{"id":1177,"date":"2008-06-16T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-06-16T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:41:11","slug":"little-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/06\/16\/little-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"“Little Brother”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go here and download this free e-book<\/a> and read it as soon as you can. Be sure to set aside a lot of time for it; if you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to put it down. You may not even want to break to go to the bathroom – that’s how good this is.<\/p>\n

Once you’ve done that, get someone else to read it. Or talk about it with people who won’t read it or can’t read it. Anything.<\/p>\n

This book is just so fantastically important I can’t even put it into words. But I can say that 10 years ago, it would have been science fiction. In another 10 years, it might be true – or it might have been prevented.<\/p>\n

This book will open your eyes<\/strong> about a lot of things, about security, about politics, about terrorism, about databases, about privacy, about liberty, and all that sort of stuff that, frankly, we take for granted far too often.<\/p>\n

It’s a free e-book, but if you really like it – as I did – feel free to buy it<\/a> from the author, or buy some of his other books, or just send him a donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Peace out, yo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go here and download this free e-book and read it as soon as you can. Be sure to set aside a lot of time for it; if you’re anything like me, you won’t be able to put it down. You may not even want to break to go to the bathroom – that’s how good… Continue reading “Little Brother”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[130,100,26,141],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-books","tag-opinion","tag-security","tag-terrorism","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-iZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4339,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/05\/20\/florida-activates-system-for-citizens-to-call-each-other-terrorists\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":0},"title":"Florida Activates System for Citizens to Call Each Other Terrorists","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Activates System for Citizens to Call Each Other Terrorists Or, in other words, a very, very, very bad idea... but sadly not the first time we've seen something just like this. 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When will they LEARN?","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":524,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/06\/billions-wasted-on-anti-terrorism-security\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":2},"title":"Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Read that again, folks: Billions. Makes you feel all warm & fuzzy inside, doesn't it?","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3218,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/10\/28\/we-dont-know-how-to-handle-terrorism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":3},"title":"We Don’t Know How to Handle Terrorism","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Found this very insightful quote over on Slashdot, and I couldn\u2019t agree more: \u201cCountries like the UK and Israel have experience with terrorism, and they've developed reasonably sane ways of handling it. Just to be clear, I'm not praising the fact that they stole land from the Irish and the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":899,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/18\/over-reacting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":4},"title":"Over-reacting","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots \u2014 and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse \u2014 is wrong.","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3394,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2011\/04\/07\/risks-benefits-and-costs-of-homeland-security\/","url_meta":{"origin":1177,"position":5},"title":"Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We've spent over one TRILLION dollars on \"homeland security,\" but what have we really gotten out of it?","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}