{"id":4312,"date":"2013-08-04T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2013-08-04T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:27:09","slug":"spy-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/04\/spy-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Computers were invented as crypto-ware and spy-ware and control-ware. That\u2019s what Alan Turing was all about. That\u2019s where computing came from, that\u2019s the scene\u2019s original sin, and also its poisoned apple. —Bruce Sterling, The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update August 6: Danny O’Brien comments on Sterling’s position, with some background<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Computers were invented as crypto-ware and spy-ware and control-ware. That\u2019s what Alan Turing was all about. That\u2019s where computing came from, that\u2019s the scene\u2019s original sin, and also its poisoned apple. —Bruce Sterling, The Ecuadorian Library or, The Blast Shack After Three Years Update August 6: Danny O’Brien comments on Sterling’s position, with some background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-17y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}