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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

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

0:58 – News of the Bogus: iPhone Special #NoBackdoors

• US trying to force Apple to unlock ‘about a dozen’ other iPhones, says WSJ http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097044/us-forcing-apple-to-unlock-dozen-iphones-says-wsj
• APPLE: The FBI screwed up its investigation and now we can’t unlock the shooter’s iPhone http://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-says-government-lost-access-to-shooters-iphone-backup-by-changing-passcode-2016-2
• CountyWire on Twitter: “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.” https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
• FBI Admits — It was a ‘Mistake’ to Reset Terrorist’s iCloud Password http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/reset-icloud-passcode.html
• In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/27/468308775/in-fighting-fbi-apple-says-free-speech-rights-mean-no-forced-coding
• FBI Director — “What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write (Exploit) Code?” http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/fbi-apple-unlock-iphone.html
• Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/police-chief-theres-a-reasonably-good-chance-not-much-is-on-seized-iphone/
• Carole Adams, mom who lost son in San Bernardino shooting, sides with Apple http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/20/carole-adams-mom-who-lost-son-in-san-bernardino-sh/

19:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Venezuela https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inflation-poverty-food-shortages-venezuela-heads-toward-disaster/2016/02/11/10aad5b4-d035-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

• Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant https://mises.org/library/tom-smith-and-his-incredible-bread-machine
• Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• USDA ERS – Interactive Chart: Food Expenditures http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures/interactive-chart-food-expenditures.aspx
• Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth

27:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Greenpeace http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/27/food.foodanddrink

• Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-gm-crop-attack-declared-legal-698440.html

This Week’s Quote: “Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.” —Ramez Naam

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Co-Host Takeover 2: Electric Boogaloo

With Dave Turcotte, Jakob Morris, and Charles Thomas

• 1:23 – The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/the-game-changed/
• 9:37 – Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/us/actors-in-pornographic-films-fight-proposal-to-enforce-safety-regulations.html
  • Dear New York Times https://medium.com/@MissLoreleiLee/dear-new-york-times-9f64155b5e19
• 15:23 – Where’s The Fair Use? – Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI
  • TEAMFOURSTAR AND YOUTUBE: Where’s the Fair Use? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eHbJ9U8YLY
  • Where’s the Fair Use? – AlphaOmegaSin #WTFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GoQM_Z-CUc
  • Make YouTube Great Again – AlphaOmegaSin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti3HTQGzAzw
  • Why the DMCA is Bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_84-p4kac
  • Early Copyright History https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_aOHpn_vqQ
  • Pirates Spend Much More Money on Music, Study Shows https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-music-study-shows-160226/
  • Creators frustrated with Copyright Office’s outdated technology, procedures http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-copyright-office-20150623-story.html

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 1:19 – Adherents of Junk Campus Rape Science Are Retaliating Against Critics https://reason.com/reasontv/2016/02/09/adherents-of-junk-campus-rape-science-ar
• 8:41 – India introduces net neutrality rules barring Facebook’s free Internet http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0VH162
• 13:16 – Homeless stripped of free Wi-Fi due to illegal downloaders https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/05/homeless-stripped-of-free-wi-fi-due-to-illegal-downloaders/

17:54 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: NaturalNews http://www.naturalnews.com/052863_Zika_virus_Tdap_vaccine_GMO_mosquitoes.html

• How mosquitoes with ‘self-destruct’ genes could save us from Zika virus https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/01/29/heres-how-gm-mosquitos-with-self-destruct-genes-could-save-us-from-zika-virus/
• Zika HOAX exposed by South American doctors: Brain deformations caused by larvicide chemical linked to Monsanto; GM mosquitoes a ‘total failure’ http://www.naturalnews.com/052943_Zika_virus_hoax_larvacide_chemical_GM_mosquitoes.html

24:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal https://torrentfreak.com/paypal-starts-banning-vpn-and-smartdns-services-160205/

This Week’s Quote: “Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you’ll be glad you did.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBQ7d9Fjhr0Lw0niz1_1nlQ

