SPYING: SSL-busting code that threatened Lenovo users found in a dozen more apps.

RECOMMENDED BY READERS IN THE EBOLA COMMENT THREAD YESTERDAY: Ebola K, A Terrorism Thriller, by Bobby Adair.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” U.S. hostage’s brother: Bowe Bergdahl swap raised IS demands. “The brother of an American woman who was killed after spending months as a hostage of Islamic State militants says Kayla Mueller’s situation worsened after the government traded five Taliban commanders for a captive U.S. soldier.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Clear Your Lenovo Computer of Superfish Adware.

WAR ON WOMEN: Analysis: As senator, Clinton paid women 72 cents for each dollar paid to men. No wonder Dems believe that number. In their world, it’s actually true!

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Unpatriotic voters elect unpatriotic leaders.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 655.

HILLARY-TROLLING LEVEL: MASTER.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO EMULATE PEE WEE HERMAN! Woman caught masturbating during ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

A horny Mexican moviegoer has been arrested for masturbating while watching “Fifty Shades of Grey,” reports La Verdad.

The woman, said to be 33 years old, was caught red-handed while watching the film at a cinema in Sinaloa, western Mexico.

She was noticed by other cinemagoers and reported. It was also claimed she was sitting in the 12th row of the movie house.

The woman was arrested and, ironically, given the S&M nature of the movie, slapped in handcuffs by cops.

I blame today’s pervasive culture of female sexual entitlement.

MICKEY KAUS HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE TERROR-WELFARE CONNECTION SINCE 2001, and yet: “A federal investigation into the welfare status of Australian foreign fighters, prompted last year by revelations in The Telegraph, shows 96 per cent had been on welfare benefits when they fled to the Middle East.”

AFTER OBAMA, An American Renaissance? To be fair, the Dark Ages were a period of greater creativity and progress than is generally appreciated.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Unpatriotic voters elect unpatriotic leaders.

With references to Robert Frank’s Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role Of The Emotions, and also to Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.

WELL, THAT SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT: National Security Expert: U.S. Foreign Policy Leaders ‘Have Lost The Ability To Think.’

DECORUM: Ed Henry Presses WH Press Secretary Josh Earnest: Does Obama Regret Calling George Bush “Unpatriotic?”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: New York Fed: The Growing Student Loan Crisis.

BYRON YORK: Why Are Americans Confused About Obama’s Religion?

But when it comes to confusion, or wrong information, about Obama’s religion, Scott Walker is far from alone. Polls have long shown many Americans know little about the president’s faith.

In June, 2012, Gallup asked, “Do you happen to know the religious faith of Barack Obama?” Forty-four percent said they did not know, while 36 percent said he is a Christian, 11 percent said he is a Muslim, and eight percent said he has no religion. The “don’t know” group included 36 percent of Democrats. (A larger number of Republicans, 47 percent, said they didn’t know Obama’s religion, as did 46 percent of independents.)

In August, 2010, a Pew poll made news when it found that 18 percent of those surveyed believed Obama is a Muslim. But just as notably, 43 percent of respondents in that survey told Pew they didn’t know Obama’s religion. Among those who said they didn’t know were 41 percent of Democrats.

One notable suggestion in the Pew survey was that in Obama’s first couple of years in office, as Americans became more familiar with him as president, they became less sure of his religious faith. In March 2009, shortly after Obama entered the White House, 34 percent said they did not know his religion, while 48 percent identified him as a Christian. By August 2010, the number of Americans who said they did not know Obama’s religion had grown to 43 percent, while the number who identified him as Christian fell to 34 percent. The trend was true not just of the president’s political opponents but of his supporters as well. “Even among Democrats, fewer than half (46 percent) now identify his religion as Christian, down from 55 percent last year,” Pew wrote in 2010.

In June 2012, Pew asked the question again and found that 36 percent — still more than one-third of Americans — did not know Obama’s faith, while 45 percent identified him as a Christian. (The poll, taken during the 2012 presidential campaign, found that more people — 51 percent — correctly identified Mitt Romney as a Mormon than the 45 percent who said Obama is a Christian.)

The polls are anywhere from two to four years old. There hasn’t been much research on the topic recently, so it’s possible views have changed in one direction or the other.

Whenever the issue pops up, Obama’s most ardent supporters are quick to blame conservative media for misperceptions about Obama’s religion. But it’s possible something in Obama’s public presentation of himself has also created confusion among a significant number of Americans about his religion. The fact is, Obama’s religious roots and development have always been a complicated story.

As with everything about him, there’s no there there, just a series of convenient projections on fog, like the monster in a Scooby Doo episode.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Taxpayer-Funded U. Wisconsin Chancellor Spends Her Days Lobbying Alumni Against Scott Walker.

JOHN FUND: The Rudy Gotcha Game: The Double Standard For “Perceived Thought Crime.”

THE HILL: President Obama’s cyber pitch misses mark in Silicon Valley. “The Obama administration is stumbling in its cybersecurity message to Silicon Valley, according to tech executives and a former White House official. The White House recently made a big show of going to Stanford University for a major cybersecurity summit. While much of the administration’s message was well-received by the tech community, some wondered why the platform wasn’t used to better explain Obama’s stance on encryption and privacy, the divisive issues causing strain between D.C. and Palo Alto.”

WELL, YES: Campus sex assaults should be handled by police. When universities handle them, they’re too soft on the guilty, and too hard on the innocent.

SO MUCH FOR THE MEMORY HOLE: New media won’t let MSM forget: Hillary fed the ‘Obama’s a Muslim’ rumors in 2008.

IT’S NOT RACE, IT’S NOT SEX, the tech world’s real discrimination problem is age.

They don’t prepare you for this in college or admit it in job interviews. The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you’re headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age and it becomes harder and harder to get a job.

I know this post will provoke anger, outrage, and denial. But, sadly, this is the way things are in the tech world. It’s an “up or out” profession — like the military. And it’s as competitive as professional sports. Engineers need to be prepared.

This is not openly discussed, because employers could be accused of age discrimination. But research, such as that completed by University of California, Berkeley, professors Clair Brown and Greg Linden shows that even those with masters degrees and Ph.Ds have reason to worry.

I hope that President Walker will have the Civil Rights Division look into this.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE QUEEN: NYT’s Clinton Reporter on Paid Speeches: Clintons Would Say ‘It’s Expensive to Be a Clinton.’ “This reflection of the Clinton’s mindset caused panelist Joe Klein to burst into laughter.”