If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

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.

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

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

But in this country, while you have to be competent to pull off a terrorist attack, you don't have to be competent to cause terror. All you need to do is start plotting an attack and - regardless of whether or not you have a viable plan, weapons or even the faintest clue - the media will aid you in terrorizing the entire population.