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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 1:07 – US Govt. Denies Responsibility for Megaupload’s Servers https://torrentfreak.com/us-govt-denies-responsibility-for-megauploads-servers-150901/
• 7:10 – What reporter Will Ockenden’s metadata reveals about his life http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/metadata-what-you-found-will-ockenden/6703626
• 13:42 – Video Game Developers Face the Final Boss: The FDA http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/video-game-developers-face-final-boss-the-fda/

21:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Konami (nominatd by Dave Turcotte) http://ps4daily.com/2015/09/kojima-retweets-fan-made-mgs-5-pic-konami-files-copyright-claim/

• 危ない Wolf on Twitter: “la li lu le lo ! @Kojima_Hideo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN made by the amazing ❤ @DesertmanDrake https://twitter.com/all_snake/status/638215295396655104
• Everything The Same Is Infringing: How Hugh Hefner Used Mario Bros. To Show YouTube’s Copyright System Sucks https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150831/05364632117/everything-same-is-infringing-how-hugh-hefner-used-mario-bros-to-show-youtubes-copyright-system-sucks.shtml

26:23 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cumberland County, NC Sheriff’s Office http://reason.com/blog/2015/09/02/teen-boy-will-be-charged-as-adult-for-ha

This Week’s Quote: “Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” —Mark Twain

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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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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:28 – Attack of the week: FREAK (or ‘factoring the NSA for fun and profit’) http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-week-freak-or-factoring-nsa.html
  • Stop the presses: HTTPS-crippling “FREAK” bug affects Windows after all http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/stop-the-presses-https-crippling-freak-bug-affects-windows-after-all/
  • FREAK Attack: Client Check https://freakattack.com/clienttest.html
• 10:41 – Bill Nye says science changed his anti-GMO views http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/02/bill-nye-says-science-changed-his-anti-gmo-views/
• 12:24 – ISP Categorically Refuses to Block Pirate Bay – Trial Set For October http://torrentfreak.com/isp-categorically-refuses-to-block-pirate-bay-trial-set-for-october-150304/
• 17:01 – How the flawed ‘science’ of bite mark analysis has sent innocent people to prison http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/13/how-the-flawed-science-of-bite-mark-analysis-has-sent-innocent-people-to-jail/

28:36 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Judge Liam O’Grady https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150227/18171630168/us-court-rules-that-kim-dotcom-is-fugitive-thus-doj-can-take-his-money.shtml

35:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: PayPal http://torrentfreak.com/under-u-s-pressure-paypal-nukes-mega-for-encrypting-files-150227/

This Week’s Quote: “It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.” —Bruce Schneier