This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Tonight (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability.

Tomorrow (June 7), I’m keynoting the Re:publica conference in Berlin.

Thursday (June 8) at 8PM, I’m at Otherland Books in Berlin with my novel Red Team Blues.

#20yrsago An idea for email clients https://memex.craphound.com/2003/06/06/an-idea-for-email-clients/

#15yrsago Patching ancient walls with legos https://www.designboom.com/art/jan-vormann-dispatchwork/

#15yrsago Security guard: no photography in Union Station; Congresswoman: Oh yes there is! https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2008/06/union-station-p.html

#10yrsago Scary Russian business-man insists he isn’t scary: “you are in no possible danger of being murdered if you come to Moscow!” https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/06/vrublevsky-arrested-for-witness-intimidation/

#10yrsago Doonesbury’s transvaginal ultrasound/Republican state house strips https://web.archive.org/web/20130606125228/https://imgur.com/aS3Tcm9

#10yrsago DHS on border laptop searches: we can’t tell you why this is legal, and we won’t limit searches to reasonable suspicion https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/feds-say-they-can-search-your-laptop-at-the-border-but-wont-say-why/

#10yrsago New York Senate makes it a felony to annoy a police officer https://web.archive.org/web/20130608230026/http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/senate-passes-bill-creating-crime-aggravated-harassment-police-officer</a.

#10yrsago Picture Day: wry, superb coming-of-age movie https://memex.craphound.com/2013/06/06/picture-day-wry-superb-coming-of-age-movie/

#10yrsago Leaked top-secret court order shows that NSA engages in bulk, sustained, warrantless surveillance of Americans https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

#10yrsago Time for total war on patent trolls https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-make-war-on-patent-trolls

#5yrsago UPS Teamsters ready to stage America’s biggest strike since 1997, with solidarity as the main sticking point…