#15yrsago #PGP and others team up to renovate #BletchleyPark https://www.zdnet.com/article/bletchley-park-campaign-makes-appeal-to-us/

#15yrsago #GeorgeRRMartin’s “The Armageddon Rag”: Sex, death, blood and rock-n-roll https://www.tor.com/2008/09/08/armageddonrag/

#15yrsago My Mother Wears Combat Boots — kick-ass #punk-#parenting book https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/08/my-mother-wears-combat-boots-kick-ass-punk-parenting-book/

#10yrsago #NSA secretly broke smartphone security https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/privacy-scandal-nsa-can-spy-on-smart-phone-data-a-920971.html

#10yrsago NSA #leaks as a demographic phenomena https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/09/the_spooks_need_new.html

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#20yrsago #JohnGilmore on not obfuscating email in online archives https://web.archive.org/web/20030924160038/http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200309/msg00069.html

#20yrsago Tell the #PatentOffice to back off on the open source WIPO debate https://web.archive.org/web/20030921014946/http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2776

#20yrsago Making Book: best of the proto-blogs https://memex.craphound.com/2003/09/09/making-book-best-of-the-proto-blogs/

#15yrsago #Heinlein’s fan-mail solution https://kk.org/ct2/heinleins-fan-mail-solution/

#15yrsago Content: my first-ever collection of essays https://memex.craphound.com/2008/09/08/content-my-first-ever-collection-of-essays/

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#15yrsago Anti-#Scientology YouTube videos censored by the thousands https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-scientology-videos-youtube

#10yrsago Worst-paid Brits risk losing benefits for “not working enough” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/06/uk-lowest-paid-classed-not-working-enough

#5yrsago It’s been a year since #Equifax doxed America and nothing’s changed https://www.axios.com/2018/09/06/after-equifaxs-mega-breach-nothing-changed-1536241622

#5yrsago The most popular “privacy” tool in Apple’s Mac App Store was stealing users’ browsing history and sending it to China https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x37.html

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#20yrsago #Doonesbury references masturbation, America’s editors surrender https://web.archive.org/web/20030907031050/http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/09/05/trudeau/index_np.html

#15yrsago Britain spends more on cops, locks up more people than any other developed nation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/07/justice.police

#10yrsago 90 percent of #Tor keys can be broken by #NSA: what does it mean? https://memex.craphound.com/2013/09/07/90-percent-of-tor-keys-can-be-broken-by-nsa-what-does-it-mean/

#10yrsago Lego robot that strips #DRM off #Kindle books https://allthingsd.com/20130906/how-a-man-in-austria-used-legos-to-hack-amazons-kindle-e-book-security/

#5yrsago How to: beat Chinese social media image-filtering https://citizenlab.ca/2018/08/cant-picture-this-an-analysis-of-image-filtering-on-wechat-moments/

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#20yrsago #BBC to put its entire archive online http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3177479.stm

#20yrsago #Citytv invents live television blogging https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/24/citytv-invents-live-television-blogging/

#20yrsago Save #Christiania, August 30th march in Copenhagen https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/24/save-christiania-august-30th-march-in-copenhagen/

#15yrsago Kids can’t “go out and play” anymore https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-may-15-oe-brooks15-story.html

#15yrsago #MickeyMouse bridges the culture war when teaching #evolution to evangelical students https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/education/24evolution.html

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#15yrsago #Klingon knife scares the crap out of credulous British scandal-sheet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-387680/Lethal-Star-Trek-blade-seized-knives-amnesty.html

#15yrsago #Fafblog’s #MediumLobster becomes a political columnist for the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/aug/21/uselections2008.barackobama

#10yrsago Larry Lessig and EFF sue music licensing company over bogus YouTube copyright claims https://www.eff.org/press/releases/lawrence-lessig-strikes-back-against-bogus-copyright-takedown

#10yrsago Of Dice and Men: The Story of #DungeonsandDragons and The People Who Play It https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/23/of-dice-and-men-the-story-of-dungeons-dragons-and-the-people-who-play-it/

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#15yrsago Cartoon depicts what went on in the #NSA’s #wiretapping room at AT&T https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08/secret-room-eff-designers-cartoon-illegal-spying

