{"id":970,"date":"2002-08-09T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2002-08-10T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/09\/a-bizarre-case-study-in-ethics\/"},"modified":"2002-08-09T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2002-08-10T01:02:12","slug":"a-bizarre-case-study-in-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/09\/a-bizarre-case-study-in-ethics","title":{"rendered":"A Bizarre Case Study In Ethics\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out on CNN: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/08\/08\/porn.patriot\/index.html\">A Pornographer Hacks An Al-Quaeda Site<\/a>. This is one of those bizarre little situations in which someone we thoroughly disapprove of does something we greatly approve of.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently his expertise in running a smut site was immediately applicable to the challenge of hacking a paranoid and ruthless organization\u2019s computer. <i>Messner, using the aggressive tactics he\u2019s employed to run his adult site, said he \u201chijacked\u201d Al Neda for five days <\/i> It kind of makes you wonder exactly what skills porn site operators pick up\u2026 One more good reason to avoid porn like the plague\u2013some of these guys are ace hackers!<\/p>\n<p>I found the following excerpts sad: <i>\u201cI bought a digital camera and convinced my wife to get naked for the Internet.\u201d \u2026 His Porsche and its \u201cWIVES\u201d vanity plates memorializing his success in adult entertainment are, he believes, a testament that he and his family are living the American dream. And, in his own way, Messner said, he is fighting an American war.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the entire CNN article there\u2019s not a hint of appropriate moral indignation that this man is both destroying the sacredness of his own marriage and enticing men across the world to violate their marriage vows. I\u2019m willing to bet that it didn\u2019t even cross the journalist\u2019s mind\u2026 *sigh* Does no one see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureintimacy.org\/online1\/\">how destructive pornography is<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out on CNN: A Pornographer Hacks An Al-Quaeda Site. This is one of those bizarre little situations in which someone we thoroughly disapprove of does something we greatly approve of. Evidently his expertise in running a smut site was immediately applicable to the challenge of hacking a paranoid and ruthless organization\u2019s computer. Messner, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/08\/09\/a-bizarre-case-study-in-ethics\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cA Bizarre Case Study In Ethics\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}