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2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

Cory Doctorow
2 min readAug 10, 2021

#15yrsago British aviation bans all hand-luggage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778615.stm

#10yrsago Taxonomy of technological risks: when things fail badly https://web.archive.org/web/20111018072243/http://www.cert.org/archive/pdf/10tn028.pdf

#10yrsago XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force https://xkcd.com/936/

#5yrsago Nauru files: leaks tell abused childrens’ stories from Australia’s offshore concentration camp https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/10/the-nauru-files-2000-leaked-reports-reveal-scale-of-abuse-of-children-in-australian-offshore-detention

#5yrsago NRA is spending $3m on pro-Trump ad that says Clinton “will leave you defenseless” https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/nra-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election-2016/index.html

#5yrsago Court rules that FCC can’t force states to repeal laws banning municipal ISPs https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/in-blow-to-muni-broadband-fcc-loses-bid-to-overturn-state-laws/

#5yrsago Trump only writes the angry tweets, the nice ones are written by a staffer with an Iphone http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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