This day in history
2014, 2019, 2023.
On October 23 at 7PM, I’ll be in Decatur, presenting my novel The Bezzle at Eagle Eye Books.
#10yrsago There’s no back door that only works for good guys https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/09/crypto-wars-redux-why-the-fbis-desire-to-unlock-your-private-life-must-be-resisted
#10yrsago Buzz Lightyear cited in legal brief https://www.loweringthebar.net/2014/10/how-to-cite-buzz-lightyear.html
#5yrsago Bruce Schneier makes the case for “public interest technologists” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jn4pXDZn0
#5yrsago Computer historians crack passwords of Unix’s early pioneers https://inbox.vuxu.org/tuhs/87bluxpqy0.fsf@vuxu.org/
#5yrsago Apple’s capitulation over Hong Kong protest app isn’t new; and the NBA is racing it to the bottom https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/10/apples-capitulation-over-hong-kong-protest-app-isnt-new-and-the-nba-is-racing-it-to-the-bottom/
#5yrsago The Sacklers come to Sesame Street as a muppet is revealed to have had an addicted mother https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news-other-healthcare/465124-sesame-street-to-reveal-muppets-mom-suffered/
#5yrsago Verizon dumps another Oath property for peanuts: RIP, Mapquest https://searchengineland.com/a-eulogy-for-mapquest-322945
#5yrsago Hiding secrets in online text with zero-width characters https://web.archive.org/web/20200516062538/https://git.planetrenox.com/inzerosight/browser-extension
#5yrsago Ikea’s founder was a Nazi, and never stopped praising the Nazi leader he called “Best Brother” https://lithub.com/on-the-far-right-past-of-ingvar-kamprad-founder-of-ikea/
#1yrago Underground Empire: Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman’s must-read account of “How America Weaponized the World Economy” https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/10/weaponized-interdependence/#the-other-swifties
