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Co-Host: Jim Goebel

News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/34539a748b3745ffb92451472f814ffa/apnewsbreak-irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-100000
• 13:17 – Surgery-bot can be hacked to HACK YOU TO PIECES http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/28/packet_of_death_how_to_crash_a_surgical_robot/
• 19:32 – How Movie Studios Exploit Video on Demand Services http://torrentfreak.com/how-movie-studios-exploit-video-on-demand-services-150524/
• 34:16 – Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t: #Gamergate’s Well-Paid Talking Heads https://archive.is/QERdD

50:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tegiminis http://simplikation.com/why-sealioning-is-bad/

1:02:57 – Silver Cluon Award: “This is how gerrymandering works” http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/2xgqss/this_is_how_gerrymandering_works/

• This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see – The Washington Post
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/03/01/this-is-the-best-explanation-of-gerrymandering-you-will-ever-see/
• America’s most gerrymandered congressional districts http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/15/americas-most-gerrymandered-congressional-districts/
• 5 Ways U.S. Democracy Is More Rigged Than You Think http://www.cracked.com/article_20705_5-ways-u.s.-democracy-more-rigged-than-you-think.html
• Strike While the Ire is Hot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6_eiUWKU3E

1:15:19 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Attorney: Spy chief had ‘forgotten’ about NSA program when he misled Congress http://thehill.com/policy/technology/241508-spy-head-had-absolutely-forgotten-about-nsa-program

This Week’s Quote: “Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.” —Edward Snowden

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With Chris Hangartner, Jonathan Loesche, Jakob Morris, Travis Retriever, Charles Thomas, and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:25 – Rand Paul stages filibuster for Patriot Act: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/21/408417139/sen-rand-paul-stages-filibuster-to-protest-patriot-act
  • Edward Snowden praises Rand Paul: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-21/edward-snowden-praises-rand-paul-s-anti-patriot-act-filibuster-
• 11:20 – GM claims it owns your car: http://consumerist.com/2015/05/20/gm-that-car-you-bought-were-really-the-ones-who-own-it/
• 17:48 – Richland’s $4.1 million dollar police station paid for through civil forfeiture: http://watchdog.org/218867/civil-forfeiture/
• 27:11 – Washington Post lies about Amtrak: http://thefederalist.com/2015/05/13/why-is-the-washington-posts-philip-bump-lying-to-readers-about-amtrak/
• 39:46 – Boondoggle HQ: The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed: http://gizmodo.com/boondoggle-hq-the-25-million-building-in-afghanistan-1706077195

51:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Habersham County Sheriff’s Office: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/infant-responsible-grenade-thrown-face/

1:05:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kerri Rivera: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/quack-defends-bleach-enemas-to-cure-autism-if-its-poison-where-is-the-sea-of-dead-children/

1:15:29 – Tag: Let’s Take A Look At Andrew McCutchen’s Pay Stub: http://deadspin.com/lets-take-a-look-at-andrew-mccutchens-pay-stub-1706188663

This Week’s Quote: “F— you people who think the government should intervene more!” —Penn Jillette

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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-Hosts: Travis Retriever and Chris Hangartner

Tim Dyson’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dollysplaytime

News of the Bogus:

• 3:01 – This Prof Dared to Challenge Her Students’ Views on Sex. Here’s How They Retaliated. http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/15/this-prof-dared-to-challenge-her-student
• 12:55 – EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-busts-podcasting-patent-invalidating-key-claims-patent-office
• 18:23 – Stop making the NSA the bogeyman of privacy http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/04/stop-making-nsa-bogeyman-of-privacy.html
  • U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/
  • Turns Out Feds Actually Tracked Most International Calls For Nearly A Decade Before 9/11 — Didn’t Stop The Attack https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150407/17213830578/turns-out-feds-actually-tracked-most-international-calls-nearly-decade-before-911-didnt-stop-attack.shtml
• 26:03 – New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Internet Voting Vulnerabilities  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/new-south-wales-attacks-researchers-who-warned-internet-voting-vulnerabilities
  • Response to Ian Brightwell https://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/brightwell/
  • Tampering with US voting machine as easy as ‘abcde’, audit finds https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/04/17/tampering-with-us-voting-machine-as-easy-as-abcde-says-virginia-report/
• 44:09 – Big Media Companies Insist That VPN Services Violate Copyright Law https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150408/17453230597/big-media-companies-insist-that-vpn-services-violate-copyright-law.shtml
  • TV Companies Will Sue VPN Providers “In Days” http://torrentfreak.com/tv-companies-will-sue-vpn-providers-in-days-150417/

53:38 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Thomas Piketty http://fee.org/freeman/detail/picking-piketty-apart

1:01:48 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lisa Wade http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015/03/25/are-economics-majors-anti-social/

This Week’s Quote: “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” —Joan Robinson

