{"id":185904,"date":"2014-07-18T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/yet-another-reason-not-to-sext\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T00:06:00","slug":"yet-another-reason-not-to-sext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/18\/yet-another-reason-not-to-sext\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Reason not to Sext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Edward Snowden <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/07\/snowden-nsa-employees-routinely-pass-around-intercepted-nude-photos\/\">NSA employees would pass around intercepted nude photos for their own amusement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Edward Snowden has revealed that he witnessed \u201cnumerous instances\u201d of National Security Agency (NSA) employees passing around nude photos that were intercepted \u201cin the course of their daily work.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a 17-minute interview with The Guardian filmed at a Moscow hotel and published on Thursday, the NSA whistleblower addressed numerous points, noting that he could \u201clive with\u201d being sent to the US prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He also again dismissed any notion that he was a Russian spy or agent\u2014calling those allegations \u201cbullshit.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">If Snowden\u2019s allegations of sexual photo distribution are true, they would be consistent with what the NSA has already reported. In September 2013, in a letter from the NSA\u2019s Inspector General Dr. George Ellard to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the agency outlined a handful of instances during which NSA agents admitted that they had spied on their former love interests. This even spawned a nickname within the agency, LOVEINT\u2014a riff on HUMINT (human intelligence) or SIGINT (signals intelligence).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that this qualifies as the least surprising revelation so far.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing would apply to your &#8220;hawt&#8221; emails.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you have an urge to expose yourself to the world, you are now in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Edward Snowden NSA employees would pass around intercepted nude photos for their own amusement: Edward Snowden has revealed that he witnessed \u201cnumerous instances\u201d of National Security Agency (NSA) employees passing around nude photos that were intercepted \u201cin the course of their daily work.\u201dIn a 17-minute interview with The Guardian filmed at a Moscow &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1062,1066,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-espionage","category-privacy","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185904"}],"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=185904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}