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News of the Bogus:

• 0:48 – US Senate approves encrypted chat app Signal for staff use https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/17/us-senate-approves-signal-for-staff-use/
  • A Step Forward for Security https://lawfareblog.com/step-forward-security
• 4:20 – The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/
• 8:15 – Sorry Crony Cabs, You Have To Compete Just Like Everyone Else https://fee.org/articles/sorry-crony-cabs-you-have-to-compete-just-like-everyone-else/

10:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Bipartisan politicians http://www.securityweek.com/patch-act-new-bill-designed-prevent-occurrences-wannacrypt

15:42 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Alameda County Sheriff’s Department http://ij.org/viral-photo-highlights-human-cost-bad-vending-policies/

This Week’s Quote: “It is the common people’s duty to police the police.” —Steven Magee

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:55 – Latest WikiLeaks dump shows CIA targeting Apple earlier than others https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/03/24/latest-wikileaks-dump-shows-cia-targeting-apple-earlier-than-others/
• 6:25 – Lawsuit: Police Destroyed Farm House To Capture Homeless Man Armed With An Ice Cream Bar https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170313/13545336908/lawsuit-police-destroyed-farm-house-to-capture-homeless-man-armed-with-ice-cream-bar.shtml
• 16:25 – China’s Bailing Out Venezuela’s Corrupt Regime. That’s Got to Stop. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/24/china-s-bailing-out-venezuela-s-corrupt-regime-that-s-got-to-stop.html

21:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Robert Grimes (nominated by BlameThe1st) https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/29/libertarian-ideology-natural-enemy-science

• Green movement needs to embrace nuclear energy http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/green-movement-needs-to-embrace-nuclear-energy-1.536627
• How To Argue For Gun Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilwEM8xDWxM

34:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nicolás Maduro http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN16U1UL

This Week’s Quote: “Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all…It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.” —Frédéric Bastiat

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Judge: No, feds can’t nab all Apple devices and try everyone’s fingerprints https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/judge-no-feds-cant-nab-all-apple-devices-and-try-everyones-fingerprints/
• 5:00 – Judge Blocks California’s IMDb-Targeting ‘Ageism” Law, Citing Free Speech Concerns https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170223/07353236775/judge-blocks-californias-imdb-targeting-ageism-law-citing-free-speech-concerns.shtml
• 8:03 – Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/border-patrol-agents-stop-domestic-travelers-at-new-york-airport-w468643

10:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/20/venezuelas-crisis-cause-its-people-to-cut-meals-and-lose-weight.html

14:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brianna Wu http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/28/brianna-wu-claims-companies-could-destroy-cities-b/

• Chelyabinsk meteor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor

This Week’s Quote: “He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.” —Samuel Johnson

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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Kim Dotcom Extradition to Go Ahead, But Not on Copyright Grounds https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-extradition-to-go-ahead-but-not-on-copyright-grounds-170220/
• 7:09 – Pirate Site With No Traffic Attracts 49m Mainly Bogus DMCA Notices https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-site-with-no-traffic-attracts-49m-mainly-bogus-dmca-notices-170219/
• 13:32 – Travelers cut, remove tree blocking Highway 17 http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/20/travelers-cut-remove-tree-blocking-highway-17/

19:57 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/22/when-even-prosecutors-cant-be-informed-a

26:58 – Idiot Extraordinaire: U.S. Customs and Border Protection https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/02/22/border-agents-could-be-forced-to-get-a-warrant-before-searching-devices/

This Week’s Quote: “Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” —H.L. Mencken

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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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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 2:55 – Court: ‘Falsely’ Accused ‘Movie Pirate’ Deserves $17K Compensation https://torrentfreak.com/court-falsely-accused-movie-pirate-deserves-17k-compensation-161206/
• 7:39 – UN rules for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to be freed http://www.geopolmonitor.com/breaking-un-rules-julian-assange-freed/
• 10:53 – Phone encryption: Police ‘mug’ suspect to get data http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38183819

15:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Accomack County (Virginia) Public Schools http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/virginia-schools-ban-to-kill-a-mockingbird-huckleberry-finn-for-racial-slurs/472065070

