The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

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.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.

The question to ask when you look at security is not whether this makes us safer, but whether it's worth the trade-off.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

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