-companies-are-materially-supporting-terrorism-if-isis-members-use-their.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” —Louis Brandeis

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:38 – Woman free after stand between trooper, dog http://www.wvgazettemail.com/article/20160301/GZ01/160309942
• 7:13 – Libertarian Commentator Lauren Southern Assaulted by ‘Anti-Fascist’ Protesters http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/05/libertarian-lauren-southern-assaulted-by-anti-fascist-protesters/
• 14:26 – Nobody Knows the Identity of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia But Most Are Certain They Deserved it https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-the-identity-of-the-150-people-killed-by-u-s-in-somalia-but-most-are-certain-they-deserved-it/

21:35 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/18/new-mexico-attorney-general-protests-bil

26:24 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie Sanders and #BernVictims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IlGoeDIUQ

• Bogosity https://www.facebook.com/MrBogosity/photos/a.508311029179330.124056.343696165640818/1157038930973200/?type=3&theater
• Mothers of Slain Black Teenagers Assail Bernie Sanders for ‘Ghetto’ Comments http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/08/mothers-of-slain-black-teenagers-assail-bernie-sanders-for-ghetto-comments/

This Week’s Quote: “The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout…suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own; for the children, and the children yet unborn.” —Rod Serling