Did you hear? There was a summit this week! A good ol’ fashioned meeting of world powers, in which North Korea promised to denuclearize[1] for at least the seventh time in the last 30 years. In the process, President Donald Trump says he gave North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un his direct phone number, which if true was a terrible idea[2]. Oh, and even if North Korea does actually go through with ditching its nukes this time, it’s going to be almost impossible to hold them accountable[3].
The Inspector General report of the FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential campaign[4] came out this week as well. Despite what Trump’s tweets might have you believe, it did not exonerate the president’s campaign in terms of potential Russian collusion. It did, however, show that the FBI and its former director James Comey made some not-great decisions in its probe of the Clinton email server. In a happier moment for the Justice Department, alleged Silk Road consigliere Roger Clark was extradited[5] from Thailand to the United States this week. They also took down dozens of Nigerian email scammers[6], but that’ll barely make a dent.
Everyone from Paul Manafort to Michael Cohen learned that encrypted messaging isn’t magic[7] this week, and you should too before misplaced trust gets you in trouble. Anduril is a magic sword in the Lord of the Rings universe, but also the name of former Oculus Rift wunderkind Palmer Luckey’s company[8] that exists to build a virtual borrder wall.
If you’re traveling to Russia for the World Cup, you’re virtually sure to get hacked[9] unless you take some