This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
1 min readNov 7, 2023

#20yrsago Dashboard cig lighters are the new cup-holders https://money.cnn.com/2003/11/04/pf/autos/lighters/index.htm

#10yrsago Regex Runner: a game to teach regular expressions to kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs2ZchTUEvQ

#5yrsago Unisyn voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle weak passwords https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/unisyn-voting-machine-manual-instructs-election-officials-to-use-and-recycle-weak-passwords/

#5yrsago Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/steganographically-hiding-secret-messages-in-fake-fingerprints/

#5yrsago The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn’t revolutionary https://locusmag.com/2018/11/cory-doctorow-what-the-internet-is-for/

#5yrsago America for sale: 38% of all election funding comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total) https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/06/america-for-sale-38-of-all-election-funding-comes-from-0-0001-of-americans-2210-people-account-for-25-of-the-total/

#1yrago The End of the Road to Serfdom https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/06/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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