{"id":755,"date":"2011-03-01T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=755"},"modified":"2011-04-19T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T00:51:52","slug":"grand-whac-a-mole-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2011\/03\/01\/grand-whac-a-mole-sabotage","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Whac-A-Mole Sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"marvin-wimberly\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marvin-wimberly-237x300.jpg?resize=114%2C144\" alt=\"Marvin Wimberly\" width=\"114\" height=\"144\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Marvin Wimberly, of Daytona Beach, Florida, is facing up to <a title=\"Cops: Orlando Man Sabotaged &quot;Whac-A-Mole&quot; Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/26986709\/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss\" target=\"_blank\">fifteen years in prison<\/a>. His crime? Planting programmed logic bombs in numerous arcade games, such as the ever popular Whac-A-Mole. These computer viruses would systematically shut down the game after a set number of days. As a repair man, Marvin Wimberly used this ploy to maintain job security, being the only person capable of fixing these &#8220;broken&#8221; machines. At the time of repair, he would then simply plant a new logic bomb.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that Wimberly&#8217;s exploits have cost the arcade game manufacturer, Holly Hill, at least $100,000 as well as damage to the company&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently\u00a0Wimberly got a bit too cocky, and told a few of the company&#8217;s employees about his virtually\u00a0undetectable\u00a0virus plating, which lead to months of technical work to prove. He is now being <a title=\"Programmer Faces 15 Years In Jail For Planting Virus That Automatically Broke Whac-A-Mole Games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20110226\/15223313285\/programmer-faces-15-years-jail-planting-virus-that-automatically-broke-whac-a-mole-games.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">charged<\/a> in the Florida legal system for &#8220;<a title=\"Offenses against Intellectual Property\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clas.ufl.edu\/docs\/flcrimes\/subsubsection2_1_1_2_4.html\" target=\"_blank\">offenses against\u00a0intellectual\u00a0property<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just happy that the Whac-A-Mole game is finally being recognized as &#8220;intellectual property.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been saying this for years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by JDRedding.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida man loads Whac-A-Mole games with viruses, makes a cool $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[75],"tags":[509,508,507],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marvin-wimberly.jpeg?fit=300%2C379&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}