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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Lenovo slipped ‘Superfish’ malware into laptops http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/19/technology/security/lenovo-superfish/
  • Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on its Recent Laptops https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops
  • The Lenovo “Superfish” controversy – what you need to know https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/20/the-lenovo-superfish-controversy-what-you-need-to-know/
  • Thought Komodia/Superfish Bug Was Really, Really Bad? It’s Much, Much Worse! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150223/07363930113/thought-komodiasuperfish-bug-was-really-really-bad-its-much-much-worse.shtml
  • Errata Security: Extracting the SuperFish certificate http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html
  • LastPass Superfish Checker https://lastpass.com/superfish/
  • Superfish, Komodia, PrivDog vulnerability test https://filippo.io/Badfish/
• 11:17 – Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/23/leaked-spy-cables-netanyahu-iran-bomb-mossad
• 15:05 – The FCC Just Voted to Regulate the Internet Like a Utility http://reason.com/blog/2015/02/26/the-fcc-just-voted-to-regulate-the-inter
  • Say hello to net neutrality – FCC votes to “protect the open internet” https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/02/27/say-hello-to-net-neutrality-fcc-votes-to-protect-the-open-internet/

25:17 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Total Wipes Music Group http://torrentfreak.com/the-worlds-most-idiotic-copyright-complaint-150222/

• DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google :: Notices :: Chilling Effects https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/10416081
• Total Wipes Music Group – Copyright Removal Requests – Google Transparency Report http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/reporters/40594/Total-Wipes-Music-Group/

31:22 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Montana House Rep. David Moore http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/montana-representative-seeks-ban-tight-clothing

This Week’s Quote: “Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-host: Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 2:09 – What It Feels Like to Be a Gamergate Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAyncf3DBUQ
  • Brianna Wu’s GTA rape tweets https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/555874686085496834
  • Brianna Wu on Twitter: “When I was 20, my parents handed me $200,000 to start an animation business. I learned more from that experience than anything in college.” https://twitter.com/spacekatgal/status/422793818749288448
• 18:47 – Torrent Site Blockades Are Disproportional, Greek Court Rules http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-site-blockades-are-disproportional-greek-court-rules-150121/
• 22:50 – Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/opinion/joe-nocera-is-vaping-worse-than-smoking.html
  • New Study Reports High Levels of Formaldehyde in Electronic Cigarette Aerosols http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/01/new-study-reports-high-levels-of.html
• 32:36 – 12-Year-Old Girl’s Hair Causes OUTRAGE, Wait Until You Hear Why http://madworldnews.com/12-year-old-girls-hair/
• 38:49 – People can be convinced they committed a non-existant crime in just 3 hours http://www.sciencealert.com/people-can-be-convinced-they-committed-a-non-existant-crime-in-just-three-hours

50:01 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Barack Obama http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1800bf6744eb4b3f91a75817d54a2a46/fact-check-obama-claims-credit-incomplete-recovery

• Bureau of Labor Statistics Data http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
• State of the Union: Barack Obama Rebutted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGNwpFq4WY

58:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: National Sheriffs Association and the Fraternal Order of Police https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/01/27/google-asked-to-muzzle-waze-police-stalking-app/

• Waze Social GPS Maps & Traffic – Android Apps on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.waze&hl=en

This Week’s Quote: “Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.” —L. Neil Smith

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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

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Co-Hosts: Charles Thomas and Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:33 – Judge won’t stop shut-offs, says no right to free water http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2014/09/29/bankruptcy-judge-expected-rule-water-shut-offs/16414323/
• 10:34 – Pirate Bay Goes To College: Free Textbook Torrent Downloads Soar Amid Rising Costs http://www.ibtimes.com/pirate-bay-goes-college-free-textbook-torrent-downloads-soar-amid-rising-costs-1692247
• 19:31 – Darknet drug markets kept alive by great customer service http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/dark-net-drug-markets-kept-alive-by-great-customer-service/
• 30:50 – Brown Vetoes Bill Limiting Drone Surveillance http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/09/28/brown-vetoes-bill-limiting-drone-surveillance/

37:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.theskepticsguide.org/not-black-holes-do-not-exist-part-2

47:46 – Silver Cluon Award: Mark Daly and nVidia http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/debunked/

56:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matt K. Lewis http://theweek.com/article/index/268686/why-the-libertarian-boom-is-bad-for-traditional-conservatives

This Week’s Quote: “Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love…If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. Many of those who run the nations will find this idea unpleasant. They will fear the loss of power.” —Carl Sagan

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:27 – BBC News – Scottish referendum: Scotland votes ‘No’ to independence http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29270441
• 3:31 – Sex education in Poland faces legal challenge http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11087423/Sex-education-in-Poland-faces-legal-challenge.html
• 7:20 – Copyright Holders Want Netflix to Ban VPN Users http://torrentfreak.com/copyright-holders-want-netflix-ban-vpn-users-140917/
• 17:14 – Obama Urges War in Iraq Despite Known Lack of WMDs http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/president-obama-urges-war-without-even-pretending-there-are-wmds/380020/?single_page=true
  • A White House Position That Stands on a Narrow Definition of War http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/us/politics/19post.html

25:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Yelp and Federal appeals judges #YelpGate http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/anger-over-courts-decision-on-yelps-reviews/

30:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Joe Weisenthal http://www.businessinsider.com/this-might-be-the-final-humiliation-of-the-fed-haters-2014-9

This Week’s Quote: “People who argue that ISIS poses a threat to our democracies are out to lunch. ISIS is an ugly phenomenon, but it’s largely the consequence of one blunder after another by the US and its allies in the region, who shouldn’t have been meddling there in the first place…If the US and its allies want to reduce ‘terror’ in the region…they need to stop participating in it.” —Julian Assange

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Co-Hosts: Dave Turcotte and Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:27 – Fox News’ Hasselbeck: Navy Yard shooting shows need for video game registry, not gun control http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/17/fox-news-hasselbeck-navy-yard-shooting-shows-need-for-video-game-registry-not-gun-control/
  • Grand Theft Auto 5 hits $1 billion in three days, sets new record http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/20/4752380/grand-theft-auto-5-hits-1-billion-in-three-days-sets-new-record
• 6:50 – Charter schools need to be true to mission http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/12/3189376/charters-future.html
• 11:55 – ‘Breaking Bad’ creator: ‘Streaming video-on-demand saved the show’ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s166/breaking-bad/interviews/a510120/breaking-bad-creator-streaming-video-on-demand-saved-the-show.html
  • Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc
• 19:56 – CBS 2 Investigation: Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/cbs-2-investigation-underground-and-illegal-nyc-dinner-parties/
• 27:45 – Senate panel brings federal law one step closer to kneecapping bloggers http://www.examiner.com/article/senate-panel-brings-federal-law-one-step-closer-to-kneecapping-bloggers
  • Bill to protect journalists clears Senate panel http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-shield-law-20130913,0,4553946.story
• 33:31 – U.S. measles cases in 2013 may be most in 17 years – CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/12/health/worst-measles-year/index.html

36:45 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Matt Walsh http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/09/13/christianity-has-done-more-for-science-than-atheism-ever-could/

• Frazz Comic Strip, July 28, 2013 on GoComics.com http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2013/07/28#.UjyDIBC2Ygs

45:37 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Brynne Larson and Tess and Savannah Scherkenback http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23986595

• Sexually Transmitted Demons a Menace Say Teen Exorcists http://guardianlv.com/2013/08/sexually-transmitted-demons-a-menace-say-teen-exorcists/

This Week’s Quote: “The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it’s one of the reasons that some people don’t like the books, but I think that it’s a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.” —J.K. Rowling

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Co-Hosts: Jonathan Loesche, Tim Dyson, and Dave Turcotte

News of the Bogus:

• 1:43 – Obama tells nation he’s pursuing diplomacy with Syria http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/10/obama-syria-prime-time-speech-russia-france-congress/2791373/
• 4:48 – Google rejects music industry request to remove Pirate Bay homepage http://rt.com/news/google-pirate-bay-removal-704/
  • Netflix Uses Pirate Sites to Determine What Shows to Buy http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-uses-pirate-sites-to-determine-what-shows-to-buy-130914/
• 12:15 – State judge rules Indiana’s right-to-work law unconstitutional http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/hammond/state-judge-rules-indiana-s-right-to-work-law-unconstitutional/article_100077d0-6ee9-5d33-88bf-0bc261c9ae3e.html
  • Lake Superior Court Ruling on Right To Work http://www.scribd.com/doc/166888508/Lake-Superior-Court-Ruling-on-Right-To-Work
• 14:46 – Iowa grants gun permits to the blind http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/08/iowa-grants-gun-permits-to-the-blind/2780303/

