{"id":524,"date":"2005-06-06T16:18:52","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T20:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=524"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:18:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:18:15","slug":"billions-wasted-on-anti-terrorism-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/06\/billions-wasted-on-anti-terrorism-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schneier on Security: Billions Wasted on Anti-Terrorism Security<\/a><\/p>\n

Read that again, folks: Billions<\/strong>. Makes you feel all warm & fuzzy inside, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n

No?<\/p>\n

Me either. In fact, it makes me stay up at night, worrying about the future. My co-worker Jeff says that these sorts of things are just a “swing” to one side of the spectrum, and that eventually there’ll be an outcry against it, and we’ll swing the other way. <\/p>\n

Bad metaphors aside, I certainly hope he’s right – and I hope that outcry happens soon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read that again, folks: Billions. Makes you feel all warm & fuzzy inside, doesn’t it? <\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8s","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":524,"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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