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2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 11, 2021

#15yrsago Eudora going open source, to be based on Thunderbird https://web.archive.org/web/20061014163143/https://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2006/061011_project_collaboration_mozilla.html

#10yrsago Vernor Vinge’s Children of the Sky: bootstrapping high-tech civilization from hive-mind Machiavellis https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/11/vernor-vinges-children-of-the-sky-bootstrapping-high-tech-civilization-from-hive-mind-machiavellis/

#10yrsago Chaos Computer Club cracks Germany’s illegal government malware, a trojan that spies on your PC and lets anyone off the street hijack it https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

#5yrsago When “reputation management” becomes perjury, forgery and fraud against America’s federal courts https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/

#5yrsago Whistleblower docs: Wells Fargo was opening fake accounts in 2005 https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw5zxv/wells-fargo-bank-scandal

#5yrsago If you bail on Yahoo Mail, forget about having your email forwarded…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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