In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

When it comes to political engagement, I'm not a politician - I'm an engineer.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the challenges having an untrusted internet, where we have to put our communications on wires that are owned by a phone company that we can't trust, that's working in collaboration with a government that we can't trust, in areas around the world, we can restructure that communications fabric in a way that it's encrypted.