"If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody."

[professor rat]

"If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody." - John Gilmore

The essence of "watching" or "looking" is focusing your attention. If you diffuse your attention to encompass everything, you end up missing everything. This is exactly what the US Government is doing with its police-state tactics (searching everyone who travels; fingerprinting every foreigner who is stupid enough to arrive; etc).

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

Reposts from deceased C-punk founders