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

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/07/foreseeable-outcomes/

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thefathippy @thefathippy@mastodon.world · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

This is my completely shocked, who'd have ever thought face...

Prasoon @prasoon@freefree.ps · 2 months ago

@pluralistic

I saw a qassam brigade fighter booby-trap a house using US unexploded bomb, on RNN just now. This reminds me of that.

Carl Setzer @carlsetzer@mas.to · 2 months ago

@pluralistic the US' willingness to sacrifice privacy/freedom for security reminds me of this line from Ben Franklin: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”

Stu @tehstu@hachyderm.io · 2 months ago

@pluralistic wait, so everyone ended up ejecting Huawei networking gear because "China might spy", but because world+dog buys so much US kit, CALEA enables *checks notes* China to spy.

MarjorieR @marjolica@social.linux.pizza · 2 months ago

@pluralistic and, drawing the obvious lesson, this is why encrypted communications should never have back doors.

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

On October 23 at 7PM, I'll be in Decatur, presenting my novel *The Bezzle* at Eagle Eye Books:

https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow

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

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China hacked Verizon, AT&T and Lumen using the FBI's backdoor: There's no such thing as a backdoor that only works when 'good guys' use it.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113266144933295385

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

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Hey look at this

* Juice Rescue ⚡🔌🚗 https://juice-rescue.org

* Privacy and security in your messages https://opcandado.citizensandtech.org

* The Fed Took $3k From You and Gave it to Jamie Dimon https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-fed-took-3k

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

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#20yrsago How the NSA broke crypto, and created civilian crypto industry https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2004/10/the_legacy_of_d.html

#20yrsago @brewsterkahle: Universal access to all human knowledge is possible https://craphound.com/kahleweb20.txt

#20yrsago HOWTO break Google Print DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20041011120549/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/weblog/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2004/10/07/2

#15yrsago Japanese court overturns Winny ruling, says file-sharing software is legal even if used for infringement https://web.archive.org/web/20091009232138/http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20091008p2a00m0na016000c.html

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

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#15yrsago Robert E Howard collection, HEROES IN THE WIND: revisit your heroic past https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/08/robert-e-howard-collection-heroes-in-the-wind-revisit-your-heroic-past/

#15yrsago The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn’t want you to see! https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/06/the-criticism-that-ralph-lauren-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

#15yrsago Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan: kick-ass young adult steampunk series starts with a bang, a hiss and a clank https://memex.craphound.com/2009/10/06/scott-westerfelds-leviathan-kick-ass-young-adult-steampunk-series-starts-with-a-bang-a-hiss-and-a-clank/

#10yrsago Profile of Daniel Pinkwater, “Pynchon for kids” https://forward.com/culture/206667/how-daniel-pinkwater-became-my-own-personal-guru/

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

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#10yrsago Sore losers: How casinos went after two guys who found a video poker bug https://www.wired.com/2014/10/cheating-video-poker/

#10yrsago Fixing the unfixable USB bug https://www.wired.com/2014/10/unpatchable-usb-malware-now-patchsort/

#10yrsago 20 meaningful things you can do about climate change http://thischangeseverything.org/twenty-things-you-can-do-to-address-the-climate-crisis/

#10yrsago 10% of Americans have 10 or more alcoholic drinks every day https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/09/25/think-you-drink-a-lot-this-chart-will-tell-you/

#10yrsago $35 Firefox OS smartphone – back to the drawing board https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/10/testing-a-35-firefox-os-phone-how-bad-could-it-be/

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

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#5yrsago For the first time ever, taxes on the 400 richest Americans were lower than taxes on everyone else https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

#5yrsago Supreme Court greenlights lawsuit over Amazon’s wage-theft from warehouse workers https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-amazon-com/u-s-supreme-court-rejects-amazon-warehouse-worker-wage-appeal-idUSKBN1WM1FI/

#5yrsago Bernie Blindness: a subreddit for noting the way press narratives ignore or smear Bernie Sanders https://www.reddit.com/r/bernieblindness/top/

#5yrsago Checkm8: an “unstoppable” Iphone jailbreaking crack https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer/

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

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#5yrsago After an injunction against Pacifica radio, New York’s WBAI is back on the air https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786

#5yrsago How the “Varsity Blues” admissions scam punished deserving, hard working kids so that mediocre kids of the super-rich could prosper https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/08/how-the-varsity-blues-admissions-scam-punished-deserving-hard-working-kids-so-that-mediocre-kids-of-the-super-rich-could-prosper/

#5yrsago Facebook’s 2016 election billboards: Buy all your elections with us! https://twitter.com/MarietjeSchaake/status/1180166896294887424

#5yrsago Podcast: Why do people believe the Earth is flat? https://ia601006.us.archive.org/35/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_311/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_311_-_Why_do_people_believe_the_Earth_is_flat.mp3

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

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#5yrsago Cloud vs humanity: Adobe terminates every software license in Venezuela, keeps Venezuelans’ money https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html

#5yrsago How this fine gentleman convinced me to donate $300 to Elizabeth Warren https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/06/how-this-fine-gentleman-convinced-me-to-donate-300-to-elizabeth-warren/

#5yrsago The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/06/the-corrupt-brazilian-prosecutors-who-locked-up-lula-now-want-to-release-him-to-make-him-less-sympathetic/

#5yrsago Hi-rez, open-licensed recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map https://ia803109.us.archive.org/7/items/disneylandmap1968_201910/DisneylandMap1968Full.jpg

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

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Saturday's threads: Doublethink sump linkdump; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113257047178847762

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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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