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News of the Bogus:

• 1:08 – Court Rules That Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can’t Buy Firearms http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/medical-marijuana-gun/
• 4:20 – WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/13/wordpress-gdpr-compliance-plugin-hacked/
• 7:37 – Does wiping your iPhone count as destroying evidence? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/13/does-wiping-your-iphone-count-as-destroying-evidence/

11:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Girl Scouts of America https://www.marketwatch.com/story/girl-scouts-sue-boy-scouts-for-trademark-infringement-2018-11-06

13:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: KY Gov. Matt Bevin https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/kentucky-governor-matt-bevin-says-zombie-shows-lead-mass-shootings/1988733002/

This Week’s Quote: “Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.” —Learned Hand

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Co-Host: John Petersen

News of the Bogus:

• 0:52 – White noise video on YouTube hit by five copyright claims http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523
• 7:05 – German hate speech law tested as Twitter blocks satire account https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hatecrime/german-hate-speech-law-tested-as-twitter-blocks-satire-account-idUSKBN1ES1AT
• 10:55 – Shocked, Shocked To Learn The Patent Office Is Structurally Designed To Approve Sh*t Patents https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171228/17052738897/shocked-shocked-to-learn-patent-office-is-structurally-designed-to-approve-shit-patents.shtml

15:37 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jeff Sessions https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jeff-sessions-marijuana-reversal-brings-swift-bipartisan-condemnation-w514983

18:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The European Commission https://torrentfreak.com/tech-companies-meet-ec-to-discuss-removal-of-pirate-illegal-content-180109/

This Week’s Quote: “Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Tim Dyson

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Kim Dotcom Avoids U.S. Clutches For Three More Months http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-avoids-u-s-clutches-for-three-more-months-150501/
  • Kim Dotcom Awarded Millions For Legal Bills and Living Expenses | TorrentFreak http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-awarded-millions-plus-128k-per-month-expenses-150502s/
• 7:22 – Study: Painkiller Overdose Deaths Decrease Dramatically In 420-Friendly States http://reset.me/story/study-painkiller-overdose-deaths-decrease-dramatically-420-friendly-states/
  • Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Analgesic Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2010 http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1898878
• 13:45 – #GamerGate Bar Meetup Disrupted By Bomb Threats http://www.reaxxion.com/8310/gamergate-bar-meetup-disrupted-by-bomb-threats
  • Bomb Threat Targets GamerGate Meetup (Hear From Somebody Who Was There) http://reason.com/archives/2015/05/04/bomb-threat-targets-gamergate-meetup-hea
  • How GamerGate critic Arthur Chu got me laid http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/04/how-gamergate-hater-and-social-justice-clown-arthur-chu-got-me-laid/
  • “sorry @arthur_affect you’re on your own here http://t.co/drI0p8ePbf” https://twitter.com/gamerfortruth/status/594251953510690816/photo/1
• 34:05 – At Crypto Hearing, Best Arguments Against Backdoor Mandates Come from Members of Congress Themselves https://www.newamerica.org/oti/at-crypto-hearing-best-arguments-against-backdoor-mandates-come-from-members-of-congress-themselves/
  • 4-29-2015 Encryption Technology and Potential U.S. Policy Responses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0bUmuj4tg

45:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Richard Fowler (nominated by Gabriel Lee DiMatteo) https://www.facebook.com/TheKellyFile/videos/1654857174729141/

52:07 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Boeing http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nasty-boeing-dreamliner-bug-could-shut-down-your-plane-in-mid-air/

• Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/01/boeing-787-dreamliners-contain-a-potentially-catastrophic-software-bug/
• 2^31/100 seconds – Wolfram|Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E31%2F100+seconds

This Week’s Quote: “It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. Encryption is too important to be left solely to governments.” —Bruce Schneier

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
• 5:06 – Senators Unveil Bill To Legalize Federal Medical Marijuana http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/senators-unveil-bill-to-legalize-federal-medical-marijuana/
  • North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Approved by House of Representatives http://thejointblog.com/north-carolina-bill-to-legalize-medical-cannabis-approved-by-house-of-representatives/
• 9:23 – Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes
• 13:16 – Wikipedia Is Suing the NSA http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/wikipedia-is-suing-the-nsa-20150310

18:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tamil Film Producer’s Council http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/

21:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Andrew Hennells https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/10/armed-robber-caught-after-boasting-about-planned-stick-up-on-facebook/

This Week’s Quote: “I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.” —Edward Snowden

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:29 – Did Williams Lie? http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/did-williams-lie/
• 9:37 – Drone Rules Cheered, but Not by All http://www.wsj.com/articles/drone-rules-cheered-but-not-by-all-1424135687
• 15:49 – Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, new federal data show http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/09/stoned-drivers-are-a-lot-safer-than-drunk-ones-new-federal-data-show/
  • Results of the 2013–2014 National Roadside Survey of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers file:///V:/Downloads/812118-Roadside_Survey_2014.pdf
• 21:00 – NSA Spy Program So Secret Judge Can’t Explain Why It Can’t Be Challenged http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/02/11/nsa-spy-program-so-secret-judge-cant-explain-why-it-cant-be-challenged

23:55 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Eric Posner http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/02/university_speech_codes_students_are_children_who_must_be_protected.single.html

30:23 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ford Motor Company https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2015/01/23/mustang-common-password.html

• “123456” Maintains the Top Spot on SplashData’s Annual “Worst Passwords” List http://splashdata.com/press/worst-passwords-of-2014.htm
• Ford Proud that “Mustang” Is a Common Password https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/02/ford_proud_that.html

