Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

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

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

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.

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

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