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.

Societies without a reservoir of people who don't follow the rules lack an important mechanism for societal evolution. Vibrant societies need a dishonest minority; if society makes its dishonest minority too small, it stifles dissent as well as common crime.

Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.

Privacy is a fundamental human need.

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

I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.

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.