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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readNov 17, 2022

#20yrsago Hacker R0TC https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-17-tm-cyber46-story.html

#15yrsago Korea’s Internet “addiction” boot-camps https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/technology/18rehab.html

#10yrsago What do we do about untrustworthy Certificate Authorities? https://www.nature.com/articles/491325a.pdf

#10yrsago Taliban uses CC instead of BCC, exposes identity of 400+ contacts https://observer.com/2012/11/taliban-accidentally-publicly-ccs-its-entire-mailing-list/

#10yrsago House Republicans release watershed copyright reform paper https://www.techdirt.com/2012/11/16/house-republicans-copyright-law-destroys-markets-its-time-real-reform/

#5yrsago Outstanding rant about the surreal design ethos of The Cheesecake Factory https://twitter.com/MaxKriegerVG/status/931373170791198720

#5yrsago Poor Detroit neighborhoods, abandoned by telcos and the FCC, are rolling out homebrew, community mesh broadband https://www.vice.com/en/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network

#5yrsago 70% of poor people on broadband subsidy will lose their connections thanks to Trump’s FCC https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/sorry-poor-people-the-fcc-is-coming-after-your-broadband-plans/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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