Our picksRussian spies & flash zero day; White hate group’s menace; global finance & GPS, and more

Russian spies rush to exploit the latest flash zero day (Lily Hay Newman, Wired)
There’s nothing like a hefty security freakout to start the week, and the Key Reinstallation AttackWi-Fi vulnerability—you know it as Krack—announced on Monday fit the bill. The bug is in the ubiquitous WPA2 Wi-Fi protocol, so while it fortunately doesn’t impact every single device that exists, it does affect a significant portion of them.

Racist, violent, unpunished: A White hate group’s campaign of menace (A. C. Thompson, Ali Winston, and Darwin BondGraham, ProPublica)
They train to fight. They post their beatings online. And so far, they have little reason to fear the authorities.

Scott Pruitt rebrands EPA’s website in attempt to delete climate change (Francesca Friday, Observer)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adopting a blank slate mentality, literally, in a renewed effort to deal with climate change. 15 mentions of “climate change” have been removed from the EPA’s main web page, and over a dozen pages dedicated to educating local governments on how they can help to curb carbon emissions and adapt to extreme weather have disappeared.

The entire global financial system depends on GPS, and it’s shockingly vulnerable to attack (Tim Fernholz, Quartz)
There is an enormous, invisible clock that keeps ultra-precise time, can be checked from anywhere on earth, and is free for everyone to use. This technological gift to mankind was built by the US government. It is called the Global Positioning System (GPS), it lives in space, and you use it every time you check the map on your phone.

Anti-immigrant forces gain ground in Europe (Katy O’Donnell, Politico)
Czechs this weekend elected a nationalist leader.

Conspiracy theories are for underdogs (Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic)
Donald Trump’s recent tweet about long-secret JFK files is a way for the president to try to reclaim a status that has repeatedly helped him.

Trudeau on Quebec face-cover ban: not our business to tell women what to wear (Ashifa Kassam, Guardian)
Canadian prime minister responds to province’s law obliging niqab or burqa wearers to unveil on public transit or while receiving government services

‘The only way’ of dealing with British Islamic State fighters is to kill them in almost every case, minister says (Kate McCann, Telegraph)
British ISIL fighters should be killed in Syria rather than be allowed to return to U.K., a Government minister has said. Rory Stewart said converts who leave Britain to fight for the terror group are guilty of horrific acts and the only way of dealing with them is to kill them “in almost every case.”