{"id":31753,"date":"2010-12-07T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=31753"},"modified":"2010-12-07T12:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T17:59:41","slug":"worth-repeating-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth repeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Let\u2019s turn to the more profound significance of what has occurred. Formerly, back in the days of Orwell, every power could be conceived of as a Big Brother watching over its subjects\u2019 every move. The Orwellian prophecy came completely true once the powers that be could monitor every phone call made by the citizen, every hotel he stayed in, every toll road he took and so on and so forth. The citizen became the total victim of the watchful eye of the state. But when it transpires, as it has now, that even the crypts of state secrets are not beyond the hacker\u2019s grasp, the surveillance ceases to work only one-way and becomes circular. The state has its eye on every citizen, but every citizen, or at least every hacker \u2013 the citizens\u2019 self-appointed avenger \u2013 can pry into the state\u2019s every secret.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Umberto Eco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(quoted in the article below)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s turn to the more profound significance of what has occurred. Formerly, back in the days of Orwell, every power could be conceived of as a Big Brother watching over its subjects\u2019 every move. The Orwellian prophecy came completely true once the powers that be could monitor every phone call made by the citizen, every &#8230; <a title=\"Worth repeating\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/worth-repeating-6\/\" aria-label=\"More on Worth repeating\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}