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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with ‘natural’ style to save electricity http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-energy-crisis-president-tells-women-to-stop-using-hairdryers-and-go-with-natural-style-to-a6976246.html
• 8:31 – School’s new policy bans parents from walking children to school http://www.fox26houston.com/news/117783912-story
• 13:27 – Supreme Court Rules Against Freezing Assets Not Tied to Crimes http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/us/politics/supreme-court-rules-against-freezing-assets-not-tied-to-crimes.html

23:41 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Brian Bergstein https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601145/what-if-apple-is-wrong/

31:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: The RIAA https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-says-youtube-is-running-a-dmca-protection-racket-160412/

This Week’s Quote: “Our trend in copyright law has been to enclose as much as we can; the consequence of this enclosure is a stifling of creativity and innovation. If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they’re free for people to build upon as they see fit.” —Lawrence Lessig

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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: Travis Retriever

0:58 – News of the Bogus: iPhone Special #NoBackdoors

• US trying to force Apple to unlock ‘about a dozen’ other iPhones, says WSJ http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097044/us-forcing-apple-to-unlock-dozen-iphones-says-wsj
• APPLE: The FBI screwed up its investigation and now we can’t unlock the shooter’s iPhone http://www.businessinsider.com.au/apple-says-government-lost-access-to-shooters-iphone-backup-by-changing-passcode-2016-2
• CountyWire on Twitter: “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.” https://twitter.com/CountyWire/status/700887823482630144
• FBI Admits — It was a ‘Mistake’ to Reset Terrorist’s iCloud Password http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/reset-icloud-passcode.html
• In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/27/468308775/in-fighting-fbi-apple-says-free-speech-rights-mean-no-forced-coding
• FBI Director — “What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write (Exploit) Code?” http://thehackernews.com/2016/03/fbi-apple-unlock-iphone.html
• Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/police-chief-theres-a-reasonably-good-chance-not-much-is-on-seized-iphone/
• Carole Adams, mom who lost son in San Bernardino shooting, sides with Apple http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/20/carole-adams-mom-who-lost-son-in-san-bernardino-sh/

19:33 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Venezuela https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inflation-poverty-food-shortages-venezuela-heads-toward-disaster/2016/02/11/10aad5b4-d035-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

• Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine by R.W. Grant https://mises.org/library/tom-smith-and-his-incredible-bread-machine
• Bastiat’s famous Candlestick makers’ Petition http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
• USDA ERS – Interactive Chart: Food Expenditures http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures/interactive-chart-food-expenditures.aspx
• Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth

27:43 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Greenpeace http://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/27/food.foodanddrink

• Greenpeace GM crop attack declared legal http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greenpeace-gm-crop-attack-declared-legal-698440.html

This Week’s Quote: “Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.” —Ramez Naam

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Co-Host: Chris Hangartner

News of the Bogus:

• 0:30 – Cosplay Goes to the Supreme Court https://www.publicknowledge.org/news-blog/blogs/cosplay-goes-to-the-supreme-court/
  • Is it illegal for Firefly fans to make and sell Jayne hats? http://grenacia.livejournal.com/167895.html
• 9:11 – Prosecutors Say Cops Don’t Need Warrants For Stingrays Because ‘Everyone Knows’ Cell Phones Generate Location Data https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160116/09085933354/prosecutors-say-cops-dont-need-warrants-stingrays-because-everyone-knows-cell-phones-generate-location-data.shtml
• 16:12 – U.S. Air Force Veteran, Smeared as “an ISIS Fighter,” Just Returned to the U.S. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/25/u-s-air-force-veteran-saadiq-long-smeared-as-an-isis-fighter-just-returned-to-the-u-s/

22:48 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Flint, MI (nominated by Blake Pettys)

• Flint’s water crisis reveals government failures at every level https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/flints-water-crisis-reveals-government-failures-at-every-level/2016/01/23/03705f0c-c11e-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html
• Flint residents told that their children could be taken away if they don’t pay for city’s poison water http://www.sott.net/article/310897-Flint-residents-told-that-their-children-could-be-taken-away-if-they-dont-pay-for-citys-poison-water
• Flint water victims can’t sue the government. That’s another crime. http://theweek.com/articles/601521/flint-water-victims-cant-sue-government-thats-another-crime
• Amid denials, state workers in Flint got clean water http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/01/28/amid-denials-state-workers-flint-got-clean-water/79470650/

37:55 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Lenovo http://thehackernews.com/2016/01/shareit-file-sharing.html

This Week’s Quote: “At some point, during every stage show I do, I take a sip of water and ask the audience, ‘How’s the water here?’ I haven’t gotten a positive response yet. Not one. Nobody trusts their water supply. Nobody. And that amuses me. Because it means the system is beginning to collapse…I’m glad the water sucks.” —George Carlin

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Co-Host: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:34 – The No Fly List Isn’t Just Broken, It’s Insane. You Must Read This Before You Talk About Gun Control. http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/12/07/42000/
  • Dem governor moves to ban no-fly list gun sales http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/262797-dem-governor-moves-to-ban-no-fly-list-gun-sales
• 8:06 – France is considering a ban on Tor and public WiFi http://www.businessinsider.com/france-is-considering-a-ban-on-tor-and-public-wifi-2015-12
• 12:06 – Venezuela’s opposition wins legislative majority http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/07/venezuela-opposition-victory/76909468/

16:03 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Robert Reich http://robertreich.org/post/134670682190

26:47 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Vandana Shiva, Ronnie Cummins, et al http://www.forbes.com/sites/kavinsenapathy/2015/12/07/no-monsanto-is-not-going-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity/

This Week’s Quote: “Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.” —Lois Lowry

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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