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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:54 – Man critically wounded during UW protest; ‘person of interest’ in custody http://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/man-critically-wounded-during-uw-protest-person-of-interest-in-custody
• 8:30 – Obama’s Cyber Legacy: He Did (Almost) Everything Right and It Still Turned Out Wrong http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2017/01/obamas-cyber-legacy-he-did-almost-everything-right-and-it-still-turned-out-wrong/134612/
• 15:05 – Proposal to ban Vietnamese communist flag on San Jose property draws opposition http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/23/san-jose-proposal-to-oppose-displaying-flag-of-vietnam-draws-opposition/

21:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Concerned LastPass User” https://hackernoon.com/psa-lastpass-does-not-encrypt-everything-in-your-vault-8722d69b2032

27:45 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FDA http://gizmodo.com/the-fdas-newly-proposed-gmo-rules-are-nonsense-1791519749

• FDA proposal to regulate gene edited animals is ‘nonsensical’ https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2017/01/23/is-the-fda-being-nonsensical-uc-davis-animal-geneticist-criticizes-new-guidance-genetically-altered-animals/

This Week’s Quote: All the food we eat—every grain of rice and kernel of corn—has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops.” —Michael Specter

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:53 – Hack Brief: Hackers Breach the Ultra-Secure Messaging App Telegram in Iran https://www.wired.com/2016/08/hack-brief-hackers-breach-ultra-secure-messaging-app-telegram-iran/
  • Telegram Hack – Possible Nation State Attack By Iran http://www.darknet.org.uk/2016/08/telegram-hack-possible-nation-state-attack-by-iran/
• 6:17 – The FDA is prohibited from going germline http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/545.full
  • DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/
• 10:25 – Kickass Torrents Asks Justice Department To Drop Case https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/17581635187/kickass-torrents-asks-justice-department-to-drop-case.shtml

16:10 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: “Clinton Body Count” Conspiracy Theorists http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp

31:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The News Media https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/18065135188/no-new-study-does-not-say-uber-has-no-effect-drunk-driving.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” —Lawrence Lessig

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Co-Host: Ibrahim Zallum

(Apologies for the audio quality. There were issues with Ibrahim’s microphone that hopefully will be sorted out before his next appearance.)

News of the Bogus:

• 1:28 – 2016 Nice attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack
  • Death Toll From Terrorist Attack in Nice, France, Rises to 84 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/attack-nice-bastille-day.html
• 7:32 – Turkey’s Weekend of the Long Knives http://observer.com/2016/07/turkeys-weekend-of-the-long-knives/
  • Military coup was well planned and very nearly succeeded, say Turkish officials https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/military-coup-was-well-planned-and-very-nearly-succeeded-say-turkish-officials
  • Why Turkey’s latest attempted coup was different. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogation/2016/07/why_turkey_s_latest_attempted_coup_was_different.html
  • Turkish President Returns to Istanbul in Sign Military Coup Is Faltering http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/military-attempts-coup-in-turkey-prime-minister-says.html
  • Was Turkey’s coup attempt just an elaborate hoax by Erdogan? http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/07/turkey-military-coup-attempt-more-questions-than-answers.html
• 22:17 – Microsoft Wins! Govt Can’t Force Tech Companies to Hand Over Data Stored Overseas http://thehackernews.com/2016/07/user-data-spying.html

27:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Environmentalists http://www.smh.com.au/business/innovation/green-cars-in-spotlight-as-lithium-demand-causes-flamingo-flocks-to-shrink-20160710-gq2eef.html

33:33 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/politics/cleveland-police-baton-rouge-security-open-carry/

This Week’s Quote: “The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” —H.L. Mencken

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Co-Host: Jakob Morris

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – New Zealand town with ‘too many jobs’ offering packages of land and homes for $165k http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/New-Zealand-town-with-too-many-jobs-is-offering-8337340.php
• 4:28 – Georgia publisher jailed after filing open records request https://www.ajc.com/news/local/north-georgia-newspaper-publisher-jailed-over-open-records-request/CFPXD1Mcgk0lqXOvOf9rHK/
• 12:33 – Homeschoolers Creaming Other Students on the SAT https://fee.org/articles/homeschoolers-creaming-other-students-on-the-sat/
• 17:26 – Disabled St. Jude patient sues airport and TSA after bloody scuffle with Airport Police http://wreg.com/2016/06/30/disabled-st-jude-patient-sues-airport-and-tsa-after-bloody-scuffle-with-airport-police/

