News of the Bogus: 0:50 – The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/how-to-effectively-combat-the-opioid-epidemic/ 7:15 – Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/04/australia-passes-social-media-law-penalising-platforms-for-violent-content 11:55 – Indians Launch Street Protests In Attempt to Reverse Government Cryptocurrency Ban https://dashnews.org/indians-launch-street-protests-in-attempt...
Apr 07, 2019•22 min
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – EU Parliament Adopts Copyright Directive, Including ‘Article 13’ https://torrentfreak.com/eu-parliament-adopts-copyright-directive-including-article-13-190326/ 5:30 – It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-million https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1109926181015568384 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1110699796686360576 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1110713825752420353 https://twitter.co...
Mar 31, 2019•30 min
Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 0:57 – Dems Debut National Ammo Control Bill in Congress https://www.guns.com/news/2019/03/14/dems-debut-national-ammo-control-bill-in-congress 5:25 – Two-thirds of all Android antivirus apps are frauds https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-thirds-of-all-android-antivirus-apps-are-frauds/ 9:10 – Errata Security: A quick lesson in confirmation bias https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/03/a-quick-lesson-in-confirmation-bias.html 15:29 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: Ni...
Mar 24, 2019•38 min
News of the Bogus: 1:46 – No End in Sight to Venezuela’s Blackout, Experts Warn – The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world/americas/venzuela-blackout-maduro.html Power has finally been restored to Venezuela, minister says https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/americas/venezuela-blackout-restored-intl/index.html Mark Mason on Twitter https://twitter.com/StayDashy/status/1104738436228022277 7:07 – AFL-CIO criticizes Green New Deal, calling it ‘not achievable or realistic’ https://www.w...
Mar 17, 2019•23 min
News of the Bogus: 1:26 – First ‘private police force’ has caught 400 criminals https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5346699/First-private-police-force-caught-400-criminals.html 6:40 – Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1 https://webkit.org/blog/8613/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-1/ 10:35 – Mozilla to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=7609a72e-1452-4a20-b76a-87e55d1243bc&subId=666681 17:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: D...
Mar 03, 2019•24 min
Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 1:35 – After winning a $15 minimum wage, fast food workers now battle unfair firings https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/02/12/news/after-winning-a-15-minimum-wage-fast-food-workers-now-battle-unfair-firings/ 7:30 – Fatal Houston PD Drug Raid Apparently Predicated On Drugs A Cop Had Stashed In His Car https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/13325441605/fatal-houston-pd-drug-raid-apparently-predicated-drugs-cop-had-stashed-his-car.shtml 15:05 – Vene...
Feb 24, 2019•38 min
News of the Bogus: 1:26 – Panera Cares Boston, its last pay-what-you-can store, is closing https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/6/18213957/panera-cares-boston-closing 5:00 – ICE Set Up A Fake College To Bust Immigrants For Trying To Legally Stay In The Country While They Earned Degrees https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190212/17035541582/ice-set-up-fake-college-to-bust-immigrants-trying-to-legally-stay-country-while-they-earned-degrees.shtml 9:05 – Pennsylvania is considering a 10% tax on viol...
Feb 17, 2019•22 min
Co-Host: Travis Retriever https://www.minds.com/travisretriever News of the Bogus: 1:30 – EU Copyright Directive Has Been Made Even More Stupid, And Some Are Still Trying To Make It Even Worse https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190205/09342741530/eu-copyright-directive-has-been-made-even-more-stupid-some-are-still-trying-to-make-it-even-worse.shtml Article 13 Moves Forward With French-German Deal https://torrentfreak.com/article-13-moves-forward-with-new-french-german-deal-190206/ 8:15 – New St...
Feb 10, 2019•33 min
News of the Bogus: 1:35 – Three Charged for Working With Serial Swatter https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/three-charged-for-working-with-serial-swatter/ 5:10 – Supreme Court won’t consider case against defamatory reviews on Yelp https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/01/24/supreme-court-wont-consider-case-against-defamatory-reviews-on-yelp/ 8:34 – YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/ 12:05 ...
Feb 03, 2019•23 min
News of the Bogus: 1:26 – Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/ Chrome Extension Manifest V3 could end uBlock Origin for Chrome https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/22/chrome-extension-manifest-v3-could-end-ublock-origin-for-chrome/ Chrome API update will kill a bunch of other extensions, not just ad blockers https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-api-update-will-...
Jan 27, 2019•22 min
News of the Bogus: 2:02 – Stripe Denial of Service Highlights Need for Permissionless Payments https://dashnews.org/stripe-denial-of-service-highlights-need-for-permissionless-payments/ Keys4Coins on Twitter https://twitter.com/keys4coins/status/1085267009896677381 6:45 – Feds Can’t Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/14/feds-cant-force-you-to-unlock-your-iphone-with-finger-or-face-judge-rules/ 10:30 – Prices for Ze...
