{"id":183032,"date":"2015-04-03T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/03\/headline-of-the-day-129\/"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:59:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-129","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/03\/headline-of-the-day-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emptywheel.net\/2015\/04\/01\/president-obama-declares-the-threat-to-crappy-sony-movies-a-national-emergency\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">President Obama Declares the Threat to Crappy Sony Movies a National Emergency<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Marcy &#8220;Emptywheel&#8221; Wheeler<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A response to Obama&#8217;s new executive order, which is vague enough to allow sanctions against pretty much anyone who publishes the data or provides privacy tools..<\/p>\n<p>It is overarching, irresponsible, and fundamentally anti-democratic, which makes it a typical security policy of Obama and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But it gets worse. The EO targets not just the hackers themselves, but also those who benefit from or materially support hacks. The targeting of those who are \u201cresponsible for or complicit in \u2026 the receipt or use for commercial or competitive advantage \u2026 by a commercial entity, outside the United States of trade secrets misappropriated through cyber-enabled means, \u2026 where the misappropriation of such trade secrets is reasonably likely to result in, or has materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States\u201d could be used to target journalism abroad. Does WikiLeaks\u2019 publication of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations qualify? Does Guardian\u2019s publication of contractors\u2019 involvement in NSA hacking?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">And the EO creates a \u201cmaterial support\u201d category similar to the one that, in the terrorism context, has been ripe for abuse. Its targets include those who have \u201cprovided \u2026 material, or technological support for, or goods or services in support of\u201d such significant hacks. Does that include encryption providers? Does it include other privacy protections?<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Finally, I\u2019m generally concerned about this EO because of the way National Emergencies have served as the justification for a lot of secret spying decisions. Just about every application to the FISC for some crazy interpretation of surveillance laws in the name of counterterrorism founds their justification neither in the September 17, 2001 Finding authorizing covert actions against al Qaeda nor the September 18, 2001 AUMF, but instead in President Bush\u2019s declaration of a National Emergency on September 14, 2001. I\u2019m not sure precisely why, but that\u2019s what the Executive has long used to convince FISC that it should rubber stamp expansive interpretations of surveillance law. So I assume this declaration could be too.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In other words, the sanctions regime may well be the least of this EO.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama Declares the Threat to Crappy Sony Movies a National Emergency \u2014Marcy &#8220;Emptywheel&#8221; Wheeler A response to Obama&#8217;s new executive order, which is vague enough to allow sanctions against pretty much anyone who publishes the data or provides privacy tools.. It is overarching, irresponsible, and fundamentally anti-democratic, which makes it a typical security policy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1060,964,997,1061,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-computer","category-foreign-relations","category-internet","category-security","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}