The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed.

If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

A zero-day exploit is a method of hacking a system. It's sort of a vulnerability that has an exploit written for it, sort of a key and a lock that go together to a given software package. It could be an internet web server. It could be Microsoft Office. It could be Adobe Reader or it could be Facebook.

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

We have to confront the reality of our world, and make the hard decisions about which way we want to move forward.

Even if it were, you run into the same problem with international commerce: if you create a device that is famous for compromised security and it has an American back door, nobody is gonna buy it.

I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.