I think you missed what he was trying to say. He's not saying he has nothing to hide, he's saying it's easy to hide when you generate garbage the vast majority of the time.
It's kind of related to that old software adage: There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
There are two ways to protect your privacy. One is to tell people absolutely nothing about yourself. This way requires constant vigilance. The other is tell people everything about yourself and then make up some stuff. Pretty soon people won't be able to distinguish between noise and signal.
> Pretty soon people won't be able to distinguish between noise and signal.
People suck at randomizing things and computers are stupidly good a processing huge amounts of data and recovering the signal from the noise. The solution is not to add noise, but to remove signal. Generally adding noise is the first thing laypeople think of. Too bad there's whole fields of signal analysis, information theory, noise modeling, and the persistence of side-channels with over a century of work that make plucking the weak signal from noise relatively easy. Oh, and did I mention they have COMPUTERS?
It doesn't even have to be random, just wrong. And much like running from a bear, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy.
You don't have to be perfect, just more effort than it's worth.
It's kind of related to that old software adage: There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
There are two ways to protect your privacy. One is to tell people absolutely nothing about yourself. This way requires constant vigilance. The other is tell people everything about yourself and then make up some stuff. Pretty soon people won't be able to distinguish between noise and signal.