A few days ago I had a personal illustration of how even honest people need privacy. The Board of Directors of EFF had met to make some decisions. Some of these involved firing employees, closing offices, etc. (See comp.org.eff.news and .talk for all the details). It took a few days to finalize everything, though. During that time, we needed privacy in order to not hurt people (they might hear a false rumor that was the result of an intermediate stage in the decision; they might hear from some source other than us that they were losing their jobs, etc). We seriously had to consider whether to use email to work out the final details, since the system administrators had not yet been told. Cellular phones were right out. As it worked out, it was fine. The announcement was posted to the net slightly after the meeting in which we told all the employees what was happening. I won't say nobody was hurt -- we all were -- but we were all a lot less hurt than if the staff had "accidentally" found out, before anyone responsible for the decision had told them personally. John