When we talk about computer network exploitation, computer network attack, we're not just talking about your home PC. We're talking about your cell phone, and we're also talking about internet routers themselves. The NSA is attacking the critical infrastructure of the internet to try to take ownership of it. They hack the routers that connect nations to the internet itself.

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?

US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries.

I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.

Chelsea Manning got thirty-five years in prison, while I'm still free.