Interesting. He not only chickened out on the suicide bombing bit, now he is ratting out other terrorists? We need to bottle whatever he's been drinking. Although I would be surprised if he knew much.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-shooting-abdeslam-idUSKCN0WN10V

Captured Paris attack suspect 'worth weight in gold' to police: lawyer

The only suspected participant in Nov. 13 Paris attacks to be captured alive has been cooperating with police investigators and is "worth his weight in gold", his lawyer said on Monday.

… French investigator Francois Molins told a news conference in Paris on Saturday Abdeslam had admitted to investigators he had wanted to blow himself up along with others at the Stade de France on the night of the attack claimed by Islamic State; but he later backed out.

Abdeslam's lawyer Sven Mary said he would sue Molins for making the comment public, calling it a violation of judicial confidentiality.

Mary said Abdeslam was now fully cooperating with investigators.

… Belgian prosecutors said in a statement they were looking for Najim Laachraoui, 25, using the false name of Soufiane Kayal. His DNA had been found in houses in Belgium used by the Paris attackers. [I wonder how they knew whose DNA it was? Bob]

Interesting. Should be “interesting times” tomorrow.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2016/03/19/tim-cook-meet-aaron-burr-why-the-encryption-fight-is-as-old-as-the-constitution/?ref=yfp#3b66b6f11547

Tim Cook, Meet Aaron Burr: Why The Encryption Fight Is As Old As The Constitution

Midway through its latest brief arguing why Apple needs to unlock the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, the U.S. Justice Dept. cites a surprising case: U.S. v. Burr, the 1807 prosecution of Aaron Burr for treason.

According to the lawyers at Justice, none other than Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court concluded in that case that Burr’s clerk, identified only as Willie, must decrypt a coded letter Burr sent to one of his accomplices.

Not so, says Apple: Marshall only ordered Willie to say whether he understood the contents of the letter. And even that would be heading down the slippery slope toward self-incrimination, Burr’s lawyers argued at the time. Though the initial question “may be an innocent one,” one lawyer said, “yet the counsel for the prosecution might go on gradually from one question to another, until he at last obtained matter enough to criminate him.”

(Related) Never say no to a politician? In short, everything was buddy-buddy until the government wanted something Apple would not give them.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-20/the-behind-the-scenes-fight-between-apple-and-the-fbi

The Behind-the-Scenes Fight Between Apple and the FBI

Obama administration officials and Apple initially shared some common ground on data encryption. Then terrorists struck in San Bernardino, and everything changed.

(Related)

The Empty “Lavabit” Threat

Scott Greenfield writes:

Near as I can tell, the first person to pick up on footnote 9 in the government’s response to Apple was Marcy Wheeler a Empty Wheel.

DOJ has submitted its response to Apple in the Syed Farook case. Amid invocations of a bunch of ominous precedents — including Dick Cheney’s successful effort to hide his energy task force, Alberto Gonzales effort to use kiddie porn as an excuse to get a subset of all of Google’s web searches, and Aaron Burr’s use of encryption — it included this footnote explaining why it hadn’t just asked for Apple’s source code.

That’s a reference to the Lavabit appeal, in which Ladar Levison was forced to turn over its encryption keys.

That it was a threat is beyond question. The snideness of “if apple would prefer” leaves no doubt. This refers to a court ordering Apple to turn over its code to the government, handing over the keys to the technological Kingdom.

Read more on Simple Justice.

And no, I’m not posting this to dump on Levison, but to point out the relationship to his case and why it isn’t precedent, as Scott explains.

Related: Cryptome has uploaded a number of filings from the Lavabit case, here.

Not sure all of these are legal.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-ways-prevent-drones-infringing-privacy/

8 Ways to Prevent Drones Infringing on Your Privacy

An introduction to some “attractive” social media.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-your-teen-doesnt-want-you-to-know-they-use-their-phone-for/

What Your Teen Doesn’t Want You To Know They Use Their Phone For

Those Brits are so boring and straight laced – until they start drinking.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35861444

Experts could overrule 'Boaty McBoatface' name choice for polar ship

The name of a new polar research vessel will be chosen by a panel of experts, even if the public overwhelmingly votes to call it Boaty McBoatface.

Lord West, ex-First Sea Lord, said he was rather proud "silly names" had been suggested but hoped none were chosen.

The Natural Environment Research Council had urged people to name its ship in a competition, which saw Boaty McBoatface easily topping the poll.

The final name will be selected by the NERC, according to competition rules.

Boaty McBoatface is currently leading with more than 27,000 votes, while the second place pick trails with around 3,000.