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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 1:19 – WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/whatsapp-is-now-most-widely-used-end-to-end-crypto-tool-on-the-planet/
  • Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/
• 12:23 – Reddit’s Warrant Canary just died https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/reddits-warrant-canary-just.html
  • We are ACLU lawyers and Nick Merrill of Calyx Institute. We’re here to talk about National Security Letters and warrant canaries, because Reddit can’t. AUA. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_merrill_of_calyx/
• 21:51 – 5th Circuit Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal of Misconduct Finding, and throws out Forfeiture Because of Prosecutorial Vindictiveness http://www.prosecutorialaccountability.com/2016/03/25/tx-5th-circuit-denies-prosecutors-appeal-of-misconduct-finding-and-throws-out-forfeiture-because-of-prosecutorial-vindictiveness/

28:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The FBI https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160401/06514734076/fbi-doesnt-want-to-share-details-exploit-it-deployed-while-running-child-porn-site.shtml

34:41 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html

This Week’s Quote: “All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually he repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.” —Henry Hazlitt

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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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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: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – The Drone Papers https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/
• 14:15 – Students: Transgender Woman Can’t Be Diversity Officer Because She’s a White Man Now http://www.nationalreview.com/article/390425/students-transgender-woman-cant-be-diversity-officer-because-shes-white-man-now
• 17:48 – Musician Demands Google, Major Labels Pay Him $325 Million For Removing Videos He Paid $30 To Upload To Vevo https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151010/13402432497/musician-demands-google-major-labels-pay-him-325-million-removing-videos-he-paid-30-to-upload-to-vevo.shtml

25:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sheldon Whitehouse https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151021/15335432591/sheldon-whitehouse-freaks-out-blames-pro-botnet-lobby-rejecting-his-terrible-cfaa-amendment.shtml

31:54 – Idiot Extraordinaire: CNN (nominated by BlameThe1st) http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/19/politics/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-poll/

• Online media vs online polls http://nativenews.tumblr.com/post/131163537671/edieismene-online-media-vs-online-polls
• Sanders Won All Major Polls, But Corp Media Declared http://www.drudge.com/news/192379/sanders-won-all-major-polls-but-corp-media
• Fuming Bernie supporters: Why is CNN deleting our comments? http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2015/10/fuming-bernie-supporters-why-is-cnn-deleting-our-comments

This Week’s Quote: “You now have two distinct ways of gathering information beyond what you yourself can experience. One of them is less a medium than an environment—the Internet—with a huge multiplicity of points of view, lots of different ways to find out what’s going on in the world…a cacophony of viewpoints that doesn’t have any political coherence at all, a beautiful melee, but it doesn’t have the capacity to create large blocs of belief. The other medium, TV, has a…very uniform belief block. TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.” —John Perry Barlow

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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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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: 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: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Happy Birthday Copyright Bombshell: New Evidence Warner Music Previously Hid Shows Song Is Public Domain https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150727/16042931768/happy-birthday-copyright-bombshell-new-evidence-warner-music-previously-hid-shows-song-is-public-domain.shtml
• 10:50 – Judge on DRM: Non-Pirates May Hack Away http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/70487.html
• 24:37 – Silk Road heroin dealer who helped convict Ulbricht will serve 2.5 years http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/07/silk-road-heroin-dealer-who-helped-convict-ulbricht-will-serve-2-5-years/
  • Kangaroo court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court
• 29:31 – Government Ruins the Dishwasher (Again) http://fee.org/anythingpeaceful/detail/government-ruins-the-dishwasher-again

41:52 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Lisa Monaco (nominated by Dallas Wildman) https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/edward-snowden

49:38 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Marie Lodi http://jezebel.com/is-office-air-conditioning-a-sexist-conspiracy-1719883384

57:58 – Tag: Erin Pizzey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey

This Week’s Quote: “The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.” —Lori Ziganto

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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