Over the last year government leaks regarding nation-state digital espionage and surveillance have made the topic of privacy a heated discussion point. However, for those that have been championing the privacy cause this is a fight that has been going on for years. One issue with regards to technology and the lack of privacy is that there are a large of amount of people in positions of power, and general public, who have very little idea about how technology works or its capabilities. What is even more interesting is that despite the myth that you can have either privacy or security it is in fact critical to security that you have privacy; the myth is a lie and whether you like it or not privacy is good for security. The speaker is a member of the US Air Force (and as such might be regarded as somewhat biased), but TROOPERS has extended the opportunity to the speaker to present regardless of his affiliation (he does not represent viewpoints of the US government but only himself) and he will discuss his research, own experience, and opinions on why ensuring privacy is actually in governments’ best interest for boosting national security. This talk is bound to present ideas that audience members agree with as well as those that they disagree with which will hopefully lead to heated debate; active participation is encouraged.