This day in history

2004, 2014, 2019.

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Today (June 22), I’m keynoting the Locus Awards in Oakland, CA. On July 14, I’m giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth Hackers On Planet Earth, in Queens, NY.

#20yrsago Tunneling ssh over DNS https://web.archive.org/web/20040916193409/http://www.doxpara.com/bo2004.ppt

#10yrsago Open Wireless Movement’s router OS will let you securely share your Internet with the world https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/new-router-firmware-safely-opens-your-wi-fi-network-to-strangers/

#10yrsago Steve Wozniak wants you to support Mayday.US and get money out of politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoZ-tJiwBvc

#10yrsago Gangs run mass-scale romance cons with phished dating-site logins https://www.netcraft.com/blog/criminals-launch-mass-phishing-attacks-against-online-dating-sites/

#10yrsago Greenhouse: browser plugin that automatically annotates politicians’ names with their funders https://allaregreen.us

#10yrsago Judy Blume: parents shouldn’t worry about what their kids are reading https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10868544/Judy-Blume-Parents-worry-too-much-about-what-children-read.html

#5yrsago Learning from Baltimore’s disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack https://apnews.com/article/0762caec21874fc09741abbdec0f78ab

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes a ban on private prisons and immigration facilities https://medium.com/@teamwarren/ending-private-prisons-and-exploitation-for-profit-cb6dea67e913

#5yrsago Google Maps is still overrun with scammers pretending to be local businesses, and Google’s profiting from them https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/06/20/1746232/millions-of-business-listings-on-google-maps-are-fake----and-google-profits

#5yrsago America can only go to war against Iran if it reinstates the draft https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/31/iran-regime-change-american-troops-military-draft-column/656240002/

#5yrsago Independent audit finds Facebook activity has fallen by 20% since Cambridge Analytica https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/20/facebook-usage-collapsed-since-scandal-data-shows

#5yrsago Tennessee lawmaker defends operating an unregistered “Christian magic supply” business https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/20/matthew-hill-tennessee-house-speaker-christian-magic-supply-business-dock-haley-gospel-magic/1481310001/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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