This day in history
2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.
Today ( November 16), I’ll be in Stratford, Ontario, appearing onstage with Vass Bednar as part of the CBC IDEAS Festival. I’m also doing an afternoon session for middle-schoolers at the Stratford Public Library.
#20yrsago Owner Override: a proposal to fix Trusted Computing https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7055
#10yrsago Rob Ford stripped of powers https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/city-hall/rob-ford-councillors-strip-mayor-of-certain-powers/article_c531a981-ab9a-5818-abef-83dc0ba6cf89.html
#5yrsago Gilded Age watch: America’s firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1% https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-history-private-firefighting/575887/
#5yrsago One year later: kids smart-watches are still a privacy and security dumpster fire https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/consumer-advice-kids-gps-tracker-watch-security/
#5yrsago Mark Zuckerberg to the governments of Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland and Argentina: “Go fuck yourselves” https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/mark-zuckerberg-not-able-to-attend-disinformation-hearing-despite-growing-call/
#5yrsago Companies keep losing your data because it doesn’t cost them anything https://www.vice.com/en/article/bje8na/massive-data-leaks-keep-happening-because-big-companies-can-afford-to-lose-your-data
#5yrsago If you’re an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau4832
#5yrsago Competitive book-sorting event pits New York library workers against Washington State’s https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/competitive-library-book-sorting
#5yrsago The EU can #fixcopyright, but they’re not https://dontwreckthe.net
#5yrsago Here’s the secret details of 200 cities’ license-plate tracking programs https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/eff-and-muckrock-release-records-and-data-200-law-enforcement-agencies-automated
#5yrsago Generative adversarial network produces a “universal fingerprint” that will unlock many smartphones https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07386
#1yrago Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg’s gripping true crime tale of cryptocurrency forensics https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/15/public-immutable-crimes/#andy-greenberg
