{"id":1554,"date":"2010-09-27T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2010-09-27T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T20:46:55","slug":"what-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2010\/09\/27\/what-is-happening\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things totally freaking me out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Can a municipal service like a library hold so central a place that it should be entrusted to a profit-driven contractor only as a last resort \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and maybe not even then?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/27\/business\/27libraries.html\">Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/27\/us\/27wiretap.html\">U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several privacy and technology advocates argued that requiring interception capabilities would create holes that would inevitably be exploited by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Steven M. Bellovin, a Columbia University computer science professor, pointed to an episode in Greece: In 2005, it was discovered that hackers had taken advantage of a legally mandated wiretap function to spy on top officials\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 phones, including the prime minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a disaster waiting to happen,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If they start building in all these back doors, they will be exploited.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Two incredibly bad ideas, in my opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/\">daring fireball<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; Ben Franklin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things totally freaking me out: Can a municipal service like a library hold so central a place that it should be entrusted to a profit-driven contractor only as a last resort \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and maybe not even then? Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries and&#8230; U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-p4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}