This day in history

2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#15yrsago Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs https://web.archive.org/web/20070218084354/macrovision.com/company/news/drm/response_letter.shtml

#10yrsago Meet the western technology companies who sell network snooping technology to torturing dictators https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/spy-tech-companies-their-authoritarian-customers-part-i-finfisher-and-amesys

#5yrsago More anti-money laundering measures hit China as top three Bitcoin exchanges freeze withdrawals https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/chinas-top-three-bitcoin-traders-freeze-withdrawals-for-a-month/

#1yrago Ring helped LAPD spy on BLM protests https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#ring

#1yrago Uber loses (another) $6.8b https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/16/ring-ring-lapd-calling/#uber-unter

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. 1His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).