{"id":62218,"date":"2017-02-21T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62218"},"modified":"2017-02-21T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T13:00:20","slug":"62218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62218","title":{"rendered":"When Mob Justice Isn&#8217;t Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Computer hackers got into the hotel\u2019s electronic key system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/30\/world\/europe\/hotel-austria-bitcoin-ransom.html?_r=1\"><span class=\"s2\">and locked guests out of their rooms<\/span><\/a> until management paid a ransom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s a variation on the ransom-ware scam being used with other computer users.\u00a0 Pay up or you won\u2019t get your system back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">This is modern-day piracy.\u00a0 There should be world-wide jurisdiction to pursue them, and bounties paid for their scalps. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">No argument here. \u00a0In fact, we<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2011\">&#8216;ve touched on this before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Computer hackers got into the hotel\u2019s electronic key system and locked guests out of their rooms until management paid a ransom. \u00a0It\u2019s a variation on the ransom-ware scam being used with other computer users.\u00a0 Pay up or you won\u2019t get your system back. \u00a0This is modern-day piracy.\u00a0 There should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62222,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62218\/revisions\/62222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}