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If You’ve Got Nothing To Hide, Why Aren’t You Naked?

One of the more tedious arguments used by people who favour compulsory Internet filtering and other forms of censorship is “People who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear from these systems”. In his LCA keynote today, security researcher Jacob Appelbaum highlighted a simple point that’s worth making when people say that: if you have nothing to hide, why are you wearing clothes and why are there curtains on your house?

27 June 2011

Communicate

Ask Lots Of Questions To Fill In Awkward Silences

Awkward pauses are bound to happen in any conversation, especially when meeting someone for the first time. You can minimise them by asking as many questions as you can to keep the conversation moving.

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