{"id":1378,"date":"2013-09-04T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:36:35","slug":"some-responses-to-the-snowden-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Some responses to the Snowden revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/08\/22\/opinion-nsas-surveillance-p.html\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: NSA&#8217;s surveillance programs are the &#8220;most serious attacks on free speech we\u2019ve ever seen.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[He] stressed that privacy invasions of this magnitude are \u201cattempts to try to change who we are as Americans.\u201d In fact, they are attempts to define who we are as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Our human rights to speak and to communicate, to report and to assemble, are all at stake. \u201cWhat I do know is it&#8217;s not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24\/7,\u201d writes Groklaw&#8217;s Jones.<\/p>\n<p>We must return to a place where we feel that we can speak freely without consequence.<\/p>\n<p>We must roll back the NSA\u2019s surveillance apparatus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20130818120421175\" target=\"_blank\">Groklaw &#8211; Forced Exposure ~pj<br \/>\n<\/a> The owner of the campaigning website Groklaw explains why she sees no other option than shutting down. A funeral speech to privacy.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/09\/Groklaw-Forced-Exposure-pj-1.pdf\">(local mirror)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/08\/08\/lavabit-email-service-snowden.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lavabit, email service Snowden reportedly used, abruptly shuts down<\/a><br \/>\nAnother secure email provider, Silent Circle, followed suit and physically destroyed their servers, without warning to their users, to preempt being commandeered by the NSA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/presentations\/cloud-security\" target=\"_blank\">Surviving in a Feudal Security World<\/a><br \/>\nBruce Schneier talk (video).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/31\/opinion\/schneier-nsa-trust\/index.html?c=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">NSA secrets kill our trust<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: NSA&#8217;s surveillance programs are the &#8220;most serious attacks on free speech we\u2019ve ever seen.&#8221; [He] stressed that privacy invasions of this magnitude are \u201cattempts to try to change who we are as Americans.\u201d In fact, they are attempts to define who we are as human beings. Our human rights to speak and to communicate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}