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2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readMay 19, 2022

#20yrsago The annotated ETCON http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/etcon/notes

#15yrsago Fair(y) Use Tale: AMAZING video cuts up Disney to explain copyright https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2007/03/fairy-use-tale

#15yrsago How the right to attach can keep spectrum free https://web.archive.org/web/20070531165646/http://www.timwu.org/log/archives/134

#10yrsago TSA frisks actual (but likely harmless) mass murdering serial bomber http://www.loweringthebar.net/2012/05/tsa-gropes-kissinger.html

#10yrsago Swedish telcoms giant Teliasonera complicit in mass surveillance in the world’s worst dictatorships https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/05/swedish-telcom-giant-teliasonera-caught-helping-authoritarian-regimes-spy-its

#5yrsago Feds admit they used secret anti-terror mass surveillance tool to catch an undocumented waiter https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/feds-used-secretive-phone-tracking-tool-to-hunt-down-undocumented-immigrant/

#5yrsago An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry’s killswitch https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wannacry-ransomware-ddos-attack/

#5yrsago Disney’s Hall of Presidents show reportedly rolled back so Trumpbot won’t get a speaking role https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/165980

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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