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A couple of weeks ago, I was the victim of a well planned, very aggressive hack. I shared my story to warn others:
Hackers Stole My Phone Number – A Personal Story
Must Reads
A Fork in the Road (Important article by Vinny Lingham on the dangerous situation Bitcoin is in right now, Medium)
Key Democratic Officials Now Warning Base Not to Expect Evidence of Trump/Russia Collusion (Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept)
Rand Paul Is Right: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants (Another from Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept)
Sanders: ‘Democratic Agenda and Approach Has Been a Failure’ (YouTube)
Rejecting ‘Campus Illiberalism’ (We need more of this, a lot more, Inside Higher Ed)
Security Advisory: Mobile Phones (This sort of thing happened to me, Kraken Blog)
U.S. Politics
FOX NEWS POLL: Bernie Sanders Remains the Most Popular Politician in the U.S. (Business Insider)
Saudi Prince Sees Trump as ‘True Friend’ to Muslims (The Saudis and Goldman Sachs sure love Trump, Bloomberg)
Trump Unveils First Budget Blueprint (The Hill)
Trump Gives CIA Power to Launch Drone Strikes (The Hill)
Report: Cuomo Takes Major Step Toward Presidential Bid (Great idea if you want eight years of Trump, The Hill)
Jeff Sessions: Using Marijuana Is “Only Slightly Less Awful” Than Heroin (Sessions is so stupid it’s actually amusing, Reason)
Chelsea Clinton Fuels Speculation of Political Run (Can we at least put a crown on her head first? The Hill)
Rand Paul Teams Up With Tulsi Gabbard To Stop The U.S. Arming Terrorists (Zerohedge)
Flint Official Escapes Imprisonment, Only Has to Write Apology Letter (Naked Capitalism)
FBI Arrests Man for Allegedly Sending Journalist Seizure-Causing GIF (Think the FBI would care if this happened to you? Gizmodo)
Geopolitics/WW3
Tillerson: Military Action Against North Korea is an Option (Politico)
Dutch Elections: Turkish Minister Claims ‘Holy Wars Will Soon Begin in Europe’ After Geert Wilders Beaten (The Independent)
Turkey’s Erdogan Says Dutch PM Rutte Lost Turkey’s Friendship (Reuters)
How ‘Complete’ Is Normalization Between Russia, Turkey? (Al Monitor)
Germany Very Concerned About Developments in Eastern Ukraine (Reuters)
Tony Blair Launches Pushback Against ‘Frightening Populism’ (Can someone please send him to the glue factory already? The Guardian)
Economy/Finance
Caterpillar Hires Former U.S. Attorney General After Raid (You know you’re a banana republic when…AP)
Bitcoin Exchanges Unveil Hard Fork Contingency Plan (Coindesk)
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