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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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