{"id":8897,"date":"2017-04-04T16:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:31:25","slug":"watch-out-for-the-butterfly-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/04\/watch-out-for-the-butterfly-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out For The Butterfly Net"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare <\/b><\/i>can share the pain of the Trump transition team, as he too has been incidentally collected<\/a>. The information was used to warn him that he might be the target of spear-phishing attack:<\/p>\n

My point here is that incidental collection in and of itself is not a bad thing. It’s merely an inherent feature of surveillance. To say that the Trump transition was the subject of incidental collection communicates nothing of interest at all. Of course it was.<\/p>\n

And guess what? So are members of Senate of the United States and the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

To know whether incidental collection is good or bad or neutral with respect to the civil liberties of its subjects, you have to know not merely that it occurred, but what happened to the information afterwards. In my case, it was a very good thing. And if for any reason\u00a0there exists\u00a0some intelligence\u00a0reporting around the government that the FBI warned “US Person Number 437” about a spear-phishing attack planned against him after a presidential tweet, and if any official is wondering who that “US Person Number 437” may be, let me save you the trouble of asking the bureau to unmask him.<\/p>\n

That would be\u00a0me.<\/p>\n

And please guys, feel free to incidentally collect on me like that any time you like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Realism from a professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare can share the pain of the Trump transition team, as he too has been incidentally collected. The information was used to warn him that he might be the target of spear-phishing attack: My point here is that incidental collection in and of itself is not a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}