This day in history

2012, 2017, 2021.

#10yrsago Photos from backstage at Disneyland https://imgur.com/a/TJQYm

#5yrsago How do you dump the firmware from a “secure” voting machine? With a $15 open source hardware board https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/10/11/ft232h-breakout-on-cspan-from-adafruit-used-to-dump-firmware-off-accuvote-tsx-securelyfitz-essvote/

#1yrago India funded a starving kids’ app, but not food: Solutionism at its worst https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/theres-an-app-for-that/#solutionism

#1yrago Adobe uses copyfraud to preserve spyware: A free-as-in-surveillance-free Flash installer is gone thanks to a bogus copyright claim https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/theres-an-app-for-that/#gnash

#1yrago Charter uses bad credit threats to corral ex-subscribers: “Resubscribe or we’ll keep trashing your credit report.” https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/theres-an-app-for-that/#thugs-charter

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).