All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.