{"id":11002,"date":"2022-02-26T00:25:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11002"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T00:54:07","slug":"commit-a-virtual-crime-do-some-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11002","title":{"rendered":"Commit a virtual &#8220;crime&#8221;, do some real time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece of news caught my attention a couple of weeks ago, before Tsar, pardon me, benevolent humble president Putin launched the opening salvo of what may yet prove to be WWIII and the end of civilization. Still, I think it offers insight into just how sick (and, by implication, how bloody dangerous) his regime really is.<\/p>\n<p>We all agree that planning to blow up a major institution, even if it is a much disliked spy agency, is not a good idea. But this is what the evil extremist, hardliner Nikita Uvarov was trying to do when he was getting ready to blow up the headquarters of Russia&#8217;s FSB, its federal security service.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait&#8230; did I mention that Mr. Uvarov was 14 at the time, and the FSB building he was planning to demolish was, in fact, a virtual version that he himself and his buddies constructed in the online computer game Minecraft?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/russian-teenager-nikita-uvarov-jailed-over-minecraft-plot-to-blow-up-virtual-spy-hq\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11003\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/minecraft-fsb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/minecraft-fsb.jpg 725w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/minecraft-fsb-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t deter Mother Russia&#8217;s fearless prosecutors, intent on restoring law and order and maintaining the security of the Russian state. A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Uvarov was sentenced, by a military court no less, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/10\/russian-teenager-nikita-uvarov-jailed-over-minecraft-plot-to-blow-up-virtual-spy-hq\">to serve five years<\/a> in a penal colony.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11002' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece of news caught my attention a couple of weeks ago, before Tsar, pardon me, benevolent humble president Putin launched the opening salvo of what may yet prove to be WWIII and the end of civilization. Still, I think it offers insight into just how sick (and, by implication, how bloody dangerous) his regime <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11002' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-politics","category-64-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11002"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12594,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11002\/revisions\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}