04/16/18 Overnight Links

As I recently discovered, dogs apparently enjoy chewing through internet cables. Republic Reborn is back.

Tech Crunch: How to save your privacy from the internet’s clutches

Birmingham Mail: If Facebook isn’t spying on us, why did I get ads for things I just chatted about?

Bustle: Gmail’s new confidential mode may let users send “self-destructing” emails

Motherboard: Lawmakers call FBI’s ‘going dark’ narrative ‘highly questionable’ after Motherboard shows cops can easily hack iPhones

HardOCP: Cops around the country can now unlock iPhones, records show

Fast Company: Fired FBI director James Comey reveal how Apple and Google’s encryption efforts “drove me crazy”

Reason: Silicon Valley’s dangerous political blind spots

Ars Technica: Cop won’t be charged in “swatting” death of innocent, unarmed man

The Intercept: Trump ordered Syria strike based on secret legal justification even Congress can’t see

National Interest: In 1973, America and Russia almost fought a nuclear war over Syria

The Federalist: Britain’s knife control is a bad, real-life parody of gun control

Mises: How the Postal Service loses so much money

Reader’s Digest: 13 sneaky ways FBI agents protect their homes

High Times: Trump makes deal to protect states with legal cannabis

Brinkwire: Einstein’s ‘Dice of God’ has been used to generate truly random numbers

Gizmodo: A spooky quantum experiment creates what may be the most entangled controllable device yet

Author: S. Smith