{"id":946,"date":"2007-10-25T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T18:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/25\/an-amazingly-good-quote\/"},"modified":"2012-01-28T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T21:48:18","slug":"an-amazingly-good-quote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/25\/an-amazingly-good-quote\/","title":{"rendered":"An Amazingly Good Quote"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this quote here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My philosophy is to “educate and then trust the general public”. This philosophy is in line with the basic values of democracies. The government’s approach to homeland security is “keep everything secret and trust nobody”. This is in line with the basic values of authoritarian governments.<\/p>\n

That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My philosophy is to “educate and then trust the general public”. This philosophy is in line with the basic values of democracies. The government’s approach to homeland security is “keep everything secret and trust nobody”. This is in line with the basic values of authoritarian governments.<\/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_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],"tags":[19,25,26],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-government","tag-quote","tag-security","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-fg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":919,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/10\/12\/who-do-you-trust\/","url_meta":{"origin":946,"position":0},"title":"Who do you trust?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's very hard to decide what is true and what is false when you don't trust anyone's sources.","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":881,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/05\/08\/real-id-comments-close-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":946,"position":1},"title":"REAL ID Comments Close Tonight!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A national ID is wrong and is counter to the principles upon which this country was founded.","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":4408,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/06\/20\/a-renewed-case-for-encryption\/","url_meta":{"origin":946,"position":2},"title":"A (Renewed) Case for Encryption","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I kind of hoped that this NSA\/PRISM\/wholesale government surveillance business would re-energize people into actually getting back into using encryption - but sadly it doesn't seem that way. 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