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This day in history

2011, 2016, 2020

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 30, 2021

#10yrsago MySpace cost Murdoch at least $1B https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/06/doing-the-math-on-news-corps-disastrous-myspace-years/

#10yrsago Denial of service, sit-ins and the politics of the cloud http://blog.makezine.com/moral-suasion/

#5yrsago George RR Martin’s “Fevre Dream”: the Lannisters as vampires https://memex.craphound.com/2016/06/30/george-rr-martins-fevre-dream-the-lannisters-as-vampires/

#5yrsago Singaporean bank stops lending money to UK property speculators https://www.bbc.com/news/business-36670075

#5yrsago DoJ report: less than a quarter of one percent of wiretaps encounter any crypto https://theintercept.com/2016/06/30/official-tally-of-wiretaps-belies-government-scare-stories-about-encryption/

#5yrsago Eye-Fi orphans 14 products, which will therefore cease to function https://www.diyphotography.net/eyefi-drop-support-cards-will-magically-stop-working-september-16-2016/

#5yrsago ACLU files a lawsuit to repeal the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, used to prosecute Aaron Swartz https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-economic-justice/aclu-challenges-computer-crimes-law-thwarting-research

#5yrsago US DoD white paper: wearing hijab is “passive terrorism”…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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