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We Should All Have Something To Hide

Moxie Marlinspike · 12 Jun 2013

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Having nothing to hide is not a reason to accept surveillance.

Their wordsYou probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.

Also said by Bruce Schneier

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Having nothing to hide is not a reason to accept surveillance.

Their wordsYou probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.
Our reading
Legal change usually begins as lawbreaking, so perfectly effective enforcement would freeze a society in place.

Their wordsWhat’s often overlooked, however, is that these legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law.
Our reading
When everyone is monitored and everyone breaks some obscure law, punishment stops being lawful and becomes purely selective.

Their wordsPolice already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.

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