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News of the Bogus:

• 1:02 – Swedish woman faces two years behind bars for Facebook meme https://lulz.com/swedish-woman-2-years-prison-facebook-meme-1073/
• 4:53 – Consumers Are Revolting Against Animal Cruelty — So the Poultry Industry Is Lobbying for Laws to Force Stores to Sell Their Eggs https://theintercept.com/2018/03/02/consumers-are-revolting-against-animal-cruelty-so-the-poultry-industry-is-lobbying-for-laws-to-force-stores-to-sell-their-eggs/
• 9:18 – Opposition erupts as Iceland eyes banning most circumcisions http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/opposition-erupts-iceland-eyes-banning-circumcisions-53343231
  • Tourists Threatening To Cancel Iceland Trips If Circumcision Ban Goes Through https://grapevine.is/news/2018/03/06/tourists-threatening-to-cancel-iceland-trips-if-circumcision-ban-goes-through/

13:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Bill Gates https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/03/05/bill-gates-cryptocurrencies-killing-people-in-fairly-direct-way/

16:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Commission https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/03/05/terrorist-social-media-posts-should-be-removed-within-an-hour-says-ec/

This Week’s Quote: “If you get in front of Congress and say, ‘If I’d had these powers, I could have stopped 9/11,’ and no one looks at them and says, ‘You didn’t stop Boston! And that was one guy on the terrorist watch list, another guy with a sloppy Facebook trail, what are you talking about?’ We need that level of response.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:57 – We need to hack-proof our elections. An old technology can help. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-need-to-hack-proof-our-elections-an-old-technology-can-help/2018/02/14/27a805bc-0c4b-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html
• 4:53 – Canadian Pirate Site Blocks Could Spread to VPNs, Professor Warns https://torrentfreak.com/canadian-pirate-site-blocks-could-spread-to-vpns-professor-warns-180219/
• 9:50 – Terrible Copyright Ruling Over An Embedded Tweet Undermines Key Concept Of How The Internet Works https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180216/00011839246/terrible-copyright-ruling-over-embedded-tweet-undermines-key-concept-how-internet-works.shtml

20:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Everytown for Gun Safety http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2018/feb/15/jeff-greenfield/mostly-false-18-us-school-shootings-so-far-2018-an/

31:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Salon.com https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/02/14/watch-our-ads-or-well-use-your-cpu-for-cryptomining/

This Week’s Quote: “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Last-Minute Bogosity:

• 0:42 – Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner Stiglitz Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/bitcoin-ought-to-be-outlawed-nobel-prize-winner-stiglitz-says-jal10hxd
• 4:50 – Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown drama, will offer $29 battery replacements for a year https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/16827248/apple-iphone-battery-replacement-price-slow-down-apology

8:00 – 2017 Silver Cluon Winners

10:27 – Idiot of the Year 2017

• 14:42 – Chris Hangartner: Hollywood
• 16:57 – John Petersen: The US Justice System
  • Father of Boy Killed By Illegal Immigrant: Steinle Jury Full of ‘Left-Wing Nutjobs’ http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/12/02/jamiel-shaw-son-killed-illegal-immigrant-says-kate-steinle-jury-full-left-wing-nutjob
• 19:41 – Tim Dyson: The News Media

This Week’s Quote: “The press is owned by an oligarchic corporate elite which makes sure that any critique of them is never broadcast over the airwaves.” —Chris Hedges

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:11 – Wallet Hacks: How a Person Lost Over $300,000 Due to Simple Mistakes https://coinidol.com/wallet-hacks-how-person-lost-funds/
• 9:15 – An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership
  • W3C rejects appeal, approves DRM standard, votes kept secret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94ZKGVg-B8
  • W3C Requests Changes to DRM/EME Article, I Decline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Na4XsqIg2A
• 16:55 – Bikini Baristas Sue City of Everett, Washington in the Name of Free Speech and Women’s Rights http://reason.com/blog/2017/09/11/bikini-baristas-file-suit-against-everet

23:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Google https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-accused-of-trying-to-patent-public-domain-technology/

27:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Equifax http://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-ceo-hired-a-music-major-as-the-companys-chief-security-officer-2017-09-15

