Twitter finally disables phone verification after Dorsey was hacked, ex-cons in Mississippi demand the right to vote, and cops are taking footage from Ring doorbells and running them through facial recognition. Plus, ICE uses completely bogus reasoning to justify its "sting" of perfectly legal immigrants, and Bloomberg says it won't investigate its owner and other Democratic presidential candidates—but they'll still do Trump, of course.
Verification of what we always knew: the case against Assange was 100% political as Sweden drops all charges. Also, major protests in Iran with possibly dozens of deaths. Plus, can customs search your phone without probable cause? Can the FBI keep stonewalling FOIA requests about their social media monitoring? And if the police put a GPS tracker on your car and you remove it, is it theft? The courts seem skeptical of these.
Supreme Court opens door for bogus suits against gun manufacturers, copyright professors support Charter against the RIAA, and yet another officer's raid shows their noses are not probable cause. Plus, Joe Biden spreads fear about Section 230, and the tariffs pushed by Trump and the GOP are backfiring on them in critical voting districts.
You won't BELIEVE how stupid this week's Idiot Extraordinaire is! Plus, YouTube creators to be hit their biggest blow yet because of COPPA, pen testers arrested by sheriff for trespassing because his courthouse failed the state-contracted tests, The Pirate Bay's Swedish criminal investigation gets dropped because the statute of limitations ran out, and Mozilla rags on ISPs who have been lying to Congress about DNS-over-HTTPS.
The IRS hides its cronyism with the tax industry, Israeli spyware firm spying on governments as well as for, and fixing processor flaws is slowing down our computing. Plus, Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden try to blame Amazon for the CapitalOne breach, and a man fined by the Oregon Board of Engineers for practicing engineering without a license is vindicated as other engineers verify that governments do dangerously shorten yellow light times when they put up speed cameras.
A judicial blow to asset forfeiture, California makes life difficult for the self-employed to benefit unions, the BBC launches a mirror on the Dark Web, and Comcast is lobbying against securing DNS. Plus, the Oregon Court of Appeals takes Biggest Bogon Emitter for going against precedent on forcing defendants to unlock phones, and the MPA and RIAA take a joint Idiot Extraordinaire for trying to paint Cloudflare as protecting pirates.
UK drops their idiotic plans for a universal age card but keeps other anti-porn goals, Edward Snowden pushes back against anti-encryption forces, and a case coming before the Supreme Court may decide school choice once and for all. Plus, Biggest Bogon Emitter ABC news used fake footage to cover a Turkish attack on Kurds in Syria, and Idiot Extraordinaire West Virginia completely screws up their blockchain-based absentee voting system.
The FBI abuses NSA surveillance to the tune of 3 million people a year, ICE has a surveillance network of its own, and an ambulance-chaser rejects Section 230 and threatens a fellow attorney. Plus, the LEGO Group issues takedowns of compatible 3D-printed files, and MN AG Ellison violates several Constitutional amendments in the name of LGBTQ rights.
Updates on Julian Assange, and they're *not* good. Sci-Hub grows as universities ditch Elsivier, and the Army *finally* gets rid of that stupid digital camouflage. Plus, the DoJ and their cronies at the New York Times attack encryption, and Nancy Pelosi pretty much ruins the Democrats' chances in 2020 by attempting to impeach Trump.
More organizations are decrying secure, encrypted communications, even as Russian spies continue to breach the FBI's secure communications. Also, homeless in the UK don't qualify for housing because they're too poor, the FDA and Donald Trump use pseudoscience to ban vapes, and Kamala Harris doesn't see why she should let the Constitution get in the way of her plans.
Bitcoin activity can be traced, UpBit delists privacy coins not understanding the issues, and fraudsters successfully ude deep fakes. San Francisco declares the NRA a terrorist group, and California institutes statewide rent control.
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Australian who says he invented bitcoin ordered to hand over up to $5bn https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/28/australian-who-says-he-invented-bitcoin-ordered-to-hand-over-up-to-5bn 5:23 – Federal Court Says The DHS’s Terrorist Watchlist Unconstitutionally Deprives Travelers Of Their Rights https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190905/12331842931/federal-court-says-dhss-terrorist-watchlist-unconstitutionally-deprives-travelers-their-rights.shtml 10:00 – The Ex...
