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fromThe Walrus
2 weeks ago

How a Trove of Smuggled Records Could Help Syrians Get Justice for War Crimes | The Walrus

On December 8, 2024, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad collapsed, Mukhtar was at his home in Idlib Governorate, in northwestern Syria. (For safety reasons, he asked to use a pseudonym.) A researcher with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC), he watched videos of rebel forces rolling into the Syrian capital, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, whose precursor had been affiliated with Al Qaeda.
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fromThe Verge
7 months ago

Now you can watch the Internet Archive preserve documents in real time

The Internet Archive has launched a YouTube livestream showcasing the digitization of microfiche documents in real time.
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fromFast Company
8 months ago

How people secured their secrets before encyption

Historic letterlocking techniques provided physical security to correspondence long before modern encryption.
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