links of the day 12/24/2015 (p.m.)

• Terreuraanslagen Parijs: negende verdachte aangehouden in Brussel | Update | De Morgen

• Hyatt finds malware in its payment systems

• Why the Islamic State is so Bad at Being a State | Political Violence @ a Glance

• ICSR Insight - The Decline in Islamic State Media Output / ICSR

• ICSR-Report-Victims-Perpertrators-Assets-The-Narratives-of-Islamic-State-Defectors.pdf

• EU warns Poland to protect 'rule of law' over judicial crisis - Yahoo News

• This is a crucial and underappreciated point about why defeating ISIS is so difficult - Vox

• The incredible unfairness of the global war on drugs, in one paragraph - Vox

• Star Wars in Ukraine: Poroshenko vs Kolomoisky – POLITICO

• Inside Ukraine’s violent, messy battle for power – POLITICO

• Wiretap Report 2014 | United States Courts

• The Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2015 | Europol

• EU agencies faulted for not protecting whistleblowers – POLITICO

• Why ISIL will fail on its own – POLITICO

• “If they don’t like someone, they just behead him”: why ISIS fighters quit - Vox

• Pirate Bay co-founder builds device that costs the music industry $10,000,000 a day

• Tim Cook says this is the real reason Apple products are made in China - MarketWatch

• Here’s the Russian rocket from last night that everyone can’t stop talking about - MarketWatch

• This key will turn Windows 10 Home into Pro, but there’s a catch - Yahoo Finance

• See where the US would have nuked the Soviet Union if the Cold War turned hot

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.