{"id":317,"date":"2008-06-02T18:21:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:21:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:21:41","slug":"easier-than-a-camel-through-a-needles-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Easier than a camel through a needle&#8217;s eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> spends some time talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/email_after_the.html\">fairly obvious dangers<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youvebeenleftbehind.com\">You&#8217;ve Been Left Behind<\/a> web site.\u00c2\u00a0 I assume these guys are crooks who are promising to &#8220;send documents by the email&#8221; to those left behind by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapture\">Rapture<\/a>, but really are planning to pocket the subscription fees (or raid the assets of) the gullible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The gullible&#8221; sounds like I&#8217;m picking on people for believing in the Rapture, but I&#8217;m not particularly.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m picking on them for poor asset management.<\/p>\n<p>Think it through. Even if you believe the Rapture is immanent, isn&#8217;t it kind of presumptuous to decide you&#8217;re going and someone else is staying?\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s going to be a fun moment when Mom gets that &#8220;sorry you didn&#8217;t make the cut, but here&#8217;s my savings account&#8221; e-mail.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be especially interesting if you didn&#8217;t make the cut either, and you have to race her to it.<\/p>\n<p>If you think the Rapture is upon us and you have word from on high that your reservation is confirmed, hand deliver your assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier spends some time talking about the fairly obvious dangers of the You&#8217;ve Been Left Behind web site.\u00c2\u00a0 I assume these guys are crooks who are promising to &#8220;send documents by the email&#8221; to those left behind by the Rapture, but really are planning to pocket the subscription fees (or raid the assets of) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-stuff-i-saw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}