This Week’s Quote: “Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.” —Eric S. Raymond

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Kim Dotcom Asks US Supreme Court Not To Allow US Government To Steal All His Stuff Without Due Process https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170410/12490937119/kim-dotcom-asks-us-supreme-court-not-to-allow-us-government-to-steal-all-his-stuff-without-due-process.shtml
• 7:40 – The compulsive patent hoarding disorder http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-compulsive-patent-hoarding-disorder/article17617888.ece
• 15:08 – Lawsuit: Male Student Accused of Sexual Harassment for Rejecting Gay Advances Commits Suicide After Title IX Verdict https://reason.com/blog/2017/04/12/lawsuit-male-student-accused-of-sexual-h

25:13 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Patrick Harker https://news.bitcoin.com/fed-president-not-understand-bitcoin-concept-trust/

32:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Garadget http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-garadget-customer-20170406-story.html

This Week’s Quote: “However successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages in a business which he does’t understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks: his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.” —P.T. Barnum

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Co-Host: Blake Pettys

News of the Bogus:

• 2:23 – Koch network condemns Trump ban on refugees and immigrants https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/29/koch-network-condemns-trump-ban-on-refugees-and-immigrants/
• 6:25 – Uber was right to disable surge pricing at JFK http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/01/uber-was-right-to-disable-surge-pricing.html
• 14:58 – Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/

21:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Cockrell Hill Police Department https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170131/07340236595/police-say-no-evidence-value-was-lost-ransomware-attack-except-maybe-some-stuff-defense-lawyers-might-find-useful.shtml

27:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nicholas Berthaume https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/01/federal-reserve-staffer-caught-mining-bitcoins-at-work-fined-5000/

This Week’s Quote: “Killing innocent people in retaliation for the sins of other people isn’t justice—it is terrorism. The terrorists were wrong to kill Americans to satisfy their grievances against American foreign policy. And to react to them by killing innocent foreigners would also be terrorism.” —Harry Browne

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2016 Wrap-Up:

0:40 – Year in review

Idiot of the Year nominations:

• 7:39 – Jakob Morris: #BlackLivesMatter http://heatst.com/culture-wars/black-lives-matter-slams-christmas-asks-why-black-people-go-all-out-for-christmas/
• 9:06 – Travis Retriever: Saintclare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co5QpPXyTBs
• 13:14 – Charles Thomas: Social Justice Warriors
  • Wonder Woman not ‘feminist’ enough for Social Justice Warriors http://nypost.com/2016/12/13/wonder-woman-not-feminist-enough-for-social-justice-warriors/
  • Steve Martin Attacked for ‘Sexist’ Tweet in Remembrance of Carrie Fisher http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/29/steve-martin-attacked-for-sexist-tweet-in-remembrance-of-carrie-fisher/
• 16:36 – Chris Hangartner, Tim Dyson, and Daniel Wilcox: The news media
  • Yes, Political Correctness Helped Elect Trump: What Skeptics Need to Know http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/19/yes-political-correctness-helped-elect-t
  • Celebrities Blaming Donald Trump For Violence In Syria http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/19/hollywood-is-now-blaming-donald-trump-for-destruction-in-syria-but-not-barack-obama/
  • The Tainted Election http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/opinion/the-tainted-election.html
    • Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/
  • How to Rig an Election http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/opinion/how-to-rig-an-election.html
• 23:20 – Venezuela
  • Chaos in Venezuela as Nicolas Maduro flip-flops on currency withdrawal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/chaos-in-venezuela-as-nicolas-maduro-flip-flops-on-currency-withdrawal
  • The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining https://fronteranews.com/news/latam/the-secret-dangerous-world-of-venezuelan-bitcoin-mining/
  • Venezuela seizes 4 million toys to distribute to the poor http://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/venezuela-seizes-4-million-toys-to-distribute-to-the-poor-1.2901289

This Week’s Quote: “Venezuela reaches the final stages of socialism: No toilet paper…Venezuela has demonstrated that ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’ is pretty much like socialism in the 20th century.” —David Boaz

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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:

• 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

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