{"id":779,"date":"2009-06-04T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-06-04T22:50:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T03:50:23","slug":"hacking-threat-to-national-security-overblown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Hacking Threat to National Security Overblown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/06\/cyberthreat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Threat Level<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is hacking a real threat to the United States or is it just the latest overblown threat to national security, whose magnitude is being exaggerated to expand government budgets and power?<\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the question asked by Threat Level editor Kevin Poulsen at a panel in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfp2009.org\/\">Computers, Freedom and Privacy<\/a> in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important because the government is spending billions of dollars on computer security, and President Obama is elevating cybersecurity to a national priority, using language that makes even security experts wince.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Threat Level Is hacking a real threat to the United States or is it just the latest overblown threat to national security, whose magnitude is being exaggerated to expand government budgets and power? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the question asked by Threat Level editor Kevin Poulsen at a panel in Computers, Freedom and Privacy in Washington, D.C., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}