{"id":9778,"date":"2014-01-09T12:28:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9778"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:11:17","slug":"with-great-computing-power-comes-great-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/with-great-computing-power-comes-great-surveillance","title":{"rendered":"With Great Computing Power Comes Great Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dek\">The dark side of Moore\u2019s Law, <span class=\"authors\"><a class=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/bill-davidow\/\" rel=\"author\">Bill Davidow \u2014 The Atlantic<br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"dek\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"dek\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;\">Nearly 50 years ago, Gordon Moore suggested that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to double at regular intervals for the foreseeable future. Known as Moore\u2019s law, the truth of that observation has made computers cheap and ubiquitous. Cellphones are so inexpensive there <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use\">are now more than six billion of them<\/a><\/span>\u2014<span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/technology\/1112842375\/cell-mobile-phones-world-population-international-telecoms-union-050913\/\">almost one for every person on the planet<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/with-great-computing-power-comes-great-surveillance\/282933\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dark side of Moore\u2019s Law, Bill Davidow \u2014 The Atlantic Nearly 50 years ago, Gordon Moore suggested that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to double at regular intervals for the foreseeable future. Known as Moore\u2019s law, the truth of that observation has made computers cheap [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65071,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions\/65071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}