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

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

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

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

History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security