If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.