This day in history
2010, 2015, 2020, 2023.
Picks and Shovels is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton.
#15yrsago ATM skimmer — could you spot it in the wild? https://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/01/would-you-have-spotted-the-fraud/
#15yrsago Italy proposes mandatory licenses for people who upload video https://web.archive.org/web/20100119020907/http://www.thestandard.com/news/2010/01/15/proposed-web-video-restrictions-cause-outrage-italy
#10yrsago Leaked US cybersecurity report singles out crypto as essential for security of private data https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/15/-sp-secret-us-cybersecurity-report-encryption-protect-data-cameron-paris-attacks
#10yrsago New editor at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction https://locusmag.com/2015/01/finlay-named-editor-of-fsf/
#5yrsago Five steps for thinking about climate change without being overwhelmed by hopelessness https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/opinion/sunday/how-to-help-climate-change.html
#5yrsago The ten types of movie: orange and blue, sexy legs, blurry cop… https://twitter.com/leesteffen/status/1217167850009440257
#5yrsago American conspiracy theorists keep insisting on their right to trial by combat https://www.loweringthebar.net/2020/01/kansas-man-seeks-trial-by-combat.html
#5yrsago Major brands’ ads are showing up on climate deniers’ Youtube videos https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/16/21066906/youtube-climate-change-denial-avaaz-samsung-uber-nintendo
#5yrsago Hong Kong shoppers patronize “yellow” stores that support the uprising; while “blue” businesses that support the mainland are vandalized https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-protest-shoppers-build-yellow-economy-reward-businesses-that-support-their
#5yrsago Carriers ignore studies that show they suck at preventing SIM-swap attacks https://www.issms2fasecure.com/assets/sim_swaps-01-10-2020.pdf
#5yrsago Bill from Missouri’s Rep Ben Baker threatens librarians with prison sentences for allowing minors to read books banned by town committees https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/missouri-could-jail-librarians-for-lending-age-inappropriate-books-parental-oversight-of-public-libraries-bill
#5yrsago Court case lays bare KPMG’s crimes: poaching employees from its own regulators and making them steal government secrets https://www.pogo.org/investigations/how-accountants-took-washingtons-revolving-door-to-a-criminal-extreme
#1yrago American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/16/flexibility-in-the-margins/#a-commons
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