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

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Security is a process, not a product.

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.

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

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.

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.