Bruce Schneier is one of my favorite people to read on the topic of security. I found out about him from this excellent article on airport security, and why it's a sham, or to use his best-known phrase, "security theater". However, today I came across a post on his blog about the argument that any government surveillance is okay because "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care if they're looking?" Enjoy it, and look around and read more of his stuff.
EDIT: just finished another long but excellent article about him (circa 2002) explaining what's wrong with the security measures being taken in response to 9/11. His basic thesis is that our security systems are "brittle"; that is, when one component of the system fails, the whole thing fails, and fails hard. Systems should instead be designed to "fail well" when someone goes wrong, because it inevitably will. Read it here.
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