{"id":1662,"date":"2011-04-09T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2011-04-06T17:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T21:53:44","slug":"not-even-william-gibson-could-have-foreseen-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1662","title":{"rendered":"Not Even William Gibson Could Have Foreseen This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has <a title=\"Vatican Publication Rehabilitates Hackers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2011\/040511-vatican-publication-rehabilitates.html?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">decided to rehabilitate hackers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <em>that<\/em> Vatican:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;[A]n authoritative Vatican publication appears to rehabilitate them and traces parallels between hacker philosophy and the teachings of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The surprisingly charitable view of hackers was expressed by the Jesuit priest Father Antonio Spadaro in an article for the fortnightly magazine\u00a0<em>Civilta Cattolica<\/em>, the text of which is vetted by the Vatican Secretariat of State prior to publication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hackers should not be confused with crackers, Spadaro wrote, citing a definition penned by technology writer Eric S. Raymond: &#8216;Hackers build things, crackers break them.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even sure <a title=\"William Gibson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_gibson\" target=\"_blank\">William Gibson<\/a>, the man who coined the term &#8220;cyberspace,&#8221; and one of the founding fathers of the cyberpunk movement, could have foreseen that one day the Vatican would turn its attention to hackers and crackers.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a title=\"@krmaher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/krmaher\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Maher<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has decided to rehabilitate hackers. Yes, that Vatican:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-qO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}