This day in history

2011, 2016, 2020.

#10yrsago Scored: pulse-pounding/thought-provoking YA novel about surveillance https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/24/scored-pulse-pounding-thought-provoking-ya-novel-about-surveillance/

#5yrsago Audit reveals significant vulnerabilities in Truecrypt and its successors https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/TrueCrypt_Phase_II_NCC_OCAP_final.pdf

#5yrsago RIP, Tom Hayden: Yippie, radical, politician, author https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37749127

#5yrsago San Francisco’s 58-story “leaning tower” is sinking fast https://phys.org/news/2016-10-tilting-san-francisco-high-rise-alarm.html

#5yrsago Tax-funded NZ company sold mass surveillance tech to torturers and GCHQ https://theintercept.com/2016/10/23/endace-mass-surveillance-gchq-governments/

#5yrsago UAE surveillance contractor is recruiting an army of foreign hackers to break into its citizens’ devices https://theintercept.com/2016/10/24/darkmatter-united-arab-emirates-spies-for-hire/

#5yrsago RIP Jack Chick, father of the Satanic Panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick

#1yrago RIAA kills youtube-dl https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/24/1201-v-dl-youtube/#1201