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Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox

News of the Bogus:

• 1:00 – Surprise: President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning’s Sentence https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170117/13431636504/surprise-president-obama-commutes-chelsea-mannings-sentence.shtml
• 6:14 – Illinois Man Sues Cops Who Arrested Him for Burning a Flag http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/16/illinois-man-sues-cops-who-arrested-him
• 10:38 – WhatsApp vulnerability allows snooping on encrypted messages https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/whatsapp-backdoor-allows-snooping-on-encrypted-messages
  • There is no WhatsApp ‘backdoor’ https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/
  • WhatsApp Security Vulnerability https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/whatsapp_securi.html

18:58 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Oxfam http://fusion.net/story/380433/oxfams-davos-wealth-inequality-wrong-misleading/

25:02 – Silver Cluon Award: Cris Thomas http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/whos-winning-the-cyber-war-the-squirrels-of-course/

30:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Donald Trump https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170113/08415036481/rudy-giuliani-to-head-up-trumps-cybersecurity-team-as-internet-laughs-giulianis-security-bona-fides.shtml
Trump’s cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient ‘easily hackable website’ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/13/giuliani_joomla_outdated_site/

This Week’s Quote: “National security is becoming an oxymoron in an age of cyberweapons. We need to work towards international security that works for everyone.” —Martin Hellman

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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: Charles Thomas

News of the Bogus:

• 0:50 – Study: No Scientific Basis for Laws on Marijuana and Driving http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/study-scientific-basis-laws-marijuana-driving-38998447
• 7:34 – Linksys WRT routers won’t block open source firmware despite FCC rules http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/linksys-wrt-routers-wont-block-open-source-firmware-despite-fcc-rules/
  • ASUS firmware will change the verification method http://www.snbforums.com/threads/asus-firmware-will-change-the-verification-method.32357/
• 16:21 – Hugo Chavez’s economic miracle http://www.salon.com/2013/03/06/hugo_chavezs_economic_miracle/
  • Sorry, Venezuela haters: this economy is not the Greece of Latin America http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/07/venezuela-not-greece-latin-america-oil-poverty

29:20 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Gizmodo or John McAfee http://gizmodo.com/john-mcafee-apparently-tried-to-trick-reporters-into-th-1776765480

38:07 – Idiot Extraordinaire: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/9/nyc-de-blasio-forces-bars-serve-pregnant-women/

This Week’s Quote: “If the government were to take over the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.” —Milton Friedman