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

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

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.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.