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.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.

We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place.