#10yrsago Saudi millionaire acquitted of raping teen in London, says he tripped and accidentally penetrated her https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12052901/Ehsan-Abdulaziz-Saudi-millionaire-cleared-of-raping-teenager.html

#10yrsago Someone snuck skimmers into Safeway stores https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/skimmers-found-at-some-calif-colo-safeways/

#10yrsago Philips promises new firmware to permit third-party lightbulbs https://web.archive.org/web/20151216182639/http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/friends-hue-program-update

#5yrsago Jan 1 is Public Domain Day for 1925 https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/16/fraught-superpowers/#public-domain-day

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#20yrago Sony DRM Debacle Roundup Part V https://memex.craphound.com/2005/12/16/sony-drm-debacle-roundup-part-v/

#15yrsago Weird D&D advice-column questions https://comicsalliance.com/weird-dd-questions-dungeons-dragons/

#10yrsago America’s permanent, ubiquitous tent-cities https://placesjournal.org/article/tent-city-america/

#10yrsago The changing world of webcomics business models https://web.archive.org/web/20151218130702/http://shadowbinders.com/webcomics-changing-business-model-podcast/

#10yrsago Cop who demanded photo of sexting-accused teen’s penis commits suicide https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/cop-who-wanted-to-take-pic-of-erection-in-sexting-case-commits-suicide/

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#10yrsago Lifelock anti-identity theft service helped man stalk his ex-wife https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2015/11/23/lifelock-used-electronically-track-arizona-woman/75535470/

#10yrsago EFF and Human Rights Watch force DEA to destroy its mass surveillance database https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/victory-privacy-and-transparency-hrw-v-dea

#10yrsago Do Androids Dream of Electric Victim-Blamers? https://neverbeenmad.tumblr.com/post/134528463529/voight-kampff-empathy-test-2015-by-smlxist-and

#10yrsago Billionaire GOP superdonors aren’t getting what they paid for https://web.archive.org/web/20181119192737/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/12/gop-billionaires-cant-seem-to-buy-this-election.html

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#10yrsago 24 privacy tools — not messaging apps — that don’t exist https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html

#10yrsago North Carolina town rejects solar because it’ll suck up sunlight and kill the plants https://web.archive.org/web/20250813151735/https://www.roanoke-chowannewsherald.com/2015/12/08/woodland-rejects-solar-farm/

#10yrsago Giant hats were the cellphones of the silent movie era https://pipedreamdragon.tumblr.com/post/135065922736/movie-movie-etiquette-warnings-shown-before

#10yrsago Plaid Lumberjack Cake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1hDl53c-kw

#10yrsago MRA Scott Adams: pictures and words by Scott Adams, together at last https://web.archive.org/web/20151214002415/https://mradilbert.tumblr.com/

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#10yrsago What I told the kid who wanted to join the NSA https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/west-point-cybersecurity-nsa-privacy-edward-snowden

#10yrsago Copyfraud: Disney’s bogus complaint over toy photo gets a fan kicked off Facebook https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/disney-initially-drops-then-doubles-down-on-dmca-claim-over-star-wars-figure-pic/

#15yrsago Sales pitch from an ATM-skimmer vendor https://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/12/why-gsm-based-atm-skimmers-rule/

#15yrsago Boardgame Remix Kit makes inspired new games out of old Monopoly, Clue, Trivial Pursuit and Scrabble sets https://web.archive.org/web/20101214210548/http://www.boardgame-remix-kit.com/sample/boardgame-remix-kit-sample.pdf

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#10yrsago US immigration law: so f’ed up that Trump’s no-Muslim plan would be constitutional https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/opinion/trumps-anti-muslim-plan-is-awful-and-constitutional.html?_r=0

#10yrsago Ecuador’s draft copyright law: legal to break DRM to achieve fair use https://medium.com/@AndresDelgadoEC/big-achievement-for-creative-commons-in-ecuador-national-assembly-decides-that-fair-use-trumps-drm-c8cdd9c57e01#.n1vkccd3r

#10yrsago One billion Creative Commons licenses in use https://stateof.creativecommons.org/2015/

#10yrsago The moral character of cryptographic work https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf

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