“Now there are some lightweight thinkers who simplistically recite this common ruse: 'if you have nothing to hide, then hacking should not bother you.'

That is hardly the point.

First of all, if you have nothing to hide, then you're a hopeless bore. Every interesting person has stuff in their heads and in their pasts that make them perversely human.

Second, it is not up to you to decide whether their personal communications are YOUR property.”