{"id":6039,"date":"2014-02-17T22:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6039"},"modified":"2014-02-28T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T07:22:26","slug":"2014-03-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-02\/","title":{"rendered":"NSA Spying &#8211; Why it makes you less safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-02\/\">NSA Spying &#8211; Why it makes you less safe<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-02\/\">Marc Perkel<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Marc Perkel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-02\/\">March 2, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6086\" alt=\"Marc cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Marc-cropped.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px\" \/>The\u00a0NSA\u00a0and the Obama Administration have tried to position the\u00a0NSA\u00a0spying as a &#8220;balance&#8221; between freedom and safety, implying that theNSA\u00a0spying makes you more safe. In fact the opposite is true.\u00a0NSA\u00a0spying makes you less safe and is a threat to civilization itself. This presentation explains the technical concepts of how the Internet works and explains how the\u00a0NSA\u00a0is creating a single point of failure to bring down the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Marc\u00a0Perkel\u00a0is a self taught computer expert who has been designing and building computers since 1972. He was also formerly the system administrator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSA Spying &#8211; Why it makes you less safe Marc Perkel March 2, 2014 &nbsp; The\u00a0NSA\u00a0and the Obama Administration have tried to position the\u00a0NSA\u00a0spying as a &#8220;balance&#8221; between freedom and safety, implying that theNSA\u00a0spying makes you more safe. In fact the opposite is true.\u00a0NSA\u00a0spying makes you less safe and is a threat to civilization itself. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSA Spying &#8211; Why it makes you less safe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[71,185,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6039\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}