This day in history

2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.

#20yrsago HOWTO make a legal P2P system https://web.archive.org/web/20041009210429/https://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/p2p_copyright_wp.php

#15yrsago Google Book Search and privacy for students https://web.archive.org/web/20091002014504/http://freeculture.org/blog/2009/09/24/gbs-and-students-eff-privacy/

#10yrsago Fed whistleblower secretly recorded 46 hours of regulatory capture inside Goldman Sachs https://www.thisamericanlife.org/536/the-secret-recordings-of-carmen-segarra

#5yrsago Annalee Newitz’s “Future of Another Timeline”: like Handmaid’s Tale meets Hitchhiker’s Guide https://memex.craphound.com/2019/09/27/annalee-newitzs-future-of-another-timeline-like-handmaids-tale-meets-hitchhikers-guide/

#5yrsago Do Not Erase: Jessica Wynne’s beautiful photos of mathematicians’ chalkboards https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/science/mathematicians-blackboard-photographs-jessica-wynne.html

#5yrsago Across America, the average worker can’t afford the median home https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-are-precious-few-places-in-america-where-the-average-worker-can-afford-a-median-priced-home-2019-09-26

#5yrsago Amazon wants to draft model facial recognition legislation https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/9/25/20884427/jeff-bezos-amazon-facial-recognition-draft-legislation-regulation-rekognition

#5yrsago Doordash’s breach is different https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/doordash-data-breach/

#5yrsago Report from Defcon’s Voting Village reveals ongoing dismal state of US electronic voting machines https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 27/voting-village-report-defcon27.pdf

#1yrago Intuit: “Our fraud fights racism” https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers

Tor Books just published two new, free “Little Brother” stories: “Vigilant,” a about creepy surveillance in distance education; and “Spill,” about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.