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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/16/gamer-gate/

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A psychedelic, brightly colored castle wall with turrets. It floats on in an existential background of a glowing, neon green grid that meets a code waterfall as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' films. The words GAME OVER are centered above the wall in the sky, in blocky, glowing, 8-bit type. The wall is shattered and peering out of it is a shadowy hacker in a hoodie. Next to the shattered wall is a red 'insert coin' slot from a vintage arcade game.

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ — A psychedelic, brightly colored castle wall with turrets. It floats on in an existential background of a glowing, neon green grid that meets a code waterfall as seen in the credit sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' films. The words GAME OVER are centered above the wall in the sky, in blocky, glowing, 8-bit type. The wall is shattered and peering out of it is a shadowy hacker in a hoodie. Next to the shattered wall is a red 'insert coin' slot from a vintage arcade game. Image: Bernt Rostad (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/7158955417/ Elliott Brown (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4890605302/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

toadjaune @toadjaune@hostux.social · 2 months ago

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While I'd love to see remote attestation / trusted computing / DRM be eradicated from personal computing, I fail to see how anticheats/antimalware getting kicked out of kernelspace changes anything here.

In order for those softwares to keep doing what they currently do from userspace, Microsoft will have to implement new kernel APIs for them.

I fail to see why such APIs couldn't include remote attesation, and in fact, I'm really expecting them to include it. (sadly)

kbal @kbal@fedia.io · 2 months ago

I didn't trust "trusted" computing from the beginning. There were at least a few of us who never fell for all the hype that really got going 15 years ago. Obviously our misgivings have since proved well justified. #NotAllGamers

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113147276277426019

On September 24th, I'll be speaking in person at the Boston Public Library!

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?startDate=2024-09-24&endDate=2024-09-24

The paperback edition of The Lost Cause, my nationally bestselling, hopeful solarpunk novel is out this month!

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865946/thelostcause

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster: The constituency for trusted computing is fracturing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113147276277426019

Image:
Bernt Rostad (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/7158955417/

Elliott Brown (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4890605302/

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ — Image: Bernt Rostad (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/brostad/7158955417/ Elliott Brown (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4890605302/ CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Hey look at this

* Embroidery Event: Sublime Silks in San Francisco! https://sublimestitching.com/products/special-events

* Swingleft https://swingleft.org/ (h/t Dan Savage)

* One Pennsylvania https://www.onepa.org/ (h/t Dan Savage)

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#20yrsago TSA OKs airport crotch-mauling https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2004/09/18/tighter-screeni.html

#20yrsago Haunted Mansion castmember’s remembrance https://web.archive.org/web/20040916234226/https://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_55663.asp

#15yrsago Teacher asks YA author if virtual visit can take place “with us being able to see you, but you not being able to see us” https://freerangekids.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/can-you-please-come-talk-to-my-class-but-not-look-at-anyone/

#15yrsago Britain’s postal-code database online at Wikileaks: produced at public expense, not owned by the public https://memex.craphound.com/2009/09/16/britains-postal-code-database-online-at-wikileaks-produced-at-public-expense-not-owned-by-the-public/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#15yrsago Working handcuff keys printed on a 3D printer https://blackbag.toool.nl/?p=940

#15yrsago Rich Seattle suburbs install ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cops follow all “suspicious” vehicles https://web.archive.org/web/20090922170058/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html

#15yrsago XKCD book is out https://blog.xkcd.com/2009/09/15/xkcd-volume-0/

#15yrsago Game economy credit-crunch: mismanaged bank freezes player accounts https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2009/08/virtual-bank-in-eve-freezes-accounts-due-to-deficit/

#10yrsago How your smartphone betrays you all day long https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2014/07/30/how-your-innocent-smartphone-passes-on-almost-your-entire-life-to-the-secret-service/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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#10yrsago Rightscorp cuts-and-runs as soon as it is challenged in court https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-internet-provider-refuses-to-expose-30000-alleged-pirates-140909/

#10yrsago Downvoting considered harmful https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/disqus-icwsm14.pdf

#10yrsago 3D printed book of bas relief from Art Institute of Chicago https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:463657

#5yrsago Tolkien’s Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is probably a misogynist satire of women’s rights campaigner Victoria Sackville-West https://twitter.com/Quatr_us/status/1173211758833668096

#1yrago Greenwashing set Canada on fire https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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September 11th's threads: Matt Bors's "Justice Warriors: Vote Harder"; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113119038710344298

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:

https://www.chevaliersbooks.com/product-page/the-bezzle

My latest nonfiction book is "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" from Verso Books:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

Signed copies available from Book Soup:

https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245

Both are national bestsellers!

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

https://craphound.com/shop/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Upcoming appearances:

* The Right to Read, Boston Public Library, Sep 24
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50

* SOSS Fusion (Atlanta), Oct 22
https://sossfusion2024.sched.com/speaker/cory_doctorow.1qm5qfgn

* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
https://tusconscificon.com/

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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Recent appearances:

* The Van Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDa_a-NlILs

* HC4US
https://soundcloud.com/hc4us/081224-cory-doctorow-a-canadian-british-science-fiction-author-activist-and-journalist

* Tech Rights & The Future of Privacy (Synthetic Minds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5iAV1YmO4

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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr · 2 months ago

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