This day in history

2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

#15yrsago Rented AT&T home phone cost elderly woman $2,000 over 40 years https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2006-09-14-phone_x.htm

#15yrsago French DRM activists surrender to police https://web.archive.org/web/20070110181344/http://stopdrm.info/index.php?2006/09/20/110-compte-rendu-de-l-operation-des-interoperabilisateurs-volontaires

#10yrsago Cost of raising middle-income child in USA increases by 40% over ten years https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/pf/cost_raising_child/index.htm

#5yrsago HTML standardization group calls on W3C to protect security researchers from DRM https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/html-standardization-group-calls-w3c-protect-security-researchers-drm

#5yrsago I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise https://memex.craphound.com/2016/09/22/i-have-found-a-secret-tunnel-that-runs-underneath-the-phone-companies-and-emerges-in-paradise/

#5yrsago China’s elites appear to be exfiltrating billions while on holidays https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-21/suitcases-of-cash-chinese-travel-data-hint-at-capital-outflows

#5yrsago Wells Fargo fired the whistleblowers who reported massive fraud, and that’s a crime…