This day in history

2009, 2014, 2009, 2024.

#15yrsago Major record labels rip off 300,000 songs for compilation CDs, may owe $60 billion in damages https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2009/12/09/ChetBakerSuit/

#15yrsago Woman has fingerprints swapped to fool immigration http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8400222.stm

#10yrsago Spies can’t make cyberspace secure AND vulnerable to their own attacks https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/07/north-korea-sony-pictures-regin-gchq-nsa-snowden-belgacom

#10yrsago Chinese government wants to ban puns https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/28/china-media-watchdog-bans-wordplay-puns

#10yrsago Dumping a huge bag of plastic balls onto an escalator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5P-c7rc4bA

#10yrsago Stats-based response to UK Tories’ call for social media terrorism policing https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/dec/02/youre-the-bomb-are-you-at-risk-from-anti-terrorism-algorithms-automated-tracking-innocent-people

#10yrsago Detoxing is bullshit https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/05/detox-myth-health-diet-science-ignorance?CMP=fb_gu

#5yrsago The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit https://indyweek.com/news/orange/t-greg-doucette-threatens-to-sue-sons-of-confederate-veterans/

#5yrsago A teenager describes his hilarious adventures installing a surplus, 1,500lb mainframe in his parents’ basement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

#5yrsago Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science “walking polygraph” method to steer their investigation https://www.propublica.org/article/why-are-cops-around-the-world-using-this-outlandish-mindreading-tool#171398

#1yrago An adversarial iMessage client for Android https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/07/blue-bubbles-for-all/#never-underestimate-the-determination-of-a-kid-who-is-time-rich-and-cash-poor