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

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

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.

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

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

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

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.