This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018, 2022.

#15yrsago DHS spends millions on bus kill-switches to stop Osama bin Laden from reenacting the movie “Speed” https://nypost.com/2008/06/08/busting-terror/

#15yrsago National Geo’s China issue has controversial pages glued together in China https://web.archive.org/web/20130928204106/http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2008/06/04/glued-geographic/

#10yrsago UK government online disability benefits signup requires Internet Explorer 6 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/make-online-dla-claim-system-work

#10yrsago Detailed obit of Iain Banks https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/09/iain-banks-dies-59-cancer

#10yrsago Austerity: the greatest bait-and-switch in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM

#10yrsago Who’s claiming copyright on the Prism logo? https://www.gawker.com/a-british-television-host-took-the-photo-used-in-the-ns-512093707

#5yrsago Facebook only pretended to shut down access to friends’ data in 2015, quietly continued access for its favored partners https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/08/facebook-gave-some-companies-special-access-data-users-friends-report/686651002/

#1yrago Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers: The war on your pancreas…