Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.

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

I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.

I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.

What defines patriotism, for me, is the idea that one rises to act on behalf of one's country.

When the United States cannibalize dollars from the defensive business of the NSA, securing our communications, protecting our systems, patching zero-day vulnerabilities, and instead we're giving those dollars to be used for creating new vulnerabilities in our systems so that they can surveil us and other people abroad who use the same systems.

We should never allow computers to make inherently governmental decisions in terms of the application of military force, even if that's happening on the internet.