Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago alt.interoperability.adversarial https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial

#5yrsago A woman’s stalker compromised her car’s app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/06/womans-stalker-used-an-app-that-allowed-him-stop-start-track-her-car/

#5yrsago Transcription service rev.com cuts “professional transcriptionists'” effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 https://gizmodo.com/transcription-platform-rev-slashes-minimum-pay-for-work-1839784941

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  yesterday

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#5yrsago Before you ask your Chinese factory for a discount, make sure you won’t be kidnapped and/or have your product cloned https://web.archive.org/web/20191113124342/https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/11/the-right-way-to-reduce-your-china-product-costs.html

#5yrsago EFF and ACLU triumph as federal judge rules that warrantless, suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal https://www.eff.org/press/releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

#1yrago The (open) web is good, actually https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/13/this-is-for-everyone/#revisiting

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  yesterday

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#10yrsago XKCD’s epic, day-long Rosetta mission flipbook https://xkcd.com/1446/

#10yrsago Roca Labs sends abusive, unwarranted DMCA notices to banish negative reviews https://www.techdirt.com/2014/11/12/roca-labs-issues-bogus-dmca-takedown-notices-to-google-to-try-to-hide-pissedconsumer-reviews/

#10yrsago When the FBI told MLK to kill himself (who are they targeting now?) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-dangers-unchecked-surveillance

#10yrsago Cheap dates: the pitiful sums that Big Cable used to buy off the politicians who oversee it https://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-big-cable-gave-the-politicians-who-overs-1657002442

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  yesterday

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#5yrsago alt.interoperability.adversarial https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial

#5yrsago A woman’s stalker compromised her car’s app, giving him the ability to track and immobilize it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/06/womans-stalker-used-an-app-that-allowed-him-stop-start-track-her-car/

#5yrsago Transcription service rev.com cuts “professional transcriptionists'” effective hourly wage from $6.35 to $4.50 https://gizmodo.com/transcription-platform-rev-slashes-minimum-pay-for-work-1839784941

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 days ago

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#15yrsago Labels may be losing money, but artists are making more than ever https://web.archive.org/web/20091115091151/http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/

#15yrsago Internet ghost-towns: the blocked IPs where the bad guys used to live https://web.archive.org/web/20110810225715/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/11/a_year_later_a_look_back_at_mc.html

#10yrsago Stories are a fuggly hack https://locusmag.com/2014/11/cory-doctorow-stories-are-a-fuggly-hack/

#10yrsago Ambulance takes comatose, insured woman to “wrong” hospital, drives her to bankruptcy, too https://web.archive.org/web/20141112070957/https://www.channel3000.com/news/woman-taken-to-wrong-hospital-faces-bankruptcy/29648000/

#10yrsago ISPs caught sabotaging their customers’ email encryption https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  3 days ago

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Cory Doctorow  ·  4 days ago

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Cory Doctorow  ·  4 days ago

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#5yrsago Blizzard’s president apologized for suspending Blitzchung, but the suspension is still in force https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzard-president-clarifies-decision-to-ban-hearthstone-player-and-two-casters-over-hong-kong-controversy/

#1yrago The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/09/lead-me-not-into-temptation/#chamberlain

#1yrago Biden wants to ban ripoff "financial advisors" https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#but-muh-freedumbs

#1yrago "Brand safety" killed Jezebel https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/11/ad-jacency/#brand-safety

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  4 days ago

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Cory Doctorow  ·  4 days ago

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#10yrsago DOJ helps local cops get around state limits on civil forfeiture https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/nov/10/asset-forfeiture-article/

#10yrsago New KKK organization open to people of color, Jews, LGBT https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ku-klux-klan-opens-its-doors-hispanic-blacks-jews-gays-1473907

#10yrsago Italian scientists acquitted of culpability in L’Aquila quake https://web.archive.org/web/20160826014632/https://www.dw.com/en/court-acquits-natural-disaster-experts-over-laquila-quake/a-18055155

#10yrsago Expat activists and journalists leave USA for Berlin’s safety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/09/berlins-digital-exiles-tech-activists-escape-nsa

#10yrsago Senate races were won by dump-trucks full of “dark money” https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/opinion/sunday/dark-money-helped-win-the-senate.html

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  4 days ago

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#10yrsago The Oatmeal to Ted Cruz: Net Neutrality is not Obamacare https://theoatmeal.com/blog/net_neutrality

#5yrsago AOC really plays in Iowa https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/turns-out-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-huge-in-iowa/

