Security is a process, not a product.

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

Terrorism is a crime against the mind. We win by refusing fear.

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.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

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

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.