{"id":45999,"date":"2014-10-19T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/if-big-brother-cant-watch-you-the-bad-guys-win.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:54:48","slug":"if-big-brother-cant-watch-you-the-bad-guys-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/if-big-brother-cant-watch-you-the-bad-guys-win.html","title":{"rendered":"If Big Brother Can&#039;t Watch You, The Bad Guys Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the FBI is very, very worried that people will start using technology &#8212; like phone encryption and, presumably, wall safes, or window blinds &#8212; that will keep them from watching what you&#39;re doing &#8212; which, of course, he pinky-swears will <i>only<\/i> happen if they are investigating Very Serious Stuff, which they would never, ever do incorrectly, inappropriately, abusively, or against <i>you<\/i> personally, just against all those bad, evil people that they are investigating to keep you safe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/10\/fbi-director-to-citizens-let-us-spy-on-you\/\">http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/10\/fbi-director-to-citizens-let-us-spy-on-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And who knows &#8212; if the FBI can easily track everything going on with your phone, maybe they can use it to exonerate you of a crime you <del>committed<\/del> were accused of. It&#39;s happened once!<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, compliance will be greatly appreciated. Lack of compliance will be presumed complicity with narco-terrorists, tax dodgers, ISIL, Ebola smugglers, and pedophiles. Because, of course, only the guilty have anything to hide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6072003450016938705\/6072003458992786450'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-V1JxbFciV1g\/VEQW-aA1TBI\/AAAAAAAC3I0\/B2JuK_Wd_R8\/Big%2BBrother%2BWatching.jpg?imgmax=660' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/UAH7nYH9cEU'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the FBI is very, very worried that people will start using technology &#8212; like phone encryption and, presumably, wall safes, or window blinds &#8212; that will keep them from watching what you&#39;re doing &#8212; which, of course, he pinky-swears will only happen if they are investigating Very Serious Stuff, which they would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/if-big-brother-cant-watch-you-the-bad-guys-win.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If Big Brother Can&#039;t Watch You, The Bad Guys Win&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[106,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Big+Brother+Watching.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/05\/so-yes-for-the-record-the-whole-fbi-kavanaughfollow-up-was-a-sham.html","url_meta":{"origin":45999,"position":0},"title":"So, yes, for the record, the whole FBI Kavanaughfollow-up was a sham","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Oct-18 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because whether or not the White House put limits on it, it also only followed up on a couple of items that GOP Senators said they wanted looked at. 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The issue is not \"flaws in hair analysis,\" but flaws (exaggerations and lies) in FBI crime lab testimony about hair analysis for many, many years, overstating conclusions and certainty rates in a huge number of cases..We all expect, from decades of Law\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":131946,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/06\/sound-and-investigatorial-fury-signifying-nothing.html","url_meta":{"origin":45999,"position":2},"title":"Sound and Investigatorial Fury, Signifying Nothing","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Nov-16 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm shocked, shocked, to discover that the discovery of a PC full of emails, seized in an unrelated investigation, that included some that were apparently sent to Hillary Clinton once upon a time while she was Secretary of State, and which were heralded in a big, public email to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/comey-ii.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/comey-ii.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/comey-ii.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":137212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/19\/trump-babbles-about-conspiracies-plots-and-how-great-he-is-for-foiling-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":45999,"position":3},"title":"Trump babbles about conspiracies, plots, and how great he is for foiling them","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Sep-18 12:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... \"The Hill\" is a right-of-center political news site -- not whackadoodle time, and often informative, but averaging out usually pro-GOP. 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