The Bogosity Podcast

The Bogosity Podcast


Bogosity Podcast for 8 January 2017

January 08, 2017

Co-Host: Jakob Morris
News of the Bogus:

* 0:56 – Cindy Prior ordered to pay costs after trying to sue students under 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act
http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/cindy-prior-ordered-to-pay-costs-over-qut-racial-discrimination-case/news-story/466f3168375a6afec461b78e25c98154

* Cindy Prior: Doctor casts doubts on QUT employee’s 18C racism claim http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/legal-affairs/doctor-casts-doubts-on-qut-employees-18c-racism-claim/news-story/acef2c0721cee62b98c564f837bdbeac

* 4:26 – Encrypted messaging app Signal uses Google to bypass censorship http://www.pcworld.com/article/3152769/security/encrypted-messaging-app-signal-uses-google-to-bypass-censorship.html

* Doodles, stickers, and censorship circumvention for Signal Android https://whispersystems.org/blog/doodles-stickers-censorship/

* 11:10 – White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/12/did-russia-tamper-with-the-2016-election-bitter-debate-likely-to-rage-on/

* Obama tosses 35 Russians out of US, sanctions others for election meddling http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/obama-tosses-35-russians-out-of-us-sanctions-others-for-election-meddling/

16:22 – Biggest Bogon Emitter: The news media

* Russian malware detected in US electricity utility – report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/31/russian-malware-detected-in-us-electricity-grid-report
* Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility, showing risk to U.S. electrical grid security, officials say https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-hackers-penetrated-us-electricity-grid-through-a-utility-in-vermont/2016/12/30/8fc90cc4-ceec-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html
* US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/

25:04 – Idiot Extraordinaire: Manville, NJ Board of Education