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happy mutants A Public Service: a comprehensive, comprehensible guide to leaking documents to journalists and public service groups without getting caught Cory Doctorow
Entertainment Apple's "Snowbrawl" commercial is by the director of John Wick and Deadpool 2 John Struan
canada Critical essays (including mine) discuss Toronto's plan to let Google build a surveillance-based "smart city" along its waterfront Cory Doctorow
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fbi Joshua Schulte named as suspect in 'Vault 7' leak of CIA tools to Wikileaks, but charged instead over child porn Xeni Jardin
