Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

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

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

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

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.