This day in history

2003, 2013, 2018, 2022.

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

#20yrsago Whitehouse site blocks indexing of files about Iraq https://home.bway.net/keith/whrobots/index.html

#20yrsago WorldCon-running game https://web.archive.org/web/20031118200638/http://costik.com/weblog/2003_10_01_blogchive.html#106726489238821683

#10yrsago Spooks throw Obama under the bus: He knew about Merkel spying since 2010 https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html

#10yrsago Coach seating is getting even worse https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304384104579141941949066648

#10yrsago UK spies were terrified that the willing cooperation of telcos would get out; understood they were breaking the law https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/25/leaked-memos-gchq-mass-surveillance-secret-snowden

#5yrsago A detailed technical rebuttal of Bloomberg’s “backdoored servers” article https://www.servethehome.com/investigating-implausible-bloomberg-supermicro-stories/

#5yrsago Old dentists’ office walls are full of thousands of “buried teeth” https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/hundreds-of-teeth-found-in-downtown-valdosta-wall/article_2c6a0635-f973-58c2-8e18-949e63e4d9c7.html

#5yrsago Legal threats force retraction of peer-reviewed article about the problems with private-equity-backed dermatologists https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/health/private-equity-dermatology.html

#5yrsago Felons, Nazis: Michigan is occupied by an army of 3,000 armed, unregulated “police reservists” https://www.freep.com/story/news/investigations/2018/10/24/mcoles-michigan-reserve-cops/1353397002/

#1yrago Substituting economics for politics is a failure https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/27/economism/#what-would-i-do-if-i-were-a-horse