25:50 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: David Rose http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415191/Global-cooling-Arctic-ice-caps-grows-60-global-warming-predictions.html

• Climate change: Sea ice, global cooling, and other nonsense http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/09/10/climate_change_sea_ice_global_cooling_and_other_nonsense.html

35:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Nick Hanauer & Eric Liu (nominated by Dave Turcotte) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/libertarians-are-the-new-communists.html

This Week’s Quote: “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” —Ernest Hemingway

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0:52 – State of the Union Commentary

News of the Bogus:

• 9:26 – Popular file-sharing website Megaupload shut down http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-01-19/megaupload-feds-shutdown/52678528/1
• 12:15 – Wikipedia traffic surged during SOPA blackout http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/19/10185978-wikipedia-traffic-surged-during-sopa-blackout
  • The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Won’t Stop Us! http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-pipasopa-wont-stop-us120117/
  • SOPA & PIPA: The Pirate Bay Worried About The Internet, Not Itself http://www.webpronews.com/sopapipa-the-pirate-bay-worried-about-the-internet-not-itself-2012-01
• 15:08 – German courts are bucking the trend, ruling that ISPs shouldn’t block illegal websites http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/14/german-courts-are-bucking-the-trend-ruling-that-isps-shouldnt-block-illegal-websites/
• 16:10 – Plymouth-Canton school district banning books http://michiganradio.org/post/plymouth-canton-school-district-banning-books

18:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The MPAA (nominated by Dave Turcotte)

• SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an ”abuse of power” http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesand-mpaa-calls-protests-an-abuse-of-power.ars
• SOPA and PIPA – Learn more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

20:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Matthew Yglesias http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/01/what_is_austrian_economics_and_why_is_ron_paul_keep_obsessed_with_it_.html

This Week’s Quote: “Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.” —F. A. Hayek

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:26 – Pwnage Olympics winner: edenscancer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sheM1XwGarY
• 2:05 – Mozilla stands up to U.S. government takedown request http://www.techspot.com/news/43674-mozilla-stands-up-to-us-government-takedown-request.html
  • Mozilla general counsel Harvey Anderson’s comments http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/homeland-security-request-to-take-down-mafiaafire-add-on/
  • The response from MAFIAAfire http://www.mafiaafire.com/quick_note2.txt
• 6:20 – Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
  • Medical marijuana patients top 30,000, number of pot providers drops in wake of raids http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/ec38126df019456295a8147e2bd10c6e/MT–Medical-Marijuana/
• 8:05 – Chile’s Private Social Security System Turns 30 http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/570629/201104291742/Chiles-Private-Social-Security-System-Turns-30.aspx
  • Chile’s Privatized Social Security Program is 30 Years Old, and Prospering http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/south-america-mainmenu-37/7344-chiles-privatized-social-security-program-is-30-years-old-and-prospering
  • Report: Chile Ranks as Top Latin American Destination Among Pension Managers http://www.ai-cio.com/channel/GENERAL_SURVEYS/Report__Chile_Ranks_as_Top_Latin_American_Destination_Among_Pension_Managers.html
• 11:40 – US prisoners refused all books except Bible http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/10/us-prisoners-refused-books-bible
  • ACLU asks judge to block jail’s book-banning policy http://www.thestate.com/2011/05/05/1806095/aclu-asks-judge-to-block-jails.html#ixzz1MFFM4M4x
  • Galveston County Doesn’t Want Prison Legal News In Its Jail http://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/?p=2341

14:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Washington Post Express http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2011/05/alternate-course-learning-practicing-homeopathy.php

16:35 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Kerry [last name redacted] http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-year-daughter-botox-young-young/story?id=13580804

• Botox Mom Who Injected Daughter, 8, Under Investigation http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mom-gave-daughter-botox-investigated/story?id=13595955

This Week’s Quote: “Nothing ruins a perfectly good ‘Drugs Kill’ campaign faster than a pothead who can win the Triathlon.” —Tim Slagle

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