This day in history
2009, 2014, 2019, 2023.
#15yrsago TSA can’t redact documents properly, releases s00per s33kr1t operations manual http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip
#15yrsago Photographers win British war on photography? https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-uturn-on-photographers-and-antiterror-laws-1834626.html
#15yrsago What do ISPs charge the law to spy on you? https://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf
#10yrsago Museums and the future history of the information age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPZ7blfVFo
#10yrsago Irish government retroactively legalizes GCHQ surveillance revealed in Snowden docs https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/state-sanctions-phone-and-email-tapping-1.2027844
#10yrsago Buy your own TSA-surplus pornoscanner for $8K https://web.archive.org/web/20141202204614/https://www.ebay.com/itm/111519265986
#10yrsago Senator Jay Rockefeller singlehandedly kills Freedom of Information Act reform https://web.archive.org/web/20141227173812/https://e-pluribusunum.com/2014/12/05/threatening-legacy-senator-jay-rockefeller-stands-alone-holding-back-historic-foia-reform-in-the-usa/
#10yrasago High court rules that English/Welsh prisoners should be allowed to read books https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/05/prison-book-ban-unlawful-court-chris-grayling
#10yrsago National Response Center: now THAT’s a logo https://memex.craphound.com/2014/12/06/national-response-center-now-thats-a-logo/
#5yrsago Prasad’s Law: there’s always enough health spending to concentrate wealth, never enough to diffuse it https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/12/why-hospitals-never-have-enough-nurses-the-explanatory-power-of-prasads-law-of-wealth-concentration.html
#5yrsago The retreat of “scientific selfishness,” a literature review https://www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-society/economics/greed-is-dead
#5yrsago 95% of America’s largest voting districts’ mailservers lack basic anti-phishing protection https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/major-voting-districts-vulnerable-email-security/
#5yrsago Radicalized is one of the CBC’s best books of 2019! https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2019-1.5382741
#1yrago Privacy first https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy
