Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.