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – The Best “Democracy” Money Can Buy: For Every Dollar Spent Influencing US Politics, Corporations Get $760 Back http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-16/words-greatest-investment-every-dollar-spent-influencing-us-politics-corporations-ge
  • Atheism and Libertarianism 7: The Paradox of Interests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0waxvIaOp4
  • Bogosity Podcast for 18 March 2013 (with Jim Babka) http://podcast.bogosity.tv/bogosity-podcast-for-18-march-2013/
• 6:42 – Cisco Shipping Hardware To Bogus Addresses To Throw Off NSA Intercept-And-Implant Efforts https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150320/08335930383/cisco-shipping-hardware-to-bogus-addresses-to-throw-off-nsa-intercept-and-implant-efforts.shtml
• 10:22 – Portland Police Bravely Defend Public From Homeless Woman Looking To Charge Her Cell Phone https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150312/03211330296/portland-police-bravely-defend-public-homeless-woman-looking-to-charge-her-cell-phone.shtml
• 16:10 – Conference Delegates Decry Clapping, Request “Feminist Jazz Hands” to Avoid Anxiety Triggers http://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2015/03/24/conference-delegates-decry-clapping-request-feminist-jazz-hands-to-avoid-anxiety-triggers-n1975606

21:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Jason Villalba http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Bill-restricting-rights-of-citizens-to-videotape-6130903.php

25:26 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Beth Van Duyne (nominated by Dallas Wildman) http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/muslims-are-angry-at-texas-mayor-after-she-stops-sharia-court-here-is-her-epic-response/

This Week’s Quote: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” —Frédéric Bastiat

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – The Pirate Bay’s new network is making ISP blocks useless http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/18/pirate-bay-ISP-blocks-useless/
• 7:02 – What ever it is, CISA isn’t cybersecurity http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/what-ever-it-is-cisa-isnt-cybersecurity.html
• 15:25 – White House office to delete its FOIA regulations http://www.kens5.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/16/white-house-foia-regulations-deleted/24844253/
  • White House defends transparency after FOIA rule repeal http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/17/white-house-foia-rule-change/24900303/

22:48 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Matt Boyle http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/16/honeymoon-over-scott-walker-under-fire-for-new-open-borders-amnesty-advocate-staffer-who-mocks-iowa/

• The culture of outrage and the end of the Liz Mair affair http://hotair.com/archives/2015/03/18/the-culture-of-outrage-and-the-end-of-the-liz-mair-affair/

31:59 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Jim Humble http://www.vice.com/read/parents-are-giving-their-children-bleach-enemas-to-cure-them-of-autism-311

This Week’s Quote: “If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.” —Temple Grandin

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – uTorrent Quietly Installs Cryptocurrency Miner, Users Complain http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-quietly-installs-riskware-bitcoin-miner-users-report-150306/
• 5:06 – Senators Unveil Bill To Legalize Federal Medical Marijuana http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/10/senators-unveil-bill-to-legalize-federal-medical-marijuana/
  • North Carolina Bill to Legalize Medical Cannabis Approved by House of Representatives http://thejointblog.com/north-carolina-bill-to-legalize-medical-cannabis-approved-by-house-of-representatives/
• 9:23 – Large Study Concludes Homeopathy Does Not Effectively Treat Any Health Condition http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/homeopathy-ineffective-study-concludes
• 13:16 – Wikipedia Is Suing the NSA http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/wikipedia-is-suing-the-nsa-20150310

18:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Tamil Film Producer’s Council http://torrentfreak.com/movie-group-to-kill-piracy-by-not-releasing-movies-for-months-150309/

21:30 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Andrew Hennells https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/03/10/armed-robber-caught-after-boasting-about-planned-stick-up-on-facebook/

This Week’s Quote: “I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.” —Edward Snowden

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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

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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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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Senate Bill Prohibits Government-Mandated Backdoors http://www.informationweek.com/government/cybersecurity/senate-bill-prohibits-government-mandated-backdoors/d/d-id/1317926
• 4:20 – In the ‘global struggle for Internet freedom,’ the Internet is losing, report finds http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/04/in-the-global-struggle-for-internet-freedom-the-internet-is-losing-report-finds/
• 9:02 – Did Rep. Moran Read 1,648-Page Defense Bill? ‘Are You Kidding?’ http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/did-rep-moran-read-1648-page-defense-bill-are-you-kidding
  • The Read the Bills Act (RTBA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/rtba/
• 17:02 – Another reason to avoid reading the comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/anne-applebaum-another-reason-to-avoid-reading-the-comments/2014/11/28/b37a9f30-7722-11e4-a755-e32227229e7b_story.html
  • Vinegar valentines: An old tradition of sending mean cards anonymously http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/13/vinegar_valentines_an_old_tradition_of_sending_mean_cards_anonymously.html
• 24:34 – A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html

31:06 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: US Government http://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-is-not-a-fugitive-court-hears-141209/

38:13 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kevin Sabet http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/10/new-anti-pot-argument-dont-legalize-monsanto-gmos/

This Week’s Quote: “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There’s some pretty good homegrown dope. I’m sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.” —Stephen King