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

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

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

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

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

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.