{"id":12114,"date":"2012-11-16T03:02:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12114"},"modified":"2012-11-16T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T10:02:37","slug":"friday-links-and-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/friday-links-and-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links and videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of links and two (longish) videos for your Friday and weekend pleasure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nano-material <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/2012\/11\/14\/paper-thin-super-material-stops-flying-bullets\/?intcmp=features\" target=\"_blank\">stops bullets<\/a>? This I&#8217;d like to see. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Among all the other laughs of the Petraeus scandal is the scandalously flawed method the lovers used to hide their email correspondence. (And this guy was the nation&#8217;s top <i>intelligence<\/i> officer?) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/11\/when-will-our-email-betray-us-email-privacy-primer-light-petraeus-saga\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation has analysis and advice<\/a>. So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/technology-and-liberty-national-security\/surveillance-and-security-lessons-petraeus-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">does the ACLU<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JG) It&#8217;s pretty amazing what the FBI went through to trace emails that probably weren&#8217;t even illegal &#8212; and the kind of data they had fingertip access to (e.g. hotel guest registers).\n<li>The five <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_20100_the-5-ballsiest-double-crosses-ever-pulled-off.html\" target=\"_blank\">ballsiest double-crosses ever<\/a>.\n<li>So. Now we know <a href=\"http:\/\/networkedblogs.com\/ENnPQ\" target=\"_blank\">what it takes for a cop to get an <i>unpaid<\/i> vacation<\/a> (but still not get fired).\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ron Paul&#8217;s farewell address to Congress (<a href=\"http:\/\/natmonitor.com\/2012\/11\/14\/ron-paul-delivers-historic-speech-in-last-appearance-in-congress-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/q03cWio-zjk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s 1984 talk by the late, great Karl Hess &#8212; speechwriter, philosopher, tax resister, welder, and cabinetmaker &#8212; on the role of communities in freedom (with thanks to R for the find). <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/02otRHOMBNA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was growing as a libertarian, nobody influenced me as much as Hess (though it&#8217;s hard to say in retrospect how much was influence and how much was simply recognizing spiritual kinship). The thing that set him apart from other early-modern freedom movement greats was that he put the emphasis on living everything he preached, even when it made for a precarious &#038; perilous existence.<\/p>\n<p>The above speech isn&#8217;t great oratory, but he was a great man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of links and two (longish) videos for your Friday and weekend pleasure: Nano-material stops bullets? This I&#8217;d like to see. (H\/T PT) Among all the other laughs of the Petraeus scandal is the scandalously flawed method the lovers used to hide their email correspondence. (And this guy was the nation&#8217;s top intelligence officer?) The Electronic Frontier Foundation has analysis and advice. So does the ACLU. (Tip o&#8217; hat to JG) It&#8217;s pretty amazing what the FBI went through to trace emails that probably weren&#8217;t even illegal &#8212; and the kind of data they had fingertip access to (e.g.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/friday-links-and-videos\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday links and videos<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,23,28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}