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2001, 2016, 2020.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readSep 28, 2021

#20yrsago Make a Pringles can wifi antenna https://web.archive.org/web/20011007171836/https://www.airshare.org/sd/installfest.html

#5yrsago Inside a multimillion dollar fake Kindle book scam https://www.zdnet.com/article/exclusive-inside-a-million-dollar-amazon-kindle-catfishing-scam/

#5yrsago Youtube’s new “offline first” product for India treats telcos as damage and routes around them https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-go-youtube-reimagined-for-next/

#5yrsago Wells Fargo execs will lose a few millions out of the hundreds of millions they got for abetting massive fraud https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/09/wells-fargo-ceo-stumpf-hit-with-41-million-in-clawbacks-head-of-community-bank-dinged-19-million.html

#1yrago The Trump financial method https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/28/cyberwar-tactics/#grifts

#1yrago Zombie banks https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/28/cyberwar-tactics/#aligned-incentives

#1yrago Newsletters’ glorious history https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/28/cyberwar-tactics/#mimeograph

#1yrago Belarus’s online/offline uprising https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/28/cyberwar-tactics/#belarus

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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