Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

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.

ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet.