{"id":430,"date":"2005-08-07T00:03:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T04:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/08\/07\/serial-sex-killer-kept-blog\/"},"modified":"2005-08-07T00:03:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T04:03:13","slug":"serial-sex-killer-kept-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/07\/serial-sex-killer-kept-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Serial Sex Killer Kept Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6616'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nduncaaan.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\">As<br \/>\n          blogging spreads into all walks of life and even the darkest corners<br \/>\n          of our twisted society, it is only a matter<br \/>\n          of time until we get a blogger on the Supreme Court, a frank and funny<br \/>\n          streetwalkers blog, an astronaut blogging from space, a Guantanamo<br \/>\n          blog and a Suicide Bomber Blog (if they don&#8217;t exist already).<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Unfortunately, one such barrier was broken last<br \/>\n          week with the revelation that accused serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan<br \/>\n          has been keeping a blog, called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/fifthnail.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging<br \/>\n          the Fifth Nail&quot;<\/a> on Blogger.<br \/>\n          With postings featuring chilling headers like &quot;The Demons have taken<br \/>\n          over&quot; this blog is a tour of hell and a view of a tortured mind completely<br \/>\n          off its hinges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Obviously, we need to protect ourselves against<br \/>\n          individuals like this. The perennial question is how to heed red<br \/>\n          flags like &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/fifthnail.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging<br \/>\n          the Fifth Nail&quot;<\/a>&nbsp; while continuing<br \/>\n          to protect Constitutional freedoms of expression, as well as the ability<br \/>\n          of bloggers to write fiction, parody, speculation and fantasy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>After reading the following paragraph, we are sure<br \/>\n          the race is on to find and decrypt the writings descried therein, if<br \/>\n          they do indeed exist&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I wish I could be more honest about my feelings, but<br \/>\n        those demons made sure I&#8217;d never be able to do that. I might not know<br \/>\n        if it matters, but just in case, I am working on an encrypted journal<br \/>\n        that is hundreds of times more frank than this blog could ever be (that&#8217;s<br \/>\n        why I keep it encrypted). I figure in 30 years or more we will have the<br \/>\n        technology to easily crack the encryption (currently very un-crackable,<br \/>\n        PGP) and then the world will know who I really was, and what I really<br \/>\n        did, and what I really thought. Also, maybe then they will understand<br \/>\n        that despite my actions, I&#8217;m not a bad person, I just have a disease<br \/>\n      contracted from society, and it hurts a lot.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>from &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/fifthnail.blogspot.com\/\">Blogging the Fifth Nail&quot;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As blogging spreads into all walks of life and even the darkest corners of our twisted society, it is only a matter of time until we get a blogger on the Supreme Court, a frank and funny streetwalkers blog, an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/08\/07\/serial-sex-killer-kept-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}