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2003, 2008, 2018, 2022.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readApr 8, 2023

#20yrsago Matzoh granola: supposedly pretty good https://web.archive.org/web/20030409222751/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/099/food/In_granola_Matzo_rises_to_the_occasion+.shtml

#20yrsago President of MTU’s open letter to RIAA https://web.archive.org/web/20030421142309/http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/news/media_relations/95/

#15yrsago EFF fights for the rights of 3D modellers against bogus trademark claims https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/liberate-b-24-liberator

#15yrsago Florida sells unlimited water-pumping rights in drought-stricken State Park to Nestle for $230 https://web.archive.org/web/20080411055347/https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/article418793.ece

#15yrsago Wal-Mart corporate archivist selling access to recordings of exec meetings to plaintiff-side lawyers https://web.archive.org/web/20080410155138/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24033191/

#5yrsago You can unscramble the hashes of humanity’s 5 billion email addresses in ten milliseconds for $0.0069 https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cents-to-deanonymize-companies-reverse-hashed-email-addresses/

#5yrsago Trump Hotel employee guide: no swearing, no sexually suggestive gestures, and DO NOT hire your family…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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