This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018.

#20yrsago Ground broken on Hong Kong Disneyland https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2650763.stm

#10yrsago Quinn Norton on Aaron Swartz https://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=644

#10yrsago Lessig on the DoJ’s vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz https://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

#10yrsago RIP, Aaron Swartz https://memex.craphound.com/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz/

#5yrsago NERD HARDER! FBI Director reiterates faith-based belief in working crypto that he can break https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-fbi/fbi-chief-calls-unbreakable-encryption-urgent-public-safety-issue-idUSKBN1EY1S7

#5yrsago A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to https://theintercept.com/2018/01/12/haiti-donald-trump-shithole-america-history/

#5yrsago Scottish police confirm requests from world governments to find money laundered through “the UK’s homegrown secrecy vehicle” https://archive.news.stv.tv/politics/1406010-scots-firms-with-business-model-tied-to-1bn-fraud-probed.html

#5yrsago UK tax authority, gutted by austerity and buried by Brexit, can’t deal with the crime revealed by the Paradise Papers…