This day in history
2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.
Tomorrow (September 22), I’ll be livestreaming into the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. On September 27, I’ll be at Chevalier’s Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.
#20yrsago Electronic voting machines: WE WON! https://web.archive.org/web/20031001223056/https://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030926_eff_pr.php
#20yrsago @Stake employee fired after criticizing MSFT: Download the report https://ccianet.org/wp-content/uploads/2003/09/cyberinsecurity the cost of monopoly.pdf
#20yrsago India to ban cover-versions of music https://web.archive.org/web/20031004162539/https://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1235
#15yrsago Walmart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/26/walmart-shutting-down-drm-server-nuking-your-music-collection-only-people-who-pay-for-music-risk-losing-it-to-drm-shenanigans/
#15yrsago Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards and will put us in a huge, Orwellian database http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7634111.stm
#10yrsago Verizon wants to slow down your favorite websites unless they pay bribes…