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* ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'': Nancy is paranoid that someone in the Cape Cod will recognise her as the professor's wife accused of killing her children seven years ago, and of getting dragged back to California and put on trial again. She doesn't leave the house much if she can help it, avoids having her photo taken and doesn't like to get involved in community events and groups. Despite her husband assuring her it's highly unlikely anyone will figure out her identity and that if it comes to that they'll lawyer up, Nancy can't fully believe she and her family are safe. It turns out Nancy is right to be paranoid, because the man who killed her children has tracked her down and has been renting the house overlooking her own for the past six years.
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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'':
** When the insects around a police station so much as ''move strangely'', the cops take it as a sign that the [[TheDreaded Skitter]] is spying on them, and freak out accordingly. As the reader knows, she is.
** When dealing with the Simurgh, it's literally impossible to be paranoid ''enough''. Whatever plan you make to counter or contain her influence, she has already forseen and accounted for.
** There are also Master/Stranger protocols. Masters have the ability to control people or minions of some sort, so protocols usual involve pass-phrases or similar verifications to ensure people are who they say they are. Stranger powers are generally related to stealth in some way, but the most problematic ones are those that prevent people from noticing the users or the threat the present. Often times having someone off-site viewing footage and giving instructions to those present is a partial mitigation to this, as the power won't work through cameras.

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