THE News of the Bogus: 0:58 – Protecting our Users in Kazakhstan | Mozilla Security Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/08/21/protecting-our-users-in-kazakhstan/ Google Online Security Blog: Protecting Chrome users in Kazakhstan https://security.googleblog.com/2019/08/protecting-chrome-users-in-kazakhstan.html 4:30 – Jeffrey Epstein Is Dead Because His Jailers Neglected Him. He’s Not the Only One. https://reason.com/2019/08/15/jeffrey-epstein-is-dead-because-his-jailers-neglected-him-hes...
Co-Host: Daniel Wilcox News of the Bogus: 1:01 – Kim Dotcom Set to Mobilize Former Megaupload Users Against Joe Biden https://torrentfreak.com/kim-dotcom-set-to-mobilize-former-megaupload-users-against-joe-biden-190812/ 5:45 – GDPR privacy can be defeated using right of access requests https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/12/gdpr-privacy-can-be-defeated-using-right-of-access-requests/ Exploiting GDPR to Get Private Information https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/exploiting_gdpr.ht...
Charles Thomas (aka DukeCT) returns to discuss the dismissal of Craig "Fauxtoshi" Wright's case against Roger Ver, USA Today actually publishing a pro-gun op-ed from Gun Owners of America, and how much AT&T completely sucks at branding its streaming services. Plus, our Biggest Bogon Emitters are suing GitHub for the CapitalOne breach, and our Idiot Extraordinaire beat a kid for wearing a hat during the national anthem.
Co-Host: Chris Hangartner News of the Bogus: 1:03 – Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero,’ sentenced to supervised release https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/26/marcus-hutchins-sentenced-kronos/ 8:24 – FDIC Admits to Discriminating Against Gun Stores, Shows Advantage of Decentralized Money https://dashnews.org/fdic-admits-to-discriminating-against-gun-stores-shows-advantage-of-decentralized-money/ 13:50 – Young people not getting objective advice because of trans lobby pressure htt...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Bernie Sanders campaign announces it will cut hours to pay staffers $15 minimum wage, prompting mockery https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-announces-it-will-cut-hours-to-pay-staffers-15-minimum-wage-prompting-mockery 5:00 – Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-intercepting-all-https-traffic/ 10:03 – You can probably be identified from your anonymized data https://nake...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Bitcoin And Crypto Suddenly Branded A ‘National Security Issue’ https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/07/16/bitcoin-and-crypto-suddenly-branded-a-national-security-issue/ 4:28 – Gab, Mastodon And The Challenges Of Content Moderation On A More Distributed Social Network https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190715/00244442587/gab-mastodon-challenges-content-moderation-more-distributed-social-network.shtml 7:57 – The Chinese publisher of horror game Devotion has ...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Without Any Warrants, CBP Searched My Devices at the Airport https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-journalists/ 6:00 – Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible: The Case Of YouTube And ‘Hacking’ Videos https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190705/17085042522/content-moderation-scale-is-impossible-case-youtube-hacking-videos.shtml 10:00 – Court Orders Cloudflare to Terminate Accounts of Pirate Sites https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-cloudflare-to-ter...
News of the Bogus: 0:49 – Florida court rules Craig Wright committed fraud, may be facing prison time https://www.chepicap.com/en/news/10520/florida-court-rules-craig-wright-committed-fraud-may-be-facing-prison-time.html 3:23 – Swedish Man Convicted for ‘Hate’ Comments He Did Not Write https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/28/swedish-man-convicted-hate-comments-he-did-not-write/ 6:58 – Schools Are Using ‘Aggression Detecting’ Mics That Are Set Off By Coughing, Slamming Locker Doors To Head Of...
