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This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readSep 18, 2022

#20yrsago Infosec advice for civil society https://web.archive.org/web/20020401204434/http://secdocs.net/manual/lp-sec/

#15yrsago Brian Dettmer’s “Book Autopsies” — sliced book sculptures https://web.archive.org/web/20070925034123/https://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26/

#10yrsago Turing and Burroughs: a beatnik SF novel by Rudy Rucker https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2012/09/18/turing-burroughs-out-in-ebook-and-paperback/

#10yrsago A mandatory $180 art school textbook about “prehistory to 1800” with no pictures, thanks to a lack of mysterious “copyright clearances” https://ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2012/09/16/copyright-and-the-pictureless-art-history-textbook/

#10yrsago Obama 2012 campaign erases all previous civil liberties campaign guarantees https://web.archive.org/web/20120919091047/https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/2012911121256258902.html/

#5yrsago World Wide Web Consortium abandons consensus, standardizes DRM with 58.4% support, EFF resigns https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-director-ceo-team-and-membership

#5yrsago Florida Power and Light lobbyists made it illegal to use solar during outages…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr

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