digital rights – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow Skip to content Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. Menu Books About Forums Podcast Newsletter RSS Mastodon Bluesky Medium Tumblr Tag: digital rights Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026) ----------------------------- Top Sources: None -- Today's links Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender": The history of digital rights, from the very beginning to this very moment. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Tariffs and monopolies; Paperclip dodecahedron; Class war comix; Glenn Beck's brain; Iceland v Pirates; Dashers v apps; Leaked NYPD goon squad manual. Upcoming appearances: Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, London, Berlin, NYC, Hay-on-Wye, London. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em. 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Continue reading "Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 9, 2026Categories UncategorizedTags books, crypto means cryptography, crypto wars, digital rights, eff, gift guide, history, memoirs, privacy, reviews, web theory1 Comment on Pluralistic: Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (09 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2022 Today's links Podcasting "The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis": The cypherpunks were wrong (but also right) This day in history: 2002, 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2022" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 4, 2022April 4, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags cryptocurrency, cypherpunks, digital rights, human rights, podcasts, rubber hose cryptanalysis, spoken word1 Comment on Pluralistic: 04 Apr 2022 The Internet Heist (Part I) The early days of the war to control the future FACT (modified) Note: This is Part I in a series; Part II is here, Part III is here “A polite marketplace.” That’s what the movie studio executive said he wanted to create. It was my first day at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One of our supporters had been at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas the week before; coming back through the Convention Center late at night, he stumbled on an “open meeting” being held by the Motion Picture Association of America’s Copy Protection Technical Working Group. It was an “open meeting” in the sense that anyone who knew about it was welcome to attend, but they didn’t actually tell anyone it was happening, and they held it in the dead of night. On the spur of the moment, that supporter decided to attend. What he heard was genuinely bizarre, and would have been absurd if it wasn’t so alarming. That dead-of-night NAB meeting’s purpose was to announce the formation of a new interindustry consortium: the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group (BPDG), which would hold its inaugural “open meeting” the following week, at an LAX airport hotel that would be convenient for tech reps who flew in from Silicon Valley and for studio and TV reps based in LA. BPDG’s purpose? To steal the future. Continue reading "The Internet Heist (Part I)" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 2, 2022October 21, 2023Categories MediumTags bpdg, digital rights, drm, dtv, eff Pluralistic: 07 May 2020 The TSA is hoarding N95s; Look at this banana gondola.; America is united; $3 router rebooter; EFF's Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic; Wink will brick your smart home if you don't pay a monthly fee; Helicopter flyover of deserted Disneyland; EU: "Cookie walls violate the GDPR"; Unix and Adversarial Interoperability; Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto; Wechat spies on non-Chinese users for in-China censorship; Hidden doors disguised as bookcases; Vent dragons Pluralistic: 07 May 2020 just-look-at-it _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Today's links The TSA is hoarding N95s: It doesn't even use 'em. Look at this banana gondola.: Just look at it. America is united: Turkeys skeptical about Christmas. $3 router rebooter: If no_google then reboot. EFF's Guide to Digital Rights During the Pandemic: Digital rights are human rights. Wink will brick your smart home if you don't pay a monthly fee: How you act in bad times reveals your true character. Helicopter flyover of deserted Disneyland: We find it delightfully unlivable here in this ghostly retreat. EU: "Cookie walls violate the GDPR": Another blow to cookie consent theatre. Unix and Adversarial Interoperability: The "one weird antitrust trick" that defined modern computing. Sidewalk Labs pulls out of Toronto: Sic Semper Boondoggle. Wechat spies on non-Chinese users for in-China censorship: Your dank memes, banned in realtime. Hidden doors disguised as bookcases: No books harmed. Vent dragons: Alas, you can't use them as working vent covers. This day in history: 2010, 2015, 2019 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading Continue reading "Pluralistic: 07 May 2020" Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 7, 2020May 8, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags adversarial interoperability, alphabet, american unity, apple, art, at&t;, bananas, big tech, books, canada, cdnpol, censorship, china, citizen lab, consent decrees, digital rights, doj, dragons, ebooks, eff, fanac, food, gift guide, google, hoarders, housewares, just look at it, makers, monopolism, n95s, not books, not food, old school, onpol, ontario, oshw, paleocomputing, ppe, recipes, routers, sidewalk labs, smart cities, surveillance, technological self-determination, tencent, the reactionary mind, the stay at home party, toronto, torpol, tsa, turkeys voting for christmas, unix, uyghurs, wechat, wink4 Comments on Pluralistic: 07 May 2020 Previous editions Pluralistic: Deranged billionaires and their syndromes (16 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026) Pluralistic: Why aren't AI companies competing directly with their customers? 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