{"id":165478,"date":"2010-01-11T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2010-01-11T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:00:08","slug":"geist-ottawa-pulls-its-own-internet-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/165478","title":{"rendered":"Geist: Ottawa pulls its own Internet hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>Interesting Torstar article by Michael Geist &#8220;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/sciencetech\/technology\/lawbytes\/article\/748958--geist-ottawa-pulls-its-own-internet-hoax\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/sciencetech\/technology\/lawbytes\/article\/748958--geist-ottawa-pulls-its-own-internet-hoax\" >Ottawa pulls its own Internet hoax<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While the sites were obviously an embarrassment, there were several avenues to address the issue. <strong>Officials could have filed a complaint with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority<\/strong>, which manages the dot-ca domain (both sites used dot-ca addresses). Alternatively, they <strong>could have turned to the courts for an order<\/strong> to either shut down the sites or suspend the domain name registrations. <strong>Instead, the <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phishing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phishing\" >phishing<\/a> claim effectively substituted one hoax for another and, in the process, undermined the trust in a global system designed to guard against identity theft.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted in Canada, Law, politics, World, World Affairs  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8950\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8950&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Torstar article by Michael Geist &#8220;Ottawa pulls its own Internet hoax&#8220;, While the sites were obviously an embarrassment, there were several avenues to address the issue. Officials could have filed a complaint with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the dot-ca domain (both sites used dot-ca addresses). Alternatively, they could have turned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}