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.

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.

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.

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics.

Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be

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

I tell people: if it's in the news, don't worry about it, because by definition, news is something that almost never happens.