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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – The No Fly List Isn’t Just Broken, It’s Insane. You Must Read This Before You Talk About Gun Control. http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/12/07/42000/
  • Dem governor moves to ban no-fly list gun sales http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262797-dem-governor-moves-to-ban-no-fly-list-gun-sales
• 8:06 – France is considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi http://www.businessinsider.com/france-is-considering-a-ban-on-tor-and-public-wifi-2015-12
• 12:06 – Venezuela’s opposition wins legislative majority http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/07/venezuela-opposition-victory/76909468/

16:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://robertreich.org/post/134670682190

26:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, et al http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/12/07/no-monsanto-is-not-going-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity/

This Week’s Quote: “Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.” —Lois Lowry

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Italy’s earthquake scientists have been cleared for good http://www.sciencealert.com/italy-s-earthquake-scientists-have-been-cleared-for-good
• 4:13 – “New York Is A City Of No”: Why One Bakery Is Trading Brooklyn For Baltimore http://gothamist.com/2015/11/20/robicelli_bakery_nyc_struggle.php
• 12:44 – Drone Strikes Fuel the Hatred that Led to Paris Attacks, Ex-Drone Pilots Say http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drone-strikes-fuel-the-hatred-that-led-to-paris-attacks-ex-drone-pilots-say

21:39 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Manhattan District Attorney http://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15%20Report%20on%20Smartphone%20Encryption%20and%20Public%20Safety.pdf

33:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Clare Foges http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/12008689/Why-is-Silicon-Valley-helping-the-tech-savvy-jihadists.html

This Week’s Quote: “The people who are speaking best to this are the psychologists who look at what it is like to live under constant gaze, or under the threat of constant gaze…it makes you different. It makes you more conformist. It makes you less willing to think new thoughts, to try new ideas. It stagnates society…Any social change you look at, whether it’s civil rights or marijuana legalization, whatever your issue is, it starts by people at this end where it is socially unacceptable doing it and having it be okay. And then it spreads slowly. Ubiquitous surveillance at this end stops that process cold.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Here is ISIS’s statement claiming responsibility for the Paris attacks http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9734794/isis-claim-paris-statement
  • French oppose military intervention in Syria and don’t trust Francois Hollande to carry it out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10278076/French-oppose-military-intervention-in-Syria-and-dont-trust-Francois-Hollande-to-carry-it-out.html
  • NOP Poll of British Muslims http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/291
  • As Predicted: Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (?!?) For The Paris Attacks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151115/23360632822/as-predicted-encryption-haters-are-already-blaming-snowden-paris-attacks.shtml
  • Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_terrorist.html
  • Paris attacks: CIA’s John Brennan says there had been ‘strategic warning’ of Paris attack http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/paris-attack-warning-cia-john-brennan-215922
  • In a crisis, people will believe the worst about Uber http://qz.com/550415/in-a-crisis-people-will-believe-the-worst-about-uber/
  • What’s Going On With The Protests At The University Of Missouri?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protests-university-of-missouri_56401af5e4b0307f2cade647
  • Black Activists Double Down on Hate with #F***Paris Hashtag – Breitbart http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/15/black-activist-double-white-hate-fparis-hashtag/
  • Black Son of a MULTIMILLIONAIRE, STILL the SJW victim! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phA_mGxR4-A
  • CNN New Day Saturday – Tom Fuentes https://iqmediacorp.com/ClipPlayer/?ClipID=0d0e5a03-1bd4-450f-9834-8b8099d98d78
• 31:29 – A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online  https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
• 35:00 – Martel Police Body Camera Virus Found Embedded into Camera http://www.goipower.com/?pageId=40

38:39 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Anne Frank Fonds https://torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-scandal-an-underreported-copyright-monopoly-abuse-151115/

• Copyfraud: Anne Frank Foundation claims father was “co-author,” extends copyright by decades http://boingboing.net/2015/11/14/copyfraud-anne-frank-foundati.html
• Anne Frank gets co-author to extend copyright http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Anne-Frank-gets-co-author-to-extend-copyright-434409
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://hpmor.com/
• BlameThe1st | FanFiction https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6244873/BlameThe1st

49:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Klein Collins High School http://www.houstonpress.com/news/drug-test-proves-high-school-girl-wasnt-high-school-suspends-her-anyway-7926436

This Week’s Quote: “Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we’ve seen—the Internet—has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don’t get in the way of this ideology.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Kim Dotcom Finally Launches Extradition Defense https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-finally-launches-extradition-defense-151102/
• 8:37 – Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Internet-firms-to-be-banned-from-offering-out-of-reach-communications-under-new-laws.html
  • ‘Govt will not pass laws to ban encryption’ – Baroness Shields http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/28/government_will_not_pass_laws_to_ban_encryption_says_baroness_shields/
  • X-Ray Scans Expose an Ingenious Chip-and-Pin Card Hack http://www.wired.com/2015/10/x-ray-scans-expose-an-ingenious-chip-and-pin-card-hack/
• 22:23 – DOD’S Compressed Natural Gas Filling Station In Afghanistan: An Ill-Conceived $43 Million Project https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/special%20projects/SIGAR-16-2-SP.pdf

29:02 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/canadian-researcher-targeted-by-hate-campaign-over-fukushima-findings/article27060613/

34:12 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Simon Maloy http://www.salon.com/2015/11/03/charles_kochs_power_trip_billionaire_libertarian_sees_no_problem_in_buying_the_sort_of_government_he_prefers/

This Week’s Quote: “The energy potentially available to us is for all practical purposes unlimited; but access to it is blocked. It is blocked, above all, by anti-technology sentiment, environmental paranoia, and interference in natural markets. Beyond these obstacles, there is little that science and technology cannot eventually overcome. We further believe that pollution and destruction of the environment is not an essential by product of technology; on the contrary, more science and better technology are needed to keep the environment clean.” —Petr Beckmann

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Bacon Causes Cancer? Sort of. Not Really. Ish. http://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-sort-of-but-not-really/
• 4:56 – Court: Your Fourth And Fifth Amendment Rights No Longer Exist If You Leave The Country https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151025/09565232619/court-your-fourth-fifth-amendment-rights-no-longer-exist-if-you-leave-country.shtml
• 9:28 – CIA chief ‘outraged’ by personal email hack https://news.yahoo.com/cia-chief-outraged-personal-email-hack-141140389.html

12:25 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The US Department of Justice https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151024/04573732612/doj-claims-apple-should-be-forced-to-decrypt-iphones-because-it-customers-only-license-operating-system.shtml

20:52 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The New York Times https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/27/new-york-times-nail-salon-unvarnished

• How The New York Times’ Flawed Reporting on Nail Salons Closed Opportunities For Undocumented Immigrants (Part 2) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/28/new-york-times-nir-nail-undocumented
• The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. The Evidence Says Otherwise. (Part 3) https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/29/nail-salon-health-cancer-miscarriage-nir

This Week’s Quote: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” —Mark Twain

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

0:27 – Update: LastPass Joins the LogMeIn Family https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/10/lastpass-joins-logmein.html/

News of the Bogus:

• 3:51 – Online Piracy Drops in Australia, Thanks to Netflix https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-drops-in-australia-netflix-151014/
• 9:38 – California nixes warrantless search of digital data https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/13/california-nixes-warrantless-search-of-digital-data/
• 14:41 – CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu

22:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: James Comey https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151011/21185732508/james-comey-says-dozens-terrorists-have-eluded-fbi-thanks-to-encryption.shtml

25:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Ben Carson http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/ben-carson-brain-surgeon-or-brain-addled/

37:38 – Tag: PredictIt | Who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election? https://www.predictit.org/Market/1234/Who-will-win-the-2016-US-presidential-election

This Week’s Quote: “Some might say ‘I don’t care if they violate my privacy; I’ve got nothing to hide.’ Help them understand that they are misunderstanding the fundamental nature of human rights. Nobody needs to justify why they ‘need’ a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right…Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” —Edward Snowden

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Update:

0:24 – All the ‘Happy Birthday’ song copyright claims are invalid, federal judge rules http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-happy-birthday-song-lawsuit-decision-20150922-story.html

News of the Bogus:

• 1:34 – Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom https://torrentfreak.com/presidential-candidate-lawrence-lessig-steps-up-to-assist-kim-dotcom-150916/
  • Kim Dotcom case is ’simple fraud’, court told http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/24/kim-dotcom-case-is-simple-court-told
  • U.S. Uncovers Kim Dotcom’s Self-incriminating Skype Calls https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-uncovers-kim-dotcoms-self-incriminating-skype-calls-150924/
• 7:26 – TSA Doesn’t Care That Its Luggage Locks Have Been Hacked https://theintercept.com/2015/09/17/tsa-doesnt-really-care-luggage-locks-hacked/
  • Obama faces growing momentum to support widespread encryption https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-trade-agencies-push-to-disavow-law-requiring-decryption-of-phones/2015/09/16/1fca5f72-5adf-11e5-b38e-06883aacba64_story.html
• 13:11 – George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150921/11301932319/george-w-bush-tried-to-retroactively-declare-illegal-unconstitutional-nsa-surveillance-legal-because-he-said-so.shtml

