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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow

EFF Special Advisor

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of young adult novels like HOMELAND, PIRATE CINEMA and LITTLE BROTHER and novels for adults like RAPTURE OF THE NERDS and MAKERS. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.

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Deeplinks Posts by Cory

Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 18, 2018

Hill-Climbing Our Way to Defeating DRM

Computer science has long grappled with the problem of unknowable terrain: how do you route a packet from A to E when B, C, and D are nodes that keep coming up and going down as they get flooded by traffic from other sources? How do you shard a database...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 12, 2018

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the stage for mass, automated surveillance and arbitrary censorship of the internet: text messages like tweets and Facebook updates...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 11, 2018

Wanting It Badly Is Not Enough: Real Problems For Creators Deserve Real Solutions

As the European Parliament prepares for tomorrow's vote on the new Copyright Directive with its provisions requiring mass-scale filtering of the majority of public communications to check for copyright infringement (Article 13) and its provisions requiring paid permission to link to the news if you include as little as...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 11, 2018

How the EU's Copyright Filters Will Make it Trivial For Anyone to Censor the Internet

On Wednesday, the EU will vote on whether to accept two controversial proposals in the new Copyright Directive; one of these clauses, Article 13, has the potential to allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to effect mass, rolling waves of censorship across the Internet. The way things stand today...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 10, 2018

Not In Our Name: Why European Creators Should Oppose the EU's Proposal To Limit Linking and Censor The Internet

The European Copyright Directive vote is in three days and it will be a doozy: what was once a largely uncontroversial grab bag of fixes to copyright is now a political firestorm, thanks to the actions of Axel Voss, the German MEP who changed the Directive at the last minute...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | September 5, 2018

Why the Whole World Should Be Up in Arms About the EU's Looming Internet Catastrophe

In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only be called an extinction-level event for the Internet as we know it. At issue is the text of the new EU Copyright Directive, which updates the...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 20, 2018

Tomorrow! Join Us For a Reddit AMA On Defending Security Researchers From Copyright Law

Have you ever wanted to talk with the Electronic Frontier Foundation about the risks of talking in public about security issues, especially in connected Internet of Things devices? Tomorrow, you'll get your chance. Information security has never been more important: now that everything from a car to a voting...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 15, 2018

Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Illegal. EVER.

Congress has never made a law saying, "Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects in their products,"— and the First Amendment wouldn't allow such a law — but that hasn't stopped corporations from conjuring one out of thin air, and then defending it as...
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Deeplinks Blog by Cory Doctorow | August 9, 2018

Captive Audience: How Florida's Prisons and DRM Made $11.3M Worth of Prisoners' Music Disappear

The Florida Department of Corrections is one of the many state prison systems that rely on private contractors to supply electronic messaging and access to electronic music files and books for prisoners. For seven years, Florida’s prisoners have bought music through Access Corrections, a company that took in $11.3 million...
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Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart, Cory Doctorow | July 20, 2018

Between You, Me, and Google: Problems With Gmail's “Confidential Mode”

With Gmail’s new design rolled out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its new “Confidential Mode.” While many of its features sound promising, what “Confidential Mode” provides isn’t confidentiality. At best, the new mode might create expectations that it fails...
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