It does not require a sophisticated analysis of those first thoughts on the recording to recognise that Diana Hunter was opposed to the Witness, and indeed to the society that hinges upon it. The philosophical argument the System advances in its own favour—safety and empowerment in exchange for total personal transparency—did not persuade her. Quite apparently, she saw an irreducible virtue in the right to be unobserved. Such people exist, of course, and even choose to remain in the United Kingdom under the System, citing whatever exigencies they feel tie them to the place. For the most part they are unproblematic. They protest, they vote, and they create these small local networks, which inevitably leak information from every angle and keep no secrets of any concern. The true refusenik problem—the use of analogue and concealed methods of imparting information between motivated paramilitaries—is quite another thing, and almost unheard of.