This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017.

#20yrsago Elcomsoft not guilty on all counts! https://web.archive.org/web/20030101045946/http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978176.html

#20yrsago Technically legal signs for anti-PATRIOT ACT librarians https://www.librarian.net/technicality.html

#15yrsago Great Firewall of China crumbling from within https://www.wired.com/2007/10/ff-chinafirewall/

#10yrsago If you’re suspected of drug involvement, America takes your house; HSBC admits to laundering cartel billions, loses five weeks’ income and execs have to partially defer bonuses https://web.archive.org/web/20121221011216/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageous-hsbc-settlement-proves-the-drug-war-is-a-joke-20121213

#10yrsago Anonymous declares religious war on Westboro Baptist Church https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/12/anonymous-sets-sights-on-an-old-enemy-the-westboro-baptist-church/

#5yrsago CBD is a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana that shows promise in epilepsy and pain therapy, so the DEA wants to class it with heroin https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/who-report-data-on-marijuana-compound-does-not-justify-dea-scheduling/

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