If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

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.

Security is a process, not a product.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

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

We can't keep weapons out of prisons; we can't possibly expect to keep them out of airports.

It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.