{"id":17,"date":"2003-09-22T20:50:24","date_gmt":"2003-09-22T10:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2003-09-22T20:50:24","modified_gmt":"2003-09-22T10:50:24","slug":"censoring-discussion-of-how-to-do-bad-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/22\/censoring-discussion-of-how-to-do-bad-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Censoring Discussion of How to do Bad Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>robochan writes <i>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2003\/09\/12\/1063268553158.html\">According to this report<\/a> in the Sydney Morning Herald, Chief Operating Officer of Symantec, John Schwarz, was quoted as &#8216;calling for laws to make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearelephant.com\/papers\/symantec.html\">This article<\/a> takes a look at the negative affects and also a couple of recent examples of &#8220;censorship legislation&#8221; backed by the COO of Symantec, and what little effect it has had on criminals, while having a substantial affect on responsible citizens.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/03\/09\/22\/0113236.shtml?tid=126&amp;tid=153&amp;tid=172&amp;tid=185&amp;tid=99\">slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>robochan writes &#8220;According to this report in the Sydney Morning Herald, Chief Operating Officer of Symantec, John Schwarz, was quoted as &#8216;calling for laws to make it a criminal offense to share information and tools online which could be used by malicious hackers and virus writers.&#8217; This article takes a look at the negative affects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}