We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

What we're seeing now, or starting to see, is an atomization of the Internet community. Before, everybody went only to a few sites; now we've got all these boutiques.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to bad faith or simply mistakes in intelligence, I can't say for sure. But I can say it shows the problem of putting too much faith in intelligence systems without debating them in public.