A terrorist attack both shocking and unsurprising; the government punts on the Apple case; the death of Rob Ford.
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Europe's new reality
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The attacks come a few days after the arrest in Brussels of Belgian native Salah Abdeslam, believed to have helped plan November's ISIS attacks in Paris. US officials believe the Brussels attack was likely planned before Abdeslam's arrest. They'd had some information about a possible Brussels attack, but no details.
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This New York Times article, written in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, illustrates the problem well. The fact that it's even more relevant months after it was written illustrates the problem even better.
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FBI: New phone (hacking plan), who dis
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On Monday night, the federal government abruptly canceled the hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, in the case to compel Apple to unlock the iPhone used by suspected San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.
[Motherboard / Sarah Jeong]
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The reason: The FBI says it got a lead from a third party on another way to gain access to the phone, so it doesn't need to compel Apple to open the phone anymore, at least not until it's tried this other method first.
[Engadget / Roberto Baldwin]
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If that's true, though — even if the NAND works — the FBI has only barely forestalled the problem, since the NAND hack won't work on later generations of iPhone (and, of course, eventually someone will invent an unhackable phone).
[The Verge / Russell Brandom]
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Apple and its defenders have always said this is about more than one iPhone. They insist the dispute is really about whether, and when, the government can compel companies to allow them access to privately owned technology. At best, the FBI is just putting off the ultimate reckoning.
[NYT / Katie Benner and Matt Apuzzo]
The Man From Etobicoke
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Ford left an important political legacy. He rode the resentment of white voters who felt they'd been shut out of government all the way to the top. Like most populists, he used racism and homophobia to do it — and as with most populists, his critics attacked him for it, and his supporters didn't care.
[New Republic / Jeet Heer]
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But for Americans, who may be on the verge of electing our own sort of irrepressible populist, this column by Edward Keenan is worth reading, as an illustration of how the legacy of Ford's political style deserves to be taken seriously alongside his policy record.
[The Star / Edward Keenan]
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"This devotion to personal expression has presented itself in several outlets for the cosmopolitan millennial, including the $435 Hamilton-themed SoulCycle class in Red Hook, and the increasing popularity of Dr. Vanessa Sullivan, a hypnotherapist in Murray Hill who speaks only in references to the 1999 film She’s All That."
[Fusion / Jason Gilbert]
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"To be honest, I've had a very sheltered life up until now, so having an embarrassing teen movie proposal that I had to turn down in front of a room full of primary school teachers was all pretty terrible."
[Alex to Vice / Amelia Dimoldenberg]
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"While there is a difference between a serial-worst-boyfriend-ever and a rapist, the fact remains that even if all of the women who have complained in public in the past week or in private over the last decade turned out to be lying, the media’s assessment of James Deen was still a failure of WMD-in-Iraq proportions."
[Medium / Zak Smith]
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