This day in history

2011, 2016.

#10yrsago Stolen government of Malaysia certificate used to sign malicious fake Adobe software update https://archive.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002269.html

#10yrsago Chapel Hill sends SWAT team to arrest Occupy “anarchists” https://web.archive.org/web/20111114130328/https://www.newsobserver.com/2011/11/13/1641362/activists-take-over-vacant-franklin.html

#10yrsago Secret documents reveal the flimsy case for Ofcom to give into BBC’s public TV DRM demands https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/14/bbc-hd-drm

#5yrsago Anish Kapoor banned from using world’s pinkest pink in retaliation for hoarding the blackest black https://www.vice.com/en/article/4xqzb3/the-worlds-pinkest-paint

#5yrsago Remember when they told us Hillary, not Bernie, would beat Trump? https://fair.org/home/polls-showed-sanders-had-a-better-shot-of-beating-trump-but-pundits-told-you-to-ignore-them/

#5yrsago Keep hoping machine running: Woody Guthrie’s New Years resolutions, 1943 https://memex.craphound.com/2016/11/14/keep-hoping-machine-running-woody-guthries-new-years-resolutions-1943/

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