{"id":10902,"date":"2010-12-09T15:18:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2010-12-09T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T20:18:40","slug":"our-priorities-are-wikiwonky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/our-priorities-are-wikiwonky\/","title":{"rendered":"Our priorities are Wikiwonky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17 year old boy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-11961333\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested<\/a> recently because he mounted a Denial of Service attack that brought down the servers for the online version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callofduty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call of Duty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back in the real word (RL as compulsive gamers like to call it), in retribution for cutting off Wikileaks&#8217; funding and saying unkind things about Julian Assange, hackers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1336806\/WikiLeaks-hackers-Operation-Payback-cyber-war-targets-Swedish-Government.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">have mounted Denial of Service attacks<\/a> on the sites of Visa, Paypal, Mastercard, the Swedish Government, Sarah Palin, and are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/today\/hi\/today\/newsid_9271000\/9271139.stm\" target=\"_blank\">openly advertising<\/a> how others can join in the fun.<\/p>\n<p>And no-one has been arrested \u2013 well, other than Julian Assange for not using a condom.<\/p>\n<p>Call of Duty is a very good game \u2013 if a trifle violent \u2013 but it\u2019s difficult not to spot the disproportionate amount of energy the law is expending on protecting on-line gamers while ignoring acts that have the potential to bring down banks and governments.<\/p>\n<p>Any doubts that Wikileaks means business should be dispelled by the sight of the hardened bunkers used to house its servers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/12\/09\/article-1337014-0C685E1B000005DC-868_634x419.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"601\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Submarine engines converted to run a UPS:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/12\/09\/article-1337014-0C668A17000005DC-550_634x651.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"601\" height=\"617\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And Wiki Elves toiling away:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/12\/09\/article-1337014-0C6690C6000005DC-371_634x372.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2010\/12\/09\/article-1337014-0C668887000005DC-754_634x636.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"601\" height=\"602\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here is a report from the BBC:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">[flv:https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/videos\/Wikileaks-BBC.flv 700 400]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17 year old boy was arrested recently because he mounted a Denial of Service attack that brought down the servers for the online version of Call of Duty. 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