Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.

When the lights go out at a power plant sometime in the future, we're going to know that that's a consequence of deprioritizing defense for the sake of an advantage in terms of offense.

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

If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

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.

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.