Jon Stokes, Senior Editor, Ars Technica [reported](http://voices.allthingsd.com/category/ed-giorgio/) on the following:
> “We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.’ ” Thus spake security consultant Ed Giorgio in a widely quoted New Yorker article on the U.S. intelligence community’s plans to vacuum up and sift through everything that flies across the wires.
Security expert Bruce Schiner wrote a [Wired article](http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0124?currentPage=all) addressing the false dichotomy between security and privacy:
> I’m sure they have that saying in their business. And it’s precisely why, when people in their business are in charge of government, it becomes a police state.
> The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus control.
> “Privacy no longer can mean anonymity,” says Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence. “Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.” Did you catch that? You’re expected to *give up control of your privacy to others, who — presumably — get to decide how much of it you deserve*. That’s what *loss of liberty* looks like.
Returning to John Stokes, who [said](http://voices.allthingsd.com/category/ed-giorgio/):
> The story of Fidencio Estrada, a drug runner who bribed Florida Customs agent Rafael Pacheco to access multiple federal law-enforcement databases on his behalf, suggests that when it comes to the government collecting data on innocent civilians for law-enforcement purposes, privacy and security are essentially the same thing.