If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same.

When you're attacking a router on the internet, and you're doing it remotely, it's like trying to shoot the moon with a rifle. Everything has to happen exactly right. Every single variable has to be controlled and precisely accounted for. And that's not possible to do when you have limited knowledge of the target you're attacking.

You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. 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.

The NSA and Israel wrote Stuxnet together.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

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

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.