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.

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