{"id":5341,"date":"2011-10-25T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2023-08-28T01:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:07:56","slug":"monkey-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=5341","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;This post was delayed from yester-day, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anhosting.com\/\">my hosting service<\/a> had a technical failure, and it took me rather a long time to persuade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anhosting.com\/\">them<\/a> of such.&#93;<\/p> <p>I read<\/p> <blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/violetblue\/anonymous-attacks-child-porn-websites-and-publish-user-names\/757\">This past week it was reported that the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous claimed credit for taking offline over 40 websites used for sharing pedophilia &mdash; and for exposing the names and identifying information of more than 1500 alleged pedophiles that had been using the sites.<\/a><\/blockquote> <p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/88Lzs1XR\">the actual list<\/a> is of <em>user aliases<\/em>, not of personal names.<\/p> <p>Not only are p&aelig;dophiles <em>not<\/em> being exposed here, but <em>non<\/em>-p&aelig;dophiles who've had the misfortune of p&aelig;dophiles' using the same aliases (by chance or from malice) are going to come under suspicion by those who think that they recognize them on this list.<\/p> <p>Further, if agents of law enforcement were themselves working to track-down the actual legal identities of the p&aelig;dophiles, their investigation has now been severely compromised, possibly <em>fatally<\/em> so.<\/p> <p>Once again, Anonymous has done less good than they have led the gullible to believe, and have caused more damage than they have acknowledged.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#91;This post was delayed from yester-day, as my hosting service had a technical failure, and it took me rather a long time to persuade them of such.&#93; I read This past week it was reported that the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous claimed credit for taking offline over 40 websites used for sharing pedophilia &mdash; [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,720,318,69,104,4],"tags":[1076,1077,1078,1079,1080,1085,1086,182,1081,1082,378,1084,1083],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-epistemology","category-ethics-philosophy","category-information-technology","category-news","category-public","tag-anonymous","tag-crackers","tag-cracking","tag-hackers","tag-hacking","tag-hacktivism","tag-hacktivists","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-paedophiles","tag-paedophilia","tag-pedophiles","tag-pedophilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12141,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions\/12141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}