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Weaponized Punchcards, Databases, and APIs - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/29/weaponized-punchcards-databases-and-apis/
@feijoa You nailed it. Working my way through that, as well as the draft cards during Vietnam.
Weaponized Punchcards, Databases, and APIs - https://kinlane.com/2025/04/29/weaponized-punchcards-databases-and-apis/
@feijoa You nailed it. Working my way through that, as well as the draft cards during Vietnam.
@kin This feels very timely, and history is rhyming harder than Kendrick Lamar. The IBM punchcard story goes much deeper - IBM were key in enabling the Nazis to commit the Holocaust, and circumvented sanctions via shell companies in order to do it. It's a hell of a story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust