You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

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

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

Lawyers from the NSA, as well as the UK's GCHQ, work very hard to search for loopholes in laws and constitutional protections that they can use to justify indiscriminate, dragnet surveillance operations that were at best unwittingly authorized by lawmakers.

Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.

US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn't be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory.

My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.