{"id":18717,"date":"2016-12-16T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18717"},"modified":"2016-12-16T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:19:00","slug":"a-new-era-of-paranoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18717","title":{"rendered":"A new Era of paranoia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This mornings anonymous emailer sent me a gracious if paranoid message to my reply about the District&#8217;s Building sales. Let me first mention that what caught my attention about the email was the tag end that said it was encrypted to guarantee anonymity. I had just read a news story in the wake of Yahoo&#8217;s announcement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/14\/technology\/yahoo-hack.html?_r=0\">1 billion of its subscribers had been hacked<\/a> explaining that since the Trump victory there was <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/12\/02\/donald-trump-signal-app\/\">a huge wave of people hiding their online identities<\/a> with a number of encryption systems. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my anonymous friends second email and my subsequent reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for the thoughtful reply.  I understand your point, but for at least the next four years, I am in complete stealth mode.  I have\/will be very critical about the powers that be, and I have muslim friends and family members.  It&#8217;s VPN&#8217;s, Tor and proton mail for me.  Elected to oversee administers?  Did you mean watch them as they do whatever they want including looking for employment elsewhere?  I understand that this isn&#8217;t your fault, but I and I&#8217;m sure you are more than sick of it by now.<br \/>\nKeep fighting the good fight.<\/p>\n<p>Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And my reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To: Minkdevil <minkdevil@protonmail.com><br \/>\nSubject: RE: School Sales <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame you one damn bit Minkdevil. Orwell was off by a few decades.<\/p>\n<p>All l can do is fight the good fight locally and nationally. <\/p>\n<p>I have some Muslim friends. I can only imagine how they feel. Hang in there.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mornings anonymous emailer sent me a gracious if paranoid message to my reply about the District&#8217;s Building sales. Let me first mention that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18718,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions\/18718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}