The Ten-Day Hack That Became a Thirty-Year Trap

Thirty years ago, on December 4, 1995, the technological trajectory of our species shifted on its axis, though few recognized the seismic nature of the event at the time. Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release that would inadvertently lay the foundation for the most pervasive system of user subjugation in the history of computing. The announcement was for…