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2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMay 11, 2021

#20yrsago Massively parallel Furby clustering http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.html

#15yrsago Diebold voting machines can be 0wned in minutes https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/05/11/report-claims-very-serious-diebold-voting-machine-flaws/

#15yrsago Ask a Ninja tackles Net Neutrality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H69eCYcDcuQ

#10yrsago Vernor Vinge on the promise, progress and threats of Augmented Reality http://www.ugotrade.com/2011/05/10/interview-with-vernor-vinge-smart-phones-and-the-empowering-aspects-of-social-networks-augmented-reality-are-still-massively-underhyped/

#10yrsago American oligarch buys the right to hire professors at Florida State U https://web.archive.org/web/20110511210435/https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/billionaires-role-in-hiring-decisions-at-florida-state-university-raises/1168680/

#5yrsago Germany will end copyright liability for open wifi operators https://torrentfreak.com/germany-to-rescind-piracy-liability-for-open-wifi-operators-160511/

#5yrsago Save Firefox: The W3C’s plan for worldwide DRM would have killed Mozilla before it could start https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/save-firefox

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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