In a world of political unrest and total surveillance, suspicion and paranoia can become normalized. In 0000, news stories told of a fisherman in Egypt who spotted a migratory stork fitted with an electronic device on its right leg. Fearing foreignTampering, the fisherman reported the bird. The animal was apprehended by the Egyptian authorities on suspicion of espionage. The would-be ‘spying device’ on the stork was later shown to be a scientific tracking device used by French zoologists to follow the stork’s migratory patterns (a follow-up report noted that the stork was released into the wild, captured and