{"id":41264,"date":"2014-03-02T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T23:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/if-you-cant-stand-the-heat-get-them-out-of-the-switch-room.html"},"modified":"2014-03-03T09:55:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T16:55:15","slug":"if-you-cant-stand-the-heat-get-them-out-of-the-switch-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/if-you-cant-stand-the-heat-get-them-out-of-the-switch-room.html","title":{"rendered":"If you can't stand the heat, get them out of the switch room"},"content":{"rendered":"
At a security conference, some corporate attendees had their noses put out of joint\u00a0by a satirical NSA t-shirt from the EFF (which I donate to).<\/p>\n

'Some executives at AT&T were offended. One told Perloth: \u201cThere are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we\u2019ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,\u201d this person said. \u201cBut when you see that,\u201d he said, pointing to the T-shirts, \u201ca conversation becomes impossible.\u201d'<\/i><\/p>\n

No, no, conversation is always<\/i> possible. Just assume that if you do it over AT&T's circuits that it will be recorded by the NSA (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Room_641A<\/a>).\ufeff<\/div>\n

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This Anti-NSA T-Shirt Angered Some People At A Huge Computer Security Conference<\/a>
\n One of the world’s largest conferences for…\n <\/p>\n

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At a security conference, some corporate attendees had their noses put out of joint\u00a0by a satirical NSA t-shirt from the EFF (which I donate to). 'Some executives at AT&T were offended. One told Perloth: \u201cThere are many of us at AT&T who are disturbed by what we\u2019ve been hearing about the N.S.A.,\u201d this person said. … Continue reading “If you can't stand the heat, get them out of the switch room”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,35,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39622,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/google-vs-nsa-round-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":41264,"position":0},"title":"Google vs. NSA, Round 2","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Nov-13 12:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If the NSA were revealed to be tapping into the Koch Brothers business operation networks, I suspect we'd see a lot more outrage on Capitol Hill.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsI'm happy to see both Google not just sitting idly by while their internal traffic is intercepted by the government. 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