You’ve got to hand it to the Shetlanders. Even before they knew the arrested alleged hacker was Jake Davis, they had set up Free Topiary on Facebook. Well, he’s one of their own even if he did manage to muck up the Serious Crime thingummyjig or whatever the Flying Squad is known as now.
Ach, computers. Nivver dae whit they’re telt, as one Mid Yell fella said to me tonight.
Now everyone knows it was Fox’s brother Jake, the quiet lad from Sunnyside, that got his collar felt by the Met, they have gone cock-a-hoop. Not thon lad wha wis kicked outta the school? Plenty had suspicions although many were wrong. Some came close but no, it’s not Ben Davies.
Phew, Ben. That’s why they were calling you Lottery. It Could Be You. No more though. Poor Jake’s the man.
Why write something when you have literally nothing of value to say? This little piece is actually fairly high on the list of google search results that appear when entering the phrase “Free Topiary”.
If you care about this incident (which you really, really should), then try to gather a few facts about the situation and offer some kind of original insight or opinion, rather than filling space with 10% interesting/useful content (which everyone will have already found out from other, reputable websites) and 90% hot air.
Your “about me” section states that you used to work in actual journalism, which means that either you’re holding your talents back in this particular post, or the state of journalism today is far worse than I ever thought possible.
But hey, I always wanted a job as a coulumnist. I guess it can’t be too hard, right?
Harry Birchall sounds like a self inflated d******d who lives in a world where freedom of expression is reserved for clever people like him.
If Harry Birchall wanted to be a columnist he should learn to spell the word first. Here’s another word for you , T**t
Now now, Mr Macleod. Mr Birchall is entitled to give us the benefit of his opinion. He is indeed wrong on a point or two because he made up his mind before he read about me. However, he is also entitled to be wrong.
You, on the other hand, are not entitled to be abusive on my blog. So I have edited your most ill-considered entries as I have no wish to upset the many maiden aunts who visit here.
If you – or anyone else – persist in gutter language, I shall have no choice but to again moderate all comments.
BUM
Mr Birchall has every right to express his opinion, provided that it’s done in the proper manner. Maybe Mr Birchall has a serious case of envy, hence the tact he has taken. If Mr Burchill had the aptitude and determination to become a reporter then there was no reason for him not achieving his ambition.
There is nothing within Mr Burchill’s entry that identifies what his issues are, just rudeness towards Mr Maciver. If Mr Burchill has concerns, he should identify the points which Mr Maciver has got wrong. If he has a concern with the blog itself, he has the choice of not visitting it.
As one of the maiden aunts, I would like to say that I have no objection to gutter language. Poor spelling and grammar do exasperate me but a well-turned obscenity is a thing of perverse beauty. Form and function, etc.
We all have our pet hates, grammar and spelling issues are not a problem provided the message is clear, especially on blogs. The use of gutter language is often a sign of people who are unable to express themselves properly. I believe that when you get to the state of using gutter expressions you are loosing the plot. You can be more cutting using polite language than you can by using gutter terms. Then again it’s all about opinions.
Mr Birchill is exactly what not that John Macleod posted though! Someone who ‘thinks’ he is smart but is obviously far too young and immature to realise that by hacking its the people and their identities that are the real losers. Hacking someones website and taking away the privacy of the few hundred peoples details they post is nothing more than blackmail and hate crimes. I hope they take him and his little geeky friends to town. If the system doesn’t then I reckon somebody else will.
AND..getting all high and mighty like “swear words are rude..” is just a cop out. People have emotions and that includes anger and frustration. I think it is you people going “ooooooo…rudey words” who have lost the plot. You’re only picking up on that because you having nothing else to say.
Like none of you ever swear. YEA RIGHT!!
We can all curse and swear, but does it make it right ?
white hat / black hat, who knows the difference? if you want to understand a bit more about the what and why of Jake’s case, start with the wikipedia definition of the term ‘script kiddie’ – he is just a kid after all. LOIC, the hacking programme used, got 30,000 downloads in 2 days last December and the poor adults don’t know what to do! #freetopiary #peerietopiary