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"The Forrester Group did a survey of how much people were spending
on IT security in 2000, and their estimate was that most Fortune 500
companies were spending .0025 percent of revenue. Now, if you spent
.0025 - and incidentally, those companies spend more than that on
coffee - you deserve to be hacked. And by the way, you will be."
Richard Clarke, Special advisor to the President, Chair of the Critical
Infrastructure Protection Board as quoted from an interview in Wired
Magazine, March 2002. 
"If you haven't done anything wrong, what do you have to hide?"
Ever heard that one? I work in information security, so I have heard
it more than my fair share. I've always hated that reasoning, because
I am a little bit paranoid by nature, something which serves me very
well in my profession. So my standard response to people who have asked
that question near me has been "because I'm paranoid." But that doesn't
usually help, since most people who would ask that question see paranoia
as a bad thing to begin with. So for a long time I've been trying to
come up with a valid, reasoned, and intelligent answer which shoots the
holes in the flawed logic that need to be there.
And someone unknowingly provided me with just that answer today. In a
conversation about hunting, somebody posted this about prey animals and
hunters: "Yeah! Hunters don't kill the *innocent* animals - they look
for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their
species!" but in a brilliant (and very funny) retort, someone else said:
"If the're not guilty, why are they running?"
Suddenly it made sense, that nagging thing in the back of my head. The
logical reason why a reasonable dose of paranoia is healthy. Because
it's one thing to be afraid of the TRUTH. People who commit murder or
otherwise deprive others of their Natural Rights are afraid of the TRUTH,
because it is the light of TRUTH that will help bring them to justice.
But it's another thing entirely to be afraid of hunters.  And all too
often, the hunters are the ones proclaiming to be looking for TRUTH. But
they are more concerned with removing any obstactles to finding the
TRUTH, even when that means bulldozing over people's rights (the right
to privacy, the right to anonymity) in their quest for it. And sadly,
these people often cannot tell the difference between the appearance of
TRUTH and TRUTH itself. And these, the ones who are so convinced they
have found the TRUTH that they stop looking for it, are some of the
worst oppressors of Natural Rights the world has ever known.
They are the hunters, and it is right and good for the prey to be afraid
of the hunters, and to run away from them. Do not be fooled when a hunter
says "why are you running from me if you have nothing to hide?" Because
having something to hide is not the only reason to be hiding something.

- From a very insightful Slashdot post
This is what happens when a whole society fails to understand the term "false dichotomy".
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