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

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.

I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

As a general rule, so long as you have any choice at all, you should never route through or peer with the UK under any circumstances. Their fibers are radioactive, and even the Queen's selfies to the pool boy get logged.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.