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2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMar 6, 2023

#15yrsago TSA endangers child’s life by contaminating his feeding tube despite pleas https://web.archive.org/web/20080308171124/http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/15511359/detail.html

#15yrsago Treasury Dept confiscates domain names of Brit travel agent who booked Cuba tours https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04bar.html

#10yrsago Access files on locked, encrypted Android phones by putting them in a freezer for an hour https://www.cs1.tf.fau.de/research/system-security-group/frost/

#10yrsago Fix the DMCA! Repeal anti-circumvention and truly own your devices https://web.archive.org/web/20130311112726/http://fixthedmca.org/

#10yrsago Random House launches ebook imprint that’s run like a predatory vanity press https://memex.craphound.com/2013/03/06/random-house-launches-ebook-imprint-thats-run-like-a-predatory-vanity-press/

#5yrsago Six immortal superweapons the Democrats made for the president, which Trump gets to wield https://www.truthdig.com/articles/six-ways-resistance-gave-trump-dictators-toolkit/

#5yrsago How 401(k)s created a class of suckers to be fleeced by the investor class https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/investor-class-pensions.html

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Cory Doctorow
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