Jan 20, 2019•27 min
Co-Host: Hoploo https://www.youtube.com/user/HoplooWare 1:37 – Online sex ads rebound, months after shutdown of Backpage https://phys.org/news/2018-11-online-sex-ads-rebound-months.html 5:50 – New York Times Moves To Dismiss Joe Arpaio’s Defamation Lawsuit By Pointing Out It’s Impossible To Defame Him https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190105/16125441341/new-york-times-moves-to-dismiss-joe-arpaios-defamation-lawsuit-pointing-out-impossible-to-defame-him.shtml 10:45 – ARIN Wants Mandatory IP-add...
Jan 13, 2019•35 min
0:30 – Year In Review 7:47 – Silver Cluon Winners 9:48 – Charles Thomas No Evidence From The Guardian for Viral Assange-Manafort Story https://theintercept.com/2019/01/02/five-weeks-after-the-guardians-viral-blockbuster-assangemanafort-scoop-no-evidence-has-emerged-just-stonewalling/ 14:33 – Chris Hangartner 15:21 – 2018 Idiot of the Year: The News Media CNN lying about Hurricane Florence: https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1041061775385325568 CNN defending The Weather Channel: https://twitter....
Jan 06, 2019•24 min
News of the Bogus: 1:22 – What the Marriott Breach Says About Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/what-the-marriott-breach-says-about-security/ 7:03 – Azure, Office 365 go super-secure: Multi-factor auth borked in Europe, Asia, USA https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/19/azure_down/ We all fall together. Azure MFA takes a tumble for the second week running https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/27/microsoft_azure_mfa_down/ 9:57 – Gun permit seekers would see social media searched under ...
Dec 09, 2018•29 min
News of the Bogus: 0:54 – Mother of Jemel Roberson Files Federal Lawsuit Over Police Shooting Death of ‘Brave’ Security Guard https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/11/15/mother-of-jemel-roberson-files-federal-lawsuit-over-police-shooting-death-of-brave-security-guard/ 5:00 – Venezuela is releasing an ID card that can track and punish citizens https://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-id-card-tracks-citizens-like-china-2018-11 7:45 – System error: Japan cybersecurity minister admits he has never used ...
Dec 02, 2018•20 min
News of the Bogus: 1:08 – Court Rules That Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can’t Buy Firearms http://fortune.com/2016/09/01/medical-marijuana-gun/ 4:20 – WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/13/wordpress-gdpr-compliance-plugin-hacked/ 7:37 – Does wiping your iPhone count as destroying evidence? https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/13/does-wiping-your-iphone-count-as-destroying-evidence/ 11:05 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The Girl Scouts of America https...
Nov 18, 2018•18 min
Co-Host: Travis Retriever News of the Bogus: 0:52 – Father charged after police find Halloween candy not to blame for meth in boy’s system https://myfox8.com/2018/11/02/father-charged-after-police-find-halloween-candy-not-to-blame-for-meth-in-boys-system/ 5:20 – Why no cyber 9/11 for 15 years? https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/why-no-cyber-911-for-15-years.html 12:05 – Passcodes are protected by Fifth Amendment, says court https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/01/passcodes-are-protected-by-f...
Nov 11, 2018•31 min
News of the Bogus: 0:52 – “Right to repair” gets a boost from new DMCA software rules https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/10/29/right-to-repair-gets-a-boost-from-new-dcma-software-rules/ 2:45 – Gab.com goes offline after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pennsylvania-shooting-gab/gab-com-goes-offline-after-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-idUSKCN1N20Q5 6:20 – Cop Sued For Bogus Arrest Of Man Who Broke Up The PD’s Distracted Driving Sting https://www.techdirt.com/art...
Nov 04, 2018•17 min
News of the Bogus: 0:25 – The Scanner: Sex workers returned to SF streets after Backpage.com shut down https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/The-Scanner-Sex-workers-returned-to-SF-streets-13304257.php 2:30 – Measles outbreak raging in Europe could be brought to U.S., doctors warn https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna922146 4:35 – Memes may contribute to teenage obesity https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/18/health/internet-memes-obesity-intl/index.html 7:00 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: OpenVPN CEO F...
Oct 28, 2018•13 min
News of the Bogus: 0:26 – Facebook’s Latest Fake News ‘Purge’ Terminates Several Accounts Known For Their Criticism Of Law Enforcement https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181013/19344840830/facebooks-latest-fake-news-purge-terminates-several-accounts-known-their-criticism-law-enforcement.shtml 2:25 – John McAfee on Twitter: “The “Presidential alerts”: they are capable of accessing the E911 chip in your phones…” https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1047585232831041536 John McAfee on Twitter:...
Oct 21, 2018•16 min
Co-Host: Charles Thomas News of the Bogus: 0:33 – Do Small Amounts Of Radiation Matter? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/09/29/do-small-amounts-of-radiation-matter/ 5:45 – City Now Offering Man Either Money or Arrest in Driveway Drama | East Lansing Info https://eastlansinginfo.org/content/city-now-offering-man-either-money-or-arrest-driveway-drama 10:35 – Feminist Journal Published Hoax Paper About ‘Dog Rape Culture’ https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/04/feminist-journal-publish...
