{"id":128377,"date":"2015-10-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/the-insecurity-state.html"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:06:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:06:54","slug":"the-insecurity-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/the-insecurity-state.html","title":{"rendered":"The Insecurity State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not sure the cases are directly analogous, but there is a least a vague irony that various high officials in the security \/ surveillance agencies of our nation have had their private online accounts hacked (through social engineering), even as they insist that their agencies need easier legal access to the private data of US citizens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/oct\/20\/cia-director-was-hacked-by-13-year-old-but-he-still-wants-your-data'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1bE3gCqSdsqE2OxHpNyguLLAIH0LWVj9WDr6x3mWGXFRhZGCAVp_YP40Yh_a-8bnMjSRp8-9UObvoUOgzefR8L3dMIu-GxZUNxSkYrp2RciFlrPL3uHaI5-3gg7ij6nzcfRkySOH0RGnHpVu0vvidFz5iRw8NL7CqTcPlRK21KIrVRR3S2TuE6WUI_eCaEgjtyuobJ_ldUo4WKvWCn9RnQgadbj_4NlX4o-cV4xdkgoXZ_cHwqNL-z45hsvBUKk0mzNKYcm9ZBxQJk5VTp4-v-_YARc-lmsj1L-mGniraK-H_A=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/oct\/20\/cia-director-was-hacked-by-13-year-old-but-he-still-wants-your-data'>The CIA director was hacked by a 13-year-old, but he still wants your data | Trevor Timm<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe Senate is currently debating a bill that would give the government huge amounts of your private information. But this would make hacks more likely\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/W5u6687F7Cp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not sure the cases are directly analogous, but there is a least a vague irony that various high officials in the security \/ surveillance agencies of our nation have had their private online accounts hacked (through social engineering), even as they insist that their agencies need easier legal access to the private data of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/21\/the-insecurity-state.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Insecurity State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,375,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-computer-security","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128350,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/the-only-time-the-government-is-willing-to-restrain-surveillance.html","url_meta":{"origin":128377,"position":0},"title":"The only time the government is willing to restrain surveillance","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 4:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... is when it discovers that it, too, is being surveilled.After nearly 50 years of (perhaps naively, perhaps with an understanding that it would be naive to be) relying on assurances from the Prime Minister's office that Members of Parliament would not be monitored by internal security (GCHQ) -- first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37928,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/paging-franz-kafka.html","url_meta":{"origin":128377,"position":1},"title":"Paging Franz Kafka","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Jun-13 6:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"I think most people acknowledge that there need to be some secrets, especially regarding intelligence activities. \u00a0Revealing personnel lists, or even techniques used, can endanger \u00a0the ability of intelligence agencies to function, and that can have tragic results.But at some point it becomes more than a bit silly, not to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42370,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/05\/i-fought-the-law-and-another-level-of-law-won.html","url_meta":{"origin":128377,"position":2},"title":"I fought the law, and another level of law won","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jun-14 2:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The more state and local law enforcement become entangled with federal law enforcement (or the other way around), the more they can provide cover for each other, and the \u00a0more they become a de facto federal law agency insofar as (lack of) accountability goes. 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