21:27 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The News Media http://www.ocala.com/news/20160630/nations-first-known-self-driving-car-fatality-happened-in-williston

27:34 – Idiot Extraordinaire: James Comey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fbi-email-comey.html

• 18 U.S. Code § 793 – Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793#f
• Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations https://theintercept.com/2016/07/05/washington-has-been-obsessed-with-punishing-secrecy-violations-until-hillary-clinton/

This Week’s Quote: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” —Desmond Tutu

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank: BBC Report It As Real https://heatst.com/uk/exclusive-brexit-2nd-referendum-petition-a-4-chan-prank-bbc-report-it-as-real/
• 7:19 – Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Case, IP-Address Doesn’t Prove Anything https://torrentfreak.com/judge-dismisses-movie-piracy-case-ip-address-doesnt-prove-anything-160627/
• 11:46 – Court Rules the FBI Does Not Need a Warrant to Hack a Computer http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-rules-the-fbi-does-not-need-a-warrant-to-hack-a-computer
  • Federal Court: The Fourth Amendment Does Not Protect Your Home Computer https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer

19:12 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Hillary Clinton https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160628/05570734838/hillary-clintons-tech-policy-plan-includes-some-empty-broadband-promises-continued-war-encryption.shtml

• Top Donors data for Hillary Clinton, 2016 Cycle https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/contrib.php?id=N00000019&cycle=2016&type=f&src=c

26:51 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Comodo Group, Inc. https://letsencrypt.org/2016/06/23/defending-our-brand.html

This Week’s Quote: “Before September 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras…would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.” —Jeffrey Rosen

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – David Cameron announces resignation as UK votes to leave EU http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/24/europe/uk-eu-referendum-results/
  • What will happen now that Britain has voted to leave the E.U. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/23/what-actually-happens-if-britain-votes-to-leave-the-e-u/
  • Will Boris Johnson become U.K. prime minister in 2016? https://www.predictit.org/Contract/2467/Will-Boris-Johnson-become-UK-prime-minister-in-2016
• 11:43 – ‘We Will Be Back’: Democrats Vow to Continue Gun Control Protests as House Adjourns http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/back-house-vows-continue-gun-control-protests-house/story?id=40045649
  • Justin Amash on Twitter: “Democrats are staging a sit-in on the House floor. They…” https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/745679387450871808
• 17:53 – Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/us/politics/supreme-court-affirmative-action-university-of-texas.html
  • FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ET AL. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-981_4g15.pdf
• 25:38 – Non-US encryption is ‘theoretical,’ claims CIA chief in backdoor debate http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/17/non_us_encryption_is_theoretical_claims_cia/

30:42 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Glenn Stone http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/stone/stone_glover_2016_golden_rice.pdf

• Activists played ‘no role’ in delaying Golden Rice’? Evidence challenges anti-GMO claim https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/06/15/activists-played-no-role-delaying-golden-rice-evidence-challenges-glenn-stones-claim/

37:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Gersh Kuntzman http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/15/gersh-kuntzman-ny-daily-news-writer-firing-ar-15-g/

This Week’s Quote: “Governments, by their nature, are instruments of privilege.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Hosts: Daniel Wilcox and Sarah Fin

News of the Bogus:

• 2:14 – 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting
  • Top 10 Myths About Mass Shootings http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2012/12/18/top-10-myths-about-mass-shootings/
  • Do citizens (not police officers) with guns ever stop mass shootings? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/03/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings/
  • Mizzou race activist hijacks Orlando vigil as gay community rebukes her http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27839/
• 22:21 – Nation-State Routing http://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/
• 29:14 – Senate Votes for Equal Slavery for Women https://fee.org/articles/senate-votes-for-equal-slavery-for-women/

35:26 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Myriad Genetics https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160527/08591934566/myriad-genetics-refuses-to-accept-that-people-have-right-to-access-their-own-dna-sequences.shtml

41:20 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Wayne State University http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/06/12/wayne-state-drops-math-general-ed-requirement/85648592/

This Week’s Quote: “The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act. And we’re doing exactly what the terrorists want.” —Bruce Schneier

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News of the Bogus:

• 0:46 – Advocacy groups criticize proposed security change at Albany airport http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Advocacy-groups-criticize-proposed-security-7941060.php
• 5:11 – “Game-Changing” Study Links Cellphone Radiation to Cancer http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/05/federal-study-links-cell-phone-radiation-cancer
  • Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposures) http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.full.pdf
• 13:45 – NHS: Why isn’t the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule? http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/chickenpox-vaccine-questions-answers.aspx#routineschedule
  • Chickenpox Vaccine Not Responsible for Rise in Shingles, Study Says http://www.webmd.com/children/vaccines/news/20131202/chickenpox-vaccine-not-responsible-for-rise-in-shingles-study-says

20:16 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: DePaul University http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/university-admins-surrender-to-violent-protesters-shutter_us_57454738e4b00853ae7b5ae3

• DePaul’s president expresses discontent following Yiannopoulos controversy http://depauliaonline.com/2016/05/25/depaul-president-holtschneider-letter/
• Milo Yiannopoulos at DePaul University 5-24-2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw-MnRyIoQY&feature=youtu.be&t=46m18s

29:10 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Hillary Clinton http://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/05/did-the-clinton-email-server-have-an-internet-based-printer/

This Week’s Quote: “When someone gets something everyone is due by right, they are not privileged because others did not get that something. Racism or some other form of discriminatory bias may well be at work, but it’s not a ‘privilege’ to be treated civilly. Let’s see to it everyone is so regarded.” —Jim Babka

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – The Oracle-Google Case Will Decide the Future of Software http://www.wired.com/2016/05/oracle-google-case-will-decide-future-software/
  • Ep. 3: Early Copyright History – Copy-me http://copy-me.org/2014/10/copy-me-webseries-early-copyright-history-episode-3/
  • Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/05/google-wins-trial-against-oracle-as-jury-finds-android-is-fair-use/
• 14:41 – Elders way better at password security than millennials https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/05/25/elders-way-better-at-password-security-than-millennials/
• 23:36 – Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones From Flying Over Your Property? http://www.wsj.com/articles/should-you-be-allowed-to-prevent-drones-from-flying-over-your-property-1463968981

37:53 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The W3C https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox

46:02 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The FBI (double-hit!)

• FBI Agent Testifies That The Agency’s Tor-Exploiting Malware Isn’t Actually Malware https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160522/16420734519/fbi-agent-testifies-that-agencys-tor-exploiting-malware-isnt-actually-malware.shtml
• Congrats, FBI, You’ve Now Convinced Silicon Valley To Encrypt And Dump Log Files https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160525/00574034542/congrats-fbi-youve-now-convinced-silicon-valley-to-encrypt-dump-log-files.shtml

This Week’s Quote: “It’s impossible to overstate how bonkers the idea of sabotaging cryptography is to people who understand information security…Use deliberately compromised cryptography, that has a back door that only the ‘good guys’ are supposed to have the keys to, and you have effectively no security. You might as well skywrite it as encrypt it with pre-broken, sabotaged encryption.” —Cory Doctorow

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 1:32 – England’s Doctors Walk Out of Emergency Wards in First Ever All-Out Strike https://news.vice.com/article/englands-doctors-walk-out-of-emergency-wards-in-first-ever-all-out-strike
• 10:56 – Veteran’s off-the-grid trailer condemned by Huntsville http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/06/veterans_off-the-grid_trailer.html
  • Judge tosses one case against off-the-grid trailer, but owners aren’t home free yet http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/09/judge_tosses_one_case_against.html
  • Marine veteran loses court fight, but vows not to move home http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/11/marine_veteran_loses_court_fig.html
• 22:08 – The FBI paid more than $1 million to crack the San Bernardino iPhone https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/04/21/the-fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-to-crack-the-san-bernardino-iphone/

25:30 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Opera Software http://www.opera.com/blogs/desktop/2016/04/free-vpn-integrated-opera-for-windows-mac/

32:27 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Cindy Prior (nominated by evensgrey) http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/qut-student-faces-200000-bill-in-facebook-post-racism-row-20160415-go7951.html

This Week’s Quote: “The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged ‘services’ and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors. In so doing, it reveals the fraud at the heart of its impudent claims and gives sufficient proof that it is not a genuine protector, but a mere protection racket.” —Robert Higgs