News of the Bogus:

• 0:48 – NC Forfeiture Victim Wins Final Vindication In Fight Against IRS http://ij.org/press-release/nc-forfeiture-victim-wins-final-vindication-in-fight-against-irs/
  • Monkey See, Monkey Do, But Judge Says Monkey Gets No Copyright https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160129/14291233463/monkey-see-monkey-do-judge-says-monkey-gets-no-copyright.shtml
• 7:10 – On the Viability of Conspiratorial Beliefs http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147905
• 16:22 – Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/30/judge-rules-fbi-unlawfully-refused-answer-foia-requests

21:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Remso Martinez http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/why-president-cruz-would-be-good-for-liberty/

28:08 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New South Wales, Australia (nominated by Nick Sirman) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-last-person-sydney-please-turn-lights-out-matt-barrie

This Week’s Quote: “Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Cosplay Goes to the Supreme Court https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/cosplay-goes-to-the-supreme-court/
  • Is it illegal for Firefly fans to make and sell Jayne hats? http://grenacia.livejournal.com/167895.html
• 9:11 – Prosecutors Say Cops Don’t Need Warrants For Stingrays Because ‘Everyone Knows’ Cell Phones Generate Location Data https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160116/09085933354/prosecutors-say-cops-dont-need-warrants-stingrays-because-everyone-knows-cell-phones-generate-location-data.shtml
• 16:12 – U.S. Air Force Veteran, Smeared as “an ISIS Fighter,” Just Returned to the U.S. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/u-s-air-force-veteran-saadiq-long-smeared-as-an-isis-fighter-just-returned-to-the-u-s/

22:48 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Flint, MI (nominated by Blake Pettys)

• Flint’s water crisis reveals government failures at every level https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flints-water-crisis-reveals-government-failures-at-every-level/2016/01/23/03705f0c-c11e-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
• Flint residents told that their children could be taken away if they don’t pay for city’s poison water http://www.sott.net/article/310897-Flint-residents-told-that-their-children-could-be-taken-away-if-they-dont-pay-for-citys-poison-water
• Flint water victims can’t sue the government. That’s another crime. http://theweek.com/articles/601521/flint-water-victims-cant-sue-government-thats-another-crime
• Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/28/amid-denials-state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lenovo http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/shareit-file-sharing.html

This Week’s Quote: “At some point, during every stage show I do, I take a sip of water and ask the audience, ‘How’s the water here?’ I haven’t gotten a positive response yet. Not one. Nobody trusts their water supply. Nobody. And that amuses me. Because it means the system is beginning to collapse…I’m glad the water sucks.” —George Carlin

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

0:40 – News of the Bogus: Bitcoin Special

• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7
• Community Disagrees with Mike Hearn, as He Sparks Bitcoin Classic Adoption http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/01/16/mike-hearn-wrong-bitcoin-classic-now/
• Gavin Andresen on Twitter: “@binarybits @OctSkyward Yes, Mike is too pessimistic.” https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/687900588210663424
• Austin Hill on Twitter: “Bitcoin is not dead,we are going through a similar process that early IETF & ICANN went through” https://twitter.com/austinhill/status/688446351105916929
• Bitcoin Blocksize and The Future http://belshe.com/2016/01/18/bitcoin-blocksize-and-the-future/

29:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Joseph I. Cassilly https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160104/07032833235/state-prosecutor-says-forfeiture-reform-is-legislators-funding-drug-dealers.shtml

• COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal! http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/cold-shock-warming-up-your-car-illegal/
• Kansas Police Ticketing People For ‘Illegally’ Warming Up Their Cars http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=49634

39:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Facebook https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160106/06042833250/facebook-nixes-picture-bronze-mermaid-statue-showing-too-much-skin.shtml

• An Illustrated History of American Money Design http://gizmodo.com/an-illustrated-history-of-american-money-design-1743743361

This Week’s Quote: “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” —Tommy Smothers