#10yrsago #Groklaw shuts down over fears of email snooping http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

#10yrsago Anonymous #funeral director explains the big con behind the industry, coffins, and embalming https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kfoy5/comment/cbp748j/

#10yrsago #BurningMan #drone rules https://web.archive.org/web/20130819020808/http://www.burningman.com/preparation/event_survival/drones.html#.UhF-LtHP1qY

#10yrsago The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man’s Canyon https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/20/the-expeditioners-and-the-treasure-of-drowned-mans-canyon/

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#15yrsago #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation launches #CreativeCommons community media site https://web.archive.org/web/20080820022723/https://pool.org.au/

#15yrsago #LittleSammySneeze: #WinsorMcCay’s anarchic precurson to #LittleNemoInSlumberland, now a beautiful, giant book https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/20/little-sammy-sneeze-winsor-mccays-anarchic-precurson-to-little-nemo-in-slumberland-now-a-beautiful-giant-book/

#15yrsago #Printcrime in Portuguese https://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2008/08/printcrime.html

#15yrsago Writer who photographed #HPLovecraft’s headstone ordered to delete her photo, heaped with abuse https://web.archive.org/web/20080831143307/http://greygirlbeast.livejournal.com/482449.html

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#15yrsago UK gov’t loses 4 million citizens’ personal info https://cdn.computerworld.co.nz/article/494185/data_four_million_lost_one_year_uk/

#15yrsago #SlimGaillard’s #Vout dictionary: jazz #hipster argot from the 30s https://web.archive.org/web/20080913131050/http://www.pocreations.com/vout.html

#15yrsago Are images of the early #MickeyMouse still copyrighted? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-22-fi-mickey22-story.html

#15yrsago McCain’s #DandD character stats https://www.wired.com/2008/08/john-mccain-cam/

#15yrsago #RandomHouse asks young adult writers to contractually promise not to behave immorally https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/aug/01/childrenswritersdontmisbeha

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#15yrsago #TSA puts commercial pilots on #NoFly and #terrorist #WatchLists https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2008/08/grounded_muslim_airline_pilot.html

#15yrsago #McCain staffer slams #DungeonsAndDragons players https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/08/mccain-blogger-dd-players-pro-obama-not-chaotic-neutral/

#15yrsago #Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White — absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/19/tekkonkinkreet-black-white-absolutely-extraordinary-comic-fuses-manga-and-french-comics-in-a-story-of-violence-and-lost-boys-in-a-surreal-japanese-cityscape/

#10yrsago #BullshitJobs: why we’re not all working 4h days https://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

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#15yrsago #Olympic logo cops enforce stupid rules with masking tape https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121885240984946511

#15yrsago #HowardZinn’s “A People’s History of American Empire” graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/18/howard-zinns-a-peoples-history-of-american-empire-graphic-novel/

#5yrsago #SpiderRobinson’s joke https://memex.craphound.com/2018/08/18/spider-robinsons-joke/

#5yrsago #Antivirus maker #Sentinelone uses #copyright claims to censor video of security research that revealed defects in its products https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/18/sentinelone_bsides_copyright_takedown/

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#15yrsago How the #DailyShow’s PVRs work https://web.archive.org/web/20080819214437/http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2008/08/the-daily-show.html?cid=126776178

#15yrsago Transcript of my talk on “Life in the Information Economy” https://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt

#10yrsago Cross a border, lose your #ebooks https://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308&A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308

#10yrsago Talking about the writing life https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=223#m4107

#5yrsago NYU makes #MedSchool free for all students https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082

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#15yrsago Scamorama: book explains how to get into #scambaiting as a hobby https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/15/scamorama-book-explains-how-to-get-into-scambaiting-as-a-hobby/

#10yrsago #NSA leaks trigger steep rise in ad/third-party-cookie blocking https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/study-nsa-scandal-still-setting-privacy-alarm-bells-among-consumers-151835/

#10yrsago On slagging off other writers’ books https://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2013/08/on-my-refusal-to-mock-my-brothers-and.html

#10yrsago Decoding NSA doublespeak https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/guide-deceptions-word-games-obfuscations-officials-use-mislead-public-about-nsa

#10yrsago Dear airline execs: crowing about new fees and price hikes before your merger makes the DoJ mad https://consumerist.com/2013/08/14/past-statements-about-moneymaking-mergers-returning-to-bite-airline-execs-in-the-behind/

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#20yrsago Trademark-holders don’t have to be bullies https://web.archive.org/web/20030826225802/http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/08/14/trademarks.html

#15yrsago Stop Writing #YoungAdult #ScienceFiction https://gizmodo.com/stop-writing-young-adult-science-fiction-5037686

#15yrsago Young Adult Books Will Save Science Fiction https://gizmodo.com/young-adult-books-will-save-science-fiction-5036820

#15yrsago #RIAA has to pay $107,951 for court costs in failed suit against disabled single mom https://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/08/15/1145236/riaa-pays-tanya-andersen-107951

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#20yrsago #P2P network originates in #Palestinian refugee camp https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/in-refugee-camp-a-p2p-outpost/

#15yrsago Man whose US immigration notice was sent to the wrong address is detained with untreated spinal cancer until he dies, denied access to his wife and children https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html

#15yrsago #FreeCopyrightLicense upheld Fed Circuit Court of Appeals https://archives.lessig.org/index0d61.html?m=200808&paged=2

#10yrsago #Orwell explains Nineteen Eighty-Four https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-orwells-letter-on-why-he-wrote-1984

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#20yrsago #Ultima’s economic indicators http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2003_08_01_playmoney_archive.html#106022990884580908

#15yrsago #TrafficCams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget https://web.archive.org/web/20080813150522/https://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/47592.html

#15yrsago #WalMart: you can’t scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever https://www.flickr.com/groups/100_years_old/discuss/72157594167106526/

#15yrsago Janes in Love: #GraphicNovel is a call-to-art for young people https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/12/janes-in-love-graphic-novel-is-a-call-to-art-for-young-people/

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#15yrsago Y: The Last Man, the triumphal last volume of a fantastic graphic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/11/y-the-last-man-the-triumphal-last-volume-of-a-fantastic-graphic-novel/

#10yrsago How the #DailyMail invented Britain’s bungling-est spy-agency https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/3662a707-0af9-3149-963f-47bea720b460

#1yrago A dark money group is lying about #Medicare cut https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rope-a-dope/#cowards-and-lies

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#15yrsago California Supreme Court: #NonCompete clauses are not enforceable https://workforce.com/news/non-compete-agreements-going-going-gone

#15yrsago #Pacemakers can be remotely pwned https://venturebeat.com/security/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/

#15yrsago Working #Medeco high-security keys can be whittled out of plastic https://www.wired.com/2008/08/medeco-locks-cr/

#10yrsago HOWTO bake nested, hemispherical cakes https://cakecrumbs.me/2013/08/01/spherical-concentric-layer-cake-tutorial/

#10yrsago Audiobook memoir of Disney #Imagineering legend #RollyCrump: More Cute Stories https://itskindofacutestory.com/?p=102

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#15yrsago Knitting all of #Mario level one into a giant scarf https://themarioscarf.blogspot.com

#15yrsago Animatronic #waterboarding exhibit at Coney Island https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/arts/design/06wate.html

#15yrsago The Things That Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away — story about geek monasteries for smart people who don’t fit in https://www.tor.com/2008/08/06/weak-and-strange/

#15yrsago World of Developmentcraft: academic paper on #GoldFarming as a development activity in poor countries https://www.salon.com/2008/08/07/gold_farming_global_economy/

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#15yrsago #DMCA does not apply to US government, which can crack #DRM with impunity https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/08/air-force-cracks-software-carpet-bombs-dmca/

#10yrsago Attacking the popular #Kwikset lock: open in 15 seconds with a screwdriver and a paper clip https://www.wired.com/2013/08/kwikset-smarkey-lock-vulns/

#10yrsago Six blatant lies about spying from the #NSA up to Obama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eptZuXkUGmI

#10yrsago Prosecutor #StephenHeymann told #MIT that #AaronSwartz was like a rapist who blames his victim https://web.archive.org/web/20130804190514/http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/08/01/prosecutor-stephen-heymann-compared-aaron-swartz-to-rapist/

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