{"id":52,"date":"2007-12-31T14:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=52"},"modified":"2007-12-31T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:11:29","slug":"threat-levels-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/threat-levels-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"THREAT LEVEL&#8217;s year in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/files\/threatlevelBanner.jpg\" height=\"55\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"250\" \/>The group blog THREAT LEVEL is one of my favorite things about wired, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/12\/the-year-in-thr.html\">Kevin Poulsen&#8217;s year-end roundup<\/a> is a great example of why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made us love roving surveillance cams; and Jammie Thomas&#8217; internet spoofing defense was enough to make us secretly root for the RIAA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As if that&#8217;s not enough, Kim Zetter&#8217;s combo of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/12\/worlds-top-surv.html\">World&#8217;s Top Surveillance Societies<\/a> (covering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacyinternational.org\/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597\">PrivacyInternational&#8217;s report<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/12\/fbi-building-va.html\">FBI Building Vast Database of Iris, Face and Fingerprint Scans<\/a> highlights why the US is classified as an &#8220;endemic surveillance&#8221; society along with China, Russia, the U.K. and others.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And Sarah Lai Stirland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2007\/12\/will-push-polli.html\">Will push polling become a factor in the early states?<\/a> rounds up a bunch of stories on a popular social-engineering approach to electoral fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about an end-of-year bonanza!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group blog THREAT LEVEL is one of my favorite things about wired, and Kevin Poulsen&#8217;s year-end roundup is a great example of why: It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,14],"tags":[75,214,275],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-professional","category-social-sciences","tag-civil-liberties","tag-media","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}