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As Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, so arrogantly put it (but it's true in this case)
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
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This isn't about sneaking a Twinkie from the snack box in the middle of the night, here. And that quote is as silly as it is trite.
There are plenty of things that most of us do in our day to day life that we wouldn't want others to know. Say someone's looking for a better job. Should they NOT be allowed to keep that information from their current boss?
I could come up with example upon example as to how secrecy and compartmentalization of intelligence and foreign relations is paramount.