#5yrsago Bill Gates just accidentally proved that even “unsuccessful” antitrust enforcement works https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/11/bill-gates-just-accidentally-proved-that-even-unsuccessful-antitrust-enforcement-works/

#10yrsago Net Neutrality activists blockade FCC Chairman Wheeler’s house https://popularresistance.org/breaking-net-neutrality-activists-blockade-fcc-chairman-tom-wheelers-house/

#10yrsago DOJ helps local cops get around state limits on civil forfeiture https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/nov/10/asset-forfeiture-article/

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#5yrsago Guillotine watch: Louis XVI’s final chateau, never occupied by royalty, is for sale, just in time for the next revolution https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/10/04/a-sleeping-chateau-untouched-since-the-revolution-is-for-sale/

#5yrsago Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/leaked-documents-show-facebook-leveraged-user-data-fight-rivals-help-n1076986

#1yrago Naomi Alderman's 'The Future' https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/07/preppers-of-the-red-death/#the-event

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#10yrsago Pennsylvania passes a “Gag Mumia” law to silence prisoner’s voices https://kersplebedeb.com/posts/the-gag-mumia-law/

#5yrsago T-Mobile: because we have a (stupid) trademark on one magenta shade, no one can use pink in their logos https://adage.com/article/digital/t-mobile-says-it-owns-exclusive-rights-color-magenta/2212556

#5yrsago Two years ago, Juli Briskman was fired for flipping off the Trump motorcade; now she’s been elected as a Virginia county supervisor https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/the-cyclist-who-flipped-off-trumps-motorcade-is-running-for-public-office/2018/09/11/c12cc2d2-b5dc-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html

#1yrago Amazon is a ripoff https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  last week

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#5yrsago When the company that made your prosthetic feet won’t repair them https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/when-the-company-that-made-your-prosthetic-feet-wont-repair-them/

#5yrsago The Porch of Doom: a Halloween haunt that sends visitors to a billionaires’ Mars where they are expected to do all the dirty work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfVhfty_4I

#5yrsago The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

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Cory Doctorow  ·  last week

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#5yrsago Lynda Barry’s “Making Comics” is one of the best, most practical books ever written about creativity https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/lynda-barrys-making-comics-is-one-of-the-best-most-practical-books-ever-written-about-creativity/

#1yrago A link-clump demands a linkdump https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/05/variegated/#nein

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Cory Doctorow  ·  last week

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#10yrsago Chip-and-PIN cards let nearby fraudsters steal $1M at a time https://www.wired.com/2014/11/chip-n-pin-foreign-currency-vulnerability/

#5yrsago After decades of corporate theft, Spinal Tap is finally getting paid by Universal https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/spinal-tap-universal-music-settle-copyright-dispute-1203393300/

#5yrsago Jeannette Ng was right: John W Campbell was a fascist https://locusmag.com/2019/11/cory-doctorow-jeannette-ng-was-right-john-w-campbell-was-a-fascist/

#5yrsago “Christian” hospital charges its own nurse $900,000 for her premature baby https://www.propublica.org/article/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby

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Cory Doctorow  ·  last week

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#5yrsago When the company that made your prosthetic feet won’t repair them https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/05/when-the-company-that-made-your-prosthetic-feet-wont-repair-them/

#5yrsago The Porch of Doom: a Halloween haunt that sends visitors to a billionaires’ Mars where they are expected to do all the dirty work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpfVhfty_4I

#5yrsago The inspiring story of how Cloudflare defeated a patent troll and broke the patent-trolling business-model https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-project-jengo-saga-how-cloudflare-stood-up-to-a-patent-troll-and-won/

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Teen uses external cameras and projection-mapping onto the a-pillar to “solve” blind-spots https://gizmodo.com/14-year-old-genius-solves-blind-spots-1839540078

#5yrsago The public spent $10b for Trump’s wall (so far); smugglers are cutting it with $100 saws and $10 blades https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

#1yrago Big Tech's "attention rents" https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/subprime-attention-rent-crisis/#euthanize-rentiers

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/facebook-permanently-deletes-the-accounts-of-nso-workers/

#5yrsago The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with “moral whims” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/how-did-democrats-lose-the-states-money-money-money.html

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Leaked document reveals that Sidewalk Labs’ Toronto plans for private taxation, private roads, charter schools, corporate cops and judges, and punishment for people who choose privacy https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalk-labs-document-reveals-companys-early-plans-for-data/

#1yrago The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate "solutions" https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/#big-tradeoff

#1yrsago Social Security is class war, not intergenerational conflict https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/01/intergenerational-warfare/#five-pound-blocks-of-cheese

