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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago The rise and rise of one of NYPD's dirtiest cops pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo

    #5yrago Inaudible pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/boo

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  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #20yrsago DVD Jon cracks Windows streaming video DRM theregister.com/2005/09/02/dvd

    #15yrsago German “secure” ID cards compromised on national TV, gov’t buries head in sand web.archive.org/web/2010082607

    #15yrsago Applying “ownership” to links, public domain material does more harm than good locusmag.com/2010/09/cory-doct

    #5yrago How to report on vote-by-mail pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre

    #5yrsago Amazon's weird, terrible Flex pluralistic.net/2020/09/02/fre

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  3. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Podcast of Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve ia903108.us.archive.org/3/item

    #5yrago Kindness and Wonder: Mr Rogers biography is a study in empathy and a deep, genuine love for children memex.craphound.com/2019/10/29

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  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrago Trial begins for the “cum/ex” bankers accused of stealing €447m and trying for €60b theguardian.com/business/2019/

    #5yrsago Here’s how to take Wired’s advice and get your own e-scooter, for a fraction of the cost memex.craphound.com/2019/09/24

    #5yrsago Permanent Record: Edward Snowden and the making of a whistleblower memex.craphound.com/2019/09/24

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  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
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    #5yrsago Beyond lockpicking: learn about the class-breaks for doors, locks, hinges and other physical security measures memex.craphound.com/2019/06/14

    #5yrsago Hong Kong’s #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate securityweek.com/surveillance-

    #5yrago Reverse mortgages: subprime’s “stealth aftershock” that is costing elderly African-Americans their family homes usatoday.com/in-depth/news/inv

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  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·

    #5yrago Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany’s legendary, paranoid secret police wired.com/2017/05/adrian-fish-

    #5yrsago The 2020 Census is headed for a “train wreck” thanks to Trump’s mismanagementhttps://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/04/trumps-threat-to-the-2020-census-000404/

    #5yrsago Apple’s control-freakery is making the Internet of Shit shittier theverge.com/circuitbreaker/20

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  7. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·

    #5yrsago After repeated budget cuts, Missouri’s underfunded Public Defender drafts the Governor to work for him web.archive.org/web/2016080406

    #5yrsago Copyright Office to FCC: Hollywood should be able to killswitch your TV eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/copy

    #5yrago Residents of Silicon Valley homeless camp clear 48,000 Lbs of garbage from creek, ask for housing mercurynews.com/2016/08/03/san

    #5yrsago Spoofing GPS is surprisingly easy; detecting it is surprisingly hard spectrum.ieee.org/protecting-g

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  8. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·

    #15yrsago Tiny cartoon penis disqualifies Ulysses comic from iPad store web.archive.org/web/2010061300

    #15yrsago Using Wikipedia entry as a pandemic-prevention clearinghouse web.archive.org/web/2006010417

    #10yrago Peer review provides £209,976,000 public subsidy to commercial publishers nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_

    #5yrago Man who channels alien from the future bombards Tumblr GIF artists with takedown notices brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/

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