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A.M. Links: Hacking Drones, Dope Busts Kids Out of College, Asset Forfeiture for Everything

J.D. Tuccille | 2.21.2013 9:00 AM

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    Drones aren't just creepy and homicide-y; the Government Accountability Office frets that they're vulnerable to crashes and to being taken over by hackers.

  • Combine federal dominance of financial aid for college with federal phobia of all things drug-related, and you have a body of students effectively barred from higher education.
  • The Supreme Court agreed to hear another challenge to campaign finance laws, potentially further expanding protections for free speech within the world of politics.
  • The federal government spent more, salary-wise, on public officials doing union work on the clock in 2011 than during any year since at least 2002.
  • The New York Times is shrinking, shrinking, shrinking … and putting the Boston Globe up for sale.
  • Google Glasses promise to be powerful, innovative — and butt ugly. A few will use them, while the rest of us have to look at them. But, will that make a difference in a world in which pajamas are worn to the supermarket?
  • Hawaii is considering imposing asset forfeiture for petty misdemeanors because— Oh, c'mon. They're not even pretending to be anything other than thieves anymore.

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