Comments on: NorwayWeb Engages Privacy Issues http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/03/13/norwayweb-engages-privacy-issues/ New York art news and reviews. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Francis Hwanghttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/03/13/norwayweb-engages-privacy-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-31046 Francis Hwang Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:19:18 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/03/13/norwayweb-engages-privacy-issues/#comment-31046 Well, a devoted cracker could use this to get something more searchable: Read the HTML, figure out what server calls are being made, write a script to (gradually) pull down all the info and parse it out. I'd do it, but I don't know anybody in Norway so it wouldn't really be that personally interesting. Also, I've got beer that needs drinking.Bjorn sounds like he's agog with the recently discovered powers of automation, and he hasn't learned a cardinal rule that anybody who's decent with computers has to learn eventually. That rule would be "the internet is sloppy enough that you could easily be an asshole, but it's better to not." Hopefully his understanding of this rule will come easily, without him or anyone else having to suffer for his ignorance. Well, a devoted cracker could use this to get something more searchable: Read the HTML, figure out what server calls are being made, write a script to (gradually) pull down all the info and parse it out. I’d do it, but I don’t know anybody in Norway so it wouldn’t really be that personally interesting. Also, I’ve got beer that needs drinking.

Bjorn sounds like he’s agog with the recently discovered powers of automation, and he hasn’t learned a cardinal rule that anybody who’s decent with computers has to learn eventually. That rule would be “the internet is sloppy enough that you could easily be an asshole, but it’s better to not.” Hopefully his understanding of this rule will come easily, without him or anyone else having to suffer for his ignorance.

]]> By: Francis Hwanghttp://www.artfagcity.com/2008/03/13/norwayweb-engages-privacy-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-312863 Francis Hwang Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:19:00 +0000 http://www.artfagcity.com/2008/03/13/norwayweb-engages-privacy-issues/#comment-312863 Well, a devoted cracker could use this to get something more searchable: Read the HTML, figure out what server calls are being made, write a script to (gradually) pull down all the info and parse it out. I'd do it, but I don't know anybody in Norway so it wouldn't really be that personally interesting. Also, I've got beer that needs drinking.Bjorn sounds like he's agog with the recently discovered powers of automation, and he hasn't learned a cardinal rule that anybody who's decent with computers has to learn eventually. That rule would be "the internet is sloppy enough that you could easily be an asshole, but it's better to not." Hopefully his understanding of this rule will come easily, without him or anyone else having to suffer for his ignorance. Well, a devoted cracker could use this to get something more searchable: Read the HTML, figure out what server calls are being made, write a script to (gradually) pull down all the info and parse it out. I’d do it, but I don’t know anybody in Norway so it wouldn’t really be that personally interesting. Also, I’ve got beer that needs drinking.

Bjorn sounds like he’s agog with the recently discovered powers of automation, and he hasn’t learned a cardinal rule that anybody who’s decent with computers has to learn eventually. That rule would be “the internet is sloppy enough that you could easily be an asshole, but it’s better to not.” Hopefully his understanding of this rule will come easily, without him or anyone else having to suffer for his ignorance.

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