This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readOct 3, 2022

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#20yrsago Why is it so hard to get a cab in San Francisco? https://web.archive.org/web/20021003045806/http://www.bradnewsham.com/articles/why_so_hard.shtml

#15yrsago The Future of Ignoring Things https://web.archive.org/web/20071011000250/https://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=479&doc_id=134703&

#10yrsago Congress: The DHS’s “fusion centers” full of bad intelligence, lies, and imaginary buildings https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/inquiry-cites-flaws-in-regional-counterterrorism-offices.html?_r=0

#10yrsago A Wrinkle in Time, worthy graphic novel adaptation https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/03/a-wrinkle-in-time-worthy-graphic-novel-adaptation/

#5yrsago Yahoo revises number of hacked accounts from 500,000,000 to 3,000,000,000 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/yahoo-says-all-3-billion-accounts-were-compromised-in-2013-hack/

#5yrsago Trump’s ICE snitch-line is full of people secretly trying to deport their in-laws https://splinternews.com/this-is-what-it-looks-like-when-the-president-asks-peop-1819077393

#5yrsago Bluetooth sex toys are trivial to compromise just by walking around neighborhoods https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/screwdriving-many-bluetooth-sex-toys-leave-users-vulnerable/

#5yrsago /r/TheDonald on the Vegas shooting, before and after they learned it was a rich old white man https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/73x7qv/the_donald_community_before_and_after_learning/

#5yrsago Equifax: we missed 2.5 million people when we counted the size of our breach https://www.marketwatch.com/story/equifax-says-millions-more-customers-affected-in-cyberattack-than-previously-reported-2017-10-02

#5yrsago Either we don’t live in a simulation, or computing works differently outside the Matrix https://web.archive.org/web/20171002160013/https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

#5yrsago San Juan mayor barred from speaking on Trump’s Puerto Rico relief conference call…

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Cory Doctorow

Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr