{"id":17903,"date":"2014-07-18T01:55:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17903"},"modified":"2014-07-18T01:55:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T08:55:29","slug":"friday-freedom-question-what-would-be-on-your-mixtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/friday-freedom-question-what-would-be-on-your-mixtape\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Freedom Question: What would be on your “mixtape”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via jed: Artist sends the National Spy Agency a super-encrypted “mixtape<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

So why would Huerta create a mixtape no one else could open? Well for one, there’s no worry that someday he’ll regret sending our nation’s protectors a whole bunch of mushy love songs that will sound really, really cheesy 10 years from now. Oh, and there’s this, which he posted on his Medium blog: “The NSA can read my stupid Facebook updates but without my consent it will never be able to listen to my kick-ass mix tape, even if it’s sitting right in front of them.”<\/p>\n

Actually, that simplifies things a little too much. Huerta explains in the same post that he was inspired to create his art statement because he has “[bleep] feelings about mass surveillance, and they are not warm and fuzzy. To take the Internet, which I grew up with so much hope for in being so much more free than the world I physically occupied and turn it into a panopticon brings out the tortured artist in me; I can’t help but respond.”<\/p>\n

So the mixtape, which he says “contains a soundtrack for the modern surveillance state” is his response. It’s basically a giant “na-na-na-pooh-pooh” (my words, not his) to the NSA and a musical tribute to documentary filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras and lawyer-journalist Glenn Greenwald, both of published news stories based on NSA documents leaked to them by Edward Snowden. It’s also “a reminder that the rules of mathematics are more powerful than the rules of even the most powerful states,” says Huerta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what would be on your<\/i> freedomista mixtape?<\/p>\n

P.S. Hope he’s right about the security of his encryption — even if there’s nothing on the “tape” but bad renditions of “Dancing Queen” and “Lady in Red.” Wouldn’t count on it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via jed: Artist sends the National Spy Agency a super-encrypted “mixtape.” So why would Huerta create a mixtape no one else could open? Well for one, there’s no worry that someday he’ll regret sending our nation’s protectors a whole bunch of mushy love songs that will sound really, really cheesy 10 years from now. Oh, and there’s this, which he posted on his Medium blog: “The NSA can read my stupid Facebook updates but without my consent it will never be able to listen to my kick-ass mix tape, even if it’s sitting right in front of them.” Actually, that…<\/p>\n

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