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Here’s are the entertaining results of Privacy International’s The Stupid Security Competition<\/a> They are broken down into short lists of Most Inexplicable, Most Intrusive, Most Counter-Productive, Most Annoying and Most Egregious. Culled from almost 5,000 examples, the only heartening thing about them is not all of them are in the US.<\/p>\n

(via Winds of Change<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s are the entertaining results of Privacy International’s The Stupid Security Competition They are broken down into short lists of Most Inexplicable, Most Intrusive, Most Counter-Productive, Most Annoying and Most…<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/what_we_dont_kn.html","url_meta":{"origin":503,"position":0},"title":"What we don’t know can hurt us","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Apr-04 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a long and fascinating article about something I touched on briefly yesterday, the tension between security and privacy. 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