This day in history
2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#20yrsago Aschroft: judges shouldn’t uphold the Constitution https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna6472084
#20yrsago Fighting spam shouldn’t mean fighting free speech https://web.archive.org/web/20041116043239/http://www.eff.org/wp/?f=SpamCollateralDamage.html
#20yrsago FCC thinks it has authority over PCs and everything that can play a show https://web.archive.org/web/20041117014541/http://scrawford.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/11/180969.html
#15yrsago TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes. https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/13/tsa-bans-snowglobes-tsa-meet-archimedes/
#10yrsago Americans believe things https://web.archive.org/web/20141102085809/https://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3466/Perceptions-are-not-reality-10-things-the-world-gets-wrong.aspx
#10yrsago XKCD’s epic, day-long Rosetta mission flipbook https://xkcd.com/1446/
#10yrsago Roca Labs sends abusive, unwarranted DMCA notices to banish negative reviews https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/12/roca-labs-issues-bogus-dmca-takedown-notices-to-google-to-try-to-hide-pissedconsumer-reviews/
#10yrsago When the FBI told MLK to kill himself (who are they targeting now?) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance
#10yrsago Cheap dates: the pitiful sums that Big Cable used to buy off the politicians who oversee it https://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-big-cable-gave-the-politicians-who-overs-1657002442
#5yrsago alt.interoperability.adversarial https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial
#5yrsago A woman’s stalker compromised her car’s app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/06/womans-stalker-used-an-app-that-allowed-him-stop-start-track-her-car/
#5yrsago Transcription service rev.com cuts “professional transcriptionists’” effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 https://gizmodo.com/transcription-platform-rev-slashes-minimum-pay-for-work-1839784941
#5yrsago Before you ask your Chinese factory for a discount, make sure you won’t be kidnapped and/or have your product cloned https://web.archive.org/web/20191113124342/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/the-right-way-to-reduce-your-china-product-costs.html
#5yrsago EFF and ACLU triumph as federal judge rules that warrantless, suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops
#1yrago The (open) web is good, actually https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting
