Linkage

• Student Rights at School: Six Things You Need To Know (American Civil Liberties Union)
• The Crypto-Keepers (The Baffler) Yasha Levine reports on the attempts by the FBI to coerce back doors into the secure app Telegram.  The program was created by a non-US company, and the implication is that US encryption has likely been compromised.
• Handbook for Mortals: Lani Sarem and American Pie actor Thomas Ian Nicholas caught in a New York Times bestsellers list controversy (Quartz) By taking delivery of a few thousand books, they got on the NYT best seller list.
• How to Read a News Story About an Investigation: Eight Tips on Who Is Saying What (Lawfare) A good primer on the difference between, "Source", "High Ranking Source", "Law Enforcement Officials", etc.
• How Sony, Obama, Seth Rogen and the CIA Secretly Planned to Force Regime Change in North Korea (Alternet) Provides evidence that the Razzie nominated movie The Interview was a CIA plot for regime change in the DPRK.  That would explain how the movie got the green light from studio heads.

A promo for the Entwhistle documentary Thunderfingers.

Simply amazing: