This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

This morning (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

#20yrsago Web archiving legal in the UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3231483.stm

#15yrsago Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love: magical and wonderful fantasy novel about ghosts and love and nostalgia https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/31/jonathan-carrolls-the-ghost-in-love-magical-and-wonderful-fantasy-novel-about-ghosts-and-love-and-nostalgia/

#10yrsago badBIOS: airgap-jumping malware that may use ultrasonic networking to communicate https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

#10yrsago Edward Snowden gets a job in Russia https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/world/europe/russia-snowden-job/index.html

#10yrsago Doctor Who spacetime described in physics paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985

#10yrsago NSA spokesmen told to just say “9/11” to deflect criticism http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/revealed-nsa-pushed911askeysoundbitetojustifysurveillance.html

#10yrsago Eben Moglen on Snowden and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCUJn-5By14

#10yrsago Power over USB: when charging a computer means connecting to untrusted data-sources http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/10/power-over-usb.html

#10yrsago Spycraft, Bumblefuck-style https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-scandal-toronto-police-have-video-apparently-showing-mayor-smoking-crack/article_3768efca-e7ce-5128-8159-e4d1b7fc3396.html

#10yrsago Face scrub micro-beads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/

#10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449

#5yrsago The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/

#5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ luxury flats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312

#5yrsago Rob Ford-o-Lantern https://web.archive.org/web/20140128131045/https://twitter.com/RobboMills/status/396037274736934912/photo/1