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Inside: Epson boobytrapped its printers; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/ink…

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Next Sat (Aug 13), I'm co-presenting a program item at @Defcon (Las Vegas) called "Literal Self-Pwning: Why Patients - and Their Advocates - Should Be Encouraged to Hack, Improve, and Mod Med Tech" with @CDameffMD & @jefftullymd:

forum.defcon.org/node/242205 2/

Epson boobytrapped its printers: "For your protection."

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1556313596438659073

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Hey look at this

* @superwuster, Biden’s Anti-Big Tech Adviser, Has Been Living the Dream wired.com/story/plaintex…

* The FAA Wants To Know How Small YOU Think Plane Seats Should Be simpleflying.com/faa-minimum-se…

* Angry teacher rant reddit.com/r/LateStageCap… 4/

#10yrsago @NealStephenson’s Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection memex.craphound.com/2012/08/07/nea…

#10yrsago If Hemingway (and Shakespeare, and co) were coders byfat.xxx/if-hemingway-w…

#20yrsago Ben Franklin, hax0r web.archive.org/web/2002021604… 5/

#5yrsago Five reasons to play D&D grimmwisdom.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/5-r…

#10yrsago Science fiction grand master Jack Vance rockin’ a uke and a kazoo 6/

#5yrsago Amazon is the poster child for everything wrong with post-Reagan anti-trust enforcement yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-a…

#5yrsago “Adversarial perturbations” reliably trick AIs about what kind of road-sign they’re seeing arxiv.org/pdf/1707.08945… 7/

#5yrsago Real-estate speculators bought the road and sidewalk in a gated wealthy San Francisco enclave sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier…

#1yrago End bankruptcy shopping: No more Sacklers, ever pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-… 8/

#1yrago Doordash privacywashes its war on workers pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-…

#1yrago Facebook's official disinformation research portal is a bad joke pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get…

#1yrago Scammers sell griefers social media banning services pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get… 9/

Friday's threads: Uber's still not profitable; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1555559226654826496

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My latest book is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.

Signed copies at @darkdel:

darkdel.com/store/p1840/Co… 11/

My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

Signed copies here:
darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av… 12/

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/ 13/

Upcoming appearances:

* @DEFCON 30 (Las Vegas), Aug 13
defcon.org/html/defcon-30…

* #UnfinishedLive (NYC), Sept 21-24
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Recent appearances:

* DRM Secretly Polices You (@dtnsshow)
dailytechnewsshow.com/2022/07/29/drm…

* Bricking Tractors (Inside Agri-Turf)
inside-agriturf.captivate.fm/episode/bricki…

* Blockchain, Bitcoin & Selling The Brooklyn Bridge (@MMTPodcast):
pileusmmt.libsyn.com/135-cory-docto… 15/

My first picture book is 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 @MCRockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

pluralistic.net/2020/07/14/poe… 16/

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My latest Medium column is "Como is Infosec"

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