This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
I’ll be in Tucson, AZ from November 8–10: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention.
#15yrsago Brit business secretary promises to punish accused file-sharers’ families with Internet disconnection by 2011 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/oct/28/mandelson-date-blocking-filesharers-connections
#10yrsago 2600 magazine profiled in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/print-magazine-hackers
#10yrsago LAX delays flight because someone’s wifi network had scary terrorist name https://abc7.com/american-airlines-lax-wifi/367110/
#10yrsago Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets https://medium.com/message/72-hours-of-gamergate-e00513f7cf5d
#10yrsago The Peripheral: William Gibson vs William Gibson https://memex.craphound.com/2014/10/28/the-peripheral-william-gibson-vs-william-gibson/
#10yrsago Thousands of Americans got sub-broadband ISP service, thanks to telcoms shenanigans https://web.archive.org/web/20141030214728/https://www.measurementlab.net/static/observatory/M-Lab_Interconnection_Study_US.pdf
#5yrsago Teen Vogue exec editor Samhita Mukhopadhyay: “proud to be ‘the most insidious form of teen communist propaganda’” https://jacobin.com/2019/10/teen-vogue-samhita-mukhopadhyay-interview/
#5yrsago The penniless hero of the ransomware epidemic has written more decryptors than anyone else https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-of-normal-illinois#169844
#5yrsago The top FBI lawyer who tried to force Apple to backdoor its crypto now says working crypto is essential to public safety and national security https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/28/the-top-fbi-lawyer-who-tried-to-force-apple-to-backdoor-its-crypto-now-says-working-crypto-is-essential-to-public-safety-and-national-security/
#1yrago A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news