17:18 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: NYPD Union President Patrick J. Lynch http://www.capitalnewyork.com/sites/default/files/PatLynchLetter1.pdf

22:05 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PETA https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150922/11063332329/monkey-business-peta-sues-behalf-monkey-selfie-claims-copyright-belongs-to-monkey.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “When we’ve got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we’ll realize that we’re no longer citizens—we’re subjects.” —Edward Snowden

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Co-host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – First Library To Support Tor Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops After DHS Email https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150910/13090332217/first-library-to-support-tor-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email.shtml
  • New Hampshire Library Rejects DHS Fearmongering, Turns Tor Back On https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150915/23161932266/new-hampshire-library-rejects-dhs-fearmongering-turns-tor-back.shtml
• 9:53 – The FCC Imposes Netflix’s Broadband Policy  http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fcc-imposes-netflixs-broadband-policy-1441149876
• 18:47 – U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/us/politics/us-drops-charges-that-professor-shared-technology-with-china.html

24:59 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: GCHQ http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/stop-using-difficulttoguess-passwords-uks-spying-agency-gchq-recommends-10497048.html

34:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (nominated by Travis Retriever) https://theintercept.com/2015/09/15/richard-glossip-set-to-die/

• Richard Glossip Stay Of Execution Dismissed http://news.sky.com/story/1553236/richard-glossip-stay-of-execution-dismissed
• Richard Glossip Execution Is Halted by Oklahoma Court http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/us/richard-glossip-execution-oklahoma.html

This Week’s Quote: “The day is coming when we will be certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that we’ve executed an innocent person. On that day, we’re all murderers.” —Penn Jillette

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – Don’t gloat about the Ashley Madison leak. It’s about way more than infidelity. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/19/dont-gloat-about-the-ashley-madison-leak-its-about-way-more-than-infidelity/
  • The Day Someone Signed Me Up For An Ashley Madison Account (That Day Would Be Yesterday) https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150820/16523632021/day-someone-signed-me-up-ashley-madison-account-that-day-would-be-yesterday.shtml
• 7:56 – EU ‘spends £500m a year promoting itself’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/11795146/EU-spends-500m-a-year-promoting-itself.html
• 16:48 – Spanish woman fined for posting picture of police parked in disabled bay http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/16/spanish-woman-fined-gagging-law-photographing-police
• 23:24 – Why Is Chelsea Manning Prohibited From Having Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair Issue & The Senate Torture Report? https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/why-chelsea-manning-prohibited-having-caitlyn-jenners-vanity-fair-issue-senate

30:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/07/21/sweden-democrats-plan-gay-pride-parade-through-muslim-areas-leftists-and-gay-rights-groups-decry-the-parade-as-racist/

37:13 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Blech http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/how-not-to-start-an-encryption-company/

This Week’s Quote: “Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can’t break.” —Bruce Schneier

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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Dept. Of Defense Defends Strong Encryption While Its Impetuous Child — The NSA — Continues To Lament The Coming Darkness https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150703/14441931535/dept-defense-defends-strong-encryption-while-impetuous-child-nsa-continues-to-lament-coming-darkness.shtml
  • Computer Security Experts Release Report Slamming Proposals To Backdoor Encryption, As FBI Makes Latest Push https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150707/16415031577/computer-security-experts-release-report-slamming-proposals-to-backdoor-encryption-as-fbi-makes-latest-push.shtml
• 14:05 – FBI & Homeland Security Now 0 For 41 In Predicting Imminent Terrorist Attacks On The US https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150706/23473631567/fbi-homeland-security-now-0-41-predicting-imminent-terrorist-attacks-us.shtml
• 21:08 – What the 2004 Athens Olympics venues look like today http://www.businessinsider.com/2004-athens-olympics-venues-today-2015-7
  • 2022 Olympics Host Cities Dropping Out http://www.businessinsider.com/2022-olympics-host-cities-2014-5

28:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2015/07/02/sen-baldwin-1st-amendment-doesnt-apply-individuals

35:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Si Robertson http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/duck-dynasty-star-si-robertson-atheists-dont-exist-because-they-use-calendars/

This Week’s Quote: “Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” —John Perry Barlow