{"id":25054,"date":"2013-07-26T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25054"},"modified":"2013-07-26T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T23:19:17","slug":"a-hop-skip-and-a-leap-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25054","title":{"rendered":"A hop, skip, and a leap of faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Joyner estimates 2.5 million, Zeynep proposed 27 million, NSA knows &#8212; but sealed lips, eh? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><div id=\"attachment_25092\" style=\"width: 529px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hopscotch01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25092\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hopscotch01.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"hopscotch01\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hopscotch01.png 519w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/hopscotch01-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10 year old Lilly Allen was told by UK police recently that &quot;playing hopscotch in front of her house could lead to criminal charges for drawing on the sidewalk&quot; -- oops.<\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;re playing the kid&#8217;s game of hopscotch, three hops doesn&#8217;t get you very far.  But <em>Three hops create a data deluge<\/em> is <strong>Zeynep Tufekci<\/strong>&#8216;s short-form analysis of the adult version of the game as practiced by NSA, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how far three hops will take you.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are two estimates, from two very bright people:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SPEC-Zeynep-Joyner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SPEC-Zeynep-Joyner.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Zeynep Joyner\" width=\"597\" height=\"630\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SPEC-Zeynep-Joyner.png 597w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SPEC-Zeynep-Joyner-284x300.png 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Someone<\/strong> should really find out from <strong>an appropriate someone else<\/strong> what the grand total of US citizens swept up under first, second and third hops, skips and exponential leaps has been over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techyville.com\/2013\/05\/social-media\/little-girl-warned-that-she-could-face-criminal-charges-for-hopscotch-drawings-on-the-sidewalk\/\">Little Girl Warned<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/commentary\/nsa-three-hops-youre-out-8766\">James Joyner<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/surveillance-state\/e78cbf912907\">Zeynep Tufekci<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Joyner estimates 2.5 million, Zeynep proposed 27 million, NSA knows &#8212; but sealed lips, eh? ] . When you&#8217;re playing the kid&#8217;s game of hopscotch, three hops doesn&#8217;t get you very far. But Three hops create a data deluge is Zeynep Tufekci&#8216;s short-form analysis of the adult version of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25054"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25142,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25054\/revisions\/25142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}