I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

Until we reform our laws and until we fix the excesses of these old policies that we inherited in the post-9/11 era, we're not going to be able to put the security back in the NSA.

I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.

You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm.

So many of the things we're told by the government simply aren't true.

I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.