{"id":316,"date":"2006-10-31T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T14:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/10\/31\/the-dirtiest-prank\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T01:55:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T14:55:26","slug":"the-dirtiest-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/10\/31\/the-dirtiest-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dirtiest Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lister really didn&#8217;t like Craig much, but that was no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Lister wrote a background job which hacked Craig&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfree86.org\/4.2.0\/xmodmap.1.html\">xmodmap<\/a>. Every thirty seconds, the &#8216;g&#8217; and &#8216;h&#8217; keys would quietly swap positions. If you hit the &#8216;g&#8217; key, and &#8216;h&#8217; would appear on the screen, and vice versa. A second later, the keys would quietly swap back.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t steal his passwords, delete his files or lock him out. It just ever so slightly increased the number of typos he thought he made.<\/p>\n<p>To my geeky mind, this remains the dirtiest prank I have ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lister really didn&#8217;t like Craig much, but that was no excuse for the dirtiest prank I have ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30,43,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-humour","category-other-peoples-stories","category-story-telling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}