Oct 14, 2018•26 min
News of the Bogus: 0:26 – The Case Against Krissy Noble and How Drug and Gun Laws Deprive Us of Fundamental Rights https://townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/2018/09/12/pot-prohibition-makes-selfdefense-illegal-the-case-against-krissy-noble-shows-how-drug-and-gun-laws-conspire-to-deprive-people-of-a-fundamental-right-n2518033 2:20 – Study Buried For Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180924/18174740705/study-buried-four-years-shows-crim...
Oct 07, 2018•16 min
News of the Bogus: 0:38 – The man behind the EU’s copyright law is “surprised” by what’s in the proposal https://qz.com/1389385/article-11-and-article-13-axel-voss-is-surprised-by-eu-copyright-law/ 2:20 – Errata Security: California’s bad IoT law https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/09/californias-bad-iot-law.html 6:30 – Coast Guard member flashes white power hand signal on TV https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coast-guard-member-flashes-white-power-hand-signal-tv-n909856 How the “OK” Symbol Became...
Sep 23, 2018•19 min
News of the Bogus: 0:26 – Article 13 approved by European Parliament by 438 votes to 226 https://musically.com/2018/09/12/article-13-approved-by-european-parliament-by-438-votes-to-226/ 3:40 – Exclusive: Government transparency site revealed Social Security numbers, other personal info https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/03/politics/foia-revealed-social-security-numbers/index.html 5:00 – Why The Cancer Death Of A Fukushima Worker Was Likely Not Due To The Disaster https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca...
Sep 16, 2018•17 min
Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 0:34 – After court order, 3D-printed gun pioneer now sells pay-what-you-want CAD files https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/in-defiance-of-court-order-3d-printed-gun-pioneer-starts-selling-cad-files/ The Black Market for Firearms http://www.bogosity.tv/forum/index.php?topic=1718.0 3:40 – Supreme Court Asked To Correct Appeals Court (Again) And Explain That Patentable Ideas Need To Be New https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180827/17452540517/supre...
Sep 09, 2018•23 min
Co-Host: Jonathan Loesche News of the Bogus: 2:22 – Just say no: Wi-Fi-enabled appliance botnet could bring power grid to its knees https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/just-say-no-wi-fi-enabled-appliance-botnet-could-bring-power-grid-to-its-knees/ 7:20 – Hungary Discontinues Gender Studies Programs: ‘Ideology, Not Science’ https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/10/hungary-discontinues-gender-studies-programs-ideology-not-science/ 9:15 – Research Paper Shows Militarized SWAT ...
Sep 02, 2018•23 min
Guest Host: The Executioner https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq3ymYsbmArFIUmqDZbN4_Q News of the Bogus: 1:13 – New CDC Numbers Show the Drug War Continues to Make Opioids Deadlier http://reason.com/blog/2018/08/15/new-cdc-numbers-show-the-drug-war-contin 7:05 – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Bans Reporters From Public Town Halls https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bans-reporters 10:10 – ‘Queer Eye’ fans attacking Jonathan Van Ness miss the show’s central message https://www.was...
Aug 26, 2018•28 min
News of the Bogus: 1:06 – Don’t Fear the TSA Cutting Airport Security. Be Glad That They’re Talking about It. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/dont_fear_the_t.html 5:27 – Appeals Court Says Law Criminalizing Threats To Sue Or Complain About Police Officers Is Unconstitutional https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180808/13070740395/appeals-court-says-law-criminalizing-threats-to-sue-complain-about-police-officers-is-unconstitutional.shtml 9:38 – N.J. Court Orders Google to Vanish Pla...
Aug 19, 2018•26 min
News of the Bogus: 0:48 – Password breach teaches Reddit that, yes, phone-based 2FA is that bad https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/password-breach-teaches-reddit-that-yes-phone-based-2fa-is-that-bad/ 4:08 – New Report on Police Digital Forensics Techniques https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/07/new_report_on_p.html 9:00 – Wrongfully Accused ‘Pirate’ Wants $62,818 Compensation https://torrentfreak.com/wrongfully-accused-pirate-wants-62818-compensation-180807/ 12:16 – B...
Aug 12, 2018•21 min
News of the Bogus: 0:48 – Supervisors move to ban workplace cafeterias http://www.sfexaminer.com/supervisors-move-ban-workplace-cafeterias/amp/ 3:55 – Police Kill Man with Bulldozer over 10 Marijuana Plants https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/16/police-run-over-kill-man-with-bulldozer In the News: Marijuana Legalization https://news.gallup.com/poll/225017/news-marijuana-legalization.aspx 9:15 – ‘Quiet Skies,’ a previously undisclosed TSA program, tracks unsuspecting passengers https://www.cnn.com/20...
Aug 05, 2018•23 min
