I am not sure I agree (on a certain level) with that quote. On a thread yesterday a discussion about increased surveillance being a two way street played out and the idea from it that struck me the most was that technology is merely a force multiplayer and only increases the power divide. It increases "the people's" ability to hold state actors accountable but not as much as it increases the states ability to watch the populace. Basically I feel like it is likely harder today to hide something from the state than it is for the state to do things in secret.