Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

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

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.

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.