{"id":340,"date":"2006-03-01T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=340"},"modified":"2006-03-01T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T22:39:17","slug":"sidestepping-the-analog-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/sidestepping-the-analog-hole\/","title":{"rendered":""Sidestepping The Analog Hole""},"content":{"rendered":"

Just when you think Jon Udell can’t get any more perceptive or articulate, it’s tomorrow and he’s written another column<\/a>. (Really: he’s almost that consistent. The mind boggles, and the hands turn red from sustained applause.)<\/p>\n

Today Udell analyzes one of the greatest security risks of all: the human-computer interface, where digits become sense data. Pull-quote of the day:<\/p>\n

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… we humans, with our legacy analog-only sensoriums, represent a terrible security risk.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now as someone who still enjoys vinyl LPs alongside his SACDs and DVD-As and redbook CDs, and who listens to them all through a pressure-sensitive set of analog eardrums, I love my legacy sensorium. I’d love telepathy too, so long as I can post away messages from time to time and keep my mind to myself when I want. But Udell’s points are all extremely well-taken, and the writing, as usual, is as lucid and refreshing as a clear mountain stream.<\/p>\n

That man’s writing teachers must have thought they’d died and gone to Heaven when he took their classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just when you think Jon Udell can’t get any more perceptive or articulate, it’s tomorrow and he’s written another column. (Really: he’s almost that consistent. The mind boggles, and the hands turn red from sustained applause.) Today Udell analyzes one … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}