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Doug Chaplin informed us that his blog Clayboy is closing down<\/a> and he is moving elsewhere. He started things up on his new blog, journeys in a stranger land<\/a>, by offering this punny reworking of a classic cautionary tale<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"The modern day Mycenaean cyber-warriors devised a cunning plan to get into Troy. They sent the Trojans an email with a website address linked from the words \u201cYou\u2019ll love this great plan to get rid of the Greeks\u201d. When King Priam logged on, a lovely simple cartoon animation of a wooden horse began playing in the web browser. Unknown to Priam, as the cartoon played, a deadly virus was taking down Troy\u2019s online defences and overriding all the security systems, CCTV and time locks on the city gates.<\/p>\n

Before he died the priest Laocoon \u2013 picking up this activity on his smartphone \u2013 bewailed the fact that no-one listened to him.<\/p>\n

He had distinctly warned the king to beware of Geeks bearing GIFs<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doug Chaplin informed us that his blog Clayboy is closing down and he is moving elsewhere. He started things up on his new blog, journeys in a stranger land, by offering this punny reworking of a classic cautionary tale: The modern day Mycenaean cyber-warriors devised a cunning plan to get into Troy. They sent the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2094,4186,4871,9779,12930,12949,13420],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-computers","tag-greece","tag-humor","tag-puns","tag-trojan-horse","tag-troy","tag-virus"],"yoast_head":"\nTrojan Horse Update<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Doug Chaplin informed us that his blog Clayboy is closing down and he is moving elsewhere. 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