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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Belarus's online/offline uprising; Newsletters' glorious history; Zombie banks; The Trump financial method; Attack Surface excerpt; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/09/28/cyb…

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Belarus's online/offline uprising: The evolution of tactics, from ice cream to doxing.



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Newsletters' glorious history: An Antidote for Falsehood in the Daily Press.



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Zombie banks: Why everyone loves to help banks hide their losses.



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The Trump financial method: A quick and informative tldr on Trump's tax-returns.



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Attack Surface excerpt: Read chapter one of the third Little Brother book.



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#15yrsago My DRM talk to HP research craphound.com/hpdrm.txt

#10yrsago HOWTO make a meat-head web.archive.org/web/2010092803…

#10yrsago Legal blackmail: comprehensive look at tactics of copyright bounty-hunters arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#10yrsago What Internet activism looks like web.archive.org/web/2010100220…

#5yrsago Distinguished scientists call for RICO prosecution of climate deniers brucesterling.tumblr.com/post/130046509…

#5yrsago AP will use “climate doubters” instead of “climate skeptics” blog.ap.org/announcements/…

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#5yrsago Righstcorp’s terrifying extortion script is breathtaking in its sleaze techdirt.com/articles/20150…

#5yrsago Carly Fiorina boasts: I sold the NSA its mass-surveillance servers web.archive.org/web/2019051900…

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#1yrago Every word Ajit Pai says about Net Neutrality is a lie, including “and” and “the” vice.com/en_us/article/…

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Yesterday's threads: The joys of tailoring; Ransomware for coffee makers; My Reddit Privacy AMA; and more!



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I have a (free) new book out! "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is an anti-monopolist critique of Big Tech that connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies and proposes a way to deal with both:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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My next book is ATTACK SURFACE, sequel to Little Brother and Homeland: it's a technothriller about a surveillance techie who goes home and learns the weapons she helped build are used against the racial justice movement founded by her best friend.

read.macmillan.com/promo/attacksu…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, 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."

craphound.com/shop/

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Upcoming talks:

* Writing into an Uncertain Future, Afterwords Festival, Oct 1, eventbrite.ca/e/writing-into…

* 3 Big Ideas To Fix the Internet, Oct 7, nycmedialab.org/upcoming-event…

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Recent appearances:

* If Big Tech Is Toxic, How Do We Build Something Better?
blog.archive.org/2020/09/24/dwe…

* On ‘Attack Surface’ and WiFi Fridges (What a Hell of a Way to Die):
soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodi…

* Little Brother vs. Big Audiobook (Techdirt): techdirt.com/articles/20200…

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My first picture book just came out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe…

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Today's top sources: Niina Into (twitter.com/NiinaInto), Noémi Fábry (twitter.com/icureiosity), Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com).

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