You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

I hate these questions - I don't like talking about this stuff [popular culture], because it's so... to me, it's so ordinary.

I'm not a spy, which is the real question

We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.

Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site, the specific target that they want to hit. But it depends, this level of sophistication, on the budget and the quality of the actor who's instigating the attack. If it's a country that's less poor or less sophisticated, it'll be a less sophisticated attack.

The issue I brought forward most clearly was that of mass surveillance, not of surveillance in general.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.