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If I don't have anything to hide,
why do I need encryption?

Oppose police state tactics

Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.

Bruce Schneier
If you have nothing to hide, please take off your clothes right now.
If you're not doing anything wrong, then why do they want to spy on you?
If you have nothing to hide, why does your home have curtains?
Protect yourself from identity theft and other fraud
Protect yourself from bad government

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.

Cardinal Richelieu
Protect your business' trade secrets
COINTELPRO
Most things are simply nobody else's business
Predators don't care whether you're guilty or not

Hunters don't kill the innocent animals -- they look for the shifty-eyed ones that are probably the criminal element of their species. After all, if they're not guilty, why are they running?

Jonathan Badger
Say what you think without worry about who's listening
Others can speak to you freely
Keep vows of confidentiality
Avoid censorship
Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with
Don't expose weaknesses to those who would do you harm
People who don't care about liberty don't have the right to give away yours
If you can't exercise your right to free expression, you don't have one
There are tyrants and tyrannies in the world, both old and new

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