{"id":51,"date":"2004-11-11T04:29:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T04:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=51"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"yasser-arafat-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/yasser-arafat-dies-at-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasser Arafat dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>but how many times has he died this week? Its 4am and the press wire AP has issued the news that the PLO leader has died. A week ago Prez Bush was told in a live press conference that the Palestinian leader had died and it was taken as a fact but it turned out to be a misguided rumour.<\/p>\n<p>In the age of fast moving IT with beepers phones broadband email WAP 24\/7 TV news, there is a distinct lack of authentication of news, of sources, of wires. While the wires are most often not duped there are slip ups.<\/p>\n<p>So who do we trust? when more than one relied source backs up another? can we know that the source is who it says it is?<\/p>\n<p>Authentication integrity &#038; non-repudiation are the corner stone of PKI, perhaps all news should carry a health warning until we can really trust its source. when fair and balanced becomes unfair and unbalanced who ya gonna trust?<\/p>\n<p>Reuters row in, and the BBC report that the French Military Hospital where Arafat was, stated he died at 3.30am (2.30 UTC) it 4.20 now &#8230; back to work, at least I know what Nov 11 2004 news diet will be.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>but how many times has he died this week? Its 4am and the press wire AP has issued the news that the PLO leader has died. A week ago Prez Bush was told in a live press conference that the Palestinian leader had died and it was taken as a fact but it turned out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/yasser-arafat-dies-at-75\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yasser Arafat dies at 75<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}