This Week’s Quote: “Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.” —Ben Carson

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:29 – Legal Pot Slips Through a Loophole http://reason.com/archives/2015/01/07/legal-pot-slips-through-a-loophole
  • Florida’s 5th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_5th_congressional_district
  • North Carolina’s 12th congressional district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_12th_congressional_district
• 4:37 – Black Market Private Schooling in the Third World http://jaypgreene.com/2008/10/23/black-market-private-schooling-in-the-third-world/
  • Public School Spending. There’s a Chart for That! http://www.cato.org/blog/public-school-spending-theres-chart
• 10:27 – EPA’s Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2014/01/29/epas-wood-burning-stove-ban-has-chilling-consequences-for-many-rural-people/
  • Ask your elected representatives to pass DownsizeDC.org’s “Write the Laws Act” (WTLA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/write-the-laws/
• 18:24 – Skiplagged founder fights lawsuit from United and Orbitz http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/12/31/skiplagged_founder_fights_lawsuit_from_united_and_orbitz.html
  • Skiplagged vs United & Orbitz by Aktarer Zaman – GoFundMe http://www.gofundme.com/skiplagged

25:28 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Harvard professors http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html

• House GOP chips away at Obamacare, voting to redefine full-time work http://www.latimes.com/nation/healthcare/la-na-obamacare-republicans-20150109-story.html

31:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The British Advertising Standards Authority http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/06/uk-censors-mind-the-thigh-gap

This Week’s Quote: “Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.” —Stephen Fry

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Co-Host: Dave Turcotte

Side Project Live #143 http://sideproject.radiofubar.com/?p=324

News of the Bogus:

• 0:42 – Secret Malware in European Union Attack Linked to U.S. and British Intelligence https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/24/secret-regin-malware-belgacom-nsa-gchq/
  • Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance
  • The Regin Platform: Nation-State Ownage of GSM Networks https://securelist.com/files/2014/11/Kaspersky_Lab_whitepaper_Regin_platform_eng.pdf
• 4:18 – Under Pressure From Uber, Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/upshot/under-pressure-from-uber-taxi-medallion-prices-are-plummeting.html
• 8:52 – U.S. states’ pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/12/us-usa-drugs-un-idUSKCN0IW1GV20141112
  • Uruguayan Presidential Election Result Safeguards Marijuana Legalization http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/latest-national-news/57234-uruguayan-presidential-election-result-safeguards-marijuana-legalization.html

12:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/week-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-interview-20916422

24:32 – Silver Cluon Award: David Mazières, Eddie Kohler, and Peter Vamplew http://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam

30:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt Bruenig http://gawker.com/actually-riots-are-good-the-economic-case-for-riots-i-1663629918

This Week’s Quote: “The people on the ground today, protesting in Ferguson, have legitimate grievances that long predated Michael Brown’s death. But…Threatening lives and property of innocent third parties creates enemies out of would-be friends and supporters, while plays into the hands of those who value the protestors as political tools, dependable votes, and nothing more.” —Christopher Westley

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/20/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131220
  • RSA Response To Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship https://blogs.rsa.com/news-media-2/rsa-response/
  • At least eight security experts boycott prominent security conference over NSA ties http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/07/at-least-six-security-experts-boycott-prominent-security-conference-over-nsa-ties/
• 6:28 – E-Cigarettes Packed With Marijuana Oil Set To Boom In Colorado http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pot-boom-e-cigs-sales-set-soar-colo-article-1.1567304
• 13:40 – The UK “Porn” Filter Blocks Kids’ Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-uk-porn-filter-blocks-kids-access.html
  • BBC News – Porn filters block sex education websites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25430582
  • Porn filter blocks website of MP who campaigned for it http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/porn-filter-blocks-website-of-mp-who-campaigned-for-it-50013120/
• 21:10 – Little Support For Snowden Amnesty http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/01/02/little-support-snowden-amnesty/

29:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sherri Tenpenny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QraJJp6A7Eo

34:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The Young Turks (nominated by Nicholas Henson) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaxCMsdYwcg

This Week’s Quote: “The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern; every class is unfit to govern.” —Lord Acton

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – $9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs–$9.8 Million Per Job http://cnsnews.com/news/article/9-billion-stimulus-solar-wind-projects-made-910-final-jobs-98-million-job
• 2:08 – Utah girl jailed and strip searched for hair-cutting prank http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/23/utah-girl-jailed-and-strip-searched-for-hair-cutting-prank/
• 5:45 – Children taken from mom in pot raid inflame Butte County ballot debate http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/30/4524455/kids-taken-from-mom-in-pot-raid.html
  • Oroville mom’s hearing opens with testimony about husband’s pot plant production http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/12/4554873/oroville-moms-hearing-opens-with.html#storylink=cpy
• 8:40 – Top doctor’s chilling claim: The NHS kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html
  • Elderly patients ‘helped to die to free up beds’, warns doctor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/9343428/Elderly-patients-helped-to-die-to-free-up-beds-warns-doctor.html
  • NHS must come clean over use of ‘death pathway’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8930951/NHS-must-come-clean-over-use-of-death-pathway.html
  • NHS “Heading for an Iceberg” Warn Hhealth Officials http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/327772/NHS-heading-for-an-iceberg-warn-health-officials
  • A group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6133157/Dying-patients.html

15:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Paul Krugman (two in a row! Nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/a-mythical-anniversary/

18:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Accelerated Christian Education (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/how-american-fundamentalist-schools-are-using-nessie-to-disprove-evolution.17918511

This Week’s Quote: “It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.” —Richard Feynman