I just did a quick reading of this. Wow. It contains so many different interesting thoughts, that I will have to revisit it at least once or twice more.
And FWIW, I don't think he falls into the security-versus-privacy fallacy at all. That security and privacy *can* be inversely related isn't a fallacy of any sort, logical or otherwise. (They are inversely related in many cases.) The fallacy is that they *are* necessarily inversely related. (They aren't; there are enough cases in which privacy enhances security instead of undermining it. Thus as *abstract concepts* they aren't inversely related.) The one nit I would pick is that stuff about SARS, which from informed accounts that I've heard was hyping by governments and supra-governmental bodies that knew better. (Yes, yes, we're all allowed to believe a few conspiracy theories here and there. After all, where would we be without them?) - Pranesh
