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This day in history

2003, 2008, 2013, 2018.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJul 15, 2023

#20yrsago Reality shows: pointing the way to the panopticon future http://www.coherenceengine.com/blog/2003_07_01_archive.html#105830809488576022

#20yrsago How to fight for privacy https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2003/0715.html#1

#20yrsago MSFT provides tools to defeat its own DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20030730184611/http://openp2p.com/pub/wlg/3517

#20yrsago Amtrak is faking it https://web.archive.org/web/20030718092819/https://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/07/15

#20yrsago Love in the age of spyware https://www.salon.com/2003/07/16/city_of_angels/

#15yrsago Tiny sovereign Dutch neighborhoods in Belgian town https://bldgblog.com/2008/07/baarle-hertog/

#15yrsago Pedo-crazed parents call father a “pervert” for photographing his own children at a park https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father-branded-pervert--photographing-children-public-park.html

#10yrsago Saga: visually stunning, sweet and exciting space opera comic from Brian “Y: The Last Man” Vaughan https://memex.craphound.com/2013/07/15/saga-visually-stunning-sweet-and-exciting-space-opera-comic-from-brian-y-the-last-man-vaughan/

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Cory Doctorow
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