{"id":52,"date":"2005-02-17T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/02\/17\/wikinews-gets-a-scoop-gets-laid\/"},"modified":"2005-02-17T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T17:50:09","slug":"wikinews-gets-a-scoop-gets-laid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/02\/17\/wikinews-gets-a-scoop-gets-laid\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikinews gets a scoop, gets laid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a794'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, a scoop at least.  The &#8220;<b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/SHA-1_broken\">SHA-1 broken<\/a><\/b>&#8221; story broke on Wikinews, and then Slashdot (with just a Wikinews link) almost 12 hours before it broke in other international English-language press.  Presumably the original source was in <b>Chinese<\/b>&#8230;  WN also just got written up as a possible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/the_thread\/techbeat\/archives\/00000049.htm\">salvation for the future<\/a> in BusinessWeek, which is pretty nicely laid out.   <\/p>\n<p>Huzzahs all around, in particular to the trio of crackers &#8212; all women, thankyouverymuch &#8212;  who &#8216;deprecated&#8217; the infamously hoary algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>I love a world in which that can refer to something less than twenty years old!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/SHA-1_broken'>Wikinews gets a scoop, gets laid &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a scoop at least. The &#8220;SHA-1 broken&#8221; story broke on Wikinews, and then Slashdot (with just a Wikinews link) almost 12 hours before it broke in other international English-language press. Presumably the original source was in Chinese&#8230; WN also just got written up as a possible salvation for the future in BusinessWeek, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}