This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Norwegian cops arrest DVD Jon https://www.wired.com/2002/01/norway-cracks-down-on-dvd-hacker/

#15yrsago Printcrime on Escape Pod https://escapepod.org/2007/01/09/ep-flash-printcrime/

#15yrsago RIP, Yvonne De Carlo https://web.archive.org/web/20070112102858/https://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html

#15yrsago Spa offers “Blackberry Thumb” massages https://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/26034/index.html

#10yrsago Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/

#10yrsago How Mastercard and Visa rip off merchants with secret, 1,000-page “agreement” https://web.archive.org/web/20120112025923/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/credit-card-firms-they-dont-just-steal-from-cardholders-20120109

#10yrsago Fight PIPA, SOPA’s Senate cousin, with this Senate scorecard https://web.archive.org/web/20120109120411/www.sopaopera.org/protect-ip/

#5yrsago Apple Store employees fired after accusations of snooping on customers’ devices for sexual selfies and sharing them…