This day in history
2004, 2009, 2019, 2023.
I’m coming to Defcon! On Aug 9, I’m emceeing the EFF Poker Tournament (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the Bricked and Abandoned panel (5PM, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I’m giving a keynote called “Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses’ insatiable horniness for enshittification” (noon, LVCC — L1 — HW1–11–01).
#20yrsago How cellphones change teenagers https://web.archive.org/web/20040812081823/http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/08/articles/index07.html
#20yrsago Webcomic creator turns down Universal Syndicate, offers works for free to any newspaper https://web.archive.org/web/20040810034621/http://www.pvponline.com/rants_panel.php3
#15yrsago CLIQ and other “unpickable” locks pwned at DefCon https://www.wired.com/2009/08/electronic-locks-defeated/
#15yrsago Associated Press will sell you a license to quote the public domain http://laboratorium.net/archive/2009/08/03/the_ap_will_sell_you_a_license_to_words_it_doesnt
#15yrsago Berlin’s luxury car arsonists https://www.theage.com.au/world/german-radicals-turn-to-arson-20090731-e4hf.html
#5yrsago Elsevier sends copyright threat to site for linking to Sci-Hub https://twitter.com/Citationsy/status/1156626811398307840
#5yrsago Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/the-network-structure-of-police-misconduct
#5yrsago We could fund the transition to green energy with 10–30% of the world’s fossil fuel subsidy https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/01/fossil-fuel-subsidy-cash-pay-green-energy-transition
#5yrsago Leaks reveal that disgraced, hacked surveillance company wrote Republican Congressman’s border security talking-points https://theintercept.com/2019/08/01/perceptics-hack-license-plate-readers/
#5yrsago Cathay Pacific’s new privacy policy: we are recording you with seatback cameras, spying on you in airports, and buying data on your use of competing loyalty programs https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/cathay-pacific-passengers-not-to-expect-any-privacy.html
#5yrsago Amazon’s secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data for use in scary alerts sent to Ring owners https://gizmodo.com/cops-are-giving-amazons-ring-your-real-time-911-data-1836883867
#5yrsago A visit to Bosnia’s last pigeon post office https://balkaninsight.com/2019/08/01/youve-got-mail-bosnias-last-pigeon-post-office/
#5yrsago Paying for climate change: the question isn’t “How?” but “Who?” https://www.wired.com/story/dont-ask-how-to-pay-for-climate-change-ask-who/
#1yrago Forcing your computer to rat you out https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai
