On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles.

I wasn't trying to change the laws or slow down the machine. Maybe I should have. My critics say that I was not revolutionary enough. But they forget that I am a product of the system. I worked those desks, I know those people and I still have some faith in them, that the services can be reformed.

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.