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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:49 – Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives http://reason.com/archives/2016/05/02/royal-college-of-physicians-says-vaping
  • FDA Will Require E-Cigarettes and Contents to Be Reviewed http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-brings-cigarettes-federal-authority-38897397
• 15:19 – WhatsApp, Used by 100 Million Brazilians, Was Shut Down Nationwide by a Single Judge https://theintercept.com/2016/05/02/whatsapp-used-by-100-million-brazilians-was-shut-down-nationwide-today-by-a-single-judge/
• 19:42 – The Proper Channels For Whistleblowers Are Still A Joke https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160312/14052833886/proper-channels-whistleblowers-are-still-joke.shtml

25:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Craig Wright http://archive.bogosity.tv/wright/

• How Craig Wright Privately ‘Proved’ He Created Bitcoin https://www.wired.com/2016/05/craig-wright-privately-proved-hes-bitcoins-creator/
• Satoshi: That’s not how any of this works http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-thats-not-how-any-of-this-works.html
• Errata Security: Satoshi: how Craig Wright’s deception worked http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/05/satoshi-how-craig-wrights-deception.html
• Steve Gibson on Twitter: “I sure hope this clown is NOT Satoshi. Get a load of this latest spew of nonsense:” https://twitter.com/SGgrc/status/727566800116846592
• I’m Sorry. http://www.drcraigwright.net/

43:06 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/14/burr_feinstein_bill_prompts_protests/

• Darik’s Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe and Data Clearing http://www.dban.org/
• Feinstein-Burr: The Bill That Bans Your Browser https://www.justsecurity.org/30740/feinstein-burr-bill-bans-browser/

This Week’s Quote: “Government, when it is examined, turns out to be nothing more nor less than a group of fallible men with the political force to act as though they were infallible.” —Robert LeFevre

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Co-Host: Travis Retriever

News of the Bogus:

• 0:31 – Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence http://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-transcript-shows-how-a-judge-justified-ross-ulbrichts-life-sentence
• 15:02 – Doctors Without Borders wants airstrike inquiry http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/asia/doctors-without-borders-afghanistan-airstrike/
  • Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days  http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/06/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again
• 21:48 – Harvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates  http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates
  • At HLS, a conference on the free market mindset http://today.law.harvard.edu/at-hls-a-conference-on-the-free-market-mindset/

27:44 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Doug Saffir http://ctboom.com/connecticut-cracking-down-on-e-cigarettes-but-not-quite-enough/

34:50 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Francisco Rangel http://panampost.com/panam-staff/2015/10/02/venezuelan-governor-suggests-eating-fried-rocks-amid-shortages/

This Week’s Quote: “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: ‘You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be…Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself—educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” —Doris Lessing

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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:

• 2:31 – Police: Finding Pirate Bay Documents is Too Expensive http://torrentfreak.com/police-finding-pirate-bay-documents-expensive-140824/
• 8:47 – What I’ve Learned from Two Years Collecting Data on Police Killings http://gawker.com/what-ive-learned-from-two-years-collecting-data-on-poli-1625472836
  • Ferguson Turns Lens On Police-Involved Killings, But Some Facts Are Few http://www.npr.org/2014/08/21/342228794/ferguson-turns-lens-on-police-involved-killings-but-some-facts-are-few
• 23:27 – Overtaxed and over there http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21587815-loopy-tax-rules-spur-expats-renounce-their-american-citizenship-overtaxed-and-over-there

31:34 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The WHO http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11056964/Ban-toxic-e-cigarettes-indoors-says-World-Health-Organisation.html

40:36 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Barack Obama http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13774/20140823/white-house-cybersecurity-leader-proudly-claims-he-knows-nothing-about-cybersecurity.htm

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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News of the Bogus:

• 0:32 – Ferguson police fire teargas and rubber bullets at Michael Brown protesters http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/14/ferguson-police-teargas-rubber-bullets-michael-brown
  • In Ferguson, Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery gives account of his arrest http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-ferguson-washington-post-reporter-wesley-lowery-gives-account-of-his-arrest/2014/08/13/0fe25c0e-2359-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
  • ‘Overkill’: Images from Ferguson protest show cops treating city like a war zone http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/13/overkill-images-from-ferguson-protest-show-cops-treating-city-like-a-war-zone/
• 10:51 – New leaker disclosing U.S. secrets, government concludes http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/05/politics/u-s-new-leaker/index.html
• 13:47 – South Carolina Mom Calls Cops On 15-Year-Old Son After Finding Porn http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/07/mom-finds-porn-on-tv_n_5659487.html
• 17:23 – Burger Robot Poised To Disrupt Fast Food Industry http://singularityhub.com/2014/08/10/burger-robot-poised-to-disrupt-fast-food-industry/
• 22:08 – For Obama, Iraq Move Is a Policy Reversal http://online.wsj.com/articles/for-obama-iraq-move-is-a-policy-reversal-1407470613
  • Obama Vows ‘Long-Term’ War in Iraq http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/09/obama-vows-long-term-war-in-iraq/
• 27:15 – Tempe City Council Bans E-Cigarettes In Public Places http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/tempe-city-council-bans-e-cigarettes-in-public-places/

33:56 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Michael Yaki http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5810

38:11 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Michael Mulgrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU6fLz7Fgg

• The Next Generation Science Standards http://www.nextgenscience.org/implementation

This Week’s Quote: “Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.” —Bertrand Russell

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Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche

News of the Bogus:

• 0:29 – Internet cafe reopens, pays out cash http://www.news4jax.com/news/internet-cafe-reopens-pays-out-cash/-/475880/21230090/-/knm4yr/-/index.html
• 3:10 – Bradley Manning verdict http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bradley-manning-verdict-20130730,0,5272878.story
  • Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon
• 7:50 – Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/
  • Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595529-38/feds-tell-web-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

15:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/uk-usa-security-congress-idUKBRE96O17W20130725

• DownsizeDC.org’s “One Subject at a Time Act” (OSTA) https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/one-subject/

18:25 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Bernie of Planck’s Constant http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2013/07/electronic_cigarettes_should_be_banned_as_well.html

This Week’s Quote: “So if you smoke or dip or chew / You’d better get your fill / ‘Cause if tobacco don’t get you / An anti-smoker will” —Mike Cross