News of the Bogus: 0:55 – Russia Says it Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs https://torrentfreak.com/russia-says-it-will-soon-begin-blocking-major-vpns/ 4:35 – Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Cyber Actors Exploit ‘Secure’ Websites In Phishing Campaigns https://www.ic3.gov/media/2019/190610.aspx 8:20 – Court: Arresting A Driver For Shouting ‘F— You’ Out The Window At A Nearby State Trooper Is Unconstitutional https://links.bogosity.tv/3 11:35 […]
News of the Bogus: 0:49 – Gun violence has sharply declined in California’s Bay Area. What happened? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2019/jun/03/gun-violence-bay-area-drop-30-percent-why-investigation 4:30 – California lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson on rent control https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/446424-california-lawmakers-havent-learned-their-lesson-on-rent-control 7:25 – New Study Shows That All This Ad Targeting Doesn’t Work That Well https://www.techdirt.com/a...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Google stored some passwords in plaintext for 14 years https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/23/google-stored-some-passwords-in-plain-text-for-14-years/ 4:22 – How ambiguity on Brexit is hurting Britain’s main political parties https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/28/how-ambiguity-brexit-is-hurting-britains-main-political-parties/?utm_term=.4848cc8d307f 8:05 – Alabama votes to end marriage licenses https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/445388-alabama-vo...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt after refusing to testify https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/16/chelsea-manning-faces-jail-threat-wikileaks-grand-jury-probe/3691868002/ 4:37 – Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US? https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/05/why_are_cryptog.html 8:05 – Why Many of Today’s News Reporters Believe It’s Their Duty to Lie to You https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-many-of-todays-news-reporters-believe-i...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-decriminalize-drugs-negotiate-us-1421395 3:45 – San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Technology https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html 6:28 – Salon Media in talks for $5M fire sale in last-ditch effort https://nypost.com/2019/05/14/salon-media-in-talks-for-5m-fire-sale-in-last-ditch-effort/ 9:05 – Biggest Bogon Emit...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – 1,860 unconstitutional FDA rules https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/440710-1860-unconstitutional-fda-rules 4:48 – Firefox add-ons with obfuscated code will be banned by Mozilla https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/07/firefox-add-ons-with-obfuscated-code-will-be-banned-by-mozilla/ 7:50 – You Apparently Can’t Win A Drug War Without Sexually Abusing Kids And Murdering Parents https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190427/17515442101/you-apparently-cant-win-drug-war-wit...
News of the Bogus: 0:56 – Daniel Ellsberg Speaks Out on the Arrest of Julian Assange https://progressive.org/dispatches/daniel-ellsberg-on-arrest-of-julian-assange-bernstein-190423/ 6:45 – Venezuela Crisis: Armored Vehicles Crush Anti-Maduro Protesters in Caracas https://www.nationalreview.com/news/armored-vehicles-crush-anti-maduro-protesters-in-caracas/ Despite setbacks, Venezuela’s opposition wary of U.S. intervention https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/venezuela-guaido-maduro-l...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Thai navy tows bitcoin trader’s floating home, may face death sentence https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/thai-navy-tows-bitcoin-traders-floating-home-may-face-death-sentence.html Floating Islands Leader Urges Leniency for Offshore Couple https://www.seasteading.org/floating-islands-leader-urges-leniency-for-offshore-couple/ 5:24 – Wikileaks Cache Now Hosted on IPFS Thanks to this Bitcoin Cash Developer https://news.bitcoin.com/wikileaks-cache-now-hosted-on-ipfs-thanks-to-...
News of the Bogus: 0:50 – Online Harms White Paper https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/online-harms-white-paper 5:10 – Publisher Sues AdBlock Plus For Copyright Infringement https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-sues-adblock-plus-for-copyright-infringement-190411/ 9:15 – Thousands of gun owners turn out for lobbying day in Springfield https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/thousands-of-gun-owners-turn-out-for-lobbying-day-in/article_ed1c396a-50d5-11e9-b951-dfdb2efccee9.html 12:23 – Bigg...
1:18 – Julian Assange Special: Julian Assange Arrested in London After Ecuador Withdraws Asylum; U.S. Requests Extradition https://theintercept.com/2019/04/11/julian-assange-arrested-london-ecuador-withdraws-asylum/ Julian Assange Arrested on U.S. Extradition Warrant, London Police Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/world/europe/julian-assange-wikileaks-ecuador-embassy.html WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange arrested; U.S. seeks extradition from U.K. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wikileaks-found...
