The most common defense of surveillance is always the same: "I have nothing to hide." This is the refrain of the comfortable, the naive, or the historically illiterate. As Cardinal Richelieu warned; "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him." Think about that the next time you justify your own surveillance. The state doesn't need you to be guilty, only vulnerable.
