{"id":492,"date":"2004-01-09T00:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2004-01-09T00:21:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-09T05:21:08","slug":"bruce-schneier-homeland-insecurity-and-patriot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Schneier, Homeland Insecurity, and Patriot 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schneier&#8217;s critique of airport false alarms also explains why the Patriot 2 provisions &#8212; which let the government gather reams of financial data without probable cause &#8212; is likely to backfire.<br \/>\nSchneier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2004\/01\/09\/security\/index.html\">writes in Salon Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the months and years after 9\/11, the U.S. government has tried to address the problem by demanding (and largely receiving) more data. Over the New Year&#8217;s weekend, for example, federal agents collected the names of 260,000 people staying in Las Vegas hotels. This broad vacuuming of data is expensive, and completely misses the point. The problem isn&#8217;t obtaining data, it&#8217;s deciding which data is worth analyzing and then interpreting it. So much data is collected that intelligence organizations can&#8217;t possibly analyze it all. Deciding what to look at can be an impossible task, so substantial amounts of good intelligence go unread and unanalyzed. Data collection is easy; analysis is difficult.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Patriot 2 provisions let the government trawl for data. If there&#8217;s no need to show probable cause, it&#8217;s easier to cast a wide net than to catch the tuna and leave the dolphins alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schneier&#8217;s critique of airport false alarms also explains why the Patriot 2 provisions &#8212; which let the government gather reams of financial data without probable cause &#8212; is likely to backfire. Schneier writes in Salon Magazine In the months and years after 9\/11, the U.S. government has tried to address the problem by demanding (and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bruce Schneier, Homeland Insecurity, and Patriot 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-7W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}