{"id":2572,"date":"2012-01-15T13:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2012-01-15T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:15:43","slug":"gentleman-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"Gentleman hacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Nevil_Maskelyne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2573\" title=\"Nevil_Maskelyne\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Nevil_Maskelyne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>Meet the father of all hackers: Nevil Maskelyne.<\/p>\n<p>In 1903, this gentleman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman\">gained notoriety<\/a> by hacking into Guglielmo Marconi&#8217;s purportedly long-distance secure wireless telegraph, causing it to tap out unflattering messages about Marconi minutes before it was to be demonstrated at the Royal Institution. Maskelyne was a disgruntled competitor, his business suffocated by Marconi&#8217;s overly broad patents, but he justified his actions claiming that it was in the public interest to expose the flaws of Marconi&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>If his name sounds familiar, by the way, it&#8217;s perhaps because of his famous namesake, Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal who a century and a half earlier was the cause of so much frustration to John Harrison, creator of the marine chronometer.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2572' 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>Meet the father of all hackers: Nevil Maskelyne. In 1903, this gentleman gained notoriety by hacking into Guglielmo Marconi&#8217;s purportedly long-distance secure wireless telegraph, causing it to tap out unflattering messages about Marconi minutes before it was to be demonstrated at the Royal Institution. Maskelyne was a disgruntled competitor, his business suffocated by Marconi&#8217;s overly <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2572' 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":[45,51,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-computer-security","category-history","category-45-id","category-51-id","category-25-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\/2572","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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}