Moxie Marlinspike on the NSA spying revelations: We Should All Have Something To Hide

"If the federal government had access to every email you've ever written and every phone call you've ever made, it's almost certain that they could find something you've done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations. You probably do have something to hide, you just don't know it yet."—Moxie Marlinspike, who has worked as a software engineer, hacker, sailor, captain, and shipwright, writes eloquently about why privacy matters.