Like all security, privacy is hard.

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

if it's not in my email archive, I don't know it

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.