This day in history

2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021.

#20yrsago Dan Gillmor: The dotcom bubble was a Big Con https://web.archive.org/web/20021215154034/https://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/4621259.htm

#20yrsago GW Bush parodies can’t air on UK TV without his permission https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/world/a-bush-parody-is-banned-in-britain.html

#15yrsago Time’s Joe Klein shoves his foot in his gob on NSA wiretapping https://www.wired.com/2007/11/time-columnist/

#15yrsago Canada’s coming DMCA will be the worst copyright yet https://memex.craphound.com/2007/11/27/canadas-coming-dmca-will-be-the-worst-copyright-yet/

#10yrsago Letter from Alabama AG to KKK Grand Wizard: “Kiss my ass” https://lettersofnote.com/2012/11/26/kiss-my-ass/

#10yrsago Hotel break-ins blamed on flaw in keycard system https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploited-in-string-of-hotel-room-break-ins/

#10yrsago Collaborative critical study of one-line BASIC program written for the Commodore 64 https://10print.org

#5yrsago One of the net’s most important freedom canaries died the day the W3C greenlit web-wide DRM; what can we learn from the fight…