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Airbnb’s easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive https://www.vice.com/en/article/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb/

#5yrsago Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program

#5yrsago Massive spike in young people registering to vote in the UK https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/01/massive-spike-in-young-people-registering-to-vote-in-the-uk/

#5yrsago How the British left should seize this moment to strip finance of its political clout https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/thatcher-had-a-battle-plan-for-her-economic-revolution-now-the-left-needs-one-too/

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago After suing NSO Group for hacking Whatsapp, Facebook kicks NSO employees off its services https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/facebook-permanently-deletes-the-accounts-of-nso-workers/

#5yrsago The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with “moral whims” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/how-did-democrats-lose-the-states-money-money-money.html

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of “cyberwarfare” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-11-01/sandworm-andy-greenberg-cybersecurity

#5yrsago Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science “emotion recognition” rules https://twitter.com/suelinwong/status/1190194625572569093

#5yrsago Toronto approves Google’s surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-quayside-vote-1.5342294

#5yrsago Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/31/chicago-teachers-strike-union-tentative-agreement-makeup-days/4106271002/

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago Airbnb’s easily gamed reputation system and poor customer service allow scammers to thrive https://www.vice.com/en/article/nationwide-fake-host-scam-on-airbnb/

#5yrsago Suppressed internal emails reveal that the IRS actively helped tax-prep giants suppress Free File https://www.propublica.org/article/the-irs-tried-to-hide-emails-that-show-tax-industry-influence-over-free-file-program

#5yrsago Massive spike in young people registering to vote in the UK https://memex.craphound.com/2019/11/01/massive-spike-in-young-people-registering-to-vote-in-the-uk/

#5yrsago How the British left should seize this moment to strip finance of its political clout https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/thatcher-had-a-battle-plan-for-her-economic-revolution-now-the-left-needs-one-too/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#10yrsago Surveillance and stalkers: how the Internet supercharges gendered violence https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2014/10/28/surveillance-begins-at-home/

#10yrsago Secret recording of corporate lobbyist is a dirty-tricks playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html

#10yrsago NZ Trade Minister: we keep TPP a secret to prevent “public debate” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/31/new-zealands-trade-minister-admits-they-keep-tpp-documents-secret-to-avoid-public-debate/

#5yrsago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20944022/blizzard-blizzcon-hearthstone-china-hong-kong-response-j-allen-brack

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago My review of Sandworm: an essential guide to the new, reckless world of “cyberwarfare” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-11-01/sandworm-andy-greenberg-cybersecurity

#5yrsago Report from a massive Chinese surveillance tech expo, where junk-science “emotion recognition” rules https://twitter.com/suelinwong/status/1190194625572569093

#5yrsago Toronto approves Google’s surveillance city, despite leaks revealing Orwellian plans https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-quayside-vote-1.5342294

#5yrsago Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/31/chicago-teachers-strike-union-tentative-agreement-makeup-days/4106271002/

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#10yrsago Sen Lindsay Graham promises a fine future for “white men in male-only clubs” https://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/sen-lindsey-graham-white-men-joke-112338

#10yrsago Hungary cancels proposed Internet tax in the face of mass opposition https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29846285

#10yrsago David Graeber and Thomas Piketty on whether capitalism will destroy itself https://thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/soak-the-rich

#10yrsago USPS usage declines, but sloppy postal surveillance is way, way up https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/snail-mail-snooping-safeguards-not-followed-108056

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#10yrsago Surveillance and stalkers: how the Internet supercharges gendered violence https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2014/10/28/surveillance-begins-at-home/

#10yrsago Secret recording of corporate lobbyist is a dirty-tricks playbook https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html

#10yrsago NZ Trade Minister: we keep TPP a secret to prevent “public debate” https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/31/new-zealands-trade-minister-admits-they-keep-tpp-documents-secret-to-avoid-public-debate/

#5yrsago Blizzard’s corporate president publicly apologizes for bungling players’ Hong Kong protests, never mentions Hong Kong https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20944022/blizzard-blizzcon-hearthstone-china-hong-kong-response-j-allen-brack

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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The @internetarchive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars web.archive.org/web/2019103104

With “OK boomer,” millennials are killing intergenerational resentment nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/o

Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials reuters.com/article/us-faceboo

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Cory Doctorow  ·  2 weeks ago

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#5yrsago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30/the-first-scarfolk-annual-a-mysterious-artifact-from-a-curiously-familiar-eternal-grimdark-1970s/

#1yrago Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law

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