Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.

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

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

Choosing providers is not a choice between surveillance/not; it's just choosing which feudal lord gets to spy on you.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.