ABSTRACT
Recently I was invited to give a talk on the subject of resistance at a conference on national security and surveillance issues. The focus of my presentation was the question of why anti-surveillance activists, privacy advocates and other individuals and groups with a stake in resisting surveillance had yet to mobilize into a social movement in the face of an ever-increasing panoply of surveillance forms. While the process of critically working through this question produced a number of answers from which I could draw some preliminary conclusions, other answers were provided to me courtesy of an entirely unexpected source: a presentation at this same conference by a former US Department of Homeland Security official during the Bush administration.
