{"id":2874,"date":"2014-08-10T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2014-08-10T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T12:19:18","slug":"a-third-nsa-leaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"A Third NSA Leaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betteridge's_law\">Betteridge&#8217;s law<\/a> the answer should be no but Bruce Schneier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/08\/the_us_intellig.html\">isn&#8217;t so sure<\/a>. We&#8217;ve heard the speculation about a second leaker responsible for revealing the details of the TAO catalog, X-KEYSTORE rules, and the tapping of Angela Merkel&#8217;s cell phone but the latest revelations do not appear to come from either Snowden or the second leaker. <\/p>\n<p> Schneier believes that these latest disclosures represent a separate, third stream of information. If so, perhaps it&#8217;s an indication that other insiders are disturbed by what the NSA is doing and taking what steps they can to end it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2013\/08\/snowden-leaks-the-real-take-ho.html\">as suggested by Charlie Stross<\/a>. One can only hope. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Betteridge&#8217;s law the answer should be no but Bruce Schneier isn&#8217;t so sure. We&#8217;ve heard the speculation about a second leaker responsible for revealing the details of the TAO catalog, X-KEYSTORE rules, and the tapping of Angela Merkel&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=2874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}