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Pluralistic: It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk (18 Jun 2024)
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It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk: It looks like you're trying to avert the DRM apocalypse…
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 18, 2024July 1, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags drm, enshittification, history, microsoft, microsoft research, mp3s, ngscb, podcasts, retrospectives, trusted computing3 Comments on Pluralistic: It's been twenty years since my Microsoft DRM talk (18 Jun 2024)
Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)
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Subprime gadgets: What a remote-brick app tells us about debt collection in the age of trusted computing.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2004, 2014, 2019, 2023
Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
Recent appearances: Where I've been.
Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
Colophon: All the rest.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 29, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags android, app stores, apps, armbreakers, boobytraps, curated computing, debt, drm, efficient market hypothesis brainworms, gadgets, google, law and political economy, mobile, og app, subprime, technological self-determination, trusted computing1 Comment on Pluralistic: Subprime gadgets (29 Mar 2024)
Pluralistic: Demon-haunted computers are back, baby (17 Jan 2024)
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Demon-haunted computers are back, baby: Surely no one will ever find a way to abuse this security system that treats the computer's owner as an attacker.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on January 18, 2024January 31, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags descartes, dmca 1201, drm, infosec, jailbreaking, next generation secure computing base, ngscb, nub of certainty, owner override, palladium, pixiefail, Schneiers Law, secure enclaves, self-destruct button, trusted computing, uefi, user override1 Comment on Pluralistic: Demon-haunted computers are back, baby (17 Jan 2024)
Pluralistic: Forcing your computer to rat you out (02 August 2023)
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Forcing your computer to rat you out: Self determination starts with the right to decide who can know which facts about you.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on August 2, 2023August 15, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags ad fraud, bossware, compelled speech, enshittification, google, interop, monopoly, ngscb, none of your business, nym wars, owner override, palladium, real names policy, remote attestation, rene descartes, right to remain silent, secure enclaves, spyware, stalkerware, taking the fifth, the right to lie, the zuckerberg doctrine, trusted computing, war on general purpose computing, web environment integrity, wei1 Comment on Pluralistic: Forcing your computer to rat you out (02 August 2023)
Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022
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Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things.
Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on July 28, 2022August 15, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags app stores, apts, bootkits, computer science, cosmicstrand, criti-hype, evil geniuses, ground truth, hypervisors, infosec, kaspersky, max Chafkin, ngscb, ordinary mediocrities, peter thiel, prodigal tech-bro, red pills, rene descartes, rootkits, scogito ergo sum, security, self-mythologizing, trusted computing, uefi, uh-oh2 Comments on Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022
When Automation Becomes Enforcement
What we talk about when we talk about interoperable end-to-end encryption
I was wrong about Snapchat, but I was also kinda right.
When I first encountered the idea of disappearing messages, I was both skeptical and alarmed.
Skeptical because disappearing messages have an obvious defect as a security measure: If I send you a message (or a photo) that I don’t want you to have, I lose. You can remember the contents of the message, or take a screenshot, or use a separate device to photograph your screen. If I don’t trust you with some information, I shouldn’t send you that information.
I was wrong.
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on April 3, 2022October 21, 2023Categories MediumTags Disappearing Messages, dma, E2ee, interoperability, trusted computing
Pluralistic: 05 Dec 2020
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Descartes' God has failed and Thompson's Satan rules our computers: Computers, trust, and the knowability of the universe.
This day in history: 2005, 2010, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming appearances, current writing projects, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on December 5, 2020December 6, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags apts, computer science, crypto wars, infosec, ken thompson, malware, monopolism, ngscb, palladium, peter biddle, rene descartes, seth david schoen, tpms, trickboot, trickbot, trusted computing, uefi1 Comment on Pluralistic: 05 Dec 2020
Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2020
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Audio from last night's Canada Reads event in Kelowna: Thanks to Sarah Penton for being such a great interviewer!
Gig economy drivers won't get sick-pay if they have covid-19 symptoms: Your Instacart driver is being incentivized to handle your food through his fever-sweats.
Compromise threatens Intel's chip-within-a-chip: A bug in the Management Engine threatens five years' worth of Intel systems.
The savior of Waterstones will turn every B&N into an indie: James Daunt has opened 60 profitable stores in his career.
This day in history: 2015, 2019
Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on March 7, 2020Categories UncategorizedTags audio, barnes and noble, bookselling, canada reads, cbc, coronavirus, covid-19, csme, daunt books, drm, gig economy, guillotine watch, infosec, instacart, intel, james daunt, kelowna, late-stage capitalism, lyft, management engine, palladium, precariat, renewability, selectable output control, trusted computing, uber, waterstonesLeave a comment on Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2020
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