• Classic novels pulled from Accomack County Public Schools http://wavy.com/2016/11/30/classic-novels-pulled-from-accomack-county-public-schools/
• Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009 http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

23:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The US Copyright Office https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161201/18084736170/every-website-needs-to-re-register-with-copyright-office-who-cant-build-functioning-system.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Take the addition, the changes, the copyright’s turn, take the changes to copyright’s scope, put it against the background of an extraordinarily concentrated structure of media, and you produce the fact that never in our history have fewer people controlled more of the evolution of our culture. Never.” —Lawrence Lessig

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News of the Bogus:

• Suspected terrorist attacks in New York, New Jersey and Minnesota stir political debate http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-york-bomb-20160918-snap-story.html
  • If You Don’t Vote Democrat This November, Then Fuck You http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christian-gabriel/if-you-dont-vote-democrat_b_10425968.html
• 12 officers injured, fires set, as protests break out in Charlotte after police fatally shoot man https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/21/protests-break-out-in-charlotte-after-police-fatally-shoot-man-they-say-wielded-firearm/
  • Texas Town Experiences 61% Drop in Crime After Firing Their Police Department http://thefreethoughtproject.com/texas-town-sees-61-drop-crime-firing-cops-hiring-private-firm/
• Biofuels and the Law of Unintended Consequences http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/biofuels-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences/
• The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report
  https://tcf.org/content/commentary/house-intelligence-committees-terrible-horrible-bad-snowden-report/

Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Richest (nominated by Chris Hangartner) http://www.therichest.com/video/evil-people-who-should-be-banned-from-the-internet/

Idiot Extraordinaire: Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/17/people-are-justifiably-infuriated-with-how-jimmy-fallon-handled/

This Week’s Quote: “Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.” —Stanley Milgram

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:38 – The ACLU Is About to Launch a Campaign Asking Obama to Pardon Edward Snowden https://motherboard.vice.com/read/edward-snowden-presidential-pardon-campaign
• 8:40 – Chimpanzees choose cooperation over competition: Study challenges distinctiveness of human cooperation https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822155920.htm
  • How chimpanzees cooperate in a competitive world http://www.pnas.org/content/113/36/10215.abstract
• 16:30 – More Details On How Corporate Sovereignty Provisions, Like Those In TPP & TTIP, Are Dangerous https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160909/22583035479/more-details-how-corporate-sovereignty-provisions-like-those-tpp-ttip-are-dangerous.shtml

26:15 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Weirton, WV Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Protective League

• Cop Who Didn’t Shoot Black Man Fired for ‘Failing to Eliminate Threat’ http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/13/cop-who-didnt-shoot-black-man-fired-for
• LAPD Honors Officers Who Didn’t Use Deadly Force, Much to the Police Union’s Dismay http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/12/lapd-awards-officers-who-didnt-deadly

36:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vermont Bern Victims https://morningconsult.com/2016/09/13/bernie-sanders-popular-ever/

This Week’s Quote: “There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.” —Edward Snowden

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:45 – Obese patients and smokers banned from routine surgery in ‘most severe ever’ rationing in the NHS http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/02/obese-patients-and-smokers-banned-from-all-routine-operations-by/
• 4:58 – Markets Are Breaking Down India’s Caste System, Turning Untouchables into Millionaires http://thinkaboutnow.com/2016/09/1008/
• 12:44 – Why I’ve Paused My Blogging at Forbes http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2016/08/why-ive-paused-my-blogging-at-forbes.htm

16:07 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Nebraska and Kansas police deputies https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160828/23232235375/court-to-cops-residing-state-where-marijuana-is-legal-does-not-automatically-make-motorist-suspicious.shtml

25:21 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Warner Bros https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-flags-website-piracy-portal-160904/

This Week’s Quote: “The police aren’t hired to protect you. They’re hired to keep an eye on you to see what you did that was wrong so that they can book you. That’s their function. They are not protectors. They are not hired to be protectors. They are hired to keep an eye on all of us as potential criminals. Now, do you think they’re going to make you safe? They weren’t hired to make you safe.” —Robert LeFevre