{"id":8867,"date":"2015-10-18T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2015-10-18T10:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:28:12","slug":"if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/18\/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re not Paranoid, You&#8217;re Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"article-section-1\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/tinfoil.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8868\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/tinfoil.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"tinfoil\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>By Walter Kirn<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\"><span class=\"smallcaps\">I knew we\u2019d bought walnuts<\/span> at the store that week, and I wanted to add some to my oatmeal. I called to my wife and asked her where she\u2019d put them. She was washing her face in the bathroom, running the faucet, and must not have heard me\u2014she didn\u2019t answer. I found the bag of nuts without her help and stirred a handful into my bowl. My phone was charging on the counter. Bored, I picked it up to check the app that wirelessly grabs data from the fitness band I\u2019d started wearing a month earlier. I saw that I\u2019d slept for almost eight hours the night before but had gotten a mere two hours of \u201cdeep sleep.\u201d I saw that I\u2019d reached exactly 30 percent of my day\u2019s goal of 13,000 steps. And then I noticed a message in a small window reserved for miscellaneous health tips. \u201cWalnuts,\u201d it read. It told me to eat more walnuts.<\/p>\n<p>It was probably a coincidence, a fluke. Still, it caused me to glance down at my wristband and then at my phone, a brand-new model with many unknown, untested capabilities. Had my phone picked up my words through its mic and somehow relayed them to my wristband, which then signaled the app?<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/11\/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy\/407833\/?single_page=true\">The Alantic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad-boxinjector-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As government agencies and tech companies develop more and more intrusive means of watching and influencing people, how can we live free lives? By Walter Kirn I knew we\u2019d bought walnuts at the store that week, and I wanted to add some to my oatmeal. I called to my wife and asked her where she\u2019d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,74,1814,1132,2098,1189,118,17,65,10],"tags":[2586,313,314],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}