As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

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.

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.