{"id":527,"date":"2008-06-06T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=527"},"modified":"2008-06-06T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T04:12:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"The War on Photography &#8211; Schneier on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\" target=\"_blank\">blog <\/a>covering security and security technology by Bruce Schneier<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are?<\/p>\n<p>Since 9\/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We&#8217;ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required.<\/p>\n<p>Except that it&#8217;s nonsense. The 9\/11 terrorists didn&#8217;t photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn&#8217;t photograph the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The Unabomber didn&#8217;t photograph anything; neither did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Photographs aren&#8217;t being found amongst the papers of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IRA wasn&#8217;t known for its photography. Even those manufactured terrorist plots that the US government likes to talk about &#8212; the Ft. Dix terrorists, the JFK airport bombers, the Miami 7, the Lackawanna 6 &#8212; no photography.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/the_war_on_phot.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is from a blog covering security and security technology by Bruce Schneier What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are? Since 9\/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politiks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}