For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

Security is a process, not a product.