{"id":186707,"date":"2013-11-11T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/11\/might-i-suggest-bruce-schneier\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:41:00","slug":"might-i-suggest-bruce-schneier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/11\/might-i-suggest-bruce-schneier\/","title":{"rendered":"Might I Suggest Bruce Schneier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/hillicon-valley\/technology\/189773-white-house-considers-civilian-for-nsa-chief\">White House is looking at appointing the first civilian ever to head the NSA<\/a>, but they have concerns that, &#8220;Finding the right civilian candidate with the technical understanding and familiarity with intelligence gathering would be a difficult task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Schneier has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_schneier\">sterling pedigree<\/a>, and a long history of calling out wasteful security theater and the surveillance state.<\/p>\n<p>Not going to happen.  Obama is not going to cross the state security apparatus, but I can dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the White House is looking at appointing the first civilian ever to head the NSA, but they have concerns that, &#8220;Finding the right civilian candidate with the technical understanding and familiarity with intelligence gathering would be a difficult task.&#8221; Bruce Schneier has a sterling pedigree, and a long history of calling out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,978,1103,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-politics","category-secrecy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186707"}],"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=186707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}