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| | What is the (Next) Message?: If You Have Nothing To Hide... |
 | | Those folks for whom being evil, or criminal, or both is a livestyle choice know all about encryption, proxy servers, and anonymizers. |
 | | The reversal that applies to this situation cannot be understated: If you have nothing to hide, you have much to fear, since your innocuous behaviour can be deliberately and maliciously misinterpreted, when and how it suits those with discretionary power. |
 | | It reminds me of the one of the earliest effects I noticed about the internet: the anonymity that inevitably leads to curiosity to seek out strange or taboo topics, and the resulting paranoia about who might be listening in, even without doing anything wrong, per se. |
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