{"id":10732,"date":"2013-08-27T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10732"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:18:29","slug":"in-aclu-lawsuit-scientist-demolishes-nsas-its-just-metadata-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10732","title":{"rendered":"In ACLU lawsuit, scientist demolishes NSA\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s just metadata\u201d excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Storage and data-mining have come a long way in the past 35 years, Felten notes, and metadata is uniquely easy to analyze\u2014unlike the complicated data of a call itself, with variations in language, voice, and conversation style. &#8220;This newfound data storage capacity has led to new ways of exploiting the digital record,&#8221; writes Felten. &#8220;Sophisticated computing tools permit the analysis of large datasets to identify embedded patterns and relationships, including personal details, habits, and behaviors.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/08\/in-aclu-lawsuit-scientist-demolishes-nsa-its-just-metadata-excuse\/\">In ACLU lawsuit, scientist demolishes NSA\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s just metadata\u201d excuse | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I remember Ed Felton as being one of the leading researchers who uncovered the Sony rootkit fiasco.\u00a0 Many years ago Sony included a rootkit installer that would install whenever someone played one of their CDs on a Windows PC.\u00a0 Felton&#8217;s blog at the time covered that situation well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storage and data-mining have come a long way in the past 35 years, Felten notes, and metadata is uniquely easy to analyze\u2014unlike the complicated data of a call itself, with variations in language, voice, and conversation style. &#8220;This newfound data &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10732\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[532,475,553,1149],"class_list":["post-10732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-analytics","tag-big-data","tag-data-mining","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10732\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}