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News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Hack Brief: Hackers Breach the Ultra-Secure Messaging App Telegram in Iran https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hack-brief-hackers-breach-ultra-secure-messaging-app-telegram-iran/
  • Telegram Hack – Possible Nation State Attack By Iran http://www.darknet.org.uk/2016/08/telegram-hack-possible-nation-state-attack-by-iran/
• 6:17 – The FDA is prohibited from going germline http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/545.full
  • DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
• 10:25 – Kickass Torrents Asks Justice Department To Drop Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/17581635187/kickass-torrents-asks-justice-department-to-drop-case.shtml

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Clinton Body Count” Conspiracy Theorists http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

31:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/18065135188/no-new-study-does-not-say-uber-has-no-effect-drunk-driving.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” —Lawrence Lessig

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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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News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Male rape in America: A new study reveals that men are sexually assaulted almost as often as women.
  http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html
• 14:25 – Federal Court: The Police Can Stop and Search You for Behaving Innocently http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-bodine/federal-court-the-police-_b_5223918.html
• 26:42 – Teen Dead After Alabama Police ‘Shoved Sharp Object Into Throat’ to Retrieve Drugs http://appalachianareanews.com/teen-dead-after-alabama-police-cut-throat-open-to-retrieve-drugs/

32:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Milwaukee County Deputy Joseph Quiles (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://fox40.com/2014/05/02/sober-driver-arrested-for-dui-after-deputy-crashes-into-her/

38:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias (again), Benjamin Lockwood, Charles Nathanson, and Glen Weyl (nominated by BreadGod) http://www.vox.com/2014/4/20/5629904/study-tax-hikes-could-grow-the-economy

This Week’s Quote: “I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights, human rights are all that I recognize.” —Sarah Grimké