The more we expect technology to protect us from people in the same way it protects us from nature, the more we will sacrifice the very values of our society in futile attempts to achieve this security.

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

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

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember.

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.